Paper-Thin Disguise/Web Original

Examples of in  works include:

"Linkara: Oh wait! I know this one! You're That Chick With The Goggles! Dr. Insano: But- but- I'm not freaking black! Linkara: But you are a woman, eh?"
 * Terrence of Kate Modern is an unusual case. When he reinvents himself as bespectacled, cardigan-sporting religious nerd Terry, he is recognised almost immediately by the other characters. However,.
 * In Englishman, Englishman's Battle Butler (known only as Butler) also moonlights as a supervillain named The Butler. A deconstructed example in that it appears to play this trope straight (E'man never connects the two) but Butler never actually bothers with a disguise, rendering it PoMo.
 * Bubs' alter ego, ""The Thnikkaman", consists of him wearing sunshades and a piece of paper reading "TH" taped to his chest. And on a couple occasions he momentarily removes the shades. Only Homestar, The Ditz, ever sees through the disguise.
 * As part of the annual Strong Sad Lookalike Contest, the Cheat dresses up as Strong Sad's left foot by sitting in a paper bag that had an elephant foot crudely drawn on it. Nobody else's costume is particularly convincing either (except for ), but the Cheat has somehow won the contest three years in a row this way.
 * In the Peasant's Quest game, Rather Dashing disguises himself as a bale of hay to sneak past the Jhonka and get its riches. When a strong gust of wind blows the hay away, revealing Rather Dashing, the Jhonka suddenly notices his presence, and asks him if he's seen his riches.
 * Also applies to Strong Bad's attempt to use a stunt double in the Dangeresque trilogy. The stunt double in question is clearly Strong Sad, and the terrible editing does not help.
 * In Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog, the titular character is not recognized by Penny, even though neither his "costume" or his "normal" clothes covers his face (he wears Goggles Do Nothing, but only on his forehead until the last scene).
 * Possibly Justified Trope in that Penny may or may not have heard of Dr. Horrible: she never mentions him; he's not a big time supervillain (yet), and the first time she sees him, she is under a lot of stress, but still ends up recognizing him.
 * Most people miss Billy in the back of the soup kitchen as he glowers at Captain Hammer and pours the soup back into the pot instead of into the bowl. The irony of it is his idea of disguise is wearing a fake mustache and an apron and not wearing his hoodie.
 * Paper-Thin Disguise is also subverted, as when Captain Hammer meets Billy, he instantly recognises him as Dr Horrible.
 * In A Very Potter Musical it's lampshaded multiple times:
 * Harry's Invisibility cloak, which barely covers the group's shoulders and yet it seems only Dumbledore knows they're there.
 * Dumbledore's (extra) beard when hiding from the Death Eaters searching for him.
 * And, of course, Quirrel and his magically sneezing turban.
 * Lampshaded in the Atop the Fourth Wall/The Spoony Experiment crossovers, where Linkara is always clueless as to who Dr. Insano really is, even when holding a picture of Spoony up to compare between.


 * Subverted in Kickassia, when several people recognize Spoony as "that doctor guy", despite his frantic efforts to pretend he's not Insano.
 * Another Kickassia example. During the invasion the President of Molossia Kevin Baugh disguises himself as Baron Fritz von Baugh, minister of making things orderly. Although it is obviously him in disguise The Nostalgia Critic decides to go along with it and lets him stay.
 * Sapphire Episode III: How in the world could Ã‰lodie not tell that was Nikolai behind that eye-mask!?
 * Well, it was over seven since they last met.
 * But she mistook him for a member of Poison, so that must be okay.
 * Dorm Life: "Josh? ...no, it's just a lamp."
 * Bowsers Kingdom
 * Steve as a Shy guy in episode 2.
 * Hal and Jeff as Luigi and Mario, respectively in The Movie.
 * The Weebl's Stuff cartoon "Scampi" is a list of things that the narrator has seen that are "often in disguise". None of the disguises are very convincing, which include a hamster wearing bunny ears, the planet Earth with a big sign reading "MARS" on it, Shakespeare dressed as a party clown, and a map of Malaysia with Kuala Lumpur's name scratched out and replaced with the obviously hand-written word "France".