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* [[Cyrano De Bergerac]]: The [[Loves My Alter Ego]] variety. Cyrano initiates a [[A Simple Plan]]: he will be [[Playing Cyrano]] to Christian so he can woo Roxane, hiding for [[Unwitting Pawn|Christian and Roxane]] the fact that Cyrano also is in love with Roxane, whom he believes will never reciprocate his feelings. Roxane and Cyrano justify the trope, and Christian averts it.
** Roxane: Refuses to believe every single evidence that Christian is not eloquent or that Cyrano loves her.
** Cyrano: At Act I Cyrano states that he does not believe that even an ugly woman could love him, even less beautiful Roxane. At Act IV, when Christian confronts him with Roxane confession that he would love Christian soul instead of his beauty, Cyrano doesn’t believe and answers that if he would confess, Roxane would not love him. Then Cyrano averts this trope when his cousin assures him she would love Christian even when he would be ugly…[[Rule of Three|for three times]]. Justified because [[Freudian Excuse|Cyrano]] [[Love Martyr|has]] [[Martyr Without a Cause|serious]] [[Mommy Issues|issues]].
** Averted by Christian: At Act II, Christian notices that Cyrano is too eager to be [[Playing Cyrano]]… Cyrano deceives him. At Act III, Christian feels that something with the plan is wrong… Cyrano forces him to follow the plan. At act IV, Christian finds strange that Cyrano weeps in the love letter for Roxane and that Cyrano risks his life walking through enemy lines to send letters to Roxane twice a day. [[Unwitting Pawn|Christian discovers the obvious truth]] [[Spanner in the Works|and forces Cyrano to tell it to Roxane]].
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* In the 2002 ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'' remake, one episode ends with Teela questioning why a dragon spared He-Man's life after beating him in a fight. When it is suggested that it did so because its life had been saved earlier that day, she points out that it was ''Adam'' who saved it, not He-Man. Man-At-Arms is only able to maintain the [[Masquerade]] by hastily turning the situation into an [[Aesop]].
* Played with in one episode of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]''. Newly released from Arkham, Harley Quinn is [[Villains Out Shopping|out shopping]] when she runs into Bruce Wayne. She stops him, then covers the top half of his face, saying, "I recognize [[Lantern Jaw of Justice|that chin]]..." and then declares, "I knew it! You're Bruce Wayne, boy billionaire!"
* Taken to extremes for laughs in ''[[Word Girl]]''. Becky almost gets caught in several
* About [[Once an Episode]] for [[Inspector Gadget]], the endearingly inept "world's greatest detective." He'll notice the odd things going on, notice the little man in the coat following him, and completely fail to realize it's his own dog.
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