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** In an early episode of the R season, Mamoru and Usagi team up to take care of a baby named Manami. When they change the baby's diapers, it turns out Manami is a boy and not a girl; he has a [[Gender Blender Name]] and had been referred to with gender-neutral pronouns. (The dubs generally handle it by referring to the baby as a girl irst, and then as a boy.)
* Happens in the anime ''[[Girls Bravo]]'', where Fukuyama starts hitting on and eventually sticks his hand into the panties of a crossdressing Yukinari . His reaction is not pleasant considering the fact that he is extremely androphobic and is allergic to other men.
* ''[[.hack]]'' - Given that the entire series is based on a fictional MMORPG, there are plenty of [[GIRL|GIRLs]]s around.
** In ''.hack//SIGN'', Tsukasa is the Bridget that gets dropped on ''herself''. Among the initial worries that come with [[Tomato in the Mirror|a revelation like this]] is that her gender will affect her relationship with Subaru. Turns out, [[If It's You It's Okay|it didn't matter]].
** It also happened in ''.hack//Roots'' when two female players attacked Haseo and their voices change.
* The audience of ''[[Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru]]'' gets the main character Mizuho's gender dropped on ''them'' -- if—if they [[Late Arrival Spoiler|didn't read the series synopsis]] before watching the first episode. Most of them, [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|mortified at having cheered at the fanservice]], firmly invoked the [[First Law of Gender Bending]] in their minds.
* The relatively obscure manga and animated movie ''[[They Were Eleven]]'' by Moto Hagio features an incredibly feminine recruit who is eventually revealed to be an alien who hasn't yet decided whether to be male or female, and actually became a recruit to avoid being forced to become a girl as well as a pawn in [[Arranged Marriage]] imposed by their family.
* ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'':
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** One butler falls in love with Hayate, who at the moment is under a crossdressing curse ([[Visible Silence|...]]). Although initially devastated when Hayate's cover is blown, he quickly comes around and tries to convince Hayate to travel with him to the Netherlands, where same-sex marriages are legal. (Cue Nagi's [[Megaton Punch|Megaton Kick]].)
* Ban and Ginji actually try peeping on Kazuki in a hot spring in an episode of ''[[GetBackers]]'', mistaking him for a girl at a distance. Later, Amon Natsuki hits on him and tries to pull an [[I Kiss Your Hand]]. Juubei merrily skewers them both times.
* In ''[[Vandread]]'', Bart Garsus gets a Bridget dropped on him with [[The Reveal]] that BC is a [[Gender Bender]] [[The Mole|Mole]]. In the end, [[Jumping the Gender Barrier|it doesn't stop him]]. If anything, it made it easier for him to accept his own feelings: the premise behind the whole series has men and women [[Mars and Venus Gender Contrast|living on completely different planets]] -- so—so same-sex "loves" were common practice.
* Jan Suk in ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'' has the Bridget to end all Bridgets dropped on him when he starts confiding in a cute blonde girl he met at a bar. Not only is she actually a man, but she's {{spoiler|''[[Villainous Crossdresser|Johan]]''.}} Also counts for the viewers, as it's a [[Shocking Swerve]]. Has caused anime clubs to riot.
* ''[[Naruto]]'':
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* Inverted in ''[[Akahori Gedou Hour Rabuge]]'' episode 9, where the son of a businessman that Kaoruko is babysitting (the kid, not the businessman) ends up being a girl, much to Kaoruko's dismay.
* ''[[Soul Eater]]'':
** One of Kilik's weapons, {{spoiler|Fire}} is actually a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|hot]] guy. [[Squee|Squees]]s for everybody.
** This '''will''' happen with Crona if the author ever gets tired of their "gender will always remain ambiguous" concept. One side will go "I knew it, Crona ''was'' a guy/girl" and the other will go all "awwwww, not the gender I thought of."
* This happens to Wataru Takatsuki in ''[[Yubisaki Milk Tea]]'' in recent chapters. However, despite Yoshinori Ikeda's initial beliefs to the contrary, Wataru actually likes him even more.
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'''Lug:''' ''Not a woman!?''
'''Madmartigan:''' Meet Lug. }}
* In ''[[Ace Ventura]]: Pet Detective'', Ace Ventura figures out that [[Villainous Crossdresser|detective Lois Einhorn]] is actually [[Ax Crazy]] former professional football player Ray Finkle and is responsible for the kidnapping of the Miami Dolphins's mascot Snowflake and quarterback Dan Marino. He then remembers that Lois had tried to make out with him earlier. He gets [[Squick|Squicked]]ed. [[Brain Bleach|Badly.]] Later, when Ace Ventura exposes her former identity to the rest of the police force, all the twenty-odd policemen present, Dan Marino and ''the dolphin'' also get [[Squick|Squicked]]ed. Apparently she got around... (and as a shout out to make it funnier, the song playing in both sequences is Boy George's "The Crying Game")
* ''[[The Associate]]'': A gender-swapped version of this trope occurs when Camille Scott, a business associate of main character Laurel Ayres (a black woman), goes public with a story about being pregnant with the child of Ayres' business partner, Robert Cutty (an elderly white man) after Cutty refuses to sleep with her when they meet privately one evening. At the climax of the movie, Cutty reveals that "he" actually ''is'' a [[Latex Perfection|well-disguised]] Ayres.
* The ending to ''[[Some Like It Hot]]'' has "Daphne" revealing his true identity to the millionaire who is about to marry "her". His response [[Film/Funny|is priceless]].
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* ''[[Bones]]'': The subplot of an episode revolved around the team trying to figure out whether a Japanese assistant is a man or a woman. It is debated at some length before Angela figures it out in her own way. {{spoiler|The character is a man...the actress is a woman.}}
** Another episode has the team realize that the victim was a post-op male-to-female transsexual. {{spoiler|This had absolutely nothing to do with the murder.}}
* An episode of ''[[Diagnosis: Murder]]'' plays this straight (as it were). The victim was an MTF post-op TS, and Steve had been flirting with her before she was killed. To the show's credit, the victim was portrayed as a sympathetic character and none of the main characters freaked out about it. In fact, {{spoiler|she was killed by her former military buddy because he was [[Squick|squickedsquick]]ed, and the murderer is portrayed as a [[Jerkass]].}}
* ''[[Will and Grace]]'': Jack freaks out when he gets turned on by the stripper at Leo's bachelor party, until he finds out the stripper is a pre-op who dances to raise money for her operation.
* In ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'', Charlie Sheen meets an old flame who has had a sex change and become Chris O'Donnell. He is freaked out by it but eventually comes to terms with the idea {{spoiler|until his mother starts dating his ex}}.
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** In one episode, Herb starts flirting with a woman who claims she knew him in high school. While making out with her, he learns he did know her in high school... [[Something's Different About You Now|before she had the operation]]. She was a teammate of his on the high school football team, in fact the center to Herb's quarterback. To say Herb had a case of the ''[[Squick]]'' is putting it midly.
** In an earlier episode, the trope is invoked and subverted by Johnny. To get Herb to stop hitting on Jennifer, he tells Herb "Our receptionist, the beautiful Jennifer Marlowe, is a result of the most cunningly successful sex change operation in the United States!" The ploy works... sort of.
* [[Double Subverted]] in ''[[The IT Crowd]]'' when, in a B-plot, Douglas embarks on a successful relationship with a post-op transsexual woman -- butwoman—but it comes crashing down when he realises that she was saying "I used to be a man," not "I'm from Iran."
* ''[[Community]]'': Pierce has to be corrected as to the gender of the singer that made Hawthorne Wipes a gay icon. The same singer is seen later on, arm in arm with [[Casanova Wannabe|Chang]], leading to this beautifully ironic line:
{{quote|'''Chang:''' Winger, no date? Huh. ''[[Failed a Spot Check|Gaaaaayyyy.]]''}}
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Was just a beautiful man.'' }}
** Used in this case to [[Depraved Homosexual|show how depraved the homosexuals are]] [[Values Dissonance|in the singer's eyes]], and both preceded and followed by gay bashing, since one of the other patrons in the bar did [[Disproportionate Retribution|flirt with him.]]
* The Filipino song "Chicksilog" <ref> a portmanteu of Chick (in the girl sense), SInangag (Fried rice) and ItLOG (egg, specifically a sunny sideup); [Viand Name]silog is a popular meal in the country. Culturally translated, it effectively means "A Chick with [[Double Entendre|eggs]]".</ref> by Kamikazee is about a ''[[Ragnarok Online]]'' player's reaction to finding out the hard way that the "girl" his character hangs out with a lot turns out to be a [[Cross Player]].
* "When we got undressed it was big ol' mess/Sheena was a man!" - Tone Loc's "[[Funky Cold Medina]]".
* ''The Doug Anthony All Stars'' song Sailor's Arms also has this theme.
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** And now [[Blaz Blue|Hakumen]] [http://blazen.thecomicseries.com/images/comics/9ee9cbc69f43ebff1453363da2f66b262077815593.png got a Bridget dropped on him].
** Over here in [[Real Life]], people have found it quite amusing to show Bridget to those who aren't familiar with the Guilty Gear series, and get their reactions when they drop the bombshell, as it were (she and other characters of this trope are called "traps" for this reason). [[Memetic Mutation|As the meme says]], "Everyone is gay for Bridget".
* And for the most famous female example, you have Sheik of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]''. Earlier in the game, Ruto called "him" a man. She was wrong. You know that you have an epic gender reveal when the fandom spends ''ten years'' starting [[Flame War|Flame Wars]]s over it.
* ''[[Disgaea]]''
** This happens to Tink in ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' when he tries to hit on a [[Cute Monster Girl]] after joining your group. Of course, nobody bothered to tell him that the aforementioned "girl" is, in fact, Bridget's [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]...
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** The Alraune trap is brought back again in ''[[Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten]]'' when the [[Cute Monster Girl]] in question is revealed as a guy in front of "her" adoring fans. Said fans decide that they "don't mind a little trap action."
* In ''[[Dragon Age]]'', it turns out that Shale was actually once a female dwarf. Thanks to [[The Fog of Ages]], even the character in question is stunned by this, making it a rare case of the ''character in question'' experiencing the unsettling reveal.
* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2'', Raiden, a shameless [[Bishonen]], is revealed to the President of the United States. The president literally grabs Raiden's package to check his sex, reacting in suppressed shock when he learns the terrible truth -- thetruth—the script says he'd misidentified him as the similar-looking female terrorist leader, Olga Gurlukovich, but Raiden's decidedly male voice and obvious bulge should have put that suspicion out the window. Besides, why didn't he just ask Raiden?... What was he planning to do to Olga?! ''Who voted for that?!''
** [http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c365/peachifruit/hiimdaisy/mgs/mgs2comic14.jpg This comic] offers another perspective.
{{quote|'''Raiden:''' YOU ARE THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER}}
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** [[She's a Man In Japan|The German fans must've been laughing hard at that one.]]
* Shika in ''[[Kirakira|Kira Kira]]'', when a guy fell in love with him when he was forced to cross dress. Two years later, he was shocked to realize that Shika was in fact male, [[If It's You It's Okay|but quickly got over it]] even offering to ''be his wife'' since the idea seemed to make him uncomfortable.
* Iita in ''[[Blaze Union]]''. Oh, ye gods, Iita. She's a perfectly adorable little [[Fille Fatale]], cute and squeaky and very girly. Then night falls, and the other half of her [[Split Personality]] takes over -- theover—the side that is male, brash, [[Hot-Blooded]], and downright thuggish. Her male half cheerfully announces to the stunned women of the game's cast that "oh right, sorry, I forgot to say: I'm a man at night". Equally shocking to people who first see Male!Iita and then realize that what they thought was a boy dressed in girl's clothes is actually still physically female.
** Sting is all too happy to play with the latter situation, by the way; as is the norm, a number of [[Fan Service]]-y phone cards are being produced. One features Male!Iita smirking and slowly peeling the clothes off of his ''very'' female body.
* While the title heroine of ''[[Atelier Annie]]'' has her moments due to her (unfortunate) [[Bifauxnen]] status, the game also gives a somewhat bizarre example when some men tried to hit on, of all people, ''Hans''. The bizarre part is that they genuinely mistook him as a girl, while his co-workers in the Committee see him as a guy just fine.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'': Patrick does this in the episode "That's No Lady" to everybody in the Krusty Krab, including Mr. Krabs and Squidward who had fallen for "her" after he tears off the girl disguise he was wearing.
* In the surprisingly serious short ''What's Opera, Doc?'', Elmer Fudd finds out that the girl he fell for was [[Bugs Bunny]] in a dress -- anddress—and ''[[Downer Ending|actually kills Bugs]]'' with his magic helmet. Although it's unclear whether he does it because Bugs is male, or if it's because Bugs rejects him the moment the disguise is off! Or because, well, he's Bugs.
{{quote|'''Bug:''' Well, what didja expect in an opera? A ''happy'' ending?}}
* ''[[Family Guy]]'':
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