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* In ''Fanfic/AvengerOfSteel'', based on Matt Murdock's reaction to learning that 'Superman' once needed his mother to pick him up from school because he had trouble with his enhanced senses, the general public all assume that Superman is just Superman all the time, which Clark is actually uncomfortable with as it creates high expectations of him that he isn't sure he can fulfil.

* In the ''Fanfic/DementedVerse'', Dean and Sam manage to pass themselves off as wizards without ever doing a single spell and only Harry's closest friends knowing the truth, starting with Harry claiming he met them while he was hunting for horcruxes, relying on Harry's reputation to deter too many intimate questions and just give enough generic details to satisfy casual inquiries.

* In ''Fanfic/ItachiIsThatABaby'', Sasuke has been captured and brought back to Konoha and is to be interrogated. However, the Military Police chief insists the interrogation falls under his jurisdiction and orders everyone out before interrogating Sasuke. Afterwards he refuses to allow Sasuke to be interrogated again, citing unnecessary cruelty. Thing is, ''Sasuke'' is the Military Police chief. Even when others complain, Tsunade admits he's technically right.

* In ''Fanfic/TheNewGuild'', Sandra Battye picks up an hitherto lost and unclaimed title for her Trade Guild. She cannot use the appropriate title because another, larger and more powerful, Guild has pre-empted her. Against Mrs. Rosie Palm's vigorous objection, Lord Vetinari grants Sandra title to the name...[[note]]LaymansTerms: Palm's Guild, the prostitute Guild, calls itself the "Guild of Seamstresses" as legally-allowed InsistentTerminology. Battye decides to [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard screw with her]] by claiming the "Guild of Prostitutes" name for her Guild of professional clothing repairers. Vetinari, as Patriarch of the City, allows the name because seeing Palm have a conniption about it [[ItAmusedMe is funny as hell]].[[/note]]

** Cleon the Butcher is going to attack Meereen. Daenerys has the numbers to defeat them, but knows it would turn into a PyrrhicVictory, and her dragons are not trained enough to be useful in warfare. So, [[spoiler: Jorah and others make dragon-like kites to trick Cleon's forces and distract them from the real attack coming from their backs.]]

** In "Enough Rope", Lila has the unmitigated gall to accuse Marinette of secretly working with Hawkmoth literal ''moments'' after Marinette has just [[spoiler:fought off akumatization]] in front of her and Alya. Alya nearly matches Lila's audacity shortly afterwards: when Ladybug and Chat Noir call her out, Alya accuses them of taking things too seriously, claiming that such MaliciousSlander is no big deal [[spoiler:and revealing that she knows about Lila's supposed 'lying disease']]. This backfires.
** During "Birds of a Feather", Lila harasses Marinette in hopes of extracting information about Felix's hobbies and schedule from her, claiming that there's no reason ''not'' to share such 'harmless secrets' freely... unless, of course, they're ''hiding something''. Marinette counters by asking Lila to share a 'harmless secret' of her own: when was the last time she had her period? Lila sputters, but the point is made.
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14792883 Fox Rain]]'' Vorpika (Lila Rossi's alias as a superhero and Holder of the Fox Miraculous) decides to convince Gabriel to let Adrien back into school after he had been pulled out for stealing the Miraculous Book from his safe... So she claims she had brainwashed Adrien into doing it for her, hinting that Literature/ThePiedPiperofHamelin was a past Fox Miraculous Holder to give herself credibility, and throwing in her suspicions on Gabriel being [[BigBad Papillon]] (in which she didn't even believe anymore), that she covertly declares having a small dick through an incomplete movie quote that most of those present would be able to recognize (and laugh about), to keep him from thinking about it too much. ''It works''.

* In ''[[Fanfic/ApotheosisMHA Apotheosis]]'', Midoriya/Apotheosis (a very dangerous and well known villain) manages [[spoiler:to convince several high-ranking politicians (including the Prime Minister) to create the Hero Regulation Department with him (Midoriya) as the Director while also giving him amnesty]]. Many of the Heroes are ''shocked'' at his audacity.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4590441/1/Cheaters-Prosper Cheaters Prosper]]'' Naruto walks up to Kabuto, takes his answers and leaves him his own blank sheet. ''Then'' he gets the team to pass the second part of the test by swiping the other necessary scroll before the start of the test, sealing the tied-up Sasuke and Sakura in a scroll, and transforming himself in a needle stuck to Anko's foot, resulting in ''the examiner carrying the whole team past the test''.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8060650/5/Incident-Report Incident Report]]'': In chapter 5, the Konoha elders declare Naruto isn't fit to become the next Hokage [[ItMakesSenseInContext after Kurama attacked the Iron Country's sacred phoenix and fed it to Naruto]], though the rest of Konoha isn't keen on anyone ''but'' Naruto leading them. Though since the shinobi can't go on strike without being executed for treason, they make their point by acting as crazy as possible while remaining on duty. Example range from the Hyuuga clan claiming they're blind because they don't have pupils, Kakashi declaring that he'll [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist make all female shinobi wear tiny miniskirts when he's Hokage]], and the children at the academy (at Iruka's suggestion) going wild against the teachers. At the end of the chapter, they successfully pressure the council into making Naruto the next Hokage again.

* In ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'', to solve the Hyuga affair, Jiraiya proposes that he and Tsunade go and confront the Raikage and demand that he acknowledges Hinata's kidnapping and apologizes to them. Since they never officially returned to active duty, Kumo has no way to know they're back in Konoha, and they could act as a deterrent in case they might want to go to war. Surprisingly, it works.

* The premise of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/42388437 A Different Father]]'' is Buggy learning slightly earlier that Ace is Roger's son. As such, he hijacks all of Marineford's video transponders and claims during the execution that ''he'' is Ace's father all while calling out the marines for going after his son just because the boy has a dangerous father. While the higher ups know the truth, most of the marines and the world at large buy into it, especially since Ace quickly starts playing along, apologizing to his "dad" for being nothing but trouble.

** How does Boss, Zoro and Sanji win their round in the Davy Back Fight? Beat up the opposition before the game even begins under cover of fog. How do they defend themselves when they're spattered with the opposition's blood? [[BlatantLies Declare that they went hunting under cover of fog.]] How do they rationalize ''that''? Easy; they're ''badasses.''

* This ends up working ''against'' Jaune in ''Fanfic/ProfessorArc''. [[spoiler:After Cinder has him arrested by Ironwood for treason, he decides to confess to his lies to the General. Unfortunately, Ironwood doesn't believe him. Why? Because the idea of an inexperienced 17 year old with ''zero'' combat experience becoming a respected teacher and coming out on top of several altercations is too ridiculous to for him believe]].

** In the backstory, this is what caused the whole AU. Nicholas Arc, a powerful huntsman, managed to survive the Grimm and ended up captured by Salem, the immortal Queen of the Grimm and eternal enemy of all humanity. After she tortured and interrogated him for a few days, she didn't know what else to do with him, so she decided to kill him, but offered him a LastRequest. [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu He requested to have sex with her]]. She was so impressed with his audacity that she decided to grant his request... and keep granting it. Twenty-five years later, they have eight children and are a loving family despite the whole "waging war against the entire world" thing.

* In the WhatIf fanfic ''Fanfic/AYoungGirlsDelinquencyRecord'', Tanya is on the run as [[TheMostWanted the world's first international criminal]], when, in disguised as Jennifer Ecks, is in in the U.S. There, in a sequence of events caused by an drunken incident, she ends up starring in a supporting role as ''herself'' in a film that centers around her actions during the bombing of Arene, which is considered one of the, if not ''the'', worst action in the Great War. The movie ends up being the most successful film of its time and [[SpotlightStealingSquad Tanya overshadows her more top billed co-stars]]. When evidence is released that Tanya is Jennifer Ecks, everyone who saw the film consider it such a poor pseudonym for her to do such an ridiculous thing that they view her role in the movie as nothing more than an [[{{Troll}} open taunt to her Interpol pursers]].

* ''Fanfic/SonicXDarkChaos'': [[spoiler: Maledict secretly controlling the Metarex using an incredibly poor disguise]] was basically this, and the only reason it worked was because neither Dark Oak nor Tsali could believe that [[spoiler:Maledict]] would be able to pull it off.

* ''Fanfic/StrangeTimesAreUponUs'': Ila'kshath's answer to Brokosh complaining about him talking to a 19th century American boy. (Ila'kshath, a Gorn, was hunting the same deer as the kid, got seen, and said, "Blink, boy--your eyes are stuck!" The kid fainted.)

** Tarkin has raised a Stormtroopers legion and the Death Star Troopers corps using Imperial resources and recruits, openly hand-picking the members so he'll be able to turn them into Rebel units at a later date, something he did fairly early with the Death Troopers of his legion. While he's not too open with the Death Star Troopers, the Legion ''Executrix'', aside for a core of Clone Troopers, is chosen ''entirely'' from veterans of the Outland Regions Security Force that [[HeroWorshipper collectively worship him as a hero]] and would quickly follow Tarkin in the Rebellion the moment he'd announce his actual allegiance, and got away with it by dressing it up as maintaning their loyalty by honoring their valor.

* Brad frequently does this in ''Fanfic/{{FREAKINGENSOKYO}}''. They get up to such ludicrous hijinks that audacity is often the only thing they ''can'' take refuge in. Sailing [[ShirtlessScene shirtless]] on a table, flying on a second table propelled by [[ImprobableWeaponUser magic plant hangers]], weaving a rope out of women's underwear, flailing in the mud in a [[GravityScrew gravity-destroying]] space suit; you name it, Brad's done it. Most of the time, his friends just sigh, shake their heads and get on with their lives.

* In ''Fanfic/BeforeTheDawn'', when the Cullens arrange to send a large group of vampires [[spoiler:after Joham]], Rosalie, Emmett and Alice acquire a large range of motorcycles and arrange a banner displaying "Muscular Dystrophy Association: Ride for the Cure", providing a plausible reason for large numbers of people to be travelling in the same direction while covered up.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4590441/1/Cheaters-Prosper Cheaters Prosper]]'' Naruto does something similar: he walked up to Kabuto, took his answers and left him his own blank sheet. ''Then'' he gets the team to pass the second part of the test by swiping the other necessary scroll before the start of the test, sealing the tied-up Sasuke and Sakura in a scroll, and transforming himself in a needle stuck to Anko's foot, resulting in ''the examiner carrying the whole team past the test''.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8060650/5/Incident-Report Incident Report]]'': In chapter 5, the Konoha elders declare Naruto isn't fit to become the next Hokage [[ItMakesSenseInContext after Kurama attacked the Iron Country's sacred phoenix and fed it to Naruto]], though the rest of Konoha isn't keen on anyone ''but'' Naruto leading them. Though since the shinobi can't go on strike without being executed for treason, they make their point by acting as crazy as possible while remaining on duty. Example range from the Hyuuga clan claiming their blind because they don't have pupils, Kakashi declaring that he'll make [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist make all female shinobi wear tiny miniskirts when he's Hokage]], and the children at the academy (at Iruka's suggestion) going wild against the teachers. At the end of the chapter, they successfully pressure the council into making Naruto the next Hokage again.