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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E11InsaneInTheMainframe Insane in the Mainframe]]", Fry and Bender are falsely accused of bank robbery. Their lawyer, the incompetent Hyper-Chicken, asks that they be declared innocent by reason of insanity... and presents the fact that they hired ''him'' to represent them as proof. This actually works, getting them sent to a robot insane asylum.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E11InsaneInTheMainframe Insane in the Mainframe]]", Fry and Bender are falsely accused of bank robbery.robbery, but won't tell on the actual culprit for fear of his retribution. Their lawyer, the incompetent Hyper-Chicken, asks that they be declared innocent by reason of insanity... and presents the fact that they hired ''him'' to represent them as proof. This actually works, getting them sent to a robot insane asylum.
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* ''Film/{{Shooter}}'' supplies both an example of this and an example of "too competent" in the same scene. Agent Nick Memphis, right after he mentions that Bob Lee Swagger is too good of a sniper to not hit the President of the United States if that is the guy he was aiming for with the conditions at the moment of the shooting, mentions that every bit of forensics data of the OrgyOfEvidence was being delivered to the FBI within minutes of the shooting, while the manhunt for Swagger was only just starting and the crime scene was only beginning to be cordoned off, let alone being searched for evidence. So the only people who could have given the evidence were the ones who wanted to frame Swagger.
-->'''Agent Memphis''': We [the FBI] are not ''that'' fast.

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