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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.

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Tropes:

• Animated Armor
• Animesque
• Artistic Age
• Bait-and-Switch Gunshot
• Becoming the Boast
• Bifauxnen
• Boyfriend Bluff
• Brandishment Bluff
• Bullet Holes and Revelations
• Dude Looks Like a Lady
  • Lady Looks Like a Dude
• Disc One Final Boss
• Disneyesque
• Fake Action Prologue
• Fake Boobs
• Fake Brit
• Fake Defector
• Faked Rip Van Winkle
• Fake High
• Fake in the Hole
• Fake Kill Scare
• Fake King
  • Emergency Impersonation
• Fake Loud
• Fake-Out Fade-Out
• Fake-Out Make-Out
• Fake Out Opening
• Fake Ultimate Hero
• Fake Weakness
• Faking Amnesia
• False Crucible
  • Hidden Purpose Test
• False Flag Operation
• False Reassurance
• False Roulette
• False Start
• Faux Action Girl
• Faux Death
  • Faking the Dead
• Faux Documentary
  • Mockumentary
• Faux Fluency
• Faux Horror Film
• Faux HTML Tags
• Fauxlosophic Narration
• Faux Paw
• Fauxreigner
• Fauxshadow
• Fauxtastic Voyage
• Fauxtivational Poster
• Faux To Guide
• Faux Yay
• Feet of Clay
• Fight Scene Failure
• Friend or Foe
• From a Certain Point of View
• Hero Syndrome
• Holding Both Sides of the Conversation
• I Never Got Any Letters
• Make Up Is Evil: because it makes you look like what you are not.
• Miles Gloriosus
• Mock Cousteau
• No Hero to His Valet
• Not so Dire
• Not So Fake Prop Weapon
• Obfuscating Disability
• Obfuscating Insanity
• Obfuscating Stupidity
• Older than They Look
  • Really 700 Years Old
• Orgy Of Evidence
• Playing Drunk
• Playing Possum
• The Presents Were Never From Santa
• Revealing Hug
• Reveal Shot
• Reviving Enemy
• Red Herring
• Red Herring Mole
• Retraux
• Secret Stab Wound
• Self Offense
• Serial Killings Specific Target
• Series Fauxnale
• Shrouded in Myth
• Soundtrack Dissonance
• Staged Shooting
• Thoroughly Mistaken Identity
• Too Dumb to Fool
• Trick Dialogue
• Trojan Horse
• Trojan Prisoner
• Two Faced Aside
• Two-Headed Coin
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
• Very False Advertising
• Warts And All
• Wildlife Commentary Spoof
• Younger than They Look

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