History Main / StagingTheEavesdrop

* ''Manga/IsItMyFaultThatIGotBullied'': During chapter 25 [[spoiler: Aizawa confronts Shinji one more time, informing him of the bullying his own daughter went through. He also arranges for Shiori to be in the very next room to listen in on their conversation]].

* In ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'', in the story ''De Gouden Cirkel'' (The Golden Circle), the heroes go up against an evil cult while in China. Wiske plans to allow herself to get abducted by said cult so she can lure them into a trap. To do so, she goes to a restaurant and when placing her order tells the waiter to hurry up since the cult is after her, loud enough for all the customers to hear. Just as she expected, one of the customers is a cult member who immediately calls his fellow cult members.
* In ''Recap/AsterixAtTheOlympicGames'', after Obelix first mentions the leftover cauldron of magic potion, Asterix and Getafix loudly mention other details such as the cauldron being in a small cabin whose door locks bad and which isn't guarded at night. [[spoiler:Getafix mixes some methylene blue into the potion, so when the Romans drink some for the race, their tongue gets colored blue, which Getafix uses as proof to get them disqualified.]]

* In ''[[https://musings-of-apathy.fanficauthors.net/Harry_Potter_and_the_Cracked_Reservoir/index/ Harry Potter and the Cracked Reservoir,]]'' Harry, in order to protect Ginny, arranges for a few Death Eater kids to overhear them arguing about a fake prophecy, one claiming harm to Ginny will result in Harry unlocking his full potential.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', it's revealed that [[spoiler: [[TheMole the fake Moody]] staged a loud conversation with Professor [=McGonagall=] (who had no idea of the impostor Moody's intentions) about the properties of Gillyweed, so that Dobby would overhear and quickly give some to Harry in order for him to complete the second task in the Triwizard Tournament.]]

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Violetta starts talking to Zeetha very loudly to inform the Smoke Knights she's noticed following Agatha's group for the last day or two [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160504 that they're going to be allying with Agatha for the time being:]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': In "Teachers Union", in order to get Mrs. Johnson interested in Coach Pacowski, Clyde and Lincoln sit close to her during lunch and start discussing the good qualities they discovered about the coach, loud enough for her to hear. Later, they use the same trick on Coach Pacowski, by talking about how nobody asked Mrs. Johnson out on National Ask A Teacher Out Day while the coach is within hearing range.

* ''Film/EvilUnderTheSun'': One couple has very loud arguments in a hotel over the husband's infidelity. [[spoiler:They're actually both involved in the husband seducing rich women before murdering them.]] During Poirot's summation, we see it from their window, and they're struggling not to laugh at the melodramatic lines.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Gothic}}'', one of the tasks you need to complete in order to join the Swamp Camp is to find a way of having Baals, i.e. the spiritual leaders of the camp, speak to you. Newcomers are not allowed to speak with Baals, so it must be the Baal who speaks to the newcomer first. Lester, a friendly resident of the camp, suggests that in the case of Baal Namib, what you can do is making him think that you just had a vision from their god and you've renounced the other gods because of it. To do this, Lester and your character stage a comically exaggerated conversation where they almost scream everything they say while standing right next to Baal Namib. It works.
* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'': Mario gets an idea to use this as a distraction: Prince Dreambert and Starlow pretend to know something embarrassing about Bowser and talk about it within earshot of some minions of Bowser's who have successfully stolen an important MacGuffin, and are about to escape with it. While the minions (who think they're ''way'' ahead of Team Mario) are listening to this conversation, Mario and Luigi sneak past them and steal it back.
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona5}}'': It's strongly implied that Ryuji constantly talking in public about being a Phantom is because he actually wants to be found out. His interest in actually helping people seems to pale in comparison to his desire to be in the spotlight, so he's constantly frustrated that it needs to be kept secret. Naturally, he's overheard at multiple points and the group is confronted about it, but it never results in the widescale exposure he seems to want.
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** In "Past Prologue", Garak conducts negotiations with the Duras sisters, Lursa and B'Etor, while he has Bashir hide in a dressing room so he can overhear the conversation and learn of a secret plot.
** In "The Way of the Warrior", Sisko wants to warn the Cardassians about an impending Klingon attack, but doing so openly would violate the Federation-Klingon alliance. The solution is to discuss the matter at a staff meeting, while Garak -- supposedly just a tailor, but actually a Cardassian spy as Sisko knows perfectly well -- drops in to take his measurements.