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* ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000RogueTrader'': A possible Iconoclast option when trying to rescue Abell Haneumann from the Chaos Cultists in the Adeptus Mechanicus temple on Rykad Minoris is to dress up in the gear of some dead cultists and relying on subterfuge to infiltrate the temple, smash the generators and wipe them out without a direct fight. It works resoundingly well, but your Dogmatic party members will disapprove of the action [[HonorBeforeReason as Imperial Doctrine considers adopting the symbols of Chaos to be heresy]]... [[ProperlyParanoid and that Chaos iconography has possible corrupting influence]].
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* ''Franchise/SpyKids'': This is done by [[spoiler:Carmen Cortez]] in [[Film/SpyKids1 the first film]]. While Carmen and Juni are being chased by the robot army in Floop's Castle, she falls into the puzzle floor trap Gregorio and Ingrid discovered earlier. Gregorio was saved by a protective barrier, but Carmen wasn't so lucky that time around. [[spoiler: After she falls into the pit, she lands in the Thumb-Thumb maintenance room, where she disguises herself as one to avoid being caught by the robots and the Thumb-Thumbs, only to be tackled by Juni after he frees himself and Floop from the Virtual Room after the latter was locked in there by Minion]].

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* ''Franchise/SpyKids'': This is done by [[spoiler:Carmen Cortez]] in [[Film/SpyKids1 the first film]].''Film/SpyKids1''. While Carmen and Juni are being chased by the robot army in Floop's Castle, she falls into the puzzle floor trap Gregorio and Ingrid discovered earlier. Gregorio was saved by a protective barrier, but Carmen wasn't so lucky that time around. [[spoiler: After she falls into the pit, she lands in the Thumb-Thumb maintenance room, where she disguises herself as one to avoid being caught by the robots and the Thumb-Thumbs, only to be tackled by Juni after he frees himself and Floop from the Virtual Room after the latter was locked in there by Minion]].
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* Similarly, mealybug destroyers in their larval stage look extremely similar to the mealybugs that they eat.
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* Appropriately this comes up in the second PaintballEpisode in ''Series/{{Community}}''. The one with the [[Franchise/StarWars Stormtrooper-esque]] bad guys.

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* Appropriately this comes up in ''Series/{{Community}}'': In Recap/CommunityS2E24ForAFewPaintballsMore, Pierce steals the second PaintballEpisode in ''Series/{{Community}}''. The one with armor from a City College trooper and uses the [[Franchise/StarWars Stormtrooper-esque]] bad guys.fact that it obscures his face to get the drop on them, leading to him winning the game of paintball for Greendale.
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* ''Film/OurManFlint''. While infiltrating Galaxy Island Flint takes out two Galaxy personnel and dons their clothes: one an ordinary worker and the other a security guard.

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* ''Film/OurManFlint''. While infiltrating Galaxy Island Flint takes out two dresses as a Galaxy personnel and dons their clothes: one an ordinary worker and the other a forklift driver, then uses it to crush a security guard.guard and take his uniform. Unfortunately he's exposed as an imposter and brought before the leaders of Galaxy [[EvenTheGuysWantHim who can't help appreciating how good he looks in one of their uniforms]].
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** A major controversy erupted over a level in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'', in which the player goes undercover as a terrorist, infiltrates the villain's group, and then helps (optionally, the player can choose not to) gun down dozens of innocent civilians at a Russian airport. However, the villain [[spoiler:abruptly kills the undercover player at the end of the mission, framing the US for the attack and prompting a Russian invasion of Washington DC. However, the villain was actually told of the undercover player by US General Shepherd himself, who wanted to start a war in which he could use the full power of the US military]].
** One level of ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'' has you and some teammates steal uniforms from enemy soldiers that you kill.

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** A major controversy erupted over a level "No Russian" in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'', in which the player goes undercover as a terrorist, infiltrates the villain's group, and then helps (optionally, the player can choose not to) gun down dozens of innocent civilians at a Russian airport. However, the villain [[spoiler:abruptly kills the undercover player at the end of the mission, framing the US for the attack and prompting a Russian invasion of Washington DC. However, the villain was actually told of the undercover player by US General Shepherd himself, who wanted to start a war in which he could use the full power of the US military]].
** One The level of "Executive Order" in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'' has you Mason and some teammates his squadmates steal uniforms from enemy Soviet soldiers that you kill.to infiltrate the Baikonur Cosmodrome, recover a captured agent and foil a rocket launch.
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* In ''Film/{{Antigang}}'', Kasper and his gang dress in the uniforms of the armoured car company in order to hijack the VulnerableConvoy.
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*''Fanfic/TarkinsFist'':
**Mallory dresses up as a KDY security officer as part of his mission [[spoiler: to hijack the Super Star Destroyer Ares's superlaser]]

**Jason Bogan dresses as a stormtrooper [[spoiler: after being drafted into the Imperial Army and uses his position to free the Earthlings enslaved by the Empire.]]
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* ''Film/UpTheFront'':
** Captain Nigel wears a German uniform to go behind enemy lines and steal plans for British Intelligence.
** Colonel von Gutz disguises himself as a British Medical Officer to capture Lurk.
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* Nino Brown does a variation of this in ''Film/NewJackCity'' by killing a NYPD during a shootout between Cash Money Brothers and the force Scotty Appleton was working with and [[PlayingPossum then plays dead]]. When Park comes across a seemingly dead NYPD killed by Nino, Nino reveals himself and stabs him, [[VillainStageExitLeft taking his leave afterwards]].


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* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch'' chronologically started the occurrence of anti Imperial guerrillas dressing up as Stormtroopers to infiltrate Imperial bases in ''[[Recap/StarWarsTheBadBatchS2E15TheSummit The Summit]]'', with Saw Gerrea and the Partisans using TK Stormtrooper armor to sneak into Tarkin's Raven Peak compound and set explosives around the base in the hopes they can kill him and other high ranking Imperials at a summit, such as Orson Krennic and Dr. Royce Hemlock, who Clone Force 99 is trying to track in order to find Crosshair and many Clones kept at Mount Tantiss by the Imperial Advanced Science Division.

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