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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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* 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.
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* 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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