Tropescilloscope: Paper-Thin Disguise

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

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