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* In a filler episode of ''[[One Piece]]'', a female member of the Desert Pirates remembers Princess Vivi and King Cobra visiting her city and promising to come help if anything happened, during which time she personally met a young Vivi. When the droughts hit, and Cobra didn't come to help, the city was deserted, and the girl was left in despair until the Desert Pirates recruited her. This caused her to resent Vivi upon seeing her again, but Vivi apologized, saying that there were many other towns requiring the king's attention, enabling the two to reconcile.
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', Sasuke's motives are based around {{spoiler|his feelings of guilt for not being able to stop the massacre of his clan}}.
* 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.]]
 
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* Superheroes in general tend to get blamed for whatever they couldn't/didn't do.
** 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 From 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.
* In the relaunched [[Batgirl]] first issue, a cop screams that Barbara is a murderer when the villain kills someone and she doesn't stop him. Slightly more legitimate since it seemed like she was just letting it happen (she was actually petrified in fear, this being her first real mission since being [[Throwing Off the Disability|un-paralyzed]]), but given that the real murderer was ''still standing right there'' it seems like the cop should have had other thoughts on her mind. ([[Papa Wolf|Commissioner Gordon]], to be fair, calls the cop out on this in the next issue.)
 
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