History FalseFlagOperation / FanWorks

** Danzou loves employing this tactic with ROOT; not only does he stage an assassination attempt on [[spoiler:the Raikage]] while trying to set up Jiraiya to take the fall, has Suzumebachi's brothers murdered and tries to pin the crime on Onoki.
** During Kumo's Chuunin Exams, the Akatsuki hire several mercenaries from Oyashiro and have them disguise themselves as foreign ninjas, attempting to murder several genin.

* ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'': King Mac Bethad and his spymaster Taskill set one up in an attempt to kill Hiccup in England in a way that would make people think King Harthacnut was behind it. The attempt only managed to kill one of the people assigned to protect Hiccup and [[DidntThinkThisThrough the resulting war between Berk and Harthacnut left Mac Bethad in what he perceived as a worse position than he was before]]. Him and Taskill would never had been known to have been behind the attempt until after Taskill was captured by Berk and confessed.

* In ''FanFic/ThyGoodNeighbor'', Roose Bolton, having heard of a massive windfall landing upon House Stark's lap, moves as fast as he can to counter it, by having his bannerman, Ludd Whitehill, send a force to attack the source of said windfall, the enigmatic Lord Cyril Fairchild and his lady wife, posing as brigands to embarrass House Stark by killing guests under their protection. Unfortunately, Lord Fairchild is an experienced Hunter who survived the worst [[[[VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}} the hellish city of Yharnam]] could throw at him, so all it does is epically piss off the Lord Hunter and get said force slaughtered to a man.

* ''Fanfic/Are You Afraid of the Dark|Worm}}?'':

* Equestria being framed under one in ''Fanfic/JustBeforeTheDawn'' drives a lot of the story's conflict.

* ''Fanfic/BoldoresAndBoomsticks'' features two examples in the [[LampshadingHanging aptly-titled]] Chapter 24: "Untrue Banner Procedures". In an effort to get information out of one of Team Rocket's Pokémon, Blake's Gastly uses an illusion to make it appear that a caged Beowolf is talking. Later, it's revealed that [[spoiler:the criminals weren't actually part of Team Rocket, but were mercenaries secretly hired by Faba, who paid them extra to frame Team Rocket for the theft]].

* ''FanFic/ThePowersOfHarmony'': According to [[AllThereInTheManual the world-building forums]], Discord started the [[GreatOffscreenWar Blood War]] between Metallic and Chromatic dragons by killing the dragon leader/[[MonsterProgenitor progenitor]] Io and planting evidence that made each side think the other was responsible. Celestia and Luna eventually exposed the truth, but the war has left deep distrust between the two types of dragons ever since.
* ''FanFic/UponAFallingFeather'': The Shadowbolts fuse together and disguise themselves as Shining Armor before attacking Cadence, thus turning the whole Crystal Empire on the heroes.

* ''Fanfic/{{Emperor}}'': The Northern Sun, which has managed to get several magical bombs that cause [=EMPs=] and great destruction, puts these bombs in several places around the world and pins the blame on the Death Eaters (who are actually running around), later revealing that they have special technology hardened against those bombs. The plan is to provoke France into declaring war over that technology, and then invade and add France to the Northern-dominated European Treaty Organization. They call this [[OperationBlank Operation]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast SUCKERPUNCH]].

* ''Fanfic/CoreLine'': In ''Fanfic/AJobForTheWaterTribe'', the heroes initially believe the kidnappers to be members of [[spoiler:Team Magma]], only to learn that this is in play -- the true culprits are [[spoiler:Team Aqua, attempting to trick Avatar Korra into helping them raise the ocean levels]]. Unfortunately for them, Korra [[SpottingTheThread spots the thread and realizes]] [[spoiler:they aren't using any Fire-type Pokémon]].

* ''[[Fanfic/PoniesOfOlympus Atlas Strongest Tournament]]'': Since the final match of the tournament, between Rarity and Scootaloo, is in a multi-leveled arena, when they're separated, it gives [[TheDragon Aurelia]] and another changeling a chance to lure them both into thinking the other is outright trying to kill them, [[spoiler:leading to Scootaloo nearly killing Rarity with her finishing move.]]
* In ''Fanfic/CodeGeassLelouchOfBritannia'', Lelouch's company is deliberately under-supplied by the logistical higher-ups due to Lelouch being the BlackSheep. Thus, a supposed "enemy raid" on a Britannian supply column by EU [[HumongousMecha Knightmares]] was [[SarcasmMode totally not]] perpetrated by Jeremiah and the Black Knights operating captured machines.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Derelict}}'' campaign for ''VideoGame/FreeSpace2'', this happens ''accidentally'' when the [[OmnicidalManiac Shivans]] attempt to reach a jump node blockaded by the GTVA. When Shivan capital ships larger than the blockade can handle start showing up, it seems like the Shivans will rip through them like paper. Cue the [[MegaCorp MMC]]-controlled Auriga, an Orion-class destroyer modified to have MoreDakka, ripping through the ''Shivans'' like paper as it runs for the node. The Shivans, unaware the Auriga isn't friendly to GTVA interests, assume the GTVA is far better equipped than they actually are and retreat.
** Played straight in another (otherwise unrelated) ''[=FreeSpace 2=]'' campaign - In ''Sol: A History'', a group of Earth Alliance pilots use ships generally used by another faction (the Independent Peoples of Pluto) and attack a Neptunian convoy, causing the two groups to start fighting each other.
* Subverted in ''[[http://thejboy88.deviantart.com/gallery/44076506 The Divide]]'' -- Chrysalis tries to take advantage of Cloudsdale's secession from Equestria and trigger a full-scale civil war by sending several changelings disguised as Royal Guards to attack the city. However, Swift Storm is smart enough to realize that if Celestia ''really'' wanted to attack Cloudsdale, she'd be a lot more effective at it.
* ''Fanfic/{{Emperor}}'': the Northern Sun, which has managed to get several magical bombs that cause [=EMPs=] and great destruction, puts these bombs in several places around the world and pins the blame on the Death Eaters (who are actually running around), later revealing that they have special technology hardened against those bombs. The plan is to provoke France into declaring war over that technology, and then invade and add France to the Northern-dominated European Treaty Organization. They call this [[OperationBlank Operation]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast SUCKERPUNCH]].
* In ''Fanfic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed'', the ConspiracyTheorist narrator seems to believe that nearly all the big events that happened in the show were a result of this, with either Celestia orchestrating a deal with the villains, or subtly manipulating them behind the scenes. Of course, given that she justifies these theories with a great heaping load of InsaneTrollLogic, it becomes increasingly obvious that this is clearly not the case.
* In ''Fanfic/ForTheGloryOfIrk'', TheConspiracy is fond of using these to further their goals:
** [[spoiler: After Voel and Therron learn of their plans and flee, [[AIIsACrapshoot the Control Brains]] [[ManipulativeEditing fake footage]] to make it look like [[TheFederation the Syndicate]] assassinated them, in order to create a PretextForWar.]]
** [[spoiler: After Vero is discovered to be [[TheMole an informant for the heroes]] and escapes, the Brains and [[TheDragon Xia]] cover this up by saying he was kidnapped by the Syndicate in order to further inflame tensions.]]
** [[spoiler: Xia unleashes [[TheDreaded the Parasite M]] on the Massive, in order to give her a reason to activate the [[HiveMind War Protocol]] onboard the ship as a step towards total implementation on the whole Irken race.]]
* Equestria being framed under one in ''Fanfic/JustBeforeTheDawn'' drives a lot of the story's conflict.

* ''Fanfic/AMoonAndWorldApart'': [[spoiler: When the Lunar Republic's ''Orion'' project is sabotaged, Director Neighsay attempts to make it look like the Equestrians were responsible, therefore ruining any hope of the two nations reconciling and triggering a war between them]].
* ''Fanfic/PeaceForgedInFire'': The Tal'Shiar try to break up the talks by attacking an Imperial ship under Republic colors, but Jaleh Khoroushi [[SpottingTheThread sees through it right away]]: one of the warbirds' names they used belonged to a vessel that was destroyed fighting the Undine over Qo'noS. [[spoiler:They later attack the talks directly flying Republic colors, but the Republic had sent out an update three hours earlier for their IFF transponders that was missing from the fake ships.]]
* ''FanFic/ThePowersOfHarmony'': According to [[AllThereInTheManual the world-building forums]], Discord started the [[GreatOffscreenWar Blood War]] between Metallic and Chromatic dragons by killing the dragon leader/[[MonsterProgenitor progenitor]] Io and planting evidence that made each side think the other was responsible. Celestia and Luna eventually exposed the truth, but the war has left deep distrust between the two types of dragons ever since.

* ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSevenKingdoms'': Littlefinger, with Lysa Arryn's knowledge and consent, stages one of these to turn the Vale against Prince William in the CivilWar, hiring an assassin to stage an intended-to-fail attempt on Robert Arryn's life, get caught, and then "confess" to having been hired by William to punish the Vale for staying neutral. [[spoiler: Fortunately, [[HeroicBastard Mya Stone]] and William's other spies in the Vale catch wind of the plot and spin it in his favor, killing the assassin before he can "confess" and planting evidence that he was hired by the Mythic Dawn cult.]]
* In ''Fanfic/TheSwarmOfWar'', in the second story arc, a Zerg force is lost in a minor Warp anomaly and lands on an Imperium world. Investigation reveals LaserGuidedAmnesia in the colony's memories, which implies artificial causes with hints pointing toward [[spoiler:the Eldar and their psyker powers]]. However, Volran guesses correctly that the real culprit is [[spoiler:the Overmind, since only he could have done such a precise work]].
* In ''Fanfic/TheUnabridgedMemoirsOfDarthPlagueisTheWise'', [[spoiler: Dooku]] bombs the Senate and plants evidence that the [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Rim Liberation Front]] is responsible, in order to convince the Republic and the Jedi to take action against them. Initially it fails in this regard, as both groups note how convenient the evidence is, how little damage the attack did, and most tellingly, how the RLF hadn't actually claimed responsibility (which doesn't fit their MO). Ultimately, though, they do go to war anyway, and more importantly, this all provides an opportunity for [[spoiler: Dooku]] to claim the office of Chancellor, the previous Chancellor having been killed in the bombing.

* In ''The Warmistress of Equestria'', the sequel to ''FanFic/TheGodEmpressOfPonykind'', the deer have apparently done a few of these over the years against the griffons and ponies, in order to keep them busy fighting each other and their attention off of the deer.
** The Traitor Legions and their griffon co-conspirators take advantage of this trope as well they send a "pony" assassin after the Griffon King and a griffon assassin after Celestia, in order to start a war between Equestria and the griffons that the Traitor Legions can take advantage of.