History NiceJobBreakingItHero / LiveActionFilms

*** [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars Even before that]], Yoda decided to give Anakin a padawan because he believed that training a Jedi until she was fully able to take care of herself would help Anakin learn to let go of his loved ones, freeing him from the fear of loss that could lead him to the Dark Side. Unfortunately, Yoda couldn't anticipate that Ahsoka would [[spoiler: choose to leave the Order before her training was complete]], which only ''increased'' Anakin's fear of loss and inability to let go, pushing him ''closer'' to the Dark Side.

* At the end of ''Annihilation: Earth'', David is torn between his idea of shutting down the particle colliders to stop the apocalypse or turning them UpToEleven, as his Middle Eastern colleague Raja suggests, which will (supposedly) force the anomaly to be "snuffed out." His boss makes him doubt Raja's motives, and David ends up going with his original plan. Cue the literal EarthShatteringKaboom. The moral of the story: not all Arabs are terrorists.

* The rampant idiocy of the cast of ''Film/TwentyEightWeeksLater'' makes those guys look ''intelligent''. First the SwissCheeseSecurity of the compound allows people to leave the safe zone at will, leading to the discovery of a virus carrier that, [[WhatAnIdiot for some reason]], they bring into the safe zone and leave in an unlocked room with no guards to speak of. When someone inevitably gets infected, their "logical" decision is to herd the population into a poorly guarded room and shut all the lights off. Naturally, it gets worse when it leads to nearly everyone dead or infected. Then at the end, [[spoiler: the boy becomes a carrier and his sister [[TooDumbToLive neglects to ''tell'' anyone]], which results in the infection decimating France and possibly all of mainland Europe.]]

* ''Film/ResidentEvil'': Alice and the assault team manages to shut down the Red Queen, only to realize that the Red Queen was attempting to contain the T-Virus infection within the Hive, and that they have now released hundreds of zombified animals and people into the facility.

* At the end of ''Film/{{Excision}}'', Pauline tries to [[spoiler:perform a lung transplant for her IllGirl sister Grace. It goes about as well as you can expect for a complicated procedure performed by someone with no medical training, little proper equipment, and a garage for an operating room.]]

** The film version of ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' 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."]].

** ''Film/Aliens'':
*** Nice Job Shooting that Alien With Exploding Rounds and Killing Your Boyfriend, [[Characters/Aliens Vasquez]]. Of course, [[MortonsFork if she hadn't shot the alien, it probably would have gotten him, anyways]]. This leads to a minor HeroicBSOD where she wants to go back for him, but circumstances prevent her from doing so.

*** The train carrying the nuclear warheads meant to take out the [=MUTO=]s is ambushed by a [=MUTO=], who promptly eats one of them.
*** The Navy accidentally provoke Godzilla into destroy the Golden Gate Bridge.
*** Godzilla stops the flying Muto with a quick tail swipe into a tall building...which then collapses on top of him.

** ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': ​Slightly {{Downplayed}} by [[Characters/MonsterVerseGodzilla Godzilla]] and [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingKong Kong]]. To be fair on Kong, he had no interest in picking a fight with Godzilla, and it was Godzilla who struck first when humans removed Kong from Skull Island. When Godzilla tracks [[spoiler:Ghidorah's signal]] to Hong Kong, him sensing the Hollow Earth's core energy being harvested by Apex prompts him to immediately blast open a passage straight to the Hollow Earth -- the destruction of Kong's [[spoiler:ancestral home]] in the Hollow Earth enrages him into actively battling Godzilla, which not only gives Apex Cybernetics adequate time to activate [[spoiler:Mechagodzilla with the Hollow Earth energy (which also causes Ghidorah's remnant consciousness to reawaken and hijack Mechagodzilla's [[ElectronicTelepathy psionic link]])]], but it also leaves [[spoiler:Kong unable to fight and Godzilla physically exhausted when the Ghidorah-controlled Mechagodzilla emerges. As it stands, had Godzilla focused entirely on finding Mechagodzilla instead of going out of his way to attack Kong even when the latter had no interest in fighting him, he could've likely destroyed Mechagodzilla before it could go online.]]

* ''Film/JurassicPark'':
** After Nedry shuts down the fences to steal the embryos and make his escape, the ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' gets out and wreaks havoc. In order to undo what Nedry has done, Hammond wants the computers shut down and restarted. When [[Creator/SamuelLJackson Ray Arnold]] initially refuses, Hammond insists: "People are dying. Would you ''please'' shut down the system." Arnold does so. Nedry was smart enough to program the raptor fences to stay operational during his sabotage; the total system shutdown releases the Velociraptors. Prior to this, the ''T. Rex'' had only killed one person and likely preferred snacking on its fellow dinosaurs as opposed to stringy, bony humans; the raptors kill two humans [[ForTheEvulz for the simple sport of it]], and relentlessly pursue the main characters for the rest of the film.
** When Ellie Sattler turns the power back on it also turns on the electric fence that Dr. Grant and the kids are climbing down. Dr Grant and Lex successfully gets down but Tim gets [[HarmlessElectrocution electrocuted]] and flies to the ground. Luckily he [[PlotArmor survives.]]
** When the ''T. rex'' breaks out and attacks the kids, Dr. Grant gets its attention with a flare and then throws it away, causing the ''T. rex'' to forget about the kids and chase after the flare. So far, so good, except Ian Malcolm tries to help with his own flare, which only causes the ''T. rex'''s attention to be turned back to the people instead of Grant's flare. Malcolm's own attempt to throw the flare away doesn't work because he's running while doing so, so the ''T. rex'' focuses on the larger moving target. The result is that it keeps chasing him, leading to Malcolm being injured and Gennaro killed.
** Also the [[DesignatedHero heroes]] of [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark the sequel]], who are responsible for many of the deaths in the movie.
** And yet again in ''Film/JurassicWorld'', in which all the carnage is the result of a series of unfortunate events beginning with the supposed hero accidentally letting the ''Indominus rex'' out of its enclosure because he wasn't willing to wait five minutes for his boss to check its tracker.

* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'':
** ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'':
*** The train carrying the nuclear warheads meant to take out the [=MUTO=]s is ambushed by a [=MUTO=], who promptly eats one of them.
*** The Navy accidentally provoke Godzilla into destroy the Golden Gate Bridge.
*** Godzilla stops the flying Muto with a quick tail swipe into a tall building...which then collapses on top of him.
** In ''Film/ShinGodzilla'', the US Armed Forces come to the JSDF's aid--and screw things up ''really badly''. How bad? Godzilla's reaction to bunker busters wounding him is to unleash his Atomic Breath for the first time, irradiating half of Tokyo and [[spoiler:killing the Prime Minister and most of the Cabinet when they try to leave the city For that matter, Rondo gets one for talking the Prime Minister into evacuating during said attack, putting him in the path of the Atomic Breath blast.]]
** In ''Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla'' the Soviets aren't exactly portrayed as the "good guys" in either the Japanese or US cuts, but the nuke they launch on Tokyo (accidentally in the Japanese cut, and on purpose in the US version) would've wiped out Tokyo had the US not intercepted it in orbit. Even then, fallout from the missile's detonation is enough to rejuvenate Godzilla and allow him to kill the ''Super-X''.
** In the original ''Film/Godzilla1954'', Dr. Serizawa expressed the fear that revealing the Oxygen Destroyer's existence would result in a threat worse than nuclear weapons before he uses it on the original Godzilla. ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah'' sees that the good doctor himself unintentionally realized his own fears as the eponymous Destoroyah was created by the weapon's use against the first Godzilla.

* The film version of ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' 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."]].

** After Nedry shuts down the fences to steal the embryos and make his escape, the TyrannosaurusRex gets out and wreaks havoc. In order to undo what Nedry has done, Hammond wants the computers shut down and restarted. When [[Creator/SamuelLJackson Ray Arnold]] initially refuses, Hammond insists: "People are dying. Would you ''please'' shut down the system." Arnold does so. Nedry was smart enough to program the raptor fences to stay operational during his sabotage; the total system shutdown releases the Velociraptors. Prior to this, the ''T. Rex'' had only killed one person and likely preferred snacking on its fellow dinosaurs as opposed to stringy, bony humans; the raptors kill two humans [[ForTheEvulz for the simple sport of it]], and relentlessly pursue the main characters for the rest of the film.

* In ''Film/{{Blade}}'', the hero doesn't kill Quin completely, allowing him to revive himself in a hospital to turn Karen and kill her boyfriend. Since Blade shows up immediately after this happens, looking for Quinn, he apparently knew that Quinn wasn't dead. His reasons for leaving Quinn alive in the first place are never explained, leaving a plot hole.

** When Ellie Sattler turns the power back on it also turns on the electric fence that Dr. Grant and the kids are climbing down. Dr Grant and Lex successfully gets down but Tim gets [[HarmlessElectrocution electrocuted]] and flies to the ground. Luckily he [[Plot Armor survives.]]