History PlayingWith / AccidentalMurder

* '''Enforced''': "We need a death to create a turning point in the story, but it can't be too tragic. And it can't be a murder because the characters are all friends, and [[UnseenEvil our antagonist hasn't shown up yet]]." "Let's have Bob accidentally kill Alice. She's the least popular character."

** ”Murder is murder, I don’t care if it was an accident or not. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome You’re still going to prison.]]

* '''Enforced''': "We need a death to create a turning point in the story, but it can't be too tragic. And it can't be a murder because the characters are all friends, and [[UltimateEvil our antagonist hasn't shown up yet]]." "Let's have Bob accidentally kill Alice. She's the least popular character."

* '''Defied''': "I am going to be working with dangerous objects, so above all don't disturb me!"

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice startles Bob while he is preparing dynamite to blow up a tree. He swings around and the dynamite explodes, killing several people including Alice.

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* '''Discussed''': "I'm sure Bob just accidentally turned and swung his knife directly into Alice's heart. This isn't a movie!"

** [[UnlikelyHero Bob]] swings around, accidentally deflecting a knife and stopping it from killing her. (May or may not be HerosFirstRescue.)

* '''Inverted''': Bob swings around, accidentally deflecting a knife and stopping it from killing her.

* '''Parodied''': Bob is currently in the fetal position alone in his house because he accidentally killed every single person he came across today in a series of {{Contrived Coincidence}}s.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh, no! I killed Alice!"

* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob is conflicted to if he actually wanted to kill her or not. Did some part of him mean to swing the knife in that particular manner or was it the accident he originally thought?

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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice startles Bob while he is preparing dynamite to blow up a tree. He swings around, the dynamite explodes, killing several people.

* '''Justified''': Bob is inexperienced with handling dangerous objects, or drunk, or Alice startled him at an incredibly bad moment.

* '''Enforced''': The writer for some reason needs a tragic accident to create a turning point in the story.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Did I do that?"

* '''Discussed''': "What a tragic accident!"
* '''Conversed''': "Oh, I'm sure Bob just accidentally turned and swung his knife directly into Alice's heart. This isn't a movie!"

* '''Reconstructed''': Bob is acquitted when the prosecution can find no evidence that he killed Alice in a premeditated attack. He retains sufficient traumatic memories to avoid anything sharper than his fingernails for the rest of his life, and people come to know him as a very nice man rather than "the guy who accidentally killed Alice".

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'''Basic Trope''': A situation that wasn't intended to be lethal ends with the death of someone anyway.
* '''Straight''': Alice startles Bob while he is working with a sharp knife. He swings around and unintentionally stabs her.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice startles Bob while he is preparing dynamite to blow up a tree. He swings around, the dynamite explodes, killing several people.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob accidentally stabs or cuts Alice, but not fatally.
* '''Justified''': Bob is inexperienced with handling dangerous objects, or drunk, or Alice startled him at an incredibly bad moment.
* '''Inverted''': Bob swings around, accidentally deflecting a knife and stopping it from killing her.
* '''Subverted''':
** The knife almost hits Alice, but she gets out of the way at the last moment.

* '''Double Subverted''':
** ...meaning that it hits her in the throat rather than the heart.

* '''Parodied''': Bob is currently in the fetal position alone in his house because he accidentally killed every single person he came across today in a series of extremely unlikely events.

* '''Averted''':

* '''Enforced''': The writer for some reason needs a tragic accident to create a turning point in the story.

* '''Invoked''': A ManipulativeBastard wants to kill Alice by proxy, and manipulates Bob into a situation where an accident can happen.
* '''Exploited''': Someone uses Bob's accident to convict or blackmail him.
* '''Defied''': "I am going to be working with dangerous objects, so above all don't disturb me!"
* '''Discussed''': "What a tragic accident!"

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* '''Double Subverted''': ...meaning that it hits her in the throat rather than the heart.

** The knife connects, but isn't ''immediately'' lethal; it's Alice's failure to seek immediate treatment that ultimately kills her.

** Bob actually meant to kill Alice.

* '''Averted''': The situation between Bob and Alice does not get lethal.

* '''Averted''': The situation between Bob and Alice does not get lethal.

* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Subverted''': The knife almost hits Alice, but she gets out of the way at the last moment.

* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Conversed''':
* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???

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