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** This is actually remarkably [[Genre Savvy]] on Spidey's part, since being in prison or even dead has not stopped Osborn from wreaking all sorts of havoc in Peter's life before.
*** It makes Spidey [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]], {{spoiler|because [[Subverted Trope|he was right.]] Osborn was behind it all along.}}
** This happens to [[Spider-Man]] a LOT, apparently. During the Fallen Son arc mourning Captain America's death. While at the grave of Uncle Ben, Spidey sees Rhino walking through the cemetery. He attacks, thinking he's up to something (despite Rhino pleading that he isn't here to fight), and their fight breaks a gravestone belonging to Rhino's mother... which was the only reason he was there in the first place. When he realizes this, Spider-Man attempts to apologize, but Rhino is, understandably, far too angry to listen.
** In the Spider-Man spin off ''Jackpot'', the heroine, later accompanied by Spidey himself, beats up a minor villainess who was smuggling but really hadn't anything to do with what Jackpot wanted to know about. The snippy answer of the villainess was something around the lines of : "What? Do you think every villain in New York gets a daily update about every crime?!"
* [[Mickey Mouse]]:
** Similarly, there was a comic where a series of crimes is commited that seem to be the work of the Phantom Blot. Mickey goes to see him in jail, but the Blot tells him he's in jail and hasn't busted out, as the guards will testify, but he appreciates Mickey thinking of him.
** In another comic, Mickey and O'Hara are investigating some robberies when they run into the Blot walking down the street, prompting the latter to arrest him on the spot (with no evidence whatsoever). The Blot doesn't resist and firmly denies everything, which Mickey notices is not like him and thinks he may even be innocent. It turns out he did do it...however he's not actually the Phantom Blot but rather a magically summoned duplicate created by Magica DeSpell.
** With the Blot it seems to be a recurring theme. Due to him wearing disguises anyway, it is easy for various copycats to use his identity and general style for a while. There are several variations on how is this resolved. At least some having the genuine Blot being the one to take down the imitators.
* In one issue of ''[[Birds of Prey]]'', Black Canary's old mentor was murdered while she visited him in Hong Kong, even though he was terminally ill and would have died soon anyway. She quickly assumed that the supervillainess Cheshire committed the crime due to their history of animosity; the means of the crime, poison, also happened to be Cheshire's specialty. After Black Canary tracked Cheshire down, attacked and captured her, she found out that Cheshire did ''not'' do it; rather, it was the deed of a corrupt US senator who arranged the murder specifically so it would point to Cheshire. The two of ''them'' were enemies and he hoped Canary would deal with Cheshire for him. {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|However, they eventually discover that it really was Cheshire after all]]. She made it look like she was being framed so that Canary would help her get back to the US as part of a [[Xanatos Roulette]].}}
* A story in ''[[Gotham Central]]'' had someone killing teenagers dressed as Robin, but despite Batman's violent interrogations, none of the usual rogues turned out to have any involvement.
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* In ''[[Curtis]]'', Greg and Diane Wilkins are in their bedroom for the night, only to hear a crash originating from Curtis and Barry's room. They naturally assume that they got into a fight again. However, the final panel has them screaming for help with multiple crashing sounds, revealing that this time, the crash was not from one of their fights.
** The next strip reveals the cause for the crash were hailstones the size of eggs or golfballs.
* In ''[[The Sandman]]'', Dream gets dumped by his most recent girlfriend. Afterwards, he goes to see his brother / sister Desire, who has a history of setting up and destroying any kind of relationship on a multi-universal scale. Desire bluntly tells him that "it" would love to take credit for Dream getting dumped, but "it" had nothing to do with the situation; this time it was all Dream's fault. Though to be fair, Dream was hardly without reason to suspect Desire; "it" had already ruined one of his relationships just for the sake of doing it (and at the cost of their friendship).
* In one of the children's book tie-ins of ''[[The Flash]]'', the Weather Wizard is released to a halfway house on the same day a tornado rips through the city; naturally, everyone assumes he did it, but the Flash uses his science skills to deduce that the tornado began before he could have regained access to his weather control wand. {{spoiler|In the end, it's suggested that--as per the comics--he no longer quite needs the wand.}}
* In ''[[Identity Crisis]]'', none of the supervillains had anything to do with Sue Dibny's death.
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== Film ==
* ''La Folie Des Grandeurs'', "Non Sire! Pour une fois c'était pas moi!" Translation: "No, sire! For once it wasn't me!"
* Spoken word for word by John Spartan in ''[[Demolition Man]]'', when his first attempt to capture Simon Phoenix results in a building in flames<ref>blown up by Phoenix</ref> and a heap of charred hostages<ref>killed by Phoenix before Spartan dropped in, specifically to hide them from infrared scan until their unrecognizable remains could be found in the wreckage</ref>.
* In the fourth ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' movie, "On Stranger Tides", Jack Sparrow is believed to be trying to locate a ship to find the Fountain of Youth, as well as recruiting a crew. Turns out, for once, he was not the one who is actually doing it. It was Angelica, a former flame of Sparrow, who was doing it, while disguised as him.
* In ''[[Apollo 13]]'', Fred Haise has been using the cabin repress valve, which causes a sharp banging sound, to mess with the other astronauts. When the oxygen tank explodes and the entire ship starts shaking, he rushes in saying, "That's no repress valve!"
* In ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me]]'' British Intelligence are at first concerned about who is behind the tracking and theft of their nuclear subs because they are worried that a foreign power is trying to undermine their nuclear defense strategy; Bond's original mission is to buy the plans for the tracking system from someone who had them stolen. Later the [[Big Bad]], who is behind the actual thefts, reveals that his plan is to fire nukes at New York and Moscow to trigger World War Three; Bond thinks that he's trying to hold the world hostage, but he really wants to devastate the world and build an [[Utopia Justifies the Means|underwater utopia]] for the survivors to start civilization anew.
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* Fainne says this exact line in ''Child of the Prophecy'', by Juliet Mariller. It's really {{spoiler|her grandmother who happens to have similar powers and much more motive...}}
* [[Destructive Savior|Hero version]]: ''"[[The Dresden Files|The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault]]."''
* Simon Heap in ''[[Septimus Heap|Darke]]'' has a hard time convincing Septimus and Sir Hereward that he ''isn't'' to blame for the [[Sphere of Destruction|Darke Domaine]].
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[There Will Be Brawl]]'':
** Who's the butcher and/or Peach's kidnapper? [[Genre Savvy|Bowser?]] [[Hijacked by Ganon|Ganondorf?]] Mario assumes Bowser, but Luigi is the main character and has no idea, so we have no idea.
** {{spoiler|Played with in that it ''was'' Ganondorf, using the butcher''s'', as well as Olimar and others. Ganondorf was then hijacked by the biggest evil in the series, ''Kirby''.}}
* The [[That Guy With The Glasses]] team review of ''[[The Last Airbender]]'' has a group of reviewers forced to watch the movie; the group initially thinks [[The Nostalgia Critic]] is behind it, since last year he did exactly that with ''[[Dragon Ball Evolution]]''. When they contact him, [[Even Evil Has Standards|he's horrified at the idea of anyone sitting through it]].
** {{spoiler|It was [[You Can Play This|JewWario]], he accidentally left the disc there after borrowing [[Y: Ruler of Time]]'s [[Avatar: The Last Airbender]] DVD.}}
* The ''[[Downfall (film)|Downfall]]'' Parody meme on [[YouTube]] normally sees either Fegelein or Himmler (or often both) pulling antics on Hitler. Once the spin-off series based around [[Joseph Stalin]] and the cast of [[Das Boot]] got their own antic masters, Fegelein frequently had to explain to Hitler's staff that he wasn't involved in whatever embarassment had just befallen Hitler, often with little success.
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** In the episode ''Two Dozen And One Greyhounds'', Lisa, Marge, and Homer wonder who was causing various problems within the house lately (such as tearing up all her test papers, a broken vase, and spreading garbage all over the neighbor's yard before Homer got the chance to, respectively). Bart quips that he was this time innocent of these, and felt they were simply senseless destruction without any of his usual commentary. Turns out, it was the dog, who was continuing his path of destruction even in the room where they were located discussing what's happening.
*** Santa's Little Helper himself was implied to have this same trope applied to him in the same episode. When they discover some stuff buried underneath the house (specifically, Lisa's Bongo Drums, Bart's Strobelight, and Homer's "best of Ray Stevens featuring 'The Streak'" record) Homer guessed that it was the dog that buried all of their stuff. Marge's response to Homer implies that it was in fact she who buried at least one of the items that Santa's Little Helper uncovered.
** Bart has been expelled from Springfield Elementary School [[Recycled Script|twice]]. Ironically, both times it was for something that he didn't actually do.
* In the ''[[Sushi Pack]]'' episode "The Thing That Wasn't There," an electrical creature that [[By the Eyes of the Blind|only Maguro can see]] is causing havoc all over the city. Since the attacks all have to do with electricity, the rest of the Pack assume that Unagi, the electric eel member of [[Evil Counterpart|The Legion of Low Tide]] is up to no good. When they confront him, he denies having anything to do with it.
{{quote|'''Unagi''': "What'd I do? I didn't do anything!"
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{{quote|'''Underbheit''': [[Sarcasm Mode|As usual, your detective skills are impeccable, Samson. You succeeded in exposing my sinister plan to lock myself in a dungeon, chained to an albino!]]}}
* ''[[Gargoyles]]'':
** David Xanatos was behind so much of the troubles, that they assumed he was responsible for Goliath and Elisa's disappearance. Brooklyn opposed confronting him on it, as it would only tip him off. It did.
{{quote|'''Talon:''' Drop the act, Xanatos. Where's Elisa?
'''Xanatos:''' I'm afraid I haven't seen her.
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'''Robotnik:''' Use your spiky head! If I'd had captured your companion, I'd be torturing him right now. }}
* In ''[[Spider-Man: The New Animated Series|Spider Man the New Animated Series]]'', [[Egomaniac Hunter|Kraven the Hunter]] apparently murders Mary Jane. In a rage, Spider-Man very nearly kills Kraven, only to discover that Kraven is innocent. Mary Jane was never murdered, and Spider-Man had been tricked by two other villains into thinking Kraven had killed her. (Kraven had killed the parents of the villains, and they weren't powerful enough to take revenge themselves.) Kraven doesn't get away scot-free, however: Spider-Man still drops him off with the police.
* On ''[[Adventure Time]]'', [[Everything's Better with Princesses|Princess Bubblegum]] has [[The Hero|Finn]] and [[Non-Human Sidekick|Jake]] capture [[An Ice Person|the Ice King]], even though he objects, claiming to have done "no recent crime." [[Played With]] because he ''did'' do something, but accidentally.
* In ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'', after Francine's bike was allegedly stolen, Muffy and the others suspected that Binky may have stolen the bike. During a meeting, Binky stormed over to Muffy and asked if she was the one who is accusing him of stealing her bike. After she confirms it, Binky then reveals, while looking timidly to the others, that he's innocent.
* Hero example: in the ''[[Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes]]'' episode "Frightful", the Frightful Four are damaging the FF's reputation. Since Johnny's already known to be careless with his powers, it's very hard for him to convince anyone he wasn't responsible for burning down a building ... especially as he has to keep specifiying "I did not burn down ''that'' building".
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