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== Fan Works ==
* In ''[[Naruto the Abridged Series|Naruto Abridged]]'', the log is an actual character, serving as Sasuke's nemesis.
* The ''[[Naruto]]'' fanfic ''[[Yet Again|Yet again, with a little extra help]]'' makes a [[Running Gag]] out of this trope by having Leaf ninjas hold cult-like reverence for the Log, who sacrifices itself on their behalf. Other ninjas think they're all crazy. {{spoiler|The Log may actually be controlling them ever since Hashirama's time.}}
* Ki Tamaida of ''[[Dark Heart High]]'' uses this a few times. Most frequently, to avoid getting in trouble for cutting class to meet someone.
* One of the funnier moments from the ''Dream Tournament'' fanfic series involved this. In a crossover between different fighting games, Andy Bogard unleashes his best move against one of the ''Samurai Shodown'' ninjas, with this as the unfortunate result. "I Choretsudan'ed a LOG?"
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** The ''[[Ninja Sentai Kakuranger]]'' did this [[Fleeting Demographic Rule|eight years earlier]], but it (mostly) didn't show up in ''Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers'' adaptation because Saban dropped the ninja element. The regular Earth rangers did do it fairly often in their Ninja Ranger forms, though.
** Both versions pop up in ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'' when the team uses the Kakuranger and Hurricanger powers. In the Kakuranger tribute, Ninjaman pulls the trick twice against the [[Monster of the Week]], once on foot and once [[Make My Monster Grow|when enlarged]] (though he uses a straw dummy instead of a log).
* Lee Van Cleef from failed 80's series ''[[The Master (trope)|The Master]]'' (a.k.a. ''[[Master Ninja]]'') does this in one episode, putting his ninja headwear over a doodad attached to an electrical transformer during a fight. Because it happens at night, his opponent doesn't notice, and nijitsus his way to electrocution.
 
 
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'': The "Mecha and Manga" supplement offers the Substitution power to allow anime-based superheros to perform this trick.
* In ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' 3.5, one Warlock invocation, fittingly named "Flee the Scene", is a short-range teleport that leaves a ''major image'' illusion of the caster in their place.