History Main / MuggedforDisguise

* In the ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' "World Tournament" Arc, Trunks and Goten beat up one of the {{Muggle}} competitors and steal his costume so they can use it to sneak into the adult division fights.
* ''Anime/DragonBallSuperSuperHero'': Piccolo knocks out a Red Ribbon Army mook and steals his uniform to infiltrate a RR meeting. Though it does cover up almost all of his body, no one notices the skin around his eyes is green.

** Lance of the Elite Four does this to a Team Rocket grunt in "Talkin' 'Bout an Evolution" so he can infiltrate Team Rocket's base at the Lake of Rage.

* ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'':

* In ''LightNovel/StrikeTheBlood'', Reina arrives in the present ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' style, crouching naked in a ball of lightning. She immediately knocks Yukina out and steals her clothes. Since they are the same size and her face is very similar to Yukina's ([[KidFromTheFuture for a good reason]]), Reina briefly fools the others into believing she is Yukina.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': After Joseph Joestar knocks down two German guards, he strips them down to their underwear and dons one of the uniforms. Considering his first try was a [[PaperThinDisguise Paper Thin]] HarmlessLadyDisguise, he finds it either "disappointingly easy" or "dropping his self-esteem".

# [[{{Call Back}} Coming back]] and [[ConfrontingYourImposter exposing the impostors]] (doesn't happen often, but sometimes it does).

** In the controversial ''[[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman Batman Incorporated]] #3'', a young schoolteacher is chloroformed by some thugs and replaced by a female Leviathan agent. The impostor wears the woman's stolen clothes and glasses, with the only tip-off to the reader being that she has different hair and eye colors.

** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E20WastedTalent Wasted Talent]]", Peter beats up a hotel bellhop and steals his uniform, which fits very poorly since Peter is much fatter than the bellhop. Brian then tells Peter that Creator/LukePerry has never seen them before and has no idea who they are, so they don't need disguises in the first place. Instead of changing back into his own clothes, Peter beats up and steals the clothes of another man who just so happened to be wearing an exact copy of Peter's normal outfit while being just as fat as him.

* ''WebVideo/OutsideXbox'' did an inversion in their ''TabletopGame/BladesInTheDark'' spinoff: Rich asshole Barnaby Fortescue refuses to wear a servant's livery, so the other characters knock him out, steal his clothes, and put the servant's clothes on him.

* ''Film/ThreeAmigos''. While Carmen is held captive in El Guapo's fortress, she knocks an already sleeping guard totally unconscious by hitting him on the head with the butt of a pistol. Dusty Bottoms then dons the guard's clothing so he can impersonate him.

* ''Film/ThreeAmigos''. While Carmen is held captive in El Guapo's fortress, [[[[TapOntheHead she knocks an already sleeping guard totally unconscious]]. [[DressingAsTheEnemy Dusty Bottoms then dons the guard's clothing so he can impersonate him]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':

** In "Bubble Boy", the Girls and the Professor capture Boomer and Bubbles steals his clothes in order to assume his identity and infiltrate the Roundy Ruff Boys.

Usually involves UndressingTheUnconscious. Sometimes leads to DeliveryGuyInfiltration, JanitorImpersonationInfiltration, NotMyDriver, and RoomDisservice. May overlap with RemovingTheRival. Compare DisguisedHostageGambit.

* ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'': Zemo's escape plan to get out of jail in episode 3. He provokes two of the inmates into starting a fight by having Bucky slip a message to one of them claiming that the other will try to kill him. Then, when the guards initiate lockdown procedures, Zemo slips out of his cell, attacks one of the guards, and steals his uniform. He then activates the fire alarm to cause more confusion.

* ''Film/{{Red}}'': When Frank Moses is caught breaking into CIA headquarters, an alert goes out for a bald man wearing a blood-splattered white shirt. He starts a fire, then mugs one of the firemen, carrying out his unconscious body and wearing his fire helmet. The body is checked to make sure it's not Frank (the fireman has hair of course) but Fireman Frank is let through the perimeter check. The trope is PlayedForLaughs when the BadassCrew have to infiltrate a political convention at a hotel. A waiter is shown taking out the garbage to an industrial bin when he's suddenly yanked into it by persons unknown, later revealed to be one of the team.

* In the ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'':