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* EyeDentityGiveaway: A disguised character has differing eyes that give away their true identity.
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* CoincidentalDisguiseComplementingTrait: A character in disguise finds they have a trait that just so happens to make their cover more convincing.
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** ChangelingTale: When [[TheFairFolk fairy]] [[OurFairiesAreDifferent creatures]] pretend to be human infants, usually after abducting the real babies and switching places with them.

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** ChangelingTale: When [[TheFairFolk fairy]] [[OurFairiesAreDifferent creatures]] pretend to be human infants, children, usually after abducting the real babies kids and switching places with them.
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** DeadlyDelivery: An assassin poses as a postal worker in order to kill whoever answers the door.

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** DeadlyDelivery: An assassin poses as a postal worker in order to kill whoever answers the door.target at their home.

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** SchoolClubFront: A StudentsSecretSociety tries to pass themselves off as an ordinary school club that's not up to doing anything too strange.



** SchoolClubFront: A StudentsSecretSociety tries to pass themselves off as an ordinary school club that's not up to doing anything too strange.
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** TotallyNotACriminalFront: A [[OrganizedCrimeTropes criminal]] [[TheSyndicate gang]] uses a more innocuous, but also totally obvious, front business to hide their more illegal transactions.

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** TotallyNotACriminalFront: A [[OrganizedCrimeTropes criminal]] [[TheSyndicate criminal gang]] uses a more innocuous, but also totally obvious, front business to hide their more illegal transactions.
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** LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: A [[OrganizedCrimeTropes criminal]] [[TheSyndicate gang]] uses a more innocuous-looking front business to hide their more illegal transactions.

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** LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: TotallyNotACriminalFront: A [[OrganizedCrimeTropes criminal]] [[TheSyndicate gang]] uses a more innocuous-looking innocuous, but also totally obvious, front business to hide their more illegal transactions.
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TRS has defined The Beard as "fake straight relationship to hide being LGBT". Examples that don't fit this go in Fake Relationship or one of its other subtropes.


** TheBeard: Pretending to be someone else's lover or spouse. They're oftentimes married to a ClosetGay person trying to hide their sexuality.

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** TheBeard: Pretending to be someone else's lover or spouse. They're oftentimes married to a ClosetGay person trying spouse to hide their sexuality.
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* DyeOrDie: Having your hair color changed to try to avoid your enemies.
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* MenacingMask: A mask meant to disguise as well as frighten.
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* MimicSpecies: A species whose evolutionary traits make them imitate another species.
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* SuspiciousSkiMask: A character conceals their identity with a ski mask/balaclava.
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* SomethingForEveryone: Multi-target illusion with personalized effects.
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Capitalization was fixed from Main.Shape Shifter to Main.Shapeshifter. Null edit to update index.
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** LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: A criminal group uses a more innocuous-looking front business to hide their more illegal transactions.
** SchoolClubFront: The youth version of the above, though not always criminal.

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** LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: A criminal group [[OrganizedCrimeTropes criminal]] [[TheSyndicate gang]] uses a more innocuous-looking front business to hide their more illegal transactions.
** SchoolClubFront: The youth version of the above, though A StudentsSecretSociety tries to pass themselves off as an ordinary school club that's not always criminal.up to doing anything too strange.
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* InopportuneImpersonationFailure: A character in disguise makes an identity-revealing mistake at a pivotal moment and is unmasked.
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** SchoolClubFront: The youth version of the above, though not always criminal.
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Tropes about dressing up and pretending to be someone you're not. Or maybe dressing up and [[SecretIdentityIdentity becoming who you really are]].

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Tropes about dressing up and pretending to be someone you're not. Or maybe dressing up and [[SecretIdentityIdentity becoming who you really are]]. See also {{Prop}}.
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* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Someone hides in plain sight on Halloween on the grounds that everyone else will assume they're just wearing a costume.

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* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Someone A monster or other non-human being hides in plain sight on Halloween Halloween, on the grounds that everyone else will assume they're just wearing a costume.

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* TheBeard: Pretending to be someone else's lover or spouse.


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** TheBeard: Pretending to be someone else's lover or spouse. They're oftentimes married to a ClosetGay person trying to hide their sexuality.
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* ClosetGay: Queer people pretending to be straight.
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I think this trope is actually about someone turning another person into a copy of themselves, not disguising themselves as a clone.


* CloneByConversion: A character transforms themselves into another character.
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* TheUnmasking: A superhero (or supervillain) reveals their Secret Identity to someone, willingly or by force.

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* TheUnmasking: A superhero (or supervillain) reveals their Secret Identity SecretIdentity to someone, willingly or by force.
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* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront: Some sort of [[CovertGroup clandestine]] [[SecretSocieties organization]] hides behind the cover of a seemingly ordinary business or other public front for their true activities.
** LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: A criminal group uses a more innocuous-looking front business to hide their more illegal transactions.
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* PerfectDisguiseTerribleActing: The disguise is spot on, but the bad acting still instantly gives the imposter away (or logically should)

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* FakeRelationship: Two people pretend to be a couple.

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* FakeRelationship: Two people pretend to be a couple.couple of lovers.
** UndercoverAsLovers: Two people pretend to be a married couple or in a romantic relationship as part of a covert mission.



* UndercoverAsLovers: Two people pretend to be a married couple or in a romantic relationship as part of a covert mission.

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* UndercoverAsLovers: Two people pretend to be a married couple or in a romantic relationship as part of a covert mission.

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