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-->''"The first girl to cry always wins."''
-->--'''Sae''', ''PeachGirl''

Alice and Eve have both been vying for Bob's affections for weeks, so when the three of them were alone, cleaning the classroom, tensions started to run high. The moment Bob's back was to the girls, Eve threw herself away from Alice, knocking over some desks on her way to the floor. "Why'd you push me!?" she spat at Alice as Bob turned to see what the commotion was. Bob rushed to help Eve up, and, when he noticed she was favoring one foot, help her limp to the nurse's office, shooting a cold glare at Alice as they passed the doorway. It wasn't until she was alone that Alice could give so much protest as a meek, "... But I didn't do anything..."

Eve just performed a WoundedGazelleGambit, a ploy in which the {{schemer}} pretends to be a victim in order to garner sympathy for themselves and/or foster animosity towards the alleged aggressor. [=WGGs=] can be as mild as implications of verbal abuse, or as extreme as framing someone else for one's suicide, at which point this trope becomes SuicideNotMurder.

The TropeNamer is ''PeachGirl'': At one point, TheLibby's explanation of how this trope works includes the line "What would you assume if you saw a wounded gazelle next to a lion?" (Note that in RealLife, prey species will feign being injured to lure a predator away from their young.)

Almost every mystery series has at least a few episodes where the culprit turns out to be one of the victims. Also a common ploy of the FemmeFatale and TheVamp in FilmNoir stories.

A form of MaliciousSlander. Can also be a LameExcuse. When it's done against policemen (and women) to avoid prosecution, it's a PoliceBrutalityGambit. See also LoserGetsTheGirl.

Compare WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou, ArrestedForHeroism. Listed as #34 of TheThirtySixStratagems.
* ''[[RuleThirtyFour Rule]]'' [[RuleThirtyFour #34?]]
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* Sae from ''PeachGirl'' is a master of this. Most of the conflict in the first arc is driven by Sae convincing people that Momo is bullying her.
* Used in at least two episodes of ''CaseClosed'' (''DetectiveConan''). One where the killer turns out to be the deceased, and another where the killer stabs himself to allay suspicion. Suspects will sometimes attempt this to ally suspicion from themselves, but of course Conan sees through them all; one victim was injured because she was trying to pull one of these on her fiancee to be.
** In at least two other cases the killers planted evidence against themselves in such a way as to make it look like they were being [[FramingTheGuiltyParty framed]].
* In ''{{Basara}}'' an overthrown dictator, whom the cast never actually met in person pretends to have been a sex slave at his own court. Most of the good cast believe his tearjerker story but the heroine doesn't trust him. She lets him tag along anyway though he doesn't even pretend to be ''nice''.
* ''[=~Ranma ½~=]'': Ukyo used this in ''Ukyo's Secret Sauce'' but with a twist. She implicates her LoveInterest Ranma as the one who has injured her (by cheating on her with Akane, since Ranma spent the night in Akane's room). Since Ranma was already feeling guilty about wrecking her special sauce (and letting her think it was her failure) he falls for it pretty badly. Afterwards Ukyo comments to herself: "Wow, tears really do work."
* In the first Martial Arts tournament in ''DragonBall'', Ranfan's entire strategy revolves around screaming when her opponent is about to hit her and striking while their guard is down. Well, that and stripping.
** Piccolo in his fight against Goku, faking having been defeated only to [[BreathWeapon Shoop Da Whoop]] a careless Goku through his chest.
* Bakura when he teamed up with Marik to trick Yugi's grampa in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}''.
** Marik too. He called himself Namu, his brother called himself Marik, and Bakura's crazy half pretended to be the not crazy half of his split personality.
* ''{{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.]]
* Subverted: "Princess" Ayanakoji in ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' tries this against Haruhi Fujioka, but none of the members of the titular Host Club actually believe her for a moment, so all it accomplishes is to get her doused with cold water and permanently banned from the Host Club.
* In ''{{Mai-HiME}}'' the ThereCanBeOnlyOne plot picks up speed after [[spoiler:Sister Yukariko (being influenced by her lover, [[ManipulativeBastard Ishigami-sensei]]) pretends to be attacked by the morally ambigious DarkMagicalGirl Nao, so when the others attack Nao and [[EyeScream injure her]], she becomes ''really'' mad and turns into an enemy]].
* Suiseiseki from ''RozenMaiden'' uses this to try and convince the others that Hinaichigo is bullying her. It spirals into a conflict that wrecks the Sakurada household.
* In ''RealBoutHighSchool'', wannabe ninja Asuka Kuronari pulls this during her fight with real ninja Kyoichi Kunugi. She pulls down her mask and cries her eyes out while telling him her life story, why she thought she could be a ninja if she tried hard enough, and asks him to look at something: a smoke bomb, which she immediately deploys, giving her cohort Xiaoxing the chance to attack him.
** While the tactic fails to defeat him, he is so impressed by her deviousness (contrary to what {{Naruto}} may claim, this is a good trait in a ninja) that he leaves the battle and declares that she ''may'' be a real ninja after all.
* Subverted in ''KareKano''. ClingyJealousGirl and UnluckyChildhoodFriend Tsubasa tries to use this technique against female lead Yukino since she's dating her beloved Arima, but Arima himself knows better and actually catches her trying to attack Yukino while she thinks he's not looking.
* Inverted in 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 afterwards.
* A specially ''nasty'' example happens in the manga of IkkiTousen. [[spoiler: Kaku and Enjutsu (the latter out of revenge) lure Teifu out by sending him a video where she's disguised as Teifu's crush Ryoumou and, with the help of other people, fakes a kidnapping and rape attempt. The consequences lead to the first time that Ryuubi's SuperpoweredEvilSide awakens.]]
* A double-team version happens in ''MamotteShugogetten'', where [[{{Casanova}} Izumi]] pretends to be sick to get [[MagicalGirlfriend Shao Lin]]'s attention, while [[TheVamp Ruu An]] uses the separation to try and win [[UnluckyEverydude Tasuke]]'s heart. Ultimately fails when Ruu An, surprised by Tasuke's honest concern for what the ChivalrousPervert might do to Shao, allows him to go "save" her. Of course, when he gets to the nurse's office, we learn that Shao used her magical servants to keep Izumi in bed, never once realizing his intentions.
* [[TheLibby Rika]] from the manga ''DevilBesideYou'' does this to protagonist Kayano in order to get attention from Takeru and have him break up with Kayano. Being the JerkassStu he is, it works magnificently.
* In ''AshitaNoNadja'', Nadja [[SheCleansUpNicely dolls up]] to attend a high-class party where she can get answers about [[spoiler: her stolen OrphansPlotTrinket and see who has been impersonating her.]] Soon, she meets up with one of the culprits... [[spoiler: and it's her old friend Rosemary]]. What does said culprit do? [[spoiler: Though she's ''willingly'' in the whole complot, Rosemary tearfully tells Nadja that she's a mere pawn, kidnapped and blackmailed by the SmugSnake to pose as Nadja.]] It works so well that [[spoiler: Rosemary returns the brooch... but sends Nadja into an HeroicBSOD by revealing the truth behind her involvement, ripping Nadja's GorgeousPeriodDress into pieces and kicking her out of the mansion]].
* Nami invokes this early in ''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.
* Played for laughs in ''Yu-Gi-Oh GX'', where the effect of Blair/Rei's [[MoeMoe "Maiden In Love"]] card is to make puppy eyes at the male monsters of her opponent and turn them against each other since they can't bring themselves to attack her.
* In SumomoMoMomoMo, Kinu pulls one to try to turn everyone against Momoko.

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* This was how Ava manipulated Dwight into murdering her husband in the ''SinCity'' story "A Dame to Kill For."
* ''TheWuzzles'': In Walt Disney Comics no. 512 (hey, it's a power of two!), Croc gains sympathy from Butterbear by pulling up a board and pretending to have been injured. It works on her account, although Bumblelion overhears his plan and makes sure his stay is not a pleasant one. His plot? [[spoiler:Well, his roof leaks and he was seeking shelter from a fruit salad storm. That's right, a fruit salad storm. Unconventional weather the land of Wuzz has, no?]]
* ''Jennifer''. In both the comic book and the ''Masters of Horror'' television adaptation, she takes this trope to a horrifying extreme. Suffice to say her hideous appearance is the ''least'' disturbing thing about her.
* A 40's ''{{Batman}}'' features a short one: A low-level crook fires a bullet through his own hat (which he's holding in his hand), while yelling "DROP IT, WAYNE!!" He proceeds to put the hat back on and tosses the gun to Bruce Wayne, [[WhatAnIdiot who catches it]]. The police barge in and see Bruce Wayne with a smoking gun in his hand, and a hole in a bystander's hat.

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[[folder: Film ]]

* Linda Fiorentino's character in ''TheLastSeduction''.
* Hans Gruber when he first meets [[DieHard John McClane]].
* [[spoiler:Edward Norton's]] character in ''PrimalFear'', as revealed in the final twist.
* Beating yourself up in the boss's office while screaming for mercy works wonders in ''{{Fight Club}}''. ''"I am Jack's smirking revenge"'' indeed!
* The end of the villain's plot in ''{{Scream}}''.
* Palpatine pulls this off in ''StarWars'' when he pretends his ugly deformities are the result of a Jedi's attack.
** They were a really indirect result of the Jedi attack. Better reasons could include the fact that he's evil, that he used a bunch of his stamina shooting lightning, revealing that evil, and that he's 8 gazillion years old.
** He also pulls it off in Episode III, when he convinces Anakin to save him from Mace Windu.
*** Uh... these two things happened in the SAME EPISODE. And I believe it was a direct result of Mace Windu using his lightsaber to redirect the force lightning back to its source, damaging and deforming Palpatine instead of damaging Mace. It's freaking Force Lightning, who knows how it's supposed to work?
* [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney's]] ''{{Lady and the Tramp}}''. The two Siamese cats do a lot of damage to the Darlings' house, and arrange for Lady to get caught in some drapes so that it looks like she did it. Afterward, they lie down on the ground and roll around piteously meowing, with (self-inflicted) scratches on them, to make it look like Lady attacked them as part of her rampage.
* Also from [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney]], {{Cinderella}} included a scene where [[FanNickname Cindy]] lectures Bruno on getting along with [[CatsAreEvil Lucifer]]. While her back is turned, Lucifer lies down in front of Bruno and scratches his snout, yowling when when he growls.
* The antagonist for ''MeanGirls'' writes evil things about herself into her book of gossip, then distributes it to frame the Protagonist.
* Megatron pulled this in ''{{Transformers}}: The Movie''; He pleaded for mercy when Optimus had him cornered while reaching or a gun Optimus couldn't see.
* The bad guy in ''DirtyHarry'' pays someone to beat the ever-loving snot out of him, just so he can accuse the hero of tuning him up.
* In ''The King and the Clown,'' two other wives of the former king are portrayed as using this tactic against the current king's mother in a dramatic "reenactment" of the events surrounding her poisoning. The king takes it very seriously. The two women in question happen to be attending the performance. The results aren't pretty.
* ''JudgeDredd''. After having Rico slaughter the other high ranking Judges, Chief Justice Griffin shoots himself in the arm to make it appear he was also a target of the attack.
* [[spoiler:Rhoda]] in {{The Bad Seed}} manages this while ''unconscious'', [[spoiler:as it is assumed her near-lethal poisoning was due to her mother being crazy rather than her being [[EnfanteTerrible a complete psychopath]].]]
* In ''Catwoman'', our heroine confronts the villainess in her home, who reveals her husband's dead body which just so happens to be covered in deep scratches, right before she triggers an alarm and cues crocodile tears, screaming [-"IT WAS CATWOMAN!"-]
* The entire XanatosGambit (... [[XanatosRoulette Roulette?]]) of ''WildThings'' began when Denise Richards' character accuses Matt Dillon's character of rape.
*[[spoiler: The confrontation between Commander Richter and the Camerlengo]] in ''AngelsAndDemons'', where [[spoiler: the Camerlengo]] brands himself with the Illuminati symbol, then tells the would-be BigDamnHeroes that the attacker is the other guy.
*[[spoiler: Humperdinck's plot to kill]] ''ThePrincessBride'' is an attempt to pull off this trope as part of a XanatosGambit to justify the conquest of a kingdom.
* A strange example from ''{{Memento}}'': Leonard goes after Dodd because he beat up Natalie. At least, that's what she says -- in reality, it was ''Leonard'' who beat up Natalie (who deliberately provoked him by saying some ''very'' nasty things about his late wife), only he's forgotten. Of course, by the time he meets up with Dodd he's forgotten why he's there...
* In ''Beethoven'', veterinarian Herman Varnick, does this because he wants to use Beethoven for an ammunition test. Varnick comes to the Newton's home and stages an "attack" by Beethoven on him, by putting ketchup on his arm to look like blood, and says that Beethoven bit his arm. Varnick says Beethoven must be euthanized or he will press charges, so George takes Beethoven to Varnick to be euthanized. Later the Newtons discover the lie when Varnick's bandages are ripped off, revealing the absence of bite marks.

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[[folder: Literature ]]

* AgathaChristie's ''A Murder Is Announced''. The book is rife with deception, the most important one being that [[spoiler: Miss Blacklock, who had ostensibly been the victim of attempted murder, was in fact the mastermind behind the attack]].
* ''HarryPotter''
** In ''HarryPotter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'', it was revealed that Peter Pettigrew [[spoiler:faked his death and framed Sirius Black for it]].
** In the same book, Draco Malfoy used his (healed) injury from a hippogriff to get special treatment, eventually leading up to his dad using political leverage to order the hippogriff's execution.
* There's a Kafka story about this.
* One of Tom Holt's near-interchangeable protagonists (Paul Carpenter, IIRC) at one point remembers how, when left to play with a young cousin, the little rodent would at the first hint of boredom burst into tears and run out crying "Mummy, he hit me!" Since most of Tom Holt's protagonists are {{Butt Monkey}}s and/or [[TheChewToy Chew Toys]], this is pretty much standard.
* The entire point of Ann Coulter writing ''Guilty'' is to allege that the American Far Left has been pulling this on its right-wing opponents for several decades, with the Right being too dumbfounded by some of the allegations to intelligibly fight back.

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* On ''CSIMiami'', a suspect dislocates his own shoulder in order to accuse Horatio of police brutality; eventually the evidence proves that the injuries were indeed self-inflicted.
** A suspect tries the same thing by head-desk on ''{{CSI}}''. Someone just points out that they can prove it was self-inflicted. Suspect sulks and asks for an aspirin.
* ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' gives a NightmareFuel spin to it. A woman going through an horrible divorce had sex with her divorce lawyer and then falsely accused her husband of raping and beating her, getting everyone's sympathies and ruining her ex-husband's reputation. The guy snaps so violently at the fake accusation that he ''[[KillItWithFire sets his abusive ex-wife on fire]]'', killing her.
* A case on ''{{Monk}}'' has a small-time hood beat himself up, then meet with a detective under the guise of turning state's evidence in order to accuse him of brutality, thus discrediting his testimony against an old friend awaiting trial. What he wasn't told was, the mastermind behind this little plot had an extra surprise in store; another accomplice stabbed him, so it'd look like the detective was a murderer.
* Used in a ''LittleBritain'' sketch where Andy is jealous of Lou paying more attention to his new girlfriend than to Andy. They are in a pub and when Lou goes to the bar, Andy climbs out of his wheelchair and sprawls on the floor. As the girl stares in shock (because she didn't know he can walk) Lou returns and Andy shouts "She pushed me!"
* There's an episode of ''ThisIsWonderland'' where Eliot has to defend a man accused of rape. It turns out that "victim" is pulling one of these, as she keeps changing her story, which is credibility-stretching enough by the start.
* In ''{{Dexter}}'', Lila has rough sex with Angel Batista and then takes a date rape drug to accuse him of rape. Earlier in the season, she torched her apartment to get sympathy from Dexter.
** In the same season, Dexter himself uses this tactic by headbutting Doakes and walking out of a conversation held in private, successfully provoking Doakes into attacking him in front of everyone else, which leads to Doakes' suspension from the police department and definitely makes Dexter out to be an innocent victim of Doakes' animosity.
-> Dexter: I own you. BAM!
* In ''RebeldeWay'' the entire character of Javier Alanis was built to be a XanatosSpeedChess match where his only move was this gambit.
* ''BurnNotice'' talks about a variant of this, calling it "Double Blackmail," where the blackmailer will make it look like they are being blackmailed as well, so that the mark is more trusting. It is referred to as being "[[OldestOnesInTheBook Older than the Pyramids]]".
* ''{{Highlander}}'' (the TV version) mixed this with a classic BatmanGambit: Suspected in a series of beheadings committed by another Immortal, [=MacLeod=] comes to this Immortal... unarmed, followed by police, and pretending not to know what the other Immortal is talking about. When the other immortal takes his sword out, the police move in. The Enemy Of The Week gets away, but [=MacLeod=] is cleared anyway.
* Bev Harris seems to pull one in a later episode of ''{{Roseanne}}''; while she and David are discussing wedding plans and he shoots her ideas down she seems genuinely crushed, but when Darlene comes in to comfort her she claims "we were talking so nicely and all of a sudden he just ''attacked me!''. Keep in mind this is ''David'' we're talking about here.
* ''BattlestarGalactica''. Baltar's lawyer Romo Lampkin is nearly killed by a bomb blast in "The Son Also Rises"; thus in the following episode we see him limping around with the aid of a cane during Baltar's trial. After the trial is over, Romo leaves the cane with Lee and walks off normally.
*On an episode of TheInside Rebecca cornered an EnfantTerrible in her tree house and was questioning/intimidating her about the murder she had committed. When the little girl’s mother called for her she fell backwards out of the tree house breaking her arm and she claimed the FBI agent pushed her. No one in the agency blamed her but Melidy did seem impressed that Rebbeca had pulled her gun on a 10 year old.

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* This even happens in ProfessionalWrestling, of all places. A favorite tactic of the late Eddie Guerrero would be, when the EasilyDistractedReferee's back was turned, slam a chair on the ground, throw it to his opponent, and then lay down like he'd just taken a chair shot. Ref turns around, sees the "carnage", and DQ's the opponent. And this was while he was a {{Face}}, mind you.
**In fact, this is exactly what he did (to Mr. Kennedy) in his last match before he died (may he rest in peace).
** Though Eddie Guerrero employed this trope regularly, he wasn't the first (though he may have been the first good guy). In the early 1990s, Michael Hayes was wrestling Rick Steiner in World Championship Wrestling. The referee was distracted; Hayes's partner, Jimmy Garvin--lurking at ringside--threw Steiner a length of two-by-four. Hayes dropped to the mat, holding his head and writhing in pain. The ref turned to see Steiner standing over him with the board and promptly disqualified him. This was particularly effective because Rick Steiner's persona was that of a loveable doofus with very little going on upstairs; thus it was perfectly in character for him to not only catch the board, but stand there holding it with a confused look on his face.

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* The {{Pokemon}} Mawile's gimmick revolves around this. Its "Fake Tears" ability lulls its foes into a sense of complacency with its adorable face, leaving the foe wide open for a bite from its big steel jaws.
** Which is odd, seeing how Fake Tears lowers Special Defense by two levels, yet all bite attacks are mitigated by normal Defense.
** Not in the generation it was introduced. Bite/Crunch are Dark, which ran exclusively off Special Attack. The elemental attack type split wasn't until the next generation.
** Not to mention Vulpix as well, [[AllThereInTheManual which is directly stated]] in the [[http://veekun.com/dex/pokemon/vulpix/flavor Pokédex]] to feign injury as escape from a strong foe.
* Bad Girl, the Rank 2 assassin in ''NoMoreHeroes'', will sometimes drop to her knees and cry. Fall for it and [[OneHitKill you're dead]]. However, due to her severe emotional disturbance, sometimes she really ''is'' crying - [[spoiler:if one hand's on the bat, she's faking it, but if they're both on her face she's wide open.]]

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[[folder: Truth In Television ]]

* TruthInTelevision: One of the researchers who worked with Koko, the signing gorilla, described in a book a prank he would play on his fellow scientists. He would run up to Koko, pretend to cry, and tell Koko in sign language that the other researcher had hit him. Koko would chase the offender threateningly until they showed contrition. Though, if he tried to target anyone that Koko was particularly fond of, she would assume foul play and chase the accuser instead!
* Ashley Todd, a volunteer for the [=McCain=]/Palin campaign in 2008, claimed that she went to an withdraw money from an ATM when a ScaryBlackMan mugged her and, upon seeing her [=McCain=] bumper sticker, carved a "B" into her face. She declined medical attention for her injuries, but quickly notified the media about her politically-motivated victimization. She got sympathy calls from [=McCain=] and Palin and the story made the rounds for about a day before she was brought in for questioning and cracked under pressure, revealing she fabricated the entire thing and inflicted the injuries herself. Notably, the "B" she carved into her own face was backwards, as though done in a mirror...
** See also the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawana_Brawley Tawana Brawley case]], the [[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E3D61231F933A05751C1A9679C8B63 Morton Downey, Jr. "skinhead attack"]], and Crystal Gail Magnum of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Duke_University_lacrosse_case Duke Lacrosse alleged rape case]].
* [[http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/Ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm Scottsboro Boys]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Race_Riot_of_1908 Springfield Race Riot of 1908]]
* Miriam Kashani hoax.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Smith Susan Smith]]
** The rare male example, [[http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/September-October-08/On-this-Day--White-Boston-Man-Kills-Pregnant-Wife--Blames-Imaginary-Black-Man.html Charles Stuart]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Anderson Jesse Anderson]], [[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E4D61639F932A05752C0A960958260 Robert Harris]].
* In some ways, Lady Diana Spencer; after the break-up of her marriage to Prince Charles, she gave a series of interviews in which she tearfully described her unhappy life as his wife, essentially blaming the ''entire'' thing on him -- this despite the fact that she was just as adulterous as he was (if not more so; whereas Charles seemingly had only one mistress whom he later married (after she unloaded her husband, to whom she'd been married before her affair with Chuck started), she had plenty of other lovers). [[TheUnfairSex This helped very much frame Diana in the better light, making Charles the bad guy in the situation.]] It helps that [[BeautyEqualsGoodness she was an attractive blonde and he very much isn't]] (blonde or, let's face it, attractive). Of course, Diana ''was'' in a genuinely difficult and unhappy situation, but she wasn't entirely the wounded innocent she made herself out to be.
** "Not entirely" might be an understatement. She could be unpleasant bordering on abusive, especially to those who weren't in a position to make her look good to the public (such as members of the media and representatives of charities). It has been suggested that she suffered from borderline personality disorder - "I hate you, don't leave me!". The above mentioned interview in fact quite upset at least William in how slanted the whole thing was.
* Definitive and very sad TruthInTelevision: Family Law cases often involve fake abuse accusations, e.g. wives accuse husbands of physical/sexual abuse to keep them from seeing the kids and/or extort more alimony, husbands and grandparents accuse wives of neglecting their kids to get full custody, siblings accuse each other of abusing/neglecting elderly parents to get more inheritance money/benefits, men accuse women of withholding sex during the marriage to cut down on spousal support (or to make themselves out as a victim), etc.
**This Troper personally knows three men who have been accused of sexual abuse to keep them from seeing their children. She is skeptical the other situations are nearly as common.
* A considerably milder example would be the younger sibling that howls in pain and acts as though you've hit him in order to get his way/get you in serious trouble.
** Comedian John Heffron has a joke about this; whatever he was doing to annoy his brother would lead his brother to yell out "I can't breathe!", leading to Heffron being grounded.
*** And I've got some advice about this: try actually hitting the little bastard next time he does it. Best case, he'll stop; worst case, you'll at least deserve the punishment you're about to get.
*** But what if the little bastard is actually a little bitch? Freaking younger sisters, man...
**** Then show her you're not sexist; hit the little bitch, too.
* Lyndon Johnson, as a master reader of men, could be the king of this trope when it suited his purposes. As a lad, when he found himself in a physical confrontation he would immediately fall down and start kicking and crying. This behavior continued into his adulthood. After he had a massive heart attack on June 18, 1955, he used the "I'm a sick man, I don't have long to live, pity me" ploy on many of his Senate colleagues and it got results.
* See the long, sordid, and downright bizarre [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/bad_penny/1074.html Ms. Scribe Story]] for a SockPuppet laden example from the Harry Potter fandom.
* One word: Soccer.
** It's not just soccer. NBA fans love to discuss who the best floppers are. Manu Ginobili of the San Antonio Spurs gets a lot of hatedom for his proficiency at this.
** Former Lakers (among other teams) center Vlade Divac was considered the master of flopping.
** Several hockey players, including Sidney Crosby, Teemu Selanne, Alexander Ovechkin, and others have been accused of diving to draw penalties.
* It's heavily speculated that this [[http://twilightsucks.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=fangirls&action=display&thread=5143&page=1 story abotu a supposed attack]] from a {{Twilight}} rabid fan never really existed and was just a WGG from a rabid Twilight hater trying to get the book banned. Not only there are no medical or police reports around, the story itself has many inaccouracies (like the ridiculous "speech" from the attacker before commiting the EyeScream, or how "easily" she got hold of ''acid'' from a school lab when, actually, these things are ALWAYS kept under lock).
**Let's be honest; it's highly unlikely ANY of the attacks "recorded" against haters/fans are true. Both sides are full of drama queens.
*** Perhaps some of the more psycpathic ones, but [[TheRealCJ This Troper]] knows of quite a few incidents involving fans of a particular book series.
**** [[{{Orihime}} This other troper]] knows of some incidents involving ''anti'' fans attacking fans. One verbally abused a Mormon friend of the troper and made her cry just because [=SMeyer=] is a Mormon.
* Some people believe that the infamous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Shui-bian#Re-election_campaign attempt on Taiwanese ex-President Chen Shui-bian's life in 2004]] was actually a Woudned Gazelle Gambit from him to get sympathy from the voters. Either way, [[InternetBackdraft don't ask]].
* ThisTroper is right now staring at the TV. What's the big news in this moment? The supposed kidnapping and sexual abuse of two schoolgirls turned out to be an invention of two whiny {{Lonely Rich Kid}}s who wanted their parents's attention [[AttentionWhore at any costs]].

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* In the most recent WallaceAndGromit film, ''A Matter Of Loaf And Death'', the murderer deceives Wallace into thinking Gromit has attacked them, even going so far as to bite their own arm to provide an injury.
* A subplot in the FamilyGuy episode "Love Thy Trophy" concerns Meg, working as a waitress in a diner, lying about being a teenage single mother and her "son" being addicted to crack so she would get hefty tips from pitying customers.
**Not too far off as we're not sure what is in those pancakes Stewie scarfs down.
***Blueberries?
***I do about the same as Stewie does for regular pancakes, so... Make of it what you will.

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*SparklingGenerationValkyrieYuuki has Loki (yes, THAT [[NorseMythology L]][[MagnificentBastard o]][[{{Jerkass}} k]][[HeroicSociopath i]]), who, acting under orders from [[BigBad Surt]] [[spoiler: and/or as a StealthMentor]], convinces his son that Yuuki forced him to stab himself. Sleipnir [[MinionWithAnFInEvil who had completely forgotten he was there to fight Yuuki]] is easily convinced, since then [[ItsPersonal it was personal]]. SoYeah...

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