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Usually this helps, and the character is able to move on. Sometimes [[Heroic BSOD|they don't]], and fall into depression, and after a while will have another stock phrase thrown at them: "You can't keep blaming yourself!".
 
On the other hand, it's sometimes countered with a taunt of "Your best wasn't good enough!" And sometimes, it may ''still'' be good enough to [[Career -Building Blunder|keep you your job]].
 
Speaking of blaming yourself, [[I Should Have Been Better|there are other]] [[It's All My Fault|stock phrases]] for that. And there's also a second [[You Did the Right Thing|stock phrase]] for reassuring someone blaming themselves.
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== [[Fanfic]] ==
* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]'', Yuki blames herself for not foreseeing events that could injure Kyon. He reminds her that she trained him with 30 years of martial arts in a month, gave him most of his weapons, and that he's still alive, despite all the trouble he gets involved in. Like fighting interdimensional robots.
* In ''[[Ultimate Spider Woman (Fanfic)|Ultimate Spider-Woman: Change With The Light]]'', [[Redheaded Hero|Mary Jane Watson]] is running herself into the ground trying to juggle [[Triple Shifter|school, her acting and modeling careers, her steady job at the coffee shop, helping her mother get the medical treatment she needs, fighting crime as Spider-Woman and trying to make the rent on her apartment.]] Her friends and family keep trying to tell her that she doesn't have to go to all this trouble and that she's pushing herself too hard, but her [[Samaritan Syndrome|conscience won't allow her to let up]]. Things come to their logical conclusion at the end of issue #35 when everything finally comes crashing down on her.
 
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