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* In an episode of ''ThePowerpuffGirls'', where the three girls and Professor Utonium move to a much larger city than The City of Townsville, which is reversely named the Town of Citysville, The Powerpuff Girls think it's a good idea to continue fighting crime in their new location. After stopping a couple of robbers by destroying the bridge they were trying to get away on, the mayor of Citysville complains to them. "At what point did you think it would be a good idea to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge? Those robbers stole $4000 in cash. But it's going to cost TWO MILLIONS dollars to replace the bridge!!!" This catches the girls off guard because, in every single episode prior, plenty of buildings get destroyed Godzilla-style and nobody seems to care a thing about it, as long as the monster is gone. Moral: There is a significant difference between destroying a few buildings in the process of preventing a giant monster from razing the entire town, and stopping a pair of petty crooks.
** This is also a major part of the premise of TheMovie, where Mojo tricks the girls into helping him build his volcanoe observatory and a machine that he claims will "help the town and make it a better place" but actually helps him take over.

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[[caption-width:256:Oh great, [[EldritchAbomination Nightmare]]'s free. [[SealedEvilInACan Thanks for breaking the seal]], Kirby!]]

* Nice Job Eating the [[strike: [[BeamMeUpScotty Apple]]]] Fruit, [[TheBible Adam and Eve!]]

** Most recently, the villain of a filler arc, Muramasa, [[spoiler:lures Ichigo into his hideout and to where Yamamoto seems to be held prisoner, then goads him into using a full-power Getsuga Tensho on him. The result? Muramasa redirects the attack into the barrier surrounding Yamamoto, breaking it. Seems Yamamoto wasn't so much a prisoner as he was trying to seal himself off from Muramasa, who promptly steals the power of Yamamoto's GameBreaker-level zanpakuto as soon as the barrier falls.]] WHOOPS.

* In HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi, the audience doesn't find out until [[spoiler:Tsumihoroboshi-hen]] that [[Keiichi's]] actions during [[spoiler:Onikakushi-hen]] were basically part and parcel of this. Granted, stuff ''was'' broken. Just different stuff.

** ''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]]. [[FamousLastWords "Nice one, James."]].

* In ''{{Angel}}'', the crew defeat the fallen power Jasmine, who took over the world through mind control and was eating people on a daily basis... and are later rewarded by the demonic law firm Wolfram and Hart for "destroying peace on earth and good will toward men" because during the short time Jasmine was in control, there was no war or fighting or hatred anywhere within her influence.

* In Gundam Seed Destiny, one might say this trope occurs throughout the series with the Freedom and Archangel interfering with the war. But at the Second Battle of Onogoro, [[spoiler: Kira preventing Shinn from continuing his attack on Orb allowed Djibril to escape, thus letting him fire Requiem and destroying a lot of the [=PLANTs=]. Shinn in SEED mode most likely would have stopped Djibril before getting on the shuttle or soon after he launched. Kira and the Archangel would have lost Orb, but considering the only Orb forces they had at the final battle were the ones they had before Onogoro....{{So yeah}}.]]

** Then a few episodes later, Katara sees Zuko [[Villainsoutshopping serving tea]] and instantly runs to inform the authorities. If she had investigated further, confronted him herself or thought about the situation for more than a second, Zuko never would have been put in a position to turn to Azula's side to begin with. (And Aang probably would have finished his last chakra.)

** Not only that but the death of Palpatine created a vacuum of power. It caused a fracture of the Empire into multiple smaller dominions led by psychotic warlords, who, to solidify their positions, hold even ''worse'' weapons, like the [[JediAcademyTrilogy Sun Crusher]]. It caused Admirals (and the last Grand Admiral) to start ploys to resurrect the Empire, raising the specter of a new round of Clone Wars, a working prototype Death Star, and various Super Star Destroyers. It allowed for a cloned Emperor, if possible even more insane than the original, to unleash Devastators on Coruscant. It allowed for criminal organizations to flourish and get into the superweapon race themselves, like the Hutt's ''Darksaber''. It opened the way for genocidal races to use left-over Imperial ships. The New Republic isn't even stable and threatens to collapse many times. SoYeah.

*SquareEnix ''loves'' this trope. As but one example, in ''FinalFantasyVI'' at one point [[spoiler:the heroes attempt to arrange a truce between the Empire and Espers. Of course, this was all a ruse on the Emperor's part to get the Espers in one place so they could be eliminated. Kefka promptly kills them and absorbs their powers]].

---> Sora: What an idiot.

**** They also need to get Asuka back in, and show Shinji's reaction to the reveal that [[spoiler:Rei is his SISTER!]]