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** In ''The Fever'', you would think it would be jealous girlfriend of one of the local boys who is targeting the sick protagonist due to him visiting her regularly and making sure she's okay, especially when she shows up with her leg bandaged due to a cut (the protagonist had been assaulted while attempting to shave her legs, and used her razor to defend herself). [[spoiler: It turns out to be one of the student nurses who killed the protagonist's best friend in her hospital room, because he threatened to tell her superiors about a terrible mistake she mad with medication, that put a patient in danger, and the killer couldn't stand the thought of her perfect record and future as a nurse being put in jeopardy.]]

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** In ''The Fever'', you would think it would be jealous girlfriend of one of the local boys who is targeting the sick protagonist due to him visiting her regularly and making sure she's okay, especially when she shows up with her leg bandaged due to a cut (the protagonist had been assaulted while attempting to shave her legs, and used her razor to defend herself). [[spoiler: It turns out to be one of the student nurses who killed the protagonist's best friend in her hospital room, because he threatened to tell her superiors about a terrible mistake she mad made with medication, that put a patient in danger, and the killer couldn't stand the thought of her perfect record and future as a nurse being put in jeopardy.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': In "Mystery Train", Finn [[ThrillerOnTheExpress tries to solve a series of murders on a train ride]]. He insists that the creepy conductor can't be the killer because he's too obvious a suspect. [[spoiler: Subverted when it turns out the conductor ''is'' the killer. Fortunately, it was all a FakeMystery and the conductor was [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Jake the Dog]] in disguise.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': In "[[Recap/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerS4E07MerMysteries Mer-Mysteries]]", when it becomes clear that there's a Horde spy somewhere in the Bright Moon castle, most of the Rebellion quickly guess it's [[TokenEvilTeammate Shadow Weaver]], but Mermista, [[GenreSavvy who's read plenty of detective novels]], immediately rules her out ''because'' she's the most obvious culprit.

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*** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' has Rantaro Amami (whose Ultimate talent is unknown for most of the game); [[spoiler:Maki Harukawa]] (once her true identity is revealed as [[spoiler:the Ultimate Assassin]]); Kokichi Oma, the Ultimate Supreme Leader (''what'' he is the Supreme Leader of is a mystery for most of the game, though he insists it's a NebulousEvilOrganization trying to conquer the world); and Korekiyo Shinguji, the Ultimate Anthropologist (not a particularly murder-y talent, but he's a pretty weird and creepy dude and even says outright in the first chapter that his appearance and behaviour is befitting of a culprit). [[spoiler:Rantaro is the victim of the first case, Maki survives to the end (though she does try to kill Kokichi but doesn't succeed), Kokichi is the victim of the fifth case and was actually the Supreme Leader of a group of clowns who only commit petty crimes and pull pranks on people, and Korekiyo... [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers is 100% guilty of two murders in the third chapter]]. Yeah, the MetaTwist is that for once, the obvious guy really ''did'' do it]].

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*** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' has Rantaro Amami (whose Ultimate talent is unknown for most of the game); [[spoiler:Maki Harukawa]] (once her true identity is revealed as [[spoiler:the Ultimate Assassin]]); Kokichi Oma, the Ultimate Supreme Leader (''what'' he is the Supreme Leader of is a mystery for most of the game, though he insists it's a NebulousEvilOrganization trying to conquer the world); and Korekiyo Shinguji, the Ultimate Anthropologist (not a particularly murder-y talent, but he's a pretty weird and creepy dude and even says outright in the first chapter that his appearance and behaviour is befitting of a culprit). [[spoiler:Rantaro is the victim of the first case, Maki survives to the end (though she does try to kill Kokichi but doesn't succeed), Kokichi is the victim of the fifth case and was actually the Supreme Leader of a group of clowns who only commit petty crimes and pull pranks on people, and Korekiyo... [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Korekiyo is 100% guilty of two murders in the third chapter]].chapter. Yeah, the MetaTwist is that for once, the obvious guy really ''did'' do it]].
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* Happens fairly frequently in ''Literature/PointHorror''
** In ''The Fun House'', Tess suspects classmate Trudy is the one injuring the kids of various boardwalk owners after a beach party resulted in most of her friends being poisoned and falling ill because Trudy didn't eat anything. Surely she must have avoided the food because she had put rat poison in it, right? [[spoiler: Trudy simply wasn't hungry that night, and had no idea about the poison. The actual culprit is Tess's half brother, who decided to make his classmates suffer because their parents tricked his birth family out of the boardwalk they owned (resulting in his birth father's suicide), then pressured his birth mother into selling her baby so Tess's father could have an heir (leading to her suicide).]]
** In ''The Fever'', you would think it would be jealous girlfriend of one of the local boys who is targeting the sick protagonist due to him visiting her regularly and making sure she's okay, especially when she shows up with her leg bandaged due to a cut (the protagonist had been assaulted while attempting to shave her legs, and used her razor to defend herself). [[spoiler: It turns out to be one of the student nurses who killed the protagonist's best friend in her hospital room, because he threatened to tell her superiors about a terrible mistake she mad with medication, that put a patient in danger, and the killer couldn't stand the thought of her perfect record and future as a nurse being put in jeopardy.]]

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