Tropescilloscope: Paper-Thin Disguise

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

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