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** Another ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'' episode, "Nor the Battle to the Strong", has Jake Sisko: a civilian, aspiring novelist and part-time journalist. While on a besieged planet, Jake defended a field hospital by causing a minor cave-in, killing two Klingon invaders and sealing the entrance. {{spoiler|Except that it was all an accident, he was panicking and shooting blindly, and the results were extraordinary luck for him.}} He freely admitted, however, that he was acting on fear and only trying to stay alive. He even wrote a truthful account of it for publication. He may not be a hero, but he's a very conscientious journalist.
** In yet another ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'' episode, "The House of Quark", Quark accidentally kills a notable Klingon warrior when he attacks him in a drunken rage. [[Anti-Hero|Unlike the normal remorse and guilt of characters put in this position, however, Quark milks the free publicity for all that it's worth]]...until it lands him in the middle of a series of Klingon political intrigues.
* ''[[Lost]]'': in "Through the Looking Glass," Jack is called a hero for pulling a woman and her son from a burning car. When the woman regains consciousness, she reveals that the reason she crashed was {{spoiler|she was looking at Jack, who was [[Interrupted Suicide|about to jump off a bridge at the time]].}}<ref>The [[Irony]] being that even though he was the one to pull them from the car, it was
* ''[[F Troop]]'' "The end of the Civil War was near; When quite accidentally; A hero who sneezed abruptly seized; Retreat and reversed it to victory."
* In an episode of ''[[Frasier]]'', Bulldog enjoys this status when he grabs Roz and spins her away from danger when their coffee shop hangout is attacked by a gunman. In actuality, Bulldog thinks that someone pulling out his wallet is the gunman and spins Roz ''towards'' him, using her as a human shield. The rest of the episode features Bulldog being lauded with praise for being a hero while Frasier tries to convince him to come clean - starting with simply asking him and escalating into more and more elaborate attempts to guilt-trip him. Of course, him being Bulldog, none of this works. Things finally return to normal when Frasier's dad yells "He's got a gun!" at a banquet in Bulldog's honor, causing him to repeat his actions, whereupon he is berated by all the guests there. It turns out, however, that Frasier's dad doesn't really care about right and wrong in this case, he just wanted Frasier to shut up about it.
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