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A lot of events in fiction happen by accident. Some are Played for Laughs, some are Played for Drama, but it's shocking how long it can take people to notice they're accidents, and it's odd how often these accidents show up.
See also Infauxmation Desk and Mistaken for Index. Not to be confused with Unexpected Reactions to This Index, which is for accidental responses out of universe.
- Accidental Adultery: My apologies! I did love you, but I never expected to take it this far!
- Accidental Aesop: Wow! Never knew this was a message! I certainly wasn't intending to teach anyone!
- Accidental Aiming Skills: Whoa! I got aim!
- Accidental Art: Wait! I didn't mean to create something this good!
- Accidental Athlete: Wow! I didn't know I had it in me to play that sport so good!
- Accidental Bargaining Skills: Sorry about that! That item wasn't supposed to be sold!
- Accidental Bid: I don't believe it! I actually won something! This was so unexpected!
- Accidental Dance Craze: Wow! I actually invented a dance move!
- Accidental Discovery: Whoops! I didn't mean to find out about that!
- Accidental Hand Hold: Sorry! I wasn't going for your hand!
- Accidental Hero: Wait! I wasn't trying to save the world!
- Accidental Hug: Sorry! Didn't mean to hug you!
- Accidental Innuendo: Wait! That was an innuendo?! I swear! I wasn't trying to make any dirty implication!
- Accidental Kidnapping: My bad! Kidnapping wasn't my inclination!
- Accidental Kiss: Oops! I didn't mean to kiss you!
- Accidental Marriage: Hold on! My inclination wasn't to get married!
- Accidental Misnaming: Darn it! I got your name wrong!
- Accidental Murder: I didn't mean to kill him/her! It was an accident!
- Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon: I didn't mean to kill him/her! Someone swapped out the fake for the real deal!
- Accidental Pervert: Sorry! I didn't mean to disturb your privacy!
- Accidental Pornomancer: Whoops! I didn't mean to seduce you!
- Accidental Proposal: Wait! I didn't mean to propose to you!
- Accidental Public Confession: Oh no! I spilled the beans in front of everyone by mistake!
- Accidental Pun: Wow! That was a pun?! Never noticed!
- Accidental Theft: Shoot, I forgot to pay for it!
- Accidental Tickle Torture: Sorry! Didn't mean to tickle you! Hehe!
- Accidental Time Travel: I didn't mean to go here, er, now!
- Accidental Truth: Wait! It's true after all?! That was just a lie I made up, but I didn't know it was true!
- Accidental Unfortunate Gesture: Oops! I swear, I didn't know what the hand gesture mean!
- Accidental Ventriloquism: Wait! Did that sound just come out of my mouth?!
- Accidentally Correct Writing: This is amazing! I didn't even do any research for my work yet I still got my information right!
- Accidentally Correct Zoology: This is also amazing! I didn't know the species I made up is actually real!
- Badass Unintentional: Whoa! I'm tougher than I thought I was!
- Bungled Hypnotism: Oops! The hypnosis I induced has unintended side effects!
- Coincidental Accidental Disguise: Wait! I'm not really some grotesque-looking creature! It's just me covered up in an unintentional disguise!
- Collateral Damage: I swear we really didn't intend to injure those civilians who got in our way while we were trying to attack our enemies!
- Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Oops! I should have just kept my big mouth shut!
- Epic Fail: Wow! That was perhaps the stupidest mistake I ever made!
- Freak Lab Accident: Whoa! This isn't what I expected from a scientific experiment, but I'll take these results!
- Fumbling the Gauntlet: Oh no! I didn't mean to declare war on you!
- Gone Horribly Right: Oh my! This plan did work, but not the way I wanted it to!
- Gone Horribly Wrong: Darn! I wanted this plan to succeed!
- I Didn't Mean to Kill Him: It was an accident! I wasn't planning on murdering him!
- I Didn't Mean to Turn You On: Why are you blushing like that? Eep! I'm sorry I got you all flustered! I really wasn't trying to do that!
- Innocent Bigot: Wait, what do you mean, that's offensive?
- Innocently Insensitive: Oh! Did I say something to offend you?! It wasn't meant to be offensive!
- Intimate Artistry: Whoa! I guess my love for the guy/girl of my dreams is so distracting that I didn't realize I actually drew him/her!
- Lethal Klutz: I'm sorry I hurt you with my clumsiness!
- Left Your Lifesaver Behind
- Murder by Mistake: Dammit! I murdered the wrong person!
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: I didn't mean to mess everything up!
- Nice Job Breaking It, Herod!: Ah, man! I managed to kill every baby except the one I was supposed to!
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: No! I shouldn't have made anything better for you! I'm supposed to do damage, not fix it!
- Not What It Looks Like: I swear! This isn't what you think it is!
- Oblivious Guilt Slinging: I didn't mean to make you feel guilty.
- Oblivious Mockery: I didn't mean to make fun of you!
- One-Night-Stand Pregnancy: I didn't mean to get knocked up!
- Own Goal: Oops! I meant to score in the other team's goal!
- Pocket Dial: Sorry, I didn't mean to call!
- Springtime for Hitler: Hold on! I wanted this plan to fail!
- Surprise Incest: Wait. We're related? I wouldn't have started dating you had I known that.
- Testing Range Mishap: Oops, I guess that test didn't work out so well out in the field.
- Trapped the Wrong Target: Oops, my trap wasn't supposed to catch you.
- Unfortunate Implications: (YMMV) That came off as way more offensive than I meant it to!
- Unfortunate Item Swap: Oops! I grabbed the wrong thing!
- Unintentional Backup Plan: My plan didn't work, but it's still the reason I won!
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: I'm sorry! I didn't mean to cause the danger that just happened!
- Wardrobe Malfunction: I didn't mean to expose myself!
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