Nobody Here but Us Statues: Difference between revisions

* Incredibly subtly done in ''[[Discworld/Pyramids|Pyramids]]'', by Mericet, the Assassin's Guild instructor, who hides as a gargoyle from Teppic. In fact, the only clue you have that he did it is the description of him "taking a length of pipe out of his mouth". Of course, in this case it also helps that there are animate Gargoyles in the Discworld.

** Also, the Death of Rats briefly took the place of the cardboard fairy atop a Hogswatch tree in ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]''.

* Corran Horn tries this in an ''[[X Wing Series]]'' novel; he's in the Emperor's private museum of Jedi memorabilia and he even puts on the old robe one of the statues or models was wearing. It was dark, and this ''almost'' worked, but the Imperials looking for him noticed that unlike all the others, his face and [[Eye Scream|eyes]] hadn't been gouged. Fortunately he'd also come across a working Lightsaber.

* In one installment of the French ''Langelot XXX'' series, the protagonist must suddenly hide in the workshop of a light artist and decides to impersonate a customized ''trompe l'oeil'' holographic statue of himself. This necessitates not just standing still, but actually ''repeating the same characteristic movement'' whenever the suspicious inspector walks past him. Needless to say, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|he pulls it off]].

* In ''[[Super Mario Bros 3]]'', the Tanooki costume has the power of temporarily turning into a statue, which monsters will just walk past.

* You can have Snake pull this trick early in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'', with the help of his active camouflage, which makes his suit match the texture of the statues. Do it too many times, though, and Snake will accidentally snap the nads off another statue while posing.

** This is [[Played for Laughs|for squicky laughs]] - The statues themselves are in homoerotic poses, leading to Snake having to disguise himself by joining in with the Greco-Roman sex. There's one statue where Snake integrates himself into the statue by holding onto another statue's penis - if you do this too many times, [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|he can accidentally break the penis off]]. Obviously, this alerts any guards in the area. While hidden, Snake can also get crapped on by birds, or peed on by [[Mook]]s. This is fairly typical for a [[Hideo Kojima]] game.

* ''[[Sly Cooper]]'' does this in the second game, to hide from some [[Mooks]] looking for him and Bentley.

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