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* In the pilot episode of {{Series/Leverage}}, the team pulls off [[TheCaper the heist]] and exits the building through the elevator, which is flanked by security guards - so they put Parker in make-up and bandages to make her look like a burn victim, with Hardison and Eliot acting as her helpers. When the security guards stare at them, they're accused of gawking at a poor injured woman and are so embarrassed they hold open the door to help them out.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Faithful unto Death", a woman uses make-up to fake bruises and persuade her lesbian lover that her husband has been abusing her, and uses this to incite the lover into killing the husband.

** Katherine took this a step farther and [[spoiler:''actually stabbed herself'' in order to frame Susan because she wanted Mike back]].

* There's an episode of ''Series/ThisIsWonderland'' where Eliot has to defend a man accused of rape. It turns out that "victim" is pulling one of these, as she keeps changing her story, which is credibility-stretching enough by the start.

* ''Series/WandaVision'': [[spoiler:Vision develops the ability to temporarily free people from Wanda's mental influence, which he uses on residents of Westview to go from there sitcom personas to their terrified true selves. This appears to happen to Agnes in [[Recap/WandaVisionEpisode6AllNewHalloweenSpooktacular episode 6]], but [[Recap/WandaVisionEpisode7BreakingTheFourthWall episode 7]] reveals Agatha's moment of desperation was fake. As she's been outside of Wanda's control all along, she was pretending to be affected by Vision's efforts and scared of the situation, presumably to fuel Vision's suspicions that Wanda was the one responsible for everything]].

* ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'': In "The Haunted House Game" episode, a little girl lures older kids to the abandoned house by claiming that she lost her cat there so that they'll find and play [[TheGamePlaysYou the deadly board game]]. At the end of the episode [[HereWeGoAgain she performs the same trick with another set of victims]].

* ''Series/{{Counterpart}}'': When the German police storm an apartment seeking assassin Baldwin, they find a frightened young woman hiding in the shower whom they assume to be a prostitute. Taking her out with them, it's revealed ''she'' [[SamusIsAGirl is Baldwin]], soon [[CopKiller killing both cops]] and escaping.

* Tristan from ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall'' isn't above playing up his injuries to gain sympathy from a young lady, or to score a free drink. He exaggerates the difficulties of his work so that the crusty farmers will coddle him and, yes, give him a beer or other alcoholic beverage afterwards. The first time we see this, he's leaning exhausted against the sympathetic farmer, looking completely drained. Then, when the farmer's not looking, he smiles and winks at James.[[note]]Act One of his performance is also worth noting: it's rare to find such quality screaming outside the opera.[[/note]]

* Done with Annie's cousin Emily on ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''. Emily tells Annie's friends that she said a bunch of mean things about them (which wasn't true). When Annie calls her on this, Emily pretends to cry in front Annie's friends (who of course, side with Emily). Emily also trashes her own dressing room at the internship Annie works at and makes it look like Annie did it. The result? Emily is believed to be the victim and Annie is fired. Annie eventually gets her back by tricking Emily into [[EngineeredPublicConfession bragging about what she did]] with Annie's friends in earshot.
* On ''Series/BladeTheSeries'', Blade and vampire ally Krista conspire to get Krista to win the trust of vampire lord Marcus by delivering a rare artifact. When Blade says there's no way Marcus will believe a newbie vampire like Krista got away from a ruthless vampire hunter without a scratch, she sighs "[[ThisIsGonnaSuck I know.]]" When Marcus arrives at his office, he finds Krista with the artifact...and minus both her right hand and one eye (as a vampire, she does grow each back). Considering this is Blade, Marcus just thinks she got off lucky.

* Megan in ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' pulls many of these on the titular characters. Predictably, their parents automatically believe her, even when their is overtly opaque evidence that neither of the two have even laid a finger on her. Conversely, they never believe either of the two brothers when they tell them about Megan's schemes.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' has several cases, often giving [[UpToEleven horrific spins to the trope.]]

''Series/WandaVision'': [[spoiler:Vision develops the ability to temporarily free people from Wanda's mental influence, which he uses on residents of Westview to go from there sitcom personas to their terrified true selves. This appears to happen to Agnes in [[Recap/WandaVisionEpisode6AllNewHalloweenSpooktacular episode 6]], but [[Recap/WandaVisionEpisode7BreakingTheFourthWall episode 7]] reveals Agatha's moment of desperation was fake. As she's been outside of Wanda's control all along, she was pretending to be affected by Vision's efforts and scared of the situation, presumably to fuel Vision's suspicions that Wanda was the one responsible for everything]].

''Series/WandaVision'': [[spolier:Vision develops the ability to temporarily free people from Wanda's mental influence, which he uses on residents of Westview to go from there sitcom personas to their terrified true selves. This appears to happen to Agnes in [[Recap/WandaVisionEpisode6AllNewHalloweenSpooktacular episode 6]], but [[Recap/WandaVisionEpisode7BreakingTheFourthWall episode 7]] reveals Agatha's moment of desperation was fake. As she's been outside of Wanda's control all along, she was pretending to be affected by Vision's efforts and scared of the situation, presumably to fuel Vision's suspicions that Wanda was the one responsible for everything]].

''Series/WandaVision'': [[spolier: Vision develops the ability to temporarily free people from Wanda's mental influence, which he uses on residents of Westview to go from there sitcom personas to their terrified true selves. This appears to happen to Agnes in [[Recap/WandaVisionEpisode6AllNewHalloweenSpooktacular episode 6]], but [[Recap/WandaVisionEpisode7BreakingTheFourthWall episode 7]] reveals Agatha's moment of desperation was fake. As she's been outside of Wanda's control all along, she was pretending to be affected by Vision's efforts and scared of the situation, presumably to fuel Vision's suspicions that Wanda was the one responsible for everything]].

* ''Series/{{Scandal}}: Resident TokenEvilTeammate Hollis Doyle's daughter gets kidnapped with the kidnapper's demanding millions back in return for her safety. At one point, when the kidnapper's demand more money and Hollis refuses, they send him her bloody ear in a box. But by episode's end, we learn that she actually faked her own kidnapping in order to get more money from her estranged father. She did '''not''' however fake cutting off her ear.