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== Literature ==
* In ''Two-Bit Heroes'' by Doris Egan, the heroine's love interest is going to be displayed in a cage. The outlaw band that she temporarily joined manages to rescue him by building a hidden compartment into the cage beforehand and then causing a distraction while he's on display that makes it look like he's been sorcerously removed, letting him slip into the compartment and get retrieved later.
* In ''The Extraordinary Adventures of [[
* In the [[Vorkosigan Saga]] novel ''Brothers in Arms'', Miles gets kidnapped and replaced by a clone. When the clone comes to question him, he considers trying to escape via this trope -- claiming that he is the clone and that the real Miles somehow got free and tied him up -- but quickly realizes that he has several days' worth of stubble and the clone doesn't, so it's not practical.
* In the ''[[Illuminatus]]'' trilogy, [[Historical Domain Character|John Dillinger]] is actually a set of [[Artistic License Biology|identical]] [[Arc Number|quintuplets]]. This is used to explain how good "he" was at breaking out of prison: if one of "him" was imprisoned, another one could make himself conspicuously visible outside, convincing the guards that he'd escaped and giving the one on the inside more leeway to get out.
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