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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Usopp from ''[[One Piece]]'' does this all the time, but since it's usually [[Blatant Lies]], half the time they see right through him.
== [[
* In ''[[The Open Door]],'' Lars, a demon of New Chaos, is accidentally transported to a plane full of devils. However, the devils are ''terrified'' of Chaos Demons, and Lars uses this trope as well as the fear they have to keep them from killing him, and signing a binding contract with them, saying that Chaos will not invade their home. Once he's not in danger of getting attacked, he reveals that, despite what he insinuated, he's lost, cut off from his people, and has ''no'' idea how he got to this plane to begin with. But because the devils are [[Lawful Evil]], and they signed a contract with him preventing them from attacking him, it leads to epic-level facepalms and groaning from the devils at how easily they were tricked.
== [[Film]] ==
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* [[Artemis Fowl]] does this to Minerva in ''The Time Paradox'' by hacking into the security cameras and simulating armed forces, including a tank.
* Several groups in various ''[[Redwall]]'' books use this trick, usually successfully. Of course, it helps that the bluffer is usually ''[[One-Man Army|worth]]'' [[Badass Crew|that many]].
* In ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire|Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire]]'', when Frank Bryce catches Voldemort and Wormtail in the old Riddle House, he tries to scare them away by threatening that his wife is downstairs phoning the police. Unfortunately for him, Voldemort can easily read his mind and knows he doesn't have a wife.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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'''Villain:''' I don't think so.
'''Max:''' How about two cops in a rowboat? }}
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Eleventh Hour", the first time the Doctor meets Amy Pond as an adult, she sneaks up on him, hits him with a cricket bat, handcuffs him to a radiator, then pretends to be radioing for backup while dressed as a policewoman.
* There's an episode of ''[[Time Trax]]'' where Darien gets captured by the villain of the week, and Selma makes it sound like the house is surrounded by the police.
* In an episode of ''[[Psych]]'', "Truer Lies," Shawn and a
* From the second season premiere of ''[[Chuck]]'': "My name is Charles Carmichael. I'm a CIA agent, and this is my trap. I don't think you gentlemen recognize the gravity of the predicament you're in. Your call to the Buy More? Yeah, we traced that. Your compound is currently surrounded by 23 infantry troopers, 16 snipers, seven heavy gunners, four demolitions experts and enough ammunition to orbit Arnold Schwarzenegger. You're outmatched and you're outgunned. Those pea-shooters you're holding might as well be sharp sticks and strong language....Of course you don't see anyone. What do you think we are, the FBI? The only thing you're going to see is a muzzle flash and an e-ticket straight to hell." To further sell this bluff, Chuck calls up Morgan and asks him about their Call of Duty map, where all of the figures in the quote come from, and gets Morgan to repeat all of those figures to the baddie of the week.
== Recorded and Stand up Comedy ==
* Swedish
== Religion and Mythology ==
* [[The Bible]]: Used by Gideon when going into battle against the Midianites. With only 300 men (God made Gideon send the rest home), they snuck up to the camp, then each of them broke a clay jar to reveal a torch, shouted, and blew horns to make the sleeping Midianites think they were only the torch-bearers of a much larger army. The Midianites got so freaked out they started killing each other as they tried to escape.
▲* Swedish standup comedian Jan Bylund talks about how, even though he's an adult now, he's afraid of going down into the basement at his parents' house, because he's still convinced that there is a witch living under the stairs. He goes on to say that when he was younger and his mom asked him to go down there to get something, he used to talk in several different voices so that the witch would think he wasn't alone, and also pretend that they had a big, scary dog with them.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[Looney Tunes]]: In
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