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{{trope}}
[[File:Hughman 2389.jpg|link=Futurama|frame|[[The Joy of Painting|Bob Ross]] lives! ]]
{{quote|'''[[General Failure|Zapp Brannigan]]''': We can't be too careful with these codes [to Earth's automated defenses]. Rumor has it a double agent may be aboard this very ship. You, ensign, what's your name?
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'''Zapp''': Hugh Mann? Now that's [[Names to Trust Immediately|a name I can trust]]. Run down to the central battle computer and enter these codes. Chop, chop!
'''[[Only Sane Man|Kif]]''': [[Genre Savvy|Um, sir? There's something about that ensign that's--]]
'''Zapp''': You're damn right there is! That strapping young lad's gunning for your job. And he just might get it.
|''[[Futurama]]''}}
Someone has gotten [[Cloning Blues|duplicated]]/[[Demonic Possession|taken over]]/[[Humanity Ensues|impersonated]] by something not human, and the duplicate is trying to pass as a main character. But they do a [[Glamour Failure|terrible job of it]]; [[Uncanny Valley|acting in an erratic manner]], forgetting names, walking stiffly, and [[Creepy Monotone|talking in an odd dialect]]. They might as well call themselves "Hugh Mann" and [[Most Definitely Not a Villain|walk around with a name-tag reading "I'm Most Definitely Not A Space Alien"]] - it would make for about as convincing a disguise.
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See also [[Clark Kenting]] and [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]. Compare [[Louis Cypher]]. Not to be confused with ''[[Funday Pawpet Show]]'' character Hugh Manatee.
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== Comic Books ==
* In an issue of ''[[The Flash|Impulse]]'', Bart has to hide the fact that his cousin Jenni is from the future, so he teaches her English with the help of books like "See Spot Run". When introduced to his friends, Jenni's first attempt at conversing with them is to ask if they've Seen Spot Run.
== Film ==
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* ''[[The Skeleton Key]]'' [[Grand Theft Me|ends this way]], although at least one person seems to suspect something might be wrong.
* {{spoiler|The Strangers}} from ''[[Dark City]]''. By extension {{spoiler|the whole environment they constructed}} .
* In the second ''[[Cats and Dogs]]'' film, a cat (masquerading as his owner) over an intercom gives his last name as "Not-A-Cat". The [[
* Deconstructed in ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]]: II The Golden Army''. Princess Nuala, when first meeting Abe Sapien, thinks that his name is an obvious alias and that he's one of Nuada's spies, so she reads his mind to find out his real identity, only to learn that [[Unfortunate Name|"Abe Sapien" is actually his name.]]
== Literature ==
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' has a few borderline cases. Ford Prefect and Zaphod Beeblebrox both visit Earth without attracting too much attention, despite the former's badly chosen fake name and Zaphod not even trying to hide he's from space; of course, they're both basically human-looking, with just a few subtle (or not; see below) oddities. Later on,
** It doesn't exactly help that Arthur blurts out "What?" on this suggestion.
** In the [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game)|game]] (and in the book ''Mostly Harmless''), it is revealed that the two-headed Zaphod went to a costume party on Earth dressed as a pirate. He put a birdcage over the second head and covered it with a cloth. The head in the cage said "Pretty Polly" every now and again.
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*** And almost blew their cover, as the now very clean room now confused the hell out of Marco's father!
* In the Mark Clifton short story ''What Have I Done?'', an employment agent meets an alien who asks him to help the alien invaders with their disguises. (The agent has a superhuman ability to read people, and is the only person so far who's seen through the Hugh Mann act.) He defeats the invasion by helping them to appear as the most perfect, noble humans ever - [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|so that real humans will destroy them out of envy]].
== Live Action TV ==
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* In ''[[The Secret Circle]]'' {{spoiler|Melissa}} is possessed by a demon. Turns out, demons aren't very good actors. Apart from general weird and out of character behavior, when frustrated she broke into [[Evil Sounds Deep]]. Unusually for this trope their friend screaming at them in demon voice because they expressed reservations about her creepy plan was noticed, although the real giveaway was when the demonic snake crawled across her forehead under the skin.
* In ''Zardip Zap'', a series of fitness and health information videos for children, the eponymous character is an alien sent by his leaders to re-learn the secret to taking care of one's body. masquerades as a child named Zardip [[Line-of-Sight Name|Pacific]] in order to gain information. He pulls it off rather well aside from not knowing what the organs in his own body are.
== Music ==
* The Duras Sisters' eponymous track on "Masquerading as Human" describes ''something'' that's doing just that, and finding just how easy it is to do so, even when they do things like order steak with marmalade and have a deadbolt on their closet door.
* Likewise, filker Karen Lindsey and her song "Nobody Knows I'm Really an Alien." The marooned alien cook is having a great time of it on Earth. He lives in a hippie commune (where the residents have had so many drugs they don't notice), goes to sci-fi conventions (where his looks are mistaken for a great costume), and even gets bit parts in Hollywood films (where again, no one seems to notice). It's only when he goes on a talk show to "set the record straight" that the MiB patrol shows up to cart him off.
== Theater ==
* In ''[[Dark of the Moon]]'', the protagonist, a witch, pretends to be a human. When asked what his name is, he says, "John... Human!" Cue [[Lampshade Hanging|bewildered remarks]] from the other characters.
== Video Games ==
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* In ''[[Lego Star Wars]]'', your characters can don Stormtrooper helmets to get into restricted areas. Chewbacca is so big that he can only wear his as a hat on top of his head. Not to mention he is seven feet tall and covered in fur. The disguise still works.
* ''[[Asheron's Call]]'' bad guys the Virindi have a shaky grasp of human psychology, being an otherdimensional [[Hive Mind]] of energy beings - actually, they have a shaky grasp of the material world, period. Their best attempt at making human infiltrators, the Simulacra, finally got the physical part right, but they still address people they meet as "fellow human" and talk with unnatural [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]].
* Invoked by the game ''[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1175060/Human_Simulator/ Human Simulator]'', in which you play a hapless android named "Hugh Mann", attempting to fit in with all the non-androids around him.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* Taken to its flimsiest extreme in [http://buttersafe.com/2010/07/22/the-essence-of-being-human/ this] ''[[Buttersafe]]'' strip.
* Warmech of ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]''. When he pretended to be a human, he wears a fake mustache which he grew on his human lip between acts of defecation. He actually fooled the other warriors with his disguise.
== Western Animation ==
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