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== Anime & Manga ==

* In the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' episode, "Pokemon Scent-Sation", Ash reluctantly has Team Rocket disguise him as a girl so that he could sneak into the Celadon gym. Ash breaks character a lot while he's in the disguise but always does his best to recover from it, until eventually, Pikachu revealed Ash's identity by electrocuting him.

* Sousuke's attempts at passing himself off as a normal civilian in ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' occasionally segues into this, especially when one of his classmates ropes him into a [[Zany Scheme]] where he has to pretend being her boyfriend in front of her friends.

{{quote|'''Sousuke:''' I feel unimaginable happiness wasting time talking with women. I'm that type of human.}}

 

== Comics ==

* In one issue of ''[[Suicide Squad]]'', Captain Boomerang manages to do this while playing ''himself'' in an operation to lure in a local vigilante.

{{quote|Ahhh, Wipeout, me old mate. I, Captain Boomerang, am glad I've returned to Central City. With my old nemesis, the Flash, no longer here, I am free to use me trick boomerangs and amazing skills to knock over this bleedin' armored car! }}

 

== Fan Works ==

* [[Mulan]]'s joining the Chinese army and posing as a man. And for that matter, Mushu posing as the Great Stone Dragon. "... Did I mention that I am the Great Stone Dragon?"

* The monsters in ''[[We Are the Strange]]'' are a rare creepy example of this trope. In the empty ice cream shoppe, there are rather odd-looking posters which try to pass both the shoppe and the townspeople off as normal.

 

== Films -- Live-Action ==

'''Villager:''' That's what you'd say if you ''was'' a Nazi, isn't it sir? }}

* ''[[Die Hard]]'': Hans Gruber attempts to fool John McClane into thinking that he's an escaped hostage by trying to put on the worst possible American accent. Thankfully, unlike most of the cops in the film, McClane is ''not'' an idiot, and when he gives a gun to Gruber to protect himself with it turns out to not be loaded.

 

== Literature ==

* [[Winnie the Pooh]] pretends to be a little cloud when he tries to use a balloon to steal honey from a beehive. This includes having his friend Christopher Robin walking back and forth below him with an umbrella and loudly proclaim that it will be rain soon. While Pooh himself sings a little song about how he's just a raincloud:

{{quote|''How sweet to be a Cloud

** The Disney adaptation provides an even better example of the trope, as Pooh's song gets even more insistent that he's ''only'' a cloud and ''definitely'' not interested in honey:

{{quote|''Oh, I'm just a little black raincloud

** In the Russian adaptation, he first of all establishes to the bees that: "I'm a little rain cloud and definitely not a bear."

* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld/Wintersmith|Wintersmith]]'', the wintersmith makes himself a human form, and then goes into an inn. He announces, excitedly, "I am a human, just like you!"

** He then proceeds to cause mayhem in the store by... [[Poke the Poodle|Rearranging store shelves.]]

* In ''The Birthday Ball'', Princess Patricia Priscilla, while in disguise as a commoner, repeatedly insists that she's just a humble peasant.

{{quote|'''Ix:''' I am confused. This is not a good thing, because when we humans are confused we are not happy.}}

 

** Of course, he's also made it clear that [[For the Evulz|he just likes screwing with people basically for the fun of it.]]

* A clumsy case was Morgana from ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]''. When she returns to Camelot in series three, she spends most of her time smirking evilly to herself (in public) and interacting with her friends and family in a cloying, faux-sympathetic way (that was completely unlike the Morgana of the first two series). The audience isn't fooled for a second, but everyone else is completely taken in.

 

== Video Games ==

* In [[Magicka]] we have Vlad, who is most definitely not a Vampire.

* In ''[[Rift]]'', the inhabitants of Lakeshore in Freemarch are doing normal human things because they are normal humans (and most definitely not [[Fish People|Deep Ones]]).

 

== Web Comics ==

* In ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' episode "Timvisible", Francis the bully held a tradition of beating all other boys during last day. One of his victims put on a pink dress and a blonde wig to avoid it. That boy stated he was a girl, whom Francis would beat if he were a boy but won't because he was a girl or something like that. Does any troper know the correct line? Francis saw through the lame acting and removed the wig. The boy then pleaded that he was still wearing a dress but it didn't work.

* In the [[Captain Caveman]] and Son segment of ''[[The Flintstone Kids]]'', Captain Caveman "hides" his home's location by posting a sign stating "This is NOT Captain Caveman's Secret Hideout".

 

== Real Life ==

** Lampshaded in ''[[CSI: NY]]''. When they find a victim wearing such a shirt, they immediately assume it's a tourist. They are right (although he was actually wearing it because he spilt coffee down his shirt and was there to {{spoiler|rescue his daughter from a brothel}} rather than sightseeing). In a subversion, Danny mentions he wanted one as a kid (when he got one, it got him beaten up at school).

*** And even if you don't hear them speak, you'll know them anyway, because they'll be the ones constantly staring up at the "really tall buildings". Most residents and even frequent visitors have long since ceased to be impressed.

** The New York Times Magazine once ran a list of tips for passing as a New Yorker. One of them advised, "Profess no knowledge of where the Statue of Liberty is."

* Lots of "Japanese" restaurants ''outside of Japan'' (well, at least in Europe) are teppan-yaki and involve ridiculous kimonos and food-dropping games with a chef playing with food while cooking it. The kind of restaurant you can't find anywhere in Japan.

** Teppan-yaki restaurants did originate in Japan. They're just [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|far more popular in the west]] than they are in their home country.

* In an inversion a spy in England, when asked what his profession was by friends and neighbors would answer [[Sarcastic Confession|"I'm a spy."]] Because nobody believed him, the ruse worked.