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* ''WesternAnimation/TheWonderfulWorldOfMickeyMouse'': In "Just the Four of Us", Donald and Daisy try to hide from an overbearing Mickey and Minnie when they believe they're sick. To hide from Minnie, Daisy lies in a pile of stuffed animals and pretends to be lifeless like them, and also wearsher hair bow on her neck to avoid suspicion.
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** In the sequel series ''Manga/CardcaptorSakuraClearCard, Akiho's beloved "stuffed rabbit" Momo also pretends to be a toy when most people are watching. While Sakura is well aware of Kero's true nature, Akiho has no idea that Momo is really a sentient magical being.
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': One scene during the Whole Cake Island arc has the rabbit BeastMan Carrot infiltrating [[BigBad Big Mom's]] bedroom to steal something. When one of her guards woke up, she just adopted a cute pose, and the guard simply took her for a stuffed rabit.
* ''Anime/SonicX'': In one early episode, while Chris is still getting used to having Sonic and friends living with him, they need to hide Tails the fox from the housemaid Ella. So Tails leans against a pillow, not moving, and Chris makes up a story about Tails being a friend's stuffed animal.
* ''Anime/SonicX'': In one early episode, while Chris is still getting used to having Sonic and friends living with him, they need to hide Tails the fox from the housemaid Ella. So Tails leans against a pillow, not moving, and Chris makes up a story about Tails being a friend's stuffed animal.
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* ''Anime/SonicX'': Inone early episode, while Chris is still getting used to "Cracking Knuckles", having Sonic and friends living with him, they need no time to hide Tails the fox from Tails, Chris tells him to lay still on a pillow and lies to the housemaid Ella. So that he's a toy fox one of his friends left. Later, Tails leans against a pillow, not moving, and Amy pretend to be stuffed animals so they and Chris makes up a story about Tails being a friend's stuffed animal.can take the train to Silver Valley. A little girl starts tugging on Amy's ear, and she kicks her in response, diverting attention away from the three when she starts crying.
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If the main character has an imp, fairy, monster, or robot companion of small enough size, the creature will probably be able to pose as a doll. This allows for the creature to blend into its surroundings and for it to be seen in public without suspicion, letting the writers explain how the companion is able to be on the scene without being exposed.
This tends to lead to moments of comedy, like an undisciplined child tries to play with the main character's "doll" without permission, (or even with it if the main character is {{Jerkass}}), a stranger commenting that a proud warrior creature is [[BadassAdorable adorable]] or that a particularly vain creature is horrifyingly creepy.
A WindUpKey may be added to help with the disguise. Compare NobodyHereButUsStatues, where a character poses like a statue to hide from someone. See also HiddenInPlainSight.
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* In ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' Kero normally manages to pulls this off in his lesser form, being a very small mouse-like creature with wings.
* In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' when the kids where on a train, a baby starting bothering on Yokomon and she yell at the baby. Sora then tried to pass it off as ventriloquism so everyone simply assumed she was a doll.
* In ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', Terriermon masquerades as a plushie when other people are in the room because of his cute appearance. Unfortunately for him, thinks makes him the butt of many of Suzie's antics, such as getting dressed up in girly clothes.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': One scene during the Whole Cake Island arc has the rabbit BeastMan Carrot infiltrating [[BigBad Big Mom's]] bedroom to steal something. When one of her guards woke up, she just adopted a cute pose, and the guard simply took her for a stuffed rabit.
* ''Anime/SonicX'': In one early episode, while Chris is still getting used to having Sonic and friends living with him, they need to hide Tails the fox from the housemaid Ella. So Tails leans against a pillow, not moving, and Chris makes up a story about Tails being a friend's stuffed animal.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'': When Geppetto turns on one of his carved music boxes, Jiminy Cricket hides from him by pretending to be one of the moving mechanical figures on it.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4'': While sneaking around the pawn shop, Woody accidentally (and loudly) knocks over a phone with a human nearby. To avoid being caught moving, he quickly makes himself look like part of the phone (similar to [[https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/mickey-mouse-phone-denise-mazzocco.jpg this Mickey Mouse phone]]) when the human turns her head.
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* In ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', the title character hides in a closet containing several very large stuffed animals. It works. Fortunately for him, the children present are already aware of TheMasquerade.
* In ''Film/{{Hop}}'', EB the talking rabbit is mistaken for a plushie by Fred's sister.
* In ''Film/TheSmurfs'', when the Smurfs hide in the toy store, they pretend to be animatronic toys.
* ''Film/{{Ted 2}}'': While being chased by Donny at New York Comic Con, Ted finds a booth full of similar-looking teddy bears and lies perfectly still among them. Donny manages to flush him out by singing [[Music/NeilDiamond "Sweet Caroline"]] so that Ted will instinctively sing the "Bom-Bom-BOM!" part.
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* In ''Series/{{ALF}}'s Special Christmas'', ALF accidentally gets delivered to a hospital in a van full of toys he unwittingly climbed into while looking for gifts for the Tanner family. To avoid people suspecting that he is an alien, ALF holds perfectly still so that people will think he is a toy. When ALF is given to Tiffany, a little girl he finds out [[LittlestCancerPatient isn't going to live to see another Christmas]], he keeps up the act when she calls him "Amanda" and [[TheDreadedPretendTeaParty plays tea party with him]], but draws the line when she tries to put earrings on him.
* In one episode of ''Series/Zoey101'', the girls are trying to hide Chase and Michael's dog, Elvis. They teach him to hide in the girls' pile of stuffed animals, where he lays limp and gets mistaken for one of the toys by the Dorm Advisor.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': [[{{Hobbits}} Halflings]] can take the "Creepy Doll" racial trait, which lets them [[HiddenInPlainSight hide in plain sight]] by falling limp and pretending to be a toy.
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* In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', Ishtar splits into seven chibi versions of herself in order to maintain communication with the imprisoned Servants during the Dead Heat Summer Race. When Warden Quetzalcoatl shows up to check on the racers, Ishtar lies perfectly still in hopes of fooling her into thinking she's just a doll. [[spoiler:It's implied that Quetzalcoatl saw through the disguise from the start and merely played along to bring down Gugalanna later.]]
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', Pal and Nemo are looking for D.W.'s imaginary friend Nadine in the Tibbles' house. When the Tibble twins approach, Pal suggests Nemo pretend to be one of the plushes in a pile nearby. The twins see the fake plush cat and take it to a different room.
* In ''The WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} Penguins in: A Christmas Caper'', Private looks for a Christmas present in the city to cheer up a depressed Ted the Polar Bear. When he searches a souvenir stand, he poses as a toy to avoid being recognized by humans. Unfortunately, this works too well, as Nana mistakes him for a chew toy and buys him to give to her pet poodle, Mr. Chew, as a Christmas present. Because of how [[PsychoPoodle vicious]] Mr. Chew is when Nana isn't looking, it's up to Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico to save Private before Mr. Chew chews him to bits.
* ''WesternAnimation/MinaAndTheCount'': In the first short, the Count pretends to being one of Mina's toys when her father enters the room.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** "The Chronicles of Meap": Candace mistakes Meap for a Bangeroo doll the boys made themselves.
** In one episode Perry, after defeating Doofenshmirtz, landed in front of Phineas and Ferb in his agent persona, luckily the boys' project was making a lot of Perry the Platypus toys, so they simply thought he was a bad prototype.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "The Fool Monty", the ''E.T.'' scene is parodied when Bart hides an amnesiac Mr. Burns in a pile of plush toys (one of which is of E.T. himself).
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' has Jerry hiding among various tiny dolls that look just like him. Tom then proceeds to pull the tail of each doll, until he reaches Jerry, who shrieks in pain.
* The premise of ''WesternAnimation/{{Woofy}}'' is about a boy named Anthony who keeps the titular dog as a pet against his mother's will, so Woofy has to pretend he's a stuffed animal by staying perfectly limp in front of everyone else.
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If the main character has an imp, fairy, monster, or robot companion of small enough size, the creature will probably be able to pose as a doll. This allows for the creature to blend into its surroundings and for it to be seen in public without suspicion, letting the writers explain how the companion is able to be on the scene without being exposed.
This tends to lead to moments of comedy, like an undisciplined child tries to play with the main character's "doll" without permission, (or even with it if the main character is {{Jerkass}}), a stranger commenting that a proud warrior creature is [[BadassAdorable adorable]] or that a particularly vain creature is horrifyingly creepy.
A WindUpKey may be added to help with the disguise. Compare NobodyHereButUsStatues, where a character poses like a statue to hide from someone. See also HiddenInPlainSight.
!!Examples
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* In ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' Kero normally manages to pulls this off in his lesser form, being a very small mouse-like creature with wings.
* In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' when the kids where on a train, a baby starting bothering on Yokomon and she yell at the baby. Sora then tried to pass it off as ventriloquism so everyone simply assumed she was a doll.
* In ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', Terriermon masquerades as a plushie when other people are in the room because of his cute appearance. Unfortunately for him, thinks makes him the butt of many of Suzie's antics, such as getting dressed up in girly clothes.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': One scene during the Whole Cake Island arc has the rabbit BeastMan Carrot infiltrating [[BigBad Big Mom's]] bedroom to steal something. When one of her guards woke up, she just adopted a cute pose, and the guard simply took her for a stuffed rabit.
* ''Anime/SonicX'': In one early episode, while Chris is still getting used to having Sonic and friends living with him, they need to hide Tails the fox from the housemaid Ella. So Tails leans against a pillow, not moving, and Chris makes up a story about Tails being a friend's stuffed animal.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'': When Geppetto turns on one of his carved music boxes, Jiminy Cricket hides from him by pretending to be one of the moving mechanical figures on it.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4'': While sneaking around the pawn shop, Woody accidentally (and loudly) knocks over a phone with a human nearby. To avoid being caught moving, he quickly makes himself look like part of the phone (similar to [[https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/mickey-mouse-phone-denise-mazzocco.jpg this Mickey Mouse phone]]) when the human turns her head.
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* In ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', the title character hides in a closet containing several very large stuffed animals. It works. Fortunately for him, the children present are already aware of TheMasquerade.
* In ''Film/{{Hop}}'', EB the talking rabbit is mistaken for a plushie by Fred's sister.
* In ''Film/TheSmurfs'', when the Smurfs hide in the toy store, they pretend to be animatronic toys.
* ''Film/{{Ted 2}}'': While being chased by Donny at New York Comic Con, Ted finds a booth full of similar-looking teddy bears and lies perfectly still among them. Donny manages to flush him out by singing [[Music/NeilDiamond "Sweet Caroline"]] so that Ted will instinctively sing the "Bom-Bom-BOM!" part.
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* In ''Series/{{ALF}}'s Special Christmas'', ALF accidentally gets delivered to a hospital in a van full of toys he unwittingly climbed into while looking for gifts for the Tanner family. To avoid people suspecting that he is an alien, ALF holds perfectly still so that people will think he is a toy. When ALF is given to Tiffany, a little girl he finds out [[LittlestCancerPatient isn't going to live to see another Christmas]], he keeps up the act when she calls him "Amanda" and [[TheDreadedPretendTeaParty plays tea party with him]], but draws the line when she tries to put earrings on him.
* In one episode of ''Series/Zoey101'', the girls are trying to hide Chase and Michael's dog, Elvis. They teach him to hide in the girls' pile of stuffed animals, where he lays limp and gets mistaken for one of the toys by the Dorm Advisor.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': [[{{Hobbits}} Halflings]] can take the "Creepy Doll" racial trait, which lets them [[HiddenInPlainSight hide in plain sight]] by falling limp and pretending to be a toy.
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* In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', Ishtar splits into seven chibi versions of herself in order to maintain communication with the imprisoned Servants during the Dead Heat Summer Race. When Warden Quetzalcoatl shows up to check on the racers, Ishtar lies perfectly still in hopes of fooling her into thinking she's just a doll. [[spoiler:It's implied that Quetzalcoatl saw through the disguise from the start and merely played along to bring down Gugalanna later.]]
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', Pal and Nemo are looking for D.W.'s imaginary friend Nadine in the Tibbles' house. When the Tibble twins approach, Pal suggests Nemo pretend to be one of the plushes in a pile nearby. The twins see the fake plush cat and take it to a different room.
* In ''The WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} Penguins in: A Christmas Caper'', Private looks for a Christmas present in the city to cheer up a depressed Ted the Polar Bear. When he searches a souvenir stand, he poses as a toy to avoid being recognized by humans. Unfortunately, this works too well, as Nana mistakes him for a chew toy and buys him to give to her pet poodle, Mr. Chew, as a Christmas present. Because of how [[PsychoPoodle vicious]] Mr. Chew is when Nana isn't looking, it's up to Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico to save Private before Mr. Chew chews him to bits.
* ''WesternAnimation/MinaAndTheCount'': In the first short, the Count pretends to being one of Mina's toys when her father enters the room.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** "The Chronicles of Meap": Candace mistakes Meap for a Bangeroo doll the boys made themselves.
** In one episode Perry, after defeating Doofenshmirtz, landed in front of Phineas and Ferb in his agent persona, luckily the boys' project was making a lot of Perry the Platypus toys, so they simply thought he was a bad prototype.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "The Fool Monty", the ''E.T.'' scene is parodied when Bart hides an amnesiac Mr. Burns in a pile of plush toys (one of which is of E.T. himself).
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' has Jerry hiding among various tiny dolls that look just like him. Tom then proceeds to pull the tail of each doll, until he reaches Jerry, who shrieks in pain.
* The premise of ''WesternAnimation/{{Woofy}}'' is about a boy named Anthony who keeps the titular dog as a pet against his mother's will, so Woofy has to pretend he's a stuffed animal by staying perfectly limp in front of everyone else.
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