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** Charles is TooDumbToFool--he never picked up on the fact that Alice was disguised as a boy in the first.

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** Alice is an AttractiveBentGender so {{Even The Guys Want|Him}} [[EvenTheGuysWantHim "Him".]]

* '''Enforced''': ExecutiveMeddling says gender-bending hijinks are hilarious, so the SweetOnPollyOliver subplot is shoehorned in.

** Charles may have fallen for Bob when he thought Bob was male, but [[BiTheWay Alice is fine as well]].

* '''Zig Zagged''': Charles is attracted to "Bob" but then Alice reveals herself, except Charles just came out of the closet, so Alice gets a sex change, but it turns out Charles is really more [[BiTheWay bi than anything else]].

'''Basic Trope''': A woman masquerades as a man, and another man is attracted to "him."

* Charles is TooDumbToFool--he never picked up on the fact that Alice was disguised as a boy in the first.

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

* '''Straight''': Alice masquerades as Bob, and [[TheCasanova Charlie]] wonders why he's so attracted to Bob. Much angst and/or hilarity ensues, until Bob reveals she's actually Alice.

** Alice gets a complete sex change to become Bob, and Charlie still falls for Bob. Eventually he's relieved to find out that Bob is "really Alice".

** Alice masquerades as Bob, and Charlie thinks Bob is a good-looking guy, but [[GayMoment not like that]]. [[StupidSexyFlanders Okay, maybe a bit like that]]. But it's just a momentary crush.

** Charlie is bisexual or pansexual, and is too attracted to Alice at this stage to make a big deal of her gender.
** Charlie is blind, so he goes by scent, sound and touch, none of which Alice-as-Bob has done particularly well at masking.
** Alice's disguise [[GlamourFailure isn't that good.]]

** Bob masquerades as Alice, and Charlie, who is gay, wonders why he's so attracted to "her."

** It looks like Charlie has fallen for Bob, but he's really just getting close to Bob because he thinks Bob knows Alice.
** Charlie has fallen for Bob... ''Because'' [[StraightGay he thought Bob actually was male]].
** After Charlie finds out that Bob is really Alice, he's done with her... She's not the person he had to rationalize his crush on, and she pretty much deceived and humiliated him on top of that.

** ...And then sticks around when Bob says that he doesn't, because he's fallen for Bob for real. He's relieved when Bob reveals that he ''is'' Alice.
** Charlie may have fallen for Bob when he thought Bob was male, but [[BiTheWay Alice is fine as well]].
** Alice lets him know that the only thing that seperates Alice from Bob is gender and that Charlie fell in love her, despite thinking she was Bob. Alice also reveals that she had excellent reasons for hiding her gender and never meant to get as close to Charlie as she did because she didn't want him to feel that betrayal.
* '''Parodied''': Bob reveals "he" is really Alice, but it turns out that "Charlie" is actually Dana. Not one to be shown up, [[LatexPerfection Alice takes off her mask]] and reveals "she" is really Zack, and then Dana turns off her hologram emitter, revealing "she" is [[EldritchAbomination E'ri'kh of the thousand genders.]] They decide to start dating.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Charlie is attracted to "Bob" but then Alice reveals herself, except Charlie just came out of the closet, so Alice gets a sex change, but it turns out Charlie is really more [[BiTheWay Bi than anything else.]]

* '''Invoked''': "Bob" wants to humiliate JerkJock Charlie, so tries everything to get Charlie to think he's gay.

* '''Defied''': Charlie realizes that at most he feels IfItsYouItsOkay towards Bob, who has acted completely straight from the word "Go", so he ignores his "feelings".

* '''Reconstructed''': Charlie, realizing she had good reason for what she did, helps her change the system so others won't have to go to such extremes.

** Alice gets a complete sex change to become Bob, and Charlie still falls for Bob. [[UnfortunateImplications Eventually he's relieved to find out that Bob is "really Alice"]].

** Alice acts and dresses like a boy, but never says she is. Everyone is fooled at first, but soon begin to realize and Alice acts and dresses more and more feminine as time goes on with some Lampshade Hanging.

* '''Downplayed''': Alice acts and dresses like a boy, but never says she is. Everyone is fooled at first, but soon begin to realize and Alice acts and dresses more and more feminine as time goes on with some Lampshade Hanging.

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

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice masquerades as Bob, and every man "he" meets declares undying love for "him."
** Alice gets a complete sex change to become Bob, and Charlie still falls for Bob. [[UnfortunateImplications Eventually he's relieved to find out that Bob is "really Alice"]]
* '''Justified''': Attraction is also based on scent, and Alice still smells like a girl.

* '''Inverted''': Bob masquerades as Alice, and Charlie, who is gay, wonders why he's so attracted to "her."
** Alternate inversion[=/=]GenderFlip: Bob masquerades as Alice, and Dana is [[LesYay attracted to "her"]].

* '''Subverted''': It looks like Charlie has fallen for Bob, but he's really just getting close to Bob because he thinks Bob knows Alice.
** Charlie has fallen for Bob... ''because'' [[StraightGay he thought Bob actually was male]].

* '''Double Subverted''':...And then sticks around when Bob says that he doesn't, because he's fallen for Bob for real. He's relieved when Bob reveals that he ''is'' Alice.

* '''Deconstructed''': Alice's betrayal of the trust of those around her makes all the people she fooled this way never forgive her.
* '''Reconstructed''': Charlie, realizing she had good reason for what she did, helps her change the system so others won't have to go to such extremes.

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** [[WallBanging Alice gets a complete sex change to become Bob, and Charlie still falls for Bob.]] [[UnfortunateImplications Eventually he's relieved to find out that Bob is "really Alice"]]

** [[WallBanger Alice gets a complete sex change to become Bob, and Charlie still falls for Bob.]] [[UnfortunateImplications Eventually he's relieved to find out that Bob is "really Alice"]]

* Alice's disguise [[GlamourFailure isn't that good.]]

**Charlie is bisexual or pansexual, and is too attracted to Alice at this stage to make a big deal of her gender.

* '''Enforced''': Charlie is blind, so he goes by scent, sound and touch, none of which Alice-as-Bob has done particularly well at masking.