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** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': After Artie sticks out his dark, forked tongue at a girl who is eating ice cream, Storm chides him with "Not here."

** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Fearful of humanity's negative reaction to mutants, Charles and Hank firmly live by this philosophy. Raven was initially influenced by her foster brother, but she has already grown frustrated with concealing her blue form in public when we first see her as an adult.

* Blake from ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' is a [[LittleBitBeasty Faunus]]. Unlike most {{Catgirl}}s, she has no tail and two sets of ears (one human and one cat) as Faunus are only born with one animal trait. She hides the cat ears under a [[HairAccessories large bow]] to pass as human.

* ComicBook/{{Superman}} (who in actuality is Kal-El from the planet Krypton) spends his time between super-heroing as [[SecretIdentity Clark Kent, mild-mannered human reporter]]. Though in his defense, he was ''raised'' human, and didn't learn his birth name until he was an adult.
** In ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'', his efforts to hide his Kryptonian heritage extend to completely altering his posture as Clark Kent.

* ''Series/DoctorWho''

* ''Anime/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'' involves the protagonist housing a CatGirl, and having to bring her to school with him. She's a {{nekomimi}}, so she can superficially pass for human, but her feline behavior tends to undermine TheMasquerade, and forms much of the work's comedy.

* ''Film/EvanAlmighty'' also features a beard that won't go away, similar to TheSantaClause.
* Klaatu, the HumanAlien protagonist of ''Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill'' (both versions) spends a good chunk of the film hiding from the military by posing as a man named Mister Carpenter who's renting an apartment with a local family, he soon becomes trusting enough of the family to let them in on his secret and elicit their help in getting back to his ship and preventing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Karolina initially needs to keep her fake Med-Alert bracelet on or else she lights up like a Christmas tree, due to her Majesdanian heritage. Later in the series, she becomes able to suppress the glowing effect throw her own efforts.

* In ''{{ComicBook/Fables}}'', Rapunzel goes to the barber all the time, so she can pass as a [[strike:muggle]] mundy. Unlike other examples here, she is happy about being what she is (a supernatural Fable creature), it's just that TheMasquerade has to be maintained.

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ButYourWingsAreBeautiful may come into play should their otherness ever get exposed.

* In various ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series, RubberForeheadAliens occasionally have to pass for human, usually because of time travel. For example, in ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'', Spock wears a headband to conceal his pointed ears. And in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', occasionally Major Kira has had to wear false skin to cover her Bajoran nose ridges.

* In ''Literature/TheIronTeeth'', Blacknail the [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent hobgoblin]] keeps his large [[HornedHumanoid]] horns filed down. He misses the intimidating look of the horns, but filing them off lets him pass as human with just [[InTheHood a hooded cloak]], and that offers possibilities too fun to pass up.

This particular masquerading comes in two flavors. It might simply be about TheMasquerade, or it may [[IJustWantToBeNormal be about her self-image]]. In the first case, the Maintenance can be nothing worse then a practical nuisance. In the second case, it's usually a part of [[InternalizedCategorism a deeper pattern of self-hatred]]. Of course, these two flavors are often mixed with each other, and one might lead to the other.

* [[spoiler:Reki and Rakka]] from ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei'' use a special dye to hide (and possibly slow) the fact that their wings' charcoal grey feathers are turning black. This is more than cosmetic, since it indicates that they are [[spoiler: becoming sin-bound]].

* In ''{{Fables}}'', Rapunzel goes to the barber all the time, so she can pass as a [[strike:muggle]] mundy. Unlike other examples here, she is happy about being what she is (a supernatural Fable creature), it's just that TheMasquerade has to be maintained.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Grace's furry antennae can't be seen for what they are in order for her to pass for human so she [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-07-27 tucked them behind her ears]] initially before she gained the ability to morph them away.

* {{Farscape}}: D'Argo's son Jothee tries to cut of his Luxan nose since he was ashamed to be part-Luxan and thought his father had abandoned him. This doesn't really help hide his otherness, though, since he only succeeds in scarring his face and he still has plenty of other Luxan features.

* ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' starts with a little Angel who tries to cut off his own wings in his desperation to be normal. Considering that he *did* cut them off then, but still have them later in the movie, they must have kept growing back.

* Saiyans in ''Manga/DragonBall'' look like [[RubberForeheadAliens humans with silly hair]] except for the presence of monkey-like tails. Goku and Gohan have theirs periodically removed, not so much because of any [[TheMasquerade Masquerade]]-- in a world where nobody looks twice at a guy with a third eye and a talking dog is King of the World, it's not so strange-- but because otherwise the full moon turns them into rampaging beasts.

* In ''HumanNature'', the protagonist has fur. She hates herself for it. She shaves her entire body (except the head, of course) every morning, and punishes herself by choosing a man who is utterly disgusted by female bodily hair.

* Scott Calvin in ''TheSantaClause'' kept shaving and dying his hair (he didn't want to look like Santa), only to have the beard grow back immediately, and the hair to go back to white.
** ''EvanAlmighty'' also features a beard that won't go away, similar to TheSantaClause.

* TheProtagonist of ''Literature/TerminalWorld'' by Creator/AlastairReynolds belongs to a posthuman race of "Angels", complete with wings. To go among normal humans, he underwent extensive surgical modification including removing the wings, but he has to keep having them amputated with increasing frequency, as they always grow back.
** Further, his eyes begin to turn an unnatural shade of blue if he goes too long without maintenance...not the iris, the ''entire eye''.

* In ''TheDragonDoctors'' webcomic, Kili and Greg, both werewolves, have abnormally fast hair growth and unless they want to be swamped by RapunzelHair they need to cut it off twice a day.

* ''[[Film/{{X-Men}} X-Men: The Last Stand]]'' starts with a little Angel who tries to cut off his own wings in his desperation to be normal. Considering that he *did* cut them off then, but still have them later in the movie, they must have kept growing back.

* [[spoiler:Reki and Rakka]] from ''HaibaneRenmei'' use a special dye to hide (and possibly slow) the fact that their wings' charcoal grey feathers are turning black. This is more than cosmetic, since it indicates that they are [[spoiler: becoming sin-bound]].

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