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* The Music/{{Styx}} song "Double Life" from ''Music/KillroyWasHere'' is a VillainousBreakdown song where the antagonist, Dr. Righteous, realizes just how full of shit he and his anti-music crusade are, but is in too deep to abandon it.

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[[caption-width-right:196:[-By day, outspoken GranolaGirl. By night, [[SupremeChef award winning piemaker]].-] ]]

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!Examples That Don't Fit In The Sub Tropes

* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', some Ghouls choose to establish human identities and live as humans. The staff of Anteiku balance running a Coffee Shop by day with being the peacekeepers of the 20th Ward by night, while several characters struggle to balance an active school life with their night-time activities of protecting their territories and satisfying their HorrorHunger for human flesh. Then there's a major ChekhovsGunman of the series, [[spoiler: author Takatsuki Sen, who balances her life as a famous novelist with being the leader of Aogiri Tree]].

->''"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 planned 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."''

-->''"In the daytime I'm Mr. Natural\\

** As on the picture, Hayley turned out to be an award winning cook, dressing up like a [[TheFifties 1950s housewife]] despite her far left wing views.

--> '''Phineas''': Anyone else here living a double life? Put your hand down Ferb.
* The ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "A Single Pale Rose" reveals that [[spoiler: Rose Quartz was truely [[KingIncognito Pink Diamond all along,]] and she was RunningBothSides for the entirety of the Gem War, even for her [[FakingTheDead "assassination"]].]]

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!!Examples That Don't Fit In The Sub Tropes:

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-->In the daytime I'm Mr. Natural
-->Just as healthy as I can be
-->But at night I'm a Junk Food Junkie
-->Good Lord, have pity on me

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-> '''Phineas:''' Anyone else here living a double life? Put your hand down Ferb.

* The [[WesternAnimation/WinxClub Winx]] in ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfWinx'' pose as talent scouts for a reality tv show, hiding their identity as fairies while in pursuit of an abductor of talented youngsters.

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->''"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."''

** Also, apparently Ferb. -> '''Phineas:''' Anyone else here living a double life? Put your hand down Ferb.

** Also, apparently Ferb.
** -> '''Phineas:''' Anyone else here living a double life? Put your hand down Ferb.

-> '''Phineas:''' Anyone else here living a double life? Put your hand down Ferb.

* The ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "A Single Pink Rose" reveals that [[spoiler: Rose Quartz was truely [[KingIncognito Pink Diamond all along,]] and she played as TheChessmaster for the entirety of the Gem War, even for her [[FakingTheDead "assassination"]].]]

* The [[WesternAnimation/WinxClub Winx]] in ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfWinx'' pose as talent scouts for a reality tv show, hiding their identity as fairies while in pursuit of an abductor of talented youngsters.

* 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 the US 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]].

* Angel in ''Film/{{Angel}}''. Schoolgirl by day, hooker by night.

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

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* 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.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' had many forms of this.
** Roger became a master of this when he took up frequent disguising, to the point where the show found many ways to play with this.
** As on the picture, Hayley turned out to be an award winning cook, dressing up like a [[TheFifties 1950s housewife]] despite her far left wing views.

* 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 [[ProfessionalKiller assassinations]].

* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', some Ghouls choose to establish human identities and live as humans. The staff of Anteiku balance running a Coffee Shop by day with being the peacekeepers of the 20th Ward by night, while several characters struggle to balance an active school life with their night-time activities of protecting their territories and satisfying their HorrorHunger for human flesh. Then there's a major ChekhovsGunman of the series, [[spoiler: author Takatsuki Sen, who balances her life as a famous novelist with being the leader of Aogiri Tree]].

* Theodora, in ''Film/TheodoraGoesWild'' is a kinky novel writer, but don't tell her aunts---or anyone else in her small, prudish town.
* ''Manga/DontBecomeAnOtakuShinozakiSan'' feels like she's in this situation. On the one hand, she befriends otaku Kaede and Micchy with the intent of "saving" them from Otaku life. On the other, she was previously a LovableAlphaBitch in middle school. She tries to keep her growing otaku side hidden from everyone who isn't Kaede, Micchy, and their own friends. Akina "feels like" this because she eventually realizes, to her horror, that the ''only'' person in her class who thought Akina wasn't an otaku was Akina herself.

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

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

->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.

* ''Manga/DontBecomeAnOtakuShinozakiSan'' feels like she's in this situation. On the one hand, she befriends otaku Kaede and Micchy with the intent of "saving" them from Otaku life. On the other, having previously been a LovableAlphaBitch in middle school, so she tries to keep her growing otaku side hidden from everyone who isn't Kaede, Micchy, and their own friends. Akina "feels like" this because she eventually realizes, to her horror, that the ''only'' person in her class who thought Akina wasn't an otaku was Akina herself.

* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', some Ghouls choose to establish human identities and live as humans. The staff of Anteiku balance running a Coffee Shop by day with being the peacekeepers of the 20th Ward by night, while several characters struggle to balance an active school life with their night-time activities of protecting their territories and satisfying their HorrorHunger for human flesh. Then there's a major ChekhovsGunman of the series, [[spoiler: author Takatsuki Sen, who balances her life as a famous novelist with being the leader of Aogiri Tree]].
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* 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.]]