Tropescilloscope: Disguised in Drag

A man disguises himself by dressing up as a woman. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Unresolved Sexual Tension Dropped a Bridge on Him Soft Glass Russian Films Thriller You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Adaptational Badass Asshole Victim Deadpan Snarker Insult Backfire Trailers Always Spoil What the Hell, Hero? Parental Neglect Author Avatar Villain Opening Scene Adaptation Distillation Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Improbable Aiming Skills Car Fu Heel Realization Earn Your Happy Ending Really Gets Around Public Domain Feature Films Apocalypse How Interrupted Suicide Villain Protagonist The Smart Guy Manchild Amusing Injuries No-Sell Author Appeal Slap-Slap-Kiss The Chick Blood from the Mouth Re-Cut Hope Spot Demoted to Extra Evil-Detecting Dog Dirty Coward Back from the Dead Mexican Standoff Silence Is Golden Alas, Poor Villain One-Word Title Index of Film Westerns Fatal Flaw Ungrateful Bastard Video Credits The Atoner Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor I Have Your Wife Femme Fatale Cool Car Worthy Opponent Ship Tease Screw the Money, I Have Rules! No Name Given Nothing Is Scarier Biopic Moment Killer Motor Mouth Eureka Moment The Ditz Kubrick Stare Dogged Nice Guy Dual Wielding Slasher Movie Based on a True Story Film Series Not So Stoic Time Skip Loophole Abuse Beard of Evil Brainless Beauty Adaptational Villainy Slasher Smile For Want of a Nail Up to Eleven Mind Screw Driven to Suicide Pay Evil unto Evil Disproportionate Retribution Suspiciously Specific Denial Anyone Can Die Psychopathic Manchild Shout-Out Match Cut War Is Hell Blatant Lies What You Are in the Dark Daddy's Girl The Great Depression Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Creepy Child Disappeared Dad Insane Troll Logic Artistic License – History Wham Line Hero of Another Story Together in Death Reality Ensues Men Are the Expendable Gender Title Drop Bland-Name Product One Steve Limit Coming-of-Age Story Danny Peary Cult Movies List Guns Akimbo Belligerent Sexual Tension Ambiguous Disorder Stepford Smiler Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Bottomless Magazines Destination Defenestration Beta Couple Camera Abuse Only a Flesh Wound Dark Reprise Big Eater Red Oni, Blue Oni Catch-Phrase Wicked Cultured Ambiguously Gay Male Gaze Would Hurt a Child Adaptation Expansion Sci-Fi Horror Serial Killer Black Comedy Enemy Mine Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Fun with Acronyms Anachronism Stew Heroic Sacrifice Implacable Man Knife Nut "Well Done, Son!" Guy Funny Background Event "Shaggy Dog" Story Decoy Protagonist Armor-Piercing Question Eyepatch of Power Soundtrack Dissonance Animated Credits Opening Big Bad Duumvirate Horror Comedy Major Injury Underreaction Every Car Is a Pinto Drives Like Crazy Jump Scare The Dog Bites Back May–December Romance Curb-Stomp Battle Shut Up, Hannibal! Recycled IN SPACE! Punch-Clock Villain Made of Iron Dirty Cop Self-Deprecation Evil Sounds Deep Anti-Hero Those Two Guys Politically Incorrect Villain Sexy Discretion Shot Dark and Troubled Past Dies Wide Open Never Trust a Trailer Bound and Gagged Red Eyes, Take Warning Meaningful Background Event Villainous Breakdown Vomit Discretion Shot The Stinger Took a Level in Jerkass Arch-Enemy Manic Pixie Dream Girl Corpsing Rousing Speech Gratuitous English Toplessness from the Back Adaptation Dye-Job Awesome, but Impractical Bunny-Ears Lawyer Sacrificial Lion Bond Villain Stupidity Big Brother Instinct Mooks Badass Grandpa Anti-Villain Amoral Attorney Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" She's Got Legs Extremely Short Timespan Closed Circle Overprotective Dad Hypocritical Humor How We Got Here Badass Bookworm Parental Substitute Homage Distracted by the Sexy Villain Ball Obstructive Bureaucrat Greater-Scope Villain Half the Man He Used to Be Creator Cameo Monumental Damage A Father to His Men The Smurfette Principle Dissonant Serenity Intergenerational Friendship Kill It with Fire Captain Obvious Television Movie Index The Cameo Double Entendre Offscreen Teleportation Pre-Asskicking One-Liner "The Reason You Suck" Speech Mama Bear Unreliable Narrator Room Full of Crazy Hero Antagonist Truth in Television Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Romantic Comedy As You Know Vacation Films Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Word of God The Remake Bolivian Army Ending Bare Your Midriff French Films Annoying Younger Sibling Exact Words Shoot the Shaggy Dog Mighty Whitey Knight Templar Ghost Fiction Anguished Declaration of Love Eiffel Tower Effect Only Known by Their Nickname Lock and Load Montage Establishing Character Moment Dramatic Gun Cock Even Evil Has Standards No Antagonist Not What It Looks Like Framing Device NO INDOOR VOICE The Mole Pre-Mortem One-Liner Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The Load Heel–Face Turn MacGuffin Hong Kong Films Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Rule of Three Australian Movies Not Even Bothering with the Accent Conspicuous CG Plucky Comic Relief Fantasy Films And the Adventure Continues Defrosting Ice Queen Scenery Gorn Fanservice The Musical Mood Whiplash Bullying a Dragon Cool Old Lady Antagonist Title Retired Badass Book-Ends An Arm and a Leg For the Evulz Sinister Minister In Name Only Film Noir Race Against the Clock Bait-and-Switch Instant Death Bullet The Place Action Survivor The Hero Fire-Forged Friends Super Strength Bavarian Fire Drill Storming the Castle Dutch Angle Gilligan Cut Line-of-Sight Name Mythology Gag Humans Are Bastards From Nobody to Nightmare Alliterative Name Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Woman in White Parental Abandonment "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue The '90s Make It Look Like an Accident Country Matters Tranquil Fury Adapted Out Historical Hero Upgrade Never My Fault Ms. Fanservice Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Yandere Tempting Fate Catapult Nightmare Chekhov's Gunman Wretched Hive Pet the Dog Older Than They Look Running Gag Morality Pet Evil Plan Unspoken Plan Guarantee Comically Missing the Point Gainax Ending Fanservice Extra Flipping the Bird Oh, Crap! Mr. Fanservice In the Back Friend to All Children Action Genre Actually Pretty Funny Deus ex Machina Neck Lift A Date with Rosie Palms Jitter Cam Big Applesauce Face–Heel Turn Show Within a Show Foil Smoking Is Cool Let's Get Dangerous! Last-Name Basis Immune to Bullets Captain Ersatz Children Are Innocent Playing Gertrude Unwitting Instigator of Doom Bad Boss Fiery Redhead The X of Y Animal Title Index Guile Hero Does Not Like Shoes Hate Sink Drill Sergeant Nasty Aluminum Christmas Trees Novelization Chiaroscuro And I Must Scream Improbable Weapon User Artistic License – Gun Safety The Big Guy Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping World of Ham Wham Shot La Résistance The '50s Needs Wiki Magic Love Silent Movie Arranged Marriage Face Death with Dignity Becoming the Mask Corrupt Corporate Executive Evil Cannot Comprehend Good There Is No Kill Like Overkill Drugs Are Bad Married to the Job Does This Remind You of Anything? Expy Those Wacky Nazis Maybe Ever After Red Shirt Big Damn Heroes The Hero Dies Real Life Writes the Plot BFG Obfuscating Stupidity Irony Sadistic Choice Only in It for the Money The Stoic Hollywood Law Badass Normal Cool Shades Gory Discretion Shot Grievous Bottley Harm Crazy Jealous Guy Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Names to Run Away from Really Fast Empathic Environment Death of a Child Nice Guy An Axe to Grind Unusual Euphemism No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Good Is Not Nice Unusually Uninteresting Sight Early Installment Weirdness Narrator The Chessmaster Reality Is Unrealistic Blood Knight Hypocrite The Bully Random Events Plot The Lancer Setting Update Madness Mantra Horror Films Almost Kiss Ironic Echo Totally Radical Mugging the Monster And Starring Crapsack World The Brute Beware the Nice Ones Chase Scene Foregone Conclusion Heterosexual Life-Partners The Casanova It's All About Me Stealth Pun Credits Gag Black and Gray Morality Reckless Gun Usage Peek-a-Boo Corpse Naïve Newcomer Air-Vent Passageway Final Girl Put on a Bus Sequel Escalation You Killed My Father Crazy-Prepared Bury Your Gays Jerkass Has a Point Central Theme The Ghost Punny Name Rated M for Manly Science Fiction Films Affably Evil Evil Is Petty Pretty Little Headshots Made of Explodium Hollywood Darkness Missing Mom Protagonist Title Take That! Cassandra Truth Ambiguous Ending Darkest Hour Evil Counterpart Badass Longcoat He Knows Too Much Determinator aka: The Determinator Darker and Edgier Psycho for Hire Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Funny Foreigner Black Best Friend Italian Films Jerkass Curse Cut Short Happily Married My Greatest Failure The Power of Love Combat Pragmatist Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Be Careful What You Wish For Evil vs. Evil Shipper on Deck Developing Doomed Characters Bloody Hilarious Non-Indicative Name Casting Gag Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Starscream Vitriolic Best Buds All for Nothing Meaningful Name Visual Pun Karma Houdini Artistic License – Law No Celebrities Were Harmed Pyrrhic Victory Extreme Doormat Meaningful Echo Music Stories '80s Hair Lampshade Hanging Broken Aesop All Just a Dream Scare Chord Expository Hairstyle Change Bald of Evil The Oner Humiliation Conga Eagleland Riddle for the Ages Nice Hat I Need a Freaking Drink Vampire Fiction Breaking the Fourth Wall Gender Flip Artistic License – Geography Offscreen Moment of Awesome Adorkable Call-Back Paper-Thin Disguise Plot Hole Revenge Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Daylight Horror Double-Meaning Title Malevolent Masked Men Off-into-the-Distance Ending Only One Name As the Good Book Says... Roger Ebert: Great Movies List British Films Papa Wolf Red Right Hand He Who Fights Monsters As Himself Taking the Bullet Evil Brit I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Straight Gay Dramedy Intrepid Reporter Sole Survivor N-Word Privileges Faking the Dead Killed Mid-Sentence Death Glare Sanity Slippage Mad Scientist Insistent Terminology The Bad Guy Wins Eye Scream Body Horror Adult Fear Rule of Cool From Bad to Worse Took a Level in Badass Romantic False Lead Badass in a Nice Suit Scenery Porn Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Dressing as the Enemy Ripped from the Headlines Better to Die than Be Killed Advertised Extra Contrived Coincidence One-Man Army What Happened to the Mouse? Sports Stories Deal with the Devil Everyone Has Standards Small Name, Big Ego Noodle Incident Foreshadowing The Un-Reveal Hooker with a Heart of Gold Faux Affably Evil Heroic BSoD Dark Action Girl Ax-Crazy Attempted Rape Important Haircut Real Life Laughing Mad Retirony Idiot Ball A Minor Kidroduction True Companions Sequel Hook Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Actor Allusion Not Using the "Z" Word Scary Black Man Shown Their Work Artistic License – Military Military and Warfare Films Fan Disservice Refuge in Audacity Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Bloodless Carnage Dramatic Irony The Vamp Well-Intentioned Extremist Once More, with Clarity! Green-Eyed Monster Gorn Failed a Spot Check Laser-Guided Karma Drowning My Sorrows Ass Shove Dumb Blonde Babies Ever After Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Deliberate Values Dissonance Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Say My Name Christmas Movies Index Here We Go Again! German Films Dark Is Not Evil Jerk with a Heart of Gold Pragmatic Villainy All Men Are Perverts Light Is Not Good Wounded Gazelle Gambit Get Out! Left the Background Music On Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Genre Savvy Leave the Camera Running Death by Adaptation Animal Motifs Redshirt Army Evil Is Hammy Death by Irony Police are Useless Black Dude Dies First Death by Sex As Long as It Sounds Foreign Woman Scorned Canon Foreigner Spiteful Spit Defiant to the End Freeze-Frame Bonus Zombie Stories Rewatch Bonus Martial Arts Movie Stalker with a Crush Bloodier and Gorier Film Noir Index Neck Snap Not So Above It All Ominous Latin Chanting Shirtless Scene Hidden Depths Twist Ending Genre Shift Slashed Throat Posthumous Character Wrong Genre Savvy Only Sane Man Depraved Bisexual Cain and Abel A.I. Is a Crapshoot Break the Cutie Whole Plot Reference More Dakka Man on Fire Rasputinian Death Reasonable Authority Figure Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Evil Laugh An Aesop Honor Before Reason Dwindling Party Superhero Calling the Old Man Out Historical-Domain Character Fantastic Racism Parental Incest The Lost Lenore Spiritual Successor Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Due to the Dead Covers Always Lie Red Herring Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Psychological Thriller Badass Boast Mundane Made Awesome folderlabel Hell Is That Noise Adaptational Attractiveness Informed Ability "Awesome McCool" Name Cloudcuckoolander The Dreaded Blackmail Bring My Brown Pants Hoist by His Own Petard Vomit Indiscretion Shot Mistaken for Gay Big Fancy House Dull Surprise Accidental Murder Skewed Priorities Dirty Old Man Bittersweet Ending Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Butt-Monkey Product Placement Gone Horribly Right Determinator Department of Redundancy Department Stealth Hi/Bye Improvised Weapon Victoria's Secret Compartment Leaning on the Fourth Wall Disney Death Big Bad Would Hit a Girl The Voiceless Epic Movie Rich Bitch All There in the Script Rule of Funny Same Language Dub Sassy Black Woman Fish out of Water Kick the Dog Naked People Are Funny Bowdlerise Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Precision F-Strike Frame-Up 20 Minutes into the Future Disney Villain Death Downer Ending Logo Joke Death Seeker Jerk Jock Properly Paranoid Continuity Nod Bad "Bad Acting" Auto Erotica Karmic Death Exactly What It Says on the Tin Token Minority Mystery and Detective Films Our Zombies Are Different Fatal Family Photo Beauty Is Never Tarnished Manipulative Bastard Never Found the Body Undying Loyalty The Ace Leitmotif After the End Kids Are Cruel Chekhov's Skill Canadian Movies Sir Swears-a-Lot Fingore Camp Gay It's Personal Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Award-Bait Song It Will Never Catch On Broken Bird The Film of the Book Fat Bastard The Alcoholic Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Action Girl Cool Old Guy The Reveal Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Age Lift Four-Temperament Ensemble The Mafia Bar Brawl Early-Bird Cameo Historical Villain Upgrade Grey and Gray Morality Reality Has No Subtitles Anachronic Order Stylistic Suck You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Action Prologue Character Development Mercy Kill Kick the Son of a Bitch Mr. Exposition The '80s This Is Gonna Suck All There in the Manual Your Head A-Splode It Can Think Fake Shemp Our Vampires Are Different Adults Are Useless Heroes Want Redheads Stock Footage Documentary Dying Moment of Awesome Very Loosely Based on a True Story Deliberately Monochrome Card-Carrying Villain The '60s The Dragon Genre Throwback Five-Man Band Chekhov's Gun Abhorrent Admirer Tagline Stuff Blowing Up Historical In-Joke Brother–Sister Incest Gold Digger Composite Character Aside Glance Despair Event Horizon Serious Business Taking You with Me Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Too Dumb to Live The Stoner Cruel and Unusual Death Big-Bad Ensemble Break the Haughty Have a Gay Old Time Japanese Films Not So Different Suspiciously Similar Substitute Fate Worse than Death Getting Crap Past the Radar No Ending Damsel in Distress Creative Closing Credits Love at First Sight Facial Horror Rape as Drama Cat Scare Arc Words Handicapped Badass timeperiod Chewing the Scenery Suddenly SHOUTING! Villain Song Freudian Excuse I Did What I Had to Do No OSHA Compliance Pimped-Out Dress Demonic Possession Artistic License – Physics Hair-Trigger Temper Cowboy Cop Male Frontal Nudity Cat Fight She Cleans Up Nicely Off with His Head! Meet Cute Cluster F-Bomb Berserk Button Market-Based Title Smug Snake Boom, Headshot! Your Cheating Heart Epic Fail The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Did Not Get the Girl Crucified Hero Shot Deconstruction Agony of the Feet Black Comedy Rape Adaptational Heroism Adaptation Name Change Cold-Blooded Torture You Have Failed Me Bond One-Liner Bi the Way The End... Or Is It? Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Artistic License – Biology Imagine Spot Diabolus ex Machina Brutal Honesty The Quiet One The Faceless The Sociopath Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Not Quite Dead Domestic Abuse Fourth Date Marriage Manly Tears I Want My Beloved to Be Happy In Medias Res Pragmatic Adaptation Celebrity Paradox Rule of Symbolism Works Set in World War II Take a Third Option My God, What Have I Done? Overly Long Gag Roaring Rampage of Revenge Villain with Good Publicity Authority Equals Asskicking Disguised in Drag Affectionate Parody The Cavalry The '70s A God Am I Eldritch Abomination Spell My Name with an "S" Groin Attack Shell-Shocked Veteran Redemption Equals Death Costume Porn Famous Last Words Loads and Loads of Characters Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience B-Movie Accidental Misnaming Poor Communication Kills Sealed Evil in a Can Henpecked Husband My Beloved Smother Easily Forgiven Big "NO!" Throwing Your Sword Always Works Race Lift O.O.C. Is Serious Business Abusive Parents Retcon Ascended Extra Alpha Bitch All Girls Want Bad Boys Spanner in the Works Training Montage Lighter and Softer Pretty in Mink Call-Forward Kill 'em All Flashback Spared by the Adaptation Broken Pedestal Outrun the Fireball I'm a Humanitarian Brick Joke Cool Guns No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Fainting Batman Gambit Those Two Bad Guys Police Brutality Shower Scene Tap on the Head Love Triangle Bilingual Bonus Star-Crossed Lovers Large Ham The Alleged Car Betty and Veronica Translation Convention Even Evil Has Loved Ones Didn't Think This Through Obviously Evil