History Main / ShroudedInMyth

* ''NeverwinterNights 2''. If you choose to help the City Watch clean up the docks you can take an assignment where you have to pose as a weapon buyer. When you protest that surely you'd be recognized, you are told the descriptions that are circulating of you. There are several different ones (depending on your starting character class) but they're all of this variety. One particularly amusing description paints you as a seven foot iron giant, yet it's possible to get this one even if you're playing a halfling.

* In addition to being a VillainWithGoodPublicity, [[GhostInTheShell The Laughing Man]] also benefits from this, to the point where an entire episode of Stand Alone Complex is dedicated to discussing whether or not he even exists, or is some sort of spontaneous cultural phenomenon, or spontaneous artificial intelligence phenomenon.

* [[TheChick Lucy]] from FairyTail is often given credit for things that the rest of the team as done, and it spreads fast so she barely gets the chance to correct those myths. On the flip side, most of the fights she has won are known to only a select few.

* Lucy from Fairy Tail is often given credit for things that the rest of the team as done, and it spreads fast so she barely gets the chance to correct those myths. On the flip side, most of the fights she has won are known to only a select few.

* In ''TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld'', [[TalesOfSymphonia Llyod]] [[IdiotHero Irving]] of all people seems like a character ShroudedInMyth to new protagonist Emil, especially since he's described as TheMessiah by all his former allies, but has seemingly turned into a RogueProtagonist at the start of the game, and had murdered Emil's parents before his very eyes. [[spoiler:The truth? [[AWizardDidIt A Decus did it]].]]

** And how could you forget the infamous Gman?

-->'''Captain Jack Sparrow:''' No survivors. [[FridgeLogic Then where do the stories come from I wonder?]]

* The Immortal Weapons of ''TheImmortalIronFist'' actually ''are'' mythic figures, which is all fine and dandy until you have to write an official SHIELD file on any of them but can't tell which stories are true.

->''He is a puzzle, wrapped in an enigma, shrouded in riddles, lovingly sprinkled with intrigue, express mailed to Mystery, Alaska, and LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!''

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[[caption-width-right:295:What really is there, down in the [[strike:myth]] mist?]]

* The version of Rā's al Ghūl in ''BatmanBegins'' keeps a BodyDouble around so he can fake his death and build a reputation as an immortal.

* La Volpe from ''[=~Assassin's Creed~=] 2''.

-->''Over all myths of Thugra Khotan hung horror and death like a pall. From where the thief stood he could see the ruins of the great hall wherein chained captives had knelt by the hundreds during festivals to have their heads hacked off by the priest-king in honor of Set, the Serpent-god of Stygia. Somewhere near by had been the pit, dark and awful, wherein screaming victims were fed to a nameless amorphic monstrosity which came up out of a deeper, more hellish cavern. Legend made Thugra Khotan more than human; his worship yet lingered in a mongrel degraded cult, whose votaries stamped his likeness on coins to pay the way of their dead over the great river of darkness of which the Styx was but the material shadow. ''

* The [[RurouniKenshin Hitokiri Battousai's]] reputation is so fearsome and his identity so secret that it's easy for hoodlums to claim his identity. Nobody ever suspects the eccentric pacifist with the ReverseBladeSword...

* To some extent, the title character of Mike Resnick's ''SantiagoALegendOfTheFarFuture'', though the hyperbole surrounding him was that he was an expert in criminal field of endeavor, a polymathic genius, and a master of disguise. It turns out that [[spoiler:being Santiago (and the head of Santiago's crime family) is actually a ''position'', handed down much like being the Dread Pirate Roberts was, and that no individual Santiago has lasted in the job more than ten years... and that each individual Santiago was an expert in different fields and of different physical description, thus creating most of Santiago's reputation as an unkillable omni-talented man of a thousand faces]].

* To some extent, the title character of Mike Resnick's ''Santiago'', though the hyperbole surrounding him was that he was an expert in criminal field of endeavor, a polymathic genius, and a master of disguise. It turns out that [[spoiler:being Santiago (and the head of Santiago's crime family) is actually a ''position'', handed down much like being the Dread Pirate Roberts was, and that no individual Santiago has lasted in the job more than ten years... and that each individual Santiago was an expert in different fields and of different physical description, thus creating most of Santiago's reputation as an unkillable omni-talented man of a thousand faces]].