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Compare [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]. A [[Sister Trope]] to [[Larynx Dissonance]] and (naturally) [[Disguised in Drag]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[
▲* ''[[Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai]]'''s Crossdresser "Ms." Aki. is never outed, but is rather obvious—so much so that it seems the rest of the cast is aware of it and just treats him/her as a lovable eccentric.
* All the crossdressers from ''[[One Piece]]'' are incredibly ugly and clearly don't shave, though they still behave much like women. The only exception so far is the secondary character Izou: The only thing that gives away his sex is his lack of a cleavage.
* In ''[[Penguin Revolution]]'', the talents and managers of Peacock are required to dress in drag for a publicity event. Most of the actors pull it off remarkably well, but Kaneda, one of the managers, just looks like a man in a dress.
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== Comic Books ==
* The Beagle Boys in ''[[Donald Duck]]'' comics. They still wear their masks, and don't shave.
* Aversion in a Don Martin cartoon for ''[[Mad Magazine]]'': Men looking for an escaped convict at a train station see a hairy-armed, tattooed, stubble-faced person in a dress walk by. One of them pulls off the person's wig and they jump on the presumed escaped convict... but let her go with shamefaced apologies.
== Film ==
* As the page quote indicates, the WWII comedy ''All the Queen's Men'' (allegedly [[Based on a True Story]]) completely destroys any possibility of seeming authentic because the actors (including [[Eddie Izzard]]) make absolutely no attempt to be believable as women.
* A number of the ''[[Carry On]]'' films involve Sid James or Bernard Bresslaw (or another similarly unmistakeably masculine cast member) wearing a dress, and the authority figure they're trying to evade falling instantly for him, despite the fact that he's clearly Sid James or Bernard Bresslaw wearing a dress. (The fact that the authority figure was frequently Kenneth Williams may add a bit of subtext to this.)
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== Literature ==
* Averted/Lampshaded in ''[[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'', Huck goes into town disguised as a girl, but a woman he encounters immediately tells he's just a boy in disguise.
* Hilariously [[Playing with a Trope|played with]] in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
* ''[[Dave Barry]]'s Only Travel Guide You Will Ever Need'' recommends that airline passengers who might fit the profile of a terrorist ("Sex: Male; Age: 15 to 74; Looks Suspicious: Yes") to draw away the attention of security personnel away by wearing a dress and "periodically remarking out loud to nobody in particular: 'I certainly have a lot of body hair, for a woman!'"
== Live
* ''[[Bosom Buddies]]'' ran on this trope.
* Done on purpose in the short-lived series ''The Ugliest Girl in Town''.
== Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends ==
== Mythology ==▼
* There is a Norse story in which Thor must disguise himself as Freya in order to trick the giants. The giants fall for every one of Loki's excuses about why "Freya" looks so haggard and has such a big appetite and can drink so much.
== Theatre ==
* The character The Old Snatch in the musical ''[[Me and My Dick]]''—there are other cross-dressing roles, but this one is played by a man with a gravelly voice and a beard.
* The original stage version of ''[[Hairspray]]'' cast gravelly-voiced Harvey Fierstein as the mother, Edna Turnblad. The original movie and movie-musical also have the role played by a man, but they attempt to make the mother somewhat feminine and are not examples.
* The traditional kickline in every original annual production of the [[Princeton Triangle Club]] is performed by eight to twelve of the club's burliest male members insufficiently disguised (deliberately) as women.
== Video Games ==
* In ''SNK Gals Fighters'', Iori Yagami disguises himself as "Miss X" by wearing a [[Sailor Fuku]] and a mask and insisting he's a girl. Nobody who sees him believes it.
* Happens in ''[[The Noob]]'', when [[The Brute|Your Name Here]], a large man with the [[Face of a Thug]], dresses up in drag for a story arc.
== Western Animation ==
* In an episode of ''[[Bob's Burgers]]'', Bob makes friends with some fairly successful transvestite hookers, who look exactly like men in spandex dresses.
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