History FramingTheGuiltyParty / KnownGuiltyParties

* ''Series/DarkAngel'': A gangster commits murder by [[DestinationDefenestration throwing his victim out of a window]], thus making it look like suicide. Logan [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch conspires with the coroner]] to put a cap in the corpse's head, then planta the gun on said gangster as he attempts to board an international flight.

* ''Series/DarkAngel'': A gangster commits murder by [[DestinationDefenestration throwing his victim out of a window]], thus making it look like suicide. Logan [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch conspires with the coroner]] to put a cap in the corpse's head, then has Max plant the gun on the gangster as he attempts to board an international flight.

** After some black men are arrested for seemingly killing a bunch of cops, they "escape" custody and are eventually gun downed by Exley. Afterwards, he talks to a Mexican girl who gave evidence against them and she admits she knows they didn't do it, but they did rape ''her'' and the police wouldn't have bothered pursuing them for that since she's just a poor minority in a racist city. To get justice, she didn't hesitate to frame them for a crime the police ''would'' be interested in.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', Jolee Bindo's old friend Sunry is accused of murder on Manaan, and the PlayerCharacter acts as his attorney. It turns out that Sunry, a Republic war hero, murdered TheMistress when he discovered she was a Sith HoneyTrap, then called Republic Intelligence to clean up the scene. The spy's Sith handlers then planted evidence to frame Sunry all over again. It's up to the PC what they do with this information: there's little enough untampered evidence that [[AmoralAttorney it's possible to get Sunry acquitted]] without taking any of the possible Dark Side actions (mainly using {{Jedi Mind Trick}}s to [[FantasticLegalWeirdness make witnesses perjure themselves]]), or you can have Sunry plead guilty.

* This trope is a gameplay mechanic in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' as the "Perjury" system. If you know someone is guilty but can't prove it, you can change your Truth bullet into a Lie to catch them off guard.

* Invoked in ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' with the ogre Oleg Stark, who goes on a RageAgainstTheJusticeSystem when he escapes prison because evidence against him was ignored during his original arrest. However, in this case it was ignored because the investigating officials knew he had committed the crime in question; his “alibi” had been set up by Stark himself, who arranged for someone who looked like him to be seen in another place when Stark was committing his own crimes.

* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow: The Third'', the S.T.A.G. Initiative is sent to put a stop to the gang violence by declaring martial law in the city. [[RootingForTheEmpire Thing is, they're entirely correct]]: the player-character is pretty much somewhere between SociopathicHero, PsychoForHire, and AxeCrazy. However, [[spoiler:in the penultimate mission, [[TheDragon Kia]] tries to fake a terrorist attack by the Saints]], and whether it succeeds or not is [[MultipleEndings up to the player]].

** It turns up in "Rise from the Ashes", with [[spoiler: the Joe Darke case, in which the corrupt police chief ''committed a murder himself'', then set things up to look like an innocent was the unintentional culprit, so that said innocent's sister would frame the aforementioned Darke, a SpreeKiller against whom there would otherwise have been insufficient evidence]].
** The fourth case in ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll Justice for All]]'' shows [[DeconstructedTrope the possible consequences of this trope]]. [[spoiler:Adrian Andrews planted evidence to frame Matt Engarde for the murder of his rival because she suspected that he had something to do with it. Indeed, he was the man who hired the assassin. But Phoenix manages to expose the contradictions and prove that she framed him... and suddenly ''she's'' the prime suspect in a murder she never committed!]]

** A rather twisted example with Kay's actual killer in the film giving this reason for framing Kay's boyfriend for the crime (he has leverage on Dormer to cooperate with him), arguing that he beat her and "would have killed her someday anyway". [[{{Hypocrite}} Never mind that he is the one who violently beat her to death over the course of 15 minutes.]]

* ''Film/TheIllusionist'': [[spoiler:The Crown Prince has beaten and possibly even killed women before. But the murder accusation that eventually [[DrivenToSuicide drives him to suicide]] is actually false.]] The frame-up is so good, even he believes that he did it.

** Holmes quickly figured out the "murder victim" had committed suicide in an attempt to frame a man for her death, as there was no proof of his guilt in another crime, but his curiosity is roused to uncover the real crimes the man committed.

* ''Series/StrangerThings'': Part of Season 2. In an attempt to get justice for Barb, and give her family some closure. They can't just say that Hawkins was performing experiments that caused them to open a tunnel into an alternate dimension, unleashing a monster into our world that devoured Barb. Instead, they frame Hawkins for a toxic chemical leak, telling everyone Barb was killed by it and they disposed of her body to cover it up.

* Mentioned in ''Film/LAConfidential''. Captain Smith tells Lt. Exley that Exley won't be able to handle being a detective precisely because he wouldn't be willing to frame a suspect he knew to be guilty. After murdering a gangbanger in cold blood for kidnapping and raping a girl, Bud White actually plants a gun on him to make the execution look like self-defense.

* ''{{Series/Liar}}'': Laura attempts this, along with Vanessa, against [[spoiler:Andrew]] to prove he raped them when legal evidence isn't forthcoming. It fails though.

** Used in "Redrum," when Catherine, Brass, and [=McKeen=] fake the murder of a snitch so the forensics will point at a suspected murderer. The goal is [[BluffingTheMurderer to get the murderer to unwittingly reveal evidence]] for the murders he actually ''did'' commit. Their own team members (who initially think that Internal Affairs is just messing with them) eventually discover the conspiracy. It only falls apart because [=McKeen=] was ''supposed'' to let the judge and D.A. in on the scheme, but neglected to do so [[spoiler:(which may be FridgeBrilliance as much later he turns out to be TheMole)]]. They still get the bad guy, though, because he really was [[WhatAnIdiot stupid enough to fall for it]], and it turned out that he was the killer of the B-plot as well, and they had stronger evidence pinning him for that crime.

* This was more or less the standard operating procedure of the LAPD (and possibly other police departments all over the US) — "We know who did it, so let's fabricate further evidence to ensure a faster and smoother trial". This is a large part of why O.J. Simpson went free, and that embarrassment has at least seemingly put an end to its wide-scale use.

* ''Manga/InoHeadGargoyle'': Saejima is fully prepared to do this if he and Shizuka can't find any evidence to incriminate her BadBoss.

** The fourth case in ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Justice for All]]'' shows [[DeconstructedTrope the possible consequences of this trope]]. [[spoiler:Adrian Andrews planted evidence to frame Matt Engarde for the murder of his rival because she suspected that he had something to do with it. Indeed, he was the man who hired the assassin. But Phoenix manages to expose the contradictions and prove that she framed him... and suddenly ''she's'' the prime suspect in a murder she never committed!]]
** The first case of the fourth game, ''{{VisualNovel/Apollo Justice|Ace Attorney}}'', plays it straight two ways: [[spoiler:Phoenix is accused of a murder he didn't commit. The evidence has been destroyed, but Phoenix forges it to convict the real killer (he set up a HeadsIWinTailsYouLose situation, since the killer knows that the evidence is forged, but saying it out loud confirms that he ''was'' at the crime scene when it happened, thus having no alibi). Apollo is less than happy when he finds out about it. Olga Orly and Shadi Smith planted a card to make Phoenix look like a cheater; while the accusation is false, Phoenix occasionally cheated by relying on Trucy's ability to perceive the tells of opponents]].

* In a variant on the theme in ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'', Wildcat reveals he once framed a man for the murder of his own family, because the man had, in retribution, killed the actual murderer and his innocent family, but there wasn't a way to get (or apparently plant) the evidence linking him to the crime of killing the other family. It's still played as being an act of MoralDissonance for Wildcat, and he pays for it with [[spoiler:all but the last of his supernatural nine lives]].

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