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* ''Literature/JulianComstock'' and his friend Adam Hazzard are captured by a BountyHunter, who's holding them overnight before handing them over. They notice a nest of snakes has been drawn to the fire he's lit, so draw his attention to them. Naturally the bounty hunter thinks it's a trick until one of the snakes brushes his leg, whereupon he panics and starts shooting, using up all his ammunition. Adam knocks him unconscious, whereupon Julian says that was supposed to be ''his'' job while Adam dealt with the snakes (Adam was raised in a snake-handling sect). Adam replies that they're just corn snakes, which aren't venomous.
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* In the {{Creepypasta}} ''Literature/TheDevilGame'', the Devil will try whatever he can to make you look away from the mirror you summoned him into, including pointing over your shoulder. After all, once you lose sight of him, he can leave the mirror.
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* A "look ''up''" variant appears in ''Literature/OneHundredCupboards'', when Monmouth betrays the other wizards to rescue Henry - he points out the location of the invisible Fat Frank atop the boat's mast and, as they look up, kills two in quick succession.
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* ''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor'': "Princesses on the Lonely Isle": Selvi thinks it's a trick when she's facing her enemy who suddenly screams in fear. It's not. There's an EnemyRisingBehind.
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* ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'' features a use of this trope by Apollo in ''The Dark Prophecy'' that works especially well, since the ones he tricks are very gullible and slow to turn around. Apollo then goes further to thoroughly [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] how this trope is apparently OlderThanDirt, stating that it was first recorded on Mesopotamian clay tablets.
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* ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'' features a use of this trope by Apollo in the second book, ''The Dark Prophecy'' Prophecy'', that works especially well, since the ones he tricks are very gullible and slow to turn around. Apollo then goes further to thoroughly [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] how this trope is apparently OlderThanDirt, stating that it was first recorded on Mesopotamian clay tablets.
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* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath''. Because Jame CannotTellALie, an assassin thinks she's pulling an ExactWords LoopholeAbuse when she says, "If you were to look behind you now..." As it happens, she's not, and her undead half-brother Bane attacks the assassin.
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* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath''. Because Jame CannotTellALie, an assassin thinks she's pulling an ExactWords LoopholeAbuse when she says, "If you were to look behind you now..." As it happens, she's not, and her undead half-brother Bane attacks the assassin.assassin.
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* In ''Literature/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'', Winterprison pins Cranberry against a wall and punches her over and over again. Suddenly, Winterprison hears her girlfriend Sister Nana scream for her to look behind her. Shocked, she turns around, but nothing is there, then Cranberry knees her in the gut and escapes. Cranberry has sound powers and is a VoiceChangeling, so she was able to make Winterprison think Sister Nana was warning her about something.
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* ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'': When Sigma is attacked by False Assassin, Sigma looks over her shoulder and yells, "Now! Stab her, Chaplin!" When she turns around to counter this nonexistent threat, he throws a flashbang grenade at her and runs.
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* ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'': When Sigma is attacked by False Assassin, Sigma looks over her shoulder and yells, "Now! Stab her, Chaplin!" When she turns around to counter this nonexistent threat, he throws a flashbang grenade at her and runs.runs.
* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath''. Because Jame CannotTellALie, an assassin thinks she's pulling an ExactWords LoopholeAbuse when she says, "If you were to look behind you now..." As it happens, she's not, and her undead half-brother Bane attacks the assassin.
* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath''. Because Jame CannotTellALie, an assassin thinks she's pulling an ExactWords LoopholeAbuse when she says, "If you were to look behind you now..." As it happens, she's not, and her undead half-brother Bane attacks the assassin.
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My bad. I'll move this to Web Original where it belongs.
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* ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'': When Sigma is attacked by False Assassin, Sigma looks over her shoulder and yells, "Now! Stab her, Chaplin!" When she turns around to counter this nonexistent threat, he throws a flashbang grenade at her and runs.
* The web novel ''Literature/ThroughTheMotions'' [[ZigZaggingTrope goes back and forth]] on this: a customer tries to get Deanna to look out the window as he tries to steal some gum. She recognizes it as an obvious trick and keeps an eye on him while the next customer in line, as well as one of her co-workers, takes the bait. It's only ''after'' the would-be thief leaves the store that she turns around and finds out that he wasn't lying: [[spoiler:she sees the customer who left ahead of him using magic to protect herself from a heavy rainstorm]].
* The web novel ''Literature/ThroughTheMotions'' [[ZigZaggingTrope goes back and forth]] on this: a customer tries to get Deanna to look out the window as he tries to steal some gum. She recognizes it as an obvious trick and keeps an eye on him while the next customer in line, as well as one of her co-workers, takes the bait. It's only ''after'' the would-be thief leaves the store that she turns around and finds out that he wasn't lying: [[spoiler:she sees the customer who left ahead of him using magic to protect herself from a heavy rainstorm]].
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* ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'': When Sigma is attacked by False Assassin, Sigma looks over her shoulder and yells, "Now! Stab her, Chaplin!" When she turns around to counter this nonexistent threat, he throws a flashbang grenade at her and runs.
* The web novel ''Literature/ThroughTheMotions'' [[ZigZaggingTrope goes back and forth]] on this: a customer tries to get Deanna to look out the window as he tries to steal some gum. She recognizes it as an obvious trick and keeps an eye on him while the next customer in line, as well as one of her co-workers, takes the bait. It's only ''after'' the would-be thief leaves the store that she turns around and finds out that he wasn't lying: [[spoiler:she sees the customer who left ahead of him using magic to protect herself from a heavy rainstorm]].runs.
* The web novel ''Literature/ThroughTheMotions'' [[ZigZaggingTrope goes back and forth]] on this: a customer tries to get Deanna to look out the window as he tries to steal some gum. She recognizes it as an obvious trick and keeps an eye on him while the next customer in line, as well as one of her co-workers, takes the bait. It's only ''after'' the would-be thief leaves the store that she turns around and finds out that he wasn't lying: [[spoiler:she sees the customer who left ahead of him using magic to protect herself from a heavy rainstorm]].
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* In the German crime parody "Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox!" we have it played straight AND subverted at the same time. Cox distracts the baddie by turning his attention to a car that allegedly follows them since miles. Baddie falls for it and is overwhelmed. Subversion: the cavalry WAS in the car following.
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* In the German crime parody "Gestatten, ''Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox!" Cox!'' we have it played straight AND subverted at the same time. Cox distracts the a baddie by turning his attention to a car that allegedly follows had been following them since for miles. Baddie The baddie falls for it and is overwhelmed. Subversion: the cavalry WAS in the car following.following them all along.
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* ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'': When Sigma is attacked by False Assassin, Sigma looks over her shoulder and yells, "Now! Stab her, Chaplin!" When she turns around to counter this nonexistent threat, he throws a flashbang grenade at her and runs.
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* ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'': When Sigma is attacked by False Assassin, Sigma looks over her shoulder and yells, "Now! Stab her, Chaplin!" When she turns around to counter this nonexistent threat, he throws a flashbang grenade at her and runs.runs.
* The web novel ''Literature/ThroughTheMotions'' [[ZigZaggingTrope goes back and forth]] on this: a customer tries to get Deanna to look out the window as he tries to steal some gum. She recognizes it as an obvious trick and keeps an eye on him while the next customer in line, as well as one of her co-workers, takes the bait. It's only ''after'' the would-be thief leaves the store that she turns around and finds out that he wasn't lying: [[spoiler:she sees the customer who left ahead of him using magic to protect herself from a heavy rainstorm]].
* The web novel ''Literature/ThroughTheMotions'' [[ZigZaggingTrope goes back and forth]] on this: a customer tries to get Deanna to look out the window as he tries to steal some gum. She recognizes it as an obvious trick and keeps an eye on him while the next customer in line, as well as one of her co-workers, takes the bait. It's only ''after'' the would-be thief leaves the store that she turns around and finds out that he wasn't lying: [[spoiler:she sees the customer who left ahead of him using magic to protect herself from a heavy rainstorm]].
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* In ''Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat'', Angelina holds a gun on Jim, and his eyes widen as he looks over her shoulder. She scoffs at him for trying to pull that trick, and is then disarmed by the man coming up behind her.
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* In ''Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat'', ''Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat'' by Creator/HarryHarrison, Angelina holds a gun on Jim, and his eyes widen as he looks over her shoulder. She scoffs at him for trying to pull that trick, and is then disarmed by the man coming up behind her.her.
** This works in another Creator/HarryHarrison novel ''The Ethical Engineer'' because the protagonist is on a DeathWorld, so when someone tells you to look behind you in an alarmed voice, you take them seriously.
** This works in another Creator/HarryHarrison novel ''The Ethical Engineer'' because the protagonist is on a DeathWorld, so when someone tells you to look behind you in an alarmed voice, you take them seriously.
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* In ''Literature/LuckyStarr and the Big Sun of Mercury'', Bigman Jones is holding Jonathan Urteil at blaster-point in the Mercury mines when Urteil looks over Bigman's shoulder and says that Lucky Starr is coming back. Bigman looks, and Urteil quickly gains the upper hand.
-->Never in his life had Bigman so hated himself. To be tricked and hoodwinked this way. He almost deserved death. He would almost rather die than ever have to face Lucky and say, "He looked behind me and said you were coming so I turned…"
-->Never in his life had Bigman so hated himself. To be tricked and hoodwinked this way. He almost deserved death. He would almost rather die than ever have to face Lucky and say, "He looked behind me and said you were coming so I turned…"
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* In ''Literature/LuckyStarr and the Big Sun of Mercury'', Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/LuckyStarrAndTheBigSunOfMercury'': Bigman Jones is holding Jonathan Urteil at blaster-point in the Mercury mines when Urteil looks over Bigman's shoulder and says that Lucky Starr is coming back. Bigman looks, and Urteil quickly gains the upper hand.
-->Never -->''Never in his life had Bigman so hated himself. To be tricked and hoodwinked this way. He almost deserved death. He would almost rather die than ever have to face Lucky and say, "He looked behind me and said you were coming so I turned…"turned..."''
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* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': This is used for a CrowningMomentOfFunny in ''Literature/TurnCoat'' when for once, it's actually played straight. A minor villain believes that Harry has been hiding the person he's after.
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* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': This is used for a CrowningMomentOfFunny SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} in ''Literature/TurnCoat'' when for once, it's actually played straight. A minor villain believes that Harry has been hiding the person he's after.
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* Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo features a use of this trope by Apollo in ''The Dark Prophecy'' that works especially well, since the ones he tricks are very gullible and slow to turn around. Apollo then goes further to thoroughly [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] how this trope is apparently OlderThanDirt, stating that it was first recorded on Mesopotamian clay tablets.
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* Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'' features a use of this trope by Apollo in ''The Dark Prophecy'' that works especially well, since the ones he tricks are very gullible and slow to turn around. Apollo then goes further to thoroughly [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] how this trope is apparently OlderThanDirt, stating that it was first recorded on Mesopotamian clay tablets.tablets.
* ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'': When Sigma is attacked by False Assassin, Sigma looks over her shoulder and yells, "Now! Stab her, Chaplin!" When she turns around to counter this nonexistent threat, he throws a flashbang grenade at her and runs.
* ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'': When Sigma is attacked by False Assassin, Sigma looks over her shoulder and yells, "Now! Stab her, Chaplin!" When she turns around to counter this nonexistent threat, he throws a flashbang grenade at her and runs.
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The quote indicates pre-Greek alphabets, so dirt applies better
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* Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo features a use of this trope by Apollo in ''The Dark Prophecy'' that works especially well, since the ones he tricks are very gullible and slow to turn around. Apollo then goes further to thoroughly [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] how this trope is apparently OlderThanFeudalism.OlderThanDirt, stating that it was first recorded on Mesopotamian clay tablets.
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* Used word for word by Cao Cao in ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms''.
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* Used word for word by Cao Cao in ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms''.''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', on more than one occasion. In both cases it works.
