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* ''Fanfic/MetalGearGreen'': Night Owl, after the Congo Tyrant successfully nuked Gecko's group and gave him his nuclear bomb, frames the HPSC VP at the time for giving the Tyrant the means to build the nukes. Madam President has the aforementioned VP dragged off to a black site, where he will never be seen again, while Night Owl begins to subtly eliminate the competition for the now vacant VP position, becoming the VP of the HPSC by the time Outer Heaven is formed.
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* ''Film/TheExperts'': [[spoiler:The phony reverend of the town]] is blamed by his superiors for the mass defection despite being one of the only people in the group to remain thoroughly dedicated to the Soviet mission and the most efficient of everyone who tried to stop the escape.

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* Suzaku from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is blamed for the murder of Clovis early on, namely by the Pureblood faction within the army to try and make a case of how Japanese can't be trusted in the military.

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* [[Characters/CodeGeassSuzakuKururugi Suzaku Kururugi]] from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is blamed for the murder of Clovis early on, namely by the Pureblood faction within the army to try and make a case of how Japanese can't be trusted in the military.



* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', Goku, who's spoiling for a good fight, reminds [[TopGod Zen-Oh]] of his idea to hold a martial arts tournament between all 12 universes. When the rules are announced, it's revealed that the losing universes will be completely erased from existence, which causes people from the other universes to blame Goku for this. However, others point out that he isn't to blame since Zen-Oh wanted to cut down on the number of universes anyway; if anything they should be thanking Goku, since the tournament gives them a fighting chance at survival whereas otherwise Zen-Oh would have just erased them and been done with it.

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* ''Manga/DeathNote'': [[Characters/DeathNoteLightYagami Light Yagami]] has a pathological need for scapegoats so he can maintain his delusions of moral superiority. Compare his original persona pre-Death Note where he's lethargic and even somewhat depressed with his drama-free existence. Once Light gives himself Death Note-amnesia, he displays far more determination and a level of moral fibre that would make it implausible that he'd ever think of using the Death Note, largely because the existence of Kira gave him someone to stand against and convince himself that he was the hero.
* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', Goku, [[Characters/DragonBallSonGoku Son Goku]], who's spoiling for a good fight, reminds [[TopGod Zen-Oh]] of his idea to hold a martial arts tournament between all 12 universes. When the rules are announced, it's revealed that the losing universes will be completely erased from existence, which causes people from the other universes to blame Goku for this. However, others point out that he isn't to blame since Zen-Oh wanted to cut down on the number of universes anyway; if anything they should be thanking Goku, since the tournament gives them a fighting chance at survival whereas otherwise Zen-Oh would have just erased them and been done with it.
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* ''VideoGame/StarShiftRebellion'': This game's plot occurs in parallel to ''Origins'', and it shows that after the Raxion II incident, Novus [[spoiler:pinned the blame for the deadly gas on Carol Everson, even though it was an Earth Systems Alliance ship that did it]].

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