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== Film -- Animated ==

* The Penguin quartet in ''[[Madagascar]]'' are a paranoid bunch who act like they are advance recon scouts deep in the enemy territory.

* [[Daffy Duck]] has this role in ''[[Looney Tunes Back in Action ~~(Film)~~|Looney Tunes Back in Action]]'' where he helps a stuntman played by Brendan Fraser rescue his father (who actually ''is'' a secret agent).

* [[Daffy Duck]] has this role in ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action|Looney Tunes Back in Action]]'' where he helps a stuntman played by Brendan Fraser rescue his father (who actually ''is'' a secret agent).

== Film -- Live-Action ==

* ''[[True Lies]]'': Bill Paxton plays Simon, a used-car salesman who pretends he works for the CIA and tries to hit on Arnie's character's wife. Extra bonus irony points since Arnie's character is a real spy who pretends he's a computer salesman.

* ''[[Ronin (~~Film~~)|Ronin]]'': [[Sean Bean]] plays Spence, a Englishman who claims to be ex-SAS but is outed as utterly incompetent and nearly gets the team killed in the process.

* ''[[Ronin (film)|Ronin]]'': [[Sean Bean]] plays Spence, a Englishman who claims to be ex-SAS but is outed as utterly incompetent and nearly gets the team killed in the process.

* In ''[[~~The Man Who Knew Too Little (Film)|~~The Man Who Knew Too Little]]'', the protagonist believes he is only ''playing'' a secret agent, but due to a mix-up everything he encounters is very real (though he doesn't realize that).

* In ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Little]]'', the protagonist believes he is only ''playing'' a secret agent, but due to a mix-up everything he encounters is very real (though he doesn't realize that).

== Live Action TV ==

* [[The Lone Gunmen]] have their moments, such as when they discover that the Cigarette-Smoking Man apparently kidnapped Scully in ''[[The X Files]]'' episode "En Ami" and visit Mulder disguised as... themselves. As in, they wear each other's usual outfits to blend in with the crowd.

* [[The Lone Gunmen]] have their moments, such as when they discover that the Cigarette-Smoking Man apparently kidnapped Scully in ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "En Ami" and visit Mulder disguised as... themselves. As in, they wear each other's usual outfits to blend in with the crowd.

* In an episode of ''[[Bones]]'' the [[Victim of the Week]] was a paper-pusher for the CIA who wanted to be [[James Bond]] and discovered a diamond-smuggling operation. He carried a Walther PPK, drove an Aston Martin painted in a color called "Casino Royale," and used Universal Exports as his cover.

* [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] in ''[[Castle]]'': a company sells spy-themed fantasy vacations where normal people get to pretend that they are real spies performing secret missions. When one of the clients ends up as the [[Victim of the Week]], Beckett and Castle are initially fooled into thinking that they are dealing with real spies. They arrest one of the pretend spies and he stays completely in character until he realized that he is in a real jail cell. At that point he starts crying.