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** Partially justified in that informing the mark that he was being robbed and ordering him to play along meant that the Gentlemen Bastards didn't have to go through all the trouble and cost of pretending to prepare for a long and expensive journey. It was simply exceptionally unlucky that {{spoiler|the nobleman's wife was unknowingly friends with the real head of the secret police and confided in her}}.

** The second book takes it all [[Up to Eleven]], with Locke running this trope back and forth between at least two different marks, at once exposing his plans and yet diverting suspicion away from himself.

* In [[Sandy Mitchell]]'s [[Ciaphas Cain]] novel ''Duty Calls'', Cain's [[Fake Ultimate Hero]] status bites him in the ass again when {{spoiler|a rogue Inquisitor}} tries to have him killed—repeatedly—because of what he would surely have found out otherwise. Needless to say, he had no idea anything was going on until people suddenly started trying to kill him, and his investigation into ''why'' people are trying to kill him blows the plot wide open.

* In [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[John Carter of Mars|Thuvia, Maid of Mars]]'', Carthoris is framed for Thuvia's kidnapping. Not his love would have let him leave the matter alone, but it always helps, to implicate his honor.