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** Sydney employs this tactic when the need for a waitress uniform arises in the penultimate episode. Unfortunately, her cover is blown rather quickly when the real waitress' unconscious body is found. |
** Sydney employs this tactic when the need for a waitress uniform arises in the penultimate episode. Unfortunately, her cover is blown rather quickly when the real waitress' unconscious body is found. |
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** As well as an earlier episode, where Sydney is on the run from some enemies and mugs a Goth girl for her clothes and wig. |
** As well as an earlier episode, where Sydney is on the run from some enemies and mugs a Goth girl for her clothes and wig. |
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* ''[[The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne]]'' features a time-travelling |
* ''[[The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne]]'' features a time-travelling episode where [[Action Girl|Rebecca]], fearing she may look out of place in a 17th-century crowd, ducks into an alleyway. Not long after, an appropriately-dressed woman happens by said alleyway and is forcefully pulled off-screen. Rebecca is soon seen stepping out into the open, dressed in her "borrowed" clothes. |
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* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' plays this one straight all the time. Kirk and Spock have stolen clothes from Nazi officers, Romulan centurions, and many other mooks. They once averted the trope by stealing civvies off a clothesline. |
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' plays this one straight all the time. Kirk and Spock have stolen clothes from [[Star Trek/Recap/S2/E21 Patterns of Force|Nazi officers]], [[Star Trek/Recap/S3/E02 The Enterprise Incident|Romulan centurions]], and many other [[mooks]]. They once averted the trope by [[Star Trek/Recap/S1/E28 The City on the Edge of Forever|stealing civvies off a clothesline]]. |
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* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Farscape]]''. John tries to do this, but the uniforms are too small and they have to come up with a different plan. |
* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Farscape]]''. John tries to do this, but the uniforms are too small and they have to come up with a different plan. |
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* The ''[[Dark Angel]]'' episode "Freak Nation" has the heroes defeating a group of agents in a big struggle, and then escaping in their uniforms. When the cops show up on the scene, they find the replaced men and women tied to a pillar with their mouths duct-taped shut. |
* The ''[[Dark Angel]]'' episode "Freak Nation" has the heroes defeating a group of agents in a big struggle, and then escaping in their uniforms. When the cops show up on the scene, they find the replaced men and women tied to a pillar with their mouths duct-taped shut. |
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** A third case, "Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man," has a mayor who poses as a guard to kill the oldest man in the world without being noticed. Of course, to gain access to the man, he had to kill one of the nursing center's real guards and steal his security pass, and possibly his uniform. |
** A third case, "Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man," has a mayor who poses as a guard to kill the oldest man in the world without being noticed. Of course, to gain access to the man, he had to kill one of the nursing center's real guards and steal his security pass, and possibly his uniform. |
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* ''[[Alcatraz (TV series)|Alcatraz]]'': In "Garrett Stillman", Stillman hijacks an armoured car and steals the guards' uniforms, leaving them in an alleyway in their underwear. |
* ''[[Alcatraz (TV series)|Alcatraz]]'': In "Garrett Stillman", Stillman hijacks an armoured car and steals the guards' uniforms, leaving them in an alleyway in their underwear. |
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== Video Games == |
== Video Games == |
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