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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Attack of the Clones]]'', an assassin tries twice to kill Senator Amidala. When the Jedi capture the assassin, Jango Fett enacts this trope with great prejudice.
* The Hydra assassin in ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger (Film)|Captain America the First Avenger]]'' does this as well after his submarine getaway doesn't exactly turn out as planned.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)|Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney]]: Justice for All'' has a complete Inversion during case 4 in which the this trope is turned around. At first the killing seems like a straight forward murder. It however turns out {{spoiler|the one who did the actual killing was a hired assassin. The one who hired the killing however is the one who eventually gets caught, while the one who did the actual deed is never give his just deserts.}}
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Lee Harvey Oswald. [[Who Shot JFK?|Shot JFK]], but was killed by Jack Ruby before he could be interrogated further. Perhaps if he had not died so soon afterwards, less people would speculate as to if he did it on behalf another person or organization, who perhaps put out a [[Contract Onon the Hitman]] to avoid him ratting them out to the authorities, or any of the other theories behind JFK's assassination.
** Became [[Freakier Than Fiction]] when ''Ruby'' died before going to trial, making theorists expand their theories to include ''his'' death.
 
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