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4tell0life4
Since: Mar, 2018
6th Jan, 2020 02:47:28 PM
I guess you can only call it an "accident" when the hero is not supposed to murder the certain person(s) in the first place.
There's Killing in Self-Defense
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KingOfStickers
Since: Jul, 2014
MiinU
Since: Jun, 2011
6th Jan, 2020 03:47:02 PM
@4tell0life4: That's the one (the second to last sentence of paragraph 2 fits the example perfectly). Thanks.
Edited by MiinU
molokai198
Since: Oct, 2012
I remember there was a trope for when a hero kills entirely by accident, or due to circumstance (i.e. a child hero, or a hero with a 'no kill' rule, etc.).
The specific example I'm thinking of is from The Babysitter. Cole is a 12-year old kid, who ends up having to defend himself from a Satanic cult, but he kills two of them purely by accident, without meaning to (edit: the third one accidentally killed himself). The only one deliberately sets out to kill is the cult leader, except she's the only one who doesn't die.
Edited by MiinU