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* [[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]]:

'''The Nome King:''' No, no, no... ''My'' ruby slippers. They just fell out of the sky one day -- you were so anxious to get home! They're very powerful: they made it possible for me to conquer the Emerald City... thank you. }}

* In ''[[Sunshine (film)|Sunshine]]'', one of the crew members forgets to adjust the heat shield... causing the [[Prophetic Names|Icarus II]] to have a catastrophic fire. Nice job breaking the ship that was supposed to save Earth, hero.

** Debatable, Doom was behind the radiation shields when the storm hit, but was still affected. So even if Reed's calculations had been right, the shields (which Victor's company designed) would not have protected them all when the storm DID hit. Had that been the case, Doom would have responsible for the whole thing, instead of just his own transformation. Also, the initial cause of the mayhem on the Brooklyn Bridge was the man who was trying to commit suicide. If he hadn't freaked out when Ben tried to help him, none of the subsequent car crashes would have happened.

* [[Monty Python and The Holy Grail|Sir Galahad]] wasn't so keen on being rescued from Castle Anthrax, what with the peril of spankings and oral sex and all.

'''Galahad:''' Well, can't you let me have just a little bit of peril? }}

* Although her mother did most of the damage beforehand, [[Carrie|Carrie White]] would never have had her murderous breakdown if Miss Collins hadn't gone overboard in punishing her tormentors, causing them to publicly humiliate Carrie at the prom. As if that weren't enough, Miss Collins then ''throws out the person who tried to stop it from happening.'' Way to kill everyone, Miss Collins.

** Also, the Stitchpunks {{spoiler|blowing up the factory}}. Beforehand {{spoiler|the Fabrication Machine had pretty much been [[Sealed Evil in a Can]], being confined to said factory}}. However, instead of {{spoiler|being destroyed in the explosion, the Fabrication Machine was essentially freed, and proceeded chase after Stitchpunks itself, leading to the deaths of 5, 6, and 1}}.

* From the [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] film ''[[Diamonds Are Forever]]'':

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

* 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]].

* 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.

* In ''[[Legend]]'', one of the "heroes", Lily, breaks it by {{spoiler|touching a unicorn, even after Jack tells her not to, resulting in the ice death of the world.}}

* In ''[[Insidious]]'', the twist ending is revealed when {{spoiler|Elise takes Josh's photo, dooming herself and most likely Renai as well. On second thought, Josh is guilty of this as well.}}