Basic Trope: A character perfectly disguises themselves.
- Straight: Bob unmasks himself to reveal Alice. It is impossible to tell that "Bob" is in fact Alice until this scene.
- Exaggerated: Bob unmasks himself to reveal Alice. Alice unmasks herself to reveal David. David unmasks himself to reveal Claire. This continues until Yvonne unmasks herself to reveal the ''real'' Bob.
- Downplayed: Bob’s actor wears just enough makeup to look "just off".
- Justified: Bob has the neccesary credentials for a place Alice wants to access.
- Inverted: Paper-Thin Disguise
- Subverted: Claire tries pulling on Bob’s face. Turns out it really was just Bob.
- Double Subverted: Until David checks Bob’s back and finds out there’s an inconspicuous zipper. Bob really was Alice in disguise.
- Parodied:
- Alice and Bob have an unmasking war, with layers including a horse, a baby, a shopping trolley, a Toyota Corolla, a penguin, Barack Obama, a sack of potatoes and a chihuahua before ending with two Alices.
- A Paper-Thin Disguise is treated as this, complete with Mission: Impossible music when it is taken off.
- Zig-Zagged: The mask was accurate, but the rest of "Bob" is a Paper-Thin Disguise. People fall for Alice's disguise anyways.
- Averted: No characters are unmasked.
- Enforced: This trope can finally be used as the purpose of that creepy, hyperrealistic Bob mask that was lying around in the prop box.
- Lampshaded:
- "Aw man! Not another latex mask!"
- "Cue the Mission: Impossible music..."
- Invoked: Alice is required to use these in a mission.
- Exploited:
- Emperor Evulz uses a disguise to convince Alice that he is Bob to trick and then capture her.
- Alice sells the masks she makes for a profit - there would be many uses/buyers for such an impossibly perfect disguise/costume.
- Defied: Alice believes masks to be a rather stupid means of sneaking into places, so she makes a point of using more conventional stealth tactics.
- Discussed: “Where do you even get those REALLY realistic masks, Alice?”
- Conversed: "I do wonder why the characters in this show I’m watching seem to always have access to masks that are WAY too realistic...”
- Played for Laughs:
- Alice uses latex masks as the solution to literally every problem. A Running Gag has dramatic music play every time she unmasks, even in situations where it is decidely not a Dramatic Unmask. Bonus points if snarkier members of the cast joke that she may get a buzz from wearing masks.
- Characters acknowledge that they are in a cartoon, so they exploit and lampshade the fact that making a convincing mask is easy.
- Played for Drama:
- People using disguises to have sex with others is treated as a form of violation.
- Alice is betrayed by "Bob", who was actually Emperor Evulz in disguise, during a climactic battle. Alice is distraught, imprisoned by Evulz after losing the battle, and heartbroken at The Reveal of what really happened to Bob.
- Played for Horror: They Look Like Us Now
You thought I was Multi Layer Facade under that Disguise Tropes mask, but I am really... sstrrrech SNAP! ...Latex Perfection!
