Well, you just had to click on this link and look at this Index for all tropes having to do with blame and its placement, didn't you? If you got confused and clicked on this expecting something else, then it is your own fault!
See also: Sadness Tropes, Fame and Reputation Tropes, Crime and Punishment Tropes, and Responsibility Tropes.
Examples
- Blame Game: "It's your fault!" "No, it's your fault!"
- Blaming the Railroaded Player Character
- Clear My Name: I'm blamed for a crime I didn't commit. I must find out who did it!
- Clear Their Name: I must help clear someone's name of a crime they didn't commit.
- Crossing the Burnt Bridge
- Failure-to-Save Murder: You're too late to rescue him, because he's dead, and it's all your fault!
- False Confession
- False Flag Operation
- Frameup
- Freudian Excuse: Cut me some slack. I had a rough childhood.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: It's your own fault you were this way, not your past.
- Irrational Hatred: I hate you in ways that no one can understand!
- It's All My Fault: I'm the blame for all of this.
- Guilt Complex: I'm the blame for everything that I've done!
- Just Giving Orders: It's all your fault for committing a crime that I commanded you to do!
- Loser Son of Loser Dad: You deserve to be hated because of what your parents have done.
- Sins of Our Fathers: You deserve to be punished because of what your ancestors have done.
- Malicious Slander
- Maternal Death? Blame the Child: It's your fault your mother died because you came out of that damn womb!
- Misblamed: No. It's not a mis-blame! It really is your fault!
- Scapegoat Creator: It's the creator's fault for ruining the show!
- Motivational Lie
- Must Make Amends
- My God, What Have I Done?: I'm filled with blame and guilt for this awful deed I've done!
- Never My Fault: It's all yours! You're to blame! Not me! I can do no wrong!
- Not Me This Time: Why go after me? I didn't do it.
- Psychological Projection: I'm not like that, you are!
- The Scapegoat: Who's to blame for this? It's you!
- Promoted to Scapegoat
- Silent Scapegoat: I'm gonna take the blame for everything to save everyone else, and no one else has to know it.
- Society Is to Blame: It's society's fault all of this is happening to me!
- This Is Unforgivable!
- Victim Blaming: Oh shut up! It's all your fault that you're a victim of an injustice!
- Video Game Cruelty Punishment
- What the Hell, Hero?: Shame on you! You're at fault for your bad deed!
- Calling the Old Man Out: It's all your fault for causing misery on me! And you call yourself a parent!?
- Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: It's your fault for making me slap you! Apologize!
