Paper-Thin Disguise/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

** After failing to get the [[MacGuffin|Triangle of Zinthar]] from the boys, [[Barbra Streisand]] dons a fake mustache and glasses on her second attempt. The boys are fooled and freely mock Streisand in her presence, much to her indignation.

* Used with gusto throughout the ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]] Show'', in various manners.

* In ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', no one ever recognizes the disguised Beagle Boys under the fake mustache (or whatever), even though they always wear their robbery masks and prisoner numbers. Considering even their own family hasn't seen them without the masks, simply removing them might be far more effective than anything else they could do.

** In a (non-''DuckTales'' related) comic story, this is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by the Beagle Boys ridiculing one of them when he pulls off a disguise that's actually somewhat more convincing than most others, since he actually bothers to make the mask less noticeable by wearing huge glasses. Earlier and later in the story, the other Beagle Boys had worn disguises that didn't even cover any of their faces.

* From ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars|Star Wars the Clone Wars]]'': Despite supposedly being [[Informed Ability|the best]] [[Bounty Hunter]] in the galaxy after the late Jango Fett, Cad Bane's Jedi disguise is pretty pathetic. You'd think that a guy like him would put a little more effort into it.

* Parodied and inverted in ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', with Orson wearing nothing but a moustache and costume posing as the Rooster Ranger to play a trick on Roy. Roy immediately recognized it as "Orson in a pathetic disguise", but when Orson fell into his mudhole {{spoiler|Orson came up to investigate. It turned out that the Rooster Ranger was actually Lanolin in costume.}}

** Fluttershy used a large hat and sunglasses to go unnoticed during her fashion model career, which would have been more convincing if her canary yellow body and distinctive cutie mark were also concealed.

** Inverted in "Party of One". Pinkie Pie disguises herself as a block of hay. Wearing [[Conspicuous Trenchcoat|a trenchcoat and fedora]]. [[Up to Eleven|And Groucho glasses]]. Despite the over-the-top silliness, it ''could'' be a effective disguise, if everyone didn't already knew [[Cloudcuckoolander|Pinkie Pie]] would be the only one crazy enough to wear that in the first place.

* In every episode of the British children's animated series ''Poppy Cat'', the badger Egbert appears in the characters' adventures as a villain wearing a paper-thin disguise. The catch, however, is that unlike most instances of this trope, the characters ''always'' recognize him who he is and even call him "Egbert," but he insists "I am ''not'' Egbert, I am such-and-such character."

* In the "Christmas: Impossible" segment of ''Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas'', Huey, Dewey, and Louie mosey around Santa's workshop wearing their usual [[Color-Coded for Your Convenience|monochrome shirts]] plus green hats. Their doubts of success disappear the moment an elf addresses one as "fellow elf."

* In ''[[Get Muggsy]]'', the title character's friends (an opossum, raccoon and ''spider'') need only stuff sticks of white gum in their mouth to fool others into thinking that they are beavers.

* In an episode of ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|Ed, Edd n Eddy]]'', the Eds manage to sneak past Kevin by disguising themselves as Jonny. Which means all three Eds are crammed into a gigantic papier-mâché sphere vaguely shaped like Jonny's head, with the eyes cut out and ''all three Eds plainly visible inside'' and an imitation [[Companion Cube|Plank]] glued to the side. Kevin doesn't seem to notice, saying hi to "Jonny" and muttering "What a freak" when "he" hits the fence and falls over it.

{{quote|'''Carmilla:''' You have a giant X over your eye and wield an angelic spear. It's not rocket science.}}