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Scarily enough, there are cases where this is [[Truth in Television]].
Compare with [[Room Disservice]] and [[Dude, She's Like, in
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In one of the arcs of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* Gaara tries this with Rock Lee in ''[[Naruto]]'', pre [[Heel Face Turn]]. He is stopped by Shikamaru and Naruto.
** Of course, Lee didn't know any particular information. Gaara was just nuts enough to want him dead.
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** Kabuto attempts this with Sasuke. Then Kakashi gets in the way. And we still don't know exactly what Kabuto's motives were.
* Happens to Rally in ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]''. No outside assistance, and indeed she was never more than half awake as she shot the assassin down and threw the bomb under her pillow out the window.
* Several villains do this to a police detective in the ''[[Ghost in
** This is done all the time! When nobody is able to kill the Major in combat, they try something else and send an assassin to kill her when she gets her cybernetic body replaced and is nothing more than a [[Brain In
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== Film ==
* ''[[The Omen]]''.
* Barely averted in both the first and second ''[[The Godfather
* The climax of the film ''[[
* Elle Driver disguises herself as [[Hello, Nurse!|a nurse]] and attempts to do this to The Bride in the first volume of ''[[Kill Bill]]''. Fortunately Bill calls at the last minute and cancels the hit.
* Bethany from ''[[Dogma]]'' saves "existence" by doing this.
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* The Steve McQueen thriller ''[[Bullitt]]'' (1968). A hitman sneaks into the hospital with the intent of finishing off his target, but is recognised and chased off by Bullitt.
* ''Telefon''. A priest who's been [[Manchurian Agent|brainwashed to commit sabotage]] is captured alive. A female KGB agent purchases a nurses' uniform from an on-sight outfitters, while Charles Bronson (posing as a doctor) rings up the duty nurse and tells her that another nurse will be replacing her, as she's to report somewhere else. The false nurse then injects air into the IV tube of the patient.
* In Peter Jackson's ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
* Very nearly happens in ''[[Orphan]]''.
* Subverted in ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]'': The Joker visits a badly injured Harvey Dent in the hospital. He doesn't kill him, but his visit is enough to {{spoiler|send Dent over the edge and make him fully embrace his new nature as the vengeful Two-Face}}.
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* ''[[Law and Order]]'' had this done to a child to make his mother keep quiet.
* Done in the first season finale of ''[[Twin Peaks]]''.
* ''[[
** In the seventh episode of first season, this happens to {{spoiler|Janet York}}.
** Season seven's villains love this -- assassins working for them kill both {{spoiler|[[The Dragon|Colonel Ike Dubaku]]}} and {{spoiler|[[The Mole|Ryan Burnett]]}} this way after they've [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|outlived their usefulness]].
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** Later in season eight, the wounded {{spoiler|Samir Mehran}} is killed by an assassin disguised as an EMT as he's being loaded into an ambulance.
* In an episode of ''[[Family Matters]]'', Carl ends up in a hospital after being hit with a bullet during a shootout. A shooter, seeking revenge for his relative who Carl recently arrested, dresses up as a doctor and sneaks into the hospital room intent on killing Carl. {{spoiler|Steve sneaks up behind the shooter and knocks him out with the metal squatting pan.}}
* An unusual humorous (if morbidly so) example occurs in ''[[Rescue Me]]'', in which a character suffering from kidney cancer awakens from a musical [[Dream Sequence
* This is attempted at the end of the ''[[Grimm]]'' pilot.
* ''[[Leverage]]'', "The Beantown Bailout Job." {{spoiler|The bank manager}} behind the whole scam is on his way to the hospital to kill the only witness, who's lying in a coma... only to find the Massachusetts State Police waiting for him when he arrives.
* ''[[The X
** And Skinner himself attempts to do this to the comatose Mulder in "Deadalive", thinking he is saving Scully's unborn child by doing so. It fails, but ends up saving Mulder from a life of alien replication.
* ''[[Castle]]''. In season one, this almost happens to a man in witness protection - {{spoiler|luckily, it turns out just to be a trap, and our heroes catch the would-be assassin.}}
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* After being shot, ''[[The Mentalist]]'''s Bosco nearly died this way. Luckily, his [[Action Girl]] friend/co-worker/one true love, Teresa Lisbon manages to stop the shooter in a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. {{spoiler|Poor Bosco dies anyway, but at least he and Lisbon get to have their [[Anguished Declaration of Love]] before he does.}}
* In ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'', one of the gangsters attacked in the first episode turns out not to have been killed by Jimmy and Al and turns up badly wounded. Since Nucky is afraid he will start talking and name names, he arranges things so that his brother will smother the guy with a pillow while pretending to question him. This plan is interrupted by the FBI, but things don't go better for the patient after that, as the [[Knight Templar]] Agent Van Allen tortures him for information via [[Open-Heart Dentistry]], and he dies after giving up information.
* In episode 6 of ''[[
* Attempted on ''[[
* ''[[
* On Seinfeld, George is in the hospital and keeps going on about how he doesn't want to suffer and just be sick forever so he asks Jerry, that if it comes to that, to put him out of his misery. Jerry says "Like this?" grabs a pillow and start suffocating him while he struggles.
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== Video Games ==
* Attempted on {{spoiler|the main character}} in ''[[Sanitarium (
* In the end of ''[[Dreamfall]]'', {{spoiler|Zoe Castillo}} is drugged by Helena Chang to save the real world via dreaming. After she is done, Helena injects her with even more drug, to make sure she never wakes up again. Apparently, it only works half-way: {{spoiler|Zoe}} cannot wake up but possesses a lot of power even when sleeping.
* Considered in the first ''[[Persona (
== Webcomics ==
* The reason Gil from ''[[
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