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== Film ==
* In the film ''[[In the Line of Fire]]'', Clint Eastwood is a Secret Service Agent, on the trail of someone determined to assassinate the American President. His first encounter with him is when a landlord notices her tenant has a "shrine" of sorts to other assassins. He visits the room, but when he comes back with a search warrant, the pictures have been replaced by a single one of him standing behind JFK, a president he failed to protect, a sign that [[It's Personal]].
* Used
** The scene where the murderer cleans a dead body and a hundred living crabs from a car's trunk in five minutes without leaving a trace of their being there has prompted a joke that he could have started a very successful cleaning company if he hadn't gone [[Ax Crazy]].
*** [[Required Secondary Powers]] [[X Meets Y|Meets]] [[Mundane Utility]] [[Trope Overdosed|Meets]] [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]].
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** Oh, it's worse than that: the lab is replaced with a huge, opulent office. No explanation is ever given for how this happened.
*** The lab was smaller than the office, so presumably one had been kit-assembled inside the other.
* Subverted in the ''[[Get Smart (film)|Get Smart]]'' movie: Smart discovers a secret uranium production facility in a bakery. 23 tells him that all that's actually found is a simple (though remarkably exaggerated) bakery
* ''[[North by Northwest]]'' provides a slightly more low-key example in which Cary Grant's character is mistaken for a government agent and interrogated with the aid of lots of carelessly poured bourbon; when he alerts the police and tries to convince them of his story, they return to a room devoid of any evidence of
* Used straight in ''The Number 23''.
* The conspirators in ''[[Day Of Wrath]]'' have the hero doubting his sanity by committing grisly murders, allowing him to come across the scene of the crime, and then cleaning it all up before he can show anybody.
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== Video Games ==
* In the first chapter of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'', Keiichi stayed home from school because he was starting to get suspicious of some classmates. Two of the girls from his school showed up that night to bring him some food and tell him they hoped he was feeling better. While eating the food, he choked on a sewing needle baked into a pastry. After having a talk with the police, the half-eaten snack containing the needle was nowhere to be found. Its unexplained disappearance would be creepier if it weren't the sort of thing his parents could've reasonably thrown out with the garbage.
** The hypodermic syringe is another, slightly creepier case in this arc, although at that point, of course, no one was left to actually say
** This trope is arguably subverted in both cases since {{spoiler|the sewing needle and hypodermic syringe actually ''were'' paranoid delusions}}.
* ''[[Arcanum]]'''s (in)famous X-Files quest ends this (as well as [[You Have to Believe Me]]) way: when you try to expose the conspiracy, you realize your proof was just, let's say, stolen. For added trauma, when you return to the secret facility where you found it, there's nothing, not even a brick.
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