History NeverMyFault / VideoGames

** From ''VideoGame/BioShock1'', 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 [[IRejectYourReality deluded himself into thinking Rapture will regain its former glory once he kills the Player Character]].

* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'', TokenEvilTeammate Shadowheart acts as though her [[TeethClenchedTeamwork rivalry with Lae'zel]] is completely one-sided when she antagonized her at every turn [[spoiler:and is ''currently holding a knife to her throat'']], and in Act II [[spoiler:if allowed to kill Nightsong and destroy Last Light she blames the PlayerCharacter for not stopping her if called out on it, then says it was their own fault for putting themselves in danger]].

** 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 you cure the Genophage, Wrex's 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.

** ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'' 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.[[spoiler: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.]]

** ComicBook/TheJoker seems to partially blame his [[spoiler:impending death from the poisonous side-effects of the Titan SuperSerum]] on Franchise/{{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 [[TropeNamers well known]] for MultipleChoicePast, it is unclear whether he truly thinks he remembers Batman leaving him to die, or if he's just screwing around (and possibly {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing the villain's tendency to use this trope). [[spoiler:The Joker is the one who injected himself with the serum and helped create it.]]

** In "Once Awake", the Tenno investigate Doctor Tengus's experiments with weaponizing [[TheVirus 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 claims they've taken the samples to use against [[TheEmpire Grineer]] (well... there ''is'' a large arsenal of weapons made with the Infestation the Tenno can use).

** "The Sacrifice" reveals Ballas betrayed his Orokin empire to [[RobotWar 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. [[spoiler:In the follow-up mini-quest "Chimera Prologue", he blames the Lotus --whom he brainwashed [[DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest into being his Margulis]] in "Apostasy Prologue"-- for deceiving him and [[BodyHorror denying him a beautiful death]].]] [[spoiler: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 [[StarKilling destroy the Sun]], claiming it's exactly what she wanted]].

* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'', arguments with TokenEvilTeammate Shadowheart tend to go this route as a result of CantArgueWithElves. She acts as though her [[TeethClenchedTeamwork rivalry with Lae'zel]] is completely one-sided when she antagonized her at every turn [[spoiler:and is ''currently holding a knife to her throat'']], and in Act II [[spoiler:if allowed to kill Nightsong and destroy Last Light she blames the PlayerCharacter for not stopping her if called out on it, then says it was their own fault for putting themselves in danger]].
* Played with in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''. ComicBook/TheJoker seems to partially blame his [[spoiler: impending death from the poisonous side-effects of the Titan SuperSerum]] on Franchise/{{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 the {{Trope Namer|s}} for MultipleChoicePast, it is unclear whether he truly thinks he remembers Batman leaving him to die, or if he's just screwing around (and possibly LampshadeHanging the villain's tendency to use this trope). [[spoiler: The Joker is the one who injected himself with the serum and helped create it.]]
** Also occurs when he gives his origin story to Hugo Strange (it's the same story from ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke''). Strange points out the Joker has [[MultipleChoicePast many different versions of his origin]], and the only consistent thing is that he blames Batman for his condition in every one.
** A more clear-cut example happens during the ending when [[spoiler: 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 [[SubvertedTrope Joker sees the irony]]]]. It comes up again in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''; during the [[spoiler: [[VillainSong "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 treated sympathetically overall, Hugo Strange (fairly accurately) accuses him of this. Though he is fundamentally well-intentioned, Freeze's 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.
** Likewise with the Penguin and his backstory who 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.

* ''VideoGame/BestOfThree'': Subverted. 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).

** Zachary Hale Comstock, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' has severe trouble facing his own guilt, to the point that this is arguably his most defining trait. [[spoiler: 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, [[spoiler: 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:''' Always seeking [[spoiler: someone else's life to claim as his own]].

* This is a key part of [[BigBad Handsome Jack's]] character in ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' and ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel''. 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 [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler:she chose SuicideByCop just to end her suffering]].

* Stross from ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2''. He 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, [[spoiler:eventually becoming [[FaceHeelTurn 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 ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'', in a Low-Chaos run, when all their plans are unraveling, [[spoiler: Havelock]] would say that it was [[spoiler: Martin]]'s fault as they had suggested and planned [[spoiler: Corvo's breakout]]. Then, [[spoiler: Havelock]] switches it around and blames ''Corvo'' for being "so damn good at his job". Finally, [[spoiler: Havelock]] says it was all their faults for being greedy but at no point, outright takes any responsibility for their actions.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', Loghain is of this mind regarding the failure at Ostagar. When Anora asks him an ArmorPiercingQuestion over whether or not he indirectly killed [[TheGoodKing Cailan]], he looks away from her and mutters that Cailan's death was his own fault.

* ''[[VideoGame/DynastyWarriors 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!"

* Lord Brevon from ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'', when he's not trying to portray his villainous actions as [[WellIntentionedExtremist 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 ColdBloodedTorture) onto the heroes while painting himself as merely reacting their interference. Fortunately, nobody buys his excuses, and Torque even throws his blame-dodging back in his face at one point.
* In ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'', [[spoiler:Yomiel]] blames ''everyone'' but himself for having a hand in [[spoiler: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, [[spoiler:as Yomiel admits that he knows Lynne was innocent, and knows that he screwed up his life]].
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' has this going on on both sides. 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 {{jerkass|Gods}}es 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 [[spoiler: Freya]] in ''Videogame/GodOfWarPS4'' but still present. After [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler:Baldur's insanity and obsession with killing her]] due to her own selfishness.
** ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'' 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.[[spoiler: 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 ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' 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 BigBad alone in order to atone.

* In ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'', this is applied to both Injustice!Superman and Injustice!Batman.

* James Tobin is just made up of this trope ''VideoGame/InThe1stDegree''. He 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. Even at that point, he still obeys this trope. 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.

* G0-T0 of ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' gives the PC several repeated WhatTheHellHero speeches over the destruction of Peragus mining facility (as well as, well, [[EarthShatteringKaboom 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 is also guilty of this. Initially refusing to act during the Mandalorian wars, 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 TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Kreia gives them.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'': This shows up in Haschel's backstory of him being a lousy parent. As her martial arts master, he pokes and pokes at Claire 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 [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realized this]] and his motivation is to track her down so she can forgive him.

* ''VideoGame/{{Loopmancer}}'' have the villain Wei Long using this phrase to taunt you, almost word-for-word, 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...

* ''VideoGame/MariAndTheBlackTower'': 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 krogan in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series 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 you cure the Genophage, Wrex's 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 quarian race also applies. They 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, [[spoiler: 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 an idiotic 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 CharacterDevelopment and realizes [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch what a bunch of hypocrites/idiots the admirals are]].
** Liara has a small moment near the end of ''[[{{DLC}} Lair of the Shadow Broker]]'' if the player chooses a certain dialogue option. She criticizes Kaidan/Ashley for not trusting Shepard after the latter was brought BackFromTheDead by a known terrorist organization, conveniently leaving out the part where [[PoorCommunicationKills 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 [[LastOfHisKind Javik]] for not living up to her extremely romanticised view of [[{{Precursors}} the Protheans]].

* [[spoiler:Huey Emmerich]], as of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'', is this to a T. When he is called out for his crimes: [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler:(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 [[spoiler:(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 [[spoiler:(he claims that MSF and Diamond Dogs were just bands of murderers that needed to be destroyed)]].

* In both ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', each bad guy before the [[spoiler: final CosmicHorror[=/=]KnightTemplar-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) [[spoiler: Nyx was prematurely summoned because the Kirijo Group screwed with the Arcana Shadows, namely Death]] and 2) [[spoiler: Adachi's murder spree helped convince Izanami that her AssimilationPlot was the right idea]]. [[DarkMessiah Takaya]] truly believes this is the reason and doesn't care either way; [[spoiler: Adachi is blaming you because you have him cornered, and he's been partially possessed by Izanami's right-hand man at the time]].

** ''Videogame/Persona5'' takes the cake. [[spoiler: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 WombLevel, ''and 99.9% of the population ignores it because they can't understand what they've done''.]]

* Done twice in Episode 3 of ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarUniverse.'' First [[spoiler: the Parum refugees]] hate the GUARDIANS because of [[spoiler:the [[ColonyDrop GUARDIANS Colony crash-landing on Parum,]] which killed thousands and left the survivors homeless with hardly any means to survive]]. Then [[spoiler: the New Rogues leader, Tylor]] refuses to work with the GUARDIANS because [[spoiler: they did nothing while the SEED-Virus was unleashed on Beasts. Turning them into SEED-forms which lead them [[ShootTheDog to be purified]]]]. Both events were beyond the control of the GUARDIANS.

** By the time of the final battle, [[spoiler: 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 [[ImplausibleDeniability 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, [[spoiler: Wheatley finally realizes he screwed up and admits [[ConfessionCam to the camera]] that if he could see Chell again, he would apologize]].
** SelfDemonstrating/{{GLaDOS}} also shows signs of this, from [[spoiler:the incinerator trap]] on through ''Portal 2''. She 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. He 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.

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2'': Prior to the game, [[spoiler: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 [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone accepts that it was his fault]]]].
** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'', 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.

--> I didn't do it!
--> I blame society!
--> Uh, it was like that when I got here!
--> Learn to drive, dumbass!
--> [[HypocriticalHumor Reckless driving is my pet peeve...]]
--> Bart did it.

* Part of Siegfried's backstory in ''VideoGame/SoulCalibur'': He 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 ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'', the New Kid's parents are kidnapped by [[spoiler: 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 [[spoiler: Mitch Conner]], even though they both one and the same.
** This is consistent with his character across all media, as he never, ''ever'', accepts personal responsibility for anything he does and instead twisting everything so that he is actually the true hero no matter what.
* A rather dark example in ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine''. [[spoiler: After committing numerous atrocities in Dubai, Walker develops a Dissociative Identity Disorder and starts hallucinating an imaginary colonel Konrad over the radio, on who 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 ([[MultipleEndings depending on what ending the player is aiming for]]).]]
-->'''[[spoiler: Konrad]]''': [[LampshadeHanging It takes a strong man to deny what's right in front of him]].
-->'''[[spoiler: Walker]]''': [[{{Reconstruction}} Stronger than you were]].

*** Additionally, 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.

** Another example that's played for laughs: 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!"''
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia'': After the death of [[spoiler: Milla]], Alvin tries to get Jude to snap out of his HeroicBSOD by attacking him... and takes it too far by shooting [[spoiler: Leia]] InTheBack. 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?
* Averted with Gray Mann of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''. While [[SurroundedByIdiots he seethes at the fact all his robots are imbeciles]], he admits it's his fault for designing them, [[KneelBeforeZod and claims that the "hailing circuit" was his one moment of weakness]].

* Starscream of ''VideoGame/TransformersFallOfCybertron'' despite being the main reason for the loss of a large amount of Decepticon forces and the failure of a huge operation, he 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.

* In the final mission of ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'' antagonist Damien accuses protagonist Aiden Pearce of this, pointing 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. [[SubvertedTrope 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.

* Garrosh Hellscream in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' infects his men with the [[EldritchAbomination 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.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'': Dr. Weil blames the reploids for causing destruction all the time, but he considers it "the right thing" when he enacts Project Elpis and causes Elf Wars (decimating 90% of reploids and 60% of human population), and then blamed humans for punishing him. He might be right, considering that the humans are going vigilante... if not for the fact that the judges are reploids made by Weil himself.

* This is a key part of [[BigBad Handsome Jack's]] character in ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' and ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel''. 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 [[spoiler: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 entire reason [[spoiler:she chose SuicideByCop just to end her suffering]].

* Lord Brevon from ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'', when he's not trying to portray his villainous actions as [[WellIntentionedExtremist necessary evils]], likes to deflect all responsibility for said actions (that include usurping control of an entire nation to start a war, brainwashing characters into servitude, stealing the primary source of power for the entire planet, and ColdBloodedTorture) onto the heroes while painting himself as merely reacting their interference. Fortunately, nobody buys his excuses, and Torque even throws his blame-dodging back in his face at one point.

* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' has this going on on both sides. 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, not to mention deceiving him about the rewards for following their orders and generally being the {{jerkass|Gods}}es 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.

* The ''{{Franchise/Halo}}'' series's background info has the entire 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 MadScientist who did it all ForScience ONI fails to mention that the SPARTAN-II Program was ''their'' idea; in fact, ''Literature/HaloGhostsOfOnyx'' shows that ONI head Margaret Parangosky actually considered Halsey to be a ''"bleeding-heart"'' who was ''too'' concerned about the [=IIs=]' well-being.

** While Batman blames himself for not preventing Superman's FaceHeelTurn, 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 CardboardPrison and continue terrorizing society with little repercussions. When Regime members and even the Joker accuse him for MurderByInaction, Batman staunchly won't accept it.

* G0-T0 of ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' gives the PC several repeated WhatTheHellHero speeches over the destruction of Peragus mining facility (as well as, well, [[EarthShatteringKaboom Peragus]]) -- even though the [=PCs'=] presence on Peragus was entirely 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 entire Jedi Council is also guilty of this. Initially refusing to act during the Mandalorian wars, 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 TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Kreia gives them.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'': This shows up in Haschel's backstory of him being a lousy parent. As her martial arts master, he pokes and pokes at Claire 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 [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realized this]] and his entire motivation is to track her down so she can forgive him.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'': Dr. Weil blames the reploids for causing destruction all the time, but he considers it "the right thing" when he enacts Project Elpis and causes Elf Wars (decimating 90% of reploids and 60% of human population), and then blamed humans for punishing him. He might be right, considering that the humans are basically going vigilante... if not for the fact that the judges are reploids made by Weil himself.

* ''VideoGame/MightyNo9'': [[spoiler:The entire 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 basically causes the robot apocalypse. He tries to shift blame to anyone he can think of, from Trinity's creators to his own parents.]]

** [[spoiler:He accuses the rest of the party for turning his son Gage against him, but Rashim makes it clear that this is entirely 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.]]

** Another example that's played entirely for laughs: 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!"''

** 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 literally is Unicron's blood.

* In the final mission of ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'' antagonist Damien accuses protagonist Aiden Pearce of this, pointing out that Pearce's entire 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. [[SubvertedTrope However]] Aiden immediately responds that he does blame himself for his part in the plan.
** Not to mention that 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.