Tropescilloscope: Never My Fault

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

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Is a Crapshoot Final Girl Artistic License – Law Credits Gag Dramatic Gun Cock Meet Cute Department of Redundancy Department Aluminum Christmas Trees I Have Your Wife La Résistance Air-Vent Passageway Half the Man He Used to Be Bloody Hilarious Dumb Blonde The Bully Catch-Phrase Refuge in Audacity Dropped a Bridge on Him Contrived Coincidence Laughing Mad Outrun the Fireball Together in Death Dark Reprise Dirty Coward Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Self-Deprecation Genre Savvy Retcon And the Adventure Continues Double Entendre It Can Think Big Bad Duumvirate Men Are the Expendable Gender No Name Given Evil Plan Downer Ending World of Ham Famous Last Words Missing Mom The Big Guy Anti-Villain Pretty in Mink Christmas Movies Index Faking the Dead Death by Irony A Date with Rosie Palms Expy Henpecked Husband Translation Convention Bar Brawl After the End Overprotective Dad Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking One-Word Title Off with His Head! 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Or Is It? Conspicuous CG Reality Has No Subtitles Love Triangle Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Funny Foreigner Neck Lift Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Deadpan Snarker Running Gag Hope Spot Insane Troll Logic I'm a Humanitarian The Load Destination Defenestration Foregone Conclusion "Awesome McCool" Name The Remake War Is Hell Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Reckless Gun Usage Only One Name Knight Templar Lampshade Hanging Kick the Son of a Bitch Not Even Bothering with the Accent Dark and Troubled Past Alliterative Name Diabolus ex Machina Market-Based Title Villain Song Wretched Hive Lock and Load Montage Film Series Precision F-Strike Eldritch Abomination Soundtrack Dissonance Humans Are Bastards Shut Up, Hannibal! 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The Film of the Book Sassy Black Woman Recycled IN SPACE! Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Dramatic Irony All There in the Script Canadian Movies Death of a Child Bald of Evil Anguished Declaration of Love Call-Forward Badass Longcoat Manipulative Bastard Silence Is Golden Badass Normal Heel–Face Turn Kill It with Fire Dutch Angle Word of God Blatant Lies The Musical Early Installment Weirdness Action Prologue Fate Worse than Death Up to Eleven Red Eyes, Take Warning Covers Always Lie Gender Flip Broken Pedestal Gory Discretion Shot Adorkable Cowboy Cop Bloodless Carnage Author Appeal Roaring Rampage of Revenge Trailers Always Spoil Even Evil Has Standards What the Hell, Hero? Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Brute Manic Pixie Dream Girl Every Car Is a Pinto Mama Bear Smoking Is Cool I Need a Freaking Drink It's All About Me An Axe to Grind Eyepatch of Power Adult Fear Body Horror Once More, with Clarity! 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Is Serious Business Cat Scare Important Haircut Sole Survivor Everyone Has Standards Jerk with a Heart of Gold Ascended Extra Chewing the Scenery Artistic License – History Race Lift Broken Bird Non-Indicative Name Bilingual Bonus The Oner Big Bad Pet the Dog Stealth Hi/Bye The Great Depression Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Kubrick Stare Fire-Forged Friends Comically Missing the Point Villain Protagonist Chekhov's Gun Bi the Way Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Anyone Can Die She Cleans Up Nicely Beware the Nice Ones Toplessness from the Back Action Genre Psychopathic Manchild Hidden Depths Stealth Pun The '60s Mood Whiplash Anachronism Stew Chekhov's Skill Documentary Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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