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A variant of tropes like Once Done, Never Forgotten and Remember When You Blew Up a Sun? where people keep bringing up a character's past actions, except that he never performed those actions in the first place, or he did something related and the rumor mill did the rest. Usually Played for Laughs, but can easily be used for drama as well.
e.g. Bob is believed to be a Nazi Grandpa and a war criminal. However, it turns out while he was a criminal during wartime, he robbed a bank in 1943 and had nothing to do with actual war crimes.