History Main / ClarkKenting

* Briefly used in ''TheRoom'':

* While not one of the TropesExaminedByTheMythBusters on the show, they were asked to test this out at their [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXODD49KNCw&feature=player_detailpage#t=254s San Diego Comic Con 2012 panel]], which they actually did. Here were the results:

** However, they noted that wearing a cap was sufficient enough fool everyone (she even fooled Grant and other friends when she walked the floor wearing one).

* While not one of the TropesExaminedByTheMythBusters on the show, they were asked to test this out at their [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXODD49KNCw&feature=player_detailpage#t=254s San Diego Comic Con 2012 panel]]. Tory actually went with the glasses disguise and failed miserably. Kari noted that wearing a full costume makes a person a little too suspicious (as Adam, a noted cosplayer, found out when someone recognized him straight after just donning his cosplay and exiting an elevator). However, wearing a cap was sufficient enough fool everyone (she even fooled Grant when she did that).

* Subverted, amazingly, in the Disney ''Zorro'' series. Despite Diego wearing a full costume and mask and pretending to be an unatletic coward in his own persona, Capitan Monestario still deduces his identity from noticing that Diego was always in the same vicinity whenever Zorro appears but the two were never seen together. Diego's servant Bernardo has to crash Diego's trial dressed as Zorro to ruin Monestario's plan to expose him.

* Subverted in the ''Film/{{Tangled}}'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7630987/1/Super Super]]'': a pair of glasses doesn't stop Rapunzel from immediately recognizing Eugene as the GentlemanThief Flynn Rider she's been [[DatingCatwoman pursuing/flirting with]] in her superheroine guise as Blondie. Furthermore, Rapunzel is genuinely baffled by how Eugene doesn't seem to recognize her in turn because they've interacted with each other in costume frequently enough that he ''should'' be able to notice the similarities between her and Blondie even with her shorter brunette hair and meeker disposition out of costume. [[spoiler:It turns out that Eugene ''did'' know who she was all along, but kept quiet about it because he had fallen in love with her and wanted to pursue a real relationship with her.]]

* Subverted in the ''{{Film}}/{{Tangled}}'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7630987/1/Super Super]]'': a pair of glasses doesn't stop Rapunzel from immediately recognizing Eugene as the GentlemanThief Flynn Rider she's been [[DatingCatwoman pursuing/flirting with]] in her superheroine guise as Blondie. Furthermore, Rapunzel is genuinely baffled by how Eugene doesn't seem to recognize her in turn because they've interacted with each other in costume frequently enough that he ''should'' be able to notice the similarities between her and Blondie even with her shorter brunette hair and meeker disposition out of costume. [[spoiler:It turns out that Eugene ''did'' know who she was all along, but kept quiet about it because he had fallen in love with her and wanted to pursue a real relationship with her.]]

* While not one of the TropesExaminedByTheMythBusters on the show, they were asked to test this out at their [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXODD49KNCw&feature=player_detailpage#t=254s San Diego Comic Con 2012 panel]]. Tory went with the glasses disguise and failed miserably. Kari noted that wearing a full costume makes a person a little too suspicious (as Adam, a noted cosplayer, found out when someone recognized him straight after just donning his cosplay and exiting an elevator). However, wearing a cap was sufficient enough fool everyone (she even fooled Grant when she did that).

* While not one of the TropesExaminedByTheMythBusters, they were asked to test this out at their San Diego Comic Con 2012 panel. Kari noted that wearing a full costume makes a person a little too suspicious (as Adam, a noted cosplayer, found out when someone recognized him straight after just donning his cosplay and exiting an elevator). However, wearing a cap was sufficient enough fool everyone (she even fooled Grant when she did that).

* While not one of the TropesExaminedByTheMythBusters, [[Mythbusters they]] were asked to test this out at their San Diego Comic Con 2012 panel. Kari noted that wearing a full costume makes a person a little too suspicious (as Adam, a noted cosplayer, found out when someone recognized him straight after just donning his cosplay and exiting an elevator). However, wearing a cap was sufficient enough fool everyone (she even fooled Grant when she did that).

* In one issue of ''The Uncanny Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' the beaten up father of Bobby Drake/Iceman, while lying in a hospital, asks Gambit a few questions. Bobby's father doesn't understand why some people engage in the X-Men although some of them are perfectly fine looking, just like Gambit, seeming to ignore his pretty unusual eyes. One can't blame him for that, even many colorists forget that Gambit doesn't have normal eyes, or make them blue instead of red.

[[caption-width-right:330:I guess it's a little more complicated than just the glasses...]]

* A tie-in to CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/FearItself'' shows that [[NewWarriors Speedball]] has been working at a volunteer organization devoted to helping survivors of the [[ComicBook/CivilWar Samford Disaster]]. Since he's blamed for said disaster ([[HeroWithBadPublicity rather than the villain who actually did the killing]]), he's been disguising himself with [[ClarkKenting a pair of glasses]]. Being the MarvelUniverse, people are smart enough to see through it. Being the [[HumansAreMorons Marvel Universe]], people are also stupid enough to try and [[BullyingTheDragon beat up the indestructible guy whose powers are fueled by pain]].

* In one episode of ''DarkwingDuck'', Darkwing goes to an entire planet filled with superheroes. Obviously, this means everyone wears a brown suit and glasses over their spandex, even though all of them know that everybody else on the planet is a superhero. Of course, they also are shown they would be ToDumbToLive if they weren't all invulnerable.

* Samaritan's civilian disguise in ''AstroCity'' is just a pair of glasses and change of hair colour, but it's actually quite convincing, even to the reader. Of course, there is the fact that his civilian name is Asa Martin, [[SignificantAnagram an anagram]] of Samaritan.

*** In ''{{Arrow}},'' this is avoided point-by-point: Because he does ''not'' adhere to ThouShaltNotKill, he has to hide his identity at ''any'' cost or never see the outside of a cell again. As such, he ''does'' alter his voice with a device that deepens it, doesn't have the comicverse's epic facial hair, and at least once has picked a method other than storming in in costume because he'd be easier to recognize during the day. There's ''still'' the matter of the mask, however: under that hood, he just uses a bit of ''face paint'' to cover the area just around his eyes; no more face covering than the comic version.

* Subverted in ''Manga/DragonBall Z''. Not only does Gohan's future girlfriend/wife Videl figure out that he is the "Great Saiyaman" in about 2 minutes (slightly longer in the anime version), she also figures out that he's the son of the last winner of the "Strongest Under the Heavens" tourney before her dad. His classmates take a little longer, but only just.

* ''LazyTown'' villain Robbie Rotten wears at least one PaperThinDisguise in all but a few episodes, yet is never recognised even by the adult characters until he is 'unmasked', usually due to his hat falling off. In one episode, he removes all but the headpiece of his costume, yet is not recognised until the headpiece comes off, and in another episode (''The Laziest Town'') serves free ice cream to the townschildren unquestioned while wearing just a false moustache and a food service hat.

* One interviewer accompanied MelGibson to the DMV, with only a baseball cap as a disguise. He then watched Gibson visibly "turn off the charm" and become so inconspicuous that only the ID photographer noticed a vague similarity.

* In one episode of ''DarkwingDuck'', Darkwing goes to an entire planet filled with superheroes. Obviously, this means everyone wears a brown suit and glasses over their spandex.

* Hego does this in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''. Bonus as Christopher McDonald voiced {{Superman}} in BatmanBeyond with Will Fredle.

* ''ComicBook/SupermanSecretIdentity'', an {{Elseworld}} story set in the real world where a man named after the fictional Clark Kent gets similar powers, takes great pains to avert this. When out saving people, Clark makes sure to never let anyone see his face. He wears the Superman costume to make the [[CassandraTruth witness accounts all the more ridiculous and unbelievable]]. Halfway through the series, he ''does'' take to wearing fake glasses in his civilian identity, but only because [[spoiler:he was temporarily captured]] and doesn't want whoever did it recognizing him while passing him on the street (and he gets a ''lot'' of jokes about it at work). He's not trying to prevent people who know him personally from recognizing him, he's trying to prevent people who saw him unconscious and imprisoned from recognizing him if he has the bad luck to bump into them on the street. When he ''does'' meet people face-to-face in costume, he uses makeup and forms to alter his features enough to me unrecognizable and burns his fingerprints off of anything he handles in front of them. [[spoiler:Despite all this, Agent Malloy ''still'' figures out his real identity]].