History Main / SleepingDummy

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* Used for comedy in ''Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult'', where the dummies of Rocko and Slasher are so obviously fake that only a bunch of idiots would fall for the trick (which, of course, they do).

* Superman does this in the SilverAge comic "Jimmy Olsen, Clark Kent's Pal" to keep Jimmy Olsen, who is temporarily rooming with his alter ego, from discovering his SecretIdentity.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', when Alex's parents discover the SleepingDummy he set up, his mom's first response is to ask, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "What is our son doing with a male mannequin head in his room?"]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' episode "[[Recap/TheBatmanCashForToys Cash for Toys"]], Bruce does this to throw off the detective who's been assigned to protect him.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' episode "Cash for Toys", Bruce does this to throw off the detective who's been assigned to protect him.

* ''{{Airplane}} 2: The Sequel''. Ted Stryker leaves one behind when he escapes from the insane asylum.

* In ''SupermanII'' Lex Luthor goes one better and creates holograms of himself and his henchman to fool the guard.

* ''IrresponsibleCaptainTylor''. Empress Azalyn leaves a stuffed kid's toy in her bunk, while supposedly prisoner on the Soyokaze, so she can sneak off to Captain Tylor's room.

* ''IrresponsibleCaptainTylor''.

* In ''{{Chocolat}}'', Luc pads his bed (with crumpled drawing paper) so he can sneak out to his grandmother's birthday party.

* In the original book version of ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', Literature/JamesBond does this to fool the mob hitmen hired to burn the motel down.

* Done in the second season premiere of ''CovertAffairs'' when Ben and Annie narrowly escape some assassins in a hospital.

* ''[[MrBean Mr. Bean]]'' did this once so he was at the front of the line for the big New Year's sale.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', when Alex's parents discover his SleepingDummy, his mom's first response is to ask, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "What is our son doing with a male mannequin head in his room?"]]

* In ComicBook/{{Runaways}}, when Alex's parents discover his SleepingDummy, his mom's first response is to ask, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "What is our son doing with a male mannequin head in his room?"]]

* In Scott Westerfeld's {{Uglies}}, Tally puts a portable heater under her covers to convince the heat-sensitive room that she's still in bed.

* In the original book version of ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', JamesBond does this to fool the mob hitmen hired to burn the motel down.

* Played with Assassin's Creed III by the bad guys. Connor is in a prison with [[spoiler: Hickey]], and plans to murder him in his cell. When he tries strangling, but it's neither Hickey nor a dummy, [[spoiler: but the already-dead prison warden, and both Hickey and Charles are behind him, ready to pin the death on him, plus an assassination attempt against George Washington.]]

* This is a favourite tactic of JonahHex, and has saved his life on countless occassions.

* Surprisingly, played utterly straight in the ultra-gritty ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' story "Troika: Dark Rider": Two Ukrainian gangsters open fire on what they believe to be the body of the Dark Rider (who has defected from his underworld allies to become a [[DirtyCommies Dirty Commie]]). They instead discover that they have just machine-gunned a stack of pillows covered by a bedspread, and are still standing in shock when the ''real'' Dark Rider appears from around a corner and shoots them both in the head.