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** The murderer in "[[MidsomerMurdersS7E7 Ghosts of Christmas Past]]" initially relies on this, first by attempting to gas Lydia with her own car fumes and relying on her mental issues to have it chalked up as a tragic accident. When this scheme is foiled, they resort to pushing her down the stairs with the expectation that it will be chalked up to her slipping, only the fact that she survives long enough to tell Barnaby she was pushed plus an earlier death threat making Barnaby seriously consider this to be murder.

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** The murderer in "[[MidsomerMurdersS7E7 "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS7E7 Ghosts of Christmas Past]]" initially relies on this, first by attempting to gas Lydia with her own car fumes and relying on her mental issues to have it chalked up as a tragic accident. When this scheme is foiled, they resort to pushing her down the stairs with the expectation that it will be chalked up to her slipping, only the fact that she survives long enough to tell Barnaby she was pushed plus an earlier death threat making Barnaby seriously consider this to be murder.
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* ''Series/TheNightAgent'': The assassins make multiple victims look like they died due to accidents, or attempt this.
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** The murderer in "[[MidsomerMurdersS7E7 Ghosts of Christmas Past]]" initially relies on this, first by attempting to gas Lydia with her own car fumes and relying on her mental issues to have it chalked up as a tragic accident. When this scheme is foiled, they resort to pushing her down the stairs with the expectation that it will be chalked up to her slipping, only the fact that she survives long enough to tell Barnaby she was pushed plus an earlier death threat making Barnaby seriously consider this to be murder.
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** In "The Oblong Murders", one killing was committed by loosening the gas line to the stove on a boat, causing the boat to fill with gas. The killer then called the victim as she arrived back on the boat, knowing that she always lit a cigarette while talking on the phone. Result: one 'accidental' explosion.
** In "Send in the Clowns", Terry Bellini is shot mid-performance with a hidden rifle, fired at just the right angle and time to give the illusion that Les Morrison [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace accidentally killed him with a loaded gun]] during a prank GoneHorriblyWrong.

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** In "The "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS14E4 The Oblong Murders", Murders]]", one killing was committed by loosening the gas line to the stove on a boat, causing the boat to fill with gas. The killer then called the victim as she arrived back on the boat, knowing that she always lit a cigarette while talking on the phone. Result: one 'accidental' explosion.
** In "Send "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS20E6 Send in the Clowns", Terry Bellini is shot mid-performance with a hidden rifle, fired at just the right angle and time to give the illusion that Les Morrison [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace accidentally killed him with a loaded gun]] during a prank GoneHorriblyWrong.

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* This is the MO for one of the enemy Stand Users met in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Stardust Crusaders''. The Stand User for Tower of Grey would cause public transportation like planes or buses to crash, hiding his Stand's activity.

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* This is the MO for one of the enemy Stand Users met in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Stardust Crusaders''. ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'':
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The Stand User for Tower of Grey would cause public transportation like planes or buses to crash, hiding his Stand's activity.activity.
** ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'': Giorno does this to off Polpo - he uses his Stand's powers to disguise one of Polpo's guns as a banana, so that when Polpo peels and eats it, he [[AteHisGun inadvertantly eats his gun]].
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* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Once he is married into the nobility Karl plans to kill his wife and ensure it looks like she died of complications while giving brith to their son.
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* A non-fatal [[InvokedTrope Invocation]] occurs in [[https://notalwaysright.com/when-legal-and-just-dont-see-eye-to-eye/315120/ this]] ''WebSite/NotAlwaysRight'' story; an elderly customer suffers a seizure while shopping, and after being informed that his insurance will kick him off if he has another seizure the manager on duty grabs a water bottle and starts pouring it on the floor while telling the [=OP=] (another customer) to tell the paramedics that he slipped. This has the double purpose of screwing over the store owners, who are bleeding the story dry to line their own pockets, and when the store closes down a few months later the [=OP=] learns that the insurance company stuck them with a hefty fine for negligence.
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* In the ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'' trilogy, the selkie Kona hates the merman Sabyn because he used to date Kona's little sister Annalise, and he abused and cheated on her. Then she died in an "accidental fall." Kona is convinced that Sabyn killed Annalise, but he can't prove it, and most other people think Sabyn was innocent.

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* In the ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'' ''Literature/Tempest2011'' trilogy, the selkie Kona hates the merman Sabyn because he used to date Kona's little sister Annalise, and he abused and cheated on her. Then she died in an "accidental fall." Kona is convinced that Sabyn killed Annalise, but he can't prove it, and most other people think Sabyn was innocent.
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* In the ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'' trilogy, the selkie Kona hates the merman Sabyn because he used to date Kona's little sister Annalise, and he abused and cheated on her. Then she died in an "accidental fall." Kona is convinced that Sabyn killed Annalise, but he can't prove it, and most other people think Sabyn was innocent.

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** Also ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', in Tranquility Lane.
** And ''VideoGame/Fallout2'', with the mission to kill Westin.
** Also ''Fallout 2'', every crime boss in New Reno has some unique way to die "accidentally"- changing the combination on a trapped office safe, or [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential setting up a little kid to accidentally shoot his father in the face]].
** In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', one of the ways to deal with Pacer is to spike his Jet so that he gets a heart attack.

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** Also ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' has a quest for John Bishop to eliminate the NCR politician Roger Westin, which he asks you to do in a way that doesn't look like a murder; options include poison, sneaking chems (which will trigger a heart attack), or, bizarrely, planting ''explosives'' on him. Every crime boss in New Reno also has some unique way to die that looks like an accident, from changing the combination on Bishop's trapped office safe to [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential giving Orville Wright's child a loaded gun and telling him to wave it in his dad's face and pull the trigger]].
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''VideoGame/Fallout3'', in Tranquility Lane.
** And ''VideoGame/Fallout2'', with the mission
Lane requires you to accomplish several tasks for Betty before she will tell you what happened to your dad. The third is to kill Westin.
** Also ''Fallout 2'', every crime boss
Mabel Henderson, which must be done in New Reno has some unique way to die "accidentally"- changing the combination on a trapped office safe, or [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential setting up "creative" fashion - rigging a little kid to accidentally shoot his father chandelier in the face]].
hallway to drop on her, a roller skate at the top of the stairs for her to trip on, sabotage her oven so it explodes when she tries to cook a pie, or sabotage her security system so that she gets locked in and her security robot recognizes her as a threat.
** In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', one of the ways to deal with Pacer is to spike his Jet with Psycho so that he gets a heart attack.
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* One of the missions for Nod in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianDawn''[='=]s "Covert Ops" expansion involves you fabricating evidence of a GDI chemical leak that killed innocents by killing those innocents with Chem Warriors. This involves deliberately avoiding destroying any GDI buildings, since that would prove it was a Nod attack and not GDI's negligence.

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* ''Film/TheBlueMax'': When the German High Command learns that fighter pilot and propaganda hero Lt. Bruno Stachel [[spoiler:claimed two kills that weren't his and challenged another pilot to contest of skill that resulted in his death]], they give him the job of test-flying a dangerous deathtrap monoplane fighter. [[spoiler:They even instruct him to push the new plane to its limits, guaranteeing that it will crash and kill him.]]
* In ''Film/BlueThunder'', Murphy's rival Colonel Cochrane attempts to kill him by sabotaging his helicopter during an evaluation flight.

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* ''Film/TheBlueMax'': When the German High Command learns that fighter pilot and propaganda hero Lt. Bruno Stachel [[spoiler:claimed two kills that weren't his and challenged another pilot to a contest of skill that resulted in his death]], they give him the job of test-flying a dangerous deathtrap monoplane fighter. [[spoiler:They even instruct him to push the new plane to its limits, guaranteeing that it will crash and kill him.]]
* In ''Film/BlueThunder'', ''Film/BlueThunder''. Murphy's rival Colonel Cochrane attempts to kill him by sabotaging his helicopter during an evaluation flight.


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* ''Film/TheKiller2023'' opens with the title character staking out an apartment so he can snipe the man using it, while narrating how boring these assignments are in comparison to this trope. Later after he kills the Lawyer and is DisposingOfABody, the Lawyer's assistant promises to give The Killer the information he wants if he doesn't disappear her also, so her children will benefit from her life insurance. So he breaks her neck and throws her down the staircase.
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* ''WebVideo/UnwantedHouseguest'': In issue 3 of the comic [[spoiler: Melody and the Houseguest do this to cover up their role in Dr. Tigani's death.]] In this case it technically was an accident since [[spoiler: they were trying to torture him, not kill him.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/BlueEyeSamurai''. In "Peculiarities", Mizu is contracted to MercyKill a SexSlave, so she snaps her neck and leaves a dead mook on top of her with the hairpin used to take him out in the girl's hand, making it look like they were both killed during an attempted rape. Unfortunately, Mizu's seen on the way out of the building [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished and could not bring herself to murder another innocent]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/BlueEyeSamurai''. In "Peculiarities", Mizu is contracted to MercyKill a gangster's SexSlave, so she snaps her neck and leaves a dead mook on top of her with the hairpin used to take him out in the girl's hand, making it look like they were both killed during an attempted rape. Unfortunately, Mizu's seen on the way out of the building [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished and could not bring herself to murder another innocent]]. This brings the gangster and his army of killers down on her and she has to spend the next episode [[OneWomanArmy killing them all]].

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