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May be the subject of a [[Halloween Episode]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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** [[Lampshaded]] in the Season 4 episode "Fear Itself" when the gang attend a college Halloween party and all dress up as someone or something that would actually be useful should history repeat itself.
*** Not EVERYONE. Xander and Oz were, though. James Bond and... [[God]].
**** And Willow was Joan Of Arc. Even Anya, who wasn't around for the earlier episode, dressed as [[Hair
** The same trick was pulled on a convention in the later [[Angel (TV)|Angel]] comics, turning a bunch of nerds into superheroes and villains, and turning Spike into Angel. Or at least, [[Hilarity Ensues|Angel as Spike sees him]].
* ''[[The Twilight Zone (TV)|The Twilight Zone]]'' had "The Masks", where a dying millionaire forces his worthless heirs to wear masks caricaturing their worst personality traits - if they take them off before midnight, they get cut out of his will. At midnight, he dies, and they shed the masks... {{spoiler|and discover their faces have taken on the shapes of the masks permanently.}}
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* The [http://shifti.org/wiki/Xanadu_(setting) Xanadu storyverse] is all about this. At a costume convention with ten thousand in attendance, costumes become real and those wearing them are changed. Mentally the transformation varies from person to person, from "Suddenly my costume is much more accurate" to "Where am I, what is this planet?" Stories tend to be either furry or [[Welcome to The Real World]].
* Overlaps with [[Dragged Into Drag]] on sites like Big closet top shelf all the time.
* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Discord]] inflicted this upon ''[[Ink City]]'' when he crashed their Halloween party. This included several residents temporarily transforming into ''each other'' thanks to their costume choices, like [[Regular Show|Rigby]] becoming [[Aeon Flux|Trevor]], and [[Animaniacs (Animation)|Yakko]] becoming his own player.
* In general, this is a favorite [[Halloween Episode|Halloween event]] for [[Journal Roleplay]] games.
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