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* Deliberately invoked in the Literature/{{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'' where a vast amount of stereoypical evidence implicating Klatch in a murder is planted, as the Klatchian ambassador realizes this will cause Sam Vimes to look everywhere except Klatch for the killers.

* Double Subversion in KnightsOfTheOldRepublic - In the Sunry case, his medal was quite obviously planted at the scene, put into the hands of the victim. However, that was the Sith's counterattack to the ''Republic's'' coverup of what really happened.

* In ''{{IR$}}'', the BigBad decide to sacrifice his Dragon, hanging him so it looks like a suicide, with evidence of traffic… Not as bad as the main conspiracy, but maybe enough to commit suicide instead of the shame of the trial. The hero declares that in IRS, you learn never to trust any document presented before you asked for it.

* In ''IR$'', the BigBad decide to sacrifice his Dragon, hanging him so it looks like a suicide, with evidence of traffic… Not as bad as the main conspiracy, but maybe enough to commit suicide instead of the shame of the trial. The hero declares that in IRS, you learn never to trust any document presented before you asked for it.

In RealLife, of course, this is unlikely to work as it does in fiction[[hottip:*: ie. in RealLife, the police will likely fall for it]]. Any defense made in court that, "I wouldn't be that stupid", is an EpicFail. Even if you prove to the court that you have an IQ of 200, so many other criminals have done stupid things that you would not be believed. The reason in fiction that the detective ''doesn't'' believe the evidence is generally that the detective is GenreSavvy; the amount of evidence they find is ''so'' disproportional to the norm that it not only strikes them as unusual but ''implausible''. That's why they start to suspect that it was planted deliberately.

* In ''{{Daredevil}}: Born Again'', this phenomenon was what finally convinced Matt Murdock that the recent misfortunes he had suffered was being caused by the [[BigBad Kingpin]] rather than simply being a string of bad luck.

In RealLife, of course, this is unlikely to work as it does in fiction. Any defense made in court that, "I wouldn't be that stupid", is an EpicFail. Even if you prove to the court that you have an IQ of 200, so many other criminals have done stupid things that you would not be believed. The reason in fiction that the detective ''doesn't'' believe the evidence is generally that the detective is GenreSavvy; the amount of evidence they find is ''so'' disproportional to the norm that it not only strikes them as unusual but ''implausible''. That's why they start to suspect that it was planted deliberately.

* In ''{{Fables}}'', this is part of what makes Bigby Wolf suspect that [[spoiler:Rose Red's murder was staged]].

* In the movie ''MinorityReport'', Danny Witwer outlines the basics of this trope:

* Deliberately invoked in the {{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'' where a vast amount of stereoypical evidence implicating Klatch in a murder is planted, as the Klatchian ambassador realizes this will cause Sam Vimes to look everywhere except Klatch for the killers.

* Parodied in ''TheGoodies'' episode "Daylight Robbery on the Orient Express" where the clues they find include a a Union Jack waistcoat, a pair of glasses, and a beard...

* In the StarWarsEU XwingSeries of books, Tycho Celchu is accused of being a sleeper agent, as well as for murdering Corran Horn. His lawyer is quick to point out to the military tribunal that there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that proves Tycho's guilt, but that someone has been actively destroying anything that could exconerate Tycho. In the end, Tycho is found [[spoiler: not guilty]] after other clues come up, like the fact that [[spoiler:like Corran himself walks into the room and declares that Tycho didn't kill him.]]

* In the StarWarsEU XwingSeries of books, Tycho Celchu is accused of being a sleeper agent, as well as for murdering Corran Horn. His lawyer is quick to point out to the military tribunal that there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that proves Tycho's guilt, but that someone has been actively destroying anything that could exconerate Tycho. In the end, Tycho is found [[spoiler: not guilty]] after other clus come up, like the fact that [[spoiler:like Corran himself walks into the room and declares that Tycho didn't kill him.]]

* In the StarWarsEU XwingSeries of books, Tycho Celchu is accused of being a sleeper agent, as well as for murdering Corran Horn. His lawyer is quick to point out to the military tribunal that there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that proves Tycho's guilt, but that someone has been actively destroying anything that could exconerate Tycho. In the end, Tycho is found [spoiler: not guilty]] after other clus come up, like the fact that [spoiler:like Corran himself walks into the room and declares that Tycho didn't kill him.]]

* In the ''AceAttorney'' games, this happens a few times. For instance, in the fourth case of the second game, a character has been murdered and is found with your defendant's knife in his chest while one of the bloodied buttons on his costume was found in your defendant's pants. This is considered too incriminating and casts suspicion upon another character with a motive to frame your defendant. [[spoiler: As it turns out, she did plant that evidence to frame him, but the defendant actually is the murderer after all.]]

* In ''{{Fables}}'', this is part of what makes Bigby Wolf suspect that [[spoiler:Red Rose's murder was staged]].

* In ''{{Fables}}'', this is part of what makes Bigby Wolf suspect that [[spoiler:the murder was staged]].

'''Danny Witwer''': I worked homicide before federal. This is what we call an orgy of evidence. You know how many orgies I had as a homicide cop?\\

* ''MurderOnTheOrientExpress'': A bewildering array of clues, much of them contradictory, serve to alert HerculePoirot that someone is making massive attempts to muddy the waters. the clues include a dropped handkerchief, a dropped pipe cleaner, a dented watch showing the time of the murder, a lost button, someone pretending to be the victim (and speaking a language he did not speak) after he was supposedly dead, an abandoned conductor's uniform, and a sighting of a mysterious woman in a scarlet kimono.

* In ''{{Daredevil}}: Born Again'', this phenomena was what finally convinced Matt Murdock that the recent misfortunes he had suffered was being caused by the [[BigBad Kingpin]] rather than simply being a string of bad luck.

** Also lampshaded in Discworld/''{{Feet Of Clay}}''. Vimes states that he instinctively distrusts clues because "you could walk around with a pocketful of the things."

* Deliberately invoked in the {{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/{{Jingo}}'' where a vast amount of stereoypical evidence implicating Klatch in a murder is planted, as the Klatchian ambassador releases this will cause Sam Vimes to look everywhere except Klatch for the killers.

* In the ''AceAttorney'' games, this happens a few times. For instance, in the fourth case of the second game, a character has been murdered and is found with your defendant's knife in his chest while one of the bloodied buttons on his costume was found in your defendant's pants. This is considered too incriminating and casts suspicion upon another character with a motive to frame your defendant. [[spoiler: As it turns out, she did plant that evidence to frame him, but the defendant actually is the murderer after all.]]