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* In the ''Wolf and Sheepdog'' cartoons, Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog treat each other as coworkers, literally punching a clock and exchanging "Mornin' Sam," "Mornin' Ralph" before the mayhem ensues. In a later cartoon they even share a house together.

** The trope has naturally extended to his love life for decades. "''[[DatingCatwoman Let me tell you about a woman named Selina Kyle.]]''" Oh, and there's his weird dynamic with the [[DaddysGirl daughter of villain]] [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE50OffBalance Ra's]] [[Recap/BatmanBeyondS3E4OutOfThePast al-Ghul]], too....

* As of recent events in ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'', the leaders of the Dollars, the Yellow Scarves and the Saika army are teetering on the edge of war. Just who are the three leaders? [[spoiler: [[{{ThreeAmigos}} Mikado, Masaomi and Anri]].]]

** In the first [=A's=] [[AudioAdaptation sound stage]], Nanoha and Fate almost meet [[AntiVillain Hayate and the Wolkenritter]] at a bath (Arisa meets Vita at one point but doesn't know who she is), and Suzuka considers introducing the two groups, but decides to wait until later. Shamal gets quite a shock in Episode 8 after learning that Nanoha and Fate are friends with Suzuka, who's friends with Hayate, and is thus forced to take precautions to make sure that they don't find out about Hayate being master of the book of Darkness.

* In ''TheMagnificentMilkmaid'', the title character fights her own friends turned enemies, Chastity/Prixen and Martina/Sweater Puppy.
** Same also in ''ChocolateMilkmaid''

->''"[[RosesAreRedVioletsAreBlue Roses are red, violets are blue]], your arch enemy goes to school with you."''

* As of recent events in ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', the leaders of the Dollars, the Yellow Scarves and the Saika army are teetering on the edge of war. Just who are the three leaders? [[spoiler: [[{{ThreeAmigos}} Mikado, Masaomi and Anri]].]]

* One of the central tropes in ''LightNovel/{{Dokkoida}}'' is that the heroes' and villains' {{Secret Identit|y}}ies all live in the same apartment and don't recognize one another.

->''"Roses are red, violets are blue, your arch enemy goes to school with you."''

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* In ''[[Literature/TheVampireChronicles Interview with the Vampire]]'', Louis sees his cohabitation with Lestat to be this after [[IHateYouVampireDad their relationship sours]]. Whether Lestat is a true villain or a PoisonousFriend with [[ImmortalityImmorality entitlement issues]] is uncertain thanks to Louis being an UnreliableNarrator and Lestat's character [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness not yet being finalized]].

* In ''Anime/StarDriver'', some of the Glittering Crux members go to the heroes' school. The school nurse is found out, though Takuto doesn't seem to have picked out any of ''his classmates'' that he fought against. [[ClarkKenting The masks]] do this somehow. When [[spoiler: Sugata]] wears one, it's not recognized until it is too late.

* The comic book mini-series ''ComicBook/ArchEnemies'' is a spot-on example of this trope; a superhero and his ArchEnemy supervillain share an apartment as their secret identities. Not only do they completely fail to recognize each other, but each hates their roommate much more than their ArchEnemy.
* Parodied in the comic strip ''Gorilla Gorilla'', where Gorilla and Lizard are roommates that grow giant, repeat their names twice, and fight each other, having no idea no matter how painfully obvious their "secret" identities get.
* Franchise/SpiderMan (Peter Parker) and the Green Goblin have this kind of relationship in the early ComicBook/SpiderMan comics, as the Goblin is actually ComicBook/NormanOsborn, the father of Peter's best friend, Harry. The trope then gets subverted after Norman dies, and Harry takes up the Goblin mantle; Peter and Harry soon discovered each other's identities, but Peter couldn't do anything about it without losing his chance to cure Harry's madness. For his part, Harry kept Peter's identity secret just to have a bit of leverage to mind-screw him with.

** Recently, Petey moved in with a cop, Vin Gonzales. Which would not be a bad solution... except that Spidey is an unregistered superhero, suspected of being a serial killer, hunted by Comicbook/{{Venom}}, Kraven's daughter, Green Goblin... And Parker is unemployed and can't afford the rent. [[spoiler:Vin turned out to be helping frame Spider-Man for being a serial killer, and later joined a cult worshiping the Green Goblin.]] Yeah. Parker luck.

* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'': Darla Aquista tries to force Tim to move in with her and become her boyfriend without ever realizing that he's also her sworn enemy Robin, whom she is trying to kill.

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* In ''FanFic/HarryRiddle'' when she began the affair Lily Evans Potter had no idea that that charming man Tom that she took as her lover was actually Voldemort. Also Harry and Draco's [[OddFriendship friendship]] with [[ShockValueRelationship Hermione]] and Neville--the professors express doubts that Neville would be so chummy with Harry if he knew that Harry's "Auntie Bellatrix" tortured his parents into insanity.

* ''FanFic/PersonaEG'' has two examples:

* In the manga and anime ''Manga/DeathNote'', Light Yagami does this twice. The first is part of the basic set-up of the show: his father is one of the police inspectors investigating the killings Light is perpetuating. The second [[spoiler:comes later, when Light and L, the master detective, go to the same university. L reveals who he is to Light, and L suspects Light of being "Kira," but their mutual uncertainty skews the trope in interesting ways.]] Ending up being handcuffed together with L has [[HoYay wonders for]] [[FoeYay their characters.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Adrien's father, Gabriel Agreste, is secretly the show's [[BigBad Big Bad]] Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth. One of his employees, Nathalie Sancouer, sometimes transforms into his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Mayura. Adrien is completely unaware of this.

* A pivotal point in ''Manga/KamikazeKaitouJeanne'': Junior police girl Miyako does not know that Maron is Kaitou Jeanne, and neither realize that Chiaki is Kaitou Sinbad, despite all living on the same apartment floor.
** Subverted in the manga, where Miyako reveals that she ''did'' figure out that Marron was Jeanne, but knew she must be stealing paintings for a certain reason. Whether she knew about Chiaki being Sindbad is never mentioned, though.

* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', child teacher Negi Springfield finds himself at various times fighting against several of his students. This causes him great consternation, because he feels that it is his duty as a teacher to help rather than harm his students.

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', no less than five villains are present undercover at Garreg Mach Monastery during your stint as a professor: Solon, disguised as [[spoiler:the monastery librarian Tomas]], Kronya, disguised as [[spoiler:a previously kidnapped student named Monica]], the Death Knight, heavily implied to be [[spoiler:the fencing instructor Jeritza]], the Flame Emperor, whose true identity is [[spoiler:the leader of the Black Eagles house, Edelgard]], and [[spoiler:Hubert]], who does not have a dual identity but acts as the Flame Emperor's SecretKeeper.

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', no less than five villains are present undercover at Garreg Mach Monastery during your stint as a professor: Solon, disguised as [[spoiler:the monastery librarian Tomas]], Kronya, disguised as [[spoiler:a previously kidnapped student named Monica]], the Death Knight, heavily implied to be [[spoiler:the fencing instructor Jeritza]], the Flame Emperor, whose true identity is [[spoiler:the leader of the Black Eagles house, Edelgard]], and [[spoiler:Hubert]], who does not have a dual identity but acts as the Flame Emperor's SecretKeepr.

* This happened in ''VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe2''. Turns out that [[spoiler:Jet Black, your dad, was the Black Emperor the whole time]] and used you in order to get the power [[spoiler:he]] needed to rule the world.