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[[File:Cheatyface.jpg|framed|link= Magic: The Gathering|My color is blue I love to manipulate and deceive.]]
{{quote|''{{smallcaps|"[[Robo Speak|Statement]]: I have no idea, master. Cheating seems to be a relevant term only when one is caught in the act. Otherwise it is viewed as intelligence, no?"}}''|'''HK-47,''' ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]''}}
 
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Compare [[Can't You Read the Sign?|Can't You Read The Sign]]. And sometimes the villain in [[What You Are in the Dark]], or the foolhardly fellow teenager in [[Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb]] urges this trope to encourage something actually wrong.
{{examples|These examples weren't cheating! You can't prove anything!}}
 
{{examples|These examples weren't cheating! You can't prove anything!}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Death Note]]'', Light Yagami claims that if Kira is caught, he's evil. However, if he isn't, he is justice.