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Basic Trope: Someone hides their abnormal trait, usually by clothing.

  • Straight: Bob is a angel, and he hides his wings under two pairs of capes.
  • Exaggerated: Because people believe Beauty Equals Goodness Bob makes himself hideous, just to make sure not a single soul could even consider that he is an angel.
  • Downplayed: The wings slightly poke out of the capes, but from a distance are unnoticeable.
  • Justified: Bob just wants to be normal.
  • Inverted: Bob makes it pretty clear what he is.
  • Subverted: As the party is walking through a desert, Bob gets to sweaty and finally removes his capes, leaving his party members in awe.
  • Double Subverted: But once they are out of it, Bob puts the capes back on.
  • Parodied: Bob's "disguise" is a piece of paper saying "those wings are fake." No one buys it.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Bob does nothing about his appearance, and no one bats an eye.
  • Enforced: "It would be too unrealistic if Bob decides to waltz through the streets unnoticed."
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: "I had enough of this disguise."
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???
  • Deconstructed: ???
  • Reconstructed: ???

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