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| 7 | Those who [[NeverMyFault refuse to admit any fault]] in FanWorks. |
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| 10 | * ''Fanfic/AllForLuz'': |
| 11 | ** Surprisingly averted with All For One. He freely admits to Luz that it was wrong for him to take advantage of the MassSuperEmpoweringEvent situation in his world, become a tyrant to Japan and his death at the hands of All Might was ultimately his own fault. [[TheUnapologetic However, that doesn't mean he's sorry for any of it.]] |
| 12 | ** In chapter 16, Tyler Wittebane claims that he lost his daughter to the devil, [[spoiler:not because he sent her to a Death Camp he helped orchestrate in the first place.]] |
| 13 | ** Tyler also plays this straight when he puts a hit on Camila telling Riley she should blame All For One, aka Luz, for she did not die as God (aka him) decreed. [[spoiler:He also doesn't show any remorse for his role in the destruction of his ancestral home or the lives lost; only that (he thinks) Luz is dead and done "God's work".]] |
| 14 | ** Averted with Luz. [[spoiler:After she punches Hunter in the face and chews him out for destroying her Gravesfield in their fight, Luz acknowledges her role in the tragedy and states she has no reason to fight him anymore. She decides to leave him be and fly off to Bonesborough.]] |
| 15 | ** Downplayed with All For One. When Luz tries to blame the vestige for ruining her life, he brushes it off using logic to deflect fault onto the other enemies she had to face (The Governor, Wittebane and the Golden Guard). [[VillainHasAPoint Though he's not entirely wrong.]] |
| 16 | * Higa in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11701126/9/Anything-Goes-Game-Changer Anything Goes Game Changer]]'' always blames others for the consequences of his actions. Most recently, he blames Ranma for daring to kill his two strongest Sekirei ([[KilledOffForReal and unlike most deactivations, their deaths are very permanent]]) even though Higa was the one to send his Sekirei to engage someone who regularly takes on four Sekirei at once and wins handily. |
| 17 | * In ''Fanfic/AvengerGoddess'', during Vanko's attack on the Stark Expo, Hammer protests that he's the victim in this scenario even though he broke a notorious terrorist out of prison and gave the man access to advanced technology that allowed Vanko to kill again. |
| 18 | * In ''Fanfic/AvengersInfiniteWars'', Toomes blames the Avengers for the fact that he 'had' to turn to crime rather than acknowledge the wider reasons why they would have wanted to keep alien technology away from the general public. |
| 19 | * ''Fanfic/AvengerOfSteel'' includes a rare example where the villain has a legitimate point; the Hand blame Wilson Fisk for the fact that the attempt to deliver Black Sky to New York was intercepted by Superman and the Masked Man, but Fisk did his best to prevent any police presence at the docks and cannot be held accountable for what a group of vigilantes choose to do. |
| 20 | * ''Fanfic/AvengersOfTheRing'': |
| 21 | ** In ''Scarlet Witch and the Thirteen Dwarves'', Saruman is incapable of acknowledging that his own attitude put Wanda off the idea of accompanying him to Orthanc to talk more about the Infinity Stones, instead just criticising Gandalf for bringing a mortal to such a gathering. |
| 22 | ** Invoked in ''Methtelien''- along with ItsAllMyFault- when the Valar muse that a paradox of the mortal world is that evil beings refuse to accept responsibility for their own sins while the good feel the guilt of even their minor mistakes. |
| 23 | * In ''Fanfic/TheBlueBlurOfTermina'', Tatl stops Sonic from going after the Skull Kid and, as a result, gets left behind and accidentally injured by the imp. She immediately blames Sonic who, in turn, immediately calls ''her'' out on it: |
| 24 | -->'''Sonic:''' If it weren't for ''you'' and your friend, you wouldn't even ''be'' in this mess! |
| 25 | * ''Fanfic/CodePrime'': |
| 26 | ** Megatron shows elements of this during a conversation with Suzaku about the fate of Cybertron. [[HiddenDepths While he acknowledges that neither the Autobots nor the Decepticons wanted the planet destroyed]], he explicitly leaves out the fact that he poisoned the planet's core with Dark Energon, instead merely stating that it became uninhabitable due to the conflict between the two sides. It's later PlayedWith as it's revealed Megatron told Suzaku this to manipulate him in joining the Decepticons. When he's later confronted with the truth by Lelouch and Suzaku, Megatron actually acknowledges what he did, but chooses not to let it deter him from his goals. |
| 27 | ** Suzaku, just like in canon, is thoroughly incapable of accepting blame for his actions or the fact that he might be wrong. It's deconstructed as an utter character flaw, with Ironhide stating that he can't be recruited for the Black Knights while still maintaining it, and it gets to the point where [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Megatron calls him out on it]]. |
| 28 | ** V.V. refuses to take any responsibility for his and Charles’ plans going awry. [[spoiler:First when Megatron extract information from V.V. about their plans on Ragnorök, V.V. mentally notes to himself that its not his fault. Then in ''R2'', he blames Optimus for ruining his plans, only for the Prime to fire back at him that he has no-one to blame for his failings but himself, due to how he constantly underestimates his enemies and "allies"]]. |
| 29 | * In ''Fanfic/ContactAtKobol'', after [[Franchise/StargateVerse the Tau'ri]] make contact with [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 the Twelve Colonies]], most of the initial tension between Earth and the Colonies comes about because Cain wants the Tau’ri to be punished for the Colonial soldiers killed in their first confrontation, ignoring the fact that she instigated the conflict that killed the soldiers in the first place. |
| 30 | * ''FanFic/ContractLabor'': After attacking Keitaro over [[OneSideOfTheStory a misunderstanding]], Motoko adamantly refuses to take responsibility for her own actions and instead blames ''Keitaro'', the victim in the whole situation, for everything, electing to challenge him to an honor duel... which ends badly for her. |
| 31 | * Toward the end of ''Fanfic/DantesNightAtFreddys 2: Animatronic Boogaloo'', The Marionette makes the claim it is a KnightTemplar BigGood. This is comparable to the monster's canon depiction as a relentless avenger of the children killed over the years in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. Upon hearing this explanation, Dante invokes this trope in an enraged ReasonYouSuckSpeech that the many souls the spirit trapped in a fool's errand and all of the security guards killed in the process have long since cost it the moral high ground. |
| 32 | * ''Fanfic/DeathNoteEquestria'': [[VillainProtagonist Twilight]] admits that she's had to kill a lot of innocent ponies in order to protect her identity, but says it's all [[HeroAntagonist L's]] fault — if she wasn't hunting Twilight, Twilight could have just focused on criminals. |
| 33 | * Detective Stabler in ''[[https://www.tthfanfic.org/story.php?no=10229&rewrite=true Father Goose and the Black Knight]]'' assaults Xander Harris and when his temporary boss and the ADA are sent photos of the event with a warning not to do so again or there will be charges, Stabler is disgusted at "being blackmailed by some scumbag". That he and Benson physically assaulted a crippled man whom they have no evidence of committing a crime beyond a "gut feeling" completely escapes him. |
| 34 | * ''Fanfic/HalloweenUnspectacular'': Petrov in "The Silver Man and the Burning Flame" from ''Blue Alert'' has this attitude. Even as his experiments with Jean's Phoenix powers go wrong and lead to his death, he's blaming every superior he's ever had. |
| 35 | * Peter Pettigrew clearly believes this in ''Fanfic/HarryAndTheShipgirls''. Yes, he betrayed James and Lily to Voldemort, but he believes that because he didn't actually do the deed, he is not at fault for their deaths. Ditto for selling out Molly Prewitt-Weasley's brothers to the Death Eaters. |
| 36 | * Vernon Dursley in ''Fanfic/HelluvaWizard'' blames Harry for the fact that he and his family are in hell instead of realizing that they only ended up there because they were [[AssholeVictim horrible people]] in life. |
| 37 | * ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'' likes playing with this: |
| 38 | ** On one hand, Goh [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone recognizes that he]] helped drive Chloe away. Unfortunately, he fixates on the argument they had that night as the cause, rather than the moment that [[RageBreakingPoint things boiled over]] for her. He becomes obsessed with tracking her down to set things right -- but in his mind, 'setting things right' means [[StatusQuoIsGod returning to the way things were before]]. He also struggles with the fact that, despite their status as ChildhoodFriends, [[TheFriendsWhoNeverHang they've been drifting apart for years]], to the point that he barely knows anything about her anymore. |
| 39 | ** Along similar lines, Professor Cerise is horrified by the realization that his [[DoesntKnowTheirOwnChild ignorance of his daughter's problems]] ultimately drove her to run away. However, one of the ways he copes with this guilt is by latching onto [[TheScapegoat any other factors he can find]]. This leads to him lashing out at Renji for not making his own concerns about Chloe known, or attacking one of the few teachers who ''did'' try to curtail all the bullying she endured at school. While he acknowledges the role he played more than Goh does, he still searches for those he can blame ''more'' than himself. |
| 40 | ** When Goh first informs Chloe's classmates that she's disappeared, the majority blow off the news in favor of [[SkewedPriorities wanting to see her match with Ash]] -- and mocking her mistakes. Goh calls them out on this, blaming them for making her so uncomfortable and unhappy, only to have the blame thrown right back in his face. Only after he breaks down crying do any of them acknowledge the role they played in driving her away... but as the story proceeds, {{Flashback}}s reveal just how extensive the bullying was. This comes to a head when Sara and Yeardley lead the class in ''bragging about'' how much they hurt her, [[BlamingTheVictim claiming that]] she brought it all upon herself for [[LonersAreFreaks being different]]. |
| 41 | * PlayedForDrama in ''Fanfic/JauneArcLordOfHunger''. Under the [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Dark Side's influence]], Jaune [[spoiler:attacks and nearly kills Pyrrha in a fit of paranoid rage]]. After calming down, he's initially in complete denial over it. When that fails, Jaune tries shifting the blame onto ''Qrow'' for "turning" [[spoiler:Pyrrha]] against him, which Qrow immediately calls him out on. When Jaune's forced to realize that he has nobody to blame but himself, he has a complete mental breakdown. Rather than accept responsibility, Jaune doubles down on his paranoid delusions and [[spoiler:surrenders control of his body to Darth Nihilus's ghost.]] |
| 42 | * Villains in ''Fanfic/TheLastSon'' often attempt to shift the blame on others (particularly on Superman) whenever their plans backfire on them. |
| 43 | ** When Genosha is invaded in Book Three, Magneto blames Superman for the current predicament. In reality, the threats to Genosha were caused by Magneto himself in a failed gambit to try to convince Superman to lead mutants against humanity and rule the world, with the Friends of Humanity being created through secret funding from himself, Doctor Doom, and Sebastian Shaw, and mutantkind being exposed in the process. |
| 44 | ** Duncan Matthews and his father rant to the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Friends of Humanity]] how Superman broke Duncan's arm. All because Duncan was stupid enough to try and ''[[ShootingSuperman punch]]'' [[ShootingSuperman Superman]] despite knowing he's NighInvulnerable, and they still continue to act like Superman is to blame. |
| 45 | ** The final arc of Book Three has a lot of people, especially [[GovernmentConspiracy Cadmus]] blaming Superman for the destruction caused by General Zod. As pointed out by T'Challa during the U.N. assembly, it's unfair to blame Superman for trusting Zod, because the latter was the former's godfather (thus being surrogate family) and when Zod showed his true colors Superman still stood up to him to protect Earth despite being clearly outmatched. He also points out that Zod would have never been released if Cadmus hadn't been doing illegal experiments on his Phantom Zone cell (which also put Earth in danger), and Zod may have not started a rampage hadn't North Korea launched a salvo of nukes against [[KillSat Battlestation Sentrius]], which he used as justification to retaliate. |
| 46 | * ''Fanfic/LostInCamelot'': |
| 47 | ** After Arthur learns the truth about his birth, he tries to confront Uther about this revelation, musing to himself that he could accept his father's actions if Uther just admitted he approached a sorceress for help and genuinely didn't know the consequences of such a deal. However, Uther unknowingly costs himself any respect Arthur might have for him when he continues to deny that he did anything wrong and just blames magic for Ygraine's death instead of accepting his own role. |
| 48 | ** When [[spoiler:Arthur confronts Alvarr's forces, Alvarr protests that Arthur is attacking people whose only "crime" is wanting to live free of Uther, ignoring how Arthur sought to make peace first and Alvarr was the one who attacked Arthur's men, at which point they have a right to respond in self-defence]]. |
| 49 | ** During [[spoiler:Morgause's assault on Camelot, she basically acts as though Arthur is at fault for not killing Uther and Bo is dying because of her own mistakes in trying to break the curse, but Morgana and Arthur make it clear that Morgause is the one to blame, as Arthur would have been a pariah if he killed his father in those circumstances and Morgana would have never agreed to being used to attack her friends and lovers in this manner]]. |
| 50 | * ''Fanfic/TheMountainAndTheWolf'': Cersei has an impressive breakdown after the Wolf abducts her where she blames her downfall on Tyrion. The Wolf, despite needling her into it, doesn't insist on making her realize her situation is her fault. Later chapters hint he's involving her with Slaanesh, whose cultists do tend towards the narcissistic (much as water tends towards wetness). |
| 51 | * ''[[Fanfic/RaiseYourselvesUp Raise Yourselves Up (We're Done)]]'' centers around [[BitchInSheepsClothing Lila]] and [[WeUsedToBeFriends Alya]] convincing [[MisplacedKindergartenTeacher Miss Bustier]] to exclude Marinette and Chloé from their annual class trip. The teacher informs both girls of this at the start of the school year, so they decide to stay out of the classes' fundraising efforts (something Marinette typically handled) and focus on raising money for their [[StartMyOwn newly minted World Travellers' Club]]. Miss Bustier proceeds to do [[AdultsAreUseless absolutely nothing]] to help her students, neglecting to take care of any of the [[NeverFilledOutOfficialPaperwork required paperwork]] while leaving Alya and the others to flounder without any guidance, struggling through every attempt. When taking stock of how little they managed to scrape together, Alya insists that they can't ''possibly'' be at fault since they held all the same fundraisers as usual, so something else must be to blame, and Lila points the finger towards Marinette and Chloé for "failing to help them". |
| 52 | * In ''Fanfic/TheSuperheroicsOfHaruhiSuzumiya'', Bakugou gets increasingly angry that Izuku and Haruhi are upstaging him during the sports festival, and it comes to a head during the relay run, when he uses his Explosion Quirk to overtake Izuku and causing his team to be disqualified. While he acknowledges that he ''did'' cheat, he blames Izuku for "forcing him to break the rules". |
| 53 | * ''Fanfic/AShadowOfTheTitans'': [=HIVE=] Academy has a class named "Irrational Blame Assignment". According to Mammoth, "you can get a pass even if you fail by just making a good argument on why your lousy grade somehow wasn't your fault". |
| 54 | * ''Fanfic/ShadowsOverMeridian'': |
| 55 | ** {{Defied|Trope}}. Elyon [[ItsAllMyFault completely takes responsibility]] for [[CreateYourOwnVillain the Kage situation]]; even when she learns that someone went against her orders about Kage when the blue girl first showed up, she does not use that to deflate responsibility for herself, admitting that even without that her own actions against Kage were not any better. |
| 56 | ** While Irma and Cornelia are horrified and feel guilty for their actions, at the same time they try to justify it and state that Kage chose to be their enemy, ignoring their actions that caused her to become their enemy in the first place. |
| 57 | ** Caleb is completely unwilling to admit that he was wrong about Kage, and sneakily tries to justify sending her to the dungeon against Elyon's orders, and when Elyon makes it clear that she plans to punish that person, it's implied that he will cover up his crime. He eventually starts blaming Kage and her appearance on Meridian on all of his world's current problems, even when Elyon and even most of his fellow rebel leaders can see his increasing deterioration is causing damage as much as Kage's alliance with Phobos. |
| 58 | ** [[spoiler:When Vera's team is ready to [[KnowWhenToFoldEm throw in the towel when half of them are captured and wounded]], she abandons without remorse the friends she deceived to follow her on her selfish suicide mission and blames them for being too weak to get the job done and Elyon for ordering the northern army to abandon the siege of Snowpoint and by extension, [[RevengeBeforeReason Vera's quest for revenge]].]] |
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| 60 | [[AC:''Manga/AhMyGoddess'']] |
| 61 | * Aoshima in ''[[http://anime.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600055428 The Vain Rose's Garden]]'' refuses to acknowledge that his ruined reputation is his own fault. When he tried to extort Belldandy into sleeping with him, she responded by throwing him into a dumpster. Because several people got pictures of both the event and Aoshima having to climb out afterwards, his reputation was destroyed so he decides to blackmail Belldandy for it. |
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| 63 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'']] |
| 64 | * In ''Fanfic/ATheoryOfButterfliesAndOtherInsects'', Sasha [[RoleSwapAU winds up in]] [[UntrustingCommunity Wartwood]], and promptly proceeds to conduct herself just like she did back home. Namely, breaking and ignoring rules while pursuing whatever avenues for 'fun' she can come up with. This nets her a reputation for delinquency that she finds she can't charm her way out of, and she blames the frogs for this, complaining about their refusal to warm up to her despite not doing anything to ''earn'' their regard. |
| 65 | * ''Fanfic/TradeUsForTheWorld'': Captain Grime blames Anne for all of the damage that was done by the herons when she escaped from Toad Tower, and leads his men on a SternChase after the girl. Marcy [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calls him out on this]], spelling out for him ''and'' the rest of the toads how he put his own personal pride and grudges over giving his men the time they ''needed'' to recover from the attack. |
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| 67 | [[AC:''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'']] |
| 68 | * ''Fanfic/BlackbirdArrow'': |
| 69 | ** Dinah Lance, who absolutely ''refuses'' to acknowledge that her bad parenting is what led to Sara going on the ''Gambit'' and caused a sequence of events that led to ''both'' her daughters going through years of unwarranted and undeserved horrific trauma. Instead, she would rather blame [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Oliver]] and [[BlamingTheVictim Laurel]], [[TheScapegoat trying to claim that their relationship (and Oliver's attempt to blow it up) was the real cause]]. In reality, it shows how little Oliver and ''especially'' Laurel had to do with the situation, as everyone else who finds out the truth notes. |
| 70 | ** Zigzagged with Quentin. He's willing to acknowledge that his poor treatment of Laurel after the ''Gambit'' is what might've driven her away, but that doesn't stop him from resenting her anyway. It's then thoroughly subverted after he learns [[AwfulTruth Laurel was actually kidnapped]], which causes an immediate JerkassRealization. This is actually one of the reasons why everyone decides not to tell him the truth about Laurel's "kidnapping", because they all know that if he finds out, [[ItsAllMyFault he'll blame himself for unwittingly letting it happen]]. |
| 71 | ** Played with and subverted with Sara. Sara refuses to allow anyone except Laurel to rake her over the coals for what happened to her sister... but that's because [[ItsAllMyFault she already blames herself plenty]], and can't handle hearing it from anyone else because it will just make her feel even worse. |
| 72 | * In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/31237946 The Outbreak]]'', Felicity uses the ATOM suit to save Oliver, despite Ray insisting he needs it to distribute a vaccine for the Alpha and Omega virus. She wrecks the suit doing so, leading to the virus being uncontained and the deaths of several people, including Quentin Lance. She refuses to acknowledge that this is her fault, and acts as if that she didn't mean for it to happen absolves her of all responsibility. |
| 73 | * ''Fanfic/WhatItTakes'': |
| 74 | ** Even when Laurel confronts Quentin about the implications of Darhk having a private army and his past association with the League of Assassins, her father continues to claim that this is only her fault for not turning herself in. |
| 75 | ** Once Oliver [[spoiler:finally learns both the truth about what's happening in Starling City and that Felicity was hiding it from him, she refuses to apologize or admit she was wrong to do so. When this ends their relationship, Felicity acts as if she was blameless for how it turned out]]. |
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| 77 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'']] |
| 78 | * In ''Fanfic/HopeForTheHeartless'', Avalina is kidnapped from [[ResurrectedForAJob the Horned King's]] (her [[LimaSyndrome captor's]]) lands by a man belonging to a bandit group (that happens to comprise of [[spoiler:the Horned king's still living former henchmen]]) with the intention of selling her illegally into slavery. Soon the Horned King arrives with [[SycophanticServant Creeper]] and [[GiantFlyer Addie the gwythaint]], frees her and kills all the bandits. Before dying, Avalina's captor tries to kill her, blaming her for leading the Horned King back to them. Avalina had no intention of interacting with them; had they not taken the initiative by kidnapping her, the Horned King wouldn't have shown up as a SuperweaponSurprise. |
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| 80 | [[AC:''Manga/{{Bleach}}'']] |
| 81 | * Almost none of the Soul Reapers in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12394742/1/ The Defeated]]'' are willing to admit anything could possibly be their fault and instead blame Ichigo and his friends. Besides condemning Ichigo and Orhime for [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal joining Aizen]] after their friends were killed by Soul Society and they were tortured (and raped in Ichigo's case) by Soul Reapers, Soifon blames them for Yoruichi's death and Byakuya blames Ichigo for Rukia's. Soifon blames Ichigo because Yoruichi was helping him, ignoring that she helped kill her. And Byakuya blames Ichigo because [[GenderFlip her]] sister was wrongfully executed for helping him, ignoring that Byakuya herself not only did nothing to prevent said execution but actively worked to stop anyone trying to prevent it. |
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| 83 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'']] |
| 84 | * In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19474192/chapters/46355515#workskin A Cry In The Park]]'', Logan Bush sees Louise in the park and starts antagonizing her. When she tries to get away from him, Logan pushes her and Louise ends up falling into an uncovered well. Two teenage girls discover Louise is trapped, get her parents, and call the fire department but Louise ends up trapped in the well for five days and almost dies. Louise later spends two months hospitalized wherein she needs her toes amputated due to gangrene and she now has permanent hearing loss. During all of this, Logan and his mother Cynthia refuse to take any responsibility for Logan's actions. Cynthia repeatedly tries to deflect the blame by saying if the well had been covered like it should've been, Louise wouldn't have fallen in. Every time she does this, someone states Louise wouldn't have fallen if Logan hadn't pushed her, and even if the well had been covered he was still planning to hurt Louise anyway. After Cynthia arranges for Logan to appear on the news offering an empty apology, Logan's classmates start shunning him and Cynthia's insulted by other women for raising a bully. When Cynthia gets angry at the Belchers for the harassment her family's getting, Bob bluntly points out Cynthia's the one who revealed on the news that Logan pushed Louise, whereas Bob's family didn't name anyone. [[spoiler:After Bob decides to press charges against Logan for attempted murder, the Bushes pretty much become pariahs in town. Throughout it all, Cynthia and Logan stubbornly insist they've done nothing wrong, to the point Cynthia tries to sue ''Bob'' for harassment. Logan only makes things worse for himself by confronting Louise in public and saying "next time won't be an accident." Bob not only gets a restraining order filed against Logan, but the Bushes' lawyer can barely offer a decent defense whereas the Belchers' lawyer brings in numerous witnesses to attest how violent and awful Logan is. Logan's unanimously found guilty by the jury and sentenced to five years in jail.]] |
| 85 | ** A later fic featuring deleted chapters from the same author emphasized how Cynthia's spent years in denial about Logan's bullying. When she confronts her friends about their phony excuses for not coming by her house, Cynthia's friends point out the numerous times Logan's bullied their own children. When Cynthia continues to downplay Logan's behavior, her friends only grow disgusted at him ''and'' her for not doing a better job of disciplining him. |
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| 87 | [[AC: ''Literature/BridgeToTerabithia'']] |
| 88 | * ''Fanfic/BridgeToTerabithia2TheLastTime'' has this dynamic in Sonia Taylors, Jess Aarons' girlfriend for over a year... until Leslie Burke is suddenly revealed to be alive (retconned from allegedly dying years ago), and returning to Jess' life while they're both teenagers. Sonia, despite being a rude, self-centered ManipulativeBitch and GreenEyedMonster who [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale physically assaults Jess for the slightest of reasons and receiving absolutely no comeuppance in the story]], ends up blaming Leslie when Jess eventually dumps her, repeatedly attempting to sabotage the relationship between Jess and Leslie. [[spoiler: Although ultimately Sonia TookALevelInKindness when she ends up with Scott Hoager in the story's Epilogue]]. |
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| 90 | [[AC: ''Film/{{Brightburn}}'']] |
| 91 | * In ''Fanfic/AMonstersNature'', this applies to Brandon to a degree, as he makes it clear as the story unfolds that he considers it humanity's fault if he has to resort to mass murder to make his points, rather than just destroying major attractions to show his power. |
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| 93 | [[AC:''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'']] |
| 94 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2052846/1/Faith-The-Series Faith: The Series]]'', new Slayer Tegan Austin-Meadows blames Faith for her mother's death, claiming that her mother only died because Faith wasn't doing her job. However, on the night that Tegan's mother died, Faith was busy tracking Balthazar's minions while Tegan was out at the cinema with Harmony, making it clear to the reader that Tegan was the one not working on the night in question and she is just too stuck-up to acknowledge that she is the one at fault. |
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| 96 | [[AC:''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'']] |
| 97 | * ''Fanfic/ShadowOfTheDragon'': In her EstablishingCharacterMoment, [[TheBully Satome's]] [[AbusiveParents mother]] shatters a plate of food while yelling at her son, and then blames ''him'' for it before beating the crap out of him. |
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| 99 | [[AC:''Anime/CrossAnge'']] |
| 100 | * In ''Fanfic/CrossAngeTheKnightOfHilda'', while revealing the truth about Embryo and Villkiss to Ange, Jill blames [[LaResistance the Network]] for the failure of Libertus, arguing that had they chosen to help her things would have gone different. She conveniently ignores that the Network had gotten most of their militia wiped out barely leaving enough to protect their non-combatants, and ignored everyone's suggestions that they should postpone and regroup, instead just deciding to impatiently charge in. The result was that most everyone got massacred and she lost her arm and ability to pilot Villkiss. |
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| 102 | [[AC:''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'']] |
| 103 | * Just as as in canon, [[spoiler: Junko]] has this trait in ''Fanfic/Class78thWatchesTheFuture'', but it's brought to the forefront here. Any time the class rightfully calls out Monokuma and the mastermind for forcing them to kill each other, [[spoiler: she]] mentally claims [[spoiler: she]] only pushes them to do so and that they're at fault, never mind the fact that [[spoiler: her]] methods of "nudging" them to murder include threatening their friends or loved ones, planning on exposing their darkest secrets that could destroy their personal lives, asking them to kill in exchange for huge sums of money, [[spoiler: revealing [[TheMole Sakura's allegiance to her]] to incite disharmony and betrayal, or swapping Sakura's suicide note for one that pushed Hina to attempt a TotalPartyKill]]. |
| 104 | * In ''Fanfic/EverydayLifeWithUltimateGirls'', [[spoiler: one of Junko's traits is that she never takes responsibility for the consequences of her despair-causing plans, just like in canon. When Ryoko, [[AdaptationalHeroism here an alternate personality analogous to her conscience]], chastises her for being responsible for getting Akane's siblings lost in Aokigahara Forest, Junko claims she didn't make them go there. One aspect of her HeelFaceTurn is that she finally starts taking responsibility for her actions, apologizing for the first time in her life and even asking if she said the words "I'm sorry" correctly.]] |
| 105 | * ''Webcomic/KillingGameDeluxe'': Sayaka treats Leon like a cold blooded killer, which would be understandable, seeing as [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc he did kill her]]. Only she's completely ignoring the fact that the only reason he killed her was because ''[[CrimeOfSelfDefense she tried to kill him first]]''. |
| 106 | * This is one of Miu's biggest problems in ''[[Fanfic/OrDidItEatTheLittleGirl let's go out with a bang!]]'' Though this isn't just a matter of her refusing to acknowledge how much she's at fault for her own poor decisions; rather, her defensiveness is spurred on by Kokichi's insistence on constantly harping on her mistakes and insisting that she's BeyondRedemption. She feels as though he's been EasilyForgiven for the crap ''he'' pulled during their mutual killing game, while ''she's'' TheFriendNobodyLikes. This persecution complex spurs her to deny personal responsibility as much as possible... which Kokichi latches onto as self-justification to keep hammering away at her psyche. |
| 107 | |
| 108 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'']] |
| 109 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3541315/1/Indemnification Indemnification]]'', after Dark Danny returns to his future, he eventually confronts Valerie and the two argue about how they each blame the other for their current timeline. Dark Danny argues that Valerie rejecting Danny after he revealed his identity to her drove him to Vlad and the circumstances that led to him being separated from his human half, where Valerie counters that he didn't give her time to properly process everything and she would have calmed down sooner. The author takes care to affirm that both sides have a point in their arguments. |
| 110 | * ''Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton'': |
| 111 | ** In ''The Many Dates of Danny Fenton'', Tucker refuses to believe the reason he keeps getting bad dates is because of his profile, which is dishonest and exaggerates the kind of person he is. |
| 112 | ** Dash Baxter in ''The Many Dates of Danny Fenton''. Every time he tries to intrude on Danny's dates, something bad happens to him that he blames Danny for. |
| 113 | ** In ''TMDDF: Danny and Kara'', Dash didn't take into account that all of his dates disliked him, instead thinking the website was for stupid, desperate losers. |
| 114 | ** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Sam in ''TMDDF: Danny and Kara'', Sam attempts to pass the blame of her broken friendship with Danny onto Kara, on the grounds of not telling them that she's Supergirl. However, her subconscious reminds her that she tried to pick a fight with her at every opportunity and gave her no reason to trust her. She then tried to blame Tucker for getting Danny into the dating service, only for her to be reminded that he didn't make Danny fall in love and made that choice was on his own. She finally admits that it was her fault for betraying Danny trust to him. |
| 115 | ** In ''TMDDF: After Many Dates Danny and Kitty'', Vicky blames Timmy for her being banned from the dating service, not getting a rich guy, and not getting refunded. It doesn't matter to her that she ditched her dates upon learning she didn't meet her standards and, as Timmy points out "teenage guys have taste". She blames Timmy just because she was babysitting him when she learned of the dating service. |
| 116 | ** Dash in ''TMDDF: After Many Dates Danny and Kitty'', is unwilling to accept it's his own behavior that made the girls he meet at the dating service dislike him, accusing Tucker of hacking the dating service's website to give him bad dates. |
| 117 | |
| 118 | [[AC:''Franchise/TheDCU'']] |
| 119 | * ''Fanfic/KaraOfRokyn'': As ComicBook/LexLuthor's niece tells the origin of the feud between her uncle and ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, it soon becomes obvious to her audience that Lex always came up with absurd rationalizations to blame the Kryptonian hero for his own actions. |
| 120 | -->"Lex got to thinking that maybe he was a lamebrain for leaving that door open and not looking after Lena any better than he had. But when he thought harder, he said, he thought Superboy was a lamebrain himself for giving him that alien thing, even after he'd asked him to. He thought Superboy should have had better sense than that. What can I say?"\ |
| 121 | Starfire thought she might say that her cousin was a guilt-transferring jerk, but she kept her peace. |
| 122 | * In ''Fanfic/SupermanOf2499TheGreatConfrontation'', Sybilla ''always'' blames [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Katherine]] for everything, no matter what. She picks a fight with Kath, puts her in medical care and is disciplined because of it... and she blames Kath. |
| 123 | * In ''Fanfic/AVeryKaraChristmas'', Kate blames Linda for getting sprayed by a skunk. It doesn't matter to Kate that she bumped into said skunk by accident when she was trying to spy on Linda. She blames Linda, and that's it. |
| 124 | |
| 125 | [[AC:''WebVideo/DreamSMP'']] |
| 126 | * ''Fanfic/BetweenDreamsAndMemoriesUniverse'': Similar to the source material, Dream blames L'Manberg for spiraling his country out of his control, despite deserving a lot of the blame himself, having pushed them to it with his tyrannical rule and immediately escalated the situation with violence. |
| 127 | |
| 128 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'']] |
| 129 | * In ''Fanfic/DistanceWakesTheHeartUp'', when Alma gets angry that Mirabel left without telling her first, Julieta says that she did tell her and she didn't listen. Alma just scoffs that she should have tried harder. |
| 130 | * When Alma tries defending her accusations towards Mirabel in ''Fanfic/ExtendedFamilyIsStillFamily'', one of the things she lists off is ruining Isabela and Mariano's engagement, only for Isabela to snap and point out that she was the one who told Mirabel not to attend it in the first place. |
| 131 | |
| 132 | [[AC:''Manga/FairyTail'']] |
| 133 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8456958/1/Impossible Impossible]]'', Lucy gets pushed between a brawling Natsu and Gray, resulting in her being seriously wounded. Natsu then goes off on a rant complaining that she should have been strong enough to protect herself from their attacks, rather than accepting that he and Gray shouldn't have been fighting each other with magic inside the guild hall. Makarov is furious. |
| 134 | -->'''Makarov''': FIRST YOU ATTACK HER! [[LampshadeHanging THEN YOU BLAME HER FOR YOUR INABILITY TO CONTROL YOURSELVES]]! YOU EVEN GO AS FAR AS TO CALL HER WEAK! YOU HAVE GONE TOO FAR BOY! COME TO MY OFFICE! |
| 135 | |
| 136 | [[AC:''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'']] |
| 137 | * ''Fanfic/TheNewRetcons'': |
| 138 | ** Practically all of the Pattersons engage in this on a regular basis, but Elly is easily the worst of the lot. For instance, she blames April for letting Farley out and inadvertently enabling him to get together with Sera, ignoring how neither she or Connie, Sera's owner, had bothered to get their dogs spayed/neutered. Nope, blame the four-year-old for just wanting to play with the doggies. |
| 139 | ** She also blamed April for Farley's death when he [[HeroicDog saved her from drowning]], an incident that only happened because Elly and John were [[ParentalNeglect completely ignoring their youngest daughter]] while gossiping with their neighbors. Oh, and Elly had previously watched April open the fence gate by herself, but hadn't bothered replacing the latch with something toddler-proof. |
| 140 | ** Elly's tendency towards this was likely influenced by Connie, who was always eager to blame everybody but herself for the alleged troubles in her life: she blamed Lawrence's homosexuality on Elizabeth, saying she didn't try hard enough to [[CureYourGays cure his gay]] and blamed Elly's madness and the chaos that ensued because of it on [[spoiler:Claire seeking out Elly, who was her biological mother]]. |
| 141 | |
| 142 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'']] |
| 143 | * ''Fanfic/OneStepAhead'': |
| 144 | ** After Mac refuses to return to Fosters after the events of "I Only Have Surprise for You", Bloo dismissively declares that he's just being a SoreLoser and a crybaby who doesn't want to admit how badly he got outplayed. Even after three years have passed with no sign of Mac, along with the rest of the residents avoiding and ignoring Bloo, he continues insisting that Mac ''needs him'' and is just being stubborn. |
| 145 | ** {{Subverted}} by Wilt; while he declares that he doesn't know how Bloo was able to rope him and everyone else into helping him prank Mac, he fully admits that they're still at fault, and that they're all getting punished for their actions. |
| 146 | |
| 147 | [[AC:''Series/GameOfThrones'']] |
| 148 | * In ''Fanfic/ThereAndBackAgain'', Daenerys Targaryen's wayward soul pulls a PeggySue, and with her memories of Jon's betrayal still fresh in her mind, sets out for {{revenge}} against the people she blames for "turning him against her", namely Varys, Tyrion, and ''especially'' Sansa. Meanwhile, she never stops to consider that ''maybe'' burning down King's Landing and remorselessly killing hundreds of innocent civilians might have had something to do with it. |
| 149 | |
| 150 | [[AC: ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'' / ''Series/TheUntamed'']] |
| 151 | * In ''Fanfic/SecondBiteOfTheCherry'', Yu Ziyuan firmly refuses to consider she might be responsible for her AwfulWeddedLife, even when Jiang Fengmian calls her out on her bitterness. |
| 152 | |
| 153 | [[AC:''Franchise/HarryPotter'']] |
| 154 | * There have been quite a few fanfics written from the point of view of the Slytherin students. Very often in these stories, the Slytherins view themselves as the victims of injustice, of rampant "anti-Slytherin prejudice." The fact that people dislike or distrust the Slytherins ''never'' seems to be the Slytherins' fault for being bigots, bullies, or otherwise openly cruel and hostile to other students, [[FantasticRacism particularly Muggle-borns]]. The real kicker is that [[MisaimedFandom the writers of these stories (and their supporters)]] [[DracoInLeatherPants actually seem to believe that the Slytherins are right]]. No matter how horribly the Slytherins behave, the writers always seem to attribute any display of animosity toward them to "anti-Slytherin prejudice." |
| 155 | * In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/8657 At the Lord's Door]]'', Sirius blames Dumbledore for getting the Potters killed because he didn't warn them about Voldemort until a week before he showed up, seemingly forgetting that he had a much bigger role in causing their deaths: [[spoiler:he suggested they make Peter Pettigrew the Potter's secret keeper, and Pettigrew subsequently betrayed them to Voldemort]]. Bizarrely, the author didn't think that Sirius would admit his responsibility for this, even though he does ''exactly that'' in the third book. |
| 156 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13279982/5/Harry-Potter-and-the-Burning-of-Bridges Caring For Crookshanks]]'', Hermione refuses to accept responsibility when faced with proof that Crookshanks killed Scabbers, merely calling the evidence circumstantial from a certain point of view, and is punished by having to send Crookshanks home and giving up her Time Turner. She also ignores [=McGonagall=] pointing out that she actively brought Crookshanks near Scabbers on multiple occasions (such as taking him into the boys' dormitory and letting him wander around freely) even though the cat had a history of not only attacking the rat, but anyone who got in his way. As such, Crookshanks could very well be put down for repeatedly attacking children. Hermione blames Ron for snitching ([[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine much like she did about the Firebolt]]) and ends the chapter by telling [=McGonagall=] about the Maurader's Map. |
| 157 | * ''Fanfic/EdenObsessmuch'': Lucius refuses to admit his fault for everything that befalls him and Hermione. Namely, [[spoiler:killing her parents, raping her and eventually getting her pregnant.]] Hermione calls him out for it. |
| 158 | |
| 159 | [[AC:''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'']] |
| 160 | * ''Fanfic/GreySkiesUniverse'': Arthur refuses to see he is responsible for [[AmericaIsStillAColony Alfred's pain]], and that executing the leaders of America's Revolution is hurting his colony. Arthur pins the blame for Alfred's grief and near-silence on the rebels that "[[IRejectYourReality kidnapped and tried to brainwash]]" him. |
| 161 | |
| 162 | [[AC:''Literature/TheHungerGames'']] |
| 163 | * In ''Fanfic/ThePartsWePlay'' series, the Games in the opening fic ''Spectator'' see Clove blame Peeta for everything that went 'wrong' in the Games during their final confrontation. The only thing that Clove can even remotely blame Peeta for is not dying like he was 'supposed' to, when it would be more sensible for her to blame the girl who was meant to volunteer for Two this year and chose to let Clove get Reaped, forcing Clove into a position where she had to MercyKill Cato after he was too badly injured to continue. |
| 164 | |
| 165 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'']] |
| 166 | * ''Fanfic/TheSunWillComeUpAndTheSeasonsWillChange'': |
| 167 | ** No matter what she does or what effect it has on those around her, Dana '''NEVER''' believes that she is the one in the wrong. She basically blames Mary for all the problems in her own life even when it couldn't have possibly been her fault or it's pretty blatantly her own. All her efforts to "cure" Mary aren't helping? She insists it's because everyone else is enabling her "bad habits". Causing a scene in a bookstore when she tries to stop Mary from stimming and actually hurting her, much to the horror of Todd, Reagan, and all of the other witnesses? She blames Mary and everybody else without hesitation and even rewrites things in her blog to make herself look like the one in the right. Mary runs away because of the abuse Dana heaped on her? She believes Mary must've actually been kidnapped by a predator and blames Todd and Reagan for making her "vulnerable". Everybody else rightfully calls her out on her actions? She believes they're "disrespecting" her and not appreciating all of her "hard work". The cops interrogating her about her blog [[spoiler:and showing disgust at Dana wanting to forcibly sterilize Mary]]? Dana complains that they had no right to invade her privacy like that even though she shared her thoughts on a public blog and didn't even bother to hide anybody's names. [[spoiler:Even after her HeelRealization, she still refuses to own up to her actions directly, cutting off contact with her family except for child support checks in the mail and not deleting the blog or confessing that she lied about Mary's behavior.]] |
| 168 | ** Greg claims that Mary gets special treatment from Mr. Bryant, despite the fact that he often bullies her. Subverted later on in Chapter 8, when he and Mr. Bryant talk, and the teacher explains the difference between giving people special treatment and accommodating other people's disabilities. In the same chapter, Greg also realizes that his actions were wrong and decides to apologize and make amends to those he hurt. |
| 169 | ** Looking through Nora's memories reveals [[spoiler:that she is an ableist due to being corrupted by her Neo-Nazi boyfriend. As a result of this, she refuses to believe she did anything wrong by BullyingTheDisabled, and refuses to even consider that the reason her parents and everyone around her are being hard on her because of her own terrible behavior. She even tries to kill her own autistic younger brother for telling on her to their parents, all while ignoring that the reason he told on her was because she locked him outside the house in -2 degree weather with insufficient clothing. All in all, she blames everyone around her for her misfortunes but herself]]. |
| 170 | |
| 171 | [[AC:''Franchise/TheLionKing'']] |
| 172 | * In ''Fanfic/TheLionKingAdventures'', Simba tries to pin the blame on others a couple of times. |
| 173 | ** He does this jokingly to Nala in ''Who Are You?'' |
| 174 | --->'''Simba:''' I've never stopped worrying. And really, if you think about it, it's kinda your fault.\ |
| 175 | '''Nala:''' Huh? What makes it ''my'' fault? |
| 176 | ** A more serious example occurs in ''The Curse of Death'', where Simba blames [[spoiler:the Hermit of Hekima]] for causing him trouble, despite it being all his fault. |
| 177 | |
| 178 | [[AC:''Manga/LoveHina'']] |
| 179 | * In ''Fanfic/AnAlternateKeitaroUrashima'', this is practically ''endemic'' at the Hinata Inn. Aside from [[ShrinkingViolet Shinobu]], all of the residents take after Granny Hina in how they blame everyone else for their problems. |
| 180 | ** Naru constantly berates and insults Keitaro, but can't take even a ''sliver'' of what she dishes out, getting incredibly offended whenever he loses patience and snaps back at her. |
| 181 | ** Similarly, Motoko repeatedly threatens Keitaro with bodily harm, yet acts as though ''he's'' the one being unreasonable. |
| 182 | ** One chapter reveals that Naru and Motoko once sent a boy to the hospital for the high crime of telling Kaolla Su that she was making his friends uncomfortable by forcing her way into their space. None of the girls show any remorse whatsoever for their actions -- Naru claims that the incident is completely "irrelevant", and Su complains about how the hospitalized boy got more attention than ''her''. |
| 183 | ** Granny Hina refuses to see how her attempts to manipulate others are driving her family away, or how her leniency with the girls has only amplified their issues and made matters worse for everyone. |
| 184 | ** Haruka blames her mounting business woes on people just wanting 'revenge', refusing to admit that they might have legitimate ''reasons'' for [[spoiler:suing her]]. It takes a HumiliationConga and [[spoiler:losing her business]] for her to recognize her mistakes and start getting better about this. |
| 185 | * ''Fanfic/ForHisOwnSake'': Naru and Motoko both take this to the extreme. No matter how badly their own actions screw them over, they will always, ''always'' pin the blame on somebody else. Typically Keitaro. It takes until Chapter 24 for one of the pair to recognize how ''all'' of her misery was her own fault; the other remains stubborn to the bitter end. |
| 186 | |
| 187 | [[AC:''Series/Lucifer2016'']] |
| 188 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13561742/1/Devilish-Savior Devilish Savior]]'' features Trixie being abducted by Malcolm Graham when she's two years old, only for a fortunate chain of events to lead to her being adopted by Lucifer. When Chloe and Lucifer realise that 'Beatrice Morningstar' is Trixie, Dan immediately tries to push for her to be returned to him and Chloe even though the main reason Graham was able to abduct Trixie in the first place is that he got Dan so drunk Dan wasn't paying attention. Dan repeatedly denies that he is to blame for Trixie being taken, which only reinforces Lucifer and Chloe's refusal to give him any responsibility in raising Beatrice in the future. |
| 189 | |
| 190 | [[AC:''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'']] |
| 191 | * ''Fanfic/LegacyDocSuess'': After Peter posts a video announcing that he's formally emancipating himself from [[AbusiveParents Tony]], Tony denies that he did anything to earn his son's enmity. So far as he's concerned, Peter is just acting like a SpoiledBrat by calling him out on his ParentalNeglect. This serves as TheLastStraw for Pepper. |
| 192 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/16822540/ The Lost and Forgotten]]'' features Peter Parker being forced to accept all memory of his existence being erased from the rest of the world by Seftis, a mysterious entity who warned Peter that the Avengers would die if they remembered him. However, when the others start to remember Peter again, [[spoiler:Seftis claims that he did all this to stop Peter becoming a villain who kills Seftis and others in the future, only for Peter to realise that Seftis is doing this because he saw ''himself'' become the villain in the future]]. |
| 193 | * While all of Team Captain America have this problem to an extent in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10312091/chapters/27955800#workskin Tony's Girl]]'', Hank Pym and Clint are by far the worst. Clint blames Tony and Natasha for his family almost being kidnapped by Ross even though the former saved them and the latter had been kidnapped, drugged, and tortured for weeks before giving up the information. Hank Pym believes that "Stark" is synonymous with evil and helped Team Captain America in the hopes they'd bring him down. When his association with known terrorists comes to light, his company's stock "plummets like a plane crash" so Stark Industries bail them out by buying 25% of the company's stock at it's market value from two days before the press conference airing said news. Naturally, Hank blames Tony for it, including his daughter saying on international television that Tony is a far better man than he is. |
| 194 | |
| 195 | [[AC:''Franchise/MegaMan'']] |
| 196 | * In ''Fanfic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'', Wily has this problem big-time, blaming everyone for failures except himself. |
| 197 | ** He finally (and rightfully) blames himself for [[spoiler:[=ProtoMan=] leaving]] in the episode 11 epilogue. |
| 198 | |
| 199 | [[AC:''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior'']] |
| 200 | * ''Fanfic/MaylusRevenge'' has Maylu pinning the blame of Roll turning against her in [[BrainwashedAndCrazy "Evil Empress Roll"]] on Roll all because she said she's ready for the "Super Great White Angel" when in fact, it was Maylu who suggested this strategy. |
| 201 | |
| 202 | [[AC:''Series/Merlin2008'']] |
| 203 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6351946/1/The-Sorcerer-s-Bride The Sorcerer's Bride]]'' features a comparatively positive version of this, as Uther muses that he was unable to divorce Ygraine even when he knew that she was barren and couldn't give him the heir he needed because he loved her too much. |
| 204 | |
| 205 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'']] |
| 206 | * ''Fanfic/ArchenemiesToSuperfriends'': Lila didn't actually ''need'' to do anything to convince Alya and the rest of Marinette's [[FairWeatherFriend Fair-Weather Friends]] to [[EasilyCondemned turn on her]]; they came up with their own excuses and self-justifications for ditching their "everyday Ladybug" in favor of Lila and her {{Celebrity Lie}}s. Alya is only motivated to investigate Lila's claims after Ladybug calls her blog a glorified {{Tabloid|Melodrama}}, and blames her for her ruined reputation. |
| 207 | * ''Fanfic/TheBabysittingFiasco'': Alya and Nino knew perfectly well that they were TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity and sneaking around behind their parents' backs, having Marinette babysit their siblings while they made sure to get back from their outings before their parents got home. Once they get caught, Alya is convinced that ''somebody'' must have "ratted them out". She's also quick to pin all the blame for her problems onto Lila once she learns she was a BitchInSheepsClothing all along, refusing to take any responsibility for her own choices. |
| 208 | * ''Fanfic/BurningBridgesBuildingConfidence'': |
| 209 | ** Chat Noir chooses to [[AchillesInHisTent sit out of akuma fights]] until Ladybug agrees to start dating him. Master Fu finds out and appoints Vexxin as a new, permanent bearer for the Fox. When Chat finds out, he immediately blames ''Ladybug'', claiming that they only started having problems because she '[[EntitledToHaveYou kept denying our love]]'. |
| 210 | ** Even after Ladybug explains to Alya that Rena Rouge and Carapace have been permanently retired as a direct result of her actions -- ''and'' that Alya's reaction to Vexxin has only further cemented that she will ''never'' be trusted with '''any''' miraculous, due to her MaliciousSlander and [[spoiler:outing herself as Rena Rouge]] -- Alya continues to blame Vexxin for all her woes. |
| 211 | ** Marinette's GirlPosse learns from Adrien himself that he knew all along [[MaliciousSlander what Lila was doing]], yet chose to stand aside and [[BetrayalByInaction do nothing about it]]. When called out on this, Adrien continues to insist that he's taking the high road, and that Lila [[BlatantLies isn't really hurting anyone]]. When this leads to two people getting akumatized, he then accuses ''Marinette'' of causing it -- and is so convinced of his rightness that he exposes himself to both akuma, failing to consider that they might be angry at HIM instead. |
| 212 | * ''Fanfic/{{BURN THE WITCH|MiraculousLadybug}}'': |
| 213 | ** Lila absolutely ''loathes'' both Marinette and Ladybug with a burning passion due to how they [[LiarRevealed called her out on her lies]] in front of Adrien. The fact that they would never have been able to do so if she hadn't lied in the first place is completely lost upon her, and when Marinette spells that out to her in exacting detail, she remains in denial. |
| 214 | ** Adrien also provides a subtle, {{Downplayed|Trope}} example when Witch Hunter [[InternalReveal reveals how]] Lila threatened Marinette in the bathroom. His reflexive reaction is surprise and disappointment that ''Marinette'' didn't mention that back when he was scolding her about how she needed to [[TurnTheOtherCheek take the high road]] and leave Lila be, as obviously he would have changed his tune if he'd known. The notion that she feared he [[CassandraTruth wouldn't believe her]] -- or worse, [[NoSympathy wouldn't care]] -- flies right over his head. |
| 215 | * ''[[Fanfic/TheLamentSeriesChaoticNeutral Chloé's Lament]]'' shows that the titular SpoiledBrat is practically the embodiment of this: |
| 216 | ** She blames Ladybug for 'making' her [[FaceHeelTurn join forces with Hawk Moth]] by denying her access to the Bee Comb, which she considers hers by right. The notion that it's too dangerous for her to continue being Queen Bee since everyone knows her SecretIdentity (since she outed herself during her 'grand debut') never occurs to her, much less the notion that she's proven herself unworthy of being trusted with it. |
| 217 | ** When Adrien [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech spells out for her]] just how reviled she is for being a bullying diva who constantly abuses her father's status as the Mayor, she continuously insists that she's done nothing to deserve their distaste... along with insisting that the opinions of mere ''peons'' don't matter, anyway. |
| 218 | ** She also blames Adrien for ''daring'' to [[GrewASpine stand up to her]], treating it as a [[EtTuBrute massive betrayal on his part]]. The fact that he's calling her out for backstabbing the Miraculous Team and planning to turn the whole world into her [[MindControl mindless thralls]]... well, she simply can't see why he'd ''possibly'' protest ''that!'' |
| 219 | ** When she uses the [[RealityWarpingIsNotAToy reality-warping Wish]] to [[RoleSwapAU switch places with Marinette]], she expects Mari to be stuck in the role of being the one everybody hates while she'll be adored and admired. Yet their ''personalities'' remain the same, and Chloé finds that she's [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty lost all the protection]] being the Mayor's daughter afforded her... but continues to insist that Marinette ''must'' be bullying her, and is completely responsible for everybody shunning her. |
| 220 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/26693095/chapters/83491480 Everything You Deserve]]'': After learning that Marinette intends to break the {{Geas}} that ''forces'' the kwami to do whatever their holders command, Adrien promptly betrays her out of fear that Plagg might not listen to him if he has the ''option'' to disobey. He uses the combined Earrings and Ring to make a selfish Wish, attempting to [[RealityWarpingIsNotAToy twist reality]] to his liking, only to find that his requests weren't granted in ''precisely'' [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor the manner he desired]]. For instance, he wanted to "be able to transform whenever I like and have fun"; this translated to him having the Peacock Pin instead of the Black Cat Ring and being known as a ''supervillain'', while his desire for "Ladybug to be my loving, devoted girlfriend" resulted in ''Chloé'' getting the Earrings and serving as his partner in crime. Adrien proceeds to blame Chloé for things not going his way, noting that she was usually to blame for things going wrong at school, but since ''he'' was rarely the victim of her bullying and constant cruelties, [[ItsAllAboutMe he'd never really cared]]. |
| 221 | * ''Webcomic/FeralnetteAU'': After Alya [[SayingTooMuch accidentally reveals]] that she knows about Lila's [[BlatantLies 'lying disease']], Ladybug [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech spells out]] how her SkewedPriorities and insistence on treating Lila as a 'trusted source' simply because she tells her what she wants to hear, declaring that the Ladyblog is blacklisted until she proves herself capable of doing honest research. Alya [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint dramatically misses her point]] and acts even more recklessly during the next akuma, insisting that Ladybug just needs to give her a chance to ''explain'' and that she hasn't done anything wrong. |
| 222 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/30374208 He Can Only Blame Himself]]'' centers around the aftermath of Adrien cheating on Marinette with Lila, who convinced him that Marinette was working long hours at Gabriel because she'd chosen [[CareerVersusMan her career over him]]. Despite acknowledging that he ''knew'' Lila was a ManipulativeBitch, as well as knowing that his father was a BadBoss who frequently forced ''him'' to work long hours himself, Adrien still attempts to pin the blame on Marinette, telling himself that it wasn't his fault Marinette put her career first and consoling himself with the notion that she might take him back after "settling down". |
| 223 | * ''DarthWiki/{{I See What You Do Behind Closed Doors|MiraculousLadybug}}'': After Lila [[LiarRevealed gets exposed]], most of Marinette's classmates attempt to convince her that it was ''her fault'' they [[CassandraTruth refused to listen]] to any of her warnings. This spurs Marinette to completely [[RejectedApology reject their apologies]], implying that she ''could have'' forgiven them for being suckered in if they were only willing to ''admit'' their mistakes. |
| 224 | -->'''Marinette:''' It's okay to accept that you listened to what you wanted to hear. I don't appreciate how that includes you ''wanting'' to hear that I'd been bullying a classmate just because of ''[[YoureJustJealous jealousy]]''. It was not because no one told you. I don't even really believe that it's because you didn't ''know'', but maybe you didn't want to admit to yourself that you were wrong. Regardless, I don't think ''I'' can accept that you guys were all so quick to think so badly of me. I don't forgive you. Not right now, probably not ever. Right now, we aren't friends, I'm not so sorry to say. |
| 225 | * ''Fanfic/JulekaVsTheForcesOfTheUniverse'': |
| 226 | ** As far as Adrien/Chat Noir is concerned, his inability to make any progress with Ladybug is entirely ''her'' fault -- how ''dare she'' repeatedly reject all of his advances! No, it doesn't matter to him that she doesn't ''want'' a RelationshipUpgrade; ''he does'', and he refuses to even ''consider'' the possibility that his constant harassment of her is destroying any chance he might have had of eventually winning her over. |
| 227 | ** Adrien also refuses to acknowledge the notion that his SkewedPriorities are contributing to Ladybug relying upon other heroes to provide the support she so desperately needs, as he keeps proving to be TheMillstone against various akumas, even outright ''refusing'' to assist her against certain opponents unless and until she caters to his ego. Instead of trying to be a better partner, he gets irritated at the other heroes for ''existing'', especially Purple Tigress. |
| 228 | ** When Ladybug finally [[WhatTheHellHero reads him the riot act]] for recklessly endangering Purple Tigress and almost hitting her with his ''Cataclysm'', Chat Noir proceeds to blame both of them, saying that the incident wouldn't have happened if Purple Tigress hadn't been present in the first place or suggested that he needed to step up and take things more seriously. Ladybug hits him with a blistering TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, spelling out how he's repeatedly demonstrated that she can't rely upon him, yet he continues blaming Tigress for "causing the problem" by ''[[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence existing]]''. |
| 229 | * ''Fanfic/TheKarmaOfLies'': |
| 230 | ** Adrien [[AccompliceByInaction refuses to do anything about]] Lila manipulating and conning his classmates, assuming that [[OriginalPositionFallacy he'll be fine since he already knows her true nature]]. [[TheFarmerAndTheViper She manages to scam him anyway]], at which point he's suddenly eager to expose her, only to find that [[CassandraTruth nobody believes him]]. He rejects the notion that he's in any way responsible for this. |
| 231 | ** After Ladybug [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech makes very clear]] during an interview with Nadia that Chat Noir will ''never'' get the RelationshipUpgrade he's been angling for, he whines to Plagg that "She should have told me!" Plagg points out that she ''did'', and that "You not listening isn't her fault." |
| 232 | ** Alya runs headlong into this as well, failing to see that she lost any claim to being Marinette's 'best friend' after ditching her in favor of Lila, dismissing and ignoring her until she realized [[SecretlySelfish she might benefit from being her BFF]]. Like Adrien, she refuses to see any connection between her behavior and Marinette cutting her out of her life. |
| 233 | * ''Fanfic/LadyBugOut'' has two major examples: |
| 234 | ** Alya causes the whole conflict by posting the photo she took in [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS03E10Oblivio "Oblivio"]], knowing full well that Ladybug wasn't happy about it. When confronted about this, she repeatedly attempts to dodge around admitting that Ladybug didn't want her to post it, then insists that the superheroine has no right to privacy or protection against people taking things out of context, accidentally or otherwise. This leads to Ladybug [[StartMyOwn starting her own blog]] with [[SecretIdentity Marinette]]'s help -- something Alya sees as a great personal betrayal due to how it ruins her own blog's reputation. She's further upset by Ladybug finding a new Fox bearer, and when confronting her about it, only cuts off her angry rant when she realizes the parallels -- but still insists that "that's different!" She continues to see herself as the biggest victim to the point that she continues to insist that Marinette owes '''HER''' an apology even after learning she was right about [[ConsummateLiar Lila]]. |
| 235 | ** Adrien, meanwhile, believes that he and Ladybug are [[BecauseDestinySaysSo destined to be together]] -- meaning that he's [[EntitledToHaveYou entitled to her love]] [[YouCantFightFate regardless of her own feelings on the matter]]. He also refuses to take his duties as Chat Noir seriously, more interested in flirting, joking around and trying to force Ladybug to 'admit' that they're ''those'' kind of partners. As the consequences of his actions catch up with him, he refuses to believe that his newfound problems are due to anything other than Ladybug being stubborn, leading to him [[spoiler:losing the Black Cat after a live broadcast exposes his manhandling Ladybug and self-centered ranting to the public]]. |
| 236 | * ''Fanfic/LeaveForMendeleiev'': |
| 237 | ** After lying to Theo, falsely claiming that he and Ladybug are dating and causing the sculptor's akumatization, Chat Noir refuses to acknowledge he did anything wrong. Instead, when Ladybug shows up and asks what happens, he blames her for not showing up to the ceremony, then skulks away to sulk. |
| 238 | ** Nino promises Marinette that [[RichBitch Chloé]] won't be involved with his movie, as she isn't interested in the project. Then Chloé finds out and forces her way in, threatening to [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections ensure he gets disqualified]] if he doesn't let her join. Nino deliberately doesn't warn Marinette, knowing she wouldn't come if she knew her long-time bully was involved, then acts as though that justifies the omission -- that ''she'' is honor-bound to keep ''her'' end of the promise despite him breaking his. Furthermore, he claims that it's [[BlamingTheVictim her fault she got bullied in the first place]], and that she wouldn't have suffered so much if she stood up for herself more. |
| 239 | * ''Fanfic/LilasLament'': PlayedWith and PlayedStraight: |
| 240 | ** Lila accuses Marinette of enabling her reign of terror, claiming that she didn't ''try hard enough'' to expose her [[BitchInSheepsClothing true nature]] and that she's more responsible for her actions than Lila herself is. She also accuses her of antagonizing her by [[EntitledBastard refusing to give her what she wanted]]. This BreakingSpeech moves Marinette to TearsOfRemorse, and is treated as though [[VillainHasAPoint Lila is right to blame her]]. |
| 241 | ** Lila also blames Adrien for not giving in to her whims, so she Wishes to [[RoleSwapAU swap lives with him]]. After discovering that [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor his life wasn't as perfect as she'd thought]], she continues blaming him for her problems, insisting that he ''drove her'' to make the Wish, despite how he was near-unconscious at the time. |
| 242 | * ''Fanfic/MarinetteDupainChengsSpitePlaylist'' has this in both the original version and its remix: |
| 243 | ** Original: [[ConsummateLiar Lila]] exploits this in order to keep [[UnwittingPawn Alya]] on her side. After [[BetrayalFic she betrays Marinette]] by refusing to hear her side of the story, Ladybug replaces her as the Fox Bearer, bluntly stating in an interview that she only gives Miraculi to those she trusts. Lila claims that her ([[CelebrityLie nonexistent]]) friendship with Ladybug [[WeUsedToBeFriends fell apart]], and that Alya's just an innocent victim of RevengeByProxy. Alya accepts this since it means that she hasn't done anything wrong, and [[spoiler:deletes the Ladyblog]]. |
| 244 | ** Remix: At Adrien's urging, Alya tries stepping back and evaluating Lila's claims more seriously rather than accepting them at face value. However, she hesitates for fear of learning that he's right, since that would mean that ''Marinette'' [[CassandraTruth was right when she warned her as well]], meaning that ''she'' was wrong to ignore and push her away. As a result, she remains biased, latching onto any excuse she can find to reassure herself that Lila isn't a BitchInSheepsClothing... and that [[MadeOutToBeAJerkass Marinette must have been instead]]. |
| 245 | * In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/42123138 Never to Be]]'', Chat Noir has spent years fruitlessly pursuing Ladybug, refusing to listen to her insistence that she's not interested in him and never will be. After ignoring yet another dressing-down, he spies on her and overhears her remarking on her engagement, promptly confronting her in a jealous rage and demanding to know why he was LockedOutOfTheLoop. Once again, he proves to have NoListeningSkills, PlayingTheVictimCard despite how it was his own behavior that convinced her she couldn't share the news with him in the first place. |
| 246 | * ''Fanfic/OfPatienceAndPettiness'': |
| 247 | ** After Lila's deceit is exposed, most of Miss Bustier's class refuses to acknowledge that they did anything wrong, trying to pin all the blame upon [[TheScapegoat various scapegoats]] -- Lila herself for lying; Adrien for knowing the truth and not sharing it; Alya for not checking her sources... All of this finger-pointing [[DisappointedInYou deeply disappoints]] Marinette, as only a handful of her classmates prove willing to own up to their own mistakes and apologize. |
| 248 | ** Adrien falls hard into this as he pushes back against their scapegoating, insisting that he didn't do ''anything'' wrong. He also cops a similar attitude regarding his behavior as Chat Noir, denying that his [[DoggedNiceGuy persistent pursuit of Ladybug]] might not be as romantic as it's made out to be in the movies. |
| 249 | * ''Fanfic/OneStepBackwardsAndThreeForwards'': '''Alya'''. After [[FaceHeelTurn betraying Ladybug]] and [[TheBadGuyWins helping Hawkmoth make his Wish]] -- along with Wishing herself to [[IntrepidReporter become a great reporter]] -- she finds herself in [[RewritingReality a world reshaped by their desires]]. When Chat Noir starts haunting the Traitor Trio, she theorizes that the reality shift is causing other former Miraculous bearers to suffer SanitySlippage and bring out their worst traits. The notion that his anger at her is valid is something she dances around to the best of her ability, not wanting to acknowledge that she made a mistake. |
| 250 | ** Along similar lines, she convinces herself that Marinette is suffering from the same effects due to her singular outing as Multimouse in the original world. When Nino suggests that Marinette's occasional testiness with her stems more from Alya's attempts to meddle in her life, she dismisses the notion as less reasonable than her belief that Marinette is [[DrivenByEnvy secretly jealous of Lila's relationship with Adrien]]... despite how Marinette is happily dating Felix. And mostly gets annoyed with Alya whenever she's trying to separate them. |
| 251 | * ''Fanfic/TheOneToMakeItStay'': |
| 252 | ** Alya films one of Chat Noir's {{Love Confession}}s and [[ManipulativeEditing carefully edits the footage]] in order to make it look like Ladybug reciprocated and they got together. She then posted the results on her Ladyblog. When Ladybug confronts her, she repeatedly blows off her anger, disappointment and frustration, only grasping that she ''might'' have done something wrong when Ladybug points out that Hawkmoth might monitor her blog for information he can use against the heroes. Yet when Ladybug then informs her that she's being benched for the summer -- and that if she doesn't reconsider her actions and change her ways, she'll lose the Fox Miraculous for good -- Alya immediately accuses her of overreacting, treating her sidelining as DisproportionateRetribution. [[spoiler:However, she [[CharacterDevelopment gradually comes around]], having some ''proper'' epiphanies about her behavior and resolving to [[TheAtoner do her best]] to [[MustMakeAmends make amends]]]]. |
| 253 | ** Adrien refuses to acknowledge that he's done ''anything'' wrong. So far as he's concerned, it's ''Ladybug's'' fault that the two of them are fighting -- if she would just admit that [[EntitledToHaveYou she and Chat Noir are]] ''[[BecauseDestinySaysSo destined]]'' [[ThinksLikeARomanceNovel to be together]] and stop rejecting his advances, they wouldn't be fighting at ''all!'' Nor will he admit that his ''[[BetrayalByInaction inaction]]'' has caused any problems, be it his refusal to help Marinette deal with the Lila situation [[spoiler:or admit that he overheard her arguing with Alya and knows that she used to have a crush on him]]. |
| 254 | ** Space Patrol is practically NeverMyFault ''incarnate'', along with a heaping helping of ItsAllAboutMe. He uses his akuma powers to abduct people ''just'' because he wants to spend time with them, and blithely admits that [[spoiler:Adrien blames ''Marinette'' for what he overheard at the museum. Because he feels awkward about knowing, and resents her for not telling him about her crush so he can stop 'having to pretend' he doesn't know about it]]. So far as he's concerned, it's ''her fault'', and he refuses to hear anything different. |
| 255 | * ''WebComic/ScarletLady'': |
| 256 | ** PlayedForLaughs with Master Fu at the start of the series. Rather than putting the box with the Ladybug Earrings into Marinette's bedroom, he [[PointOfDivergence slipped it into her purse instead]]... only for [[AlphaBitch Chloé]] to steal it. Upon seeing this mysterious girl in action as [[NominalHero Scarlet Lady]], Fu immediately declares to Wayzz that "This one is not my fault." By the time Adrien has a chance to [[WhatTheHellHero confront him]], however, Fu is more willing to acknowledge that he made a mistake, though he still makes clear that he did ''not'' choose her, and that the only reason he hasn't reclaimed the earrings is that he doesn't know who she is. |
| 257 | ** Scarlet accidentally drops a tube of lipstick on Alya's head. When she sees the incident on the Ladyblog, she complains about how she'll never get that back "now that [her] ''stalker'' has it", acting as though Alya intentionally stole it. |
| 258 | ** When the class discovers how Sabrina's hand was caught in Marinette's diary trap, Chloé immediately declares that going after it was ''Sabrina'''s idea, and that she had nothing to do with it. |
| 259 | ** After jumping back, Timebreaker accidentally causes Chloé to break the watch again by startling her with a shout. However, she blames [[spoiler:the Chat Noir who followed her]] instead. |
| 260 | ** In the wake of the Volpina incident, Alya blames Lila for how her lies about being Scarlet's BFF ended up on the Ladyblog, despite the fact that ''she'' was the one who took her claims at face value and immediately posted them before doing any double-checking. In this case, there's some implication that this shifting of blame is also Alya's way of handling her disquiet over how Scarlet Lady [[HumiliationConga publicly humiliated Lila]]. The incident [[BrokenPedestal didn't sit well with her]], but is easier to stomach if Lila '[[AssholeVictim deserved]]' it... |
| 261 | * ''[[Fanfic/TatteredRemainsOfBrokenDreams Tattered Remains of Broken Dreams (Yours, Not Mine)]]'': Alya and several other classmates rip apart Marinette's sketchbook, while Adrien and most of the others [[AccompliceByInaction stand by and watch]]. Turns out said sketchbook was filled with plans for all the projects she was doing ''for'' Alya and said classmates, and she bluntly informs them that she [[OffTheTable won't be doing free favors]] for {{False Friend}}s anymore. Alya and the majority treat this as though it was entirely ''Marinette's fault'' that they destroyed her sketchbook, whining about how ''incredibly unfair'' it is that she won't finish those projects. |
| 262 | * ''[[https://unmaskedagain.tumblr.com/post/189088379082/truth-is-subjective Truth is Subjective]]'': Alya's attempt to livestream an "exclusive interview" with Ladybug and Lila [[HoistByHisOwnPetard blows up in her face]] when Ladybug calls her out on enabling her StalkerWithoutACrush. In the fallout that follows, Alya repeatedly insists that she's just a victim of circumstance, even getting upset when Marinette reminds her that [[IWarnedYou she'd repeatedly warned her]] that Lila was lying: |
| 263 | -->'''Alya:''' How was I supposed to know Lila was a nutjob?\ |
| 264 | '''Marinette:''' You could've fact-checked. Listened to me even once of the hundred times I told you she was lying. Asked Ladybug. Asked Chat Noir. Read the twenty percent of the Ladyblog's comments that said she was lying. You could've done a lot to find the truth. You ''chose'' not to. |
| 265 | * ''Fanfic/VillainOfYourOwnStory'': |
| 266 | ** After getting into serious trouble for posting MaliciousSlander on her [[CurrentEventsBlog 'news blog']], AU!Alya insists that she shouldn't be blamed for how untrustworthy her sources turned out to be. The notion that she could have ''researched'' their claims like the IntrepidReporter she claims to be is completely lost upon her. |
| 267 | ** Alya also blames the cosmic forces that granted her Wish for 'getting it wrong', despite how Marinette frantically warned her that RealityWarpingIsNotAToy and that every Wish has its price. |
| 268 | * ''Fanfic/{{The Wolves in the Woods|MiraculousLadybug}}'': |
| 269 | ** Alya blames Lila for turning her and the rest of Marinette's former friends against their 'Everyday Ladybug'... despite how ''this'' Lila [[EverybodyHasStandards was actually horrified]] by how far they were willing to go and actually tried to ''protect'' Marinette from them. Eventually, Alya's parents learn that she [[spoiler:knew the truth all along and manipulated the others into turning on Marinette [[DrivenByEnvy out of jealousy]], trying to beat her back down into an ExtremeDoormat]]. Even after this revelation, however, Alya continues insisting that everything is entirely ''Lila's'' fault and that Marinette ''NEEDS'' to forgive her and take her back, [[EntitledToHaveYou because they're besties, dang it]]! |
| 270 | ** Adrien not only refuses to do anything about Lila deceiving everyone with her {{Celebrity Lie}}s, he [[BlamingTheVictim blames Marinette]] for [[CassandraTruth trying to warn the others]], maintaining the lie during a court hearing. When Lila reveals that she ''knew'' he knew about her lying, he gets into trouble for criminal defamation of Marinette's character. Even after his father spells out just how serious the charges are, Adrien ''continues'' to insist that the situation was entirely Marinette's fault, and that he didn't do anything wrong. |
| 271 | * In [[https://nobodyfamousposts.tumblr.com/post/184218659010/i-think-the-worse-way-adrien-could-reject this what-if]] story, Adrien rejects Marinette's LoveConfession because he doesn't like how she's been trying to expose Lila's [[ManipulativeBitch true nature]] to everyone. He then attempts to reframe the IndignantSlap she gave him for grabbing her arm and attempting to ''force'' her to stop as her [[PlayingTheVictimCard attacking him for no reason]], only for this to blow up in his face [[https://nobodyfamousposts.tumblr.com/post/734443964533489664/what-if-adrien-rejection-in-felix-culpa when the truth comes out]]. Afterwards, he blames Felix for exposing what he'd done, irritating his cousin with his refusal to acknowledge how his own choices led to the inevitable fallout. |
| 272 | |
| 273 | [[AC:''Franchise/MyHeroAcademia'']] |
| 274 | * ''Fanfic/OneHundredPercentRiot'' has the Bakugou family take in Izuku after his mother's passing, only to be abusive and neglectful until he runs away. None of them are willing to acknowledge that their actions might have pushed him down a darker path; at best, Katsuki's parents are worried about being {{Misblamed}} if the truth comes out, while Katsuki himself flat out does not give a damn. |
| 275 | * ''Fanfic/CrimsonAndEmerald'': Despite Shiketsu nearly being being UA's equal, the majority of the Top Hundred Heroes are UA graduates. Shiketsu blames their graduates for not representing the school properly when their strict attitudes and restrictions causes their graduates to be too inflexible to survive in the field. |
| 276 | * ''Fanfic/AGreenDragonsHoard'': According to Inko and Nemuri, multiple drivers have hit Izuku when he thoughtlessly wandered into the streets. But since Izuku is so tough that said cars are totaled while he's unharmed, the drivers blame him. |
| 277 | * In the ''Fanfic/{{Mastermind|StrategistForHire}}'' [[Fanfic/MastermindRiseOfAnarchy series]], Katsuki refuses to admit that [[StartOfDarkness he helped drive]] Izuku into villainy. He ''does'', however, hold himself responsible for not noticing that his former friend was SlowlySlippingIntoEvil... because he believes that Deku '[[FantasticRacism forgot his place]]' and that he could have beaten some sense back into him. In other words, Katsuki sincerely thinks that he didn't bully him ''enough''. |
| 278 | * ''Fanfic/MeanRabbit'': [[SadistTeacher Aizawa]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero creates a massive rift in Class 1-A]] when he gives five of his students an expulsion scare for failing to outperform the Quirkless Izuku during their assessment test. This teaches the majority that they can't afford to count on their teacher for anything; Aizawa himself declares that [[FairWeatherMentor he won't be offering them any help]]. This, combined with the grudge several students hold against Izuku for [[MisplacedRetribution daring to stand up for himself]], leads to [[WeAreStrugglingTogether them acting distinctly unheroic]] during the League's assault on the USJ. Yet Aizawa refuses to acknowledge the role he played in encouraging this. |
| 279 | * ''Fanfic/PeacesApprentice'': Aizawa [[PointOfDivergence expels Izuku on his first day]] in order to make room for Shinsou in his class. This causes Toshinori to ResignInProtest, while his [[{{Nepotism}} blatant favoritism]] encourages Shinsou to mistreat his classmates, with everyone in 1-A knowing that Aizawa won't step in beyond {{blaming the victim}}s. The culture of fear and distrust he cultivates results in the League's attack on the USJ going far worse, with two of his students becoming {{Accidental Murder}}ers, [[spoiler:Minata dying]], and [[spoiler:Shinsou's throat being injured to the point he loses his Quirk]]. So far as Aizawa is concerned, he's responsible for precisely ''none of this'', blaming everyone else for the fallout of his decisions. |
| 280 | * ''Fanfic/{{Reality Check|MHA}}'': |
| 281 | ** One of Shinsou's {{Fatal Flaw}}s is that he constantly insists that [[PlayingTheVictimCard he's always the victim]], despite all evidence to the contrary. |
| 282 | ** When Sato tries helping him during a training exercise, Shinsou brainwashed him into going away. He then [[NoPokerFace smirks]] when Aizawa [[BlamingTheVictim punishs Sato]] for "losing focus", clearly pleased at the sight. This makes the rest of 1-A much warier; Shinsou treats this as though they're stereotyping him as having a "naturally villainous Quirk", ignoring how he'd just demonstrated a willingness to abuse his Quirk. |
| 283 | ** After realizing he won't be able to bang together a major assignment at the last second, Shinsou decides to [[spoiler:brainwash Momo into giving her a copy of her essay, then delete the original]], intending to [[PlagiarismInFiction pass their work off as his own]]. When this blows up in his face, the victim [[IndignantSlap slaps]] and calls him out; he insists they're just posturing, and that they only hate him for his Quirk. |
| 284 | ** Aizawa also has elements of this. His blatant favoritism towards his apprentice encourages Shinsou's worst aspects, as he takes his teacher's protection for granted and as evidence that he's totally in the right. Aizawa's continued support of Shinsou winds up ruining his credibility, especially after his little stint into [[spoiler:attempted academic theft]]. At no point does Aizawa ever acknowledge the part he played in ''enabling'' Shinsou; the closest he ever comes is admitting that he's {{disappointed|InYou}} and that he "misjudged [his] potential". |
| 285 | * ''Fanfic/SleeperHitAU'': |
| 286 | ** Katsuki [[InSpiteOfANail still failed to pass the Provisional License Exam]] on his first attempt. He blames this upon the fact that, during said exam, he noticed somebody who happened to look like Izuku. After learning that Izuku ''didn't'' give up on his dreams after [[PointOfDivergence Aizawa expelled him on their first day]], and that he's become the Quirkless Pro Sleeper Hit, Katsuki flashes back to that moment and instantly decides that Deku ''deliberately'' sabotaged him. The fact that Izuku went out of his way to avoid him doesn't matter; just seeing him in passing distracted him enough to cause Katsuki to fail, and that's ''clearly'' Deku's fault, right? |
| 287 | ** Katsuki also blames Izuku for 'turning Kirishima against him' after Eijirou sees firsthand [[BrokenPedestal just how cruel Bakugou can be]]. The thing that tips him over the edge and gets him to give up on treating Katsuki as a friend? Katsuki himself bringing up how he [[SuicideDare told Deku to kill himself]]... and declaring that ''he should have gone through with it''. |
| 288 | * ''Fanfic/SupportingAHero'': Upon being expelled and blacklisted from every hero course across the planet for his attempted murder on Izuku, Katsuki refuses to accept the fact that it was his own damn fault to begin with. When screaming that he was [[NotHelpingYourCase 'doing the world a favor by getting rid of Deku']] to the Ectoplasm clones, they conclude that Bakugou never deserved to be a hero to begin with. |
| 289 | * ''Fanfic/{{Think Before You Speak|MHA}}'': |
| 290 | ** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Tensei; While he ''was'' [[UnwittingPawn manipulated by Aizawa]] into believing Izuku was responsible for Tenya's training accident, he still knew that it was wrong to vent and reveal Izuku's name to the press. He did it anyway, and despite recognizing and accepting that the consequences spiraled far out of his control, doesn't believe he should be completely castigated for having a MomentOfWeakness or trusting that Aizawa had told him the truth. |
| 291 | ** Katsuki is completely aghast at the concept of [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty actually being punished]] for his {{Barbaric Bully}}ing, and protests that the only reason he went so far during the training exercise is [[BlamingTheVictim due to Deku's involvement]]. Midnight tells him outright that that's not the bulletproof argument he clearly ''thinks'' it is. |
| 292 | * PlayedWith in ''Fanfic/ThreeGuysGoToABarAndThenTheyBeatYouWithIt''. Aizawa didn't agree with Principal Nedzu's plan to change the final exams, and only went along with it because he didn't see any better options. However, he gave no indication of this to the students affected -- instead, he plays up the image of being a SadistTeacher and threatens to expel them if they don't comply. When he later complains to Kayama about the fallout, she points out his BetrayalByInaction. |
| 293 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/49652731/chapters/136240576 Vice Principal]]'', a mini-series in ''The Multiverse's Veins of Silver'', Aizawa tries to get the majority of the students at U.A. expelled after they staged a massive walk-out of the Sports Festival. (The only exceptions being Shinsou, Bakugou, and Mineta.) He refuses to acknowledge that this was done in protest of him blatantly favoring Shinsou, Bakugou and Mineta, defending their flaws while repeatedly trying to sabotage others, ''especially Midoriya'', in what the Vice Principal rightly calls "The deliberate destruction of a student's future" by [[PointOfDivergence expelling Izuku on his first day at U.A.]]; naturally, he blames Izuku for how he's effectively removed from both teaching and heroics and forced into remedial studies meant to correct his clear failings as an educator and Pro Hero. |
| 294 | ** In [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/49652731/chapters/137903440 the sequel]], the Vice Principal explains to Hitoshio how Aizawa never got over the death of Oboro Shirakumo. However, [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse that doesn't justify his irrational behavior]] while explaining to Hitoshi that had All Might not given Izuku an apprenticeship, Izuku would be left with no future other than [[ForcedIntoEvil villainy]], |
| 295 | {{vigilant|eMan}}ism or a [[DrivenToSuicide rooftop plunge]]. And that the same fate could have easily befallen ''Hitoshi'' if he'd been expelled from U.A. rather than kicked back down into Gen Ed. |
| 296 | * ''Fanfic/WereNotFriendsKacchan'': As far as Katsuki's concerned, his bullying of Izuku is completely justified, as he hates him [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence for existing]]. When his grades start suffering [[spoiler:during his final months at U.A.]], he insists that his classmates keep "distracting" him, and that the teachers are being unfairly tough. |
| 297 | |
| 298 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'']] |
| 299 | * ''Fanfic/AftermathOfTheGames'': Despite being the one who pushed Sci-Twi into unleashing the magic, Cinch tries to put all the blame for Midnight Sparkle on Sci-Twi and calls her a monster. She also puts the blame on Canterlot High School and tries to get them to quit the games. Sunset explains to Sci-Twi that this was the reason why Cinch deserved to be fired and blacklisted, when the latter feels like she doesn't deserve forgiveness. |
| 300 | * ''Fanfic/{{Assumptions}}'': Rainbow Dash's huge ego makes it downright impossible for her to apologize to Caramel, [[NiceGuy who has been nothing but kind to her]], after he finds out she nearly killed him with a botched aerial trick. Rainbow chooses to fly away in shame rather than admit she wronged him, but later halfway-apologizes, which Caramel accepts. |
| 301 | * Discord's FatalFlaw in ''Fanfic/BrideOfDiscord'' is this, as he blames Celestia and the ponies for the events that led up to his imprisonment, because they got mad at him for his reckless use of magic, instead of considering that maybe he it was his own fault and he shouldn't have let his anger get the best of him. This is taken to new extremes and played with later on, when he has a ''never your fault'' moment after Fluttershy seemingly says she doesn't love him and he takes it out on literally everyone in the immediate area '''except''' her. |
| 302 | * In ''[[Fanfic/TheDearSweetieBelleContinuity The Changelings Have a King]]'', the eponymous king Carapace [[spoiler:blames Rarity for ruining his status at the Grand Galloping Gala (i.e. vehemently objecting to ''his'' poor manners, back when he was Blueblood) and incubates his new changeling army in Ponyville to cause her pain. Before finally attempting to kill her, he gloats that all of the recent death and destruction is ''her'' fault]]. |
| 303 | * ''Fanfic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed'': |
| 304 | ** For an InUniverse example, the LemonyNarrator often does this when explaining the clear holes in her conspiracy theories, choosing to blame either the reader or traditionalist historians, even when the fault clearly lies in the InsaneTrollLogic she used to get these theories. |
| 305 | ** One of the chapters starts out with a lawsuit to a publishing company of a book she had previously used, stating that the love potion she made following its instructions was faulty, even though it was clear earlier on that she had completely botched the recipe. It is also HilariousInHindsight knowing that even the Cutie Mark Crusaders in the show somehow did a better job than her in following the recipe. It becomes even worse when she says that she was aware of the "Do Not Try at Home" section prefacing the book, but states that she "chose not to read that part, so she can't possibly be held accountable for that." |
| 306 | * ''FanFic/TheFlashSentryChronicles'': Grand Hoof's son Doom Raizer blames his father for everything that has ever happened to him in his life. This ranges from his childhood to the deaths of his mother and wife and even what has happened to his own son Lightning Blitz. While Grand admits he should have done a better job raising Doom and being in his life more, he also states he has brought his misfortune on himself. This is made prominent when Grand says his CatchPhrase "count up your sins" to Doom before their battle, and Doom responds that he has no sins. |
| 307 | * ''Fanfic/TheImmortalGame'': [[BigBad Titan]] blames the ponykind for the deaths of [[spoiler:his wife and sons]], although it was Discord who was responsible for [[spoiler:First Empyrean's death, and Titan ''himself'' was responsible for the deaths of his first wife, Harmony and Empyrean II]]. |
| 308 | * ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'': When [[TheCaligula Jewelius]] loses the trust of Twilight and the citizens of Canterlot, he blames it on the fugitive heroes. Ignoring the fact that [[spoiler:he stopped putting forth effort into his lies and gradually let his selfish nature come out. Notably, despite Twilight expressing the desire to forgive her loved ones and reconcile with them, she is willing to support Jewelius [[EveryoneHasStandards so long as he acts like a responsible ruler]]. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain However]], once Jewelius proves the fugitives' CassandraTruth about him true by gloating to Twilight, she immediately severs all ties with him and flees to Ponyville]]. |
| 309 | * In ''Fanfic/TheNegotiationsverse'', Celestia blamed the deaths of her family members and the miserable state Equestria fell into during the closing weeks of the Conversion War solely on the humans, never stopping to consider it was her refusal to peacefully coexist with them that led to such misery for herself and her nation's subjects in the first place. |
| 310 | * ''Fanfic/PersonaEG'': Several characters have blamed their problems or the actions they have done on others, ignoring that they themselves have still done bad deeds and are not completely blameless for their own misfortunes. This usually results in others calling them out on their attitude and pointing out they brought their problems on themselves. |
| 311 | ** [[spoiler:[[AdaptationalVillainy Fluttershy]] was bullied when she first came to CHS, so she used her knowledge of computers to become a cyber-bully and ruin anyone who ever messed with her, and this was before she discovered [[EldritchLocation Zodiac]]. After her identity as Eris is discovered by ZIT she lists all the bad things that have happened to her, including Sunset's blackmail on her, Rainbow rape checking her, and Flash grabbing her breast, ignoring that she tried to kill ZIT multiple times even though they have done ''nothing'' but try to be her friends.]] |
| 312 | ** [[spoiler:Sunset has this attitude when she [[LivingWithTheVillain moves into the dorm]]. She expects everyone to just [[EasilyForgiven forgive her]] right away when she [[KnowWhenToFoldThem doesn't want to fight them anymore]] because they forgave Fluttershy, but she continues to mess with them just to get reactions from them. She is finally called out on this when Twilight and Flash confront her for sleeping with Shining Armor.]] |
| 313 | ** [[spoiler:Twilight breaks up with Flash after finding out he had sex with Trixie because she feels she can no longer trust him and spends the next couple of days depressed in her room. While what Flash did ''was'' wrong, he had already shown countless times that he loved Twilight and was faithful to her, yet she got on his case for only having female friends and his pervert nature. This lack of trust from Twilight is what caused Flash to cheat on her to get back at her, and he regretted it immediately afterward. Pinkie and Sonata [[WhatTheHellHero call her out]] on her attitude and point out she hurt Flash just as much as he hurt her.]] |
| 314 | * In ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'': |
| 315 | ** Discord has a ''major'' problem with this, as despite ''literally'' everything bad that's happened to him since he came to Equus being his own fault for [[spoiler:choosing his sadistic games over the loved ones he made as [[AmnesiacDissonance Dissy]]]], he blames everyone but himself from his parents to Fate. |
| 316 | ** [[spoiler:Nightmare Eclipse, the true BigBad of the [[BadFuture Dark World Arc]], blames literally everything on Discord. While it is true at first he ''was'' to blame for everything, by the present the ''only'' reason he's evil anymore is because she's literally ''forcing'' him to be an evil overlord so she can punish him for it.]] |
| 317 | ** This is one of the main themes with Hell/Tartarus in this series: the condemned are largely there because they refuse to accept their actions were wrong and evil, even when the Gods ''show'' them the damage they've caused. This is the only thing ''[[SelfInflictedHell keeping]]'' them there, as if they accept it and genuinely repent then they'll be set free. |
| 318 | * In ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/8454/Running-From-Myself Running From Myself]]'', two former classmates of Twilight's blame her for getting them suspended. The entire reason for their suspensions were because they were bullying Twilight to the point where she suffered problems well into adulthood. When they try to get sympathy from Rarity, she calls them out on this. Not that they listen. |
| 319 | * In ''Fanfic/VengeanceOfDawn'', Breaking Dawn is Princess Celestia's former personal student who grew entitled and spoiled because of the privileges that her status allowed her. When Celestia replaced her with a young Twilight but allowed Dawn to stay at the School for Gifted Unicorns, Dawn physically attacked Twilight in a fit of rage, forcing Celestia to permanently expel her. Years later, Twilight has become an alicorn princess as a result of her studies and hard work, while Dawn is living in a poor apartment and is unable to hold down even a simple job at a clothing store because she believes herself too important to work like an ordinary pony. Rather than admit that it was her own fault that she lost her position as Celestia's student, Dawn chooses to believe that Twilight deliberately stole everything from her--Celestia's love, her status as a royal student, her supposed great destiny, the Element of Magic, and the princesshood that she would have had--and plots an elaborate revenge against her. |
| 320 | * ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse:'' Corona blames Luna for the fact everypony is still afraid of her after a thousand years exile. It has nothing to do with the fact Corona is literally insane, and prone to threatening anyone who irritates her with immolation, it's all Luna's fault for turning them against her. Luna even points out in their first reunion that she had nothing to do with her sister's bad PR a thousand years ago. Even when she mellows out and starts edging back to sanity, Corona's still got a lot of problems in this arena. For example, she apologises to [=BonBon=] for abducting her... because it turned [=BonBon=] against her, not because it traumatised her. |
| 321 | * In ''[[Fanfic/TheEquestriaChronicles Sun & Moon: Ascending Star]]'', Aqua notes this tendency in Celestia during their training and endeavors to stamp it out. |
| 322 | * ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'': |
| 323 | ** Twilight Sparkle blames others (specifically Spike) for her mistakes occasionally. In "The Canon Has Misfired", she [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny lets her mission to prevent the apocalypse get completely derailed]]. When the apocalypse comes, she says, "Dammit, I knew I forgot something! Why didn't Spike remind me?!" (completely ignoring the fact that Spike ''did'' try to remind her). In "Ponynet Fight!" she insists that her magic isn't working because Spike isn't concentrated hard enough (and she pointedly refuses to explain why ''her'' magic needs ''Spike's'' concentration). |
| 324 | ** And "Pirate Shipping" has this gem: |
| 325 | --->'''Sweetie Belle:''' "Just because something is my fault doesn't mean I'm not allowed to blame anyone else." |
| 326 | |
| 327 | [[AC:''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'']] |
| 328 | * Tenten and Neji in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5537220/1/The-Darkest-Light The Darkest Light]]'' have this regarding Naruto/Naruichi. |
| 329 | ** Tenten badmouthed Naruto, who's considered a favorite grandson by the local [[TheDon quadrant boss]], and said quadrant boss right in front of both. She's flat-out told the sole reason she wasn't killed is because Naruto knocked her out and asked for mercy. But all Tenten cares about is that he beat her effortlessly at swordsmanship (Naruto gave her a sword then used a stick to beat her for an hour). As a result, she wants him dead for humiliating her. She eventually grows out of it, especially when she tells Gai she hated Naruto for being better than her, and he asks if she "[[ArmorPiercingQuestion hated enough to kill]]". |
| 330 | ** Neji tried to humiliate (and possibly traumatize) Hinata by having her "manhandled by a commoner" and having her father find out when he hired Naruichi to give her a massage. Unfortunately for him, Hiashi not only found out immediately, Naruichi also had a receipt showing exactly who hired him. While Hiashi was [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown "training"]] Neji in the dojo, Naruichi fixed a problem with Hinata's spine, leading her to be both more skilled and more confidant. Like Tenten, Neji has had it explained to him that what happened (particularly Hinata activating his seal while thanking him) is his own fault but instead only cares about making Naruichi pay. |
| 331 | * {{Downplayed|Trope}} in ''Fanfic/TheLastPrayer''. When Choji's parents learned he unknowingly drugged someone with a powerful aphrodisiac, Choji's mother initially blames her husband for not explaining what the drug was to their son, even though Choji had asked her and all she gave was a vague and misleading explanation that it "allows shinobi and kunoichi to be friendly". As a result, Choji gave it to Ino (though he's forced to swear to never reveal her identity), thinking it'd make her more friendly towards her teammates. Instead, she jumped the closest man nearby and demanded he have sex with her. It's only pure chance Ino was off in the forest with Naruto rather than a more unsavory type. |
| 332 | * ''Fanfic/{{The Moon Cries in Reverse|Naruto}}'': Throughout ''Lunar Lamentations'', the {{Tautological Templar}}s of Konohagakure outright ''refuse'' to acknowledge the role they played in driving Team Ten to defect. Even Jiraiya, who outright warned the Sandaime that they were creating a SelfFulfillingProphecy, reverses course and convinces himself that the kids were EvilAllAlong rather than facing the notion that his efforts to make things better simply weren't ''enough'' to balance out the systematic abuse they'd been dealing with. |
| 333 | * ''Fanfic/{{Space to Breathe|Naruto}}'': According to Sasuke, every problem he has can be traced back to ''somebody else's'' decisions. Like Sakura; he ''loves'' blaming her for how things went downhill after she [[PointOfDivergence left Team Seven]], even while [[DoubleThink simultaneously insisting]] that ''he'' drove her away and is better off for it, as she was "holding him back". When he gets into trouble for attacking [[spoiler:Nanako]] in public, attempting to ''kill'' his fellow leaf-nin with the Chidori? They brought it upon themselves by "insulting his clan name" and denying him the rematch he was demanding! |
| 334 | * ''Fanfic/{{What You Knead|Naruto}}'': During the Bell Test, Sasuke manages to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory when he recklessly attacks Kakashi while he's taken Sakura hostage and has a kunai up against her neck. Kakashi promptly informs him that he just failed the test on everyone's behalf, then secretly hides and observes the team's reactions. Sasuke managing to swallow his pride enough to avert this and apologize convinces him to pass Team Seven after all. |
| 335 | |
| 336 | [[AC:''Franchise/NeonGenesisEvangelion'']] |
| 337 | * ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': [[BigBad Jinnai]] expected to be betrayed. But the thought that he would be betrayed because he is a ManipulativeBastard, a psychotic jerkass, a BadBoss and a borderline rapist never ever crosses his mind. The notion that Shinji and Asuka could turn against him because he turned them into their tools and he virtually raped Asuka hundreds of times for two years never occurs to him. No, no, it has to be because Asuka is a traitorous slut and Shinji his plaything. [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal There cannot be another reason]]. |
| 338 | * ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': Gendo blamed Shinji, Asuka and Rei for disobeying his orders when they fought Bardiel. Never mind his strategy was dumb and nearly got them killed. Never mind they HAD to disobey his commands in order to adapt and survive the enemy attack. Never mind they [[spoiler:won, destroying Bardiel, rescuing the pilot and recovering the Unit hijacked by the enemy]] by ignoring his interfering commands. He blamed them for "insubordination" and "endangering humanity", he punished Shinji and Asuka with unemployment and threatened Rei with death. [[spoiler: This backfires on him spectacularly.]] |
| 339 | * ''Manga/{{Evangelion 303}}'': Asuka suffered a minor case of this in third chapter when she complained that she was being blamed for hitting Shinji even though he had got her nearly killed (forgetting that Misato clearly told her that getting angry and shouting at him was reasonable but hitting a fellow pilot was utterly unacceptable and THAT was what she was being scolded for) and for botching the latest mission (which was completely her fault). In her favor, she was under much distress at the moment and not thinking clearly, and she got over that attitude straight after. |
| 340 | |
| 341 | [[AC:''Franchise/{{Persona}}'']] |
| 342 | * ''Fanfic/HoursVerse'': [[spoiler: Akechi]] calls on this mentality when causing the mental shutdowns and psychotic breakdowns, blaming Shido for everything he's ordered to do. |
| 343 | |
| 344 | [[AC:''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'']] |
| 345 | * Samurai in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11803928/2/Challenger Challenger]]'' yells at Ash because Ash's Sandile broke his katana, conveniently ignoring that he woke up Ash by pointing said katana at his neck. |
| 346 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12879916/65/ The Longest Road]]'' has a rather egregious example in Chapter 65. Ash's Squirtle/Wartortle gets badly injured during a battle against Lance, and Ash then says it's Misty's fault. Why? Because she ''failed to convince Ash'' to let Wartortle do something as dangerous as fight Lance's Dragonite. |
| 347 | * In ''FanFic/PokemonAMarvelousJourney'', the story starts because Julia's older sister, Amara Parisa, ran away from home, deciding to become a Pokemon trainer against her parents' wishes and the government, blaming them for every bad thing that ever happened in her life and convinced they don't care about her. But the thing is, Amara is banned by the government from having any Pokemon due to repeatedly abusing them, including her own starter Pokemon, for trivial reasons, and whenever her family does try to help her in any way, she continually pushes them away out of a sense of misguided hatred. She also frequently accuses her old friends of never caring about another one of their friends, the late Chanel, while conveniently ignoring every attempt they ever made at reaching out to her in her grief, and is angry at ''them'' for being angry at her for revealing their private secrets to people who had no right to know said secrets as a means to get back at them for their supposed lack of concern for Chanel. |
| 348 | ** In one of the bonus chapters, a minor character, Lakeisha Knowles, frequently blames her little sister Merlin for every bad thing that ever happened to her, from her friends abandoning her to getting in trouble at school, convinced that Merlin is a SpoiledBrat. But Lakeisha was the one who got herself in trouble by recording a video of Merlin during a meltdown without her consent and spreading it among her friends (Who rightfully called her out on it). She also frequently berates Merlin for getting her in trouble with her parents, conveniently forgetting that she herself is the one instigating the arguments and being bratty towards everyone. |
| 349 | |
| 350 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'']] |
| 351 | * ''Fanfic/OldWest'': Benjamin Hares, the estranged husband of [[DeterminedHomesteader Grace Glossy]], is a conman prone to blameshifting and running away from his own troubles. He used to guilt-trip his devoted wife whenever they argued before he skipped town because of his debts, leaving Grace behind penniless and pregnant. When he reappears ten years later, he proves that he hasn't grown out of this vice. When Grace refuses to let him sell her out to [[BigBad Dufayel]], he dares to claim that the problem is Grace's stubbornness instead of him and that he left because she didn't love him enough. When she's had enough and tries to throw him out, [[DomesticAbuse Benjamin assaults her]], shamelessly saying that she should have obeyed him. |
| 352 | |
| 353 | [[AC:''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'']] |
| 354 | * ''Fanfic/TheMoreThingsChange'' has Ryouga, who holds the firm belief that it's ALWAYS Ranma's fault, no matter what. Ryouga rescues Akane, making the whole school think he's hitting on her? Ranma's fault, even if he wasn't even around. |
| 355 | -->How did things get this ugly? Why was this happening to him?\ |
| 356 | Suddenly, he knew. He didn't know how he knew, he just knew who to blame for this mess. After all, it was always his fault, somehow.\ |
| 357 | "RANMAAA! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!!" |
| 358 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3109307/1/Unfair-Warning Unfair Warning]]'', Akane refuses to accept any responsibility for the trouble she gets in by abusing the power-up she received from her enchanted battlesuit. Even after Ranma declares it's over between them and '''[[EvenEvilHasStandards Happosai]]''', [[DirtyOldMan of all people]], is repulsed by her behavior, she simply blames everything she did wrong on Doctor Chrono. Despite the fact he warned her that her first impulse of how to use the power-up she got would be the wrong one, and he certainly never told her to go out and brutalize Ranma's other fiancees to the brink of death--that was all ''Akane's'' idea. |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[AC:''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'']] |
| 361 | * ''Fanfic/StressRelief'': Agent South Dakota shows a complete refusal -- or even outright ''inability'' -- to ever see herself as the issue. She will always find a way to pin her own mistakes and failings on anyone or anything other than herself. |
| 362 | |
| 363 | [[AC:''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'']] |
| 364 | * ''FanFic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness Act VI'': |
| 365 | ** In chapter 27, Arial, Dark's guardian angel and now mother figure, insists that Mizore is not good enough for Dark in part because Mizore doesn't respect her. As pointed out by the others, Mizore has good reason ''not'' to respect her, especially considering the fact that Arial nearly killed Mizore in a jealous rage less than twenty-four hours ago. |
| 366 | ** In chapter 44, after Kokoa and Sun's conflict over Gin spiral out of control to the point where Kokoa attacks Sun and beats her so brutally that Sun is left brain dead, Kurumu joins in with the others in lambasting Kokoa; while Kokoa did indeed go too far, it was Kurumu's own teasing over seeing Kokoa have sex with Werewolf!Gin, which Sun was spying on, that set Kokoa off in the first place. |
| 367 | |
| 368 | [[AC:''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'']] |
| 369 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/53913826/chapters/136464688 The Tale of a Cat Most Curious]]'': Team RWBY are called out for having a crippling problem of refusing to take accountability for their mistakes or admit that they were wrong, with Yang Xiao-Long and Blake Belladonna being the worst two of the bunch. _WBY don't take any accountability for accelerating General Ironwood's {{sanity slippage}} in the first place by lying to him and going behind his back in the leadup to the Fall of Atlas, nor admit to their own hypocrisy in doing so. Ruby Rose desperately tries and fails to absolve herself of blame for her team's worst actions as she breaks down, and Yang refuses to admit any fault for _WBY/J pushing Ruby to her breakdown with how they treated her and instead blames Ruby for behaving in such a way. |
| 370 | |
| 371 | [[AC:''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'']] |
| 372 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11121640/2/Birds-of-a-Feather Birds of a Feather]]'', the MBI adjuster who ran a botched procedure that left Akitsu a Scrapped Number insists it's her fault the process failed and he was fired. Everything was clearly perfect because [[SmallNameBigEgo he ran the numbers himself]], so clearly she was destined to be Scrapped. He dies almost immediately after when he tries to attack her with a broken bottle. |
| 373 | |
| 374 | [[AC:''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'']] |
| 375 | * ''Fanfic/CWCollateralATaleOfTheResistance'': The most universal and infuriating trait displayed by Electric Hedgehog Pokemon is that they believe everything in existence is owed to them, that everyone and everything should bend over backwards to provide them stress free lives of mindless consumer luxury just for being so dang special and cute, and anyone who even suggests otherwise is a DANG DIRTY TROLL! |
| 376 | |
| 377 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'']] |
| 378 | * ''Fanfic/AdventuresOfTheGems'': At the start of the third volume, Steven and Connie lash out at each other over the decision of Steven's twin sister, Nora, to stay behind. Connie ends up being called out by Steven for caring more about getting home than Nora's safety despite the fact that she told him that his sister was stranded on Homeworld because of him giving Peridot the list. Connie ended up taking it too far by shifting the blame to Steven and wished she never met him. She then left Steven, not wanting anything to do with the argument [[spoiler:at the expense of Lion being angry with her for hurting him and not apologising either]]. |
| 379 | ** However, during the few weeks with her childhood friend,[[spoiler:she later [[ItsAllMyFault regretted arguing with Steven, believing that her anger was what caused the two not seeing each other for a few weeks]] despite what Steven accepting that he should have listened to Zach and calmed down]]. |
| 380 | * ''Fanfic/{{We Can Be Heroes|StevenUniverse}}'': Ambassador Honest Ironbeak is half diplomat, half PR guy on behalf of the shady Megacorp known as Tschermacorp, and part of his job is to alleviate the concerns of citizens who raise an eyebrow at the company's underhanded practices by blaming them on someone else. When he tries this in Golden Acres however, the mayor throws a ''number'' of incidents the company won't accept responsibility for back in his face such as children being injured by an unsafe ride at a company-sponsored amusement park and a botched gas mining operation poisoing a planet's sea, causing the ambassador to storm off in a huff. |
| 381 | |
| 382 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'']] |
| 383 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13887970/1/The-Brother-s-Grimm The Brother's Grimm]]'', the Grumpy Passenger refuses to acknowledge that the reason he lost his tour and was forced to swab the deck of the Sea Emperor is because he was so rude and accusatory to [[OriginalCharacter Bernard]]. He later blames Bernard and Emily for getting him in trouble with the law, even though it was his own decision to antagonise and cane them. It takes being made homeless and penniless for him to admit that he has only himself to blame for what happened to him. |
| 384 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13861364/1/Imitation-Steamrollers Imitation Steamrollers]]'', George blames Emily for his rolling over an oil drum and splattering her with oil. |
| 385 | |
| 386 | [[AC:''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'']] |
| 387 | * ''Fanfic/TheHeartTrilogy'': Near the ending of ''Heart of Ashes'', [[HotWitch Andraya]] hands [[MacGuffinSuperPerson Kathryn]] over to [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Fankil]] to get back at Smaug for [[spoiler:killing her daughter Freyja]]. She feels justified in pursuing this [[RevengeByProxy eye-for-an-eye justice]][[note]](which puts the world in the danger of [[SealedEvilInACan Morgoth's]] return)[[/note]], despite two facts. Firstly, Smaug would never have been around to [[spoiler:kill Freyja]] if Andraya hadn't resuscitated the [[HumanityEnsues dragon-turned-human]] to bargain with him. Secondly, if Andraya had not framed Smaug for [[spoiler:King Wilhelm's murder]] and thus forced Smaug to escape from Vathvael with Kathryn, [[spoiler:Freyja wouldn't have tagged along with Faervel to Emyn Muil to rescue Kathryn and end up being killed by Smaug]]. |
| 388 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1316095/1/A-Little-Walk A Little Walk]]'', Joram the barkeep has a sick Frodo imprisoned by some corrupt guardsmen, leading to the hobbit's illness getting worse. When Aragorn learns what happened, he sentences Joram to work in the laundries, and orders him to make a public apology to Frodo once the punishment is complete. Joram blames Frodo for the whole thing, completely ignoring his own involvement. |
| 389 | |
| 390 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'']] |
| 391 | * ''Fanfic/CandyForYourThoughts'': Gwen starts off this way in regards to her cheating with Duncan. [[spoiler:CharacterDevelopment ultimately helps her realize she was in the wrong.]] |
| 392 | * ''Fanfic/RandomDramaSeries'': Matthew has a very bad case of this, blaming everything that goes wrong for him on someone else. Easily the worst example is in "You Regatta Be Kidding Me", where he sacrifices his lead in the regatta to attempt to kill Cody and when he loses the challenge because of it, promptly blames Cody for "making" him do it. |
| 393 | * ''Fanfic/TotalAlternateIsland'': Courtney is quick to blame anything that goes wrong on everybody else, when it is usually her own fault. |
| 394 | * ''Fanfic/TotalDramaAllStarsRewrite'': During "Singin' in the Pain", Courtney claims it's Gwen's fault for her losing her voice, even though Courtney was the one who spent several hours harmonizing. |
| 395 | * ''Fanfic/UberDramaIsland'': Destiny takes this attitude towards her constant losses. |
| 396 | * ''Fanfic/UnbreakableRedSilkenThread'': Duncan's defining trait. It seems he has no end of excuses or reasons to give for why he is doing whatever he wants whenever he wants regardless of the consequences. |
| 397 | |
| 398 | [[AC:''Music/{{Vocaloid}}'']] |
| 399 | * In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7757302/1/From-Concert-to-Chaos From Concert to Chaos]]'', [[EvilCounterpart Miku Zatsune and Rin Arakawa]] use this excuse to justify [[CurbStompBattle their attack on Miku and Rin]] ''[[FromBadToWorse during a concert AND in front of over 16,000 fans]]''. They genuinely believed that their boyfriends, Mikuo and Len, broke up with them because of Miku and Rin interfering, [[MisplacedRetribution even though Miku and Rin were completely and utterly innocent]]. |
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