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** Another James Bond example occurs during the opening of ''[[Die Another Day]]''.
* In ''[[Ultraviolet]]'' Violet impersonates a courier in order to get inside the Archminstry's headquarters and steal the weapon that will wipe out the hemophages.
* ''[[Princess Principal]]'' tends to [[Playing with a Trope|play with]] this trope:
** [[Operation: Blank|Project: Changeling]] would never have been approved if the spy Ange didn't [[Identical Stranger|look so much like]] Princess Charlotte to make it feasible. However, Princess joins Team Principal instead of being replaced.
** Later, Ange tries to pull one to get most of the team into a restricted area. Since one of the guards she's trying to bluff has heard that [[You Are Already Checked In|Princess is already inside the restricted area]], this quickly turns into an [[Indy Ploy]].
 
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Mission: Impossible]]''. This was sometimes used in IMF operations.
* [[24|Jack Bauer]] attempts this twice throughout the shows run. In both instances, a suspect is killed before Jack can get any info out of them, but Jack [[Indy Ploy|improvises]] when their phone rings, and gets a meeting location where he continues the guise.
* [[Human Target|Christopher Chance]] successfully pulls this off in "Taking Ames".
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