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* "I only meant to make him sick...", usually so that the victim would be unable to do something and the killer could step into the victim's place. It may be a competition, a presentation, or a trip. Or almost anything else.
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== Comic Books ==
* During [[Infinite Crisis]], {{spoiler|Super-boy Prime}} after killing {{spoiler|[[C
▲* During [[Infinite Crisis]], {{spoiler|Super-boy Prime}} after killing {{spoiler|[[C List Fodder|Baby Wildebeest and Pantha]]}}
** {{spoiler|And Bushido}}
== Film ==
* Subverted in ''[[Legally Blonde]]'' where {{spoiler|Chutney insisted that she didn't mean to kill her father, but [[Murder by Mistake|meant to kill Brooke instead]]}}.
* Seymour of the original ''[[The Little Shop of Horrors]]'' says something along these lines. He even says this
* Dorothy in the movie version of ''[[The Wizard of Oz (
== Literature ==
* In the [[Dragonlance]] book ''Dragons of Spring Dawning'', we find out that Berem rarely talks or even interacts with the outside world because in his mind, he's reliving the day that {{spoiler|he accidentally killed his sister, Jasla. He was prying a gemstone out of a ruined temple, and Jasla told him to stop. She grabbed him and in a rage, he shoved her, causing her to fall and get impaled on a stone fragment. Turns out that the death of Jasla is what allowed Takhisis to come back to Krynn and set in motion the War of the Lance}}.
* A subversion of this occurs toward the end of ''[[Harry Potter and
** Also, in the sixth book, when Harry inadvertantly slashes Draco to bits with the ''Sectumsempra'' spell (nearly killing him), he gasps, "No- I didn't-"
* [[Troubled but Cute]] Johnny in ''[[The Outsiders]]'' says this when he {{spoiler|he kills Bob, the Soc who was drowning Ponyboy.}}
== Live
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', after accidently killing her mother's boyfriend, Ted. {{spoiler|Luckily he's a robot}}
* An episode of ''[[CSI]]'', Loco Motives, features a multiple murderer who explains that he didn't mean to kill anyone. He just happens to be prone to causing fatal accidents.
* In the revelation sequence from ''[[
** And to make matters worse,
== New Media ==
* In ''[[Conquering the Horizon]]'' when confronted by Hsthressis's mom (who was also the chieftain and high priestess of Hsthressis's people) Evelyn explains that it was an accident and she didn't know at the time that Hsthressis was a person. At first Evelyn didn't fess up to killing Hsthressis and referred to what she did euphemistically (or deceitfully) referring to killing Hsthressis as hurting Hsthressis "very, very badly". Of course when you are literally bringing someone back to life, the distinction between dead and injured might be a bit blurred.
== Video Games ==
* Thorvald Two-Stone in ''[[Arcanum]]'' was sent to the Isle of Despair for killing a gnome with a single punch at a bar. He is completely non-repentant, saying that the gnome had a weak neck. Thorvald did have a strength of 21, which is pretty much the maximum amount in this game.
* One sidequest in ''[[Dragon Age]]'' ''Origins'' has you disposing of the "evidence" of deals gone bad, and by "evidence" I mean bodies. The people who killed them all give this excuse.
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