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* In the board game ''Kill Doctor Lucky'', the players compete with each other to be the one to finally finish the old man off.
** The movie ''Clue'' had something similar—all the protagonists were [[Blackmail]] victims of the actual victim. [[He Knows Too Much|Murder ensues]] ...
* One of the pillars on which ''[[Dark Heresy]]'' is built. Thanks to constant [[Right Hand Versus Left Hand|discord]] and [[Gambit Pileup|conspiracy pileup]]. So you have some preacher torn to shreds in strange circumstances, and murder quickly grows into big news. Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen: rabid mutant monster from plumbing? junkie robber from the slums flipped out? degenerate noble kills folk for thrills? criminal conspiracy covering up their trail? other local power group? violent rivalry within Ministorum itself? "loyal" death cult? Chaos cult? insane psyker? Daemon? alien infiltrator? the Temple Tendency heretics? the Logicians?.. an Isstvanian ''inquisitor'' wanted to provoke an outrage and pointless conflict so that the locals won't grow complacent? All this and much more ''happens''. And choice of the direction from which to expect a stab is going to affect the investigators' own survival, too. All-encompassing distrust "just in case" is simply [[Properly Paranoid|a good survival strategy]].
** Or, [http://mr-culexus.deviantart.com/art/Serving-Gods-Khorne-146518177 in the words of Cultist-Chan], "Everywahn eez hereteec".
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== Real Life ==
* The feudal lord of the small Spanish town of [[wikipedia:Fuenteovejuna|Fuenteovejuna]] was murdered in 1475. Since this happened during a Portuguese invasion of the region and the town was of strategic importance the ''[[wikipedia:Hermandad|Santa Hermandad]]'' put a lot of effort into the investigation of the murder, down to [[Cold-Blooded Torture|torturing]] several of the main suspects... yet they couldn't break any, and the only answers they got were pretty much that the guy was an [[Asshole Victim|ass]], that everybody hated him and that the killer had been [[Everybody Did It|the whole Fuenteovejuna]]. The Catholic Monarchs accepted this explanation and pardoned the town. A fictionalized version of the incident is told in the 17th century play ''Fuenteovejuna'' by Lope de Vega.
* When an attempt was made on the life of the German Ambassador Von Papen during World War II Turkish intelligence was puzzled, because anyone in the neighborhood might have done it as many hated him personally, not to mention he was so addicted to intrigue and so incompetent at it that he might conceivably have given anybody reason to want him removed from the chessboard-including his own government.
*One subversion was a newspaperman in one nineteenth century American town. Nobody actually murdered him-as such. But he had to have a bulletin board specifying the only times he would accept challenges to a duel. Meaning he assumed so many people wanted to kill him that he had to schedule it to satisfy them and still go about his job.
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