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== Films -- Live Action ==
* In ''[[Hot Tub Time Machine (Film)|Hot Tub Time Machine]]'', Blaine and the ski patrol mistake the main characters for Soviet spies after finding their [[Cell Phone|cell phones]] and MP3 players (which they think are [[Shoe Phone|spy gadgets]]), and their can of Chernobyl energy drink with its [[The Backwards R|Cyrillic lettering]] (which they think is a bomb).
* Chekov and Uhura in ''[[Star Trek IV: theThe Voyage Home]]'', in the famous "Nu-cle-ar wessels" sequence. [[Rule of Funny|Somehow]] they don't realize that, if you want to get aboard an aircraft carrier in 1986, the guy with the prominent Russian accent ''probably'' shouldn't be your spokesperson. This doesn't cause them any problems in the end except for a bunch of strange looks, but when the inevitable transporter malfunction strands Chekov next to the reactor of aforementioned nuclear wessel he is assumed to be a Russian spy. His recitation of Name, (Starfleet) Rank, and Number do nothing to dispel this.
 
 
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** In ''The Gladiator'' the Crosstime Traffic organization {{spoiler|''is'' actually participating in espionage, attempting to subvert the victorious Communist government by reintroducing capitalist concepts to the population in a timeline where the USSR won the Cold War}}.
* The end of [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s [[Time Enough for Love]] involves the protagonist travelling back to the time of his own childhood and dealing with the difficulties thereby. Despite being a 2000+ year old pansexual incestual time traveller speaking what, after 2000+ years, might as well be a foreign language in a ''very'' alien culture, he encounters no problems. However, his plan to escape having to fight in WWI is to hustle pool and flee to Brazil. He then realizes that that might get him killed by German or French agents as a spy.
* The [[Time Scout (Literature)|Time Scout]] series doesn't say you'll be caught as a spy, but the results are the same. Get caught, get killed. Usually for apostasy or some such.
 
 
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* This happens to Gary in an early episode of ''[[Goodnight Sweetheart]]'' <ref>knowing Himmler and Goebbels' hair colour is what did it; his claims to have seen it in a newsreel fall a bit flat because [[Did Not Do the Research|Newsreels were monochrome]].</ref>. He decides to play it up and manages to convince his captors he ''is'' a spy, but a British one and not a German one as they'd assumed.
* This is the premise of the ''[[K 9]]'' episode "The Cambridge Spy": a [[Lightning Can Do Anything|lightning strike]] sends Jorije back to Cambridge in 1963, she's arrested as a Russian spy, and K9 and Starkey have to travel back to rescue her.
* ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]'':
** "[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Is_Yesterday Tomorrow Is Yesterday]". When the ''Enterprise'' accidentally travels back in time to Earth in 1969, Captain Kirk is considered a spy when he's caught infiltrating a U.S. Air Force base. (When an interrogator threatens to lock him up for two hundred years, Kirk ruefully acknowledges, "[[The Slow Path|That ought to be just about right.]]")
** "[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Assignment_Earth Assignment: Earth]". When the ''Enterprise'' is deliberately sent back in time to Earth in 1968, Kirk and Spock are arrested as spies when they're caught inside McKinley Rocket Base.
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* The Doctor and his companions in ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' sometimes fall prey to this, such as when they go to Skaro in "Genesis of the Daleks," where they are mistaken for the Kaleds' deadly enemy the Thals (or their common enemies, the wild mutants that run around in the nuclear wasteland). Everyone being [[Human Aliens]] in this case did not help. Sometimes the Doctor genuinely ''is'' a spy, working for himself, simply by virtue of being too nosy for the villain-of-the-week. Other times, such as in "The Brain of Morbius," the irate locals correctly identify him as a Time Lord but automatically assume he's there to steal their stuff because they're suspicious of Time Lords in general. The titular Morbius similarly assumes the Doc is there on behalf of the Time Lords to hunt him down and was just stumbling into the creepy castle as a ruse.
* [[Played for Laughs]] in an episode of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', in which an accident involving a microwave oven sends Cory back in time to a warped version of [[The Fifties]]. (It's [[All Just a Dream]].)
* Happens multiple times in ''[[The Time Tunnel (TV)|The Time Tunnel]]''.
 
 
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