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* ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000RogueTrader'': A close variant in the Electrodynamic Cenobium: the PlayerParty can attempt to electrocute a group of Chaos cultists with equipment in the room where they're torturing a Tech-Priest. The party is confronted by a cultist and has to either pass a Persuasion check or use a KarmaMeter dialogue option to convince him that they're on his side.
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* In ''Film/AceOfAces'', Jo Cavalier (Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo) attempts an ObfuscatingStupidity variant at a road checkpoint in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany in 1936. It doesn't work, and a car vs motorcycles chase ensues.
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* ''Film/ANewHope'' has Obi-Wan Kenobi using a JediMindTrick to convince the stormtroopers that "These are not the droids you are looking for".
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* Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith served in the RAF in WWII; at one point, after being shot down over Italy, he simply walked through a German checkpoint on a bridge.
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* In ''Film/AceOfAces'', Jo Cavalier (Creator/JeanPaulBelmond) attempts an OffuscatingStupidity variant at a road checkpoint in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany in 1936. It doesn't work, and a car vs motorcycles chase ensues.
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* In ''Film/AceOfAces'', Jo Cavalier (Creator/JeanPaulBelmond) (Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo) attempts an OffuscatingStupidity ObfuscatingStupidity variant at a road checkpoint in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany in 1936. It doesn't work, and a car vs motorcycles chase ensues.
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* In ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'', Barry Allen is driving the military truck that the team is using to get into the Kryptonian ship with Superman's body. As he gives the guard his ID, Cyborg is hacking their system to validate it. Cyborg ''just'' manages to complete the task when the guard checking is about to flag the ID as fake.
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* In ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'', ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' and ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'', Barry Allen is driving the military truck that the team is using to get into the Kryptonian ship with Superman's body. As he gives the guard his ID, Cyborg is hacking their system to validate it. Cyborg ''just'' manages to complete the task when the guard checking is about to flag the ID as fake.
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* In ''Film/JusticeLeague'', ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'', Barry Allen is driving the military truck that the team is using to get into the Kryptonian ship with Superman's body. As he gives the guard his ID, Cyborg is hacking their system to validate it. Cyborg ''just'' manages to complete the task when the guard checking is about to flag the ID as fake.
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* ''Film/VonRyansExpress'' is probably the best-known example, in which a British chaplain who speaks German fluently puts on a German officer's uniform. At the checkpoint, he criticizes the checkpoint commander for not wearing his uniform properly, and threatens to send him to the eastern front.
* ''Film/TheLastSamurai'' has Simon Graham telling the Japanese soldiers guarding Katsumoto that he and some photographers are accompanying the "President of the United States" (really Algren) to photograph Katsumoto before his execution; in reality, they've brought swords and arrows disguised as photography equipment. WordOfGod says that this scene was a deliberate ShoutOut to the ''Von Ryan's Express'' scene.
* ''Film/ANewHope'' has Obi-Wan Kenobi using a JediMindTrick to convince the stormtroopers that "These are not the droids you are looking for".
* ''Film/TheHiddenFortress'', the inspiration for many aspects of ''A New Hope'', has a scene where Makabe gets through a checkpoint by showing the guards one of the sticks with hidden gold. He tells the guard he found it nearby, and keeps demanding that the guard give him back the piece of gold (or at least a reward for finding it), resulting in the guards being so annoyed with him that they send him through just to get rid of him. Earlier in the film, another group try to get through a different checkpoint by waiting until the weather gets foggy, then they will slip through the fog.
* ''Film/TheLastSamurai'' has Simon Graham telling the Japanese soldiers guarding Katsumoto that he and some photographers are accompanying the "President of the United States" (really Algren) to photograph Katsumoto before his execution; in reality, they've brought swords and arrows disguised as photography equipment. WordOfGod says that this scene was a deliberate ShoutOut to the ''Von Ryan's Express'' scene.
* ''Film/ANewHope'' has Obi-Wan Kenobi using a JediMindTrick to convince the stormtroopers that "These are not the droids you are looking for".
* ''Film/TheHiddenFortress'', the inspiration for many aspects of ''A New Hope'', has a scene where Makabe gets through a checkpoint by showing the guards one of the sticks with hidden gold. He tells the guard he found it nearby, and keeps demanding that the guard give him back the piece of gold (or at least a reward for finding it), resulting in the guards being so annoyed with him that they send him through just to get rid of him. Earlier in the film, another group try to get through a different checkpoint by waiting until the weather gets foggy, then they will slip through the fog.
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* In ''{{Film/Valkyrie}}'', Colonel von Stauffenberg gets through a checkpoint at a sealed facility by pretending to call a field marshal, and then offering the telephone to the sergeant guarding the checkpoint, inviting him to explain to a field marshal why he's delaying one of the field marshal's officers. The sergeant declines to answer, and lets Stauffenberg through.
* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': As the heroes arrive at Ludendorff's castle party, Steve and Sameer bluff their way in, Steve pretending to be a German general and Sameer his driver. At the security checkpoint, they put on an act of Sameer having "lost their tickets", bickering so obnoxiously that the guard gets fed up and lets them drive through.
* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': As the heroes arrive at Ludendorff's castle party, Steve and Sameer bluff their way in, Steve pretending to be a German general and Sameer his driver. At the security checkpoint, they put on an act of Sameer having "lost their tickets", bickering so obnoxiously that the guard gets fed up and lets them drive through.
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* ''Film/TheHiddenFortress'', the inspiration for many aspects of ''A New Hope'', has a scene where Makabe gets through a checkpoint by showing the guards one of the sticks with hidden gold. He tells the guard he found it nearby, and keeps demanding that the guard give him back the piece of gold (or at least a reward for finding it), resulting in the guards being so annoyed with him that they send him through just to get rid of him. Earlier in the film, another group try to get through a different checkpoint by waiting until the weather gets foggy, then they will slip through the fog.
* ''Film/TheLastSamurai'' has Simon Graham telling the Japanese soldiers guarding Katsumoto that he and some photographers are accompanying the "President of the United States" (really Algren) to photograph Katsumoto before his execution; in reality, they've brought swords and arrows disguised as photography equipment. WordOfGod says that this scene was a deliberate ShoutOut to the ''Von Ryan's Express'' scene.
* ''Film/ANewHope'' has Obi-Wan Kenobi using a JediMindTrick to convince the stormtroopers that "These are not the droids you are looking for".
* In ''{{Film/Valkyrie}}'', Colonel von Stauffenberg gets through a checkpoint at a sealed facility by pretending to call a field marshal, and then offering the telephone to the sergeant guarding the checkpoint, inviting him to explain to a field marshal why he's delaying one of the field marshal's officers. The sergeant declines to answer, and lets Stauffenberg through.
* ''Film/VonRyansExpress'' is probably the best-known example, in which a British chaplain who speaks German fluently puts on a German officer's uniform. At the checkpoint, he criticizes the checkpoint commander for not wearing his uniform properly, and threatens to send him to the eastern front.
* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': As the heroes arrive at Ludendorff's castle party, Steve and Sameer bluff their way in, Steve pretending to be a German general and Sameer his driver. At the security checkpoint, they put on an act of Sameer having "lost their tickets", bickering so obnoxiously that the guard gets fed up and lets them drive through.
* ''Film/TheLastSamurai'' has Simon Graham telling the Japanese soldiers guarding Katsumoto that he and some photographers are accompanying the "President of the United States" (really Algren) to photograph Katsumoto before his execution; in reality, they've brought swords and arrows disguised as photography equipment. WordOfGod says that this scene was a deliberate ShoutOut to the ''Von Ryan's Express'' scene.
* ''Film/ANewHope'' has Obi-Wan Kenobi using a JediMindTrick to convince the stormtroopers that "These are not the droids you are looking for".
* In ''{{Film/Valkyrie}}'', Colonel von Stauffenberg gets through a checkpoint at a sealed facility by pretending to call a field marshal, and then offering the telephone to the sergeant guarding the checkpoint, inviting him to explain to a field marshal why he's delaying one of the field marshal's officers. The sergeant declines to answer, and lets Stauffenberg through.
* ''Film/VonRyansExpress'' is probably the best-known example, in which a British chaplain who speaks German fluently puts on a German officer's uniform. At the checkpoint, he criticizes the checkpoint commander for not wearing his uniform properly, and threatens to send him to the eastern front.
* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': As the heroes arrive at Ludendorff's castle party, Steve and Sameer bluff their way in, Steve pretending to be a German general and Sameer his driver. At the security checkpoint, they put on an act of Sameer having "lost their tickets", bickering so obnoxiously that the guard gets fed up and lets them drive through.
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* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'': At one point Ezio and Bartolomeo have to sneak into a French outpost on the outskirts of Rome. Ezio can speak French, but his accent puzzles the guard. Fortunately, Ezio claims he comes from Montreal (not the one in Canada), and this is enough to satisfy the guard.
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* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' gives you the option of bringing Legion to the Citadel... even though its a geth and the Citadel is on high alert for a new geth invasion. The lady that does the checks [[FailedASpotCheck thinks it's Shepard's personal VI assistant]], Shephard just rolls with it and she let's them pass.
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* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' gives you the option of bringing Legion to the Citadel... even though its it's a geth and the Citadel is on high alert for a new geth invasion. The lady that does the checks [[FailedASpotCheck thinks it's Shepard's personal VI assistant]], Shephard Shepard just rolls with it and she let's lets them pass.
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** While traveling with forged papers on her way to rescue more slaves, Harriet is stopped by a US Marshal at a train station. The marshal takes too much of an interest, questioning Harriet on her bonafides, and noting that she's way too short for her listed height. Harriet bluffs by saying that she must have been wearing tall boots that day, while simultaneously preparing to draw her hidden pistol. Fortunately, the officer buys her story and lets her pass.
** In one of the most nail-biting scenes in the film, one of Harriet's passengers (the mixed-race enslaved daughter of a local plantation patriarch) is driving their wagon full of fugitives and is forced to bluff her way across a bridge, attempting to pass as a young white man.
** While traveling with forged papers on her way to rescue more slaves, Harriet is stopped by a US Marshal at a train station. The marshal takes too much of an interest, questioning Harriet on her bonafides, and noting that she's way too short for her listed height. Harriet bluffs by saying that she must have been wearing tall boots that day, while simultaneously preparing to draw her hidden pistol. Fortunately, the officer buys her story and lets her pass.
** In one of the most nail-biting scenes in the film, one of Harriet's passengers (the mixed-race enslaved daughter of a local plantation patriarch) is driving their wagon full of fugitives and is forced to bluff her way across a bridge, attempting to pass as a young white man.
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* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', if your character is captured by [[HopelessBossFight Ser Cauthrien]], you can pick two party members to infiltrate the Fort Drakon prison and to break them out. While some characters will have no choice but to fight their way in, the resident rogues Leliana and Zevran will have zero trouble bluffing their way past all three checkpoints, only having to fight their way ''out'' after freeing the Warden. The various methods of bluffing through the checkpoint are [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments some of the most hilarious things in the game]] and generally regarded worth getting the Warden captured just to see them. Leliana and Morigan, for example, dress up as Chantry Sisters there to pray for the troops and start loudly praying about all the horrible afflictions the Maker ''won't'' inflict on the soldiers keeping them from their duties. Meanwhile, Zevran and Oghran claim to be a pair of performers sent to entertain the troops. Meanwhile, if [[CanineCompanion the dog]] is selected, he'll just act like he's about to be sick all over the floor, at which point he and the other party member will be rushed through. If the Warden chooses to break themselves out instead of waiting one of the options is to steal a guard uniform and bluff their way through the checkpoints from the other side by joining a patrol.
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* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', if your character is captured by [[HopelessBossFight Ser Cauthrien]], you can pick two party members to infiltrate the Fort Drakon prison and to break them out. While some characters will have no choice but to fight their way in, the resident rogues Leliana and Zevran will have zero trouble bluffing their way past all three checkpoints, only having to fight their way ''out'' after freeing the Warden. The various methods of bluffing through the checkpoint are [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments some of the most hilarious things in the game]] game and generally regarded worth getting the Warden captured just to see them. Leliana and Morigan, for example, dress up as Chantry Sisters there to pray for the troops and start loudly praying about all the horrible afflictions the Maker ''won't'' inflict on the soldiers keeping them from their duties. Meanwhile, Zevran and Oghran claim to be a pair of performers sent to entertain the troops. Meanwhile, if [[CanineCompanion the dog]] is selected, he'll just act like he's about to be sick all over the floor, at which point he and the other party member will be rushed through. If the Warden chooses to break themselves out instead of waiting one of the options is to steal a guard uniform and bluff their way through the checkpoints from the other side by joining a patrol.
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* The WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra episode [[Recap/TheLegendOfKorraS4E7Reunion "Reunion"]] has Bolin and Varrick, who were currently wanted for betraying [[TheEmpire The Earth Empire,]] traveling with some Fire Nation and Water Tribe refugees who escaped an Earth Empire prison and all need to go through a heavily secured checkpoint. [[BavarianFireDrill They pretend to transfering the prisoners]] but when the gaurds ask for the papers, Varrick manages to bluff thier way through by threatening to report the gaurds to [[TheDreaded Kuvira.]] Once they walk through, the guard notices their faces on some wanted posters and then all hell breaks loose.
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* The WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' episode [[Recap/TheLegendOfKorraS4E7Reunion "Reunion"]] has "Reunion"]]: Bolin and Varrick, who were currently wanted for betraying the [[TheEmpire The Earth Empire,]] Empire]], are traveling with some Fire Nation and Water Tribe refugees who escaped an Earth Empire prison and prison. They all need to go through a heavily secured checkpoint. checkpoint, so [[BavarianFireDrill They they pretend to transfering be transferring the prisoners]] but when prisoners]]. When the gaurds guards ask for the papers, Varrick manages to bluff thier their way through by threatening to report the gaurds guards to [[TheDreaded Kuvira.]] Kuvira]]. Once they walk through, the guard notices their faces on some wanted posters and then all hell breaks loose.
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* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', if your character is captured by [[HopelessBossFight Ser Cauthrien]], you can pick two party members to infiltrate the Fort Drakon prison and to break them out. While some characters will have no choice but to fight their way in, the resident rogues Leliana and Zevran will have zero trouble bluffing their way past all three checkpoints, only having to fight their way ''out'' after freeing the Warden. The various methods of bluffing through the checkpoint are [[SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny some of the most hilarious things in the game]] and generally regarded worth getting the Warden captured just to see them. Leliana and Morigan, for example, dress up as Chantry Sisters there to pray for the troops and start loudly praying about all the horrible afflictions the Maker ''won't'' inflict on the soldiers keeping them from their duties. Meanwhile, Zevran and Oghran claim to be a pair of performers sent to entertain the troops. Meanwhile, if [[CanineCompanion the dog]] is selected, he'll just act like he's about to be sick all over the floor, at which point he and the other party member will be rushed through. If the Warden chooses to break themselves out instead of waiting one of the options is to steal a guard uniform and bluff their way through the checkpoints from the other side by joining a patrol.
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* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', if your character is captured by [[HopelessBossFight Ser Cauthrien]], you can pick two party members to infiltrate the Fort Drakon prison and to break them out. While some characters will have no choice but to fight their way in, the resident rogues Leliana and Zevran will have zero trouble bluffing their way past all three checkpoints, only having to fight their way ''out'' after freeing the Warden. The various methods of bluffing through the checkpoint are [[SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments some of the most hilarious things in the game]] and generally regarded worth getting the Warden captured just to see them. Leliana and Morigan, for example, dress up as Chantry Sisters there to pray for the troops and start loudly praying about all the horrible afflictions the Maker ''won't'' inflict on the soldiers keeping them from their duties. Meanwhile, Zevran and Oghran claim to be a pair of performers sent to entertain the troops. Meanwhile, if [[CanineCompanion the dog]] is selected, he'll just act like he's about to be sick all over the floor, at which point he and the other party member will be rushed through. If the Warden chooses to break themselves out instead of waiting one of the options is to steal a guard uniform and bluff their way through the checkpoints from the other side by joining a patrol.
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* ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheOldBlood'': The first scene of the game involves B.J. and Richard Wesley (Agent One), dressed as Nazi officers, trying to get cleared at Castle Wolfenstein.
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* As recounted in his memoir, ''Those Devils in Baggy Pants'', American paratrooper Ross Carter was part of a night patrol caught behind enemy lines at Anzzio. In order to return to friendly lines, the group decided to stand upright and goosestep straight past the Germans, figuring that any sentries would be looking for people trying to sneak back and that at the very least, the German-style marching would confuse any observers long enough for the patrol to get the drop on them. ''It worked.''
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* As recounted in his memoir, ''Those Devils in Baggy Pants'', American paratrooper Ross Carter was part of a night patrol caught behind enemy lines at Anzzio.Anzio. In order to return to friendly lines, the group decided to stand upright and goosestep straight past the Germans, figuring that any sentries would be looking for people trying to sneak back and that at the very least, the German-style marching would confuse any observers long enough for the patrol to get the drop on them. ''It worked.''
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* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' gives you the option of bringing Legion to the Citadel... even though its a geth and the Citadel is on high alert for a new geth invasion. The lady that does the checks thinks it's Shepard's personal VI assistant and let's it pass.
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* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' gives you the option of bringing Legion to the Citadel... even though its a geth and the Citadel is on high alert for a new geth invasion. The lady that does the checks [[FailedASpotCheck thinks it's Shepard's personal VI assistant assistant]], Shephard just rolls with it and she let's it them pass.
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* Halfway through ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'', the heroes are forced to disguise as samurai of Mikado in order to pass through the controls of the angels and get in the city, This includes wearing fake gauntlets, uniforms and make-up to appear older (samurai are at least eighteen and most of the characters are fifteen). Amusingly, the angels only checked for the gauntlets and one of them even berates Ashahi for wearing too much make-up.
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* Halfway through ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'', the heroes are forced to [[DressingAsTheEnemy disguise as samurai of Mikado Mikado]] in order to pass through the controls of the angels and get in the city, This includes wearing fake gauntlets, uniforms and make-up to appear older (samurai are at least eighteen and most of the characters are fifteen). Amusingly, the angels only checked for the gauntlets and one of them even berates Ashahi for wearing too much make-up.
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* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', if your character is captured by [[SeeminglyHopelessBossFight Ser Cauthrien]], you will have to pick two party members to infiltrate the Fort Drakon prison and to break them out. While some characters will have no choice but to fight their way in, the resident rogues Leliana and Zevran will have zero trouble bluffing their way past all three checkpoints, only having to fight their way ''out'' after freeing the Warden. The various methods of bluffing through the checkpoint are [[SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny some of the most hilarious things in the game]] and generally regarded worth getting the Warden captured just to see them. Leliana and Morigan, for example, dress up as Chantry Sisters there to pray for the troops and start loudly praying about all the horrible afflictions the Maker ''won't'' inflict on the soldiers keeping them from their duties. Meanwhile, Zevran and Oghran claim to be a pair of performers sent to entertain the troops. Meanwhile, if [[CanineCompanion the dog]] is selected, he'll just act like he's about to be sick all over the floor, at which point he and the other party member will be rushed through. If the Warden chooses to break themselves out instead of waiting one of the options is to steal a guard uniform and bluff their way through the checkpoints from the other side by joining a patrol.
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* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', if your character is captured by [[SeeminglyHopelessBossFight [[HopelessBossFight Ser Cauthrien]], you will have to can pick two party members to infiltrate the Fort Drakon prison and to break them out. While some characters will have no choice but to fight their way in, the resident rogues Leliana and Zevran will have zero trouble bluffing their way past all three checkpoints, only having to fight their way ''out'' after freeing the Warden. The various methods of bluffing through the checkpoint are [[SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny some of the most hilarious things in the game]] and generally regarded worth getting the Warden captured just to see them. Leliana and Morigan, for example, dress up as Chantry Sisters there to pray for the troops and start loudly praying about all the horrible afflictions the Maker ''won't'' inflict on the soldiers keeping them from their duties. Meanwhile, Zevran and Oghran claim to be a pair of performers sent to entertain the troops. Meanwhile, if [[CanineCompanion the dog]] is selected, he'll just act like he's about to be sick all over the floor, at which point he and the other party member will be rushed through. If the Warden chooses to break themselves out instead of waiting one of the options is to steal a guard uniform and bluff their way through the checkpoints from the other side by joining a patrol.
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* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', if your character is captured by [[SeeminglyHopelessBossFight Ser Cauthrien]], you will have to pick two party members to infiltrate the Fort Drakon prison and to break them out. While some characters will have no choice but to fight their way in, the resident rogues Leliana and Zevran will have zero trouble bluffing their way past all three checkpoints, only having to fight their way ''out'' after freeing the Warden. The various methods of bluffing through the checkpoint are [[SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny some of the most hilarious things in the game]] and generally regarded worth getting the Warden captured just to see them. Leliana and Morigan, for example, dress up as Chantry Sisters there to pray for the troops and start loudly praying about all the horrible afflictions the Maker ''won't'' inflict on the soldiers keeping them from their duties. Meanwhile, Zevran and Oghran claim to be a pair of performers sent to entertain the troops. Meanwhile, if [[CanineCompanion the dog]] is selected, he'll just act like he's about to be sick all over the floor, at which point he and the other party member will be rushed through.
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* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', if your character is captured by [[SeeminglyHopelessBossFight Ser Cauthrien]], you will have to pick two party members to infiltrate the Fort Drakon prison and to break them out. While some characters will have no choice but to fight their way in, the resident rogues Leliana and Zevran will have zero trouble bluffing their way past all three checkpoints, only having to fight their way ''out'' after freeing the Warden. The various methods of bluffing through the checkpoint are [[SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny some of the most hilarious things in the game]] and generally regarded worth getting the Warden captured just to see them. Leliana and Morigan, for example, dress up as Chantry Sisters there to pray for the troops and start loudly praying about all the horrible afflictions the Maker ''won't'' inflict on the soldiers keeping them from their duties. Meanwhile, Zevran and Oghran claim to be a pair of performers sent to entertain the troops. Meanwhile, if [[CanineCompanion the dog]] is selected, he'll just act like he's about to be sick all over the floor, at which point he and the other party member will be rushed through. If the Warden chooses to break themselves out instead of waiting one of the options is to steal a guard uniform and bluff their way through the checkpoints from the other side by joining a patrol.
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* The WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra episode [[Recap/TheLegendOfKorraS4E7Reunion "Reunion"]] has Bolin and Varrick, who were currently wanted for betraying [[TheEmpire The Earth Empire,]] traveling with some Fire Nation and Water Tribe refugees who escaped an Earth Empire prison and all need to go through a heavily secured checkpoint. [[BavarianFireDrill They pretend to transfering the prisoners]] but when the gaurds ask for the papers, Varrick manages to bluff thier way through by threatening to report the gaurds to [[TheDreaded Kuvira.]] Once they walk through, the guard notices their faces on some wanted posters and then all hell breaks loose.
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* The WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra episode [[Recap/TheLegendOfKorraS4E7Reunion "Reunion"]] has Bolin and Varrick, who were currently wanted for betraying [[TheEmpire The Earth Empire,]] traveling with some Fire Nation and Water Tribe refugees who escaped an Earth Empire prison and all need to go through a heavily secured checkpoint. [[BavarianFireDrill They pretend to transfering the prisoners]] but when the gaurds ask for the papers, Varrick manages to bluff thier way through by threatening to report the gaurds to [[TheDreaded Kuvira.]] Once they walk through, the guard notices their faces on some wanted posters and then all hell breaks loose.
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* As recounted in his memoir, ''Those Devils in Baggy Pants'', American paratrooper Ross Carter was part of a night patrol caught behind enemy lines at Anzzio. In order to return to friendly lines, the group decided to stand upright and goosestep straight past the Germans, figuring that any sentries would be looking for people trying to sneak back and that at the very least, the German-style marching would confuse any observers long enough for the patrol to get the drop on them. ''It worked.''
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* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', if your character is captured by [[SeeminglyHopelessBossFight Ser Cauthrien]], you will have to pick two party members to infiltrate the Fort Drakon prison and to break them out. While some characters will have no choice but to fight their way in, the resident rogues Leliana and Zevran will have zero trouble bluffing their way past all three checkpoints, only having to fight their way ''out'' after freeing the Warden.
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* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', if your character is captured by [[SeeminglyHopelessBossFight Ser Cauthrien]], you will have to pick two party members to infiltrate the Fort Drakon prison and to break them out. While some characters will have no choice but to fight their way in, the resident rogues Leliana and Zevran will have zero trouble bluffing their way past all three checkpoints, only having to fight their way ''out'' after freeing the Warden. The various methods of bluffing through the checkpoint are [[SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny some of the most hilarious things in the game]] and generally regarded worth getting the Warden captured just to see them. Leliana and Morigan, for example, dress up as Chantry Sisters there to pray for the troops and start loudly praying about all the horrible afflictions the Maker ''won't'' inflict on the soldiers keeping them from their duties. Meanwhile, Zevran and Oghran claim to be a pair of performers sent to entertain the troops. Meanwhile, if [[CanineCompanion the dog]] is selected, he'll just act like he's about to be sick all over the floor, at which point he and the other party member will be rushed through.
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* ''Film/ANewHope'' has Obi-Wan Kenobi using a Jedi mind trick to convince the stormtroopers that "These are not the droids you are looking for".
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* BlackTieInfiltration: As above, except the disguises are as caterers for a reception.
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** Fight your way through - Leads to a NonstandardGameOver, as you get through, but the death of the guards puts Granorg on high alert, ruining your mission.
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* Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith served in the RAF in WWII; at one point, after being shot down over Italy, he simply walked through a German checkpoint on a bridge.
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* A [[MoonLogicPuzzle lateral thinking puzzle]] has a woman in a war-torn country coming across a bridge that will lead her into the neighboring peaceful nation. There's a guard house at the exact center of the bridge, and he comes out every five minutes; it takes exactly eight minutes to cross the bridge. The woman can't get papers to escape, and the puzzle asks how she manages to successfully cross. [[spoiler: The answer: she walks for four minutes, then turns around and starts heading back to her original destination. When the guard emerges, he sees her, assumes that she's coming from the peaceful country, and asks for her papers; when she can't produce them, she's "sent back" there.]]
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* In ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novel ''Traitor General'', the main characters hitch a ride on a meat wagon. The guard dogs grow agitated, but they bluff their way through by claiming it's just the meat they smell.
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When faced with an enemy checkpoint ahead, there are several courses of action that can be taken; one can try to bypass the checkpoint, go through it when it's unmanned (or when they're changing shifts), bribe the guards, use false papers, try to create a distraction, and so on. Another course of action is possible, but this requires a certain amount of bravado: bluffing your way through the checkpoint, often involving DressingAsTheEnemy.
Subtrope to CheckpointCharlie and TheInfiltration; not related to CheckPoint. Often uses BavarianFireDrill techniques, which frequently work because TheGuardsMustBeCrazy.
Compare:
* TrojanPrisoner, where a group tries to infiltrate an enemy-controlled area by pretending to be guards escorting prisoners.
* DeliveryGuyInfiltration, where the infiltrator disguises themselves as a delivery person to get in.
* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration. As above, except as a janitor/cleaning lady.
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*''Film/VonRyansExpress'' is probably the best-known example, in which a British chaplain who speaks German fluently puts on a German officer's uniform. At the checkpoint, he criticizes the checkpoint commander for not wearing his uniform properly, and threatens to send him to the eastern front.
*''Film/TheLastSamurai'' has Simon Graham telling the Japanese soldiers guarding Katsumoto that he and some photographers are accompanying the "President of the United States" (really Algren) to photograph Katsumoto before his execution; in reality, they've brought swords and arrows disguised as photography equipment. WordOfGod says that this scene was a deliberate ShoutOut to the ''Von Ryan's Express'' scene.
*''Film/ANewHope'' has Obi-Wan Kenobi using a Jedi mind trick to convince the stormtroopers that "These are not the droids you are looking for".
*''Film/TheHiddenFortress'', the inspiration for many aspects of ''A New Hope'', has a scene where Makabe gets through a checkpoint by showing the guards one of the sticks with hidden gold. He tells the guard he found it nearby, and keeps demanding that the guard give him back the piece of gold (or at least a reward for finding it), resulting in the guards being so annoyed with him that they send him through just to get rid of him. Earlier in the film, another group try to get through a different checkpoint by waiting until the weather gets foggy, then they will slip through the fog.
* In ''Film/Godzilla1998'', Phillipe Roache and the other French secret agents disguise themselves as American soldiers by donning the right uniforms and drive a humvee up to a military checkpoint to get into the city. They convince the guard that they're "[[FakeAmerican real Americans]]" by putting on an Elvis Presley accent and all of them chewing gum to look casual.
* In ''{{Film/Valkyrie}}'', Colonel von Stauffenberg gets through a checkpoint at a sealed facility by pretending to call a field marshal, and then offering the telephone to the sergeant guarding the checkpoint, inviting him to explain to a field marshal why he's delaying one of the field marshal's officers. The sergeant declines to answer, and lets Stauffenberg through.
* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': As the heroes arrive at Ludendorff's castle party, Steve and Sameer bluff their way in, Steve pretending to be a German general and Sameer his driver. At the security checkpoint, they put on an act of Sameer having "lost their tickets", bickering so obnoxiously that the guard gets fed up and lets them drive through.
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* ''Series/TheChasersWarOnEverything'' had a well-known stunt where they managed to get a fake motorcade into an APEC conference simply by looking official enough.
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* In one of Harry Turtledove's ''{{Literature/Worldwar}}'' books, a character on the run notes that there are checkpoints manned by both "Lizards" (invading aliens) and their human collaborators. When choosing which checkpoint to go through, he always chooses the Lizard-staffed ones, both because the line is shorter and because most of them can't yet tell humans apart. At another point, a Lizard gives a different human an injection of "truth serum", but because it wasn't calibrated for human physiology, it doesn't work; the Lizard lets him go because the Lizard thinks he ''must'' be telling the truth.
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* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', if your character is captured by [[SeeminglyHopelessBossFight Ser Cauthrien]], you will have to pick two party members to infiltrate the Fort Drakon prison and to break them out. While some characters will have no choice but to fight their way in, the resident rogues Leliana and Zevran will have zero trouble bluffing their way past all three checkpoints, only having to fight their way ''out'' after freeing the Warden.
* ''VideoGame/PapersPlease'': You play as a border inspector checking the documents of people attempting to enter the country. It's your job to keep up with people attempting to do this to you.
* In ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'', the player's party join up with a group of performers to hop the border from Allistel to Granorg. The guards are suspicious of spies [[ProperlyParanoid (which you are)]] and ask the main character to perform his act to prove he's a member of the troupe. Given the TimeTravel mechanism to the game, there are 3 ways to attempt to get through, and only 1 will work:
** Fight your way through - Leads to a NonstandardGameOver, as you get through, but the death of the guards puts Granorg on high alert, ruining your mission.
** Attempting to bluff - Fails, as [[TheHero Stocke]] is TheStoic and can't act convincingly.
** The correct option is to learn sword dancing in an alternate timeline and then choose to perform that for the guards, which convinces them to let you through.
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* Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith served in the RAF in WWII; at one point, after being shot down over Italy, he simply walked through a German checkpoint on a bridge.
Subtrope to CheckpointCharlie and TheInfiltration; not related to CheckPoint. Often uses BavarianFireDrill techniques, which frequently work because TheGuardsMustBeCrazy.
Compare:
* TrojanPrisoner, where a group tries to infiltrate an enemy-controlled area by pretending to be guards escorting prisoners.
* DeliveryGuyInfiltration, where the infiltrator disguises themselves as a delivery person to get in.
* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration. As above, except as a janitor/cleaning lady.
!!Examples:
[[AC:Live-Action Film]]
*''Film/VonRyansExpress'' is probably the best-known example, in which a British chaplain who speaks German fluently puts on a German officer's uniform. At the checkpoint, he criticizes the checkpoint commander for not wearing his uniform properly, and threatens to send him to the eastern front.
*''Film/TheLastSamurai'' has Simon Graham telling the Japanese soldiers guarding Katsumoto that he and some photographers are accompanying the "President of the United States" (really Algren) to photograph Katsumoto before his execution; in reality, they've brought swords and arrows disguised as photography equipment. WordOfGod says that this scene was a deliberate ShoutOut to the ''Von Ryan's Express'' scene.
*''Film/ANewHope'' has Obi-Wan Kenobi using a Jedi mind trick to convince the stormtroopers that "These are not the droids you are looking for".
*''Film/TheHiddenFortress'', the inspiration for many aspects of ''A New Hope'', has a scene where Makabe gets through a checkpoint by showing the guards one of the sticks with hidden gold. He tells the guard he found it nearby, and keeps demanding that the guard give him back the piece of gold (or at least a reward for finding it), resulting in the guards being so annoyed with him that they send him through just to get rid of him. Earlier in the film, another group try to get through a different checkpoint by waiting until the weather gets foggy, then they will slip through the fog.
* In ''Film/Godzilla1998'', Phillipe Roache and the other French secret agents disguise themselves as American soldiers by donning the right uniforms and drive a humvee up to a military checkpoint to get into the city. They convince the guard that they're "[[FakeAmerican real Americans]]" by putting on an Elvis Presley accent and all of them chewing gum to look casual.
* In ''{{Film/Valkyrie}}'', Colonel von Stauffenberg gets through a checkpoint at a sealed facility by pretending to call a field marshal, and then offering the telephone to the sergeant guarding the checkpoint, inviting him to explain to a field marshal why he's delaying one of the field marshal's officers. The sergeant declines to answer, and lets Stauffenberg through.
* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': As the heroes arrive at Ludendorff's castle party, Steve and Sameer bluff their way in, Steve pretending to be a German general and Sameer his driver. At the security checkpoint, they put on an act of Sameer having "lost their tickets", bickering so obnoxiously that the guard gets fed up and lets them drive through.
[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/TheChasersWarOnEverything'' had a well-known stunt where they managed to get a fake motorcade into an APEC conference simply by looking official enough.
[[AC:Literature]]
* In one of Harry Turtledove's ''{{Literature/Worldwar}}'' books, a character on the run notes that there are checkpoints manned by both "Lizards" (invading aliens) and their human collaborators. When choosing which checkpoint to go through, he always chooses the Lizard-staffed ones, both because the line is shorter and because most of them can't yet tell humans apart. At another point, a Lizard gives a different human an injection of "truth serum", but because it wasn't calibrated for human physiology, it doesn't work; the Lizard lets him go because the Lizard thinks he ''must'' be telling the truth.
[[AC:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', if your character is captured by [[SeeminglyHopelessBossFight Ser Cauthrien]], you will have to pick two party members to infiltrate the Fort Drakon prison and to break them out. While some characters will have no choice but to fight their way in, the resident rogues Leliana and Zevran will have zero trouble bluffing their way past all three checkpoints, only having to fight their way ''out'' after freeing the Warden.
* ''VideoGame/PapersPlease'': You play as a border inspector checking the documents of people attempting to enter the country. It's your job to keep up with people attempting to do this to you.
* In ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'', the player's party join up with a group of performers to hop the border from Allistel to Granorg. The guards are suspicious of spies [[ProperlyParanoid (which you are)]] and ask the main character to perform his act to prove he's a member of the troupe. Given the TimeTravel mechanism to the game, there are 3 ways to attempt to get through, and only 1 will work:
** Fight your way through - Leads to a NonstandardGameOver, as you get through, but the death of the guards puts Granorg on high alert, ruining your mission.
** Attempting to bluff - Fails, as [[TheHero Stocke]] is TheStoic and can't act convincingly.
** The correct option is to learn sword dancing in an alternate timeline and then choose to perform that for the guards, which convinces them to let you through.
[[AC:Real Life]]
* Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith served in the RAF in WWII; at one point, after being shot down over Italy, he simply walked through a German checkpoint on a bridge.
