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== Anime and Manga ==
* A variant occurs in an episode of the anime miniseries ''[[Rumic Theater]]'', "Abberant Family F", where a girl is convinced the rest of her family plans to kill her and then commit group suicide during a family vacation.
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* Happens to David Warrant from ''[[Quantum and Woody]]'', whom Quantum believes engineered the accident that transformed himself and Woody and granted them super powers. In reality, David was trying to shut down the reactor and ''prevent'' the accident.
* The first Doc Ock arc of ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]''. The amnesiac Otto, who traded Oscorp's corporate secrets to Justin Hammer, assumes the accident that fused his tentacles to his body was Hammer's way of trying to cover his tracks. Hammer is a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] "knee-deep in violations of the superhuman test ban treaty", but had nothing to do with the explosion.
== Fan
* Due to Romano's titular paranoia in the ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' fic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7333172/1/
* ''[http://fav.me/dd7ow55 Case of the Missing Technology]'' has [[Spice Girls|Emma, Victoria, Geri, and Mel]] was mistaken for murder, and Melanie is still on the run. In actuality, {{Spoiler| They requested to be put in custody}} after Melanie went missing. The narrator researched into the mater and learned that the police {{spoiler|did cleared them after all, as they didn't do anything.}} As the press went along with the story, {{spoiler| the police, Emma, Victoria, Geri, Mel, and a lookalike used this to tricked the kidnappers}}. The narrator and company were able to find out {{Spoiler| that Melanie was indeed "murdered" but she's [[Back from the Dead|gets better]]}}, thanks to the narrator's hacking skills.
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* The premise of the 1993 Mike Myers film ''[[So I Married an Axe Murderer]]''.
* Drives a major portion of the plot of the Tom Selleck film ''[[Her Alibi]]''.
* In ''[[Eight Days a Week]]'', Peter's elderly neighbour is often seen pushing his chairbound wife around the neighbourhood. Then he suddenly stops, and at the same time, Peter notices that the neighbour is bringing shovels and other tools into his house and leaving with black garbage bags during the night. Naturally, Peter suspects that the neighbour has killed his wife and is getting rid of the body. As it turns out {{spoiler|the wife has gotten too ill to leave the house, and her husband is secretly building an illegal pool in their living room, [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|so that they will be able to relive their exotic honeymoon before she dies]].}}
* {{spoiler|Double}} subverted in ''[[The Burbs]]'', in which nosy neighbors become convinced that the folks who just moved in are [[Ax Crazy]] maniacs because they act creepy.
* In ''[[A.I.: Artificial Intelligence]]'', Gigolo Joe is forced to go on the run because he was set up for murder by the scorned lover of one of his clients.
* ''[[Tucker and Dale vs. Evil]]'' plays this comedically, with the titular protagonists finding themselves mistaken for slasher villains after a series of misunderstandings by a group of college kids.
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** Lampshaded magnificently by Fay at the end of the episode:
{{quote|'''Fay''': If I was going to kill you, I'd never poison you. I'd just tamper with the fuel gauge on the plane and let you sink like a stone somewhere over Nantuckett Sound. I'm only kidding... but I do know how.}}
* Ted and Melody on ''[[Hey
* Another ''[[Rear Window]]'' knock-off was one of the subplots of ''[[That '70s Show]]'' Halloween episode.
* The first episode of ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' (1951) was titled "Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her".
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== Videogames ==
* ''[[Sam and Max|Sam & Max: Season 2]]'' re-opens Stinky's Diner, which was closed throughout the entirety of Season 1, and introduces its new owner: a thoroughly sketchy woman who claims to be Stinky's granddaughter, taking care of the diner while her grandfather is traveling (something Sam & Max point out would be ''incredibly unlikely'' for the cantankerous old man to even ''consider''). Throughout the season, the implications pile up that this mystery woman murdered Stinky, but in ''What's New, Beelzebub?'', it turns out that {{spoiler|Stinky died in a mountain climbing accident ([[Back
* In ''[[Dead or Alive]] 2'', opera singer Helena is fully convinced that the [[Ninja]] Ayane is responsible for the murder of her mother. While Ayane neither confirms nor denies her involvement, {{spoiler|Christie}}, her real assassin, shows up in ''DOA 3'', and has {{spoiler|her}} sights set on Helena.
* In the Victorian London level in [[Wax Works]], the protagonist is mistaken for Jack the Ripper after being seen next to a dead harlot.The fact that the body he's using is that of Jack's twin brother doesn't help him much.
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* The [[Metalocalypse|Dethklok]] song "Bloodtrocuted" tells the story of an electrician who is Mistaken for Murderer by the bounty hunters chasing him, because he happens to look like the man that they're after. Of course, it's [[Everybody Dies|Dethklok]], so {{spoiler|he ends up killing the bounty hunters in an electrified puddle of his own blood in order to save himself, [[Bittersweet Ending|then bleeds to death]] [[Hoist by His Own Petard|from the cuts he gave himself]] [[Death by Irony|in order to pull the stunt off]].}}
* Terry has to [[Clear My Name|clear his name]] of killing Mad Stan in the ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' episode "Eyewitness". {{spoiler|He was framed by Spellbinder, the villain who specializes in technologically-induced hallucinations. Mad Stan wasn't even dead}}.
* In an episode of ''[[The Fairly
* In an episode of ''[[Goof Troop]]'' ("For Pete's Sake"), Pete reads a letter from Goofy and thinks that Goofy is out to kill him. It turns out that {{spoiler|Goofy was getting him a new hedge clipper in place of the one that Pete had accidentally broken; and that Pete had torn open the envelope, and the letter, improperly.}}
* [[The Cleveland Show]] where he thought Holt had killed his mother. He was actually trying to bury his blowup sex doll.
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