Tropescilloscope: Dressing as the Enemy

Wearing the uniforms of the Evil Army to sneak around their base. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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