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9	[[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/teenage_mutant_ninja_turtles_halloween.jpg]]]]
10	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Halloween in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity. ... A day when you fit in with everyone else... when even a teenage mutant ninja turtle can walk around in the open."'']]
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12	->''"Oh my, that [costume] is wicked! Who made that mask for you? IT'S EXACTLY LIKE THE 'WANTED' POSTERS!"''
13	-->-- '''[[MasqueradeBall Masquerade Partygoer]]''', ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}''
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15	For the paranormal, their mere appearance in a [[TheMasquerade blissfully unaware society]] can cause chaos and panic. Thus, they constantly have to hide their nature from those not in the know.
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17	Except, that is, for one glorious day each year: [[HalloweenEpisode Halloween]]. On this singular day, they can walk around openly and be among people who look like zombies, ghosts, goblins, sorcerers, and demons. And all that they'll receive are glowing compliments on the design and workmanship of their "costume" (well, [[YourCostumeNeedsWork usually, anyway]]) and possibly some candy. And they don't even have to spend any money on it.
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19	This is the rare time when someone can be themselves among the populace and still do some good, or just have fun. They're also likely to enjoy a good MasqueradeBall.
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21	While "Non-Humans and Halloween" is a popular use, the trope is really about how the circumstances of an event allow a normally secretive character to walk around in the open without destroying TheMasquerade. It can, therefore, also happen at carnivals and costume parties or by just claiming to be a weirdo who likes to dress up at random times. In effect, they are masquerading as themselves, and even aside from having fun, there are advantages to being the unnoticeable Clark Kent rather than Franchise/{{Superman}}. Similarly, this often results in the unusual sight of a {{superhero}} in their civilian identity but still wearing their actual costume.
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23	A SubTrope of GenuineImposter. Compare AllPartOfTheShow, YourCostumeNeedsWork, BruceWayneHeldHostage, MistakenForAnImposter, HiddenInPlainSight, IAmSpartacus, PerformerGuise, and QuirkyTown.
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26	!!Example subpages:
27	[[index]]
28	* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself/ComicBooks
29	* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself/{{Literature}}
30	* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself/LiveActionTV
31	* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself/WesternAnimation
32	[[/index]]
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34	!!Other examples:
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36	[[foldercontrol]]
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38	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
39	* Inverted in ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Garaku gets Matsuri, a human, to blend in inside a [[HiddenElfVillage hidden ayakashi village]] with a yukata and a fox mask. The fox mask conceals human spiritual presence, so ayakashi assume Matsuri is a [[AsianFoxSpirit kitsune]] disguised as [[AttractiveBentGender a pretty girl]].
40	* If Takato from ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' isn't hiding him in a box, he's trying to pass Guilmon for a guy in a costume.
41	* In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' several members of Myostismon's group walk around in broad daylight. Wizardmon pretends to be a [[MagiciansAreWizards street magician]] (a three-foot tall magician...); Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon were assumed to be kids in costumes.
42	* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' has a non-Halloween variation, where Gohan is hired to be a stuntman in a Great Saiyaman movie -- and of course, he actually '''is''' the Great Saiyaman, but none of the crew knows this (other than his father-in-law Mr. Satan). At one point the crew gets suspicious since Gohan took the stunt costume home and later that day Saiyaman thwarted a bank robbery, but thankfully Bulma saves the day by saying someone broke into her workshop and stole the spare costume she'd made.
43	* Although haunted houses in school festivals are pretty standard, CuteGhostGirl Yuuko from ''Manga/DuskMaidenOfAmnesia'' decides to ''actually haunt it''. While she's usually a rather ordinary schoolgirl, she ends up making almost everyone who enters run out screaming when she puts her mind to it. She even manages to briefly traumatize one of the main characters.
44	* In ''Manga/GabrielDropOut'', the fallen angel Gabriel attempts to do this by wearing her angelical clothes, but Vigne and Raphiel stop her from doing it and force Gabriel into wearing a cute werecat costume.
45	* In the modern times, the titular ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'' went to Kagome's SchoolFestival wearing a hat to hide his [[UnusualEars dog-demon ears]]. When the hat was knocked off in front of Kagome's friend, she paid no attention, assuming he was simply cosplaying as some other random dog-demon as there were dozens of background characters dressed in cosplay-esque outfits.
46	* Hayasaka from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' provides a mundane example during the culture festival arc. Normally, she keeps her job as Kaguya's valet a secret from their classmates, but she ends up wearing [[{{Meido}} her maid outfit]] when their class does a cosplay cafe.
47	* ''Manga/KaijuGirlCaramelise'': When Kuroe Akaishi undergoes a PartialTransformation into [[{{Kaiju}} Harugon]] at Destinyland, her date, Arata Minami, assumes that she has dressed up as "Johnny", a Destinyland-owned character resembling a cartoon dinosaur.
48	* ''Manga/LoveAfterWorldDomination'': Fudo and Desumi are trying to get their picture taken together at the school festival but circumstances keep preventing it because Fudo is famous and Desumi is having trouble with another of the members of Gekko. Finally, they use their {{Transformation Trinket}}s to become Gelato Red and Reaper Princess and pretend to just be a couple of cosplayers. Since they're supposedly mortal enemies, the crowd is simply impressed by the ship.
49	* ''Manga/MagicKaito'': Kaito dresses up as his PhantomThief alter ego, Kaitou KID, for the [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext skiing costume contest]].
50	* In ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'', several of the cosplayers at Comiket are actually creatures from Tohru's world. Elma also goes to a mixer in her SpinOff (not fully understanding the concept) with her horn and tail visible, and claims that it's cosplay. Tohru herself is just known as the "cosplay lady" at the shopping district.
51	* Becomes a DiscussedTrope in an Omake of ''Manga/{{Nanbaka}}''. Upa says that he'll be going as a [[ChineseVampire Jiang Shi]] for Halloween, while said child walks around in a Jiang Shi costume all the time.
52	* In ''Literature/OurHomesFoxDeity'', it's first lampshaded by the older of the recurring fox brothers by him commenting how advanced makeup is those days. It is then averted when a passerby sees him and runs away screaming ''MONSTER''.
53	* Shortly before his first battle with Mousse in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', Ranma was [[ShapeshifterModeLock stuck in]] [[SexShifter girl form]] by a [[TricksterMentor capricious]] [[OldMaster Cologne]]. So Ranma, desperate to keep the girl-curse secret, decided to humiliate [[ImprobableWeaponUser Mousse's]] [[HyperspaceArsenal fighting style]] by comparing his "Hidden Weapons" with cheap stage magic... and went on to fight "disguised as a girl" in a PlayboyBunny suit. The [[MaleGaze audience]] was [[{{Fanservice}} pleased]] (especially with Mousse near-missing Ranma to the point [[ClothingDamage he's left completely naked]], only to be promptly dressed up by Akane), but [[BerserkButton Mousse didn't take it well]]. The trick kind of backfired when Ranma remained locked as a girl for a while afterwards, revealing his condition to the entire school (not that anyone cared; in the anime they somehow don't put the pieces together until a much later episode).
54	* In ''Manga/SoulEaterNot'', both Shaula Gorgon and [[spoiler:Kim Diehl]] are witches who dress up in stereotypical witch costumes for Halloween.
55	* Played straight in ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'', when Yuni forgoes putting on a costume for a Halloween costume party in favor of just attending in her true form of an anthropomorphic cat.
56	* Subverted in ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'' where Ellen and Ako actually wear costumes on Halloween. Ellen, who is actually [[ShapeshifterModeLock a cat stuck in a human body]], wears a cat costume. And Ako, who is the princess of Major Land, wears a princess costume.
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59	[[folder:Card Games]]
60	* The ''TabletopGame/NinjaBurger'' card game features a delivery scenario in an anime convention. It gives a large positive bonus to stealth, presumably because a ninja should have no trouble posing as a cosplayer.
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63	[[folder:Comedy]]
64	* Creator/WoodyAllen did a routine where he bags a moose on a hunting trip, but it was only stunned, and wakes up tied to his fender riding in the city. Desperate to ditch the moose, he remembers a costume party he'd been invited to. He takes the moose there and tells the hosts "Hello...you know the Solomons." Things take a bad turn when the moose takes second place in a costume contest, [[YourCostumeNeedsWork to a couple dressed as a moose]].
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67	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
68	* An old Creator/CharlesAddams cartoon in ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' depicts an AlienInvasion in progress, with one of the diminutive extraterrestrials being greeted by a homeowner and told, "I'm sorry, sonny. We've run out of candy."
69	* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'':
70	** The scariest example, no doubt:
71	--->'''Calvin:''' I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!
72	** In another comic, Calvin asks Hobbes to come up with the scariest costume possible.
73	--->'''Hobbes:''' ''[affecting a "ferocious" look]'' Maybe I'll just go as myself!
74	%%* [[http://comics.com/jump_start/2008-10-31/ This]] ''ComicStrip/JumpStart'' strip.
75	* RJ and Verne in ''ComicStrip/OverTheHedge'' once went trick-or-treating without costumes. Being woodland critters, they were assumed to be humans in costume. Another year, they wore masks that looked like their CGI [[TheMovie movie]] counterparts. Ironically, Verne thought he was going as "some sort of iguana thingy" -- the very classification he hates getting from humans. [[RunningGag He hates being mistaken for an amphibian. At least iguanas are still reptiles.]]
76	* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'':
77	** A [[https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1966/10/30 Sunday strip]] has Snoopy watching as costumed trick-or-treaters get candy from one house. After they've left, Snoopy goes up to the same house and kicks the front door, then grins and holds his paw out. In the final panel, he walks off munching candy while the unseen homeowners comment:
78	--->"Who was it this time, dear?"\
79	"I couldn't tell... some little kid in a dog costume."
80	** Subverted in [[https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1955/10/30 another strip]]. Snoopy smiles as several kids in scary masks walk by. Then along comes Charlie Brown ''without'' a mask and Snoopy runs away screaming.
81	* Played with in one ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' [[https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2004/10/31 Sunday strip]]. Pig and Rat go trick-or-treating on Halloween, but when the neighbor sees they didn't bother to wear costumes, refuses to give them any candy. After the door slam, the two remove their (fake) heads to reveal that each character was disguised as the other.
82	* Literally every Costume Ball ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' has ever gone to. The number of times he's shown up in "uniform", you'd think the bad guys would learn to ban that costume specifically.
83	* ''ComicStrip/TheWizardOfId'': One Halloween, Gwen and then Rodney show up dressed as the Spook, but the King sees through each disguise right away. Then the real Spook, minus a costume, arrives...
84	-->'''The Spook:''' Trick or treat!\
85	'''King:''' Hi, Spook.\
86	''[The King gives him a lollipop, then chuckles as the Spook walks off.]''\
87	'''King:''' Heh heh heh... you didn't fool me for a minute... ''[{{Beat}}]'' Wait a minute!\
88	'''Servant:''' ''[running in]'' Sire, the Spook has escaped!\
89	'''King:''' ''AAARRRGGHH!''
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92	[[folder:Fan Works]]
93	[[AC:{{Crossover}}]]
94	* ''Fanfic/AvengersInfiniteWars'' (Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse & ''Franchise/StarWars''): After the Avengers introduce Halloween to the galaxy, Palpatine dresses up in his Sith robes as part of the celebration, even if he avoids interacting with the Jedi for obvious reasons.
95	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13497211/7/Crazy-Trouble-With-Love-Part-9 Crazy Trouble With Love Part 9]]'': In "Nathaniel and Marc", [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Gabriel Agreste]] attends a costume convention dressed up as his alter ego, [[BigBad Hawkmoth]].
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97	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'']]
98	* ''Fanfic/FacingTheFutureSeries'': Invoked in the [[HalloweenEpisode Halloween Fic]] by Tucker when he didn't like [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Danny]] and Sam's [[ScrewYourself choice of costumes]]. The reason it was avoided was that the author had seen YourCostumeNeedsWork too much.
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100	[[AC:''Literature/GoodOmens'']]
101	* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20555693 Dust Shalt Thou Eat]]'': [[Series/GoodOmens2019 Crowley]] needs to enter a church (where the sacred ground will burn his feet) while looking like himself (a demon with snake eyes and big black wings). He waits for Hallowe'en, dresses up in drag and giant platform boots, and gets a lot of compliments.
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103	[[AC:''Franchise/HarryPotter'']]
104	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13640674/1/Halloween-at-the-Burrow Halloween at the Burrow]]'': Mentions Teddy announcing that Halloween is his favorite holiday because it's the only day of the year where he can change his appearance without receiving weird looks.
105	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13726548/9/One-Dracken-Two-Dracken-Red-Dracken-Blue-Dracken One Dracken, Two Dracken, Red Dracken, Blue Dracken]]'': Harry's cousin Dudley invites him and his five husbands to a Halloween party. They all just put on a nice robe and tuck their wands in their pockets.
106	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13415233/1/Shining-Knight-Under-Duress Shining Knight Under Duress]]'': A potions accident resulted in Snape being turned into a vampire, while Hermione became part-basilisk and Harry and Luna part-deer. An adult Hermione is enthusiastic about Halloween because it's the one day of the year when their children don't have to wear a glamour in public.
107	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5816064/1/Silent-Conversations Silent Conversations]]'': Hermione's parents host a Muggle Halloween party and Harry's "costume" is his wand and one of his work robes.
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109	[[AC:Franchise/{{Hellaverse}}]]
110	* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/DogBreathAndBirdBrain'': [[SecretKeeper Grace]] brings Octavia along to a friend's Halloween party where the host is specifically holding a contest for people wearing costumes in Octavia's likeness, as she's become ShroudedInMyth after being caught on camera shoplifting. Averted with Loona, however, with Grace noticing that some of her canine features are ''too'' lifelike to pass off as a costume. [[spoiler: Loona tries it anyway later on with a pair of drunks who seem to fall for it, only for them to be [[ObfuscatingStupidity perfectly sober]] undercover agents who lure her into an ambush]].
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112	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'']]
113	* ''Fanfic/QueenOfAllOni'': Jade goes in her new appearance for the Halloween chapter, going for maximum creepiness. Ratso, of course, actually asks where she's going to get a costume at the last minute. Everyone just stares at him.
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115	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'']]
116	* Can be found in a number of Halloween fics.
117	** One premise, originating in [[http://hchano.tumblr.com/post/151111107016/stupid-ladybug-episode-idea a Tumblr post]], involves Adrien being forced into a Chat Noir costume by Chloe, and Ladybug mistaking him for a transformed Chat Noir and dragging him into a fight without giving him the chance to transform. Fics using this premise include ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/8436457 Chat Noir's Spooktacular Halloween]]'', and ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/8439280 The Bat's Out of the Bag]]'' (though it ''wasn't'' initially inspired by the above post). The two stories take notably different turns after Ladybug finds out he wasn't transformed: in the former, she cracks up laughing, especially when he tells her he was forced into it, only to panic later upon seeing Adrien in his now damaged costume; in the latter, she harshly calls out Adrien in private for his supposed recklessness, only to get a similarly harsh rebuttal from him about how she has no idea what his life is like, which reduces her to tears and forces him to follow her home to apologise.
118	** ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/8292442 A Treat Sweeter Than Candy]]'' has Ladybug and Chat Noir spending Halloween together transformed while posing as cosplayers to anyone who asks. This somehow results in Alya and Nino ''immediately'' recognising them as Marinette and Adrien despite having fallen for their ClarkKenting dozens of times before.
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120	[[AC:Franchise/MonsterVerse]]
121	* ''Fanfic/AbraxasEmptyFullness'': In the non-canon HalloweenEpisode, a human-sized Monster X goes out trick-or-treating and attends a block party with Mark, Madison, Ling, Ilene and the latter's daughters, going as theirself. They have to make sure people don't see their [[PowerGlows bioluminescence]], their wings or their tail moving though.
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123	[[AC:''Franchise/MyLittlePony'']]
124	* ''Fanfic/PastSins'': Nyx has to play [[BigBad Nightmare Moon]] in a school play. Unfortunately, her costume is damaged, but luckily she also happens to ''be'' Nightmare Moon reincarnated by a spell gone wrong. Of course, she doesn't know this at the time...
125	** An [[RecursiveFanfiction unofficial]] sequel, ''[[Fanfic/RealityChecksNyxverse Nightmare Night and Nyx]]'', does this with a young filly [[spoiler:changeling]] named Flitter. Bonus points for actually being ''on'' the in-universe equivalent of Halloween.
126	** Another fanfic, ''[[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/05/story-unwelcome-changes.html Unwelcome Changes]]'', features Luna meeting a theatrical troupe who needs somepony for the same role.
127	* ''Fanfic/TriptychContinuum'' story [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/423472/for-nightmare-night-we-are-going-as-ourselves "For Nightmare Night We Are Going As Ourselves"]]: The Mane Six are stranded until morning after a mission in a faraway town, with little money and no food. Upon discovering a high-class Nightmare Night masquerade party, Rarity has them crash the party by pretending to be themselves (with Twilight pretending to be a pegasus pretending to be her). Plenty of YourCostumeNeedsWork ensues, along with disturbing revelations about what several non-Ponyville ponies ''think'' they know about the Mane Six, mostly courtesy of tabloids.
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129	[[AC:''Franchise/PowerRangers'']]
130	* ''Fanfic/OfLoveAndBunnies'': Rocky attends Power Rangers Day in a cheap, store-bought Red Ranger costume. However, the mask was ''too'' cheap even for him, so he opted for bringing his actual helmet with him.
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132	[[AC:''Series/{{Supernatural}}'']]
133	* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12847041/chapters/29336421 Cinderwings]]'': In this AU fic, the angels need to obtain a tablet from the Winchesters' castle to free themselves from the void they've been trapped in for centuries, but they can't hide their wings and they're afraid of what will happen if humans discover their existence, so they take advantage of a MasqueradeBall being held at the castle to send in Castiel to steal the tablet during the ball as he's the only one of them who can keep his wings immobile long enough to pass them off as just part of his costume.
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135	[[AC:''Franchise/StarFox'']]
136	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4334864/1/The_Punishment The Punishment]]'' features Fox [=McCloud=] being forcibly sent to Earth after being defeated by Andross. Luckily, he happens to land in the middle of a [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] convention, allowing him ample space to move around and work on an escape plan without anyone being suspicious of him (so long as they don't look too close).
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138	[[AC:Unsorted]]
139	* In ''Fanfic/ArcadiaOrBust'', as Claire and Jim find him new clothes to wear (Jim having finally removed his armor), he and Claire are confused for conventioneers at a Horror Convention in the town nearby. They join the costume contest there and [[spoiler:win enough prize money to buy a night in a hotel and a used pick-up truck to transport the Heartstone faster.]]
140	* In Chapter 30 of the ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' short-story collection ''Fanfic/ADayIndoors'', Kotaro rises to the challenge of playing the Big Bad Wolf in Little Red Riding Hood by transforming into his {{Wolfman}} form.
141	* In ''[[http://crys.fanficauthors.net/Dream_Journal_of_Harry_J_Potter/index/ Dream Journal of Harry J Potter]]'', one of the chapters (all of which are supposed to be dreams Harry has) is a Halloween where Harry (and Lily) are dressed as Santa's elves, Sirius goes as Santa Claus, James goes as his stag form, and Remus goes... as a werewolf.
142	* ''Fanfic/ForTheGloryOfIrk'': Every year on Halloween, Captain Rose just ditches her disguise and walks around in her normal Tangean form, which people keep mistaking for an elf costume. [[spoiler:All the Irkens who arrive on Earth to support the exiled Tallest do the same.]]
143	* Inverted in ''Fanfic/FrozenHeartsFinmonster''. Wreck-It Ralph is attending a Halloween party where he meets Sully, the CEO of WesternAnimation/MonstersInc. Sully is attending as UsefulNotes/RichardNixon, because, as he points out to Ralph, "I have to be a monster all year long, might as well be something different for Halloween."
144	* In ''Fanfic/KimberlyTsGargoyles'', after the gargoyles are exposed as real, Xanatos spends a considerable amount of money to create a wide range of authentic-looking gargoyle costumes for Halloween. This has the obvious advantage of allowing the clan to go out in public so long as they paint 'seam lines' on themselves (and Brooklyn only has drinks with straws as his beak would be too obviously real), and Xanatos also creates subtle 'flaws' in the costumes compared to real gargoyles so that the Quarrymens' attempt to frame the gargoyles for assault is swiftly exposed as fake.
145	* In the HalloweenEpisode of ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'', [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Norlock]] points out that he and the Irkens can do this since the humans are so oblivious they wouldn't be able to tell that they're real. It works.
146	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12892965/12/Only-off-by-a-Little Only off by a Little]]'' Harry's Muggle adoptive father invites Amelia Bones to a Halloween costume party at his place of employment, the theme of which happens to be magic in general.
147	* In the ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' Fanfic ''Fanfic/PleaseStopEatingTheHellButterflies'', the HalloweenEpisode list stipulates that Komamaru is ''not'' allowed to go to Halloween as himself. Mayuri, however, is.
148	* In chapter 19 of Gamma Cavy's paired set of stories, ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10077874/19/Bond-Snapshots-Satoshi Bond Snapshots Satoshi]]'' and ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10002603/1/bond-snapshots Bond Snapshots]]'' which tie into a previous work of hers, Satoshi and Daisuke [[spoiler:who are not really human anymore due to sealed magic backlash]] go to a costume birthday party [[spoiler:fully bewinged]] and wearing clothes that belonged to their [[spoiler:now sealed]] other halves Dark and Krad. [[spoiler:No one figures it out, which is why they did it.]]
149	* In the ActionPrologue of ''Teen Titans: The Call of Blood'', Helena Wayne wears what is described as Robin-themed ElegantGothicLolita to a party.
150	* Played with in Literature/HarryPotter[=/=]Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica crossover ''Terminal Justice'', where the League come to believe that Harry, who's going under the alias "Mr. Black," is actually the Archangel Gabriel. When he attends a League Halloween party while dressed as Gabriel, one of the members asks whether it's fair for him to attend as "himself."
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153	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
154	* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn'', Harley has been spending her parole [[FanServiceWithASmile working at a diner]] where the waitresses wear [[SexyWhateverOutfit sexy versions of superheroine/supervillainess costumes]]. While she likes that it keeps her out of sight of the heroes, she's mostly pissed that it's the only job she can get due to her extensive criminal record.
155	* ''WesternAnimation/CatwomanHunted'': To infiltrate Minerva's party, Selina disguises herself with her Bronze Age Catwoman costume.
156	* Quasimodo gets to enjoy the Feast of Fools in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame\|Disney}}''... up until the [[NotAMask "unmasking"]]. What comes after that is a HopeSpot and then down, down, down, ''down''hill.
157	* In this manner, alligator Louis in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' gets to fulfill his lifelong dream of playing jazz to a captive audience, as people at Mardi Gras think he's in costume.
158	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'' movie, Michelangelo passes himself off as a ninja turtle impersonator by donning a large fake-looking turtle head and sticking a fake zipper onto his chest. No one seems to take notice.
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161	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
162	* In ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'' movie, Wednesday declares that she is going dressed in her normal clothes as "a homicidal maniac" stating "TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse."
163	* The opening of the film version of ''ComicBook/AmericanSplendor'' features this, as young Harvey Pekar is shown trick-or-treating as himself (he didn't believe in pretending to be something else). He doesn't get any candy.
164	* In flashback, the protagonist of the ''Literature/AnonymousRex'' TV movie recalls trying this as a kid, only to be dragged home by his father because his "amazingly realistic ''Velociraptor'' costume" drew too much attention.
165	* Inverted in 1992's ''Film/BatmanReturns'', in which Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle come to Schreck's costume ball, as themselves (no costume). Despite this, they accidentally revealed their secret identities to each other. In their minds, "Batman" and "Catwoman" are their true identities, with "Bruce Wayne" and "Selina Kyle" being the real costumes.
166	** Schrek accuses Bruce of coming dressed as a "trust-fund goodie-goodie." Later, when Bruce reveals himself to Selena, Schrek sees him and, briefly bemused, asks:
167	--->'''Schrek:''' Bruce Wayne...why're you dressed up like Batman?
168	--->'''Catwoman/Selena Kyle:''' Because he ''is'' Batman, you moron!
169	* ''Film/TheFieldGuideToEvil'': In "What Ever Happened to Paganus the Pagan?", the goblin attempts to mingle with drunken revelers who are dressed in pagan costumes of animal skins and horns. His masquerade does not last long.
170	* ''Film/{{Gooby}}'': Willy can't bring Gooby in public due to him being a big talking bear, but on Halloween he basically blends right in, making it the only time he can go out in public.
171	* Agent Myers covers for ''Film/{{Hellboy\|2004}}'' and Sammael this way in TheMovie. "Great costumes, huh?"
172	* In ''Film/HocusPocus'' all the action takes place on Halloween. Therefore, the three witches are hardly out of place and move about the town freely. They even become the center of attention as the "entertainment" at the town's big costume party. The Witches themselves are at first confused by the whole thing (they get scared when a girl dressed as an angel "blesses" them, and mistake a man dressed as Satan for the real deal), but once they realize it’s all a big costumed party, they make great use of this trope to put their plan in motion without anyone besides the protagonists opposing them.
173	* In ''Film/HouseOnBareMountain'', {{Dracula}}, the FrankensteinMonster and Krakow the WolfMan all enter the costume party and everyone assumes they are guests in costume.
174	* In ''Film/TheIdleClass'', Creator/CharlieChaplin plays both TheTramp and [[IdenticalStranger a wealthy man staying at a resort]]. On the night of the MasqueradeBall, the rich man gets the visor of his suit of armor stuck. The Tramp then wanders into the masquerade ball and is taken to be the rich man disguised as a tramp.
175	* In ''Film/IdleHands'' two undead teens turn up to the school dance -- one of them with the murder weapon still embedded in his skull. When asked who made their costumes, they give the name of their killer.
176	* In ''Film/LoveMeTonight,'' [[Creator/MauriceChevalier Maurice]] is a poor tailor who is believed by the local {{Blue Blood}}s to be royalty traveling incognito. For a MasqueradeBall, he wears his everyday casual suit, turtleneck, and flat cap.
177	* In ''Film/TheKnightBeforeChristmas'' 14th Century English Knight is [[TimeAndRelativeDimensionsInSpace transported to 2019 Ohio]] wearing plate armor and chain mail. He lands in the middle of a Christmas festival called "The Christmas Castle", so he doesn't look out of place as people assume he is staff. Though they do comment that his costume is better than everyone else's, and the other actors assume he's a method actor as he never drops "the bit".
178	* Used hilariously illogically in ''Film/TheNeverEndingStoryIIIEscapeFromFantasia''. Somehow, it's the first day of school, Chinese New Year, and Halloween all at the same time. The only reason why any of this happens is that the latter two events allow the fantastic characters to be out in the open.
179	* The main character of ''Film/OnceBitten'' doesn't realize that he's turning into a vampire and subconsciously dressing the part. When he attends a Halloween dance party, people guess by his choice of clothes that he's in a vampire costume, which confuses him.
180	* The fourth ''Film/ScaryMovie'' has an alien (based on the "Billy" puppet from the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' franchise) who met his girlfriend at Mardi Gras, and defended his being there by saying that he "blended in."
181	* In the sci-fi comedy ''Film/SpacedInvaders'', the titular Martians land in a small farming town on Halloween and are mistaken by most people for kids in costumes.
182	* ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'': Spidey managed to play this off on an ordinary day in ''Film/SpiderMan2'', as everyone ''knows'' Spider-Man doesn't need elevators. What the guy thought he needed such a detailed and form-fitting costume for is another question. To be fair, though, they are in New York. The guy probably thought he downloaded the plans for a form-fitting, detailed Spider-Man costume off the Internet... just like people can do in the real world. There's an extended cut of the movie in which the guy ''does'' realize that it's the real Spider-Man. He reveals that he works for a marketing firm and that Spidey needs to do more with his image. He suggests a line of Spider-Man-branded cologne. That should be called [[MythologyGag Thwip]].
183	* ''Film/TalesOfHalloween'': In "The Night Billy Raised Hell", Mr. Abaddon is a horned demon. On Halloween night, he strolls the streets with his horns out, with everyone assuming that he is in costume.
184	* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze'': In the climax, Tokka and Rahzar shove Raph into a nightclub where Music/VanillaIce is performing. Initially the audience and Vanilla Ice are freaked out by the sudden appearance of mutant humanoid animals, until they just start thinking that the guys are just people in costumes. This allows the Turtles to dance to the ''Ninja Rap''.
185	* Slightly parodied in ''Film/Transformers2007'' when Sam is trying to find his [[MacGuffin Grandfather's glasses]] and the Autobots are walking around in the backyard. He tells the anxious robots to wait for him and stay low. A minute later he turns around and the Autobots have turned into their incognito alternate modes... parked in the backyard. Obviously they don't blend in.
186	-->'''Sam:''' THIS IS NOT A TRUCK STOP!
187	* In ''Film/TwinFallsIdaho'', a girl convinces a pair of conjoined twins to attend a Halloween party as "Siamese twins." Everyone at the party assumes that it's just a costume.
188	* ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage'': When Venom and Eddie have a falling out, the former separates from the latter and body-surfs across different hosts (on account of Eddie being one of the precious few compatible hosts that can ''survive'' being merged with Venom). At one point, Venom happens upon an underground rave party, where he blends in among the revelers who think the massive alien monster is just another reveler in a costume that was made especially well.
189	* In ''Film/ZorroTheGayBlade'', Don Diego attends a MasqueradeBall in his Zorro costume. At first the Aldante thinks he's caught Zorro, but then all the Dons (and later all the men invited to the party at all) show up in Zorro costumes, insisting they got a message from him telling them to do so.
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193	* Wrestling/UltimoDragon and Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr at ''Wrestling/{{WCW}} Halloween Havoc 1997'', the infamous event where the latter lost his mask to Wrestling/EddieGuerrero.
194	* In 2014 World Wonder Ring STARDOM adopted Fukumen's Mask Fiesta but since STARDOM ''isn't'' a lucharesu promotion, it was moved from July to October to be held alongside their Halloween party. This had the side effect of what few {{masked luchador}}s were present for the former keeping their regular masks for the latter.
195	* Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon dressed as a witch for the 2002 HalloweenEpisode of ''Wrestling/WWESmackDown'', though wrestling fans saw it as this.
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198	[[folder:Video Games]]
199	* During one mission in ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'', Corvo sneaks into a masked ball by wearing his creepy assassin's mask, which is on wanted posters all over the city. He can even sign his own name on the guestbook. The other guests think he's some random gentleman who's trying to be funny. Considering the plague that's ravaging the city in the story, it may very well be a ShoutOut to "Literature/TheMasqueOfTheRedDeath". The main difference is that Corvo's less about spreading plague and more about spreading horrible, horrible death to anyone who crosses him...[[FateWorseThanDeath or alternatively, something much worse.]]
200	* In ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', [[MadScientist Dr.]] [[TheBrute Mundo]] has a skin, released as part of a Halloween-themed update, in which he is dressing up as [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101018194452/leagueoflegends/images/5/59/Dr._Mundo_MundoMundoSkin.jpg himself.]]
201	-->'''Dr. Mundo''': Mundo dresses up as himself a lot, or else he forgets. Has happened before.
202	* Genji of ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'', ninja [[EmergencyTransformation turned into a cyborg to save his life]] after [[SiblingMurder his brother tried to kill him]], has this to say on the subject:
203	-->''My Halloween costume? [[CyberNinja Cyborg Ninja]].''
204	* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', when the Saints rob a bank at the start of the game, the Saints all wear Johnny Gat caricature masks, including Johnny Gat. In their defense, the Saints by this time have sold out and become criminal celebrities; people robbing a bank in Johnny Gat masks wouldn't be that bizarre in-universe.
205	-->'''Johnny Gat''': Hell yeah! Who ''doesn't'' want to be Johnny Gat?
206	* In ''[[VideoGame/SegaSuperstars Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing]]'', everyone drives something related to their character. [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] drives a sports car modeled to look like him, [[VideoGame/{{Shenmue}} Ryo]] drives a motorcycle, the [[VideoGame/BonanzaBros Bonanza Bros.]] drive their getaway car, etc. However, [[VideoGame/FantasyZone Opa-Opa]], being a sentient spaceship, doesn't drive a car; he races with himself as his car.
207	** Similarly, in the sequel, [[VideoGame/NightsIntoDreams NiGHTS and Reala]] transform into cars a la their own games, although at least they have Nightopians and Nightmaren sitting in the driving seat. Also, there's [[spoiler:the equally-sentient AGES, a Creator/{{SEGA}}-themed robot that transforms between a Daytona stock-car, an ''VideoGame/AfterBurner'' plane, and a [[ConsoleCameo Dreamcast controller]] depending on the location]].
208	* Most people in ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' know Eliza as a diva singer who happens to wear a very gaudy and revealing outfit. Less people (those people being Samson, Leviathan, and the Medicis) know that [[Really700YearsOld she's actually an ancient being]], and that outfit she wears is the same one she wore back in the game's equivalent to ancient Egypt.
209	* One mission in ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'' requires you to go to a Halloween party to look for someone while in full costume.
210	* ''VideoGame/ToejamAndEarl Mission to Earth'' let the alien protagonists go up to houses and pretend to be trick or treaters to get a random item.
211	* The free UsefulNotes/RPGMaker game ''VideoGame/TrickAndTreat'' is set on Halloween and features two girls dressed as a witch and a pumpkin maid. [[spoiler:The former is an actual witch and the latter is a magically animated construct that the witch made from a pumpkin to use as her personal maid.]]
212	* In ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines,'' a few [=NPCs=] mistake [[LooksLikeOrlok Nosferatu]] players for a body-modification buff... and one of them compliments you on the work done on [[PointyEars your ears.]]
213	** Of course, a few [=NPCs=] also assume that the Nosferatu PC's just wearing a mask: in a particularly amusing case, Venus politely informs the PC that there are no mosh pits in ''her'' establishment and redirects you to a DeathMetal show in a different club.
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216	[[folder:Web Animation]]
217	* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' goes to a convention cosplaying as himself, which, in this case, means wearing a propeller cap ''over'' his propeller cap and taping a paper star over his red star T-shirt.
218	** Another episode has Strong Sad apparently entering a Strong Sad look-alike contest only for Coach Z to immediately disqualify him for that very reason. [[spoiler:Turns out it was actually Homsar in an ''EXTREMELY'' detailed and lifelike costume.]]
219	* In the ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue 2008'' Hallowe'en special, everyone dressed up as Caboose...including Caboose, who didn't know it was Hallowe'en.
220	* In the ''WebAnimation/{{Smashtasm}} 2010'' Halloween special, [=Super64=] tells H and Lamp:
221	-->'''[=Super64=]:''' I've decided to dress up as myself for Halloween this year, as a reminder to kids everywhere to always BeYourself.\
222	'''H:''' I hate you. I ''really'' do.
223	* In the ''WebAnimation/SuperThings'' episode "Basketball Match", Enigma, still a wanted fugitive at this point, wishes to support his childhood friend Clowny for the Hero Dunks' final basketball game of the season, as he's the team's coach. He also needs Clowny's help in a portion of his big plan, but can't risk being seen. In the end, he goes "as [he's] always been", wearing a modified version of his childhood clothing, the outfit that is still in his trademark colors ''and'' with his question mark motif still on it. Luckily, the outfit works, along with keeping everyone unaware of him, minus Clowny.
224	* ''WebAnimation/TheLegendOfLuoXiaoHei'' has the heroes go to an anime convention. Diting, an Elfin with very noticable horns and differently colored skin, is able to pass just fine there and gets quite a few positive comments. He later admits that he goes to anime conventions every year when he's able since it allows him to have a relatively peaceful experience in the human world and it's one of the very few places where he can appear as himself.
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227	[[folder:Webcomics]]
228	* ''Webcomic/AbeAndKroenen'' take advantage of the local fan convention to walk around New York unhindered. Abe also suggests they do this when accepting trick-or-treaters to Kroenen's house--after Kroenen finally agrees to get into the spirit of things, he finds out Abe just wanted to use him and his horrifically mutilated face as decoration.
229	* In ''Webcomic/{{Avialae}}'', Gannet sees a Halloween party as a chance to not have to hide the [[WingedHumanoid wings]] he began unexpectedly growing for once by dressing up as an angel with "fake" wings.
230	* Averted with in [[http://www.brunothebandit.com/w/20000619.html this storyline]] of ''Webcomic/BrunoTheBandit'': The monsters visit a party disguised as humans.
231	* One ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' comic has [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} Dedede]]'s IdenticalStranger lookalike Kingsonnn Dededoo infiltrate a costume party that he wasn't invited to by just wearing his normal outfit and pretending to be Dedede in a costume.
232	* As seen on their cast page, the creators of ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy'' once went to a Halloween party dressed as their webcomic selves.
233	* Forcibly invoked (and subverted) in the webcomic ''[[http://www.krakowstudios.com/archive.php?date=20090528 Charliehorse]]'' when Preson suggests -- in great detail -- that Charlie the succubus take the opportunity to attend a Halloween party as herself. [[spoiler:Turns out she'd rather go as Cinderella, instead.]]
234	* One ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' strip has a character react in fear to the Purple-Shirted Eye Stabber (a recurring character who's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin). The man laughs and assures him it's a costume. The last panel shows him pulling up his purple shirt to reveal ''an identical purple shirt'' underneath and brandishing his knife, indicating he's the real thing after all.
235	* In an early ''Webcomic/DragonCity'' comic, [[OurDragonsAreDifferent bipedal dragon]] Erin Parrity [[http://dragoncity.thecomicseries.com/comics/45/ goes trick-or-treating with some humans.]] Bonus points for not only not wearing a costume but also not wearing anything at all.
236	-->'''Human kid:''' Oh wow! That's a neat costume!\
237	'''Erin:''' Thanks. [[ExactWords My parents helped me make it.]]
238	* Inverted in the Halloween arc of ''Webcomic/{{Erma}}'' when the titular StringyHairedGhostGirl decides to dress up like a normal elementary schooler while her friends go in costume. No one takes her seriously and she gets next to no candy until her friends encourage her to play the trope straight, which [[CreepyCute she does quite well]].
239	* The Jaegermonsters in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' take advantage of the fact that people dressed as Jaegermonsters are popular entertainment on several occasions. Played with when Da Boyz accompany Lady Jenka to a costume party ... [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170324 wearing obviously fake Jaeger heads]].
240	* Grace of ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' apparently [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2007-10-31 considered]] (off-continuity) the Halloween "costume" of a squirrel-girl with three tails and antennae. Also, [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook.php?id=100 Liz]].
241	* In an ''Webcomic/ItsWalky'' Halloween strip, Joyce (dressed as a harlequin) criticises [[UpperClassTwit Jason]] for not having his costume ready. He replies he's going as Film/JamesBond.
242	** In ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'', Robin asks Mike (who has just learned that he's going to be a dad), what his costume is, as he is wearing his normal work clothes. He says his costume is "Father". Considering that it's ''[[MagnificentBastard Mike]]'' Robin concedes that this is pretty scary.
243	* ''Webcomic/MaggotBoy'' takes place in one of the safe cities after a ZombieApocalypse. Davey and Chainey, two highly anomalous zombies who retained their personalities and are living undercover in the city, try trick-or-treating as zombies, with a bit of scotch tape on their faces to make their stitch marks look fake. It falls flat due to being way too soon.
244	* In ''Webcomic/AMagicalRoommate'', Alexis and X always dressed as witches for Halloween. But after they ended up sprouting fairy wings on their 21st birthday, X's roommate Aylia suggested that they go as human-sized black fairies instead. X loved this idea, as the costume required zero effort on her part (In fact, it took less effort than her usual outfits, as she didn't have to conceal her wings).
245	* The title character in ''Webcomic/{{Terinu}}'' is a four-and-a-half-foot tall alien with a seven-foot-long prehensile tail, gray skin, and horns. He gets around because most humans assume he's a "moddie" with extensive plastic surgery and prosthetics, created for a sick weirdo's amusement. {{Squick}}
246	* In Marvel's ''Webcomic/TestKitchen'' series, the volunteers at the Halloween F.E.A.S.T. soup kitchen are all dressed up in superhero costumes. [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Peter Parker]] takes the opportunity to wear a black Spider-Man suit.
247	* ''Webcomic/VampireGirl'': While not for Halloween specifically, Levana does decide to [[ItMakesSenseInContext dress up as a vampire]] for a hospital staff costume ball.
248	* In ''Webcomic/WelcomeToChastity'' Mei goes to Rayya with strong evidence that their roommate, Gwen, might be a witch, Rayya tells Mei she's being ridiculous, only for Gwen to barge into the room wearing a stereotypical witch outfit for the college Halloween party.
249	* In ''Webcomic/{{Weregeek}}'', the hardcore geeks are safe from the Hunters on Halloween... a truce has been established, because the risks are too high; the hunters can't tell "real" cosplayers from those dressing up for the occasion. Hiding one's costuming hobby in a costume holiday!
250	* In the ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'' Halloween party storyline in 2003, there's a [[TheCameo Cameo]] by [[Webcomic/SchlockMercenary Kevyn Andreyasn]], who's wearing his normal outfit from his "home" comic. He explains it as [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb218.html coming dressed as a clone of himself.]]
251	* Played with in ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'', where Sandra, a human trapped in a demon body, plans to go out undisguised on Halloween... until she suddenly finds herself back in her human form. Turns out demons become more powerful on Halloween, and she can thus change her appearance with illusions at will. She decides to go out as her ''human'' self, sans costume, because she probably won't get another chance to do it for another year.
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254	[[folder:Web Original]]
255	* During ''Roleplay/InkCity'''s Halloween Party, [[VideoGame/Persona4 Souji and Yosuke]] dress up as their Personas -- a clever twist on the whole "Thou art I, and I am thou" concept. Not that they see it as so clever once [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Discord]] [[BecomingTheCostume turns everyone into their costumes]]...
256	* One of the many Halloween celebrations at ''Podcast/KakosIndustries'' featured a Halloween party with a demon theme. They even gave out a cool prize for the best costume. Then they gave it to someone who was actually ''wearing'' a costume. Corin apologizes to Balthazaar, but notes "you know how you look."
257	* Due to AppliedPhlebotinum, the superpowered Tennyo in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' stories now looks remarkably like Ryoko from ''Anime/TenchiMuyo''. Her roommate decided that the whole team would go to the [[SuperHeroSchool Whateley Academy]] Halloween party as Tenchi Muyo characters, with Tennyo as Ryoko. Given that these teenagers have superpowers, getting a Washu and even a Ryo-Ohki wasn't a problem.
258	** It's also specifically mentioned that for aspiring superheroes or supervillains, going to the school Halloween party as 'my future super identity' is considered gauche.
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260
261	[[folder:Real Life]]
262	* According to others in the industry and frequent convention goers, [[Creator/ShinichiWatanabe Nabeshin]] has a habit of intentionally losing his translator escort in the crowds of fans, and then waiting in line to get in to his own panels. He, of course, does this when he, and dozens of his fans, are in full Nabeshin cosplay.
263	* In an interview, guitarist Music/{{Slash\|Musician}} stated that he can go out as himself on Halloween, and someone even said "[[YourCostumeNeedsWork Hey, your Slash is pretty good, but I know someone with an even better one!]]"
264	* A bank robber who was nicknamed "the Gap-Toothed Bandit" for his resemblance to [[Magazine/{{MAD}} Alfred E. Neuman]] was arrested after going to a Halloween party dressed in the same get-up he wore on his robberies. [[TooDumbToLive And telling people he'd come "as a bank robber."]] Someone recognized him from his wanted poster and called the cops. Maybe he tried to deliberately invoke "YourCostumeNeedsWork" and failed.
265	* Sort of inverted by one of the few anecdotes in which someone got the verbal better of UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill. Lady Nancy Astor, the first woman in Parliament, had invited him to a "fancy dress" (i.e., costume) party, and when he came by to RSVP the invitation, he wondered aloud "What should I come as?" She responded, "Why don't you come ''sober''?"
266	* Then-teenage fashion blogger Creator/TaviGevinson admitted to breaking the "no Halloween costumes" rule at her suburban UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} HighSchool and getting away with it because people had gotten used to her wearing outlandish outfits to school.
267	* Accidentally done by Creator/TimCurry. He decided to attend a showing of ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' and was kicked out because they thought he was a Tim Curry fan dressing up as him. Not helping was that there had been a problem with crazed Tim Curry fans during this time frame resulting from his portrayal in the movie.
268	* San Diego [=ComicCon=] is unsurprisingly a place where this has happened a number of times. Given that many of the convention's more popular celebrity guests walk around wearing masks or costumes that obscure their faces in order to move around relatively undisturbed by fans, it's inevitable that some would dress as themselves.
269	** In 2011, Creator/AndrewGarfield wore a very cheap Spider-Man costume to the panel for his own Spider-Man movie and stood at the microphone for audience questions.
270	** Creator/BryanCranston attended wearing a Walter White mask in 2013.
271	** Creator/TomHiddleston wore his Loki costume on stage to the Thor: The Dark World panel in 2013, although that may not have been a disguise so much as a publicity stunt for the panel.
272	** Creator/HughJackman wore his Wolverine costume around for part of the convention in 2013. Despite the fact that he was probably the third celebrity to do this exact thing in as many days, the only reaction he got to the costume was a fan telling him that although the costume was good, he was "too tall" to convincingly cosplay the character.
273	** United States Senator John Lewis, who had been one of the "Big Six" activists of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, came to [=ComicCon=] in three consecutive years (2015-17) wearing the same coat and suit he wore during the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965. He even [[https://apnews.com/article/053a3111dd354e1c8522cdc03bc4b755 led a Civil Rights march]] at each convention.
274	* Former Wrestling/{{WCW}} wrestler Glacier [[http://uproxx.com/prowrestling/2014/11/youll-never-believe-what-wcws-glacier-dressed-up-as-for-halloween/ dusted off his old costume for Halloween 2014]].
275	* Many celebrities like to go to Madame Tussauds and [[NobodyHereButUsStatues pretend to be the wax figures of themselves]] as a PracticalJoke.
276	* In a gag related to ClarkKenting, Creator/HenryCavill wandered around New York Times Square with massive posters advertising ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' with his face on them, ''wearing a Superman outfit'', and no one recognized him. The only person who addressed him was [[ApatheticClerk a shop employee asking him not to film there]].
277	* Some Wiccans and other Neopagans who cannot practice openly due to community prejudice may wear stereotypical witch costumes on Halloween just for the subversive thrill of being recognized as a witch without the backlash they would normally face.
278	* Monica Lewinsky was invited to a '90s-themed costume party years after the scandal. She was reluctant at first (for obvious reasons), but eventually decided to go with it and just came wearing a beret.
279	* Eri Akiyama, best known as Akira Amiyama in Series/KamenRiderHibiki, attended Komiket (a noted Japanese convention) in 2019 cosplaying… Akira Amiyama.
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