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Right Under Their Noses
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The safest way to avoid detection in stories is always, well, right under the enemy's nose — the last place they'll ever think to look. This is true even if the antagonist or whoever the hero is avoiding has all his forces concentrated in an easily avoidable heavily armed complex. Despite the fact that the Sword of Plot Advancement is not to be found there, the hero must encounter the Damsel in Distress somehow. Even when it would make more sense to avoid the enemy stronghold altogether, the seasoned marksmen who swarm the wilderness are always much more likely to capture our heroes if they attempt to sensibly bushwhack away from the enemy camp, whereas the soft green recruits at the main gate would never imagine someone walking up to the Front Door. This may extend to...: |
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In one book of The Borrible Trilogy, one of the recruits for a new adventure is noted for the clever place he's made his hideout, to avoid the Borrible-hunting police: he lives in a disused basement underneath the police station. | |
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In Delenda Est, Harry Ashworth figures out a way to steal someone's wand, while they're holding it, without them even noticing it's gone. This skill comes in handy when Harry steals Voldemort's wand in the middle of their duel. | |
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In Something Wicked This Way Comes, Jim and Will hide in a sewer grate not more than ten feet away from where the Circus of Fear is parading with the reasoning that the carnival folks won't think to look in so obvious a place. They still have a couple of very close calls, though, and would in fact have been discovered by the Dust Witch's Super-Senses if Will's father Charles hadn't intervened. | |
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In The Sherwood Ring, British soldier Peaceable Sherwood takes his hidden militia to crash for the winter at... the shut-up-for-the-war house of the soldier assigned to capturing him, Richard Grahame. Richard is unpleasantly surprised when he makes the mistake of coming over to the house to rummage around for a Christmas gift for his girlfriend. | |
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Bleach: Aizen and his cronies operate to subvert the Gotei 13 this way. He puts up the act so well that the captain is the only person suspicious of him. Similarly, guess where the bad guys' lair is after the Time Skip? Answer: in the literal shadows of the Seireitei. |
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In Harry Tano, Ahsoka Tano is teleported from Coruscant to Privet Drive, where she finds and later adopts a then 4-year-old Harry Potter before running away into the night, which leads to a chain of events happening that affects the Wizarding World: namely that Sirius Black is exonerated and is made the executor of the Potter Family Estates: including a cottage located in Cornwall that he gives to Remus Lupin. Sirius then spends the next seven years searching the world for where his Godson had disappeared to. As it turned out, Ahsoka and Harry were spending those seven years living in a Cove in Cornwall: directly beneath the same Potter Estate Remus was living at; having spent all that time learning the ways of The Force and becoming urban legends for the nearby villages. | |
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Used in both of the first two Enigmatis games. In the first game, Detective Hamilton spends thirty years in the town of Maple Creek, disguised as a secretive hermit, in order to gather intel on the Big Bad. In this case, it's unclear whether his target is really unaware of his presence or if he's just being very studiously ignored. In the second game's bonus chapter, a young woman skulks around the area where her companions are imprisoned, and even tells herself that "The closer to danger, the farther from harm," reasoning that she won't be noticed because no one expects her to be there. Unlike the first example, she is horribly wrong. |
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The Last Unicorn: King Haggard is the one responsible for the disappearance of almost all of the unicorns of the world. Schmendrick (accidentally) hides the eponymous last unicorn right in front of Haggard by disguising her as a human woman. It drives Haggard crazy for some time because he knows something isn't right about "Lady Amalthea", but he can't quite figure out what. Haggard himself has hidden his captive unicorns in the sea just outside his castle. Even though our protagonists live as his 'guests' for several weeks (at the least), they don't notice until Haggard himself points it out. |
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Carry On Spying: The headquarters of the evil S.T.E.N.C.H organisation is right under the headquarters of the British Secret Service where the spies started their mission. After the Elaborate Underground Base blows up, the heroes take the elevator to the surface and emerge from a closet in Da Chief's office. | |
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Shenandoah: Carter, the boy, and their companions wait until the guards are busy shooting after whoever inevitably tries to escape by swimming across the river, then go into the water themselves but cling to the river bank, just out of sight of the nearby guards, and then slowly move off to the side until they're out of sight rather than cross the river. | |
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In Star Trek: Vulcan's Heart, during the early stages of the revolution on Romulus, Spock proposes a plan along these lines: | |
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In Castaway on the Moon, Seong-geun gets marooned on a Deserted Island—under a bridge, in the middle of the Han River, in the middle of Seoul. No one driving the bridge or sailing the river ever sees him, because no one's supposed to be there. | |
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Tarkin's Fist: Jason Bogan, following his escape from Imperial Concentration Camp 1138, manages to hide out in Imperial society on Mars in plain sight thanks to a fake identity created and inserted into the Imperial database by a criminal slicer he befriends. The fake identity is so convincing that he is unwittingly drafted into the Imperial Army. | |
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RWBY villain Cinder Fall's way of destroying Beacon Academy? Having her and her associates (minus Torchwick) literally be contestants in the Vytal Festival as foreign academy students, this helps her plan everything else up to the end of Volume 3. | |
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Zorro. Swashbucklers in general seem to be fond of this. | |
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Wallenberg: A Hero's Story: The whole rescue operation happens right under the noses of the Nazis and Arrow Cross. | |
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While waiting for the Inquisition forces to arrive in Beyond Heroes: Of Sunshine and Red Lyrium, their Warden contact goes to Adamant Fortress to spy on the massing Grey Wardens. He's wearing his uniform with the helmet closed, counting on the generic appearance to keep him from being discovered, and it works perfectly. | |
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One Dungeon Keeper II level pits the Keeper against an enemy with a vastly superior subterranean fortress and army. The Keeper levels the field by stealing them piece by piece, sealing rooms away from the enemy using magically hidden doors and ambushing soldiers to torture into switching sides. | |
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The Baker Street Dozen: The culprit after the microfilm in Sherlock Holmes Goes to Washington is pretty sore when he realizes that he ended up with it late in the film but never realized it. | |
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In Silver Lode, Ballard manages to sneak past everyone looking for him in the middle of the town simply by carrying a barrel over his shoulder such that his face is obscured. | |
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In one strip of Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin is hiding from his mother, who is trying to get him to take a bath. Calvin avoids being caught by hiding in the (empty) bathtub. | |
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In the Supernatural episode "What Is and What Should Never Be", Dean takes the Wishverse Sam to the djinn's lair to confront the djinn, and at one point they are literally hiding under the djinn's nose as they hide under an open metal frame staircase as the djinn walks up the steps. | |
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In Series 2 of Marcella, the Serial Killer has managed to hide the body of one of their victims inside the very police station the main character works at, by dumping it in the maintenance compartment of an elevator shaft. | |
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A Corollary Two example in Death by Cliché. It's even lampshaded somewhat by the main character. Given that the entire thing is a deconstruction of bad GM-ing and poor storytelling, this isn't particularly surprising. | |
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In Final Fantasy XII, the hero party discusses this trope before infiltrating their enemies' capital city. | |
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag: In the modern-day portions of the game, you (as the point of view character) interact with a cell of Assassins who are hiding from the international Templar manhunt targeting them. How do they hide? By working openly in the lobby of Abstergo Entertainment, a subsidiary of the very company that is the front for the Templars. | |
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Played with in Irregular Webcomic! when Darth Vader learns that one downside of the Death Star's gratuitous interior space is that just about anybody can set up shop in it. | |
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In The Princess and the Queen, when Rhaenyra storms King's Landing, Aegon II hides in the last place she would ever think to look: in Dragonstone, her own home. | |
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In Captain Morgane and the Golden Turtle, it turns out that Anita's missing outlaw husband and the mysterious, scarred stranger sitting in her bar are one and the same. He didn't want to reveal himself because firstly, he's still wanted by the law; and secondly, he thought Anita would reject him because of his disfigurement. | |
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The Victors Project: In Arrow, the only survivors of Redfern who Lyme finds are hiding in the hidden cellar of a pub while several of the people who were sent to massacre the villagers are obliviously celebrating directly above them. | |
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Subverted in Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Gaang tries to infiltrate a royal party in order to get close to the Earth King and inform him that the Fire Nation is getting increasingly close to victory over the Earth Kingdom. Unfortunately, the very nice man who lets them into the party is the head of the Da Li, the Secret Police intent on making everyone in Ba Sing Se unaware that there's a war in the first place. | |
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In Batman: Arkham City, this is spoken word for word by the Joker, twice. The first is after you fiddle with the audio log from a phone call he gives you. The second time is Batman remembering the previous as a clue to the reveal of the Joker not only still being very sick and dying, but that Clayface has been masquerading as the Joker for some time. | |
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes has the main villain making this remark about having owned Caesar, the chimp everyone was searching for, all along. | |
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At the start of The Assignment (1997), a disguised Carlos the Jackal recognizes CIA agent Jack Shaw sitting at a Paris cafe, walks right up to him and borrows a light, then tosses a hand grenade into the café. Shaw survived, and a large part of his motivation throughout the movie is to avenge the humiliation of having missed Europe's most wanted terrorist when he was literally right under his nose. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: This is explicitly how Sam and Frodo succeed (helped by Aragorn's army besieging the Black Gate at the same time, getting all the orcs out of the way). After all, who in their right mind would take the one artifact Sauron needs to rule the world right to his doorstep? Author J. R. R. Tolkien at one point tried to make up an excuse for them to sneak into Minas Morgul, but thought better of it. | |
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In Hogan's Heroes, this trope is the only half-way plausible explanation of how Hogan's headquarters could stay hidden beyond manipulating Col. Klink and Sgt. Schultz. This depends heavily on the episode; in the first season especially, Schultz is openly aiding them, and Klink has been heavily implied to be an Allied agent a few times. | |
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A Study in Emerald: According to the detective, far from fleeing the country, Holmes and Watson are currently in London itself (the Rookery specifically, where the police won't go except in huge numbers), waiting for the manhunt to die down. | |
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Charlie Muffin ends with Charlie (having betrayed British Intelligence in revenge for them setting him up to be killed) relaxing with his wife in a hotel in Brighton, England. "They'll look all over the world, but they won't look here." In the novels the movie is based on however, Charlie does eventually get caught. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: The legend of Bael the Bard says that when he stole away Lord Stark's daughter, they hid in the Winterfell crypts. No one found them for years. Bran and his company have the same idea and hide from Theon Greyjoy by doubling back and hiding in the crypts under Winterfell. In The Princess and the Queen, when Rhaenyra storms King's Landing, Aegon II hides in the last place she would ever think to look: in Dragonstone, her own home. |
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Invoked in The Legend of Sun Knight when the Sun Knight has to hide his newly undead best friend from his fellow knights of the Holy Temple, so he hides him in the Holy Temple itself; after all, who would believe that an undead could have made it past all their defenses without raising an alarm? | |
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In Willow, when Princess Elora Danaan is born in the beginning, her mother begs the midwife to get the baby out of the dungeon before the evil Queen Bavmorda comes to see her. The midwife hides the child in the basket of dirty linens she has to take with her, and literally carries the concealed baby out of the dungeon right past the Queen. | |
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Rescuers: Stories of Courage: One of the heroes from Two Women lives just a hundred meters from a Gestapo headquarters while helping people the Nazis are chasing. | |
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In Keeping Up Appearances, Richard confesses to not noticing something really obvious. | |
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In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Pippin suggests this as reason for Treebeard to take him and Merry back towards Isengard; of course, he had other reasons for wanting Treebeard to see Isengard close-up. | |
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In The Gumball Rally, one of the teams evades a roadblock by driving into a truck. | |
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Game of Thrones: Where has Gendry being staying all this time after his departure on Season 3? In King's Landing, of course, back at the forge in Flea Bottom making weapons for the Lannister army. | |
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During a video of Muselk playing Prop Hunt in Team Fortress 2, Muselk encounters a teammate named Publo who should have been turned into an object to hide from the enemy team, but instead has been turned into a Pyro. Muselk concludes that this is the single worst disguise in all of Prop Hunt, and assumes that Publo is standing in the open because he has accepted his doom. A few minutes later, Muselk notices that every enemy has failed to notice Publo, because they're too focused on looking for players disguised as objects and hiding, and thus Publo is the only player who doesn't get found. | |
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In the first Enola Holmes book, Enola, a runaway, is discovered by her brother. When she shakes him again, he spends all night out scouring the city for her, but she successfully escapes by hiding in his house. (When she departs, she's able to use some of his disguise supplies to ensure she won't be spotted.) | |
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In Team Fortress 2, if the Spy uses the Box Trot taunt, he can potentially blend in with the surroundings — the last place "normal" players think to look. What makes this tactic truly broken is that unlike while Cloaking or Disguises, the Spy can still capture objectives in this manner or block the enemy from capturing while Boxtrotting. | |
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Sultan Mehmed, Vlad Tepes' Islamic enemy in Count and Countess, easily evades all of Vlad's military plans just by hiding out in a church town in the middle of Romania. Vlad does catch up with him in the end. | |
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In Mistborn: The Original Trilogy, the protagonists choose to stage their revolution right in The Empire's capital city. The argument is that it's the last place anyone would expect them to do it, and also that it has the most resources for their use. | |
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In Season 18 of the Dutch version of The Mole, one challenge had the host ask each contestant a series of questions starting with "Do you want to know who the Mole is?" While the contestants were answering these questions, the Mole casually strolled past them in plain sight with their face completely uncovered. All the contestants had to do to find out the Mole's identity was to turn their heads slightly to the left, but they were all so busy focusing on the board with the questions that not a single one of them did. | |
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The Stainless Steel Rat: In the first story, Jim escapes a planetwide dragnet by hiding in a building just a few blocks away from where he escaped. Unfortunately, the authorities quickly track him down there, because he's being pursued by the Special Corps whose agents consist of former criminals who think just like he does. | |
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Inverted in Vaguely Recalling JoJo; the villain DIO is constantly following Jotaro's group, but they don't seem to spot him until the plot calls for it. | |
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The entirety of Ashen is spent searching for the titular being. When at last you discover its location, it turns out that it's in the Wrinkled Grotto, one of the first places in the game you gain access to, and one many players might have even stumbled into by accident. | |
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In The Witches (1990), Luke hides behind a folding screen during the witches' meeting, which does not actually give him good cover, because the screen has several gaps, especially the one he looks through. Several times the camera zooms in on him, as if he is about to be spotted. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The villains tend to hide from the heroes this way. In Season 1, it is revealed that the Hellmouth is in fact located directly underneath the library where Buffy and the Scooby Gang hang out and make their plans. Given that The Master was trapped in the Hellmouth for all of the first season, it is thus implied that the Big Bad had been hiding under the heroes' noses the whole time, though it's unclear if he's aware of the fact. In Season 5, Glory looks like a regular human (albeit with super strength), so she can walk around in public without anyone suspecting anything, even buying magic artifacts from The Magic Box while the Scoobies are there, trying to research her with only a vague description of what she looks like. Comes up again in the last season in the final episodes. Buffy has a verbal sparring match with Caleb at the rebuilt high-school (the site of the Hellmouth once again) and realizes that the villains SHOULD be fortifying the position in preparation for opening it up and letting out the army of super-vamps. But they aren't. Why? Because they have fortified an old winery where they had already sprung a trap on Buffy and the potentials. Again, why? Because there really is something even more important to the coming battle buried right under the winery. |
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Ciaphas Cain always manages to foil the enemy's application of this trope, usually by heading to the sector least likely to see action (to the confusion of the underlings, who all believe in his gung-ho HERO OF THE IMPERIUM persona). This results in him stumbling on a tunnel leading to the enemy, an infiltration unit, or daemonic summoning ritual in progress, and therefore putting his life even further at risk than if he'd gone to the front line. One of his Mauve Shirts has a similar ability, her bad luck leading to discover previously-unseen enemies or traps. | |
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While attempting to avoid pursuit by Nazis in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and his father go through Berlin to get the journal back. They manage to run into Adolf Hitler... who proceeds to write his autograph in it (and this is after Hitler has "declared war on the Jones boys", as the Big Bad of the film puts it). | |
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Sherlock Holmes: At the end of "Charles Augustus Milverton", Lestrade asks for help with the case, as the criminals were almost caught. Holmes and Watson, who were those criminals, cheerfully give him a Sarcastic Confession before Holmes refuses to take the case (they were present at the murder, and Holmes even identified her, but given what an utter Asshole Victim Milverton was he won't lift a finger to help catch her). | |
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Breaking Bad: The ruthless drug kingpin of the American southwest, Gus Fring presents himself as a simple chicken shop owner with charities going to the DEA and Gus also being a special guest to some of their functions. When the truth about his true life comes out, the head of the DEA (who was a personal friend to Gus) is fired due to jeopardizing their secrets. Similarly, Hank devotes most of his on-screen career and resources into busting Heisenberg, the new and upcoming meth cook who puts out one of the purest and addictive batch of meth ever, who grows more dangerous and ambitious every day. Little does he know that Heisenberg is none other than his own brother-in-law, Villain Protagonist Walter White, with Walt specifically using his connections to stay two steps ahead in the Heisenberg case, though it's more Underestimating Badassery in Hank's case. When Walt slips up and Hank accidentally discovers his secret, he's understandably heart-broken and utterly furious upon being duped by a close family member for so long. |
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In The Cannonball Run, racers J.J. and Victor sneak their ambulance van through a police road block on the back of a "low-boy" carrier, covered only with a tarp and looking exactly like a van covered with a tarp. | |
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Cassy and Emmeline escape from Simon Legree in Uncle Tom's Cabin by running into the swamps while leaving an obvious trail, then sneaking back to the house and letting the searchers run themselves ragged looking for them. They make their true escape a couple of days later. | |
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In the Wishbone episode "The Pawloined Paper," adapting "The Purloined Letter", the real life subplot (that always mirrors the adapted story in some way) has the dog Wishbone hide from a mob of angry people chasing him by hiding under the lap blanket of a handicapped woman who then wheels past the mob without them paying any attention to her. | |
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In the seventh Alex Rider book, Snakehead, Alex is trapped on a boat filled with guards searching for him, and it'll be hours before they reach shore and he has a chance to escape. He goes for Refuge in Audacity and spends hours hiding under the villain's bed. | |
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