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* During Danny's date with WesternAnimation/KimPossible in ''Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton'', an explosion catches their attention. He figured one of his usual villains were causing trouble, only to see two people he doesn't recognize, Doctor Drakken and Shego. He quickly learns they're ''Kim's'' villains.

* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4150966/13/Phantom-of-Beika-Street Phantom of Beika Street]]'' (a ''Manga/CaseClosed''/''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' crossover), an bright explosion somehow causes a large amount of green goo to splatter everywhere. Yamamoto accused [[TheTrickster Kaito]] since he was right next to it when it happened and he's known for such stunts, but Kaito nearly quotes this trope. His answer actually satisfies everyone since they're aware that if he was responsible, he would be taking credit for it.

* In ''Batman'' story ''Fanfic/DanceWithTheDemons'', Catwoman gets shot with a poisoned dart. Since the poison is a mixture of toxins used in the Middle and Far East, Batman suspects Ra's Al Ghul is behind the assassination attempt. Nonetheless, Ra's Al Ghul shoots his theory down by pointing out he gains nothing with it.

* In ''Fanfic/SupermanAndMan'', Christopher briefly wonders if ComicBook/LexLuthor is the one body-swapped his body with Franchise/{{Superman}}'s... but Luthor's bafflement makes clear he has nothing to do with it.

* In the post movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' story ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/37739572 Fractures]]'', Julieta, upon seeing her daughters claiming one of them got into a fistfight, assumes that it was [[SuperStrength Luisa]], only to be told that it was actually [[GreenThumb Isabela]].

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* In ''Fanfic/NeverHadAFriendLikeMe'', there's a rare hero to hero version of this trope. Jorgen thinks Timmy caused the [[spoiler:magical chaos that led to disappearance of the anti-fairies and pixies.]]

* ''Fanfic/CorrinReacts'': Niles, Corrin and Kana all deny spiking the wine at the party in Castle Krakenburg. It turns out to be Orochi, who was attempting to prove herself a superior potionmaster to Hayato.

** Happens again with Q when he's caught trying to crash Dib and Lor's wedding right after the wedding party has realized that the rings have vanished. Q admits that if the idea had occurred to him, he would have taken the rings to cause chaos, but that he's just trying to attend the wedding. It turns out that actually, Xia took the rings to spite everyone, Therron took them from her for safe keeping, and finally [[spoiler: GIR ate them]].

* In the Fanfic/UnconventionalScenarios series by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/Remasa/pseuds/Remasa Remasa]], Hawk Moth must do some public work at a convention after revealing himself to the heroes and trying to repent. Suddenly, the building starts collapsing, and he is forced to akumatize a bystander to help evacuate. Once everyone comes out, the Mayor naturally start blaming Hawk Moth for the incident... until the akumatized guy detransforms and starts ripping him a new one for [[IgnoredExpert ignoring his advice]] about [[NoOSHACompliance safety regulations]].

* Happens to Don Paolo in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6380562/1/Knights_and_Knaves Knights and Knaves]].'' Inspector Chelmey hauls him in for questioning about a series of mysterious clues that have been cropping up across London - simply because he doesn't have any better ideas about who might be responsible. Don Paolo protests his innocence, and is in fact telling the truth.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13477886/1/Atlas-Arc Atlas Arc]]'', Qrow is assigned by General Ironwood to be on board a test flight of a prototype airship. However, due to circumstances that don't involve Qrow's [[TheJinx Bad Luck]] Semblance, the ship ends up crashing and exploding. Ironwood naturally doesn't believe Qrow at first until Qrow explains that he checked with the techs who designed the ship and learned that there was flaw in the power coupling.

** In ''Fanfic/ADragonsFlight'' Lyarra Snow (Princess Visenya Targaryen) suddenly disappears from Winterfell, the first suspect is Catelyn Tully, who makes no secret of her irrational hatred of the girl. The trout has nothing to do with it, Lyarra run away to protect the dragon she hatched accidentally.

* ''Blog/BetterBonesAU'': After Ashfur tries to kill Hollyleaf, Jayfeather and Lionblaze, and Firestar is murdered at the same time this is revealed everyone assumes Ashfur did it, as would have motivation to kill Firestar to hurt his daughter, Squirrelflight. However Firestar was actually killed by Breezepelt.

* Throughout ''Fanfic/BeingDeadAintEasy'', Kaiba is repeatedly attacked by a disgruntled former employee, cumulating with Kaiba hospitalized and the assassin dead. Yami Bakura also agrees to help Kaiba over an unrelated matter, [[DealWithTheDevil where Yami Bakura saves Joey in exchange for Kaiba making Bakura the CEO of KaibaCorp]]. By the end, Kaiba is forced to honor his deal, dragging himself to HQ with severe injuries and signing the papers right before going to the hospital. Luckily for Kaiba, the CEO being severely injured right before transferring power to an unknown party looks suspiciously like the new CEO twisting his arm, and one hounding by the media later, Bakura returns the company.

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* A heroic example in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'': Calvin is framed for a water balloon attack he didn't do, and thus ends up having to [[ClearMyName clear his name.]]
* ''Fanfic/DanganronpaKommSusserTod'': [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair Sparkling Justice]] is accused of another VigilanteExecution in Chapter 1, but turns out to have been framed by the true killer. [[spoiler:Which makes things more awkward when in Chapter 4, Sparkling Justice genuinely kills someone...]]
* ''Fanfic/DanganronpaParadiseLost'' has another batch of 16 students thrown into a Killing Game, and naturally Monaca Towa (who was complicit in [[VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls one prior incident]] and participated via proxy in [[Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool another]]) falls under suspicion, but she turns out to have absolutely no involvement in orchestrating it. [[spoiler:She has undergone an [[AmnesiacVillainJoinsTheHeroes amnesia-prompted]] HeelFaceTurn, and in fact, she happens to be who the Killing Game is targeted at, as the true masterminds happen to be [[AccuserOfTheBrethren two prior victims unwilling to forgive her]]]].
* Much like in canon, ''Fanfic/FamilyOfTheShield'' tackles King Aultcrays' treatment of Naofumi Iwatani and [[ALittleBitBeastly Demi-Humans]] in much the same vein. While attending the party after the first Wave of Catastrophe; Naofumi puts' Raphtalia on the spot for everyone to hear how she's actually a citizen of Luroluna who along with most of the survivors was [[MadeASlave sold into slavery]] by a group of Royal Knights sent from Castletown. Aultcray is forced to silence Raphtalia before she divulged further which would have caused some friction between the other Three Heroes. Several chapters later when King Aultcray is put on trial for his mismanagement of the kingdom; Raphtalia asks why would he enslave loyal citizens. Aultcray then says that he didn't give such an order: the "Knights" that enslaved the Loroluna villagers were actually bandits that raided an armory for gear who decided to make a quick buck by attacking the village, and that Aultcray had been trying to track down these brigands before the Heroes had been summoned.
* Happens to Don Paolo in the ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6380562/1/Knights_and_Knaves Knights and Knaves]].'' Inspector Chelmey hauls him in for questioning about a series of mysterious clues that have been cropping up across London - simply because he doesn't have any better ideas about who might be responsible. Don Paolo protests his innocence, and is in fact telling the truth.

* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4150966/13/Phantom-of-Beika-Street Phantom of Beika Street]]'' (a ''Manga/CaseClosed''/''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' crossover), an bright explosion somehow causes a large amount of green goo to splatter everywhere. Yamamoto accused [[TheTrickster Kaito]] since he was right next to it when it happened and he's known for such stunts, but Kaito nearly quotes this trope. His answer actually satisfies everyone since they're aware that if he was responsible, he would be taking credit for it.
* In ''Fanfic/SupermanAndMan'', Christopher briefly wonders if ComicBook/LexLuthor is the one body-swapped his body with Franchise/{{Superman}}'s... but Luthor's bafflement makes clear he has nothing to do with it.
-->"I thought it would be so much harder than this. I've fought you before. Many times. You know that. In any of our other fights, by this time, we'd have knocked each other all the way to Metro Airport. What's wrong with you? Did somebody else get to you before I did?"\\
Focusing, the actor said, "So. It wasn't really you who. Did this to me?"\\
"Did what to you?"
* In the ''A Date With Destiny'' section of the ''Fanfic/CodeMarsTrilogy'', Mars seeks to rescue the hostages from the JLF during the hotel jacking. She finds Zero and accuses him being behind it. Unaware of Zero's sudden entrance, he clearly tells her he wasn't behind it, showing the real mastermind's dead body.
* Zig-zagged in the ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' fanfic, ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10156375/1/My-Child My Child]]'', when Levi and Mikasa's child is about to die, Levi asks Xaphan, the demon who's trying to take his soul, if he knows anything, but Xaphan responds, "Oh, because I'm a demon, everything's my fault? I see how it is. Well, it doesn't matter." and says that if Levi doesn't give him his soul, his child will die. [[spoiler:Once Levi signs the contract, Xaphan admits that [[ILied he was lying all along]], so it is possible that he was responsible]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' fanfic, ''Fanfic/NeverHadAFriendLikeMe'', there's a rare hero to hero version of this trope. Jorgen thinks Timmy caused the [[spoiler:magical chaos that led to disappearance of the anti-fairies and pixies.]]

* From ''Blog/AskFlufflePuff'', when Queen Chrysalis and Fluffle Puff find out that [[spoiler:the Library Tree was destroyed (by Tirek in the Season 4 finale of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'')]] while they were on vacation, Chrysalis is prompt to tell Twilight Sparkle that it wasn't her, this time.
* In ''Fanfic/TheVinylScratchTapes'', when Vinyl confronts Prince Blueblood over him "stealing" an interview with Princess Luna from her, he has no idea what she's talking about. Luna had actually cancelled her interview on her own initiative to be with Blueblood due to her concern over him, because jackass he may be, he was still family, and she had been in too similar a situation for her to ignore him.
* In ''Fanfic/SayItThrice'', [[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} Betelgeuse]] claims that he is (mostly) not to blame for [[spoiler:Lydia's injuries]] when Adam and Barbara automatically assume the worst. That honor belongs to [[OriginalCharacter Sand]][[{{Poltergeist}} uleak]].
* In ''Fanfic/FriendshipIsMagicalGirls'', Trixie is questioned about a museum robbery. She points out that if she had done it, she wouldn't have had to kill any of the guards.

* ''Fanfic/TheGreatAlicornHunt'': When [[GripingAboutGremlins Malfunziona]] escapes his [[SealedEvilInACan can]], a peeved Applejack assumes that he's another one of Celestia's "time released" prisoners that she didn't tell anyone about. In fact, Celestia's never even ''heard'' of Malfunziona; he was actually sealed by an {{expy}} of Leonardo Da Vinci (who actually did inform Celestia, but she assumed he was simply being poetic due to the way he worded his letter).
* ''Fanfic/CorrinReacts'': Niles, Corrin and Kana all deny spiking the wine at the party in Castle Krakenburg. It turns out to be Orochi, who was attempting to prove herself a superior potionmaster to Hayato.
* ''Fanfic/ThisBites'': Played with. Water 7 being on fire is mostly Cross's fault, but part of it was actually Franky's doing from a few years back.
* In ''Fanfic/UniverseFalls'', when [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Gideon Gleeful]] paints the Temple pink in "Revenge Trip", the Gems initially assume that [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Amethyst]] did it.

* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'': On seeing a procession of oddly-behaving Poison-Type Pokémon in Crimson City Park, Ash thinks it's a Team Rocket scheme. But the TerribleTrio bursts out of their hiding place, protesting their innocence. As it turns out, they were actually being mind-controlled by a Bloodliner named Belladonna [[spoiler:as part of a scheme to kill her girlfriend's estranged father]].
* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/8793565/chapters/20159878 How the Light Gets In]]'': Laurel is suddenly resurrected. When Oliver sees her he immediately assumes [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Dean]], her husband, is responsible, only for Dean to deny it. Sara also assumes it Dean, who denies it again, and Sara in turn says it wasn't her either. When her parents learn of it, they ''also'' think it was Dean, leading to this:
-->'''Dean:''' ''[exasperated]'' Why does everyone keep asking me that? [[note]]Not only have they all accused him of doing it, they all used the exact same question "What did you do?"[[/note]]\\
''[{{beat}} as the entire Lance family stare at him incredulously]''\\
'''Dean:''' ''[rolls his eyes]'' All right, I can see why people keep asking me that.
* Meta example in ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'''s sequel ''Ghosts of the Past'': in the chapter where [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] [[spoiler:raises an undead T-rex]] to fight the necromancers threatening Chicago, [[Creator/NimbusLlewelyn the author]] (who is noted to be quite CrazyIsCool and has a penchant for making up ideas that seem absurd but then work out magnificently) had to point out that, for once, this was not his idea.
** Additionally, Doctor Strange later states this when Thor wonders quite pointedly if he had anything to do with [[spoiler: Van, the Sword of the First King and last weapon against Surtur, getting lodged in the tree that was the focus for the newborn Yggdrasil, and only being capable of being drawn by said future First King - Frey]]. Unusually, he was just as puzzled as everyone else.
* ''Fanfic/MyMirrorSwordAndShield'': Cornelia and Kallen believe Euphemia was murdered on Lelouch's orders. Lelouch had nothing to do with it as she was murdered by her jealous lover Sir Raleigh who believed she was cheating on him with Suzaku. Schneizel especially doesn't believe it because Lelouch had before taken hostages of his enemies’ loved ones and executed them if they stepped out of line. Which he did to Schneizel when Lelouch took Schneizel's lover Kanon hostage. It was year before Schneizel found out that Kanon had been executed.

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* ''Fanfic/FatesCollide'': Salem tells Cinder Fall about how [[spoiler:Sakura Matou's death benefited her because it left Shirou Emiya in despair and anguish. Salem was able to [[EmotionEater feed on the negative emotions]] to strengthen herself and create Grimm]]. After telling this story, Salem sees the look on Cinder's face and quickly clarifies that she had nothing to do with [[spoiler:Sakura's death]], she just took advantage of it.

* During Danny's date with WesternAnimation/KimPossible in ''Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton'', an explosion catches their attention. He figured one of his usual villains were causing trouble, only to see two people he doesn't recognize, Doctor Drakken and Shego. He quickly learns they're ''Kim's'' villains.
* ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'':
** Alucard is a {{Jerkass}}[=/=]SociopathicHero[=/=]BloodKnight who is basically the logical result of what would happen if you gave the biggest {{Troll}} on the Internet unstoppable superpowers. So when he's involved in an incident with the police in Brazil, Integra's first assumption is that it's his fault and she calls bullshit when Alucard protests that he was just minding his own business until the police turned up and started shooting. Alucard is being entirely honest -- he hadn't done a ''thing'' (yet) to get his door kicked in by SWAT. They were actually bribed by the villains into attacking him. It probably didn't help that he greeted them with YourMom, though.
--->'''Integra:''' What did you do?\\
'''Alucard:''' All right... but you can't be mad at me.\\
'''Integra:''' '''What...''' did you do?\\
'''Alucard:''' Okay... first, [[ExactWords I was minding my own business--]]\\
'''Integra:''' ''[furiously slams her hand on the desk]'' '''BULLSHIT!'''\\
'''Alucard:''' ''[whiny tone of voice]'' I waaaaas!\\
'''Integra:''' And exactly what happened whilst you were "minding your own business"?!\\
'''Alucard:''' [[JiveTurkey So I was just chillaxin' in my room like a baller]], and then all of a sudden these schmucks kicked in my door, one of them yelled out "Get on your knees!" And I responded with 'I'm not your Momma last night!' ''[{{beat}}]'' And they took exception to that.\\
'''SWAT team:''' ''[[[ScreamingWarrior Scream]] as they [[MoreDakka open fire at full auto]] until Alucard looks like Swiss cheese]''
--->'''Alucard:''' [[HealingFactor But you know how that song and dance goes]]... ''[revives and proceeds to [[LudicrousGibs eviscerate the offending SWAT personnel]] in the room]'' aaand I killed all but one of them.
--->'''Integra:''' What happened to the last one?
--->(cut to the last SWAT officer whimpering in fear, raising his pistol to his own head, and [[DrivenToSuicide shooting himself]] while Alucard smiles with glee)
--->'''Alucard:''' [[SpeakIllOfTheDead Pussed out like a bitch]]! Silver Lining: [[IAmAHumanitarian I can cancel my Room Service!]]
** As a BrickJoke, when Integra is listing the long number of complaints the Hellsing Organization is facing, Alucard is dismissive of all of them ''except'' the sexual harassment ones which he flatly refuses to apologize for. Several episodes later it's revealed he wouldn't apologize because it turns out ''Integra'' was the worst offender as far as sexual harassment goes, as per Seras.
* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'':
** In ''Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan'', Goku initially assumes Cell destroyed the South Galaxy after King Kai tells him about what happened. But as it turns out, Cell didn't know the South Galaxy even ''existed'' (Goku quickly tries to get him to forget that he heard it). He then goes to interrogate every other villain or former villain he knew of, including ''[[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Pilaf]]'' - but not [[ButtMonkey Yamcha]].
** Also from the ''Broly Abridged'' movie, when Paragus is explaining his motivations, he says "That bastard, Vegeta, left us to die." Vegeta replies that it sounds like something he'd do, but he doesn't remember doing it. Paragus clarifies he meant Vegeta's father, who was also named "Vegeta".
* ''Fanfic/{{Nutricula}}'': When several of Yaomomo's classmates are helping her brainstorm a new costume, the question comes up of who suggested the inclusion of a CleavageWindow. Denki gets blamed, before [[spoiler:Ibara]] fesses up.
* In ''Fanfic/SAOTheEroge'' as upon learning about his EmbarrassingNickname of [[TheCasanova The Ladies' Man Swordsman,]] Kirito instinctively looked at [[TheGadfly Argo]], who quickly denied starting those rumors.

* Fairly typical in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' fanfics in which something happens to Jon Snow. Catelyn Tully is the first suspect.
** In ''Fanfic/ADragonsFlight'' Lyarra Snow (Princess Visenya Targaryen) suddenly disappears from Winterfell, the first suspect is Catelyn Tully, who makes no secret of her irrational hatred of the girl. The trout has nothing to do with it, Lyarra run away to protect the dragon she hatched accidentally.
** In ''Fanfic/BequeathedFromPaleEstates'' while in Winterfel Lyarra's music lessons are suddenly stopped and her teacher dismissed. She immediately thinks that Catelyn threw a fit and Ned accommodated her. In actuality, Ned stopped the lessons out of fear that Lyarra's incredible musical talent would remind people of her father Rhaegar.
** In the fanfic [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18795337?view_full_work=true Red Ruins]] Jon, real name Aemon Targaryen is kidnapped by his older sister Princess Rhaenys, TheKindNapper (who was switched with a Dornish lookalike prior to the Sack along with Aegon). In the aftermath of his vanishing, people start pointing fingers, most of them go toward Catelyn.
* In ''Batman'' story ''Fanfic/DanceWithTheDemons'', Catwoman gets shot with a poisoned dart. Since the poison is a mixture of toxins used in the Middle and Far East, Batman suspects Ra's Al Ghul is behind the assassination attempt. Nonetheless, Ra's Al Ghul shoots his theory down by pointing out he gains nothing with it.
-->'''Ra's Al Ghul:''' "Why in the name of heaven above and hell below would I have attempted to murder your wife, Detective? Tell me."
* ''Fanfic/MyIdealAcademia'': When The Beast starts his murder spree, Stain the Hero Killer quickly sends the police and Heroes a letter saying he's not the one doing this.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13477886/1/Atlas-Arc Atlas Arc]]'', Qrow is assigned by General Ironwood to be on board a test flight of a prototype airship. However, due to circumstances that don't involve Qrow's [[TheJinx Bad Luck]] Semblance, the ship ends up crashing and exploding. Ironwood naturally doesn't believe Qrow at first until Qrow explains that he checked with the techs who designed the ship and learned that there was flaw in the power coupling.

* In ''Fanfic/SnipersSolve99PercentOfAllProblems'' Edward Elric decides to do some minor alchemic cleaning and repairs to [[Literature/HarryPotter Number 12 Grimmauld Place]] in order to make the house more hospitable and livable for when Alphonse comes over the following day, including raising the ceilings by six centimeters and installing nine more windows. After the younger Elric brother arrives, Alphonse assumes that all of the grim décor inside of the house including the black wallpaper was the result of his brothers' transmutation.
-->'''Edward:''' Aha! See, ''this'' time, not me, not even a little bit! I changed absolutely ''no'' colors and all the creepass shit - the wallpaper, those freaky hooks, that fuckin’, leg thing, whatever that is - that was all there when I ''got'' here.
* ''Fanfic/ForTheGloryOfIrk'':
** When Dib finds out that a strange figure claiming to be his friend showed up and talked his parents into handing over Tak's ship, the description makes him think it was [[RobotBuddy CB]] acting through his physical avatar, something he indignantly refutes. After checking with Gaz, Dib realizes that it was actually [[spoiler: [[StarfishAliens Q]] in his [[VoluntaryShapeshifting humanoid form]].]]
** After Zim believes that GIR has been killed, everyone eventually comes to the conclusion that Q is responsible. Q acknowledges that they're right to suspect him of anything shady, but states that he's not at fault this time. And he's not, as it turns out that GIR wandered off to hang out with Carrius.
** Happens again with Q when he's caught trying to crash Dib and Lor's wedding right after the wedding party has realized that the rings have vanished. Q admits that if the idea had occurred to him, he would have taken the rings to cause chaos, but that he's just trying to attend the wedding. It turns out that actually, Xia took the rings to spite everyone, Therron took them from her for safe keeping, and finally [[spoiler: GIR ate them]].
* Throughout ''Fanfic/BeingDeadAintEasy'', Kaiba is repeatedly attacked by a disgruntled former employee, cumulating with Kaiba hospitalized and the assassin dead. Yami Bakura also agrees to help Kaiba over an unrelated matter, [[DealWithTheDevil where Yami Bakura saves Joey in exchange for Kaiba making Bakura the CEO of KaibaCorp]]. By the end, Kaiba is forced to honor his deal, dragging himself to HQ with severe injuries and signing the papers right before going to the hospital. Luckily for Kaiba, the CEO being severely injured right before transferring power to an unknown party looks suspiciously like the new CEO twisting his arm, and one hounding by the media later, Bakura returns the company.

* ''Webcomic/KillingGameDeluxe'': Junko cheerfully confirms that she has nothing to do with this Killing Game and has no clue what is going on either.
* ''WebAnimation/FreedomFightersSonicXFreedomPlanet'': When Amy, Eggman, and unconscious Sonic and Tails get surrounded by the robotic remnants of Brevon's army (one of which personally shot down Sonic and Tails with a missile), Amy asks Eggman do these robots happen to be his. But right before she even finishes the question, terrified Eggman clarifies he never saw robots like these in his whole life.
* In [[https://www.deviantart.com/phillymont/art/Take-the-Blame-205684130 this]] ''Anime/DeathNote'' comic, after hearing that Matsuda's grandfather died of a heart attack, Light complains that everyone blames Kira for every fatal heart attack, [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud accidentally outing himself as Kira in front of L]].
* Katara often teases Zuko in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/16598252/chapters/45334105#workskin The Avatar Makes Three]]'' for all of his old antagonistic behavior, which he takes good-humoredly. However, he does loudly object to her claims that he had a hand in the invasion of the Northern Water tribe, saying he knows better than to go around messing with the great spirits and he certainly wasn’t going to team up with Admiral Zhao, who he’s always hated and had just tried to kill him.
* ''Fanfic/SupremeChancellorObiWanKenobi'': Palpatine was ousted by the Senate and replaced by Obi-Wan, and when the Jedi is grievously wounded in a bombing Senator Halth tries to have him Palpatine reinstated to replace the "vacacy", in spite of Obi-Wan ''not'' being dead, Palpatine having already served his two terms and more and being under investigation for corruption, and them having a Vice Chancellor for ''precisely'' the case the Chancellor dies while in office, getting Palpatine under suspicion for the whole thing. Fortunately for the Sith, while he was indeed behind the bombing he had nothing to do with Halth's stunt and could prove he hadn't talked to him in months, and in fact he's privately offended by the idea someone suspects him of being ''this'' sloppy.

* ''Fanfic/BecomingATrueInvader'': The Tallest immediately assume that Zim is responsible for [[BigBad the Employer's]] devastation of their empire.
* ''Fanfic/RubyPair'': Upon learning that the Megadoomer she should have gotten ended up with Zim while she got the insane SIR units that ruined her mission, Tenn accuses Zim of stealing it from her. Zim has to explain that he had nothing to do with the mixup (it was a disgruntled postal slave).
* In the Fanfic/UnconventionalScenarios series by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/Remasa/pseuds/Remasa Remasa]], Hawk Moth must do some public work at a convention after revealing himself to the heroes and trying to repent. Suddenly, the building starts collapsing, and he is forced to akumatize a bystander to help evacuate. Once everyone comes out, the Mayor naturally start blaming Hawk Moth for the incident... until the akumatized guy detransforms and starts ripping him a new one for [[IgnoredExpert ignoring his advice]] about [[NoOSHACompliance safety regulations]].
* In the ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestria'' metaverse, [=StableTec=] is well known for performing all manner of bizarre social experiments within its Stables that over time slowly warp into hideous cruelties that wind up killing the Stable Dwellers. However, in ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons'', Blackjack is horrified to learn that [=StableTec=] did ''not'' setup the [[HumanResources recycling dead ponies for protein supplements]] laws and reducing the stallion population to an oppression minority of short-lived breeding chattel that gets killed off when they turn 21 in her home of Stable 99. Whilst Stable 99 ''was'' used for an experiment, their assigned experiment was testing the long-term viability of a small, tightly-controlled population and an all-recycled food diet. It was one of Stable 99's past Overmares who established these laws. [[spoiler:In fact, Applebot[[note]]the A.I-ghost/clone of Apple Bloom dwelling the [=StableTec=] central processors[[/note]] is shocked and disgusted to learn about the current social norms of Stable 99.]]
* When Terumi compliments Relius for turning Roy into his new form in Chapter 58 of ''Fanfic/BlazBlueAlternativeRemnant'', Relius clarifies that, while he modified Roy's form and experimented on him in an effort to reverse engineer the process that mutated him, he actually had nothing to do with the initial transformation. Roy somehow became what he is on his own.

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* In the post movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'' story ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/37739572 Fractures]]'', Julieta, upon seeing her daughters claiming one of them got into a fistfight, assumes that it was [[SuperStrength Luisa]], only to be told that it was actually [[GreenThumb Isabela]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheGreatRedPandaRescue'', Mei is kidnapped and her friends are summoned to their school's front office for questioning. Abby is instantly suspected by Mei's other friends to be responsible for them being called up before they learn Mei is missing.

* In ''Fanfic/GoldPoisons'', while Jin Guangyao has killed a lot of people during his time working for the Wens and then as the Jins, he has nothing to do with Lan Xichen’s poisoning. Too bad he’s being set up as the fall guy.
* ''Fanfic/TruePotential'': When Kakuzu shows up to the Akatsuki meeting alone, everybody assumes he just killed his partner again. While Kakuzu ''was'' planning on killing him anyway, he quickly points out that his partner was actually killed by [[spoiler:a feral Naruto]].
* ''Fanfic/MariaCampbellOfTheAstralClocktower'': Rafael mentions a vacation home where his WickedStepmother used to take him until it burned down. Considering that Rafael took a '''lot''' of pleasure in seeing everything that woman loved destroyed, his friends ask him if he's the one who burned it down. He says no, it was [[VideoGame/DarkSouls2 flame butterflies]]. Everyone just shrugs and admits that's a thing that happens.

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* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/39120300/chapters/97867392 Turnabout Communcation]]'', [[Franchise/AceAttorney Simon Blackquill]], who has a reputation as a ManipulativeBastard who can trick people into solving part of his cases for him, is accused twice to be responsible for manipulating [[Manga/KomiCantCommunicate Hitohito Tadano]] into confessing twice (once to the police and once while on trial) that he attacked and nearly murdered his classmate Ren Yamai, much to Simon's frustration as he wants to win his cases by indistinguishable truth rather in lies. [[BrokenBird Tadano's false confessions]] are actually the results of trauma and later vicious threats from [[{{Yandere}} Yamai]].
* Near the end of chapter 8 of ''Fanfic/MiraculousCity'', Nathalie confronts Gabriel about the streaks of failure since [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent the Miracle Bang that granted every person in Paris a Miraculous power]], including how his latest akuma, the Robber, didn't even get Ladybug and Chat Noir and was defeated by Lady Beetle and her new allies. Gabriel states that he doesn't know what she's talking about as he never sent out an akuma, revealing that a new villain has access to the powers of the Butterfly Miraculous.
* ''Fanfic/TheChaoticMasters'':
** Despite his and his brothers-in-arms' HistoricalRapSheet, the Collector denies having had anything to do with World War II, pinning all the blame on Hitler and Vandal Savage.
** When Roulette asks what Circe did to [[WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie Lumalee]] to make him [[StrawNihilist the way he is]], Circe responds that he was like that when she got him.

* ''Fanfic/TheChaoticMasters'': Despite his and his brothers-in-arms' HistoricalRapSheet, the Collector denies having had anything to do with World War II, pinning all the blame on Hitler and Vandal Savage.

* In the ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' version of ''Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan'', Goku initially assumes Cell destroyed the South Galaxy after King Kai tells him about what happened. But as it turns out, Cell didn't know the South Galaxy even ''existed'' (Goku quickly tries to get him to forget that he heard it). He then goes to interrogate every other villain or former villain he knew of, including ''[[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Pilaf]]'' - but not [[ButtMonkey Yamcha]].

* In the ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' version of ''Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan'', Goku initially assumes Cell destroyed the South Galaxy after King Kai tells him about what happened. But as it turns out, Cell didn't know the South Galaxy even ''existed''. (Goku quickly tries to get him to forget that he heard it.)

* Near the end of chapter 8 of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/48488527/chapters/124830709#workskin Miraculous City]]'', Nathalie confronts Gabriel about the streaks of failure since [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent the Miracle Bang that granted every person in Paris a Miraculous power]], including how his latest akuma, the Robber, didn't even get Ladybug and Chat Noir and was defeated by Lady Beetle and her new allies. Gabriel states that he doesn't know what she's talking about as he never sent out an akuma, revealing that a new villain has access to the powers of the Butterfly Miraculous.

* ''Fanfic/TheGreatAlicornHunt'': When [[GripingAboutGremlins Malfunziona]] escapes his [[SealedEvilInACan can]], a peeved Applejack assumes that he's another one of Celestia's "time released" prisoners that she didn't tell anyone about. In fact, Celestia's never even ''heard'' of Malfunziona; he was actually sealed by an {{expy}} of Leonardo Da Vinci (who actually did inform Celestia, but she assumed he was simply being poetic in his writing).

'''Alucard:''' [[JiveTurkey So I was just chillaxin' in my room like a baller]], and then all of a sudden these schmucks kicked in my door, one of them yelled out "Get on your knees!" And I responded with 'I'm not your mother last night!' ''[{{beat}}]'' And they took exception to that.\\

'''Alucard:''' ''[whiny tone of voice]'' I was!\\