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A specific and common variety of Make It Look Like an Accident, this is an assassination attempt during a hunting party which cleverly takes advantage of all of the weaponry about to "accidentally" fire upon a fellow participant. Particularly clever about this method is that even if the perpetrator was identified as firing the fatal shot, at most, they appear guilty of manslaughter. The weapons aren't the only dangerous things one encounters while hunting, of course: variations of this trope are seen in which the victim is killed by a riding "accident" or their supposed quarry or something else. These can make for the most convincing "accidents", but tend to be somewhat more complex to arrange. Of course, sometimes, it fails to look like an accident at all. Might overlap with This Bear Was Framed, when a murder scene is tampered with so it looks like a wild animal did it. Murphy's Bullet can be used as an excuse, too. Sister Trope of Unfriendly Fire, which is passing off a murder of a fellow soldier as just a casualty of war. If there's not even the pretense of an accident, see Hunting the Most Dangerous Game. As this can be a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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Near the end of The Three Hostages, the villain attempts to arrange such an "accident" for the hero. | |
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Something similar was attempted in Desperate Housewives. It wasn't a hunting trip, but rather a camping trip where "poachers" were supposedly around. | |
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Heralds of Valdemar: After Queen Selenay's husband Prince Karathanelan is killed during his attempt to assassinate Selenay, the explanation is that he died in a hunting accident. It's Metaphorically True, since he was hunting Selenay. Atypically, Thanel is a villain, and his killers are the heroes of the piece. Karathanelan's own family also realizes what really happened, but it turns out they knew he was scum too and decide not to press the matter further. In the short story "A Leash of Greyhounds", Lady Shantell insists this is what happened to her husband at the hand of his friend, while the friend maintains that he thought he was shooting at a deer. The inquest proves that the man's death really was an accident and that he was stupid enough to go hunting in brown pants and boots and a deerskin jacket. |
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In the song To Keep My Love Alive, the narrator sends her erstwhile husband Sir Alfred on a hunting trip. The searchers are still hunting for him. | |
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One method of assassinating rivals in Crusader Kings is to arrange a hunting accident. Hunting events can also result in genuine hunting accidents. The third game has a possible double-up event where you catch one of your companions on a hunt killing a fellow guest in the undergrowth, and then trying to claim "It wasn't me! It was the hart!". One of your response options is to kill the killer in retribution and say "Too bad the hart got both of you". | |
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In one episode of That '70s Show, Red Foreman takes Eric and Kelso deer hunting, where Kelso's annoying behavior leads Red to invoke this trope as a threat. | |
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In One Tenth Percent, Erast Fandorin investigates a murder that looks like a Hunting "Accident", since the murderer has no motive at all, but it turns out, he "traded places" with another murderer, so that they could kill each other's targets without arousing suspicion. | |
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After John Sterling finds out in Wild Orchids that Prince de Gace has been after his wife, he gets the prince to come with him on a tiger hunt — but deliberately give the prince an unloaded gun. | |
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In Curtain, Colonel Luttrell shoots his wife (non-fatally) with a rook rifle, and says he mistook her for a rabbit. As with all the murderers in the book, he was manipulated by Norton. | |
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The Princess Wei Young: Chiyun Nan and Tuoba Han attempt to kill Xin Er and Tuoba Jun during a hunt. Subverted when Xin Er and Tuoba Jun survive. | |
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Happens in one of Laurie R. King's Mary Russell mysteries, albeit unsuccessfully: the Duke of Justice Hall is shot during a pheasant hunt by a would-be assassin hoping to take advantage of the dually-convenient circumstances of "lots of guns around and nobody's looking at the people" and "a young, inexperienced shooter standing next to the Duke". | |
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On one Looney Tunes short, Elmer Fudd's dog sees a TV show about cruel dog owners who get rid of their pets by taking them on hunting trips. ("Two go out, but only one returns.") He becomes suspicious when his master takes him hunting and decides to get Elmer before Elmer gets him. Hilarity Ensues. Eventually, the dog realized how much of a heel (visual gag included) he was and decided to go to the TV station to attack the show's host. | |
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In Cadillac Man Robin Williams assures himself that his old friend Carmine will look out for him if he is threatened by other mobsters. Upon asking Carmine's whereabouts he is answered with these two words. | |
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In Moonraker, James Bond accompanies Hugo Drax on a quail hunt, while one of Drax's men hides up a tree waiting to shoot Bond. Bond aims at a quail and fires, seemingly to no effect. | |
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A variant occurs in one of Katharine Kerr's Deverry novels — a character fakes their own death in a hunting accident. The point was to avoid real killers that would come calling, not to mention the clan Dishonor, if certain things came out. The boar, however, was an unexpected surprise; the character was expecting a convincing illusion, not the real thing. | |
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King Elhokar in The Way of Kings suffers a fall during a fight with a very large crab that he insists was the result of an assassination attempt. In the end, it turns out that he cut the saddle strap himself so that he could make Dalinar take his paranoia seriously. However, this was apparently simultaneous with a real assassination attempt; his magical armor malfunctioned and the creature attacked the party unexpectedly. | |
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Supernatural: In "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid", a man rises from his grave and immediately goes to kill the man who had, five years earlier, killed him in what was made to look like a hunting accident. | |
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Happens in the backstory of Kushiel's Dart, albeit not with a weapon - before a hunt, the saddle on the horse Dauphin's fiancee was to ride was tampered with, and she had a fatal fall. | |
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In the first The B-Movie Comic chapter, "Revenge of Rutentuten", it is said that pharaoh Rutentuten died in a tragic hunting accident. | |
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In Europa Universalis, one of the annoying random events that can happen to a monarchy is a hunting accident which offs your heir. In recognition of this, it is possible to send a diplomatic message (read: gross and scornful insult that makes enemies of that nation titter) to another nation, complimenting them on their heir's passion for hunting. Players often joke how this only happens to good heirs, and never to the heir they want to die. | |
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In The Masked Empire, Grand Duchess Calienne arranged one of these for Clarisse de Montfort shortly before Celene, Clarisse's teenage daughter, became Empress of Orlais. | |
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The Single Standard: Tommy's plan for himself, to save face, after his wife Arden has decided to leave him for her old boyfriend Packy. He tells Packy that Packy should reject Arden, but after that, Tommy will kill himself via hunting "accident". That way, Arden can get together with Packy in the end without shame or scandal. | |
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The King Loves: Song In tries to arrange one when the king goes hunting, and steals one of Won's arrows so everyone will blame him. | |
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One of the characters in Penny Arcade is killed in one such hunting accident. It is decided that they should leave him behind for the cougars to take care of. It is clarified that they are talking about mountain lions, and not attractive older women. (One Description Cut later, we see him being eaten by an attractive older woman.) | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Opening Day", Joe Farrell reluctantly goes along with his lover Sally Wilkerson's plan to kill her husband Carl by making it look as he was killed while duck hunting. After Carl is killed, the police believe that it was simply an accident. Joe returns to what used to be the Wilkerson house to find that it is the previous day and that he is now Sally's husband. When Carl takes him on the same hunting trip, Joe becomes concerned that he is going to be killed and falls into the water. He refuses Carl's attempts to help him and dies. | |
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In Ran, the princes Taro and Jiro attack their father's castle and slaughter everyone inside when a general rides up to Jiro and tells him that his older brother was fatally shot by a stray bullet that probably came from one of the towers. Jiro just stares at him intensely, which makes the general look at the still smoking musket he is holding in his hand. The general just throws the musket away, and the two never speak of this unfortunate tragedy again. | |
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The Almanac Chronicles: Lorraine and Cliff arrange this kind of death for Biff. | |
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This is how Louis murders Ethelred D'Ascoyne in Kind Hearts and Coronets. He lures Ethelred into a mantrap and then shoots him with his own gun; making it look like Ethelred dropped the gun and it discharged when it hit the ground. | |
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The Crowner John Mysteries: In Crowner's Quest, one of the victims is a Norman nobleman killed during a hunt. Having first lamed the horse of the reeve who was accompanying him to ensure that he would be alone, the murderer hits the noble over the head and then breaks is neck to make it look like he died in a fall from his horse after striking his head on a branch. | |
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Nick Velvet: At the end of "The Theft of the Bathroom Scale", it is mentioned that the man Nick stole the scale from had been shot and killed by his wife (whom Nick suspected of having committed the murder of a cowhand during the theft) in a 'hunting accident'. However, she did not make a very convincing job of it and was arrested a few days later. | |
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Pathfinder: Attempted in War for the Crown Part 2: Songbird, Scion, Saboteur. After clashing with the PCs, Lord Titus Lotheed-Casava rigs the draw of hunting grounds for a "peasant hunt"note A peasant convicted of a crime is released into a hunting ground for partying nobles to pursue non-lethally (in theory), and if they stay uncaptured for 24 hours they get a pardon. so that the PCs are assigned to hunt in lands where he knows a powerful manticore has taken up residence, hoping it will kill them. | |
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In the Age of Empires II expansion, the Attila the Hun campaign starts this way. The player can do this to Atilla's brother Bleda or have him killed by the Iron Boar (making it something of a cross between this trope and an actual hunting accident), but Bleda also has his brother ambushed, so they're both trying to pull this on each other. Or you can subvert it by just leaving and starting civil war. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones: Gets brought up a few times. Sam reveals that his father threatened him with a "hunting accident" if he didn't renounce his claim to the family title and join the Night's Watch. King Robert Baratheon has a fatal hunting accident. The boar wasn't in on it, but his squire Lancel Lannister made sure to get him extra drunk as part of a Batman Gambit to make an accident more likely. House of the Dragon: Daemon Targaryen is unhappily married to Rhea Royce, and Divorce Requires Death. When she goes on a ride in the opening to the episode "We Light the Way", he spooks her horse so it crushes her. He would have been content to leave her for dead, but she taunts him and he bashes her head in. The official story (revealed later in the episode) is that she died while on a hunt, but because she was a skilled rider and huntress by reputation, nobody believes it and her cousin is quick to accuse Daemon of Til Murder Do Us Part. |
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In Berserk, the Decadent Court of Midland attempts this against Griffith during the arc in which he and the Band of the Hawk rise through society despite their common origins. The attack fails due to the arrow hitting Griffith's Behelit instead. Griffith knows what's up, though, and eventually arranges the deaths of everyone responsible. Including the frigging QUEEN! | |
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The Borgias: Lucrezia arranges one of these (of the riding-accident variety) for her abusive husband in the first season. Unlike many of the other examples on this page, her husband survives, but he doesn't suspect a thing, and being laid up for some time with a broken leg prevents him from exercising his Marital Rape License (and gives her time to hook up with the helpful stable boy who sabotaged his saddle). The third season has another example, where Micheletto murders King Frederick IV of Naples due to separating Lucrezia from her bastard child: the king has, inspired by a passage in Seneca, set up a pond full of carnivorous eel to aid him in hunting boars. When Micheletto and Frederick separate from the hunting party to pursue the game, the king has an unfortunate accident. |
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Destiny 2: One lore entry from Timur's perspective depicts him and Felwinter on a seemingly routine hunting mission and chatting about the nature of Artificial Intelligence. A much later entry retells this incident from Felwinter's perspective and reveals Felwinter had lured Timur out there to murder him and blame his death on an enemy ambush, mistakenly believing that he had deduced a little too much about Felwinter's Dark and Troubled Past. He quickly cancels this plan when Timur's ramblings during the trip make clear he doesn't really know much of anything. Timur, for his part, never realizes just how close he came to getting killed by his "friend". | |
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An after-the-fact variation in The Red Green Show: Buzz's plane was about to be inspected, and it had bullet-holes in the tail. He told Red he was going to blame that on a hunting accident, but it's never stated how they really got there. | |
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Fifteen years before the start of Mother Panic, the protagonist's father was killed this way. | |
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The Burning Room: Broussard, the Big Bad, eliminated the man who carried out a hit for him via Hunting "Accident" at a gun club. | |
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In the "Father's Day" segment of Creepshow, we learn that Bedelia Grantham's monstrous father had her beau killed in a "hunting accident" (this explanation is delivered complete with air quotes). | |
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The Black Swan: Discussed but averted. Queen Clothilde's husband died in a genuine hunting accident, and she encourages her son's dangerous hobbies in the hopes that he'll end up the same way. However, she decides against planning one, as she knows that people are aware of the trope and any false accident would get exposed quickly. | |
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Used in Lost: This is how Locke manages to tie up Boone. | |
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The NCIS team once investigated a missing Marine in a small town with no murders but lots of hunting accidents. | |
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In one Monk episode "Mr. Monk Is At Your Service", Natalie is almost made victim to this, but Monk arrives just in the nick of time. | |
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A self-inflicted variant occurs in Song of the Lioness when King Roald dies attempting a risky jump. His son Jonathan knows that it had to have been deliberate, since Roald was an excellent rider, but was deeply in mourning for his recently-deceased wife. | |
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In Fantômas Against Scotland Yard, Lord Rashley's secretary plans to kill his boss during a fox-hunting party, since he covets the latter's wife. What he does not know is that Lord Rashley is dead already, and Fantômas is impersonating him, leading to a case of Mugging the Monster as the supervillain is no easy prey. | |
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The Wheel of Time: One of the minor southern nations went through four rulers in a year; one of them like this. | |
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A side character in The Tommyknockers murders his father this way in apparently subconscious revenge for childhood sexual abuse. The killer thinks he's simply committing an Inheritance Murder to get himself out of a financial jam, but narration talks about how thoroughly he's repressed the memories of the abuse. | |
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Toward the end of The Goblin Emperor, Maia (the eponymous Emperor) inquires of his Lord Chancellor about the remaining family members of a traitor who was sadistically cruel and an all-around terrible person. Besides several sisters, the Lord Chancellor mentions a younger brother who he vaguely remembered dying years back in a hunting accident. It's not spelled out if this was an accident or an "accident", but since the traitor also "hunted" another person at least once... | |
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In Shrek 2, Fiona's father tells Shrek to meet him in the early morning to go hunting, but it is really a trap so the professional assassin Puss In Boots can kill him, at the behest of the movie's Big Bad. | |
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Happens with the eldest son of the Pridd family in Reflections of Eterna by Russian fantasy writer Vera Kamsha. It was seen as an honour killing (because of his rumored "inappropriate" relationship with one of the main characters) by one of the POV characters in first few books. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Given the cut-and-thrust nature of politics in the series, this crops up a fair bit. And, even when it genuinely doesn't, most players in the Game will naturally assume any untimely demise to likely be less accidental than it appears. King Robert Baratheon dies from a wound taken while hunting. It is set up by Cersei, who arranges for him to be drunker than usual. It might, perhaps, have helped that two of his squires just happened to be cousins of hers, who might, possibly, maybe (read: we're pretty certain) have been able to suggest that he chase after something bolder (read: bloody dangerous) when the reported white hart they'd set out to hunt was a curious no-show. While they also just so happened to be supplying him with considerably stronger alcohol than he usually drank, which impaired not just his judgement but also the physical coordination and reflexes needed to hunt a giant boar with a spear. Sam Tarly is threatened with one of these by his father if he doesn't leave to join the Night's Watch. Specifically, that he would be deliberately ridden down and hunted like a pig. So, um, not a particularly convincing "accident", then. House Tarly's sigil is, appropriately enough, a "striding huntsman". Cersei also asks Ser Balman to arrange a hunting "accident" for Bronn. The honorable (and "cunning") Ser Balman instead tries fighting Bronn openly in a knightly, tournament-like duel. Which goes poorly. Dude really should have attempted the stealthy option: less embarrassing for all concerned. The Clegane brothers' father is strongly rumored to have been killed in one such hunting "accident" arranged by Gregor. Luthor Tyrell, father of Mace Tyrell, died in a genuine hunting accident when he rode off a cliff while hawking. Given the sheer absurdity of it, Tyrion briefly wonders whether it was a suicide, even more so after meeting the guy's widow. |
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King Halvard of the Frozen fic In Pain And Blood loved hunting. One day, he went out hunting with a group but he didn't come back alive. He was attacked by a bear and mysteriously died of his non-lethal injuries. It was considered an unfortunate stroke of infection until his elder son started showing similar symptoms a few years later. It turns out that his other son Aksel has poisoned his father and was attempting the same with his brother. | |
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Scotland, PA subverts this trope. Joe McBeth considers faking a hunting accident to kill Banko for knowing too much, and it briefly looks like he did so. Then it turns out the death was just deceptive editing, and Banko's just unconscious. Joe finds another way to kill him later. | |
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In Gosford Park, during the hunt, a low shot grazes Sir William, which is yet another possible murder attempt. | |
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Subverted in Moral Orel when Orel shoots Clay's liquor bottles at the end of "Nature (Part 1)". Then played straight when Clay shoots Orel by accident after attempting to punish him. | |
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In Preacher, this is what lead to the death of Tulip's father during a hunting trip they were both on. To add insult to injury, he was taking a crap in the woods at the time. Note that unlike the other examples listed under this trope, this really was a genuine hunting accident. The hunters who shot him were just that stupid. | |
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Lupin III vs. Detective Conan begins with the queen of a country named Vespania out enjoying nature while her son and brother go hunting. It appears that the prince accidentally shoots her while aiming at a fox, and immediately commits suicide out of grief. The Reveal is that the queen replaced the prince's bullets with blanks to keep him from killing anything - her brother actually killed them both. | |
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The title character of The Dictator seized power after his father died in a hunting accident, hit by 97 stray bullets and a stray hand grenade. | |
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The Three Stooges: The Movie: Teddy mentions that his adoptive mother died of a hunting accident. It was caused by his father who wanted her money. | |
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Game of Thrones: Gets brought up a few times. Sam reveals that his father threatened him with a "hunting accident" if he didn't renounce his claim to the family title and join the Night's Watch. King Robert Baratheon has a fatal hunting accident. The boar wasn't in on it, but his squire Lancel Lannister made sure to get him extra drunk as part of a Batman Gambit to make an accident more likely. |
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From the Deryni works: Liam-Lajos's older brother Alroy dies in a "riding accident" a month after reaching his majority. Both Kelson and the boy's uncles are rumoured to have engineered it to put another child heir on the Torenthi throne. Eventually, Mátyás confirms to Kelson, Morgan, and Dhugal that Mahael and Teymuraz were behind it. | |
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In Prince Caspian, Doctor Cornelius tells Caspian that some of his father's supporters were done away with by this method. | |
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One of the adoptive fathers in The Boys from Brazil is shot and killed in a "hunting accident", with the investigators arriving in time for the funeral. | |
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In one episode of Rumpole of the Bailey, Rumpole's client is accused of murdering her husband (it was a bad marriage), with the evidence being her saying to "I killed him. I don't know what to do with him. Help me." and holding a just-fired shotgun; she insists that it was a hunting accident. Subverted, because she actually shot her husband's dead body, because after stumbling upon the corpse, she thought her lover, whose estate was nearby, was responsible. He wasn't, being in London on business at the time, and the real culprit was the gamekeeper, who had accidentally shot the man while illegally hunting pheasants from his cottage window. | |
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House of the Dragon: Daemon Targaryen is unhappily married to Rhea Royce, and Divorce Requires Death. When she goes on a ride in the opening to the episode "We Light the Way", he spooks her horse so it crushes her. He would have been content to leave her for dead, but she taunts him and he bashes her head in. The official story (revealed later in the episode) is that she died while on a hunt, but because she was a skilled rider and huntress by reputation, nobody believes it and her cousin is quick to accuse Daemon of Til Murder Do Us Part. | |
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In the Flashman novel Flashman and the Great Game, the Russian villain Count Ignatieff tries to kill him while they are both guests at Balmoral. | |
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Hercule Poirot: The short story "The Cretan Bull" has a suicide version; when the scion of a noble family fears he's becoming a homicidal lunatic, he decides to go hunting rabbits with a shotgun and not come back. Poirot stops him, but not the actual homicidal lunatic. In Curtain, Colonel Luttrell shoots his wife (non-fatally) with a rook rifle, and says he mistook her for a rabbit. As with all the murderers in the book, he was manipulated by Norton. |
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CSI has had the occasional "hunting accident" case. In one episode, it turns out that the hunter had actually lost his job and tried to commit suicide in a way that looked like an accident so his wife would get the life insurance pay-out. | |
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JAG: 3rd season episode "With Intent to Die" has Admiral Chegwidden’s mentor decease at such an occasion, and Chegwidden refuses to believe that it was either a suicide or an accident. | |
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At the beginning of the first Safehold novel, an attempt is made to kill Prince Cayleb by encouraging him to hunt a man-killing slash lizard. When the lizard loses the fight, the parties responsible break out swords and crossbows and turn it into a more straight-up assassination attempt. | |
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The final scene of The Hunt, where during the community's annual hunt somebody shoots at Lucas. The shot misses, and we don't know if it was meant to just scare him off or actually kill him. We never learn who the shooter was. | |
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Midsomer Murders: In "Ghosts of Christmas Past", during a Christmas family reunion (and if Fatal Family Reunion isn't a trope yet, it should be), there's a pheasant shoot scheduled. The unsuspecting victim picks up the gun, says it feels heavier than usual, pulls the trigger, and Kablooie. The cartridges slipped into her pocket were too small, meaning they slid down the barrel and didn't fire (or eject) until the victim loaded another set in thinking the last shot was a dud. What's worse is that, according to The Coroner, this is actually a very common accident when hunting is involved. Had the threat for there to be two victims not been made, it would've been ruled a genuine accident. | |
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Madame Outlaw: Estelle Dumont is very suspicious of the circumstances behind her brother Isaac's death. He had tried to tell her something before going off on a hunting trip with Thaddeus, only for Thaddeus to come home uninjured with Isaac's bloody rifle and an eye on the Dumont fortune. | |
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Given a science fiction twist in the Culture novel The Player of Games. The protagonist goes on a hunting trip with a noble who is described as being a rather ruthless schemer who tries to kill him. The twist is that the character didn't attempt this of his own volition, but instead had his body taken over and controlled by others through technology. In fact, he surprisingly tries to show some Heroic Willpower. Underscoring how involuntary this is, he continues firing, even after his head has been blown away. | |
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Before the start of the Black Blade series, Lila's father was sent on a routine monster-hunting job by his boss. But Victor Draconi deliberately forgot to tell Luke how many monsters there were, so he went alone into a major nest and was killed. | |
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The Man in the High Castle: Obergruppenfuehrer John Smith discovers a plot by senior Nazis to assassinate Hitler and start a war with Japan. He's invited to a hunting party where he is to be quietly killed for knowing too much. | |
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Mentioned in the backstory of The Sign of the Unicorn: | |
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