Tropescilloscope: Never My Fault

A character cannot or will not own up to their mistakes. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Danny Peary Cult Movies List No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Moment Killer The Stoic Action Genre Red Herring Red Oni, Blue Oni Love at First Sight The Chessmaster Mama Bear Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Black Best Friend Not So Above It All Truth in Television Historical Villain Upgrade Body Horror Bloodier and Gorier Empathic Environment Lock and Load Montage Animated Credits Opening Undying Loyalty The Mole Up to Eleven The Musical Love Triangle Cool Old Guy Armor-Piercing Question Call-Back Kick the Son of a Bitch Bare Your Midriff Ripped from the Headlines Unwitting Instigator of Doom My God, What Have I Done? The Quiet One Dutch Angle Vampire Fiction Kick the Dog Dumb Blonde Daylight Horror He Knows Too Much Captain Ersatz Heroes Want Redheads My Beloved Smother In Medias Res Genre Throwback Brutal Honesty Revenge Dissonant Serenity Politically Incorrect Villain Adapted Out Homage Neck Lift Wham Line Deliberate Values Dissonance Establishing Character Moment Beard of Evil Beauty Is Never Tarnished Offscreen Moment of Awesome Action Survivor Mugging the Monster Famous Last Words Posthumous Character Handicapped Badass Refuge in Audacity Arc Words Pay Evil unto Evil In Name Only O.O.C. Is Serious Business Freudian Excuse Immune to Bullets Contrived Coincidence Knife Nut Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Slap-Slap-Kiss Nothing Is Scarier Taking the Bullet Mercy Kill Dropped a Bridge on Him Pragmatic Adaptation Overprotective Dad I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Shell-Shocked Veteran Defrosting Ice Queen Adaptation Expansion Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Death by Sex How We Got Here I Have Your Wife Leave the Camera Running Market-Based Title Stuff Blowing Up Wretched Hive Music Stories Funny Foreigner Mind Screw The Dragon Storming the Castle Rule of Funny Informed Ability It's All About Me Roaring Rampage of Revenge Action Prologue Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Needs Wiki Magic Love Bittersweet Ending Psychopathic Manchild Morality Pet Alas, Poor Villain Time Skip Costume Porn Documentary Vomit Indiscretion Shot Air-Vent Passageway I'm a Humanitarian Enemy Mine Expy Poor Communication Kills The Power of Love World of Ham Rule of Symbolism Adaptational Heroism Shower Scene Hero Antagonist My Greatest Failure Fish out of Water Blatant Lies Retired Badass Diabolus ex Machina As the Good Book Says... Drugs Are Bad Room Full of Crazy Genre Savvy "Shaggy Dog" Story Hypocrite Dirty Old Man Slasher Smile Attempted Rape Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Hair-Trigger Temper Oh, Crap! Psycho for Hire Ambiguous Disorder Major Injury Underreaction From Bad to Worse Sexy Discretion Shot Heroic BSoD Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The Voiceless Riddle for the Ages Black Comedy The Atoner Celebrity Paradox Intergenerational Friendship Dark Action Girl Didn't Think This Through Crucified Hero Shot Hero of Another Story Catapult Nightmare Disproportionate Retribution Properly Paranoid Bad "Bad Acting" The Place The Lost Lenore Mighty Whitey Accidental Misnaming Random Events Plot Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Put on a Bus Victoria's Secret Compartment In the Back Ms. Fanservice Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Berserk Button Token Minority Bring My Brown Pants Police are Useless It Can Think Children Are Innocent Early-Bird Cameo Demoted to Extra Actor Allusion Chekhov's Gunman Manic Pixie Dream Girl All There in the Manual You Killed My Father Pyrrhic Victory Based on a True Story Imagine Spot She Cleans Up Nicely Man on Fire Blood Knight Title Drop Comically Missing the Point Advertised Extra The Reveal Central Theme Earn Your Happy Ending Canadian Movies Catch-Phrase Disney Death Bolivian Army Ending Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Smug Snake Spared by the Adaptation Reality Has No Subtitles Punch-Clock Villain Faux Affably Evil Plot Hole Not Even Bothering with the Accent Anti-Hero Fanservice The Lancer Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Really Gets Around Ascended Extra Villain Protagonist Becoming the Mask Not Using the "Z" Word The Remake Visual Pun Setting Update Anachronism Stew Crazy Jealous Guy Deliberately Monochrome Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Despair Event Horizon Artistic License – Biology Groin Attack Alliterative Name Stylistic Suck Fan Disservice Scary Black Man Reality Ensues Took a Level in Jerkass Psychological Thriller Framing Device Too Dumb to Live Double Entendre Closed Circle Real Life Ax-Crazy Hell Is That Noise Our Zombies Are Different Department of Redundancy Department Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Shipper on Deck Big Bad Duumvirate Foreshadowing Stepford Smiler Reckless Gun Usage Back from the Dead Dwindling Party Creator Cameo The Ditz Gone Horribly Right Ambiguous Ending Animal Title Index Better to Die than Be Killed Camera Abuse Stock Footage Credits Gag Malevolent Masked Men What Happened to the Mouse? Disney Villain Death Destination Defenestration It's Personal Awesome, but Impractical Rousing Speech Ungrateful Bastard Overly Long Gag Mistaken for Gay Christmas Movies Index Gender Flip Drill Sergeant Nasty Rewatch Bonus 20 Minutes into the Future Super Strength Foregone Conclusion Never Found the Body Mexican Standoff Meaningful Background Event Our Vampires Are Different An Arm and a Leg The Ghost Character Development Science Fiction Films Redemption Equals Death Motor Mouth "Well Done, Son!" Guy Sports Stories Here We Go Again! Creative Closing Credits Dramatic Irony Badass Normal Say My Name Flashback Word of God Ship Tease Frame-Up Death Glare Those Two Guys Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Men Are the Expendable Gender Spiteful Spit Leitmotif The Great Depression A God Am I Manipulative Bastard Alpha Bitch Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Big Applesauce Bond Villain Stupidity Wrong Genre Savvy Never Trust a Trailer Maybe Ever After The Alleged Car Biopic Stealth Pun Implacable Man Due to the Dead Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Batman Gambit Fake Shemp Friend to All Children Very Loosely Based on a True Story Karmic Death The Dog Bites Back Parental Abandonment Brick Joke As Himself Woman Scorned The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite One-Man Army Intrepid Reporter Shirtless Scene Real Life Writes the Plot Paper-Thin Disguise Extremely Short Timespan Deconstruction Gold Digger Freeze-Frame Bonus Bunny-Ears Lawyer Unusual Euphemism Badass Grandpa Jerk Jock Rape as Drama Darker and Edgier Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Bond One-Liner Not What It Looks Like Guns Akimbo Canon Foreigner Damsel in Distress Irony Manly Tears Cat Fight Made of Iron Wham Shot Deadpan Snarker Bi the Way Mythology Gag Romantic Comedy Show Within a Show The Smurfette Principle Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Rule of Cool Adorkable Cool Car The Faceless Red Shirt Dirty Coward Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Evil Is Hammy Mystery and Detective Films Evil Laugh Would Hurt a Child Beta Couple Four-Temperament Ensemble Bullying a Dragon Bloodless Carnage The Casanova Pet the Dog Once More, with Clarity! Fingore Honor Before Reason Stalker with a Crush Demonic Possession Non-Indicative Name The '60s Never My Fault Five-Man Band Death of a Child Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Film Series Adaptational Villainy Aside Glance Whole Plot Reference Exact Words The Load Eureka Moment Adult Fear Bavarian Fire Drill Kill 'em All Red Right Hand Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The '80s Nice Guy Made of Explodium Final Girl "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Abhorrent Admirer Grey and Gray Morality Half the Man He Used to Be Only One Name Big Fancy House Only a Flesh Wound Wounded Gazelle Gambit Pimped-Out Dress Cluster F-Bomb Amusing Injuries Large Ham Eagleland La Résistance Evil Plan Anyone Can Die Black and Gray Morality Slasher Movie Gorn What the Hell, Hero? Romantic False Lead Serial Killer The Vamp The Stinger Bar Brawl Fainting The Bad Guy Wins Meet Cute Drowning My Sorrows Arranged Marriage And the Adventure Continues Getting Crap Past the Radar Mr. Exposition Re-Cut Suspiciously Specific Denial Suspiciously Similar Substitute True Companions Agony of the Feet Scenery Gorn Artistic License – Military Affably Evil Cool Old Lady Fire-Forged Friends Take a Third Option Offscreen Teleportation Only in It for the Money Improbable Aiming Skills Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Japanese Films Stealth Hi/Bye Adaptation Name Change Femme Fatale The X of Y Fantastic Racism As You Know Author Appeal Same Language Dub Trailers Always Spoil Straight Gay Jump Scare An Aesop Older Than They Look Rule of Three Plucky Comic Relief Laughing Mad Villain Opening Scene Dramedy Military and Warfare Films Daddy's Girl Arch-Enemy Bowdlerise Big Eater Public Domain Feature Films All Girls Want Bad Boys Evil Counterpart Cain and Abel The '90s Downer Ending French Films Bloody Hilarious Dramatic Gun Cock Mood Whiplash Affectionate Parody Take That! Cruel and Unusual Death Hong Kong Films No Antagonist Artistic License – Law Tagline Gilligan Cut Blood from the Mouth Dark Is Not Evil Works Set in World War II Bound and Gagged Every Car Is a Pinto Neck Snap Insult Backfire Face–Heel Turn Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Tempting Fate Brainless Beauty The Oner Nice Hat Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Parental Incest Sanity Slippage Evil vs. Evil Bilingual Bonus Historical-Domain Character "Awesome McCool" Name Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Your Cheating Heart Madness Mantra Mooks Defiant to the End Boom, Headshot! The Dreaded Asshole Victim Villain Ball Artistic License – Geography Did Not Get the Girl For Want of a Nail Fun with Acronyms Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Totally Radical Good Is Not Nice Auto Erotica Naked People Are Funny Sequel Hook And I Must Scream Distracted by the Sexy Not Quite Dead All for Nothing Playing Gertrude Evil Brit Book-Ends Darkest Hour Instant Death Bullet Those Wacky Nazis Gainax Ending No Ending The '70s Aluminum Christmas Trees The Un-Reveal Meaningful Name Screw the Money, I Have Rules! A Minor Kidroduction Betty and Veronica Red Eyes, Take Warning Interrupted Suicide Line-of-Sight Name Narrator Bait-and-Switch Punny Name Soundtrack Dissonance Improvised Weapon As Long as It Sounds Foreign Facial Horror Fat Bastard War Is Hell Annoying Younger Sibling Eyepatch of Power The Bully Artistic License – Physics Slashed Throat Papa Wolf No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Amoral Attorney Self-Deprecation Anachronic Order Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Coming-of-Age Story Depraved Bisexual You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Tap on the Head Training Montage Black Dude Dies First Decoy Protagonist Drives Like Crazy Silent Movie Animal Motifs Jerk with a Heart of Gold No Celebrities Were Harmed Film Noir Soft Glass Covers Always Lie Hidden Depths Insane Troll Logic Anti-Villain Greater-Scope Villain Cloudcuckoolander Shoot the Shaggy Dog Determinator Heterosexual Life-Partners Dull Surprise Spiritual Successor Make It Look Like an Accident Big Bad Zombie Stories Combat Pragmatist No-Sell Kubrick Stare British Films Have a Gay Old Time Deus ex Machina Chewing the Scenery Reasonable Authority Figure Race Lift The Hero Jerkass Has a Point Ominous Latin Chanting Hypocritical Humor Meaningful Echo Last-Name Basis Epic Fail Pretty Little Headshots Big Brother Instinct Retcon May–December Romance Artistic License – History Award-Bait Song Big Damn Heroes Unreliable Narrator Recycled IN SPACE! Police Brutality Unresolved Sexual Tension The Cameo I Did What I Had to Do Creepy Child Obviously Evil Easily Forgiven Country Matters What You Are in the Dark Broken Bird Martial Arts Movie Car Fu Vomit Discretion Shot Heroic Sacrifice Unspoken Plan Guarantee Does Not Like Shoes Obfuscating Stupidity Evil Is Petty Retirony Wicked Cultured The Stoner Fantasy Films Chekhov's Gun Superhero Big-Bad Ensemble The Sociopath Scenery Porn Conspicuous CG The Film of the Book Foil Yandere Spell My Name with an "S" Missing Mom Accidental Murder Artistic License – Gun Safety Exactly What It Says on the Tin Dogged Nice Guy Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Flipping the Bird Well-Intentioned Extremist Face Death with Dignity Killed Mid-Sentence Your Head A-Splode Continuity Nod Brother–Sister Incest Sacrificial Lion Shut Up, Hannibal! Hollywood Law Curb-Stomp Battle Dirty Cop Chase Scene Vitriolic Best Buds Rasputinian Death Adaptational Attractiveness Suddenly SHOUTING! Villain Song A.I. Is a Crapshoot The Big Guy Badass Boast Cowboy Cop Male Gaze Loophole Abuse Manchild Actually Pretty Funny B-Movie Bland-Name Product Sealed Evil in a Can You Have Failed Me Even Evil Has Loved Ones Apocalypse How It Will Never Catch On N-Word Privileges Bury Your Gays Historical Hero Upgrade Even Evil Has Standards Scare Chord Broken Pedestal Dressing as the Enemy Authority Equals Asskicking Parental Substitute Knight Templar Butt-Monkey Evil Sounds Deep Blackmail Outrun the Fireball More Dakka Video Credits The Starscream Developing Doomed Characters Adaptation Distillation Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Race Against the Clock Guile Hero Would Hit a Girl Sassy Black Woman Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism There Is No Kill Like Overkill Gory Discretion Shot timeperiod The Hero Dies Dual Wielding Logo Joke Kill It with Fire Off with His Head! Fourth Date Marriage Naïve Newcomer Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Important Haircut Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Took a Level in Badass Sadistic Choice Composite Character Get Out! Only Sane Man Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Death Seeker All Men Are Perverts Mr. Fanservice Chiaroscuro Villain with Good Publicity Jitter Cam From Nobody to Nightmare Let's Get Dangerous! Badass in a Nice Suit Lampshade Hanging Dying Moment of Awesome Break the Cutie The Smart Guy Reality Is Unrealistic Loads and Loads of Characters Film Noir Index "The Reason You Suck" Speech Tranquil Fury Early Installment Weirdness Domestic Abuse Pretty in Mink Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other One-Word Title Ghost Fiction Cat Scare Leaning on the Fourth Wall Eiffel Tower Effect Hope Spot Antagonist Title Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Call-Forward Big "NO!" Smoking Is Cool Star-Crossed Lovers Calling the Old Man Out Fatal Family Photo Gratuitous English Evil-Detecting Dog Author Avatar The End... Or Is It? BFG Camp Gay Failed a Spot Check Sequel Escalation Thriller You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Badass Longcoat Cold-Blooded Torture I Need a Freaking Drink Eye Scream Bald of Evil Green-Eyed Monster Disguised in Drag Peek-a-Boo Corpse Index of Film Westerns NO INDOOR VOICE Breaking the Fourth Wall Off-into-the-Distance Ending Dies Wide Open Expository Hairstyle Change Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Curse Cut Short Historical In-Joke Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Genre Shift Horror Films Driven to Suicide Mad Scientist He Who Fights Monsters Eldritch Abomination Faking the Dead A Date with Rosie Palms Precision F-Strike Cool Guns Fate Worse than Death Fatal Flaw Extreme Doormat The Mafia Babies Ever After Anguished Declaration of Love Redshirt Army The Brute Small Name, Big Ego Ambiguously Gay Spanner in the Works A Father to His Men Idiot Ball Lighter and Softer Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Taking You with Me Pragmatic Villainy All There in the Script Adults Are Useless Worthy Opponent This Is Gonna Suck Those Two Bad Guys Beware the Nice Ones Broken Aesop And Starring Does This Remind You of Anything? Woman in White Television Movie Index Happily Married Karma Houdini Villainous Breakdown The '50s Corpsing I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Product Placement Novelization Sole Survivor Twist Ending Vacation Films Bottomless Magazines Break the Haughty No OSHA Compliance Toplessness from the Back Kids Are Cruel Death by Irony Noodle Incident Protagonist Title Names to Run Away from Really Fast Casting Gag Hate Sink Italian Films Fiery Redhead Bad Boss Unusually Uninteresting Sight Shown Their Work Badass Bookworm Serious Business Left the Background Music On Black Comedy Rape Translation Convention Skewed Priorities All Just a Dream Horror Comedy Shout-Out After the End Heel–Face Turn Chekhov's Skill Throwing Your Sword Always Works Australian Movies MacGuffin Dark Reprise Rich Bitch Double-Meaning Title Parental Neglect Disappeared Dad Dark and Troubled Past Rated M for Manly Ironic Echo Monumental Damage Sinister Minister Be Careful What You Wish For Cassandra Truth Heel Realization The Alcoholic Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Running Gag Funny Background Event Not So Stoic Match Cut Hoist by His Own Petard folderlabel Hollywood Darkness Insistent Terminology Deal with the Devil Sir Swears-a-Lot Hooker with a Heart of Gold Death by Adaptation Mundane Made Awesome Age Lift Abusive Parents Ass Shove She's Got Legs Jerkass Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Ace Light Is Not Good Laser-Guided Karma Crazy-Prepared Fanservice Extra Humiliation Conga No Name Given Sci-Fi Horror Belligerent Sexual Tension Not So Different Adaptational Badass Only Known by Their Nickname Crapsack World Russian Films Action Girl Silence Is Golden Almost Kiss The Cavalry Cool Shades Improbable Weapon User Captain Obvious Obstructive Bureaucrat Henpecked Husband Pre-Mortem One-Liner '80s Hair Everyone Has Standards An Axe to Grind Epic Movie Determinator aka: The Determinator Humans Are Bastards The Chick German Films Adaptation Dye-Job Together in Death Male Frontal Nudity One Steve Limit Corrupt Corporate Executive Card-Carrying Villain For the Evulz Married to the Job Grievous Bottley Harm