History Main / SleightOfTongue

Cue the DownerEnding, right? Not so much; as it works out, during the kiss she slipped into his mouth the key to his shackles, or a lock pick or the appropriate piece of {{Phlebotinum}}, ensuring that our intrepid hero lives on to fight another day.

* At the end of ''HitmanBloodMoney'' [[spoiler: Dianna slips 47 the antidote of the feign-death poison she injected into him earlier through her lipstick. Subverted in that if the player doesn't juggle the joysticks fast enough to get his heart rate up, he'll slowly be pushed into the giant crematorium oven]]

* ''TheGreatTrainRobbery'', 1979

* Played more or less straight in the climax of [=~S. M. Stirling~=]'s ''[[TheDraka Under the Yoke]]'': [[spoiler: the protagonist doesn't escape, but does manage to slip the microfilm to a supporting character who ''does.'']]

* Played with in ''{{Angel}}'', when Doyle hands off his psychic whammy to Cordelia before he does the HeroicSacrifice thing.

* In the ''StarTrek: DeepSpaceNine'' episode "Our Man Bashir" a GenreSavvy Julian Bashir gets out of a pair of handcuffs in this manner via a holographic Bond Girl (who happens to be storing the genetic pattern of Jadzia Dax due to some TechnoBabble plot occurrences, and so [[FetishFuel looks just like her]].)

* At the end of {{Hitman}}: Blood Money[[spoiler: Dianna slips 47 the antidote of the feign-death poison she injected into him earlier through her lipstick. Subverted in that if the player doesn't juggle the joysticks fast enough to get his heart rate up, he'll slowly be pushed into the giant crematorium oven]]

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* [[{{Eat-Man}} Rain slipping Bolt]] the last piece of her gynormous {{BFS}} in the pick illustrated above.

* In ''FanFic/ACureForLove'' [[Manga/DeathNote Misa]] attempts to do this, trying to restore [[spoiler: Light's [[MemoryGambit Kira memories]]]] with a scrap of the Death Note she has hidden under her tongue, but it doesn't work and Light pushes her away.

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* Turns out this is the trick behind a good deal of stage magic. In particular, Houdini's wife is said to have aided him in this fashion on several occasions.
* This is a favourite means of passing drugs to someone during a prison visit. Probably any prison show has depicted this at one time or another.

* In the manga ''RedRiver'', Rusafa is framed for assaulting a nobleman's daughter and is placed out in the desert, his arms and legs all stretched out and tied with leather and is to be left there for five days. If he manages to escape or is alive when the five days are up, he can go free because 'the gods allowed him to live'. Yuri goes to him (accompanied by guards), kisses him and passes him a sharp sliver of obsidian, which he somehow manages to spit out towards his hand, pick up and cut himself free with.

[[caption-width:262:Is that a plot device in your mouth OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe?]]

* In TheATeam [[spoiler: the team is being carted back to prison at the end when Face reveals that Sosa used their kiss goodbye to slip him the key to their cuffs.]]

* Towards the end of ''009-1'', Mylene is captured by the Eastern Bloc. She manipulates the guard into kissing his. While their lips are locked, she tongues a CyanidePill into his mouth. After he falls over dead, she picks the locks to her restraints and escapes.

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[[caption-width:262:That a plot device in your mouth OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe?]]

* Reversed with [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Kaji slipping the microfiche to Misato]] before she loose-ends him.
** [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] in that it's passed, and separately...extracted...in an earlier, [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean more intimate]] scene. Also in that Kaji could have just as easily been killed by Gendo or a random [[{{MIB}} NERV agent]], all we know for sure is that both he and Misato knew he number was up.
** The theory that Misato killed him has been {{Jossed}} by Anno. One of the few times he purposely went out of his way to NOT give the ShrugOfGod

* ''TheDresdenFiles'' has Elane subtly reminding Harry how to burst out of her spell before she exits stage left.

* KateBush depicted Houdini's trick in her song "Houdini" and on the cover of her album ''[[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kate_bush_the_dreaming_1982.jpg The Dreaming]]''. Take a good look in her mouth.

* RealLife; turns out it's the trick behind a good deal of stage magic. In particular, Houdini's wife is said to have aided him in this fashion on several occasions.
** Not to mention a favourite means of passing drugs to someone during a prison visit. Probably any prison show has depicted this at one time or another.

** The theory that Misato killed him has been [[Jossed]] by Anno. One of the few times he purposely went out of his way to NOT give the ShrugOfGod

* Played more or less straight in the climax of S. M. Stirling's ''Under the Yoke,'' [[spoiler: the protagonist doesn't escape, but does manage to slip the microfilm to a supporting character who ''does.'']]