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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]] in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* In ''[[
** In fact, this is how EVERY season starts. Find an ancient shield with a Talisman in it? Start the great Talisman hunt. Blow up Shendu? He became a spirit that released his seven siblings. Blow up the Talismans to stop Daolon Wong? Re-start the great Talisman hunt. Remove Wong's magic? Trying to reclaim it he unleashed the Oni. Those eight Demon Sorcerers you beat? The weapons used to defeat them are now charged with demonic energy Drago is absorbing to increase his own strength. If there had been a 6th season, it probably would have explored the consequences of sealing the Oni away.
* In one episode of ''[[Totally Spies!]]'', the girls visit a small town in Italy, only to find it deserted, as a duel between two pizza-wielding brothers has chased everyone else out, after briefly fighting them both, the girls agree to sample each pizzas and decide who is the better chef for them, the girls decide they are equally good and advise them to set aside their differences. The brothers tearfully reconcile and agree to work together, the girls happily leave, assuming they mean to set up a joint restaurant. It turns out, they decide to pull a [[Villain Team
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'':
** In "Town and Out", the Powerpuff Girls and Professor Utonium move to the much larger Town of Citysville, and the three girls think it's a good idea to continue fighting crime in their new location. After stopping a couple of robbers by destroying the bridge they were trying to get away on, the mayor of Citysville calls them into his office... [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|and promptly takes them to task]] for [[Reality Ensues|doing millions of dollars in damage to catch a pair of mundane robbers]].
** This is also a major part of the premise of [[The Movie]], where Mojo tricks the girls into helping him build his volcano observatory and a machine that he claims will "help the town and make it a better place" but actually helps him take over.▼
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([[Beat]], then resumes, with intensifying rage)
'''Citiesville Mayor''': Do you realize that you did over ''three '''million dollars in property damage to that bridge?!?!''' It's not replacable!!!''}}
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{{quote|'''Bubbles:''' This isn't making the town a better place!
'''Mojo Jojo:''' Yes, it is... ''[[False Reassurance|for me!]]'' }}
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'':
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has a send-up of the David vs. Goliath legend, in which King David (Bart) fights Goliath Jr. (Nelson) and loses, with Goliath Jr. taking over as king. After some [[Training From Hell]], he comes back and does a Nice Job of slaying the giant. The Breaking It part comes when he's told that Goliath Jr. was the best king the city had ever had, building roads, libraries, and hospitals, and David is arrested for megacide. Whoops!▼
** This trope defines Homer's relationship with his family. His [[Jerkass]] attitude always ends up hurting the feelings of or angering his family. Many episodes have been focused on his lousy parenting skills and sometimes troubled marriage (almost always his fault) Turned [[Up to Eleven]] and [[Deconstructed]] in the movie, where Homer lands Springfield in more trouble than it's ever been, completely pisses off his family, and spends the rest of the film facing the consequences of his actions and trying to fix everything. In his defense, not only does he make it all right again, he also sums up modern heroism surprisingly well:▼
** Arguably parodied in the episode ''You Only Move Twice'', when Homer takes a job in another city working for [[Ax Crazy|Hank]] [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Scorpio]]. Homer turns out to actually be pretty good at his job, successfully setting up the nuclear reactor Scorpio needed for his plan to succeed, and unwittingly preventing Scorpio's plans from being derailed when "[[James Bond]] [[Lawyer Friendly Cameo|Bont]]" tries to stop him. When the family moves back to Springfield, Scorpio sends Homer a thank-you note, stating that he couldn't have taken control of the East Coast without Homer's help. ▼
▲** This trope defines Homer's relationship with his family. His [[Jerkass]] attitude always ends up hurting the feelings of or angering his family. Many episodes have been focused on his lousy parenting skills and sometimes troubled marriage (almost always his fault).
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▲{{quote| ''"Risking my life to save people I hate for reasons I don't quite understand!"''}}
:* Happens a lot during the non-canon "Treehouse of Horror" episodes, seeing how [[Anyone Can Die]]. in one of them, Marge manages to make peace between the [[Transformers|Autobots and Decepticons]] by convincing Optimus Prime and Megatron that they have no idea ''why'' they're fighting at all. Unfortunately, once the two factions reconcile, they decide to conquer Earth and turn the cast into a Foosball Table.
▲** Homer subverts this trope in the episode "Boy Scouts N' The Hood" when Bart joins the Junior Campers (an [[Expy]] for the Boy Scouts) and has to take Homer along on a father-son river rafting trip. They're paired with Ned Flanders and his son, and Homer makes things go [[From Bad to Worse]]. Homer loses their map and gets them separated from all the other father-son pairs, and they end up drifting out to sea. They quickly run out of food and water because of Homer's [[Jerkass]] behavior, and he makes their raft spring a leak. However, Homer ultimately saves them when he realizes that there's a Krusty Burger on a nearby offshore oil rig, and his amazing sense of smell leads them to it. They get food and a ride back to Springfield, and Bart congratulates his father. It also turns out that Homer actually did Bart and the Flanderses a ''favour'' by getting them separated from the other rafts. We see what the other father-son teams go through, and it turns out to be a rather unpleasant experience.
* ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' has a [[Whack a Mole]] episode in which the wrong Autobot was arrested. Wasp goes on to become insane and vengeful in solitary confinement until he finally breaks out to get revenge on Bumblebee.
** There's also the first [[Season Finale]], where Prime decides the AllSpark key isn't safe with Sari and has Ratchet hold onto it... who then loses it a couple scenes later, as he was alone when trying to defend it.
* At the very end of ''[[
** From the villainous perspective: according to the Beast Wars: Transmetals game, had Megatron's plan to kill Optimus Prime succeeded, there would have been no Autobot Matrix of Leadership to stop Unicron from destroying Cybertron, dooming both races.
** Silverbolt pulls this off twice in the second season. In "Bad Spark", he unthinkingly detonates the energon crystals on which Protoform X's stasis pod has crashed, heavily damaging himself and his comrades Cheetor and Optimus Primal as well as releasing the monster that would become
* In the pilot episode of the original ''[[ThunderCats (1985 series)|ThunderCats]]'', we are introduced to the main cast, fleeing their doomed homeworld, with Jaga and the then-child Lion-O watching as Thundera explodes. No explanation for this cataclysm is given on this episode, but a later episode reveals it was Jaga's fault. As a young warrior, he defeated the Mutant leader Ratilla the Terrible, confiscated the villain's [[Artifact of Doom| Sword of Plun-Dar]] (sort of an [[Evil Counterpart]] to the Sword of Omens) and hurled it into a volcano. But Jaga sorely underestimated the weapon's evil power; the lava didn't destroy it, and over the course of many years, it worked its way to Thundera's core, rending it from within and destroying the planet. Curiously, Jaga never seems to be held accountable for this.
* Occurs twice in the second ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
** Occurred at least one time in the first ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987
* In an episode of ''[[South Park]]'', people have been spontaneously combusting. Scientist Randy Marsh discovers that this was caused by people holding in their farts, so he tells people not to hold it in. Unfortunately, the constant release of flatulence begins to cause global warming.
** Speaking of ''[[South Park]]''... who knew that Peruvian Pan Flute Bands were the only thing holding back the hordes of Mutant Guinea Creatures intent on destroying the Earth? {{spoiler|The Secretary of Homeland Security}}, that's who.
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** The Imaginationland episodes begin with Cartman and his friends trying to capture a leprechaun (with Kyle agreeing to suck his balls if Cartman proves his claims, as per the [[Dead Baby Comedy]] nature of the show), but once they capture it, the leprechaun proclaims, "I was sent to warn of a terrorist attack, but you boys have made me late. Now the terrorists will prevail! The end is near!"
** In the episode "Woodland Critter Christmas", Stan is sent by the critters to kill a mountain lion who has been terrorizing them for years. He succeeds in the deed and later finds out she had cubs and would die without her. To make matters worse, the critters are evil and wish to resurrect [[The Antichrist]], which the mountain lion was trying to prevent. Then again, this is a story by Cartman.
* In the ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' episode "Ed Overboard", Marie and Lee kidnap Ed to pacify May, and Edd and Eddy call upon the aid of the Urban Rangers (Rolf, Johnny, and Jimmy), to help them rescue him. While Rolf was distracting the Kankers, Jimmy and Jonny proceed to help Ed down from a tree he's tied to, but [[The Ditz|Ed]] offers to distract the Kankers while the Urban Rangers get "help" (ignoring Johnny's protests of "We ''are'' the help!") and proceeds to blow their cover.
* ''[[Stroker and Hoop]]'' pretty much abide by this trope, no sooner then they think they've fixed things. It only proceeds to get worse due to their blundering.
* Used in nearly every episode of ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'', and all of the movies. Jimmy's [[Insufferable Genius|blinding arrogance]] has even resulted in [[Saving Christmas|Christmas nearly getting cancelled]]!
* In the ''[[Justice League]]'' episode "The Terror Beyond", Superman, [[Wonder Woman]], and Hawkgirl find Dr. Fate and [[
** Who do the Major League Baseball official scorekeepers credit with the "Nice Job Breaking It, Hero" on that one? At first, it seems obvious that Supes, Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl get it but if Dr. Fate had simply said, "Wait, I can explain!" the whole episode probably wouldn't have happened. Stupid grey areas.
*** They both take credit, Fate for his silence and the league for jumping to conclusions. Given their past history, Superman and Dr. Fate really should've been more trusting of each other.
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* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' has been [[Unwitting Pawn|manipulated]] into doing this a number of times. It usually turns out alright, but the one time it ''didn't'', someone hit the [[Reset Button]].
** Sam also does this once in "Memory Blank".
* ''[[Xavier: Renegade Angel]]'' is pretty much the poster boy for this trope. As Xavier's attempts to "help" people invariably lead to the deaths of hundreds.
* In the ''[[
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'''Bloo:''' You've peeved him off, that's what's happening! }}
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', season 2. Politically destabilizing [[Government Conspiracy|Ba Sing Se]] may have felt right, but it was a very, very, bad idea.
** Then a few episodes later, Katara sees Zuko [[Villains Out Shopping|serving tea]] and instantly runs to inform the authorities. If she had investigated further, confronted him herself or thought about the situation for more than a second, Zuko never would have been put in a position to turn to Azula's side to begin with. (And Aang probably would have finished his last chakra.)
** The "Gaang" in general could've seen the Kyoshi Warriors and made sure that it was them. Otherwise, they would've realized that it was [[Dressing
** In the battle for the Northern Air Temple, the Mechanist deploys a balloon to defeat the attacking Fire Nation forces, but the balloon crashes. The retreating Fire Nation forces take the balloon and are able to mass-produce balloons and zeppelins to augment their military.
* In ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'', Magneto destroys a [[Giant Spider]] that he thinks is the second key to releasing Apocalypse. Turns out the spider was actually a guardian ''preventing'' Apocalypse from escaping. Destroying it opened the second door. Oops.
* In ''[[Wolverine and
* In ''[[Brother Bear]]'', the central point of the story is that Kenai pursues and kills a bear he blames for his brother's death. Later on, he realizes to his horror {{spoiler|that was Koda's mother}}.
* Coop is very good at it. In one episode of ''[[Megas XLR]]'' he finds a planet where giant sentient robots have apparently been enslaved by a mysterious alien, and helps them regain freedom. At the end of the episode it's revealed, that {{spoiler|it was a prison planet and he just broke free to most ruthless robo-criminals in the Universe}}. In other episode an attack he used against a villain was so strong, that {{spoiler|he ripped hole in reality and almost caused the end of the Universe}}.
** [[Word of God|Had the series continued]], Coop would have been responsible for creating the Glorft, making a [[Stable Time Loop]] that allowed Coop to find Megas in the first place. That means every bad thing that happened in the ''entire show'' was Coop's fault in one way or another.
** Don't forget destroying New Jersey every episode.
* In Season 4 of ''[[Winx Club]]'', {{spoiler|Bloom, Roxy and their friends finally manage to reach the forgotten island of Tir Nan Og, where all of the Earth's fairies are imprisoned, and set them free.}} Yay, awesome! Except that {{spoiler|Morgana, the Queen of the Earth Fairies, has decided that [[Humans Are
** Don't forget the CGI movie. {{spoiler|In the end Bloom and Sky destroy the Obsidian Dimension in order to destroy the spirits of the Three Ancient Witches and free the King and Queen of Sparx (as well as restore said planet to normal). However unknown to our heroines this also frees the spirits of the Tree Ancient Witches to seek out and possess (or simply team up with) their descendants the Trix.}}
* This also happened in ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]''. {{spoiler|After being caught in a snowstorm in Christmas Season, the Ghostbusters find themselves in an old-fashioned place, where they see an old man being tormented by 3 ghosts. They charge in and capture the ghosts, apparently saving the old man. Upon returning home, the Ghostbusters find the people around them have become very selfish and that they all hate Christmas. They soon realize that they actually had just went back in time; that the old man was actually THE Ebenezer Scrooge; that the ghosts they captured are THE Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future; and that they have prevented the events of A Christmas Carol from taking place, leaving an unrepentant Scrooge to provide a different written account, replacing A Christmas Carol, with an opposite message of selfishness to the world.}}
** In "Bustman's Holiday", Ray inherits a castle in Scotland and the Ghostbusters go over to check it out. They stumble upon what the castle's caretaker calls a "keystone ghost" and capture it, but soon more ghosts start popping up. The caretaker reminds them that it was a [[Meaningful Name|keystone ghost]], and that {{spoiler|by catching it, they released the other ghosts in the castle. [[It Got Worse|All 360-some of them.]]}}
* In the [[Direct to DVD]] film ''Tinkerbell'', Tink's reckless actions ruin all of the fairies' preparations for spring, threatening to cause a chain reaction that disrupts all the seasons, which would result in an ecological catastrophe. Only her [[Gadgeteer Genius|brilliant inventions]] get the fairies back on schedule.
* ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
* This happens multiple times per season in ''[[
** The biggest one was arguably when he {{spoiler|released the [[Sealed Evil in
** Let's not forget the episode in season 2 when {{spoiler|Kimiko breaks the Mosiac Scale, releasing Sibini and resulting in Clay being possessed by him, giving him the chance to possibly get the Monarch Wings, which, when combined with the Mosiac Scale, would give him ultimate power.}} It's funny because it also literally broke, so it fits into this trope twice as well.
* This frequently happened in ''[[
* Used as a [[Secret Test of Character]] in an episode of ''[[
* Late in ''[[
* Ron Stoppable, of [[Kim Possible]], is directly responsible for Senior Senior Senior becoming a super villain, after pointing out how easy it would be for him to turn his vacation home into an evil fortress.
* Owl from ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'' on two occasions.
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** ''The Tigger Movie'': Tigger becomes lonely, because nobody will bounce with him. Roo innocently asks him if there are other Tiggers he can bounce with, and they go visit Owl, who suggests looking up Tigger's family tree. Owl doesn't seem to understand Tigger takes this literally.
*** Roo could probably count as this as well, when he has everyone send a letter to Tigger, claiming to be his family. While this is true, Tigger thinks it's from other ''Tiggers''. He then thinks his "Tigger Family" are coming to visit him. Oops.
* The entire premise of ''[[The Fairly
* In ''[[
* ''[[
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** In "Over a Barrel", a territorial dispute between settler ponies and Native American buffalo is about to turn into an all-out war. The buffalo reconsider... until Pinkie Pie sings her annoying "sharing" song from earlier in the episode, provoking the buffalo leader into going through with the battle.
** In the first episode of the second season, the Cutie Mark Crusaders accidentally free [[Anthropomorphic Personification|Discord]] by fighting in front of his [[Taken for Granite|statue]] [[Sealed Evil in
** Twilight gets probably the biggest one in the series thus far when it's revealed {{spoiler|she got Discord's riddle wrong and lead her friends into Discord's trap, resulting in them being [[Brainwashed]] and [[Break the Cutie|broken]].}}
** And then in season two's episode "Lesson Zero", when Twilight goes crazy because she's in danger of missing the deadline for her [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle|weekly friendship report]] because her friends haven't had a disagreement all. After desperately seeking a problem to solve, she sets out to ''engineer'' a problem so she can write to Princess Celestia about it. To cut a long story short, this culminates in dozens of brainwashed ponies being engaged in an all-out brawl over possession of a tattered old plush toy.
** This happens again in the season two finale "A Canterlot Wedding". Seeing the very questionable actions of Princess Cadence leads Twilight to believe that she has somehow become evil and tries to warn everypony about what she's learn. This makes her come off as rather crazy and her friends end up shunning her, including Celestia. {{spoiler|''[[Nightmare Fuel|SURPRISE!]]'' Cadence IS evil, but it's actually the Changeling Queen impersonating her, using her love for Twilight's brother, Shining Armor, to fuel her power. By the time Twilight and the real Princess Cadence arrive to stop her, the Queen already became too strong for even Celestia to handle. [[Hannibal Lecture|She even points out that they could have stopped her sooner if they all had listened to Twilight in the first place.]]}}
* At the end of the ''[[Teen Titans (
* During the two part ''[[
** In the episode "Back To The Pilot", Stewie and Brian go back to the first episode via Stewie's time machine to help Brian remember where he lost a tennis ball. Once they return back to the present time, Brian reveals that he told his former self about the September 11 attacks ahead of time, allowing him to stop them from ever happening, much to the chagrin of Stewie, who warned Brian not to alter the past. While watching the local news, it is also discovered that former President George W. Bush, who has lost the 2004 election, has returned to Texas and seceded from the United States, along with the rest of the southern U.S., resulting in a second Civil War. Dismayed, Stewie questions Brian for his actions. Brian insists that things will still be better five years in the future. To make sure, Stewie and Brian then travel to the future, in which the characters appear as a series of three-dimensional objects. They then look at the outside world, only to find utter chaos and destruction. Upon research, Stewie learns that the civil war has led to nuclear attacks all across the eastern United States, resulting in seventeen million deaths (as opposed to the three thousand lives lost in 9/11).
** In the episode "New Kidney in Town", Peter becomes addicted to Red Bull, annoying, in particular, Lois, who attempts to rectify the situation by disposing of the drink behind his back. Not to pin the idiocy of him ingesting kerosene squarely on you Lois, but nice job not handling his addiction in a more direct manner. Your husband could have lost his life.
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* Episode 26 of ''[[Scooby Doo Mystery Inc]]'' has Velma being blamed for the dissolution of the gang after the ep's "ghost" is unmasked to be {{spoiler|the Mayor of Crystal Cove, a.k.a. Fred's dad--or rather, surrogate dad, as Fred's real parents are missing, and that she kept Angel Dynamite's real identity a secret from the gang.}}
* ''[[Danger Mouse]]'': The serial "Day Of The Suds" has Danger Mouse disposing of Baron Greenback's army of renegade washing machines but then gets hounded by a nosy TV reporter for not only disrupting London's need to do their dirty laundry but for the subsequent creation of a giant suds monster caused by the strewn detergent, the sparks from the damaged cables and the fuel used to run the machines during their rampage.
* ''[[
* The end of ''[[Monster Allergy]]'' season 1 has Zick absorbing the Monster-Saur with Magnacat and his minion Viziosed inside. Hurray! But in season 2, episode 13, {{spoiler|Magnacat manages to absorb it while being imprisoned for a long time, making the Dom Box confused it to release him and Viziosed.}} Oops.
** Speaking of season 1, there is one. Zick having absorbed Bristlebeard, a Dark Phantom, turned out to be a bad idea since that results in Magnacat, whom he devoured in the last episode, released.
* ''[[Mike The Knight]]'' is a TV show that THRIVES on this. Every episode, Mike breaks things in the first half, and fixes them in the second. Every. Episode.
* In the Hunger episode of ''[[Dilbert (
* In ''[[Transformers Prime]]'', Bulkhead's crashing of the Nemesis in an attempt to escape it inadvertently prompted Megatron to relapse back into his [[Psycho Serum|Dark Energon]] habit.
* Pretty much the entire plot of ''[[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby
* In ''[[Samurai Jack]]'', the emperor tries to kill the [[Made of Evil|(literal) evil]] that is harming his country. He shoots a poisoned arrow into it, and it gains self-awareness and becomes Aku, the [[Big Bad]].
* ''[[Teen Titans Go! (animation)|Teen Titans Go!]]'':
** Happens during the fourth part of the hour-long "Space House" [[Crossover]] with ''[[DC Super Hero Girls]]'', where both groups seek to teach {{spoiler|Brainiac}} how to be a proper adult. They succeed. {{spoiler|''Too'' well - Brainiac decides [[Bottle City|Bottle Cities]] are "childish" fare and elects to start destroying planets instead}}.
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