History Main / DressingAsTheEnemy

* An extreme example happened in ''SinCity''. Dwight [=McCarthy=] had previously been shot in the face, requiring surgery. This ended up changing his appearance drastically. The BigBad, meanwhile, was planning to see a drug courier. Dwight had the courier killed and took his place in order to infiltrate the villain's estate. Since he was essentially disguised after his surgery, this allowed him easy access to the villain's mansion.
* ''LeScorpion'': Done twice ''The Angel's Shadow''. First Armando disguises himself as a warrior monk as part of a TrojanPrisoner gambit to gain access to the Vatican dungeons. later, he and Hussar disguise themselves as Warrior Monks to steal a shipment of gold.

* ''The Simpsons Movie''. Homer dresses as a hotel doorman to fool a soldier that he is a superior officer. He's only given away when the soldier queries why an order from the President is written on a leaf.

*** And later in the same story when Luthien disguises herself as a bat and Beren as a werewolf to infiltrate Morgoth's citadel

* In the ''SyphonFilter'' series starting with ''Omega Strain'', the player can take enemy outfits from corpses, and is sometimes required to obtain a disguise.

* In the ''SyphonFilter'' series starting with ''Omega Strain'', the player can take enemy outfits from corpses.

* In the ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' episode One Minute to Midnight. Methos almost lampshades it with the line "You know, this 'Bad guy just my size' routine never works, McLeod. " Less than a minute later, he proves it DOES work, by donning an Irish accent along with the bad guy's coat and shoots the other henchmen.

* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' lets you disguise yourself with certain factions' armor, which causes those factions to think you're a friendly, but also makes their enemies hostile as well. In other words, walking into an NCR Outpost wearing Caesar's Legion armor is a good way to get yourself ventilated. Also, the EliteMooks of the faction will see through your disguise if you get too close.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Uryuu and Orihime steal and wear some shihakusho to blend in during the Soul Society arc. Because it's [[GagBoobs Orihime]] and Uryuu, an [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn awkward]] LingerieScene is mandatory.

* ''TheGunsOfNavarone''. After turning the tables on and capturing their German Army interrogators, our heroes don their uniforms and escape.

* Mary-Maria tries this in ''{{ComicBook/ArcherAndArmstrong}}'' to sneak into Area 51. The costume fits fine, but she's still caught almost immediately, possibly because she has a hard time concealing her surprise when she runs into an alien.

* Mary-Maria tries this in ComicBook/ArcherAndArmstrong to sneak into Area 51. The costume fits fine, but she's still caught almost immediately, possibly because she has a hard time concealing her surprise when she runs into an alien.

* Mary-Maria tries this in ''{{ArcherAndArmstrong}}'' to sneak into Area 51. The costume fits fine, but she's still caught almost immediately, possibly because she has a hard time concealing her surprise when she runs into an alien.

* In ''Film/BattleOfTheBulge'', German soldiers dress as Americans to infiltrate and confuse American attacks.

* Operation Grief: Otto Skorzeny and a small groups of SS Commandos, fluent in English and wearing captured U.S. and British uniforms, infiltrated the allied lines during the Battle of the Bulge with the main objective of capturing the bridges over the Meuse river. Although they failed, they did succeed in making the U.S. Army so paranoid about their presence and activities that many checkpoints were set up which slowed down the Allies.

* RottenTown, Series/LazyTown's evil counterpart has the people dressed like the "evil dude".

* RottenTown, LazyTown's evil counterpart has the people dressed like the "evil dude".

-->-- '''''StarWars: ANewHope'''''

* Played with during one sequence in the BelisariusSeries, the title character has to escape from a city full of bad guys out for his blood. He needs a uniform to escape, but with the thousands of guards looking for him, he has difficulty finding a uniform that's both the right size, the right type, and being worn by a guard he can take out quietly. Several times he pulls a BavarianFireDrill on guards he runs into to get them to search someplace else. Eventually he finds the uniform, and makes it out of the city.

* In ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' [[Storm Shadow pretends to be Snake Eyes so that he can break into the German facility and free Cobra Commander.]]Also Jinx [[spoiler: disguises herself as a Cobra red ninja to get close to the Cobra Commander, Firefly and Zartan along with Storm Shadow, who was going after Zartan because he murdered the Hard Master.]]

* In ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' Jinx [[spoiler: disguises herself as a Cobra red ninja to get close to the Cobra Commander, Firefly and Zartan along with Storm Shadow, who was going after Zartan because he murdered the Hard Master.]]

** A similar inversion occurs in VForVendetta, when V [[spoiler: dresses up bound and gagged employees of the station he's attacking in replicas of his own costume, leading the guards to unwittingly open fire on them]].

*** The EU states the since Tuskens ''always'' wear robes all the time they tell each other apart with their gaderffiis (and banthas) since no two are alike, so to them you're basicly wearing a name tag.