History Main / OhCrapFakeout

* When the ''Film/GhostRider'' attempts to use the Penance Stare on [[BigBad Blackheart]], Blackheart starts to scream only to chuckle instead. As TheSoulless, the Penance Stare is useless on him.

* ''Film/{{Batman}}''. Vicki Vale tosses a pitcher of ice water at The Joker, who starts screaming in pain, even tossing an ''[[Film/TheWizardOfOz I'm melting!]]'' in - but then turns around and says, "BOO!" and laughs.

* ''WebVideo/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorksAbridged'': When Berserker is seemingly slain by Saber's Excalibur, Illiya sarcastically pretends to be worried about it, seconds before the giant [[HealingFactor regenerates]].
-->'''Illiya''': Oh noooooooo, Berserker's dead! What will I do?

* ''WebVideo/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorksAbridged'': When Berserker is seemingly slayed by Saber's Excalibur, Illiya sarcastically pretend to be worried about it, minutes before the giant [[HealingFactor regenerates]].

* ''WebVideo/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladesWorkAbridged'': When Berserker is seemingly slayed by Saber's Excalibur, Illiya sarcastically pretend to be worried about it, minutes before the giant [[HealingFactor regenerates]].

* In the [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Batman]][=/=][[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Superman]] crossover episode "World's Finest", SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker pulls a trap to attract Superman to him and expose him to Kryptonite, only for Superman to expect this and bring his KryptoniteProofSuit. When realizing this, Joker appears shocked and seemingly just surrenders, expressing surprise about how the plan he had so well prepared failed... then reveals he ''did'' expect this and had brought acid to pierce through the suit.

* This is often used by WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. A good example is "Hold The Lion, Please", where he does a hilariously over-the-top display of fear after meeting a rather goofy lion. Also seen, albeit briefly, in "Operation: Rabbit", when Wile E. Coyote makes his intention to eat him quite clear and Bugs dons a faux-terror expression before going back to being unimpressed.

* ''WebVideo/SaintSeiyaAbridged''. Shaka does this when receiving Ikki's attack.

* Cell from ''Anime/DragonBallZ''; after getting hit by Vegeta's Final Flash, he starts apparently panicking and cowering over his wounds. Vegeta laughs at him... and then Cell reminds him he has a HealingFactor.

** Frieza does this in ''DragonBallSuper'', when one of Sidra's goons uses Sidra's God of Destruction power to seal him. It fails horribly, Frieza says "just kidding" and quickly turns the tables.

** A weird and rather disturbing variation in Part 2: when [[TheHero Joseph]] manages to cut off and destroy Esidisi's arm, he [[WrongGenreSavvy expect him]] to get into a VillainousBreakdown with UnstoppableRage. Instead, Esidisi starts ''crying'' like a baby, before almost instantly regaining his composure. He then explains this is his method of relieving stress. Joseph is suitably creeped out.
** Part 4 has a more classic example during the fight between Josuke and Red Hot Chilli Pepper. At one point, Josuke manages to trap Chilli Pepper in a tire, blocking his ShockAndAwe powers. Chilli Pepper's user immediately starts panicking like he was losing power... then immediately admits he was just kidding and just pierces through the tire, revealing it' was too thin to actually contain his power. [[spoiler:This however backfires: Josuke actually knew he could pierce the tire and was expecting him to do so. By piercing it, Chilli Pepper is propelled into the water by the pressure.]].
* Edward does this against Father Cornello in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. He screams when one of Cornello's chimerae bites his leg—then, when Cornello starts to gloat, we see the lion-thing's teeth falling out and Edward triumphantly shows off his automail leg.

** When the Gotei 13 Captains and the Visored all team up fight Aizen, their combined abilities seem to be overwhelming him. This culminates with Shinji reversing Aizen's perceptions of front and back, allowing Hitsugaya to slip past his defenses and impale him. The normally-unflappable villain reacts with a look of shock...but then it's revealed that Aizen had used his powers of illusion to covertly switch places with poor Momo, who was the ''actual'' victim of the heroes' attack.

A subversion of OhCrap, where two characters are having some form of confrontation, and one of them pretends to lose his cool or be scared, giving a false feeling of victory to his opponent, only to immediately reveal he actually is fine. Maybe that character [[IAmNotLeftHanded wasn't using his full power until now]]; maybe the damage he just took isn't that important, or [[HealingFactor he can just heal easily]]. Maybe he [[AllAccordingToPlan anticipated what his opponent would do and prepared in consequence]]. Either way, he wasn't actually worried, and his opponent just didn't take the advantage. Unlike ISurrenderSuckers, BriarPatching or WoundedGazelleGambit, there usually isn't any practical reason to do this; the character is just doing it [[ForTheEvulz to mess with his opponent]].

* In the [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Batman]][=/=][[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Superman]] crossover episode "World's Finest", SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker pulls a trap to attract Superman to him and expose him to Kryptonite, only for Superman to [[GenreSavvy expect this]] and bring his KryptoniteProofSuit. When realizing this, Joker appears shocked and seemingly just surrenders, expressing surprise about how the plan he had so well prepared failed... then reveals he ''did'' expect this and had brought acid to pierce through the suit.

-->'''Cell''': "You think this is funny? ''(Vegeta laughs)'' YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY?" ''(Vegeta laughs louder.)'' IT'S NOT AS FUNNY... as your face." ''(heals himself.)''

* ''Film/{{Batman}}''. Vicki Vale tosses a pitcher of ice water at The Joker, who starts screaming in pain, even tossing in a ''[[Film/TheWizardOfOz I'm melting!]]'' in - but then turns around and says, "BOO!" and laughs.

* In one of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'''s endings, the boss fight with [[spoiler:Photoshop Flowey]] has them undergoing a VillainousBreakdown when you've seemingly defeated them, then suddenly [[spoiler: reloading to an earlier save]], mocking the protagonist for falling for it. Another ending has the same character feign shock at the amount of people rallied to defeat them, then subduing them all with ease.

* In one of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'''s endings, a boss fight with [[spoiler: Flowey]] features them undergoing a VillainousBreakdown, then suddenly [[spoiler: reloading to an earlier save]], mocking the protagonist for falling for it. Another ending has the same character feign shock at the amount of people rallied to defeat them, then subduing them all with ease.

* When the ''Film/GhostRider'' attempts to use the Penance Stare on [[BigBad Blackheart]], Blackheart starts to scream only to chuckle instead. As TheSouless, the Penance Stare is useless on him.