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* At the end of ''[[The Ring]]'', we find out that not only has the creepy girl from the well not been defeated, she's actually been released to reign terror upon the rest of the world. Plus she never sleeps, so it's not like we'll be getting a daily eight hour break from the reign of terror. Nice job, hero.
* In the American/Japanese science fiction/monster flick ''[[The Green Slime]]'', the space station becomes infested with monsters made of the titular stuff because a visiting [[Jerkass]]/TheKirk had smashed on the ground an unauthorized sample of mold taken from an asteroid. He'd done this within a huddle of other astronauts, so naturally a fragment of the container (complete with a blop of slime) gets caught in one of the astronauts' pant-leg, and it naturally feeds on the radiation during the decontamination process.
* In ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', after Nedry shuts down the fences to steal the embryos and make his escape, the [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]] gets out and wreaks havoc. In order to undo what Nedry has done, Hammond wants the computers shut down and restarted. When [[Samuel L. Jackson|Ray Arnold]] initially refuses, Hammond insists: "People are dying. Would you ''please'' shut down the system." Arnold does so. Nedry was smart enough to program the raptor fences to stay operational during his sabotage; the total system shutdown releases the Velociraptors. Prior to this, the T. Rex had only killed one person; the raptors kill two, and relentlessly pursue the main characters for the rest of the film. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Nice job, Hammond]].
** Also the [[Designated Hero|heroes]] of the sequel, who are responsible for every single death in the entire movie ([[It Got Worse|even]] [[Sarcasm Mode|better]], this is the ''Jurassic Park'' movie with the highest body count).
* At the end of ''[[Hellboy (Filmfilm)|Hellboy]]'', the titular [[Anti-Anti-Christ]] kills the villain [[Rasputin the Mad Monk|Rasputin]]... only for a ''very'' huge and scary tentacle monster to [[One-Winged Angel|pop out of his dead body]].
** But then Hellboy kills that, so while he may have triggered an early apocalypse, he then stopped it entirely.
* In ''[[Speed (Film)|Speed]]'', while under the bus in a failed attempt to disarm the bomb, Jack has to punch a hole in the bus's gas tank with his screwdriver as a makeshift grip to keep himself off the ground to avoid being run over when his cart breaks. By causing the leak, Jack has now significantly cut down the time he and the LAPD have in trying to find a solution to end the crisis. When he informs driver Annie about it once safely in the bus, she replies in a panic, "What, did you feel like you needed another challenge?!"
** Also, when the injured driver is being evacuated, the police on the flatbed try to get an old woman on the bus to come too, despite warnings from the bomber that he won't allow it. She {{spoiler|tries to leave, but a bomb is triggered beneath her feet, dropping her under the wheels of the bus.}}
* During the climax of ''[[Dogma]]'', the fallen angel Bartleby needs to become human so he can take advantage of [[wikipedia:Plenary indulgence|plenary indulgence]] in order to return to Heaven. Thus proving God wrong and thereby unmaking all of creation. To do so, he needs to remove his wings... which is promptly done for him with a machine gun by a particularly clueless hero who was trying to kill him.
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** Also, in ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'', Qui-Gon Jinn {{spoiler|made it his dying wish for Obi-Wan to train Anakin.}} Those familiar enough with the series' overall story would know that {{spoiler|this didn't exactly work out all that well.}}
*** Then again, {{spoiler|Anakin ''was'' responsible for the death of Palpatine in the end (albeit just partially and only after a great deal of time), so it does cancel out ''somewhat''...}}
* In ''[[Immortals (Film)|Immortals]]'', Theseus acquires the [[Chekhov's Gun|Epirus Bow]], but shortly after getting it, {{spoiler|he drops it. The weapon is then taken by a dog (don't ask) and delivered to the [[Big Bad]], who then uses it to ''great'' advantage. Had it not been for the gods' [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment at the end, his evil plans would've succeeded entirely.}}
* In ''[[The Matrix]] Reloaded'', Neo encounters the Architect on his journey to destroy The Matrix. He learns that, if he proceeds, every man, woman, and child connected to the Matrix would die, which, combined with the destruction of the rebellion, would be [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]]. Neo does it anyway. It got better, though.
** By the way, Neo has destroyed [[Big Bad|Agent Smith]] in the first movie; however, the latter came back as a rebellious program. Way to go, Neo.
* The film version of ''[[Harry Potter|Order of the Phoenix]]'' has a tragic example of this. Harry runs to his godfather's rescue {{spoiler|only to be the cause of Sirius's demise}}. [[Famous Last Words|"Nice one, James."]].
* In ''[[Frequency]]'', John manages to use the [[Applied Phlebotinum|time-travel radio]] to keep his father, Frank, from dying in the burning building that had claimed his life thirty years ago. And so doing began a chain of events that caused a [[Serial Killer]] to live instead of die who then goes on to murder many more women including John's mother. Oh, and did I mention Frank still dies from lung cancer because he smokes?
** The rest of the movie is spent trying to stop the serial killer from killing his other victims, including Frank's wife. {{spoiler|In the end, the killer, who is still at large in the present, breaks into John's house and attacks him while John's talking to his father on the radio. Right as it looks like he's going to win, in walks a thirty-year-older Frank with a shotgun. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|He'd heard the fight on the radio, and thus knew exactly where the killer was going to be thirty years from now]].}} Nice job ''fixing'' it, hero!
* Basically the whole plot of ''[[The Butterfly Effect]]'' is a series of these.
* ''[[The Dark Knight]]'': [[Batman]]'s destruction of the Falcone family's dominance of Gotham City leads to not only a myriad of gangs attempting to fill the gap, but also [[The Joker]] and other imitation criminals who create far more chaos and destruction. There are obvious real life parallels in international politics (collapse of the Soviet Union leading to rise of nationalism and fundamentalism) and law enforcement (the weakening of the Mafia clearing the way for Chinese, Russian, Columbian, etc, gangs).
** To be fair, the presence of [[The Joker]], while in many ways a portrayed as a response to Batman's presence, and the general surge in violent crimes (and in later movies, I'm sure, costumed criminals) probably has more to do with {{spoiler|the League of Shadows}} throwing wide the gates of Arkham during ''[[Batman Begins]]''.
** 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 (Filmfilm)|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]].
** Was it? This incarnation of Batman seems a bit more flexible with his code.
* ''[[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.}}
* [[Bee Movie|Layton: "This is an unholy perversion of the balance of nature, Benson! You'll regret this.]] Needless to say, the defense attorney was absolutely right, as Benson's victory did upset the balance of nature. Fortunately, Benson did fix it before it became irreversible.
* [[John Woo]]'s ''[[Broken Arrow (1996 (Filmfilm)|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]]:
{{quote| '''Dorothy:''' My ruby slippers--<br />
'''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 (Filmfilm)|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.
** Actually the misalignment just causes damage to the hydralics. It is the fact that the communication towers are vaporized in the sunlight that causes the fire {{spoiler|and causes the first death}}.
** Actually, this isn't even an example of this trope. The trope isn't about mistakes or failures at all, it's about a successful action whose by-product is a failure on a larger scale.
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* Near the end of ''The Haunting in Connecticut'', the reverend manages to exorcise the ghost from the house. {{spoiler|Too bad he's a benevolent spirit who was preventing the dozens of malicious ghosts from wreaking havoc.}}
* In ''The Monitors'', after the heroes drive off the dictatorial machines that enslaved mankind and stopped all human conflict, wars start breaking out all over the place.
* In the first ''[[Fantastic Four (Filmfilm)|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.
* [[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.
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* In ''[[Nine]]'', the title character's newfound friends {{spoiler|take out the mechanical beast who had been threatening them}}, only for 9 to realize that {{spoiler|the [[MacGuffin]] he'd woken up with fit perfectly inside a larger machine nearby. Said machine proceeds to kill 2 immediately, followed by 8, 5, 6, and 1 before it's all done.}}
** Not only that, but what he did was ''exactly'' what said mechanical beastie was trying to do not five minutes before. [[Too Dumb to Live]].
** Also, the Stitchpunks {{spoiler|blowing up the factory}}. Beforehand {{spoiler|the Fabrication Machine had pretty much been [[Sealed Evil in Aa 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 (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] film ''[[Diamonds Are Forever (Film)|Diamonds Are Forever]]'':
{{quote| '''Tiffany''': I did it, I switched the tape in the machine.<br />
'''Bond''': You stupid twit, you put the ''real'' one back in! }}
* In ''[[Friday the 13th (Filmfilm)|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]].
* The [[Fridge Logic]] in ''[[Ten Thousand10,000 BC]]'' sets in that, you know, D'leh and his buddies destroyed one of the only BASTIONS OF CIVILIZATION and set humanity back god knows how long. [[Values Dissonance|A few sacrifices isn't that much of a price to pay]].
* At the end of ''Annihilation: Earth'', David is torn between his idea of shutting down the particle colliders to stop the apocalypse or turning them [[Up to Eleven]], as his Middle Eastern colleague Raja suggests, which will (supposedly) force the anomaly to be "snuffed out." His boss makes him doubt Raja's motives, and David ends up going with his original plan. Cue the literal [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]. The moral of the story: not all Arabs are terrorists.
* In ''[[Dragonheart]]'', the knight Bowen is reluctant to kill Draco, even though it's the only way to save the kingdom from its [[Ax Crazy]] king Einon, because Draco is the last dragon left in the world. Whose fault is that, might you ask? Why, Bowen's, who spent ten years on a personal crusade to wipe out the species!
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** 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.
** Also in the third movie, Lin, who had been the guardian of the tomb and tried to prevent the emperor from escaping, was responsible for knocking the diamond into the emperor that awakes him as she attempts to attack his decoy.
* In ''[[Twenty Eight28 Days Later]]'' [[Animal Wrongs Group|morons]] relase the Rage Virus when attempting to free some filthy monkeys.
** The rampant idiocy of the cast of ''[[Twenty Eight28 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 (Filmfilm)|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.
** This is pointed out in the "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXraSkgssFk How Avatar Should Have Ended]" video.
* [[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.
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* If Elizabeth hadn't taken the cursed medallion when she and Will escaped from the Isla de Muerta in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean|Curse of the Black Pearl]]'', then the cursed pirates wouldn't have reason to follow them and get the ''Interceptor'' destroyed and the crew nearly killed.
** Actually, they still would've. After all, they now knew they had the wrong person and needed the right person's blood to break the curse. Taking or not taking the medallion wouldn't've made any difference.
* If Indy hadn't gotten involved at all in ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|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 Thethe Last Crusade]].)
* In ''[[Blade (Filmfilm)|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.
{{quote| Charlotte Mearing: (''After Sentinel ruins the NEST Base.'') ''"Yeah, take a good look, Optimus! This is all on you!"''}}
* 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.}}
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