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->''"Sorry, baby! Why did you make me do that?"''
-->-- Description of the "Double Slap" weapon from ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories''

Some people just don't play fair.

Picture a scene such as a mother arguing with her teenage daughter. The cause might be trivial; maybe the kid was slightly late coming home. Usually, the mother wins these arguments, if only by virtue of YouAreGrounded. But her daughter's not backing down this time and she may actually have the upper hand in the argument (i.e., she was late because she needed to stop for gas). The argument escalates until the mother realizes that she can't win this one, or the daughter makes a comment that hits a little too close to home.

[[BitchSlap SLAP!]]

Quick as a flash, the mother's hand slams across her daughter's cheek. There's a pause while the girl registers that she's been hurt.

And that's when mother plays her trump card. Before her daughter can get over the shock... her mother bursts into tears. Normally, the person who now sports a bright red handprint across her face will begin apologizing profusely or start crying as well, usually hugging the one that just hit her. Somehow, the ''victim'' is now convinced that ''she'' was to blame... and the slapper "wins" the argument by default.

The victim of '''Why Did You Make Me Hit You?''' could be anyone, but the two most common characters who are subject to being the victim are a close relative or friend, usually a child (actual or surrogate), or a romantic partner or spouse. Thanks to the DoubleStandard, if a ''man'' should employ this trope, it's a given that not only is DomesticAbuse on the horizon, it's mixed in with ManipulativeBastard traits too. For example, the violent husband who knows how to play on his wife's soft-heartedness. These characters are almost invariably written as [[KickTheDog pure evil]]. In the case of a woman slapping her boyfriend, the chances are that the trope will be recognized as an emotionally manipulative ploy, but it's much less likely to be a sign of a DomesticAbuse plot; if it's a daughter or friend being slapped, the attacker will probably get away with it, they will reconcile and everything will have been forgotten two scenes later; however, as the signs and symptoms of emotional abuse by and towards both men and women are becoming more publicized (and stories of emotionally abusive women are featured more often in RealLife news stories) this portrayal is finally beginning to change.

Occasionally this is a one-off event that isn't indicative of an abusive relationship, just an argument gone bad, or just PlayedForLaughs, especially if the person hit isn't very hurt or recovers immediately. The character who does the hitting won't have done it before, and probably won't do it again. In the case of children, particularly if the child has worried the parents and is now acting like a mouthy brat, it will be seen as a natural reaction toward the scare, a result of combined worry, anger, and relief. Sometimes, too, a manipulative child will deliberately goad an otherwise reasonable parent into striking him, knowing that he will be able to milk the parent's guilt to his advantage for weeks afterwards.

A sub-trope of BlamingTheVictim.

Compare SorryIFellOnYourFist (from the victim's side) or BitchSlap (for cases when the hitter usually does NOT burst into tears), BlamingTheCuckold (where a person who gets cheated on is blamed for the affair), and GetAHoldOfYourselfMan (in which the hitter really did have no choice but to hit the victim, due to the latter being a hysterical mess). Related is StopHittingYourself, where you instead use the victim's own limb to hit them while taunting them.

See also our Useful Notes page on UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming for serious RealLife explanations.
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!!Examples:
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* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou/AnimeAndManga
* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou/FanWorks
* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou/{{Literature}}
* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou/LiveActionTV
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[[folder:East Asian Comics]]
* In ''Manhwa/TheMonstrousDukesAdoptedDaughter'', the entire Speràdo household does this to little Leslie her whole life, since she was old enough to walk and talk on her own. They would ''make up'' crimes and acts of "insubordination" so they could have an excuse to beat her down, deny her meals, and break her down, mentally and emotionally, because when the time for the ritual was right, they were planning to make her a HumanSacrifice so her elder sister, Eli, would "awaken" the ability to use Dark Magic, by stealing hers. This is something the family has done for ''at least a 1000 years.''
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[[folder:Audio Play]]
* This sometimes happens in ''AudioPlay/YandereHeaven''. If the protagonist refuses to do what the guy wants her/him to do, he will either yell at her/him or get physically violent. When he calms down, he'll blame the listener for provoking such a reaction.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/AllNewUltimates'': One of the cops driving Scourge to the prison was actually a member of the watchdogs, who disarmed and cuffed his partner. When that partner tried to counter-attack, he was shot.
* Given that ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} is a professional assassin who has killed hundreds, it's interesting that [[MisaimedFandom no one is really outraged]] up until #13 of his solo series where he beats his best friend unconscious and throws his hostage/mother figure Blind Al into a room full of sharp objects, asking her "Why did you have to make me do this? why?"
* ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'': In the third volume, ComicBook/IronMan wonders why Steve always has to be like this before the Illuminati wipe Steve's memory. Steve's crime? Being unwilling to repeatedly destroy planets, and quite possibly living beings on them, to save their own.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** ''ComicBook/Supergirl2005'': In ''Identity/Breaking the Chain'', after ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} is brutally beaten up by Powerboy, including having her face '''dragged down the side of a skyscraper''', she wakes up in a bed next to a StalkerShrine devoted to her, bound in powerful, alien-tech restraints. Powerboy says a big speech about how much he loves her, that he knows best, and that the beating was her fault for making him angry. Supergirl replies by delivering a brutal beating combined with a ShutUpHannibal speech.
--->'''Powerboy:''' Look, I'm just going to lay it all out because honesty is important in a strong relationship... I was born on Apokolips. Taken from the Armagetto Slums to serve [[{{ComicBook/Darkseid}} You-Know-Who]]... [[TrainingFromHell He made me strong]], trained me in the ways of the Earth so I could [[TheMole come here as a "hero" and]]... Well, it doesn't really matter anymore, because it changed the day [[ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004 you came to Apokolips]]. [[LoveAtFirstSight The most beautiful thing I had ever seen]]. Ever ''felt''. From that moment, I knew I had found my "Missing Half". I knew we would be together. And then you left... I couldn't eat. Sleep. Think. I knew that my true destiny wasn't with Darkseid and his stupid plans... So I followed you across the universe. I watched you try so hard to fit in, to find your way. All I wanted to do was hold you. Tell you how beautiful you were. But I knew you weren't ready to hear it... Sometimes we have to fall all the way down before someone can lift us up. You could be something so special, Kara... But you're lost. You're lost and you're too weak to find your way alone. Whenever you try... the monster in you comes out. Is this what you what to be? ''(cups her face)'' You need someone to take care of you, Kara. Someone who ''loves'' you to build to up... To make you into something you can be proud of. I love you, Kara. We can be perfect together, if you'll just let me fix you.\\
'''Supergirl:''' ''(destroys her restraints and burns his hand with heat vision)'' We need to break up.\\
'''Powerboy:''' Aaaaaigh! What did you do?!\\
'''Supergirl:''' You hit me. You said you loved me... And you '''hit me'''. ''(punches him through a wall to the outside)''\\
'''Powerboy:''' Y-You made me hit you! Because you don't listen, like now! Kara! I'm warning you! Stop it or I'll do it again! I'll hurt you again!
** ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'': When Superboy-Prime is ganged up by the Teen Titans, he beheads one of them by accident, and then screams he did not mean it and it was their fault for attacking him.
* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'': The Knights of Order collectively have a habit of blaming others for 'making' them harm them and telling them its their fault. For exact examples:
** Ceridwen blames the heroes for both her attempted destruction of Orinithia and the coming threat to Equestria.
** Danu and the other Knights put the blame of their attack on Canterlot squarely on the heroes for their 'crime' of activating the other Element sets. When Danu goes OneWingedAngel and attempts to destroy Canterlot, he flat out starts screaming its the heroes' fault.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': When Zeus shows up to inform Milohai that since the Greek Pantheon is back on earth Milohai can just release his champion Diana back to him (despite Diana never having been his champion and helping his daughter overthrow him) Milohai tells Zeus that Diana's loyalties are not his to command and if Zeus wants her as his champion he needs to talk to her about it. In response, Zeus attacks him while talking about how Milohai forced him to by not listening, and ends up murdering the Polynesian deity, which he is implied to have intended all along.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', Frollo pulls this on [[TheWoobie Quasimodo]] after Frollo figures out that Quasi helped Esmeralda escape from the cathedral.
-->'''Frollo:''' Now all of Paris is burning because of ''you!''
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'', Lord Business' use of projection in his punishment of GCBC enables him to lay all fault on his lieutenant for not doing his job, considering how even the slightest imperfection can ruin his temper. This trope is used when GCBC is forced to Kragle his own parents because he is made to effectively take it out on the people he loves for his own failure at his job. It is reinforced because of how much Lord Business refuses failure as an option.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', this is one of [[AbusiveParents Mother Gothel's]] favorite tactics, facetiously lamenting that Rapunzel's made her "the bad guy" after refusing to let the girl leave the tower. In the end, when she [[spoiler:mortally stabs the man Rapunzel loves]], she turns to Rapunzel and says, "Now look what you've done."
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'': Fester's "[[EvilMatriarch mother]]" slaps him and then instantly blames the title characters: "See what they've driven me to? [[BitchInSheepsClothing Raised a hand to my child, my reason for living]]."
* In ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'', the husband/boyfriend of a client that Gigolo Joe has been sleeping with murders his lover when he finds out and sets Joe up for the crime. His reasoning is that "she killed me first".
* The title character of ''Film/{{Chopper}}'' yells "look what you made me do!" after beating his girlfriend.
* In the movie ''Film/{{Cruising}}'', the serial killer whispers "You made me do that" after stabbing one of his victims.
* In the film version of ''Film/DoloresClaiborne'' (not sure about the [[Literature/DoloresClaiborne novel]] by Creator/StephenKing), the protagonist's husband hits her across the kidneys with a piece of firewood, then says "Why did you make me do it?" It doesn't end well.
* ''Film/EmpireRecords'': After a fair amount of provocation from his foster son Lucas, Joe drags him into the office and beats him up, then brings him an icepack and says, "You know you deserved that, right?"
* In the Extended Edition of ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'', Kumar's daydream has him doing this to a [[AnthropomorphicVice bag of weed]].
-->'''Kumar:''' "I'm sorry! You made me hit you! Why'd you make me do that?!"
* ''Film/HouseOfFlyingDaggers'' has a variant, this one from a jilted lover in a LoveTriangle: "You made me kill you!"
* ''Film/{{Misery}}'' (see the entry in Literature).
* ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter'': "Oh, look, you made me lose my temper." Then again, by this point in the film, the audience already knows that Pearl did not deserve to be slapped and that Harry is one of the most AxCrazy psychopaths in anything ever.
* In ''Film/TheOddWayHome'', Maya's abusive boyfriend snarls "Look what you made me do to you!" while beating her.
* ''Film/ThePiano'': Alisdair, enraged at Ada’s infidelity, violently pushes her against the wall demanding, “Why do you make me hurt you?”
* Nathan Wallace in ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' does this to Shilo after she sings about how he can't control her -- after he slaps her, she sits there stunned for a second, rubbing her face. Horrified, he says he's sorry and the camera blacks out.
* ''Film/Titanic1997'': Caledon Hockley does this on occasion to his fiancée Rose throughout the movie as he becomes increasingly possessive over her and jealous of her relationship with Jack.
* ''Film/WomenTalkingDirty'' almost plays this for laughs. In the heat of an argument, a man slaps his girlfriend in the face and then says, "Oh, look what you made me do." She then slaps him in the face, repeats the same line, and storms off.
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[[folder:Music]]
* "Stepfather Factory":
** El-P invokes this trope at the end of the song. There's the line towards the end of the song that says:
--->''And in a ''few'' unsubstantiated clinical trials, this condition'' \\
''Has led to simulated feelings of resentment and worthlessness'' \\
''Manifested in the highly unlikely, but still possible, act'' \\
''Of physical aggression towards you and your loved ones' [[CallAHumanAMeatbag fleshy surfaces]]''
** Then via a bone-chilling robotic ''basso profundo'' voice, the stepfather-bot from the song eerily intones at the very end: "''Why are you making me hurt you? I love you.''"
* Music/CoheedAndCambria's character "Al the Killer" does this in the comic and the songs. Then again, he ''is'' a psychopath.
* Shades of this in Music/{{Pink}}'s "Please Don't Leave Me." It's about an abusive relationship, and the song's narrator claims that she's not usually like this, but there's just something about the guy that makes her want to abuse him... and she kind of hates him for it.
* Music/TaylorSwift's ''Look What You Made Me Do'' doesn't make it clear whether she's quoting what the person she's addressing would tell her after mistreating her, or if she's getting back at them for abusing her in the first place and telling them that they forced her hand. Her video makes it clear it's the latter, especially since she'd identified herself as a snake in a self-declared FaceHeelTurn; in the album, she notes she's putting someone on a Nixon-esque "list" and underlined it twice.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* Wrestling/EddieGuerrero claimed Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr somehow made Eddie beat the hell out of him when the Smackdown feud started.
** In a tremendous CallBack to the feud eighteen years later, Rey says these exact same words to his son Wrestling/{{Dominik|Mysterio}} (whose heel character is something of an Eddie Guerrero-{{expy}}) after striking him in the face. In his case, it's a rare justified example -- Dominik had long since made a FaceHeelTurn and had been spending months antagonizing his father and trying to provoke him into fighting him. Rey bore through it all, not wanting to fight his son, but when Dominik went as far as to start disrespecting his mother, Rey's wife Angie, too, Rey finally hit his RageBreakingPoint and attacked him, before accepting his challenge for a match between them at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania''.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': One of the nastiest things about Desus is that his social charms retain their full effect even against his victims. Since you ''know'' Desus is a great guy, your mind is forced to find a way to rationalize whatever he does to you as being your own fault.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* ''Theatre/ExitPursuedByABear'': Applies to both Nan and Kyle. Kyle never actually does this onstage, but when he tries to protest against being turned into bear-bait by his abused wife, Nan tells him that he made her do it — and it's made pretty clear that she's [[IronicEcho directly quoting one of his catchphrases]].
-->'''NAN:''' ''(A la Kyle)'' "Look what you made me do. You know how I get. You made me."
* In ''Theatre/HenryV'', Henry threatens Harfleur with a [[RapePillageAndBurn brutal sack]]... and tells them that if it happens it'll be all their fault for not surrendering. They surrender.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/BattleTech'': Sir Raju has a well-justified moment with this trope when he is forced to turn his guns on former comrades-in-arms who chose to rebel against his daughter-in-all-but-name Kamea.
-->'''Raju:''' Damn you for making me do that, son. Damn you.
* In a non-malicious example, ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'' has Toko slap Komaru out of her despair-induced funk in Chapter 5, only for her to demand Komaru hit her back after feeling disgusted with herself.
-->'''Toko:''' This is the first time I've ever slapped someone in the face! See what you made me do? Now come on... Hit me back.
* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', as Zeus kills Kratos with the Blade of Olympus, he tells his son it didn't have to end this way and that this path was of his choosing. This is in spite of Zeus betraying Kratos and not having given him a relief from his nightmares, the one thing Kratos had asked from the Gods.
** This is seen again in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'', when Odin is ordering Thor to kill Kratos. Thor, who has finally realized how manipulative and self-serving his father really is, finally decides to go against him and refuses to do what Odin says. His immediate response is to stab Thor with Gugnir. As his son is dying, Odin tells his son, "I didn't want this. I did not want this." Even as Atreus berates Odin for killing his own son, Odin insists that Atreus and Kratos are responsible for turning Thor against him and that he had no choice. This demonstrates how Odin is so narcissistic, he's incapable of accepting responsibility for his own actions and will always find a way to pin the blame on someone else, even when it's crystal clear the fault lies with him.
* In the midst of his VillainousBreakdown in ''VideoGame/JustCause3'', Di Ravello begins attacking one of his own men. After he is done beating him (presumably to death), he screams "LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO!"
* David Madsen in ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', if he hits Chloe in his first major scene. He gets better, but from the start of the game, he's an abusive, paranoid asshole who can't stand anything not being under his control and angrily blames everything but himself for his actions.
* Happens in ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors''; Kunoichi has a cutscene where she asks Mitsuhide why he had made her fight him when the bad guy was Nobunaga all along and triggered a thought that eventually made Mitsuhide turn on Nobunaga.
* A variant occurs in ''VideoGame/WeHappyFew''. An article "Breeder Riot" details how a pregnant woman was brutally attacked because ''she'' caused the outbreak of violence for having the "audacity" for showing off her pregnant stomach. Instead of attributing the blame to the Joy-high addicts who assaulted her simply for being pregnant. This is justified and made all the more tragic when you realize that the writers of this article were also Joy addicts, and common sense is far removed for their lot.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* Damien from ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' seems to like this [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-02-06 approach]].
* Toyed with on ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'' when Scout Arael [[http://www.lastres0rt.com/2009/07/what-a-mess/ slices a recently zombified Galaxy Girl Scout in half]]. Despite the inherent 'goodness' of the situation (saving Slick's life), she STILL says this line, probably because [[spoiler:it's implied earlier that if the whole incident wasn't televised, she would have let the Zombie Scout live]].
** Prior to this, Arael had been looking the other way as Pre-Zombie Scout was playing the DirtyCop role to the hilt; there's no doubt the Zombie Scout had it coming but either way, Arael had to ShootTheDog.
* The discontinued ''Webcomic/{{Loserz}}'' featured it in [[http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/156 one strip]] - but with a wholly different result than [[http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/157 blind acceptance]]. (Note that no parent is involved here.)
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** During O-Chul's imprisonment in Xykon's tower, Redcloak interrogates O-Chul in front of several civilian prisoners he intends to throw from a tower if O-Chul doesn't cooperate. When O-Chul doesn't talk, he leaves, saying he's going to let them all stew in the knowledge that O-Chul didn't care enough about the people to talk before he comes back to do the actual torture. [[spoiler:It backfires, though; the prisoners are instead impressed by O-Chul's resolve in not faltering in his duty even at the expense of his principles]].
** Later, when Gannji and Enor are imprisoned along with Roy and Belkar;
--->'''Gannji:''' You! We wouldn't be here if you hadn't--\\
'''Roy:''' --asked you an entirely reasonable question, to which you responded with violence?\\
'''Gannji:''' Yes! Exactly! What were you thinking?
** When Elan makes it clear he's not interested in General Tarquin's ArchnemesisDad narrative, Tarquin decides to railroad him into it by murdering his friends. He becomes increasingly unhinged as the Order refuses to die and repeatedly insists that [[NeverMyFault Elan has brought it all on himself]].
* {{Subverted}} in ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}''--Amber, whose father abused her mother (and her, once) punches her boyfriend Mike in a moment of rage. Mike, being Mike, actually seems ''turned on'' by this -- he immediately gives a [[TheUnSmile horrible smile]], kisses Amber and tells her he loves her for the first time -- while Amber spends the rest of the day [[WhatHaveIDone horrified]] and wants to break up.
* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'': [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/09/08/ It even happens to video game consoles]].
* The creator of ''Webcomic/PicturesForSadChildren'' invoked this on the Kickstarter for his compilation book. After the goal was met several-fold, [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/73258510/sad-pictures-for-children/posts suddenly he made a post]] wherein he refused to give out the rest of the rewards he promised, and posted a video of him burning a ''Webcomic/PicturesForSadChildren'' book for every e-mail he'd gotten about this, and threatened to burn more for if he gets any more e-mails about the subject. He then goes on to blame his backers for only giving him money because they wanted a return on their investment, how they're just supporting capitalism, and they [[SmallNameBigEgo basically should've given him money just for being so awesome]]. Sadly, a number of backers on his Kickstarter page agree with him.
* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'': Kieri's family beat her because she doesn't 'reach her full potential' - which translates to '[[{{Cult}} obey the council appointed by Gaia wholeheartedly]] and [[GeneralRipper stop wasting valuable killing practice time on things like diplomacy and logistics]]'. In contrast, [[AtLeastIAdmitIt Buwaro's family are more upfront about how they beat him because they're disappointed in how jaw-droppingly dumb he is]].
* From ''Webcomic/WildeLife'', [[spoiler:Clifford's abusive step-father Carl [[https://www.wildelifecomic.com/comic/870 takes this approach,]] going so far as to say, "Why do you have to push my buttons? You know I don't want to hurt you." He says this after smacking Clifford with enough force to give him a bloody nose. To make matters worse, [[https://www.wildelifecomic.com/comic/890 Clifford has internalized this]], and doesn't tell anyone because he blames himself]].
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''Literature/CanYouSpareAQuarter'': Jamie's AbusiveParents used to claim that he was an unwanted child and that he was supposed to pay them back for feeding him.
* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', Freeza does a little bit of StopHittingYourself towards Vegeta by punching him in the back. When Vegeta whines out that he's doing that wrong, Freeza coldly replies "''Au contrare'', Vegeta. You brought this upon yourself."
* In the ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'', after finding Tommy's secret stash of items (which Dream never explicitly said he couldn't have, and at that point only consisted of innocuous things like loose diamonds, emeralds and ender pearls) during [[TraumaCongaLine his exile]], Dream blows up the entirety of Logstedshire, bars Tommy from the Nether and forbids him from having any visitors. He then scolds Tommy for betraying him, saying things like "I thought you were my friend", with Tommy frantically apologizing the entire time.
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
** In the episode "Heroes and Monsters", [[Characters/RWBYAdamTaurus Adam Taurus]] tells Blake "Why must you hurt me, Blake?" mere moments before he attempts to decapitate her. He also [[spoiler:nearly killed another Beacon student, beat Blake within an inch of her life, declared that he's going to destroy everything she holds dear and [[AnArmAndALeg cut off Yang's arm]] when she tried to rescue her]]. Given how WordOfGod stated that Adam was an abusive boyfriend to Blake in the past, and [[TruthInTelevision the fact that many abusive boyfriends in real life will blame their partner for provoking the abuse]], it's incredibly disturbing.
*** In the episode "Stealing From the Elderly," Adam demands to know why she came into his life and ruined everything. Blake points out that he ''stalked her across the entire continent''.
** Many of the songs from [[Characters/RWBYSalem Salem]] and [[Characters/RWBYCinderFall Cinder's]] point of view have chastised Ozpin like this, shaming him for gathering countless people to defeat Salem and therefore sending them to their inevitable demise [[spoiler:since he knows he can never hope to win, as Salem is immortal]]. It's occasionally treated as though Ozpin himself is murdering people rather than Salem and her forces.
-->''Have you no shame? Signing them up for your war!''
* Played for laughs in WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail #86, when Strong Bad throws a cake in Strong Sad's face and says "look what you made me do."
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Attempted by a tree witch in the "To Cut a Woman's Hair" episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', when she lets Jake out of her so-called "bottomless bottom" and immediately starts crying about her inner and outer ugliness, seemingly provoked by a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Finn had given her just before.
* In the second season finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', [[spoiler: King Andrias runs Marcy through with his sword from behind]], and the first words out of his mouth afterwards are "Now look what you made me do."
* Also done in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' with the episode "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE21MadLove Mad Love]]", where [[spoiler: [[Characters/DCAUHarleyQuinn Harley Quinn]] is tossed out of a third-story window by [[Characters/DCAUJoker The Joker]], and whispers "My fault... I didn't get the joke.", quietly asserting Battered Spouse Syndrome.]]
* In the premier episode of ''WesternAnimation/BlackDynamite'':
--> '''Michael Jackson:''' "Now Cream Corn, why did you make me do that to you? I'm not mad at you. But if you make me do it again, I'll kill you."
* Played for laughs in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' where Stewie gets angry and strikes his stuffed bear Rupert.
-->'''Stewie:''' Now why did you make me do that? Do you think I ''like'' hitting you? ...Well, as a matter of fact, I do. In fact, I like it ''so'' much that I'm going to do it again!
* Done [[MemeticMutation memetically]] in the Season 1 finale of ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'', at the culmination of [[spoiler:Omni-Man]]'s brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of the titular character.
-->'''[[spoiler:Omni-Man]]''': Why did you make me do this?! You're fighting so you can watch everyone around you die! '''''Think''''', Mark!
* Often done by Nelson Muntz, a bully on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.
-->'''Nelson:''' Hey, butler. Stop butling yourself. ''(hits the butler with the butler's own fist)''\\
'''Butler:''' Would that I could, sir. ''(Nelson hits him some more)''
* Played chillingly for drama in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' when Jimmy takes [[PsychoSerum steroids]] to give him an edge in the Special Olympics. His girlfriend tries to talk him out of continuing his steroid abuse, which causes him to fly into a rage and savagely beat her while screaming, "Why are you doing this? Why are you making me do this?"
* ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'': Used once by Dick Dastardly as a justification for his dirty tricks.
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