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** While posing as the [[HumanDisguise human Rashid]], the vampire Armand wears brown contact lenses and gloves to cover up his vampiric features, specifically his [[TechnicolorEyes orange irises]] and his [[AbsurdlySharpClaws razor-sharp nails]].

** Ilia is a chameleon Faunus who comes from a Mantle Dust mining community. Being able to pass for human gives her parents the chance to try and get her a better life. They insist she suppress her Faunus traits to allow her to function in an Atlas prep school, and make friends. She isn't allowed to tell her friends anything about her family, and she has to go along with her peers whenever they mock or insult Faunus. When tragedy strikes the Mantle Faunus and the humans laughed about it, everything changes: outed when she turns blue with grief, she responds to the nastiness of her former friends by breaking their teeth.

* ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} keeps sawing off his devil horns (and on one occasion,''snaps'' them off). This is only a little to hide the fact that he's not human (given how even without horns [[BigRedDevil he doesn't look remotely human]]) and mostly as he's the AntiAntiChrist and rejects his horns for representing how he's "[[ScrewDestiny supposed]]" to end the world.

* It's revealed late in the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Resurgence}}'' that [[spoiler: Ruby's mother, Summer Rose, was [[HalfHumanHybrid half-Faunus]]. As human-Faunus hybrids are subject to HalfBreedDiscrimination from both races, she never removed her hood in front of others, even her own teammates, to hide her own Faunus ears out of shame. Around the time of Ruby's birth, she ultimately had the ears surgically removed.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}'', once Hyde [[spoiler: begins to mutate through exposure to the monster atmosphere]], he takes to wearing a mask.

** It's shown via photos that Eda would hide her PointyEars under a bandana whenever she was messing around in the Human Realm. [[spoiler:The Hexsquad do something similar during the several months they spend trapped on Earth in "Thanks to Them" (save for Halloween, since they could just pass it off as part of their costumes).

* The title character of ''Webcomic/{{Selkie}}'' doesn't usually bother to hide her nonhuman features (not that it's easy to hide [[InsistentTerminology periwinkle]] skin, webbed hands and feet, and a mouth full of razor sharp teeth), but when her eyes start glowing, she [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie1002/ wears sunglasses]] until she can learn how to make them stop.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "The Unnatural" concerns a small-town baseball player who is actually a [[TheGreys Grey Alien]] who chooses to live as a human due to his love of the game.

** When the vampire Armand pretends to be the [[HumanDisguise human Rashid]], he wears brown contact lenses and gloves to cover up his vampiric features, specifically his orange irises and his razor-sharp nails.

* Like [[Literature/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep its source material]] below, ''Film/BladeRunner'' involves a number of androids, or "[[NotUsingTheZedWord replicants]]", posing as human. There's also hints that the protagonist, Rick Deckard, who hunts down and "[[DeadlyEuphemism retires]]'' rogue replicants for a living, may secretly be a replicant himself, [[ShrugOfGod but not even the people who actually made the movie can agree on whether he is or not]].

* In the live-action ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' the young Grinch is teased for his green furry appearance. He tries shaving it off, but it only makes things worse.

* In ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', Invaders disguise themselves as other species to prep their planets for invasion/destruction. Zim is [[PaperThinDisguise comically bad at it]], not even bothering to hide his green skin or lack of a nose or ears; his robot servant, GIR, likewise uses a green dog outfit but still walks on his hind legs. His more competent rival, Tak, uses holograms that are far more effective.

* Most versions of TheMenInBlack urban legend have them displaying [[UncannyValley peculiar traits]] (bulging or sunken eyes, very long fingers, exaggerated body language, odd speech patterns) that lead witnesses to believe they are something else (usually aliens) masquerading as human beings, but given their elusive nature, this is never confirmed.

** Illia is a human-looking Chameleon Faunus who spent much of her life passing as human. She even joined in her friends when they [[FantasticRacism mocked Faunus]]. Unfortunately, Faunus are able to tell other Faunus, so this led to a lot of awkward and distasteful stares from Faunus.

** ''The Green Sea-Unicorn has the mermaid Pamela Poutine, who left the sea and moved to London to become an actress. She drags herself around on crutches and wears long skirts with hoops to hide the shape of her tail.

* ''Literature/{{Thora}}'': In the first book, the mermaid Halla teaches her half-human daughter to keep the purple scales on her legs and feet covered, and wear a ponytail to hide the blowhole on her head.

* Much like the ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' example below, ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}''[='s=] Count Olrok spends a good chunk of the story pretending to be an ordinary ([[LooksLikeOrlok if weird-looking]]) human nobleman, which is only to be expected seeing as ''Nosferatu'' is just ''Dracula'' with the SerialNumbersFiledOff.

* Creator/CoryDoctorow's ''Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town''. Mimi has wings. Attempting to be 'normal', she has her boyfriend cut them off every time, but they keep growing back.

* When a small boy discovers a magical fish, he adopts it and names her ''Anime/{{Ponyo}}''. Ponyo promptly morphs into a young girl, the better to interact with the boy and his mother.

* [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]] in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''; while humanity has mostly gotten used to people with physical traits that would be downright horrifying to us since it's caused by their Quirks, there is a case where some people's Quirks are seen as inherently more dangerous/evil than others and thus are picked on for having a "villain" Quirk. Some try to [[BadPowersGoodPeople change this perception and be heroic]] such as Hitoshi Shinso, whose Quirk allows him to mentally command anyone who responds to something he says, while others adopt the moniker and become villains [[spoiler:like the "Hero Killer" Stain, whose Quirk allows him to paralyze anyone whose blood he's ingested, [[WellIntentionedExtremist although]] [[KnightTemplar he has]] [[FallenHero a few]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards other issues]].]]
* All the yokai in ''Manga/MononokeSharing'' (except for Kuro) have to take measures to appear human when they're in public. Mizuchi wears a wig to hide her head plate, Yuki wears extra layers to keep herself from freezing everything, Yooko wears a hoodie to cover her ears, and [[AmusingInjuries Momi rips out her horns]]. [[spoiler:Inverted with Chiehime, who dresses like a stereotypical yokai in order to hide the fact that she's [[MuggleBornOfMages functionally human]].]]
* The Conductor from ''Manga/GalaxyExpress999'' is an invisible being, hiding himself in his thick uniform and panicking over the fact that anyone might be able to see his body. [[spoiler:As revealed in the film ''Adieu Galaxy Express 999'', this body comes from him being unable to decide over a human body or a mechanical one. At this point, he has accepted his invisible self.]]

* ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} keeps sawing off his devil horns (and on one occasion,''snaps'' them off). This is only a little to hide the fact that he's not human (given how even without horns [[BigRedDevil he doesn't look remotely human]]) and mostly as he's the AntiAntiChrist and rejects his horns for representing how he's "[[ScrewDestiny supposed]]" to end the world.

* Similarly, the ComicBook/MartianManhunter adopts the identity of deceased cop John Jones (whose name conveniently sounds the same as his Martian name, J'onn J'onzz) as his SecretIdentity.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Karolina initially needs to keep her fake Med-Alert bracelet on or else she lights up like a Christmas tree, due to her Majesdanian heritage. Later in the series, she becomes able to suppress the glowing effect through her own efforts.

* ''Fanfic/StrangeTimesAreUponUs'' has a pair of time-traveling Klingons wear headscarves to hide [[RubberForeheadAliens their head ridges]], allowing them to pass as black in 1859 Pennsylvania (they're at one point mistaken for escaped slaves). When Brokosh, a [[http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Lethean Lethean]] decides [[INeedAFreakingDrink he needs a drink]], he suggests he could do the same by just telling people he's a Pacific Islander with old burn scars.
* It's revealed late in the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Resurgence}}'' that [[spoiler: Ruby's mother, Summer Rose, was [[HalfHumanHybrid half-Faunus]]. As human-Faunus hybrids are subject to HalfBreedDiscrimination from both races, she never removed her hood in front of others, even her own teammates, to hide her own Faunus ears out of shame. Around the time of Ruby's birth, she ultimately had the ears surgically removed.]]
* In the ''Manga/DragonBallZ'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7183901/1/The-Bond The Bond,]]'' Makoto, as a full-blooded Saiyan, retains a monkey tail. In public, he usually wraps it around his waist so people think it's a furry belt.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Mudsnake}}'', Hermione gets sorted into Slytherin. To avoid bullying for being a muggleborn, she tells everyone that she's a half-blood raised by squibs.
* ''Fanfic/LullabiesAndFairyTales'': The 11th chapter involves a fish faunus (or a "merman" as many humans call them) named Lamar. He has green scales that he hides underneath his clothes in order to pass as human.

* In ''Film/HumanNature'', the protagonist has fur. She hates herself for it. She shaves her entire body (except the head, of course) every morning, and punishes herself by choosing a man who is utterly disgusted by female bodily hair.
* In the live-action ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' the young Grinch is teased for his green furry appearance. He tries shaving it off, but it only makes things worse.
* Scott Calvin in ''Film/TheSantaClause'' kept shaving and dying his hair (he didn't want to look like Santa), only to have the beard grow back immediately, and the hair to go back to white.
* ''Film/EvanAlmighty'' also features a beard that won't go away, similar to ''Film/TheSantaClause''.
* Klaatu, the HumanAlien protagonist of ''Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951'' and [[Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill2008 its remake]] spends a good chunk of the film hiding from the military by posing as a man named Mister Carpenter who's renting an apartment with a local family, he soon becomes trusting enough of the family to let them in on his secret and elicit their help in getting back to his ship and preventing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
* Most aliens in ''Film/MenInBlack'' do this, wearing some sort of disguise so they can pass as humans as part of a {{Masquerade}}.
* Much like the ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' example below, ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}''[='s=] Count Olrok spends a good chunk of the story pretending to be an ordinary ([[LooksLikeOrlok if weird-looking]]) human nobleman, which is only to be expected seeing as ''Nosferatu'' is just ''Dracula'' with the SerialNumbersFiledOff.
* Like [[Literature/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep its source material]] below, ''Film/BladeRunner'' involves a number of androids, or "[[NotUsingTheZedWord replicants]]", posing as human. There's also hints that the protagonist, Rick Deckard, who hunts down and "[[DeadlyEuphemism retires]]'' rogue replicants for a living, may secretly be a replicant himself, [[ShrugOfGod but not even the people who actually made the movie can agree on whether he is or not]].
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: After Loki discovers that he's actually a Jötunn, he never deactivates his Asgardian {{Glamour}} because he was raised by his adoptive society to hate and fear Frost Giants, and thus he's ashamed of his true lineage and doesn't want to look like a "race of monsters." Moreover, having been wholly assimilated into Asgardian culture, maintaining his Asgardian veneer is his way of proving to others that [[NurtureOverNature he's still very much a citizen of Asgard]] despite his alien background.
* The villain in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' turns out to be a {{Toon}} in a HumanDisguise.
* PlayedForDrama in ''Film/ManOfSteel'', which takes a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructionist approach]] to Franchise/{{Superman}}. Clark's adoptive parents, Jonathan and Martha Kent, continuously stress to him the importance of hiding his powers and alien origins, as they're worried that humanity would fear and reject him due to [[FlyingBrick his amazing abilities]]. These worries are more or less vindicated in the follow-up ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', where it's shown that there are many people around the world who are legitimately concerned that a BewareTheSuperman situation could happen down the road.

* In ''Literature/HoshiAndTheRedCityCircuit'', Operators, who have a disability similar to UsefulNotes/{{autism}}, wear a glowing [[BrainComputerInterface navis]] under their foreheads to help them function. When Hoshi is disguised as a normal, she wears a hat to hide her navis and sunglasses to hide her lack of eye contact.
* Literature/{{Ravirn}} naturally has (somewhat) pointed ears, and 'cat-slit' irises, and has to be reminded to cover up (with a glamour) when around "ordinary mortals"; his girlfriend, as a fellow member of The House(s) of Fate uses a glamor as well. The reason he doesn't cover up ''all'' of the time? There's a dress code for visiting Family, which ''doesn't'' include the glamour.

* Alara Kitan from ''Series/TheOrville'' (an AffectionateParody of ''Franchise/StarTrek'') sometimes has to hide her Xelayan features in a similar manner to the aforementioned Trek aliens.

* Many {{Conspiracy Theorist}}s, such as Creator/DavidIcke allege that various assorted world leaders and public figures are actually ReptilianConspiracy shapeshifted into human forms so that they can secretly control the masses and advance the goals of whatever AncientConspiracy it is that they happen to belong to, as evidenced by the fact that their pupils kinda look like vertical slits when photographed from certain angles.
* [[DevilInDisguise Demons]], [[AngelUnaware angels, and gods]] posing as human are common enough in mythology and mythology-derived fiction to have their own tropes.
* Many mythical creatures, such as the Japanese jorogumo or the Welsh morgen, disguise themselves as beautiful ([[ShamelessFanserviceGirl often nude]]) women in order to attract men, usually luring them to their deaths.
* In Celtic mythology, TheFairFolk will sometimes abduct human infants and replace them with infant (or sometimes elderly) fairies, attempting to pass the replacements, known as [[ChangelingTale Changelings]], off as genuine human babies so the parents won't notice that their child had been stolen. Depending on the story, the changeling might wither and die within a short period, become a threat to the family, be [[PaperThinDisguise easily found out]] and dealt with accordingly, or be raised as a human, not finding out its true nature until its well into adulthood.

* In ''VideoGame/XComEnemyUnknown'', Thin Men look like unnaturally lanky humans wearing suits and sunglasses, similar to the stereotypical [[TheMenInBlack Men in Black]] depicted in other media (see above). [[GlamorFailure Some traits hinting at their alien origins are present]], such as colored spots on their neck, and the way they can stretch their body when falling from great heights. In ''VideoGame/XCom2'', it is revealed that Thin Men were actually [[SnakePeople Vipers]] disguised so they can blend in with other humans.

* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' heavily features "Synths", synthetic humans manufactured by the Institute with all the internal functions that are outwardly indistinguishable from real human beings. Many of them pose as humans, either by [[KillAndReplace Killing and Replacing]] innocent wastelanders to further the goals of the shadowy organization known as the Institute, or by creating new identities in order to evade capture after escaping the Institute (where they're basically slaves). Naturally, ''Film/BladeRunner'' [[ShoutOut shout-outs]] abound.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}'', once Hyde [[spoiler: begins to mutate through exposure to the monster atmosphere]], he takes to wearing a mask.
* Marina from ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' is an Octoling living amongst Inklings. However, most of the Inklings [[FailedASpotCheck don't realize she's an Octoling]] and just think she is an odd looking Inkling. Marina doesn't deny being an Octoling, but due to the animosity between the two species she tries to avoid referencing that she's an Octoling. Sometimes she [[PassFail slips up]], like when she referred to [[YouMeanXmas Octivus instead of Squidmas]].
* Kharg from ''VideoGame/ArcTheLadTwilightOfTheSpirits'' discovers he's a HalfHumanHybrid rather than a pure human shortly before a pair of draconic wings sprout from his back, terrifying everyone around him. He later rips the wings off in disgust.
* [[spoiler:Kuja]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''. He hides [[spoiler:his tail, as it clearly marks him as a Genome]].

* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'': {{Justified|Trope}} regarding undead characters, who need to hide their [[DemBones skeletal bodies]] to avoid being [[TorchesAndPitchforks attacked on sight]] as monsters. Concealing clothing is enough, but the skeleton scholar Fane uses a MaskOfPower that generates a magical HumanDisguise (or elf, dwarf, or {{lizard|folk}}).

* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': In "thirteensomething", Babs disguises herself as a human to get a part on the titular sitcom.

* In ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim,'' Invaders disguise themselves as other species to prep their planets for invasion/destruction. Zim is [[PaperThinDisguise comically bad at it]], not even bothering to hide his green skin or lack of a nose or ears; his robot servant, GIR, likewise uses a green dog outfit but still walks on his hind legs. His more competent rival, Tak, uses holograms that are far more effective.

A supertrope of InhumanEyeConcealers.