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== Anime and Manga ==
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* ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5|Yes! Precure 5]]'' did it with a member of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] instead of the school headmaster. Justified (not that this trope is as much in need of justification as some others) in that the girls had never actually met the headmaster before, so they didn't realize she wasn't the real thing until they realized who she ''was''.
* In ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]'', Leon thinks he's reporting his suspicions regarding D to the mayor... but finds D sitting in the mayor's chair.
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* ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' uses the dead body version when Ken goes to assassinate Koga Kenji only to find him already dead.
* In ''[[Canaan]]'' Hakko {{spoiler|who can hurt and kill just by speaking}} talks all way to chair, thinking she is talking to [[Psycho Lesbian|Liang]] [[Yandere|Qi]], only to see a completely different person tied to it...
* In [[Kirby:
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** Except that he doesn't swivel. He just pushes his [[The Dragon|Dragon]] out of the way.
** The villain and the chair are, of course, parodied in ''[[Austin Powers]]''.
* The remake of ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|The Parent Trap]]'' had the mother and one twin arrive home to find the other twin sitting at the grandfather's desk. In this version, though, [[Newspaper-Thin Disguise|her face was covered by a newspaper.]]
* ''My Favorite Brunette'', a Bob Hope film, has one of these. Since Bing Crosby turns up somewhere in just about every Bob Hope film, the audience is carefully set up to expect him to be the Cool Tough Guy Detective across the hall. The chair swivels, and...it's '''not.''' {{spoiler|It is, in fact, the Cool Tough Guy actor whose name Hope has just mentioned - Alan Ladd.}}
* The ''[[House on Haunted Hill]]'' remake had the dead body version.
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