All part of the plan

Don't you love the clever whumpee who doesn't mind getting hurt for the sake of the plan? A fake death / crisis situation to get a confession? The good use of their acting skills?

It's ok if they are just pretending and the injuries aren't real in the end (the important is that the others believe it), but it's great when they are.

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Animes
D.Gray-man


 * Ep 88: Inside the dream world, to break Lavi's consciouness and take control over his body, Road makes so that he is stabbed by his friends forms. Later, it's revealed that Lavi actually stabbed himself, to keep enough awareness to eventually get rid of Road.

Tv Shows
Doctor Who


 * 3x01: The 10th Doctor (David Tennant), as part of the plan to expose the fugitive the Judoon are looking for, lets himself get captured (pretending to be human) and the fugitives uses a straw to suck his blood.

Downton Abbey


 * 2x01: At the trenches, Thomas Barrow (Robert James-Collier) can't take it anymore, so at the middle of the night he puts his hand up with a lighter... so it can be shot. Injured, he can go home.

Heroes


 * 1x17: In order to protect his daughter and keep himself out of suspicions, Noah Bennet (Jack Coleman) have The Haitian shooting him and erasing every compromising memory he may have.

Lucifer


 * 2x13: Chloe is at the hospital, poisoned, and the only one who knows the antidote is dead. So Lucifer (Tom Ellis) stops his own heart so his soul could go down Hell and talk with the man.

Merlin


 * 2x06: To break the spell put into Uther by a Troll, he must shed tears of regret, so Gaius and Merlin come up with the brilliant plan of killing Arthur Pendragon (Bradley James). Using the "Romeo and Juliet" type of potion, of course.

Star Trek: Enterprise


 * 1x07: Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) intentionally provokes the Andorians keeping him prisioner, to distract them, and is beaten up.

Movies
The Informer (2019)


 * Pete Koslow (Joel Kinnaman) creates a hostage situation inside the prison, isolating himself with an injured guard at a strategic place. He trades clothes with the man and prompts him to wake up and chocke him from behind, making it look like he (Pete) is the hostage being attacked.

Dramas
Word of Honor


 * Ep 33: (SPOILER) It's revealed that Wen Ke Xing's (Gong Jun) death (from the previous episode) was all part of his plan to unmask the puppet master behind all that was happening. Surrounded, injured and falling off a cliff, he being alive was a shock to anyone who didn't know the plan.