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** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'':
*** As a non-romantic version, Terry [=McGinnis=]'s younger brother Matt idolizes the new Batman as badass and the epitome of cool, but sees his own older brother as a boring workaholic who's never around.
*** Inverted with Terry's relationship with Melanie. Melanie loves Terry, but is lukewarm to antagonistic towards Batman.
*** As a non-romantic version, Terry [=McGinnis=]'s younger brother Matt idolizes the new Batman as badass and the epitome of cool, but sees his own older brother as a boring workaholic who's never around.
*** Inverted with Terry's relationship with Melanie. Melanie loves Terry, but is lukewarm to antagonistic towards Batman.
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*** As a non-romantic version, Terry [=McGinnis=]'s younger brother Matt idolizes the new Batman as badass and the epitome of cool, but sees his own older brother as a boring workaholic who's never around.
***''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': Inverted with Terry's relationship with Melanie. Melanie loves Terry, but is lukewarm to antagonistic towards Batman.
*** As a non-romantic version, Terry [=McGinnis=]'s younger brother Matt idolizes the new Batman as badass and the epitome of cool, but sees his own older brother as a boring workaholic who's never around.
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* Rio from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' is torn between Jerrica and her secret identity Jem--and he has a bad temper concerning those who deceive him. Inverted with Riot, who was introduced in the last season. He is head over heels for Jem but is vastly indifferent to Jerrica.
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* Rio from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' is torn between Jerrica and her secret identity identity, Jem--and he has a bad temper concerning those who deceive him. Inverted with Riot, who was introduced in the last season. He is head over heels for Jem but is vastly indifferent to Jerrica.
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Somebody who [[LovesMyAlterEgo loves another's alter ego]] while disliking their civilian identity in WesternAnimation.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' has Chuckie creating a foreign alter ego named "Chongo" to impress a girl he likes. She's swept up by "Chongo", but is platonically nice to Chuckie when they finally talk to each other.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' short "Moon Over Minerva", Minerva Mink spurns the affections of the nerdy and unsophisticated Wilford Wolf, but goes crazy when the full moon turns him into a muscular, smooth-talking {{hunk}}. After finding out the truth from Wilford, she decides to stay with him because "some things are worth waiting for."
* Parodied in a special [[SuperDeformed chibi]] style short of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. [[OfficialCouple Aang]], [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Jet]], [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Haru]] and [[FanPreferredCouple Prince Zuko]] all battle it out for [[LauncherOfAThousandShips Katara's]] affection...only to find out she's already chosen [[CrackPairing the Blue Spirit]], who's Zuko's alter-ego on the regular show but inexplicably a separate person here. Zuko faints, saying "I did ''not'' see that one coming."
* On ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold,'' [[ComicBook/BlueBeetle Jaime]] spends one episode [[PrecociousCrush smitten]] with ComicBook/{{Huntress}}. The same episode has him escorted around Gotham University by [[HotTeacher Professor Bertinelli]], whom [[ClarkKenting he doesn't recognize]] and doesn't seem particularly attracted to. (Though perhaps that's because her Huntress outfit [[MaleGaze diverts attention from the face]]...)
* This has happened to Ben of ''Franchise/Ben10'' on occasion. In the [[WesternAnimation/Ben10 original series]], he meets the tetramand female Tiny while as Fourarms, and she immediately starts hitting on him. Luckily, the Omnitrix times out, turning him back to human. "Saved by the beep!" Later in the episode, Tiny asks if he'll go back to Fourarms, to which he replies, "Never!" There's also Kai, who [[YouSexyBeast crushed on him when he unlocked Blitzwolfer]] but lost interest in him when he turned back to normal (despite this, the two ended up StrangledByTheRedString in ''Omniverse'').
** In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'', Ben turns into an Incursean to infiltrate their fleet, attracting the eye of Princess Attea. Due to the influence of Incursean DNA, Bullfrag (Ben's Incursean form) actually starts flirting with her! When all is said and done, Attea offers Ben the choice to join the Incurseans...provided he does so as Bullfrag.
* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'': Karmi is in love with Hiro's alter ego, who she calls [[EmbarrassingNickname Captain Cutie]]. Meanwhile, Richardson Mole inverts this with Go Go, who he tries to woo and refers to her as "dream girl". The one time he talks to her while she's in costume, it's clear he couldn't be less interested.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cybersix}}'': Subverted, Cybersix's civilian alter ego is her [[SweetPollyOliver crossdressing]] as Lucas' best friend Adrian. Lucas is in love with Cybersix and vice versa... but then Lucas sees Cybersix go into Adrian's apartment [[MistakenForCheating and assumes they're lovers]].
** Don't forget Lori, a student at the high school who has a pretty open crush on "Adrian," but considers Cybersix to be a tramp (possibly not helped by the fact that she was the one who initially jumped to the "Cybersix/Adrian" conclusion because she tried to see Adrian in his own apartment). [[spoiler:And then all is resolved in the final episode, when Cybersix hands Lori "Adrian's" glasses...]]
** It's subtly hinted that Lucas [[spoiler: ''might'' be bisexual and is also attracted to Adrian, regularly taking "him" out for dinner and at one point even invites him to go see a romantic movie. He even drops everything when Adrian got injured by the monster that turns invisible, sent to hunt down Cybersix, so he can take him to the hospital; and tells him sternly to stop making a fuss when he refused to go to the hospital.]]
* Paulina on the comic book-esque ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''
** An AlternateCharacterInterpretation goes that Sam is this as well, as an odd variant that also knows his secret identity.
** Inverted with [[HunterOfMonsters Valerie]], who likes Danny Fenton but hates Danny Phantom.
** And since he is an expy of Flash Thompson above, [[JerkJock Dash Baxter]] worships Danny Phantom while tormenting Danny Fenton.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' has a non-romantic example. Dexter experimented on a lab monkey, creatively named Monkey, in hopes of giving him superpowers only to get frustrated when all of it seemed to have no effect. In reality, the monkey gained a slew of [[SuperpowerLottery superpowers]] and fights to protect the Earth as a superhero under the codename Monkey. Dexter remains oblivious to all this but frequently shows admiration for the superhero.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' episode where Timmy is "the Masked Magician" may qualify for this--Trixie Tang, who (usually) detests him, finds his eponymous alter-ego to be "a ''cute'' superhero!"
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'', Dexter Douglas can't catch a break from the ladies, but they're all over Freakazoid. Freakazoid [[SplitPersonality has a mind separate from Dexter]], which occasionally caused him to actively mock Dexter for this. In the first episode, Dexter even turns into Freakazoid to make out with a girl who couldn't stand him--he even acknowledges how shallow it is, but he doesn't care. Freakazoid's girlfriend Steff won't even talk to Dex and when she found out the truth, she was at first incredulous, then thought it was funny more than anything else, and never brought it up thereafter.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'', Phil is constantly trying to seduce Birdgirl--despite it being horribly obvious to everyone else that Birdgirl is Judy, his ''[[{{Squick}} daughter]].''
* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'': Teela has a crush on He-Man and dismisses Prince Adam as a lazy coward. Similarly, in ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'', Bow likes She-Ra and ignores Princess Adora. (To be fair, both Adam and Adora deliberately show less heroism in civilian guise).
** Inverted with Sea Hawk, who respects She-Ra but prefers Adora.
* On ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold,'' Arnold's attraction to Helga (disguised as Arnold's French pen pal Cecile) in the episode "Arnold's Valentine." Helga even soliloquizes about it:
-->'''Helga:''' He likes me. He really likes me! Ohh! (beat) Wait a minute - he doesn't like me, he likes Cecile. Well, not ''Cecile''-Cecile, ''me''-Cecile--so he ''does'' like me!. [[LampshadeHanging Oh, criminy, I'm a basket case]]!
* Similarly, Rosemary the police dispatcher is smitten with ''WesternAnimation/HongKongPhooey'', but couldn't care less about Penrod Pooch.
* Playfully inverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'': Clarabelle accepts a date from Goofy, but in his cluelessness, Goofy believes she turned him down. He later becomes Super Goof and does various heroic acts around the House of Mouse. After he saves Clarabelle from a meteor, he asks her out, but Clarabelle refuses -- because she has a date with Goofy.
* Rio from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' is torn between Jerrica and her secret identity Jem--and he has a bad temper concerning those who deceive him. Inverted with Riot, who was introduced in the last season. He is head over heels for Jem but is vastly indifferent to Jerrica.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'', Tigress falls in love with the Midnight Stranger who is actually Po in disguise. When Tigress finds out who he really is, she leaves to throw up.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'':
** This works both ways with the two main heroes: in their civilian forms, Marinette has a huge crush on Adrien, but becomes a flustered wreck whenever she tries to talk to him, leaving Adrien ObliviousToLove, though still friendly with her. However, when they meet in their superhero personae of Ladybug and Chat Noir, Adrien is the one flirting while Marinette is indifferent and underestimating ''his'' interest in her.
** Resident AlphaBitch Chloe is a variant with both main characters: she's been Adrien's friend for longer than anyone as well as his HopelessSuitor and is a serious Ladybug fan to the extent that she owns a replica costume of the superheroine and forces her BetaBitch to cosplay as Chat Noir, yet she hates Marinette enough to bully her for years before the start of the show and is largely indifferent to Chat Noir, a handsome, athletic teen in a tight leather-esque costume.
** [[spoiler:A further variant comes in the person of Gabriel Agreste, Adrien's father. While he is an absolutely atrocious father, he does seem to genuinely love his son. He is also the villain Hawk Moth, and as such unknowingly attempts to kill, mind-control, or otherwise defeat his son on an almost daily basis.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'', Jenny falls for the Silver Shell, a robot suit piloted by Sheldon, who has a crush on her. He originally designed it so that he could act like a jerk and dissuade her from liking robot boys, but instead decided to take advantage of the changing situation.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'': In "Otter Woman" Skipper falls for Arlene (Marlene in disguise due chlorine accident)
* A ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'' episode had Pepper Ann become the mascot of her school's field hockey team. While performing in her otter costume, she managed to win over upperclassman Craig Bean. Pepper Ann continued to meet Craig in guise of the otter, but eventually decided to reveal herself to him. Craig subsequently admitted that he knew all along that Pepper Ann was the otter, and also acknowledged how ridiculous it would feel if it turned out he ''did'' love Pepper Ann's mascot self more than her.
* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/Phantom2040'': police officer Sagan Cruz has {{UST}} with Kit Walker, but sees the Phantom as a glory-hogging jerk. Particularly when he used his "Good Mark" to ''deface a necklace Kit gave her''. (It struck him as appropriate since it ''already'' symbolised their friendship, but it hadn't occurred to him that it looked like the actions of two separate people.)
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' plays with this in one episode. Isabella gets annoyed that her usual crush, Phineas, keeps disappearing when she needs him. Meanwhile she swoons over the Beak, the new local superhero, whom she follows around ComicBook/LoisLane-style. Of course, the Beak is actually Phineas (and his brother, Ferb) in a robotic suit. GenreSavvy Candace calls out Isabella for her GenreBlindness when she eventually learns the truth:
--> '''Candace:''' Congratulations, you just earned your "''Uh, Durr''" Patch.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen almost]] had a platonic example--apparently, in the early seasons, Krusty the Clown was going to secretly be Homer, with Bart disrespecting Homer but worshiping Krusty. This was deemed too complicated and eventually scrapped, with Krusty becoming his own character.
* Platonic example on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''--Shelly loves the singer {{Music/Lorde}}, unaware that "she" is actually her own father.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' Felicia was in love with Peter, but Black Cat was in love with Spidey. Eventually, Felicia decided not to pursue a relationship with Peter Parker so that her Black Cat persona would be free to be with Spider-Man. In the end, she left with a vampire, and Spidey went with Mary Jane anyway, but it was all very dramatic at the time.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': A very brief example. Star is clearly smitten with Marco in disguise during their dance, only to snap out of it when he surprises her by revealing himself.
* Daisy on ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''; Static [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this once.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' [[spoiler:Rose Quartz aka Pink Diamond]] got this on both ends. [[spoiler:The Crystal Gems loved Rose while they hated and feared Pink Diamond. The Gems of her court loved Pink Diamond while they hated and feared Rose Quartz for (supposedly) shattering her.]]
** Kevin insantly develops a crush when he first meets Steven and Connie's combined alter-ego Stevonnie, but immediately drops it upon finding out they're actually just the fused form of two children.
* Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse:
** This version of Lois Lane gets a twofer in the original "World's Finest" crossover between ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.
--->'''Batman:''' It's ironic, you know. She likes Bruce Wayne, and she likes Superman; it's the other two guys she's not crazy about.\\
'''Superman:''' It's a pity we can't mix and match.
** Which is ridiculous because in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' Lois ''is'' attracted to Clark; [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend she's just in denial]].
** Similarly, Catwoman loves Batman, but only considers Bruce a friend. He knows both her identities and, according to the "perfect world" illusion created by the Mad Hatter, would marry her, if [[DatingCatwoman Batman and Catwoman]] were out of the equation.
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'':
*** As a non-romantic version, Terry [=McGinnis=]'s younger brother Matt idolizes the new Batman as badass and the epitome of cool, but sees his own older brother as a boring workaholic who's never around.
*** Inverted with Terry's relationship with Melanie. Melanie loves Terry, but is lukewarm to antagonistic towards Batman.
* On ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Revenge of the Island]],'' Mike's relationship with Zoey is continually impeded by his SplitPersonality, Vito, having make-out sessions with Anne Maria. Neither girl knows about Mike's condition at first and assumes that the personality they're into is the "true" one and the other is an act.
* DarkActionGirl Paige from ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising'' ''hates'' "The Renegade", despite certain [[DatingCatwoman flirtatious remarks]] she makes during their confrontations. Yet she ends up developing an attraction to his civilian persona, Beck, upon getting to know him better.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', Speedy falls for Porky's dance partner (Bugs duisguised as a woman). Once he reveals who "she" really is, Speedy says that he was only being polite, since he considered her to be really ugly (Bugs does make a really ugly woman). Until it's revealed that he had a shrine, AND EVEN AN ENGAGEMENT RING.
* Sweet Polly Purebred (practically a Lois Lane {{Expy}} anyway) from ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'':
** TJ has a fanboyish obsession with Word Girl that seems to border on a PrecociousCrush...but Word Girl is actually his ([[NotBloodRelated adopted]]) older sister Becky. In an episode where her family discovers her identity, he is mortified and throws away his [=WordGirl=] merchandise, unable to handle that his hero is also his painfully "ordinary" sibling. He even refuses to help her when the entire family is captured by Dr. Two-Brains. In the end, the family's memories of Becky as [=WordGirl=] are erased, returning things to the status quo.
** Tobey has a VillainousCrush on Word Girl, but generally treats Becky either indifferently or as an annoying rival. Some episodes have him suspect that they are the same person, though by the end of them, events conspire to once again dissuade him of that theory.
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Somebody who [[LovesMyAlterEgo loves another's alter ego]] while disliking their civilian identity in WesternAnimation.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' has Chuckie creating a foreign alter ego named "Chongo" to impress a girl he likes. She's swept up by "Chongo", but is platonically nice to Chuckie when they finally talk to each other.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' short "Moon Over Minerva", Minerva Mink spurns the affections of the nerdy and unsophisticated Wilford Wolf, but goes crazy when the full moon turns him into a muscular, smooth-talking {{hunk}}. After finding out the truth from Wilford, she decides to stay with him because "some things are worth waiting for."
* Parodied in a special [[SuperDeformed chibi]] style short of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. [[OfficialCouple Aang]], [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Jet]], [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight Haru]] and [[FanPreferredCouple Prince Zuko]] all battle it out for [[LauncherOfAThousandShips Katara's]] affection...only to find out she's already chosen [[CrackPairing the Blue Spirit]], who's Zuko's alter-ego on the regular show but inexplicably a separate person here. Zuko faints, saying "I did ''not'' see that one coming."
* On ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold,'' [[ComicBook/BlueBeetle Jaime]] spends one episode [[PrecociousCrush smitten]] with ComicBook/{{Huntress}}. The same episode has him escorted around Gotham University by [[HotTeacher Professor Bertinelli]], whom [[ClarkKenting he doesn't recognize]] and doesn't seem particularly attracted to. (Though perhaps that's because her Huntress outfit [[MaleGaze diverts attention from the face]]...)
* This has happened to Ben of ''Franchise/Ben10'' on occasion. In the [[WesternAnimation/Ben10 original series]], he meets the tetramand female Tiny while as Fourarms, and she immediately starts hitting on him. Luckily, the Omnitrix times out, turning him back to human. "Saved by the beep!" Later in the episode, Tiny asks if he'll go back to Fourarms, to which he replies, "Never!" There's also Kai, who [[YouSexyBeast crushed on him when he unlocked Blitzwolfer]] but lost interest in him when he turned back to normal (despite this, the two ended up StrangledByTheRedString in ''Omniverse'').
** In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'', Ben turns into an Incursean to infiltrate their fleet, attracting the eye of Princess Attea. Due to the influence of Incursean DNA, Bullfrag (Ben's Incursean form) actually starts flirting with her! When all is said and done, Attea offers Ben the choice to join the Incurseans...provided he does so as Bullfrag.
* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'': Karmi is in love with Hiro's alter ego, who she calls [[EmbarrassingNickname Captain Cutie]]. Meanwhile, Richardson Mole inverts this with Go Go, who he tries to woo and refers to her as "dream girl". The one time he talks to her while she's in costume, it's clear he couldn't be less interested.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cybersix}}'': Subverted, Cybersix's civilian alter ego is her [[SweetPollyOliver crossdressing]] as Lucas' best friend Adrian. Lucas is in love with Cybersix and vice versa... but then Lucas sees Cybersix go into Adrian's apartment [[MistakenForCheating and assumes they're lovers]].
** Don't forget Lori, a student at the high school who has a pretty open crush on "Adrian," but considers Cybersix to be a tramp (possibly not helped by the fact that she was the one who initially jumped to the "Cybersix/Adrian" conclusion because she tried to see Adrian in his own apartment). [[spoiler:And then all is resolved in the final episode, when Cybersix hands Lori "Adrian's" glasses...]]
** It's subtly hinted that Lucas [[spoiler: ''might'' be bisexual and is also attracted to Adrian, regularly taking "him" out for dinner and at one point even invites him to go see a romantic movie. He even drops everything when Adrian got injured by the monster that turns invisible, sent to hunt down Cybersix, so he can take him to the hospital; and tells him sternly to stop making a fuss when he refused to go to the hospital.]]
* Paulina on the comic book-esque ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''
** An AlternateCharacterInterpretation goes that Sam is this as well, as an odd variant that also knows his secret identity.
** Inverted with [[HunterOfMonsters Valerie]], who likes Danny Fenton but hates Danny Phantom.
** And since he is an expy of Flash Thompson above, [[JerkJock Dash Baxter]] worships Danny Phantom while tormenting Danny Fenton.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' has a non-romantic example. Dexter experimented on a lab monkey, creatively named Monkey, in hopes of giving him superpowers only to get frustrated when all of it seemed to have no effect. In reality, the monkey gained a slew of [[SuperpowerLottery superpowers]] and fights to protect the Earth as a superhero under the codename Monkey. Dexter remains oblivious to all this but frequently shows admiration for the superhero.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' episode where Timmy is "the Masked Magician" may qualify for this--Trixie Tang, who (usually) detests him, finds his eponymous alter-ego to be "a ''cute'' superhero!"
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'', Dexter Douglas can't catch a break from the ladies, but they're all over Freakazoid. Freakazoid [[SplitPersonality has a mind separate from Dexter]], which occasionally caused him to actively mock Dexter for this. In the first episode, Dexter even turns into Freakazoid to make out with a girl who couldn't stand him--he even acknowledges how shallow it is, but he doesn't care. Freakazoid's girlfriend Steff won't even talk to Dex and when she found out the truth, she was at first incredulous, then thought it was funny more than anything else, and never brought it up thereafter.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'', Phil is constantly trying to seduce Birdgirl--despite it being horribly obvious to everyone else that Birdgirl is Judy, his ''[[{{Squick}} daughter]].''
* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'': Teela has a crush on He-Man and dismisses Prince Adam as a lazy coward. Similarly, in ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'', Bow likes She-Ra and ignores Princess Adora. (To be fair, both Adam and Adora deliberately show less heroism in civilian guise).
** Inverted with Sea Hawk, who respects She-Ra but prefers Adora.
* On ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold,'' Arnold's attraction to Helga (disguised as Arnold's French pen pal Cecile) in the episode "Arnold's Valentine." Helga even soliloquizes about it:
-->'''Helga:''' He likes me. He really likes me! Ohh! (beat) Wait a minute - he doesn't like me, he likes Cecile. Well, not ''Cecile''-Cecile, ''me''-Cecile--so he ''does'' like me!. [[LampshadeHanging Oh, criminy, I'm a basket case]]!
* Similarly, Rosemary the police dispatcher is smitten with ''WesternAnimation/HongKongPhooey'', but couldn't care less about Penrod Pooch.
* Playfully inverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'': Clarabelle accepts a date from Goofy, but in his cluelessness, Goofy believes she turned him down. He later becomes Super Goof and does various heroic acts around the House of Mouse. After he saves Clarabelle from a meteor, he asks her out, but Clarabelle refuses -- because she has a date with Goofy.
* Rio from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' is torn between Jerrica and her secret identity Jem--and he has a bad temper concerning those who deceive him. Inverted with Riot, who was introduced in the last season. He is head over heels for Jem but is vastly indifferent to Jerrica.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'', Tigress falls in love with the Midnight Stranger who is actually Po in disguise. When Tigress finds out who he really is, she leaves to throw up.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'':
** This works both ways with the two main heroes: in their civilian forms, Marinette has a huge crush on Adrien, but becomes a flustered wreck whenever she tries to talk to him, leaving Adrien ObliviousToLove, though still friendly with her. However, when they meet in their superhero personae of Ladybug and Chat Noir, Adrien is the one flirting while Marinette is indifferent and underestimating ''his'' interest in her.
** Resident AlphaBitch Chloe is a variant with both main characters: she's been Adrien's friend for longer than anyone as well as his HopelessSuitor and is a serious Ladybug fan to the extent that she owns a replica costume of the superheroine and forces her BetaBitch to cosplay as Chat Noir, yet she hates Marinette enough to bully her for years before the start of the show and is largely indifferent to Chat Noir, a handsome, athletic teen in a tight leather-esque costume.
** [[spoiler:A further variant comes in the person of Gabriel Agreste, Adrien's father. While he is an absolutely atrocious father, he does seem to genuinely love his son. He is also the villain Hawk Moth, and as such unknowingly attempts to kill, mind-control, or otherwise defeat his son on an almost daily basis.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'', Jenny falls for the Silver Shell, a robot suit piloted by Sheldon, who has a crush on her. He originally designed it so that he could act like a jerk and dissuade her from liking robot boys, but instead decided to take advantage of the changing situation.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'': In "Otter Woman" Skipper falls for Arlene (Marlene in disguise due chlorine accident)
* A ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'' episode had Pepper Ann become the mascot of her school's field hockey team. While performing in her otter costume, she managed to win over upperclassman Craig Bean. Pepper Ann continued to meet Craig in guise of the otter, but eventually decided to reveal herself to him. Craig subsequently admitted that he knew all along that Pepper Ann was the otter, and also acknowledged how ridiculous it would feel if it turned out he ''did'' love Pepper Ann's mascot self more than her.
* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/Phantom2040'': police officer Sagan Cruz has {{UST}} with Kit Walker, but sees the Phantom as a glory-hogging jerk. Particularly when he used his "Good Mark" to ''deface a necklace Kit gave her''. (It struck him as appropriate since it ''already'' symbolised their friendship, but it hadn't occurred to him that it looked like the actions of two separate people.)
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' plays with this in one episode. Isabella gets annoyed that her usual crush, Phineas, keeps disappearing when she needs him. Meanwhile she swoons over the Beak, the new local superhero, whom she follows around ComicBook/LoisLane-style. Of course, the Beak is actually Phineas (and his brother, Ferb) in a robotic suit. GenreSavvy Candace calls out Isabella for her GenreBlindness when she eventually learns the truth:
--> '''Candace:''' Congratulations, you just earned your "''Uh, Durr''" Patch.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen almost]] had a platonic example--apparently, in the early seasons, Krusty the Clown was going to secretly be Homer, with Bart disrespecting Homer but worshiping Krusty. This was deemed too complicated and eventually scrapped, with Krusty becoming his own character.
* Platonic example on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''--Shelly loves the singer {{Music/Lorde}}, unaware that "she" is actually her own father.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' Felicia was in love with Peter, but Black Cat was in love with Spidey. Eventually, Felicia decided not to pursue a relationship with Peter Parker so that her Black Cat persona would be free to be with Spider-Man. In the end, she left with a vampire, and Spidey went with Mary Jane anyway, but it was all very dramatic at the time.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': A very brief example. Star is clearly smitten with Marco in disguise during their dance, only to snap out of it when he surprises her by revealing himself.
* Daisy on ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''; Static [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this once.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' [[spoiler:Rose Quartz aka Pink Diamond]] got this on both ends. [[spoiler:The Crystal Gems loved Rose while they hated and feared Pink Diamond. The Gems of her court loved Pink Diamond while they hated and feared Rose Quartz for (supposedly) shattering her.]]
** Kevin insantly develops a crush when he first meets Steven and Connie's combined alter-ego Stevonnie, but immediately drops it upon finding out they're actually just the fused form of two children.
* Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse:
** This version of Lois Lane gets a twofer in the original "World's Finest" crossover between ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.
--->'''Batman:''' It's ironic, you know. She likes Bruce Wayne, and she likes Superman; it's the other two guys she's not crazy about.\\
'''Superman:''' It's a pity we can't mix and match.
** Which is ridiculous because in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' Lois ''is'' attracted to Clark; [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend she's just in denial]].
** Similarly, Catwoman loves Batman, but only considers Bruce a friend. He knows both her identities and, according to the "perfect world" illusion created by the Mad Hatter, would marry her, if [[DatingCatwoman Batman and Catwoman]] were out of the equation.
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'':
*** As a non-romantic version, Terry [=McGinnis=]'s younger brother Matt idolizes the new Batman as badass and the epitome of cool, but sees his own older brother as a boring workaholic who's never around.
*** Inverted with Terry's relationship with Melanie. Melanie loves Terry, but is lukewarm to antagonistic towards Batman.
* On ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Revenge of the Island]],'' Mike's relationship with Zoey is continually impeded by his SplitPersonality, Vito, having make-out sessions with Anne Maria. Neither girl knows about Mike's condition at first and assumes that the personality they're into is the "true" one and the other is an act.
* DarkActionGirl Paige from ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising'' ''hates'' "The Renegade", despite certain [[DatingCatwoman flirtatious remarks]] she makes during their confrontations. Yet she ends up developing an attraction to his civilian persona, Beck, upon getting to know him better.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', Speedy falls for Porky's dance partner (Bugs duisguised as a woman). Once he reveals who "she" really is, Speedy says that he was only being polite, since he considered her to be really ugly (Bugs does make a really ugly woman). Until it's revealed that he had a shrine, AND EVEN AN ENGAGEMENT RING.
* Sweet Polly Purebred (practically a Lois Lane {{Expy}} anyway) from ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'':
** TJ has a fanboyish obsession with Word Girl that seems to border on a PrecociousCrush...but Word Girl is actually his ([[NotBloodRelated adopted]]) older sister Becky. In an episode where her family discovers her identity, he is mortified and throws away his [=WordGirl=] merchandise, unable to handle that his hero is also his painfully "ordinary" sibling. He even refuses to help her when the entire family is captured by Dr. Two-Brains. In the end, the family's memories of Becky as [=WordGirl=] are erased, returning things to the status quo.
** Tobey has a VillainousCrush on Word Girl, but generally treats Becky either indifferently or as an annoying rival. Some episodes have him suspect that they are the same person, though by the end of them, events conspire to once again dissuade him of that theory.
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