Janitor seems to have nuked the whole Real Life section. I think that's serious overkill, especially since several of the fictional examples refer to the Marine legend. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of Real Life sections on this wiki that should be removed — mostly on negative tropes, where they attract politics-baiting and other trollery. But the one on this page just needs a little tidying up, so I've put it back. Let's debate any further removals here.

(I bet by doing this I passed Janitor's secret test!)

A troper recently went through and got rid of entries that were just secret tests, not tests of character. That's a good idea, but he was a bit overzealous. I can't speak for the other series with deleted entries, but the Naruto examples are definitely tests of character — they just got bogged down in natter about what else was being tested. This is why it's a bad idea to chop entries about things you haven't actually seen, at least without going through talk. Someone familiar with the other series (One Piece, for instance) should check the edit history.

Some people have "click here to see spoiler" do-dads on the entries. That's just not how Tv Tropes opperates good sir or madam. Does anyone object before I assimilate the entries?

Moved the Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory examples to Secret Test, because (a) they don't know they're being tested and (b) they don't involve anyone being asked to do something unethical to succeed, both of which are required for this trope.

Also moved/deleted the Robert Heinlein examples, since they're either (a) already on another, more appropriate page or (b) don't fit the trope description either.

Moved the following examples to Secret Test, since they don't involve a test/challenge the testee knows they're undergoing.

Commercials: A guy is offered sex by his fiancee's sister.

Fairy Tales: The Traveler

Literature: Lords of the Bow, Hand Of Thrawn, Lord Of The Clans, The Confidence Man, "Profession"

Live Action TV: Scrubs, The Twilight Zone episode "Valley of the Shadow", Firefly episode "Ariel.", The Wire

Mythology: Hindu epic Mahabharata, Swedish folk tale Which Is Which?, Iliad

Theater: Macbeth, Rossini's opera La Cenerentola

Video Games: Baldurs Gate 2, Dark Cloud 2

Web Comics: Girl Genius, College Roomies From Hell, Misfile, Dominic Deegan, No Rest For the Wicked, General Protection Fault, Mega Tokyo

Western Animation: American Dad, Recess

Real Life: Van Halen, Henry Ford, condom joke, Zhao Gao, talking donkey joke, Honest Tea, honesty test

Someone added the Scrubs example again, so I deleted it. It's still on Secret Test.

Moved the Men In Black example to Secret Test where it belongs.