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"Passing", in sociology, is the state of living one's life as a member of another sociological group be it ethnic, racial, gender, class, or sexual. It's a complicated matter in real life, what with humans so rarely fitting perfectly into the ever-shifting categories we make up for them. Indeed, there are times when we categorise individuals in ways that they themselves do not acknowledge, or that are based upon merely tangential connections. For example, why does an "octoroon" (7/8 "white"/European, 1/8 "black"/non-European) in a U.S. Reconstruction-era novel have to identify as 'black' in order to be "true to themselves?" It reflects many racial ideas still present (if now, less explicit) in 'Western' societies, including many European countries and their post-colonial offshoots, such as Australia, Brazil, and Canada. It's perhaps most prominent in South Africa and the United States, which both have troubled histories of race relations due to their histories of expelling, enslaving, and/or sexually exploiting their native populations (and in the US case, enslaving and sexually exploiting Africans as well). Both countries also instituted "One-Drop Rules", which stated that 'one drop' of non-European blood made a person non-white and thus deprived them of the rights of a full citizen. Securing these rights would require "passing" as a member of the dominant racial group. However, there is always the chance — and thus, always the fear — of revealing one's ancestry. Likewise, there are huge social pressures keeping many LGBT people "in the closet," and many women have cross-dressed not because they are transgender or even transvestites, but because they want to do something they would only be allowed to do as a man. See Armored Closet Gay and Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today? for more elaboration. Most modern fictional representations have simplified this complex state of being into An Aesop: "Don't try to be something you're not." The Reveal is usually a part of this (including Death Bed Confession). Compare In Another Man's Shoes and related tropes. Glamour Failure is a more fantastic version. Sub-trope to Hiding Your Heritage and Hide Your Otherness. Examples |
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The World of Suzie Wong (book, play and film) the titular Suzie first tries to be a rich Daddy's Girl called Mei Ling. It's only when Robert checks into his hotel that he discovers she's really a poor Wan Chai prostitute. | |
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Sally Juspeczyk in Watchmen covered up her Polish ancestry for the sake of her career, renaming herself Sally Jupiter, and firmly denies it when she is sort-of confronted about it. Her daughter Laurie has no such hang-ups and uses her mother's original surname. | |
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One episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit featured an autistic guy who somehow managed to convince everybody (including his own mother!) that he was neurotypical. | |
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In Robert Graves's novel Claudius the God, a lawyer who has pled cases in front of Claudius and his predecessors for decades is unmasked as a slave by one of Claudius's friends, who pulls aside the lawyer's toga to expose his brand. When an American critic howled at the "unreality" of this, Graves pointed out that it had actually happened in real life. | |
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A Season 2 episode of Angel flashed back to the 1950s and a biracial girl called Judy. She appeared to be white, so she tried to pass at her job. When her heritage was discovered, she got fired and then dumped by her fiance. And it's implied her family disowned her for not looking black enough. | |
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Imitation of Life follows Peola (in the 1934 version)note Actually played by a light skinned black actress Fredi Washington. and Sarah Jane (in the 1959 version), a mixed-race girl who can quite easily pass for white, trying her best to deny her mother and her previous life altogether. It doesn't end well. In the 1934 version Peola is humiliated when her dark-skinned mother comes to meet her at school, and later has to quit her job when her mother tracks her down at work. In the 1959 version it's worse for Sarah Jane—her white boyfriend beats her senseless when he finds out, and she gets fired from her job as a cabaret dancer when her mother comes looking for her. | |
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Star Trek: Picard: Jean-Luc Picard is technically an xB, but because he doesn't possess any visible Borg implants, he doesn't endure the galaxy-wide persecution that the other former drones do, who are perceived to be "property to be exploited, or as a hazard to be warehoused." He never has to worry about being a victim of Borg tech harvesters (like Icheb) or being a victim of a government-sanctioned xB massacre (like Hugh and his patients). Rios conveniently forgot that Picard was once part of the Collective, and when Elnor ponders if the xBs are better off dead, he's obviously not thinking about his surrogate father. | |
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A short-term and more light-hearted example occurred in Ozy and Millie, when the two titular characters decide to 'switch genders' for a day, to find out how differently members of the other gender are treated. Nobody sees through the Paper-Thin Disguise, and both of them come away from it with a greater insight into the opposite sex. | |
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In Fullmetal Alchemist, Major Miles of the Briggs Brigade is one-quarter Ishvalan from his maternal grandfather's side, but still found himself targeted by Executive Order Number 3066, which stripped all soldiers of Ishvalan ancestry of their ranks and ordered their imprisonment during the Ishval Civil War. His commanding officer Major General Olivier Mira Armstrong refused to hand him over, and he typically hides the distinctive red eyes of his Ishvalan heritage with a pair of tinted glasses. It's implied his ancestry is more or less an Open Secret and he specifically reveals it to Kimblee when he finds out Kimblee was present during the Ishvalan massacre. | |
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In there is a fire in me, nobody ever suspected Jet from having Fire Nation ancestry in spite of the Freedom Fighters noticing his apparent inability to get cold or burned because his skin was dark enough for him to look fully Earth Kingdom, to the point that Aang is weirded when the older teen is revealed as a firebender since he's not pale-skinned. After he reawakens his bending, Katara also comments on his breath being hotter than expected. | |
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In the Eberron campaign setting, some members of the shape-shifting Changeling race try to avoid the distrust other humanoids have for their kind by creating a single false identity for themselves and living as members of a different humanoid races. These individuals are known among Changelings as "passers". This is in contrast to "becomers", who maintain multiple identities of varying races, or simply create, steal, and abandon identities whenever they find it convenient or amusing; and "truthseekers", who live openly as changelings and only rarely use their shapeshifting abilities. Both passers and truthseekers can sometimes hit something like the gender variety — Changelings are born with a biological sex, which is what someone looking at them with magic that sees through shapeshifting would see (leaving aside more mundane passing), but if they shapeshift to another sex it is thorough enough to get pregnant or impregnate regardless of their birth sex. | |
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Dragon Age: Inquisition has Krem, Iron Bull's second in command of The Chargers who was born female in the Tevinter Imperium. The issue of his biological sex doesn't come up until he makes a sarcastic remark to Iron Bull about teaching him to bind his man-breasts, at which point the Inquisitor clues in. | |
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Angua of the Discworld series passes as human instead of as a werewolf. | |
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George Herriman, the creator of Krazy Kat was of mixed black and white heritage, listed as "coloured" on his birth certificate, but he was sufficiently pale to pass for white. He had curly hair which he hid under a hat, and explained his slightly African features and darker complexion by claiming to be ethnically Greek. | |
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An episode of Just Shoot Me! inverted the SVU example above, with Elliot's brother having spent years posing as mentally disabled due to a head injury as a child to get out of having to support himself. He's outed only after Jack's foolishness causes a Rage Breaking Point. | |
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The Suite Life of Zack & Cody has Maddie pretending to be a rich socialite in order to become more appealing to a rich boy staying in the hotel. | |
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Persona 4: Naoto Shirogane is a girl disguising herself as a boy. From the same game, Kanji Tatsumi's arc centers around him struggling with his own sexual identity. |
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On Sons of Anarchy, it has transpired that Juice's father is actually African-American, and he has been passing as Hispanic. In the show, as in real life, Hispanics and Asians are allowed in white motorcycle clubs, African-Americans are not. | |
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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland's Red Queen is a complicated one. She's revealed to be one of Cinderella's stepsisters - making her an Impoverished Patrician. But she ran away from her family to be with Will Scarlett - an outlaw living in the woods. But she abandoned him to become a queen in Wonderland, and has been disguising her true voice with a fake poshed up one to hide her origins. | |
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In C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America Horace the slave claimed that the Fauntroy family were all descended from a liaison between John Ambrose Fauntroy I and Horace's great-grandmother. All the light-skinned children were brought into the family while the dark-skinned ones were left to be slaves. John Ambrose Fauntroy V tried to fight the charges of 'passing', but it was too late to save his presidential campaign and he ended up committing suicide. The movie doesn't make it clear if Horace was telling the truth or not. | |
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Most humanoid cryptids (or therianthropes, who can shapeshift into a human form) in InCryptid pass as humans because the Covenant of St. George is dedicated to exterminating them. For instance, gorgons wear wigs to cover their snake hair, and Sasquatch have learned to love depilatory products and mail-order shoe catalogs. Several cryptids travel with the carnival in Magic For Nothing because they're less out-of-place somewhere people already expect to see "freaks". | |
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In The Terror, Commander James Fitzjames confesses in a moment alone with his Fire-Forged Friend Captain Francis Crozier that he is the illegitimate son of an Englishman and (most likely) a Portuguese noblewoman in exile in Brazil, ruefully admitting that despite his reputation as the cream of the crop of the Royal Navy, he is “not even fully English”. This is an interesting example, as it shows the tenuous and shifting status of who is and isn’t considered white- by modern standards, most Portuguese people are white, meaning he would be considered at most mixed-ethnicity to us (and he is accordingly played by Tobias Menzies, who is a white Englishman himself), but in the show’s 1840s setting (as in real life) it would make him racially dubious in the eyes of English society and the Royal Navy if word of this got out. (Ironically, Menzies' dark hair and eyes and olive complexion make him look more plausibly half-Portuguese in context than the real Fitzjames- a rosy-cheeked, blue-eyed redhead- did.) | |
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Bokura no Hentai: Osamu starts having issues crossdressing when he begins hitting puberty. His crush becomes disgusted at him because he's grown taller than him and has a low voice. When Osamu was in public once, people noticed his masculine voice when he spoke too loud. He, however, still keeps crossdressing into adulthood. Satoshi references this trope. He doesn't want to crossdress anymore because he can't pass and has outgrown his sisters' hand-me-downs. Osamu makes him realize that he might not pass but he can still look good in a skirt nevertheless. After she starts going to school as a girl, some of the students bully Marika behind her back for her slightly large hands and low voice. |
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In the Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove, Mordechai Ancielewicz is a Polish Jew fighting in the resistance. While traveling in the countryside, he encounters a farmhouse, and attempts to pass as a (Catholic) Polish partisan. Mordechai catches himself when the Farmer's Daughter starts getting flirty (realizing very quickly that dropping his pants would blow his cover immediately, since no Catholic man would be circumsised), and manages to eat the ham they're serving without hesitation, but is caught out when he crosses himself wrong and doesn't put butter on his potatoes. Fortunately for him, they aren't upset about it. | |
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In Moonlight And Magnolias, producer David O. Selznick has downplayed his origins as the son of an Eastern European Jew and considers himself to be successfully assimilated. Towards the end of the show, he realizes that despite his efforts to pass, the Hollywood mainstream still sees him as a Jew rather than an American. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: "Mongrelfolk" are a race of Heinz Hybrids, and the inevitable result of a setting in which most humanoid species are capable of interbreeding. Traditionally they look fairly monstrous, with mismatched limbs and asymmetrical facial features, but a 3rd Edition sourcebook put a spin on them by explaining that those hideous mongrelfolk are rare individuals used as a distraction by the rest of their kind, and honored for their sacrifice. Ordinary mongrelfolk instead blend the features of their various parent races more subtly, to the extent that observers tend to interpret them as people close to, but not quite, their own race. So a dwarf might see a mongrelfolk as an unusually broad-shouldered elf, an elf might see a tall and slender dwarf, a human would see a strangely attractive orc, and so forth. This allows most mongrelfolk to fit in with any society, not fully belonging, but at least tolerated by their cousins. In the Eberron campaign setting, some members of the shape-shifting Changeling race try to avoid the distrust other humanoids have for their kind by creating a single false identity for themselves and living as members of a different humanoid races. These individuals are known among Changelings as "passers". This is in contrast to "becomers", who maintain multiple identities of varying races, or simply create, steal, and abandon identities whenever they find it convenient or amusing; and "truthseekers", who live openly as changelings and only rarely use their shapeshifting abilities. Both passers and truthseekers can sometimes hit something like the gender variety — Changelings are born with a biological sex, which is what someone looking at them with magic that sees through shapeshifting would see (leaving aside more mundane passing), but if they shapeshift to another sex it is thorough enough to get pregnant or impregnate regardless of their birth sex. |
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Harry Potter: In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Madame Maxime is half-giant, but is trying to pass as "big-boned". You can't really blame her, considering how much Fantastic Racism ensued after Hagrid was outed as a half-giant. Pure-blood wizards are rarer than the bad side likes to think they are, and it's suggested in Half-Blood Prince that most Death Eaters are probably half-bloods passing as pure-bloods. When Voldemort takes over the Ministry of Magic and passes the Nuremberg Laws against Muggle-borns in Deathly Hallows, Ron suggests that his family could protect Hermione by swearing that she was their cousin. Of course, as Hermione points out, it's a non-issue since they're on the lam anyway. Lupin tries to hide that he's a werewolf, at least with those who don't absolutely have to know. While lycanthropy in the Potterverse is a disease as opposed to a species, race, or ethnicity, the fact that the potion that allows them to control their transformations and avoid being a danger to others is relatively new means there is still a lot of ill-feeling toward them. |
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Discussed at length in Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Big George's light-skinned wife has twin sons: Jasper, who's as light as she is, and Artis, who's dark like his father. Throughout his life, Jasper is subtly encouraged by his parents to associate with other light-skinned black people, gradually earning Artis's resentment as he realizes his twin's skin color opens doors that are closed to him. His parents realize the animosity between their sons but feel powerless to change things, knowing that this is the best way to give Jasper an advantage. Jasper's daughter Clarissa is so light-skinned that she regularly passes for white, using the privilege to shop in the high-end all-white stores. While doing so, she is unexpectedly recognized by her elderly uncle Artis, whose greeting is mistaken by security as a black man harassing a white woman. Artis is violently ejected from the store, while Clarissa burns with shame over what she's done to him, but is unable to intervene, knowing she'll be even more violently ejected if the white employees realize they've been deceived. | |
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Bobby "Iceman" Drake's mother in X2: X-Men United famously asked, "Have you tried not being a mutant?" | |
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Monstrous Regiment starts out with Polly disguising herself as "Oliver" and joining the army, and gradually discovering that almost all squadmates are doing the same, and so is a sizable part of the army's high command, upholding the structure that forbids women to fight while disregarding it, and so is the squad's legendary leader Sergeant Jackrum, who is also worried about about going to his son and is convinced to go home as a father instead. | |
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Adam in Degrassi has some trouble coming across as a guy, particularly in his early appearances. Played with an element of Cringe Comedy. Booyah! | |
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The film version of Watchmen includes another example in addition to one mentioned in the comic book section above. Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias is portrayed as German enough to still have something of an accent, which he conceals in public by shifting to a newscaster-perfect, "generalized" American accent instead. In private, he has no qualms about letting his natural voice (which sits somewhere between American- and German-sounding) show through. Matthew Goode, who played Veidt, stated in behind-the-scenes interviews that this was not based in Veidt having any shame at simply speaking German as a first language, but rather because his parents had had ties to the Nazi party, and Veidt wished to distance himself from that as much as possible. | |
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In the Murdoch Mysteries episode "Bloodlines", the openly racist Niagra police force includes one man with a black grandmother, who not only joined a white supremacist group to keep his secret, but killed another member of the group who found out. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Madame Maxime is half-giant, but is trying to pass as "big-boned". You can't really blame her, considering how much Fantastic Racism ensued after Hagrid was outed as a half-giant. | |
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One episode of Law & Order has a black guy who spent his whole adult life passing for white. He's only found out after his second wife was killed when they considered taking back their darker-skinned baby they had given up for adoption. His first wife killed the second in order to maintain the illusion of an all-white family for her son, who was attending a very upper-class-white school with subtle social discrimination against non-whites. Or, so she said, until it was revealed that she'd never wanted to take custody of their son in the divorce, had to be bribed to do it, and she was really just a big ol' racist. The best part of that show was toward the beginning, when the detectives are operating under the belief that the "white" man killed his wife because she gave birth to a black infant. After they find evidence that he has been passing, the white detectives can't get him to admit it. Lt. Van Buren shoos them out of the interrogation room, closes the door, gives the man a knowing look, and sarcastically congratulates him on passing, asking what white people are like among themselves. Feeling guilty, he finally admits to having passed as white for years in order to climb the corporate ladder, something that would have been much harder to do had he lived as a black man since he joined before the Civil Rights era, and by the time he became an executive he'd been passing as white for so long that he didn't want to reveal the truth. The irony is that when the police question the suspect's superiors at work, they say that had they been aware that he was African American, they probably would have promoted him to the Board of Directors as their Token Minority. | |
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Brought up in passing on The Drew Carey Show—in an episode where Drew's dad wants him to join a country club he's a member of, Drew and his friends are appalled by the casual racism displayed by one of the club members ("So you work downtown—I hear it gets pretty dark at night"). Oswald asks what would happen if someone weren't pure white, say 1/16th Cherokee, and when this is laughed off, says that one of his great-great grandparents was Cherokee. (This fact is never brought up again on the show, so he wasn't just passing in-universe but to the writers as well! For his part, Drew doesn't join, and his dad admits he's only a member because of the connections it gives him and he dislikes the racist undertones.) | |
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In various iterations of Shazam!, Captain Marvel uses his adult superhero form to conceal the fact that he is actually a child. Other heroes are naturally reluctant to let a ten-year-old fight super-powered murderers. One of the more interesting aspects of this is a Justice Society arc where young Billy Batson started dating Star-Girl, since they are both heroes and are roughly the same age. However, from the perspective of the rest of the team who didn't know Marvel's true identity it seemed like the Captain was getting way too close to an underage girl and it got him in a lot of trouble. In Billy Batson and the Power of Shazam Billy, who is an orphan and formerly homeless, uses his adult form to pose as his own father and rent an apartment. | |
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This is naturally all over The Man in the High Castle, being an Alternate History scenario in which the Allies lost World War II. One of the main characters, Frank Frink, is actually Frank Fink, a Jew, and hides his identity for obvious reasons. A more minor character, Rudolph Wegener, tells an artist he dislikes that he is Jewish and has undergone plastic surgery to make himself look more "Aryan", although it's left open to interpretation whether this is actually true or whether he is simply saying it to mess with his head. One of the central themes of the novel is the question of at what point a person becomes what he or she is pretending to be. | |
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In Top 10: The '49ers, the Iron Man Captain Ersatz, who is supposedly a scientist kept alive by a Clingy Costume life-support system after a lab explosion, is revealed to be a robot invented by the scientist, who actually died in the explosion, impersonating him to escape anti-AI prejudice. His success is helped by the fact that he's the first AI in the comic's universe sentient enough to pass as a human. | |
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On Futurama, Leela grew up thinking she was a one-eyed alien abandoned as a baby on Earth. She later discovers that she is a relatively normal-looking mutant; because mutants aren't given legal rights, while aliens are, her parents left her at an Orphanarium so that she could grow up without having to suffer like they did. (It might sound ridiculous, but it was actually rather touching when they were reunited.) | |
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True Life examined people who were trying to avoid this for various reasons. One person highlighted was a transgender woman who passed so well nobody knew (because for all intents and purposes she had lived as a woman since she was a child), and had to tell her boyfriend. There was some humor, when she was in a club and a man was dancing with her and she became...aroused. Another person profiled was a biracial (black and white) girl passing...as Nicaraguan. She was too dark to pass for white, so she went for Latina instead. This caused problems when her friend set her up on a date with an actual Nicaraguan. | |
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Kallen Stadtfeld/Kallen Kozuki of Code Geass is a half-Britannian/half-Japanese Terrorist and Student. She was able to pass as a Britannian student by day, and joined her brother's resistance cell by night. She preferred to think of herself as Japanese rather than as a Britannian or a "half-breed". Despite finding out that she's a half-breed, her Britannian friends don't lose any respect for her at all, and try to petition their very well connected friend to have her pardoned for her terrorism. In fact, the show, despite having overcoming racial supremacy and segregation as a main theme, has surprisingly little incidence of named people actually caring about race, to the point where the President of Japan at the end of the series is married to a black, Britannian woman, despite years of ruthless oppression and cruelty. It would have been touching if anyone had actually remembered that used to be a theme, or if the guy in question wasn't a complete idiot. Apparently, it was intentional that the main protagonist and his foil were designed in such a way that they could conceivably pass for the opposite race, whom they were fighting for. | |
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In a rare reversal this trope, the titular character of The Sheik is a European pretending to be an Arab. He mostly gets away with it, too; the only way the female protagonist finds out he's not is because his best friend, a Frenchman, gives him away. | |
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Played with in Show Boat. Steve is white, and his wife Julie is mixed-race, passing for white—their marriage was a crime in the South at the time. When someone tips the local sheriff off and he comes to arrest them, Steve quickly cuts Julie's hand and swallows her blood; when the sheriff arrives, he asks, "You wouldn't call a man a white man that's got Negro blood in him, would you?" He swears to having that blood in him (and thus, he pretends to be passing for white); the two are able to leave the boat, and the South, in peace. | |
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In Gattaca Vincent is an "In-Valid", a child born naturally rather than genetically engineered. He borrows the identity of Jerome, one of the genetic elite, in order to pass as a "Valid" and gain employment at a space agency. Vincent and others like him are known alternately as "borrowed ladders" and "de-gene-rates". | |
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The play Pygmalion and the musical adaptation My Fair Lady focus on Professor Henry Higgins teaching the Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle to fit in among The Beautiful Elite of The Edwardian Era. | |
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A fantasy-race version occurs in Thor - the title character's already resentful younger brother Loki discovers that he's actually a runt of a Jotun who was abandoned as an infant and taken in by Odin, who glamoured the blue-skinned, red-eyed monster baby into a humanoid/Asgardian-looking Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette. He does not take it well - in fact, it's the tipping point of his fall from grace. While the latter society is portrayed pretty unpleasantly the former has raised a child to so despise another race that discovering he's one of them leads to the automatic assumption that the reason he's felt inferior his whole life is because he's really a monster, which, no matter how much his family tells him otherwise, is too much for his emotional stability to bear. | |
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In married to the flames, Jin notices her boyfriend Li is a firebender when she kisses his neck and notices he's abnormally warm. This, combined with his gold eyes (which she originally chocked up to mixed ancestry), lets her realize that Li's a firebender. | |
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Played for laughs in The Jerk where Steve Martin's character was raised by a black family and legitimately believes himself to be black. He's an adult before it's explained to him that he's actually white, but he continues to consider himself to be black. | |
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On Young Justice, Megan passes as a Green Martian when she is really a White Martian. Note that this is only possible for her on Earth: on Mars, everyone is a telepath who can read minds, so it's impossible to even try. Technically she and her uncle J'onn are passing themselves off as more human looking when their actual appearances look like something straight out of Alien. | |
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Kroniki Drugiego Kręgu dragons are Voluntary Shapeshifters, who need a genetic template of whatever they're changing into. So, to pass as a human, Oura gets a template of a pretty girl, but Eril is quick to notice some sort of oddness about her. However, since she simply wanted to be able to talk with him without scaring the boy with her dragon shape, and he interprets "weird girl" as an elf, it works out. | |
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Chirinide of Drowtales refers to herself as a "half-breed" because she has a light elf father and a drowussu mother, and goes so far as to wonder if she should commit suicide to keep her "impurity" from spreading through the Kyorl'solenurn clan. Despite this she really doesn't look any different from other drowussu, which turns out to be a big hint that the drowussu are actually descended from light elves. | |
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RWBY: Scars: Blake is a cat Faunus who wears a bow to hide her cat ears and pass as human. Most people don't notice anything unusual about her bow, but more than a few characters (such as Penny, Winter, and Velvet, with the latter being a rabbit Faunus herself) easily figure out she's a Faunus. Faunus are often able to tell that Blake is one of them. While humans can't tell that the human-passing chameleon Faunus Illia is a Faunus, other Faunus can. When Ilia purposedly passes as human this sometimes leads to angry or confused stares. |
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Carnival Row: Philo, who's half Faerie, passed as wholly human for most of his life. It's revealed his Faerie mother ensured this by having his wings surgically removed when he was an infant. After he discloses this to his lover Portia, she throws him out in disgust, and soon his life falls apart when his police colleagues find out, since they view it as a disgrace, while suspecting him of murdering people to conceal it as a result. | |
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The Great Gatsby: Gatsby throws lavish parties for the local Blue Bloods, but everyone knows that he's Nouveau Riche. In fact, he's a former working-class laborer turned bootlegger. | |
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Played with in Dark Angel (1996), in that Gillian technically is a member of the group she's trying to fit in with - a witch - yet still gets on the receiving end of this. Because Gillian is a lost witch, she was born with powers but knows nothing about witch culture. As such, she struggles to blend in with Night People without Angel's help; she's able to win over Melusine and get the supplies she needs for spellcasting by using witch greetings and drawing a dahlia – one of the symbols of the witches – although Melusine is clearly suspicious of her. Things get much more serious when Angel tries to get Gillian to enter a Black Iris club; she sticks out like a sore thumb and is immediately assumed to be a human who happened to find out about the Night World, resulting in her being preyed upon by a group of vampires; after all, humans who find out about the Night World are considered fair game. Gillian starts to panic and can't follow Angel's instructions, and she gets lucky that Ash Redfern intervenes (he doesn't believe she's a witch either, but covertly helps her escape). | |
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Kaito from Himegoto - Juukyuusai no Seifuku notes that, as he's already an adult, it won't be long before he can't pass well. Even at his current age people still sometimes talk behind his back when he crossdresses. | |
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In Sapphire, Sapphire Robbins was biracial, but able to 'pass' as white. When Superintendent Hazard and Inspector Learoyd discover this, they have consider whether this was a factor in her murder. | |
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Wandering Son: Played for Drama in later chapters. Nitori's voice deepens and she starts looking less androgynous due to puberty. One scene has a clerk gossiping behind her back that she's a boy due to her voice. Makoto always suffered from this, even when she was prepubescent, as she doesn't fit the ideal for a girl. Ebina, a trans woman with a preschool daughter, doesn't pass and she realizes this. It's implied that Yuki (who is transgender herself) noticed Takatsuki's nervous behavior the first time he went out as a boy and talked to him because she knew he was trans. |
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Sayonara has a moment where Katsumi (who is Japanese) is revealed to be planning to get surgery on her eyes to look whiter. Her husband (who is white) has to assure her he loves her as she is. | |
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Yuuki from Boku to Boku is a androgynous middle schooler. Even when dressed in a girl's swimsuit she gets mistaken for a boy in drag. | |
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As recounted in I Am the Night and the podcast Root Of Evil a woman named Fauna grew up believing she was mixed white and black and had been adopted by a black woman, only to discover as an adult after tracking down her birth mother Tamar that this wasn't true and she was actually entirely white. What's worse, her father was likely Tamar's own father George Hodel (considered a suspect in the murder of Elizabeth Short, popularly known as the Black Dahlia) making her a product of Parental Incest. | |
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Desert Gold: Edward and Alphonse pass well as Amestrian. Their skin can pass as a tan and their hair is just dark enough to look blond. But, Kain grew up amongst half-Ishvalan kids and can tell that Ed is biracial. Over time, several of the Elric's peers begin to get suspicious of them. For example, when Edward solves an Ishvalan riddle and when Edward tells Elicia an Ishvalan folktale he learned from his mother. However, they don't fully notice the brothers are Ishvalan until Edward is forced into a situation where he must speak in Ishvalan. |
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Babylon 5: Commander Susan Ivanova has a long-established hatred for the Psi-Corps, due in large part to her mother being forced to take telepathy-blocking drugs by them which caused her severe depression and led to her suicide. It is eventually revealed that Ivanova is also a low-level telepath passing herself off as a mundane while serving in the armed forces (something telepaths are banned by law from doing). | |
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In The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye it's revealed that during the so-called "Golden Age" that preceded the war, a form of racism existed against Transformers who had been born by apparently having their sparks split from the spark of a "forged" (naturally-born) Cybertronian, known as being "constructed cold". Apparently it resulted in an apartheid which before the war was supposed to be over. At one point, the ego-centric scientist Brainstorm boasts of having supported "equal right for knock-offs!" implying he was forged. Shortly thereafter, a weapon that targets the sparks of all Cybertonians constructed cold is activated, and among those affected is Brainstorm himself, revealing that he was also constructed cold. It gets added to some issues down the line, where it turns out not only was he constructed cold, he was an M.T.O., a Made To Order, and they weren't activated until after the war began, meaning he couldn't have been part of the equal rights movement because he hadn't been born yet. | |
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Pure-blood wizards are rarer than the bad side likes to think they are, and it's suggested in Half-Blood Prince that most Death Eaters are probably half-bloods passing as pure-bloods. When Voldemort takes over the Ministry of Magic and passes the Nuremberg Laws against Muggle-borns in Deathly Hallows, Ron suggests that his family could protect Hermione by swearing that she was their cousin. Of course, as Hermione points out, it's a non-issue since they're on the lam anyway. | |
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Cold Case: "Libertyville" and "Colors" both have characters who are half black and half white, but look completely white, struggling with whether they should accept their identity or bury it. Given the nature of the show, either decision is likely to end tragically. | |
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