Faking the Dead: Difference between revisions

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* Professor Xavier faked his death so as to counter an alien invasion. A [[Your Days Are Numbered|dying]] shape-shifter named Changeling replaced him as [[Redemption Equals Death|atonement]]. Only Jean, of all his students, knew the truth.

** In ''X-Men Noir'', {{spoiler|Jean Grey}} fakes her death by killing {{spoiler|Anne-Marie Rankin}}, cutting off/out any distinguishing facial features, and dyeing her hair. She them assumes {{spoiler|Rankin}}'s identity by dyeing her own hair. Why? She wanted out of the X-Men, essentially - and to collect {{spoiler|Rankin}}'s trust fund, of course.

* In ''[[Fear Itself (Comic Book)|Fear Itself]]'', {{spoiler|[[Bucky Barnes]], the current [[Captain America]]}} had apparently been killed off while fighting Sin, the Red Skull's daughter. However, as revealed in a post-series epilogue....{{spoiler|Bucky did survive the brutal attack and his death was faked by both [[Black Widow]] and [[Nick Fury]] in order to convince Steve Rogers to become Captain America once more, as well as to allow Bucky to deal with remaining Winter Soldier-esque sleeper agents without any trouble. How? A well-placed Life Model Decoy and the Infinity Formula did the trick.}}

* In ''[[Fear Itself (Comic Book)|Fear Itself]]'', {{spoiler|[[Bucky Barnes]], the current [[Captain America (comics)]]}} had apparently been killed off while fighting Sin, the Red Skull's daughter. However, as revealed in a post-series epilogue....{{spoiler|Bucky did survive the brutal attack and his death was faked by both [[Black Widow]] and [[Nick Fury]] in order to convince Steve Rogers to become Captain America once more, as well as to allow Bucky to deal with remaining Winter Soldier-esque sleeper agents without any trouble. How? A well-placed Life Model Decoy and the Infinity Formula did the trick.}}

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* {{spoiler|Jigsaw}} does this in the entirety of the {{spoiler|bathroom trap}} in [[Saw]].

** {{spoiler|And Agent Perez in Saw VI, who faked her death two movies before}}

* ''The Soldier'' (1982). A [[Good Looking Privates|hot Mossad chick]] head-shoots a terrorist after he's identified by an informer. She goes into the next room after the interrogation where it's revealed via [[Latex Perfection]] that the terrorist is actually a Mossad [[Double Agent]].

* ''The Soldier'' (1982). A [[Good-Looking Privates|hot Mossad chick]] head-shoots a terrorist after he's identified by an informer. She goes into the next room after the interrogation where it's revealed via [[Latex Perfection]] that the terrorist is actually a Mossad [[Double Agent]].

* ''[[X Men Origins: Wolverine|X Men Origins Wolverine]]'': {{spoiler|Kayla Silverfox conspires with William Stryker to win Logan's heart and then fake her death in exchange for her abducted sister's safety.}}

* In ''Revenge of [[The Pink Panther]]'', Inspector Clouseau is targeted for assassination. After one of the (unsuccessful) attempts leads to the public mistakenly thinking he's been killed, Clouseau decides to maintain the ruse in order to find out who's behind the plot.

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== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''World of Warcraft'' has Feign Death as an ability of the Hunter class.

** Moreover, in classic ''[[~~Ever Quest~~]]'', the Feign Death skill was the hallmark of the Monk class (though some other classes eventually received weaker versions of it) and was the most effective countermeasure for a number of the game's more tedious and frustrating [[Scrappy Mechanic|mechanics]].

** Moreover, in classic ''[[EverQuest]]'', the Feign Death skill was the hallmark of the Monk class (though some other classes eventually received weaker versions of it) and was the most effective countermeasure for a number of the game's more tedious and frustrating [[Scrappy Mechanic|mechanics]].

* In ''[[Suikoden II]]'', the main character's not-quite-biological sister fakes her own death in order to avoid distracting him from his important task of ending a war -- she's tired of all the fighting and wants to leave the war behind, but knows that he'd never leave her alone if he knew she was still alive. All this only happens in the [[Multiple Endings|good ending]], however -- if you make even the slightest misstep, before ''or'' after her apparent "death", she was actually [[Killed Off for Real]].

* In [[Bioshock]] {{spoiler|Atlas is actually mobster Frank Fontaine who supposedly died in a shootout with Rapture police forces 2 years before the game is set.}}

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* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 3'', Snake carries a [[Cyanide Pill]] he can use to fake his death in front of enemies. "Dying" will fool every enemy and boss ''once'', and popping back to life in front of them will scare them enough that you can get a cheap hit in; the only boss this doesn't work on is the one that taught you this trick.

* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 4'', there is the corpse camo and the Big Boss mask to complete it that allows Snake to play dead which can fool even the machines.

* Pulled by {{spoiler|the entire Global Defense Initiative}} in the first ''[[Command ~~and~~ Conquer]]'', goading the Brotherhood of Nod into going on the offensive. Even the player gets suckered into it.

* Pulled by {{spoiler|the entire Global Defense Initiative}} in the first ''[[Command & Conquer]]'', goading the Brotherhood of Nod into going on the offensive. Even the player gets suckered into it.

** {{spoiler|[[Magnificent Bastard|Kane]]}} also pulls this off in [[Command ~~and~~ Conquer]] 3; announcing his return by {{spoiler|[[Villainous Breakdown|flipping out and ordering the player to nuke Sydney, Australia]]}}. And at the end of Kane's Wrath, {{spoiler|Nod apparently pulled this off until Kane's [[Gambit Roulette]] finally pays off}}.

** {{spoiler|[[Magnificent Bastard|Kane]]}} also pulls this off in [[Command & Conquer]] 3; announcing his return by {{spoiler|[[Villainous Breakdown|flipping out and ordering the player to nuke Sydney, Australia]]}}. And at the end of Kane's Wrath, {{spoiler|Nod apparently pulled this off until Kane's [[Gambit Roulette]] finally pays off}}.

* In ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Path of Radiance'', {{spoiler|Oliver}} is presumed dead after battle. In ''Radiant Dawn'', he turns out to have been hiding for three years.

** Ditto {{spoiler|the Black Knight}}, although to be fair, they [[Never Found the Body]]. Still, they [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|dropped a]] [[Precision F-Strike|fucking]] ''[[Dropped a Bridge on Him|tower]]'' on him; [[No One Could Survive That]]!