Tropescilloscope: Disguised in Drag

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

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