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** And when assigning a loyal assassin to {{spoiler|act as a safeguard against possibly rebellious people that you're using in some diabolical plot under the cover of being their sibling}}... Don't make their cover so good that even ''they'' forget that they aren't a {{spoiler|loyal, loving brother.}}

* In ''[[Space Pirate Mito]]'', Aoi wears a bracelet that he believes is a good luck charm and the audience is lead to believe is the key to a powerful weapon. He also starts having [[How Do I Shot Web?|random bursts of powerful energy]] when the bad guys attack. Near the end of the series, [[Big Bad|Ranban]] removes this bracelet and tells Aoi it was an enhancer that brought out his powers, making him helpless without it. Cue Aoi causing an explosion with [[I Am Not Left-Handed|power even greater than he used before]], and Mito telling Ranban that the enhancer was actually a [[Power Limiter|limiter]] to keep Aoi's powers in check.

** Admittedly, after the first few instances it becomes increasingly difficult to tell how much of what Sesshoumaru does with regards to Inuyasha is this trope and how much of it is actually [[I Was Just Passing Through]].

* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', [[Nietzsche Wannabe|Shinobu]] [[Big Bad|Sensui]] {{spoiler|kills Yusuke}} toward the end of the [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|Chapter Black]] saga, causing him to {{spoiler|come back from the dead as a [[Half-Human Hybrid|super-demon]] }} and kick ass on a nearly-cosmic level. Especially funny since it follows directly after a [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]], when said hero insisted on fighting [[Magnificent Bastard|Sensui]] at his full, [[Knight Templar|Shinobu]] strength, so he could have a good fight, rather than wiping the floor with [[Split Personality|'I Do The Sick Work' Kazuya]] and saving the world.

* In episode 4 of [[Fight Ippatsu! Juuden-chan!!]], a thief breaks into the school where Hakone and Iono attend. He steals both the student council's funds, along with Iono's gift to Sento, Hakone's brother. Plug and Sento decide to help Iono out of her depression by trying to find the thief, but have no luck whatsoever. Arresta, a coworker/rival of Plug, meanwhile watches them a little bit, then decides that while its noble of him to help her out, she's got a job to do. She decides to continue her job of [[It Makes Sense in Context|zapping people]], and one of the people she zaps suddenly decides he's going to turn himself in. Although she's wondering what the heck she just did, she inadvertently caught the thief and helped recovered the stolen money and Iono's gift.

* In ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'', {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Mr Maverick]] pats [[Mega Manning|Kaede]] on the head when he meets her, unwittingly transferring his memory-altering power to her. This later allows her to restore the memories that Maverick had scrubbed from the heroes as part of his plot to frame Kaede's father for murder. Thanks, Mr. Villain!}}

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[Ponies Make War]]'': Near the latter end of the story, [[Big Bad|Titan]] captures Twilight Sparkle during an attack on the Loyalists' base and proceeds to torture her. But in the process of doing so, {{spoiler|he causes her [[Split Personality|split personalities]] to fuse back together and restore her full power}}. This proceeds to [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya|really]], ''[[Physical God|really]]'', [[Curb Stomp Battle|backfire on him]].

* In the ''[[My-HiME]]'' fic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2810070/11/Stain Stain]'', Nao tells Shizuru that her killing her mother enabled the [[Reset Button]] that happened in the last episode to ''bring her out of her coma'' in addition to resurrecting her.

** Draco's attempt to assassinate ghost!Usagi with a stone imbued with the power of Death not only fails, it results directly in her [[Back from the Dead|''resurrection'']].

** In fact, on a larger scale, every attempt Voldemort makes to reassert his power and dominance in the course of the story backfires on him -- starting with his involvement in the original plan to put Harry under Snape's power at its start. And once Usagi is resurrected, his failures ultimately undermine his base and support among British purebloods and drive him in desperation to Jusenkyo. The closest he gets to a success is imbuing Bellatrix with avatar-level power... only for her to end up banished to Nemesis to found the Black Moon Family.

* Scar has Simba utterly on the ropes in ''[[The Lion King]]'' and is about to knock him off the edge of a cliff, when he insists on making a [[Just Between You and Me|But Before You Die]] speech.... freeing Simba from the guilt he had been carrying around and giving him the heroic resolve needed to stop Scar. Doh!

** Later, when trying to bargain with Simba for his life, some hyenas are about to help him. Then he goes and ruins it by trying to scapegoat the hyenas, making them back away in anger. Not only does this mean that he has to fight Simba without any backup, but it also gets him torn to ribbons by a pack of justly angry hyenas.

** For that matter, Marty's original plan- pretending to have ''his'' way with Lorraine, only for George to [[Date Rape Averted|jump in and play Superman]] - was failing hard because Lorraine wanted to jump ''him''. Biff's intervention unwittingly set things back on course.

* In the live-action ''[[Popeye (film)|Popeye]]'' movie, the eponymous sailor-man hates spinach, so Bluto force feeds him an entire can, just to be mean. You can probably guess what happens next.

** Moghedien's mission actually was to balefire Nynaeve while she was on the boat. The award for Nice Job Fixing It, Villain actually goes to Moridin, who decided to stroke Moghedien's [[Soul Jar]] at that moment, causing her to involuntarily convulse and nearly miss.

* In ''[[Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn]]'', [[Evil Sorcerer]] Pryrates' attempt to pull a [[Faustian Rebellion]] on the freshly summoned [[Big Bad|Storm King]] at the climax of the story [[Evil Is Not a Toy|fails spectacularly]], as one might expect. However, his attack and subsequent [[Karmic Death]] have the side-effects of weakening the Storm King at a critical moment ''and'' freeing two of the heroes from paralysis, leading directly to the Storm King's defeat.

** More directly, later in the same book, the Big Bad "kills" Harry himself... only not only did he also destroy another of his own [[Soul Jar]]s in the process, [[It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time|his brazen act of vanity in an earlier book allows Harry to survive anyway]]. A two-for-one deal!

** And then [[Big Bad]] does this ''again''. In order to... make an example out of a rebellious youngster, it seems, [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|he summons the Sorting Hat, puts it on the kid's head and sets it on fire]], but the Hat, as it turns out, can provide the weapon needed to kill his last [[Soul Jar]].

** And in general, his decree that no one was to kill Harry. Thus his minions' hands were basically tied when dealing with Harry, even though he and his friends would frequently run into those minions.

* The original [[Dracula (novel)|Count Dracula]] forced Mina Harker to drink his blood to form a [[Psychic Link]] between them that he could use for [[Mind Control]] and to spy on the rest of the heroes through her so he could see whatever they were planning against him next. Unfortunately for him, the link worked both ways, allowing Mina to warn the others when he was coming their way and figure out where he was hiding or heading during the climactic [[Stern Chase]]. He gives the heroes a ticket to his mind that he can't revoke even when he eventually tries to do so.

** Ironically, many later versions of this story have picked up the weird trope that Mina and Dracula had some kind of love between them; in the original Mina loathed the monster and was probably second only to van Helsing in importance in bringing about his downfall.

* ''[[Castlevania: Lament of Innocence]]'' shows that [[Big Bad|Dracula]] was the instrument of his own demise, mostly due to his partnership with [[Dragon-in-Chief| Walter Bernhard]] (the most visible antagonist in the game):

** First, five years prior to the story, Walter (a vampire) kidnapped the daughter of a craftsman named Rinaldo, turning her into a vampire. Desiring revenge, Rinaldo crafted a whip that he believed could slay vampires, but could not finish it. Nonetheless, he tried to use it to gain revenge on Walter, but failed. Despite knowing that Rinaldo desired revenge, [[Bond Villain Stupidity| Walter let him live]], hoping his presence in the forest would lure would-be vampire hunters to him to satisfy his sadistic sense of fun.

** Third, Leon did indeed come to challenge him after meeting Rinaldo, but fared no better than the older man did. After toying with Leon, Walter returned Sara to him, who had already been bitten and infected with vampirism. Unknowingly, this act backfired heavily at him as Sara willingly sacrificed her tainted soul to Rinaldo's whip, giving it its full power and enabling Leon to defeat Walter. This was what Matthias had intended, and appeared to [[We Can Rule Together| offer the "gift" of undeath to his friend]]. However, Leon's response - now that he possessed the weapon the Belmont family would wield from that day on - sums up why this Trope applied:

{{quote|'''Leon:''' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome| This whip and my kinsmen will destroy you someday. From this day on, the Belmont Clan will hunt the night!]]}}