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* Happens twice in ''Dance Of The Dead''... with poor results.

* In ''[[Serenity]]'', the ship gets a Reaver makeover so it can pass through Reaver-infested space. In this case it works, until they deliberately blow their cover to draw the Reavers after them.

* The '78, '93 and '07 versions of ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]''. The alien pod people (who have killed and replaced many humans) never show any emotions. When the protagonists need to mingle with them, they act emotionless as well in order to blend in.

* In the second ''[[House of the Dead (film)|House of the Dead]]'' film (which was [[Made for TV Movie|made for TV]], and [[Uwe Boll]] wasn't involved), zombies are revealed to hunt by scent. One of the main characters soaks his clothes in zombie blood to get rid of his scent, and then proceeds to walk slowly through a zombie filled room, trying not to do anything distinctly un-zombie.

* In ''[[Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.]]'', Tom the constable does a laughably-bad demonstration of this trope, trying to blend in with a group of Robomen who act in unison and constantly falling out of step. Luckily, the Robomen are so severely brainwashed by the Daleks that they don't notice.

* In the zombie romantic comedy (no, really) ''[[Warm Bodies (Film)|Warm Bodies]]'' (2013), R urges Julie to "act dead" when they are surrounded by other zombies who detect her presence. When she overdoes it, he then rasps, "Tooooo... muuuuuuch." He then quickly coaches her on how to do it right.

* ''[[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]'' TV show plays out the scene from the comic, including [[Oh Crap|the inevitable rainstorm]].

* In ''[[Wednesday]]'', this is played for laughs. The heroine is snooping around in the Jericho town morgue, looking for clues as to the identity of the serial killer, when she hears the coroner and the sheriff coming. She hides in one of the lockers, pretending to be a corpse. The elderly coroner finds her, but is for some reason, fooled by this, and fortunately, seeing as he does realize she is not cold yet, decides to wait until the next day to conduct an autopsy. Hilariously, when Thing nudges her to remind her they still have a job to do, she says, [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|“Give me 5 minutes I just got comfortable."]]

 

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