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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"They don't have any food stored for the winter! *sob* [[Large Ham|AND IT'S ALL MY FAAAULT!]]"''
|'''Luigi''', ''[[Super Mario Bros. (animation)|Super Mario World]]''}}
You see characters blaming themselves for major messes fairly often, especially when they're not the only ones who are suffering as a result. It's a universal phrase used in every genre and medium.
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* "It's not your fault": A stock reply to an apology, and like the main phrase, it's often followed by why. Often implies the main phrase as well. "There's no way you could have foreseen this" is also popular as is "[[You Did Everything You Could]]" when the other failed to prevent bad things from happening.
* "I am also to blame"/"We're ''all'' to blame": As stated above, when the penitent one is neither blameless nor solely to blame.
In the future, it is likely that a [[Big Bad]], [[The Rival]], or an [[Evil Counterpart]] will take some opportunity to remind the character of this culpability.
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{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'', {{spoiler|when Lavinia indirectly causes Carrisford's death and the revelation of Sara's identity. Maybe next time she shouldn't grab an [[Fan Service|episode]] all to herself.}}
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*** {{spoiler|Shou didn't destroy his on purpose (you know, since he didn't know it was there). His only faded when he had complete faith in Juudai again, which he only had after Juudai went through hell to prove he wasn't the same as he'd been, wasn't just looking for revenge or caring about himself, that he was doing everything he could to help other people. No one else even had a chance or even knew that their orb was there either.}}
** {{spoiler|There's also the fact it pretty much * was* his fault, by one of his greatest character flaws: being impulsive. And yes, Jim and O'Brien * did* say it was his fault, because he didn't wait for them to come back before going in to fight Brron. Everyone also blamed him because he flat out said he'd sacrifice anyone and anything to get revenge for Johan and for Freed's people, and since he was just charging ahead blindly, they all figured that meant them too.}}
* In ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' when {{spoiler|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 [[Ill Girl|sickly character]] since a [[Not Quite Dead|nearly-tragic incident]]. She was not meant to find out [[The Un-Reveal|the secret]] as [[Genre Savvy|Tomoya and her father]] even saw it coming that she was going to start blaming herself and [[Wangst]] about it.}}
* On ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', Gohan blames himself for his father's second death, when he cold've just instantly slaughtered Cell and instead decided to [[Revenge Before Reason|torture him]], which lead to Cell having a [[Villainous Breakdown]] and attemt a [[Taking You with Me]], prompting [[Chronic Hero Syndrome|Goku]] to step up and sacrifice himself for the Eart's sake, [[Senseless Sacrifice|which didn't work]].
* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|End of Evangelion]]'', Shinji decides that everything is his fault, and thus that everyone would be better off without him. Of course, this being Evangelion, 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.
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** {{spoiler|[[Harsher in Hindsight|And then it turns out that the demons were trying to kill Negi in the first place.]]}}
** At times this makes up a solid 75% of Negi's dialogue.
*** This [[Heroic Self-Deprecation|tendency]] [[Black Magic|leads him]] to [[Training
* 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.
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' features this happening in season two's fifth episode to Saji Crossroad, the unluckiest civilian ever.
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* [[Girls Saurus]]: Haruka Nishiharu, who, after spending almost the whole series holding a grunge against Shingo for seemingly rejecting her when she was still a [[Fat Bastard|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 [[Tsundere]]s to admit that she was doing harm to her love interest, but it doesn't make it any less heartbreaking: [http://www.anymanga.com/girls-saurus-dx/010/005/007/ "I'm the cause of all your problems, so it's better if I stay away from you!"]
* Leo of ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' feels like {{spoiler|Elliot's misfortune and death}} are all his fault.
* Deconstructed in the ''[[
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== Fan
* Used
*
* Luso had a period of this in ''[[The Tainted Grimoire]]'' due to being comepletely helpless and only being able to watch {{spoiler|Sir Loin burn to death}}, despite being the one to {{spoiler|defeat Vaticus Finch}}. Thankfully, Judgemaster Cid was able to talk him out of it by going over how flawed that line of thinking is.
* This is almost a stock phrase of Rainbow Dash shortly before and during her [[Heroic BSOD]] in ''[[Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]''.
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'''Rest of the cast''': No, no, it wasn't your fault, you did nothing wrong, etc.
'''Charles''': [signing] They all blame you too. }}
* Parodied in [[Ghostbusters]] (decades before ''Scary Movie 4'' did something similar):
{{quote|'''Ray''': You know, it's just occurred to me. We really haven't had a successful test of this equipment.
'''Egon''': I blame myself.
'''Peter''': So do I.}}
== Literature ==
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{{quote|''' {{spoiler|Phanan}}''': {{spoiler|There are exactly two people to blame for my death. One's me, for not being quite the superior flyer I needed to be. Some unnamed Zsinj pilot is the other, and you killed him. Which I also appreciate, in case I don't tell you. There's no room for a third party to blame, so butt out.}}}}
*** And indeed, by the time Face leads a mission without Wedge being there, and manages to get out with everyone burned but alive and carrying a captured scientist despite {{spoiler|the whole thing being a trap}}, he doesn't beat himself up.
* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s ''[[Warhammer
* (Book Of a thousand Days) Lady Saren has one of these moments after asking Dashti to kill her.
{{quote|" All those bodies...because of me! because i wouldn't marry Lord Khasar."}}
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** "That voice in your head, it's not your conscience. It's your ego."
** This is the cause of some unsubs' actions, the most obvious example being ''Hanley Waters'', in which a woman goes on a killing spree exactly one year after {{spoiler|her son's death in a car accident}} because she cannot bear anymore the sense of guilt caused by constantly blaming herself {{spoiler|along with her ex-husband}}.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* ''[[Dexter]]'' has killed dozens of people and felt no remorse, but when he finds {{spoiler|his wife, Rita,}} dead, his shocked response as police arrive is to blurt out "It was me."
* From ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'': It is revealed that the Rangers' mentor figure, Dr. K, was actually behind the creation and (accidental) release of the [[Big Bad|Venjix computer virus]] which has devastated the entire world. The bad guys have placed that same virus inside of Dillon, the [[Half-Human Hybrid]] of the team, and is taking over his body. Before he falls fully under Venjix's control, Dr. K is forced to upload the base code for the virus to slow its growth. What she says next shocks her team:
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* Depending on dialogue, Hawke in ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' will beat him/herself up after {{spoiler|his/her mother's murder saying that s/he wasn't fast enough and didn't watch over his/her mother closely enough.}}
** In [[Dragon Age]]: Origins, Oghren himself will make this statement if he's brought to the Gauntlet, stating that he believes that if he had been a better husband, Branka might not have dragged their clan to their deaths in her mad search for the Anvil.
* In ''[[Magical Diary: Horse Hall]]'', during Damien's path, the player character blames herself for the injuries Damien caused her. Virginia is quick to dismiss this, but it doesn't comfort the PC much.
{{quote|'''Virginia:''' Don't say that! It is ''not'' your fault, it's his! ''No one'' saw this coming! He's dated lots of girls and broken all their hearts, you're not the first!
'''Mary Sue:''' No, I'm just the only one stupid enough to {{spoiler|agree to give him my soul}}. }}
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* Vaarsuvius from ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' blames him/herself for not having been powerful magically to change the outcome of the Azure City battle and, since then, for failing to locate a missing friend who got separated during the battle. V's self-blame is anything but objective, since his/her friend is blocked from scrying by an abjuration that can only be broken with Epic-level magic, and V's contributions during the battle far outweighed his eventual limitations, but intellectually acknowledging this does little to stop the anguish.
** And poor V plays this even straighter—and with more cause—upon realizing that {{spoiler|it was V's own spell that wiped out the Draketooth family and ''every other bloodline they'd ever reproduced with''}}.
* The "it's not your fault" variation is [https://web.archive.org/web/20121030170136/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20040922.html darkly] [https://web.archive.org/web/20121030165853/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20040923.html twisted] near the end of the [[Web Comic]] ''[http://www.itswalky.com/ It's Walky!]'', when the [[Magnificent Bastard|Head Alien]] uses it to make Sal feel helpless.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110129061206/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/501 This strip] of ''[[Loserz]]''. "I should just live in a box from now on, and stay out of '''everybody's''' lives!"
* Antimony from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', probably owing to her (almost) complete self-reliance through most of her childhood, blames herself for [[Parental Abandonment|her father's disappearance]] and for failing to help the Ghost with the Sword (even though their meeting lasted less than a minute, most of which the Ghost spent trying to cut Annie's face off). Both times, Kat tells Annie she's being ridiculous.
** Another example is Jeanne's fate. Diego was in love with her while she was alive. Any of the court robots (the originals were built by Diego) will respond to "Jeanne" with "She died and we did nothing." {{spoiler|It is recently revealed that Diego set Jeanne up to her fate because she didn't love him back, it really is his fault. Even on his ''deathbed'' he [[Never My Fault|pins all of the blame on the other members of the Court]] involved in Jeanne's death.}} Robots ''know'' all this when they repeat "...and we did nothing".
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** Riff blames himself for {{spoiler|Zoe}} getting horribly burned, mistakenly believing it was one of his malfunctioning inventions that started the fire.
* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', when a {{spoiler|deceased}} [[It Makes Sense in Context|doomed alternate timeline version of Dave]] finds out that {{spoiler|his Bro died}}, his first question is "what did i do wrong". At the time the event occured, Dave was psychically unconscious on a different planet, and could not have possibly done a thing to help (of course, he is a time traveller who revisited that point of the timeline several times, so he could theoretically have gone to help, but another alternate version of him was already helping and he still failed).
** Also, WV. When he {{spoiler|led the black and white pawns to battle, Jack Noir went and killed every single one of them.}} He blames himself for all of their deaths, and leads to a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] during [https://web.archive.org/web/20130921091852/http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002621 [S] WV: Lead your men to victory!] He's commanding a [[Chess Motifs|chess army.]]
** And Karkat. While he may try to push the blame on [[I Hate Past Me|his past selves]] for little things, like trolling Jade for most of her life, he always blames himself when things get really serious. Like {{spoiler|failing to get Sollux into the Medium in time, not preventing Eridan from killing Kanaya and Feferi, not keeping an eye on Gamzee to prevent him from going [[Ax Crazy]], accidentally giving the kids' universe cancer...}} He's complex enough that this isn't exactly his defining trait, but it's damn close.
* In ''[[Oglaf]]'' the ghostly Lizard of Guilt {{spoiler|pesters Ivan into lashing out and yelling insults... in the middle of his trial for treason against the Mistress}}. In the last panel, {{spoiler|the guards are posting a new "Apprentice Wanted" sign}}, and the Lizard of Guilt has a screaming guilt trip.
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== Web Original ==
* [[Global Guardians PBEM Universe|Ultra-Man]] blames himself for the death of his grandson, who was killed at the hands of his [[Arch Enemy]], [[Diabolical Mastermind|Baron Maltus]], and he thinks his daughter blames him for it as well. (He's wrong about that last part.)
* In the web-novel ''[http://www.fictionpress.com/secure/story/story_preview.php?storyid=2718227&chapter=1 Fragile]'',{{Dead link}} this appears in one of the story's more poignant scenes. Severin apologizes to Page for {{spoiler|going insane}} because of how it hurts him (Page, that is, not Severin). An emotional episode ensues, in which Page assures Severin that not only is it not his fault, there wasn't anything he could do at all to prevent it.
* Spider-Man, from ''[[I'm a Marvel And I'm a DC]]''. From [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siGtn_SxKbs this episode]:
{{quote|'''Batman:''' Don't you know, Spider-Man blames himself for Marvel losing the Transformers?
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'''Genie''': You're right, kid. All your fault.
'''Aladdin''': Huh?
'''Genie''': [[Reverse Psychology|You know, the situation: Mingle with zombies, pay the price. You have every right to feel like a creep... creep!]]
'''Aladdin''': Now, wait a minute here! How was ''I'' supposed to know giving Jasmine a gift was going to unleash that guy?! }}
* From ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', Belle says this after she's comforting the dying Beast.
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* In ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' episode 16, "Scrambled Eggs", a turtle mama mistakes Sheldon for her baby, and the turtle baby (who, indeed, is still mostly inside his shell, except for his legs) is led back to the barn by Booker, because they both have vision problems, apparently. Roy, too, is afflicted, as he tries out his sneezing powder on "Sheldon", and hides. It's effective mainly because [[Rule of Funny|it wouldn't be funny]] if it just bounced off. The turtle sneezes, breaking him out. He leaves before Roy looks around the corner. When the dust clears... all that's left is a shell! Roy walks around dejected for a while, thinking he's sneezed himself into nothingness, until a couple of seconds after he realizes he's just said hello to him.
* The Brain, of ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'', after he accidentally pushes Pinky off the countertop they are standing on: "It's all my fault! This obsession with taking over the world is causing me to hurt the ones I... tolerate."
* In the ''[[Super Mario World (animation)|Super Mario World]]'' cartoon, Luigi blames himself for the cave people's crops being stolen. (This scene has, needless to say, been [[Memetic Mutation|memetically mutated]] in [[
{{quote|'''Mario''': Now wait, Luigi! The cave people can go back to picking berries.
'''Luigi''': Aw, no they can't! Oh Mario, I was so sure that we'd have a great crop, that I told the cave people they didn't have to save berries anymore, and they didn't. They don't have any food stored for the winter. *sob* [[Large Ham|AND IT'S ALL MY FAAAULT!]] }}
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Morality Tropes]]
[[Category:Stock Phrases]]
[[Category:Blame Tropes]]
[[Category:Sadness Tropes]]
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