History Main / HiddenDepths

* The House Of Truth's first Wrestling/RingOfHonor incarnation had the "Hoopla Hotties", servants of Wrestling/TruthMartini who explicitly [[MsFanservice existed to be without pants]]. They ran from any potential confrontation and were all {{butt monk|ey}}ies, with Seleziya Sparx literally standing out for frequent [[ShakingTheRump booty popping]] and [[AmusingInjuries accidental injury]]. Yet she did not actually fear contact and had much greater [[FunctionalGenreSavvy knowledge]] of [[GirlyBruiser wrestling]] than her [[PerkyFemaleMinion fellow minions]] but tried to imitate them [[FriendlessBackground out of desire to belong to a group]]. She increasingly saved HOT [[SmugSnake top prospect]] Matt Taven from [[CurbStompBattle crushing defeats]] against vastly superior opponents, including former and future world champions Eddie Edwards and Wrestling/AdamCole, by catching them unaware with brutal high impact maneuvers while [[VillainExitStageLeft escaping]] the [[EasilyDistractedReferee referees]] and {{invok|edtrope}}ing WouldntHitAGirl with the more honorable baby {{face}}s. Showing up when the relationship with Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} was winding down and [[PutOnABus visa issues]] when was ROH establishing its own women's division kept most of her depths hidden in ROH, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen unfortunately]].

* On the August 5th, 2020 episode of Dynamite, Chris Jericho invited him to a public debate between them (chaired by Wrestling/EricBischoff), in between questions about their wrestling characters and abilities, a totally random question came up about rising sea levels as a result of global warming. After a flabbergasted Jericho asked what the hell that had to do with anything and told Bischoff to move on to the next question, Wrestling/OrangeCassidy (who up to this point hadn't said a single word) delivered a short, calm and very erudite speech about the threat rising sea levels will pose to coastal cities in particular if carbon emissions aren't curbed, leaving Jericho [[JawDrop with his mouth hanging open]].

* '''TheAce''' + '''DarkAndTroubledPast''' or '''BrokenBird''' = ''BrokenAce''

* '''JerkJock''' or '''{{Jerkass}}''' + '''PetTheDog''' = ''JerkWithAHeartOfGold''
* '''Being A Mother''' + '''ActionGirl''' = ''MamaBear'' or ''ActionMom''
* '''Being A Father''' + '''ActionHero''' = ''PapaWolf'' or ''ActionDad''
* '''TheCutie''' + '''SuperStrength''' = ''CuteBruiser'' or ''BadassAdorable''

* '''YamatoNadeshiko''' or '''{{Ojou}}''' or '''ProperLady''' + '''ActionGirl''' = ''LadyOfWar''
* '''ProperLady''' + '''GuileHero''' or '''BewareTheNiceOnes''' = ''SilkHidingSteel''

** On the August 5th, 2020 episode of Dynamite, Chris Jericho invited him to a public debate between them (chaired by Wrestling/EricBischoff), in between questions about their wrestling characters and abilities, a totally random question came up about rising sea levels as a result of global warming. After a flabbergasted Jericho asked what the hell that had to do with anything and told Bischoff to move on to the next question, Cassidy (who up to this point hadn't said a single word) delivered a short, calm and very erudite speech about the threat rising sea levels will pose to coastal cities in particular if carbon emissions aren't curbed, leaving Jericho [[JawDrop with his mouth hanging open]].

-->'''Chief Bogo''': The world has always been broken. That's why we need good cops.

--> '''Christine:''' I just thought you had hidden depths.
--> '''Will:''' No. No. You've always had that wrong. I really am this shallow.

-->'''John:''' What's a "Stakhanovite"?
-->'''George:''' It's a name they give a bloke in Russia who digs a lotta coal.
-->'''Henry:''' How do you know?
-->'''George:''' I'm not ''daft'', Henry.

---> '''Roxanne''' (slightly annoyed): Monsieur de Bergerac, I ''am'' your cousin!

* The whole point of ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', the students reveal plenty of emotional baggage that they never showed before to their friends or family.

If the audience is aware of the depths but not all the characters are, DramaticIrony is almost bound to occur. If it happens gradually, it's essentially {{Flanderization}} in reverse. May be demonstrated when a character catches the SmartBall.

* The Italian strip ''Lupo Alberto'' has Enrico La Talpa. He's usually just an obnoxious JerkWithAHeartOfGold, most infamous among the fans for [[TheMunchausen his patently false war stories]] and overestimating his own abilities... And then, once in a while, he reveals some hidden skill, such as reading hieroglyphs (not as well as he thinks, but the fact he can do it at all and without any book to consult is already a lot), and a huge knowledge of trivia that few people can match. Best shown when he once jokingly compared the rainy weather to the summer of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherrapunji Cherrapunji]] and left almost the entire farm, in stunned silence wondering just what Cherrapunji was because nobody else was familiar with the place (the series of strip ended with Alcide, the local intellectual, trying to get the reaction from Enrico, not knowing it had been him to introduce the saying to the farm, only for Enrico to make him scream by replying "You can say it's the ''spring'' of Cherrapunji).

* One of the main messages in ''Theatre/{{Six}} is that the six wives of Henry VIII have more to them than history has given them credit for.

* '''GeniusBruiser''' - '''TheWorfEffect''' = ''MinoredInAssKicking''

** In [[Film/BackToTheFuture the first film]], Marty [=McFly=] learns that as a teenager in 1955, his father George was a science fiction fan, writing his own stories that he was scared of sharing with others.

* '''PluckyComicRelief''' + '''HurtingHero''' = ''SadClown''