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'''Picard:''' ''[whispering]'' "A little less florid, Data..."|''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]''}}
Perhaps you need to smuggle some recognizable people into a base, or smuggle some friends out of a hostile situation. Perhaps the two of you have just been caught by your enemies, and are trying a bluff. Time for the
In the simple version, some of the protagonists [[Dressing as the Enemy|pretend to be enemy mooks]], with the others posing as their prisoners or slaves. Quite often, the main hero gets to play the captive, being the most recognisable, but if the mooks have [[Faceless Goons|face-concealing outfits]], it's the least recognisable member of the group who gets tied up.
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* In ''[[The Mask (film)|The Mask]]'', Jim Carrey's character gets a police officer to do this for him, at gunpoint.
* In ''[[Star Trek]]: Nemesis'', Data transports Picard in, while pretending to be his [[Evil Twin]].
* Both ''[[Ocean's Eleven|Ocean's Twelve]]'' and ''Ocean's Thirteen'' featured one of Linus Caldwell's parents stepping in to pull this
** Rusty does the same to Basher in ''Ocean's Eleven'', posing as an FBI agent to take him into custody before the LAPD can take him.
* In ''[[Secondhand Lions]]'', one of the stories told by the uncles featured this.
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'''Hero:''' ...Enough of this talking, harharhar. [Beats up guard] I runs out of ideas after a while. }}
* Chase, of the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series, does this using his adopted daughter as the captive, in order to make a rescue attempt. Coincidentally, two other groups of characters use similar disguises to perform the exact same rescue, each of their own volition. After they meet up with each other, they make their way out with the rescuees playing the captives.
* Ur-Example: ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (novel)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'' and the French Aristocracy whom he was trying to rescue often wore disguises to get past revolutionary-held borders and checkpoints. In one particularly brilliant scheme, he dressed himself and a group of rescuees as revolutionary guardsmen, who approached a border checkpoint, claiming to be after a suspicious cart that had just gone through it. The Pimpernel and his group were let through, and the scheme remained
* Sinon in ''[[The Aeneid]]'' pulls this on (you guessed it) the Trojans to try to get them to bring the [[Trojan Horse|horse]] into the city. You know that thing about "beware Greeks bearing gifts?" that was in context, about him specifically.
* In the ''[[X Wing Series]]'' novels, part of the plan to retake Coruscant from the Empire is to [[Boxed Crook|take dangerous criminals]], a significant part of the intergalactic crime syndicate Black Sun, from the prison world Kessel, then smuggle them to Coruscant where they will cause havok and distract Imperial forces. Unfortunately, some of those criminals still have Imperial ties.
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