Most of the time, characters will blame themselves for things going south. But there are some cases where the character who really is to blame will blame everyone else instead. Common variations include: * The person stuck with the blame fails to defend himself, perhaps out of sheer dumbfoundedness at the other person's gall. * The blame-shifter offers an absurdly flimsy pretext for ducking responsibility. * The character does this all the time... and consistently gets away with it. The formal term for this is the "fundamental attribution error." Examples of Never My Fault include: