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Contrast the [[Windmill]], who among other things can be used as the scapegoat for something that hasn't even happened!
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* Happens to Yuuto in [[Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu]]. After dropping her bookbag due to a student running into her accidentally, Haruka's bag spills its contents, including a catalog for an anime/manga convention. Yuuto immediately blurts out that he was wondering what happened to his catalog, which the student body immediately accepts, as Haruka is a [[Closet Otaku]]. However, she ends up going into a severe [[Heroic BSOD]] because she fears that Yuuto would be ostracized the way she was in middle school a few years back.
* In ''[[Ore no Imouto ga Konna Ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai (Light Novel)|Ore no Imouto ga Konna Ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai]]'', Kyosuke does this twice for his sister Kirino. The first time their father discovers her eroge/anime fascination, Kyosuke defends her hobby, and then after the father points out that he's not okay with eroge, Kyosuke claims that that stuff was his, and he had her hold it for him, causing the father to [[Megaton Punch|punch]] him in the face.
** The second time is when Kirino's modeling friend Ayase finds her in a town where she was doing some modeling, which coincidentally happened to be in the same area where the anime convention was taking place. Kyosuke once again defends her actions, and while Ayase seems okay with her hobby later, she wonders why Kirino had little sister eroge. He immediately and passionately says that that stuff caused him to be closer to his sister, and says that he loves her, to which Ayase immediately rushes off with Kirino, lest he perverts her mind into doing some [[Brother
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* In the second section of ''[[A Canticle for Leibowitz]]'', the Poet Sirrah makes an elaborate 'jest' (read: rant) about a blue-headed goat, the titular Saint, and a crown, but not quite in the usual way.
* In ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'', while [[Magnificent Bastard|CaoCao]] was campaigning against Yuan Shao, one of Cao Cao's officers told him that they were running low on supplies. Cao Cao told him to falsify numbers so that the troops would push on, and then when word got out that food was getting scarce, Cao Cao then had the officer executed and rallied the troops to make a raid on enemy territory, implying that if they failed they would starve. This eventually led up to the rout of Yuan Shao's forces at Guan Du.
* In ''[[Nineteen Eighty
* In [[Robert E Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story "[[The God in The Bowl (Literature)|The God in The Bowl]]", Dionus intends to execute Conan if they don't catch the murderer, even though he doesn't think he's the killer.
* In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]'', we're told that the Patrician's general view on law and order is that if there's a crime, there must be seen to be a punishment. It's ''nice'' if they involve the same person, but it's not necessary. On the other hand, Quirke's decision to arrest a random troll for the murder of a dwarf because "he must have done ''something''" is an invitation to race war.
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== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Family Guy]]'', Meg, after finally losing it and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|verbally ripping the entire family a new one]], reaches the conclusion,[[Family
* Charlie Brown is a [[Butt Monkey]] on his best day, but he becomes this in ''It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown.'' During the last play of the football game, Lucy - typically - pulls the football away before Charlie can kick it, causing their gang to lose the important game. ''She'' deliberately screws up the play, but somehow this is ''Charlie Brown's'' fault. This is the primary reason that many [[Peanuts]] fans hate that special.
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