History Main / Itsallmyfault

* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': Though he tries to hide it, Blitzo suffers from a massive guilt complex due to accidentally starting a fire that burned the circus he used to work at, which left Fizzarolli with horrific scars and (it's {{implied|Trope}}) [[SelfMadeOrphan killed his own mother]]. [[WeUsedToBeFriends This ruined his friendship with Fizz]] ([[PoorCommunicationKills who believed that Blitzo started the fire on purpose out of jealousy]]) and possibly [[AddledAddict sent his sister Barbie Wire into a drug addiction]] and eventually into rehab; once she checks herself out in the present, Barbie makes it abundantly clear to Blitzo that she ''never'' wants to see him again. When Fizz confronts him about it in the present, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Blitzo breaks down in tears and apologizes for the whole debacle]].

** It's revealed that [[spoiler:the protagonist, if he's Jisu Cha,]] blamed himself for not being able to save the people being experimented on by CARI sooner because [[spoiler:he was trying to find the cure for Fixer.]]

** Jane Kim blames herself for [[spoiler:not being able to discourage her son Wonsu from getting [[EmotionSuppression Fixed]]]], so she forms a cult around Fixies being "reborn as Saeras" to cope with the loss.

* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed, it's revealed that [[spoiler:the protagonist]] blamed himself for not being able to save the people being experimented on by CARI sooner because [[spoiler:he was trying to find the cure for [[EmotionSuppression Fixer]].

* [[ItsAllMyFault/AnimeAndManga Anime & Manga]]

* [[ItsAllMyFault/LiveActionTV Live-Action TV]]

* In ''Webcomic/{{Clarissa}}'' the titular protagonist [[BreakingTheFourthWall addresses the audience directly]] on the subject of how best to avoid being sexually abused by daddy during bathtime. But in the end, we see [[TrickDialogue she's actually been]] [[MirrorMonologue talking to herself in the mirror.]]
-> '''Clarissa, glaring at herself:''' We all know whose fault this is ...

---> '''Sans:''' i bet you're wondering why i'm not the ruler. eh. i'm not cut out for something like that. i like to take it easy, you know? ... ([SadClown that's a joke]]. this is what happens when people like me take it easy.

** Another ending is the aborted Genocide, which happens if you made the No Mercy run at least until the fight against Undyne the Undying, but fail to kill all the monsters in the Hotland / CORE section before reaching Mettaton NEO. Even if you didn't cause the biggest catastrophe of the game, you still started a Genocide and put fear in every monster's mind. Alphys, who usually is the first to die in Neutral endings, becomes the ''de facto'' leader of the surviving monsters, possibly because she hade to hide with them in the True Lab alongside the Amalgamates and [[TheApocalypseBringsTheBestInPeople needed the courage to explain everything to these monsters while protecting them from you you]]. Even with that, she still regrets having let others do the dirty work and getting killed.

** Another ending is the aborted Genocide, which happens if you made the No Mercy run at least until the fight against Undyne the Undying, but fail to kill all the monsters in the Hotland / CORE section before reaching Mettaton NEO. Even if you didn't cause the biggest catastrophe of the game, you still started a Genocide and put fear in every monster's mind. Alphys, who usually is the first to die in Neutral endings, becomes the ''de facto'' leader of the surviving monsters, possibly because she hade to hide with them in the True Lab alongside the Amalgamates and [[ApocalypseBringsTheBestOutOfPeople needed the courage to explain everything to these monsters while protecting them from you you]]. Even with that, she still regrets having let others do the dirty work and getting killed.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':

** [[spoiler:When J Jonah Jameson's wife Marla took a fatal blow for him]], Jonah refused to blame Spider-Man (significant given that Jameson is usually the first to blame Spidey for anything and everything) and even came right out and said that it was ''his'' fault.

* ''Literature/SweetAndBitterMagic'': Tamsin frequently laments foolishly having tried to use dark magic so she could save her sister Marlena. This ended in Marlena dying instead, while Tamsin was exiled and cursed.

** A teenage boy felt ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'' was his fault because he inadvertently distracted Superman with his cries for help in a stage where Supes could have ''possibly'' finished Doomsday off.

--->'''Superman:''' There! I can see Supergirl — and Krypto?! Great Scott, what's he doing there? Supergirl must have summoned him — and now they're fighting those warships against impossible odds! NO! There're hit! They're going down — And it's MY FAULT!

* Dr. Light in Music/TheProtomen's rock opera Father of Death, says this trope word for word.

** Also {{inverted}} during the song "Hellfire," where Frollo keeps telling himself it's ''[[NeverMyFault not]]'' [[NeverMyFault his fault]] for being obsessed with Esmeralda [[ObsessionSong while singing about her burning in hell]] and the [[OminousLatinChanting red-robed choir]] representing his conscience [[BilingualBonus contradicts him]].

** In "betty," James admits:

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E8HomerSimpsonKidneyTrouble Homer Simpson: Kidney Trouble]]", after Homer refuses to pull over and let Grandpa go to the bathroom, Grandpa's kidneys burst. Homer's response? "I blame myself!" Marge's response? "We ''all'' blame you."

* Inversion: In the WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker cartoon "Shanghai Woody," Woody is shanghaied by a ship's captain who immediately blames his first mate (who was told to do so in the first place) after Woody pecks the ship full of holes.

-->"Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily. Nothing we did had any shelf life. Not one of us stood up and said, 'Dammit, stop!' I don't know what Thompson's committee will find as the cause, but I know what I find. We are the cause! We were not ready! We did not do our job. We were rolling the dice, hoping that things would come together by launch day, when in our hearts we knew it would take a miracle. We were pushing the schedule and betting that the Cape would slip before we did. From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: 'Tough and Competent'. Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills. Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write 'Tough and Competent' on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control."