Basic Trope: Character blames themselves for everything.
- Straight: Alice is constantly blaming herself for everything related to her.
- Exaggerated: Even if Alice is merely in the vicinity of a tragedy, she always pins the blame on herself, even if she had zilch to do with it.
- Downplayed: It's All My Fault
- Justified:
- Alice is an Extreme Doormat who is so used to being blamed for everything that she's started to believe it's really her fault.
- Alice is a Martyr Without a Cause who subconsciously tries to shield her True Companions from hurt by taking the blame herself.
- Alice has lingering, unresolved guilt stemming from her greatest failure (which is may or may not actually be her fault), when said failure hits her so hard that it pervades every aspect of her life and she begin to believe every failure around her is her fault, as well.
- Alice has Heroic Self-Deprecation who feels she's responsible for everything that happens around them just because she's the focal point of the story.
- Alice has "Catholic Guilt", which is a stereotypical personality trait of practicing Catholics and former Catholics.
- Alice is The Atoner, who actually is at fault for past misdeeds, but her sense of remorse runs so deep that she fears she indirectly inspired someone to commit the same reprehensible acts that she now deplores.
- Inverted: Never My Fault
- Subverted: Alice seems to have signs of this, but it's just a one time thing.
- Double Subverted: Then it slowly grows worse and worse.
- Parodied: Alice is consistently shown begging on her hands and knees for forgiveness every time she screws up, which only gets increasingly egregious with each more and more trivial things that she does that she somehow finds fault in.
- Zig-Zagged: She fluctuates between having this and having an uppity, Never My Fault attitude. It's Depending on the Writer, most of the time.
- Averted: Alice only apologizes for things that she royally screwed up.
- Enforced: Initially, Alice had a big It's All My Fault moment which was well received by fans. So naturally, Executive Meddling insisted that the creators milk this trope dry like it's going out of style.
- Lampshaded: "It's okay, Alice, we get the-" NO! YOU!! DON'T!!!"
- Invoked: Emperor Evulz warps Alice's head so that she perceives every wrongdoing related to her as all her fault.
- Exploited: It's easy to manipulate Alice due to how constantly guilty she thinks she is.
- Defied: "Oh, SHUT THE FUCK UP ALICE!!! Not everything has to necessarily be YOUR fault, for fuck's sakes!"
- Discussed: "Do you think there are certain things that Alice doesn't consider her fault and her fault only?"
- Conversed: "God, this bitch is actually grating. Especially since she keeps saying it's all her fault while some asshole who actually did it got away scot free."
- Implied: Alice is often seen with a perpetual frown on her face, especially when it comes to things that relate to her even remotely.
- Deconstructed: Alice is forced to see that everything's not her fault, because everyone's honestly sick of this charade that they had to manually spell it out to her.
- Reconstructed: Then she grabs the Idiot Ball with both of her hands having a severe iron grip, causing her to do something that's actually her fault.
- Played for Laughs: Alice constantly takes the blame for things that are hilariously trivial.
- Played for Drama: Alice considers it all her fault when Bob dies, even when it was literally out of her control. Everyone's getting sick of her constantly putting guilt on her back for no reason.
- Played for Horror: Alice's constant guilt essentially gaslights and deludes her into thinking everything was her fault, turning her from a relatively normal human being to a hollow shell of who she used to be.
I'm so sorry that I have a compulsive nattering, vandalism, word crufting, and auto erotic troping disorder!
