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* ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyDucks'' cartoon, which may as well been called "Hockey-Playing Twentysomething Extraterrestrial Mallards". About a group of anthropomorphic ducks from a world surronded by puck-shaped asteroids where hockey is SeriousBusiness (...you mean they're Canadian? *[[http://www.instantrimshot.com/ rimshot]]*) fighting space dragons and posing as a regular hockey team in modern-day [[UsefulNotes/LosAngeles Anaheim]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': An ancient clan of "garagates" (who lived alongside humans) awaken in the '90s, after a thousand years frozen in stone, with policewoman Elisa Maza as their human ally. ''Gargoyles'' was one of the few shows to acknowledge that a [[{{Masquerade}} situation like this]] simply can't last forever, and slowly had the Gargoyles transition from complete secret, to urban myth, to [[TheUnmasquedWorld publicly known]]... and feared. Creator/GregWeisman also said they made the main characters a trio rather than a quartet precisely so they could stand apart from this trope's [[FourTemperamentEmsemble usual fare]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': An ancient clan of "garagates" (who lived alongside humans) awaken in the '90s, after a thousand years frozen in stone, with policewoman Elisa Maza as their human ally. ''Gargoyles'' was one of the few shows to acknowledge that a [[{{Masquerade}} situation like this]] simply can't last forever, and slowly had the Gargoyles transition from complete secret, to urban myth, to [[TheUnmasquedWorld publicly known]]... and feared.

* ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'': Implied with the theme song, but the actual show doesn't follow any of the trope's characteristics.

* ''[[http://www.retrojunk.com/content/child/description/page/5107/the-adventures-of-trex The Adventures of T-Rex]]'' (or just [[http://www.nameneko.com/jp/trex.html T-REX]] in Japan) takes this to NinjaPirateZombieRobot levels. It was a cartoon co-produced between USA and Japan, based on a Japanese property, featuring five T. Rex brothers with superpowers, matching colored armors, a Rexmobile... but this was only their secret identity they accessed by touching a crystal. Usually, they were part of a vaudeville act, in a club that was part of a very FilmNoir-like setting... InAWorld where everyone was some kind of [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals human-like dinosaur or reptile]]. So, this was a comical cartoon with anthro dinosaur comedians that were secretly superheroes, pitted against dinosaur gangsters and dinosaur mob bosses.

Since these shows are usually aimed at young boys, expect TheSmurfettePrinciple to be in full swing. The heroes are usually [[LastOfHisKind The Last of Their Kind]], with no females.[[note]]Unless there's TheChick.[[/note]] Consequently, InterspeciesRomance will usually be explored, [[{{Shipping}} particularly by fans]], especially if the SecretKeeper is a career woman.

* ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'', in its continuing mission to homage every comic book trope ever, finally got round to this one in the ''Superteam Handbook'' supplement, with four rabbits who were mutated into anthropomorphic young women and became the Shadow Knights.

* ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'', in its continuing mission to homage every comic book trope ever, finally got round to this one in the ''Superteam Handbook'' supplement, with four young women who were mutated into humanoid rabbits and became the Shadow Knights.

* In ''BeautyAndTheBeast1987'', there's [[WainscotSociety a secret community of outcasts living in tunnels]] beneath UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity. Lawyer Catherine Chandler begins keeping their secret after one of their members, the leonine Vincent, rescues her after she's abducted, beaten, slashed and left to die in Central Park.

* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' spoofs this. (Or at least the title does.)

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* Parodied in the old adventure game ''The Big Red Adventure''. One TV showed the "Teenage Mutant Ninja [[Music/TheBeatles Beetles]]", who were four cockroaches [[http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/big-red-adventure/screenshots/gameShotId,258412/ with the faces of the Fab Four]]!

* ''WesternAnimation/WildWestCowboysOfMooMesa'' is TMNT in TheWildWest with cows, though like the SWAT Kats they lived in a world with others like them (the Mesa in question was a HiddenElfVillage created an irradiated comet struck the late 19th century Western plains, raising it above the clouds and anthropomorphizing all the cows and some other animals) and they were lawmen. Significant in that the C.O.W.Boys were created by Ryan Brown, a writer and artist for TMNT who created many of the designs of the action figures and some beloved characters like Leatherhead, and the Mighty Mutanimals as a team. The Turtles also crossed over with the C.O.W.Boys years after the show went off the air.

* ConversationalTroping in an early-90s issue of ''GreenLantern'' set at a toy expo: "Buddy, every ten minutes I've got someone trying to sell me 'the new Turtles'. I've a warehouse full of stupid dinosaurs named after dead presidents!"

* ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' features the blatantly obvious Ninjakoopa Bros.

* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' is the TropeCodifier, of course, with April O'Neil, Casey Jones, and Irma Langenstein (and later on, Carter) as the human allies. Interestingly, the show only kept the idea of the Turtles trying to hide their existence from the world for a short time, with them wearing {{Conspicuous Trenchcoat}}s and human masks in public but soon switching over to them being publicly known heroes. April's career as a news reporter probably helped in that regard.

* ''WesternAnimation/WildWestCowboysOfMooMesa'' is TMNT in TheWildWest with cows, though like the SWAT Kats they lived in a world with others like them (the Mesa in question was a HiddenElfVillage created an irradiated comet struck the late 19th century Western plains, raising it above the clouds and anthropomorphizing all the cows and some other animals) and they were lawmen.

* ''Series/{{Beauty and the Beast|1987}}'' (predating the Disney film): There's [[WainscotSociety a secret community of outcasts living in tunnels under the city]], and lawyer Catherine Chandler begins keeping their secret after one of their members, the leonine Vincent, rescues her after she's abducted, beaten, slashed and left to die in Central Park.

* In-show commercials in the first episode of ''{{Series/Roundhouse}}'' gave us these parody titles: "Adolescent Deformed Tai-Kwon-Do Tortoises", "Pre-teen Genetically-altered Martial Arts Iguanas", and "Kinda Young Really Screwed Up Karate Koalas".

* ''VideoGame/{{Paper Mario}}'' features the blatantly obvious Ninjakoopa Bros.

* ''[[http://www.retrojunk.com/content/child/description/page/5107/the-adventures-of-trex The Adventures of T-Rex]]'' (or just [[http://www.nameneko.com/jp/trex.html T-REX]] in Japan) takes this to NinjaPirateZombieRobot levels. It was a cartoon co-produced between USA and Japan, based on a Japanese property, featuring five T.Rex brothers with superpowers, matching colored armors, a Rexmobile... but this was only their secret identity they accessed by touching a crystal. Usually, they were part of a vaudeville act, in a club that was part of a very FilmNoir-like setting... InAWorld where everyone was some kind of human-like dinosaur or reptile. So, this was a comical cartoon with anthro dinosaur comedians that were secretly superheroes, pitted against dinosaur gangsters and dinosaur mob bosses.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvengerPenguins'' was a spoof of this set-up. Three motorcycling humanoid penguins thwarting the plans of an evil genius villain once a week.

* ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'': Three alien mice allied with Charley, a WrenchWench mechanic who own a garage where their bikes (actually war machines equipped with AI) are repaired and equipped with new gadgets. One of them has a crush on her, as she reminds him of a girl back home.
* ''[[ComicBook/BuckyOHareAndTheToadWars Bucky O'Hare]]'' was this [[TropesInSpace In Space]], with the strange twist that the anthropomorphic animals are the norm, and it's the ''human'' character that has to be kept hidden from that reality's "muggles".

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Challenge of the GoBots}}'': The initial FiveEpisodePilot was like this. Since the Gobots' cover has been completely blown by the end of that StoryArc (it's not as if Leader-1 didn't ''try'' to observe the ObstructiveCodeOfConduct at first), subsequent episodes show the Guardians interacting with Earth's people and governments completely out in the open.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuDinoPosse'', a 40-episode cartoon series that aired on Creator/{{Starz}} in 2009, is an homage to several Secret Mutant Hero Teams before it, including the Street Sharks spinoff ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeDinosaurs'' and TMNT. In modern times, a quirky science geek accidentally thaws out four anthropomorphic dinosaurs, whereupon they inflict inexplicable Kung Fu upon evil raptor villains and their army of generic mutants. The series is well aware of its own cliches and often leverages them for comic effect.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyDucks'' cartoon, which may as well been called "Hockey-Playing Twentysomething Extraterrestrial Mallards". About a group of anthropomorphic ducks from a world surronded by puck-shaped asteroids where hockey is SeriousBusiness (...you mean they're Canadian? *[[http://www.instantrimshot.com/ rimshot]]*) fighting space dragons and posing as a regular hockey team in modern-day California.

* ''WesternAnimation/MummiesAlive'': Centuries old Mummies able to summon PoweredArmor, one of them a [[SweetPollyOliver Sweet Polly ... Cleopatra]]?... Ride around in [[{{Magitek}} weird ancient Egyptian vehicles]] and got an Egyptian version of a boomerang whilst protecting a child reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh from an [[EvilChancellor advisor of said Pharaoh.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/RoadRovers'' is Warner Bros' equivalent, although in this case, they were normal dogs owned by world leaders that were routinely summoned by their ally and then transformed into humanoid forms and garbed in battlesuits.

* ''WesternAnimation/StoneProtectors'': A 1993 series that attempted to market the troll doll craze to grade school boys. The heroes are an [[StylisticSuck awful]] FakeBand from UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity who are transformed into troll-like {{super hero}}es by [[MineralMacGuffin magical crystals]], then have to protect the crystals from the Saurians, reptilian bad guys who would use their powers for evil. The problem of hiding the conflict from the public is averted because the heroes are quickly transported to the MagicalLand where the crystals came from.

* ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'' could count in a sense, but compared to their contemporaries, there were several major differences- for one, they were living in a world full of other anthropomorphic "Kats", and they became vigilantes because their former commander in the Megakat City Enforcers (essentially cops but with air and navy forces) caused them to crash into the Enforcer HQ while chasing a villain after trying to pull an OnlyICanKillHim (see the main article for more details). Also, it was produced by Creator/HannaBarbera, and was perhaps the darkest series they ever made - people actually got killed, for starters; it was an early, but failed, attempt, at breaking out of the AnimationAgeGhetto.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToxicCrusaders'', the kid-friendly animated SpinOff of ''Film/TheToxicAvenger'' movies.
* ''{{Franchise/Transformers}}'': The many animated adaptations zigzag the use of this kind of archetype:
** Although the Autobots never really hid from ''anyone'' in [[{{WesternAnimation/TheTransformers}} the Sunbow series]]. They were acknowledged by the world's leaders as early as the end of the three-part pilot.
** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' is more in line with this trope, featuring Sari as the kid, a smaller [[FiveManBand Five 'Bot Band]], and an abandoned Detroit car factory as their HQ. The Autobots still don't hide from anyone, though; in fact, they rather visibly help [[HeroInsurance repair the damage their fights cause]], which helps keep them in the city's good graces.

* ''WesternAnimation/WildWestCowboysOfMooMesa'' is TMNT in TheWildWest with cows, though like the Swat Kats they lived in a world with others like them (the Mesa in question was a HiddenElfVillage created an irradiated comet struck the late 19th century Western plains, raising it above the clouds and anthropomorphizing all the cows and some other animals) and they were lawmen.

* ''Fanfic/ThisBites'': The authors clearly [[InvokedTrope invoked]] this trope; not only are the Teenage Dugong Warrior Squad half-turtle already ([[MixAndMatchCritters hybrids between sea turtles and manatees, to be precise]]), their names are Mikey, Donny, Raphey, and Leo, who respectively wield nunchucks, a bo staff, sai, and katana, and have respective headband colors of orange, purple, pink, and blue. Oh, wait, I said [[PinkIsFeminine pink]]? Yeah, [[TheSmurfettePrinciple Raphey is actually a girl]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'': Three alien mice allied with Charley, a WrenchWench mechanic who own a garage where their bikes ( actually war machines equipped with AI ) are repaired and equipped with new gadgets. One of them has a crush on her, as she reminds him of a girl back home.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollz}}'': Produced about 10 years after ''Stone Protectors'', which did the same thing, but for a female audience (read: It ripped off ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' and ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' instead of the TMNT.)
* ''WesternAnimation/WildWestCowboysOfMooMesa'': Think TMNT in TheWildWest with uh... cows, though like the Swat Kats they lived in a world with others like them (the Mesa in question was a HiddenElfVillage created an irradiated comet struck the late 19th century Western plains, raising it above the clouds and anthropomorphizing all the cows and some other animals) and they were lawmen.

* ''How Green Was My Cactus'' occasionally had episodes featuring the "Stone Age Mutant Whinging [[UsefulNotes/AustralianPolitics Liberals]]"

* ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'': Four alien mice allied with Charley, a WrenchWench mechanic whose garage they live in. One of them has a crush on her, as she reminds him of a girl back home.