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Hollywood Chameleons
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In Real Life, chameleons have only a limited colour-changing ability which is primarily dictated by the lizard's mood. Aside from a few species, any usefulness as camouflage is entirely unintended. The colours they change into (shades of green, brown, and grey, with bolder psychedelic patterns usually reserved only for courtship or frightening rivals and predators), just happen to be the same as their surroundings most of the time.note Of course, the reason they turn these colors and not, say, bright pink or blue is that they're far more likely to be useful as camouflage. Fictional chameleons, of course, can seamlessly will their skin into an exact reproduction of wherever they're standing. One could argue that a sapient chameleon may be able to consciously change colour to match their surroundings whereas their real-life counterparts only act out of instinct, but this doesn't excuse the more fantastical versions of this trope that become straight-up invisible or even change shape. The most common way of playing this trope for laughs is for a chameleon capable of speech to face a situation where it must match a plaid background. It will invariably be unable to do so, and won't be shy about saying so. As a side note, the most well-known animal that is actually capable of camouflaging to match their surroundings is the octopus. Meanwhile, the camouflage thing isn't the only behavior which has been falsely attributed to chameleons; in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, it was popularly believed that these lizards lived by eating nothing except air. The title character of Shakespeare's Hamlet references this, claiming to do the same thing himself (during his period of feigning madness). Subtrope of Somewhere, a Herpetologist Is Crying and Chameleon Camouflage. Compare Invisibility Cloak. Can often overlap with Lovable Lizard. |
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The chameleons in The Penguins of Madagascar use their colors as a means of communication. | |
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A deleted scene (restored in special editions) in Terminator 2: Judgment Day shows this becoming a problem for the T-1000 after it reintegrates from being frozen in liquid nitrogen and blown apart by the T-800. The problem for it being that it uses its ability to mimic visuals and textures on whatever it is touching no matter what at the point of contact. This is how John is able to Spot the Impostor when the T-1000 imitates Sarah - its feet and lower legs match the pattern of the platform everyone is standing on. | |
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Chameleo Arm in Kirby Super Star. He can turn practically invisible, though the projectiles he spits at Kirby conveniently provide the Paint ability, which will remove his camouflage. | |
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In Digimon, Chamelemon can appear to disappear even if they're not standing up against anything. | |
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Monster Hunter: Chameleos from Monster Hunter 2 (dos) is a huge chameleon dragon that can become completely invisible and spends much of its time in the state, notably not even bothering to take the initiative in attacking you (at least until Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, where it's evidently wised up and realized that an aggressive approach is more effective at fending off pesky hunters). The ability is said to be a result of the supernatural ability to refract light around its body as opposed to color changing, though, making it more justified. Fittingly, it's a massive troll, especially for an animal, as it starts messing with other creatures and pilfering their items either for a lark or to get them to sod off. Breaking the horn disables this ability. | |
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The Lizalfos are given this design in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. On top of having the same independently mobile eyes, they can change color to blend into their environment, potentially enabling them to ambush unwitting players. The disguise isn't perfect, however, and a player attuned to a Lizalfos' anatomy can make them out against the landscape they're supposed to be blending into. | |
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The Simpsons, "Alone Again, Natura-Diddly": A chameleon living on a racetrack changes colors to exactly match an STP can. It then gets eaten by a snake living in the can, regardless of the perfect camouflage. | |
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Zig-zagged in Kevin & Kell: there have been several strips about chameleons blending into the background, but one story arc has a family counsellor called "Chamilla Moodring", and the fact her color responds to emotions is the point (although that also gets exaggerated). Later, Bruno and Corrie adopt a chameleon named Carla, who loves camouflaging herself, which caused her to be rejected by other families since she couldn't be easily found. Bruno and Corrie cope by having her wear wool that can't be camouflaged and wearing ugly sweaters for her to mimic. (And her best friend Turvy can use echolocation to find her easily.) |
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Looney Tunes: One short had a chameleon who shows off his color changing abilities, but breaks down when he finds a plaid backdrop. In a Shout-Out to this, the character Camo-Man (not Camel Man) in Duck Dodgers is only visible in front of plaid. |
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Randall Boggs from Monsters, Inc. is an extreme example. He can turn completely invisible not only when standing against a background, but even when standing in the open and in physical contact with someone else. He also tends to instantly change colors and patterns when hit hard. Though it's justified given that he's a monster and not an actual chameleon. | |
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The chameleons in NetHack can disguise themselves as other creatures, and even gain the abilities of whatever they mimic. | |
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In Naruto, a giant one of these a person can hide in is one of Animal Pain's many summons. | |
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RWBY: Averted by Ilia Amitola, a chameleon faunus whose animal trait is her color-changing skin. The closest she ever comes to this trope is turning herself pitch-black when skulking around in the dead of night, while her skin usually changes colors depending on her mood (blue when sad, red when angry, etc.) and in patterns and colors that are clearly not meant to blend in with anything. | |
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In the Franny K. Stein book The Invisible Fran, Franny owns a chameleon capable of turning invisible, which inspires her at one point to create an invisibility potion that she uses to whisper ideas to her classmates in hopes of getting them to share her interest in mad science. | |
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In Jurassic World, the Indominus Rex is capable of changing color to blend in to its background. When questioned on this, Dr. Wu states that the genetically engineered dino has cuttlefish DNA in it that is likely to be the source of this ability. | |
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In Rocko's Modern Life, the Chameleon Brothers don't actually change color...but they do change jobs a lot, based on what's trendy. | |
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Dreamscape: Justified with CHEN, the giant cyborg chameleon, since it's more like a cloaking device than color-changing camouflage. | |
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In Kemono Friends, the panther chameleon Friend's color-changing ability is treated more like the ability to turn totally invisible. | |
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Exaggerated in A Spell For Chameleon—the things referred to as chameleons in-setting definitely aren't, and are capable of disguising themselves as other species. | |
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On The Angry Beavers, Bing is able to change colors and patterns and go completely invisible except for his eyes. He otherwise has attributes of a gecko, however. | |
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Similarly, it appears as though Ceratosaurs have this ability in Age of Reptiles. It's a tad bit jarring. | |
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Dusty Raging Fist has chameleon-men enemies, who can turn invisible after they're left idle for too long (including their clothing and knives) where they'll attempt stabbing you while invisible. However, you can avoid them by spotting the still-visible shadow. | |
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The Chameleon Deathclaw in Fallout 4 can change its color to become almost invisible (apart from a faint Predator shimmer around it). Presumably, they have this power because Deathclaws were originally created from genetically engineered Jackson's Chameleons to begin with. Ironically, when not using this ability, they're actually easier to spot than regular Deathclaws due to their bright green coloration, which sticks out against the grey and brown landscape much better than the black or grey coloration of most other Deathclaw types. | |
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My Gym Partner's a Monkey, after an advertising executive abused Ms. Chameleon's colour-changing abilities for a TV commercial, she was unable to stop changing colors. | |
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The Perry Bible Fellowship: "Love Lizard" has a chameleon blending in amongst the walls of a bedroom to avoid being caught sleeping with a lizard's wife. | |
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In one episode of Arthur, Francine mentions having a pet chameleon that changed colors and escaped. Said chameleon actually looks more like an anolis. | |
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An episode of the 90's remake of Secret Squirrel had a chameleon as its villain—an art thief who could blend himself in perfectly with fine art. Like the Looney Tunes one broke down in front of plaid, this one completely broke down when he stood in front of modern, abstract pieces. | |
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In the Phineas and Ferb episode "The Lizard Whisperer", the boys' giant pet chameleon Steve can flawlessly blend in with his surroundings that he becomes practically invisible; Candace attempts to bust the brothers by showing Linda the giant chameleon, but she doesn't notice anything thanks to Steve blending in (although earlier in the episode, the boys are able to find Steve because he casts a giant shadow). It's most easily triggered when he's freaked out by loud noises. | |
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Off the Mark: If◊ a◊ chameleon◊ shows◊ up◊, they're◊ going to◊ be this◊. | |
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The Cramp Twins: In the episode "Chameleon Chaos" Lucien adopts a chameleon which can go completely invisible, no matter where it stands. When Lucien thinks that he lost it, he finds out it was in its terrarium the whole time, only invisible. | |
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Outright averted by Liz in The Magic School Bus. She's a Jackson's Chameleon, but she's actually never shown changing colors, which is both unusual and refreshing for a fictional chameleon. | |
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In The Wishsong of Shannara we get one of these... As a giant tiger. (The Cheshire Cat reference is obvious.) | |
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Subverted in Dr. Dolittle 2, with Pepito the chameleon, who thinks he has the ability to blend completely into the background, but never can. At the end, Charisse paints a room completely green as a surprise for Pepito, and it looks like he finally got his dream. | |
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One Gaston Lagaffe strip has Gaston put different-colored papers behind an increasingly-irritated chameleon, who ends up dumping a pot of red paint on Gaston's head. | |
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Inverted by Karma the Chameleon from Best Fiends. As she is color-blind, she will always stand out from her surroundings instead. | |
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The chameleon in Impossible Creatures has the Camouflage ability, which makes part-chameleon creatures invisible. It shares this ability with the rattlesnake and walking stick, which make it even more ridiculous considering they only blend in with specific surroundings. | |
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Averted with the main character in Rango, whose colour-changing abilities are more in keeping with a real chameleon's ("It's an art, not a science!"), which doesn't do him any good when trying to hide in the desert. He does a moderately better job at imitating a packet of licorice while hiding in a sweets machine, although he's found out anyway. | |
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The movie Man's Best Friend featured a genetically-modified killer dog whose abilities included "chameleon genes". At one point, the dog matched the cluttered garage he was in, blending so perfectly that he was invisible to a human three feet away. Presumably based on this trope, as the mention of chameleons seemed to be all the explanation needed for the stunt. | |
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In the The Elder Scrolls series, the Chameleon spell effect draws on this idea by giving you a bonus to stealth. Getting it all the way to 100% (particularly via enchanting the effect onto your armor) is a complete Game-Breaker, as it renders you effectively invisible. | |
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Pokémon has two Pokemon evolutionary families based on chameleons: Kecleon from Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire can change into any color and turn invisible at will, aside from its belly stripe, which never changes. Its ability is even "Color Change" (which makes it the same type as the move it was last hit with). Sobble's evolution line, particularly Sobble itself, can also blend into their surroundings. The anime shows that projectiles like sand can render its invisibility useless. |
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Sting Chameleon in Mega Man X could blend into the background and avoid X's weapons, though it's more of a cloaking field than color change. His weapon, when charged, causes X to flash in a rainbow of colors and be incorporeal to enemies and invincible while it lasts, ignoring all Collision Damage and moving straight through them. The Updated Re-release Maverick Hunter X for the PS Vita turns the charged Chameleon Sting into a near Game-Breaker by allowing X to switch weapons and attack while the invincibility is still active. | |
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Justified with The Chameleon from T.U.F.F. Puppy. His camouflage consist in actually transforming in what he wants, but that's because of his special suit. Without it, he is just a normal chameleon. | |
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The Sonic the Hedgehog character Espio's ability to blend into any color is represented by him becoming almost invisible. In Sonic Heroes, he can use this ability to literally walk through laser detection systems without being spotted by them. | |
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In the movie Curious George, George comes across a chameleon and that turns brown as he passes it. Then he brings his animal friends (hippo, crocodile, zebra, etc.) to make the chameleon match their color. Then they run around the chameleon in circles and the chameleon, dizzy, falls to the ground in a kaleidoscopic state and George places the dazed chameleon back in its tree branch. | |
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In zefrank1's True Facts About The Chameleon, the narrator notes that a chameleon's best deception isn't their color changing, but that it tricked humans into thinking they do it for camouflage. | |
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Subverted in RWBY: Scars. Neo is a chameleon Faunus who can change her appearance and colors at will. However, that is just her semblance and it has nothing to do with her being a Faunus (with Neo's semblance being distinctly different from Ilia's ability at Chameleon Camouflage). Her Faunus trait is actually a simple forked tongue. | |
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Anole from The New Mutants has this ability. | |
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In Dark Life, this is Shade's Dark Gift. Interestingly, Dark Gifts are based on the abilities of sea creatures, so this fits under the octopus example. | |
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Subverted in Stanley; Stanley becomes a chameleon, thinking it'll be cool to be able to change colors at will, but quickly learns that it doesn't work that way. | |
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In Yaiba there's Chamaleon Bonaparte, a french-speaking chameleon who could not only turn invisible but even transform into another character | |
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In Yooka-Laylee, Yooka the chameleon is one of these. In addition to being able to turn actually, literally transparent—which is used as part of some Light and Mirrors Puzzle parts—he can change not just his color, but his properties by eating certain foods. So, eating honey makes him yellow and sticky, while eating flames makes him red and hot. | |
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Leon from Awesomenauts has a cloaking ability that is stated to be natural. He uses this in conjunctions with dummy clones to throw off his opponent. | |
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The Carnotaurus in The Lost World: Jurassic Park arcade game had chameleon abilities like its novel counterpart, but the way it looked in the game was more along the lines of a cloaking device. | |
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Kecleon from Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire can change into any color and turn invisible at will, aside from its belly stripe, which never changes. Its ability is even "Color Change" (which makes it the same type as the move it was last hit with). | |
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In an episode of Primeval, they faced a camouflage monster. It could almost seamlessly disappear into any background. Even when moving really fast, it is still hard to spot. Although, being a creature from the future, it isn't exactly a chameleon. | |
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Milli from Team Umizoomi is a rare human example, but she changes only the pattern and color of her clothes. She does so to change/add the pattern of anything or fill in a missing part of an existing pattern. |
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In The Lion Guard, Kinyonga the veiled chameleon is capable of rapidly changing her colors and going completely invisible, which is useful in spying on the villainous Outlanders. That is, until the skinks notice her shadow... | |
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The Caped Chameleon from The Tick has the power to mimic the pattern of any surface. Except plaid. He doesn't do plaid. | |
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The Wild features a group of chameleons that can work together to basically paint any surface they cover, up to even rendering that object completely invisible. | |
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Discussed in Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception. Holly mentions in conversation that Foaly named his Cham-foil invention in honor of the chameleon. Artemis wonders whether or not Foaly is aware that chameleons use their color changes to express mood rather than as camouflage. | |
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The Stealth Sneak in the Kingdom Hearts series. Its camouflage mostly keeps you from telling what it's doing the first time it's fought, due to Clayton riding on it, which gives its location away. While you don't have the same luxury in later encounters, it eventually drops its camouflage once it's been damaged sufficiently anyways. | |
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Season 2 episode 43 of Happy Heroes features a chameleon-like beast who has the ability to change color at will, befitting of the species he resembles. | |
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