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Source of [[The Butler Did It]]. Also see [[The Dog Was the Mastermind]].
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== Film ==
* Played with in the first ''[[Scary Movie]]'', as the killer is "posing" as mentally handicapped.
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** Animagi seem to like using this reasoning, especially unregistered ones. In ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone|Philosopher's Stone]]'', Professor [McGonagall] spends all day spying on the Dursleys in the form of a cat. Later on, various other animagi try using the same reasoning with varying degrees of success such as Sirius trying to get away with using his dog-form {{spoiler|and Rita Skeeter obtaining her stories by turning into a bug.}}
* Lots and Lots of [[Agatha Christie]] novels. The most notable example would probably be {{spoiler|''Crooked House''}}, in which the murderer is a psychopathic child which no one in the book, nor the reader for that matter, would have ever suspected. Caused quite a stir in its time, too.
:It gets to the point that the character(s) that have absolutely rock-solid alibis are often the ones responsible. Examples include ''Lord Edgware Dies'' (she was at a party with friends), ''[[Death on the Nile]]'' (one had been shot in the leg, the other with a nurse looking over her) and ''Murder in Mesopotamia'' (he was on the roof while the victim was downstairs).▼
▲It gets to the point that the character(s) that have absolutely rock-solid alibis are often the ones responsible. Examples include ''Lord Edgware Dies'' (she was at a party with friends), ''[[Death on the Nile]]'' (one had been shot in the leg, the other with a nurse looking over her) and ''Murder in Mesopotamia'' (he was on the roof while the victim was downstairs).
* The murderer in [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ''[[Circle of Magic|Shatterglass]]'' ends up being a {{spoiler|''prathmun'', a member of the Untouchable caste, considered so low and degraded that to even acknowledge his presence requires being ritually purified afterward.}}
* Deliberately invoked by John Kelly in ''[[Jack Ryan|Without Remorse]]'' when he goes on his [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] while disguised as a bum. Had he not accidentally walked onto the scene of a totally unrelated mugging and left behind a wine bottle with no fingerprints on it, the police might not have realized how he was operating.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In one ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]'' adventure, when a robot claims to have video footage exonerating the [[Player Characters|PCs]], the gamemaster is advised to maintain this trope: "Don't go 'heeeeeeey, there's a data port right over there, wanna try it?'. Wait for the PCs to ''ask'' if there's a data port nearby, then casually say 'oh yeah, there's one over in the corner'." {{spoiler|When the robot is hooked up, it restores the previously-crashed Computer.}}
== Videogames ==
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