Tropescilloscope: Paper-Thin Disguise

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

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