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== [[Literature]] ==

* One of the ''[[Where's Waldo]]'' books (''The Great Waldo Search'') features, on the last two-page spread, Waldo standing among members of "The Waldo Fan Club"... [[Needle in a Stack of Needles|all of whom are wearing his trademark outfit]] (blue trousers, red and white sweater with matching bobble hat).

* In ''[[The Darksword Trilogy]]'', Simkin helps Mosiah escape from the [[Secret Police]] by casting a mass illusion spell that makes an entire crowd of people look like him. The crowd doesn't even suspect Simkin of anything underhanded, since his [[Cloudcuckoolander]] credentials are already firmly established; they just think he's attempting to start a new fashion trend.

* Being [[Lost in a Crowd]] is a crucial part of ''[[Assassin's Creed]]''. Not only does the end of the opening movie shows this exact thing, but in-game Altaïr can use Scholars as (who are all dressed similarly to him) as "mobile hide points." He can "blend" on his own by making a praying pose and walking slowly, but he needs the Scholars to bypass guard posts... not least because he openly carries a longsword, short blade, and throwing knives, and he needs the Scholars to block the guards' view of his weapons.

** In ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' this changes up somewhat with Ezio, who can now blend into any group of four or more (sometimes three, and with Courtesans as low as two), but the Assassin Robes he wears ''all the time'' are [[Highly-Visible Ninja|extremely distinct, not least because he wears a Assassin emblem on the front of his belly]]. In ''Brotherhood'' this blending ability gets much more plausible if you choose to equip the Florentine Noble Attire (a Uplay Reward), since that outfit (his day wear from before he donned the Assassin Robes) is much more like the clothing worn by Roman civilians.

** The multiplayer mode in ''Brotherhood'' runs on this; the entire world is populated with [[Only Six Faces|only a handful of distinct character models]], and success is often a matter of finding a group of identical NPCs and trying not to act human.