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Beneath Notice

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Beneath Notice	comment	One way for a character to evade detection from someone looking for them is to disguise themselves, not in an elaborate way, but rather as a plain, ordinary person who isn't worthy of attention. The idea is that if an authority figure comes searching around, they wouldn't bother looking at someone who 'obviously' can't be a threat. Blending into your environment works for chameleons, after all, so why shouldn't it work for humans? This trope's specific use may depend on the values of the time period. In a class-stratified society, it is literally unthinkable for an aristocrat to even consider pretending to be a commoner simply because of honor, so his fellow aristocrats will never even think to look for a commoner. In a modern setting, rather than a whole underclass, usually certain low-paying professions (janitor, construction worker, etc.) will be utilized. Relying less on snobbery and more on just not noticing the people who are always around but not interacted with. In either case, the Selective Obliviousness of characters can become a plot point if someone declares that Everyone Is a Suspect in hope of making others look at those who are typically Beneath Notice. This is how The Butler Did It became such an attractive trope for mysteries: Nobody notices the butler, and he's usually the most trusted member of the household help. The Nondescript may be this. May result in The Dog Was the Mastermind. Related to They Look Just Like Everyone Else!, Delivery Guy Infiltration and Janitor Impersonation Infiltration. Beneath Suspicion is a subtrope, but should not be confused with this trope. Flaw Exploitation and Batman Gambit are supertropes, as successfully pulling this off depends on exploiting the pride of the one being evaded. See also Hidden in Plain Sight, Room Disservice, Bathroom Search Excuse.
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Beneath Notice / int_109f7814	comment	Sherlock invokes this trope several times. The very first episode has Sherlock and John chase down a cab because they believe the passenger is a murderer. He isn't, but the driver is. Nobody ever looks at a cabbie. Gets a Call-Back in season 2, when Sherlock catches a cab and despite his Hyper-Awareness, fails to realize that it's being driven by Moriarty. In The Great Game, Sherlock barely glances at Molly's boyfriend Jim, who turns out to be Moriarty. In The Empty Hearse, when Sherlock returns from the dead. He pretends to be the waiter at the restaurant where John is waiting for his girlfriend, intending to suddenly reveal himself and surprise John. Unfortunately for Sherlock's plan, John is so distracted that he pays almost no attention to his "waiter", going so far as to question Sherlock about wines without actually ever looking at him, and Sherlock's initial attempts at a sudden reveal fall completely flat. Then done again in the very next episode, The Sign of Three, where the wedding photographer is the (attempted) murderer. His cover allowed him to go anywhere, not be in any pictures, and no one could describe his face since it was typically hidden by a camera.
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Beneath Notice / int_10bc0a19	comment	In Night Watch, Vimes questions how the History Monks can be a secret organisation when they dance through the streets of Ankh-Morpork banging drums, and Lu-Tze replies that you'd be amazed how hard people work to avoid noticing loony monks banging drums.
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Beneath Notice / int_1319a55b	comment	Invoked in the fourth season of In the Dark when blind Murphy is in jail. Needing protection, she convinces the cellblock's local gang boss she can help by delivering drugs for her. As Murphy says, "the guards think I can't take two steps on my own" and will never consider she's running drugs around.
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Beneath Notice / int_1543f8a	comment	In Zero Time Dilemma this is how Delta avoids suspicion. After all, there's no way a blind and deaf old man in a wheelchair could be the Big Bad, right?
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Beneath Notice / int_16fc4335	comment	Subverted and then played straight in Heralds of Valdemar: In the Exiles Duology, Alberich and crew need to find a spy who has recently arrived in Valdemar's capital. Alberich speculates that the spy has gone undercover as a servant in a noble house, but the other Heralds explain that he can't have done that—the nobles certainly wouldn't notice, but that's immaterial because the servants would never have let him in the door. The households of the wealthy are a tight-knit subculture, and getting hired without being related to or at least knowing someone who already works there is basically impossible. It turns out their man is posing as an actor, which allows him to mix with his noble "fans" (i.e., the slimy prince he's passing intel to) but still causes him not to be taken seriously (as acting, in a semi-feudal setting, is not a high-status job, and he takes pains to be seen as a frivolous womanizer). Also played straight in Take a Thief: young Herald-Trainee Skif infiltrates a meeting of Valdemaran nobility by donning the uniform and the role of a page-boy.
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Beneath Notice / int_174feaf6	comment	The Shape of Water: Elisa and Zelda are able to get away with what they do in a high-security government facility because they're cleaning ladies, it's The '60s, and therefore pretty much nobody will give them a second glance. After the Asset is broken out, Strickland berates himself for wasting time questioning the "piss wipers", blissfully unaware that he's got the actual culprits right in front of him.
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Beneath Notice / int_1a4438ee	comment	All Guardsmen Party: The Occurrence Border is a second-hand voidship acquired by the Guardsmen whose previous owners have left it a barely functional deathtrap. That said it's actually perfect as a mission ship as nobody in their right mind would expect an Inquisiton team to board a ship like that except to purge it for heresy. The Guardsmen themselves fall under this as the Conspiracy refuses to consider a bunch of groundpounding morons could ever pose a credible threat. Oak exploits this belief as part of his Long Game.
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Beneath Notice / int_1a8d488a	comment	Munchkin: Some powerful monsters will allow low-level characters to retreat without having to make a roll to successfully run away. (However, it's both legal and within the spirit of the game for opponents to play "Go Up a Level" cards to raise your level above the automatic-escape threshold....)
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Beneath Notice / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: In Dragon Age II, free mage Merrill finds that she doesn't have to do much to stay hidden from the Templars in Kirkwall; as long as she doesn't use magic, she's just another elf in the Alienage to them. The Friends of Red Jenny are a loosely-organized network of ordinary people trading favours in order to get back at nobles who abuse their power. The mysterious name is just to give their targets something to wonder about, ensuring they'll never suspect their cook or gardener. The Iron Bull is a spy whose main cover is that of a renowned mercenary. While certainly higher profile than other versions it allows him to travel across the land and hobnob with high society (who see him as just another sellsword) for any worthwhile rumors or info that he writes back to his superiors.
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Beneath Notice / int_1eacb44b	comment	In Fist of Fury, Bruce Lee disguises himself as an Asian and Nerdy telephone repairman in order to infiltrate the home of the man who arranged his teacher's death.
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Beneath Notice / int_201c2bfb	comment	In Extra Life, Chiaki joins the Future Foundation under a fake identity, hiding in plain sight as a seemingly ordinary intern.
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Beneath Notice / int_202462bc	comment	In the Alphas episode "Rosetta" the team encounters an autistic woman during a raid on a terrorist safe-house who has the power to understand and translate all languages she hears, instantly, and figure that the terrorists have been exploiting the woman to encode and decode their secret messages. The woman volunteers to assist them in catching the terrorists and seems to be helping until Gary notices she's been intentionally mistranslating the encoded messages by just enough to make it look like she was making minor mistakes. Turns out she wasn't being exploited by the terrorists... she was the leader of this particular terror cell and no one considered she was anything but a victim because of her autism.
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Beneath Notice / int_22119589	comment	Slightly inverted in the Alias episode "DÃ©tente": Nadia is initially undercover as a maid. When they realize their current plan won't work, Nadia and Sydney instead dress up as debutantes to find an alternate way past the guards. Sloane protests this saying the guards already saw Nadia's face, only for her to dismiss his fears by saying "Nobody looks at the help." She's right.
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Beneath Notice / int_22126d33	comment	Andor: Cassian's adoptive mother, Maarva, becomes a radicalized Rebel halfway through the first season. Everyone, including the Imperials, her neighbors, and even her own son all ignore her as a silly old woman who can't do anything. The Imperials and the Rebels both keep an eye on her in case Cassian comes back for her, but Maarva herself is discounted as unimportant. Then she dies from health complications offscreen, and the climax of the first season revolves around her funeral, with all the interested sides once again hoping to use her (or in this case, her funeral) to catch Cassian. Maarva herself is completely discounted (understandably, since she's dead). Yet it is her final speech, delivered via hologram at her own funeral, that incites the townspeople to riot against the Imperials. This throws every plan the various factions had into absolute disarray... except for Cassian, who uses the chaos as cover to quietly rescue Bix from Imperial custody. Cassian himself tells about using this trick as a way to steal valuable and sensitive military technology and parts from the Empire. When he describes stealing a valuable MacGuffin in Episode 3, he says that all it takes to steal from the Empire is a maintenance worker's uniform, dirty hands, and a standard tool kit, and he can go wherever he wants to at an Imperial shipyard or naval base. He derisively describes the Empire as being too arrogant and complacent to imagine that a petty crook like him could so easily infiltrate and steal from them, or to bother vetting every common worker who comes onto a job site.
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Beneath Notice / int_2232f584	comment	The Shadow used to disguise himself as the janitor at police headquarters to gain access to information and no one paid him the slightest attention.
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Beneath Notice / int_230b3240	comment	In the Ryanverse story Without Remorse, where the reader discovers the origin of legendary CIA agent John Clark, he takes revenge against drug syndicate that killed his lover. He manages to successfully elude the police and the syndicate, despite very publicly murdering a total of 8 people,note there were more, but he dropped the disguise for those by disguising himself as a street wino. His internal monologue even makes a comparison to the camouflage he used in Vietnam. Tom Clancy often makes the point in his books that one of the best disguises is a uniform of some kind because people only really see the uniform, not the face.
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Beneath Notice / int_231df7d2	comment	V (1983): Ruby is able to burn a V shuttle using a Molotov cocktail because V soldiers and human cops collaborating with them are focused on searching young men, not an older woman like her. Only one cop realizes she did it, but lets her go because he secretly agrees with the resistance, chuckling in amusement at her feat.
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Beneath Notice / int_2372359	comment	The Belgariad: The protagonists don't want to attract attention to themselves, so they disguise themselves as commoners driving a few wagons. One of their number, who goes by the name Silk, actually makes a point of making money by using these wagons to transport common goods like turnips and wool, even though the group doesn't really need the money, and they're mostly taking the goods on to avert suspicion.
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Beneath Notice / int_24a208a5	comment	In "Out of Sight", the guest knows that the person who photographed sensitive documents he was carrying had to have been one of the people at his table at dinner. The spy turns out to be the waiter, who he had completely forgotten about. Naturally, Henry is able to point this out.
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Beneath Notice / int_283432ba	comment	Life Is Strange, Tristan is so average and unassuming that nobody notices him.
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Beneath Notice / int_28fe1376	comment	In Fringe, Walter explains that a side-effect they noticed amongst the children treated with Cortexiphan was that it instilled a subconscious desire to blend into their surroundings; as such, they had a tendency to be dress in drab colors which don't attract much attention, such as black, white and grey.
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Beneath Notice / int_2ab52cee	comment	In The ABC Murders, a breakthrough in a case against a Theme Serial Killer is made when Poirot realizes a suspicious person had actually been seen at all the previous murders. The reason it took so long for anyone to realize this is because it was a door-to-door salesman: "He wasn't the sort of man you'd notice".
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Beneath Notice / int_2b0b461e	comment	Black Widowers: In "Out of Sight", the guest knows that the person who photographed sensitive documents he was carrying had to have been one of the people at his table at dinner. The spy turns out to be the waiter, who he had completely forgotten about. Naturally, Henry is able to point this out. In "Seasons Greetings", the person attempting to steal a Christmas card turns out to be the mailman. Asimov acknowledged that this story owed a debt to G. K. Chesterton's "The Invisible Man".
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Beneath Notice / int_2c2a56e3	comment	In The Phantom Menace, Queen Amidala constantly dressed in regal royal attire behind face-concealing makeup. She is always assisted with and surrounded by handmaidens with face obscuring cloaks. One of her key handmaidens in the film is PadmÃ©, who assists Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn while on Tatooine. In truth, PadmÃ© is actually Queen Amidala dressed down and in disguise. No one, except possibly Qui-Gon, even noticed the Queen ever switch places with her handmaidens. Not only do all the handmaidens look alike, but no one pays attention to them because they are always in the background assisting others. Their role is expanded on in Star Wars: Queen's Shadow.
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Beneath Notice / int_2c96ae0e	comment	On Hustle, Ash uses this fairly often in terms of setting up their cons.
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Beneath Notice / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League: This is how Harv Hickman got away with having the Philosopher's Stone, an incredibly powerful magical object that could grant its owner's every desire, for decades without anyone attacking him for it or trying to steal it. Rather than using it for anything massive like to Take Over the World, immortality, power, or anything that would have drawn attention to it, he simply wished for money, women, and a little bit of fame making him look like your run-of-the-mill rich party animal. The titular organization does this to evade the Thanagarian invaders who have occupied Earth. They ditch the costumes, don civilian clothes, and hit the streets as their civilian Secret Identities. At one point Superman actually attempts to interview a Thanagarian soldier, introducing himself as "Clark Kent, Daily Planet", to distract him so Flash and Green Lantern can slip past a checkpoint without ids. It works. And quite possibly one of the funniest moments in the series owes itself to The Flash's Secret Identity being a complete nobody from Central City. Lex Luthor, who has stolen Flash's body, decides to unmask himself and find out who The Flash really is. He takes one look at the generically handsome non-descript redheaded 20-something everyman beneath the mask and—
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Beneath Notice / int_2f658b33	comment	Star Wars: Queen's Shadow: Padme's handmaidens are chosen and trained based on their physical similarities to the Queen. They are trained with imitating her to near perfection, with only those who are very close to the Queen able to detect the different. In turn, Queen Amidala also masquerades as her handmaidens when necessary and has fooled many into believing she is just one of many. Of note is her handmaiden Sabe who calls herself the Queen's shadow. As handmaidens, no one notices them because they are often in the background assisting other characters. More so, senators and other aristocrats don't even notice them when they are standing in front of them since they do not deal with them directly, and are literally beneath their notice, putting this into full effect.
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Beneath Notice / int_30b255fb	comment	One of the reasons why people don't recognize clumsy, passive, mild-mannered Clark Kent as Superman. Lampshaded by Kara Zor-El in The Supergirl from Krypton (2004) when she wonders why nobody recognizes her cousin, until she sees a Superman statue, whereupon she realizes the Earth people regard him as their larger-than-life champion. Even if someone did manage to catch the resemblance, they would never assume that a Physical God with every superpower known to man would ever choose to live as someone so mundane.
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Beneath Notice / int_342c4c18	comment	Modesty Blaise: The criminal mastermind in "The Magnified Man" evades the attention of the authorities by posing as a member of the staff at the hotel where his underlings are staying, allowing him to talk to them even when they're under observation while serving them drinks or delivering meals to their rooms.
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Beneath Notice / int_39e45334	comment	Poirot, "The Yellow Iris": The murderer at a Fancy Dinner is revealed to have slipped away from the dinner table, disguised himself as a waiter, and poisoned the victim's wine while refilling people's drinks. When a man at the Summation Gathering voices doubt that no one would recognize the murderer, Poirot points out that the waitress serving them coffee is also one of their friends, disguised in uniform.
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Beneath Notice / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, it is explained Harry's parents tried to hide their house from Voldemort with the use of the Fidelius Charm. Said charm magically hides a location using someone's mind as a hiding place; the so-called Secret Keeper. The only way the location can be found is when the Secret Keeper chooses to divulge the information. Harry's parents invoked this trope by choosing the rather unassuming Peter Pettigrew as Secret Keeper rather than the obvious choice of James's very best friend and Harry's godfather Sirius Black, thinking Voldemort wouldn't possibly even consider going after him. Unfortunately, said person willingly gave up the location to Voldemort. According to Nearly Headless Nick, a proper House Elf is never noticed when doing his job. Because of this, House Elf Dobby knows stuff that really comes in handy for Harry. Barty Crouch Jr., disguised as Moody, even invokes this trope in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by making Dobby do chores in the staffroom, while talking to the other teachers about how Harry could solve the second Triwizard Task. Dobby, who is fanatically loyal to Harry, overhears this and helps him to a solution, while no one ever suspects Dobby of helping him. Unfortunately this house elf trait applies to the way Sirius views Kreacher's absence during the Christmas holiday in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Sirius' lack of wanting to track down where in the house Kreacher has gone to is at least partially motivated by how vile, argumentative and rude he is and the way he has been contributing to Sirius going stir crazy while being stuck under house arrest in a house he loathes. This leads directly to Sirius' death as Kreacher took a 'get out' meaning out of the room to meaning out of the house and gave Bellatrix and Narcissa everything Voldemort needed to lure out both Harry and Sirius.
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Beneath Notice / int_3d2310f9	comment	Happy Kanakoâ€™s Killer Life: Part of the title character's success as an assassin is because after years of being bullied in school and sexually harassed at work, Kanako has gotten extremely good at making herself seem unremarkable so as to be left alone. This means that when she kills people as K, there are no witnesses because nobody noticed that she was there.
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Beneath Notice / int_3ef78ff3	comment	In Kulipari: An Army of Frogs, Killara's army has sandpaper frogs as their servants. Because of how unhygienic and insane they are, they're despised by everyone and no one pays attention to them, short of throwing an insult here and there. Darel sneaks through Marmoo's camp (and even burns it down and saves Gee) all while pretending to be one of said frogs.
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Beneath Notice / int_3efdce9	comment	Edgedancer: Discussed. Lift notices that nobody pays attention to street urchins and homeless people. It is the job of an Edgedancer to avert this, which is why their third Oath is "I will listen to those who have been ignored."
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Beneath Notice / int_405243c7	comment	The 100: At the start of season 3, Clarke is hiding in the wilderness and avoiding both her own people and their one-time allies, the Grounders. Since she is living like a native Grounder, speaking the local language and hunting for her own food, occasionally exchanging animal meat and skin for goods at a trading post, nobody thinks that she might be the person everybody is looking for. Roan sees through the disguise and captures her regardless.
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Beneath Notice / int_43771bb6	comment	Rose Jenny of PokÃ©mon World Tour: United is the first Jenny in a long time, if not ever, to actively refuse to join the Police Academy and become an Officer Jenny like every other single member of her family, much to their disapproval. Trajan suggests utilizing this fact when trying to convince Amelia Jenny to let Rose in on confidential information and letting her lead the investigation into Jennys that are compromised and/or brainwashed by Team Rocket. Because the other Jennys regard Rose as being somewhere between a Bratty Teenage Daughter and a proper Black Sheep, most will assume she has neither the skills nor the temperament to actually be a danger, even in spite of the fact Rose has fought Team Rocket multiple times by this point.
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Beneath Notice / int_4469eff1	comment	In Supergirl (Rebirth), Kara Danvers behaves as a lonely, clumsy, geeky girl so nobody suspects she is Supergirl.
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Beneath Notice / int_44a5ff02	comment	In The Flying Cloud, Jenkins often takes on the job of infiltrating buildings to steal documents, because he is a master of making himself seem like a boring functionary that no one should pay attention to. It's so effective that the command crew calls it the Cloak of Invisibility, though it does have its limits: it only works if someone who sees him will pay no attention to a boring functionary, so it doesn't work in complete no-go zones and is of limited effectiveness against other, less subtle intruders.
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Beneath Notice / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: A large part of Lu Tze's success as a History Monk is attributable to the fact that no matter how heavily guarded the evil lair, a harmless old man sweeping up is just part of the scenery. In Thief of Time, one of his students reflects that the best way for a monk to become invisible is to stand on a street corner holding a begging bowl. [Paraphrased] In Night Watch, Vimes questions how the History Monks can be a secret organisation when they dance through the streets of Ankh-Morpork banging drums, and Lu-Tze replies that you'd be amazed how hard people work to avoid noticing loony monks banging drums. In Interesting Times, Auriental society is so rigid that costume changes to a lower class entirely confuse pursuers. Rincewind is able to evade pursuit by dressing as a peasant with a really big hat (although he struggles with it because being a wizard is an important part of his identity, and looking like a wizard is practically the only thing that makes him one). He also runs into an examination room and screams at the guards to go away when they come in (the exams being a very important part of Agatean society).
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Beneath Notice / int_46d48eba	comment	In the James Bond short story "From a View to a Kill", M thinks that perhaps the enemy has disguised himself as a gardener or garbage man or such. Someone that's hidden in plain sight. Then, it is told that it isn't possible as those jobs on the base are done by enlisted military personnel.
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Beneath Notice / int_49340431	comment	Brooklyn Nine-Nine: In Halloween IV, Gina was able to spy on everyone else for her plan by wearing one of Amy's pantsuits.
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Beneath Notice / int_4a6e33d3	comment	First Try Series: Sasuke has trouble achieving this because, ironically enough, he felt learning to pass as a servant or peasant was beneath him.
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Beneath Notice / int_4b187e74	comment	The Odyssey: Odysseus goes "Old Man" mode, and checks if Penelope is still faithful with the aid of his son. Turns out she is, but heads roll anyways.
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Beneath Notice / int_4b5d3174	comment	In Mastermind: Strategist for Hire, Izuku's public life as a bullied Quirkless teenager helps throw off police suspicion regarding the new villain Mastermind. Izuku notes that even if police look past his youth and Quirkless status, they'd assume he doesn't have the right attitude for plotting murder since he's never lashed out against his bullies, even indirectly.
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Beneath Notice / int_4cd32aa7	comment	Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: The 4th Edition talent of this name makes people of a higher social status than you ignore your presence as long as you don't draw attention to yourself. Furthermore such characters will find you an unworthy opponent and refuse to use bonuses when attacking or wounding you.
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Beneath Notice / int_4da11f30	comment	In Return of the Jedi, Luke sends the two to Jabba's palace as tribute. Jabba accepts the gift. The possibility that R2-D2 has been sent on a covert mission doesn't enter his mind.
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Beneath Notice / int_4f847312	comment	In the Nero Wolfe novel Too Many Cooks, the murderer disguises himself as a hotel servant, complete with Blackface.
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Beneath Notice / int_4fd9904a	comment	Unfortunately this house elf trait applies to the way Sirius views Kreacher's absence during the Christmas holiday in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Sirius' lack of wanting to track down where in the house Kreacher has gone to is at least partially motivated by how vile, argumentative and rude he is and the way he has been contributing to Sirius going stir crazy while being stuck under house arrest in a house he loathes. This leads directly to Sirius' death as Kreacher took a 'get out' meaning out of the room to meaning out of the house and gave Bellatrix and Narcissa everything Voldemort needed to lure out both Harry and Sirius.
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Beneath Notice / int_5057aae3	comment	In Star Mares, the Imperial military is so used to the idea that unicorns only exist to perform maintenance jobs that Maple Leaf (an earth pony) is able to pass unnoticed through multiple levels of security by stealing a maintenance uniform, taping a toilet paper tube to her forehead, and hanging a sign with 'unicorn' written on it around her neck.
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Beneath Notice / int_52499c38	comment	Midnight Sun (2016): The killer does menial cleaning work in many places, which both permits access and being overlooked.
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Beneath Notice / int_538ba773	comment	In The Machineries of Empire, drones can go anywhere and spy on everything because people underestimate how smart they are and therefore don't pay any attention to them whatsoever.
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Beneath Notice / int_564115c7	comment	In Everworld, the goddess Brigid lives in our world, disguised as an old Polish/Mexican-looking lady. People who see her coming or going from her mansion assume she's the maid.
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Beneath Notice / int_5755b96a	comment	In The Order of the Stick prequel story "How the Paladin Got His Scar", there is a sniveling, hunchbacked hobgoblin cleric whose pragmatic reasoning typically contrasts with his more warlike superiors. At the end of the story, the hobgoblin Supreme Leader, his general, and every other hobgoblin in the throne room except the cleric inexplicably dies from poisoned gouda. The cleric takes a more proper posture and admits that he's been faking his disability to seem less threatening for years, and the events of the story simply gave him the chance to pull his coup.
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Beneath Notice / int_5921531b	comment	Persona 4: The true antagonist is the gas station attendant who shakes your hand in the opening scenes of the game, she is Izanami. The game itself tries to convince you they're an unimportant background NPC, as they have no name or character portrait until The Reveal and aren't voiced (except during the opening cutscene, where everyone is voiced). The person behind most of the abductions (but not the actual murderer...it's complicated) is Taro Namatame, a disgraced politician now working as a delivery man. He pulls off the abductions by walking up to the door of the intended target, ringing the doorbell and pretending it's an ordinary delivery. He can go anywhere he wants because nobody would give a delivery truck a second glance, no matter where it's parked.
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Beneath Notice / int_5cd1aa89	comment	The proletariat, or proles, in Nineteen Eighty-Four fall under this trope. Briefly: the novel takes place in the most oppressive police state imaginable, where even thinking unorthodox thoughts is treason. The whole Party - or ruling caste - is under intense, unending scrutiny. The proles, who are powerless nobodies, are considered too inconsequential to even worry about. Winston and Julia, the protagonist and deuteragonist, consider invoking this trope to evade the Thought Police. This is revealed to be a subversion in later chapters: The Party is aware that the proles form the bulk of the population, and they know that if they keep proles ignorant by promoting a lifestyle of booze, gambling, and cheap pornography while giving them the impression that they can get away with things Party members can't, the proles will never pose a threat. And just to be totally sure, they have Thought Police spies embedded within the prole population, one of whom turns in Winston and Julia after he rents them a room over his shop to privately have sex for pleasure (a banned activity).
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Beneath Notice / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: Sideral Exalted occasionally cast themselves as forgettable extras, such as a town drunk or local guardsman, and even gain massive bonuses for doing so. And yet it is through these disguises that they essentially rule Creation from behind the scenes.
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Beneath Notice / int_5ed0217f	comment	Paper Mario: Color Splash: Who is the Mountain Sage of Daffodil Mountain? It's not the Toad at the peak - it's the guy working a Soul-Sucking Retail Job at the admissions gate.
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Beneath Notice / int_5f5bffca	comment	In Awful Hospital, greyzoners (humans) are extremely vulnerable to perception filtering, but since we only have five (maybe six) senses across a narrow spectrum each, it's usually considered a waste of time, allowing certain characters, such as Fern and Dr. Man, to slip through the Parliament's net.
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Beneath Notice / int_60f95f8	comment	Nick Velvet: In "The Theft of the General's Trash", Nick poses as a milkman in order to gain access to secure apartment block on the grounds that no one notices a milkman. He is right and none of the tenants pay him any attention. While the doorman does notice him, his only question is "Where's the regular guy?"
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Beneath Notice / int_62fbef5f	comment	An episode of Deception (2018) reveals that "Sasha," an infamous Russian mobster, has been posing as the bartender for the club his gang hangs out at. When arresting him, FBI agent Kay openly lampshades how brilliant this was as no one would give the bartender a second look, let alone think he was the boss.
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Beneath Notice / int_66c0fb78	comment	Girls Don't Hit: Joss' cover as an ordinary businesswoman, wife and mother is designed for her to be this overall, along with acting normally on jobs. Her being female likely also helps, as hitwoman really don't figure in most people's expectations.
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Beneath Notice / int_6738714d	comment	On Designated Survivor, Hannah is told that a virus in NASA computers was planted by "the plumber." She assumes that's a nickname for some ultra-slick and genius hacker. Partner Chuck informs her that he meant the guy is literally the plumber, who has security clearance to get into NASA but no one would ever pay attention to, making him the perfect guy to do this.
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Beneath Notice / int_694ab80	comment	In Batman Beyond, contrasting Bruce's tactic as intentionally masking his identity by creating an Idle Rich persona, Terry McGinnis puts in little to no effort to hide who he actually is simply because nobody (except Max) would believe in a million years the nondescript somewhat-delinquent high school student with a part-time job as "Bruce Wayne's house boy" (as one villain described him) could possibly be Batman. Even though he runs around doing blatantly Batmanesque fighting and acrobatics, even when he openly makes the astute observations of a detective, even when he makes absolutely no effort at all to mask or hide his voice and fits the physical description of the new Batman to a T, nobody puts two and two together because he's just so nondescript and such an everyday teen nobody ever even thinks about the possibility. The one time a character took notice that he frequently ditched school and acted suspiciously merely assumed he was running with The Jokerz, she needed a program to do it, and the only reason she noticed at all is she was friends with the guy, and the time he blatantly told his family he was Batman made them crack up with laughter.
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Beneath Notice / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: Words of Radiance: Elhokar (the king) survives an assassination attempt, and Kaladin (his bodyguard) needs to put him somewhere safe while he goes off to save someone else. He obviously can't stay in the palace; all the guards are suspect. For similar reasons, he can't go to the royal safehouse or even Kaladin's barracks, since those are the first places anyone will look. Where does he take him? A little house in the slums, belonging to the mother of one of Kaladin's crippled subordinates. Said mother proceeds to treat her king like an uppity child, insisting he gets a good night's sleep and eats breakfast before the guards come to escort him back. Edgedancer: Discussed. Lift notices that nobody pays attention to street urchins and homeless people. It is the job of an Edgedancer to avert this, which is why their third Oath is "I will listen to those who have been ignored."
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Beneath Notice / int_6cdb8162	comment	Unchained (Umei no Mai): Nobody really pays attention to the various cats wandering around Konoha, nor do they try to keep them off of any given grounds. This enables the Uchiha clan to employ ninja cats to tap into a massive information network, along with using them as discreet guards. Nobody looks twice at the oiran unless they're a client who's besotted with one girl in particular. Inuza exploits this by impersonating them on various missions.
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Beneath Notice / int_6db54316	comment	Words of Radiance: Elhokar (the king) survives an assassination attempt, and Kaladin (his bodyguard) needs to put him somewhere safe while he goes off to save someone else. He obviously can't stay in the palace; all the guards are suspect. For similar reasons, he can't go to the royal safehouse or even Kaladin's barracks, since those are the first places anyone will look. Where does he take him? A little house in the slums, belonging to the mother of one of Kaladin's crippled subordinates. Said mother proceeds to treat her king like an uppity child, insisting he gets a good night's sleep and eats breakfast before the guards come to escort him back.
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Beneath Notice / int_71a1ca53	comment	The Terminal: Gupta fled India after he stabbed a cop who kept extorting him, and chooses to work as a janitor. As he puts it, "As long as I keep my head down, and my floor clean, they have no reason to deport me, they have no reason to notice a man like me." Losing his job is a major Berserk Button for him.
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Beneath Notice / int_71a81b84	comment	Rise of the Minisukas: Matarael infiltrates Shinji's class and keeps the whole student body fooled for weeks. It is unclear how Matarael managed this, but it involved, at least partially, he posing as a quiet, friendless, unassuming new student who is too awkward to talk to, too insignificant to pay attention to...and definitely not a multi-eyed, bowl-headed giant spider.
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Beneath Notice / int_73dd3d5	comment	In X2: X-Men United, Mystique disguises herself as the building's regular janitor, which causes the real one to do a Double Take when he sees her.
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Beneath Notice / int_740815bb	comment	In Interesting Times, Auriental society is so rigid that costume changes to a lower class entirely confuse pursuers. Rincewind is able to evade pursuit by dressing as a peasant with a really big hat (although he struggles with it because being a wizard is an important part of his identity, and looking like a wizard is practically the only thing that makes him one). He also runs into an examination room and screams at the guards to go away when they come in (the exams being a very important part of Agatean society).
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Beneath Notice / int_7460586f	comment	In season 7 of Archer, the cast is hired to help protect a valuable set of emeralds at a charity benefit, which they do undercover, half as high society guests and the others as waiters. It doesn't go very well because the characters are more interested in standing around and sniping bitterly at each other or gossiping, but they don't blow their cover. Not that it matters because the benefit is hijacked by a group of armed robbers looking for the jewels later revealed to be part of an insurance scam by the lawyer who hired the cast. Also done in season 4 when they're hired to be undercover at a Hell's Kitchen parody to protect the Albanian ambassador who is dining there that night which AGAIN turns out to be a scam, this time on behalf of Malory who faked a bomb threat so she could get a table at the exclusive restaurant. The Albanian ambassador gets killed anyway, by the star chef, having been paid off by Russian cyborgs Katya and Barry.
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Beneath Notice / int_7668653a	comment	In Mass Effect 2, Thane's loyalty mission has his backstory exposition include the tunnel vent rats, a group of orphans who live in the Citadel and acted as his spy network because nobody ever took notice of them.
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Beneath Notice / int_77be988d	comment	In Thief of Time, one of his students reflects that the best way for a monk to become invisible is to stand on a street corner holding a begging bowl. [Paraphrased]
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Beneath Notice / int_7832b74c	comment	In Steven Universe, Homeworld makes use of hunter-killer Robonoid drones to seek out and shatter deviant "Off-Color" gems. The Robonoids only respond to gem signatures, taking no notice of organic life, which Homeworld disdains as worthless pests at most. This allows the entirely human Lars to use his body to block their scanners without being noticed, saving several Off-Color Gems.
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Beneath Notice / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: In Mass Effect 2, Thane's loyalty mission has his backstory exposition include the tunnel vent rats, a group of orphans who live in the Citadel and acted as his spy network because nobody ever took notice of them. The Collectors exploit this by having the vorcha release their plague on Omega, a species considered vermin by the rest of the Galaxy. This also yields the side-benefit of causing civil unrest when it's discovered it's an engineered virus, as the two species who are immune are humans and vorcha... and guess where the finger falls on. The Keepers who operate the Citadel are another example of this. Even the player will have likely forgotten about them by the time their true purpose is revealed; silently maintaining the Citadel until the time is right to open the Relay and allow the Reapers to return from Dark Space.
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Beneath Notice / int_7ec653e7	comment	A Good Woman Is Hard To Find: No one suspects that Sarah, who so far as most know is just a single working mother of two kids, would be behind a Dublin crime boss and his men's killings, along with the body parts found in a rubbish center. The news report at the end attributes this to a rival gang.
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Beneath Notice / int_7f19ccc3	comment	In an episode of Deal or No Deal the contestant's daughter, who lives overseas, was one of the "models" holding a case as a special surprise for her mother. Howie had to literally yell at the contestant to look at the model before she caught on.
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Beneath Notice / int_82d5c9d9	comment	The core game mechanic of We Happy Few revolves around this to survive the townsfolk. Wearing the proper clothing, doing what everyone else is doing, popping a Joy when necessary, not trespassing, and not being out after curfew will allow you to move around completely unhindered. Draw too much attention and be outed as a Downer, though? Better get ready to run or fight for your life.
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Beneath Notice / int_837590bf	comment	Where The Drowned Girls Go: The true headmaster of Whitehorn Institute is an Evil Sorcerer who putters around the school doing custodial work. When the viewpoint character learns this, she realizes she'd seen him before but glossed over him every time.
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Beneath Notice / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: The Heterodyne Spymaster infiltrates the target's army by signing up as some sort of low-ranking private and acting as a innocuous, bored grunt.
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Beneath Notice / int_8954c942	comment	Golgo 13: One way the titular hitman infiltrates or does reconnaissance is to disguise himself as some sort of menial worker and pass right under his opponents' noses.
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Beneath Notice / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	Droids are analogous to slaves. They are bought and sold as property, and almost nobody recognizes them as individuals with rights. Heroic droid R2-D2 turns this to his advantage, as it saves it and Threepio as they escape Leia's ship at the beginning of A New Hope. An Imperial Gunner is about to destroy their escape pod, but holds his fire when a scan reveals there are no life forms aboard. Surely this Imperial is aware of droids, but considers them no threat. Later, Artoo and Threepio can walk the corridors of the Death Star with no disguise; to the imperial troops, the droids might as well be furniture.
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Beneath Notice / int_8bd3842a	comment	In the Hitman series, disguises such as repairmen, chefs, waiters and janitors allow you to enter many guarded places freely, and also provide ample opportunities to poison your target's food or tamper with machinery to set up an "accidental" death. They can, however, sometimes restrict the areas you may enter while wearing them.
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Beneath Notice / int_8cb3a247	comment	According to Nearly Headless Nick, a proper House Elf is never noticed when doing his job. Because of this, House Elf Dobby knows stuff that really comes in handy for Harry. Barty Crouch Jr., disguised as Moody, even invokes this trope in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by making Dobby do chores in the staffroom, while talking to the other teachers about how Harry could solve the second Triwizard Task. Dobby, who is fanatically loyal to Harry, overhears this and helps him to a solution, while no one ever suspects Dobby of helping him.
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Beneath Notice / int_90032631	comment	On Orange Is the New Black, most of the guards are busy keeping the opposing factions of white, black and Latina inmates in check, which grants Mei Chang, one of the very few Asian inmates, the freedom to do basically whatever the heck she wants.
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Beneath Notice / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time: Servants, beggars and other people who go unnoticed are an important source of information and are frequently secretly employed as spies. Smart characters make sure each member of their household is vetted for, and ensure potential outside observers are identified. Moghedien — one of the Dark One's most dreaded and powerful servants — spends some time undercover as a merchant's maidservant, keeping an eye on a group of Dark-aligned Aes Sedai. She repeats the trick later by posing as a refugee doing menial labour in the rebel Aes Sedai headquarters. Verin manages this even among her fellow Aes Sedai by presenting herself as a bookish Ditzy Genius who ignores worldly matters to putter around doing research. This works so well that Siuan and Moiraine ignore Verin taking notes while they discuss their top-secret project to find The Chosen One. Fortunately, this serves Verin well as a triple agent, collecting intelligence to bring down the evil Ancient Conspiracy she was forced to join.
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Beneath Notice / int_91cf7917	comment	Foundation Series's "The Mayors": When the ambassador to Anacreon and High Priest of the Church needs to return to Terminus, he changes into civilian clothing, buys a ticket on a passenger liner and spends the trip pleasantly talking with fellow travelers. Having returned to Terminus, he buys a newspaper, does some reading in the park, and calls city hall from a public phone booth. In all this time, he does absolutely nothing to avoid suspicion or hide his activities, so nobody gives him a second look.
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Beneath Notice / int_996edf24	comment	Wonder Woman Vol 1: Eviless enjoys that her slaver position is so low in the Saturnian Empire's hierarchy that her failures will be blamed on her superiors and they will get punished for them while she goes free. She spends her first several appearances just blending in with the other slavers and not bringing any extra attention to herself, not even being named, even though she's far more sadistic than the rest and has developed a business deal with Hypnota that gets her loads of human slaves with their minds already broken packed like sardines in boxes letting her be far more effective than other slavers for far less effort.
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Beneath Notice / int_9ab95898	comment	A Black Lady Sketch Show has "Invisible Spy", in which Trinity exploits this to hilarious effect, including simply walking past a security guard, and is even asked to sign her own birthday card by a coworker..
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Beneath Notice / int_9d34190a	comment	In The Elder Scrolls series, the in-game book Beggar Prince tells the tale of Wheedle, a beggar who asked Namira, the Daedric Prince of the Ancient Darkness (associated with all things revolting, decay, and cannibalism) for the power to become wealthy. She granted his wish, "blessing" him with the power to be afflicted with any disease he wanted, the power to make people feel pity for him whenever they see him, and the power to make people disregard his presence as unimportant. The last power causes many people to talk about their most important secrets in Wheedle's presence, as they disregard him as something unimportant. The book closes with the tip that whenever you need to know something about a city, the beggars are probably your best source of information. This was actually implemented in Oblivion, where beggars are your source of information for multiple Thieves' Guild quests.
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Beneath Notice / int_9d47a2a2	comment	In A Song of Ice and Fire it's implied that most of Varys' "little birds" who gather information for him are a group of tongueless but literate children who hide in the secret passages running through the Red Keep.
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Beneath Notice / int_9e2dbb4d	comment	In Regular Show, it turns out this was Thomas' entire purpose as The Generic Guy for being an intern; he was actually a spy for Russia sent to steal the park.
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Beneath Notice / int_a1b9a8bb	comment	A big part of Adrian Toomes' scheme in Spider-Man: Homecoming is staying below the Avengers' radar by avoiding attention and generally committing small-time crimes. He's absolutely right that the Avengers wouldn't be bothered to stop him, but of course, he never counted on the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man to swing into town.
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Beneath Notice / int_a294572f	comment	Bakery "Enemies": After Hawkmoth's exposure and arrest, nobody seems to consider Nathalie as a potential suspect for who Mayura might have been. The concept of one of his employees willingly helping Gabriel's campaign of domestic terrorism seems completely illogical, after all. Marinette even scolds herself for trying to come up with alternative suspects aside from Adrien, concluding that he was the only logical candidate.
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Beneath Notice / int_a2dd8e62	comment	In The Big Four, the Master of Disguise meets Poirot in multiple disguises, some high-profile, and some completely mundane.
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Beneath Notice / int_a92653e1	comment	The Executioner. Mack Bolan once spent a day crouched in a rice paddy wearing a black poncho and a straw hat pretending to be a peasant farmer while enemy soldiers searched the area all around looking for him. He uses the tactic routinely during his war against The Mafia, knowing that no-one will suspect the friendly telephone repairman as the notorious black-suited One-Man Army.
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Beneath Notice / int_a993be1f	comment	Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords: When asked why the HK-50s are masquerading as mere protocol droids, assassin droid HK-47 explains it thus:
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Beneath Notice / int_adc01b38	comment	"Does a Bee Care?": Kane instinctively knows ways to keep himself unnoticed. The given examples are carrying a wrench and picking up leaves/trash. This is important to prevent people from noticing that he's The Ageless, and has been around for centuries.
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Beneath Notice / int_b11fb1b6	comment	A Master of Djinn: At first, no one suspects Abigail is the lead imposter, because Al-Jahiz was male and they portrayed him as such in his "return", but also she's a seemingly harmless woman.
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Beneath Notice / int_b2b8158	comment	In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, Yoshikage Kira exploited this trope to such an extreme to the point that he's considered The Generic Guy by many. He deliberately came third in many competitions so that he wouldn't get noticed.
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Beneath Notice / int_b30ae4db	comment	Throughout Game of Thrones, spymaster Varys mentions his "little birds" of informants, giving the indication they're an elite group of highly trained spies. In the sixth season, it turns out they're the poor children of the city who can easily get around and listen in but no one pays attention to. Sadly, for once, Varys makes a mistake as he's failed to consider these children could care less who runs the city and thus, rather than loyal to him, they'll easily work for anyone offering money and treats.
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Beneath Notice / int_b3710357	comment	TRON: This bites Dillinger and Master Control in the ass within the first half hour of the film. They considered Alan Bradley to be a paper-pushing Boy Scout who couldn't actually pose any kind of a threat and was too naive to actually know there was anything wrong. And then, Alan lays out very casually that...oh, he's been working on new security software (the title character!) that is going to monitor all the network traffic at Encom. Yes, the software is going to run independently. Yes, it's capable of shutting down Master Control if necessary. Yes, he submitted all the proper paperwork and kept his conduct squeaky-clean. Is any of this going to be a problem? After realizing that this naive Boy Scout rank and file programmer just pulled a whopper of a Xanatos Gambit, Dillinger all but pushes Alan out of the office in a panic. Made much more obvious in the Novelization.
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Beneath Notice / int_b3a3fa47	comment	On Babylon 5, the pak'ma'ra were frequently reviled by other races due to their bizarre cultural and dietary habits. They also tended to be everywhere, often working menial jobs where their presence was ignored as much as possible. Delenn reasoned that this characteristic made them ideal couriers and even infiltrators. To smuggle a Narn prisoner through the Centauri royal palace, where a Narn would ordinarily stand out like a sore thumb, Londo Mollari dresses her up in a Centauri gown and veil, and then simply walks her through the palace passages as his concubine, pretending to be a loud and rowdy drunkard. The Centauri nobles are conditioned to not pay attention to anything unseemly, so nobody gives the woman a close look.
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Beneath Notice / int_b4ec5004	comment	A variant occurs in the Enola Holmes series: in order to hide in plain sight from her brother Sherlock Holmes, Enola disguises herself as the one thing Sherlock will never look twice at: a beautiful woman!
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Beneath Notice / int_b50cc7e6	comment	The Incredible Hulk: This is how Bruce Banner gets into labs generally speaking. He needs the equipment or access to machinery, he dresses up as a janitor. Plus it's the added bonus of being there after hours.
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Beneath Notice / int_b53fff2a	comment	On Drop Dead Diva, Kim is suing a famous Lady Gaga style pop diva of stealing her dance routines from a school group. When the defense claims only the star comes up with the routines, Kim claims the woman must have personally videotaped the school performances. The diva's attorney argues that everyone knows the woman on sight so there's no way she could have done this...until Kim forces the woman to remove her outlandish wig and makeup in court. Without those, the diva looks like any average person no one would give a second glance to.
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Beneath Notice / int_b5abaa03	comment	Death in the Clouds is notable since the murderer is a dentist, but carried out the murder dressed as an airline steward since their clothes look similar.
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Beneath Notice / int_b712435c	comment	On Leverage, while Sophie, Hardison and Nate are more likely to show up people of importance, Parker and Eliot generally fly under the radar by posing as irrelevant workers. Parker and Eliot are also much less likely to be captured, though that is also due to their respective skill sets allowing them to get out of danger more easily. Ironically, one of the few times Hardison tries this, he is noticed. He enters an elevator dressed as a janitor and exits dressed in a suit. He successfully plays it off as racism. Parker apparently learned this from her mentor Archie, as he also does this in "The Big Dam Job." As he says, "Nobody ever cuts the cake until someone tells them to cut the cake." He was stealing a sword from an exhibit on opening night by smuggling it out through a fake cake, appearing as part of the catering staff. Once inside the party, he removed the white catering jacket and was just another gentleman at a nice party with a cane. This is inverted in "The Girls' Night Out Job" by the assassin the team is trying to catch. He disguises himself as a waiter, but doesn't put any effort into convincing the other catering staff that he belongs, which is what gets him caught. Parker's friend Peggy, who coincidentally is in charge of the food for this event, quickly realizes something is off with him after having to correct him on multiple basic errors (like carrying glasses with his fingers inside, a big food service no-no), and points out "the worst waiter ever" to Parker.
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Beneath Notice / int_b975458d	comment	Invoked by Fallon on Dynasty (2017) in how she's surprisingly good at undercover work when she's not flaunting her uber-wealth.
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Beneath Notice / int_b9bfb610	comment	Subverted in Recess: School's Out when TJ and Principal Prickley disguise themselves as two of Benedict's faceless mooks. It doesn't work because TJ is 10 years old and Prickley well into his 60s, making it obvious that they aren't supposed to be there.
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Beneath Notice / int_b9c8ae97	comment	In Perfume, it's explained that the main character has no scent, making people subconsciously treat him as beneath their notice. At one point, he steps right over a guard dog, which ignores him.
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Beneath Notice / int_ba56500d	comment	In Timeless, Rufus claims that this is his superpower when they jump to Las Vegas in The '60s. He's able to easily enter the service areas and swipe some uniforms with no one noticing or caring.
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Beneath Notice / int_bb79fbb2	comment	In L.A.'s Finest, the team is hunting a gunman who's notable for having an artificial leg. Racing into an alleyway, the guy strips off both his jumpsuit and the fake leg, slips a cap on his head and sits with a batch of homeless people. The cops are literally just a few feet away and complain the guy has "completely vanished" before them.
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Beneath Notice / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Mostly averted in Warhammer 40,000, where many Inquisitors use disguises to get around without raising suspicion but due to a regrettable lack of imagination, many of them go around as Rogue Traders, and there's one whose cover was a Dumb Blonde Glamorous Wartime Singer. She was smart enough to get an actual Rogue Trader to hang around and be suspicious.
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Beneath Notice / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Shadowrun: Often used by runners infiltrating corporate facilities. Common in Shadowrun fiction also. In one of the first short stories written for the setting, a fugitive from the yakuza is successfully smuggled past a cordon of street thugs, all of them on high alert, because her escort bribed a pizza deliveryman to let them borrow his van.
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Beneath Notice / int_beac6ffb	comment	Taken to the extreme in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask with the Stone Mask, which magically makes its wearer so thoroughly uninteresting and unremarkable that they effectively become invisible since nothing pays any attention whatsoever to them. A number of people are observant or disciplined enough to still notice, however: a number of the Gerudo pirates will still engage you, remarking "That mask won't fool me!" as they attack.
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Beneath Notice / int_beca70e3	comment	How a Street Thug Killed a God: Due to a mixture of Solomon's extremely unremarkable appearance and his min-maxing his Stealth skill, he becomes practically impossible to pick out in a crowd.
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Beneath Notice / int_c33c094d	comment	In the Mooncrash DLC of Prey one of the playable characters is Claire Whitten, a simple janitor whose initial profile states that she's a solitary person who's content with not being noticed. Later on, after completing Vijay Bhatia's story missions it's revealed that she's actually a corporate saboteur sent by a rival corporation to steal TranStar secrets and assassinate director Riley Yu.
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Beneath Notice / int_c4282b71	comment	A number of villains in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic operate like this to get away with their schemes, with varying levels of success. Starlight Glimmer got away with running a cult for years on the outskirts of the country until the Cutie Map was created and pointed out her town's existence. Ahuizotl's schemes only attract the attention of Daring Do who subsequently passes the stories off as pure fiction, and it's later revealed the princesses likely leave him alone because he's actually a good guy and probably would have intervened to stop Daring Do had they known the stories were true. And Cozy Glow managed to make it to the final stages of her plan due to being nothing more than a child.
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Beneath Notice / int_c999b7db	comment	Lampshaded in Black Sheep (1996). Mike Donnelly plans to sneak into a party dressed as a caterer using this trope.
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Beneath Notice / int_c9a98ba0	comment	True Detective: The parties responsible for the Tsalal scientists' deaths go undetected until "Part 6", when the culprit (in a case of Ethnic Menial Labor, the IÃ±upiaq janitor who along with her friends, avenged Annie K's murder at the hands of those scientists) admits their actions.
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Beneath Notice / int_ca4949d1	comment	Villains by Necessity: Arcie and Kaylana infiltrate Mizzamir's castle by disguising themselves as servants hired on as temp workers for the multinational wizards' conference that Mizzamir is hosting at the time. When they need to get into the archmage's personal tower, Arcie grabs a tray of wine glasses and asks one of the permanent staff for directions, to which the butler's only reaction while giving the directions is annoyance over the fact that this meant that yet another part of the castle would need extra cleaning when the conference was over.
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Beneath Notice / int_cabf229d	comment	"Feminine Intuition": Bogart goes crazy trying to find the "witness" Mandarin claimed had heard Jane rattle off the location of three potentially habitable exoplanets. He's desperate enough to ask Dr Calvin for advice, who quickly realizes that Bogart didn't think to ask the truck driver.
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Beneath Notice / int_ccf875f7	comment	Recurs in Criminal Minds. Since regular police officers are trained to look for people who stand out, the BAU really only get called in when someone beneath notice is targeting an area. It's their job to turn the search toward those people. A heavily-lampshaded early example is the Tommy Killer in "Plain Sight." The team quickly explains that he has to be white because a black person would stick out in the neighborhoods he's targeting. He turns out to be a utility man: Of course he's moving around in locked-down areas—a service call's a service call. Of course he's carrying duct tape, binding cords, etc. and is able to remove them from the scene—he needs his supplies for work. Of course he's poking around people's houses—he has to check their connections. Of course he's up on utility poles where he can peek into women's bedrooms—that's quite literally his job description. "Broken Mirror" and "The Crossing" both deal with erotomaniac stalkers, people who have casual contact with a person (or even just see them on TV) and become convinced that they're secretly in love or even in a relationship. The team has to delve into the victims' lives and look at everyone they've been in contact with since the harassment started, and the stalker never even registers. In "Broken Mirror," the victim's father is aware of the stalker, but considers him a casual associate at best and doesn't think to mention the access that he and his coworkers have to the family; in "The Crossing," the victim only remembers her previous meeting with the stalker after the adrenaline of the final confrontation wears off, and a chilling montage plays scenes from earlier in the episode showing that, not only was he always around without her being noticed, he was always around in situations where she was casually (albeit somewhat reluctantly) discussing personal information: confirming her address at a pharmacy, giving her phone number for account tracking at a dry cleaner, etc. so not only was the stalker beneath notice, the ways he was able to track and violate her didn't even register as concerning.
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Beneath Notice / int_ce5d6e59	comment	Polnareff, when working for DIO in Vaguely Recalling JoJo, disguised himself as a restaurant waiter to get closer to the Joestar group.
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Beneath Notice / int_cf3e7a82	comment	Superman: One of the reasons why people don't recognize clumsy, passive, mild-mannered Clark Kent as Superman. Lampshaded by Kara Zor-El in The Supergirl from Krypton (2004) when she wonders why nobody recognizes her cousin, until she sees a Superman statue, whereupon she realizes the Earth people regard him as their larger-than-life champion. Even if someone did manage to catch the resemblance, they would never assume that a Physical God with every superpower known to man would ever choose to live as someone so mundane. In Supergirl (Rebirth), Kara Danvers behaves as a lonely, clumsy, geeky girl so nobody suspects she is Supergirl.
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Beneath Notice / int_cf4c9349	comment	A Divine (Romantic) Comedy: This is a major reason, alongside them saving Camila from Jacob Hopkins, why Lucifer hires I.M.P to bodyguard Charlie during her work with the hotel. As he muses in Chapter 6, he can't send anyone too high on Hell's hierarchy for risk of causing her to feel patronized and alienated. Sending Sins, Overlords, or royal guards is a no-go, but an imp run assassination group from outside Pentagram City? They fit the bill quite well.
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Beneath Notice / int_d14bb14a	comment	The very first episode has Sherlock and John chase down a cab because they believe the passenger is a murderer. He isn't, but the driver is. Nobody ever looks at a cabbie. Gets a Call-Back in season 2, when Sherlock catches a cab and despite his Hyper-Awareness, fails to realize that it's being driven by Moriarty.
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Beneath Notice / int_d2cd3b5e	comment	In Nomine: While other Demon Princes rant, rave and monologue, Kronos stands quietly in the background, ignoring the politics of the Pit and slowly turning the world to rot.
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Beneath Notice / int_d4f9ccf	comment	Both the titular Aladdin and Jasmine get away with Paper Thin Disguises owing to this. With Aladdin, as a street rat, nobody ever paid him enough attention to recognize he is "Prince Ali", except for Jasmine who did and quickly surmises who he really is. With Jasmine, dressed as a street mouse (as Razoul puts it) nobody looks at her long enough to recognize her until she actually points out she is, in fact, the princess.
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Beneath Notice / int_d55ffc53	comment	In 7th Sea, the Servant skill has a Knack (sub-skill) called Unobtrusive, which relies on this trope.
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Beneath Notice / int_d806f895	comment	Also done in season 4 when they're hired to be undercover at a Hell's Kitchen parody to protect the Albanian ambassador who is dining there that night which AGAIN turns out to be a scam, this time on behalf of Malory who faked a bomb threat so she could get a table at the exclusive restaurant. The Albanian ambassador gets killed anyway, by the star chef, having been paid off by Russian cyborgs Katya and Barry.
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Beneath Notice / int_dccfc4b8	comment	In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, it is explained Harry's parents tried to hide their house from Voldemort with the use of the Fidelius Charm. Said charm magically hides a location using someone's mind as a hiding place; the so-called Secret Keeper. The only way the location can be found is when the Secret Keeper chooses to divulge the information. Harry's parents invoked this trope by choosing the rather unassuming Peter Pettigrew as Secret Keeper rather than the obvious choice of James's very best friend and Harry's godfather Sirius Black, thinking Voldemort wouldn't possibly even consider going after him. Unfortunately, said person willingly gave up the location to Voldemort.
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Beneath Notice / int_ddad77ae	comment	In Astro City, a comic-book publisher who got in a lot of trouble for basing comics on the actual superheroes and supervillains in the setting decides to switch to comics focusing on cosmic entities, thinking that any such beings wouldn't bother reading comics. He turns out to be wrong about this.
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Beneath Notice / int_de512153	comment	On Good Girls, gang leader Rico is ready to kill main characters Beth, Annie and Ruby for unwittingly stealing from the store he was using as a front. Beth manages to talk him down from it by pointing out that killing three suburban mothers is going to bring too much attention to him. Her words make Rico realize that a trio of women with no criminal records and rather plain lives are perfect for him to use for running errands and laundering money in a variety of small-time scams. Season 4 proves how well it works as FBI agent Phoebe has been slowly building a case on the girls and hunting them. In a meeting with her superiors, Phoebe is shocked to realize her bosses are operating under the belief that Beth's husband, Dean (an utter sad sack who openly says he doesn't want to know what his wife is up to) is the real criminal mastermind and the wife isn't even on their radar.
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Beneath Notice / int_df57aa2a	comment	The LEGO Movie: Emmet is The Chosen Zero, an ordinary Blank Slate doofus. His plain appearance makes victory possible when Finn's father interrupts and demands an explanation. Finn says that Emmet is the hero of this story, but his dad immediately dismisses this idea. He puts the ordinary construction worker aside and pays little attention to him, allowing Emmet to escape unnoticed. Similarly, Lord Business is unable to locate him with all of his Nineteen Eighty-Four levels of surveillance because Emmet is so unremarkable and plain-looking the scanners can't id him:
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Beneath Notice / int_e144ba19	comment	In Dragon Age II, free mage Merrill finds that she doesn't have to do much to stay hidden from the Templars in Kirkwall; as long as she doesn't use magic, she's just another elf in the Alienage to them.
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Beneath Notice / int_e6405649	comment	Lampshaded in The Dinosaur Lords, when Pilar outlines why she and Montserrat are the best choices to aid imprisoned MelodÃa.
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Beneath Notice / int_ebffc81f	comment	Mage: The Awakening: The Blank Badges Legacy can turn their Occultation into effective dots of Status in any mundane group. The net effect is that nobody knows who the character is but they're clearly someone important, allowing for all kinds of social engineering fun. One Prime spell allows a Mage to hide his Aura and look just like a Muggle to foes relying on magic-detecting abilities to spot Mages.
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Beneath Notice / int_ed322fd7	comment	One of the big reasons Villanelle from Killing Eve is such a good assassin is that sheâ€™s able to blend in as just another random, unassuming, pretty twenty-something woman.
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Beneath Notice / int_ee6ac780	comment	In The Mask of Zorro, this is how the old Zorro is able to masquerade literally right in front of Montero. Because he is masquerading as a servant, it would not even occur to Montero to take more than a passing glance at him.
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Beneath Notice / int_eef69f10	comment	Sherlock Holmes occasionally makes use of the "Baker Street Irregulars", a gang of young street urchins, who because they are typically ignored by everyone, can serve as his eyes and ears on the streets of London. He was also a Master of Disguise among his many other talents, and in several stories dressed as a Lower-Class Lout that most people wouldn't look twice at. The TV series Sherlock includes an homage to this, except he uses the homeless people of London instead of young street urchins. They prove invaluable when he needs to find a specific piece of graffiti that could be almost anywhere in the city. He gives them burner phones to contact him and pays generously with cash for whoever can find what he's looking for. It's also used to great effect by the sympathetic Anti-Villain of A Study in Scarlet, who finds a profession that allows him to go anywhere in London and transport his victims (of their own free will) to isolated spots ideal for a murder.
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Beneath Notice / int_f00d733b	comment	New World of Darkness: Many Splats can use the Point Build System to gain a Merit that makes it harder for someone to find records of the individual or track them down. It goes by various names depending on the game line, among them "Occultation," "Hidden Life," and "Anonymity". Often, though, these Merits also apply penalties to situations where being known would be useful ("Who're you to throw your weight around? Don't know you from Adam..."). A non-supernatural merit in Vampire: The Requiem makes a character less noticeable while they're doing a routine, practical task like paperwork or gardening. Mage: The Awakening: The Blank Badges Legacy can turn their Occultation into effective dots of Status in any mundane group. The net effect is that nobody knows who the character is but they're clearly someone important, allowing for all kinds of social engineering fun. One Prime spell allows a Mage to hide his Aura and look just like a Muggle to foes relying on magic-detecting abilities to spot Mages.
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Beneath Notice / int_f0c816fb	comment	In Season 1 of Breaking Bad, DEA agent Hank is able to trace a stolen gas mask to Walt's inventory, but it never crosses his mind that it was Walt who stole it because he knows him personally and thinks him too meek to be capable of that. Instead, he keeps investigating under the assumption that it was Walt's students who stole it and never seriously questions him.
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Beneath Notice / int_f0d57197	comment	The Dark Forest: In Shi's lecture to Luo Ji near the start of the book, he identifies this as the foundation of real shrewdness. This becomes key to Luo Ji's ultimate plan at the end of the book, when he convinces everyone around him, including the Trisolarans, that he has no way to stop the invasion, and is only working on an ultimately meaningless project in order to escape reality. It works and he saves the day.
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Beneath Notice / int_f4e799ee	comment	A common tactic on Burn Notice, Michael will sometimes don the uniform of a maintenance worker or such, since nobody thinks to question why a guy from the phone company is fiddling with phone connections. A trait it seems he inherited from his dad - Mr. Weston Sr. used to do the same to steal equipment off of work sites.
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Beneath Notice / int_f53fe2fa	comment	Willy Armitage of Mission: Impossible routinely infiltrated the target location by disguising himself as a janitor or repairman.
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Beneath Notice / int_f980cee9	comment	Rod Allbright Alien Adventures: The wealthy intergalactic criminal BKR disguises himself as a human child to hide out undetected on Earth. As a bonus, this lets him vent his petty sadism on helpless children.
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Beneath Notice / int_fdf7a632	comment	A non-supernatural merit in Vampire: The Requiem makes a character less noticeable while they're doing a routine, practical task like paperwork or gardening.
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Beneath Notice / int_febc4d2c	comment	In The Fugitive, Dr. Kimble dresses in baggy, drab-colored clothes, making it easy to slip into a hospital disguised as a janitor.
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Beneath Notice / int_ffe34832	comment	In the Tommy and Tuppence spy novel The Secret Adversary, Mr. Brown runs his organization via menial roles and tasks, letting his underlings attract the attention and serve as its face. Tuppence even sees Mr. Brown, posing as an office clerk passing along a phone message to so-called company owner Whittington, but she can remember absolutely nothing remarkable about him. It's what makes the reveal that Mr. Brown is the extremely popular and charismatic Sir James so shocking later.
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TeeQueue (Lets Play) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
A Master of Djinn / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Amberlough / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Angel Mage / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Black Widowers / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Claw (2024) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Codex Alera / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Crier's War / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Death in the Clouds / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Does a Bee Care? / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Edgedancer / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Enola Holmes / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Escape From Hell! / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Escape from Hell! (2008) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Father Brown / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
For Your Eyes Only / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Interviewing Leather / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Lord Darcy / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Mask of Shadows / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Men at Arms / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Mistress of the Art of Death / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
New Jedi Order / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Night Watch (Discworld) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Out of Sight / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Perfume / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Rapunzel and the Lost Lagoon / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Sam the Cat: Detective / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Snow / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Snow (2004) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Tearmoon Empire / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The ABC Murders / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The Angel of the Crows / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The Dark Forest / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The Dinosaur Lords / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The Lightbringer Series / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The Machineries of Empire / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The Man Who Was Thursday / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The Mayors / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The Scholomance / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The Truth / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Tommy and Tuppence / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Tortall: A Spy's Guide / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Villains by Necessity / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Worldwar / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
NINJA	seeAlso	Beneath Notice
Golgo 13 (Manga) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Happy Kanako’s Killer Life (Manga) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable (Manga) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Origin (Manga) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The Mechanisms (Music) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
PokÃ©mon World Tour: United (Podcast) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The Dragon Has Three Heads (Roleplay) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
A Black Lady Sketch Show / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Alphas / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Around the World in 80 Days (2021) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Astrid / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Fringe / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Good Girls / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Hawkeye (2021) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Killing Eve / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Leonardo / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Midnight Sun (2016) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
No Good Nick / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Peaky Blinders / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Sherlock / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Square One TV / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Supergirl (2015) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The 100 / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The Cleaning Lady / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The Spencer Sisters / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
True Detective / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
V (1983) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Wild Cards (2024) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Wolf Hall / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Paranoia (Tabletop Game) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
7th Sea: The East (Tabletop Game) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (Tabletop Game) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
ARMA (Video Game) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Kingdom Hearts III: Re𝄌Mind (Video Game) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Luigi's Mansion 3 (Video Game) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Mini Ninjas (Video Game) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Return to Mysterious Island (Video Game) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Signal Ops (Video Game) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (Video Game) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Video Game) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The Trader of Stories (Video Game) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The Crown & the Flame (Visual Novel) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Zero Time Dilemma (Visual Novel) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Dimension 20 (Web Video) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Outside Xbox (Web Video) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Vaguely Recalling JoJo (Web Video) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Awful Hospital (Webcomic) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Bakery "Enemies" (Webcomic) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Lavender Jack (Webcomic) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Spying with Lana (Webcomic) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Star Mares (Webcomic) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Subnormality (Webcomic) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Serina (Website) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Kulipari: An Army of Frogs / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Star Wars Resistance / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice

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