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* In ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures (Animation)|Jackie Chan Adventures]]'', the defeat of the first season's [[Big Bad]] allows the antagonists of the second season back into the world. And [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil|he was much weaker than they were]]. Way to go, [[The Scrappy|Jade]]... At the beginning of the third season Jackie himself destroys the talismans while trying to keep them away from two opposing forces, the very act of doing this causes the arc for that season.

** 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 an episode of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', where the three girls and Professor Utonium move to a much larger city than The City of Townsville, which is reversely named the Town of Citysville, The Powerpuff 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 complains to them. "At what point did you think it would be a good idea to blow up the Citysville Bridge? Those robbers stole $4000 in cash. But it's going to cost MILLIONS of dollars to replace the bridge!!!" This catches the girls off guard because, in every single episode prior, plenty of buildings get destroyed Godzilla-style and nobody seems to care a thing about it, as long as the monster is gone. Moral: There is a significant difference between destroying a few buildings in the process of preventing a giant monster from razing the entire town, and stopping a pair of petty crooks.

** 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.

** In "Fallen Arches", a group of elderly supervillains known as the Ministry of Pain come out of retirement, but Blossom refuses to fight them out of a misguided sense of "respecting your elders". This only convinces everyone that the Powerpuffs are afraid of the Ministry's notorious reputation. Blossom then tries to convince the equally-elderly superhero duo of Captain Righteous and Lefty to settle their differences and come out of retirement. The episode ends with all the elderly supers hospitalized, and a news reporter talking about how the whole farce could have been avoided if only the Powerpuff Girls had done something. [[Sarcasm Mode|Nice going, Blossom!]]

* ''[[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 ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]'', the heroes found a woman who had been mutated into a gargoyle-like creature by Doctor [[Tim Curry]], who was working for [[Big Bad|Xanatos]]. The heroes bust into the lab to rescue her, not knowing that Xanatos had forced Doctor Tim Curry to create an antidote, and he was on the verge of administering it. In the ensuing fight, the vial containing the antidote is smashed, they [[Unwanted Rescue|drag the mutated woman]] out of a hole in the roof, and throw Doctor Tim Curry into his own vat of electric eels, which means that any knowledge of how to create the antidote dies with him. {{spoiler|Of course, at the end it turns out that Doctor Tim Curry is not dead, and that this was [[Batman Gambit]], except for a few minor details which [[Xanatos Gambit|Xanatos benefited from]].}}

* ''[[Archies Weird Mysteries]]''.

** 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 A Can|prison.]]