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* In ''Fanfic/ADreamIsAWishYourHeartMakes'', this occurs with a minor character. When Cinderella is falsely accused of theft after the duchess Magdalena's emeralds go missing, she figures out that it was [[spoiler:Magdalena's nursemaid Caroline who stole them, and points it out by claiming that she gave the emeralds to her to look after because the jewelry box was locked. Magdalena is naturally incensed at this; near the end, this is why she demands Cinderella specifically as her maid for the ball when she returns to the palace to be announced at the occasion as the Prince's bride, as she no longer trusts anyone but her to look after her personal things.]]
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* ''Film/TheHouseOnSkullMountain'' (1974): Turns out Thomas the butler is behind the death of the Christophe family matriarch, Pauline Christophe, as well as pulling the strings behind the ghostly going-ons within the Skull Mountain mansion. In this instance said butler is a practitioner of HollywoodVoodoo and can create {{Voodoo Doll}}s to curse his victims to their deaths, without raising suspicions.
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* In ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears in Maniac Mansion'', it LOOKS like the butler was TheMole working with the thieves, and a character who is an actress points out that [[LampshadeHanging in plays "The butler always does it"]] but it turns out to have been [[spoiler: his EvilTwin brother impersonating him. The actual butler is totally innocent.]]
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* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBearsBigChapterBooks'': In ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears ''The Berenstain Bears in Maniac Mansion'', it LOOKS like Bonnie's convinced that this is the butler case, and it's discussed as the cliché that it is. Squire Grizzly, for his part, isn't willing to believe it until he gets evidence (in the form of "Greeves" leading two other bears in tying up he, his wife and Papa Bear). When they find Greeves himself tied up soon afterward, the squire ''still'' thinks he did it and was TheMole working turned on by his partners... until they arrive outside the mansion and find the cops waiting with ''another'' Greeves in handcuffs! The leader of the thieves, and a character who thieves is an actress points out that [[LampshadeHanging in plays "The butler always does it"]] but it turns out quickly revealed to have been [[spoiler: his be Greeves' EvilTwin brother impersonating him. The actual butler is totally innocent.]] Arthur, who was pulling a TwinSwitch.
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* ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'': In the episode "A Mystery to Me", the Rangers take part in a murder mystery role play hosted by Detective Stone. Rocky, who's playing the butler, complains about having to play the most obvious suspect.
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* ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'': In the episode "A Mystery to Me", the Rangers take part in a murder mystery role play hosted by Detective Stone. Rocky, who's playing the butler, complains about having to play the most obvious suspect.
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*''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS2E3 Dead Man's Eleven]]", the culprit turns out to be the Cavendish's rarely seen housekeeper, who is actually the wife of a man killed by Cavendish's corporate negligence in the past. In keeping with the trope, most of the hanging mysteries are solved by the fact that she had access to the whole house while remaining beneath everyone's notice.
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* This trope is inverted in Rare's commercially unsuccessful ''VideoGame/GrabbedByTheGhoulies''. Ghoulhaven's [[CloudCuckoolander looney master]] Baron Von Ghoul has a few servants, but all of them aside from the also-mad Dr. Krackpot seem like generally good folk displeased with his actions.[[spoiler: It's revealed near the end that Baron Von Ghoul had been wearing a LatexPerfection mask to act as one of those servants: Crivens the butler. Since the house otherwise has no butler, the butler didn't do it. Rather, the one who did it was also the butler. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when the Baron himself states that he [[DidntSeeThatComing didn't think Cooper expected]] the butler to have done it]].
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* This trope is inverted in Rare's commercially unsuccessful ''VideoGame/GrabbedByTheGhoulies''. Ghoulhaven's Ghoulhaven Hall's [[CloudCuckoolander looney master]] Baron Von Ghoul has a few servants, but all of them aside from the also-mad Dr. Krackpot seem like generally good folk displeased with his actions.[[spoiler: It's revealed near the end that Baron Von Ghoul had been wearing a LatexPerfection mask to act as one of those servants: Crivens the butler. Since the house otherwise has no butler, the butler didn't do it. Rather, the one who did it was also the butler. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when the Baron himself states that he [[DidntSeeThatComing didn't think Cooper expected]] the butler to have done it]].it]].
** The [[WhatCouldHaveBeen unproduced sequel]] would reveal that [[spoiler:Crivens is a real person who escaped Ghoulhaven Hall and went to Ghoulsville-In-The-Gloom, the ending shows the main characters going to that town while being followed by the Baron, meaning that they were going to meet the real Crivens there]].
** The [[WhatCouldHaveBeen unproduced sequel]] would reveal that [[spoiler:Crivens is a real person who escaped Ghoulhaven Hall and went to Ghoulsville-In-The-Gloom, the ending shows the main characters going to that town while being followed by the Baron, meaning that they were going to meet the real Crivens there]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TopCatAndTheBeverlyHillsCats'': Gertrude Vandergelt's butler Snerdly, third in line in her will, tries to do in Benny (who's ''second'' in line) and has also manipulated Amy Vandergelt into never visiting her aunt Gertrude and working at a car wash, keeping her from learning of her aunt's "death" and that she's the primary heir. T.C. actually dismisses him as a threat at first, saying it's an old cliche and that the butler never does it anymore, but eventually comes to realize that Snerdly really is a villain.
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* Snerdly in ''WesternAnimation/TopCat'''s movie ''Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats'' is the main villain of the story. He is unable to kill someone (it is a kid's movie) but certainly tries.
