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Excessive-Menace
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7th Dec, 2023 05:16:03 PM
You can take those entries to the "is this an example?" thread so others can judge if they actually fit or not.
THE GOLDEN AGE WILL RETURN AGAIN!
The page on Infraction Distraction lists Die Hard and Die Hard with a Vengeance as examples of the trope. Thing is, while in both instances, the bad guys are committing one crime to conceal another crime, the trope implies that the crimes the bad guy appears to be committing are minor compared to the one they are actually committing. In Die Hard, the bad guys pretend to be terrorists while really robbing a skyscraper, and in With a Vengeance they claim to have planted bombs around the city, including in a school, to distract from them robbing the Federal Reserve Bank. I'm pretty sure these are actually examples of Smokescreen Crime.