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Another variation is when The Hero is overcome with guilt, acting as his own Fool. The antagonist may use this against The Hero to psychologically torture him or her.

* In ''[[Bleach]]'', Uryu's grudge against the Soul Reapers stems from the fact that they had Soul Reapers watching his grandfather, and when he got attacked by Huge Hollows, didn't intervene until after his death. Uryu comes to realize that he didn't do anything to try to help his grandfather at that time, and that it's wrong to blame the Soul Reapers when his grandfather was not bitter toward them. Also, he has since discovered that the [[Ax Crazy]] [[Token Evil Teammate|Token Evil Captain]] Mayuri was the actual culprit, bribing ''Shinigami'' so that they would be too late and, worse, abducting the survivors (including his grandfather) in order to perform horrific experiments on them to satisfy his own curiosity (if by "curiosity" you mean "torture and kill them in numerous horrible ways for no obvious scientific reason"). He has thus shifted his emnity towards him and away from ''Shinigami'' in general (though he doesn't fully like of trust them either), though recently he'd been reduced to Mayuri's [[Butt Monkey]].

* In one scene in ''[[Baccano!]]'', Jacuzzi insists that Isaac and Miria should stop treating him like a good person because he's not -- henot—he's fleeing from Chicago because he murdered three men. Donny interjects that Jacuzzi didn't kill them, his friends did. Against Jacuzzi's wishes. ''Because those men were about to kill him''. [[Martyr Without a Cause|Jacuzzi fails to see the difference.]]

** For example: Spider-man fights Green Goblin over Gwen Stacy, [[I Let Gwen Stacy Die|Spider-man lets Gwen Stacy die]], Green Gobling gets [[Hoist by His Own Petard]], and Miles Warren [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation]] and blames Spider-man exclusively and attacks him as his [[Split Personality Takeover]] villain The Jackal. To his credit, Miles Warren was [[Fighting From the Inside]] and when he wins, he realizes the idiocy of this and makes an [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save Spider-Man.

** Of course, a more legitimate example of this is a big part of the ''[[Spider-Man]]'' mythos--beforemythos—before Peter actually became a superhero he [[Somebody Else's Problem|let a crook run past him]], only for said crook to murder [[Parental Substitute|Uncle Ben]] shortly afterward. His [[My Greatest Failure|guilt]] over the issue is what drives him to become a superhero in the first place.

* A random woman once berated [[Superman]] for being off-world during the "New Krypton" storyline -- whilestoryline—while trying to stop a war -- whilewar—while her husband was having an aneurysm. She thought Superman could have saved her husband with heat vision or something. Superman was the only person that actually took her seriously -- everyoneseriously—everyone else in-universe and out thought she was crazy to expect that from Superman.

** Ditto {{spoiler|his first love Susan.}} Also {{spoiler|his mother, although to be fair he ''was'' mind controlled into killing her himself.}} This trope could easily have been named Roland of Gilead Syndrome.

{{quote| "He ran out of time. He died at Bilbringi. You let him die at Bilbringi."}}

* In ''The Prodigal Mage'' Arlin Garrick blames Rafel and Asher for {{spoiler|the drowning of his father in a whirlpool at the blighted reef}}, despite all of their early warnings and later efforts to save everyone.

* In ''[[Vagrant Story]]'', Rosencrantz accuses Ashley Riot of killing his own wife and son. Justified in that Ashley actually did, and the situation was engineered to turn him into a more loyal Riskbreaker.

* In ''[[Paper Mario: theThe Thousand -Year Door]]'', Admiral Bobbery suffers from the second variation of this trope, after learning that {{spoiler|his wife Scarlette passed away while he was on a voyage}}. He blames himself for it, thinking that he could have {{spoiler|nursed her back to health if only he wasn't at sea at that time. He then vowed to never sail the sea again, filled with grief and regret. Mario manages to take away his pain however, by showing him a letter that Scarlette wrote with her last breath to prevent Bobbery from feeling guilty about her death}}.

* Pretty much Hope's entire story for the first half of ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]''. He blames Snow for his mother's death because she volunteered to help Snow's resistance faction fight, and although Snow tried he was unable to save her from falling from a broken bridge. {{spoiler|Hope plans revenge for quite a while, only to be interrupted before he can stab Snow by a missile attack which nearly causes ''both'' of them to fall to their deaths; Snow's insistence on protecting Hope (as he'd promised Hope's mother) at his own expense, and the revelation of how deeply he blames ''himself'' for her death, finally prompts Hope to get over his anger}}.

* In ''[[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness]]'', [[The Rival|Kurtis]]' family got killed and he personally holds [[The Hero|Captain Gordon]] accountable for this, even though the latter wasn't involved in this in any way. As far as Kurtis is concerned, though, Gordon didn't do his job as a Defender of Earth and should be replaced.

** ''[[Disgaea 4: aA Promise Unforgotten]]'' does this on a much larger scale {{spoiler|with Judge Nemo. Though Artina, the only person to show him kindness, was killed by her own country, he blamed Valvatorez for not saving her or avenging her death (Due to Artina asking him not to do so in the case of the latter). It eventually escalates to the point where he blames ALL of humanity as well as demons and angels.}}

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