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Line 35: * There are quite a few examples in ''[[Tintin]]'', particularly the Thompson twins, who fail utterly. Tintin is also known to do it a fair bit, and several villains have tried to pull beards off certain men of short stature who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time—needless to say, Tintin shows up on the next page having hidden in a large Chinese vase or having been disguised as a black waiter. In another story, Tintin and the Captain don burqas in Arabia in order to get out of the city where there is a bounty on their head—Snowy is carried in a vase on the Captain's head. Of course, the alarm is raised when a real Arabian woman tries to speak with them. == [[Film]]~~s -- Live-Action~~ == * ''[[The Pink Panther\|]]'': Inspector Clouseau]] does this a lot, to mixed success. He is so committed to being the [[Master of Disguise]] he thinks he is that the proprietor of the costume shop he frequents is a minor recurring character. * In the ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'' movie, Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz are disguised as men in one scene. Maybe it was Lucy Liu in her dominatrix outfit who distracted everyone. * The whole premise of the Wayans brothers' ''[[White Chicks]]''. * Subverted in ''[[To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar]]''. When the three drag queens are stranded in a Midwestern hick town, it seems that the townsfolk don't know the true sex of the "career girls". However, it's revealed at the end that they knew for awhile and simply didn't care. * ''[[The Crying Game]]''.{{context}} * In [[Scooby-Doo (film)\|the first ''Scooby-Doo'' live-action movie]], dogs aren't allowed on the plane, so Shaggy brings his grandma... * Used in ''[[12 Monkeys]]'' {{spoiler\|at the end, the protagonists use store bought disguises (a glued on mustache for the man and a blonde wig for the woman) to get through airport security and escape to Florida.}} Line 57: ** In ''A Scandal in Bohemia'', the tables are turned on Sherlock when opera singer Irene Adler disguises herself a man so successfully that she's even able to wish the detective a good night without him recognizing her as the woman he's supposed to be investigating. * [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'': In ''[[~~Discworld/Monstrous Regiment\|~~Monstrous Regiment]]'' this is played straight by the {{spoiler\|only male in the group}} acting as a washerwoman to get into the enemy base {{spoiler\|(who fools the guards but not the other washerwomen who let him continue the charade because he seems to enjoy it)}} but it fails when {{spoiler\|the female soldiers (who have been pretending to be male)}} don the same disguise and are stopped by the guards. Of course, they get around this {{spoiler\|just by having one of them lift her dress...}} In ''[[~~Discworld/Moving Pictures\|~~Moving Pictures]]'', in order to enter a clicky theatre without being found out, the wizards of UU remove their hats and use some wire to make their beards look like cheap fake beards. It works surprisingly well; no one would assume a guy in fake beard and without the trademark hat would be a wizard. * Re-visited in ''[[~~Discworld/I Shall Wear Midnight\|~~I Shall Wear Midnight]]'', when Mrs. Proust disguises Tiffany's genuine witch hat by sprinkling glitter on it and attaching an "Apprentice Witch Hat, AM $2.50" costume-shop label to its brim. Though wizards occasionally have trouble letting go of the hat; in ''[[~~Discworld/Sourcery\|~~Sourcery]]'', Conina suggests Rincewind could avoid getting lynched as a wizard simply by taking off his hat and not be a wizard at the moment. Rincewind has severe trouble wrapping his mind around the concept, particularly "not be a wizard". In ''[[The Science of Discworld]] II: The Globe'', the wizards have to disguise the Librarian to hide him from some eighteenth-century Englishmen. A dress and a large hat is all it takes to convince them that he's a Spanish lady. The Librarian ''is an orang-utan''. In ''[[~~Discworld/The Truth\|~~The Truth]]'', Gaspode the Wonder Dog (a terrier mix) is disguised as a poodle named Trixiebell, so the thugs out hunting for Wuffles (another terrier) won't catch him. Gaspode's disguise, applied under duress by Anhk-Morpork's premiere grooming shop, consists largely of an all-body pink dye job. * ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe]]: ** Leia's childhood friend, Winter Celchu, was frequently mistaken for Leia, due to Leia's tomboyishness and Winter's more ladylike behavior. As they grew older and joined the Rebellion, they had the bright idea to put this to good use, with Winter occasionally going in disguise as Leia to protect her. Winter would later become a full-fledged Intelligence agent and put Wig, Dress, Accent to more use. Line 163: {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Disguise Tropes]] [[Category:Costume Tropes]] [[Category:Older Than Feudalism]] ▲[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]