Basic Trope: A character pretends to be an inspector checking a place in order to gain access to it.
- Straight: Alice sneaks into Emperor Evulz's outpost disguised as a surprise inspector
- Downplayed: Alice sneaks into the outpost disguised as the mooks' superior officer
- Exaggerated: Alice is disguised as the local Goddess of Inspections
- Justified: Emperor Evulz regularly sends Inspectors to make sure his bases are clean
- Subverted:
- It looks like Alice is going to disguise herself as an inspector... Until she takes a pizza box with her
- The Inspector Is Coming
- Mistaken for Special Guest
- Double Subverted: But once she's in the entrance, she disguises herself as an inspector
- Parodied: Alice wears an inspector costume. This causes the mooks to start panicking and cleaning the base until it's immaculate, and they let her take the MacGuffin in exchange for going away
- Averted: Alice does not disguise herself as an inspector
- Deconstructed: Alice has the costume, but she doesn't know the things any inspector would know. The mooks catch on and execute her.
- Reconstructed: Alice pretends that this is her first day, and the mooks don't suspect her
