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A variant of [[Weirdness Censor]]. [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]] and [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form]] are often forms of this. The [[Master of Illusion]] is likely to perform this.
See also [[Appearance Is in
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[
* This is played with in ''[[
* In [[Code Geass]], where Lelouch geasses {{spoiler|Guilford}} into seeing and hearing Lelouch as {{spoiler|Cornelia}}.
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* In the [[Marvel Universe]], the [[Planet Eater]] Galactus appears to any observer to be gigantic member of the observer's own race. What his true appearance is like is unknown.
== [[Fan
* Variant used in ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Done in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' by Thomas to allow Harry to avoid [[The Fair Folk]] for awhile.
** In the ''[[A Day in
* In ''The Black Unicorn'', the second book in the ''[[Magic Kingdom of Landover]]'' series by [[Terry Brooks]], the hero, Ben, has a spell cast on him by an evil wizard that causes him to look and sound different to everyone except his enemies.
* In ''[[Sword of Truth|Wizard's First Rule]]'', Richard is at one point subject to a spell that makes everyone see him as an enemy. To his enemies and himself, he looks and sounds normal, but to his friends, he appears as someone they hate.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[Quantum Leap]]'', Sam Beckett takes on the "Aura" of the person he has leaped into (see [[Voodoo Shark]] for a more thorough explanation.) Several episodes, such as the one where Sam [[
** In one episode, Sam leaps into the body of a war vet who has lost both his legs. Al warns him not to try to get up. When Sam does get up at the end of the episode, the other person sees a guy with no legs floating in mid-air.
** Kids, animals, crazies, and psychics can see his true self.
* In ''[[Dead Like Me]]'', the reapers look different to their true form to living people. We see "UnGeorge" in scenes through a living person's perspective.
* In ''[[Beetleborgs|Big Bad Beetleborgs]]'', this was combined with [[The Nth Doctor]] when Shannon Chandler left the series: Halfway through Season 1, Wolfgang, while playing with a magic book, accidentally caused Jo to change in appearance. To counteract this, Flabber used his magic to make her look and sound just like herself, except to the people who saw him do the spell. So the viewers, Flabber, Drew, and Roland could still see Jo in her new appearance, played by Brittany Konarzewski, but the Hillhurst monsters as well as their family and friends could see her as she looked before. The psychological impact this would have on her brother and best friend was never addressed.
* ''[[Star Trek:
** In the episode "Spectre of the Gun", aliens put Kirk and company into a simulation of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. They, and the audience, still see each other normally in their Starfleet uniforms, but the other people in the simulated town react to them as though they were Ike Clanton and company.
** In "The Man Trap", the salt vampire could make itself appear to be a specific person to everyone looking at it. Because of his long experience with it, Professor Crater could always recognize it no matter what form it took.
* The very special glamor spell used by The Charmed Ones in the early part of season 8 of ''[[
** Though they will see the glamor, and not themselves, in the mirror.
* An episode of ''[[The X
* In one episode of ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]'', a witch casts a spell to make another man appear to be Richard, and vice versa. He doesn't realize it until they start treating him weird.
* In ''[[Stargate SG
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The [[Dungeons
* The "Illusion Disguise" spell in ''[[GURPS]]: Magic'' works like this. "Perfect Illusion Disguise" will actually fool all five senses.
* In ''[[
* The "Familiar Stranger" power of ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]'''s Obfuscate Discipline makes the target view the vampire as a person he knows. What the target perceives is not communicated to the player.
* The Divine Fire hides a [[Promethean: The Created|Promethean's]] true face. Given that Prometheans are animate ''corpses'', this is pretty much the only thing that keeps them from getting killed on sight (and [[Hate Plague|Disquiet]] means sometimes even ''that'' isn't enough). Prometheans can see each other's true faces, as well as how humans see them overlaid on it. There are, however, several ways to cause [[Glamour Failure]], and those usually cause a ''world'' of problems...
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In the first ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'' game, Kain can get two spells that make him look like how he was when he was alive. These allow him to walk through towns without alerting the people.
* This is how the Spy's disguises in ''[[
* A spell that disguises Owyn as a moredhel in ''[[Betrayal
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
* Not a spell, but ''[[
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Happened a few times during the [[Crossover Wars]]: during the Forum Wars the Evil Overlord forces attacked the Wotch forum disguised as members of the [[El Goonish Shive
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'', Nightcrawler uses a kind of hologram field device to appear as a normal human
** He originally used one in the comics as well, but he mostly toyed with it to transform into famous movie stars or as a disguise. He stopped using it after a trip through space - mostly because [[Freaky Is Cool]].
*** And because he felt it was contrary to the mutants-are-okay message.
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