Tropescilloscope: Accidental Murder

A situation lacking lethal intent ends with someone dying anyway. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Italian Films Smoking Is Cool Rule of Three Flipping the Bird Idiot Ball Death of a Child Dual Wielding Intergenerational Friendship Hollywood Law Award-Bait Song O.O.C. Is Serious Business Adult Fear Wounded Gazelle Gambit Poor Communication Kills Large Ham Daddy's Girl Too Dumb to Live Half the Man He Used to Be Thriller Zombie Stories Bond Villain Stupidity Covers Always Lie Defrosting Ice Queen Asshole Victim Real Life Writes the Plot Disney Villain Death Spanner in the Works Sealed Evil in a Can After the End Rich Bitch Leave the Camera Running Adaptational Heroism Leaning on the Fourth Wall Badass Bookworm Adapted Out Let's Get Dangerous! Narrator Super Strength The Place Adaptational Attractiveness Token Minority Slasher Smile Final Girl Hero Antagonist The Hero Red Shirt No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Batman Gambit Hell Is That Noise How We Got Here Dramedy Contrived Coincidence Refuge in Audacity My Greatest Failure For the Evulz Pragmatic Adaptation Woman Scorned It Can Think Mind Screw Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Big Guy Truth in Television Shout-Out Foregone Conclusion Romantic Comedy Bland-Name Product Implacable Man Taking the Bullet Pet the Dog Reality Is Unrealistic Famous Last Words Downer Ending In Name Only The '80s Male Gaze Insult Backfire Facial Horror Despair Event Horizon Dropped a Bridge on Him Important Haircut Only in It for the Money Eiffel Tower Effect Heel Realization Damsel in Distress The Smurfette Principle Unspoken Plan Guarantee Guns Akimbo Stepford Smiler Not Quite Dead Dramatic Gun Cock Creator Cameo Sir Swears-a-Lot Non-Indicative Name Big Eater Improbable Weapon User Adults Are Useless Sassy Black Woman B-Movie Be Careful What You Wish For Serial Killer Setting Update Eureka Moment Bittersweet Ending The Dreaded The Starscream Crazy Jealous Guy Overly Long Gag Evil Plan Suspiciously Similar Substitute Interrupted Suicide Berserk Button Actor Allusion Badass in a Nice Suit Affectionate Parody Immune to Bullets Rewatch Bonus Unusually Uninteresting Sight Throwing Your Sword Always Works Creative Closing Credits Crucified Hero Shot Wrong Genre Savvy The Alleged Car Taking You with Me All There in the Script A.I. 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Four-Temperament Ensemble From Bad to Worse Never My Fault Bavarian Fire Drill Mighty Whitey Belligerent Sexual Tension Horror Films Ominous Latin Chanting This Is Gonna Suck Toplessness from the Back A God Am I Random Events Plot Meaningful Echo Ambiguous Ending Hoist by His Own Petard Room Full of Crazy Soft Glass Accidental Murder The Ditz Evil Is Petty Faux Affably Evil A Date with Rosie Palms Adaptational Badass Meaningful Name Black Comedy Blood from the Mouth Film Series Fat Bastard Darker and Edgier Anti-Villain NO INDOOR VOICE Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Jerk with a Heart of Gold All There in the Manual Index of Film Westerns Heel–Face Turn Faking the Dead Fake Shemp Stuff Blowing Up Bond One-Liner Parental Substitute Red Herring From Nobody to Nightmare Bad Boss Jerk Jock Morality Pet Gender Flip Gone Horribly Right Laser-Guided Karma Action Girl Blatant Lies Stylistic Suck Hypocritical Humor Good Is Not Nice No Celebrities Were Harmed The Alcoholic Light Is Not Good Same Language Dub Enemy Mine Bloodier and Gorier Camera Abuse You Killed My Father Antagonist Title Mystery and Detective Films And the Adventure Continues Scenery Porn Shown Their Work Big Bad Duumvirate Genre Shift Australian Movies Department of Redundancy Department Frame-Up Logo Joke Cassandra Truth Roaring Rampage of Revenge Auto Erotica Japanese Films Stealth Hi/Bye Parental Incest What You Are in the Dark Celebrity Paradox Attempted Rape Mundane Made Awesome The Chessmaster It Will Never Catch On What Happened to the Mouse? Love at First Sight Missing Mom Domestic Abuse Drives Like Crazy Spiteful Spit Reality Has No Subtitles Foil And Starring "The Reason You Suck" Speech Composite Character Gold Digger Beauty Is Never Tarnished Redemption Equals Death Took a Level in Badass Freudian Excuse Decoy Protagonist Parental Abandonment Calling the Old Man Out Really Gets Around I Did What I Had to Do Gratuitous English Self-Deprecation Scenery Gorn Bar Brawl Cool Guns He Knows Too Much Five-Man Band Retired Badass Slashed Throat Action Prologue Recycled IN SPACE! World of Ham Peek-a-Boo Corpse Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Tap on the Head Silence Is Golden Manly Tears Canon Foreigner Training Montage Exactly What It Says on the Tin Politically Incorrect Villain Black Dude Dies First Heroes Want Redheads Karmic Death Heterosexual Life-Partners Chekhov's Gun Those Two Bad Guys Paper-Thin Disguise Obfuscating Stupidity Put on a Bus Curse Cut Short Hong Kong Films Alas, Poor Villain Outrun the Fireball Laughing Mad The Dog Bites Back Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Abhorrent Admirer Catapult Nightmare Music Stories Funny Background Event Say My Name Combat Pragmatist Cowboy Cop Improvised Weapon La Résistance Serious Business Plot Hole Small Name, Big Ego Product Placement Even Evil Has Loved Ones Wham Shot Ambiguous Disorder Deadpan Snarker Kill It with Fire Historical Villain Upgrade Deliberately Monochrome Sequel Hook Very Loosely Based on a True Story Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Anyone Can Die Spiritual Successor As Himself "Well Done, Son!" Guy Establishing Character Moment Big Bad Dirty Old Man Black Comedy Rape "Awesome McCool" Name Offscreen Teleportation Tagline Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Nice Hat You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Depraved Bisexual Precision F-Strike Not So Stoic Film Noir Bloodless Carnage Shell-Shocked Veteran Instant Death Bullet Green-Eyed Monster Cool Old Lady Sci-Fi Horror Superhero Demonic Possession Stalker with a Crush The '90s Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Take a Third Option Fire-Forged Friends Made of Iron The '60s Wicked Cultured Age Lift Undying Loyalty Arch-Enemy Hope Spot Body Horror Bilingual Bonus Vomit Discretion Shot I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Demoted to Extra No-Sell Spared by the Adaptation Easily Forgiven Retirony As the Good Book Says... 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Car Fu Evil vs. Evil Mythology Gag N-Word Privileges Face Death with Dignity Corrupt Corporate Executive She Cleans Up Nicely Sanity Slippage Made of Explodium Not So Above It All Fan Disservice Word of God Cool Shades The Vamp Anachronic Order One-Word Title Disproportionate Retribution Rule of Funny The Un-Reveal Dirty Coward Babies Ever After Rule of Symbolism Every Car Is a Pinto Dumb Blonde Curb-Stomp Battle Amoral Attorney Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Author Avatar Romantic False Lead Bullying a Dragon Leitmotif Dogged Nice Guy Television Movie Index Boom, Headshot! Not So Different Off with His Head! 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Mexican Standoff Broken Aesop Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Epic Movie Fourth Date Marriage Grey and Gray Morality Evil Is Hammy Friend to All Children Villain with Good Publicity Twist Ending Papa Wolf Disney Death The Smart Guy Deus ex Machina The Voiceless Greater-Scope Villain Death Glare Badass Longcoat The End... Or Is It? 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Brainless Beauty Anguished Declaration of Love The Brute Maybe Ever After Determinator aka: The Determinator Jerkass May–December Romance Tempting Fate Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Suspiciously Specific Denial Intrepid Reporter Documentary Kick the Son of a Bitch Historical-Domain Character Fish out of Water Early Installment Weirdness Didn't Think This Through Wham Line Wretched Hive The Chick Coming-of-Age Story Back from the Dead British Films The Remake Blackmail Manchild Arranged Marriage Framing Device Broken Pedestal Manic Pixie Dream Girl Awesome, but Impractical Big "NO!" Disappeared Dad The Bad Guy Wins Anti-Hero Silent Movie Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Match Cut Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Mugging the Monster Biopic Last-Name Basis The Stoner Big Damn Heroes Those Two Guys "Shaggy Dog" Story Villain Ball Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Star-Crossed Lovers The Stinger Sequel Escalation Femme Fatale Would Hurt a Child Ascended Extra Yandere Bait-and-Switch Only Known by Their Nickname Cain and Abel Country Matters Air-Vent Passageway Meet Cute Names to Run Away from Really Fast Riddle for the Ages Motor Mouth Reasonable Authority Figure Take That! Punny Name Mercy Kill Anachronism Stew Knight Templar The Quiet One Ass Shove Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Camp Gay The Reveal Almost Kiss Artistic License – Gun Safety Sadistic Choice Grievous Bottley Harm Noodle Incident Bolivian Army Ending Fantastic Racism Mad Scientist Here We Go Again! Neck Snap Cat Scare Whole Plot Reference Evil Sounds Deep Author Appeal Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Broken Bird The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Historical In-Joke An Aesop Worthy Opponent Gilligan Cut Christmas Movies Index Married to the Job Adaptation Expansion Extreme Doormat The Cameo Together in Death Adaptation Name Change Love Triangle Dutch Angle Oh, Crap! Darkest Hour Due to the Dead No Name Given Well-Intentioned Extremist Death by Adaptation Ironic Echo Mr. Fanservice Kubrick Stare