Never My Fault/Quotes

Somehow this is your fault!

—Seto Kaiba, Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series

Don't blame me. Blame society.

—Carl "CJ" Johnson, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Considering that my life's in shambles right now, could you at least take the blame?

—Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes, March 15, 1989

Following on from the cheapness laws, you will soon get to learn that nothing is ever your fault when it comes to gaming.

—Destructoid, "Ten Golden Rules of Online Gaming"

But I didn't know anything about it, so it's not my fault. Everybody keeps on blaming me--it's not my fault! I didn't make this happen! Master Van said to do it, after all. I was just trying to help! It's not my fault! Why is everybody leaving me? It's not my fault...

—Luke fon Fabre, on destroying Akzeriuth, Tales of the Abyss Synopsis

Lister: Rimmer, you can't blame me for your lousy life.
Rimmer: It's not just you, it's been all my bunkmates.
Lister: See? It's never you, is it? It's always someone or something else. 'You never had the right pens for your G&E drawing.' 'Your dividers don't stretch far enough.'

Rimmer: Well they don't!

—Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

Red Mage: You're a mass murdering psycho.

Black Mage: If you think about it, that's really their problem.

—8-Bit Theater

What have I--what have they done to you?!

—Demona, Gargoyles

So according to Joss, putting Michael Wincott, Ron Perlman, Brad Dourif, J.E. Freeman and Sigourney Weaver in your ALIEN movie is horrible casting. And the director, who also directed City Of Lost Children, might as well be Helen Keller. But the writer, the guy who gave Ripley a robovag sidekick more annoying than C-3P0, and made the main villain a fucking Muppet Baby? You insult him in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.

—Cracked, 5 Reasons It Sucks Being A Joss Whedon Fan

(Logan, who Heather forced to race Ash, has just crashed)
Heather: This... this isn't my fault...
Emily: For God's sake, OWN UP TO THIS.

—Misfile

(Immediately after Anakin Force chokes his wife Padme in a fit of rage)
Anakin: You turned her against me!
Obiwan: You have done that yourself.
Anakin: You will not take her from me!
Obiwan: Your anger and your lust for power have already done that.

—Star Wars Revenge of the Sith

Rick: Oh, no, the front door's exploded! Vyvyan!
Mike: Vyvyan!
Vyvyan: Vyvyan, Vyvyan, Vyvyan! Honestly! Whenever anything explodes in this house, it's always "Blame Vyvyan"!!
Mike: Well, who do you suggest we blame?
Rick: Thatcher!
Vyvyan: No! Blame whoever rang the front doorbell, 'cuz they obviously triggered off the bomb I set up!

—The Young Ones, "Nasty"

Robotnik: Coconuts! I was bamboozled by Sonic, and it's all your fault!
Coconuts: What are you talking about? I wasn't even there!
Robotnik: Silence! I'm the boss, I can blame whoever I want!

—Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, "Full-Tilt Tails"

This is everybody's fault but mine.

—Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

Franziska von Karma: If it weren't for traitors like you...
Miles Edgeworth: "I would've won." Is that what you want to say?
[...]
Miles Edgeworth: What am I going to do with you...? Still blaming others when things go wrong? You haven't changed a bit, Franziska.

—Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All

Despite being defeated by a number of their own mishaps, Denton still tries to displace blame elsewhere, creating a fictional tag-team of Thiel and Hogan as some sort of storyline villain out of the crude machinations of Vince McMahon’s own WWE sent as henchmen to body-slam Gawker out of existence […]

—Gawker.com Officially Shuts Down from One Angry Gamer

Max: Chloe, you can't keep blaming me and everybody for everything wrong in your life. It's so not fair.
Chloe: I gotta blame somebody. Otherwise it's all my fault. Fuck that.

—Life Is Strange (Episode 3: Chaos Theory)

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