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== Fan Fiction ==
* Non-murder example: In [[Codename: Kids Next Door|Operation]] [[Powerpuff Girls|P.O.W.E.R.P.U.F.F.]], Mojo Jojo and the Delightful Children [[Villain Team-Up|pull this]] with Mojo Jojo kidnapping Numbah Three, and the Delightful Children kidnapping Ms. Keane. Mojo Jojo even points out the trope maker when he reveals the plan.
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* In the ''[[Castle]]'' episode "The Double Down," it was Strangers on a Boat.
** Castle even does the "criss cross" gesture. As a writer, he is understandably excited.
* In the ''[[NCIS]]'' episode "The Inside Man," it was Strangers on a Commuter Train... although the crime was insider trading rather than murder, at least to start with.
** And [[Genre Savvy|Tony]] explicitly draws the connection to the [[Trope Namer]].
** Interestingly, this one, and the above ''Castle'' incidence originally aired within the same two-week timespan, if memory serves.
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* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' parodied this mercilessly, to the point of [[Crossing the Line Twice]], in a sketch where O.J. Simpson is unwillingly roped into this by ''Roger Rabbit''.
* Done as part of a [[Alfred Hitchcock|Hitchcock]] parody in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' "Treehouse of Horror XX."
* ''[[Fillmore!]]'' had an episode where it looked like a vigilante was [[Bully Hunter|going after bullies]]. It turned out that the victims of various bullies had decided to fight back, but they swapped targets so that each of them would have an alibi when the bully they had reason to hate was targeted.
* The final episode of the short-lived ''[[Gary And Mike]]'', titled "Crisscross", parodied this.
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