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'''Sam:''' [dreamily] ''Yeah. I know.''|''[[Danny Phantom]]'' }}
Two characters, who either appear to be attracted to each other but in denial, or who just hate each other's guts, find themselves cornered during an emergency. They're about to be caught sneaking into the [[Big Bad]]'s fortress, looking at confidential files, or fleeing the scene of the battle. The quickest solution? Kiss -- passionately.
Maybe the theory is that whoever's about to find them will want to look away and [[Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone|give them some privacy]]. Maybe the logic is to do the [[Acting Unnatural|''least'' suspicious thing]] a boy and girl would be doing in a dark room or alley, or because it's difficult to recognize someone's face when it's mashed against someone else's. Maybe it's somehow necessary to maintain the [[Masquerade]]. Maybe it's a good excuse. Either way, the danger is quickly thwarted... but the moment is not so quickly forgotten.
Probably the only kiss that comes without [[Tonight Someone Kisses|warning]]. Often [[Ship Tease|fuel for shippers]] anyway, and has a good chance of appearing in that episode's [[Trailers Always Lie]]. Distinct from the [[Kiss of Distraction]] because that involves one of the kissers being distracted, whereas this seeks to distract people looking at the kiss.
Sometimes done [["Shut Up" Kiss|to interrupt a guy speaking/shouting]], either to just shut him up or because someone is coming.
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* The fifth episode of ''[[Code Geass]]'', where Lelouch "kisses" Kallen so she doesn't see C.C. around. Although they don't actually kiss, it looks that way to at least one onlooker (Shirley), who happens to have an intense crush on Lelouch.
* In a chapter of ''[[Detective Conan]]'', Ai Haibara talks one of her classmates into faking intimate contact so she could figure out whether she was being tailed by the Organization, only to scare him with the intense expression on her face.
** Takagi and Satou have also pretended to date on a few occasions to tail a suspect (Takagi couldn't enjoy their time together at all because Satou is pretty damn scary when in Work Mode).
* The first episode of ''[[Darker
* ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]''. Alessandro does this while working surveillance with Petra; due to her age and conditioning she's a good deal more flustered about it than he is.
* Done by [[The World God Only Knows|Keima]] to {{spoiler|Tenri}} to trick the demon chasing them.
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** "Leave him guys he's recruiting..."
* ''Uncanny [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'': Iceman does this to Cecilia Reyes, who not only actively dislikes him but hates the whole mutants-vs-humans drama thing going on, and is only with him because she got outed and will be killed if she doesn't have his help.
* In the ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' parody of ''[[Mandrake the Magician]]'' ("Manduck the Magician"), Manduck tries this trick multiple times. It never works and the girl in question eventually realises he isn't doing it to avoid pursuit at all.
** "WHO CARES IF IT DON'T WORK?"
* Chemical Kid and Dragonwing do it in the first issue of the 2011 reboot of ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]''.
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'''Arthur:''' [[Crowning Moment of Funny|...it was worth a shot.]] }}
* Two Interpol agents do this in ''[[Assassins (film)|Assassins]]'', {{spoiler|guarding a hotel room where their colleagues are setting up a sting operation to try to trap Electra, the hacker played by Julianne Moore}} but they can't fool Miguel Bain, who casually greets them, then as he walks past them, whirls, whips out his silenced pistol and shoots both of them (and a hotel maid who inadvertently witnesses the scene).
* In ''[[Charlotte Gray]]'', which takes place in Nazi-occupied France, the eponymous heroine and a member of the French resistance are being held in a house by Nazis, and manage to distract the guard who's supposed to be watching them by making out, then jump him and run for it when he comes over to separate them.
** Earlier, the resistance member is yelling angrily at Nazi tanks driving down the street, and Charlotte kisses him to shut him up and prevent him from being arrested or killed on the spot.
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* ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]''. Captain Archer is talking to his [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]], when his translator breaks. She doesn't know he isn't from her world, and her finding out would be bad. So he kisses her, counting that it'll distract her long enough for him to hit the reset button on his translator. It seems to work, but later in the episode he kisses her goodbye and she jokes, "Is your translation device broken again?"
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' did a time-delayed version in the new series. The Doctor kisses Martha before running away, so that some of his non-human DNA will register on her, and the aliens hunting for it will be held up double-checking that Martha is human, buying him some time.
** In series six, the Doctor doesn't want Craig to find out that they've been teleported into space, so he immediately wraps himself around Craig and tries to kiss him to distract him. Craig dodges.
* In ''[[Burn Notice]]'', Fiona and Sam used this when they were caught sneaking onto a boat to search it... only they made it look like they were in the middle of having sex. Happens again in a fourth season episode between Fiona and Jesse, when some mooks catch them on surveillance duty in her car - naturally in the aftermath it's clear [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|there's some chemistry between them]] which leaves them both a bit unsettled.
* ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'': Marian and the Count kiss after getting back from a trip into the forest, to cover up for the fact that they had gone there to meet Robin.
* Apparently superfluous usage from ''[[Bionic Woman]]'' episode "The List": Jaime and her partner, sneaking down a restricted corridor, see that a security guard ''has already spotted them'', but they do the Fakeout Makeout anyway as he hurries over to try to get them to leave, then they knock him out. Then snog again.
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** In a ''[[Get Smart]]'' episode, two characters [[Shout-Out|clearly based on]] Steed and Peel pretend to kiss while staking out Max's apartment. They have to do this for a while because Max gets distracted watching them make out; when Max finally enters his room, the "Steed" character admits that he quite enjoyed that.
*** In another episode, Max does this with a female courier when someone walks past their park bench rendezvous. Then he claims they're coming back and goes in for another round.
* In "Chuck Versus the Break-Up?" in ''[[Chuck]]'', we learn that Bryce and Sarah always used the "happy couple making out" cover up during missions together. And pretended they didn't enjoy it.
** Replace "always" with "often," and that could go for Sarah and Chuck, too. Chuck is usually taken completely off guard, but generally doesn't seem to mind.
** And used between Chuck and, of all people, General Beckman in "Chuck vs. the Santa Suit". Afterwards they agree, "We will never speak of this again."
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'''Batman:''' ''(in his smarmiest Bruce Wayne voice)'' ''Don't'' be. }}
* ''[[Code Lyoko]]'': When Hervé and Nicolas follow the gang to the Supercomputer, Odd and Aelita let them catch them kissing to explain their presence in the Factory. [[Fridge Brilliance|Since the two are pretending to be cousins]], this would give them an [[Kissing Cousins|excuse for doing so off campus]].
* Inque and Aaron Herbst in ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' episode "Disappearing Inque". Aaron enjoys it, as he is infatuated with Inque, but she simply used it to get out of a sticky situation and she hits and threatens him right afterward. She's not a nice lady.
* In order to [[The Beard|convince others that they were taken]], Amy and Leela did it multiple times to Fry as a [[Running Gag]] in a ''[[Titanic]]'' spoof episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', "A Flight to Remember". His reaction was always the same: surprise, "Hmm?", and then enjoyment, "Hmm..."
* In the episode "The Parent Rap" of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Homer and Marge sneak off at night in burglar outfits in order to get back at a cruel judge. On the way Chief Wiggum drives by to which they quickly begin kissing each other to hide their motives.
** And Wiggum comments how two young dock workers have found love...
** [[Inverted Trope|Stood on its head]] in ''[[The Simpsons Movie|The Movie]]'': Marge and Homer are looking frantically for a place to hide themselves from two approaching male police officers... when the officers suddenly start making out.
** Both parodied and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in "Homer and Marge Turn a Couple Play". Homer is trying to scalp baseball tickets when he spots Wiggum and whispers to Marge, "Pretend we're in love," then kisses her.
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** And in "Hand in Hand," Kendall initiates another kiss with Kick (while each wears a gender-swapped disguise) to avoid getting caught glued together by Kendall's boyfriend Renaldo. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Kick]] the [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|BST]] up another notch...
* Variation: in one of the ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' movies Shaggy and Scooby disguise themselves as a couple to justify being in the park in the middle of the night, and pretend to make out so that no one will be able to see that Scooby is, well, a ''dog''.
* Krisse does this in an episode in the second season of ''[[Wakfu]]'', they were really playing a game similar to rugby...
* ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]'': Lola does this Bugs when she is tailing Daffy in "Double Date".
== Real Life ==
* [http://bash.org/?790133 Two boys smoking pot in a car, and a policeman drives up...]
* Once done at pre-Berlin Wall Europe by two youths involved in the [[City of Spies|Berlin form]] of suspicious doings to fool the East German Guards into dismissing it as merely the adolescent kind.
* One Allied-sponsored burglary attempt at a Vichy embassy during [[World War II]] was protected by a distraction using this means.
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