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'''Princess Leia:''' You're who?|'''''[[Star Wars]]: [[A New Hope]]'''''}}

 

* Not quite enemies, but the Roberia Zuka Club makes their first appearance in [[Ouran High School Host Club|Ouran Academy]] uniforms, one as a [[Bifauxnen|male]].

* Jugo and Suigetsu try this in ''[[Naruto]]'' using samurai uniforms. They are caught almost immediately.

Jugo: [[Lampshade Hanging|This wasn't a very good plan.]] }}

* ''[[Bleach]]'': Uryuu and Orihime steal and wear some shihakusho to blend in during the Soul Society arc. Because it's [[Gag Boobs|Orihime]] and Uryuu, an [[Please Put Some Clothes On|awkward]] [[Lingerie Scene]] is mandatory.

** A similar inversion occurs in [[V for Vendetta]], when V {{spoiler|dresses up bound and gagged employees of the station he's attacking in replicas of his own costume, leading the guards to unwittingly open fire on them}}.

* At one point in ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]'', a column of US Army troops is dispatched to storm the Air Force base which has been commandeered by renegade general Ripper. The base troops think they are battling invading Russians:

"Probably bought them from the Army as war surplus. OK. Open up at 200 yards.." }}

* ''[[Blazing Saddles]]''. Two Ku Klux Klan members are part of the line of applicants to join Hedley Lamaar's army of [[Mooks]]. Sheriff Bart and the Waco Kid lure them away, knock them out and steal their robes. Unfortunately, they forget that Sheriff Bart is black...

* ''[[Our Man Flint]]''. While infiltrating Galaxy Island Flint takes out two Galaxy personnel and dons their clothes: one an ordinary worker and the other a security guard.

* ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'': Hannibal Lecter employs this trope in the most gruesome manner possible.

* In ''[[Brain Donors]]'', [[Ambulance Chaser]] Roland T. Flakfizer and his cohorts dress up as doctors to infiltrate a hospital and recover an incriminating letter.

'''Roland:''' "Why do you think we have such long instruments?" }}

* Done by Murray and Ramis in ''[[Stripes]]''.

** The End of Time-how [[Fridge Logic|*did* the Vinvocci get that guard's helmet over his head, anyway?]] Ow.

* The chunkheaded hero from the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''-lampooned ''[[Space Mutiny]]'' beats up a guard who's easily thirty kilograms and 25 cm smaller than he, yet his stolen uniform fits perfectly.

*** And within minutes, the disguise is blown at the ''first'' checkpoint he comes to. A [[Stealth Parody|subversion]], perhaps?

** Another example from ''MST3K'': The episode ''[[Samson vs. the Vampire Women]]'' features a mook trying to disguise himself as a wrestler that the titular hero is about to fight -- only the mook has a substantially different body shape from that of the wrestler. (This fact is painfully obvious since the wrestler -- and the mook who takes over for him -- wears nothing but tights and a mask.)