Sweet on Polly Oliver: Difference between revisions

{{quote| ''That [[Sweet Polly Oliver|Oliver,]] what a guy! He's a real friend and man's man! He may be small and [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|look a little girly,]] but I really connect with him on a level I didn't think I would since I broke up with Lily... anyway, we're going out to dinner next week, and I hope he likes this wristwatch I got him... I know it sounds [[Ho Yay|fruity]] but it's [[Just Friends|just friend stuff]]! I mean, [[Even the Guys Want Him|what guy wouldn't want to spend time with such a stud?]] I mean, [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|uh... ooh]]! Almost time for me to pick up Oliver to the game!''}}

 

 

This is especially true for the [[Casanova]], whose refined "babe-dar" can detect estrogen even when the eyes can't. Of course, this will get very confusing and distressing to the unwitting male admirer. They'll be turned on and not know why, and if they're not too bright might say "have I met you before?" (which they have, only as a woman).

Compare [[Attractive Bent Gender]], and [[Unsettling Gender Reveal]] (for when finding out the love interest's actual gender makes them the ''wrong'' orientation). A subtrope of [[Gender Reveal]].

 

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In the historical manga ''[[Kaze Hikaru]]'', the main character Sei (disguised as a male samurai) has a large number of men chase after her with varying degrees of seriousness. In an interesting twist, most of them ''don't'' sense she's a girl; they are unrepentantly chasing after 'him' in the hope of a homosexual relationship, following the [http://www.gay-art-history.org/gay-history/gay-customs/japan-samurai-male-love/japan-samurai-homosexual-shudo.html historical samurai tradition of homosexuality]. Early on in the manga, one of the men enamored with her (Kanji, if I recall) almost discovers her gender-- by way of attempted rape.

* Subverted in ''[[Girls Saurus]]'', where the entire student body of the boys' school Tsubasa goes to is attracted to him because they ''think'' he's really a girl masquerading as a boy. Later, a lesbian completely falls for him... even though she actually knows he's really a guy.

* ''[[Ranma One Half|Ranma 1/2]]'' references this trope in one storyline that occurs shortly after [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] Ukyo joins the series as Ranma's final [[Arranged Marriage]]. As part of her "masquerade" as a boy, Ukyo attended an all-boy's junior high school. There, she came to the attention of another [[Wholesome Crossdresser]], a boy named Tsubasa Kurenai... who promptly declared he was in love with Ukyo and harassed her in pursuit of a relationship. Until the storyline in question, she had no idea that Tsubasa had actually seen through her disguise and believed him to be the homosexual version of this trope, attracted to "his" [[Bishonen]] looks. Akane and Ranma, meanwhile, believed a straighter version of this trope- aka that Tsubasa was a girl who had fallen for Ukyo under the mistaken belief that the [[Bifauxnen]] was actually a guy.

* ''[[Kill Me Kiss Me]]'' is a [[Manhwa]] originally created by Korean author Lee Young-you revolving around two identical cousins of different gender who end up switching places, so the girl can get near her crush. The boy agrees due to the fact that they each attend all-girl/all-boy schools. The girl is a much better fighter than the boy, attracting the attention of her crush, who has the exact confusion mentioned above. Meanwhile the boy is tormented by all the girls that have a crush on 'her' that cannot be dated because of the true gender.

* [[Cate Blanchett]] as [[Bob Dylan]] in ''[[I'm Not There]]''. Possibly averted, as she's ''supposed'' to be playing a male, but still justified because she looks more like Dylan than [[Mind Screw|the five other actors who play him in the movie.]]

* The live-action movie version of ''[[Rose of Versailles]]'' shows Fersen being extremely relieved at discovering that Lady Oscar is, indeed, a lady - and admitting that "I was beginning to wonder about myself".

{{quote| "I didn't want to touch you. I didn't know why. I thought there was something [[Ho Yay|wrong]] with me. I loved you... }}

* A rare [[Bi the Way]] version happens in ''[[Sorority Boys]]'', where three frat boys dress in drag to infiltrate a rival sorority. The sorority's president falls in love with one of them as a woman and is extremely upset when the ruse is up. However, she's more bothered by the trickery than the fact that he's a man, and they get back together in the end.

** This revelation also prompts a discussion by the force (brought up by Garcia) {{spoiler|whether or not jacking off thinking about a guy who looked like a girl makes you gay.}} Jones insists that it does, of course, even if most of the men on the force liked Kim.

* Plot of the Korean drama ''[[The First Shop of Coffee Prince]]'', with the added twist that the Polly Oliver of the story gets mistaken as a man by the (heterosexual) male lead, and hired to [[The Beard|pretend to be his gay lover]] so that his mother will stop trying to fix him up with women. Oh, and then she starts working at the coffee shop he owns, which features [[Bishonen|attractive male waiters]] as a selling point.

{{quote| '''Casanova:''' Mine doesn't do that.}}

** This relationship really happened, it's in his memoirs. Casanova insists he isn't sinning [[Really Gets Around|(in that particular way, that is)]] because he can tell she's a girl, but she (still claiming to be male) points out that he doesn't ''know'' that and is in love with her already. In real life there was quite an interval between perceiving that bulge in her pants and learning that it was fake, during which time [[Hilarity Ensues|the poor bastard was terribly confused]]. He records a lengthy lecture she gave him on what would happen if she let him check and he found out he was wrong, namely that he wouldn't be able to stop loving her and would come up with all kinds of arguments about male homosexuality being purer and more intellectual than heterosexuality, citing historical examples, until he wore her down -- and he pretty much admits it. He also continues calling her Bellino (her masculine alias) interchangeably with Teresa (her real name) in the narrative for some time after revealing her actual gender; make of that what you will.

* The first episode of Brazilian miniseries ''Copas de Mel'' had Mel disguising as a man to travel with the Brazilian team for the 1958 [[FIFA World Cup]]. She develops a crush for the wardrobe boy Jiló, and after Brazil wins:

{{quote| '''Mel''': I love you!<br />

'''Mel''': No, not Melchiades... Amelia! (they later marry) }}

* Used in the Swedish mini-series ''[[The Girl At The Stone Bench]]'' <ref>swedish= Flickan vid stenbänken</ref> when fraternal twins [[Ambiguously Gay|Arid]] and [[Cute Mute|Rosilda]] both fall for the new servant "boy" Carl. Problem? Carl is actually Carolin<ref>The add demanded a boy and a girl since the two was supoossed to add both female and masculine influence to the both of them. Theater maniac Carolin fixed that by strapping on a tuxedo.</ref>, who seems to ''really'' enjoy to flirt with the girls who think she is a boy. Played to some really dark irony:

{{quote| '''Zapp:''' Leela! So it's you I've been attracted to! Oh God, I've never been so happy to be beaten up by a woman!<br />

'''Leela:''' Let's do it again sometime. }}

** Cleopatra (the show's [[Alpha Bitch]]) was also attracted to "John Dark" (although she was MUCH more aggressive about it than JFK). At the end when Joan reveals herself, Kennedy shows relief at not being gay, while Cleopatra is just intrigued.

* In ''[[Family Guy]]'' Chris Griffin becomes infatuated with a tomboy he completely believes to be male, and after she kisses him he writes in his diary that he kissed "him," but didn't want a serious relationship. When she revealed herself to be a girl to the dimwitted Chris, they became a couple after some disbelief, exacerbated by the fact that Chris is incredibly awkward around girls but wasn't this time until the reveal.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

** That's certainly possible, but by the time their ship was captured and the crew brought to justice, both women were pregnant. Anne presumably by her lover, Calico Jack, and Mary by hers, the ship's doctor.

*** The real [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] being that, since they were both pregnant, neither could be sentenced to death, despite a long and unashamed career of piracy.