History Main / INeverSaidItWasPoison

** ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations2'':

--->'''Krusty:''' ''[as a jester]'' Now we would like to warn you, our performances tend to make audience members blurt out hidden secrets.\\
'''Moe/Claudius:''' ''[nervous]'' Oh, boy...\\

'''Bart/Hamlet:''' This castle!\\

'''Bart/Hamlet:''' Usurper of the throne!\\
'''Moe/Claudius:''' ''[tugs at his collar nervously]''\\

'''Bart/Hamlet:''' Ear poison!\\
'''Moe/Claudius:''' ''[nervously to Gertrude/Marge]'' Do you have diarrhea? I have diarrhea... ''[tries to leave]''\\
'''Gertrude/Marge:''' ''[annoyed]'' Sit ''down.''\\
''[Sideshow Mel, Krusty and the Monkey begin acting out a situation in which Mel starts pouring ear poison down Krusty's ear]''\\
'''Moe/Claudius:''' Wait a minute, I didn't use that much poison!\\
''[everyone gasps]''\\
'''Moe/Claudius:''' I mean, I didn't use that much poi, son, at the royal luau. Heh heh...

* The Cranes of Ibycus is a classic example of this trope, making it OlderThanFeudalism. According to a legend first recorded in the 2nd century BCE, the ancient Greek poet Ibycus was murdered by bandits on his way to Isthmian Games. Only the cranes flying above witnessed the murder. Later the criminals gave themselves away by pointing out "The Cranes of Ibycus" to one another in public.

--->'''Vimes''': By the way, that was a lucky guess of yours, guessing that it was Hardcore.\\

* Near the end of the ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'' manga, three detectives are interrogating the CEO of a company they're almost certain is the maker of the Griffon (which is still known to the general public as "the Black Labor").

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'': In "Tails' New Home", Tails accidentally gets injured by Scratch and Grounder, so Sonic leaves Tails with his parents due to being concerned about Tails' well-being. Later, Sonic remembers that Tails' father said "Tails belongs with his own kind", giving Sonic a EurekaMoment that the people he saw had to be fakes. If the two elderly foxes were the real parents of Tails, they would've called him "Miles", since [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Tails is a nickname; his real name is Miles Prower]]. Sonic races back, and sure enough, the two elder foxes are Robotnik's minions.

* ''Mike Mist Minute Mist-eries'', with their heavily abbreviated format and all, typically have the perpetrator accidentally slip information that only the guilty party could have known while claiming innocence -- e.g., a man wanted for an out-of-state burglary is picked up in the vicinity immediately after the murder of Mike's lawyer friend Sol. The burglar denies any knowledge of Sol, saying he just got into town this morning and has his own lawyer anyway, before anyone had mentioned the victim's occupation. Some of these can be a little flimsy, as in the case of a mechanic interviewed about a threatening letter sent to his boss; he thinks it's a good thing somebody's putting a scare to that slave-driver, even though Mike hadn't mentioned that the mysterious letter was a threat. If the boss hired a detective about it, it's reasonable to assume the letter wasn't friendly.

* In ''Comicbook/AllGhoulsSchool'', Elle gets a perfect score on the history test by answering a bonus question that wasn't covered in class. Their teacher explains she only put the question on the test as a lark and doesn't normally expect anyone to answer it. This causes the girls to ask how Elle knew the answer to a question that was never covered in class or alluded to beforehand, making them realize she cheated.

* In chapter 4 of ''FanFic/TalesOfKittyWhiskersAndLadybug'', Trucy as Kitty-Whiskers visits her uncle Valant Gramarye to see if he was the one who gave her and Apollo their Miraculouses. When asked about the Miraculouses, Valant says that his magic involves illusions and not with the kwami... despite the kwamis never being mentioned to the public before. Of course, Kitty-Whiskers knowing that the Gramarye family is connected with the Miraculouses clues Valant in that the hero before him is his niece, [[SecretKeeper though promises to not tell anyone else]] and offers to lend the Bee and Fox Miraculouses if she needs them in the future.

'''Zuko:''' ''(hesitantly)'' Because it will help you improve your firebending.\\
'''Azula:''' ''(realizes what he means and grabs him by the shirt)'' There's nothing wrong with my firebending! Did you bring me out to the middle of nowhere just to insult me?! Why would you think my bending is weakening?!\\

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12506080/1/A-Day-at-the-Golf-Course A Day at the Golf Course]]'' is a short fanfic where the culprit's first words are "Who shot my wife?" Naturally, Columbo knows already the gardener who warned him by phone only said his wife was dead, not shot, but he lets him simmer a bit with lots of other minor details first.

* ''Film/TheFabelmans'': When Sammy Fabelman reveals to Claudia Denning that her boyfriend Logan Hall--his bully--cheated on her with Renee--though Sammy doesn't know her name and that it wasn't the first time, Logan threatens Sammy to force him into retracting it and saying he lied. Sammy ends up doing just that to Claudia with both her and her best friend Monica Sherwood--Sammy's future [[LoveInterests Love Interest]]--grilling him about it. Claudia then however reveals she actually is sure Sammy was telling the truth before by following it up with the inquiry as [[ArmorPiercingQuestion to how Sammy knew Renee had red hair to begin with]].

* ''Literature/TwoLittleGirlsInBlue'': When the FBI interview Norman Bond about the Frawley twins' kidnapping, they bring up his currently missing ex-wife, to which he snaps he had nothing to do with his "late" wife's disappearance. The feds take note of this, pointedly asking how he knows she's dead. While someone missing for seventeen years without a trace probably is dead in all likelihood, it makes Norman nervous. [[spoiler:It's later revealed he ''was'' responsible for his ex-wife's disappearance]].

* A kidnapping suspect in ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo'' admits that he has some relation to the person witnessed actually taking the person away before the name of the person is revealed.

** In ''VideoGame/LaytonBrothersMysteryRoom'', the culprit of the fifth case used a bottle of female perfume to hold the poison he used to kill his victim, since he was trying to make her death look like a suicide. Unfortunately for him, the victim managed to use the last of her strength to hurl the bottle at a nearby wall in a desperate effort to leave ''some'' kind of mark to show that she was actually murdered, causing it to shatter into pieces. The culprit didn't know she did this and ends up referring the shattered container as a perfume bottle ''three times'' before even the police knew what it originally was. Alfendi even ''recorded'' the entire thing and plays it back to him when the culprit makes the desperate claim that they must have misheard him.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' fangame ''Aya Shameimaru: Touhou Attorney'', based on the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' games, [[spoiler:the very final choice you have in the last case in the game]] hinges on this. While it's easy to miss, a player can easily pick up on the extra detail without even considering the situation. Specifically, outside the detectives and the attorneys, no one but the one who [[spoiler:planted the evidence]] would know [[spoiler:in which pocket it was found]].

** Subverted at another point of time when the players discover [[spoiler:Alice]]'s body. When Dio says that the victim was stabbed with a knife, Phi asks how did he know it was a knife when all they can see is a handle. Dio, however, points out that anyone would assume it was a knife if they saw someone with a weapon protruding from a stab wound. [[spoiler:Although this makes sense, Phi was still right to be suspicious, since he knew about the knife because it was ''his'' knife. But he's not the killer; Alice [[SuicideNotMurder did it to herself]].]]

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* WebVideo/{{Kitboga}} is a scambaiter popular on Website/YouTube and Website/{{Twitch}}. During the 36+ hour bait with Adam and Alex, they at one point pretend to be a Google support line. Alex at one point rants about Matilda (Edna) having purchased Apple cards, something which Kit did mention at one point, but which "Google" shouldn't know anything about. When Kit asks how they know about this, Alex's reply is that "Google know everything." "You got me there," agrees Matilda.

** In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', [[spoiler:Adachi]] reveals himself to be the killer by declaring that everyone already knows that "[[spoiler:Namatame's]] the one who put them all in [the television]" — no one but the murderer and the protagonists could have known that that was how the victims were killed. He had also cast suspicion on himself in an earlier instance when the protagonists [[spoiler:find a list of everyone that Namatame had put into the television: Adachi shows no surprise at the contents of the list and declares that the it proves that Namatame is the murderer, despite the fact that it included people who were rescued before they could be murdered (and were therefore classed as mere "disappearances" that had no relation to the murders); Naoto becomes suspiscious of Adachi at this point, but she is unable to link him to the murders until his later slip up]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Judgment}}'': As Yagami and Kaito wait for [[DirtyCop Ayabe]] at an indoor fishing pond, they get harrassed by some punks who are apparently looking for him. They claim they don't know who Ayabe is but Kaito ends up giving himself away:
-->'''Kaito:''' We look like the type to hang out with cops?\\

* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': [[spoiler:When America Chavez is attacked by a creature they determine to be born of witchcraft, Doctor Strange visits Wanda for help and at first they seem to be on board with working together. However, Wanda asks him [[WhamLine "why not bring America here?"]] and Strange immediately pauses because he never said her name was America, [[OhCrap which she also realizes and mentally kicks herself for.]] It all goes downhill from there.]]

* ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': [[spoiler:When America Chavez is attacked by a creature they determine to be born of witchcraft, Doctor Strange visits Wanda for help and at first they seem to be on board with working together. However, Wanda [[WhamLine offers to "keep America safe"]] and Strange immediately pauses because he never said her name was America, [[OhCrap which she also realizes and mentally kicks herself for.]] It all goes downhill from there.]]

* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': In Mission 82, the SSS arranged for Winston Wheeler to wear a necktie pin with a gemstone as a signal, but deliberately gave different colours of the gemstone to several branches in the comms department in case a WISE agent in disguise followed any leaked information to the letter, which catches Twilight as Wheeler in a lie when he refers to the gemstone as yellow rather than anything non-specific.

* ''Mike Mist Minute Mist-eries'', with their heavily abbreviated format and all, typically have the perpetrator accidentally slip information that only the guilty party could have known while claiming innocence -- e.g., a man wanted for an out-of-state burglary is picked up in the vicinity immediately after the murder of Mike's lawyer friend Sol. The burglar denies any knowledge of Sol, saying he just got into town this morning and has his own lawyer anyway, before anyone had mentioned the victim's occupation. Some of these can be a little flimsy, as in the case of a mechanic interviewed about a threatening letter sent to his boss; he thinks it's a good thing somebody's putting a scare to that slave-driver, even though Mike hadn't mentioned that the mysterious letter was a threat. If the boss hired a detective about it, it's reasonable to assume!

*** Played straight later in the book, when Vimes figures out how the Patrician was being poisoned, with arsenic in candles. He confronts the vampire he suspects being behind it, as well as many other suspicious events, and knows he is guilty when he implies the vampire got ATasteOfHisOwnMedicine and sees him glance at the candles in the room, despite having no way of knowing how Lord Vetinari was being poisoned.

*** [[spoiler:Tigre digs himself even further in the anime adaptation, where he attempts to justify his knowledge regarding the bottle by admitting to impersonationg Phoenix during the original trial and ensuring the defendent's conviction; Phoenix then points out that Tigre would have had no reason to do so if he had no connection to the murder.]]

*** [[spoiler:Tigre digs himself even further in the anime adaptation, where he attempts to justify his knowledge regarding the bottle by admitting to impersonationg Phoenix during the initial trial; Phoenix then points out that Tigre would have had no reason to do so if he had no connection to the murder.]]