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* ''FamilyMatters'': In [[OnceAnEpisode virtually every episode]], when Urkel comes in contact with something, usually one of Carl's prized possessions, usually followed by Urkel uttering one of his catchphrases, "Did I do that?"
** In one case, "nice job breaking it" set up an entire plot where Urkel was unusually angry at Carl and declined to explain; he kept swatting Carl on the head with a newspaper. It turned out an Urkel in shining armor had broken Carl's prized model ship-in-a-bottle that had been left prone on the kitchen table, thanks to the nerd's awkward handling of a lance. Carl -- unwilling to see the whole thing was his own fault due to leaving the model ship where it could get broken -- was very angry and threw the nerd out of the house, before fuming aloud that he'd wish Urkel would just go away forever (Urkel had accidentally overheard Carl rant about his broken ship). Carl eventually realizes his words were inappropriate and apologizes.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Happens in the season four episode "Fear Itself":
-->'''Giles:''' ''(flipping pages)'' I have it, I have it. Uhm, "The summoning spell for Gachnar can be shut down in one of two ways. Destroying the mark of Gachnar..."
-->''(Buffy walks over to the mark and puts her fist through it, ripping up the floorboards. Gets up and looks over at Giles with a proud smile)''
-->"...is ''not'' one of them [[NowYouTellMe and will in fact immediately bring forth the fear demon itself]]."
** [[spoiler:Good thing the fear demon itself is only four inches tall.]]
** Buffy does Angel, which causes him to lose his soul and revert to his evil mind rapist self. Nice job having the hots for a vampire, slayer.
** Cordelia [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor wishes]] that Buffy never came to Sunnydale, while near by to vengeance demon Anya. Yep, nice job causing a CrapsackWorld[=\=]TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, libby.
** Played straight - somewhat - with the demon Balthazar in Season Three. Balthazar was Mayor Wilkins' rival - had he regained his power, he would have killed the Mayor. By killing Balthazar, Buffy eliminated one of the two major threats to the Mayor. Of course, the other major threat was herself...
** And, of course, when Buffy was [[spoiler:brought back from the dead, thereby ripping her out of heaven.]] From Buffy's point of view, at least, nice job breaking me, Scoobies.
** It also broke the Slayer line, allowing [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the Big Bad in season 7 to try to end the world]]. Nice job breaking it, heroes.
** Then in Season Eight [[spoiler:Buffy needed funds, stole from a bank... which resulted in a rogue Slayer and a very unhappy military. Giles sent Faith undercover to assassinate a dangerous Slayer. Buffy misunderstood. Faith didn't react well. Willow's flaying of Warren comes back to haunt her. And everyone else. That was just the beginning.]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Nice job- oh never mind]]

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* ''TheOuterLimits'': Happens in almost all episodes. For example:
** While at war with a powerful alien race, a last desperate attempt is to carry a huge bomb to destroy their home planet. After finding and killing an alien in disguise, the heroes release the bomb and discover [[spoiler:the alien turned the ship around--the heroes just bombed Earth.]]
* ''Series/{{House}}'': Oh, well done, Dr. House and team: by trying to [[AppliedPhlebotinum cure the patient with this treatment]] you may have gotten rid of his stomach cramps, but now he [[NiceJobBreakingItHero can't move his legs]], has a cerebral hemorrhage and [[Series/TheColbertReport minor heart explosions]].
** They also once cured a patient only to find out that [[spoiler: he was a serial killer]]. Had their research skills been up to snuff, they could have taken certain obvious measures.
** House taking a mental patient out to give him his life-long dream of being able to fly leads to [[spoiler:the guy actually believing he can and jumping off a building.]]

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* ''TheAquabatsSuperShow'': At the start of "Cowboy Android!", a miner tells the Aquabats off for sealing a monster in the mine rather than getting rid of it, as this means they still can't work in the mine.
* ''Atomic Train'': In this TV movie, a train driver following behind a runaway train in an attempt to rescue the occupants, ignores orders to pull back, muting his radio in the process. With the radio muted, he is unable to hear the fact that the runaway has managed to stop. This results in him ramming into the rear of it, causing it to run away again.
* ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined'': Nice job taking the tougher, advanced battlestar capable of building Vipers and ramming it into a Cylon Basestar to save the aged, more obsolete battlestar, Lee. Especially since [[spoiler: the Galactica is now falling to bits entirely]].
** Nice job [[spoiler:creating an army's worth of Cavils and their war machine and letting them box you, Saul, Ellen, Sam, Galen, and Tory.]]
** [[spoiler:Nice job killing Tory on the spot and losing any chance of peace with the enemy Cylons, Galen]].
** How about what lead to the fall of the Twelve Colonies and the near-extinction of the human race? Nice job thinking with your dick and giving the mysterious woman you barely know, access to the Colonial defence systems in exchange for sex, Baltar!
* ''{{Bones}}'': FBI Agent Seely Booth allowed a man convicted of killing a teenage girl (and was less than 30 hours away from being executed for the crime) convince him to reinvestigate the case by providing crocodile tears in prison. [[spoiler: He did eventually learn that he was right about the man being the killer all along, but said investigation turned up even more bodies, which prevented the man from being executed before the investigations could be completed (which would likely take years). Even worse, the killer eventually escaped from prison and killed another woman and ended up stalking his potential love interest, [[InsufferableGenius Dr. Temperance Brennan]].]] Seriously, nice job breaking it, hero.
** In another episode, Booth comforted a woman who had been stalking [[OnceAnEpisode that week's victim]], causing her to become obsessed with him. This led to the woman [[spoiler: trying to kill Bones out of jealousy, Booth getting shot while protecting Bones, and Bones shooting and killing the woman when she tried to shoot her again.]]
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Happens in the season four episode "Fear Itself":
-->'''Giles:''' ''(flipping pages)'' I have it, I have it. Uhm, "The summoning spell for Gachnar can be shut down in one of two ways. Destroying the mark of Gachnar..."
-->''(Buffy walks over to the mark and puts her fist through it, ripping up the floorboards. Gets up and looks over at Giles with a proud smile)''
-->"...is ''not'' one of them [[NowYouTellMe and will in fact immediately bring forth the fear demon itself]]."
** [[spoiler:Good thing the fear demon itself is only four inches tall.]]
** Buffy does Angel, which causes him to lose his soul and revert to his evil mind rapist self. Nice job having the hots for a vampire, slayer.
** Cordelia [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor wishes]] that Buffy never came to Sunnydale, while near by to vengeance demon Anya. Yep, nice job causing a CrapsackWorld[=\=]TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, libby.
** Played straight - somewhat - with the demon Balthazar in Season Three. Balthazar was Mayor Wilkins' rival - had he regained his power, he would have killed the Mayor. By killing Balthazar, Buffy eliminated one of the two major threats to the Mayor. Of course, the other major threat was herself...
** And, of course, when Buffy was [[spoiler:brought back from the dead, thereby ripping her out of heaven.]] From Buffy's point of view, at least, nice job breaking me, Scoobies.
** It also broke the Slayer line, allowing [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the Big Bad in season 7 to try to end the world]]. Nice job breaking it, heroes.
** Then in Season Eight [[spoiler:Buffy needed funds, stole from a bank... which resulted in a rogue Slayer and a very unhappy military. Giles sent Faith undercover to assassinate a dangerous Slayer. Buffy misunderstood. Faith didn't react well. Willow's flaying of Warren comes back to haunt her. And everyone else. That was just the beginning.]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Nice job- oh never mind]]
* ''BurnNotice'': Nice job [[spoiler: turning your back on Management in one finale and shooting Strickler in another]], [[BurnNotice Michael]]. You now have even less of a clue about what's going on, and you almost got yourself into even hotter water.
** This seems to be a running theme for each season cliffhanger, but most notably when Michael finally seemed to have beaten those responsible for his burn notice, only to find out that [[spoiler: his efforts unearthed the man in charge of the entire conspiracy that resulted in Michael's burn notice and who forced Michael to work for him under the threat of having Fiona locked away.]]
* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'': The episode "Coyote Piper" revolves around a spirit escaping from her demonic scientist creator. She eventually possesses Piper, and uses Piper's body to get her sisters to kill the demonic scientist when he comes to look for his creation...making it significantly harder to deal with the spirit. The demon's final words "You fools! She will destroy you!", are somewhat apt.
* ''Combat!'': In about 8:23 of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNejcj9DNd8&feature=related this clip]] from this 60s-era WorldWarII series. One of the characters says "Nice going, hero" after another is forced to shoot a German sentry they were supposed to take alive, not only depriving the unit of a prisoner to interrogate but also attracting the unwanted attention of even more enemy troops.

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* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': Generally speaking, the problem in any given episode was probably caused by them at some point:
** On Gwen's very first day on the job, she tossed a screwdriver, accidentally breaking open an alien meteor and leading to the deaths of Carys' friend and ex-boyfriend as well as an entire sperm donation centre.
** Two people were killed and the whole planet was put in danger because Ianto secretly stashed his Cyberman girlfriend in the basement.
** The entire team play UnwittingPawn in "They Keep Killing Suzie". 
** In the episode "End of Days", Owen Harper's opening of the rift rescued his boss and his best friend from being trapped in the wrong decade forever, but it also caused a wave of anachronisms including ancient soldiers in the streets and an outbreak of the bubonic plague in Wales. This despite Ianto practically begging Owen not to open the rift, and even shooting him to try to prevent it. Instead of learning from this colossal mistake, the rest of the team eventually side with Owen and do the exact same thing, again, to flush out the results of the prior opening. Which works, but unleashes Abaddon. Predictably, things get worse before they get better.
** Jack's [[spoiler: resurrecting Owen]] led him to a [[AndIMustScream much worse fate]] in "Exit Wounds."
** Not to mention how it [[spoiler: nearly]] killed everybody in "Dead Man Walking" and did kill [[spoiler: 12]] people.
**  All those problems with Captain John Hart would have been avoided if it weren't for Jack simply being there.
**  In "Children of Earth", Jack and Ianto have gone storming into the alien's base guns blazing in order to, erm... [[spoiler: threaten it, pissing it off enough to release a deadly virus, killing everyone in the building, including Ianto.]] 
** The really hilarious irony being that Torchwood was originally founded by Queen Victoria because she felt that the ''Doctor'' brought too much trouble in his wake!

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*  ''{{Dollhouse}}'': [[spoiler:The whole plotline of the series]] is an example of NiceJobBreakingItHero.
* ''EternalLaw'': In one episode, the angels' case of the week is preventing a woman from committing suicide. By the end of the episode she seems to have found some sort of peace, despite going to jail for murdering her son's killer... and then Tom reveals himself as an angel and promises she'll be reunited with her son in heaven. She promptly commits suicide to get to the afterlife straight away.
* ''FamilyMatters'': In [[OnceAnEpisode virtually every episode]], when Urkel comes in contact with something, usually one of Carl's prized possessions, usually followed by Urkel uttering one of his catchphrases, "Did I do that?"
** In one case, "nice job breaking it" set up an entire plot where Urkel was unusually angry at Carl and declined to explain; he kept swatting Carl on the head with a newspaper. It turned out an Urkel in shining armor had broken Carl's prized model ship-in-a-bottle that had been left prone on the kitchen table, thanks to the nerd's awkward handling of a lance. Carl -- unwilling to see the whole thing was his own fault due to leaving the model ship where it could get broken -- was very angry and threw the nerd out of the house, before fuming aloud that he'd wish Urkel would just go away forever (Urkel had accidentally overheard Carl rant about his broken ship). Carl eventually realizes his words were inappropriate and apologizes.
* ''{{Farscape}}'': Nurse Kelsa from the episode ''Different Destinations.'' Without assessing the current situation using either her own eyes or trying to seek and explanation from Crichton, she decides to put an arrow though the chest of an imprisoned enemy General that was about one hour away from brokering a peace deal that would have protected the women and children from slaughter. The results? she is not only technically responsible for the deaths of everyone present (including the one man that survived in the original timeline) but was also responsible for nearly destroying the future of that entire part of space. The best bit however comes later in the episode when she ''still'' refuses to believe Crichton was innocent of treason and threatens to shoot Aeryn when she tries to untie him even though she was ''standing right there'' when another enemy official confirmed everything Crichton had claimed ''and'' basically pointed out that she was responsible for dooming them all. To give her credit though; she is saved from TooDumbToLive status by the fact it was the main cast travelling back in time that put her in that situation in the first place - breaking it ''long'' before it was her turn to.
* ''FlashForward2009'': During the Mosaic team's trip to Somalia, their resident morally-ambiguous CIA agent Vogel kills the one man who was destined to bring peace to the war-torn nation. He doesn't seem to care too much. 
* ''FraggleRock'': The episode "The Preachification of Convincing John": [[GranolaGirl Mokey]] decides that eating the constructions Doozers work so hard to build hurts their feelings. Without bothering to ask the Doozers themselves how they feel about the situation, she enlists the help of [[ManipulativeBastard Convincing John]] to convince all of Fraggle Rock that eating Doozer constructions is wrong and binds them in the nigh-unbreakable Solemn Fraggle Oath never to do so again. So the Doozers build and build with no one to eat the constructions -- and end up crowding both themselves and the Fraggles nearly out of house and home.
** ''FraggleRock'' was no stranger to this. In "The Bells of Fraggle Rock", Gobo's unwillingness to accept the true meaning of the [[YouMeanXmas Festival of the Bells]] led to the entire Rock freezing solid. [[HumanPopsicle Including the Fraggles.]]
* {{Fringe}}: Nice job [[spoiler: crossing to the other universe and saving the other Peter from dying, Walter.]] Now the fabric of reality is tearing itself apart.
** And Olivia, nice job [[spoiler: alerting Walternate about the existence of the Primary Universe the first time you crossed over. Now he knows where his son is and wants revenge.]]
* ''GhostWatch'': The parapsychologist Dr Pascoe in this infamous BBC special wants to use the program to justify the family living in the haunted house and bring their suffering to public attention. By doing this, she ends up [[spoiler: creating a massive, nationwide séance that amplifies the ghost's power across the ''entire country'']].
* ''{{Glee}}'': In the season 2 premiere episode, Rachel's AttentionWhore tendencies cause a new girl who is an ''awesome'' singer to join Vocal Adrenaline after she sends her to a ''crack house'' to keep her from stealing her spotlight. Though the only reason that the girl joined Vocal Adrenaline was because Sue made a call to the new VA coach because Will wouldn't help her antagonize the new football coach anymore.
** Admittedly, almost all of the glee club's problems are caused by the stupidity/selfishness of Will or one of the glee kids (usually Rachel or Finn). This happens pretty much OnceAnEpisode just so everyone can learn an {{Aesop}} at the end.
*** And then [[AesopAmnesia promptly forget it.]]
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Had ''two'' in a single episode now (though one got started a few episodes prior): [[spoiler:[[BigBad Arthur Petrelli]] is able to get off life support by stealing Adam's healing power -- which he had easy access to because Angela sent Hiro and Ando off to release Adam in a bid to stop Arthur's schemes. Later on, Peter storms Pinehearst on his own, finds Arthur there, and subsequently gets ''his'' powers stolen.]]
** It must be said: Nice job breaking it, [[IncrediblyLamePun Hiro]].
** According to Angela Petrelli, Future Peter was responsible for [[spoiler:Sylar acquiring Claire's healing power. As Angela put it, "She had a very bad day."]]
** The season 1 episode where Isaac tries to shoot Peter, in an attempt to prevent him from [[spoiler:becoming the human nuclear bomb]] seen in the future paintings. When Peter becomes invisible, Isaac shoots at a noise behind him...and accidentally kills [[spoiler:Simone]], who wanted to help Peter.
** When Sylar tries to kill [[VeronicaMars Elle]], she renders him unconscious with a massive blast of electricity. Unfortunately, she also overloads the Level Five power grid, allowing all of the super-powered prisoners to escape.
*** By that point Sylar was [[AllYourPowersCombined so powerful]] it's more a PyrrhicVictory. It's hardly Elle's fault that Angela decided to let him loose and [[KickTheDog kick her out]].
** Nathan Petrelli initiates a government program to round up persons with superhuman abilities in order to protect regular citizens. But he [[spoiler:is forced to flee when he is revealed to have an ability. As a result, Emil Danko takes over the operation; unlike Nathan, he wants to kill all so-called evolved humans (Danko calls them "animals"). Not only does Danko murder Daphne Millbrook and (almost) Traci Strauss (although she returns in the next season and was also hinted to have survived in the episode itself), he then enlists Sylar to help him carry out his nefarious plans!]]
** Then there's the Charlie issue. Hiro decides he can't save her life as she's already dying, so forgets about her, as do the writers. But at the very least he could have saved her from being killed by Sylar instead of ''allowing'' Sylar to take her ability.
*** He fixed it in the fourth season though.
** How did Samuel Sullivan find out about the nature and true extent of his powers? Because Mohinder opened a box with research that his father expressly wanted never to surface ''and'' traveled all the way to his carnival of horrors to blab about it, of course. It's almost as if the writers hate his character too and wanted to give even newcomers a reason to hate his ass.
** The second season narrowly averts this by having Peter Petrelli destroying the bioweapon that he helped Adam Monroe attempt to steal before it is released by using his radiation powers. Even then, that was only because of [[ExecutiveMeddling factors outside of the show, namely relating to the Writers Strike of America that occurred during that time, that forced the writers to abort their planned arc and go with what was intended to be the fourth volume.]], it was originally intended to be played completely straight with Adam Monroe succeeding in releasing the virus, which would have resulted in Nathan Petrelli being one of the first to die, as well as leaving only 10% of the world's population to survive in a post-epidemic future.

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* ''Series/{{House}}'': Oh, well done, Dr. House and team: by trying to [[AppliedPhlebotinum cure the patient with this treatment]] you may have gotten rid of his stomach cramps, but now he [[NiceJobBreakingItHero can't move his legs]], has a cerebral hemorrhage and [[Series/TheColbertReport minor heart explosions]].
** They also once cured a patient only to find out that [[spoiler: he was a serial killer]]. Had their research skills been up to snuff, they could have taken certain obvious measures.
** House taking a mental patient out to give him his life-long dream of being able to fly leads to [[spoiler:the guy actually believing he can and jumping off a building.]]
* ''House of Anubis'': Eddie and KT using the Staff of Osiris- which unleashes Ammut, the same goddess they were trying to prevent from being unleashed. It's kind of fair because the villains have tricked them into thinking the staff would ''stop'' Ammut, however, they did nearly help said villains destroy the world.
* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': In the season four episode "Innocence", Harm first thinks that he’s made a deal with the Japanese prosecutor who smiled and bowed in a friendly manner. It turned out that he had been greatly offended and had contacted the Japanese Prime Minister who told the press that U.S. Authorities were uncooperative and obstructive, and thus forced them to handover the suspect to Japanese authorities.
* ''Series/{{Jericho}}'': Jennings & Rall and Ravenwood are getting their hooks into the US government, even going so far as to suborn [[spoiler:a plan to safeguard Russian nukes. John Smith decides the best way to fix things is to ''set the bombs off'' in cities containing J&R's branch offices and central HQ.]]
* ''KamenRiderDecade'': [[spoiler: If we are to make sense of Wataru Kurenai's contradictory babblings]], mentioned that the eponymous Rider has to kill all the Riders to prevent the merging of the Alternative Rider Worlds, mentioning that "creation cannot begin without destruction". Instead, Decade chose to help all the Riders defeat their respective monster enemies as a Rider should. Cue [[LegionOfDoom Dai Shocker]] (the coalition of all the enemy organizations and monster races) through [[KamenRiderX Apollo Geist]] becoming able to [[YouCantFightFate speed up the destruction of the Alternative Rider Worlds]]. [[spoiler: Thankfully, Decade eventually turned into his nasty, somewhat evil Fury Form after being [[MoralDissonance given a major beatdown by the original 9 Riders for all his troubles]], thus being able to kill all Riders, trap them into cards and allowing the worlds - fallen riders included - to be rebooted to their proper states, but ''what the hell,'' Heroes?! What did they really have to do?!]]
** There was a lot of MindScrew going on, but it seems attacking Decade was simply to goad him into becoming Decade Fury so that he would do what needed to be done.
* ''LawAndOrder'': In the episode "Gov Lov" (the spelling is correct), Jack [=McCoy=] needs the husband of his male suspect to testify, but fears that the husband will take advantage of laws that allow spouses refusal to testify against each other. He's so determined to get the guy that he campaigns for, and succeeds in, nullifying all gay marriages in the state by reestablishing the "one man one woman" definition. It completely backfires when the husband admits, in a courtroom full of people, that he ''would'' have voluntarily testified against his husband, but now that [=McCoy=] had effectively ruined hundreds of marriages for his own agenda, he would refuse, even though he would be arrested for contempt of court. 
* ''LegendOfTheSeeker'': The television adaptation of Terry Goodkind's ''{{Sword of Truth}}'' series, this trope is played at the conclusion of Season 1 and leads into Season 2 - [[spoiler:although BigBad Darken Rahl is defeated, Richard & Co have inadvertently "broken" the ground, opening a rift to the Underworld. Darken Rahl is revealed to have made a contract with the Keeper of the Underworld a while ago, and now serves as the Keeper's right hand man in his attempt to kill even more people than before. The Keeper, after all, hates all life. Darken Rahl also has the power to manipulate people even better than before - by offering dead souls the opportunity to live again if they agree to kill more people for the Keeper.]]
** Also done earlier. Two of Rahl's soldiers have had enough of Rahl's tyranny and have the perfect opportunity to kill him, as one of them knows Rahl personally. Then come Richard and his crew and kill the one who was supposed to do the killing, assuming him to be a loyal soldier. Only Richard gets to kill Darken Rahl! Don't mess with the prophecy.
* ''{{Lexx}}'': The destruction of Fire at the end of Season 3 leads directly to the destruction of Water, and then the subsequent flooding of Earth with the reincarnations of everyone who had been sent to Fire (Hell).
* ''Series/LifeOnMars2006'': In the fourth episode of the original show, the cops stop taking bribes from and arrest the city's biggest crime lord. The remaining season and a half is spent trying to stop new, more ruthless gangs from getting a foothold.
** Also, in the episode that kicked this off, when Sam refuses to be paid off the crime lord sends a girl to drug and sleep with him in order to obtain blackmail photos. Sam manages to convince the girl to get out of this life and she burns the negatives. Then her body turns up in the river. [[WhatTheHellHero Ray calls him on acting so moralistic but not considering how he affects others]].
** Sam almost got Ray killed when he goaded him into inspecting a bomb that Sam was convinced wasn't real.
* ''{{Lost}}'': In the fifth season, Ben thought that by [[spoiler:killing Locke, he would be able to get back to the island, but that unleashes Jacob's nemesis. Ben then kills Jacob thinking he's being instructed by Locke, but has unleashed more terror again.]]
** Not to mention moving the island at the end of season four. That resulted in [[spoiler:rampant time flashes, and was the entire reason Locke had to leave the island in the first place.]]
** Season 2 finale: Locke does a HeelFaceTurn and decides the button doesn't need pressing. Cue "I was wrong".
* ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'': In one episode, Reese was taught a lesson and gave up his bullying ways. This of course resulted in a bunch of lesser bullies turning the schoolyard into chaos and even abandoning standard ground rules, like not picking on the crippled kid.
* ''Film/{{Merlin}}'': In the 1998 series, the titular character does this by recruiting Lancelot as the king's champion, who manages to completely screw up the relationship between the king and queen and provide Mordred with just the opportunity he needs to start a war and attempt to take over.
** All because he misinterpreted the Lady's message (who was, of course, unnecessarily vague) and assumed Lancelot was the knight he needed. Turns out it was his son Galahad. You know, the son who is now an orphan because his father abandoned him and his mother committed suicide.
* ''Series/{{Merlin}}'': In the more recent version of the show, our hero, under the advice of others, kills [[spoiler: Morgana]] for the "greater good". And although it's a DisneyDeath, when she comes back [[spoiler: it's made clear that this action is a major contributor to Morgana - up till now depicted as a good guy - going to the dark side.]]
** He also [[spoiler:releases the dragon, even though it's clear the reptile is less than trustworthy]].
* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': "Mr. Monk on Wheels": A boy steals a bike, but then while riding off with it, hits a pothole, flipping himself over and sending him sprawling in the grass. [[CoincidenceMagnet Quite by coincidence]], Monk and Natalie are walking through the office park when the accident happens, and Natalie, seeing the accident, walks over despite Monk's protests and helps the thief to his feet, even fixing the chain, and sends him on his way, this whole time unaware that the bike is stolen. Only once the legitimate owner of the bike comes running out of the nearby building does Natalie realize her mistake, and she is visibly embarrassed by this. [[FromBadToWorse It gets worse]] when Monk gets shot in the leg while knocking on the door of the thief's house.
* ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'': Several incidents that lead to MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds in the 8th season qualify, as Mike manages to turn a simple escape into an apocalypse.
** Crow also has this reaction to the revelation the Planet of the Apes-esque Earth of 2525 they're orbiting at the start of the season is the result of Mike's descendants marrying simians.
** Then there's the time Crow went back in time so Mike doesn't go into the temp agency. End result? Mike dying as he's rising to rock star fame and his ''JerkAss brother'' being shot up onto the Satellite of Love.
* ''NinjaSentaiKakuranger'': Nice job helping that old man out, Sasuke and Saizou. You just let loose the {{Youkai}} Army Corps upon Japan.
* ''TheOuterLimits'': Happens in almost all episodes. For example:
** While at war with a powerful alien race, a last desperate attempt is to carry a huge bomb to destroy their home planet. After finding and killing an alien in disguise, the heroes release the bomb and discover [[spoiler:the alien turned the ship around--the heroes just bombed Earth.]]
* ''PersonOfInterest'': In one episode, an investigative journalist caused a man's death and put her own life in danger when she [[spoiler:accused the man of being a criminal mastermind based on faulty intel]].
* ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'': Dr. K was being imprisoned unjustly by the government so they could use her as a researcher. She uploads a computer virus into their systems, and is apprehended by secret agents before she can install the firewall. The virus goes on to nuke the planet, wiping out pretty much all ecosystems, and either killing or enslaving every human not in the DomedHometown of Corinth. Doctor K manages to escape thanks to some friends bailing her out. Nice job getting your freedom, doctor. Nice job protecting America, secret agents.
** One of these in the backstory leads to the events of ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm''. The main villain was initially just a power hungry ninja. His clan banished him from Earth. He came back as a power hungry warlord with alien technology. Oops.
*** And it wouldn't even have happened if Cam hadn't gone back in time and exposed said ninja as a traitor. [[spoiler: It doesn't help that said ninja was his uncle.]]
* ''PrisonBreak'': Michael does this several times, but special mention can go to when he starts the riot at Fox River, leading to several deaths [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone (for him to feel guilty about)]] and T-Bag finding out about the escape. 
* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': In "Chained Heat", Charlie persuades Miles not to kill a bounty hunter that has attacked the group. A few scenes later, said bounty hunter sics the Monroe militia on them.
* ''Series/RobinHood'': Kate tries to rescue her brother, and he ends up dead in her arms. It's worse than it sounds: she abandons the other outlaws who are ready and willing to help her, sneaks into the castle by herself, is captured in under five seconds, and watches her brother die as ''he'' tries to save ''her''. And then for some inexplicable reason, the outlaws let this idiot join the team, giving her ample opportunity to endanger ''their'' lives in almost every single episode that follows.
**  In the episode "Too Hot to Handle" the outlaws steal Prince John's supply of water in order to help villagers struggling through a drought. Because they're all idiots, they don’t bother to hide the water barrels that are clearly marked with John's insignia. When Prince John turns up and discovers the barrels in the middle of Locksley, he drowns a man in the drinking water. Thanks, heroes. 
** Everyone treats the mentally-unhinged Isabella like crap, and then they look surprised when she goes mad and starts killing everyone.
* ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'': Nice job figuring out Cromartie's plan, Sarah. Go ahead, [[UnwittingPawn call John and warn him Cromartie is after him]]. Wait, is that a phone tap... into the local cellular tower... oops.
* ''{{Smallville}}'': Nice job stabbing Brainiac with the knife from the Fortress of Solitude, Clark. [[spoiler: You gave Brainiac a way to interface with the Fortress and release General Zod from the Phantom Zone]].
** Nice job releasing nearly a dozen other Phantom Zone prisoners, each of whom are equally as dangerous or possibly even more dangerous than Zod, during your own escape after Zod traps you there, Clark.

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* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Had ''two'' in a single episode now (though one got started a few episodes prior): [[spoiler:[[BigBad Arthur Petrelli]] is able to get off life support by stealing Adam's healing power -- which he had easy access to because Angela sent Hiro and Ando off to release Adam in a bid to stop Arthur's schemes. Later on, Peter storms Pinehearst on his own, finds Arthur there, and subsequently gets ''his'' powers stolen.]]
** It must be said: Nice job breaking it, [[IncrediblyLamePun Hiro]].
** According to Angela Petrelli, Future Peter was responsible for [[spoiler:Sylar acquiring Claire's healing power. As Angela put it, "She had a very bad day."]]
** The season 1 episode where Isaac tries to shoot Peter, in an attempt to prevent him from [[spoiler:becoming the human nuclear bomb]] seen in the future paintings. When Peter becomes invisible, Isaac shoots at a noise behind him...and accidentally kills [[spoiler:Simone]], who wanted to help Peter.
** When Sylar tries to kill [[VeronicaMars Elle]], she renders him unconscious with a massive blast of electricity. Unfortunately, she also overloads the Level Five power grid, allowing all of the super-powered prisoners to escape.
*** By that point Sylar was [[AllYourPowersCombined so powerful]] it's more a PyrrhicVictory. It's hardly Elle's fault that Angela decided to let him loose and [[KickTheDog kick her out]].
** Nathan Petrelli initiates a government program to round up persons with superhuman abilities in order to protect regular citizens. But he [[spoiler:is forced to flee when he is revealed to have an ability. As a result, Emil Danko takes over the operation; unlike Nathan, he wants to kill all so-called evolved humans (Danko calls them "animals"). Not only does Danko murder Daphne Millbrook and (almost) Traci Strauss (although she returns in the next season and was also hinted to have survived in the episode itself), he then enlists Sylar to help him carry out his nefarious plans!]]
** Then there's the Charlie issue. Hiro decides he can't save her life as she's already dying, so forgets about her, as do the writers. But at the very least he could have saved her from being killed by Sylar instead of ''allowing'' Sylar to take her ability.
*** He fixed it in the fourth season though.
** How did Samuel Sullivan find out about the nature and true extent of his powers? Because Mohinder opened a box with research that his father expressly wanted never to surface ''and'' traveled all the way to his carnival of horrors to blab about it, of course. It's almost as if the writers hate his character too and wanted to give even newcomers a reason to hate his ass.
** The second season narrowly averts this by having Peter Petrelli destroying the bioweapon that he helped Adam Monroe attempt to steal before it is released by using his radiation powers. Even then, that was only because of [[ExecutiveMeddling factors outside of the show, namely relating to the Writers Strike of America that occurred during that time, that forced the writers to abort their planned arc and go with what was intended to be the fourth volume.]], it was originally intended to be played completely straight with Adam Monroe succeeding in releasing the virus, which would have resulted in Nathan Petrelli being one of the first to die, as well as leaving only 10% of the world's population to survive in a post-epidemic future.
* ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'': Nice job figuring out Cromartie's plan, Sarah. Go ahead, [[UnwittingPawn call John and warn him Cromartie is after him]]. Wait, is that a phone tap... into the local cellular tower... oops.
* ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined'': Nice job taking the tougher, advanced battlestar capable of building Vipers and ramming it into a Cylon Basestar to save the aged, more obsolete battlestar, Lee. Especially since [[spoiler: the Galactica is now falling to bits entirely]].
** Nice job [[spoiler:creating an army's worth of Cavils and their war machine and letting them box you, Saul, Ellen, Sam, Galen, and Tory.]]
** [[spoiler:Nice job killing Tory on the spot and losing any chance of peace with the enemy Cylons, Galen]].
** How about what lead to the fall of the Twelve Colonies and the near-extinction of the human race? Nice job thinking with your dick and giving the mysterious woman you barely know, access to the Colonial defence systems in exchange for sex, Baltar!
*  ''{{Dollhouse}}'': [[spoiler:The whole plotline of the series]] is an example of NiceJobBreakingItHero.
* ''KamenRiderDecade'': [[spoiler: If we are to make sense of Wataru Kurenai's contradictory babblings]], mentioned that the eponymous Rider has to kill all the Riders to prevent the merging of the Alternative Rider Worlds, mentioning that "creation cannot begin without destruction". Instead, Decade chose to help all the Riders defeat their respective monster enemies as a Rider should. Cue [[LegionOfDoom Dai Shocker]] (the coalition of all the enemy organizations and monster races) through [[KamenRiderX Apollo Geist]] becoming able to [[YouCantFightFate speed up the destruction of the Alternative Rider Worlds]]. [[spoiler: Thankfully, Decade eventually turned into his nasty, somewhat evil Fury Form after being [[MoralDissonance given a major beatdown by the original 9 Riders for all his troubles]], thus being able to kill all Riders, trap them into cards and allowing the worlds - fallen riders included - to be rebooted to their proper states, but ''what the hell,'' Heroes?! What did they really have to do?!]]
** There was a lot of MindScrew going on, but it seems attacking Decade was simply to goad him into becoming Decade Fury so that he would do what needed to be done.
* ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'': Dr. K was being imprisoned unjustly by the government so they could use her as a researcher. She uploads a computer virus into their systems, and is apprehended by secret agents before she can install the firewall. The virus goes on to nuke the planet, wiping out pretty much all ecosystems, and either killing or enslaving every human not in the DomedHometown of Corinth. Doctor K manages to escape thanks to some friends bailing her out. Nice job getting your freedom, doctor. Nice job protecting America, secret agents.
** One of these in the backstory leads to the events of ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm''. The main villain was initially just a power hungry ninja. His clan banished him from Earth. He came back as a power hungry warlord with alien technology. Oops.
*** And it wouldn't even have happened if Cam hadn't gone back in time and exposed said ninja as a traitor. [[spoiler: It doesn't help that said ninja was his uncle.]]

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* ''Series/TeenWolf'': Scott is well-meaning in his desire to help [[spoiler: Jackson]] and does not want to kill him or let Derek do so. However, by protecting [[spoiler: Jackson]], he technically bears some responsibility for the murders that [[spoiler: Jackson subsequently commits as the Kanima, including a fair-sized chunk of the Beacon Hills Police Department]].
* ''{{Titus}}'': SubvertedTrope in the episode "Titus is dead". After the main character finds out that his dad who has been divorced five times is dating again, he tries to convince his dad to break up with his new girlfriend. After talking to each other, Papa Titus proposes to his new girlfriend, instead of breaking up with her. Nice job fixing it hero.
* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': Generally speaking, the problem in any given episode was probably caused by them at some point:
** On Gwen's very first day on the job, she tossed a screwdriver, accidentally breaking open an alien meteor and leading to the deaths of Carys' friend and ex-boyfriend as well as an entire sperm donation centre.
** Two people were killed and the whole planet was put in danger because Ianto secretly stashed his Cyberman girlfriend in the basement.
** The entire team play UnwittingPawn in "They Keep Killing Suzie". 
** In the episode "End of Days", Owen Harper's opening of the rift rescued his boss and his best friend from being trapped in the wrong decade forever, but it also caused a wave of anachronisms including ancient soldiers in the streets and an outbreak of the bubonic plague in Wales. This despite Ianto practically begging Owen not to open the rift, and even shooting him to try to prevent it. Instead of learning from this colossal mistake, the rest of the team eventually side with Owen and do the exact same thing, again, to flush out the results of the prior opening. Which works, but unleashes Abaddon. Predictably, things get worse before they get better.
** Jack's [[spoiler: resurrecting Owen]] led him to a [[AndIMustScream much worse fate]] in "Exit Wounds."
** Not to mention how it [[spoiler: nearly]] killed everybody in "Dead Man Walking" and did kill [[spoiler: 12]] people.
**  All those problems with Captain John Hart would have been avoided if it weren't for Jack simply being there.
**  In "Children of Earth", Jack and Ianto have gone storming into the alien's base guns blazing in order to, erm... [[spoiler: threaten it, pissing it off enough to release a deadly virus, killing everyone in the building, including Ianto.]] 
** The really hilarious irony being that Torchwood was originally founded by Queen Victoria because she felt that the ''Doctor'' brought too much trouble in his wake!

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* ''BurnNotice'': Nice job [[spoiler: turning your back on Management in one finale and shooting Strickler in another]], [[BurnNotice Michael]]. You now have even less of a clue about what's going on, and you almost got yourself into even hotter water.
** This seems to be a running theme for each season cliffhanger, but most notably when Michael finally seemed to have beaten those responsible for his burn notice, only to find out that [[spoiler: his efforts unearthed the man in charge of the entire conspiracy that resulted in Michael's burn notice and who forced Michael to work for him under the threat of having Fiona locked away.]]
* ''{{Bones}}'': FBI Agent Seely Booth allowed a man convicted of killing a teenage girl (and was less than 30 hours away from being executed for the crime) convince him to reinvestigate the case by providing crocodile tears in prison. [[spoiler: He did eventually learn that he was right about the man being the killer all along, but said investigation turned up even more bodies, which prevented the man from being executed before the investigations could be completed (which would likely take years). Even worse, the killer eventually escaped from prison and killed another woman and ended up stalking his potential love interest, [[InsufferableGenius Dr. Temperance Brennan]].]] Seriously, nice job breaking it, hero.
** In another episode, Booth comforted a woman who had been stalking [[OnceAnEpisode that week's victim]], causing her to become obsessed with him. This led to the woman [[spoiler: trying to kill Bones out of jealousy, Booth getting shot while protecting Bones, and Bones shooting and killing the woman when she tried to shoot her again.]]
* ''{{Smallville}}'': Nice job stabbing Brainiac with the knife from the Fortress of Solitude, Clark. [[spoiler: You gave Brainiac a way to interface with the Fortress and release General Zod from the Phantom Zone]].
** Nice job releasing nearly a dozen other Phantom Zone prisoners, each of whom are equally as dangerous or possibly even more dangerous than Zod, during your own escape after Zod traps you there, Clark.
* ''Combat!'': In about 8:23 of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNejcj9DNd8&feature=related this clip]] from this 60s-era WorldWarII series. One of the characters says "Nice going, hero" after another is forced to shoot a German sentry they were supposed to take alive, not only depriving the unit of a prisoner to interrogate but also attracting the unwanted attention of even more enemy troops.
* ''Series/LifeOnMars2006'': In the fourth episode of the original show, the cops stop taking bribes from and arrest the city's biggest crime lord. The remaining season and a half is spent trying to stop new, more ruthless gangs from getting a foothold.
** Also, in the episode that kicked this off, when Sam refuses to be paid off the crime lord sends a girl to drug and sleep with him in order to obtain blackmail photos. Sam manages to convince the girl to get out of this life and she burns the negatives. Then her body turns up in the river. [[WhatTheHellHero Ray calls him on acting so moralistic but not considering how he affects others]].
** Sam almost got Ray killed when he goaded him into inspecting a bomb that Sam was convinced wasn't real.
* ''LegendOfTheSeeker'': The television adaptation of Terry Goodkind's ''{{Sword of Truth}}'' series, this trope is played at the conclusion of Season 1 and leads into Season 2 - [[spoiler:although BigBad Darken Rahl is defeated, Richard & Co have inadvertently "broken" the ground, opening a rift to the Underworld. Darken Rahl is revealed to have made a contract with the Keeper of the Underworld a while ago, and now serves as the Keeper's right hand man in his attempt to kill even more people than before. The Keeper, after all, hates all life. Darken Rahl also has the power to manipulate people even better than before - by offering dead souls the opportunity to live again if they agree to kill more people for the Keeper.]]
** Also done earlier. Two of Rahl's soldiers have had enough of Rahl's tyranny and have the perfect opportunity to kill him, as one of them knows Rahl personally. Then come Richard and his crew and kill the one who was supposed to do the killing, assuming him to be a loyal soldier. Only Richard gets to kill Darken Rahl! Don't mess with the prophecy.
* ''Series/RobinHood'': Kate tries to rescue her brother, and he ends up dead in her arms. It's worse than it sounds: she abandons the other outlaws who are ready and willing to help her, sneaks into the castle by herself, is captured in under five seconds, and watches her brother die as ''he'' tries to save ''her''. And then for some inexplicable reason, the outlaws let this idiot join the team, giving her ample opportunity to endanger ''their'' lives in almost every single episode that follows.
**  In the episode "Too Hot to Handle" the outlaws steal Prince John's supply of water in order to help villagers struggling through a drought. Because they're all idiots, they don’t bother to hide the water barrels that are clearly marked with John's insignia. When Prince John turns up and discovers the barrels in the middle of Locksley, he drowns a man in the drinking water. Thanks, heroes. 
** Everyone treats the mentally-unhinged Isabella like crap, and then they look surprised when she goes mad and starts killing everyone.
* ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'': In one episode, Reese was taught a lesson and gave up his bullying ways. This of course resulted in a bunch of lesser bullies turning the schoolyard into chaos and even abandoning standard ground rules, like not picking on the crippled kid.
* ''{{Lost}}'': In the fifth season, Ben thought that by [[spoiler:killing Locke, he would be able to get back to the island, but that unleashes Jacob's nemesis. Ben then kills Jacob thinking he's being instructed by Locke, but has unleashed more terror again.]]
** Not to mention moving the island at the end of season four. That resulted in [[spoiler:rampant time flashes, and was the entire reason Locke had to leave the island in the first place.]]
** Season 2 finale: Locke does a HeelFaceTurn and decides the button doesn't need pressing. Cue "I was wrong"

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* ''Film/{{Merlin}}'': In the 1998 series, the titular character does this by recruiting Lancelot as the king's champion, who manages to completely screw up the relationship between the king and queen and provide Mordred with just the opportunity he needs to start a war and attempt to take over.
** All because he misinterpreted the Lady's message (who was, of course, unnecessarily vague) and assumed Lancelot was the knight he needed. Turns out it was his son Galahad. You know, the son who is now an orphan because his father abandoned him and his mother committed suicide.
* ''Series/{{Merlin}}'': In the more recent version of the show, our hero, under the advice of others, kills [[spoiler: Morgana]] for the "greater good". And although it's a DisneyDeath, when she comes back [[spoiler: it's made clear that this action is a major contributor to Morgana - up till now depicted as a good guy - going to the dark side.]]
** He also [[spoiler:releases the dragon, even though it's clear the reptile is less than trustworthy]].
* ''{{Glee}}'': In the season 2 premiere episode, Rachel's AttentionWhore tendencies cause a new girl who is an ''awesome'' singer to join Vocal Adrenaline after she sends her to a ''crack house'' to keep her from stealing her spotlight. Though the only reason that the girl joined Vocal Adrenaline was because Sue made a call to the new VA coach because Will wouldn't help her antagonize the new football coach anymore.
** Admittedly, almost all of the glee club's problems are caused by the stupidity/selfishness of Will or one of the glee kids (usually Rachel or Finn). This happens pretty much OnceAnEpisode just so everyone can learn an {{Aesop}} at the end.
*** And then [[AesopAmnesia promptly forget it.]]
* ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'': Several incidents that lead to MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds in the 8th season qualify, as Mike manages to turn a simple escape into an apocalypse.
** Crow also has this reaction to the revelation the Planet of the Apes-esque Earth of 2525 they're orbiting at the start of the season is the result of Mike's descendants marrying simians.
** Then there's the time Crow went back in time so Mike doesn't go into the temp agency. End result? Mike dying as he's rising to rock star fame and his ''JerkAss brother'' being shot up onto the Satellite of Love.
* ''PrisonBreak'': Michael does this several times, but special mention can go to when he starts the riot at Fox River, leading to several deaths [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone (for him to feel guilty about)]] and T-Bag finding out about the escape. 
* ''Atomic Train'': In this TV movie, a train driver following behind a runaway train in an attempt to rescue the occupants, ignores orders to pull back, muting his radio in the process. With the radio muted, he is unable to hear the fact that the runaway has managed to stop. This results in him ramming into the rear of it, causing it to run away again.
* ''{{Titus}}'': SubvertedTrope in the episode "Titus is dead". After the main character finds out that his dad who has been divorced five times is dating again, he tries to convince his dad to break up with his new girlfriend. After talking to each other, Papa Titus proposes to his new girlfriend, instead of breaking up with her. Nice job fixing it hero.
* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': "Mr. Monk on Wheels": A boy steals a bike, but then while riding off with it, hits a pothole, flipping himself over and sending him sprawling in the grass. [[CoincidenceMagnet Quite by coincidence]], Monk and Natalie are walking through the office park when the accident happens, and Natalie, seeing the accident, walks over despite Monk's protests and helps the thief to his feet, even fixing the chain, and sends him on his way, this whole time unaware that the bike is stolen. Only once the legitimate owner of the bike comes running out of the nearby building does Natalie realize her mistake, and she is visibly embarrassed by this. [[FromBadToWorse It gets worse]] when Monk gets shot in the leg while knocking on the door of the thief's house.
* ''LawAndOrder'': In the episode "Gov Lov" (the spelling is correct), Jack [=McCoy=] needs the husband of his male suspect to testify, but fears that the husband will take advantage of laws that allow spouses refusal to testify against each other. He's so determined to get the guy that he campaigns for, and succeeds in, nullifying all gay marriages in the state by reestablishing the "one man one woman" definition. It completely backfires when the husband admits, in a courtroom full of people, that he ''would'' have voluntarily testified against his husband, but now that [=McCoy=] had effectively ruined hundreds of marriages for his own agenda, he would refuse, even though he would be arrested for contempt of court. 
* ''FlashForward2009'': During the Mosaic team's trip to Somalia, their resident morally-ambiguous CIA agent Vogel kills the one man who was destined to bring peace to the war-torn nation. He doesn't seem to care too much. 
* {{Fringe}}: Nice job [[spoiler: crossing to the other universe and saving the other Peter from dying, Walter.]] Now the fabric of reality is tearing itself apart. 
** And Olivia, nice job [[spoiler: alerting Walternate about the existence of the Primary Universe the first time you crossed over. Now he knows where his son is and wants revenge.]]
* ''NinjaSentaiKakuranger'': Nice job helping that old man out, Sasuke and Saizou. You just let loose the {{Youkai}} Army Corps upon Japan.
* ''{{Lexx}}'': The destruction of Fire at the end of Season 3 leads directly to the destruction of Water, and then the subsequent flooding of Earth with the reincarnations of everyone who had been sent to Fire (Hell).
* ''{{Farscape}}'': Nurse Kelsa from the episode ''Different Destinations.'' Without assessing the current situation using either her own eyes or trying to seek and explanation from Crichton, she decides to put an arrow though the chest of an imprisoned enemy General that was about one hour away from brokering a peace deal that would have protected the women and children from slaughter. The results? she is not only technically responsible for the deaths of everyone present (including the one man that survived in the original timeline) but was also responsible for nearly destroying the future of that entire part of space. The best bit however comes later in the episode when she ''still'' refuses to believe Crichton was innocent of treason and threatens to shoot Aeryn when she tries to untie him even though she was ''standing right there'' when another enemy official confirmed everything Crichton had claimed ''and'' basically pointed out that she was responsible for dooming them all. To give her credit though; she is saved from TooDumbToLive status by the fact it was the main cast travelling back in time that put her in that situation in the first place - breaking it ''long'' before it was her turn to.
* ''GhostWatch'': The parapsychologist Dr Pascoe in this infamous BBC special wants to use the program to justify the family living in the haunted house and bring their suffering to public attention. By doing this, she ends up [[spoiler: creating a massive, nationwide séance that amplifies the ghost's power across the ''entire country'']].
* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': In the season four episode "Innocence", Harm first thinks that he’s made a deal with the Japanese prosecutor who smiled and bowed in a friendly manner. It turned out that he had been greatly offended and had contacted the Japanese Prime Minister who told the press that U.S. Authorities were uncooperative and obstructive, and thus forced them to handover the suspect to Japanese authorities.
* ''PersonOfInterest'': In one episode, an investigative journalist caused a man's death and put her own life in danger when she [[spoiler:accused the man of being a criminal mastermind based on faulty intel]].
* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': In "Chained Heat", Charlie persuades Miles not to kill a bounty hunter that has attacked the group. A few scenes later, said bounty hunter sics the Monroe militia on them.
* ''Series/{{Jericho}}'': Jennings & Rall and Ravenwood are getting their hooks into the US government, even going so far as to suborn [[spoiler:a plan to safeguard Russian nukes. John Smith decides the best way to fix things is to ''set the bombs off'' in cities containing J&R's branch offices and central HQ.]]
* ''FraggleRock'': The episode "The Preachification of Convincing John": [[GranolaGirl Mokey]] decides that eating the constructions Doozers work so hard to build hurts their feelings. Without bothering to ask the Doozers themselves how they feel about the situation, she enlists the help of [[ManipulativeBastard Convincing John]] to convince all of Fraggle Rock that eating Doozer constructions is wrong and binds them in the nigh-unbreakable Solemn Fraggle Oath never to do so again. So the Doozers build and build with no one to eat the constructions -- and end up crowding both themselves and the Fraggles nearly out of house and home.
** ''FraggleRock'' was no stranger to this. In "The Bells of Fraggle Rock", Gobo's unwillingness to accept the true meaning of the [[YouMeanXmas Festival of the Bells]] led to the entire Rock freezing solid. [[HumanPopsicle Including the Fraggles.]]
* ''TheAquabatsSuperShow'': At the start of "Cowboy Android!", a miner tells the Aquabats off for sealing a monster in the mine rather than getting rid of it, as this means they still can't work in the mine
* ''Series/TeenWolf'': Scott is well-meaning in his desire to help [[spoiler: Jackson]] and does not want to kill him or let Derek do so. However, by protecting [[spoiler: Jackson]], he technically bears some responsibility for the murders that [[spoiler: Jackson subsequently commits as the Kanima, including a fair-sized chunk of the Beacon Hills Police Department]].
* ''EternalLaw'': In one episode, the angels' case of the week is preventing a woman from committing suicide. By the end of the episode she seems to have found some sort of peace, despite going to jail for murdering her son's killer... and then Tom reveals himself as an angel and promises she'll be reunited with her son in heaven. She promptly commits suicide to get to the afterlife straight away.

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* The ''Series/StargateUniverse'' crew avoided making a mess for nearly a full season. Then after learning of a potential spy, they along with SG-1 alum launch a poorly-planned undercover mission that ends with Rush in the [[spoiler:Lucian Alliance's]] hands. As a result of gaining his knowledge, they are able to [[spoiler: connect the Stargate]] and there is now [[spoiler: an entire enemy force on ''Destiny''.]]
* ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'': Kirk and company go to the MirrorUniverse, and Kirk gets Mirror Spock to try reforming TheEmpire. So he does. When next we visit it, it turns out that the reforms made weakened the empire to the point of being unable to defend against the Klingon/Cardassian {{Legion of Doom}}. Humans and Vulcans are now slaves. Way to go, Jim. (This gets {{Retcon}}ned into the Expanded Universe as [[spoiler: Spock playing out a ''really long'' BatmanGambit; he ''could'' have made reforms without weakening the Empire, but he didn't believe they'd last beyond his death.]])

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* ''Series/StargateUniverse'': The crew avoided making a mess for nearly a full season. Then after learning of a potential spy, they along with SG-1 alum launch a poorly-planned undercover mission that ends with Rush in the [[spoiler:Lucian Alliance's]] hands. As a result of gaining his knowledge, they are able to [[spoiler: connect the Stargate]] and there is now [[spoiler: an entire enemy force on ''Destiny''.]]
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': Kirk and company go to the MirrorUniverse, and Kirk gets Mirror Spock to try reforming TheEmpire. So he does. When next we visit it, it turns out that the reforms made weakened the empire to the point of being unable to defend against the Klingon/Cardassian {{Legion of Doom}}. Humans and Vulcans are now slaves. Way to go, Jim. (This gets {{Retcon}}ned into the Expanded Universe as [[spoiler: Spock playing out a ''really long'' BatmanGambit; he ''could'' have made reforms without weakening the Empire, but he didn't believe they'd last beyond his death.]])

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*  In ''{{Dollhouse}}'', [[spoiler:the whole plotline of the series]] is an example of NiceJobBreakingItHero.
* ''KamenRiderDecade'', [[spoiler: if we are to make sense of Wataru Kurenai's contradictory babblings]], mentioned that the eponymous Rider has to kill all the Riders to prevent the merging of the Alternative Rider Worlds, mentioning that "creation cannot begin without destruction". Instead, Decade chose to help all the Riders defeat their respective monster enemies as a Rider should. Cue [[LegionOfDoom Dai Shocker]] (the coalition of all the enemy organizations and monster races) through [[KamenRiderX Apollo Geist]] becoming able to [[YouCantFightFate speed up the destruction of the Alternative Rider Worlds]]. [[spoiler: Thankfully, Decade eventually turned into his nasty, somewhat evil Fury Form after being [[MoralDissonance given a major beatdown by the original 9 Riders for all his troubles]], thus being able to kill all Riders, trap them into cards and allowing the worlds - fallen riders included - to be rebooted to their proper states, but ''what the hell,'' Heroes?! What did they really have to do?!]]

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*  ''{{Dollhouse}}'': [[spoiler:The whole plotline of the series]] is an example of NiceJobBreakingItHero.
* ''KamenRiderDecade'': [[spoiler: If we are to make sense of Wataru Kurenai's contradictory babblings]], mentioned that the eponymous Rider has to kill all the Riders to prevent the merging of the Alternative Rider Worlds, mentioning that "creation cannot begin without destruction". Instead, Decade chose to help all the Riders defeat their respective monster enemies as a Rider should. Cue [[LegionOfDoom Dai Shocker]] (the coalition of all the enemy organizations and monster races) through [[KamenRiderX Apollo Geist]] becoming able to [[YouCantFightFate speed up the destruction of the Alternative Rider Worlds]]. [[spoiler: Thankfully, Decade eventually turned into his nasty, somewhat evil Fury Form after being [[MoralDissonance given a major beatdown by the original 9 Riders for all his troubles]], thus being able to kill all Riders, trap them into cards and allowing the worlds - fallen riders included - to be rebooted to their proper states, but ''what the hell,'' Heroes?! What did they really have to do?!]]

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* ''PrisonBreak:'' Michael does this several times, but special mention can go to when he starts the riot at Fox River, leading to several deaths [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone (for him to feel guilty about)]] and T-Bag finding out about the escape. 
* In the TV movie ''Atomic Train'', a train driver following behind a runaway train in an attempt to rescue the occupants, ignores orders to pull back, muting his radio in the process. With the radio muted, he is unable to hear the fact that the runaway has managed to stop. This results in him ramming into the rear of it, causing it to run away again.
* Subverted in the show ''{{Titus}}'' in the episode Titus is dead. After the main character finds out that his dad who has been divorced five times is dating again, he tries to convince his dad to break up with his new girlfriend. After talking to each other, Papa Titus proposes to his new girlfriend, instead of breaking up with her. Nice job fixing it hero.
* {{Series/Monk}}: "Mr. Monk on Wheels": A boy steals a bike, but then while riding off with it, hits a pothole, flipping himself over and sending him sprawling in the grass. [[CoincidenceMagnet Quite by coincidence]], Monk and Natalie are walking through the office park when the accident happens, and Natalie, seeing the accident, walks over despite Monk's protests and helps the thief to his feet, even fixing the chain, and sends him on his way, this whole time unaware that the bike is stolen. Only once the legitimate owner of the bike comes running out of the nearby building does Natalie realize her mistake, and she is visibly embarrassed by this. [[FromBadToWorse It gets worse]] when Monk gets shot in the leg while knocking on the door of the thief's house.
* In the LawAndOrder episode "Gov Lov" (the spelling is correct), Jack [=McCoy=] needs the husband of his male suspect to testify, but fears that the husband will take advantage of laws that allow spouses refusal to testify against each other. He's so determined to get the guy that he campaigns for, and succeeds in, nullifying all gay marriages in the state by reestablishing the "one man one woman" definition. It completely backfires when the husband admits, in a courtroom full of people, that he ''would'' have voluntarily testified against his husband, but now that [=McCoy=] had effectively ruined hundreds of marriages for his own agenda, he would refuse, even though he would be arrested for contempt of court. 
* On ''[[{{FlashForward2009}} Flash Forward]]'', during the Mosaic team's trip to Somalia, their resident morally-ambiguous CIA agent Vogel kills the one man who was destined to bring peace to the war-torn nation. He doesn't seem to care too much.

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* ''PrisonBreak'': Michael does this several times, but special mention can go to when he starts the riot at Fox River, leading to several deaths [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone (for him to feel guilty about)]] and T-Bag finding out about the escape. 
* ''Atomic Train'': In this TV movie, a train driver following behind a runaway train in an attempt to rescue the occupants, ignores orders to pull back, muting his radio in the process. With the radio muted, he is unable to hear the fact that the runaway has managed to stop. This results in him ramming into the rear of it, causing it to run away again.
* ''{{Titus}}'': SubvertedTrope in the episode "Titus is dead". After the main character finds out that his dad who has been divorced five times is dating again, he tries to convince his dad to break up with his new girlfriend. After talking to each other, Papa Titus proposes to his new girlfriend, instead of breaking up with her. Nice job fixing it hero.
* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': "Mr. Monk on Wheels": A boy steals a bike, but then while riding off with it, hits a pothole, flipping himself over and sending him sprawling in the grass. [[CoincidenceMagnet Quite by coincidence]], Monk and Natalie are walking through the office park when the accident happens, and Natalie, seeing the accident, walks over despite Monk's protests and helps the thief to his feet, even fixing the chain, and sends him on his way, this whole time unaware that the bike is stolen. Only once the legitimate owner of the bike comes running out of the nearby building does Natalie realize her mistake, and she is visibly embarrassed by this. [[FromBadToWorse It gets worse]] when Monk gets shot in the leg while knocking on the door of the thief's house.
* ''LawAndOrder'': In the episode "Gov Lov" (the spelling is correct), Jack [=McCoy=] needs the husband of his male suspect to testify, but fears that the husband will take advantage of laws that allow spouses refusal to testify against each other. He's so determined to get the guy that he campaigns for, and succeeds in, nullifying all gay marriages in the state by reestablishing the "one man one woman" definition. It completely backfires when the husband admits, in a courtroom full of people, that he ''would'' have voluntarily testified against his husband, but now that [=McCoy=] had effectively ruined hundreds of marriages for his own agenda, he would refuse, even though he would be arrested for contempt of court. 
* ''FlashForward2009'': During the Mosaic team's trip to Somalia, their resident morally-ambiguous CIA agent Vogel kills the one man who was destined to bring peace to the war-torn nation. He doesn't seem to care too much.

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* In ''{{Lexx}}'', the destruction of Fire at the end of Season 3 leads directly to the destruction of Water, and then the subsequent flooding of Earth with the reincarnations of everyone who had been sent to Fire (Hell).
* Nurse Kelsa from the {{Farscape}} episode ''Different Destinations.'' Without assessing the current situation using either her own eyes or trying to seek and explanation from Crichton, she decides to put an arrow though the chest of an imprisoned enemy General that was about one hour away from brokering a peace deal that would have protected the women and children from slaughter. The results? she is not only technically responsible for the deaths of everyone present (including the one man that survived in the original timeline) but was also responsible for nearly destroying the future of that entire part of space. The best bit however comes later in the episode when she ''still'' refuses to believe Crichton was innocent of treason and threatens to shoot Aeryn when she tries to untie him even though she was ''standing right there'' when another enemy official confirmed everything Crichton had claimed ''and'' basically pointed out that she was responsible for dooming them all. To give her credit though; she is saved from TooDumbToLive status by the fact it was the main cast travelling back in time that put her in that situation in the first place - breaking it ''long'' before it was her turn to.
* The parapsychologist Dr Pascoe in the infamous BBC special ''GhostWatch'' wants to use the program to justify the family living in the haunted house and bring their suffering to public attention. By doing this, she ends up [[spoiler: creating a massive, nationwide séance that amplifies the ghost's power across the ''entire country'']].

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* ''{{Lexx}}'': The destruction of Fire at the end of Season 3 leads directly to the destruction of Water, and then the subsequent flooding of Earth with the reincarnations of everyone who had been sent to Fire (Hell).
* ''{{Farscape}}'': Nurse Kelsa from the episode ''Different Destinations.'' Without assessing the current situation using either her own eyes or trying to seek and explanation from Crichton, she decides to put an arrow though the chest of an imprisoned enemy General that was about one hour away from brokering a peace deal that would have protected the women and children from slaughter. The results? she is not only technically responsible for the deaths of everyone present (including the one man that survived in the original timeline) but was also responsible for nearly destroying the future of that entire part of space. The best bit however comes later in the episode when she ''still'' refuses to believe Crichton was innocent of treason and threatens to shoot Aeryn when she tries to untie him even though she was ''standing right there'' when another enemy official confirmed everything Crichton had claimed ''and'' basically pointed out that she was responsible for dooming them all. To give her credit though; she is saved from TooDumbToLive status by the fact it was the main cast travelling back in time that put her in that situation in the first place - breaking it ''long'' before it was her turn to.
* ''GhostWatch'': The parapsychologist Dr Pascoe in this infamous BBC special wants to use the program to justify the family living in the haunted house and bring their suffering to public attention. By doing this, she ends up [[spoiler: creating a massive, nationwide séance that amplifies the ghost's power across the ''entire country'']].

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* On ''Series/TeenWolf'', Scott is well-meaning in his desire to help [[spoiler: Jackson]] and does not want to kill him or let Derek do so. However, by protecting [[spoiler: Jackson]], he technically bears some responsibility for the murders that [[spoiler: Jackson subsequently commits as the Kanima, including a fair-sized chunk of the Beacon Hills Police Department]].
* In an episode of ''EternalLaw'', the angels' case of the week is preventing a woman from committing suicide. By the end of the episode she seems to have found some sort of peace, despite going to jail for murdering her son's killer... and then Tom reveals himself as an angel and promises she'll be reunited with her son in heaven. She promptly commits suicide to get to the afterlife straight away.
* Series/TheWalkingDead: Michonne killing the Governor's zombified daughter. Whether you think his and Milton's attempts to try and heal her were futile or not or whether you think he deserved it or not for kidnapping Glen and Maggie; the fact remains that beforehand the Governor was far closer to a Shane-style villain. Killing others to secure their stuff, interrogating people using violence etc. ''Afterwards'' however he became a full on psychotic Bond-villain that [[spoiler: eventually leads to the deaths of Merle, Andrea and about a dozen {{Redshirts}}]]
* ''House of Anubis'': Eddie and KT using the Staff of Osiris- which unleashes Ammut, the same goddess they were trying to prevent from being unleashed. It's kind of fair because the villains have tricked them into thinking the staff would ''stop'' Ammut, however, they did nearly help said villains destroy the world.

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