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{{quote|(Antimony approaches door, wearing a headband with attached antennae.)
'''Antimony''': Hello. I would like to enter, please.
'''Doorbot''': Robots onl... what's that on your head?
'''Antimony''': These are my antennas, because I am clearly a robot.
'''Doorbot''': Oh! Well... it's true that some robots have antennas... hmm...
'''Antimony''': Also, robots never lie.
'''Doorbot''': Hey, you're right! Come on in, friends!|''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''}}
Examples of [[{{BASEPAGENAME}}]] in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* Mocked in ''[[Cinema Bums]]'' in [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305055951/http://www.cinemabums.com/?p=191 this] comic related to Robert Downey Jr.'s many disguises in ''[[Sherlock Holmes (film)|Sherlock Holmes]]''.
* Parodied in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', in which several aliens and magical beings successfully disguise themselves with shirts and hats reading things such as "Homo Sapiens" or "Ordinary Student". [http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2006-03-26 This filler comic] serves as an example.
* ''[[George the Dragon]]'' is infamous for using and abusing this particular trope, usually to the disgrace of any human beings present.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20100910142458/http://www.drunkduck.com/George_the_Dragon/index.php?p=538474 This] is an example where the dragon 'sneaks' into a top secret meeting of the Dragon Hunters Anonymous.
* Also parodied in ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'' where the bad guys sneak into a castle by hiding behind a banner with "Doin' fine" on it.
** And at another point, they trick the Light Warriors by donning pirate ''hats''. Which fools even the [[Magnificent Bastard]] Thief. [[Only Sane Man|Black Mage is the only one who isn't fooled, and nearly has an aneurysm trying to get his teammates to see the trap right in front of their faces]]. The worst part? One of the Dark Warriors, Bikke, is a pirate TO BEGIN WITH, and doesn't look different AT ALL. AND EVERYONE IS STILL FOOLED.
** Subverted at yet another point, where Black Mage kills an evil cultist and slices off his face to use as a mask. Upon greeting the other cultists they immediately realize that he killed their friend and is using his face as a mask, and lecture him on what a poor disguise it is.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091003101439/http://www.drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=10&issue=3 Parodied] in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', where the doctor tries to achieve this using only a name tag. No one's fooled—the mask, you know—but they play along. In fact, every single time he tries to disguise himself, he leaves his mask on. Apparently [[Contractual Genre Blindness]] is not just for villains these days.
** Gordito also attempts this in the [[Sky Pirates]] chapter, with [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p68 some success].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100107062327/http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Was_Kidnapped_By_Lesbian_Pirates_From_Outer_Space/index.php?p=316273 Parodied yet again] in [https://web.archive.org/web/20100214021256/http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Was_Kidnapped_By_Lesbian_Pirates_From_Outer_Space/index.php I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space] where the paper-thin disguise is a [[Superman|pair of glasses]].
* ''[[Brawl in the Family]]'' [http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2008/11/12/103-dededoo/ subverts this].
* Subverted in ''[[Narbonic]]'', where a group of intelligent hamsters operate a fake body with a ''paper plate'' with a face drawn on—poorly—for their disguise. They can't even get their pronouns right. Nobody is fooled, but tend to take in stride the fact that they're talking to a bunch of hamsters.
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* [http://exterminatusnow.comicgenesis.com/d/20050211.html A sign] [[Exterminatus Now|reading "Lamp - Not Eastwood."]]
** Later on, [http://exterminatusnow.comicgenesis.com/d/20050722.html they managed to fool the guards] of an ''ice world military base'' by disguising themselves as ''pizza delivery men'' (only for one of them to purposefully blow their cover due to refusing to use a plan used by [[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby and Shaggy]])
* ''Building 12'': After [[The Reveal]] in the first chapter that [[Gender Blender Name|Al]][[Bifauxnen|ex]] is a girl, she's generally drawn in a way that, while still [[Pettanko
* Try to find the ninja. [http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=38 Last Days of Foxhound]
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]]:
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* Subverted in "[[Super Temps]]" as most people see right through the disguises, and just go along with it anyway because the supers themselves are loopy and rather sensitive. Bonus points for the fact that many of the ''supers themselves'' not only buy into each others' paper-thin disguises but also think that the civilian populace's paper-thin facade of being fooled is real.
* Played straight in [[Zorphbert and Fred]], as none of the humans notice the intelligent behaviour, human mannerisms and bloody obvious antennae on the title characters, who are aliens disguised as pet dogs to study Earth.
* In ''[[Impure Blood]]'', Dara [https://web.archive.org/web/20120712144656/http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter003/ib018.html reflects on this trope while considering making a hulking HalfHumanHybrid look inconspicuous.]
* In one page of "Spiff Spoonerton and the Planet of Hot Green Women" involves Spiff and Miri infiltrating a military base. Miri wears a maid uniform and does nothing to obscure her face. Spiff wears his normal clothing with a piece of paper that reads "Also Maid". Exceptional in that Spiff is literally the only human on the entire planet and both are well known outlaws.
{{quote|'''Miri:''' I'd be more concerned about how well that went if I wasn't still hung up on why you had a maid uniform in a single-person space craft on an exploratory mission."
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'''Miri:''' But why a human female housecleaner disguise?
'''Spiff:''' ... }}
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Skin Horse]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120513040734/http://skin-horse.com/comics/07222008/ here].
* ''Dangerously Chloe'' has Chloe's friend Pandora who infiltrated Heaven by disguising herself as an angel. Repeatedly. Succubi are shapeshifters, so hiding her own horns, wings and tail is not a problem, but then, she got [http://www.dangerouslychloe.com/strips-dc/kick_booty_water_park halo] supported by a [http://www.dangerouslychloe.com/strips-dc/chastity_abstinence visible] wire and [[Large Ham|acts over the top]]. Then again, it's entirely on their level - angels themselves tend toward over-acting, and the first we met was using a [[Conspicuous Trenchcoat]]. Pandora walks around undetected despite blatantly messing with their heads (not even to cause mayhem as such, apparently [[Screwy Squirrel|she just can't resist]]).
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