Frame-Up: Difference between revisions

See also: [[Taking the Heat]], where an innocent person attempts to put ''themselves'' in the frame to save someone else. [[False-Flag Operation]], where it is an entire organization or nation that is being framed by another. Compare and contrast [[Abomination Accusation Attack]], where the accusation just mentions a type of crime, not any specific instance. Certain forms of a [[Motivational Lie]] can be related in spirit. See also: [[Fall Guy]], [[Framing the Guilty Party]]

* In ''[[Bloom County]]'', Steve Dallas (an [[Amoral Attorney]] and complete jerk) has done quite a few things that he ''should'' have gone to jail for, and some things that he ''has'' going to jail for (mostly involving public intoxication, indecent exposure, or both) but there were two occasions where he was the victim of this Trope:

** One time, [[The Cracker| prepubescent computer hacker]] Oliver Wendell Jones was caught and back hacked by the FBI. When they demanded he identify himself he typed in Steve's name, leading Steve to be arrested and thrown in the "hacker tank" in jail with a bunch prepubescent hackers. [[Captain Obvious| (QuicklyHe discoveringquickly discovered none of them could spare a cigarette)]]. He was released when the judge figured out he was far too stupid to use a computer.

** He wasn't so lucky that time he was acting as manager for the punk rock group Billy and the Boingers. After the one concert on their tour, the other members of the band threw a wild party and wrecked the hotel (not uncommon for rock bands, but they weren't popular enough to get away with it) and then posing as common animals (rather than [[Talking Animal| the talking ones]] they were) when the police arrived, leaving Steve to be arrested. Even worse, they took this opportunity [[Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word| to renegotiate their contracts]] before bailing Steve out of jail, forcing him to give them 99% of royalty subsidies, plus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dove_Bar Dove Bars] for every breakfast (which, naturally, poor Steve would have to pay for out of the 1% he still had). This ultimately led to Bill the Cat selling the rights to a song he wrote to Nabisco for $12 million, selling the whole band out, becoming filthy rich (until he blew it due to a scandal) and the whole band becoming blacklisted, reviled, and defunct.