History Main / CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise

* In ''{{Freefall}}'', Florence the Antropomorphic Wolf seeks shelter from a storm and medical attention... [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff400/fv00351.htm just as the house owner is watching a werewolf marathon]]. Crouched (to keep a wound closed), showing teeth (trying for a smile) and backlit by lightning, Florence is [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff400/fv00354.htm not a reassuring sight]].

** Wait... how do you do dental work on a guy in full makeup? Also, I remember an anecdote about Kane Hodder, Kirzinger's predecessor as Jason, once running into a few hikers in the woods; shortly after filming finished for the day, so he was still dressed as Jason. The next day, he had to answer a few questions for police.

** Naturally, said character was [[MistakenForNazi actually Jewish]]

* Ken Kirzinger (the actor who played [[FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] in ''[[ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy]] Vs. Jason'') needed dental work while he was filming the movie. He went to the dentist in full Jason costume and makeup as it would be too hard to take it all off, scaring the crap outta all the doctors and nurses.

* In a ''ScaryMovie'' spoof-scene of ''8 Mile'', the {{Eminem}}-type character pulls on a white hoodie which makes him look like a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and then absentmindedly greets the crowd by thrusting out his arm at a 45-degree angle. A jump cut shows him getting tossed out a window.

* Not entirely coincidental, but in the ''Amazing Stories'' episode "Mummy Daddy", an actor shooting a mummy movie in a hick town, dressed head-to-toe as a mummy, hears his wife is giving birth and rushes to the hospital without changing out of costume. According to town legend, a mummy came to life fifty years ago and wreaked havoc. Hilarity ensues [[spoiler: especially when the ''real'' mummy shows up]].

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* In ''TheMuppetMovie'', Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem paint Fozzie and Kermit's car to keep them safe from Doc Hopper. When Doc Hopper manages to recognize them anyway, Kermit spots a billboard that ''just happens'' to match the paint job, and has Fozzie pull up in front of it so they can hide.

* In ''TheMuppetMovie'', Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem paint Fozzie and Kermit's car to keep them safe from Doc Hopper. Later, they pull in front of a billboard that ''just happens'' to match the paint job.

** He´s also driving a VW Sedan (Hitler´s Car) and due to very precise burns on his tongue and hand he was also talking german-sounding gibberish and showing his middle finger.

* In ''Schtonk!'', the satire about the fake Hitler diaries, the counterfeiter is sitting at his work while wearing an old Wehrmacht coat. He has a fever, and his sweaty hair sticks to his forehead. Then he spills some ink, cleans it up with his handkerchief, sneezes, cleans his nose and unwillingly leaves a spot looking like a Hitler moustache. And then, his partner in crime comes in and tells him that people want proof that the diaries were written by noone but Hitler himself. Cue the counterfeiter looking in to a mirror.
* In ''WaynesWorld2'', Wayne roes in some friends to spy on his girlfriend meeting with a sleazeball suitor. From a telephone pole Wayne, dressed as a construction worker, sees them through binoculars. He radios Garth, dressed as a traffic cop, who in turn radios their accomplices, dressed as a sailor at a USO event and a leather-wearing biker working on his chopper. When Wayne's girlfriend notices, they abort and run into a random doorway, which takes them into a gay club, and onto the stage, where the DJ sees them and mistakes them for Villiage People impersonators, putting on "YMCA". Then, the Indian from Wayne's dreams shows up...

* In {{Eurotrip}}: The main character is in the Vatican, and he sneaks about in a private room of the Pope that leads to his balcony. There he quarrels with his friend, who puts a pope hat on his head. He slips and grabs the curtain of the balcony door, and it falls down with him. When he gets up, he accidentally opens the door and the curtain wrapped all around him looks like a pope's robe and the curtain rail in his hands like a pope's staff. With him looking like this, the huge crowd on Saint Peter's Square thinks he is the new Pope.
* In TheMuppetMovie Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem paint Fozzie and Kermit's car to keep them safe from Doc Hopper. Later, they pull in front of a billboard that ''just happens'' to match the paint job.

* In one episode of the ''Dick Van Dyke Show'', Laura and Rob dye something black, only to find that the black dye won't come off their hands and arms... on the night Rob speaks at an NAACP dinner.

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* In ''TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', Guybrush is mistaken for a giant chicken demon ("El Pollo Diablo") after being tarred and feathered. He can then choose to either unknowingly wonder what's going on or play along with a local chicken restaurant owner, who has a bit of a grudge against El Pollo Diablo to boot.
** You have the option of English or Spanish for this. Yes, even being confused and unaware of what's going on.
* In the first ''{{Space Quest}}'' game, setting up this kind of situation is required in order to progress. Roger Wilco needs to hide in a washer/dryer, get caught in the cycle, and emerges in one of the evil alien uniforms.

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* [[http://www.xkcd.com/700/ This]] ''{{xkcd}}'' strip.
** AltText implies that this is not the first instance of such a CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise.
* Done with a healthy dose of MoodWhiplash in ''CollegeRoomiesFromHell'' when Dave ends up with a rotten pumpkin crammed down over his head and Margaret shoots him, taking him for a pumpkin-headed zombie monster.
* In ''{{Freefall}}'', Florence the Antropomorphic Wolf seeks shelter from a storm and medical attention... [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff400/fv00351.htm just as the house owner is watching a werewolf marathon]]. Crouched (to keep a wound closed), showing teeth (trying for a smile) and backlit by lightning, Florence is [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff400/fv00354.htm not a reassuring sight]].

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* A rather dark and non-comedic version of this trope is the song "Iron Man" by {{Black Sabbath}}. In the song, a man travels to the future and sees that the apocalypse was brought about by a man made of iron. He goes back in time to warn the people in his modern time of the situation, but encounters a magnetic field that turns his body to steel and renders him mute. When he is unable to warn the people of the present, he becomes angry and tries to get revenge on humanity, [[StableTimeLoop creating the future that he attempted to stop]].
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* A RunningGag in ''ArsenicAndOldLace'' is that homicidal gangster Jonathan Brewster has been made to resemble BorisKarloff by his plastic surgeon, who was inspired by a horror movie (and very drunk at the time). No doubt it was even funnier during the original run, when Karloff himself played the part.
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* One [[Flapjack]] episode has the titular character, after a series of unlikely events, being mistaken for a GenieInABottle.

* In {{Eurotrip}}: The main character is in the Vatican, and he sneaks about in a private room of the Pope that leads to his balcony. There he quarrels with his friend, who puts a pope hat on his head. He slips and grabs the curtain of the balcony door, and it falls down with him. When he gets up, he accidentally opens the door and the curtain wrapped all around him looks like a pope's robe and the curtain rail in his hands like a pope's staff. With him looking like this, the huge crowd on Saint Peter's Square think he is the new Pope.