Tropescilloscope: Paper-Thin Disguise

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

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