History Main / SamusisaGirl

* Rei in the manga version of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
** That is, when Rei's still inside the Eva. [[FogOfWar In the confusion of the battle]], Shinji can't tell if anyone ''is'' inside the Eva (Rei's name comes up, but that seems to be a thought bubble rather than spoken dialogue on Misato's part). Shinji does cry out (in the English translation), "Our guy's getting clobbered!" But when he gets to NERV headquarters, he still seems to think he was saved by a robot. At any rate, as soon as the reader -- and, a few panels later, Shinji -- actually ''[[TheReveal sees]]'' Rei, it's clear she's a BandageBabe -- along with all sorts of other types of {{fanservice}} / FanDisservice.
*** Also worth noting: while the feelings that develops between Shinji and Rei are not entirely platonic, they never have any sort of outright romantic relationship either. Given [[IncestIsRelative Rei's origins]], that would be all sorts of {{squick}}.
**** Carefully averted in ''RebuildOfEvangelion 2.0'' with Asuka, who arrives in Unit 02 to fight the Angel. Shinji had never seen her or her Eva before but when he does comment on the battle, he doesn't use any third-person pronouns in either the Japanese original or the English dub.

* Cagalli Yula Athha of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed Gundam SEED]]'''s [[{{Tsundere}} tomboyish personality]] and androgynous clothing originally fools both Kira and Athrun into thinking she is a boy. Her gender confusion is also an in-joke to the viewers, as her voice actress NaomiShindo usually voices young boys.

* At the end of ''DragonWarriorMonsters'', the [[spoiler:masked monster master at the Starry Night tournament is revealed to be Milayou, the protagonist's younger sister.]]

* {{Discussed}} on ''SouthPark:'' [[TokenEvilTeammate Cartman]] is obsessed with finding out [[TheCowl Mysterion]]'s secret identity and begins grilling all the guys at school. [[TheSmartGuy Wendy]] passes by and casually wonders why he assumes Mysterion is a boy at all. Cartman immediately looks shocked and suspicious of Wendy. ({{Subverted}}, however, in that Mysterion ultimately turns out to be male.)

* [[spoiler:Joat ("Jack-of-all-Trades")]] in ''[[TheShipWho The City Who Fought]]''.

* ''Series/{{Elementary}}''[='=]s Moriarty turns out to be female.

See TheFaceless and sister trope the {{Hackette}}. Contrast UnsettlingGenderReveal (where "Alice" turns out to be "Bob"), SweetPollyOliver (SamusIsAGirl from a viewpoint that already knows she's female) and ViewerGenderConfusion (where the audience, not the characters, don't know what gender Pat is). See also GeekyTurnOn, which is sometimes related to this. FemaleMonsterSurprise is a similar trope, but with a monster.

* When most people hear of the assassin ''Anime/{{Noir}}'', the assume it to the be the codename for a ''male'' assassin, as opposed to the fact that it is actually ''two'' girls.

* In ''[[AlanDeanFoster Icerigger]]'', it's not revealed that [[spoiler: Sagyanak the Death]] is female until well after the Horde has been driven from Sofold.

* The opening scene of ''Film/IronMan'' has Tony exclaim in suprise when he realizes that one of his three (military) escorts is actually female. She's revealed by her feminine voice the first time she speaks up.

** When ''Metroid'' first came out in the 80s, Nintendo USA ran a ''Metroid'' art contest in their magazine "the Nintendo Fun Club News" (a precursor to "Magazine/NintendoPower"). All the winners who had Samus unmasked in their art depicted her as a man.
*** [[http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/420818_2815298616014_1065280239_32236295_1052113179_n.jpg This is the art in question.]] Notice the one that was tied for 4th. This was obviously based off an ending in the game, [[http://images.popmatters.com/blog_art/s/samus_helmet.png in which Samus' face was the only thing that was revealed.]] Thanks to the 8-bit graphics, it was STILL impossible to tell whether or not Samus was a girl. One could easily interpret that the person in the suit was simply a guy with EightiesHair. Apparently, the artists settled for that notion. Seems that the judges of the art didn't do the research and did the same. Either that, or Nintendo knew beforehand and decided to make the judges disqualify the entries that depicted Samus as a female in order to keep the twist ending a secret.

* In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' Han's savior is not only not-an-alien, but Leia.

* The otherwise {{AFGNCAAP}} detectives in the {{PC}} HiddenObjectGame series ''MysteryCaseFiles'' and ''DarkParables'' are both revealed to be this. In MCF, the Master Detective's very feminine voice is heard on the telephone at the end of the second game of the Ravenhearst arc. The detective in DarkParables has her gender confirmed only by unlockable BonusMaterial in the collector's edition of the first game.

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* Obviously, Samus Aran herself from ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}''. Eventually subverted as, over the course of the series, developers have gone further and further out of their way to point out that she's a girl.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'', [[spoiler:the Phantasm]].

* Yanit from ''WesternAnimation/TheMummyTheAnimatedSeries'' turns out to be a girl.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Dynomutt}}'', the criminal Ironface is revealed to be[[spoiler: the Serpent Lady. ]]

* [[The first trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5aam4MpZss]] for ''The White Queen'' has this [[RuleOfThree three times over]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Dynomutt]]'', the criminal Ironface is revealed to be[[spoiler: the Serpent Lady. ]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Dynomutt]]'', the criminal Ironface is revealed to be [[Spoiler:The Serpent Lady]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/Dynomutt'', the criminal Ironface is revealed to be [[Spoiler: The Serpent Lady]].