History Main / NotMeThisTime

*** Happens earlier in "Brother from Another Series" where Bob goes to work building a dam with his brother Cecil's company. Bart suspects Bob is up to no good as usual but this turns out to be the one time he isn't planning something evil, it's his brother in an embezzlement scheme. When Wiggum shows up to arrest Cecil, he arrests Bob as well, mostly just out of habit.

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* ''[[{{Anime/Ptitlei015gc004kw4}} Pokemon]]'' has its share of villains that aren't Team Rocket, whether single-episode Pokemon menaces, thieves, the region's local villainous team, or Cassidy and Butch. As Jessie and James end up appearing in every episode, they get more than their share of this trope.

* In one issue of ''BirdsOfPrey'', Black Canary's old mentor was murdered while she visited him in Hong Kong, even though he was terminally ill and would have died soon, anyway. She quickly assumed that the supervillainess Cheshire committed the crime due to their history of animosity and also the means of the crime, poison, which happens to be Cheshire's specialty. After Black Canary tracked Cheshire down, attacked and captured her, she found out that Cheshire did ''not'' do it, but rather it was the deed of a corrupt US senator who arranged the murder specifically so it would point to Cheshire. The two of ''them'' were enemies and he hoped Canary would deal with Chesire for him. [[spoiler: [[{{Subverted}} However, they eventually discvover that it really was Cheshire afterall]]. She made it look like she was being framed so that Canary would help her get back to the US as part of a XanatosRoulette.]]

* In ''HarryPotter and the Chamber of Secrets'', Harry and Ron use Polyjuice potion to imitate Crabbe and Goyle, Draco Malfoy's two mooks, in the hopes of getting Draco to admit that he's the heir of Slytherin, and thus the cause of all the shenanigans happening at Hogwarts that year. Instead, they hear Draco ranting about how thrilled he is that it's happening and how he'd love to congratulate whoever is ''actually'' behind it.

'''Bart:''' (Standing beside her) " hat?"\\

'''Bart:''' (Standing beside her) "[[FlatWhat What?]]"\\

** In "Past Tense"; Brock, Rusty, Pete White and Baron Underbheit are knocked unconscious, chained together and thrown in a dungeon. When they wake up, Brock immediately accuses Underbheit of doing this leading to this [[CrowningMomentofFunny: pricess response]]:

* There was one {{Spider-Man}} story where someone gets kidnapped (his aunt, I think) and he goes running to Osborn, who's in prison, demanding he return her. Osborn says he had nothing to do with it, what with, you know, being in prison and all...

* When Tohma of ''[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Magical Chronicles Lyrical Nanoha Force]]'' gets captured by the Huckebein, an infamous family of killers, he accuses them of being the culprits behind the [[DoomedHometown destruction of his hometown]]. Not so, says Fortis. He double-checked, and they're not behind that particular massacre. After all, [[SoleSurvivor Tohma survived]], and if they were the ones responsible, they would have made sure to kill everyone.

Traditional MarketTruce requirements mandate that regardless of all the crimes they committed ''yesterday'', if caught for the wrong thing; the heroes have to let them go.

* In one issue of ''BirdsOfPrey'', a man was murdered and Black Canary assumed that the supervillainess Cheshire committed the crime. After Black Canary tracked Cheshire down, attacked and captured her, she found out that Cheshire ''didn't'' do it. Oops.
** [[spoiler: Subverted it really was Cheshire. She made it look like she was being framed so that Canary would help her get back to the US as part of a XanatosRoulette]]

* When Tohma of ''[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Magical Chronicles Lyrical Nanoha Force]]'' gets captured by the Huckebein, an infamous family of killers, he accuses them of being the culprits behind the [[DoomedHometown destruction of his hometown]]. Not so, says Fortis, they're not behind that particular massacre. After all, [[SoleSurvivor Tohma survived]], and if they were the ones responsible, they would have made sure to kill everyone.

* When Tohma of ''[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Magical Chronicles Lyrical Nanoha Force]]'' gets captured by the Huckebein, an infamous family of killers, he accuses them of being the culprits behind the [[DoomedHometown destruction of his hometown]]. Not so, says Fortis, they're not behind that particular massacre. After all, [[SoleSurvivors Tohma survived]], and if they were the ones responsible, they would have made sure to kill everyone.

* Dr. Wily claims this in MegaMan 9, citing a video as proof that Dr. Light is the one wanting world domination. He's lying.

* In the ''PowerpuffGirls'' episode which provides the page quote, the girls are pranked into believing the series regular villains are doing something evil and confront them -- only to find all three of them [[VillainsOutShopping relaxing at home]]. Although the girls are not convinced, the villains quickly realize something is up and team up to deal with the pranksters themselves.

* When ''KimPossible'' finds out that her ArchEnemy Dr. Drakken has been broken out of prison by woman with "green energy blasts", she naturally drops in on his {{sidekick}} Shego, only to find out later that it was actually an alien who did it.

This trope may also occur with any character who has a recurring habit. May or may not lead to EvilVersusEvil or EnemyMine, depending on the story.

Also see VillainsOutShopping, which might explain the villain's innocence.