History PaperThinDisguise / WebVideos

* One ''Website/CollegeHumor'' video that is a TakeThat to British Petroleum's response to the 2010 Gulf oil spill. Tony Hayward and other executives in BP's London offices announce to us after showing a video from an actual focus group that cleaning up the spill is difficult, so they're changing their name to Baby Otter Smiles & Co. Then Hayward and another employee Sally Harris (both of whom are wearing false mustaches) go to the house of Sarah Schneider (one of the focus group members). Sarah sees through their cover, says "You guys are monsters," and shuts the door on them.

* ''Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos'': The Slender Man is obviously not human, but it usually works. To the point where he can pull off the usual ChildEater shtick in [[DaylightHorror broad daylight,]] ''in direct view of their parents, who usually refuse to believe he exists.''

** Subverted in ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'', when several people recognize Spoony as "that doctor guy", despite his frantic efforts to pretend he's not Insano.
** Another ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'' example. During the invasion the President of Molossia [[AsHimself Kevin Baugh]] disguises himself as Baron Fritz von Baugh, Minister of Making Things Orderly. Although it is obviously him in disguise WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic decides to go along with it and lets him stay. [[spoiler:As it turned out doing this was a huge mistake on the Critic's part as it allowed Baugh the chance to plant a AppleOfDiscord within his already grumbling troops further sabotaging the future of Kickassia.]]

** PaperThinDisguise is also subverted, as when Captain Hammer meets Billy, he instantly recognises him as Dr Horrible.

* Subverted in ''The Sean Ward Show'' video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFwI37QPInA The Cat-Chelorette]]" (a parody of ''[[Series/TheBachelor The Bachelorette]]'' where Catwoman is the object of other comic characters' affections); Harley Quinn participates "disguised" as Superman, with said disguise consisting only of an S-shield T-shirt and a cape. No one is fooled, but Harley insists that she's Superman throughout (except for the talking head segments where, even though she thinks she's fooling everyone, she confesses why she's doing it: to keep an eye on the Joker, who is also a contestant).

* ''Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos'': The Slender Man is obviously not human, but it usually works. To the point where he can pull off the usual ChildEater shtick in [[DaylightHorror broad daylight,]] ''[[UpToEleven in direct view of their parents, who usually refuse to believe he exists.]]''

* Terrence of ''WebVideo/KateModern'' is an unusual case. When he reinvents himself as bespectacled, cardigan-sporting religious nerd Terry, he is recognised almost immediately by the other characters. However, [[spoiler:it somehow doesn't occur to them that quiet, harmless Terry might be the murderer. He later plays this trope straight as the straight-jacketed Patient # 12]].

* One ''Website/CollegeHumor'' video that is a TakeThat to British Petroleum's response to the 2010 Gulf oil spill. Tony Hayward and other executives in BP's London offices announce to us after showing a video from an actual focus group that cleaning up the spill is difficult, so they're changing their name to Baby Otter Smiles & Co. Then Hayward and another employee Sally Harris (both of whom are wearing false mustaches) go to the house of Sarah Schneider (one of the focus group members). Sarah sees through their cover, says "You guys are monsters," and shuts the door on them.
* In ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'', the titular character is not recognized by Penny, even though neither his "costume" or his "normal" clothes covers his face (he wears {{goggles|DoNothing}}, but only on his forehead until the last scene).
** Possibly {{justified|Trope}} in that Penny may or may not have heard of Dr. Horrible: she never mentions him; he's not a big time supervillain (yet), and the first time she sees him, she is under a lot of stress, but still ends up recognizing him.
** Most people miss Billy in the back of the soup kitchen as he glowers at Captain Hammer and pours the soup back into the pot instead of into the bowl. The irony of it is his idea of disguise is wearing a fake mustache and an apron and not wearing his hoodie.
** PaperThinDisguise is also subverted, as when Captain Hammer meets Billy, he instantly recognises him as Dr Horrible.
--> '''Hammer:''' You seem ... ''horribly'' familiar.

* In ''WebVideo/TheTimeGuys'' episode with Timmy's Spanish teacher, Señor Tigre instantly realises that Dr. Chronos is not Timmy's father when Doc takes his multiple neckties off.

* ''Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos'': The Slender Man is obviously not human, but it usually works. To the point where he can pull off the usual ChildEater shtick in [[DaylightHorror broad daylight,]] ''[[UpToEleven in direct view of their parents, who usually refuse to believe he exists.]]''
* ''WebVideo/BarneyThePurpleDinosaur'' manages to escape from the Clugmuffer's hands by disguising himself as [[WebVideo/{{Smosh}} Boxman]].

* In ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'', the character Nott is a Goblin who pretends to be a halfling to avoid FantasticRacism. Nott's disguise is a cloak, bandages around his extremities, and a porcelain mask that only covers her mouth. It's a RunningGag that many random people either see through Nott's disguise or at least notice she is a very odd Halfling. The disguise is even worse in the official artwork as the cloak does not cover the tips of Nott's green fingers, toes, or long green ears.

* ''WebVideo/AshensAndTheQuestForTheGamechild'' parodies this. After fighting and tying up some guards, Stuart references the scene in which [[StarWars Luke Skywalker infiltrated the Death Star by wearing Stormtrooper armor]], and then remarks they they could do "the exact same thing", with the camera panning onto the guards. [[spoiler:Queue Stuart and Geoff attempting to bypass security by literally wearing Stormtrooper armor]].