History Main / MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight

Most time travelers have a motivation. Usually, they're trying to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. But there are many who are out to do the exact opposite: [[TitleDrop Make Wrong What Once Went Right]]. They could be anything from a time-traveling StupidJetpackHitler to a nefarious ConquerorFromTheFuture, a (not necessarily but usually) ManipulativeBastard who wants to rearrange history in his favor, or a {{Jerkass}} who decides to mess with time [[ChaoticNeutral for his]] [[ItAmusedMe own entertainment]]. Sometimes a traveller with these goals is a protagonist: in this case, they are generally of the third kind.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'', Rumpelstiltskin removes the day Shrek was born to prevent him from existing so that, in a case of ForWantOfANail, he can become the king of Far Far Away.

Note that it does not need to be 'setting wrong' from the point of view of the traveler themselves, e.g., a time-traveling Neo-Nazi from the year 4242 would have no qualms with making the [[GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel Nazis win WWII]].

Note that it does not need to be 'setting wrong' from the point of view of the traveler himself, e.g., a time-traveling Neo-Nazi from the year 4242 would have no qualms with making the [[GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel Nazis win WWII]].

* In ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', Biff goes back in time to make his younger self rich. This might not be a Make Wrong What Once Went Right, at least not from his perspective, but it does turn the city into a hellhole. The only person who benefitted in any way is Biff, who just about owns everything. Plus, according to {{Word of God}}, even Biff might have lived to regret it: the reason why he's clutching his chest as he gets out of the [=DeLorean=] in 2015 is that he was so awful that [[spoiler:Lorraine shot him dead sometime in the 90s]], so he's no longer alive in that timeline, which is now in the process of changing the world around him into a dystopian 2015.

* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'', neo-Nazi doctor [[BigBad Jürgen Voller]]'s mission is to get his hands on Archimedes' [[PublicDomainArtifact Antikythera Mechanism]], the titular Dial, to travel from 1969 to 1939, so he can assassinate Adolf Hitler and replace him as a more competent Führer to win UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. [[spoiler:Even after he successfully flies a large airplane back in time, it's revealed that he instead went back to ''214 BC'', as [[MeaninglessVillainVictory the Dial is only built to open a time fissure to the ancient Siege of Syracuse]]. [[VillainousBreakdown He spends his final minutes]] [[NotSoStoic as a screaming wreck]] who desperately orders his men to turn the airplane around, before the Romans [[BadassArmy manage to]] [[RockBeatsLaser shoot it down]] and they all die in the crash. What's more, [[StableTimeLoop Archimedes nicks Voller's wristwatch from the crash site, which he used to design the Dial and which Indy earlier found on his skeleton in his tomb]].]]

Most time travelers have a motivation. Usually, they're trying to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. But there are many who are out to do the exact opposite: [[TitleDrop Make Wrong What Once Went Right]]. They could be anything from a time-traveling StupidJetpackHitler to a nefarious ConquerorFromTheFuture, a (not necessarily but usually) ManipulativeBastard who wants to rearrange history in his favor, or a JerkAss who decides to mess with time [[ChaoticNeutral for his]] [[ItAmusedMe own entertainment]]. Sometimes a traveller with these goals is a protagonist: in this case, they are generally of the third kind. When paired up or teamed with a more ethical time traveler [[HilarityEnsues hilarity can ensue]].

Note that it does not need to be 'setting wrong' from the point of view of the traveler himself, e.g. a time-traveling Neo-Nazi from the year 4242 would have no qualms with making the [[GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel Nazis win WWII]].

** Note that in the case of the first film, it's more this trope than usual. Skynet had in fact lost to the humans, and sending the Terminator back was a last-ditch attempt to save itself.

[[caption-width-right:294:They picked the wrong [[UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt President Roosevelt]], but that probably doesn't bode well anyway.]]

* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'', neo-Nazi doctor [[BigBad Jürgen Voller]]'s mission is to get his hands on Archimedes' [[PublicDomainArtifact Antikythera Mechanism]], the titular Dial, to travel from 1969 to 1939, so he can assassinate Adolf Hitler and replace him as a more competent Führer to win UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. [[spoiler:Even after he successfully flies a large airplane back in time, it's revealed that he instead went back to ''214 BC'', as [[MeaninglessVillainVictory the Dial is only built to open a time fissure to the ancient Siege of Syracuse]]. [[VillainousBreakdown He spends his final minutes]] [[NotSoStoic as a screaming wreck]] who desperately orders his men to turn the airplane around, before the Romans [[BadassArmy manage to]] [[RockBeatsLaser shoot it down]] and they all die in the crash. What's more, [[StableTimeLoop Archimedes nicks Voller's watch from the crash site, which he used to design the Dial and which Indy earlier found on his skeleton in his tomb]].]]

* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'', neo-Nazi doctor [[BigBad Jürgen Voller]]'s mission is to get his hands on Archimedes' [[PublicDomainArtifact Antikythera Mechanism]], the titular Dial, to travel from 1969 to 1939, so he can assassinate Adolf Hitler and replace him as a more competent Führer to win UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. [[spoiler:Even after he successfully travels back in time, it's revealed that he instead went back to ''214 BC'', as [[MeaninglessVillainVictory the Dial is only built to open a time fissure to the ancient Siege of Syracuse]]. [[VillainousBreakdown He spends his final minutes]] [[NotSoStoic as a screaming wreck]] who desperately orders his men to turn the airplane around, before the Romans [[BadassArmy manage to]] [[RockBeatsLaser shoot it down]] and they all die in the crash. What's more, [[StableTimeLoop Archimedes nicks Voller's watch from the crash site, which he used to design the Dial and which Indy earlier found on his skeleton in his tomb]].]]

* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'', neo-Nazi doctor [[BigBad Jürgen Voller]]'s mission is to get his hands on Archimedes' [[PublicDomainArtifact Antikythera Mechanism]], the titular Dial, to travel from 1969 to 1939, so he can assassinate Adolf Hitler and replace him as a more competent Fuhrer to win UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. [[spoiler:Even after he successfully travels back in time, it's revealed that he instead went back to ''214 BC'', as [[MeaninglessVillainVictory the Dial is only built to open a time fissure to the ancient Siege of Syracuse]]. [[VillainousBreakdown He spends his final minutes]] [[NotSoStoic as a screaming wreck]] who desperately orders his men to turn the airplane around, before the Romans [[BadassArmy manage to]] [[RockBeatsLaser shoot it down]] and they all die in the crash. What's more, [[StableTimeLoop Archimedes nicks Voller's watch from the crash site, which he used to design the Dial and which Indy earlier found on his skeleton in his tomb]].]]