History PaperThinDisguise / WesternAnimation

*** [[Manga/SailorMoon What was that about a tiara?]]

* Philemena pulls this off successfully with a fake moustache in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. It should be noted that she's a featherless ''bird'' in a town populated solely by ''ponies''. ([[AndZoidberg And Spike.]])
** Fluttershy uses a large hat and sunglasses to go unnoticed during her fashion model career, which would have been more convincing if her canary-yellow body and distinctive cutie mark were also concealed.
** Inverted in "Party of One." Pinkie Pie disguises herself as a block of hay. Wearing [[ConspicuousTrenchcoat a trenchcoat and fedora]]. [[UpToEleven And Groucho glasses]]. Despite the over-the-top silliness, it ''could'' be a effective disguise, if everyone didn't already know [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Pinkie Pie]] would be the only one crazy enough to wear that in the first place.

* Lampshaded in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987''; April has Channel 6's prop department make the Turtles human masks. When the heroes try them on:
-->'''Michelangelo:''' Well, we don't look like mutant turtles anymore.
-->'''Raphael:''' Yeah, now we look like mutant turtles wearing people-masks.
** Nonetheless, those masks proved very effective in subsequent episodes when combined with trench coats, hats, and other clothing; Michelangelo was even able to fool Shredder with one of them.

* The Crimson Chin from TheFairlyOddParents wheres a suits and glasses. Never mind his super hero suit is worn underneath it including his face mask. In fact a his suit seems permanently attached to him as he's never seen without in even wearing civilian clothes.

** Bonus Points: Ed's mask actually falls off at one point! Leading Double D to FacePalm but Eddy STILL doesn't realize and thinks that Johnny's "face" has fallen off so he runs off to find Johnny a new one.

* [[WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower His sister was pretty much the same.]] She-Ra's only real difference from Alura was a change of clothing that didn't hide her face at all, and seeing as Alura used to ''work'' for Hordak before her HeelFaceTurn (as a moderately high-ranking officer, no less), you got the idea that the Horde was kind of dumb.

** In season 3, "The Painted Lady" this trope is both subverted and nicely averted. Katara dresses as a Spirit to help a town who's river was polluted by the Fire Nation's factories. It's actually quite a brilliant disguise, and with the help of her waterbending, she's very convincing (at least until Aang catches her sneaking off). On the more comedic side, we have [[CloudCuckooLander a man who seems to be completely insane.]] He switches hats and names, telling the gang he's a trio of brothers.

** Another ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' example, though this counts as a {{subver|ted trope}}sion: [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester]] puts on a dog suit to infiltrate a dog pound where Tweety is hiding. So unconvincing is this disguise, that the dogs inside see through it immediately and attack, forcing Sylvester to make a quick escape. Later, a DoubleSubversion occurs when a dogcatcher notices the still-disguised Sylvester and inattentively throws him back into the pound, where [[BigBallOfViolence another mauling]] awaits.

** Happens again in "Toddler Terrors of Time Travel", where Bowser and Kooky arrive at a woman's home wearing plumber's clothes. She doesn't realize they're fake until she catches them intentionally clogging her drainpipes.
*** to be fair, Bowser and Kooky introduce themselves to her as Costumed Plumbers, and Mario points out that she's not too bright.

* The "Chicken Boo" segments of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' are based almost entirely on essentially parodying this trope. Boo himself is simply a giant chicken that cannot speak and is not anthropomorphic in any way, yet when he puts on a wig, a mask, a mustache, or a suit, everyone is fooled into thinking he is one of them. Not just one of them however, but an expert in whatever field he is pretending to be involved in and often with a fully established backstory of some kind. TheCassandra will try to convince everyone that he is just a chicken but will [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer be laughed off]] by everyone else until Boo's disguise comes off, at which point he is immediately recognised as not being human, TheCassandra will return to rub it in their faces, and Boo is chased away by an angry mob.

** A better example of this trope would be Conner. He doesn't wear a mask or any costume at all, but so long as he isn't wearing a Superman t-shirt, no one recognizes him to be {{Superboy}}.

* On ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', one of the villains ridicules the Toilenator by mentioning that he was once fooled by Numbuh One in disguise, even though the disguise consisted solely of a T-shirt that said "[[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain I am not Numbuh One]]." (Of course, the Toilenator isn't all-too bright...)

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''. Just... Danny Phantom.
** This is even commented on in the "Ultimate Enemy" special. [[spoiler:Dark Danny has Danny's family and teacher tied up and reveals who he is. He then asks them why they never noticed that "Danny Fenton" and "Danny Phantom" were so similar]]. Of course, Jazz ''does'' figure it out.
*** I dunno, I'd say that's more an example of ClarkKenting than PaperThinDisguise.[[spoiler:And anyway, Jazz only knew because she saw him transform once.]]

* In the original ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse'', He-Man is basically Prince Adam with different clothes and... that's it. Same face, same haircut, same body, with a tan; his voice was deeper, but he spoke in nearly the same speech patterns.[[note]]He called the king and queen by their royal instead of parental titles.[[/note]] Likewise, Kringer becomes Battlecat by... putting some dark red armor on.

* Hip-Hip and Hurra from Polish Animation/HipHipAndHurra use them all the time. There are few rare examples when the disscuise actually work.