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* In ''Film/TroubleMan'', T visits the record office at the police station and has his girlfriend Cleo call the office, pretending to be a college newspaper journalist researching for an article about government jobs for graduates. While the officer who works there talks to her, T steals his gun from the evidence cabinet. At the end of the movie, he persuades a policewoman to pretend to misunderstand the codes she works with. While the officer is explaining them to her, T places the gun back in the evidence cabinet so no one will suspect anything.
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* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad''. Amanda Waller pulls a nasty one [[spoiler:when most of the Suicide Squad are massacred when they land on Corto Maltese only to find the military waiting in ambush. We then cut to a second Suicide Squad who are landing unopposed on another part of the island, who turn out to be the real protagonists of the movie (along with a couple of survivors of the first Squad).]]
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* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad''. Amanda Waller pulls a nasty one [[spoiler:when most of the Suicide Squad are massacred when after they land on Corto Maltese only to find the military waiting in ambush. We Turns out Waller was expecting this as we then cut to a second Suicide Squad who are landing unopposed on another part of the island, who turn out to be the real protagonists of the movie (along with a couple of survivors of the first Squad).]]
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* ''Film/{{Tremors}}''. The Graboid monsters live underground but can sense vibrations and use them to hunt humans. Several times characters try to distract the Graboids away from their prey by stamping on the ground. The last Graboid "Stumpy", however, eventually figures this out and [[ItCanThink merely pretends to act like it's fooled by sliding back into the ground and hoping one of the heroes will fall for the counter-trick]]. They have to restort to one last desperate gamble to take it down.
** "Hey, [[TheLoad Melvin]]! Wanna make a buck?"
** "Hey, [[TheLoad Melvin]]! Wanna make a buck?"
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* ''Film/{{Tremors}}''. The Graboid monsters live underground but can sense vibrations and use them to hunt humans. Several times characters try to distract the Graboids away from their prey by stamping on the ground. The last Graboid "Stumpy", however, eventually figures this out and [[ItCanThink merely pretends to act like it's fooled by sliding back into the ground and hoping one of the heroes will fall for the counter-trick]]. They have to restort resort to one last desperate gamble to take it down.
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* ''Fanfic/AllAssortedAnimorphsAUs'': "What if Tobias wasn't stuck in morph?" starts with a group of Hork-Bajir (including Jara Hamee) in the Yeerk Pool tipping their cage over, alerting the attention of the Controllers and giving Tobias time to escape before the two-hour limit is up.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', Jasmine tries to distract Jafar by pretending she's been made to fall in love with him, so the other heroes can grab Genie's lamp back.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': Jasmine tries to distract Jafar by pretending she's been made to fall in love with him, so the other heroes Aladdin can grab Genie's lamp back.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', when Lucifer the cat is blocking the door to outside, Jaq comes up with the idea to have one of the mice get his attention while the others get breakfast. Unfortunately, when [[DrawingStraws using their tails]] to [[WhoWillBellTheCat choose who would do it]], Jaq ends up picking ''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard his own tail]]''. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint While Gus shakes his hand in congratulations]], they other mice [[HatsOffToTheDead feel for Jaq]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}': when Lucifer the cat is blocking the door to outside, Jaq comes up with the idea to have one of the mice get his attention while the others get breakfast. Unfortunately, when [[DrawingStraws using their tails]] to [[WhoWillBellTheCat choose who would do it]], Jaq ends up picking ''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard his own tail]]''. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint While Gus shakes his hand in congratulations]], they other mice [[HatsOffToTheDead feel for Jaq]].
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-->'''Timon:''' So what's the plan for getting past [the hyenas]?\\
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-->'''Timon:''' [[HeinousHyena Hyenas.]] I ''[[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes hate]]'' hyenas. So what's the your plan for getting past [the hyenas]?\\those guys?\\
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', while at a diner, Pacha overhears Yzma and learns she plans to murder Kuzco. To distract Yzma so he and Kuzco can escape, Pacha lies to the waitress claiming that it's Yzma's birthday and asks for a celebration. Yzma's suddenly mobbed by the diner staff singing "Happy Birthday" to her while Pacha drags Kuzco away.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', while ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': While at a diner, Mudka's Meat Hut, Pacha overhears Yzma and learns she plans of her plan to murder Kuzco. To distract Yzma so he and Kuzco can escape, Pacha lies to the waitress claiming that it's Yzma's birthday and asks for a celebration. Yzma's suddenly mobbed by the diner staff singing "Happy Birthday" to her while Pacha drags Kuzco away.
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-->'''Cletus''': Guess how I'm doing this!\\
'''Russ Cargill''': Generations of inbreeding?
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I do it!\\
'''Russ Cargill''':Generations Four generations of inbreeding?
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* Invoked in ''WesternAnimation/PigletsBigMovie'' when Rabbit orders Pooh to distract Kanga, which would work if Pooh was actually good at distracting people on purpose. Ultimately results in ThrowingTheDistraction when Kanga picks up on Pooh's later attempts even as Pooh fails to realize it.
--> '''Rabbit''': Talk to her! Very hard! So that she doesn't notice anything!\\
'''Pooh''': ''laughing softly'' Of course. ''Humming'' Oh, Kanga. Um.... ''whispers'' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Talk to her very hard about ''What?'']]\\
'''Rabbit:''' ''Horrified reaction'' Anything!!!
--> '''Rabbit''': Talk to her! Very hard! So that she doesn't notice anything!\\
'''Pooh''': ''laughing softly'' Of course. ''Humming'' Oh, Kanga. Um.... ''whispers'' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Talk to her very hard about ''What?'']]\\
'''Rabbit:''' ''Horrified reaction'' Anything!!!
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* In a ''ComicStrip/ModestyBlaise'' story Modesty and Willy have the final fight on a chairlift in Italy. Modesty tosses the new character Marge a gun and asks her to distract the next guy coming up. She hides the gun behind her back and asks (in broken Italian) 'What is the way to Mandalay'. It works nicely.
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* ''ComicBook/RedRobin'': The villains pull off a devastatingly successful distraction when they attack multiple League of Assassins members out on assignment while Goliath and Sac infiltrate The Cradle and systematically kill every League member present.
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** ''ComicBook/RedRobin'': The villains pull off a devastatingly successful distraction when they attack multiple League of Assassins members out on assignment while Goliath and Sac infiltrate The Cradle and systematically kill every League memberpresent. present.
** In ''ComicBook/TheAttackOfTheAnnihilator'', ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} hurls a smoke bomb to keep the Annihilator confused and distracted while she picks an unconscious Supergirl and runs away.
** ''ComicBook/RedRobin'': The villains pull off a devastatingly successful distraction when they attack multiple League of Assassins members out on assignment while Goliath and Sac infiltrate The Cradle and systematically kill every League member
** In ''ComicBook/TheAttackOfTheAnnihilator'', ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} hurls a smoke bomb to keep the Annihilator confused and distracted while she picks an unconscious Supergirl and runs away.
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* In a ''ComicStrip/ModestyBlaise'' story Modesty and Willy have the final fight on a chairlift in Italy. Modesty tosses the new character Marge a gun and asks her to distract the next guy coming up. She hides the gun behind her back and asks (in broken Italian) 'What is the way to Mandalay'. It works nicely.
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* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'':
** In book #16, they need to distract the staff at the AOL expy to hack into their databases, so Rachel, Tobias, Jake, and Cassie, all in their battle morphs, provide a distraction by mopping the floor.
-->"Is that a bear?"
-->"Yeah."
-->"Is it mopping the floor?"
-->"Uh-huh."
-->"Have we gone nuts?"
-->"I'm not nuts. It's the bear who's nuts. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint That's carpeted up there.]]"
** In ''VISSER'', [[EvilGenius Visser One]] [[spoiler:[[EnemyMine asks the Animorphs for help]] disrupting her trial]]. Turns out a few apex predators bursting into the room is a good distraction.
** A much darker example in the penultimate book, where Jake [[spoiler:[[KillEmAll flushes 17,000 unhosted Yeerks into space.]]]] He and the other Animorphs try to justify it by saying they needed a distraction, but it was really [[spoiler:just an expression of raw revenge for everything the Yeerks and the war had taken from them]]. They also used [[spoiler:the Auxiliary Animorphs and the U.S. military as [[WeAreTeamCannonFodder Team Cannon Fodder]].]]
** In book #16, they need to distract the staff at the AOL expy to hack into their databases, so Rachel, Tobias, Jake, and Cassie, all in their battle morphs, provide a distraction by mopping the floor.
-->"Is that a bear?"
-->"Yeah."
-->"Is it mopping the floor?"
-->"Uh-huh."
-->"Have we gone nuts?"
-->"I'm not nuts. It's the bear who's nuts. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint That's carpeted up there.]]"
** In ''VISSER'', [[EvilGenius Visser One]] [[spoiler:[[EnemyMine asks the Animorphs for help]] disrupting her trial]]. Turns out a few apex predators bursting into the room is a good distraction.
** A much darker example in the penultimate book, where Jake [[spoiler:[[KillEmAll flushes 17,000 unhosted Yeerks into space.]]]] He and the other Animorphs try to justify it by saying they needed a distraction, but it was really [[spoiler:just an expression of raw revenge for everything the Yeerks and the war had taken from them]]. They also used [[spoiler:the Auxiliary Animorphs and the U.S. military as [[WeAreTeamCannonFodder Team Cannon Fodder]].]]
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** Let's not forget Girls Dead Monster, an entire band created for the purpose of distraction.
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** In ''ComicBook/SupermanVsShazam'', Supergirl and ComicBook/MaryMarvel are deliberating how to attack Karmang's castle, when Supergirl's X-Ray Vision tells her Karmang has become so engrossed in the furious battle between Superman and Captain Marvel he has overlooked her and Mary as they tracked his agents down and headed towards his lair. Quickly, Mary Marvel asks the Wizard Shazam to tell Billy to prolong his battle with Superman as she and Kara storm Karmang's castle by surprise.
--->'''Supergirl:''' I'll use my combined X-Ray and telescopic vision to see what [Karmang]'s up to on Mount Olympus! Great Krypton! He's watching Superman and Captain Marvel as they battle-- and he seems almost hypnotized! If he stays that way, Mary and I can launch a surprise attack--!
--->'''Supergirl:''' I'll use my combined X-Ray and telescopic vision to see what [Karmang]'s up to on Mount Olympus! Great Krypton! He's watching Superman and Captain Marvel as they battle-- and he seems almost hypnotized! If he stays that way, Mary and I can launch a surprise attack--!
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** Another example was during the Tuhanka's Arc, where's the team needs to distract a Reaper in oder to release the cure of the Genophague. That distraction comes in the form of the biggest [[SandWorm Thresher Maw]] in Galaxy's history.
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** Another example was during the Tuhanka's Arc, Tuchanka arc, where's the team needs to distract a Reaper in oder order to release the cure of the Genophague. Genophage cure. That distraction comes in the form of Kalros, the biggest [[SandWorm Thresher Maw]] in Galaxy's history.the galaxy's history. [[spoiler:It turns out far better than expected; Kalros doesn't just distract the Reaper, she ''kills'' it.]]
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* In ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'', the gang likes to use these just prior to a heist to draw the attention of the law elsewhere. In the Valentine bank robbery, Karen will provide a distraction with the nature of it depending on the player. In the Saint Denis heist, Hosea and Abigail trigger an explosive several blocks away. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for the gang, the Pinkertons were tipped off about this distraction and managed to capture and kill Hosea and laid siege on the bank, forcing the gang to flee.]] Later on, Charles distracts a group of armed men into chasing him so [[spoiler: the rest of the group can board a ship to leave Saint Denis.]]
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* ''Literature/StarWarsHonorAmongThieves'':
** Chewbacca is already attracting stares just by being a Wookiee on an Imperial world, so just to ensure that all eyes are on him, Han suggests he ''sing'' while Han retrieves Rebel spy Scarlet Hark's instructions on how to contact her from a nearby fountain. Chewie very grudgingly complies.
** In order for the ''Millennium Falcon'' to land on the planet Seymarti without the Star Destroyer in orbit shooting it down, Luke and his Red Wave squadron of X-wings engage the Star Destroyer in battle while the ''Falcon'' sneaks past on minimal power. Afterward, the X-wings conduct an airstrike on the Imperial ground troops so Han's party can get past them, again.
** Chewbacca is already attracting stares just by being a Wookiee on an Imperial world, so just to ensure that all eyes are on him, Han suggests he ''sing'' while Han retrieves Rebel spy Scarlet Hark's instructions on how to contact her from a nearby fountain. Chewie very grudgingly complies.
** In order for the ''Millennium Falcon'' to land on the planet Seymarti without the Star Destroyer in orbit shooting it down, Luke and his Red Wave squadron of X-wings engage the Star Destroyer in battle while the ''Falcon'' sneaks past on minimal power. Afterward, the X-wings conduct an airstrike on the Imperial ground troops so Han's party can get past them, again.
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** ''[[Literature/StarWarsHonorAmongThieves Honor Among Thieves]]'':
*** Chewbacca is already attracting stares just by being a Wookiee on an Imperial world, so just to ensure that all eyes are on him, Han suggests he ''sing'' while Han retrieves Rebel spy Scarlet Hark's instructions on how to contact her from a nearby fountain. Chewie very grudgingly complies.
** *** In order for the ''Millennium Falcon'' to land on the planet Seymarti without the Star Destroyer in orbit shooting it down, Luke and his Red Wave squadron of X-wings engage the Star Destroyer in battle while the ''Falcon'' sneaks past on minimal power. Afterward, the X-wings conduct an airstrike on the Imperial ground troops so Han's party can get past them, again.again.
** ''[[Literature/StarWarsRazorsEdge Razor's Edge]]'': It takes multiple layers of distractions to allow the ''Aegis'' to escape the SpacePirates' clearinghouse by ensuring that the pirates are too occupied to attack it.
*** Han suggests setting off an explosion in another part of the clearinghouse, far from the ''Aegis'', to draw the pirates away, and Leia decides to blow up the command center--and possibly BigBad Viest herself, knowing that there will be pirates who want to seize power from her whether she survives or not.
*** To convince the pirates in their ships around the clearinghouse that they are under attack, she rigs up a transmission suggesting a large force of Imperials have arrived, by doctoring the ''Aegis'''s recording of the Death Star and its support ships arriving in Alderaanian space before it destroyed the planet.
*** When neither of those are enough to scare away most of the pirates between Leia's party and their ship, Han calls Luke and Chewbacca in the newly arrived ''Millennium Falcon'' and has them ''actually attack'' the clearinghouse to convince the pirates to run.
** ''[[Literature/StarWarsHonorAmongThieves Honor Among Thieves]]'':
*** Chewbacca is already attracting stares just by being a Wookiee on an Imperial world, so just to ensure that all eyes are on him, Han suggests he ''sing'' while Han retrieves Rebel spy Scarlet Hark's instructions on how to contact her from a nearby fountain. Chewie very grudgingly complies.
** ''[[Literature/StarWarsRazorsEdge Razor's Edge]]'': It takes multiple layers of distractions to allow the ''Aegis'' to escape the SpacePirates' clearinghouse by ensuring that the pirates are too occupied to attack it.
*** Han suggests setting off an explosion in another part of the clearinghouse, far from the ''Aegis'', to draw the pirates away, and Leia decides to blow up the command center--and possibly BigBad Viest herself, knowing that there will be pirates who want to seize power from her whether she survives or not.
*** To convince the pirates in their ships around the clearinghouse that they are under attack, she rigs up a transmission suggesting a large force of Imperials have arrived, by doctoring the ''Aegis'''s recording of the Death Star and its support ships arriving in Alderaanian space before it destroyed the planet.
*** When neither of those are enough to scare away most of the pirates between Leia's party and their ship, Han calls Luke and Chewbacca in the newly arrived ''Millennium Falcon'' and has them ''actually attack'' the clearinghouse to convince the pirates to run.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', when Lucifer the cat is blocking the door to outside, Jaq comes up with the idea to have one of the mice get his attention while the others get breakfast. Unfortunately, when [[DrawingStraws using their tails]] to [[WhoWillBellTheCat choose who would do it]], Jaq ends up picking ''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard his own tail]]''. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint While Gus shakes his hand in congratulations]], they other mice [[HatsOffToTheDead feel for Jaq]].
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-->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Patrick! You call that a distraction?!\\
'''Patrick:''' Well, I had to go to the bathroom.\\
'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Well, I got my hands dirty for nothing!
'''Patrick:''' Well, I had to go to the bathroom.\\
'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Well, I got my hands dirty for nothing!
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* In ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'' Henry (and later Ellie) do this twice. The first one [[MemeticMutation famously fails]], while the other works.
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* In ''ComicBook/WonderWomanTheTrueAmazon'' this is played for horror when Diana unleashes monsters to win a chariot race, which leads to several deaths, injuries, and destruction.
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** The Assassination Island arc employed this trope several times. Makes sense, since they need to advance quietly to their goal on the top floor of a hotel. Irina [[DistractedByTheSexy uses her feminine wiles]] to distract a group of guards to buy time for her students; Kimura insults two guards to make them [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy chase him]].
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** The Assassination Island "Assassination Island" arc employed this trope several times. Makes sense, since they need to advance quietly to their goal on the top floor of a hotel. Irina [[DistractedByTheSexy uses her feminine wiles]] to distract a group of guards to buy time for her students; Kimura insults two guards to make them [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy chase him]].
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* On ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', as things look grim in the fight against Nappa, Piccolo devises a CombinationAttack that involves Krillin charging at Nappa, creating a distraction so that Piccolo can grab his [[AchillesHeel tail]], and then Gohan attacking. Unfortunately, elite Saiyans train themselves so that their tails aren't such an easily exploited weak point, and the whole plan falls apart.
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* On ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', as ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': As things look grim in the fight against Nappa, Piccolo devises a CombinationAttack that involves Krillin charging at Nappa, creating a distraction so that Piccolo can grab his [[AchillesHeel tail]], and then Gohan attacking. Unfortunately, elite Saiyans train themselves so that their tails aren't such an easily exploited weak point, and the whole plan falls apart.
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** In the third movie ''[[Anime/{{Pokemon3}} Spell of the Unown]]'', Brock and Misty serve as distractions for Molly so Ash can reach his mom while they keep Molly occupied with battling them.
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* In the ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} story arc ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', Kara Zor-El and Dr. Light come up with a way to stop Bizarrogirl: Supergirl will engage and keep her Bizarro counterpart busy as Dr. Light gets ready to shoot a depowering energy blast.
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** Inthe ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} story arc ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', Kara Zor-El and Dr. Light come up with a way to stop Bizarrogirl: Supergirl ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} will engage and keep her Bizarro counterpart busy as Dr. Light gets ready to shoot a depowering energy blast.
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** In ''ComicBook/TheKillersOfKrypton'', Supergirl needs to escape from a squad of Green Lanterns surrounding her, so she looks up briefly before rocketing downwards, succeeding in catching off guard the Lanterns who expected her to fly off upwards.
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* A villainous example in ''FanFic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace''. The plot of Episode 13 is Splash Woman causing havoc in Hawaii so Wily can pull off a bank robbery in Hollywood.
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* A villainous example in ''FanFic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace''.''Fanfic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace''. The plot of Episode 13 is Splash Woman causing havoc in Hawaii so Wily can pull off a bank robbery in Hollywood.
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** Chewbacca is already attracting stares just by being a Wookiee on an Imperial world, so just to ensure that all eyes are on him, Han suggests he ''sing'' while Han retrieves Rebel spy Scarlet Hark's instructions on how to contact her from a nearby fountain. Chewie very grudgingly complies.
** In order for the ''Millennium Falcon'' to land on the planet Seymarti without the Star Destroyer in orbit shooting it down, Luke and his Red Wave squadron of X-wings engage the Star Destroyer in battle while the ''Falcon'' sneaks past on minimal power. Afterward, the X-wings conduct an airstrike on the Imperial ground troops so Han's party can get past them, again.
** Chewbacca is already attracting stares just by being a Wookiee on an Imperial world, so just to ensure that all eyes are on him, Han suggests he ''sing'' while Han retrieves Rebel spy Scarlet Hark's instructions on how to contact her from a nearby fountain. Chewie very grudgingly complies.
** In order for the ''Millennium Falcon'' to land on the planet Seymarti without the Star Destroyer in orbit shooting it down, Luke and his Red Wave squadron of X-wings engage the Star Destroyer in battle while the ''Falcon'' sneaks past on minimal power. Afterward, the X-wings conduct an airstrike on the Imperial ground troops so Han's party can get past them, again.
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See also RightUnderTheirNoses, TrojanPrisonerPloy.TrojanPrisonerPloy, WhyAreYouLookingAtMeLikeThat. Contrast HiddenInPlainSight.
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* Largo of ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}'' provides the most epic distraction [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1197 here]] and [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1198 here]]. Yes it was intentional.
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* Largo of ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}'' provides the most epic distraction [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1197 here]] and [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1198 here]]. Yes it was intentional. [[spoiler:He had just let Yuki take his phone and was giving her an opportunity to slip away.]]
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''[[[GilliganCut two minutes later, Flintlocke is undressed]]]''
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** In Chris Roberson's Literature/ImperialFists novel ''Sons of Dorn'', Captain Taelos suspects something when they arrive to find the Chaos forces gone and an attack being launched on a neighboring planet.
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** In Chris Roberson's Literature/ImperialFists novel ''Sons of Dorn'', ''Literature/SonsOfDorn'', Captain Taelos suspects something when they arrive to find the Chaos forces gone and an attack being launched on a neighboring planet.
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* ''Film/PsychOut'': When the police come to the pad looking for Jenny, Ben distracts them by starting a brawl.
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* ''Manga/KaijuGirlCaramelise'': When Rairi falls in the lake at Okutama and gets her makeup washed off, Kuroe resolves to undergo a PartialTransformation to provide enough of a distraction for Rairi to reapply her makeup. Unfortunately, Kuroe fully transforms into [[{{Kaiju}} Harugon]] and makes things worse.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': In the New York special, Hawk Moth wants to get his hands on the Eagle Miraculous formerly owned by the Marquis de Lafayette and currently on display in a New York museum. So he akumatizes one of the local supervillains and... has him go steal Lafayette's ''sword'' on display right next to it. Then, while the local superheroes (plus Ladybug and Cat Noir) are busy chasing him around the city, he strolls in, grabs the Miraculous, and leaves, completely unopposed.
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** In ''Fanfic/RetroChill'', Calvin gets Bob to wave his arms around so he can escape his cell again.
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** Calvin gets Bob to wave his arms around so he can escape his cell again.
** Calvin gets Bob to wave his arms around so he can escape his cell again.
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* In ''FanFic/SophisticationAndBetrayal'', the protagonist and Rarity discuss ways to distract [[spoiler: Slate]] so they can break into his house and look for evidence of his stalking activities. After much debate, they eventually agree to use Rarity herself as a lure.
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* In ''FanFic/SophisticationAndBetrayal'', ''Fanfic/SophisticationAndBetrayal'', the protagonist and Rarity discuss ways to distract [[spoiler: Slate]] so they can break into his house and look for evidence of his stalking activities. After much debate, they eventually agree to use Rarity herself as a lure.
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* ''FanFic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness'' has two villainous examples:
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* In ''Fanfic/MaybeTheLastArchieStory'', [[ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch Salem]] is sent to distract Mad Doctor Doom -no relation with the ''Marvel Universe'' villain- while [[ComicBook/ArchieComics Archie's gang]] rescue Sabrina. When they rush into the basement, Archie and his friends find Doom trying to stop Salem from scratching his face and hands ''further''.
