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* Suzaku in ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is ''defined'' by this trope (and its [[NeverMyFault opposite]]) - it's the major reasons for his [[DeathSeeker death wish]]. [[spoiler:In the latter parts of ''R2'', Lelouch also starts thinking like this.]]

* ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'': Following her son's death, which an investigation writes off as a [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]], Mari Nagare is sent into a deep depression where she blames herself and her husband, Taiichirou, for Kiritaka's death. Taiichirou agrees with her, and apologizes for not being able to protect their son. Then she finds [[DeadManWriting Kiritaka's diary]] and [[BullyBrutality learns]] it [[NeverSuicide wasn't a suicide...]]

--> '''Ermes''' ''(shaking)'': Jolyne... the [[DramaticWind wind's]] [[HesDeadJim stopped]].\\

* Edward Elric from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. Seeing as how it ''was'' his idea to transmute his and Al's mother in the first place and how he got off easy compared to his brother as a result, you can see where he's coming from. But Al did go along with it.

** [[spoiler:R!]]Syaoran has a brief episode of this when [[CloningBlues things]] [[MindScrew start to get weird]]. [[TeamDad Kurogane]] and [[TeamMom Fai]] set him straight, though.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': After the Provisional Hero exams, [[TheRival Bakugo]] ends up challenging [[TheHero Midoriya]] to a fight. In the middle of the scuffle, he reveals that he blames himself [[spoiler: for causing All Might losing his powers and having to retire, as an indirect result of Bakugo getting kidnapped by the League of Villains.]]

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** ''Manga/StardustCrusaders'': Polnareff blames his [[RevengeBeforeReason impulsive actions]] for attempting to avenge his sister's death when it resulted in [[spoiler:Avdol]] TakingTheBullet in the midst of battle.
** ''Manga/StoneOcean'': Jolyne blames herself for [[spoiler:Weather Report]]'s death at Pucci's hands, as the former was on the verge of defeating the latter and ending the entire conflict when Jolyne's arrival inadvertently distracted him. Everyone's thoughts on the matter do ''not'' help.
--> '''Ermes''' ''(shaking)'': Jolyne... the [[DramaticWind wind's]] [[HesDeadJim stopped]].\\
'''Jolyne''': ''It can't be... was it because [[NiceJobBreakingItHero we crashed the car?]] Because I came here?'' [...] [[spoiler:Weather]]... Just one more time... I want to talk to you one more time... in the breeze... I want to be able to speak to you.\\
'''Anasui''': He came back to life when he left that prison. I can tell. So don't think too deeply about what happened to him. These past few days, [[spoiler:Weather]] was happy, he was already saved.
* ''Anime/StrainStrategicArmoredInfantry'', when Lavinia indirectly [[spoiler:causes Carrisford's death and the revelation of Sara's identity.]] Maybe next time she shouldn't grab an [[{{Fanservice}} episode]] all to herself.

* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'':
** ''Anime/YuGiOh'': In season 4, Yami Yugi blames himself for [[spoiler:using the Seal of Orichalcos trying to defeat Raphael, but ultimately leads to his downfall, making [[HeroicSacrifice Yugi have the seal take his soul instead of the Pharaoh]]'s.]] Rebecca and [[spoiler:Orichalcos-possessed!]]Weevil said that it was his fault as well. Arguably, it wasn't ''all'' Yami's fault. [[spoiler:Raphael provoked him into using the card first after using Yami Yugi's Exchange to deliberately give the Seal of Orichalcos to him in a BatmanGambit to prove that Yami Yugi was evil.]]
** In ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'', Yami Yugi blames himself for the group's entering the game, and thus tries to take on La Jinn alone.
** ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': Jaden completely breaks down, mercilessly blaming himself, when Jesse gets stranded in the Duel Monsters' Spirit World, even though everyone else escapes since they can't even be sure Jesse was still alive. Everyone else also says it's his fault except Jim and Axel. Jerks.
** ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal'': Yuma starts having a breakdown upon realizing that he led most of his friends into a trap set by the villainous Barians and there's seemingly no way out. His friends quickly reassure him that they don't blame him, while [[TheRival Shark]] and [[TheAce Kite]] are outright ''insulted''. They knew the risks and still willingly decided to help him, so to them Yuma's attitude is devaluing their choices, and they tell him to QuitYourWhining and keep fighting.
* In ''Anime/{{Clannad}}'', when [[spoiler:Nagisa finds out that her parents originally had better careers and stopped pursuing them in order to stay at home with a bakery to care for her [[DelicateAndSickly sickly character]] since a [[NotQuiteDead nearly-tragic incident]]. She was not meant to find out [[TheUnreveal the secret]] as Tomoya and her father even saw it coming that she was going to start blaming herself and {{Wangst}} about it.]]

** [[Anime/DragonBallZ Later on]], Gohan blames himself for his father's second death, when he could've just instantly slaughtered Cell and instead decided to [[RevengeBeforeReason torture him]], which led to Cell having a VillainousBreakdown and attempt a TakingYouWithMe, prompting [[ChronicHeroSyndrome Goku]] to step up and sacrifice himself for Earth's sake, [[SenselessSacrifice which didn't work]].
* In the ''Mazinger'' series it's dangerous being impossibly willful and TooDumbToLive, as well as not listening to good advice and thinking before acting:
** ''Anime/MazingerZ'': It happened to Yuri -Sayaka's cousin- after she [[spoiler:wheeled herself out of Kouji's house in spite of everybody telling her it was dangerous outside due to Mazinger-Z and a [[{{Robeast}} Mechanical Beast]] duking it out. She was kidnapped by several [[{{Mooks}} Iron Masks]] and TheDragon Baron Ashura used her like a hostage.]] She blamed herself, thinking if she would not have been so stubborn and would have listened to what people told, Kouji would be safe.
** ''Anime/GreatMazinger'': Tetsuya Tsurugi blames himself for [[spoiler:his and Jun's adoptive father's death.]] Given that [[spoiler:Kenzo pulled a HeroicSacrifice to save Tetsuya's life, and Tetsuya was in danger because he behaved like an arrogant and jealous idiot,]] he is right. During a hospital scene, as he was rambling MyGodWhatHaveIDone, his LoveInterest BattleCouple and NotBloodRelated adoptive sister Jun listened in silence, trying to be supportive, but she was not gainsaying him. That ''might'' suggest she did not want to grieve him, but she did not disagree.
** ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'': Duke blamed himself for having been unable to protect his planet and save his people from the Vegan AlienInvasion, and having run away. Actually the main reason of he wages war against the Vegans despite of he hates fight is he does not want the same thing happened to his homeworld happens to Earth, and he would not bear to run cowardly again. Nevertheless, unlike other instances of this trope he is wrong on blaming himself since he could have not done anything back then (other than dying, that is).
** ''Anime/CBCharaGoNagaiWorld'': Satan blames himself for [[spoiler:killing ''[[Manga/{{Devilman}} Akira Fudo]]'']]. Pretty reasonably, since he killed him... ''again''.
** ''Manga/ShinMazingerZero'': In the first timeline, we see [[spoiler:Mazinger-Z has become an EldritchAbomination. Earth is now a flaming, barren, lifeless rock, and humanity has been wiped out.]] Kouji blames himself for it, uttering that same exact sentence and stating if he [[spoiler: would not RefusedTheCall and piloted Mazinger-Z,]] nothing of this would have happened.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** Shikamaru says this at the end of a mission that got very nearly two of his friends killed. Neither his boss, his father nor his potential love interest denies that it is, but urge him to instead think of the failure as motivation to do better the next time, rather than run away from responsibility and risk entrusting his friends to someone who might not bring them back alive.
** In the anime Shikamaru repeatedly says this [[spoiler: just before Asuma dies]], as the narrative flashes back to a strategy meeting held before the battle.
** Averted later on, when [[spoiler: Pain attacks Konoha looking for Naruto, he never once blames himself.]]
** Shippuden filler episode 192 has Hinata saying this after getting kidnapped by two ninjas sent by Orochimaru. Neji reassures her that there is no need to do something like that.
* The same cannot be said for Negi of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', who blames himself for the attack on his home village. After all, he was looking for trouble so his father could save him, right? Fortunately, Asuna tells him he's wrong.
** [[spoiler: [[HarsherInHindsight And then it turns out that the demons were trying to kill Negi in the first place.]]]]
** At times this makes up a solid 75% of Negi's dialogue.
*** This [[HeroicSelfDeprecation tendency]] [[BlackMagic leads him]] to [[TrainingFromHell push himself]] towards the remaining 25% - pure, unfiltered badass.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'':
** Madoka blames herself for [[spoiler: Mami's death]], thinking it was her fault for being such a coward and a liar. This is especially severe when she [[spoiler: gets caught by a witch but doesn't try to fight back or even escape, but fully accepts death if not for Sayaka's intervention.]]
** Kyoko is a prime example of this, for [[spoiler: inadvertently causing the death of her entire family.]]
** Homura also has this moment in [[spoiler: episode 11, when she acknowledges that her efforts to save Madoka for the past 100+ timelines have been for nothing, and everything she does only makes things worse.]]
* Chrono says this during his HeroicBSOD in the anime adaption of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', essentially implying that ''everything'' bad that happened in the story so far had been his fault. In the manga itself he never says this, but he does imply several times that he feels responsible for much of what's happened.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' features this happening in season two's fifth episode to Saji Crossroad, the unluckiest civilian ever.

* All over the place in ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' (Fakir blaming himself for not protecting Mytho, Rue's breakdown after Mytho's [[spoiler: transformation into a crow]]), but the titular character has the most, which is to be expected when the main character is constantly trying to make everyone around her happy. The first major instance is when she [[spoiler: overhears Mytho saying he's terrified of her after she returns his feeling of fear and realizes she might have been hurting him all along]], and later on, near the end of the series, [[spoiler: she tries to drown herself in the Lake of Despair because she believes her inability to remove the pendant has doomed the town and everyone she loves]].

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'':
** [[BigBrotherMentor Maiza Avaro]] begins to [[WhoWantsToLiveForever regret bringing immortality into the world]] almost immediately after doing so (a notion which is only cemented by the fact that it sparked a chain of events which led to his brother's murder). He finally learns to move on when his protege Firo [[spoiler:winds up immortal ''and'' with the [[GhostMemory Ghost Memories]] of both Maiza's brother and his killer...and doesn't blame him ''one bit'' for it all]].
** In the same canon, Jacuzzi Splot. After going on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge on the Russo family, he's cornered and beaten up in an alleyway by three members of that family. The rest of his gang comes to his rescue, and his girlfriend knifes all three guys in the head, and then [[StuffBlowingUp blows up the alleyway]]; but not only does Jacuzzi blame himself, he describes the incident as though he was the one who murdered the guys.
--->'''Jacuzzi:''' ...and yesterday, I ended up killing three people.\\
'''Isaac and Miria:''' Killing?!\\
'''Donny:''' No! We were the ones that did the killing. Jacuzzi didn't do nothing!\\
'''Jacuzzi:''' What's the difference, it happened!
* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' after defeating Kaigaku, in his near-death vision of the afterlife, Zenitsu talks with his master one last time, blaming himself for his master’s seppuku in atonement for Kaigaku’s betrayal and for the latter’s betraying them in first place; Zenitsu reasons that if he wasn’t such a coward and an incompetent disciple he wouldn’t have brought shame to his master, that if he was as good as Kaigaku their master wouldn’t have felt the need to try to atone for one of his best disciples turning over to the demons; the master however doesn’t agree with Zenitsu, honestly believing Zenitsu has always been his pride and joy, as previous flashbacks shows the master supporting Zenitsu at every turn, even if he tried to run or cry, the master saw through Zenitsu’s layers in that beneath all the apparent fear the boy never actually stopped trying to make through the master’s training regime, all paying off with Zenitsu defeating Kaigaku who was seem as the much stronger disciple by others.
* In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', Kari has this reaction to Myotismon's takeover of the city. She starts sobbing about how it's all her fault and then tries to pull off a HeroicSacrifice (of sorts) to get the big bad to stop.
*** After Kari gives herself up, Matt blames himself for this because he promised Tai that he would look after her.
** In the previous arc, Tai breaks down and blames himself for letting Sora and Biyomon get kidnapped by Nanomon.
** There was also the guilt Tai goes through when remembering the time he took a sick Kari outside to play soccer and she collapsed right in front of him. She was then rushed to the hospital where she was diagnosed with pneumonia and almost died.
* Yamaki from ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' blames himself for almost everything involving Digimon being in the real world after his HeelFaceTurn, including ''the kids biomerging with their Digimon''. Using the program that opened a huge portal between the worlds and almost let a whole bunch of Digimon into the world was totally his fault, but little else that he's blamed himself for was.
** Impmon/Beelzemon spends much of the season's final arc being eaten alive by guilt for what he did while on a PowerHigh, especially [[spoiler: killing Leomon, thus causing Jeri to cross the DespairEventHorizon and [[DemonicPossession get possessed by]] [[EldritchAbomination the D-Reaper]].]]

* Suzaku in ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is ''defined'' by this trope (and its [[NeverMyFault opposite]]) - it's the major reasons for his [[DeathSeeker death wish]]. [[spoiler:In the latter parts of ''R2'', Lelouch also starts thinking like this.]]
* In ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', Ritsu and his mother fit this trope so well- whenever anything goes wrong, Ritsu starts running around screaming that it's his fault and he's soooooooo sorrrrrrry.
** Tohru also has some elements of this. When Ritsu and Tohru meet, Hilarity Ensues.
** Another example is Hatori blaming himself for putting Kana through so much heartbreak and pain.
* Kaga Ai from ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' is a parody of this. She will blame herself for anything, at anytime for absolutely no reason.
** In fact, in the episode where Kaga was introduced, ''everybody'' did this.

* During the "Phantom Lord" arc of ''Manga/FairyTail'', the Fairy Tail guildhall is destroyed and Lucy, after being kidnapped, learns that it was all so they could get to her, which leads to her HeroicBSOD. Given that she's stuck in a [[FromBadToWorse dire situation]], Lucy initially plays the trope straight, but then inverts the trope by saying that she still wants to be a member of Fairy Tail as she doesn't want anyone else getting hurt because of her actions.
** [[spoiler:Loke]] had been going through this for three years after [[spoiler:accidentally and indirectly causing the death of Karen Lilica, the cruel and sadistic celestial wizard he'd been contracted to]]. Luckily, Lucy manages to break him out of it ''and'' [[spoiler:convince the Celestial Spirit King to let him back into the Spirit World]].
* Used terrifyingly in ''Manga/SoulEater'' with Dr. Stein. After the battle to reclaim the Brew [[spoiler:fails because Stein is overtaken by insanity and becomes unable to fight, he says this line to try to comfort Marie. The scary part kicks in when he then repeats it amid peals of [[LaughingMad mad laughter]].]]
* ''Anime/AngelBeats'': [[spoiler: Yuri]] blames herself for not being able to save her siblings. Needless to say, nobody else does.
** And perhaps to a lesser extent - [[spoiler: Hinata]] for failing a decisive catch.
** Yuri again after accidentally sending Kanade into a coma by dumping 100 aggressively violent copies of herself into her mind.
* ''Manga/BetrayalKnowsMyName'': Hotsuma blames himself for causing Shuusei's burn scars.

* Amasawa of ''Manga/TheWeathermanIsMyLover'' blames himself for his parents' deaths after they ignored his warnings about the oncoming storm. Every time a storm comes thereafter he is scared to go outside because it feels like the wind is blaming him too.
* In ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula'' ''ZERO'', Kurumada blames himself for causing Hayato's accident in the English GP, to the point where he briefly retired from his team.
* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'': Vash the Stampede has a habit of thinking like this, pretty independently of whether things are in that instance actually his fault... probably because he has a massive guilt complex about A) continuing to run around even though so much chaos follows him wherever he goes and B) not having neutralized his EvilTwin yet. Since he is then responsible for all incidental misfortunes and any actions taken by the BigBad, this trope just kind of happens.

* In ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'', Miura blames himself for [[spoiler:Detective Trap being canceled, out of the belief that he failed to notice Mashiro's declining health]]. This belief leads him to be driven to getting a series going, unfortunately to the extent that he pressures Mashiro and Takagi into immediately going for a gag manga rather than proceeding more carefully and finding something that would become a hit.
* ''Manga/GirlsSaurus'': Haruka Nishiharu, who, after spending almost the whole series holding a grudge against Shingo for seemingly rejecting her when she was still a [[FatBastard Fat Bitch]], has this reaction after learning about his gynophobia and terminal illness and tracing it back to the day she sent him to the hospital. Note that she is one of the few {{Tsundere}}s to admit that she was doing harm to her love interest, but it doesn't make it any less heartbreaking: "I'm the cause of all your problems, so it's better if I stay away from you!"
* Leo of ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' feels like [[spoiler: Elliot's misfortune and death]] are all his fault.

* Amuro Ray goes through this a number of times in his appearances in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam''. He blames himself easily for the deaths of, amongst others, [[spoiler: Matilda Ajan, Lalah Sune]] and, in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'', [[spoiler: Kayra Su]]. Granted, while [[spoiler: Matilda's]] death was unavoidable, [[spoiler: Lalah was killed]] because of his rivalry with Char and [[spoiler: Kayra was killed]] because the Nu Gundam was still sensitive and reacted to his anger.
* She didn't ''speak it out'', but this is how Haruka of ''Manga/KotouraSan'' thinks about [[spoiler:the events in the latter half of episode 3, when Hiyori sent dojo members/cult thugs to attack Manabe, causing Manabe to be hospitalized and Hiyori having a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment.]] This line of thinking, however, came from all the BreakTheCutie [[BlessedWithSuck that came from]] her {{telepath|y}}ic powers, eventually causing her to think she will eventually cause the downfall of anyone she cares about.
* ''Anime/BloodPlus'':
** This is Saya's word for word reaction [[spoiler: to remembering that it was ''her'' who set loose [[BigBad Diva]].]] This is one of the major reasons Saya is [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou the only person allowed to kill Diva]], along with the fact she's the only one who has Diva's Kryptonite, and [[spoiler: the major motive behind her DeathSeeker status]].
** Kai has the same reaction [[spoiler: when Riku is first attacked by Diva, and then later [[KillTheCutie killed]] by her]]. If he hadn't dragged [[spoiler: his younger brother]] off with him into some very dangerous situations he would [[spoiler: still be alive.]] However, he doesn't dwell too long on it and instead uses it to fuel his [[TookALevelInBadass later actions]].
* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'''s [[StepfordSmiler Fai D. Flourite]] has it bad. He blames himself for [[spoiler: the death of his twin, the annihilation of Valeria's people, the murder of Celes' people and the "death" of Sakura who [[LikeASonToMe is like a daughter to him]].]] The poor guy is so [[BrokenBird messed up]] that he's [[DeathSeeker waiting for someone or something to end it all]] but just can't do it himself. Then there is [[IHateYouVampireDad Kurogane]] who ''[[HoYay won't let him die]]''.
** [[spoiler:R!]]Syaoran has a brief episode of this when [[CloningBlues things]] [[MindScrew start to get weird]]. [[TeamDad Kurogane]] and [[TeamMom Fai]] set him straight, though.
* ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'': [[spoiler: Stefan Levin]] feels this way about [[spoiler: his beloved girlfriend Karen's death -- she was hit by a truck (and it happened when she was ''on her way to his final soccer match in Sweden'')]] which led to his mind and soul being completely corrupted. And he channels this through his signature "Levin Shot" as a way to injure his rivals, which includes [[spoiler: Wakabayashi, Müller and Akai.]]
* ''Manga/{{Subaru}}'' blames herself on multiple occasions during the manga's run. Particularly blames herself for [[spoiler: not seeing Kazuma or Isuzu before they die]] due to being "busy with ballet".
* ''Manga/SlamDunk'': After Shohoku loses to Kainan, Sakuragi and Rukawa have a fistfight over whose fault it was (that's right, each blaming himself instead of the other).
* In ''Manga/SeraphOfTheEnd'' Mikeala blames himself for the death of his "family" as it was his naive plan that ended up getting them all killed. Alternatively Yuu also blames himself for the same incident, though not to as much extent.
* ''Manga/Brave10'': Isanami comes to this conclusion after the second fight with Hanzo and briefly gives up, and again when captured by Date. She's later goaded by Hanzo during the fight against the Iga Grotesque Five into another breakdown [[spoiler:that pulls out her SuperpoweredEvilSide.]]
* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': Chapter 100 has [[spoiler:Reiner Braun]] confessing to [[spoiler:Eren Yeager]] that he's responsible for all of the latter's suffering, including [[spoiler:the death of Eren's mother]]. It turns out that [[spoiler:Annie and Bertolt wanted to give up on their mission after Marcel's death, but Reiner insisted they stuck with it]]. He ends up [[spoiler:asking Eren to kill him because he can no longer handle all his guilt. Eren, however, is already aware that it's because of Reiner, so the apology doesn't do anything for him, and instead of killing Reiner, he decides to psychologically torture him for a while longer -- until he transforms into a Titan and goes along with his plan of revenge anyway.]]
* Sayaka from ''Manga/TonariNoKashiwagiSan'' blames herself for her parents having to put up a HappyMarriageCharade for as long as they did (they were waiting until after she finished middle school to get divorced so as to not disrupt her studies).
* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': After the Provisional Hero exams, [[TheRival Bakugo]] ends up challenging [[TheHero Midoriya]] to a fight. In the middle of the scuffle, he reveals that he blames himself [[spoiler: for causing All Might losing his powers and having to retire, as an indirect result of Bakugo getting kidnapped by the League of Villains.]]
* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': Occurs in [[Recap/Doraemon1979E1759SoapBubbles "Soap Bubbles"]]. People might say this phrase after they are hit with the Soap Bubble Straw and feel remorseful.
* ''Manga/ASilentVoice'': Both Ishida and Nishimiya blame themselves (not each other, though) for all of the difficulties in the lives around them. Ishida arguably is right about at least some of it (at least, the parts that stem from the results of his bullying years ago), although he actively blames his actions to the present if they're not perfect.
* ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'': Both Mira and Mai gets this in the twenty-third chapter (animated in the seventh episode), when they heard that Ao gets {{sick|episode}}. At first Mira get this since she thinks Ao gets sick because of their stargazing the previous night when the weather gets unusually cold. Upon hearing this, Mai gets this as well, since, as the club president, she think she's responsible for one of its members falling sick from a club-related activity (despite it's more Mira and Ao's own activity rather than the club's). The irony is that neither of them are at fault for this. Ao gets sick because [[spoiler:she gets a HeroicBSOD the night before after she heard that the family's going to move again, and stayed in the bath for 3 hours]].
* ''Anime/TamagotchiTheMovie'': Mametchi blames himself when [[spoiler:Sunnytchi leaves Tamagotchi Planet]] after he invents his own personal sun. [[spoiler:Sunnytchi did ''not'' leave because of the personal sun, however.]]

** ''Manga/StoneOcean'': [[spoiler:Weather Report]]'s death at Pucci's hands, something that would've ended the conflict had Jolyne not arrived at the wrong time to give Pucci a chance to kill the former. Everyone's thoughts on the matter do ''not'' help.

** ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal'': Yuma starts having a breakdown upon realizing that he led most of his friends into a trap set by the evil Barians and there's seemingly no way out. His friends quickly reassure him that they don't blame him, while [[TheRival Shark]] and [[TheAce Kite]] are outright ''insulted'' that Yuma feels this way, since they knew the risks and still willingly chose to help him, and tell him to QuitYourWhining and keep fighting.

** In the anime Shikamaru repeatedly says this [[spoiler: just before Asuma dies]], as it flashes back to a strategy meeting held before the battle.

** In ''All Hail the Ice Battlefield!'', after losing to Wulfric, Ash blames himself for the loss and his Greninja getting hurt, and goes to the Winding Woods alone in shame. In the next episode, Ash's Greninja also feels at fault for the loss because it believes it let its Trainer and teammates down.

* In ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End of Evangelion]]'', Shinji decides that everything is his fault, and thus that everyone would be better off without him. Unfortunately he doesn't recover from his HeroicBSOD, with disastrous results; namely: his inaction, apathy, and {{wangst}} ensure that everything that happens in the movie actually ''becomes'' his fault.

** Madoka blames herself for [[spoiler: Mami's death]], thinking it was her fault for being too a coward and a liar. This is especially severe when she [[spoiler: gets caught by a witch but doesn't try to fight back or even escape, but fully accepts death if not for Sayaka's intervention.]]

* Yamaki from ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' blames himself for almost everything involving Digimon being in the real world, including ''the kids biomerging with their Digimon''. Using the program that opened a huge portal between the worlds and almost let a whole bunch of Digimon into the world was totally his fault, but little else that he's blamed himself for was.
** Impmon/Beelzemon spends the last half of the third season being eaten alive by guilt for [[spoiler: killing Leomon, thus causing Jeri to cross the DespairEventHorizon and [[DemonicPossession get possessed by]] [[EldritchAbomination the D-Reaper]].]]
** Let's not forget Kari's reaction to Myotismon's takeover of the city. she starts sobbing about how it's all her fault and then tries to pull off a HeroicSacrifice (of sorts) to get the big bad to stop.

* Suzaku in ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is ''defined'' by this trope (and it's [[NeverMyFault opposite]]) - it's the major reasons for his [[DeathSeeker death wish]]. [[spoiler:In the latter parts of ''R2'', Lelouch also starts thinking like this.]]

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': After the Provisional Hero exams, [[TheRival Bakugo]] ends up challenging [[TheHero Midoriya]] to a fight. In the middle of the scuffle, he reveals that he blames himself [[spoiler: for causing All Might losing his powers and having to retire, as he allowed himself to be kidnapped by the League of Villains.]]

* In ''Anime/{{Clannad}}'', when [[spoiler:Nagisa finds out that her parents originally had better careers and stopped pursuing them in order to stay at home with a bakery to care for her [[IllGirl sickly character]] since a [[NotQuiteDead nearly-tragic incident]]. She was not meant to find out [[TheUnreveal the secret]] as Tomoya and her father even saw it coming that she was going to start blaming herself and {{Wangst}} about it.]]