Frame Up / Anime & Manga

Frame-Up in Anime & Manga.

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• Armed Girl's Machiavellism: Satori slips roofies in Nomura's food to knock him out, then strips them both naked and takes a picture with her on top of him to make it look like they are having sex, making Rin and Mary think he is a two-timer. She doctored the photo to make it look like he is awake and inserted a lens flare to disguise the fact he doesn't have an erection. Nomura tries to get the original negatives to clear his name, but Satori destroys them. Fortunately, he beats her in a fight and she confesses what she did.
• In Billy Bat, Oswald is set up as JFK's assassin, thanks to three doubles.
• In the "Wordsmith" whodunnit arc of Black Butler, Ciel and Sebastian frame a blood diamond/arms smuggler for the death of a German ship builder who would've made his country's navy more powerful than it should've been at the time. Sebastian's death was just a "joke" by Victoria, who didn't like Ciel's "prank" of completely burning the last Big Bad and his unsuspecting henchmen and victims.
• In Blade & Soul, Alka is accused by Palam of murdering her master.
• One of Cat's Eye enemies once framed them for murder. The police saw through this easily (he had described Cat's Eye as tall men, while the police already knew they were women), but played along to both gather more evidence against him (they had already arrested him once for theft of some of Heintz's paintings and arson, but the evidence disappeared and the higher ups had ordered him free) and to try to get the girls careless, only moving for the arrest when they had enough evidence to pin him with murder, perjury and attempted murder of the Cats and after Ai decided she had enough of his shit and started tossing armored dogs around.
• Deadman Wonderland begins with Ganta being framed for slaughtering everyone in his class, complete with a doctored recording of him confessing and bragging about the deed. The fact that it would've been physically impossible for Ganta to commit the murders is conveniently ignored by the Kangaroo Court.
• Doraemon: Occurs in "Soap Bubbles". Gian draws graffiti, and he gives Nobita his chalk to make it look like Nobita drew the graffiti.
• In Dragon Ball Super, Barry Khan, a super-vain actor, attempts to frame Gohan with cheating on Videl with the actress Cocoa. Unlike most examples, Videl sees through his BS and promptly shuts him down with "The Reason You Suck" Speech, proving how far she's come in Character Development from her beginnings as a Type A Tsundere.
• In Great Transporter Ryuji, Mimon drugs Ryuji and takes compromising photos of him with her naked or nearly so. She threatens to send them to the police – and worse, to his girlfriend – unless he acts as her Getaway Driver. At the end, he foolishly accepts a drink from her again, and she takes more photos to keep blackmailing him.
• In Hell Girl: Two Mirrors, Takuma is suspected of killing his father, who was murdered by another man. Unfortunately, the murderer was Dragged Off to Hell just before the police could even see him. That event gives the poor Takuma the nickname "Devil Child". And because of his reputation, the other citizens frame him up whenever they send someone to hell with the Hell Correspondence.
• Inuyasha: Naraku has tried to frame Inuyasha for his own crimes on three separate occasions: the murder of Kikyo, the destruction of Sango's hometown, and the slaughter of Koga's pack. After initially attacking Inuyasha in retribution, all three soon discover Naraku's involvement and promptly focus their efforts on him.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • Stardust Crusaders: While Joseph is getting a checkup, Nena's Empress murders the doctor and soon has the police searching all over town for him, forcing Joseph to evade them while dealing with Nena's Stand.
  • Diamond is Unbreakable: One of Kobayashi's attempts to beat Koichi is to stab himself and then throw the knife to Koichi just as his mother and sister re-enter the room, making it appear as if he had stabbed Kobayashi, amplifying the effects of Kobayashi's Lock which nearly kills Koichi's mother and sister until he manages to restore their faith in him.
  • Golden Wind: In Narancia's backstory, he was tricked by one of his friends to dye his hair blonde and ends up being framed for assaulting an old woman, who mistook him for his blonde friend.
  • Stone Ocean: Jolyne is sentenced to Green Dolphin Prison after she gets framed for deliberating causing a hit-and-run, which is later revealed to have been masterminded by Pucci to have Jotaro Lured into a Trap.
• Magilumiere Co. Ltd.: Not long after Magilumiere defeats the mutant Kaii at Tokyo Bay, Kamakura is able to have their entire company shut down by fabricating evidence that falsely accuses them of illegally raising mutant Kaii so they can take credit for exterminating them.
• Maria no Danzai:
  • Kiritaka's death is framed by Okaya's gang as a suicide in order to avoid going to prison. It works well enough at first, until Mari deduces the truth from reading Kiritaka's diary.
  • Shikimi would occasionally frame some of her classmates for stealing her gym clothes, which she herself planted in their bags, then ask if anyone believed in their innocence, thus isolating them socially when no one defended them. Maria lets her know exactly what that feels like by planting her gym clothes in Kinugawa's bag, then vouching for his innocence.
  • Maria threatens Yuda, who confessed his murder of Iijima to her, that she will report him to the police and make him the scapegoat of her own murders of her son's two bullies as her attempt to make him withdraw from associating with her.
• Record of Ragnarok: The Serpent framed Eve for eating the Forbidden Fruit by simply biting the fruit himself, then showing it to the Gods and claiming Eve did it.
• Rosario + Vampire: In his introductory arc, Gin sets Tsukune up to look like The Peeping Tom to cover his own trail; while Moka easily falls for it, Kurumu and Yukari play detective and manage to expose Gin as the real peeper to the entire school.
• In The Seven Deadly Sins, the titular group of knights were framed for killing the Great Holy Knight and Gilthunder's father, Zaratras, and trying to overthrow the kingdom. Later it's revealed that they were framed by Dreyfus and Hendrickson in order to drive them into hiding, covertly seize power and move on with their own plans for the prophesied Holy War.
• In Snow White with the Red Hair Mitsuhide is framed as being responsible for the attacks on Kiki's suitors. Everyone who knows him realizes that this accusation is insane but he is arrested and forced to hand over his sword anyway. The reason he was chosen to be framed was unexpected in the end, even after Zen, Kiki, Obi and Hisame know for sure who it was that caused the attacks they still fall for the pretense that it was about who would marry Kiki, the sole heir of a very powerful noble family, when the aim was to separate Kiki and Mitsuhide from prince Zen and replace them with retainers loyal to the guilty party so they could quietly assassinate him.
• In Starzinger, ex-Jerkass Jan Kogo is framed by some villains with time-freezing powers for destroying a spaceship where a bunch of girls were escaping from their doomed planet. It almost works, but Kogo's companion Djorgo realizes that Kogo would NOT fall that low and decides to investigate... Turns out it was a demon lord who happened to get lucky, possessing a high-level general.
• Underdog: The Serial Killer Hiyuchi's first action in the tournament is to steal the protagonist Naoto's wallet so that he can plant it on the body of a high school girl Hiyuchi just murdered. He then breaks into Naoto's house to place her student ID on his desk.
• Vinland Saga: Canute has this done to Ketil and his son, to take over his farm, who is one of the most prosperous in the region.

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