History Quotes / FakingTheDead

->'''Agatha:''' It's a ''perfect'' plan! They ''do'' think I'm dead!
->'''Zeetha:''' There is a serious flaw in this "perfect plan"--one that could ruin ''everything''. You're not ''really dead''. Now ''are'' you?
-->-- ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''

->'''Yuusuke (mourning):''' I'm sorry, Kuwabara... it's all my fault...
->'''Kuwabara:''' Okay! I think you've done enough groveling for one day! Though, it is pretty entertaining. Reporting for duty: Captain Faker! That's me!
->'''Yuusuke:''' ..Wah.. why's that dead guy walkin' around!?
->'''Kurama:''' Yes, well... I tried to inform you, but you were too engrossed in your speech.
->'''Yuusuke:''' But... [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat the heart! And the finger-poking]]!
->'''Kurama:''' You're a moving public speaker, by the way.

->''"The old me was dead, and I'd faked a car crash to prove it."''
-->-- [[spoiler: '''Grunkle Stan''']], ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E12ATaleOfTwoStans A Tale of Two Stans]]"

-> ''"Everyone thinks you're dead. Isn't that great?"''
-->-- '''Sokka''', ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''

-> ''"By the time your adversary races towards your 'body' to frisk you for cash and pull gold fillings out of your mouth, you'll already be behind him, poised for the killing blow."''
-->-- '''Dead Ringer advertisement''', ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''

->'''Ballistic''': [[DiabolicalMastermind Coil]]’s dead.
->'''Skitter''': Do we ''rea--lly'' have to maintain this charade?
->'''Ballistic''': Coil went to a lot of effort in putting together his grand plan. He died in a blaze of glory and violence, ''just like he wanted''. Do you really want to spoil that by going on about how he’s still alive?
-->--''Literature/{{Worm}}'', [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/12/25/monarch-16-10/ Monarch 16.10]]

->''"Oh wow. He could still be among us. Have you witnessed any pensioners in your post office queue [[CigarChomper smoking on a cigar]] the size of Jonah Falcon and braying like [[DirtyOldMan an ejaculating donkey?]]"''
-->--'''Stuart Millard''', [[http://franticplanet.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/jimmy-savile-and-david-icke-all-the-pieces-matter/ "Jimmy Savile and David Icke - All the Pieces Matter"]]

->'''David''': Lutessa walks into her own office to find Lionel Luthor, who has, somehow, managed to, '''OFF CAMERA''', reinstate himself as head of [=LuthorCorp=], even though the other Lionel Luthor’s body is I’m pretty sure a known quantity, and he’s a Lionel Luthor [[DeadPersonImpersonation from an alternate universe.]]\\
'''Chris''': Okay, look: the last thing I want to do is start nitpicking the reality of ''Smallville'', but seriously: A dude who has been dead for four years suddenly comes back and is immediately just handed the keys of all the stuff he used to own? ...I’m all for boring parts happening off-camera, but when “[[HandWave Oh, I faked my death]]” is what you consider to be a believable cover story for what’s actually going on, I’d like maybe a tiny explanation of how it went down.\\
'''David''': Let’s be fair here: Lex Luthor has used that as a legitimate excuse in the comics at least two or three times. But yes, at least a single scene of some BS law would have made me feel better, absolutely.
-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-10-13-beacon/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Beacon")

->''"Let them keep believing I'm dead. So much the better. It was the chicken man. That coward sat up there in the north while his paramilitaries came into my home... my home, Uncle! Screw Bolsa, screw Eladio. I'm coming north. I'm going to hurt him. Hurt him like you taught me. And then I will kill him."''
-->--'''Lalo Salamanca''', ''Series/BetterCallSaul''

-->--'''Agent Dave Kujan''', ''Film/TheUsualSuspects''

->'''Fiona:''' How do you know this guy who hired you?\\
'''Michael:''' We worked together in the Balkans, '91-'92. It was a crazy time. He seemed ''somewhat'' sane in comparison.\\
'''Fiona:''' And now he kills for a living.\\
'''Michael:''' He made some poor choices before his death. [Fiona stares at him] Fifteen people watched Larry walk into an oil refinery just before it blew. Apparently that was his way of taking an early retirement.
-->--''Series/BurnNotice''

->"If you help me get [Blake] I'll see you officially listed as dead. There's no one as free as a dead man. "
-->-- '''Servalan''', ''Series/BlakesSeven'', "Hostage"

->The husband, the son who belonged to the voice inside my head, they would think I had died. The human woman named Eva, the husk, the human shell [[PuppeteerParasite I lived in]], would cease to exist as far as any human knew. I would be given the inevitable superstitious send-off. A ceremony, but there’d be no body to put in the grave.
->Eva’s human mind would still be with me, of course. [[AndIMustScream Still blubbering and weeping and begging, no doubt]]. But I had written the book on human infestation. I would have no difficulty controlling this woman.
-->--''Literature/{{Animorphs}}: Visser''

->''"When they touch down, we'll blow the roof, they'll spend a month sifting through rubble, and by the time they figure out what went wrong, we'll be sitting on a beach, earning twenty percent."''
-->--'''Hans Gruber''', ''Film/DieHard''

-->--'''Woman in Andy's Imagination''', ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'', "Playing Dead"

->'''Bloat''': "What's happening?! Why is he [a fish] playing dead?!"
->'''Gil''': "He's gonna get flushed down the toilet! He's gonna get out of here!"
-->--''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''

->''"I should've gotten up an hour ago, but I didn't. You want to know why? Because I'm dead. Well, not really dead; I'm just pretending I'm dead so I don't have to go to school. If I can convince Mom and Dad that I'm dead, not only would I have pulled off one of the greatest practical jokes of the century, but I'll get off going to school for the rest of the year. Maybe even the rest of my life."''
->''[...]''
->''"I thought, 'If my dog is smart enough to do it, why not me?'. All I've gotta do is lie here without breathing or blinking. When I say, 'without blinking', I mean 'blinking when no one's looking', and when I say, 'without breathing', I don't mean 'not breathing at all; that would be silly. I mean just taking a tiny breath every so often; just enough to keep me alive."''
-->--'''Andy''', ''Literature/AndyGriffithsJustSeries'', "Just Tricking", "Playing Dead"

->'''Batman:''' Look: a piece of clay left behind when they took his body away. Watch. [''zaps the clay with electricity, clay starts shapeshifting'']\\
'''Alfred:''' Electricity has no effect on it?\\
'''Batman:''' Exactly. [''scene cuts to the morgue. Mortician uncovers Clayface's body''] I wouldn't be surprised if the body they took to the morgue was a shell. [''Clayface's "body" cracks and crumbles to dust, shocking the mortician''] Don't forget: first and foremost, Hagan was an actor. He said it himself, Alfred. He called a "scene". Maybe the greatest scene of his career. A death scene so real, it fooled us all.
-->''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', "Feat of Clay Part 2"

->''"Don't forget, first and foremost, Haggen was an actor. He said it himself, Alfred. He called it a scene. Maybe the greatest scene of his career. A death scene so real, it fooled us all"''.
-->--'''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Batman]]''' properly suspecting that [[VoluntaryShapeshifter Clayface]] invoked this trope.

->'''Batman:''' Look: a piece of clay left behind when they took his body away. Watch. (''zaps the clay with electricity, clay starts shapeshifting'')\\

'''Batman:''' Exactly. (''scene cuts to the morgue. Mortician uncovers Clayface's body'') I wouldn't be surprised if the body they took to the morgue was a shell. (''Clayface's "body" cracks and crumbles to dust, shocking the mortician'') Don't forget: first and foremost, Hagan was an actor. He said it himself, Alfred. He called a "scene". Maybe the greatest scene of his career...

-->-- [[spoiler: Grunkle Stan]], ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E12ATaleOfTwoStans A Tale of Two Stans]]"

-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-10-13-beacon/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Beacon")

->"If you help me get him I'll see you officially listed as dead. There's no one as free as a dead man. "

-->-- '''Dead Ringer advertisment''', ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''

->'''Skitter''': Do we ''really'' have to maintain this charade?

''"Oh wow. He could still be among us. Have you witnessed any pensioners in your post office queue [[CigarChomper smoking on a cigar]] the size of Jonah Falcon and braying like [[DirtyOldMan an ejaculating donkey?]]"''

-->-- ''GirlGenius''

-->-- ''YuYuHakusho'' (English version)

-->-- '''Dead Ringer advertisment''', ''TeamFortress2''

-->-- '''Sokka''', ''AvatarTheLastAirbender''

-> Everyone thinks you're dead. Isn't that great?!
-->-- Sokka, ''AvatarTheLastAirbender''

-->-- Sokka, ''{{Avatar: The Last Airbender}}''

-->-- ''YuYuHakusho'' (English version)

->'''Agatha:''' It's a perfect plan! They ''do'' think I'm dead!