History Main / LivingADoubleLife

!!!A SuperTrope to:

A SuperTrope to:

* In {{TOME}}, [[spoiler:Zetto and Kirbopher are really the same character using different accounts. While Kirbopher is a main character and a friend to the other members of the main cast who cares about nothing more than having fun, Zetto is the co-leader of the hackers, and is obsessed with finding and wiping out the Forbidden Power.]]

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* Arguably a ''lot'' of Internet users lead double lives: Their persona(s) online will often be ''very different'' than who they are in real life, having a circle of friends united by a common interest, and even forming meaningful relationships with people through their screens. Some take it far enough to adopt a ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' mindset where they consider their online persona to be their true self, and their real life self to be a masquerade.

* Arguably a ''lot'' of Internet users lead double lives: Their persona(s) online will often be ''very different'' than who they are in real life, having a circle of friends united by a common interest, and even forming meaningful relationships with people through their screens. Some take it far enough to adopt a ''Franchise/Batman'' mindset where they consider their online persona to be their true self, and their real life self to be a masquerade.

* Paulo Thiago is a UFC welterweight fighter who initially was noticed for an underdog victory by knockout in his UFC debut against perennial contender Josh Koscheck... however, his legend took off in America when it was revealed that his day job is being a member of the Brazilian capital's military police special operations battalion -- aka [[TheEliteSquad BOPE]].
** He's a member of the unit in Brasilia, ''not'' the unit in Rio de Janeiro on which the book and movie were based, but the distinction is usually lost in America, which the UFC has never tried to correct -- in fact, at UFC 134: Rio his entrance music was the ''Elite Squad'' theme song, complete with the (Brazilian) crowd singing it.

* Angel in ''Angel'' (no relation to Angel in ''Series/{{Angel}}''). Schoolgirl by day, hooker by night.

* ActionPet Perry the Platypus in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' acts like a normal pet around his family, but is actually a {{badass}} SecretAgent.

* Sharon from the ''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX'' series works as a nun by day, dutifully and painstakingly making it her mission to take care of orphans living at the monastery where she was raised. At night, however, she moonlights as [[ColdSniper a cool and collected]] highly-ranked secret agent usually employed by an unknown intelligence group to carry out [[CareerKillers assassinations]].

[[caption-width-right:200:[-By day, outspoken GranolaGirl. By night, [[SupremeChef multi-award winning piemaker]].-] ]]

* Neo from ''TheMatrix'' leads a double life as a regular white collar worker Thomas Anderson and an infamous hacker of international renown.

* ActionPet Perry the Platypus in ''PhineasAndFerb'' acts like a normal pet around his family, but is actually a {{badass}} {{secret agent}}.

* Angel in ''Angel'' (no relation to Angel in ''{{Angel}}''). Schoolgirl by day, hooker by night.

-->New friends I have made are fascinated with the international intrigue associated with my father's line of work. However I let them know that life with a spy was as normal as theirs except that their fathers planed corporate strategies while mine planned embassy break-ins, assisted defectors and their families seeking asylum, and created counterintelligence strategies. Pretty normal stuff as I saw it.
-->''Spies Wives: Stories of CIA Families Abroad'' by Karen L. Chiao and Mariellen B. O'Brien

[[caption-width-right:200:[-By day, outspoken GranolaGirl. By night, multi-award winning piemaker.-] ]]

[[quoteright:200:[[AmericanDad http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hayley_hippie_or_piemaker_2109.jpg]]]]

* ''AmericanDad'' had many forms of this.

* Sharon from the ''StreetFighterEX'' series works as a nun by day, dutifully and painstakingly making it her mission to take care of orphans living at the monastery where she was raised. At night, however, she moonlights as [[ColdSniper a cool and collected]] highly-ranked secret agent usually employed by an unknown intelligence group to carry out [[CareerKillers assassinations]].

Any character secretly living another life (or even more than that) can be a very powerful plot device in fiction, allowing for any number of stories. What kind of life is being led normally? What kind of life is being led secretly? Will the secret life be revealed? If not, how will it be avoided? If it is revealed, how soon in the story, and what are the repercussions of this reveal?

Any character secretly living another life (or even more than that) can be a very powerful plot device in fiction, allowing for any number of stories. What kind of life is being led normally? What kind of life is being led secretly? Will the secret life be revealed? If not, how will it be avoided? If so, how soon in the story, and what are the repercussions of this reveal?

-->''Spies Wives'' by Karen L. Chiao and Mariellen B. O'Brien

-->''Spies Wives'' by Karen L. Chiao and Mariellen B. O'brien

{{Sub Trope}}s include:

* SecretIdentity (and all its sub tropes)

[[quoteright:200:[[AmericanDad http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hayley_hippie_or_piemaker_2109.jpg]] By day, outspoken GranolaGirl. By night, multi-award winning piemaker.]]