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14	* ''Film/TwelveHourShift'': At the hospital, Regina tries putting on a set of scrubs to pass herself off as a nurse, except her high heels (and later, her shoeless feet) make her stick out among the others, who wear more practical footwear.
15	* In ''Film/ALoudHouseChristmas'' the disguises Lincoln and Clyde wear to Sunset Canyon when they sabotage Luan's gig count as this. Pop Pop and Nana Gayle lampshade this trope when they see Lincoln and Clyde and ask if they know them.
16	* Parodied in the Telugu film ''Film/AlludaMajaka'' where the main character, Sitaramudu, puts on a wig (which is an exact copy of his hair) and a moustache (that is an exact copy of his own), doesn't change the way he speaks at all and ''nobody'' recognises him.
17	* ''Film/AmericanAnimals'': Members of TheCaper originally dress in elaborate disguises as old men, believing that they'll be BeneathSuspicion, but the first try is aborted. On the second try, they discard the disguises and simply have the pointmen wear suits. In reality, the pointmen also wore knit caps.
18	* In ''Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes'', a guy tries infiltrating the Tomatoes at a campfire wearing a tomato suit; he actually fools them until he blows his cover by asking for some ketchup.
19	** One of his previous disguises was arguably worse: he was disguised as UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler... in TheEighties. And was a '''''[[RefugeInAudacity black man]]'''''.
20	* ''Film/BatmanTheMovie'', based on the Creator/AdamWest 1960's ''Series/Batman1966'' TV show.
21	** Alfred's "disguise" was to cover the top half of his face with a black cloth with eye-holes, (like 50's Disney Franchise/{{Zorro}}). He was still wearing his suit and put his glasses on over the mask.
22	** [[InvertedTrope On the other flipper]], when The Penguin tries [[WigDressAccent a more elaborate getup]], the Dynamic Duo aren't fooled one bit. [[spoiler:Then again, his short-term goal is to be taken to the [=BatCave=]]].
23	* Done in the old WWII propaganda film ''Film/BeastsTromTheEast''. The Japanese soldiers are disguised as trees throughout, even when moving or shooting.
24	* Parodied in ''Film/{{Bill}}'' by King Philip II of Spain who disguises himself by wearing a false moustache (over his real one), everyone is fooled and shocked to see it's him when he removes it.
25	* In ''Film/TheCandySnatchers'', the titular kidnappers wear nose glasses when they abduct Candy.
26	* PlayedWith in ''Film/CentralIntelligence''. Bob Stone masquerades as a therapist to get Calvin and his wife apart. It's obvious to both the audience and Calvin that it's really Bob. Calvin's wife, however, is completely fooled by the disguise, even after seeing Calvin freak out from it.
27	* In ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'', the Child Catcher disguises himself as a candy vendor by putting a coat on over his normal clothes. Yeah, that coat made him look ''[[SarcasmMode completely different]]''. But said coat was enough to fool Jeremy and Jemima, who had seen him earlier.
28	** Likewise, the two spies' various outfits.
29	* In the LiveActionAdaptation of ''Anime/CuteyHoney'', the title character had several costumes/disguises, but she invariably had bright red hair. Imagine it; you're in a Tokyo train station full of girls with black hair, and you're trying to find Cutey Honey. How long would it take you to spot the redhead?
30	* ''Film/DescendantOfTheSun'', a knockoff of the Christopher Reeve ''Superman'' films, follows the trope with the SupermanSubstitute hero Shue Sang, who can blend with civilians while assuming a superhero identity simply by ''changing clothes''. He doesn't even have glasses, and yet managed to fool everyone.
31	* In the Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes ''Film/Cinderella2015'' and ''Film/Aladdin2019'', the titular characters explicitly question whether they will be recognised after they are given new clothes by the Fairy Godmother and the Genie respectively, and are assured that the magic includes a subtle effect that prevents anyone else recognising them directly (Kit, Cinderella's prince, still recognizes her, but it's suggested that the spell was just to stop ''her family'' recognizing Ella and driving her away). [[spoiler:Although they are eventually recognized anyway -- Ella by Lady Tremaine, Aladdin by Jasmine and Jafar -- it is via deduction based on non-visual clues, making the disguises a non-factor.]]
32	* The titular character in Film/CorkyRomano's skinhead outfit screams "I'm trying to pretend to be a skinhead" His bald head wig his so obvious and he as a fake "No menorahs" tattoo that state how he's trying way to hard. He also can't help but try and play the role as a CardCarryingVillain:
33	-->'''Corky:''' "Wanna go commit some hate crimes?"
34	* A bafflingly straight example in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. When dressed up as a nurse, all the Joker has covering his face is a small surgeon mask (a surgeon hat isn't even included), yet it somehow keeps Harvey from recognizing him until he takes it off. Perhaps Harvey was on some really strong painkillers after getting his Two-Face burns?
35	* From the film, ''Film/TheDevilAndMissJones'', Joe puts on a fake mustache and a hat and thinks nobody will recognize him as the leader of the rebelling workforce. It doesn't work.
36	* In ''Film/TheDraughtsmansContract'', Mr. Talmann and his friends confront Mr. Neville wearing masks. Mr. Neville identifies them so quickly they may as well not even have bothered, and points out to Mr. Talmann that his accent gives him away.
37	* In ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'', [[TheHeavy Nathaniel]] is tasked by [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Narissa]] into tracking down and killing Giselle with some poisoned apples. This results in a number of extremely poor disguises, especially because Nathaniel has a very distinctive appearance as a short, rotund, snaggle-toothed man -- and furthermore, Giselle interacted with him in Andalasia, yet fails to recognize him in every instance. Somehow, not even the more down-to-earth Robert notices anything amiss.
38	** Nathaniel first talks to Narissa in a restaurant's kitchen, where he goes completely unnoticed because he is wearing a chef's hat as his only disguise element. He's still wearing his medieval "fairy tale" outfit, but no one else in the extremely crowded kitchen thinks him out of place besides a single dishwasher, and only then because Nathaniel is talking into a pot of soup that Narissa uses to communicate.
39	** Nathaniel's initial attempt to poison Giselle has him disguise himself as a sidewalk vendor in Central Park. He wears a green baseball cap and apron while speaking in a ridiculously exaggerated German accent ("YOU WANT JUICY-SWEET CARAMEL APPLE MAYBE?").
40	** The second poisoning attempt occurs in a fancy restaurant, where Nathaniel dons a white waiter's uniform, black wig, mustache, and equally ludicrous Italian accent to deliver an apple martini.
41	* In ''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'', Ginny convinces Jason she's his mother by simply putting on Pamela's sweater and acting like her. Jason eventually does see through the ruse, but only after spotting his real mother's severed head.
42	* Played with in the first of ''Film/{{The Green Hornet\|Serials}}'' movie serials. One episode has the gangsters trying to steal an election, and they use the classic "wear disguise and vote multiple times" method. Some of the reporters watching the polls see through the rudimentary disguises. However, it's not clear if the disguises were paper-thin to make things easier for the audience or an attempt by the gangsters to give the poll workers PlausibleDeniability -- the gangsters used bribes other times ....
43	** In a later episode of that serial, we learn that Kato's costume as the Green Hornet's chauffeur is exactly what he wears as Britt Reid's chauffeur, right down to the same driving goggles. No one ever makes the connection. To be fair, Reid normally drives himself unless he's going someplace fancy, in which case paying attention to the servants is Not Done.
44	* Played with in ''Film/GreenLantern2011''. Hal Jordan's DominoMask is supposed to protect his identity. After saving Carol Ferris' life, Hal appears at her window in his Green Lantern persona [[LovesMyAlterEgo in an attempt to "get the girl"]]. Carol almost immediately sees through his disguise, pointing out that she had known him all her life and she wasn't dumb enough to not recognize him because she couldn't see his cheekbones.
45	* While fleeing from his pursuers after assassinating UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich in ''Film/HangmenAlsoDie'', Dr. Svoboda swaps one hat for another, changing nothing else about his outfit.
46	* In ''Film/AHardDaysNight'', all it takes for Super Famous Beatle Music/RingoStarr to slip into anonymity as he wanders around London is a cloth cap and an overcoat. The disguise even lasts when he loses the overcoat, so the cloth cap must have special powers. Reaches heights of absurdity when, having been arrested, Ringo insists to the policemen that he's Ringo Starr, but they refuse to believe him -- ''because he's wearing the cloth cap''.
47	** A couple of fangirls see through the disguise at one point, forcing Ringo to make a hasty retreat.
48	** Also Music/PaulMcCartney's fake beard in the opening number.
49	** Similarly in ''Film/{{Help}}'', the Beatles go to the airport in fake beards and mustaches to avoid being noticed by Cult members.
50	*** To be fair, in ''Help!'' those were much more elaborate costumes. John even went so far as to stay in a wheelchair to avoid recognition, far from simply wearing a cloth cap.
51	* ''Film/Hayride2'': Corey grabs a discarded doctor's coat and puts it on to try and get past the police to escape the hospital [[spoiler:and help Steven save Amanda from being killed by Ol' Pitchfork]]. When some police come by, he ducks into a chair and pretends to sleep... it works.
52	* King Henry V in Creator/KennethBranagh's film on Creator/WilliamShakespeare play ''Theatre/HenryV''. King Henry dresses himself as an archer and visits his troops during the night before the Battle of Agincourt, using a pretty transparent name "Harry Leroy". Harry is, of course, colloquial from Henry, and while Leroy is a Welsh name, it is also French for ''le Roi'', "king". When one of the archers asks him if he is of Welsh origin, he answers affirmatively; before he became king of England, he was Prince of Wales.
53	* In ''Film/HeroicTrio'', Anita Mui's character wears a small mask that molds to her face so much that it shouldn't really fool her husband. Judge for yourself [[http://www.i400calci.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/anita-01.jpg here]] and [[http://content.internetvideoarchive.com/content/photos/360/015145_26.jpg here.]]
54	* In ''Film/HolmesAndWatson'', Holmes puts on a false mustache and Watson becomes incapable of recognising him.
55	* Parodied in ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'' in a ShoutOut to the film ''Film/TheGunsOfNavarone''. When intercepted by an Iraqi patrol boat, the heroes pretend (poorly) to be local fishermen. Ramada's disguise consists of a ''very'' fake looking mustache. The soldiers don't notice anything amiss until she enters the ladies' room, but even then they assume that the fishermen are just perverts.
56	* ''Film/HouseShark'': [[TheProtagonist Frank]] and Abraham manage to evade the shark by pretending to be furniture. Frank pretends to be a bookshelf by holding up a bunch of books, and Abraham pretends to be a table by getting down on all fours... and it works!
57	* The film version of ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' this ugly cave creature puts on a red coat and Santa hat. Boom! He automatically looks "just like Saint Nick."
58	** Partially justified as a way of keeping people from noticing him ''from a distance'' (i.e. "a figure on the roof tops in a Santa's hat on Christmas eve ''must'' be Santa!") When Cindy Lou approaches him, he tries to keep the tree between them to help keep her from seeing him properly.
59	** Also earlier in the film, when pranking and causing mischief around Whoville earlier in the film, the Grinch dons a brown hooded robe and a creepy grinning rubber mask to pass himself off as a Who. The mask isn't LatexPerfection quality, and his green furry hands and feet are still visible, yet the other Whos barely notice the difference...
60	* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. Indy, swapping hats with Elsa, poses as a Scottish art collector to trick his way into Castle Brunwald.
61	-->'''Butler:''' If you are a Scottish lord, then [[AndImTheQueenOfSheba I am Mickey Mouse!]]
62	* In ''Film/TheLegendOfZorro'', Zorro's son is unable to recognize his ''own father's'' face or voice, while ''talking'' to him, because part of Zorro's eyes are covered by his facemask. Zorro tries to further disguise himself by insisting that they speak Spanish. Except it's very likely that Zorro has taught his son Spanish, so it seems pointless.
63	* Parodied in the spoof movie ''Film/LoadedWeapon1'' with Jigsaw (Creator/TimCurry) in the beginning. He's dressed up as a Wilderness Girl (basically a lawyer-friendly version of the Girl Scouts), but he has a thin beard, is tall, and doesn't make any attempt to disguise his male voice. Somehow, he still manages to gain entrance to York's house despite the horrible disguise.
64	* Creator/StanleyKubrick's ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'' features Creator/PeterSellers in not one but two disguises.
65	* ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'': D.J dresses up as one of the WesternAnimation/{{Yosemite Sam}} background dancers to board the stage and talk to Dusty Tails. The clothes barely fit him and he is very tall as opposed to the background dancers being dwarf-sized. Both Daffy and Dusty Tails weren't fooled.
66	* ''Mostly'' avoided in [[TheFilmOfTheBook The Film Of]] ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing''. In [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings the book]], Éowyn was able to hide her identity from ''everyone'' while she rode with the other Riders, including Merry, who was with her. In the film, there was no way for Éowyn to be disguised in a way that the audience wouldn't know it was her straight away, so while she rode in a helmet that concealed part of her face (which would keep those ''less'' familiar with her from realizing who she was, thankfully, in an army of several thousand people from all over the country, she could probably find some unit to hide within that wouldn't know the king's niece on sight), she didn't bother hiding her identity from Merry. (Funnily, out-of-universe, the actors playing the Rohirrim were in similar straits -- they couldn't find enough male horseback riders, so a lot of them were women in fake beards.)
67	** The book is a special case. It's implied that the rest of the men she's with know who she really is but are keeping silent. However, it makes no sense that Merry wouldn't be able to determine her true nature, as he spends quite a few days riding with her and it really doesn't make a lot of sense that she'd be able to hide her identify from him that long. If nothing else, how is she heeding the call of nature while they're marching to Gondor in a column?
68	* In the made-for-TV film ''Film/LoveStrikesTwice'', at one point Maggie Turner infiltrates a golf club that her current boyfriend and new fiancé is a member of to steal incriminating evidence from her boyfriend’s father. At one point she has a run-in with her boyfriend, and he doesn’t even realise who Maggie is just because she’s wearing a cap and a uniform (although she takes care to keep her head down and turns away so that he doesn’t see her face directly).
69	* In ''Film/TheMajorAndTheMinor'', Ginger Rogers' character dresses like a little girl to take a train for half price. The Major falls for it, as do the cadets at his school, but most other people realize that she can't possibly be under twelve, with an actual teenage girl pointing out her distinctly adult features and the fact that she's acting more like she's six than eleven.
70	* ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'': Film/JamesBond tries to pose as the assassin Francisco Scaramanga and gain information from one of his clients simply by wearing a [[TripleNipple fake third nipple]]. Bond thinks this will work, because nobody knows what Scaramanga looks like, and he has always, up to now, dealt with his clients via intermediaries; the third nipple is his only known distinguishing feature. Unbeknownst to Bond, Scaramanga has a new goal in mind and ''has'' met with this client personally this time, so the guy isn't fooled, but plays along with Bond for now.
71	* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: A frequent RunningGag across the franchise is that the main characters will often do the bare minimum to hide their identities, with the default "disguise" being a baseball cap and sunglasses. Most of the time this is played straight, but it's occasionally lampshaded.
72	** ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'': Due to being fugitives, Scott, Hank and Hope have to try to sneak into a college building to meet an old colleague of Hank's. Their disguise is little more than baseball caps and sunglasses. Scott points out how lame their disguises are. Sure enough, someone did end up seeing through it and called the cops on them.
73	** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Cap and Black Widow disguise themselves as civilians in the mall wearing nothing but hoods and hats. Everyone buys it except for a kid.
74	*** And after the post-credits, the titular Winter Soldier pulls even less of a disguise wearing a jacket to hide his mechanical arm.
75	** ''Film/ThorRagnarok'': Thor's ingenious idea of disguising himself in plain sight is to just throw a blanket over his head. Valkyrie points out that she can still see his face.
76	--->'''Thor:''' Not when I do this, you can't. ''[drapes a corner of the blanket over his mouth]''
77	* ''Film/MenInBlack'':
78	** Subverted. When Agent K points Frank out to Agent J, appearing to indicate a weird-looking man at a newsstand, Jay says, "Bad disguise, that guy is ''definitely'' an alien." However, as it turns out, Frank is actually the pug dog ''next'' to the guy.
79	** Played for laughs at the end of the same film. When Jay tells Weaver that Dennis Rodman is an alien, she says, "Really? Not much of a disguise." (Any NBA fan would get the joke quickly; those not in the know would probably be helped by knowing that Rodman is square in TheTysonZone.)
80	* The 'men' at the stoning in ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' are all women with fake beards. They keep forgetting to speak in a lower voice and refer to each other as "she" before catching themselves. Ironically, many of the "women" in drag are actually played by (male) members of Creator/MontyPython, who often appear as female characters.
81	* In ''Film/TheMuppets2011'', when the Muppets become "[[TotemPoleTrench Muppet Man]]", Miss Piggy doesn't notice the head looking like Fozzie with a mustache. After she finds out it's them she says that she can't believe she fell for Muppet Man.
82	** In ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'', all that [[BigBad Constantine]] needs to do to disguise himself as Kermit is to put makeup over his mole. While he does look exactly like Kermit otherwise, he barely tries to act like him or hide his accent. Animal noticed immediately because he smelled different, but everyone ignores him.
83	* ''Film/MyPetMonster'': At the end of the movie they take Max to a dog show pretending he's their dog. A blue-furred gorilla/troll thing. And nobody questions it.
84	* Lampshaded in ''Film/MysteryMen'', when the city's resident superhero appeared as his mundane counterpart. There was an argument between two of the titular Mystery Men at one point, in which The Shoveler insisted that they couldn't be the same person because the regular guy wore glasses -- and the superhero didn't. "He wouldn't be able to see!"
85	* In ''Film/MysteryTeam'', Jason claims to a genius master of disguise as part of his crime-solving trio. His disguises are so outrageously bad they can't fool a 3-year-old.
86	** Jason poses as his father for a meeting with the guidance counselor which amounts to wearing a mustache and a deep voice. When the counselor says he knows who he is, Jason acts as if the man is an incredible genius to see through the act.
87	** Jason poses as a Mexican plumber which means dressing up like an Old West bandit with a plunger to gain access to a building. In reality, there's a costume party taking place and the security guard just assumes this is a bad attempt to fit in there.
88	* In ''[[Film/Napoleon1927 Napoléon]]'', the [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte title character]] swaps hats with someone who bears a passing resemblance to him. Apparently, his hat is his most distinguishing feature, because nobody recognizes him and the other man is immediately mistaken for him.
89	* In Film/NorthByNorthwest, Roger Thornhill briefly tries to avoid drawing suspicion while in Grand Central Terminal, simply by wearing a pair of sunglasses, but the staff aren't fooled for a minute. Arguably at that point, the sunglasses were probably the only thing he could find that had ''any'' chance of concealing his identity. Subverted later on when his newfound friend Eve Kendell helps him get off the train in Chicago by bribing one of the luggage handlers into loaning his uniform.
90	* ''Film/OrphanFirstKill'': Subverted multiple ways. Leena is a strong physical match for the missing Esther, but her quirks and behavior, including her accent and attire, leave a lot to be desired, as does her lack of knowledge about the family she's "reunited" with. She still gets by, though... [[spoiler:because the mother and brother have known she was an impostor the whole time and allowed her to stay to cover the skeletons in their closet regarding the murder of the real Esther.]]
91	* In ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'', the Phantom uses a Don Juan disguise for "The Point of No Return." It just about works, but fails because Piangi (the real Don Juan) is noticeably heavier-set than the Phantom, has a different vocal timbre than him, [[spoiler: and, as it turns out, is a little more dead.]]
92	** [[Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera The musical]] tries to make this slightly more plausible by using a heavy floor-length cloak with a deep cowl for the "Don Juan" costume. Some Phantom actors go the extra mile and even attempt to emulate Piangi's Italian accent for the duration of the song. It still doesn't explain why nobody notices the guy performing with Christine is suddenly about a hundred pounds lighter, though. Although it does add new meaning to why the Phantom's pre-production instructions for the Opera House for ''Don Juan Triumphant'' back in "Notes / Twisted Every Way" included a request that "Our Don Juan must lose some weight, it's not healthy in a man of Piangi's age."
93	* A particularly baffling example occurs in an old Polish comedy ''Poszukiwany, Poszukiwana'' ("Wanted" in masculine and feminine forms, respectively), where the protagonist, accused of art robbery, has to prove himself innocent while [[DisguisedInDrag disguised as a woman]]. The thing is, 1) he doesn't wear ''any'' makeup at all, 2) he uses his normal voice ''all the time'', 3) he doesn't fill his flat chest with any fake cleavage, not to mention that 4) his clothes and hairstyle are very outdated even for 1970s Poland. He basically looks like a man wearing woman's clothes and a wig, and yet somehow everyone around falls for it. In one example particularly, a guy he works for as a house help walks in on him shaving, without any disguise, in male pyjamas... and all he has to do is to quickly put on his wig and cover his stubble with a towel, explaining that he has a toothache.
94	* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'': Despite being his true love, Buttercup can't figure out who the Dread Pirate Roberts is based on the fact that he wears a Zorro mask and hair wrap. She's also blindfolded when they first meet and has plenty of time to listen to his voice before looking at him. Justified because up to this point Buttercup believed the man in question was dead, and the Dread Pirate Roberts' sharp and authoritarian tone is very different from the soft and loving words he had used before.
95	* ''Film/PromNight2008'': Fenton disguises himself by shaving his beard and wearing a baseball cap. The police are stupid enough to fall for it, though one of his former students does recognize him.
96	* Lampshaded in ''Film/RedNotice'' when Creator/GalGadot's character feigns surprise that it is ''Creator/DwayneJohnson'' behind the masquerade mask at a masked ball.
97	* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'': Dr. Frank. N. Furter fools both Brad and Janet with his paper thin disguises, first as Brad to seduce Janet and then the other way around, and all he's wearing for a disguise are glasses and a wig for Brad and a wig for Janet. Then again, it's dark in both of their rooms and he seems to be able to imitate their voices perfectly.
98	* ''Film/ScoobyDoo'': Big dogs aren't allowed on the plane, so Shaggy disguises Scooby as "Grandma". Daphne and Velma say that nobody will fall for that...and then Fred falls for it. According to Velma's novelization, everyone on the plane was fooled.
99	* In ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'', Shaggy and Scooby infiltrate the Faux Ghost disguised as "Shizzy Mcreepy" and "S.D Mcrawley" respectively; amazingly, it works...until Scooby's afro falls off.
100	* In ''Film/TheSeeker'', the Black Rider spends most of the film disguised as an ''extremely'' goofy country doctor with huge glasses and a tweed suit.
101	* In ''Film/SesameStreetPresentsFollowThatBird'': Big Bird is kidnapped by the Sleaze brothers to use as an attraction for their circus. To prevent people from recognizing the missing Big Bird, they paint him blue and call him the "BluebirdOfHappiness". Despite this, the Sesame Street residents recognize him regardless.
102	* In ''Film/Seven1979'', Drew walks out of the hotel past Skater, who is looking for him, in a disguise consisting of a badly fitting wig, powder in his moustache, and glasses.
103	* Two female soccer players in ''Film/ShaolinSoccer'' disguise themselves as men by sporting a fake mustache and goatee and talking in a deeper voice.
104	* In ''Film/ShesTheMan'', it's fairly obvious when twins Viola and Sebastian (played by Amanda Bynes and James Kirk) are on screen together no one could possibly confuse them for the same person. However, it is {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d and justified in the beginning because no one at the school had ''seen'' Sebastian before. But later on, it becomes less plausible.
105	* In ''Film/SkyHigh2005'', The Commander almost only differs from Steve Stronghold by the glasses the latter wears, as Layla points out.
106	* This trope ''gradually'' came into play for the 1972 film adaptation of ''Theatre/{{Sleuth}}''. [[spoiler:The young Creator/MichaelCaine's "Inspector Doppler" disguise]] was genuinely convincing to audiences forty years ago, and resulted in an [[TheReveal astonishing reveal moment]]. But to current audiences sitting down for a re-watch, [[spoiler:the fake inspector looks uncannily like a ''present-day'' Michael Caine,]] so the surprise has been retroactively spoiled.
107	* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' Prequel Trilogy, Chancellor Palpatine doesn't do much more than wear dark robes and speak in a raspier voice to disguise his identity, in spite of being a public figure. (Of course, one thing that helped was, until [[TheReveal Palpatine was revealed as a Sith Lord]], very few people knew that "Darth Sidious" existed. Only a few of his minions and the leadership of the Separation Forces knew about him, and other than Darth Maul and Count Dooku -- first probably knowing about his dual-identity and the second certainly knowing -- he only communicated with them via a hologram, which blurred his image and helped hide his identity.)
108	** A DeletedScene from ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' has Clone Troopers dress up in Jedi robes in an attempt to ambush Yoda and Obi-Wan when they return to the Jedi temple. It's not a bad plan for getting within blaster range, but the Clones actually ''walk right up'' to Yoda and try to hold a conversation with him pretending to be Jedi, seemingly without realizing that they all have the exact same face and voice that any Jedi who's fought in the Clone Wars would immediately recognize. Their plan fails horribly and Obi-Wan even notes with exasperation that "You clones make terrible Jedi." The silliness of this is probably why it's a deleted scene.
109	* Thoroughly mocked in ''Film/TheSuicideSquad''. When it's pointed out that Nanaue, a walking talking great white shark, would not be able to walk around a nightclub undetected, he claims he'll use a fake mustache as a disguise, earning him plenty of derision. It gets worse when he attempts to show off his disguise -- which is just him sticking his finger over his mouth to imitate a mustache.
110	-->'''Bloodsport:''' You still look exactly like yourself.
111	-->'''Peacemaker:''' Worst fake mustache I've ever seen.
112	-->'''Bloodsport:''' And if you had fooled us, we'd have to kill you. Shark-shaped bloke with a mustache creeping up on us like that...
113	-->'''Nanaue:''' '''''[[AtomicFBomb FUCK!]]'''''
114	* In the live-action version of ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'', the turtles wear trench coats and fedoras when walking around the city. Even though they're worn at night, these disguises do nothing to hide their bulbous noses, bulky shells, or the fact that they're far more massive than most humans. This is even lampshaded when Raphael rolls over the hood of a taxi cab.
115	--> '''Passenger:''' What the hell was that?!
116	--> '''Cab Driver:''' Looked like sort of a big turtle, in a trench coat.
117	* In ''Film/ThanksKilling'', Turkie disguises himself with a pair of groucho glasses, and later, by wearing his victim's face as a mask. Neither should do much to hide the fact that he's a ''talking turkey'', but the main characters are dumb enough that it works anyway.
118	* This trope was quite commonplace in the short films of ''Film/TheThreeStooges''. In one, the boys end up cooking/catering at a party for a judge who wants to send them up the river. Moe: "Oh, he'll never recognize us in these outfits!" (Apparently, just wearing a white jacket and chef's hat renders you ''totally unrecognizable''.) In another Western-themed short, Curly masquerades as a Justice of the Peace, but is not recognized by Christine [=McIntyre=] until he lifts the tiny (and I mean ''tiny'') little toupee off his head, points at his face, and mugs.
119	* In ''Film/VelvetGoldmine'' blue-haired rock star Brian Slade turns up to a concert in a "disguise" consisting of a large hat and coat. Although his ex-wife reveals that she recognised him, and public opinion towards him had already soured somewhat, it seems a bit odd that no one bats an eyelid at his appearance, given that he is still very famous, and [[http://i822.photobucket.com/albums/zz145/Iveeatenthesun/brian_slade.jpg very poorly disguised]].
120	* In ''Film/WhatsUpDoc?'' one of the characters attempts to disguise himself by wearing a fake mustache. Not only that, but it's upside-down. The main characters seem to realize who he is, though.
121	* The titular heroine and her sidekick from the Creator/ShawBrothers film, ''Film/MyYoungAuntie'', managed to disguise themselves as Westerners - specifically, ''Caucasian'' - by putting on blonde wigs and western suits, despite being played by two Hong Kong actors. It gets really jarring when the sidekick character managed to fool ''his own father''.
122	* In ''Film/YouthInRevolt'', Nick in [[WholesomeCrossdresser a wig and a dress]] as "Carlotta" easily fools Sheeni's parents. [[spoiler:But not Trent]].
123	* In ''Film/{{Zookeeper\|2011}}'', Griffin (Creator/KevinJames) and Bernie the gorilla (voiced by Nick Nolte) sneak out of the zoo and go to a TGI Friday's (ItMakesSenseInContext). How is it pulled off? Griffin simply has Bernie wear a shirt and they pretend to have come from a costume party. Works like a charm.
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