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Faking the Dead - TV Tropes. Sevarius: I was particularly proud of my death scene. Xanatos: Frankly, Sevarius, I thought you overplayed the part.

Extra points if a fake crime scene photo or Staged Shooting is used. Sometimes a John Doe's remains are substituted and destroyed beyond recognition, or everyone is simply told 'They Never Found the Body.' The person faking his death might attend his own funeral. Of course, when this happens to main characters in a series, the audience should not be fooled. The inverse is Of Corpse He's Alive (a . Contrast He's Just Hiding. Not to be confused with Fake Weakness.

See also Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated. Don't Try This at Home. She then seems to be gaining the upper hand in the battle when Jean is unable to strike at the back of her neck, until Armin yells at Jean to avenge his best friend's death, meaning Eren, which this Titan killed earlier. While he is clearly lying, the Female Titan does stop attacking for the moment, giving Jean enough time to escape. Once he learns that the Queen of Midland and her nobles want him dead, Griffith of Berserk blackmails Foss, the head of the conspiracy, into helping him set up a Batman Gambit involving Faking The Dead that ultimately leads to the Queen and her nobles being locked into a burning castle to die. It was false, and Ciel, although aware the whole time, was dang convincing in his seeming grief. Notable in that he later reveals himself to be not just alive, but the Big Bad as well, and that the death was merely one part of his elaborate Gambit Roulette.

He did this again in the Fake Karakura Town arc. It gets used a few more times in the series, with Zero declared dead at the start of R2, Nunnally, Sayoko and Guilford presumed dead after FLEIJA detonated, Marianne revealed to have hidden in another character's body, and Suzaku . Despite all of that, Word Of God says Lelouch is genuinely dead in the end. Wei smugly headed down to kill Alice and Breaking Speech Kirihara, and was rather unpleasantly surprised when the Black Shinigami smashed in through the window, kicked him in the head, and electrocuted him half to death through the blood he'd gotten all over the floor. Matsuda in Death Note throws himself off a balcony and onto a mattress hidden below, to reduce his risk from Kira. But in an horrible subversion, they didn't count on said abusive fianc.

In Detective School Q, this happenens several times. The three- parts case that doubles as Ryu's introduction has three people from Class A murdered in very gory manners.. The Class Q kids find out halfway through the deal and stage their own Faking The Death incident to reveal this. A School Newspaper Newshound named Maya is found apparently bludgeoned to death by the murderer from the Boarding School case because, unbeknownst to herself, she has crucial information that could ruin his plans.

It turns out Maya survived the attack, but the Q class pretended that she had died so she wouldn't be targeted again; she's hospitalized and in recovery, and this is revealed once the case is solved. In the case concerning a Mad Bomber who refuses to spill out where he hid his last and deadliest bomb, Class A and Class Q manage to trick the man into believing said last bomb had already detonated, which leads him to gloat about the destuction it caused and slip out where he had put it. The whole plan included Kintarou faking his death in the explosion, and Kazuma faking an Heroic B. S. O. D. Unfortunately, when she tried to see her family one last time disguised as a Phony Psychic, her Locked Outof The Loop sons thought she was a con artist in cahoots with their Evil Aunt.. In The Familiar of Zero, Colbert dies onscreen in season 2. There is no hint that he might be alive until he shows up in season 3, saving the day at the last minute. It turns out his death was faked with magic.

Done in Fullmetal Alchemist with Maria Ross. Ross is charged guilty for killing Maes Hughes (who was actually killed by a shapeshifter assuming Ross's appearance). Roy Mustang, knowing that Ross wouldn't do this, forges a corpse and shows its wholly incinerated remains as evidence that Ross was properly punished, while Ross in actuality escapes and returns for the climax of the plot. The government does order the coroner to confirm the corpse's identity through dental records..

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The real Kaname, a prisoner in her own mind, exerts enough mental influence to make Sophia believe that she really did kill Sousuke and Tessa so that she and her allies would turn their attention elsewhere, giving the heroes the breathing room they need to turn the tables. By the time she finds out, Sousuke is already en route to destroy her plans and it's too late to stop him. In Gintama, Katsura slashed in the beginning of the Benizakura arc and disappears for the rest of the arc, until the final battler when Katsura reveals to have been hiding in an Elizabeth costume. Points to the person who killed him; Okada Nizuo was so confident in Katsura's defeat that Nizuo decided to cut off Katsura's hair as prize before he even checked Katsura's alive or dead status - allowing Katsura's to survive. Nyarko- san, Nyarko apparently gets killed Taking the Bullet for Mahiro. He sobs over her body, bemoaning how he should have been nicer to her.. It turns out the good luck charm she gave him in episode 2 acted as a Pocket Protector, and she played dead for this precise reason.

He even goes as far as to have Star Platinum temporarily stop his own heartbeat. Geil, but eventually shows up later in the story, explaining that he just barely managed to deflect the otherwise- fatal blow so that it only knocked him out instead. His party (sans Polnareff, who was Locked Out of the Loop along with the audience for fear that he'd accidentally blab about what they were going to do next) then decided to fake his death so that he could recover in secret and eventually catch up with them.

Wham does notice, but it's all a part of the plan. Rokudo Mukuro pretended to have suicided by shooting himself in the head. Watch In The Blood Online Mic. Turns out he shot himself with a special bullet that allows him to possess others and tries to surprise attack Tsuna using other people's bodies.

In the Mobile Suit Gundam original show, Char and his sister fake their own deaths to go into hiding, taking on fake identities that lead them right back into the War. This formula is repeated for several other Char clones, such as Zechs and his sister Relena in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.

They aren't fooled for a second. He does note that the plan didn't go entirely without a hitch since Samehada liked the Hachibi (Eight Tails) enough to actually give Killerbee chakra. Meaning that, when push comes to shove, Samehada might have Conflicting Loyalty.

Believed dead after his battle with the First Hokage, he used the following decades to perfect his Evil Plan until he died of old age well before the main story began. At that point his identity was assumed by Obito, his chosen successor who utilized Madara's reputation and apparent miraculous survival to his advantage. The faking was unwilling at first as he wanted to return home but after witnessing Rin's death he decided That Man Is Dead and went with this trope.

Nami faked killing Usopp to get him away from Arlong. When he returned to Zoro and Sanji, they were having their first fight, and accidentally Double- KO'ed the arriving Usopp. Zoro: Nope, I think he's dead now.

He successfully used this to get a member of the Quirky Miniboss Squad to leave him alone, but soon finds it in himself to fight the guy anyway. This is later revealed to be a homunculus created by Tact's harem to hide her survival. She lived in London with a woman she saw as her older sister named Katarina and an older man named Alan who she clearly had a crush on for awhile, until one day when she went into a building to investigate a crime as Sailor V. The theif threw a grenade at her, which wrecked the building.