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* In ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'', at the start of the second half of the Devil Bats' game with the Shinryuji Nagas, Hiruma says their chances of winning are almost 0%, and that the team shouldn't do anything drastic as to harm their future careers. {{spoiler|Turns out it was all an act; everybody knows Hiruma would never tell them to give up unless the odds were exactly zero, so everyone (and we do mean ''everyone'') silently went for an onside kick as to not let the enemy know they were changing plans.}}
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Vivi begins to suspect that there's something wrong with Usopp when he tells her to abandon the injured Carue, referring to him as "that bird." The real Usopp not only knows Carue's name, but is fairly close to Carue. In fact, it was Mr. 2 (Bon Clay) impersonating him in order to trick her.
* In the ''[[
* At one point in ''[[Dragon Ball]] GT'', Goku knew immediately that a mind-controlled Vegeta is [[Not Himself]] because he was calling him "Goku". The real Vegeta always made a point of referring to Goku by his ''Saiyan'' name, Kakarot.
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]] R'' one of the [[Monsters of the Week]] disguise themselves as Chibi-usa's mom and calls to her using the name Small Lady. Chibi-Usa is at first fooled, happy to see her momma again, and runs to hug her... but she then suddenly stops and asked the monster who they were. When the monster replies that she was her mother, Chibi-Usa replies she's lying because her mother never calls her Small Lady, which is her royal title.
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* In ''Fearless'', there's one arc where Gaia is being forced to humiliate Ed Fargo. He asks her "You're enjoying this aren't you?" and Gaia answers, "Yes, I like torturing you. Almost as much as I like Lox." This is actually more of a coded message, as Gaia hates Lox and is trying to tell Ed she is being forced to do this. However, she would never say she likes Lox, so it works.
* In the second ''Lady Grace'' mystery, Lady Sarah is abducted by a sea captain, and alerts Grace/ anyone who can help with a message passed by a commoner that she sends her love to " Lady Jane, my dearest friend". the two young women hate each other with passion, and so Grace and Masu are off to the rescue in a trice.
* In ''[[Jennifer
* In ''[[Wayside School]] Gets A Little Stranger'', the students' voices are stolen by [[Evil Teacher|evil substitute teacher]] [[Voice Changeling|Mr. Gorf]]; when the lunch lady asks how the class is doing from outside the door, Mr. Gorf tries to trick her by using the voices of the students to say that everything is okay. The lunch lady figures out something is wrong, though, when the voice of the meanest student in the class says "Have a nice day!"
* One old spy story had a member of the French Resistance of [[World War II]] giving out the duress code while they were under duress and having their [[What an Idiot!|British contact in England tell them they made a mistake]], "That's the duress code, you need to remember not to use that." Needless to say, [[It Got Worse|things went downhill from there]].
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Played twice in the first six hours of ''[[24]]'': Kim said "I love you" over the phone to her mother Teri after being kidnapped, and Teri said the same to Jack under similar circumstances. (Amusingly, Teri catches on immediately, while her counter-terrorism-trained husband [[Genre Blindness|doesn't notice]].)
** In season 5 of the series, Jack is held hostage by a group of terrorists, and (rather unsubtly) relays a code he knew when he was employed by CTU ("I'm in a FLANK! TWO! POSITION!") to indicate he is transmitting under duress. This enables the strike teams to overtake the terrorists and save Jack... But only after McGill [[Rescued
* Used quite a bit on ''[[Knight Rider]]'', usually to indicate something very wrong with KITT. In the episode "Killer KITT", KITT snapping at Michael was an indication that his programming was being messed with.
** One episode of the new series had a hilarious variation when Mike is impersonating a member of a group [[The Caper|out to steal from a Vegas casino]]. The leader figures out something is wrong because Mike is too ''competent''.
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* In [[Girl Genius|Othar Trygvassen]]'s ('''''[[Gentleman Adventurer]]''''') [[Character Blog|twitter]]:
{{quote|"That letter is a fraud! Othar Tryggvassen may do things that lesser men find objectionable or slightly illegal, but I never apologize!"}}
* In ''[[Something
* In ''[[Exiern]]'' Neils tries to drop hints [http://www.exiern.com/?p=1340 here] that he has been be-spelled and is no longer fully in control of his own actions by calling Crown Princess Peonie the "Second In Line To The Throne" instead of the first. It seems like no one notices at the time though. Peonie had to have it spelled out to her after the inevitable kidnapping, but her father was just going along with it 'til he could get his other assets in play.
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* On ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]],'' the hero Jericho is possessing Cinderblock to get him and the other good guys into the bad guys' lair. However, he villains are immediately suspicious when "Cinderblock" says "Thank you" to one of their comments—having never fought these villains before, Jericho didn't realize that Cinderblock [[The Voiceless|doesn't normally talk]].
** Which is sort of ironic, because usually, [[The Speechless|Jericho doesn't either]].
* This was how Cosgrove discredited an evil clone in ''[[Freakazoid!]]'': he asked if the clone wanted to [[Running Gag|go to a Yakov Smirnov festival]]. The clone said "no". (Compare that to Freakazoid's usual "DO I!")
* In the opening movie of the ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'' cartoon, Rex clues Anakin and Ahsoka into the fact that the surviving members of the group of clones they'd been captured by saying "Anakin, we've held the droids. What is your position?" This clues them in because all clones address Jedi by either "General" for Knights or "Commander" for Padawans, never by name.
* Averted on ''[[Family Guy]]''. Lois is being held at gunpoint by Diane Simmons, and she tries to signal to Peter that something by calling him "Pete" (something she never does), while Peter does question it, he quickly ignores it and leaves so he can listen to music in the car.
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