Dressing as the Enemy: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' allows the main character several methods of escape from the beginning "dungeon"--including stealing one of the "guard's" uniforms or getting oneself disguised as a zombie (which are commonplace). Both of which result in the only change to the character's outward appearance (aside from what kind of weapon he's holding) in the entire game.

* Used twice in ''[[Metroid]] Prime 3: Corruption''. Early in the game, shapeshifter Gandrayda gets the drop on a squadron of pirates by disguising herself as one. {{spoiler|Later in the game, after her [[Face Heel Turn]], she lures Samus into a trap by pretending to be a Galactic Federation Marine.}}

** To be fair, the uniforms are fully covering and Yuna says only a few lines while in disguise. Also the Syndicate leaders aren't the smartest people in the game anyway.

* This is one of the most common gameplay mechanics in the ''[[Hitman]]'' series. No matter who you knock out, their clothes will always fit, and the others will never notice that their friend is now a bald white guy with a barcode tattooed on his head.

* Way back in ''[[Ecco the Dolphin (series)|Ecco II: Tides of Time]]'', you gained the ability to transform into various enemy creatures using the Asterite's metaspheres. Doing so made them oblivious to your presence (generally foes that either cluttered the screen or could [[One-Hit Kill|kill you instantly]]) -- but you would also be [[Friend or Foe|attacked by other dolphins in the area]].

* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' the healer of the group {{spoiler|and the failure assassin Sheena, if you chose the hard path}} dress up as Desians to infiltrate one of their ranches to destroy.

* Formerly shown in the trope's image example, we have Milanor of ''[[Yggdra Union]]''. During the [[Save the Princess]] chapter of the story, there are two battlefields where he dons Imperial armor in order to infiltrate the fortress of Karona and look for Yggdra (the armor is given to him by [[Xanatos Gambit|a would-be traitor who's trying to get a specific prisoner freed]]). During the former battlefield, Milanor cannot do battle when disguised because the stationed soldiers all recognize him right away; your other forces have to sneak in after him and cause a distraction to let him slip through. His disguise is also seen through immediately by the sole guard of the prison, but because there's only one of her and you're between her and backup, you're able to fight and defeat her instead of getting a game over.

* The original ''[[Castle Wolfenstein]]'' allowed you to dress as a German soldier to sneak by the Nazi guards. Unfortunately, the [[Elite Mooks|SS Soldiers]] will immediately recognize you anyway.

* ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' has dressing as a guard and carrying a chest to meet {{spoiler|Rodrigo Borgia}}. ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]'' also has a mission that involves dressing as a guard and carrying a chest to meet {{spoiler|a Borgia}}, as well as dressing as a Frenchman alongside Bartolomeo's men to infiltrate the French camp.

* Early FPS/RPG ''[[Strife]]'' has a mission were you need to locate an officer's uniform before you can infiltrate an Order base without setting off all the alarms.

* ''[[Starcraft II]]: Wings of Liberty'' features an alien organsm, called "changeling", which is capable of assuming the identity of the enemy race, clothes and all, and do some recon. Units won't be able to spot or attack the changeling without the player's direct intervention in the form of explicit order to attack what appears to be an ally.

* ''[[Space Quest]]'' has you do this in homage to the Stormtrooper disguise in ''[[Star Wars]]''. Later, you lose the helmet and blow your cover.

** Similarly, in "Burns Baby Burns" Homer and Larry Burns are fleeing from the suddenly half-competent Police (who believe Homer to have kidnapped Larry), and duck into a costume store. The viewer is then shown a man who looks quite a bit like Homer, dressed as an organ-gridner leaving the store with a vaguely Larry-shaped man dressed as his monkey. The subversion comes when we see the clerk look into the store's bathroom, where Homer and Larry are actually hiding: "Either buy a costume or get out, fellas!"

** A similar thing happens in ''[[Scary Movie]] 4'', where the would-be clothes stealers are themselves beaten up and have to settle for garments on a clothesline instead.

** Played straight in the first half of season 3 when the Gaang travels though the Fire Nation in local outfits, change their hair styles and Aang even uses a fake name (Kuzon; and when Sokka doesn't he's given away instantly).

** Also in "The Boiling Rock", Sokka and {{spoiler|Zuko}} disguise themselves as prison guards. Cue icons of Suki delivering Princess Leia's line.

*** Dressing as the enemy gets Sokka into to trouble twice with the very people he was trying to rescue, by not identifying himself to them. Suki punches him into the door, Hakoda ''almost'' does.

** Subverted in the season 1 finale, when a Water Tribe warrior uses antique Fire Nation armor to infiltrate the flagship, and when he tries to kill the admiral, he gets [[Offhand Backhand|offhand backhanded]]. Although that was probably less because of a failure of his disguise than because he pulled off his helmet and [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya|declared himself]] [[Too Stupid to Live|before attacking.]]

* Danny and Tucker briefly disguises themselves as two ghost henchmen in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' to rescue Sam from marrying a ghostly prince, much to her dismay as she was orchestrating her own method of escaping just fine.