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Basic Trope: A character hides in plain sight by pretending to be a statue.

  • Straight: Bob is chasing Alice through a museum. She poses with some statues to hide as Bob walks by.
  • Exaggerated: Alice does this in a supermarket, or somewhere else where there are no statues.
  • Downplayed: Alice hides behind a statue.
  • Justified:
    • Bob has poor eyesight, and there's nowhere else for Alice to hide.
    • The museum is full of hyper realistic Alice replicas.
  • Inverted: Alice animates a statue to throw off Bob.
  • Subverted: Alice immediately realizes how no one would be fooled and runs off as Bob approaches.
  • Double Subverted: But then Alice has no choice but to do this, and to her surprise it works.
  • Parodied: Due to only being near nude statues, Alice strips naked and poses with them. A couple museumgoers arrive, admire her and take photos of her. Bob notices but decides to let her suffer. Alice eventually drops the act when a Dirty Kid tries to grope her and runs away.
  • Averted: Alice doesn't pose as a statue.
  • Defied: Official policy is to shine a light in all the statues' eyes just to make sure nobody's posing as one.
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  • Played for Horror: The museum is abandoned, and Bob is the reason why.
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