Paper Thin Disguise / Web Videos

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• Ashens And The Quest For The Gamechild parodies this. After fighting and tying up some guards, Stuart references the scene in which Luke Skywalker infiltrated the Death Star by wearing Stormtrooper armor, and then remarks they they could do "the exact same thing", with the camera panning onto the guards. Cue Stuart and Geoff attempting to bypass security by literally wearing Stormtrooper armor.
• Lampshaded in the Atop the Fourth Wall/The Spoony Experiment crossovers, where Linkara is always clueless as to who Dr. Insano really is, even when holding a picture of Spoony up to compare between.
  Linkara: Oh wait! I know this one! You're That Chick With The Goggles!
  Dr. Insano: But- but- I'm not freaking black!
  Linkara: But you are a woman, eh?
  • In Kickassia, during the invasion the President of Molossia Kevin Baugh disguises himself as Baron Fritz von Baugh, Minister of Making Things Orderly. Although it is obviously him in disguise The Nostalgia Critic decides to go along with it and lets him stay. As it turned out doing this was a huge mistake on the Critic's part as it allowed Baugh the chance to plant a Apple of Discord within his already grumbling troops further sabotaging the future of Kickassia.
• Barney the Purple Dinosaur manages to escape from the Clugmuffer's hands by disguising himself as Boxman.
• One CollegeHumor video that is a Take That! to British Petroleum's response to the 2010 Gulf oil spill. Tony Hayward and other executives in BP's London offices announce to us after showing a video from an actual focus group that cleaning up the spill is difficult, so they're changing their name to Baby Otter Smiles & Co. Then Hayward and another employee Sally Harris (both of whom are wearing false mustaches) go to the house of Sarah Schneider (one of the focus group members). Sarah sees through their cover, says "You guys are monsters," and shuts the door on them.
• In Critical Role, the character Nott is a Goblin who pretends to be a halfling to avoid Fantastic Racism. Nott's disguise is a cloak, bandages around his extremities, and a porcelain mask that only covers her mouth. It's a Running Gag that many random people either see through Nott's disguise or at least notice she is a very odd Halfling. The disguise is even worse in the official artwork as the cloak does not cover the tips of Nott's green fingers, toes, or long green ears.
• Dorm Life: "Josh? ...no, it's just a lamp."
• In Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, the titular character is not recognized by Penny, even though neither his "costume" or his "normal" clothes covers his face (he wears goggles, but only on his forehead until the last scene).
  • Possibly justified in that Penny may or may not have heard of Dr. Horrible: she never mentions him; he's not a big time supervillain (yet), and the first time she sees him, she is under a lot of stress, but still ends up recognizing him.
  • Most people miss Billy in the back of the soup kitchen as he glowers at Captain Hammer and pours the soup back into the pot instead of into the bowl. The irony of it is his idea of disguise is wearing a fake mustache and an apron and not wearing his hoodie.
  Hammer: You seem ... horribly familiar.
• Terrence of KateModern is an unusual case. When he reinvents himself as bespectacled, cardigan-sporting religious nerd Terry, he is recognised almost immediately by the other characters. However, it somehow doesn't occur to them that quiet, harmless Terry might be the murderer. He later plays this trope straight as the straight-jacketed Patient # 12.
• This is used for fun when Lindsey Stirling dresses up as her own #1 fan Phelba —- the only disguise is that Phelba has thick black glasses. A few people realize that Phelba and Lindsey look rather too similar, but since not enough people know them it generally works.
• An Outside Xbox video discussing the use of this trope in video games is presented by "a person you've never seen before", who is very obviously one of the channel's usual presenters hidden behind a wig, a false nose, and a Line-of-Sight Alias. Played with at the end of the video when it turns out he isn't the actual presenter, who shows up and chases him away.
• In The Sean Ward Show video "The Cat-Chelorette" (a parody of The Bachelorette where Catwoman is the object of other comic characters' affections), Harley Quinn participates "disguised" as Superman, with said disguise consisting only of an S-shield T-shirt and a cape. No one is fooled, but Harley insists that she's Superman throughout (except for the talking head segments where, even though she thinks she's fooling everyone, she confesses why she's doing it: to keep an eye on the Joker, who is also a contestant).
• Shipwrecked Comedy: The Case of the Gilded Lily revolves around Lily Thomas, who presents herself as Wilhelmina Vanderjetski, an heiress from Fakelandia, with mixed results.
• The Slender Man Mythos: The Slender Man is obviously not human, but it usually works. To the point where he can pull off the usual Child Eater shtick in broad daylight, in direct view of their parents, who usually refuse to believe he exists.
• In The Time... Guys episode with Timmy's Spanish teacher, Señor Tigre instantly realises that Dr. Chronos is not Timmy's father when Doc takes his multiple neckties off.
• Title Pending: The one actor candidate who got rejected returns with a different name and in a hoodie. The duo whisper and ask him to leave without hearing him out.

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