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Recursive Crossdressing

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71 feature instances
61 referencing feature instances

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Recursive Crossdressing	label	Recursive Crossdressing
Recursive Crossdressing	page	RecursiveCrossdressing
Recursive Crossdressing	comment	A character or actor disguises their gender. For some (frequently contrived) reason they then have to re-disguise themself as their real gender. And then re-re-disguise as their fake gender, and so on until they collapse into a singularity of androgyny. Often, another character — who may have been Sweet on Polly Oliver — will comment on how unconvincing the second act of crossdressing is, revealing how completely he was fooled by the first. Often this overlaps with Paper-Thin Disguise and Wholesome Crossdresser. A Sub-Trope to Genuine Imposter.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_13b4e76c	comment	Referenced when discussing Shakespeare in Horrible Histories, describing Elizabethan casting as "women pretending to be boys pretending to be women pretending to be boys."
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_13c54381	comment	Romeo Ã— Juliet: Juliet is a girl who has been raised as a boy for safety reasons, and everyone outside her closest circle thinks she's a boy. One of these people is her friend Emilia, who at the start of the series dresses her up as a girl... not knowing that she's invoking the trope.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_18c832db	comment	Contrapoints: Lampshaded in "The Aesthetic".
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_1b386512	comment	In Ranma Â½, for the battle with Mousse, Ranma, who is stuck in female form at the time, disguises herself as a guy (and faked a deep voice) and disguises herself further as a Playboy Bunny under the male disguise. All of this, just so everyone believes that the Stripperiffic female look was a disguise meant to humiliate Mousse and his magician-like "Hidden Weapons" style. The Fuurinkan school audience is indeed quite fooled that the male Ranma had disguised himself as a woman (even when she's naked) who was disguised as a man. At least, until the "disguise" comes back and proves to be the real thing.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_233dd8d	comment	Sixes Wild: One of the few times Six willingly wears a dress is at a Stag Dance where she's passing as a guy in drag.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_23465101	comment	In a Wings episode, Brian and Helen are stranded in New York with no money, and a drag contest seems to be the only way to finance their way home. They agree that Brian would never make a convincing enough woman to win, so they pretend that Helen is a transvestite male and enter her in the contest.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_2793eed2	comment	In the Japanese drama remake of Hana-Kimi, during a talent show, Ashiya's clothes were stolen, so "he" could walk onto the stage shirtless. Fortunately, the doctor (who knew who she was) came along and slipped her a dress, along with a wig. The audience, mainly guys, were stunned that the cute classmate of theirs made such a pretty girl. One of Ashiya's friends, a playboy, promptly got a nosebleed and mentally berated himself for having such thoughts towards a "guy".
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_2858b08a	comment	Lampshaded when explained on an episode of Full House.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_3100936d	comment	Mikusa from Arata: The Legend eventually has to cross-dress as her true sex in order to infiltrate the location of Kugura's harem.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_34c7f3ba	comment	In the Japanese TV show Monkey, the male Buddhist monk Tripitaka is played by a female actor (Masako Natsume). In one episode, Monkey disguises Tripitaka as a woman, so that he can be sneaked through the Land Of Nightmares. Crossdressed Tripitaka is so beautiful that both the lustful Pigsy, and the King of the Land of Nightmares become infatuated with him. Hilarity Ensues.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_3c38c613	comment	Portia from The Merchant of Venice does this in the climax. As written, much of the humor of the scene is with regards to the actor playing Portia is a man, pretending to be a woman, pretending to be a man. Its especially noted in because Portia is regarded as one of the most positive female characters in Shakespeare's works, and is to female Thespians what playing Hamlet is to male Thespians. A male playing the role of Portia as written is unheard of in modern theater.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_3dd80ee	comment	In History Bites, one episode has a fan of Shakespeare who dresses up as her favourite character. This means she's dressed as a boy, who was actually a woman, who is played by a man, while wearing her own clothes.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_3ee3ceda	comment	In The Last Continent there is a woman who filled in for her brother in his friends' drag act after a nasty surfboarding accident, but after her fellow drag queens get into yet another fight, she decides "Being a female impersonator is no job for a woman."
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_3fb16e1c	comment	Nozomu Nozomi plays this trope all over the map. Tao Nozomu starts out as a barely pubescent middle school boy whose interest in crossdressing somehow triggers an inexplicable Gender Bender. Nozomu is so convincing as his "cousin" Nozomi that even his potential love interest doesn't recognize him. Even his little sister, who knows about the cross dressing but not about the Gender Bender, is astounded at how girly "Nozomi" acts, not realizing that Nozomu is a (physical) girl pretending to be a boy dressed as a girl. Nozomu/Nozomi manages to hide his/her Gender Bender for a full year as he/she undergoes female puberty and experiences all of the physical and mental changes that entails, to the point where Nozomu no longer knows if he is boy who likes to dress as a girl in secret or she is a girl who is forced to dress as a boy in public. Ultimately a school swim class and a crush on her male best friend force Nozomu's hand, as she is no longer androgynous enough physically or mentally to maintain the pretense.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_400f983e	comment	In Revenge of the Pink Panther, Clousseau is carjacked by a woman who turns out to be a transvestite, Claude Russo, who steals Clousseau's clothes (while leaving Clousseau with his dress) and is killed in his place shortly afterwards. Russo is played by actress Sue Lloyd, dubbed over by a male actor as soon as Russo reveals himself to be a man.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_45b21df3	comment	In the stoning scene near the beginning of Monty Python's Life of Brian, many of the actors are men, who are playing women, who are disguising themselves as men (badly) so they can participate in stonings. Except that some of the actors are actually women passing off as male actors doing the above, since Monty Python had made such a tradition of comic crossdressing.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: In Monstrous Regiment, protagonist Polly Perks (along with her fellow women-disguised-as-men from the squad) dresses up as a washerwoman to sneak into an occupied fortress. Which, as she points out, means she's a woman disguised as a man disguised as a woman. True to the trope, their "disguise" as women is immediately caught when they try to enter, and one of their number (who is with child) winds up having to prove her gender in the most obvious way possible. Meanwhile, the one actual man who disguised himself as a woman gets in without a hitch, which irks Polly to no end. This is even more convoluted at the end, when the entire squad is discovered to be actually female, brought up on charges for dressing like men, which is illegal, and their lawyers point out they are actually dressed as women at the time. Polly turns down an offer of male clothing because "Then I'd be a woman dressed as a man dressed as a woman dressed as a man," which would be too confusing even for this book. In The Last Continent there is a woman who filled in for her brother in his friends' drag act after a nasty surfboarding accident, but after her fellow drag queens get into yet another fight, she decides "Being a female impersonator is no job for a woman."
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_471cc207	comment	Perhaps the most extreme example on this page: In one episode, the main character of Xavier: Renegade Angel disguises himself as a businessman disguised as a woman disguised as a man disguised as a Sassy Black Woman disguised as a business man disguised as himself. And this is all in an attempt for him to become normal.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_475972f0	comment	In Y: The Last Man, the titular Yorick must conceal his gender for his own safety much of the time. At one point, he has let his beard grow out, encounters a female-to-male crossdresser, and has to pretend to be the same. He is treated to a particularly humiliating instance of Your Costume Needs Work.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_485db522	comment	In Princess Knight, Sapphire must disguise "himself" with a blonde wig and gown to impersonate a girl when she wants to woo Prince Frank.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_501ad241	comment	In Queen at Arms, Prince Alastor throws a morale-boosting masquerade ball for the soldiers in his father's army. Being the quirky sort, he plans for it to be a crossdressing event, with the men in dresses and the (few) women in trousers. The trope comes in with protagonist Marcus, who is a Sweet Polly Oliver; she has to pretend to be a man pretending to be a woman.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_503d3d54	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Recursive Crossdressing / int_503d3d54	comment	When the theater club puts on a play of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, there's a lot of shuffling on who will play Dr. Frank N. Furter. Kurt flat out refuses to do it, and Mike is cast but then drops out because his parents don't want him to play a transvestite, so ultimately Mercedes is cast. Giving us a woman singing a song about being a drag queen.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_50affa0e	comment	In The Shakespeare Stealer, one of the apprentices in Shakespeare's troupe is revealed to be a girl. Since the apprentices were prepubescent boys whose primary purpose in the troupe was to play female roles, she had been playing almost exclusively female roles onstage (the only one directly referenced is Ophelia, but there were unquestionably others). Adding to the layers, given Shakespeare's propensity for having female characters dress as men, it's likely that the girl in question, while posing as a boy, played a girl masquerading as a boy at least once.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_57264709	comment	Discussed on the DVD commentary for Hedwig and the Angry Inch. A deleted scene shows Yitzhak's back story. Yitzhak, in both the film and the stage show, is played by a woman. Yitzhak also wants to be a drag queen. During the deleted scene in the film, you have Hedwig—a transwoman played by a gay man—and Yitzhak kissing. Yitzhak is played by a straight woman pretending to be a man who wants to be a woman (and comes out in drag at the end of the show). You could get lost in the number of genders in that one scene, but that's what Hedwig is all about.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_58713966	comment	As You Like It goes even further: the female lead (Rosalind) disguises herself as a boy (Ganymede) who is then asked by Rosalind's lover Orlando to pretend to be Rosalind so he can practice courting her. Certain modern productions can be even worse. The epilogue to As You Like It is nominally spoken by Rosalind, but actually by the boy playing her (it contains the line "If I were a woman..."). Thus, if Rosalind is played by an actress and the epilogue included, we have: a modern actress playing a Shakespearean boy actor playing a woman disguised as a boy who pretends to be a woman (for five levels of recursivity).
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_5d0d1463	comment	The most famous example is probably Cherubino from The Marriage of Figaro, which was written just late enough that this sort of role would go to a woman rather than a castrato.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_6059ad6b	comment	xkcd has one non-gender example with convention of furries pretending to be humans.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_67855503	comment	Coral in Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle needs to dress as a girl when tailing someone in a different country and later when she's made to act as Lux's bodyguard (in the latter case, to appear less threatening to potential attackers).
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_696b75c2	comment	In the world of A Brother's Price, female whores try to look as masculine as possible. A rare male character briefly disguises himself as one, wearing makeup and a feather boa to hide his man's apple.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_6a20facd	comment	Umineko: Golden Fantasia has an example only noticable if you've played the original VN. In Jessica and Kanon's ending, the former forces the latter into cosplaying the Reimu to her Marissa. Keep count now - Sayo Yasuda is heavily implied to have been born male, but was assigned female after an accident damaged their genitals. Upon learning of this, they created the Kanon persona to see if life as a boy would suit them better, and now Kanon is cosplaying a female character. That has to be some kind of record.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_718b1845	comment	Turning the Storm features a lesbian disguised as a man who dresses up as a woman... and then gets hit on by a gay man.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_769da46e	comment	In Monstrous Regiment, protagonist Polly Perks (along with her fellow women-disguised-as-men from the squad) dresses up as a washerwoman to sneak into an occupied fortress. Which, as she points out, means she's a woman disguised as a man disguised as a woman. True to the trope, their "disguise" as women is immediately caught when they try to enter, and one of their number (who is with child) winds up having to prove her gender in the most obvious way possible. Meanwhile, the one actual man who disguised himself as a woman gets in without a hitch, which irks Polly to no end. This is even more convoluted at the end, when the entire squad is discovered to be actually female, brought up on charges for dressing like men, which is illegal, and their lawyers point out they are actually dressed as women at the time. Polly turns down an offer of male clothing because "Then I'd be a woman dressed as a man dressed as a woman dressed as a man," which would be too confusing even for this book.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_7b6c4921	comment	Degrassi: The Next Generation's Stuff Clare Says video features actress Jordan Todosey playing a transgender boy (Adam), playing a girl ("Clare").
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_7c478250	comment	In Nononono, Nono is a girl who pretends to be a boy to continue ski jumping. After she's caught in her underwear by the Alpha Bitch Kourogi but mistaken for a crossdresser, she's forced to be Kourogi's slave, including wearing a maid's outfit.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_835af849	comment	Penguin Revolution: Recursive Crossdressing becomes an ongoing issue for Yukari Fujimaru after she agrees to become Ryo Katsuragi's personal agent. Because Ryo's talent agency doesn't employ women as agents, Yukari is obliged to pretend to be a man while acting as Ryo's agent, while at the same time she continues to attend high school as herself. Since she has nowhere else to live, she moves in with Ryo and his roommate Ayaori... who works for the same talent agency and attends the same high school. Yukari and Ryo get around this issue by telling Ayaori that, like Ryo himself, "Yutaka" has been instructed to attend school disguised as a girl. Fortunately for both Ryo and Yukari, Ayaori's eyesight is very poor. A later chapter features an event hosted by the Peacock where the talent managers dress in drag, including Yukari.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_8ce9e00b	comment	In Mayo Chiki!, when Subaru is disguised as "his" female cousin Puniru, Usami is not convinced by the obvious disguise... even though Subaru is actually a girl who regularly pretends that she is a boy.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_8d7f29ec	comment	Glee has a rather odd example. Although Kurt does not have the same clothes, in the "Duets" episode he does "Le Jazz Hot" from Victor/Victoria. This makes him a man paying homage to a woman dressed as a man dressed as a woman. When the theater club puts on a play of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, there's a lot of shuffling on who will play Dr. Frank N. Furter. Kurt flat out refuses to do it, and Mike is cast but then drops out because his parents don't want him to play a transvestite, so ultimately Mercedes is cast. Giving us a woman singing a song about being a drag queen.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_8e0312e6	comment	This has happened on RuPaul's Drag Race a few times: In Season 1's makeover challenge where the Drag Queen contestants had to give glamorous makeovers to Tomboy martial artists, Ongina and her partner do a prom king and queen look, with Ongina as the "king". In a Season 4 runway, Milan came out in a Janelle MonÃ¡e-inspired tuxedo. Monae is known for her dapper androgynous suits. In Season 5's Subverted Kids' Show challenge, Alaska became "Buffalo Bill", a male farmer, to the judges' confusion. Whereas Milan was at least still impersonating a woman in the above example, Alaska was simply a man in overalls. In a Season 6 runway where the queens had to pay homage to one of RuPaul's outfits, Milk came out as "Workroom Ru", when Ru interacts with the queens as his normal male self. This became one of Milk's most memorable and (among the other queens) controversial moments. In the Once a Season "Snatch Game" challenge where the queens impersonate celebrities for a Match Game parody, a few have portrayed other drag queens, but Season 7's Kennedy Davenport was the first to straight-up play a man: Little Richard. But due to Richard's flamboyant style of dress and Ambiguously Gay mannerisms, it basically was a drag performance, and Kennedy won the challenge for both thinking outside the box and actually making it funny. Kennedy's performance has led to more male celebrities being impersonated, with the following seasons seeing Thorgy Thor as Michael Jackson, BenDeLaCreme as Paul Lynde, and Nina West as Harvey Fierstein, but like Little Richard, all three are flamboyant enough to still make it drag-like. The first UK season however saw two straight male celebrities, neither of whom are known for being campy and flamboyant: The Vivienne as Donald Trump, and Sum Ting Wong as Sir David Attenborough. Interestingly enough, the former was one of the winners, while the latter was eliminated.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_9688ee61	comment	Frequent in Ouran High School Host Club, with the subversion Haruhi Fujioka never actively tries to keep her gender a secret. The two reasons she doesn't tell anyone are 1. They didn't ask. 2. They enjoy their current preconceptions. The episode in which a secondary character discovers it is recommended. Invoked when female fangirls giggle about how much they'd like to see Bifauxnen Haruhi dressing in girls' clothing because "he" is so pretty. Haruhi is also dressed as a girl at one point for a Zuka Club production, and is really ridiculous-looking with strange ringlets and clown-like Uncanny Valley Makeup. (though theatrical makeup is often exaggerated, it's never exaggerated that much) She's much more believably "disguised" as a girl in the episode with the obnoxious elementary school boy who wants to impress the girl he likes and the episode with the big ball where the club is trying to get the heir to the china company and his fiance together. In the former she just wears her old middle school Sailor Fuku, in the latter a ball gown and wig. She also dresses in 17th century French "drag" for a host club event, as seen here◊. When the Host Club dresses in kimonos, Haruhi wears one designed for a woman. Her clients mention that she looks just like a girl in it.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_974f7efb	comment	The Drew Carey Show sends up this trope in "Drew's Inheritance," centered on the wacky hijinx resulting from the eccentric will of the Careys' late eccentric television-and-movies-obsessed relative. His condition for Steve Carey— a heterosexual cross-dresser— receiving his share was to dress like a recursive crossdresser, with a male layer of deception on top. Wearing a suit for such a formal occasion, Steve remarks that he can just dress as he is, and the executor realizes that Uncle Cecil didn't think that one through very far.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_9910cc85	comment	At the end of Mulan, Mulan and the rest of the squad disguise themselves as concubines to get into the Imperial Palace. Although Mulan's already been revealed as a woman and discarded her disguise by then, so technically she's just a woman disguised as a... different woman.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_9ae6c99b	comment	Chris in Princess Waltz is a girl who dresses like the boy she intends to become. At one point she is forced to dress like a female cheerleader by the rest of her class. The main character expects Chris to be angered by this (as she normally blows her top when treated like a girl), but Chris explains she doesn't care that much because she's being treated like a cross-dressing boy.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_9b123b34	comment	In Tomboy, tomboy Laure pretends to be a boy. At one point her unwitting friend Lisa puts girly makeup on her noting how great she looks as a girl.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_a9d9d1f1	comment	One of the Revue's signature productions, The Rose of Versailles has Lady Oscar Francois de Jarjayes, a woman raised as a man. Lady Oscar is always played by otokoyaku, women trained to play assigned-male-at-birth roles. When it's an Oscar/AndrÃ©-centric musical, Oscar will be played by a top star (the lead otokoyaku of the troupe), because she's the main character, and it's expected that only top stars have the experience and talent required to walk the delicate line of gender presentation.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_ab97afbb	comment	In the Leonardo episode "Diabolical Acts", the Sweet Polly Oliver Lisa/Tomaso auditions for a play. Leo advises her not to take a female role, because "You can't be a girl playing a boy playing a girl. It's too confusing". In the end, she's the female lead, although the actor-manager thinks Leo would be much better in the role.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_b0b4e8ff	comment	In Jade Empire, this is noted by one playwright to be rather common in the acting industry, as women are technically barred from being actresses, but nobody cares to enforce it. Which is an interesting take on this trope, as it's noted that these scenarios typically involve the actual costumes being worn recursively, leading to the actress playing the female role actually being unconvincing. Weirdly, this seems to be the only instance of institutionalized gender restrictions in the game world. Women can be soldiers, philosophers, and Emperors (if you go for the good ending) but not actors for some reason.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_b10beb4a	comment	In Eien no Filena or Eternal Filena, the princess of the fallen kingdom of Filosera is raised and dressed as a man to protect her identity. During the game, she has to sneak away with an all female dance troupe which involves her assuming a female disguise over her male one.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_b260df6	comment	In Haganai there's Yukimura Kusunoki - a girl who pretends to be a boy, but dresses like a girl in order to be more manly. She does not even know that she is female and is convinced that she is a boy, albeit a feminine one.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_b3627e4f	comment	The play Victor/Victoria, an adaptation of the original film (see above), is about this. A down-on-her-luck opera singer named Victoria (Julie Andrews in the film) can't find work, so a recent acquaintance and homosexual talent agent convinces her to pretend to be Victor, a drag queen who presents himself as a woman named Victoria. A confused mobster falls in love with her/him/her.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_b6ef60b9	comment	In Tipping the Velvet, Nancy is deemed not to make a good male impersonator because she looks too much like an actual boy (this makes perfect sense in context, as the point of male-impersonation acts is to be transgressive rather than convincing). She becomes much more successful when her male costume is modified to look a little more feminine.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_bd49e2cf	comment	Shakespeare in Love features Lady Viola dressing as a boy to get a part in a play, and she manages to get the part of Romeo, only leaving after being ratted out by Tilney and John Webster. In the end, she has to play Juliet after the boy actor's voice broke, with Will, Henslowe, and everyone present when Tilney outed her having to play along, and the rest believing she is just that good. Tilney isn't fooled, though, and it's only through Queen Elizabeth's intervention that they get away with it.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_c35714d6	comment	In Blackadder Goes Forth the character Bob, a Sweet Polly Oliver, steps in to replace a drag performer. The soldiers love it, but General Melchett who had become attracted to the previous drag performer refuses to believe that Bob is female and loudly criticises "That disgusting drag act." It's even funnier if the viewer is aware that Stephen Fry, who plays the General, is gay.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_c9c88814	comment	This is the main concept of Connie and Carla. The two ladies, a performing duo, witness a murder and go into hiding by pretending to be drag queens.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_d63b19b1	comment	Touma & Mako-chan in Minami-ke. Touma in particular has issues with this since some people around her (i.e. Atsuko) keep geting confused about what gender she actually is.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_d6b08f17	comment	Spill it, Cocktail Knights! has a chapter where the crossdressing girl dresses back as a girl to give her male friends Valentine's chocolate so they don't feel bad for not getting any from girls. They accept it in the spirit in which it's given, but tell her that her she wouldn't be mistaken for a boy.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_d7243b62	comment	Another famous operatic use of this trope is Der Rosenkavalier, where the teenaged Octavian disguises himself as the maid Mariandel and fools the Baron completely. This is particularly interesting, since, for comedic purposes, the Mariandel-disguise has to be less than convincing. So you not only have a woman playing a man playing a woman, you have a woman playing a man playing an unconvincing woman.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_d9ab782e	comment	In Tokyo Crazy Paradise, the main character, who has been raised as a boy even though she is female, has to dress in women's clothing early on in the series, and feels like she is crossdressing. People who knew her and saw her would think she's in drag, even though she's (genetically) female.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_da093071	comment	Averted in No Need for Bushido, when the main characters must substitute for kabuki actors. Ina is specifically told not to play the female lead, because she wouldn't be convincing as a man playing a female role.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_dc2ae401	comment	A major part of Aikawa's teasing of Maki in Prunus Girl is the suggestion that he might actually be a girl claiming to be a guy dressed as a girl. Maki keeps his distance.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_de164100	comment	In Victor/Victoria, Julie Andrews plays a woman who masquerades as a man who works as a drag queen. The film was later adapted for Broadway (see Theater, below), and is itself an adaptation of a 1933 German film, Viktor und Viktoria.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_ea9d1b41	comment	Also Lampshaded in Jodie Troutman's notes, when Lit Brick did an adaptation of Twelfth Night.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_ed7676fe	comment	Prince Kaguya: Kaguya, who was raised as a girl, has to disguise himself as a man at one point.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_f0e68fa9	comment	Suggested towards the tail-end of one of the Leviathan series's character arcs: Deryn Sharp, daring British soldier and secret girl, accepts a job as a hush-hush British spy. It's suggested that she, while still impersonating a boy in her larger life, would perhaps have to disguise herself as a woman on some missions. It's twisted even farther in a bonus chapter, in which her love interest, Prince Alek of Hohenburg, himself wears a dress to a costume party after trying to get Deryn, who still lives as a boy, to go to the party in one.)
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_f6e3d1cc	comment	In the final scene of The Birdcage, the senator's wife and daughter (along with the "conventionally crossdressed" senator himself) must pretend to be drag queens to escape the drag club without being noticed.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_f7ed2fd7	comment	Ursula of The Little Mermaid is a meta example, as she is a female character based on a man dressed as a woman (namely the drag queen Divine).
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_f99408e	comment	Crossplay Love: Otaku x Punk: The Maid Cafe Hana works at has a genderswap-themed day, so Hana ends up being a guy dressed as a girl dressed as a guy.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_fb173de	comment	The Phantom of the Opera: This variant occurs in Il Muto, with Christine playing the pageboy, who is dressed as a maid because he's having an affair with the lady of the house (played by Carlotta) and wants to be discreet. In the (thankfully brief) scene we see of this opera, the husband is completely fooled and hitting on the 'maid'.
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Recursive Crossdressing / int_ff9ab17f	comment	A slight twist occurs in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Outcast": an actress plays an androgynous alien reveals that it actually leans female in order to act on its attraction for Commander Riker. She/it has had to cover this up all its/her life because of a societal taboo against gender identity, which is seen as unnatural and officially classified as a mental illness.note Jonathan Frakes, the actor playing Riker, apparently lobbied beforehand to have the female-identifying alien played by a male actor (which would add another layer of this trope), in order to heighten the social commentary by playing with the audience's own sense of the taboo involved.
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Mayo Chiki! / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Eien no Filena / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Leviathan / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Mayo Chiki! / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Monstrous Regiment / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Symphony Of Awakened Gods / int_6da05fbe	type	Recursive Crossdressing
The Last Continent / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
The Shadow Campaigns / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
The Shakespeare Stealer / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Tipping the Velvet / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Micah	seeAlso	Recursive Crossdressing
RecursiveCrossDressing	sameAs	Recursive Crossdressing
AKB49 – Renai Kinshi Jourei (Manga) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Arata: The Legend (Manga) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Boku Girl (Manga) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Crossplay Love: Otaku x Punk (Manga) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Girl Got Game (Manga) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Hana-Kimi (Manga) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Hozuki-san Chi no Aneki (Manga) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Nozomu Nozomi (Manga) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Ouran High School Host Club (Manga) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Penguin Revolution (Manga) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Princess Jellyfish (Manga) / int_6da05fbe	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Prunus Girl (Manga) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Spill it, Cocktail Knights! (Manga) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
W Juliet (Manga) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Blackadder / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Degrassi: The Next Generation / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
iZombie / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Just Shoot Me! / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Leonardo / int_6da05fbe	type	Recursive Crossdressing
RuPaul's Drag Race / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
The Drew Carey Show / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
The League of Gentlemen / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Wings / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Theatre) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Prince Kaguya (Theatre) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
The Marriage of Figaro (Theatre) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
The Merchant of Venice (Theatre) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Gayle (Web Video) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Not Always Romantic (Website) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
Pretty Cure Fan Fic Features (Website) / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing
SheZow / int_69c5fb9e	type	Recursive Crossdressing

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