Basic Trope: Someone is requested/forced to remove a disguise of some sort, only for them to reveal that the "disguise" is really what they look like.
- Straight: Archer, the group's Token Non-Human and a large tiger-man, is told to take off his "tiger" disguise. Archer reveals that he really is a tiger.
- Exaggerated: Someone manages to tear off Archer's face, only to find that he really is a tiger.
- Downplayed: Archer gets a compliment on how realistic his tiger "costume" is, and may be asked what he actually looks like under it, but Archer claims that he really does look like that.
- Justified:
- In this setting, animal-people are fairly unusual, so it's understandable that someone would believe that Archer is a person in a tiger costume.
- The scene takes place in a setting where a costume party is expected, such as at a costume party and/or on Halloween.
- Inverted: Archer is actually a person in a tiger costume, but someone mistakes him for a real tiger.
- Subverted:
- Archer really is wearing a tiger costume.
- Double Subverted:
- ...but under his costume, he's also a tiger.
- He's actually a lion-man underneath that tiger costume.
- Parodied: Someone believes a perfectly ordinary-looking person is actually wearing a mask.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody is falsely believed to be wearing a disguise/mask.
- Enforced: The work's producers wanted to add a minor conflict that the Token Non-Human may experience.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Archer clarifies that he is a real tiger.
- Discussed: "Wow, that's such a cool costume! Do you do cosplay?" "No, that's just what I look like."
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Archer finds it offensive that someone would believe he's wearing a disguise.
- Reconstructed: The person was only being Innocently Insensitive, and Archer realizes that mistakes happen and decides to forgive them.
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