History NotMeThisTime / WesternAnimation

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' has Suzie blame Angelica for stealing her brand-new tricycle and punishes her by tying her doll to a balloon and letting it go. Despite the evidence against her, Angelica was ''completely innocent'' - Suzie's trike was under her porch, Angelica's trike was her own and Angelica's red hands (which Suzie thought was from opening her garage's painted doors) were actually from her finger painting an apology letter. Thankfully for Suzie, a miracle (or a low-flying plane) gets Angelica's doll back to her and everyone's happy again. Except for poor Chuckie, since it was ''his'' balloon tied to the doll. The lesson he learned that day was "[[SpoofAesop Never let Suzie borrow your balloon]]".

* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': [[Recap/TransformersG1StarscreamsBrigade Starscream's Brigade]] has a twofold example due to EvilVersusEvil. A rogue Starscream steals some personality components from a Decepticon prison to create the Combaticons, a crew of soldiers to serve him. He and the Combaticons then abduct Autobots Jazz and Cliffjumper to steal their energy absorbers. As a result, Megatron confronts the Autobots thinking they liberated the personality components and Optimus retorts by demanding the return of Jazz and Cliffjumper. Both sides end up confused by what the other is asking.

** In another episode "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E6SlaveTheDayLosDosMojo Los Dos Mojos]]", Bubbles suffers a head injury and develops a delusion that she is Mojo Jojo. She immediately steals his outfit (while he's showering) and starts terrorizing Townsville. The other girls instantly assume the latter is responsible, which leads to the priceless line:

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "[[Recap/BatmanBeyondS1E5TheWinningEdge The Winning Edge]]", when Wayne discovers the steroidal compound going around Terry's school is actually Venom, the drug Bane invented to give himself super-strength, he sends Terry to investigate Bane. However, Terry finds Bane is now an invalid, his body ruined due to a lifetime of using the addictive stuff, clearly unable to run such an operation. [[spoiler: The true mastermind is Bane's caretaker, who Bane taught how make it for him when he was no longer able, and is now selling it on the street to make money.]]

* VillainProtagonist Rick Sanchez in ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' might be guilty of a ''lot'' of terrible deeds, but the one thing his family always gives him grief for: abandoning his wife and daughter [[spoiler: wasn't his act. He lost his wife and daughter long ago and went on an unsuccessful RoaringRampageOfRevenge against their killer.]]

** [[spoiler:Subverted in that Discord ''was'' responsible for the entire affair: his timing was just off. He (literally) planted the seeds of the plot back before he was sealed in stone for the first time, intending for them to grow immediately and set him free not long after. Instead, the leftover energy of the Harmony Tree kept the seeds dormant until the present, by which time Discord [[HeelFaceTurn had switched sides]] and never considered that the seeds would actually sprout at that point. He dodges the questions using ExactWords and points them in the general direction of the threat, but justifies not telling them its exact nature because [[TricksterMentor he felt that Twilight and her friends needed the character development]].]]

** An interesting example in one episode, Sevarius and Xanatos create an evil clone of Goliath as an instrument in one of Xanatos' plans. A few weeks later, Sevarius recieves a message from the clone posing as Xanatos, telling him to steal several million dollars from Xanatos Enterprises and then meet Xanatos at an abandoned offshore oil rig. Sevarius does this without question, assuming it to be part of a "[[EvilPlan Machiavellian scheme against your (Xanatos') enemies]]", when Xanatos shows up and begins berating Sevarius for emebezzlement, his first assumption is that they're being watched.

NotMeThisTime in WesternAnimation

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E20TwoDozenAndOneGreyhounds Two Dozen And One Greyhounds]]", Lisa, Marge, and Homer wonder who was causing various problems within the house lately (such as tearing up all her test papers, a broken vase, and spreading garbage all over the neighbor's yard before Homer got the chance to, respectively). Bart quips that he was this time innocent of these, and felt they were simply senseless destruction without any of his usual commentary. Turns out, it was the dog, who was continuing his path of destruction even in the room where they were located discussing what's happening.

** In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'', Batman interrogates Joker about a new vigilante using one of the latter's old aliases. After some back-and-forth, Joker asks if Batman honestly believes he would [[ShamelessSelfPromoter cause trouble without making sure everyone knew it was him]]. Batman has no retort.

** In "Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE12ItsNeverTooLate It's Never Too Late]]", aging mobster Arnold Stromwell has a peace meeting with Rupert Thorne, the rival who is supplanting Stromwell as the top mobster in Gotham. At the meeting Stromwell brings up the recent mysterious disappearance of his son and furiously accuses Thorne of being responsible. Thorne is completely blindsided by the accusation and points out that he avoids going after the family of his enemies. While Thorne is somewhat flexible on this moral stand (at the end of the episode Thorne seems fine with potentially gunning down Stromwell's brother, a priest, while trying to kill Stromwell, and in a later episode one of his subordinates will use Harvey Dent's fiancee in an attempt to get to Dent after Dent has become Two-Face), in this case he's being completely honest, as he had nothing to do with Stromwell's son. The truth turned out to be that Stromwell's son had gotten hooked on drugs ([[LaserGuidedKarma the same ones sold by Stromwell's organization]], naturally), and was in a rehab/treatment center.

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', Randall also had this trope invoked on him twice: The first time, most of the secrets that TJ and the others held were exposed to the teachers and staff, to which they ended up busted. They initially think Randall was behind their being ratted out, but Randall (who was in the garbage can to listen in) insisted that he did not. A chase to the bathroom later, and they end up discovering that Randall really wasn't behind their being ratted out that time: It was the so-called "cool kid" Stone who joined up with their posse who was in fact an undercover department of education individual who disguised himself as a student so Superintendent Skinner could find out the going abouts by the school who did it. The second time was when Randall hired the Ashleys' younger brothers, the Tylers, to act as proxies for him for his snitching job due to his getting cold at his sleuthing skills. One day, a lot more kids were put in The Box, including King Bob, whom he blamed Randall for it. However, Randall mentioned that reporting higher authority figures was a low even he wouldn't go as low as, and immediately told off the Ashleys' brothers for it, and attempted to put a stop to it, although they were one step ahead of him and reported him for it as well. Both instances also resulted in an EnemyMine between Randall and the other kids.

* ''Franchise/Garfield'':

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''
** In one episode, Jon, Garfield, and Odie are camping at a park. The ranger mentions that campers have been complaining about their lunches mysteriously disappearing over the last few weeks. Jon immediately glares at Garfield who says "Don't look at me. I just got here."
** In one episode the gang goes on a picnic, the food is taken away by a colony of ants while Jon and Odie decide to go for a jog before eating. Naturally, they blame Garfield when they see the food is gone. Luckily, Garfield is proven innocent when the ants come back [[StrongAnts and throw Jon in the lake.]]
* Its sequel series ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'' has a similar instance where Odie steals Jon and Liz's cake for a picnic, in order to feed a baby wolf cub. When an unknowing Jon confronts Garfield, even he has to double check with himself that he didn't take it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', after Chris is sent to a fat camp to lose weight, the other fat children are being killed off in the middle of the night one by one via strangulation. Everyone assumes Patrick, Lois' brother, did it because he was the town's "Fat Guy Strangler" several seasons back. Patrick says he had changed and had nothing to do with the murders at the camp; this is confirmed when another camper turns up dead. He even offers to help find the real killer, who turns out to be [[spoiler:Charles Yamamoto, the former hot dog eating champion. Yamamoto murdered every boy that had blonde hair because he remembered Chris having blonde hair and wanted to kill him in revenge for losing to him in the contest. He also had released Patrick from his insane asylum because he knew Patrick was the Fat Guy Strangler and everyone would naturally blame him once they hear he is loose.]] When the Griffins go to apologize to Patrick for the misunderstanding, he disappears.