Well, you just had to click on this link and look at this Index for all tropes having to do with blame and its placement, didn't you? If you got confused and clicked on this expecting something else, then it is your own fault!
See also: Sadness Tropes, Fame and Reputation Tropes, Crime and Punishment Tropes, and Responsibility Tropes.
Examples
- Affair? Blame the Bastard: You little bastard! You're the reason your father/mother cheated on me!
- Agent Provocateur: An individual who goes under cover to incite two sides against each other, causing both sides to hate them.
- Blame Game: "It's your fault!" "No, it's your fault!"
- Blamed for Being Railroaded: Being forced to do something bad, and then being shunned for it.
- Blame the Paramour: My partner cheated on me with you?! How dare you do that to me!
- Blaming the Tools: What do you mean, I did poor craftsmanship? These tools are defective!
- Blaming the Victim: Oh, shut up! It's all your fault that you're a victim of an injustice!
- Blaming the Cuckold: If you were a better partner, you wouldn't have gotten cheated on!
- Calling the Old Man Out: It's all your fault for causing me misery! And you call yourself a parent?!
- Caregiver Angst: A caregiver may reach their limits in their job and blame their patient for the way they're feeling.
- Cassandra Did It: You predicted a disaster? You must have caused it!
- Clear My Name: I'm blamed for a crime I didn't commit. I must prove that I didn't do it!
- Clear Their Name: I must help clear someone's name of a crime they didn't commit.
- Crossing the Burnt Bridge: A character cuts ties with a person or group but then is forced to deal with them again.
- Failure-to-Save Murder: You're too late to rescue him, because he's dead, and it's all your fault!
- False Confession
- False Flag Operation: One side pretends to be the other side to provoke a war.
- Frameup: Looks like you're in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- Framing the Guilty Party: I know you did it, but I need to make up false evidence to prove it.
- Freudian Excuse: Cut me some slack. I had a rough childhood.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: It's your own fault you were this way, not your past.
- Generational Trauma: Conflict arises due to unresolved baggage passed down from generation to generation.
- Guilt Complex: I'm to blame for everything that's gone wrong, especially the things I shouldn't be blamed for!
- Guilty Until Someone Else Is Guilty: We're gonna blame you until we can blame someone else.
- Inhibition-Destroying Puppet: I can say whatever I want, as long as I'm not the one saying it!
- Irrational Hatred: I hate you in ways that no one can understand!
- It's All My Fault: I'm to blame for what's happened regardless of whether that's true!
- Just Following Orders: It's my superiors' fault for ordering me to commit heinous crimes.
- Just Giving Orders: It's all your fault for committing a crime that I commanded you to do!
- Loser Son of Loser Dad: You deserve to be hated because of what your parents have done.
- Malicious Slander: I'm gonna blame you so much, it hurts.
- Maternal Death? Blame the Child!: It's your fault your mother died because you came out of that damn womb!
- Misblamed: No. It's not a mis-blame! It really is your fault!
- Motivational Lie
- Must Make Amends: This was my doing, so I need to fix it.
- My God, What Have I Done?: I'm filled with blame and guilt for this awful deed I've done!
- Never My Fault: It's all yours! You're to blame! Not me! I can do no wrong!
- Not Me This Time: Why go after me? I didn't do it.
- Promoted to Scapegoat: The newly promoted guy is to blame!
- Propping Up Their Patsy: A culprit proclaims the innocence of another suspect to conceal their own culpability or further their own agenda.
- Psychological Projection: I'm not like that, you are!
- The Scapegoat: Who's to blame for this? It's you!
- Self-Defense Ruse: I killed that guy because he was attacking me! (Actually, he wasn't. That's just an excuse so I can get away with murder.)
- Silent Scapegoat: I'm gonna take the blame for everything to save everyone else, and no one else has to know it.
- Sins of Our Fathers: You deserve to be punished because of what your ancestors have done.
- Society Is to Blame: It's society's fault all of this is happening to me!
- Stopping the Blame Game: Don't blame me when you're the one who's really responsible!
- Taking the Heat: My friend didn't do it, it was me!
- This Bear Was Framed: That animal did it!
- This Is Unforgivable!: There's no forgiveness for what you've done.
- Video Game Cruelty Punishment: Oh... you shouldn't have done that...
- What the Hell, Hero?: Shame on you! You're at fault for your bad deed!
- Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: It's your fault for making me slap you! Apologize!
- You Bastard!: I'm not the one to blame for this. You are.
