"Failure to Save" Murder: Difference between revisions

Tropes explained via Jungian Archetypes, [[What Do You Mean It's Not Didactic?]] See also [[It's All My Fault]], [[Blood On These Hands]]. Also, [[I Thought It Meant|it has nothing to do with]] [[Save the Villain|saving the villain or not]].

 

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* 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.

* A random woman once berated [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]] for being off-world during the "New Krypton" storyline -- while trying to stop a war -- 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 -- 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.)