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{{trope}}
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The hero has his back up against the wall. He's tied to the chair blindfolded, the firing squad is taking aim, the shark tank is sliding into position, the laser cannon/deathtrap is warming up, and his last cigarette is already half ash, you know the drill. By all accounts, his pooch is clearly about to be screwed.
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Cue the [[Downer Ending]], right? Not so much; as it works out, during the kiss she slipped into his mouth the key to his shackles, or a lock pick or the appropriate piece of [[Phlebotinum]], ensuring that our intrepid hero lives on to fight another day.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Reversed with [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Kaji slipping the microfiche to Misato]].
** Or not. It's not actually shown and the dialogue indicates he used an orifice other than her mouth...
* [[
* In the manga [[Anatolia Story
* Towards the end of ''[[
== [[Fan
* In ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
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* In ''[[Our Man Flint]]'', Gila commits to her [[Heel Face Turn]] by using this method to slip Flint his [[Swiss Army Weapon|cigarette lighter]].
* In ''[[Aeon Flux]]'', Aeon receives a pill containing a message this way.
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* In ''[[The
* In ''[[The Adventures of Ford Fairlane]]'', the titular character gives his girlfriend/secretary a sudden kiss at a dinner party to quickly get rid of a nasty-tasting hors d'oeuvre. Since, you know, spitting it out on the ground would be ''rude''...
== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[Roger Zelazny]]'s ''The Changing Land'', the resurrected priestess Semirama does this (with considerable... emphasis) to slip a key to Dilvish (who happens to be [[Identical Grandson|the spitting image of his ancestor]], who was her lover) when he's chained in the dungeon of the Castle Timeless.
* Played more or less straight in the climax of
== [[Live
* Played with in ''[[Angel]]'', when Doyle hands off his psychic whammy to Cordelia before he does the [[Heroic Sacrifice]] thing.
** Also done later when {{spoiler|it was retconned that Cordelia gave Angel one of those psychic whammies so that he could end the series}}.
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* Somewhat inverted in [[Jekyll]]. Claire (apparently) swallows the key to Hyde's chains to prevent him from escaping. Hyde, ever horny and homicidal, gives her a long, slow one. Result.
* Happens in an episode of ''[[Monk]]'' when the homicidal magician's stage assistant takes pity on the titular character. Being Monk, though, the very thought of swapping a plot device orally freaks him out enough to alert his captor.
* In [[
== [[Music]] ==
* [[Kate Bush]] depicted Houdini's trick in her song "Houdini" and on the cover of her album ''[[media:
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* This is apparently foreplay for [[Batman:
** The scorpion venom antidote kiss comes straight from the ''[[
* Trevor Goodchild does this to ''[[
** Happens in the movie as well. Two Monican agents walk up to each other with completely blank expressions, kiss passionately, slipping a message capsule from tongue to tongue, and then walk off again as if nothing had happened.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Turns out this is the trick behind a good deal of stage magic. In particular, [[Harry Houdini|Houdini]]'s wife Bess is said to have aided him in this fashion on several occasions.
* This is a favourite means of passing drugs to someone during a prison visit. Probably any prison show has depicted this at one time or another.
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