History Main / TheyDiedBecauseOfYou

'''Darth Sideous:''' [[ExactWords It seems]] in your anger, you killed her.

** In the third case of the second game, a variant of this happens when Regina is forced to face the fact that her DeadlyPrank was why Bat went into a coma.

* In the next to last episode of ''Series/Forever2014'', Henry Morgan is horrified to learn that his wife of forty years, Abigail, first crashed a car she was driving and then slit her own throat to get away from Adam, another immortal, in order to protect Henry from him. Her last words were an attempt to convince Adam there was no other immortal, even as her actions convinced him otherwise.

'''Flo:''' [[ToxicFriendInfluence With all the cutthroat nonsense]] ''[[ToxicFriendInfluence you]]'' [[ToxicFriendInfluence put in her head]], [[MamaBear I swear, if she doesn't come back]]...

'''Flo:''' [[MamaBear With all the cutthroat nonsense]] ''[[MamaBear you]]'' [[MamaBear put in her head, I swear, if she doesn't come back]]...

-->'''Flo:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Is]] ''[[ArmorPiercingQuestion that]]'' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion what you told the Survivors Five?!]] ''(Xhan's eyes widen)'' Because they ''didn't'' come back!
-->''(Flo and everyone else walk away sadly into the diner, leaving Xhan all alone outside)''

-->'''Flo:''' [[MamaBear With all the cutthroat nonsense]] ''[[MamaBear you]]'' [[MamaBear put in her head, I swear, if she doesn't come back]]...

** It happens twice regarding Harry's parents; first when Harry discovers that Peter Pettigrew sold them out and second when he learns that Snape told Voldemort about the prophecy in the first place, not counting when Harry yells it at Sirius falsely believing him to be the traitor.

--->'''Prince Escalus:''' Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague! See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, that Heaven finds means to kill your joys with love; And I, for winking at your discords too, have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'', if you go back to Altair and speak to Hilda after getting Gordon in your party the first time, [[DevelopersForesight there is special dialogue]] between the two, where Hilda is infuriated with Gordon, saying that his cowardice caused Josef's death. To elaborate, they needed to get inside Kasuon Keep for a special torch, and the only way of entrance is either with a certain bell or the voice of a member of the royal family. On the mission to get the bell, the party encounters Borghen on the way out, and Josef pulls a HeroicSacrifice to save them from a boulder trap; the implication is that this all could have been avoided if Gordon had helped them.

* In ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]],'' Miles Edgeworth believes that he (accidentally) killed his father, Gregory Edgeworth, by throwing a gun that went off and hit him. When his former mentor, Manfred von Karma, decides to get rid of him by framing him for murder, he times it near the anniversary of that incident to reopen Edgeworth's emotional wounds, hoping he'll confess to it. (It works -- and then spectacularly backfires on von Karma, who was the real murderer).

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* In ''ComicBook/MarshalLaw'', Public Spirit informs Law that he is, indirectly, responsible for the death of his fiancee Lynn at the hands of The Sleepman, because he served as an inspiration to [[spoiler: Danny Mallon, encouraging him to adopt the Sleepman alter ego]].
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Subtrope of NiceJobBreakingItHero sometimes. See also SurvivorsGuilt, YouShouldHaveDiedInstead, and FailureToSaveMurder, all of which can also be present.

* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': From the end of Episode XCVI to the end of Episode XCVII, [[Characters/SamuraiJackJack Samurai Jack]] believes he is responsible for the death of mind-controlled alien children. The Omen even lampshades this trope to try to get Jack to commit seppuku. The trope is subverted in both ways in that the children are alive and Ashi tells Jack so.

** In the same episode, Brida angrily accuses Brida of causing [[spoiler:his beloved older brother Ragnar's death by taking off to aid Aethelflaed and leaving Ragnar surrounded by ambitious enemies]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'': [=BoJack=] is actually the first to blame himself for the death of [[spoiler:Sarah Lynn after encouraging her to go on a six-week-long bender with him]]. He shares how big the funeral was and how everyone was thinking [[AddledAddict that it was bound to happen]], "[[ToxicFriendInfluence but it wasn't]]." However, in season five, he begins playing the victim in many situations. Diane calls him out, possibly acting as the show-writers LeaningOnTheFourthWall to make the viewers realize his actions have been inexcusable. She goes on a long rant about [[spoiler:how he's begun painting himself as the "main character of the Sarah Lynn story"]] which visibly hurts him.
* From the end of Episode XCVI to the end of Episode XCVII, ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' believes he is responsible for the death of mind-controlled alien children. The Omen even lampshades this trope to try to get Jack to commit seppuku. The trope is subverted in both ways in that the children are alive and Ashi tells Jack so.
* Though never told outright, the titular character of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fears that the [[ParentalSubstitute Crystal Gems]] hold the death of his mother and their leader Rose Quartz against him, since [[DeathByChildbirth she sacrificed her physical form to give birth to him]].