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* In one story from ''[[Arabian Nights]]'' the jester of a ruler dies from a fishbone in his throat; no less than three people try to shift the blame by getting rid of his body. When an innocent man is condemned to death for the alleged murder, all of them (in reverse order) confess what they did. At the end, it turns out that he wasn't really dead, just unconscious.

** In a different version of the story, he's really dead, but the sultan is so amused by ''everyone'' claiming to have killed him that he pardons all responsible, saying that this was the jester's last joke.

* A serious example in ''[[Violet Eyes]]'' by Nicole Luiken, at the end, when the heroes try and convince a group of 'buyers' that their captor is alive and they are dead.

* A semi-serious [[Dead Person Impersonation|variation]] happens in ''[[X Wing Series|Wraith Squadron]]''. When the Wraiths captured an enemy corvette, they managed to do so before the corvette could get a message off, meaning that the enemy was completely unaware that it had been seized. They decided to try [[The Infiltration]], passing as the crew of the corvette to get close to the enemy. The captain - "a petty guy who reached his ultimate level of usefulness driving a minelaying barge for a warlord and then had to be scraped off the floor", according to Face - was killed and his body made unrecognizable, but he had such a [[Small Name, Big Ego|massive ego]] that he kept a full-holo [[Captain's Log]]. The Wraiths proceeded to use it to impersonate him, with original flamboyance intact, over holographic communications.

 

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