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Film Felons
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An evil subtrope where a villain pretends to direct a TV show or film to cover up an evil plan. This has many characteristics in which it seems almost like a Take That! at the TV executives, but usually, it provides an interesting backdrop that can both easily explain away how there's no police suspicion of a crime, and provide a way to trick an innocent bystander into some criminal scheme, again without suspicion. This can probably also apply to fake directing of media other than television or film, but there haven't yet been any examples yet of using a fake radio program or a video game as a cover-up for crimes in fiction, likely due to the ease of pretending that a crime is actually a scene from a movie or TV show. However, sometimes the villain will explain that It's for a Book. As per a reason for the hero to get involved in the plot, it is virtually guaranteed that when a villain is causing crimes behind the façade of a nonexistent movie, the part of the criminal in said movie will often fall to the hero of the show, likely causing him having to clear his own name of a crime that he or she didn't know was actually a crime. Or in the other likely scenario, he or she is cast as the main actor/actress in the movie, and the villain tries to kill him or her off with a Death Trap disguised as various accidents or stunts. Closely related to All Part of the Show. Contrast You Just Ruined the Shot, in which an apparent crime actually is just part of a film shoot. Sister Trope to It's for a Book and We Were Rehearsing a Play. |
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Happened in Nick Knatterton once. | |
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The Avenger Penguins episode "Star Struck" had Caractacus P. Doom and Harry Slime pretend to make a movie to lure the Avenger Penguins into a trap. | |
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In Vol 1 a spoiled actress tries to arrange the deaths of her competitors during filming by sabotaging a plane so that a faked controlled crash becomes a real deadly one. | |
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In one Vol 3 story, the Queen of Fables first pulls Kill and Replace on a Hollywood producer named Laney Kirswel. Using Laney's identity, she launched a project for an unauthorized and highly inaccurate and slanderous Wonder Woman biography. Her goal was to both ruin Wonder Woman's reputation and to annoy her enough that she would show up on set to protest, at which point the Queen trapped and tried to kill her. | |
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A three part adventure of Batman (1966) finds the Penguin pretending to be producer and director of a film. Batman is not fooled for one second, but plays along to find out what his ultimate scheme is. | |
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In Henry's Crime, Henry discovers a long forgotten bootlegger's tunnel which runs from the bank to a theatre across the alleyway. He and Max plan to infiltrate the theatre and its current production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard to enough time to dig their way to the adjacent bank vault. | |
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In Now You See Me, four magicians seemingly commit grand larceny in front of a paying audience, multiple times. They suggest to police that putting them on trial without a fully detailed case would imply the reality of magic, making the FBI look ridiculous. | |
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Totally Spies! has unhinged filmmaker Marco Lumière (whose name is likely a Shout-Out to film pioneers the Lumière Brothers). | |
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An episode of Hustle featured the gang staging a fake Bollywood film to trick a mark out of all his money. | |
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In the Duck Dodgers episode, "Hooray for Hollywood Planet", the Martian Commander hires a film director named Harry Vermin to off Dodgers in exchange for financing his next ten pictures. | |
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Darkwing Duck had a recurring villain called Tuskernini, whose gimmick was to stage his crimes like a film shoot. In one episode he pretended to go straight and offered DW the lead in his movie, which of course turned out to be another crime cover. | |
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The Super Globetrotters: One of the Super Globetrotters' foes was called Movie Man. His gang consisted of a master of disguise, a special effects man, a sound effects expert, and a stuntwoman. | |
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Attempted by one car thief in Pittsburgh when he was caught boosting a car during the filming of The Dark Knight Rises. The police didn't believe his story that he was "just an extra". | |
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A very similar situation happened with Homicide: Life on the Street, which itself later spawned an episode about the very event, "The Documentary." | |
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In the Dazzler comic she is recruited to dance in a music video that is a thinly veiled Thriller reference. The director has been engineering stunts to create the appearance that the production was cursed, all to increase publicity for himself; he went so far as to blow up his own car. He set up a scene for the video where the zombie dancers would emerge from their graves, but removed the air hose from Alison's plot so that she would suffocate before having the chance to emerge. She managed to escape anyway, and got a full confession from the director in front of the news crew he'd brought in to witness the "accident". | |
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An episode of McCloud featured Larry Hagman as a TV star duped by Fernando Lamas. | |
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Sensation Comics includes an Etta Candy and her Holliday Girls story in which a bitter man uses his work in cosmetics in the film industry to scar and maim women working on a handful of films which he is working on. | |
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The first part of The Clones of Bruce Lee focuses on a gold smuggler hider who covers up his operations with his day job as a Hong Kong film director. When one of the eponymous Bruce Lee clones is sent to investigate, the director decides to kill him by faking a weapons malfunction on the set. | |
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Inspector Gadget. One of the earlier episodes had MAD using a fake movie shooting as a cover to spy on a military base. | |
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The deadly stunts variant was used in the Action League NOW! segment "A Star is Torn" where The Mayor was the director for Thundergirl. | |
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The 24th episode of the PaRappa the Rapper anime has Groober and Gaster deceive Chop Chop Master Onion into aiding in a bank robbery attempt with the cover that they want to film a movie starring Chop Chop Master Onion. Fortunately, PaRappa and friends thwart Groober and Gaster's scheme before they can succeed. | |
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The "Film Flam" episode of The Powerpuff Girls (1998) used this trope. Which is then promptly turned on its head when The Mayor (a hostage) takes a gun from one of the criminals and starts telling them how to film a hostage taking, in an over-the-top gangster accent. The punchline to the episode is, of course, that no one would want to see the PPGs in a movie, The Powerpuff Girls Movie having been in production at that point. |
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Dead by Daylight: Descend Beyond was a fake film devised by its financiers to trick someone into getting themselves sacrificed to an Eldritch Abomination. Nicolas Cage found out the hard way. | |
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The A-Team: The pilot "Mexican Slayride" has the team, through Face's efforts, getting needed supplies from the Mexican film commission by posing as a fake movie company. | |
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In Snuff Movie, Boris goes to the trouble of filing a permission to shoot form with the local police as a cover for his snuff operation. When the police raid the mansion, he claims all of the gore is props and special effects for the horror movie he is shooting. | |
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In an early Daredevil comic, criminals show up to try out for parts as themselves. The camera crew and producers thought it was just a show, right up until the robbery. | |
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A few years after the Goblin story, Mysterio and the Wizard teamed up to defeat Spidey and the Human Torch by hiring them to appear in a movie. | |
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In the second I Expect You To Die game the Big Bad, John Juniper is a Spy Fiction movie actor/director who is using his lates spy movie as a cover for a real world domination scheme. | |
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The whole plot of the first book of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Granted, it's a theater play, but it still fits the trope. Actor-playwright Olaf wants to marry Violet to get his clutches on her fortune. Knowing you've got to be married by a judge, he arranges a whole play to be performed, in which there is a wedding scene. Actually the whole play is a (horribly dragging, tedious and devoted only to praising him) wedding scene. Of course, he casts himself as the groom, Violet as the bride and a local judge as... Well, you guessed it. | |
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The The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius episode "Lights! Camera! Danger!" had Jimmy win a screenwriting contest and a Quentin Tarantino-esque director named Quentin Smithee offers to shoot the movie with him and his friends as the stars. In actuality, the director was Jimmy's enemy Professor Calamitous using the shoot as a chance to get revenge on Jimmy and his friends with various death-traps disguised as movie stunts. | |
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Wonder Woman: Sensation Comics includes an Etta Candy and her Holliday Girls story in which a bitter man uses his work in cosmetics in the film industry to scar and maim women working on a handful of films which he is working on. In Vol 1 a spoiled actress tries to arrange the deaths of her competitors during filming by sabotaging a plane so that a faked controlled crash becomes a real deadly one. In one Vol 3 story, the Queen of Fables first pulls Kill and Replace on a Hollywood producer named Laney Kirswel. Using Laney's identity, she launched a project for an unauthorized and highly inaccurate and slanderous Wonder Woman biography. Her goal was to both ruin Wonder Woman's reputation and to annoy her enough that she would show up on set to protest, at which point the Queen trapped and tried to kill her. |
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The Spider-Woman episode "The Kongo Spider" had a villainous director attempt to make a snuff film using a giant spider, with Spider-Woman and Spider-Man being his intended victims. | |
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In the Tintin universe, Cosmos Pictures is a film production company used as a front for the criminal activities of Mr. Rastapopoulos. | |
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The Dynomutt, Dog Wonder episode "Tin Kong" had as its villain Eric Von Flick, a film director who used a mechanical ape in filming a disaster movie. | |
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In the Courage the Cowardly Dog episode "Everyone Wants to Direct", a zombie "director" named Benton Tarantella came to the farm and told Muriel and Eustace he wished to use them and the farm in a movie. He was actually using them to resurrect his dead friend and partner-in-crime Errol Van Volkheim buried in their basement. | |
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This was also the plot of The Little Rascals animated episode "Flim Flam Film Fans", in which a crooked film director pretended to shoot a movie at Waldo's home. While Alfalfa and Waldo argued over which of them would be the train engineer, Darla was tied not to the track, but to the railroad gate. | |
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Argo is a heroic variant; making a fake cheesy low-budget sci-fi movie as a cover for rescuing hostages. Based on a True Story! | |
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This was, in the fact, the result of a succesful NathanForYou episode. | |
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One episode of Leverage has a group of criminals taking over the production of an indie movie to cover their scheme. The twist: The criminals in question are the eponymous good guys, and the aim of their con is to rescue a child from a gang of adoption scammers which balloons into a mission to save all the children in the villains' fake orphanage, which is actually a front for arms smuggling. | |
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In one episode of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, Spidey is put into a "movie" wherein the director is actually trying to kill him with the stunts (being forced by Mysterio to do it). | |
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In an episode of The Monkees, a pair of crooks pose as filmmakers and hire the Monkees to play bank robbers in a heist movie. They then send the boys to a real bank, inform them that the bank patrons and bank personnel are all actors as well, and have them rob it. They tell the group to improvise their lines ("A script will make your performance stale") and that they use the hidden camera technique, "so don't worry if you don't see a director". The Monkees return to the crooks with several bags full of what they think is fake money, but which is quite real. | |
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The Biker Mice from Mars episode "Danger is Our Business" had Lawrence Limburger disguise himself as a movie director named Jack Romano as part of a ploy to get the Biker Mice killed when they take his job offer for a stuntman. | |
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In The Munsters, a couple of crooks pose as directors and sign Herman up as the star of their film. The contract includes a very large life insurance policy, and they spend most of the episode trying to arrange an "accident" on set. Naturally, the crooks are the ones who eventually wind up injured. | |
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In T.U.F.F. Puppy, Quacky the Duck and his gang posed as film-makers in order to trick TUFF into stealing things on camera. | |
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An episode of The Avengers (1960s) - "Epic" - was about this. Demented movie mogul with an Eric von Stroheim fixation lures Mrs Peel to an abandoned movie studio, to star in a film of her own death. | |
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Amphibia, "A Caravan Named Desire": Renee Frodgers's acting troupe uses their plays as distractions while she steals from the towns they visit. | |
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An episode of The Fantastic Four (1967) involved a villainous Master of Disguise impersonating a famous movie director and interviewing the Fantastic Four about their previous adventures under the pretense of digging for ideas for a movie about them, while noting the various ways the villains failed to defeat them and plotting his way around their pitfalls. | |
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The The Adventures of Batman episode "Long John Joker" featured Joker pulling one of these as a cover for tracking down a criminals hidden cache from an armored truck heist. | |
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A plot like this was how the Green Goblin was introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man. A few years after the Goblin story, Mysterio and the Wizard teamed up to defeat Spidey and the Human Torch by hiring them to appear in a movie. |
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The Perils of Penelope Pitstop episode "Game of Peril" had the Hooded Claw prevent the police from intervening in his plan to kill Penelope with an over-complicated Death Trap on a construction site by having the Bully Brothers stand nearby as director and cameraman. | |
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On Hong Kong Phooey, the film director and crew enlist people off the street to play bank robbers in the movie, and unknown to the 'actor', actually trick him into robbing an actual bank for them. | |
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This trope appears in Alias the Jester. In this case, the king even directs a scene. Then Alias realizes they must be fake because film hasn't been invented yet. | |
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Deadpool deals with one of these in a short story called Game of Death. Turns out it was the son of the man who sent him to the island in the first place. He lets his employer live, despite sending him into a death trap...but not after scaring the crap out of the old guy. | |
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Crash Zone has a non-film example—in the episode "Rear Windows", a criminal gang releases a game on the internet to "crowdsource" a kidnapping strategy from the unaware players. | |
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