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The Scapegoat

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The Scapegoat	comment	A scapegoat is one who, willingly or otherwise, takes the blame and/or punishment for something for which they weren't responsible — though depending on where the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism is, the relative innocence of said scapegoat will also vary. Any poor sap who runs afoul of a Powder Keg Crowd can become this, especially if they have Torches and Pitchforks; 0% Approval Rating governments seem to execute nothing but innocent scapegoat victims just for the spectacle of it or to keep up the appearance that the government is tough on crime; the Glory Hound will find a subordinate to take the blame for any failure. The idea comes from a practice of the ancient Hebrews, who would send a goat carrying the sins of the people out into the wilderness as part of the Yom Kippur ceremonies. A especially popular way to do this is through pulling off a Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit, since a dead person (bonus points if they are amongst the victims of the disaster/crime they are being blamed for), for good reasons, cannot defend themselves nor can they be tempted to attempt to point their finger at the actual culprit(s). Sometimes, in a Distant Finale, the scapegoat is finally cleared, if not in public, then at least in the eyes of those who cared for him or her and at least hoped, if not always believed, that this scapegoat was innocent. Compare Guilty Until Someone Else Is Guilty (where someone is the Scapegoat until the true culprit is revealed), Silent Scapegoat (where the Scapegoat volunteered for the job), Zero-Approval Gambit (where this is part of a greater scheme), Wounded Gazelle Gambit (where "Gazelle" wounds (or pretends to wound) himself to frame someone else) and Convicted by Public Opinion (where the Scapegoat is already declared Guilty Until Someone Else Is Guilty by the public because they are disliked). If a character is given a higher position so they can take the fall, they've been Promoted to Scapegoat. As an audience reaction, a creator is Misblamed when they take the blame for something that wasn't their fault. If the product itself is blamed for a public screw-up regardless of whether or not it's inherently flawed, that's a Disastrous Demonstration. Contrast the Windmill Political, who among other things can be used as the scapegoat for something that hasn't even happened! Closely related to Fall Guy and Karmic Misfire if the scapegoat does not willingly take the blame and/or punishment. May overlap with Not Me This Time if the scapegoat has a legitimately deserved bad reputation that makes them an easy target for blame, and Burn the Witch! if they are accused of causing the misfortune through some sort of supernatural power. An Overzealous Underling may be used for this, (or a boss may claim that someone is an Overzealous Underling) if the boss wants to appear to keep their hands clean and reputation intact. See also, Scapegoat Ad, where a competitor's employees are blamed for their products' shortcomings.
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The Scapegoat / int_111caca7	comment	Kid vs. Kat: Coop ALWAYS takes the blame for everything that Mr. Kat does, simply because they think the latter is just a regular housecat rather than an alien invader. The police, the townspeople and his own father just think he has lost his mind, you'd be shocked he hasn't been sent to a mental hospital yet. In the second season, this running gag was toned down, with the episode "'Nuff Said" stabilishing that he was sick of being the scapegoat of Bootsville and almost gives up on stopping Kat's plans entirely.
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The Scapegoat / int_11c29fc4	comment	Happens to Yuuto in Haruka Nogizaka's Secret. After dropping her bookbag due to a student running into her accidentally, Haruka's bag spills its contents, including a catalog for an anime/manga convention. Yuuto immediately blurts out that he was wondering what happened to his catalog, which the student body immediately accepts, as Haruka is a Closet Otaku. However, she ends up going into a severe Heroic BSoD because she fears that Yuuto would be ostracized the way she was in middle school a few years back.
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The Scapegoat / int_14f9297e	comment	The Far Side namedropped the trope in one strip.
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The Scapegoat / int_17293dfa	comment	Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony seems to love doing this with Himiko Yumeno, to the point that she's accused of being the murderer up to four times (albeit the third time is done as a joke, and the fourth time is more of a coincidence than anything). The first time occurs in chapter 2. After Kirumi Tojo murders Ryoma Hoshi, the dead body is thrown into a piranha tank used for Himiko's magic show, causing the piranhas to eat Ryoma's remains and the body to be appear in front of everyone during her magic trick, allowing Kirumi to pin the murder on her. The fact that she keeps insisting that she used real magic for her performance instead of admitting that she used a trick in order to escape does not help much. The second time is during the next chapter. Korekiyo Shinguuji, the killer in this case, tries to pin Tenko Chabashira's murder on her because she suggested using a specific room for the sÃ©ance in which Tenko died, alongside being present when her death occurred in the darkness. It is also noted that she could also be Angie Yonaga's killer because as a member of Angie's Student Council, Himiko could've been able to persuade her into opening her Research Lab's door for her and kill her there.
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The Scapegoat / int_18916544	comment	Fillmore! used this for the reason Vallejo's partner Frank Bishop was kicked out of the Safety Patrol and became a recluse - while chasing a Bingo rigger Frank dumped gazpacho onto the perp to slip him up... only it turned out that the perp was allergic to gazpacho. Fulsom chose to shift the blame entirely onto him rather than face a lawsuit from his parents.
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The Scapegoat / int_1adff626	comment	Peanuts: Charlie Brown is a Butt-Monkey on his best day, and a Chew Toy on average, but he becomes this in It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown. During the last play of the football game, Lucy - typically - pulls the football away before Charlie can kick it, causing their gang to lose the important game. She deliberately screws up the play, but somehow this is Charlie Brown's fault. This is the only reason that many Peanuts fans hate that special, in spite of what happens in the last few moments.
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The Scapegoat / int_1b386512	comment	Ranma Â½: Due to a combination of Insane Troll Logic, Never My Fault and Selective Enforcement, Ranma is very much this. One of the most common examples is the fact that none of the TendÅ� household residents are willing to eat Akane's cooking and will run for the hills. Ranma's usual M.O. is to either eat beforehand or find something else to do, both of which will end up infuriating Akane. Later everyone else will chew out Ranma for making Akane angry. The fact that Genma keeps thrusting his past mistakes on to Ranma is an example of this as well.
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The Scapegoat / int_1d1cc72d	comment	PokÃ©mon the Series: Sun & Moon has an in-series example — when Lillie got caught up in the Nihilego incident, Faba blamed it on Silvally to cover his tracks. Due to her traumatic memories being a bit mixed up, Lillie also initially blamed it for her fear of Pokemon until it rescues her from Faba similarly to how it defended her against Nihilego, after which she apologizes to it.
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The Scapegoat / int_1d6f193a	comment	Tales of Berseria: Midway through the game, the Abbey begins calling Velvet the "Lord of Calamity," implicitly blaming her for the spread of daemonblight and everything else wrong with the world. While she's not exactly blameless, it's clear that they just slapped the label on her in order to give the citizens someone specific to hate and fear so that they would turn to the Abbey for help. Velvet, due to suffering from some serious Survivor's Guilt, decides Then Let Me Be Evil and encourages this reputation when it's convenient for her. The most obvious would probably be the time she saves a town from a daemon attack, then announces herself as the Lord of Calamity to cause all the townsfolk to run away—because she's planning to do something that might cause the nearby volcano to erupt, and she wants everyone to evacuate.
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The Scapegoat / int_1f58bf72	comment	Pawn Stars: When the Old Man buys a pair of Western studio dummies for $500 (for the pair), Rick blows a gasket. He thinks that Chumlee was the one who purchased them, given his apparent record of dumb purchases, and is floored when the Old Man speaks up and reveals the truth. He bought them because he thought they were neat; he even named them Ed and George. Chumlee purchased a Leslie revolving organ speaker from the 1960s, took it to get restored to operating condition, then brought it back to the shop. Later, Rick hears somebody fiddling around with a keyboard and the speaker in the back room, grumbles about Chumlee goofing off during working hours... and opens the door to find the Old Man at the keyboard. During inventory time, Rick announces there will be a booby prize for whoever bought whatever item had been sitting in the store the longest. Chumlee is blamed for the two worst purchases, but he points out that Rick and the Old Man bought them and that his name is on the paperwork only because they had him write up the sale.
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The Scapegoat / int_20191a57	comment	Bleak Expectations: Pip Bin is often blamed by the latest Geoffrey Whitehead character for causing the death of all the previous Geoffrey Whitehead characters, when he usually isn't. It's either circumstances, someone else, or their own stupidity what does them in. It'd probably help if Pip Bin stopped taking the credit for it as well, but he is an idiot.
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The Scapegoat / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: In Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade, General Narcian of Bern is in hot water due to his repeated failures, so in order to save face tries to pin the blame on Zeiss, since his older sister Melady defected to the Lycian Army, making up a story that he was leaking intel to them through her. Fortunately, Galle catches wind and lets him know of this, and he ends up joining Melady when he confronts her later. Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade has Nino, who was sent by her adoptive mother Sonia on a mission with Jaffar to assassinate Prince Zephiel. Sonia secretly instructs Jaffar to kill Nino after the deed is done, because the prince is beloved by Bern's folk. Jaffar himself is appalled by this, and it ultimately leads to both of them defecting to Eliwood's side. In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, after word of the first Arc Villain Jarod's abuses of the Daein people reaches the Empress of Begnion, his corrupt superiors in the Begnion senate lay all the blame for his actions on his lap, despite being personally complicit in said abuses. Jarod, for his part, decides he'd rather drag The Hero Micaiah down with him than try his luck with the senate. Maribelle of Fire Emblem: Awakening. Gangrel captures her early on in the game and accuses her of trespassing in Plegian territory and assaulting Plegian soldiers, which is used as justification for starting the war with Ylisse. She reveals in a support conversation that she went there herself to dissuade them from advancing, but they held her hostage.
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The Scapegoat / int_21bfab03	comment	Psychopath Diary: In-woo sets Dong-sik up to take the blame for his murders.
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The Scapegoat / int_21c670e0	comment	In My Mother, Padme is shaken to learn that she has become the scapegoat for Palpatine's rise to power, as she was a convenient 'target' when she was apparently dead and no longer around to defend herself, although Mon Mothma assures Padme that she had no part in that particular decision.
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The Scapegoat / int_2236bffe	comment	Metal Gear: Green: Night Owl, after the Congo Tyrant successfully nuked Gecko's group and gave him his nuclear bomb, frames the HPSC VP at the time for giving the Tyrant the means to build the nukes. Madam President has the aforementioned VP dragged off to a black site, where he will never be seen again, while Night Owl begins to subtly eliminate the competition for the now vacant VP position, becoming the VP of the HPSC by the time Outer Heaven is formed.
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The Scapegoat / int_22532d78	comment	Fargo: Season 2 has an interesting variant where Dodd Gerhardt and his assassin Hanzee Dent claim to Dodd's mother Floyd that Dodd's missing brother Rye was run down in one location and killed in another by one "Butcher of Luverne". Which is true, just not the way they frame it. In reality, Peggy Blumquist accidentally hit Rye with her car, and then her husband Ed (a butcher's assistant in Luverne) had to kill him in self-defense when he attacked them whilst trying to flee their garage. Dodd uses careful wording to make his mother believe this "Butcher of Luverne" is a contract killer of the Kansas City Mafia's, so she'll support war with Kansas City, who are trying to muscle into Gerhardt territory. Late in Season 3, Emmit Stussy decides to turn himself in to the police and confess to all his crimes, including the murder of his brother Ray and the stuff he's been blackmailed by VM Varga into engaging in. Too bad for Emmit, Varga has a contingency plan to keep Emmit under his thumbs. A few episodes earlier, he'd had Yuri steal a case file from the Eden Valley cops concerning the murder of Gloria's stepfather Ennis Stussy by a dimwitted ex-con Ray tried to use to steal a stamp from Emmit, and he also covered up Emmit's accidental murder of Ray. With this information, Varga has Meemo murder two random people with the last name 'Stussy', one by slitting his throat (to imitate Ray) and another by asphyxiation (to imitate Ennis), giving the illusion of the first two murders being the work of a very unusual serial killer. To complete the illusion, he even has a willing Fall Guy, Donald Woo, who deliberately lets himself get captured and "confesses" to all four crimes, nullifying Emmit's confession.
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The Scapegoat / int_251cd0d3	comment	Low Ki...ahem...Kaval was the scapegoat for NXT Season Two, both for Vince McMahon's choice not winning (the contest was supposed to be 50% fan votes, 50% "pro decision", which means at least one pro was a turncoat since the fan vote was overwhelmingly in Kaval's favor, never falling below 60%) and for the horribleness of the "Genesis" segment which was a result of Vince McMahon's fury at the fact Alex Riley did not win. Then Low Ki was the scapegoat when New Japan Pro-Wrestling's sponsors got upset at the fact Low Ki dressed up as Agent 47, who was apparently a trademark of a sponsor's competitor whom they felt New Japan just gave an awesome free commercial to. These resulted in his release from both companies. Unlike Danielson, Low Ki would get injured by Akebono at an All Japan Pro Wrestling show before New Japan could hire him back.
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The Scapegoat / int_25f6f1a0	comment	Beatrice in Umineko: When They Cry plays the Wicked Witch role to the hilt, making herself a much more attractive culprit than anyone in Battler's family- or, for that matter, the true masterminds Bernkastel and Lambdadelta. Weirdly, witches actually gain power from being a scapegoat, since it increases the belief in magic that gives them power.
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The Scapegoat / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons In "Lisa the Vegetarian", when Lisa ruins Homer's barbeque by stealing the roast pig: "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" Lisa, Marge, and Homer wonder who was causing various problems within the house lately (such as tearing up all her test papers, a broken vase, and spreading garbage all over the neighbor's yard before Homer got the chance to, respectively). Bart quips that he was this time innocent of these, and felt they were simply senseless destruction without any of his usual commentary. Turns out, it was the dog, who was continuing his path of destruction even in the room where they were located discussing what's happening. Santa's Little Helper himself was implied to have this same trope applied to him. When they discover some stuff buried underneath the house (specifically, Lisa's bongo drums, Bart's strobe light, and Homer's "best of Ray Stevens featuring 'The Streak'" record) Homer guessed that it was the dog that buried all of their stuff. Marge's response to Homer implies that it was in fact she who buried at least one of the items that Santa's Little Helper uncovered. Bart has been expelled from Springfield Elementary School twice, both times for something that he didn't actually do. In "The Seven-Beer Snitch", Fat Tony's Mafia, while they are in prison, deduce that one of their fellow inmates was The Informant, to which Johnny Tightlips points to Frankie the Squealer as the rat. However, not only does Frankie deny being the rat, but he also reminds him that he's actually The Stool Pigeon. It was Homer Simpson who was the rat. According to "Homer and Apu", it's standard procedure for the Kwik-E-Mart corporation to blame any problems on a scapegoat or sacrificial lamb. The softball episode has the Springfield Police making Steve Sax, one of the ringer players that Mr. Burns brings in to play, simultaneously the scapegoat for every crime committed in New York (where Sax played at the time) and the town of Springfield as well.
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The Scapegoat / int_26f0d547	comment	In Kotoura-san, Haruka Kotoura (a Telepath with Power Incontinence) is a perpetualone during Downer Beginning; her classmates constantly lie about their own thoughts and feelings to be personally secure among others, so blaming the Honest Advisor who also happens to be a Living Lie Detector was especially cruel and selfish on the other children's part. The kicker is that this behavior is apparently OK with the adults as well! It's no wonder how the setting became a Crapsaccharine World.
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The Scapegoat / int_2b186988	comment	In A Silent Voice, everyone in Nishimiya's class bullies her relentlessly. However, when the principal finally takes action and asks who was responsible for bullying her, the class immediately and unapologetically places all the blame on one of the main characters, Ishida.
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The Scapegoat / int_2d316bc0	comment	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012): What fuels Shredder's obsession with revenge on Splinter; he always finds a way to blame Splinter for either anything that goes wrong with his life or the various atrocities he commits.
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The Scapegoat / int_2ee053b1	comment	Yes, Your Grace: Evidence found after King Talys' death by poisoning points to three different people who were present at the time, none of whom actually did it. However, the Player Character will have to pick one to execute to preserve his political relationship with his strongest ally or else have his advisor give a False Confession. One of the three candidates for scapegoat has the deck slightly stacked against them, as on top of having both motive and incriminating evidence, they insisted that the victim have one last drink before leaving the party, and that drink contained the poison.
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The Scapegoat / int_2f1032e5	comment	Tekkadan as a whole becomes this in the final episodes Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans. Rustal Elion uses a smear campaign to paint Tekkadan as war criminals, causing their sponsors to retire all their financial support, leaving Tekkadan bankrupt. Tekkadan itself is destroyed in the finale and the surviving members have to change their identities and start new lives. Only a few know the truth but they can never reveal it; otherwise they'd jeopardize the new sociopolitical landscape allowing the survivors and society to have otherwise happy endings.
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The Scapegoat / int_2f9517bf	comment	In a filler episode of the D.Gray-Man anime, Kanda and his seeker come across a town that would isolate someone as a witch and force them to live alone in poor conditions, whenever something unexplainable and bad happened, they would blame it on the witch. This wound up biting them all in the ass when the previous witch (just a child, at that) died alone of illness and her sister, driven by hatred and grief, wound up becoming an Akuma and slaughtered the entire village, the seeker outright states he has trouble feeling sorry over the destruction of a town with such a terrible tradition.
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The Scapegoat / int_2fee008d	comment	Viral takes a lot of this, mostly self-inflicted, in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Later on, Rossiu uses Simon as one.
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The Scapegoat / int_3040b425	comment	Sword Art Online: Kirito decides to take this role in the beginning of the story, becoming the "Beater" ("beta cheater"), in order to protect the beta testers from being unfairly accused of indirectly causing the deaths of other players. Akihiko Kayaba himself technically gets some of this. Yes, he did trap thousands of people in a death game, but the problem is that he was blamed for all the deaths, including the murders committed by other players. It's a plot point in later arcs that a number of player-killers that had been caught and imprisoned in the game got off scot-free once the game was cleared. At least one even continued killing.
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The Scapegoat / int_327f503	comment	Akira from Eden of the East eventually ends up taking the fall (sometimes even willingly) for every single thing done by the series' villains, becoming a wanted terrorist in the process.
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The Scapegoat / int_32c541e6	comment	Generals Cremin and Edison in Fullmetal Alchemist are, by the end of the series, the last two survivors of Amestris' treasonous Central Command and are happily blamed by the heroes for the entire Homunculi conspiracy even though they were actually near the bottom of the evil totem pole. This is because the actual masterminds of the conspiracy included some very well-regarded public figures and it was considered a better choice to frame the guilty party than risk mass panic.
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The Scapegoat / int_33acebd8	comment	This trope is invoked in the main theme of Guilty Gear 2020's main theme "Smell Of The Game", as well as in a pre-fight message.
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The Scapegoat / int_33d00522	comment	Teacher's Pet: Leonard always gets blamed for things that are obviously Spot/Scott's fault. Leonard once got senselessly blamed and beat up for something Scott did to help him on Valentines Day. When people find out that the cards were fake, the girls beat him up to teach him a lesson. This is one of the many reasons fans hate that episode because they didn't like the main character get senselessly humiliated, blamed, and beat up.
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The Scapegoat / int_35097ab9	comment	Weight Off Your Shoulder deconstructs how Marinette is frequently blamed for everything that goes wrong; she's so used to this that she developed a Guilt Complex. When Alya and the other girls trample over her boundaries until she yells at them for invading her privacy, Marinette immediately blames herself afterwards and decides to give up being Ladybug and her Guardianship of the Miracle Box, sincerely believing that she was at fault for daring to want some privacy in her life and keeping secrets.
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The Scapegoat / int_36ee2abe	comment	While Paranoia does have real Commies performing real crimes, a lot of what they get blamed for is actually carried out by PURGE, or some other secret society, or just self-serving individuals. Alpha Complex citizens in general and Troubleshooters in particular excel at finding scapegoats. When the mission evaluation strikes and Friend Computer wants to know what happened and who is to blame, you better have your incriminating evidence ready and your finger pointed at your fellow Troubleshooter. If you don't, you might end up blamed instead.
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The Scapegoat / int_38c87187	comment	Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal had an Imagine Spot from the President, where he created the post of Economic Whipping Boy, who would be punished whenever bad economic news occurs, allowing the President to focus on issues he could actually exert control over.
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The Scapegoat / int_39c30cc	comment	Franklin: Goose becomes this in "Franklin and the Broken Globe." Bear and Franklin have done a shoddy attempt at trying to fix Owl's broken globe during recess before anyone notices, and when Goose goes to sharpen her pencil she accidentally hits the damaged globe with her wing, revealing it's broken. But Goose thinks she broke it and accepts the blame, and at first Bear and Franklin are relieved, but Goose goes onto think she is The Klutz and not want to do anything with her friends anymore, and Bear and Franklin soon start to feel guilty and eventually confess to Mr. Owl that they were the ones that broke the globe in the first place.
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The Scapegoat / int_39f24e9c	comment	Benjamin, the protagonist of The MalaussÃ¨ne Saga, works as a professional scapegoat for a large department store. Specifically, his role is to be harshly berated by his manager and act all contrite in front of complaining customers so that they will be moved to compassion and retract their complaint. He quits his job at the end of the first book, but then starts in a similar role this time for a publishing company.
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The Scapegoat / int_3a467f3f	comment	Resident Evil Dead Aim: Morpheus D. Duval was made responsible by Umbrella for the 1998 mansion incident and fired him on the grounds of "gross negligence". Consumed by an unquenchable thirst for revenge, he stole several virus samples from the European branch of Umbrella, kickstarting the events of the game.
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The Scapegoat / int_3a8ec463	comment	Lost Judgment; several years prior to the game's beginning, a boy named Mitsuru Kusumoto attempted suicide due to severe bullying at school. When an investigation was launched, Mitsuru's classmates fingered Shinya Kawai as the sole culprit, and while Kawai was Mitsuru's primary tormentor his accomplices threw him under the bus to save their own skin and got off without so much as a slap on the wrist. This ended up having a very profound impact on their teacher, Yu Kitakata, who saw how the scapegoating left the guilty essentially unpunished and inspired him to take a more direct approach to combating bullying.
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The Scapegoat / int_3aa299d3	comment	Temps de chien: When Manon fires Danielle, the former lies by claiming that Antoine agreed with her to fire Danielle. Naturally, the latter is not happy about it and leaves several angry messages on Antoine's cellphone. Speaking of Danielle, the reason why she's being fired is because Manon needs a scapegoat for the poisoned dog food. Antoine calls Manon out on this, saying that the poisoned food wasn't Danielle's fault.
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The Scapegoat / int_3d22c14b	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam 00, the movie reveals that Alejandro Corner, a Season 1 villain, was blamed for the Government Conspiracy and A-LAWS that were put down in the second season. The truth is that Alejandro probably did intend something like that, but was killed by Ribbons before he had a chance to enact any of it. It's implied that revealing exactly who and what was behind the conspiracy would prove to be problematic, now that Innovators are beginning to appear among the general population and there are multiple clones of Ribbons out there who had no role in his crimes.
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The Scapegoat / int_3d8baf12	comment	RoboCop 2 sees OCP planning to shift the blame for the RoboCop 2 fiasco onto Juliette Faxx in order to save face at the suggestion of executive Donald Johnson. However, unlike many other examples, Faxx really is to blame for what happened and Johnson was the Only Sane Man at the time, but OCP's CEO turned a blind eye to what was going on.
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The Scapegoat / int_3e724d8f	comment	Search: According to Lee Hyeok's version of events, Min-guk murdered his friends and defected to North Korea. Actually Lee Hyeok murdered Min-guk to avoid being involved in a scandal, and along with the other survivors came up with a story to explain his disappearance and keep suspicion off themselves.
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The Scapegoat / int_3f047e59	comment	Our Miss Brooks: Miss Brooks has often been scapegoated by Mr. Conklin for one thing or another. For example, in "Trying to Pick a Fight", Mr. Conklin blames Miss Brooks for the fact he picked a fight with his Mrs. Conklin. Mr. Conklin also blames Miss Brooks for the fact Mrs. Conklin had apparently went home to her mother.
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The Scapegoat / int_4037825e	comment	In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, while CaoCao was campaigning against Yuan Shao, one of Cao Cao's officers told him that they were running low on supplies. Cao Cao told him to falsify numbers so that the troops would push on; and then when word got out that food was getting scarce, Cao Cao then had the officer executed and rallied the troops to make a raid on enemy territory, implying that if they failed they would starve. This eventually led up to the rout of Yuan Shao's forces at Guan Du.
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The Scapegoat / int_405243c7	comment	On The 100, Murphy almost becomes one of these twice. First when he's almost hanged for Wells' murder, before the real murderer confessed, and then again when Raven suggests trying to pin all of Finn's crimes on him. In both cases, the actual guilty party is someone the other characters all like and want to see protected, while Murphy is a Jerkass that no one really likes and of whom everyone's willing to believe the worst; he's quick to point out the main characters' hypocrisy here.
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The Scapegoat / int_42f417ec	comment	In Spartacus, his second-in-command tried to sacrifice himself in his leader's place, but I Am Spartacus ensued and their captors decided to just crucify all of the slaves.
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The Scapegoat / int_44631642	comment	Blackbird (Arrow): Both of Laurel's parents try to blame all the family's troubles post-Gambit on Laurel's relationship with Oliver, and thus by extension Laurel herself. They refuse to acknowledge that, in the end, what happened to Sara was her own fault. All Oliver did was the make the offer; Sara is the one who accepted, and everything that followed after, including what happened to Laurel, was either the result of her choices or of Dinah's. Notably, this is defied by both sisters. While Laurel is angry at Oliver for cheating on her, she openly acknowledges her time in the League is not his fault, and Sara rightfully blames herself for what happened and is eaten alive by the guilt for three years, to the point she wishes to have died on the Gambit. After Laurel is freed by Oliver, who tries to blame himself, she flatly and pointedly tells him that it's not his fault and she's already placed the blame where it belongs.
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The Scapegoat / int_44e0b783	comment	Garfield. Somebody threw away all of Jon's shirts except one that reads "I (heart) cats". Believing Garfield is responsible, Jon throws him outside; Odie then appears in the doorway wearing one of Jon's shirts and a malicious smile.
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The Scapegoat / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill: Exploited. In "Bobby On Track", Hank makes Bobby complete the 5K run at the school track as punishment for not completing the Fun Run charity race. The track and field coach turns up and wants Bobby on his team, puzzling Hank. It turns out that the coach is using Bobby's lack of ability to motivate the rest of the team. The coach has Bobby substitute for a player that misbehaved to embarrass them so they try harder so they won't be humiliated by being replaced by Bobby. At first it works, to Hank's disappointment, with Bobby seeing himself as a motivator. But when the team gets to the final it works a little too well when a player hyper-extended because he saw the coach talking to Bobby and was afraid he was going to get replaced. The coach has no one to replace him to run the relay, until Hank suggests using Bobby. The coach is unhappy because this was a situation where losing would hurt the team this time. The coach tries to motivate Bobby by telling him to imagine himself as a different person, Bobby 2.0; Hank tells Bobby to forget that nonsense, just to try. Bobby understands, and joins the race. At first he loses the lead, but the other runners trip, allowing Bobby to catch up and run past them. When the other runners catch up to Bobby, he still runs as fast as he can and wins the race.
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The Scapegoat / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: In Men at Arms, we're told that the Patrician's general view on law and order is that if there's a crime, there must be seen to be a punishment. It's nice if they involve the same person, but it's not necessary. On the other hand, Quirke's decision to arrest a random troll for the murder of a dwarf because "he must have done something" is an invitation to race war. In Jingo, a gang of jewel thieves who took Angua hostage, and somehow found themselves trapped in a warehouse with an angry wolf end up confessing to every unsolved crime on the Watch books in order to be let out. Carrot is a bit uneasy about this, but Reg Shoe tells him it's not coercion, because they chose to take Angua hostage.note Word of God is that most of the charges will be quietly thrown out later, but it'll definitely give them something to think about.
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The Scapegoat / int_46ee5caf	comment	Texts from Superheroes: One conversation has Superman and Jimmy discussing Lois' upcoming birthday. When Jimmy suggests Superman give Lois her own signal watch, Supes says it's a best friends thing. After Jimmy asks why, Superman reveals that he gave him the watch so that Supes' enemies kidnap him and leave Lois alone.
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The Scapegoat / int_478151e3	comment	The Ripple System: Kline encourages the world to hate Ned because he's annoyed that Ned bought up his entire head start package. Tyrann in particular takes advantage of this, painting Ned as a rich asshole turning EBO into his own personal fiefdom to distract from the fact that he's got thousands of followers who are willing to do anything for him, a much bigger advantage than Ned's little boost.
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The Scapegoat / int_490a7d52	comment	The Karma of Lies: After Gabriel is exposed as Hawkmoth, Lila sets up Adrien as one, painting herself as an Unwitting Pawn manipulated by father and son alike. This also further damages his credibility; to an outsider, it looks as though his Cassandra Truth about her true nature is actually Malicious Slander as he tries to make her into his scapegoat. Lila also inflicted the same fate upon Sabrina. She stole Sabrina's list of contacts, then sold that information while posing as her; as a result, Sabrina gets blamed for the theft, with the angry victims using their connections to get her blacklisted from many of the high-end schools and institutions she was considering applying to. Once they finally learn the truth about Lila, Alya and the bulk of Marinette's former friends blame her for everything they did 'under her influence', refusing to take any responsibility for how much they hurt Marinette. Adrien finds himself in the same position when they learn that he knew about Lila the whole time and never bothered warning any of them.
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The Scapegoat / int_49a87cb3	comment	In Final Fantasy VII, Rufus Shinra tries to publicly execute Tifa and Barret, even though he knows they're not responsible for the accelerating disaster - because he feels that the people need a scapegoat, to help them rally behind Shinra to stop Sephiroth. (Fortunately, he used a rather... slow-acting gas, and some of his personnel had different views. Oh, and Gaia's Vengeance Ex Machina happened too.)
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The Scapegoat / int_4ba244d4	comment	Assuming Five Nights at Freddy's 4 shows what it appears to (which may or may not be the case), the Toy animatronics were this for all of Freddy's franchise woes. After being publicized as the new face of the restaurant, they were quickly consigned to the scrapheap when child deaths started piling up, despite not being responsible for any of them (not even the Bite of '87).
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The Scapegoat / int_4bb4c311	comment	On Yogi's Treasure Hunt, Muttley became Dick Dastardly's scapegoat whenever a plan went wrong ("This is all your fault, Muttley!")
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The Scapegoat / int_4c0f044b	comment	A rather dark and probable version: In In This Our Life, Stanley knows that as a rich, white woman she has a lot of power and when she commits manslaughter with her car, she blames it on her family's African American housekeeper's son, Parry Clay, who does small car jobs for them. When the police pick him up, they don't even question him: they just take him to jail.
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The Scapegoat / int_4d94df16	comment	In Thirteen Lives, Governor Narongsak is about to leave his job running a province, apparently because the central government doesn't think much of him, when thirteen people, twelve of them kids, are trapped in a flooded cave in his area of authority. He is kept around by the government to supervise the rescue effort, and it is explicitly stated by one character that he is assumed to be serving as a potential scapegoat in case the whole incident collapses in tragedy, which seems very likely. Fortunately he rises to the occasion, playing the Reasonable Authority Figure and handling the press competently.
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The Scapegoat / int_4f3685d7	comment	In the Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes episode "Frightful", the Frightful Four are damaging the FF's reputation. Since Johnny's already known to be careless with his powers, it's very hard for him to convince anyone he wasn't responsible for burning down a building... especially as he has to keep specifying "I did not burn down that building".
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The Scapegoat / int_4f9a3b9f	comment	Happened in an episode of In Plain Sight, where a teenage girl witnessed a gang crime and her entire family had to go into hiding. She was essentially shunned by her own father for having gone to the forbidden part of town in the first place. Come The Reveal, and the parents learn that she only went there to collect her younger sister, who was in trouble, and that both girls witnessed the crime. The older sister ordered the younger to keep quiet because "that way Daddy will only hate one of us."
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The Scapegoat / int_4fd9904a	comment	This continued through Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with Fudge leading a smear campaign against Dumbledore and Harry to deny Voldemort's return. When a mass breakout results in several Death Eaters escaping from Azkaban (as Dumbledore repeatedly warned Fudge would happen), he instead decides to put the blame on Sirius in order to save face.
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The Scapegoat / int_53b30902	comment	In Valkyria Chronicles, the Darcsen Calamity which turned the region of Barious into a blasted desert wasteland is blamed on the Darcsen race, with history claiming that they destroyed the region through their misuse of ragnite. As a result of this, the Darcsens were forced to face persecution, from personal prejudices to being forced into concentration camps by the Empire. In truth, the Calamity was actually caused by the Valkyrur, whom history claims saved the continent from the Darcsens when they actually destroyed Barious while committing genocide against the Darcsens before passing the blame onto them.
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The Scapegoat / int_569093cc	comment	Scrooge McDuck is hit with this hard in the DuckTales (2017) episode "The Last Crash of the Sunchaser!". When Huey, Dewey and Louie learned that their mother Della stole a rocketship that Scrooge had intended to give to her and her family as a gift for her expecting triplets and proceeded to get lost in space, the trio blamed Scrooge for building the rocket instead of the fact that her impulsive attitude got her in trouble in the first place. Not helping matters is that Scrooge's Pride prevented him from properly explaining just how much effort he poured into failed attempts to find Della.
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The Scapegoat / int_58808436	comment	Oyashiro-sama in Higurashi: When They Cry is, far from a vengeful god, actually a girl by the name of Hanyuu Furude who had nothing to do with the Hate Plague. It's actually a disease. The local Hospital Hottie, Miyo Takano, was the one behind the murders. There's also the Sonozaki family, who claim to be behind the curse but are publicly taking the blame for Tokyo's actions to keep their power in the village.
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The Scapegoat / int_58a4fb26	comment	Peter Hatcher is often blamed for the antics of his brother in the Fudge series.
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The Scapegoat / int_58d80a4a	comment	In Jingo, a gang of jewel thieves who took Angua hostage, and somehow found themselves trapped in a warehouse with an angry wolf end up confessing to every unsolved crime on the Watch books in order to be let out. Carrot is a bit uneasy about this, but Reg Shoe tells him it's not coercion, because they chose to take Angua hostage.note Word of God is that most of the charges will be quietly thrown out later, but it'll definitely give them something to think about.
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The Scapegoat / int_5908ee91	comment	In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, this happens to you during the quest "The Forsworn Conspiracy."
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The Scapegoat / int_59da62aa	comment	In Fallout: New Vegas this is the reason that the player is tasked with saving the NCR president if they're supporting House or going Independent. By keeping him alive he can be set up as a scapegoat for the NCR citizens as the president who led his country into a costly war whereas if he's dead then he'll be seen as a martyr and their ire will be drawn to Vegas, which will likely hurt the city's economy in the long run.
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The Scapegoat / int_5b3356f8	comment	In Turning Red, Ming blames Mei's friends for Mei's actions culminating in Mei attacking Tyler and Mei doesn't try to convince her otherwise until the climax.
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The Scapegoat / int_5cc61e92	comment	In My Monster Secret Asahi occasionally has to throw himself under the bus in order to preserve his friends' secrets. In one case, Aizawa (a six-inch-tall alien who pilots a Mobile-Suit Human that looks exactly like her at human scale) gets caught by Mikan outside of her suit, and remains perfectly still to convince Mikan that she's a doll. In an effort to get her away from Mikan before her real nature gets revealed, Asahi ends up claiming that's a figurine of Aizawa. That he made. Given the apparent level of detail and the fact that he had previously had a crush on her, he naturally gets a lot of odd looks. Though Aizawa herself is extremely grateful and apologetic that he had to label himself a pervert in order to help her.
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The Scapegoat / int_5cd1aa89	comment	In Nineteen Eighty-Four, Emmanuel Goldstein and his supposed resistance are blamed for any problems the people under Big Brother and the Party suffer. Whether or not there's any truth to these accusations is never made clear, but given the nature of the book it doesn't seem likely.
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The Scapegoat / int_5db577ba	comment	At the end of The Dark Knight, Batman becomes the scapegoat for Harvey Two-Face's murders, so that Dent's work against organized crime could hold up. The Dark Knight Rises shows some of the repercussions of this deception.
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The Scapegoat / int_5f0c7ed4	comment	Pet Alien: Whenever the aliens misbehave, Tommy will, without fail, get blamed for it while the aliens get off scot-free. This is because most of DeSpray Bay are too stupid to recognize the aliens as anything more than Tommy's pets and so blame Tommy for failing to control them instead.
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The Scapegoat / int_6234f5b3	comment	Discussed and averted in the Father Brown episode "The Hammer of God", Norman Bohen's brother confesses to Father Brown, but feels no guilt because his actions and the possibility of an innocent person hanging for them are divinely guided events. Father Brown loses his temper (a rare occurrence) and yells, "God! Is not! Your scapegoat!"
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The Scapegoat / int_63409895	comment	Sofia the First: In "The Tale of the Noble Knight", Sir Oliver did this to the Dragons Of Brazendell by attacking so they can breathe fire and look dangerous so he can drive them and become "First Knight".
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The Scapegoat / int_63c1175b	comment	Ultra Fast Pony: When it becomes clear that Winter Wrap Up has been completely ruined, the ponies all put the issue to a vote and agree to blame Rainbow Dash for everything. (Dash did screw up big-time, but she was hardly the only one.) This apparently wound up being an official position: one season later, Dash took a vacation, and someone else had to fill in as scapegoat while she was away. Apple Bloom blames all of her mistakes on her Imaginary Friend, Twist. Even after she realizes that Twist doesn't exist. Her real friends try to convince her "You can't keep blaming Twist for everything!" but they occasionally get in on the act themselves, anyway.
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The Scapegoat / int_640d9be1	comment	In Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade, General Narcian of Bern is in hot water due to his repeated failures, so in order to save face tries to pin the blame on Zeiss, since his older sister Melady defected to the Lycian Army, making up a story that he was leaking intel to them through her. Fortunately, Galle catches wind and lets him know of this, and he ends up joining Melady when he confronts her later.
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The Scapegoat / int_6642385	comment	Zombie Land Saga: In her backstory, Yugiri takes the blame for the deaths of Itou(who she did kill) and several rebels(who he killed). She is then executed by police for treason.
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The Scapegoat / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder: In the Adventure Path Curse of the Crimson Throne, Nice Girl Trinia Sabor is framed for the murder of King Eodred, in order to cover up the actions of the real killer, Queen Ileosa. This is the purpose of the shabti, magical duplicates made by mortal rulers to evade punishment in the afterlife by forcing the shabti to suffer it in their place.
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The Scapegoat / int_68959742	comment	In Suikoden IV, Lazlo is banished from Razril and set adrift, left to die for a crime he didn't commit. Eventually, after her own fall from grace, his ex-superior Katarina admits that she suspected he wasn't responsible, but went along with the charade because she wanted to see someone pay for Glen's death.
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The Scapegoat / int_69de2e4d	comment	In No Rest for the Wicked, Claire realizes she's being sacrificed because parents are guilty of something. She just doesn't care.
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The Scapegoat / int_69fa7496	comment	There's an Italian Disney Ducks Comic Universe comic in which Uncle Scrooge goes to a mountain country to buy a literal scapegoat so everyone who complains to him can do so to the goat. However, eventually the goat gets so fed up with being blamed for everything that he goes ballistic and wrecks Scrooge's money bin.
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The Scapegoat / int_6c0427b9	comment	At the end of Rising Sun, the murderer has apparently been identified and commits suicide, but it's suggested that the guilty party might actually be (literally) taking the fall for his superiors.
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The Scapegoat / int_6d7c7f1c	comment	SomethingPositive explains how American justice works. That being Something Positive, it explains specifically how media-justice tandem works on scapegoats.*
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The Scapegoat / int_6f734712	comment	Surprisingly Lex Luthor becomes this in Smallville after his Faceâ€“Heel Turn due to a combination of The Dreaded and Writers Cannot Do Math. For example the recon done in "Power" had Lana instead of leaving Clark of her own free will be kidnapped by Lex. This means that Lex was building the Prometheus suit to fight Clark and save his battered body long before he was even aware of Clark's secret and was wounded in the Fortress.
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The Scapegoat / int_6fd4e61f	comment	Similarly, in Animal Farm, Snowball and his agents are routinely blamed for anything that goes wrong.
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The Scapegoat / int_7083f098	comment	Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles: Rio is used as a political scapegoat twice at the hands of the Beltrum Kingdom. First when Charles Arbor brutally beats him during interrogation, trying to get Rio to confess that he kidnapped Princess Flora. This is because it was under Charles' watch that Flora was kidnapped in the first place, and he wanted to redeem himself by claiming he was involved with catching the suspect. Then when Stewart accidentally knocks Flora off a cliff during an academy excursion, after Rio saves her and disappears, Duke Gustave Huguenot pins the blame on Rio rather than risk a civil conflict between the Beltrum houses, especially when the Hugenots and the Arbors are already looking to undermine the other. Princess Christina is revealed to be furious with the treatment Rio was put through and at herself for failing to help him, and knows that Beltrum has no right to as anything for him for what they've done.
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The Scapegoat / int_7288f27	comment	One way to deal with the law in Cultist Simulator is to throw one of your minions under the bus and have them take the heat on your behalf.
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The Scapegoat / int_731200dd	comment	We Must Be Killers: In this story, Peeta killing Brutus is just the official cover story to keep the District 2 victors (save Lyme and Ronan, who saw it happen) from knowing that Snow killed Brutus with nerve gas on a Stupid Evil whim to make it clear that he wouldn't let anyone dictate to him who the Quell victor should be. Both the District 2 victors and Eibhlin form District 3 view this cover-up as ridiculous, with Eibhlin commenting that it seems "physically improbable" unless Peeta had plenty of time to prepare and some kind of lever.
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The Scapegoat / int_73383fee	comment	In the first chapter of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Sayaka Maizono sets up Makoto Naegi as a potential patsy to be blamed for murder, only to be murdered by her intended victim. It's left ambiguous whether they were remorseful about their actions, though the narrative leans towards the angle that they were. During the third murder case Celestia Ludenberg manipulates Hifumi Yamada into murdering Kiyotaka Ishimaru and then kills him herself and tries to pin the murder of both students on Yasuhiro Hagakure. It all backfires.
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The Scapegoat / int_746814ae	comment	In Arthur, after Francine's bike was allegedly stolen, Muffy and the others suspected that Binky may have stolen the bike. During a meeting, Binky stormed over to Muffy and asked if she was the one who is accusing him of stealing her bike. After she confirms it, Binky then reveals, while looking timidly to the others, that he's innocent.
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The Scapegoat / int_747d9a6f	comment	The U.S. Marines are used as a scapegoat by Blackwatch in the game [PROTOTYPE]. A bit of Fridge Brilliance justifies the combat tactics in-game because of this: what's the best way to make sure the marines are highly visible during the destruction of New York? Use forms of warfare that result in high attrition, lots of collateral damage and see an overwhelming military force crashing through civilian areas. The Marines were also used as shock troops to absorb the brunt of the casualties, which accounts for the Blackwatch's relative rarity on the field in comparison with them. They get better in the end though, when they are credited for stopping the infection (which you actually did most of the job). Also there is an ability called Patsy where you can scapegoat an innocent person and make the military believe that person is you, resulting in their instant death while they plead they are normal. This is done for as a distraction or just because it's funny.
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The Scapegoat / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: By the start of Halo 2, former Supreme Commander Thel 'Vadamee is tried for his failure, as the leader of the Covenant fleet that followed the Pillar of Autumn from Reach to Halo, to stop humans from landing on the eponymous ring-world and allowing the Master Chief to destroy it at the end of the first game. As he himself tries to protest and the Prophet of Truth even admits to; however, his hands were tied when The Flood escaped and ran rough-shod over both human and Covenant ground forces, leaving him unable to keep track of one Super-Soldier until it was too late, and left unmentioned that he was stopped by the Prophets on his fleet from just destroying the human ship before it crash-landed on Halo because they didn't want to risk damaging the ring (said damage risk was also why they couldn't just glass Halo to contain the infection). Somebody still has to take the blame, and it's only Truth's political-savvy and desire to avoid wasting one of their finest warriors that prevents Thel from being executed and "just" being shamed, stripped of his former titles, and becoming the new Arbiter meant to go on suicide missions. By the start of Halo 4, Dr. Halsey has made into this by her superiors, who call her methods of creating Spartan-IIs as abhorrent, as it involved the kidnapping and genetic modification of children. However, this was done simply to make the Spartan-IVs look better and to cover up the fact that ONI's leaders were the ones who approved of everything Halsey did in the first place.
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The Scapegoat / int_755cbdcf	comment	Precocious: Down with Jacob!
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The Scapegoat / int_78e27fa7	comment	Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade has Nino, who was sent by her adoptive mother Sonia on a mission with Jaffar to assassinate Prince Zephiel. Sonia secretly instructs Jaffar to kill Nino after the deed is done, because the prince is beloved by Bern's folk. Jaffar himself is appalled by this, and it ultimately leads to both of them defecting to Eliwood's side.
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The Scapegoat / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: General Williams, the commander of the Shanxi garrison and the only human to surrender to aliens, is roasted over the coals for it, which passes down to his kids and grandkids, who are similarly blacklisted by the Alliance. After the events of the first game, the Council blames Saren and the geth for the attack on the Citadel, erasing Sovereign from the records. And while Saren and the geth are responsible, it's not the whole story. Made worse in 3, when it turns out the Council had been hiding records proving Sovereign was a Reaper rather than doing anything. Dialogue in 2 shows that Director Anoleis from the first game is blamed for the disaster at Peak 15, which despite his corrupt dealing was something he was only peripherally involved in. Happens to Shepard themselves between 2 and 3, after blowing up a Mass Relay to slow the Reapers down, wiping out an entire solar system in the process (which wasn't actually Shepard's plan to begin with). Only the Reapers showing up to kill everyone saves them from being thrown to the lions, but they're still referred to in Citadel newscasts as 'disgraced'.
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The Scapegoat / int_7ac38ec4	comment	Rebuild World: When Elena and Sara are assigned to look after the Boisterous Weakling Drankam Red Shirt Army during a mission, said hunters ignoring their advice and getting themselves killed as Leeroy Jenkins gets blamed on the two by the Arm Chair Military Mizuha in order to keep the commander responsible Katsuya's reputation clean, since he's their Propaganda Hero. Elena and Sara get their pay cut which backfires on the Private Military Company later when they must negotiate with the two.
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The Scapegoat / int_7ff3216c	comment	On an episode of Garfield and Friends, Jon, Garfield and Odie are camping at a park. The ranger mentions that campers have been complaining about their lunches mysteriously disappearing over the last few weeks. Jon immediately glares at Garfield who says "Don't look at me. I just got here."
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The Scapegoat / int_81706932	comment	In The Running Man, helicopter pilot and police officer Ben Richards was made the scapegoat by the government when he refused to open fire on a crowd of food rioters in Bakersfield. Because of that, state-run media declared Richards "The Butcher of Bakersfield".
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The Scapegoat / int_836382fe	comment	In Anything but Typical, the other kids in art class throw clay around the room and blame it on Jason.
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The Scapegoat / int_86814e56	comment	In Final Fantasy VI, the Back Story of the little backwater town Thamasa is that it was founded by mages fleeing persecution after being made scapegoats for a massively destructive war in the backstory for this game as such they treat outsiders with distrust out of fear they find out about their ancestors and try to finish off the job that that nearly killed the towns founders.
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The Scapegoat / int_869561eb	comment	Tubbo ends up being this in SMPEarth when Quig finds the trap that TimeDeo built and confronts him about it.
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The Scapegoat / int_881dc6bf	comment	Yuki was going to become Kira's scapegoat in Mitadake Saga until she sacrificed herself for him
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The Scapegoat / int_898a1932	comment	Journey to Chaos: If you are The Trickster's Choice then you are blamed for disaster in the area, because it's believed that the Trickster made them happen to you. Whether or not this is the truth is irrelevant. When Eric finds out that he is one of these "chosen" in Looming Shadow, it is a bitter pill to swallow.
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The Scapegoat / int_8ba4613a	comment	Death Note: Light Yagami has a pathological need for scapegoats so he can maintain his delusions of moral superiority. Compare his original persona pre-Death Note where he's lethargic and even somewhat depressed with his drama-free existence. Once Light gives himself Death Note-amnesia, he displays far more determination and a level of moral fibre that would make it implausible that he'd ever think of using the Death Note, largely because the existence of Kira gave him someone to stand against and convince himself that he was the hero.
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The Scapegoat / int_8cb3a247	comment	In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, after someone puts Harry's name in the eponymous dish to sign him up for a life-threatening tournament - an act that would have required very advanced spellwork to get past restrictions set by Dumbledore himself - Ron claims Harry is lying about not putting his name in the goblet and goes into sulk mode for weeks. This is also the attitude of the whole school. As if that wasn't enough, Hermione insists that Harry is somehow responsible for resolving the situation with Ron. Even the narrator seems to be pushing this Broken Aesop, describing Harry's behavior and actions (or lack thereof) as "stubborn".
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The Scapegoat / int_8f25225c	comment	As a murder & mystery game series, Danganronpa has this as a recurring element. In the first chapter of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Sayaka Maizono sets up Makoto Naegi as a potential patsy to be blamed for murder, only to be murdered by her intended victim. It's left ambiguous whether they were remorseful about their actions, though the narrative leans towards the angle that they were. During the third murder case Celestia Ludenberg manipulates Hifumi Yamada into murdering Kiyotaka Ishimaru and then kills him herself and tries to pin the murder of both students on Yasuhiro Hagakure. It all backfires. During the second chapter of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Peko Pekoyama murders Mahiru Koizumi in an attempt to stop Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu from killing her himself and save him from a potential execution and then creates fake evidence and rearranges the crime scene in order to make it look like Hiyoko Saionji, who she previously had drugged into unconsciousness as part of the plan, had killed the victim. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony seems to love doing this with Himiko Yumeno, to the point that she's accused of being the murderer up to four times (albeit the third time is done as a joke, and the fourth time is more of a coincidence than anything). The first time occurs in chapter 2. After Kirumi Tojo murders Ryoma Hoshi, the dead body is thrown into a piranha tank used for Himiko's magic show, causing the piranhas to eat Ryoma's remains and the body to be appear in front of everyone during her magic trick, allowing Kirumi to pin the murder on her. The fact that she keeps insisting that she used real magic for her performance instead of admitting that she used a trick in order to escape does not help much. The second time is during the next chapter. Korekiyo Shinguuji, the killer in this case, tries to pin Tenko Chabashira's murder on her because she suggested using a specific room for the sÃ©ance in which Tenko died, alongside being present when her death occurred in the darkness. It is also noted that she could also be Angie Yonaga's killer because as a member of Angie's Student Council, Himiko could've been able to persuade her into opening her Research Lab's door for her and kill her there.
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The Scapegoat / int_8f411ead	comment	Of Patience and Pettiness: Once the truth about Lila comes out, most of Marinette's classmates attempt to all the blame for their actions upon her — and Adrien as well, after learning that he knew all along and didn't bother warning anyone. For his part, Adrien refuses to acknowledge he did anything wrong, viewing himself as a tragic victim of circumstance.
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The Scapegoat / int_8fbd67b8	comment	A French Village: After the Resistance manage to openly march through Villeneuve for the Remembrance Day celebrations, Philippe gets sentenced to death by the Germans for not preventing it (despite him being a fervent, loyal collaborator who tried as best he could).
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The Scapegoat / int_90032631	comment	In Orange Is the New Black, Vee manipulates Crazy Eyes into becoming one of these after her attack on Red. It would have worked, too, if not for the efforts of others in the prison.
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The Scapegoat / int_90ab7fe1	comment	On Recess, Randall also had this happen to him twice: The first time, most of the secrets that TJ and the others held were exposed to the teachers and staff, to which they ended up busted. They initially think Randall was behind their being ratted out, but Randall (who was in the garbage can to listen in) insisted that he did not. A chase to the bathroom later, and they end up discovering that Randall really wasn't behind their being ratted out that time: It was the so-called "cool kid" Stone who joined up with their posse who was in fact an undercover department of education individual who disguised himself as a student so Superintendent Skinner could find out the going abouts by the school who did it. The second time was when Randall hired the Ashleys' younger brothers, the Tylers, to act as proxies for him for his snitching job due to his getting cold at his sleuthing skills. One day, a lot more kids were put in The Box, including King Bob, who blamed Randall. However, Randall mentioned that reporting higher authority figures was a low even he wouldn't go as low as, and immediately told off the Ashleys' brothers for it, and attempted to put a stop to it, although they were one step ahead of him and reported him for it as well. Both instances also resulted in an Enemy Mine between Randall and the other kids.
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The Scapegoat / int_93133ff6	comment	Jodie Holmes of Beyond: Two Souls is supernaturally tethered to a spectral entity known as Aiden, who has his own mind and desires which often wildly clash with Jodie's. Everyone around will still lay the blame solely at Jodie's feet, even people who have been meticulously studying their relationship for years.
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The Scapegoat / int_9489f9d4	comment	Baron Corbin was this when the ratings were plummeting due to creative's awful booking decisions in 2018. Instead of owning up to their own mistakes, the McMahon family all came out and blamed Corbin as the reason for said problems. This didn't go over well - any wrestling fan would know this was blatantly false, as Corbin was just doing his job and this was the McMahons' attempt to come out as the heroes of a problem they were responsible for - but the poor bastard was booked to be the guy to take the pay-off of the bad bookings while Vince and his family received no comeuppance.
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The Scapegoat / int_95bd5a8e	comment	Dishonored: The Abbey of the Everyman blames all human sin and corruption on the Outsider, the Enigmatic Empowering Entity that is behind most of the magic in the world. While people often do use the Outsider's gifts to do terrible things, he doesn't make them do anything, and is always disappointed when they fall prey to their baser instincts. He flippantly refers to the Abbey as "that cult dedicated to hating me." Hazel Monforton wrote an essay (that got her promoted to writer for Dishonored: Death of the Outsider) about how the Abbey scapegoats the Outsider; in short, it's like if Christianity sided with the oppressors instead of with the oppressed. In Death of the Outsider, it is revealed that the Outsider was originally just a random street rat who was sacrificed to give a face to the Void. The cult that sacrificed him grew into the Abbey, and the highest ranking members of the church have known the whole time that the Outsider wasn't really the source of all evil as they claimed. Many are worried that if he dies they will lose their power as they won't be able to blame him for everything any more.
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The Scapegoat / int_985ad25d	comment	In Dragon Ball Super, Son Goku, who's spoiling for a good fight, reminds Zen-Oh of his idea to hold a martial arts tournament between all 12 universes. When the rules are announced, it's revealed that the losing universes will be completely erased from existence, which causes people from the other universes to blame Goku for this. However, others point out that he isn't to blame since Zen-Oh wanted to cut down on the number of universes anyway; if anything they should be thanking Goku, since the tournament gives them a fighting chance at survival whereas otherwise Zen-Oh would have just erased them and been done with it.
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The Scapegoat / int_9908ca47	comment	In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, it's revealed Hagrid has been this to Tom Riddle for 50 years. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban had the eponymous prisoner, Sirius Black, described as an accomplice to the murders of James and Lily Potter and a mass murderer who killed Peter Pettigrew and several bystander Muggles. Then we learn Peter Pettigrew faked his death and framed Sirius Black with everything. This continued through Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with Fudge leading a smear campaign against Dumbledore and Harry to deny Voldemort's return. When a mass breakout results in several Death Eaters escaping from Azkaban (as Dumbledore repeatedly warned Fudge would happen), he instead decides to put the blame on Sirius in order to save face. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, after someone puts Harry's name in the eponymous dish to sign him up for a life-threatening tournament - an act that would have required very advanced spellwork to get past restrictions set by Dumbledore himself - Ron claims Harry is lying about not putting his name in the goblet and goes into sulk mode for weeks. This is also the attitude of the whole school. As if that wasn't enough, Hermione insists that Harry is somehow responsible for resolving the situation with Ron. Even the narrator seems to be pushing this Broken Aesop, describing Harry's behavior and actions (or lack thereof) as "stubborn".
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The Scapegoat / int_9969fe89	comment	In Scrapland, a human by the name of Bill arrives on the titular planet to do some selling, unaware that a)the robots of Scrapland LOATHE humans and consider them to be some sort of terrifying monsters, and b) someone has been murdering several of the city's high-ranking members while disguised as a human. So, as soon as Bill tries to pass through customs, he's immediately accused of committing the murders and arrested.
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The Scapegoat / int_998cbda3	comment	Daredevil: Season 3 sees Dex temporarily suspended from his job at the FBI pending an internal investigation into his use of lethal force when killing an Albanian hit squad that tried to assassinate Wilson Fisk. The suspension is actually because Fisk manipulated FBI agents on his payroll to suspend Dex, so that Dex's orderly life will be uprooted and he'll turn to Fisk to give him a sense of purpose. In the midst of swirling in the aftermath of his first mission for Fisk, Dex reaches out to Julie, a woman that he's been stalking. He talks about the FBI are making a scapegoat out of him for the Albanian ambush attack, and makes some hilarious goat-bleating sounds to emphasize this. Once it's revealed in Season 3 just how deeply Fisk is manipulating the FBI, it becomes strongly implied that Ray Nadeem, as the agent who was manipulated into making the informant deal that got Fisk out of prison, is being set up by the other corrupt agents to be their fall guy for when Fisk double-crosses them. Even in Season 1, Fisk was doing this, as after Karen's exposure of Union Allied, he and James Wesley are quick to orchestrate things so as to ensure that Karen's boss at Union Allied takes the fall for everything posthumously.
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The Scapegoat / int_9a450452	comment	Etrigan's little brother is an actual goat demon named Scapegoat, more or less forced to punish himself for all Hell's sins. He comes off as a total woobie.
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The Scapegoat / int_9a97bee3	comment	"Blame it on the Kellys" by Waylon Jennings is about how every crime with an unknown perpetrator was blamed on the Kelly gang, from the potato crop failing to the "murder" (by unknown means) of a 109 year old man. Eventually the narrator contemplates stealing a horse himself, and blaming the Kellys.
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The Scapegoat / int_9aac0273	comment	In Men at Arms, we're told that the Patrician's general view on law and order is that if there's a crime, there must be seen to be a punishment. It's nice if they involve the same person, but it's not necessary. On the other hand, Quirke's decision to arrest a random troll for the murder of a dwarf because "he must have done something" is an invitation to race war.
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The Scapegoat / int_9b1c2acd	comment	In Fahrenheit 451, the government comes up with a supposed live feed of Montag being killed after he successfully evades them; it's just some random dude they shot so they don't look bad.
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The Scapegoat / int_9bb469a4	comment	The Book of Mormon: Elder Price's great shame is that, at the age of five, he ate a doughnut and blamed it on his brother.
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The Scapegoat / int_9c7f022c	comment	Murderer's Row: Andy winds up taking the blame for the massive prison riot at the end of Volume 2. Though he did play a major role in it, the actual masterminds were O'Malley, Wyoming, and Miller. Since the former is adept at staying off the radar and the latter two died during the riot, Andy is the only viable target left to take the blame. Since both the guards and inmates alike are beyond pissed at him due to the massive casualties the riot incurred, it's made clear that it's only a matter of time before he's killed as revenge, and indeed, Volume 3 reveals he "disappeared" during the Time Skip.
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The Scapegoat / int_9ff7441c	comment	If the General Assistance Department in The Men from the Ministry has made a grave error, Mr. Lamb is always the one primarily responsible, since according to Lennox-Brown as the junior executive it's his job to take the blame.
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The Scapegoat / int_a0500a06	comment	One episode of Rugrats has Susie blame Angelica for stealing her brand-new tricycle and punishes her by tying her doll to a balloon and letting it go. Despite the evidence against her, Angelica was completely innocent - Susie's trike was under her porch, Angelica's trike was her own and Angelica's red hands (which Susie thought was from opening her garage's painted doors) were actually from her finger painting an apology letter. Thankfully for Susie, a miracle (or a low-flying plane) gets Angelica's doll back to her and everyone's happy again. Except for poor Chuckie, since it was his balloon tied to the doll. The lesson he learned that day was "Never let Susie borrow your balloon".
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The Scapegoat / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: In "Fear of a Bot Planet", the Robot Elders of Chapek 9 use humans as a scapegoat to keep the planet distracted from all their other problems, such as the crippling lugnut shortage, and a corrupt government of incompetent robot elders.
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The Scapegoat / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible is the Trope Namer: During the Day of Atonement, one goat would be slaughtered and offered as a blood sacrifice while the other, the scapegoat, symbolically carried the sins of Israel out into the desert. This makes the use of Jews as scapegoats for, well, everything over the last fifteen hundred years or so kind of paradoxical. The Bible is also a subversion, however: the scapegoat (literally, the goat who escapes) is the one who doesn't get killed, but instead gets to go free. This is the pshot; the drash is something different.
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The Scapegoat / int_a5963cd4	comment	In We Are The Wyrecats, it turns out the government isn't too pleased with the idea of four kids running about with weaponized suits that put the military to shame and decides to appropriate the technology for itself while sabotaging, assassinating, and outright demonizing the Wyrecats and their associates to the public in order to maintain control.
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The Scapegoat / int_a656764a	comment	The Tribe: In "Homeroom Headhunters", Spencer is set up to take the fall for the prank the Tribe plays on the whole school at the Christmas assembly. Principal Pritchard knew Spencer didn't do it, but because Spencer refused to reveal the identities of the real culprits, Principal Pritchard has no choice but to expel him
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The Scapegoat / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: In Final Fantasy VI, the Back Story of the little backwater town Thamasa is that it was founded by mages fleeing persecution after being made scapegoats for a massively destructive war in the backstory for this game as such they treat outsiders with distrust out of fear they find out about their ancestors and try to finish off the job that that nearly killed the towns founders. In Final Fantasy VII, Rufus Shinra tries to publicly execute Tifa and Barret, even though he knows they're not responsible for the accelerating disaster - because he feels that the people need a scapegoat, to help them rally behind Shinra to stop Sephiroth. (Fortunately, he used a rather... slow-acting gas, and some of his personnel had different views. Oh, and Gaia's Vengeance Ex Machina happened too.) In Final Fantasy Tactics, Ramza gets branded a heretic by the Corrupt Church; while he does kill a cardinal, it was in self-defense when the cardinal reveals that he's either a human who's been possessed by a demon or always has been a demon, just in human guise. Later, when Olan writes the Durai Reports covering the true story of Delita's rise to power and the Church's attempt to manipulate politics in the background, he also gets branded (and executed) as a heretic.
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The Scapegoat / int_a8729c90	comment	The Fairly OddParents!: Whenever something goes wrong in Timmy's family, his father's first reaction is to blame his neighbor Dinkleberg or Timmy himself (especially if Timmy barely did something). In later seasons he blames everything, from not having milk for his cereal to the newspaper being wrong, on Dinkleberg.
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The Scapegoat / int_a96a7ada	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! features a card actually called Scapegoat that summons 4 Sheep Tokens. Since they can't be used for summoning, they exist primarily to be sacrificed in battle to protect the player's life points. You know, like a scapegoat.
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The Scapegoat / int_a993be1f	comment	The Jedi Council in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords utterly refuse to accept any fault, blaming the Exile for the Mandalorian Wars and Malachor V. When reunited by a light side Exile, they even try to pin the rise of the Sith on them.
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The Scapegoat / int_a9fdd959	comment	Former New Japan Pro-Wrestling booker Fumihiko Uei was the one who paid for the disaster title bout between Kazuyuki Fujita and Kensuke, despite Fujita himself having booked the match finish.
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The Scapegoat / int_aa88317d	comment	Partially due to their roles as the dumbest people on the show, Cory and Trevor in Trailer Park Boys are frequently set up as fall guys whenever Ricky and Julian need them to be. Cory and Trevor greatly admire both Ricky and Julian, and the latter duo are all too happy to take advantage of them. They do get some measure of revenge at the end of season 4, though the season 5 premiere reveals they screwed themselves over.
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The Scapegoat / int_aa8a643c	comment	Bryan Danielson was the scapegoat when one of WWE's sponsors found the NXT Riot that led to the formation of The Nexus "too violent". Danielson was singled out for being the veteran and for performing "imitable violence" when he choked Justin Roberts with a tie. He was kicked out of the Nexus for showing "remorse" and fired from WWE entirely. WWE would hire him back later.
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The Scapegoat / int_afbc40fb	comment	Prayer of the Faithless: Serra Cadmus was set to be executed so Emperor Daigo could maintain peace in his empire, due to her Power Incontinence producing a horrifying prophecy.
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The Scapegoat / int_b0b4e8ff	comment	Jade Empire: Death's Hand initially seems to be the Big Bad cruelly manipulating Emperor Sun Hai, committing terrible atrocities behind his master's back, and bringing ruin to the Empire by betraying the Water Dragon. He's actually Emperor Sun Hai's enslaved thrall who is physically forced to carry out Hai's numerous appalling crimes, taking the blame for them so that the public does not realize their Emperor is really a madman who incapacitated the Water Dragon to steal her power and, in doing so, caused the plague of angry ghosts that is threatening the land.
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The Scapegoat / int_b24467b3	comment	A confusing case happens in Onmyoji. Seimei is frequently blamed for terrible crimes he doesn't remember committing, leading him to question his entirely forgotten past. Only, the real criminal is his Literal Split Personality which he accidentally created himself, so we could say that Seimei does play a part... kinda? Earlier in the game, Kohaku is accused of eating Inugami's Sparrow until the real culprit KyÅ«mei-neko is exposed.
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The Scapegoat / int_b2700e28	comment	In If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, the Emperor claims that he brought Magnus in to take the blame for events of episode 18. He may be joking, though.
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The Scapegoat / int_b2ac2311	comment	One strip of Peanuts has Lucy try to find a scapegoat to something that is nobody's fault to begin with.
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The Scapegoat / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Some among the Northern houses blame their conditions on Robb's inexperience and wedding with Talisa. While not blameless, a lot had to do with his advisors backstabbing him (Roose and Theon), defying him (Karstark) or forcing his hand (Frey refusing passage unless ridiculous payment is made). Tyrion, for Joffrey's murder. Tywin uses him so he can get a show of justice, not actually caring if Tyrion is innocent or not. Margaery and Loras go along with it to protect Olenna, the actual poisoner.
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The Scapegoat / int_b31b332f	comment	In the Transformers Film Series, the Autobots get blamed for the Decepticon presence on Earth. The Earth governments try to appease the Decepticons twice by getting the Autobots to leave Earth. But they don't realize that the Decepticons don't care about making deals with them, and would outright conquer and enslave or just flat-out destroy Earth either way.
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The Scapegoat / int_b3454ebd	comment	In the Starsky & Hutch episode "A Body Worth Guarding," the Fascist Party of America plans to murder a visiting Russian ballerina so they can pin it on the Jewish Organization for Action, who were protesting the treatment of the Russian Jews.
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The Scapegoat / int_b3708359	comment	At the end of Solo, Qi'ra secures a position in the Crimson Dawn Syndicate and covers up her treachery by pinning both the death of her predecessor and the loss of the coaxium on Tobias Beckett. Beckett is not around to refute this, on account of having been shot to death by Han. The part about the coaxium is Metaphorically True; Qi'ra just leaves out the fact that Han stole it back after killing Beckett.
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The Scapegoat / int_b432d859	comment	Lycoris Recoil opens with a mission going bad due to a combination of bad intel and a hacker infiltrating DA's "unhackable" computer system. Kusunoki, the head of DA, covers up what happened behind the scenes and pushes all blame for the mission failing on Takina whose only fault was acting to save her teammate.
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The Scapegoat / int_b69946ad	comment	In Darkness at Noon, Gletkin explains that, since the necessity of scapegoats has been accepted throughout human history, it is only natural that the failures of the Party be explained away by having men like Rubashov denounce themselves as saboteurs.
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The Scapegoat / int_b86fe5e5	comment	The A Prairie Home Companion comedy sketch "The Fall Guy" is about a poor schmuck employed by a huge corporation solely for the purpose of taking the blame for everything that goes wrong. In order to keep the stress from killing him they've provided the fall guy with a whipping boy and the whipping boy with a (literal) scapegoat.
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The Scapegoat / int_b9b796cf	comment	Angra Mainyu aka Avenger from Fate/stay night. An ordinary man, his fellow villagers one day declared him to be the reason all of their sinful urges existed and tortured him for the rest of his life in an attempt to purge themselves of evil. Because his death brought them a form of salvation he technically qualified as a Heroic Spirit, but as a Servant during the Third War he was as weak as a human. After he was killed the Grail interpreted his existence as a "wish" by those villagers for there to exist a God of Evil, which it then attempted to grant. Archer's final fate was to be blamed and executed for starting a war he had tried to stop. Worse yet, the person who started the war and blamed him was a person Archer had saved.
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The Scapegoat / int_bc531e07	comment	Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs: Angelica gets used as a scapegoat by noble girls in the academy for their bullying of Marie, due to her public scolding of Marie and Julius making it plausible. When an academy field trip is taken hostage by the Principality of Fanoss, their Evil Plan devised with the traitor Marquis Frampton is to keep Angelica as the only hostage and execute the rest, to try and make her father Vince Redgrave look like Les Collaborateurs, but this fails thanks to Leon's intervention.
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The Scapegoat / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: Squidward has fallen victim to this on multiple occasions ("Krab Borg", "Can You Spare A Dime?", and "Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful", just to name the most popular examples). SpongeBob becomes one in "Life of Crime" when Patrick accuses him of "stealing" his candy bar, when he never really opened his and Patrick ate his in just two bites and was unaware he already finished it up despite SpongeBob trying to tell him so. To add to it, SpongeBob was the one who gave him the bar in the first place.
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The Scapegoat / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive: Early on, the crew used to find their teen Mad Scientist fitting for this purpose. There are good reasons why he had to repeatedly explain that it wasn't his fault when someone is transformed. In addition, the author has started jokingly blaming a certain "Kevin" every time something in the comic isn't quite right. It is usually only in the commentary, but it found its way into the strip itself here. He has been rather elusive on who this Kevin is, or if he is even a real person. This strip strongly implies he isn't. Even if he is, he probably isn't Kevin the Magic Wand, introduced much later.
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The Scapegoat / int_bf24c7bb	comment	Chernobyl shows Anatoly Dyatlov, the man in charge of the control room of the titular disaster, as one. He was certainly at fault for a large part of the disaster, ignoring his subordinates' protests over safety and pushing the reactor to the brink in a way that no one thought possible. Because Dyatlov is a Jerkass who endangered the continent to get a shot at promotion, it's easy for the State to blame the whole thing on him. However, Legasov points out at the Kangaroo Court that Dyatlov was not to blame for the emergency shutdown mechanism actually increasing the reactivity for a short (but in this case, catastrophic) period. Legasov says that he doesn't think Dyatlov would have taken the risk if he'd had all the facts, and only the State is to blame for cutting corners and then hiding the danger.
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The Scapegoat / int_bf8375d1	comment	In Transcendence, the FBI and the military reluctantly work with RIFT to stop Will, planning to use them as a scapegoat when everything goes south. RIFT seemingly remains oblivious to this possibility. Whether or not that actually happened, however, is completely ignored.
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The Scapegoat / int_c0c57462	comment	In Chrono Trigger, the Evil Chancellor tries to have the King Guardia XXXIII framed for selling the Rainbow Shell under false pretenses... the Chancellor was actually a descendent of the Yakra monster you defeated earlier, seeking revenge for its fallen ancestor.
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The Scapegoat / int_c34f83b2	comment	During the second chapter of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Peko Pekoyama murders Mahiru Koizumi in an attempt to stop Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu from killing her himself and save him from a potential execution and then creates fake evidence and rearranges the crime scene in order to make it look like Hiyoko Saionji, who she previously had drugged into unconsciousness as part of the plan, had killed the victim.
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The Scapegoat / int_c35714d6	comment	In a Blackadder skit on a Royal Variety Performance shortly after the banking crisis, Blackadder was a banker who brought Baldrick to the hearing as evidence that the real culprits were the customers for being so stupid as to believe them.
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The Scapegoat / int_c565e657	comment	In the second section of A Canticle for Leibowitz, the Poet Sirrah makes an elaborate 'jest' (read:rant) about a blue-headed goat, the titular Saint, and a crown, but not quite in the usual way.
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The Scapegoat / int_c72c2d06	comment	Star Wars Rebels. In "The Siege of Lothal", Admiral Konstantine tries to snare the Ghost in a Tractor Beam only to catch Lord Vader's TIE fighter instead. Admiral Konstantine assures the tractor beam operator that it's not his fault, and he wipes sweat off his forehead in relief, only for the Admiral to add, "But Lord Vader won't know that."
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The Scapegoat / int_c7fbcf5f	comment	In the second series of Horatio Hornblower, Captain Hammond (serving as a judge at a court-martial) willfully interprets everything Horatio did aboard the Renown in the worst possible light in order to pin all the irregularities of Sawyer's command, Sawyer's removal from command, and the faults in the subsequent expedition on one person who can then be hanged to save the late Sawyer's reputation. In light of the third series, it seems that Hammond, who saw himself how courageous and innovative Hornblower was as a midshipman, was trying to deprive England of a good officer.
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The Scapegoat / int_ca298d36	comment	At the start of Star Wars: Darth Vader, Vader finds himself in this position after the destruction of the Death Star. While Palpatine acknowledges that Tarkin and the other Imperial officers share the responsibility for that fiasco, he also points out that Vader's the only one left alive to face his wrath. (In fairness Vader is responsible because his Trick-and-Follow Ploy let the rebels get the Death Star plans.) Palpatine does give Vader the chance to prove himself again, mainly because his own authority has been weakened by the disaster too and so he still needs a strong enforcer.
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The Scapegoat / int_cb2c3df6	comment	In Oreimo, Kyosuke does this twice for his sister Kirino: The first time their father discovers her eroge/anime fascination, Kyosuke defends her hobby, and then after the father points out that he's not okay with eroge, Kyosuke claims that the stuff was his, and that Kyosuke had her hold it for him, causing the father to punch him in the face. The second time is when Kirino's modeling friend Ayase finds her in a town where she was doing some modeling, which coincidentally happened to be in the same area where the anime convention was taking place. Kyosuke once again defends her actions, and while Ayase seems okay with her hobby later, she wonders why Kirino had siscon eroge. He immediately and passionately says that the stuff caused him to be closer to his sister, and says that he loves her, to which Ayase immediately rushes off with Kirino, lest he perverts her mind into doing some forbidden things.
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The Scapegoat / int_ccf875f7	comment	Criminal Minds: In the episode "A Shade of Gray," the team is called in when two young boys have been killed and a third is abducted. They're able to profile the likely pedophile in the area, and when they conduct a warrant on his house, they find evidence on the first two boys (and several others) but nothing for the third boy. Even once the body is found, nothing at the dump site indicates that their suspect is responsible for this particular murder. The local cop they're working with begs them to drop it, going so far as to point out that he's a bad man who deserves to be in jail. When the BAU continues pursuing the case, the cop confesses and insists they arrest him. The boy was killed by his older brother, who's nine years old and already a budding psychopath. The parents called the cop and explained the situation, and rather than have the brother labeled a killer, he decided to copy the recent murders by staging an abduction.
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The Scapegoat / int_cfe0fed2	comment	The Great Gaias: The Validians blame the elves for causing the Blight, a magic that causes the lands near them to be infertile wastelands. Unsurprisingly, the Validian Emperor, Grindelwald Maultor, is behind the Blight and is using it to manipulate his people.
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The Scapegoat / int_d00d4aeb	comment	In PokÃ©mon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team, the player character is blamed by Gengar for touching Ninetales' tails. Because the person who did it is the one whose reincarnation is cursed to bring about The End of the World as We Know It, this leads to everyone trying to hunt you down and kill you in order to stop the curse while you have to go on the run to clear your name.
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The Scapegoat / int_d3b17858	comment	In Final Fantasy Tactics, Ramza gets branded a heretic by the Corrupt Church; while he does kill a cardinal, it was in self-defense when the cardinal reveals that he's either a human who's been possessed by a demon or always has been a demon, just in human guise. Later, when Olan writes the Durai Reports covering the true story of Delita's rise to power and the Church's attempt to manipulate politics in the background, he also gets branded (and executed) as a heretic.
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The Scapegoat / int_d3e3e38a	comment	She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Played for Laughs in "Roll With It" — after Scorpia and her squad lose a major Horde stronghold to the princesses, they collectively agree to blame Kyle for their failure. Entrapta's attempt to warn Hordak that his activation of the portal could destroy reality is prevented when Catra's ever-growing obsession with defeating Adora causes her to knock Entrapta out. When the other princesses arrive to rescue Adora, Catra proclaims to Hordak that Entrapta was the one who brought them to the Fright Zone.
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The Scapegoat / int_d5166b43	comment	By the start of Halo 2, former Supreme Commander Thel 'Vadamee is tried for his failure, as the leader of the Covenant fleet that followed the Pillar of Autumn from Reach to Halo, to stop humans from landing on the eponymous ring-world and allowing the Master Chief to destroy it at the end of the first game. As he himself tries to protest and the Prophet of Truth even admits to; however, his hands were tied when The Flood escaped and ran rough-shod over both human and Covenant ground forces, leaving him unable to keep track of one Super-Soldier until it was too late, and left unmentioned that he was stopped by the Prophets on his fleet from just destroying the human ship before it crash-landed on Halo because they didn't want to risk damaging the ring (said damage risk was also why they couldn't just glass Halo to contain the infection). Somebody still has to take the blame, and it's only Truth's political-savvy and desire to avoid wasting one of their finest warriors that prevents Thel from being executed and "just" being shamed, stripped of his former titles, and becoming the new Arbiter meant to go on suicide missions.
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The Scapegoat / int_d5166b45	comment	By the start of Halo 4, Dr. Halsey has made into this by her superiors, who call her methods of creating Spartan-IIs as abhorrent, as it involved the kidnapping and genetic modification of children. However, this was done simply to make the Spartan-IVs look better and to cover up the fact that ONI's leaders were the ones who approved of everything Halsey did in the first place.
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The Scapegoat / int_d5a11475	comment	Star Shift Rebellion: This game's plot occurs in parallel to Origins, and it shows that after the Raxion II incident, Novus pinned the blame for the deadly gas on Carol Everson, even though it was an Earth Systems Alliance ship that did it.
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The Scapegoat / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series: For a meta example, there's Porygon from PokÃ©mon: The Original Series, who played a major role in the infamous episode in which many Japanese children suffered from seizures. As a result, it (and, by extension, its evolved forms) has not appeared in a major (or even minor) role ever since, and may or may not have been effectively banned from doing so. The only problem? Porygon had absolutely nothing to do with the seizures... it was actually Pikachu who caused them. Naturally, they can't axe the Series Mascot, so it was Porygon who ended up taking the blame. PokÃ©mon the Series: Sun & Moon has an in-series example — when Lillie got caught up in the Nihilego incident, Faba blamed it on Silvally to cover his tracks. Due to her traumatic memories being a bit mixed up, Lillie also initially blamed it for her fear of Pokemon until it rescues her from Faba similarly to how it defended her against Nihilego, after which she apologizes to it.
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The Scapegoat / int_d747b86e	comment	The Infernal Devices: In all honesty, de Quincey from the first book (A Clockwork Angel) is not the poster boy for morality, but he is certainly not the Magister.
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The Scapegoat / int_d76888eb	comment	In My Country: De Jager feels that he's being made one by the former apartheid government, who had ordered him to commit the atrocities he did. Langston convinces him to turn on them and implicate higher officials as a result, since it will expose their complicity.
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The Scapegoat / int_d9e1a051	comment	Fruits Basket: As the Cat of the Zodiac, Kyo Sohma is constantly blamed for things beyond his control by other members of the Sohma clan, to the extent they held him completely responsible for his mother's suicide rather than consider that his father's emotional abuse played any part. Shigure even tells Tohru that this is the entire reason the Cat exists: so the other Sohmas afflicted by the Zodiac curse can feel better about themselves because, as bad as they may have it, the Cat has it even worse. Kyo himself regularly finds ways to blame Yuki for his issues and his unfair treatment from the rest of the Sohma family, because the Rat tricked the Cat out of attending God's banquet in the legend and resulted in the Cat being the Sohmas' pariah. Kyo eventually acknowledges that none of his misfortune was Yuki's fault, but he was so miserable that he needed somebody to blame for his own crappy life.
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The Scapegoat / int_da18856c	comment	Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception: After Anju fakes her own kidnapping in an attempt to invoke a Rescue Romance with her bodyguard Oshtor (which doesn't work; he sees through it instantly), she and the rest of the heroes are horrified that their ally Nosuri, the "kidnapper", will probably be executed by the government. Fake or not, the public believes Anju had been kidnapped, and the courts cannot ignore that. They instead decide to frame a minor thief, Moznu, for the kidnapping and arrest him on those charges before turning him over to the courts. The protagonists do uncomfortably point out how immoral it is to set up a minor thief to be executed for one of their own mistakes, but they go through with it anyway. The sequel reveals that Moznu manages to break out and escape before being executed, and for various reasons the government no longer bothers pursuing him.
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The Scapegoat / int_dca1941d	comment	Star Wars: The Bad Batch: In the Season 1 finale, Rampart's fleet bombards all Kaminoan cities on orders from Tarkin. Midway through Season 2, the truth comes to light in front of the Senate, and Palpatine promptly throws Rampart under the bus for his actions and has him arrested. Moments after doing so, Palpatine also uses the atrocity Rampart committed as an opportunity to discredit the clone troopers and convince the Senate to support the bill that would replace the clone troopers with recruited soldiers, which is what he was ultimately after all along.
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The Scapegoat / int_dccfc4b8	comment	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban had the eponymous prisoner, Sirius Black, described as an accomplice to the murders of James and Lily Potter and a mass murderer who killed Peter Pettigrew and several bystander Muggles. Then we learn Peter Pettigrew faked his death and framed Sirius Black with everything. This continued through Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with Fudge leading a smear campaign against Dumbledore and Harry to deny Voldemort's return. When a mass breakout results in several Death Eaters escaping from Azkaban (as Dumbledore repeatedly warned Fudge would happen), he instead decides to put the blame on Sirius in order to save face.
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The Scapegoat / int_de6659ec	comment	Happened to Snow White in Once Upon a Time. The Evil Queen held a grudge against Snow for unintentionally telling her abusive mother about her lover Daniel, who then killed Daniel in front of her. Instead of accepting that a little girl made a well-intentioned mistake and that it was her mother's doing, she maintained this grudge and persecuted Snow for years, and it eventually resulted in the Evil Queen casting a curse and ruining the lives of everyone in her world to "win for once" against Snow.
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The Scapegoat / int_dffeb1be	comment	This Is The Police 2: Jack Boyd is framed as the kingpin of Freeburg, using his positions as Police Captain and Police Chief to build a criminal empire for thirty years. While it's clear that Jack is delusional in thinking he's completely innocent because of numerous accounts of abuse, blackmail, and even murder, it's clear to the player that he only did these things to keep his police station stable enough to get some real work done. A year after Jack has been framed and fled the city, they're still blaming him for some outrageously ridiculous crimes. The newscasts have apparently lost their minds, as none of them have posted anything serious for the past year other than "Jack Boyd is still a criminal" and "A crime happened: We have absolute obedient faith that Jack Boyd did it". Eventually, it becomes clear that Jack is doing a horrible job at keeping himself low profile, but the Feds refuse to actually try to find him because Freeburg needs him as a scapegoat to blame for their own compiling crimes.
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The Scapegoat / int_e4732abc	comment	Sheppard's team becomes this to the newly formed Coalition of Planets in Stargate Atlantis. Said coalition is entirely civilizations that are stuck in Medieval Stasis (since the Wraith destroy ones which advance past that), so naturally the actual effectiveness of this alliance is non-existent. But they need to do something, so they single out his team for all the crap they've been through (rightfully or not). They can't target the expedition as a whole (because they're too powerful) and can't do anything to the Ancients (who are dead), but Sheppard's team is something both small and guilty enough that they can reasonably do something to punish them.
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The Scapegoat / int_e5feb1e	comment	In case 2-4 of Ace Attorney, Phoenix is forced to accuse Adrian Andrews of murder, despite knowing that they're innocent, in an effort to draw out the trial.
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The Scapegoat / int_e6444cd2	comment	The New Order Last Days Of Europe: When the victorious Nazis conquered France in 1940, part of the terms of the Treaty of Vichy was forcing France to shoulder all of the blame for both World Wars, justifying Germany's imposition of severe and strangling economic and military penalties, even harsher than the terms Germany endured in the Treaty of Versailles after the end of World War I. By the game start date of 1962, France is a borderline failed state with an economy in meltdown and a token ceremonial force that has no chance whatsoever of defeating the Burgundian invasion after the start of the German Civil War. And if you are a Frenchman who now lives in the territory that has become Ordenstaat Burgundy, well, being made the scapegoat for two devastating global conflicts really is the least of your worries.
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The Scapegoat / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negima! Magister Negi Magi example: Princess Arika was blamed and supposedly executed by the Magical Senate for destroying her country, killing her father the king, and starting the war. She was guilty of only the first two charges, and she did it to save the rest of the magical world from destruction. Kurt Godel's narration makes it perfectly clear that she was blamed because the world needed a target for its hatred and resentment after the tragedies and hardships of the war.
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The Scapegoat / int_e8cd02cd	comment	Hypnospace Outlaw: the Mindcrash incident, which leaves several Hypnospace users dead, was caused by Dylan Merchant, who pushed a version of a game he was developing, Outlaw, onto HypnOS computers without properly testing it for safety. The build he forced onto Hypnospace users was so glitchy and buggy, it caused the (shoddily constructed) Brain/Computer Interface that HypnOS uses to malfunction to the point of frying several users' brains. Shortly before the incident, another Hypnospace user, Tim "T1MAGGEDON" Stevens, released a computer virus called "Y2K Mindcrash", onto Hypnospace. Stevens' virus was actually relatively harmless, but the timeliness of its release and the incident provided the Merchant brothers with the perfect fall guy to take the blame for the incident. Stevens, a teenager at the time, would be charged as an adult for manslaughter and forced to serve six years in federal prison.
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The Scapegoat / int_e9e265b6	comment	Maribelle of Fire Emblem: Awakening. Gangrel captures her early on in the game and accuses her of trespassing in Plegian territory and assaulting Plegian soldiers, which is used as justification for starting the war with Ylisse. She reveals in a support conversation that she went there herself to dissuade them from advancing, but they held her hostage.
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The Scapegoat / int_e9ec19e1	comment	In Spec Ops: The Line, John Conrad turns out to be this in the end. Walker used an imaginary version of Conrad to cast all his self-loathing onto: The man himself was Dead All Along. He does not take it well when he realizes he's got no-one to blame for all the chaos he brought to Dubai but himself.
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The Scapegoat / int_ea4f62db	comment	In Family Guy episode Family Guy S10 E2: "Seahorse Seashell Party", Meg, after finally losing it and verbally ripping the entire family a new one, realizes that everything her family has put her through. All the teasing and abuse they heap on her is because they need a lightning rod to absorb their dysfunction. When they don't have her as a scapegoat her parents and brother turn on each other trying to find a new lightning rod to take the blame for their flaws.
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The Scapegoat / int_ea85bebc	comment	A lot of people among the Dayao in Always Coming Home once their ruler's policy of trying to take on the entire continent at once was shown not to go as smoothly as expected. After all, there was no way their divine Glorious Leader was at fault.
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The Scapegoat / int_eaba4c34	comment	An Impractical Guide to Godhood: Hera gets blamed for everything she did do and everything she didn't after the stolen Lightning Bolt is returned, and suffers the bulk of Zeus' wrath as a result.
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The Scapegoat / int_ec27ee61	comment	By the time of The Bourne Legacy, Pamela Landy has been set up as the one responsible for Jason Bourne still being at large. This was actually her role from as early as the second film, as the conspirators were planning to pin their dealings on her in the event they were found out; she just clinched the decision in the third film by faxing details of Blackbriar to her highers-up.
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The Scapegoat / int_ec28bf83	comment	King: Invoked in "Never Be Nice To A Pubrick". The titular creature has to be blamed for everyone's misfortunes, otherwise it turns into a giant, destructive monster.
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The Scapegoat / int_eca201fb	comment	National Treasure: Benjamin Gates, the protagonist, is responsible for stealing the Declaration of Independence and abducting the employee who caught him in the act. But in the end, he finds the treasure he was searching for and ensures the government gets the bulk of it, so they're willing to paint him as a hero. However, such a high profile crime can't go unpunished, and the FBI outright tells him "Someone has to go to jail." Luckily, his rival Ian was more shady and less successful than Gates was, so he and his mercenary team wind up taking all the blame.
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The Scapegoat / int_eef5470a	comment	In Rurouni Kenshin (and Real Life) after the revolutionary government made to the people promises they could not keep, they blamed the SekihÅ�tai, telling the people that they were a fake army who had been spreading lies and executed the members of the first unit.
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The Scapegoat / int_f61ea51b	comment	Interview with the Vampire (2022): "In Throes of Increasing Wonder...": Florence de Pointe du Lac blames her eldest son Louis for her youngest son Paul's suicide even though Louis didn't do or say anything that would make Paul jump off the roof. In "A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart", "Like Angels Put in Hell by God" and "The Thing Lay Still", Lestat de Lioncourt blames his vampire daughter Claudia for his and Louis' relationship deteriorating even though most of it is fully Lestat's own fault.
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The Scapegoat / int_f81101f2	comment	For a meta example, there's Porygon from PokÃ©mon: The Original Series, who played a major role in the infamous episode in which many Japanese children suffered from seizures. As a result, it (and, by extension, its evolved forms) has not appeared in a major (or even minor) role ever since, and may or may not have been effectively banned from doing so. The only problem? Porygon had absolutely nothing to do with the seizures... it was actually Pikachu who caused them. Naturally, they can't axe the Series Mascot, so it was Porygon who ended up taking the blame.
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The Scapegoat / int_f9b9dfe4	comment	In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, after word of the first Arc Villain Jarod's abuses of the Daein people reaches the Empress of Begnion, his corrupt superiors in the Begnion senate lay all the blame for his actions on his lap, despite being personally complicit in said abuses. Jarod, for his part, decides he'd rather drag The Hero Micaiah down with him than try his luck with the senate.
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The Scapegoat / int_fcf3efa7	comment	The Super Hero Squad Show: When Wanda winds up back in Puritan times, the townsfolk love her until she reveals her superhero name is Scarlet Witch. The mayor is very apologetic and explains that blaming witches for things beyond their control makes the colonists feel better. And that's why they have to kill her. Can't be helped.
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The Scapegoat / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In Star Trek: The Next Generation, it's revealed that Worf's father Mogh was unjustly blamed for the slaughter that killed him and thousands of other Klingons because the real traitor belonged to a prominent family and the truth would have caused civil war. The High Council also believed that, with Worf serving in Starfleet and no other known sons of Mogh to defend the family honor, they could declare him a traitor and no one would challenge it. Too bad they didn't know about Worf's younger brother Kurn, who convinced Worf to face the Council and make them play this deception out openly.
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No Such Luck, No Such Love (Fanfic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Of Patience and Pettiness (Fanfic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
or did it eat the little girl? (Fanfic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Outcry (LD1449) (Fanfic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Queen of the May (Fanfic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Rediscovered Frontiers (Fanfic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Cultist (Fanfic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Dark Lords of Nerima (Fanfic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Karma of Lies (Fanfic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The King Nobody Wanted (Fanfic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Many Dates of Danny Fenton (Fanfic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Parts We Play (Fanfic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Savior King, the Master Tactician and the Queen of Liberation (Fanfic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Unwavering Light of Calamity (Fanfic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Three Strikes (Fanfic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Total Drama Pahkitew Island Reordered (Fanfic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Wayward (RWBY) (Fanfic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
What You Knead (Naruto) (Fanfic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Winter Storm (Fanfic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Alice in Wonderland (2010) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Amsterdam (2022) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Captain America: Civil War / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Carriers / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Contagion (2011) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Duel of the Ironfist / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
FantÃ´mas / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Farewell, FamiKamen Rider / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Field of Dreams / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Flight (2012) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Groundhog Day / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
In Harm's Way / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
In My Country / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Kiss the Girls / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Kull the Conqueror / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
La Vie en Rose / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Lady Macbeth / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Margin Call / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Murder on the Orient Express (2017) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
My Fair Lady / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
My Fellow Americans / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
O.J.: Made in America / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Practical Magic / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Psycho II / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Red Mist / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
RoboCop 2 / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Rules of Engagement / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Savageland / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
School Ties / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Bastard / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Chaser / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Children / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The City Without Jews / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Company Men / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Condemned (2007) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Courier 2019 / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Day Britain Stopped / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Death of Stalin / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Eagle Has Landed / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Gorgon / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Gray Man (2022) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Infernal Affairs Trilogy / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Rise of Skywalker / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Running Man / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Thirteen Lives / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Transformers: The Last Knight / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Wagons East! / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Wake Me When It's Over / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
White: The Melody of the Curse / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Zathura / int_dc7d1af5	type	The Scapegoat
PewDiePie (Lets Play) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
TheStrawhatNO! (Lets Play) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Haruka Nogizaka's Secret / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Nidome no Yuusha / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Oreimo / int_dc7d1af5	type	The Scapegoat
Rebuild World / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Misfit of Demon King Academy / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
A Game of Thrones / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
A Little Hatred / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Agnes Grey / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Always Coming Home / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Aniara / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Animal Farm / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Anything But Typical / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Blood and Chocolate (1997) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Book of Exodus / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Borrasca / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Cards on the Table / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Carrie / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Clifford the Big Red Dog / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Cloak of Deception / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Cujo / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Darkness at Noon / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Darth Plagueis / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Dead Lions / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Edgar & Ellen / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Final Girls / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Frankenstein / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Franklin / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Fudge / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Galaxy of Fear / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Girlish Number / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Haruka Nogizaka's Secret / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Heaven Official’s Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Holes / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Internment / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
INVADERS of the ROKUJYOUMA!? / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Left Behind / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Looming Shadow / int_dc7d1af5	type	The Scapegoat
Mass Effect Annihilation / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Missing Since Monday / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Nineteen Eighty-Four / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Noli Me Tangere / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Oreimo / int_dc7d1af5	type	The Scapegoat
Perfume / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Pet Sematary / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Petals on the Wind / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Quo Vadis / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Ramona Quimby / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Rebuild World / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Reds!: A Revolutionary Timeline / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Reincarnated As A Virus / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Replica (Jenna Black) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Seeds of Yesterday / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Shadow Ops / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Star Trek: Picard - Rogue Elements / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Tearmoon Empire / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Apothecary Diaries / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Areal / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Black Magician Trilogy / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Botticelli Horror / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Caine Mutiny / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Chocolate War / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Eminence in Shadow / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Flames Of Rome / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Given Day / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The God in the Bowl / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Kingdom Keepers / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Misfit of Demon King Academy / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Ripple System / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Saga of Tanya the Evil / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Tale Of Timmy Tiptoes / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Tribe / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Way You Are / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Whipping Boy / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Winter Queen Contingency / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Troubled Blood / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Villager A Wants to Save the Villainess No Matter What! / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
What The Hell Did I Just Read: A Novel of Cosmic Horror / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Zhirinovsky's Russian Empire / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Red vs. Blue: The Project Freelancer Saga (Machinima) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
ArkhamAsylumLivingHell	seeAlso	The Scapegoat
BattleCars	seeAlso	The Scapegoat
DesertBusForHope	seeAlso	The Scapegoat
HonorsParadox	seeAlso	The Scapegoat
PokeWars	seeAlso	The Scapegoat
SkyDoesMinecraft	seeAlso	The Scapegoat
TheEagleHasLanded	seeAlso	The Scapegoat
TheScapeGoat	sameAs	The Scapegoat
A Silent Voice (Manga) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Bizenghast (Manga) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Death Note (Manga) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Is It My Fault That I Got Bullied? (Manga) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Kingdom Hearts II (Manga) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Mahoromatic (Manga) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
My Monster Secret (Manga) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Nichijou (Manga) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Remina (Manga) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Rurouni Kenshin (Manga) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Sand Land (Manga) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Shigurui (Manga) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Kindaichi Case Files (Manga) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Tomie (Manga) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Touhou Ibarakasen ~ Wild and Horned Hermit (Manga) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
UzaMaid: Our Maid Is Way Too Annoying! (Manga) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
World Trigger (Manga) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
ZE (Manga) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
If AI Ruled the World (Manhwa) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Fear Factory (Music) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
folklore (2020) (Music) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Playing the Angel (Music) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Making Kayfabe (Podcast) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Sporadic Phantoms (Podcast) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Dollop (Podcast) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Last Podcast on the Left (Podcast) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
We ARE Struggling Together / Real Life	seeAlso	The Scapegoat
Class Trials Season 2 (Roleplay) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Class Trials Season 3 (Roleplay) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Doubt Academy (Roleplay) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
For The Tyrants Fear Your Might (Roleplay) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Ink City (Roleplay) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Ouroboros Project (Roleplay) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Afterschool Special / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
American Housewife / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Blood & Water / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Blue Bloods / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Burning Body / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Channel Zero / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Cloak & Dagger (2018) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Dark Shadows / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Dark Side of the Ring / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
El corazón nunca se equivoca / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Elite (2018) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Eurovision Song Contest / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Foundation (2021) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Foyle's War / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
From the Earth to the Moon / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Girl from Nowhere / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Greg the Bunny / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
In Plain Sight / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Intertwined (2021) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Interview with the Vampire (2022) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Kamen Rider Gaim / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Krypton / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Life on Mars (2006) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Line of Duty / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Low Winter Sun / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Lucifer (2016) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Malcolm in the Middle / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Narcos / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Orange Is the New Black / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Recht Op Recht / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Red Rose / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Riverdale / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Search / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Slingers / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Stan Lee's Lucky Man / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Stargate Atlantis / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Starsky & Hutch / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Apprentice / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Artful Dodger / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Astronaut Wives Club / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Conners / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Crown (2016) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Games / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Hanging Gale / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Legend of Zhen Huan / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Method / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Sinner / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
True Detective / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Waking the Dead / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Welcome To Eden 2022 / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Arkham Horror (Tabletop Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Arkham Horror: The Card Game (Tabletop Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Animal Actors (Theatre) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Don Giovanni (Theatre) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
My Fair Lady (Theatre) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Book of Mormon (Theatre) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Universal's Horror Make-Up Show (Theatre) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Wicked (Theatre) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Alundra (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Among Us (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Banjo-Kazooie (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Black Closet (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Dana Knightstone (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Dark Elf Historia (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Devil Survivor (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Front Mission (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Grand Theft Auto (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Iron Harvest (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Jenny LeClue (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Lair (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Martha Is Dead (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Paradise Killer (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Resident Evil: Gun Survivor (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Scrapland (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Shadowgrounds (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Spelunky (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Star Shift Rebellion (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Suikoden IV (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Super Mario Sunshine (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Forgotten (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Hayseed Knight (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Painscreek Killings (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Viscera Cleanup Detail (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Wild ARMs 2 (Video Game) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Haunted Legends / Videogame / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Black Wolves Saga (Visual Novel) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Bloodbound (Visual Novel) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Frozen Essence (Visual Novel) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Grisaia no Rakuen (Visual Novel) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Little Busters! (Visual Novel) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Meteor World Actor (Visual Novel) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
9-nine- Series (Visual Novel) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Scarlet Hollow (Visual Novel) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Shining Song Starnova (Visual Novel) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Eden of Grisaia (Visual Novel) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Hayseed Knight (Visual Novel) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Vincent: The Secret of Myers (Visual Novel) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
We Know the Devil (Visual Novel) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Disventure Camp (Web Animation) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device (Web Animation) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
OverSimplified (Web Animation) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Red vs. Blue: The Project Freelancer Saga (Web Animation) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures (Web Animation) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Backwater Gospel (Web Animation) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Precocious / Web Comic / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Winter Moon (Webcomic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
An Ordeal In Osondu (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Captain Southbird (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Cinema Therapy (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Doom Day (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Fixing RWBY (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Freeman's Mind (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Games Repainted (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Magic Gum Civilization Experiments (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
My Little Pony: The Mentally Advanced Series (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Ninjak vs. the Valiant Universe (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Puppet History (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Quinton Reviews (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
SMPEarth (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Angry Grandpa (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Mythology Guy (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Transplanar RPG (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon Red (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Ultra Fast Pony (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
UrinatingTree (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Vinesauce (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Vinesauce Tomodachi Life (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye (Web Video) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
8-Bit Theater (Webcomic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Feralnette AU (Webcomic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
From A Knight To A Lady (Webcomic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Furry Fight Chronicles (Webcomic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
I'm the Grim Reaper (Webcomic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
leveL (Webcomic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
No Rest for the Wicked (Webcomic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Peter and Company (Webcomic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (Webcomic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
This Isekai Maid is Forming a Union! (Webcomic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Younger Days (Webcomic) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Springhole (Website) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Barbie in the Nutcracker / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Best Ed / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Castlevania (2017) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Code Monkeys / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Follow the Sun / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
King / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
King of the Hill / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Pet Alien / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Sofia the First / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Spider-Man (1981) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Squirrel Boy / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Teacher's Pet / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Breadwinner / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Dreamstone / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Three Friends... and Jerry / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Wish (2023) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Alicia Fox (Wrestling) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Batista (Wrestling) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Kofi Kingston (Wrestling) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Low Ki (Wrestling) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
The Miz (Wrestling) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things (Comic Book) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Burning Black / Fan Fic / int_dc7d1af5	type	The Scapegoat
The Roman Mysteries / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Akame ga Kill! (Manga) / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
Smallville / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat

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