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1Well, 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 [[Manga/{{Blame}} something else]], [[SelfDemonstratingArticle then it is your own fault!]]
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3See also: SadnessTropes, FameAndReputationTropes, CrimeAndPunishmentTropes, and ResponsibilityTropes.
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6!!Examples
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8* AffairBlameTheBastard: You little bastard! You're the reason your father/mother cheated on me!
9* AgentProvocateur: An individual who goes under cover to incite two sides against each other, causing both sides to hate them.
10* BlameGame: "It's your fault!" "No, it's your fault!"
11* BlamedForBeingRailroaded: Being forced to do something bad, and then being shunned for it.
12* BlameTheParamour: My partner cheated on me with ''you?!'' How dare you do that to me!
13* BlamingTheTools: What do you mean, I did poor craftsmanship? These tools are defective!
14* BlamingTheVictim: Oh, shut up! It's all your fault that you're a victim of an injustice!
15** BlamingTheCuckold: If you were a better partner, you wouldn't have gotten cheated on!
16* CallingTheOldManOut: It's all your fault for causing me misery! And you call yourself a parent?!
17* CaregiverAngst: A caregiver may reach their limits in their job and blame their patient for the way they're feeling.
18* CassandraDidIt: You predicted a disaster? You must have caused it!
19* ClearMyName: I'm blamed for a crime I didn't commit. I must prove that I didn't do it!
20* ClearTheirName: I must help clear someone's name of a crime they didn't commit.
21* CrossingTheBurntBridge: A character cuts ties with a person or group but then is forced to deal with them again.
22* FailureToSaveMurder: You're too late to rescue him, because he's dead, and it's all your fault!
23* FalseConfession
24* FalseFlagOperation: One side pretends to be the other side to provoke a war.
25* {{Frameup}}: Looks like you're in the wrong place at the wrong time.
26* FramingTheGuiltyParty: I know you did it, but I need to make up false evidence to prove it.
27* FreudianExcuse: Cut me some slack. I had a rough childhood.
28* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: It's your own fault you were this way, not your past.
29* GenerationalTrauma: Conflict arises due to unresolved baggage passed down from generation to generation.
30* GuiltComplex: I'm to blame for everything that's gone wrong, especially the things I shouldn't be blamed for!
31* GuiltyUntilSomeoneElseIsGuilty: We're gonna blame you until we can blame someone else.
32* InhibitionDestroyingPuppet: I can say whatever I want, as long as I'm not the one saying it!
33* IrrationalHatred: I hate you in ways that no one can understand!
34* ItsAllMyFault: I'm to blame for what's happened regardless of whether that's true!
35* JustFollowingOrders: It's my superiors' fault for ordering me to commit heinous crimes.
36* JustGivingOrders: It's all your fault for committing a crime that I commanded you to do!
37* LoserSonOfLoserDad: You deserve to be hated because of what your parents have done.
38* MaliciousSlander: I'm gonna blame you so much, it hurts.
39* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: It's your fault your mother died because you came out of that damn womb!
40* {{Misblamed}}: No. It's not a mis-blame! It really ''is'' your fault!
41* MotivationalLie
42* MustMakeAmends: This was my doing, so I need to fix it.
43* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: I'm filled with blame and guilt for this awful deed I've done!
44* NeverMyFault: It's all yours! You're to blame! Not me! I can do no wrong!
45* NotMeThisTime: Why go after me? I didn't do it.
46* PromotedToScapegoat: The newly promoted guy is to blame!
47* ProppingUpTheirPatsy: A culprit proclaims the innocence of another suspect to conceal their own culpability or further their own agenda.
48* PsychologicalProjection: I'm not like that, you are!
49* TheScapegoat: Who's to blame for this? It's you!
50* SelfDefenseRuse: 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.)
51* SilentScapegoat: I'm gonna take the blame for everything to save everyone else, and no one else has to know it.
52* SinsOfOurFathers: You deserve to be punished because of what your ancestors have done.
53* SocietyIsToBlame: It's society's fault all of this is happening to me!
54* StoppingTheBlameGame: Don't blame me when you're the one who's really responsible!
55* TakingTheHeat: My friend didn't do it, it was me!
56* ThisBearWasFramed: That animal did it!
57* ThisIsUnforgivable: There's no forgiveness for what you've done.
58* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Oh... you shouldn't have done that...
59* WhatTheHellHero: Shame on you! You're at fault for your bad deed!
60* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: It's your fault for making me slap you! Apologize!
61* YouBastard: I'm not the one to blame for this. ''You are.''
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