History Main / MaliciousSlander

When spread intentionally, the slanderer often acts with [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster-like]] precision. Frequently he will tell the entire truth with only a few crucial omissions or alter the import of facts by subtle misrepresentations -- knowing that GossipEvolution will turn the hints into full-blown lies.

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* ComicBook/HowardTheDuck's enemy Doctor Bong got his start this way. After his mother told him how powerful written word could be, he was able to use slanderous writing to make anyone look bad. (For instance, he was able to make his entire school believe a teacher was some immoral drug fiend, when in fact, said teacher had used an illegal stimulant once in his life.) Exactly how he made the jump from "sleazy teen paparazzi" to "MadScientist with a knack for genetics and sonic weapons" is a mystery.

* In ''Literature/TheSixSwans'', the king's mother kidnaps the heroine's newborn children and tells the king she killed them until he agrees to her execution.

* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/3ourladyschild.html Mary's Child]]'', the heroine's children are taken from her, and rumor says that she killed and ate them.

* In '' Literature/TheDancingWaterTheSingingAppleAndTheSpeakingBird'', when the heroine gives birth to three {{Wonder Child}}ren, her sisters steal them and tell her husband that she gave birth to three puppies. He puts her in a treadmill as punishment for not having the children as she claimed she would.
* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/asbjornsenmoe/dapplegrim.html Dapplegrim]]'', the king orders the hero to perform many [[ImpossibleTask tasks]] because his fellow servants falsely claimed he said he could do them.
* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/126ferdinandfaithful.html Ferdinand the Faithful]]'', after being slandered, Ferdinand must get a bride for the king and then all the things she demands before she will marry him.
* In "Literature/TheGratefulBeasts", Ferko's brothers tell the king that he is a magician, and the king orders Ferko to perform three [[ImpossibleTask tasks]] in atonement; his own daughter the princess argues with him until he imprisons her in a tower.
* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/jackbeanstalk/stories/esbenwitch.html Esben and the Witch]]'', an enemy of Esben and his brothers is always telling the king that they claimed to be able to do this or that, and then the king orders them to do it.

* ''Fanfic/BurningBridgesBuildingConfidence'' uses [[ConsummateLiar Lila]] following through on the threats she made in [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS03E01Chameleon "Chameleon"]] by convincing most of Marinette's classmates that ''Marinette'' is a horrible, awful person that threatened ''her'' in the bathroom and other terrible things, most of which Lila herself actually did. After her cousin Cole moves to Paris and transfers into their class, she gives her three days before she starts slandering her as well, accusing her of faking her vision problems. Unbeknownst to her, Cole’s been recording every gloat Lila has been making on her phone to gather evidence to expose her as a liar.
** After the new heroine Vexxin debuts, Alya immediately writes a libelous piece accusing her of ''stealing'' the Fox miraculous and posts it on her blog. Ladybug later cites this as one of the reasons Alya has not only lost the Fox but will no longer be trusted with ''any'' miraculous in the future. Alya [[NeverMyFault completely blows this off]] and continues slandering Vexxin, causing the Ladyblog to spiral further and further into disgrace.
* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Shouto Todoroki starts spreading out rumors in the U.A. that Izuku is the illegitimate son of All Might. While he does it partly because he believes it to be true, there are hints he also does it because he's sore at Izuku for getting in his way and lecturing him during the League of Villains attack in the U.S.J.
* ''Fanfic/TheReasonHeLies'': Sigma's father is wrongly accused of high treason merely for disagreeing with Grande's plans.
* ''Fanfic/AMoonAndWorldApart'': [[spoiler: When Luna hears that rumors are spreading that the visiting Equestrians were responsible for the ''Orion'''s destruction, it doesn't take her long to find out that Neighsay was behind it as part of his FalseFlagOperation to frame them.]]

* Iago does this to Desdemona in ''Theatre/{{Othello}}''.

* In Music/RichardWagner's version of ''Lohengrin'', female lead Elsa is falsely accused of killing her little brother Gottfried, the child-Duke of Brabant [[spoiler:(who had actually been turned into a swan by the {{Evil Sorcere|r}}ss Ortrud.]] Then the eponymous KnightInShiningArmor comes to her rescue.
* Used as the main plot device in ''Theatre/TheChildrensHour''. At a 1930s all-girls school, a bratty girl mad at her teachers conjures up a lie about them being lesbian lovers. Considering one of them was engaged, and this was the early thirties, it single-handedly ruined their lives.
* Accusations of witchcraft in ''Theatre/TheCrucible'' drive the plot, causing the deaths of many innocent people.

* In ''Literature/TheDoctorsOfTheCatFamily'' Jonathan Cat, a businessman, is falsely accused of abusing his wife and getting wealthy through stealing by people who are jealous of his wealth and don't understand how business works.

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* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': Naofumi is the victim of a double-dose of this. On top of the Shield Hero facing prejudice as it is because of the [[CorruptChurch Church of the Three Heroes]] declaring him an actual devil figure in the religion (due to most of Melromarc being human supremacists and the Shield Hero having aided demihumans in the past), his very first traveling companion, Malty, also [[FalseRapeAccusation falsely accuses him of trying to rape her]] after his very first day in Melromarc, sending his reputation down the tubes, as well as trying to frame him for trying to murder her sister Melty (something she herself tried to do). Needless to say, when the true Queen returns and puts the King and Malty on trial, it is a very satisfying moment that ends up vindicating Naofumi.

* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': Naofumi is the victim of a double-dose of this. On top of the Shield Hero facing prejudice as it is because of the Church of the Three Heroes declaring him an actual devil figure in the religion (due to most of Melromarc being human supremacists and the Shield Hero having aided demihumans in the past), his very first traveling companion, Malty, also [[FalseRapeAccusation falsely accuses him of trying to rape her]] after his very first day in Melromarc, sending his reputation down the tubes, as well as trying to frame him for trying to murder her sister Melty (something she herself tried to do). Needless to say, when the true Queen returns and puts the King and Malty on trial, it is a very satisfying moment that ends up vindicating Naofumi.

* In Creator/DorothyLSayers' ''Unnatural Death'', a doctor recounts to Literature/LordPeterWimsey how his suspicions about an old woman's death had been translated into wild accusations by the rumor mill, forcing him to leave town.
** In Creator/DorothyLSayers' ''StrongPoison'', [[spoiler: Harriet Vane]] is cleared of murder charges. In later works, she still has a problem with this.
** In Creator/DorothyLSayers' ''GaudyNight'', several people are targeted by a poison-pen, including the aforementioned [[spoiler: Harriet]].

* The film ''Gossip'' centers around three roommates who knowingly start a malicious rumor about a classmate in order to track how it spreads and changes for a Communications class.

* ''Manga/YuGiOhR'' entirely revolves around some protegee of Pegasus trying to avenge (and revive) his master after being told that Yugi murdered him. Ironically enough, in the manga, Pegasus WAS murdered...just not by Yugi. The murderer, funnily enough, doesn't even appear in the series.
* In ''Manga/{{DNA2}}'', a classmate of Kotomi's ''attempts'' this by telling her teacher during class that Kotomi had spent the previous night in a LoveHotel with her boyfriend. The reader knows nothing happened and, since Kotomi stands up for herself and demands to know if her classmate has proof, the class realizes that it's not true.
* In ''Manga/{{Monster}}'', after Tenma rejects her (again), Eva follows him through the hospital shouting that she will tell everyone all about how he murdered her father. It doesn't help that the police already suspect him.
* The main plot of ''Manga/ShinaDark'' is that the demon king Exoda awakens after a lengthy slumber to find his secluded island full of young girls claiming to be "sacrifices" - because someone came up with the idea that the demon king demands a thousand women to be his concubines. Exoda is ''not'' happy to find the libelous text going into detail about what he supposedly does to the girls, roughly ''ten each night''. He is outright disturbed to find a ''prepubescent child'' among the crowd. At one point he laments that people come up with new slander every time he goes into slumber, which suggests this is only the latest in a long line of indignities.
* This is the backstory of ''Manga/OnePiece's'' Nico Robin in a nutshell. After becoming the only survivor of an incident where the World Government decimated her home island, said Government spread these about her to convince people to turn her in to them. Among these were that Robin was some kind of [[RedBaron "Demon Child"]] and that she sank several battleships during the incident (those ships were sunk, but by a giant who had defected from the Marines, not Robin.).
** What's more, said giant [[DefectorFromDecadence left the marines due to their callous treatment of civilians]], which is why he was attacking the battleships in the first place.
* One of the monsters from the second season of ''Manga/SailorMoon'', had a power like this. Droid Giwaku (renamed Mistrust in the first dub) was capable of warping someone's perception to make them believe their friends and loved ones are badmouthing them. Ami found herself victim to this when Umino and several others, under Giwaku's influence, began accusing her of being a cheater. They even planted fake answer sheets in Ami's desk. Ami was later confronted by illusions of the other Sailor Senshi calling her a cheater as well. However, when Giwaku tried this on Usagi and attacked her with illusions calling her a stupid, flat-chested crybaby, Usagi shot back screaming she already knew all that anyway.

* ''Manga/PeachGirl'': [[BitchInSheepsClothing Sae]] routinely encourages the rumors that Momo is a homewrecking slut, and uses the WoundedGazelleGambit to convince everyone that Momo is bullying her on top of that. It all falls apart after Toji and Kairi, as well as several other people Momo has directly screwed over with her antics, expose her as the awful person that she is.
* Naofumi is the victim of a double-dose of this in ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero''. On top of the Shield Hero facing prejudice as it is because of the Church of the Three Heroes declaring him an actual devil figure in the religion (due to most of Melromarc being human supremacists and the Shield Hero having aided demihumans in the past), his very first traveling companion, Malty, also [[FalseRapeAccusation falsely accuses him of trying to rape her]] after his very first day in Melromarc, sending his reputation down the tubes, as well as trying to frame him for trying to murder her sister Melty (something she herself tried to do). Needless to say, when the true Queen returns and puts the King and Malty on trial, it is a very satisfying moment that ends up vindicating Naofumi.

* The film ''Gossip'' centers around three roommates who knowingly start a malicious rumor about a classmate in order to track how it spreads and changes for a Communications class.
* In ''Film/{{Fury 1936}}'', the main character is arrested because "he seems to know suspiciously too much about a kidnapping". The rumor quickly morphs into him being the kidnapper, and before you know it an [[TorchesAndPitchforks Angry Mob]] storms the prison, sets fire to it and he barely escapes being burned alive.
* In ''Film/EnemyOfTheState'', the bad guys' plot involves slandering Creator/WillSmith's character by planting a false story about him having an affair and being involved with organized crime in the news. The story causes his massively-gullible bosses to fire him and his wife (who up to that point had been a good, caring person despite her own affair in the past) to throw him out of the house.
* Seen in ''Film/MrDeeds'', when a sensationalist news anchor doctors footage of a rescue to make it look like the rescuer [[AndYourLittleDogToo killed a woman's cats]] before raping her in the street. Why do this with a street full of witnesses (including the aforementioned woman) to testify otherwise? Because as far as news stories went the anchor reasoned "Hero is nice. Depraved and insane is better".

* ''Film/TheRunningMan'' has the main character subjected to this.
* The entire plot of the film ''Film/{{Doubt}}'' revolves around a priest accused of misconduct with a young boy. No hard evidence is discovered to either prove or disprove the charge, fueled entirely by rumors, suspicions, and one nun's conviction of their truth. The priest himself makes a sermon condemning gossip and rumor-mongering, pointing out that even if the rumor is proved to be false it can never be unsaid. [[spoiler: Eventually, the implication is that he ''was'' guilty, as he agrees to a transfer and coverup once the nun leading the attack reveals that she managed to track down a nun from his last posting who could corroborate the story...except she later reveals that she had never managed to find the old nun at all.]]
* In ''Film/TheHunt2012'', Lucas is [[FalseRapeAccusation wrongly accused]] of being a child molester which quickly ruins his reputation in the CloseKnitCommunity and sets off a nasty PaedoHunt.
* In ''Film/BigEyes'', before the court date, Walter lies to the press about how Margaret needs psychiatric help and insists she's a bad mother for joining the Jehovah's Witnesses, implying that she's giving her daughter a poor upbringing because of it.
* ''Film/LittleNicky'': Nicodemus (AKA Little Nicky) is framed for murdering a bunch of people in a five-star restaurant. The massacre wasn't even real. The film is so hideously doctored that a demon behind the times gets the reference:
-->Nicky: What the heck?! That's just my face plastered in that scene from Scarface!

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* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'':

* ''FanFic/BackToTheFuturePrequel'': Hank harasses Doc by spreading nasty stories about his sanity and activities.
* ''FanFic/DungeonKeeperAmi'' features this prominently- most notably Ami's [[BlessedWithSuck power and cunning]]... and her incredible, jaw-dropping, ''suicidal'' deviancy. Actually lies, [[RunningGag "Baseless rumours founded on misunderstandings"]]. But Ami has a hard time convincing ''anybody''. The rumor mill ''insists'' Ami has these tendencies. AnythingThatMoves / ExtremeOmnisexual / BestialityIsDepraved: She simply cannot catch a break.

* Incredibly, ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Equestria]]'' of all places undergoes this in the AlternateHistory fic ''FanFic/TheSonOfTheEmperor''. Because nobody who goes into Equestria ever leaves and as such nobody knows what's there, people assume that it's a wasteland and the existence of the country itself is a fairy tale. Of course, this is untrue.
* ''FanFic/BurningBridgesBuildingConfidence'' uses [[ConsummateLiar Lila]] following through on the threats she made in [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS03E01Chameleon "Chameleon"]] by convincing most of Marinette's classmates that ''Marinette'' is a horrible, awful person that threatened ''her'' in the bathroom and other terrible things, most of which Lila herself actually did. After her cousin Cole moves to Paris and transfers into their class, she gives her three days before she starts slandering her as well, accusing her of faking her vision problems. Unbeknownst to her, Cole’s been recording every gloat Lila has been making on her phone to gather evidence to expose her as a liar.

* "Fanfic/TheReasonHeLies": Sigma's father is wrongly accused of high treason merely for disagreeing with Grande's plans.

--> '''Harry''': I’m just striking first this time. Right now, Fudge barely goes to the
bathroom without Lucius Malfoy’s permission. Both of them have got to go.
And if they start their smear campaign second… well, then it just looks like
payback -- and people might not take everything they claim about me as the
gospel truth.

The HeroWithBadPublicity often lives in a cloud of this. WoundedGazelleGambit is one way of launching them. GossipyHens are always launching or spreading them -- with or without malice. The GreenEyedMonster often inspires slander, and [[BelievingTheirOwnLies the envious person may even believe his own slanders]]. DeadlyDecadentCourt is rife with it, but even there, the EvilChancellor is particularly prone to it. In many situations, this helps fuel DividedWeFall. GossipEvolution doesn't exactly help the situation for any of these. The PropagandaMachine often churns it out. Children are often the butts of the subtrope LoserSonOfLoserDad. TorchesAndPitchforks are often stirred up with malicious slander.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The Earth Two ComicBook/{{Huntress}} (Helena Wayne) has her very own crooked reporter who insists on twisting the facts and outright lying to try and make Huntress seem like an out of controll murderer in a cape despite Helena's very strict no killing or even seriously maiming rule. At one point Dedra Borrower blantenly misquotes a medical examiner on television in the same second the examiner had just said, live, that he could not yet determine cause of death though the fight she'd been badgering him about could theoreticaly be a contributing factor but he has not reason to belive it was. She turns to the camera and tells her viewers ''There you ''have'' it. A man's death due to the unchecked violence of an unsactioned vigilante''.

* ''Series/{{Scandal}}'': The fear of the heroine's clients.

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* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' the news calls [[LaResistance AVALANCHE]] [[YouMonster a terrorist group]] [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Which is entirely accurate]].
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': [[spoiler:After Tidus and company crash Yuna's wedding to an insane creep of a priest, the church of Yevon brands the party heretics. Mostly to discredit their discovery that Yevon has been stockpiling technology and generally believes the calamity-causing Sin must constantly reincarnate to regulate the world.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'', Season 1 "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E8HotOven Hot Oven]]", Bitsy releases a smear ad in the newspaper about Central Park falling apart and they need new management for the park to improve. She brings up the time when the park was full of trash and graffiti from previous episodes, which she was responsible for in an attempt to sabotage the park. Owen does not take this well.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
** Zola [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090302 repeats]] rumors about Gil at Beetleburg, saying he was completely crazy there. ([[RightInFrontOfMe To Gil, actually.]])
** And [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090724 then]] she tries to defame Agatha to Gil. Ignoring that given her behavior, Agatha's has been reasonable.

* In ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'', Charlotte makes a Website/YouTube video accusing Sara of raping her.
* ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'': Charlie's answer to charges of having violated neutrality by helping one side for free. Actually, he simply denies helping them for free. He doesn't call it slander until they suggest he actually spent money helping them.

* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'': [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/020117c How do you keep Dr. Light from realizing you're evil? Why, say the guy who says that has turned evil.]]
* In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', Garland starts an ad campaign linking the Light Warriors to recent attacks of terrorism. Inverted in that the Light Warriors ''are'' responsible for recent attacks of terrorism.

* In ''Webcomic/BittersweetCandyBowl'' [[spoiler: Tess]] used this against [[spoiler: Jessica]], branding her as a slut. It haunts her throughout high school.

* One night in ''Webcomic/LeftoverSoup'', a young thug tries to mug Jamie, and Jamie snatches the thug's gun. Jamie is arrested, and shortly afterwards, the newspaper prints a story claiming that Jamie attacked the young man while spouting racial slurs.
* In [[https://derpibooru.org/147019 this]] ''Celestia's Servant Interview'' comic, [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Gilda]] is claiming that in their run-in in ''Griffon the Brush-Off'', Fluttershy yelled at her and threw racial slurs.
* ''Webcomic/{{Endtown}}'': A conspiracy of serial killers starts a race war to create martyrs out of their victims and supremacist prejudice out of their scapegoats. Unfortunately for everyone involved, the first part works, the second part gets the killers' faces ripped off, and the whole town is filled with paranoia over who's a neo-nazi and who's a cannibal.

No RealLife examples -- suffice to say that ''all'' propaganda contains elements of this, but to what extent is highly debatable. Too much chance of FlameBait -- besides which, we don't want ''this'' to be a SelfDemonstratingArticle. We should note that this trope is not exactly the same as malicious slander/libel/defamation in strictly legal terms; in the law of defamation, "malice" means (in most jurisdictions, including, most importantly,[[note]]In legal terms: besides being the law applying most directly to Wiki/ThisVeryWiki, American law is the one that gets the most mileage out of the concept of "malice"[[/note]] the United States) publishing/disseminating false information about another either ''knowing'' that the information is false (i.e., saying things you know are not true), or ''recklessly disregarding the possibility'' that it is false (i.e. saying things that might or might not be true but which you have no basis for saying, and if they happen to be true, it's an accident). The above standard, commonly known as "actual malice", comes from the 1964 Supreme Court case ''New York Times v. Sullivan'' [[note]]376 U.S. 254 (1964), the case revolved around an ad taken out in the Times by UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr that the police commissioner of Montgomery, Alabama, noted had factual inaccuracies. He sued the Times for taking the ad, Alabama courts found in favor of Sullivan, and the Times appealed the ruling up to the Supreme Court, which overturned the lower courts' verdict in a 9-0 decision, noting that the civil penalty was inconsistent with the First Amendment.[[/note]] and applies mostly to public figures, such as politicians and celebrities. It's why it is extremely hard for a celebrity to win a libel suit in America -- one of the few successful suits was one filed by Creator/CarolBurnett against the ''National Enquirer'' for falsely claiming she had been drinking heavily with Henry Kissinger in 1976. While malice is important in suits against non-public figures, more weight is given to the falsity of the statement and the effect it has on the defamed's reputation. Simply repeating something you heard doesn't generally count, so in general terms, ordinary town gossip isn't going to get you very far in a slander/libel/defamation suit.[[note]]This can be important, as it can govern liability (depending on where you are and who is suing who, someone suing someone else for defamation/libel/slander may need to prove malice, and, generally speaking, punitive damages, if they are available at all, would only be available if the defamer spoke/wrote with malice).[[/note]] However, mere gossip can be enough to be this trope. Please note however, that TV Tropes is '''not''' legal advice and so still proceed with caution.

** After the new heroine Vexxin debuts, Alya immediately writes a libelous piece accusing her of ''stealing'' the Fox miraculous and posts it on her blog. Ladybug later cites this as one of the reasons Alya has not only lost the Fox, but will no longer be trusted with ''any'' miraculous in the future. Alya [[NeverMyFault completely blows this off]] and continues slandering Vexxin, causing the Ladyblog to spiral further and further into disgrace.

* The entire plot of the film ''Film/{{Doubt}}'' revolves around a priest accused of misconduct with a young boy. No hard evidence is discovered to either prove or disprove the charge, fueled entirely by rumors, suspicions and one nun's conviction of their truth. The priest himself makes a sermon condemning gossip and rumor-mongering, pointing out that even if the rumor is proved to be false it can never be unsaid. [[spoiler: Eventually, the implication is that he ''was'' guilty, as he agrees to a transfer and coverup once the nun leading the attack reveals that she managed to track down a nun from his last posting who could corroborate the story...except she later reveals that she had never managed to find the old nun at all.]]

** Rita Skeeter has a side hustle writing salacious books about people, usually after they've died. More or less, she gets the big picture right but she's off on the fine details. In the book, ''The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore'', she says that Dumbledore had a "friendship" with the previous BigBad, Grindelwald, which is right. However most of what she says about his family is more of this. His brother, Aberforth, who knows the whole story while still resenting him (very understandably) says it's a load of BS. Snape also got one written about him after his death called ''Snape: Saint or Scoundrel'' that said he wasn't actually a deep cover agent for the good guys that cast in doubt the truth that he was. Newt Scamander is the only subject who is still around to defend himself from her. His book is called ''Man or Monster? The TRUTH About Newt Scamander''. In the re-release of his textbook, ''Literature/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'', he defends himself against what she said in the forward. She'd claimed that he wasn't actually a mazoologist but rather a spy for Dumbledore posing as one and he says that he was actually a mazoologist and at the time, no one would pretend to be one because they were seen as weirdos. He also says the President of the American Wizarding World kicked him out of the country [[Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem because he destroyed half of New York City, not because he broke her heart]]. Although he doesn't deny working for Dumbledore but rather says he is not elaborating to respect his privacy.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': [[spoiler:After Tidus and company crash Yuna's wedding to an insane creep of a priest, the church of Yevon brands the party heretics. Mostly to discredit their discovery that Yevon has been stockpiling technology and generally believes the calamaity-causing Sin must constantly reincarnate to regulate the world.]]