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{{quote|'''Danny:''' ''I call that a [[Trope Namers|fake-out make-out]].''<br />
'''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?
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.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Used by two different pairs in one episode of ''[[Zero no Tsukaima]]'', Louise x Agnes being the [[Mistaken for Gay|more entertaining]] of the
** In that exact same episode/chapter of the light novel, there's a really steamy, passionate scene where Princess Henrieta [[Black Comedy Rape|practically rapes Saito]] to avoid arrest by government officials looking for her.
** Also on the subject of Agnes, she ''is'' rather androgynous/masculine in appearance
** Then there's another moment where the Queen and Saito do this, only using something more... racy.
* In ''[[Divergence Eve]]'' when Bernard and Misaki are sneaking around a guard checks them and Bernard kisses Misaki to give an explanation as to why they were there. She blushed and it was never mentioned again.
* In the [[Boys Love|BL]] manga ''[[FAKE]]'', Dee locks lips with Ryo in an alley to distract the bad guys from spotting their target, who is hiding behind them. The leader of the bad guys leaves visibly [[
* 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.
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** Given his large, hairy hands... That would be [[Ho Yay]] [[Screw Yourself|with himself]]!!
* Played straight in ''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]''. Well, except that both characters are male, and it doesn't really lead anywhere...
* At one point in ''[[Heathers]]'', Veronica and Jason elude a police officer by not just kissing, but also by disrobing and getting into a car. Notably, they do attract
* Similarly used in ''[[Bon Voyage]]'', as the characters who start kissing have just escaped into a dark movie theater.
* In ''[[Ronin]]'', [[Robert De Niro]] and [[Natascha McElhone]]'s characters are sitting in a car at night, scoping a target. When a car passes them, he pulls the fake-out. After they pull apart, she silently straddles him for a little real making-out.
* Subverted somewhat in the 1983 film version of ''[[Clue (film)|Clue]]'', in which, in order to hide the bodies of three murder victims, the characters set up a makeout room with the corpses.
* ''[[Rock and Roll High School]]'' features a solo
* ''[[Notorious]]'' Cary Grant: "Wait a minute, I'm gonna kiss you."
** A scene parodied (or at least referenced) in the [[Mel Brooks]] film ''[[High Anxiety]]''.
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* In ''Games of Command'' by Linnea Sinclair, Branden's trying to blend in among Tasha's former coworkers when he spots several who know him personally. He tugs Tasha into an access corridor and starts kissing her to hide his face. Since the couple had gotten together a few days before and broken up a few hours before, Tasha is understandably confused.
* In ''Gabriel's Ghost'' by Linnea Sinclair, Sullivan, Chaz, and Ren are trying to pick the lock on a door in a public hallway. When they hear someone coming, Sullivan takes the chance to steal a kiss from Chaz, and silences her protests by claiming they need an excuse to be standing around in a hallway. The passerby laugh and tell them to get a room, and Ren apologizes claiming it's the couple's honeymoon.
* Most of the kisses between Katniss and Peeta in ''[[The Hunger Games]]'', seeing as they're supposed to keep up a [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]
* Used by Corran Horn in ''[[X Wing Series|Wedge's Gamble]]'' to avoid being seen by his nemesis while on an undercover mission.
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** And brutally subverted in "Passions" when Angelus is stalking Buffy; she and her friends exit the Bronze without taking notice of a couple necking. Once they're past the woman falls to the ground to reveal it was Angelus feeding on her.
** In the Season 2 finale Buffy runs into Xander at the hospital. As she's wanted by the police Xander quickly pulls her into a hug when two cops pass them in the corridor. On letting go Buffy jokes that Xander did that partially to cop a feel; Xander's lack of response to this tells Buffy that something bad has happened to Willow.
* Also happens in the fourth season of ''[[Angel]]'', when Fred and Angel are trying to evade Jasmine's followers. It's initiated by Fred, but it of course doesn't work, given that everyone in the city is being mind-controlled by Jasmine and nothing is happening in Los
* ''[[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.
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* In the pilot of ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', Maeby kisses George Michael just to get attention from her parents. They don't notice. This does, however, provide George Michael enough [[Fetish Fuel]] to last the rest of the series.
* Averted on ''[[Monk]]''. Monk and Natalie are in the car when they spot a murder suspect approaching. Natalie panics and [[Ship Tease|suggests that they kiss]], but quickly backpedals when Monk looks at her in shock.
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in a first-season episode of ''[[Lois and Clark]]''. After getting caught snooping in a closet, Clark hands Lois over as a reporter in order to preserve his own cover. Later, she tells him they could have done
** Also done in another episode of the same, where Lois and Clark are pretending to be a newlywed couple in order to investigate from a hotel typically reserved for honeymooners. When Clark's super-hearing picks up on the maid, he immediately hides the telescope they've been using, and starts kissing Lois. The maid takes one look at this as she walks in, and promptly walks right back out.
** There was another variation in this show. Before she was thrown out of a plane, Lois asked to kiss Clark goodbye. She really wanted to get close enough to whisper, "I'll take the one on the left".
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* ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'' has several uses of this method. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* ''[[Oz]]''. An undercover police officer passes on information to his female partner by having her pose as his wife on a prison visit, then whispering the information in her ear while they're kissing passionately. It's obvious however that the two are lovers in real life also.
* In the mini-series ''[[A Man Called Intrepid]]'' a man-female spy team supposedly disappear into an office for a little nookie, but actually to rifle through the files. When the guard becomes suspicious, the woman starts to fake moans of passion, whereupon he just smirks and goes back to his post. Note: this was based on a real life [[WW 2]] incident where a couple were breaking into an embassy safe while supposedly making
* ''[[Babylon 5]]''. Captain Sheridan is being hit on by a [[Honey Trap|beautiful naked Political Officer]]. He looks like he's going to refuse her advances when Ivanova (who's up to something he really doesn't want anyone to find out about) teleports into his office. As she's about to turn around to see what could possibly be [[Ignore the Fanservice|distracting Sheridan from her naked body]], Sheridan grabs her for a passionate clinch, giving Ivanova the opportunity for some great [[Deadpan Snarker|deadpan snarking]]. "I think you're about to go where [[Really Gets Around|everyone has gone before]]."
* Played with in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''. Bela and Dean pretend to be married in the ghost ship episode. Bela pretends to faint, and they use this as an excuse to get into the room with the records they need. Dean leaves, and when a security guard comes to check on Bela, she acts like Dean is still they're and they are up to something (Complete with moaning when the guard closes the door.) The guard then sees Dean walking back up the hall. He assumes Bela is cheating on him.
* In ''[[My Family]]'', Ben is spying on his wife, but notices she's about to walk by the vehicle he is watching from, he asks his son Nick to think of something. Nick pulls a
* ''[[Secret Army]]''. [[La Résistance]] use a fake bicycle accident to make a German officer stop his vehicle so they can jump him. After they've dragged the body off into the woods an army motorcycle-sidecar drives up, and its occupants are highly suspicious at seeing an abandoned staff car...until a man comes out of the woods wearing an unbuttoned officer's uniform, his arm around a pretty Belgian girl. The Germans whistle and catcall, then roar off on their motorcycle. As there's some UST between the two characters there's an "you can stop kissing me, they've gone" moment too.
* ''[[The Friday Night Project]]'' has a short-lived segment in its first series called "The Inappropriate Kissers", where two people would be planted in a real-life situation, (in one instance, next to an interviewer at a film premiere) merrily necking away. Supposedly, in [[Real Life]] ''he'' was very much into ''her'', but ''she'' couldn't stand the sight of ''him''.
* In an episode of ''[[Weeds]]'', Nancy and Andy are waiting for a drug shipment when they see cops
* In the ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' episode "Duped", Pete and Myka employ this trope to avoid the suspicion of the target they are trailing. Although {{spoiler|it's not really Myka. At the end of the episode, Pete says this was how he figured out the imposter, as the real Myka would '''never''' have kissed him.}}
* Sonny of ''[[Sonny With a Chance]]'' does this to Chad as part of a [[Batman Gambit]] to dump his best friend. [[It Makes Sense in Context]]... kinda...
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