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* ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'':
** After it becomes clear to some servants that Xiaxi is sucking up to the house masters, the other servants refuse to help her with a task that Mingluan asked her to handle. So she loudly drops the teapot, falls to the ground and quickly feigns some tears. When Mingluan rushes over to see what's going on, she says nothing happened *sniff* I'm sorry I dropped your tea *sniff* don't worry about me. The other servants are first confused then horrified, but their protests are totally ignored over such strong evidence. All of them are quickly fired for harassing Mingluan's favorite new servant.
** Feng Lan, Mingyi's legal wife, begins harassing Xiaxi for real later on. The important part is that after she succeeds at a task that Feng Lan expects to kill her, she's told to kneel outside in strong sun until Feng Lan returns for her. Unpleasant, but passive and probably not terribly dangerous unless it was a very hot day. After some hours pass, her husband returns and asks about her, is brushed off and later asks again. At this point, Xiaxi throws herself into the river and acts as though she was being abused so terribly that suicide was the only escape. Mingyi promptly divorces Feng Lan since he hadn't really liked her that much anyway and the family name she thought was protecting her doesn't mean much to the Wang Pu family.

* In ''Manga/ASilentVoice'', Kawai certainly takes full advantage of this trope in order to avoid taking responsibility for her part the bullying of [[CuteMute Nishimiya]], crying CrocodileTears and claiming she wants everyone to get along when Touta tries to call her out on it.

* Inverted in ''Anime/TokyoGodfathers'' when Hana shouts at a group of people to draw them closer together by making himself the villain. He even explains it with a reference to a RedOniBlueOni story right afterward.

%%* In ''Manga/ASilentVoice'', Kawai certainly takes full advantage of this trope in order to avoid taking responsibility for her part the bullying of [[CuteMute Nishimiya]].

** In Episode 9 of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesAimToBeAPokemonMaster'', the [[TerribleTrio Team Rocket Trio]] [[TheBusCameBack get all of their old mons back]] and lure Ash, Brock, & Misty into a trap by having James' Mime Jr. be a FakeDefector acting threatened by him.

* Haruhi pulls one (or at least, threatens to) using [[CosmicPlaything Mikuru]] in the second chronological episode of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', fabricating evidence that the computer club president groped Mikuru in order to blackmail him out of a computer. When the club president points out that all the other members saw what really happened and can vouch for his innocence, Haruhi [[MoralEventHorizon simply proclaims]]: "I'll just say all you geeks ganged up on (Mikuru) and *BLEEP*ed her!" It's the first indication we get of [[CrossesTheLineTwice just how far]] Haruhi is willing to go to [[AlphaBitch get her own way.]]
* In the first volume of ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD,'' Raynare, after being defeated by Issei and then abandoned by her only surviving ally, tries again to assume the persona of Issei's first date "Yuma Amano" in an attempt to plead with him to help her defeat Rias. He doesn't buy it and asks her to kill Raynare.

* In episode 13 of ''LightNovel/MayoChiki'', Nakuru pays a visit to Jiro's house. When he sees her at the door, he immediately tries to close it, then threatens to call the police because he doesn't want "that weirdo" in his house. So she resorts to yelling out for help and that she was being kidnapped, which forces him to let her in, lest someone really does come and thinks he's trying to kidnap her...

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'':

* A Teddiursa from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' successfully frames Totodile and Chikorita for the theft of a ham and some hot dogs, when in fact the Teddiursa stole them. Thus, Misty (who falls for its charms) is quick to blame them both. Unlike Misty, Ash Ketchum (who actually owns the Totodile and Chikorita in question) isn't ''quite'' fooled: he doesn't figure out that Teddiursa is the thief, but he is pretty sure Totodile is innocent and, after some hesitance due to sausages in Chikorita's mouth, also consoles Chikorita that he knows Chikorita would never steal. When they finally catch Teddiursa in the act of stealing bread, it tries to blame Bulbasaur for hurting it and stealing it. Doesn't work this time... except with Misty, again. When Nurse Joy tells Bulbasaur's story, Misty realizes the truth and apologizes to Totodile and Chikorita.
* ''Anime/PokemonChronicles'': In "Cerulean Blues", Hitmonchan falls into water and starts acting like it is drowning. Misty orders her Staryu to rescue it, only for Hitmonchan to sucker punch it and reveal it is perfectly fine.

* Nami invokes this early in ''Manga/OnePiece'', pretending to succumb to her injuries so Luffy will go into an UnstoppableRage and take out Captain Kuro. As soon as he's no longer paying attention, she gets back up and loots Kuro's ship.
** In an earlier episode, she fake-complains that her chest hurts, causing the pirate she's talking to to get distracted staring at her breasts, before she then swiftly [[GroinAttack disposes of him]]. In the Creator/FourKidsEntertainment dub, this was changed to her saying her shoulder hurt.
** Robin also invokes this at the start of the Punk Hazard arc; she warns Luffy against picking up a distress call they recieved, as they're often traps to find out pirates' location. Luffy being the IdiotHero he is, he picks it up anyway. [[spoiler:She was only half-right on this, as while the Marines were listening in, the distress call was genuine.]]

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': During the Soul Society arc, [[spoiler:Captain Aizen]] fakes [[spoiler:his own murder]] as part of his plot. [[spoiler:He leaves behind information suggesting he was killed for discovering a conspiracy, changing most but not all of the facts so that the good guys fight amongst themselves and remove a major obstacle for him.]]

* Invoked and defied in ''LightNovel/AccelWorld''. At the start of the story, Takumu has gotten it into his head that Haruyuki is pulling one of these to manipulate their mutual friend Chiyuri and keep her from moving past him and into a full relationship with Takumu. In truth Haruyuki can't stand being perceived as an object of pity for Chiyuri and has actively been pushing her away as a result.

* PlayedForDrama in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'': [[spoiler:In Ishigami's backstory, he was friends with a girl in middle school, only to discover that her boyfriend was cheating on her. When he confronted the boyfriend, he tried to buy Ishigami's silence by offering to "give" the girl to him -- which made Ishigami snap and start beating the everloving crap out of the guy. Unfortunately the boyfriend was in Drama Club, so he was quickly able to act like Ishigami was a StalkerWithACrush attacking him out of sheer jealousy, turning the entire school against him and staining his reputation for at least a year.]]

* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'' has [[PsychicChildren Psychic Child]] Anya secretly help her father take down an enemy agent this way. As the man runs past her, she simply clings to his coat and and screams that she's being kidnapped. Sure enough, her mother - an undercover assassin - goes full MamaBear and kicks the unsuspecting spy into the ceiling.