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.
- Emperor Evulz provokes an explosion in the heroes' science lab to make their deaths look like a Freak Lab Accident.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob is The Bluebeard 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...
- Emperor Evulz summons a meteor that looks perfectly normal to wipe out the heroes' whole continent, just to get them.
- 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.
- Bob resurrects Alice and makes it look like a Freak Lab Accident to avoid strange questions.
- Subverted:
- Bob pushes Alice down the stairs with an Evil Grin 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:
- 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.
- Super powers that kill you very easily, like Charlie has to find out the hard way.
- Enforced: Bob shall cross the Moral Event Horizon.
- 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 Screw the Rules, I Have Money! and just bribes the cops to let go off him. Since the law enforcement of the setting is very corrupt, it works.
