Cases where somebody admires a superhero while hating their civilian identity in Western Animation.
- American Dragon: Jake Long: A doubles version, Jake and Rose both have secret identities who are each other's sworn enemies, but are dating. Eventually subverted when Jake and much later, Rose find out who they were fighting all this time and then agree to let the animosity end.
- Batman: The Animated Series: In Night of the Ninja, a ninja comes to Gotham to kill Bruce Wayne because of a grudge that developed years ago when Bruce was training to be Batman. This leads to him actually fighting Batman, and he recognises the fighting style and realises that they are the same person.
- Batman Beyond: Matt McGinnis is a big fan of Batman, and regards his big brother Terry as a boring twip who's hardly ever around.
- Big Hero 6: The Series:
- Karmi is in love with BH6Hiro, but really despises Hiro Hamada. Later flipped around when she gives up obsessing over his heroic persona and starts to crush on Hiro.
- Richardson Mole is a superfan of "Lizard Guy", but hates Fred Fredrickson with an intense and bitter rivalry.
- Danny Phantom:
- Danny Fenton is severely bullied by Dash Baxter who is one of Danny Phantom's biggest fans.
- Paulina, whom Danny has a crush on, and who is in love with him as Danny Phantom, despises the Fenton boy.
- Pretty much the entire teenage population of his school has this opinion of him as Fenton, though only up to the point in the episode where he accidentally outs himself as being the same person as Danny Phantom, to which they all start treating him better, with the aforementioned Dash outright admitting that they love him as a hero and even Paulina wraps her head around the concept of being his future wife, which he suggested in a prior episode. That said, this shift in opinion only lasts until the end of the episode, when Danny uses the episode's MacGuffin to make everyone forget, and continues to be that way until the finale, where this happens again.
- Dr. Dimensionpants: Rebecca is in love with the title character but not with Kyle, who is his secret identity.
- DuckTales (2017): Drake Mallard/Darkwing Duck considers Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera a valued ally and friend, but loathes Gizmoduck. For extra irony, he's pretty much the only person on the show who hasn't figured out that they're one and the same, even thinking Fenton doesn't like him either.
- El Tigre: Manny is quite close to Zoe Avers, but completely ignores her supervillian identity of Black Cuervo. Ironically despite all the emotional torment and sometimes physical violence received, she genuinely loves him. A subversion because Manny is publicly known to be El Tigre, but Zoe has a secret identity, which leads to an incredibly complicated relationship.
- King Rondor in Masters of the Universe: Revelation admires He-Man and seems to find his son, Prince Adam a disappointment. He's shocked to find out they're the same person after they die.
- Miraculous Ladybug:
- Chloé Bourgeois is one of the biggest Ladybug fangirls in the cast, but has a mutual hatred for her alter ego Marinette. In various episodes where she gets to meet Ladybug personally (usually after indirectly creating the Villain of the Week with her bitchy tendencies) and keeps hugging her, Ladybug's response every time is to push her away with a disgusted expression and some light slapping. This doesn't change when Chloé gets the Bee Miraculous in season 2, and her continued animosity toward Marinette is one of the many contributing factors to Ladybug continually passing her over for missions, in turn eventually leading Chloé to outright team up with Hawk Moth in an attempt to regain the spotlight.
- Subverted in "Lady Wifi," where Cat Noir sees Chloé cosplaying as Ladybug and is horrified at the possibility he may be crushing on her. Naturally, he is tremendously relieved when the actual Ladybug shows up to meet him.
- Subverted with Lila Rossi, who is unaware that Marinette and Ladybug are the same but despises both equally for calling her out on her lies.
- My Life as a Teenage Robot: Jenny initially falls in love with the Silver Shell, but can't stand Sheldon, even though he made up the Silver Shell identity to repulse her and make himself seem better by comparison. This is eventually reversed, as she ultimately at least thinks of Sheldon as a friend, but when Sheldon tries to date her as the Silver Shell, Jenny comes to dislike his alter-ego (which cause Sheldon to mostly abandon it).
- Steven Universe: In "Tiger Millionaire", when Steven becomes the eponymous pro wrestler Lars becomes Tiger Millionaire's biggest fan, even though he still thinks of Steven as a nosy, annoying Tagalong Kid.
- The Superhero Squad Show: In the episode "Too Many Wolverines", Reptil isn't keen on being partners with his classmate Angelica Jones due to her missing classes or arriving late. He also gets along with the hero Firestar when they team up with Wolverine to deal with his clones. Reptil spends their team-up mouthing about his gripe with Angelica to Firestar, which comes to blow when she blurts out that she is Angelica and the reason she has low attendance is because of her work as a hero, which shocks Reptil to silence.
