Basic Trope: An animal disguises as another animal.
- Straight: Danny the Donkey disguises himself as a lion.
- Exaggerated: Danny the Blue Whale successfully disguises himself as a chipmunk.
- Downplayed:
- Danny the Donkey disguises as a mule.
- Justified:
- The play that's being put on requires a lion for whatever reason, but since the playwriters can't train and bring in an actual lion, they end up using a donkey dressed as one instead.
- Danny is trying to avoid capture by disguising as a different animal.
- Inverted:
- Human Disguise
- Animal Disguise
- Danny ends up somehow being mistaken for a lion, and has to tell someone I Am Not Weasel.
- Played for Horror: Danny's disguise is a tad too good, and a lustful female lioness— who eats donkeys — becomes hopelessly smitten with him. How to get away from her grasp, is the question.
- Subverted: Danny successfully disguises himself as a lion, only to be stranded in a country that uses lions as pack animals.
- Double Subverted: Danny successfully disguises himself as a lion, and learns that lions are pack animals in that country; he tears off his disguise, only to learn that donkeys are hunted as dangerous big game animals there.
- Parodied: Danny has an amazingly Paper-Thin Disguise, but somehow succeeds in convincing others he's a different animal.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Animals don't disguise themselves as other animals.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: During a hasty escape when his ruse is discovered, the back of Danny's costume rips and exposes his oddly human-looking naked bottom to everyone.
- Defied: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Discussed/Played for Laughs: "Hey, Bill, Charlie, Joe, Alice— look at that dumb ass. He's walking around over there in those moth-eaten skins, pretending to be a big scary lion. Say, let's give our pal Danny a thrill and make like we buy into that tired ol' gag."
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