History Main / ClearTheirName

* In "[[Recap/FatherBrownS1E4 The Man in the Tree]]", Sid quickly becomes the prime suspect and Father Brown has to race to find the true culprit before he's formally convicted.

* In the episode of ''Series/{{Wishbone}}'' based on ''Hound of the Baskervilles'', Wishbone is accused of causing trouble around the neighborhood. The audience knows that another dog, a bloodhound, is causing the trouble but when a neighbor "catches Wishbone in the act" (really having stepped outside too late to see the other dog), the main trio takes it upon themselves to figure out what really happened, even finding a piece of evidence that [[AdultsAreUseless the adults all missed]]: namely Wishbone's teeth and paws are too small to cause the tooth marks and paw prints found at two of the scenes.

* In ''Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked'', [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/03-22.html November sets out into the woods to look for a way to clear Claire's name]], [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/03-24.html Perrault follows]], and [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/03-26.html reveals that Red also went, first.]]

* In the second book of the ''Literature/KnightAndRogueSeries'' Fisk is called home to prove his brother-in-law innocent. Said brother-in-law, Max, was accused of having bribed several witnesses no falsely acuse two men so he could have them hung.

Occasionally the person who's locked will up be guilty after all. Another popular twist is to have the guilty party be the one who wants the accused cleared (often because of feelings of guilt) but doesn't have the guts (or in some odd cases can't prove it as it looks like they're just taking the fall for them) to confess.

* ''Literature/PartnersInCrime'': In the story "Finessing the King/The Gentleman Dressed In Newspaper", Inspector Marriot arrests the victim's lover, and tells Tommy and Tuppence repeatedly that it's an open-and-shut case. Tuppence realises that he's trying to wind them up, since his instincts tell him the man is innocent, but is constrained by the evidence.

* In a ''ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|KellyThompson}}'' arc tying in with ''ComicBook/{{Empyre}}'', ComicBook/CarolDanvers (recently made a Kree Accuser) was assigned by Emperor Hulkling to track down and execute an apparent war criminal, a female Kree soldier, for destroying a Kree[=/=]Skrull city. When the Kree surrenders herself, she insists she's innocent but is willing to die an honorable death by a living legend. Carol decides to use her warhammer to see if the Kree truly isn't guilty, and not only does she learn that [[LongLostRelative she's her half-sister Lauri-ell]], she sees nothing that indicates she's responsible for the crime. Acting against Hulkling's order, Carol hides Lauri-ell on Earth and investigates who the true perpetrator is.

** ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan1963'' Annual 5 revealed that Spidey's parents Richard and Mary Parker had been secret agents who had been killed in action by by the second Red Skull, then framed as traitors as a final insult. Spidey then went on a quest to clear his parents' names.

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* In ''LetsPlay/SkyblockButEvery30SecondsARandomItemSpawns'', the Twitch chat tries to clear Jim Jum's name when he's sentenced to hang for Barnaby's murder. [[spoiler:They succeed, but Jim Jum's unable to be saved.]]
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* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** An old story revealed that Spidey's parents Richard and Mary Parker had been secret agents who had been killed in action by a supervillain, then framed as traitors as a final insult. Spidey then went on a quest to clear his parents' names.
** Betty Brant cleared the name of his dead husband, Ned Leeds, when she revealed that Roderick Kingsley was the real Hobgoblin (Ned was brainwashed by Kingsley to act as the Hobgoblin in situations where Kingsley didn't want to put himself at risk).