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* In ''WebVideo/SpaceJanitors'', clone soldiers are supposedly retired to the resort world Pyus Dunes after their four-year Term of Service. Every non-clone has their own theory on what *really* happens. [[spoiler: They really are sent to Pyus Dunes to live out their remaining six years in peace.]]
* Website/BabylonBee: Parodied with veiled euphemisms wherein [[https://babylonbee.com/news/party-against-fascism-begins-creating-lists-of-undesirables AOC unveils her "accountability plan"]] for Trump supporters after the 2020 election.
-->''[They] will be tried in special accountability courts before being herded into special accountability cars and sent to accountability camps. Those who resist being held accountable will be administered special accountability with accountability guns loaded with high-powered accountability bullets.''

* If your pet cat dies in ''VideoGame/CrusaderKingsII'' and your character is dull or an imbecile, your courtiers will tell you it left to visit your distant aunt and is currently running around a field with lots of other cats being happy.

* In chapter 128 of ''LightNovel/NidomeNoYuusha'', it's revealed that the cover story Millanis's home village spins about where she and her mother went is that they were shipped off to another village to "atone for the sin of deceiving the townsfolk" (wink, wink, nudge, nudge). Only Kirel, Millanis's ChildhoodFriend, for whom Lucia, her other ChildhoodFriend, would happily MurderTheHypotenuse, believes it.

* In ''LightNovel/HeavyObject'' the Faith Organization opened a factory that employed the residents of Giant Pizza. The hexavalent chromium used in the factory would eventually make them sick at which point they would disappear. Giant Pizza citizens became convinced the Faith Organization was transporting the sick workers to a dedicated hospital when they were actually being quietly executed and buried in the surrounding desert. The Faith Organization was intrigued as they never actually made any indication this was the case and viewed the belief as a pseudo-religion.

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Turn Left" features a ForWantOfANail AlternateTimeline where Donna never met (and saved the life of the Doctor), which leads to London being nuked, the country full of homeless refugees, France's borders closed and the USA's financial aid cancelled due to the Adipose disaster. Finally, the British government starts rounding up immigrants and putting them in "work camps". Wilfred, a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII veteran, immediately realises what's ''really'' going on.

** In "Remember", B'Elanna gets implanted with the memories of an elderly woman who during her youth, participated in the genocide of a group of "[[LuddWasRight Regressives]]" who refused to embrace technology, including the man she loved. The explanation given to succeeding generations was that the Regressives were deported to another continent for being too violent and barbaric for their society, only to kill each other or die from disease shortly afterwards.
** In "Emanations", Harry Kim takes the place of a man who was scheduled to enter a sarcophagus to enter "[[TheLifestream the next emanation]]" so as to appear that he died while the man himself quietly slipped away to the mountains to be cared for by relatives. Since Harry was wrapped in a special burial dressing that made him look like a BandageMummy, nobody could tell the difference.

* The short story "Kittens" by Dean Koontz is about a girl who lives with her religious family and owns a cat. The last time the cat had kittens, they disappeared and the parents told her that "God took them". When the cat had a new litter of kittens, the girl hid and saw [[spoiler:her parents drowning them, one at a time, in a bucket of water]]. The girl later asked her parents if the new litter was taken by God as well and when they said yes she [[spoiler:''drowns her baby twin brothers (whom she'd overheard her mother calling "God's angels" earlier) in the bathtub'' for revenge]]!

'''Humperdinck:''' [''sotto voice to Count Rugen''] Once we're out of sight, take him back to Florin and throw him in the Pit of Despair.\\
'''Count Rugen:''' [[IronicEcho I swear it will be done.]]

Compare NeverSayDie, DogGotSentToAFarm, and DeadlyEuphemism. See WinYourFreedom. SisterTrope to NoLongerWithUs, when an innocent saying is mistaken for a euphemism for death. The TropeNamer is ''Literature/TheGiver''.

* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, [[MurderInc Morag Tong]] members speak of the secret island of Vounoura, the place all members must eventually go to for retirement if they become too infamous in the public eye or live long enough grow too old to carry out assassinations. There are some sinister implications about Vounoura though, most notably that the Morag Tong's leadership refuses to tell anything other than very vague details about the place. Furthering the [[ImpliedTrope implication]], it is known that the Grandmaster of the order is "honorably executed" by his success. It would come as little surprise if this were the fate of other "retiring" members as well.

* The April 26, 2009 strip of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' has Garfield attempt to cover up eating the fish by typing a letter informing Jon that the fish had left to join the French Foreing Legion and leaving the letter in the empty fishbowl. Jon isn't fooled, as he sees a lemon slice and a jar of tartar sauce nearby.

* In ''Film/EightMM'', Tom Welles finds out early on that the girl he's been tasked to find is dead. He plants the girl's diary where he knows her mother (who isn't his client) will find it and believe that she ran away to Vegas. [[spoiler:Later on he tells her the truth because he wants her permission to kill the men responsible for the girl's rape and murder]].

* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye:'' In an alternate universe ruled by the Functionist Council, the Constructed Cold were said to have been "deported". Except in that reality, Cybertronians don't have anywhere to be deported ''to'', much less any means of transporting them, and the Functionists regard the Constructed Cold as blasphemy. Do the math.

'''Count Rugen:''' I swear it will be done.

* In Robert Harris' ''Literature/{{Fatherland}}'' the [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Reich's]] big secret, covered up for twenty years, is that the undesirables weren't "rehoused" in far-away places. Which is exactly what people were told in real life Nazi Germany.

* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye:'' In an alternate universe ruled by the Functionist Council, the Constructed Cold were said to have been "deported". Except in that reality, Cybertronians don't have anywhere to be deported ''to'', much less any means of transporting them, and the Functionists regard the Constructed Cold as blasphemy...

Features a lot in {{Dystopia}}n settings, particularly those that [[FalseUtopia pretend]] to be a {{Utopia}}, and the revelation of the truth does not often happen until late in the story, meaning that most of the examples listed here will be spoilers. When the revelation of the AwfulTruth actually happens, it's usually the moment the government of the setting [[KickTheDog Kicks the Dog]] or crosses the MoralEventHorizon and its true evil is revealed.

* The underground village of Adai in ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has little food and and water and are unable to reliably care for more than 50 people. Every time the population reaches more than 50 people, they draw straws to see who gets "the blessing of the gods" meaning they get sent up to the surface, which is crawling with HumongousMecha that are charged to kill ''anyone'' on the surface. Tragedy ensues when a pregnant woman gives birth to triplets, bringing the population to 52. The family with triplets doesn't "win," but two {{Heartwarming Orphan}}s (Gimmy and Darry) do, specifically because they ''were'' orphans and therefore had no family to grieve for them. An older but sharp boy (Rossiu) then learns the truth and decides to go with them: to help care for the orphans and to help maintain the {{Masquerade}} by removing himself and the possibility of uncomfortable questions. The dark nature of the trope is subverted in this case, as the whole episode occurs while Simon and Kamina's group were in their city; the trio end up going with them, becoming significant characters as the series progresses. However, it does add further tragedy, since Rossiu is placed in an extremely similar situation post-TimeSkip, [[spoiler:and the strain of botching it and almost getting Earth and all of humanity killed by the Anti-Spirals [[AteHisOwnGun is too much for him.]]]]