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'''Crowd:''' (confused) Speak English!<br />
'''Witch:''' (exasperated) I'm ''turning you into your costumes.''<br />
'''Homer:''' Well, are ya gonna talk about it or are you gonna do it? (zapped)|''[[The Simpsons (
It's [[All Hallow's Eve]] and the kids are trick-or-treating and everything is normal, but something magical is afoot, and turns people into whatever costume they are wearing. If you're dressed up as a werewolf, for example, you'll ''become an [[Our Werewolves Are Different|actual werewolf]]''.
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You'd be surprised just how often this happens in fiction.
Not to be confused with [[Becoming the Mask]] or [[Evil Costume Switch]]. Can overlap with [[The Mind Is a Plaything of
May be the subject of a [[Halloween Episode]].
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== Comic Books ==
* At least one character in ''[[Therefore
* Happens at a [[Attack of the Town Festival|revived pagan festival]] in ''[[
* This is a major plot point in the indie comic series Underburbs.
== Film ==
* The [[Disney Channel]] Original Movie ''[[Halloweentown (
* This happens in the 2003 movie ''Hallow's End'', in which the characters become their costumes when they die.
* The TV special ''Witch's Night Out'' (1978) has a witch turn two kids and their babysitter into the monsters they're costumed as. When the adults find out and turn on her, she explains that the point of Halloween is to try out different personas and imagine your potential. The adults happily start calling out requests for one-night transformations themselves.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[
** [[Lampshaded]] in the Season 4 episode "Fear Itself" when the gang attend a college Halloween party and all dress up as someone or something that would actually be useful should history repeat itself.
*** Not EVERYONE. Xander and Oz were, though. James Bond and... [[God]].
**** And Willow was Joan Of Arc. Even Anya, who wasn't around for the earlier episode, dressed as [[Hair-Raising Hare|something]] ''she'' thought was terrifying. So really, the only one who didn't learn was Buffy, who dressed as Red Riding Hood.
** The same trick was pulled on a convention in the later [[
* ''[[
* Abed in the ''[[
{{quote| '''Abed:''' "I am Batman."}}
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Magic:
* In [[
== Video Games ==
* This is the entire plot of a downloadable game called "The Theater." It can be downloaded here: http://www.tanuke.com/?p=1804
* The Deku, Goron, Zora, and Fierce Deity masks in ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* This is a gameplay mechanic in ''[[
* [[Kid Chameleon]] on the Sega Genesis as the main gameplay mechanic.
* Played with in a skit in the [[
** This is also the primary gameplay mechanic of the ''Narikiri Dungeon'' series, where donning the costumes of different classes, monsters, or Tales characters turns you into them and allows the use of the appropriate abilities.
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* The [http://shifti.org/wiki/Xanadu_(setting) Xanadu storyverse] is all about this. At a costume convention with ten thousand in attendance, costumes become real and those wearing them are changed. Mentally the transformation varies from person to person, from "Suddenly my costume is much more accurate" to "Where am I, what is this planet?" Stories tend to be either furry or [[Welcome to The Real World]].
* Overlaps with [[Dragged Into Drag]] on sites like Big closet top shelf all the time.
* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* In general, this is a favorite [[Halloween Episode|Halloween event]] for [[Journal Roleplay]] games.
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* ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' Season 2, Episode 13: "Scary Godparents".
* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'' "Treehouse of Horror XVI" third segment, "I've Grown a Costume on Your Face," a witch curses the town by making them become their costumes.
* On the ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' episode "Slaves to Fashion", Tuskernini, the villainous walrus filmmaker, creates a gas that causes people to take on the personality of whatever costumed character they dressed up as. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. The gas doesn't actually affect our hero, though, because [[For Halloween I Am Going
* The "Curse of Necklace" episode of ''[[Martin Mystery]]''.
* Happened in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' special, "Reality Trip" where a Reality Gem transformed a trio of nerds at a comic convention. Unfortunately for Danny, they were dressed as super villains.
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