Sweet on Polly Oliver: Difference between revisions

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* It takes a bit of prodding from a [[Trickster Mentor]] before ''[[Penguin Revolution]]'''s Yuzuru Narazaki recognizes his attraction to Yukari Fujimaru for what it is. Once he does, he decides that [[If It's You It's Okay]] and confesses his feelings to "Yutaka," still completely oblivious to the fact that Fujimaru isn't actually male.

* ''[[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.

* ''[[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.

* Another manhwa, ''[[Love In The Mask]]'', has a tough girl who's forced into being a male bodyguard, apparently because a girl wouldn't be taken seriously. She has a crush on a boy who views her as his little brother who he's always tussling with... and napping with... and cares about more than anyone else... and at one point ''uses her toothbrush after they shared her bed and dreams he's kissing a girl who looks like his "brother"'' (just how close are brothers in Korea??). Later they play ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' in an all-guy school play, to the fury of another guy who knows her secret and has a crush on her. Oh, and ''another'' guy also develops a crush on her when she's [[Recursive Crossdressing|dressed as Juliet]]. The girl she's guarding also has a crush on the first guy and often wonders why she's jealous of two male friends.

* Upon Sou's and Mashiro's first meeting in ''[[After School Nightmare]]'' Sou thinks of Mashiro as a cute girl-- despite Mashiro's act as a normal man. Sou is, however, not troubled by his attraction to Mashiro.

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* Inverted in the anime adaption of ''[[Karin]]'', where a flashback shows Ren thinking this was the case with his roommate, based on how he felt attracted to him. It turns out the guy was really a guy, and Ren was just reacting to his stress. [[Unreliable Narrator|At least that's what we're told.]]

* Subverted in ''[[Angel Diary]]'', in which Bi-Wal seems to see through Dong-Young's disguise but in fact {{spoiler|they met long before the story began.}}

* While he's not sweet on her, Gintoki's, um, trusty radar knew that {{spoiler|Kyuubei}} was really a woman in ''[[~~Gintama (Manga)|~~Gintama]]''.

* While he's not sweet on her, Gintoki's, um, trusty radar knew that {{spoiler|Kyuubei}} was really a woman in ''[[Gintama]]''.

* Inverted in ''[[Mint Na Bokura]]'', where the hero Noeru, posing as a girl, befriends Sasa, a boy who usually doesn't get along with girls at all... and thus believes that his feelings of friendship for Noeru mean that he's in love with "her". {{spoiler|Noeru reveals his secret [[Crowning Moment of Funny|in an extreme way]] after [[Ho Yay|Sasa takes him by surprise and kisses him]].}}

* Inverted and combined with [[Hot for Teacher]] in ''[[I My Me Strawberry Eggs]]''. Student Fuko is sweet on [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] Hibiki-sensei.

* Inverted and combined with [[Hot for Teacher]] in ''[[I My Me! Strawberry Eggs]]''. Student Fuko is sweet on [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] Hibiki-sensei.

* The [[The Legend of Zelda (~~Manga~~)|manga adaptation]] of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time ~~(Video Game)~~|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'' implies that Link feels this way about Sheik, who is really Princess Zelda in disguise.

* The [[The Legend of Zelda (manga)|manga adaptation]] of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'' implies that Link feels this way about Sheik, who is really Princess Zelda in disguise.

* Happens a few times in ''[[Half Prince]]'' with ''both'' genders in and outside the RPG. But who can blame them? (S)he's just that [[Bishonen]], that she even [[Screw Yourself|drools over her character once]].

* Inverted, sort of, in ''[[Heartcatch Pretty Cure]]''. Tsubomi was quite smitten towards Itsuki before [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|learning about "his" real nature]].

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* In one of the latest chapters of ''[[Nononono]]'' one of Nonomiya classmates has a rather... vivid dream with her visiting him in his room, after waking up he is greatly [[Gayngst|disturbed]] by a realization that he just had a wet dream about someone he considers "a perfect male specimen".

* Subaru Konoe from [[Mayo Chiki]].

* Yozora Mikazuki from ''[[~~Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai (Anime)|~~Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai]]'' after having her haircut halfway through the series. Same can be said for Yukimura Kusunoki, who was known to everyone as a male cross dresser, turns out to be a real genuine female when Kodaka and Yukimura went bathing. The thing is Yukimura has always believes that she is a male herself and frequently refers to Kodaka as "Aniki".

* Yozora Mikazuki from ''[[Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai]]'' after having her haircut halfway through the series. Same can be said for Yukimura Kusunoki, who was known to everyone as a male cross dresser, turns out to be a real genuine female when Kodaka and Yukimura went bathing. The thing is Yukimura has always believes that she is a male herself and frequently refers to Kodaka as "Aniki".

* Chiharu Eniwa of [[Girl Got Game]] find himself feeling something for Kyo Aizawa, a girl who is cross-dressing as a boy in order to join the school's famous boy's basketball team. While he doesn't outright question his sexuality, he does freak out over how cute he finds "him."

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== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Victor ~~Victoria|Victor/~~Victoria]]'' has this.

* ''[[Victor Victoria]]'' has this.

** In the stage version, it's slightly different than the usual [[Gayngst]] of this trope. Marchand (the guy) is in tially repulsed by the idea of having a relationship with another man, but eventually decides that it doesn't matter. He tells Victor he doesn't care if Victor is a man and kisses him. Victor then reveals herself to be a woman. Marchand says he still doesn't care and kisses her again. While it's true that he's happier to be with a woman, there's no sense of extreme relief when he finds out because he loves Victor/Victoria as a person either way.

* The entire point of ''[[Just One Of The Guys]]''.

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* 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.

* The entire plot of ''[[She's the Man]]''.

* This is a major plot device in ''[[Tomboy (~~Film~~)|Tomboy]]''. Laure introduces herself as a boy, and spends most of the film falling in love with a local girl as a boy. It isn't until the last 10 or so minutes of the film that the object of her affection learns of her sex.

* This is a major plot device in ''[[Tomboy (film)|Tomboy]]''. Laure introduces herself as a boy, and spends most of the film falling in love with a local girl as a boy. It isn't until the last 10 or so minutes of the film that the object of her affection learns of her sex.

== [[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 ~~(Literature)~~/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 ''[[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.}}

** From ''[[Discworld ~~(Literature)~~/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 ''[[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.]]"

* 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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* In Ann Pratchett's ''Bel Canto'', a group of young paramilitaries take a bunch of hostages, and over the weeks relationships form between the two groups. Interpreter Gen is attracted to one of the paramilitaries, a pretty young boy. The boy turns out to be a girl. Gen is relieved.

* Inverted in one of the ''[[Judge Dee]]'' stories by Robert van Gulik: a young woman came to the judge, asking for advice because she'd lately found herself strangely attracted to another girl living close to her. As it happened, Judge Dee already knew that "the other girl" was actually a young man who'd [[Amateur Sleuth|gone undercover]] to investigate the suspicious death of his sister -- and the young man had admitted to the judge that ''he'' was quite attracted to the girl who was now (needlessly) worrying that she might be a lesbian.

* Subverted in ''[[Pocket in ~~The~~ Sea]]'', Tagget doesn't have a crush until after the reveal.

* Subverted in ''[[Pocket in the Sea]]'', Tagget doesn't have a crush until after the reveal.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* Edmund [[~~Black Adder~~]] (in ''[[~~Black Adder~~]] II'') towards "Bob".

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

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

* There was a Colombian mini series called "''Cartas de Amor''", about the rocky relationship between [[Meaningful Name|Cupido]], a very convincing [[Bifauxnen]] who works as a match maker thanks to her talent to write the titular Love Letters and was called to solve all the romantic conflicts in a little neighborhood, and Manuel, a unrepentant [[Casanova]] who likes the state of romantic indefinition in his neighborhood (because he can get the unsatisfied women for him) and sees Cupido's actions as opposed to his own interests. When all their conflicts are solved and her real gender is revealed, many neighbors are not very convinced of either her femininity or his manhood, so they want proofs. Then, Cupido says something in the line of "the main proof of his manliness is that he could see the woman in me behind all the costume and the farce."

* One ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'' episode finds Quark strangely attracted to his waiter (who turns out to be a female disguised as a male).

* One ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode finds Quark strangely attracted to his waiter (who turns out to be a female disguised as a male).

* In one episode of ''[[Northern Exposure]]'', Chris the DJ takes a sabbatical at a monastery and finds himself overwhelmed with lust for one of the other monks, in spite of "him" always wearing "his" hood up in a largely shapeless robe and having taken a vow of silence. Near the end the monk breaks her vow of silence to help sooth Chris's inner confusion. (In spite of being pretty relaxed in every other way he has apparently always been all about women prior to this.)

* Inverted in an episode of ''[[Reno 911]]''. Lieutenant Jim Dangle, who is gay, finds himself having an inexplainable attraction to the female homeland Security agent Suzy Kim. At the end of the episode we discover Suzy Kim {{spoiler|is a male in drag, and is not a Homeland Security agent, but a con artist.}}

** 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.

* In a [[The BBC|BBC]] version of ''[[Casanova (TV)|Casanova]]'' starring [[David Tennant]], Casanova reaches the point of confessing [[If It's You It's Okay]] to a "man" he met at a party. "He" then removes a prosthetic from her trousers.

* In a [[The BBC|BBC]] version of ''[[Casanova (TV series)|Casanova]]'' starring [[David Tennant]], Casanova reaches the point of confessing [[If It's You It's Okay]] to a "man" he met at a party. "He" then removes a prosthetic from her trousers.

** 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.

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* ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'': Bartz and Galuf fawn over the sleeping {{spoiler|Faris the pirate captain}} before they discover she's really a woman.

* ''[[Persona 4]]'': Kanji Tatsumi feels this way towards {{spoiler|Naoto Shirogane}} upon meeting "him" for the first time, which of course only serves to make Kanji's already-present issues of gender confusion worse. {{spoiler|Kanji's sexuality remains [[Ho Yay|ambiguous at best]] pretty much for the rest of the game, but it's clear he still has strong feelings for Naoto, <s>even</s> especially after Naoto's true gender is revealed.}}

* ''[[Princess Waltz]]'': Even before Arata realizes Chris Longfield is pulling a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]], he finds himself extremely attracted to "him", causing everyone around them to wonder if they are commiting [[Ho Yay]]. It only gets worse when Chris admits to really being a girl, which takes what was already strong attraction and kicks it into overdrive. Considering the game is an H-Game, and Chris is remarkably underendowed for a girl (Saber from [[Fate ~~Stay Night~~]] looks less manly than Chris, and she's arguably Saber's [[Expy]]), but Arata finds her incredibly hot anyway, which for this genre is an amusing but rather touching subversion.

* ''[[Princess Waltz]]'': Even before Arata realizes Chris Longfield is pulling a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]], he finds himself extremely attracted to "him", causing everyone around them to wonder if they are commiting [[Ho Yay]]. It only gets worse when Chris admits to really being a girl, which takes what was already strong attraction and kicks it into overdrive. Considering the game is an H-Game, and Chris is remarkably underendowed for a girl (Saber from [[Fate/stay night]] looks less manly than Chris, and she's arguably Saber's [[Expy]]), but Arata finds her incredibly hot anyway, which for this genre is an amusing but rather touching subversion.

** For the uninitiated, H-Game women usually have some variant of [[Ms. Fanservice]] or large breasts as a rule, making the subversion more jarring.

* {{spoiler|Joshua}} in ''[[Rule of Rose]]'' was in fact {{spoiler|Wendy all along, forcing Jennifer to relive her childhood struggles and make her remember their mutual past.}}

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* A complicated version appears in the webcomic ''[[Boobs Ahoy]]''. [[Butch Lesbian|Wilhelm]] pulls a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] at one point and ends up attracting the [[Even the Guys Want Him|attention]] of a boy named [[Shout-Out|Kaworu]], who also gives Wilhelm a case of [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]. {{spoiler|Turns out [[Wholesome Crossdresser|Kaworu is a girl, too]], making it a double case of [[Sweet On Polly Oliver]]. This being ''[[Boobs Ahoy]]'', you can guess what happens next.}}

* A complicated version appears in the webcomic ''[[Boobs Ahoy]]''. [[Butch Lesbian|Wilhelm]] pulls a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] at one point and ends up attracting the [[Even the Guys Want Him|attention]] of a boy named [[Shout-Out|Kaworu]], who also gives Wilhelm a case of [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]. {{spoiler|Turns out [[Wholesome Crossdresser|Kaworu is a girl, too]], making it a double case of [[Sweet on Polly Oliver]]. This being ''[[Boobs Ahoy]]'', you can guess what happens next.}}

* Inverted in Kevin Bolk's ''[[It Sucks To Be Weegee]]''. Luigi is telling Link about the irritating time he had at the bar last night -- he couldn't catch the eye of a single girl all night, but [[Samus Is a Girl|some guy in orange armor named Sam-something was way more interested than Luigi was comfortable with]]. An exasperated Link just lets it slide.