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---> Bob: "Wow, that's such a realistic costume! Good work!"
---> Archer: "Uh... thanks!"

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---> --> Bob: "Wow, that's such a realistic costume! Good work!"
---> --> Archer: "Uh... thanks!"



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* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Enforced''': ???Troperman is goaded into attending a costume party as himself.
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* '''Subverted''': While going as himself sounds wonderful, Cthulhu doesn't want to destroy the sanity of the entire neighborhood.

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* '''Subverted''': While going as himself sounds wonderful, Cthulhu doesn't want to destroy Archer the sanity of the entire neighborhood. tiger-man tries to sneak into a furry convention by pretending to be wearing a fursuit. The people inside immediately realize that it's not just a costume.
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* '''Inverted''': ???

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* '''Inverted''': ???Bob, who's wearing a Troperman costume at a comic convention, gets mistaken for the real Troperman and dragged into a crime-fighting adventure by another member of the League of Heroes.
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* '''Defied''': ???Troperman absolutely refuses to use his regular costume as a Halloween costume (dammit, it's the one night in the year he can pretend to be someone ''else'', right?) and dresses up as Millennium-Man (same powerset, gonna give you that, but he's [[ShowWithinAShow from a comic book]]).
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* '''Subverted''': ???

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* '''Subverted''': ???While going as himself sounds wonderful, Cthulhu doesn't want to destroy the sanity of the entire neighborhood.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character, especially someone such as a non-human or superhero, goes as themselves in an occasion where one would wear costumes.
* '''Straight''':
** Archer the [[CatFolk tiger-man]] decides to go as himself on Halloween.
** Troperman is a superhero who goes as himself to a costume party.
* '''Exaggerated''': Archer, Troperman, and a whole bunch of other non-humans and superheroes go as themselves to costume parties. Nobody suspects a thing.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Archer goes as a [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent weretiger]] for Halloween - all he has to do is wear ripped clothing.
** Troperman goes as his [[MythologyGag comic book equivalent's costume]].
** A HumanAlien wears an alien costume resembling LittleGreenMen.
* '''Justified''': Halloween and other costume events are one of the few times that characters such as monsters and superheroes can walk around as themselves without being questioned, and if they're lucky they may even be complimented on their "costumes". May as well take the opportunity.
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* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': The characters who do this get told YourCostumeNeedsWork.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': Nobody ever goes as themselves on Halloween.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
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* '''Exploited''': [[MonsterMash A group of monsters]] pretend to be people dressed in monster costumes in order to invade a costume party (or at least fit in).
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''':
---> Bob: "Wow, that's such a realistic costume! Good work!"
---> Archer: "Uh... thanks!"
* '''Conversed''': "You'd think someone would realize that's not just a guy dressed as a tiger, but an ''actual'' tiger-man."
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