Tropescilloscope: Never My Fault

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

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