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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Death Note]]'', Light Yagami claims that if Kira is caught, he's evil. However, if he isn't, he is justice.
* In the third chapter of [[Fullmetal Alchemist]], Ed transmutes waste into gold, claiming that: ''"If we don't get caught, we won't get caught."'' Immediately afterward, he subverts this by reversing the transmutation.
* In a very early ''[[Naruto]]'' episode, during the Chunin exams the ninjas-in-training are given a difficult written test with the unusual rule that they cannot be caught cheating more than four times. So, needless to say, all of the skilled students discreetly use their ninja skills to do so without getting caught. Which was, of course, the entire point. (They would have to pass anyway--a few students were plants that actually had correct answers, so copying them was the goal--but it was just a [[Hidden Purpose Test]].)
** This is further complicated by the idea of teamwork being thrown into the mix. If one person in the squad failed or got caught five times, the whole squad failed. If one person got none of them right (the questions were intended to be too hard for regular genin to be answered), the rest of the squad also failed.
*** {{spoiler|In the end, getting the test answers right really didn't matter. The test proctor was a torture expert, and each new rule was designed to mindscrew with the genin kids. Naruto passed despite leaving his entire paper blank, also passing a second [[Secret Test of Character]] which said that if they got the not yet handed out last question wrong (even though he had gotten none of the other questions right) they could never be anything but a genin, basically ending their career as a ninja. Ironically, because of the way the test was intended to be, Naruto actually cheated by being honest - you weren't supposed to leave the test blank. The instructor was impressed by his guts, though.}}
* Earlier in ''[[Soul Eater]]'', [[Highly-Visible Ninja|Black*Star]] tries to peep on Tsubaki while she's bathing, he being who he is, yells and gets a [[Amusing Injuries|shuriken in the forehead]]. The thing is Tsubaki wasn't mad at him spying her but at him not being able to conceal his presence.
* D'arby the Gambler, user of the Osiris Stand in ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'', has this as his motto. For example, it's not ''his'' fault that Polnareff didn't know that, when they were betting on what meat a cat would eat first, the cat belonged to D'arby (and thus D'arby could choose which piece would be eaten).
* The first rule of the Games Club in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'': Win at all costs. Including using marked cards, bribing your opponents, pulling a [[Twin Switch]]...
* ''[[The Legend of Koizumi]]''. It's practically understood that cheating is part of the game as long as you don't get caught. And sometimes, it's still not considered cheating even if you ''do'' get caught if you do it in an audacious enough manner, like when [[The Hero|Koizumi's]] effort in cheating {{spoiler|[[Incendiary Exponent|caused his entire body to be set ablaze]]}}.
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* In ''[[Star Trek]] II'', Kirk reveals that he rigged [[Unwinnable Training Simulation|the Kobayashi Maru]] test to make the scenario winnable... and got a commendation for "original thinking."
** In [[Star Trek (film)|the 2009 film]] the alternate Kirk was court-martialed. If the plot had not intervened, it is very possible he would have been expelled, which is standard practice for modern academic institutions. Presumably something similar happened to Kirk-Prime, but if he was being a bit less of an ass about the whole thing (and if he had some powerful friends), he might have gotten away with it.
*** The difference may have been due to the manner in which they cheated. Alternate-Kirk simply disabled the shields of the enemy vessels and destroyed them, while Kirk-Prime reprogrammed the enemy's behavior to respect the reputation he intended to build as captain such that they would allow him to proceed unmolested. So while Alternate-Kirk cheated in a way that he could plausibly have hidden and gotten away with entirely if not for the fact that the game was [[Unwinnable]], Kirk-Prime took [[Refuge in Audacity]].
* In ''[[Back to School]]'', Derek (Robert Downey Jr.), best friend of the main character's son, uses sunlight reflected from a mirror, and then an air horn, to distract divers from the opposing dive team, preventing them from making good dives so that his friend can win.
* In ''[[Ski School]]'', the "good guys" Ski team must beat the Big Bad and other innocent bystander competitors to stay on the slopes, so they pull shenanigans like pouring oil on the snow to make their competitors slip and fall, or have buxom ladies flash passing skiers to make their competitors slip and fall. High fives all around.
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"So it's not a dirty trick if it's untraceable?"
"Correct, Ivan. You learn fast. Grandfather would have been...suprised." }}
* In [[The Hunger Games]], it is technically illegal to train children to participate in the Games and have them volunteer to take the place of whoever gets chosen by lottery. Regardless, the tributes from Districts 1, 2, and 4 are always what are called "Career Tributes". The Capitol seems [[Selective Obliviousness|to ignore this]] because it makes for a more entertaining show.
* In Raymond Feist and Janny Wurts' Empire trilogy, betrayal and assassination among rivals in the major Houses is almost never punished by the law unless the perpetrator was crass enough to be obvious about it. And being able to engineer a rival's demise by exploiting law and custom rather than just ignoring it will earn you the quiet admiration of your peers.
* The Drow (see Tabletop Games below) deserve a mention here as well, since R.A. Salvatore's [[The Dark Elf Trilogy|Drizzt]] books did a lot to codify that picture of their society.
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*** So House Baerne is cheating the rule that says under what circumstances it's permissible to cheat?
**** Presumably, the other seven ''would'' have a perfect pretext to unite and get rid of Baenre if survivors brought it before the Council. The hard part is to live long enough to do it, of course, and preferably stay alive after the deed as well. Another issue is whether one remains a noble and can make a claim if officially accepted as a merchant clan or mercenary company member, like Jarlaxle (Baenre himself). After all, his stand-in Kimmuriel Oblodra is the last from a punished House, but isn't targeted more than anyone in his position would be.
**** At that point in time, House Baenre is the First House because it's easily more powerful than any one (actually quite likely two and possibly more) of its rival Houses and enjoys the full favor of Lolth. [[
* ''[[Paranoia]]'' officially prohibits players from even ''knowing'' the rules. It then acknowledges that the players will read them anyway. To provide a "don't get caught" aspect, ''summary execution'' of a character is recommended if the player tries to [[Metagame]] (although with five backup clones, this is more a [[Death Is Cheap|warning]] than a [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|bolt of purple lightning]]).
** That information was outside your security clearance. Please report for termination. [[Dissonant Serenity|Have a pleasant daycycle.]] [[The Computer Is Your Friend]].
** On the other hand, if the rulebook also includes a pre-written mission, then the prohibition on players reading the mission is clearly labeled [[Sincerity Mode|"no, really, this time we really mean it!"]]
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* [[Water Polo]] is rife with this behavior.
* Sparta liked this trope:
** As a rite of passage [[The Spartan Way]], each Spartan boy would be denied enough food to survive, forcing them to steal from the Helots. Stealing was still illegal, however, so if the boy was careless enough to get caught, he would be punished mercilessly.
** For soldiers, the same applied to having sex with your wife - the men lived together in barracks and were "forbidden" to go home. The idea was that if you had to break the rules to sleep with your wife, you'd take it a lot more seriously. Sparta always needed more sons.
* [[Truth in Television]], for the [http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/GRG_and_the_Mystery_of_the_High_Test_Scores.aspx hiring test] for a certain spy agency.
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*** Especially ironic that modern anti-tax activists named their movement after it.
* Rules and laws in general are meaningless unless enforced. Breaking a rule, leaving no evidence that a rule was broken, and not getting caught in the act is as good as obeying that rule (unless, of course, the rule/law was put in place because of the long term concequences of breaking it. [[Too Dumb to Live|Or for your own safety.]]).
** Examples are Third World countries where laws are often similar to those in developed nations, but since law enforcement tends to be weak/corrupt only a minority of offenders is arrested, sometimes selectively.
* [[Two Words]]: Parking meters.
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