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Sometimes, the guy being dressed up may have [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|feminine attributes]] and other characters [[Unsettling Gender Reveal|mistake them]] for being a [[Attractive Bent Gender|pretty girl]], possibly falling in [[Love At First Sight]]. If this happens, the guy will [[Ho Yay|play along]] because he's too embarrassed to reveal his true identity.

 

Subtrope of [[Disguised in Drag]]. Often combined with [[Instant Cosplay Surprise]]. Contrast [[Wholesome Crossdresser]], a guy who's totally into doing this thing and probably doesn't need a girl's input. May overlap with [[Becoming the Costume]].

 

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* In ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' (pictured) this is a [[Running Gag]] for poor [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|Hayate]]. Nagi and Maria do this to him just for fun, and he has even been ''cursed'' into wearing only girls clothes. Some characters even think he is an actual crossdresser because of this.

** This ends up crossing with [[I Think You Broke Him]] when Nagi suggests he change out of Ayumu's clothes, and he refuses. In actuality, he just doesn't want to [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|reveal to Luca]] that he's actually a guy.

* ''[[Code Geass]]'': Milly decides to have fun with a crossdressing day at school.

* Yuna and Kakizaki in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' did this to Negi as a prop/attraction to their haunted house (which became far less haunted).

* ''[[Mahoraba]]'': Shiratori gets this done to him while he's asleep, in the manga just for such a light-weight drinker, in the anime for having an apparently dirty dream about Kozue.

* ''[[Ergo Proxy]]'': Pino puts makeup on Vincent.

* In ''[[Sasameki Koto]]'', Akemiya initially crossdresses by choice, but is later forced to dress as a girl to be used as, well, uh, lesbian bait.

* In ''[[Slayers]]'', [[Once a Season]], Lina and Amelia happily dress up the male part of the cast because the party needs a disguise. Ironically, in episode 17 of ''NEXT'' (when the party infiltrates a girls-only kingdom), Lina's the only one in her party wearing trousers in lieu of the dresses worn by her comrades.

** Also happened a bit to Luffy on Amazon Lily. The amazons made copies of his original clothing for him, but also added a bunch of pink frills to make him look cute. Luffy was not pleased.

*** Arguable, considering it was completely unintentional. The amazon that made the clothes seemed genuinely surprised when Luffy told her he didn't want frills on his clothes, and she removed them without any real argument when asked.

* Kafuka Fuura and Harumi Fujoshi in ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' once forced their teacher and his brother into dresses.

* ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'': In every saga (except for the Orange Islands one), Ash is forced into dressing up as a girl. Needless to say, it's never consensual on his part.

* In ''[[Scrapped Princess]]'', Pacifica and Winia are happy to dress up Leopold and Fully in drag to sneak past soldiers.

* Pretty much the entire premise of ''[[Princess Princess]]''. Though instead of being dressed up by girls it's the [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]] and ''school faculty'' who are behind it. [[It Makes Sense in Context]]. Sort of.

* Sort of suberverted in ''[[Shugo Chara]]'', where [[Fiery Redhead|Kukai]] and [[Princely Young Man|Tadase]] are forced to wear skirts by [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|Nagihiko]] because Kukai asked what it feels like to wear a skirt.

* Early on in Season 2 of ''[[Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu]]'', Akihisa, Yuuji, and Kouta are forced to crossdress and enter a yukata contest by their respective love interests as punishment for their attempts to hit on other girls. They then try to weasel their way out of it with their manly pride intact by losing the contest. [[Springtime for Hitler|This backfires.]] [[Unsettling Gender Reveal|Horribly.]]

* All the guys, but specially, poor Tatsuya in ''[[Hekikai no AiON]]''. Since he was "sick" {{spoiler|actually spending almost 2 month in a [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]]}} he didn't knew that his class was preparing a "Males-in-female-clothes cafe" for their Cultural Festival, and the girls rejoiced themself in his cuteness when they saw him in a [[Meido]] costume.

 

* It was done in at least one episode of ''[[Gilligan's Island|Gilligans Island]]''.

* Two episodes of ''[[Small Wonder]]'' had Jamie dressed as Vicki.

* In the third-season ''[[Modern Family]]'' episode "Me? Jealous?", Alex and Haley decide to make up after [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry|one of their frequent fights]] by dressing up Luke as a girl, something they haven't done in a long time.

 

* Happens to Yuri and Ian in ''[[Infinite Space]]'', with the dialogue suggesting they lost some sort of bet to Nia, and this leads to Ian being kidnapped alongside the barmaid of the place where they slept at. There's a [[Near-Rape Experience]] where the pirates only responded to Ian's saying that he's a guy with "... even better."

* In ''[[Persona 4]],'' during the "Culture Club" event, [[All Men Are Perverts|Yosuke]] signs up the female characters for the Beauty Pagent, which they can't back out of. To get their revenge, the girls sign the boys up for the "Crossdressing Pagent" held directly before. And they take ''great'' delight in dolling the boys up in humorously hideous outfits-- {{spoiler|except for [[Bishonen|Ted]], who makes [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|such a pretty girl]] that even a few guys remark that "[[Stupid Sexy Flanders|I'd hit that]]."}}

* In the Fuka Bad End of ''[[Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten]]'', Fuka decides that the recently defeated Valvatorez and Fenrich would look good in maid outfits.

'''Fenrich:''' My lord in a ''maid costume''...!? A-are you into that sort of thing, lass? That's unacceptable! }}

 

* ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'': Millie seems to have too much fun doing this to Ozy on occasion.

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' has a whole arc on The Birthday Party that involved splitting invited people into pairs to choose clothes for each other and {{spoiler|switching everyone's sex (except one character) using an [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum|alien]] "[[Transformation Ray|morphing device]]"}}, so that all the characters were cross-dressed into whatever their partners wanted. It's not as bad as it sounds, but surely as crazy.

* ''[[Double K]]'' has [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Kamina]] forcing Simon into the role of the [[Dirty Harriet]] to bust solicitors. He's done this more times than he really should, according to [[Da Chief|Lord Genome]].

 

* An extremely common trope in transgender fiction, as seen on sites like [http://www.fictionmania.tv/ FictionMania]. In TG fiction, the trope is less likely to be [[Played for Laughs]], instead often leading to a revelation of [[Attractive Bent Gender]] and representing a first step on a journey of self-discovery (which may be figurative and/or [[Man, I Feel Like a Woman|literal]].) Alternatively, the trope is sometimes given a more sinister spin, as a prelude to sexual domination and/or the protagonist becoming a [[Sex Slave]].

* The main theme behind the [[New Look Series]] of [[Fanfic|FanFics]].

* ''[http://dovsherman.deviantart.com/art/The-Sissy-Alphabet-159042786 The Sissy Alphabet]'' by DovSherman on [[Deviant ART]].

 

* In the "Just Desserts" episode of ''[[The Little Rascals]]'', Darla fell ill just before the big baking contest, so Alfalfa had to dress like a girl and take Darla's place.

* In [[Looney Tunes|"Banty Raids"]], [[Foghorn Leghorn]] is [[Bound and Gagged|bound and beak-tied]] and forcibly dressed in drag by a machine, then married to a horny bantam rooster.

* [[The Lion King|"What do you want me to do, dress in drag and do the hula?"]]

* In [[Kaeloo]], Stumpy is often shunted into female roles when playing pretend, whereas the others [[The Smurfette Principle|all play as males]]. He even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the fact that Kaeloo is an actual female (or at least the [[Hermaphrodite|closest thing present]]) and that it would make more sense for her to play such roles.

 

* [[Robert Pattinson]] used to be put in drag a lot by his older sisters. He grew out of it eventually.

* There is such a thing as a "forced feminization" fetish.

[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]

[[Category:Gender Blending Tropes]]