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== Comic Books ==
* In the ''[[The Sandman (Comic Book)|Sandman]]'' spinoff ''Death: At Death's Door'', [[Grim Reaper|Death]], a [[Perky Goth]] [[Anthropomorphic Personification]], announces her identity to a group of departed souls, only for an unimpressed guy to dismiss her with, "You, and every goth chick in here!" (To be fair, in another story line Death's little sister once mistook an actual goth chick for ''her''.)
* ''[[Y: The Last Man|Y the Last Man]]'': Having grown a beard on a cross-country train-ride, Yorick is given advice by a "working girl" (who assumes Yorick is a woman with a fake beard) to make it look more natural.
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* In the 2008 ''[[DC Universe]] Halloween Special'', when Superman beats Lois home and gives out candy to the night's first trick-or-treaters, one remarks "Wow... that has to be the worst Superman costume I've ever seen!"
* In ''[[Empowered (Comic Book)|Empowered]]'' the title character finds that the only job she can get is with a group of superhero impersonators impersonating herself. Nobody realizes that it's really her until she ends up having to save the group from several supervillains who had kidnapped them in order to blackmail the REAL superhero team. In this case, she really is wearing a poor replica of her real costume.
** In a semi-related example, Major Havok once wrote fanfiction about himself and posted it anonymously, figuring that nobody could get his character down better than the real deal. Cue several reader comments on how bad and unrealistic the characterization was, including one (which, on a reread, you realize is from Empowered's alter ego) claiming it completely misses the homo-erotic subtext that supposedly makes Havok such a compelling character.
* In ''Guardians of the Globe'', a man is offended to see someone dressed as El Chupacabra, a great hero, drinking himself blind at a bar. The drunk explains that he really ''is'' El Chupacabra... and the guy backs off, believing him entirely right away.
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