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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
== [[Film]] ==
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* Subverted in ''[[Quick Change (film)|Quick Change]]'' (1990). Grimm (Bill Murray) robs a bank while dressed as a clown. He takes everyone inside hostage and demands getaway vehicles. Police Chief Ratzinger thinks Grimm will dress some of the hostages as clowns and take them out to the vehicles in a group so police snipers can't target him. Grimm actually has something else in mind: {{spoiler|He and two confederates inside the bank will pretend to be released hostages (with the cash taped to their bodies under their civilian clothes) and escape while the cops are concentrating on the bank}}.
* This kind of thing was done to the [[Big Bad]] in the ''[[FX]]'' movie.
* In ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)||Mission Impossible II]]'', {{spoiler|there is a rare example of the hero pulling this on the villain, with the aid of a couple of [[Latex Perfection]] masks}}.
** A grim variant occurs in ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)||Mission Impossible 3]]'', where Ethan's girlfriend is apparently executed at the climax. We later learn that the victim was really the [[Big Bad]]'s female mook dressed up like the girlfriend, with her mouth taped shut to prevent her from revealing the ruse.
* ''[[Inside Man]]'' has a variant, in which the thieves make the hostages wear the same uniform as them, but with the full knowledge of the police outside. This keeps the police from interfering at first. {{spoiler|It also lets most of the robbers blend into the crowd of freed hostages and escape after the robbery is complete.}}
* The title character does this in ''[[Darkman]]''. After capturing one of the villainous mooks, he duct-tapes the man's mouth shut and then dresses him up in a realistic mask, making him resemble the hero.
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** Another episode has [[Dragon Lady|Roulette]] dressing up a bound and gagged Lois Lane in a replica of her costume in order to trick [[Green Arrow]] into shooting her.
* On Psych (episode "Ferry Tale") escaping convicts on a ferry surrounded by the police {{spoiler|take prisoners inside and pretend to shoot them. When the police raid the boat and take two wounded "hostages" to one of their boats they discover too late that two of the criminals are in fact convicts.}}
* On the 1970's anthology show Police Story they had an episode which was the pilot for SWAT. A killer brings out his hostage {{spoiler|and the commander orders his snipers to shoot the "hostage" because he sees a glint of chrome on the killer that he realizes are handcuffs meaning they have switched roles. Of course if the glint was from a handgun ... but that is never mentioned}}
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' "[[Avatar: The Last Airbender/Recap/Book 2/07 Zuko Alone
* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in the ''[[Thundercats 2011]]'' episode "Omens Part Two," when [[Catfolk]] King Claudus learns that invading [[Lizard Folk|Lizards]] are holding Panthro, his friend and best General, in a [[Hostage for Macguffin]]. Rather than acquiece, Claudus promptly [[Ditch the Bodyguards|ditches his bodyguards]] to cut a rapid path to Panthro, who he successfully rescues. Panthro then stabs Claudus [[In the Back]], and reveals himself to be [[Sorcerous Overlord]] and series [[Big Bad]] Mumm-Ra, in illusory disguise.
* In ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'',Star Sapphire does this to a British reporter named Georgette Taylor. She uses her power ring to immobilize Taylor and encase her in a Star Sapphire costume, and then sends her flying off into the distance. Batman and [[Green Lantern]] waste time trying to capture the fake Star Sapphire while the real one carries out her nefarious scheme.
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'': Sedusa once traded clothes with Miss Bellum and claimed to have captured 'Sedusa' to trick the girls, who fortunately wouldn't believe Ms. Bellum would singlehandedly defeat Sedusa.
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