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* Eric Feurer's routine "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpMEWBisteM Two Trenchcoats in a Kid]]" is an inversion of the TotemPoleTrench trope in which two trenchcoats try to get into a movie disguised as a human child. This involves repeated protestations that they are an ordinary human ("My parents do money and make taxes. My hobbies include baseballing and enjoying having thumbs") and not in any way a pair of trenchcoats in disguise.

* An episode of ''Series/MadTV'' has several campaign commercials for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLSlGmVrmuM Smith Comma John, Human Being for President]], who is [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial definitely not an alien plotting a full-scale invasion to colonize the planet for the Barconians]].

* ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'': Arin and Danny once pretended to be aliens from the planet Zognoid just to annoy people. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbk-gRqu8Jk This song is pleasant to my HUMAN EARS!]]"

-->'''Monika:''' [[AC:Don't be afraid to bring things up, okay? [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial I will not blast you with my laser eyes... that I don't have]].]]

* The fictional book ''[[https://twitter.com/paprbckparadise/status/1251269396112093185 Crabitalism]]'', on the book parody Twitter account Paperback Paradise, indulges in this on the back cover, which is entirely about how great an economic system about grinding people up to feed to giant alien crabs is:

* Slate.com writer Hugh Mann who, [[https://slate.com/author/hugh-mann according to his bio]], is "a human being who lives in a house in the human city of Kentucky with several other humans, including his mate". He wrote a 2020 article called [[https://slate.com/culture/2020/12/mars-base-haim-eshed-galactic-federation-debunked-no-need-to-look-into-it-further.html "There Is No Secret Underground Base on Mars"]]. Someone is evidently a fan.

-->'''Smith Comma John''': Like most Earthlings, I watched ''{{Series/Frasier}}'' last night. I enjoy relating to his everyday problems. Like, uh, dating - or processing oxygen. ''[Makes [[HellIsThatNoise a hellacious noise as he inhales through his mouth]]]''

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E1NewEarth "New Earth"]] shows you don't necessarily have to have an alien impersonating a human. In this one, Rose is lured away from the Doctor and captured by Lady Cassandra, who proceeds to use a psychograft to [[GrandTheftMe transfer her consciousness to Rose's body]]. Now in Rose's body, Cassandra isn't the best at hiding herself from the Doctor. For one, there's her hilariously pathetic attempt at 21st-century Earth English, coupled with her showing knowledge of New Earth computer systems that Rose shouldn't know about. [[EatingTheEyeCandy Her passionate snogging of the Doctor]] should also count, but [[MrFanservice the Doctor]] initially puts that down to his own irresistible charm. Eventually, what finally gets the Doctor to realize Rose is not herself is [[LackOfEmpathy how apathetic Cassandra is to the plight of the clone-people]].
--->'''The Doctor:''' These people are dying, and ''Rose'' would ''care''.

-->'''Gabriel:''' I would like to purchase one of your material objects.
* An episode of ''Series/MadTV'' has several campaign commercials for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLSlGmVrmuM Smith Comma John, Human Being for President]], who is [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial definitely not an alien plotting a full-scale invasion to colonize the planet for the Barconians]].
** In another, he makes statements like "I am sitting next to fire. Willingly.", and introduces his wife, [[CanineCompanion a golden retriever]].
** In one, he partakes in the all-American activity of eating corn dogs, first by sticking his hand into a deep fryer to retrieve one, and then "eating" it via the magic of visual effects: [[StopTrick the camera stops for a moment, a bite disappears]], and he pretends to chew, before going for another "bite". ''Sooo'' not an alien.
-->'''Smith Comma John''': Like most Earthlings, I watched ''{{Series/Frasier}}'' last night. I enjoy relating to his everyday problems. Like, uh, dating - or processing oxygen. (''Makes [[HellIsThatNoise a hellacious noise as he inhales through his mouth]]'')

** After exhausting their options, Steven has a rather dramatic lapse in judgement and decides the solution is to have the Crystal Gems [[FusionDance fuse]], figuring their combined form, Alexandrite, will have all their best traits and be able to convincingly fake being human. He is instantly proven wrong when Alexandrite turns out to be a gigantic, firebreathing, and multi-armed HumanoidAbomination who speaks with the VoiceOfTheLegion (not to mention the fact that she [[TalkingToThemself talks to, and has arguments with, herself]] due to being a MindHive). Not that it matters, as Connie's parents [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight don't even question that this horrifying alien monster is Steven's mom and Greg's wife]]. It is around this time that Steven realizes [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot they could've dodged the whole issue by just informing Connie's parents that Greg is a widower]].

** After exhausting their options, Steven [[WhatAnIdiot has a rather dramatic lapse in judgement]] and decides the solution is to have the Crystal Gems [[FusionDance fuse]], figuring their combined form, Alexandrite, will have all their best traits and be able to convincingly fake being human. He is instantly proven wrong when Alexandrite turns out to be a gigantic, firebreathing, and multi-armed HumanoidAbomination who speaks with the VoiceOfTheLegion (not to mention the fact that she [[TalkingToThemself talks to, and has arguments with, herself]] due to being a MindHive). Not that it matters, as Connie's parents [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight don't even question that this horrifying alien monster is Steven's mom and Greg's wife]]. It is around this time that Steven realizes [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot they could've dodged the whole issue by just informing Connie's parents that Greg is a widower]].

** Futurama [[TropeNamer names the trope]] in the episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E5ATasteOfFreedom A Taste of Freedom]]". A decapodian (Zoidberg's species) infiltrates Zapp Brannigan's ship by [[PaperThinDisguise wearing a wig, fake glasses and a mustache, and oven mitts to hide his lobster-like claws]]. [[GeneralFailure Zapp Brannigan]], of course, [[WhatAnIdiot falls for it.]]

* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': Whenever [[HalfHumanHybrid Inuyasha]] goes out in public in the modern era, he wears a hat to hide his [[LittleBitBeastly dog ears]]. The disguise fails to hide his white hair, claws, fangs, or golden eyes, but no one ever questions it.

Someone has gotten [[SendInTheClones duplicated]][=/=][[DemonicPossession taken over]][=/=][[HumanityEnsues impersonated]] by something not human, and the duplicate is trying to pass as them. But they do a [[GlamourFailure terrible job of it]]; [[UncannyValley acting in an erratic manner]], forgetting names, walking stiffly, and [[CreepyMonotone talking in an odd dialect]]. They might as well call themselves "Hugh Mann" and [[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain walk around with a name-tag reading "I'm Most Definitely Not A Space Alien"]] -- it would make for about as convincing a disguise.

* In ''Manga/PlusSizedElf'', a diet clinic worker named Naoe Tomoatsu runs into a girl named Erufuda, which sounds like ''erufu da'', or "I'm an elf" in Japanese. Sure enough, she's a forest elf who needs to lose weight thanks to [[TrademarkFavoriteFood her obsession with French fries]]. The English translation simply uses "Elfuda".

* Dave from ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'' is an octopus disguised as a human using clothing, a wig, and [[StealthyCephalopod his natural ability to change shape and color]]. [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/1/17/Dr._Octavius_Brine_Human_and_Octopus.png When standing still,]] Dave's disguise is [[SubvertedTrope actually incredibly good]], but his movements are [[DoubleSubversion ridiculously inhuman]], with limbs [[EvilSlinks flipping around and bending]] in a fashion that clearly shows they have no bones. He's still able to become a publicly respected scientist named Dr. Brine without most people noticing.

Compare EasyImpersonation for a mundane variant of the trope. See also ClarkKenting and PaperThinDisguise. Compare BadBadActing, and OutOfCharacterAlert. May overlap with TheyLookLikeUsNow or HumanAliens for further laughs. Not to be confused with HuMons, which is about {{Mons}} that resemble human beings.

Comape EasyImpersonation for a mandate variant of the trope. See also ClarkKenting and PaperThinDisguise. Compare BadBadActing, and OutOfCharacterAlert. May overlap with TheyLookLikeUsNow or HumanAliens for further laughs. Not to be confused with HuMons, which is about {{Mons}} that resemble human beings.

See also ClarkKenting and PaperThinDisguise. Compare BadBadActing, and OutOfCharacterAlert. May overlap with TheyLookLikeUsNow or HumanAliens for further laughs. Not to be confused with HuMons, which is about {{Mons}} that resemble human beings.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': When Connie’s parents insist on meeting Steven’s for dinner in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E32FusionCuisine "Fusion Cuisine"]], Steven and Connie are concerned they’ll react poorly to learning about her adventures with him and the Crystal Gems. They decide to make his family seem as normal and mundane as possible by having one of the Crystal Gems pretend to be his human mother. Problem is, the Crystal Gems all crash headfirst into this trope, each in their own special way:
** Amethyst knows how to act human, but that doesn’t count for much when she has ''[[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe purple skin]]''. She’s also very immature and young in comparison to the others (she looks only slightly older than Steven), which would obviously make it really weird to have her acting like she’s Greg’s wife. That’s not getting into her total lack of table manners and ExtremeOmnivore tendencies.
** Garnet is disqualified from the start simply because she’s an extremely BadLiar and [[TheStoic can’t fake emotion to save her life]]. There’s also the minor detail of her being ''nearly eight feet tall'', towering over any normal human.
** Pearl ''should'' be a perfect candidate; she not only looks human, but is unfailingly polite and formal, meaning she’d hit it off great with Connie’s parents... if not for the fact that she is absolutely ''revolted'' by [[YourNormalIsOurTaboo the concept of eating food]]. Kind of an issue considering this is supposed to be a dinner date. She also [[LipstickLesbian can’t even pretend to find Greg attractive]].
** After exhausting their options, Steven [[WhatAnIdiot has a rather dramatic lapse in judgement]] and decides the solution is to have the Crystal Gems [[FusionDance fuse]], figuring their combined form, Alexandrite, will have all their best traits and be able to convincingly fake being human. He is instantly proven wrong when Alexandrite turns out to be a gigantic, firebreathing, and multi-armed HumanoidAbomination who speaks with the VoiceOfTheLegion (not to mention the fact that she [[TalkingToThemself talks to, and has arguments with, herself]] due to being a MindHive). Not that it matters, as Connie’s parents [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight don’t even question that this horrifying alien monster is Steven’s mom and Greg’s wife]]. It is around this time that Steven realizes [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot they could’ve dodged the whole issue by just informing Connie’s parents that Greg is a widower]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Da Flippity-Flop", Klaus tricks Stan into switching their bodies. After claiming that years of studying his behavior will allow Klaus to impersonate Stan, all he does is say "Hi!" and Francine and Hayley immediately know what's happened.

* In ''The Alien Way'' by Creator/GordonRDickson an alien tries to secretly land on Earth and disguises himself to infiltrate a military facility. Actually he looks like a partially shaved flat-muzzled bear in a rough approximation of human clothing. Nobody stops him, because aliens have found a bait sent from Earth, and the scout has been being observed by a human telepath[[note]]not exactly a telepath, bugs and implants are used... long story[[/note]] for months. The military were ready to meet him and the human he thought he fooled with his disguise is the observer telepath. Let's say that while Dickson's aliens tend to be dumb and gullible compared to [[HumanityIsSuperior super smart humans]], Rumls are probably worst of them all.
* Several times throughout ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', though never involving [[PuppeteerParasite the Yeerks]], who have already an access to their own host's knowledge ''and'' personality. In one memorable mess, Jake is taken over by one (that gets access to his memories) and it plays the part ''almost'' perfectly. When his own teammates realize this, they tie him up in the woods until that alien dies of hunger--then had ''another'' alien (who ''doesn't'' have access to his memories) play the role of Jake badly, while all this is going on... To his own family's shock.
** This is actually something of a running gag for Ax whenever he's [[HumanityEnsues in his human form]], [[SenseFreak particularly about food]]. Due to his lack of taste in his natural state, this boy [[BigEater enjoys eating]] cigarette butts and other strange stuff...
*** And [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Cinnamon buns]] (who would blame him? Cinnabons).
** At one point, Ax gets asked about where he's from. After his first response ("I am from the Republic of Ivory Coast") doesn't work, Ax just lists off a bunch of ''World Almanac'' countries--until finally hearing a suggestion of Canada... At which Ax now promptly notes "I am from Canada. I am Canadese," as his reply.
** Fortunately, they eventually get access to [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots the Chee]], who at least understand ''not'' to eat cigarette butts...
*** They did, however, clean Marco's room with ''pleasure'', which is probably just as weird for him. The act irritates Marco to no end, at any rate...
*** And almost blew their cover, as the now very clean room confused the hell out of Marco's father!
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/PreludeToFoundation'': The name "Chetter Hummin" ("Cheater Human") is a clue that Seldon notices means Hummin isn't actually human. The pun helps him avoid the psychological cost of lying to humans; [[spoiler:lying is an indirect violation of the [[ThreeLawsCompliant Three Laws of Robotics]]. From this, and other oddities, Seldon realizes that Hummin is actually [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter R. Daneel Olivaw]]]].

* ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'': The housemates take the monstrous, decrepit Baron out for a night of drinking and karaoke, dressing him in regular clothes and a baseball cap; ''no one notices,'' even when he flat-out tells passersby that he's a vampire.

* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'': Yes, that Jet that suddenly turned into a tank in mid-air is a human made and driven invention and not one of the genocidal aliens that invaded the planet years ago. He demands your surrender in the name of the United Steaks of America, or whatever it's called.

* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', when using their holomatter avatarsfor the first time, the Lost Light members also get fake human identities. The few we get to know are all of this kind: Rewind is "Joe Human", Swerve is "Mr. Person", Rung is "Mary Sue" and Skids gets a blank card (which actually makes sense as his avatar is designed after [[Series/DoctorWho the]] [[Creator/MattSmith Eleventh Doctor]]).
** These are, unfortunately, somehow better than the ones that the Scavengers came up with, who while having passable human names (Dennis Taylor and Alex Higgins), "Dennis" is an ''gigantic'' woman, who, because Spinister is too stupid to come up with an actual human ''face'' under her helmet, simply has another helmet under it. Meanwhile, Misfire's avatar has what can best be described as having a tiny, one-eyed face in the middle of his head. And pink skin. Made worse by the fact that both of their masks are incredibly blatant decepticon symbols.

See also ClarkKenting and PaperThinDisguise. Compare BadBadActing, and OutOfCharacterAlert. May overlap with TheyLookLikeUsNow for further laughs. Not to be confused with HuMons, which is about {{Mons}} that resemble human beings.

* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', when using their holomatter avatarsfor the first time, the Lost Light members also get fake human identities. The few we get to know are all of this kind: Rewind is "Joe Human", Swerve is "Mr. Person", Rung is "MarySue" and Skids gets a blank card (which actually makes sense as his avatar is designed after [[Series/DoctorWho the]] [[Creator/MattSmith Eleventh Doctor]]).

* ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'' has the "Convincing Infiltrator" minion, who's a [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} N'raqi]] in little more than a robe and wooden mask.

* Played for laughs in ''VideoGame/{{Hearthstone}}'' with [[https://hearthstone.gamepedia.com/Convincing_Infiltrator Convincing Infiltrator]], a poorly disguised Faceless One, a race that's known for its ''shapeshifting abilities''. The fact it has Taunt may be telling of how actually convincing its disguise is.

* "Chicken Boo" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' always goes the same way: A giant chicken wearing a Paper Thin Disguise manages to fool [[OnlySaneMan almost]] everyone, until his costume falls off and everyone realizes what he really is. A GIANT CHICKEN!

-->-- '''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'''

* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' has the alien Princess Voluptua in a (more understated than usual) human disguise visiting a hamburger place and placing her order a little clumsily. She then glances up and notices her acquaintance Galatea wearing a human disguise that [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20130625.html doesn't even cover up her tail.]]