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* In ''[[Claymore]]'', {{spoiler|After an attack on The Organization is defeated, several handlers find their [[Super Soldier|warriors]] hacking the body of the renegade named Phantom Miria into a bloody mass of meat with thier [[BFS|swords]]. Of course considering her [[Healing Factor]] this turned out to be the best way the warriors could protect the woman that had taken such pains not to do them harm from their superiors.}}
* Done by accident in ''[[Tantei Gakuen Q]]''. A businesswoman learns that the meeting she had hoped would save her company was a lost cause, so she didn't bother going on the flight to the meeting site, giving her ticket to someone on the reserve list. The plane crashed, and she the authorities assumed she died on the flight. Because her life insurance policy would yield enough to save the family business, she allowed the report of her death to stand. Unfortunately, {{spoiler|her attempt to visit her family in disguise gets her killed by her own sons, who think that she is a con artist employed by greedy relatives hoping to seize the company}}.
* In ''[[Baccano!]]'', during his [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] aboard the Flying Pussyfoot, {{spoiler|Claire Stanfield}} kills a man with a similar build, hair color, and {{spoiler|conductor's uniform}} by [[What a Drag|grinding his face off on the tracks]]. He is later amused to find that the FBI mistook the defaced victim for ''him''
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== Fairy Tales ==
* Seen as early as "[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]", along with other [[Fairy Tale
** "[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/armlessmaiden/index.html The Girl with No Hands]"
** "[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/33threelanguages.html The Three Languages]"
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* ''[[La Femme Nikita]]'' was an involuntary version.
* This happened in ''[[Pitch Black]]'', with Riddick asking that the others say he died on the planet/moon/hell-forsaken rock. As we see at the beginning of ''The Chronicles of Riddick'', that didn't discourage the mercenaries from hunting him down anyway. Of course, they were clued in by one of the people he rescued. In the novelization, it's made clear people were still looking for him anyway. They just couldn't find him without help.
* This happens in ''Assault on Precinct 13.'' The cop lets
* ''Extreme Prejudice'' (1987). The movie opens with the Black Ops unit assembling, stating the fact that every one is listed as having been 'killed' while on military service, in order to aid plausible
* ''[[Miller's Crossing]]'' (1990). Bernie Bernbaum begs Tom Reagan to "Look into your heart" before pulling a classic [[The Farmer and the Viper|dick move]].
* This is how [[Edward Scissorhands]] got saved at the end of the movie.
* In the first ''[[Underworld (film)|Underworld]]'' movie, {{spoiler|Kraven}} does this for {{spoiler|Lucian}}.
* In ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]] [[On Stranger Tides]]'', Blackbeard needs to get Syrena to shed a tear. After torture doesn't work, he seemingly kills Philip, the only man who's been kind to her, in front of her. It doesn't work. He orders the body disposed of. Then Philip wakes up later, goes back to rescue her - and then she sheds tears of joy, which is what Blackbeard had planned for all along.
* In ''
* In The Dark Knight Rises, Bane fakes Dr. Peval's death in a plane crash in order to retrieve him. However, its strongly implied that he intends to do worse things to him after retrieving him.
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** Dumbledore offered to do this for Draco in ''[[Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince]],'' but didn't get the chance. [[Averted]] with {{spoiler|Dumbledore himself}}, despite what many fans (and Harry) believed.
* Dr. Yueh, for Jessica and Paul in ''[[Dune]]''.
* In ''[[X Wing Series|Isard's Revenge]]'', Rogue Squadron is ambushed by an Imperial warlord's forces; the new [[Red Shirt
* [[Con Man|Moist von Lipwig]], in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'', had his execution faked for him, as the involuntary subtype: Become Vetinari's [[Boxed Crook]], or... well, to everyone else you're already dead, aren't you?
* In [[Connie Wilis]]'s "Winter's Tale", "[[William Shakespeare]]" is coming home, except that Anne knows he's not her husband. She learns that her husband was lured to a tavern and murdered to pass off the body as [[Christopher Marlowe]], while Marlowe got to pass himself off as Shakespeare. Considering that prior to that, she had thought her self-centered husband had sold his identity, she is able to live with it.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* [[Nikita]] : The whole plot is based on Nikita's death being faked by division .
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