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Revealing Cover-Up

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Revealing Cover-Up	comment	Instead of having your agent sneak into the embassy to photograph the codebook, you're going to make huge splashy headlines to get everyone looking the other way. Why, with your plan to fake aliens landing and blowing up the embassy, surely no one will notice a codebook gone missing. It would be the last thing they'd suspect. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })It never works. Inevitably they'll connect the fake aliens to your organization, making them wonder what you're up to, which will lead them to the (hitherto unknown) Mole you had planted in the embassy staff. Then it's heroes getting all over your business all up in yo' bidness with the rappelling into the volcanic headquarters and the shooting and the debris falling into the Shark Pool and having to run away while waving your fist and yelling about getting away with it if it hadn't been for those darn kids. Then you have to find a new lieutenant after having shot the previous one for having the bad taste to point out that it was your plan that caused all this when you'd have been further ahead just getting the damn pictures taken. See the Conspicuous Trenchcoat for this same principle applied to costumes. Contrast this with Crime After Crime. For the comedic version, see Legitimate Businessmen's Social Club. Not to be confused with a Cassandra Gambit, in which secrets are covered up by "revealing" them in a way that invites disbelief. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })An occasional variation is someone organizing a Revealing Cover-Up because they want to keep the heroes interested. Compare Kansas City Shuffle. See also Streisand Effect, where people search for the covered-up information because it's covered up. Examples:
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_10151cdd	comment	Mentioned in episode two of RABBITS, when Concernicus Jones asks Carly Parker why she uses a podcast to document her search for her missing friend, Yumiko. Carly has a few reasons, one of which is that it was her former boss' idea to use a public forum as a form of insurance. Jones takes that to mean that anyone who might want to silence Carly would think twice in order to avoid exposure in the process. He then dodges Carly's follow-up when she says Jones makes it sound like there's some sinister organization in the background.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_109f7814	comment	Invoked in the Sherlock episode "The Hounds of Baskerville" as an explanation for why the episode's murderer did not simply kill a man who had seen too much and was telling what he'd seen to the news:
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_11795605	comment	Clock Tower 3 has the protagonist's grandfather plan to sacrifice the protagonist when she turns 15 in order to gain immortality as an evil creature. To accomplish this he sends strange letters, sets up traps, and throws her into various evil settings. Along the way, she clues in that something very wrong is going down, awakens her evil-fighting powers, and hones her combat skills by killing off other evil creatures; by the time he finally confronts her, she is ready to take him down. The alternative, not pulling any of that crap and just welcome her home, celebrate her birthday, and then suddenly sacrifice her when the time is right, doesn't really occur to him.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_11d0af1	comment	Lyra Silvertongue, in His Dark Materials, carries out this skill with the modifiers of being the hero and a twelve-year-old girl. Her strategy, when she finds out that the cops are looking for her companion, Will, is to talk to the cops themselves, pretending that Will is her brother, to throw them off the trail. Will, who prefers to blend in and go completely unnoticed, finds this very irritating.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_13665790	comment	Exploited in Thud!, when word is intentionally spread that a murder is not to be reported to the Watch, knowing that Vimes will find out sooner or later and come snooping around. The person who gave the order does this because he wants Vimes to unearth and stop the immoral activities of his superiors, which he himself is powerless to stop. (When Vimes works this out he's offended at the thought he might need to be tricked into being interested in a murder.)
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_1463a028	comment	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: "Serendipity" has a double example; desperate to avoid being fingered for the death of a woman he impregnated, a plastic surgeon inserted a fake vein filled with blood from one of his patients into his own arm in order to beat a paternity test. Unfortunately for him, the patient was a serial rapist who targeted children, and thus he experienced even more scrutiny, leading to him being murdered by the real pedophile when he decided to confess and posthumously being implicated for the crime for which he was originally being investigated. In "Ritual", a white pedophile anthropologist attempted to hide his double life from his wife by murdering his victim and arranging the body in such a way that it looked like a Santerian-style sacrifice. However, the police consulted with actual Santerians who pointed out that the "sacrifice" was not consistent with their methods, leading the police to search for someone who would be familiar enough with Santeria to attempt to reproduce the sacrifice but not familiar enough to do the sacrifice correctly, and thus they came upon the white anthropologist.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_17293dfa	comment	In Chapter 2 of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Kirumi most likely would have gotten away with killing Ryoma if she'd left the body in his Research Lab where the murder took place since none of the students had alibis for that time. Instead, Kirumi uses a ropeway over the pool area to move Ryoma's body to a water tank in the gym so it'll be eaten by piranhas during Himiko's magic show. She accidentally drops two pieces of evidence in the pool, which she can't retrieve due to Monokuma strictly forbidding going into the pool at night, and Shuichi realizes she's the only one who had the opportunity to set up the ropeway.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_19258bf3	comment	In In Justice, the corrupt FBI official who helped railroad an innocent man tries to blackmail the National Justice Project into dropping the case by threatening to have the FBI look into one of Swain's clients. Ultimately, it's the suspicious nature of the threat (a high ranking member of the FBI using blackmail to try and shut a case his son's involved in) that convinces Swain to actually take the case (initially he was opposed to getting involved).
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_21810fae	comment	RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse has a Required Secondary Powers version of this. Trixie's original invisibility spell doesn't have silencing effects, which allows Octavia to hear her hoofsteps... but when the former casts a silencing spell, the latter is able to notice the unusual silence that shouldn't be there and use that to work out where she is.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_21938c93	comment	Avengers: Age of Ultron: Ultron kills Baron Strucker after getting information from him and uses his blood to write "peace" on the wall behind him. Most of the team assumes this is just grandstanding until Natasha points out he already gave them a whole speech on his motives. She confirms this by checking their files on Strucker — and finding that Ultron has conspicuously deleted them.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_227431b6	comment	In Runaways, Klara first came to the Runaways' attention when they stopped a fire in a factory where she happened to be working. Afraid that they were one of the two gangs that were hunting for people with superpowers, she fled the scene via a hole in the back of the factory, rather than going out through the front with the other children who'd been caught in the fire. Had she gone through the front with the rest, nobody would have paid attention to her, but her attempts to hide attracted Karolina's attention, leading her to discover Klara's horrible home life.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_239253ff	comment	In Despair's Last Resort, the mastermind doesn't want the other students to try and guess that their true identity is Saemi Sasagawa, so they blank out the name and any information on Shuuya Kuronaga in documents so if they find out his talent they'll think it's him. Takara isn't fooled though and points out how Monokuma's behavior is strange for an assassin.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_23da5ef5	comment	A Memoir By Lady Trent: In Turning Darkness Into Light, Audrey and Kudshayn likely would have never found out the last three tablets were forgeries if Mrs. Kefford hadn't ordered Zachary Hallman to destroy them.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_24e41891	comment	Dexter: Afraid that the team investigating the Bay Harbor Butcher may be closing in on him, Dexter writes a rambling manifesto touching on politics, the environment, religion, and other themes to fool them into thinking he's just a standard deranged serial killer. However, the team sees through the deception and realizes that the manifesto was written with the intent to deceive them, confirming their suspicion that the killer is somehow involved in law enforcement and bringing them closer to finding out his real identity.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_27777760	comment	In the mini-arc in Season 3 of Eureka concerning the hidden bunker, everything Eva does to conceal what was down there makes Jack and Alison more suspicious. And in the end, she admits there was no reason not to tell them the truth beyond simple mistrust.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_27c9b5a7	comment	Chocoholic Mysteries: During "Kidnapping Clue", the supposed kidnap victim carelessly leaves some of her trash on a nearby beach. When it's been picked up by a local woman (along with all the other trash she finds on the beach), the "kidnapper" tries to Hide the Evidence by running her over in a stolen car and then stealing the trash back from her yard while she's in the hospital. Lee, who was with the woman when she was nearly hit, finds this behavior suspicious and ends up snooping around, leading to her overhearing the "kidnapper" and his "victim" talking about what they're really up to. Clementine Ripley's murder in Cat Caper ends up exposing the finance-based crimes her killers were up to.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_29f3914c	comment	How many Doc Savage pulps started out with the villain trying to pull a preemptive strike on the Man of Bronze, getting his minions slam-dunked, and Doc then becoming curious about what was going on?
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_2a8943c0	comment	In the Miraculous Ladybug fanfic Fox Rain, it turns out that Lila and some other people have started suspecting Gabriel Agreste of being Papillon because of his attempts to further cover up his secret identity in addition to the magic already doing it, as him publicly insulting Papillon and immediately getting targeted by four Akuma villains seemed suspicious, even with the villain's known temper. It gets to the point that, knowing that Ladybug has just got the Miraculous book, she flat-out tells Ladybug that if she's right "he’ll akumatize himself to throw off suspicions before the end of the day", mere minutes before he does just that. The only reason his identity is saved is that the various Miraculous users know they're immune to their own powers and have no idea he figured a way around that.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_2bc42cf7	comment	Superman: Earth One: In investigating Clark Kent, Lois Lane finds he is average. Totally, completely, ridiculously average, the way a person would never be unless they were trying to hide something, which just makes her more suspicious of him.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_304d4028	comment	In the Spirou and Fantasio comic L'ombre du Z, mad scientist Zorglub keeps his jungle base in Palombia hidden by mind-controlling fliers into ignoring everything when they fly over the area. The heroes discover the location by looking up aerial survey photos and finding one page with a huge blank spot, as the photographer "forgot" to take that picture.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_313bbd31	comment	In the Night Huntress books, there is a minor example: Bones realizes that Cat is being moved when the Men in Black clear an entire floor of the hospital and otherwise make a big to-do of it. After which, they were easy to follow.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_32233a78	comment	Ozy and Millie: Tiberius takes the cake. He's in charge of the UFO cover-up conspiracy but managed to pull this trope. What makes it particularly embarrassing is that UFOs genuinely don't exist in this comic.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_341a1fd2	comment	Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated had Mr. E invoke this trope on Scooby and co. He gave the gang just enough information about the former Mystery Inc. to get them interested and let the attempts of Crystal Cove's adults to hide anything about it keep the kids interested in order to draw them into the real secret of the town a hidden treasure that, unknown to even Mr. E, is cursed and hiding an Eldritch Abomination who's been luring mystery solvers to it for centuries.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_34ba17d	comment	Best Seller. Meecham doesn't believe Cleve's story about being a corporate hitman until someone tries to blow up their taxi. Later Cleve takes Meecham to a woman who helped carry out one of his hits, only for her to be murdered by Pearlman, ostensibly a 'public relations' man for Kappa Industries. Cleve is furious until Meecham points to the now-dead Pearlman and says, "You asshole, he's your corroboration!"
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_34caa86d	comment	Motive: The killer in "Oblivion" had a pitch-perfect murder scheme that honestly might've been dismissed as an accident, but she decided that the best alibi for herself was to fake her own death. Investigating her apparent death leads the cops to her victim's murder and her eventual capture.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_3501cc23	comment	Being a Gentleman Bastard Locke Lamora loves this trope. Case in point: running a con on a wealthy nobleman, then disguising himself as one of the secret police and informing the mark that he's being robbed. The second book takes it all Up to Eleven, with Locke running this trope back and forth between at least two different marks, at once exposing his plans and yet diverting suspicion away from himself.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_36151c14	comment	Hawaii Five-0 Chinese super agent Wo Fat was assigned to prevent the United States from using their radar network to analyze an upcoming missile test, which he planned on doing by kidnapping the daughter of one of the men responsible for maintaining the system and making it suffer an apparently random technical malfunction for a critical few seconds. With absolutely no one on the American side having the slightest idea this was happening, for some reason, he thinks archenemy Steve McGarret will interfere and so launches a distraction plan against McGarret involving fake Swiss bank accounts and lookalikes that has been in place for years in case he needed it. Once Wo Fat's involvement is discovered while investigating the distraction plan, police, intelligence agencies, and the military get together to try to figure out what Wo Fat is up to, discover a glitch in the radar system that had occurred a few days earlier (during a test to make sure that the system could be brought down), and while investigating it, on the off chance it has something to do with Wo Fat, uncover the kidnapping and blackmail and arrange to rescue the girl and ensure the system is up and running during the test while allowing Wo Fat to believe his plan succeeded.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_383c39a5	comment	With This Ring: Magic anti-scrying wards can block power ring scans, without the ring knowing it's being blocked, which causes Paul a lot of difficulty in finding villains once they wise up. However, in places where he can obtain a map or blueprint of the area, the ring can compare that to the area it's able to scan and identify any discrepancies. Lex Luthor, on the other hand, is careful to avert this; he integrates a scry ward into LexCorp's corporate stationery, so everything they print is un-scannable.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_39f6a46c	comment	In Diamonds Are Forever, James Bond figures out that diamond smugglers are being bumped off following a failed attempt to burn him alive and the fatal shooting of Shady Tree. After Plenty O'Toole is defenestrated into a swimming pool and soon found dead by Bond and Tiffany Case, he figures out that the operator of the smuggling ring is trying to cover up a terrorist plot.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_3ab71c22	comment	Dungeon Keeper Ami: At the climax of the battle for the High temple of Crowned Death, Ami gets possessed by both Crowned Death's Lesser Aspect, and her sister Tiger. As a result, scrying no longer works on her. Furthermore, due to the high percentage of the Light-affiliated mages distracted by the battle, Ami's Lightworlder allies immediately suspect something. Ami, of course, didn't intend this at all. However, in light of her reputation as a class-one Magnificent Bastard, she decides correcting them would be more trouble than it's worth.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_3d3f9dbd	comment	Mass Effect: Revelation: Looking in to Kahlee Sanders, Anderson finds a lot of her records are classified. Really classified, the sort of classified neither she nor her impoverished mother could ever afford, unless they knew someone very high up in the Alliance. Which is what helps Anderson learn her father is Alliance hero John Grissom.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_3e8a6fb5	comment	When villains Blockhouse and Jolt kidnap Lois Lane, they cover the inner walls of their hideout with lead, so Superman cannot find them with his x-ray vision. However, the lead covering makes the building stick out like a sore thumb to Superman, since it was the only thing he couldn't see through. This isn't the only time criminals try the trick and have it backfire on them.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_3fbd173e	comment	In Freefall, Sam puts it rather succinctly when trying to remove embarrassing footage of himself.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_41b0198a	comment	In The Dresden Files fanfic Enemy Mine, this is mentioned as a potential issue with silencing spells, which prevent the victim from communicating about certain subjects (and are incidentally highly illegal). Don't be thorough enough with what you forbid and your victim can indirectly communicate what you don't want them to, but if you exert too much control, then it's more likely that the spell will fall into this trope — and putting a silencing spell on someone means an instant death sentence if you're caught.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_424daefd	comment	Black Jack Justice: "Justice Incorporated" opens with a big-name lawyer wanting to buy the detectives' agency lock, stock, and barrel. However, the offer he makes is so good that it makes Jack and Trixie suspicious. Jack even lampshades that they would have been tempted by a lower offer, but an offer as great as the one they were given just put them on edge. They soon discover why the lawyer wanted to buy the agency: access to Trixie's old case files, which contained photos of his client, a corrupt judge running for public office, with a gangster's girl. Trixie had used the photos to force him to straighten up, or at least stay under the radar, but the photos coming out would sink his career, political, judicial, and criminal alike. "The Do-Nothing Detectives" has Jack and Trixie hired to cease their investigations on behalf of a client they did not actually have. Trixie is initially content to let their new, incompetent client pay off the wrong detectives, but Jack finds himself investigating despite being contractually obliged to do no such thing. He goes so far as to get Lt. Sabien to arrest himself and Trixie as material witnesses in order to force them to act. It's revealed the man who hired them was being blackmailed by the woman they were paid to leave alone and her accomplice, whose name the man used when he hired Jack and Trixie. His plan was to kill his blackmailers in what as meant to look like a murder-suicide and have Jack and Trixie be witnesses once they both turned up dead. Jack, Trixie, and Sabien all acknowledge that the whole plan is so screwball they couldn't not investigate it. "The Mark Two Caper": Jack and Trixie are hired by a man who refers to himself only as "Simon" to find a briefcase whose contents he absolutely refuses to elaborate on, claiming he's a federal agent hiring the detectives to pursue local leads his men wouldn't be able to follow as easily and the case's contents are classified. Jack and Trixie make their dislike for this situation clear, but also take the case in order to get paid. In their investigation they discover there's a circular being distributed to local police precincts that, while still secretive, offers more detail than their client Simon did, such as the contents of the briefcase. The fact that official circulars are being more upfront than an actual agent makes the detectives realize that "Simon" is a spy, he's just not an American spy. He originally stole the briefcase, subsequently lost it and is desperate to retrieve it but, for obvious reasons, can't contact his superiors to ask for help.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_457b671e	comment	24: Season 5 opens with the bad guys trying to frame Bauer which only gets him involved in the scheme far earlier than he would have (if ever). Double-Subverted in Season 8, when a villain disguised as an EMT suspects Renee Walker recognized him. He tells his boss he can get rid of her and Bauer, but the boss orders him to wait out of concern for this trope. Ultimately, the guy goes ahead with an attempt anyway, but by that time Renee's already realized where she recognized the man from and alerted CTU to the fact.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_46196a4	comment	Used to extreme effect in the eleventh volume of The Kindaichi Case Files. The killer followed Kindaichi throughout the two-parter mystery, killing people after they provided messages which were supposed to lead to a manuscript he wanted to keep from being published. What neither the killer nor Kindaichi realizes until after the last message was a dead end is that the message itself was irrelevant. The real clue was hidden in the order of the now-dead message givers. Because of the murders meant to silence them, the newspaper following the last murder would inevitably print them in order of killing, providing the same clue to everyone who read the paper, guaranteeing someone would figure it out before the killer could and prompting a desperate grasping of the Villain Ball.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_46d48eba	comment	In the James Bond novel You Only Live Twice, evil mastermind Blofeld decides the best way to lie low is to operate a castle with a poison garden for people wanting to commit suicide. If they change their mind, the "gardeners" assist them. No one is going to pay any attention to that, right?
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_4737c653	comment	Elementary: "The Red Team" has a kind of double-layered version of this; the culprit's attempts to kill off the other members of a war games team that came up with a successful plan to attack New York (since he doesn't want the plan to be exposed to terrorists) not only alerts Sherlock to the targets but also leads him to deduce what the attack plan was. In "Step Nine", the murderer, on seeing that Holmes and Watson are on his tail, panics and races to murder his accomplice to tie up loose ends. He makes a bungle of this, resulting in him getting caught. In "All My Exes Live in Essex" the murder victim is stripped down to skeleton and disguised as an educational tool for medical students. The speed and skill in which the body was stripped to the bone allows Holmes to deduce the killer is also a doctor; and the fact that the hyoid bone (and only the hyoid bone) is missing tells him the victim was probably strangled, as strangulation often breaks the hyoid bone. In the last few episodes of the final season, the Big Bad is taking greater pains to prevent Sherlock and Joan proving his involvement in multiple murders. Sherlock points out that the more his activities go "off-model", the more likely he is to make a mistake.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_47a4daec	comment	Mission: Impossible – Fallout: August Walker's attempt to frame Hunt doesn't convince anyone. Even Sloane, who is out for Ethan's blood for losing the bombs, is at the very least doubtful of the claim, and the mere suggestion that Hunt is John Lark by Walker is enough for Hunley to be convinced that Walker is totally untrustworthy, to the point he actually informs Hunt himself of this and Sloane. Hunley and Hunt all realise that Walker might be John Lark himself, so they manage to set him up and get him to incriminate himself into admitting just that. Had he not attempted this frame-up Walker might have managed to get away with everything.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_4b076259	comment	In And the Giant Awoke, Bronn, seeking the millions in gold Littlefinger hid during his tenure as Master of Coin, finds a bunch of locked chests in a secret room - but, when he opens them, they are empty. However, Bronn easily realizes that Littlefinger would have never gone out of his way to hide empty chests, so he takes them with him and tears them open, finding lots of gems hidden in hollows in the corners of the chests.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_4c213722	comment	Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory actually has this as a tutorial video titled "what not to do", showing a guard getting suspicious when he finds a light turned off — investigating, he finds the door in the darkened room with a broken lock, leading to yet another room with the light off, and finding an unconscious colleague. Cue them hitting the alarms. If you hadn't turned off the lights in an attempt to hide the mess you left, the guard would have probably never found it. Conviction, where if the conspirators hadn't sent thugs to try and kill Sam Fisher he would never have been aware there was even a conspiracy in the first place. Of course, we shortly find out that one of the top-level conspirators is a double agent and old friend of Sam's who wanted him to find out and be bought to her.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_4c467f43	comment	Oliver Twist is one of the few times that the usual Fridge Logic associated with this trope is avoided; while Fagin, Sikes, and Co. were reasonably safe, in that Oliver wasn't inclined to talk about them, they did not know that for certain, and their already committed crimes would be enough to hang them anyway.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_4f091b42	comment	In Tiger & Bunny Maverick decides the best way to keep Kotetsu from revealing that Jake didn't kill Barnaby's parents is to frame him for murder, alter the memories of everyone working at Hero TV and knowing he's the Hero Wild Tiger, erase his job records and phone number, and seal the records about Wild Tiger so that the other Heroes would arrest him or Lunatic would burn him to death as he does with murderers... Thus revealing to Lunatic there's a criminal with the ability to do everything he did and making him protect Kotetsu. In fairness to Maverick, he could have not known that Lunatic, being actually judge Yuri Petrov, had access to all the altered data, let alone he always checks to make sure his victims are actual and unrepentant murderers before moving.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_4faef659	comment	The Conspiracy in Left Behind killed a conspiracy theorist, ransacked his house, and left his corpse lying in it, about 24 hours after The Rapture has caused billions of people to disappear and killed thousands more in the resultant chaos. You'd think adding one more disappearance would be simple for any competent villains. Instead, his friend the Designated Hero finds the body, but since he ends up selling out to the conspiracy later, it might be a mild aversion.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_502cbd09	comment	Luke Cage (2016): In "DWYCK", Mariah Dillard and the other underworld bosses call a secret meeting at Colon's Gym to discuss the transfer of Cottonmouth's assets...except for Diamondback, who controls the weapons supply. This backfires by guaranteeing Diamondback's appearance, and he promptly kills all of the bosses except for Domingo just to send a message.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_51203907	comment	Mission: Impossible: If the traitor had not tried to be overly clever in trying to frame Kittridge as the real traitor, Ethan Hunt would not have been able to confirm the identity of The Mole on his team. All he'd had to do was simply shoot Hunt, have The Mole grab the list, and he'd have been in the clear with Hunt still considered the traitor and everyone else believing Jim Phelps was dead.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "The Lost One", Anakin and Obi-Wan have come to the planet Oba Diah, headquarters of the Pyke Syndicate, investigating the circumstances of the death of Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas over a decade before. They're questioning Silman, aide to former chancellor Finis Valorum, about why the Pykes were hired to kill Sifo-Dyas. Silman has gone mad from over a decade in a dungeon, and can't coherently explain what happened. Just as Obi-Wan and Anakin are trying to get him to tell them the identity of the man who wanted Sifo-Dyas dead, someone starts Force-choking Silman — it's Count Dooku, come to clear up a few loose ends from Sifo-Dyas' death, and in the process giving the Jedi the answer they were looking for.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_556d8583	comment	In Fever Dreams L concludes that since Kira took the time to tamper with evidence and wipe their memories there must be a way to defeat Kira.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_5774c77a	comment	In The X-Files: Fight the Future, in order to cover up the deaths of five people exposed to an alien virus, the Conspiracy sticks the bodies into a building in downtown Dallas and blows it up trying to get them classified as victims of a bombing, which of course attracts Mulder and Scully's attention, instead of dumping them in the ocean or incinerating them or any of the other million ways a government could get rid of a few bodies without Mulder and Scully ever knowing that anything was going on.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_585e72d7	comment	In Red, and bonus points for being a cover-up of a cover-up. In 1981, a young Army officer snapped and massacred an entire village in Guatemala. A number of CIA agents, including Moses, were shuttled in to clean up the mess. Now, some 30 years later, a young reporter named Stephanie Chen has gotten wind of the thing and tries to get the scoop from someone else who was involved, arms magnate Alexander Dunning (Dreyfuss). He calls the young Army officer—Vice President Robert Stanton—who panics and just decides to Kill 'Em All. (Again.) And this brings us back to Frank and Sarah. All of this is revealed to be a ruse because Dunning was planning to make Stanton the president and use the incident to blackmail him. Any surviving witnesses to the original incident (Frank, Joe, the people the reporter talked to) had to go because they knew too much.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_58d80a4a	comment	Inverted in Jingo when in order to cover up the fact that he had tried to have his brother killed as an excuse to start a war, the Crown Prince of Klatch (the Discworld's country of Saudi Arabia stereotypes) had various stereotypical items (coins, sand, everything but a "camel under the pillow" etc) left behind to make Vimes think that someone was trying to make him think that the assassin was Klatchian.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_59632132	comment	Invoked in the Temps story "Leaks" by David Langford. The DPR send a low-level paranorm to investigate evidence of an "entropy ray" affecting government vehicles. He quickly realises that all that's actually affecting the vehicles is someone running a scam selling engine parts and replacing them with old ones, but he can't work out what purpose was served by the letter mentioning the entropy ray, which just attracted everyone's attention. It turns out the letter was sent by someone who'd spotted the scam but wasn't involved, purely so the DPR would send a low-level paranorm.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_5a1e517c	comment	Nodwick's hometown. No secret societies taking it over. Nope.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond: In You Only Live Twice, SPECTRE could have completed their scheme if they hadn't given themselves away on three separate occasions, all but red flags to James Bond and Tiger Tanaka. The first was one where Bond finds a photo of a cargo vessel with a secret message saying the tourists who took the photo were killed, leading him to wonder what in the photo was worth killing for (of course, the photo was in a safe in an office building Bond broke into, perhaps a reasonable level of security...but it makes one wonder why they bothered to save the photo in the first place). In the second, Bond was doing an aerial search and was about to give up when he was attacked by 4 choppers. They obviously had to have come from SPECTRE, whose base, therefore, had to be in the general area. Lastly Bond learns of a local woman's mysterious death in a cave, which leads to him and Kissy to investigate it, dodge the poison gas trap, and find SPECTRE's base. The scheme to steal nuclear weapons in Thunderball would have had a greater chance to succeed if a SPECTRE agent hadn't tried to off Bond while he was on leave and alerting him that something was up. Said SPECTRE agent was then killed for getting Bond's attention, or at least for failing to kill Bond. In the first movie, Dr. No, the titular doctor's assassination attempts are what convinces Bond that Dr. No and his base are behind everything.note Alright, Dent's incompetence and Strangways' death helped. Yet another Bond example in Tomorrow Never Dies. Bond and Wai Lin are trying to deduce which bay the stealth boat is being hidden in. After going through a number of other clues, they decide to check to see if any have any unexplained deaths. Only one does, and they accurately deduce that's where the ship is hidden. In Diamonds Are Forever, James Bond figures out that diamond smugglers are being bumped off following a failed attempt to burn him alive and the fatal shooting of Shady Tree. After Plenty O'Toole is defenestrated into a swimming pool and soon found dead by Bond and Tiffany Case, he figures out that the operator of the smuggling ring is trying to cover up a terrorist plot.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_5bd29e78	comment	Death Note Equestria: At one point, Twilight gets a pony killed in front of the cameras to give herself an alibi. The problem is, she needed to mind-control the reporter to make sure the cameras get there. The reporter was supposed to die later and be overlooked by investigators... except that having her death already assigned, she is now impossible to kill ahead of schedule. This complicates matters immensely when she gets drawn back into the plot due to unforeseen circumstances.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_5c208620	comment	Superman: The Animated Series: In "The Late Mr. Kent", Clark interviews a death row inmate, concludes that he's probably innocent, and digs up some exonerating evidence. This causes the real killer to plant a bomb in his car, leading to a chain of events that exposes him and gets him executed. If he'd just let the original suspect go free, the case almost certainly would have remained unsolved, especially considering that the real killer is a police detective who is in a perfect position to sabotage any new investigation.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_5cdad167	comment	Minority Report: John Anderton, a detective who uses advanced psychic technology to prevent murders before they ever happen, is accused of a future attempt at murder. The thing is, from the get-go this makes no sense, so the killer provides lots and lots of evidence for Danny Witwer, the detective chasing Anderton, to ensure that it all goes off to plan. Witwer, however, is instantly suspicious of the "Orgy of Evidence". The killer framed Anderton because he feared that he might discover the truth about a previous cover-up. So the revealing cover-up with Anderton was staged to prevent another cover-up from becoming revealing. Naturally enough, it all comes down around their ears in a very public fashion.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_5d2be66d	comment	The Barrier: Luis initially doesn't believe warnings to him that the government has a few immoral projects, including getting rid of him in the not-so-long run. He starts taking those warnings seriously when one the people who informed him dies in a car accident and a sniper tries to kill the other while Luis is in the same room as her.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_6059314b	comment	xkcd: One strip had a character get a personalized car plate with a mixed series of ones and upper-case I's, thinking that he could never get identified because eyewitnesses wouldn't get the exact symbols right. Unfortunately, the plate is still uniquely eye-catching and allow the police to catch him - especially once they just write down the information for 'the guy with the stupid plate' on a post-it note. The alt-text reveals that it also immediately made him really easy to frame for additional crimes by getting a plate with a different mix.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_629cd094	comment	Dragon Age: Origins: Alistair is the bastard son of King Maric and a serving girl who died giving birth to him. Despite the big conspiracy by the royal family to keep his existence secret (so as not to challenge his legitimate half-brother's rule), they leave a huge paper trail. He's easily able to find his half-sister (the daughter of his servant mother), and once he finds her she already knows he's her brother and that he's of noble blood because right after her mother died giving birth to him, "thems at the castle" made a huge show of giving her a coin to shut her mouth, then chasing her off when she came back for more. The Calling and Dragon Age: Inquisition strongly imply that his mother was actually an Orlesian Elven Mage Grey Warden named Fiona (all huge no-no's in Ferelden society), who gave him to his father and requested that Alistair be told his mother was a human who died giving birth to him because she doesn't want him to live with the Fantastic Racism associated with having an elven mother. In hindsight, it's strongly implied that "thems at the castle" deliberately invoked this trope as a Red Herring to hide Alistair's true parentage.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_65ede3d5	comment	In Dr. Himuro's route of Metro PD: Close to You, during an interview the protagonist observes the mark of a ring on Yanagie's finger, as though he normally wore a ring on that finger but removed it before the interview. It strikes her as unusual enough to make note of in her report and to ask the victim's grandson about it, with the result that she and Himuro are eventually able to make the connection between the custom-designed ring and an unexplained mark on the victim's neck, implicating Yanagie in the murder. Had he not tried to hide the ring by taking it off before speaking to the police, the protagonist probably wouldn't have noticed it at all.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: This is how the series starts. All the weird brainwashing, floodlights, and murders undermine Scully's skepticism. Of course, it stays throughout the series, but... Occasionally invoked by the conspiracy as to why they don't just kill Mulder:
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Agent Carter: In "The Lady in the Lake", Detective Henry has been hired to dump the body of Jane Scott, an Isodyne physicist killed by accidental exposure to Zero Matter. Dumping the body causes the lake to freeze over (in the middle of the hottest day of summer in L.A.), alerting the SSR that something strange is going on and kicking off Peggy's investigation. Luke Cage (2016): In "DWYCK", Mariah Dillard and the other underworld bosses call a secret meeting at Colon's Gym to discuss the transfer of Cottonmouth's assets...except for Diamondback, who controls the weapons supply. This backfires by guaranteeing Diamondback's appearance, and he promptly kills all of the bosses except for Domingo just to send a message. Daredevil (2015): Wilson Fisk tries to have Karen framed for murdering a Union Allied coworker to scare her into giving up the flash drive containing a copy of the pension file. When Matt and Foggy show up to defend Karen before Fisk's people can get to her, Fisk has James Wesley strongarm a guard into trying to hang Karen in her cell. That, and the fact that Karen hasn't yet been charged despite the case being so open-and-shut, reads to Matt and Foggy as evidence of a cover-up. In "Rabbit in a Snowstorm," one of Fisk's hitmen is arrested after botching a hit on a rival of the Ranskahovs. At one point, while the trial is underway, Owlsley suggests that they just murder Healy to sweep this under the rug, which Wesley promptly shoots down by pointing out that Healy dying would be too suspicious and prompt an investigation that could link back to them. In season 2, District Attorney Samantha Reyes' constant antagonizing Nelson & Murdock over the course of the Punisher manhunt eventually leads Karen to uncover that Reyes is trying to cover up that she was involved in coordinating a failed drug sting in Central Park that culminated in the deaths of Frank Castle's family. Iron Fist (2017): At first, Colleen doesn't seem to believe that Danny is who he says he is. That is, until Harold decides to have Ward investigate the phone call Danny makes to her from Birch Psychiatric Hospital and try to bribe her into dropping the matter.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: The island of Aimia is Shrouded in Myth due to the extreme methods its inhabitants use to prevent people reaching their shores, including killing anyone who actually lands there. When Rysn successfully makes it to the island in Dawnshard she tells the inhabitants that all they've done is make people more curious about what's hidden on the island and what happened to the people who disappeared. She convinces them that if they let her reveal a few select pieces of information about what she found it will make the place less interesting and draw attention away from the bigger secrets they're protecting.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_6a8d182d	comment	An amusing version in a Spenser novel. Spenser leaves his office, and almost immediately notices a tail, who "was paying absolutely no attention to me. And being blatant about it."
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Various editions of Dungeons & Dragons (and Pathfinder) have the Undetectable Alignment. As the name suggests, it conceals the Character Alignment of the user from any form of divination magic so that, say, an evil character can fit into a generally good-aligned crowd, or vice versa. The problem is that much of the time, the spell specifically pings one's alignment as undetectable, rather than default to Neutral or something else. And if you're concealing your alignment, there has to be a reason...
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_6b2d14ff	comment	Mercury Rising's plot kicks off when the NSA's supposedly unbreakable code is published in a magazine by low-ranking employees to test it, and a young autistic savant cracks the code and dials the NSA's phone number that was hidden in it. Their boss freaks out at this breach of security and sends a hitman to kill the kid and his parents, but he fails to find the boy before the police show up. Even ignoring how this is well beyond the Moral Event Horizon, the boy still didn't know what the code really meant, had no initiative to find anyone to sell his knowledge to, and only a handful of people in the NSA knew he could break the code. Justified since the NSA as a whole is not involved at all, and it is only the boss trying to cover up this breach (from the rest of the agency as much as anyone else, since he had already promised it was unbreakable to his superiors), and said boss therefore does not have the full might of the NSA backing him up but instead is solely reliant on a single Psycho for Hire who botches the initial job.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_6c6852c9	comment	In Yakuza 5, Minoru Aoyama's attempt to take the Yamagasa family involves assaulting their patriarch, Madarame, knifing him, framing Kiryu for it, and blowing up the HQ with a bomb. Turns out that Yahata, captain of the family, isn't as dense as Aoyama hoped as while he first buys it and attacks Kiryu, the HQ blowing up clues him in a day later that Kiryu didn't lay a finger on Madarame. A bomb is way more than Kiryu could or would do, and now Aoyama's painted a target on himself.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_6c6b89db	comment	In a Silver Age story, Nasthalthia 'Nasty' Luthor sets in motion a bullying campaign to cover up her uncle Lex's latest ploy to kill Supergirl as luring the Girl of Steel out. Her bullying spree indeed drew Supergirl's attention... so she spied on Nasty and found out about Lex Luthor's whole scheme.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_70193ebb	comment	The Alex Benedict novel Polaris features a bombing intended to destroy evidence (which later turns out to never have been there in the first place) camouflaged as an assassination attempt on a visiting dictator which just happens to be tipped off in time to evacuate the people but not most of the goods. Had it stopped there, no-one would have been the wiser... but unfortunately for the conspirators they try to be more thorough in removing the possible evidence, and the ensuing mysterious visits and thefts were not so well camouflaged, tipping the protagonists off to the fact that there's something strange going on with Polaris despite the many decades since its crew disappeared.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_7165c4a7	comment	In Master of the World, our hero investigates a mountain that's producing odd rumblings, but is unable to climb to the top. After giving up and filing it under "unexplained," he gets a note saying, "Stay away from that mountain, or it'll go badly for you!" If Robur had just left him alone, the hero would have dropped the case.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_7288f27	comment	In Cultist Simulator, one can be tempted to send minions to destroy evidence or kill the investigators following them. Sadly, should the minion fail, not only are the pieces of evidence and the hunters still around, but it will also create more Notoriety. Which is a very bad thing as it is what one needs to produce more pieces of evidence.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_73383fee	comment	Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: Had anime otaku Hifumi not insisted on incorporating Transformers cosplay into his murder plans, his frameup job on Yasuhiro would probably have worked. A notable one at the end: the photographs given to the students by Monokuma all have Junko Enoshima's face obscured. This is a key part of the final trial. Furthermore, the act of making the body be rigged to explode to set it on fire was the clue to the body being someone they’d recognize had they not lost its face. The failure to burn off the fake nails on one hand makes this fail further. Unlike most examples, however, it’s quite likely Junko knew all this and was intentionally giving them a chance to win because her failure would bring her more despair.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_73cee9a9	comment	Noticeably averted in Seven Days in May, about a plot to take over the US via Military Coup. Several people who appear to have been murdered turn out later to have been merely detained on justifiable pretexts. There's only one suspicious death (of a White House aide carrying direct evidence of the conspiracy who had to be stopped) and only luck enables the signed confession he was carrying to survive the plane crash and be found in time to avert the coup. The closest you get to this trope is when an orderly is reassigned to Hawaii after discussing an apparently innocuous signal with the protagonist, which is what first arouses his suspicions.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Pulled by Garak when he sees a Romulan assassin on the station. Garak blows up his own shop to make Odo think the assassin did it, but Odo discovers otherwise that the assassin works with poisons, not explosives. And then the assassin gets killed anyway as though someone was covering their tracks, which only stokes Odo's curiosity further. By the time Odo and Garak figure out what's going on, the Romulans and Cardassian Secret Police are making a joint first-strike on the Dominion.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_740815bb	comment	In Interesting Times, the Agatean Empire tells its citizens that outside the Empire is nothing but a howling wasteland of invisible, man-eating ghosts. So when they have to go to war with barbarian invaders, they have to quickly change tack and say that the enemy are not invisible, man-eating ghosts. Since Rincewind the wizard is technically on the side of the barbarian invaders, he wanders through the camp telling people that there officially are not 2,300,009 invisible, giant, man-eating ghosts. He was quite proud of the "9": If he'd simply said that there aren't any, they might have believed him, but since he is saying there aren't 2,300,009 of them, people obviously wonder about the precision.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_761a48d7	comment	Iron Fist (2017): At first, Colleen doesn't seem to believe that Danny is who he says he is. That is, until Harold decides to have Ward investigate the phone call Danny makes to her from Birch Psychiatric Hospital and try to bribe her into dropping the matter.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_7c253305	comment	Fleuret Blanc. When Junior tries to deflect an investigation into the anonymous text messages, she does so by pinning it on Le Neuvieme — but the messages are in English, and Le Neuvieme only speaks French. When Florentine figures out the fabrication, she realizes Junior must have been the real culprit — why frame someone else, otherwise?
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_7c48915b	comment	Gunnerkrigg Court: Ysengrin tries to pull one of these off on this page. Four pages later, Jones points it out, calling it a "fairly transparent ruse" (apparently, being on "the brink of insanity" was why Ysengrin didn't think to just drop the seeds while Coyote and Reynardine were arguing). An odd meta-example: Antimony was given the Faceless Masses treatment on pages 399 and 400, presumably so she wouldn't distract from the foreground. Several fans took notice of this, and theorized that there was some sinister significance behind Annie's blank-faced grin.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_7cf5a07	comment	This ends up being the Reverse-Flash's first big mistake in The Flash (2014). He murders a reporter who could've exposed his secret identity, but was unaware that Flash had already been informed that the reporter had information on Harrison Wells, a fact that Barry was incredulous of at best. Thus when the guy suddenly disappears without a trace, Flash gets suspicious when he wasn't before and decides to follow the thread on Wells.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_7d7fbcc	comment	In the Daredevil storyline "Blind Justice", an investment banker who thinks his favorite employee may have overheard his unsavory business dealings has him arbitrarily fired so he won't be a target. This is a revealing cover-up twice; it attracts his criminal associates' attention to the employee, which is exactly what he wanted to avoid, and the employee himself goes straight to Matt Murdock to talk about a wrongful dismissal suit.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_84809b33	comment	L.A. Noire: You know, it may have just been the deadlines and lack of serious threats talking, but burning down entire houses with families still alive in them is NOT a good way to hush up a government-level scam. Cole proceeds to crack the case wide open. Sadly, his rival remixes the cover-up so that the corrupt higher-ups are arrested, but the multibillion-dollar redevelopment project (read: highway that made Los Angeles a megacity) goes ahead.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_84986bf9	comment	RuneScape quest "One Piercing Note" has you investigating a series of murders in a convent, whose victims all have their feet mutilated. The first also has her face mutilated beyond recognition. This is supposed to tip the player off that the first victim is not Sister Anna as the other nuns had assumed, but the missing novice Isabella, dressed in Anna's habit and placed in her bed. Sister Anna is the killer.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_867f2c52	comment	Shooter is about a sniper who is set up as the fall guy for a failed presidential assassination. It turns out that the senator who funded the job was joking about killing the president — it was the African ambassador next to him that was a serious threat. As the real killer puts it, "What better way to kill a man in plain sight of one million Americans than by shooting him right next to the president?" By the end of the movie, the sniper successfully uncovers the mass murder of third world tribes for oil pipelines to the Secretary of Defense, but the senator is too high up / the crime is foreign so it isn't in American jurisdiction. So said sniper just kills them all. And ironically covers it up so that the senator's hitman looks like the shooter. Agent Nick Memphis smells fish when he sees the forensic report on the shooting back within a few hours "We're the federal government, we aren't that good at our job" and also when the police officer who got a shot at the alleged-would-be assassin of the President dies a few days later in a "botched robbery".
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_869a0304	comment	In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Blomqvist assumes he investigating a hopeless cold case until the villain tries to kill him.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: Lampshaded in these two strips, where Tarvek teaches Vrin the right way to cover up things that are best kept hidden. Later, Baron Wulfenbach instantly realizes something's wrong when he receives word that Prince Aaronev Sturmvoraus, whom he knows to be truly meticulous in his work, was killed in a "lab accident". And before that, two Jaegermonsters discuss "De kind of plan vere hyu lose you hat".
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_885e1bec	comment	In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Harry explains this is why he doesn't simply deny the crazy rumours about him which aren't true. If he was selective about confirming or denying things, people would start to pick up the patterns.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_898a1932	comment	Journey to Chaos: After illegal use of the Arch of Kresnik, Ponix fudges the records of such use, and then he fudges his previous fudge. This is because defying this trope was part of his training as an intelligence officer.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_8ba4613a	comment	Death Note Light's murder of Naomi Misora almost worked as intended, but ultimately just alerted L that there was a good chance that Kira was one of the people that her fiancé had been investigating. Light's decision to kill the fake L appearing on television not only failed to catch the real target but revealed both his general location and the fact that he killed by supernatural means. Once L began investigating him and started putting pressure on his mass murder schedule, Light killed people in even higher measures each day, as if to contradict his adversary's hypothesis (he reacted to something that should have prompted no change were he not Kira by killing excessively). He tells Ryuk that this was supposed to make L investigate the police, which would make them resent L and investigate him as well, and find his real name. Ryuk has a good laugh at his expense. When Light realizes L has tapped his room, Light executes an extremely elaborate plan to look innocent with L as his witness. Light appearing perfectly innocent while criminals he should have no way of learning about die, but relatively minor criminals compared to Kira's usual targets, only seems to make L more suspicious.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS In a variant compressed into less than five seconds, the team needs to locate some terrorists hiding among any of a dozen warehouses. Knowing they're pressed for time, Gibbs whips out a shotgun and blasts a nearby street light, which causes the terrorists' rooftop lookout to immediately open fire and give away the bad guys' position. Had he had the sense to quietly keep his head down, the team would've been too late to stop them. In another episode, the murderer, being a retired forsenic expert, went to such great pains to completely clean up the crime scene that absolutely nothing could be detected indicating a suspect. When the team is at a loss and realize that only someone extremely knowleedgeable in forsenic science could have cleaned up the crime scene so thoroughly, the murderer (who, being a retired legend of his field and an old friend of Ducky, has been allowed to take a look at the body) plants evidence leading to a petty criminal and then claim that he miraculously found it while doing his own analysis, which immediately tells Gibbs it's him, because they hadn't found anything in any of the previous numerous analysis of the body, so only he could have put that evidence here.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_8d81f086	comment	Happens so often on Monk that the show could probably have its own separate folder on this page.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_8dc4b654	comment	Ultimate Fantastic Four: How Dr. Molevik lost his job at the Baxter Building, as General Ross helpfully points out when he's caught. See, if you don't want your paranoid government bosses to look at your secret files, maybe don't make it difficult to get at them, since that suggests there's something there you don't want people to see, as opposed to just labeling it random crap, which they would've ignored. So SHIELD had a look, and finds Molevik's been working on biological experiments he's already been warned about.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_8f25225c	comment	Danganronpa: Many of the mysteries in the series would be a lot harder to solve if the culprits hadn't insisted on giving themselves "perfect alibis", which always creates a chain of evidence leading back to them as the only person who had a reason to create such a convoluted set-up. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: Had anime otaku Hifumi not insisted on incorporating Transformers cosplay into his murder plans, his frameup job on Yasuhiro would probably have worked. A notable one at the end: the photographs given to the students by Monokuma all have Junko Enoshima's face obscured. This is a key part of the final trial. Furthermore, the act of making the body be rigged to explode to set it on fire was the clue to the body being someone they’d recognize had they not lost its face. The failure to burn off the fake nails on one hand makes this fail further. Unlike most examples, however, it’s quite likely Junko knew all this and was intentionally giving them a chance to win because her failure would bring her more despair. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: The culprit of the third trial falls afoul of this in trying to make their first victim look like they committed suicide. As the Ultimate Nurse, Mikan should have been able to tell that Ibuki had died of strangulation rather than hanging, despite the killer hanging the body afterwards. In Chapter 2 of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Kirumi most likely would have gotten away with killing Ryoma if she'd left the body in his Research Lab where the murder took place since none of the students had alibis for that time. Instead, Kirumi uses a ropeway over the pool area to move Ryoma's body to a water tank in the gym so it'll be eaten by piranhas during Himiko's magic show. She accidentally drops two pieces of evidence in the pool, which she can't retrieve due to Monokuma strictly forbidding going into the pool at night, and Shuichi realizes she's the only one who had the opportunity to set up the ropeway.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_909ca4b1	comment	Used in ReBoot: Hexadecimal's extra security concerning The Medusa, a weapon she's developing, prompts Megabyte to steal it in hopes of gaining the power it's sure to have. The twist being that this was exactly what she wanted to happen, and he becomes the Medusa bug's first victim, while she gloats.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_9284ad43	comment	In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, the desperate attempts of "the phantom" to keep his existence a secret, which includes at least two murders (three if you count him killing Bobby Fulbright and stealing his identity) and bombing a courtroom to destroy evidence, ultimately contributes to his undoing.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_969d3d9	comment	Valkyrie: General Fromm has Colonel von Staufenberg and the other July plotters executed as soon as he and his forces regain control over the War ministry, in order to eliminate any witnesses who can testify that he at least knew that his officers were plotting to get rid of Hitler and that he failed to report this to his own superiors. Staufenberg warns him that "no one will be spared". In the aftermath, Fromm is disgraced, kicked out of the Wehrmacht, and dies in a concentration camp.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_969fb090	comment	Referred to in Blindspot when Assistant Director Mayfair dismisses Carter's suggestion to have Jane killed in order to keep Operation Daylight secret. Mayfair points out that Jane herself doesn't have any knowledge due to her memory being erased and any information hidden in her tattoos related to it has already been scanned and recorded. All killing her would do is focus more attention on her case, increasing the risk the information would be discovered.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_98792ec0	comment	J-WITCH Season 1: The Guardians collapse Cavigor during the jailbreak in order to hide their use of the Infinite City to sneak in. However, the fact that they were so thorough in doing so makes Tarakudo suspicious, and leads him to posit that underground tunnels were used. Investigating this leads to the villains discovering the Infinite City anyway.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_994dace9	comment	In the movie Sniper 3, the sniper's mission to kill an old war buddy turned Vietnamese drug lord/rogue intelligence agent is interrupted by a second sniper trying to kill him. This is due to the fact that said drug lord is one of three people who had participated in a war crime in Vietnam, the other two being the NSA director and a powerful senator, and they wanted him dead to protect themselves, and kill the killer to ensure that the sniper didn't learn why. Given that they had destroyed all physical evidence of their crimes thirty years earlier, the only reason why it gets discovered is that they tried to cover it up.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_998cbda3	comment	Daredevil (2015): Wilson Fisk tries to have Karen framed for murdering a Union Allied coworker to scare her into giving up the flash drive containing a copy of the pension file. When Matt and Foggy show up to defend Karen before Fisk's people can get to her, Fisk has James Wesley strongarm a guard into trying to hang Karen in her cell. That, and the fact that Karen hasn't yet been charged despite the case being so open-and-shut, reads to Matt and Foggy as evidence of a cover-up. In "Rabbit in a Snowstorm," one of Fisk's hitmen is arrested after botching a hit on a rival of the Ranskahovs. At one point, while the trial is underway, Owlsley suggests that they just murder Healy to sweep this under the rug, which Wesley promptly shoots down by pointing out that Healy dying would be too suspicious and prompt an investigation that could link back to them. In season 2, District Attorney Samantha Reyes' constant antagonizing Nelson & Murdock over the course of the Punisher manhunt eventually leads Karen to uncover that Reyes is trying to cover up that she was involved in coordinating a failed drug sting in Central Park that culminated in the deaths of Frank Castle's family.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_999855bb	comment	In Heroes of Might and Magic III, the Necropolis town has the "Veil of darkness" building that conceals a large area of the map around the town from enemy players. But as a result, a player, seeing that a part of the discovered map area has been concealed in the signature circular pattern, can instantly tell that there's a Necropolis there, and its exact location (the center of the circle), from much farther away than they would be able to see the town normally.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_9ce6c63d	comment	Suspect: Judge Matthew Helms tries to cover up his past bribe-taking to throw a case by killing the person who found it out, but this leads to the revelation later when her murder is investigated.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_9e2f90f4	comment	In One Piece, the denizens of Punk Hazard try to trick Smoker out of investigating their island by putting out toxic gas. The idea was to make him think it was still uninhabitable after a prior accident. Unfortunately, Smoker knows the history of that island and this only makes him more suspicious, because there shouldn't be this much gas after all this time.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_9f78fda3	comment	In one episode of Murder, She Wrote, Jessica is shot at while investigating at the behest of the accused's wife, while the accused himself is in jail. She quickly realizes it was the wife, who was worried Jessica was starting to think her husband might be guilty and wanted to provide evidence otherwise.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Tintin: In King Ottokar's Sceptre, Tintin wasn't suspicious of anything until the Syldavian conspirators got suspicious of him. Had they just let him be, their plan would have succeeded.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_a257301f	comment	Not Always Right and its sister sites get such stories. Most of them involve bad employees and managers. After a child breaks her tooth, the dentist warns the mother that their insurance will not cover the treatment, and offers to heavily discount it out-of-pocket so the mother doesn't even have to make the claim. Mama Bear calls the insurance anyway to find out why it isn't covered, and both she and the insurance company find out the dentist has been making fraudulent claims. The medical receptionists in this story claim that a patient skipped on payment for her appointment, to cover up that they took an unscheduled lunch break and abandoned the office (leaving the patient unable to pay). This waitress insists that a customer is scamming free food when the customer claims that he and his wife never got their ordered food. And when the customer tries to defend themselves for being charged for not-received food, she gets her father, the manager, involved. Unfortunately, the owner of the restaurant knows better and reveals that the waitress had eaten the food herself. The owner comps the customer's meals, fires the waitress for stealing, and daddy manager follows shortly after for covering for his daughter. These two gas stations are rivals in a company contest. The manager of one gas station accuses the manager of the other one to have cheated to win the contest, but only ends up revealing that he cheated himself when things got investigated. The manager in this story fires an employee under completely fabricated sexual assault claims, to cover for his son botching the inventory check. Senior management then has to investigate the reported sexual assault. It doesn't take long for everybody to discover what actually happened, and both the manager and his son got fired. This electronics store notices that electronics have been going missing, and one coworker loudly accuses the newly hired, ex-con employee to be the one stealing it. To nobody's surprise, the coworker was the one stealing and thinking the employee was a convenient scapegoat because of his past.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_a309575c	comment	The Jonathan Creek episode "The Case of the Savant's Thumb". It turns out the murderers were government agents trying to destroy a certain DVD and kill anyone who'd seen it. The exact contents of the DVD aren't revealed except that it's a conversation between Very Important People and confirms the nastiest suspicions people had about them. The twist is that the DVD is of a rather heavy-handed satire show that employed lookalikes, but as Jonathan says, it's interesting that someone high up thought it could be real.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_a346e791	comment	This was the plot of the bad guys in the second season NUMB3RS episode "Rampage". A man (who was a perfectly innocent civilian dad aside from having a brown belt in martial arts) was blackmailed into going on a shooting rampage in the FBI building and provoke an emergency evacuation in order to cover up getting a list of key witnesses in a trial out of the building. In a slight subversion, while the FBI was able to connect the shooter to the criminal, the guy was off the grid (he was a hired gun not directly affiliated with anyone) so the trail seemed to stop with him. The break came when Charlie analyzed the shooter's path, discovering that the only conscious choice he had made was to avoid shooting anywhere near two guys under a desk. When one of them tried to run, the FBI figured out he was the one who had a connection to the shooter and searched his computer records, which revealed what he'd been doing. Another episode has a billionaire murdering anyone who knows of his plan to fix California's election system. That just leads the team to expose it to the public so while the man avoids arrest, he can't pull off the scheme.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_a49a890c	comment	Defied (although even then it requires explanation) in Preacher: in a flashback to one of Herr Starr's first assignments for the conspiracy he works for he was asked to get rid of two reporters that the conspiracy had locked up in an insane asylum for getting too close to the truth in a way that doesn't lead back to them. Starr sets the entire asylum on fire killing everyone inside, reporters included. When his baffled and irate higher-ups ask why the hell he did that, Starr explains that killing just the reporters would have probably provided proof that they were Properly Paranoid, but killing everybody makes it impossible to discern who was the target, or even if there was a target, and may probably be dismissed as an accident. Starr's superiors acknowledge that he has a point.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_a4db7d1	comment	Joe Pickett: In Breaking Point, Juan Julio Batista's attempts to bring Butch Roberson to justice, including calling in a military drone strike, are so heavy-handed they just clue Joe in to the fact that he is desperate to cover something up.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_a55aafee	comment	Played with in Race to Witch Mountain. The lead characters are quick to publish a book on what happened to them during the movie, specifically they know The Government can't touch them without validating their claims.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_a8c2b7fc	comment	In God Eater, it's repeatedly stressed that resources are incredibly tight, those needed for the titular God Eaters even more so. So when Lindow goes MIA, the number of orders the top brass issue to countermand normal search and rescue protocols only serve to upset and tip off anyone remotely connected to his squad. In short, trying to make him KIA via Manchurian Agent was a Morton's Fork for them. Materials recovered? The field team would notice discrepancies. Shut down the investigation? Might as well announce you're up to something. This is the first domino in the chain that brings down the first Arc Villain.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_aabf6d1d	comment	Darkest Dungeon: The boss of a level is always buried in the deepest part of an area. However, because the layout is revealed from the start, unless there are two rooms furthest away from you equidistant from each other, this means you know exactly where the boss is and can go straight there without worrying about detours. You're also unlikely to stumble on it accidentally, so you can make sure to power up as much as possible before going in.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_ad1242a6	comment	In XSGCOM, the SGC are being threatened with the public figuring out what's going on behind the scenes. The truth is that Anubis has attacked Earth but they obviously can't tell the public that. So instead of trying to cover up the attack, they pull out a unique version of Sarcastic Confession, posing the aliens as cover-up of something else and leaking THAT out to the public in order to make the aliens appear as just another conspiracy theory. And it works!
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_af42a07f	comment	The Alliance in Serenity (and the predecessor series Firefly) spent a whole lot of time and effort hunting down River Tam, including murdering just about everybody who may have been in contact with her in order to cover up what she learned through her telepathy and being in the same room as several high ranking Alliance members. River, being insane, probably didn't understand what she knew and, in any case, wasn't in any position to tell anybody even if she did. But the Alliance's campaign of persecution gave Serenity's crew a big motive to find out and make the information public knowledge.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_b1170177	comment	If the bad guys in L.A. Confidential just killed one guy and dumped his body somewhere, instead of trying to pass his death as a part of another, larger, crime, the various protagonists' paths wouldn't have converged and the bad guys wouldn't have been caught.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: The attempted assassination of Bran was the only thing that gave Catelyn reason to believe his previous fall of a tower that left him paralyzed from the waist down wasn't just his habit of recklessly climbing things catching up to him, leading her to discover clues pointing to the Lannisters.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_b369b969	comment	In the first movie, Dr. No, the titular doctor's assassination attempts are what convinces Bond that Dr. No and his base are behind everything.note Alright, Dent's incompetence and Strangways' death helped.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_b5ab36eb	comment	In You Only Live Twice, SPECTRE could have completed their scheme if they hadn't given themselves away on three separate occasions, all but red flags to James Bond and Tiger Tanaka. The first was one where Bond finds a photo of a cargo vessel with a secret message saying the tourists who took the photo were killed, leading him to wonder what in the photo was worth killing for (of course, the photo was in a safe in an office building Bond broke into, perhaps a reasonable level of security...but it makes one wonder why they bothered to save the photo in the first place). In the second, Bond was doing an aerial search and was about to give up when he was attacked by 4 choppers. They obviously had to have come from SPECTRE, whose base, therefore, had to be in the general area. Lastly Bond learns of a local woman's mysterious death in a cave, which leads to him and Kissy to investigate it, dodge the poison gas trap, and find SPECTRE's base.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_b60e1c20	comment	In The Pelican Brief, the protagonist writes up a theory—more idle speculation than anything else—about why two US Supreme Court justices were killed. Then her car gets bombed. She isn't killed, and she realizes that her speculation must have hit a little close to home, and she begins investigating in earnest.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_b7db5642	comment	Stranger Things: As Hopper investigates Will Byers' disappearance, he finds evidence that he might've crawled through a culvert to Hawkins National Laboratory on a certain night. Even though he thinks it's unlikely, Hopper stops by there to review the security tapes of the area. The tapes show a perfectly normal night... which Hopper immediately knows is fake, as it rained like mad that night. Investigating the laboratory further, he eventually finds evidence of their training and mistreatment of El. Later, when the "body" of Will is found in a quarry lake by the State Police, Hopper immediately knows something's off. Especially when the county coroner gets sent home so "someone from the state" can do the autopsy, which would make sense for a high profile subject like a Kennedy, but not for a nobody like Will Byers. So he goes after the trooper who called it in, and gets him to admit to being paid off, and then uncovers that the "body" is a fake.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_bcde4417	comment	In Cursed Blood, Aldera Middle School made sure Bakugo's record was completely spotless in hopes of gaining prestige when he becomes a famous hero. The clean record only makes Aizawa more suspicious because he knows there's no way someone with Bakugo's combative personality wouldn't have gotten in at least a few fights over the years. The situation is made worse by the fact Izuku's record mentions that he was frequently beaten but there isn't a single mention of a culprit.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_bdb947ab	comment	Agent Carter: In "The Lady in the Lake", Detective Henry has been hired to dump the body of Jane Scott, an Isodyne physicist killed by accidental exposure to Zero Matter. Dumping the body causes the lake to freeze over (in the middle of the hottest day of summer in L.A.), alerting the SSR that something strange is going on and kicking off Peggy's investigation.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_bdc49dbe	comment	The Laundry Files is all about averting this trope. Rather than being Killed to Uphold the Masquerade, anyone who finds out about Eldritch Abominations is conscripted into the Laundry's bloated bureaucracy. If you start killing off your own citizens because they know too much, sooner or later something will go wrong and the associated publicity will cost more than just giving them a public service job.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_bdfd01de	comment	Boldores and Boomsticks: Salem's strategy to keep Earth and Remnant from establishing contact is to throw Grimm through every Ultra Wormhole she finds to discourage investigation. This worked in the past, but in modern times both sides are more curious and better equipped to deal with the hordes. When Team RWBY stays in an abandoned house overnight, the local Ghost-Types hide inside illusionary shadows, which they also incorporate into the illusions they use to scare visitors for fun. Blake's faunus night vision lets her see these shadows as being much darker than their surroundings, cluing her in to their purpose. One of the Gastly living there chooses her to be his trainer and later successfully uses illusions on her in the dark.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_be03a5ee	comment	Defied in the Left Behind novel Assassins. Towards the end, Nicolae schemes to have Pope Peter II eliminated at a meeting. The plan calls for both the weapons and the body to be destroyed immediately afterwards, and it's given out that His Holiness had died of a rare, highly contagious virus that causes the victim to bleed to death.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_bf24c7bb	comment	Chernobyl: Ulana Khomyuk (a Composite Character of various Soviet scientists who figured out the disaster independently) notices a massive radiation spike on her lab's sensors, that seems to be coming from Chernobyl. But Chernobyl is so far away that to get those readings, the disaster would have to be ridiculously bad, like the core exploding or something. Being the good scientist that she is, she calls Chernobyl to confirm... and finds that the phone lines have been cut. This only serves to confirm to her that Chernobyl is the source of the radiation and that a nuclear core has indeed exploded. When Shcherbina is interrogating the plant's supervisors, who are at this point deeply in denial of the severity of the accident, they try to pass off the graphite (i.e. highly radioactive debris from the core) he's spotted as burnt concrete. Which only confirms to him that they are lying- he may not know much about the stuff in reactor cores, but he does know his way around concrete, and he knows that whatever that stuff is, it's not concrete.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_c34f83b2	comment	Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: The culprit of the third trial falls afoul of this in trying to make their first victim look like they committed suicide. As the Ultimate Nurse, Mikan should have been able to tell that Ibuki had died of strangulation rather than hanging, despite the killer hanging the body afterwards.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: Near the end of "A Canterlot Wedding, Part One", Twilight Sparkle's slanderous and unfounded claims that her brother's wife-to-be is an evil imposter has resulted in her friends, her brother, and the princess losing their trust in her, leaving her a doubt-filled wreck. Instead of talking her into going back to Ponyville in shame, or just leaving her alone, the evil imposter decides to reveal her true nature and sends Twilight down to the dungeons, where she finds the real bride, realizes she was right all along and organizes a breakout followed by a wedding interruption.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "Aliens of London"/"World War Three": A fake UFO crash is organized by real aliens among the British government to cause worldwide panic and distract attention from themselves and such "non-noteworthy" events as the "disappearance" of the Prime Minister. While this does allow them to take over 10 Downing Street, wipe out most of the country's alien-invasion experts (who were intentionally gathered in Number Ten to discuss the crash, so they could be taken out) and gain access to the British nuclear arsenal, it also alerts the Doctor and Rose Tyler to their presence. In Series 7, the Doctor spends time running around erasing all evidence of himself from history. The one thing he can't access, the Daleks' database, another character does for him. However, as one of his allies points out, this creates a "Doctor-shaped hole" in history obvious to anyone who cares enough to look. "Deep Breath": There's a murderer prowling the streets of Victorian London who makes a point of partially burning the bodies of all of his victims; Madame Vastra correctly deduces that he's harvesting the victims' organs, then burning the bodies so the police can't tell what's missing.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_c5ce3c28	comment	In First Encounter Assault Recon, Armacham's attempt to silence anyone who could talk about Project Origin and the horrible things that they did in said project to create psychic Super Soldiers is what clues the FEAR investigation team into their involvement in the first place. That being said, the Point Man being forced to nuke the city to prevent Alma from escaping and Alma's subsequent massive world-ending psychic rampage does mostly cover up what happened anyway. The impending apocalypse tends to do that.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_c72c2d06	comment	Star Wars Rebels: "Warhead": An Imperial infiltrator droid lands on Atollon, and Zeb winds up having to deal with it. Since its memory can't be erased without triggering its Self-Destruct Mechanism, he has AP-5 reprogram it so it'll detonate when it reconnects to the Imperial network. While this succeeds in obfuscating which droid was compromised, it also narrows the possible location of the rebel base down to 94 planets, as there were only around 100 droids and all of their destinations were on record. Ezra did delete Atollon from the list later on, but Thrawn stopped relying on the database a while later. "Through Imperial Eyes": Agent Kallus ends up framing Lieutenant Lyste as being Fulcrum. The problem is, he set Lyste up too well. Thrawn and Yularen both agree that the events in question are beyond Lyste's capabilities, but it isn't until Ezra's helmet, painted with Sabine's distinctive artwork is brought in that Thrawn realizes who The Mole really is. Ezra altering Thrawn's database may have barely escaped his notice while all that was happening, but it didn't matter because Kallus was just half the puzzle Thrawn needed to find Phoenix Squadron's base.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_c75d67d	comment	Occurs regularly in Person of Interest. Someone plans a premeditated violent crime to cover up something else (sometimes the something else isn't even illegal), and the Machine detects this and sends Reese and Finch out to stop the cover-up, which exposes what the cover-up was intended to hide. Though in fairness the villains don't know of the existence of an AI whose specific task is to detect premeditated crimes.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_cac20f89	comment	JAG: In "Déjà Vu", Colonel Patano, the Thai Embassy chief of security, bribes a witness into telling the cops that he didn't see anything. Which is entirely true, as he really didn't see anything. However, he decides to tell Harm about the bribe.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_ccb7cfc2	comment	This exchange from The Mad Magician concerning the murder of Ormond, though at this point The Great Rinaldi merely suspects Don Gallico's involvement.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_cd713f4	comment	The Stainless Steel Rat has Jim noting that secrecy is an obviousity, leading him to disguise his investigation by posing as a flamboyant, wealthy visitor to the planet he's sniffing around on. Ultimately, the criminals get spooked and step up their plan, though it's never revealed just what tipped them off.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_cf3e7a82	comment	Superman: When villains Blockhouse and Jolt kidnap Lois Lane, they cover the inner walls of their hideout with lead, so Superman cannot find them with his x-ray vision. However, the lead covering makes the building stick out like a sore thumb to Superman, since it was the only thing he couldn't see through. This isn't the only time criminals try the trick and have it backfire on them. In another case involving Superman, a group of crooks was running a scam with one pretending to be the Man of Steel and asking for money to guard various valuables. This attracts Jimmy Olsen's attention, as not only did the fake Supes fail to recognize him, but also he was aware that Superman would never ask for money for his services. The scam attracts further suspicion when Jimmy attacks and is easily able to give the fake Superman trouble, causing the crook to yell for his partners to shoot him "before he ruins everything!" A little late for that...
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_d3c800ed	comment	In Sonic X: Dark Chaos, Maledict sends Tsali to kill Venus after she steals tons of classified information from the Demon government. Tsali eventually finishes her off — but not before she reveals that bits of the information she found pertain to him. This makes Tsali intensely suspicious of Maledict and leads him to go find out what she learned which ends up with him discovering the conspiracy behind both him the Metarex War — and wrecking Maledict's entire master plan.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_d5fda761	comment	In another case involving Superman, a group of crooks was running a scam with one pretending to be the Man of Steel and asking for money to guard various valuables. This attracts Jimmy Olsen's attention, as not only did the fake Supes fail to recognize him, but also he was aware that Superman would never ask for money for his services. The scam attracts further suspicion when Jimmy attacks and is easily able to give the fake Superman trouble, causing the crook to yell for his partners to shoot him "before he ruins everything!" A little late for that...
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_d69208d2	comment	Codename: Kids Next Door: In "Operation: E.N.D.", someone up in global command tampers with the KND database, upping the ages of Sector V to thirteen, causing Numbuh 86 to go after them for mandatory decommissioning. Numbuh 1 searches for the perpetrator and the reason as to why this happened, rejecting help from Chad (Numbuh 274), who informed him of the conspiracy ahead of the decommissioning squad. As it turned out, Chad was responsible for what happened, in order to cover up the fact that he was turning thirteen (he falsified his age months ago, but his parents decided to throw a birthday party, forcing him to decommission everyone on the mailing list, starting with Sector V). And all Nigel had to do was look at his mail to find out.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_d6e5f805	comment	Invoked in Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends, where agents Fitz and Nema use Bad "Bad Acting" to "cover-up" nonexistent conspiracies, in order to distract from their own.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_d77313a2	comment	In Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past, Harry teaching his friends Occlumency is basically announcing that they’ve worked out that Snape is using Legilimency on them. However, while Snape is correct in deducing that they are learning Occlumency to keep something from him, he can’t actually do anything to stop them learning it as that would be announcing that he and Dumbledore use Legilimency on the students in the first place, and Dumbledore is content that Harry and his friends wouldn’t do anything dangerous to other students.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_d8ba9a46	comment	A similar aversion occurred with Dr. Strangelove, as the model B-52 bomber was so accurate that the military initially wanted it altered until someone pointed out that doing so would run afoul of this trope.note The filmmakers and the B-52's designers had, independently of each other, used a copy of the unclassified B-29 layout modified to fit the different cockpit shape.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_da861da1	comment	In Veronica Mars, it's the Kanes' cover-up of what they believed to be the circumstances of Lily's death that alerts Keith to their dishonesty.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_db96ded4	comment	In the The Legend of Korra episode "The Terror Within", Aiwei sets up on a random guard when investigating how the villains infiltrated the ironclad-security city of Zaofu and almost succeeded in abducting Korra. Mako realizes the guard would have been only 5 when the villains were imprisoned 13 years ago making it implausible he had any connections with them and thus suspect Aiwei who's Living Lie Detector meant he'd have known his innocence and was the only one who could get away with lying.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_e033006e	comment	Unknown (2011): Dr. Martin Harris is traveling abroad when he gets injured in a car accident. After waking up in a hospital, Harris finds that his wife and colleagues don't recognize him anymore — and his wife is with some other guy claiming to be Dr. Martin Harris. The first Harris doesn't believe this, but all evidence points to him not being who he thinks he is. He returns to the hospital, prepared to accept that he really has gone crazy... and then an assassin comes to kill him. Harris escapes, now knowing that there really is a conspiracy, and tears the entire thing down.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_e25322af	comment	When the titular Homestar Runner gets something stuck in his craw he tries to cover up the resulting lump by putting a wig on it or painting it green with red stripes (against a yellow shirt). This only leads to other characters commenting on how gross it is. It turns out to be his Iconic Outfit red shirt
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_e293455a	comment	In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Mayor inexplicably has Faith kill a previously unheard-of archaeologist, who had just discovered the corpse of an Olvikan demon killed by a volcanic eruption, the same kind of demon that the Mayor planned to turn into. Lampshaded:
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_e50643a0	comment	In The Return of the Living Dead, when the medical-supply warehouse staff accidentally release a corpse-animating toxin, their boss chooses to destroy the evidence (i.e. zombies) by burning it with the help of his friend who is employed at Resurrection Funeral Home, rather than risk letting the cops or Army snoop around. This directly causes a localized Zombie Apocalypse in Louisville.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_e511305b	comment	Taken to extremes in 11:14, in which three different people, afraid that they or someone they love will be accused of killing Aaron, enact different schemes to conceal his death, make it look like an accident or suicide, or frame someone else for it. And then it turns out that each of these schemes was All for Nothing, as Aaron wasn't even murdered; his death was a complete accident.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_e542bff1	comment	The Secret Return of Alex Mack: The Collective uses fog machines to hide their base from being photographed by satellites. However, this means that there is one tepui which is always covered by clouds, which sticks out like a sore thumb.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_eb049de6	comment	In Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Professor Moriarty blows up a room of businessmen to cover up the shooting of the one businessman in that room that he had targeted. Played with, in that Holmes does deduce this, but no one else learns about it.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_eef69f10	comment	Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Norwood Builder has the villain fake their own death and frame the son of a woman who turned him down for his murder, and the evidence against the son is so thorough that even Holmes is stumped by how to prove his innocence. However, the day after the initial investigation the villain decides to further incriminate the son by using a wax imprint of the son's thumb to leave a bloody thumbprint on the wall of his house; since Holmes is convinced the thumbprint appeared on the wall after the crime, this only strengthens his resolve to expose the true culprit. In The Hound of the Baskervilles, the villain steals one of an intended victim's new boots, then returns to swipe one of an older pair, while returning the first one, presumably so the owner would assume he'd just misplaced it. Granted, Holmes was bound to solve the case anyway, but the fact that the boot not bearing its owner's smell was brought back again clinched his suspicion that there was a real, trained dog involved. Had the culprit stolen all four boots and returned nothing, Holmes couldn't have ruled out the possibility that one of the hotel staff had a profitable sideline stealing guests' possessions.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_ef1a968	comment	In Mass Effect The Equestrian Equation, System AR-43281, the star system where Equestria is located, at first appears to be nothing but uninhabitable planets with absolutely nothing of interest or value. This trips EDI's logic filters because the odds of there being a star system that bland, with absolutely nothing of value, is so small that they have either found the most impossibly generic and uninteresting star system in the galaxy, or their scanners are being fed false data.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_efc16582	comment	Mission: Impossible Film Series Mission: Impossible: If the traitor had not tried to be overly clever in trying to frame Kittridge as the real traitor, Ethan Hunt would not have been able to confirm the identity of The Mole on his team. All he'd had to do was simply shoot Hunt, have The Mole grab the list, and he'd have been in the clear with Hunt still considered the traitor and everyone else believing Jim Phelps was dead. Mission: Impossible – Fallout: August Walker's attempt to frame Hunt doesn't convince anyone. Even Sloane, who is out for Ethan's blood for losing the bombs, is at the very least doubtful of the claim, and the mere suggestion that Hunt is John Lark by Walker is enough for Hunley to be convinced that Walker is totally untrustworthy, to the point he actually informs Hunt himself of this and Sloane. Hunley and Hunt all realise that Walker might be John Lark himself, so they manage to set him up and get him to incriminate himself into admitting just that. Had he not attempted this frame-up Walker might have managed to get away with everything.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_f12fcaae	comment	An episode of Simon & Simon has a tourist hire the Simon Brothers to find out why she was the victim of a series of petty thefts: first her camera, then her purse, then her hotel room was broken into... Turned out she'd snapped a picture that showed a man someplace he wasn't supposed to be in the background, and he was trying to get the film. (She had already dropped it off to be developed when he started stealing her stuff looking for it.)
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_f43b3a51	comment	Used several different ways in an episode of Diagnosis: Murder in which the killer tries to make the victim's death look like suicide-by-pill-overdose. The killer wipes their own prints off the pill bottle, but the lack of any prints, including the victims', piques Mark Sloan's suspicion. Also, when he notes that the lack of a suicide note is irregular in the killer's presence, the killer forges one using the victim's laptop; Mark checks the laptop's date-stamp and finds that the note was typed 20 hours after the victim's death.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_f4e799ee	comment	In Burn Notice, one of Michael's signature narratory asides covers this trope in the episode Made Man.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_f702c688	comment	Phoenix. The criminals behind the bombing see a news report where dog hairs were found on a blanket draped over the bomb. So they try to remove the evidence by shooting and dumping their dog, providing the detectives with further evidence of their link to the crime, as the dog's body is quickly found after someone heard the gunshot.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_f725307e	comment	This was often used in Quincy, M.E., but the episode "Visitors in Paradise" was a real standout example; where Quincy was convinced that the death was exactly what was claimed until the bad guys started trying to run him out of town and made him go back over everything in greater detail.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_f7f52529	comment	The scheme to steal nuclear weapons in Thunderball would have had a greater chance to succeed if a SPECTRE agent hadn't tried to off Bond while he was on leave and alerting him that something was up. Said SPECTRE agent was then killed for getting Bond's attention, or at least for failing to kill Bond.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_faea2e0	comment	Yet another Bond example in Tomorrow Never Dies. Bond and Wai Lin are trying to deduce which bay the stealth boat is being hidden in. After going through a number of other clues, they decide to check to see if any have any unexplained deaths. Only one does, and they accurately deduce that's where the ship is hidden.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_fc29ccc7	comment	Alfred Hitchcock Presents: In "The Last Remains", mortician Amos Duff burns a body at the request of the deceased's business partner and discovers a fireproof bullet among the ashes. This is after he comes to the realization that the death may have been foul play. Though normally any metal objects found among the remains are completely separated from them via a magnet upon removal from the retort and before said remains are pulverized, he makes a point of putting the bullet in the urn along with the ashes so he can show it to said business partner at the police station at the end.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The First Duty", Nova Squadron's attempt to hide the fact they performed a highly illegal move that got a classmate killed ended up being exposed due to the fact that the crew of the Enterprise got involved as one of those involved was Wesley Crusher. When Picard figures it out, he's not too happy.
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Revealing Cover-Up / int_ffbcb90e	comment	In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the Thuggee cult sends an assassin against Indy once he reveals he knows about the Shankara stones to the Maharajah. This gives him the lead he needs to find the secret temple and thwart their evil schemes. If they had just left Indy alone he probably wouldn't have found anything at all. Or they could have just said, "Sorry Dr. Jones, you've overstayed your welcome", given him a lift to the nearest port and sent him home.
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Not Tonight (Video Game) / int_a1b0bde2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Ripper (Video Game) / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Ruphand: An Apothecary's Adventure (Video Game) / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
The X-Files Game (Video Game) / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Watch_Dogs (Video Game) / int_a1b0bde2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Yakuza 5 (Video Game) / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Elite: Dangerous / Videogame / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (Visual Novel) / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Dangan Ronpa (Visual Novel) / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Fleuret Blanc (Visual Novel) / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Gyakuten Kenji 2 (Visual Novel) / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Spirit of Justice (Visual Novel) / int_a1b0bde2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Riddle Joker (Visual Novel) / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
The Great Ace Attorney (Visual Novel) / int_a1b0bde2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass (Visual Novel) / int_a1b0bde2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Ozy and Millie (Webcomic) / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Sarah Z (Web Video) / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
The Pop Arena (Web Video) / int_a1b0bde2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
AsteroidQuest (Webcomic) / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
MoringMark - TOH Comics (Webcomic) / int_a1b0bde2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
The Dragon Doctors (Webcomic) / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
TV Tropes (Website) / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Barbie: Princess Charm School / int_a1b0bde2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Pantheon / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Nikita / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up

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