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->'''Joyce Summers:''' [to her daughter Buffy] [[OlderThanTheyThink Have you ever tried...]] ''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything not]]'' [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean being the Slayer?]]

* Parodied--where else?--in ''AmazingSuperPowers'' ([[http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/2008/01/pill-confession/ this strip]]).

* ''{{Merlin}}'' with wizards.

* Vampires in ''TrueBlood'' are very analogous to gays. They "come out of the coffin" to demand civil rights and are mostly opposed by members of fanatical religious sects who spout catchphrases such as "God Hates Fangs". Also, the show sometimes casts the vampires like racial minorities, made more overt due to its setting in the American South. During one scene, a bigoted policeman repeatedly calls Bill "boy" while treating him unfairly. However, due to the high number of murderous vampires in the show, there's a fair bit of BrokenAesop and StrawmanHasAPoint going on.

* [[{{Twilight}} Bella]] pulls this pretty much straight (in wording, at least) on [[spoiler:Jacob]] when confronting him after figuring out that he's [[spoiler:a werewolf]].

* In ''BlazeUnion'', Baretreenu was so adamant that her young son Gulcasa never realize that he was a demon that she placed a powerful, permanently damaging seal on his powers and concealed his true identity even from himself. Over a decade later, when he realizes he has demon blood anyway, a very big deal is made out of his choosing to live as the person he was born as. Gulcasa points out that demon blood in and of itself isn't a bad thing, and what's important is whether he personally makes good or bad choices with his life; Medoute retorts that his demonhood is absolutely an inherently evil thing, and that she can't forgive his decision to be true to himself. This, among [[Analysis/BlazeUnion other things]], makes the scenario read very much like a ComingOutStory.

->'''Joyce Summers:''' [to her daughter Buffy] [[OlderThanTheyThink Have you ever tried...]] ''[[OlderThanTheyThink not]]'' [[OlderThanTheyThink being the Slayer?]]

* Werewolves are treated this way in HarryPotter. Fenrir Greyback is portrayed as a DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything pedophile rapist.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Luminsoty}}'', vampires do simply change upon turning in a few key ways. Most of them are hard to understand, and after a few questions about stuff that's perfectly normal for a vampire, Bella thinks

As one can imagine, this trope can have myriad UnfortunateImplications, although the intent is usually to deal with a social issue without causing a moral panic. Remember, tropes are not bad.

*** Except M-Day and other events eliminated all possible similarities between gay people and mutants! There are, at a maximum, 500 mutants alive worldwide. So, among other things, the idea of mutants as an even somewhat visible minority anymore is ridiculous.

*** Blame JoeQuesada.
*** Actually, the people writing the Avengers said 'No More Mutants' but then the people writing X-Men, obviously not wanting to just stop the comic altogether said 'But there were exactly 113 mutants who weren't depowered.' and kept writing as normal. But they meant 'all our characters are the ones with their mutations intact'. So every other comic with mutants in it simply said, 'yeah, and our mutants are among those 113'. The 'Decimation' was essentially retconned as soon as Joe Quesada told anyone else about it.

** In all fairness she was under the impression that Jacob had crossed the MoralEventHorizon. In fact they way she handles it (book at least not sure about the movie) is with alot more grace then most would have believing they where confronting a cult of [[ImAHumanitarian Humanitarian]] [[WolfMan Wolf Men]].

->'''Joyce Summers:''' [to her daughter Buffy] [[OlderThanTheyThink Have you ever tried... ''not'' being the Slayer?]]

->'''Joyce Summers:''' [to her daughter Buffy] Have you ever tried... ''not'' being the Slayer?

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* This troper has considered a rewrite of ''The Ugly Duckling'' using this trope. See, coot chicks and moorhen chicks look almost identical, right up until their adult feathers start to grow in...
** [[ItsBeenDone An HBO kid's series already did it.]] For further effect, all the adults were voiced by gay and lesbian celebrities.
** I think the original story was written with that as intentional subtext.
*** Considering [[HansChristianAndersen Andersen]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_Andersen#Sexuality quite possibly]]. It might also refer to his massive insecurity about his scrawny body.
** Of course the ending relies on the reader agreeing that swans are naturally superior to ducks because they're pretty, which raises all sorts of issues no matter what you interpret the message as...
*** Ducks aren't pretty? Since when?
*** Yes, I believe [[JimmyNeutronBoyGenius Hugh Neutron]] would like a word with you.
*** As would [[PrincessTutu Fakir]].
**** It's more that a baby swan is uglier than baby ducks but grows up nicely. No one really said that ducks weren't pretty in the story.
** Then again, sometimes an ugly duck, is just an [[http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=149 ugly duck]]
*** "Have you tried NOT being ugly?"

** There's also an inversion, where the parent is correct. Knowing that his son is under suspicion of mass murder, Light's father, Soichiro, gently explains to him that it isn't Kira who's evil, but the power he's come by. Sadly, his effort is wasted.

* This is the major conclusion of {{Subtext}} for Light in ''DeathNote'' when he simultaneously dates a half dozen girls and keeps a PornStash for the ''sole purpose'' of hiding the fact that he's a killer with supernatural powers we have safely arrived at this trope.