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Samus Is a Girl is when an Action Girl is well established as heroic, or otherwise badass, before the first hint that she's female. Whether the initial lack of discernible sex is caused by bulky armor, baggy robes, subtler deliberate deceptions, shapeshifting, an appearance that could be confused for male at a distance or even just the camera refusing to give a clear shot of any distinctly female parts of her, it's still Samus Is a Girl. Heck, a tank with a chick inside would count. Having a Tomboyish Name or Gender-Blender Name helps as well. In fact, you can expect this trope to happen pretty much every time you hear a gender-neutral name like "Alex" and it's not the name of an already established male character. Oftentimes, she will only wear the form-concealing outfit during her introduction. Afterwards, it may end up getting lost or destroyed, and thereafter she wears something a little less ambiguous. Sometimes, she just stops on her own. Perhaps nobody mentioned her gender because You Didn't Ask. Or because she's just one among a whole Badass Army, so nobody paid attention specifically to her. Or because she's a complete stranger that nobody had seen before. Maybe she is a Voice with an Internet Connection, and no one has ever seen her in person. (Audiences' disbelief that a woman could really be doing all these things may be bolstered by the fact that it often isn't in live-action productions, since Cast as a Mask allows the use of male suit actors until the reveal scene.) This is notably harder to pull off in some languages. note Some languages don't use gender-neutral descriptors that much. It's one thing to say Samus is a bounty hunter in English, but in some languages — like German, or all Latinate languages — all words are inherently masculine or feminine, and Samus would have to be explicitly described as a "bounty huntress"; likewise, a male character would have to be talked about using clearly masculine word endings. Characters that do know about Samus' gender and just don't care to elaborate to the listener couldn't just call her a bounty hunter without stretching suspension of disbelief. It's one thing to trick the viewers by clever terminology, but when you completely break your language to do it, the effect becomes not so much "Hey, that's right, the gender was never actually mentioned!" as "Um, why have you been calling her a man this whole time?" Whether this works in Mandarin may even hinge on the medium; this is because Mandarin "he" and "she" are pronounced the same but written differently. Even the time period can make a difference, as "man" in English or "ä»–" in Classical Chinese both used to be gender neutral, but is now explicitly masculine. But in other languages like Japanese and English, it is becoming more common to use the "masculine" or "gender-neutral" term when referring to women. For example, female comedians are almost never referred to as comediennes these days, and waiters and waitresses are often known as just servers. Jabootu's glossary states how, in B-movies, the "Misleading Masculine Moniker Rule" occurs when the picture's hero learns of a character's Gender-Blender Name, and is surprised to see that she is, in fact, female. Thus, such a moment often establishes her as his obligatory love interest. This trope is named after the protagonist of the Metroid video game series, which at the end of its debut game revealed that power-suited intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran was a woman the whole time. See The Faceless and the Hackette, a Sub-Trope that relies on the myth that There Are No Girls on the Internet (The Cracker in question being not only contradicting evidence, but better at it than they'd expect her gender to be). Contrast Unsettling Gender-Reveal (where characters/some audience members are physically/romantically attracted to this person in their mistaken gender), Sweet Polly Oliver (Samus Is a Girl from a viewpoint that already knows she's female), Viewer Gender Confusion (where the audience, not the characters, don't know what gender Pat is) and Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person (where the story reenforces a character's gender rather than using it as a twist). See also Geeky Turn-On, which is sometimes related to this. Female Monster Surprise is a similar trope, but with a monster. May involve Gender-Concealing Writing. Not Always Female, but usually, due to the typical gender roles where everyone assumes the action hero is a dude; the cast being composed of Amazons is one example where this may be reversed. Also see Your Tomcat Is Pregnant for when pet-owners make incorrect assumptions about their pets. Please, don't bother with the spoiler tags here. The name of this trope is a pretty good reason why this should be. |
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In The Elements of Friendship, both Celestia's bodyguard Paper Mache and Pinkie's sister Maud are mistaken for stallions when first introduced. | |
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Colonel Randall in Dark Horse's early Terminator comics is introduced as a gritty soldier in combat fatigues and a face-obscuring helmet, and only referred to as 'the Colonel'. This is really only to build up to the money shot, where, after having stripped down to go through Skynet's time machine, Colonel Mary Randall blows away a terminator and is shown to be... a hot nekkid babe! Needless to say, on arriving in the 20th century she starts wearing tight minidresses. | |
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The Metroid Prime Trilogy was the start of her armor being designed to more subtly allude to her feminine figure. Beyond that, the player can sometimes see her eyes reflected through her visor. The Space Pirates also describe her as a female in their log entries. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption even shows her as a woman at the start of the game. | |
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In Zero Time Dilemma, Team Q brings up the Heart Ripper, a Serial Killer that rips out people’s hearts. The Ripper is referred to with male pronouns before The Reveal that it’s Mira, who was right there with the others discussing herself. | |
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The Equestrian Wind Mage: Fluttershy reveals that Volvagia the lava dragon is female, much to Vaati's shock. | |
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Sunrider has a villainous example with Veniczar Arcadius. Most of the galaxy assumes her to be male, between her androgynous figure, masculine clothing, and wearing a face-concealing mask that also alters her voice. It isn’t until the very end of the second part that she’s unmasked as a woman, though her gender ends up being the least surprising aspect of that revelation. As for why she does this, the sequel reveals that the original Arcadius was a man, and the current Arcadius has been impersonating him ever since his death. | |
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We Are Our Avatars: When Michelle took Proto Man's helmet in order to repair him, it turns out that Roll was impersonating Proto Man the whole time. | |
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Junior, who is assumed to be Ragdoll's brother or father in Secret Six, turns out to be his sister. | |
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Bone: The enigmatic Hooded One turns out to not only be a woman, but is in fact Grandma Ben's long-lost older sister. Not even the Hooded One's own minions were aware of their leader's true gender or identity. Although admittedly, that might have to do with the fact she was long thought to have been dead (which she is). | |
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X-Men: Professor X's primary love interest Lilandra is introduced in a running subplot in which he is having ominous visions of space battles and a menacing armored figure. When the figure finally shows up and takes off its helmet, it isn't quite what he is expecting. It was frequently implied and later confirmed in Immortal X-Men that Destiny didn't just share her real name with Sherlock Holmes's Irene Adler, but actually was Irene herself. While this isn't an example of it, what's tied to it is: it was also implied and later confirmed that Holmes "himself" was, in fact, Mystique, Destiny's lover. |
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Cordell the dark elf from Gaia Online was not particularly concealed, just androgynous, having been introduced as a champion of the dark elves willing to compete in the (non-canon) Reject Olympics on behalf of Durem. She was found to be female when an aggressive Yaoi Fangirl invaded the track and felt her up. "Hay UR not a bishie!" | |
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When She Was Bad has a highly feared mob enforcer who goes by the name Coyote. Most people assume the Coyote is male, but she is actually a Perky Female Minion named Rosie. Her employers are pretty much the only ones who know her true identity, since she never leaves witnesses alive. | |
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Fairy Without Wings: Dark Blade the Knight of Seven of the Edolas Knights of the Round is a true and tried Black Knight and the epitome of Dark Is Evil. Claims that the person they are is dead inside and only so many people know this swordsman's identity. Totally, Edolas Lelouch, right? Wrong! It's Nunnally. | |
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Detective Comics #1000 sees the debut of a version of the Arkham Knight and Word of God already confirmed it wouldn't be the same person from the game. Three issues later, this version of the Knight turned out to be Jeremiah Arkham's daughter, Astrid. | |
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It's not unusual for some of the kittens fostered in The Critter Room to be given a name under the assumption they were one gender before it is discovered they are actually of the other. Sometimes this means the name has to be changed, but if the name or a nickname is gender neutral, it can stay the same. | |
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In the Temeraire and Assassin's Creed crossover fanfic Trade Winds, Desmond meets 11-year-old Emily Roland, Laurence's runner, for the first time and is surprised to find, after watching her for a little while, that she's a girl under her little jacket and trousers. When he tries asking her for her name, she just says, "Roland." | |
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Into the Woods: "The Giant's a woman!" | |
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Whatever Happened to The Caped Crusader?. In Selina Kyle's story of how she first met Batman, she's wearing a fullface cat mask and flowing cape instead of the familiar slinky catsuit. So Batman gets a surprise when her mask comes off during their struggle. | |
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Scott Pilgrim: The fourth member of the League of Evil Exes is actually a girl that Ramona dated during a bi-curious phase in college. Up until that point Scott and the readers were led to assume all of Ramona's exes were boyfriends, and it takes Ramona all but spelling it out until Scott catches on (much to his delight). It's lampshaded with the Boss Subtitles panel. | |
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One of the regular supporting heroes in Paul Grist's Jack Staff is Tom Tom the Robot Man, a towering, super-strong robot with the power of flight. It's a genuinely bizarre and unexpected moment when it's discovered that "he" is effectively a suit of powered armour being piloted by a disabled girl genius to fight crime. | |
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Twitch Plays Pokémon: For the entirety of the stream, Air the Lapras was assumed to be a male. However, transferring it to Generation II shows it to be a female. By analyzing her stats, it was also found that Flareon the False Prophet/Martyr was also female. | |
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A Modest Destiny: Shadow spends a good amount of time in the comics as this until an incident where Maxim grabbed her breast, and it's not shown who she is until much later. When the previously killed Crimson Blade shows up at the Vampire Lord Fluffy's castle, Fluffy's bat familiar flies of with the helmet, revealing that the new Crimson Blade is a girl. Expecting this trope, Fluffy immediately tries to hit on her, but actually fails miserably. |
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Metroid: Other M not only shows Samus without her suit in the opening sequence, but many cutscenes do so as well (both in flashback and present day); the post-game also ends with the player doing the traditional escape sequence while wearing the Zero Suit. | |
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Sasquatch from Alpha Flight is usually male in the main continuity. In the Ultimate Universe, when the team returns to base after fighting the X-Men, Sasquatch resumes human form and turns out to be the very female Rahne Sinclair, who in the main Marvel Universe is the werewolf Wolfsbane. There were some hints to this beforehand though; readers may have wondered why "he" had ribbons in "his" hair in Sasquatch form. Sasquatch from The Exiles is female. First going into human form, she says, "What surprises you more, that I'm a woman or that I'm black?" |
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The player character of the Half-Life mod Half-Life: Residual Life, Sora Kim, doesn't have her gender confirmed until the level 'Alter of Sacrifice' when the level boss refers to her as 'fresh female'. | |
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Batman Beyond Revisited: Poetic license at its finest; not only does Payback turn out to be a girl, she’s also Jake’s mother. | |
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Thunderstrike: Eric battles the villain Bloodaxe, and then finds out it's really his girlfriend, Jackie. | |
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Mekhane from the SCP Foundation is an odd case. Mekhane’s gender is Depending on the Writer, but in the earlier days of the site, they were most often depicted as a male. In recent times, however, Mekhane is now most frequently depicted as a goddess, likely stemming from their name being a feminine noun in Ancient Greek. | |
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The Surrogates features a setting where normal people no longer interact with each other in person, but instead use a humanoid robot as a proxy. As a result, cross-gender surrogates are common. One of the first surrogates we see is a cross-gender surrogate, and the male Corrupt Corporate Executive is revealed to actually be a woman. Both of them masqueraded as a person of the opposite gender to get ahead in their respective fields. | |
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In The Powerpuff Girls fanfic Ladder, the Serial Killer known as "the Harvester" is out killing criminals. She's referred to as male however eventually she is revealed to be female. She is Bubbles. | |
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In Incredibles 2, the Screenslaver, the primary antagonist of the film, is revealed to be tech genius Evelyn Deavor. | |
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Nintendo of America ran a Metroid art contest in their magazine "Nintendo Fun Club News" (a precursor to Nintendo Power), with the winning entries being shown in the sixth issue. All the chosen pieces that had Samus unmasked depicted her as a man◊, though it's possible the judges deliberately chose entries with a male Samus in order to keep the twist a secret. | |
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In Wonderful (Mazinja), no one knew that Wonder Red was a girl until she revealed herself. | |
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The Belgian comic Lament of the Lost Moors takes this even further with the Guinea Lord◊, a terrifyingly badass Black Knight, by making him (well, her) the crippled daughter of a powerful sorceress, the armor itself giving hellish strength and endurance to the wearer. | |
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In Virtue's Last Reward, Akane pulls this off again in the routes that she disguises herself as K. In other routes, K is Sigma’s clone. | |
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The penultimate battle in Blaster Master Zero III is against Leibniz, who removes their helmet to reveal they are a woman. | |
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In Scud the Disposable Assassin, Sussudio is introduced this way. Naturally, she later becomes Scud's love interest. | |
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Inhuman: Ashido is shown to be an example of this when another character walks in on her changing. | |
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Homestuck: Peregrine Mendicant. The author never intended her to actually have a gender at all, but gave in to fan speculation. | |
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Code:Realize does this verbally. During Cardia's second confrontation with the Assailant in heavy armor, she's shocked to hear a woman's voice come underneath the armor. Her profile in the glossary notes that her name is Guinevere (yes, that Guinevere) and she is very beautiful. When we see her face later, we learn that her profile wasn't kidding. | |
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Parodied in the Starbomb song "Regretroid", where Samus gets increasingly pissed that all her enemies go from treating her like an adversary to flirting with her once they learn the truth. | |
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In the Ultimate Universe, when the team returns to base after fighting the X-Men, Sasquatch resumes human form and turns out to be the very female Rahne Sinclair, who in the main Marvel Universe is the werewolf Wolfsbane. There were some hints to this beforehand though; readers may have wondered why "he" had ribbons in "his" hair in Sasquatch form. | |
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In Mother Goose and Grimm, Grimm was shocked to learn that his hero, the star of the TV show Karl the Wonder Poodle, was a female poodle named Karla. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Miko Miyazaki does this. For about eighty or so strips, she appears only as a blue-hooded figure, until she takes on the Order of the Stick, at which point she drops her hood and we see that yes, she is in fact female (and, judging from Roy's reaction, fairly attractive). Roy plays her Bob for a while, until he gets put off by her personality. This wasn't that drastic, as she seemed more ambiguous than masculine prior to this — insofar as she even seemed human at all. | |
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Higurashi: When They Cry: For about most of the story, the enigmatic Big Bad deity Oyashiro-sama is considered to be male by just about everyone in the village- until the seventh arc reveals that she is, in fact, Cute Ghost Girl Hanyuu Furude. No one in Hinamizawa barring Rika knew the the god they worshipped was actually a goddess, most likely due to Oyashiro's legend becoming distorted over hundreds of years. And it was foreshadowed as early as the 1st novel with Keiichi deducing that the breath on him was coming from a girl. In addition, the actual villain, who used Hanyuu as a scapegoat/smokescreen, is herself a woman- local nurse Miyo Takano. | |
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In Brawl, if the player fights Samus as Solid Snake on Shadow Moses Island, Snake remarks to Otacon that he's fighting "a woman in a power suit." Otacon is baffled as to how Snake can possibly know she's a woman. Snake figured it out by watching how she walks and checking out the anatomy involved. | |
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Count Repugsive in Nodwick. The reason she gives for the deception is that "female villains only get respect if they're hot". Which she certainly isn't, being an undead Black Knight. | |
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An early arc of Wolverine's comic involved an up-an-coming crime boss in Madripoor called Tyger-Tiger challenging Roche's hold on the nation's underworld. Roche had no idea who Tyger-Tiger was, and in one part, believed it was a male rival. In truth, Tyger-Tiger was Jessan Hoan, and as a result, her final assault on him came as complete surprise. | |
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In The More Things Change, Ryoga believes the person whom he is fighting is a man until he cuts Tanya Noori's vest and spots her bra. | |
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The main character's gender in Fighting Monsters isn't revealed until several chapters in, when it becomes a twist that she, the first superhero, is a woman. | |
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In Funky Winkerbean, The Eliminator was an Enfant Terrible arcade gamer of such skill, he could make a Defender machine tilt like a pinball game. His face was always covered by a visored helmet (a Shout-Out to Darth Vader, as The Empire Strikes Back was THE hot movie at the time of his debut). Midway through the first Time Skip, the grown-up Eliminator was reintroduced... as Donna, a hot blond woman. She eventually ended up dating and marrying Crazy Harry, who'd considered The Eliminator his nemesis back in high school. | |
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In the Marvel Cinematic Universe fanfic The Artist's Garden at Madripoor, Steve and Natasha go to Madripoor in order to acquire the component they need for the Quantum Tunnel from the Power Broker. Steve assumes that the Power Broker is male (which Natasha plays along with) and is shocked to discover that the Power Broker is Sharon (whom Steve thought had disappeared during The Snap). | |
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Metroid II: Return of Samus doesn't allude to Samus' gender at all in the game itself outside the best ending, but the manual now refers to Samus as a "she". | |
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In Robb Returns, a short lived version appears when the "man" Brynden Tully meets on his way south ends up revealing herself as Brienne of Tarth a few moments later. | |
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In The Halo Graphic Novel story Armor Testing, Spartan-II Maria-062 isn't revealed to be female until the very end, after she takes off her helmet and her commanding officer finally refers to her by name. | |
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In Spirit of Justice, Armie Buff is a shut-in who could only communicate with an armed drone. She acts as a war general and talks in a scruffy masculine voice thanks to a voice filter. Naturally, when Armie revealed herself everyone in the courtroom is surprised to see the witness was a 12-year-old girl in a wheelchair. It's also inverted with the vigilante rebel hunter styling themselves after the legendary Khura'inese female warrior Lady Kee'ra, who turns out to be a man. | |
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc has this twice, both villains: In Chapter 2, the mysterious Genocider Syo, who has been referred to as "he", is revealed to be the Split Personality of Touko Fukawa, a female student. Made even more shocking in the English release, where "he" was named Genocide Jack before The Reveal, and Genocide Jill afterwards. Chapter 2 also inverts this with Chihiro Fujisaki, a boy disguised as a girl to avoid bullying. In the final trial, it is revealed that the mysterious masked “man� who attacks Makoto, who is also the person behind the male robot bear Monokuma, is the Ultimate Fashionista, Junko Enoshima. |
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Spriggs in the Halo machinima series Spriggs. | |
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From Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, before the soldiers take off their helmets: | |
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Batman: The Hangman from the miniseries Dark Victory turned out to be Carmine Falcone's daughter, Sofia Falcone, Obfuscating Disability and seeking revenge against Two-Face and everyone who helped pre-Two-Face Harvey Dent's rise as District Attorney (as Dent's first act as Two-Face is to kill her father). Detective Comics #1000 sees the debut of a version of the Arkham Knight and Word of God already confirmed it wouldn't be the same person from the game. Three issues later, this version of the Knight turned out to be Jeremiah Arkham's daughter, Astrid. Batman (Grant Morrison) had the Absence, which gets lampshaded by Dick!Bats. In the newspaper comic strip "The Joker Vs the Sparrow", the Joker declares war on a mysterious crime boss named the Sparrow. While escaping from Batman, he's assisted by a beautiful blonde woman - who happens to be the Sparrow. |
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Fleuret Blanc has Augustine Hatch Jr., FOIL's mechanic and electrician. She is initially referred to as "Junior", and she only interacts with Florentine through a remote speaker for most of the story. Both the name and profession are coded male so Florentine assumes Junior is a man, leading to shock when Augustine shows up in person. This is also deconstructed a little: her father wanted a son, not a daughter, and named her "Junior" before she was even born in the hopes she would continue the family line. When he discovered his offspring was a girl, he was livid. The resulting neglect and disappointment likely skewed her psychological development and perception of gender roles in an unhealthy way, and may have influenced her decision to enter such a male-coded field in the first place. However, this is also Reconstruction in that her father learned to love her anyway. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court: The interim comic City Face 2 introduces a magpie named Bobeyes. In a bit of Painting the Medium, the Shout Box below the comic features commentary by in-universe characters—one of whom is a magpie going by the username "magpie55". He thinks Bobeyes is a pretty cool, tough guy, and is as surprised as anyone to learn that Bobeyes is a girl. From his commentary on the final comic page, it's obvious that he's smitten. | |
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It was frequently implied and later confirmed in Immortal X-Men that Destiny didn't just share her real name with Sherlock Holmes's Irene Adler, but actually was Irene herself. While this isn't an example of it, what's tied to it is: it was also implied and later confirmed that Holmes "himself" was, in fact, Mystique, Destiny's lover. | |
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Bloom County had a whole arc devoted to this. It started when Budweiser mascot Spuds MacKenzie visited Opus and told him that most animals who appeared in the media who were "billed" as male were actually females - including Spuds. He - or rather she - then claimed this was also true for one of the animal characters in Bloom County, but then fell into a drunken slumber, which Opus predicted she wouldn't wake up from until "that last comment has caused total pandemonium around here". Indeed, the animal characters launched their own investigations (Portnoy quickly finding out that "cartoon characters aren't anatomically correct") even going so far as to use a Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique on Bill the Cat, until Opus finally discovered it was Rosebud the Bassalope. From that point on, she was referred to by her true gender. | |
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In Camelot 3000, Merlin sends Tom to a wedding to awaken the memories of a reincarnated Round Table knight. The homing-amulet he's carrying leads him to the couple at the altar. Tom assumes it's the groom he's looking for, but it's actually the bride whom Sir Tristan has been reborn as. Of course, the now awoken Tristan fully identifies as a man and draws a great deal of angst from it. | |
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Metroid: Samus and Joey paints Samus as the mercenary equivalent of a Reclusive Artist. Even In-Universe most people think that Samus is a man, and Samus doesn't bother to correct them. Mostly because she's a lone wolf who Hates Small Talk and doesn't really care what people think of her as long as they keep giving her work, though it's also implied she might be encouraging some of the crazier rumours so that people won't recognize her when she's off-duty. Joey manages to go on multiple adventures with Samus without realising she's a woman, even thinking of her as a surrogate father, until she removes her suit in front of him before they part ways at the end of the final chapter. | |
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Heavy Metal: The title character of the last story, Taarna, is summoned by the city's elders to fight the horde of evil invaders. The elders don't use any gender-specific words when speaking of the last of the Taarakians whom they're summoning, and when Taarna does arrive, she flies into the city on a pterodactyl-like steed wearing a hooded robe. Only when she lands in the city and dismounts her steed does Taarna reveal her gender by removing her hood (and shortly thereafter, everything else to keep up the film's quota). | |
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Steins;Gate: The person claiming to be John Titor turns out to be a girl, namely Amane Suzuha. The anime even uses a male voice for Titor's email conversations prior to the reveal. Gender-inverted with Moeka's apparently-female contact "FB", who turns out to be Tennouji Yuugo aka Mr. Braun. |
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In the Captain N: The Game Master comics in the Nintendo Comics System, Samus was a regular character, and in her first appearance, it surprised the regulars from the cartoon when she unmasked for the first time. The scene in question is quoted above.◊ | |
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Mrs. Hawking: The mysterious "Kingmaker", the most feared criminal mastermind in all of London, is actually the thrice-married Mrs. Frost. She also happens to be Mrs. Hawking's teacher in the art of crimefighting and former companion. | |
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A Man of Iron: Speculated in-universe as one of the theories about Iron Man's secret identity. A few people, Arya included, are convinced that he's really an Action Girl hiding her gender. Syrio is revealed in the back half of Book 1 to actually be Mystique in disguise. The first chapter of Book 3 reveals that the first Vulture King was in fact a Not Quite Dead Rhaenys Targaryen. |
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Valka in How to Train Your Dragon 2. Even though Action Girls are perfectly common and accepted in the film's culture, her mask and armor conceal her shape and size completely, making it a surprise when she turns out to be a woman, helped by the fact that Hiccup and the viewer have been given reason to suspect she was the man, Drago, he had just heard about. | |
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This is explicitly referenced in Girl Genius, when one of the protagonists puts on a very Samus-like suit. This follows: | |
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In Ashes of the Past, Ash's Pidgeot turns out to be female and does not like being mistaken for male. | |
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Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls has both the feminine sounding Shirokuma and the more masculine-sounding wannabe-rapper Kurokuma turn out to be Junko Enoshima, who seems to love pulling this trick. | |
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DC: Love is a Battlefield: When Blue Snowman is unmasked Steve is surprised to see a person he assumes is a woman. Byrna Brilyant is non-binary, and the Snowman part ties into their gender presentation. | |
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Danganronpa: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc has this twice, both villains: In Chapter 2, the mysterious Genocider Syo, who has been referred to as "he", is revealed to be the Split Personality of Touko Fukawa, a female student. Made even more shocking in the English release, where "he" was named Genocide Jack before The Reveal, and Genocide Jill afterwards. Chapter 2 also inverts this with Chihiro Fujisaki, a boy disguised as a girl to avoid bullying. In the final trial, it is revealed that the mysterious masked “man� who attacks Makoto, who is also the person behind the male robot bear Monokuma, is the Ultimate Fashionista, Junko Enoshima. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: Chapter 2 has a subversion with Sparkling Justice, who is “revealed� to be Peko Pekoyama, before she admits she copycatted the real one (hinted to be the male Takumi Hijirihara) to hide her true motivations for murder. In the final trial, the Monokuma reveal is the same, only this time it’s an AI version of Junko; she also disguised herself as the male Makoto, the previous protagonist, earlier. Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls has both the feminine sounding Shirokuma and the more masculine-sounding wannabe-rapper Kurokuma turn out to be Junko Enoshima, who seems to love pulling this trick. |
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Henchman Story has Shining Nova, a superhero who wears a masculine-looking suit of Powered Armor and uses a voice changer to disguise the fact that she's really a petite young woman. It's one of the many, many measures she takes to keep her secret identity under wraps. | |
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Red vs. Blue: Agent Texas is a bit of a subversion of the usual way this trope is carried out. She's outed as female a few episodes after her debut when her helmet's voice modulator shorts out, but since everyone in the series is always wearing Powered Armor (because it's a Halo-based machinima), Tex is otherwise indistinguishable from the rest of the cast. Zigzagged with the former Agent Connecticut. When first encountered in Season 7, CT appears male in all respects. By the following season, Washington reacts to CT's helmet with "what was she doing here?", and the flashback episodes in Season 9 show that indeed, the CT of Project Freelancer was a woman. Then Season 10 reveals that the original CT was killed, and her boyfriend took up her armor to honor her. |
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From Brawl onwards, Samus can be played in her Zero Suit form (appropriately titled Zero Suit Samus). | |
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The spinoff novel Fate/Apocrypha also reveals Mordred to be female. | |
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In Melee, one of the events is called "Girl Power" and has you fight Samus alongside Zelda and Peach. However, the manual does not refer to Samus as a woman, and her first trophy avoids using pronouns. | |
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Witch Hunter pulls this card with Halloween, Tasha's pumpkin-headed marionette who is initially thought to be genderless due to being a marionette and all that, but when Tasha breaks Halloween's first seal, its true form is revealed to be this.◊ Tasha is, naturally, shocked. | |
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Justice for All: Phoenix doesn't learn Manfred von Karma's child's gender until facing her in court. Later on in the same game, Shelley de Killer incorrectly guesses that Adrian Andrews is a man, thus proving that he's never met her in person. Strangely, Phoenix refers to Adrian correctly as a "she" during the initial interview, despite having no information on her besides the fact that she was Matt Engarde's manager. This was most likely due to her name being very gender ambiguous, which plays a key role in the case and was something the writers intended. | |
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Happens in the Pony POV Series during the Wedding Arc when a trio of guards that helped Misfit Actual named Weaver, Diver, and Bombardier are revealed to be Changelings. As it turns out, Bombardier is a female Changeling assuming a male form because of Changeling Blue-and-Orange Morality. Changelings simply have a different concept of sex and gender than ponies and she simply preferred having a male alternate form. She mentions this made finding a lover a bit difficult. | |
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Chris from Princess Waltz is taken to be a man by the main character. Even despite many hints and on multiple occasions fusing together to become a woman, the main character doesn't realize that Chris is actually a girl until... well... Either way even the main character feels stupid for not getting the hint before. | |
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In Incarnation of Legends, Bell is initially unsure of the Radiance's gender, as aside from the blue skirt-like cloth near the bottom, her figure and face were obscured by her armor and helmet. It takes Kojiro splitting that helmet in two to reveal her true gender as well as her identity as Artoria Pendragon. | |
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Catra immediately concludes that the General is a woman in She-Ra: In The Wake. | |
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According to It Sucks to Be Weegie!, Luigi is oblivious to the Trope Namer. When Samus, the only girl who is into him, tried to pick Luigi up at a bar. Luigi, naturally, assumed she was a guy and said that he "doesn't swing that way". Cue Link giving a Face Palm and immediately offering Luigi afterwards to cry on his couch to sleep over "nothing". | |
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Harpy Gee: The unnamed hulking knight that acted as one of Princess Halcea's bodyguards. The "Courage and Fear" story revealed not only that the knight was a human woman, but Cinder, Ash's mother. | |
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Darths & Droids has the revelation "No, Luke, I am your mother" — coming, of course, from Darth Vader, the Magic Black Knight IN SPACE!, who was up to that point assumed to be Luke's father like in the movies. Palpatine had figured the traditionalist military wouldn't want to follow an openly female leader. Of course, Vader's armour made him taller and gave him a lower voice in the original as well. | |
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In the fifth season of The Guild, Zaboo's two Master Chief lackees are revealed as hot girls. | |
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In The Great Phantom Peril, Superman assumes the strange and super-powerful spectral figure unleashing chaos all over Metropolis is a male being until the mists surrounding the "ghost" vanish and Superman discovers said "ghost" is a woman. | |
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In The Flight of Dragons, the band of heroes is saved from a pack of thieves by a Robin Hood wannabe. When the knight in the group goes to thank the mysterious archer, "he" takes off "his" cap, and the audience is treated to a slow-motion shot of long, glistening red hair as it flows down below her waist. The knight is speechless. | |
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Ravenloft: There's a series of supplements called the Gazetteers, which featured a scholar known as S who traveled around the major domains of the setting and chronicled their cultures. Everyone assumed S was a man until Gazetteer III, which featured a throwaway line about S's struggles to manage the layers of corsets, skirts, and petticoats that one domain expected its citizens to wear. Even then, some fans continued to insist that S was a man (apparently more willing to believe the character to be a drag queen than a woman), and it wasn't until an actual illustration of her appeared in Gazetteer IV that the argument was put to rest. The Midnight Slasher (an insane Expy of sorts of Jack the Ripper) is assumed to be male, but is secretly a woman, driven insane after the murder of her parents at the hands of the domain lord of Invidia, Gabrielle Aderre. Most residents of Invidia assume the killer to be a man, never suspecting the disheveled beggar they see on the streets by day to be a cold-blooded killer by night; in fact, that's how she keeps the façade alive. |
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In Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, the Phantasm kills several members of Gotham City's mafia. At first, all signs point to the Phantasm being Carl Beaumont, who owed the mafia money, but the Phantasm is later revealed to be Andrea Beaumont, Carl's daughter (and Bruce Wayne's Love Interest). | |
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Taz in the Atari Force second series was referred to as being male up until Morphea discovered Taz not only was actually female, she was pregnant. | |
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Younger Days: the character Sam is easily mistaken for a boy, both in-universe and by readers, due to her having a gender neutral name, boyish short hair, and hardly ever dressing in typical girl clothes. | |
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Metroid Dread has ADAM refer to Samus with the nickname "Lady" early on, she briefly speaks Chozo to another character partway through the game, cutscenes regularly showcase her eyes through her visor, and the ending has the Final Boss refer to her as his daughter. | |
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In Puss in Boots (2011), Puss's first meeting with Kitty Softpaws has him face her off in a Dance-Off. When it ends, he's shocked when she removes her mask to reveal a feminine face and voice. Being a cat, she didn't need to do anything else to hide her gender (though she wasn't trying to keep it a secret). | |
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In Big Bang Comics #10, Galahad is hunting an assassin named Headhunter. Having learned that Headhunter will be in a certain hotel room, he crashes in through the window and surprises a couple in bed. He tells the woman to flee and gets in a fight with the man. When the man doesn't recognise the name of one of his victims, Galahad realises he has made a mistake and that Headhunter isn't the man, but rather the woman. Just as he comes to this realisation, the now-clothed Headhunter re-enters the room and fires an arrow at him. The man is actually a local crimeboss who was to be her next target. | |
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The video for Bush's "Machinehead" shows a motorcyclist riding around London. At the end, the motorcyclist reaches his destination and removes his helmet...to reveal that he is a she. | |
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The 2004 remake of Metroid 1, Metroid: Zero Mission, gives the player a quick glance at her eyes at the start of the game. In addition, the remake adds a playable epilogue where most of it is spent as Samus outside of her armor in a lengthy Stealth-Based Mission. | |
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Jix: Pratos the Bounty ends up being both a female Ambis named Aranis and Jix's cousin. A possible nod to Samus Aran. Jix was thought to be male until her brother Romulos revealed her true identity (it's hard to tell what gender a small furry alien is unless you are able to see anything). |
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The second part of a two-part reveal in Superman & Batman: Generations 3 #3 — the first is that the character we've been assuming is Kamandi is actually his child. But when Batman uses the word "son", Kamandi is baffled, at which point we finally see what Kam looks like without her Post-Apunkalyptic Armor, or her hair and goggles hiding her face. | |
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Inverted in Fate/stay night. Lady of War Saber is obviously a female knight, but it isn't until later on that we learn she is actually the legendary King Arthur, who used magic to disguise herself as a man because she felt that the British probably wouldn't obey a Queen. Fate/Nuovo Guerra follows tradition and chocks one up with a certain Lancer from The Trojan War, though it wasn't so much a disguise as it was "sexist historians" who didn't like how a girl was getting all that booty and kicking all that ass. The Fate series tend to do this quite a bit with some of the historical/mythical figures, most likely due the overwhelming success of Saber. Ironically, Nasu initially cringed at the idea of turning Saber female. The spinoff novel Fate/Apocrypha also reveals Mordred to be female. |
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Zero Escape has one per game: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors sets up the possibility of a villainous example. The characters are kidnapped and forced to participate in a Deadly Game by a mysterious masked person called Zero. Throughout most of the game, everyone refers to Zero as male, but eventually Clover brings up the possibility that Zero could be one of them- and since there are three females in the party, this could apply if Zero is one of the three. And she is- it’s Akane, Junpei’s Love Interest. In Virtue's Last Reward, Akane pulls this off again in the routes that she disguises herself as K. In other routes, K is Sigma’s clone. In Zero Time Dilemma, Team Q brings up the Heart Ripper, a Serial Killer that rips out people’s hearts. The Ripper is referred to with male pronouns before The Reveal that it’s Mira, who was right there with the others discussing herself. |
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The infamous "TheLegend27" from Game of War: Fire Age ads. | |
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Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name: Inverted in the opening strips, as Zombie naturally assumed that "Hanna Cross" would be a woman. Played straight a short time later when bat!Adelaide is introduced. | |
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Batman: Gordon of Gotham: Officer Bell, the mysterious undercover cop who infiltrates Manklin's gang, turns out to be Manklin's Moll Pamela. | |
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In the Judge Dredd short fan film Judge Minty, Minty kills a masked gang member in the Cursed Earth, only to find out to his dismay that it was a girl of about 20. | |
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In Marvel Team-Up #100, Spider-Man finds himself getting controlled by a mysterious someone with the ability to remotely possess people. Halfway through, it turns out this someone is a Vietnamese girl (and she's not evil, just desperate). She goes on to become Karma of the New Mutants. | |
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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: Chapter 2 has a subversion with Sparkling Justice, who is “revealed� to be Peko Pekoyama, before she admits she copycatted the real one (hinted to be the male Takumi Hijirihara) to hide her true motivations for murder. In the final trial, the Monokuma reveal is the same, only this time it’s an AI version of Junko; she also disguised herself as the male Makoto, the previous protagonist, earlier. |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Beware the Equalizer, the titular character wearing Powered Armor and a Cool Helmet and wielding a Magic Staff is revealed to be none other than Starlight Glimmer. | |
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The King Nobody Wanted: One of Tytos's free-riders, an archer called Skinny Pate, is a disguised girl who ran away from an Arranged Marriage with an elderly crofter. | |
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Goblin minion Stuff in Strange Magic thought it was obvious that she was female. Her male coworker might just be that dumb. | |
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Up has Kevin the Snipe in this. Russell's reaction to finding out Kevin is not a Kevin at all. Not only is Kevin a girl, she's also a mother. | |
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Played with in Pacificators. On one side, Taffe Torbern doesn't actively dresses in a manner that would cause confusion about her gender, but she is flat-chested, and a tomboy. There have had been multiple instances in which she gets mistaken for a boy, especially by the Too Dumb to Live pirate Ferdinand. In fact, when she was first introduced, the readers weren't sure whether she was a girl or a boy. It wasn't until the first encounter with the pirate Ferdinand that her gender is cleared up. | |
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In the one-shot crossover Spider-Man versus Wolverine, both heroes are on the trail of Wolverine's former partner, named "Charlie", which is given as being short for: "Charlemagne". When Wolverine finally catches up with Charlie, the rogue agent is revealed to be a "she". Wolverine naturally knew all along, but Spidey, as well as the READER were kept in the dark by clever avoidance of gender-specific pronouns (not to mention a flashback where "Charlie" is deliberately shown in gender-neutral disguise). It's implied that Charlemagne uses the ambiguous nature of her name as an additional cover to her identity. | |
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The Avengers #145 (from 1976) introduces a hired killer known only as The Assassin, who wears a bulky armored costume with a full hood. In issue #146, the Assassin's hood gets knocked off to reveal that she's a woman. She then proceeds to lecture Hawkeye for being surprised by her gender, considering the number of Action Girls on his own team. | |
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Shantelle Malawaski, best known for her work in various independents as Shantelle Taylor and in TNA as Taylor Wilde, wrestled two house show (non-televised events) and one dark match (non-televised matches held before televised events/TV tapings) for WWE in January 2007 in a male disguise as a masked Japanese wrestler named Sensai, defeating male wrestler Jamie Noble each time. However, because these were non-televised events, thus they were not part of any kind of continuity, and because Malawaski was released before ever appearing on WWE TV under any name, it qualifies as an aversion. | |
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The War to End All Wars – The Movie: During "Lady of the Dark", an Austrian soldier knocks Milunka Savić's hat off and is astonished when the feminine long hair she'd kept tucked under it falls free. | |
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In TNA, the Latin American Xchange was often helped in their matches against the Rock 'n' Rave Infection by a mysterious Latino in baggy gangsta attire with a bandanna covering "his" face whom the LAX only referred to as "a member of the Latino nation". This mystery "man" often attacked the Infection's valet, Christy Hemme, prompting her to repeatedly complain to on-air authority figure Jim Cornette about the "man-on-woman violence" going on. Of course, the mystery member of LAX later revealed herself as a Latina named Salinas, thus trouncing the Rock 'n' Rave Infection's claims. | |
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In Eleutherophobia: Ghost in the Shell, Tom assumes that the mysterious morphing serial killer is male until she thought-speaks to him during their aerial battle. It turns out she's a recurring Matter Over Mind attendee named Margaret White. | |
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The Sandman (1989): Death's name is mentioned well before we see her. Gaiman intended for most readers to assume Death of the Endless would be male and menacing ... until we saw her. In-character example, the serial killers are amazed to discover that the infamous Dog Soup is a woman. |
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In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, directly inspired by the above: Ash has this reaction with his Pidgeotto, and later with Roggenrola. The latter was a notable case given that he was certain of the gender of all of his Unovan mons. | |
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The Wotch: Also initially appearing as a hooded figure was the previous Wotch, Miranda West. Her initial appearance was in the very first story arc. Her reveal was at the end of the fifteenth. | |
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When Pikachu first pops up to rescue some gijinka in Rocket Member, she's wearing her hoodie up. Everyone mistakes her for a boy until her hoodie pops off while she's charging up her electricity, showing off her Tomboyish Ponytail. | |
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In Kubo and the Two Strings, Kubo's mother uses the last of her magic to bring to life his wooden monkey charm. Kubo had though of the charm as male, but Monkey turns out to be female due to being inhabited by his mother's soul. | |
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The original Ronin in New Avengers turned out to be Daredevil's love interest Echo (after a minor Red Herring that it was DD himself). | |
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Dino Attack RPG: Played with; Agent Pyro spent the majority of the RPG wearing a gas mask, balaclava, and baggy pants, leading to some joking about his true gender. When it came time for the mask to come off, it turned out to be a woman to the shock of everyone. It's actually a subversion. Later on a psychotic, disheveled, and all-around unpleasant man started shouting in the comms only to be repeatedly told to shut up- this was actually the real agent Pyro, and the girl who had been unmasked and assumed to be Pyro was actually his daughter impersonating him to protect him from The Mole. Played straight in the case of Pterisa. Since she wore samurai armor and a cloth veil over her face to hide her identity, no one knew that she was female until she spoke. This actually happened on two separate occasions: when she was first introduced in LEGO City, and when she met up with the rest of the cast in the Maelstrom Temple. |
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In one of the vignettes in GURPS Steam-Tech, describing a new fad at Oxbridge for chivalric duelling with blunt swords (the relevant "tech" being applying 19th century metalsmithing to armour), a masked combatant who wins two out of three fights removes their helm to reveal "the well-known feminist agitator Miss Viola Dalrymple". | |
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Ace Attorney: Justice for All: Phoenix doesn't learn Manfred von Karma's child's gender until facing her in court. Later on in the same game, Shelley de Killer incorrectly guesses that Adrian Andrews is a man, thus proving that he's never met her in person. Strangely, Phoenix refers to Adrian correctly as a "she" during the initial interview, despite having no information on her besides the fact that she was Matt Engarde's manager. This was most likely due to her name being very gender ambiguous, which plays a key role in the case and was something the writers intended. In Spirit of Justice, Armie Buff is a shut-in who could only communicate with an armed drone. She acts as a war general and talks in a scruffy masculine voice thanks to a voice filter. Naturally, when Armie revealed herself everyone in the courtroom is surprised to see the witness was a 12-year-old girl in a wheelchair. It's also inverted with the vigilante rebel hunter styling themselves after the legendary Khura'inese female warrior Lady Kee'ra, who turns out to be a man. |
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A major reveal in Looking for Group is that Richard isn't Lord Ashendale's son, Richard but rather Regyna, the boy's older sister. Richard didn't know either as being transformed into the warlock scrambled her memories. A more minor reveal is that Cale's panther Sooba is also female. |
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Empowered: Mindf**k is a dramatic example, as eventually revealed to Emp; Mindf**k and Sistah Spooky are ex-lovers, whose first meeting (without a Samus Is A Girl scene) was shown in flashback the following volume. The supervillain Deathmonger was eventually revealed to be a woman under her mask. |
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In Does Not Play Well With Others, only the reader finds out that the arch-nemesis of the superhero Falchion is actually a woman. She ends up becoming Falchion's girlfriend. | |
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Technically, the stitchpunks of 9 are sexless constructs. This trope is still invoked with 7, whose feminine voice isn't heard until after she has demonstrated her combat prowess. | |
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A Crown of Stars: In a late chapter Shinji, Asuka and the rest of the cast seize an enemy fleet. Misato was wearing a Powered Armor during the battle, and the admiral of the fleet got shocked when she removed her helmet’s faceplate and revealed that she was a woman: | |
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In DC's 1980s comics series Arak: Son of Thunder, the character of Valda is introduced in full plate armor. Arak doesn't find out her sex until he removes her helmet. Unfortunately, the cover spoils the surprise by showing her wearing her standard mail byrnie and no helmet. | |
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In the Metroid/Worm play-by-post game Hatchling Quest, PRT's Head of Image brings this up when he remarks that Samus could easily pass for a boy while wearing her Power Armor. This trope befittingly becomes something of a Running Gag throughout the story: Samus keeps a Secret Identity, and even though it's been publicly stated she is a girl from another universe, there are many people who nonetheless think even that is a cover-up and that she's either a boy or a robot. Even those who accept the official explanation are still surprised to find there's a blond, teenage girl under the power armor. | |
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In the Brightburn fic Dies the Fire, after fifteen years conquering the world, Brandon is lured back to Brightburn and confronted by a warrior in a suit of armour. The full-body suit and modulated voice lead Brandon to assume the warrior is male, and it's only after his opponent has revealed their access to grenades based on the radiation generated by Brandon's ship that he does enough damage to the suit to realise that his opponent is female, and he only identifies her as his old crush, Caitlyn Connors, after she's done enough damage that he's begging for his life. | |
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Dante of CharCole is a female Cubone, but since Cubones are a Pokémon species without visible sexual dimorphism, her trainer, Brian, did not realize this until he was informed of Dante's sex by Pokémon Center staff weeks after first catching her. Until Dante's gender was revealed, Brian's entire Pokemon Team (who were just as clueless as their trainer) considered her a boy, something that Dante is quite offended about once she learns it. | |
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Batman (Grant Morrison) had the Absence, which gets lampshaded by Dick!Bats. | |
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In Princess Princess (2012), Sadie initially thinks that Amira is yet another prince come to rescue her. Amira tells her that she is no prince, she is a princess! And she has a grappling hook! | |
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Fate/Nuovo Guerra follows tradition and chocks one up with a certain Lancer from The Trojan War, though it wasn't so much a disguise as it was "sexist historians" who didn't like how a girl was getting all that booty and kicking all that ass. | |
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In the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game, there's Gravekeeper's Assailant. There was never anything to suggest that the monster on the card was female until she appeared on Yu-Gi-Oh! GX as a Duel Spirit, at which point it was obvious (even while still wearing the mask and cloak). The anime even gave her the name Sara (Yasmine in the dub version). (Of course, whether "Gravekeeper's Assailant" is a title that is unique to her is hard to tell.) | |
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One of the main villains of The Condor, Taipan, is revealed to be Tony's girlfriend Valeria who wanted to have "some fun" with him before she kills him. Helped by the voice distorter and masculine nature of her costume. | |
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Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors sets up the possibility of a villainous example. The characters are kidnapped and forced to participate in a Deadly Game by a mysterious masked person called Zero. Throughout most of the game, everyone refers to Zero as male, but eventually Clover brings up the possibility that Zero could be one of them- and since there are three females in the party, this could apply if Zero is one of the three. And she is- it’s Akane, Junpei’s Love Interest. | |
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Visseria has Alchione, who until pointed out by a child, was unapparent to the reader as being female for the first couple of pages that she appeared. This was caused in large part by her armor, but also by her abnormal height and musculature. | |
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In Batman: The Long Halloween, the death of Alberto Falcone completely takes away the the Ambiguous Ending of the original comic which throws suspicion onto Gilda Dent, who is indeed revealed to be the Holiday Killer. | |
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Super Smash Bros.: In Melee, one of the events is called "Girl Power" and has you fight Samus alongside Zelda and Peach. However, the manual does not refer to Samus as a woman, and her first trophy avoids using pronouns. From Brawl onwards, Samus can be played in her Zero Suit form (appropriately titled Zero Suit Samus). In Brawl, if the player fights Samus as Solid Snake on Shadow Moses Island, Snake remarks to Otacon that he's fighting "a woman in a power suit." Otacon is baffled as to how Snake can possibly know she's a woman. Snake figured it out by watching how she walks and checking out the anatomy involved. |
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