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* ''Film/OperationFortuneRuseDeGuerre'': When Danny and Sarah are exiting Simmonds' Turkish compound, one of the guards stops them at the gate, and it looks like the gig is up. However, it turns out the guard only wants a selfie with Danny and lets them go after he takes it.

* ''Film/AViewToAKill''. Film/JamesBond and [[BondGirl Stacey Sutton]] are using a [[MuggedForDisguise stolen truck]] to enter Zorin's mine, when they're pulled up by a security guard. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Not because there's a beautiful woman in the cab]] with Bond, but because he's not wearing a hard hat as required.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', while infiltrating a missile base, the first guard you encounter inside the facility will stop you and, depending on the option you chose beforehand, will warn you not to run on the catwalks, compliment you on [[AllInARow your marching formation]], or chastise you for walking strangely ([[WhatAnIdiot when you're very obviously trying to hide your faces from him]]).

** Sulley has just snuck a human child into the scare factory, which is currently under thorough inspection for any sign of human children. Suddenly, a group of Child Detection Agents run up to him -- "Hey wait, that's the guy! Can we have your autograph?"
** Something similar happens earlier, too: When Sully is gathering up Mike's paperwork, finds the door that's left behind, and hides to see who's working after hours against the rules, Randall emerges and begins carting his scream canisters out, but suddenly pauses as if he saw Sully out of the corner of his eye. Turns out he just had to sneeze.

** [[RunningGag Something similar happens earlier, too]]: When Woody is trying to [[BathroomBreakOut escape through the restroom window]], the camera pans to the janitor looking at the mirror -- in which Woody is plainly visible -- and commenting in surprise. Woody gasps. Then a RackFocus reveals a patch of scum on the mirror just big enough to obscure him, as the janitor reaches up to wipe it off. By the time his hand comes down, Woody is already out the window.

* In ''Film/TheHoodlum'', the crooks use a funeral procession to smuggle the stolen cash out of the city. The hearse is stopped at a roadblock, and while one of the cops radios in to see if it has permission to proceed, another wanders over to inspect the two limousines following it. Johnny hides on the floor (he is not wearing a jacket and so stands out from the other 'mourners'). The cop peers through the window but fails to spot him. He starts to walk back to the police car, then gets a suspicious look on his face and starts to walk back to the second limo. The crooks get nervous and grip weapons and the cop reaches the front of the car. And then re-affixes the 'FUNERAL' sticker on the windscreen that had started to peel off.

* Slight twist on this in the first ''Film/MissionImpossible'' film. The character of Luther leaves his seat on the TGV and a train attendant hey waits him to return his cell phone. The problem is, the cell phone was rigged up to block a transmission of the ''Mac Guffin'' information, and by taking it away, Luther risked letting the info into the open.

* ''Film/TheFugitive'': A cop stops Richard in the hallway of the hospital where he changed into a doctor's clothes, but he just wanted to tell Richard that his fly is down.

* In the Creator/MarvelComics ''[[ComicBook/MarvelStarWars Star Wars]]'' story "The Stenax Shuffle!", Han and the others are trying to sneak past an Imperial Governor. They're almost out of range when he shouts at them to halt. Turns out he was yelling at Han for dropping his shovel.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E08AnInsideMan "An Inside Man"]] has an inversion. A [[DressingAsTheEnemy disguised]] Kanan and Ezra are attempting to get out of the Imperial complex while the Imperials are checking everyone's [=IDs=], searching for the infiltrators. An elevator opens and [[spoiler:Agent Kallus]] orders them inside. They get in, assuming their cover is still intact, only for [[spoiler:Kallus]] to reveal he knows who they are — because he's turned ReverseMole.

* ''Film/TheFugitive'': "Your fly is down."

* ''Film/OceansEleven2001'': Livingston is stopped after bugging the casino's camera system...because the other employee noticed that he dropped his portable TV (which, unbeknownst to the employee, is what he's using to view the camera feeds).

Our heroine has talked her way past a security checkpoint on her way to uncovering the government's dirty secrets... almost. Just as she's about to round the corner, though, the guard cries, "Hey, wait!" Our hearts pound -- she's been caught!

But no -- the guard just wanted to tell her she left her keys on his desk. Or she's to report to DrillSergeantNasty for a potato-peeling MiniGame. Or it's past time for her shift guarding the Easily Rescued Prisoner's cell. A CatScare for TheInfiltration, if you will.

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** Happens later when Keith attempts to sneak off with Jou's tournament finalist card while the latter is sleeping in the anime. Jou screams this, only to mumble "That's my pizza!". [[TalkingInYourSleep Turns out he's just sleep talking]].

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Good Luck Charlie}}'', [=PJ=] and Gabe accidentally spill grapejuice on their yellow couch and replace it with a green one that looks identical to the one they used to have hoping their parents would be fooled. Amy at first suspects that something looks different, but claims that it's only because a nearby living room ornament is out of place and moves it. However, she quickly subverts this trope by exclaiming "Lucky for you guys, I always hated that yellow couch!" as she is walking up the stairs. Bob only suspects "the new old couch" because he keeps losing his phone in it.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'': Detective Yin tells Bruce Wayne, "I know your secret." It turns out that the "secret" she's figured out is that he's actually an intelligent and caring person rather than [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob the shallow playboy]] he pretends to be.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E11PursuitOfPeace "Pursuit of Peace"]] has a villainous example. General Grievous sends a group of droids designed for infiltration and suicide-bombing to destroy a Coruscant power-plant. The droids are built to look like sweeper-droids in their disguised forms, and have fake permits to enter the secured zone. After a clone sentry examines the permits, and had let the droids pass, he stops them again as they were about to turn around the corner . . . because they almost turned the wrong corner!

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles:'' John says "Hey, wait!" when two Pauls turn up in "No Reply." One of the Pauls is a master of disguise.

* An interesting male example happened during UsefulNotes/WorldWar2: A German spy in the United States was attempting to get close to a military base in order to take photographs, but, while casing the area, someone tried to stop him. Thinking he'd been found out, he panicked and took his issued cyanide pill so that he would die before being captured and interrogated. Turns out, however, he wasn't being stopped for espionage....he had left his hat at a nearby cafe.

** Hilariously subverted when Barbie goes to the Bookworm wearing Ken's spacesuit to get back Buzz's instruction manual, he notices her [[CoverIdentityAnomaly high heels when she walks away]]... [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments then just rolls his eyes and sighs]].

* ''Film/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy'': Peter Guillam has just stolen a file from the [[SecretIntelligenceService Circus]] when he's detained and grilled about his connection to Ricky Tarr (all the time the file is in his briefcase). It's not surprising he flips out and assaults Tarr afterwards.

->'''Margaret:''' I'll be devastated without you, you know that.\\
'''Frank:''' I'll write you. Every day. Faithfully. ''[mockingly]'' I'll write every day, faithfully. Listen to that dribble, that manure. ''[Turns to Hawkeye]'' You know anyone who could listen to that...\\
'''Margaret:''' Frank, you're crushing my mums.\\
'''Frank:''' ''[Frank's expression changes to horror and anger]'' That's... that's... that's...\\
'''Hawkeye:''' That's right. Nurse Dribble and Doctor Manure.
-->-- ''{{Series/MASH}}'', [[Recap/MashS1E22MajorFredCDobbs "Major Fred C. Dobbs"]]

* ''Film/OceansEleven'' (the one with George Clooney): Livingston is stopped after bugging the casino's camera system...because the other employee noticed that he dropped his portable TV (which, unbeknownst to the employee, is what he's using to view the camera feeds).

* In ''Series/{{Merlin}} 1X04'', when Gwen goes to deliver the meal to the jailed Arthur to find out if he successfully retrieved the Mortius Flower, this occurs just as she's leaving, with the flower on her tray, but it turns out that the guard just wanted a bite from the food Arthur rejected.

* VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV has a mission where Franklin is trailing an architect at a construction site [ItMakesSenseInContext (Long Story)] and gets told off by a worker at the entrance. It is not for the fact he is someone who more than likely has no business there, but he needs to wear a hard hat.

* VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV has a mission where Franklin is trailing an architect at a construction site ([ItMakesSenseInContext Long Story]) and gets told off by a worker at the entrance. It is not for the fact he is someone who more than likely has no business there, but he needs to wear a hard hat.