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* In ''Film/TheTroubleWithHarry'', multiple characters think they might have killed Harry, which results in his body being moved multiple times as they try to hide their possible guilt. In this case, none of them actually set out to murder him, but each one believes they may be guilty of at least manslaughter. [[spoiler:It turns out none of them actually killed Harry.]]
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* In ''Film/TheTroubleWithHarry'', multiple characters think they might have killed Harry, which results in his body being moved multiple times as they try to hide their possible guilt. In this case, none of them actually set out to murder him, but each one believes they may be guilty of at least manslaughter. [[spoiler:It turns out none of them actually killed Harry.Harry; he keeled over dead of natural causes deep in the woods.]]
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* PlayedForLaughs in the ''Fanfic/{{Infinity}}'' spin-off ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9485532/1/Fate-T-Harlaown-and-the-Case-of-the-Murderous-Murder Fate T. Harlaown and the Case of the Murderous Murder]]''. [[spoiler:Every single suspect thinks that they succeeded in killing the governor, but he actually choked to death on a nut.]]
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* PlayedForLaughs in the ''Fanfic/{{Infinity}}'' spin-off ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9485532/1/Fate-T-Harlaown-and-the-Case-of-the-Murderous-Murder Fate T. Harlaown and the Case of the Murderous Murder]]''. [[spoiler:Every single suspect thinks that they succeeded in killing the governor, but he actually choked to death on a nut. They still all get arrested due to all the illegal stuff they confessed to during their EvilGloating.]]
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* In "VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate" The Dreadful Crimes DLC one of the murder cases is called "The Most Hated Man In London", in it a [[ScheduleFanatic a obssessively punctual]] murder victim gets [[RasputinianDeath poisoned twice, shot, stabbed and crushed by a falling crate in rapid succession]] by five different assailants who independently decided to murder him at roughly the same time, with the Frye Twins being asked to figure out which of the murder attempts was actually successful.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': Downplayed and played for laughs in "[=McMystery=] at [=McDuck=] [=McManor=]!", where Louie ends up inviting three of Uncle Scrooge's nemeses to a last-minute birthday party where Scrooge disappears. While they all attempted to kill, rob, or sabotage Scrooge, the disappearance was actually caused by the ghost of Scrooge's butler ''saving'' Scrooge from the villains ([[ArsonMuderAndJaywalking and the "subpar party"]]).
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* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': Downplayed and played for laughs in "[=McMystery=] at [=McDuck=] [=McManor=]!", where Louie ends up inviting three of Uncle Scrooge's nemeses to a last-minute birthday party where Scrooge disappears. While they all attempted to kill, rob, or sabotage Scrooge, the disappearance was actually caused by the ghost of Scrooge's butler ''saving'' Scrooge from the villains ([[ArsonMuderAndJaywalking ([[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and the "subpar party"]]).
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* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': Downplayed and played for laughs in "[=McMystery=] at [=McDuck=] [=McManor=]!", where Louie ends up inviting three of Uncle Scrooge's nemeses to a last-minute birthday party where Scrooge disappears. While they all attempted to kill, rob, or sabotage Scrooge, the disappearance was actually caused by the ghost of Scrooge's butler ''saving'' Scrooge from the villains ([[ArsonMuderAnsJaywalking and the "subpar party"]]).
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* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': Downplayed and played for laughs in "[=McMystery=] at [=McDuck=] [=McManor=]!", where Louie ends up inviting three of Uncle Scrooge's nemeses to a last-minute birthday party where Scrooge disappears. While they all attempted to kill, rob, or sabotage Scrooge, the disappearance was actually caused by the ghost of Scrooge's butler ''saving'' Scrooge from the villains ([[ArsonMuderAnsJaywalking ([[ArsonMuderAndJaywalking and the "subpar party"]]).
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* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': Played for laughs in "[=McMystery=] at [=McDuck=] [=McManor=]!", where Louie ends up inviting three of Uncle Scrooge's nemeses to a last-minute birthday party where Scrooge disappears. While they all attempted to kill, rob, or sabotage Scrooge, none of them actually succeeded -- the ghost of Scrooge's butler was actually saving Scrooge from the villains (and the subpar party).
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* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': Played Downplayed and played for laughs in "[=McMystery=] at [=McDuck=] [=McManor=]!", where Louie ends up inviting three of Uncle Scrooge's nemeses to a last-minute birthday party where Scrooge disappears. While they all attempted to kill, rob, or sabotage Scrooge, none of them the disappearance was actually succeeded -- caused by the ghost of Scrooge's butler was actually saving ''saving'' Scrooge from the villains (and ([[ArsonMuderAnsJaywalking and the subpar party)."subpar party"]]).
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* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': Played for laughs in "[=McMystery=] at [=McDuck=] [=McManor=]!", where Louie ends up inviting three of Uncle Scrooge's nemeses to a last-minute birthday party where Scrooge disappears. While they all attempted to kill, rob, or sabotage Scrooge, none of them actually succeeded -- the ghost of Scrooge's butler was actually saving Scrooge from the villains (and the subpar party).
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* In the fourth chapter of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' both [[spoiler:Yasuhiro Hagakure]] and [[spoiler:Genocide Jack]] believe they killed [[spoiler:Sakura Ogami by [[GrievousBottleyHarm hitting her over the head with a bottle]]]], but things aren't quite what they seem. [[spoiler:Sakura actually [[HeroicSuicide killed herself]]]].
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* In the fourth chapter of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' both [[spoiler:Yasuhiro Hagakure]] and [[spoiler:Genocide Jack]] believe ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', two separate people ''think'' that they killed [[spoiler:Sakura Ogami by [[GrievousBottleyHarm are the Blackened after panicking and hitting her over Sakura Ogami on the head with a bottle]]]], but things aren't quite what they seem. [[spoiler:Sakura actually [[HeroicSuicide bottles. These are red herrings; Sakura was too tough for that to kill her.[[spoiler: She killed herself]]]].herself as a HeroicSacrifice to prevent her life being used to sow discord between the others.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Moe'N'a Lisa", Abe Simpson shares a story about how he almost killed Adolf Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by throwing a javelin at him [[NiceJobBreakingItHero only for it to impale a Nazi officer about to shoot Hitler himself]]. Though, since this is [[ScatterbrainedSenior Abe]]'s story, it most likely never happened.
-->'''Hitler:''' What is this, "Kill Hitler Day"?
-->'''Hitler:''' What is this, "Kill Hitler Day"?
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* ''Fanfic/DanganronpaMementoMori'': [[spoiler:Chapter 5 has Umiko hit Madoka over the head with a bottle, then Souta accidently shooting her with a tranquilizer rifle, before Ayane finally inadvertently kills her with an overdose of [[ShotToTheHeart adrenaline to the heart]]. Then Daigo stabs Madoka's corpse with a pocketknife [[TakingTheHeat to make it seem like he did it]]]].
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* ''Series/MurderSheWrote'': In "The Error of her Ways", the first VictimOfTheWeek was shot by his wife who then fainted. The murderer - having witnessed the shooting - came in to steal a BriefcaseFullOfMoney. Realising the husband was still alive, the killer smothered him with a VorpalPillow. When the wife awoke, she discovered her husband dead and - assuming she had killed him - attempted to cover up the crime by making it look like a robbery gone wrong. The real murderer later killed the wife to make it look like she had committed suicide out of guilt.
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** In "The Error of her Ways", the first VictimOfTheWeek was shot by his wife who then fainted. The murderer - having witnessed the shooting - came in to steal a BriefcaseFullOfMoney. Realising the husband was still alive, the killer smothered him with a VorpalPillow. When the wife awoke, she discovered her husband dead and - assuming she had killed him - attempted to cover up the crime by making it look like a robbery gone wrong. The real murderer later killed the wife to make it look like she had committed suicide out ofguilt.guilt.
** In "Murder in the Afternoon", the script editor of a daytime soap is seemingly shot by the masked killer she created as a plot device to sack half the cast, thereby putting suspicion on the actress who plays the role. It turns out that this was another actor, who was horrified that the script editor was breaking up his FamilyOfChoice ... but who was so deep into ActorRoleConfusion that he forgot the Masked Avenger's gun was loaded with blanks. Someone else ''actually'' shot her afterwards.
** In "The Error of her Ways", the first VictimOfTheWeek was shot by his wife who then fainted. The murderer - having witnessed the shooting - came in to steal a BriefcaseFullOfMoney. Realising the husband was still alive, the killer smothered him with a VorpalPillow. When the wife awoke, she discovered her husband dead and - assuming she had killed him - attempted to cover up the crime by making it look like a robbery gone wrong. The real murderer later killed the wife to make it look like she had committed suicide out of
** In "Murder in the Afternoon", the script editor of a daytime soap is seemingly shot by the masked killer she created as a plot device to sack half the cast, thereby putting suspicion on the actress who plays the role. It turns out that this was another actor, who was horrified that the script editor was breaking up his FamilyOfChoice ... but who was so deep into ActorRoleConfusion that he forgot the Masked Avenger's gun was loaded with blanks. Someone else ''actually'' shot her afterwards.
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* One case from ''Manga/CaseClosed'' plays out like this when an actor is found dead at the theater where he worked. The three other actors each confess to killing him by smashing a vase over his head, with forensics finding skin particles from the victim on each of the three vases. [[spoiler:However, the autopsy revealed the head wounds were not serious enough to kill him. His real cause of death was heart failure due to his wife [[MedicationTampering swapping his heart medication with stomach medication]].]]
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** One casefrom ''Manga/CaseClosed'' plays out like this when an actor is found dead at the theater where he worked. The three other actors each confess to killing him by smashing a vase over his head, with forensics finding skin particles from the victim on each of the three vases. [[spoiler:However, the autopsy revealed the head wounds were not serious enough to kill him. His real cause of death was heart failure due to his wife [[MedicationTampering swapping his heart medication with stomach medication]].]]
** In another case, a chef is found dead at his restaurant, seemingly having been killed when a flower pot fell off a set of stairs due to vibrations from a nearby building site and landed on his head. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that the flower pot was deliberately set up to drop, as the vibrations from the building site had ceased due to the machines there having broken down. Furthermore, it turns out that the flower pot only hit the victim's empty chair as it fell, as the chef had already been killed by an employee of the restaurant using a [[EdibleBludgeon frozen fish]] as the murder weapon. The twist is that the chef turns out to have been the murderer's DisappearedDad, having left her mother behind for his career and not even knowing that he had fathered a child.]]
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** In another case, a chef is found dead at his restaurant, seemingly having been killed when a flower pot fell off a set of stairs due to vibrations from a nearby building site and landed on his head. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that the flower pot was deliberately set up to drop, as the vibrations from the building site had ceased due to the machines there having broken down. Furthermore, it turns out that the flower pot only hit the victim's empty chair as it fell, as the chef had already been killed by an employee of the restaurant using a [[EdibleBludgeon frozen fish]] as the murder weapon. The twist is that the chef turns out to have been the murderer's DisappearedDad, having left her mother behind for his career and not even knowing that he had fathered a child.]]
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* In the comedy ''Theatre/HiddenMeanings'', a dead body is found hidden in a cupboard. Over the course of the play, pretty much every member of the cast admits, with varying amounts of guilt and/or pride, to having done the deed -- including the victim, who is discovered at the end of the play to be carrying a suicide note.
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* In the comedy ''Theatre/HiddenMeanings'', a dead body is found hidden in a cupboard. Over the course of the play, pretty much every member of the cast admits, with varying amounts of guilt and/or pride, to having done the deed -- including the victim, who is discovered at the end of the play to be carrying a suicide note.
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* In the comedy ''Theatre/HiddenMeanings'', a dead body is found hidden in a cupboard. Over the course of the play, pretty much every member of the cast admits, with varying amounts of guilt and/or pride, to having done the deed -- including the victim, who is discovered at the end of the play to be carrying a suicide note.
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* In the comedy ''Theatre/HiddenMeanings'', a dead body is found hidden in a cupboard. Over the course of the play, pretty much every member of the cast admits, with varying amounts of guilt and/or pride, to having done the deed -- including the victim, who is discovered at the end of the play to be carrying a suicide note.
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* In one case of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' both [[spoiler:Yasuhiro Hagakure]] and [[spoiler:Genocide Jack]] believe they killed [[spoiler:Sakura Ogami by [[GrievousBottleyHarm hitting her over the head with a bottle]]]], but things aren't quite what they seem. [[spoiler:Sakura actually [[HeroicSuicide killed herself]]]].
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* In one case the fourth chapter of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' both [[spoiler:Yasuhiro Hagakure]] and [[spoiler:Genocide Jack]] believe they killed [[spoiler:Sakura Ogami by [[GrievousBottleyHarm hitting her over the head with a bottle]]]], but things aren't quite what they seem. [[spoiler:Sakura actually [[HeroicSuicide killed herself]]]].
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* One episode of ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' had a victim who was murdered twice. The victim was a BASE jumper, and one of the killers sabotaged his parachute so that it wouldn't open. The second, unrelated, killer sniped him with a rifle while he was in an uncontrolled fall.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/SmilingFriends'' episode "Who Violently Murdered Simon S. Salty?" focuses on Pim and Charlie trying to figure out [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin who violently murdered fast food mascot Simon S. Salty]], finding each of the other mascots all had a motive to want him dead. Eventually, they manage to get a security tape of the murder scene, forwarding and rewinding the tape to show ''every single suspect'' trying to kill Salty in his sleep. [[spoiler: Then they rewind the tape to the very beginning and see that Salty died of a heart attack right before going to bed, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome due to spending years eating nothing but unhealthy burgers.]]]]
--> '''Pim''': [[spoiler: So I guess that means they're all innocent. Salty technically died from a heart attack.]]\\
'''Charlie''': [[spoiler:[[LampshadeHanging I mean all these characters are definitely psychopaths]], but I guess none of them killed him.]]
--> '''Pim''': [[spoiler: So I guess that means they're all innocent. Salty technically died from a heart attack.]]\\
'''Charlie''': [[spoiler:[[LampshadeHanging I mean all these characters are definitely psychopaths]], but I guess none of them killed him.]]
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* One case from ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' plays out like this when an actor is found dead at the theater where he worked. The three other actors each confess to killing him by smashing a vase over his head, with forensics finding skin particles from the victim on each of the three vases. [[spoiler:However, the autopsy revealed the head wounds were not serious enough to kill him. His real cause of death was heart failure due to his wife [[MedicationTampering swapping his heart medication with stomach medication]].]]
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* One case from ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' ''Manga/CaseClosed'' plays out like this when an actor is found dead at the theater where he worked. The three other actors each confess to killing him by smashing a vase over his head, with forensics finding skin particles from the victim on each of the three vases. [[spoiler:However, the autopsy revealed the head wounds were not serious enough to kill him. His real cause of death was heart failure due to his wife [[MedicationTampering swapping his heart medication with stomach medication]].]]
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Compare TwoDunIt and EverybodyDidIt, where multiple people ''succeed'' at murder. Can overlap with TwoRightsMakeAWrong if multiple murder attempts accidentally cancel each other out. See also CollidingCriminalConspiracies.
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A subtrope of GambitPileUp. Compare TwoDunIt and EverybodyDidIt, where multiple people ''succeed'' at murder. Can overlap with TwoRightsMakeAWrong if multiple murder attempts accidentally cancel each other out. See also CollidingCriminalConspiracies.
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Kill Dr. Lucky: ''[[AssholeVictim Be]]'' [[AssholeVictim the murderer to win]].]]
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* The plot of the second expansion of ''VideoGame/TheOuterWorlds'' is kicked off when you're hired to investigate the murder of a famous actress who was found [[NoKillLikeOverkill beaten, shot, and poisoned with multiple toxic substances]]. You soon discover that [[CollidingCriminalConspiracies all her injuries were caused by the independent schemes of different people]]; she was (non-lethally) poisoned by a rival to make her miss an important event, [[AccidentalMurder accidentally]] overdosed by a drug dealer who gave her too high a dosage, fatally beaten over the head with a bottle (needlessly; she would've probably died from the double-poisoning, not that the killer knew) by a third party [[HeKnowsTooMuch whose crimes she was threatening to expose]], and finally had her corpse shot up by the same third party to conceal the true cause of death.
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* The plot of the second expansion of ''VideoGame/TheOuterWorlds'' is kicked off when you're hired to investigate the murder of a famous actress who was found [[NoKillLikeOverkill beaten, shot, and poisoned with multiple toxic substances]]. You soon discover that [[CollidingCriminalConspiracies all her injuries were caused by the independent schemes of different people]]; she was (non-lethally) poisoned by a rival to make her miss an important event, [[AccidentalMurder accidentally]] overdosed by a drug dealer who gave her too high a dosage, fatally beaten over the head with a bottle (needlessly; she would've probably died from the double-poisoning, not that the killer knew) by a third party [[HeKnowsTooMuch whose crimes she was threatening to expose]], and finally had her corpse shot up by the same third party to conceal the true cause of death.
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