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* The ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' character [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugAdrienAgreste Adrien Agreste]] is the "superhero as true self" variant of this trope. As Cat Noir, he's an adventurous, wisecracking CasanovaWannabe. As Adrien, he's a lonely child at the mercy of a neglectful father who forces him to maintain a somber, perfect reputation. Activating his Miraculous' disguise gives Chat the freedom to act in ways that he never could otherwise (although many of 'Adrien's' insecurities definitely carry over).
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* The ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' character [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugAdrienAgreste Adrien Agreste]] is the "superhero as true self" variant of this trope. As Cat Noir, he's an adventurous, wisecracking CasanovaWannabe. As Adrien, he's a lonely child at the mercy of a neglectful father who forces him to maintain a somber, perfect reputation. Activating his Miraculous' disguise gives Chat Cat the freedom to act in ways that he never could otherwise (although many of 'Adrien's' insecurities definitely carry over).
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* A literal version in ''WesternAnimation/CatwomanHunted''. Batwoman has the curt stoicism of her DistaffCounterpart when dealing with Catwoman, but once the police have left Selina Kyle starts flirting with her and lifts off Kate Kane's mask and wig to reveal she's [[LuminescentBlush red like a tomato]] underneath. Notably this is the only time we see Kate without her mask in the entire movie.
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* A literal version in ''WesternAnimation/CatwomanHunted''. Batwoman has the curt stoicism of her DistaffCounterpart SpearCounterpart when dealing with Catwoman, but once the police have left Selina Kyle starts flirting with her and lifts off Kate Kane's mask and wig to reveal she's [[LuminescentBlush red like a tomato]] underneath. Notably this is the only time we see Kate without her mask in the entire movie.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Behind [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight's]] aloof and stuck-up AcademicAlphaBitch persona lies a lonely and vulnerable (and kinda dorky) girl who's crushed by the expectations of everybody around her, especially herself.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Behind [[Characters/TheOwlHouseAmityBlight Amity Blight's]] Blight's aloof and stuck-up AcademicAlphaBitch persona lies a lonely and vulnerable (and kinda dorky) girl who's crushed by the expectations of everybody around her, especially herself.
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** Naven mostly seems to be friendly, kind and a bit of a pushover, but in the scenes where he goes dark, he goes ''dark''. [[spoiler:And the implications that he might secretly be the leader of the terrorist group Bliss Ocean are not helping.]]
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** Naven mostly seems to be friendly, kind and a bit of a pushover, but in the scenes where he goes dark, he goes ''dark''.''dark'', kicking [[spoiler:Lorelai]] directly in some of her most personal traumas by coolly responding to her threats by asking if she really intends to murder him. [[spoiler:And the implications that he might secretly be the leader of the terrorist group Bliss Ocean are not helping.]]]]
** Sylvie at least ''tries'' to present himself as a cool, controlled intellectual who is actually happy to have a FriendlessBackground. It's a little hard to take him seriously on that when he instantly accepts an offer of friendship from Molly and, within half an hour, is struggling to defend her from Mera despite barely being able to stand. Nor does his cool, controlled pose survive when [[TeethClenchedTeamwork Giovanni]] tells him to beg for [[spoiler:his epithet back]]; he's grovelling on the floor in ''seconds''.
** [[spoiler:Rick Shades]] eventually admits that his entire LargeHam persona is an intentionally sculpted pose to help him distance himself from the pain of having to fight his friends in gladiatorial combat. When he's ''not'' putting on a deeply insincere smile and [[NoSocialSkills screaming at strangers about how friendly he is]], he's actually quite sweet and vulnerable.
** Sylvie at least ''tries'' to present himself as a cool, controlled intellectual who is actually happy to have a FriendlessBackground. It's a little hard to take him seriously on that when he instantly accepts an offer of friendship from Molly and, within half an hour, is struggling to defend her from Mera despite barely being able to stand. Nor does his cool, controlled pose survive when [[TeethClenchedTeamwork Giovanni]] tells him to beg for [[spoiler:his epithet back]]; he's grovelling on the floor in ''seconds''.
** [[spoiler:Rick Shades]] eventually admits that his entire LargeHam persona is an intentionally sculpted pose to help him distance himself from the pain of having to fight his friends in gladiatorial combat. When he's ''not'' putting on a deeply insincere smile and [[NoSocialSkills screaming at strangers about how friendly he is]], he's actually quite sweet and vulnerable.
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** Professor Ozpin is the kind-hearted, unflappable and quirky headmaster of Beacon Academy who projects an unshakeable faith in humanity while training the next generation to [[ForeverWar fight]] the [[AnimalisticAbomination Creatures of Grimm]]. His inner circle, however, views him as the grimly resolute BigGood chessmaster who leads a small BenevolentConspiracy in a SecretWar against a mysterious AncientEvil. [[spoiler:Secretly suffering a crippling GuiltComplex, his fear of betrayal paralyses his ability to trust anyone with the AwfulTruth: his nemesis [[BigBad Salem]] is such an InvincibleVillain that even he doesn't know how to defeat her CompleteImmortality, and the only thing standing between her and humanity's continued survival is his increasingly fragile ability to defy the DespairEventHorizon.]]
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** [[Characters/RWBYOzpinAndOscar Professor Ozpin Ozpin]] is the kind-hearted, unflappable and quirky headmaster of Beacon Academy who projects an unshakeable faith in humanity while training the next generation to [[ForeverWar fight]] the [[AnimalisticAbomination Creatures of Grimm]]. His inner circle, however, views him as the grimly resolute BigGood chessmaster who leads a small BenevolentConspiracy in a SecretWar against a mysterious AncientEvil. [[spoiler:Secretly suffering a crippling GuiltComplex, his fear of betrayal paralyses his ability to trust anyone with the AwfulTruth: his nemesis [[BigBad Salem]] is such an InvincibleVillain that even he doesn't know how to defeat her CompleteImmortality, and the only thing standing between her and humanity's continued survival is his increasingly fragile ability to defy the DespairEventHorizon.]]
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* John from ''Webcomic/UnOrdinary" starts out looking like a very laid back, friendly and mellow kind of guy who doesn't hold grudges. Until the mask slips. When provoked enough to [[spoiler: reveal his ability and stop pretending he's a powerless Cripple]], he can get extremely violent and vengeful.
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* John from ''Webcomic/UnOrdinary" ''Webcomic/UnOrdinary'' starts out looking like a very laid back, friendly and mellow kind of guy who doesn't hold grudges. Until the mask slips. When provoked enough to [[spoiler: reveal his ability and stop pretending he's a powerless Cripple]], he can get extremely violent and vengeful.
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* John from ''Webcomic/unOrdinary" starts out looking like a very laid back, friendly and mellow kind of guy who doesn't hold grudges. Until the mask slips. When provoked enough to [[spoiler: reveal his ability and stop pretending he's a powerless Cripple]], he can get extremely violent and vengeful.
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* John from ''Webcomic/unOrdinary" ''Webcomic/UnOrdinary" starts out looking like a very laid back, friendly and mellow kind of guy who doesn't hold grudges. Until the mask slips. When provoked enough to [[spoiler: reveal his ability and stop pretending he's a powerless Cripple]], he can get extremely violent and vengeful.
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* John from ''Webcomic/Unordinary" starts out looking like a very laid back, friendly and mellow kind of guy who doesn't hold grudges. Until the mask slips. When provoked enough to [[spoiler: reveal his ability and stop pretending he's a powerless Cripple]], he can get extremely violent and vengeful.
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* John from ''Webcomic/Unordinary" ''Webcomic/unOrdinary" starts out looking like a very laid back, friendly and mellow kind of guy who doesn't hold grudges. Until the mask slips. When provoked enough to [[spoiler: reveal his ability and stop pretending he's a powerless Cripple]], he can get extremely violent and vengeful.
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** [[Characters/GravityFallsGrunkleStan Stan]] himself. He is shown to be grumpy and greedy but actually cares about his family because [[spoiler:it's the only family he has left]].
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** [[Characters/GravityFallsGrunkleStan Stan]] Stan himself. He is shown to be grumpy and greedy but actually cares about his family because [[spoiler:it's the only family he has left]].
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* ''WebAnimation/EpithetErased'':
** Molly's ExtremeDoormat behaviour and chronic people-pleasing masks an abyssal pit of seething rage, which has been developing since the death of her mother Calliope and the resultant changes in family dynamic that left her [[TripleShifter frantically trying to do everything]] while [[{{Jerkass}} her father and sister disappear into their own little worlds]]. It starts to escape in ''Literature/EpithetErasedPrisonOfPlastic''. Per WordOfGod, Molly's [[ParentalSubstitute de facto adoption]] by, of all people, Giovanni [[LargeHam "GREATEST VILLAIN IN THE WORLD"]] Potage is about the only meaningful thing standing between Molly and violently snapping in a few years.
** Molly's sister Lorelai has layers of [[ItsAllAboutMe selfishness and toxicity]] to cover up deep-seated guilt because [[spoiler:she thinks she's responsible for Calliope's death]], and has chosen to hide from that rather than confront it.
** Naven mostly seems to be friendly, kind and a bit of a pushover, but in the scenes where he goes dark, he goes ''dark''. [[spoiler:And the implications that he might secretly be the leader of the terrorist group Bliss Ocean are not helping.]]
** Molly's ExtremeDoormat behaviour and chronic people-pleasing masks an abyssal pit of seething rage, which has been developing since the death of her mother Calliope and the resultant changes in family dynamic that left her [[TripleShifter frantically trying to do everything]] while [[{{Jerkass}} her father and sister disappear into their own little worlds]]. It starts to escape in ''Literature/EpithetErasedPrisonOfPlastic''. Per WordOfGod, Molly's [[ParentalSubstitute de facto adoption]] by, of all people, Giovanni [[LargeHam "GREATEST VILLAIN IN THE WORLD"]] Potage is about the only meaningful thing standing between Molly and violently snapping in a few years.
** Molly's sister Lorelai has layers of [[ItsAllAboutMe selfishness and toxicity]] to cover up deep-seated guilt because [[spoiler:she thinks she's responsible for Calliope's death]], and has chosen to hide from that rather than confront it.
** Naven mostly seems to be friendly, kind and a bit of a pushover, but in the scenes where he goes dark, he goes ''dark''. [[spoiler:And the implications that he might secretly be the leader of the terrorist group Bliss Ocean are not helping.]]
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* ''Manhwa/{{Yureka}}'': Offline, Lotto is quiet, inoffensive and studious, especially in school. His classmates think his whole life is harmless studying. He's standoffish, but sweetly polite. On the Net he is heartless, manipulative, violent, and basically his real self.
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* ''Manhwa/{{Yureka}}'': Offline, Lotto is quiet, inoffensive and studious, especially in school. His classmates think his whole life is harmless studying. He's standoffish, but sweetly polite. On the Net he is heartless, manipulative, violent, and basically his real self.
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--->''"We Centauri live our lives for appearances. But when I look beneath this mask, I am forced to wear I see only emptiness. And then I think of you, and I say, 'To hell with appearances.'"''
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--->''"We Centauri live our lives for appearances. But when I look beneath this mask, mask I am forced to wear wear, I see only emptiness. And then I think of you, and I say, 'To hell with appearances.'"''
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The episode [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E87APianoIntheHouse "A Piano in the House"]] features a magical piano. When it plays certain song rolls, the music forces people to show their true natures. The sadistic host who owns the piano loves it. He uses it on his party guests, showing how a noble man is greedy, how a woman is vain. His comeuppance comes when his wife, sick of the abuse going on in the party, puts a roll in that affects ''him''. He then shows how terrified and needy he is to everyone.
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': The episode [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E87APianoIntheHouse [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E22APianoInTheHouse "A Piano in the House"]] features a magical piano. When it plays certain song rolls, the music forces people to show their true natures. The sadistic host who owns the piano loves it. He uses it on his party guests, showing how a noble man is greedy, how a woman is vain. His comeuppance comes when his wife, sick of the abuse going on in the party, puts a roll in that affects ''him''. He then shows how terrified and needy he is to everyone.
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* While ''Series/BreakingBad'''s [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain Walter White]] is also mentioned on [[BecomingTheMask the other page]], the series also invites the viewer to consider whether Walter had broken bad a long time ago and was just waiting for the right catalyst to be set loose, and there's plenty of valid evidence for both interpretations.
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* ''Series/BreakingBad'':
** [[BigBad Gustavo Fring]] is an exaggerated variant--a mind-mannered fast food franchise owner who is secretly the kingpin of a massive drug cartel.
** While''Series/BreakingBad'''s [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain Walter White]] is also mentioned on [[BecomingTheMask the other page]], the series also invites the viewer to consider whether Walter had broken bad a long time ago and was just waiting for the right catalyst to be set loose, and there's plenty of valid evidence for both interpretations.
** [[BigBad Gustavo Fring]] is an exaggerated variant--a mind-mannered fast food franchise owner who is secretly the kingpin of a massive drug cartel.
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* ''Literature/ToShapeADragonsBreath'': Theod Knecht spent years being trained, as a servant, to be as unemotional and unnoticed as possible. He constantly puts on a blank, unemotional face at school so no one knows how he really feels in a situation--out of place, scared, and uncomfortable around the upper class people he's expected to [[YouAreACreditToYourRace present himself to as proof nackies can be "Civilized"]]. It takes getting close for Anequs to see behind it and expose his vulnerability, but anytime he's uncomfortable or stressed--often on school grounds--the blank unemotional face comes right back.
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* Outwardly, ComicBook/{{X 23}} is TheStoic bordering on an outright EmotionlessGirl, and many characters (even people who are ostensibly her ''friends'') treat her like she's nothing but a cold, unfeeling killing machine. Underneath the cold facade, however, she's a confused and suicidally depressed jumble of loneliness, heartbreak, and rage. Her detached persona is there entirely because she doesn't know how to handle what she feels, and to protect ''others'' from her anger.
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* Outwardly, ComicBook/{{X 23}} ([[Characters/MarvelComicsLauraKinney Laura Kinney]]) is TheStoic bordering on an outright EmotionlessGirl, and many characters (even people who are ostensibly her ''friends'') treat her like she's nothing but a cold, unfeeling killing machine. Underneath the cold facade, however, she's a confused and suicidally depressed jumble of loneliness, heartbreak, and rage. Her detached persona is there entirely because she doesn't know how to handle what she feels, and to protect ''others'' from her anger.
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* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Under all the fury and calamity, [[Characters/TheFlashHunterZolomon Hunter Zolomon]] is just a sad, broken man who [[DeathSeeker wants]] to [[SuicideByCop be killed by Wally]] because he has lost everything he held dear. He also had a huge inferiority complex -- even before his FaceHeelTurn he hated the fact that he was no longer on the field or in the FBI due to his [[CareerEndingInjury knee]] and constantly felt useless because of it. This reflects on his masked personality, as he wants to be more effective in people's, more importantly heroes' lives, and prove himself as a valuable person. When Kid Zoom takes away his powers, he immediately says he needs them back because he needs purpose.
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* Helga from ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' expressed her true feelings for Arnold when alone.
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* A common portrayal of Franchise/{{Batman}} is that "Bruce Wayne" is just a front he uses to fit into society. The Dark Knight is his true personality. The same was true of Clark Kent in the Silver Age (i.e. the wimpy "Clark" being a front for Superman). Modern interpretations tend to portray it the other way around, with the mighty, godlike Superman really being a humble farm boy from Kansas at heart.
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* A common portrayal of Franchise/{{Batman}} is that "Bruce Wayne" "[[Characters/BatmanTheCharacter Bruce Wayne]]" is just a front he uses to fit into society. The Dark Knight is his true personality. The same was true of Clark Kent in the Silver Age (i.e. the wimpy "Clark" being a front for Superman). Modern interpretations tend to portray it the other way around, with the mighty, godlike Superman really being a humble farm boy from Kansas at heart.
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** Dahlia Hawthorne looks the very picture of an innocent [[TheIngenue ingenue]], complete with butterflies floating around her.[[spoiler: She's a SerialKiller with the most attempted murders in the games at 7, though only three succeed.]]
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** Dahlia Hawthorne looks the very picture of an innocent [[TheIngenue ingenue]], complete with butterflies floating around her.[[spoiler: She's a SerialKiller with the most attempted murders in the games at 7, though only three succeed. When she's found out at the final trial and decides it's pointless to keep up the mask since she's dead and being channeled, the only emotions she shows are [[SmugSnake smug superiority]] with a side of spite and anger during her VillainousBreakdown.]]
