History Main / TrojanHorse

* ''Machinima/TeamNeighborhood'': In the episode ''Pool Fools'', the BLU Soldier, Scout, Pyro and Medic hide in a crate labeled "pool toys" [[ItMakesSenseInContext to sneak past RED's sentry nest...]] but since they forgot to add airholes, SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome and they die from heatstroke.

* In ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', Sir Bedevere devises a slight variation to infiltrate the French castle, involving a wooden rabbit. He only gets one little detail wrong -- [[spoiler:he forgets that there should be somebody inside it]]. Just as well, [[spoiler:since the French just catapult it back out]].

** Averted in "Stardrive" when the ''Scorpio'' hugs close to a rogue asteroid to sneak past a planet's detection grid. RealityEnsues when they collide with the asteroid and have to spend hours fixing the damage.

* ''Machinima/TeamNeighborhood'': In the episode ''Pool Fools'', the BLU Soldier, Scout, Pyro and Medic hide in a crate labeled "pool toys" [[ItMakesSenseInContext to sneak past RED's sentry nest...]] but since they forgot to add airholes, RealityEnsues and they die from heatstroke.

** In ''Literature/{{Eric}}'', the Tsorteans immediately see through the ruse and surround the wooden horse with soldiers. It turns out that the Ephebian commander expected that to happen, and merely intended the horse to distract the defenders while he and his men got into the city another way.

* ''Series/DeepSpaceNine''. In the pilot episode, Quark generously provides a bag to some Cardassians so they can take their gambling winnings back to their spaceship. The bag turns out to be Odo, a shapeshifting alien. Odo uses this trick a number of times during the series, including as a means of keeping an eye on [[TokenEvilTeammate Quark]].

* In ''Manga/AkagamiNoShirayukihime'' a group of bandits give the Raxd fortress enough firewood for the whole winter while posing as a farming family moving out of the area. The wood was laced with a toxin to make them ill when burned, with repeated exposure leading to comas. Once almost all of the guards are down with the remaining one severely ill they emptied the armory.

Subtrope of FalseFlagOperation.

** In season 3, the Major Crimes Unit is trying to track the burner phones used by Avon Barksdale's gang, but it's impossible to get a tap on them because they replace them every two weeks. [=McNulty=] and Greggs find out that Bernard, the runner assigned to make the pickup runs, is buying them in packs of two at each store to avoid suspicion, which is much to his girlfriend Squeak's annoyance. The unit has Kima's informant Bubbles (who doesn't know Bernard, but used to know Squeak) approach Squeak claiming that he can hook them up with a black market cellphone salesman who can cheaply sell them burner phones in bulk for a low discount. Said "black market cellphone salesman" is actually an undercover Lester Freamon, who through his "Cool Lester Smooth" talking, is able to convince Bernard and Squeak to bulk-buy pre-tapped phones.

* ''{{Series/Vikings}}'': [[spoiler: How the third raid on Paris is successful, with Ragnar using ''himself'' as the Trojan Horse. Very nearly, (but not quite) also a ThanatosGambit.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'', the dam is thought to be a gift from King Runeard to the Northuldra. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that he knew it would weaken their land.]]

* ''Film/WhoAmI'': A digital variant. The hero hacker plants a [[MatryoshkaObject Trojan inside a Trojan]] in order to uncover the antagonist's identity. But the plan fails as the latter looks through the trick and rejects the program.

* ''Machinima/TeamNeighborhood'': In the episode ''Pool Fools'', the BLU Soldier, Scout, Pyro and Medic hide in a crate labeled "pool toys" [[ItMakesSenseInContext to sneak past RED's sentry nest...]] but since they forgot to add airholes, RealityEnsues and they die from a mix of heat and suffocation.

** In ''Discworld/{{Eric}}'', the Tsorteans immediately see through the ruse and surround the wooden horse with soldiers. It turns out that the Ephebian commander expected that to happen, and merely intended the horse to distract the defenders while he and his men got into the city another way.
** In ''Discworld/{{Pyramids}}'', war breaks out again between Ephebe and Tsort. Both the Ephebian and Tsortean armies build several giant wooden horses. Facing each other. The Tsortean officers get one with rockers.

** Played straight in ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'', when Agnes and Oats sneak into the castle by hiding in two vacant coffins that are being delivered there.

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-->--''Series/YesMinister: Bed of Nails''

* In ''Disney/FrozenII'', the dam is thought to be a gift from King Runeard to the Northuldra. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that he knew it would weaken their land.]]