Tropescilloscope: Dressing as the Enemy

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

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