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{{trope
[[File:Pascal tangled.jpg|link=Tangled|thumb|400px|Ah! ''There' you are.]]
In [[Real Life]], Chameleons have only a limited colour changing ability which is primarily dictated by the lizard's mood. It is only rarely used for camoflage, despite the common perception, and even then only in some species. In reality, the colours they change into (shades of green, brown, and grey, with bolder psychedelic patterns usually reserved only for courtship/[[Game Face|frightening rivals and predators]]/etc.), just happen to be the same as their surroundings most of the time.
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== Anime ==
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', a giant one of these a person can hide in is one of Animal Pain's many summons.
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* Subverted in ''[[Doctor Dolittle]] 2'', with Papito the chameleon, who thinks he has the ability to blend completely into the background, but never can. At the end, Charisse paints a room completely green as a surprise for Papito, and it looks like he finally got his dream.
* [[Played With]] in ''[[Tangled]]'' with Pascal, who mostly changes with his mood, it's just that half the time he happens to be in front of something of the same colour.
** Except the first scene with him, when he tries to blend in with a colourful pattern by appearing as this pattern, as seen in the page image. It doesn't work.
* Randall, a monster based off a chameleon
* Averted with the main character in ''[[Rango]]'', whose colour-changing abilities are more in keeping with a real chameleon's ("It's an art, not a science!"), which doesn't do him any good when trying to hide in the desert. He does a moderately better job at imitating a packet of licorice while hiding in a sweets machine, although he's found out anyway.
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