The TVTropes Trope Finder is where you can come to ask questions like "Do we have this one?" and "What's the trope about...?" Trying to rediscover a long lost show or other medium but need a little help? Head to Media Finder and try your luck there. Want to propose a new trope? You should be over at You Know, That Thing Where.
WackyMeetsPractical
Since: Oct, 2009
Is there any trope for "character whose identity is supposedly fictional, but by now lots of people knows who he is, and for some reason they never refer to it still acting as if no one knows who they are"?
Kind of hard to explain...
Take the second Spiderman movie, for example. That train scene when he loses his mask. You know what I'm talking about.
Or take the fact there are quite a few Batman villains who know who Batman is by now (Riddler and Hugo Strange and Raz al Ghul to name three), but they never act upon it, and the comics go on as if the secret has never been found.