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* Main characters Miguel and Tulio from Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'' pretend to escalate into a swordfight over loaded dice to escape from the gamblers they'd swindled. Showboats that they are, the pair take a bow at the end of the performance. The pair would use this device again on the sinister Tzekel-kan, by pretending to come to blows over posing as gods. Instead, they double-whammy TheVillain; however, this has no effect on the EliteMook that cornered them.
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* Main characters Miguel and Tulio from Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'' pretend to escalate into a swordfight over loaded dice to escape from the gamblers they'd swindled. Showboats that they are, the pair take a bow at the end of the performance. The pair would use this device again on the sinister Tzekel-kan, by pretending to come to blows over posing as gods. Instead, they double-whammy TheVillain; the villain; however, this has no effect on the EliteMook that cornered them.
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* Main characters Miguel and Tulio from Creator/DreamWorks' ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'' pretend to escalate into a swordfight over loaded dice to escape from the gamblers they'd swindled. Showboats that they are, the pair take a bow at the end of the performance. The pair would use this device again on the sinister Tzekel-kan, by pretending to come to blows over posing as gods. Instead, they double-whammy TheVillain; however, this has no effect on the EliteMook that cornered them.
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* Main characters Miguel and Tulio from Creator/DreamWorks' Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'' pretend to escalate into a swordfight over loaded dice to escape from the gamblers they'd swindled. Showboats that they are, the pair take a bow at the end of the performance. The pair would use this device again on the sinister Tzekel-kan, by pretending to come to blows over posing as gods. Instead, they double-whammy TheVillain; however, this has no effect on the EliteMook that cornered them.
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moving to Fake A Fight since there are no captors present
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* In ''{{Fanfic/Everqueen}}'', Horus has his gang stage one to give him the chance to slip away and go see Isha against the Emperor's orders.
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* In ''{{Fanfic/Everqueen}}'', Horus has his gang stage one to give him the chance to slip away and go see Isha against the Emperor's orders.
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* In ''{{Fanfic/Everqueen}}'', Horus has his gang stage one to give him the chance to slip away and go see Isha against the Emperor's orders.
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* In ''{{Fanfic/Everqueen}}'', Horus has his gang stage one to give him the chance to slip away and go see Isha against the Emperor's orders.
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* Averted in Creator/HarryHarrison's ''[[Literature/ToTheStars Starworld]]''. Jan Kulozik tells the other prisoners to provide a distraction while he hacks the door lock, in case their cell has hidden surveillance cameras. They reply that their culture is actually very pacifistic, so fighting doesn't come naturally to them, so one of them puts on a gymnastic display instead.
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* Averted in Creator/HarryHarrison's ''[[Literature/ToTheStars Starworld]]''. Jan Kulozik tells the other prisoners to provide a distraction while he hacks the door lock, in case their cell has hidden surveillance cameras. They reply that their culture is actually very pacifistic, so fighting doesn't come naturally to them, so one of them puts on a gymnastic display instead.
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* ''Film/FortyEightHours'': Near the beginning of the film, a man walks up to a group of prison laborers doing highway cleanup and starts a fight with one of them. He is actually a confederate of the inmate he is fighting and is hiding two guns under his shirt. After the pair pretend to grapple for a little bit and the guards come to try to break up the fight they each shoot a guard and escape.
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* ''Film/FortyEightHours'': Near At the beginning start of ''Film/FortyEightHours'', Billy stops his truck to ask the guards supervising a prison gang doing roadwork if he can borrow water for his truck. One of the film, a man walks up to a group of prison laborers doing highway cleanup and starts a fight with one of them. He is actually a confederate of the inmate he is inmates, Ganz, hurls racial slurs at him. The two soon start fighting and is hiding two guns under his shirt. After are soon rolling on the pair pretend to grapple for a little bit and ground wrestling with each other. When the guards come to try go to break up the fight they each them up, Billy and Ganz produce guns that Billy had hidden under his shirt and shoot a guard the guards, jump in Billy's truck and escape.race off.
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* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In "Waking Moments" to cover the others breaking out of the cargo bay where the [[VillainOfTheWeek Hostile Aliens of the Week]] have them imprisoned, Seven of Nine starts a fight with Harry Kim [[WithFriendsLikeThese without bothering to discuss it with Harry first]].
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sorry but the trope is narrower than just "a fight to distract guards". the heroes have to be guarded and the ensuing fight has to escalate to overpower the surprised captors.
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* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' has at least two examples.
** In "The Homecoming Job," Nate & Sophie wander around a shipping yard dressed as tourist just off a cruise ship arguing about where they parked their car in order to distract the guards so that the rest of the team can sneak in and set up the con needed to take down a Congressman who is trying to smuggle money he embezzled out of the country.
** In "The Ice Man Job," Eliot poses as a guard and Hardison pretends to knock him out during a fake fistfight to not only impress some diamond-stealing Russian goons, but to also buy Parker time to break into the vault where the diamonds are and help set up all the bad guys involved before the real police arrive.
** In "The Homecoming Job," Nate & Sophie wander around a shipping yard dressed as tourist just off a cruise ship arguing about where they parked their car in order to distract the guards so that the rest of the team can sneak in and set up the con needed to take down a Congressman who is trying to smuggle money he embezzled out of the country.
** In "The Ice Man Job," Eliot poses as a guard and Hardison pretends to knock him out during a fake fistfight to not only impress some diamond-stealing Russian goons, but to also buy Parker time to break into the vault where the diamonds are and help set up all the bad guys involved before the real police arrive.
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** In "The Ice Man Job," Eliot poses as a guard and Hardison pretends to knock him out to not only impress some diamond-stealing Russian goons, but to also buy Parker time to break into the vault where the diamonds are and help set up all the bad guys involved before the real police arrive.
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** In "The Ice Man Job," Eliot poses as a guard and Hardison pretends to knock him out during a fake fistfight to not only impress some diamond-stealing Russian goons, but to also buy Parker time to break into the vault where the diamonds are and help set up all the bad guys involved before the real police arrive.
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* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' has at least two examples.
** In "The Homecoming Job," Nate & Sophie wander around a shipping yard dressed as tourist just off a cruise ship arguing about where they parked their car in order to distract the guards so that the rest of the team can sneak in and set up the con needed to take down a Congressman who is trying to smuggle money he embezzled out of the country.
** In "The Ice Man Job," Eliot poses as a guard and Hardison pretends to knock him out to not only impress some diamond-stealing Russian goons, but to also buy Parker time to break into the vault where the diamonds are and help set up all the bad guys involved before the real police arrive.
** In "The Homecoming Job," Nate & Sophie wander around a shipping yard dressed as tourist just off a cruise ship arguing about where they parked their car in order to distract the guards so that the rest of the team can sneak in and set up the con needed to take down a Congressman who is trying to smuggle money he embezzled out of the country.
** In "The Ice Man Job," Eliot poses as a guard and Hardison pretends to knock him out to not only impress some diamond-stealing Russian goons, but to also buy Parker time to break into the vault where the diamonds are and help set up all the bad guys involved before the real police arrive.
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* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Luffy and Law perform a fake fight in front of Doflamingo, with Luffy launching forward seemingly in an attempt to attack Law. At the last second before getting hit, Law uses his spatial manipulation powers to swap himself with Doflamingo, and Doflamingo takes Luffy's powerful hit instead.
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* In the Mothership Zeta DLC for ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', Somah, one of the companion characters, and the Lone Wanderer get into a brief fistfight to get the attention of their alien captors and then gang up on them when they arrive to stop it.
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* In the Mothership Zeta ''Mothership Zeta'' DLC for ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', Somah, one of the companion characters, and the Lone Wanderer get into a brief fistfight to get the attention of their alien captors and then gang up on them when they arrive to stop it.
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* In ''Series/BurnNotice'' episode "Best Laid Plans" Micheal and Jessie try to infiltrate an office pretending to be executives, using the reserved parking spaces to know who to impersonate. When the guards don't let them in, they argue and start to fight, and hold the guards at gunpoint when they rush out to break them up.
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* In ''Series/BurnNotice'' episode "Best Laid Plans" Plans", Micheal and Jessie try to infiltrate an office pretending to be executives, using the reserved parking spaces to know who to impersonate. When the guards don't let them in, they argue and start to fight, and hold the guards at gunpoint when they rush out to break them up.
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* In ''Film/GalaxyQuest'', the heroes manage to take out the henchmen of Saris by first getting into a heated argument and grappling each other, before launching themselves at the enemy soldiers and locking them into the airlock only seconds before the airlock opens up into space.
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* In ''Film/GalaxyQuest'', when the heroes manage crew is about to take out the henchmen of Saris by first getting into be ThrownOutTheAirlock, Jason picks a heated argument and grappling each other, fight with Alex ([[TacticalReminiscence as in episode 17]]) before launching they both launch themselves at the enemy soldiers guards and locking lock them into the airlock only seconds before the airlock opens up into space.airlock. ThePowerOfActing prevails.
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SubTrope of FakeAFight. See also RefugeInAudacity and DistractAndDisarm.
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SubTrope of FakeAFight.FakeAFight and WeNeedADistraction. See also RefugeInAudacity and DistractAndDisarm.
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The heroes are being held up at gunpoint by enemy goons - things are looking really grim. So, they start hurling insults at each other, blaming their friends for getting them into this mess that's now liable to be the end of them. Their friend launches into a tirade about how it was not their fault at all, but their own. Wagging of fingers in faces or punches ensue between the arguing parties.
The heated argument usually escalates in seconds to punches, much to the confusion of the onlooking goons - who are suddenly at the receiving end of the pummeling, usually resulting in their disarmament as the heroes suddenly turn their punches towards their captor, which was their ploy all along.
SubTrope of FakeAFight. See also RefugeInAudacity and DistractAndDisarm.
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* One episode of ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' sees Meliodas and Ban forced to fight two-on-two with a pair of demons. Naturally, they blow off the fight and instead get into a physical argument about which of them has the hotter girlfriend. Their demon opponents die after trying to attack them while they are still arguing and get torn apart by the force of Ban and Meliodas' attacks ''on each other''.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', Woody and his friends plan to escape from Sunnyside Daycare. As part of the plan, they need to deal with Buzz, who has been [[BrainwashedAndCrazy forcibly reset and then tricked onto Lotso's side]]. On Slinky and Jessie's signal, Rex and Hamm stage a fight with each other, causing Buzz to try to break them up while saying "You can't hit each other, that's my job!" And then suddenly they slam a plastic container over Buzz and sit on it so he can't go anywhere or sound the alarm.
* Main characters Miguel and Tulio from Creator/DreamWorks' ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'' pretend to escalate into a swordfight over loaded dice to escape from the gamblers they'd swindled. Showboats that they are, the pair take a bow at the end of the performance. The pair would use this device again on the sinister Tzekel-kan, by pretending to come to blows over posing as gods. Instead, they double-whammy TheVillain; however, this has no effect on the EliteMook that cornered them.
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* In ''Film/GalaxyQuest'', the heroes manage to take out the henchmen of Saris by first getting into a heated argument and grappling each other, before launching themselves at the enemy soldiers and locking them into the airlock only seconds before the airlock opens up into space.
* In Jackie Chan's ''Film/ProjectA'', Dragon and Fats seemingly start to argue while being held at gunpoint by gangsters, and manage to disarm the Mauser-wielding goon.
* ''Film/FortyEightHours'': Near the beginning of the film, a man walks up to a group of prison laborers doing highway cleanup and starts a fight with one of them. He is actually a confederate of the inmate he is fighting and is hiding two guns under his shirt. After the pair pretend to grapple for a little bit and the guards come to try to break up the fight they each shoot a guard and escape.
* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', Indy and his father are held at gunpoint by a group of Nazis at Castle Brunwald. They then start an altercation with each other over the [[MacGuffin Grail Manuscript]] which they are now about to lose to the Germans. Indy uses this moment of turmoil to grab the machine gun from one of the baddies and guns down the entire group of them. Watch the scene [[https://youtu.be/3Dxh-_GR5Ns?t=173 here]].
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* In ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', Jake and Holt try to escape from a prison in one episode by staging a fight between them in the hopes that the guard will open the door to break it up. When the guard just sits back to watch the show, they switch tactics and kiss instead. This ''immediately'' has the guard stepping in to separate them, which allows them to escape but leaves Jake disapproving of his homophobia that he'd be more comfortable seeing them fight than kiss.
* In ''Series/BurnNotice'' episode "Best Laid Plans" Micheal and Jessie try to infiltrate an office pretending to be executives, using the reserved parking spaces to know who to impersonate. When the guards don't let them in, they argue and start to fight, and hold the guards at gunpoint when they rush out to break them up.
* In ''Series/CriminalMinds'', at one point a serial killer has Hotch and Reid hostage, and Hotch says he's been hoping to kick the crap out of "this kid" since forever so could he do that? Serial killer says okay, Hotch kicks Reid a bunch while hurling insults at him (which include reminders of how to properly fire a gun), then gets out of the way... and just when the killer barely catches on, Reid shoots him in the forehead with the little gun he pulled out of Hotch's leg harness.
* In ''Series/StrangerThings'' episode "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS4E6ChapterSixTheDive The Dive]]", Hopper strikes up a fight with Dmitri at the gulag which confuses the guards and allows Hopper to steal a lighter from one of them in the ensuing commotion.
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* In the Mothership Zeta DLC for ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', Somah, one of the companion characters, and the Lone Wanderer get into a brief fistfight to get the attention of their alien captors and then gang up on them when they arrive to stop it.
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The heated argument usually escalates in seconds to punches, much to the confusion of the onlooking goons - who are suddenly at the receiving end of the pummeling, usually resulting in their disarmament as the heroes suddenly turn their punches towards their captor, which was their ploy all along.
SubTrope of FakeAFight. See also RefugeInAudacity and DistractAndDisarm.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* One episode of ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' sees Meliodas and Ban forced to fight two-on-two with a pair of demons. Naturally, they blow off the fight and instead get into a physical argument about which of them has the hotter girlfriend. Their demon opponents die after trying to attack them while they are still arguing and get torn apart by the force of Ban and Meliodas' attacks ''on each other''.
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[[folder:Films--Animated]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', Woody and his friends plan to escape from Sunnyside Daycare. As part of the plan, they need to deal with Buzz, who has been [[BrainwashedAndCrazy forcibly reset and then tricked onto Lotso's side]]. On Slinky and Jessie's signal, Rex and Hamm stage a fight with each other, causing Buzz to try to break them up while saying "You can't hit each other, that's my job!" And then suddenly they slam a plastic container over Buzz and sit on it so he can't go anywhere or sound the alarm.
* Main characters Miguel and Tulio from Creator/DreamWorks' ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'' pretend to escalate into a swordfight over loaded dice to escape from the gamblers they'd swindled. Showboats that they are, the pair take a bow at the end of the performance. The pair would use this device again on the sinister Tzekel-kan, by pretending to come to blows over posing as gods. Instead, they double-whammy TheVillain; however, this has no effect on the EliteMook that cornered them.
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* In ''Film/GalaxyQuest'', the heroes manage to take out the henchmen of Saris by first getting into a heated argument and grappling each other, before launching themselves at the enemy soldiers and locking them into the airlock only seconds before the airlock opens up into space.
* In Jackie Chan's ''Film/ProjectA'', Dragon and Fats seemingly start to argue while being held at gunpoint by gangsters, and manage to disarm the Mauser-wielding goon.
* ''Film/FortyEightHours'': Near the beginning of the film, a man walks up to a group of prison laborers doing highway cleanup and starts a fight with one of them. He is actually a confederate of the inmate he is fighting and is hiding two guns under his shirt. After the pair pretend to grapple for a little bit and the guards come to try to break up the fight they each shoot a guard and escape.
* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', Indy and his father are held at gunpoint by a group of Nazis at Castle Brunwald. They then start an altercation with each other over the [[MacGuffin Grail Manuscript]] which they are now about to lose to the Germans. Indy uses this moment of turmoil to grab the machine gun from one of the baddies and guns down the entire group of them. Watch the scene [[https://youtu.be/3Dxh-_GR5Ns?t=173 here]].
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', Jake and Holt try to escape from a prison in one episode by staging a fight between them in the hopes that the guard will open the door to break it up. When the guard just sits back to watch the show, they switch tactics and kiss instead. This ''immediately'' has the guard stepping in to separate them, which allows them to escape but leaves Jake disapproving of his homophobia that he'd be more comfortable seeing them fight than kiss.
* In ''Series/BurnNotice'' episode "Best Laid Plans" Micheal and Jessie try to infiltrate an office pretending to be executives, using the reserved parking spaces to know who to impersonate. When the guards don't let them in, they argue and start to fight, and hold the guards at gunpoint when they rush out to break them up.
* In ''Series/CriminalMinds'', at one point a serial killer has Hotch and Reid hostage, and Hotch says he's been hoping to kick the crap out of "this kid" since forever so could he do that? Serial killer says okay, Hotch kicks Reid a bunch while hurling insults at him (which include reminders of how to properly fire a gun), then gets out of the way... and just when the killer barely catches on, Reid shoots him in the forehead with the little gun he pulled out of Hotch's leg harness.
* In ''Series/StrangerThings'' episode "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS4E6ChapterSixTheDive The Dive]]", Hopper strikes up a fight with Dmitri at the gulag which confuses the guards and allows Hopper to steal a lighter from one of them in the ensuing commotion.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In the Mothership Zeta DLC for ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', Somah, one of the companion characters, and the Lone Wanderer get into a brief fistfight to get the attention of their alien captors and then gang up on them when they arrive to stop it.
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