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* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': There are several bodyguards-for-hire around each of the entrances to [[WretchedHive Freeside]]. One sidequest has you investigate a particular bodyguard, Orris, who has been making a killing in repeat business. Once someone hires him, they never want anyone else again, and it's putting all the other bodyguards out of a job. You're told to pose as a client and hire him to see if he does anything suspicious. As he escorts you to the Strip, he runs ahead of you to "heroically" take out a group of thugs. At this point, there are several ways to expose him as a fraud.

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* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': There are several bodyguards-for-hire around each of the entrances to [[WretchedHive Freeside]]. One sidequest has you investigate a particular bodyguard, Orris, who has been making a killing in repeat business. Once someone hires him, they never want anyone else again, and it's putting all the other bodyguards out of a job. You're told to pose as a client and hire him to see if he does anything suspicious. As he escorts you to the Strip, he runs ahead of you to "heroically" take out a group of thugs. At this point, there are several ways to expose him as a fraud. (Unusually for this trope, Freeside is a genuinely dangerous place, so you're likely to end up facing off against real criminals anyway.)
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* ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'': This is how the time-traveling Marty [=McFly=] tries to get his parents to fall in love. Marty will drive Lorraine to the school dance, then [[AutoErotica start to make out with her in the parked car]], then George [=McFly=] will arrive to "punch" Marty and "rescue" Lorraine from his unwanted advances. It goes wrong twice: first, [[SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl Lorraine is far more eager to make out]] than Marty anticipated. Second, Lorraine's first "rescuer" is actually the bully Biff Tannen, who intends to take advantage of Lorraine for real. And in spite of these complications, the plan works better than intended: blissfully unaware, George arrives right on cue, and the sight of Lorraine in genuine danger gives him the strength to punch out Biff for real, and Lorraine immediately falls for him.

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* ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'': This is how the time-traveling Marty [=McFly=] tries to get his parents to fall in love. Marty will drive Lorraine to the school dance, then [[AutoErotica start to make out with her in the parked car]], then George [=McFly=] will arrive to "punch" Marty and "rescue" Lorraine from his unwanted advances. It goes wrong twice: first, [[SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl [[SeeminglyWholesome50sGirl Lorraine is far more eager to make out]] than Marty anticipated. Second, Lorraine's first "rescuer" is actually the bully Biff Tannen, who intends to take advantage of Lorraine for real. And in spite of these complications, the plan works better than intended: blissfully unaware, George arrives right on cue, and the sight of Lorraine in genuine danger gives him the strength to punch out Biff for real, and Lorraine immediately falls for him.

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