History Main / NotMeThisTime

* When Notre Dame de Paris caught fire in April 2019, there was a short rumor about that it was an Al Qaeda terrorist attack. It was justified, not only because of the attacks that happened four years prior in Paris, but also a failed attack that effectively targeted Notre Dame in September 2016. Five women and a man were arrested while plotting to put a handmade bomb in the cathedral, in Al Qaeda's name. In 2019, however, the fire turned out to be a pure accident, that caught in the equipment put in place to actually [[UnwantedAssistance restore the cathedral]].

* Since arriving in NXT, [[Wrestling/KevinSteen Kevin Owens]] laid waste to numerous wrestlers and even tried to end the career of his former friend Wrestling/SamiZayn. However, when [[Wrestling/KentaKobayashi Hideo Itami]] was found injured in the parking lot and Owens was nearby, he responded with this, and has continued to respond as such every time he's questioned about it. He even asked commissioner Wrestling/WilliamRegal why he'd deny attacking Itami when he's bragged about every other atrocity he's committed.

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* One legend involves a driver who picks up a scary-looking, scruffy hitchhiker. The driver immediately regrets this, and begins to fear that the hitchhiker might try to rob or murder him. Aways down the road, he sees another hitchhiker. This one is very well dressed and good looking, so the driver picks him up, thinking that this will help potentially protect him from the scruffy hitchhiker. The well-dressed hitchhiker pulls out a gun and tries to rob the driver, but is outwitted and knocked out by the scruffy hitchhiker. The driver confesses to the scruffy hitchhiker that he originally suspected him of being a robber. The hitchhiker tells him that he is actually a robber, but, "today's my day off".

* It was often assumed by the general populace that the victims of the mysterious [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident Dyatlov Pass incident]] were killed by a Soviet government experiment and a fairly standard coverup had happened. There was even a popular book written in 1990 called ''The Price of State Secrets Is Nine Lives'', arguing that premise. After the Soviet Union fell, analysis of their archives revealed that the government was as confused and disturbed by the events at Dyatlov pass as everybody else.

* SerialKiller [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Kohlhepp Todd Kohlhepp]] was suspected of the triple homicide bank robbery at the Blue Ridge Savings Bank. He denied responsibility despite also claiming to have committed more murders then the seven he was convicted off.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation's SCP-682 is an OmnicidalManiac. There is one point in the test log (mostly a list of [[WhyWontYouDie spectacularly failed attempts to kill it]]) where somebody shoved Dr. Clef into its enclosure and locked the door. The document goes to great lengths to point out that the subsequent death by neck-snap of the person who pushed him in there was ''definitely'' due to 682 somehow managing to break containment without visibly disappearing from its enclosure, and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial not in any way caused by Dr. Clef]].

* Shortly before the trial of James "Whitey" Bulger was set to start a potential witness named Stephen Rakes, whose liquor store was essentially stolen from him by Whitey and the Winter Hill Gang to use as their base of operations, was found dead in the woods near his home. Due to the timing it was initially theorized it had something to do with his testimony, but when asked about it Whitey pointedly said he had nothing to do with it (with a reaction bordering on ButForMeItWasTuesday when he had to be reminded who Rakes even was), and it turns out he was telling the truth: Rakes was killed by a business associate for reasons completely unrelated to the trial.

* A third example occurred during the holiday season of 2008-2009, when Wrestling/JeffHardy was WWE Champion and Wrestling/{{Edge}} was Number One Contender. Hardy was repeatedly wronged by a mysterious assailant who ambushed him backstage at ''Survivor Series'', ran his car off the highway...and nearly burned him alive by sabotaging his in-ring entrance pyrotechnics when Hardy was coming down to the ring to be interviewed on ''The Cutting Edge''. Hardy himself and all the commentators were convinced that Edge was behind all the mischief, but Edge kept insisting he was innocent. And he was: the person who'd been stalking Jeff Hardy for two whole months, and who finally cost him his championship at the ''Royal Rumble'', was [[spoiler:Jeff's envious older brother [[Wrestling/MattHardy Matt]], who admitted that, for good measure, he'd also burned down Jeff's house nearly a year before and killed his dog. Of course, Edge wasn't too sorry about this anyway, since Matt's interference enabled him to win the title.]]

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* The first three episodes of ''Animation/BlackCatDetective'' revolves around the reoccurring villain, the One-Eared mice, committing murders and theft while evading Black Cat and the authorities. So when the fourth episode had a praying mantis character discovered horribly maimed and ripped to pieces on his wedding night, a day ''after'' One-Ear is spotted lurking through the fields where the mantis community lives, everyone is quick to assume One-Ear is the killer. [[spoiler: He's not, turns out the [[MantisMatingMeal mantis groom is killed by his bride]] and One-Ear just happens to be passing through]].
* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': In "The Haunted House", the heroes [=BoBoiBoy=] and Gopal investigates a "haunted" house to see who the ghost really is while villains Adu Du and Probe goes there a little earlier to recruit the ghost. When the heroes find Adu Du, they naturally accuse him of being the fake ghost all along, but Adu Du denies it. Before they can settle it, the real "ghost", Fang, reveals himself and attack all of them.
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* An arc in ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}'' had WalkingTechbane Roger be blamed for rendering the family computer nonfunctional when he tried turning it on. While not implausible given his record, it'd actually been broken beforehand when Paige spilled soda on it.
* In ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'', Greg and Diane Wilkins are in their bedroom for the night, only to hear a crash originating from Curtis and Barry's room. They naturally assume that they got into a fight again. However, the final panel has them screaming for help with multiple crashing sounds, revealing that this time, the crash was not from one of their fights. The next strip reveals the cause for the crash were hailstones the size of eggs or golfballs.

* In ''Film/Apollo13'', Fred Haise has been using the cabin repress valve, which causes a sharp banging sound, to mess with the other astronauts. When the oxygen tank explodes and the entire ship starts shaking, he rushes in saying, "That's no repress valve!"
* In ''La Folie des grandeurs'' (''Film/DelusionsOfGrandeur''), when obvious villain Don Salluste is accused of setting up a bomb during his own disgrace ceremony, and is found hiding on top of a statue.
--> '''Salluste:''' No, Sire! It wasn't me! For once, it wasn't me! I was here. [[BlatantLies Praying]].

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', Thor's first thought when he hears about a prison riot is "Loki". Loki is the only one not rioting and is in fact calmly reading in the corner of his cell.
** A far less humorous example comes in the followup, ''Film/ThorRagnarok''. When Thor and Loki find Odin to take him home, he serenely tells them that he hears his late wife calling to him. Thor angrily tells Loki to lift his enchantment but Loki's look of concern and subtle head shake confirms he's not to blame this time. Then Odin reveals that he had already broken free from Loki's spell.
** Lampshaded when Doctor Strange starts to open a portal beneath Loki's feet and he exclaims "This isn't me".
* In ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart2'', When Snow is confronted by Katniss about [[spoiler:the bombing that killed Prim]], he tells her that he wasn't responsible, citing the fact that he would not do something so petty unless it benefited him. [[spoiler:It was actually Coin, as a gambit to destroy his support and end the war]].
* Alan from ''Film/TheHangover'' series has been responsible for drugging the Wolfpack in the first two films. But in the third film, during TheStinger, [[spoiler:the gang and Alan's new wife Cassie has been drugged again. When a [[ItMakesSenseInContext bare-breasted Stu]] asks Alan what he has done, Alan responds that the wedding cake was from [[AxCrazy Chow]].]]

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation's SCP-682 is an OmnicidalManiac. There is one point in the test log (mostly a list of [[WhyWontYouDie spectacularly failed attempts to kill it]]) where somebody shoved Dr. Clef into its enclosure and locked the door. The document goes to great lengths to point out that the subsequent death by neck-snap of the person who pushed him in there was ''definitely'' due to 682 somehow managing to break containment without visibly disappearing from its enclosure, and [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial not in any way caused by Dr. Clef]].

* ''WebVideo/ThereWillBeBrawl'':
** Who's the butcher and/or Peach's kidnapper? Bowser? [[HijackedByGanon Ganondorf?]] Mario assumes Bowser, but Luigi is the main character and has no idea, so we have no idea.
** [[spoiler: Played with in that it ''was'' Ganondorf, using the butcher''s'', as well as Olimar and others. Ganondorf was then hijacked by the biggest evil in the series, ''Kirby''.]]
* The Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses team review of ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' has a group of reviewers forced to watch the movie; the group initially thinks WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic is behind it, since last year he did exactly that with ''Film/DragonballEvolution''. When they contact him, [[EvenEvilHasStandards he's horrified at the idea of anyone sitting through it]]. [[spoiler:It was Creator/JewWario, he accidentally left the disc thereafter borrowing WebVideo/YRulerOfTime's ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' DVD.]]

* In ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'', both Linkara and the audience assume it was Mechakara who broke the Continuity Alarm. However, when he's finally confronted, he admits he didn't do it. As it turns out, it was Linksano who broke it.
* Despite being the TokenEvilTeammate for LetsPlay/HatFilms, there are occasions when Smiffy's PyroManiac tendencies get him blamed for fires he didn't actually start. One example is in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot_Z2y_3CEc&feature=g-u-u Minecraft 1.8.2 XBLA #5,]] when Ross accidentally places lava inside their (partially wooden) house, setting it on fire. Trott immediately shifts the blame to Smith, due to his habit of burning down their houses. He was similarly accused of stealing items, causing them to actually kill him... only to be stunned to not find them in his dropped inventory. Turns out they just missed them among all the junk in the chest.

* ''La Folie des grandeurs'' (''Film/DelusionsOfGrandeur'') with Creator/LouisDeFunes as Don Salluste: "Non, Sire! Pour une fois c'était pas moi !" Translation: "No, Sire! For once it wasn't me!"

* During ''[[Machinima/YogscastMinecraftSeries Cornerstone]]'', the group (mainly LetsPlay/{{Rythian}}) assume that Smiffy and someone else are posing as creepers to try and scare the others after Smiffy has tried it before and died for his trouble. It turns out that no, those are actual creepers. LetsPlay/{{Sjin}} also kills the wrong person for stealing his jetpack.

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', when [[LethallyStupid Caboose claims that the crash that stranded them on Chorus was not his fault]], no one takes him seriously. But in this case, he really was innocent- it was ''[[EverybodyDidIt everyone else's]]'' fault. [[spoiler: And the crash was actually caused by a tractor beam. The team's antics just ripped the ship in half instead.]]

-->-- '''Mojo Jojo''', ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', "Telephonies"

* ''Film/PitchBlack'': When Zeke is killed by the Bioraptors, everyone at first thinks that it was Riddick, who everyone knew to be an escaped convict and killer, who did it. However, while he admits that he ''has'' killed "a few people," Zeke wasn't one of them; the Bioraptors got to him.

* The first three episodes of ''Animation/BlackCatDetective'' revolves around the reoccurring villain, the One-Eared mice, committing murders and theft while evading Black Cat and the authorities. So when the fourth episode had a praying mantis character discovered horribly maimed and ripped to pieces on his wedding night, a day ''after'' One-Ear is spotted lurking through the fields where the mantis community lives, everyone is quick to assume One-Ear is the killer. [[spoiler: He's not, turns out the mantis groom is killed by his bride and One-Ear just happens to be passing through]].

[[caption-width-right:350:[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness It's a bad sign when]] [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]] [[VillainHasAPoint is making sense]].]]

--->'''Jon''': GARFIELD!!!\\
'''Garfield''': I'm innocent! I swear it!

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* In ''Series/TheWubbulousWorldOfDrSeuss'' episode "The Snoozer", Yertle the Turtle announces his intent to build a huge statue of himself at the site of the Snoozer, an existing and popular statue. When the statue disappears, Jane Kangaroo assumes Yertle is responsible, and when Horton insists "We shouldn't jump to conclusions, We should walk slowly and carefully to conclusions" decides that anyone who defends him must be an accomplice. [[spoiler: It turns out the statue wasn't stolen at all. It woke up.]] Even Yertle is surprised at the idea of being innocent of something, and says it feels weird.

* One legend involves a driver who picks up a scary-looking, scruffy hitchhiker. The driver immediately regrets this, and begins to fear that the hitchhiker might try to rob or murder him. Aways down the road, he sees another hitchhiker. This one is very well dressed and good looking, so the driver picks him up, thinking that this will help potentially protect him from the scruffy hitchhiker. The well-dressed hitchhiker pulls out a gun and tries to rob the driver, but is outwitted and knocked out by the scruffy hitchhiker. The driver confesses to the scruffy hitchhiker that he originally suspected him of being a robber. The hitchhiker tells him that he is actually a robber, but, "today's my day off."

** The first case of ''Investigations 2'' involves an assassination attempt on a foreign president. A witness is involved who is very clearly the assassin Shelly De Killer. He denies he had anything to do with it. [[spoiler: He's telling the truth, though he had ''planned'' to kill the president before things went out of hand. The president's assassination was actually staged, and De Killer was the only witness in the case who ''wasn't'' in on it.]]
** Case 4 of ''Investigations 2'' reveals that one of [[AmoralAttorney Manfred Von Karma's]] evidence forgeries was actually orchestrated by someone else behind his back. [[spoiler: Specifically, the one in the case where he received his first penalty.]]
** In the first case of ''Dual Destinies,'' [[StarterVillain Ted Tonate]], a police bomb technician, is exposed as the killer of a detective, as well as the one who blew up the courtroom in the opening. [[spoiler: But in the game's final case, he admits that while he did kill the detective, he didn't blow up the courtroom, [[HiddenVillain someone else]] stole a remote that detonated said bomb. [[EvenEvilHasStandards He even warned everyone to evacuate when the bomb was about to go off]].]]

-->'''Jon''': GARFIELD!!!
-->'''Garfield''': I'm innocent! I swear it!

* In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', Genocide Jack is both a SerialKiller ''and'' Toko Fukawa's SplitPersonality. However, Genocide Jack is accused of three different murders throughout the first game, from the second case to the fourth case. [[spoiler:But throughout the entire story, she is responsible for none of the murders. She did '''not''' murder Chihiro Fujisaki and then creepily crucify their lifeless body, despite how the evidence ''does'' point at her. It ultimately turns out that Byakuya Togami was the one who staged the body like that in order to frame her, but he isn't the killer either; he only did that to "keep things interesting" and test the perceptiveness of his classmates. Jack even points this out, saying her motivation is based on PragmaticVillainy when it comes to murder in the killing game. Because Jack doesn't want to kill anyone without using her {{Calling Card}}s -- which would make it very obvious that she's the killer -- Jack decides that the easiest solution is to simply not kill anyone.]] It gets lampshaded by Ishimaru.

* During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, an infamous event called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre the Katyn Massacre]] occurred. The Soviets and other members of the Allies claimed that UsefulNotes/NaziGermany committed the Massacre, while Germany said that the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]] was responsible for the atrocity. The Soviet Union even tried to condemn Germany for the Katyn Massacre during the Nuremberg Trials in 1945. It didn't work because the evidence was mounting from German records and witnesses that they had, legitimately, stumbled on the crime site instead of having caused it, and in the years after the war, most Western historians took it as a fact the Soviets did it. Records released after [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp the Soviet Union collapsed]] finally confirmed that, for once, Nazi Germany was actually innocent of a war crime, and it was in fact the Soviets who did it.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness It's a bad sign when]] ComicBook/TheJoker [[VillainHasAPoint is making sense]].]]