Tropescilloscope: Never My Fault

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

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Rousing Speech The End... Or Is It? Empathic Environment Taking the Bullet Took a Level in Badass Black and Gray Morality Asshole Victim Shower Scene Christmas Movies Index An Axe to Grind Properly Paranoid Arch-Enemy Bolivian Army Ending Age Lift Made of Iron Artistic License – Physics