History Main / WallpaperCamouflage

Related to StandInPortrait, if they are impersonating a figure in a mural it is that trope not this one. See also NobodyHereButUsStatues.

* Done by Holmes in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows''. [[spoiler: And once again at the end.]]

* In the movie ''Film/{{Toys}}'', a few of Patrick's outfits are used to help him achieve this.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'': When AAARRRGGHH, Blinky and [=NotEnrique=] sneak into the school to find Strickler's office, they hear a security guard coming so they pose in front of a mural to bide and the guard barely gives them a second thought.

* The ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' episode "The Worms Crawl In, The Worms Crawl Out" opens with Sherlock, surrounded by heaters, staring at what appears to be a Middle-Eastern style tiled wall that he's installed in the brownstone. He then complains that the woman in bodypaint standing in front of it has moved, ruining the experiment. And then, once the viewers eyes have adjusted to that, there turns out to be ''three'' women, because he's studying the effect of the heat on different brands of bodypaint.

* One version of the music video for Music/OKGo's "Do What You Want" takes this to extremes, with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i00GDT9FuFM the entire band in such a get-up]].

* Chinese artist [[http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/meet-the-real-life-invisible-man.html Liu Bolin]].

* The [[http://defensetech.org/2007/07/06/when-you-dont-want-to-take-out-the-trash/ US Army ACU Uniform]].

--> I'll paint the wallpaper pattern onto your naked skin,
Stand against the wallpaper and get off like [[ChameleonCamouflage chameleons]]...

* In ''Literature/TheAmityIncident,'' Susan creates a gilly suit which, while matching ''none'' of the local flora, is so effective people occasionally try to water her. [[SoMuchForStealth It is less effective when you forget to tuck your hair into the hood]]

* Recurring trope in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''. Tobias, as an understudy for the Blue Man Group, is constantly camouflaged against blue backgrounds. A notable incident is [[spoiler: when Zuckerkorn hits Tobias with his car because he cannot see him against the blue sky]]. Tobias is also seen painting himself in his wife's 'diamond encrusted lotion' to camouflage himself against a glitter background.
** Buster also wears clothes to match the wallpaper in one episode. Because [[RunningGag Milford men are neither seen nor heard.]]

* This is one of Carl Creel's tricks in AgentsOfSHIELD, doing it twice in [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E1Shadows his first episode]] alone. Given that he's capable of literally [[ElementalShapeshifter becoming the substance the wall is made of]], it works really well.

* This is one of Carl Creel's tricks in AgentsOfSHIELD, doing it twice in [[AgentsOfSHIELDS2E1Shadows his first episode]] alone. Given that he's capable of literally [[ElementalShapeshifter becoming the substance the wall is made of]], it works really well.

* In his first cartoon, "The Pink Phink," (which also won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward) WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther hides by standing against a wall painted pink.

* Done by Inspector Clouseau in Creator/SteveMartin's ''Film/ThePinkPanther'' as he and his sidekick, played by Creator/JeanReno, try to infiltrate a party where the villain will be present. (They are then discovered, but pass their strange skin-tight outfits off as being part of a dance troupe.)

* In his first cartoon, "The Pink Phink," (which also won an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward) ThePinkPanther hides by standing against a wall painted pink.

* A ''ComicStrip/FarSide'' comic has a woman wearing a flowered dress in a room full of a flower motif, and she's spared when a monster comes in an eats her husband, who stands out in his striped shirt, while she's practically invisible, thanks to her "camouflage".

* In ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'', Wednesday does this, face paint included, to spy on the babysitter/black widow.