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** During the Platinum arc, Buck figures that he has to protect the Magma Stone from Team Galactic, so he moves it, intending to bring it home with him. This action in fact awakens the legendary Pokemon Heatran, Team Galactic's true target, and Buck has unwittingly brought them right to it.
* ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' {{spoiler|Myotismon leaves the fog that he created behind after he is killed}}, after which Joe hangs a lampshade on this trope. {{spoiler|Venomyotismon shows up just hours later}}.
* Frequently implied to occur whenever the ''[[Dirty Pair (Light Novel)|Dirty Pair]]'' are on the job (it's the reason for their [[Embarrassing Nickname]]), but one OVA episode spells it out plainly. The Angels are investigating the mysterious deaths of several hundred mining employees on a planet run as a religious colony; they find that the religion's leadership has evolved into a murdering cult that, with the help of a ring of weather satellites, is capable of calling down Sodom-and-Gomorrah-style devastation down in a specific location. After they destroy the cult's station in orbit, they assume correctly that the cult's reign of terror is ended. Unfortunately, the space station was also the control for the weather satellites, and the weather satellites ''weren't'' just used for destructive purposes; the Angels look down from orbit and see about nineteen hurricanes beginning to form, with no weather-control system left to prevent them...
* All over the place in ''[[Dragon Ball (Manga)|Dragon Ball]] Z'':
** Cell was on the receiving end of a long string of these. He reached his Perfect form because Krillin was infatuated with Android 18 and thus didn't activate her self-destruct, and because Vegeta, [[Blood Knight|looking for a better fight]], was ''actively helping him absorb her''. Gohan didn't kill Cell when he had the chance because [[Revenge Before Reason|he didn't feel Cell had suffered enough]], allowing him to use his self-destructing attack, leading to a [[Senseless Sacrifice]] by Goku ''and'' Cell becoming even more powerful after he recovered.
** According to the OVAs, said [[Senseless Sacrifice]] was an even bigger example, as Cell's explosion freed Bojack from imprisonment.
** Buu was even ''worse'', and would never have gotten as far as he did without the heroes. The Supreme Kai allowed Gohan to be drained of his energy, vastly underestimated how much of the necessary energy would be extracted. The battle between Vegeta and Goku produced so much power it accelerated Buu's awakening even more. Piccolo's attempt to buy more time for Goten and Trunks prompted Buu to [[Kill'Em All|kill every person on Earth except for the main cast with one attack]]. Gotenks [[Invoked Trope|acts like]] he's completely outmatched and that he's going to be defeated as a [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya|setup]] for his [[Super Mode|Super Saiyan 3 transformation]], but Piccolo takes him seriously and destroys the door to the [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|Hyperbolic Time Chamber]], leaving them trapped forever after Buu escapes anyway. And finally, Goku and Vegeta successfully rescue their sons and Piccolo from within Super Buu, causing the monster to revert into Kid Buu, who was almost as powerful as Super Buu but even ''[[Kids Are Cruel|more]]'' [[Complete Monster|monstrous]].
** How about ''[[Dragon Ball GT (Anime)|GT]]''? It turns out that the heroes can only make one wish with the Dragon Balls for only a year. Thanks to overusing it from ''Dragon Ball'' to ''Dragon Ball Z'', that's how the Shadow Dragons came into existence.
* It's become a [[Running Gag]] on the [[Guilty Crown]] page to begin every entry under [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] as "Good job, character!" and to follow with an explanation on the plan and how it wound up backfiring.
* ''[[Princess Tutu]]'': In order to prevent Mytho from destroying his own emotion of love, Fakir cuts the mythical sword capable of doing so in half. It also ensured that his heart could not be shattered again. Now how could this possibly be a bad thing? {{spoiler|Well, the piece of Mytho's heart that held love was recently bathed in raven's blood, thus corrupting it -- and now it's corrupting Mytho. The only way to get the thing out? Shattering his heart by using the very sword that Fakir destroyed.}} Whoopsie...
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*** Of course, he already did that to the inside of one of them enough so that it would collapse. So, nice job not breaking it hard enough, anti-hero.
** This trope could also be attributed to Ohgi and his culpability in {{spoiler|convincing the Black Knights to follow his lead in betraying Lelouch due to his gullibility regarding the claims of Schneizel and Villetta, which results in isolating Lelouch once and for all, and him ultimately going down the path of the Zero Requiem, which is largely an excuse for him to die as [[Despair Event Horizon|he has lost all hope]], and him [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|causing more destruction than he otherwise would have]] for a peace that logically won't last very long, as it is built on a flimsy pretext. That the ending is as happy as it is, given the circumstances (Lelouch doing worse things than anyone in history), is pure [[No Endor Holocaust]] at its finest}}.
* In ''[[Hell Girl (Anime)|Hell Girl: The Cauldron of Three]]'', Mikage is able to sense when someone nearby may soon be a client of Enma Ai. In one episode, she stops one such person and urges her not to use the Hotline to Hell... which she had ''never heard of until then''. Smooth.
* In the Season 2 finale of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'', Kenzan tries to stop a brainwashed minion from firing the [[Earthshattering Kaboom]] by smashing the laptop computer that controls the satellite cannon. As soon as he does this, he learns the missile was just fired, and he's just destroyed the only means of stopping it!
** The hero wasn't immune to this either. When Judai was little, he had a card named [[Stalker Withwith a Crush|Yubel]] that was very protective of him. Whoever Judai dueled or was close to, Yubel would cause harm to them and made them fall into a coma. By Judai's request, Yubel was sent into outer space by Kaibacorp hoping it would absorb "the powers of justice" like his Elemental Hero Neos would. But instead it absorb powers the [[Eldritch Abomination|Light of Destruction]] and was driven insane. After landing back on Earth, it became Season Three's [[Big Bad]] and orchestrated the events that happen to Judai and his friends.
* The [[Complete Monster|biggest and baddest]] of the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] in the ''Zatch Bell!'' manga by name of Clear Note, {{spoiler|who planned to use the King's Privilege to [[Kill'Em All|bring genocide to the Mamodo,]]}} was powerful enough that it took Zatch and Brago's strongest spells to beat him. And what happens next? It somehow enables him to become powerful enough that [[Only the Author Can Save Them Now|Makoto Raiku had to intervene.]] What's worse, Kiyo somewhat knew what would happen if they did what they did {{spoiler|thanks to his Answer Talker ability, which allowed him to determine the answer to any question in an instant}}, but if they hadn't, [[Xanatos Gambit|Clear would have won anyway.]]
* In ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'', Sakura leaves one of her memory-feathers behind in Acid Tokyo to keep the reservoir pure and the inhabitants alive. {{spoiler|While this act ultimately apparently results in [[Stable Time Loop|her birth]], the aging of the feather also allows the [[Big Bad]] to win when he returns it to her body in the "several hundred years later" dimension.}}
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* ''[[Mahoujin Guru Guru|Doki Doki Densetsu Mahoujin Guru Guru]]'' has the characters discover Kukuri's birthplace where items for her use had been left behind. The bad news is the items had been collected by monsters called Gimu Gimu. Good news is they're tame and don't object to people taking back what's theirs. Unfortunately, they also don't object to people taking items and ''selling'' them, which is exactly what Nike, Kukuri, and Toma did prior to reaching the ruins. To make it worse, a necklace meant specifically for Kukuri was lost when Toma earlier used the item it was kept in as an impromptu rocket launcher. Poor Kukuri simply snaps at this point and regresses to a four-year old for a few moments. For the record, they ''did'' find the necklace soon after.
* Manga example from ''[[Basara]]'': when [[Evil Chancellor|Momonoi]] is killed and the Red King retakes his city, Tatara and his rebel army plan on using the leftovers of Momonoi's gunpowder to blow up the water supply of the palace, making the Red King suffer. Too bad it results in the whole city having no water left and the citizens, formerly happy to be freed from their king turn against the rebels. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|A desert city cut off from water, good way to get their support hero]].
* In the ''[[Berserk]]'' manga, Skull Knight manages to slash Femto from behind at the very moment of his apparent ascension, using his dimension-crossing sword to teleport and get the drop on him. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, Femto then redirects his strike towards the vortex of demonic power they are both standing on, and uses its dimension-bending to bring the unholy nature of that place closer to earth, thus bypassing the walls between Seen and Unseen by folding time and space, resulting in the energies of the Unseen manifesting physically on Earth. You've brought about ''[[Hell Onon Earth]]'', Skull Knight. Whoops. Guess that's what you get for bringing in [[Warp Drive|sci-fi conventions]] into a [[Medieval Fantasy]] world!}}
** An earlier ''Berserk'' example: when the King of Midland has Griffith jailed and tortured for deflowering his daughter Princess Charlotte, Griffith accuses ''him'' of being attracted to her, since she looks just like his dead wife. Now, if those desires did exist, they were only subconscious -- the king would probably never have realized they were there. But Griffith's accusation makes him dwell on his daughter to the point of madness, and in one horrible moment he [[Parental Incest|forces himself on her]]. She stops him and he regains his senses, but the damage is done. Charlotte is traumatized; the king sinks into despair and insanity; and the Band of the Hawk, now the king's only targets for revenge, are hunted for years by Midland's army and worse. Good one, Griff.
*** As the Godhand Void would say, "[[You Can't Fight Fate|everything happens within the flow of causality]]".
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' gives us a Nice Job Breaking It ''Villain''. Near the end of Season 1, the [[Big Bad]]'s assassination of {{spoiler|the hibernating Iolia Shenberg}} triggers a [[Dead-Man Switch]] which {{spoiler|unlocks the Gundams' [[Super Mode]].}} With this advantage, the good guys have a fighting chance in what had previously been an all but impossible battle. Thus, in the first season finale, {{spoiler|They manage to kill the [[Big Bad]] and fight the remainder of his forces to a bloody stalemate.}}
** Celestial Being had an unintentional variant of this. Their plan in Season One involved getting the whole world to quit shooting each other, and unite them towards a common enemy (them). Unfortunately, this works far too well {{spoiler|as this results in the creation of the A-LAWS}}.
* In a way similar to the ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'' example above, {{spoiler|the ''entire first half'' of}} ''[[Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne]]'' was this. {{spoiler|Maron/Jeanne is helping out God by sealing demons to keep Satan at bay and her [[Slap Slap Kiss|boyfriend/arch enemy]] Chiaki/Sinbad is an agent of the devil, right? Bzzt, wrong! It is revealed that Maron's angel sidekick Finn Fish is actually working for the devil and had been lying to Maron the whole time, and Maron was actually helping the devil and Chiaki God, not the other way around. So Maron had actually been ''helping'' the devil that whole time, making him stronger than ever.}}
* The sum result of the {{spoiler|Hueco Mundo arc}} in ''[[Bleach]]''. {{spoiler|Orihime left to save her friends, who went after her to save her, who were followed by half of the remaining captains (who, despite at least two of them having their own agendas, did save everyone's favorite group of idiots) and their subordinates... only to find out that that was [[Big Bad|Aizen's]] [[Batman Gambit]] all along when re-kidnaps the poor [[Barrier Maiden]], closes the Gargantua's that the shinigami had used to get to HM (effectively trapping them all), and merrily skips off to have his way with Karakura Town. And let's not forget how not only did Aizen only find out about Orihime's [[Reality Warper]] powers because she tried to help her friends, but that Urahara knew he might go after her and tried to stop her from fighting afterwards ([[Stay in Thethe Kitchen|in a way that even he admitted was a mistake]]), only for Rukia to rebuild her confidence and take her away for training, which ends up leading her to be fantastically exposed when [[The Dragon|Ulquiorra]] stops her while she was trying to return to the human world to fight alongside of her friends.}} Give yourselves a pat on the back, heroes. You really earned it.
** Of course, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Bleach]]'' was previously established as a World-Champion Grandmaster of [[Xanatos Speed Chess]], so something like this was probably inevitable...
** More recently, the villain of a filler arc, Muramasa, {{spoiler|lures Ichigo into his hideout and to where Yamamoto seems to be held prisoner, then goads him into using a full-power Getsuga Tensho on him. The result? Muramasa redirects the attack into the barrier surrounding Yamamoto, breaking it. Seems Yamamoto wasn't so much a prisoner as he was trying to seal himself off from Muramasa, who promptly steals the power of Yamamoto's [[Game Breaker]]-level zanpakuto as soon as the barrier falls.}} WHOOPS.
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* The ''[[Patlabor]]'' TV series features a pretty epic one, with a simple [[Honor Before Reason]] decision in an early throwaway episode snowballing into an increasingly deadly story arc that would dominate the later half of the show. Captain Nagumo is opposed to using the prototype Patlabor SRX-70 Saturn created by [[Mega Corp|Schaft Enterprises]] because she knows they're going to use the motion data from the police's skirmishes to develop military mechs. All well & good, but because Nagumo threw the Saturn away, [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Utsumi decided to get the Patlabors' data another way, namely smuggling pre-production military Labors into Tokyo & causing havoc in the streets to draw the Patlabors out.
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', all of Ala Alba went to the Magical World, including the {{spoiler|unbeknownst-to-them-Princess Asuna}}. Asuna is then kidnapped by Fate and the Cosmo Entelecheia remnant, who do... ''something very ominous'' relating to her [[Anti-Magic]] powers. [[Wild Mass Guessing|The going theory]] is that by bringing the Princess to where the bad guys can get her, ''they directly caused the revival of the [[Big Bad]]''. Good going.
* In the Ark arc of ''[[D .Gray Man-man]]'', [[Wide -Eyed Idealist]] [[The Messiah|Allen Walker]] is facing off against Tyki Mikk. During the fight, Tyki accidentally pushes him into a [[Shonen Upgrade]], and his [[Empathic Weapon]] turns into {{spoiler|a [[BFS|really big sword]]}} that can't damage humans- only Akuma and Noah. Tyki had been relying on Allen's [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|reluctance to kill another human]], so he was a bit surprised when Allen {{spoiler|stabbed him right through the chest in an attempt to remove the Noah from him.}} It seems to have worked for a while... but then it turns out that {{spoiler|all Allen managed was to wake it up, and Tyki goes [[Body Horror]] [[One-Winged Angel]].}} [[Oh Crap|Woops]].
** He makes a very similar (and also understandable) mistake later: {{spoiler|While fighting a Level 4 Akuma, in order to trap it, he deliberately makes himself a target, then summons his sword from across the room, impaling both the Level 4 and himself. This would have worked fine if it wasn't for the [[Tomato in Thethe Mirror|little snag]] that he's the host for the Fourteenth Noah. Even the Akuma looked terrified out of its mind before he managed to suppress it.}}
** Kanda, in the most recent chapters, when he {{spoiler|goes berserk and impales Allen with Mugen (his Innocence-forged sword), which causes Allen to collapse and his skin to change into that telltale Noah gray color. The Millennium Earl is positively dancing with joy when this happens, and gleefully thanks Kanda for fully awakening the Fourteenth.}} Oops....
* In ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'', one might say this trope occurs throughout the series with the Freedom and Archangel interfering with the war. But at the Second Battle of Onogoro, {{spoiler|1=Kira preventing Shinn from continuing his attack on Orb allowed Djibril to escape, thus letting him fire Requiem and destroying a lot of the PLANTs. Shinn in SEED mode most likely would have stopped Djibril before getting on the shuttle or soon after he launched. Kira and the Archangel would have lost Orb, but considering the only Orb forces they had at the final battle were the ones they had before Onogoro...}}
* In ''[[Deadman Wonderland]]'', Ganta stops the Deadmen from wiping out the Forgeries because one of his friends was among them. In doing so, he inadvertently incapacitates all of the prison's strongest Deadmen leaving the Forgeries free to start picking them off one by one. As a result, Ganta is [[What the Hell, Hero?|completely alienated by his friends]].
* In ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]]'', the audience doesn't find out until {{spoiler|Tsumihoroboshi-hen}} that {{spoiler|Keiichi's}} actions during {{spoiler|Onikakushi-hen}} were basically part and parcel of this. Granted, stuff ''was'' broken. Just different stuff.
* Way to go, ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of Thethe Wind|Nausicaa]]''. In the manga version, you've saved your people, but you've also {{spoiler|doomed humanity by destroying the pure, corruption-free genes that have allowed humanity to survive.}} She believes in [[History Repeats|the natural cycles]], but what she fails to realize is that {{spoiler|there will BE no cycles for mankind if they're all dead.}}
* In the ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' movie, nice job flooding the entire Earth, destoying everything and drowning humanity in the process of saving your beloved Renton, Eureka. Good thing that {{spoiler|She lost all her memories aftermath, or else she can't live a guilty conscience free happily ever after life with Renton.}}
** In the anime: {{spoiler|[[Sarcasm Mode|Nice job saving the girl in coma, Renton.]]}}
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Animeanime)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]: [[The Movie|Conqueror of Shamballa]]'', {{spoiler|Al opens the gate between his world and ours as the Thule Society does on our side, in an attempt to rescue his brother Ed. Though Ed escapes, it also allows the Thule Society to launch a full scale war on Amestris, and nearly destroys the capitol city}}
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho (Manga)|Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', the Chapter Black saga, Yusuke allowed [[Big Bad|Shinobu Sensui]] to fully power up so they could have a good battle. This ended up getting him killed. Dangit, Yusuke, you made Kuwabara cry again!
** Of course this led to a [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]] moment as Yusuke was resurrected as a mega-kickass demon, but he didn't know he was a hidden demon at that time.
** Don't forget that the whole arc was just Sensui's plan {{spoiler|to get himself killed by a powerful demon as justice for killing countless demons. Unleashing [[Hell Onon Earth]] against what he sees as a corrupt human race is just frosting added by an enraged Kuwabara.}} Nice job, dimwit.
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', {{spoiler|Itachi}}, ordered to kill his entire clan {{spoiler|to prevent a bloody coup that would kill all of Konoha}}, couldn't bring himself to kill {{spoiler|his younger brother, Sasuke}}. As a result, he spared said person, and tried to enact a [[Xanatos Gambit]] that would end with that person a hero beloved by Konoha, and capable of defending himself and it against the [[Big Bad]]. Instead, it ended with him as [[The Dragon]] to the [[Big Bad]], swearing to ''destroy'' Konoha. Oopsie!
** Itachi's entire plan for Sasuke is a [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]. {{spoiler|It never occurred to him that [[Mind Rape|mind Raping]] him twice would be detrimental to Sasuke's mental health. Nor occurring to him that beating him half to death twice would make him psychotic. Nor occurring to him that Sasuke might kill Naruto to get the MS. Nor tried to stop [[Complete Monster|Orochimaru]] from getting Sasuke.}} If he didn't intervene or interfere with Sasuke's life at all, {{spoiler|he would have gotten what he wanted-a Konoha Aligned Sasuke killing him instead of a fucked up mentally Neutral Sasuke.}}
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** And then there's the Sage of the Six Paths, in his day he saved the entire world from a monstrous threat, founded the Shinobi way, and was pretty much revered as a Messiah and [[Physical God]]. {{spoiler|That isn't an exaggeration, he threat he defeated was a godlike Ten Tailed beast, which he then proceeded to ''seal into himself'', inadvertently giving himself [[Reality Warper|Reality Warping Powers]]. He then proceeded to use those powers to ''create the moon in order to seal away the beast's body'' and then split it's chakra into the nine Tailed Beasts}}. Nice guy. Unfortunately he's also indirectly responsible for {{spoiler|The Uchiha massacre and the Fourth Shinobi World War. Not to mention all the deaths the tailed beasts caused over the centuries.}}
** [[Tyke Bomb|Gaara]] probably wouldn't be half as screwed up as he is if his father had not only had him turned into a Jinchuriki, killing his mother in the process, but also {{spoiler|sent Gaara's uncle on a suicide mission and ordered him to tell Gaara that no-one loved him in order to test Shukaku's power}}. OK, so the Fourth Kazekage was doing it to protect his village in desperate times, but he ended up with an unstable, [[Ax Crazy]] child who kills people left, right and centre, is treated like a monster, has his own siblings terrified of him, and probably would have gotten a lot worse if [[Defeat Means Friendship|Naruto hadn't showed up]].
* ''[[EL (Anime)Él|EL]]'' takes place [[After the End]], which happened because some of the worlds major powers decided to put an end to environmental pollution... by [[A Million Is a Statistic|nuking most of humanity]], and [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|nearly all other life on earth]], out of existence.
* In episode one of ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'', Touma destroys Index's magically [[Made of Indestructium]] cloak to prove he has [[Anti-Magic]]. This leaves her defenseless and she becomes grievously wounded later.
* In ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'' manga, {{spoiler|Haqua released Fiore out of mercy when Fiore showed "evidence" that she is innocent. Later on, Nora tries capturing her but both Haqua and Nora were restrained. So yeah, Haqua, maybe you should have followed Keima's instructions. Nice job breaking it, Haqua.}}
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5 Ds5D's]]'': The five Signers think they've successfully stopped the season's [[Big Bad]] and saved the world by defeating him in a duel, only to shortly realize they've brought a [[Xanatos Gambit]] to fruition, as, regardless of their victory, the duel completed "the Circuit," allowing the Arc Cradle to descend over New Domino and begin the countdown to the city's destruction.
* [[Badass Preacher|Shiranui]] suffers through a particularly horrific one in the early chapters of ''[[Kagerou- Nostalgia]]''. He and [[Hired Guns|Kazuma]] are staying with a woman whose husband left, planning to travel to the capital and assassinate [[General Ripper|General]] [[Evil Overlord|Kiyotaka]] [[Zero-Percent Approval Rating|Kuroda]], leaving her and their daughter behind. The husband subsequently returns with a band of mercenaries and massacres the town; when his wife confronts him and accuses him of People Hunting (a form of massacre endorsed by Kuroda), he does not seem to understand what she is talking about. Shiranui realises that the man has been tainted by the darkness in the capital and purifies him. ( {{spoiler|Horrified by what he has done the husband promptly murders his wife and daughter, and then commits suicide while Shiranui looks on, unable to bring himself to stop the killing by shooting another human being.}}) [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Nice job breaking it]], [[The Messiah|priest]].
* While they can't be fully considered "Heroes" the Marines in ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'' cause this following {{spoiler|The Whitebeard War. Their long, elaborate plan to kill Whitebeard worked, and they also killed off the son of the Pirate King (Ace). The only problem is that in doing so, they horribly screwed up the power balance of the New World, causing several towns to get overrun by pirates. Also, since Whitebeard confirmed that One Piece existed with his dying breath, the piracy rates have practically DOUBLED. To make matters worse, Blackbeard managed to free some of the worse criminals in the history of the world, added them to his crew, and has now stolen Whitebeard's Devil Fruit, which is capable of causing untold carnage, before finally declaring war on the World Government. And to top it all off, the Elders decided to censor the escape of even more of the Level 6 prisoners, meaning they can do whatever the hell they want. So basically, they wound up screwing up the Entire World thanks to a horribly short sighted plan. BRAVO. [[Slow Clap|*Clap* *Clap* *Clap*]] }}
** The actual protagonists fall into this on occasion as well. Luffy's jailbreak at Impel Down let a bunch of inmates out of prison. Granted, it's reasonable to assume that a fraction of them were actually decent guys like Mr. 2, Jimbei, and the Newkama pirates, but the majority was made up of dangerous criminals. Also, Franky blew up the labrotory of the greatest scientist in the world... twice. He saw the [[Big Red Button]] with the skull 'n crossbones on it and thought [[What an Idiot!|that it must be a pirate button.]]
* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Anime)|Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''. If ''[[Puella Magi Oriko Magica]]'' is to be believed, then if Madoka didn't try to cheer Mami up in Episode 3, {{spoiler|she wouldn't end up being horribly headchomped by Charlotte and instead handily beat her.}} Way to go to pick a time for [[You Are Not Alone]] speech, Madoka.
** Not to mention Madoka nearly killed {{spoiler|Sayaka}} by throwing her soul gem down the bridge in episode 6, and Homura had to clean up after her mess.
*** How about the reason why Madoka is so powerful and Kyubee wants to contract her is because {{spoiler|Homura keeps attaching more grief from timelines to Madoka everytime she resets time to save Madoka.}} I'd say this one is the biggest of the series.
* Early in ''[[Summer Wars]]'' Kenji gets a text message with a math algorithm challenging him to solve it. He spends all night doing so, and when he wakes up finds that the online world OZ used by most of the world has gone haywire and that the algorithm he solved was in fact the company's strongest security code. {{spoiler|Ultimately subverted, though, in that over fifty other people made successful attempts on the code ''and'' Kenji actually made a mistake in his resulting in it being incorrect.}}
* ''[[Doraemon]]'' should have a lot of examples throughout the show's run. It at least happened in the movie, "Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey". Nobita finds stray dogs and cats and wants them to have a home. The gang time traveled them back 300 million years and providing them with evolution and a food making machine. When they visit them again, they encounter a time disturbance causing them to be stranded in a different year in that era with advanced sentient dogs and cats, thus started the movie.
* In [[Tsukihime (Visual Novel)|Tsukihime]], if it weren't for Shiki "killing" Arcueid, Arcueid could effortlessly defeat all her enemies and Shiki himself wouldn't be dragged into her business.
* Several of Makoto's leaps in ''[[The Girl Who Leapt Through Time]]'' would unintentionally break something else while trying to undo something she had broke due to leaping for her personal gain. One example is Makoto swapping places with another classmate in Home EC, causing him to cause the accident in the room that Makoto would have caused. However, this accident would make said classmate a target to bullies. When her friend Chiaki confesses to her, she uses her time leaps to avoid talking to him and he became frustrated with her and eventually decided to date Makoto's friend Yuri. Which would incidentally lead to {{spoiler|Makoto becoming jealous and realizing her feelings for Chiaki.}} Later, when the bullied classmate snaps and throws a fire extinguisher at Makoto, Chiaki attempts to shield her. Makoto then time leaps to tackle him out of the way ... only for the fire extinguisher to hit her friend Yuri instead.
* Uhm, [[Saint Seiya]]? Better said, um, {{spoiler|Saga}}? Oh all the places to {{spoiler|lock your [[Evil Twin]] brother Kanon}} in as punishment for his evil, you shouldn't have chosen {{spoiler|the [[Drowning Pit]] under the Sanctuary}}! Because if you had not done that, then {{spoiler|Kanon wouldn't have almost drowned and fallen in a hole thrrough the rock wall... which took him towards Poseidon's realm, and allowed him to become the [[Man Behind the Man]] in the Poseidon saga.}} ... Ooops.
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