Sometimes, things are not what they appear to be.
Index for pages about things that look like something else at first, or that are supposed to look like something else to the other characters in-universe. May be integral to maintaining The Masquerade.
Contrast with the Information Desk. See also Espionage Tropes, The Secret Index, & Truth and Lies.
Tropes:
Subcategories
- Animated Armor
- Animesque
- Artistic Age
- Bait-and-Switch Gunshot
- Becoming the Boast
- Bifauxnen
- Boyfriend Bluff
- Brandishment Bluff
- Bullet Holes and Revelations
- Camera Spoofing
- Cardboard Pal
- Crocodile Tears
- Deceptively Human Robots
- Dude Looks Like a Lady
- Disc-One Final Boss
- Disneyesque
- Expensive Glass of Crap
- Fake Action Prologue
- Fake American
- Fake Australian
- Fake Boobs
- Fake Brit
- Fake Charity
- Fake Defector
- Fake Faint
- Faked Rip Van Winkle
- Fake Faith Healer
- Fake High
- Fake in the Hole
- Fake Kill Scare
- Fake King
- Fake Loud
- Fake Muscles
- Fake-Out Fade-Out
- Fake-Out Make-Out
- Fake-Out Opening
- Fake Pregnancy
- Fake Rabies
- Fake Town
- Fake Ultimate Hero
- Fake Ultimate Mook
- Fake Weakness
- Faking Amnesia
- False Crucible
- False False Alarm
- False Flag Operation
- False Reassurance
- False Roulette
- False Start: Something prevents a long-awaited love confession from happening.
- Faster Than They Look
- Faux Action Girl
- Faux Computer Code
- Faux Death
- Fauxdian Slip
- Faux Documentary
- Faux Fluency
- Fauxlosophic Narration
- Faux Paw
- Fauxreigner
- Fauxshadow
- Fauxtastic Voyage
- Fauxtivational Poster
- Faux-To Guide
- Faux Yay
- Feet of Clay
- Fight Scene Failure
- Friend or Foe?
- Gideon Ploy
- Holding Both Sides of the Conversation
- I Am Not Left-Handed
- I Never Got Any Letters
- I Surrender, Suckers
- Lying by Omission: there's more to the truth than what's given.
- Makeup Is Evil: because it makes you look like what you are not.
- Metaphorically True
- Miles Gloriosus
- Minor with Fake I.D.
- Mistaken Death Confirmation
- Mock Cousteau
- Never Sent Any Letters
- No Hero to His Valet
- Not Brainwashed
- Not so Dire
- Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon
- Not This One, That One
- Obfuscating Disability
- Obfuscating Insanity
- Obfuscating Stupidity
- Obvious Stunt Double
- "Oh, Crap!" Fakeout
- Older Than They Look
- Only a Lighter
- Orgy of Evidence
- Partially-Concealed-Label Gag
- Placebo Effect
- Playing Drunk
- Playing Possum
- The Presents Were Never from Santa
- Pretend to Be Brainwashed
- Pretend We're Dead
- Proscenium Reveal
- Real Fake Wedding
- Really 17 Years Old
- Real Vehicle Reveal
- Recorded Audio Alibi
- Red Herring
- Red Herring Mole
- Red Herring Shirt
- Red Herring Twist
- Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
- Retraux
- Revealing Hug
- Reveal Shot
- Reviving Enemy
- Scary Shadow Fakeout
- Secret Stab Wound
- Self-Defense Ruse
- Self-Offense
- Serial Killings, Specific Target
- Series Fauxnale
- Shrouded in Myth
- Sophisticated as Hell
- Soundtrack Dissonance
- A Spy at the Spa
- Staged Shooting
- Stealth Parody
- Stop Faux-tion
- Thoroughly Mistaken Identity
- Too Dumb to Fool
- Trick Dialogue
- Trojan Ambulance
- Trojan Horse
- Trojan Prisoner
- Two-Faced Aside
- Two-Headed Coin
- Very False Advertising
- Virtual-Reality Interrogation
- Warts and All
- Weasel Co-Worker
- What a Piece of Junk
- Wildlife Commentary Spoof
- Younger Than They Look
