History Main / DisguisedInDrag

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* LazyTown. Robbie disguises himself as "The Birthday Fairy" and "Miss Roberta".

* Lazytown. Robbie disguised as "The Birthday Fairy" and "Miss Roberta".

*** Klinger does disguise himself as a woman "for real" in the later-season episodes "Private Finance" and "Taking the Fifth", as well as in an episode of ''AfterMASH''.

* In ''TheBirdcage'', Nathan Lane's character, a drag queen, masquerades as a woman and pretends to be partner RobinWilliams' wife in order to impress Gene Hackman's ultraconservative senator character. Though when the masquerade is broken, Hackman seems more shocked to learn that the two of them are actually Jewish.

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[[caption-width-right:330:Yep, these are a couple of dudes.]]

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* In the novel God Stalk, the protagonist (Jaime Kinslayer) was saved/adopted by a soft-hearted innkeeper named Tubain; while living at the inn, she occasionally heard Tubain being berated for his generous impulses behind closed doors by the inn's owner, the Widow Cleppetty, who never left her rooms. Not until the story is nearly over does Jaime learn the Widow's secret: [[spoiler: She's Tubain in drag, yelling at himself]].

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* ''He's My Girl''

SweetPollyOliver is the SpearCounterpart of this trope, but is more likely to be PlayedForDrama.

Subtrope of {{Crossdresser}}. If the character wears female disguises more often than seems strictly ''necessary'' and/or seems to ''like'' it to some degree, then he also qualifies as a WholesomeCrossdresser.

This trope is a subtrope of {{Crossdresser}}, and often coincides with WholesomeCrossdresser. SweetPollyOliver is the SpearCounterpart of this trope, but is more likely to be PlayedForDrama.

This trope may overlap with WholesomeCrossdresser, but not necessarily. In some cases the WholesomeCrossdresser isn't really trying to hide his true sex, or at least doesn't mind being "discovered" all ''that'' much. SweetPollyOliver is the SpearCounterpart of this trope, but is more likely to be PlayedForDrama.

* The TV series ''{{[[Series/BosomBuddies Bosom Buddies]]}}'' was an early 1980s sitcom where two men (TomHanks and Peter Scolari) disguised themselves as women to get a New York apartment.

* The TV series ''{{Series/BosomBuddies}}'' was an early 1980s sitcom where two men (TomHanks and Peter Scolari) disguised themselves as women to get a New York apartment.

* The TV series ''BosomBuddies'' was an early 1980s sitcom where two men (TomHanks and Peter Scolari) disguised themselves as women to get a New York apartment.

Any scenario where a male character dresses as a woman, generally played for laughs instead of [[BlackLikeMe drama]], and occasionally resulting in AnAesop. This tends to be a PaperThinDisguise, since he tends to look like an Amazon at best and an overdone DragQueen at worst, and yet everyone is fooled. There's almost always a scene where another male character not only falls for the disguise, but [[AttractiveBentGender finds the disguised party attractive]], especially if they're normally ugly or at least HollywoodHomely.

Sometimes it's not just a woman, but a pregnant woman. The male usually ends up wearing a 'sympathy belt' to learn his lesson after waving off his wife's troubles.

See also HoYay, {{Pantomime}}.

The male-to-female WholesomeCrossdresser. Contrast with SweetPollyOliver: whereas male crossdressing usually follows the RuleOfFunny, female crossdressing usually follows the RuleOfDrama.

* [[CodeGeass Code Geass]] had three male characters do this in one of the picture tracks (I forgot the actual term): We had Rivalz and Suzaku, as seen in the page image, but also [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Luluko.jpg Lelouch]]. In a later one, Lelouch was forced into a bridal dress. This scene was then added into the visual novel game [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKxR2bRas7k Code Geass: Lost Colors]]. It was truly hilarious, considering he makes a rather attractive woman.

Any scenario where a male character dresses as a woman, generally played for laughs instead of [[BlackLikeMe drama]], and occasionally resulting in AnAesop. This tends to be a PaperThinDisguise, since he tends to look like an Amazon at best and an overdone DragQueen at worst, and yet everyone is fooled. There's almost always a scene where another male character not only falls for the disguise, but [[AttractiveBentGender finds the disguised party attractive]], [[strike:even]] especially if they're normally ugly or at least HollywoodHomely.

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* The TV series ''Bosom Buddies'' was an early 1980s sitcom where two men (TomHanks and Peter Scolari) disguised themselves as women to get a New York apartment.