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The enemy falls down dead. The hero looks at his weapon in baffled amazement. Then we see that the villain was actually shot by another hero who'd sneaked up behind him.
This is sometimes a variant of [[Bait and Switch Gunshot]]. It could overlap with [[Big Damn Heroes]], [[Big Damn Villains]], or [[Changed My Mind, Kid]].
Sometimes, the second hero is disappointed when no one will give him the proper credit and praise he deserves. See [[
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== Anime and Manga ==
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== Comic Books ==
* In the ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]'' album ''The Crab With The Golden Claws'', Captain Haddock charges a whole band of desert raiders alone. They flee, and he believes for a moment that they did because they were scared of him. In fact, reinforcements were arriving behind him.
* [[Spider-Man]]: Norman Osborn killing the Skrull Queen Veranke in ''Secret Invasion''. While the others have been battling for days, doing most of the dirty work, his team of [[Thunderbolts|maniacs, criminals, and lunatics]] comes in and [[Villain With Good Publicity|steals the show]]. What really makes the it a [[Downer Ending]] is that he kills the Skrull queen ''seconds'' before Wolverine was able to. Naturally, he was placed in charge of ''every registered superhero, the Avengers Initiative was renamed the Thunderbolts Initiative, and SHIELD was disbanded and replaced with HAMMER, which is also run by Osborn''.
* Played with in ''Snarfquest'', where an evil wizard whom Snarf is facing off with suddenly goes "Urk!" and dies. The humanoid characters assume that Snarf actually ''scared him to death'', but the readers learn that their gaggaleech companion (actually a highly venomous death leech) had secretly dropped onto the wizard's back and bitten him.
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* ''[[Batman the Animated Series]]'' has an excellent episode, titled "The Man Who Killed Batman". It's told from the perspective of a nobody mob underling voiced by Matt Frewer, "Sid the Squid", who was the lookout on a job in which Batman is apparently killed. From Sid's perspective, Bats fell into a gas explosion, but everyone else thought Sid pushed him. He has to deal with a jealous Joker, an obsessed Commissioner Gordon, and a few rival mob bosses who can't believe his story. In the end, of course, Bats turns out to have survived unharmed. In prison, a fulfilled Sid becomes, "The Man Who Almost Killed Batman, and who also made a fool of the Joker".
* ''[[The Boondocks]]'' has a rather strange subversion. In ''The Story of Catcher Freeman'', each of [[The Rashomon]] tellings of the story give Catcher credit for killing the slavemaster, when every possible witness saw first-hand that Thelma did it. Since she's dead, we can't know for sure if this is a [[Dude, Where's My Reward?]].
* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Homer is confronted by <s> a mob</s> ''the'' Mob in front of his house. After they're about to shoot him, each of them fall over, hit with an incapacitating gunshot. After Chief Wiggum arrives on the scene, Homer and Marge assume it was him. After he denies credit, the camera pans up to one of the windows in the house, {{spoiler|revealing Maggie holding an old rifle, barrel still smoking.}}
* In the [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] cartoon ''Windblown Hare'', Bugs gets involved in the story of the Three Little Pigs, when the pigs con him into buying their straw and stick houses before the Big Bad Wolf comes along. When he realizes that the pigs had conned him, Bugs has the Wolf try and blow down their brick house, which then blows up.
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