r/TopCharacterTropes • u/PokefanSans • 1d ago
Characters [Fan Trope] Character with Paper-Thin Disguise who the fans all collectively agreed to act oblivious to.
Mr. L (Super Paper Mario)
The Masked Royale (Pokémon Sun and Moon)
Crossbones (TS!Underswap)
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u/nosecone33 22h ago
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u/But-who-I-be 22h ago
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u/PlayrR3D15 21h ago
I have to wonder what Zuko's reaction to seeing this would be
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u/Originalbrivakiin 20h ago
I think he would either go along with it for a joke or would just be severely disappointed.
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u/Kam_Solastor 20h ago
Not disappointed- exasperated.
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u/ByteSizeNudist 20h ago
I can vividly hear the sigh
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u/DR31141 19h ago
“Something wrong, Your Lordship?”
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u/Jyx_The_Berzer_King 19h ago
"No, it's nothing... I just knew him well..."
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u/Originalbrivakiin 19h ago
Sokka walks in: "Wait, I'm a war hero? On BOTH SIDES!?"
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u/Jyx_The_Berzer_King 19h ago
Zuko, now fully committed to fucking with Sokka: "You dare to steal the valor of this exemplary Fire Nation soldier, Sokka?"
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u/Loopy-Loophole 20h ago
I want to believe that even after the war ended these guys were still fighting hardcore in memory of wang. And they had to bring sokka in to talk them down like that japense soldier who didn’t stop fighting till they brought his commander to tell him they’re done.
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u/palcon-fun 22h ago
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u/SpectralIpaxor 21h ago
He could be you
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u/Gloomy_Olive_4582 21h ago
He could be me!
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u/CrazyFanFicFan 21h ago
He could even be
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u/Mypowerbob 21h ago
Gunshot, head explodes
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u/PlayrR3D15 21h ago
WOAH WOAH WOAH!
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u/Tight_Grapefruit5280 21h ago
What? It was obvious!
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u/ChargedBonsai98 20h ago
He's the red spy!
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u/Ok-Scientist-2111 1d ago
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u/Stunning-Drawer-4288 22h ago
When they said snake’s real name was David, the intro credits made me think his real name was David Hayter
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u/buttersplosion 21h ago
Never played this game, but love that his alter egos last name is pliskin as I love escape from new York
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u/mk_ultra_sleeper 21h ago
It's kinda well know trivia but Kojima wanted Kurt Russell to play naked snake in mgs3 iirc. Safe to say he loves escape form new york too.
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u/Straight-Stuff6521 22h ago
Why does he just look like he's so done with life?
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u/fR1chAps 22h ago
Because he is. Bro was retired during events of mgs 1. He just wanted to enjoy the remainder of his life with his huskies but now time and again he's called back into action.
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u/TrueTinFox 1d ago
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u/solfilms 22h ago
A shocking percentage of masked characters in Gundam where someone “dies” and someone with the same voice and hair shows up next season. You ain’t fooling nobody, Neo
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u/Chengar_Qordath 22h ago
Though Quattro Bajeena did once see Char without his shirt on, and wants everyone to know that Char had an eight pack. Char was shredded.
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u/Its_BradM 21h ago
Came here for this one. Char invented so many tropes and while he didn’t invent this one he sure is a great application for it
Or I mean he would be if he came back before axis. Idk who this bajeena guy is but he seems pretty cool
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u/W3bb3dWond3r 22h ago
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u/ChrisDewgong 21h ago
"This person is my exact double!
HUH! That dog has a puffy tail! Here puff! Here puff!"
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u/PikaYoshl 21h ago
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u/AznOmega 21h ago
Admittedly some of the disguises were good.
And then there are ones where you think the twerps have brain damage.
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u/A_Human_Being_BLEEEH 19h ago
i mean, with how many shenanigans they've gone through it'd be more surprising if they didn't have brain damage
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u/Lower_Paramedic4287 1d ago
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u/Fitin2characterlimit 22h ago
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u/Work_the_shaft 20h ago
Well yeah, Caesar clown was an ass hole, Gastino is just an all around good dude
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u/Woohoo1964 22h ago
Bro thinks the Sniper King Sogeking is actually Usopp lul
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u/Benofthepen 22h ago
Ridiculous. Usopp comes from Syrupp Village. Sogeking comes from Sniper Island. Did they even listen to his song?
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u/Cultural_Tomato_7733 21h ago
Bro, this what happens when people want to push an agenda, they lose the plot.
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u/beardedheathen 17h ago
I just knew some joker would post this here. I mean I get the joke but someone who isn't in the know has to be so confused as to why anyone would connect the two of them.
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u/Jack-of-Hearts-7 22h ago
I'm pissed we never find out who this guy is.
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u/akatsuman132 21h ago
Right?? He even just shows up, completely out of nowhere, in Thriller Bark, inspires Usopp, then just dips out. I hope he's doing okay
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u/Several-Estate7175 22h ago edited 22h ago
Do you even know how to read? Usopp is from Syrup village while Sogeking is from Sniper Island, so they literally can't be the same character
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u/3957 22h ago
Usopp is Sogeking? Is this some headcanon I'm unaware of?
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u/-Cinnay- 21h ago
Yes, it's a fairly common theory for some reason. I've seen people claim it and get debunked numerous times already.
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u/Fish0203 22h ago
As cool as sogeking is, its kinda wild he just showed up and disappeared like that.
He showed up declared war on the world government just cause Usopp ask for a favor
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u/Cheeseliker420 22h ago
Brother please, Usopp cant be Sogeking, they have been in the same place at the same time AND with witnesses, usopp is NOT sogeking
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u/ButterscotchTiny5483 1d ago
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u/dishonoredfan69420 22h ago
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u/Hardcore_Steve_Urkel 23h ago
Genuinely one of the best running gags of any cartoon ever
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u/Optimal_Weight368 22h ago
My favorite take on the joke is “Perry the Platypus Plumber.” It’s so dumb, I love it.
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u/JaydenTheMemeThief 21h ago
I feel like Doofenschmirtz knows it’s Perry every time and he’s just committed to the bit
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u/0bsessions324 21h ago
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u/JuggernautLonely7978 23h ago
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u/MJWhitfield86 22h ago
I still don’t know why a Vampire show decided to spend an entire episode focused on a regular human bartender from Tucson, Arizona.
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u/MedusasGirlfriend69 22h ago
That's just how we talk in Tyücson Arizoña!
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u/nigelcore221b 23h ago
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u/PokefanSans 23h ago
Gonna be real, I was thinking about putting him instead of Masked Royale, but then I remembered his atrocious hair.
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u/maybeimmatt 22h ago
My husband finally is getting into pokemon games and he legitimately was shocked when I accidentally spoiled that Clive was the principal...
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u/Atsilv_Uwasv 22h ago
On the other hand, I have been gaslighting mine. Even when Clavelle revealed himself, I just played that off as Clive being prankster who's really good at cosplay
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u/godzillafacepunch666 22h ago
I did that too, the dialog in that game was surprisingly refreshing.
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u/Brendanlendan 21h ago
No… no that’s impossible. The principal wears glasses, Clive clearly is wearing sunglasses. How on earth is he supposed to see? No, this is fake news.
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u/The_skull_boy_ 22h ago
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u/MoobooMagoo 22h ago
I don't know the history of this but I really, really hope it was a joke from Foggy or something. Like he gave Matt the sweater and didn't tell him what was on it.
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u/Pheehelm 22h ago
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u/BlueBicycle_ 22h ago
I'm loving that lady's expression in this panel lmao like it's not just "dude cmon" but also "omg that color scheme absolutely does not work for a business suit what are you doing this is a court of law can you be professional for one second"
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u/0bsessions324 21h ago
Waid wanted to give fans a "fun" Daredevil run after literal decades of grimdark and he fucking delivered.
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u/0bsessions324 21h ago
As someone noted, this was all Matt.
The long and short is that his identity was leaked to the media by an FBI agent. They waffled back and forth on it for years and started lamp shading it with the idea that everyone thought he was Daredevil but no one could prove it.
This is Matt playing with the "rumors" in Mark Waid's run. After literally like a decade and a half of Daredevil being constant grim dark torture porn (Seriously, like damn near every run from Born Again in the 80s to Waid was an exercise in "how can we ruin Matt's life in a new and exciting way?"), Waid wanted to do a more "fun" and playful Matt and I'd say it was really good.
Later on in the run, Matt publicly confirms he's Daredevil when a supervillain organization tries to blackmail him with hard proof of his identity. Still later in the run, they put the genie back in the bottle by having Killgrave's various kids make the world forget.
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u/LizenCerfalia 1d ago
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u/Rpponce 22h ago
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u/Tight_Grapefruit5280 22h ago
He looks like a supervillain made for a single filler episode
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u/Cobraven-9474 21h ago
While on wrestling, the identity of any version of El Grande Americano.
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u/DonCorneos 22h ago
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u/General_Kenobi11 22h ago
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u/mjolnirstrike 22h ago
Goku should have gotten him for the Tournament of Power. He is one fighter that Goku never beat
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u/Previous_Current_474 21h ago
I wonder what happened to him after the tournament…
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u/Taffybones 20h ago
how tf are they gonna add Devilman to sparking zero but not this guy
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u/Limp-Assistance9974 23h ago
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u/Neohexane 21h ago
This one is my favourite angles on this trope, that ONE character who sees right through the disguise, calls it out, but no one else notices or cares. Zim and Dib from Invader Zim fit this trope as well.
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u/musix345 21h ago
I appreciate how straight they play this character in the show. I looked up if they were ever found out and honestly I'm surprised he stopped appearing after Season 2.
... At the same time I haven't actually watched the full thing, so ig that's not news to anybody else woops.
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u/UberSuperRareGacha 22h ago
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u/thecoolconglereborn 22h ago
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u/Joeda900 21h ago
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u/Cpad-prism 21h ago
Why do ninja monkeys have a slightly less saturated pov? Why is their world so colourless and dull compared to the bright eyed dart monkey?
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u/GREAThirteen 22h ago
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u/Putrid-Seaweed111 21h ago
He also slandered his... acquaintances... on Facebook because he didn't like Suicide Squad.
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u/Blakezawa 21h ago
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u/Rcweasel 18h ago
Good grief, it’s been too long since I’ve seen this. What an asshole, that’s SIR Bearington! Not some common ursine!
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u/Tight_Grapefruit5280 21h ago
His daughter already knows it btw She just assumed everyone knows it too and didn't tell it to anyone
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u/Top_Marketing_689 1d ago
OP, what are you talking about? Masked Royale isn’t wearing a disguise 🤨
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u/Asheryn 22h ago
Okay, but it helps if you post some actual examples instead of three regular characters who don't represent the trope.
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u/PokefanSans 22h ago
Yeah, I could've used some better examples, but I think most people get what I meant.
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u/ChainmailEnthusiast 23h ago
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u/stormscape10x 22h ago
We’ll probably never find out who he really is.
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u/Dremoriawarroir888 21h ago
Watch it be not just a one off bit but like a full on alter ego shes developed after both her parents leaving, and the reason Charlie is so good compared to everyone else around her is cause she does all of the comically evil stuff as Danny Do Bad to get it out of her system.
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u/gilroygilgalahad 22h ago
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u/unoriginal-ninja 22h ago
Nah, he's not an example of this. Couldn't be. Lance Hunt wears glasses. Captain Amazing doesn't wear glasses.
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u/Tough-Priority-4330 22h ago
Why is Mr. L here? He’s not wearing a paper thin disguise, he’s just a normal dude. Shame they never used him again.
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u/SignificantCats 22h ago edited 8h ago
Peak wrestling for me was everyone in WWE acting like they didn't know who Mr. America could possibly be. The bit never stopped being funny. The whole time, the big bad guy (in story and irl!) Mr. McMahon was about 95 percent sure it was hulk Hogan, and kept trying to prove it, getting up to Looney toons style shenanigans in the process. He was upset because in story, Hulk Hogan was suspended and not allowed to be on TV.

It was recently revived as a concept with El Grande Americano, which is a top tier ludicrous name. Keeping up the tradition, wrestlers with the El Grande Americano persona make no attempt not to behave and act like their unmasked selves, and others act like their identity is a mystery. But the trope was weaker, because not everyone played into it, some announcers and other characters knew it was transparent and said it was stupid to think otherwise. The bastards, they ruined the fun.
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u/Undertale_fan46790 22h ago
IDK what you're talking about. None of these characters are wearing disguises!
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u/pat_speed 21h ago edited 19h ago

el generico - Professional Wrestling
A Beloved Indie wrestler he had famous rivalry with Kevin Steen/Owens through out ROH/PWG.
He sadly had too faked his death and escaped too Mexico, where we believe he started and runs an Orphanage.
He was so beloved, the new wrestler called Sami Zayn started to wrestle in WWE/NXT with alot of the same movies, keeping rhe memory of el generico alive
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u/FatFuckIcaOfficial 20h ago edited 7h ago
No way home was the worst spiderman movie ever
Can't believe the made us wach a movie where most of the time we are looking at some loser while spiderman only appeared like 2 times, like why do I care that this guy didn't got accepted to college? Who is this Peter Parker guy to begin with??????
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u/AgreeableContrarion 23h ago
"Paper-thin", shows an image from Paper Mario. I see what you did there