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* In ''EightBitTheater'', Red Mage casts an illusion spell on the Light Warriors that works this way. Since the change isn't immediately obvious, Black Mage spends a good deal of time mocking him for casting a spell that apparently did nothing before Red Mage gets a chance to explain.

* The "Familiar Stranger" power of ''VampireTheRequiem'''s Obfuscate Discipline makes the target view the vampire as a person he knows. The FridgeLogic is that what the target perceives is not communicated to the player.

* This is how the Spy's disguises in ''TeamFortress2'' work, in practice. It's speculated that his disguise kit uses some form of holographic technology.

** In one episode, Sam leaps into the body of a war vet who has lost both his legs. Al warns him not to try to get up. When Sam does get up at the end of the episode, the others see a guy with no legs floating in mid-air.

* In ''ChangelingTheLost'', all changelings have been twisted and become inhuman, but normal humans instead see their ''mask'', a slightly altered human guise. The changeling, and other changelings (as well as the Fey), however, are all capable of seeing the changeling's true form.

A variant of WeirdnessCensor. AFormYouAreComfortableWith and YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm are often forms of this.

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* Happened a few times during the CrossoverWars: during the Forum Wars the Evil Overlord forces attacked the Wotch forum disguised as members of the [[ElGoonishShive EGS]] & [[CollegeRoomiesFromHell CRFH]] forums; during the Adult Wars Terry Dix cast a spell to make her & Miss Violence appear to be EOU droids & later convince the droids that M.Organ was Deception of the EOU.

* Not a spell, but ''{{Freefall}}'' [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1300/fc01290.htm used a technological way to cause the same effect]].

*** And don't forget that at one point, Skeeve completely forgot that he was still disguised as another species when he started to talk about who he was...

* In ''BigBadBeetleborgs'', this was combined with TheNthDoctor when Shannon Chandler left the series: Halfway through Season 1, Wolfgang, while playing with a magic book, accidentally caused Jo to change in appearance. To counteract this, Flabber used his magic to make her look and sound just like herself, except to the people who saw him do the spell. So the viewers, Flabber, Drew, and Roland could still see Jo in her new appearance, played by Brittany Konarzewski, but the Hillhurst monsters as well as their family and friends could see her as she looked before. The psychological impact this would have on her brother and best friend was never addressed.

** In "The Man Trap" the salt vampire could make itself appear to be a specific person to everyone looking at it. Because of his long experience with it, Professor Crater could always recognize it no matter what form it took.

** In "The Man Trap" the salt vampire could make itself appear to be a specific person to everyone looking at it. It could also make itself appear to be a different person to each person looking at it. Because of his long experience with it, Professor Crater could always recognize it no matter what form it took.

** In "The Man Trap" the salt vampire could make itself appear different to each person looking at it. Because of his long experience with it, Professor Crater could always recognize it no matter what form it took.

* The "Familiar Stranger" power of ''VampiretheRequiem'''s Obfuscate Discipline makes the target view the vampire as a person he knows. The FridgeLogic is that what the target perceives is not communicated to the player.

*** And because he felt it was contrary to the mutants-are-okay message.
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* In the ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Spectre of the Gun", aliens put Kirk and company into a simulation of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. They, and the audience, still see each other normally in their Starfleet uniforms, but the other people in the simulated town react to them as though they were Ike Clanton and company.

* This is how the Spy's disguises in ''TeamFortress2'' work, in practice. In-universe, it might just be that everyone is dumb enough to fall for [[PaperThinDisguise cutout paper masks]]... except, for some reason, those worn by teammates.

* In ''ChangelingTheLost'', all changelings have been twisted and become inhuman, but normal humans instead see their ''mien'', a slightly altered human guise. The changeling, and other changelings (as well as the Fey), however, are all capable of seeing the changeling's true form.