History Main / StoppingTheBlameGame

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "Brought and Scold'', Princess makes crime legal, preventing the girls from fighting back against the villains. However [[DidntThinkThisThrough she forgot to take into account that means]] ''[[DidntThinkThisThrough she]]'' [[DidntThinkThisThrough could be robbed as well]]. When it happens, she calls the girls and whines for them to help her, lest her father will blame her for not taking responsibility for the town when he bought it for her.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "Brought and Scold", Princess makes crime legal, preventing the girls from fighting back against the villains. However [[DidntThinkThisThrough she forgot to take into account that means]] ''[[DidntThinkThisThrough she]]'' [[DidntThinkThisThrough could be robbed as well]]. When it happens, she calls the girls and whines for them to help her, lest her father will blame her for not taking responsibility for the town when he bought it for her.

* Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'', in the episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E9LittleGraduation Little Graduation]]". After learning that Lars is returning to space with the Off-Colors, Sadie is dating another person named "Shep", and [[TheFellowshipHasEnded they (along with the rest of Steven's teenage friends) are leaving Beach City to move on to bigger and better things]], Steven accidentally puts up a force-field around them so that no one leaves and puts the blame on Lars for not admitting that he's jealous that he and Sadie broke up. However, after learning that [[OffscreenBreakup Sadie and Lars tried again with their relationship and just couldn't connect]] (without Steven's knowledge), it takes Shep telling Steven why things have to be the way they are that gets Steven to accept that forcing his friends to stay together isn't the right thing to do.
** This is later {{inverted}} in [[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E19IAmMyMonster I Am My Monster]], where ''everyone'' blames themselves for [[spoiler:Steven turning into a monster]], only for Connie to show up and stop it by saying that, while it ''is'' their fault, it isn't time to be playing the BlameGame.

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'''Kovu:''' ''[nervous]'' I-I-I didn't mean to... It wasn't my fault, I... ''[turns angry]'' ''I did '''nothing!'''''\\

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-->'''Princess:''' ''[after being robbed, blubbering]'' And they took all of it! Everything! And if daddy finds out, I'll be grounded forever! Just because I begged him to buy me Townsville and make me mayor. He'll say it's my responsibility, then he'll blame me and think it's my fault.\\
'''Bubbles''': ''[matter-of-factually]'' It ''is'' your fault.\\

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** After Chloe spells out that [[WeUsedToBeFriends she's given up on repairing her friendship with him]], Goh pins all the blame on them growing apart on ''her'', refusing to acknowledge that he took her presence for granted. Though several others try in vain, it's ultimately [[spoiler: Zeno]] who breaks through to him, through some quite extreme methods.

* ''Fanfic/PokemonAMarvelousJourney'': Amara blames everyone around her for not caring enough about her feelings in regards to the death of a friend, often lashing out at them over the slightest provocation and doing cruel things, such as abusing Pokemon, out of spite, frequently using her younger sister Julia as TheScapegoat. In chapters 57 and 58 finally have them air out their grievances with one another, with Julia in particular reminding Amara that people around her ''did'' want to help her and reach out to her, but she ''chose'' to push them away and be violent with them, simply using her anger as an excuse to throw a months-long temper tantrum rather than doing what the courts told her to do and find healthier ways to heal and cope with her situation.

* ''Fanfic/RanmaClub'': Several characters outside of the Tendo Dojo and Ranma himself realize that the residents have been defaulting into blaming for things going wrong that were never really in his powers to stop for a long while. After leaving the Dojo and running into anyone that tries to treat him like TheScapegoat, it just leads to him telling them where they can cram their attitudes.

* ''Film/Scream3'': The killer is revealed to be [[spoiler: Roman the director of Stab 3]] who also reveals himself to be Sidney's brother. He explains his backstory of being born from Lorraine being raped and given up for adaptation. He grew up and tracked her down, but she slammed the door in his face wanting nothing to do with him. So he plotted revenge, essentially being the cause of the killers in the first Scream movie and indirectly the killers of the second. After Sidney survived both of those events and unwittingly gained fame from them, Roman decided to try and kill her directly, ranting that she stole the life he should've had. By this point, however, Sidney is ''utterly'' sick of killers blaming her for something she had nothing to do with, firing back that he's to blame for his own actions and he's looking for an excuse to shift it to someone else to justify his murders.

* ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales'': For much of the game BigBad the Tinkerer has been blaming Spider-Man (Miles Morales) for getting in their way and escalating the damages of their fights. Miles himself feels guilty over everything as he took advantage of the Tinkerer's [[spoiler: really his old friend Phin]] trust to try and stop the Underground in the course of Tinkerer's revenge plot against Roxxon. By the time of the final battle, Tinkerer claims they're done listening to Miles but Miles just fires back that the villain never even tried to hear him out.

** This is later {{inverted}} in [[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E19IAmMyMonster I Am My Monster]], where ''everyone'' blames themselves for [[spoiler:Steven turning into a monster]], only for Connie to show up and stop it by saying that, while it ''is'' their fault, it isn't time time to be playing the BlameGame.

So Alice had screwed up. How does she deal with it? [[NeverMyFault Blame Bob]], of course. It couldn't have possibly been her fault [[TheScapegoat so it's obviously Bob's]]. How? He was the only other person there when she screwed up and it wasn't her fault so it has to be his.

* PlayedWith in ''[[Fanfic/OrDidItEatTheLittleGirl let's go out with a bang!]]''. Kokichi justifies his constant, casual cruelty towards Miu this way -- her actions during the virtual killing game proved that she's a horrible person, and he's just trying to make her ''accept'' responsibility for her own awfulness! However, Kokichi himself is [[NotSoDifferent just as bad]] about owning up to his mistakes, and his goading only succeeds in pushing Miu further away from her classmates.