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Author: crazysamaritan

May 31st 2013 at 11:39:11 AM

Suggested description rewording:
Villains who don't care about the SecretIdentity of their enemies.  They may even actively ''help'' the hero from revealing their secret at an inappropriate time.  Instead of trying to uncover the secret to ruin or blackmail their adversary, this happens when the villain believes any civilian identity is irrelevant to their contest.

The Villain will still use the fact that the hero won't change costumes in front of their family to commit a crime, but won't email a video of the costume-change to the hero's mom.  The justification may be that knowing the truth will spoil the fun, the villain is the OnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou, or even the favour in return for the hero saving his life.  The trope can be inverted by the hero keeping the villain's SecretIdentity, instead of exposing them.

Additional related tropes go here.

Suggested new title:
EnemyKeepingTheIdentitySecretFor
Useage-  Joker is the enemy keeping the identity secret for Batman.

Two inversion examples:
* Dark Knight, Batman keeps Two-Face a secret
* Spiderman 2, with Toby McGuire, Spidey is the enemy keeping the identity secret for green goblin, especially after Harry gets amnesia.