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* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' has its share of villains that aren't Team Rocket, whether single-episode Pokemon menaces, thieves, the region's local villainous team, or [[AccidentalMisnaming Bill]] and Cassidy. As Jessie and James end up appearing in nearly every episode, they get more than their share of this trope.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' has its share of villains that aren't Team Rocket, whether single-episode Pokemon menaces, thieves, the region's local villainous team, or [[AccidentalMisnaming Bill]] and Cassidy. As Jessie and James end up appearing in nearly every episode, they get more than their share of this trope.

* Subverted in the first season of ''Manga/RosarioToVampire''; in Chapter 27, Tsukune gets a centipedia sent after him. Although his current problem (the monstrels) are not shown in that chapter themselves, he does suspect that his 'centipede thing' opponent is allied with them. [[spoiler: He's wrong: Headmaster Exorcist Mikogami sent him after Tsukune to test his ghoul powers and ''damn'' did it work.]]

* Happens with [[spoiler:Monaca]] in ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopePeakHighSchool''. [[spoiler:Yes, Komaeda promised to teach her to become the next Junko Enoshima and she did KillAndReplace Gekkougahara with a robotic avatar of the Ultimate Therapist. However, she was [[EvenEvilHasStandards so disturbed over Komaeda's antics that she decides not to be the next Junko Enoshima]] and she only used Mecha!Gekkougahara (in which she killed during Komaeda's training into becoming the next Enoshima) to observe Makoto Naegi.]]

* In a non-villainous version, the first plotline in ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan W'' has two aliens ransack the [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything Great Celaeno Library]] looking for a forbidden book. Mahiro suspects that they wanted Nyarko's overdue library book, because she (unwittingly) tends to be behind these events. When it turns out that ''he'' had the book they wanted[[note]]he was looking at it while in the library and shoved it into his jacket pocket without thinking with the aliens attacked[[/note]], he gives a BigNo and Nyarko says that it was unfair for him to instantly assume it was her.

* Happens with [[spoiler:Monaca]] in ''Anime/DanganRonpa3''. [[spoiler:Yes, Komaeda promised to teach her to become the next Junko Enoshima and she did KillAndReplace Gekkougahara with a robotic avatar of the Ultimate Therapist. However, she was [[EvenEvilHasStandards so disturbed over Komaeda's antics that she decides not to be the next Junko Enoshima]] and she only used Mecha!Gekkougahara (in which she killed during Komaeda's training into becoming the next Enoshima) to observe Makoto Naegi.]]

* Subverted in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', when Tobi claims that he was not behind [[spoiler:the Kyuubi attacking Konoha]] despite confirming or expanding on much of what Sasuke was told about him. A later flashback arc shows that he really was.
** Actually played straight, he stated that the Uchiha Clan wasn't behind it. [[HalfTruth This is correct.]] They had no knowledge of it as he acted alone.

* In a non-villainous version, the first plotline in ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan W'' has two aliens ransack the [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything Great Celaeno Library]] looking for a forbidden book. Mahiro suspects that they wanted Nyarko's overdue library book, because she (unwittingly) tends to be behind these events. When it turns out that ''he'' had the book they wanted[[note]]he put it in his jacket pocket without thinking[[/note]], he gives a BigNo and Nyarko lightly scolds him for immediately blaming her.

* In ''Manga/TouhouIbarakasenWildAndHornedHermit'', someone has been attacking the people at the Myoren Temple, and Reimu is the first suspect not only because of the religious rivalry between the two shrines but because she's been extermination-happy lately. When confronted, Reimu insists that it wasn't her and points out that if she ''had'' done it, she'd be bragging about it (since it would improve her standing with the human village). [[spoiler:The culprit was actually Suika, playing a prank.]]

* Subverted in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', when Tobi claims that he was not behind [[spoiler:the Nine-Tailed Fox attacking Konoha]] despite confirming or expanding on much of what Sasuke was told about him. A later flashback arc shows that he really was.

* Happens with [[spoiler: Monaca]] in ''Anime/DanganRonpa3''. [[spoiler: Yes, Nagito promised to teach her to become the next Junko Enoshima and she did KillAndReplace Miaya with a robotic avatar of the Ultimate Therapist. However, she was [[EvenEvilHasStandards so disturbed over Nagito's antics that she decides not to be the next Junko Enoshima]] and she only used Mecha!Miaya (in which she killed during Nagito's training into becoming the next Junko) to observe Makoto Naegi.]]

* In ''Manga/TouhouIbarakasenWildAndHornedHermit'', someone has been attacking the people at the Myoren Temple, and Reimu is the first suspect not only because of the religious rivalry between the two shrines but because she's been extermination-happy lately. When confronted, Reimu insists that it wasn't her and points out that if she ''had' done it, she wouldn't be keeping quiet about it. [[spoiler:The culprit was actually Suika, playing a prank.]]

* ''KeroroGunsou'' has a rather sad example in one chapter. Keroro is expecting praise for doing a good job cleaning the house, but is instead met with furious accusations by Natsumi and Fuyuki of screwing with computer networks across the city, and has a nervous breakdown when they refuse to believe his pleas that he's not responsible. The real culprits turn out to be [[ThePsychoRangers the Garuru Platoon]], as a prelude to taking over the invasion of Earth.

* Subverted in the first season of ''RosarioToVampire''; in Chapter 27, Tsukune gets a centipedia sent after him. Although his current problem (the monstrels) are not shown in that chapter themselves, he does suspect that his 'centipede thing' opponent is allied with them. [[spoiler: He's wrong: Headmaster Exorcist Mikogami sent him after Tsukune to test his ghoul powers and ''damn'' did it work.]]

* Subverted in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', when Tobi claims that he was not behind [[spoiler:the Nine-Tailed Fox attacking Konoha]] despite confirming or expanding on much of what Sasuke was told about him, when a later flashback arc shows that he was.

* When Tohma of ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'' gets captured by the Huckebein, an infamous family of killers, he accuses them of being the culprits behind the [[DoomedHometown destruction of his hometown]]. Not so, says Fortis. He double-checked, and they're not behind that particular massacre. After all, [[SoleSurvivor Tohma survived]], and if they were the ones responsible, [[IfIWantedYouDead they would have made sure to kill everyone.]]

* Happens twice in ''DeathNote''. The first time, a man connected with the Kira investigation gets a (survivable) heart attack simply from the stress of the job; the second time, it's someone else running around with a Death Note supporting Kira's aims.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' has its share of villains that aren't Team Rocket, whether single-episode Pokemon menaces, thieves, the region's local villainous team, or [[MyNameIsNotDurwood Bill]] and Cassidy. As Jessie and James end up appearing in nearly every episode, they get more than their share of this trope.