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== Newspaper Comics == |
== Newspaper Comics == |
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* ''[[Slylock Fox]]'' uses this trope in nearly every strip as Slylock's main way of crime solving. |
* ''[[Slylock Fox]]'' uses this trope in nearly every strip as Slylock's main way of crime solving. |
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** Parodied in [http://www.kidcartoonists.com/index.php/2008/01/13/pearls-before-swine-parodies-slylock-fox-and-comics-for-kids/ this] ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'' comic. |
** Parodied in [https://web.archive.org/web/20081022190609/http://www.kidcartoonists.com/index.php/2008/01/13/pearls-before-swine-parodies-slylock-fox-and-comics-for-kids/ this] ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'' comic. |
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* Subverted on ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' when Susie is hit with a flurry of snowballs. She goes after Calvin, who has a wheelbarrow with him, and who protests that Susie only has "circumstantial evidence." She clobbers him anyway, and while lying face down in the snow Calvin claims that "you can't get a fair trial in this town." |
* Subverted on ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' when Susie is hit with a flurry of snowballs. She goes after Calvin, who has a wheelbarrow with him, and who protests that Susie only has "circumstantial evidence." She clobbers him anyway, and while lying face down in the snow Calvin claims that "you can't get a fair trial in this town." |
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== Other == |
== Other == |
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* The [[Perplex City]] card "Alibi" pegs {{spoiler|the maid}} as a murderer because she said she was getting the mail at the time of the crime - a Sunday. (Of course, no one ever picks up Saturday's mail on Sunday.) |
* The [[Perplex City]] card "Alibi" pegs {{spoiler|the maid}} as a murderer because she said she was getting the mail at the time of the crime - a Sunday. (Of course, no one ever picks up Saturday's mail on Sunday.) |
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* Parodied in an article from [[The Onion]] about [http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29537 the boy detective's murder]. Bugs claims that "at the time the crime was committed, I was at the North Pole watching the penguins". |
* Parodied in an article from [[The Onion]] about [https://web.archive.org/web/20100219102847/http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29537 the boy detective's murder]. Bugs claims that "at the time the crime was committed, I was at the North Pole watching the penguins". |
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