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

* There's an example with Nagisa in ''[[Urusei Yatsura]].'' He looks just like a girl, but Ataru and Mendo actually get suspicious by the fact that they, despite going after everything in a skirt, aren't attracted to "her". Ataru instantly realises Ryuunosuke's real gender as well, and goes after "him" along with all the girls.

* Happens towards the end in the ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' anime to Kasanoda, when Haruhi is the first person who is nice to him. Then he finds out she's a girl, and continues to see Haruhi anyway.

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* Happens in an issue of ''Weird War Tales'' with an officer in a POW camp during the American Civil War being extremely relieved to learn that the "drummer boy" he was attracted to was actually a girl. And then the zombies show up...

== [[Fan ~~Fiction~~]] ==

== [[Fan Works]] ==

* In the ''Zelda'' fanfic ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120418055912/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3105749/18/The_Weekly_Hyrule_News The Weekly Hyrule News]'', this happens between Link and Sheik. Played with in that Link realizes he wasn't sweet on Sheik/Zelda because he picked up on her real gender subconsciously, but because he's [[Bi the Way|bisexual]]. Incidentally, it's well-written.

* Some ''[[Mulan]]'' fanfics have used this trope with Shang and "Ping" since the film avoided it.

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== [[Literature]] ==

* Played with in Pamela Kaufman's historical novels, in which Richard Coeur de Lion falls for the disguised heroine ''because'' he thinks she's a boy. Strangely, actually having sex with her does not disabuse him of this notion. (Considering Richard I was...ahem...rather fond of his minstrel Blondel, amongst others...) [[Squick]]!

* Twisted all over the place in ''[[~~Discworld/Monstrous Regiment|~~Monstrous Regiment]]'', where {{spoiler|''everyone'' is a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] (except the rather feminine commanding officer, of course).}} {{spoiler|The Prince of Zlobenia tries to hit on Polly, who's [[Recursive Crossdressing|a woman pretending to be a man dressed up as a woman]] and gets a [[Groin Attack]] for it.}}

* Twisted all over the place in ''[[Monstrous Regiment]]'', where {{spoiler|''everyone'' is a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] (except the rather feminine commanding officer, of course).}} {{spoiler|The Prince of Zlobenia tries to hit on Polly, who's [[Recursive Crossdressing|a woman pretending to be a man dressed up as a woman]] and gets a [[Groin Attack]] for it.}}

** From ''[[~~Discworld/Jingo|~~Jingo]]'', "One of the minor laws of the narrative universe is that any homely featured man who has, for some reason, to disguise himself as a woman will apparently become attractive to some otherwise perfectly sane men with, as the ancient scrolls say, [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarious results.]] In this case the laws were fighting against the fact of Corporal Nobby Nobbs, and [[Averted Trope|gave up.]]"

** From ''[[Jingo]]'', "One of the minor laws of the narrative universe is that any homely featured man who has, for some reason, to disguise himself as a woman will apparently become attractive to some otherwise perfectly sane men with, as the ancient scrolls say, [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarious results.]] In this case the laws were fighting against the fact of Corporal Nobby Nobbs, and [[Averted Trope|gave up.]]"

* Poor Jamie Fletcher, the teenage ship's boy in L.A. Meyer's ''[[Bloody Jack]]'' series, beats himself up mentally for quite a while thinking that he is inappropriately attracted to fellow shipmate Jack (actually [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] Jacky). Luckily, she likes him too and eventually reveals herself to him.

* That's a big part of the plot in João Guimarães Rosa's ''[[The Devil to Pay In The Backlands]]'', a classic of Brazilian literature.

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* A variant is ''[[Historical Fiction|The Beacon at Alexandria]]'' by Gillian Bradshaw, because "Polly" — Lady Charis, posing as the eunuch Chariton — narrates the story, and she hasn't the least idea of the young man's attraction to her until '''after''' a presumably erotic dream ("Never mind what it was about; you were a girl in the dream") caused him to deduce her true gender. He implies that this dream was his first awareness of feeling more than friendship for "Chariton." He's quite irked with himself, since his job requires him to be something of a detective, and he'd [[Idiot Ball|missed '''so many''' clues]].<ref>Charis => Chariton (it's like she wasn't even trying!) ... and he'd seen that "Chariton" was on excellent terms with Charis' brother.</ref> {{spoiler|Charis is delighted, because she'd fallen for '''him''' months before}}.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

* Edmund [[Blackadder]] (in ''[[Blackadder]] II'') towards "Bob".

* Several ''[[Benny Hill]]'' skits, like the double cross-dressing spies skit.

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* The singer of the band Rough Trade is a [[Butch Lesbian]] with a [[Larynx Dissonance|very deep voice.]] Their most famous song, "[[Schoolgirl Lesbians|High School Confidential]]", is about the narrator's [[Perverse Sexual Lust]] over a [[Blondes Are Evil|hot, bitchy blonde]] (who is the [[Alpha Bitch]]), so it's pretty common to mistake the singer for a man.

== [[Oral Tradition]], Folklore, Myths and Legends ==

== [[Mythology]] ==

* The Chinese legend [[wikipedia:Butterfly Lovers|Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai]] (often known as ''The Butterfly Lovers'')

== [[~~Theater~~]] ==

== [[Theatre]] ==

* Some productions of [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Twelfth Night]]'' emphasize this between Orsino and Viola, though it's not explicit in the text, including the Hippie [[The Musical|Musical Adaptation]] ''[[Your Own Thing]]'' and the high school adaptation ''[[She's the Man]]''.

** This Troper is waiting for adaption where Viola and Sebastian are identical twins and where Viola (given a more masculin name, of course) is gay and where Sebastian is straight. Let the Duke be Gay rather than "In love with the Idea of Love", it would totally fit.

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