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Daefaroth
Since: Jan, 2014
10th May, 2018 06:39:05 PM
I don't think it is either.
It is absolutely not Marvin, which is about an unintentional shooting that killed someone when the shooter should have known better and was not following basic gun safety.
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PaulA
Since: Jan, 2010
10th May, 2018 07:42:39 PM
It's not Unfriendly Fire either: that's about deliberately killing somebody you know is on your side and passing it off as a mistake.
You're looking for Friend or Foe?.
In a post-Necropolis story of Judge Dredd (issue #826), the plot revolves around a Street Judge who, when a pair of Special Judicial Squad members burst into her flat to administer a Random Physical Abuse Test (basically grabbing Street Judges at random and torturing them to test their ability to withstand interrogation), grabbed her gun and shot them both dead, presuming them to be would-be assassins. The plot of the chapter revolves around arguing about what's a suitable punishment for her, or even if she deserves a punishment. As the title says, what trope covers her killing people who turn out to be (technically) friendlies without knowing who they were until it was too late?