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Occasionally, this trick is [[Unspoken Plan|proposed offscreen]], leading the viewer to think that a major character pulled a [[Face Heel Turn]].

If they are physically bound, this can lead to a [[Chained Heat]] or fighting [[With My Hands Tied]]. Compare [[I Surrender Suckers]], and cases where anyone should be able to see through overlap with [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]. The [[Play Along Prisoner]] may allow themself to be [[Cold Blooded Torture|tortured]] before breaking loose. Compare [[Sheep in ~~Wolfs~~ Clothing]], where this applies to [[The Virus]], and with [[Trojan Horse]], which also gets the hero into an enemy base, but without them knowing anyone has crossed their lines. Compare [[Bavarian Fire Drill]], which relies on bluffing rather than a convincing disguise. Contrast [[Disguised Hostage Gambit]], where real villains with real hostages dress the hostages up as villains to fool [[The Cavalry]].

If they are physically bound, this can lead to a [[Chained Heat]] or fighting [[With My Hands Tied]]. Compare [[I Surrender, Suckers]], and cases where anyone should be able to see through overlap with [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]. The [[Play Along Prisoner]] may allow themself to be [[Cold-Blooded Torture|tortured]] before breaking loose. Compare [[Sheep in Wolf's Clothing]], where this applies to [[The Virus]], and with [[Trojan Horse]], which also gets the hero into an enemy base, but without them knowing anyone has crossed their lines. Compare [[Bavarian Fire Drill]], which relies on bluffing rather than a convincing disguise. Contrast [[Disguised Hostage Gambit]], where real villains with real hostages dress the hostages up as villains to fool [[The Cavalry]].

[[I Thought It Meant|Not to be confused]] with the similar, but distinct, [[Alone With Prisoner Ploy]]. That's when a [[Heel Face Turn|reformed]] bad guy or good guy on the [[The Infiltration|inside]] asks to be alone with an actual prisoner in order to help him/her.

== Anime and Manga ==

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* ''[[Blood Diamond]]'', although it lasts about twenty seconds, (just long enough for the soldiers to lower their guard and the "prisoner" [[Just Shoot Him|to shoot them]]) and is done to cross a bridge.

* Played straight in ''[[Windtalkers (Film)|Windtalkers]]'' when {{spoiler|Ben Yahzee dresses up as a Japanese soldier and takes his "captive" Joe Enders into a Japanese camp in order to gain access to a working radio.}}

* In ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' the [[Five Man Band]] (sans leader) almost pull this off, but Lazarus is caught in a contradiction. [[More Dakka]] ensues.

* In ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' the [[Five-Man Band]] (sans leader) almost pull this off, but Lazarus is caught in a contradiction. [[More Dakka]] ensues.

* Preed tries to pull the gambit off in ''[[Titan AE]]'' only to encounter an intelligent guard, [[The Guards Must Be Crazy|much to his surprise]].

* In ''[[Face Off]]'', this kicks off the plot, where the good guy takes the bad guy's face to get some information. This would have worked out if the bad guy hadn't woken from his coma and taken the good guy's face.

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* Wolverine and Beast do this in ''[[Wolverine and The X Men]]'', Logan even referring to Beast as "Chewie".

* When [[Spongebob SquarePants|Spongebob]] is transported to Ye Olde Bikini Bottom, the group infiltrates the evil wizard's castle with the recently-befriended Black Knight (Sandy) pretending to have captured Spongebob, Patrick, and Squidward. Despite knowing that this is a trick, Spongebob reacts with genuine fear when Sandy relates all the various horrible ways she plans to have them tortured.

* Combined with [[I Surrender Suckers]] in ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]''; In order to combat the return of the [[Transformers Generation One|G1 Starscream]] (it's complicated), the Maximals pretend to surrender themselves to the Decepticon, in exchange for allowing one of their (exaggeratedly) injured comrades to use the repair bay inside their commandeered base. Starscream buys it, and locks the Maximal and their leader Optimus in the brig as leverage while ordering the rest to attack the Predacons. Turns out, though, that's exactly what the Maximals wanted, as it puts the two "prisoners" in a perfect position to retake the base.

* Combined with [[I Surrender, Suckers]] in ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]''; In order to combat the return of the [[Transformers Generation One|G1 Starscream]] (it's complicated), the Maximals pretend to surrender themselves to the Decepticon, in exchange for allowing one of their (exaggeratedly) injured comrades to use the repair bay inside their commandeered base. Starscream buys it, and locks the Maximal and their leader Optimus in the brig as leverage while ordering the rest to attack the Predacons. Turns out, though, that's exactly what the Maximals wanted, as it puts the two "prisoners" in a perfect position to retake the base.

* Played with repeatedly during the Boiling Rock episodes of [[Avatar: The Last Airbender]].

** And in the Season 1 episode ''Imprisoned'', they visit an Earth village that was taken over by the Fire Nation. Katara pretends to be an Earthbender in order to be taken to the prison ship in which the Fire Nation put all of the other Earthbenders, in order to free one of their friends who was captured.