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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 ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai!|My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute]]''. Except that the guy is not a boyfriend, but the big brother... [[Brother-Sister Incest|yeah]].
* Austria from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', in regards to his [[Victorious Childhood Friend]] Hungary. While he's concerned for her well-being, in the end he knows that if she wants to fight, he better lets her... since she will go [[One-Man Army|One Woman Army]] and destroy the enemy. Considering their childhood, [[Love At First Punch|he knows it beforehand]]!
* [[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.
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* 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.
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== [[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]] ==
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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.
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* The ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]'' features Jim the Understanding Husband.
* Both [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] and played straight in ''[[Bewitched]]''. The original Darrin (Dick York) was less than understanding, to the point of being downright hostile to Samantha when she used her magic. [[The Other Darrin]] (Dick Sargeant), on the other hand, tried his hardest to be understanding, the point that it was more the fault of Endora and the rest of Samantha's family that [[The Other Darrin]] didn't get along with witches.
* 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 ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. (Even Riley, who was himself a demon fighting super-soldier, had an inferiority complex due to dating a genuine superhero.) It's Willow who hit the boyfriend jackpot with Oz; upon being told the truth about the supernatural world she runs in, he replies, "Actually, it explains a lot," and just goes with the flow from there. Of course, Oz discovers he is a werewolf shortly after they begin dating, so he's more or less stuck in the supernatural world regardless, and Willow ends up having to play Understanding Girlfriend just as often.
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* 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...}}
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* 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.
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* In ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'', Serah wanders into some ruins and is made a [[Blessed with Suck|Pulse l'Cie]]. Public opinion of Pulse l'Cie being... rather low, she tries to break up with Snow so he won't be associated with her should she be found out. He refuses to accept this, demands an explanation, and upon being told the truth says he will do anything to help her and [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|proposes a few days later]].
* In ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' Hawke can be this if s/he's romancing Anders or Merrill. Particularly if the player character is on the friendship path.
* A major part of several romances in the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' series, especially with the nonhumans, is Shepard being this about their various issues. Aside from the inherent problems of romancing, say, a drell or a quarian, the strongest is probably Jack, who only really warms up to Shepard when she realizes he cares ''despite'', not because of, her history and
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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