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* ''Fanfic/OniGaShikuSeries'': In the first battle trial, Izuku uses a NeckSnap on Bakugou to knock him out (in real life, it's far more likely to incapacitate someone with a neck snap than killing them). However, because the common misconception is that neck snaps are lethal by default, and Bakugou was instantly knocked out cold, All Might and Class 1-A all think that Izuku killed him. It takes Izuku kicking him a few times until he groans to convince everyone that Bakugou is alive. This becomes THE OnceDoneNeverForgotten incident for Izuku. Aizawa tells him to work on that hold because in the future civilians may mistake him for a murderer, and he becomes an InUniverse MemeticPsychopath over this.
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* ''Film/{{Babe}}'': In "A Tragic Day", Babe manages to drive a pack of stray dogs away from Hoggett Farm, but not before the dogs succeed in killing Maa, an elderly ewe. As Babe grieves over Maa's death, Farmer Hoggett arrives and assumes that Babe was the one who killed Maa, so he takes him to the shed to be shot, as is the standard procedure for any animal that takes the life of a sheep on Hoggett Farm. Fly, not believing that Babe would kill a sheep, finds out the truth from the other sheep. She then barks to distract Farmer Hoggett long enough to delay Babe's shooting so that Mrs. Hoggett can tell her husband about the stray dogs that have killed the Mitchells' lambs.
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* ''Series/{{Justified}}'': Raylan finds himself being framed for murder when Gary, his ex-wife's new husband, turns up dead. Raylan is completely innocent but his prior CowboyCop behavior looks very suspicious when combined with a potential motive of Winona (Raylan's ex) bouncing back and forth in relationships with the two men.
* ''Series/TeenWolf'': Derek is accused of murder several times over the series.
** In the series premiere, Stiles and Scott discover a buried body on his property. They call and report it and Derek is arrested. Later, he is released after the victim is revealed to be Derek's sister Laura, who the coroner can confirm was killed days before Derek arrived in town.
**When the Alpha kills a series of people associated with the Hale Family murders, Scott and Stiles assume Derek has something to do with it. When the Alpha traps the boys and their friends in the high school and then kills the janitor, Scott (begrudgingly backed by Stiles) insist to the authority that it was Derek, even though they believed they'd witnessed Derek himself be murdered at the beginning of the confrontation. Law enforcement puts out an APB on Derek, forcing him to lay low until the truth is revealed and the murders are eventually pinned on Kate Argent.
**In season 6, Derek is accused of mass murder and Stiles, a recruit for the FBI, is forced to intervene. It is eventually revealed to have been the work of [[spoiler:a resurrected Kate Argent]].
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* ''Film/{{Godmothered}}'': When Eleanor reaches into her pocket, Mackenzie says "Please don't! I have kids!" However, instead of pulling out a gun, she pulls out a MagicWand, which she does not use to kill Mackenzie.
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* ''Film/DoctorInTheHouse1954'': As a woman on the bus reads a newspaper article about a murder, Simon drops the skeleton he had purchased for his medical studies. Naturally, the woman makes a connection and lets out a shriek.

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