History HiddenDepths / LiveActionTV

** "Mac Finds His Pride" and "The Gang Carries a Corpse Up a Mountain" display some hidden depths for Mac and Charlie, respectively.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E65TheObsoleteMan The Obsolete Man]]" Wordsworth built all of his own furniture. It was this skill in carpentry that allowed him to remain alive for so long, since they deem the trade useful (presumably he's no longer young enough to work efficiently in their view, hence his condemnation for being obsolete since they no longer allow his former profession, being a librarian, since books are banned).

** Mild-mannered Giles has a past that includes being a magical hooligan called Ripper and, as Angelus learns in Season 2 is no slouch in combat. Also he fucks like a stevedore.

* ''Series/{{Vera}}'': In "Dark Angel", Kenny unexpectedly reveals that he speaks Latin.

* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}''. In "Diamonds Are Forever", Abe and Jo both learn not to prejudge people.
** Abe assumes that "the Asian kid" with a tattoo and baseball cap who was in the store stole a missing statue, and that he's come back to steal again. In actuality, the kid is an avid fan of antiques and was moving the vase he's holding to a place he believes better suits it; he similarly moved the statue inside a chest, because ([[RunningGag as Henry kept insisting]]) it's fake and hideous.
** Early in the episode the wife of an ex-con insists that he turned his life around after he got out. Henry believes it, but Jo tells Henry that "criminals don't change their stripes." At the end of the episode she learns that the reason the victim (an ex-con) knocked on her door the night he was killed is because he wanted to see Jo's husband, who believed him in the past when he said he wanted to turn his life around and helped lighten his sentence when he got convicted. He was being set up for a crime this time, and he thought Jo's husband would believe him.

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': Black Noir. It's shown when he wordlessly glowers at a piano player until he steps away from the piano, then sits down by it himself and then plays the Minute Waltz, a much faster and upbeat piece than what the piano player playing. Similarly, when the truth that they weren't born special but were merely lab experiments secretly given Compound V and then lied to about it by their parents, Black Noir is seen slumped in a hallway loudly weeping -- it's the only time he ever shows any real emotion, and he has the ''most'' emotional reaction to it out of any of the Supes.

** One example is G'Kar. When the show begins, he's a sabre-rattling antagonist, chomping at the bit to get some revenge on the Centauri. But even as early as the first season, we discover he's deeply religious, is willing to help someone out at no gain to himself, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking likes to cook.]]

* Tim Taylor of ''Series/HomeImprovement'' was usually a BumblingDad prone to insensitivity but he was often able to say the right thing at the right time when someone needed him. Perhaps most surprising of all, whenever Tim stops obsessing over [[{{Catchphrase}} MORE POWER]] and just builds/fixes something, it turns out he is very good with his hands. Interestingly, one time that Jill encouraged him to go up to eleven, when she wanted him to build am ultra high-tech security system for the house, he managed to do it with none of his usual screw ups.

** Abed, the TV geek with an AmbiguousDisorder, is incredibly manipulative and cunning, often tricking the study group into doing his bidding. He's also a skilled impressionist who has shown the ability to [[TheCasanova get any girl he wants]] by identifying her favorite archetype and playing it perfectly.

* Tim Taylor of ''Series/HomeImprovement'' was usually a BumblingDad prone to insensitivity but he was often able to say the right thing at the right time when someone needed him.
** Perhaps most surprising of all, whenever Tim stops obsessing over [[{{Catchphrase}} MORE POWER]] and just builds/fixes something, it turns out he is very good with his hands. Interestingly, one time that Jill encouraged him to go up to eleven, when she wanted him to build am ultra high-tech security system for the house, he managed to do it with none of his usual screw ups.

* ''Series/{{Forever}}''. In "Diamonds Are Forever", Abe and Jo both learn not to prejudge people.

** Perhaps most surprising of all, whenever Tim stops obsessing over [[{{Catchphrase}} MORE POWER]] and just builds/fixes something, it turns out he is very good with his hands. Interestingly, one time that Jill encouraged him to go UpToEleven, when she wanted him to build am ultra high-tech security system for the house, he managed to do it with none of his usual screw ups.

** [[BookDumb Skinny Pete]] is briefly shown casually performing a classical piano piece in the episode "Hazard Pay," displaying a considerable level of skill. This, along with [[spoiler: Pete hatching a plan to help Jesse escape the cops in El Camino]] suggest that he may be more intelligent than he [[ObfuscatingStupidity lets on.]]

** As shallow as she may seem, Fatin is the most empathetic of the girls, being the first to pick up on people's emotional needs. It allows her to help when Leah starts slipping, detect BST between Toni and Shelby and help Martha with her ParalyzingFearOfSexuality. In Season 2 she also recites an Islamic prayer while with Shelby as well. Shelby's surprised because Fatin had never said anything about religion before, though it is shown that she comes from a Muslim family. Fatin does say it's all the remembers, granted.