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


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** Alice is a girl. [[LadyLooksLikeADude She just doesn't look like one.]]
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** Alice meets Bob on-line, who turns out to be her (female) best friend Danielle in real life.[[hottip:*:The opposite of a G.I.R.L. - Girl in Real Life]]

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** Alice meets Bob on-line, who turns out to be her (female) best friend Danielle in real life.[[hottip:*:The [[note]]The opposite of a G.I.R.L. - Girl in Real Life]]Life[[/note]]
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* '''Exploited''': Bob has a fetish for this sort of thing?

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* '''Exploited''': Bob has a fetish for this sort of thing????
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* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???Bob has a fetish for this sort of thing?
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Bob meets Alice online. Turns out Alice is a lot more of a {{Tomboy}} than she appeared online.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob is starting to suspect that Alice is really a guy, but when they meet in real life, she definitely looks like a girl... And then she turns out to be [[WholesomeCrossdresser a very feminine guy in girl's clothes.]]

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* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob is starting to suspect that Alice is really a guy, but when they meet in real life, she definitely looks like a girl... And then she turns out to be [[WholesomeCrossdresser a very feminine guy in girl's clothes.]]]] But then, it turns out she sent her brother/friend/boyfriend/etc. there to just mess with his head.
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** Carlos may be a man, but he's a {{troll}} who finds it funny to pretend he's a girl and then [[DroppedABridgetOnHim drop the Bridget]] when Bob has something invested in him actually being Alice.

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** Carlos may be a man, but he's a {{troll}} who finds it funny to pretend he's a girl and then [[DroppedABridgetOnHim [[UnsettlingGenderreveal drop the Bridget]] when Bob has something invested in him actually being Alice.

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* '''Downplayed''': ???



* '''Deconstructed''': Carlos goes online as Alice to meet guys. Unfortunately, he ends up hitting on an undercover investigator pretending to be underage who believes he is a pedophile and arrests him.
* '''Reconstructed''': The investigator is highly surprised to learn that Alice is actually Carlos.



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




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\n-----\n* '''Deconstructed''': Carlos goes online as Alice to meet guys. Unfortunately, he ends up hitting on an undercover investigator pretending to be underage who believes he is a pedophile and arrests him.
* '''Reconstructed''': The investigator is highly surprised to learn that Alice is actually Carlos.
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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???
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** "If I'm going to be staring at someone's butt all day, it's going to be a girls."

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** "If I'm going to be staring at someone's butt all day, it's going to be a girls.girl's."

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

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



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

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



* '''Subverted''': When they finally meet Bob is relieved to see that Alice is a girl in real life.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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When they finally meet Bob is relieved to see that Alice is a girl in real life.



* '''Averted''': Alice is a girl in real life, and the thought that she might have been male had never crossed Bob's mind.

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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
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Alice is a girl in real life, and the thought that she might have been male had never crossed Bob's mind.
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** You can be whoever you want to be online, and Carlos wants to pretend to be a woman, dammit.
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** Or, Carlos pretends to be a woman in real life, but can act as his real male self online.
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* '''Invoked''': Bob is depressed at the state of his romantic life, so Carlos creates a female online alter-ego, Alice, for the only purpose of cheering Bob up.

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* '''Invoked''': Bob is depressed at the state of his romantic life, so Carlos creates a female online alter-ego, Alice, for the only purpose of cheering Bob up.
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* '''Inverted''': Alice meets Bob on-line, who turns out to be her (female) best friend Danielle in real life.[[hottip:*:A G.I.R.L. - Girl in Real Life]]

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

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* '''Inverted''': Alice meets Bob on-line, who turns out to be her (female) best friend Danielle in real life.[[hottip:*:A G.I.R.L. - Girl in Real Life]]
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** Carlos is a cop pretending to be a prepubscent girl as part of a sting operation.
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* "If I'm going to be staring at someone's butt all day, it's going to be a girls."

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* ** "If I'm going to be staring at someone's butt all day, it's going to be a girls."
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* "If I'm going to be staring at someone's butt all day, it's going to be a girls."
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** Carlos is an epic scale {{Munchkin}}, and he has discovered a powerful GameBreaker dynamic that allows him to [[LeetSpeak PWN n00bs]] with extreme ease. However, it only works if playing a particular female-only class.
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* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Parodied''': ???A virtual world is used to represent the future's version of the Internet, inhabited almost entirely by fat men in women's clothing.



* '''Reconstructed''': ???

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* '''Reconstructed''': ???The investigator is highly surprised to learn that Alice is actually Carlos.
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** 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 [[{{Bifauxenen}} a girl in guy's clothing.]]

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** 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 [[{{Bifauxenen}} [[{{Bifauxnen}} a girl in guy's clothing.]]

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** Alternatively: Alice pretends to be a guy online, which is kind of awkward for Bob when they try to hang out off the web.



** 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 [[{{Bifauxenen}} a girl in guy's clothing.]]



* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???Bob is starting to suspect that Alice is really a guy, but when they meet in real life, she definitely looks like a girl... And then she turns out to be [[WholesomeCrossdresser a very feminine guy in girl's clothes.]]

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** Carlos DosNotLikeMen.

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** Carlos DosNotLikeMen.DoesNotLikeMen.
** Carlos may be a man, but he's a {{troll}} who finds it funny to pretend he's a girl and then [[DroppedABridgetOnHim drop the Bridget]] when Bob has something invested in him actually being Alice.
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** Carlos DosNOtLikeMen.

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** Carlos DosNOtLikeMen.DosNotLikeMen.
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** Carlos DosNOtLikeMen.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Every single girl Bob has ever met on-line is male in real life.
* '''Justified''': Carlos is gay and currently waiting to have a sex change, so he is practicing.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Every single girl Bob has ever met on-line online is male in real life.
* '''Justified''': Carlos is gay a {{Transsexual}} and currently waiting to have a sex change, so she is practicing.
** Or Carlos has been brainwashed to believe
he really is practicing.Alice when online.



* '''Deconstructed''': Carlos goes online as Alice to meet guys. Unfortunately, she ends up hitting on an undercover investigator pretending to be underage who believes he is a pedophile and arrests him.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Carlos goes online as Alice to meet guys. Unfortunately, she he ends up hitting on an undercover investigator pretending to be underage who believes he is a pedophile and arrests him.



** Or Carlos is a guy in real life who has a female screen name but doesn't pretend to be a girl aside from the name, and answers readily and sincerely when asked whether he is a guy or a girl in real life.



* '''Invoked''': Bob is depressed at the state of his romantic life, so Carlos creates a female on-line alter-ego, Alice, for the only purpose of cheering Bob up.

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* '''Invoked''': Bob is depressed at the state of his romantic life, so Carlos creates a female on-line online alter-ego, Alice, for the only purpose of cheering Bob up.



* '''Discussed''': "That's the seventh time Bob has met a girl on-line only for her to turn out to be a guy, he really should have learned by now."

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* '''Discussed''': "That's the seventh time Bob has met a girl on-line online only for her to turn out to be a guy, he really should have learned by now."
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* '''Deconstructed''': Carlos goes online as Alice to meet guys. Unfortunately, she ends up hitting on a underage undercover investigator who believes he is a pedophile and arrests him.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Carlos goes online as Alice to meet guys. Unfortunately, she ends up hitting on a underage an undercover investigator pretending to be underage who believes he is a pedophile and arrests him.
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'''Basic Trope''': Bob meets Alice on-line.
* '''Straight''': Alice's real name is Carlos and she is male.

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'''Basic Trope''': Bob A character meets Alice on-line.
a female online, only for them to end up being male
* '''Straight''': Bob meets Alice online. Unfortunately for Bob, Alice's real name is Carlos and she is male.



* '''Justified''': ???

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* '''Justified''': ???Carlos is gay and currently waiting to have a sex change, so he is practicing.



* '''Deconstructed''': Carlos is a {{Transsexual}} who can only express her true self, Alice, on-line.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Carlos goes online as Alice to meet guys. Unfortunately, she ends up hitting on a underage undercover investigator who believes he is a {{Transsexual}} who can only express her true self, Alice, on-line.pedophile and arrests him.



* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Enforced''': ???The writer has had the exact situation occur to him, so he uses it for material.
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* '''Deconstructed''': Carlos is a {{Transsexual}} who can only express his true self, Alice, on-line.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Carlos is a {{Transsexual}} who can only express his her true self, Alice, on-line.

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Click '''Basic Trope''': Bob meets Alice on-line.
* '''Straight''': Alice's real name is Carlos and she is male.
* '''Exaggerated''': Every single girl Bob has ever met on-line is male in real life.
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': Alice meets Bob on-line, who turns out to be her (female) best friend Danielle in real life.
* '''Subverted''': When they finally meet Bob is relieved to see that Alice is a girl in real life.
* '''Double Subverted''': But she is really Carlos' sister, whom he sent to meet Bob to avoid having his cover blown.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': Carlos is a {{Transsexual}} who can only express his true self, Alice, on-line.
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': Alice is a girl in real life, and
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* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': "You sure you want
to start meet Alice in real life, Bob? What if she turns out to be a guy?"
* '''Invoked''': Bob is depressed at the state of his romantic life, so Carlos creates a female on-line alter-ego, Alice, for the only purpose of cheering Bob up.
* '''Defied''': Every time Bob gets involved with a girl online he asks for pictures and a way to contact her to make sure she's not a guy in real life.
* '''Discussed''': "That's the seventh time Bob has met a girl on-line only for her to turn out to be a guy, he really should have learned by now."
* '''Conversed''': "Let's hope
this new page. season they don't have Bob meet ''another'' GIRL. That joke's wearing pretty thin."

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