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{{quote|''"Geeze, where do you freaks find these understanding guys, and where do I get one?!"'' |'''Shelly''', ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' }}
So you are a freak of nature, a witch, a [[Superhero]], or a [[Chosen One]]. You are loaded with supernatural powers, and between going to work or [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save
But you can't tell your boyfriend about it! He'd freak out and leave you, or worse. But then, you can't keep it a secret forever, either. At some point, one of your supernatural incidents will inevitably happen exactly when you were having a romantic dinner. Or maybe your relationship has simply reached the next level, and you feel that you need to be completely honest with him.
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Compare [[But Your Wings Are Beautiful]], when a disguise forms part of the powers. Compare to [[Violently Protective Girlfriend]] for the [[Action Girl]] [[Inverted Trope|variant.]] Compare and contrast [[Nonhuman Lover Reveal]], for the guy/girl who is on the other end of this trope. See also [[The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life]], which is an aversion of this trope.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The central premise of ''[[Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu|The Secrets of Haruka Nogizaka]]''. The titular girl is an otaku.
* Ditto with ''[[Ore no Imouto ga Konna
* Austria from ''[[
* [[Shaman King|Keiko Asakura]] had been dumped by ''every'' single boyfriend she had when they learnt she was able to see spirits. Until the last [[Jerkass]] left her and a penniless musician with similar abilities comforted her. That guy was Mikihisa, and she would marry him.
* Horribly deconstructed with {{spoiler|Shiso and Ceres}} in ''[[Ayashi no Ceres]]''. {{spoiler|Shiso started like this, but being left helpless when he and Ceres got attacked [[I Just Want to Be Special|made him very frustrated]], so he asked Ceres to give him a part of her powers [[I Will Protect Her|so he wouldn't be a burden on her.]] But then, [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|said powers turned out to be too much to handle]], and [[It Got Worse]]...}}
* Shuuji in ''[[Saikano]]''. His girlfriend is a WMD? That's ok, things will work out. {{spoiler|Actually, they don't.}}
* Kenta Usui from ''[[Karin]]'', except for the boyfriend part. {{spoiler|Until the end, that is.}} Comes with him doubling as Karin's crush ''and'' the Marker's [[Secret Keeper]].
* In ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Kong is this to Kitty Pryde in ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', even going so far as to yell "You're welcome!" at [[All of the Other Reindeer]] for not thanking her when she saves their lives.
* Back in the Golden Age, Steve Trevor was this for [[Wonder Woman]] (a remarkably progressive move for the times), and not at all threatened by the idea of getting rescued by or mooning over a woman who was twenty times stronger than him. The Silver and Bronze Age characterizations of him were...[[Too Dumb to Live|unfortunately]] [[Jerkass|less so]], which probably led to him being deleted from continuity [[Post-Crisis]].
* In an old What If comic, Jimmy Olsen married ''[[Supergirl]]'' because of amnesia. Once she recovers and lets him know, he's totally fine with being married to [[Superman]]'s cousin.
== [[
* [[Gender Flip
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Innocent Blood]]'', [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]] Marie has her understanding [[Cop Boyfriend]] Joe.
* In ''[[Hancock]],'' Ray is pretty understanding when he finds out Mary is not only the same kind of [[Flying Brick]] that Hancock is, but was also his wife.
* In ''[[Turning Red]]'', Meiling's father, Jin Lee, turned out to be this in the backstory. He was very accepting of his then-girlfriend's ability of turning into a giant red panda, to the point of understating how big the panda form of Ming was back in the day.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Elend in Brandon Sanderson's ''[[Mistborn]]''. At least {{spoiler|until he gets superpowers himself.}}
* Seth in ''[[Wicked Lovely]]''. When Aislinn tells him that she can see faeries, he has exactly one moment of "Is this a joke?" before accepting it and trying to help her with her faery situation.
* In ''[[
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* In ''[[Bras and Broomsticks|Parties and Potions]]'' by Sarah Mlynowski, Rachel is a witch and has to tell her human boyfriend Raf. It mainly escalates when she starts doing training for her witch "debutante ball" and ends up being gone whenever he wants to hangout with her. He is okay with it when he finds out, though.
== [[Live
* The ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]'' features Jim the Understanding Husband.
* Both [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] and played straight in ''[[
* Played with in the ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' TV series. Harvey ''does'' leave Sabrina when he finds out she's a witch, not out of intolerance but because she'd been using magic to mess with his life for years. He eventually does come back to her, though, and says he never had a problem with her being a witch per se.
* Zack was the "gay best friend" equivalent of this in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', at least until [[Executive Meddling]] got in the way.
* Unless she's dating one of the undead, Buffy never got this on ''[[
* Tyler Ford in ''[[The Middleman]]'''s unaired season finale (released as a comic)...{{spoiler|at least, until MM pushes the [[Reset Button]]}}.
* Allison's husband Joe on ''[[Medium]]'' believes in her powers and is understanding and accepting of them.
* In ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'', 2x09. Merlin discovers {{spoiler|Freya turns into a bastet at night, but he isn´t afraid and still takes care of her. He even pets her cat´s head...}}
* In the
* In the TV version of ''[[The Tick (animation)|The Tick]]'', Captain Liberty and another female superhero discuss the difficulties of finding a boyfriend while picking up their dry-cleaning. Seriously subverted in this episode.
* ''[[Roswell]]'' had Isobel and Jesse; she tries to send him away after he discovers she's an alien, but in the novel 'season 4', they end up together anyway.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
* A major part of several romances in the ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/understanding/ this] ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' comic. Also the page quote.
* [[Subverted]] (although this may be a retrospective way of seeing it) in ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Despite Candace's fanatical attempts to put a stop to [[
* ''[[
* ''[[Futurama]]'': Fry [[Freaky Is Cool|doesn't seem to have a problem]] with Leela's [[Cyclops|big ol' eye]]. In fact, when Leela [[I Just Want to Be Normal|gets a prosthetic second eye]] in "The Cyber House Rules", Fry is the [[Only Sane Man|only one who objects]], saying that he [[But Your Wings Are Beautiful|liked her better the way she was]]. Eventually she [[Status Quo Is God|renounces her decision]], admitting Fry was [[The Cuckoolander Was Right|right all along]].
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