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* '''Straight''': Bob murders his wife Alice by pushing her down the stairs. He claims that she just slipped, fell down and broke her neck.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is TheBluebeard and does this to more than ten wives: Charlene was allegedly run over by a bus, Denise died in a kitchen fire, Ellie drowned in a storm on a sailing trip together...

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* '''Straight''': '''Straight''':
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Bob murders his wife Alice by pushing her down the stairs. He claims that she just slipped, fell down and broke her neck.
** Emperor Evulz provokes an explosion in the heroes' science lab to make their deaths look like a FreakLabAccident.
* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
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Bob is TheBluebeard and does this to more than ten wives: Charlene was allegedly run over by a bus, Denise died in a kitchen fire, Ellie drowned in a storm on a sailing trip together...together...
** Emperor Evulz summons a meteor that looks perfectly normal to wipe out the heroes' whole continent, just to get them.



* '''Inverted''': Bob fabricates an accident to save Alice's life.
* '''Subverted''': Bob pushes Alice down the stairs with an EvilGrin on his face. But Alice survives, and Bob states that he only wanted to scare her.
* '''Double Subverted''': Then Bob steps on her stomach and causes an internal bleeding, what is a likely injury in such a type of accident and kills her.

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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Bob fabricates an accident to save Alice's life.
** Bob resurrects Alice and makes it look like a FreakLabAccident to avoid strange questions.
* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Bob pushes Alice down the stairs with an EvilGrin on his face. But Alice survives, and Bob states that he only wanted to scare her.
** The lab accident created by Evulz actually gives the heroes super powers.
* '''Double Subverted''': Subverted''':
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Then Bob steps on her stomach and causes an internal bleeding, what is a likely injury in such a type of accident and kills her.her.
** Super powers that kill you very easily, like Charlie has to find out the hard way.



* '''Reconstructed''': Bob goes ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney and just bribes the cops to let go off him.

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* '''Reconstructed''': Bob goes ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney and just bribes the cops to let go off him. Since the law enforcement of the setting is very corrupt, it works.
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'''Basic Trope Description''': Someone is murdered in a manner that resembles an accident, usually to avoid suspicion.

* '''Straight''': Bob murders his wife Alice by pushing her down the stairs. He claims that she just slipped, fell down and broke her neck.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is TheBluebeard and does this to more than ten wives: Charlene was allegedly run over by a bus, Denise died in a kitchen fire, Ellie drowned in a storm on a sailing trip together...
* '''Downplayed''': Bob is in an argument with Alice and tries to shock her by pushing her down the stairs and hurting her.
* '''Justified''': Bob wants to avoid suspicion (the most common justification).
* '''Inverted''': Bob fabricates an accident to save Alice's life.
* '''Subverted''': Bob pushes Alice down the stairs with an EvilGrin on his face. But Alice survives, and Bob states that he only wanted to scare her.
* '''Double Subverted''': Then Bob steps on her stomach and causes an internal bleeding, what is a likely injury in such a type of accident and kills her.
* '''Enforced''': Bob shall cross the MoralEventHorizon.
* '''Averted''': All murders in the show are rather obvious murders.
* '''Parodied''': Bob tries to sell "two gunshots in the back of the head" as an accident, and the police believes him.
* '''Lampshaded''': "We have to investigate a deadly accident." "Oh no, I hope not another murder."
* '''Discussed''': "And how did you ward off suspicion so long?" "Every single one looked like some deadly accident."
* '''Conversed''': "It is hard to get that right. That must be pretty experienced murderers."
* '''Deconstructed''': The police gets suspicious on how so many accidents happen in Bob's proximity. Finally, they find out that Bob must produce them.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob goes ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney and just bribes the cops to let go off him.

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