"It's the nature of the business, it's the Smugglers' Tropes!"
Smuggling — the covert and illegal transport of property or people — is a common event in fiction, and the many, many methods and motives for doing this make for a lot of tropes.
Tropes:
- Arms Dealer
- Ass Shove (self-inflicted)
- Black Market
- Black Market Produce
- Bodybag Trick
- Book Safe
- Briefcase Blaster
- Carpet-Rolled Corpse
- Coat Full of Contraband
- Coffin Contraband
- Diplomatic Impunity (using diplomatic pouches)
- Decoy Hiding Place
- Friend in the Black Market
- Hammerspace (if in-universe rather than a graphic convenience)
- Hidden in Plain Sight (mobile/portable examples)
- Hidden Weapons
- Human Mail
- Human Traffickers
- Infraction Distraction
- Jail Bake
- Neuro-Vault
- Nothing Up My Sleeve
- Organ Theft
- Person of Holding
- Running the Blockade
- Scaramanga Special
- Senseless Violins
- Smuggling with Dolls
- Stomach of Holding
- Sword Cane
- Treasure Chest Cavity
- Trojan Horse
- Trojan Prisoner
- Underground Railroad
- Underside Ride
- Victoria's Secret Compartment
