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* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} story arc ''ComicBook/DayOfTheDollmaker'': When Catherine Grant finds out someone has been kidnapping children and sending her killer dolls after each kidnapping, she believes it must Toyman's work. When she and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} go and interrogate Toyman, though, the man has no idea of what Catherine is talking about: he would never hurt kids, he has no interest in taunting Miss Grant, and he has been locked up in Arkham for over a year.

** "ComicBook/LuthorUnleashed": Luthor frowns when he realizes that one of his overzealous androids has activated one of his super-weapons without his authorization or knowledge, since Superman will recognize his handwork (not a big feat since it is literally signed) and quickly come to the wrong but understandable conclusion that Lex is behind that attack.

** In "Recap/AsterixAndSon", the title character demands to know if the local Roman commander recognizes a baby left of on Asterix' doorstep.

** ''Webcomic/LilGotham'': In an attempt to freeze the city during spring to preserve it, Mr. Freeze accidentally spills plant grow formula all over the wings of his airship. This ends up coating the city, and when all the ice melts Gotham is completely covered in plants. And poor Ivy had just gotten out of Arkham, too.

* In ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfDoctorStrange'', when Baron Mordo shows up at Strange's murder scene, Wong naturally assumes he's the killer. Instead, Mordo says he's upset that someone killed Strange when "[[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou he should have died at my hands, no other.]]" Mordo uses this later in the story to defend himself and the investigators forced to admit he's innocent; as he himself points out, if Mordo had killed his greatest enemy, he'd be crowing about it to anyone who'd listen.
* In a number of ''ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'' stories, some criminals decided to make their crimes appear the work of the titular thief reasoning that once the police concludes it was Diabolik's job they would just add it to the list of crimes he's going to be executed for... [[DidntThinkThisThrough And completely forgetting this is bound to enrage Diabolik]] and have ''him'' come after them to prove it wasn't him by leaving their body for the police to find (nevermind the fact [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist inspector Ginko]] and [[HypercompetentSidekick his team]] can easily see through such ruses).
* In ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' a mentally unstable Characters/ScarletWitch [[RealityWarper recreates reality]] so that now the mutantkind dominates over humans, with [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]] in charge. As this always was Magneto's ultimate goal, all the heroes assume Wanda did on behalf of her father. As it turns out, the mastermind behind it really was her brother Pietro a.k.a. Quicksilver. Magneto gets ''very'' pissed once he found out what Pietro did in his name - mostly because the alternate reality involved his old friend, [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Charles Xavier]], being dead.

* In ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' a mentally unstable Characters/ScarletWitch [[RealityWarper recreates reality]] so that now the mutantkind dominates over humans, with [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]] in charge. As this always was Magneto's ultimate goal, all the heroes assume Wanda did on behalf of her father. As it turns out, the mastermind behind it really was her brother Pietro a.k.a. Quecksilver. Magneto gets ''very'' pissed once he found out what Pietro did in his name - mostly because the alternate reality involved his old friend, [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Charles Xavier]], being dead.

** ''ComicBook/DayOfTheDollmaker'': When Catherine Grant finds out someone has been kidnapping children and sending her killer dolls after each kidnapping, she believes it must Toyman's work. When she and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} go and interrogate Toyman, though, the man has no idea of what Catherine is talking about: he would never hurt kids, he has no interest in taunting Miss Grant, and he has been locked up in Arkham for over a year.

* In ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' a mentally unstable Characters/ScarletWitch [[RealityWarper recreates reality]] so that now the mutantkind dominates over humans, with [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]] in charge. As this always was Magneto's ultimate goal, all the heroes assume Wanda did on behalf of her father. As it turns out, the mastermind behind it really was her brother Pietro a.k.a. Quecksilver. Magneto gets ''very'' pissed once he found out what Pietro did in his name - mostly because the alternate reality involved his old friend, [[Charcters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Charles Xavier]], being dead.

** ''ComicBook/UltimateDaredevilAndElektra'': When Matt breaks into Trey's room, Trey notices that "you're not her!", but attacks anyway. After all, it's still a stranger breaking into his room.
** ''ComicBook/AllNewUltimates'': Cloak teleports a pair of junkies out of the church, and a neighbor complains that super people are always messing with normal people. Cloak pointed that they were trespassers, to no avail.

* In "Bubble Trouble", Mr. Weatherbee thinks Archie put bubbles in the school pool. Archie's friends immediately jump to the conclusion that Reggie framed him... until they remember Reggie has been out sick. The true culprit was the janitor who mistook chlorine for detergent and never meant to play a prank.

* ''ComicBook/{{Archie}}'': The titular teenager is known to be accident-prone, which causes Principal Weatherbee to grow increasingly paranoid when a series of accidents at school all turn out to ''not'' be caused by him, such as Miss Grundy getting hit by falling shelves after asking Archie to help her in the storeroom, and stands up for him since they were unsafe to begin with. Eventually Archie engineers an accident so Weatherbee can relax.

* ''ComicBook/{{Archie}}'': In "Bubble Trouble", Mr. Weatherbee thinks Archie put bubbles in the school pool. Archie's friends immediately jump to the conclusion that Reggie framed him... until they remember Reggie has been out sick. The true culprit was the janitor who mistook chlorine for detergent and never meant to play a prank.

* In ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'', none of the supervillains suspected of being involved in Sue Dibny's death had anything to do with it.

* The ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' story "Adventures In Other Worlds" plays this to eleven. When Astra Furst of the First Family goes missing, they hunt down all of their usual super-villain enemies, convinced that one of them has captured her. Each villain's latest scheme gets disrupted, even though none of them are guilty of kidnapping Astra... who, instead, has run away from home to experience elementary school (and learn how to play hopscotch).

** This happens to Spider-Man a '''lot''', apparently. During the 'Fallen Son' arc, Peter visits Uncle Ben's grave and sees Rhino walking through the cemetery. He attacks, thinking he's up to something (despite Rhino pleading that he isn't here to fight), and their fight breaks a gravestone belonging to Rhino's mother... which was the only reason he was there in the first place. When he realizes this, Spider-Man attempts to apologize, but Rhino is, understandably, far too angry to listen.
** In the Spider-Man spin off ''Jackpot'', the heroine, later accompanied by Spidey himself, beats up a minor villainess who was smuggling but really hadn't anything to do with what Jackpot wanted to know about. The snippy answer of the villainess was something around the lines of: "What? Do you think every villain in New York gets a daily update about every crime?!"

* In one of the children's book tie-ins of ''Franchise/TheFlash'', the Weather Wizard is released to a halfway house on the same day a tornado rips through the city; naturally, everyone assumes he did it, but the Flash uses his science skills to deduce that the tornado began before he could have regained access to his weather control wand. [[spoiler:In the end, it's suggested that--as per the comics--he no longer needs the wand.]]

* In ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfDoctorStrange'', when Baron Mordo shows up at Strange's murder scene, Wong naturally assumes he's the killer. Instead, Mordo says he's upset that someone killed Strange when "[[TheOnleOneAllowedToDefeatYou he should have died at my hands, no other.]]" Mordo uses this later in the story to defend himself and the investigators forced to admit he's innocent; as he himself points out, if Mordo had killed his greatest enemy, he'd be crowing about it to anyone who'd listen.

** In one episode, a loud and absolutely nerve-wracking sound screeches through the office building, and everyone immediately rushes to Gaston's office to demand him to stop. But he had nothing to do with it, and then partakes in the search for the source. It turns out to be caused by Gaston's cat, who accidentally fell into a tuba and was clawing the instrument while trying to climb out.
** Another time, the redaction is working overtime when the power fails. Everyone immediately blames Gaston, but he was playing with his cat right next to Prunelle. The others remain skeptical, since they well know Gaston is entirely capable of causing city-wide blackouts. In the end the actual cause is never revealed.

** ''ComicBook/UltimateDaredevilAndElektra'': When Matt breaks into Trey's room, Trey notices it and attacks him. He notices that "you're not her!", but attacks anyway. After all, it's still a stranger breaking into his room.

** ''ComicBook/UltimateDaredevilAndElektra'': When Matt breaks into Trey's room, he noticed it and attacked him. he noticed that "you're not her!", but attacked anyway. After all, it was still a stranger breaking into his room.

* ''ComicBook/WarlordOfMars'': One story arc involved the Green Martians suddenly becoming more violent than usual, placing the planet's newfound stability in peril. The [[SmugSnake scheming]] and [[AlwaysChaoticEvil treacherous]] [[LightIsNotGood White Martians]] are naturally the heroes' first suspects. However, after further investigation, its revealed that the real culprits behind it are [[spoiler: [[BitchInSheepsClothing the Yellow Martians of Okara]], specifically the ones thought to be the heroes' allies]].

* Similar to the TV episode "Telephonies," the story "Mojo's Day Off" (which was unpublished) dealt with calamities striking Townsville and the girls automatically suspect it's Mojo Jojo each time. Mojo is fatigued and is trying to relax, only for the girls to burst into his lair to accuse him of causing each calamity.

* Similar to the TV episode "Telephonies," ComicBook/ThePowerpuffGirls story "Mojo's Day Off" (which was unpublished) dealt with calamities striking Townsville, and the girls automatically suspect it's Mojo Jojo each time. Mojo is fatigued and is trying to relax, only for the girls to burst into his lair to accuse him of each calamity.
** "Meet The Micros" (issue #65) was the story that introduced the Micro-Puffs, tiny sprite-like avatars of the girls. Only instead of doing good, these girls are quite mischievous. After winning over their friendship, the Micro-Puffs make the girls think that Mojo Jojo, Him and Fuzzy Lumpkins are committing crimes. It turns out they weren't as the girls find out the hard way.

* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersWindblade'': Windblade believes Starscream has been sabotaging, Metroplex's power, set up a bomb to kill her, and has been mining the living citybot for resources. While Starscream is guilty of the last crime, he justifies it saying Metroplex is a big bot and can handle it, and instead accuses her of the sabotage and power failures all in an attempt to undermine his rule. It turns out he was sincere in his belief that the attempt on her life was merely a maintenance problem caused by her, and there really is another force at play that's been behind Metroplex's problems.