Tropescilloscope: Disguised in Drag

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

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