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See also [[The Corpse Stops Here]] and [[Mistaken for Badass]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' with some rather justified suspicion being thrown at Sara after her identity is revealed. The big bad is her brother, after all.

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[North by Northwest]]''.

* Wallace Ritchie from ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Little]]'' is mistaken for a secret agent by just about everyone. He doesn't mind, because [[And You Thought It Was a Game|he thinks it's all a play]], with him cast in the role of a secret agent.

* {{spoiler|François}} in the ''[[Timeline]]'' movie.

* Evan Tanner in Lawrence Block's ''The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep'' was just trying to steal some gold when an agent (killed shortly afterward) apparently mistook him for a contact and handed over some vital documents. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity ensued]], leaving Tanner with a reputation as a resourceful and dedicated agent for a very <s>disorganized</s> free-wheeling U.S. intelligence agency (even the agency's boss thought so). As Tanner put it in one of the later books, when the CIA took custody of him, he kept telling them he worked for somebody else who'd eventually come to bail him out—but he was more surprised than the CIA was when the somebody else '''did''' come.

 

* ''Chuck'' does this quite a bit. Morgan, Captain Awesome...

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' had this happen so often, some of the audio dramas started doing a [[Lampshade Hanging]] on it.

* Happens several times to the heroes of ''[[The Time Tunnel]]''.

 

* Pretty much the plot of the WWII musical ''[[Kilroy Was Here]]''.

* Also the entire plot of Woody Allen's play ''Don't Drink The Water''.

 

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