History Main / LovesMyAlterEgo

*** Lelouch Lamperouge (in all his ...facets) is a one man [[LoveDodecahedron]]!

* c.c loves lelouch as a son not in a romtcial way
* Speaking of Kallen, at least Misa and Takada are not shock to find out Light is Kira in ''DeathNote''.

* Tadase in ''ShugoChara'' likes Amulet Heart, Amu's heroic form. His feelings toward the normal Amu are "just friends". This doesn't make things any easier for Amu.

* In ShugoChara, Tadase falls in love with Amu's alter ego "Amulet Heart". [[spoiler: Still later he confesses that he actually loves Amu for who she is, not her alter ego.]]
* In ''Phantom Thief Pokemon 7'', Nazuna is in love with Pokemon 7. She's not quite so fond of Hiori.

* In ''PrincessTutu'', Mytho is enamored with the titular MagicalGirl, but only considers Ahiru a good friend. (One that he can "tell everything to", but a friend nonetheless.)

* ''TheFairlyOddparents'' episode where Timmy is "the Masked Magician" may qualify for this - Trixie Tang, who (usually) detests him, finds his titular alter-ego to be "a ''cute'' superhero!"
* ''{{Megamind}}'' has this with [[spoiler:Roxanne falling for the titular character impersonating Bernard]].

* In each of Studio Pierrot's MagicalGirl series (''CreamyMami'', ''[[MagicalStarMagicalEmi Maho no star Magical Emi]]'', ''Maho no Fairy Persia''), the heroine is in love with an older boy, who prefers her metamorphosed alter ego, leading the poor magical girls to be jealous of themselves.

* This is OlderThanRadio: in the play ''{{Cyrano de Bergerac}}'', both WarriorPoet Cyrano and BookDumb but so very handsome Christian are in love with Roxanne. Since Cyrano thinks he doesn't stand a chance with her anyway because of that big nose issue, he uses his gift for poetry to [[TheCyrano help Christian woo her]] so at least he can know [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy they'll both be happy together]], which backfires because it tears them both up for years to know Roxanne's really in love with Cyrano but thinks she's in love with Christian. [[spoiler: There's also the fact that Christian is ''killed'' later and Cyrano ''still'' CanNotSpitItOut to not break Roxanne's heart... and keeps denying that the letters are his until his death.]]

** Before Clark and Lois got married, there was also the character of Cat Grant, who was in love with Clark Kent and had no particularly personal feelings for Superman (whom she liked and admired in the way most Metropolitans like and admire him.) Then, after her character disappeared from continuity for many years, she [[WallBanger was]] [[CharacterDerailment reintroduced]].

* ''The Strangers'' mod for FreedomForce has one that winds up being a two-person LoveTriangle. [[ScienceHero Ordinary doctor]] Biff Bateman is completely oblivious to the fact that his assistant, [[HotScientist Marla Manners]], is madly in love with him and tries to talk him into a date/bed constantly. In an attempt to get his attention, Marla takes some of Bateman's [[ShrinkRay shrinking technology]] along with a taser and a costume she made herself to become The Spider, the beautiful and mysterious crimefighter. Bateman, at about the same time, lets his fascination with other superheroes get the better of him and borrows some experimental military tech to make himself into The Fly, defender of justice. The Fly meets The Spider on the job, and it's love at first sight... for The Fly only, because of a [[AllMenArePerverts bad first impression]]. So The Fly dreams about the Spider, who hates his guts, and Marla dreams of Bateman, who doesn't pay attention. [[spoiler: Things don't get resolved until they finally learn each other's secret identities.]]

* Anzu/Téa in the ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' manga and anime is frequently confused about whether she's in love with Yugi or "the other [Yami] Yugi." Obviously lampshaded in the [[YugiOhAbridgedSeries abridged series]].

** ''Inverted'' with Valerie, who loves Danny Fenton but hates Danny Phantom.

* In ''MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'', Jenny falls for the Silver Shell, a robot suit piloted by her crush Sheldon who originally designed it to dissuade her attraction towards robot boys.

* ''WordGirl'': TJ, Becky's younger brother, has a crush on Word Girl...but Word Girl is Becky's alter ego.

* ''BatmanBeyond'' has a non-romantic version of this trope where Terry's younger brother Matt idolizes the new Batman as BadAss and the epitome of cool but sees his own older brother as a boring, workaholic who's never around.

* In each of Studio Pierrot's MagicalGirl series (''CreamyMami'', ''Maho no star Magical Emi'', ''Maho no Fairy Persia''), the heroine is in love with an older boy, who prefers her metamorphosed alter ego, leading the poor magical girls to be jealous of themselves.

* Inverted in, of all places, Death Wish 2. Unusually for a plain clothes adventurer of 1970's and 1980's film, Paul Kersey did in fact maintain a dual identity/alter ego, since the general public did not know that Paul Kersey acted as the vigilante and Kersey continued his work as an architect while acting as a vigilante. In Death Wish 2, Paul Kersey gave an engagement ring to radio announcer Geri Nichols, and they had scheduled their marriage and honeymoon in Acapulco. Nichols did not initially know that Kersey acted as the vigilante, and she strongly opposed the death penalty and unlimited punishment of criminals. When she discovered that Kersey acted as the vigilante, she left the engagement ring behind for him, since his actions as the vigilante clashed with her code of ethics.

* In ''HarveyBirdman'', Phil is constantly trying to seduce Birdgirl - despite it being horribly obvious to everyone else that Birdgirl is Judy, his ''[[{{Squick}}daughter]]''.

* In ''HarveyBirdman'', Phil is constantly trying to seduce Birdgirl - despite it being horribly obvious to everyone else that Birdgirl is Judy, his ''daughter''.