Never My Fault: Difference between revisions

* In an early ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' episode, Ash is right on the verge of capturing a Weedle, when he is rudely interrupted by a samurai, who challenges him to a Pokémon match. During said match, which is a [[Mirror Match]] between their two Metapod taking Harden commands, the Weedle manages to escape back into its tree and alert the Beedrill, who capture Ash's Metapod. In one of the series' earliest [[Broken Aesop|Broken Aesops]]s, Ash is forced to learn a lesson about not making excuses about not finishing what he started, even though it was the fault of the samurai, [[Hypocrite|who berates him for all of this]], that Ash wasn't able to finish in the first place, all because he didn't have the courtesy to wait until Ash was done. Even after all is said and done, and Ash rescues Metapod, he's still short one Weedle, which would eventually evolve into a Beedrill.

* The entire basis of [[Doctor Doom]]'s vendetta against the [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]] is that he is unable to accept that Reed Richards was actually right when warning him of a critical error in his calculations during an experiment Doom was conducting. Doom dismissed Reed's warnings as [[You're Just Jealous|jealousy]], only for the experiment to literally blow up in his face. The idea that Richards was correct -- andcorrect—and therefore, in Doom's eyes, smarter than him -- washim—was so abhorrent to Doom that he concluded that Reed had deliberately sabotaged Doom's experiment, and so [[Disproportionate Retribution|has attempted to creatively kill Richards and his family on numerous occasions]]. Even more jarring is that the retcon shows that Doom really was right and Richards was indeed wrong: the machine worked perfectly. It blew up because Doom used it to take a peek into [[Hell]]. <ref>This is played slightly differently in the Ultimate Universe - Reed's calculations were fine, but Victor altered them & caused the accident that transformed them all. When Reed calls Victor out on this, he claims that he didn't cause the accident but that Reed's calculations were ''so'' wrong that even he couldn't fix them.</ref>

** To be concise: Doom isn't so much "[[Never My Fault]]" as he is "Always [[Fantastic Four|Reed Richards']] Fault". Basically, everything that has gone wrong with Doom's life, everything that is currently wrong with Doom's life, and everything that might possibly go wrong with Doom's life is ''all'' Reed Richards' fault. NO exceptions.

* Countless European [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe|Scrooge McDuck]] stories have Scrooge engaging in this. A common story template goes like this: Scrooge starts worrying that he's losing money (or in most cases not making as many billions as he used to). Scrooge whines about it to [[Donald Duck]] who either gives him a well meaning suggestion or simply makes a random remark that gives Scrooge an idea. Scrooge immediately implements said idea spending a ton of money. Said idea fails due to a reason that could have been anticipated with a market test or ''simple common sense''. Scrooge laments the loss of the money... and immediately blames Donald, with the story ending with Scrooge chasing him with the intent of causing bodily harm.<br /><br />Here's a concrete example of the above: in one story, Scrooge notices that his business is slowing down... because Scrooge already produces ''everything'' and there are no markets to expand into. Scrooge goes to Donald's house ''in the middle of the night'' to whine about it prompting him to snidely remark "You'd even sell ''dreams'' if you could, wouldn't you?". This gives Scrooge the idea to do just that. He enlists Gyro Gearloose to create a dream selling business via a machine that accesses your greatest desires and turns them into a dream stored in a tape that you can "replay" while you sleep. The business is a success... then Scrooge finds out that ''all his other businesses'' are going under thanks to people gradually replacing their non essential possessions with dreams (why have anything else when you can relive your innermost desires every night?). Guess who Scrooge blames?<br /><br />In another comic, Scrooge [[Crying Wolf|stages several robberies]] just to keep employees on their toes. Naturally, nobody believes him when he is genuinely robbed, but instead of acknowledging that he is at fault, he gets angry at Donald for not helping him.

* Epitomized by the comic duo [[Laurel and Hardy]]. Whenever things went wrong, Hardy would blame Laurel (regardless of what part of the blame he truly carried) with a reproachful "here's another nice mess you've gotten me into".<br /><br />This schtick is borrowed by ''[[Illuminatus]]!'' where various different figures appear dressed as Laurel and Hardy, e.g. The Flood, everyone except Noah and Co have been drowned for their sins by a vengeful God. Jehovah (as Ollie) turns to Lucifer (as Stan) and says, "Now look what you made me do!" Lucifer cries. Hiroshima, a mushroom cloud rises above the city. Tens of thousands have been killed in a split second. President Truman (as Ollie) turns to Albert Einstein (as Stan) and says, "Now look what you made me do!" Einstein cries. etc.

* ''[[Lois and Clark]]'': Humorously played with in the pilot episode, which sees Lois and Clark captured and tied up by the bad guys after Lois has pressured Clark into breaking into a suspicious warehouse. Lois angrily blames Clark for their current situation. Clark angrily points out that ''he's'' not the one who wanted to break into the warehouse in the first place. After a moment's pause, Lois realizes that he's right - and this triggers an outburst of self-pity about how her recklessness and competitiveness [[Freudian Excuse|all stems from her upbringing]], how her father never paid any attention to her and how she competes with everyone and sleeps with guys from work to compensate for her hidden insecurities, thus leading Clark to save their lives out of frustration with her [[Wangst|wangstingwangst]]ing as much as anything else.

** And in another episode, Tim makes a joke which gets a mixed reaction, before saying "Oh, you shouldn't say that. Shush, Jeremy." <ref> Part of the joke is that Jeremy is both younger and more 'alternative' than the regular cast, so he's more expected to make offensive jokes.</ref>

* ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' -- both—both humourously and seriously.

** "Bart Star": Homer has a [[Flash Back]] to a floor gymnastics routine. Abe yells "You're gonna blow it" at him... and so he does, and Abe then gets mad at him. To add insult to injury, Abe's bitter condemnation to Homer -- immediatelyHomer—immediately after yelling this out -- areout—are "This is what I get for having faith in you."