Tropescilloscope: Never My Fault

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

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