The Butler Did It/Playing With: Difference between revisions

* '''Justified''': The butler did it because he's actually an assassin that took the job to be [[Beneath Suspicion]].

** A butler is someone who, in a wealthy household, has a great deal of access both to the 'upstairs' and 'downstairs' areas, is usually a trusted and respected part of the household and, as a servant, may be receive a lot of poor treatment. They tend to know the hidden secrets of the household and the various enmities and weaknesses of those within it that can be exploited, and know where various weapons, etc are kept. They're usually organized, discreet, thoughtful and methodical. All helpful things if you were planning to kill someone...

* '''Inverted''': Everyone ''except'' the butler did it.

** The butler is the detective that finds out the real killer.

** Putting on a butler suit brainwashes the wearer to commit murder.

** The victim doesn't even ''have'' a butler, there are no butlers anywhere around, and somehow the butler ''still'' did it.

* '''Deconstructed''': The butler is a serial killer with an inferiority complex and a fetish for butler attire. Carrying out his twisted desires, he engages on a murder spree of finding butler jobs and murdering his masters.

* '''Reconstructed''': The butler has a [[Freudian Excuse]] - his parents were killed by their butler, and he was forced to live in an [[Orphanage of Fear|orphanage]], which [[Dark and Troubled Past|ruined his childhood]].