History Main / UnmanlySecret

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Ishida Uryu in {{Bleach}} is in the sowing club at school and is, by all accounts, highly proficient at it.
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* Flipped on its head in "I've Got a Dream" from ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' in which a bunch of thugs and ruffians in a bar outright admit in song that they like things like sewing, puppet shows and interior design.

* Butler, ArtemisFowl's 6-foot-plus OneManArmy and BattleButler, likes watching romantic comedies, though he will never admit this to anyone.

* Again zigzagged with Hubert of ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'' and his fanboy-ish interests. In some cases, he has no problems debating canon with other characters. But when Sophie catches him playing with "Beach Brigade" toys, he tells her that the Beach Brigade is a branch of the Strahtan military dedicated to waterfront protection.

* This is the main issue that Kanji Tatsumi from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' has. His mother owns a textile shop, and he likes to make little dolls for people, which directly contrasts from the tough biker badass persona that he tries to project to people. His entire character arc/Social Link is about learning to overcome his hangup about this and accept himself as a whole.

* [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]] with Binky Barnes on ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''. When his character first starts developing not manly interests, he tries to hide them, but then gets found out anyway. Though some people try to make a big deal of it at first, his perceived fierceness and reputation as a bully allows him to quell any teasing or bullying simply by growls, posturing and [[DeathGlare death glares]]. In later seasons, he still sometimes tries to hide it, but just as often is open about it. In Season 15's "I Wanna Hold Your Hand," he doesn't care one bit that his friends in the Tough Customers gang know that he's going to be performing in a clarinet solo, but is terribly afraid that one of them might find out that he still sometimes holds his mother's hand. When they do find out anyway, they chew him out... for not having a juicier, more embarrassing secret!
** Arthur is chock-full of this trope. The titular character himself has this moment with Season 4's ''That's A Baby's Show'', when he becomes hooked on a {{Teletubbies}} {{Expy}} called ''Love Ducks''. Also, in Season 4's ''Buster's Breathless'', Buster initially tries to hide the fact that he suffers from Asthma, and in Season 7's ''Jenna's Bedtime Blues'', AscendedExtra Jenna Morgan tries to hide the fact that she wears diapers becuase she suffers from Nocturnal Enuresis, aka bedwetting.

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* Dark Helmet in ''{{Spaceballs}}'' plays with dolls when he thinks he's alone... Of course, Col. Sandurz catches him in the act time and again but assures him that he didn't saw that he was once playing with his dolls again."
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** Arthur is chock-full of this trope. The titular character himself has this moment with Season 4's ''That's A Baby's Show'', when he becomes hooked on a {{Teletubbies}} {{Expy}} called ''Love Ducks''. Also, in Season 4's ''Buster's Breathless'', Buster initially tries to hide the fact that he suffers from Asthma, and in Season 7's ''Jenna's Bedtime Blues'', AscendedExtra Jenna Morgan tries to hide the fact that she suffers from Nocturnal Enuresis, aka Bedwetting.

* Dark Helmet in ''{{Spaceballs}}'' plays with puppets when he thinks he's alone... Of course, Col. Sandurz catches him in the act time and again but assures him that he "didn't saw that he [Lord Helmet] was once again playing with his puppets".

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We all know here that RealMenWearPink, but some haven't gotten the memo. Hence this trope, when someone who has RealMenWearPink characteristics tries to hide them out of shame, embarrassment, fear of teasing/bullying, etc. They may choose to keep them to themselves, or they may share it with only a few close friends. If they think that they're hiding it, but a lot of people around them know anyway and don't care, it could be TheNotSecret. May also lead to the use of LessEmbarrassingTerm.

A similar phenomenon would be a female character who is OneOfTheBoys trying to hide anything considered feminine or girly that they like, though this doesn't seem to be nearly as common. The inversion would be a female trying to hide the like of anything manly, though that's probably even less common these days.

* There's a joke about a guy who finds himself all alone in the house, all the womenfolk scared off by the big game on TV that night. He double checks the locks and party supplies and... catches up with his favorite SoapOpera.

* Butler, ArtemisFowl's six-foot-plus OneManArmy and BattleButler, likes watching romantic comedies, though he will never admit this to anyone.

* In ''SadieJ'', Kit tries to hide his fashion interests from cousin Lollo (Welsh, pronounced Yoh-low) by pretending to enjoy rugby. Lollo then says that he'd like him anyway when he accidentally (but inevitably) finds out.

* Again zigzagged with Hubert of ''[[VideoGame/TalesOfGraces Tales of Graces]]'' and his fanboy-ish interests. In some cases, he has no problems debating canon with other characters. But when Sophie catches him playing with "Beach Brigade" toys, he tells her that the Beach Brigade is a branch of the Strahtan military dedicated to waterfront protection.

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* In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E16ReadItAndWeep Read It and Weep]]" on ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]'', Rainbow Dash feels that nobody can know that she, being the sportish flying pony that she is, likes something egg-head like such as reading and she goes to increasingly elaborate lengths both to hide it and to get her book back.

* Lord Helmet in ''{{Spaceballs}}'' plays with puppets when he thinks he's alone... Of course, Col. Sandurz catches him in the act time and again but assures him that he "didn't saw that he [Lord Helmet] was once again playing with his puppets".

* In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E16ReadItAndWeep Read It and Weep]]" on ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]'', Rainbow Dash feels that nobody can know that she, being the sportish flying pony that she is, likes something like egg-head like such as reading and she goes to increasingly elaborate lengths both to hide it and to get her book back.

* On ''[[WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter PB&J Otter]]'', both Peanut and Munchy refer to their Bucky Spacebeaver toys as "[[LessEmbarrassingTerm action figures]]" instead of "dolls" to try to preserve their perceived manliness. Additionally, Flick Duck tends to behave very secretively about any behaviors or hobbies of his that would be perceived as girlish.