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** ''Film/DrNo''. When Bond first arrives in Jamacia a man in SinisterShades (unknown to him, his future ally Felix Leiter) is shown to be watching him at the airport. At one point Bond goes back into the airport to make a phone call, and Felix is shown folding up a newspaper apparently after using this trope, then bending to drink from a nearby water fountain to avoid Bond getting a good look at him.
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** ''Film/DrNo''. When Bond first arrives in Jamacia Jamaica a man in SinisterShades (unknown to him, his future ally Felix Leiter) is shown to be watching him at the airport. At one point Bond goes back into the airport to make a phone call, and Felix is shown folding up a newspaper apparently after using this trope, then bending to drink from a nearby water fountain to avoid Bond getting a good look at him.
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*** Also used successfully by Sallah, to disguise his fist.
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*** Also used successfully by Sallah, to disguise his fist.fist, after a Nazi agent asks for his [[VisualGag "papers"]].
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** ''Film/DrNo''. When Bond first arrives in Jamacia a man in sunglasses (unknown to him, his future ally Felix Leiter) is shown to be watching him at the airport. At one point Bond goes back into the airport to make a phone call. Felix is shown folding up a newspaper apparently after using this trope, then bending to drink from a nearby water fountain to avoid Bond getting a good look at him.
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** ''Film/DrNo''. When Bond first arrives in Jamacia a man in sunglasses SinisterShades (unknown to him, his future ally Felix Leiter) is shown to be watching him at the airport. At one point Bond goes back into the airport to make a phone call. call, and Felix is shown folding up a newspaper apparently after using this trope, then bending to drink from a nearby water fountain to avoid Bond getting a good look at him.
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** ''Film/DrNo''. When Bond first arrives in Jamacia a man in sunglasses (unknown to him, his future ally Felix Leiter) is shown to be watching him at the airport. At one point Bond goes back into the airport to make a phone call. Felix is shown folding up a newspaper apparently after using this trope, then bending to drink from a nearby water fountain to avoid Bond getting a good look at him.
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* In one episode of ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'', Howard spies on Ms. Gideon by pretending to read a book with holes cut out of O's in the title. After getting interrupted, he follows it up by spying on her with a spyglass hidden in a sandwich.
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* In ''Film/DoctorInDistress1963'', Dr. Sparrow mistakes a man in Mum's Diner for Sir Lancelot hiding behind a newspaper. After some embarrassment, he moves over to the next table where he sees Sir Lancelot actually hiding behind a newspaper.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'': In the story arc "The Last Angry Moose", Bullwinkle leaves on a train bound for Hollywood with a mattress full of his life savings. In the same train car, Boris and Natasha make their entrance hiding behind a copy of ''Crime'' magazine (which, coincidentally, has Boris' mugshot on the back), with holes cut in the covers for them to look through.
-->'''Narrator:''' Now our boys are on their way to California, unaware that Bullwinkle's mattress full of money is the target of two pairs of sinister eyes belonging to... Oh no, it isn't! Oh, it can't be!
-->'''Boris:''' Say the name!
-->'''Narrator:''' ''Boris and Natasha!''
-->'''Both:''' Ta-da!
-->'''Narrator:''' Now our boys are on their way to California, unaware that Bullwinkle's mattress full of money is the target of two pairs of sinister eyes belonging to... Oh no, it isn't! Oh, it can't be!
-->'''Boris:''' Say the name!
-->'''Narrator:''' ''Boris and Natasha!''
-->'''Both:''' Ta-da!
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Compare HighlyVisibleNinja, HighlyConspicuousUniform and, [[{{Snowclones}} of course]], PaperThinDisguise. Subtrope of LookingBusy.
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Compare HighlyVisibleNinja, HighlyConspicuousUniform and, [[{{Snowclones}} of course]], PaperThinDisguise. Subtrope of LookingBusy.
LookingBusy. See also BookAndSwitch, when someone uses a newspaper or other book to conceal less savory reading material.
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* In the climax of [[Literature/DirkPittAdventures the Dirk Pitt novel]] ''Night Probe!'', British agent Brian Shaw is exploring a train that was hidden away for eighty years in an underground quarry. The train is full of mummified corpses, including one slumped in a chair with a newspaper over its face. Shaw is looking for a vital diplomatic paper that was aboard the train, when the "corpse" drops the newspaper to reveal it's really Pitt, who found his way into the quarry shortly before Shaw did.
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* In Season 2 Episode 1 of ''Manga/SpyXFamily'', while spying on Loid and Yor at a jazz club during their date, Anya and Franky use fliers with eye cut-outs to hide their faces.
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* In Season 2 Episode 1 of ''Manga/SpyXFamily'', ''Manga/SPYxFAMILY'', while spying on Loid and Yor at a jazz club during their date, Anya and Franky use fliers with eye cut-outs to hide their faces.
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* In Season 2 Episode 1 of ''Manga/SpyXFamily'', while spying on Loid and Yor at a jazz club during their date, Anya and Franky use fliers with eye cut-outs to hide their faces.
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The English newspaper wouldn't really be a giveaway. He could very easily just be a tourist who'd picked it up on the drive there.
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** ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''. Bond finds his Walther PPK missing from the drawer in his hotel room. After he checks out, one of Draco's men intercepts him in the lobby.
--->"Mr. Bond? You're lost something. ''(indicates a man reading a newspaper, who lowers it to reveal the PPK aimed at Bond)'' [[BlatantLies We'll give it to you outside.]]"
*** When Irma Bunt picks up Bond (posing as Sir Hilary Bray) from the train station, a fellow agent can be seen watching them from behind the ''Daily Express'' (you'd think a spy would avoid using a newspaper from his own country).
--->"Mr. Bond? You're lost something. ''(indicates a man reading a newspaper, who lowers it to reveal the PPK aimed at Bond)'' [[BlatantLies We'll give it to you outside.]]"
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** ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''. Bond finds his Walther PPK missing from the drawer in his hotel room.room after a night's sleep. After he checks out, one of Draco's men intercepts him in the lobby.
--->"Mr.--->'''Draco's goon:''' Mr. Bond? You're lost something. ''(indicates a man reading a newspaper, who lowers it to reveal the PPK aimed at Bond)'' [[BlatantLies We'll give it to you outside.]]"
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*** When Irma Bunt picks up Bond (posing as Sir Hilary Bray) from the trainstation, station in Switzerland, a fellow agent can be seen watching them from behind the ''Daily Express'' (you'd think a spy would avoid using a newspaper from his own country).Express''.
*** When Irma Bunt picks up Bond (posing as Sir Hilary Bray) from the train
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* A lot of modern police shows employ this for one or two officers when they have a large amount of officers staking out a single target. They can play it straight without accidentally invoking parody if those hiding are [[ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt extras]] [[IncrediblyLamePun and]] the camera doesn't single them out for long.
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* A lot of modern police shows employ this for one or two officers when they have a large amount number of officers staking out a single target. They can play it straight without accidentally invoking parody if those hiding are [[ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt extras]] [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} and]] the camera doesn't single them out for long.
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* ''Series/MurderRooms'': In "The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes: Part 1", Creator/ArthurConanDoyle uses a newspaper to disguise himself as he sneaks past the pack of angry Literature/SherlockHolmes fans gathered at the entrance to ''The Strand Magazine'' building.
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* Can be done in the ''VideoGame/WorldOfAssassinationTrilogy'' of ''VideoGame/Hitman'' games to blend in from people who could see through the disguise 47 is wearing.
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* Can be done in the ''VideoGame/WorldOfAssassinationTrilogy'' of ''VideoGame/Hitman'' ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' games to blend in from people who could otherwise see through the disguise 47 is wearing.
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* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' has a variation; in one episode Bud is seemingly reading a Life magazine. However, it turns out he has a dirty magazine hidden inside (his eyes not moving were a dead give away).
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* Can be done in the ''VideoGame/WorldOfAssassinationTrilogy'' of ''VideoGame/Hitman'' games to blend in from people who could see through the disguise 47 is wearing.
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* In ''Film/MurdersInTheRueMorgue1971'', Marot does not even bother pretending to read the newspaper, but just holds it up to the side of his face when he sneaks into the theatre. Nobody notices anything.
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* Happens with restaurant menus between Yzma and Kuzco in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''. Though to be fair, Kuzco (as a llama) was DisguisedInDrag at the time. ItMakesSenseInContext...
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* Happens with restaurant menus between A variant happens in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' where Yzma and Kuzco in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''. Though to be fair, Kuzco (as a llama) was DisguisedInDrag at Kuzco, having unknowingly entered the time. ItMakesSenseInContext...same diner, are both accidentally hiding from each other behind their menus that they're legitimately perusing. This leads to a sequence where one of them puts the menu down, [[MissedHimByThatMuch then picks it back up as the other puts theirs down, and so on]].
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* During the first mission in ''VideoGame/{{Jazzpunk}}'', you can pick up a side quest from a trenchcoated fellow agent who's sitting on a bench and pretending to read a newspaper. In this case, it's not his presence that he's trying to hide so much as the fact he's talking to you, though he could also be spying on someone.
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** The Doctor and Jamie do this in Episode 2 of the serial "The Faceless Ones". It's especially egregious in Jamie's case, since the newspaper does nothing to hide his lower half, and the authorities are ''specifically looking for a young man in a kilt.''
** The Doctor also does this when investigating Clara's childhood to try to work out why she's The Impossible Girl in "The Rings of Akhaten". Because the Eleventh Doctor is a {{Manchild}} however, he's not using a newspaper, but that year's ''Comicbook/TheBeano Summer Special''.
** The Doctor also does this when investigating Clara's childhood to try to work out why she's The Impossible Girl in "The Rings of Akhaten". Because the Eleventh Doctor is a {{Manchild}} however, he's not using a newspaper, but that year's ''Comicbook/TheBeano Summer Special''.
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** The Doctor and Jamie do this in Episode 2 of the serial "The "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E8TheFacelessOnes The Faceless Ones".Ones]]". It's especially egregious in Jamie's case, since the newspaper does nothing to hide his lower half, and the authorities are ''specifically looking for a young man in a kilt.''
** The Doctor also does this when investigating Clara's childhood to try to work out why she's The Impossible Girl in"The "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E7TheRingsOfAkhaten The Rings of Akhaten".Akhaten]]". Because the Eleventh Doctor is a {{Manchild}} however, he's not using a newspaper, but that year's ''Comicbook/TheBeano Summer Special''.
** The Doctor also does this when investigating Clara's childhood to try to work out why she's The Impossible Girl in
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* ''Series/FatherBrown'': In "The House of God", Father Brown hides behind a newspaper on the back seat of a bus; dropping the newspaper when the bus in motion and the two people he wishes to confront cannot escape.
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* In ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', Sousuke has a habit of watching out for Kaname behind an old newspaper with a hole cut out; like a lot of things he does, it really makes Sousuke look like a pervert. Eventually Kaname gets so annoyed she walks up and rips the newspaper from his hands, pointing out that it's several years out of date.
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* In ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'', Sousuke has a habit of watching out for Kaname behind an old newspaper with a hole cut out; like a lot of things he does, it really makes Sousuke look like a pervert. Eventually Kaname gets so annoyed she walks up and rips the newspaper from his hands, pointing out that it's several years out of date.
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This is a trope for when someone attempts to hide by covering their face with a newspaper, magazine, book or other printed work. Often combined with a musical sting when the paper is lowered to let the audience know that this man is a villain. This has a surprisingly high rate of success. This is mostly a DeadHorseTrope and, as such, is very often parodied or used as a quick visual gag. Two of the most common types of parody are having the character's face on the cover or front page of whatever he's reading, or else having eye holes cut out of the paper.
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This is a trope for when someone attempts to hide by covering their face with a newspaper, magazine, book or other printed work. Often combined with a musical sting when the paper is lowered to let the audience know that this man is a villain. This has a surprisingly high rate of success. This is mostly a DeadHorseTrope and, as such, is very often parodied or used as a quick visual gag.
Two of the most common types of parody are having the character's face on the cover or front page of whatever he's reading, or else having eye holes cut out of thepaper.
paper. As well, the person pretending to read may be "outed" if their [[RushedInvertedReading book or magazine is upside-down]].
Two of the most common types of parody are having the character's face on the cover or front page of whatever he's reading, or else having eye holes cut out of the
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This is a trope for when someone attempts to hide by covering their face with a newspaper, magazine, book or other printed work. Often combined with a musical sting when the paper is lowered to let the audience know that this man is a villain. This has a surprisingly high rate of success. This is mostly a DeadHorseTrope and, as such, is very often parodied. Two of the most common types of parody are having the character's face on the cover or front page of whatever he's reading, or else having eye holes cut out of the paper.
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This is a trope for when someone attempts to hide by covering their face with a newspaper, magazine, book or other printed work. Often combined with a musical sting when the paper is lowered to let the audience know that this man is a villain. This has a surprisingly high rate of success. This is mostly a DeadHorseTrope and, as such, is very often parodied.parodied or used as a quick visual gag. Two of the most common types of parody are having the character's face on the cover or front page of whatever he's reading, or else having eye holes cut out of the paper.
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* Finnegan uses this while ([[IncrediblyObviousTail poorly]]) tailing Miriam in ''[[Film/HillTwentyFourDoesntAnswer Hill 24 Doesn't Answer]]''. Because he doesn't read Hebrew, he [[RushedInvertedReading accidentally picks it up upside down]], only for Miriam to come over and turn it right side up for him.
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* Finnegan uses this while ([[IncrediblyObviousTail poorly]]) tailing Miriam in ''[[Film/HillTwentyFourDoesntAnswer Hill 24 Doesn't Answer]]''.''Film/Hill24DoesntAnswer''. Because he doesn't read Hebrew, he [[RushedInvertedReading accidentally picks it up upside down]], only for Miriam to come over and turn it right side up for him.
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* In ''Film/OperationFortuneRuseDeGuerre'', Orson grabs a map off a tourist and holds it in front of his face when tailing Ben and his bodyguard. It only works for a short time.
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-->The guy on the sofa was watching them, she suddenly realised. Just wide grey eyes, appearing in the slit between the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' and the black [fedora]. The second time he does it, this time actually trying to camouflage himself, he realizes that the newspaper is in Chinese, and, unluckily for him, while he does speak Chinese, he can't read it.
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:: The second time he does it, this time actually trying to camouflage himself, he realizes that the newspaper is in Chinese, and, unluckily for him, while he does speak Chinese, he can't read it.
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* ''Series/HorribleHistories'': In the ''Mission: Incompetent'' sketch detailing the attempts of the Black Hand to assassinate the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the first assassin Muhamed Mehmedbašić is hiding behind a newspaper at a cafe, but is too scared of the policeman standing nearby to act.
** Another episode of ''Series/HorribleHistories'' had Harriet Tubman use a newspaper as a disguise. The man looking for escaped slaves assumed that a woman who knew how to read couldn't possibly be an escaped slave and left her alone. The Talking Rat didn't deny it, so it was maybe TruthInTelevision.
** This really happened, though it was not so much hiding behind a newspaper but pretending to be someone else by means of a newspaper. The man sitting in the same train compartment was a former master of her, who knew she couldn't read (as it was forbidden to teach slaves to read and to write). She pretended to read the newspaper, hoping that this was enough to throw him off and make him think that she must be someone else.
** Another episode of ''Series/HorribleHistories'' had Harriet Tubman use a newspaper as a disguise. The man looking for escaped slaves assumed that a woman who knew how to read couldn't possibly be an escaped slave and left her alone. The Talking Rat didn't deny it, so it was maybe TruthInTelevision.
** This really happened, though it was not so much hiding behind a newspaper but pretending to be someone else by means of a newspaper. The man sitting in the same train compartment was a former master of her, who knew she couldn't read (as it was forbidden to teach slaves to read and to write). She pretended to read the newspaper, hoping that this was enough to throw him off and make him think that she must be someone else.
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** In the ''Mission: Incompetent'' sketch detailing the attempts of the Black Hand to assassinate the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the first assassin Muhamed Mehmedbašić is hiding behind a newspaper at a cafe, but is too scared of the policeman standing nearby to act.
** Another episode of ''Series/HorribleHistories'' had Harriet Tubman use a newspaper as a disguise. The man looking for escaped slaves assumed that a woman who knew how to read couldn't possibly be an escaped slave and left her alone.The Talking Rat didn't deny it, so it was maybe TruthInTelevision.
**This really happened, though it was not so much hiding behind a newspaper but pretending to be someone else by means of a newspaper. The man sitting in the same train compartment was a former master of her, who knew she couldn't read (as it was forbidden to teach slaves to read and to write). She pretended to read the newspaper, hoping that this was enough to throw him off and make him think that she must be someone else.
** In the ''Mission: Incompetent'' sketch detailing the attempts of the Black Hand to assassinate the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the first assassin Muhamed Mehmedbašić is hiding behind a newspaper at a cafe, but is too scared of the policeman standing nearby to act.
** Another episode of ''Series/HorribleHistories'' had Harriet Tubman use a newspaper as a disguise. The man looking for escaped slaves assumed that a woman who knew how to read couldn't possibly be an escaped slave and left her alone.
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* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', Hermione does this with a book (which is upside down) when Professor [=McGonagall=] comes in and takes Harry's Firebolt (Hermione having told [=McGonagall=] that Harry received it with no card and suspecting it to be from Sirius Black[[spoiler:, an assumption that turns out to be accurate, except he hadn't harmed it]]), to hide her face from Ron and Harry, who round on her as soon as [=McGonagall=] is gone and start getting after her for tattling.
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* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', Hermione does this with a book (which is upside down) when Professor [=McGonagall=] comes in and takes Harry's Firebolt (Hermione having told [=McGonagall=] that Harry received it with no card and suspecting it to be from Sirius Black[[spoiler:, an assumption that turns out to be accurate, except he hadn't harmed it]]), Firebolt, to hide her face from Ron and Harry, who round on her as soon as [=McGonagall=] is gone and start getting after her for tattling.
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*** When Irma Bunt picks up Bond (posing as Sir Hilary Bray) from the train station, Bond's local contact can be seen watching them from behind the ''Daily Express'' (you'd think a spy would avoid using a newspaper from his own country).