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* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'':
** Discord accidentally did this in the most literal way possible: [[spoiler:during the G3 apocalypse, he decided to spare Pinkie and Minty for giggles and just to annoy he this partner Luna. This not only results in Pinkie surviving the entire thing and being reincarnated into the next world, but Pinkie Pie puts mortally wounded Minty's Light of Existence into the Shadow of Existence of G1 Twilight, creating G4 Twilight. In other words: two of Discord's greatest enemies are a direct result of him screwing with Luna for laughs ''eons'' ago.]]
** In Dark World, it turns out that [[spoiler:Nightmare Eclipse has been RunningBothSides in her EvilPlan to torture Discord via GroundhogDayLoop, meaning Twilight rebelling and assembling a team to defeat Discord was all her doing, and thus she created the very team that ultimately beats her. Discord's HeelFaceTurn and helping them beat her was also a result of her hundreds of thousands of years of torture to him.]]
** Due to the nature of the Rumors, several of the Cutie Mark Crusaders' allies in defeating them gained powers or were even created outright from the Rumors themselves.
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* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'':
** Discord accidentally did this in the most literal way possible: [[spoiler:during the G3 apocalypse, he decided to spare Pinkie and Minty for giggles and just to annoy he this partner Luna. This not only results in Pinkie surviving the entire thing and being reincarnated into the next world, but Pinkie Pie puts mortally wounded Minty's Light of Existence into the Shadow of Existence of G1 Twilight, creating G4 Twilight. In other words: two of Discord's greatest enemies are a direct result of him screwing with Luna for laughs ''eons'' ago.]]
** In Dark World, it turns out that [[spoiler:Nightmare Eclipse has been RunningBothSides in her EvilPlan to torture Discord via GroundhogDayLoop, meaning Twilight rebelling and assembling a team to defeat Discord was all her doing, and thus she created the very team that ultimately beats her. Discord's HeelFaceTurn and helping them beat her was also a result of her hundreds of thousands of years of torture to him.]]
** Due to the nature of the Rumors, several of the Cutie Mark Crusaders' allies in defeating them gained powers or were even created outright from the Rumors themselves.
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Donquixote Doflamingo created his own AntiHero in his former protégée Trafalgar Law, by murdering his former right hand Corazon [[spoiler:aka his biological younger brother, Donquixote Rocinante]], who came to be Law's ParentalSubstitute and eventually saved Law's life at the cost of his own. In turn, Law swore to end Doflamingo's evil and avenge Corazon's death by any means necessary. He worked towards this goal for ''thirteen years'', eventually culminating in the Dressrosa arc, where Doflamingo's criminal empire, the one he's spent almost all his life building, falls apart in the span of a ''single day''.
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** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' presents the darkest inversion of this trope in "Epilogue", where [[WellIntentionedExtremist Amanda Waller]] reveals to Terry McGinnis that [[spoiler:when she noticed Bruce Wayne was growing too old to be Batman, she decided to create her own hero by collecting Batman's DNA, finding a couple with an identical psychological make-up as Thomas and Martha Wayne, overwrite the husband's reproductive DNA with Batman's without the man's knowledge, with Terry being the resultant child. Then when he was 7 years old, Waller commissioned [[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm the Phantasm]] to assassinate Terry's parents in his presence. Thankfully, the Phantasm decided to abort the operation to honor Bruce's legacy, instead of taint it.]]
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** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' presents the darkest inversion of this trope in "Epilogue", where [[WellIntentionedExtremist Amanda Waller]] reveals to Terry McGinnis [=McGinnis=] that [[spoiler:when she noticed Bruce Wayne was growing too old to be Batman, she decided to create her own hero by collecting Batman's DNA, finding a couple with an identical psychological make-up as Thomas and Martha Wayne, overwrite the husband's reproductive DNA with Batman's without the man's knowledge, with Terry being the resultant child. Then when he was 7 years old, Waller commissioned [[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm the Phantasm]] to assassinate Terry's parents in his presence. Thankfully, the Phantasm decided to abort the operation to honor Bruce's legacy, instead of taint it.]]
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* Terry [=McGinnis=] from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' becomes the new Batman not long after his father Warren is murdered by the orders of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Derek Powers]], the main antagonist of the first season.
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** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' presents the darkest inversion of this trope in "Epilogue", where WellIntentionedExtremist Amanda Waller reveals to [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry McGinnis]] that [[spoiler:when she noticed Bruce Wayne was getting too old to be {{Franchise/Batman}}, she decided to create her own hero by collecting Batman's DNA, finding a couple with an identical psychological make-up as Thomas and Martha Wayne, overwrite the husband's reproductive DNA with Batman's without the man's knowledge, with Terry being the resultant child. Then when he was 7 years old, Waller commissioned [[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm the Phantasm]] to assassinate Terry's parents in his presence. Thankfully, the Phantasm decided to abort the operation to honor Bruce's legacy, instead of taint it.]]
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* Terry [=McGinnis=] from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' becomes has Terry [=McGinnis=] become the new Batman Batman, not long after his father Warren is murdered by the orders of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Derek Powers]], the [[BigBad main antagonist antagonist]] of the first season.
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' presents the darkest inversion of this trope in "Epilogue", whereWellIntentionedExtremist [[WellIntentionedExtremist Amanda Waller Waller]] reveals to [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry McGinnis]] McGinnis that [[spoiler:when she noticed Bruce Wayne was getting growing too old to be {{Franchise/Batman}}, Batman, she decided to create her own hero by collecting Batman's DNA, finding a couple with an identical psychological make-up as Thomas and Martha Wayne, overwrite the husband's reproductive DNA with Batman's without the man's knowledge, with Terry being the resultant child. Then when he was 7 years old, Waller commissioned [[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm the Phantasm]] to assassinate Terry's parents in his presence. Thankfully, the Phantasm decided to abort the operation to honor Bruce's legacy, instead of taint it.]]
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' presents the darkest inversion of this trope in "Epilogue", where
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* Terry [=McGinnis=] from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' becomes the new Batman not long after his father Warren is murdered by the orders of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Derek Powers]], the main antagonist of the first season.
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' presents the darkest inversion of this trope in "Epilogue", where WellIntentionedExtremist Amanda Waller reveals to [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry McGinnis]] that [[spoiler:when she noticed Bruce Wayne was getting too old to be {{Franchise/Batman}}, she decided to create her own hero by collecting Batman's DNA, finding a couple with an identical psychological make-up as Thomas and Martha Wayne, overwrite the husband's reproductive DNA with Batman's without the man's knowledge, with Terry being the resultant child. Then when he was 7 years old, Waller commissioned [[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm the Phantasm]] to assassinate Terry's parents in his presence. Thankfully, the Phantasm decided to abort the operation to honor Bruce's legacy, instead of taintit]].it.]]
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' presents the darkest inversion of this trope in "Epilogue", where WellIntentionedExtremist Amanda Waller reveals to [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry McGinnis]] that [[spoiler:when she noticed Bruce Wayne was getting too old to be {{Franchise/Batman}}, she decided to create her own hero by collecting Batman's DNA, finding a couple with an identical psychological make-up as Thomas and Martha Wayne, overwrite the husband's reproductive DNA with Batman's without the man's knowledge, with Terry being the resultant child. Then when he was 7 years old, Waller commissioned [[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm the Phantasm]] to assassinate Terry's parents in his presence. Thankfully, the Phantasm decided to abort the operation to honor Bruce's legacy, instead of taint
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Unfortunately for them, they end up [[YouKilledMyFather killing the family of a child]] that grows up to be an utter badass [[{{Revenge}} with a vengeance]], or cause an accident which gives someone superpowers, or through their actions force a HeroicNeutral to declare that ItsPersonal and be NeutralNoLonger, usually with a DoomedHometown. In other words they've created their own hero. Someone to be a beacon of hope in the world's DarkestHour, someone to lead the [[LaResistance token resistance against their rule]] and eventually overcome them, all because of an act they did on a [[ButForMeItWasTuesday random Tuesday that they can't even remember]] sometimes involving a SelfFulfillingProphecy.
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Unfortunately for them, they end up [[YouKilledMyFather killing the family of a child]] that grows up to be an utter badass [[{{Revenge}} with a vengeance]], or cause an accident which gives someone superpowers, or through their actions force a HeroicNeutral to declare that ItsPersonal and be NeutralNoLonger, usually with a DoomedHometown. In other words they've created their own hero. Someone to be a beacon of hope in the world's DarkestHour, someone to lead the [[LaResistance token resistance against their rule]] and eventually overcome them, all because of an act they did on a [[ButForMeItWasTuesday random Tuesday that they can't even remember]] sometimes involving a SelfFulfillingProphecy.
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* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': Batman confronts Joe Chill, the man who killed his parents. In a panic, the guy runs to his fellow criminals for help -- only for them to kill him in retribution, as he created the hero who's been making their lives difficult.
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* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' has a SelfFulfillingProphecy variant of this: [[spoiler:when learning a child with the potential to kill him would come, Voldemort tracked down the baby and tried to kill him. This ironically resulted in him marking the kid as his equals just as the prophecy foretold.]]
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* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' has a SelfFulfillingProphecy variant of this: [[spoiler:when learning a child with the potential to kill him would come, Voldemort tracked down the baby and tried to kill him. This ironically resulted in him marking the kid as his equals equal just as the prophecy foretold.]]
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* Nathaniel Adam was manipulated into volunteering for the experiment that transformed him into ComicBook/CaptainAtom by Wade Eiling, who also led the experiment. Eiling was also the BigBad of the series.
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Unfortunately for them, they end up [[YouKilledMyFather killing the family of a child]] that grows up to be an utter badass [[ReVenge with a vengeance]], or cause an accident which gives someone superpowers, or through their actions force a HeroicNeutral to declare that ItsPersonal and be NeutralNoLonger, usually with a DoomedHometown. In other words they've created their own hero. Someone to be a beacon of hope in the world's DarkestHour, someone to lead the [[LaResistance token resistance against their rule]] and eventually overcome them, all because of an act they did on a [[ButForMeItWasTuesday random Tuesday that they can't even remember]] sometimes involving a SelfFulfillingProphecy.
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* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'', [[spoiler: Masayoshi Shido]], is guilty of this twice over. [[spoiler:First, he got the Protagonist convicted of assault because he got a minor scratch when he tried to stop him from sexually harassing a woman. This gets the Protagonist put on probation, which sends him to Tokyo and puts him in a position and mindset to interfere with his plans. Later, he shoves Ryuji out of the way in order to get onto an elevator. While much more minor than the earlier incident, this gives Ryuji the idea to form the Phantom Thieves of Hearts.]]
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* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'', [[spoiler: Masayoshi Shido]], is guilty of this twice over. [[spoiler:First, he got the Protagonist convicted of assault because he got a minor scratch when he the Protagonist tried to stop him from sexually harassing a woman. This gets the Protagonist put on probation, which sends gets him sent to Tokyo and puts him in a position and mindset to interfere with his Shido's plans. Later, he Shido shoves Ryuji out of the way in order to get onto an elevator. While much more minor than the earlier incident, this gives Ryuji the idea to form the Phantom Thieves of Hearts.]]
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* In VideoGame/BravelyDefault, The Grand Marshal had his daughter train to eventually fight against him. Later, [[spoiler: it turns out that Airy did this by leading the heroes through the five worlds and guiding them, to eventually be defeated]]. And in VideoGame/BravelySecond, [[spoiler: Anne did this with [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou you]] in the first game, making it so you could defeat Ouroboros and clear the way for Providence]].
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* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'', [[spoiler: Masayoshi Shido]], is guilty of this twice over. [[spoiler:First, he got the Protagonist convicted of assault because he got a minor scratch when he tried to stop him from sexually harassing a woman. This gets the Protagonist put on probation, which sends him to Tokyo and puts him in a position and mindset to interfere with his plans. Later, he shoves Ryuji out of the way in order to get onto an elevator. While much more minor than the earlier incident, this gives Ryuji the idea to form the Phantom Thieves of Hearts.]]
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* In the 2008 ''Film/IronMan1'' film, the BigBad [[spoiler: Obadiah Stane]] causes Tony Stark to become Iron Man after the latter spends three months in the captivity of an Afghan terrorist group (under [[spoiler: Stane's]] instructions) and realizing just how much evil there's in the world. Forcing him to create the Iron Man armour and eventually using it to become a hero and stopping [[spoiler: Stane]].
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* In the 2008 ''Film/IronMan1'' film, the BigBad [[spoiler: Obadiah Stane]] causes Tony Stark to become Iron Man after the latter spends three months in the captivity of an Afghan terrorist group (under [[spoiler: Stane's]] instructions) and realizing just how much evil there's in the world. Forcing him to create the Iron Man armour and eventually using it to become a hero and stopping [[spoiler: Stane]].[[spoiler:Stane]].
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* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'': Hans Landa murdered the family of Shoshana Dreyfus in their home, leaving only her alive. A few years later, we find her running a cinema as she plots her vengeance against the Nazis.
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* In Disney's Disney/{{Hercules}}, Hades failed attempt to kill Hercules as a baby to guarantee his future plans to usurp Olympus won't fail [[SelfFulfillingProphecy ends up causing Hercules to become the very hero that ultimately defeats Hades in the end.]]
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* In Disney's Disney/{{Hercules}}, ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'', Hades failed attempt to kill Hercules as a baby to guarantee his future plans to usurp Olympus won't fail [[SelfFulfillingProphecy ends up causing Hercules to become the very hero that ultimately defeats Hades in the end.]]
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* ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'': [[spoiler:Elijah]] kills hundreds of people in order to find a real-life superhero, then convince him to follow [[CallToAdventure the call]].
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* ''Lightnovel/FullMetalPanic'': The last original founder of [[spoiler:Amalgam]], [[spoiler:Mr. Mercury]], was so disgusted with what his organization had become that he ''created'' [[spoiler:Mithril]] to oppose them.
* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': As shown in ''Dragon Ball Minus'' Frieza recalled all the Saiyans back to their home planet so he could kill as many of them at once. This alerted Bardock and Gine that something was wrong, so they sent their youngest child away to protect him. That child is Goku, the same Saiyan Frieza meets on Namek. Despite having the advantage, Frieza toys with Goku, giving him time to form the Spirit Bomb that nearly kills him. In anger, Frieza picks off Goku's friends until he becomes the legendary Super Saiyan, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain the very thing he was trying to prevent]]. In the end, Frieza is beaten by a monster that he himself created.
* ''Manga/BananaFish'': [[BigBad Dino Golzine]] spent years training Ash Lynx, first as a SexSlave, then later as the ultimate CulturedBadass. It works too well; when Ash eventually finds the means to take Golzine down, he does so—''hard''.
* ''Manga/FairyTail'': ''Fairy Tail Zero'' reveals that [[spoiler:Black Mage Zeref]] is the one who taught the founders of Fairy Tail magic in the first place. The eponymous guild would not exist if not for him.
* ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' (the manga ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' is a spin-off of) shows that the Dark Kingdom (through its subdivision the Dark Agency) {{Inverted}} the trope ''thrice'' with Sailor Venus:
** At first Minako wasn't exactly thrilled by Artemis' attempts at getting her to become Sailor V (in fact at first she thought it was a joke)... Then the boy she was crushing on revealed himself as a youma and attacked her, leading to Minako first becoming Sailor V.
** At one point Minako has decided to retire... Cue ''another youma attack'', this time specifically directed at her, [[TenMinuteRetirement getting Minako to unretire for the time being]].
** In the final chapter Minako is still considering retiring once the thing is settled. Then [[BigBad Danburite]] succeeds in awakening Minako's memories of her past life and [[MarriedToTheJob her legendary sense of duty]], resulting in Minako deciding to stay Sailor Venus for good. Worth noting that Danburite [[spoiler:''did it on purpose'': [[ReincarnationRomance he was in love with her since their past lives]], and knowing they would never be able to stay together planned to have her fall for him and then kill him to make sure she rediscovered her sense of duty when she could still recover from the shock]].
* ''Manga/BananaFish'': [[BigBad Dino Golzine]] spent years training Ash Lynx, first as a SexSlave, then later as the ultimate CulturedBadass. It works too well; when Ash eventually finds the means to take Golzine down, he does so—''hard''.
* ''Manga/FairyTail'': ''Fairy Tail Zero'' reveals that [[spoiler:Black Mage Zeref]] is the one who taught the founders of Fairy Tail magic in the first place. The eponymous guild would not exist if not for him.
* ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' (the manga ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' is a spin-off of) shows that the Dark Kingdom (through its subdivision the Dark Agency) {{Inverted}} the trope ''thrice'' with Sailor Venus:
** At first Minako wasn't exactly thrilled by Artemis' attempts at getting her to become Sailor V (in fact at first she thought it was a joke)... Then the boy she was crushing on revealed himself as a youma and attacked her, leading to Minako first becoming Sailor V.
** At one point Minako has decided to retire... Cue ''another youma attack'', this time specifically directed at her, [[TenMinuteRetirement getting Minako to unretire for the time being]].
** In the final chapter Minako is still considering retiring once the thing is settled. Then [[BigBad Danburite]] succeeds in awakening Minako's memories of her past life and [[MarriedToTheJob her legendary sense of duty]], resulting in Minako deciding to stay Sailor Venus for good. Worth noting that Danburite [[spoiler:''did it on purpose'': [[ReincarnationRomance he was in love with her since their past lives]], and knowing they would never be able to stay together planned to have her fall for him and then kill him to make sure she rediscovered her sense of duty when she could still recover from the shock]].
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* ComicBook/{{Huntress}}, Helena Bertinelli, was the supposed daughter of mob boss Franco Bertinelli, the actual daughter of mob boss Santo Cassamento, and the niece of mob boss Tomasso Panessa, making her pretty much the ultimate MafiaPrincess. Cassamento and mob boss Stephen Mandragora conspired to kill all the Bertinellis, leaving only Helena alive. She then went to live with her cousins, who were mob assassins; they taught her to fight and to kill. She eventually became a vigilante, murdered Mandragora and Cassamento, and became the scourge of the mob in general. Of course, this was really more a case of the mob creating its own antihero.
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* ComicBook/{{Huntress}}, ''ComicBook/{{Huntress}}'': Helena Bertinelli, Bertinelli was the supposed daughter of mob boss Franco Bertinelli, the actual daughter of mob boss Santo Cassamento, and the niece of mob boss Tomasso Panessa, making her pretty much the ultimate MafiaPrincess. Cassamento and mob boss Stephen Mandragora conspired to kill all the Bertinellis, leaving only Helena alive. She then went to live with her cousins, who were mob assassins; they taught her to fight and to kill. She eventually became a vigilante, murdered Mandragora and Cassamento, and became the scourge of the mob in general. Of course, this was really more a case of the mob creating its own antihero.
* In Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/{{Supreme}}'', due to [[spoiler:a StableTimeLoop]], the villain becomes the source of the hero's powers.
* ''ComicBook/RedSkull'': The Skull proved to be such a terrifyingly potent propaganda mascot for UsefulNotes/NaziGermany that the US decided to counter it by making Steve Rogers ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.
* ''ComicBook/CaptainAtom'': Wade Eiling led the experiment that transformed Nathaniel Adam into Captain Atom and also led the conspiracy that manipulated Nate into volunteering for the experiment.
* ''ComicBook/RedSkull'': The Skull proved to be such a terrifyingly potent propaganda mascot for UsefulNotes/NaziGermany that the US decided to counter it by making Steve Rogers ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.
* ''ComicBook/CaptainAtom'': Wade Eiling led the experiment that transformed Nathaniel Adam into Captain Atom and also led the conspiracy that manipulated Nate into volunteering for the experiment.
* ''Film/BlackScorpion'': The the villain of the first film creates the ''hero'' by killing her father.
* ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'': This happens in the TwistEnding. [[spoiler:Elijah, aka "Mr. Glass"]], kills hundreds of people in order to find a real-life superhero, then convince him to follow [[CallToAdventure the call]].
* ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'': This happens in the TwistEnding. [[spoiler:Elijah, aka "Mr. Glass"]], kills hundreds of people in order to find a real-life superhero, then convince him to follow [[CallToAdventure the call]].
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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Dean and Sam Winchester were genetically engineered to be the human embodiment of the archangels Michael and Lucifer respectively. To make them strong enough to physically/emotionally handle their essence the Winchesters' lives were made a living hell, almost from infancy. Guess who defeated, multiple times, Michael and Lucifer's attempts to end humanity?
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Dean and Sam Winchester were genetically engineered to be the human embodiment of the archangels Michael and Lucifer respectively. To make them strong enough to physically/emotionally handle their essence the Winchesters' lives were made a living hell, almost from infancy. Guess who defeated, multiple times, Michael and Lucifer's attempts to end humanity?
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* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', the man ''Series/TheFlash2014'': The main in yellow, also known as the Reverse-Flash, [[spoiler:deliberately]] played a major role in transforming making Barry Allen into the Flash, both by Flash. The irony is that [[spoiler:Eobard Thawne deliberately traveled back in time to try to kill Barry as a child. Future!Barry saved his past self, so Thawne ended up killing his mother, mother. His trip back in time messed up his connection to the Speed Force, making him unable to return to his own time. Determined to bring about the Flash sooner than in his own history, he stole Harrison Wells's identity (and killed the real one) and by [[spoiler:causing built the "accident" that gave particle accelerator 6 years earlier than expected. His eventual goal is to train Barry to be at his powers]].
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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Dean and Sam Winchester were genetically engineered to be the human embodiment of the archangels Michael and Lucifer respectively. To make them strong enough to physically/emotionally handle their essence the Winchesters' lives were made a living hell, almost from infancy. Guess who defeated, multiple times, Michael and Lucifer's attempts to endhumanity? humanity?
* ''Series/KamenRider'': In the original show, [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Shocker]] had not one, but TWO super-cyborgs [[PhlebotinumRebel escape from them]] and [[NiceJobFixingItVillain become superheroes!]] This trope is '''very''' common throughout the Showa era, and is so recurrent that it has been given an InUniverse name: The Cross of Fire, and for the most part, it ''has'' happened a couple of times. [[Series/KamenRiderWizard A villain causing an eclipse caused a wizard to be born,]] [[Series/KamenRiderGaim a corporation using kids as guinea pigs ended up with several kids gunning for them]], [[Series/KamenRiderGhost even killing a guy ends up in them becoming a Kamen Rider]]...
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Dean and Sam Winchester were genetically engineered to be the human embodiment of the archangels Michael and Lucifer respectively. To make them strong enough to physically/emotionally handle their essence the Winchesters' lives were made a living hell, almost from infancy. Guess who defeated, multiple times, Michael and Lucifer's attempts to end
* ''Series/KamenRider'': In the original show, [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Shocker]] had not one, but TWO super-cyborgs [[PhlebotinumRebel escape from them]] and [[NiceJobFixingItVillain become superheroes!]] This trope is '''very''' common throughout the Showa era, and is so recurrent that it has been given an InUniverse name: The Cross of Fire, and for the most part, it ''has'' happened a couple of times. [[Series/KamenRiderWizard A villain causing an eclipse caused a wizard to be born,]] [[Series/KamenRiderGaim a corporation using kids as guinea pigs ended up with several kids gunning for them]], [[Series/KamenRiderGhost even killing a guy ends up in them becoming a Kamen Rider]]...
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* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'': Ridley's attack on three-year-old Samus' colony and the murder of her parents ended up creating his [[ArchEnemy greatest enemy]].
* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'': Ridley's attack on three-year-old Samus' colony and the murder of her parents ended up creating his [[ArchEnemy greatest enemy]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'':
** Plastic Man was a henchman and thief until he was CursedWithAwesome as a result of Batman's actions. Batman personally sees to Plas' reform and rehabilitation; now, larceny-related issues aside, Plastic Man is a genuine superhero thanks to Batman's influence.
** ''Chill of the Night!'': Batman confronts Joe Chill (the man who murdered his parents) during a weapons auction, where many of his Rogues Gallery are in attendance. In the fight, Batman reveals to Chill that he's Bruce Wayne. Chill realizes that by killing Thomas and Martha Wayne, he inspired Bruce to fight crime. He's the reason Batman exists. In a panic, Chill admits this to the Rogues. They aren't amused (except for Joker; he thinks it's hilarious).
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' presents the darkest inversion of this trope in "Epilogue", where WellIntentionedExtremist Amanda Waller reveals to [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry McGinnis]] that [[spoiler:when she noticed Bruce Wayne was getting too old to be {{Franchise/Batman}}, she decided to create her own hero by collecting Batman's DNA, finding a couple with an identical psychological make-up as Thomas and Martha Wayne, overwrite the husband's reproductive DNA with Batman's without the man's knowledge, with Terry being the resultant child. Then when he was 7 years old, Waller commissioned [[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm the Phantasm]] to assassinate Terry's parents in his presence. Thankfully, the Phantasm decided to abort the operation to honor Bruce's legacy, instead of taint it]].
** Plastic Man was a henchman and thief until he was CursedWithAwesome as a result of Batman's actions. Batman personally sees to Plas' reform and rehabilitation; now, larceny-related issues aside, Plastic Man is a genuine superhero thanks to Batman's influence.
** ''Chill of the Night!'': Batman confronts Joe Chill (the man who murdered his parents) during a weapons auction, where many of his Rogues Gallery are in attendance. In the fight, Batman reveals to Chill that he's Bruce Wayne. Chill realizes that by killing Thomas and Martha Wayne, he inspired Bruce to fight crime. He's the reason Batman exists. In a panic, Chill admits this to the Rogues. They aren't amused (except for Joker; he thinks it's hilarious).
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' presents the darkest inversion of this trope in "Epilogue", where WellIntentionedExtremist Amanda Waller reveals to [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry McGinnis]] that [[spoiler:when she noticed Bruce Wayne was getting too old to be {{Franchise/Batman}}, she decided to create her own hero by collecting Batman's DNA, finding a couple with an identical psychological make-up as Thomas and Martha Wayne, overwrite the husband's reproductive DNA with Batman's without the man's knowledge, with Terry being the resultant child. Then when he was 7 years old, Waller commissioned [[WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm the Phantasm]] to assassinate Terry's parents in his presence. Thankfully, the Phantasm decided to abort the operation to honor Bruce's legacy, instead of taint it]].
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': One of Aizen's Hollowfication experiments ultimately led to [[spoiler:[[HeroProtagonist Ichigo]]'s birth]]. Aizen even went out of his way throughout the series to toughen him up in the hopes of fighting a WorthyOpponent.
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* In Creator/TimBurton's version of ''Film/{{Batman}}'', Jack Napier's murder of Bruce Wayne's parents was the event causing him to become Batman. Ironically, [[CreateYourOwnVillain Batman himself would later cause the accident resulting in Napier becoming]] SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.ComicBook/TheJoker.
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* Exploited in ''Series/JadeEmpire''. [[spoiler:After the sacking of Dirge, Master Li discovered a Spirit Monk baby, whom he adopted and trained to be the instrument of his revenge against his brothers. Once the Monk was ready, Li told them of their heritage, got himself kidnapped and the town where he lived destroyed, all to set the Monk on a quest to rescue him. Once the quest was finished and Li's brothers dead, Li killed the Monk using weaknesses he had deliberately taught them for that very purpose; if not for the Water Dragon's intervention, he would have won then and there.]]
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* ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'': Mr. Rictus, a CardCarryingVillain, routinely [[YouKilledMyFather murders a kid's parents in front of him]] to see if this will happen (in this world, the supervillains won decisively by banding together and rewroting reality so heroes forgot who they were). So far, nothing.
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* In Creator/TimBurton's version of ''Film/{{Batman}}'', Jack Napier's murder of Bruce Wayne's parents was the event causing him to become Batman. Ironically, [[CreateYourOwnVillain Batman himself would later cause the accident resulting in Napier becoming]] SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.
* In the movie version of ''Film/KickAss'', [[BigBad Frank D'Amigo]] ruining Damon [=McCready=]'s life was what caused the former cop to become the superhero Big Daddy and train his daughter into becoming Hit-Girl.
* In Creator/TimBurton's version of ''Film/{{Batman}}'', Jack Napier's murder of Bruce Wayne's parents was the event causing him to become Batman. Ironically, [[CreateYourOwnVillain Batman himself would later cause the accident resulting in Napier becoming]] SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.
* In the movie version of ''Film/KickAss'', [[BigBad Frank D'Amigo]] ruining Damon [=McCready=]'s life was what caused the former cop to become the superhero Big Daddy and train his daughter into becoming Hit-Girl.
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* In Creator/TimBurton's version of ''Film/{{Batman}}'', Jack Napier's murder of Bruce Wayne's parents was the event causing him to become Batman. Ironically, [[CreateYourOwnVillain Batman himself would later cause the accident resulting in Napier becoming]] SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.
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* In the 2008 ''Film/IronMan'' film, the BigBad [[spoiler: Obadiah Stane]] causes Tony Stark to become Iron Man after the latter spends three months in the captivity of an Afghan terrorist group (under [[spoiler: Stane's]] instructions) and realizing just how much evil there's in the world. Forcing him to create the Iron Man armour and eventually using it to become a hero and stopping [[spoiler: Stane]].
* ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'': [[spoiler:Elijah]] kills hundreds of people in order to find a real-life superhero, then convince him to follow [[CallToAdventure the call]].
* In ''Film/StreetFighter'', Chun-Li says to M.Bison that her father used to lead an uprising against him when he was killed, supposedly by one of Bison's cronies, and it drove her to avenge him. Bison's response?
--> "For you, the day I grazed your village was the most important day to your life. ButForMeItWasTuesday."
* ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'': [[spoiler:Elijah]] kills hundreds of people in order to find a real-life superhero, then convince him to follow [[CallToAdventure the call]].
* In ''Film/StreetFighter'', Chun-Li says to M.Bison that her father used to lead an uprising against him when he was killed, supposedly by one of Bison's cronies, and it drove her to avenge him. Bison's response?
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* In Creator/TimBurton's version of ''Film/{{Batman}}'', Jack Napier's murder of Bruce Wayne's parents was the event causing him to become Batman. Ironically, [[CreateYourOwnVillain Batman himself would later cause the accident resulting in Napier becoming]] SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.
* In the movie version of ''Film/KickAss'', [[BigBad Frank D'Amigo]] ruining Damon [=McCready=]'s life was what caused the former cop to become the superhero Big Daddy and train his daughter into becoming Hit-Girl.
* In the 2008 ''Film/IronMan1'' film, the BigBad [[spoiler: Obadiah Stane]] causes Tony Stark to become Iron Man after the latter spends three months in the captivity of an Afghan terrorist group (under [[spoiler: Stane's]] instructions) and realizing just how much evil there's in the world. Forcing him to create the Iron Man armour and eventually using it to become a hero and stopping [[spoiler: Stane]].
* ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'': [[spoiler:Elijah]] kills hundreds of people in order to find a real-life superhero, then convince him to follow [[CallToAdventure the call]].
* In ''Film/StreetFighter'', Chun-Li says to M.Bison that her father used to lead an uprising against him when he was killed, supposedly by one of Bison's cronies, and it drove her to avenge him. Bison's response?
--> "For you, the day I grazed your village was the most important day to your life. ButForMeItWasTuesday."
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* In Creator/TimBurton's version of ''Film/{{Batman}}'', Jack Napier's murder of Bruce Wayne's parents was the event causing him to become Batman. Ironically, [[CreateYourOwnVillain Batman himself would later cause the accident resulting in Napier becoming]] SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.
* In the movie version of ''Film/KickAss'', [[BigBad Frank D'Amigo]] ruining Damon [=McCready=]'s life was what caused the former cop to become the superhero Big Daddy and train his daughter into becoming Hit-Girl.
* In the 2008 ''Film/IronMan1'' film, the BigBad [[spoiler: Obadiah Stane]] causes Tony Stark to become Iron Man after the latter spends three months in the captivity of an Afghan terrorist group (under [[spoiler: Stane's]] instructions) and realizing just how much evil there's in the world. Forcing him to create the Iron Man armour and eventually using it to become a hero and stopping [[spoiler: Stane]].
* ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'': [[spoiler:Elijah]] kills hundreds of people in order to find a real-life superhero, then convince him to follow [[CallToAdventure the call]].
* In ''Film/StreetFighter'', Chun-Li says to M.Bison that her father used to lead an uprising against him when he was killed, supposedly by one of Bison's cronies, and it drove her to avenge him. Bison's response?
--> "For you, the day I grazed your village was the most important day to your life. ButForMeItWasTuesday."
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The BigBad's had it pretty good so far, steamrolling through any opposition in their path, taking over the world and generally being a complete and utter bastard with no one being able to stop them in any way.
Unfortunately for them, they end up [[YouKilledMyFather killing the family of a child]] that grows up to be an utter badass [[ReVenge with a vengeance]], or cause an accident which gives someone superpowers, or through their actions force a HeroicNeutral to declare that ItsPersonal and be NeutralNoLonger, usually with a DoomedHometown. In other words they've created their own hero. Someone to be a beacon of hope in the world's DarkestHour, someone to lead the [[LaResistance token resistance against their rule]] and eventually overcome them, all because of an act they did on a [[ButForMeItWasTuesday random Tuesday that they can't even remember]] sometimes involving a SelfFulfillingProphecy.
Subtrope of NiceJobFixingItVillain, and the ultimate expression of VillainsActHeroesReact. Opposite of CreateYourOwnVillain, and SuperheroParadox. Related to GenocideBackfire and NiceJobBreakingItHerod. Supertrope to PhlebotinumRebel and FaustianRebellion (in that the villain literally and intentionally empowers the would-be hero who then rebels against them) and so examples of that kind fall into those tropes.
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* Played with in ''ComicBook/LesLegendaires'', where [[BigBad Darkhell]] actually gets DangerouslyGenreSavvy about this trope, and, after slaughtering a village, framed a local army of heroes by leaving their banner behind. As a result, the only kid who survived ends up directing his hate toward said heroes, grows into a villain and becomes Darkhell's [[TheDragon Dragon]]. However, he eventually does learn the truth, causing him to pull a HeelFaceTurn and join the protagonists.
* Nathaniel Adam was manipulated into volunteering for the experiment that transformed him into ComicBook/CaptainAtom by Wade Eiling, who also led the experiment. Eiling was also the BigBad of the series.
* ComicBook/{{Huntress}}, Helena Bertinelli, was the supposed daughter of mob boss Franco Bertinelli, the actual daughter of mob boss Santo Cassamento, and the niece of mob boss Tomasso Panessa, making her pretty much the ultimate MafiaPrincess. Cassamento and mob boss Stephen Mandragora conspired to kill all the Bertinellis, leaving only Helena alive. She then went to live with her cousins, who were mob assassins; they taught her to fight and to kill. She eventually became a vigilante, murdered Mandragora and Cassamento, and became the scourge of the mob in general. Of course, this was really more a case of the mob creating its own antihero.
* ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'': Mr. Rictus, a CardCarryingVillain, routinely [[YouKilledMyFather murders a kid's parents in front of him]] to see if this will happen (in this world, the supervillains won decisively by banding together and rewroting reality so heroes forgot who they were). So far, nothing.
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* In Creator/TimBurton's version of ''Film/{{Batman}}'', Jack Napier's murder of Bruce Wayne's parents was the event causing him to become Batman. Ironically, [[CreateYourOwnVillain Batman himself would later cause the accident resulting in Napier becoming]] SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.
* In the movie version of ''Film/KickAss'', [[BigBad Frank D'Amigo]] ruining Damon [=McCready=]'s life was what caused the former cop to become the superhero Big Daddy and train his daughter into becoming Hit-Girl.
* Played with in ''Film/{{Megamind}}''. The title character is a supervillain who, having gotten rid of his nemesis, finds that VictoryIsBoring and purposely creates another superhero to oppose him. Unfortunately, the new superhero does a FaceHeelTurn, forcing Megamind to do a HeelFaceTurn of his own.
* In the 2008 ''Film/IronMan'' film, the BigBad [[spoiler: Obadiah Stane]] causes Tony Stark to become Iron Man after the latter spends three months in the captivity of an Afghan terrorist group (under [[spoiler: Stane's]] instructions) and realizing just how much evil there's in the world. Forcing him to create the Iron Man armour and eventually using it to become a hero and stopping [[spoiler: Stane]].
* ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'': [[spoiler:Elijah]] kills hundreds of people in order to find a real-life superhero, then convince him to follow [[CallToAdventure the call]].
* In ''Film/StreetFighter'', Chun-Li says to M.Bison that her father used to lead an uprising against him when he was killed, supposedly by one of Bison's cronies, and it drove her to avenge him. Bison's response?
--> "For you, the day I grazed your village was the most important day to your life. ButForMeItWasTuesday."
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* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' has a SelfFulfillingProphecy variant of this: [[spoiler:when learning a child with the potential to kill him would come, Voldemort tracked down the baby and tried to kill him. This ironically resulted in him marking the kid as his equals just as the prophecy foretold.]]
* In ''Literature/TheLastApprentice'', [[ProfessionalKiller Grimalkin]], while [[EvenEvilHasStandards already not a fan of the Fiend]], didn't seem to really care about him that much, and was still pretty much a villain in the setting. Only after he [[spoiler:brutally killed their child]] did she go on a vendetta against him, eventually leading her to an EnemyMine with the protagonists.
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* In ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', Oliver Queen's transformation into the Green Arrow began when his family's yacht, the ''Queen's Gambit'', sank, and he became stranded on Lian Yu. There, he was trained to fight by Slade Wilson. The ''Queen's Gambit'' was sunk by Malcolm Merlyn, the BigBad of season one, while Slade Wilson became the BigBad of season two. Oliver even expressly acknowledges at the end of season two that it was Slade who made Oliver into a hero.
* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', the man in yellow, the Reverse-Flash, [[spoiler:deliberately]] played a major role in transforming Barry Allen into the Flash, both by killing his mother, and by [[spoiler:causing the "accident" that gave Barry his powers]].
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Dean and Sam Winchester were genetically engineered to be the human embodiment of the archangels Michael and Lucifer respectively. To make them strong enough to physically/emotionally handle their essence the Winchesters' lives were made a living hell, almost from infancy. Guess who defeated, multiple times, Michael and Lucifer's attempts to end humanity?
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* Myth/GreekMythology: Done by accident several times: when a king hears a prophecy that their son/grandson will cause their death/be greater than them, the steps they take to avert this result in it happening:
** A prophecy foretold that Priam's son Paris would be the downfall of Troy, so he was sent away to Mount Ida. Then he judged which of the three goddesses was most beautiful and promised the hand of Helen, and was recognized as Priam's son, who could not send away his newfound son but also had no wish to see all of Greece allied against him.
** Oedipus' parents, the king and queen of Thebes, heard a prophecy that their son would kill his father and have children with his mother. Horrified, they had the child taken away to be killed, but he was saved and raised by a different couple. When Oedipus learned of the prophecy, he thought it applied to his (unknowingly adoptive) parents, and left, killing an older man and marrying the recently widowed queen of Thebes...
** Perseus' grandfather Acrisius learned that his grandson would kill him, so he locked his daughter in a tower. This didn't stop Zeus from entering and impregnating her, and she and her son Perseus were cast out to sea. Perseus grew up to slay the Medusa, and ended up accidentally killing his grandfather during a sports contest.
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* The EvilOverlordList has advice on avoiding this kind of scenario.
** "If an enemy I have just killed has a younger sibling or offspring anywhere, I will find them and have them killed immediately, instead of waiting for them to grow up harboring feelings of vengeance towards me in my old age."
** "Orphans will be placed in foster-homes, not abandoned in the woods to be raised by creatures of the wild."
** "Prior to kidnapping an older male scientist and forcing him to work for me, I will investigate his offspring and make sure that he has neither a beautiful but naive daughter who is willing to risk anything to get him back, nor an estranged son who works in the same field but had a falling-out with his father many years ago."
** "If I know of any heroes in the land, I will not under any circumstance kill their mentors, teachers, and/or best friends."
** "I will be an equal-opportunity despot and make sure that terror and oppression is distributed fairly, not just against one particular group that will form the core of a rebellion."
** "I will have a staff of competent detectives handy. If I learn that someone in a certain village is plotting against me, I will have them find out who rather than wipe out the entire village in a preemptive strike."
* JustForFun/TVTropesAdditionalEvilOverlordVows has a few more.
** "If I ever have a child, I will keep them as happy as possible, as an unloved child would likely betray me and defect to my enemies."
** "Whenever I take over another country, I won't force them to give up their culture and follow mine."
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* In ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'', [[spoiler:Yomiel]] causes Sissel's death, triggering the events of the night and eventually leading to his plans foiled. Also, [[spoiler:One Step Ahead Tengo]] in turn causes [[spoiler:Missile]]'s death, which turns the latter into the BigGood of the story.
* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'', [[spoiler:Thaos]], does this ''twice'' to [[PlayerCharacter the Watcher]]: once, when his ritual at Cilant Lis Awakens the Watcher to their past lives, and [[spoiler:many centuries ''before'' that, when Thaos made a previous incarnation of the Watcher betray Iovara, which effectively tied all three of their souls together, bound to clash with each other again, sooner or later]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben10}}'', [[BigBad Vilgax]] trying to get the Omnitrix for his scheme was what eventually led the device to end up on Earth and stick itself on the wrist of Ben Tennyson. This even gets a lampshade in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse''.
* On ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', it's eventually revealed that Mojo Jojo was once Professor Utonium's lab partner and caused the Chemical X to be added to the formula the girls were made from. Realising this causes Jojo to suffer a VillainousBreakdown. In another episode it gets even worse for him when [[spoiler: he tries going back in time to RetGone the girls and ends up giving Utonium the idea to create them in the first place]].
--> "It was me...it was me..."
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'': Shredder ends up creating the Turtles. He poured a caustic chemical down the sewer where Hamato Yoshi was living in an attempt to kill him. The chemical turned out to be a powerful mutagen which made the Turtles anthropomorphic and transformed Yoshi into an anthropomorphic rat named Splinter. Shredder tried to use this information to convince the Turtles to join his side, but they declined.
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The BigBad's had it pretty good so far, steamrolling through any opposition in their path, taking over the world and generally being a complete and utter bastard with no one being able to stop them in any way.
Unfortunately for them, they end up [[YouKilledMyFather killing the family of a child]] that grows up to be an utter badass [[ReVenge with a vengeance]], or cause an accident which gives someone superpowers, or through their actions force a HeroicNeutral to declare that ItsPersonal and be NeutralNoLonger, usually with a DoomedHometown. In other words they've created their own hero. Someone to be a beacon of hope in the world's DarkestHour, someone to lead the [[LaResistance token resistance against their rule]] and eventually overcome them, all because of an act they did on a [[ButForMeItWasTuesday random Tuesday that they can't even remember]] sometimes involving a SelfFulfillingProphecy.
Subtrope of NiceJobFixingItVillain, and the ultimate expression of VillainsActHeroesReact. Opposite of CreateYourOwnVillain, and SuperheroParadox. Related to GenocideBackfire and NiceJobBreakingItHerod. Supertrope to PhlebotinumRebel and FaustianRebellion (in that the villain literally and intentionally empowers the would-be hero who then rebels against them) and so examples of that kind fall into those tropes.
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!!Examples
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[[folder:ComicBooks]]
* Played with in ''ComicBook/LesLegendaires'', where [[BigBad Darkhell]] actually gets DangerouslyGenreSavvy about this trope, and, after slaughtering a village, framed a local army of heroes by leaving their banner behind. As a result, the only kid who survived ends up directing his hate toward said heroes, grows into a villain and becomes Darkhell's [[TheDragon Dragon]]. However, he eventually does learn the truth, causing him to pull a HeelFaceTurn and join the protagonists.
* Nathaniel Adam was manipulated into volunteering for the experiment that transformed him into ComicBook/CaptainAtom by Wade Eiling, who also led the experiment. Eiling was also the BigBad of the series.
* ComicBook/{{Huntress}}, Helena Bertinelli, was the supposed daughter of mob boss Franco Bertinelli, the actual daughter of mob boss Santo Cassamento, and the niece of mob boss Tomasso Panessa, making her pretty much the ultimate MafiaPrincess. Cassamento and mob boss Stephen Mandragora conspired to kill all the Bertinellis, leaving only Helena alive. She then went to live with her cousins, who were mob assassins; they taught her to fight and to kill. She eventually became a vigilante, murdered Mandragora and Cassamento, and became the scourge of the mob in general. Of course, this was really more a case of the mob creating its own antihero.
* ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'': Mr. Rictus, a CardCarryingVillain, routinely [[YouKilledMyFather murders a kid's parents in front of him]] to see if this will happen (in this world, the supervillains won decisively by banding together and rewroting reality so heroes forgot who they were). So far, nothing.
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[[folder:Film]]
* In Creator/TimBurton's version of ''Film/{{Batman}}'', Jack Napier's murder of Bruce Wayne's parents was the event causing him to become Batman. Ironically, [[CreateYourOwnVillain Batman himself would later cause the accident resulting in Napier becoming]] SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.
* In the movie version of ''Film/KickAss'', [[BigBad Frank D'Amigo]] ruining Damon [=McCready=]'s life was what caused the former cop to become the superhero Big Daddy and train his daughter into becoming Hit-Girl.
* Played with in ''Film/{{Megamind}}''. The title character is a supervillain who, having gotten rid of his nemesis, finds that VictoryIsBoring and purposely creates another superhero to oppose him. Unfortunately, the new superhero does a FaceHeelTurn, forcing Megamind to do a HeelFaceTurn of his own.
* In the 2008 ''Film/IronMan'' film, the BigBad [[spoiler: Obadiah Stane]] causes Tony Stark to become Iron Man after the latter spends three months in the captivity of an Afghan terrorist group (under [[spoiler: Stane's]] instructions) and realizing just how much evil there's in the world. Forcing him to create the Iron Man armour and eventually using it to become a hero and stopping [[spoiler: Stane]].
* ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'': [[spoiler:Elijah]] kills hundreds of people in order to find a real-life superhero, then convince him to follow [[CallToAdventure the call]].
* In ''Film/StreetFighter'', Chun-Li says to M.Bison that her father used to lead an uprising against him when he was killed, supposedly by one of Bison's cronies, and it drove her to avenge him. Bison's response?
--> "For you, the day I grazed your village was the most important day to your life. ButForMeItWasTuesday."
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' has a SelfFulfillingProphecy variant of this: [[spoiler:when learning a child with the potential to kill him would come, Voldemort tracked down the baby and tried to kill him. This ironically resulted in him marking the kid as his equals just as the prophecy foretold.]]
* In ''Literature/TheLastApprentice'', [[ProfessionalKiller Grimalkin]], while [[EvenEvilHasStandards already not a fan of the Fiend]], didn't seem to really care about him that much, and was still pretty much a villain in the setting. Only after he [[spoiler:brutally killed their child]] did she go on a vendetta against him, eventually leading her to an EnemyMine with the protagonists.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', Oliver Queen's transformation into the Green Arrow began when his family's yacht, the ''Queen's Gambit'', sank, and he became stranded on Lian Yu. There, he was trained to fight by Slade Wilson. The ''Queen's Gambit'' was sunk by Malcolm Merlyn, the BigBad of season one, while Slade Wilson became the BigBad of season two. Oliver even expressly acknowledges at the end of season two that it was Slade who made Oliver into a hero.
* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', the man in yellow, the Reverse-Flash, [[spoiler:deliberately]] played a major role in transforming Barry Allen into the Flash, both by killing his mother, and by [[spoiler:causing the "accident" that gave Barry his powers]].
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Dean and Sam Winchester were genetically engineered to be the human embodiment of the archangels Michael and Lucifer respectively. To make them strong enough to physically/emotionally handle their essence the Winchesters' lives were made a living hell, almost from infancy. Guess who defeated, multiple times, Michael and Lucifer's attempts to end humanity?
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[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]
* Myth/GreekMythology: Done by accident several times: when a king hears a prophecy that their son/grandson will cause their death/be greater than them, the steps they take to avert this result in it happening:
** A prophecy foretold that Priam's son Paris would be the downfall of Troy, so he was sent away to Mount Ida. Then he judged which of the three goddesses was most beautiful and promised the hand of Helen, and was recognized as Priam's son, who could not send away his newfound son but also had no wish to see all of Greece allied against him.
** Oedipus' parents, the king and queen of Thebes, heard a prophecy that their son would kill his father and have children with his mother. Horrified, they had the child taken away to be killed, but he was saved and raised by a different couple. When Oedipus learned of the prophecy, he thought it applied to his (unknowingly adoptive) parents, and left, killing an older man and marrying the recently widowed queen of Thebes...
** Perseus' grandfather Acrisius learned that his grandson would kill him, so he locked his daughter in a tower. This didn't stop Zeus from entering and impregnating her, and she and her son Perseus were cast out to sea. Perseus grew up to slay the Medusa, and ended up accidentally killing his grandfather during a sports contest.
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[[folder:Other]]
* The EvilOverlordList has advice on avoiding this kind of scenario.
** "If an enemy I have just killed has a younger sibling or offspring anywhere, I will find them and have them killed immediately, instead of waiting for them to grow up harboring feelings of vengeance towards me in my old age."
** "Orphans will be placed in foster-homes, not abandoned in the woods to be raised by creatures of the wild."
** "Prior to kidnapping an older male scientist and forcing him to work for me, I will investigate his offspring and make sure that he has neither a beautiful but naive daughter who is willing to risk anything to get him back, nor an estranged son who works in the same field but had a falling-out with his father many years ago."
** "If I know of any heroes in the land, I will not under any circumstance kill their mentors, teachers, and/or best friends."
** "I will be an equal-opportunity despot and make sure that terror and oppression is distributed fairly, not just against one particular group that will form the core of a rebellion."
** "I will have a staff of competent detectives handy. If I learn that someone in a certain village is plotting against me, I will have them find out who rather than wipe out the entire village in a preemptive strike."
* JustForFun/TVTropesAdditionalEvilOverlordVows has a few more.
** "If I ever have a child, I will keep them as happy as possible, as an unloved child would likely betray me and defect to my enemies."
** "Whenever I take over another country, I won't force them to give up their culture and follow mine."
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[[folder:VideoGames]]
* In ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'', [[spoiler:Yomiel]] causes Sissel's death, triggering the events of the night and eventually leading to his plans foiled. Also, [[spoiler:One Step Ahead Tengo]] in turn causes [[spoiler:Missile]]'s death, which turns the latter into the BigGood of the story.
* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'', [[spoiler:Thaos]], does this ''twice'' to [[PlayerCharacter the Watcher]]: once, when his ritual at Cilant Lis Awakens the Watcher to their past lives, and [[spoiler:many centuries ''before'' that, when Thaos made a previous incarnation of the Watcher betray Iovara, which effectively tied all three of their souls together, bound to clash with each other again, sooner or later]].
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben10}}'', [[BigBad Vilgax]] trying to get the Omnitrix for his scheme was what eventually led the device to end up on Earth and stick itself on the wrist of Ben Tennyson. This even gets a lampshade in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse''.
* On ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', it's eventually revealed that Mojo Jojo was once Professor Utonium's lab partner and caused the Chemical X to be added to the formula the girls were made from. Realising this causes Jojo to suffer a VillainousBreakdown. In another episode it gets even worse for him when [[spoiler: he tries going back in time to RetGone the girls and ends up giving Utonium the idea to create them in the first place]].
--> "It was me...it was me..."
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'': Shredder ends up creating the Turtles. He poured a caustic chemical down the sewer where Hamato Yoshi was living in an attempt to kill him. The chemical turned out to be a powerful mutagen which made the Turtles anthropomorphic and transformed Yoshi into an anthropomorphic rat named Splinter. Shredder tried to use this information to convince the Turtles to join his side, but they declined.
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