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This is the exact opposite of the [[Graceful Loser]].
Note that in [[Real Life]], this is a genuine ''[[The Laws and Customs of War|war crime]]'' since the Hague Convention (signed before [[World War I]]); fake surrenders are "perfidy" because they discourage the opposition from accepting genuine surrenders. The flag of truce is a protected symbol and its misuse in war is against international law. This, however, isn't absolute: after someone surrenders and is taken into custody, attempts to [[Great Escape|escape]] and generally cause problems are expected and not illegal, the understanding being that if the captors can't keep control of their prisoners, that's their own damn fault. More precisely, once in custody your actions are judged by either the same laws that the enemy's soldiers live under, or your own army's legal
Compare [[Defensive Feint Trap]], [[Trojan Prisoner]], and [[Aggressive Negotiations]]. [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]] is similar, but even more cowardly. See also [[Playing Possum]].
{{examples}}
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** In his another role as [[The Fifth Element|Korben Dallas]], Bruce Willis enters a room full of [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]s claiming he's going to negotiate, and [[Pretty Little Headshots|shooting the leader on the spot]].
{{quote|"[[Bond One-Liner|Anyone else wanna negotiate?]]"}}
* In ''[[Blazing Saddles]],'' main villain Hedley Lamarr refuses to duel hero Bart, claiming "but I'm unarmed!" Then when Bart throws down his gun and puts up his fists, Hedley says "Sorry, I just remembered-- I AM armed!" and goes for his Derringer.
* In ''[[Above the Law (film)|Above the Law]],'' [[Steven Seagal]] "surrenders" to a CIA torture specialist, who has Seagal strapped to a chair and injects some horrible brain-destroying drug directly into Seagal's <s>corroded</s> carotid artery—then has him released. But naturally, Seagal is too high on his own ego to be affected by any puny drug; and so Seagal is able to take out the whole army just by girly-fighting them.
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** Similarly in ''[[Karate Kid]] 2,'' Daniel lets [[Big Bad]] take his money, then throw Daniel's wallet down on the ground; Daniel picks up the wallet, and then nails Bigbad with a [[Groin Attack]] ([[Chekhov's Skill|a trick which, coincidentally, Mr. Miyagi had taught him earlier that day]]), causing Bigbad to drop the money so Daniel can grab it and run.
* Leonidas at the end of ''[[300]]''.
* Early in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'', when the Soviets (with thanks to their mole {{spoiler|Mac}}) point their guns at Indy after his first attempt to escape, during his surrender and "last words", Indy simply says "[[
** Though this may have been [[Indy Ploy|entirely by accident.]]
*** This happened to Danny in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]''.
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* This happens ''three frickin' times'' in ''[[The Outlaw Josey Wales]].'' It's played straight twice by [[The Hero]] and inverted by the Union troops at the beginning of the film, {{spoiler|who accept the Border Ruffians' surrender and promptly begin to gun them all down.}}
* In ''[[End of Days]]'', Jericho is dangling from a window. [[Satan]] offers to save him in exchange for his soul. Jericho appears to agree, but when Satan reaches over to pull him up, Jericho screams, "Fuck you!" and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|yanks Satan out the window, where he falls into the street]].
* Before the climax of ''[[The Super Mario Bros Movie]]'', Peach seems to submit to Bowser's demand that she marry him. Her true plan is to get him to bring his hostages out in the open (where freeing them would be easier) and get the jump on him with an Ice Flower, which she conceals in her bridal bouquet.
* At the beginning of ''[[Wishmaster|Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies]]'', a pair of burglars break into a museum, tries to steal the fire opal that serves as the eponymous villain's prison, and accidentally releases him. After killing one of them ([[Final Girl| the other]] escapes) the djinn waits for the police to arrive, and... gives himself up, claiming he was the burglar. A clever move, as he feels inmates in prison are easy targets for [[Jerkass Genie| his "talents"]], and they certainly are.
== Literature ==
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* T. H. White's ''[[The Once and Future King]]'' has a comical jousting match between Sir Pellinore and Sir Grummore early in the novel. Grummore quickly knocks Pellinore from his horse and strikes his armored head repeatedly with his sword until Pellinore agrees to cry "''Pax''!" ("Peace!"); Pellinore finally realizes he's beaten and says "''Pax''"...but then quickly adds "''Non''!" ("Not!") under his breath and overpowers the unsuspecting Grummore. He soon has Grummore lying helplessly on his back and is trying to decide whether he should slay him. Grummore angrily orders Pellinore to kill him, since he refuses to live with the shame of having been bested by a cheater. Pellinore considers it, but then [[Cruel Mercy|spares Grummore's life]].
* In the [[Wing Commander (novel)|Wing Commander]] novel ''Fleet Action'', the [[Catfolk|Kilrathi]] propose a peace treaty in order to buy time for them to finish building their [[The Battlestar|Hakaga]] fleet and to lure [[The Federation|the Terran Confederation]] into a false sense of security. The treaty is granted, and would have worked if not for {{spoiler|a supposedly disgraced Admiral Tolwyn actually being sent as part of a reconnaissance mission deep behind enemy lines that exposes the fleet, forcing the Kilrathi to launch their campaign early.}}
* In ''
* An original story based on ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' had Napoleon Solo helped out by a teenage girl whose nickname was Mal — short for "Malista," which is Greek (her ancestors' language) for, as she put it, "Oh, yes, indeed." This was because '''I Surrender, Suckers''' was how Mal, a very good-looking girl, dealt with would-be rapists: she pretended to give in without a struggle, even eagerly ... until they came close, when she demonstrated the painful way that one of her uncles had taught her unarmed combat.
== Live-Action TV ==
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* The Bloodrage family inside ''[[Looking for Group]]'' do something like this—they surrender...[[Unstoppable Rage|to their bloodlust]].
* Pulled in the ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' prequel book ''Start of Darkness'', when Eugene Greenhilt tells his son Roy about why he seeks to destroy the [[Big Bad]] of the series, Xykon. {{spoiler|He meets Xykon when he walks in on a confrontation between him and Eugene's master, the archmage Fyron, over a crown Xykon stole from Fyron's collection of artifacts. Xykon and Fyron engage in battle, and Xykon ends up being overpowered by the wiser and more experienced Fyron. Xykon, realizing he's beat, surrenders and offers to return the crown. Fyron makes the mistake of dropping his guard, and Xykon responds by [[Improvised Weapon|grabbing an award from Fyron's desk and beating him to death with it]].}}
* In ''[[Erfworld]]'', Parson uses a fake surrender to lure Ansom into a [https://web.archive.org/web/20131127091258/http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0144.html trap].
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'''Lucius''': I know, I know. Freeze.
[freezes the cop] }}
* In the first episode of ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', the lead Beagle Boy takes Huey hostage and [[Hostage for Macguffin|demands Scrooge hand over the map they're trying to steal]]. Scrooge does so, but once Huey's safe, he has Louie and Dewey let loose a vat of hot chocolate on the Beagles.
* The Wizards of the Black Circle pull one of these near the end of the fourth season of ''[[Winx Club]]''. They claim that they no longer want to fight the Earth fairies and that they would even like to give up their powers, however, they are actually planning creating a dark abyss which will eventually destroy all the Earth fairies. {{spoiler|Nabu is able to stop this, but dies shortly afterwards as the black magic from the abyss drained him of all his energy.}}
* Pulled off, much to [[Grand Theft Me|Valmont's]] dread, in the second season of ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]''.
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* This is actually against the Hague Convention because it makes acceptance of genuine surrender impossible, thus ensuring a perpetual state of warfare.
* A Nerf gun called the "Secret Shot" had a second barrel in the handle, so you could shoot your opponent as you pretended to surrender.
* One of the Germans killed by [[One-Man Army/Real Life|then-Corporal Alvin York]] in [[World War I]] hid a grenade up his sleeve when his superior ordered him to surrender. He wasn't fast enough when he tried to pull it out and throw it at York. "I had to tetch him off," York later recalled with some regret.
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