User blog comment:SaenihpNnylf/A Few Fun Fanon Based Polls/@comment-1770389-20160214140746

I can only comment on my tale.

Lumpy was not in the military, and so, does not know much about grenades or such. So he literally followed Flippy's instructions, and threw out the wrong item.

As to who's responsible, I would say that it is a joint kill. But for listing of kills, I would say that Flippy killed Lumpy,and Lumpy killed Flippy, since self-inflicted kills do not count in their kill count.

I usually classify fates of characters into the following categories.

First is survived. Which means a character survived the episode. That has two sub categories. Injured, and unscathed. Injured would cover Lumpy in Out On a Limb, and unscathed would be like Lumpy in Party Animal.

Second is killed. Now I have subdivided it into further categories:

The first is killed by major characters, which is subdivided into 22, depending on who's responsible.

The second is killed by others, which is includes being killed by animals, the idol, killed by GTFs, one episode characters.

The third is self-inflicted deaths. This are deaths that the victim causing his own death. Sniffles in Spare Me, Petunia in Wishy Washy, Shifty in Milkin' It, the Mole in Who's to Flame would be examples.

The third is killed by accident. This are deaths that cannot be attributed to any one or anything on screen, including the victim. Examples would be Lumpy's death in Don't Yank My Chain, Flaky in Ski Ya, Wouldn't Wanna Be Ya, Handy in A Change of Heart, and Flippy in A Vicious Cycle.

Now there are some deaths that would have two or more causes. Here's how I classify such.

If the kill is part accident, part self-inflicted, I always classify it as self-inflicted, since the victim has some role in his death.

If the death was partly self-inflicted, and partly because of another tree friend, I always give the responsibility to the tree friend who caused the death, since self-inflicted kills cannot be counted in their own kill counts.

In that scene, both Lumpy and Flippy are responsible for Lumpy and Flippy's death. So I would think that Lumpy's death is party Flippy's fault, and partly self inflicted, and Flippy's death partly Lumpy's fault, and partly self-inflicted.

Using my above criteria, then Lumpy killed Flippy, and Flippy killed Lumpy.