In the superhero-themed Fighting Fantasy book, Appointment with F.E.A.R., you can get mugged whilst in your civilian identity.
The cool air is refreshing and allows you to gather your thoughts. You must anticipate the F.E.A.R. meeting if you are to prevent their master-plan from succeeding. If only you knew where it was to be held, and... Thump! You feel a heavy blow across the back of your head and you drop to your knees. A rough accent says: 'Just get the money and let's get going. Quick!' A hand searches through your pockets for your cash. Though groggy, you know what is happening. You are being mugged! You could, if you wished, fight back, but that would mean you having to reveal your secret identity. Or you could let them think they have knocked you out -- you have very little money on you, anyway. Will you fight back (turn to 230), or let them rob you (turn to 279)?
Note that the book at the very least drops a heavy hint that you shouldn't fight back, rather than presenting the situation more ambiguously, thus qualifying the option where you do so anyway for our list of Moments in Adventure Gamebooks Where You Can Voluntarily Do Something Really Stupid (many of the examples thus far have involved the player messing around with a piece of technology they don't understand until they get blown up, so this is a nice change of pace):
One of them stuffs your money into his pocket, whilst the other is looking at your driving-license, wondering whether or not he may be able to sell it. You leap to your feet and grapple with the muggers. One of them grabs the sweat-shirt you are wearing and it rips in his hand. Your heart sinks as the tear reveals your Crusader costume underneath it! The two muggers gasp: 'The Silver Crusader! Hey, er, sorry, Crusader. How we were to know it was you?' They give themselves up without a struggle and you hand them in at the local police station. But your career is over. Word of your true identity will soon get about from these two. And when it does, the lives of all your family and friends will be in danger from criminals seeking revenge. The time has come for you to hang up your cape...
It's interesting that an affectionate parody of superhero comics basically deconstructs the classic Dressed in Layers trope. But this is a fascinatingly unique and esoteric 'game over': nothing bad has even happened to you yet, nothing bad may even happen at all, you just can't be a superhero any more.
(Logically, in this ending you get killed a few days later when the F.E.A.R. meeting takes place and your home city is wiped off the face of the Earth as proof of their power to the governments of the world. But hey, maybe you decide to skip town for safety and become the sole survivor! Maybe there's a fanfiction in this!)
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