Tropescilloscope: Never My Fault

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

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