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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'', a major part of many end-games is arranging for one or more of your Troubleshooter teammates to take the blame when the mission of the day inevitably goes sideways and you all have to report back to [[BadBoss Friend Computer.]]

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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'', a major part of many end-games is arranging for one or more of your Troubleshooter teammates to take the blame when the mission of the day inevitably goes sideways and you all have to report back to [[BadBoss Friend Computer.]]]] If they're [[DeceasedFallGuyGambit already dead]], so much the better!
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'', a major part of many end-games is arranging for one or more of your Troubleshooter teammates to take the blame when the mission of the day inevitably goes sideways and you all have to report back to [[BadBoss Friend Computer.]]
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* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', this is how Captain Kuro faked his death. After almost wiping out a ship full of Marines, he had Django hypnotize one of his subordinates into thinking that he was Captain Kuro, while also hypnotizing the sole surviving Marine, [[StarterVillain Axe-Hand Morgan]], into thinking that he'd captured Kuro. As a result, the fake Captain Kuro was executed, Axe-Hand Morgan received a promotion he didn't earn, and Kuro adopted the identity of Klahadore, as part of his plan to kill Kaya and inherit her fortune.
* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex''. The villains find a fall guy willing to go to prison as the Laughing Man, apparently motivated by the fame and notoriety of becoming the famous hacker. Unfortunately the villains think that [[DeceasedFallGuyGambit having him dead will serve their plans even better]]. As his killer says before shooting him, "Don't worry, you'll be more famous this way."

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* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': The villains find a fall guy willing to go to prison as the Laughing Man, apparently motivated by the fame and notoriety of becoming the famous hacker. Unfortunately, the villains think that [[DeceasedFallGuyGambit having him dead will serve their plans even better]]. As his killer says before shooting him, "Don't worry, you'll be more famous this way."
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', this is how Captain Kuro faked his death. After almost wiping out a ship full of Marines, he had Django hypnotize one of his subordinates into thinking that he was Captain Kuro, while also hypnotizing the sole surviving Marine, [[StarterVillain Axe-Hand Morgan]], into thinking that he'd captured Kuro. As a result, the fake Captain Kuro was executed, Axe-Hand Morgan received a promotion he didn't earn, and Kuro adopted the identity of Klahadore, as part of his plan to kill Kaya and inherit her fortune. \n* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex''. The villains find a fall guy willing to go to prison as the Laughing Man, apparently motivated by the fame and notoriety of becoming the famous hacker. Unfortunately the villains think that [[DeceasedFallGuyGambit having him dead will serve their plans even better]]. As his killer says before shooting him, "Don't worry, you'll be more famous this way."



* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** In ''ComicBook/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen (Volume 1)'' #3: ''The Man Who Collected Excitement'', a thief frames Jimmy Olsen by slipping him anonymous tips, ensuring he'll always be one of the first at the scene of the crime. However, Jimmy turns the tables by finding the real crook.
** In ''ComicBook/WhoIsSuperwoman'', the titular villain murders Agent Liberty and attacks Inspector Henderson, and intends to take advantage of two facts (the police knowing Liberty's murderer is a super-powerful woman wearing a S-shield, and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} had been seen talking to Henderson just before the attempt on his life) to frame the Girl of Steel for her crimes.

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* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
''ComicBook/TheGoodAsian'':
** In ''ComicBook/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen (Volume 1)'' #3: ''The Man Who Collected Excitement'', When main character Edison Hark was a thief frames Jimmy Olsen by slipping boy, his mother was killed, and Mason Carroway, the wealthy and influential man she worked for, demanded results from the police. Eventually, having no evidence or solid leads, the local police instead grabbed a local known criminal, pinned it on him anonymous tips, ensuring he'll always be one to appease Mason, and let the schmuck get the death penalty. Years later when he became a cop himself, Edison looks at the case file and recognizes it as an obvious case of the first police framing the guy.
** [[spoiler:Eventually, this fate befalls Edison himself; a racist detective spots Edison
at the scene worst possible time, and subsequently, Edison is officially blamed for the Chinatown killings, even though they began weeks before he first arrived in San Francisco.]]
* In ''ComicBook/{{Persepolis}}'', in order to avoid being arrested by [[CulturePolice the Guardians
of the crime. However, Jimmy turns the tables by finding the real crook.
** In ''ComicBook/WhoIsSuperwoman'', the titular villain murders Agent Liberty and attacks Inspector Henderson, and intends to take advantage of two facts (the police knowing Liberty's murderer is a super-powerful woman
Revolution]] for wearing makeup in public, Marjane focuses their attention elsewhere by accusing a S-shield, and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} had been seen talking man who happened to Henderson just before the attempt on his life) be nearby of saying "something indecent" to frame the Girl of Steel for her. (Later, Marjane's grandmother [[WhatTheHellHero calls her crimes.out on this]].)



* In ''ComicBook/{{Persepolis}}'', in order to avoid being arrested by the [[CulturePolice Guardians of the Revolution]] for wearing makeup in public, Marjane focuses their attention elsewhere by accusing a man who happened to be nearby of saying "something indecent" to her. ([[WhatTheHellHero Later, Marjane's grandmother calls her out on this.]])

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* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
**
In ''ComicBook/{{Persepolis}}'', in order to avoid being arrested ''ComicBook/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen (Volume 1)'' #3: "The Man Who Collected Excitement", a thief frames Jimmy Olsen by the [[CulturePolice Guardians slipping him anonymous tips, ensuring he'll always be one of the Revolution]] for first at the scene of the crime. However, Jimmy turns the tables by finding the real crook.
** In ''ComicBook/WhoIsSuperwoman'', the titular villain murders Agent Liberty and attacks Inspector Henderson, and intends to take advantage of two facts (the police knowing Liberty's murderer is a super-powerful woman
wearing makeup in public, Marjane focuses their attention elsewhere by accusing a man who happened S-shield, and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} had been seen talking to be nearby Henderson just before the attempt on his life) to frame the Girl of saying "something indecent" to her. ([[WhatTheHellHero Later, Marjane's grandmother calls Steel for her out on this.]])crimes.



** [[spoiler:Drift]] from ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' turns out to be a fall guy of the willing variety. The plan in this case isn't exactly a crime, but could have deadly consequences if it goes wrong. Long story short, it does, and it does, and [[spoiler:Drift]] takes full responsibility because he feels one of the other people involved needs to stay in his current position to prevent a later disaster, and because he claims he was brought into the plan as a fall guy in the first place.

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** [[spoiler:Drift]] from ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' turns out to be a fall guy of the willing variety. The plan in this case isn't exactly a crime, but could have deadly consequences if it goes wrong. Long story short, it does, and it does, and [[spoiler:Drift]] takes full responsibility because he feels one of the other people involved needs to stay in his current position to prevent a later disaster, and because he claims he was brought into the plan as a fall guy in the first place.



* ''ComicBook/TheGoodAsian'':
** When main character Edison Hark was a boy, his mother was killed, and Mason Carroway, the wealthy and influential man she worked for, demanded results from the police. Eventually, having no evidence or solid leads, the local police instead grabbed a local known criminal, pinned it on him to appease Mason, and let the schmuck get the death penalty. Years later when he became a cop himself, Edison looks at the case file and recognizes it as an obvious case of the police framing the guy.
** [[spoiler:Eventually this fate befalls Edison himself; a racist detective spots Edison at the worst possible time, and subsequently Edison is officially blamed for the Chinatown killings, even though they began weeks before he first arrived in San Francisco.]]



* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': In one "Tracer Bullet" story, Calvin's mom drags Calvin into the living room and tells him to explain how the end table got knocked over. [[MrImagination Calvin re-imagines the events]] as his private detective alter ego, Tracer Bullet, getting hired to unwittingly serve as the fall guy for this particular crime.

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* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': In one [[NoirEpisode "Tracer Bullet" story, story]], Calvin's mom drags Calvin into the living room and tells him to explain how the end table got knocked over. [[MrImagination Calvin re-imagines the events]] as his private detective HardboiledDetective alter ego, Tracer Bullet, getting hired to unwittingly serve as the fall guy for this particular crime.



* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1'': In the first movie, Sunset Shimmer trashes the Fall Formal decor in the gym and uses altered pictures to make it look like Twilight did it, which threatens her ballot for Fall Formal Princess and the chance to retrieve her crown (which happens to be the Element of Magic) being used for the tiara. Fortunately, Flash Sentry manages to find pictures of Twilight taken during the one-on-one soccer game against Rainbow, which Sunset used to make the fake pictures, thus proving her innocence.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1'': In ''WesternAnimation/ChannelChasers'', Timmy is grounded from watching TV after destroying the first movie, Sunset Shimmer trashes city from a stunt he learned from the Fall Formal decor in the gym and show ''Maho Mushi''; as he uses altered pictures a magic remote to make it look like Twilight travel through television and has Cosmo disguised as him in case Vicky comes, he accidentally reveals he's watching TV when he shouldn't; Vicky decides to take advantage of his misery by causing various disasters through the house (destroying the family photo, blowtorching the piano, and writing "MY PARENTS STINK" and "DINKLEBERG RULES" on the living room wall) and claiming Timmy did it, which threatens her ballot for Fall Formal Princess and resulting in the chance to retrieve her crown (which happens to be the Element of Magic) remote being used for the tiara. given to Vicky and Timmy punished even more. Fortunately, Flash Sentry manages Tootie managed to find pictures of Twilight taken during see everything and, under the one-on-one soccer game against Rainbow, which Sunset used to make alias of "Deep Toot", tells the fake pictures, truth to Mom and Dad thus proving her innocence.Timmy is innocent.



* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1'': Sunset Shimmer trashes the Fall Formal decor in the gym and uses altered pictures to make it look like Twilight did it, which threatens her ballot for Fall Formal Princess and the chance to retrieve her crown (which happens to be the Element of Magic) being used for the tiara. Fortunately, Flash Sentry manages to find pictures of Twilight taken during the one-on-one soccer game against Rainbow, which Sunset used to make the fake pictures, thus proving her innocence.



* ''Film/BloodRedSky''. Farid and Mohammed are forced to read statements that will make them seem to be MiddleEasternTerrorists, setting them up to take the fall for the plane's hijacking. They both have flight training and were lured onto the flight to attend a fake conference set up by the hijackers. There's also a German passenger who is a former associate of Egyptian radicals; his name is on a suspect watchlist even though he says he no longer has anything to do with them.

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* ''Film/BloodRedSky''. ''Film/BloodRedSky'': Farid and Mohammed are forced to read statements that will make them seem to be MiddleEasternTerrorists, setting them up to take the fall for the plane's hijacking. They both have flight training and were lured onto the flight to attend a fake conference set up by the hijackers. There's also a German passenger who is a former associate of Egyptian radicals; his name is on a suspect watchlist even though he says he no longer has anything to do with them.



* ''Film/GangRelated'': At the center of the film is a fall guy scheme that goes horribly wrong. Two [[DirtyCop crooked LA cops]] murder and rob a drug dealer who [[UndercoverCopReveal turns out to be an undercover DEA agent]], and to avoid their crimes from being exposed they try to pin it on various petty criminals, all of whom turn out to have solid alibis. They eventually settle on a random homeless guy they picked up off the streets and get a prostitute who was working with them to identify him in a line-up. At first the subterfuge seems to work, as the man thinks he really did commit the murder and wants to take responsibility for his "actions". However, he is later revealed to be the missing member of a very wealthy family who used to personally provide medical aid in Africa as part of Doctors Without Borders, but had fallen into alcoholism and depression after the untimely death of his wife and daughter. As Tupac's character put it, they picked a saint to pin a murder on (a rich one too, as his family immediately provides very good lawyers, which doesn't help them). [[spoiler:It all ends up blowing up in their face, with the prostitute cracking on the witness stand and identifying her two accomplices after she's charged with perjury, the fall guy being released when the DA drops the charges, the instigators turning on each other, and both of the two corrupt cops ending up dead for different reasons of their own doing.]]
* In ''Film/HangmenAlsoDie'', [[spoiler:Czaka, TheMole inside LaResistance, becomes their fall guy for the assassination of UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich.]]

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* ''Film/GangRelated'': At the center of the film ''Film/GangRelated'' is a fall guy scheme that goes horribly wrong. Two [[DirtyCop crooked LA cops]] murder and rob a drug dealer who [[UndercoverCopReveal turns out to be an undercover DEA agent]], and to avoid their crimes from being exposed they try to pin it on various petty criminals, all of whom turn out to have solid alibis. They eventually settle on a random homeless guy they picked up off the streets and get a prostitute who was working with them to identify him in a line-up. At first the subterfuge seems to work, as the man thinks he really did commit the murder and wants to take responsibility for his "actions". However, he is later revealed to be the missing member of a very wealthy family who used to personally provide medical aid in Africa as part of Doctors Without Borders, but had fallen into alcoholism and depression after the untimely death of his wife and daughter. As Tupac's character put it, they picked a saint to pin a murder on (a rich one too, as his family immediately provides very good lawyers, which doesn't help them). [[spoiler:It all ends up blowing up in their face, with the prostitute cracking on the witness stand and identifying her two accomplices after she's charged with perjury, the fall guy being released when the DA drops the charges, the instigators turning on each other, and both of the two corrupt cops ending up dead for different reasons of their own doing.]]
* In ''Film/HangmenAlsoDie'', [[spoiler:Czaka, TheMole inside LaResistance, becomes their fall guy for the assassination of UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich.]]UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich]].



* In the finale of ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1941}}'', as Sam Spade is negotiating the terms for handing over the Falcon, one of his conditions is that someone needs to take the fall for the murder of his partner (since the police suspected Spade himself of having done the deed).
* In ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', [[TheCaptain Kirk]] is framed for the assassination of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon.

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* In the finale of ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1941}}'', ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941'', as Sam Spade is negotiating the terms for handing over the Falcon, one of his conditions is that someone needs to take the fall for the murder of his partner (since the police suspected Spade himself of having done the deed).
* In ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'':
**
[[TheCaptain Kirk]] is framed for the assassination of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon.



* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', the titular rabbit was accused of murdering a guy who was playing patty cake with his wife, and was forced to go on the run with the help of a detective to clear his name, otherwise a HangingJudge would have him '[[ImMelting Dipped]]'. [[spoiler:Turns out that the judge ''knew'' he was innocent because ''he'' was the guy who committed the crime, with Roger being used as his patsy in his grand scheme to eradicate Toontown to make way for a freeway]].

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* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', the titular rabbit was accused of murdering a guy who was playing patty cake with his wife, and was forced to go on the run with the help of a detective to clear his name, otherwise a HangingJudge would have him '[[ImMelting Dipped]]'. [[spoiler:Turns [[spoiler:It turns out that the judge ''knew'' he was innocent because ''he'' was the guy who committed the crime, with Roger being used as his patsy in his grand scheme to eradicate Toontown to make way for a freeway]].freeway.]]



* Soviet satirical novel ''Literature/TheLittleGoldenCalf'' features "sitz-chairman[[note]]from German "chair"[[/note]] Funt" -- a professional figurehead for phony companies. He is 90 and claims to have been doing that all his life. He charges a clerk's wage for sitting in the office looking important and double that for the time he spends in jail "because of job hazards". The VillainProtagonist hires Funt to get blackmail material about one of his former employers.
* ''Hard Rain'', by Creator/BarryEisler. The CIA station chief in Tokyo is running an operation that's been shut down under orders from Washington, and using his subordinate Kanezaki as the fall guy by arranging to frame ''him'' as the RogueAgent. Kanezaki only discovers this when he gets curious about some missing communication logs, which include the order cancelling the operation the chief has assigned to him.

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* Soviet satirical In ''Literature/TheABCMurders'', there's a SerialKiller who nicknames themselves A.B.C. There's also a suspicious character named Alexander Bonaparte Cust who not only has A.B.C. as their initials, but has been at the murder locations during the time of the murder. However, he is just a scapegoat used by the actual killer to cover their tracks. The murderer even manages to trick Cust himself into believing that he is guilty.
* In Mario Puzo's original
novel ''Film/TheGodfather'', Felix Bocchicchio [[TakingTheHeat takes the heat]] for [[spoiler:Michael]]'s murders of [[TheHeavy "The Turk"]] and his [[DirtyCop pet NYPD Captain]]. Since Mr. Bocchicchio is already on DeathRow for [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge three premeditated]] and [[AssholeVictim pretty much deserved]] murders, he's more than happy to admit guilt as long as Don Corleone provides financially for his soon-to-be widow and their three kids. (The movie omits this, leaving it wide open as to ''how'' the Don gets [[spoiler:Michael]] off the hook.)
* ''Literature/JohnRain'': In ''Hard Rain'', the CIA station chief in Tokyo is running an operation that's been shut down under orders from Washington, and using his subordinate Kanezaki as the fall guy by arranging to frame ''him'' as the RogueAgent. Kanezaki only discovers this when he gets curious about some missing communication logs, which include the order cancelling the operation the chief has assigned to him.
*
''Literature/TheLittleGoldenCalf'' features "sitz-chairman[[note]]from German "chair"[[/note]] Funt" -- a professional figurehead for phony companies. He is 90 and claims to have been doing that all his life. He charges a clerk's wage for sitting in the office looking important and double that for the time he spends in jail "because of job hazards". The VillainProtagonist hires Funt to get blackmail material about one of his former employers.
* ''Hard Rain'', by Creator/BarryEisler. The CIA station chief in Tokyo is running an operation that's been shut down under orders from Washington, and using his subordinate Kanezaki as the fall guy by arranging to frame ''him'' as the RogueAgent. Kanezaki only discovers this when he gets curious about some missing communication logs, which include the order cancelling the operation the chief has assigned to him.
employers.



* In Mario Puzo's original novel ''Film/TheGodfather'', Felix Bocchicchio [[TakingTheHeat takes the heat]] for [[spoiler: Michael's]] murders of [[TheHeavy "The Turk"]] and his [[DirtyCop pet NYPD Captain]]. Since Mr. Bocchicchio is already on DeathRow for [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge three premeditated]] and [[AssholeVictim pretty much deserved]] murders, he's more than happy to admit guilt as long as Don Corleone provides financially for his soon-to-be widow and their three kids. (The movie omits this, leaving it wide open as to ''how'' the Don gets [[spoiler: Michael]] off the hook.)
* In ''Literature/TheABCMurders'', there's a serial killer who nicknames themselves A.B.C. There's also a suspicious character named Alexander Bonaparte Cust who not only has A.B.C. as their initials, but has been at the murder locations during the time of the murder. However, he is just a scapegoat used by the actual killer to cover their tracks. The murderer even manages to trick Cust himself into believing that he is guilty.



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* ''Series/BurnNotice'': A shadow government organization made a bunch of files on the handiwork of one of their own operatives look like Michael had done it. This prompted the CIA to burn him, whereupon the organization quickly stepped in to try and recruit him.



* ''Series/{{Limitless}}'': In exchange for money for her family, Hawkins claims that she's a RightWingMilitiaFanatic who tried to kill Morra. Interestingly, she isn't acting as a fall guy for the real culprit, but for the intended victim (who doesn't want an investigation into his affairs).



* ''Series/BurnNotice'': A shadow government organization made a bunch of files on the handiwork of one of their own operatives look like Michael had done it. This prompted the CIA to burn him, whereupon the organization quickly stepped in to try and recruit him.
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. The introduction of [[EvilCounterpart Root]] involved her framing the VictimOfTheWeek for a political assassination. Team Machine clears his name, but this only makes Root determined to find out not only who Team Machine are, but more importantly ''how'' they even knew a FrameUp had occurred in the first place.
* ''Series/{{Limitless}}'': In exchange for money for her family, Hawkins claims that she's a RightWingMilitiaFanatic who tried to kill Morra. Interestingly, she isn't acting as a fall guy for the real culprit, but for the intended victim (who doesn't want an investigation into his affairs).

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* ''Series/BurnNotice'': A shadow government organization made a bunch of files on the handiwork of one of their own operatives look like Michael had done it. This prompted the CIA to burn him, whereupon the organization quickly stepped in to try and recruit him.
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''.
''Series/PersonOfInterest'': The introduction of [[EvilCounterpart Root]] involved her framing the VictimOfTheWeek for a political assassination. Team Machine clears his name, but this only makes Root determined to find out not only who Team Machine are, but more importantly ''how'' they even knew a FrameUp had occurred in the first place.
* ''Series/{{Limitless}}'': In exchange for money for her family, Hawkins claims that she's a RightWingMilitiaFanatic who tried to kill Morra. Interestingly, she isn't acting as a fall guy for the real culprit, but for the intended victim (who doesn't want an investigation into his affairs).
place.



* Common's "Testify" is about a man who is on trial for killing two men. He gets sent to jail, but the ending reveals he didn't commit the crime. The actual murderer was his ''wife''. She's a drug king pin who framed her own husband by giving an anonymous tip, while at the trial she played the role of a sobbing wife.

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* Common's Music/{{Common}}'s "Testify" is about a man who is on trial for killing two men. He gets sent to jail, but the ending reveals he didn't commit the crime. The actual murderer was his ''wife''. She's a drug king pin who framed her own husband by giving an anonymous tip, while at the trial she played the role of a sobbing wife.



* In ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneDust'', [[spoiler: Sheriff Connors]] intends for [[spoiler: Liam]] to take the fall for the murder of Jeremiah Blackwell. [[spoiler: Because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, Dylan almost becomes this.]]

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* In ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneDust'', [[spoiler: Sheriff [[spoiler:Sheriff Connors]] intends for [[spoiler: Liam]] [[spoiler:Liam]] to take the fall for the murder of Jeremiah Blackwell. [[spoiler: Because [[spoiler:Because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, Dylan almost becomes this.]]



* PlayedForLaughs in ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'' should you stay on good terms with Steven Heck (''[[BerserkButton never]]'' Steve) in Taipei - [[spoiler: he'll tip off authorities that [[ButtMonkey his assistant, Wen]], was the one to kill the Prime Minister]].
* ''[[Creator/ZapDramatic Ambition]]'' has Yale, who ends up in prison for the murder of a woman he didn't do (though he was a suspect, as he was cheating on his wife with the murdered lady) in episode 10. This was supposed to lead into a sequel series, but the game has become [[OrphanedSeries orphaned]] since then.

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* PlayedForLaughs in ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'' should you stay on good terms with Steven Heck (''[[BerserkButton never]]'' Steve) in Taipei - [[spoiler: he'll Taipei; [[spoiler:he'll tip off authorities that [[ButtMonkey his assistant, Wen]], was the one to kill the Prime Minister]].
* ''[[Creator/ZapDramatic Ambition]]'' The Creator/ZapDramatic game ''Ambition'' has Yale, who ends up in prison for the murder of a woman he didn't do (though he was a suspect, as he was cheating on his wife with the murdered lady) in episode 10. This was supposed to lead into a sequel series, but the game has become [[OrphanedSeries orphaned]] since then.then.
* Pinning your crimes on other people is a vital skill in {{Social Deduction Game}}s like ''VideoGame/AmongUs'' and ''VideoGame/GooseGooseDuck''. While tricking people into thinking you're trustworthy is certainly advantageous, that's only part of the battle; winning becomes a ''lot'' easier when you can convincingly point the finger at someone else, or, better yet, lead other players to do so of their own accord. Why not insinuate that the person who reported the corpse was the responsible party, self-reporting as a cover-up? After all, it's so much easier to eliminate all the other players if they take care of each other for you...



* Pinning your crimes on other people is a vital skill in multiplayer social stealth videogames like ''VideoGame/AmongUs'' and ''VideoGame/GooseGooseDuck''. While tricking people into thinking you're trustworthy is certainly advantageous, that's only part of the battle; winning becomes a ''lot'' easier when you can convincingly point the finger at someone else, or, better yet, lead other players to do so of their own accord. Why not insinuate that the person who reported the corpse was the responsible party, self-reporting as a cover-up? After all, it's so much easier to eliminate all the other players if they take care of each other for you...



* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' has this happen quite often, to the point at which it's easier to list the cases in which the killer didn't intentionally try to frame the defendant. [[spoiler: ''Turnabout Samurai'' (the ''victim'' framed the defendant), ''Turnabout Big Top'' (the framing was an accident), ''Farewell, My Turnabout'' ([[FramingTheGuiltyParty the killer got framed by another party]]), ''Bridge to the Turnabout'' (accomplice accidentally implicated herself), ''The Cosmic Turnabout'' (the killer tried to frame someone who ''wasn't'' the defendant), ''Turnabout for Tomorrow'' (the defendant framed himself to stop suspicion from falling on Athena), ''The Foreign Turnabout'' (Divination Seance made the defendant look guilty, but no one framed him), ''Rite of Turnabout'' (one of the victims framed someone for his own death and that of the other victim, because the true killer was his pregnant wife. Said pregnant wife wasn't in on the framing plan.), ''Turnabout Storyteller'' (killer framed a guy who in turn framed the defendant).]]
** A multi-layered example happens in "Rise From The Ashes". [[spoiler:Damon Gant kills Neil Marshall and makes it look like Ema Skye did it in order to {{blackmail}} her older sister Lana into doing his bidding, starting with framing the serial murder suspect Joe Darke for the crime. Two years later, Gant kills Bruce Goodman to prevent him from looking into Neil Marshall's killing, then tricks Edgeworth into driving Goodman's body to the prosecutor's office. Gant then calls Lana and has her stab Goodman's body with a knife, presumably intending to frame Edgeworth, but Angel Starr catches Lana in the act, resulting in Lana being arrested(presumably not what Gant wanted, but it was preferable to him being caught)]].

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* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' has this happen quite often, to the point at which it's easier to list the cases in which the killer didn't intentionally try to frame the defendant. [[spoiler: ''Turnabout defendant: [[spoiler:''Turnabout Samurai'' (the ''victim'' framed the defendant), ''Turnabout Big Top'' (the framing was an accident), ''Farewell, My Turnabout'' ([[FramingTheGuiltyParty the killer got framed by another party]]), ''Bridge to the Turnabout'' (accomplice accidentally implicated herself), ''The Cosmic Turnabout'' (the killer tried to frame someone who ''wasn't'' the defendant), ''Turnabout for Tomorrow'' (the defendant framed himself to stop suspicion from falling on Athena), ''The Foreign Turnabout'' (Divination Seance made the defendant look guilty, but no one framed him), ''Rite of Turnabout'' (one of the victims framed someone for his own death and that of the other victim, because the true killer was his pregnant wife. Said pregnant wife wasn't in on the framing plan.), ''Turnabout Storyteller'' (killer framed a guy who in turn framed the defendant).]]
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** A multi-layered example happens in "Rise From The from the Ashes". [[spoiler:Damon Gant kills Neil Marshall and makes it look like Ema Skye did it in order to {{blackmail}} her older sister Lana into doing his bidding, starting with framing the serial murder suspect Joe Darke for the crime. Two years later, Gant kills Bruce Goodman to prevent him from looking into Neil Marshall's killing, then tricks Edgeworth into driving Goodman's body to the prosecutor's office. Gant then calls Lana and has her stab Goodman's body with a knife, presumably intending to frame Edgeworth, but Angel Starr catches Lana in the act, resulting in Lana being arrested(presumably arrested (presumably not what Gant wanted, but it was preferable to him being caught)]].caught).]]



** In ''Trials and Tribulations'', the BigBad uses both Phoenix Wright and Terry Fawles, both former boyfriends of hers, as fall guys. Phoenix is too smitten with her to properly defend himself ([[spoiler: and thinks she's her much nicer twin sister]]), and Terry has a childlike mentality combined with his infatuation that makes it easy for the BigBad to implicate him and [[MurderBySuicide lead him to suicide]] to cover her tracks.
** In case 3-2, Luke Atmey used Ron [=DeLite=] as a fall guy for the murder of Kane Bullard, via making ''himself'' the fall guy for grand larceny. It's complicated. [[spoiler: The murder and theft supposedly occurred at the same time, so being occupied doing one meant he wasn't doing the other. Ron [=DeLite=] was actually the thief, but Luke Atmey directed suspicion at himself (and, to be fair, he was the one planning out Ron's heists) so that he wouldn't be suspected of murder.]]

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** In ''Trials ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations Trials and Tribulations'', Tribulations]]'', the BigBad uses both Phoenix Wright and Terry Fawles, both former boyfriends of hers, as fall guys. Phoenix is too smitten with her to properly defend himself ([[spoiler: and ([[spoiler:and thinks she's her much nicer twin sister]]), and Terry has a childlike mentality combined with his infatuation that makes it easy for the BigBad to implicate him and [[MurderBySuicide lead him to suicide]] to cover her tracks.
** In case 3-2, Luke Atmey used Ron [=DeLite=] as a fall guy for the murder of Kane Bullard, via making ''himself'' the fall guy for grand larceny. It's complicated. [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The murder and theft supposedly occurred at the same time, so being occupied doing one meant he wasn't doing the other. Ron [=DeLite=] was actually the thief, but Luke Atmey directed suspicion at himself (and, to be fair, he was the one planning out Ron's heists) so that he wouldn't be suspected of murder.]]



*** During the third trial [[spoiler:Celeste tries to set up a complicated series of events that let her get away with killing Yamada while pointing all the blame toward Yasuhiro, but the exacts of the case make it impossible for him to be the culprit[[note]]such as the robot costume he supposedly committed the crimes in being unable to bend at the knees, preventing him from moving the bodies around via cart like the students had established early on in the investigation[[/note]]]].

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*** During the third trial trial, [[spoiler:Celeste tries to set up a complicated series of events that let her get away with killing Yamada while pointing all the blame toward Yasuhiro, but the exacts of the case make it impossible for him to be the culprit[[note]]such as the robot costume he supposedly committed the crimes in being unable to bend at the knees, preventing him from moving the bodies around via cart like the students had established early on in the investigation[[/note]]]].



** ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'': Hiyoko becomes this in the second trial. The killer tricks her into coming to the beach house before the victim, knocks her out and leaves her at the scene of the crime, while also planting a gummy to serve as proof she was there. [[spoiler:Interestingly enough, the true killer, Peko, was actually planning on making ''herself'' the fall guy for the killer, believing that if she was convicted and Monokuma concluded she was acting on Fuyuhiko's orders, Fuyuhiko would graduate. Meanwhile, Fuyuhiko, the one who most vigorously argued in favor of Hiyoko's guilt, presumably did so hoping that Peko would graduate]].

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** ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'': Hiyoko becomes this in the second trial. The killer tricks her into coming to the beach house before the victim, knocks her out and leaves her at the scene of the crime, while also planting a gummy to serve as proof she was there. [[spoiler:Interestingly enough, the true killer, Peko, was actually planning on making ''herself'' the fall guy for the killer, believing that if she was convicted and Monokuma concluded she was acting on Fuyuhiko's orders, Fuyuhiko would graduate. Meanwhile, Fuyuhiko, the one who most vigorously argued in favor of Hiyoko's guilt, presumably did so hoping that Peko would graduate]].graduate.]]



*** Kaito serves as this in Chapter 4. [[spoiler:Miu's original plan was to frame Kaito for killing Kokichi, so she programmed the cell phone in the Virtual World to log out Kaito if ''anyone'' said his name (other people could only log out themselves), to make it seem as though he'd logged out to murder the victim in the real world. While Miu ultimately ends up as the murder victim, Kaito is the initial suspect for her murder]].
*** At the end of the game, [[spoiler: Kaede]] turns out to have been this in a previous case. [[spoiler:While she believed that she had killed Rantaro with the trap she designed to take out the mastermind, Tsumugi (the mastermind) was the one who killed him, hid evidence of Kaede's innocence, then let her be executed after being declared guilty.]]

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*** Kaito serves as this in Chapter 4. [[spoiler:Miu's original plan was to frame Kaito for killing Kokichi, so she programmed the cell phone in the Virtual World to log out Kaito if ''anyone'' said his name (other people could only log out themselves), to make it seem as though he'd logged out to murder the victim in the real world. While Miu ultimately ends up as the murder victim, Kaito is the initial suspect for her murder]].
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*** At the end of the game, [[spoiler: Kaede]] [[spoiler:Kaede]] turns out to have been this in a previous case. [[spoiler:While she believed that she had killed Rantaro with the trap she designed to take out the mastermind, Tsumugi (the mastermind) was the one who killed him, hid evidence of Kaede's innocence, then let her be executed after being declared guilty.]]



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* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': In "Channel Chasers", Timmy is grounded from watching TV after destroying the city from a stunt he learned from the show ''Maho Mushi''; as he uses a magic remote to travel through television and has Cosmo disguised as him in case Vicky comes, he accidentally reveals he's watching TV when he shouldn't; Vicky decides to take advantage of his misery by causing various disasters through the house (destroying the family photo, blowtorching the piano, and writing "MY PARENTS STINK" and "DINKLEBERG RULES" on the living room wall) and claiming Timmy did it, resulting in the remote being given to Vicky and Timmy punished even more. Fortunately, Tootie managed to see everything and, under the alias of "Deep Toot", tells the truth to Mom and Dad thus proving Timmy is innocent.



* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Rainbow Dash becomes this in "Rarity Investigates!" when she becomes responsible for sending Spitfire away by sending a fake letter that her mother Stormy Flare was sick when she was perfectly fine. Rarity seemed to be distracted when trying to help her clear her name, but as it turns out, she was gathering clues which wound up pointing toward the real culprit -- retired Wonderbolt legend Wind Rider, who tried to get Dash banned from the Wonderbolts in fear she could break his flying record.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Exaggerated in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E4BartTheMurderer Bart The Murderer]]": when Principal Skinner dissappears and is assumed to have been murdered by the Springfield Mafia, the Mafia not only put the blame on Bart Simpson (who is currently working for them as a bartender) but they also provide false proof in court that Bart (who is ten years old, by the way) is their ''capo di tutti capi'' ([[https://64.media.tumblr.com/7fd769df6529d043f2f16b3d50207958/tumblr_inline_opve0woRrA1tg5wat_640.jpg the leader of the entire organization]]), making him the fall guy for every crime the Mafia has ever done.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Patty Caper", [=SpongeBob=] almost became this when he ran out of suspects who stole the Krusty Krab secret ingredient, and Mr. Krabs assumes [=SpongeBob=] did it, which almost results in the poor sponge nearly fired and arrested. It was then revealed ''Mr. Krabs himself'' stole the secret ingredient (he accidentally showed the bottle when the police appeared) to avoid payment, and not only is he arrested for such, but also for attempting to let his only fry cook take the fall for it.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': In [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E18Descent "Descent"]], although not actually the case, [[spoiler:Commander Pyre insinuates to Tam when she's captured that her friends abandoned her to take the blame]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In the episode "Fun and Games," Toyman kidnaps Bruno Manheim, leader of Inter-Gang, and Lois Lane after she wrote a scatting article calling Toyman a PsychopathicManchild. While Toyman forces Lois to conduct an interview with him, Jimmy Olsen and Clark Kent conduct research on the connection between Manheim and Toyamn, and it's revealed that Manheim tricked a toymaker named Winslow Schott into opening a toy factory so that it could be used for one of Manheim's criminal schemes. When the authorities busted the factory, Manheim was investigated but cleared of any wrong doing, Schott on the other hand was found guilty of all charges and sentenced to prison where he died a few months before he made parole. His son, Winslow Schott Jr. was shuffled through numerous foster homes, and eventually adopted the alias Toyman and swore revenge against Manheim.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Rainbow Dash becomes this in "Rarity Investigates!" "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E16RarityInvestigates Rarity Investigates!]]" when she becomes responsible for sending Spitfire away by sending a fake letter that her mother Stormy Flare was sick when she was perfectly fine. Rarity seemed to be distracted when trying to help her clear her name, but as it turns out, she was gathering clues which wound up pointing toward the real culprit -- retired Wonderbolt legend Wind Rider, who tried to get Dash banned from the Wonderbolts in fear she could break his flying record.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Exaggerated in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E4BartTheMurderer Bart The Murderer]]": when the Murderer]]". When Principal Skinner dissappears disappears and is assumed to have been murdered by the Springfield Mafia, the Mafia not only put the blame on Bart Simpson (who is currently working for them as a bartender) but they also provide false proof in court that Bart (who is ten years old, by the way) is their ''capo di tutti capi'' ([[https://64.media.tumblr.com/7fd769df6529d043f2f16b3d50207958/tumblr_inline_opve0woRrA1tg5wat_640.jpg the leader of the entire organization]]), making him the fall guy for every crime the Mafia has ever done.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Patty Caper", "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS6E8PattyCaperPlanktonsRegular Patty Caper]]", [=SpongeBob=] almost became this when he ran out of suspects who stole the Krusty Krab secret ingredient, and Mr. Krabs assumes [=SpongeBob=] did it, which almost results in the poor sponge nearly fired and arrested. It was then revealed ''Mr. Krabs himself'' stole the secret ingredient (he accidentally showed the bottle when the police appeared) to avoid payment, and not only is he arrested for such, but also for attempting to let his only fry cook take the fall for it.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': In [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E18Descent "Descent"]], "[[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E18Descent Descent]]", although not actually the case, [[spoiler:Commander Pyre insinuates to Tam when she's captured that her friends abandoned her to take the blame]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In the episode "Fun "[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS1E4FunAndGames Fun and Games," Games]]", Toyman kidnaps Bruno Manheim, leader of Inter-Gang, and Lois Lane after she wrote a scatting scathing article calling Toyman a PsychopathicManchild. While Toyman forces Lois to conduct an interview with him, Jimmy Olsen and Clark Kent conduct research on the connection between Manheim and Toyamn, Toyman, and it's revealed that Manheim tricked a toymaker named Winslow Schott into opening a toy factory so that it could be used for one of Manheim's criminal schemes. When the authorities busted the factory, Manheim was investigated but cleared of any wrong doing, wrongdoing, Schott on the other hand was found guilty of all charges and sentenced to prison where he died a few months before he made parole. His son, Winslow Schott Jr. was shuffled through numerous foster homes, and eventually adopted the alias Toyman and swore revenge against Manheim.
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** In a lesser pulled off one the assassins tried to frame someone else for their crime by hiding their gravity boots in the locker of another crewman. This guy, named Dax however is an alien with huge webbed feet that are too big to actually wear any kind of footwear so it's immediately obvious he was framed and the crew don't buy it. Shortly afterwards the actual assassins are found executed by another conspirator so they clearly were punished for bungling the frame job so badly.
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* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' has this happen quite often, to the point at which it's easier to list the cases in which the killer didn't intentionally try to frame the defendant. [[spoiler: ''Turnabout Samurai'' (the ''victim'' framed the defendant), ''Turnabout Big Top'' (the framing was an accident), ''Farewell, My Turnabout'' ([[FramingTheGuiltyParty the killer got framed by another party]]), ''Bridge to the Turnabout'' (accomplice accidentally implicated herself), ''The Cosmic Turnabout'' (the killer tried to frame someone who ''wasn't'' the defendant), ''Turnabout for Tomorrow'' (the defendant framed himself to stop suspicion from falling on Athena), ''Rite of Turnabout'' (one of the victims framed someone for his own death and that of the other victim, because the true killer was his pregnant wife), ''Turnabout Storyteller'' (killer framed a guy who in turn framed the defendant).]]
** A multi-layered example happens in "Rise From The Ashes". [[spoiler:Damon Gant kills Neil Marshall and makes it look like Ema Skye did it in order to {{blackmail}} her older sister Lana into doing his bidding, starting with framing the serial murder suspect Joe Darke for the crime. Two years later, Gant kills Bruce Goodman to prevent him from looking into Neil Marshall's killing, then tricks Edgeworth into driving Goodman's body to the prosecutor's office. Gant then calls Lana and has her stab Goodman's body with a knife, intending to frame Edgeworth, but Angel Starr catches Lana in the act, resulting in Lana being arrested(presumably not what Gant wanted, but it was preferable to him being caught)]].

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* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' has this happen quite often, to the point at which it's easier to list the cases in which the killer didn't intentionally try to frame the defendant. [[spoiler: ''Turnabout Samurai'' (the ''victim'' framed the defendant), ''Turnabout Big Top'' (the framing was an accident), ''Farewell, My Turnabout'' ([[FramingTheGuiltyParty the killer got framed by another party]]), ''Bridge to the Turnabout'' (accomplice accidentally implicated herself), ''The Cosmic Turnabout'' (the killer tried to frame someone who ''wasn't'' the defendant), ''Turnabout for Tomorrow'' (the defendant framed himself to stop suspicion from falling on Athena), ''The Foreign Turnabout'' (Divination Seance made the defendant look guilty, but no one framed him), ''Rite of Turnabout'' (one of the victims framed someone for his own death and that of the other victim, because the true killer was his pregnant wife), wife. Said pregnant wife wasn't in on the framing plan.), ''Turnabout Storyteller'' (killer framed a guy who in turn framed the defendant).]]
** A multi-layered example happens in "Rise From The Ashes". [[spoiler:Damon Gant kills Neil Marshall and makes it look like Ema Skye did it in order to {{blackmail}} her older sister Lana into doing his bidding, starting with framing the serial murder suspect Joe Darke for the crime. Two years later, Gant kills Bruce Goodman to prevent him from looking into Neil Marshall's killing, then tricks Edgeworth into driving Goodman's body to the prosecutor's office. Gant then calls Lana and has her stab Goodman's body with a knife, presumably intending to frame Edgeworth, but Angel Starr catches Lana in the act, resulting in Lana being arrested(presumably not what Gant wanted, but it was preferable to him being caught)]].
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* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': Ashton from Campaign 3 became this when, during a robbery gone wrong, he got thrown out of a 5th story window and cracked his skull and about half of his body open on the pavement. His crew, the Nobodies, stuck around just long enough to get them to safety before they all fled town. Ashton survived, but Jiana Hexum -- the woman they'd attempted to rob -- found out about him and blackmailed him into working for her, on the condition that she wouldn't try to hunt down the rest of the Nobodies. Ashton himself has repeatedly stated that he doesn't fault the Nobodies for leaving and that they would have done the same, but clearly still harbors some level of resentment about being abandoned.
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* ''Film/TheBlackDemon'': Paul, an oil rig inspector, realizes that his employer, Nixon Oil [[spoiler:has set up the rig to explode and kill him so that he takes the fall for ignoring hazardous work conditions]].
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* ''ComicBook/TheGoodAsian'':
** When main character Edison Hark was a boy, his mother was killed, and Mason Carroway, the wealthy and influential man she worked for, demanded results from the police. Eventually, having no evidence or solid leads, the local police instead grabbed a local known criminal, pinned it on him to appease Mason, and let the schmuck get the death penalty. Years later when he became a cop himself, Edison looks at the case file and recognizes it as an obvious case of the police framing the guy.
** [[spoiler:Eventually this fate befalls Edison himself; a racist detective spots Edison at the worst possible time, and subsequently Edison is officially blamed for the Chinatown killings, even though they began weeks before he first arrived in San Francisco.]]
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* Pinning your crimes on other people is a vital skill in multiplayer social stealth videogames like ''VideoGame/AmongUs'' and ''VideoGame/GooseGooseDuck''. While tricking people into thinking you're trustworthy is certainly advantageous, that's only part of the battle; winning becomes a ''lot'' easier when you can convincingly point the finger at someone else, or, better yet, lead other players to do so of their own accord. Why not insinuate that the person who reported the corpse was the responsible party, self-reporting as a cover-up? After all, it's so much easier to eliminate all the other players if they take care of each other for you...
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'': Scar, jealous of Mufasa, yearns to be king in his place, so he plots with the hyenas to kill Mufasa and Simba by starting a wildebeest stampede in a gorge. After Mufasa is killed, Scar then tricks Simba into believing he was responsible for the stampede (as from his perspective, it makes it appear his roaring frightened the wildebeests into the gorge) and to never return; this lasts until Scar reveals the truth during the battle at Pride Rock.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'': ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'': Scar, jealous of Mufasa, yearns to be king in his place, so he plots with the hyenas to kill Mufasa and Simba by starting a wildebeest stampede in a gorge. After Mufasa is killed, Scar then tricks Simba into believing he was responsible for the stampede (as from his perspective, it makes it appear his roaring frightened the wildebeests into the gorge) and to never return; this lasts until Scar reveals the truth during the battle at Pride Rock.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'': In the first movie, Sunset Shimmer trashes the Fall Formal decor in the gym and uses altered pictures to make it look like Twilight did it, which threatens her ballot for Fall Formal Princess and the chance to retrieve her crown (which happens to be the Element of Magic) being used for the tiara. Fortunately, Flash Sentry manages to find pictures of Twilight taken during the one-on-one soccer game against Rainbow, which Sunset used to make the fake pictures, thus proving her innocence.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'': ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls1'': In the first movie, Sunset Shimmer trashes the Fall Formal decor in the gym and uses altered pictures to make it look like Twilight did it, which threatens her ballot for Fall Formal Princess and the chance to retrieve her crown (which happens to be the Element of Magic) being used for the tiara. Fortunately, Flash Sentry manages to find pictures of Twilight taken during the one-on-one soccer game against Rainbow, which Sunset used to make the fake pictures, thus proving her innocence.

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* ''Fanfic/AnAppleSleepExperiment'' ends with Applejack being jailed for murder. The reason she went on her murder spree was that Twilight gave her a faulty sleeping potion which made her unable to sleep. After a few days, she went insane and began acting violent. Twilight refuses to reveal the true reason behind Applejack's behavior as it would make her, a newly crowned princess, look bad. She's more important than Applejack, so she lets Applejack take all the blame.
* In ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'', Sanakan deduces that Grishom is set up as the fall guy by Mandeville for the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized rebellion]] at Ken. Kyril confirms this, believing that Mandeville is doing that in order to secretly secure routes from Ken to the Black Fortress, where Vault is residing.



* ''Fanfic/AnAppleSleepExperiment'' ends with Applejack being jailed for murder. The reason she went on her murder spree was that Twilight gave her a faulty sleeping potion which made her unable to sleep. After a few days, she went insane and began acting violent. Twilight refuses to reveal the true reason behind Applejack's behavior as it would make her, a newly crowned princess, look bad. She's more important than Applejack, so she lets Applejack take all the blame.

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* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' has this happen quite often, to the point at which it's easier to list the cases in which the killer didn't intentionally try to frame the defendant. [[spoiler: ''Turnabout Samurai'' (the ''victim'' framed the defendant), ''Turnabout Big Top'' (the framing was an accident), ''Farewell, My Turnabout'' ([[FramingTheGuiltyParty the killer got framed by another party]]), ''Bridge to the Turnabout'' (accomplice accidentally implicated herself), ''The Cosmic Turnabout'' (the killer tried to frame someone who ''wasn't'' the defendant), ''Turnabout for Tomorrow'' (the defendant framed himself to stop suspicion from falling on Athena), ''Rite of Turnabout'' (one of the victims framed someone for his own death and that of the other victim, because the true killer was his pregnant wife), ''Turnabout Storyteller'' (killer framed a guy who in turn framed the defendant).]]


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** In ''Trials and Tribulations'', the BigBad uses both Phoenix Wright and Terry Fawles, both former boyfriends of hers, as fall guys. Phoenix is too smitten with her to properly defend himself ([[spoiler: and thinks she's her much nicer twin sister]]), and Terry has a childlike mentality combined with his infatuation that makes it easy for the BigBad to implicate him and [[MurderBySuicide lead him to suicide]] to cover her tracks.
** In case 3-2, Luke Atmey used Ron [=DeLite=] as a fall guy for the murder of Kane Bullard, via making ''himself'' the fall guy for grand larceny. It's complicated. [[spoiler: The murder and theft supposedly occurred at the same time, so being occupied doing one meant he wasn't doing the other. Ron [=DeLite=] was actually the thief, but Luke Atmey directed suspicion at himself (and, to be fair, he was the one planning out Ron's heists) so that he wouldn't be suspected of murder.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In the episode "Fun and Games," Toyman kidnaps Bruno Manheim, leader of Inter-Gang, and Lois Lane after she wrote a scatting article calling Toyman a PsychopathicManchild. While Toyman forces Lois to conduct an interview with him, Jimmy Olsen and Clark Kent conduct research on the connection between Manheim and Toyamn, and it's revealed that Manheim tricked a toymaker named Winslow Schott into opening a toy factory so that it could be used for one of Manheim's criminal schemes. When the authorities busted the factory, Manheim was investigated but cleared of any wrong doing, Schott on the other hand was found guilty of all charges and sentenced to prison where he died a few months before he made parole. His son, Winslow Schott Jr. was shuffled through numerous foster homes, and eventually adopted the alias Toyman and swore revenge against Manheim.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Rainbow Dash becomes this in "Rarity Investigates!" when she becomes responsible for sending Spitfire away by sending a fake letter that her mother Stormy Flare was sick when she was perfectly fine. Rarity seemed to be distracted when trying to help her clear her name, but as it turns out, she was gathering clues which wound up pointing toward the real culprit -- retired Wonderbolt legend Wind Rider, who tried to get Dash banned from the Wonderbolts in fear she could break his flying record.
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* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', the titular rabbit was accused of murdering a guy who was playing patty cake with his wife, and was forced to go on the run with the help of a detective to clear his name, otherwise a HangingJudge would have him '[[ImMelting Dipped]]'. [[spoiler:Turns out that the judge ''knew'' he was innocent because ''he'' was the guy who committed the crime, with Roger being used as his patsy in his grand scheme to eradicate Toontown to make way for a freeway]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Patty Caper", [=SpongeBob=] almost became this when he ran out of suspects who stole the Krusty Krab secret ingredient, and Mr. Krabs assumes [=SpongeBob=] did it, which almost results in the poor sponge nearly fired and arrested. It was then revealed ''Mr. Krabs himself'' stole the secret ingredient (he accidentally showed the bottle when the police appeared) to avoid payment, and not only is he arrested for such, but also for attempting to let his only fry cook take the fall for it.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Exaggerated in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E4BartTheMurderer Bart The Murderer]]": when Principal Skinner dissappears and is assumed to have been murdered by the Springfield Mafia, the Mafia not only put the blame on Bart Simpson (who is currently working for them as a bartender) but they also provide false proof in court that Bart (who is ten years old, by the way) is their ''capo di tutti capi'' (the leader of the entire organization), making him the fall guy for every crime the Mafia has ever done.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Exaggerated in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E4BartTheMurderer Bart The Murderer]]": when Principal Skinner dissappears and is assumed to have been murdered by the Springfield Mafia, the Mafia not only put the blame on Bart Simpson (who is currently working for them as a bartender) but they also provide false proof in court that Bart (who is ten years old, by the way) is their ''capo di tutti capi'' (the ([[https://64.media.tumblr.com/7fd769df6529d043f2f16b3d50207958/tumblr_inline_opve0woRrA1tg5wat_640.jpg the leader of the entire organization), organization]]), making him the fall guy for every crime the Mafia has ever done.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Exaggerated in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E4BartTheMurderer Bart The Murderer]]": when Principal Skinner dissappears and is assumed to have been murdered by the Springfield Mafia, the Mafia not only put the blame on Bart Simpson (who is currently working for them as a bartender) but they also provide false proof in court that Bart (who is ten years old, by the way) is their ''capo di tutti capi'' (the leader of the entire organization), making him the fall guy for every crime the Mafia has ever done.
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* WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'': Scar, jealous of Mufasa, yearns to be king in his place, so he plots with the hyenas to kill Mufasa and Simba by starting a wildebeest stampede in a gorge. After Mufasa is killed, Scar then tricks Simba into believing he was responsible for the stampede (as from his perspective, it makes it appear his roaring frightened the wildebeests into the gorge) and to never return; this lasts until Scar reveals the truth during the battle at Pride Rock.

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* WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'': ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'': Scar, jealous of Mufasa, yearns to be king in his place, so he plots with the hyenas to kill Mufasa and Simba by starting a wildebeest stampede in a gorge. After Mufasa is killed, Scar then tricks Simba into believing he was responsible for the stampede (as from his perspective, it makes it appear his roaring frightened the wildebeests into the gorge) and to never return; this lasts until Scar reveals the truth during the battle at Pride Rock.

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