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{{trope}}
Fans sometimes blame the wrong people, and thus '''Misblame''' somebody. Comes in multiple varieties:
;Type 1<nowiki>:</nowiki> There are actual weaknesses in the original work, which were faithfully translated in an adaptation.
:For example, you see an anime or manga with great action sequences and an interesting premise, punctuated by bizarre changes by the translators that cheapen this premise, provide a jarring tone, or even make the plot nonsense. You assume it's fallen victim to a ''serious'' [[Macekre]]. So you import the DVD, maybe get a [[Region Coding|region 2 player]] if you live outside the region, and put it in... Surprise! It's not a
:It's less common for audiences nowadays who have access to the original material beforehand, [[Digital Piracy Is Evil|if you know what I mean]].
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Compare [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]] for misquotes. Compare and contrast [[Creator Worship]], [[Creator Backlash]], [[The Scapegoat]] and [[Scapegoat Creator]]. See also [[God Never Said That]], for a specific species of Type 4. Compare [[
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** The dub even got blamed for some art changes made for the Japanese DVDs!
* Among many things they ''do'' deserve to be blamed for, [[4Kids! Entertainment|4Kids]] is sometimes bashed for not dubbing the "first season" of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' (which covered the earlier chapters of the manga). Except that the "first season" was a different ''series'', made by a different animation company, with sometimes drastically different character designs, and not part of the same continuity as the second.
** Remember that scene where Jonouchi/Joey punches Honda/Tristan in Duelist Kingdom, and how it was supposedly removed in the dub? Well, it's your imagination because the scene was never in the original, either. (Joey punching Yami Yugi ''was'' cut, though.)
** Speaking of, considering all of the wacky things that [[Konami]] and Upper Deck Entertainment has done to the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' [[Yu-Gi-Oh Card Game|card game]], it's hard for fans to keep track of who did what, and will often misblame one company for a screw-up that the other did.▼
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*** 4Kids were also blamed
*** They also get blamed a lot for making up the concept of the "Shadow Realm" from whole cloth. They didn't
*** 4Kids is often blamed for turning Anzu/Tea into a "[[Love Freak|friendship nut]]", citing the speech she gives before Yugi and Kaiba's first duel as if 4Kids had created the whole scene themselves out of thin air. The speech in question and Anzu's tendencies were, again, almost utterly unchanged, being [[Character Exaggeration|slightly exaggerated]] at most.
*** You want to talk about getting blamed for stuff that wasn't their fault? Their page on this wiki reminds people that they weren't the ones responsible for [[Macekre]]ing ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]''
*** Similarly, the original TV dub of ''[[Escaflowne]]'', produced by Ocean Studios and with changes ordered by Fox, was at one point attributed to 4Kids on this wiki, as was ''[[Digimon]]''. You'd think the group of voice actors (literally coming from ''the other side of country'') used would be a strong hint.
** On the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's|5D's]]'' side of things, head writer Shin Yoshida is widely blamed for the second season being weaker than the first, when in truth many of the plot details fans didn't like are believed to have been [[Executive Meddling|enforced by the Konami executives]] [[Merchandise-Driven|to better sell cards]]. Some fans know this and bash Yoshida anyway for giving in to the execs' demands to change the plot.
* Speaking of ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', Nelvana is often itself misblamed for the terrible new theme, the skipping and reordering of episodes and eventual cancellation the show received when it aired on [[Kids WB]] in the United States. In all other English-speaking territories, all 70 episodes were aired in the correct order, non-spliced and with dubbed versions of the original themes. As [[Kids WB]] was known for editing other shows as well, it's odd Nelvana was blamed for this particular one.
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*** Or they just want to [[Troll|have some fun]] at the viewers' expense.
* Speaking of ''[[One Piece]]'', the series has a LOT of this. Just to give a few examples: The Government's law enforcers are referred to in Japanese as the "Kaigun" with the word "MARINE" written on their clothes. Thus, most fan-translations went with "Marine" to translate "Kaigun". "Kaigun" doesn't actually mean "Marine", it means "Navy". All English versions correctly translate it as "Navy", and this usually gets a backlash from fans claiming mistranslation. Funimation seems to use "Navy" and "Marine" interchangeably to curtail this though. Another good example is that Mr. 2 constantly refers to himself as a crossdresser (Okama) in the Japanese manga. Toei (the company who produce the anime adaption) objected to this for some reason (probably because he's a walking stereotype) and, in the Japanese version they changed all his references to being a "crossdresser" to being a "Ballerina". This is often called out as a form of "Funimation censorship" when seen in the dub or official subtitles, despite the fact that it was there in the Japanese version too. (Including pretty much all fansubs.)
* Anyone that tells you ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball]]'', ''[[Naruto]]'', ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', or ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' were shows for teens or adults that were "kiddified" by their English dubs. These are ''all
* Even though the modern dub of ''[[Laputa: Castle in the Sky]]'' has won over many new fans, there are a number of naysayers who have been overly critical of it, and that like most dubs Miyazaki would be ashamed of it. Uh...no he isn't...he actually ''approved'' the dub and the only dub he ''actually'' said to ignore was the old bad dub of Nausicaa from the 80s. And let's not mention the "omg Castle in the sky should be castle Laputa". This was changed because ''Laputa'' happens to resemble the phrase "La Puta", which means "The Whore" in Spanish, a language that more people in North America are likely to understand than in Japan. What would ''you'' think if you saw a film on shelves that was called "Castle The Whore"? Would your first instincts of the [[Animation Age Ghetto]] kick in and think it's a stupid cartoon kids should be watching or would you actually wonder why the hell it's called "Castle The Whore" when it's pretty PG-rated (at most).
** Granted; "Laputa" was actually from [[Gulliver's Travels]], and "The whore" was actually the original intention.
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* [[Tokyo Pop]] has been accused of "flipping" the first series of the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' manga. The manga was released that way in Japan as well.
* [[ADV Films]] occasionally catches flak for their [[Gag Dub]] of ''[[Ghost Stories]]'' from fans who accuse them of completely throwing out the original material just to move a few more DVDs. In fact, Aniplex, the studio responsible for the show's production, ''told'' ADV to do whatever they wanted to make the series sell, and approved the changes made by ADV.
* [[Geneon]] and adaptation studio New Generation Pictures caught some grief
* Geneon has been for "changing" ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'''s name to "When They Cry - Higurashi", when in fact, the [[Media Franchise]] that ''Higurashi'' belongs to is known as ''[[When They Cry]]'' in Japan.
** And the anime of ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' (which hasn't been dubbed yet) got blamed for an instance of Kinzo turning into a dragon in the final episode that a lot of fans found to be rather ridiculous. Thing is, if you read the original VN, you'll see that the scene was, um, also there. It was just described in the narration and not visually rendered on the screen.
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* Many Spanish ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' fans blame the Spanish translation team for all the [[Good Bad Translation|silly]] [[Macekre|or]] [[Inconsistent Translation|stupid]] changes in the anime. Actually, Spain bought ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' from France (Like Portugal, Germany and many other European countries did; it was common at the time), and about 90% or more of said changes are France's fault, not Spain's (Just ask any German or such about THEIR translation, for example.).
** Of course, try telling that to [[Broken Base|Catalonians or Latin Americans]] who say their dubs are numerous times better because they don't have those mistakes (Even if the Catalonian dub [[Fan Myopia|has some of these issues as well]], though they do have less of them). Especially on ''[[YouTube]]'. [[Schmuck Bait|Come on, try telling the Spanish-Spain dub isn't hellspawn]].
* [[Bang Zoom Entertainment]], a dubbing company, was accused of using interns in dubbing some anime (in particular ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' and ''[[
** To expand on this... many grossly uninformed warriors in the [[Subbing vs. Dubbing]] conflict will claim that ''all'' English dub voice acting is done by interns, the director's friends/family, homeless people off the street, etc.
* There's one internet forum (no names will be mentioned to protect the <s>innocent</s> [[Fan Dumb|idiots]]) where one poster said that "''Dragon Ball GT'' was a non-canon cash-in made by Funimation". Cue [[Face Palm]].
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** "It's a 3 hour wait at the military hospital. You'd be long dead before the examination." -> "They always glare at you before examination."
* ''[[The Mysterious Cities of Gold]]'' is a joint French-Japanese program written by Frenchmen and animated by a Japanese company. This hasn't stopped accusations of French [[Bowdlerization]] of the "original Japanese" popping up when differences between the two translations are noted. In reality, the differences were due to a mutual agreement between the French writers and Japanese localizers to fit plot details to the differing expectations of their respective 80s-era audiences.
* ''[[Your Name]]'':
** The English versions of the songs found in the dub were written and performed by Radwimps themselves. This has not stopped [https://www.huntnewsnu.com/2018/02/your-name-opens-japanese-film-festival/ some people] from blaming the dubbers for making unnecessary changes.
** The [[Live Action Adaptation]] being Westernised is [https://www.slashfilm.com/eric-heisserer-interview-bird-box/ actually a demand of the Japanese rights holders, who said that they could make a 100% faithful, Japanese cast-using one if they wanted, but deliberately don't.] Hasn't stopped countless people from blaming Hollywood.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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** Also, the extent to which the franchise is Budiansky's handiwork is often not understood - the early Marvel guys, him among them, were the people who were handed a bunch of toys and told to make them characters and a universe. ''Without him, Transformers as you know it never comes to be.'' If you're a TF fan, you have Bob to thank for way more of the things about the franchise you love than you realize - ''whichever'' series or comic happens to be your favorite, because all of them build on that original work to some extent.
* [[One More Day]] aside, [[Joe Quesada]] is apparently solely responsible for every hated story to come out of Marvel offices, during his tenure, he planned them, wrote them, drew them, colored them, lettered them, with no help from anyone, especially the creative team assigned to the book.
** To a lesser extent, some people sure love pinning everything DC Comics is doing "wrong" on either [[Dan
** Speaking of One More Day, JMS, the writer, has been both Mis-Blamed and Mis-Credited in its case. He was first blamed for creating the story until it was known Quesada ordered it - probably wouldn't have happened had he stuck to his guns and refused to have his name on it. When that came out, he was looked on as a hero for leaving the book and standing up against bad [[Executive Meddling]] - when in reality he supported the retcon but walked out because Quesada wouldn't let him take it even further and completely rewrite the Marvel Universe's entire history.
* Ken Penders has been given a ''lot'' of his from ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' fans, and comes in two flavors: bad stories misattributed to him, and dangling plot threads misexplained as him being a douche. In reality, most fans tend to forget that Ken lost his position as head writer to Karl Bollers for a good chunk of the timeframe most of the misattributed stories come from (in reality written by Bollers himself), and that [[Executive Meddling]] was pretty much a staple of the comic ever since issue 50, leading to confusion over whether Ken left the comic volunatrily due to conflicts with this meddling, or if he was fired because of it. Even the favorite accusations of old fans that he turned the Echidnas into a [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]] that dragged down the main comic's quality seems to be off, as he had little choice in the matter, and the Knuckles comic that came from it, despite being [[Screwed by the Network]], is still considered one of the best parts of the comic. Granted, there ''are'' bad stories that Ken has done, but not nearly the amount that is attributed to him.
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** Although, fact is, he could have at least did ''some'' research on the character before doing so.
* Jack Schiff got blamed for injecting sci-fi elements into [[Batman]]'s stories. In truth, it was editorial director Irwin Donenfeld's fault for having sci-fi be put into the DC output. Schiff recognised that aliens, spaceships, and the like had no place in Batman's detective storylines, and in fact, sci-fi is outside his aptitude as an editor. He argued against the management, but eventually gave in to pressure.
* While Dan Didio, the former editor at DC Comics, was responsible for a lot of bad decisions and storylines via [[Executive Meddling]], one of the things he was not responsible for was the killing of Connor Kent/Superboy in ''[[Infinite Crisis]]''. That was actually the result of a lawsuit by the Siegel brothers, the creators of Superman, who argued that Connor Kent having the title Superboy was technically copyright infringement, since they did not give consent. With the rights yanked, everyone at DC ordered Connor's death and forbade him from being mentioned by his superhero alias, instead just Connor.
== [[Film]] ==
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** There's also the fact that Burton's creative input may have been exaggerated to get the film extra publicity.
* The same complaints were alleged at Burton's adaptation of ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]''. Most of the complaints were in fact not departures from the original book, but actually more faithful to the book than the last movie was. In fact, one [http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2005/07/charlie_and_the_chocolate_fact.html prominent film critic] complained that the Burton adaptation had chickened out by showing the bad children having survived their ordeals where the 70s film had stayed "faithful", but the Burton film was actually being faithful to an identical scene in the book. The only drastic change to the film came towards the end with the subplot about Wonka's father, which is all Burton. The bad kids survived in the 70's movie, too, but a lot of people including that film critic apparently missed that phrase.
* Towards the end of ''[[Star Trek]]'s'' most recent run on television, it became popular to blame everything that had ever gone wrong with the franchise on Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. This became most noticeable with the flop of ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'', with both being blamed for the screenplay, along with the fact that the film was released in the same week as ''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers''. Braga was completely innocent, and had nothing whatsoever to do with ''Nemesis'' (or even the previous film, ''[[Star Trek:
* Some odd-seeming [[Narrative Devices]] and [[Plots]] in old movies have been misblamed on [[Hays Code|Hays Office]] censorship. ([[Values Dissonance]] may be a better explanation.)
* As for the [[Romantic Plot Tumor]] in ''[[Pearl Harbor]]'', [[Michael Bay]] didn't put that in. It was Randall Wallace.
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* The director of ''[[The Punisher|Punisher: War Zone]]'' openly lambasted the 2004 movie for having comedic parts such as the popsicle-torture. In fact, that scene was lifted almost directly from the comics, and [[Garth Ennis]], who greatly helped in raising the Punisher back to popularity in the comics, has mentioned that as his favourite scene from the older comics.
* Numerous fans and critics blamed the shifting of John Constantine's nationality and the setting in the ''[[Constantine]]'' movie on Keanu Reeves, claiming that it was because he couldn't do an English accent. ([[Dracula|He can]], [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping|even if not perfectly]].) However, as confirmed by various people involved, the shift to California was a decision made some time before Reeves was ever approached with the offer.
* In 2010, [[MGM]] has been bashed excessively by internet users (who have been [[Tainted by the Preview]]) when ''their financial problems'' delayed production of ''[[James Bond|Bond 23]]'' and ''[[The Hobbit (film)|The Hobbit]]'', not to mention remakes of ''[[Red Dawn]]'' and ''[[RoboCop]]''. Of course, most of these users are [[Fan Dumb|fans]] of these franchises, who [[Did Not Do the Research|believe MGM stole James Bond from Sony]]<ref>who never even owned rights to the franchise except for co-production rights with MGM</ref> [[Did Not Do the Research|and The Hobbit from New Line Cinema]],<ref>even though MGM owned the original film rights to Tolkien's works since the early 1970s</ref> and that the studio is apparently [[Executive Meddling|meddling]] with these projects. This backlash somehow led to [
* Due to [[George Lucas]]'s status as a [[Scapegoat Creator]], fans were quick to blame him for the infamous fridge nuking scene in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]''. [http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=32315 Steven Spielberg admitted that it was his idea] (and that he was happy to have brought that silly idea into popular culture), although he did also say that the aliens were Lucas's idea.
** The idea is [[Older Than They Think]]: the fridge nuking scene was in the mid-1990s [http://www.indyfan.com/articles/saucer.html "Saucermen from Mars"] script written by Jeb Stuart.
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** In regards to Rick Berman and Brannon Braga's control of the franchise in later years, fans seem to often believe that they had complete control over it even above Paramount Productions. They were actually not immune from any [[Executive Meddling]] and were given demands that have compromised the various shows. This shows primarily in the ''TNG''-esque nature of ''Voyager'', which had started off fairly unique unto itself. But with ''Deep Space Nine'' underperforming in ratings, [[Executive Meddling]] demanded that the more ''TNG''-like ''Voyager'' to stay with the ''TNG'' formula. Those demands largely hurt the morale at the show, Ronald Moore said was extremely depressing being in the writers room.
** Additionally, some seem to be under the illusion that Brannon Braga was the [[Show Runner]] for the entire run of ''Voyager'', and so lay the blame for the show's quality at his feet. In actual fact, he was only the showrunner on two out of the show's seven seasons — Jeri Taylor was the main showrunner for most of the show's history, and in an odd inversion of the trope, receives virtually no blame from the fans but quite a bit from the other writers who worked on the show. On the other hand, Braga '''was''' the showrunner for all but one season of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', so he has more to answer for on that count.
* The low quality of seasons 21-23 of ''[[Doctor Who]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s original run was for a long time blamed on Colin Baker's [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|performance]] as the [[The Scrappy|Sixth Doctor]]. After his surprisingly good performances in the ''[[Big Finish]]'' audio plays, he's [[Rescued
** ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fans have a tendency to find one particular behind-the-scenes figure — John Nathan-Turner, [[Michael Grade]], [[Russell T. Davies]], etc — and blame absolutely everything they don't like on that figure, regardless of whether they can be reasonably blamed or not.
** When Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones) left after the third series of the revived show, some fans insisted she had either been fired or pressured to leave because the producers felt she could not live up to her extremely popular predecessor, Billie Piper (it didn't help that onscreen Martha left the Doctor for this reason.) This was denied by all involved, but it still pops up occasionally as a conspiracy theory in the fandom.
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** Or they assumed that the show's fans would be watching anyway, but that promoting the murder storyline would bring in people who had previously not watched much of the show.
* Every single cast change in ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' (quite a few, as by the end the entire original cast was gone) was blamed on Jim Mallon, who the fans portrayed as a tyrant imposing his will on everyone else involved with the show. This even happened with the departure of Joel Hodgson, who not only had the same level of creative control as Mallon but created the show in the first place, so no one could make him leave if he didn't want to. There had been some behind the scenes friction between the two men that ultimately led to Joel's departure, but much of this has been blown out of proportion by the fanbase and Joel himself has had to play damage control more than a few times.
* Pretty much anything that went wrong with ''[[Dollhouse]]'' is blamed on Fox, even when [[Word of God|Joss Whedon himself]] takes credit for such things as drastic changes or [https://web.archive.org/web/20130811115433/http://whedonesque.com/comments/17005 shooting a new pilot]. Granted, it's hard to blame the fans. Fox ''did'' [[The Firefly Effect|cancel]] ''[[Firefly]]'', which was definitely a high-quality show that got screwed by [[Executive Meddling]]. But it's like Whedonites have a constant persecution complex up and running - All. The. Time.
** [[Firefly]] is the perfect example of the above-mentioned phenomenon where a popular show gets cancelled because the "wrong" audience liked it. Quoth the producer: "The initial results – they made the network nervous. The men didn’t respond as strongly as they thought they would, and the women responded more strongly."
* Nikki and Paolo are universally despised by most ''[[Lost]]'' fans for their sudden introduction, questionable relevance to the main plot and the false pretense to "have been here all along". Yet the reason the characters were created in the first place is because fans themselves often asked about the stories of the random extras seen carrying wood or something while main characters were discussing important stuff.
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* Mike Love is blamed by many [[Beach Boys]] fans for the non-release of "Smile" in 1967. While Mike can be hated for a lot of reasons (look up his acceptance speech at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on behalf of the [[Beach Boys]]), this is not solely his fault. It was actually a combination of a royalties lawsuit against Capitol filed by the Beach Boys, Van Dyke Parks leaving, Brian Wilson's mental problems and the beginning of his drug problems, and a lack of support from other members (including Mike).
* [[Liz Phair]] has gained some infamy in the music industry for "selling out." Despite what some [[Broken Base|"fans"]] choose to believe, it wasn't Liz's fault. Her indie record label Matador Records dumped her onto the major Capitol Records. They wouldn't give her money to record an album unless she worked with mainstream producers and made a pop album. If Matador Records didn't give Liz away, then she most likely would have continued on her indie rock route.
* Rebecca's Black's "[[Friday (song)|Friday]]" was an autotuned single produced on a budget of a few thousand bucks and was posted on Youtube. It soon went viral, mostly from people pointing and laughing, metaphorically speaking. A certain imgboard began to troll her, including death threats and posting her school schedule online. Yet [http://gawker.com/#!5783433/the-internet-made-rebecca-black-cry when she went on Good Morning America talking about how hurt she was], a lot of people blamed her parents and the video production company, instead of ''the people doing the actual trolling''. (Compare to the tone of Gawker's own [https://web.archive.org/web/20110816093640/http://tv.gawker.com/#!5781411/is-this-the-worst-music-video-ever earlier] [http://gawker.com/#!5783222/whats-4chan-going-to-do-to-rebecca-black posts], which were much less sympathetic.) Also, she apparently doesn't get to complain because the single is selling very well and she's rich now.
** Also, she is perceived as in it for the money or something or doing this on purpose, but actually she's just the one video that got lucky and had enough [[YouTube]] views to get famous. [[YouTube]], and in fact [[Real Life]] itself is full of girls with decent singing voices who want/ have record deals and film low budget music videos.
* [[Black Flag]] fans tend to be [[Broken Base|divided]] over the more experimental, heavy metal influenced direction the band started heading in after ''Damaged''. Those who don't like this period sometimes blame [[Henry Rollins]] for the change (or at least the "heavy metal" aspect of it). While Rollins was the [[Face of the Band]] at the time and contributed to the songwriting process, founding member Greg Ginn was still writing most of the band's music, and he was mainly the one behind their change in direction. In fact he said part of the reason Rollins was hired as a singer was because he wasn't solely interested in singing [[Hardcore Punk]] songs. That said, Ginn ''did'' lament that ever since Rollins joined they had to consistently [[Darker and Edgier|keep things dark and edgy]] lyrically.
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* According to [[TNA]] Wrestling owner Dixie Carter, the fans' chants of "Fire Russo!" are mis-blame, as [[Vince Russo]] only has a small part in writing their shows. Disregarding the fact that the shows still have Russo's [[Signature Style]] all over them, this hardly makes for a better situation, as it implies that the entire booking team has their collective heads up their asses, rather than just one member.
* Vince Russo's booking in general. Even during his disastrous stint as the booker of [[WCW]], a key thing to keep in mind is that, despite the booking meetings being attended by plenty of wrestling veterans and staff, ''no-one hammered into him just how dumb some of his ideas were''. In WCW's case, it was a widespread case of [[They Just Didn't Care]] by that point.
** One thing Russo is blamed for that he shouldn't is the "Mae Young gives birth to a hand" skit, which took place in early 2000, months after he left the [[
* For a long time, David Arquette received a large amount of undeserved flak for his winning of the WCW championship by people thinking that he was the driving force behind the angle. A) He wasn't, B) as a wrestling fan, he knew it was a terrible idea and would've refused to do it had he not been contractually obligated, and C) he donated all of the money he made on the shows to paralyzed wrestler Darren Drozdov and the families of the late Brian Pillman and Owen Hart.
* [[John Cena]] gets constant flak for being a boring [[Invincible Hero]] and his [[Five Moves of Doom]] (amongst other things), yet as a performer he really doesn't get the final say in the matter. [[Executive Meddling]] is responsible for telling him what moves to do and how he should wrestle his matches.
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* If ''[[Ring of Hell]]'' is to be believed, Triple H was responsible for Stone Cold Steve Austin's 2001 [[Face Heel Turn|heel turn]] after ''[[Wrestlemania]] X-Seven''. According to Austin's autobiography, ''The Stone Cold Truth'', Austin wanted to turn heel to refresh his character.
* [[Jeff Hardy]] and Sting's infamious match at ''Victory Road'' has drawn a lot of flack to [[TNA]] for allowing Jeff to go out in his condition (he was drugged to the point he could barely walk). In reality, while they might be blamed for pushing a known substance abuser, it was Jeff who had shown up drugged-out state far too late for TNA to do anything about it. They had to do ''something'' or they'd have to cancel the main event of the PPV.
== Sports ==▼
* The description for Type 5 of misblamed is also known as "Quarterback Syndrome", because a lot of mistakes (such as a bad play, a poorly executed play, etc) are automatically blamed on the Quarterback of American Football teams. When really, sometimes it isn't their fault - at ''all''.▼
** And if it's not the quarterback, it's usually the head coach. Which is slightly more accurate, usually, but none but the most egotistical of them are in charge of choosing their teams (except in college football, of course).▼
** A good example is when Tennessee Titans back-up quarterback Kerry Collins was hugely blamed for the team's abysmal blunder against the New England Patriots in 2009 (the one with the 59-0 score), though mostly from people who only watched snippets from ESPN, and only spotted his [[Epic Fail|-7 passing yards]]. For those who actually watched the entire game, it told a different story. Although it's true that Collins didn't play his best, he certainly fared much better than the receivers he threw the ball to. His best passes often resulted in a no gain, yard loss or a drop, or only inched forward with maybe a yard or two gain. Worst of all, Collins tossed the ball to one receiver, who idiotically backpedaled ''twenty two yards'' to avoid getting tackled, but failed anyway and resulted in a huge yard lossage. Unfortunately, the ESPN replay didn't note this, so everyone thought Collins caused the suckage when it was multiple factors that caused the horrific loss (like god awful defense and special teams, being a couple others).▼
* Of course, it also works the other way. Tim Tebow is fast becoming the biggest example of Quarterback Syndrome in reverse, getting ''every single bit'' of credit for the Denver Broncos 2011 turnaround. When the Broncos defense intercepts the opposing quarterback's pass in his own territory near the end of the game, leading to the Broncos kicker getting an easy game-winning field goal, and everyone says "Tebow does it again!" it's gotten pretty ridiculous.▼
* Fran Tarkenton, a quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings from the 70s, is often known as the "quarterback who lost four Superbowls". Actually, the Vikings first Superbowl loss was with Joe Kapp at the helm. Similarly, John Elway was known as being a quarterback who lost four Superbowls, when the Broncos first loss was with Craig Morton at the helm.▼
* Don't mention Don Denkinger in St. Louis. The former Major League umpire is blamed for the Cardinals losing the 1985 World Series due to his blown call at first base in the ninth inning of Game Six. This ignores that 1) the Cards had a three games to one lead over the Royals and scored only two runs in the last three games, 2) They made three defensive mistakes after the call that all contributed to the loss, and 3) They were more focused on blaming Denkinger than trying to win Game Seven, which the Royals won 11-0.▼
* The 1986 World Series would produce its own epic case of misblame, one which has become entrenched in baseball lore. In game 6 of the series, the New York Mets would come back in extra innings, scoring the winning run of that game when first baseman Bill Buckner made an error and his glove missed a ground ball hit between his legs. The Mets promptly won game 7 and became champions, prolonging the legendary agony of the Red Sox. Easy case for blaming Buckner, right? Not so much. Those who do conveniently ignore the fact that Boston's bullpen had already blown two leads before the error occurred, with Boston having lost a 3-2 lead in regular innings and a 5-3 lead in the 10th before Buckner's error. The situation in the 10th is particularly notable, since it happened despite the fact that when the Mets rally started they had 2 outs and no baserunners, and just about everyone except the Mets players themselves had conceded defeat. (The TV crew had already announced one Red Sox player the player of the game and named another Sox player MVP for the series, the message board in the Mets stadium briefly displayed a message congratulating the Red Sox on their victory, etc.) Boston relievers then gave up three hits in a row and pitcher Bob Stanley allowed the Mets to tie the game by throwing a wild pitch nowhere near target that let the tying run score and the winning run to move to third base. On top of ''that'', Buckner (who was nearing the end of his long career) had injured knees that should have kept him out of game, except that Boston manager John McNamara insisted on Buckner playing so he could take part in the victory. Last but not least, Buckner had to play the ball far behind first base, and it is highly doubtful that he could have beaten the speedy basrunner Mookie Wilson (who held the Mets team record for stolen bases until 2008) to the bag even if his knees were healthy. And even with the loss Boston still had Game 7 to work with. '''Epic misblame.'''▼
* The ESPN Classic series "Top Five Reasons You Can't Blame" was devoted to this trope, listing some of the most infamous moments in sports and giving reasons why the blame shouldn't solely go to the one person (or group) that took all the heat. Denkinger and Buckner, as described above, are just two incidents the show covered.▼
* College basketball fans, sportswriters and TV commentators all grossly overestimate the importance of the RPI (Ratings Percentage Index) ranking in the NCAA's selection procedure for its annual basketball tournament. Several websites exist solely to replicate the RPI (since the NCAA doesn't release it publicly). Every year there are complaints about teams with a high RPI being left out or teams with a low RPI making the field, all concluding that the RPI is deeply flawed and the NCAA should get rid of it. But the NCAA has always said that the RPI is just meant as a simple table to compare teams early on in the process, and that their decisions ultimately come down to who the team in question beat and who they lost to.▼
* Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has been criticised a lot lately for paying roughly 100 million euros to Manchester United for the transfer of a single player, Cristiano Ronaldo, especially because it happened in the middle of the current worldwide economic crisis. The reason behind is a {{spoiler|totally retarded}} contract signed last year by the previous president, Ramón Calderón, which stipulated both the 100 million price and that if either of the parties chose to ignore the contract, they would have to pay 30 million to the other. So either United would have to pay Real 30 million for retaining their star player (which they weren't going to do since he had already decided to leave the club), or Real would have to pay United 30 million for ''absolutely nothing''.▼
* Watching ESPN's documentary, ''[http://30for30.espn.com/film/small-potatoes-who-killed-the-usfl.html Small Potatoes: Who Killed The USFL?]'' the answer to the titular question would seem to be "Donald Trump." While Trump, as owner of the New Jersey Generals, started a bidding war with the NFL over college players (one that most USFL owners didn't have the resources to compete in), the real downfall of the league - the disastrous decision to move from spring to fall and compete directly with the NFL - couldn't have been done without a consensus of owners going along with Trump. Much like the Vince Russo entries above, it's unfair to say he single-handedly destroyed the league. Though Trump doesn't help his own cause by defending everything he did as "the right thing to do" and accepting none of the blame for the USFL's swift and epic collapse.▼
* Losing [[The World Cup]] can lead to the fifth case. In Brazil, there are four known scapegoats:▼
** Barbosa, the goalkeeper in 1950 - where they lost the finals to Uruguay in Rio de Janeiro. He's famously quoted as: "The biggest penalty for a crime is 30 years. I'm currently paying 43 for a crime I didn't commit!"▼
** Toninho Cerezo, whose defensive mistake led to Italy's second goal in their 3-2 victory in 1982 (a simple draw would have put Brazil into the semi-finals, but the second goal turned the tide toward Italy).▼
** Zico, who missed a penalty against France in the quarter-finals in 1986. The game ended up 1-1, with an eventual French victory in the penalty shootout.▼
** In 2006, while Zidane was taking a free kick, Roberto Carlos was adjusting his sock. Thierry Henry passed behind him and scored France's victory goal.▼
* Goalkeeper Tommy Salo was blamed for Sweden's 3-4 loss in the quarterfinals against Belarus in the 2002 Olympic hockey tournament. While he can be blamed for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-7N2Va1XqY the endlessly replayed final goal], the coach pointed out that it wasn't Salo's fault that a Swedish team full of NHL pros only scored three goals (out of 47 shots!) on a minor team like Belarus.▼
* The Hillsborough Stadium disaster of 1989, when several Liverpool soccer fans were crushed to death in the standing pens at an FA Cup game (for those who are confused, in those days most soccer stadiums had lower levels with no seats that were enclosed by cage pens). Immediately after the disaster, ''The Sun'' published a front page story stating the fans themselves were to blame, intentionally overcrowding the pens and then attacking policemen after the cages broke and they spilled onto the field. It turned out that there was no security to inform and direct fans to the less crowded pens, the police actually prevented ambulances from entering the stadium after the fence broke, and the fans were trying to shuttle the injured out to the ambulances (which the police also prevented). Furthermore, stories about fans attacking police officers attempting to tend to the injured were [[Blatant Lies|outright fabrications]]. ''The Sun'' is still boycotted in Liverpool to this day.▼
* For most people, the Buffalo Bills' loss at Super Bowl XXV is summed up with two words: "Wide Right". Here are other reasons the Bills lost to the Giants: The Bills were outcoached by the New York Giants, which had the likes of Bill Belichick and Tom Coughlin (both who would become successful coaches in their own right), the Giants having the longest ball possession time in Super Bowl history (40:33), Belichick's game plan which muzzled the Bills' "K-Gun" no-huddle offense, and as for Scott Norwood, it was a 47-yard field goal ''on grass'', and he was not good at kicking field goals on grass.▼
* While Americans have not taken [[The Beautiful Game|Association Football]] as a spectator sport well, they are often blamed for creating the word Soccer, an alternative word for the sport which is a colloquial abbreviation of association (from assoc.). However the word was actually coined by Charles Wreford Brown, an Oxford student (in England) said to have been fond of shortened forms such as "brekkers" for breakfast and "rugger" for rugby football; and back in the day was used by rich folk to distinguish Association Football from Rugby. When the sport arrived in the US in the late 19th century, it was called Association Football (and was surprisingly quite a popular sport at the time) until after World War II; mainly due to the popularity of [[American Football]], and the word Soccer was adopted to differentiate with the two footballs. However since then, soccer's popularity in the US [[Deader Than Disco|would fall into obscurity until recently]], due in thanks to "[http://www.bigsoccer.com/soccer/roger-allaway/2010/10/25/what-was-the-quot-soccer-war-quot/ soccer war]" between the country's major league organization and FIFA. This sport's naming has also reigned true in some other countries like Canada, the Caribbean, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand; who have adopted or invented another football code, either as their "main" football or alongside Association Football. However, the British has since grown to hate this word, [[Internet Backdraft|and have been hell bent on lambasting the US for it]], [[Did Not Do the Research|never minding that the word came from the same place the modern rules of the game were made]], the latter fact the British embrace and [[Fan Dumb|the former fact the British will often deny]].▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The "Roving Mauler" ''[[Dungeons
* Head designer Mark Rosewater is often blamed for many things the players hate about ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'', even things that he had nothing to do with. And indeed, even things that have absolutely nothing to do with his department - as the face and voice of the company, he's just the one chosen to announce such things, leading many players to blame him for the decisions he likely had no say it whatsoever... Then again, many other things are entirely his fault.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* This happens ''all the time'', with people assuming that publishers were the ones who made the game, often ignoring the people who ''actually made it''. Apparently, [[Square Enix]] is responsible for the remake of ''[[Lufia]] II'', despite that Neverland, the developer of the series, was the one working on it -- [[Square Enix]] is only publishing it in Japan (with Natsume, the same company that localized the original version, handling localization) and funding it. Also, [[Square Enix]] gets yelled at for publishing ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2'' in Japan, with people saying it would be tainted with [[Bishonen|girly men]]—game publishing does '''''NOT''''' ''WORK THAT WAY''!!
** This can extend to consoles too. For example, Sony may get the blame if a game ported from the PC looks terrible on the Playstation... nevermind the fact that the conversion is handled by and the responsibility of the company that made the game, and Sony has nothing to do with it 99.9% of the time. (At least the reverse is fairly rare. People have largely stopped blaming [[Microsoft]] and/or [[Bill Gates]] for everything that goes wrong vaguely involving [[Windows]].)
* As it turns out, [[Superman 64]] 's glaring faults and ridiculous storyline were mandated by the licence holders, meaning that most of the errors '''Weren't [[Titus Software|Titus]]'s Fault,''' as shown by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pirnxPT8ogA ProtonJon's LP (opening of level 4)]
* The English translation of ''[[Castlevania]] II'' for the NES is almost infamous for its poor translation, like [http://www.flyingomelette.com/oddities/oddities4.html blatant in-game lies] supposedly meant to tell you what your next goal is, how to reach that goal, and [[Guide Dang It|other such game-critical information]]. For years, fans thought the translation was to blame, but the original version was actually just as incomprehensible.
** Yes, even the infamous "graveyard duck" is not a mistranslation. As pointed out in a comment on [https://web.archive.org/web/20090420080802/http://www.gamespite.net/verbalspew/archives/entry_1130.php the GameSpite blog], the corresponding line in the Japanese version uses the word "ahiru", which can ''only'' refer to the bird.
** The apparent idea behind the quotes in the Japanese version was that all the villagers were ''liars'' - That is to say, they all said false things that players were supposed to realise were silly. However, when you have no other clues or information to go by, not to mention a lack of grammatical context in such small text boxes, both Japanese and English audiences started to wonder why the game was telling you to shout in front of a church to restore health instead of just going inside to heal. In fact, given that the Famicom controller had a microphone built into it, the Japanese probably had it worse...
**** Some of the townsfolk tell you things like what Dracula's rib does or where you can find some of the thirteen "scriptures" which explain what to do at the impassable cliffs and lakes etc. One villager tells you how to get through the poison marsh, another that you must get the cross at Laruba's Mansion... Not everything is useless or lies, and the manual does warn you that some of it is. Talking to some of the townspeople is also necessary in order to find out which ones sell you items. The dialogue sets the tone for the atmosphere and type of people you encounter in each town, deepening the game, and some of the utterances are quite funny, adding to the entertainment value. Also you know you're getting nearer the end when the townsfolk are more scared in the towns you come across, which is a useful clue and adds to the ambience as well.
* Many people are angered by the fact that Bahamut was portrayed as a dragon in games like ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' and ''[[Dungeons
** Another interesting thing is that despite how common Bahamut appears in the games, his role is rather limited. There have never really been any stories centered around any character, and he's mostly been a summon. ''[[Dungeons
** A lot of things in ''[[Final Fantasy I]]'' were based off things in [[Dungeons
* When ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'' finally got an official English release, many people complained about various edits and changes made to the game script. Actually, many of the differences were a result of an earlier [[Fan Translation]] by DeJap of the SNES version being ''less'' faithful to the original than the official GBA version. Of course, there still that thing about "Ragnarok" becoming "Kangaroo" (as well as generally being a pretty bland localization), but despite what anyone says that's pretty much the ''only'' outright mistake.
* The German version of ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' (which was the [[Updated Rerelease]] to boot) was translated from the original Japanese version, omitting most of the changes the US version made. Unfortunately, they threw in the English voice overs instead of the Japanese ones. This triggered one of the most infamous [[Flame War|flame wars]] over how they could subtitle Yuna's "I love you" with "Thank you", when the latter was actually what she said in the original.
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* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]: The Twin Snakes'' often gets a lot of scorn for its cutscenes, most of the blame is directed towards Ryuhei Kitimura, who directed the scenes. However, ''every scene that Kitimura included was approved by [[Hideo Kojima]]'', and Kitimura was chosen specifically for his over-the-top nature.
* Continuing on with ''[[Metal Gear]]'', for a case of character misblaming, whenever anyone brings up why ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2'' was the weakest in the series, it is always attributed to one thing - Raiden. While Raiden's involvement does weaken things considerably, the shameless backtracking, lack of great boss fights and ditching of any sense of coherence all had nothing to do with him.
* Many people who played the fan-translated version of ''[[Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake]]'' assumed that the name of the enemy boss "Black Color", a misromanization of "Blackcollar", was a mistake by the fan-translators. In reality, that's how it was spelled in the actual Japanese version (all of the bosses' names in the game were written in roman script).
** ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2'' also gets a lot of blame for its rather absurd storyline placed on the translator/localizer, Agness Kaku. As [https://web.archive.org/web/20140102014318/http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/metalgear/agnesskaku.htm this interview reveals,] saying that Konami was very unhelpful with regards to translation and localization is a ''huge understatement''.
* Yes, there are people who believe that ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' or Square-Enix is literally responsible for ''every'' game that comes out of Japan. [[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|Telephone]] [[Shin Megami Tensei|for]] [[Mega Man (video game)|you]]. [[Sonic the Hedgehog|It's]] [[Metal Gear|The]] [[Atlus|Research]] [[The Legend of Dragoon|Department]]. [[Shining Force|They]] [[Mario|Say]] [[Tales (series)|You]] [[Lunar|made a]] [[Critical Research Failure]] on top of a major Misblame.
* [[Electronic Arts]] receives a lot of flak for their exclusive license to make games with National Football League players and teams, with many gamers believing that EA simply threw a lot of money at the NFL to get the license. In fact, [http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/14/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/ the NFL took bids from a number of video game companies] before ''awarding'' the contract to EA. Gamers, however, deny this, believing that the league would never willingly enter such anti-competitive agreements - never mind that the NFL's own actions in regards to [https://web.archive.org/web/20090611153804/http://consumerist.com/5185430/nfl-sunday-ticket-will-remain-directv-exclusive-until-2014 television distribution] and [http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/09/18/american-needle-throws-downfield-in-nfl-licensing-dispute/ apparel licensing] indicates that they not only willingly agree to, but also ''encourage'' these kinds of licensing deals.
** EA still may not be totally blameless in this area, as their similarly exclusive deals with the NCAA and Arena Football League seem to indicate they have no problem pursuing exclusive rights (these and the NFL deal are all part of a California-based class action suit against the company). Of course, it may be possible that the AFL and NCAA simply follow the same hardball tactics as the NFL.
** And let's not even get started on the fans of [[BioWare]] games who are convinced that any "dumbing down" of RPG mechanics or DLC offers are all the nefarious influence of EA having bought them, and might not just be [[BioWare]] themselves trying to streamline their games and give the players more content that might not have been available otherwise.
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* It's common knowledge that the game released as ''[[Final Fantasy Adventure]]'' in America was in fact known as ''Seiken Densetsu'' in Japan, and was the first entry in what's now known as the ''[[World of Mana|Mana]]'' series in America. It's also "common knowledge" that the name was only given the ''Final Fantasy'' title in America to make it more marketable. Except that the game's Japanese name was actually ''Seiken Densetsu: Final Fantasy Gaiden''. All the localization really did to the name was drop the subtitle (or is it "supertitle"?) and change "[[Gaiden Game|Sidestory]]" into "Adventure".
** Since ''Final Fantasy Adventure'' contains Moogles, chocobos, an airship, the four elemental Fiends, main villains who's visual designs are BOTH based off Garland (both his overworld and his battle screen sprite, which in [[FF 1]] looked radically different from each other) and one NPC that looks a lot like a Red Mage, either this is a ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' game or the designers changed a lot more than just the title.
* [[Fan Dumb|80's elitists]] of the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' are angry at [[Ubisoft]] for not including any 80's cartoon characters in ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash Up]]''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111113091443/http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9261054957/m/9901001297 The truth] is, the people at Mirage Studios specifically told Ubisoft to stick to the 2003 series as the basis for the game.
* Some people thought that ''[[Loom (video game)|Loom]]'' was uncompleted for several reasons...either '''a)''', [[They Just Didn't Care]] for it because ''[[Star Wars]]'' games made more money, or '''b)''' nobody bought it. The actual reason for not finishing Loom is way different. No, Lucas Arts didn't abandon it in favour of Star Wars...this was in the early 90s when point and click adventure games (Similar to ''Loom'') were all the rage and cash cows, especially when the [[Nostalgia Filter]] kicked in about 10 years later. And the sale figures ''certainly'' were not showing lack of a public interest...Even one of the developers said it wasn't. Loom sold over 500,000 copies at the time of the interview. (At a time when that was impressive) But why was there no Loom 2: Forge despite that Lucas Arts would only benefit from another one, and fans would support it? The Developers all got caught-up in different projects.
* The Circle of Eight mod for ''[[Temple of Elemental Evil]]'' is paned for including a [[Final Fantasy VII|Buster Sword]]. The sword model was in the core game, used by a bugged sword that [[Dummied Out|can only be accessed by console]].
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*** And to further prove this point, The Sacrifice DLC came out for L4D1 as well as the sequel in order to please both fan bases. Of course, this still backfired since the sequel also got a port of No Mercy, a campaign from the first game and people are now crying that Valve is trying to kill off L4D1, even though they have been updating the game with patches and other features.
** The Cold Stream DLC had been delayed for several months, causing Xbox 360 players to blame Valve for delaying the DLC for so long and demand that they should be allowed to help in testing the beta for free or release the DLC for free. Valve isn't entirely at fault, but the rest of the blame falls on Microsoft. Not only Valve has to make sure Cold Stream can run on the Xbox 360 without trouble, but Microsoft's DLC policies prevent Valve from giving Xbox 360 owners constant updates for a beta product and it is Microsoft that determines the pricing for DLC, not Valve.
* The fact that ''[[Conker's Bad Fur Day]]'' (amongst other demanded games) isn't on the Wii's [[Virtual Console]] seems to lead to people pointing fingers at Nintendo. One would honestly think that fans would actually be bothered to ''look'' at the developer ''and'' publishers for the Nintendo 64 game...[[Rare]]. Sure, they were second-party at the time of ''Conker's Bad Fur Day'', but since 2002, they were actually bought out by Microsoft (Which is why there is a ''Conker'' game on the Xbox), not to mention ''Kameo'' and ''[[Perfect Dark]]''. Nintendo had no or negligible involvement with ''Conker's Bad Fur Day'', and they likely won't be able to put it on without getting legal permission to do so from Microsoft.
** And to make matters worse, some people actually said ''Nintendo'' was responsible for the censorship done to the ''Xbox version'', ''Conker: Live and Reloaded'', with obscenities that were in the ''Nintendo 64'' version bleeped out in the Xbox version. Gaming does ''not'' work that way; why would ''Nintendo'' be allowed to have any say over something released on ''a competitor's system'', the original version of which they never even worked on or published?
** This is also the reason why ''[[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|Golden Eye 1997]]'' isn't on the Virtual Console. [[GoldenEye 007 (2010 video game)|Not that it's necessary.]]
*** Comming back to Rare now being owned by Microsoft, it should also be pointed out that Rare's N64 games ''are'' available on Xbox Live Arcade instead.
* Some people seem to think that Mallow and Geno, characters from ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'' should have been in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'', and that Nintendo was stupid for not
** Being owned by another company didn't stop Sonic and Snake from appearing in ''Brawl'' under license, nor Square Enix's Cloud Strife in ''For''.▼
** In a similar method, ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'''s [[Fan Dumb]] is angered upon several things... one was that apparently, the DS
▲** Being owned by another company didn't stop Sonic and Snake from appearing in ''Brawl'' under license.
* A variation/mixture of types 3 and 4 happened with ''[[Jak and Daxter]]: The Lost Frontier''. A different company was responsible for developing it, which is why it (the plot, mostly) gained so much ire from the fans. However, if one would take time to watch the credits, one would find that those responsible for the story were the series's original creators.
* [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] (Yes, even him) is blamed for the lack of ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' characters in ''[[Donkey Kong Jungle Beat|Jungle Beat]]'' and the general sorry state of the franchise based on an old interview where he bashed the first DKC. That despite that he later apologized for the outburst in a later interview, saying that [[Executive Meddling]] pressured him into putting 3D graphics in [[Yoshi's Island]] and that he also produced and supervised the two ''King of Swing'' games and ''Barrel Blast'', all of which features DKC characters. For example, the [[Canon Discontinuity]] page for video games credited the infamous "DKC characters aren't fresh enough" line to him even though it was actually Yoshiaki Koizumi (one of Jungle Beat's two director) who said that.
** As if all the prior evidence wasn't enough, after the reveal of ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'', Miyamoto finally addressed that the idea of him hating DKC was nothing but a rumor. In fact, what he's controlled in the development of DKCR (like ''demanding'' that the music emulates the original tunes) seems to indicate that he ''loved'' it.
** Talking of that series, a lot of people seem to misblame Rare for no Kremlings in some games (aka [[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]), mistakenly thinking Rare still owns them or something. No they don't, Kremlings and many other enemy characters have been in Konga, King of Swing, Jungle Climber, Barrel Blast and every rerelease of the original trilogy known to man, and they got sent to Nintendo with everything else in the [[Donkey Kong Country]] series. No, they just wanted a bit of a change to try something new.
* Any game that is released is treated as if the publisher actually made everything. Probably because some publishers actually ''do'' or have at least been known to make games themselves (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Square
** ''[[Pokémon]]'' is a big victim of this trope. Every time the [[Broken Base|people who stop playing after a certain generation]] complain of a new Pokémon design or spinoff they don't like, they blame ''Nintendo'' for designing the Pokémon, or even making the games. Uh...then what's that Game Freak Logo doing in front of nearly every mainstream Pokémon game? You know...they ''do'' '''''MAKE''''' the games, after all....
*** Oddly enough, Vanilluxe, a Pokémon that ''wasn't'' designed by Ken Sugimori, is sometimes considered good. [[Your Mileage May Vary]]; others often say "See? That's proof they're running out of designs by having someone else design it" like Ken Sugimori is the only one allowed to design Pokémon. (Ken can't live forever, folks.)
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** Also related, anyone who thinks that the [[PvP]] in ''[[League of Legends]]'' having the screaming of [[X Box Live]], ''[[Counter-Strike]]'', or ''[[Quake]]'' type [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]] combined and cranked [[Up to Eleven]] have never played the original ''DotA'', or have engaged in any competitive activity.
* Related to the above, whenever you mention Gold-selling in-game advertisements or gold farmers, most people often think it's exclusive to ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', or that it actually ''started'' that practice. No, the practice didn't ''start'' in that game, it's been around since ''[[Ultima Online]]'', for that matter, gold farming and people buying gold was present in the original ''[[EverQuest]]'' and ''[[Ragnarok Online]]''. The only reason you hear about it in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' so much is because the game has ''millions of players''.
** In fact, if you check some of the larget gold-selling websites you can see that gold selling isn't ''just'' limited to ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', ''[[Warhammer Online]]'' had Gold spammers since day one, as did ''[[Aion Online]]''. And on some servers of ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'', you almost ''had'' to buy gold. And not even ''[[
* Class nerfs are always a source of utmost ire in any MMO, but among the [[World of Warcraft]] fanbase, most nerfs are usually directly blamed towards Greg "Ghostcrawler" or a few other choice devs, when in fact the changes are discussed in advance by a group of all the devs well in advance.
** the [[C Ms]] (community managers) also get a ton of hate for said nerfs, while ghostcrawler is at least a dev, most of the [[C Ms]] are just forum moderators (trying) to keep the boards a place of intelligent discussion and not constant flaming and fighting.
* The start of ''Cataclysm'' was plagued by all sorts of bugs and glitches, among them a near ''ridiculous'' respawn rate where a mob you just killed would respawn while you were looting it or suddenly reappear attacking you while you were walking away. This was apparently Blizzard's intention; but in actuality it was a programming oversight made to avert one of the things that had happened around ''Burning Crusade'' where the mob respawn rates were actually ''too high'' and people would camp required mobs.
* Game Masters/Moderators in almost any online game tend to get blamed for every single occurrence that rubs any player the wrong way and are expected to fix every technical problem and rectify every balance issue on their own.
* The North American version of the ''[[Death Smiles]]'' [[Xbox 360]] port got a lot of flak for [[Difficulty by Region|having less slowdown than the Japanese versions]], and some decided to point fingers at Aksys Games, who did the localization. In a [https://web.archive.org/web/20110704144915/http://www.aksysgames.com/forums/topic/732 forum post on the official Aksys website], an Aksys employee clarified that all of the programming for the North American version—the reduced slowdown included—was [[CAVE]]'s doing.
* [[Tim Schafer]] is a Type 5 and Type 2 for [[Brutal Legend]]. Double Fine has recieved nearly all the blame for "falsely advertising" [[Brutal Legend]] and hiding the hybrid of Action and [[Real Time Strategy]]. One angry player messaged [[Tim Schafer]] directly on Twitter and called him a liar publicly. He told the complainer that was all he talked about for months. It was [[Electronic Arts]] advertising that mislead consumers (and reviewers) that it was single player focused, to the point that it drowned out the voice of Double Fine. To this day, [[Tim Schafer]] says that the reviews remain high on Metacritic, and can be divided between those who ATTEMPTED multiplayer, and those who didn't even touch it.
* Richard Garriott gets misblamed for ''a lot'' of things surrounding [[Tabula Rasa|"Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa"]], despite his role merely being Executive Producer. It's often claimed that he arrogantly decided to plaster his name on the box, when it was more likely a marketing decision to hype up a game that wasn't very famous and had been sitting in [[Vaporware|Development Hell]] for some years. He's often insulted and blamed for many of game's problems due to him going to space during the game's life. Not only did he pay for the flight with his own money, but his Executive Producer role was probably hardly missed during the trip, and the trip ended up being tied into a marketing campagin anyway, which arguably ''did'' help the game (though clearly not enough). Finally, Richard Garriott ended up suing the publisher, [[
* The much reviled redesign of ''[[Devil May Cry]]'''s Dante in the recently announced reboot has caused a lot fan outrage. Nearly all of it is directed at Ninja Theory (who Capcomm handed the series for said reboot's production), but Ninja Theory is only partly responsible, as the redesign was done at Capcom's request and approval. Sadly, lead designer Tameem Antoniades' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120711021517/http://www.1up.com/
* Team Ninja is solely blamed for how Samus' personality is and how the game is totally different from the rest of the games in the Metroid games in ''[[Metroid: Other M]]''. Team Ninja just did the programming and combat system design. It was the co-creator of Metroid, Yoshio Sakamoto, who wanted to apply all the changes and wrote personally the scenario.
** Similarly, critics have tended to attribute Samus' lack of emotion in her voice to Jessica Martin's poor acting skills, when it was actually Yoshio Sakamoto who specifically asked for Samus to sound robotic in order to reflect the effects her tragic past and occupation have had on her personality. Contrast the majority of the narration with the scenes where Samus gets emotional over {{spoiler|Ian's imminent death, Ridley's appearance, and Adam's sacrifice}}, and you'll see that Jessica Martin's acting covers more than just [[Dull Surprise]].
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*** Jessica has also been redeemed by the fanbase. Namely by actually participating in it. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Unfortunately, the bad stink left by the game made Nintendo lock down the actors from giving interviews about what happened.]]
*** Also, Team Ninja's director, despite getting alot of the blame, is in fact a Metroid fan (even contributing along side Jessica in celebrating the series' 25th Anniversary) and in an interview criticized Sakamoto, by pointing out that anyone who said something else would be more effective (most notably, they were against the controversial control scheme) were shot down instantly by him.
* Reggie, president of Nintendo of America, is a mix of type 2 and 5. Reggie is blamed for not improving the Wii's infrastructure, for withholding potentially good games for the Wii, and is also blamed for not releasing [[
** Not to mention, a lot of people hate on Nintendo for ''Mother 3'' not having an international release. The results of the second game probably left a bad taste in peoples' mouths, as it was met with poor sales reception initially and didn't gain [[Immunity to Criticism]] until about 5–6 years after its release. That wasn't going to help the case. On top of the other issues such as the AC-DC riffraffs and mentions of other shows creating a legal mess, there was also the issue that it was released in ''2006''. By that point in time, the DS had already been established on the market and stores were phasing out new [[Game Boy Advance]] games to make more space for the DS's growing roster. (Which was also a rumour for the first game, which also would have been released for the NES at a time when the SNES was out and most people would have shelved it.) In all, it was [[Saved From Development Hell]] a tad too late.
* The late Gunpei Yokoi, famous for creating the Nintendo Game and Watch, Famicom/NES, the Game Boy/Game Boy Pocket, and the Metroid series, was solely blamed for the failure of his last Nintendo creation, the Virtual Boy. Yokoi wanted to wait until technology improved before releasing the Virtual Boy, namely the addition of color screens, but Nintendo pulled the project out of his hands and rushed the product to store shelves before it was complete, to fill the gap between the end of the SNES, and the beginnings of the Nintendo 64. After its failure, Yokoi was blamed for the entire fiasco, which partially led to his forced resignation by Nintendo.
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* ''Morrowind'' fans often call out ''Oblivion'' and ''Skyrim'' for being "dumbed down for casual gamers" because they don't have as many features as ''Morrowind'' (never mind that those removed features tended to be [[Game Breaker]]s, awkward to use, or both)...when, in actuality, ''Morrowind'' was a vastly less complex game than ''Daggerfall''. Chalk it up to [[Nostalgia Filter]].
* ''[[Castle Shikigami]] 2'' was released in the US with notoriously bad translation. Turns out that although the translation wasn't great, the original was incomprehensible as well.
* One of the big contentions in the [[Fandom Rivalry]] between ''[[Azur Lane]]'' and ''[[Kantai Collection]]'' is a statement that the former lacks the "sorrow/tragedy of the IJN" and that one might cry for the latter but not the former. This is often claimed to be something said by Kensuke Tanaka, creator of the latter. In fact, this was said by Shigetaka Kurita, a director of Kadokawa only tenuously linked to the latter (and incidentally also the inventor of the emoji). Blaming Tanaka for it is like attacking Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann or Santa Monica Studio's Cory Barlog because some Sony suit shat on the Xbox on behalf of ''[[The Last of Us]]'' or ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]''.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Lampshaded in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130703083139/http://www.killfrog.com/animations-of/34-animations/96-evil-piggies-show-1.html this] cartoon.
{{quote|"Steven Spielberg is the executive producer for ''[[Jurassic Park]] 3'', but we still blame him anyways."}}
* Would you actually believe this page had credited Hitoshi Sakimoto for the wrong game for quite awhile, actually?
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* There's lots of [[Straw Fan|poorly spelled rage]] on the interwubs surrounding the new [[The Movie|film spinoff]] of the TV series ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'', mostly about how it's [[George Lucas]]'s "worst movie yet!" In fact, Lucas's input was more or less limited to suggesting the essentially already-made feature-length pilot be distributed theatrically instead of going straight to [[Cartoon Network]].
** Well, he did also suggest making a [[Camp Gay]] Hutt, so we can blame him for that.
* ''Warner Bros.' [[Histeria!]]'' has received some undeserved bashing because the people in question think it got ''[[Animaniacs]]'' and ''[[Freakazoid!]]'' cancelled. ''Animaniacs'' and ''Freakazoid!'' (which was canned BEFORE ''Histeria!'' even began production) were actually cancelled because the network was upset that they were more popular among people older than Kids' WB!'s target demographic.
** ''Freakazoid'''s cancellation is also sometimes blamed on [[Madman (Comic Book)|Madman]] creator Mike Allred, on the grounds that he sued over Freakazoid's similarity to his creation. This is not true. Mike has openly stated that he was unhappy that he didn't receive a credit for his influence, but he never sued—he didn't feel it was worth it.
* Sites like Youtube have shown the unaired [[Pilot Episode]] of ''[[As Told by Ginger]]'', made in 1999 (before the show went live). Apparently people thought this was an attempt to restart the series despite the fact that the animation and designs were still being worked out. (Ginger's Perm agrees!) Apparently, that wasn't enough of a hint as people said the writers were racist because Miranda was shown as being a brown-haired Caucasian (As opposed to being black in the series). In truth, Miranda was actually animated as white for the pilot...but she was rectonned to be black because of her voice actress, Cree Summers. Also, Blake was made much more sophisticated...he's shown in the pilot as crashing a teenage party in his underwear for kicks.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* To avoid any [[Flame Bait]], a lot of decisions made or proposed for a lot of countries out there are misblamed as being thought up solely by whoever is considered the head of the government. (Prime Minister, President, etc.)
** This also extends with business decisions made by large companies. Once more...how would an average joe customer know what goes on in the secret meetings? For all we know, a decision that customers may not be fond of wasn't the CEO's idea, but ''a department head's''.
*** An example of this would be say, your favourite Fast Food Restaurant doesn't carry the item you like anymore, and the customer hay have misblamed the manager as choosing not to carry it, but it's actually the store ''owner'' who chose not to carry it. It's not inherently obvious, but it doesn't stop this trope from occurring in the darndest locations.
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** Metacritic announced in Spring 2011 that they would be giving scores to game developers, based on an average of the games they worked on. [http://kotaku.com/#!5786068/metacritic-now-rating-humans Kotaku's commenters] promptly pointed out that it's usually not Model Rigger #263's fault if they end up working on a poor game.
* Some history books portray Hernando Cortes and his Spaniard conquistadors as being the sole destroyers of the Aztecs beyond Smallpox. Lies - They had ''massive'' help from the Tlaxcalans and other Native American tribes who ''hated'' the Aztecs and saw the Spaniards as the perfect opportunity to get rid of them. (Somewhere around 60,000 Natives joined the Spaniards - there probably were ''half'' that amount of Spaniards fighting at ''most'') The Tlaxcalans were also treated ''much'' better, often being being taken on future Spaniard conquests. (Despite Aztec Upper classmen being treated virtually the same for awhile after they were conquered, since Cortes actually ''wanted'' to maintain the structure of the empire, ''and'' it was illegal to enslave Indians, just not very well enforced, a lot of the Slave owners in latin america went there to ''bypass'' the laws)
* [[FOX]] affiliate stations (unlike many others) are all branded prominently as "FOX [channel number]". Because this logo appears in their local [[News Broadcast]]s, it is often assumed that the [[Fox News Channel]] is responsible for their content, or even that the story aired on Fox News ''itself'' (by people who apparently [[Critical Research Failure|don't even know]] that [[
** Two separate networks owned by the same conglomerate, though. It does make sense that Fox News would be the number one source for national stories for localized affiliate stations, especially if those stations have reduced how often they use their own reporters due to budget issues. But it's still unfair to assume ALL their information comes from Fox News, especially since Fox usually doesn't directly own the local station..
* [[Apple, Inc.]] supposedly has only one employee. His name is [[Steve Jobs]]. He is the one who does all of the research and development, makes all of the decisions, builds all of the products himself, and receives all of the criticism.
** And similar to the above, Microsoft supposedly has only one Employee: [[Bill Gates]]. Similar to how people yell at Steve Jobs for glitches/shortcomings with Apple products, any shortcomings/glitches/what have you with a ''Microsoft'' product are treated like it is 100% Bill's doing. Xbox 360 red ringed? Bill Gates did it. Zune broke? Bill Gates's fault. Didn't like ''[[Halo]]''? Again, Bill Gates. Note that Bill's retirement as CEO has merely slowed the complaints, not stopped them.
*** Since Bill's retirement, a lot of people just replace his name in complaints with Steve Ballmer's.
** Also concerning Apple, in recent years people have been accusing them of mistreating "their" manufacturing workers in China. However, the workers in question are ''actually'' employed by Foxconn, a huge electronics company with the likes of Intel, [[Sony]], [[Microsoft]] and many others among their clients. Apple are big enough clients that you could hold them responsible to some degree, but they could cease all orders from Foxconn tomorrow and it, sadly, would not change a thing about how their workers are treated.
*** Though of note is that it's not so much that people are singling out Apple for using sweatshop made labor for their electronics and not knowing/caring that other companies do the same, but rather that Apple seems content to use sweatshop labor despite its attempts to brand itself as the caring, "different" electronics/computer company, darling of the sort of people who don't eat cheese because milking cows is "cruel".
* [[Windows]] is often blamed as the problem child if any glitches or viruses occur to the computer. While true in some occasions, most of the time the problem is usually from user error, hardware error, a bug on an installed program (often doing something that the documentation ''tells not to do''), or an infected file downloaded from the internet. And as for viruses, let's just say that [[GIFT|the internet is not always a nice place]]. Most viruses these days are specifically made for Windows environment for the simple reason that it is the most common system right now, and thus a virus is most likely to infect computers and spread if it is programmed with Windows in mind. This naturally has led to Apple computers getting mis ''credited'' as being virus-safe when this is only because no one's creating viruses for Mac OS. This situation is now begining to change as malware writers are turning their attention to macs as well, which often lack the security awareness Windows users have normally built up ''as a result of this''.
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** Because of the above condition, the "default page" is served to web browsers in place of the content that would normally be on the server machine.
** Users try to use the server like they normally do, and unexpectedly see the "default page".
** The users, frustrated that the server isn't working, complain to whoever's contact information is on the "default page" (that being the developers of the web server software and/or the developers of the operating system it's running on), demanding that they fix the server installation (which they can't do, because the server machine doesn't belong to them), and [https://web.archive.org/web/20131102202105/http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=127 sometimes even accusing them of hacking into the server].
* Contrary to what adults between 35-64 may believe, [[16 and Pregnant]] (and its spin-off series [[Teen Mom]]) did not make the teen pregnancy problem in America worse than ever. If anything, MTV launched the series to help combat the issue after the [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/19/eveningnews/main4197525.shtml infamous nineteen girl pregnancy pact in Nebraska]. Another variant of the blame are from mothers who got pregnant young as well, with most of them claiming the show does not reflect their personal experience. The irony of those complaints is that many mothers prove that their experiences are vastly different from the show's pregnant girls, along with other teen mothers. This also makes the case that the show can't truly capture the average American's teen pregnancy situation, since there's no ideal way to show it (many Muslim Americans made similar complaints toward the producers of ''All American Muslim''). [[16 and Pregnant]] certainly has its share of problems - [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing|unintentional glorification is a commonly cited one]] - but from the sound of detractors, you think that [[16 and Pregnant]] ''invented'' teen pregnancy.
* Rachel Carson wrote ''[[Silent Spring]]'' at a time when DDT was being ridiculously overused and the U.S. government was forcibly spraying it on private property. She made it clear that she did not advocate banning the chemical completely, but using it responsibly. If she lived today, she would almost certainly support using DDT to battle malaria in Africa.
▲=== Sports ===
▲* The description for Type 5 of misblamed is also known as "Quarterback Syndrome", because a lot of mistakes (such as a bad play, a poorly executed play, etc.) are automatically blamed on the
▲** And if it's not the quarterback, it's usually the head coach. Which is slightly more accurate, usually, but none but the most egotistical of them are in charge of choosing their teams (except in college football, of course).
▲** A good example is when Tennessee Titans back-up quarterback Kerry Collins was hugely blamed for the team's abysmal blunder against the New England Patriots in 2009 (the one with the 59-0 score), though mostly from people who only watched snippets from ESPN, and only spotted his [[Epic Fail|-7 passing yards]]. For those who actually watched the entire game, it told a different story. Although it's true that Collins didn't play his best, he certainly fared much better than the receivers he threw the ball to. His best passes often resulted in a no gain, yard loss or a drop, or only inched forward with maybe a yard or two gain. Worst of all, Collins tossed the ball to one receiver, who idiotically backpedaled ''twenty two yards'' to avoid getting tackled, but failed anyway and resulted in a huge yard
▲* Of course, it also works the other way. Tim Tebow is fast becoming the biggest ''inverted'' example
▲* Fran Tarkenton, a quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings from the 70s, is often known as the "quarterback who lost four Superbowls".
▲* Don't mention Don Denkinger in St. Louis. The former Major League umpire is blamed for the Cardinals losing the 1985 World Series due to his blown call at first base in the ninth inning of Game Six. This ignores that: 1) the Cards had a three games
* The 1986 World Series would produce its own epic case of misblame, one which has become entrenched in baseball lore. In game 6 of the series, the New York Mets would come back in extra innings, scoring the winning run of that game when first baseman Bill Buckner made an error and his glove missed a ground ball hit between his legs. The Mets promptly won game 7 and became champions, prolonging the legendary agony of the Red Sox. Easy case for blaming Buckner, right? Not so much. Those who ''do'' conveniently ignore the fact that Boston's bullpen had already blown two leads before the error occurred, with Boston having lost a 3-2 lead in regular innings and a 5-3 lead in the 10th before Buckner's error.
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▲* The ESPN Classic series "Top Five Reasons You Can't Blame" was devoted to this trope, listing some of the most infamous moments in sports and giving reasons why the blame shouldn't solely go to the one person (or group) that took all the heat. Denkinger and Buckner, as described above, are just two incidents the show covered.
▲* College basketball fans, sportswriters and TV commentators all grossly overestimate the importance of the RPI (Ratings Percentage Index) ranking in the NCAA's selection procedure for its annual basketball tournament. Several websites exist solely to replicate the RPI (since the NCAA doesn't release it publicly). Every year there are complaints about teams with a high RPI being left out or teams with a low RPI making the field, all concluding that the RPI is deeply flawed and the NCAA should get rid of it. But the NCAA has always said that the RPI is just meant as a simple table to compare teams early on in the process, and that their decisions ultimately come down to who the team in question beat and who they lost to.
▲* Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has been criticised a lot lately for paying roughly 100 million euros to Manchester United for the transfer of a single player, Cristiano Ronaldo, especially because it happened in the middle of the current worldwide economic crisis. The reason behind is a {{spoiler|totally retarded}} contract signed last year by the previous president, Ramón Calderón, which stipulated both the 100 million price and that if either of the parties chose to ignore the contract, they would have to pay 30 million to the other. So either United would have to pay Real 30 million for retaining their star player (which they weren't going to do since he had already decided to leave the club), or Real would have to pay United 30 million for ''absolutely nothing''.
▲* Watching ESPN's documentary, ''[http://30for30.espn.com/film/small-potatoes-who-killed-the-usfl.html Small Potatoes: Who Killed The USFL?]'' the answer to the titular question would seem to be "Donald Trump." While Trump, as owner of the New Jersey Generals, started a bidding war with the NFL over college players (one that most USFL owners didn't have the resources to compete in), the real downfall of the league - the disastrous decision to move from spring to fall and compete directly with the NFL - couldn't have been done without a consensus of owners going along with Trump. Much like the Vince Russo entries above, it's unfair to say he single-handedly destroyed the league. Though Trump doesn't help his own cause by defending everything he did as "the right thing to do" and accepting none of the blame for the USFL's swift and epic collapse.
▲* Losing [[The World Cup]] can lead to the fifth case. In Brazil, there are four known scapegoats:
▲** Barbosa, the goalkeeper in 1950 - where they lost the finals to Uruguay in Rio de Janeiro. He's famously quoted as: "The biggest penalty for a crime is 30 years. I'm currently paying 43 for a crime I didn't commit!"
▲** Toninho Cerezo, whose defensive mistake led to Italy's second goal in their 3-2 victory in 1982 (a simple draw would have put Brazil into the semi-finals, but the second goal turned the tide toward Italy).
▲** Zico, who missed a penalty against France in the quarter-finals in 1986. The game ended up 1-1, with an eventual French victory in the penalty shootout.
▲** In 2006, while Zidane was taking a free kick, Roberto Carlos was adjusting his sock. Thierry Henry passed behind him and scored France's victory goal.
▲* Goalkeeper Tommy Salo was blamed for Sweden's 3-4 loss in the quarterfinals against Belarus in the 2002 Olympic hockey tournament. While he can be blamed for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-7N2Va1XqY the endlessly replayed final goal], the coach pointed out that it wasn't Salo's fault that a Swedish team full of NHL pros only scored three goals (out of 47 shots!) on a minor team like Belarus.
▲* The Hillsborough Stadium disaster of 1989, when several Liverpool soccer fans were crushed to death in the standing pens at an FA Cup game (for those who are confused, in those days most soccer stadiums had lower levels with no seats that were enclosed by cage pens). Immediately after the disaster, ''The Sun'' published a front page story stating the fans themselves were to blame, intentionally overcrowding the pens and then attacking policemen after the cages broke and they spilled onto the field. It turned out that there was no security to inform and direct fans to the less crowded pens, the police actually prevented ambulances from entering the stadium after the fence broke, and the fans were trying to shuttle the injured out to the ambulances (which the police also prevented). Furthermore, stories about fans attacking police officers attempting to tend to the injured were [[Blatant Lies|outright fabrications]]. ''The Sun'' is still boycotted in Liverpool to this day.
▲* For most people, the Buffalo Bills' loss
▲* While Americans have not taken [[The Beautiful Game|Association Football]] as a spectator sport well, they are often blamed for creating the word Soccer, an alternative word for the sport which is a colloquial abbreviation of association (from assoc.). However the word was actually coined by Charles Wreford Brown, an Oxford student (in England) said to have been fond of shortened forms such as "brekkers" for breakfast and "rugger" for rugby football; and back in the day was used by rich folk to distinguish Association Football from Rugby. When the sport arrived in the US in the late 19th century, it was called Association Football (and was surprisingly quite a popular sport at the time) until after World War II; mainly due to the popularity of [[American Football]], and the word Soccer was adopted to differentiate with the two footballs. However since then, soccer's popularity in the US [[Deader Than Disco|would fall into obscurity until recently]], due in thanks to "[http://www.bigsoccer.com/soccer/roger-allaway/2010/10/25/what-was-the-quot-soccer-war-quot/ soccer war]" between the country's major league organization and FIFA. This sport's naming has also reigned true in some other countries like Canada, the Caribbean, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand; who have adopted or invented another football code, either as their "main" football or alongside Association Football. However, the British has since grown to hate this word, [[Internet Backdraft|and have been hell bent on lambasting the US for it]], [[Did Not Do the Research|never minding that the word came from the same place the modern rules of the game were made]], the latter fact the British embrace and [[Fan Dumb|the former fact the British will often deny]].
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