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* At the end of ''[[The Ring]]'', we find out that not only has the creepy girl from the well not been defeated, she's actually been released to reign terror upon the rest of the world. Plus she never sleeps, so it's not like we'll be getting a daily eight hour break from the reign of terror. Nice job, hero.

* In the American/Japanese science fiction/monster flick ''[[The Green Slime]]'', the space station becomes infested with monsters made of the titular stuff because a visiting [[Jerkass]]/TheKirk had smashed on the ground an unauthorized sample of mold taken from an asteroid. He'd done this within a huddle of other astronauts, so naturally a fragment of the container (complete with a blop of slime) gets caught in one of the astronauts' pant-leg, and it naturally feeds on the radiation during the decontamination process.

* In ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', after Nedry shuts down the fences to steal the embryos and make his escape, the [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]] gets out and wreaks havoc. In order to undo what Nedry has done, Hammond wants the computers shut down and restarted. When [[Samuel L Jackson|Ray Arnold]] initially refuses, Hammond insists: "People are dying. Would you ''please'' shut down the system." Arnold does so. Nedry was smart enough to program the raptor fences to stay operational during his sabotage; the total system shutdown releases the Velociraptors. Prior to this, the T. Rex had only killed one person; the raptors kill two, and relentlessly pursue the main characters for the rest of the film. [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero|Nice job, Hammond]].

* In ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', after Nedry shuts down the fences to steal the embryos and make his escape, the [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]] gets out and wreaks havoc. In order to undo what Nedry has done, Hammond wants the computers shut down and restarted. When [[Samuel L Jackson|Ray Arnold]] initially refuses, Hammond insists: "People are dying. Would you ''please'' shut down the system." Arnold does so. Nedry was smart enough to program the raptor fences to stay operational during his sabotage; the total system shutdown releases the Velociraptors. Prior to this, the T. Rex had only killed one person; the raptors kill two, and relentlessly pursue the main characters for the rest of the film. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Nice job, Hammond]].

** Also the [[Designated Hero|heroes]] of the sequel, who are responsible for every single death in the entire movie ([[It Got Worse|even]] [[Sarcasm Mode|better]], this is the ''Jurassic Park'' movie with the highest body count).

* At the end of ''[[Hellboy (Film)|Hellboy]]'', the titular [[Anti Anti Christ]] kills the villain [[Rasputin the Mad Monk|Rasputin]]... only for a ''very'' huge and scary tentacle monster to [[One Winged Angel|pop out of his dead body]].

* At the end of ''[[Hellboy (Film)|Hellboy]]'', the titular [[Anti-Anti-Christ]] kills the villain [[Rasputin the Mad Monk|Rasputin]]... only for a ''very'' huge and scary tentacle monster to [[One-Winged Angel|pop out of his dead body]].

** But then Hellboy kills that, so while he may have triggered an early apocalypse, he then stopped it entirely.

* In ''[[Speed (Film)|Speed]]'', while under the bus in a failed attempt to disarm the bomb, Jack has to punch a hole in the bus's gas tank with his screwdriver as a makeshift grip to keep himself off the ground to avoid being run over when his cart breaks. By causing the leak, Jack has now significantly cut down the time he and the LAPD have in trying to find a solution to end the crisis. When he informs driver Annie about it once safely in the bus, she replies in a panic, "What, did you feel like you needed another challenge?!"

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* Just about every protagonist from the ''[[Saw]]'' films (with the exception of ''Saw'', ''Saw VI'', and arguably, ''Saw II'') suffers from this, the worst case being Matt Gibson from ''Saw 3D''.

* In the ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequels, the Republic winning the Clone War was an [[Evil Plan]] made of a series of Nice Job Breaking It Heroes that no one even ''realized'' were such. i.e. Anakin Skywalker leading the counterattack against the Confederacy fleet and freeing the captured Chancellor Palpatine was orchestrated specifically so he could defeat Darth Tyranus and murder him. It might be seen as necessary -- even a handless Sith Lord would be able to escape all but the most secure prisons while awaiting a war crimes or treason trial -- but the fact remains that Anakin killed a badly injured and (at the time) helpless old man because someone told him to.

** Which is why, as the main article explains, this is not [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero]], but rather [[My Death Is Only the Beginning]] due to [[The Plan]] involved. Sure, it's not Tyranus himself who lead Anakin to kill him, but the guiding hand of evil is still there.

** Which is why, as the main article explains, this is not [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]], but rather [[My Death Is Only the Beginning]] due to [[The Plan]] involved. Sure, it's not Tyranus himself who lead Anakin to kill him, but the guiding hand of evil is still there.

*** "[[A New Hope|Find the controls that extend the bridge!" "I think I just blasted it.]]"

** Also, in ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'', Qui-Gon Jinn {{spoiler|made it his dying wish for Obi-Wan to train Anakin.}} Those familiar enough with the series' overall story would know that {{spoiler|this didn't exactly work out all that well.}}

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** ''Rise'' could have been called "Nice Job Breaking It Hero: [[The Movie]]". {{spoiler|In his attempt to create an Alzheimer's cure, Will sets into motion the eventual dominance of the apes, as well as inadvertently creating the plague that wipes out most of humanity.}}

* [[Bee Movie|Layton: "This is an unholy perversion of the balance of nature, Benson! You'll regret this.]] Needless to say, the defense attorney was absolutely right, as Benson's victory did upset the balance of nature. Fortunately, Benson did fix it before it became irreversible.

* [[John Woo]]'s ''[[Broken Arrow 1996 (Film)|Broken Arrow]]'' sees the hero finding a nuclear warhead which the villain has left in a mine. It hasn't been armed yet, so he comes up with the idea to enter the wrong arming code three times, causing a security measure to lock the warhead so it can't be armed. He does so...only for the villain to mockingly inform him that he used uncoded circuit boards, "You have just armed a nuclear warhead, my friend." [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero|Oops.]]

* [[John Woo]]'s ''[[Broken Arrow 1996 (Film)|Broken Arrow]]'' sees the hero finding a nuclear warhead which the villain has left in a mine. It hasn't been armed yet, so he comes up with the idea to enter the wrong arming code three times, causing a security measure to lock the warhead so it can't be armed. He does so...only for the villain to mockingly inform him that he used uncoded circuit boards, "You have just armed a nuclear warhead, my friend." [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Oops.]]

* At a fairly early point in ''[[Return to Oz]],'' Dorothy mentions that the [[McGuffin|Ruby Slippers]] fell off her feet during her flight back to Kansas, and apparently thought nothing more of them after that. During the climax, the Nome King takes [[Kick the Dog|great delight in telling Dorothy what happened because of this]]:

{{quote| '''Dorothy:''' My ruby slippers--<br />

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{{quote| '''Tiffany''': I did it, I switched the tape in the machine.<br />

'''Bond''': You stupid twit, you put the ''real'' one back in! }}

* In ''[[Friday the ~~13 th~~ (Film)|Friday the 13 th]] Part VI'', Tommy Jarvis, [[No Kill Like Overkill|just to be absolutely sure]], digs up Jason Voorhees' corpse, and impales it with a steel rod. Cue [[Lightning Can Do Anything|freak lightning bolt]].

* In ''[[Friday the 13th (Film)|Friday the 13 th]] Part VI'', Tommy Jarvis, [[No Kill Like Overkill|just to be absolutely sure]], digs up Jason Voorhees' corpse, and impales it with a steel rod. Cue [[Lightning Can Do Anything|freak lightning bolt]].

* The [[Fridge Logic]] in ''[[Ten Thousand BC]]'' sets in that, you know, D'leh and his buddies destroyed one of the only BASTIONS OF CIVILIZATION and set humanity back god knows how long. [[Values Dissonance|A few sacrifices isn't that much of a price to pay]].

* At the end of ''Annihilation: Earth'', David is torn between his idea of shutting down the particle colliders to stop the apocalypse or turning them [[Up to Eleven]], as his Middle Eastern colleague Raja suggests, which will (supposedly) force the anomaly to be "snuffed out." His boss makes him doubt Raja's motives, and David ends up going with his original plan. Cue the literal [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]. The moral of the story: not all Arabs are terrorists.

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** Also in the third movie, Lin, who had been the guardian of the tomb and tried to prevent the emperor from escaping, was responsible for knocking the diamond into the emperor that awakes him as she attempts to attack his decoy.

* In ''[[Twenty Eight Days Later]]'' [[Animal Wrongs Group|morons]] relase the Rage Virus when attempting to free some filthy monkeys.

** The rampant idiocy of the cast of ''[[Twenty Eight Weeks Later]]'' makes those guys look ''intelligent''. First the [[Swiss Cheese Security]] of the compound allows people to leave the safe zone at will, leading to the discovery of a virus carrier that, [[What an Idiot|for some reason]], they bring into the safe zone and leave in an unlocked room with no guards to speak of. When someone inevitably gets infected, their [[Sarcasm Mode|logical]] decision is to heard the entire population into an poorly guarded room and shut all the lights off. Naturally, [[It Got Worse|it gets worse]] when it leads to nearly everyone dead or infected. Then at the end, {{spoiler|the boy becomes a carrier and his sister [[Too Dumb to Live|neglects to ''tell'' anyone]], which results in the infection decimating France and possibly all of mainland Europe.}}

** The rampant idiocy of the cast of ''[[Twenty Eight Weeks Later]]'' makes those guys look ''intelligent''. First the [[Swiss Cheese Security]] of the compound allows people to leave the safe zone at will, leading to the discovery of a virus carrier that, [[What an Idiot!|for some reason]], they bring into the safe zone and leave in an unlocked room with no guards to speak of. When someone inevitably gets infected, their [[Sarcasm Mode|logical]] decision is to heard the entire population into an poorly guarded room and shut all the lights off. Naturally, [[It Got Worse|it gets worse]] when it leads to nearly everyone dead or infected. Then at the end, {{spoiler|the boy becomes a carrier and his sister [[Too Dumb to Live|neglects to ''tell'' anyone]], which results in the infection decimating France and possibly all of mainland Europe.}}

* The main character in [[Avatar (Film)|Avatar]] has the sole mission of trying to get the Na'vi people to evacuate the area within three months before [[Evil Inc]] clears the area. Of course, he gets emersed into their culture and falls in love with a [[Green Skinned Space Babe]] (or blue skinned space babe, anyway). So now his mission is to try to convince his boss to leave them alone, right? Nope. He continues spying on them anyway. So does he warn the aliens that their home is about to be attatcked? Nope. He just rides around on space-horses and has sex with the alien babe, ignoring the problem all together. Needless to say, it all ends in a big fight where lots of people die. He does help save the day but one can't help but to think he could've done much more to avert disaster.

* The main character in [[Avatar (Film)|Avatar]] has the sole mission of trying to get the Na'vi people to evacuate the area within three months before [[Evil, Inc.]] clears the area. Of course, he gets emersed into their culture and falls in love with a [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]] (or blue skinned space babe, anyway). So now his mission is to try to convince his boss to leave them alone, right? Nope. He continues spying on them anyway. So does he warn the aliens that their home is about to be attatcked? Nope. He just rides around on space-horses and has sex with the alien babe, ignoring the problem all together. Needless to say, it all ends in a big fight where lots of people die. He does help save the day but one can't help but to think he could've done much more to avert disaster.

** This is pointed out in the "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXraSkgssFk How Avatar Should Have Ended]" video.

* [[Resident Evil]] the team of soldiers sent into the research facility are completely uninformed about the work going on, they manage to get infected by the virus, turn off the A.I keeping it quarantined, create a new strain of the virus and fail to destroy everything, which lets the zombie apocalypse happen.

* In [[Kung Fu Panda 2]], if Po had not {{spoiler|entered [[Evil Albino|Lord Shen's]] weapon foundry against the advice of Tigress}}, then the [[Five Man Band|Furious Five's]] plan to {{spoiler|blow up Lord Shen's cannons would have succeeded without a hitch. Instead, they had to get rid of their explosives or Po would be blown up along with [[Big Bad|Shen]] and the [[Mooks]].}}

* In [[Kung Fu Panda 2]], if Po had not {{spoiler|entered [[Evil Albino|Lord Shen's]] weapon foundry against the advice of Tigress}}, then the [[Five-Man Band|Furious Five's]] plan to {{spoiler|blow up Lord Shen's cannons would have succeeded without a hitch. Instead, they had to get rid of their explosives or Po would be blown up along with [[Big Bad|Shen]] and the [[Mooks]].}}

* If Elizabeth hadn't taken the cursed medallion when she and Will escaped from the Isla de Muerta in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean|Curse of the Black Pearl]]'', then the cursed pirates wouldn't have reason to follow them and get the ''Interceptor'' destroyed and the crew nearly killed.

** Actually, they still would've. After all, they now knew they had the wrong person and needed the right person's blood to break the curse. Taking or not taking the medallion wouldn't've made any difference.

* If Indy hadn't gotten involved at all in ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'', the Nazis would have brought the Ark back to Germany. Presumably, it would have been opened in front of Hitler and his cronies, killing them and thus preventing WWII, the Holocaust, etc. Thanks Indy!

** Averted in the film. Belloq tells Indy during their confrontation in the Cairo bar that Hitler will see the Ark when he, Belloq, is done with it. Later, when one of the Nazis objects to the Extremely Jewish ceremonial opening (for obvious reasons), Belloq cuts him off by asking him if he would rather open it in front of der Fuhrer and find it empty. As noted [[~~Hitlers~~ Time Travel Exemption Act|here]], "It appears to be a cosmic law that something bad has to go down in the period between 1930 and 1946-47." (This is reinforced by Indy's reaction when he comes face-to-face with Hitler in [[Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade]].)

** Averted in the film. Belloq tells Indy during their confrontation in the Cairo bar that Hitler will see the Ark when he, Belloq, is done with it. Later, when one of the Nazis objects to the Extremely Jewish ceremonial opening (for obvious reasons), Belloq cuts him off by asking him if he would rather open it in front of der Fuhrer and find it empty. As noted [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act|here]], "It appears to be a cosmic law that something bad has to go down in the period between 1930 and 1946-47." (This is reinforced by Indy's reaction when he comes face-to-face with Hitler in [[Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade]].)

* In ''[[Blade (Film)|Blade]]'', the "hero" is responsible for the innocent Karen being infected with vampirism and her boyfriend killed, since he knew that setting the vampire Quinn on fire wouldn't kill him, but did it anyway and then just left him there for the cops to find.

* ''[[Transformers Dark of the Moon]]'': If Optimus Prime hadn't discovered the ''Ark'' on the moon, he wouldn't have been able to use the Matrix to revive Sentinel, allowing the traitor to kill Ironhide, steal back the Space Bridge Pillars, and join Megatron and work on enslaving humanity as a labor force to rebuild Cybertron.