Tropescilloscope: Paper-Thin Disguise

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

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