Tropescilloscope: Dressing as the Enemy

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

Film Frequency (%) Film Frequency (#)

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