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When this is done to the actors, it is [[Enforced Method Acting]].
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== Comic Books ==
* In one ''[[Black Canary]]'' miniseries, when Black Canary's adopted daughter Sin is kidnapped, [[Green Arrow]] makes it appear that the rescue attempt, badly bungled, killed Sin. He knows the kidnappers will watch Black Canary and note if she does not show grief, so he keeps her in the dark to make sure her reaction will be authentic, and he does not expect her to forgive him when he reveals the truth.
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== Literature ==
* [[Sherlock Holmes]] pulls this one on Watson in "The Adventure of the Dying Detective," making it [[Older Than Radio]].
** In Bert Coules's radio adaptation of "The Dying Detective," Watson fails to accept Holmes's [[No Hard Feelings]] at the end, instead [[What the Hell, Hero?|calling him out]] not only for the deception, but for asking Watson to hide in the room as a witness, and then ''forgetting about him''.
** Holmes does this almost constantly, to almost every single character. A fundamental part of his [[Insufferable Genius]] character.
** Not to mention that whole thing where he [[Only Mostly Dead|pretended to be dead]] for three years.
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* An episode of ''[[Transformers]]: [[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' had Rattrap switch sides, which was set up by Optimus and himself so they could find out how the Predacons were tapping their transmissions.
* In ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'', {{spoiler|Robin did this in the episode "Masks"}}.
* Similar but different application in an episode of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''. Rainbow Dash discovers that her friends have a weekly "pet playdate" and asks why she's never found out about this. They thought about telling her, but she A) doesn't have a pet and B) tends to be napping around the time they have the playdate, so they figured she wouldn't really care one way or the other if they told her. She concedes the logic, then decides to get offended at the implication that she'll never have a pet with whom to participate.
* Raimundo pulls this off against [[Big Bad|Hannibal Roy Bean]] in one episode of ''[[Xiaolin Showdown (Animation)|Xiaolin Showdown]]'' {{spoiler|[[Fake Defector|by pretending to join him]].}}
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