History Main / BodybagTrick

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

* Another variation occurs in an episode of ''{{MacGyver}}''. Mac is trying to sneak out of CommieLand in a wooden coffin, but he ends up being discovered and his allies carrying the coffin throw it off the border bridge. Mac blows out the sides and it becomes a jet ski, he makes his escape and then the real plot starts after he gets back to the States.

* A variation occurs in ''{{Scrubs}}'' when JD attempts to escape the hospital so he can go home and have his day off. It goes alright, until he begins talking to the person who wheeled him into the elevator, who panics and hits him with a fire extinguisher.

* You do this with a fake death drug to get CIA agent Smith out of a clinic in ''[[{{Hitman}} Hitman: Blood Money]]''.

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

* Joker pulls a similar trick in ''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.

* You do this with a sort of fake death drug to get somebody out of a clinic in ''[[{{Hitman}} Hitman: Blood Money]]''.

* In the ''StarTrek'' novel ''Traitor Winds'', Uhura uses this to get out of a hospital without being spotted by a conspiracy that has it in for former ''Enterprise'' crew; Christine Chapel is conveniently on hand to provide the bodybag.

* ''TheCountOfMonteCristo''.

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* JamesBond pulls this off in ''{{Octopussy}}'' to sneak out of Kamal Khan's palace. He scares the ''crap'' out of the people carting the supposed corpse off.
* In ''JudgeDredd'', Rico uses this ploy to escape from Aspen prison.

* Ari does this to sneak into the morgue in ''{{NCIS}}''.

** A variation: in the very first episode, "Yankee White", DiNozzo hides in a body bag as a decoy, while the rest of the gang spirit the real corpse away. Hilarity and severe bruising ensues.

* [[{{Alias}} Sydney Bristow]] once sneaked into a Uzbek military base this way.

* ''DoctorWho'', "Day of the Moon".

-->'''JD''': Doug, it's me! Stop hitting me!
-->'''Doug''': Oh, sorry JD. I thought you were a dead person come back to life.

* Another variation occurs in an episode of ''{{Macgyver}}''. Mac is trying to sneak out of CommieLand in a wooden coffin, but he ends being discovered and his allies carrying the coffin throw it off the border bridge. Mac blows out the sides and it becomes a jet ski, he makes his escape and then the real plot starts after he gets back to the States.

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

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

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

* The Carver in ''Nip/Tuck'' gets away using this.

* Another variation occurs in an episode of ''Macgyver''. Mac is trying to sneak out of CommieLand in a wooden coffin, but he ends being discovered and his allies carrying the coffin throw it off the border bridge. Mac blows out the sides and it becomes a jet ski, he makes his escape and then the real plot starts after he gets back to the States.

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

* In ''[{{Saw}} Saw 3D]]'', [[spoiler: Hoffman hides in a body bag so he can sneak into the police station and kill Jill Tuck.]]

* You do this with a sort of fake death drug to get somebody out of a clinic in ''[=~Hitman: Blood Money~=]''.

* Dr. Griffin does this in ''{{KateModern}}'' to escape from an Order facility.

* Joker pulls a similar trick in ''TheDarkKnight''; hiding in a body bag and faking his own death so he could get at his target once they dragged the "body" into his office.