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Boyfriend Bluff
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When a guy (and it's almost always a guy) saves a girl on the street from being harassed by some undesirables by coming over and pretending to be her boyfriend or brother, or something similar. The girl is usually not aware that the guy is about to do this, and often doesn't even know the guy in question. This doesn't stop them from turning into real lovers at some point, making it a popular Meet Cute technique. Another scenario is the girl invoking this trope with a guy friend she might be with, by grabbing his hand or using a petname. Expect him to be surprised but play along. This also doesn't stop them from turning into real lovers at some point. The idea behind this trope is that a man can only be dissuaded from going after a woman if he knows she's already taken, regardless of her level of interest in him. Subtrope of Fake Relationship. Compare The Beard, Fake-Out Make-Out, Romantic Fake–Real Turn. Related to Was Just Leaving, when an intense or embarrassing situation causes a character to excuse themself or be dismissed by another. Not to be confused with Girlfriend in Canada, which is someone bluffing that they have a lover elsewhere. The unwanted suitor may rouse the girl's ire by making a Better Partner Assertion, pushing her to defend her "boyfriend". |
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Played with in Predator 2. Jerry Lambert (Bill Paxton) is at a bar. He goes over to a man talking to a woman. | |
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Orson does this for Susan in Desperate Housewives. | |
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In The Pretender episode "Prison Story", Jarod uses it to rescue a woman being harassed about her jailbird father. | |
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In Bad Teacher, the title character runs after her chubby, nerdy student, who has just been cruelly rejected after publicly declaring his love for the most popular girl in class. After consoling him, she gives him her bra, then drags him back to where the group is waiting "angrily" claiming that she caught him making out with a high school girl. In two seconds, he goes from outcast to legend. | |
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In Gilmore Girls, Emily and Richard invite Rory to a "Yale Party," during which she quickly realizes that she is the only young woman amidst dozens of eligible young men. When a particularly sleazy one starts to hit on her, Logan walks in. | |
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Chronologically later, in A Certain Magical Index, Mikoto uses Touma to fend off the attention of someone she can't afford to offend or electrocute. | |
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In Judgment, the first time Yagami meets Nanami Matsuoka, she's being harassed by a stalker. Matsuoka quickly claims that Yagami is her boyfriend to try and get rid of the stalker. | |
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Golden Time: When Mitsuo is having a hard time getting rid of a pushy girl who isn't taking no for an answer, Banri shows up and pretends to be Mitsuo's boyfriend. Mitsuo swiftly catches on, and the two put on such an over-the-top act that the girl gets creeped out and runs away. | |
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Cheers: Inverted in the first season episode "Any Friend of Diane's," where Sam has rejected Diane's college friend Rebecca for being boring. To spare Rebecca's feelings, Diane says Sam turned her down because he and Diane are a couple (much to both Rebecca and Sam's surprise). Of course, once Diane says that, Sam and Diane use the opportunity to back-handedly insult and torture one another in front of Rebecca. The last episode had Rebecca pretending to be Sam's girlfriend, while Diane's gay friend pretended to be her boyfriend. |
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This Means War (2012): Lauren makes out with FDR in which to convince her ex, Steve, that she is perfectly happy without him. FDR builds on her story of her surgeon boyfriend by adding that he is a neurosurgeon, head of department at a children's hospital. He puts the crowning touch on by calling Steve the wrong name—repeatedly. The payoff comes when Steve's new fiancée clasps Lauren's hand and tells her she's "so lucky", while Steve looks verrry uncomfortable. | |
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Fringe, Olivia and Peter are at a bar looking to get information from a contact. They make their contact, and Olivia begins pumping him for information. She introduces Peter not as her boyfriend but as her brother. Later, Peter asks about the "brother" comment, to which Olivia replies something like "Trust me, it works better that way." | |
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Invoked in an episode of Grace Land, where a female FBI agent going undercover in a Bad Guy Bar instructs a male fellow agent to pose as her cocky, possessive boyfriend so she won't be mobbed by unsavory guys while trying to focus on her target. | |
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Gender-flipped in A Dovahkiin Spreads His Wings, Jon panics when Tywin Lannister tries to sell his niece's hand in marriage and claims he's already engaged to wed Serana Volkihar. Tywin isn't convinced at first until the lady appears and apparently confirms the story — as she's utterly disgusted by Tywin's behaviour and doesn't want for other people to bother the guy she has considerable UST with. | |
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Til Debt Do Us Part: Exploited by Yejun. When Subin's ex Geonho shows up, Subin has Yejun come to where they are to scare him off. Yejun uses this opportunity to get her to agree to a fake marriage with him. | |
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In Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time you can find a girl being hit on much to her annoyance. You can step in and pretend to be her boyfriend (or girlfriend) and the guy will back off. | |
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Tank Girl. While Tank Girl and Jet Girl are in Water and Power's prison, Sergeant Small hits on Jet Girl. Tank Girl happens to be nearby and... | |
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½ Prince: Prince has girls fawning and throwing themselves at him left and right. He described it as them being wolves looking at a piece of meat. Luckily, he meets Lolidragon who is enamored by his good looks but not as crazy and calls herself his wife to get the women to leave Prince alone. It works. | |
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In Little Children , Brad and Sarah (who are married, but not to each other) hug and kiss once to freak out the yuppies at the playground. It works. | |
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Granny needing to take Greebo with her to the opera in Maskerade may count. | |
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No Boys Dorm: After Lara's apartment burns down, her brother Leon invites her to stay with him at the boys' dorm at the Academy. However, the rules state that no girl can stay in the boys' dorm longer than an hour- unless she's dating an Elite student. To save her from being thrown out, Takashi Tesumi- who is, in fact, Elite- covers for her and claims to be her boyfriend. | |
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In Who's That Girl, Nikki Finn had to pose as Louden Trott's fiancee Wendy Worthington during an interview to obtain an apartment while the real Wendy was captured by Raoul and Benny. | |
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Gabrielle gets a man to do this in the Xena: Warrior Princess pilot. | |
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Melody has an example with a man participating in the bluff. On their first outing together, while the protagonist is getting drinks, Melody gets hit on by a boy she doesn’t like. There’s an option to have the protagonist intimidate him into leaving. He doesn't say outright that he’s Melody’s boyfriend, but the boy assumes he is. | |
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A Certain Scientific Railgun, where Touma attempts to do this with Mikoto. The jig is up before it even begins. Chronologically later, in A Certain Magical Index, Mikoto uses Touma to fend off the attention of someone she can't afford to offend or electrocute. |
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In the prequel to book 1 of Seven Days in Sunny June, a bunch of guys try to pick up Fluttershy, with or without her consent. Sunset Shimmer appears and poses as her hyper-aggressive girlfriend. It works, though it takes Sunset pulling out an (illusionary) gun to get them to back off. | |
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In Kindred Spirits on the Roof, a variation happens in the first drama CD. Ano notices that some of her apparent admirers are following her around, and in order to dissuade them, asks her friends Yuna, Hina and Nena to pose as her girlfriends. | |
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Black Widow (1987). Alexandra Barnes and Catharine Petersen are taking a scuba diving class. An unattractive woman with a cold asks to be Catherine's partner, but Alexandra intervenes and says that she and Catharine had already agreed to be partners, much to Catharine's relief. This example fits the trope because there was considerable subsequent romantic subtext between Alexandra and Catharine, including two kisses. | |
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In American Dad!, Hayley is in Saudi Arabia without a male escort when the Police of Vice and Virtue find her, only for a random guy named Kazi to come up and pretend to be her brother. Short-term romance ensues. | |
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Mentioned in Turistas: "I'm here with my little sister. I get to pretend to be the boyfriend when creepy guys try to bother her." | |
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SPY×FAMILY: When they first meet, Yor asks Loid to pose as her boyfriend at a party. He agrees, as he conveniently needs to find a woman to pose as his wife as part of his mission. Unfortunately, he only makes it to the party after a grueling mission, and accidentally slips up by saying he's Yor's husband rather than her boyfriend. After they leave, she asks that they be married to help escape suspicion from gossips and the country's paranoid government as a couple, since unmarried women are often suspected of being spies. | |
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Downplayed in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War when a boy starts trying to hit on Hayasaka at a mixer despite her obvious discomfort. Shirogane then grabs her arm and drags her out of the room under the guise of buying her a drink, whispering for her to play along. | |
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Major Kira and Odo also pretend to be romantically involved when they were dealing with someone who was pursuing Kira in an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. | |
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In The Order, Randall attempts this in a bar. Jerky guy calls his bluff—supposedly-boyfriend Randall shows up with a beer for the girl, who had just told the other guy that she doesn't drink. The girl also turns out to be evil, by the way. | |
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In Seitokai Yakuindomo, Aria escapes from two persistent pickup-artists at the beach by claiming that Takatoshi was her husband. Suzu is less than pleased at being treated as their child. | |
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In On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Edward sends off some ne'er-do-wells by pretending to be Melinda's brother, and singing "Don't Tamper With My Sister," an entire song about not going about that kind of thing (in public). | |
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In Howl's Moving Castle, Howl gets Sophie away from some soldiers who are trying to pick her up by coming over and pretending to be her boyfriend. While it manages to get the soldiers off Sophie's back, it also has the unintended effect of making the Witch of the Waste jealous of Sophie. | |
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005): it's how they met. They managed to avoid the military this way: they were looking for an American traveling alone. | |
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Early in Princess Princess, Toru's cousin, who's a Stalker with a Crush, shows up to harass him. After several unsuccessful attempts to get rid of her, Shihoudani puts his arm around Toru's shoulders, gives the stalker a very catty look, and says "Sorry, he's taken." ...He then proceeds to kiss Toru on the lips to drive the point home. Toru and Shihoudani's relationship beyond that is up in the air, but there are plenty of further hints. | |
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In Recovery of an MMO Junkie, Lily used to get a lot of unwanted attention from male players, to the point that it almost ruined her enjoyment of the game. Eventually, her guild master Kanbe suggested that she tell people they were partners, which caused the harassment to die down. In Episode 3, she asks Hayashi to become her new partner and he accepts, with Kanbe's approval (though it's also subverted, since Hayashi and Lily are slowly developing into an actual couple — or at least their players are). | |
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In Paper Towns, Q goes out pranking with Margo at the beginning of the book. Someone hits on her and makes a comment about her "little brother," ie, Q. She tells the clerk, "Actually, he's my cousin." * grabs ass* "And my lover." | |
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Janda Kembang: When Wulan's bad-boy senior Roy keeps asking her to be his girlfriend, Malik and Wulan pretend to be a couple to throw him off. Roy doesn't actually buy it, but Malik scares him off by cutting a tomato loudly. | |
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In the Yakuza games it's quite common for the player character to do this with hostesses they romance. Tanimura in Yakuza 4 can take a mission where he pretends to be a woman's boyfriend in order to drive away her ex for an extended period. | |
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Rizzoli & Isles has a lesbian version in a scene where the titular characters dissuade a mechanic from romantically pursuing one of them by pretending to be a couple. | |
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Strong Medicine. Kayla asks Peter to pose as her fiance when her ex comes to town for a visit. Sure enough, they start dating soon afterwards. | |
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Gender inverted in The Last Days of FOXHOUND. After Sniper Wolf asks Liquid Snake on a date, Liquid remembers that Wolf only has crushes on men she's about to kill (she doesn't want to kill him, only talk), so he runs away and asks the first woman he sees to be his girlfriend. Coincidentally, this woman is Naomi Hunter, who does want to kill him. | |
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Suberted in the NCIS episode "Designated Target." Ziva asks Tony how to tell someone you no longer want to speak with them while speaking with someone else on the phone. Tony helpfully takes the phone, pretends to be her husband, and threatens bodily harm to the person on the other end. A shocked Ziva informs him he's just yelled at her aunt, who had called asking her for advice on how to stop seeing her elderly mah-jong partner. | |
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Alex pretends to be Elaine's boyfriend "Bill Board" on Taxi. | |
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Extraordinary Attorney Woo: In a flashback to Young-woo's high school days, we see the day she met her best friend Geu-ra-mi. Young-woo was being ruthlessly bullied for being autistic, and Geu-ra-mi, incensed, stood up and slapped the ringleader. A boy in the class mockingly asked if Geu-ra-mi was standing up for her girlfriend, which backfired pretty badly when Geu-ra-mi said, yep, she was... and she was more than willing to throw a chair at anyone who messed with her girlfriend. It's unclear if they bothered to keep up the ruse that they were dating, but she and Young-woo were besties from that moment forward. | |
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I'm Nobody has a "Sister Bluff" variant by having an angry Ashley getting a pair of flirtatious asari with No Sense of Personal Space away from (the rather naive) Roxas by claiming to be his over protective big sister. | |
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In How To Be Single, Lucy meets her old friend at a bar who announces her engagement and bluffs at Lucy for being single. Tom, the bartender, sees this and kisses Lucy claiming to be her boyfriend. | |
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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, in which the girl actually request it: "Be my boyfriend for five minutes." | |
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In Love Plus, Rinko nearly gets into a fight with a well-muscled youth due to his inability to accept his loss in a fighting game to a girl. As the situation escalated, Rinko apparently threw the first kick, but when she sees the player nearby, she claims that he is her boyfriend and asks the player to "destroy the punk." Obviously, the player grabs Rinko by the hand and employs the classic Nike defense. | |
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In an episode of Futurama parodying Titanic (1997), Fry is simultaneously pretending to be Amy's boyfriend so her parents will stop harassing her about giving them grandchildren and pretending to be Leela's boyfriend to keep her from being harassed by Zapp Brannigan. | |
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This winds up being the explanation for Superboy randomly having a wife (and a baby) in Young Justice (2019); When Conner winds up in Gemworld, one of the first things he sees is a pregnant woman getting harassed by two guards for travelling without a husband - three guesses on what Kon does. | |
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The Dangers in My Heart: Yamada's friends (and Ichikawa) visit her house to bake chocolate. Moeko bluffs Yamada's mom into thinking Ichikawa is her boyfriend when it appears she has suspicions about a boy coming over. This only succeeds in causing awkward tension amongst the party and really pissing Yamada off, especially when it turns out Yamada's mom already had an idea of who Ichikawa was. | |
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Bobby and Cecilia do this to throw off the Sentinels in the X-Men comics in the 90s. | |
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The Bible: Inverted in The Book of Genesis, where Abraham pretends that his beautiful wife Sarah is his sister whenever he travels to a foreign country so that other men won't try to kill him to have her. He actually did this twice. Then his son Isaac tried to do the same thing about his wife Rebecca. | |
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Attempted by one character in Blue Drop, but it just makes the Arume he's bluffing threaten to impregnate the woman in question. | |
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Rules: A gender-inverted example with Light and Charlie, in order to get rid of Misa. It seems to have worked at first — Charlie tells her, over the phone, to stay the hell away from "her man", which relieves Light of the constant emails, calls, and voicemails. However, it was just the calm before the storm, as Misa goes as far as showing up on campus to win him back. Even a Fake-Out Make-Out doesn't completely deter her — she is convinced that she can't save Light from the "American whore," and will instead wait for Light, who she believes will come crawling back to her once Charlie breaks his heart. Obviously, that will never happen, as Light and Charlie aren't actually dating yet. | |
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Mimpi Metropolitan: In episode 23, to make the gossip reporters believe Alexi really is not her boyfriend, Melani holds Bambang's hand and says he is her boyfriend. Bambang happily plays along. In episode 52, Alexi and consequently the others assume this trope is in play when Bambang claims to be Melani's boyfriend to make Alexi stop bothering her, not knowing and not believing that Bambang really is her boyfriend at that point. |
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In CLANNAD, in a rare reversal of roles, Nagisa pretends to be Tomoya's girlfriend at one point to get Sunohara to stop bugging Tomoya. She thought that Sunohara was gay and in love with Tomoya... just another one of Tomoya's pranks (in reality, Sunohara just wanted to get Tomoya to play basketball with him for totally unrelated reasons). Note that this only applies to the anime adaptation... in the Visual Novel's equivalent scene, Nagisa is Tomoya's girlfriend at that point. | |
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Pygmalion: Exaggerated. When a policeman takes offense to him and Eliza kissing, Freddy fends off any suspicions about propriety by claiming they're recently engaged. Eliza, who's quite familiar with the police's habit of hounding girls off the street, considers it a proper answer. | |
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In the third book, A Storm of Swords in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, Gendry pretends to be Arya's older brother to repel the advances toward Arya from older creepy men at a brothel. Arya is surprised and upset by Gendry saying this and asserts that he's not her brother probably because she has a huge crush on him. | |
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In Star Ocean: The Last Hope, if you head back to the base on Aeos, Commander Graft will think Edge and Reimi are a couple. Like in Till the End of Time, pretending this is true is the more favorable response. Amusingly enough, it's very heavily implied the two hook up in the ending. | |
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Inverted in Oreshura. Masuzu, the most popular girl at the school, gives a very public Love Confession to Eita, partly because she finds his lack of interest in love fascinating, and partly to stop having so many boys ask her out every day. She forces him to continue pretending that they're dating by managing to get a copy of a journal he wrote fantasy stories in, and telling him that if he doesn't pretend to be her boyfriend, or he tells anyone about the fake relationship, she would release the contents of the journal on the internet. Since he considers the journal to be an embarrassing Old Shame, he's forced to comply with her demands. Naturally, this doesn't sit well with his Childhood Friend, Chiwa, who then keeps close tabs on them. | |
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In Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances grabs Marcello and pretends to be his girlfriend to escape from the men following her. This is an interesting case in that unlike many other such stories, this one doesn't work out in the end. | |
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In the game Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, in order to get a pushy woman away from him, Fayt pretends that his friend Sophia is his girlfriend. At first she's left very shocked, but quickly catches on and goes along with it. After this all, she states that she didn't really mind being considered his girlfriend, which bumps up their Relationship Values. | |
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In Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side, this gets done to each of the 'date disturbers' that can appear when going on a date with a guy. The guy in question will be late, and the heroine will get accosted by a guy trying to pick her up or by a salesperson trying to get her to buy something. Each guy has a different way of bluffing the disturber away. | |
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In Gakuen Babysitters, it's Played for Laughs when Inui wants to meet "Inomata" (actually a crossdressing Ryuuichi). In order to deter him, Yayoi comes up with a situation where Kamitani pretends to be "Inomata"'s boyfriend. | |
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In My Candy Love one of the endings for the episode where Amber tries to slap you is Castiel throwing an arm around your Candy and saying "Are you trying to bother my girlfriend, Amber?" Which is a rare example of this trope being used to defend a female from another female. | |
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Hitch pretended to be the boyfriend of a woman at a bar to get rid of a guy she obviously was not interested in. | |
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In Man Up, Jack asks his first date Nancy to pretends to be his girlfriend in front of his ex-wife and the man she cheated on him with. | |
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The Delinquent and His Lover is kicked off when Akira sees the obscene text messages Tsukasa has been sending Makoto and sends him a reply warning him to back off, claiming to be Makoto's boyfriend. | |
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In Blue Is the Warmest Color, Adèle "accidentally" ends up in a lesbian bar, and being young, pretty, confused, and vulnerable, is of course easy pickings to be hit on. Emma wards them off by claiming to be Adèle's cousin, and keeps her company for the rest of the evening. | |
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High School D×D: When she visits her grandmother Gondul, Rossweisse asks Issei to pose as her boyfriend, since she lied to her about being in a relationship. A lot of things happen and, after Issei promises to keep her safe from Euclid and later saves her from him, she ends up falling for him for real and joins his harem. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Time of the Doctor," Clara asks the Doctor if he'd like to pretend to be her boyfriend for when her parents come over for Christmas dinner. He dutifully arrives, but he makes the worst possible impression upon the family—he's stark naked! | |
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Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro: Sakura asks Senpai to pretend that he's her boyfriend to drive away a Stalker with a Crush who's been following her around. Nagatoro ends up going after the guy so he apologizes to Sakura and ends their date right then and there. | |
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In Sonny with a Chance, Sonny pretends to be Grady's girlfriend while his brother Grant is visiting. | |
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In Disney's Aladdin, Aladdin rescues Jasmine from a street vendor angry at her for giving a street urchin one of his apples without paying, though in this case Al pretends Jasmine is his Cloudcuckoolander sister. Points to Jasmine for immediately getting it and playing along. | |
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Breadbun attempts this in Trigger Star to get away from Quiche. At first, it doesn't work, but then it works all too well. Despite this, Quiche is not entirely put off. | |
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Used in an odd sense in Ai Yori Aoshi. Kaoru dissuades a pair of guys from making a move on Aoi with this claim...kicker being he really is her fiance, and he'd just kicked her out of his home suspecting her of being a ploy by his estranged family to get him to return (only to immediately realize his mistake). The incident kicks off the two's relationship. | |
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Fruits Basket: Kyo pulls a non-verbal version of this to protect Tohru from some guys that want to take advantage of her. It involves leaning on the wall next to her and glaring at them. | |
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In Enemy at the Door episode "The Jerrybag", Peter intervenes when he comes across a young woman being harassed by a couple of German soldiers, apologizing for being late to an invented rendezvous. It doesn't entirely work, since the Germans are confident they have him outmatched physically and in authority, and he has to do some more fast talking to get them both away unscathed. | |
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Anita Blake takes hitman Bernardo with her to a werewolf biker-gang bar, because she believes they are unlikely to listen seriously to a woman who shows up at their hangout alone. | |
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Sticky Dilly Buns: "Rudy" saves "Dilla" from an attempted chat-up with a "Get lost. I saw her first." The twist there is that both are Disguised in Drag — "Dilla" is actually Dillon, and "Rudy" is Ruby. Given that Ruby is usually rather nervous and easily embarrassed, and she bluffs down a guy who's larger than herself to help someone she doesn't even like very much, this is a bit of a personal moment of awesome for her. Later, Dillon is saved again by his Old Friend Ray, who pretends to be his boyfriend to get rid of a girl who's making moves on Dillon despite Dillon's visible lack of interest. The twist this time is that Ray actually identifies as straight, and doesn't know that Dillon is actually gay — with a massive unrequited crush on Ray. |
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The Quintessential Quintuplets: At one point, Miku disguises herself as Ichika and meets up with a guy named Maeda, who wants to ask Ichika out to dance at the upcoming bonfire. In order to repel him, when Fuutarou shows up Miku pretends they are dating and already promised to dance together. | |
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Gender-swapped in Second Chances (TheNovelArtist). When Marinette walks in on Lila attempting to seduce Adrien and clearly making him uncomfortable, she promptly refers to him as "sweetheart" and acts as though they're dating, making it easy to send Lila away. Adrien plays along, in a mixture of confusion, trust, and wishing it were real. | |
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Captain Janeway and Lt. Cmdr. Tuvok pretend to be romantically involved in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Critical Care" when talking to one of the people who was involved with a thief that stole the Doctor and his mobile emitter from Voyager. | |
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Frasier: Roz sees an ex-boyfriend walking past Cafe Nervosa and asks Frasier to kiss her so the guy will think she's moved on. Frasier is reluctant but eventually agrees after being reminded how rude the guy was to him. The ex takes one look at them and walks away without saying anything, but then Frasier's brother Niles walks in and proceeds to have a lot of fun teasing them about it. In another episode, Daphne's ex-fiance Clive visits, and she introduces Niles to him as her husband. In yet another episode Martin sees the woman he's currently not-exclusive with enter Cafe Nervosa with another man. He asks Roz to pose as his other girlfriend so he can save face. Roz reluctantly agrees and pretends to cuddle up to him, which is when her date walks in and gets very confused. |
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Ross tried to do this for Rachel on Friends, but it was unwanted because Rachel was actually interested in the guy. | |
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Law & Order: UK. In the multi-chapter fic "Delayed Shock" (the first in a on-going series that has now been running for a decade), Matt and Alesha's relationship sparks when the team is hanging out at a pub and she's hassled by some drunken footballers. When one of them asks if she's with anyone, Matt answers for her, declaring, "She's with me." Another (separate) story has him taking it even further and saying that she's his wife. |
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In Say "I Love You", Mei calls Yamato in episode 1 after she's unable to reach her mother when she notices there'a a creepy guy following her. He arrives to escort her home, then gives her a kiss, which is enough to scare the guy away, while unintentionally taking her First Kiss. | |
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