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[["Alone with Prisoner" Ploy]] may include prisoner doing it, [[The Infiltration]] may put the undercover participant in either or both roles. [[Apologetic Attacker]] and [[Hit Me Dammit]] are to be expected. May involve delays if the "attacker" [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]] or has other such restrictions and have to circumvent or get over it.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Subverted in the ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' [[The Movie|movie]] ''Endless Waltz''; Heero asks Duo to punch him as hard as he can; Duo happily obliges, and Heero punches him back twice as hard, knocking him out.
* In episode 6 of ''[[Samurai 7]]'', this is done with a mechanic whose been aiding the group. The way it's shown illustrates the personalities of the
* At one point in ''[[Inuyasha]]'', [[Anti-Villain]] Kagura is forced to pretend to fight Inuyasha so that [[Big Bad|Naraku]]'s wasps will not get suspicious, but she's grown to detest Naraku so much that she doesn't put any force at all in her [[Blow You Away|wind attacks]] and lets Inuyasha reach Naraku easily.
* In [[One Piece]], during the Impel Down Arc, Buggy and Mr. 3 are attempting to escape Level 4 by going up the stairs where Hannyable, the guard that they believe to be weakest, was guarding. Hannyable, wanting to get promoted, purposefully lets Buggy and Mr. 3 go up, hoping to blame Magellan later and get his job. [[Subverted Trope|However]], [[Wrong Genre Savvy|Mr. 3 and Buggy think that it's a trap, so it results in them getting brutally beaten up when they try to preemptively attack the guards.]]
== Film ==
* ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]''. When Butch and Sundance go to see their friend Sheriff Bledsoe, he insists on their tying him up and gagging him so there's no chance of him losing his job if anyone saw the two criminals entering his home.
* ''[[Force 10 from Navarone]]''. After Maritza kills the two Nazi guards, she demands that Barnsby hit her to make it appear that he and Mallory attacked her and got away. Barnsby [[Apologetic Attacker|apologizes]] and hits her weakly. She berates him and [[Hit Me Dammit|orders him to hit her harder]]. Mallory suddenly [[Tap on the Head|punches her hard and knocks her out]].
** The punching and knocking her out actually happened in real life. They had to delay filming the next scene until the actress woke up.
* This exchange from ''[[Serenity]]'':
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'''Payroll Guard:''' I was thinking more like a graze?
'''Mal:''' Eh, you don't wanna make it seem like you just gave up.
'''Payroll Guard:''' No, I get that. }}
* Ghost Dog in ''[[Ghost Dog]]: The Way Of The Samurai'' had to shoot his former boss in the arm, to avoid suspicions from the rest of mafiosi when they both survive the encounter.
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* In ''[[Independence Day]]'', [[Will Smith]]'s character "borrows" a helicopter to find his girlfriend. One soldier catches him and draws his pistol, ordering Smith out. Smith just gives him a look and asks if he really wants to shoot him, which makes the soldier lower the gun. As he's taking off, Smith goes, "Look, just tell 'em I hit you."
** The soldier is quite a bit bigger than Smith's character, making his "you shittin' me?" look particularly amusing.
* Bennie Chan handcuffs someone who just helped him to her desk in ''[[Skiptrace]]''.
== Literature ==
* It's a Troll tradition in ''[[Myth Adventures]]''
* ''The Tomorrow War'' by Alexander Zorich. When a desperate employees running from [[Peace and Love Incorporated]] hijacked a freighter ship, the navigator set up a [[FTL|jump]] quickly, because she wasn't enthusiastic about having the corporate security assault on the ship, then detention while it's all sorted out if she survives in cross-fire. But insisted that a pirate struck her with a pistol
* ''No one but President'' by Lev Gursky. The escaped abductee apologized to an innocent who noticed him about the upcoming [[Tap on the Head]]. The innocent being in an empty theater box on the spectacle he ''hated'' (because of his vow to the Fate for getting away from another trouble), he only asks to knock him out to the end of the show, if possible.
* In the fifth ''[[Harry Potter]]'' book, Dumbledore knocks out Shacklebolt, a member of the Order of the Phoenix, along with another Auror when the Ministry tries to arrest him, so it won't look suspicious while he makes his escape.
* In the second ''[[Felix Castor]]'' novel, Felix and Paul the guard work together to make it look like the guard was forcibly coeerced into letting him into Rafi's room.
* In ''[[The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (novel)|The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax]]'' by [[Dorothy Gilman]], the first novel in the [[Mrs. Pollifax (franchise)|''Mrs. Pollifax'' series]], the soldier who assists Farrell and Mrs. Pollifax in their escape attempt insists that they tie him up so he won't be suspected, and offers helpful advice on where best to hit him on the head to render him unconscious without doing permanent damage.
* In the second book, [[Felix Castor]] and a guard go in to Rafi's room, and Felix offers to make it look like a struggle. The guard was sick of the job anyway and declines, knowing he'll be fired.
* In one of the ''[[Night Watch]]'' books the protagonist is going to pass the guard. He is one of the Others, thus so absurdly overpowered a human doesn't really stand any chance against him, simply because he would just mind control him into letting him go. Though there's a tricky rule of balancing stuff: if the good guys cast some magic, the bad guys get a right to do that. So he decides to go take a [[Refuge in Audacity]], since the guard knows he's the Other.
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"Nah, I'm in a hurry, do that yourself." }}
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' book ''[[
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"Why ''don't'' you put up a fight? We're only a bunch of women."
"I'm not crazy!" }}
* Dresden does this in ''[[Cold Days]]''. Specifically Dresden bunglers a friend’s house (because the fae might target the friend if the fae knew who Dresden's allies were), and Andi Macklin tries to stop him. Dresden convinces Andi that they aren’t actually enemies, and then attacks Andi before running off.
== Live-Action TV ==
* Sawyer posed this offer to Sayid in the fifth season of ''[[Lost]]'', to help Sayid avoid an execution without revealing that they actually know each other in the process. Sayid instead chooses to remain locked up.
* In the original ''[[V (TV series)|V]]'' a Fifth Columnist gives Donovan her uniform to help him escape the ship, then makes him shoot her (stun, natch) so it will look like a genuine escape.
* In the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "1969", a young Lieutenant Hammond is worried that helping the team escape will get him court martialed. Before they leave, O'Neill tells him he's about to make sure that doesn't happen... and zaps him with a Zat gun.
* On ''[[24]]'', while Jack is undercover with terrorists attacking CTU, he allows a hostage to escape but cuts his own scalp to make it appear he had been knocked out.
== Toys ==
* Subverted in ''[[Bionicle]]''. A group of [[Boxed Crook
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'''Vezon''': Ever Again. }}
** Brutaka then proceeds to knock him out cold and steal his boat without keeping his side of the bargain.
== Video Games ==
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* A borderline case: in ''[[Iji]]'', if Vateilika helps you {{spoiler|and kills Krotera}}, she asks Iji to pretend that she (Iji) did it herself. Similar with Ansaksie against Iosa.
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Sidekick Girl]]'', Tornado Boy punches unwilling henchman Coldfire during a mission. Though probably not really the reason he did so (Coldfire is dating Sidekick Girl in their civilian identities, and Tornado Boy has a crush on her), Coldfire says that it's good that he has the black eye resulting from it, as it would look suspicious if he just let the heroes walk on through without a fight.
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