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Compare to [[If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten]] (where the villain orders an underling to "take care" of the hero as a loyalty test), [["Alone with Prisoner" Ploy]] (which is just as likely to be information-passing as "time to escape"), [[Even Evil Has Standards]], [[Minion with an F In Evil]], and [[Noble Demon]]. Can overlap with [[Death Faked for You]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In the Arlong arc of ''[[One Piece]]'', Nami pretends to stab Usopp to save him from the Fishmen.▼
== [[Film]] ==
* ''Force 10 from Navarone'' (sequel to ''[[The Guns of
* In ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'', Danny faked stabbing Nick in order to prevent the Neighborhood Watch Alliance from killing him for real.
* [[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White]]'s evil stepmother ordered a huntsman to kill Snow White and bring her heart back as proof. He leaves her in the woods instead, and brought back the heart of a deer.▼
** Which makes another one for the [[Evil Overlord List]]: Always ask the assassin to bring back the ''head''.▼
== [[Literature]] ==
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* In the first full ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'' novel a riot breaks out on the ship he's assigned to. In the aftermath he can't have anyone executed (since it would destroy morale, and more importantly make him likely to suffer an [[Unfriendly Fire|"accident"]] on the battlefield) but the captain wants blood (he was in a relationship with one of the military police killed in the riot). So Cain lets the captain hold a tribunal (the defendants of which are found guilty) and sentences them to "death" by transferring them to a penal legion to die in battle.
* Xanth Filatine from ''[[The Edge Chronicles]]''. As a part of his [[Heel Face Turn]], he shoots the rope tethering the protagonist's ship instead of into Rook himself, allowing Rook to flee from the [[Mook]]s swiftly closing on his location.
* In ''[[
== [[Live
* In ''[[Luther]]'', Ian Reed pretends to be a dirty cop to get to a ritual killer for the protagonist. Painfully subverted later, though.
== [[
▲* [[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White]]'s evil stepmother ordered a huntsman to kill Snow White and bring her heart back as proof. He leaves her in the woods instead, and brought back the heart of a deer.
▲* In the Arlong arc of ''[[One Piece]]'', Nami pretends to stab Usopp to save him from the Fishmen.
▲** Which makes another one for the [[Evil Overlord List]]: Always ask the assassin to bring back the ''head''.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In
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