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Out of all the cabs in all the city, the Hero, his significant other, or another important person will invariably get on the one that the villain is driving. If they're particularly alert, they might notice they aren't headed to the park before the villain reveals himself and uses Knockout Gas or locks all the doors from the front of the vehicle. (They never notice before they enter the car.) As anyone who lives in a large metropolitan area can attest, cabbies and people looking for a taxi are aggressive and a dime a dozen; so the odds of a Villain or his Evil Minions catching their target without another cab swerving in ahead of them, or having a pushy fare cut in front of the victim, are particularly slim. This is also ignoring the possibility of the intended target biking, busing, taking the subway, metro, getting a friend to pick them up, or just plain walking. This trope is named for the less common but more iconic scene where the target's personal driver is replaced by the villain, leading to a "You're Not My Driver" quickly followed by a one-liner from the impostor and some knockout gas or a gun to the face. It often comes with the added implication that the poor driver is lying face down in a ditch somewhere. This method is more believable than taxi-napping a victim, since the target invariably comes to the villain but still slightly odd because nobody ever notices this until after they're in the car. This trope is not necessarily limited to taxis and limos either, but also planes, boats, and even zeppelins. A particularly nasty variation has an ambulance full of apparent paramedics turn up who are actually bad guys there to finish off the survivors. See also Sinister Car, The Taxi, Fridge Logic, Gambit Roulette. Harmful to Hitchhikers is a related trope, in which a person is victimized after accepting a ride from a stranger. |
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In The Pendragon Adventure, this happens so many times to the protagonists (in various forms), that at one point a character hails a cab, opens the driver door, grabs the cabbie, and says "Does this guy look familiar to anyone?" | |
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Sherlock: This happens to the title character in the series two finale. After getting in the first cab he sees, he's treated to a video of Moriarty explaining his plan like something out of a kid's fairy-tale. He gets out of the cab, runs to the driver's window — and sees Moriarty, who quips "No charge" and drives off. Made especially glaring, because the series started with an adaptation of "A Study in Scarlet": Sherlock really had a good reason to pay specific attention to cabbies. Then again, Moriarty is portrayed as just that good at foiling Sherlock... A heroic variant, which could be called "Not My Executioner" at the end of "A Scandal in Belgravia", after Mycroft informs Watson that Irene Adler has been captured and beheaded by a terrorist cell in Pakistan. In order to spare Sherlock, Watson tells him that Irene is in witness protection in the US. Holmes then sees the last text message sent to him by Irene, and we see a flashback to her execution. She's on her knees in a burqa, typing out the message before her phone is taken away. An executioner walks up with a sword... and she hears the ringtone for herself that she has put on Sherlock's phone (a woman moaning). The next words from the executioner are "Run when I tell you". |
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Parodically subverted in The Third Man. Holly thinks his cabby is abducting him and is working for the conspiracy because he Drives Like Crazy, obviously isn't taking him to his requested destination, and doesn't answer any of his questions. The guy's really just driving him to the lecture he was scheduled to do (and is extremely late for) and doesn't speak English. | |
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The classic British gangster film The Long Good Friday ends with the main character and his mistress entering a dummy vehicle and being 'taken for a ride' by his enemies. | |
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The Pretender: In "The Paper Clock", Jarod employs someone to replace a corrupt lawyer's limo driver to get him out of the way so he can track down evidence to bring down a killer and free an innocent man who was framed for the killing. Jarod also does this himself, replacing one of the regular villains' (Mr. Lyle) limo driver so as to kidnap him and get information out of him regarding a mass murderer who had escaped justice and was trying to find asylum in the U.S. |
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In the first Missing in Action movie, Chuck Norris hails a taxi, but the driver is a Vietnamese agent who grabs a .45 hidden in a newspaper on the seat next to him and tries to shoot Chuck, who throttles him to death instead. After Chuck exits the taxi, a young couple get inside and ask to be taken to their hotel. | |
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The Phantom of the Opera (2004) knocks out and replaces Christine's carriage man so that he can take her to the cemetery and try to abduct her again. | |
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Scorpion: Happy kidnaps a baseball star to serve as a ringer for their softball game. He briefly agrees to do it, but bolts after the opposing team intentionally walks him. | |
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Twice in The Big Hit: As part of the kidnapping plot, Melvin replaces Keiko's limo driver; he reveals himself when he shoots her asshole boyfriend who's trying to rape her. Zig-zagged at the end; when the car slows down, Keiko thinks the driver might be Melvin, and is disappointed when she sees that it isn't. It's Vince, one of Melvin's "co-workers". And then Melvin opens the door and climbs in next to her. |
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In The Shadow #100, a wealthy gambler leaving his club with his poker winnings discovers that his driver is not really his driver when his car turns into a deserted alley. A few moments later, he is murdered and robbed. | |
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1960's Batman (1966) episode "An Egg Grows in Gotham". When millionaire Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson take a limousine to the ceremony, they discover that the supervillain Egghead has taken the place of the driver. He triggers a gas release that renders them unconscious. | |
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In Dick Tracy vs. Cueball, Cueball poses as a taxi driver to abduct Tess when she is posing as socialite Diane Belmont. | |
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The first act of Requiem for a Dream ends with Marlon Wayans making a deal with some black drug kingpins. The partition slides down and Wayans marvels that they have a white driver, only for bullets to start flying; the driver was a hitman for an Italian cartel. | |
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The M.O. of the "Cabbie Killer" in CSI: NY. The fake driver turned his taxi into a mobile gas chamber. | |
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In the Grimm episode "Cry Havoc", since King Frederick's staff wear masks to work, he doesn't realize that the helicopter crew has been replaced until after they throw him out of the helicopter to his death. | |
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Somewhat subverted in the House episode "Living the Dream", when House kidnaps his favorite soap star because he believes that he has a life-threatening illness (or is just bored, we're never 100% sure). | |
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In The Goonies, Chunk flags down a Jeep Cherokee in an attempt to get a ride to the police station. By the time he realizes Jake Fratelli is the driver, it's too late. | |
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The Simpsons: Homer and Bart are specifically told not to go into unlicensed cabs in Brazil, advice which they of course ignore. They end up with not a normal cab driver, but a kidnapper. | |
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Kevin & Kell: After some time in which Kell comes home too late to spend any time with Kevin, she gets in her car to be driven to work, but finds that Kevin has given her driver Wally the day off, enabling him to be with her. Years later, Dip finds himself in this situation. Fortunately, he has backup. And again, when Angelique orders Herd Thinners to specifically target rabbits, she finds her chauffeur has been replaced by Dorothy. |
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The Parasol Protectorate: In Soulless, the villains attempt to kidnap Alexia by switching out her cab while she's visiting the Westminster Hive, and she gets in before realizing the difference. Fortunately, Lord Maccon followed her because he doesn't trust vampire hives... | |
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Another heroic example occurs in Undercover Blues, where Jeff Blue stops a bank robbery in progress by booby-trapping their getaway minivan and replacing their getaway driver with himself. Lampshaded when he says, "No one ever looks at the driver." | |
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Heroes: Inverted with Mohinder Suresh, one of the protagonists, who funds his research into finding super powered people by driving a cab. Bennet, The Dragon and the series' Magnificent Bastard, attempts to ambush Suresh by posing as a fare. Ironically, Suresh also taxis Peter without ever knowing he's one of the people he's looking for. Sylar kills Mohinder's father, Chandra, in his own taxi. The Suresh taxi seemed to have some sort of magical gravity: any time any main character ever needed to go anywhere in New York, they'd end up in Suresh's taxi. At the start of Volume 4, a government agent pulls a gun on Mohinder in the aforementioned ill-starred taxi and tells him to "just drive". Mohinder responds calmly, "It's your dime," as if being menaced on the job is so routine for him at this point, sarcasm has replaced fear. |
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Looney Tunes: In the cartoon "Baseball Bugs", the dirty Gas House Gorillas need a home run to win the game. The batter knocks Bugs' first pitch clear out of the park. Bugs flags down a cab, telling the driver to "follow that ball!", but the cab screams off in the wrong direction. It's being driven by one of the Gorilla's players, and according to the posted driver credentials, it really IS his cab. In "Hare Do", Bugs tries to evade Elmer by thumbing a ride, but it turns out that Elmer is driving the car. In "The Unmentionables", special-agent Bugs is taxi-napped by Rocky's gang in this way as he leaves FBI headquarters. |
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This also happens in Justice League Unlimited, with the hero of the episode, The Question, posing as a cabbie in order to interrogate a mid-level mook. In a nice touch, a shot from the back seat includes a small photo of the driver, so that eagle-eyed viewers can see that the guy up front really is not his driver. | |
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Eddie Guerrero once pulled this on JBL during his Bugs Bunny phase. | |
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Grand Theft Auto V has the player perform this with a bus. Gets subverted when the target decides the bus fare is too expensive and steals someone's bike instead. The expected player response is to run the guy down with the bus. | |
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A heroic version is Resident Evil: Apocalypse. When the heroes start winning, Major Cain runs into his helicopter and orders the pilot to take off. When the pilot doesn't respond, Cain angrily confronts him, only to find LJ at the controls instead. LJ then punches him out. | |
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Dragaera: In Tiassa, Cawti and Norathar take elaborate precautions to avoid having this happen, randomly choosing to get in the seventh coach in line based on the exact time. | |
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Best Seller. A cab driver says he has to stop off for cigarettes. His behavior is nervous and when he vanishes from the store, the protagonists jump out of the cab which explodes moments later. | |
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An issue of Green Arrow featured a scene where the female vigilante Thorn used a taxi cab in order to stalk a criminal she was planning to kidnap. The real driver is shown tied up in the back seat with his mouth taped shut, apparently having been knocked out by Thorn. | |
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DC Animated Universe: Batman: The Animated Series: There's an episode where the Joker impersonates the helicopter pilot of Cameron Kaiser, a one-shot character, to try and kill him. Also happens to Bruce and Summer Gleason in "Night of the Ninja", where they wind up getting in a cab driven by Kyodai Ken, an old rival of Bruce's who wants revenge for Wayne exposing him as a thief back when they trained under the same master. Superman: The Animated Series: Lana gets into a car, thinking she is being driven by Luthor's usual assistant... "Sorry. No Mercy tonight." In the Batman: The Animated Series/Superman: The Animated Series crossover, Lex Luthor's usual driver (Mercy Graves) is waylaid and impersonated by Harley Quinn, so The Joker can meet with him. The comic adaptation adds in a bit of dialogue humorously implying that the real Mercy was taped up in the trunk the entire time. This also happens in Justice League Unlimited, with the hero of the episode, The Question, posing as a cabbie in order to interrogate a mid-level mook. In a nice touch, a shot from the back seat includes a small photo of the driver, so that eagle-eyed viewers can see that the guy up front really is not his driver. In the Justice League Action short "Missing the Mark", Mark Hamill gets into a cab which he soon realizes is driven by the Joker. |
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When the protagonist of Double Homework gets on a bus to Barbarossa, he’s sure he recognizes the driver. He finally places him as the fake sea captain from the yacht party. Amazingly, even his uniform is the same. | |
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In Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon, Arkadian's thugs try to kidnap Laura Charles this way (the first time), before Leroy steps in and beats them to a pulp. | |
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In an episode of Detentionaire, Lee gets in a taxi that's supposed to take him to the airport which actually has a Hazmat for a driver. Luckily, he's perceptive enough to notice when the car takes a wrong turn and just barely manages to escape. | |
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Saints Row: One of the missions against the Vice Kings in Saints Row involves the player taking the place of their brothel mistress's limousine driver, and then driving her around town (and away from a Saints ambush) before she'll lead you to her home, where one of your friends is being held hostage. Done three times in the optional assassination missions in Saints Row: The Third. One of the targets is a Morningstar lieutenant who will only come out if you pull up in a limo and pretend to be his chauffeur. Then, after the contact who gave you that target betrays you, you get revenge through another anonymous contact putting a hit out on him, telling you to lure him out by landing on his roof with a helicopter to pick him up. Much later, you get a target who must be killed in a way that doesn't draw attention to the Saints, so you have to pick her up in a jet which apparently has explosives planted in it, fly it high enough above the city, and then jump out so it can explode and kill her. |
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In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of Meng Huo's captures is a result of one of these, with a boat captain instead of a driver. | |
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In 24 season one, Jack kidnaps Ted Cofell, by taking the place of his personal driver. He then does it again to "Alan York" (really Kevin Caroll), who gets in the car with Ted Cofell (who Jack had killed). | |
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In Scrooged, the Ghost of Christmas Past is a taxi driver. He solves the "aggressive real taxi cutting in" problem by aggressively cutting in himself. Crunch. | |
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In the Discworld novel Making Money, Loveable Rogue Moist von Lipwig, despite knowing he has powerful enemies, gets into the first hansom cab that comes along, only to jump out the opposite door running like hell when it turns out to be a Honey Trap. Colon and Nobby are nearby to comment on his uncharacteristic Genre Blindness. Similarly, earlier in the book, he got into an unmarked black coach, on the assumption it was the Patrician's. It wasn't. | |
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Forever Knight. The Kill and Replace is shown in the Action Prologue of "Dying to Know You". A chauffeur drops off a rich society lady and her daughter for shopping, whereupon a kidnapper dressed in an identical chauffeur's outfit walks up to him. | |
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In Torchwood: Children of Earth Gwen gets picked up after the Hub bombing by ambulance paramedics who turn out to be MI5 assassins out to finish her off. | |
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In the Justice League Action short "Missing the Mark", Mark Hamill gets into a cab which he soon realizes is driven by the Joker. | |
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In Red (2010), the Vice-President and his Secret Service guards get in a limo marked with the Presidential seal while under fire. Cooper tries to warn them, but they don't listen as they think he just wants to escape with them in the armoured limo. Then one guard is knocked out when the limo stops abruptly, and the other is tazered by the driver, who is Moses. The VP then gets the same treatment. | |
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A comedic variant was used in X-Men: Evolution: Kitty has just gotten her learner's permit and is eager to drive. Throughout the episode, Professor X obliges several different X-Men (Jean, Scott, Storm, and Wolverine) to take her driving — with near-disastrous results (she prefers to use her powers to drive straight through obstacles, rather than, you know, avoid them). At the end of the episode, Professor X asks "Logan" to drive back to the mansion, only to discover Kitty in the driver's seat. This is also a Brick Joke: Wolverine told Xavier that he would get back at him for making him to take Kitty driving. | |
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In the I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Mockumentary In Search Of Mornington Crescent, Barry gets abducted by sinister forces while taking a cab to Elephant and Castle in a game of "live" Mornington Crescent. | |
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Played Straight in The Game (1997), when Nicholas finds out that the cab he gets on the street is owned by CRS. | |
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In House of 9, Jay is supervising a prisoner transport when he hops in the cab of the prison van and tells the driver to take them to the airport, only for the driver to turn around and knock him out. | |
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In Silverblade #6, the ghost of Brian Vane scares off Sandra's chauffeur and takes his place. Unfortunately for him, he cannot hold the physically illusion together as long as he would like and he is forced to drop it halfway through the drive. His purpose was not to kidnap her, but to have with her the conversation Jonathan was refusing to have. | |
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Grand Theft Auto: The original does this at least once. In one of the missions, you use a stolen ambulance to kidnap the District Attorney from the hospital. In Grand Theft Auto III, you are tasked with following a taxi cab that your mark gets into. You can't get too close, or he freaks out. You can avoid this by stealing your own cab and pulling next to the mark ahead of time. A reversal happens in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City where a rival cab company you've been violently running out of business impersonates a fare to lure you (as driver) into an ambush. It is used again in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, where the main character has to imitate the chauffeur of a recording artist's manager, in order to kill him by driving into the sea. And twice more in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories: once with you pretending to be a union boss's chauffeur, and then an inversion of the series' norm when the Sindaccos kidnap Maria this way. Grand Theft Auto V has the player perform this with a bus. Gets subverted when the target decides the bus fare is too expensive and steals someone's bike instead. The expected player response is to run the guy down with the bus. |
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In Bulldog Drummond, the hero scrobbles and impersonates the villain's chauffeur/getaway driver, not to abduct him but as a way to get into the villain's lair when the villain returns to it. | |
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The ambulance variant is used to kidnap Scully in The X-Files: Fight the Future. | |
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The Rebus novel Hyde and Seek, by Ian Rankin has a witness kidnapped by a fake ambulance. | |
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James Bond: Subverted by Bond in Dr. No, where a villain claims that Government House sent him to pick Bond up at the airport. Bond covertly phones Government House to find out the truth, and properly deals with the villain. Later Bond pulls a variation by calling for a taxi to pick up himself and Miss Taro, who finds a policeman waiting in the taxi to arrest her. However, in the later Roger Moore Bond film Live and Let Die, Bond falls for this trick (in a taxi this time), though pretty much everyone in the city is in the pay of the Big Bad. Then he falls for it again, with the same driver. Moore's Bond also had Blofeld send a phony helicopter to pick him up at the opening of For Your Eyes Only. Blofeld then kills the pilot and takes radio control so he can finish 007 off personally. Well, try to, anyway. Bond pulls this trick on M in Skyfall when he abducts her for her own safety after the attack on Westminster. Variation in Goldfinger, one of the mobsters that opts out of participating in the climactic big heist thinks Goldfinger's chauffeur is taking him to the airport. He realizes too late that he's actually being taken to a "pressing engagement" with a scrapyard car crusher. Another variation in A View to a Kill. Bond is being chased on horseback through the woods by the Big Bad and his mooks, but then sees his car being driven along a nearby road. As the chauffeur is a fellow British agent, Bond rides desperately towards it, only to find the chauffeur has been murdered by The Dragon, who's now driving the car. |
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Wolverine pulled this on a cocky young mob boss who threatened to kill a little girl and her father if Wolverine didn't kill a witness under federal protection for him (obviously, Wolverine didn't go through with it). When the mob boss went for the hidden gun in his limo Wolverine just told him not to embarrass himself. Fredo, realizing he has absolutely no chance of overpowering Wolverine, relents. | |
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In Grand Theft Auto III, you are tasked with following a taxi cab that your mark gets into. You can't get too close, or he freaks out. You can avoid this by stealing your own cab and pulling next to the mark ahead of time. | |
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Done three times in the optional assassination missions in Saints Row: The Third. One of the targets is a Morningstar lieutenant who will only come out if you pull up in a limo and pretend to be his chauffeur. Then, after the contact who gave you that target betrays you, you get revenge through another anonymous contact putting a hit out on him, telling you to lure him out by landing on his roof with a helicopter to pick him up. Much later, you get a target who must be killed in a way that doesn't draw attention to the Saints, so you have to pick her up in a jet which apparently has explosives planted in it, fly it high enough above the city, and then jump out so it can explode and kill her. | |
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In SWAT Kats episode "The Metallikats", Mac Mange does this to kidnap Mayor Manx and Deputy Mayor Briggs. He gives himself away instantly due to his crummy driving. | |
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Superman: The Animated Series: Lana gets into a car, thinking she is being driven by Luthor's usual assistant... "Sorry. No Mercy tonight." | |
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In Spider-Man 3, Eddie Brock kidnaps Mary Jane this way. | |
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Used a good number of times by Nick Fury in Spider-Man: The Animated Series. The cab would then turn into a hovercraft and fly back to base. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: In the Uncle Scrooge story "Zio Paperone e lo slogan invincibile", John D. Rockerduck and Scrooge are in a race to Scotland to obtain the MacGuffin. Rockerduck sets out in his private plane. However, Scrooge has foreseen that and had the entire airport crew replaced with disguised members of his own family. Rockerduck only realizes this when he wakes up in Scotland, alone and locked inside his own plane, with Uncle Scrooge and his relatives running away and laughing their heads off. | |
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Foyle's War: In "High Castle", an assassin takes the place of a cab driver to kill his victim. | |
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In the Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama "The Crimes of Thomas Brewster", the Doctor and Evelyn, having been questioned by the police in relation to a new London crime gang run by a man called "the Doctor", are then told MI5 wants to speak to them and put into a police car. The driver of the car then tells them, in a very London Gangster voice, that they aren't going to MI5 at all. It transpires that he works for a rival gang and has also mistaken the Doctor for the crime boss of the same name. | |
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Parodied in The Venture Brothers. Not only does Dr. Venture not notice his driver is the 8-foot gray-skinned guy with a metal jaw he went to college with, but he doesn't even notice when Phantom Limb begins gloating about the kidnapping over television screen (he's too busy listening to his Walkman). Fortunately for Dr. Venture, they put the knockout gas in the front seat. Later in the same episode, Dr. Venture gets into the same cab with the same poorly disguised driver — and no, he still doesn't notice. | |
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In Jesse's first nightmare at the start of A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge, Freddy replaces the bus driver just before the bus careers off into the desert. (The original driver is actually played by Robert Englund sans Freddy makeup.) The same thing happens at the end of the movie. | |
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In The Art of War (2000), this happens at the end with the film's Big Bad, after the main character informs the Chinese that she had their ambassador assassinated. After smugly letting the hero know she's a Karma Houdini, she realizes they're not going to the U.N. building right before the "driver", a Triad, turns around and shoots her in the head. | |
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Atomic Blonde. When Lorraine flies in to Berlin, she's met by two men at the airport who tell her that Percival, the MI6 station chief, is late and sent them. She only realises that they are KGB after getting into the car (Percival is following them, having seen what happened) so gets into a fight and crashes the car. Except we later discover Lorraine is a KGB double agent and they were just trying to make contact with her. The KGB agents are understandably confused when she starts attacking them to maintain her cover. | |
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In the first episode of Altered Carbon, Takeshi Kovacs is taken by a female chauffeur in a Flying Car to the estate of Laurens Bancroft. When she crashes the limousine trying to land it, it's revealed she's actually Detective Kristin Ortega, who had the driver arrested on a DUI charge so she could take his place in an attempt to find out what Bancroft wants with Kovacs. | |
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Subverted in series 2 episode 9 of Life, where Charlie tries to kidnap one of the people involved in his imprisonment. "You misunderstand me, this isn't a kidnapping. This, detective, is a kidnapping." | |
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In the cartoon "Baseball Bugs", the dirty Gas House Gorillas need a home run to win the game. The batter knocks Bugs' first pitch clear out of the park. Bugs flags down a cab, telling the driver to "follow that ball!", but the cab screams off in the wrong direction. It's being driven by one of the Gorilla's players, and according to the posted driver credentials, it really IS his cab. | |
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It is used again in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, where the main character has to imitate the chauffeur of a recording artist's manager, in order to kill him by driving into the sea. | |
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Towards the end of The Gentlemen, Mickey leaves the fish market and gets into the Range Rover, only to receive a text from Ray telling him not to get into the car; a few seconds too late. He looks up and finds his driver Dave has been replaced by a couple of Russian thugs. At the very end of the film, Fletcher gets in a black cab to go to the airport only to find that Ray is sitting in the drivers seat. And the back doors won't open... | |
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In Mr. Standfast, this is pulled on the villain by the heroes near the end, with the spymaster von Schwabing's chauffeur being replaced by a British intelligence agent. | |
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A reversal happens in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City where a rival cab company you've been violently running out of business impersonates a fare to lure you (as driver) into an ambush. | |
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The assassination attempt on Colonel Kudasov in The Elusive Avengers: Crown of the Russian Empire combines this and Danger Takes a Backseat. First, Kudasov boards a taxi driven by an agent of Monsieur Duc, then the taxi stops briefly and two more agents board the backseat. | |
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One of the missions against the Vice Kings in Saints Row involves the player taking the place of their brothel mistress's limousine driver, and then driving her around town (and away from a Saints ambush) before she'll lead you to her home, where one of your friends is being held hostage. | |
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Annika (2021): In episode 2.6, Morgan takes her driving test. The instructor in the driving test is actually Gary Nair, ex-con and a prime suspect in that episode's murder. | |
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And twice more in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories: once with you pretending to be a union boss's chauffeur, and then an inversion of the series' norm when the Sindaccos kidnap Maria this way. | |
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In The Karate Kid Part II, Chozen greets Mr. Miyagi and Daniel La Russo at the airport under the pretense of driving them to Miyagi Sr.'s village, only to meet Sato. After Sato confronts Miyagi, they're left stranded. | |
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Another variation in A View to a Kill. Bond is being chased on horseback through the woods by the Big Bad and his mooks, but then sees his car being driven along a nearby road. As the chauffeur is a fellow British agent, Bond rides desperately towards it, only to find the chauffeur has been murdered by The Dragon, who's now driving the car. | |
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The Equalizer. In the Batman Cold Open of "No Conscience", Robert McCall is helping a cab driver being shaken down by hoodlums. McCall refuses payment as always, but asks for the cabbie's card as he might come in useful. Sure enough later on in the episode he's helping the Victim of the Week to a cab, apparently unaware she's planning on making a deal with the villains...until McCall exchanges a Meaningful Look with the cab driver, who's the same man he helped earlier. | |
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Pizza Tower: After taking multiple taxis to travel between the various areas of the level The Pig City, Peppino finds the latest one he just boarded is being driven by a policeman, who drives him to prison instead. During Pizza Time, the taxis are all being driven by Pizzaface instead, though Peppino still makes it to his usual destination. | |
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Batman once impersonated the limo driver of a woman who nearly got away with two murders by playing on the Riddler's ego. She only noticed something was amiss when she realized the limo wasn't going to the airport. (Detective Comics #822). He does this again in Superman: Red Son. Earlier than both these instances, he (and Robin) pulled this with the Mad Hatter's prison transport - only it was the transport shipping a (supposedly) rehabilitated Hatter back to Gotham, so our heroes weren't up to anything more elaborate than warning him to stay on the straight and narrow. |
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In Eraser, the Big Bads are leaving the courthouse in a limo, talking about the apparent deaths of the protagonists, only to realize that neither of them is responsible for the car bomb. They suddenly stop at train tracks, and the doors lock. The driver runs away, revealing him to be Johnny, a friend of Kruger's. They then get a call from Kruger, who faked his and the girl's deaths. After saying his catch-phrase ("You've just been erased."), he watches as they "catch a train". | |
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Discussed in "Third Wheel", part of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts series. When Bruce Wayne picks Lois Lane up for their interview/date, she comments on the fact that he's driving himself instead of being chauffeured, and he explains that because he's a big kidnap target he never lets himself get driven by anyone he doesn't know personally. | |
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In the 2000 movie of Hamlet (starring Ethan Hawke), the scene where Hamlet intends to kill his uncle Claudius is played this way—Hamlet replaces the chauffeur. Claudius gives his Ignored Epiphany soliloquy in the backseat of his limo. | |
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Girl Genius: Gil Wulfenbach, at one point, manages to fend off an army of deadly clanks, on his own, with the help of a weapon that may or may not have been useless junk and a very, very good poker face. Afterwards, he nearly collapses, mostly from relief, (and from multiple bullet wounds) and a few Jägermonsters arrive just in time to prop him up and steer him off the battlefield. They have a conversation that goes on for a good five minutes before Gil's powers of observation kick in. | |
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The Onion reports that the Mysterious Congressman pulled this on Barack Obama. | |
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Rizzoli & Isles: In "You're Going To Miss Me When I'm Gone", the Victim of the Week is murdered by a someone posing as their driver who stops the car on a deserted access road. | |
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The Undertaker: He once posed as Stephanie McMahon's driver as part of his nefarious "marry the owner's daughter in a dark wedding so I can take over the company" scheme. He later poses as the driver of Theodore Long, who had been involved in a reenactment of the Montreal Screwjob (with the Undertaker being the one who got screwed over). In 2001, he caught Triple H and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin by surprise when he hijacked an ambulance taking Austin to the hospital. |
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Indiana Jones: In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the plane Indy, Short Round, and Willie board to escape Shanghai mobster Lao Che is owned by Lao Che, so he promptly signals the pilots to parachute out and let the plane crash. An accidental version occurs in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Indy knocks out the driver of a Nazi staff car at the fortress and hauls him out, then jumps into the driver's seat, planning to steal the car. However, before he can take off, two Nazi officers climb in the back seat and, assuming he is their driver, tell him to drive on, and Indy has no choice but obey while attempting to keep the train carrying the MacGuffin in sight. |
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At the end of Cry of the Banshee, it is revealed that Whitman's driver, Bully Boy, was killed by Roderick, who is now driving the coach. The film ends with Whitman screeching his driver's name in terror as the coach heads for parts unknown. | |
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In Death Note, Mello kidnaps Sayu and demands the Japanese task force hand over the notebook as ransom. The task force members travel to Los Angeles by separate planes, but at Narita Airport Soichiro Yagami is forced to board flight SE333, where The Mafia is waiting for him. | |
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In The Whole Nine Yards, Oz plans to take Jimmy to a museum in order to ensure the latter doesn't try to kill him, while the women go to the bank. He hails a cab that is waiting across the street. On the way, Jimmy lets him know they're not going to the museum, at which point the driver window is opened, revealing Frankie Figgs. | |
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Bond pulls this trick on M in Skyfall when he abducts her for her own safety after the attack on Westminster. | |
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NCIS. In "Reveille" a motorcycle-riding Ari pulls up alongside Kate on the street, then zooms off, knowing she'll commandeer the first car she sees to chase him. Unfortunately it's full of Ari's mooks. | |
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Variation in Goldfinger, one of the mobsters that opts out of participating in the climactic big heist thinks Goldfinger's chauffeur is taking him to the airport. He realizes too late that he's actually being taken to a "pressing engagement" with a scrapyard car crusher. | |
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In the Batman: The Animated Series/Superman: The Animated Series crossover, Lex Luthor's usual driver (Mercy Graves) is waylaid and impersonated by Harley Quinn, so The Joker can meet with him. The comic adaptation adds in a bit of dialogue humorously implying that the real Mercy was taped up in the trunk the entire time. | |
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CSI: Cyber: The killer's M.O. is "Killer En Route". The killer hacks the Bland-Name Product version of Uber to intercept bookings, and then turns up claiming to be the ride that was ordered. | |
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This occurs in Across a Jade Sea. Chunru isn't suspicious before getting into the car because it really is his driver, but it turns out he's dealing with an Inside Job. | |
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Sweet/Vicious: The villain in the fifth episode, Landon Mays, is a driver for an Uber-like rideshare company called GetIn who picks up women who've been out drinking after they've been drugged by his friend, parks in a back alley, locks the car doors, and rapes them while they're barely (if at all) conscious. | |
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Murder in the Alps: Anna takes a taxi cab to go to Eure Tages once she realizes the Cabaret Rousseau is closed in Forgotten Memento. Unfortunately for Anna, her driver is one of her old enemies, Gerhard Wagner from Atlantic Connection. When he stops the cab and reveals himself to her, she attempts to escape, only for another familiar enemy, Dhara Biguá from Exiled Dead, to enter the cab with a gun pointed at Anna. They then forcibly take her to Oskar Havel, concluding the mystery of how she ended up in the cell she found herself in at the beginning of the chapter. | |
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Daredevil (2015): After escaping a prison riot orchestrated by Wilson Fisk, Matt attempts to flee in the taxicab that brought him to the prison...only for the driver to turn out to have been replaced by one of Fisk's men while he was inside. He only realizes this when he regains consciousness from being drugged right before the riot, and the new driver suddenly bails out of the cab and leaves the driverless vehicle to fly straight into the Hudson, taking Matt with it. | |
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The Circle: Teddy and Elizabeth are surprised to find that the man driving them away from the mansion is not the regular chauffeur, but Arnold, Elizabeth's husband. | |
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Wanted: Professor Solomon Seltzer is killed off when his driver Fuckwit is impersonated by the shapeshifting right-hand man of a rival Fraternity, Shithead. | |
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Tintin in America has our hero get into a cab driven by one of the gangsters he's after. He escapes and gets into a police car, but that one is smashed by accomplices in a muscle car. Later, he calls the police after another assassination attempt, but his phone line is hijacked, and the police car turns out to also be driven by gangsters. | |
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Frontier Circus: In "Quick Shuffle", Tony takes the place of a stagecoach driver in order to hijack the only witness who can prove Ben innocent of murder and drag him back to town and testify. | |
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A trailer for Hitman: Contracts featured this. A rich businessman has discovered that he is about to be assassinated by 47 and promptly escapes the apartment building he's in, taking flight in a limo that's waiting outside. When the driver is told to start driving, he lowers the divider window to reveal the barcode tattoo. | |
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In one of The Saint short stories, two robbers run out of the jewellery store they have just robbed and jump into the back seat of the waiting getaway car. Only after the car pulls away do they notice that the driver if not the man they had left in the car but actually Simon Templar. He sprays them in the face with an ammonia filled water pistol and steals their loot. | |
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Moore's Bond also had Blofeld send a phony helicopter to pick him up at the opening of For Your Eyes Only. Blofeld then kills the pilot and takes radio control so he can finish 007 off personally. Well, try to, anyway. | |
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In Jeffrey Deaver's The Bone Collector the killer catches exactly the two people he wants dead in his cab, where the doors in the back seat won't open from the inside. | |
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In the finale of Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa, Big Bad Moroboshi has to be taken to the hospital, with a policeman escorting her in the ambulance. However, it's revealed that said policeman is secretly her accomplice, who attempts to hijack the vehicle at gunpoint. This is followed by another reveal that the paramedic in the front seat is actually a detective, who clocked the accomplice and followed along in disguise. | |
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Poked fun at in What's Up, Tiger Lily?, a Gag Dub of a Japanese spy movie. The main characters walk into a random cab and promptly tell the driver they want to be kidnapped. He of course, obliges, seeing as how this scene was a straight example of the trope in the original movie. | |
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Endeavour: In "Coda", a group of hostages are loaded on to a coach by a bank robber. When coach runs into a roadblock, the robber orders the driver to open the doors. The driver turns around and points a pistol in his face. It's Truelove. | |
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Subverted by Bond in Dr. No, where a villain claims that Government House sent him to pick Bond up at the airport. Bond covertly phones Government House to find out the truth, and properly deals with the villain. Later Bond pulls a variation by calling for a taxi to pick up himself and Miss Taro, who finds a policeman waiting in the taxi to arrest her. | |
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel): One early issue has Scarlett trying to get an ambassador Cobra is after to safety. However, the guy flying the getaway plane also turns out to be a Cobra spy, as does the ambassador. | |
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Japanese tokusatsu example: in Kamen Rider: The First, the Shocker operative Spider poses as a cabdriver for the explicit purpose of finding his victims and, when necessary, taking them somewhere secluded to dispose of them. | |
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In The Battle of Algiers the ambulance version of this trope is implied when one commandeered by the rebels drops off some dead French gendarme at a busy public area of the French quarter. The rebels in the ambulance go on to have a rampage across the district before being stopped. It is one of the signs that things in Algiers are going From Bad to Worse. | |
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In the "It's a Wonderful Crisis" arc in Alex, Alex notices that his car isn't being driven by his usual driver. The driver turns out to be the Devil who has brought the car into the perfect place for Alex to be killed by Clive jumping off the roof of the bank. | |
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In Body of Lies, this happens to the Big Bad at the end. | |
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Associated Space has Fatebane and David trying to escape a planet by hiring a space freighter captain to pick them up in mid-flight from a suborbital shuttle. They shouldn't have put the job of rescuing them out to bid online, since the guy who accepted their offer turned out to be the detective chasing them. | |
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An accidental version occurs in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Indy knocks out the driver of a Nazi staff car at the fortress and hauls him out, then jumps into the driver's seat, planning to steal the car. However, before he can take off, two Nazi officers climb in the back seat and, assuming he is their driver, tell him to drive on, and Indy has no choice but obey while attempting to keep the train carrying the MacGuffin in sight. | |
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In Undercover Brother, Mr. Feather kidnaps James Brown using this technique. "James Brown" is actually Undercover Brother wearing a Latex Perfection mask. | |
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In X-Men, Mystique and Toad kidnap Senator Kelly by piloting his helicopter to Magneto's island. Somewhat justified: as Mystique can shapeshift to look like anyone at all, she murders and impersonates the senator's real staff. | |
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In an issue of Suicide Squad, Black Orchid impersonated bad guy William Heller's chauffeur. She does it not to kidnap him, however, but so she can eavesdrop on conversations between him and his advisers. She let the real driver out of the trunk after completing her mission, and hypnotised him into keeping quiet about having been kidnapped and replaced. | |
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In Harley Quinn #22, Harley gets picked up from the airport in a limo. Unbeknownst to her, the driver is a henchman working for the villain Zena Bendemova, and Goatboy, her real driver, is Bound and Gagged in a closet somewhere. | |
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He once posed as Stephanie McMahon's driver as part of his nefarious "marry the owner's daughter in a dark wedding so I can take over the company" scheme. | |
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In The Diamond Arm, this is how the smugglers try to trap Gorbunkov: they are aware that a taxi (driven in fact by a policeman) is going to pick him up, so one of them makes sure to arrive at the place earlier. | |
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God's Debris: Justified in The Religion War, where the protagonist's extraordinary pattern spotting abilities enable him to deliberately choose the one cab driver who is actually a terrorist. | |
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Judge Dredd: PJ Maybe assassinates one of his former rivals in the city government by planting bombs in the studio where the election debate is taking place and then kidnapping the victim by impersonating his usual driver when he tries to escape. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Flutterspy, this is how Fluttershy discovers the spy plot against the Equestrian Fashion Forum. While she and Rarity are headed back to the hotel, their carriage is hijacked by evil ninja Red Adder, who explains the disruption by claiming that the original driver is taking a break after almost running over a cat. ("Union rules. Very strict.") When Fluttershy recognizes her as a model for Rarity's rival designer Miss Worthy, she attacks, forcing supermodel-cum-spy Fleur de Lis to come to Fluttershy's rescue. | |
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Doctor Who: "Terror of the Autons": The Doctor and Jo are about to be lynched by carnies when the police turn up. As there are only two constables to contend with the crowd of carnies, the sensible course is to rescue the Doctor and Jo by taking the pair into protective custody. The Doctor notes it is unusual that the Brigadier has used his head for once and the constables aren't very talkative, the pair turn out to be the killer shop window dummies of the title. Another old school case is the killer limousine driver who picks the Doctor up in "The Seeds of Doom". "The Runaway Bride": Donna gets kidnapped by one of the evil robot Santas this way while the Doctor is trying to get fare money from an ATM. |
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The fake taxi version is used twice in A Most Wanted Man (2014). In the second case it's easier, as the person calling for the taxi is one of their agents, so he just calls them directly instead of the taxi company. They've also suborned the person who was originally supposed to pick them up. | |
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Person of Interest: In one episode, John does this to save the POI of the week, a sailor on shore leave that has been jumped by a couple of corrupt Marine Force Recons. When they put him in the trunk of the car, John, having replaced the member who stole the car a few minutes earlier, drives off before the others can get in the car. Our introduction to Zoe Morgan has Reese replacing her regular driver in order to get close to her as this week's POI. Before she even gets into the car, Zoe rings the car service to check Reese's bona fides. Fortunately thanks to Finch's technical savvy he intercepts the call and provides enough details to allay her suspicion. |
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In the Spriggan (1998) movie, Yu Ominae quickly realises someone has done a Kill and Replace on his ARCAM driver in Turkey when he sees another car full of goons following them. He proceeds to throw the driver out of the vehicle, leading to a Car Chase. | |
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In Little Green Men, John O. Banion is in Palm Springs to make a speech, and is on the way to his hotel when he suffers Alien Abduction for the second time. He doesn't suspect that the driver (whom he saw on the operating table beside him) was part of the conspiracy that stages the abductions, though he does get annoyed that the car was a luxury sedan rather than the stretch limo clearly specified in his contract. The reason for this is that a helicopter couldn't lift a stretch limo into the air. | |
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In The Puppet Masters, the protagonist spent a little time being controlled by one of the aliens. His old boss recaptured and freed him using this tactic. Although the boss is acting as a fellow passenger rather than the driver. | |
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Forever: Henry's cab driver at the end of "The Man in the Killer Suit" turns out to be his stalker, The Older Immortal Adam. | |
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Done in Death to Smoochy. This time, the passenger does not realize who he is (not until much later in the film), even though the driver's dialogue is incredibly Subtext-filled. | |
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Simon Darcourt was not the driver of a number of people throughout A Snowball in Hell. | |
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Heavy Object has a case where the victim was more evil than the driver. When the Gigant Hustler Event ended with one of his Objects destroyed, Acres Kiss-of-Rose (a.k.a. Azathoth) retreats to his car and planned a False Flag Operation in an attempt to regain respect, only to find out too late that his driver was Nyarlahotep, who wanted revenge on Acres for his family's death, in disguise. | |
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Done in the original Battlestar Galactica to trick Baltar into releasing some hostages. Though, to be fair, they had to do this, as Baltar demanded his centurions who were already disassembled. They manage to rebuild them, but they're still a bit faulty. As soon as he releases the hostages, he orders the centurions to launch. The pilot says "By your command" and punches a hole in the control panel. The Colonials then surround Baltar and take him prisoner again. | |
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Non-villainous variation on The Golden Girls, although Dorothy kind of thinks he's kidnapping her at first. Her ex-husband Stan rented a limo and replaced the hired driver so he could take her to the church on her wedding day as his gift. She got annoyed for a while, then settled down for the most part. | |
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Silicon Valley: Season 4, Episode 1 opens with Richard Hendricks pretending to be an Uber driver to kidnap a venture capital executive in an attempt to pitch Pied Piper's improved video chat. | |
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In the Rivers of London novel Lies Sleeping, Peter has just had a meeting with a suspect when an incident response vehicle pulls up and the driver says to get in since they're closing off the perimeter. He just has time to realise he never actually called it in before he gets hit with the knock-out drug. | |
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Attempted in True Blood, where the imposter soon discovers why it's a dumb idea to try to deceive a telepath. | |
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1998's Godzilla featured a taxi-napping of Matthew Broderick's character by Jean Reno's. Subverted in that he's actually the good guy. | |
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A slight variation from Anastasia, where Dmitri takes over for the Dowager Empress's driver, forcing her to see Anya. The variation here is that Dmitri is the hero, and simply trying to make amends for his earlier deception. The Stock Phrase is also inverted: Instead of the Dowager saying the phrase, Dmitri turns around and says "I'm not [your driver]!" | |
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Star Wars Legends: Kirtan Loor is kidnapped by Fliry Vorru in exactly this manner in The Krytos Trap. An uncommon example of a villain doing this to another villain. | |
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In The Sandbaggers, this happens to Wellingham on a routine visit to Brussels; he's suspicious when his regular driver doesn't show, but gets in his limo when the new driver shows him a set of proper NATO-issued credentials. Since the kidnapping turns out to have been masterminded by the West German government as part of a Batman Gambit to arrest a terrorist cell outside their proper jurisdiction, the credentials are probably even real... | |
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Quantico: In "Run", Miranda takes the place of the driver of the van Alex is being transported in to allow her to escape. | |
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Parodied in Family Guy, and lampshaded by a speech in which the real driver demonstrates how easily he gets knocked out. | |
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The heroine in Ten Yori Mo, Hoshi Yori Mo falls for one of these. Justified because she only just moved in with a rich family and wouldn't know all their drivers yet. What wasn't justified was why the driver didn't just pop her in the car right there before she caught on. | |
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In One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing, Lord Southmere is kidnapped by the Chinese. He realizes what's happened, but can't do anything about it because they're being followed by another car full of the driver's colleagues. | |
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In Book 2 of The Bartimaeus Trilogy, the chauffeur Bartimaeus had spent several pages mentioning as particularly stolid and a pillar of the British work ethic turns out to be covering the presence of a homicidal possessed skeleton, who promptly resumes wreaking havoc. | |
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Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt Adventures: Invoked in Vixen 03- an intelligence agent is told to catch a taxi to meet his contact, so he goes to hail the first one he sees when another taxi cuts in. He climbs in anyway, where it is revealed his contact is driving. The agent is then chewed out for bad fieldcraft (by trying to catch the first taxi he saw, which could have been a trap). | |
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Sherlock Holmes: This is the entire plan of the Sympathetic Murderer in "A Study In Scarlet". He became a cabby so he could subtly follow his Asshole Victims around London in hopes of getting one of them alone. It ultimately works, though it seems rather far-fetched for all the reasons listed above; the one time his targets split up, one of them gets drunk and manages to take the murderer's cab. A Genre Savvy Holmes ensures Watson does not fall victim to this trope in "The Final Problem". He even ensures that a driver (this one he arranged for) that Watson ultimately ended up with was Holmes's brother Mycroft. |
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A benign version occurs in Mobile Fighter G Gundam, when Domon inexplicably decides to replace the Russian driver after Argo's loss to Allenby, solely to chat about the match. Argo and Nastasha take it almost completely in stride after the initial moment of surprise. | |
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Played with in Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident. In this case, it actually was the driver; he had simply been brainwashed, and Artemis saw through the whole trick right away. To no avail. | |
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The episode of Mission: Impossible "The Killer" (or at least, its remake) involved taking the villain to a bugged hotel. However, they didn't know in advance which hotel he would want to go to, so the first two cabs of the airport were crewed by IMF agents. The second cab slowlynote They purposely put obstacles on the road to buy time takes him to the the hotel that wasn't there yesterday while said hotel gets puts the name the baddie chose ("The Raeburn Hotel") on its front porch (and everything else). | |
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In Catwoman #50, Killer Croc pulls this on the Penguin to take revenge on him for having called a Carnival of Killers on Catwoman. | |
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In the first dream level of Inception the protagonists kidnap Fischer this way. Possibly justified in that they designed the place, so they could make sure theirs was the only cab available. | |
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In 2001, he caught Triple H and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin by surprise when he hijacked an ambulance taking Austin to the hospital. | |
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This happens at the end of Stormbreaker, the first Alex Rider book. Having stopped Herod Sayle and received exactly no reward from the people who blackmailed him into doing it, Alex walks out of MI6's secret HQ and into the first cab he sees. The driver? Herod Sayle. Alex only survives thanks to the guy's chief assassin turning on him. | |
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In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the plane Indy, Short Round, and Willie board to escape Shanghai mobster Lao Che is owned by Lao Che, so he promptly signals the pilots to parachute out and let the plane crash. | |
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