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