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* The Granada TV production of ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' mostly manages to avoid this trope; Holmes' disguises tend to be fairly convincing. Once in a while they go overboard: in "The Final Problem", Watson boards a train and sits down in his cabin opposite a man with an unrealistically long nose and a frizz of grey hair under an enormous hat, and doesn't realize it's Holmes until Holmes addresses him by name. When you get a good look at him in the moment before he takes off the disguise, you wonder how anyone could look at him and ''not'' think "that's a bloke in a costume".

* Reality TV example: In a season premiere of ''[[Hell's Kitchen|Hells Kitchen]]'', Ramsey wanted to see what the contestants were like before he met them. So he put on a wig, a fake nose, and some shabbier clothes and was on the bus with the real contestants. Nobody caught on.

* Although ''[[Mission Impossible (TV series)|Mission Impossible]]'' is remembered for [[Latex Perfection|latex masks that could even alter height and body type]], they did a lot of this too, especially when someone other than the team [[Master of Disguise]] had to play the role.

* Although ''[[Mission: Impossible (TV series)||Mission Impossible]]'' is remembered for [[Latex Perfection|latex masks that could even alter height and body type]], they did a lot of this too, especially when someone other than the team [[Master of Disguise]] had to play the role.

* ''[[Leverage]]'' features this often when [[Manipulative Bitch|Sophie]] is running her part. Lampshaded and almost subverted in "The Rashomon Job" when a museum head of security notes that a duchess in the main hall bears a striking resemblance to one of the lab girls (both are Sophie's acts, one in a slinky evening gown with her usual accent, and the other in a white lab coat with what sounds like a Jersey accent) and almost seems to make the connection.

** Parker often does this as well but [[No Social Skills|isn't as good with the accent bit]], though she more frequently is seen using wigs than Sophie. She generally also uses [[Beneath Notice]] as well as a part of her infiltrations, occasionally switching to [[Show Some Leg]].

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* Iroquois Pliskin in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2'' is so ''obviously'' Snake in a different uniform with his hair down that it's [[The Untwist|genuinely shocking]] when he turns out to be Snake in a different uniform with his hair down. [[Word of God]] is that [[Hideo Kojima]] kept pressuring them to make the disguise more and more transparent, the idea being to take advantage of paranoid gamers expecting his [[Gambit Pileup|twisty]] plots to be more twisty than they actually are.

** Exactly the opposite and a great example of this trope occurs in ''Metal Gear Solid 3'' with {{spoiler|[http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/2196/metalgearsolid3evatatya.png EVA/Tatyana]}}. Combed back hair, glasses, and a different set of clothes shouldn't really fool anyone, but instead of relying entirely on it, {{spoiler|she}} also changes {{spoiler|her}} body posture and movement and {{spoiler|her}} entire way of acting.

** {{spoiler|Liquid's disguising himself as Master Miller}} retroactively is this, as not only did he mimick {{spoiler|Miller}} in both {{spoiler|appearance and in voice}}, he also changed his {{spoiler|overall demeanor}} to be more similar to how {{spoiler|Miller}} would act. Originally, it was closer to [[Paper-Thin Disguise]], but the rereleases of the MSX [[Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake]] redid the design for {{spoiler|Miller}} to match his "appearance" in Metal Gear Solid, and his appearance in Peace Walker was based on his Metal Gear Solid appearance.

** {{spoiler|Liquid's disguising himself as Master Miller}} retroactively is this, as not only did he mimick {{spoiler|Miller}} in both {{spoiler|appearance and in voice}}, he also changed his {{spoiler|overall demeanor}} to be more similar to how {{spoiler|Miller}} would act. Originally, it was closer to [[Paper-Thin Disguise]], but the rereleases of the MSX [[Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake]] redid the design for {{spoiler|Miller}} to match his "appearance" in Metal Gear Solid, and his appearance in Peace Walker was based on his Metal Gear Solid appearance.

* ''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]'': In the middle of their adventure, the brothers stumble upon a situation that requires a stand-in for Peach. They weren't aware of this earlier, but, conveniently, have one of Peach's dresses with them [[Noodle Implements|((don't ask))]]. [[Bellisario's Maxim|We probably don't want to know]] why they have the wig, but this fits the trope namer to a ''T'', because, in addition to the dress and wig, in all of the other scenes, both brothers have vague-italian accents—though, in this instance, Luigi does a disturbingly accurate impression of Peach...

* In ''[[Primal]]'', the protagonist briefly loses her ability to shapeshift into various demonic forms and is thus forced to dress herself up as demon in order to blend in.

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== Western Animation ==

* The ''Alias'' example is sent up on ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' with "Whalias", substituting an orca for Sydney. The whale's disguises work just as well as hers usually do.

* On ''[[American Dad]]'', Roger the Alien wears many Wig, Dress, Accent disguises, and they all fool everyone who isn't acquainted with the real Roger. Storywise, the disguises' function of hiding his alienhood is taken for granted, and what Roger really has fun with is creating a new fictitious identity for himself in each episode. If Roger were a believer in creating a stable identity for himself, nothing would stop him from using the same disguise whenever he meets someone outside the Smith family—but he prefers to go through an endless succession of identities. [[~~Cross Dresser~~|Of both genders.]]

* On ''[[American Dad]]'', Roger the Alien wears many Wig, Dress, Accent disguises, and they all fool everyone who isn't acquainted with the real Roger. Storywise, the disguises' function of hiding his alienhood is taken for granted, and what Roger really has fun with is creating a new fictitious identity for himself in each episode. If Roger were a believer in creating a stable identity for himself, nothing would stop him from using the same disguise whenever he meets someone outside the Smith family—but he prefers to go through an endless succession of identities. [[Crossdresser|Of both genders.]]

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''

** Aang disguises himself as a old man with a mustache and hair made of fur from Appa the flying bison the first time Team Avatar goes to Omashu. He gets found out when it blows off.

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* In ''[[Star Trek]]'', the wife of [[Gene Roddenberry]], Majel Barret, was in the first pilot episode as the female first officer. When that character was [[Executive Meddling|discarded]] for the actual show, she bleached her hair blonde and cut it short. It was specifically an attempt to get back in the show without the executives catching on. Even her husband didn't recognize her at first. She was recast in the smaller role of Nurse Chapel.

* [[Stephen Colbert]] waxed his chest, put on a wig and posed for [[media:raven.jpg|this]] photo as Raven, the stripper from ''[[Wigfield]]'', who he voices on the audiobook.

{{quote|'''Stephen Colbert:''' When my brother Jay saw that, he said, "[[Attractive Bent Gender|Hey, hey. How do we know her?]]" And I pointed at myself and he goes, "OK, how do ''you'' know her?"

'''Conan O'Brien:''' And then what did he do when you explained that [[Incest Is Relative|that is in fact you?]]

'''Stephen Colbert:''' [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|He was]] [[Squick|a little disturbed]]. }}

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8106010.stm This man], who ripped-off Social Security by disguising as his dead mother with a wig, a pair of glasses, a walking cane and heavy make-up. It definitely worked, because he managed to pocket $115,000 in welfare checks before Social Security found out.

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