"If this is a forgery or a copy with missing pages restored, it's the work of a master," says the master bookbinder. The last of the engravings in The Ninth Gate is hidden in what, in hindsight, is an extremely obvious spot."The Big W" under which the money was hidden in Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.Not to be confused with Right Under Their Noses, when people sneak past someone by doing this. For poor hiding skills, compare Neon Sign Hideout. If a person hides this way, that person might be taking advantage of being Beneath Suspicion. For robots in disguise, see Transforming Mecha. In dictatorial political systems, it's far easier to hide something that way, because people are so accustomed to never asking questions and never wandering away from their path they would ignore the Elephant in the Living Room.Ĭompare Weirdness Censor (bizarre things are not noticed because they are so outlandish that our minds block them out in the interest of sanity), Contrived Proximity, Refuge in Audacity, Devil in Plain Sight (when a conspicuous villain does this), Infraction Distraction (where evidence is concealed by more minor evidence). Something even more secret, or closed, or shameful than good old Area 51, because not just what happens inside is secret, but the mere existence of the place is denied, or ridiculed, or handwaved as some silly legend. There was and still is a rather chilling Real Life version in dictatorships: an object of the size of a military base or town which is not shown at all on a map. Sub Tropes include Needle in a Stack of Needles, Wax Museum Morgue, Lost in a Crowd.
Something hidden is looked for in lots of secret places, and in the end turns out to have been plainly visible all the time, usually disguised as an ordinary object.Ĭan overlap with Failed a Spot Check, It Was with You All Along, Public Secret Message, Shaggy Search Technique, or Taken for Granite.
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