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* ''Series/CrashLandingOnYou'': In episode 12, Ri Jeong-Hyeok and Geum Eun-dong play a video game under aliases, unbeknownst to each other, and after an altercation online, they try to have a confrontation in real life. However, [[spoiler:Yoon Se-ri stops Jeong-hyeok from going due to the silly nature of meeting and fighting a stranger over a game]].

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* ''Series/CrashLandingOnYou'': In episode 12, Captain Ri Jeong-Hyeok Jeong-hyeok and his Lancer-Corporal Geum Eun-dong play a video game under aliases, unbeknownst to each other, and after an altercation online, they try to have a confrontation in real life. However, [[spoiler:Yoon Se-ri stops Jeong-hyeok from going due to the silly nature of meeting and fighting a stranger over a game]].game, thus delaying the subordinates in Company Five from successfully finding their captain in South Korea]].
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* ''Series/CrashLandingOnYou'': In episode 12, Ri Jeong-Hyeok and Geum Eun-dong play a video game under aliases, unbeknownst to each other, and after an altercation online, they try to have a confrontation in real life. However, [[spoiler:Yoon Se-ri stops Jeong-hyeok from going due to the silly nature of meeting and fighting a stranger over a game]].
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->'''ComicBook/MrFreeze:''' Nora was the owner of a mom-and-pop cryogenics lab, and I was determined to squash it. You see, as the CEO of a multinational corporation, I had a duty to my shareholders: expand or die. Now, seemingly unrelated, I had really hit it off with an enchanting stranger online. You'll never guess who it was.\\

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->'''ComicBook/MrFreeze:''' ->'''[[Characters/BatmanMrFreeze Mr. Freeze]]:''' Nora was the owner of a mom-and-pop cryogenics lab, and I was determined to squash it. You see, as the CEO of a multinational corporation, I had a duty to my shareholders: expand or die. Now, seemingly unrelated, I had really hit it off with an enchanting stranger online. You'll never guess who it was.\\



* Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'': ComicBook/MrFreeze and his wife's love story is a straight riff on ''Film/YouveGotMail'' (he was trying to kill her company in real life but fell for her online), except replace "bookstore" with "cryogenics lab". He's telling this story while she's frozen solid to a table of prisoners. Lampshaded when Clayface namedrops Creator/MegRyan.

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* Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'': ComicBook/MrFreeze [[Characters/BatmanMrFreeze Mr. Freeze]] and his wife's love story is a straight riff on ''Film/YouveGotMail'' (he was trying to kill her company in real life but fell for her online), except replace "bookstore" with "cryogenics lab". He's telling this story while she's frozen solid to a table of prisoners. Lampshaded when Clayface namedrops Creator/MegRyan.
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* ''Manga/GoodNightWorld'': The same group of four people is a DysfunctionalFamily in real life and a FamilyOfChoice in a virtual reality game. Part of the tension comes from how likely they become to find out about each other when the game, of which the father of the family is the creator and the older son a die-hard player, suddenly turns into TheMostDangerousVideoGame.

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* ''Series/AquiNoHayQuienViva'': In one episode, Lucía sets up an erotic hotline, and is surprised when one of her customers works up the courage to meet in person. While she's waiting for her secret admirer outside the building, she sees her ex-boyfriend Carlos there, who was also waiting to meet someone, with both of them thinking they have been stood up... until Carlos lets slip some line from their conversation, with Lucía utterly horrified upon realizing they were each other's mystery date. She promptly closes down the hotline.



* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': Overlapping with RelativeError, one episode had Hilary and Carlton each flirting (separately) with an online admirer and ultimately set up a date with this person... only to find they'd agreed to meet ''each other''.
* ''Hot Line'' (a softcore series from the '90s) has an episode about two coworkers who exchange erotic text emails without knowing each other's real identity. They finally agree upon a Real Life Meeting, get an ElevatorFailure situation along the way, then one of them lets slip some sentence from the chat, and... well, they get out of the fixed elevator in a considerably better mood than one would expect.



* ''Hot Line'' (a softcore series from the '90s) has an episode about two coworkers who exchange erotic text emails without knowing each other's real identity. They finally agree upon a Real Life Meeting, get an ElevatorFailure situation along the way, then one of them lets slip some sentence from the chat, and... well, they get out of the fixed elevator in a considerably better mood than one would expect.
* In an episode of ''Series/AquiNoHayQuienViva'', Lucía sets up an erotic hotline, and is surprised when one of her customers works up the courage to meet in person. While she's waiting for her secret admirer outside the building, she sees her ex-boyfriend Carlos there, who was also waiting to meet someone, with both of them thinking they have been stood up... until Carlos lets slip some line from their conversation, with Lucía utterly horrified upon realizing they were each other's mystery date. She promptly closes down the hotline.

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* Attempted invocation in ''Manga/UzaMaidOurMaidIsWayTooAnnoying''; maid Tsubame wants to get closer to her seven-year-old charge Misha by playing the online game she loves, befriending her in-game, and eventually revealing her identity in real life. It fails when she lets her mode of address slip.



* Attempted invocation in the anime ''Uzamaid'': maid Tsubame wants to get closer to her seven-year-old charge Misha by playing the online game she loves, befriending her in-game, and eventually revealing her identity in real life. Fails when she lets her mode of address slip.

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Moving the light novel examples to the literature section, since the light novel namespace is being phased out.


* ''LightNovel/AndYouThoughtThereIsNeverAGirlOnline'': Hideki is a hardcore gamer in an MMO and a member of a four-person guild. One day the guild master declares that they'll have an offline meet and Hideki is shocked by his guild members.
** The cocky swordsman Schwein is actually the cute, petite {{Tsundere}} Akane, Hideki's classmate who never stops telling him how gross his gaming and other interests are.
** The flashy guild master Apricot is actually Kyou, the student council president of Hideki's school.
** Later, Hideki discovers that Nekohime, the cat-girl he proposed to online who claimed to be a cross-playing old man, is actually his attractive female teacher.



* ''Literature/EromangaSensei'' stars a young novelist and his younger stepsister, who fits this trope on two levels. First, she'd been his illustrator for years, with her never meeting the publishers or him in person and thus him never knowing her identity (or her his). Second, she developed a powerful online relationship with him when he was writing his first web novel, a relationship that helped both of them deal with difficult times and also led both of them to decide on their futures. Sagiri is hinted to realize this at the end of the anime.



* In ''LightNovel/Gamers2015'', main character Keita initially has only two people he's close to, whom he considers very important; one is a fellow player on his favorite MMO, and the other is an aspiring game creator by a different name. He doesn't know, but both of these are a single girl named Chiaki, who also only associates with him and values his companionship. They meet at school and are frequently at each other's throats when they disagree on minor differences of opinion, despite being BirdsOfAFeather any other time. True to form, when Chiaki hears Keita talk about his online persona and how much he values her online self, her opinion of him visually transforms; their friend, who knew about this, bemoans the fact that she'd finally fallen in love for the first time [[BelatedLoveEpiphany only after he'd gotten a girlfriend]]. Complicating the issue is that when Keita comes close to learning the truth, Chiaki obfuscates it by making her little sister stand in for his online best friends, which contributes to said little sister [[SiblingTriangle also developing feelings]] for him.
* ''Literature/IfHerFlagBreaks'': Main character Souta meets upperclassman Rin while training for an athletic meet. Rin keeps telling him what a pathetic guy he is and how her childhood friend Soda is the only real man she's ever known. After talking for a while about that she decides to text Soda. Souta immediately receives a text from his long-separated childhood friend "Rin-kun" saying "I was just talking and started thinking about you. Wish I could see you". The two stare at each other for a few seconds before both freaking out, all the more so since Souta thought said childhood friend was a boy.



* In ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'', Suguha was trying to get over a long-term crush on her cousin/foster brother, Kazuto, partly because he was in love with someone else and partly because she knows their family would disapprove. When she met the player, Kirito in the MMO Alfheim Online, she gradually fell for him and felt like she might be able to set aside her love for Kazuto. She was heartbroken all over again when she realized they were the same person.
* In ''Literature/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline'', LLENN/Karen faces off against Team SHINC as her final opponents in the Squad Jam tournament. The next day she discovers Team SHINC are actually the girls from the rhythmic gymnastics team she has frequently passed by in real life. All of them want to be her friend and they vow to fight again at the next tournament.
* Attempted invocation in the anime ''Uzamaid'': maid Tsubame wants to get closer to her seven-year-old charge Misha by playing the online game she loves, befriending her in-game, and eventually revealing her identity in real life. Fails when she lets her mode of address slip.
* Darkly played with in ''Literature/WelcomeToTheNHK''. When Satou becomes obsessed with an MMORPG he stops working with Kaoru on their game. He then meets an incredible, sweet, fun player with a Catgirl avatar who he quickly develops a crush on. He refuses to listen to anyone who tries to stop him from obsessing over this player's character. Then one day the character says she's coming to visit him, and Kaoru walks through the door with his computer, revealing that he was just trying to teach Satou a lesson and get him to start making the game with him again.


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* ''Literature/AndYouThoughtThereIsNeverAGirlOnline'': Hideki is a hardcore gamer in an MMO and a member of a four-person guild. One day the guild master declares that they'll have an offline meet and Hideki is shocked by his guild members.
** The cocky swordsman Schwein is actually the cute, petite {{Tsundere}} Akane, Hideki's classmate who never stops telling him how gross his gaming and other interests are.
** The flashy guild master Apricot is actually Kyou, the student council president of Hideki's school.
** Later, Hideki discovers that Nekohime, the CatGirl he proposed to online who claimed to be a cross-playing old man, is actually his [[SenseiChan attractive female teacher]].
* ''Literature/EromangaSensei'' stars a young novelist and his younger stepsister, who fits this trope on two levels. First, she'd been his illustrator for years, with her never meeting the publishers or him in person and thus him never knowing her identity (or her his). Second, she developed a powerful online relationship with him when he was writing his first web novel, a relationship that helped both of them deal with difficult times and also led both of them to decide on their futures.
* In ''Literature/Gamers2015'', main character Keita initially has only two people he's close to, whom he considers very important; one is a fellow player on his favorite MMO, and the other is an aspiring game creator by a different name. He doesn't know, but both of these are a single girl named Chiaki, who also only associates with him and values his companionship. They meet at school and are frequently at each other's throats when they disagree on minor differences of opinion, despite being BirdsOfAFeather any other time. True to form, when Chiaki hears Keita talk about his online persona and how much he values her online self, her opinion of him visually transforms; their friend, who knew about this, bemoans the fact that she'd finally fallen in love for the first time [[BelatedLoveEpiphany only after he'd gotten a girlfriend]]. Complicating the issue is that when Keita comes close to learning the truth, Chiaki obfuscates it by making her little sister stand in for his online best friends, which contributes to said little sister [[SiblingTriangle also developing feelings]] for him.
* ''Literature/IfHerFlagBreaks'': Main character Souta meets upperclassman Rin while training for an athletic meet. Rin keeps telling him what a pathetic guy he is and how her childhood friend Soda is the only real man she's ever known. After talking for a while about that she decides to text Soda. Souta immediately receives a text from his long-separated childhood friend "Rin-kun" saying "I was just talking and started thinking about you. Wish I could see you". The two stare at each other for a few seconds before both freaking out, all the more so since Souta thought said childhood friend was a boy.
* In ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'', Suguha was trying to get over a long-term crush on her cousin/foster brother, Kazuto, partly because he was in love with someone else and partly because she knows their family would disapprove. When she met the player, Kirito in the MMO Alfheim Online, she gradually fell for him and felt like she might be able to set aside her love for Kazuto. She was heartbroken all over again when she realized they were the same person.
* In ''Literature/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline'', LLENN/Karen faces off against Team SHINC as her final opponents in the Squad Jam tournament. The next day she discovers Team SHINC are actually the girls from the rhythmic gymnastics team she has frequently passed by in real life. All of them want to be her friend and they vow to fight again at the next tournament.
* Attempted invocation in the anime ''Uzamaid'': maid Tsubame wants to get closer to her seven-year-old charge Misha by playing the online game she loves, befriending her in-game, and eventually revealing her identity in real life. Fails when she lets her mode of address slip.
* Darkly played with in ''Literature/WelcomeToTheNHK''. When Satou becomes obsessed with an MMORPG he stops working with Kaoru on their game. He then meets an incredible, sweet, fun player with a CatGirl avatar who he quickly develops a crush on. He refuses to listen to anyone who tries to stop him from obsessing over this player's character. Then one day the character says she's coming to visit him, and Kaoru walks through the door with his computer, revealing that he was just trying to teach Satou a lesson and get him to start making the game with him again.
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* ''LightNovel/EromangaSensei'' stars a young novelist and his younger stepsister, who fits this trope on two levels. First, she'd been his illustrator for years, with her never meeting the publishers or him in person and thus him never knowing her identity (or her his). Second, she developed a powerful online relationship with him when he was writing his first web novel, a relationship that helped both of them deal with difficult times and also led both of them to decide on their futures. Sagiri is hinted to realize this at the end of the anime.

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* ''LightNovel/EromangaSensei'' ''Literature/EromangaSensei'' stars a young novelist and his younger stepsister, who fits this trope on two levels. First, she'd been his illustrator for years, with her never meeting the publishers or him in person and thus him never knowing her identity (or her his). Second, she developed a powerful online relationship with him when he was writing his first web novel, a relationship that helped both of them deal with difficult times and also led both of them to decide on their futures. Sagiri is hinted to realize this at the end of the anime.
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* In ''ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn'', Phoebe and the (relatively mild) AlphaBitch Dakota bond online over a favorite tv show. While they don't become fast friends after this, it does mark the turning point from Enemy to {{Frenemy}}.
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* ''LightNovel/IfHerFlagBreaks'': Main character Souta meets upperclassman Rin while training for an athletic meet. Rin keeps telling him what a pathetic guy he is and how her childhood friend Soda is the only real man she's ever known. After talking for a while about that she decides to text Soda. Souta immediately receives a text from his long-separated childhood friend "Rin-kun" saying "I was just talking and started thinking about you. Wish I could see you". The two stare at each other for a few seconds before both freaking out, all the more so since Souta thought said childhood friend was a boy.

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* ''LightNovel/IfHerFlagBreaks'': ''Literature/IfHerFlagBreaks'': Main character Souta meets upperclassman Rin while training for an athletic meet. Rin keeps telling him what a pathetic guy he is and how her childhood friend Soda is the only real man she's ever known. After talking for a while about that she decides to text Soda. Souta immediately receives a text from his long-separated childhood friend "Rin-kun" saying "I was just talking and started thinking about you. Wish I could see you". The two stare at each other for a few seconds before both freaking out, all the more so since Souta thought said childhood friend was a boy.
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However, even when both Nick and Ki find out that their chat friends live in their hometown, they suspect nothing. HilarityEnsues when they both want to meet their chat friends at a cinema and watch ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' with them. When they meet each other in front of the cinema, they ''still'' suspect nothing. Instead, they wait patiently for their chat friends and eventually decide to watch the film together since their chat acquaintances probably won't show up anymore anyway.

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However, even when both Nick and Ki find out that their chat friends live in their hometown, they suspect nothing. HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensues when they both want to meet their chat friends at a cinema and watch ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' with them. When they meet each other in front of the cinema, they ''still'' suspect nothing. Instead, they wait patiently for their chat friends and eventually decide to watch the film together since their chat acquaintances probably won't show up anymore anyway.
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* In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGUsqIPurNQ music video]] for German singer Bluemchen's "Herz an Herz", the two main characters Jimmy and Patsy met on the internet not knowing they were living wall to wall. Apparently, they never find out.

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* In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGUsqIPurNQ music video]] for German singer Bluemchen's [[Music/JasminWagner Bluemchen]]'s "Herz an Herz", the two main characters Jimmy and Patsy met on the internet not knowing they were living wall to wall. Apparently, they never find out.
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* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', Suguha was trying to get over a long-term crush on her cousin/foster brother, Kazuto, partly because he was in love with someone else and partly because she knows their family would disapprove. When she met the player, Kirito in the MMO Alfheim Online, she gradually fell for him and felt like she might be able to set aside her love for Kazuto. She was heartbroken all over again when she realized they were the same person.
* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline'', LLENN/Karen faces off against Team SHINC as her final opponents in the Squad Jam tournament. The next day she discovers Team SHINC are actually the girls from the rhythmic gymnastics team she has frequently passed by in real life. All of them want to be her friend and they vow to fight again at the next tournament.

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* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'', Suguha was trying to get over a long-term crush on her cousin/foster brother, Kazuto, partly because he was in love with someone else and partly because she knows their family would disapprove. When she met the player, Kirito in the MMO Alfheim Online, she gradually fell for him and felt like she might be able to set aside her love for Kazuto. She was heartbroken all over again when she realized they were the same person.
* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline'', ''Literature/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline'', LLENN/Karen faces off against Team SHINC as her final opponents in the Squad Jam tournament. The next day she discovers Team SHINC are actually the girls from the rhythmic gymnastics team she has frequently passed by in real life. All of them want to be her friend and they vow to fight again at the next tournament.



* Darkly played with in ''LightNovel/WelcomeToTheNHK''. When Satou becomes obsessed with an MMORPG he stops working with Kaoru on their game. He then meets an incredible, sweet, fun player with a Catgirl avatar who he quickly develops a crush on. He refuses to listen to anyone who tries to stop him from obsessing over this player's character. Then one day the character says she's coming to visit him, and Kaoru walks through the door with his computer, revealing that he was just trying to teach Satou a lesson and get him to start making the game with him again.

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* Darkly played with in ''LightNovel/WelcomeToTheNHK''.''Literature/WelcomeToTheNHK''. When Satou becomes obsessed with an MMORPG he stops working with Kaoru on their game. He then meets an incredible, sweet, fun player with a Catgirl avatar who he quickly develops a crush on. He refuses to listen to anyone who tries to stop him from obsessing over this player's character. Then one day the character says she's coming to visit him, and Kaoru walks through the door with his computer, revealing that he was just trying to teach Satou a lesson and get him to start making the game with him again.

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