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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 (
** But then Hellboy kills that, so while he may have triggered an early apocalypse, he then stopped it entirely.
* In ''[[
** 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 ''[[
* 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
** 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. [[
* 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 (
** 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
* 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 (
** 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 (
** 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
* From the [[James Bond (
{{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 (
* The [[Fridge Logic]] in ''[[
* 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 ''[[
** The rampant idiocy of the cast of ''[[
* The main character in [[Avatar (
** 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 ''[[
** 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
* In ''[[Blade (
* ''[[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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