You Did Everything You Could: Difference between revisions

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Resident Evil (film)|Resident Evil]]''. As Alice and Matt near the exit, Alice feels responsible for not saving all of their comrades who died.

'''Matt''': Listen to me. There is nothing else you could've done. }}

* Appears in [[Star Wars]] (Episode IV, ''[[A New Hope]]'') when [[Mentor Occupational Hazard|Obi-Wan]] [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrifices himself]] so Luke can escape.

'''Leia''': There wasn't anything you could have done. }}

* Plio says the exact phrase to Aladar on the Disney movie ''[[Dinosaur]]'' when he fails to rescue Bruton from the rockslide.

== [[Literature]] ==

* ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix|Harry Potter]]''

* In C. S. Goto's [[Warhammer 40000]] [[Blood Ravens]] trilogy, fellow [[Blood Ravens]] try this on Gabriel after he had to order Exterminus and tell him another captain would have done the same. Gabriel is angry, the question is whether the other captain would have let the situation arise in the first place.

 

* Said a bazillion times, by almost every character, to almost every character, on ''[[ER]]''.

* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''. Cameron says this to House in the first season episode "Damned If You Do". As expected, [[Dr. Jerk|he doesn't respond kindly]].

'''House:''' I don’t need verification from you to know that I'm doing my job well. That's your problem, not mine. }}

** Also occurs in season six, when {{spoiler|the patient dies due to a fat embolism, after a leg amputation, which House could not have done anything to prevent}}. When Foreman tells House that is wasn't his fault, House is not consoled because that was exactly what was eating him up; he did everything he could (everything ''anyone'' could) and it still wasn't enough.

* ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'': "One Wonderful Day"

* ''[[Lost]]'': "Whatever the Case May Be"

* ''[[Friday Night Lights]]''

* Parodied in ''[[Frasier]]''; an old friend-turned-bitter rival of Martin's is in the hospital with serious problems and Frasier's trying to persuade Martin to bury the hatchet. Martin, typically stubborn, refuses. Frasier gets a phone call, and responds to the caller with a somber "I'm sure you did everything you could..." Martin, who obviously can't hear the other end of the conversation, freaks out and decides to resolve his problems with his old friend. He stubbornly refuses Frasier's offer of a ride to the hospital because he can drive himself. Except he can't; the phone call was from his mechanic, who was calling to tell him that his car's transmission is kaput.

* Abused by [[Magnificent Bastard|Malcolm Tucker]] in ''[[The Thick of It]]''. He tells Glenn and Olly "you tried, you really tried" when they fail to steer Nicola Murray out of an embarrassing photo opportunity... which Malcolm had deliberately steered her into as part of his latest scheme. His reassuring words were [[Manipulative Bastard|just a means of covering it up]].