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