Nice Job Breaking It, Hero/Film: Difference between revisions

** After Reese has run some numbers, Lucius Fox makes him do it all over again to teach him a lesson. This second, closer look leads to Reese discovering the identity of the Batman.

* Happens in the '89 film ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]'' as well with the Joker's backstory, though to be fair it really was an accident and Batsy [[Thou Shall Not Kill|wasn't intentionally trying to push Jack Napier over the railing]].

* ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'': The original had an astronaut landing in the future from a freak accident. The remake has the hero CAUSING the freak accident that launches his ship even further back in time and giving his mutant lab apes free reign over a primitive world. Changes things considerably.

** ''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.}}

* In the first ''[[Fantastic Four (film)|Fantastic Four]]'' movie the team is cheered on for their heroic efforts to save people on the Brooklyn Bridge from a major accident... which they caused. Also, the major supervillain of the film exists because Reed screwed up his calculations when predicting the approach of a cosmic storm. The disaster gave Doom his powers and ruined his company, providing him with the motivation to attack. So the whole movie is about the Fantastic Four cleaning up their own messes.

** 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.

{{quote|'''Lancelot:''' No, it's far too perilous.

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

* ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy]]'': Evy reading from the Book of the Dead awakens Imhotep.

** Alex does this ''twice'' in the second and third films. In the second, he puts on the Scorpion King's bracelet, which almost results in the army of Anubis from sweeping over Earth. In the third, he uncovers the tomb of the Dragon Emperor, resulting in the latter's resurrection.

** The rampant idiocy of the cast of ''[[28 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.

* [[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]].}}

* If Indy hadn't gotten involved at all in ''[[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 [[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]].)