History Main / BodyBagTrick

* This is how MatthewHawkwood and Lassuer are smuggled off the prison hulk in ''Rapscallion''.

* Simon and River of ''{{Firefly}}'' use this technique to beat the security and get into a mega-hospital in the episode "Ariel." Bonus points for actually making their hearts stop to get in.
* The Carver in ''[[NipTuck Nip/Tuck]]'' gets away using this.

* In ''LesMiserables'', Jean Valjean escapes from the convent of Petit-Picpus in a coffin.

* In ''ZNation'' the main characters must hide in a morgue from a "zunami" of zombies. Warren has to hide in a body bag as zombies swarm the morgue.

* [[Series/{{AlfredHitchcockPresents}} Final Escape]] subverts this when a male prisoner (female in the remake) plans an escape using this method. The prisoner is supposed to hide in the next coffin being used, then the prison undertaker is supposed to come and dig the coffin up once the coast is clear. [[spoiler: When the prisoner feels that they've been waiting too long, they light a match to see that they're buried with ... the undertaker]]

* In LesMiserables, Jean Valjean escapes from the convent of Petit-Picpus in a coffin.

* In ''Film/HighlanderIITheQuickening'', [=MacLeod=] and Ramirez get inside the headquarters of an evil MegaCorp by driving right into a roadblock set by them and get riddled with bullets. The employees cart them inside in bodybags, unaware of them being immortal.

* Not exactly this trope, but Guile hides in a bodybag while pretending to be dead in the ''Film/StreetFighter'' movie.

* Joker pulls a similar trick in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''; hiding in a body bag and faking his own death so he could get at his target once henchmen pretending to be bounty hunters dragged the "body" into the target's office-the target having offered a reward for the death of the Joker after the Joker insulted him earlier in the film.

* [[Series/{{AlfredHitchcockPresents}} Final Escape]] subverts this brutally when a male prisoner (female in the remake) plans an escape using this method. The prisoner is supposed to hide in the next coffin being used, then the prison undertaker is supposed to come and dig the coffin up once the coast is clear. [[spoiler: When the prisoner feels that they've been waiting too long, they light a match to see that they're buried with ... the undertaker]]

If used as a means of escape, may end with the character being BuriedAlive-- but not for long. A subtrope - and a subversion - of ZippingUpTheBodybag.

* This is how Herbert West gets into the morgue in the first ''{{Re-Animator}}'' film.

* Used in ''Film/TheFirstGreatTrainRoberry'' to smuggle one of the thieves aboard the baggage car.

* ''Series/{{Hustle}}'': In "Lest Ye Be Jiudged", Mickey uses a bodybag to smuggle Emma into the morgue so she can place a false postmortem report in the files.

* The last part of Rollie's revenge plan in ''Film/{{FX}}'' depends on this as his escape plan; unfortunately, Leo sussed out his plan and was waiting for him outside the window.

* Happens in ''TheMaskOfZorro'', as the way Zorro escapes from prison. Bonus BuriedAlive!

* Used in ''TheFirstGreatTrainRoberry'' to smuggle one of the thieves aboard the baggage car.
* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'', Jack Sparrow uses the ploy by hiding in a coffin being tossed out to sea.
* In ''[[{{Franchise/Highlander}} Highlander 2]]'' MacLeod and Ramirez get inside the headquarters of an evil MegaCorp by driving right into a roadblock set by them and get riddled with bullets. The employees cart them inside in bodybags, unaware of them being immortal.

* ''{{CSI}}'': Catherine and D.B. use this trick to get themselves smuggled back into the lab when a hit team is looking for them in "Willows in the Wind".

* Used by the Exit organisation in the Literature/PhryneFisher novel ''Blood and Circuses'' to smuggle a prisoner out of prison.

* In Literature/{{Room}}, Ma fakes five-year-old Jack's illness and death so he can escape when Old Nick takes him outside to bury him. This is the only way either of them will be able to get out of Room.

* Spanish comic ''Mortadelo y Filemón'' moves this a step forward: Main characters need to infiltrate into a hospital. They see a slacker sleeping in the street. The characters impersonate nurses bringing the slacker in a pallet, claiming he needs urgent surgery for appendicitis. The slacker wakes up in the operating theater; when he leaves the hospital, he sees a peer loafing around and warns him: If the staff catches him sleeping, they'll operate him for appendicitis!