History NiceJobFixingItVillain / ComicBooks

* ''ComicBook/VadersQuest'': When Vader learns that the Death Star's destroyer is named Skywalker, several {{Bounty Hunter}}s are in the vicinity, and he decides MurderIsTheBestSolution to silence them. One gets away and tells Palpatine, when they probably could have been kept silent if Vader bribed them or just downplayed the importance of the information.]]
* In the ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'' story "... And be a Bride of Chaos" Lucretia, who wanted to become the Bride of Chaos and was jealous that Dracula had chosen Vampirella instead, freed Vampirella from her bonds to take over.

* The ''ComicBook/XXXenophile'' short ''Wish Fulfillment'' starts with the heroine being defeated by a usurping general who declares that "henceforth you shall be my captive flower". This gives the LiteralGenie who granted her three wishes before the option to grant "my captive flower" 3 wishes as well under the justification that she was technically now a different person in the legal sense.

* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': Link tries whacking at the Lanmola with his sword, but its hide is too hard to cause any damage to it. However, after the Lanmola launches him in the air, he lands on top of the scorpion statue and retrieves the Pendant.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': Mojo Jojo deliberately invokes this in "Everything Must Go!" (DC issue #44). The Amoeba Boys buy a device from Mojo's yard sale that causes the moon to speed on a collision course with Earth. Mojo finds them and deactivates the device, sending the moon back to its proper place.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Chassis}}'', Twist once set her personal droid to sabotage Chassis's aerocar during a race. His sabotage initially puts her behind. However, he then causes one of her rocket engines to explode. The sudden boost of power propels her to the lead and allows her to win.
* In ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'' #7, [[TheRival [=McIver=]]]'s henchmen have Indy cornered in a corridor. They open fire and their ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy accuracy blows the open the locked door that was blocking Indy, allowing him to escape.
* Mojo Jojo deliberately invokes this in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' story "Everything Must Go!" (DC issue #44). The Amoeba Boys buy a device from Mojo's yard sale that causes the moon to speed on a collision course with Earth. Mojo finds them and deactivates the device, sending the moon back to its proper place.
* In ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', Link tries whacking at the Lanmola with his sword, but its hide is too hard to cause any damage to it. However, after the Lanmola launches him in the air, he lands on top of the scorpion statue and retrieves the Pendant.

* The ''ComicBook/XXXenophile'' short ''Wish Fulfillment'' starts with the heroine being defeated by a usurping general who declares that "henceforth you shall be my captive flower". This gives the LiteralGenie who granted her three wishes before the option to grant "my captive flower" 3 wishes as well under the justification that she was technically now a different person in the legal sense.

* In the ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'' story "... And be a Bride of Chaos" Lucretia, who wanted to become the Bride of Chaos and was jealous that Dracula had chosen Vampirella instead, freed Vampirella from her bonds to take over.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Chassis}}'', Twist once set her personal droid to sabotage Chassis's aerocar during a race. His sabotage initially puts her behind. However, he then causes one of her rocket engines to explode. The sudden boost of power propels her to the lead and allows her to win.
* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'': In the story "Kaiso", Usagi befriends a kaiso (seaweed) farmer who suspects a farmer from a neighboring village of poaching his seaweed and selling it to a kaiso-broker, while the other farmer accuses the first farmer of poaching his seaweed. In the end, Usagi uncovers the truth; the broker was poaching seaweed from both farmers, in order to sow mistrust between the two villages. He feared that if the two farmers formed a partnership they could sell their seaweed without his assistance and drive him out of business. By the end of the story, the two farmers decide to form a partnership, and even make a point of thanking the broker for giving them the idea in the first place.
* Childrens book "You're A Hero, Daley B" by Jon Blake. Selfsame hero is a rabbit who doesn't know who he is and where he belongs. And what his overlarge feet are good for. [[PoorCommunicationKills His fellow rabbits easily could have told him...]] Along comes the weasel Jazzy D and tells him he is a rabbit and her designated lunch, incidentally also solving the feet conundrum [[KillerRabbit (they are good for kicking bloodthirsty weasels to kingdom come).]]

* In ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'' #7, [[TheRival [=McIver=]]]'s henchmen have Indy cornered in a corridor. They open fire and their ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy accuracy blows the open the locked door that was blocking Indy, allowing him to escape.
* Mojo Jojo deliberately invokes this in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' story "Everything Must Go!" (DC issue #44). The Amoeba Boys buy a device from Mojo's yard sale that causes the moon to speed on a collision course with Earth. Mojo finds them and deactivates the device, sending the moon back to its proper place.
* In ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'', Link tries whacking at the Lanmola with his sword, but its hide is too hard to cause any damage to it. However, after the Lanmola launches him in the air, he lands on top of the scorpion statue and retrieves the Pendant.
-->'''Link:''' "Nice job, ugly! Now you're playing with the Pendant of Power!"

* In the first story arc of Creator/NeilGaiman's ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', the villain gets hold of the amulet containing the hero's power, and during the climactic battle (which he was winning anyway) he decides to destroy it, figuring that will leave the hero powerless and easy to defeat. Instead, destroying the amulet merely ''releases'' the power, which flows back into the hero, making him more powerful than he was before...
* ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'':
** The Hulk's ''raison d'être'': if you're going to kill him, at least try to make him happy about it. This makes Ultimate Nick Fury pretty smart since he did JUST THAT. Pity Loki intervened.
** The ComicBook/{{Onslaught}} saga springs to mind... "And Hulk is ANGRY!!!!"

* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': One of ComicBook/{{Loki}}'s schemes against Thor (tricking him into fighting Hulk) ended up creating ComicBook/TheAvengers. Considering that this superteam saved the world many, many times in Marvel Universe, this is THE Nice Job Fixing It, Villain for Loki...

* ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'': By moving the moon out of orbit, Ultraman creates havoc with Earth's oceans. The resulting flooding destroys the burial site of Black Manta's father. He's understandably a little pissed.
* During the ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'' arc of ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', the evil Skrull Chrell managed to capture every non-Skrull member of the Runaways and hold them hostage, threatening them with death unless Xavin handed over Changeling of the ComicBook/YoungAvengers. He almost had Xavin over a barrel, but then he made Klara Prast cry. And then Klara's powers kicked in and she damn near impaled him on a tree, breaking his concentration and allowing the Runaways to escape.
* Early in ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'', [[ComicBook/DoctorOctopus Doc Ock]] does the unthinkable and erases Peter Parker's memories and his SoulFragment from his mind. Ten issues later, Ock is forced to try to find one of those memories in a massive case of HoistByHisOwnPetard. Doing so allows Peter's SoulFragment to start coming back.

* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'':
** In one story, Cap's shield had been shattered and the shattered remains were set to be used to stop the vibranium that was following suit and heading for its anti-vibranium counterpart. Cue Klaw, who uses the crisis to amplify his amazing sound-based power. Destroying Cap's photonic shield, Klaw proceeds to finish off the helpless hero as Cap grabs his shattered and taped up shield out of reflex. The shield takes the brunt of the attack and, to Cap's surprise, ''it repaired it fully.'' Not only that, but it also stopped the incoming disaster. Cap then proceeds to disperse Klaw by slinging his Mighty Shield once more and smacking him with it.
** William Burnside, who became Captain America during the 50's, brought the rediscovered Super Soldier Serum formula to the attention of the U.S. government, but refused to share it with them, as he was a LoonyFan who wanted to take Cap's mantle for himself. He dogged every single attempt of the government to get the formula so he could administer it himself - they had wanted to mass-produce it and inject it into all of their soldiers to help with UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar effort. It was a good thing he stopped them, though: William Burnside later went insane precisely because the formula was incomplete, and became a supervillain. Had he been less selfish, America would have sent an army of ticking time bombs to Korea.
* A ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' issue, "What If Magneto and Professor X had Formed the Comicbook/XMen Together?" spun off from an old Chris Claremont story where Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr (the future Magneto) fought against Nazi and future-Hydra founder Baron Strucker over a cache of Nazi gold. In the original story Lensherr took the gold to finance his own campaign against humanity. In the What-If, Xavier and Gabrielle Haller argued that [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim his proposed war against humans would make him no better than the Nazis.]] Strucker contemptuously added, "By all means, mutant, listen to these dreamers. It will make my inevitable victory all the sweeter." Lensherr turned to Strucker and answered, [[ShutUpHannibal "I'm glad you feel that way, Nazi. It makes my decision... easier."]] Strucker was later executed for war crimes, and Lensherr and Xavier became allies.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Swordquest}}'', the protagonists were destined to grow up as submissive servants in fear of the BigBad... only to become emboldened to rebel against him only after one of his captains killed their foster parents in a [[OffingTheAnnoyance moment of pettiness.]]

* In ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'', Victor Van Damme changes the figures in Reed Richard's N-Zone experiment, and winds up transforming himself and the Fantastic Four. Turns out that if Victor ''hadn't'' altered the calculations, Reed would have made first contact with the Skrulls and doomed the human race to extinction.

* The Elseworlds storyline ''JLA: Created Equal'' has an interesting case of this; after most of Earth's male population is wiped out by a strange disease, the only two men to survive the virus are Superman and Lex Luthor (Superman because it couldn't get through his super-immune system and Luthor because he sealed himself away before he could be infected). While sperm samples from Superman are used to begin repopulating Earth, Luthor determines that Superman is still a carrier of the virus, forcing the Man of Steel to leave Earth so he doesn't kill his children. Years later, Luthor has manipulated several of the male children to see him as a 'saviour' against the 'oppression' of the women who are 'holding them back', even after Superman returns to Earth, having discovered a cure for the virus in his travels even if it can't remove the virus from Superman due to the same immune system that stopped the virus killing him in the first place. However, when Luthor attempts to kill Superman with kryptonite, the kryptonite poisoning actually weakens Superman's immune system just enough for the antivirus to 'infect' him, purging Superman of the virus and allowing him to work on safely raising both his own children and the children Luthor had created in a lab and kept contained until he had eliminated Superman's offspring.
* When ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'' went about undoing the damage wrought by ''ComicBook/TheCrossing'', it was retconned that Immortus was manipulating Iron Man since ''ComicBook/OperationGalacticStorm'', not Kang since the Avengers' first battle with him. What put this in this trope? During the events of ''Galactic Storm'', Immortus had tried to instill Tony with a sense of xenophobia to try to drive the Avengers to go back home and keep them from interfering in intergalactic affairs. Instead, this caused Tony to go into a murderous rage after the Supreme Intelligence allowed a bomb to go off that killed most of the Kree Empire to try to jumpstart the Kree's evolution and Tony led a group of Avengers to kill it. Worse still, Immortus was trying to stop the Avengers becoming the Avengers Stellar Corps and the rise of the First Terran Empire--and he'd ensured it took its first steps to it!
* In the last issue of ''ComicBook/AstonishingAntMan'', [[PapaWolf Scott Lang]] was on trial for robbing a CorruptCorporateExecutive to rescue his daughter, Cassie (who now goes by Stinger). As things look bad for Scott, [[CanonImmigrant Yellowjacket]], Egghead, and Crossfire showed up [[RevengeBeforeReason for revenge]]. A major fight happened in the courtroom with Cassie joining in with her Stinger costume to help defeat the three villains. The battle showed Scott's ex-wife how much of a hero and good father Scott really is. So thanks to Yellowjacket, Scott was not only on better terms with his ex-wife and daughter, but Cassie can fight crime again with her father as Ant-Man and Stinger.

* In ''ComicBook/HexWives'', Aaron goes to great lengths to make sure the witches don't accidentally cut themselves and thereby activate their BloodMagic. Then he tells Isadora to make sure she washes the black-handled knives by hand as putting them in the dishwasher blunts them. Isadora, who was already in a strange headspace, decides to cut herself to see what happens.
* It's revealed that Wolverine's resurrection in ''ComicBook/ReturnOfWolverine'' was the result of this as Persephone's powers is to [[AnimateDead animate the dead]] to act as extensions of herself to carry out deeds -- only when she did this to Wolverine, it reactivated his HealingFactor, actually bringing him back for real.

-->'''Link:''' "Nice job, ugly! Now you're playing with the Pendant of Power!"
* ''ComicBook/BillyBatsonAndTheMagicOfShazam'': Axe's command to a hypnotized Billy accidentally helped him discover that the Magic Lightning could break the spell, which he then used to free his sister Mary.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** In ''ComicBook/TwoForTheDeathOfOne'', Satanis and Syrene's magic war splits Superman into two "twins". When both Supermen face Satanis for the last time, the magic energies surrounding them merge into a giant energy Superman who attempts to kill Satanis. Satanis swiftly destroys the magic monster, but his spell reverts the original one which split Superman in two entities.
** In ''ComicBook/TheUnknownSupergirl'', Kara Zor-El has lost her powers for some mysterious reason and does not know how to get them back. Right when she is about to give up her ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} identity, Mr. Mxyzptlk pops in Superman's Earth, thinking "Would not it be funny if I made an ordinary girl more powerful than Superman? Imagine how humiliated Superman will feel!", sees a girl -Kara- wearing a female version of Superman's costume and gives her Kryptonian powers. Thanks to him, Kara finally gets her powers back, and although his magic eventually wears off, her natural powers have returned by then (since her enemy Lesla-Lar, who had nullified them, is no longer around to screw her up).
* In ''ComicBook/GreenLanternEarthOne'', [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]], after his ring loses its power, is captured by the Manhunters and forced to work as a slave miner alongside many other aliens. Nonetheless, the Manhunters fail to take the ring from him and once it recharges, Hal stomps all over them.
* ''Comicbook/TheVisionAndTheScarletWitch'' sees the title characters befriend another superpowered couple, who are stage magicians. Eventually, the Enchantress puts the Vision under her spell and commands him to steal a precious jewel. We then learn that Illusion and Glamor also use their powers for thievery. They steal the jewel, and when the Vision arrives and doesn't find it where it's supposed to be, his inability to do what he was told allows him to overcome his hypnosis, rejoin his wife and confront the evil Asgardian.