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* In one [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] [[Fanfic]], a ''relatively'' nice vampire decides to perform a spell to make people like her friend more. When she asks Giles for help at the Magic Box, he assumes that his customer is invoking this trope and feels very sorry for her.
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* In ''[[Summer Days and Evening Flames]]'', [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Gilda]] (a griffin) is confused about her [[Interspecies Romance|relation]][[Mentor Ship|ship]] with Captain Iron Bulwark (a pony), so writes to her friend Rainbow Dash for advice. Rainbow is just as inexperienced in romance as her, so goes to Applejack, using the classic device to explain Gilda's situation. It's vauge enough that Applejack assumes ''she'' is asking ''her'' about their relationship. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* In ''[[All You Need Is Love]]'', [[Death Note|Light]] calls an informal meeting with L and Naomi Misora to tell them that [[Secret Identity|Kira]] texted him for advice in the case of say he might have uh, "misplaced" [[Artifact of Doom|a Death Note]]... [[Hilarity Ensues|so what should we do about it?]]
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* In ''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]'' Athos (already a pseudonym!) describes his marriage as that of "a friend of mine". Then the [[Drowning My Sorrows|hundred fifty-odd bottles of wine he drank over the last two weeks]] catch up with him and he slips into the first-person at the end.
* Tom Holt's ''Falling Sideways'' ([[Mind Screw|which can seem aptly named on the first read-through]]) features an ancient cosmic being who tries to narrate an important bit of history in this style, before getting fed up with it and just blabbing it straight.
* In [[P. G. Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]]'s books, [[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Bertie Wooster]] is often assumed to be doing this when he in fact isn't. He'll tell, for example, Honoria Glossop, that he has this friend who's madly in love with her. He really does; he's referring to, in this case, Bingo Little. In fact, the idea of marrying Honoria repels Bertie. But she assumes he's talking about himself. And he's far too ''[[
* In ''[[The Mayor Of Casterbridge]]'', Lucetta describes her love problem to Elizabeth-Jane this way, Liz sees through it but doesn't know who the other parties are till later.
* Similarly to the Wodehouse books, ''[[Point of Honour]]'' by Madeleine Robins begins when the heroine is hired by a nobleman to find a fan, on behalf of his friend. She assumes that he's invoking the trope; in reality, he's telling the truth.
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