Tropescilloscope: Paper-Thin Disguise

Obvious disguise to the audience, not to the characters. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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