Tropescilloscope: Make It Look Like an Accident

A murder made to look like an accidental death. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Enemy Mine All for Nothing A Minor Kidroduction Almost Kiss Kids Are Cruel Narrator Earn Your Happy Ending Big Brother Instinct My Beloved Smother Even Evil Has Standards Self-Deprecation Coming-of-Age Story Pretty in Mink Slasher Smile Race Lift Politically Incorrect Villain Bi the Way Artistic License – Military Kick the Dog Shout-Out Unusual Euphemism The Load Humans Are Bastards Historical-Domain Character Hollywood Law Music Stories Adaptation Name Change The Smurfette Principle Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Dark and Troubled Past Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Ambiguously Gay Only Sane Man Bald of Evil Blackmail Call-Forward Badass Bookworm Bond One-Liner Eiffel Tower Effect Informed Ability Took a Level in Jerkass Redshirt Army Whole Plot Reference Maybe Ever After Russian Films Made of Explodium Heroic BSoD Light Is Not Good Nothing Is Scarier Death Glare Motor Mouth Badass Normal Meet Cute Fiery Redhead Big Fancy House Foregone Conclusion Kill 'em All Sports Stories Revenge In Medias Res Funny Background Event Instant Death Bullet Big "NO!" Catch-Phrase Exact Words Irony Dropped a Bridge on Him Daddy's Girl Dying Moment of Awesome Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Slashed Throat Big Eater I Did What I Had to Do True Companions Composite Character Fanservice Totally Radical Horror Comedy No Ending Dull Surprise No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Eye Scream Get Out! Wham Line Mugging the Monster The Ghost Martial Arts Movie Due to the Dead Psychopathic Manchild Evil-Detecting Dog For the Evulz Together in Death Extremely Short Timespan Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Bad Boss B-Movie Guile Hero Dutch Angle Eureka Moment Laughing Mad Adaptational Heroism Sir Swears-a-Lot Advertised Extra Silent Movie Names to Run Away from Really Fast "Well Done, Son!" Guy Fan Disservice The Ditz Precision F-Strike Getting Crap Past the Radar And Starring Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Faceless Cat Scare "Awesome McCool" Name Chekhov's Skill Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Make It Look Like an Accident All Men Are Perverts It Can Think Red Oni, Blue Oni Shown Their Work Villain Song Ghost Fiction Air-Vent Passageway No OSHA Compliance Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Word of God Not So Above It All Determinator aka: The Determinator Costume Porn And the Adventure Continues Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Arch-Enemy I Need a Freaking Drink Book-Ends Beta Couple You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Retcon Insane Troll Logic Rule of Funny Sacrificial Lion Laser-Guided Karma Frame-Up The Place Cool Shades Ironic Echo Better to Die than Be Killed Lampshade Hanging Line-of-Sight Name Intrepid Reporter Cloudcuckoolander Danny Peary Cult Movies List Taking You with Me Back from the Dead The Starscream Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Epic Fail Monumental Damage Outrun the Fireball Decoy Protagonist Auto Erotica Famous Last Words Large Ham Betty and Veronica Public Domain Feature Films Babies Ever After The Mole Beauty Is Never Tarnished Brutal Honesty Plot Hole Plucky Comic Relief Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Deconstruction Crucified Hero Shot Hero of Another Story Failed a Spot Check I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Genre Savvy Covers Always Lie Only Known by Their Nickname Mad Scientist Empathic Environment Closed Circle Affectionate Parody Thriller Suddenly SHOUTING! Cruel and Unusual Death Vampire Fiction Psycho for Hire Hypocrite Rule of Three Bury Your Gays Knight Templar Take That! Dark Is Not Evil Didn't Think This Through Men Are the Expendable Gender The Bad Guy Wins The Un-Reveal Mr. Exposition Mercy Kill Bloodless Carnage Exactly What It Says on the Tin Never My Fault Same Language Dub Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Brother–Sister Incest Those Two Guys Roaring Rampage of Revenge Darkest Hour Diabolus ex Machina Authority Equals Asskicking Not So Different Once More, with Clarity! Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Eagleland I'm a Humanitarian Genre Throwback Pragmatic Adaptation The Atoner Developing Doomed Characters Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Very Loosely Based on a True Story Crazy Jealous Guy Cool Old Guy Attempted Rape Television Movie Index Heel–Face Turn Chiaroscuro Amusing Injuries Adaptation Dye-Job No Antagonist Protagonist Title Ungrateful Bastard Heroes Want Redheads Meaningful Background Event Bavarian Fire Drill Novelization Cool Car Darker and Edgier Contrived Coincidence Italian Films Continuity Nod Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The Film of the Book Tempting Fate Curse Cut Short Sealed Evil in a Can Animal Title Index Deus ex Machina Camp Gay Actually Pretty Funny Chase Scene Hero Antagonist Domestic Abuse Manly Tears Star-Crossed Lovers Drives Like Crazy Let's Get Dangerous! Karma Houdini Throwing Your Sword Always Works Psychological Thriller Storming the Castle Curb-Stomp Battle Intergenerational Friendship Double Entendre Tap on the Head Reality Is Unrealistic All Just a Dream Hooker with a Heart of Gold Sinister Minister Last-Name Basis Boom, Headshot! Camera Abuse Face–Heel Turn Woman Scorned Fatal Flaw Dark Action Girl Adaptational Villainy Canon Foreigner Does Not Like Shoes Blatant Lies Bottomless Magazines Demoted to Extra Artistic License – Biology Unreliable Narrator Ship Tease Creative Closing Credits Playing Gertrude Artistic License – Geography Sadistic Choice Cowboy Cop Fire-Forged Friends The Ace Disproportionate Retribution The Stoner I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Sequel Escalation Noodle Incident One-Man Army Dirty Old Man Corrupt Corporate Executive Wicked Cultured Lock and Load Montage Expository Hairstyle Change Bittersweet Ending Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Expy Spiritual Successor Knife Nut Hoist by His Own Petard Rasputinian Death Black Comedy Rape Fate Worse than Death Serial Killer Action Prologue For Want of a Nail Bad "Bad Acting" Death Seeker Leaning on the Fourth Wall From Bad to Worse Historical Villain Upgrade Defiant to the End Framing Device Posthumous Character Put on a Bus Fanservice Extra The Great Depression Toplessness from the Back Mama Bear Final Girl Cold-Blooded Torture Faking the Dead Death by Irony Captain Ersatz Freudian Excuse Say My Name Country Matters Big Applesauce Vomit Indiscretion Shot Card-Carrying Villain Morality Pet Pyrrhic Victory Male Gaze Heterosexual Life-Partners Punny Name Evil Plan Sci-Fi Horror Ms. Fanservice Works Set in World War II Important Haircut Index of Film Westerns No Celebrities Were Harmed Conspicuous CG Heel Realization Hong Kong Films Vacation Films Up to Eleven Hope Spot Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Funny Foreigner Villainous Breakdown Death of a Child Action Girl Science Fiction Films Damsel in Distress Obfuscating Stupidity The Chessmaster Random Events Plot Ripped from the Headlines Disguised in Drag Stuff Blowing Up Spared by the Adaptation All There in the Script All There in the Manual Dramatic Gun Cock Pimped-Out Dress Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Fish out of Water Moment Killer Take a Third Option Disney Villain Death Oh, Crap! Guns Akimbo Deal with the Devil One-Word Title Chekhov's Gunman And I Must Scream Evil Laugh Destination Defenestration The '80s Token Minority Casting Gag Dirty Cop Bar Brawl Shut Up, Hannibal! Genre Shift Logo Joke Gorn Reasonable Authority Figure German Films Refuge in Audacity Bloody Hilarious As Long as It Sounds Foreign Biopic Show Within a Show Adaptational Badass Grey and Gray Morality Five-Man Band "The Reason You Suck" Speech Gender Flip Gone Horribly Right Would Hit a Girl Leave the Camera Running Your Cheating Heart Captain Obvious Off with His Head! Stylistic Suck Sassy Black Woman Zombie Stories Properly Paranoid Did Not Get the Girl Impaled with Extreme Prejudice No-Sell Apocalypse How The Vamp Fingore Stock Footage Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Mistaken for Gay Have a Gay Old Time Ax-Crazy O.O.C. Is Serious Business Jump Scare Character Development Cool Old Lady Historical In-Joke After the End Bullying a Dragon Left the Background Music On Military and Warfare Films Off-into-the-Distance Ending Only a Flesh Wound Call-Back Imagine Spot Shipper on Deck Rousing Speech Cat Fight Suspiciously Specific Denial N-Word Privileges Victoria's Secret Compartment Mood Whiplash Naked People Are Funny Horror Films Kick the Son of a Bitch Peek-a-Boo Corpse Our Zombies Are Different Paper-Thin Disguise Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Anachronic Order Super Strength Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Rated M for Manly Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Black Dude Dies First Gratuitous English The Remake Dissonant Serenity Femme Fatale Nice Hat Not What It Looks Like Wham Shot What You Are in the Dark Brainless Beauty Naïve Newcomer Re-Cut Parental Incest Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Evil Counterpart folderlabel Silence Is Golden Spiteful Spit Fatal Family Photo Stealth Hi/Bye Punch-Clock Villain Scenery Gorn Shirtless Scene Badass in a Nice Suit Driven to Suicide Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Evil Brit The '50s Deliberately Monochrome Big-Bad Ensemble Evil Sounds Deep Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Rule of Symbolism Defrosting Ice Queen Anti-Hero Heroic Sacrifice Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Accidental Murder She's Got Legs Hollywood Darkness Meaningful Name Artistic License – Gun Safety Brick Joke Body Horror Visual Pun Bloodier and Gorier Worthy Opponent Wrong Genre Savvy Immune to Bullets Reality Has No Subtitles The Cavalry Chekhov's Gun The Bully Pay Evil unto Evil Title Drop Redemption Equals Death Race Against the Clock Non-Indicative Name World of Ham Department of Redundancy Department Award-Bait Song Rule of Cool Yandere Red Eyes, Take Warning Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Those Wacky Nazis Butt-Monkey Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Neck Lift Improbable Weapon User Smoking Is Cool The Sociopath Those Two Bad Guys Daylight Horror Sequel Hook Animated Credits Opening Ascended Extra Fantastic Racism Jerkass Has a Point Easily Forgiven Becoming the Mask Ominous Latin Chanting Creepy Child Fun with Acronyms Major Injury Underreaction Nice Guy As Himself Scenery Porn Film Noir Badass Boast Distracted by the Sexy No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Adaptation Distillation Badass Grandpa The Dragon Hypocritical Humor Alpha Bitch Hidden Depths "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Mexican Standoff Black Comedy Ass Shove British Films French Films Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Death by Sex As the Good Book Says... Beware the Nice Ones No Name Given Author Appeal Male Frontal Nudity Dwindling Party It's All About Me Bare Your Midriff Vitriolic Best Buds Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Bring My Brown Pants timeperiod Drill Sergeant Nasty Eldritch Abomination Anguished Declaration of Love Video Credits The Cameo Death by Adaptation Grievous Bottley Harm Film Series NO INDOOR VOICE Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Evil Is Petty Deliberate Values Dissonance Aluminum Christmas Trees As You Know Face Death with Dignity Time Skip Would Hurt a Child Real Life The Quiet One Determinator Freeze-Frame Bonus Not Using the "Z" Word Early Installment Weirdness Interrupted Suicide Soundtrack Dissonance More Dakka Older Than They Look The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Manipulative Bastard Not Quite Dead Annoying Younger Sibling Papa Wolf Idiot Ball In the Back Calling the Old Man Out Wounded Gazelle Gambit Dirty Coward '80s Hair Adaptation Expansion Sexy Discretion Shot Only in It for the Money The Stoic Everyone Has Standards The Lancer Fantasy Films Setting Update From Nobody to Nightmare Handicapped Badass Homage Parental Neglect Training Montage Shower Scene War Is Hell Red Right Hand Jerk Jock Woman in White Mind Screw Villain Opening Scene Abhorrent Admirer Gainax Ending Henpecked Husband Jerk with a Heart of Gold Taking the Bullet Action Survivor Villain with Good Publicity Break the Haughty Adapted Out Be Careful What You Wish For Anachronism Stew Romantic False Lead Manic Pixie Dream Girl Green-Eyed Monster One Steve Limit Bunny-Ears Lawyer Match Cut Gilligan Cut Offscreen Moment of Awesome Broken Aesop An Arm and a Leg Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Foil Arc Words Mooks Bowdlerise Dressing as the Enemy The Lost Lenore Mr. Fanservice She Cleans Up Nicely My Greatest Failure Took a Level in Badass A God Am I Establishing Character Moment It Will Never Catch On Christmas Movies Index Chewing the Scenery Dramatic Irony Mythology Gag Improbable Aiming Skills Film Noir Index "Shaggy Dog" Story Bond Villain Stupidity Never Trust a Trailer Dumb Blonde Overprotective Dad Lighter and Softer Retired Badass Age Lift Suspiciously Similar Substitute Adult Fear Man on Fire Black Best Friend Stepford Smiler Beard of Evil Not So Stoic Credits Gag He Knows Too Much Mighty Whitey The Smart Guy Stalker with a Crush Insistent Terminology Big Bad Duumvirate Riddle for the Ages Twist Ending Manchild How We Got Here Neck Snap Gold Digger The Reveal It's Personal Honor Before Reason Cool Guns Asshole Victim Animal Motifs Broken Bird Despair Event Horizon The Power of Love Running Gag The X of Y Bound and Gagged Adorkable Arranged Marriage Epic Movie Jerkass Humiliation Conga You Killed My Father Hair-Trigger Temper Break the Cutie Faux Affably Evil Kill It with Fire Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Drowning My Sorrows Actor Allusion The Brute Deadpan Snarker BFG Flashback Depraved Bisexual Double-Meaning Title Armor-Piercing Question The Casanova A Date with Rosie Palms Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Alas, Poor Villain The Stinger Red Herring Fake Shemp Alliterative Name Pretty Little Headshots Blood Knight Pragmatic Villainy Recycled IN SPACE! Reality Ensues Well-Intentioned Extremist Good Is Not Nice Hell Is That Noise Blood from the Mouth Cluster F-Bomb Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Tagline The Musical Author Avatar An Axe to Grind Shoot the Shaggy Dog Agony of the Feet Action Genre Love Triangle Truth in Television The Alleged Car Fourth Date Marriage Offscreen Teleportation Madness Mantra Reckless Gun Usage Dies Wide Open Big Damn Heroes Celebrity Paradox Anti-Villain Cassandra Truth You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Evil Is Hammy Real Life Writes the Plot Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Villain Protagonist Small Name, Big Ego MacGuffin Sanity Slippage Implacable Man Fat Bastard Pre-Mortem One-Liner Undying Loyalty I Have Your Wife There Is No Kill Like Overkill Insult Backfire Straight Gay Overly Long Gag Adaptational Attractiveness A.I. Is a Crapshoot Karmic Death Crapsack World Serious Business Stealth Pun Never Found the Body Artistic License – Physics Demonic Possession Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Japanese Films Soft Glass Product Placement Greater-Scope Villain The Oner The '60s The Hero Artistic License – History Malevolent Masked Men Creator Cameo Wretched Hive Trailers Always Spoil The Mafia Parental Substitute La Résistance The Alcoholic Car Fu A Father to His Men Black and Gray Morality Red Shirt Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Sole Survivor Spell My Name with an "S" Crazy-Prepared Accidental Misnaming Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Does This Remind You of Anything? Gory Discretion Shot Obstructive Bureaucrat Four-Temperament Ensemble Disappeared Dad Rape as Drama Needs Wiki Magic Love Extreme Doormat Scary Black Man Bolivian Army Ending Tranquil Fury Belligerent Sexual Tension Half the Man He Used to Be All Girls Want Bad Boys Abusive Parents Even Evil Has Loved Ones Badass Longcoat Breaking the Fourth Wall Made of Iron Superhero Documentary Dark Reprise Early-Bird Cameo Big Bad Unresolved Sexual Tension Adults Are Useless Love at First Sight The Voiceless Happily Married Smug Snake Too Dumb to Live Kubrick Stare Bilingual Bonus Loads and Loads of Characters Drugs Are Bad Skewed Priorities Really Gets Around Police Brutality Translation Convention Children Are Innocent Our Vampires Are Different Central Theme Rewatch Bonus Combat Pragmatist Your Head A-Splode Based on a True Story 20 Minutes into the Future Corpsing Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer My God, What Have I Done? Aside Glance Groin Attack You Have Failed Me Dogged Nice Guy Downer Ending The '70s Pet the Dog Improvised Weapon Dramedy The Big Guy Vomit Discretion Shot Obviously Evil Friend to All Children The Chick Disney Death Only One Name Eyepatch of Power This Is Gonna Suck Retirony Every Car Is a Pinto Unspoken Plan Guarantee What Happened to the Mouse? The Dreaded Canadian Movies The Dog Bites Back Ambiguous Ending Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Unwitting Instigator of Doom Romantic Comedy Berserk Button Broken Pedestal Married to the Job Mundane Made Awesome Bland-Name Product Slasher Movie Parental Abandonment Villain Ball Antagonist Title Fainting Hate Sink Here We Go Again! Market-Based Title Killed Mid-Sentence Shell-Shocked Veteran Scare Chord Ambiguous Disorder Unusually Uninteresting Sight In Name Only Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Rich Bitch Facial Horror Foreshadowing Jitter Cam Anyone Can Die Spanner in the Works What the Hell, Hero? Missing Mom Artistic License – Law Evil vs. Evil Historical Hero Upgrade The '90s Police are Useless Mystery and Detective Films Awesome, but Impractical Batman Gambit The End... Or Is It? Loophole Abuse Cain and Abel Dual Wielding Flipping the Bird Bait-and-Switch Slap-Slap-Kiss Amoral Attorney Room Full of Crazy Meaningful Echo An Aesop May–December Romance The Hero Dies He Who Fights Monsters Comically Missing the Point Catapult Nightmare Not Even Bothering with the Accent Leitmotif Poor Communication Kills Australian Movies Affably Evil