Tropescilloscope: Paper-Thin Disguise

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

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