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Playing Possum

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Playing Possum	comment	A small-scale exchange of fire has just taken place. The bad guys see one of the heroes lying on the ground, apparently dead, with a sword or whatever sticking out of them. They approach the apparent corpse, or corpse is brought to them via The Body Bag Trick. As they stand over them, the "corpse" opens their eyes. And beats them up. In Real Life, this is a war crime and has been since at least 1948. The Laws and Customs of War state that those soldiers that are hors de combat ("out of the fight") a category that includes prisoners, the severely wounded, sailors abandoning ship, the dead and ejecting aircrew — although not paratroopers — are not to be attacked. Feigning that status is perfidy and highly illegal, since it would lead to the other side killing the genuinely wounded on the spot (which is a war crime too) to make sure.note Modern weapons can make survivors look dead, so examination of the apparently dead is mandatory where practicable Of course, fictionally (and non-fictionally), you're often up against people who aren't signatories to the Geneva Conventions... That said, provided that you don't initiate attack, playing dead until your enemy goes away is not a war crime. Playing dead in Real Life does have its perks in specific situations. When being confronted by certain animals, like bears, who are hardwired to mostly take interest in prey that look alive and kicking, if you can pull it off long enough the animal in question will most likely leave your body alone, giving you a chance to escapenote then again, bears and other opportunistic predators will also eat corpses so long as they smell reasonably fresh, so Do Not Try This at Home. Note that Playing Possum is a phrase inspired by the Virginia opossum (colloquially, many American dialects drop the first "o" from the name when spoken, hence the term), which famously feigns death and produces a rotting smell. Australian possums (which are named after the Virginia opossum) are not noted for employing this strategy. Unfortunately for the opossum, this response to danger is involuntary and often leaves it incapacitated in a dangerous situation. Subtrope of Faking the Dead. Buried in a Pile of Corpses is a specific sub-trope. See also I Surrender, Suckers. Compare Defensive Feint Trap and Sick Captive Scam, in which a captive pretends to be hurt or ill rather than dead to get the drop on his captor. Contrast Finger-Twitching Revival and Of Corpse He's Alive. Not to be confused with Dead Person Impersonation. May involve a Mistaken Death Confirmation depending on the circumstances.
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Playing Possum / int_10d303a2	comment	In Shin Megami Tensei IV, one boss, King Kenji, will exclaim that you beat him and fall down, and an option to grab the item you were fighting for appears. It's a trap and you're supposed to ignore the item, as the boss will get back up and continue fighting afterwards.
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Playing Possum / int_117116ef	comment	In The Penguins of Madagascar episode "Smotherly Love", there is a possum, who, well, plays the possum to beat Hans and free the penguins.
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Playing Possum / int_121ecdae	comment	Prey (2022): Raphael tries to do this when the Predator returns to the trappers' camp and it almost works thanks to the herbs he took earlier lowering his body temperature and making him invisible to the Predator's thermal vision. Unfortunately, the Predator not knowing he's there backfires on him when the creature inadvertantly steps on his injured leg, causing Raphael to scream out and be promptly killed.
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Playing Possum / int_12381dc	comment	Divinity: Original Sin II: Undead player characters have the unique "Play Dead" skill, which pauses the Cooldown counters on their other skills but causes enemies to ignore them — the ruse is easier to maintain when one has no vital signs at the best of times.
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Playing Possum / int_1367cea0	comment	In Worm, Foil pretends to be caught in one of Gray Boy's time loops so that she can shoot him in the back.
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Playing Possum / int_1510822e	comment	GoldenEye: During their escape from the Cuban satellite facility, Natalya plays dead in an elevator to lure in a guard, allowing Bond to ambush him from the ceiling and take his weapons.
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Playing Possum / int_16cfb2e5	comment	In The Witchlands, when a group of pirates is searching the shore for any survivors of a battle, Iseult covers her face and pretends to be one of the dead.
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Playing Possum / int_17fa5f0a	comment	Harry in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. He is apparently killed by Voldemort. It doesn't quite work. He ends up playing possum until he can slip away unnoticed, only to confront Voldemort again and come out on top.
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Playing Possum / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: The rogues have an ability called "feign death", which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
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Playing Possum / int_1b9ff2bc	comment	In P2, Angela performs one of these after a game of chicken, allowing her to stab her kidnapper in the eye, grab his keys to uncuff herself, and then cuff him to the car door.
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Playing Possum / int_1cbc1a59	comment	In Dragonheart: Bowen does this in the Novelization after falling off a wall during the training scene at the start. In the film, Einon does this briefly after falling down a flight of stairs. Einon can't actually die unless Draco does, because he shares Draco's heart. In the sequel, Dragonheart: A New Beginning, Osric and his men do this. Osric pretends he's dying in order to try and get half of Drake's heart, but when Geoff realizes that he's not hurt, Osric and his "dead" men jump to their feet and attack.
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Playing Possum / int_1d367084	comment	Team Fortress Classic: This is one of the powers of the Spy, either dropping silently pretending to be a corpse that's been there for a while or with a loud death cry. Beating A Dead Player ensues. Due to an oversight by the developers (the feigning Spy is "solid" while a dead body isn't), anyone can instantly recognize feigning Spy just by walking over him. What happens then is known as "Crowbar".
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Playing Possum / int_1f0bc3d3	comment	Hellboy: Daryl the Wendigo kills the jaguar-demon-possessed Agent Daimio by pretending to have died from the injuries the latter inflicted on him (when he actually has a Healing Factor that makes him near-indestructible), then springing back to life and attacking right as the werejaguar is reverting back into Daimio's vulnerable human form.
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Playing Possum / int_1f9f4419	comment	The Thing: Most notably with Norris-Thing. It doesn't quite work out as planned, though. Instead of being treated like a dead body, Norris-Thing is shocked with a defibrillator and retaliates by biting off Doc's Arms when he goes in for a second shock. It was more successful with the attack on Bennigs by what was assumed to be a completely dead and burned body.
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Playing Possum / int_20a73848	comment	In True Magic, Kiku pretends to be dead after Joe â€œkills himâ€� with a tickling technique in their match. The nobleman overseeing the pit matches knows that Kiku isnâ€™t dead when he investigates more closely, but declares him dead anyway.
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Playing Possum / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: There are numerous old battlefields where the decayed husks of Guardians can be found and looted. Some of these Decayed Guardians are still alive and can still shoot at Link with their laser turrets. Even worse, sometimes fully intact Guardian Stalkers (distinguished by still having their legs) will be sitting among the Decayed Guardians waiting for Link to pass by before chasing him.
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Playing Possum / int_24705e44	comment	Used brilliantly by A.J. Lee in order to win the 2013 Diva's Battle Royale: early in the match, she gets kicked in the face and is apparently knocked out cold. She remains lying on the floor, 'unconscious', until there's only one competitor left, Layla, who thinks she's won. Layla is quickly told that she has to get AJ out of the ring to win; AJ keeps up the pretence until Layla's trying to haul her over the ropes, and then she pulls away and kicks Layla out of the ring.
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Playing Possum / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington : In On Basilisk Station, Honor convinces the Havenite spaceship Sirius that Fearless (Honor's spaceship) is dead in the water, so it will come close to finish her with a barrage... only for her to avoid the barrage and bring out her grav lance, which leaves Sirius wide open for a devastating attack that destroys it.
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Playing Possum / int_2638a476	comment	In Radia Senki Reimeihen, this takes the place of the escape command, where the entire party plays dead to trick enemies into leaving. Curiously, this can be used (and works best) before the battle has even begun, with the result that monsters leave your party untouched after the sight of them apparently gives everyone fatal heart attacks.
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Playing Possum / int_2b714461	comment	Snow Blind: After being kidnapped by the Nightwatcher, Donatello tries to escape by pulling this (pretending that he'd passed out from his stab wound, then kicking the vigilante in the face when he got close enough). It doesn't work, seeing as how he's chained up and the severity of his injury means he can't move too much without hurting himself worse.
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Playing Possum / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: Elmer Fudd does this in the cartoon "Wabbit Twouble" to avoid being attacked by a bear and it works, then Bugs Bunny decides to have some fun by pretending to be the bear himself. A very similar scene also happened at the end of the cartoon "Hare Remover". The Bugs Bunny cartoon "The Fair-Haired Hare" and the Sylvester and Tweety cartoon "Muzzle Tough" both share a joke where a character "wears" a bearskin rug and another character shoots it repeatedly thinking that it was playing possum for twenty years straight. Again presented in "Hare Brush" when Bugs-as-Elmer plays dead, the bear sniffs him, averts, then buries him in a hole (which is actually a cliff ledge, through which Bugs-as-Elmer plummets into a river).
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Playing Possum / int_2ce70ac5	comment	Kung Fu Panda: In Secrets of the Furious Five, Po relates how Mantis had to learn Patience after getting captured and being unable to escape until he played dead and tricked his captors into opening his cage to remove his body. Po of course treats this like an awesome kung fu technique instead of an obvious ploy.
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Playing Possum / int_2d644371	comment	Tales Series: Karol from Tales of Vesperia can do this with one of his skills in order to regain HP/TP and escape enemy notice after he's been knocked down. He's a bit cowardly, so it fits. Returns as a skill usable by multiple party members in Tales of Xillia, cowardly or not.
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Playing Possum / int_2e2efbf9	comment	Back to the Future: In the new timeline, Doc Brown fakes his death after being gunned down by the Lybians. He survives thanks to a Bulletproof Vest, to Marty's pleasant surprise.
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Playing Possum / int_2e6e838	comment	Yogi Bear: In "Yogi Bear's Big Break", one of Yogi's attempts to escape Jellystone Park involves lying motionless on an exiting car's fender to make it look like he'd been shot by a hunter. The plan backfires when the Ranger, knowing that hunting isn't allowed in the park, decides to make sure he's really dead by prodding him with a pin. In "Baffled Bear" , Yogi plays possum in an effort to avoid getting hit by oncoming traffic (a new superhighway was built around the tree in which he was hibernating). It appears to work, up until he gets flattened by a steamroller.
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Playing Possum / int_30d28009	comment	Conqueror: Tsubodai comes up with such a plan in Wolf of the Plains when the Mongols move to attack the Shizuan fort. Those with the hammers feign death and, when the Xi Xia soldiers come to loot their corpses, they jump up and attack the now-open fort with the rest of the Mongol army waiting just around the mountain.
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Playing Possum / int_30f89b1e	comment	In Plunkett & Macleane Plunkett uses this to lethal effect during the finale.
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Playing Possum / int_3193e3f3	comment	The Duck Dodgers episode "Duck Deception" at one point has Dodgers being beat up by an alien gorilla which he plays dead to avoid. The gorilla, looking concerned, puts him down gently... then beats him up some more.
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Playing Possum / int_33dd1d90	comment	In Half-Life 2, there are several times that zombies fake being dead to then try to jump you when you approach them. Fortunately, it is relatively easy to test it by shooting things at them with the Gravity Gun.
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Playing Possum / int_3558eaa2	comment	Community: this seems to be Troy's go-to move when caught in an awkward situation or confronted by someone angry with him, typically with him saying something along the lines of "pretend like you're asleep", such as when he and Abed caught mocking other students during the end tag of "Social Psychology".
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Playing Possum / int_3643cc24	comment	Splinter Cell: Conviction's co-op crosses this with last stand. After being shot Kestrel or Archer can go down, then lean up and start shooting. They've still been shot however and will bleed out without the other agent giving them some first aid.
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Playing Possum / int_3729373e	comment	In Detroit: Become Human, this is one possible way for Kara and Alice to escape being killed by the U.S. military during the chapter "Crossroads".
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Playing Possum / int_39e3b5ff	comment	BB uses this trick against her mommy near the end of Kill Bill Volume 2.
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Playing Possum / int_39fe7d7b	comment	Call of the Wildman once demonstrated why this idiom exists when a literal possum pretended to be injured while Turtleman was trying to remove it from a house. It wound up being removed anyway but the ploy briefly worked.
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Playing Possum / int_3c912cc2	comment	Karol from Tales of Vesperia can do this with one of his skills in order to regain HP/TP and escape enemy notice after he's been knocked down. He's a bit cowardly, so it fits.
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Playing Possum / int_3ef78ff3	comment	Kulipari: An Army of Frogs: A village of possums have a Running Gag of playing dead whenever they get spooked which prompts someone to say "We know you're not dead". note While they do have the correct appearance for Australian possums, playing dead is something only the Virginia Opposum does. In Kulipari: Dream Walker, when Stinger and Darel's siblings barge in on a council meeting, the possum representative gets spooked and falls right down.
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Playing Possum / int_405243c7	comment	The 100. The captured Ark kids pretend to be unconscious when the Mountain Men toss knock-out gas canisters into their dorm. Once all the Mountain Men are inside the dorm, one of them just barely has time to realize the gas canisters have been put in buckets of water, neutralizing them, before the kids rise up and start killing the Mountain Men with Improvised Weapons.
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Playing Possum / int_4141af74	comment	In Future Diary the members of the temple of Tsubaki play this. But Yuno quickly realizes that it's just played.
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Playing Possum / int_42b00860	comment	In the climax of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Trevor Slattery is roped into participating in the final battle, but given he has zero combat training, he instead opts to play dead. Especially once the threat goes from normal human mooks to horrifying soul-sucking monsters, it seems to be the best move he could've made.
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Playing Possum / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural. In "Nightshifter", Sam and Dean are hunting a shapeshifter who likes to Kill and Replace their victims. They find a corpse of a woman who is apparently alive in their custody, so they seize her and drag her off to confront her with the evidence. On seeing her own corpse she faints, whereupon the corpse comes to life as it's the shapeshifter playing dead.
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Playing Possum / int_44e0b783	comment	In one Garfield strip, while travelling through the countryside, Jon has a car game where he, Garfield, and Odie imitate animals they see. After seeing cows and pigs in a field, he cries "A possum!" as there's the "Thump!" of the car hitting something in the road, with the next panel having Garfield and Odie on their backs with their limbs sticking up.
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Playing Possum / int_450c6be4	comment	In Sky Jumpers, Hope, Aaren, Brock, and Brenna do this in the bomb's breath to get the bandits who are after them to stop chasing them.
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Playing Possum / int_466e458	comment	In Big Game, it's implied that Oskari only plays dead/unconscious when Hazar enters the Air Force One, as he later uses it to attack him from behind.
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Playing Possum / int_47b50df9	comment	This is a trademark trope of Bret Hart. He would often fake being injured far more severely than really was (usually with the leg) in order to sucker his opponents into pinning predicament. During his feud with Vince McMahon in 2010, he executes a Batman Gambit revolving around this trope to screw his Arch-Enemy.
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Playing Possum / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: Hunters' Feign Death move. Like similar moves in other MMOs, it causes monsters to stop attacking the Hunter, thinking him dead, although it can fail. It also has its uses against other players, but since you're still attackable while you're "dead" and your pet will continue attacking them instead of disappearing like it does when you're really dead, it's unlikely to fool them for long. But even though smart players can see through it easily, the fact that it forces them to stop targeting you can nonetheless save your skin, as it'll interrupt any abilities that have a cast time and possibly get them to focus on somebody else in the vicinity instead. Truth in Television, as it turns out, World of Warcraft saved the life of one kid.
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Playing Possum / int_49ff762	comment	A random, unnamed soldier does this in an episode of Torchwood, Faking the Dead in order to attempt to kill an alien. Most of the guards stationed at the entrance to a stockpile of United Kingdom nuclear weapons have all been slaughtered by the attacking alien, who has now crossed the entrance and is approaching the facility itself, when suddenly one of the soldiers lying on the ground bounds up, grabs his assault rifle and starts gunning right into the alien's back. It fails (damn forcefields), but still, badass.
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Playing Possum / int_4ab3daf8	comment	Patient Zero (2018): When some soldiers are identifying dead bodies in the crematorium, one of them is revealed to have been doing this when he gets up and attacks.
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Playing Possum / int_4c095a1f	comment	The Transformers: Nightbird, the female ninja robot, uses this tactic on Optimus Prime and the other Autobots after Prime hits her with what he says is a simple stun blast.
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Playing Possum / int_5261d625	comment	Samurai Champloo: Mugen against a Shaolin-trained swordsman at the end of "Lethal Lunacy". After pretending to be weakened by his opponent's chi attack, he waits for the swordsman to come close to strike the Coup de GrÃ¢ce, only for Mugen to kill him with a knife built into the opposite end of his sheath.
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Playing Possum / int_57ad0c07	comment	Resident Evil: The zombies in several of the games have a tendency to do this, falling to the ground after you've damaged them enough, but getting back up a short while later (or gnawing on your legs if you get too close). The key is that they're not really dead until you see the spreading pool of blood beneath them. You can also encounter some zombie bodies lying on the ground that fools many first-time players into thinking they're already dead, only to immediately get bitten at the ankles and find out that the body was a zombie lying in wait. Resident Evil: Outbreak: Jim Chapman can do it right back to them, plummeting to the ground to make zombies ignore him for a while. It's balanced by the virus gauge climbing at a much faster rate, so you can't just lay there forever.
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Playing Possum / int_586c0929	comment	Star vs. the Forces of Evil: In the last few minutes of the Grand Finale, Marco is in a stretcher and needs a distraction so he can get out of the stretcher and race to a portal on the edge of town, his supposed last chance of seeing Star ever again. Janna provides the distraction, stopping her own heart for 60 seconds, taking the attention of the paramedics away from Marco, allowing him to escape.
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Playing Possum / int_588d3db5	comment	The Professionals. After Dolworth shoots Chiquita, who used to be his former lover, he goes over to the dying woman to give her some water. While he's cradling her in his arms, she puts her revolver under his chin and pulls the trigger, but the gun is empty. Neither of them take this personally, with Chiquita just saying it's not her lucky day.
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Playing Possum / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond: On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Tracy gets rid of a SPECTRE guard by throwing him down the staircase, apparently knocking him out, but when she tries to run down the staircase he jumps to his feet and attacks her again. Octopussy: Bond escapes Kamal Khan's palace by hiding himself in one of the body bags of mooks Kamal had killed earlier. GoldenEye: During their escape from the Cuban satellite facility, Natalya plays dead in an elevator to lure in a guard, allowing Bond to ambush him from the ceiling and take his weapons. In Casino Royale (2006), Bond's first kill stops struggling a bit too quickly while being drowned in a toilet. He also waits a bit too long to leap back up and makes a bit too much noise doing it, allowing Bond to retrieve his gun and kill him for real, leading to the Bond Gun Barrel, which segues into the opening titles and theme.
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Playing Possum / int_5bd8076f	comment	The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. The Prospector in "All Gold Canyon" spends half the episode searching for the elusive vein of gold only to be suddenly shot In the Back when he finds it. The claim jumper calmly rolls a cigarette as he watches the prospector, unmoving and bleeding out from his wound, but once he jumps into the hole to steal the gold, the prospector then begins to attack the man, dazing him with dirt, then steals his gun and kills him.
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Playing Possum / int_5d63cc8	comment	Fredrick Zoller in Inglourious Basterds gets shot In the Back by Shosanna and sinks to the floor lifelessly but when she comes closer to check up on him, he turns around and shoots her as well before dying.
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Playing Possum / int_5db577ba	comment	In The Dark Knight The Joker uses this to gain control of a gang.
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Playing Possum / int_5e134f05	comment	Kid Colt (2009): Sherman Wilks' first attack on Colt and his sidekick Hawk starts with a rifle shot that takes Colt off his horse, and Hawk worries that he's dead. He's actually playing possum, as the bullet only hit his gun arm - which doesn't surprise Cold Sniper Wilks at all, as he wasn't shooting to kill in the first place.
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Playing Possum / int_616d06a5	comment	Army of Two: Rios and Salem can "Feign Death" after taking a certain amount of damage. They will collapse to the ground as if they had been killed, allowing them to recuperate while the enemies fire at the player's partner. This only works once per battle, since the enemies will see through the ruse and continue shooting them on subsequent attempts.
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Playing Possum / int_63230cb	comment	Piccolo in Dragon Ball Z Abridged tries this only for Vegeta to show up and ruin his plan.
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Playing Possum / int_6449f850	comment	In Monster Musume, an orc terrorist guns down a special forces operative trying to sneak up on him, leaving her riddled with bullet holes and lying dead on the ground. Then the operative later gets up and shoots other terrorists with rubber bullets, revealing that she's a zombie, so she was already dead to begin with.
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Playing Possum / int_6642385	comment	Sakura from Zombie Land Saga resorts to playing dead (even though she's already a zombie) when the parent of a baby boar shows up in front of her. Needless to say, the boar reacted by eating her and separating her head from her body.
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Playing Possum / int_671d5c19	comment	The Powerpuff Girls (1998) play possum in "Aliver," a reality show where they've been competing against Princess Morbucks who cheats her way through the contests. Princess is so heartbrokenly contrite that her last trick had killed the girls that she confesses she cheated. Then the girls wake up.
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Playing Possum / int_67ce137f	comment	Kyūkyū Sentai GoGoV and Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue had the Rangers pulling this once to beat the Monster of the Week. They took a powerful attack head on and dropped on the ground laying motionless, waiting for the monster to approach before blasting him at point-blank range with their V-Lancers.
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Playing Possum / int_6b15fbd8	comment	In Rambo III, Rambo shoots down a huge Russian gunship with a small bazooka, by playing dead until it approaches within point-blank range.
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Playing Possum / int_6ccb82e2	comment	In Henry IV, Part 1, Falstaff collapses in the middle of a fight to make his assailant leave him alone, while Hal gets on with fighting against Hotspur and kills him. After Hal has lamented for his dead enemy (the son his father would have preferred to have) and his dead friend (the man who regards Hal as the son he never had) and left the stage, Falstaff looks around cautiously in case Hotspur too is Playing Possum, stabs his corpse just to make sure, and then picks up corpse as evidence of his victory over Hotspur. When Hal points out that, actually, he was the one who killed him, Falstaff exclaims indignantly: "How this world is given to lying!"
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Playing Possum / int_6d094343	comment	Natural Habitat Shorts: "RI Possum" not only shows a young possum playing dead (a skill he uses for pranks, but also shows the same possum assuming his dad is just playing dead when he actually IS dead.
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Playing Possum / int_6db63c5e	comment	In Kulipari: Dream Walker, when Stinger and Darel's siblings barge in on a council meeting, the possum representative gets spooked and falls right down.
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Playing Possum / int_6e17a0d1	comment	Karl does this in Die Hard. It goes rather poorly for him.
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Playing Possum / int_6ea0c1f4	comment	In Battle Tendency, Joseph does this to evade notice from the Pillar Man Wamuu to head for a nearby mine cart.
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Playing Possum / int_6ee41bb6	comment	Tomb Raider: Anniversary: The final boss goes down and Lara slowly approaches with her guns drawn. The boss turns her head and then quickly leaps to Lara, grabbing her by the neck, and tossing her aside while taunting her with "I cannot die, you fool. Sooner or later, you'll run out of bullets!" This may be a lampshading of the fact that Lara never runs out of bullets (at least for her basic guns).
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Playing Possum / int_72dbabdc	comment	King Cobra: Seth lures in and kills one of the hunters tracking him by playing dead.
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Playing Possum / int_7393c0ce	comment	In Hellsister Trilogy, Supergirl makes her heart stop while Satan Girl is pounding on her, so tricking her counterpart into lowering her guard.
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Playing Possum / int_747d9a6f	comment	[PROTOTYPE]: Near the end, Alex pulls this off to get close to Gentek director McMullen.
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Playing Possum / int_76e61004	comment	In the Future level of Time Commando, there are space-suited monkey things that will try to do this. Remember, it ain't dead if it don't fade!
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Playing Possum / int_77f35b36	comment	Tigre uses this tactic in an attempt to get the drop on Jim at the start of Tumbleweed. Later, Jim, Murch, and the remains of the posse do this to lure the Yaqui into ambush range.
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Playing Possum / int_78b8e562	comment	One Life to Live. Blair leaves her husband Asa to die of a heart attack. When she returns home and prepares to play the grieving widow, she's terrified when he leaps up and grabs her arm (it was merely chest pain and he recovered after getting the pills she denied him).
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Playing Possum / int_791fca44	comment	Splicers start doing this regularly by the end of BioShock, but it's certainly a scare the first time. "We tricked you, monster!" This may trick your eyes, but not your interface: your targeting reticle will turn red when it aims at a seemingly dead corpse that is really a live splicer in ambush. Regular corpses have it keep its standard white color. Also, they'll still be holding their guns.
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Playing Possum / int_79579e28	comment	Resident Evil: Outbreak: Jim Chapman can do it right back to them, plummeting to the ground to make zombies ignore him for a while. It's balanced by the virus gauge climbing at a much faster rate, so you can't just lay there forever.
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Playing Possum / int_7ac38ec4	comment	Rebuild World: A Scary Scorpions type of monster does this to ambush hunters. Akira has to have his Virtual Sidekick Alpha highlight the living ones with his Augmented Reality vision to know which bodies are safe and which to attack. Since Alpha is Invisible to Normals, one time when someone actually can see her, she makes a simulation of her body being killed and leaves it there (it is only an avatar after all), continuing to act as Mission Control. She uses this to distract Akira's opponent at just the right moment with what looks like an attack from behind, allowing Akira to strike. Akira undertakes a Training the Peaceful Villagers task to turn Sheryl's slum gang into a hunter gang with AR training, where Alpha provides her Mission Control assistance to Akira's opponents in mock battle. She orders them to play possum, making Akira move up to them and head shot them with simulated rounds to counter this. A certain villain trying to kill Akira, the Back from the Dead Zelmo, being terrified of Akira thinking he's doing this after he pulled a fantastical Blade Brake Wall Run stunt and fell unconscious. Backing Away Slowly, instead of trying to finish him, the villain goes to procure an attack aircraft instead.
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Playing Possum / int_7cf5a07	comment	The Flash (2014): In "Flashpoint", The Rival pretends to be knocked out, then stabs Wally in the back as soon as he looks away.
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Playing Possum / int_7d52225f	comment	On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Tracy gets rid of a SPECTRE guard by throwing him down the staircase, apparently knocking him out, but when she tries to run down the staircase he jumps to his feet and attacks her again.
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Playing Possum / int_7fc78282	comment	This is used in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, during the siege of Helm's Deep. After Aragorn and Ã‰omer have run off a group of Uruk-hai, a dozen of them pretend to be dead and leap up on them when their backs are turned — only to have Gimli pop up and cleave off two of their heads.
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Playing Possum / int_7febe32	comment	In Godslave, Edith pretends to have fallen unconscious so that Turner would stop punching the walls with her and turn his attention to Anpu, whereupon she goes for the final blow.
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Playing Possum / int_8117d43e	comment	The Big Red One. German infantry lay doggo around a knocked-out panzer and its dead crew, planning to ambush the main troops once The Squad of Americans have finished their recon. Fortunately Lee Marvin's character notices the mixed uniforms (panzer troops have red piping on their shoulder tabs, but infantry have white).
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Playing Possum / int_81706932	comment	The Running Man: After being knocked off his motorcycle, stalker Buzzsaw lays face down on the ground for quite a while while Ben Richards tries to help Laughlin, before Richards slowly walks over to him, leans down to check the body, only for Buzzsaw to rear up with chainsaw in hand and continue the fight, that would ultimately end up with the chainsaw between Buzzsaw's legs.
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Playing Possum / int_861940f0	comment	The Silent Sea. The Mole is ordered to steal the MacGuffin samples from the medical bay and Leave No Witnesses. There's a patient on a gurney but he appears to be unconscious, so he's left alone. After The Mole leaves the room however, the patient gets to his feet and hobbles for the door...only to find The Mole waiting for him outside with a gun ready.
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Playing Possum / int_867f2c52	comment	In Shooter, Bob Lee Swagger is badly wounded after being shot twice, but as a highly trained Marine Scout Sniper, he is far from disabled. He plays up his injuries so FBI Agent Memphis will get close to him, then quickly disarms him and steals his car.
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Playing Possum / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: Evidently Violetta has seen her aunt the Lady Margarella Selnikov play dead before and initially thinks she's doing so again when she is killed by the Beast, removing the cloth respectfully placed to cover her mangled face convinces Violetta that she's not faking this time.
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Playing Possum / int_86cb3181	comment	In Red Daughter of Krypton, Lobo fights Supergirl. At the beginning, he tries to drive her mad so she can't fight effectively. When his tactic doesn't work he plays dead until she stops pummelling him and leaves.
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Playing Possum / int_877bfaf7	comment	Better Bones AU: This is Firestar's signature move as it is in canon, but unlike in canon it doesn't stop being a Chekhov's Skill after the first series - in the Great Battle, Firestar's spirit is seemingly killed and dissolves into nothing in his fight with Tigerstar, but he is just faking and quickly reconstitutes and kills Tigerstar.
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Playing Possum / int_8894d386	comment	In The Patriot (2000), Col. Tavington does this at least once.
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Playing Possum / int_8ec33a86	comment	Riki from Xenoblade Chronicles 1 can do this to make enemies leave him alone and become invincible for the duration. However, he's so durable that his HP will rarely get low enough to warrant its usage, and the minor heal and brief damage buff it provides upon its expiration aren't worth the amount of time he needs to be out of commission. It's not so much bad as it is simply outclassed by the other potential abilities he could be using instead, though.
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Playing Possum / int_8eda89ef	comment	Hei from Darker than Black does this in the second episode, at which point we and some hapless goons learn both that his Badass Longcoat is bulletproof and that he doesn't really go in for that whole "fighting fair" thing.
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Playing Possum / int_8f4ee60f	comment	Back to the Future: Back to the Future: In the new timeline, Doc Brown fakes his death after being gunned down by the Lybians. He survives thanks to a Bulletproof Vest, to Marty's pleasant surprise. Back to the Future Part III: Marty fakes his death when Buford Tannen shoots him, wearing a make-shift bullet-proof vest — foreshadowed in the second movie in the Clint Eastwood scene on the TV in the hot-tub scene.
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Playing Possum / int_90a62d7d	comment	The bad guys sometimes pull this trick as well. See Hot Shots! Part Deux for a spoof of this.
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Playing Possum / int_929b702e	comment	Team Fortress: Team Fortress Classic: This is one of the powers of the Spy, either dropping silently pretending to be a corpse that's been there for a while or with a loud death cry. Beating A Dead Player ensues. Due to an oversight by the developers (the feigning Spy is "solid" while a dead body isn't), anyone can instantly recognize feigning Spy just by walking over him. What happens then is known as "Crowbar". Team Fortress 2: The Dead Ringer drops a fake corpse when the Spy is damaged, and makes the Spy invisible. Can be very useful to get behind and backstab an enemy, if they don't hear the Dead Ringer's very loud decloaking noise.
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Playing Possum / int_933be5cb	comment	Octopussy: Bond escapes Kamal Khan's palace by hiding himself in one of the body bags of mooks Kamal had killed earlier.
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Playing Possum / int_933c175a	comment	In Today We Kill... Tomorrow We Die!, O'Bannion pretends to be dead to lure the remaining Comancheros out to investigate, then grabs one of them to use as a Bulletproof Human Shield as Milton and Fox unload on them.
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Playing Possum / int_94e70b02	comment	Treadstone. A Treadstone agent shoots The Handler, clipping his ear with a bullet, so the handler falls to the ground and plays dead until the agent rides off on his motorcycle, then gets in his car and does the same. We then see the agent hiding by the road until the handler drives past so he can follow his handler back to his superiors.
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Playing Possum / int_9696c53b	comment	In Army of Darkness a Deadite tries this tactic, but...
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Playing Possum / int_9799ebfe	comment	Back to the Future Part III: Marty fakes his death when Buford Tannen shoots him, wearing a make-shift bullet-proof vest — foreshadowed in the second movie in the Clint Eastwood scene on the TV in the hot-tub scene.
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Playing Possum / int_97a70962	comment	The fake hanging trick is also used in The Professionals by a South African hitman in "Slush Fund". In this case he succeeds, killing the guard and leaving his body in the cell.
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Playing Possum / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series: In episode "Journey to Babel", Kirk defeats an untouchably fast enemy ship by shutting down the Enterprise ship's power and pretending to be dead, causing the enemy ship to close in for the kill; this allows the Enterprise to disable the ship with one well-placed phaser shot. In "Balance of Terror", the Romulan commander orders debris ejected into space (along with the body of his friend the Centurion) to make it look like his ship has been destroyed so that the Enterprise will drop its pursuit. The trick doesn't work. In "The Ultimate Computer", the M5, convinced that "murdering" men and women on the starships in the war games deserves death, deliberately drops the Enterprise's shields to induce the other ships to destroy it. Kirk keeps the shields down in order to restore communications and the commander of the opposing force breaks off attack. Spock comments that this is just the type of trick that the M5 would have played, but Kirk trusted the other captain.
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Playing Possum / int_9ab32c13	comment	In Pony POV Series, Princess Celestia beats Queen Chrysalis in a Beam-O-War, unlike in canon. Chrysalis still wins their fight by pretending to be knocked out and then attacking Celestia when she drops her guard.
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Playing Possum / int_9ac9d448	comment	Ultimate Spider-Man: Spider-Man used this trick when he had to fight to Enforcers and Electro all at the same time, and Ox managed to grab and attack him.
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Playing Possum / int_9b44ae8	comment	Jeepers Creepers 3: Some of the Creeper's victims that he stored in the back of his truck manage to survive for a while by playing dead.
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Playing Possum / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: During the Arlong Park Arc, Usopp is chased by one of Arlong's men, but manages to escape him by covering himself in ketchup and pretending to have been hit by one of the fishman's water bullets. However, Usopp becomes ashamed of how cowardly he's being while everyone else is fighting for their lives and calls the fishman back for a real fight. He gets beaten up a bit, but perseveres and actually manages to win.
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Playing Possum / int_a12cd9cf	comment	On Big City Greens, Tilly pretends to die of boredom so she doesn't have to listen to her dad giving a self-reliance speech to Remy. Cricket joins her afterwards, claiming it's contagious.
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Playing Possum / int_a3748187	comment	Golden Wind: In his battle with Cioccolata, Giorno lands a bullet straight into his head and Cioccolata drops dead. But Giorno immediately could tell he's faking it and takes the time to explain how he knows Cioccolata is pretending to be dead and how he'll approach to finish him off. Cioccolate quickly drops the act and tries to kill Mista, only for a stag beetle to burst out of him from the bullet that was shot by Gold Experience.
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Playing Possum / int_a402c457	comment	In Kaspall, the Captain successfully resorts to this as a way of gaining information from people talking near his body.
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Playing Possum / int_a49a890c	comment	Preacher: Cassidy does this when investigating a Serial Killer's apartment. Just as he finds the corpses (and the guy whose face was cut off and nailed back upside down) he hears the police coming in and realizes he's been set up. So he grabs the first scalpel he finds, jabs it in his throat and plays dead.
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Playing Possum / int_a735cb3c	comment	The Bugs Bunny cartoon "The Fair-Haired Hare" and the Sylvester and Tweety cartoon "Muzzle Tough" both share a joke where a character "wears" a bearskin rug and another character shoots it repeatedly thinking that it was playing possum for twenty years straight.
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Playing Possum / int_a8269bb	comment	What About Witch Queen? has it happen twice: Soren NexÃ¸ crawls into a pile of dead bodies so that charging Weselton cavalry won't notice him. He later strikes them from behind. George Gardner fakes his death to throw off Arendelle's pursuit. When Arendellans come to check if he's truly dead, he briefly contemplates attacking them but decides that even if he'd manage to take one down, the other would most certainly kill him.
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Playing Possum / int_a94561fb	comment	The Pixie and Dixie cartoon "Ghost With The Most" has Dixie playing possum when Jinks clobbers him with a fireplace shovel, making a very paranoid Jinks think he's killed Dixie.
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Playing Possum / int_a97a40f0	comment	The Witch of Knightcharm: An evil Wizarding School considers this to be a valid tactic for winning duels. The protagonist Emily winds up fighting her roommate and loses when the roommate, Megumi, collapses and fakes being defeated until Emily lets her guard down, at which point she unleashes a powerful attack which knocks Emily out of the dueling ring.
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Playing Possum / int_ab2a760	comment	Five Nights at Freddy's: You get a phone call from your predecessor mentioning that if push comes to shove, playing dead can fool the animatronics into thinking you're an empty costume, saving you from getting stuffed into a metal-laden costume, though he doesn't think it the best idea. Some players think Phone Guyâ€™s suggestion can buy them enough time in the event that they run out of power, but the game is not actually coded to check for your movement in the dark as a factor when determining how soon the jumpscare comes.
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Playing Possum / int_ac76e13b	comment	Lubbock from Akame ga Kill! plays it after an attack so his opponent thinks he killed him. But when he realizes that his opponent wants to murder a young woman, he gives up the play and attacks him.
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Playing Possum / int_af566418	comment	Ben 10: Ultimate Alien: Argit's species as the ability to drop their pulse to a near death-like state to fool attackers, to which Ben snarks "How else could a species that annoying survive that long". It helps that Argit actually looks kinda like a humanoid opposum with porcupine quills.
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Playing Possum / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: In Battle Tendency, Joseph does this to evade notice from the Pillar Man Wamuu to head for a nearby mine cart. Stardust Crusaders: Jotaro plays dead in order to draw his opponent, DIO, within attacking range. As Jotaro currently has a bunch of knives in his body, he can't afford to take any more hits from DIO, so he waits until DIO is practically inches from him, having to stay silent while holding his breath and temporarily stopping his heart to make DIO come closer to deliver the blow to his head. During this, Jotaro points out the irony of the situation: his opponent can stop time, during which Jotaro has to put a lot of effort into moving, but now, he's putting all his effort into remaining as immobile as he can. Golden Wind: In his battle with Cioccolata, Giorno lands a bullet straight into his head and Cioccolata drops dead. But Giorno immediately could tell he's faking it and takes the time to explain how he knows Cioccolata is pretending to be dead and how he'll approach to finish him off. Cioccolate quickly drops the act and tries to kill Mista, only for a stag beetle to burst out of him from the bullet that was shot by Gold Experience.
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Playing Possum / int_b2edd00b	comment	Zombieland and its golden rule, the doubletap, is key to avoiding this kind of situation with zombies.
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Playing Possum / int_b2fba3e0	comment	Ultra Series: Kaiju can do it too! Return of Ultraman has Jack battling King Maimai and utterly obliterating the monster in a Curb-Stomp Battle. Jack was about to execute the monster with his Specium Beam, but then King Maimai falls over, motionless and seemingly dead, so Jack decides to leave only for the monster to suddenly get up and ambush Jack via Projectile Webbing. Jack does managed to unwrap himself in time and finally kill Maimai for good by turning his Ultra Bracelet into an IED and shoving it down Maimai's throat. Ultraman Ace has the monster Daidarahoshi, who seem to instantly get up once he's knocked down, until Ultraman Ace lands a devastating attack on Daidarahoshi's midsection. The monster seems to be down for real this time... nope, when Ace moves in closer for a better look, it got back up on his feet and tries to choke the life out of Ace.
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Playing Possum / int_b6d1e59b	comment	Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice plays with this trope. When your health bar is depleted, you really are dead, but thanks to your Resurrective Immortality, you can revive back on the spot. Once an enemy sees that you've died, most non-bosses will turn back and return to their posts, giving you a chance to sneak up and land a Back Stab on them. However, if you wait too long to revive yourself, you will stay dead and get booted back to the last checkpoint.
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Playing Possum / int_b7e2bb69	comment	In Syndicate (2012), Agents Ramon and Merit do this. When you approach them to do a CHIP-rip, they get back up and attack.
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Playing Possum / int_b834beb1	comment	Fury (2014) depicts this as a tactic common to both the Germans and Americans in the last days of World War II. The film begins in the aftermath of a battle where the Fury, the tank crewed by the main characters, has been damaged. They pretend to be just another destroyed tank on the battlefield until it is fixed again to make sure the Germans don't finish them off. "Wardaddy" ambushes and brutally kills a German officer in the opening seconds by using this tactic. In the first major battle, Norman, the resident New Meat, is instructed to use one of the tank's machine guns on a pile of German bodies. When Norman protests shooting the bodies, the tank's driver Gordo points out that any one of those "bodies" could be somebody pretending to be dead while concealing an anti-tank weapon, then shoot their tank In the Back as they roll by. During the final battle, "Bible" has to leave the (relative) safety of the Fury to grab a weapon. He goes over to a pile of dead bodies and tries to grab a gun... only to find that the German holding the gun is very much alive and now has a near perfect chance to kill a surprised Bible.
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Playing Possum / int_ba666650	comment	Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: Snake is equipped with a fake death pill in case he gets outnumbered, which drops his vital functions down to almost nothing. When the coast is clear, he can bite down on the Revival Pill embedded in his tooth to get back into action.
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Playing Possum / int_bcdcf629	comment	Transformers: Animated: Ratchet does this to Lockdown in "Thrill of the Hunt". Lockdown later responds in kind, saying he'll have to remember that one. Funnily enough, while Ratchet knows the name of the trope, he has no idea what it refers to.
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Playing Possum / int_bdfd01de	comment	Boldores And Boomsticks: Some of the Grimm captured by Devon Corp for study do this trying to trick the scientists into letting them out. Luckily Team RWBY are wise to their tricks.
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Playing Possum / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2: The Dead Ringer drops a fake corpse when the Spy is damaged, and makes the Spy invisible. Can be very useful to get behind and backstab an enemy, if they don't hear the Dead Ringer's very loud decloaking noise.
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Playing Possum / int_c3c3dfc	comment	Stardust Crusaders: Jotaro plays dead in order to draw his opponent, DIO, within attacking range. As Jotaro currently has a bunch of knives in his body, he can't afford to take any more hits from DIO, so he waits until DIO is practically inches from him, having to stay silent while holding his breath and temporarily stopping his heart to make DIO come closer to deliver the blow to his head. During this, Jotaro points out the irony of the situation: his opponent can stop time, during which Jotaro has to put a lot of effort into moving, but now, he's putting all his effort into remaining as immobile as he can.
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Playing Possum / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "The Invasion of Time", one of the savage Gallifreyans, after telling Leela I Will Only Slow You Down. Gallifreyans in general are quite good at this. Romana once escaped a Dalek slave-labor camp this way, after realizing they were just dumping dead slaves outside. One of the pirates in "Meglos". In "The Curse of Fenric", one of the last surviving Soviet soldiers plays dead after being shot by Millington. He is later able to deliver a fatal shot to Millington and save the Royal Marine captain, leading to the two sides joining forces. "The Shakespeare Code": Alien witch Lilith uses a Voodoo Doll to stop the Doctor's heart... but she doesn't know that he has two. He stays down in order to get her to leave thinking that she's actually killed him.
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Playing Possum / int_c4a1d59e	comment	Call of Duty: Some enemy soldiers, when wounded, will lay on the ground dying, but pull out a grenade or pistol and wait for the player to get close. It's also possible to do this in multiplayer, where if critically wounded your character can either pull out a pistol and try to take the enemy down with them (Last Stand), or drop a live grenade and blow themselves up (Martyrdom). Call of Duty: World at War: The Japanese sometimes do this without being wounded first; at one point in the first mission, the player and his squad happen upon what appears to be a group of corpses. Within seconds, a flare shoots up, blinding everyone while the soldiers get up and surprise attack the unprepared Marines.
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Playing Possum / int_c6228796	comment	Elmer Fudd does this in the cartoon "Wabbit Twouble" to avoid being attacked by a bear and it works, then Bugs Bunny decides to have some fun by pretending to be the bear himself. A very similar scene also happened at the end of the cartoon "Hare Remover".
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Playing Possum / int_c6630cc1	comment	Carnival Row: Vignette pretends she hanged herself in the holding cell to escape when the police open it. She then tries to flee but is caught.
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Playing Possum / int_c7fbcf5f	comment	Horatio Hornblower: In "The Frogs and the Lobsters", Master Bowles plays dead and kills a French soldier whose uniform he needs for another rather dirty trick — Dressing as the Enemy. He's a British guy in the Royal Navy, so we still love him. He was sent to accompany General Charette to brief Captain Pellew about their progress, but nearly everybody in the troop gets killed except him, and the General advises him to disguise himself and return back to his ship, as it is not right to die in a foreign war. In addition, the French soldier was stealing valuable things from the dead and had it coming.
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Playing Possum / int_c83338b1	comment	In the movie Runaway Jury, Marlee plays possum to stab a hitman's leg.
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Playing Possum / int_c9633211	comment	No More Heroes: Bad Girl will drop at random and start crying, though there are times her hands are completely off her bat, which means she's open to a Travis Touchdown spanking. If she's got one hand on her bat, approaching her is a bad idea.
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Playing Possum / int_c9de43fd	comment	Expert have a mook enemy wearing green uniforms, who needs two shots to kill. When shot the first time they'll fall over like every other mook, only to suddenly sit up and shoot you In the Back with their sidearm. Though you could tell they're not dead since they don't drop an item.
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Playing Possum / int_caef7cd1	comment	In Fatal Attraction, Glenn Close appears to be dead — but wakes up and attacks Michael Douglas again.
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Playing Possum / int_cd8905f6	comment	Several of the immortals in Baccano! do this when they realize the immediate threat they're facing won't leave right away. They have the ability to will their bodies not to reform back into a whole for an undisclosed amount of time, but it has been implied that a person can go for minutes in this apparently dead state.
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Playing Possum / int_cd95b8df	comment	Dead Space has necromorphs do it, but it falls flat in part because after the first time people are never ever trusting of a dead body. On the harder difficulty, however, the necromorphs will do it after you've shot them. Remember kids: In this game, just because you shoot its head off and it falls down doesn't mean it's dead. In the second and third games, any attempt by the necromorphs to do this falls flat, since when a necromorph dies, it drops an item. Did it just "die" without dropping anything? It's still alive, stomp it to death.
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Playing Possum / int_cdc79ca0	comment	Commando. One story features an American soldier who specialises in disarming the Booby Traps left behind by the retreating Germans. He starts discovering taunting messages inside the traps, left for him personally by the German soldier who planted them. Eventually he comes across the 'corpse' of a German soldier that suddenly leaps up and attacks him. As the American had defused all his bombs, the German had decided to use himself as the ultimate booby trap.
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Playing Possum / int_ce67d43a	comment	Returns as a skill usable by multiple party members in Tales of Xillia, cowardly or not.
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Playing Possum / int_cf203bee	comment	Ultraman Ace has the monster Daidarahoshi, who seem to instantly get up once he's knocked down, until Ultraman Ace lands a devastating attack on Daidarahoshi's midsection. The monster seems to be down for real this time... nope, when Ace moves in closer for a better look, it got back up on his feet and tries to choke the life out of Ace.
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Playing Possum / int_d0599129	comment	In Ragnarok Online, Novices can learn Trick Dead to play dead and drop all enemy aggro while doing so. This skill is forgotten when the character changes class, even to a Super Novice.
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Playing Possum / int_d301a809	comment	Monster Hunter (2004): The monster Gypceros will feign death once he receives enough damage. If you fall for it and start carving him, he will flail around wildly, dealing huge damage if you're too close. You can tell if he's just pretending by checking your quest info or by throwing a paintball at it: if the dot in the map is pink, he's still alive, if it's grey he is really dead. You can also tell if he's the only monster to fight and the "quest complete" notice hasn't shown up yet. Players on capture quests can use this time to set up a trap for when he wakes back up, as he's low on health enough to be captured when he does this trick.
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Playing Possum / int_d3b72b58	comment	Played straight in Enemy at the Gates, with two characters both pretending to be dead in order to eliminate a German officer. On the other hand, the German soldiers were bayoneting corpses just in case.
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Playing Possum / int_d5089a90	comment	The enemies in Rise of the Triad will attempt this, both in playing dead and faking surrender to get you to lower your weapon.
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Playing Possum / int_d5c33582	comment	Jessie and Gourgeist when the latter was a Pumpkaboo do this to a Salamence in an episode of the Kalos arc of the PokÃ©mon anime series, letting its guard down long enough for Jessie to put a device on it, which causes the Hoenn dragon to go on a rampage and blast Team Rocket off again, requiring the Nurse Joy of this episodeâ€™s Wigglytuff to fight it, due to the Kanto PokÃ©mon now having an advantage because of its Fairy typing.
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Playing Possum / int_db30cf92	comment	This is the favorite move of Firestar from Warrior Cats. When in an enemy's grasp, he goes limp, making the enemy think he or she has won. Then when they're least suspecting it, he strikes!
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Playing Possum / int_df7fa951	comment	In Casino Royale (2006), Bond's first kill stops struggling a bit too quickly while being drowned in a toilet. He also waits a bit too long to leap back up and makes a bit too much noise doing it, allowing Bond to retrieve his gun and kill him for real, leading to the Bond Gun Barrel, which segues into the opening titles and theme.
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Playing Possum / int_dfabfce5	comment	In Red Dead Redemption 2, opossums will try this, appropriately enough. Get too close to one and it will slump to the ground, complete with prompts to skin it or pick it up. If you try to do so, it will suddenly hiss, causing Arthur to step back, before it flees.
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Playing Possum / int_e0a3520f	comment	Wednesday: When she's nearly caught sneaking into the morgue, Wednesday hides in one of the cabinet freezers. The coroner sees her, but assumes she's a recent delivery that he missed, even poking her face a few times to be sure (Wednesday keeps her deadpan expression the whole time). When Thing releases her, she asks for five more minutes.
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Playing Possum / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In "Helpless" the Monster of the Week gets round the Must Be Invited problem by wrapping himself in Buffy's red cloak (which he took from Buffy earlier) and lying on the verandah. When Buffy's mother runs out to check on her apparently injured daughter, he takes her hostage.
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Playing Possum / int_e393e4a3	comment	In episode 4 of Primal, after Fang is unable to climb up the rock spire where the Bats Out of Hell took Spear, she pretends to be dead so that the bats would carry her up onto the spire as well.
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Playing Possum / int_e3f0daf4	comment	A Growing Affection has Kakashi pretend to be caught by a foe's mind control technique, so he can learn more about their combat and tactics.
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Playing Possum / int_e49fc98a	comment	Unreal and Unreal Tournament: In the earlier editions of the game, it caused the player to rather obviously fall over very slowly without bending any joints, leading to a "hinges in the feet" type of effect. Later games corrected this with the use of a ragdoll engine, though it returns in Unreal Tournament III.
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Playing Possum / int_e4d4f3e8	comment	Force 10 from Navarone: When they notice that they're being followed by two Chetnik soldiers, Mallory shoots his gun in the air and plays dead so they will get close enough that Barnsby can shoot them.
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Playing Possum / int_e61de588	comment	Coming Home in the Dark: After Mandrake thinks he's killed Hoaggie, he approaches Hoaggie's unmoving body, whereupon Hoaggie strikes him in the face with a rock, and proceeds to beat him with it.
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Playing Possum / int_e8970723	comment	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. The Indoraptor seems to know what tranquilizer darts are and fakes being tranqed when Wheatley puts two in his neck. Then when Wheatley enters its cage to take one of its teeth, it waits till he's in the perfect position for the last and most terrifying surprise of his life. The Indoraptor can be visibly seen smirking during this.
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Playing Possum / int_e931907b	comment	Assassins in Nuclear Throne will pull this trick to try and sneak up on the player, but have a subtle tell that sets them apart from actual corpses.
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Playing Possum / int_e944602	comment	In Goblin Slayer a goblin shaman in the first episode pretends to have been killed in order to surprisingly attack the titular hero. But he already has enough experience to see through it quickly.
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Playing Possum / int_e9e265b6	comment	Fire Emblem: Awakening: Basilio takes advantage of Lucina's warning that Walhart killed him in her timeline to allow Walhart to nearly kill him and play dead, which proves to be crucial in Out-Gambitting Validar whose spies were no longer following "a dead man".
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Playing Possum / int_edb91981	comment	Call of Duty: World at War: The Japanese sometimes do this without being wounded first; at one point in the first mission, the player and his squad happen upon what appears to be a group of corpses. Within seconds, a flare shoots up, blinding everyone while the soldiers get up and surprise attack the unprepared Marines.
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Playing Possum / int_f0841a69	comment	Primeval presents it with humour. Connor is supposed to watch out for an anaesthetized Raptor, but he asks if the Raptor is really stunned or if he just does not play it. Nick jokingly says that raptors are intelligent animals and that he should just be careful.
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Playing Possum / int_f0b55dd	comment	In Housepets!, Jessica pulls this when confronted with a live gargoyle statue. Bonus points since she's actually an opossum.
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Playing Possum / int_f1da3b99	comment	Inu Baka: Lupin always tries to play dead whenever he's intimidated by something (usually by much larger dogs).
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Playing Possum / int_f38b71c3	comment	In the second and third games, any attempt by the necromorphs to do this falls flat, since when a necromorph dies, it drops an item. Did it just "die" without dropping anything? It's still alive, stomp it to death.
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Playing Possum / int_f3e5382d	comment	The Pianist: During the razing of Warsaw, Szpilman finds himself with nowhere to hide when he hears a squad of Germans approaching. He lies down on the pavement and doesn't move so they will assume he is one of the many civilian corpses littering the streets, with success.
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Playing Possum / int_f4e799ee	comment	Michael and Sam get into a fight by a pier in Burn Notice. Unable to beat Michael in a straight up fight, former Navy Seal Sam tackles him into the water and tries to choke him into unconsciousness. Michael goes limp as if he has passed out, waits for Sam to drop his guard and then wallops him hard enough to knock him out for real.
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Playing Possum / int_f74b5f80	comment	Downplayed slightly on Babylon 5: During the Earth-Minbari War, Sheridan destroyed the Minbari warship Black Star by luring it into a Space Mines trap with a distress signal. The distress signal was legitimate, as Sheridan's ship had been crippled by the Black Star and assumed to be dead (and they went along with pretending to be dead at first until they could set the trap), but as per Word of God, Sheridan knew that the Minbari response to a distress call would be to find and destroy the surviving ship, not to rescue the crew, and that they'd get there before any EarthForce assistance could arrive.
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Playing Possum / int_f7e71b53	comment	In the finale of Vengeance! (1970), the hero pretends of have Died Standing Up after killing hordes and hordes of mooks, before remaining montionless as the Big Bad comes over to check if the hero's dead. The villain looks upon his supposedly deceased enemy, starts gloating, and is promptly ambushed and killed via Slashed Throat.
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Playing Possum / int_f97683ef	comment	Hollow Knight: Soul Master goes down with a long and flashy death sequence, before collapsing and dropping your reward like most other bosses. You get as far as walking up to your new spell and watching half of the absorption animation before he pops out of it and breaks the arena floor for another round.
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Playing Possum / int_f9cb2c07	comment	In The Second Try, Kaji pretended to be dead after getting shot by a henchman to throw him off.
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Playing Possum / int_fc7d85d3	comment	Ice Age: The Meltdown: The opossum brothers Crash and Eddie, as well as their adopted mammoth sister Ellie, do this every time they notice a predator. Unfortunately for them, they're rarely wise about it; the first time they demonstrate it, it's against a vulture who is neither fooled nor picky about eating dead things. Another time, Ellie tries playing dead while Cretaceous and Maelstrom are destroying the ice float she's standing on, to which Crash and Eddie have to get her to move because she'll drown if the two sea monsters don't decide to eat her anyway.
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Playing Possum / int_fce1599c	comment	Return of Ultraman has Jack battling King Maimai and utterly obliterating the monster in a Curb-Stomp Battle. Jack was about to execute the monster with his Specium Beam, but then King Maimai falls over, motionless and seemingly dead, so Jack decides to leave only for the monster to suddenly get up and ambush Jack via Projectile Webbing. Jack does managed to unwrap himself in time and finally kill Maimai for good by turning his Ultra Bracelet into an IED and shoving it down Maimai's throat.
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Playing Possum / int_fd0e5cef	comment	Purgatory: Billy the Kid falls down with a dead bandit, closes his eyes, and slooooowly reloads his gun.
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Playing Possum / int_ff0bf83f	comment	In Justice League Unlimited: In "A Better World", the Justice Lords have captured most of the Justice League and have them locked up and heavily monitored, including vital signs, to ensure no chance of escape. The Flash ends up pulling a fast one by accelerating his heart rate so fast, it looks like he's flatlined on the monitor. When the Justice Lord version of Batman rushes to help him, the Flash gets the drop on him and frees everyone. During "For the Man Who Has Everything", Wonder Woman plays possum when she's first attacked by Mongul in order to surprise attack him. She even tells him in a Badass Boast "We inferior species call it 'playing possum'."
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Flip Flappers / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Tiger's Eye (Audio Play) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Better Bones AU (Blog) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Bonefall Warriors Rewrite (Blog) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Cindy and Biscuit (Comic Book) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Dark Night: A True Batman Story (Comic Book) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
For the Man Who Has Everything (Comic Book) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Heroes for Hire (Comic Book) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
100 Bullets (Comic Book) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Robin: Son of Batman (Comic Book) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Superboy (1994) (Comic Book) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
X-Factor (2006) (Comic Book) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
New Avengers (2015) (Comic Book) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Aeon Entelechy Evangelion / Fan Fic / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Friendship Is Optimal: Always Say No (Fanfic) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality / Fan Fic / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Subsumption / Fan Fic / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Second Try / Fan Fic / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Winter War / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Playing Possum
Hellsister Trilogy (Fanfic) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Issei: The Gaming Gear (Fanfic) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
My Little Denarians (Fanfic) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Snow Blind (Fanfic) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Emerald Phoenix (Fanfic) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Lion King Adventures (Fanfic) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Negotiations-verse (Fanfic) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Prayer Warriors (Fanfic) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Rose's Ocean (Fanfic) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Secret Return of Alex Mack (Fanfic) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Smeet Series (Fanfic) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
A Christmas Story / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Back to the Future / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Back to the Future Part III / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Big Game / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Black Mask / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Bloodshot (2020) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Cape Fear / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Cinderella Man / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Coming Home in the Dark / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Die Hard / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Don't Breathe 2 / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Dragonheart / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Dragonheart: A New Beginning / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Ender's Game / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Enemy at the Gates / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Fury (2014) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
GoldenEye / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Hacksaw Ridge / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Hot Shots! / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Hotel Rwanda / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
In Old Arizona / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Inglourious Basterds / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Jeepers Creepers 3 / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
John Q. / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
King Cobra (1999) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
My Bloody Valentine / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Opera (1987) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Outpost / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
P2 / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Plunkett & Macleane / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Pumpkinhead / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Purgatory / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Rose / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Runaway Jury / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Saw / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Saw II / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Scream VI / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Shalako / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Shooter / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Sick / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Silver Streak / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Single White Female / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Sons of the Good Earth / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Sorority House Massacre / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Splinter / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
THX 1138 / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Big Red One / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Host (2006) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Last Outlaw / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Old Guard / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Pianist / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Revenant / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
TheStranglerOfBlackmoorCastle	seeAlso	Playing Possum
The Thing (1982) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Today We Kill... Tomorrow We Die! / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Vengeance! (1970) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Heavy Object / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Rebuild World / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Ciaphas Cain / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Cryptozoologicon / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Father Brown / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Gaunt's Ghosts / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Halo: Contact Harvest / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Heavy Object / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
It Came from Beneath the Sink! / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Maul: Lockdown / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Rebuild World / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Reynard the Fox / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Sigma Force / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Skin Game / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Sky Jumpers / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Sky Lord / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Winter Queen Contingency / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Witch of Knightcharm / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Witchlands / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Way of the Tiger / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Worm / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
BodyBagTrick	seeAlso	Playing Possum
EDENS ZERO (Manga) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
High School Exciting Story: Tough (Manga) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Level E (Manga) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Magical Girl Apocalypse (Manga) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Osu! Karate Club (Manga) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Parasyte (Manga) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
PokÃ©mon Adventures (Manga) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Strike Witches (Manga) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Galactic Voyage: Transformers (Roleplay) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Call of the Wildman / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
COPS (1989) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Henry Danger / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Iris / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Iris (2009) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Mahou Sentai Magiranger / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Robin of Sherwood / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Psionics: The Next Stage in Human Evolution (Tabletop Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
BioShock (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Call of Duty (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Cereal Soup (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Dark Chronicle (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Duck Game (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Endoparasitic (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Expert (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Fairune (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Fallout 76 (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Final Fantasy XI (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Fire Warrior (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
First Encounter Assault Recon (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Five Nights at Freddy's (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
HROT (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Hitman 2 (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Hitman (2016) (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Icewind Dale (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Kenshi (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Kid Icarus: Uprising (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Kuon (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
LISA: The Pointless - Scholar of the Wilbur Sin (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Modern Warfare (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
No More Heroes (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Operator's Side (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Orcs Must Die! (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Phantasy Star Online (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Resident Evil 5 (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Resident Evil Village (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Ripout (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Rune Factory 4 (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Rune Factory 5 (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Spec Ops: The Line (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Super Mario Maker 2 (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Tales Series (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Team Fortress Classic (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Callisto Protocol (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Fazbear's Return (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Time Commando (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Unreal Tournament (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Unreal Tournament III (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
War Thunder (Video Game) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Syndicate / Videogame / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (Visual Novel) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Hamster Hell (Web Animation) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Natural Habitat Shorts (Web Animation) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Puffin Forest (Web Animation) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Unclassified Encounter (Web Animation) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
How To Be A Mind Reaver (Webcomic) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
FiveZer02	seeAlso	Playing Possum
Mario Warfare (Web Video) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Kaskade Region (Web Video) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Adventurers Guild (Webcomic) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Eerie Cuties (Webcomic) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Ffreire's NaruFox AU (Webcomic) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Forestdale (Webcomic) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Jonathin Quackup of the Planet Weralt (Webcomic) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
True Magic (Webcomic) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Blue Eye Samurai / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Finding Nemo / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Home (2015) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Ice Age / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
IwÃ¡jÃº / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Justice League: Gods and Monsters / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Kulipari: Dream Waiker / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Kung Fu Panda 4 / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Norm of the North / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Odor-Able Kitty / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Over the Hedge / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Pixie, Dixie and Mr. Jinks / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Primal (2019) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Rio / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Ultimate Spider-Man / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Wabbit Twouble / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
A.J. Lee (Wrestling) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Bret Hart (Wrestling) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Eddie Guerrero (Wrestling) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Orange Cassidy (Wrestling) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Red Daughter of Krypton (Comic Book) / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
A Growing Affection / Fan Fic / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum

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