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Compare to [[In Mysterious Ways]] where the acts tend to be a lot more low key and often not unethical of themselves. May overlap with [[The Extremist Was Right]] where the actions genuinely work out for the good of most/all. Related to [[Designated Hero]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* [[CLAMP]] has been guilty of this in several series, thanks to Clow Reed, {{spoiler|his [[Reincarnation]] Eriol}}, and his old partner-in-crime, Yuuko. In ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' Clow and Eriol frequently manipulated the cast, threatened Sakura's friends and family, and even risked erasing everyone's feelings of love, and yet are still considered good because it was "necessary" for Sakura to be subjected to these things. (Sakura didn't even want to be a mage at first, and in the anime it's not necessarily clear what the pressing reason was for her to become one. Clow's even responsible for the cards escaping when they did. In the manga, it's made clearer: if he didn't do what he did, the magic of the Clow Cards would fade, and two of her friends would die.)
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== Film ==
* ''[[Drop Dead Fred]]''. The title character does random, chaotic, highly disruptive, and seemingly pointless things, but said actions unfailingly serve to benefit
* Although not explicitly stated in ''[[Star Wars]]'', Obi-Wan and Yoda used Luke [[From a Certain Point of View]] as what they felt was the best way to get him to stop Vader and the Emperor. In the end it's subverted, as Luke wins by NOT heeding their advice. If he had killed Vader like they asked, the Emperor would have won.
* ''[[Mary Poppins]]''. Those nannies waiting in line in the beginning did ''not'' deserve to get blown away in a windstorm, no matter how stuffy they were. Her presence also seems to spread a magical flying hysteria that kills the Bank President, but hey, he "was his happiest in years."
* Invoked via the Job argument in "Wholly Moses": "Who are you to question God?" "I am Man."
* After a certain point, the entire plot of ''[[Paycheck]]'' is the main character, Michael Jennings, doing this to himself. He was hired to build a future-viewing machine, with the contract stipulating that his memories would be wiped afterward so he couldn't reveal how it worked. When he goes to collect his payment, he finds that he waived it before the memory wipe. Instead, he is given a large envelope full of seemingly random objects. It is eventually revealed that when testing the machine, he saw a horrific future, possibly caused by the existence of the machine. So, using the machine, he worked out a collection of objects to leave for himself that would result in him blundering his way through saving the world. {{spoiler|He worked it out so that he would get a happy ending, but of course he no longer knows this when the time comes and he finds himself facing seemingly imminent and completely unavoidable death.}}
* The eponymous ''[[The Pagemaster|Pagemaster]]'' takes a cowardly child and subjects him to all sorts of deadly situations. To all appearances, there was a real chance that the kid would either die or develop severe mental trauma as a result of this. But instead he learns to be courageous, and the Pagemaster gets off the hook because apparently he's just so darn wise that he knew it would work out like this from the beginning.
* A lot of people complain how, in ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'', Glinda the Good Witch of the North basically manipulated Dorothy by not telling her how her Ruby Slippers she got when she first arrived in Oz could send her home. In [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|the original novel]], this is because it ''wasn't'' Glinda (who's the witch of the South) Dorothy met in the beginning, but the other Good Witch, who didn't know how the shoes worked. Presumably, the movie didn't want to use more actors than it had to. The 1978 adaption ''[[The Wiz]]'' corrects this by having an older witch meet Dorothy.
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