History Main / DitchTheBodyguards

* In ''MonsterHunterVendetta'', Owen is instructed by the Monster Control Bureau to stay at MHI's compound as bait for the [[ReligionOfEvil Church of the Temporary Mortal Condition]]. However he's a pro-active kind of guy, and prefers to take the fight to them.

* ''{{Bleach}}'' anime episode 173. Lurichiyo evades her guardians Kenryu and Enryu to go to a tea party with other noble children.

* The whole plot of ''Chasing Liberty'' proceeds from ThePresidentsDaughter ditching her Secret Service detail to get some personal space.

* Artemis often does this in ''{{Artemis Fowl}}'' to Butler.

** Franklin D. Roosevelt would try to outrun his security detail when they were following him in a chase car.

* On an episode of ''{{Bones}}'', a man who was to testify slipped away from his bodyguards in the safe house after his wife was killed and son kidnapped to keep him from testifying.

* On one episode of ''{{NCIS}}'', somebody puts out a hit on a Navy lieutenant commander that, naturally, he does not believe is genuine. But the trope is subverted twice: when he ditches Ziva halfway through the episode, absolutely nothing untoward happens. [[spoiler:Then it turns out he ditched Ziva so he could go kill the person who put out the hit.]]
* Played straight on an episode of ''BurnNotice'' when one of the protectees sneaks out of the safe house (read: "Michael's mother's garage") so she can go to prom. {{Reality ensues}}, but fortunately Michael is able to get there in time to rescue her.

** HarryTruman and JimmyCarter have done this on occasion.

* PlayedWith in the ''{{Tintin}}'' album ''The Calculus Affair'', while staying in Borduria as supposed "guests" of the state, Tintin and Haddock get their "bodyguards" drunk so that they can escape.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats 2011}} [=ThunderCats (2011)=]]]'' {{Catfolk}} King Claudus learns that his presumed-dead friend Panthro is actually being held in a HostageForMacGuffin bid by an invading {{Lizard|folk}} army, and charges out of range of his own PraetorianGuard, which directly leads to his own assassination by the Lizard army's SorcerousOverlord and series BigBad Mumm-Ra.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', when Zuko visits her house, Mai sends her attendants to fetch a fruit tart with rose petals, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar presumably so that Mai and Zuko can have sex]].

* ''RomeoMustDie'': Trish rather easily evades her bodyguard Maurice when he's distracted chatting up a female at the record store.

* In the ''{{Tintin}}'' album ''The Calculus Affair'', while staying in Borduria as supposed guests of the state, Tintin and Haddock get their bodyguards drunk and lock them in their hotel rooms in order to give them the slip.
* In the recent ''{{Batman}}'' storyline, "Bruce Wayne: The Road Home", Vicki Vale does this in just about every early chapter, thinking she isn't in too much danger and she that she wants to reveal the identity of the Bat-Family. It isn't until a disguised Bruce Wayne Batman is able to snatch her away and tell her the severity of the situation is she able to settle down slightly.

* The United States Secret Service bemoans the number of times certain protecees (usually teen-aged children) attempt to give their watchdogs the slip or change the itinerary to stop some place more fun. This creates headaches for the secret service, who then have to clear new locations, or sometimes can't vet a route ahead of time. Sometimes adult politicians who really are targets do this, too.

* The finale of the first ''{{Twilight}}'' novel involves Bella having to sneak away from her vampire bodyguards to meet the bad guy vamp.

* Bradley does this once in ''FullmetalAlchemist''.

* The United States Secret Service bemoans the number of times certain protecees (usually teenaged children) attempt to give their watchdogs the slip or change the itinerary to stop some place more fun. This creates headaches for the secret service, who then have to clear new locations, or sometimes can't vet a route ahead of time. Sometimes adult politicians who really are targets do this, too.