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A typical trope of fairy tales and myths. Old women, wanderers, and wise hooded characters may look like simple peasants, looking for shelter from the (usually) "bad weather conditions" or a hostile environment. But they're not what they seem to be. Under their cloak, there's something much, MUCH MORE powerful than you can imagine. They can be members of the Fair Folk, a Physical God, sometimes a Wicked Witch that wants to screw your life with either a spell or a taste of her beauty, or a King Incognito. In the first two cases, however, these beings in disguise are portrayed as positive characters, whose Fatal Flaw is just an unexpected curiosity towards their hosts (Genre Savvy characters may notice that something's fishy, and it's guaranteed they will never break their hospitality oath). If their staying is excellent, and their innkeepers were smart enough to avoid an Idiot Ball, these beggars will show their true form and thank the hosts for their kindness and selflessness. As reward, they'll give as a present an Ancient Artifact, a Superpower Lottery skill, or, rarely, the hand of one of their children. If not, they will unleash the fury of their wrath. Expect the puny mortals to remain clueless about their guests' identity, even if their world or oral tradition tells about the very situation they're stuck in. If The Reveal occurs after visits to several homes, there might be a general reward and punishment for those who either helped or rejected them. Since this is not a trope concerned with the character itself, but with the event caused by their appearance in the work, it acts as a Sub-Trope of Secret Test of Character. It differs from God Was My Copilot and Angel Unaware for the length of their relationship with their innkeepers: in the aforementioned tropes, god-like disguised characters will spend a significant amount of time with the main characters, whereas beggars examples usually begin and end in a single day. Moreover, villains and Well-Intentioned Extremist figures may hide under the cloak of a beggar, averting the positive effects of the other tropes. Due to the sheer power of these characters, their interactions with the main cast may occur either in a story's prologue or during its climax. In the latter case, The Reveal can also trigger a Plot Twist. Sub-Trope of Goodness Exam. Sister Trope to Honest Axe. Related to God in Human Form, Beneath the Mask (if they fake their real personality), Secret Identity, God Was My Copilot, Angel Unaware, King Incognito, Honest Axe and, if the beggar turns out to be a Wicked Witch, a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing. If the Secret Test fails, the trope overlaps with Bullying a Dragon and, consequently, Bolt of Divine Retribution, a curse, a Revenge by Proxy or a Fate Worse than Death. Compare Character Witness and Karmic Jackpot. Similar in spirit to Nice to the Waiter, although in that trope the inferior person can be exactly what they seem and it's a third person or the narrative itself approving of the superior person's charity. |
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Invoked in the Adventure Time episode "Freak City", where Finn and Jake find an old man who asks for help and immediately recognize he's actually magic. Unfortunately, the beggar in question is actually a horrible trickster named Magic Man, who turns Finn into a giant foot for helping. Finn thinks this was because his intent was a reward rather than helping for the sake of itself, but realizes he's just doing it For the Evulz—whereupon Magic Man changes him back for finally "appreciating" what a jerk he is. | |
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The first time Luke (and the audience) meets Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda looks like an annoying local inhabitant of Dagobah, telling Luke he knows "how to find [this great Jedi Warrior]." If you watched from Episode 1, you wouldn't be surprised by the reveal. Luke desperately wants to meet Yoda as soon as possible, and while he never does anything cruel to "the beggar," he does quickly become impatient with him. | |
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In the third The Queen's Thief book, Gen is told a story of the king who promised the moon goddess to free a slave and never to lie while the moon was out. Years later, after the promise has been forgotten, the king himself is pulling a King Incognito and is about to lie to cover his identity just as the moon is rising, while an old beggar woman stands by watching... fortunately the slave he freed, now his best friend, belts him with an amphora of wine to shut him up. | |
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Looney Tunes: "Busy Bakers" does a variation of the "Elves and the Shoemaker" story. When a baker's bakery is going under, it's visited by an old beggar man asking for food and the baker gives his him his last doughnut. The beggar turns out to be a little baker man in disguise and rounds up the other little baker men who bring ingredients and bake some goods while the owner is asleep. At the end the shop is filled with baked goods and the baker's business is saved. The original little baker man returns in his beggar disguise and once again asks for food and the baker gives him a pie; but after he leaves with it the baker jokingly tells him there's a 5 cent deposit on the pie pan; and gets pied in the face for it. |
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Discussed and shown in The Storyteller episode "A Story Short"; The protagonist helps a beggar get food using a Stone Soup ploy; The beggar would later help the protag avoid punishment using magic. | |
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In Beauty and the Beast, a prince is asked for shelter from the winter snows by a beggar woman, who's actually an enchantress testing his kindness. The prince refuses, even after she warns him "not to be deceived by appearances," and she curses him to be a beast until he learns how to love and grow out of his selfishness. | |
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In The Green Pastures, God usually walks among humans as a simple country preacher. | |
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In La Cenerentola (Rossini's version of "Cinderella"), the fairy godmother is replaced by the prince's tutor Alidoro, who visits Don Magnifico's house disguised as a beggar. The two stepsisters try to shoo him away, but Cinderella gives him bread and coffee. Alidoro then reports to the prince that a suitable bride can be found in that household and later returns to give Cinderella a dress for the ball. | |
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In "Snow White" the Evil Queen invokes the fact that Snow White's good nature would make her an obvious candidate to pass the test and so disguises herself as a beggar woman so that she will not be questioned, giving Snow White a poison apple. | |
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In The Odyssey, one of the purposes of Odysseus pretending to be an old beggar on his return to Ithaca is to test the character of his servants. The way they treat the beggar and talk about Odysseus and Penelope enables him to determine whom to use as allies in the final battle and who will be punished (i. e. killed). He even tries to warn one of the suitors who behaves decently to the beggar. | |
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Undercover Boss features a "real life" variant. The C.E.O. of a corporation pretends to be an entry-level, usually incompetent, employee, to see how regular employees live. The end of each episode has the boss reveal to a select group of tested employees their real identity. Good employees often get raises and grants. Bad employees can find themselves fired. | |
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In The Cobbler, this trope builds the backstory of how the magical shoe-stitcher device became the cobbler family's heirloom. Max's father recounts the story at the beginning of the movie: | |
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"The Golden Goose": The main character shares his humble lunch with a hermit, after his two older brothers snubbed the same hermit and suffered nasty wood-cutting accidents. Not only does the hermit turn the hero's dry bread and water into cakes and wine as a sign of gratitude, but he tells him where to find the eponymous golden goose. | |
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In Cinderella (2015), the Fairy Godmother first appears to Ella as an old beggar woman, she doesn't reveal her true self until after Ella has shown her kindness by getting her a drink even while she was miserable from not being allowed to go to the ball. | |
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In the first episode of Hart to Hart, protagonist Jonathan Hart was shown undercover as a dock worker within his company. He promptly fires the Jerkass executive running the division and rides off in the company limo. | |
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In The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, the Fool's brothers ignore the strange old beggar at the side of the road, and are never heard from again. The Fool greets the beggar kindly and shares his lunch, and the man tells the Fool where to find the flying ship. The stop-motion animation adaptation expands on this. The old beggar asks the brothers to share their food, but they throw garbage at him to make him go away. The Fool offers to share but admits that he doesn't have much food. The beggar repays the Fool's kindness by slyly conjuring more food for them to eat. | |
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In the 2013 musical version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, an unconventional variant on this concept turns up. The Tramp to whom Charlie is polite at the dump in Act One is revealed to be Willy Wonka in the very last scene of Act Two. Being incognito, Mr. Wonka was able to observe the boy's imaginative spirit and genuine appreciation for his sweets, which means a great deal to him. He proceeded to rig his own Golden Ticket contest to ensure the boy had a chance to become his heir. | |
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The source of one of November's curses in No Rest for the Wicked, albeit a mild one. November had forgotten the Genre Savvy principle of always helping old beggar women at the side of the road, but she gave the woman almost all of the food she'd packed anyway because it would look terrible for the king's daughter to refuse a beggar. She balks at giving the beggar her last loaf of bread, however, since she'd have none for her journey. So the beggar curses November to have a frog fall out of her mouth whenever she says the word "altruistic." | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Used in one story with Donald Duck. In this story, Donald is a highly-respected food critic who goes to restaurants to judge their food and determine if they deserve a star or not. In one restaurant, he first goes as himself, and after being treated like a king by the staff, he remarks that he might award them a fourth star (which would make the restaurant extremely prestigious), but needs to think about it. He then leaves and comes back a moment later disguised as a beggar. He attempts to receive the same kind of treatment like a regular customer, but the staff scoffs him, relentlessly mocking him and suggesting that he should eat out of a bowl like a dog. Upon this outrageous treatment, Donald reveals himself and removes one of the stars, as a punishment for the staff for not treating all of their customers equally. Downplayed, for Donald was just a food critic and not a powerful entity. Donald is just as likely to do the same mistakes himself, though. In another comic, he works as the head waiter at a prestigious restaurant and is warned that a food critic is going to show up. He quickly identifies the critic as the well-dressed man who keeps fussing over the cutlery and spoils him massively while disregarding and unknowingly mistreating another, ordinary-looking customer (seating him in the back by the kitchen door, giving him the wrong entrees and drinks, stealing his tablecloth because it was cleaner than the critic's). Predictably, the mistreated customer turns out to be the critic and is livid over his horrid treatment... whereas the well-dressed man turns out to be a silver-polish salesman who wants to give Donald a deal on something to clean up their filthy cutlery with. |
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"The Soldier And Death": The soldier, who only has three biscuits to eat, runs into one beggar and gives him one biscuit. Then he runs into a second beggar and gives him another biscuit. Then he runs into a third beggar and hesitates before giving him his last bit of food, but he ends giving him the full biscuit. The old beggar wants to reward his kindness, but the soldier wants nothing...except perhaps for a pack of cards to remember him. The beggar gives him a pack of cards which will always win any game, and a magic sack which can catch anything. | |
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A mundane version of this trope occurs in The Simpsons comic "To Heir is Homer", when Homer finds a dishevelled-looking old man in his car and invites him to join the family for dinner that evening. The man in question is actually Sam Duff, millionaire owner of the Duff Brewery, and in thanks for the family's kindness, he rewards them by adding Homer to his will, bequeathing him 51% of the shares in the brewery. | |
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Parodied in Wyrd Sisters, where Tomjon's theatre troupe meet some witches disguised as innocent peasant women, and being Genre Savvy know that if you meet a mysterious old woman on the road you have to share your lunch or help her across the river, or bad fortune will attend you. There aren't any rivers handy, and Granny Weatherwax and Mistress Garlick both turn up their noses at the troupe's humble lunch, but Nanny Ogg shamelessly mooches food, drink, a smoke, and a lift into town. Parodied even further some years later in The Science of Discworld, which briefly shows Granny actually out picking up wood, utterly fed up with people wandering by assuming she's a god or genie or something of that ilk in disguise, and asking her for wishes. When Shawn Ogg comes by to give her a message, she tells him to bugger off, until he manages to get the point across. |
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In Jesper Who Herded the Hares, the three brothers set out with a dozen beautiful pearls and each met an old woman. She asks what they are carrying, and the first two lie and discover at the castle that it became true. The youngest tells the truth and gets a magic whistle, too. | |
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In the "Merlin's Crystal" quest in Runescape, there's a portion where the Player Character visits the Lady of the Lake in a quest to find Excalibur. She instructs you to visit a jewelry shop. On your way, you're approached by a beggar who asks you for food. If you give him a loaf of bread, he reveals himself as the Lady of the Lake in disguise and tells you that you've proven yourself to be generous and pure of heart and thus worthy of wielding Excalibur. | |
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In the Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms series, this is one of the Traditional ways that Godmothers test Questors. The first book The Fairy Godmother kicks off the second act by having Godmother Elena test three princes this way in the guise of an old beggar woman. The oldest brother rode past her and was cursed to wander for a year and a day. The middle brother tried to run Elena down with his horse and was turned into an ass. The youngest brother passed the test by sharing his food with Elena and offering to give her a ride and was given the clues he needed to successfully complete his quest for the hand of a princess. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: After Manjoume left Duel Academy in disgust after a second humiliating loss to Misawa, he ended up shipwrecked and near North Academy, Duel Academy's rival school, which was situated in an arctic tundra. He was told by a disheveled man by the door that they wouldn't let anyone in without a full deck of forty cards, and there were cards hidden around the area; he himself had found 39, but was too exhausted to keep looking. Because Manjoume's cards were soaked by seawater and the man refuses to sell his own, Manjoume goes out and finds 40 cards, but when he fears the man might freeze to death, he gives him one so he can go in (fibbing and saying he has 41). When the man goes in, Manjoume wonders what he's going to do now; and suddenly he sees another card, which later becomes essential to winning a duel later in the episode. He later finds out that this was a Secret Test of Character; the guy was North Academy's chancellor. | |
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The French movie The Wing or the Thigh starts with a restaurant owner ordering his staff to shower preferential treatment on someone he's identified as working for a food critic, completely ignoring an old woman's requests for water. While the man does work for the critic, his boss (played by Louis de Funès) was Disguised in Drag as the old woman, and gives an appropriately scathing review. | |
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In Walk a Mile in Another's Shoes, a My Hero Academia fanfic, All Might pretends to be U.A.’s janitor in his skinny form, because he wants to see how the One for All candidates treat him when he’s not famous. | |
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Fate/Grand Order features the usual test with a twist. In Babylonia, the protagonist comes across an old, crippled beggar. The nearby people comment that he's been there for days and is perhaps starving, but ultimately leave him since there are welfare services. The protagonist decides to buy some bread for the old man, but before they leave, the old man stops them and commends them for not just helping someone in need, but also trying to give them exactly what they need, thus demonstrating that they aren't doing this out of empty pity. He introduces himself as the old king Ziusudra and gives some advice on how to deal with the goddesses attacking Babylonia before taking their leave. He actually turns out to be the First Hassan-i Sabb�h and provides more direct help much later against Tiamat. | |
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In Bruce Almighty, the homeless beggar seen throughout the film is revealed to be God himself. | |
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In the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Spin-Off Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, Rohan tells Koichi a story he heard in Italy from a man who failed one of these. He worked as a laborer when he was younger, and a starving beggar came up to him asking for food. The man, irrationally angered by the idea of giving food he paid for away for free, demands that he work for it instead and makes him load heavy bags into a truck for him. He then decided to eat the lunch he promised him out of spite, and upon seeing this the beggar who hadn't eaten in five days drops dead on the spot with his angry spirit cursing the man. | |
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You can actually invoke this in the Neverwinter Nights expansion Shadows of Undrentide. You end up inside a rather tragic storybook, where a blind beggar asks you to find out what happened to the peasant girl he fell in love with. (Her father sent her to a monastery because he disapproved of their love, but the nuns turned out to be demon worshippers and sacrificed her.) However, after getting out of the story, you can rewrite it; this time through, the beggar is actually a knight in disguise, who successfully saves the girl before she is sacrificed. When she asks why he pretended to be blind, he says he wanted to be sure she loved him and not just his knighthood. | |
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G.K. Jayaram from Amal is apparently a mean-spirited hobo. In reality, he's a rich hotel mogul looking for the right person to inherit his wealth. However, unlike typical examples, he does live as a beggar full-time, purposefully so. So while there is a lot of money and properties tied to his name, he never uses any of it and the hobo "disguise" turns out to be his lifestyle of choice, separated from his riches (which are managed by his business partner anyway). | |
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During act 2 of Slay the Spire, you may encounter a poor beggar who asks you for some alms. If you do, he reveals himself to be the Cleric giving you a Secret Test of Character and gives you a blessing (letting you remove a card from your deck). | |
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Warhammer 40,000 In the backstory, the Emperor tested some of his sons by disguising himself as a wanderer and challenging them to a contest; if they won, he would have given them the empire, and when they lost gracefully he recognized them as his sons and gave them an expansion to their current kingdom. Normally this would be a fantasy story but due to the cynical nature of the setting, this is just the Emperor trying to be magnanimous; he's a sore loser (though he'll throw the contest if he thinks he could have won anyway). | |
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Gingiva: At a junction, you find a "derelict bag-man" who "smells of back alley streets and stale alcohol". Just choosing to interact with him reveals that he is actually a resplendent Buddha. The Buddha tells us that most people just chose to ignore him and the few who don't opt to assault him, stealing from him and breaking his begging bowl among all assorted indignities. Just by striking up a conversation, you proved your meek nature to him and he will reward you with one boon. | |
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In Dokapon Kingdom there is a random event that has an old beggar asking for money; there is a chance it's actually the Goddess of Generosity in disguise, and she'll reward a player with an item if they gave her the money, or curse them with a status ailment if they refused. | |
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Parodied even further some years later in The Science of Discworld, which briefly shows Granny actually out picking up wood, utterly fed up with people wandering by assuming she's a god or genie or something of that ilk in disguise, and asking her for wishes. When Shawn Ogg comes by to give her a message, she tells him to bugger off, until he manages to get the point across. | |
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"Once Upon a Time" has an interesting subversion. Rumpelstiltskin, back when he was just an ordinary peasant, takes in an old beggar, gives him a meal, and tells him of his desperation of losing his only son to being conscripted in war. The old beggar repays Rumpelstiltskin's kindness by telling him how to obtain enough power to protect his son. He teaches him about the evil and powerful magical being known as the Dark One, who can be controlled by whosoever wields a particular magic dagger, but if someone were to slay the Dark One with this dagger, they would absorb the Dark One's powers instead. It turns out that the old beggar is really the Dark One, who has come to view his power as a curse, and was looking for a desperate sucker to kill him and take his place as the new Dark One. | |
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In the Blood & Wine expansion of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, after lifting a curse placed on a noble lady, she tells you she was cursed by a beggar after she refused to give him food and shelter when he stopped by. Afterwards, the background music heavily implies that the "beggar" was actually Gaunter O'Dimm in disguise. | |
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In The Twelve Dancing Princesses, the hero generally has to have done some good for the old woman to get the knowledge of how to save the princesses. | |
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Referenced in Frasier, when Niles is having a run of good luck, he says "it's as if that homeless man I gave money to was a genie, granting my every wish". Shortly thereafter, Daphne walks in, wearing a stripperific wedding dress, prompting Frasier to ask exactly how much money he'd given. | |
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In Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, two sisters are on their way to meet the king in hopes of marrying him. They are both stopped by a beggar and one is kind to her but the other one isn't. It turns out the beggar was the king in disguise and he marries the one who was nice to him. | |
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