Tropescilloscope: Dressing as the Enemy

Wearing the uniforms of the Evil Army to sneak around their base. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Evil Brit Hong Kong Films Artistic License – Geography Public Domain Feature Films Better to Die than Be Killed Smug Snake Villain Ball Did Not Get the Girl Recycled IN SPACE! All for Nothing Car Fu Twist Ending Foregone Conclusion Martial Arts Movie Crazy-Prepared Large Ham Retired Badass There Is No Kill Like Overkill Composite Character Hidden Depths All Girls Want Bad Boys Our Vampires Are Different Boom, Headshot! Cain and Abel Very Loosely Based on a True Story Cat Fight Character Development Epic Movie Protagonist Title Age Lift Plot Hole Happily Married Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Chick Canon Foreigner Heterosexual Life-Partners She's Got Legs Double-Meaning Title Developing Doomed Characters "Shaggy Dog" Story Setting Update Apocalypse How Dying Moment of Awesome Chiaroscuro Sports Stories Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Anachronism Stew Eagleland Wham Line Evil-Detecting Dog Bittersweet Ending Show Within a Show Kick the Dog Batman Gambit Missing Mom Arranged Marriage Dark Is Not Evil Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The Reveal All Men Are Perverts Tempting Fate Call-Back Male Gaze Evil Sounds Deep The Ditz Adapted Out Tranquil Fury Rule of Funny Ambiguous Disorder Redemption Equals Death Creator Cameo Fake Shemp Bond One-Liner Self-Deprecation Hate Sink Breaking the Fourth Wall Mad Scientist One-Word Title Evil Plan Christmas Movies Index Beta Couple No Celebrities Were Harmed Fingore Improvised Weapon War Is Hell Dressing as the Enemy How We Got Here Mighty Whitey The Stinger Badass Longcoat Needs Wiki Magic Love Too Dumb to Live Retcon Mundane Made Awesome Historical-Domain Character Undying Loyalty Ripped from the Headlines Psychopathic Manchild Empathic Environment Slap-Slap-Kiss The Alcoholic Eldritch Abomination Race Lift Hell Is That Noise Blood Knight Disguised in Drag Butt-Monkey Adorkable Green-Eyed Monster Those Two Guys Dual Wielding Good Is Not Nice Overly Long Gag Animal Title Index Toplessness from the Back My Greatest Failure timeperiod Older Than They Look Works Set in World War II Five-Man Band The Power of Love Random Events Plot Off with His Head! The Hero Dies Loophole Abuse Parental Abandonment Action Prologue Vomit Indiscretion Shot A Father to His Men Intergenerational Friendship Bad Boss Didn't Think This Through Tap on the Head Framing Device Babies Ever After The Remake Blackmail Attempted Rape Author Avatar Ambiguously Gay Shut Up, Hannibal! The End... Or Is It? The Dreaded Extremely Short Timespan Bland-Name Product Country Matters From Bad to Worse Off-into-the-Distance Ending All Just a Dream Ungrateful Bastard Chase Scene Victoria's Secret Compartment Artistic License – Gun Safety Shell-Shocked Veteran Foreshadowing Married to the Job Serious Business Black Best Friend Curse Cut Short Eureka Moment Bloodier and Gorier Scenery Gorn Mystery and Detective Films Historical In-Joke The Quiet One The Musical Fun with Acronyms Offscreen Moment of Awesome Rated M for Manly Humans Are Bastards Homage Naïve Newcomer Soundtrack Dissonance Film Series Leaning on the Fourth Wall Suspiciously Similar Substitute Translation Convention Casting Gag Reality Ensues Red Oni, Blue Oni Sole Survivor Despair Event Horizon Eyepatch of Power Insane Troll Logic Cool Shades Due to the Dead Plucky Comic Relief Leitmotif Cool Old Guy Bring My Brown Pants Action Genre Demonic Possession From Nobody to Nightmare Camp Gay The Hero Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Pyrrhic Victory Rich Bitch Obviously Evil Big Applesauce Death of a Child Stealth Hi/Bye Fourth Date Marriage Corpsing Gold Digger The Cameo Expy Taking You with Me You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Defrosting Ice Queen Deadpan Snarker Femme Fatale Thriller Belligerent Sexual Tension Animal Motifs Unwitting Instigator of Doom Hero Antagonist Non-Indicative Name Artistic License – Law Friend to All Children Accidental Misnaming Obstructive Bureaucrat Captain Ersatz Black Comedy Rape Pretty in Mink The Dragon Earn Your Happy Ending Papa Wolf World of Ham Police Brutality Zombie Stories Vampire Fiction Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Evil Is Hammy Training Montage Mind Screw Cruel and Unusual Death Villain Song Damsel in Distress Exactly What It Says on the Tin Bond Villain Stupidity Interrupted Suicide Unreliable Narrator The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Took a Level in Badass Shipper on Deck Fantasy Films Distracted by the Sexy Fan Disservice Trailers Always Spoil Becoming the Mask Ms. Fanservice Let's Get Dangerous! The Load Killed Mid-Sentence Sci-Fi Horror Big "NO!" Extreme Doormat Jerkass Has a Point Men Are the Expendable Gender Here We Go Again! Not So Different The Lancer Refuge in Audacity Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Sexy Discretion Shot Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Adaptation Expansion Villain Opening Scene O.O.C. Is Serious Business Artistic License – History Race Against the Clock Exact Words Manly Tears Product Placement '80s Hair After the End Authority Equals Asskicking Whole Plot Reference Time Skip Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Romantic False Lead Not So Above It All Closed Circle The Voiceless One Steve Limit Well-Intentioned Extremist Foil Anyone Can Die Antagonist Title Kubrick Stare Villainous Breakdown A.I. Is a Crapshoot Groin Attack He Who Fights Monsters Hope Spot What Happened to the Mouse? Would Hurt a Child Artistic License – Military Epic Fail Even Evil Has Loved Ones Mr. Exposition Stealth Pun Pet the Dog No Antagonist Brick Joke Super Strength Badass Bookworm N-Word Privileges Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Ironic Echo Storming the Castle More Dakka Video Credits Sequel Hook Freeze-Frame Bonus Rasputinian Death Sanity Slippage Drowning My Sorrows Monumental Damage Darkest Hour Book-Ends Up to Eleven Science Fiction Films Room Full of Crazy Adaptation Distillation Based on a True Story Loads and Loads of Characters Four-Temperament Ensemble Death Glare Greater-Scope Villain Take That! Same Language Dub Shower Scene Really Gets Around I Have Your Wife Madness Mantra Adaptational Villainy Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Fish out of Water Jitter Cam Nothing Is Scarier Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Chekhov's Gun Dissonant Serenity Death by Adaptation Dutch Angle Adaptational Badass Cold-Blooded Torture Ominous Latin Chanting Red Eyes, Take Warning Badass Boast Fiery Redhead Face Death with Dignity Real Life The Sociopath Broken Bird Our Zombies Are Different The Smurfette Principle Playing Gertrude Almost Kiss Made of Iron Sir Swears-a-Lot Only One Name Asshole Victim Parental Substitute Adaptation Dye-Job Cassandra Truth Karmic Death Adults Are Useless Drill Sergeant Nasty Guns Akimbo The Bully Pimped-Out Dress For Want of a Nail Bare Your Midriff Dirty Cop Eiffel Tower Effect It's Personal Covers Always Lie Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun It Can Think B-Movie Laser-Guided Karma Throwing Your Sword Always Works Star-Crossed Lovers Oh, Crap! Peek-a-Boo Corpse Fatal Family Photo Once More, with Clarity! Revenge Manchild Noodle Incident Chewing the Scenery Running Gag Laughing Mad Big Fancy House The '60s Never Found the Body The Chessmaster Comically Missing the Point It's All About Me Body Horror Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Have a Gay Old Time Truth in Television Psychological Thriller No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Worthy Opponent All There in the Script Red Herring Neck Lift Your Head A-Splode Children Are Innocent Deconstruction Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Reasonable Authority Figure Betty and Veronica Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Improbable Weapon User May–December Romance Actually Pretty Funny Documentary The Ghost Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Pretty Little Headshots Hollywood Darkness Abusive Parents Stylistic Suck Author Appeal Love Triangle This Is Gonna Suck The Atoner Black Dude Dies First Downer Ending Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Cool Car Early-Bird Cameo Getting Crap Past the Radar Hollywood Law Lock and Load Montage Wicked Cultured Police are Useless No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Pre-Mortem One-Liner Dramatic Gun Cock Unusual Euphemism Canadian Movies Genre Savvy Brutal Honesty Ship Tease Gory Discretion Shot Henpecked Husband Match Cut Cloudcuckoolander Red Shirt Meaningful Background Event Faux Affably Evil Fat Bastard Grievous Bottley Harm No OSHA Compliance Vomit Discretion Shot Took a Level in Jerkass Mugging the Monster Wretched Hive Important Haircut Bury Your Gays Meet Cute Historical Hero Upgrade La Résistance Bait-and-Switch Bullying a Dragon Death Seeker Not So Stoic He Knows Too Much Badass Normal Intrepid Reporter Evil Laugh Reckless Gun Usage Villain Protagonist Coming-of-Age Story The Lost Lenore Dirty Coward The Un-Reveal Depraved Bisexual Word of God Improbable Aiming Skills Heroic Sacrifice Bloodless Carnage Hoist by His Own Petard Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Leave the Camera Running Riddle for the Ages Man on Fire Meaningful Echo Mood Whiplash Be Careful What You Wish For I Need a Freaking Drink Stock Footage Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality A God Am I The Smart Guy Diabolus ex Machina Bound and Gagged Shown Their Work Small Name, Big Ego Never My Fault Deal with the Devil Darker and Edgier Corrupt Corporate Executive What You Are in the Dark And the Adventure Continues Arc Words Deliberate Values Dissonance Would Hit a Girl Disney Villain Death Jump Scare Conspicuous CG The Vamp Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Dramatic Irony Hair-Trigger Temper Military and Warfare Films Totally Radical Serial Killer Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Guile Hero Brainless Beauty Smoking Is Cool She Cleans Up Nicely Cluster F-Bomb Alas, Poor Villain Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Cowboy Cop Big Damn Heroes Rule of Symbolism Superhero "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Neck Snap Mama Bear Jerk with a Heart of Gold Russian Films As Long as It Sounds Foreign Dull Surprise Moment Killer Accidental Murder Curb-Stomp Battle Stuff Blowing Up No Name Given The Dog Bites Back Insistent Terminology For the Evulz Skewed Priorities Actor Allusion Failed a Spot Check Redshirt Army Break the Cutie Shout-Out Bilingual Bonus Properly Paranoid Blood from the Mouth Say My Name Dropped a Bridge on Him Badass Grandpa Pay Evil unto Evil Face–Heel Turn Not Using the "Z" Word Unspoken Plan Guarantee Cool Guns The Starscream Soft Glass Japanese Films Affably Evil Chuck Cunningham Syndrome German Films Make It Look Like an Accident I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Blatant Lies Male Frontal Nudity Bowdlerise Spell My Name with an "S" Gorn Dark Reprise Kill 'em All "The Reason You Suck" Speech Fatal Flaw Adaptational Heroism Award-Bait Song Stepford Smiler Bolivian Army Ending As Himself Parental Incest Overprotective Dad Historical Villain Upgrade Funny Background Event Unresolved Sexual Tension Fantastic Racism Rewatch Bonus Black and Gray Morality Immune to Bullets One-Man Army Hypocrite Demoted to Extra Horror Films Big Bad Psycho for Hire Knife Nut Costume Porn Expository Hairstyle Change Knight Templar You Have Failed Me Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Evil vs. Evil Sinister Minister Horror Comedy Catch-Phrase You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Meaningful Name Adult Fear Sacrificial Lion Frame-Up Camera Abuse Cat Scare Action Girl Continuity Nod The X of Y Get Out! Made of Explodium Gilligan Cut Destination Defenestration Enemy Mine Silence Is Golden Together in Death Slashed Throat In Medias Res Film Noir Index I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Unusually Uninteresting Sight Instant Death Bullet Drives Like Crazy Flipping the Bird The Brute Idiot Ball Dies Wide Open Does Not Like Shoes Crapsack World Calling the Old Man Out The Big Guy Title Drop Major Injury Underreaction Amoral Attorney Danny Peary Cult Movies List Wrong Genre Savvy Kick the Son of a Bitch Crazy Jealous Guy Dumb Blonde Dark Action Girl Driven to Suicide The '70s Chekhov's Gunman Retirony Fainting Malevolent Masked Men Back from the Dead Dark and Troubled Past Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Beware the Nice Ones I'm a Humanitarian Sassy Black Woman Suddenly SHOUTING! My God, What Have I Done? Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Cavalry Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Artistic License – Physics Heroic BSoD Spanner in the Works Disproportionate Retribution Manic Pixie Dream Girl Anti-Villain Death by Sex Card-Carrying Villain Disney Death An Aesop Everyone Has Standards Evil Counterpart Vacation Films A Minor Kidroduction Amusing Injuries Slasher Smile Broken Pedestal Never Trust a Trailer Left the Background Music On Famous Last Words Crucified Hero Shot Aluminum Christmas Trees Yandere Maybe Ever After The Film of the Book Slasher Movie Advertised Extra The Great Depression Mooks Big Bad Duumvirate The Stoner Not Even Bothering with the Accent Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Names to Run Away from Really Fast Mercy Kill Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Jerkass Market-Based Title The Mole Ambiguous Ending Those Two Bad Guys Double Entendre Ghost Fiction Abhorrent Admirer Decoy Protagonist In the Back Every Car Is a Pinto "Well Done, Son!" Guy "Awesome McCool" Name Spiritual Successor Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy It Will Never Catch On Beard of Evil The '50s Motor Mouth Cool Old Lady BFG Re-Cut Anachronic Order Big-Bad Ensemble Captain Obvious Big Brother Instinct Take a Third Option Sealed Evil in a Can Heroes Want Redheads NO INDOOR VOICE Beauty Is Never Tarnished The '90s Auto Erotica Love at First Sight Token Minority Heel Realization Naked People Are Funny Shirtless Scene The Casanova Insult Backfire And I Must Scream Sadistic Choice True Companions Roaring Rampage of Revenge Chekhov's Skill Sequel Escalation Scenery Porn Only Sane Man Hooker with a Heart of Gold You Killed My Father Central Theme No Ending 20 Minutes into the Future Call-Forward Kill It with Fire British Films Big Eater Those Wacky Nazis Spiteful Spit Italian Films Only in It for the Money Music Stories Television Movie Index Dwindling Party Index of Film Westerns Fanservice Logo Joke Contrived Coincidence Shoot the Shaggy Dog Screw This, I'm Outta Here! The Alleged Car Dramedy Hero of Another Story An Axe to Grind Rule of Cool Wounded Gazelle Gambit Department of Redundancy Department Disappeared Dad Precision F-Strike MacGuffin Woman in White Flashback Facial Horror Affectionate Parody Combat Pragmatist Agony of the Feet Rape as Drama Novelization Reality Has No Subtitles Creepy Child Straight Gay Rule of Three Poor Communication Kills Put on a Bus Bi the Way An Arm and a Leg Woman Scorned Armor-Piercing Question Rousing Speech Nice Guy Action Survivor Kids Are Cruel Credits Gag Death by Irony Implacable Man Politically Incorrect Villain Not What It Looks Like Informed Ability Lighter and Softer Defiant to the End Humiliation Conga folderlabel Grey and Gray Morality Paper-Thin Disguise Pragmatic Adaptation The Faceless Real Life Writes the Plot Imagine Spot Creative Closing Credits Gratuitous English Half the Man He Used to Be The '80s In Name Only Gender Flip Daddy's Girl Celebrity Paradox Scare Chord Daylight Horror Hypocritical Humor Pragmatic Villainy Bottomless Magazines Bald of Evil French Films Mr. Fanservice Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Final Girl Artistic License – Biology Film Noir What the Hell, Hero? Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Punch-Clock Villain Drugs Are Bad Does This Remind You of Anything? Spared by the Adaptation Eye Scream Biopic Narrator Posthumous Character Faking the Dead Arch-Enemy Genre Throwback Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Visual Pun The Stoic Taking the Bullet Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Anti-Hero Not Quite Dead Catapult Nightmare Dogged Nice Guy Dirty Old Man As the Good Book Says... Wham Shot Punny Name Morality Pet Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Handicapped Badass Irony Your Cheating Heart Stalker with a Crush Fire-Forged Friends The Oner Genre Shift Romantic Comedy Gone Horribly Right Badass in a Nice Suit The Bad Guy Wins Awesome, but Impractical Honor Before Reason Red Right Hand The Mafia Parental Neglect No-Sell Fate Worse than Death Deliberately Monochrome Bavarian Fire Drill My Beloved Smother Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Vitriolic Best Buds Last-Name Basis Ascended Extra Mistaken for Gay Fanservice Extra Mexican Standoff Bunny-Ears Lawyer Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Determinator aka: The Determinator Annoying Younger Sibling Adaptation Name Change Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The Ace Ax-Crazy All There in the Manual Even Evil Has Standards Heel–Face Turn Aside Glance Domestic Abuse Suspiciously Specific Denial And Starring Lampshade Hanging Nice Hat Animated Credits Opening Obfuscating Stupidity Black Comedy Outrun the Fireball Gainax Ending Alliterative Name Line-of-Sight Name Only a Flesh Wound Funny Foreigner Mythology Gag The Place Karma Houdini Evil Is Petty Berserk Button As You Know Establishing Character Moment Bloody Hilarious Broken Aesop Bar Brawl Light Is Not Good Ass Shove Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Freudian Excuse Manipulative Bastard Bad "Bad Acting" Reality Is Unrealistic Determinator Jerk Jock Easily Forgiven I Did What I Had to Do Anguished Declaration of Love Air-Vent Passageway Australian Movies Alpha Bitch Break the Haughty Adaptational Attractiveness Tagline Only Known by Their Nickname Early Installment Weirdness Deus ex Machina Brother–Sister Incest Scary Black Man Offscreen Teleportation A Date with Rosie Palms Villain with Good Publicity Silent Movie