History NeverMyFault / Other

** During her first day at Beacon, Ruby accidentally trips over some luggage, attracting the ire of the owner, Weiss. Weiss rants about Ruby's carelessness because the luggage contains highly volatile Dust. While complaining, Weiss shakes one of the Dust vials from the luggage. Some of the powered Dust puffs out into the air causing Ruby to sneeze. The sneeze sets off the Dust which explodes in Weiss's face. Weiss doesn't even acknowledge that she shook the volatile material in the first place.
** Raven never acknowledges that her own tribe's assault on Xion has left it vulnerable for the Grimm to destroy it. By the time of Volume 5, Raven seemingly passes off the blame for not seeing Yang onto her daughter, refuses to acknowledge her association with Salem despite harboring a Maiden - though it turns out she is the Maiden so she's involved regardless of whether she likes it - and doesn't take yes for an answer to her setting Qrow and his comrades up.

** Season 6 reveals [[spoiler:[[BigBad Salem]] of all people is this! To clarify, The gods cursed Salem with immortality hoping that she would learn why her demands of them were selfish and arrogant. They want her to learn the importance of life and death. Unfortunately for the world of Remnant, that first requires her to admit she did something wrong in the first place. When her lover Ozma died from a fatal sickness, she manipulated the gods into restoring him to life. When the gods realised, they took Ozma's life to correct the mistake and punished Salem with immortality to prevent her from reuniting with Ozma in the afterlife. They instructed her to learn the importance of life and death, but she only learned how to manipulate both gods and men. She raised an army to fight the gods; in retaliation, the gods destroyed humanity and abandoned the world, leaving Salem to walk the world alone, unable to die. The God of Light later restored a weakened version of humanity and reincarnated Ozma to guide humanity towards their only chance for redemption. As a result, Salem's anger with the gods extended to encompass Ozma; she now seeks to destroy everything Oz is trying to achieve and is even further away from taking responsibility for her actions than ever.]] HolyShitQuotient doesn't '''''begin''''' to describe it!

* In the ''Podcast/BlackJackJustice'' episode "The Reunion", The ''lack'' of this trope is the key clue. Jack and Trixie's client, Edie, is a woman trying to reunite with her estranged twin sister Jan after she basically stole the man her sister loved from her. Among the little things that tip the detectives off is that their client took full responsibility for her actions with no attempt to justify them, something they see all too often. They eventually realize [[spoiler: Jane killed Edie and was impersonating her. She hired Jack and Trixie to use them to make it look like they'd reunited amicably so she wouldn't be suspected when the Edie was missed]].

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* ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty''; In 1988, the Meadow Party nominated Bill the Cat - likely the most unelectable candidate in history - for President. Naturally, he lost, and his campaign manager Milo blamed everyone and everything but the obvious:
-->'''Milo:''' Our organization was underfinanced! [[note]]''And'' the guys financing it included TheCartel.[[/note]]\\
'''[[StraightMan Opus]]''' ''(Turning to the reader)'' Two weeks later, and fingers are still pointing.\\
'''Milo:''' Our volunteers were unmotivated![[note]]More like nonexistent.[[/note]] Our ads were late![[note]]And they slandered the other candidates.[[/note]] Our literature was weak![[note]]It did more harm than good, with lame excuses to what Bill did.[[/note]]\\
'''Opus:''' [[CaptainObvious Our candidate barfed a hairball on Connie Chung.]]\\
'''Milo:''' ''[[ObligatoryJoke It's the media's fault!]]''
* At one point in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin blames Hobbes for breaking the battery case of a beanie, even though Calvin was the one who broke it. Played with in that after Hobbes calls him out on it, saying he had just been sitting there watching Calvin work when it snapped. Calvin then tearfully admits that he knows and that having Hobbes take the blame will make him feel better.
** On top of that was Calvin's decision to not take part in elections when he's an adult, with the final reasoning of "It's easier to blame things than fix them."
** One arc has Calvin accidentally break his father's binoculars, and Calvin outright states to Hobbes that this is his father's fault for trusting him with it.
** While Calvin acknowledges the seriousness of environmental issues, he doesn't realize how he contributes to them. In a one-shot strip, he complains about global warming and says that it's something his generation will have to live with once his parents' generation is gone, causing his mother to wryly note that he's the kid who "wants to be chauffeured anywhere more than a block away." The Mars arc involves him and Hobbes going to Mars to escape Earth's pollution, but after Calvin litters, they realize that human behavior needs to change.
** Really, this is a major part of Calvin's character. It's likely not a coincidence that he shares [[MeaningfulName his name]] with John Calvin, who believed in predestination and thus that free will and responsibility were mere illusions.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'': The PointyHairedBoss. In one comic he says that every time he and Dilbert disagree he ends up yelling, which is obviously Dilbert's fault, so he's sending Dilbert to a socialization class. Dilbert responds, "It looks like you've gained weight. Would you like me to start jogging to take care of that?"
* Lucy from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' is quick to blame others for things that were often her fault in the first place, the worst example of this being "It's Your First Kiss Charlie Brown" (see WesternAnimation, below).
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* [[BigBad Monokuma]] from ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'' traps 15 students in a school, explains that the only way for them to escape is to start killing each other, and then if they don't, [[ManipulativeBastard starts providing incentives for them to do so and generally psychologically tortures them until the body count rises]]. If he's ever called out on this, though, he'll act offended that anyone would even ''think'' to make such an accusation. After all, ''they're'' the ones doing all the killing. This escalates in [[VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2 the sequel]], where his "incentives" include [[spoiler:infecting a good chunk of the cast with a personality-altering disease and withholding food until somebody dies]].

* ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty''; In 1988, the Meadow Party nominated Bill the Cat - likely the most unelectable candidate in history - for President. Naturally, he lost, and his campaign manager, Milo blamed everyone and everything but the obvious:

* At one point in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin blames Hobbes for breaking the battery case of a beanie, even though Calvin was the one who broke it. Played with in that after Hobbes calls him out on it, saying he had just been sitting there watching Calvin work when it snapped. Calvin then tearfully admits that he knows, and that having Hobbes take the blame will make him feel better.

* During his last day in office, a president sits down at his desk and writes two letters, putting them in envelopes marked 1 and 2. As he welcomes the new president, he tells him that in case he runs out of options in a major crisis, he needs to open the first envelope. Some time later, a crisis looms, and the new president opens the first letter, reading "Blame me for everything." The new president does so, and everything works out fine. Some time later, another crisis comes along, and the president opens the second envelope. It begins "[[HereWeGoAgain Sit down at your desk and write two letters...]]"

* In the ''Podcast/BlackJackJustice'' episode "The Reunion", The ''lack'' of this trope is the key clue. Jack and Trixie's client, Edie, is a woman trying to reunite with her estranged twin sister, Jane, after she basically stole the man her sister loved from her. Among the little things that tip the detectives off is that their client took full responsibility for her actions with no attempt to justify them, something they see all too often. They eventually realize [[spoiler: Jane killed Edie and was impersonating her. She hired Jack and Trixie to use them to make it look like they'd reunited amicably so she wouldn't be suspected when the Edie was missed]].

** When Clan Steel Viper joins the invasion of the Inner Sphere they try to "enlighten" the people of the IS of their Clan ways, initially no one buys it. They mostly blame Clan Jade Falcon on why the IS don't like them, but in truth its because of the Steel Vipers low view of freebirths.

* Excessively Righteous Blossom in ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has a fairly simple flowchart. Did something he was involved with go well? Clearly it was due to [[IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance his brilliance at everything]]. Did it go poorly? It was ''clearly'' all the fault of his underlings, or jealous rivals, or something.

*** Played seriously in the final case of the game. [[spoiler: Godot blames Phoenix for Mia's death, despite the fact that there was nothing he could do to prevent it. Godot then blames Phoenix for Maya currently being in danger, when it was actually his plan (that he didn't tell Phoenix or Maya about) to save Maya that put her in that situation in the first place, also resulting in the death of her mother. At the end of the game, he admits that it wasn't Phoenix's fault, and that he just needed someone to blame. [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot He also admits that if he had come to Phoenix in the first place, Misty Fey would still be alive]].]]

** Mr. Reus from ''Spirit of Justice'' blamed Magnifi Gramarye for throwing him out of Troupe Gramarye, which he did because Reus went to perform after being specifically told not to, after he screwed up and burned himself during practice.
* [[BigBad Monokuma]] from ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'' traps 15 students in a school, explains that the only way for them to escape is to start killing each other, and then if they don't, [[ManipulativeBastard starts providing incentives for them to do so and generally psychologically tortures them until the body count rises]]. If he's ever called out on this, though, he'll act offended that anyone would even ''think'' to make such an accusation. After all, ''they're'' the one's doing all the killing. This escalates in [[VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2 the sequel]], where his "incentives" include [[spoiler:infecting a good chunk of the cast with a personality-altering disease and withholding food until somebody dies]].

* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Since she view herself as perfect, Julie will blame anyone or anything else besides herself when she messes up or does something wrong, no matter how much InsaneTrollLogic it takes.

** Gil Wulfenbach has a bit of trouble with this too; his part in the above situation was to defend himself. Unfortunately, "defending himself" meant swatting a bomb away, and more unfortunately, "away" meant "back at the guy who threw it, who was the one who was important to the Baron's plans". For the rest of the scene everyone shouts at Gil for killing Dr. Beetle, and Gil eventually gives up on impotently crying that Dr. Beetle threw a bomb at him. It occasionally comes up afterward, because a lot of people seem to have heard the "Gil killed Beetle" part but not the rest:

** Othar Trevveyson, GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER! is this for his relentless conviction that he's the hero, and should therefore have ProtagonistCenteredMorality. In the ''Revenge of the Weasel Queen'' "radio drama", the Queen pours out her TragicVillain backstory to him and as good as says she wants to reform and he can help. Othar, only half-listening, assumes this is an evil subterfuge and declares he will "do whatever it takes to destroy you!" When the Weasel Queen responds "Fine! Just ... ''fine''!" and Othar is surrounded by killer rabbits, he criticises ''her'' for "resorting to violence instead of peaceful discussion".

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': Emil has been shown to be prone to this. For instance, he blames the teachers for his failure in the public school system after being taught by a PrivateTutor that is implied to have coddled him. When he falls in a hole from ninety year old contruction work, he blames the hole's location rather than the attention he was paying to where he was going. The only good news is that when Sigrun tells him he's not working fast enough while actually taking her frustration out on him, Emil sees right through it and rebuffs Sigrun's statement that she will finish the job faster than he will.

* A_J of ''Roleplay/{{AJCO}}'' is quick to place blame on those around her when she makes mistakes, and it's always PlayedForDrama. After [[spoiler: Doctor Pi dies in the re-education suite]] she ''instantly'' turns to Egg, who was forced to make the final decision, and places the blame on her despite the fact that she didn't want to let it happen, and despite the fact that Kaja, Crez and Req played an almost equal part in the affair. Egg [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness immediately calls her out on it]].
* Angela and Esmeralda on ''WebOriginal/TheWarComms'' managed to drive Syrius into an epic suicidal depression episode, yet even after being called on it many times and ''punished'' for it they still insist it was ''his'' fault.

* Music/ThreeDaysGrace's "Villain I'm Not", similar to Music/{{Disturbed}}'s example above.

* In the ''Podcast/BlackJackJustice'' episode "The Reunion", The ''lack'' of this trope is the key clue. Jack and Trixie's client, Edie, is a woman trying to reunite with her estranged twin sister, Jane, after she basically stole the man her sister loved from her. Among the little things that tip the detectives off is that their client took full responsibility for her actions with no attempt to justify them, something they see all too often. They eventually realize [[spoiler: Jane killed Edie and was impersonating her. She hired Jack and Trixie to use them to make it look like they'd reunited amicably so she wouldn't be suspected when the Edie was missed]].

* Some members of Clan Tremere (a clan with a strict, pyramidal hierarchy) in VampireTheMasquerade suffer from a derangement called Hierarchical Sociology Disorder that leads them to use the Tremere pyramid as a surrogate for personal responsibility. Per ''Clanbook: Tremere:''

*** [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne]] blames everyone but herself for literally everything that was screwed up with her life. [[spoiler: The fake kidnapping plot]] is apparently Valerie's fault for revealing it and Terry's fault for not getting hanged for it rather than [[spoiler:Dahlia]]'s for starting it in the first place. She also blames Mia for getting her to prison because she did her job and defended an innocent man, rather than the fact that Dahlia murdered someone.

*** [[spoiler:Matt Engarde]] displays no Psyche-Locks when questioned about the death of his rival. Though ExactWords probably played a small part in it - he hired an assassin rather than doing the deed himself - it's still heavily implied that he actually thinks this absolves him of any guilt, at least legally speaking. On top of that, his motive for doing so was that his rival was going to 'ruin his reputation' over the fact that he'd ''deliberately driven his ex-girlfriend to suicide'' (not that the rival, who'd dumped her after learning of her past relationship, was completely blameless either, but [[spoiler:Matt]] treats the entire affair like it was just another way of one-upping the guy).

*** Dahlia Hawthorne blames everyone but herself for literally everything that was screwed up with her life. [[spoiler: The fake kidnapping plot]] is apparently Valerie's fault for revealing it and Terry's fault for not getting hanged for it rather than Dahlia's for starting it in the first place. She also blames Mia for getting her to prison because she did her job and defended an innocent man, rather than the fact that Dahlia murdered someone.

** Mr. Reus from ''Spirit of Justice'' blamed Magnifi Gramarye for throwing him out troupe Gramarye, which he did because Reus went to perform after being specifically told not to, after he screwed up and burned himself during practice.
* Monokuma from ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'' traps 15 students in a school, explains that the only way for them to escape is to start killing each other, and then if they don't, starts providing incentives for them to do so and generally psychologically tortures them until the body count rises. If he's ever called out on this, though, he'll act offended that anyone would even ''think'' to make such an accusation. After all, ''they're'' the one's doing all the killing. This escalates in [[VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2 the sequel]], where his "incentives" include [[spoiler:infecting a good chunk of the cast with a personality-altering disease and withholding food until somebody dies]].

* ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'' has a song named [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Your Fault"]], which involves all the 'heroes' placing the blame for the DarkerAndEdgier second act on each other. ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK2FVhr9l3A&feature=fvwrel See here]]). The witch proceeds to [[WhatTheHellHero call all of them out on their behavior]] in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome {{The Reason You Suck|Speech}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp_ywtm7wLY Song]], particularly after they all settle on blaming ''her'' for everything.

* In the Catholic Church, you can't receive absolution in the Sacrament of Penance unless you knowledge that you have no one else but yourself to blame for your faults and sins.

* '''[[Creator/TheKingOfHate DarkSydePhil]]!''' 97% of the time he plays a game and screws up or loses, he will blame the game on lag, a non-existent bug, or any number of other factors that don't involve him. If he's playing multiplayer, [[SoreLoser he almost always declares the one who beat to be a terrible player who must have cheated]].

** Season 6 reveals [[spoiler:[[BigBad Salem]] of all people is this! To clarify, The gods cursed Salem with immortality hoping that she would learn why her demands of them were selfish and arrogant. They want her to learn the importance of life and death. Unfortunately for the world of Remnant, that first requires her to admit she did something wrong in the first place. When her lover Ozma died from a fatal sickness, she manipulated the gods into restoring him to life. When the gods realised, they took Ozma's life to correct the mistake and punished Salem with immortality to prevent her from reuniting with Ozma in the afterlife. They instructed her to learn the importance of life and death, but she only learned how to manipulate both gods and men. She raised an army to fight the gods; in retaliation, the gods destroyed humanity and abandoned the world, leaving Salem to walk the world alone, unable to die. The God of Light later restored a weakened version of humanity and reincarnated Ozma to guide humanity towards their only chance for redemption. As a result, Salem's anger with the gods extended to encompass Ozma; she now seeks to destroy everything Oz is trying to achieve and is even further away from taking responsibility for her actions than ever.]] HolyShitQuotation doesn't '''''begin''''' to describe it!

* {{Satan}} and arguably the entire GodOfEvil concept; the idea that if someone commits a crime or indulges in a vice, it's easier to say "The Devil made me do it!" than admit to their own shortcomings.

* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', Zoe has an unusually self-aware example when, after Riff incinerates her laundry, she goes to Gwynn and borrows a low-cut shirt that shows the curse tattoo on her upper chest. When Zoe's fellow students stare at her during a test, Zoe wants to "kill" Gwynn, but then remembers that she chose the shirt herself. Since she knows she can't "kill" herself, she decides she "can always kill Riff."

** During her first day at Beacon, Ruby accidentally trips over some luggage, attracting the ire of the owner, Weiss. Weiss rants about Ruby's carelessness because the luggage contains highly volatile Dust. While complaining, Weiss shakes one of the Dust vials from the luggage. Some of the powered Dust puffs out into the air causing Ruby to sneeze. The sneeze sets off the Dust which explodes in Weiss's face. Weiss holds Ruby entirely responsible for the incident despite the fact it was Weiss who shook the volatile material in the first place.
** Raven's bandits attacked Xion village, leaving it in a vulnerable state that attract the Grimm. Unable to defend themselves after the bandit attack, the Grimm destroys the village. When Qrow points out Xion's final fate to her, Raven's only response is to say that she didn't know the Grimm would attack so soon, which dismisses Qrow's point that she caused the suffering the Grimm were responding to.

* The Brothers Osborne song "Ain't My Fault" plays it straight with a heavy dose of CircularReasoning

*** Played seriously in the final case of the game. [[spoiler: Godot blames Phoenix for Mia's death, despite the fact that there was nothing he could do to prevent it. Godot then blames Phoenix for Maya currently being in danger, when it was actually his plan (that he didn't tell Phoenix or Maya about) to save Maya that put her in that situation in the first place, also resulting in the death of her mother. At the end of the game, he admits that it wasn't Phoenix's fault, and that he just needed someone to blame. [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot He also admitted that if he had come to Phoenix in the first place, Misty Fey would still be alive]].]]
*** Dahlia Hawthorne blames everyone but herself for literally everything that was screwed up with her life. [[spoiler: The fake kidnapping plot]] is apparently Valerie's fault for revealing it and Terry's fault for not getting hanged for it rather than Dahlia's for starting it in the first place. She also blames Mia for getting her to prison because she did her job and defended innocent man, rather than the fact that Dahlia murdered someone.

* Monokuma from ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'' traps 15 students in a school, explains that the only way for them to escape is to start killing each other, and then if they don't, starts providing incentives for them to do so and generally psychologically tortures them until the body count rises. If he's ever called out on this, though, he'll act offended that anyone would even ''think'' to make such an accusation. After all, ''they're'' the one's doing all the killing. This escalates in [[VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2 the sequel]], where his "incentives" include [[spoiler:infecting a good chunk of the cast with a personality-altering disease and then withholding food until until somebody dies]].

** Mark Rosewater, the lead designer, is on record as saying that building a "Never My Fault" safety valve into games is a smart idea. (In the case of ''Magic'', it's how the RandomNumberGod controls what you draw -- particularly whether you have enough Lands to give you the {{Mana}} you need for your spells.) Why? Because, if it's not your fault you lost, then you feel more enthusiastic about ignoring your loss and playing again. And that's a good quality to have in a high-skill-emphasis game where new players are probably ''going'' to lose most of the time. Established players have argued fiercely against this philosophy, but the success of ''Magic'' itself -- not to mention of other games that have this safety valve, like {{Multiplayer Online Battle Arena}}s and their random matchmaking -- seems to lend credence to Rosewater's case.
** In-universe the planeswalker Azor the Lawbringer travels between worlds "gifting" them with what he considers to be perfect systems of governance. If his meddling results in immense suffering for the people of these worlds, that's not a flaw in his systems, it's the fault of the people living there for failing to live up to them.

* Monokuma from ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'' traps 15 students in a school, explains that the only way for them to escape is to start killing each other, and then if they don't, starts providing incentives for them to do so and generally psychologically tortures them until the body count rises. If he's ever called out on this, though, he'll act offended that anyone would even ''think'' to make such an accusation. After all, ''they're'' the one's doing all the killing. This escalates in [[VideoGame/SuperDanganRonpa2 the sequel]], where his "incentives" include [[spoiler:infecting a good chunk of the cast with a personality-altering disease and then withholding food until until somebody dies]].