A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Difference between revisions

See also [[Flock of Wolves]] where ''everybody'' is a wolf.

 

 

See also [[Hidden Depths]] and [[The Infiltration]].

 

See also the similarly named but unconnected [[Sheep in Wolf's Clothing]].

 

* Yukino Azusagawa in ''[[Yakitate!! Japan]]'' does it a lot to Azuma's gang.

 

 

== Film ==

* Senator/Emperor Palpatine from [[Star Wars]], who masquerades as a benevolent politician but is actually a [[The Dark Side|Sith Lord.]]

 

== Literature ==

* Subverted in the [[Darkest Powers]] series by [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Derek Souza]]. He's standoffish and can be [[No Sympathy|utterly tactless]] at times, but he's also a genuinely good person who still carries the guilt of the ''one time'' he accidentally hurt someone in self-defense. However everyone, including a family friend who's known him from childhood, assumes he's a violent thug pretending to be harmless. The [[Muggle|humans]] fear him because he's over six feet tall and 220 pounds of solid muscle at the age of 16, and the supernaturals fear him because [[Fantastic Racism|he's a werewolf]]. In short: Derek is usually assumed to be a wolf in sheep's clothing when, metaphorically, the opposite is true.

* One short story includes the budding romance between two werewolves; one of them worries that the other may be "a sheep in wolves' clothing".

 

* The Aesop fable of the hungry wolf that finds a sheep's fleece on the ground and adorned himself with it in order to sneak into the flock and steal sheep without being noticed. The wolf was later killed when the shepherd went looking for a sheep to slaughter for his own dinner and mistook the wolf for a sheep, although some versions have the wolf howling out in an attempt to imitate a sheep's bleating and being caught that way.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Done literally in ''Sheep, Dog, 'n' Wolf'': the player character (Ralph Wolf) can acquire and wear a sheep costume, and uses it to steal sheep.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Used as a [[Visual Pun]] in ''[[Hoodwinked]]'' when Wolf needs to interrogate a sheep without disturbing the rest of the flock.

Pigs: "Not by the hair of our chinny-chin-chin! You can't fool us with that old sheepskin!" }}

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* Some types of livestock-guarding dog, such as the Great Pyrenees or Kuvasz, have been bred to look like sheep so they won't scare the herds they're supposed to be protecting.

* In the [[Yanks With Tanks|United States Air Force]], there is an entire Fighter Wing that earned its nickname from an operation based on this concept. During [[The Vietnam War]], North Vietnamese MiGs were pouncing on American F-100 Super Sabres, older, clumsier fighters that had been relegated to doing bombing missions. The 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, under the leadership of [[Ace Pilot|Robin]] [[Nom De Guerre|"The Wolf"]] [[Badass Mustache|Olds]], launched an operation where F-4 Phantoms would fly the same routes as the F-100s, flying close together so that two Phantoms would resemble a single Super Sabre on the North Vietnamese pilots' radar. When the unwary North Vietnamese pilots closed to engage what they thought were vulnerable bombers, they realized, often too late, that they had blundered into an ambush. Ever since then, the 8th TFW (now simply known as the 8th Fighter Wing) has been called "[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|The Wolfpack.]]"

 

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