Faking the Dead: Difference between revisions

** {{spoiler|Future Tsuna}} also does the same thing, as part of the gigantic [[Xanatos Gambit]] that is the future arc.

* Once he learns that the Queen of Midland and her nobles want him dead, Griffith of ''[[Berserk]]'' blackmails Foss, the head of the conspiracy, into helping him set up a [[Batman Gambit]] involving [[Faking the Dead]] that ultimately leads to the Queen and her nobles being locked into a burning castle to die.

* Inverted in ''[[Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade]]'' where a witness to a government scandal is [[Killed Off for Real]] to guarantee she'll never be found by the opposition. As long as they believe she's still out there somewhere, they can't move against the protagonist's unit.

* In the [[Backstory]] of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', Ala Rubra faked {{spoiler|High Queen Arika's}} execution. It's unknown whether or not she's still alive when the main story begins, though.

** And {{spoiler|the Ring director (and some Mooks)}} did it to hide the fact that {{spoiler|Shaw}} had turned traitor, and also to gain some unwitting help from their enemy. This one used squibs, and they were quickly revealed to be alive.

** In the fourth season, one episode has Chuck figuring out the best way to draw out Casey's old team in order to find out more about his missing mother. {{spoiler|The plan in question? To have Casey pretend to be dead, complete with the guy in a catatonic state to add authenticity to the "funeral".}}

* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[My Name Is Earl]]''. Earl had been in a relationship with a [[Naive Everygirl]] after a hookup at a Halloween party. But, when things began to get too serious too fast, Earl faked his own death to avoid hurting her feelings. (Her current boyfriend got the idea from Earl and did it, too.) Later that episode, the woman in question faked her own death to get back at Earl for yelling at her about being an [[Extreme Doormat]]. (Thus marking the point where she becomes more assertive than ever before.)

* Lois of ''[[Lois and Clark]]'' had [[Superman]] freeze her using his superbreath as a ploy to get a villian.

** Moreover, in classic ''[[EverQuest]]'', the Feign Death skill was the hallmark of the Monk class (though some other classes eventually received weaker versions of it) and was the most effective countermeasure for a number of the game's more tedious and frustrating [[Scrappy Mechanic|mechanics]].

* In ''[[Suikoden II]]'', the main character's not-quite-biological sister fakes her own death in order to avoid distracting him from his important task of ending a war -- she's tired of all the fighting and wants to leave the war behind, but knows that he'd never leave her alone if he knew she was still alive. All this only happens in the [[Multiple Endings|good ending]], however -- if you make even the slightest misstep, before ''or'' after her apparent "death", she was actually [[Killed Off for Real]].

* Solid Snake fakes his own death in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2'', in order to escape being witch-hunted as a terrorist. Interestingly enough, he does this by dressing up the corpse of his [[Evil Twin|identical twin]] and presenting him to the authorities. Thus, later in the game, when the body is exhumed for a DNA test, it passes as genuine.

* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 3'', Snake carries a [[Cyanide Pill]] he can use to fake his death in front of enemies. "Dying" will fool every enemy and boss ''once'', and popping back to life in front of them will scare them enough that you can get a cheap hit in; the only boss this doesn't work on is the one that taught you this trick.