Tropescilloscope: Disguised in Drag

A man disguises himself by dressing up as a woman. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Trailers Always Spoil Historical-Domain Character Neck Snap Those Wacky Nazis Older Than They Look Author Avatar Fourth Date Marriage The Power of Love The Place Grey and Gray Morality Bullying a Dragon Revenge Re-Cut folderlabel Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Arch-Enemy Neck Lift Informed Ability Dirty Coward Face–Heel Turn Fantasy Films No Antagonist And the Adventure Continues Contrived Coincidence The Bad Guy Wins Kick the Son of a Bitch Cassandra Truth Foregone Conclusion MacGuffin Karmic Death Black Comedy Rape The Mafia Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold NO INDOOR VOICE Creative Closing Credits Pimped-Out Dress Extremely Short Timespan The Musical Adaptation Dye-Job Documentary Destination Defenestration Disney Villain Death Driven to Suicide Straight Gay Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Extreme Doormat What You Are in the Dark Villain Ball I'm a Humanitarian Psycho for Hire World of Ham Handicapped Badass My Beloved Smother Running Gag Truth in Television Product Placement Henpecked Husband Developing Doomed Characters Jerkass Anachronism Stew Fainting Everyone Has Standards Deliberately Monochrome Deal with the Devil Air-Vent Passageway Bowdlerise Stylistic Suck Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Up to Eleven Scare Chord In Medias Res Heroic Sacrifice Immune to Bullets Intrepid Reporter Epic Movie 20 Minutes into the Future Five-Man Band Alliterative Name Race Lift Male Frontal Nudity The Chick Bittersweet Ending Redemption Equals Death Twist Ending Red Oni, Blue Oni Major Injury Underreaction Men Are the Expendable Gender Not Quite Dead Fatal Family Photo Title Drop Cain and Abel Line-of-Sight Name Police Brutality Calling the Old Man Out Canadian Movies Meaningful Background Event The End... Or Is It? Early-Bird Cameo Despair Event Horizon Soundtrack Dissonance Reality Has No Subtitles Your Head A-Splode Dies Wide Open All There in the Script Jitter Cam Jerkass Has a Point Disappeared Dad Star-Crossed Lovers Arranged Marriage Villain Opening Scene Hoist by His Own Petard Betty and Veronica Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Japanese Films As Long as It Sounds Foreign Gratuitous English Badass Grandpa Ship Tease Evil vs. Evil Distracted by the Sexy Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Dutch Angle Vampire Fiction Evil Brit Genre Throwback Deconstruction Expy Badass Bookworm Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Setting Update Dirty Old Man Broken Pedestal You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Bi the Way Smug Snake Eiffel Tower Effect Get Out! 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Ambiguous Disorder You Killed My Father Rule of Cool "Shaggy Dog" Story The Great Depression It Can Think Depraved Bisexual Skewed Priorities You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Mundane Made Awesome No Ending Military and Warfare Films Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Woman in White Hero of Another Story Television Movie Index There Is No Kill Like Overkill Pre-Asskicking One-Liner timeperiod Corpsing Pay Evil unto Evil Stock Footage Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Fake Shemp Chekhov's Gunman This Is Gonna Suck Broken Aesop Nice Guy Gold Digger Mercy Kill Blonde, Brunette, Redhead As Himself Last-Name Basis Romantic Comedy Fan Disservice Works Set in World War II Sadistic Choice Silent Movie Greater-Scope Villain Berserk Button Kick the Dog Adaptation Expansion Brutal Honesty Action Survivor I Have Your Wife Guile Hero All There in the Manual Getting Crap Past the Radar Parental Substitute Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Scary Black Man The Quiet One Attempted Rape Adaptation Distillation A Father to His Men Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Bland-Name Product Left the Background Music On The Remake Big Fancy House Only One Name Scenery Porn The Un-Reveal Brainless Beauty The Brute Friend to All Children Not So Above It All The Ghost Token Minority Gorn Jerk Jock Papa Wolf Ass Shove Unusual Euphemism Abusive Parents Market-Based Title Cool Shades Motor Mouth Bald of Evil Scenery Gorn Chekhov's Skill The Smart Guy I Need a Freaking Drink Amoral Attorney Not What It Looks Like Public Domain Feature Films Outrun the Fireball "Where Are They Now?" 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Chekhov's Gun Idiot Ball Very Loosely Based on a True Story Anti-Villain Alpha Bitch Rasputinian Death The Alcoholic Protagonist Title No OSHA Compliance Disney Death Novelization Mistaken for Gay Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Blatant Lies Historical Hero Upgrade Superhero Honor Before Reason It Will Never Catch On As the Good Book Says... Evil Counterpart Obstructive Bureaucrat Reasonable Authority Figure Not Even Bothering with the Accent Plot Hole What the Hell, Hero? 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