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* In the 2002 film ''[[Big Trouble]]'', Andy Richter plays a mall security guard who claims to have a relative who works in airport security. Sure enough, Richter later shows up in an airport (this time with a mustache), working security.

** That one is straight out of the book the movie was based on, Andy Richter was a perfect touch though...

* In [[The Phantom Menace]], Queen Amidala's handmaidens all look identical. This, of course, is intentional, and part of the "decoy trick", where one of them, Sabé, posed as the Queen while the Queen dressed as one of the handmaidens in her identity as Padmé. (They have similar names too, at least in public; in addition to Sabé, the others were named Eirtaé, Rabé, Saché, Yané, Fé, and Dané; Padmé's name mentioned often make members of the royal court assume that the Queen has ''eight'' handmaidens. This Trope is lampshaded in the ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]] comic book ''In Triplicate'' with this exchange:

* In ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'', Queen Amidala's handmaidens all look identical. This, of course, is intentional, and part of the "decoy trick", where one of them, Sabé, posed as the Queen while the Queen dressed as one of the handmaidens in her identity as Padmé. They have similar names too, at least in public; in addition to Sabé, the others were named Eirtaé, Rabé, Saché, Yané, Fé, and Dané; Padmé's name mentioned often make members of the royal court assume that the Queen has ''eight'' handmaidens. This Trope is lampshaded in the ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]'' comic book ''In Triplicate'' with this exchange:

{{quote|'''Anakin:''' In fact, I'm pretty sure it's... Amidala's decoys Sabé and Eritaé.

'''Eirtaé:''' Actually, I'm Eritaé!