Never My Fault / Video Games

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• In Baldur's Gate III, Token Evil Teammate Shadowheart acts as though her rivalry with Lae'zel is completely one-sided when she antagonized her at every turn and is currently holding a knife to her throat, and in Act II if allowed to kill Nightsong and destroy Last Light she blames the Player Character for not stopping her if called out on it, then says it was their own fault for putting themselves in danger. Although in the case of the Nightsong, the player is partially at fault as she only goes through with crossing the Moral Event Horizon if the player actively encourages her to do it.
• Batman: Arkham City
  • The Joker seems to partially blame his impending death from the poisonous side-effects of the Titan Super Serum on Batman, because he "left [him] to die" after their climactic battle at the end of the first game. He then immediately acknowledges that Batman probably doesn't remember it that way, and then just moves on with trying to constructively fix the problem without wasting any more time. Given that the Joker is well known for Multiple-Choice Past, it is unclear whether he truly thinks he remembers Batman leaving him to die, or if he's just screwing around (and possibly lampshading the villain's tendency to use this trope). The Joker is the one who injected himself with the serum and helped create it.
  • When Joker gives his origin story to Hugo Strange (it's the same story from The Killing Joke), Strange points out the Joker has many different versions of his origin, and the only consistent thing is that he blames Batman for his condition in every one.
  • During the ending, Joker stabs Batman, causing him to drop the cure. His last hope for survival lost, Joker bitterly asks Batman if he's happy now, as if Batman had done it on purpose. Batman says he would've given Joker the cure, and Joker sees the irony. It comes up again in Batman: Arkham Knight; during the "Look Who's Laughing Now" musical number, the Joker hallucination refers to the events of Arkham City as "the night [Batman] let [him] die."
  • Though Mr. Freeze is fundamentally well-intentioned, his condition and supervillain career — and his wife Nora's present state — is at least partly grounded in his inability to admit to his mistakes, misdeeds or personal flaws. This is also demonstrated during your boss fight with him; there are breakable statues of Nora scattered around the room, and if Mr. Freeze accidentally destroys one while shooting at you, he'll claim that you made him do it.
  • The Penguin constantly blames the Wayne family for financially ruining his family, when in truth it was their own poor decisions that lead them down that path.
  • Hugo Strange accuses quite a few of his "patients" of this, and treats his sessions with them as a sort of dialog-based torture session. He points out how Two-Face likes to pin the blame of his crimes on fate or the flip of his coin rather than own up to the culpability of his own actions. However, unlike the others on this page, Two-Face is genuinely sick and wants to be treated to cease being a criminal. Strange's torment of him only serves to blame him for his own pathology, while at the same time re-enforcing it (their sessions end with Strange instigating the Two-Face persona and then letting him loose, knowing he'll commit more crimes).
  • The Scarecrow in Batman: Arkham Knight intends to get revenge on Batman for disfiguring him all the way back in Arkham Asylum, leading him to set up an Evil Plan to break the Dark Knight and expose him as just a man to the world. He completely disregards the fact that he chose to go into Killer Croc's lair by himself to poison Gotham City's water supply, only to get mauled by Killer Croc for his troubles. He also ignores the fact that it was because of Batman's intervention that he survived at all.
• Best of Three: After you run into Grant on a dark, rainy night, he pats his pockets and realizes that his pen is missing. He accuses you of having made him lost it, sees your pen and thinks it's his, then steals it from you. Although, he does return it later when he feels guilty (and finds that he left his own pen at home).
  But he doesn’t look back; and you stand there in the rain and contemplate the aesthetic incompetence of a universe that would bring the bane of your existence back into your life just to steal your favorite pen.
• BioShock:
  • From BioShock, we have Andrew Ryan who utterly, utterly refuses to believe his policies have led Rapture to ruin, blaming it all both on the citizens for not working hard enough (when it's his own rules that keep them from getting ahead) Frank Fontaine for rivaling him in business (while refusing to just destroy his business with brute force because it goes against his Libertarian values) and Atlas and Eleanor Lamb for spreading dissident political values (while refusing to kill them outright because in his mind that would count as the all-dreaded censorship). When people do try to point these things out to him, he has a hard time taking it into consideration, since it means he has to admit he was wrong. By the middle of the game, he's deluded himself into thinking Rapture will regain its former glory once he kills the Player Character.
  • Zachary Hale Comstock, the Big Bad of BioShock Infinite has severe trouble facing his own guilt, to the point that this is arguably his most defining trait. He only exists because he's a version of the main character that accepted baptism and created a new identity to bury his guilt over war crimes committed at Wounded Knee. Driving the point home further, Burial at Sea features an alternate Comstock who accidentally killed Elizabeth when he tried to take her from her own world, and then had the Luteces move him to another world so that he could escape his guilt over that, too.
    Rosalind Lutece: Comstock was never one to own up to his errors, was he, brother?
    Robert Lutece: Never comfortable with the choices he made.
    Rosalind: Always seeking someone else's life to claim as his own.
• Yuuki Terumi of BlazBlue fame zigzags this trope all over the place. You see, it's whether accepting the blame is beneficial to him that determines whether he'll take it or dodge it.
  • Because he requires external observation to retain his existence (for him, being hated is easier), he's willing to accept the blame for screwing up other people's lives. This includes creating the Black Beast (Nine), killing Tomonori in cold blood (Jubei), murdering Nine and Trinity (Valkenhayn, Hakumen, Kokonoe) and everything he did to Ragna and Saya (Ragna, Noel).
  • On the other hand, if the consequences of accepting blame are harmful to him, he's all too willing to distort the truth of the affair, up to and including attacking (with intent to kill) any potential witnesses. See the affair of "Ministerial Secretary to Jin Kisaragi" as proof; he would rather tell Tsubaki that Noel stole the seat from her than admit his own role in the affair (also, she was Jin's sec in another world, but he left to chase Ragna anyway, one instance had her jump ship to Zero Squadron just to pursue him, and she winds up dead in the end) because (a) he'd rather keep an anti-Observer weapon pointed away from him and (b) he needs an anti-Hakumen shield close at hand. And the first spoilered bit is all the reason he needs to kill Makoto... amongst other things.
• Handsome Jack from Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!, for all his claims of being a hero and wanting peace and safety for all, in reality he's a narcissistic maniac who never realizes he's responsible for his own failures, and constantly shunts blame over to others, loving to lump them all together as "bandits". Even when Angel defies him and flatout calls him an asshole before she dies, he quickly focuses on trying to "avenge" her, never once cluing in that he's the reason she chose Suicide by Cop just to end her suffering.
• In Bully, the nerds' leader Earnest hires Jimmy to take some dirty pictures of the head cheerleader as part of his plan for revenge against the jocks. Later, after he blows the pictures up to poster size and posts them all over town, an angry mob of jocks storm his hideout. Gripped with panic, he quickly blames Jimmy for taking the pictures, even though he was the one who asked for them. This happens all through the game. Everything bad that ever happens is Jimmy's fault.
• In the Golden Ending of Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, Uka Uka attempts to blast Cortex, but he ducks out of the way and Uka Uka ends up hitting a part of the space station that causes a chain reaction. Uka Uka is quick to say that it's Cortex's fault for not letting himself be killed.
• Stross from Dead Space 2 was unintentionally responsible for the death of his wife, Alexis, and their son. Unable to accept it, the Marker slowly drives Stross more and more insane as time goes on, eventually becoming actively antagonistic and trying to kill Isaac and Ellie. It's not that Stross wants to hurt them, it's just that Stross wants someone, anyone, to validate what he's seeing and tell him his family's deaths wasn't his fault, which is why he listens to what the symbols from the Marker are telling him.
• In Dishonored, in a Low-Chaos run, when all their plans are unraveling, Havelock would say that it was Martin's fault as they had suggested and planned Corvo's breakout. Then, Havelock switches it around and blames Corvo for being "so damn good at his job". Finally, Havelock says it was all their faults for being greedy but at no point, outright takes any responsibility for their actions.
• Dragon Age: Origins:
  • When Anora asks Loghain an Armor-Piercing Question over whether or not he indirectly killed Cailan, he looks away from her and mutters that Cailan's death was his own fault.
  • Loghain's first response to any mention of his crimes is to deflect the blame onto someone else. He left Cailan and the Grey Wardens to die? Cailan killed himself and/or the Grey Wardens goaded him into the charge (which to be fair isn't entirely inaccurate). Loghain allowed the darkspawn to pour into Ferelden since he was too busy igniting and fighting a needless civil war and/or Orlesian border patrol? It's the nobles' faults for not instantly bowing before him. The Warden points out he sold elves into slavery? It's the Wardens' fault because them raising their own army to fight the Blight he wasn't fighting meant it was somehow their fault he stretched his forces too thin and needed the money. Anora sides with the Warden because Loghain's many crimes, madness, and paranoia have finally gone too far for her? They brainwashed her. Only occasionally does he expand his defense to I Did What I Had to Do.
• Maribel from Dragon Quest VII is known to berate the hero for getting her stuck in trouble with him, even though she forced her way along in the first place!
• Dynasty Warriors 4. Dong Zhuo's campaign. If Lu Bu defeats Diao Chan in the final act of the campaign: "Why did you take Diao Chan into battle. You are the one that killed Diao Chan!"
• ENIGMA: An Illusion Named Family: Unlike his younger brother Minhyuk, who blames himself for everything, Samoon's mantra is that his company's troubles were never his fault. No, it's all the fault of a single employee, and he shouldn't be held responsible for how they killed a patient with a faulty vaccine!
• Professor Kuriakin in Fahrenheit tells Lucas Kane that the Oracle must never kill directly. Instead, he possesses a random proxy to commit the murder.
• Lord Brevon from Freedom Planet, when he's not trying to portray his villainous actions as necessary evils, likes to deflect all responsibility for said actions (that include usurping control of a nation to start a war, brainwashing characters into servitude, stealing the primary source of power for the planet, and Cold-Blooded Torture) onto the heroes while painting himself as merely reacting to their interference. Fortunately, nobody buys his excuses, and Torque even throws his blame-dodging back in his face at one point.
• In Ghost Trick, Yomiel blames everyone but himself for having a hand in his death. Yes, his vendetta against Detectives Jowd and Cabanela are kind of understandable, seeing as they arrested him, subjected him to merciless interrogation, and were going to shoot him when he tried to escape, all while he was innocent. But then, he also blames Lynne, who was just a little kid playing in the park when he was being chased by the police, and who only was involved in the situation because he chose to take her hostage. Which he blamed her for, by simple fact that he wouldn't have thought to take a hostage if she hadn't been there! It is played with later, as Yomiel admits that he knows Lynne was innocent, and knows that he screwed up his life.
• God of War:
  • Kratos relentlessly rages against everyone and their grandmother for tricking him into brutally murdering everything in sight at the drop of a hat. The gods, who successfully tricked him thusly, refuse to admit their culpability, plus deceiving him about the rewards for following their orders and generally being the jerkasses they've always been, resulting in most them having the crap murdered out of them. On the other side, Kratos refuses to accept that everything that's happened to him is because he made a deal with Ares, instead blaming every single thing that happens on the Gods even if it's something they didn't actually cause.
  • Downplayed with Freya in God of War (PS4) but still present. After Kratos kills her son Baldur to protect her, she was quick to pin all the blame on Kratos despite the fact that she is the most responsible for Baldur's insanity and obsession with killing her due to her own selfishness.
  • God of War Ragnarök has Kratos and Freya own up to this flaw and work to better themselves. Odin does not, and it's for this reason that he's fated to die in Ragnarok. After all, there is no such thing as fate, but there is such a thing as refusing to acknowledge one's faults and repeating predictable mistakes until the predictable consequences catch up with you.
• CJ in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is blamed by his brother, Sweet, for not saving the life of their younger brother, Brian. It is presumed that Brian was in the same gang as Sweet and CJ and was likely killed by a rival gang. CJ runs off to Liberty City and misses his brother's funeral. After the boys' mother is killed years later, CJ returns home but misses out on his mother's funeral, which Sweet blames him for and reminds him about Brian's death throughout the game. CJ keeps weakly defending himself against the accusations and not once tries to accept any reasonability for his brother and mother's deaths. The only defense CJ tries to come up with when pressed by Denise is that he had to "get away from some shit". It not until the final mission that CJ realizes that he did have some responsibility for letting Brian die and admits to it as such before taking on the Big Bad alone in order to atone.
• The Halo series's background info has the Office of Naval Intelligence do this. When the war against the Covenant ends, and the sins of the past are being looked at in detail, ONI decides to pin all of the unethical aspects of the SPARTAN-II program (kidnapping 75 children, replacing them with doomed-to-die flash clones, and subjecting said children to harsh military training and dangerous augmentations) on the project's head scientist Catherine Halsey, portraying her as an insane Mad Scientist who did it all For Science! ONI fails to mention that the SPARTAN-II Program was their idea; in fact, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx shows that ONI head Margaret Parangosky actually considered Halsey to be a "bleeding-heart" who was too concerned about the IIs' well-being.
• In Harvest Moon: The Tale Of Two Towns, the cooking competitions are Serious Business. If you don't take part yourself, you can choose to just cheer your town's cooking team on. If you're a resident of Bluebell and the team loses, Jessica will say "If you'd been a bit more supportive we..." but she stops herself before finishing. Grady will also claim that the cooking team lost because you weren't cheering properly, but he apologies right away.
• Hazelnut Hex has the motivation of Lamona, the main villainess; her reasons for trying to erase breakfast? Because nobody wants to buy her cereal, "Cauliflower Curse". Your character Nat lampshade it:
  Lamona: NOBODY wants to sell Cauliflower Curse because there's already a cereal with a witch mascot!
  Nat: You think that's the reason people aren't interested in a vegetable-themed cereal...
• Injustice: Gods Among Us:
  • When Batman points out how Superman starts his Face–Heel Turn and is scaring people, Superman is quick to say he learned it from Batman. He also justifies killing the Joker as "one death to save millions" when really, he was motivated by revenge, not altruism. Superman repeatedly refuses to admit how far he's fallen, at one point blaming Insurgency Batman for his actions. Ironically, the one thing Superman will claim responsibility for was him killing Lois and their unborn baby and that wasn't his fault.
  • While Batman blames himself for not preventing Superman's Face–Heel Turn, he denies his role in the events that lead up to that. His leniency and misplaced mercy against psychopathic villains like the Joker allows them to break out of Cardboard Prison and continue terrorizing society with little repercussions. When Regime members and the Joker accuse him for Murder by Inaction, Batman staunchly won't accept it.
• James Tobin from In the 1st Degree is charged with murder and grand theft. If you ask the right questions, then Tobin and his lawyer Charleston will try to make a story in which Tobin admits a number of things Yvonne, Simon, and Ruby said and tries to spin it so it was all the murder victim Zack's idea, and Tobin was just the poor guy who was dragged into it against his will. Fortunately, you, as the prosecutor Granger, get to pick apart the details of his new story and have him lose his cool at a couple points. If you do it right, you then get to watch Tobin have a total meltdown right there in the courtroom and reveal a little too much information. If that happens, then you have won the game.
• Kid Icarus: Uprising: During the Aurum arc, Palutena blames only Viridi and Hades for the Aurum invasion, pointing out that the war between the Underworld and Forces of Nature most likely drew the Aurum, stated to be "beckoned by destruction and corruption," to Earth in the first place. Viridi rightfully points out that Palutena and Pit are just as responsible, since they raised quite a bit of destruction themselves fighting Medusa. Pit shoots back by pointing out that between the three factions, Viridi and her Reset Bomb were the most destructive, which Viridi refuses to acknowledge.
• Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords:
  • G0-T0 gives the PC several repeated What the Hell, Hero? speeches over the destruction of Peragus mining facility (as well as, well, Peragus) — even though the PCs' presence on Peragus was the result of being abducted by G0-T0's bounty hunter, who also gratuitously slaughtered all of the facility's personnel before the PC even came to. And said slaughter, along with keeping the PC drugged, delays the escape long enough for the Sith to catch up, and destroy Peragus in the confrontation.
  • The Jedi Council initially refuses to act during the Mandalorian wars, but they eventually use the Exile as a scapegoat once they finally do start to feel the effects of the war. While a few admit they were wrong when the Exile meets them, when they convene on Dantootine, they decide the Exile is still somehow to blame so they won't have to acknowledge the truth. This is the basis of "The Reason You Suck" Speech Kreia gives them.
• The Legend of Dragoon: As Claire's martial arts master, Haschel pokes and pokes at her to be more aggressive until she accidentally kills her sparring partner. Then he accuses her of "planting a murderous intention in her fist." No, what happened on his watch, as a result of his words to his student, wasn't his fault. By the time the game proper has started, he's realized this and his motivation is to track her down so she can forgive him.
  Haschel: It's been 20 years since I left the village pursuing Claire, but what I have found was only my immaturity.
• In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Tatl stops you from following the Skull Kid in the beginning, and as a result gets left behind by him. She immediately blames Link for it.
• Life Is Strange: Chloe Price despite being It's All About Me would happily pass the buck when it comes to accepting consequences for her actions, and when called out on this by Max she even admits she would rather stick blame on anyone else rather than accept that maybe she has some responsibility in how shitty her life has gotten.
• In Loopmancer, the villain Wei Long taunts you that your daughter's death is your fault. Even though it's his mooks trying to assasinate you on his orders that resulted in your child's death. Then he goes further by threatening your crippled wife...
  "That car accident, I set it up! At first I only wanted to kill you. But five years ago, you just wouldn't let me go..."
• Love, Sam: Kyle. He insists that all that happened was Sam's fault for getting in his way and falling in love with Brian, which eventually leads to Kyle setting off to ruin her life, ruining his relationship with Brian and Stacy and eventually killing Sam. In his diary (the diary the game follows), Kyle ostensibly paints himself as the victim of the whole situation. He gets the chance to avert this in the end of the game, where he is offered the option of destroying the diary or keeping it. By destroying it, he assumes the fault for his actions and either kills himself or turn himself in for the police.
• Mari and the Black Tower: The ending of the book "Of Gods and Men" shows that Helena sacrificed herself to save humanity from Zamas. Zamas proceeds to blame humanity for making Helena do this, all while ignoring his own responsibility in corrupting them.
• The Mass Effect series:
  • The krogan have a pretty selective memory, believing, "We saved the galaxy from the rachni, then they neutered us all," completely skipping over the massive aggressive, expansionist war that they started in between. Only Wrex and a few other krogan seem to realize this, with most krogan remaining belligerent and unapologetic. If Wrex is dead and you cure the Genophage, his brother Wreav outright admits that as soon as the Reapers are defeated he's going to raise an army of krogan and take revenge on the galaxy.
  • The quarians despise the geth for driving them off their homeworld, apparently ignoring the fact that the only reason the geth did that was because the quarians were trying to wipe them out. If Shepard points this out to Tali in the first game, she claims that the quarians had no choice, which the third game shows is complete bullshit. Not only did the quarians provoke conflict with the completely docile and friendly geth, but the old quarian government killed off any quarians who spoke out against this state-ordered genocide. In the third game, this leads to the Flotilla going into a pointless war with the geth thanks to one warmonger of an admiral who refuses to accept that he may be making a mistake. At that point Tali has gone through Character Development and realizes what a bunch of hypocrites/idiots the admirals are.
  • Near the end of Lair of the Shadow Broker if the player chooses a certain dialogue option, Liara will criticize Kaidan/Ashley for not trusting Shepard after the latter was brought Back from the Dead by a known terrorist organization, conveniently leaving out the part where she was the one who left them in the dark on the subject, which allowed the Illusive Man to poison them with false information. She also slips into this in 3, repeatedly blaming Javik for not living up to her extremely romanticised view of the Protheans.
• Mega Man Zero: Dr. Weil blames the Reploids for causing destruction all the time,^note Which is not entirely unfounded, given that some Reploids who became Mavericks of their own free will didn’t even need the Sigma Virus to go Maverick but he considers it "the right thing" when he enacts Project Elpizo in an effort to brainwash Reploids so they would never harm a single human again and causes the Elf Wars (Decimating 90% of Reploids and 60% of humans) when X and Zero (In a new body) steal the Dark Elf from him, and then blamed the humans themselves for punishing him. He might be right, considering that the humans went vigilante on his ass...if not for the fact that the Eight Gentle Judges are Reploids made by Weil himself, in the event that he would be caught and tried for trying to "help" humanity with their Reploid problems.
• Huey Emmerich, as of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain: When he is called out for his crimes: helping XOF destroy the MSF and the original Motherbase, helping Skull Face create the ST-84 Metal Gear, causing the Vocal Cord parasite mutation that resulted in the deaths of dozens of Diamond Dog's personnel, attempting to use his son in a weapon experiment, and for murdering his wife, he refuses any blame. He tells outright lies (such as claiming that his wife had committed suicide or that he was not aware of XOF's attack until it had started), shifts the blame onto someone else (trying to blame Venom Snake for the deaths of the Diamond Dogs personnel even though Snake had only killed them to prevent the spread of an infection caused by Huey, or claiming that Kaz was the traitor because he had contacts with Cipher in the past), or, after being caught out in the lie, tries to claim that he had done the right thing anyway (he claims that MSF and Diamond Dogs were just bands of murderers that needed to be destroyed).
• Mighty No. 9: The plot happened because years ago Gregory Graham tried to use Trinity to get ahead of weapon development, only to be stopped by Dr. Blackwell, who was incarcerated so Graham could avoid being arrested. Years later, he tries again and Trinity causes the robot apocalypse. He tries to shift blame to anyone he can think of, from Trinity's creators to his own parents.
• In Mother 3, Wess sends Duster to retrieve a certain artifact from Osohe Castle. When Duster comes back with Osohe's Noble Spitoon, Wess destroys it in a fit of rage, belittles Duster and calls him a moron for bringing the wrong thing. However, Wess never told Duster anything about what he was supposed to steal other than the fact that it was shiny, and he also failed to tell Duster that the artifact he was looking for is sealed behind a doorway that can only be opened by performing a specific special dance Duster was taught as a child.
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: Beldam twice blames Vivian for losing something that she'd earlier insisted on hanging onto herself because Vivian "couldn't be trusted with something so important". After the second time, Vivian gets fed up with Beldam's mistreatment and joins forces with Mario.
• Shin Megami Tensei: Persona:
  • In both Persona 3 and Persona 4, each bad guy before the final Cosmic Horror/Knight Templar-goddess boss says something to the effect of "If this all happened because the world is a crappy place, then it's all your fault for making it this way, isn't it?", completely ignoring the fact that 1) Nyx was prematurely summoned because the Kirijo Group screwed with the Arcana Shadows, namely Death and 2) Adachi's murder spree helped convince Izanami that her Assimilation Plot was the right idea. Takaya truly believes this is the reason and doesn't care either way; Adachi is blaming you because you have him cornered, and he's been partially possessed by Izanami's right-hand man at the time.
  • Persona 4 also has Eri Minami, who recently married and is having a hard time bonding with her stepson Yuuta. While she admits that she rushed into marriage despite not knowing that her husband has a son, she also tends to blame Yuuta for their inability to connect, which is only half-right, as Eri is also somewhat awkward around him. Ultimately, when Eri complains about how Yuuta's behavioral problems have resulted in his teacher and the other mothers disliking her, Yuuta assumes the player character made her cry and punches him in response, forcing Eri to realize that Yuuta is actually a good kid and to open up to him.
  • In Persona 5, the citizens of Tokyo, faced with uncertainty and despair in a corrupt society, lose hope in the possibility of change, blaming others for their woes and accepting enslavement in all but name to pass the responsibilities to those that can handle them (and won't). It gets so bad that Yabaldoth transforms the city into a Womb Level, and 99.9% of the population ignores it because they can't understand what they've done.
  • In Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth, Hikari's homeroom teacher assigned three students to take care of a rabbit, only to see it become sick. Two out of the three students meekly apologize, but when Hikari rightfully points out that the teacher fed the rabbit something that wasn't safe to eat, the teacher accuses Hikari of shifting the blame and orders her to apologize.
• Done twice in Episode 3 of Phantasy Star Universe. First the Parum refugees hate the GUARDIANS because of the GUARDIANS Colony crash-landing on Parum, which killed thousands and left the survivors homeless with hardly any means to survive. Then the New Rogues leader, Tylor refuses to work with the GUARDIANS because they did nothing while the SEED-Virus was unleashed on Beasts. Turning them into SEED-forms which lead them to be purified. Both events were beyond the control of the GUARDIANS.
• Portal 2:
  • By the time of the final battle, Wheatley's incompetent management has left the Enrichment Centre on the brink of self-destruction. Wheatley rants at Chell for running off with GLaDOS after he "reluctantly" assumed power, when in reality he jumped at the opportunity to take over and then tried to kill them. He even claims that there's nothing wrong with the facility, and all the alarms and warnings going off are just a conspiracy by the two of them trying to sabotage him, even as his lair starts to catch fire and the ceiling collapses around him.
  • After the final fight, Wheatley finally realizes he screwed up and admits to the camera that if he could see Chell again, he would apologize.
  • From the incinerator trap on through Portal 2, GLaDOS acts like her destruction by Chell was an act of unprovoked aggression, rather than necessary self-defense, and treats Chell like a violent, ungrateful lunatic lashing out at the people trying to help her.
  • Cave Johnson blames Black Mesa and life for his company's failure, completely ignoring the fact that his continued abuse of ethics and ridiculous spending was what really got it done.
• From Project Wingman, Crimson 1's hypocritical ranting in the second half of the game about how the devastation of war is Monarch and the mercenaries' fault when the Federation has been in a losing war since the battle of Bering Strait and Crimson 1 himself, against orders, pulled the trigger on some of the worst atrocities seems to stem from a sense of denial that he might have backed the wrong horse when he betrayed his homeland.
• Scylla Cartier-Wells from Remember Me. While she constantly blames her daughter, Nilin for a car accident that cost her a leg, it was her fault for turning around to talk to her daughter while driving, instead of stopping at the red light just up ahead. While it is true that Nilin was misbehaving before, she wasn't misbehaving for about a minute before the crash, which doesn't justify Scylla's behaviour.
• Resident Evil:
  • Prior to Resident Evil: Revelations 2, Barry forgot to lock his guns up one day, and his daughters got into them and started playing with them, until Moira accidentally shot Polly. Barry placed the blame on Moira rather than accepting that it was his own fault for not putting his guns away. It isn't until Moira is presumed dead over the course of the game that Barry accepts that it was his fault.
  • In Resident Evil 2 (Remake), it's downplayed with Annette. In Leon's scenario, Annette doesn't deny that she is responsible for the mess as she easily had the chance to kill William when he infected himself but hesitated. However, she insists she did not mean for the whole mess to happen in the first place. Leon doesn't buy Annette's attempts to downplay the severity of her actions.
• Rise of the Third Power:
  • At Peren Desh, Noraskov claims that the upcoming world war is going to be bloodier because the party wrested Cirinthia from his control, meaning he will go to war with both Cirinthia and Tariq. He ignores that it's his choice to start the war in the first place.
  • He accuses the rest of the party for turning his son Gage against him, but Rashim makes it clear that this is Gage's choice. Even before the party made plans to recruit Gage, it's clear that Noraskov's twisted ideology and hypocrisy caused Gage to doubt him.
• RWBY: Grimm Eclipse: The Big Bad of the game is Dr. Merlot, a scientist who was previously believed dead and who is responsible for the fall of Mountain Glenn. This was a town that was overrun by the Grimm years ago, resulting in the complete loss of life of its inhabitants. The game very strongly implies that Dr. Merlot's unsanctioned experiments on the Grimm to make them even more powerful and dangerous than they already are was to blame. During a confrontation that builds up towards the game's climax, Dr. Merlot asks Professor Ozpin if Ozpin would believe him if he said the fall of Mountain Glenn wasn't his fault. However, Ozpin only believes that Dr. Merlot never takes responsibility for his actions and the consequences that stem from them.
• In Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell Satan blames Vlad the Impaler for the failure of one of his attacks on Heaven, as Vlad was the General he nominated to lead his forces. This is despite the fact that Vlad correctly predicted the attack would end in failure and tried to point out the multiple tactical flaws involved, but Satan ignored him and insisted the attack should go ahead regardless.
• In Scarface: The World Is Yours, some of the truly hilarious insults Tony can scream at pedestrians as he runs them over include "You fucked up my grill, you stupid fuck!", "Hey! You cracked my fucking windshield, man!", and "Next time maybe you look both ways, you fuck!"
• Shadow the Hedgehog: Eggman and Black Doom both get mad at you for destroying their armies, ignoring the fact that their armies are trying to kill you and neither of them make any effort to get them to stop.
• Played for Laughs in The Simpsons Hit & Run with Homer, where nearly all of his reactions to crashing into someone or breaking something involve pinning the blame on others:
  I didn't do it!
  I blame society!
  Uh, it was like that when I got here!
  Learn to drive, dumbass!
  Reckless driving is my pet peeve...
  Bart did it.
• Lyric, the Big Bad of Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, blames the other Ancients for his incurable disease, which necessitated his conversion into a Cyborg, when in reality, it was his own reckless experiments with the Chaos Crystals that led to him contracting said disease in the first place.
• In Sonic Rivals, Eggman Nega's motive is that the failures of his ancestor, Dr. Eggman, caused the world to refuse to recognize genius, motivating him to travel back in time, and kill his ancestor, erasing his failures and altering his family history. According to Shadow, though, this is just Nega blaming his own failures on the past.
• In Soulcalibur's backstory, Siegfried and his gang attacked a band of knights, returning from a campaign, with the intention of robbing them. Siegfried beheaded the Knight's commander and held his severed head up to gloat. It turned out to be his own father. His mind became so warped that he psychologically convinced himself that someone else killed him. Some of his endings in the games show him taking responsibility for this.
• In South Park: The Fractured but Whole, the New Kid's parents are kidnapped by Mitch Conner, which is just Cartman's alternate persona in hand puppet form. None of the other kids buy it. Despite chasing him throughout the last quarter of the game, cornering him, and beating the shit out of him, he still refuses to admit what he did and still blames everything on Mitch Conner, even though they both one and the same. Across all media, he never, ever, accepts personal responsibility for anything he does and instead twists everything so that he is actually the true hero no matter what.
• In Spec Ops: The Line, after committing numerous atrocities in Dubai, Walker develops a Dissociative Identity Disorder and starts hallucinating an imaginary colonel Konrad over the radio, on whom he blames all the things that he himself has done, even though the real Konrad committed suicide quite some time ago after he couldn't deal with the consequences of his own actions. Even when confronted with Konrad's corpse Walker can still disbelieve that he is hallucinating by shooting the hallucination. Though it could also be his way of showing he doesn't need him anymore to owe up to his mistakes (depending on what ending the player is aiming for).
  Konrad: It takes a strong man to deny what's right in front of him.
  Walker: Stronger than you were.
• Star Shift Origins: Commodore Wellington blames the Dauntless crew for the disastrous mission to recover the Raven and for the ESA gassing Raxion II, even though it was his Novus Federation forces who failed to stop the gas ship.
• In Star Trek Online's "Delta Rising" expansion, one mission has the Player Character attempt to broker peace with the invading Vaadwaur. When Vaadwaur leader Gaul learns this means ending his invasion (as opposed to you joining him in conquering the quadrant), he loses his temper and starts massacring Talaxian civilians at the space station where you're holding the talks, then accuses you of laying a trap when Admiral Tuvok arrives with Turei reinforcements.
• Sword of Paladin: The former emperor of Asgard, Ragnarek, claims Charlemagne is at fault for betraying him, even though it was he who betrayed her in order to fulfill his ambitions of conquering the surface world.
• Tales of the Abyss:
  • The main issue the party has with Luke unwittingly destroying Akzeriuth is his refusal to accept responsibility for it. Once he realizes that he is responsible and vows to change himself and make amends, the party begins to forgive him, some more quickly than others.
    • After they've had time to cool down and think things over, the team admits that they could have stopped Luke, being more aware of the situation than a kid who has spent the most important years of his life locked in his parents' mansion. That's why they decide to give him a second chance. By the time the team is all together again, the only person who's blaming him for "the incident" is Luke himself.
  • There is also a sidequest involving a character named Casim, who tries to use a forbidden fonic art. Jade and Tear manage to stop him from causing an explosion, but as a side affect, Casim loses his eyesight. Casim blames Jade for not stopping him in the first place. Thankfully, Luke sets him straight with punch in the face.
  • One skit that's activated by sleeping at the inn in Daath has Jade say that Anise is pretty thin, flat, Luke adds. Anise says "Oh, just...just shut up! It's not all about size, you know! Big blobs of fat like that'll just droop down and look ugly before you even hit thirty!", just as Tear walks in. She leaves in a huff. Jade and Anise scold Luke for hurting Tear's feelings to which Luke bellows "There is no way in hell that this is my fault!"
• Tales of Xillia: After the death of Milla, Alvin tries to get Jude to snap out of his Heroic BSoD by attacking him... and takes it too far by shooting Leia In the Back. While initially horrified by it, he soon blows his stack and screams at an equally enraged Jude that it's his fault. Sure, Alvin, you can blame Jude, but which one of you has the gun in his hand?
• Tomb Raider (2013): After Alex's death, Reyes blames Lara for failing to save him and accuses her of being a Doom Magnet, apparently forgetting that she was the one who let Alex go off on his own in the first place.
• Transformers video games:
  • Starscream of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, despite being the main reason for the loss of a large amount of Decepticon forces and the failure of a huge operation, blames his soldiers, the Combaticons (who were the ones who bailed said operation out and cleaned up after Starscream) and tosses them into jail for insubordination when they protest.
  • Megatron considers Cybertron's state of shutdown all Optimus's fault, saying that he's stopped him from returning Cybertron to its natural state when he stopped the Core's corruption from Dark Energon. Already an absurd statement which is even more absurd when Dark Energon is Unicron's blood.
  • In the prequel, Transformers: War for Cybertron, Megatron knocks on Zeta Prime's door in the streets of Iacon and gets his ego bruised for the trouble. He then angrily orders Brawl to call in a bombing run on the gates despite Brawl's warnings that the Autobot's firepower would destroy their air support. As a result, two bombers full of Decepticons get destroyed for absolutely nothing, with Megatron blaming the pilot's supposed incompetence rather than his temper and hasty decision-making. Brawl politely but passive-aggressively suggests they disable the anti-aircraft guns so the bombers can safely destroy the door to Zeta Prime's vaults.
• Warframe:
  • In "Once Awake", the Tenno investigate Doctor Tengus's experiments with weaponizing the Infestation, which breaks out of the containment and spreads out into Mercury and beyond. The quest ends with an intercepted message from Tengus blaming the Tenno for the outbreak and even claiming they've taken the samples to use against Grineer (well... there is a large arsenal of weapons made with the Infestation the Tenno can use).
  • In "Vox Solaris", Nef Anyo orders an activation of an ancient terraforming tower despite the experts warning him it's too early to activate safely. When the activated tower expectedly blows up, Nef orders Eudico to round up 50 least-efficient workers for brain-shelving as a punishment.
  • "The Sacrifice" reveals Ballas betrayed his Orokin empire to the Sentients for supposedly killing his "beloved" Margulis, even though at that point it's been revealed he voted for executing her because he couldn't compromise his public persona... when one document from Cephalon Simaris shows he could manipulate his fellow executors into sparing someone important by playing up that persona. In the follow-up mini-quest "Chimera Prologue", he blames the Lotus —whom he brainwashed into being his Margulis in "Apostasy Prologue"— for deceiving him and denying him a beautiful death. In "The New War", when he finds out Lotus is still alive, he drops all the pretense of civility and decides on a whim to destroy the Sun, claiming it's exactly what she wanted, with a tone of an abusive domestic partner.
• Watch_Dogs:
  • In the final mission, antagonist Damien accuses protagonist Aiden Pearce points out that Pearce's motivation throughout the story is to avenge his niece's death, caused when a heist that he and Damien enacted went wrong and got a hit taken out on them. However Aiden immediately responds that he does blame himself for his part in the plan.
  • In their first meeting after the fallout of the heist, Damien —while drunk— blames Aiden for getting him crippled, when it was Damien who refused to back off when it looked like trouble was brewing or pull out when they started tripping alarms. If he had just cut off when Aiden asked there's a decent chance they would be fine now.
• On the second day of The World Ends with You, Neku and his partner Shiki, who are playing The Reaper's Game, encounter Uzuki, one of the Reapers running the game. Uzuki lies to Neku and claims that Shiki is a spy, then says if Neku erases Shiki, Uzuki will let him out of the game. Neku almost kills Shiki when Hanekoma walks in, calls Uzuki out on issuing a fake second mission for the day. Neku gets angry with Uzuki for tricking him, but Hanekoma reminds Neku that he fell for it, and insists that he owes Shiki an apology.
• World of Warcraft:
  • Garrosh Hellscream infects his men with the Sha and when they all succumb, blames Anduin who up to that point, had done nothing beyond telling Garrosh he was making a grave mistake. He also orders an attack on the Alliance fleet in Twilight Highlands, despite both parties being present to fight the Twilight's Hammer, and then tells his men that the Alliance attacked first. In the final confrontation with Thrall, he accuses Thrall of leaving him to rule the Horde in spite of the fact that he wasn't ready, conveniently forgetting that Thrall had given him respected Horde leaders to advise him, whom Garrosh then proceeded to alienate and/or try to kill.
  • The nation of Kul Tiras portrays Daelin Proudmoore as a noble man who was ruthlessly betrayed by his daughter he tried to save as he fought valiantly against the evil Horde. In reality, while he did set out to save Jaina, Daelin started the conflict with the Horde and was given multiple chances to withdraw both by Thrall and Jaina, the latter of whom did her best to convince him the Horde wasn't the same as before. Not only did Daelin continue to antagonize the Horde, he ousted Jaina from Theramore and tried to have Thrall killed during parley, only failing due to Rexxar having guessed it would be a trap. In the end, Daelin was killed because it was the only way to end a conflict he started.
• Xenoblade Chronicles:
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna ~ The Golden Country: Prince Zettar tries to blame Addam for failing to stop Malos from stealing the seal of Torna with his attack on Auresco. The King has to remind him by that logic, Zettar is just as much at fault for having his men run away with the townspeople rather than assisting Addam in his efforts.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Mrs. Reid refuses to acknowledge her role in her daughter Shania's Face–Heel Turn and downfall, blaming it entirely on her for being the "pathetic child."

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