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* [[Playing with a Trope|Played with again]] in ''Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle'', when the racist white prison guards attack a peaceful African American prisoner, thus allowing Kumar to escape with an enormous bag of marijuana.
* [[Playing with a Trope|Played with again]] in ''Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle'', when the racist white prison guards attack a peaceful African American prisoner, thus allowing Kumar to escape with an enormous bag of marijuana.
* The security guards on the Death Star in ''[[Star Wars]]: A New Hope''. Ben uses a ''[[Jedi Mind Trick]]'' version of this after turning the tractor beam off. This is actually an inversion of [[It's Probably Nothing]]. Presumably, Ben made the guards think they heard something off in the distance, and like intelligent guards they go to investigate. Unfortunately for them, it really was nothing.
* The security guards on the Death Star in ''[[Star Wars]]: A New Hope''. Ben uses a ''[[Jedi Mind Trick]]'' version of this after turning the tractor beam off. This is actually an inversion of [[It's Probably Nothing]]. Presumably, Ben made the guards think they heard something off in the distance, and like intelligent guards they go to investigate. Unfortunately for them, it really was nothing.
** Also, about halfway through the Death Star sequence the guards are given new orders to deliberately ''allow'' the Rebels to escape after harrying them just enough to make it not look too obvious. Even then, Leia rapidly catches on that it was a setup.
** Also, about halfway through the Death Star sequence the guards are given new orders to deliberately ''allow'' the Rebels to escape after harrying them just enough to make it not look too obvious. Even then, Leia rapidly catches on that that many stormtroopers cannot all be failing to capture them unless it was a setup.
** The novel ''Death Star'' turns this on its head. One of the normal human Stormtrooper commanders was sensitive to the Force and really hated his bosses. He mislead his own troops and thus allowed Han and the others an easier path to freedom.
** The novel ''Death Star'' turns this on its head. One of the normal human Stormtrooper commanders was sensitive to the Force and really hated his bosses. He mislead his own troops and thus allowed Han and the others an easier path to freedom.
** Additionally inverted in that a rather large number of competent major and minor characters all at some point had Imperial guard training or at least Imperial pilot training (which does include some guard training) as the explanation.
** Additionally inverted in that a rather large number of competent major and minor characters all at some point had Imperial guard training or at least Imperial pilot training (which does include some guard training) as the explanation.
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