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Taking the Heat

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Taking the Heat	comment	A crime has been committed, usually a murder. In the subsequent investigation, Bob seems to be going out of his way to make himself a suspect. He may confess right at the start, or just draw attention to himself by refusing to cooperate with the investigators, even when it would appear to be in his interests to do so. Or he may not make himself known immediately, but will suddenly show up at the cop shop two-thirds of the way through, ready to confess, even though he's never been a suspect. Why? Because he's Taking The Heat for Alice. In a classical whodunnit, it will usually turn out that Alice is innocent after all, and Bob was acting on a misapprehension. (Whether Alice is more flattered by Bob's care or offended that he was able to think she'd done it will vary from case to case.) Some authors have gone for the double-whammy, where Bob tries to take the heat for Alice while Alice tries to take the heat for Bob, and in fact, neither did it. Another variation is for the actual perpetrator to offer a deliberately implausible confession so that everybody thinks that he's taking the heat for somebody else. In more "cynical" series, it may instead turn out that Alice did indeed do it, but Bob has some reason for feeling she should be spared punishment: Alice can't handle prison, Alice has less than a year to live, the victim raped Alice and only Bob knows, Alice has a degenerative brain disorder and doesn't know she did it... and sometimes, Bob may actually think he's protecting an innocent Alice — all while she's pulling his strings to get him to take the heat for her. In classic whodunnits, the usual way to expose Bob's lie is by lying right back at him; in the same way as the murderer always gives away that he knows too much about the crime, Bob can be tricked into revealing he doesn't know enough. Saying "So it was you who shot him?" when the victim was clubbed over the head usually does the trick. May overlap with the Fall Guy, False Confession, and Insists on Being Suspected. Compare to Silent Scapegoat and The Scapegoat. Contrast I Won't Say I'm Guilty and Then Let Me Be Evil.
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Taking the Heat / int_1051cd9a	comment	Capadocia: Sofia is incarcerated in Capadocia for driving under the influence, except her husband was the one driving. She counts on him being able to get her released. Except he ends up in jail trying to embezzle the money needed and she ends up stuck in prison.
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Taking the Heat / int_136e43a2	comment	Zoey 101: Zoey sacrifices herself to save the school's co-ed status after Prank Week gets out of hand.
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Taking the Heat / int_144ea6e4	comment	Othello contains a rare example where the victim takes the heat. After Othello has smothered Desdemona and Emilia discovers the tragic scene, the dying Desdemona claims with her last breaths that she has committed suicide, presumably to save Othello from arrest. How she can survive to speak these words and then die despite no longer being suffocated can probably be chalked up to Artistic License â€“ Biology. At any rate, as soon as she dies, Othello confesses that he killed her.
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Taking the Heat / int_1463a028	comment	In an SVU episode, a woman confesses to murdering her husband's mistress. However, a brain tumor has left her too weak to even pick up a glass, much less the heavy sculpture used to bludgeon the woman. The cops think she's covering for her husband, but when his alibi is proven solid, they realize she's covering for her daughter. They try to dissuade her, but as she's dying, she insists on taking the blame. Another episode has a man and his son confessing to murder, thinking they are protecting each other. Later it turns out the crime in question was committed by a third party, so both are eventually cleared of all charges.
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Taking the Heat / int_18916544	comment	Seen in an episode of Fillmore!, when a suspect took the heat in exchange for the real culprit's help getting his sister into school politics.
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Taking the Heat / int_19ae41a0	comment	In The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the suspicious behaviour of Lawrence can be attributed to the fact that he believes his crush, Cynthia Murdoch, to be guilty of the crime and tries his best to hide evidence against her. This comes as a nuisance to the real murderer, who wanted to pin the blame on someone else.
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Taking the Heat / int_1ea1ed35	comment	In Recommencer (Miraculous Ladybug), when Lila accuses Marinette of leading a cyberbullying campaign against her, Lina falsely claims to be the ringleader instead. This catches Lila completely off guard, as she never anticipated anyone being willing to lie and take the blame for a nonexistent crime just to protect their friend.
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Taking the Heat / int_1f01a89b	comment	The Silence of Murder: When Jeremy is accused of murdering Coach Johnson, he won't write in his defense because he believes his mother Rita did it. Months later, when Hope shows evidence in court suggesting Rita was the killer, she immediately confesses even though she's actually innocent.
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Taking the Heat / int_208a9877	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_208a9877	comment	In the Keen Eddie episode "Black Like Me", the character Georgie turns himself in and confesses to a jewel heist. Eddie refuses to believe that Georgie is a criminal and figures out that the girl Georgie loves asked him to take the fall, so she and her real boyfriend, a murderous crook, can get away with it.
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Taking the Heat / int_22211d68	comment	Bones: Temperance Brennan gets the defense to portray her as someone with the motive and opportunity to kill the victim (albeit justifiably) to provide reasonable doubt for a jury during her father's trial.
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Taking the Heat / int_2221ecbd	comment	CSI: NY: In "Wasted," a guy walks into a police station holding a gun claiming to have shot a doctor. He turns out to have been taking the heat for his wife: the guy had a terminal illness and the doctor had conned the couple out of their savings with a quack treatment involving leeches, leading the wife to shoot her. He wanted to be sent to jail in her place seeing as he didn't have long to live. In "Greater Good," Mac asks a man coming out of prison why he took the blame for a crime he didn't commit, while the man insists he accidentally hit a girl on a bicycle after having several drinks when celebrating that night. He and his daughter were celebrating her becoming a doctor, and she'd had a couple of glasses of wine before she got behind the wheel of her car and struck the victim. Not wanting her career and her life to be ruined, he told her to let him take the blame.
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Taking the Heat / int_2223d84d	comment	Bunk'd: In the climax of "Cramped Champions", Lou takes the blame for the flooding of Camp Champion so Barb doesn't get fired.
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Taking the Heat / int_223898a5	comment	In the Decoy episode "The Lost Ones," a young man shoots his abusive father. His younger sister confesses to the murder since for her it would only mean a few more years in the reformatory, while for him it would mean the end of his dreams of being a surgeon.
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Taking the Heat / int_229dfdba	comment	Played for comic effect at the climax of the 1996 movie Mrs. Winterbourne: the two main characters, both innocent of the murder that's been committed but thinking each other guilty, try to take the heat for each other. And then the two main supporting characters, despite having little or no idea what's going on, try just as insistently to take the heat themselves. It turns out the police already have the (completely unrepentant) real murderer in custody, — a bit character just barely glimpsed earlier in the movie — and weren't looking for suspects at all.
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Taking the Heat / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons episode "Separate Vocations" has Bart becoming a hall monitor and Lisa becoming a delinquent after seeing the results of their aptitude tests. When Lisa steals the teachers' answer guides and Bart finds them in her locker, Bart decides to take the blame because he knows that his sister is better than this and doesn't want her to throw her life away.
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Taking the Heat / int_2664f44a	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_2664f44a	comment	Like a Dragon: The entire Yakuza series is set into motion when Kiryu confesses to the murder of his boss, Dojima, and is sent to prison for ten years. Dojima was actually killed by Kiryu's blood brother Nishiki, who shot him while he was trying to rape Yumi, Nishki and Kiryu's childhood friend. Happens once again in Yakuza: Like a Dragon, in which new series protagonist Ichiban Kasuga's story starts with him taking the fall for a murder committed by a lieutenant at the behest of his boss, who in turn was taking the heat for the actual murderer, the boss' son.
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Taking the Heat / int_277975b4	comment	In the first Miss Marple novel, The Murder at the Vicarage, both Lawrence Redding and his lover Anne Protheroe confess to killing Anne's husband, Colonel Protheroe. When the police began to doubt their story, they admit that they confessed the crime to protect the other. Both committed the crime.
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Taking the Heat / int_2b82b95f	comment	iCarly: In "iPromise Not to Tell", Carly feels guilty when Sam changed her grades on the school computer so she has straight As and is forced into ankle-swearing secrecy to not tell anyone. When the guilt gets the better of her, she tells the truth to Principal Franklin but claims she was the one who changed the grades because of the promise she made. To her surprise, Freddie claimed he changed the grades as well until at last Sam admits she was the true culprit.
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Taking the Heat / int_2ba48a26	comment	Castle: When the mother of a 2-kid family was being taken in for questioning about the disappearance and possible murder of the other three, they find the dad and bring him in, he calls out that he killed the son to take the heat off the daughter, and the mom hears and shoots him. The daughter got off rather light. In another episode, a person of interest confesses to the murder, but is tripped up when Beckett asks him about some details of the case that he gets completely wrong. He was doing it to protect his girlfriend who was being framed. In "Like Father Like Daughter", Alexis tries to prove that Frank Henson, a man convicted of murder 15 years ago and scheduled to be executed in three days, is innocent of the crime. She and Castle ultimately discover that Frank had confessed to the crime to protect his brother John, whom he saw standing over the body. Alexis and her father prove that both Frank and John were innocent, and Frank is exonerated.
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Taking the Heat / int_2ef7cb74	comment	Lyrical Nanoha: The Lieze sisters of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's attempt to do this for their master, but as their master said, their captor already knew everything so it was useless to lie. Hayate also took responsibility for the Wolkenritter's crimes, partially to protect them and partially because she felt responsible (the only reason they attacked people was that they were trying to save her life).
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Taking the Heat / int_370fd67d	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_370fd67d	comment	Every Shiny Thing: After foster kid Sierra is caught with stolen goods, she takes all the blame, even though her rich friend Lauren actually stole them, because Sierra will be leaving as soon as her mom is back on her feet while Lauren will be stuck here for the rest of her childhood. Although the truth comes out soon enough.
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Taking the Heat / int_39c20861	comment	In the Highlander episode, "Blackmail", Duncan confessed to a murder his friend was wrongly accused of, as he could survive the punishment of being hanged.
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Taking the Heat / int_39e45334	comment	Much more prominent in the Poirot episode Sad Cypress than in the book itâ€™s based on. Dr. Lord does everything in his power to acquit Elinor Carlisle (even should she be guilty, which she wasnâ€™t). Everything -â€“ including throwing a lot of suspicion on himself.
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Taking the Heat / int_3b73f906	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_3b73f906	comment	The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: In the episode "Balloonatics," Tigger, Piglet, and Rabbit all claim that they broke Christopher Robbin's balloon to take the blame away from Pooh, who was supposed to be looking after it. Fortunately, it turns out that the balloon isn't broken, just deflated. (Technically it was Piglet who deflated it, but only because Tigger threw him at it after Rabbit turned it into a scarecrow.)
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Taking the Heat / int_3ccfa555	comment	In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Trials and Tribulations, during the climax of the final case, Maya tries to cover for Godot, who killed Maya's mother Misty, who was channeling the spirit of Dahlia Hawthorne at the time, who thought she was being channeled by Pearl Fey, who was really — well, it's pretty confusing. Maya does this because she knew that Godot was trying to save her from being murdered by killing Misty (It Makes Sense in Context) but after Phoenix exposes him as the killer, Godot admits that he's not sure if his intention that night was really to help Maya or to just get revenge on Dahlia Hawthorne for putting him in a coma years ago.
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Taking the Heat / int_41625a90	comment	My Dark Vanessa: When word of Strane and Vanessa's relationship reaches the higher-ups, Vanessa protects Strane by saying she started the rumors for attention. As a result, she has to apologize for "lying" to a roomful of kids and then is kicked out of school, while Strane suffers no consequences.
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Taking the Heat / int_452aae20	comment	In the Sherlock Holmes (BBC Radio) episode The Saviour of Cripplegate Square, Holmes, early in his career, is enlisted by a housemaid at a home for unwanted babies, who suspects the proprietress's husband of poisoning the children, because several of them have died, she saw him working on something peculiar in the medicine room, and there has been an odd atmosphere in the house ever since. Holmes discovers that someone has indeed been distilling arsenic in the medicine room, but that the babies who died had no arsenic in their systems. When he confronts the couple with his findings, the husband confesses, but when Holmes challenges him to explain how he killed the babies, he's unable to do so. As Holmes had already deduced, what the housemaid had seen was him discovering what his wife was doing.
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Taking the Heat / int_455e3038	comment	A two-part episode of King of the Hill uses the double-whammy version.
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Taking the Heat / int_456382cb	comment	Brookside: Sinbad attempts to protect Mandy and Beth by claiming that he killed Trevor Jordache. It doesn't work because he doesn't know whereabouts on his body Trevor was stabbed and wrongly guesses at the chest.
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Taking the Heat / int_468bebb0	comment	Used in the Discworld novel Feet of Clay, much to Sergeant Colon's confusion: "You got a confession and there it ended. You didn't go around disbelieving people. You disbelieved people when they said they were innocent. Only guilty people were trustworthy."
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Taking the Heat / int_4737c653	comment	In the Elementary episode "Whatever Remains, However Improbable", Joan is accused of killing a serial killer who was obsessed with Sherlock. Sherlock finds the real killer, but when Joan learns it was Captain Gregson's daughter, whose roommate had been one of the victims, and Gregson was involved in the coverup, she doesn't want it to go any further, reckoning that, since she didn't kill him, she isn't really at risk, but being prepared to take a certain amount of heat. Sherlock, seeing how determined the FBI agent on the case is to convict Joan, isn't convinced so he confesses to the murder. The FBI agent still thinks Joan did it, but there's not much she can do about it since he not only has the murder weapon but MI6 claim he was working under their orders and should be extradited rather than stand trial.
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Taking the Heat / int_48ed41c8	comment	In Pocahontas, When Kocoum is fighting against John Smith out of jealousy after he caught him and Pocahontas kissing, Thomas shoots Kocoum dead. Hearing voices of Kocoum's warriors in the distance, Smith quickly tells Thomas to leave the area so that he can take the blame for Kocoum's death and for Thomas to warn the other settlers.
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Taking the Heat / int_4e2d3d00	comment	On an episode of The Glades, a potential suspect, who otherwise denies the crime and has the potential for a good alibi, immediately confesses to the murder when he finds out they have DNA of the killer and all they have to do is test him to have conclusive evidence. Jim immediately believes the confession is false and done to prevent any DNA comparison, because enough people have seen forensics on TV to know that DNA can show people are related, in this case showing that the man didn't commit the crime but a close blood relative (his son) did.
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Taking the Heat / int_4f847312	comment	In the Nero Wolfe stories, a major part of the plot of The Second Confession is in uncovering an honest confession. The first confession, signed by a patsy, is phony. Wolfe makes him tear it up and elicits a second confession from the real murderer.
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Taking the Heat / int_4fc1c922	comment	In Wicked Elphaba tries this toward the end of Act 1. Just before the final verse of "Defying Gravity", when the Wizard's guards break in and try to arrest Glinda, Elphaba shouts as she starts to fly on her broomstick, "It's not her! She has nothing to do with it! I'm the one you want! It's me! Hahahahaha! It's me! Up here! It's me!" In this case, it's justified, as Elphaba is the one rebelling against the Wizard, and Glinda has already chosen not to join her â€“ the guards just assumed she was an accomplice.
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Taking the Heat / int_51f5fe4b	comment	In Vampire Academy, Lissa made Wade Voda use a baseball bat to trash his own room. When he came to his senses he blamed Rose and she willingly took the heat to protect Lissa.
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Taking the Heat / int_5320ab5e	comment	An episode of Columbo ended with a friend of the murderer confessing to the crime; because of a brain tumor (that was going to cause her death in an estimated six months) the murderer didn't remember that she committed the crime. As he's being taken away, Columbo, who knows the truth, gently points out that the evidence will eventually show he didn't do it. The confessor agrees but figures it would probably take about six months or so for that to happen.
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Taking the Heat / int_5392bc91	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_5392bc91	comment	In an episode of The Wonder Years Kevin throws what is originally supposed to be a mild party with his friends while his parents are out of town, but it quickly grows out of hand when people he's never even seen before start to show up. The next day, the house is so trashed, there's no way he's able to clean it up before his parents get home. He's about to come clean when his parents see the mess, but they immediately reprimand his older and less mature brother Wayne, believing this was his fault, and much to his surprise, Wayne just says, "I'm sorry. It won't happen again." Kevin concludes that maybe Wayne knew their parents would be harder on Kevin if they knew he did, or maybe he saw a little bit of himself in Kevin, but either way, Kevin ended up waxing Wayne's car as a way to say thank you.
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The Wonder Years	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_5392bc91
Taking the Heat / int_547d645a	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_547d645a	comment	In Five Little Pigs, Caroline Crale allowed herself to be sentenced for the murder of her husband to protect her sister Angela, whom she believes to be the culprit, and saw this as an opportunity to redeem herself for disfiguring Angela when they were younger.
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Taking the Heat / int_547d645a	featureConfidence	1.0
Five Little Pigs	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_547d645a
Taking the Heat / int_54aab83e	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_54aab83e	comment	Murder on the Orient Express (2017). For those in the audience who don't know It Was His Sled, there's a scene when a suspect confesses to the crime, then tries to murder Poirot. It looks like he's covering for the woman he's in love with, whom Poirot has just accused, but it turns out Everybody Did It and he's just making himself the fall guy, knowing that Poirot won't give up until he has a culprit.
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Murder on the Orient Express (2017)	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_54aab83e
Taking the Heat / int_559e9fc	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_559e9fc	comment	Subverted in Westworld. In "Trompe L Oeil", the Delos board tries to make out that Ford's modifications to the androids make them capable of harming humans. Head of Programming Bernard Lowe is fired for this, with the implication that he can save his job if he fingers Ford instead. He refuses, apparently out of disdain for the Board and loyalty to Ford. But the end of the episode reveals that Bernard is actually an android under Ford's complete control.
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Westworld	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_559e9fc
Taking the Heat / int_5a3533fe	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_5a3533fe	comment	On My Name Is Earl, Joy is on her third strike after stealing a truck (that happened to have someone in back). She almost goes to prison, but Earl sees that Darnell and the kids are already starting to suffer without her. So even though he didn't do it (although he did help Joy try and cover it up), and even though he knows he'll lose his newly-acquired job, apartment, and girlfriend, Earl says that he did it and that his fingerprints are all over the truck (which they are). He goes to prison for most of Season 3.
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My Name Is Earl	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_5a3533fe
Taking the Heat / int_5c7af92	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_5c7af92	comment	In the finale of Frozen River, Ray takes the fall for her and Lila's smuggling operation because as a first-time offender, she'd only get four months in jail, whereas Lila would get a much harsher sentence. In exchange, Lila agrees to take care of Ray's kids while she's in.
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Frozen River	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_5c7af92
Taking the Heat / int_5db577ba	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_5db577ba	comment	Happens thrice in The Dark Knight. First, Subverted by the gangster who changes his testimony on the stand to take the fall for Maroni's crimes. Shortly afterwards, he reveals his true purpose: To assassinate Harvey in open court. Second, Harvey Dent falsely confesses to being Batman, so the real Batman can still catch the Joker. At the end of the film, Batman convinces Gordon to blame him for the murders committed by Dent (now Two-Face), in order to preserve Dent's reputation and thus the people of Gotham's faith in their Knight in Shining Armor, which works until the next movie, when Bane exposes the cover-up.
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The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_5db577ba
Taking the Heat / int_5f99c5cf	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_5f99c5cf	comment	Drives the plot of Things Change: the main character Gino is a simple cobbler who is hired to take the heat for a mob murder in exchange for a payday when he gets out of prison. At the end Gino has made a new friend in the mob who has someone take the heat for Gino.
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Things Change	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_5f99c5cf
Taking the Heat / int_60d087d0	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_60d087d0	comment	The Rising: It turns out Danny's death wasn't entirely Alex's fault, as Joe had covered her eyes playfully when she was speeding, helping to cause the car crash. Alex took the blame entirely due to him and her dad pressuring her into it because her dad didn't want Joe's motocross career derailed.
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The Rising	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_60d087d0
Taking the Heat / int_610a694a	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_610a694a	comment	In the backstory for PokÃ©mon Adventures' Ruby and Sapphire arc, Norman pins the blame of accidentally freeing the legendary Rayquaza on himself when it was actually indirectly caused by his son Ruby.
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PokÃ©mon Adventures (Manga)	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_610a694a
Taking the Heat / int_625e571	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_625e571	comment	Subverted in one episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent: a woman confesses to killing her husband, but gets the details wrong. The detectives figure she's taking the heat for her lover. However, it turns out that she did kill her husband, and deliberately made a mistake in her confession to make it look like she was covering for someone in order to create reasonable doubt.
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_625e571
Taking the Heat / int_62ec93b5	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_62ec93b5	comment	In the The King and the Clown the king's jealous consort frames Gong-gil, the king's new favourite, for defamation. Because Jaeng-sang's writing is identical to Gong-gil's (having learned by imitation) he is able to step in and takes the fall for it. Not that this is any better a solution to Gong-gil.
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The King and the Clown	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_62ec93b5
Taking the Heat / int_63409895	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_63409895	comment	Sofia the First "A Royal Mess": James breaks a window that King Roland was going to give as a gift to Queen Miranda, and he fears that he'll be grounded from going to the circus with them. Feeling sorry for him, Sofia takes the blame so James can go, but he eventually feels guilty and tells his parents the truth. Baileywick eventually tells Sofia that, even if her heart is in the right place, she shouldn't take the blame for something she didn't do.
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Sofia the First	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_63409895
Taking the Heat / int_6a5cadf7	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_6a5cadf7	comment	Foyle's War has done several variations.
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Foyle's War	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_6a5cadf7
Taking the Heat / int_6bf150d5	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_6bf150d5	comment	Vow of Nudity: During a flashback to their slave years where Ayrwyn gets caught talking to Haara on the job, Haara claims to have started the conversation so that she's the one who gets punished instead of Ayrwyn.
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Vow of Nudity (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_6bf150d5
Taking the Heat / int_711c130d	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_711c130d	comment	Adopted Displaced: In Wily's Wittle Wub, Vinyl is actually the one responsible for the take-over-the-world scheme based off the events of Mega Man 3, as she was trying to make her adoptive father Dr. Wily proud of her. When he learns this, Wily decides to steal Gamma in order to give himself some credibility when he claims that he was the mastermind all along.
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Adopted Displaced / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_711c130d
Taking the Heat / int_72e7d7f6	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_72e7d7f6	comment	In the Lord Peter Wimsey novel Clouds of Witness, the fiancÃ© of Lord Peter's sister Mary is found shot dead outside the Wimsey family's holiday home. Mary, who acted strangely on the night, confesses to the murder, but it's soon established that doesn't know enough to have done it. She then confesses that she was planning to elope on the same night, and believes the man she was planning to elope with was discovered by her official fiancÃ©, leading to an argument and the death. It turns out the would-be Lochinvar had nothing to do with the murder, but only came across the fresh body and immediately fled to avoid being accused, leaving her to face the music.
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Taking the Heat / int_73383fee	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_73383fee	comment	Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: In the fourth trial, Asahina in her guilt over Oogami's suicide and anger at the other students for supposedly pushing her into it, tries to frame herself as Oogami's killer so that the other students don't learn that it was a suicide. This would push the trial to a wrong conclusion, thereby killing everyone as per the rules of the Deadly Game. The plan fails in the end, partially because Hina can't answer how the Locked Room was created. In the fifth trial, if the player takes the right decision, Naegi takes the fall for Kirigiri by not pointing out a lie she told to protect herself. It's learned that her Story-Breaker Power as the Ultimate Detective made her enough of a threat that the Mastermind tried to frame her and execute her as that chapter's Blackened. Before he can be executed in her place, he's saved by the remnants of Alter Ego infecting the school's computer network, thereby stopping the execution. If the player does otherwise, Kirigiri is executed, and this triggers the Bad Ending.
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_73383fee
Taking the Heat / int_73d7930f	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_73d7930f	comment	Then in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Collaborator" as the election for Kai (who is basically the Bajoran Pope) nears Vedek Winn obtains new evidence about the Kendra Valley Massacre which cost the lives of a resistance cell. Said cell included Kai Opaka's son. She hopes the evidence will force Vedek Bariel to withdraw from the race. The new evidence supposedly will confirm the identity of the Bajoran who exposed the cell to the Cardassians. Knowing that the evidence Winn obtained will expose Opaka as the person who informed the Cardassians about the cell to keep them from killing many innocent civilians, Bariel decides to keep her legacy intact and withdraws from the race. Once he does so Winn loses all interest in the new evidence regarding the Kendra Valley Massacre.
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_73d7930f
Taking the Heat / int_74603f32	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_74603f32	comment	Arcane: After Vi attempts to give herself up to take all the blame for her and her siblings heist gone wrong, their adoptive father Vander instead offers himself up as scapegoat despite having no responsibility. In an Ironic Echo, Silco, the man who prevented that offer from being carried out by killing Vander finds himself trying to take the blame for his own daughter's terrorist attack by lying that she acted on his orders but the offer is rejected.
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Arcane	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_74603f32
Taking the Heat / int_78b8e562	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_78b8e562	comment	On One Life to Live, a man tries to take the attempted murder rap for his girlfriend. Aside from getting crucial details of the crime wrong, rather than being grateful, his girlfriend is actually quite ticked off that he even thought she was guilty.
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One Life to Live	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_78b8e562
Taking the Heat / int_7a5140e4	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_7a5140e4	comment	A Certain Unknown Level 0: When Kuroko is facing the possibility of being expelled over collateral damage, Touma steps up and claims responsibility, taking the blame and the punishment in her place.
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A Certain Unknown Level 0 (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_7a5140e4
Taking the Heat / int_7c432481	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_7c432481	comment	In The Westing Game, Turtle takes the heat for the bombs her sister Angela set, going so far as to set a bomb of her own.
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The Westing Game	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_7c432481
Taking the Heat / int_7d031904	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_7d031904	comment	In Tantei Opera Milky Holmes, Cordelia lets herself go to jail for stealing bread rather than let Fish Paste, the girls' new pet cat, be thrown out since she believes the cat is the only thing holding her and her loved ones together. She is freed, but prison warps with her mind a bit.
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Tantei Opera Milky Holmes	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_7d031904
Taking the Heat / int_81692f99	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: In Star Trek: The Next Generation, there was a major storyline midway through the run where Worf and his family were discommendated from the Klingon Empire when it seems that his father was a traitor that allowed the Khitomer Massacre. The real mastermind was the head of the House of Duras during that time period and Worf was forced to take it because if the truth came out, it would split the Klingon Empire in half. This storyline lasted until the Klingon Civil War. Then in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Collaborator" as the election for Kai (who is basically the Bajoran Pope) nears Vedek Winn obtains new evidence about the Kendra Valley Massacre which cost the lives of a resistance cell. Said cell included Kai Opaka's son. She hopes the evidence will force Vedek Bariel to withdraw from the race. The new evidence supposedly will confirm the identity of the Bajoran who exposed the cell to the Cardassians. Knowing that the evidence Winn obtained will expose Opaka as the person who informed the Cardassians about the cell to keep them from killing many innocent civilians, Bariel decides to keep her legacy intact and withdraws from the race. Once he does so Winn loses all interest in the new evidence regarding the Kendra Valley Massacre.
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Star Trek (Franchise)	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_81692f99
Taking the Heat / int_84ad7abb	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_84ad7abb	comment	In I Love You to Death (loosely based on a real attempted murder), Rosalie Boca makes several attempts to murder her husband Joey for cheating on her with other women, and is helped by her mother Nadja and her friend Devo, who's in love with her. When the cops finally do find out, the three try to cover for each other by saying the other two had nothing to do with it. Nadja claims her daughter begged her not to kill Joey, but she went on anyway, explaining, "I'm her mother, I do what I want."
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Taking the Heat / int_8516bd41	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_8516bd41	comment	In Chicago, Amos Hart signs a confession to the murder actually committed by his wife Roxie. In the musical version, he retracts his confession the moment he finds out why she did it; in the original play, what undermines his confession is the ignorant denial of the same known fact.
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Chicago (Theatre)	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_8516bd41
Taking the Heat / int_8608d984	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_8608d984	comment	Danganronpa: Memento Mori: Happens in Chapter 5, with Daigo framing himself for Madoka's murder in an attempt to prevent his girlfriend Ayane from being executed.
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Danganronpa: Memento Mori (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_8608d984
Taking the Heat / int_87b55b5d	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_87b55b5d	comment	The likes of The Onion or Der Postillion often release satirical "ISIS admits to x" about outlandish stuff like little legroom in airplanes, bad weather at Christmas, or delays in the opening of Berlin airport. They are only a slight exaggeration of Daesh' bizarre M.O.
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The Onion (Website)	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_87b55b5d
Taking the Heat / int_892aa56a	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_892aa56a	comment	Murdoch Mysteries: Multiple subversion of some sort in the episode "Belly Speaker". Slightly unbalanced ventriloquist Harcourt, who does most of his talking through his dummy, Mycroft, confesses to the murder of his father, but Murdoch finds inconsistent evidence, helped by Mycroft's stream-of-consciousness babble. He eventually realises the murderer was the real Mycroft, Harcourt's long lost twin brother, and Harcourt is taking the heat. But shortly after releasing "Harcourt", he realises that this was Mycroft, who killed Harcourt and took his place at the age of ten, and who confessed to throw suspicion off himself. Got all that? Straight example in the episode "Kung Fu Crabtree". Crabtree is convinced that Wu Chang, who came to Toronto looking for his sister, is innocent of murdering a Chinese diplomat. Unfortunately, the case keeps getting stacked against him. In the final interview, Crabtree has a "Eureka!" Moment that the sister was perfectly positioned to commit the murder. Wu Chang has a moment of disbelief, then looks at his sister's expression and immediately confesses. To Crabtree's frustration, there doesn't seem to be anything he can do about this, especially as being hanged in Toronto is better for Wu Chang than the death awaiting him in China. In "Master Lovecraft" the morbidly romantic Ellen Woods and Ian Blaird make a suicide pact, but Ian's life is saved by their friend Clinton Hartley. When the police close in on Ian for Ellen's murder, Clinton — who is also in love with Ian — kills to protect him and takes the heat for both murders. In "Brother's Keeper", Detective Watts confesses to killing a man in self-defence, but Murdoch doesn't think things add up. As he learns more of Watts's connections to the victim, a sadistic gang leader who tortured and killed Watts's adoptive brother and was released because Watts himself was guilty of evidence tampering, he starts to suspect the murder was premeditated, before realising Watts is protecting the other brother. And he didn't do it either; he was going to but couldn't go through with it, and was murdered himself in the same way as his brother. The guy was killed by his own father, who witnessed this and finally realised the accusations were true, then Watts found the body and jumped to conclusions.
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Taking the Heat / int_89bf8ce	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_89bf8ce	comment	In 30 Rock, Tracy Jordan makes his first "serious" movie Hard To Watch, which ends with his character volunteering to confess to a crime his brother committed.
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Taking the Heat / int_89bf8ce	featureConfidence	1.0
30 Rock	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_89bf8ce
Taking the Heat / int_8bd02a57	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_8bd02a57	comment	Played silly in Ghost Trick, where both Missile and Sissel treat Missile's taking the blame for breaking Lynne's headphones (to protect Kamila) as the noble act of a warrior. One might consider it foreshadowing for the way Jowd confesses to his wife's murder to protect Kamila, who accidentally killed her with a birthday contraption.
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Taking the Heat / int_8d81bb26	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS, In "Caged", an inmate in a women's prison murders a prison guard because he had raped her oldest daughter. A fellow inmate and Serial Killer who was in for life decides to take the blame to protect her because she only had one year left of her sentence and a family to come home to when it was over. In "Family Ties", Vance's daughter Kayla gets arrested for shoplifting a purse. In reality, one of her friends committed the crime, but Kayla covered for her because the friend in question has gotten into trouble with the law before and another offense would have ruined her chances of getting into college, especially since she had recently turned eighteen. Kayla, on the other hand, is still underaged, has early acceptance into Georgetown University, and has an otherwise clean record, meaning she only gets legally punished with having to do 30 hours of community service and the "theft" won't go on her permanent record.
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NCIS	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_8d81bb26
Taking the Heat / int_8dfbdff2	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_8dfbdff2	comment	Occasionally seen on Law & Order. Sometimes in modified form, where people confess on the stand to create reasonable doubt for the current defendant but have no intention of ever actually being prosecuted themselves. In another episode, a crime boss willingly accepted the sentence for the murder of his unfaithful mistress without admitting guilt to the crime. On the way to prison, he sarcastically congratulated Jack for getting him for "the one I didn't do". The main characters later figure out, after it's too late to do anything about it, that the boss' son killed the mistress for betraying his father. The boss sacrificed himself to save his son. In another episode, a man is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife's lesbian mistress (a controversial writer). He steadfastly argues his innocence until the evidence becomes overwhelming... at which point he confesses and the prosecutors drop all charges. Because the evidence now proves that his daughter did it.
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Law & Order	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_8dfbdff2
Taking the Heat / int_8f072a6c	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_8f072a6c	comment	In New Hope University: Major In Murder, there are two possible culprits for the fifth murder- Lucina Sorenson and Katy Thorson, both of whom are in a romantic relationship. Each of them tries to claim responsibility for the murder so that the other will live, but being a Danganronpa fic, there's a catch — if the class chooses the wrong person, everyone besides the culprit will be executed. Naturally, at least one of the two is lying, so it's up to Saya to find out who is. Katy is the liar. Saya manages to uncover the truth, resulting in Lucina (whom Saya had also loved) being executed, and everyone else surviving.
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Taking the Heat / int_8f36f969	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_8f36f969	comment	The Loud House: In "Sleuth or Consequences", Lincoln gets ready to go to an Ace Savvy convention but is halted when Dad announces someone clogged the toilet last night. The clogger turns out to be Lucy attempting to flush a Princess Pony comic, but Lincoln decides to take the blame for it so she doesn't become a laughingstock, meaning he's grounded and cannot go to the convention, but Lucy makes it up to him by making him his own comic. In "A Tattler's Tale", Lola takes the blame for all the secrets the siblings confess in their Secret Secrets club so she can be even with them when they refuse to let her in.
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The Loud House	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_8f36f969
Taking the Heat / int_8fc868f5	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_8fc868f5	comment	The Brittas Empire: In "The Chop", Helen steals from the petty cash to buy a new dog, which puts her at risk of going to jail. Brittas, knowing full well the consequences, saves her by claiming to have taken it instead, at the cost of losing his job.
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The Brittas Empire	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_8fc868f5
Taking the Heat / int_91e45f5	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_91e45f5	comment	Happens again in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney when Wocky Kitaki tries to take the heat for his fiancee Alitia Tiala when she's accused of murder. Even going as far as to attempt to fire Apollo.
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Taking the Heat / int_9284ad43	comment	In Dual Destinies, Simon Blackquill took the heat for Athena Cykes and framed himself for her mother Metis's murder. Athena truly was innocent, though the circumstances of the murder were such that she would have been convicted of it, and for worse back then she was just 11 years old. He got himself convicted and spent seven years in prison for her — and by the time Athena finally managed to fill her goal to clear his name, he is a day away from execution. And in one of the Bad Endings, Simon does get executed, then the Hostage Situation staged by his older sister Aura concludes with her and all the hostages (including Trucy) disappearing forever, Athena leaving the office, Apollo never smiling again out of trauma, and Phoenix giving up on being a lawyer forever.
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Taking the Heat / int_92ef018a	comment	In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ferris offers to do this for his friend Cameron, who had just destroyed his father's Ferrari in protest of his father loving it more than his family, but Cameron refuses to let him.
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Taking the Heat / int_94b2ff07	comment	In Kevin & Kell, Bentley took the blame for the accidental death of a Herd Thinners staff member to keep his daughter Danielle out of jail and because he's already got a record. It helps that he was framed by his ex-daughter-in-law Angelique in the first place, so they just resolve to make it stick.
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Taking the Heat / int_9a67b688	comment	Case Closed: The trope is featured in Heiji's first appearance, which involves the murder of a famous diplomat named Isao Tsujimura. When Heiji claims that Isao's father Toshimitsu is the killer, said character confesses despite not being the culprit, and Shinichi (as in himself, not Conan-as-Kogoro) has to bail them out. Their real intention is to invoke the trope, because 20 years ago Toshimitsu had helped his son with a cruel Uriah Gambit, so he wants to atone as an apology to the persons who were affected by it. A two-part episode featured Shougo Soumei, the president of a small-time entertainment company, who was having some problems with the TV station's manager Raisaku Nakame; he had been extorting him, and then wound up dead as the result of poison. Shougo was discovered to have hidden some evidence, then tried to take the rap for the crime until Conan-via-Kogoro revealed the true culprit... It was his office assistant, Maiko Kozumi. The two loved each other, though neither had confessed their feelings to the other yet. Maiko murdered Nakame because she knew he was causing problems for Shougo; she then called Shougo, told him what she did, gave him an Anguished Declaration of Love... and threw herself off a window. Poor Shougo was so shattered by this that he put Maiko's body in the trunk of his car, hid the evidence that she had committed the crime, and got ready to take the blame in order to preserve his beloved Maiko's good name. However, Conan had deduced this much as well, revealed the whole deal through Kogoro, and Shougo ended up going free. Another example from the Night Baron Virus case: Ran thought that Satoshi, the karate champion she fangirled upon was the murderer, but he was planting evidence against himself to divert attention from the true killer, his Broken Bird girlfriend, Akiko, who killed the victim in revenge for having driven her beloved brother to kill himself. Satoshi was arrested too, but because he took the heat for Akiko. A filler case features Ran's mother Eri as the lawyer of a guy named Shinji Usami. Shinji's been accused of beating a guy to death while in a drunken rage, but Eri is firmly convinced that he's innocent and he's doing this for the real killer. She's right: Shinji saw his ex-wife Masako kill the victim as revenge since he had caused the death of their little son Masaki, so he willingly took the blame to protect her. In another case, the Office Lady Fumie Ozawa took the heat for herself and her boyfriend/partner in crime Ryouta Shimizu, who had embezzled a very large sum of money. Ryouta realized that Fumie would spend the rest of her life in jail for the two, so he killed her to spare her from such a terrible fate.
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Taking the Heat / int_9da908aa	comment	Yellowjackets: In the Season 2 finale, Jeff Sadecki confesses to a murder, taking the blame in place of his wife Shauna. The detective who listens to the false confession knows it's a lie. Fortunately, that's when he succumbs to a perfect poison and drops dead without warning, to Jeff's shock.
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Taking the Heat / int_9df2bf92	comment	In The Murder on the Links both Jack Renaud and Bella Duveen ran into each other in the crime scene and immediately assumes that the other is guilty of the murder. When Jack was arrested for the crime, he denies committing the murder but refuses to disclose what happened during the time of the murder to prevent any suspicion from falling towards Bella. Just before he is put on trial, Bella herself arrives to confess the crime. The murderer is actually Marthe, and Poirot has Mrs. Renaud pretend to disown Jack so to lure Marthe into attempting to murder her so that Bella could be acquitted.
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Taking the Heat / int_9f1766e4	comment	The Brady Bunch: In the episode "Confessions, Confessions," after Peter accidentally breaks Carol's favorite vase with a basketball, all the other kids and Alice try to take the blame for it so Peter won't be grounded and miss his upcoming camping trip.
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Taking the Heat / int_9f78fda3	comment	Murder, She Wrote: A woman tries to take the murder rap for her son, but it doesn't work because she gets details of the crime wrong. In another episode, a man with an established motive confesses to murdering the victim to protect his sister (who had killed the victim unintentionally and in self-defense). In yet another, both a mother and daughter confessed to the same murder, leading to the question of who really did it and who's lying to protect the other. Both were attempting to protect the other: each incorrectly believed the other to have committed the murder when the real culprit was a friend of the mother. In another, all the evidence points to a wife killing her husband in self-defence, and she goes along with it because she thinks her son might have done it. He then confesses to save her, and gets everything so wrong it's clear he wasn't even at the crime scene.
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Taking the Heat / int_9fa6a1e6	comment	In Dogsbody, the Dog Star Sirius furiously denies having killed the victim and thrown the dangerous Zoi at the witness. But he won't provide an alternate story because doing so would implicate his Companion.
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Taking the Heat / int_a12cd9cf	comment	Subverted in the climax of the Big City Greens episode "Uncaged". Cricket, Tilly, and Nancy are under arrest for releasing the animals from the zoo even though they got them back in their cages by the time the police show up; Nancy willingly decides to take the blame for it so the kids can be let off. Not even bearing to see their mom go back to jail after being released, Cricket and Tilly admit they released the animals so they can be more like Nancy, and turn themselves in. Nancy understands what they did and they embrace, causing Officer Keys to be in tears and lets them all go.
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Taking the Heat / int_a3d1b28a	comment	In The Dangers in My Heart, Hara writes her classmatesâ€™ family names on tombstones for a cemetery backdrop she was painting with Ichikawa for their school's culture festival. The class is shocked, thinking it's an insult directed at them, and Adachi pegs Ichikawa as the one who did it while Hara is out of the room. Fearing for Haraâ€™s sake if he tells the truth, Ichikawa assumes the blame until Hara comes back and clears things up that she was just using common family names, apologizing and erasing them afterward while Ichikawa writes his own family name on all the tombstones.
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Taking the Heat / int_a86b7660	comment	One episode of Due South had a couple trying to take the heat for each other in a murder case. Neither was guilty, but because both had a reason to want the victim dead and weren't looking in the right direction at the moment the murder occurred, they each believed the other was responsible until Fraser learned about and captured the actual killer.
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Taking the Heat / int_a8729c90	comment	The Fairly OddParents!: Played for Laughs in one episode where Mr. Turner bribes Timmy to take the blame for stealing Mrs. Turner's slippers for a Doom It Yourself project, implying it's a regular occurrence.
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Taking the Heat / int_ad7edd1f	comment	Kaamelott: One episode has a tribe raid Kaamelott, dealing minor damage. Bohort was in charge of security that evening and is thoroughly interrogated by Arthur, constantly repeating that nobody was hurt. Eventually, he declares that there was a communication mishap and that he would accept responsibility. Arthur is floored... until the idea of Bohort taking responsibility for anything is confronted with reality. Finally, the truth comes out: the raiders were able to make it unimpeded because the town guard was off playing dice with Karadoc and Perceval, and had been doing so for several weeks.
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Taking the Heat / int_aeaf3d1b	comment	A union leader in Life On Mars tried to cover up a fatal industrial accident at his mill to keep it from being shut down (and his members losing their jobs) by confessing to having murdered the accident victim.
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Taking the Heat / int_af6562ac	comment	Sailor Nothing: Ohta does this for Cobalt. After all, while they have proof that Ohta did the act, they have no proof that he was doing it under someone else's orders.
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Taking the Heat / int_b149f4d2	comment	The Partridge Family: In "Trial of the Partridge One," Laurie is caught with a copy of an upcoming math test that her friend Cindy Brown stole. She maintains her innocence, but won't tell who actually did it because Cindy's dad is the principal and the consequences of failure will be much worse for her than they will be for Laurie.
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Taking the Heat / int_b52e5b72	comment	In Loyal Enemies, Veres refused to testify when his lover Tairinn was accused of raising the dead, effectively taking the heat for her. It didn't end well: he was tortured for days, and when he was finally let out, he could barely react to his surroundings and was banished from Starmin and its magic academy, effectively ruining his career. Worse, Tairinn was killed shortly thereafter, making his sacrifice irrelevant. Even worse, she faked her death and she was absolutely guilty.
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Taking the Heat / int_b54d12c1	comment	In The Lost Kingdom, when Arthur tries to stop Kenzi Drowning Her Sorrows after Bo leaves Camelot by ordering public houses not to serve her any more, Kenzi and Gwaine go so far as to steal some food and liquor from Camelot's private stores. This angers Uther since he needed that extra food in preparation for the melee, but Arthur claims that he was the one responsible so that the others don't get into trouble.
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Taking the Heat / int_b565ccc5	comment	Loki (2021): One of the biggest signs Loki has really changed and fallen in love is when he attempts to take blame from Sylvie and put it on himself by lying that he was the mastermind behind "the plan", and Sylvie is nothing but a meager pawn. Mobius sees through it.
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Taking the Heat / int_b6e823f8	comment	A Chance for a New Dawn: After the incident at the Holy Mausoleum, Byleth takes full responsibility for what happened so that none of her students will get expelled.
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Taking the Heat / int_bb79fbb2	comment	L.A.'s Finest: Syd takes the blame when Emma kills Mallory in a fit of rage, not wanting to see her prosecuted for murder after all she's been through. Afterward, she tries to make it seem like a justified shooting she'd done.
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Taking the Heat / int_bcdcf629	comment	During his academy days Optimus of Transformers: Animated reluctantly followed two of his fellow cadets on an unsanctioned excursion for easy energon on an organic planet. While there, one cadet was lost and presumed dead. Optimus took full responsibility for the incident and was expelled from academy and ultimately wound up becoming a lowly space bridge repairman. Bumblebee ended up doing this during his days as a cadet in the Autobot Military, when Bulkhead was at risk of being kicked out of boot camp for dropping a tower on Sentinel Prime (by accident, and trying to stop rogue artillery turrets firing real ammunition at them), out of respect for Bulkhead's willingness to care about him when so many of their fellow cadets didn't. His good deed ultimately had him kicked out of camp, and losing any chance of him becoming a member of the Elite Guard, although also cementing his friendship with the big green bot forevermore.
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Taking the Heat / int_bd0d2c55	comment	Rumpole of the Bailey: "Rumpole and the Sporting Life", where the defendant was found standing over the victim's body and immediately said "I did it."
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Taking the Heat / int_be245531	comment	Gotham Central: When the GCPD has the Joker in their custody and needs answers out of him fast, it's decided that, given the dire situation, they'll resort to the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique. Initially, Maggie intends on doing it herself, but Probson shuts that down and goes in the interrogation room to take the heat for her â€” both the legal heat (since what they're doing is decidedly illegal and Maggie needs to "stay clean") and the heat from Joker (since he's obviously not going to tolerate somebody other than Batman beating his lights out and will want vengeance). Sure enough, Joker brutally murders Probson for daring to touch him at the first available moment.
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Taking the Heat / int_bee47cbe	comment	Unsounded: After Duane kills Belarus in self-defense, an act which is not precisely illegal only because Bel had gotten together a group of friends to attack and kill Duane, but which will ensure Duane is expelled and unable to continue his studies as a wright Sarthos takes the blame. Because Sarthos is a Third Option their advancement options are severely limited and they see in Duane someone with the makings of a composer. Sarthos refuses to let Duane ruin himself over Belarus' death, as do the professor and constable Duane tries to correct about just who killed Belarus.
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Taking the Heat / int_c3d4f879	comment	A Hole in the Fence: Played for laughs. Grison's friends are whispering at each other in class when the group's leader Raclot tells them to lower their voices. Ironically, that statement is overheard by their teacher, who demands to know who is talking in class instead of paying attention. Jocrisse immediately stands up and voluntarily takes the blame to spare Raclot from punishment.
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Taking the Heat / int_c476f1cc	comment	Thoroughbreds ends with Amanda allowing Lily to murder her stepfather, and pin the blame on her. Since Amanda has a history of violence and a disorder that makes her unable to feel emotion, everyone buys it.
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Taking the Heat / int_c4dc172a	comment	In The Last Remake of Beau Geste Digby Geste (Marty Feldman) pleads guilty to the theft of the priceless "Blue Water" sapphire in order to protect his brother Beau, who has absconded to Morocco with the jewel in order to prevent their stepmother Flavia from glomming onto it.
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Taking the Heat / int_c592fe66	comment	Linked: After Jordie realizes that Pamela, his on-off girlfriend since second grade, is the serial swastika tagger, he tries to claim responsibility to divert the principal from conducting the locker search that will reveal the evidence. He is a Bad Liar though, the principal conducts the locker search anyway, and Jordie seems to regret even bothering to try to help the tagger after learning that they were indeed motivated by racism and regret nothing.
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Taking the Heat / int_c79063a2	comment	Attempted by Aya Misaki in the anime version of Dear Brother. Manipulated by two elder Sorority girls, Aya's Girl Posse Megumi and Miyuki steal and almost burn the signature books requesting for the dissolution of the Sorority. Aya takes the blame for her friends when they're confronted, saying that she ordered for the books to be destroyed; but after she leaves the school, the girls reveal what truly happened to Kaoru, Junko, Nanako, and Tomoko.
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Taking the Heat / int_c9d6c480	comment	Hercule Poirot: In The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the suspicious behaviour of Lawrence can be attributed to the fact that he believes his crush, Cynthia Murdoch, to be guilty of the crime and tries his best to hide evidence against her. This comes as a nuisance to the real murderer, who wanted to pin the blame on someone else. In The Murder on the Links both Jack Renaud and Bella Duveen ran into each other in the crime scene and immediately assumes that the other is guilty of the murder. When Jack was arrested for the crime, he denies committing the murder but refuses to disclose what happened during the time of the murder to prevent any suspicion from falling towards Bella. Just before he is put on trial, Bella herself arrives to confess the crime. The murderer is actually Marthe, and Poirot has Mrs. Renaud pretend to disown Jack so to lure Marthe into attempting to murder her so that Bella could be acquitted. In Five Little Pigs, Caroline Crale allowed herself to be sentenced for the murder of her husband to protect her sister Angela, whom she believes to be the culprit, and saw this as an opportunity to redeem herself for disfiguring Angela when they were younger.
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Taking the Heat / int_ca08598f	comment	The Wire sees this happen several times, as members of a drug organization take the heat so that their higher-ups will remain free and able to run their criminal organizations, most notably with the Barksdale Organization. D'Angelo is on the verge of making a deal with the police until at the last moment his mother Brianna convinces him to take some of the heat the police are trying to pin on Avon, whose criminal activities provide for his entire family. Later, after D'Angelo is assassinated in prison on Stringer's orders, McNulty calls Brianna out on this in one of the most devastating ways possible. Arguably the most notable case though, is another one from the first season. Wee-Bey Brice, the main assassin of the Barksdale crew, is caught and offered a plea deal: he'll avoid death row if he confesses to all the murders he committed on behalf of the Barksdales. Wee-Bey immediately starts confessing to every single murder ever committed on the Barksdale Organization's orders, even ones that both the audience and the police know he didn't commit so that as much of the Barksdale group as possible will remain free and able to carry on with business. When the Stanfield gang is arrested at the end of Season 5, their main assassin Chris Partlow, as part of a plea deal cut by Rhonda Pearlman, pleads guilty to all murders committed by the crew so long as his family is taken care of, similar to Wee-Bey.
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Taking the Heat / int_cac1f772	comment	In the CSI episode "The Unusual Suspect", the accused's 12-year-old sister takes the heat mid-trial. She later points out that, as a juvenile, she'll only be in prison until she's 21, and since Nevada has no Son of Sam Law, the book rights to her story will be worth millions.
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Taking the Heat / int_cb2c3df6	comment	Oreimo: Kyosuke takes the heat for Kirino's H-Games when their dad found out. This is particularly hilarious as this means Kyousuke admits he is (1) using Kirino's computer (2) in Kirino's room (3) to play H-Games (4) of a siscon nature. He does it again to help patch Kirino and her friend, Ayase's, friendship after the latter found out about her hobby. Really, this seems to be his plan A.
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Taking the Heat / int_ccf875f7	comment	An episode of Criminal Minds deals with a vigilante, who at one point inspires a copycat to commit a similar murder and try to take credit for the previous murders. Gideon is onto him straight away and bluffs him by referring to the latest victim, a pedophile priest, having been dealt a Groin Attack, when in fact the real killer didn't kill him that way. The copycat replies "it's what he deserved".
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Taking the Heat / int_ce9c80bf	comment	In Slam Dunk, Fallen Hero Mitsui goes to the basketball gym with a gangster group from outside Shohoku to wreck it, but he has a Heelâ€“Face Turn instead and decides to return to the team. Since his intentions are sincere, Sakuragi's True Companions and some of Mitsui's gangster friends tell the teachers that Mitsui was planning to ask Anzai-sensei and Akagi to take him back, so they beat him and the team members up to discourage him.
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Taking the Heat / int_d32723f6	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_d32723f6	comment	In The Mer, Shona confesses to drowning Hazel, Ella, and Val, causing them to turn into Mer, in order to protect Liam from being punished for the murders. Will believes her and is devastated to learn that his Parental Substitute is a murderer, but Val quickly realizes she's lying. It turns out Liam did kill Val, but only helped Hazel and Ella in their transformation when they were already doomed.
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The Mer	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_d32723f6
Taking the Heat / int_d443fe0f	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_d443fe0f	comment	Spider's Web by Agatha Christie revolves around the protagonist, Clarissa, attempting to cover up a murder to protect the person she mistakenly believes did it. When it becomes apparent that the police inspector investigating the murder has figured out what she's been doing, she resorts to confessing to the murder herself.
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Taking the Heat / int_d444e14f	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_d444e14f	comment	Smart Adversaries AU: In Roger Over and Out, Adrien takes the blame for supposedly stealing ChloÃ©'s bracelet in order to help keep Plagg's existence hidden.
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Taking the Heat / int_d444e14f	featureConfidence	1.0
Smart Adversaries AU (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_d444e14f
Taking the Heat / int_d63bb8d1	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_d63bb8d1	comment	A heroic example in Beware of Chicken: Cai Xiulan is hunting the notorious Whirling Demon Blade Gang, but she finds them already dead at the hands of Jin's farm animals (who are powerful spirit beasts). When she meets Jin, he gives her the leader's sword and lets her publicly take the credit, so that he can retain his privacy. (Given that there were celebrations of the Whirling Demon Blade's death and theatrical reenactments of Xiulan's supposed actions all across the countryside, his concerns were quite justified.)
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Taking the Heat / int_dc217e32	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_dc217e32	comment	A milder example occurs in a sidestory of PokÃ©mon Reset Bloodlines narrating Professor Oak's Summer Camp. Ash's Rhyhorn goes wild and causes an accident that could have hurt many people, but Serena decides to step in and assume responsibility for it so Ash doesn't get expelled from the camp. Though in this case, the guilty party is a kid named Joshua who is angry because Ash beat him in a baseball game, and tried to take revenge on him.
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Taking the Heat / int_dd09cb54	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_dd09cb54	comment	The miniseries Blackpool did a beautifully-executed subversion: After one of the detectives makes it clear that he has it in for the main suspect, the suspect's son confesses to the murder. Everyone immediately realises that he's Taking The Heat for his father, and he's let off with a warning about wasting police time. And then it eventually turns out that he did do it, albeit in self-defence.
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Taking the Heat / int_df770e4b	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_df770e4b	comment	In the Enemy at the Door episode "Escape", a farmer is arrested by the German authorities after being caught trying to hide the body of a German soldier (who had repeatedly stolen things from the farm, leading to a violent confrontation). Another character, who is about to make a break for England, offers to leave behind a letter confessing to the murder since he's determined to make it or die trying so either way the Germans won't be able to do anything to him. At the end of the episode, the German commander receives the letter and immediately recognizes it for what it is, but seems to be considering accepting it at face value so the situation may be smoothed over; the episode ends without revealing his decision.
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Taking the Heat / int_e34df51d	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_e34df51d	comment	Catch Your Breath: In order to protect Naruto and Kushina, Kei agrees to set herself up as The Scapegoat by revealing her status as the Three-Tailed Beast's jinchuuriki.
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Catch Your Breath / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_e34df51d
Taking the Heat / int_e5feb1e	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_e5feb1e	comment	Ace Attorney loves this trope. Here are some examples: In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Trials and Tribulations, during the climax of the final case, Maya tries to cover for Godot, who killed Maya's mother Misty, who was channeling the spirit of Dahlia Hawthorne at the time, who thought she was being channeled by Pearl Fey, who was really — well, it's pretty confusing. Maya does this because she knew that Godot was trying to save her from being murdered by killing Misty (It Makes Sense in Context) but after Phoenix exposes him as the killer, Godot admits that he's not sure if his intention that night was really to help Maya or to just get revenge on Dahlia Hawthorne for putting him in a coma years ago. More straightforwardly, case five of the first game has the client, Lana Skye, trying to take the heat for her former boss, Damon Gant, as he's blackmailing her with (faked) evidence that her little sister Ema accidentally committed manslaughter. Although it's downplayed since having been an accessory to the murder, she's not entirely innocent herself. Just not the murderer,. In Case 3 of Ace Attorney Investigations, Colin Devorae takes the heat for the Amano Group's dealings with the smuggling ring. Happens again in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney when Wocky Kitaki tries to take the heat for his fiancee Alitia Tiala when she's accused of murder. Even going as far as to attempt to fire Apollo. In Dual Destinies, Simon Blackquill took the heat for Athena Cykes and framed himself for her mother Metis's murder. Athena truly was innocent, though the circumstances of the murder were such that she would have been convicted of it, and for worse back then she was just 11 years old. He got himself convicted and spent seven years in prison for her — and by the time Athena finally managed to fill her goal to clear his name, he is a day away from execution. And in one of the Bad Endings, Simon does get executed, then the Hostage Situation staged by his older sister Aura concludes with her and all the hostages (including Trucy) disappearing forever, Athena leaving the office, Apollo never smiling again out of trauma, and Phoenix giving up on being a lawyer forever. There's also Case 3 of Dual Destinies where Juniper Woods' friends Hugh O' Conner and Robin Newman confess to the crime of murdering Juniper's teacher if it means she'll go free. Though in that case, like the above, all three are innocent.
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Ace Attorney (Franchise)	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_e5feb1e
Taking the Heat / int_e728ae90	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_e728ae90	comment	Hachiman from My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected sees this as a solution whenever a social problem arises. He sees himself as unimportant and believes that social issues cannot be resolved unless all parties focus on a single enemy, which in this case, is Hachiman himself. It works the first time around, but his second attempt causes a rift between himself and Yukino and Yui, who feel disdain for his method of operation.
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Taking the Heat / int_e728ae90	featureConfidence	1.0
My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_e728ae90
Taking the Heat / int_e76b3b7e	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_e76b3b7e	comment	Blindspotting: In "Return to Ithica" it's revealed Ashley is the one who'd been holding drugs that her brother gave her. Miles took and tries to dispose of them after the police raided, acting like he was the only one involved, therefore sparing Ashley prison time for it.
Taking the Heat / int_e76b3b7e	featureApplicability	1.0
Taking the Heat / int_e76b3b7e	featureConfidence	1.0
Blindspotting	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_e76b3b7e
Taking the Heat / int_e91b7ca9	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_e91b7ca9	comment	In Wild Tales, to ensure the waitress won't get blamed for the attempt to poison Cuenca (as well as both to save her friend from being assaulted by him and because she obviously wished to do the bastard in), the cook stabs him to death with a kitchen knife and gets arrested by the police, giving the waitress a knowing wink as she's taken away.
Taking the Heat / int_e91b7ca9	featureApplicability	1.0
Taking the Heat / int_e91b7ca9	featureConfidence	1.0
Wild Tales	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_e91b7ca9
Taking the Heat / int_eb6236c5	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_eb6236c5	comment	How To Blow Up A Pipeline: Xochitl and Theo, with help from Rowan, make it appear like they did the bombing all on their own, with the others getting away. It's left ambiguous if this works.
Taking the Heat / int_eb6236c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Taking the Heat / int_eb6236c5	featureConfidence	1.0
How To Blow Up A Pipeline	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_eb6236c5
Taking the Heat / int_edbaa92e	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_edbaa92e	comment	Twice in Academy of Discontent, the second part of Danganronpa: The Immersive Learning Program. In the second chapter, Gonta Gokuhara accidentally pushes a shelf on Hifumi Yamada when trying to protect Peko Pekoyama and unknowingly kills him. Peko tries to make herself the guilty suspect while keeping Gonta in the dark, even trying to frame Leon as "proof" of her crimes. In the third chapter, Leon Kuwata sees his girlfriend Aoi Asahina killing Sakura Oogami. Wanting to protect Aoi, he uses Sakura's blood to write an upside-down version of his name in English (11037) to make himself look like the killer.
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Taking the Heat / int_edbaa92e	featureConfidence	1.0
Danganronpa: The Immersive Learning Program (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_edbaa92e
Taking the Heat / int_f0c816fb	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_f0c816fb	comment	Breaking Bad: In "Ozymandias", in a phone call to Skyler that he knows is being wired, Walt takes the full blame for his drug empire and the killing of his brother-in-law Hank. Even though Skyler is plenty guilty of willingly helping Walt launder his drug money and Walt absolutely did not kill Hank, Walt doesn't want to leave their kids orphaned and makes it appear as though he forcibly cowed Skyler into helping him, so that the court will be more lenient, and wants to give Hank's wife Marie a semblance of closure.
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Breaking Bad	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_f0c816fb
Taking the Heat / int_f14e1069	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_f14e1069	comment	In one route of AI: The Somnium Files, Mayumi attempts to take credit for the New Cyclops Serial Killings to save her son, Ota, from suspicion of him having committed the murders (though he didn't commit them either). However, Date is quickly able to poke holes in this confession.
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Taking the Heat / int_f14e1069	featureConfidence	1.0
AI: The Somnium Files (Video Game)	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_f14e1069
Taking the Heat / int_f198104e	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_f198104e	comment	The Rose and the Crown: Etienne allows people to think he sired a bastard son so people won't find out Eugene is the father.
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Taking the Heat / int_f198104e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Rose and the Crown (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_f198104e
Taking the Heat / int_fb7c549b	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_fb7c549b	comment	Feralnette AU: When Lila's threats spur Alya to shove her down in a fit of rage, Marinette steps in to claim responsibility, banking on the idea that Lila won't be able to resist the chance to slander her even more.
Taking the Heat / int_fb7c549b	featureApplicability	1.0
Taking the Heat / int_fb7c549b	featureConfidence	1.0
Feralnette AU (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Taking the Heat / int_fb7c549b
Taking the Heat / int_fcc7ec6b	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_fcc7ec6b	comment	In 1996, Triple H took the heat for the "Curtain Call" incident that saw himself and then-WWF Champion Shawn Michaels say goodbye to their Real Life-friends Kevin Nash (Diesel) and Scott Hall (Razor Ramon) as they depart to WCW. As Hall and Nash were gone and Michaels was protected by virtue of being WWF champion, Triple H was the only one left who could be punished. As a result, Triple H was demoted to jobber status for a while. Ironically, before the incident, he was supposed to win that year's King of the Ring tournament (that honor would go to "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, and the rest is history)
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Taking the Heat / int_ff9ab17f	type	Taking the Heat
Taking the Heat / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In Star Trek: The Next Generation, there was a major storyline midway through the run where Worf and his family were discommendated from the Klingon Empire when it seems that his father was a traitor that allowed the Khitomer Massacre. The real mastermind was the head of the House of Duras during that time period and Worf was forced to take it because if the truth came out, it would split the Klingon Empire in half. This storyline lasted until the Klingon Civil War.
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Taking the Heat	processingCategory2	Blame Tropes
Taking the Heat	processingCategory2	Crime and Punishment Tropes
Detective Conan Film 21: The Crimson Love Letter / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
One Piece Film: Red / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Batman: White Knight (Comic Book) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Gotham Central (Comic Book) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Tangled: The Series (Comic Book) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Invaders Comic Book (Comic Book) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Invaders (Marvel) (Comic Book) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Invaders (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Adopted Displaced / Fan Fic / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Catch Your Breath / Fan Fic / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
From Fake Dreams (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Struggle / Fan Fic / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Second Try / Fan Fic / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Arcanum (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Beyond the Outer Gates Lies... A high school library? (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Blackened Masks (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Danganronpa Class Swap (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Danganronpa Class Switch (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Danganronpa: Memento Mori (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Danganronpa Re:Programmed (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Danganronpa Reimagined (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Danganronpa: The Immersive Learning Program (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Feralnette AU (Big Fat Break) (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Karma in Retrograde (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
My Hero: Green Light Explosion (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Paragon (Kitsune Heart) (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Relic of the Future (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Smart Adversaries AU (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Sol Invictus (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Many Dates of Danny Fenton (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Rose and the Crown (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Vow of Nudity (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Anthropoid / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Brigsby Bear / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Brotherly Love / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Brotherly Love (2015) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Cannonball / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Diary of a Wimpy Kid / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Dirty Dancing / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Eraser / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Ferris Bueller's Day Off / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Go, Johnny, Go! / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Hackers / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
How To Blow Up A Pipeline / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Inspecteur Lavardin / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Jesus, Bro! / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Joe Dirt / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Jumanji / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Murder on the Orient Express (2017) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Night at the Museum / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Parting Shots / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Santa Claus Is a Stinker / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Searching / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Strange Gardens / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Crying Game / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Godfather / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Holdovers / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Long, Hot Summer / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Things Change / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
This Is England / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Thoroughbreds / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Time After Time / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Under Capricorn / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Wild Tales / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Hercule Poirot (Franchise) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Perry Mason (Franchise) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
A Hole in the Fence / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
And Then There Were None / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Cards on the Table / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Crooked House / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Dogsbody / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Dragaera / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Five Little Pigs / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Galley Slave / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Game Change / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Heaven Official’s Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Judge Dee / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Kitty Norville / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Little House on the Prairie / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Loki: Where Mischief Lies / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Manticore Ascendant / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Marple: Twelve New Stories / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
More Than You'll Ever Know / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
My Dark Vanessa / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Nineteen Minutes / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
On to Chicago: Rediscovering Robert F. Kennedy and the Lost Campaign of 1968 / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Rivers of London / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Star Trek: Coda / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Devotion of Suspect X / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Likeness / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Murder on the Links / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Mysterious Affair at Styles / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Pushcart War / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Thirteenth Tale / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Way You Are / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Westing Game / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Vampire Academy / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
World of the Five Gods / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
AKB49 – Renai Kinshi Jourei (Manga) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
BreakfastClub	seeAlso	Taking the Heat
Kyō Kara Ore Wa!! (Manga) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Nozo Ã— Kimi (Manga) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Kindaichi Case Files (Manga) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Tokyo Ghoul (Manga) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Under Grand Hotel (Manga) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
UzaMaid: Our Maid Is Way Too Annoying! (Manga) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Parties Are for Losers (Music) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Astral Cabal (Roleplay) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Class Trials Season 3 (Roleplay) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Class Trials Season 4 (Roleplay) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Class Trials Season 5 (Roleplay) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Class Trials Side Trials (Roleplay) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Doubt Academy (Roleplay) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
All of Us Are Dead / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Between the Lines (1992) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Beverly Hills, 90210 / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Blackpool / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Blindspotting / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Branded / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Branded (1965) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Bunk'd / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Cadfael / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Californication / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Criminal (2019) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Defiance / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
El embarcadero / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Enemy at the Door / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Fantasy Island (2021) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Fire Country / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Foyle's War / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
How to Get Away with Murder / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Last Man Standing (2011) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Law & Order / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Life on Mars (2006) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Lizzie McGuire / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Magnum, P.I. / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Make It or Break It / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Marple / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Midsomer Murders / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Mr. Inbetween / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Murder, She Wrote / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Murdoch Mysteries / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Prisoner: Cell Block H / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Recht Op Recht / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Red Rose / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Reservation Dogs / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Rumpole of the Bailey / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Runaways (2017) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Scandal / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Scandal (2012) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Sea Patrol / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Spin City / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
That '70s Show / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The 100 / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The City Hunter / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Cleaning Lady / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Enemy Within / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Good Doctor / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Good Wife / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Outlaws / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Pact / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Partridge Family / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Trial & Error / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Waterloo Road / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
You, Me and the Apocalypse / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Zoey 101 / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Blades in the Dark (Tabletop Game) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Blood Brothers (Theatre) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Curtains (Theatre) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Spider's Web (Theatre) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Criminal Case: Mysteries of the Past (Video Game) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Dark City Series (Video Game) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Ghost Trick (Video Game) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Video Game) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (Video Game) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Murder in the Alps (Video Game) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Video Game) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (Visual Novel) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Visual Novel) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Spirit of Justice (Visual Novel) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
An Ordeal In Osondu (Web Video) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Anecdote of Error (Webcomic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Blood Bank (Webcomic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Feralnette AU (Webcomic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Misfile (Webcomic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Tales From The Spirit Lands (Webcomic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Batman: The Long Halloween / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Big City Greens / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Pocahontas / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
Tom Sawyer (2000) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Killer Rarityverse (Fanfic) / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Moonstone / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat

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