History Main / FieryCoverUp

* Common in ''DetectiveConan'' when the MenInBlack are involved.

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* Depressingly common in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}''. An Inquisitor uncovers something nasty on a planet, and enlists the aid of the [[BadassNormal Imperial]] [[RedshirtArmy Guard]] to defeat it. And afterward calls [[EarthShatteringKaboom Exterminatus]] on the planet to erase any evidence of the danger, and handily take care of the witnesses. Other times, they don't even bother calling for help, and just blow up the planet at the first sign of heresy, daemonic activity, or alien corruption. Just another day in the {{grim dark}}ness of the far future.

* Lex Luthor does this to one of his own buildings at the beginning of ''BlackOrchid'', incidentally [[DecoyProtagonist burning up the title character]].

* Lila on ''{{Dexter}}'' gets particularly excited about setting things on fire. Toward the end of season two, she discovers that a) Dexter is the Bay Harbor Butcher and b) all the evidence to incriminate him is in the cabin. [[spoiler: To help him, she blows it to Kingdom Come. It actually does help him, in far more ways than she initially realizes]].

* In {{Nikita}}, Division uses this method to remove themselves from the scene of a crashed drug smuggling plane.
** Division also uses a large fire to cover up their involvement in [[spoiler: the murder of the Udinov family]].
** and Nikita herself uses this method [[spoiler:in the finale, to destroy her safehouse]].

* This has been done a few times in NCIS. Once, to cover up the death of [spoiler: Jenny Shepard, who died in California], by making it look like an unfortunate accident at home so that the newsmedia doesn't learn about the true cause of death. Another time, it is revealed that members of Moussad who are compromised will call in special teams that cover up evidence of the operative in question by staging a fire. In a third instance, a hostage is placed on a pressure plate that threatens to blow up everyone and everything in the room, including computer banks that contain considerable evidence if the hostage is removed (the hostage is safely removed in a manner referencing one of the Indiana Jones flicks and returned to safety, but the aforementioned evidence went up in smoke).

* This has been done a few times in NCIS. Once, to cover up the death of [spoiler: Jenny Shepard, who died in California], by making it look like an unfortunate accident at home so that the newsmedia doesn't learn about the true cause of death. Another time, it is revealed that members of Moussad who are compromised will call in special teams that cover up evidence of the operative in question by staging a fire. In a third instance, a hostage is placed on a pressure plate that threatens to blow up everyone and everything in the room, including computer banks that contain considerable evidence if the hostage is removed (the hostage is safely removed in a manner referencing one of the Indiana Jones flicks and returned to safety, but the aforementioned evidence went up in smoke).

* In TerryPratchett's ''Jingo'', one of these is used on the Klatchian embassy. [[spoiler:The crime? Treason.]]

* In ''FanFic/AeonEntelechyEvangelion'' the OIS forensic team tries to find any evidence on the group who compromised the airport security on the day Shinji arrived. Problem: They are doing in the aftermath of battle, where one side, the NEG Army, was desperate enough to lob relatively small tactical nuclear warheads at the other side, the Third Harbinger Asherah, who casually violates spacetime and reality while pwning the humans with ease. Suffice to say, there is not much dig.

** Which would explain why in Resident Evil 4 [[spoiler: they were caught out and government threw the book at them]].

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* [[MegaCorp Aoyama Pharmaceutical]] in ''{{Mnemosyne}}'' demolishes Sayara Yamanobe's secret lab soon after it is compromised in the first episode.
* Common in ''DetectiveConan'' when the MenInBlack are involved.
* RurouniKenshin - this was attempted on Shishio Makoto. It didn't kill him, but it did leave him covered head-to-toe with third degree burns.
* In ''DeathNote'', Light has an elaborate setup to hide the Death Note. It's in a drawer, under a false bottom, with a circuit underneath the false bottom, around the Death Note. There is a rubber pad that keeps the circuit from being completed when the false bottom is down; the only way to take it out is to slide the ink barrel of a pen through a small hole on the underside of the drawer to block the circuit and push the false bottom up. If the circuit is completed, the Death Note will be ignited. This way, even if they suspect that he's Kira, even if they know about the Death Note, even if they realize that there's a false bottom on the drawer, the Death Note will be reduced to ash and they will have no proof.
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