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-->'''Mr. Moseby:''' ''(Slightly annoyed'' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny How old do you think I am?]]

Compare MobileShrubbery, StandInPortrait.

* Honey does this in the original ''CuteyHoney'' manga, using her VoluntaryShapeshifter powers to color herself bronze. She successfully escaped Panther Claw, but then [[DirtyOldMan Danbei]] and [[KidAnova Junpei]] show up and start groping her and licking her breasts . . . because it's [[Ecchi that kind of series.]]

* One of Susan Dexter's early fantasy novels has a scene where a young wizard hides a dancing girl by disuguising her as a statue in a courtyard. She's not actually frozen, but has to use her dance skills to hold perfectly still for several hours so the illusion won't be broken until she can slip away under cover of darkness.

* Works fine on the squarest man on Earth in ''SoredemoMachiWaMawatteiru''.

* Increasingly common are street artists dressed up as stone or metal statues, standing still for a while and then suddenly deciding to move in a nicely choreographed manner. They can be quite good at scaring the shit out of unsuspecting tourists, although probably mostly due to the UncannyValley rather than [[GenreSavvy actually being mistaken for real statues]].

* This is how you can infiltrate Nimbus Castle in ''SuperMarioRPG''. However, there's a minigame involved: an irritated Dodo marches in and takes out his frustration on the statues, and you have to jump his beak. Jump too early, and he catches you; get hit by the beak, and he catches you again.

* Increasingly common are street artists dressed up as stone or metal statues, standing still for a while and then suddendly deciding to move in a nicely choreographed manner. They can be quite good at scaring the shit out of unsuspecting tourists, although probably mostly due to the UncannyValley rather than [[GenreSavvy actually being mistaken for real statues]].

* Increasingly common are street artists dressed up as stone or metal statues, standing still for a while and then suddendly deciding to move in a nicely choreographed manner. They can be quite good at scaring the shit out of unsuspecting tourists, although probably mostly due to the UncannyValley than [[GenreSavvy actually being mistaken for real statues]].

* Increasingly common are street artists dressed up as stone or metal statues, standing still for a while and then suddendly deciding to move in a nicely choreographed manner. They can be quite good at scaring the shit out of unsuspecting tourists, although probably mostly due to the UncannyValley than actually being mistaken for real statues.

* The Beast hiding amongst a bunch of gargoyles in the climatic fight in ''BeautyAndTheBeast''

* In the movie ''IRobot'', WillSmith find himself looking for a rogue robot inside a factory that makes that exact model of robot. And the bot in question is very good at standing still...

* Mystique does it in the {{X-Men}} movie. Helps that she's a VoluntaryShapeshifter.

* In [[SuperMarioBrothers Super Mario Bros. 3]], the Tanooki costume has the power of temporarily turning into a statue, which monsters will just walk past.
* You can have Snake pull this trick early in ''MetalGearSolid 4'', with the help of his active camouflage, which makes his suit match the texture of the statues.

* A strange (and terrifying) version similar to this trope occurs in SilentHill3. When Heather walks into a room full of mannequins, only for nothing useful to be in the room, she turns to leave. A hideous scream is then heard, and if the player chooses to walk back over to a particular mannequin, it will be covered in blood. Knowing [[SilentHill this series]], this could mean [[EpilepticTrees any number of things]], [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel none of which are comforting,]] but many speculate that this means that ''[[ParanoiaFuel every mannequin in the game is actually a monster and is watching you]].''

* Done in an episode of TheSuiteLifeOnDeck where Zack, Cody and Bailey put on white paint and pretend to be greco-roman-esque statues. Points for the fact that they interact with their teachers and mr. Moseby and no one notices.
* In an episode of ''Saved By The Bell'', Zack, Kelly, Lisa, Screech, Jessie and Slater all dress in wedding clothes and pose as store mannequins [[spoiler:in an attempt to hide from two guys who they believe are after them on account of a paper bag full of money.]] This produces some amusing poses as the group continues to bicker when no one else is around.

* Lucy of ILoveLucy has been known to do this a time or two.

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* In one installment of the French ''LangelotXXX'' series, the protagonist must suddenly hide in the workshop of a light artist and decides to impersonate a customized ''trompe l'oeil'' holographic statue of himself. This necessitates not just standing still, but actually ''repeating the same characteristic movement'' whenever the suspicious inspector walks past him. Needless to say, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome he pulls it off]].
* ''GetSmart'' (film or series?)- in a KAOS bad guy's formal garden, his standoff with Max is broken by the reveal of a CONTROL agent posing as a statue - unbroken when a KAOS agent is also a statue - then again when ''another'' CONTROL agent...eventually the KAOS guy has to give up, as he's all out of statues.

Alice tries to hide from Bob, so she pretends to be a statue (or, in more cartoonish settings, even a painting or a relief) in a museum, art gallery etc. Sometimes she has to WalkLikeAnEgyptian to fit in, or get in a suit of armour, or end up [[holding an empty picture frame in front of herself.]] Bob typically doesn't catch on, though he looks at Alice suspiciously (bonus points if he says "[[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible I'll never understand this modern art]]" or "What an ugly statue!"). Sometimes Alice will accidentally reveal herself, typically by [[SneezeOfDoom sneezing]].