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* Kavi and Jiaan do this to infiltrate a palace under the control of the Hrum in the third book in [[Hilari Bell]]'s [[Farsala Trilogy]].
* Played with during one sequence in the [[Belisarius Series]], the title character has to escape from a city full of bad guys out for his blood. He needs a uniform to escape, but with the thousands of guards looking for him, he has difficulty finding a uniform that's both the right size, the right type, and being worn by a guard he can take out quietly. Several times he pulls a [[Bavarian Fire Drill]] on guards he runs into to get them to search someplace else. Eventually he finds the uniform, and makes it out of the city.
* Done a couple of times in ''[[Harry Potter]]'', aided by Polyjuice Potion:
** In ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Chamber of Secrets (novel)|Harry Potter and the Chamber Ofof Secrets]]'', Harry and Ron disguise themselves as Malfoy's best friends Crabbe and Goyle to question him about the Chamber.
** In ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'', [[True Companions|the Trio]] Polyjuice themselves into three random Ministry employees to sneak into the Ministry of Magic. It works, but it's Subverted in that the "random" part causes endless problems: Hermione and Ron are stuck in the jobs of their disguises not to blow their cover, and they have to bluff their way though; Ron's is man whose wife was on trial that same day]]. Luckily Harry realized quickly his disguise was a Death Eater. As all hell breaks loose he [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|just starts giving orders and threatening people who try to stop them]], getting a bunch of Muggleborns out through the front door. {{spoiler|Then the real guys, they didn't knock out, return.}}
** And again when Hermione and Ron pretend to be Bellatrix and some Death Eater-friendly foreigner to {{spoiler|break into Bellatrix's Gringotts vault}}. Subverted again when {{spoiler|the Goblins had been warned that someone may try to enter the vault, and Hermione having Bellatrix's wand blows her cover instead of helping it.}}
** This was the essence of {{spoiler|Fake!Moody}}'s plan in ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Goblet of Fire (novel)|Harry Potter and the Goblet Ofof Fire]]'', but done to [[Inverted Trope|get into Hogwarts]].
* In David Eddings' ''Tamuli'' series, some of the heroes disguise themselves as mercenaries (complete with different faces) to get into [[The Dragon|Scarpa]]'s army.
* ''[[Mad Magazine]] Super Special Fall 1980''. In ''The Moronic Woman'' (a ''[[Bionic Woman]] parody''), Jammy Summons (Jaime Sommers) and Oscular (Oscar Goldman) have infiltrated the enemy palace. In order to get a guard's uniform for Oscar to wear, Jammy walks around knocking out guards until they find one who is Oscular's size. Oscular puts on the uniform and they go to the office of the dictator.
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