Tropescilloscope: Disguised in Drag

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

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