History PlayingWith / GIRL

* '''Reconstructed''': The investigator is surprised to learn that Alice is actually Carlos, who points out the investigator used photos of a guy who looks like he's in his early twenties.

* '''Reconstructed''': The investigator is highly surprised to learn that Alice is actually Carlos.

** Carlos is transgender and currently is in the closet. She can be herself online.

** Carlos is InTouchWithHisFeminineSide, and wants to experement with roleplaying as a female.

%%* '''Implied''': ???

** Alternatively: Alice pretends to be a guy online, which is kind of awkward for Bob when they try to hang out off the web.
** Or, Carlos pretends to be a woman in real life, but can act as his real male self online.

** Alternatively: When Bob goes to meet Alice, he sees someone in a suit standing where she said she'd be, and expects that it'll turn out to be a guy... But Alice just turns out to be [[{{Bifauxnen}} a girl in guy's clothing.]]

** Alice meets Bob on-line, who turns out to be her (female) best friend Danielle in real life.[[note]]The opposite of a G.I.R.L. - Girl in Real Life[[/note]]

** Alice claims to be male, but when Bob meets him/her, it turns out Alice was lying.

** Alice is a girl. [[LadyLooksLikeADude She just doesn't look like one.]]

* '''Conversed''': "Let's hope this season they don't have Bob meet ''another'' GIRL. That joke's wearing pretty thin."

* '''Played For Laughs''': Carlos pretends to be a girl but is so bad ad it it's a PaperThinDisguise

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Played For Drama''': Carlos is actually a very lonely individual so he invented Alice as an [[InventedIndividual Imaginary Girlfriend]] so he could be less lonely. Over time, however, his ImaginaryFriend began to take on a personality of her own as he used the internet to flesh her out, even having AIM conversations with her and signing her up for YouTube and other social media sites. Unfortunately, though, he spends too much time giving her a "real" personality [[GoneHorriblyRight to the point that]] his [[ImaginaryFriend Imaginary Girlfriend]] Alice and him have a fight and break up. He's so invested in this imaginary friend that he creates a dating profile site for her and the OhCrap realization doesn't hit him until the last minute. Carlos has to invent a story about how Alice is his girlfriend and he went there to try to meet her and patch things up.

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

* '''Double Subverted''': But she is really Carlos' sister, whom he sent to meet Bob to avoid having his cover blown.

** Carlos is a {{Transsexual}} and currently waiting to have a sex change, so she is practicing.

** Morpheus rescues a girl from the Matrix. Somehow, it turns out she's actually a guy.