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11	When a character uses a personal {{Hologram}} projector to disguise themselves. Often with no explanation of how they manage to keep it synced with their own body movements, especially if they are bigger or significantly smaller than the disguise.
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13	Also covers instances of magic being used to project illusions, or uses of holograms as an InvisibilityCloak.
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15	May involve HardLight, often subject to GlamourFailure. See also LieToTheBeholder.
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18	!!Examples:
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21	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
22	* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS'', Teana Lanster uses the Fake Silhouette spell to create multiple holographic copies of herself moving in different directions to hide her own movement. Since the copies are not perfect, she also distorts her own appearance to look like one of them.
23	* In ''Anime/PsychoPass'', this seems to be the most common choice of "clothing" for people in general. During an interview, Senguji, a cyborg, unnerves his interviewer by revealing his bionic eyes can easily see through them.
24	* ''Anime/WolfsRain'': The wolves use psychic illusions [[HumanDisguise to pose as humans]], but their bodies are physically unchanged.
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27	[[folder:Comic Books]]
28	* ''ComicBook/CleopatraInSpace:'' To intimidate intruders, small orphanage owner Anna Mae has one of a large alien creature.
29	* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'': The titular character uses this to hide his [[FacialHorror scarred and tumor-infected face]] from the public.
30	* ''ComicBook/{{Horizon}}'': The protagonists (Coza, Zhia, Mariol, and Finn) all have clothes that project a holographic disguise over themselves, allowing them to pass off as humans.
31	* In ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW'', Jem is a hologram disguise over Jerrica Benton with a better reason -- to prevent Jerrica from having super stage fright when in front of other people than her family.
32	* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' has the A.I. named Two, who himself is a ProjectedMan. Being able to choose his own appearance, he has impersonated others in order to deceive on more than one occasion -- including when he pretends to be his own artificial holographic twin.
33	* In ''ComicBook/PS238'', students who can't just change into normal clothes (because they're part-machine, or bright blue, or whatever) get image emitters to help them blend in with the oblivious above-ground muggles.
34	* In ''ComicBook/ThePrivateEye'', P.I.'s latest client enters wearing a "7000 dollar hologram job" in the form of a massive collar that gives her a holographic head of a tiger
35	* ''ComicBook/SinsOfSinister:'' During ''Storm & The Brotherhood of Mutants'', the team works with Mystique, thinking they can see through her shapeshifting. In the middle of a fight, super-speedster Loolo notices Mystique is flickering, and they learn a little too late [[spoiler:Whiz-Kid is Mystique. The Mystique they've been dealing with was a hologram.]]
36	* In ''ComicBook/TheSuperRevengeOfLexLuthor'', Luthor creates a device which projects a holographic disguise, but he uses it on ComicBook/{{Superman}} instead of himself to make people believe that his nemesis (whom he is {{gaslighting}}) has become a monster.
37	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': After establishing the resistance group's experiments with captured holographic projectors, ComicBook/WonderWoman uses one to disguise herself as the Emperor's advisor A'iir, who was captured by Diana's revolutionary group.
38	* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Nightcrawler has an 'image inducer' to make him look human instead of demonic. Beast occasionally uses one as well, but mostly he ''likes'' the attention a bright blue furry humanoid gets. Other characters who've been on the team and can't pass for normal humans (such as Marrow and Stacy X) have also used them. And team members who don't have that issue will still sometimes make use of them in order to change what outfits they look like they're wearing (leading to a scene where Wolverine tried to do an ActionDressRip on the PimpedOutDress he thought Storm was wearing, only to find out that it was just a hologram and she was actually wearing a far more practical outfit that he'd just ruined, to her annoyance).
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42	* In ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'', Ringo wears a holoprojector in the Tipaan arc because he has to disguise himself as a G'heddi'onian, so he needs to lighten his skin and give himself a more appropriate face. (He also wears a voice changer.) Later in the same arc, Paul and John briefly wear cloaks that make them look like Svenjaya so they can travel into the Svenjaya tunnels without being stopped. It's explicitly noted that the cloaks make them look like existing Svenjaya who are laid up -- the community is small enough to notice strangers among them -- and their guide has to quickly explain to another tribesmember why a sick individual is suddenly walking around.
43	* ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'': Paul's magical clothing illusion. At first, it was pretty fake-looking, but with practice, he got much better at making it seem reasonably normal. Even so, most people realize he's wearing an illusion. Which is not a problem, since he's only wearing it so that he doesn't appear naked all the time. He also gets use out of the illusion as an InvisibilityCloak.
44	* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': ''Disguise self'' is one of Haara's three spells, which she uses either to generate illusory clothes or disguise herself as another person or race.
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47	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
48	* Mater gets a set of holographic disguises in ''WesternAnimation/Cars2''. Making an effective one is more complicated than originally thought because Mater's bumps and dents sometimes poke through the hologram.
49	* ''[[WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls LEGO DC Super Hero Girls: Super Villain High]]'' has Lena Luthor use a holographic covering to impersonate Principal Waller as well as disguise herself as Divide (a fake superheroine to encourage some of the less traditionally heroic students of Super Hero High into leaving their school) and Principal Taller (the nonexistent principal of Uber High, a rival school that's really a cover for Lena's latest plan).
50	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'': The eponymous supervillain uses a wristwatch-like device to create holographic disguises. It even allows him to become someone much shorter than his real self (Space Dad).
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53	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
54	* A variation in ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'': Totenkopf appears as a giant floating holographic head before his room on his secret island, but the heroes immediately note something's off. [[spoiler:That's because Totenkopf has been long dead. It was a prerecorded message.]]
55	* ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'': [[spoiler:It appears that Quentin Beck rarely wears the full Mysterio costume; his "heroics" are done by a hologram he controls, and when he needs to interact with people, he just steps inside the hologram.]]
56	* ''Film/TotalRecall2012'' has one used to disguise a person's head. Shame about the reliability.
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59	[[folder:Literature]]
60	* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Erek King and other Chee androids, combined with force fields.
61	* The alien guests at Benny Summerfield's wedding in the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel ''Happy Endings'' have these to avoid freaking out the good people of early 21st century Earth. This leads to complications as the four-foot-high alien gerbil disguised as a normal-height human woman has to try and explain that the extremely small bridesmaid dress is actually fine, thanks.
62	* ''Literature/DrakeMaijstral'':
63	** The darksuit used by allowed burglars when on the job is described as projecting a holographic "cloud of darkness". Very effective at night; not so much during the day.
64	** In ''The Crown Jewels'', the "Ronnie Romper" suits worn by Amalia Jensen's kidnappers are holographic. They make the two appear to be the same height, even though they're not, and move with their bodies, but don't allow for facial expressions -- the fixed smile is mentioned as creeping people out.
65	* In ''Literature/TheEmpressGame'', Kayla and Isonde each have one of each other so that they can change places when it's time for Kayla to impersonate Isonde in fights. It takes a little work to get them right.
66	* One of the first spells Aahz teaches Skeeve in ''Literature/MythAdventures'', as otherwise they'd really stick out in alternate dimensions.
67	* ''Literature/{{Paradox}}'': The Alliance has two versions. The "domino" is just a hologram and popular at parties, while "roquelaures" are exclusive to Fleet Intelligence and use a [[HardLight solidigraph]] that can be touched and alters the user's apparent mass and voice.
68	* In ''Literature/ThePrideOfParahumans'', a bloodhound bounty hunter tries to lure Argentum in using a hologram to look like an attractive male fox. It doesn't disguise his scent, though.
69	* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', magic can be used to create a hologram to change one's appearance. If the user is careless, bits of their real body or clothing may poke through the disguise. A more talented user can combine this with the trick for invisibility to make them look like someone smaller than themselves.
70	* ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'': Sorceress Iris does this in the first book to make herself appear young and attractive since her magical talent is Illusion.
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73	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
74	!!!'''Series:'''
75	* ''Series/BabylonFive'': One such device is used in "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS01E00TheGathering The Gathering]]" by an alien attempting to assassinate the Vorlon ambassador Kosh and frame Commander Sinclair for it in the process.
76	* ''Series/CowboyBebop2021'':
77	** In "[[Recap/CowboyBebop2021S1E3DogStarSwing Dog Star Swing]]", Spike and Jet are watching CCTV footage of Hakeem when they realize that he's SpikingTheCamera to ensure that it has a good image of his face. Jet then realizes that he's using a Face Changer to alter his appearance -- holographic technology used by sex workers to make them more appealing. They go to the RedLightDistrict and activate a jammer so that Hakeem will return there to get his disguise fixed.
78	--->'''Spike:''' ''[sees a young prostitute walking out with a customer turn into an old woman]'' He's in for a surprise.
79	** In "[[Recap/CowboyBebop2021S1E8SadClownAGoGo Sad Clown A-Go-Go]]", Vicious plans to kill the leaders of TheSyndicate by having his fellow capos Mao and Santiago hand him over as a PlayAlongPrisoner, whereupon he will throw off his fake handcuffs and kill the Elders. They betray Vicious, and he's handed over gagged and in shackles -- however, when Mao cuts off Vicious' head, she discovers that she's just killed Santiago, who was wearing a Face Changer. Vicious (wearing a Face Changer to make himself appear to be Santiago) knew that they would betray them, overpowered Santiago and swapped places, binding and gagging Santiago so that he wouldn't give the game away.
80	** In "[[Recap/CowboyBebop2021S1E10SupernovaSymphony Supernova Symphony]]", Vicious kidnaps Jet's daughter and offers to swop her for Spike. Instead Spike and Jet try to ShootTheHostageTaker only to find the bullets go straight through Vicious, [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle as he and Kimmie are holograms transmitted from another location]].
81	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
82	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]", the [[RubberForeheadAliens Vinvocci]] use a device known as a "shimmer" to disguise themselves as normal humans.
83	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor The Time of the Doctor]]", the Doctor and Clara wear PerceptionFilter clothing so they can be naked as required by the Papal Mainframe without Clara getting embarrassed. It fails to achieve this, especially since only the two of them can see the clothes...
84	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E5TimeHeist Time Heist]]", Saibra has a natural ability to mimic faces, bodies, and voices, but has a hologram generator to make sure her clothing looks like that of the original.
85	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E4NikolaTeslasNightOfTerror Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror]]", the Skithra agents use these to appear human, looking like various people they've killed. It does not disguise their {{red eyes\|TakeWarning}}.
86	* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': In the third season, we are introduced to technology from Earth-19 that allows H.R. Wells to disguise himself so that he can go out in public (since he looks just like the man who killed Barry's mother); he also makes it so that the team (and the viewers) can still recognize him. The disguises get used again later in the season, most notably when [[spoiler:the BadFuture in which Iris is killed by the season's BigBad is prevented by H.R. [[HeroicSacrifice switching places with her]] and disguising themselves as each other]].
87	* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Candice from season 1 and early season 2 has the ability to cast illusions which make her appear different to people. In practice, it's the same basic ability as VoluntaryShapeshifting, but it's explicitly not that.
88	* ''Series/TheOrville'':
89	** In "[[Recap/TheOrvilleS1E06Krill Krill]]", Captain Mercer and Lt. Malloy use holographic technology to disguise themselves as Krill in order to infiltrate a Krill warship. The devices are provided to them by Isaac, a member of the technologically advanced robotic Kaylon race. The holograms appear to be more than just visual, as when Mercer and Malloy get stuck in a doorway, you can hear the sound of two leather outfits rubbing against one another, implying either some kind of HardLight or an auditory simulator.
90	** When Claire and Isaac start dating, Isaac has the ship's simulator generate a human disguise, allowing his voice actor Mark Jackson to put on an appearance. Yaphit also briefly appears as his voice actor Creator/NormMacDonald to hit on Claire.
91	* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S6E3SkinDeep Skin Deep]]", a man steals his coworker's identity with a holographic disguise. The episode addresses the need to not move quickly, or else the hologram will flash and give the user away.
92	* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' has some episodes in which characters use holographic images to hide their identity when communicating with someone else via screen.
93	** The Doctor from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' is an interesting case -- [[ProjectedMan he's already a hologram]], so he just has to reconfigure his appearance. He doesn't do so very often, however, as he's rather attached to his default appearance.
94	** In ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', at least one Section 31 ship is able to disguise itself as an asteroid. This may have been inspired by the game ''VideoGame/StarTrekAwayTeam''.
95	* ''Series/StargateSG1'': In [[Recap/StargateSG1S3E14Foothold "Foothold"]] an unnamed and markedly non-human alien race uses holographic projectors to impersonate SGC personnel. Later in [[Recap/StargateSG1S6E14SmokeAndMirrors "Smoke and Mirros"]] a human assassin steals one of the salvaged projectors and uses it to frame Jack for murder.
96	!!!'''TV Movies:'''
97	* The [[Film/SyfyChannelOriginalMovie Syfy Channel Non-Original Movie]] ''Literature/AnonymousRex'' has dinosaurs posing as human using these.
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100	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
101	* The ''Disguise self'' spell in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.
102	* In ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Ultra-Tech'', the [=TL10=]/superscience holobelt projects an image that allows a person to disguise themselves as a tree or a large rock, or anything else bigger than they are. At the same tech level is the holo-distort belt, which blurs the wearer's face, as well as spoofing sensors. One tech level up is the clothing belt, which is able to create a hologram that follows the wearer's movements. It can be used to conceal the wearer's identity by programming it to cover the face but is too low-res to create a "realistic" disguise.
103	* ''TabletopGame/MutantFuture'': A robot can have a Holo Screen device that projects a holographic image around it. The image can make the robot look like anything of roughly the same size, such as an outcropping of rock or an animal.
104	* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' adventure "The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues", one of the R&D gadgets in Mission 2 is the Autoresponse Imager. It creates holographic disguises around the wearer, such as a combot or Teela-O-MLY. When it malfunctions, it will create images like Creator/PeterLorre (in black and white) and [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote]].
105	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': [[SpaceElves The Eldar]] use a variant as a form of camouflage. Their "holo-fields" don't bother to maintain a disguise over their bearers, but instead scatter light so that an Eldar [[HoverTank grav-tank]] or [[MonsterClown Harlequin]] appears as a fast-moving swirl of colors that baffles enemy targeting systems, to say nothing of the naked eye.
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108	[[folder:Video Games]]
109	* ''VideoGame/TheCrystalKey'' has a small holographic projector, complete with an attached camera to create new disguises. You have to short it out in one puzzle to uncover a secret passage, and you can take the projector with you, later in the game.
110	* ''VideoGame/HomeworldCataclysm'' introduces [[SpacePirates Turanic Raider]] gunships with this ability, which the player's faction reverse-engineer and fit to Mimic suicide-ships. It's useful for a few campaign objectives but human opponents in multiplayer are less easily fooled than the AI even without the specific tech to counter it.
111	* ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject 3'' has the Chameleon suit, time machine, and holographic disguise. The game prevents you from interacting with people while wearing their disguise, except with the pilgrim in TheShangriLa, who simply assumes that you're a spirit. [[spoiler:The pilgrim actually turns out to be one of the Sosiqui.]]
112	* Mofang technology in ''VideoGame/{{Obduction}}'' is capable of this along with general holographic projections. As it turns out, though, [[spoiler:the projection [[GlamourFailure still retains an all-over red shimmer]], and this is even before the disguise-ee has a chance to fail at mimicking voice patterns]].
113	* In ''VideoGame/TheOuterWorlds'', the Holographic Shroud uses an ID cart to project a full-body hologram that changes your whole appearance to match another person's, including their biometric data, and even comes with a voice modulator. It lets you enter restricted areas more freely, but its power drains when you move and [=NPCs=] might approach you under suspicion, requiring a speech check to avoid getting caught.
114	* Used frequently in the ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' series.
115	** In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002'', it's used to get past a robot factory.
116	** In ''VideoGame/SecretAgentClank'', Clank can scan an enemy and produce a holographic disguise which will fool enemies other than the exact individual in question.
117	* ''VideoGame/RedAlert3'':
118	** The Imperial Sudden Transport can disguise itself as any vehicle. While the disguise is technically flawless (though animals and burst drones reveal it), sometimes the chosen disguise is the problem- no player is going to ignore the MightyGlacier Apocalypse tank somehow zipping along at breakneck speed, or the Harbinger gunship on the ground, or the battleship moving on land. It also has to turn off the disguise to let troops out.
119	** The Mirage tank uses a holographic projector to disguise itself as a random prop with nowhere near the dimensions of the tank (tree, civilian car, etc.). It can also turn off its own camouflage to cloak nearby allies, but this also causes a honking big visible cloud to surround it.
120	*** One mission has a Mirage manage to project both the cloaking field ''and'' disguise itself as an enemy. This GameBreaker of an ability is never referenced again.
121	** Subverted by Spies. While the interface effect ''looks'' like a hologram (to let the player know what unit the spy is currently disguised as), an in-universe interview has a spy claim that it's mostly acting like what the other person expects to see, which explains why animals see right through it. Again, nothing prevents the spy from having a perfectly inappropriate disguise like a swimming infantry unit (only commandoes, spies and ninja can swim) or a dolphin swimming on land.
122	* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
123	** In ''VideoGame/StarTrekAwayTeam'', the USS ''Incursion'' is a modified ''Defiant''-class ship that uses an experimental system to sidestep the Treaty of Algeron (the one that prohibits the Federation from developing and using {{Invisibility Cloak}}s) in letter if not in spirit. It works by projecting another ship around the ''Incursion'', while also transmitting the proper transponder signals.
124	** The technology is stolen by the Romulans in ''VideoGame/StarTrekStarfleetCommand 3'' and used to attack the joint Federation/Klingon ''Unity'' station. It's finally banned after that.
125	** The ''Incursion'' makes a cameo in ''VideoGame/StarTrekArmada 2''.
126	* In ''VideoGame/TowerOfFantasy'', The Simulacrum AI are based on the original wielders of the SR and SSR equipment and can be equipped once their weapons are acquired on the special loot. This changes the player character to the chosen Simulacrum and the AI will even contact the player if they have enough awakening points.
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130	* Galatea in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' built herself a cute little beret hat that can holographically disguise her as a human. After her most recent space adventure left her stuck under house arrest on an alien planet, her sister Molly has now taken to using it.
131	* In ''Webcomic/{{Jix}}'', the Ambis and android characters often use either holo-watches or integrated projectors to pose as humans.
132	* The alien main characters of ''Webcomic/KilaIlo'' have holographic projecting bracelets to look human or, in Ferris's case, like a dog-rabbit.
133	* The assassin "Mr. Graves" in ''Webcomic/QuantumVibe'' uses holo-masks. When not impersonating a specific person, he prefers [[NixonMask presidents]].
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136	[[folder:Western Animation]]
137	* In the ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' episode "Hit the Road, Jack", Romana Parmesana uses a hologram projector to disguise herself as a human -- the other Plutarkian villains rely on [[LatexPerfection masks]].
138	* Scooter from ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots'' is capable of using his hologram projector to disguise himself, at one point playing a trick on the Renegade Crasher by making himself look like Cop-Tur.
139	* ''WesternAnimation/GetAce'': Ace uses a limited version of this in "Date with Disaster", to cover up a bad case of acne on his big date. The hologram slightly breaks when his mother kisses him and later completely dissipates at the worst possible moment, scaring off his date.[[note]]At this point, circumstances have made him look a complete wreck, not just bad acne.[[/note]]
140	* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': Tak uses a hologram that perfectly disguises her as a human, in contrast with the PaperThinDisguise used by Zim (and all other Invaders seen in action on the show).
141	* Jerrica Benton from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' uses a pair of holographic projectors in her earrings and a computer bequeathed to her by her inventor father to become rock singer Jem.
142	* In the ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' episode "Johnny and the Amazing Turbo Action Backpack", Johnny has Duke wear a holographic disguise as one of Johnny's sisters to go on a date to distract Bling Bling Boy in order to get the backpack back.
143	* The ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' episode "Terminate Her" has the Glorft use holograms to disguise themselves as humans as part of a scheme to kill Kiva's ancestor. The credits sequence later shows Warmaster Gorrath having one of his lackeys use the device to assume the appearance of Coop so that Gorrath can take out his anger in the closest he can get to beating up the one who's constantly beaten him.
144	* The protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/Phantom2040'' makes extensive use of holographic invisibility.
145	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}}'' episode "The Maxum Switch-eroo" features several examples thanks to the Man-Of-A-Thousand-Faces' device: [[GenderBender Trevor becomes Vana]] ([[{{Bookends}} twice]]), Eric disguises himself as Maxum Mom to [[SpottingTheThread catch the Maxum Man imposter]], and Eric, Vana, Kitty, and Mayor Swift all turn into Trevor at the end after Vana [[NiceJobBreakingItHero destroys the device in a fit of rage]].
146	* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', the Chameleon does his shapeshifting through a holographic device on his belt that lets him take pictures of people and then copy those images (his ability to imitate voices seems to be a natural one, though).
147	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' featured "shadow holograms" that allowed bounty hunters to disguise themselves as guards in a kidnapping plot.
148	* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'', one of the devices Krang has aboard the Technodrome is a Holographic Cloaker which can create a holographic illusion over whoever steps into it for up to two hours. It's been used on Bebop and Rocksteady a couple of times: once when they infiltrated Channel Six as their pre-mutated selves, and again when Bebop impersonated a missing Leonardo. In the season seven finale "Shredder Triumphant", Donatello [[HoistByHisOwnPetard ends up using it against the villains]] when he disguises Michaelangelo as Krang so he can order Krang's army throughout the city to return to the Technodrome.
149	* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
150	** This is technically Mirage's full special ability, though in practice he almost invariably ends up using it to camouflage himself into {{invisibility}}. He does use the disguise ability at least once, in conjunction with Windcharger's MagnetismManipulation, to allow several non-combining Autobots to impersonate [[CombiningMecha Menasor]]. It [[CurbStompBattle doesn't hold up for long]] against the real deal, but it does confuse [[BigBad Megatron]] long enough for his new superweapon to blow up in his face.
151	** In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRobotsInDisguise2015'', [[spoiler:the Autobot High Council turn out to be Decepticons using Light Benders -- devices that project holographic illusions -- to masquerade as Autobots to manipulate the public]].
152	* Commander Keith uses one when infiltrating Wade's secret base in the opening episode of ''WesternAnimation/VoltronForce''.
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