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The Messianic Archetype, his True Companions, and even several members of the Redshirt Army have been defeated and captured by The Empire. The Big Bad or The Dragon shows up, demanding to know who led this rebellion, presumably to drag them away for some horrific punishment. If he is given up, the rest are free to continue living. But then brotherhood and camaraderie prevails. Before the All-Loving Hero can give himself up to save his comrades, The Lancer suddenly stands up, claiming to be him. Then The Big Guy. Then The Mentor, The Smart Guy, even the Cute Bruiser. One by one, the entire Redshirt Army stands up. They would all rather suffer his fate than turn him over to the enemy. At this point, events usually play out in one of two ways: Scenario 1 The villain simply decides to kill everyone, including the hero. Sure, it's more bloodshed than planned, but at least the villain's point is made. Scenario 2 The ploy ends up distracting the villain, allowing the hero to get the upper hand or escape. Variations on (and parodies of) this theme have led to it becoming a trope of its own: someone else claims to be The Hero to protect the real one. There's also sometimes the inspiring subtext that "we are all The Hero; kill one and the rest still stand." Because of this wide spread, villians and their minions have learned to invoke this trope as well. The Trope Namer is a famous scene in Spartacus which involves several Roman soldiers asking the slaves to identify Spartacus so they can crucify him. Spartacus stands to speak, but the men sitting beside him both claim to be Spartacus, with eventually the entire army shouting this trope. Compare with Lost in a Crowd and Ringer Ploy. See also/compare Decoy Leader. Also Undying Loyalty. When all of them routinely take on the identity of Spartacus, see Collective Identity. When all of them really are Spartacus, see Me's a Crowd, Doppelgänger Spin, Planet of Steves, and/or Hivemind. |
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Happy Days had a variant where a local law enforcement official (reflecting Executive Meddling concerns) goes after Fonzie because of his black leather jacket, which makes him look like a thug. By the end of the episode, everyone is wearing one in solidarity. | |
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The boys intentionally set this up during "Prank Week" in Zoey 101 to save Zoey from getting expelled. | |
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In William King's novel Space Wolf, when a brawl breaks out among the aspirants, their teacher demands to know who is responsible. The ones who started the fight admit it, and the rest pile in, to admit to joining. When asked if they all deserve punishment, they agree. | |
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Bruiser: During the masquerade, Rosie announces to Det. McCleary that she is the killer Faceless. Henry, who really is Faceless, instead calls out that he is Faceless. At this point, various party guests, most of whom have no idea what is going on, start yelling that they are Faceless. | |
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At the end of the Clone High episode "The Principal Principle: Sub Zero to Sub Hero", after Joan begrudgingly takes full responsibility for wrecking the school with the party she threw and the presence of the bear (Confucius' pet bear Kevin), the other students (with the exception of Cleo) all claim that they threw the party and brought the bear. | |
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In Wild Rose (1932), when Xiao is confessing to having picked up the drunk guy's wallet, all three of her male companions say that no, they did it. Eventually Jiang and Li are arrested. | |
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Played straight in The Invaders (1967), when aliens disguised as military demand to know which of the intruders on their base is David Vincent. Fortunately, Vincent has at least managed to convince the others that the soldiers are fakes. | |
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Used in The City Hunter: the hero arranges for fans of the City Hunter to gather outside the prosecutor's office at a certain time, all wearing black masks. The deception doesn't last long, but does provide him cover to sneak in and out (almost) unnoticed. | |
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In the Cheers episode "And God Created Woodman", Woody and Sam each take a turn confessing to breaking a vase that was actually broken by Rebecca. | |
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The Talmud in tractate Sanhedrin brings a couple of I Am Spartacus stories. It's kicked off by a story in which Rabbi Shimon Ben Gamliel brought together seven judges to declare a leap year but eight showed up and he demanded to know which one wasn't invited. This one isn't an example because one person simply took the fall for the real culprit, but it's followed by two examples. Rebbe was teaching and smelled garlic. He hated the smell of garlic (and everybody knew it, so there were no excuses), so he announced "Whoever ate garlic, leave." Rabbi Chiyya got up and left, but he was Rebbe's prized student and was obviously not the culprit - so one by one everyone else got up and left too, to save the real one from embarrassment. A woman came to the school run by Rabbi Meir, and stated that she had had relations (of a type equivalent to a binding marriage contract) with one of the students but didn't know which one. Rabbi Meir himself wrote her a bill of divorce, followed by every single one of his students, thus ensuring the divorce took place without embarrassing the student in question. |
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The Simpsons: Bart hears the tale of an old west fort (In Springfield?) where the soldiers, surrounded by hostile natives, are told they'll be left alone if they hand over the base's commander. This being The Simpsons of course, they give him up to a horrible death, and the base is renamed "Fort Sensible". In "I, Carumbus", when Marge's Roman counterpart gets pregnant by Homer's Roman counterpart, her father demands to know which of the slaves did it. One by one, the other slaves declare "I had sexicus" to spare Homer, only for Homer to accuse them all of having sex with the woman he loved, inadvertently outing himself. |
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In & Out: "I'm (x) and I'm gay!" (one gets the reply: "You can't be gay! You're a tramp!") | |
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From Meet Dave: After the Captain regains control of Dave from the mutinous Number Two, he asks the crew for their input regarding the decision of whether or not they should save Earth. | |
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In the Merrie Melodies short "Tortoise Beats Hare", Bugs Bunny challenges Cecil Turtle to a race with a $10 wager at stake. As Bugs reaches each of the checkpoints, it appears that Cecil has managed to make it ahead of him, when in reality he has called up his identical-looking relatives to arrive just ahead of Bugs at each of the checkpoints. After winning the race, they each come up and kiss Bugs with a dollar in their hands. | |
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An early Home and Away storyline saw the church hall committee cancel a dance out of safety concerns. Pippa felt they were overreacting so arranged to have the committee out of the way so they could hold the dance without their permission. The committee were not impressed and wanted her charged with breaking and entering. At that point, Floss and Neville told the police it was actually them that did it, as did Frank, as did Lance and Martin. The police quickly concluded there was no way of telling which confession was real so dropped the charges. | |
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Zig-zagged in an early chapter of Ōoku: The Inner Chambers. Shogun Yoshimune stumbles over her new robes during her first formal inspection of her new harem and hears laughter from the lines of men kneeling with their faces on the floor. When she demands to know who found her clumsiness so funny a young man in a comparatively simple outfit (falsely) confesses, which so impresses Yoshimune that she selects him to be her first bedmate from the harem... thus unknowingly sentencing him to be executed. | |
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Done on Grey's Anatomy when the interns are questioned over the situation that forced Denny Duquette's heart transplant. Izzie, Cristina, Meredith and George all confess to cutting his wire, one at a time. Alex says. "I'm totally innocent." The others turn on him but he points out that he wasn't even in the building at the time. It happens again in Season 15, when Meredith, Richard and Alex all admit that they've committed insurance fraud. The similarities to the LVAD wire scene are even lampshaded by Bailey. Eventually they admit that, while Meredith was the one who actually did it, they are all guilty of covering it up. |
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The Phantom: In "Hooded Justice", the fifth Phantom is transported back in time to 12th century Nottingham where he takes on the role of Robin Hood. The Sheriff captures Maraian and declares she will be executed if Robin Hood does not present himself. The Phantom steps forward and declares he is Robin Hood. Then each of the Merry Men planted throughout the crowd claims that he is Robin Hood. The Sheriff's men attempt to arrest everyone and the confusion allows the Phantom to rescue Marian. | |
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At the end of V for Vendetta, everyone in London dons the Guy Fawkes mask and becomes "the terrorist". | |
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Roseanne: A variation occurs in "Let's Call It Quits." Roseanne and her fellow workers at the Wellman Plastic Factory get a new boss, Mr. Faber, who treats the women like slaves. Roseanne tries to get him to ease off, but he only agrees if she promises to treat him with respect (which he has done nothing to earn). She reluctantly concedes...only for Mr. Faber to keep on abusing the staff, bragging that since he "broke" the strong-willed Roseanne, he knows that no one else will dare to oppose him. A furious Roseanne grabs her time card and punches out to quit, prompting Faber to sarcastically applaud her and remind the other women "there are two doors to this room—one that pays, and one that doesn't." But one by one, each of the women stands up, takes her own punch card, and quits as well. | |
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Subverted in Batman Forever: Two-Face holds a circus hostage with a giant bomb, saying that he'll kill everyone unless Batman reveals his secret identity. Bruce Wayne immediately stands up and tries to reveal his identity, but his confession is completely lost in the noise and screams of the crowd. | |
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Spoofed in the Community episode "Geography of Global Conflict", in which the study group is doing well in the Model UN competition Annie's roped them into until they fall apart due to a smelly fart that no one will admit to. After melting down a bit, Annie tries to fix things by saying she did it, but then Jeff admits it. He's telling the truth, but the others assume he's trying to invoke the trope and all proudly say that they farted too. Annoyed, Jeff comments that he "wasn't doing the Spartacus thing". | |
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The Satanic Verses fatwa called for the death of all publishers along with the author. The German translations has two pages of “publishers�, more than two hundred individuals and some eighty publishing houses. | |
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A variant occurs in "The Quad-Plex" episode of Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn. The quads spend most of the episode trying to hide the fact that they are at the movies with their parents from the popular guy in their class, Moses. After finally being found out, other friends of theirs stand up in the theater to announce they are also with their parents. | |
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One storyline of CASUAL+Y had Obstructive Bureaucrat Nathan Spence pricking himself on a syringe left in a normal waste bin. It had actually been put there by a visitor to the hospital but he is determined to find a staffmember to blame and tries to get a health care assistant with mental health issues to admit he might have done it and forgotten. Team Dad Charlie, determined to put an end to the witch hunt, announces he did it. Nathan looks smug...but then a doctor says she did it. And then a nurse does the same. And the consultant. | |
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The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: In the episode "Balloonatics", Pooh and his friends each tell Christopher Robin that they were the one who popped his balloon. But it turns out that they were worried over nothing. The balloon is only untied and just needs to be reinflated. | |
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Subverted in Canadian show Radio Active, when Ms. Atoll demands to know the identity of the mysterious "DJ X". The plan backfires when DJ X himself fails to claim that he is DJ X, thus singling him out as DJ X. | |
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A variation appears in Batman: Gotham Adventures #35. After a jury that includes Bruce Wayne finds a man guilty of kidnapping, he grabs a gun and holds it on his defense attorney, blaming her for the verdict. Bruce intercedes, saying that he should take the blame since he persuaded the rest of the jury of the man's guilt. Then the elderly witness says that no, she should take the blame, since she was the only one to come forward and testify against him. Then the forewoman says it's her fault, since she didn't tell the judge they had a hung jury. Then other members of the jury start coming forward and claiming responsibility. The man, confounded, decides to start off by shooting Bruce. Enter Robin. | |
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Final episode of Power Rangers in Space "Countdown to Destruction" played straight, which had the entire city of Angel Grove, starting with Bulk and Skull, telling the villains that they were Power Rangers. Made all the more epic, in that many of them were shown doubting the Power Rangers the night before. It's also played parallel to the Ur-Example when Astronema, who was the recipient, orders her foot soldiers to just kill everyone in Angel Grove. (Fortunately, the actual Power Rangers showed up in the nick of time.) | |
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The trope name comes from the famous (and genuinely moving) scene in Spartacus. The scene involves several Roman soldiers asking the slaves to identify Spartacus so they can crucify him, promising amnesty so long as they identify the rebel leader. Spartacus is about to speak, when suddenly slaves left and right begin claiming to be Spartacus. Eventually, they all say they're Spartacus, so the Romans just crucify all of them except Spartacus and Antoninus, who they force to fight to the death (then they crucify Spartacus after he wins). | |
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In the British Made-for-TV Movie Self-Catering John Gordon-Sinclair recounts a dream he had in which he was Spartacus, and decided to keep quiet. And suddenly everyone was pointing at him and saying "He's Spartacus!" | |
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A variation occurs in the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga. Honda/Tristan wants to tell a girl in his class that he loves her, but he's too shy to do it himself. So he gets a blank jigsaw puzzle and gets Yugi to write the message for him. Then, Jonouchi/Joey leaves the message in the girl's desk. Unfortunately, it's against the school rules, and when the teacher (who's incredibly strict, not to mention in a bad mood and looking for a student to punish) finds out, she wants to know whose puzzle it is. Yugi, Jonouchi/Joey, and Honda/Tristan all stand up and admit it, and of course, in this case, all of their statements are true. | |
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The Trope Namer is very often parodied at motorbike rallies, generally after dark. Depending on the general mood at the time (and exactly how late it is), the initial "I'm Spartacus!" can be met with various obscenities, or enthusiastically taken up, generally morphing into "I'm Spartacus, and so is my wife!", and even "I'm Spartacus' wife!" | |
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The Sesame Street "Monsterpiece Theater" sketch "Me, Claudius" is a parody of this: it consists entirely of a bunch of Muppets arguing over which one of them is Claudius. | |
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In Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Peabody is about to be taken away by animal control when Sherman asks to be taken in his place because "I'm a dog!" Soon, everyone in the crowd (including some historical characters brought over from the past) stand up and declare that they too are dogs. Except for Spartacus, who says... well, you know. | |
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Done in Season Eight of Waterloo Road. Barry Barry begins to sexually harass Miss Diamond, even breaking into her house and stealing her underwear. When he reveals this during a sexual health class, she slaps him without thinking. Barry, in an effort to get her fired, tries to make everyone in the class publicly admit they saw it happen. They respond by each coming forward and saying they were the one who slapped Barry. Miss Diamond still ends up resigning though. | |
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This is attempted by both Erusea and ISAF in the last mission of Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies. While you as Mobius 1 have already defeated the best of Yellow Squadron, the remaining pilots and others slap their emblem on their planes. Not to be outdone, ISAF assigns a new Mobius Squadron to support you, all of their planes bearing blue ribbons and making the enemy collectively shit their pants. | |
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The first season of Xena: Warrior Princess did this, in the episode "The Black Wolf". An entire village stands up claiming to be the vigilante ninja who protects them from the local warlord, and the warlord takes them all hostage against the reveal of the real thing. | |
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Luke Cage (2016): Luke, on the run due to being framed as a cop killer, ends up saving Method Man from a convenience store robbery by two inept crooks. Out of gratitude, Method Man trades his hoodie with Luke to help him hide from the cops. After that, he freestyles on the radio about his encounter, during which we see a montage of black men around Harlem donning bullet-ridden hoodies to confuse the police and show solidarity with Luke. | |
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Little Annie Rooney: When Annie finally confesses to flinging the brick that spooked the horse, all her friends each say that no, they did it. | |
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That Thing You Do!. A repeated theme in the film, shouted by Guy. At first, it's him as a leader. Finally, when he's the last member of the band not to quit, it's a quiet irony - and the name of his drum solo with Del Paxton. | |
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The Wonder Years episode "Day One" has Kevin being picked on by a tyrannical political science teacher. At one point he absentmindedly tears a sheet of paper from his notebook, violating one of the teacher's study-hall rules; the teacher whips around, demanding, "Who did that?", sees Kevin with the sheet in his hand, and begins to assign him a week's detention...when the rest of the class begin tearing sheets out of their notebooks, one by one. | |
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Robin goes looking for Greg Killmaster at ILM in Shortpacked!, and a bunch of guys claim to be him when she yells that she wants to have "five million of his babies." The real one, of course, is nowhere to be found. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Parodied in the strip "Under the Arena". | |
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Not Always Right: Here, a substitute teacher for a college-level engineering class assumes the sole female student is only here to attract a boy, and kicks her out. The second time this happens, all the remaining (male) students walk out with her. They spend that class period in the school office for the next two weeks until the regular teacher returns, after which the substitute is forced into early retirement by the school board. Spinoff site Not Always Learning has this moment of solidarity against a bigoted Bible class teacher who hates Methodists. After one student reveals that they actually are Methodist and gets kicked out of the class, all the other students start claiming to be Methodists, too. |
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In Persona 3, this happens twice between a member of S.E.E.S. and one from Strega. Junpei claims to be the leader of his group, which causes Chidori to kidnap him during the September Full Moon operation. He confesses that he lied, and it's most likely that he did so to impress her. Then on October 4, Takaya demands to know who the Mission Control of S.E.E.S. is, since he realizes that person is helping S.E.E.S. find and eliminate the Full Moon Shadows (something Takaya doesn't want). Ken, who has become suicidal after knowing that Shinjiro (the target of his revenge) is doomed to die anyway, claims to be the person in question, and Takaya would have killed him if not for Shinjiro's Heroic Sacrifice. |
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In Way of the Samurai 3, this occurs near the end of one of the endings, after you take Osei Suzuku's place to save Takatane Village. Before being executed at Lord Shuzen's hand, though, Osei shows up, claiming her (correct) place as an heir to the Sakurai clan. Then Munechika Umemiya shows up, claiming to be another heir (he's the former chief vassal). Then, one by one, each of the other villagers and Ouka clan members there claims to be an heir to the Sakurai clan. At the end of the whole thing, Shinnosuke Umemiya, a Sakurai loyalist biding his time in Shuzen's service, laughs and claims he is one more heir. The expression on Kirie Masatsugu's face when hearing this is priceless. True to the original, Shuzen orders everyone killed, even after it is pointed out he will have no one left to rule over if he did. | |
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In the Mexican sitcom Chespirito, it comes up in a sketch taking place in the headquarters of the army, where a colonel is trying to find out who his daughter, an army nurse, is dating. The likely suspects are a captain, a sergeant, and a private. When the colonel says that whoever tells him the truth will not be recommended to test an experimental parachute that has had a high failure rate, the private is about to rat out the sergeant, but decides to take pity on him and the nurse, and says he's the boyfriend. However, the sergeant admits that he's the boyfriend, and then the captain says he's the boyfriend. When the colonel demands to know who's the real boyfriend, the private says, "it's the three of us." The nurse then nervously admits the sergeant is real boyfriend. | |
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In The Dark Knight, when Bruce Wayne is about to turn himself over as Batman to appease the Joker, Harvey Dent announces that he is the Batman, and that he wishes to be taken into custody. | |
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Toonsylvania: In one episode of the "Night of the Living Fred" segment, the principal of the school Fred and his sister attend found out Fred is dead and expelled him for that. Later, during a debate championship Fred's sister was a part of, she admits to also being dead and several other people did the same. Some guy claimed to be Spartacus and got stared for that. | |
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Grojband: In "Ahead of Their Tone", all of the members of Grojband claim to be Nick Mallory in order to distract Cyborg Trina. | |
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Superman II: The Vice President attempts to fool General Zod by standing (er, ''kneeling'') in for the actual President. Naturally, Zod sees right through it: "No one who leads so many could possibly kneel so quickly..." | |
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In "The New Principal" Season 4 episode of Dennis the Menace, Johnny Brady draws a picture of the principal and forges Dennis's name, which frames Dennis for detention, with John Wilson, Mr. Finch the pharmacist, and Mr. Quigley the grocer claiming to be Henry Mitchell in order to convince the principal of Dennis's innocence; when Henry Mitchell actually shows up, the principal dismisses Dennis and his neighbors in time for the baseball game. | |
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HowToBasic's face reveal. It starts simple enough, with Mr. Basic revealing himself to be... Michael Stevens from Vsauce. But then later it is revealed that he is actually hired by Max Moe Foe to pose as HowToBasic, which is actually Max himself... except that's not right either, as another YouTuber immediately claims that he's the real HowToBasic. And then another YouTuber claims to be HowToBasic, and then another one, and then another one... until the video devolves into pretty much every single YouTuber under the sun claiming to be HowToBasic. | |
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Parodied in Outnumbered, when Ben gets the role of Spartacus in a school musical: | |
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In one of the Phule's Company books, the new CO sent to replace Phule demands to know who made a wisecrack about him while hidden in the crowd of Legionnaires. Several of them step up and take the blame, including one of the two Sinthians (sluglike aliens)—whose name really is Spatacus. | |
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Kung Fu (2021): In "Sanctuary" there's a variation when Joe is about to get arrested for allegedly inciting a riot. Everyone else there claims they've incited a riot too. This confuses and delays the cops long enough to uncover a video showing he did no such thing, so they leave. | |
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In the "Officer Moody" episode of Clarence, Belson has just pulled the fire alarm and is about to be arrested by Mr. Reese's Cowboy Cop ex-partner Moody, when Reese stands up and claimed that he pulled the fire alarm, followed by Clarence, Camden, Chelsea, and Percy claiming that they did it, with Jeff mentioning that he saw Mavis pull the alarm. Just as Moody is about to arrest the class, she is called away to another emergency, and all of the students, including Belson, have more respect for Mr. Reese. | |
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Altered Carbon takes place in a future where people can Body Surf into different sleeves. At the start of Season 2, a man walks into a Bad Guy Bar with a Briefcase Full of Money to pay his debt to Takeshi Kovacs. Naturally several badasses claim to be him and start fighting for possession of the case. The man departs during the confusion and a bomb hidden in the briefcase blows up the bar. Unfortunately he missed killing the real Kovacs, who was disguised as the female lounge singer. | |
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Myth Adventures: In Class Dis-Mythed, when Skeeve sneaks back to Perv, a dimension from which he's been banished, to support his students' efforts to win a reality-show contest. When he's spotted by police and about to be arrested, his students first claim he's a Skeeve impersonator from the program cast; when that fails to convince the cops, they use illusions to assume their teacher's likeness and distract them as he escapes. | |
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Inverted in Zodiac, where reporters afraid of being targeted by Zodiac, who has threatened reporter Paul Avery (Robert Downey Jr.), begin to wear buttons that say "I'm Not Paul Avery." The only one showed prominently is on Paul Avery. | |
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Gilligan's Island. In the episode "Slave Girl", Gilligan saves a native girl from drowning and she becomes his slave due to I Owe You My Life. Later on a male native threatens to kill the girl's master so he can take control of her. In order to protect Gilligan, first The Professor and then the Skipper say that they are actually her master. | |
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Averted in A Scotsman in Egypt: An Inquisitor is asking for a man named Spartacus, and they all claim to be him. When the Inquisitor reveals what he has in store, however, they all point to the real one. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: In "The Headband", the students from a Fire Nation school all wore their headbands in order to hide "Kuzon" so that he and his friends can escape and distract the headmaster and his goons. In a flashback in "The Southern Raiders", it's revealed that Katara's mother, Kya, claimed to be the waterbender the Fire Nation was looking for in order to protect Katara. She ends up dying for it. |
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A variant shows up in the finale of Kyouran Kazoku Nikki, when Kyouka is threatening Ouka to kill her since she's the true child of Enka, the rest of the family stands up and declares that they are, establishing their family bonds. Even Chika tries to get in on it, even though it was known from the start that she really isn't. | |
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Forgotten Realms lore has one of these, too. Such is the mystery of Phlambror's death. "He was murdered by an enraged husband, and no one was ever punished for the crime despite the garthraun arresting a man red-handed (literally bloody-handed, over the body). As it turns out, no less than four hundred men came forward to claim that they'd slain Phlambror." | |
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"The Pink Candidate", an episode of Pinky and the Brain. President Pinky had volunteered to come before Congress to testify during the impeachment of his chief of staff, the Brain. Rather than leave his friend to a horrible fate (and over Brain's objection), Pinky breaks down and admits that he was the world conquest mastermind, not Brain. Including wailing 'I'm Spartacus!'. (One Congressman is heard after asking 'Who's Spartacus?'.) | |
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In Homare Midorikawa's route of Class Trip Crush, several of the students get caught sneaking out at night thanks to a sudden rainstorm that stranded Homare and the protagonist in a mountain cabin for several hours, prompting the other guys to go looking for them. Homare claims responsibility when they're caught by their teacher, but when the teacher says that he'll have to punish Homare by sending him home, the protagonist and each of the other guys pipes in to explain how they, not Homare, really started the trouble. Homare promptly deflates the effort by pointing out the holes in the others' stories, but their teacher is impressed enough by the unanimous gesture of solidarity that he lets Homare off with a slap on the wrist. | |
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Naturally, Sadie: In "Unusual Suspects", Sadie and Dr. Finch both confess to being the one who broke into Finch's store, each trying to protect the other. Ultimately the police decide no crime has been committed and let them go. | |
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In one issue of Simpsons Comics, Grampa becomes a vigilante (El Grampo) and when Chief Wiggum tries to arrest him, the other members of the Springfield Retirement Castle claim to be the real El Grampo. They don’t do this because they care about Grampa but because they think that pretending to be El Grampo will result in their families paying attention to them. Wiggum’s response is to shoot them all, but when he is told the amount of paperwork that would entail, makes them fight each other like gladiators. The whole thing turns out to be one of Grampa’s nonsensical stories. | |
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The basic premise of To Tell the Truth, where contestants 1, 2, and 3 start off by claiming "My name is John Doe, and I (do unusual activity)." The real claimant to the unusual activity stands up at the end, and the impostors reveal their real names and occupations. | |
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Used in an episode of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide about embarrassment. Suzie "blasted the pants cannon" and Ned claims that he was the one responsible but that he is not embarrassed. He then says, "I am Fartacus!", causing the rest of the class to stand up one by one and make this claim. The Alpha Bitch declares that she is totally not Fartacus... only for her to pass gas a few seconds after saying so. She reluctantly stands with the rest of the students. | |
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In Legion, all the Alpha Legion are Alpharius, at least to outsiders. Magnificent Bastardry is their hat, and having the entire legion appear virtually alike is important to much of their scheming. | |
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To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar with the people of the small town all claiming to be drag queens. | |
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In the third episode of the Legend of the Seeker, the mother of the Seeker speaks up during an inquiry and rouses her village to defy the D'Hara. Afterward, she reveals her identity to them, thus condemning herself to punishment, which inspires the rest of the women of the village also speak up and claim to be the Seeker's mother as well. Though, it turns out she's not either. | |
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Shannon Hale's Princess Academy. The girls who were candidates to marry the prince are captured by bandits, who demand to know which is the future princess so they can hold her for ransom. (The prince actually left without making a decision, but the bandits don't believe it.) One girl speaks up and claims the prince secretly proposed to her. When another girl who hadn't even met the prince makes the same claim, the rest catch on and claim he proposed to all of them. This confuses the bandits enough that they don't dare kill anyone until they know which girl is the princess. Indeed, the chief bandit even wonders if the prince is such a cad that he falsely offered his hand to all of them! | |
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The Pony POV Series provides an example early on in the Dark World arc — Traitor Dash is dispatched by Discord to Cloudsdale to locate and kill a Rebel Leader, or else Discord will destroy the whole city (he was bluffing, but she didn't know that). The entire crowd present when she shows up claim to be the target, but TD is able to Sherlock Scan the leader out of the crowd, and after a brief fight kills her. However, it's one of the things Twilight's Memory Spell reminds Dash of that shows her the Dark World is worth saving, allowing her Heel–Face Turn. | |
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A villainous variation occurs in The Walking Dead (2010). After interrogating a Saviour about the whereabouts of his boss, Negan, the man replies, "I'm Negan." Later, when the real Negan is trying to break Daryl, he points to each of his men and asks them who they are. Every one of them replies with "Negan". | |
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In the Death Note manga, Mello demands to know the identity of the one acting as L so that he can kill him if the trade for the notebook goes south, threatening to kill the hostage if they don't comply. Matsuda saves Light and his dad from that dilemma by hijacking the keyboard and telling Mello that he's the one acting as L. | |
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In Fafner in the Azure: Dead Aggressor, when Yumiko is put on trial for tampering with Maya's pilot data, most of the main cast confess to the crime... with the final confessor being the human computer that controls the entire island - and has data to prove that all the confessions are true. Everyone has a reasonable explaination for why they supposedly did it. Soushi wanted her off the roster because he was afraid her pluckiness would cause problems, Sakura wanted to remove a rival for top pilot, Mamoru was just screwing around in the lab and accidentally changed the data, Kenji changed the data because he made a mistake trying to change his own data to get out of piloting, Kazuki didn't want her to fight, Mizoguchi was trying to look up her measurements on the computer and accidentally messed with the data etc. | |
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Parodied in Lolita, when Humbert Humbert asks Clare Quilty, "Are you Quilty?" | |
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M*A*S*H: A variation appeared in the episode "Operation Noselift". A plastic surgeon visits the 4077th to perform a nose job on a soldier. When Major Burns gets wind of this unauthorized 'elective surgery', he tries to find out who's had a nose job. Unfortunately for Frank, everyone in the camp chooses to wear bandages on their noses, even the camp mascot, thus foiling Frank yet again. Another variation occurred in "Officers Only" when the camp got a new Officer's Club as a thank you for saving a general's son. The club was creating tension between the officers and enlisted men, who were not allowed in the club. When said son, a sergeant, came into the club, Hawkeye pointed out it was officers only, but suggested an exception for relatives. When the general agreed, Hawkeye proceeded to bring in everyone in camp, claiming a convoluted family tree that made everyone related to him. (From that point on, it's an Officer's Club in name only.) |
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Spoofed in the Lexx parody of A Midsummer Night's Dream. To get Stanley out of marrying Oberon, Puck transforms himself, Xev, and Kai into identical Stanley clones. At Oberon's demands, all of them claim to be the real Puck and to be the real Stan. (Their wording and delivery makes it clear who's whom, but Oberon reasons that Stan is disguised as the least desirable prospect and winds up sealing a 1500-year vow with Titania the bearded dwarf wench.) | |
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NCIS: In Season Ten's "Shabbat Shalom", a reporter, whose story might have falsely implicated some sailors in a crime, is found dead which results in them being called in. They all confess to killing the reporter. Tony later lampshades the four sailors. | |
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Monk: In "Mr. Monk and the Red-Headed Stranger", Willie Nelson is the prime suspect of a murder. Captain Stottlemeyer arrives at the radio station to arrest him after a performance of his song "Georgia on My Mind". His three bandmates all step forth and say, in sequence, "I'm Willie Nelson." Given who Willie Nelson is, it doesn't work so well. | |
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Parodied on ChalkZone when a futuristic villain, Craniac 3, discovers the magic chalk and wants it for himself. He takes it from Rudy, but upon learning he can't use it, he demands which of the trio is "The Great Artist". When Rudy is incapacitated at the moment, Penny claims she is the Great Artist, only for Snap to claim afterwards that he is the Great Artist. Craniac 3 just decides to take all three of them. | |
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Recess: When Spinelli's first name is revealed to be Ashley, the other Ashleys force her to join them. To save Spinelli, the others all claim their names are Ashley too, and demand membership. When Spinelli accidentally calls the Miss Grotke "mama", her friends all do the same thing in order to alleviate the humiliation, eventually leading to the whole class calling her mama. In one episode Mikey rips his pants and his friends do too in order to save him from being the only one embarrassed. |
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Toward the end of the first trial day in case 3 of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, Robin Newman confesses to being the murderer in order to protect Juniper, the defendant who otherwise would have been convicted. Then, to protect Robin, Juniper admits to the murder as well. Shortly after, Hugh O'Connor also confesses, and the trial has to be suspended for the day. Interestingly enough, the main characters later become suspicious of Hugh, and when his taking part in this is brought up, they also remember that Hugh only did so after the other two had, possibly to deflect suspicion from himself. It turns out that Hugh is, in fact, innocent, but due to his circumstances, would have been willing to take the fall for Juniper. | |
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Another villainous example comes in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. When Kakyoin and Polnareff shrink their Stands down to enter Joseph's brain to battle the microscopic Stand, Lovers, that had invaded Joseph's brain, they find out that it had created dozens of dummy copies of itself with Joseph's own brain cells, with each one claiming to be the real Stand. | |
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It happens in The Commuter. The film revolves around a search for a mysterious train passenger known as Prynne. Near the end, when someone demands to know once and for all who Prynne is, the real Prynne, a young girl who was being targeted for assassination for witnessing the murder of her cousin by corrupt cops, stands up and confesses, but then the other passengers do the same thing. Subverted when a conductor declares, "I, for one, am not Prynne, so...". | |
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In The Dragon Prince, Callum is attacked by Rayla, a Moonshadow Elf assassin. Upon learning that she's after not only his step-father, King Harrow, but also his half-brother, Prince Ezran, Callum claims to be the latter. Fortunately a combination of Rayla's own nerves and Ezran's actual arrival saves him before she goes for the kill.note Incidentally, Ezran is five years younger than Callum, and their birth fathers are different races, so Rayla was clearly not given a very good description of her targets. | |
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In Episode 5 of the Netflix series Sex Education, a closeup of a girl's privates is texted around the student body in a slut-shaming attempt. At the end of the show the headmaster announces that the investigation into the identities of all involved is still ongoing (even though the plot has already been resolved by the students themselves). This results in one female student after another, and one male, standing up and proudly announcing, "It's my vagina!" | |
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Heartbeat did an episode involving some Chinese travellers poaching Lord Ashfordley's trout stream, and also teaching Peggy and David how to go about it. When the bobbies demanded to know who was responsible, everybody confessed. | |
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A rather heartwarming example of this occurs in the second series of Princess Returning Pearl. When asked by the empress dowager who made the voodoo doll cursing the emperor that was found in the princess' residence and knowing that admitting to doing so basically leads to a death sentence, all of its residents (the princesses and their servants) ultimately admit to the deed and that only they and they alone had anything to do with it. Ironically, it was this very act that helped convince the empress dowager that they were ultimately innocent of the crime. | |
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Happens in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple: The Yomi assassin "Spark" tries to destroy the Shinpaku HQ and demands to fight Kenichi. Since he's not there, several other members claim to be Kenichi, presumably to buy him time. Spark is not fooled. | |
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Subverted in the memorable episode of The Brady Bunch in which Peter breaks a vase. The gambit fails when all the kids except Peter confess. | |
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let's go out with a bang! plays with this: while Maki stands up and attempts to pass herself off as Kaede after the latter's name is called, ripping off both of their name tags, the gesture seems largely symbolic — it's clear nobody believes her claims. However, this leads into Maki and the bulk of their classmates rallying around Kaede in order to protect her from the enforcement team, as well as Junko inverting this by revealing herself to Draw Aggro. | |
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In Herman Wouk's The Winds of War, Leslie Slote, a diplomatic secretary from the American embassy in Warsaw during the German invasion who is timid and considers himself a coward. While traveling through German territory with other neutral diplomats an SS officer tries to separate the Jews. Slote berates the officer with an imperious lecture on national sovereignity rights and announces that either all of the party or none are to be treated as Jews. | |
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In the Futurama episode "A Tale of Two Santas", Bender attempts Subbing for Santa (who is a psychotic robot) and is going to be executed for all of the real Robot Santa's crimes. During the execution, Fry, Leela, Amy and Hermes all come in claiming to be the real Santa. Zoidberg goes even further (and completely misses the point) by claiming to be Jesus.note Genius Bonus: The title of this episode refers to Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, where a character actually does manage to pull this trope for his lookalike's execution. | |
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Lampshaded in Dog with a Blog, they had Avery explain the "truth" about what happened to their mother's car. It doesn't help that their talking dog did it, but they try to claim this trope (to protect said dog) until Chloe says, "I... am Asparagus," and the parents figure it out. | |
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In Code Geass the Brittanians announce that they intend to exile Zero, who wants to create a new area for the Japanese to live in. So he says he'll go along with it, but during the meeting he gets them to say that Zero's real identity isn't important and that anyone who shares his ideals is "Zero". Then, during the ceremony, after the announcement a cloud of smoke is released and when it clears, everyone—including a DOG—is wearing a Zero costume! And then a ship made out of an iceberg comes in to escort them! Reluctantly, the Brittanians allow them all to leave (primarily because the alternative would have been starting a massacre). | |
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A story in 1992 Wayne's World tie-in book Extreme Close-Up by Mike Myers and Robin Ruzan. Wayne, Garth, and friends are throwing snowballs at cars; a police car pulls up and they all run away, but Garth drops his notebook with his name in it. The next day, a police officer comes to school and asks, "Which one of you is Garth Algar?" Everyone in the classroom, in turn, stands up and says "I am Garth Algar!" — all except Garth, who stands up and says "I am Spartacus!" | |
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In Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Po and Monkey enter a village where they meet Cheng, a goat teaching the village children that he is the Dragon Warrior. He reveals that since he was the youngest of many siblings and wanted to be successful, he became an Accidental Hero when he accidentally stopped a bandit, who was part of an acting troupe. When the bandits are dismissed and vow revenge, Po swallows his pride and reminds them that in spite of Cheng's past, anyone can be a Dragon Warrior. His students passionately stand up for him, each one claiming "I am the Dragon Warrior!" to defend the honor of their mentor. | |
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In Darths & Droids, Boba Fett is desperate to find Obi-Wan and kill him in revenge. When he asks Han where Obi-Wan is, Han claims to be Obi-Wan, followed quickly by Chewbacca, and then Leia also claiming to be Obi-Wan. | |
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Used in Cop and a Half when the gangsters round up all the kids at recess searching for Devon. | |
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From an episode of The Fairly OddParents!, Timmy starts a radio show under the name "Double T". Vicky then steals his identity to badmouth the parents of Dimmsdale. When an angry mob of parents show up at the radio studio, a bunch of other kids all claim to be Double T, and the parents reason that they cannot ground them all. | |
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Played straight in an issue that took place just before Civil War (2006), wherein Spider-Man agrees to reveal his identity in front of the Daily Bugle so long as Jonah gives him the opportunity to address New York in his paper. He wrote a long article about what he does and why he does it and shows up the next day to unmask. Gathered in front of the Bugle are hundreds of people, ostensibly there to see Spider-Man unmask, and then — someone yells "I'm Spider-Man!" Dozens of people in costumes of varying quality (including Aunt May!) take off claim to be Spider-Man, so that when Peter does do it, Jonah just yells at him to stop making jokes and take some pictures. | |
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Played straight in Stalag 17, when one of the POWs throws an ocarina and it splashes mud on the Commandant of the camp. | |
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Bio a.k.a. Orlando of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was one of the slaves present at the trope namer. S/he recalls with bemusement how the Romans let him/her go just for standing up and saying his/her name, "everybody else apparently being named Spartacus". | |
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When Gibson gets fired in an episode of A.N.T. Farm, the A.N.Ts stand up to Principal Skidmore by dressing up like Gibson and one by one threaten to drop out of the A.N.T program ("If that Gibson is leaving, then this Gibson is leaving too", "So does this Gibson", "So does this Gibson", etc.), which convinces Skidmore to rehire Gibson. | |
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A variation appears in Bad Girls. Larkhall is in the midst of a police investigation after the murder of Fenner, the sadistic wing governor. His killer, Julie J, can't cope with the guilt any longer and confesses to the crime. Her friend, wanting to protect her, claims that Julie J is lying, and that she is the real killer. Seeing this, another prisoner stands up and claims to be the real killer, followed by another, then another, until almost the entire wing is claiming to be the killer, due to their shared hatred of the tyrannical governor. | |
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Wave!! Let's Go Surfing!! has a recurring gag in an onsen, in which Masaki will jump excitedly out of the water, only to remember he is naked and sink awkwardly back down. The third time this happens, he is jumping at the opportunity to make a victory pact. Rather than act embarrassed, his other friends all rise from the water - equally naked - to join hands in making the same pact. | |
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Alex in Modern Family proposes this as a way for she and her siblings to get out of being collectively punished for burning the couchnote which none of them actually did, but it's actually a trick to get Luke, the dumbest of the three, to take the blame. | |
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Immortals features the mythical oracles. In this film version loosely based on classical mythology, there are four orcales, but only one of them is the true oracle. The other three are there to protect her identity, and they all will identify themselves as the oracle. When three of the four are brought before Hyperion, he quickly discerns (once he learns there were four of them) that the escapee is the true oracle and disposes of them...in an extremely disturbing manner. | |
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In Kappa Mikey, there is a character named Spartacus where if a group of people start doing this ("I'm Mikey!"), he pops out of nowhere to exclaim " I Am Spartacus!!" | |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power: In "Book Burning", the Horde set Tung Lasher teach lies to kids at school. When one of the kids denounced his speech as lies and Lasher demanded to know who did it, all kids (minus the one spying for the Horde) claimed to be the one. | |
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Parodied in SpongeBob SquarePants "Opposite Day", when Squidward makes up the "opposite day" holiday, with SpongeBob and Patrick pretending to be Squidward, who is trying to sell his house so he can move out of the neighborhood. When the realtor gets to Squidward's house, SpongeBob jokes about what a dump Squidward's house is and shows her Squidward's gallery room, when Patrick pops out from behind one of Squidward's paintings: Later on, after the real Squidward has finished fixing up SpongeBob's house and meets the realtor: |
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The Alpha Legion of Warhammer 40,000 do this all the time. Even to their allies. Perhaps especially to their allies, since no one even knows who their allies are. "I am Alpharius." "I am Alpharius." "I am Alpharius." "We are legion, and we are one." In the Horus Heresy novel "Deliverance Lost" it is revealed that they use this trope on themselves. No one, not even in the Legion itself knows who the real Alpharius is, especially since the real Alpharius is the same size as the rest of his normal Legion Astartes, and the actual Alpharius was killed fighting Rogal Dorn during the Horus Heresy, and his twin brother Omegon is still alive somewhere. Given the fact that at least some of the Alpha Legion does serve Chaos, and many rumors point to it being Alpharius's half (the same rumors claim his twin Omegon is disguising his half as a group of loyalist chapters), it's possible that they all actually BELIEVE they're Alpharius. In the 7E Chaos Space Marines codex supplement which adds rules for playing as the original traitor legions, the Alpha Legion's unique rule lets them pick another character in their army and designate them as a Warlord whenever the current Warlord dies, making it almost impossible for your opponent to score Slay the Warlord unless they kill every character in your force. |
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El Goonish Shive: Parodied when Elliot is dreaming about all the uncomfortable sexual tension he has with his female friends. A non-parody variation is when Edward Verres sees two transformed versions of Elliot (one in semi-cat form and one female), knowing that one was created by the Dewitchery Diamond (while the other was just transformed with his own son's shapeshifting technology), and asks which is the original and which is the clone. Cat Elliot (who is actually the original), fearing that the innocent Ellen is about to become a lab experiment, says that they doesn't know which is the original at all, and tries to pretend that Ellen's confession is her trying to protect him. (However, Edward had no intention of imprisoning either of them. He just needed to know which of the two needed a cover story fabricated.) |
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Done in Madan Senki Ryukendo. The people of Akebono pretend to be Ryukendo while Kenji, the actual Ryukendo, is figuring out how to break down the dome covering the city. Dr. Worm and the Mooks are confused by the Spartacus act, as evidenced by the number of question marks that appear above their heads. | |
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The Warhammer army book for the Skaven relates a tale that's a direct parody of the Trope Namer. In it, a Skavenslave named Scabbicus launches a slave revolt against his Skaven rulers. When the rebellion is put down, the slaves are promised amnesty if they give up Scabbicus. Ten thousand slaves immediately point Scabbicus out - after which they're all executed anyway, of course. | |
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In Roger Waters' The Wall concert tour, which blurs the lines between musical performance and theatrical production, the show opens with an audio recording of the actual scene from Spartacus playing over the loudspeakers. When it asks for the people to identify Spartacus and the crowd of slaves begin claiming the name, the audience at the show stands up and remains standing. | |
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A bit of a variation in the sense that the "Spartacus" was never even there: At the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic convention Canterlot Gardens, one panel was for brony musicians. Before the con started, every musician apparently agreed to introduce themselves as Alex S (a brony musician who couldn't make it to the con). Cue the first words spoken to be "Welcome to the brony musician panel; we are all Alex S" and everyone jumping in to agree, saying things like "And I'm Alex S" or "Are you sure? Because I'm pretty sure I'm Alex S". | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Fires of Pompeii", when Donna and the Doctor visit Pompeii, the Doctor claims that he is Spartacus when a local asks him who he is. Donna follows suit. As this is Ancient Rome Pompeii, where no-one would get the reference, they're taken completely seriously. | |
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Parodied in Undergrads: Gimpy sets up a string of pranks against his tyrannical RA, under the guise of G-Prime. When his RA threatens punishment on the entire dorm unless the real G-Prime confesses, the trope is played out. The subversion comes when Gimpy doesn't understand that they were doing it as an act of solidarity, and assumes they are trying to steal the credit and glory. One student even claims to be Spartacus. | |
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Featured twice and played with in the Star Trek novel Crossover. Spock is on Romulus, secretly and illegally teaching Vulcan philosophy and mental discipline to Romulans (who are descended from Vulcans who rejected Surak's teachings and don't control their emotions the way Vulcans do). Spock and his students are once again rounded up. One of the group claims to be the leader and is promptly shot. Later, the Romulans work out one of the people they're holding is Spock and demand he step forward, and everyone claims to be Spock. They ask a spy who had infiltrated the prisoners which one is Spock but he refuses to say, having been won over by Spock's teachings, and is slated to die with the others. Spock knew he was the traitor all along and was trying hard to teach him in order for at least one student to survive. (In the end, most of them escape, including the traitor.) | |
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Silver Surfer: Galactus arrives at Newhaven, a planet comprised entirely of refugees from worlds he devoured. An entire page shows every single Galactus refugee in the whole planet saying "Spare my world and I shall be your herald!", with every word of the sentence spoken by a different person. Finally, Galactus chooses the last person to utter the phrase: Dawn Greenwood. | |
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Used in one of the final scenes of Radio Rebel: The principal announces that she'll expel Tara for her antics as Radio Rebel and the whole student body stands up and claims to be Radio Rebel, including, eventually, the Alpha Bitch who had mistreated Tara for most of the movie. | |
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CSI: In S12, Ep2, "Tell Tale Hearts" The team run afoul of this trope when 3 different individuals confess to a multiple homicide. | |
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JAG: Lampshaded in "Desert Son". Harm and Reed get into a fist fight. Later, General Butler demands to know who started it. In unison, both men declare "I did!" General Butler is not impressed, and demands that someone explain to him what happened. | |
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Inverted in Tears to Tiara 2. The pirates call for the woman on board to come forth. Daphnis offers himself up, only to have Elissa interrupt, and one by one the actual females on board stand up. And they straight up beat the pirates and take over the ship, no distraction needed. | |
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers twists the trope. When the townsfolk arrive to rescue the kidnapped girls and hear a baby crying, the six unwed girls claim in unison to be the baby's mother, leading to a sixfold Shotgun Wedding (exactly what the girls and their kidnappers/suitors wanted). The baby actually belonged to the one wed couple. | |
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Space Pirate Mito combines this with : when the Galactic Patrol demands that Aoi, currently at school, give himself up. His classmates don Aoi masks and rush out of the building. Most of them end up captured, but they were able to buy Aoi the time he needed to get away. | |
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In opening the Grand Finale of Spartacus: War of the Damned, Spartacus has his men attack multiple Roman cities. At each one, soldiers declare "I am Spartacus" in the hope of confusing Marcus Crassus. It doesn't work. And then at the very end, the last scene in the credits is the late Andy Whitfield reminding us all that he is Spartacus. | |
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In Wayside School is Falling Down, the students are pulling various pranks on the substitute teacher, Ms. Franklin. One of the boys in the class was hoping to use that day to reveal that his name is Benjamin, not Mark like everyone thinks. When Ms. Franklin asks him his name, he tells her it's Benjamin. The other kids think he's in on their pranks and when she asks the other students' names, they each say "Benjamin" which she either believes or goes along with. At the end, she claims her name is also "Benjamin." | |
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Spoofed in Johnny Bravo when the titular character was hurled back to Ancient Rome he questioned a guy and that guys says "I'm Spartacus" prompting people who are behind him to shout the same thing, just for publicity. | |
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Andromeda featured patients of a doctor/war criminal who were all brainwashed into claiming they were the doctor so the real one couldn't be identified. | |
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The Ninth Circle: The setting is Nazi-occupied Europe. The fascist militia, who have taken over the art college, assemble all the students in the quad. They order any students who have relationships with Jews to walk over to the left. Nearly the entire student body walks over to the left. | |
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A villainous example in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Over a dozen people attempted in some way to try and assassinate the Chairman, all of them claiming (and legitimately believing) to be The Laughing Man. It's later explained that they were all copycats inspired by a threat from the real Laughing Man. | |
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The fourth season of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys had a slight variation. In the episode "Hercules on Trial" a prosecutor declares that Hercules is a criminal, whereupon numerous people claim "I am Hercules — punish me." In this case the judge knows perfectly well who the real Hercules is, but is so impressed by the show of support that he says "Case dismissed — I am Hercules too". | |
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South Park: The episode "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow", Stan's attempts to confess "I broke the dam" cause the other townspeople to falsely confess the same; misinterpreting this as symbolic (as in they are all responsible) instead of literal (he took a joyride in a boat and crashed into it). Cartman, who was his partner in crime, takes advantage of it to make his own Sarcastic Confession. They continue this into the credits as Stan is getting increasingly specific (and profane) about what he meant and still be ignored until he closes the episode with "Aw, fuck it!" Played with in "Lice Capades"; after Kenny is subjected to a "sock bath" after being found to have had lice, Kyle admits that he was the one with lice, then Stan and Cartman do the same — then Mr(s). Garrison shows up and tells them they all had lice, and everyone gives Kenny a sock bath anyway. (After all, he really did lie about having lice.) Invoked in "Bass to Mouth". One kid craps his pants in school, and is so humiliated he tries to kill himself. Since Cartman is usually the one who leads the bullying, the teachers instead hire him to prevent it. His initial response is to slip a different girl laxatives so that she craps herself and takes the humiliation off the first kid. When he finally understands that no kid is supposed to be so embarrassed that they attempt suicide, his plan is to get everyone in school to crap their pants, because then nobody will be able to make fun of anybody else. |
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This happens in The 4400: when NTAC agents try to arrest teenaged Cult leader Grahamnote whose power is to unconsciously make everyone with whom he comes into contact worship him in "The Wrath of Graham". As his followers, who are all wearing identical hoodies, each step forward claiming to be him, the agents are so overwhelmed sorting through them that Graham manages to sneak up and use his power on them. | |
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Code Geass: Awesome of the Rebellion inverts the usual setup. The Britannian army start a blockade, and state that only Awesome can leave Japan, and “everyone else must be made dying�. Awesome uses smoke bombs and when the Britannians can’t see, everyone puts on an Awesome Suit, which makes them look completely identical to him. Upon this, the Britannian army has to let them all pass. | |
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The Worst Witch: In the 2017 series to save Miss Hubble from punishment for supposedly getting Mildred to cast an unauthorized spell (she actually did it herself) most of the girls in her art class claim they were the ones who did this instead. | |
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Spoofed in a Family Guy cutaway. During the climactic scene, after two people claim to be Spartacus, Peter ruins it by casually ratting out the real Spartacus. | |
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Baten Kaitos Origins: At one point the party is tasked to investigate the village of Azha and deduce which of the locals is the terrorist known as "Mourning Mistral". Then, two of the villagers, sympathetic to Mourning Mistral's cause, declare themselves to be the terrorist, forcing you to prove that one of them is lying. In the end, it turns out that both are lying to draw attention from the real culprit, even if they had no idea who it really was. | |
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Pandora: All of the Atria clones (along with those from other lines) proclaim "I am Atria 6" when the Seeker demands that she be turned over. They are all killed for this. | |
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Inverted in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt expansion Hearts of Stone, when Geralt tries to find who posted the notice that he was there to be hired for, the cutthroats and bandits of the Wild Bunch all collectively claim to be Olgierd just to Troll Geralt. | |
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The Mask of Zorro, played for laughs. When a guard searches for Zorro in a crowded dungeon, a clearly unhinged old man steps forward and insists that he's Zorro. Half of the prisoners then rush forward to make the same claim. Whether this is out of delusion, defiance, a desperate hope to get out of their cell, or an actual desire to protect the real Zorro, it's never made entirely clear. Given the conditions in the prison, some combination of all of those would be plausible. The real Zorro meanwhile, seems to be the only man who doesn't come forward. | |
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Happens in House of Anubis where everyone decided to claim they were the ones who took the key to the attic in order to protect Nina (Who did actually confess after everyone else honestly said it wasn't them, leading for Fabian to jump up and claim he had lied and she was actually just covering for him.) In the end Victor simply punished everyone, including someone who wasn't even involved in the scene to pretend they took the key in the first place. | |
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At the climax of season one of Durarara!! Ryugamine outplays the people who come after fake Celty by using his position as leader of the Dollars to gather a massive crowd of Dollars at that spot and stop his pursuers in their tracks. Up until this point in the anime, people that weren't important to the plot were literally faceless and gray. When Ryugamine sent the message to everyone, the sea of gray suddenly became colored. | |
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Spider-Man: Played straight in an issue that took place just before Civil War (2006), wherein Spider-Man agrees to reveal his identity in front of the Daily Bugle so long as Jonah gives him the opportunity to address New York in his paper. He wrote a long article about what he does and why he does it and shows up the next day to unmask. Gathered in front of the Bugle are hundreds of people, ostensibly there to see Spider-Man unmask, and then — someone yells "I'm Spider-Man!" Dozens of people in costumes of varying quality (including Aunt May!) take off claim to be Spider-Man, so that when Peter does do it, Jonah just yells at him to stop making jokes and take some pictures. Following the Civil War storyline, Parker is a fugitive who gains some help from a group called Scarlet Spiders, who cast doubt on Parker's claim of being Spidey by claiming that he was a fired member of their organization, all of which claimed to work as Spider-Man. |
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In the first part of the How I Met Your Mother season 7 finale "Magician's Code: Part 1", Marshall and Barney are riding a bus full of elderly citizens trying to reach the hospital where Lily is in labor. The bus drives by the hospital, but the driver says he can only stop the bus in case of medical emergency. Fortunately, all the seniors on the bus start proclaiming that they have a heart attack forcing the driver to pull over so that Marshall can see the birth of his child. | |
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Played straight in an episode of Radio Free Roscoe when Principal Waller insists that Question Mark identify himself. Robbie stands up, but before he speaks another character jumps up and says 'I am Question Mark'. Cue the entire assembly standing up and identifying itself as Question Mark. | |
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Aida has one of the other Nubian slaves claim to be Aida to prevent the real Aida's capture. | |
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The Fugitive: "Nightmare at Northoak" ends with a variation of this: Inspector Javert Gerard accuses a small-town sheriff of having helped Kimble (who'd rescued several of the town's children from a burning school bus) to escape from the local jail while awaiting extradition, and threatens to bring him before a grand jury for aiding and abetting a fugitive. The sheriff's wife then steps forward to confess to it, and Gerard tells her she'll have to be arrested...leading to a whole roomful of townspeople standing up one by one and "confessing" to him. Gerard, knowing when to fold them, only leaves silently with all the dignity he has left. | |
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In the episode "Vow of Silence" of The Sentinel, one of the monks had before he joined the community been a labor organizer who had turned State's Evidence on the mob. A group of hit men had tracked him down and had the monks corralled. When they asked who was "Jackie Kozinski", all of the monks claimed to be him. | |
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Justified, at the end of the first season: | |
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The Man in the High Castle: In season 3, a bounty hunter tracks down a small community of Jewish refugees posing as Catholics somewhere in the Neutral territories. After he holds one of them at gunpoint, Frank Fink, who is still alive, stands up and tells him to take him instead, since he's also a Jew. One by one, everyone else also stands up and tells him to take them too, before he's shot from a distance by a gun-toting resident. | |
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Salute Your Shorts: In one episode, after Michael and Sponge sneak out of the bunk to make an illicit phone call, hanging up on Ug's girlfriend in the process, Ug storms into the mess hall the next morning and demands to know who was sneaking out. Everyone stands up, except Sponge, who is nearly asleep. Ug sarcastically notes that Sponge was the only one who wasn't sneaking around. | |
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The Pepper Ann episode "A is for Average". | |
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