History Main / HolographicDisguise

* TheJourneymanProject: The Chameleon suit, time machine and holographic disguise.

* In one episode of ''Series/StargateSG1'' an unnamed and markedly non-human alien race used holographic projectors to impersonate SGC personnel. Later a human assassin stole one of the salvaged projectors and used it to frame Jack for murder.
* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End Of Time"]], the Vinvocci use a device known as a "shimmer" to disguise themselves as normal humans.

* TotalRecall2012 was one, shame about the reliability.

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* A variation in ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'': Totenkopf appears as a giant floating holographic head before his room on his secret island, but the heroes immediately note something's off. [[spoiler: That's because Totenkopf has been long dead. It was a prerecorded message.]]

* Mater gets a set of holographic disguises in ''{{Cars 2}}''. Making an effective one is more complicated than originally thought because Mater's bumps and dents sometimes poke through the hologram.

* SelfDemonstrating/Deadpool uses this to hide his scarred and tumor-infected face from the public.

* Nightcrawler of the ''Comicbook/XMen''.

* The SciFiChannel movie ''AnonymousRex'' has dinosaurs posing as human using these.

* Nightcrawler of the ''XMen''.

* A variation in ''SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'': Totenkopf appears as a giant floating holographic head before his room on his secret island, but the heroes immediately note something's off. [[spoiler: That's because Totenkopf has been long dead. It was a prerecorded message.]]

* Mater gets a set of holographic disguises in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} 2''. Making an effective one is more complicated than originally thought because Mater's bumps and dents sometimes poke through the hologram.

* One such device was used in the pilot episode of ''Series/{{Babylon 5}}'' by an alien attempting to assassinate the Vorlon ambassador Kosh and frame commander Sinclair for it in the process.

* Mater gets a set of holographic disguises in ''{{Cars}} 2''. Making an effective one is more complicated than originally thought because Mater's bumps and dents sometimes poke through the hologram.

* In ''WolfsRain'' the wolves use psychic illusions to pose as humans.

* ''{{Megamind}}'' uses a wristwatch-like device to create holographic disguises.

* In one episode of ''StargateSG1'' an unnamed and markedly non-human alien race used holographic projectors to impersonate SGC personnel. Later a human assassin stole one of the salvaged projectors and used it to frame Jack for murder.

* The main characters of KilaIlo have holographic projecting bracelets to look human, or in Ferris's case like a dog-rabbit.

* In the ''{{Xanth}}'' series, Sorceress Iris does this in the first book to make herself appear young and attractive, since her magical talent is Illusion.
* One of the first spells Aahz teaches Skeeve in ''MythAdventures'', as otherwise they'd really stick out in alternate dimensions.

* ''{{Megamind}}'' uses a wristwatch-like device to create holographic disguises.
* Mater gets a set of holographic disguises in ''{{Cars}} 2''. Making an effective one is more complicated than originally thought because Mater's bumps and dents sometimes poke through the hologram.

* In the ''{{Xanth}}'' series, Sorceress Iris does this in the first book to make herself appear young and attractive, since her magical talent is Illusion.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' had some episodes where somebody used holographic images to hide their identity when communicating with someone else via screen.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Candice from season 1 and early season 2 has the ability to cast illusions which make her appear different to people. In practice it's the same basic ability as ShapeShifting, but it's explicitly not that.

* ''Mutant Future''. A robot can have a Holo Screen device that projects a holographic image around it. The image can make the robot look like anything of roughly the same size, such as an outcropping of rock or an animal.

* ''{{Paranoia}}'' adventure The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues. One of the R&D gadgets in Mission 2 is the Autoresponse Imager. It creates holographic disguises around the wearer, such as a combot or Teela-O-MLY. When it malfunctions it will create images like Peter Lorre (in black and white) and Wile E. Coyote.

* In ''PS238'', students who can't just change into normal clothes (because they're part-machine, or bright blue, or whatever) get image emitters to help them blend in with the oblivious above-ground muggles.

* Jessica Benton from ''JemAndTheHolograms'' uses a pair of holographic projectors in her earrings and a computer bequeathed to her by her inventor father to become rock singer Jem.
* On ''SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', the Chameleon did his shapeshifting through a holographic device on his belt that would let him take pictures of people and then copy those images (his ability to imitate voices seems to be a natural one though).

* One such device was used in the pilot episode of ''BabylonFive'' by an alien attempting to assassinate the Vorlon ambassador Kosh and frame commander Sinclair for it in the process.
* ''StarTrek'' had some episodes where somebody used holographic images to hide their identity when communicating with someone else via screen.
* ''{{Heroes}}'': Candice from season 1 and early season 2 has the ability to cast illusions which make her appear different to people. In practice it's the same basic ability as ShapeShifting, but it's explicitly not that.

* Erek King and other Chee androids in ''{{Animorphs}}'', combined with force fields.

Also covers instances of magic being used to project illusions, or uses of holograms as InvibilityCloak.

Also covers instances of magic being used to project illusions.

* ''TheOuterLimits'' episode Skin Deep

* Commander Keith used one when infiltrating Wade's secret base in the opening episode of ''VoltronForce''.