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* Subverted in the ''[[The Faculty]]''. While breaking into the school's storeroom to steal ingredients for his drugs, Zeke cites the trope to reassure Marybeth should they be caught. However the two aren't patient, and start making out regardless.
* Simon and Emma do this in ''[[The Saint]]''.
* Subverion in ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]]'': Tyler pulls Marla into a corner in a hallway to escape the paramedics, but instead of kissing her, he does a bit of an awkward dance to pass the time.
* Hilariously subverted in one of its earliest examples, Alfred Hitchcock's ''[[The 39 Steps]]''. In it, the main character is trying to evade police who are looking for him on a train. So he bursts into a woman's compartment and kisses her as the police look in, snicker, and go on. The woman then immediately turns him in to the police without hesitation.
* ''[[The Fourth Protocol]]''. In the opening sequence where the MI5 Watchers are tailing the South African agent, Michael Caine sees two young Watchers snogging passionately and says: "Aren't they overdoing it?" His colleague replies: "She doesn't seem to mind."
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* Most of the kisses between Katniss and Peeta in ''[[The Hunger Games]]'', seeing as they're supposed to keep up a [[Star-Crossed Lovers]] masquerade—or at least all of them are to Katniss before she starts feeling something. To Peeta, it's a completely different story.
* Used by Corran Horn in ''[[X Wing Series|Wedge's Gamble]]'' to avoid being seen by his nemesis while on an undercover mission.
* The "Fake" part is subverted in ''A Planet in Arms'' by Donald Barr, in which to protect [[The Spymaster|spymistress]] Citizen Wells from a would-be rapist, it's not enough for Wells' agent Corander to '''pretend''' he's having sex with her; he has to actually do so. And Wells, Corander discovers at this point, is a virgin. Well, now it's '''was''' a virgin. Luckily, a) Wells fully understands why Corander's doing this; b) {{spoiler|he's such a [[Nice Guy]] that just about any woman he's intimate with soon falls for him,
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