History Main / INeverSaidItWasPoison

* Parodied in the ''Webcomic/MonsterOfTheWeek'' [[https://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/2013/04/12/04122013/ strip]] based on "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheXFilesS02E15FreshBones Fresh Bones]]":

** In ''Literature/GuardsGuards!'', Lupine Wonse's immediate response to Vimes reporting the destruction of the Elucidated Brethren's headquarters was a suspiciously specific "Any of them get out?" Because Vimes was distracted, he doesn't pick up on this until a EurekaMoment later on.

-->[[spoiler:'''Wanda:''' ''(realizes her mistake)'' You never told me her name, did you?]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Strange:''' [[TranquilFury No. I didn't.]]]]

** In "The Man in the Alley", Ben realises that the mastermind behind the assassination UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley is [[spoiler: Arthur Plenty]] because [[spoiler:his editorial mentions the exact price Leon Czolgosz paid for the gun he used before Czolgosz had confessed all the details]]. Ben knew the price because he had been tailing Czolgosz when he bought it, but Plenty could only have known if he was the person who provided the cash]].

** In "The Man in the Alley", Ben realises that the mastermind behind the assassination UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley is [[spoiler: Arthur Plenty] because [[spoiler:his editorial mentions the exact price Leon Czolgosz paid for the gun he used before Czolgosz had confessed all the details. Ben knew the price because he had been tailing Czolgosz when he bought it, but Plenty could only have known if he was the person who provided the cash]].

* ''Literature/BenSnow'': In "Frontier Street", the murderer gives himself away when he says how many times the victim had been struck over the head: something he would not have been able to tell just from looking at the body.

* Mario and Luigi are already suspicious of Koopa in ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' when he tries to play a lawyer, but it only intensifies when he asks about the meteorite piece they got from Daisy, which he'd have no reason to know about.

* ''Literature/InDeath'': Used at some point or another in ''almost every single book'' in the series.%%How?

* In ''Literature/TheScorchTrials'', while Thomas never mentions to Brenda that his group calls themselves [[spoiler:Gladers]], she ends up mentioning it in casual conversation. This foreshadows the fact that she and Jorge had actually been working for [[spoiler:WICKED all along; she most likely knows the term because she heard them call themselves that while she monitored the Maze]].

* One of the things that initially lead to O.J. Simpson coming under suspicion for the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman was that when informed that Nicole had died he asked "Who killed her?".

* In the short story "Death of the King" by Theodore Matthiason, UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat is dying, not of sickness as the historical records will claim, but of poison. He and his physician are trying to find out WhodunnitToMe, [[spoiler: until the physician offers Alexander a cushion "for the great pain in your back", and the emperor realises he knows more about how this poison works than he admitted]].

* A ''Literature/NancyDrew ''book had a {{Jerkass}} character being poisoned, but ultimately recovering. A few days later, his ex-girlfriend taunts him about it as he tries to eat breakfast, stating, "You know, poison doesn't have to be a powder. Something could have been injected into that orange..." The only way she could have known what type of poison was used was if she was the assailant. [[QuoteMine Just change "doesn't have to be" to "wasn't"]] and you've got an admission of guilt that still wouldn't stand in trial.

** ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'':
*** The villain of the first case has a ''really'' bad habit of running his mouth, and does this no less than three times in the first case.

*** The first case plays with this. The decisive evidence is, unbeknownst to Apollo, [[spoiler:a fake duplicate of the real decisive evidence]], specifically [[spoiler:an ace of spades with a bloodstain on it]]. But the culprit can't reveal the evidence [[spoiler:is fake]] without also revealing that he took the [[spoiler:real one]]. [[MortonsFork Either way, he's going to jail]].

*** The culprit of this case originally drew Phoenix's suspicion when they made two of these mistakes; the [[spoiler: forged ace]] was just to catch them in court. The first mistake was mentioning that the victim was bald, when said victim had been wearing a hat until he was murdered. The second was saying that the cards on the scene had blue backs. They were actually red, but the only pictures of the scene were black-and-white, so the only people who could make color judgements were those at the scene. Phoenix already knew that the murderer thought the cards were blue (because the murderer had replaced an incriminating red card with a blue one) and that the three people who were there legitimately (Phoenix, Olga Orly, and the victim) knew the deck was supposed to be red... so the person who made an offhand comment about the cards being blue had to be the killer, because if they had nothing to do with the case then they couldn't have believed they knew the cards' color, and if they'd learned of the deck's color from someone else, they would've known that the cards were actually red-backed.

* ''WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'': In [[Recap/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64BloopersIfMarioWasAMONGUS "If Mario was AMONG US"]], Mario was able to catch the Impostor thanks to the fact he mentioned Mario and Green were in a room with an open vent... a room he shouldn't have been in.

* ''Film/ALizardInAWomansSkin'' has an example. Julia, a free and libertine woman is brutally murdered in her apartment; the suspicion falls on her neighbor, Carol, a wife of Frank, a promising lawyer whose father is a prominent politician and a lawyer himself. The evidence points to Carol, who is promptly arrested, yet the police inspector, unable to find any clear motive, suspects a more complex possibility. Carol had some personal troubles and was seeing a psychoanalyst, who asked her to keep a diary of her vivid dreams; some dreams included a passionate love affair with Julia and one recent dream described Carol brutally slaying her. The inspector thinks that someone read the diary and modelled the crime on her dreams while planting the evidence. In the climax, the inspector meets Carol, telling her the evidence suggests her father killed Julia when she started blackmailing him with the evidence of Frank's infidelity, threatening to expose the evidence and ruin the reputation of a law firm Frank and his father ran together, then committed suicide to save Carol when she was committed to an asylum. Carol says she knew that because Julia phoned her father with a blackmail offer. The inspector asks how did she know that, since the man never talked about the blackmail to anyone but Frank in private after Carol was already committed. Suddenly he realizes the simplest solution was right all along: Carol ''did'' have a passionate affair with Julia and murdered her when threatened with exposure - Julia made her call just before being slain and only the killer could have known what the call was all about.

* In [[https://web.archive.org/web/20091224180921/http://everything2.com/title/I+want+my+trail+to+grow+over+and+disappear%252C+but+now+someone+is+reading+it. one chapter]] of ''Literature/NewYorkMagician'', Michel confronts a suspect in a girl's disappearance. Every word out of the man's mouth [[DiggingYourselfDeeper somehow gets him into more trouble]].

** The most recent example happened at All Out 2021. With his originally scheduled opponent Pac unable to attend due to travel issues (which had plagued Pac and the Lucha Bros. before hand, all of which were implied to have been caused by Andrade), Andrade and Chavo Guerrero Jr. were interviewed backstage. After having been asked point blank if they were the cause of Pac's travel issues, Chavo quickly interjected that he didn't even know the number for American Airlines, and then quickly backtracked and said "if that's the flight he was using."

** [[Recap/RugratsS1E11TouchdownTommyTheTrial "The Trial"]]: Someone has broken Tommy's clown lamp, so the babies set up a fake court. Angelica serves as the attorney, confirming the other babies' stories about what they were doing when the lamp broke. Near the end, Tommy says that Angelica couldn't have done it since she was asleep, taking a nap... at which point everyone realizes Angelica couldn't have known what they were doing when the lamp broke unless she wasn't asleep. Angelica then gives a gloating confession to breaking the lamp and tries to pull a KarmaHoudini by pointing out that they can't get her in trouble because the adults can't understand the babies. Unfortunately for Angelica, while the adults can't understand the babies, they ''can'' understand ''her''; and this gloating confession is loud enough that Didi and Betty overhear her and promptly punish her.

* This is inverted with Mario in Episode 11 of ''Machinima/SmashKing''. His claim that he’s a friend of Bowser’s trying to help him fight off Ganondorf seems pretty substantiated for the most part, fooling both Wario and Meta Knight for a few minutes. However, Meta Knight's blue side quickly realizes something’s amiss when he takes into account that all of Bowser’s friends know where he lives, so the fact that Mario needs to be directed to his place of residence is nothing short of suspicious.