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Oh, hello there. Were you looking for the trope But He Sounds Handsome? Well, that's definitely not me. Sounds like a pretty great idea for a trope though! If I were But He Sounds Handsome, I would be a trope about characters secretly complimenting themselves... while disguised as someone else. I might also be about giving compliments to a mysterious person (who would have been, of course, me), or hearing insults/compliments about my normal identity while in disguise. It's pretty much a stock gag/joke for anyone in disguise. Often I... I mean But He Sounds Handsome would be used as part of a Paper-Thin Disguise. The trope is frequently inverted by a character trying to deflect suspicion by insulting their other identity. What a dumb idea for a trope that is; I'm glad I'm not that trope. Or its inversion. Hang on, he's actually telling me right now... yes? What is it? Oh, okay. He says this occasionally overlaps with the trope Holding Both Sides of the Conversation, where one person pretends to be two people at once. He also mentioned that it overlaps with Sock Puppet when the pretense uses a second Internet identity. It also applies to cases where a member of Group X in disguise defends Group X — a Sweet Polly Oliver objecting to an insult to women, for instance, or an undercover spy speaking up for his home country. At least, I'm sure that's what But He Sounds Handsome would say. What a great trope. However, I've heard — I'm not speaking from direct experience, of course — that But He Sounds Handsome is only slightly related to a common joke wherein a character makes a joke of complimenting his Doppelgänger, his Ridiculously Successful Future Self or his otherwise pathetic past self, his Identical Stranger, or just his plain ordinary identical twin for being remarkably handsome. What? No, those aren't my examples of But He Sounds Handsome. I'm just... holding on to them for But He Sounds Handsome. So, ah, feel free to look at or add to them. But they're definitely not examples of me. Definitely. |
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In Batman: The Telltale Series, Bruce Wayne is asked what he thinks about Batman. You can either play this trope straight by calling him a great hero, or invert it by calling him a lunatic that should be locked up. Vicki Vale plays it straight. After her article on the Children of Arkham comes out, she tells Bruce that the Children were fighting for the noble cause of rooting out corruption in Gotham. She turns out to not only be a member of the group, but its leader — which leads to Fridge Brilliance when the truth is revealed, since when she interviewed the leader, she was actually interviewing herself. |
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In The Crystal and the Mirage, Grandpa Merc describes Mirage as "a handsome and intelligent blue dragon". | |
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In Mrs. Doubtfire Miranda is talking to Mrs Doubtfire about how difficult being married to Daniel is. Mrs Doubtfire is Daniel in disguise and tells Miranda that Daniel "Sounds like an absolute stallion". | |
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Narbonic: Madblood is disguised as Dave, and Helen (who figured it out immediately) is messing with him by claiming she and Dave are lovers. Madblood tries to keep his cover, but he can't help saying things like, "But what of Madblood? I thought you found him dashing and brilliant!" | |
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Danganronpa: Komm Susser Tod: Used in Chapter 1 to expose a student's more off-kilter side: Mamoru's positive comments about the hentai artist SHADOWMOUNTAIN lead to the discovery that they were one and the same. | |
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Megamind: while under the guise of Bernard, Megamind pretends to be fighting himself in front of Roxanne. He constantly spouts praise towards Megamind ("You're so strong and charismatic!") and finally tells Roxanne he did his best, but Megamind is just too fantastic! | |
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In Worm, when Taylor is visiting her father and his friends during Monarch 16.7, she ends up in a debate about whether the villains taking control of the town are a force for good — one of said villains being Skitter i.e. Taylor. | |
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In Clone High, Joan of Arc tries to use this on Abe while "disguised" as John D'Arc, to get him to like her while badmouthing Abe's girlfriend Cleo; it doesn't work, and Abe assumes that John is trying to steal Cleo for himself. | |
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A character in the minigolf episode of Fillmore! at one point appears in front of the Safety Patrol to deliver a rant about how the mysterious culprit leading the minigolf corruption ring was clearly really smart and badass and they should be afraid of him, shortly after they had confirmed that this particular fellow was the bad guy. Somehow, the Safety Patrol didn't immediately take him in, even though his speech was better evidence than most signed confessions. | |
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In the Count Duckula episode "Family Reunion", Duckula, trying to get rid of his actually-vampiric relatives, disguises himself as a vampire hunter and joins forces with Dr von Goosewing. When von Goosewing says Castle Duckula is home to "the cunningest and cleverest being known to mankind", Duckula agrees and adds "And handsome too, I've heard." This confuses von Goosewing, who has never considered Igor to be handsome. | |
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Ranma ½: During one story arc, Ry�ga got a mark on his stomach that makes him invincible, but looks incredibly stupid. Since it can only be removed by being defeated, Ranma tries all manner of things, and finally comes up with an answer: Also happens much earlier in the story, when Ranma (in girl form) beats up Kun� (in response to an insult to his manhood, ironically), and quickly covers with the below when he realizes that Kun� is still oblivious: In one story, a clone of his female side is created. She's taken to school so Ranma can keep an eye on her. She starts flirting with all the other students then asks if Ranma is jealous. He replies that however beautiful she is, unfortunately he can't love her. The watching students comment that his ego is the size of Tokyo. |
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In Death Race, a special miniseries of DEATH BATTLE!, Boomstick incredulously remarks, "Oh, no! Someone has laced our race course with land mines!! Who would be sadistic enough to do a thing like- ME! It was me! I get paid to do this... and it's fun." | |
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Fire Emblem: In Fire Emblem Fates, Xander tells Laslow in their supports that he's gotten complaints about "a certain royal retainer" hitting on the local women. Laslow's response? In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Bad Liar Flayn is secretly the ancient Saint Cethleann. Whenever the subject of said saint comes up, she eagerly corrects the history books' "misconceptions" and discusses her virtues. In Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, Holst wonders about Claude's goal to improve Leicester's relationship with Almyra in their A Support. He asks if Claude wants Hilda (Holst's younger sister, and their family guards the border) to marry into the Almyran royal family. Claude attempts to dodge the question, and at one point refers to an Almyran prince whom Hilda would potentially marry as "that hypothetical heartthrob." Claude himself is an Almyran prince, making it sound like he just called himself a heartthrob. |
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In the first episode of House after House fires all of his fellows, Cuddy wants him to hire new ones, but he refuses, spending all of his time fiddling around with an electric guitar he brought to work with him. Wilson steals the guitar and leaves a message on House's voicemail, disguising his voice using a cup. The message says his guitar has been kidnapped and demands the hiring of new fellows as the ransom. House immediately knows it's Wilson, and he barges into Wilson's office right when Wilson is leaving another voicemail message. Even though House obviously saw him do it, Wilson claims he has no idea who the kidnappers are, but says they sound like evil geniuses. | |
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Inverted in The Young Diana after the titular middle-aged spinster drinks an elixir that turns her into a beautiful young woman. When a friend of her father's asks if she's any relation to his friend's daughter, Diana says, "Women over forty who have failed to get married shouldn't live! Don't you agree?" | |
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Marie D. Suesse and the Mystery New Pirate Age!: The ending of the story heavily implies that the Lemony Narrator is actually Trafalgar Law, or whatever is left of his Disinfector persona after the Cosmic Retcon that ends the fic. Armed with this information, some of the lines that are spouted off end up being even funnier than on the first read. | |
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GTO: 14 Days in Shonan: Onizuka pretends to be Ayame, and uses a notepad to tell Shinomi how great he is. | |
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In the Jeeves and Wooster episode "Bertie takes Gussie's place at Deverill Hall", Bertie (who is impersonating Gussie) is asked about 'that Bertie Wooster fellow', and proceeds to talk up how musically talented, witty, and generally wonderful Bertie is. This backfires when Gussie turns up claiming to be Bertie, and is called upon for a demonstration of his skill at singing and playing piano. | |
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In The Vicar of Dibley, strangers occasionally talk to Geraldine about Dibley's famous female vicar without realizing who she is (either because it's over the phone or her collar is obscured). Invariably, she'll make sure to emphasize how much the villagers admire their beloved and sexy vicar. | |
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The Simpsons: In “Some Enchanted Evening�, Homer calls a babysitting service and is immediately hung up on due to past experiences with Bart and Lisa. He calls again, poorly masquerading as “Mr. Sampson�. After the babysitting service comments on how annoying The Simpsons are, Homer angrily replies that The Simpsons are neighbors of theirs and that he found them to be “quite a misunderstood and underrated family�. In "Lemon of Troy", when Bart was infiltrating Shelbyville and Springfield moved against them: "Curse those handsome devils!" In "Girls Just Want To Have Sums", Springfield Elementary has the boys and girls separated and Lisa disguises herself as a boy in order to be challenged more in math. She talks with Milhouse and when he tells her he does not miss having the girls around, she asks about Lisa while saying, "I hear she's pretty cool." |
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In Paddington 2, Phoenix Buchanan describes the cockney thief as having stunning, beautiful eyes, both at testimony and at home in his flat with Mrs. Brown. When he calls them "blue" by mistake, despite supposedly never having seen the man in person, Mrs. Brown is clued in to look at his own blue eyes and instantly realizes the truth. | |
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Oh No! It's an Alien Invasion: In "The Spandexter", Louis adopts a secret identity as the costumed Spandexter. When Nate invites the Spandexter back to their headquarters to meet Louis as they are both into science, the Spandexter says that Louis sounds "really, really, really cool. And handsome". | |
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In one episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, a game of "Newsflash" (in which Colin stands in front of a greenscreen and tries to guess what's behind him while pretending to be reporting on a news story) had Colin reporting on clips of himself from past episodes. The instant he catches on (mainly due to Chip making a bald joke), he switches from commenting on the strangeness of the situation to becoming teary-eyed over the absolute beauty of it. In a similar vein, the same game in a later episode used clips of Ryan, and Ryan's first clue to Colin was to remark on the sheer beauty of what was behind him. |
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Done in The Scarlet Pimpernel TV series, when Percy is impersonating Chauvelin: | |
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In the Broad City episode "Co-op," Abbi meets a handsome artist while pretending to be Ilana to cover her shift at the co-op. She spends the entire conversation talking about how amazing Abbi is. | |
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Captive Prince: Played for Laughs when King Damianos is traveling undercover as "Lamen". One of his companions shares a story of the King defeating a gladiator in minutes, then taking him to bed for six hours, and... | |
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Baldur's Gate: On the road back from completing your first major quest in Baldur's Gate, the player has the option to do this: Also, in Baldur's Gate II, Edwin accidentally transforms himself into a woman while trying to unlock the secrets of a magical scroll. While this is initially upsetting for him, it turns out to be advantageous later on when a wizard tasked with hunting him down and killing him doesn't realize who he is and lets him go. However, the other wizard soon figures out that something's not right, tracks the party down again, and accuses the female wizard of being Edwin in disguise. The response? |
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In The Amazing Spider-Man (Lee & Ditko), Peter would bash Spider-Man anytime he was asked for his opinion on him. | |
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My Adventures with Superman: After Superman has a short interview with Lois, he comes back as Clark and asks Lois what she thought of the superhero. He calls Superman a "pretty awesome guy" and is taken aback when Lois calls Superman a liar. Conversely, Superman tells Lois that he likes Clark Kent. | |
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In The Bad Guys (2022), just before initiating the heist for the Golden Dolphin, Mr. Wolf (disguised as "Oliver Poodleton") meets Governor Diane Foxington outside the museum. He complements her for fighting back against the dastardly Bad Guys, although unsuccessfully and comments on how they are bound to go down in criminal history. This ends up backfiring; Diane thinks he's joking and starts laughing, followed by her very detailed criticisms of their previous heist and correctly predicting they would make things personal, which would lead to their demise. Mr. Wolf is visibly rattled. | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: This is Noctis City's idol OK-Chan main MO, "she" is actually a bulky man using a move-set who also spreads good details about his idol identity while not in disguise. | |
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In the Graceland episode "King's Castle", Briggs tells Charlie that they have to accept the fact that they cannot catch their Worthy Opponent Odin Rossi. Briggs is Odin Rossi. | |
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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002) played this straight once or twice. In the episode "Dragon's Brood", when He-Man first uses the excuse that Adam found him and told him what was going on, adds, "Nice kid." | |
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The Flash: This was used pretty frequently, with the Flash out of disguise saying something along the lines of "Now now, we can't all be the Flash". | |
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And again in Measure for Measure, where Lucio starts badmouthing the absent Duke to a monk, not realizing that the monk is the Duke in disguise. The monk replies to Lucio with a surprisingly minor version of this trope: he always heard the Duke pretty highly spoken-of. Becomes hilarious in the final scene, when Lucio tells the returned Duke about meeting a monk who said the most awful, slanderous things about him. | |
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Like A Redheaded Stepchild's climax involves Voldemort's resurrection being an Imperfect Ritual which essentially turns him into Yzma. The moment Hermione suggests that this might have been caused by deliberate sabotage, Snape denies it, on the grounds that "Only a skillful and masterful potions master could ever manage such a thing." Dumbledore immediately tells him to quit bragging. | |
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In Code MENT: | |
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Happens multiple times in 8-Bit Theater, such as here, here, here, here and arguably here. | |
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Inverted in The Shop Around the Corner, where Jimmy Stewart's character has been having a secret pen-pal romance with a co-worker he despises, only to fall in love with her. He figures it out before she does and insults his alter-ego, saying that he met him earlier and found that he was overweight, a plagiarist, and had a weird last name. Similarly done in the Setting Update You've Got Mail, where Joe doesn't pretend to know the pen pal, but tells Kathleen that's he's probably fat, ugly, married and generally unpleasant. | |
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Inverted in Batman Begins, where Bruce Wayne openly makes fun of Batman while trying to develop a reputation as an idiot playboy. Continued in The Dark Knight, when he questions who appointed Batman and what gives him the right to take the law into his own hands. | |
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Another Code: In Two Memories, Bill, when describing “Bill� to Ashley while pretending to be her father, calls Bill “brilliant�. | |
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In The Golden Boys Last Temptation, Kara is telling a little boy a story about Supergirl. At one point, Kara says that "some people called Supergirl beautiful. I don't disagree". | |
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In the Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero episode "I'm Still Super!", Penn assumes Captain Super Captain is doing this when he tells them the villain they're up against "is as diabolical as he is drop-dead handsome." He's actually talking about his twin brother. | |
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Happens a lot in Second Chance (2016). After being restored to his younger body, Jimmy will often compliment or defend his older self to people who knew him. Usually—especially when it's Jimmy's son—the person he's talking to will respond with their real and unflattering opinion of the older Jimmy. | |
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Also, in Baldur's Gate II, Edwin accidentally transforms himself into a woman while trying to unlock the secrets of a magical scroll. While this is initially upsetting for him, it turns out to be advantageous later on when a wizard tasked with hunting him down and killing him doesn't realize who he is and lets him go. However, the other wizard soon figures out that something's not right, tracks the party down again, and accuses the female wizard of being Edwin in disguise. The response? | |
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Wonder Woman: During the Golden Age (Vol 1, Sensation Comics, Comic Cavalcade and All-Star Comics), Wonder Woman talked up Diana Prince as Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman as Diana Prince to Steve Trevor in order to try and figure out if he knew her secret identity, and if he loved her as both. His answers, which always had him claiming to love Wonder Woman, and conveniently timed distractions preventing his answers are a large part of why a subset of the fandom believes he always knew but didn't want to admit it at the time for a slew of reasons. | |
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In The Spectacular Spider-Man #245, the Chameleon plays it straight in one panel and inverts it in the next when he comes after Mary Jane, disguised as Spider-Man: starting off with "He's one of the toughest foes I've ever faced" and then calling himself a "strait-jacketed loser". | |
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Diamonds Are Forever: James Bond, posing as smuggler Peter Franks, kills the real Franks and switches wallets with him. When Tiffany Case discovers he's "killed James Bond" he feigns surprise and comments "It just goes to show you, no-one's indestructible!" Later, when using one of Q's devices to impersonate the voice of Blofeld's lackey, he expresses concern about having to go up against a genius like James Bond. |
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Arrested Development often has George Sr and Oscar (who are identical twins) switching places (usually without Oscar's consent). When impersonating Oscar, George Sr. will often insult "himself" in front of the family. | |
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In a Dilbert comic, the company's lawyer demonstrates what the other side might say in court: "Liar! Why is your attorney so handsome?" In another strip, the Pointed Haired Boss hires Dogbert's firm to persuade the media to write negative stories about their competitor. When Dilbert asks if this is ethical, Dogbert assures him that their competitor is already doing it, since they have hired a firm to do just that. When Dilbert then asks who did they hire, Dogbert just says it's probably someone awesome. |
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Anpanman: Uncle Negi will happily comment on how handsome and amazing his Zorro-esque alter ego Naganegiman is. Whenever Naganegiman leaves the scene, Uncle Negi pops up nearby, commenting on him. When people talk about Naganegiman's awesomeness around Uncle Negi, he has a tendency to just melt...and everyone else wonders what the heck he's doing. | |
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In Larp Trek, Odo gets some lines about how clever Jake is, and how everyone should listen to him. These lines would be more convincing if Wesley weren't role-playing both Odo and Jake. | |
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Supernatural: Dean is looking for Sam, who's been kidnapped. The cop he goes to (while claiming to be his cousin) looks Sam up in her computer and mentions that Sam's brother was recently reported dead and had been wanted for murder. He replies, "Yeah, Dean was always the black sheep of the family. Handsome, though." And in the episode referred to above, when a shapeshifter uses Dean's form to commit crimes: |
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The Karma of Lies: Upon hearing that Bunnyx is one of the heroes that Ladybug will no longer trust with a Miraculous, Alix protests, trying to defend her future self without letting on that she knows who she really is. | |
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The Marauder quest line in Final Fantasy XIV has an instance, where the guildmaster tasks you, with the assistance of his conjurer sister, to take out a nest of beasts, only to be accosted by other marauders - clearly the guildmaster and other unnamed members of the guild with face-concealing helmets. The conjurer notes after beating them that he clearly couldn't have expected you to fall for such a simple disguise, but asks you to play dumb for the guildmaster's sake; when you return, almost without provocation, he brings up that you did well to defeat "opponents of such formidable skill" and congratulates you for surpassing such "overwhelming odds". | |
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In The Odyssey, Odysseus brags about his cleverness and courage many times in many different disguises. Fitting, as the whole plot is kicked off by his hubris. | |
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Razzberry Jazzberry Jam: When Buddy has to impersonate his twin brother Krupa in “A Bonnie Tale�, he can’t resist indulging in a bit of this. | |
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Overly Sarcastic Productions: Sun Wukong is known for describing himself as an extremely powerful, handsome, and devious enemy, who could be disguised as anyone. Ironically, the Bull Demon King (who Sun had previously impersonated) at one point disguises himself as Pigsy and remarks on how he heard he was fighting the very powerful and handsome Bull Demon King, which Sun of course doesn't think sounds suspicious at all. | |
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In Supergirl (2015), James and Winn do this a lot about James's heroic alter ego Guardian (Winn designed the suit and acts as Guardian's Number Two). | |
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Robin Hood (1973): During the archery tournament, Robin, disguised as a stork, praises himself and taunts the Sheriff of Nottingham about his failure catching him. | |
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In the Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes episode "Doomed", Doctor Doom does this after body-swapping with Reed. He says that trying to understand Doom's motives and mental processes would be impossible for them. | |
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Risk It All: After his super identity becomes known as "the Breaker" on the internet, Ren feels the need to defend himself to his dad, who had referred to him as a "dangerous metahuman". Try as he might, Ren can't really say anything good about leaving several men with crippling injuries. | |
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The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World: While in Geddy disguise on the Flying Island of Tipaan, George and Ringo encounter some musicians. As they chat, the musicians scoff at the musical abilities of outworlders (which have already been established as generally dreadful). George agrees but says “We do know four who aren't bad.� | |
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Nero Wolfe: The League of Frightened Men: Paul Chapin's supposed confession calls Wolfe "acute and intuitive" and says that after their first meeting, Chapin knew that deceiving a man of Wolfe's brilliance would be futile. Wolfe is the actual author of the confession, as part of his plan to convince his clients Chapin really is innocent. | |
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In Homestuck, Roxy does this to John, just to mess with him and see how long it takes for him to figure it out. | |
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With Donald Duck being the most notable, for going both ways with his identity Paperinik: Paperinik will insist that Donald is a good and honest man, while Donald throws fits of rage when someone dares insult Paperinik in his presence. | |
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In The Harder They Come, Ivan, a total unknown in the music industry, goes to a dance club to see how people react to his first single. While the record is playing, he casually asks a stranger what he thinks of the song. When the man says "Not bad," Ivan responds, "I think it's a hit." | |
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Kenan & Kel has the episode "Happy B-Day Marc" in which Kenan sneaks into a costume party dressed as a ninja named Bernard where he encounters Sharla. | |
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Inverted by James Myers, who in the 1970s was a PE teacher in Michigan and wrestled in New York in the summer as George "The Animal" Steele. On the rare occasion when one of his students pointed out his resemblance to some WWF wrestler they saw in a magazine, he'd reply "do you really think I'm that ugly?" | |
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Top Cat: The Movie: The robot who poses as Top Cat while robbing an orphanage makes a comment about Strickland's supposed beauty while "taunting" him in front of the camera. | |
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The Order of the Stick: The way to tell the difference between Elan and Nale-disguised-as-Elan? Nale can't help but defend himself when insulted. After Belkar gets out of prison in Azure City and is disguised by wearing a cloak and stilts, he comments on belkar being "as stubborn as he is stone cold sexy" when questioned by Hinjo. In On the Origin of PCs, Belkar escapes from prison with a false beard as a disguise. He tells his pursuers that the "ruggedly handsome and clean-shaven" halfling went that way. Eugene Greenhilt, while impersonating his daughter Julia, tries to get his son Roy to admit that Eugene wasn't "all bad, all the time". |
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Dead Man's Gun: In "The Highwayman", when his guests are discussing the Red Mask Highwayman, Robert Cosgrove (who secretly is the Highwayman) cannot help himself and says the Highwayman sounds Just Like Robin Hood as he only robs rich men. He quickly discovers he is alone in this opinion, and everyone thinks he is a dangerous cutthroat who is going to wind up murdering someone. | |
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Monster in the Mountain has a Downplayed version. When Frisk describes having a dream about Flowey, Asriel's soulless form, Asriel describes it as weird, noting that "Life can be hard for even flowers." | |
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James Bond: Diamonds Are Forever: James Bond, posing as smuggler Peter Franks, kills the real Franks and switches wallets with him. When Tiffany Case discovers he's "killed James Bond" he feigns surprise and comments "It just goes to show you, no-one's indestructible!" Later, when using one of Q's devices to impersonate the voice of Blofeld's lackey, he expresses concern about having to go up against a genius like James Bond. The Man with the Golden Gun: Bond impersonates Francisco Scaramanga and talks with Scaramanga's employer. During the talk, Bond warns the man about Bond and plays up his skills, although Scaramanga would likely agree with everything Bond says himself. |
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A meta example occurs in Undertale if the player enters "TOBY" during Mettaton's essay prompts. | |
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For the longest time, Chris Jericho would go by the name Moongoose McQueen when playing as the frontman of heavy metal band Fozzy. In Kayfabe, Jericho was a huge fan of McQueen while McQueen supposedly had never heard of Jericho. | |
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The Americans: Despite being Deep Cover Agents posing as regular American citizens during the Cold War, Philip and Elizabeth can't resist occasionally defending the Soviet Union in conversation with others. | |
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Happens in Red Dwarf, even without a disguise: Holly, the ship's computer, appears on a recording Holly doesn't remember making (the crew's memories were erased). Initially, he comments, "Nice-looking bloke", and then when the recorded Holly tells them to pause the recording, he does so, because he "Knows what he's talking about, that dude." | |
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The Man with Two Faces: While still in disguise as Chautard, Damon the actor sees his picture on Ben the producer's wall and says that Damon Wells is the best actor in the world. When a distracted Ben says only that Damon is "pretty good", a peeved Damon rips off the disguise and reveals himself. | |
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In Spider-Man, Peter Parker and MJ get into a conversation about Spider-Man, and it seems Peter can't help himself. Subtle enough to be passed off as Peter just trying to look like an average guy. | |
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Robin: In Robin (1993), Tim Drake mentions the former Robin looking more "graceful" and built like an athlete in comparison to Conner dressed as Robin when trying to convince Darla Aquista that said Robin (himself) is dead, so she doesn't need to keep trying to kill him. | |
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Venom: The Lemony Narrator of Venom: The End makes a joke about "God forbid the world ever had to do without Tony Stark, eh?" as they narrate how his Artificial Intelligences were among the many to survive into the twilight days of biological life. At first this sounds like Self-Deprecation on Marvel's part... until the end of the story, when it is revealed that the narrator is an A.I. descended from Stark, and thus they were actually describing themselves. | |
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In the Vorkosigan Saga: In Brothers in Arms, Miles Vorkosigan does quite a bit of this with his alter-ego Admiral Naismith. (Although Admiral Naismith considers Miles Vorkosigan to be boring and stupid in return.) Another notable case was when one of Naismith's rescue victims was advising Lieutenant Vorkosigan to "stay away from the bunch of clowns called the Dendarii Mercenaries." Said mercenaries are run by Naismith who accidentally wounded and nearly killed the guy Miles is talking to. Nettled, Miles snapped "Why? They got you back alive, didn't they?" |
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In "The Sugar Plum Fairy!" from Butterbean's Cafe, Ms. Marmalady dresses up as the Sugar Plum Fairy and tries to fool Butterbean and her friends. Cricket almost immediately calls her out as Ms. Marmalady and she replies "Who? Oh, I've never heard of her. But she's probably really cool." Then she takes a fall and admits the truth. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic: In his review of Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2, he spends most of the episode in a fake coma. At one point, guest stars Brentalfloss and Uncle Yo have to pull an Of Corpse He's Alive routine for a convention Q&A, and when asked which review the Nostalgia Critic preferred, they immediately nominated the ones they themselves participated in, described themselves as "devilishly handsome", and eventually got into a slap fight. The Critic evokes this himself during his review of The Phantom, during the scene where Kit (who actually is the Phantom) talks to Diana: He also takes a moment in his review of Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie to gushingly praise the performance of a suspiciously familiar-looking cameo. In the suicide squad review, Jim Jarosz is off-set playing "Jared Leto portraying the Joker". When White Chart Guy attempts to get his attention, Jim does this almost word-by-word. |
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Inverted in an entirely different way in the Codex Alera. Tavi and Max are extravagantly praising the mysterious person who attacked a slaver and freed the slaves, only for both of them to be quite shocked to discover that it was not the other one who did it. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: A running gag in the second season is someone (usually Krillan) references another character with the other person saying something along the lines of "I do not know what this is, but it sounds awful". The trope comes into play with the Bardock film when Bardock points out how Lord Chill is a lot like Freeza (Chill's distant descendant) to which Chill responds "I don't know what this Freeza is but it sounds like a classy lady!" | |
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The Man with the Golden Gun: Bond impersonates Francisco Scaramanga and talks with Scaramanga's employer. During the talk, Bond warns the man about Bond and plays up his skills, although Scaramanga would likely agree with everything Bond says himself. | |
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In the "Claptastic Journey" DLC from Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!, when you beat 5H4D0W-TP for the first time, Handsome Jack says "Shame he had to die, he was an impressive piece of code." You soon learn that it was 5H4D0W-TP imitating Jack in order to trick you into handing over the H-Source. | |
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In the Dragon article/story "The Ecology of the Pseudodragon", the more ethically-challenged Monster Hunters magically disguise themselves as the more noble ones in order to get close to a pseudodragon by winning the trust of its nymph companion. Dreelix-as-Buntleby "warns" the nymph that Dreelix probably has a clever ruse in mind, because he's very good at that sort of thing, and she reminds him that he said Dreelix was an idiot just the other day. (On purpose — she's already spoken to the real Buntleby and figured it out.) | |
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In Fire Emblem Fates, Xander tells Laslow in their supports that he's gotten complaints about "a certain royal retainer" hitting on the local women. Laslow's response? | |
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In Suikoden II, a petitioner visits the main character's castle and asks for the great hero, not knowing that that's exactly who he's speaking to. The main character can admit to their identity, mention that "he's so unbelievably cool" or in the inverse of this trope declare that "he's nothing special". | |
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In Shaenon Garrity's The X-Files recap comic Monster of the Week, the strip based on "Zero Sum" has Skinner react to the news that someone's been impersonating Mulder with "Damn that handsome bastard!" | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: In Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, when Fizban — a humanoid persona adopted by the dragon god Bahamut — mentions himself, he states that Bahamut has objectively made the best decisions of any dragon. Also, he's very handsome and has the biggest hoard around. | |
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Ascendance of a Bookworm: The story quickly starts hinting that Sylvester the blue priest is not a blue priest, but at the very least a high-ranking noble masquerading as one with mixed results. When his real identity is revealed, he turns out to have held quite a few conversations as if said identity was another person entirely, saying both good and bad things about them. A side chapter establishes that at least one person accidentally insulted his real identity to his face during the King Incognito stint. | |
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In Henry IV, Part 1, Falstaff, playing the role of Hal's father the King, tells Hal about this wonderful fellow he's heard of called Falstaff. Hal, playing his father, says he's heard this Falstaff guy is a drunken knave. It's in this scene that it finally sinks it for Hal that he's going to need to stop hanging around with Falstaff. | |
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When Shirogane's father first meets Kaguya in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, he trolls her into revealing her feelings for his son by pretending to insult him and claiming he'll retract his statement if she can point out what makes him so wonderful. With every positive attribute she lists, he provides a counterargument, the only exception being when she mentions his piercing gaze and he responds "his parents must have good genes." | |
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In Sword Art Online Abridged's second season, Leafa/Suguha is able to figure out that this "Kirito" guy she quested with one night in Alfheim Online is her (hated) older brother Kazuto fairly quickly, while he remains oblivious to her own identity. This allows her to ask him about his home life, and when he rants about how awful his sister is, Suguha-as-Leafa suggests that this "creative, young, beautiful woman" might be lashing out at him for some reason. | |
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Inverted in Murder Must Advertise, in which Lord Peter Wimsey, encountering two people who have met him in disguise, takes the opportunity to blacken the name of his supposed lookalike cousin. | |
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God of War Ragnarök: The Tyr you rescue early into the game is actually Odin in disguise to manipulate you while he keeps the real Tyr locked away in a secret location. While Odin is smart enough to never outright compliment himself while in disguise, since it would out-of-character for Tyr and an obvious giveaway, he does spend a great deal of time pushing the heroes to stop fighting Odin and try for a peaceful resolution, making himself out to be a Reasonable Authority Figure who will keep his word instead of an Evil Overlord who will backstab the heroes the instant it's beneficial to his plans. It's also pretty telling that Odin, through the disguise, portrays Tyr as having become a traumatized and impotent shell of his former self from his treatment at Odin's hands, whereas the real Tyr you meet later is completely sane and unaffected by Odin's imprisonment of him. | |
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"You'll never get me, Harvey Beaks! Even though you're such a cool and smart detective." | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1999): When Link asks a disguised Zelda if the Princess of Hyrule is pretty, she replies “Yeah, I guess…� | |
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In System Restore, a fairly dark version happens when Souda gets the personality altering despair fever, and imagines himself as the recently deceased Sonia, the object of his affections, and as "Sonia", goes about talking highly of his real self. | |
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Steven Universe: In "The New Lars", Steven accidentally possesses Lars: | |
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In Seinfeld, Elaine is mistaken by coworker Peggy for "Suzie". When Peggy complains to "Suzie" that that Elaine Benes is an idiot, Elaine is forced to defend herself, to a point where she snaps at Peggy and gets "Suzie" in trouble. | |
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The Four Gospels: In the Gospel of John, John never refers to himself by name but only as "the disciple whom Jesus loved". (Although this is seen as a form of humility rather than boastfulness.) There's also an amusing bit in chapter 20, where the otherwise highly-theological book takes a moment to point out that "the other disciple" beat Peter in a footrace. | |
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In Psychonauts 2, Razputin can come across a memory of Lucrecia Mux, personified as a paper doll, in Cassie O'Pia's mind and ask her about the good old days of the Psychic Seven. While Cassie's good memories aren't fully tainted by Lucrecia's descent into evil and Paper Lucrecia is nothing but friendly towards Raz, Cassie can't help speak some of her resentment through the paper doll anyways. | |
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Inverted in Super Mario Bros. (1993). When Mario and Luigi meet up with their "attorney," the attorney tells them that they don't want to meet President Koopa, describing him as "one evil, egg-sucking son of a snake." When it is revealed that Koopa was the person who acted as their attorney, Luigi expresses shock, to which Koopa then repeats the above description and asks "Did I lie?" | |
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In Twelfth Night, Orsino claims that no woman could possibly love as truly as he does. Viola, disguised as a man and also hopelessly in love with him, begs to differ. | |
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The Flash (2014): Barry Allen, in an effort to maintain his Secret Identity, soundly inverts this trope whenever Iris tries to talk to him about the Flash. Iris finds Barry's negativity about Central City's new superhero very annoying. Early on in Season 2, Jay Garrick shows up to warn Team Flash about the new Big Bad Zoom, and frequently brings up how incredibly powerful and evil he is and how Barry wouldn't stand a chance against him in a fight. While Garrick is proven right, it turns out that the man Team Flash knows as "Jay Garrick" is actually Zoom himself in disguise, having stolen the real Jay Garrick's identity. |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: At the end of Act 1, the Trooper infiltrates an enemy-held starship to confront a defector and, along the way, encounters a group of ex-Republic mooks who are taking a break to talk about the Havoc team that's devastating their ranks. Naturally, the Trooper can pitch in with how terrifying and deadly these Republic commandos are, and how they're glad nobody's around like that. | |
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In Final Fantasy VII Remake, when you do the Angel of the Slums quest, you encounter a village gossip in Sector 5 named Mireille who provides you information to help you on the quest, though she wouldn't give a Shinra reporter the time of day before. After you complete the quest, if you talk with her again, she comments that "You know, there's a rumor that the Angel of the Slums is as radiant and beautiful as she is daring. Personally, I think that one is true." The game drops several hints that Mireille is in fact the Angel of the Slums and outright confirms it if you complete another quest much later in the game. | |
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In chapter 24 of Hitoribocchi no OO Seikatsu, Aru accidentally puts on her grade school uniform. When she meets Hana, who thinks Aru is Aru's little sister, "Mieru" (Aru pretending to be her own little sister) says that Aru is "certainly a very perfect person". | |
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If I Only Had A Heart: Mashi and Izuku aren't aware that Aizawa, Hizashi and Nemuri are in fact the Pro Heroes Eraserhead, Present Mic and Midnight. The adults have fun singing their own praises and doing impressions of themselves while soaking in the kids' admiration. | |
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In the first book of the Last Herald-Mage Trilogy Herald-Trainee Tylendel's twin brother dies and he abandons Heraldic ethics to pursue Revenge, leading to his Companion repudiating him and dying to save the people he was trying to kill. Tylendel is Driven to Suicide over this. The third book features his Reincarnation Stefan, who doesn't remember his past life, but is bothered by how Tylendel's community thinks about him as a fallen hero and refuses to say his name. At least in his head, Stefan defends him, saying he was a good person and not in his right mind. | |
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The Onion gives us "It's Impossible To Say Whose Voice That Was, But He Makes Some Compelling Points", by Donald Sterling. | |
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In the Teen Titans (2003) episode "Trust", Madam Rouge takes the form of Robin when trying to catch Hotspot. When Hotspot questions how they are going to stop Rouge as she's practically unstoppable, "Robin" replies, "Indeed.... I mean, yeah she is impressive but we're Titans." | |
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In Faking It, Bill mentions how it's a shame he hasn't seen the demon Cipher in a long time and that he's an alright guy. Even this much credit to who he thinks is another demon strikes Dipper as odd considering how incredibly self-centered Bill is. | |
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In To Be or Not to Be, Jozef Tura, a Large Ham actor, is involved with members of The Resistance against the Nazis, and he's called on impersonate, at different points, a Nazi officer and a professor who's a Nazi spy. Inevitably, when he's with another Nazi, he asks if they've heard of "that great, great Polish actor Jozef Tura". One of the Nazi officers says he saw Tura playing Hamlet, and continues, "What he did to Shakespeare, we are doing to Poland." | |
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The Lay of Paul Twister: At one point, one of Paul Twister's few friends disparages the technological research work one of his alter-egos is doing. Paul defends him, saying that he's actually met the guy, and his work is producing results that help people in ways that his friend hadn't considered. | |
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Disney Mouse and Duck Comics superheroes do it fairly often. With Donald Duck being the most notable, for going both ways with his identity Paperinik: Paperinik will insist that Donald is a good and honest man, while Donald throws fits of rage when someone dares insult Paperinik in his presence. In stories that knowledge Daisy's superhero alter ego Paperinika, Daisy tends to act this way in a rather extreme way, especially when she and Donald talk of their respective alter egos, as Donald has little patience for Paperinika and Daisy's usual admiration for Paperinik is replaced with outright contempt. |
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When a pizza dinner appears in '"Harry Is a Dragon, and That's OK'', the Weasley twins wonder aloud "who had such a good idea" as to give the house elves lots of muggle cookbooks. | |
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Clark Kent (played by Dwayne Johnson) is needled by his co-workers who insist that Superman must be gay, while Clark, badly keeping up his secret identity, insist that Supes is completely straight. | |
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Existential Comics: Socramander has never heard of this "Socrates" person, but he thinks he sounds very wise! | |
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Shovel Knight: King of Cards has an inversion. If King Knight talks to an Adventurer in the Cavern of Joustus, he tries to boast about being the person who defeated King Pridemoor... right before the Adventurer expresses his intention to beat that person up and steal his card deck. King Knight immediately changes his mind and claims it was a different, much less dashing person who defeated King Pridemoor. | |
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American Dragon: Jake Long: In "Dreamscape," Rotwood schedules a quiz on "one of the greatest scientific minds of modern times" but won't tell Jake which scientist he needs to study. It turns out to be Rotwood himself. | |
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Kim Possible: Hego, in his civilian guise as a Bueno Nacho manager, refers to his Team Go identity as "that brave superhero". | |
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In Cactus Flower, Stephanie, playing the part of Mrs. Julian Winston in her first meeting with Toni, stoops to complimenting herself in the third person, if only because Toni has heard so much about her already: | |
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Inverted, usually, in Doctor Syn ("The Scarecrow"). As the vicar, Syn publicly denounces the ruthless lawbreaker who goes by the name "Scarecrow". In the second episode he speaks out in court because, he claims, the Scarecrow tried to threaten him into silence, and in the third he's "blackmailed". But in the ending, he shares a drink with the Squire and says that they really should admire the Scarecrow's aid to the community even if they have to keep it to themselves. | |
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Star Wars Resistance: In "Bibo", pirate spy Synara San learns from her boss that the pilots who unwittingly rescued her from a derelict freighter were members of the Resistance. Later, she asks Kazuda Xiono, one of the mechanics who brought her to the Colossus, about the pilots. Kaz, who of course is one of the pilots, and a spy for the Resistance, claims that he doesn't know anything about the pilots or who they are, but that one of them was "kind of handsome". | |
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Master Detective Archives: Rain Code: During one of Desuhiko's Gumshoe Gabs, he dresses up as Yakou to mine information from Yuma about his opinion of himself, but can't help but make compliments about himself which makes Yuma realize he's actually talking to Desuhiko. | |
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Tangled: The Series: Princess Rapunzel is using a Paper-Thin Disguise trying to discover why Uncle Monty does not like her. | |
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In The Amazing Spider-Man, Peter defends Spider-Man against Captain Stacy's concerns about the negative effects of his vigilantism. | |
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Also inverted in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince when Harry is reading the wizarding newspaper in a Muggle restaurant. | |
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Powers of Invisibility: Ladybug and Chat Noir both praise Juleka's cute date outfit, which was picked out for her by Marinette and Adrien. The narration describes this as "two smug, ridiculous, idiotic, oblivious teenaged superheroes both puffed up like roosters during mating season at the compliment they were unwittingly paying one another whilst secretly paying it to themselves whilst pretending to pay it to Juleka." The next time she sees her, Juleka dryly brings up this encounter with Marinette, who jokingly asks what Ladybug and Chat Noir were like: "I bet they were amazing." Juleka deflates her by reminding her that she and Chat left her stranded on a rooftop. |
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Shazam!: Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam has an inversion of the usual way this plays out: Billy (an orphan) uses his Older Alter Ego for any situation that requires a parent's involvement, including enrolling himself and his Annoying Younger Sibling in school: | |
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The meta version is played with at the end of Cars, when the cast goes to see car versions of previous Pixar films. Mack, voiced by John Ratzenberger, compliments several characters in the films (who were also voiced by Ratzenberger) until he realizes they're all the same guy, at which point he gets really upset. | |
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In Disney's Mulan, the soldiers idly discuss the type of woman they'd like to marry in "A Girl Worth Fighting For". Mulan, disguised as the male Ping, throws in a vote for "a girl who's got a brain, who always speaks her mind". The men are not impressed. | |
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Spider-Man: In Spider-Man, Peter Parker and MJ get into a conversation about Spider-Man, and it seems Peter can't help himself. Subtle enough to be passed off as Peter just trying to look like an average guy. In The Amazing Spider-Man, Peter defends Spider-Man against Captain Stacy's concerns about the negative effects of his vigilantism. In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Peter nervously calls Spider-Man "nice" and "a solid dude" while being driven to the titular dance. And we say "nervously" because his date's dad is the Vulture and he's scared out of his mind. |
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Scooby-Doo! Team-Up: El Kabong describes Quick Draw McGraw as "that world-famous and staggeringly handsome lawman". | |
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Spider-Man 2 has this exchange between the web-slinger and Quentin Beck: | |
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In Badman, after Batman makes a Meaningful Echo of something he said earlier as Bruce, Rachel asks him, point blank, if he is Bruce Wrayne under the mask. Batman immediately denies this, but he then adds that Bruce is actually one of his good friends that he sometimes hangs out with, and he thinks he is "kinda the coolest", and in his opinion she should go out with him, adding that he has heard he is available next Friday. | |
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Futurama: Leela, in disguise as "Lee Lemon", asks Fry about his girl back home and says, "Aww, she sounds sweet." In another episode, Bender pretends to be "Coilette" to compete in women's Olympic events, as he wasn't good enough for the men's. After winning his sixth gold, "Coilette" proclaims that all men can shove it, "except that guy Bender, he's really somthin'!" An entirely accidental example occurs in Bender's Big Score when Fry expresses a desire to punch Lars in his "ruggedly good-looking face." He's unaware that "Lars" is an older version of himself from an alternate timeline. |
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In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Peter nervously calls Spider-Man "nice" and "a solid dude" while being driven to the titular dance. And we say "nervously" because his date's dad is the Vulture and he's scared out of his mind. | |
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In the adventure game Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy, the titular heroine at one point tells a society of Dignified Ladies that the pilot they'd hired to fly their poorly-built aircraft around the world wasn't coming. Later, she must disguise herself as the pilot; when the ladies tell Nelly-as-the-pilot what Nelly had said earlier, she replies "Damn that gorgeous liar!" | |
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BoBoiBoy: When Adu Du makes a talk show with his robot minion Probe as the host and himself as BoBoiBoy's "victim", Probe asks Adu Du about his "dashingly handsome robot helper" and whether the robot helper would get a raise. Adu Du shuts Probe up by claiming that he accidentally shot that robot helper when he asked for a raise. | |
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The Bible: Book of Numbers: Numbers 12:3 says, "Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth." Guess who wrote Numbers. (Assuming he, and not Joshua or someone else, wrote that bit.) The Four Gospels: In the Gospel of John, John never refers to himself by name but only as "the disciple whom Jesus loved". (Although this is seen as a form of humility rather than boastfulness.) There's also an amusing bit in chapter 20, where the otherwise highly-theological book takes a moment to point out that "the other disciple" beat Peter in a footrace. |
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In Episode 5 of The World Ends with You, a subtle example occurs. When talking about the Composer, the one responsible for the Reaper's Game, Joshua says that the Composer could erase Shibuya if he so desired, seemingly proud of that. As revealed later on, Joshua is the Composer. | |
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In Darths & Droids, when Finn and Rose are discussing a plan Jim made in character as Poe, DJ (also played by Jim) comments "I dunno who this Poe is, but he sounds super smart." | |
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A first-time player of Metal Gear Solid may wonder why the hostage Donald Anderson is so quick to praise the intelligence and cunning of FOXHOUND, his captors. He was really Decoy Octopus in disguise. | |
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Final Fantasy: The Marauder quest line in Final Fantasy XIV has an instance, where the guildmaster tasks you, with the assistance of his conjurer sister, to take out a nest of beasts, only to be accosted by other marauders - clearly the guildmaster and other unnamed members of the guild with face-concealing helmets. The conjurer notes after beating them that he clearly couldn't have expected you to fall for such a simple disguise, but asks you to play dumb for the guildmaster's sake; when you return, almost without provocation, he brings up that you did well to defeat "opponents of such formidable skill" and congratulates you for surpassing such "overwhelming odds". In Final Fantasy VII Remake, when you do the Angel of the Slums quest, you encounter a village gossip in Sector 5 named Mireille who provides you information to help you on the quest, though she wouldn't give a Shinra reporter the time of day before. After you complete the quest, if you talk with her again, she comments that "You know, there's a rumor that the Angel of the Slums is as radiant and beautiful as she is daring. Personally, I think that one is true." The game drops several hints that Mireille is in fact the Angel of the Slums and outright confirms it if you complete another quest much later in the game. |
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Used in Psychonauts, when the identity of the Phantom is revealed. | |
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In Sinbad the Sailor, when Sinbad (who is, unbeknownst to most, also Prince Ahmed of Dariabar) is told by the barber Melik that assassins are out to kill Ahmed, he replies, "Why? I understand he's a splendid fellow!" | |
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In Questionable Content, when Augusta tells Claire that she's a Virtual YouTuber and Clinton has already been on stream, Claire immediately wants to do it as well. Clinton, who's been asked not to tell anyone about it, is watching the stream with his boyfriend: | |
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In Metroid Dread, it turns out that the ADAM that Samus has been communicating with for possibly the entire game was really the Big Bad intercepting the signal and impersonating the AI. While Raven Beak drops the act when giving a Join or Die speech just before the final boss fight, the twist is foreshadowed by "ADAM" starting to speak more and more highly of the Chozo warlord as the game progresses. | |
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The Party Incident and Other Embarrassing Anecdotes: Reader lies to Sans about dating "Papyrus's brother", stating she's not ashamed of dating a monster. Sans remarks "good, cuz he’s a pretty swell guy." | |
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In Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, Holst wonders about Claude's goal to improve Leicester's relationship with Almyra in their A Support. He asks if Claude wants Hilda (Holst's younger sister, and their family guards the border) to marry into the Almyran royal family. Claude attempts to dodge the question, and at one point refers to an Almyran prince whom Hilda would potentially marry as "that hypothetical heartthrob." Claude himself is an Almyran prince, making it sound like he just called himself a heartthrob. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: When fighting Vanilla Ice, one of Polnareff's three options to escape the attack is worded as "The Handsome Polnareff will devise the perfect counterattack just in the nick of time." Diamond is Unbreakable: While Rohan reads Koichi's memories, he comments on how this push Rohan into developing new inspiration for his manga. |
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In Garth Marenghis Darkplace, characters in the Show Within a Show are frequently shown reading and praising books written by the head writer, Garth Marenghi, in a blatant effort to stroke his ego. Among other authors, Marenghi is a parody of Stephen King, who did this in his The Dark Tower series. | |
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As characters interacting with each other using multiple identities is a major theme in Heaven Official’s Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu, this trope comes up frequently. Fu Yao and Nan Feng are humorously quick to praise their respective "generals" Mu Qing and Feng Xin. Jun Wu takes the time to sternly warn Xie Lian about the danger Bai Wuxiang poses to the Heavens. | |
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Saturday Night Live: This is a Running Gag in the parody crossover Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base, in which Kylo Ren from Star Wars tries to goes undercover among his mooks as a radar technician named Matt. Key word being "tries" — he's quite the Overt Operative. Clark Kent (played by Dwayne Johnson) is needled by his co-workers who insist that Superman must be gay, while Clark, badly keeping up his secret identity, insist that Supes is completely straight. |
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A weird example in Peanuts when Charlie Brown consults his psychiatrist about a girl who keeps pulling a football away from him, and she says "She sounds like an interesting girl ... sort of a fun type." The weird part is that there's no disguise involved — Charlie Brown knows perfectly well that his psychiatrist is Lucy, and for some reason doesn't see this as an issue. | |
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Starsky & Hutch: In "The Game", Hutch talks to a snitch while disguised as a homeless man. The snitch says that he and Starsky are both dumb, "especially the blond one." Hutch says, "I thought the blond one was supposed to be the bright one." In another episode, Hutch is undercover as a nerdy accountant. When a woman IDs him as a cop, he protests: "I am not a policeman. They have to be brave and manly and strong." |
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A couple of FoxTrot arcs had Jason disguised as "Iguanoman", a reptilian alien (really Jason wearing his dad's overcoat and balancing Quincy on his head) mostly to annoy Paige. Whenever she calls him Jason, he usually replies with this trope, though it did backfire once: | |
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Spider-Man: In The Spectacular Spider-Man #245, the Chameleon plays it straight in one panel and inverts it in the next when he comes after Mary Jane, disguised as Spider-Man: starting off with "He's one of the toughest foes I've ever faced" and then calling himself a "strait-jacketed loser". In The Amazing Spider-Man (Lee & Ditko), Peter would bash Spider-Man anytime he was asked for his opinion on him. Similarly, Spider-Man will occasionally claim that he hates the guy who keeps selling pictures of him to the Daily Bugle. A few times during Superior Spider-Man (2013), Spider-Man (really Otto Octavius playing Grand Theft Me with Spider-Man's body) would defend Doctor Octopus as "the greatest enemy [he] ever faced" whenever someone else put Ock down. |
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Invader Zim has a slight variation: Dib is visited by a beat-up doppelganger claiming to be himself from a few hours in the future, thrown backward in time after losing a battle with Zim. However, as he's recounting what happened to him, he says "[Zim's] INCREDIBLE power was too much for me!" and refers to Professor Membrane as "Membrane" instead of, you know, "Dad". It's blatantly obvious Zim is somehow behind it. "Future Dib" later turns out to be a robot spy made by Zim. | |
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In Peri Tale's B-plot, Hydrangea reveals to her human companion that she's looking for a woman named Agatha Qing. The loud, flirtatious, and suspiciously unnamed fisherwoman is all but happy to extol all of Miss Qing's virtues, and a chapter or so later she reveals her true identity to Hydrangea's clear lack of amusement. | |
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Played straight on an episode of Modern Family, Cam, dressed as his clown alter ego Fitzbo, encounters his nephew Luke and the following exchange occurs: | |
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In Chapter 375 of Reborn! (2004), Tsuna reveals to Gokudera and Yamamoto that the reason he was able to fight his father to a draw was because he received advice from a mysterious man in a suit. The reader already knows that the man in question was the true form of Reborn, his tutor who is usually trapped in the form of a baby. After reverting to his "normal" form in the aftermath of the advice-giving, he claims to have not seen the man. Here, though, he makes sure to point out that the man was cool. | |
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Played for drama in Captain Clegg, where Parson Blyss (Peter Cushing) subtly admires the achievements the supposedly-dead pirate of the film's title, so it's really not hard to figure out that Blyss is Clegg long before it's explicitly spelled out. Tellingly, when he's explaining the circumstances surrounding Clegg's betrayal and arrest, he becomes morally indignant on Clegg's behalf. | |
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The Incredible Hercules: Both Hercules and Thor (though mostly Hercules) do a bit of this at each other's expense right before the Thorcules vs Hercuthor fight in issue #136. | |
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Chloe naturally complements her alter ego in Scarlet Lady. Adrien isn't above praising Chat Noir, either, especially in response to things like Chloe going on and on about herself... not that he's aware of that little detail. | |
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The New Scooby-Doo Movies: While throwing his voice to make the villain think the place is surrounded by cops, Jonathan Winters can't help but make the cops praise him. | |
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Played with during the Critical Role Hearthstone one-shot, where actress Laura Bailey plays a character who is "just the biggest fan of Jaina Proudmoore." A character Bailey happens to voice. | |
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Danny Phantom: In the episode "Pirate Radio", Danny, in ghost form, tells his fellow students that he saved the life of Danny Fenton. He then tells Paulina "You should totally make out with him". Vlad Masters does it in "Eye for an Eye" when he is referring to his split Plasmius clone in public: "Oh, dear, it's a clearly evil - yet devastatingly handsome - ghost villain!" |
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Justice League: Bruce Wayne visits Barry Allen and says he knows he is the Flash. When Barry tries to deny it, Bruce shows a picture of Barry stopping a crime out of costume from a surveillance video. Barry claims the man isn't him, just a "very attractive Jewish boy" who happens to resemble him. | |
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In The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, the main characters travel back in time to 17th century France. For some strange reason, they're all doubles of historical (or fictional) people, to the point where Rebecca Fogg is initially thought to be Milady de Winter, hired by Cardinal Richelieu (who looks like her cousin Phileas Fogg) to poison the king (who looks like Jules Verne). During the climax of the episode, the Cardinal comes face-to-face with Phileas, stares at him for a moment, and calls him a "handsome devil". | |
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Transformers: Animated: In the episode "Where's Thy Sting?", Wasp tries to get revenge on Bumblebee for sending him to stockade by switching places with him and get Bumblebee sent to stockade in his place, doing so by exploiting the fact that they share the same mold by swapping paint jobs, voices and helmets, making others think that Bumblebee is Wasp and vice-versa. When Bulkhead comments on Wasp, saying that he's uglier than he remembers him to be, Wasp-as-Bumblebee defends himself by claiming that "Wasp not that ugly". | |
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Howard Stark inverts it in Agent Carter, claiming that he is better-looking than Howard Stark. | |
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Team Fortress 2: If you dominate an enemy Spy while playing as a Spy yourself, your Spy may remark "I'll see you in Hell, you handsome rogue!" Keep in mind that the two Spies look identical except for their colors, so he is secretly complementing himself. Oddly enough, this happens during one of the few times you won't be disguised, since attacking will remove it. Conversely, the dominating Spy may call the other Spy's suit cheap. Subverted in the "Meet the Spy" video. When the BLU Spy is making out the RED Spy to be some sort of nigh-unstoppable death god, the BLU Soldier assumes he's actually the RED Spy in disguise and blows his head off with his shotgun. He's wrong. The RED Spy was actually disguised as the BLU Scout, and actually inverted the trope earlier by calling Spies in general "dime-a-dozen backstabbing scumbags". |
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PepsiaPhobia: "Your majesty! That sexy barbarian lady escaped! Not only is she clever, she's a powerhouse!" The creator once invoked this trope in a news post. And linked back here! |
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In Brawl in the Family: "Help! The evil and handsome Wart took control..." | |
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Inverted in Robin of Sherwood; Robert of Huntingdon explains that his horse and sword were stolen by somebody of roughly the same height and hair colour as him - who then apparently went on to rob from the rich and give to the poor. When he is then asked "So this person could have been mistaken for you?" He answers "Certainly not! He was a peasant!" | |
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Stardust Crusaders: When fighting Vanilla Ice, one of Polnareff's three options to escape the attack is worded as "The Handsome Polnareff will devise the perfect counterattack just in the nick of time." | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: It has three of the Mane Six characters sitting around talking and complimenting the town's newest hero The Mysterious Mare Do Well. What they say could have easily tipped off Rainbow Dash on the heroine's identity(ies) and why she suddenly needed to appear (Twilight pointing out the Mare's magic required heavy studying, Fluttershy remarking on her compassion, and Rarity being complimentary her fashion sense and Applejack saying above all The Mare Do Well was humble) had she not been blind with jealousy at the time. In "Brotherhooves Social", when Sweetie Belle calls out "Orchard Blossom" as Big Mac in a dress, "she" responds with "Why, as... charmed as I am that you find me in the slightest resemblance to such a... uh, fine and noble product of the Apple clan, I am astonished in equal measure." In a more meta example, Pinkie Pie (voiced by Andrea Libman) complimenting Fluttershy's singing voice (also performed by Andrea Libman). |
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Doctor Who: In "The Next Doctor", the Tenth Doctor encounters a man in Victorian London who seems to be a future incarnation of himself with amnesia. While posing as "John Smith", he confirms that he knows all about the Doctor. "Bit of a legend, if I say so myself." Inverted in "The Husbands of River Song". River, not knowing who the Twelfth Doctor is, mentions that she's almost filled her diary, and that the man who gave it to her (the Eleventh Doctor) likely knew exactly how long a diary she would need. The Doctor mutters that "He sounds awful." |
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Shows up in an episode of Lolirock when Iris gets a call from Mephisto, who has magically altered his voice to sound like Auriana: | |
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From Wizards vs. Aliens, when Varg is disguised as Gaunt: "The alien genius, Varg, and his sister, Lexi, are behind it!" | |
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Person of Interest: Reese indulges in this while discussing "the man in the suit" with an investigative reporter. | |
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In Henry Danger, when Piper finds out Kid Danger is her brother, he tries to deny it, but makes sure to add he thinks her brother is awesome. | |
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Jimmy Two-Shoes: One episode has Heloise doing this while pulling a Sweet Polly Oliver. Another had Jimmy do this while disguised as a sandwich. |
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Ninjago: In Season 7, Doctor Sanders Saunders, the secret identity of the villain Krux, describes a painting of himself by saying "This handsome fellow? In the stories, he's called Krux." | |
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Shoestring: Inverted in "The Partnership". A butcher asks Eddie if he's "that man on the radio." Eddie answers, "You mean that guy with the funny name? Can't stand him." The butcher says, "No, I can't either." | |
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Journey to the West: In chapter 42, Sun Wukong takes the appearance of the father of Hong Hai'er, a monster who kidnapped his master. Under this disguise, he tells the monster that Sun Wukong is an unrivaled fighter. | |
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In Something Rotten!, Bea, dressed as a lawyer to defend her husband, declares, "The defendant's wife, who is surely a loving, kind, compassionate, patient woman—(turns to the court reporter) Hey, make sure you write all that down!" | |
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In Wild Wild West, Artemus Gordon, disguised as President Grant, gives Jim West a spiel about what a great agent Artemus Gordon is. This tips off West that something is wrong. Noticing that "Grant" is wearing a Harvard graduation ring (the real Grant went to West Point), he pulls out a gun and points it at him. | |
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Hades: The mysterious, unnamed Lemony Narrator ends up accidentally exposing his identity when Zagreus discovers a bust of Homer and the Narrator's description of the man quickly gets a little too flattering. | |
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Power Rangers Zeo, "Trust in Me" - When Rocky meets a blind martial artist, then runs into her again while Rangered up, he covers by claiming to be 'with' the Rangers. While discussing this later, the other Rangers can't resist complimenting themselves. "I heard Yellow's the coolest..." | |
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The "giving compliments to a mysterious person" version of this in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier: Spock claims the new brig is completely escape-proof, because the most intelligent, most resourceful person its designers could find couldn't find a way out of it. Kirk correctly guesses that whoever that mystery genius was, he had pointed ears. | |
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Thief uses another variation when you are given the opportunity to spy on an imposter. | |
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A few times during Superior Spider-Man (2013), Spider-Man (really Otto Octavius playing Grand Theft Me with Spider-Man's body) would defend Doctor Octopus as "the greatest enemy [he] ever faced" whenever someone else put Ock down. | |
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During an episode of Sailor Moon, Moon fakes having a fight with the other senshi to lure out the villains. Naru mentions the rumour to Usagi who claims "Sailor Moon is too nice and sweet and would never have a fight with the other Sailor Senshi!" | |
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In Night Ripper, you hear a DJ defending the titular Serial Killer for cleaning up the streets of the city. Later on, you find an unattended radio station in the serial killer's hideout. Do the math. | |
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One promo for As Time Goes By had Jean and Lionel sitting down to watch... As Time Goes By. Jean (played by Judi Dench) comments that the lead actress is very good. | |
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South Park: In "Toilet Paper", the kids are discussing a recent TP-ing, and Cartman, one of the perpetrators, comments, "Well, I understand the people who did it weren't caught, so it looks like nobody will ever know the geniuses who masterminded that perfect crime." When Cartman attempts to trick Butters by pretending to be AWESOM-O the robot, Butters talks about the things Cartman does to him, which results in "AWESOM-O" commenting that Cartman sounds pretty smart. Double Subversion in "The Coon", when Cartman takes a superhero identity: Later in the same episode: Subverted when Cartman accuses Kenny of being Mysterion because he has a picture of him in his locker — Stan immediately points out that he has one too. Double Subversion — in another episode, we find out that Kenny IS Mysterion. |
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In Rivers of London, when Mr. Punch impersonates the ghost of Nicholas Wallpenny, he not only can't resist praising his onetime alter-ego Henry Pyke, but he bitches at length about the injustice of Pyke's death (which is a valid complaint) and the terrible reviews his acting had garnered (which isn't: his performances stank). | |
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The Critic evokes this himself during his review of The Phantom, during the scene where Kit (who actually is the Phantom) talks to Diana: | |
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In his review of Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2, he spends most of the episode in a fake coma. At one point, guest stars Brentalfloss and Uncle Yo have to pull an Of Corpse He's Alive routine for a convention Q&A, and when asked which review the Nostalgia Critic preferred, they immediately nominated the ones they themselves participated in, described themselves as "devilishly handsome", and eventually got into a slap fight. | |
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The LEGO Movie: It's an Open Secret that Batman is Bruce Wayne. Batman's pathetic attempts to deny it only cause exasperation. The "Behind the Bricks" featurette has meta examples, with some of the characters praising their various VAs. Of course, since they are voiced by those VAs, you get moments such as where Morgan Freeman as Vitruvius is talking about how great it was to be portrayed by the golden voice of Morgan Freeman. President Business inverts this by complaining that Will Ferrell is a bottom of the barrel actor. It gets really confusing with Elizabeth Banks as Wyldstyle, who launches into glowing praise of Elizabeth while sounding like she was talking about herself (Wyldstyle), while being voiced by Elizabeth. |
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Tales of Karmic Lies Aftermath: In the movie Ladybug: Miraculous Journey, Hawkmoth's Secret Identity is Antione Papillon, Felix's father. During the ending of the movie, he describes his alter ego as being 'brilliant, but misunderstood'. | |
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In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Bad Liar Flayn is secretly the ancient Saint Cethleann. Whenever the subject of said saint comes up, she eagerly corrects the history books' "misconceptions" and discusses her virtues. | |
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A variation occurs in Dragon Age II. The entire storyline is presented as Varric telling Hawke's tale after the fact. At one point in the game, Varric mows down wave after wave of surprisingly easy enemies, and then his brother Bartrand starts going on about how jealous he is of Varric for being "strong and handsome, and so very smart". During this speech, the scene shifts to Varric telling the story, making it clear that he's started making things up because he doesn't want to think about what actually happened. | |
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In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Witch", almost everything Amy says about her mother becomes a retrospective example of this trope when we learn that her mother took her body in order to be a cheerleader again. | |
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In An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, while using a mouse puppet, Cat R. Waul describes himself to the other mice as an "enlightened, intelligent, sophisticated, charming, non-narcissistic, debonair, suave, dashing renaissance cat". He gets so caught up in complimenting himself that he forgets about the puppet, letting it dangle from its strings. | |
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In Dino Attack RPG, when discussing The Mole, Spy described him as a "master at the art of infiltrating" and a "skilled master of spies". This immediately caused Sgt. Ronald Army to suspect that Spy was really talking about himself. He wasn't. | |
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: During the opening number "Comedy Tonight", the prologue describes Pseudolus as "a role of enormous variety and nuance, played by an actor of such versatility, such magnificent range...". Then the actor delivering the prologue admits that he is Pseudolus. | |
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In The Raiders, the disguised John Faa indignantly defends the honour of the Faa family when it is questioned. | |
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Stargate Atlantis: In "Duet", one-off character Lieutenant Cadman is trapped in McKay's body. At one point he falls asleep and she gets control of the body; when she/he goes to Doctor Beckett, they claim that it's "damn lucky it was her" that McKay was merged with. "The Daedalus Variations": While the team is traveling through alternate universes, they are rescued from aliens by a squadron of F-302s commanded by an alternate version of Sheppard. When they hail him on the radio to thank him, Sheppard doesn't tell his alternate who they are, but says, "You're obviously a man of great integrity, a dedicated commander, and a skilled pilot." Meanwhile, the other characters roll their eyes. Alt-Sheppard responds, "Well, that's funny. I was just going to say the same to you." |
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Downplayed in a series 1 episode of Yonderland—the dark lord Negatus, in disguise as a lowly bum named Dirty Ernie, has to endure the heroes repeatedly remarking on how loathsome, vile, slimy, and generally unpleasant he is. While he doesn't offer any compliments to counter, "Ernie" does posit that maybe being an evil overlord is a difficult job, and Negatus seems to be doing his best despite bwing under massive stress. | |
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Star Wars Legends: In the Revenge of the Sith novelization, after Palpatine tells Anakin about "The Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise", Anakin wants to know what happened to Plagueis's apprentice, and Palpatine tells him that he went on to become "the greatest Dark Lord the Sith have ever known." As he reveals later, of course, it's no mere legend, and he's talking about himself. | |
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Diamond is Unbreakable: While Rohan reads Koichi's memories, he comments on how this push Rohan into developing new inspiration for his manga. | |
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Dragon Ball Z: In the Android Saga, Dr. Gero/Android 20 certainly doesn't spare words to praise his own work while he's posing as just one of Dr. Gero's creations. This is actually what tips Piccolo off that Android 20 is Dr. Gero, which Bulma confirms. | |
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TMNT: Raph is quick to defend the mysterious Nightwatcher when Leo and Don criticize him. Downplayed though, as he doesn't quite praise his alter ego, instead he calls out Leo for leaving New York and pointing out that someone had to step up and stop the criminals in his absence (which is what Raph does as Nightwatcher). | |
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On the road back from completing your first major quest in Baldur's Gate, the player has the option to do this: | |
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The Mask of Zorro: Elena goes to confession to confess her recent bouts of misbehavior with Zorro. Of course, Zorro is sitting in the priest section. He prompts her that the masked man must have been "ruggedly handsome", but Elena points out that he was wearing a mask, so she doesn't know. Zorro looks deflated. Inverted earlier when he's pretending to be a young nobleman at a ball. When the conversation turns to Zorro, he speculates that he probably wears the mask "to cover his bald head and unsightly features." |
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Boy's Life: Well before Dr. Lezander is revealed as a Nazi fugitive, he claims that he met a Nazi after the end of World War II and says the guy was just an ordinary man who deserved to be left alone after valiantly and understandably Just Following Orders during the war. Some Five-Second Foreshadowing that Mr. Hargison is in The Klan comes when he objects to them being called cowardly over a cross-burning and says some people might call it a brave act. |
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Inverted in the Sherlock Holmes novel Cry of the Innocents by Cavan Scott. Holmes, in disguise as his fictional brother Sherrinford Holmes, amuses himself by telling Watson he must have the patience of a saint to tolerate a man as annoying as Sherlock. Watson, of course, leaps to his friend's defence, which amuses him even more. | |
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In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Body and Soul", the Doctor is stuck in Seven's body after some hologram-persecuting aliens think they've killed him. He describes himself to one of the aliens like this: | |
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In Revenge of the Sith: Palpatine has a line that's something of a variant of this trope. When Count Dooku confronts Obi-Wan and Anakin in the opening rescue sequence, Palpatine says to them "Get help, you're no match for him. He's a Sith Lord." Later, he tells Anakin about the "Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise," and elaborately describes how Plagueis' apprentice cleverly stabbed his master in the back and became the most powerful Sith Lord of all time. He's talking about himself. |
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In "Blinking Red Light" from The Mentalist, the CBI team catches the case of a young girl who has been found murdered, her throat slit. It quickly becomes clear that she was most likely killed by a serial killer known as the "San Joaquin Killer," a brutal serial killer who has already killed several other young women in the area. During the course of the investigation, Patrick Jane encounters a blogger named James Panzer who is obsessed with the case. He tells Jane that the killer is a "purist," based on the way that he slits the victims' throats slowly and watches the life drain out of their eyes. Later, Jane returns to him, saying that he thinks he's wrong - that the killer isn't a purist at all, but rather someone who was deeply damaged during childhood and kills out of a need for attention. Panzer replies that Jane couldn't be more wrong, that the San Joaquin Killer is a "genius" who has run circles around the police. Jane, being the Genre Savvy guy that he is, recognizes that he is talking about himself. After his first attempt to catch Panzer fails, he manipulates him into appearing on a TV show and making similar statements. More importantly, he gets him to talk smack about Red John, the serial killer who killed Patrick Jane's wife and daughter, because Jane had himself talked him down on television. Of course, Red John promptly kills James Panzer. | |
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How I Met Your Mother: "Moving Day": in the midst of moving in with Robin, the van with Ted's stuff is stolen, and the culprit calls Ted and gives him instructions on how to get them back. Of course, Ted knows exactly who it is. It then gets an Ironic Echo when Ted finds the van and takes it back, with Barney and his date inside: Barney praises himself when pretending to be his own doppelganger. He can't help but defend himself (and his blog) when being interrogated by Lily. Barney sings his own praise in his video resume, where despite evidence to the contrary, he claims it's not him singing the song, but "one of the many admirers who think that guy's awesome!" "Columns": Ted pulls this when his boss, Brady, forgot Ted's name and told him to fire himself. |
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Breaking Bad uses this for tragic drama in Season 4, Episode 5 ("Shotgun"). After Hank concludes that Gale was the criminal mastermind Heisenberg and goes on about what a genius he must have been, a slightly tipsy and massively vain Walt interjects that Gale's notebook looks like that of a student copying down notes he didn't fully understand, and that the real genius might still be out there. This convinces Hank to continue pursuing Heisenberg, much to Walt's ultimate chagrin. | |
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In the Wander over Yonder episode "The Day," Sylvia has to break out of Lord Hater's prison with an unwakeably asleep Wander and makes the job easier by disguising him as a Watchdog, puppeting him while pretending to have been captured by him. Unfortunately, she runs into Commander Peepers on the elevator and almost blows her cover when he strikes up a chat with the disguised Wander: | |
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In Nymph and the Corrupted Miraculous, Alya confronts Chloé of being Belle Aube. Chloé briefly starts rambling about how she couldn't be someone as amazing and pretty as Belle Aube before giving up and admitting it. | |
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T-Rex pulls it in the last panel of Dinosaur Comics 1120 and 2009. | |
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In the Charmed episode "The Power of Three Blondes", three other witches do a spell to impersonate the Charmed Ones. In the process, they murder a random vacuum cleaner salesman; when Chris asks them about the murder weapon, they react this way: | |
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Inverted in The Hobgoblin's Hat, one of The Moomins books. Said artifact transforms Moomintroll into a different being without him noticing, so when his friends wonder who he is, he thinks they are just playing and plays along. Among other things, he talks badly about himself, which convinces his friends "the stranger" is up to no good. | |
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Teen Power Inc.:In Poison Pen, Elmo correctly insists that anonymous gossip columnist The Eye isn't behind a series of poison pen letters, arguing that The Eye's articles are clever, non-malicious, and entirely unlike the letter writer. The last two pages reveal that Elmo is The Eye. | |
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Meta example in The Critic where twice Jay Sherman comments that he thinks Jon Lovitz is very handsome or talented. | |
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Early on during Resident Evil Village, the old lady that Ethan Winters encounters a few times comes across as a crazy, yet devout follower of Miranda, who happens to be the Big Bad. Like the few remaining villagers Ethan meets, the old lady recites a prayer to give glory to Miranda. Much later on, it's revealed that the old lady was Miranda all along, thanks to her ability of Voluntary Shapeshifting. As if the cutscene shortly after Heisenberg's death didn't cement her as self-centered, her prior statements in her old lady disguise makes her come across as even more arrogant, giving herself praise and being her own hype woman. She is also a Mad Scientist that secretly subjugated her entire village to numerous horrific experiments for decades, all to revive her daughter Eva. As the old lady, the fact that Miranda states the following part of her own prayer could mean that whether her test subjects lived or died, they should be grateful for her getting closer to her ultimate goal: | |
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In the Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft "Naxxramas" solo challenge, Final Boss Kel'Thuzad taunts the player about each boss that they are about the face. When they finally reach Kel'Thuzad himself, he tells the player: "I hear the next boss is all-powerful... and very handsome." | |
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Lupin III: The titular character is a Master of Disguise, and occasionally indulges in this while walking through an area where the authorities are looking for him, saying that whoever warrants this much attention has to be incredibly good. Another of his frequent tactics is to disguise himself as a police officer (preferably his arch-rival Inspector Zenigata) and walk right up to the mark, claiming he needs to take their treasure to a safer location. After all, they're being targeted by the master thief Lupin III; whatever meager defenses they have will be no match for someone as skilled and cunning as he is. |
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Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: In "One-Upsman-Chip", Chip is playing a trick on Dale by making him think he conjured up some kind of spirit. When he is speaking as the spirit he mentions "your incredibly handsome friend, Chip". | |
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Sins of the Past has several of Marinette's old classmates still serving as members of Team Miraculous as adults. Some of them, like Kim and Alix, can't help singing their own praises, talking up their heroic exploits. | |
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Art of Noise's 1986 compilation Daft, which collects material from the band's brief stint on ZTT Records and with Trevor Horn and Paul Morley in the lineup, features an essay in the liner notes by Otto Flake that bitterly attacks the post-ZTT lineup as a hollow shell of what Art of Noise once was, praising Horn and Morley as the group's linchpins. "Otto Flake" just so happens to be a pen name for Morley himself. | |
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In Inception, Saito sees Browning, who he assumes to be Eames in disguise. He walks right up to him and says, "I see you've changed." Browning gives him an odd look and Saito sees Eames behind him. Saito quickly says, "I mistook you for a friend of mine." Browning smirks and says, "Must be a good-looking fella." | |
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Triple H talking about his pregnant wife Stephanie, who at the time wasn't his wife in the storyline: "I don't know who knocked her up but he must have a gigantic penis." | |
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Cold Case: In "The House," Faking the Dead Prison Escape Artist Hank Dempsey is pretending to be the Second Love of his old girlfriend Bobbie (whom he has since married under an assumed name) when the cops interview her about Hank. He tells the cops that he never met Hank, but Bobbie described him as being like Steve McQueen (actor). | |
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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Schizoid Man", aging cyberneticist Dr. Ira Graves implants his consciousness in Data's body and then gives himself a glowing eulogy supposedly from Data: | |
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