History NiceJobBreakingItHero / Other

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[[folder:Asian Animation]]
* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 2 episode 11, Happy S. enlarges the sun with the magnifying glass to melt the ice monster. It works well to melt the monster, obviously, but then there's the matter of Happy S. having made the sun big enough to make it dangerously hot on planet Xing Xing... oops.
* In episode 1 of ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Marching to the New Wonderland'', the goats use their new trains to fight Wolffy in his Celestial Wolf train. Tibbie manages to break the gun on the Celestial Wolf, keeping Wolffy from shooting at them and giving the goats the perfect chance to attack... and then Sparky repairs that gun, not realizing that his train is the repair train. Cue Wolffy quickly using the opportunity to attack the goats with his shrinking powder.
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* In the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' drama ''The Lights of Skaro'', as Benny finds herself wandering through the ghosts of Dalek history, she meets a group of early Daleks who were going to destroy the last few Thals and then rest, content that - as there was no life on other planets - they were alone in the universe. Then the stranger came and helped the Thals defeat them. Suddenly, they knew there ''was'' life on other planets, some of it could time travel, and it was all as bad as the Thals. Great job, Doctor!
* ''VideoGame/Halo2'' ARG ''ARG/ILoveBees'' ends with the gang taking out a Forerunner artifact and uncovering an evil plot by a power-hungry man in the Office of Naval Intelligence, only to [[spoiler:inadvertently call the Covenant to Earth, triggering the invasion at the beginning of ''Halo 2'']][[note]]In case you're wondering, this ''isn't'' the official explanation for the Covenant discovering Earth, as the ARG wasn't considered canon until long after ''Halo 2''[='s=] release[[/note]].
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[[folder:Pinball]]
* During the development of Creator/{{Atari}}'s ''Pinball/{{Superman}}'' pinball, Creator/SteveRitchie and Creator/EugeneJarvis figured out how to use a guitar echo chamber to make a continuous background sound that intensified with the game action. For some reason, Atari management nixed the idea; Ritchie ended up using it on his next pinball, the top-selling ''Pinball/{{Flash}}'' from Creator/WilliamsElectronics.
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[[folder:Podcasts]]
* In ''Podcast/InterstitialActualPlay'', Criss' plan to defeat the Smoke Monster is to use his magic to portal away the plug that keeps the island's magic contained. [[spoiler: It brings the Smoke Monster down to normal, but also causes the island to begin to self-destruct]].
* Revealed in the ''Podcast/{{Sequinox}}'' prequel comic that [[spoiler: Caiden hitting Tellie with his car ended up causing its amnesia and preventing it from giving the Sequinox girls important information on their destiny.]]
* In ''Podcast/TheAdventureZone: Balance Arc'', it turns out [[spoiler: our heroes were directly responsible for the creation of 3 of the 7 Grand Relics that have been causing untold chaos and destruction. Also, Lucretia, in an attempt to fix the problem, wiped the memories of the tres horny boys, Lup, Barry Bluejeans, and Davenport. All this to prevent The Hunger from finding and devouring The Light of Creation.]]
* In ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'', Jon destroys a table that he believes gives life to a monster that has been terrorizing him and his friends. After he breaks the table, he learns the table was actually keeping it contained, and that he's made it much more powerful than before.
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[[folder:Roleplay]]
* ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'':
** When Michal panics and [[WreathedInFlames accidentally sets himself on fire]], Edward attempts to put him out by creating a fireproof clone to smother him. Not only is said clone not actually fireproof, but its attempt to grab Michal also breaks Ciro's attention, which dispels the barrier that Ciro had put around Michal to extinguish the flame's oxygen supply.
** From the same incident, Simon attempts to use his own superpower to absorb the flames. However, his attempt at doing so only freaks Michal out and causes his flames to intensify even more.
** During the final exams, Harriet gets into an altercation with Daigo. Ivan covertly uses his fate manipulation power to calm down Daigo and make him leave. However, this leads to Daigo assuming that Harriet had messed with his head, which then leads him to confront her again later, and ''that'' leads to Carlie and Devin getting seriously injured in the ensuing scuffle.
* In ''RolePlay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'':
** DS unknowingly made a few comments that inspired the ImpossibleThief Emolga to steal Tagg's cynical side. As a result, Nihilist!Tagg was unleashed, and some of the trainers had to fight for their lives while DS went off to find the Emolga and get Tagg's cynical side back so he could be returned to normal.
** Tagg ends up starting the Keystone arc by taking Annoski's Keystone to the spot it needs to be for him to revive.
** During PMD-B Tagg's group allowing the last two Super Mutants to get away doomed Necropolis by having the Master send his army to destroy the place in reprisal.
* In ''RolePlay/YuGiOhEastAcademy'', we have a subtle example from Marcus during his Tag Duel with Denero. While his strategy is solid, it unfortunately has the unforeseen consequence of being indirectly responsible for Denero merging his mind with the Meteor and becoming more aggressive and unstable as a result.
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[[folder:Theme Parks]]
* In ''Ride/FastAndFuriousSupercharged'' at Ride/UniversalStudios, after the protagonists dedicate a large amount of time telling the riders to shut off their cell phones in order to avoid their location getting traced by the ride's main villain, it turns out that Roman forgot to turn off his cellphone, a goof that launches the ride's main conflict.
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[[folder:Toys]]
* The whole goal of the heroes in ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'' is to awaken the sleeping Great Spirit Mata Nui. Unfortunately, [[BigBad Makuta]] (who put Mata Nui to sleep in the first place) plays them all for [[UnwittingPawn Unwitting Pawns]]: he allows the heroes to succeed and during a window of opportunity in the revival commits GrandTheftMe, taking control of the body of a PhysicalGod and therefore also the world's very laws of nature. Nice Job Waking It, Heroes.
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[[folder:TV Tropes Wiki]]
* Wiki/TVTropes has a Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement meant to prevent any {{Flame War}}s in Wiki/ThisVeryWiki (read that page for more). Unfortunately in some situations, some tropers completely ignore this rule, leading to the mods [[Administrivia/LockedPages locking the page]] most likely for good... which means nobody gets to add and edit future tropes.\\
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In extreme cases, there's the Administrivia/PermanentRedLinkClub, in which the tropes are so misused, become a magnet for racial slurs and personal attacks, and the like that not only the page is locked, the page (and in some occasions, the entire trope) gets deleted, never to be used again. Forever.\\
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And in less extreme but still unfortunate cases, RealLife examples can be cut and [[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease prohibited from a page]] if things get controversial enough. On that note, there's also the Administrivia/ExampleSectionectomy, which examples are either cut entirely or relegated to a separate area such as DarthWiki/DarthWiki or the Discussion tab if things get nasty.
** And if the examples had previously been divided into multiple pages, then the deleted RealLife examples won't even appear in the page history for you to browse.
* This is the reason why Fetish Fuel and Troper Tales no longer exist in Wiki/TVTropes. Some people couldn’t resist putting controversial and creepy content in Fetish Fuel and Troper Tales, which lead to these sections being sent off to separate off-site wikis.
** Troper Tales existing in the first place. Troper Tales was only created to keep tropers from writing their own tales on the main wiki. Troper Tales ruined the reputation of [=TVTropes=] and made the website a laughingstock of half the Internet. It was also known for attracting people who wrote stories that sounded creepy, filled with bile, psychotic, racist, sexist and ego-stroking. The admins could have either warned the tropers or banned them for writing personal tales instead of creating troper tales, since Troper Tales only reinforced the habit.
* Wiki/TVTropes used to have a "strike format", but it was eventually disabled as people were using it simply to sneak in {{Take That}}s and such. Texts that were previously striked are now hidden texts. The strike format however is still usable in the forums though.
* Earlier there were "super secret spoilers", which was the equivalent of making the text white. This was also removed in part due to people actually using it for relevant information that reader [[GuideDangIt couldn't see without highlighting the whole page]].
* {{Headscratchers/Headscratchers}} used to be called "It Just Bugs Me", but was Administrivia/{{renamed|Tropes}} because people kept misinterpreting it as ''[[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike "Why does <insert anything here> suck so much?"]]''.
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* In ''Podcast/InterstitialActualPlay'', Criss' plan to defeat the Smoke Monster is to use his magic to portal away the plug that keeps the island's magic contained. [[spoiler: It brings the Smoke Monster down to normal, but also causes the island to begin to self-destruct]].

* In ''RolePlay/YuGiOhEastAcademy'', we have a subtle example from Marcus during his Tag Duel with Denero. While his strategy is solid, it unfortunately has the unforeseen consequence of being indirectly responsible for Denero merging his mind with the Meteor and becoming more aggressive and unstable as a result.

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* Wiki/TVTropes has a RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement meant to prevent any {{Flame War}}s in Wiki/ThisVeryWiki (read that page for more). Unfortunately in some situations, some tropers completely ignore this rule, leading to the mods [[Administrivia/LockedPages locking the page]] most likely for good... which means nobody gets to add and edit future tropes.\\

[[folder: Audio Drama]]
* In the ''AudioDrama/BigFinishDoctorWho'' drama ''The Lights of Skaro'', as Benny finds herself wandering through the ghosts of Dalek history, she meets a group of early Daleks who were going to destroy the last few Thals and then rest, content that - as there was no life on other planets - they were alone in the universe. Then the stranger came and helped the Thals defeat them. Suddenly, they knew there ''was'' life on other planets, some of it could time travel, and it was all as bad as the Thals. Great job, Doctor!