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** Later, Scar tries to invoke this when he gets cornered by Simba, saying that [[NeverMyFault the hyenas made him kill Mufasa]]. Not only Simba doesn't buy it, but the hyenas overhear and are ''furious''.

** Later, Scar tries to invoke this after he blurted out the truth that he killed Mufasa, telling Simba that [[NeverMyFault the hyenas made him do it]]. Not only Simba doesn't buy it, but the hyenas overhear and are ''furious''.

** Later, Scar tries to invoke this after he blurted out the truth that he killed Mufasa, telling Simba [[NeverMyFault it was the hyenas who made him do it]]. Not only Simba doesn't buy it, but the hyenas overheard and are ''furious''.

-->'''Simba:''' The wildebeests, and... he tried to save me... It was an accident! I-I-I didn't mean for it to happen!\\

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', Simba says this when Scar framed him for killing his father.

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[[caption-width-right:350:What can happen if you forget your safe word]]

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Comes up in Chief O'Brien's backstory. During the border wars with Cardassia the Federation outpost where he was stationed was attacked by Cardassian ground troops, and he ended up right in the thick of it despite being [[SoldiersAtTheRear an engineering technician with almost no weapons training]]. The phaser that was shoved into his hand was set to [[DisintegratorRay Level 8]], a fact Miles didn't notice until he had to fire it and the enemy soldier he hit was vapourised. Despite the circumstances being as justified as they could possibly be it was a deeply traumatic experience for him, and he's shown to still feel very bitter about being forced into that situation years later.

* In the climax of the film ''Film/LegallyBlonde'', Elle manages to deduce that Chutney had to have heard the gunshot that killed her father (she claimed she was in the shower, but later admitted to getting a perm beforehand, proving she wasn't in the shower since her curls weren't ruined), which led Elle to get Chutney to admit that she didn't just 'hear' the shot, she 'fired' the shot at her own father. Chutney then screamed about how she intended to kill Brooke, since she hated how her dad married someone who was her age.
--'''Chutney''': I didn't mean to shoot him! I thought it was ''you'' walking through the door!

* A fan story of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' focused on Blossom who confronted a robber. The thug fires a shot that ricochets off Blossom's eyes, blinding her temporarily. She throws wild punches with one of them connecting on the robber and killing him. When Blossom discovers she killed the robber, she voluntarily surrenders to police and spends the bulk of the story doing some soul searching.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'': Subverted in the Red Ribbon ard. Goku panics when his Kamehameha wave blows off Major Metallitron's head, but it turns out that he survived due to being a robot. [[NighInvulnerable And kept fighting]]... at least until his batteries ran out.

** ''ComicBook/ThePlagueOftheAntibioticMan'': As fighting Nam-Ek, Superman throws a volcano at the Kryptonian villain, expecting to stun him. When Nam-Ek vanishes without a trace, Superman examines the lava, he finds traces of Kryptonite, and becomes horrified thinking he has killed Nam-Ek by accident.

* Subverted in the Red Ribbon arc of ''Manga/DragonBall''. Goku panics when his kamehameha wave blows off Major Metallitron's head, but it turns out that he survived due to being a robot. [[NighInvulnerable And kept fighting]]... at least until [[WeaksauceWeakness his batteries ran out]].

* During ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', [[spoiler:Super-boy Prime]] after killing [[spoiler:[[CListFodder Baby Wildebeest and Pantha]]]].
* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': In a moment of panic, Tim beat Johnny Warlock to death after the villain drained the LifeEnergy from a group of cops and then cornered Tim and Stephanie. Due to Johnny's powers, he'd seemed rather invincible so Tim hadn't expected his panicked attack to do such damage. Johnny's powers were due to a magical object impaled through his heart and he got up and walked out of the morgue a couple of days later, but Tim spent at least a month unaware that the undead magic user had "survived" and [[TheseHandsHaveKilled nearly stopped being Robin out of guilt]].

* Seymour of the original ''Film/TheLittleShopOfHorrors'' says something along these lines. He even says this [[spoiler:from inside the plant after his face appears on one of the flowers. His mother and Audrey, of course, are shocked.]]

* A fan story of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' focused on Blossom who confronted a robber. The thugs fires a shot that ricochets off Blossom's eyes, blinding her temporarily. She throws wild punches with one of them connecting on the robber and killing him. When Blossom discovers she killed the robber, she voluntarily surrenders to police and spends the bulk of the story doing some soul searching.

* [[spoiler:Corrine]] claims this about [[spoiler:Cory's]] death in Creator/VCAndrews' ''Literature/FlowersInTheAttic'': she says that she thought [[spoiler:putting arsenic on powdered sugar donuts]] would just make [[spoiler:him]] "a little sick ..."

** A version of this occurs toward the end of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows,'' when Harry tries to explain [[spoiler:to the ghosts of Remus, Sirius, and his parents, that he never meant for any of them to die.]] [[TearJerker Sniffle.]]

* TheReveal in ''Terminal'' by Creator/AndrewVachs is that [[spoiler:the apparent murderers of Melissa Turnbridge had meant to BreakTheHaughty FilleFatale by "only" raping her and had not meant to kill her.]]

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