History NiceJobBreakingItHero / FanWorks

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14223068/1/A-Savage-Nature A Savage Nature]]'': For all Rognak overall makes things better, some of his actions do have unintended negative consequences.

*** [[TimeTravelinJerkass Bunnyx]] is ''especially'' responsible for this, as she arrogantly assumes her home timeline is the 'correct' one and that [[ExpendableAlternateUniverse all other timelines must be 'fixed']] to follow it. This led her not only to traumatize Marinette by making her fix the BadFuture of Chat Blanc while blaming her for its events but [[https://bigfatbreak.tumblr.com/post/667448883471925248/ leaping in to 'fix' divergences]] that didn't ''need'' to be fixed, pushing Marinette until she finally broke.

** Eventually, it's revealed that [[TimeTreavelingJerkass Future!Alix]] ''also'' factored into this decision: she came back in time to convince Marinette to stick it out, but her utter LackOfEmpathy for everyone's suffering and accidentally SayingTooMuch only strengthened Marinette's resolve to see her plan through.

*** Bunnyx is ''especially'' responsible for this, as she arrogantly assumes her home timeline is the 'correct' one and that [[ExpendableAlternateUniverse all other timelines must be 'fixed']] to follow it. This led her not only to traumatize Marinette by making her fix the BadFuture of Chat Blanc while blaming her for its events, but [[https://bigfatbreak.tumblr.com/post/667448883471925248/ leaping in to 'fix' divergences]] that didn't ''need'' to be fixed, pushing Marinette until she finally broke.
** ''Enough Rope'' focuses around Alya posting Lila's 'exclusive scoop' that Chat Noir was planning to confess his feelings to Ladybug at an upcoming fair. This attracts plenty of would-be gawkers to the event, along with making it a prime target for Hawkmoth. Her thoughtlessly endangering everyone, along with the revelation that she [[spoiler:''knows'' about Lila's so-called 'lying disease' and still treats her as a trusted source]], spurs Ladybug to [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech spell out how irresponsible she's being]] and blacklist the Ladyblog.

** Adrien ultimately decides that preserving his reputation is more important than going to help Ladybug out during a major battle involving several akuma. This results in [[spoiler:a NearVillainVictory, with Marinette, Luka and Kagami being exposed as heroes while exposing Gabriel as Hawkmoth]].

** Adrien agrees to help Chloé expose Lila as a liar, but worries that her plan won't work out. Rather than sharing his concerns, however, he quietly goes along with it, then balks and backs down while she's putting it into action, leaving Chloé hanging and letting their classmates mock and belittle her. Lila then uses this as leverage to claim that ''Marinette'' [[MadeOutToBeAJerkass worked with Chloé to set her up]], despite Marinette having transferred to another school. Alya latches onto the idea that [[WeUsedToBeFriends her former bestie]] was a BitchInSheepsClothing, making it significantly harder for those trying to expose Lila to pierce through her deceptions.

** PlayedWith after the [[spoiler:Ladyblogger]] akuma is taken down. In the aftermath, [[spoiler:Tigress]] makes a snarky comment about how Alya's [[IRejectYourReality still denying what's right in front of her]]. Alya whirls around and declares that the fact Ladybug chose someone like ''them'' to be a hero is just proof of how far she's fallen. After she stalks off, [[spoiler:Tigress]] apologizes, but Ladybug reassures them that Alya's mind was already made up.

** Eventually, it's revealed that Future!Alix ''also'' factored into this decision: she came back in time to convince Marinette to stick it out, but her utter LackOfEmpathy for everyone's suffering and accidentally SayingTooMuch only strengthened Marinette's resolve to see her plan through.
** PlayedWith in that Marinette's decision actually changes things ''for the better'', bringing Shadow Moth's reign of terror to an early end. However, Future!Alix still regards this as a bad thing because [[ItsAllAboutMe this diverges from HER timeline]], and is intent upon "fixing" everything regardless of how much pain it causes.

* ''Fanfic/MeanRabbit'': [[SadistTeacher Aizawa]] singlehandedly sabotages all of Class 1-A when he blatantly rigs the Quirk Assessment Test against Midoriya, ignoring his actual performance in favor of expelling him simply because he's Quirkless. When Midoriya protests the results, he has him prove himself against the five lowest-performing students, then punishes ''them'' for Izuku's success. This creates ''massive'' rifts among his students, the majority of whom [[BlamingTheVictim blame Midoriya for standing up for himself]], to the point where several of them seriously consider [[spoiler:leaving a concussed Midoriya to ''die'']] during the League's assault on the USJ.
* Played interestingly in ''Fanfic/TheScorpionJar''. All Might's well-meaning advice to Izuku causes him to have an epiphany: if somebody like him can't become a hero [[FantasticRacism just because he's Quirkless]], then what about all the others who aren't qualified because of their poor characters? This spurs him to plot the downfall of Aldera Middle School and the worst of his bullies by [[HoistByHisOwnPetard exposing all their wrongdoings]] to the world. After seeing the results, Toshinori is [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone stricken with guilt]] and wishes to make amends, while Nedzu is ''thrilled'' to see a new [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] in the making and wants to secure Izuku as an apprentice.

* The eponymous VillainProtagonist in ''Fanfic/TheRiseOfDarthVulcan'''s main occupation-aside from looting ponies- is calling out the ponies for their dumb actions in canon. In-universe, many of actions of the Mane 6 and others make the situation with him a lot worse:

** Twilight ignored his hatred of mind influencing magic and brought mind-changing spells to his trial. It's no wonder he didn't stick around [[spoiler:to help stop Canterlot Castle from falling into a lake]].

** Luna pulls this on Celestia after [[spoiler:Shining Armor is fired from command of the Royal Guard by inducting him as the leader of her Night Guard, to allow him to secretly continue investigating the conspiracies. Celestia had seen the attack on Shining coming and had been grooming him as a populist voice in the courts, which was central to most of her near future plans, but she didn't tell Luna because they always ended up butting heads over long-term strategy and she didn't tell Shining so he, and their enemies, would believe he was no longer a threat. Not only does Celestia's plan go up in smoke, but she worries that the relatively unsubtle Shining will be caught doing more than is strictly legal for the Night Guard, at which point Luna's crown and authority (and Celestia's own, if she steps in) would be pretty much bucked]]. Celestia's setup of all this also means that she played this trope on herself, but since Luna acknowledged Celestia might well have a plan but was tired of being left waiting in the dark, she really has no excuse.
** Twilight thinks this of herself after her espionage mission [[spoiler:triggers a war between Zebrica, Saddle Arabia and Equestria]]. Considering things had been volatile for a while, and she stopped [[spoiler:a cult leader from wiping out the whole Zebrican continent and triggering worldwide damage]], no one else agrees.

* In ''[[Fanfic/PonyPsychologySeries Secrets and Lies]]'', Twilight tries to prevent Discord from escaping ''without'' alerting anypony who doesn't '''need''' to know what's going on, in order to avoid triggering mass panic. On top of this, she's keeping other secrets from her friends, and her attempts to fix everything without revealing them lead to terrible complications. Her biggest break, however, is when she determines the best way to help Fluttershy [[spoiler:is to have her commmited against her will, leading to her getting dragged away kicking and screaming and locked up in a madhouse]].

* ''Fanfic/BlackkatsReverse'' has Kakashi forcefully ripping Naruto from his newfound uncle's arms and refusing to hear Kurama's plea to not separate them. It results in Kurama kicking his ass, abducting Naruto and fleeing Konoha.

* ''Fanfic/OlivesLastPartner'': Oscar attempts to use a banana creme pie to scare away the [[BlobMonster Blobisite]] and steer it towards Otto instead. He tells Olive not to turn around, but she does so anyway, and promptly screams as her TraumaButton is pressed. From there, any semblance of rationality she has goes clear out the window as she backs up and manages to collide with the boiler, which causes a small fissure to form within it. Things then go FromBadToWorse as Olive searches for the Repair-inator gadget, finds it on the floor, and tries to use it on the boiler only for it to be ineffective. Just before she can tell Oscar that the boiler is [[NoSell No-Selling]] the Repair-inator, the fissure bursts completely open and Olive is thrown clear across the room by a blast of orange juice, which knocks her out cold.

* ''Fanfic/ARabbitAmongWolves'': Team RWBY's interference in the dock heist backfires on them in every way. They ruin the White Fang's ambush, get into a petty argument with them that gives Roman Torchwick all the time in the world to steal the dust and escape scot free, the ensuing fight causes massive property damage that they wind up being blamed for, and they don't even manage to capture any of the White Fang members. Last but not least, Lisa Lavender uploads a video of the events online soon after, [[ManipulativeEditing edited to remove any scenes that'd make the White Fang look bad]]. All of the above guarantees that Beacon will face a PR nightmare trying to explain why four of their students caused such a mess.

* In ''Fanfic/LotusSeeds'', Luo Binghe finally learns his long-lost Shizun is a willing prisoner within another realm, because the man secretly fears a powerful entity's wrath. The half-demon being utterly confident that he can beat anyone trying to hurt someone under his protection decides to forcefully remove Shen Qingqiu from the pocket dimension and bring him back to his heavily fortress -- which causes Shen Qingqiu's sudden demise, right in Luo Binghe's arms. To be fair, Luo Binghe spent ''years'' fighting and defeating extremely powerful foes, so he had no reason to think it would be different this time.

* In ''Webcomic/NewHome'', Peridot and Steven realize that the Crystal Gems are attacking all the Homeworld grunts that were send to help neutralize the [[EldritchAbomination Cluster]], potentially dooming the Earth to destruction and rendering Steven's efforts meaningless.

* ''Fanfic/{{Shatterheart}}'': When Fai finds out about [[spoiler:R!]]Syaoran and Kurogane's SecretRelationship and the fact they were sleeping together, he forces an ultimatum for Syaoran to either to tell the truth to Sakura or to break up with Kurogane, which he sees as an extremely codependent relationship. This has the side effect of deteriorating Fai's budding reconciliation with Syaoran. His earlier ostracization and hatred of the latter and forcing him to end his only positive relationship proves the straw to break the camel's back and Syaoran wants nothing to do with him. Since Kurogane was the only one Syaoran could turn to for comfort, his PTSD gets worse and he mentally and emotionally falls apart.

** Due to arriving in [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries]] at the tail end of the First Tiberium War, Kane is able to piece together that the multiverse is still open and escapes into it.

** Due to arriving in the [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries]] at the tail end of the First Tiberium War, Kane is able to piece together that the multiverse is still open and escapes into it.

* ''Fanfic/MyHeroAcademiaUnchainedPredator'': Endeavor charges ahead to try and apprehend the Vigilante. [[BullyingADragon The same man who just made mincemeat of 10,000 people in one night]]. All he gets for his stupid charge is a destroyed vault, three months in the hospital, 48 heroes being knocked out and inadvertently forcing All Might to waste most of his embers of One for All. It's heavily likely that if he ''does'' recover from his ass-kicking, Sayaka and Mera will pull his Hero License and hurl him into Tartarus, as they'll likely find his skeletons in the closet.

* The "[[Creator/DeusVerve Failed Foresight]]" AU effectively ''runs'' on this. Set in a world where [[ForWantOfANail All Might died after his fateful match with AFO]], passing on his Quirk to Sir Nighteye, the series explores how Nighteye keeps making terrible, short-sighted decisions. For instance, he decides that Mirio should have One For All... but doesn't bother ''asking'' Mirio or getting his opinion first, '''forcing''' the Quirk onto him without his would-be protege's permission. Not only does this understandably piss Mirio off, it also messes with his efforts to master Permutation.

* ''Fanfic/TheChaoticMasters'': Adagio likes to note with amusement how rather than ending up in a world without magic like Starswirl intended, the Dazzlings not only ended up in one rich with it, but with events leading to them living like goddesses as the Chaotic Masters' chief brides.

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* In ''Fanfic/{{Kage}}'', a crossover story between ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'', the [[HeroAntagonist Guardians]] are quick to attack Jade when she first arrives in Meridian, thinking her to be a minion of [[EvilOverlord Prince Phobos]]. That, combined with Elyon losing control and nearly ''killing'' Jade, and [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity Caleb]] secretly countermanding his queen's orders to [[MustMakeAmends heal Jade's wounds]] and practically ordering her to be locked up immediately, is a major part of the reason Jade ends up joining [[TheRemnant the Knights of Vengeance]], beginning the prophecy that dictates that [[TheAntichrist she will cause the fall of Kandrakar]].

* [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Nia]][[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog my]] of ''Fuck The Jesus Beam'' decides to deal with the Bombignat threat by releasing O.B.A.M.A. from his prison, despite him having started 95 World Wars as president and, as it is later revealed, being the source of the Bombignats. Upon his release, O.B.A.M.A. says that he will reclaim his domain, and takes control of the Bombignats.

* ''[[Fanfic/BurnTheWitchMiraculousLadybug BURN THE WITCH]]'':

* ''[[Fanfic/CheshireMiraculousLadybug Cheshire]]'':

** [[spoiler:Marinette's incomplete translation of the Grimoire would allow Hawkmoth to fix the Peacock Pin.]]

** Alya causes a considerable amount of trouble when she films one of Chat Noir's {{Love Confession}}s, [[ManipulativeEditing edits the footage]] to make it appear that Ladybug reciprocated, and posts the results on her blog. With this one move, she effectively tanks the trust Ladybug had placed in her, encourages [[EntitledToHaveYou the already entitled Chat]] [[DoggedNiceGuy to step up his efforts]], damages her readers' faith in her, and provides Hawkmoth with valuable insight into the heroes' dynamic.

* ''[[Fanfic/ThinkBeforeYouSpeakMHA Think Before You Speak]]'': After being forbidden from expelling anyone in his latest class, Aizawa attempts to [[LoopholeAbuse game the system]] by blaming Izuku for Tenya being injured during their first training exercise together. His attempt to get Izuku ConvictedByPublicOpinion and forced out of the Hero Course backfires; not only does it land both him and [[UnwittingPawn Tensei]] in hot water, it provides the HSPC with the ''perfect'' excuse to start probing into U.A. While this is partially a sincere attempt to investigate the matter, the HSPC also wants to get its hooks deeper into the school and its students.

* ''{{Fanfic/Anthropology}}'': If Lyra didn't want to be a human so badly, Discord would have never found Earth in the first place. Naturally, [[EvilGloating he takes great pleasure]] in [[LampshadeHanging pointing this out to her.]]

* ''[[Fanfic/WhatYouKneadNaruto What You Knead]]'':

* In ''Fanfic/NewBloodArtemisgirl'', Lupin ignores Hermione's warnings about making students publicly the Boggart in 3rd Year. Not only do we witness 3 examples of child abuse, including a pedophile, but one student, Hermione, collapses screaming at her Boggart. The [[{{Pun}} Fallout]] of Hermione's fear, A newspaper on London going up in a mushroom cloud, sends shock-waves through the school resulting in the highest Anti-Muggle sentiment in living memory.

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** Jaina causes the invasion of Kalimdor by Kul Tiras because she sent her parents a letter informing them she was pregnant by an orc.