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Author: OmarKarindu

Dec 13th 2012 at 3:35:04 PM

Comic Books
* Thanks to a related trope, BatDeduction, some of the Riddler's riddles work this way. For a relatively grounded example, his first-ever crime used the clue "banquet," sending Batman and the police to a charity dinner. The real, and much less conventional meaning of the clue was that the Riddler had ''flooded a bank vault'' -- gotten a "bank wet" -- to defeat its pressure-sensitive locking mechanism and was looting it in scuba gear.

Live-Action TV
* Double-subverted in ''Series/Community'' when the study group cannot work out what happened to Annie's missing pen. Unwilling to believe any of the group stole it, they agree to believe Troy's manufactured story that a ghost took it. In fact, [[spoiler: it was Troy's escaped pet monkey, Annie's Boobs.]] 
* Interestingly used as part of how the WeirdnessCensor is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] on early seasons of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', where the police (who know the truth about the town's vampire problem) have little trouble convincing most people that the vampires are just PCP addicts. As Oz points out when he's told the real story, the vampire explanation actually makes more sense.