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* Happens to Jake Gittes at the start of ''[[Chinatown]]''.
* In the movie ''Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls'', Ace is hired by an Englishman trying to harvest bat guano for fertilizer, who has to start a genocidal war between local African tribes to get it. Ace was hired as a means of establishing for the public that he had done everything he could to ''prevent'' the war. When Ace unexpectedly figures out who is behind the scheme to wipe out the innocent tribe, the Englishman decides to change his plans and set Ace up as a patsy for the whole thing.
* Film example: {{spoiler|''Vertigo''}}▼
* Another classic: {{spoiler|''[[The Maltese Falcon]]''}}▼
* The 1987 thriller ''[[No Way Out]]'' subverts this: Commander Tom Farrell, the man that Defense Secretary David Brice and his aide Scott Pritchard hire to investigate a murder that they are [[Witch Hunt|attempting to blame]] on a [[Red Herring Mole|Soviet mole]] ''is'' the [[Hired to Hunt Yourself|person they are trying to frame]] and knows that Brice is the one actually guilty of the murder.
* Simply listing these films count as spoilers for their stories:
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