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* Gender flipped in ''Literature/InCryptid''. When Gwendolyn Brandt comes to Buckley and announces to Thomas her intention to marry and have a child with him, [[CuteGhostGirl Mary]] pretends to be his wife to get her to leave. Unfortunately, Alice comes along just as they're kissing to prove their "love" to Gwendolyn, and doesn't realize it's pretend. Thomas can't tell her it's NotWhatItLooksLike, since he has to maintain the ruse in front of Gwendolyn. [[spoiler:It takes a full year before Mary has a chance to tell Alice the truth.]]
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** Inverted in the first season episode "Any Friend of Diane's," where Sam has rejected Diane's college friend Rebecca for being boring. To spare Rebecca's feelings, Diane says Sam turned her down because he and Diane are a couple (much to both Rebecca and Sam's surprise). Of course, once Diane says that, Sam and Diane use the opportunity to back-handedly insult and torture one another in front of Rebecca.
** The last episode had Rebecca pretending to be Sam's girlfriend, while Diane's gay friend pretended to be her boyfriend.

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** Inverted in the first season episode "Any Friend of Diane's," where Sam has rejected Diane's college friend Rebecca (not the later regular character Rebecca) for being boring. To spare Rebecca's feelings, Diane says Sam turned her down because he and Diane are a couple (much to both Rebecca and Sam's surprise). Of course, once Diane says that, Sam and Diane use the opportunity to back-handedly insult and torture one another in front of Rebecca.
** The last episode had Rebecca (the regular, not Diane's college friend) pretending to be Sam's girlfriend, while Diane's gay friend pretended to be her boyfriend.
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* ''Fanfic/OniGaShikuSeries'': The "Please Be My Boyfriend" substory has one of Izuku's female classmates asks him to pretend to be her boyfriend in a gala to fend off her {{Unwanted Suitor}}s who are after her wealth. When Izuku asks her why him specifically, she only splutters, but later it's revealed that she has a massive crush on him - not that he knows.

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* ''Fanfic/OniGaShikuSeries'': The "Please Be My Boyfriend" substory has one of Izuku's female classmates asks him to pretend to be her boyfriend in a gala to fend off her {{Unwanted Suitor}}s unwanted suitors who are after her wealth. When Izuku asks her why him specifically, she only splutters, but later it's revealed that she has a massive crush on him - not that he knows.
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* ''Fanfic/OniGaShikuSeries'': The "Please Be My Boyfriend" substory has one of Izuku's female classmates asks him to pretend to be her boyfriend in a gala to fend off her {{Unwanted Suitor}}s who are after her wealth. When Izuku asks her why him specifically, she only splutters, but later it's revealed that she has a massive crush on him - not that he knows.

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* In ''Film/BadTeacher'', the title character runs after her chubby, nerdy student, who has just been cruelly rejected after publicly declaring his love for the most popular girl in class. After consoling him, she gives him her bra, then drags him back to where the group is waiting "angrily" claiming that she caught him making out with a high school girl. In two seconds, he goes from outcast to legend.

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* In ''Film/BadTeacher'', the title character runs after her chubby, nerdy student, who has just been cruelly rejected after publicly declaring his love for the most popular girl in class. class during a field trip. After consoling him, she gives him her bra, then drags him back to where the group is waiting waiting, "angrily" claiming that she caught him making out with a high school girl.girl from another school. In two seconds, he goes from outcast to legend.
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* ''Theatre/{{Pygmalion}}'': Exaggerated. When a policeman takes offense to him and Eliza kissing, Freddy fends off any suspicions about propriety by claiming they're recently engaged. Eliza, who's quite familiar with the police's habit of hounding girls off the street, considers it a proper answer.
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* Downplayed in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' when a boy starts trying to hit on Hayasaka at a mixer despite her obvious discomfort. Shirogane then grabs her arm and drags her out of the room under the guise of buying her a drink, whispering for her to play along.
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* Played with in ''Film/{{Predator 2}}''. Jerry Lambert (Bill Paxton) is at a bar. He goes over to a man talking to a woman.

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* Played with in ''Film/{{Predator 2}}''.''Film/Predator2''. Jerry Lambert (Bill Paxton) is at a bar. He goes over to a man talking to a woman.
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* Used in an odd sense in ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi''. Kaoru dissuades a pair of guys from making a move on Aoi with this claim...kicker being he really ''is'' [[ChildhoodMarriagePromise her fiance]], and he'd just kicked her out of his home suspecting her of being a ploy by his estranged family to get him to return (only to immediately realize his mistake). The incident kicks off the two's relationship.

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* Used in an odd sense in ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi''. Kaoru dissuades a pair of guys from making a move on Aoi with this claim...kicker being he really ''is'' [[ChildhoodMarriagePromise her fiance]], and he'd just kicked her out of his home suspecting her of being a ploy by his [[ProdigalFamily estranged family family]] to get him to return (only to immediately realize his mistake). The incident kicks off the two's relationship.

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