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* In the ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' episode "Dr. Lamput", Lamput gets covered in gray paint and looks like one of the many scientists chasing after him. Surely enough, Slim Doc mistakes for one of them and drags him to their lab, where Lamput runs with the costume and becomes surprisingly with the others, even becoming the #1 doc at one point.

* Early in the ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheVow'', the noble [[SwansASwimming swan]] Lady Lianne makes it a habit to go nearly very night to the harbor of Gongmen City in order to [[MelancholyMoon sit upon the waters beneath the moon and pray to it]]. Due to concealing her white robe and white feathers with a cloak, she's mistaken by the locals for a ghost.

* ''WesternAnimation/HaileysOnIt'': In "Mer-made in Oceanside" Scott accidentally gets seaweed wrapped around his ankles while diving with Hailey to look for a mermaid, around the same time that A.C, who is also looking for the mermaid, has taken Scott's toy diver while collecting sea glass. When Scott attempts to get the toy back, he has to swim with his feet tied together and sand ends up being spread throughout the water, resulting in A.C seeing and taking a picture of what he thinks is the silhouette of a mermaid.

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* PlayedForLaughs in the end of ''[[Literature/AuntDimity Aunt Dimity: Vampire Hunter]]'': when Lori sees [[spoiler: sun-sensitive neighbour Charlotte [=DuCaral=] ]] wearing a red-lined black cloak, red lipstick, and zinc oxide sunscreen, she screams and evidently faints, as she isn't too clear on how she got from answering a door to sitting in a chair in an interior room. Her sons had first noticed this person while they were riding their ponies and thought it was Rendor, a character in a vampire comic book brought to school by a classmate.

* In the ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' short story "The Andrew Invasion", the titular Andrew is mistaken for the Doctor on three occasions (admittedly by some very stupid aliens): Once on his way back from playing in a cricket match (Fifth Doctor costume); once on the way back from his cousin's wedding, where he was an usher, and the colour scheme was green and gold (Eighth Doctor costume); and once in tartan pyjamas with a cat motif, and with a red and yellow patchwork quilt around his shoulders (Sixth Doctor costume).

* In ''Literature/TheTimeBender'', when O'Leary first appears in the kingdom of Artesia, he uses his newfound powers to create what he thinks is an appropriate set of clothing for what seems to be a rather medieval setting. Unfortunately, the result looks exactly like the legendary figure known as the Phantom Highwayman, and ends up terrifying people.
* ''Literature/HolmesOnTheRange'': In the short story "Bad News," a newspaperman is robbed by a white-robed man who he insists must be a [=KKK=] member from the local StillFightingTheCivilWar Democratic Party, out to strike against him due to his Republican politics. The robber encourages this impression afterward to divert the investigation but really only wore the white robe (likely stolen from a church choir closet) and hood because he didn't have time to change out of his distinctive clothes or find something else to hide his locally well-known face before the unplanned robbery and needed something to to completely cover his features and clothes.

* In ''Film/{{Schtonk}}!'', the satire about the faked Hitler diaries, the counterfeiter is sitting at his work while wearing an old Wehrmacht coat. He has a fever, and his sweaty hair sticks to his forehead. Then he spills some ink, cleans it up with his handkerchief, sneezes, cleans his nose and unwillingly leaves a spot looking like a Hitler moustache. And then, his partner in crime comes in and tells him that people want proof that the diaries were written by no one but Hitler himself. Cue the counterfeiter looking into a mirror.