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  • Angel Beats!: Yuri blames herself for not being able to save her siblings. Needless to say, nobody else does.
    • And perhaps to a lesser extent - Hinata for failing a decisive catch.
    • Yuri again after accidentally sending Kanade into a coma by dumping 100 aggressively violent copies of herself into her mind.
  • Asteroid in Love: Both Mira and Mai gets this in the twenty-third chapter (animated in the seventh episode), when they heard that Ao gets sick. At first Mira get this since she thinks Ao gets sick because of their stargazing the previous night when the weather gets unusually cold. Upon hearing this, Mai gets this as well, since, as the club president, she think she's responsible for one of its members falling sick from a club-related activity (despite it's more Mira and Ao's own activity rather than the club's). The irony is that neither of them are at fault for this. Ao gets sick because she gets a Heroic BSoD the night before after she heard that the family's going to move again, and stayed in the bath for 3 hours.
  • Attack on Titan: Chapter 100 has Reiner Braun confessing to Eren Yeager that he's responsible for all of the latter's suffering, including the death of Eren's mother. It turns out that Annie and Bertolt wanted to give up on their mission after Marcel's death, but Reiner insisted they stuck with it. He ends up asking Eren to kill him because he can no longer handle all his guilt. Eren, however, is already aware that it's because of Reiner, so the apology doesn't do anything for him, and instead of killing Reiner, he decides to psychologically torture him for a while longer — until he transforms into a Titan and goes along with his plan of revenge anyway.
  • Baccano!:
    • Maiza Avaro begins to regret bringing immortality into the world almost immediately after doing so (a notion which is only cemented by the fact that it sparked a chain of events which led to his brother's murder). He finally learns to move on when his protege Firo winds up immortal and with the Ghost Memories of both Maiza's brother and his killer...and doesn't blame him one bit for it all.
    • In the same canon, Jacuzzi Splot. After going on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge on the Russo family, he's cornered and beaten up in an alleyway by three members of that family. The rest of his gang comes to his rescue, and his girlfriend knifes all three guys in the head, and then blows up the alleyway; but not only does Jacuzzi blame himself, he describes the incident as though he was the one who murdered the guys.
      Jacuzzi: ...and yesterday, I ended up killing three people.
      Isaac and Miria: Killing?!
      Donny: No! We were the ones that did the killing. Jacuzzi didn't do nothing!
      Jacuzzi: What's the difference, it happened!
  • In Bakuman。, Miura blames himself for Detective Trap being canceled, out of the belief that he failed to notice Mashiro's declining health. This belief leads him to be driven to getting a series going, unfortunately to the extent that he pressures Mashiro and Takagi into immediately going for a gag manga rather than proceeding more carefully and finding something that would become a hit.
  • Betrayal Knows My Name: Hotsuma blames himself for causing Shuusei's burn scars.
  • Bleach:
    • At the very start the story Ichigo's family is attacked by a hollow and they are all badly injured except him since he was talking to/being restrained by Rukia when the hollow first attacked. He is horrified to see his little sisters bleeding out but is at a loss to understand why the hollow didn't devour their souls since Rukia told him that this is what hollows do. When she explains that the hollow is here because it is attracted to him and it is ignoring the others' souls in favor of his, Ichigo instantly blames himself for the situation and starts shouting at the hollow to come after him.
    • The Everything but the Rain flashback arc reveals that when Masaki made the decision to save Isshin's life, her own life was nearly lost in the process, causing Isshin to have to sacrifice his shinigami powers to save her. The event not only completely ruined Ryuuken Ishida's quincy future but left him feeling like everything that had happened was entirely his fault. Although he warned Masaki she was breaking Quincy law, he didn't physically try to stop her or interfere in her fight because he trusted her and her power. He bitterly regretted his decision.
  • Blood+:
    • This is Saya's word for word reaction to remembering that it was her who set loose Diva. This is one of the major reasons Saya is the only person allowed to kill Diva, along with the fact she's the only one who has Diva's Kryptonite, and the major motive behind her Death Seeker status.
    • Kai has the same reaction when Riku is first attacked by Diva, and then later killed by her. If he hadn't dragged his younger brother off with him into some very dangerous situations he would still be alive. However, he doesn't dwell too long on it and instead uses it to fuel his later actions.
  • Brave10: Isanami comes to this conclusion after the second fight with Hanzo and briefly gives up, and again when captured by Date. She's later goaded by Hanzo during the fight against the Iga Grotesque Five into another breakdown that pulls out her Superpowered Evil Side.
  • Captain Tsubasa: Stefan Levin feels this way about his beloved girlfriend Karen's death — she was hit by a truck (and it happened when she was on her way to his final soccer match in Sweden) which led to his mind and soul being completely corrupted. And he channels this through his signature "Levin Shot" as a way to injure his rivals, which includes Wakabayashi, Müller and Akai.
  • Chrono says this during his Heroic BSoD in the anime adaption of Chrono Crusade, essentially implying that everything bad that happened in the story so far had been his fault. In the manga itself he never says this, but he does imply several times that he feels responsible for much of what's happened.
  • In CLANNAD, when Nagisa finds out that her parents originally had better careers and stopped pursuing them in order to stay at home with a bakery to care for her sickly character since a nearly-tragic incident. She was not meant to find out the secret as Tomoya and her father even saw it coming that she was going to start blaming herself and Wangst about it.
  • Code Geass
    • Lelouch Lamperouge develops this attitude as time goes by, and to this effect, gives Suzaku this as a Sarcastic Confession concerning Euphemia, Shirley and other things. This confession is recorded, and presented to the Black Knights in order to get them to betray him.
    • Suzaku Kururugi is defined by this trope (and its opposite) - it's the major reasons for his death wish. In the latter parts of R2, Lelouch also starts thinking like this.
  • In Delicious in Dungeon, Chilchuck has this reaction after the battle with the Red Dragon. He mentions that he hadn't stuck with the party the rest might have given up early rather than risking their lives.
  • Delicious Party♡Pretty Cure: In Episode 8, Ran tries to quit posting on Curesta because she feels responsible about the Bundoru Gang capturing the Recippis and going after the various restaurants she posts about. Luckily, in the end, she settles on keeping the blog open but promoting take-out instead.
  • In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba after defeating Kaigaku, in his near-death vision of the afterlife, Zenitsu talks with his master one last time, blaming himself for his master’s seppuku in atonement for Kaigaku’s betrayal and for the latter’s betraying them in first place; Zenitsu reasons that if he wasn’t such a coward and an incompetent disciple he wouldn’t have brought shame to his master, that if he was as good as Kaigaku their master wouldn’t have felt the need to try to atone for one of his best disciples turning over to the demons; the master however doesn’t agree with Zenitsu, honestly believing Zenitsu has always been his pride and joy, as previous flashbacks shows the master supporting Zenitsu at every turn, even if he tried to run or cry, the master saw through Zenitsu’s layers in that beneath all the apparent fear the boy never actually stopped trying to make through the master’s training regime, all paying off with Zenitsu defeating Kaigaku who was seem as the much stronger disciple by others.
  • In Digimon Adventure, Kari has this reaction to Myotismon's takeover of the city. She starts sobbing about how it's all her fault and then tries to pull off a Heroic Sacrifice (of sorts) to get the big bad to stop.
    • After Kari gives herself up, Matt blames himself for this because he promised Tai that he would look after her.
    • In the previous arc, Tai breaks down and blames himself for letting Sora and Biyomon get kidnapped by Nanomon.
    • There was also the guilt Tai goes through when remembering the time he took a sick Kari outside to play soccer and she collapsed right in front of him. She was then rushed to the hospital where she was diagnosed with pneumonia and almost died.
  • Yamaki from Digimon Tamers blames himself for almost everything involving Digimon being in the real world after his Heel–Face Turn, including the kids biomerging with their Digimon. Using the program that opened a huge portal between the worlds and almost let a whole bunch of Digimon into the world was totally his fault, but little else that he's blamed himself for was.
  • Doraemon: Occurs in "Soap Bubbles". People might say this phrase after they are hit with the Soap Bubble Straw and feel remorseful.
  • Dragon Ball:
    • Goku blames himself for Krillin's first death during the King Piccolo Saga, since the only reason Krillin went back to the stadium was to retrieve Goku's Power Pole and Dragon Ball, which Goku carelessly left behind because he was exhausted from fighting Tien, where Krillin had the misfortune of running into Tambourine.
    • Later on, Gohan blames himself for his father's second death, when he could've just instantly slaughtered Cell and instead decided to torture him, which led to Cell having a Villainous Breakdown and attempt a Taking You with Me, prompting Goku to step up and sacrifice himself for Earth's sake, which didn't even work.
  • In End of Evangelion, Shinji decides that everything is his fault, and thus that everyone would be better off without him. Unfortunately he doesn't recover from his Heroic BSoD, with disastrous results; namely: his inaction, apathy, and wangst ensure that everything that happens in the movie actually becomes his fault on some level.
  • During the "Phantom Lord" arc of Fairy Tail, the Fairy Tail guildhall is destroyed and Lucy, after being kidnapped, learns that it was all so they could get to her, which leads to her Heroic BSoD. Given that she's stuck in a dire situation, Lucy initially plays the trope straight, but then inverts the trope by saying that she still wants to be a member of Fairy Tail as she doesn't want anyone else getting hurt because of her actions.
    • Loke had been going through this for three years after accidentally and indirectly causing the death of Karen Lilica, the cruel and sadistic celestial wizard he'd been contracted to. Luckily, Lucy manages to break him out of it and convince the Celestial Spirit King to let him back into the Spirit World.
  • In Fruits Basket, Ritsu and his mother fit this trope so well- whenever anything goes wrong, Ritsu starts running around screaming that it's his fault and he's soooooooo sorrrrrrry.
    • Tohru also has some elements of this. When Ritsu and Tohru meet, Hilarity Ensues.
    • Another example is Hatori blaming himself for putting Kana through so much heartbreak and pain.
  • Fullmetal Alchemist: As far as Edward Elric is concerned, his and Alphonse's current states are his fault, and he was even worried for years that his brother hated him for it. Seeing as how it was his idea to transmute his and Al's mother in the first place and how he got off easy compared to his brother as a result, you can see where he's coming from. But Al did go along with it.
    • If the lyrics to the song Brothers are any indication, Al blames himself even more than Ed does, having said nothing at all to stop the attempt despite his fears of what could (and did) happen.
    • Likewise, Lan Fan blames herself when Ling becomes the second Greed.
  • Miaka from Fushigi Yuugi blames herself for a number of stuff throughout the series: Getting Yui almost raped, having the Seishi have to donate blood to her (from the wrist and the chest, to boot), losing the Universe of the Four Gods scroll, losing the Shinzahou, etc....
  • In Future GPX Cyber Formula ZERO, Kurumada blames himself for causing Hayato's accident in the English GP, to the point where he briefly retired from his team.
  • Girls Saurus: Haruka Nishiharu, who, after spending almost the whole series holding a grudge against Shingo for seemingly rejecting her when she was still a Fat Bitch, has this reaction after learning about his gynophobia and terminal illness and tracing it back to the day she sent him to the hospital. Note that she is one of the few Tsunderes to admit that she was doing harm to her love interest, but it doesn't make it any less heartbreaking: "I'm the cause of all your problems, so it's better if I stay away from you!"
  • Gundam:
    • Amuro Ray goes through this a number of times in his appearances in Mobile Suit Gundam. He blames himself easily for the deaths of, amongst others, Matilda Ajan, Lalah Sune and, in Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, Kayra Su. Granted, while Matilda's death was unavoidable, Lalah was killed because of his rivalry with Char and Kayra was killed because the Nu Gundam was still sensitive and reacted to his anger.
    • Mobile Suit Gundam 00 features this happening in season two's fifth episode to Saji Crossroad, the unluckiest civilian ever.
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
    • Stardust Crusaders: Polnareff blames his impulsive actions for attempting to avenge his sister's death when it resulted in Avdol Taking the Bullet in the midst of battle.
    • Stone Ocean: Jolyne blames herself for Weather Report's death at Pucci's hands, as the former was on the verge of defeating the latter and ending the entire conflict when Jolyne's arrival inadvertently distracted him. Everyone's thoughts on the matter do not help.
      Ermes (shaking): Jolyne... the wind's stopped.
      Jolyne: It can't be... was it because we crashed the car? Because I came here? [...] Weather... Just one more time... I want to talk to you one more time... in the breeze... I want to be able to speak to you.
      Anasui: He came back to life when he left that prison. I can tell. So don't think too deeply about what happened to him. These past few days, Weather was happy, he was already saved.
  • Jujutsu Kaisen: Although Sukuna was in control of his body at the time, Yuji blames himself for the thousands of people the former killed in Shibuya when he expanded his Domain while fighting Mahoraga. This comes to a head during the Culling Game, where Crusading Lawyer Higuruma uses the letter of the law to reassure Yuji that he was not to blame for the debacle.
  • She didn't speak it out, but this is how Haruka of Kotoura-san thinks about the events in the latter half of episode 3, when Hiyori sent dojo members/cult thugs to attack Manabe, causing Manabe to be hospitalized and Hiyori having a My God, What Have I Done? moment. This line of thinking, however, came from all the Break the Cutie that came from her telepathic powers, eventually causing her to think she will eventually cause the downfall of anyone she cares about.
  • Maria no Danzai:
  • In the Mazinger series it's dangerous being impossibly willful and Too Dumb to Live, as well as not listening to good advice and thinking before acting:
    • Mazinger Z: It happened to Yuri -Sayaka's cousin- after she wheeled herself out of Kouji's house in spite of everybody telling her it was dangerous outside due to Mazinger-Z and a Mechanical Beast duking it out. She was kidnapped by several Iron Masks and The Dragon Baron Ashura used her like a hostage. She blamed herself, thinking if she would not have been so stubborn and would have listened to what people told, Kouji would be safe.
    • Great Mazinger: Tetsuya Tsurugi blames himself for his and Jun's adoptive father's death. Given that Kenzo pulled a Heroic Sacrifice to save Tetsuya's life, and Tetsuya was in danger because he behaved like an arrogant and jealous idiot, he is right. During a hospital scene, as he was rambling My God, What Have I Done?, his Love Interest Battle Couple and Not Blood Related adoptive sister Jun listened in silence, trying to be supportive, but she was not gainsaying him. That might suggest she did not want to grieve him, but she did not disagree.
    • UFO Robo Grendizer: Duke blamed himself for having been unable to protect his planet and save his people from the Vegan Alien Invasion, and having run away. Actually the main reason of he wages war against the Vegans despite of he hates fight is he does not want the same thing happened to his homeworld happens to Earth, and he would not bear to run cowardly again. Nevertheless, unlike other instances of this trope he is wrong on blaming himself since he could have not done anything back then (other than dying, that is).
    • CB Chara Go Nagai World: Satan blames himself for killing Akira Fudo. Pretty reasonably, since he killed him... again.
    • Shin Mazinger Zero: In the first timeline, we see Mazinger-Z has become an Eldritch Abomination. Earth is now a flaming, barren, lifeless rock, and humanity has been wiped out. Kouji blames himself for it, uttering that same exact sentence and stating if he would not Refused the Call and piloted Mazinger-Z, nothing of this would have happened.
  • Very common in Monster, to the point of being Tenma's driving force. Never mind that his biggest crime was saving a little boy's life. Granted, said boy grew up to become one of the most evil bastards in any media ever. Though he was evil even before he saved him.
  • My Hero Academia:
    • After the Provisional Hero exams, Bakugo ends up challenging Midoriya to a fight. In the middle of the scuffle, he reveals that he blames himself for causing All Might losing his powers and having to retire, as an indirect result of Bakugo getting kidnapped by the League of Villains.
    • Endeavor, big time, after finding out that his oldest son is a psychotic mass murderer and his being a jerkass Abusive Parent was mainly to blame.
  • Naruto:
    • Shikamaru says this at the end of a mission that got very nearly two of his friends killed. Neither his boss, his father nor his potential love interest denies that it is, but urge him to instead think of the failure as motivation to do better the next time, rather than run away from responsibility and risk entrusting his friends to someone who might not bring them back alive.
    • In the anime Shikamaru repeatedly says this just before Asuma dies, as the narrative flashes back to a strategy meeting held before the battle.
    • Averted later on, when Pain attacks Konoha looking for Naruto, he never once blames himself.
    • Shippuden filler episode 192 has Hinata saying this after getting kidnapped by two ninjas sent by Orochimaru. Neji reassures her that there is no need to do something like that.
  • The same cannot be said for Negi of Negima! Magister Negi Magi, who blames himself for the attack on his home village. After all, he was looking for trouble so his father could save him, right? Fortunately, Asuna tells him he's wrong.
  • Leo of PandoraHearts feels like Elliot's misfortune and death are all his fault.
  • Pokémon: The Series:
    • In Uncrushing Defeats!, Ash blames himself for the full battle loss against Paul and for the injuries his Pokémon got from it.
    • In Day Three Blockbusters!, Serena feels at fault that Ash got injured when he tried to help her, after she fell when a rock gave in.
    • In A Cellular Connection!, Bonnie believes herself to be at fault for Clemont's Bunnelby injuries when he saved her from falling.
    • In All Hail the Ice Battlefield!, after losing to Wulfric, Ash blames himself for the loss and his Greninja getting hurt, and goes to the Winding Woods alone in shame. In the next episode, Ash's Greninja turns out to also be feeling responsible for the loss because it believes it let its Trainer and teammates down.
  • In Pokémon Adventures, both Ruby and Sapphire blame themselves for screwing the other over as kids. Sweet little Sapphire blames herself for being too weak when she couldn't do anything when Ruby nearly got killed protecting her, therefore resolving to become stronger, while battle-ready Ruby blames himself for being too fierce and thus terrifying Sapphire, therefore resolving to focus on beauty. Both wanted to show their new selves to each other to show how much they changed and that everything would be alright, but the ultimate irony is that when they are finally reunited, they fail to recognize each other, get off on the wrong foot, and berate the other for the attributes they themselves once had.
  • Princess Resurrection: Reiri tricks Hiro and bites him. Riza chases after Reiri. When Reiri escaped Riza and Hime told her that Hiro could die, she screamed this phrase.
  • All over the place in Princess Tutu (Fakir blaming himself for not protecting Mytho, Rue's breakdown after Mytho's transformation into a crow), but the titular character has the most, which is to be expected when the main character is constantly trying to make everyone around her happy. The first major instance is when she overhears Mytho saying he's terrified of her after she returns his feeling of fear and realizes she might have been hurting him all along, and later on, near the end of the series, she tries to drown herself in the Lake of Despair because she believes her inability to remove the pendant has doomed the town and everyone she loves.
  • Puella Magi Madoka Magica:
    • Madoka blames herself for Mami's death, thinking it was her fault for being such a coward and a liar. This is especially severe when she gets caught by a witch but doesn't try to fight back or even escape, but fully accepts death if not for Sayaka's intervention.
    • Kyoko is a prime example of this, for inadvertently causing the death of her entire family.
    • Homura also has this moment in episode 11, when she acknowledges that her efforts to save Madoka for the past 100+ timelines have been for nothing, and everything she does only makes things worse.
  • Rurouni Kenshin:
    • Kenshin tends to this as well, as he is an ultimate The Atoner. Usually only when he's kind of right and the thing is worth angsting over, but the contrast to all the other powerful sword characters is interesting. Except later-stage Aoshi, but he's probably emulating Kenshin.
    • Hey, Aoshi bears the distinction of being the only swordsman from Kenshin's 'generation'—already active during the revolution and left at loose ends by it—who's younger than Kenshin himself. Child Prodigies are unfun, especially when placed in positions of tremendous responsibility in their mid teens.
    • Enishi agrees that it's all Kenshin's fault. Specifically, the thing that totally wasn't and all the nasty shit Enishi is now pulling on everyone Kenshin knows to punish the Battousai.

  • Kaga Ai from Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei is a parody of this. She will blame herself for anything, at anytime for absolutely no reason.
    • In fact, in the episode where Kaga was introduced, everybody did this.
  • In Seraph of the End Mikeala blames himself for the death of his "family" as it was his naive plan that ended up getting them all killed. Alternatively Yuu also blames himself for the same incident, though not to as much extent.
  • A Silent Voice: Both Ishida and Nishimiya blame themselves (not each other, though) for all of the difficulties in the lives around them. Ishida arguably is right about at least some of it (at least, the parts that stem from the results of his bullying years ago), although he actively blames his actions to the present if they're not perfect.
  • Slam Dunk: After Shohoku loses to Kainan, Sakuragi and Rukawa have a fistfight over whose fault it was (that's right, each blaming himself instead of the other).
  • Used terrifyingly in Soul Eater with Dr. Stein. After the battle to reclaim the Brew fails because Stein is overtaken by insanity and becomes unable to fight, he says this line to try to comfort Marie. The scary part kicks in when he then repeats it amid peals of mad laughter.
  • Str.A.In.: Strategic Armored Infantry, when Lavinia indirectly causes Carrisford's death and the revelation of Sara's identity. Maybe next time she shouldn't grab an episode all to herself.
  • Subaru blames herself on multiple occasions during the manga's run. Particularly blames herself for not seeing Kazuma or Isuzu before they die due to being "busy with ballet".
  • Tamagotchi: The Movie: Mametchi blames himself when Sunnytchi leaves Tamagotchi Planet after he invents his own personal sun. Sunnytchi did not leave because of the personal sun, however.
  • In Tiger & Bunny, Ivan/Origami Cyclone guilts himself for his best friend Edward's imprisonment and disbarment as a hero, because Ivan's reluctance to intervene in a hostage situation led Edward to accidentally kill someone. Thus, when Edward breaks out of jail to get revenge on him, Ivan resigns himself to his death in order to atone. Telling him it wasn't his fault has no effect on him, so Kotetsu tries a different approach.
    Ivan: No! He wanted my help back then, but I... If I'd made a move, then he could have actually still become a hero. He would have been a much better one than I am. This is all my fault!
    Kotetsu: ... That's why you need to stop him.
    Ivan: Huh?
    Kotetsu: He committed a crime because of you, right? Are you going to let him commit more?
    Ivan: But I can't do anything!
    Kotetsu: So you're going to repeat the same mistake? Remember that you're a hero now.
  • Sayaka from Tonari no Kashiwagi-san blames herself for her parents having to put up a Happy Marriage Charade for as long as they did (they were waiting until after she finished middle school to get divorced so as to not disrupt her studies).
  • Trigun: Vash the Stampede has a habit of thinking like this, pretty independently of whether things are in that instance actually his fault... probably because he has a massive guilt complex about A) continuing to run around even though so much chaos follows him wherever he goes and B) not having neutralized his Evil Twin yet. Since he is then responsible for all incidental misfortunes and any actions taken by the Big Bad, this trope just kind of happens.
  • Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-'s Fai D. Flourite has it bad. He blames himself for the death of his twin, the annihilation of Valeria's people, the murder of Celes' people and the "death" of Sakura who is like a daughter to him. The poor guy is so messed up that he's waiting for someone or something to end it all but just can't do it himself. Then there is Kurogane who won't let him die.
  • Amasawa of The Weatherman Is My Lover blames himself for his parents' deaths after they ignored his warnings about the oncoming storm. Every time a storm comes thereafter he is scared to go outside because it feels like the wind is blaming him too.
  • Deconstructed in the ×××HOLiC tie-in novel ANOTHERHOLiC. A customer of the week blames herself for her friend's accidental death (the friend had fallen and hit her head at a train station because she had been running late to a meeting with the customer and was in too much of a hurry to follow safety regulations) and has developed a mantra of "I must be punished," which isn't helped by the daily text messages her friend's vengeful spirit seems to be sending her from beyond the grave. But as Yuuko ultimately points out, the responsibility for the accident falls squarely on the victim's shoulders for choosing to act so carelessly. By constantly blaming herself and by secretly writing the phantom text messages just to give people a reason to keep talking about the accident, the customer turned the tragedy of her friend's death into "a tragic little farce, written by and starring herself."
  • Yu-Gi-Oh!:
    • Yu-Gi-Oh!: In season 4, Yami Yugi blames himself for using the Seal of Orichalcos trying to defeat Raphael, but ultimately leads to his downfall, making Yugi have the seal take his soul instead of the Pharaoh's. Rebecca and Orichalcos-possessed!Weevil said that it was his fault as well. Arguably, it wasn't all Yami's fault. Raphael provoked him into using the card first after using Yami Yugi's Exchange to deliberately give the Seal of Orichalcos to him in a Batman Gambit to prove that Yami Yugi was evil.
    • In Yu-Gi-Oh!: Capsule Monsters, Yami Yugi blames himself for the group's entering the game, and thus tries to take on La Jinn alone.
    • Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Jaden completely breaks down, mercilessly blaming himself, when Jesse gets stranded in the Duel Monsters' Spirit World, even though everyone else escapes since they can't even be sure Jesse was still alive. Everyone else also says it's his fault except Jim and Axel. Jerks.
    • Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL: Yuma starts having a breakdown upon realizing that he led most of his friends into a trap set by the villainous Barians and there's seemingly no way out. His friends quickly reassure him that they don't blame him, while Shark and Kite are outright insulted. They knew the risks and still willingly decided to help him, so to them Yuma's attitude is devaluing their choices, and they tell him to Quit Your Whining and keep fighting.

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