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