1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character meets a female online, only for them to end up being male |
2 | * '''Straight''': Bob meets Alice online. Unfortunately for Bob, Alice's real name is Carlos and she is male. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Every single girl Bob has ever met online is male in real life. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Bob meets Alice online. Turns out Alice is a lot more of a {{Tomboy}} than she appeared online. |
5 | ** Carlos never properly discloses their gender, but Bob assumes Carlos to be a female because of their feminine talking style and profile. Carlos is nonbinary. |
6 | * '''Justified''': |
7 | ** Carlos, or rather Carla, is transgender and currently is in the closet. She can be herself online. |
8 | ** Or Carlos has been brainwashed to believe he really is Alice when online. |
9 | ** Carlos DoesNotLikeMen. |
10 | ** Carlos is InTouchWithHisFeminineSide, and wants to experiment with roleplaying as a female. |
11 | ** Carlos may be a man, but he's a {{troll}} who finds it funny to pretend he's a girl and then [[UnsettlingGenderreveal drop the Bridget]] when Bob has something invested in him actually being Alice. |
12 | ** 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. |
13 | ** "If I'm going to be staring at someone's butt all day, it's going to be a girl's." |
14 | ** Carlos is a cop pretending to be a prepubscent girl as part of a sting operation. |
15 | ** You can be whoever you want to be online, and Carlos wants to pretend to be a woman, dammit. |
16 | ** The entire game [[ImprobablyFemaleCast only has female characters to choose]]. |
17 | * '''Inverted''': |
18 | ** Alice meets Bob online, and he 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]] |
19 | ** Alice pretends to be a guy online, which is kind of awkward for Bob when they try to hang out off the web. |
20 | ** Carlos pretends to be a woman in real life, but can act as his real male self online. |
21 | * '''Subverted''': |
22 | ** When they finally meet Bob is relieved to see that Alice is a girl in real life. |
23 | ** 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.]] |
24 | ** Alice claims to be male in real life, but when Bob meets him/her, it turns out Alice was lying. |
25 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
26 | ** But she is really Carlos' sister, whom he sent to meet Bob to avoid having his cover blown. |
27 | %%(unclear whether needs cutting or moving to Subverted)** Alice is a girl. [[LadyLooksLikeADude She just doesn't look like one.]] |
28 | * '''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. |
29 | * '''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. |
30 | * '''Averted''': |
31 | ** Alice is a girl in real life, and the thought that she might have been male had never crossed Bob's mind. |
32 | ** 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. |
33 | * '''Enforced''': The writer has had the exact situation occur to him, so he uses it for material. |
34 | * '''Lampshaded''': "You sure you want to meet Alice in real life, Bob? What if she turns out to be a guy?" |
35 | * '''Invoked''': Bob is depressed at the state of his romantic life, so Carlos creates a female online alter-ego, Alice, for the purpose of cheering Bob up. |
36 | * '''Exploited''': Carlos catfishes people for profit. |
37 | * '''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. |
38 | * '''Discussed''': "That's the seventh time Bob has met a girl online only for her to turn out to be a guy, he really should have learned by now." |
39 | * '''Conversed''': "Let's hope this season they don't have Bob meet ''another'' G.I.R.L. That joke's wearing pretty thin." |
40 | * '''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. |
41 | * '''Reconstructed''': The investigator is surprised to learn that Alice is actually Carlos, who points out that the investigator used photos of a guy who looks like he's in his early twenties. |
42 | * '''Played For Laughs''': Carlos pretends to be a girl but is so bad at it it's a PaperThinDisguise. Everyone believes him anyway. |
43 | * '''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. |
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