History UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom / ComicBooks

** Early in the second season of ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' Trailcutter and some other Autobots wind up stranded on an unknown world that was the site of a major battle. They find a mysterious Cybertronian who is dying of his wounds and in immediate need of an Energon transfusion. While the others are wary of the stranger, Trailcutter refuses to let someone die through inaction. Midway through the procedure it comes out that the stranger is not just a Decepticon, but Vos, the newest member of the Decepticon Justice Division who promptly murders Trailcutter and flees back to his comrades as soon as he's healed. Vos's return helps pull the Decepticon Justice Division back together after a long period of post-War despondency and they become the primary antagonists of the season finale. Promotional cards for the second season call him "The Catalyst."
** Speaking of the second season of ''More Than Meets The Eye'', shortly after Trailcutter's death is the "Elegant Chaos" arc, which is arguably ''the'' biggest example in the entire ''ComicBook/HasbroComicUniverse''. In that arc, the crew of the Lost Light has to travel back in time to stop Brainstorm from seemingly assassinating Megatron. While they are successful, their actions do end up having some very dire consequences as the Functionist Universe (the timeline without Megatron) diverges from the main timeline and provides the setting and conflict for the third and final season. However, in the process of trying to stop Brainstorm, the crew of the Lost Light wind up instigating several StableTimeLoop[=s=], two of which are major cases of {{Create Your Own|Villain}} GreaterScopeVillain.
*** While in Maccadam's Old Oil House, Tailgate asks for a [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Curly_straw curly straw]], which ends up instigating a bar fight that leads to a young Megatron being arrested and subjected to PoliceBrutality at the hands of Whirl. As mentioned above, it was that moment that led to Megatron losing his idealism and become more jaded and violent, an approach that would lead to the Great War that would consume Cybertron and the galaxy.
*** ''The'' most damning consequence of all was the fact that in the process of trying to locate Brainstorm, Present! Whirl (again?), Chromedome, and Rewind inadvertently tip off the Senate on the activities of a certain senator. That senator would eventually be captured by the Senate and be sent off to the Institute to be brainwashed and mutilated, as he would [[CanonCharacterAllAlong eventually become the famously emotionless Decepticon scientist, Shockwave]]. [[CerebusRetcon This got much worse]] when "The Falling" arc of ''[[ComicBook/TransformersRobotsInDisguise Optimus Prime]]'' came out. In that arc, [[spoiler: it is revealed that "Onyx Prime" was in fact Shockwave, who had been sent back in time following the events of ''ComicBook/DarkCybertron'', and in the process of taking TheSlowPath orchestrated much of Cybertronian history as part of an ontological paradox, including the war that led to the creation of the continuity's version of [[GreaterScopeVillain Unicron]]. And even though one might blame Whirl, Rewind, and Chromedome for accidentally triggering Shockwave's StartOfDarkness, they would not have been there in the first place were it not for Brainstorm deciding to go back in time to fix everything]]. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Congratulations, Brainstorm]]. [[spoiler:You are indirectly responsible for triggering the greatest ontological time paradox in ''Transformers'' history]].

** Speaking of the second season of ''More Than Meets The Eye'', shortly after Trailcutter's death is the "Elegant Chaos" arc, in which the crew of the Lost Light has to travel back in time to stop Brainstorm from seemingly assassinating Megatron. While they are successful, their actions do end up having some dire consequences, as the "Functionist Universe" (the timeline without Megatron) diverges from the main timeline and ends up becoming the main antagonists of the final arc of the series, as well as inadvertently triggering the above-mentioned bar fight that led to Megatron adopting a more violent approach that would lead to the Great War. But perhaps the most damning consequence of all was the fact that in the process of trying to locate Brainstorm, Whirl (again?), Chromedome, and Rewind inadvertently tip off the Senate on the activities of a certain senator. That senator would eventually be captured by the Senate and be sent off to the Institute to be brainwashed and mutilated, as he would [[CanonCharacterAllAlong eventually become the famously emotionless Decepticon scientist, Shockwave]]. While this seemed to be an unfortunate instance of a StableTimeLoop, [[CerebusRetcon it got much worse]] when "The Falling" arc of ''[[ComicBook/TransformersRobotsInDisguise Optimus Prime]]'' came out. In that arc, [[spoiler: it is revealed that "Onyx Prime" was in fact Shockwave, who had been sent back in time following the events of ''ComicBook/DarkCybertron'', and in the process of taking TheSlowPath orchestrated much of Cybertronian history as part of an ontological paradox, including the war that led to the creation of the continuity's version of [[GreaterScopeVillain Unicron]]. And even though one might blame Whirl, Rewind, and Chromedome for accidentally triggering Shockwave's StartOfDarkness, they would not have been there in the first place were it not for Brainstorm deciding to go back in time to fix everything]]. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Congratulations, Brainstorm]]. [[spoiler:You are indirectly responsible for triggering the greatest ontological time paradox in ''Transformers'' history]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}: In a broad sense, Daniel/Plutonian's foster father Bill Hartigan. Although Bill genuinely loved and accepted Daniel like his own blood and wanted to instill good moral values and teach him to use his powers to help other people, his MiseryBuildsCharacter mentality, harsh teaching methods, and unyielding approach, as well as his failure to understand the severity of Daniel's emotional problems (thanks to him being bounced between multiple different foster homes and being subjected to AllOfTheOtherReindeer) and what the boy really needed was love and support and to just be a normal kid rather than a hero in the making, all wound up making things much worse, adding [[ChronicHeroSyndrome a serious martyr complex]] and extreme sense of responsibility to the already long list of issues plaguing Daniel's psyche. Really, the whole world would have been a lot better off if Bill had let Daniel make his own decisions, even if it meant him never becoming a superhero.

** ''ComicBook/{{Legacy}}'': Obi-Wan once cut off a tusken raider's arm to protect some moisture farmers. That tusken raider was cast out by his tribe, and went on to become a new Sith Emperor who will create the One Sith, and start a new war that was will result in the deaths of billions of life forms.

* ''Comicbook/TheTransformers'':
** In the original comic, Octopunch tried to shoot Grimlock during a battle in Cybertron's core. However, the blast harmlessly bounced off the Dinobot leader and instead struck Primus himself, causing him to let out a scream that allowed Unicron to find his way back to Cybertron.

-->'''Whirl:''' Did I ever tell you about how I started '''our''' war? You'll laugh your head off.

** Early in the 2nd season of ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' Trailcutter and some other Autobots wind up stranded on an unknown world that was the site of a major battle. They find a mysterious Cybertronian who is dying of his wounds and in immediate need of an Energon transfusion. While the others are wary of the stranger, Trailcutter refuses to let someone die through inaction. Midway through the procedure it comes out that the stranger is not just a Decepticon, but Vos, the newest member of the Decepticon Justice Division who promptly murders Trailcutter and flees back to his comrades as soon as he's healed. Vos's return helps pull the Decepticon Justice Division back together after a long period of post-War despondency and they become the primary antagonists of the season finale. Promotional cards for the 2nd season call him "The Catalyst."
* Happens quite a lot in ''ComicBook/AlbedoErmaFelnaEDF'':
** Erma's father Kanoc is this for her: Haven't he being tortured to insanity by the ILR, Erma wouldn't never have the motivation to join the EDF[[note]]Albeit Erma ''already'' wanted to join the EDF, regardless of what had happened with her father anyway.[[/note]], she could have remained a FakeCutie and a {{Jerkass}} for the rest of her life, jeopardizing any attempt to join the EDF later, something [[spoiler:The Net itself makes painfully clear to Erma later on]] and very possibly [[spoiler:he, Erma and the rest of the Felnas could have died during the ILR attack to their homeworld]].
** Erma's former boyfriend Tavas Ikalik, ''big time'': Tavas was an ambitious but run-of-the-mill pilot who had a hot girlfriend (Erma), and a good life behind them. Had Tavas hadn't tried to convince Erma not taking part of the Battle of Derzon and simply had he left the whole thing peacefully, [[spoiler:he wouldn't had become so vindictive against her, he wouldn't had convinced the EDF on sending Erma to Ekosiak, and very probably, the whole events on the ILR attack on Dornthant had ocurred in a very different fashion]].

* ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'': While in continental Europe, a young Jenny Sparks gives some advice to a down-on-his-luck artist: go into politics. [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Take a wild guess as to who this artist was and what he went on to do.]]
* One for villains everywhere, across nearly all incarnations: [[SmallRoleBigImpact Joe Chill]], a simple mugger, for [[DeathByOriginStory unwittingly]] [[YouKilledMyFather creating]] {{Franchise/Batman}}.

* ''Comicbook/CivilWar'': The entire mess started due to the ''New Warriors'', a C-list superhero group, storming a house containing a group of fugitive super-villains ''in the middle of suburbs'' of Stamford as part of a Reality TV show. This provokes Nitro to blow up, causing extensive property damage and killing 600 civilians including 60 children at the elementary school across the street. As a result, the disapproval of unlicensed, untrained superhumans increased which convinced Congress to pass the [[SuperRegistrationAct Superhuman Registration Act]]. This divides the superhero community into pro-registration and anti-registration factions culminating in Hydra's assassination of Captain America and the rise of Comicbook/NormanOsborn's Comicbook/DarkReign.
* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' is this in a very large way in ''{{ComicBook/Secret Empire}}'': [[spoiler: Steve Rogers has been cosmic-cube'd into a Hydra agent and Wade started working for him without knowing this. During that time, S.H.I.E.L.D agent Phil Coulson figures out what happened, but before he can warn anyone, he is assassinated by Wade on Cap's orders. With Steve's cover intact, Hydra's plans proceed unchallenged, and they take over America and trap Manhattan under a dark-force dome. Wade mentions in chapter 32, that he didn't know Cap went LawfulEvil until after he joined him. He tells Preston the same in a flashback in chapter 33, admitting he didn't know any of the following would happen -like the dome over Manhattan.]]
* In ''FF #5'', [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed and Susan's]] children Franklin and Valeria viewed a set of [[VideoWill holographic wills]] their family left them. Ben confesses his deepest darkest secret in his: [[spoiler:back in college he was pissed off by a certain {{Jerkass}} who kept mocking his best friend Reed. So one day Ben snuck into the guy's room and messed around with one of his experiments...]] This is a doubly appropriate example given the moniker the guy would start using after that day.
* In ''Franchise/TheFlash'', the Allens come to a doctor to deliver their twins, the same time as the Thawnes are expecting a delivery as well. The Thawne child died in childbirth, and, out of guilt, the doctor gave one of the Allen twins to the Thawnes while fabricating a lie to his real parents that he died. Malcolm "Thawne" grows up in a dysfunctional, criminal family, and when he learns of his true parentage, comes to resent his twin brother Barry as a result. While Barry successfully heads a mostly-familial legacy of superheroes, Malcolm would become the ancestor to multiple supervillains (the second Reverse Flash, Captain Boomerang II, Inertia, not to mention multiple other descendants that bear Malcolm's "Cobalt Blue" villain moniker), creating one of the largest FeudingFamilies in the DCU.
* The race known as the [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Guardians of the Universe]] practically has this as its ''[[PlanetOfHats hat]]''.
** One member of their race, Krona, attempting to settle the Origin Question (basically, why is there a universe and why is there life in it and specifically why are there Oans/Malthusians in it), [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths introduced Evil (or at least Entropy) into the universe]]. Later retcons change it so that he instead splintered the universe into the multiverse, unleashed the Anti-Monitor and dragged Volthoom to Oa.
** To combat evil, they formed a corps of robotic police called the Manhunters. That didn't work out so well [[spoiler:when Krona decided to prove they were fallible by engineering their insanity and set them loose to massacre Sector 666.]]
** To combat evil ''and'' the Manhunters, they decided that another Corps was the way to go, this time the Green Lantern Corps. Noble in principle, but they also decided to [[SealedEvilInACan seal the Fear Entity inside the artifact giving the Green Lanterns their power]]. That [[ComicBook/ZeroHour didn't work out so well either]].
** To combat evil, the Manhunters, ''and'' [[InternalAffairs regulate the Green Lantern Corps]], they created the Alpha Lanterns, which were ''supposed'' to combine the ruthless efficiency of the Manhunters with a Green Lantern's flexibility. [[spoiler:To no one's surprise, the Manhunter programming screwed with the Lanterns' thoughts, turning them into LawfulStupid parodies of the people they were. And to boot, the process rendered them vulnerable to DemonicPossession.]]
** Really, anytime something in the DC Universe is going very badly on a cosmic scale, the Justice League could save themselves some detective work by starting with the assumption that it's at least related to something that either Darkseid did on purpose or the Guardians did by accident.
* Having used a XanatosSpeedChess style plan to save the world a few times, Kid Loki find out, to his horror, that pretty much everything he's done during ''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery'' has come back to bite him in the ass all at once -- the main villain of the Everything Burns crossover is [[spoiler:Surtur]], who was originally released by Loki, he's aided by [[spoiler:The Manchester Gods]], who gained their power with Loki's help, and [[spoiler:Surtur's]] herald is [[spoiler:the alternate version of Leah that Loki had written into the Serpent's backstory]]. Right after he clears all of that up, he discovers that [[spoiler:Mephisto, still angry at Loki for releasing the Disir from their curse, has found out about the Fear Crown that he'd created and is going to use it to create a literal hell on earth]]. Unlike a lot of examples here, because he's the protagonist, it comes across as being more tragic than annoying -- no matter what he does, something's going to come along and ruin his happiness and success.
* When ComicBook/{{Magneto}} first manifested his powers, an angry mob burned his house down and prevented him from saving his daughter Anya from a fire, causing him to use his powers to murder them all and permanently estranging his wife Magda. It's the first time Magneto takes a life, but not the last...
** While pursuing Magneto-worshipping mutants to Asteroid M, a ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} agent shoots one of them, who nearly dies in Magneto's arms. This triggers another FaceHeelTurn from the formerly-retired Master of Magnetism.
*** At the same time Magneto found out Moira [=MacTaggert=] had been tinkering with his genetic code, apparently attempting to force him to reform. To call him "displeased" would be an understatement.
** In response to Magneto's later return, the governments of Earth surround the planet in a satellite shield that will prevent Magneto from returning to Earth. In response Magneto [=EMPs=] the ''entire planet'', causing catastrophic casualties. In response to ''that'' the X-Men attack Asteroid M, ultimately leading to Charles Xavier mind-wiping Magneto and creating Comicbook/{{Onslaught}}, who nearly destroys the planet and does [[spoiler: temporarily]] kill of most of Marvel's superheroes. All because the Earth governments launched a pre-emptive defense against a man who was, at the time, content with splendid isolation.
** Magneto is later (publication-wise) targeted by Legion, Xavier's son, who believes killing Magneto before he can get started will bring about the utopia his father always wanted. Legion screws up and kills Xavier instead, resulting in the ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse''.
** Magneto finally catches the short end of the stick when Cassandra Nova convinces Donald Trask III, Bolivar Trask's last living relative, to reactivate a South American Sentinel program and attack Genosha. Trask is a dentist who seems too stupid to understand the full implications of what he's doing, namely murdering 16 ''million'' mutants.
* In ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'', Ultra Comics is [[spoiler:exploited by the Gentry as a means to infiltrate the multiverse]]. While he manages to [[spoiler:seal Earth-33 off from them]], he's ultimately unsuccessful in [[spoiler:defeating the villains]].
** Toward the end, it turns out merely saying the words "[[spoiler:S.O.S.]]" summons the Gentry into the universe of whoever says it. So anyone who says it serves as one of these.

* Emil Gregg was a mentally disturbed compulsive confessor who, unwittingly, was living next door to Stan Carter, aka the murderous Sin-Eater. Overhearing Carter's taped ramblings, Gregg convinced himself ''he'' was the Sin-Eater and began reporting details of the killings to reporter Eddie Brock, who began a series of hit stories about him. When Gregg was arrested, Brock wrote his masterpiece...and an hour after it hit the streets, Spider-Man caught Carter and exposed Gregg as a fraud. Humiliated and disgraced, Brock lost his job, his wife, and his self-respect and blamed it all on Spider-Man. He was then found by an alien symbiote who also hated Spider-Man and together, they formed a new twisted being. In short, thanks to one pathetic man's need for attention, the world got ComicBook/{{Venom}}.
* ComicBook/XMen villain [[MasterOfIllusion Mastermind]] when he turned Phoenix into Dark Phoenix. He thought he was merely brainwashing Comicbook/JeanGrey and capturing the X-Men as part of his bid to join the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle. Neither he nor the rest of the club realized they were messing with a cosmic entity and ended up putting the entire universe at risk.
* ''First X-Men'' has Victor Creed's then girlfriend, Holo die, and he blames Wolverine for convincing her to stay and fight with him. But that shouldn't be a big deal for Victor, who is over one hundred years old, and they only had a short relationship, right? Well, when she was mortally wounded, she used her powers to show Victor an illusion of the two having a family and living a long, fulfilled life, and he thought that was what was happening and experienced it first-hand, and she told him that ''this'' is what he should remember... before cutting the illusion and revealing that she was actually still mortally wounded. She tells him that it "doesn't have to mean anything less". Well, he took this to heart, and determined that it logically meant that Logan had taken it all ''away'', and would spend the rest of his life ensuring that Logan would never find any''thing'' or any''one'' worth living for ever again. So it's less "you got my short-term girlfriend killed" and more "you took away my happy ending". On that day, Holo's nice little parting gift and last words created an archnemesis for Wolverine that would go on to menace him and everyone around him for the rest of his life. And they're both immortal.
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel
** Captain America was a successful SuperSoldier made back in WWII, but there were NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup, and no more super-soldiers could be made since the death of both Rogers and the creator. Attempts to recreate the super-soldier formula turned out wrong in several cases: Hulk (an out-of-control monster), Green Goblin (basically a controlled Hulk, but by an evil and amoral man), Frank Simpson (a super-soldier that went rogue in Vietnam), etc. The Soviets also tried, but kept all their failed experiments locked and forgotten inside a bunker. Even mutant themselves were the result of the attempts to recreate it.
** The ComicBook/UltimateXMen somehow managed to escape to the 616 universe after Secret Wars. They were captured by Ms. Sinister, who used them for her experiments, as seen in ''ComicBook/XMenBlue''. She created the Mothervine from the unique type of mutations from the Ultimate Marvel universe, which of course became a huge disaster.

** Erma's former boyfriend Tavas Ikalik, ''big time'': Tavas was an ambitious but run-of-the-mill pilot who had a hot girlfriend (Erma), and a good life behind them. Had Tavas hadn't tried to convince Erma not taking part of the Battle of Derzon and simply had he left the whole thing peacefully, [[spoiler:he wouldn't had become so vindictive against her, he wouldn't had convinced the EDF on sending Erma to Ekosiak, and very probably, the whole events on the ILR attack on Dornthant had ocurred in a very different fashion]].
* In a case of both sides doing this to the other, Ted Sallis met with Curt Connors met with after the latter recently lost his arm and both discussed their respective work, Sallis's work to recreate the SuperSoldier serum that made Steve Rogers into Franchise/CaptainAmerica and Connors's desire to find a way to regenerate lost limbs -- the same research that'd lead Sallis to become ComicBook/ManThing and Connors to become one of Franchise/SpiderMan's enemies, the Lizard.

* In the ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' book this applies to Sonic, Sally, Knuckles, and Tails's respective families. Issue 50 revealed that Sonic's dad and uncle found Robotnik and brought him to King Max, who made his infamous decision to make him the new Warlord. During this time up to when they were captured, Knuckles' father and ancestors were aware of Robotnik, but devoted none of their considerable resources to resolve those problems, despite Robotnik once trying to weaponize the Floating Island in the Sonic and Knuckles tine-in comic, trying to drive the island into the sea in the Death Egg saga and Knuckles spin off title revealing his family was still living on the island and would've been aware of this; Locke even commented on the Ultimate Annihilator in the spin off title. And almost immediately after they returned, Tails's parents caused a political reformation that may well have resulted in, in addition to [[spoiler:King Naugus]], the disaster Silver's trying to prevent.

* In the ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' book this applies to Sonic, Sally, Knuckles, and Tails's respective families. Issue 50 revealed that Sonic's dad and uncle found Robotnik and brought him to King Max, who made his infamous decision to make him the new Warlord. During this time up to when they were captured, Knuckles' father and ancestors were aware of Robotnik, but devoted none of their considerable resources to resolve those problems, despite Robotnik once trying to weaponize the Floating Island in the Sonic and Knuckles tine-in comic, trying to drive the island into the sea in the Death Egg saga and Knuckles spin off title revealing his family was still living on the island and would've been aware of this; Locke even commented on the Ultimate Annihilator in the spin off title. And almost immediately after they returned, Tails's parents caused a political reformation that may well have resulted in, in addition to [[spoiler:King Naugus]], the disaster Silver's trying to prevent.

** One member of their race, attempting to settle the Origin Question (basically, why is there a universe and why is there life in it and specifically why are there Oans/Malthusians in it), [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths introduced Evil (or at least Entropy) into the universe]].

** ''ComicBook/TalesOfTheJedi'': A pair of hyperspace explorers, Gav and Jori Daragon, stumble upon the homeworld of the Sith race. The Sith Lord Naga Sadow engineered a scheme where he frees the explorers, and lies to his people that the Republic will invade their empire, thus starting the Great Hyperspace War.

* In an issue of one of the ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'' comics, Captain America told Spider-Man that he was not ready to be a hero and that he did not deserve to wear the costume. [[spoiler:Spidey's {{determinat|or}}ion to prove Cap wrong is what leads to his untimely death.]]

* In a case of both sides doing this to the other, Ted Sallis met with Curt Connors met with after the latter recently lost his arm and both discussed their respective work, Sallis's work to recreate the SuperSoldier serum that made Steve Rogers into Franchise/CaptainAmerica and Connors's desire to find a way to regenerate lost limbs -- the same research that'd lead Sallis to become ComicBook/ManThing and Connors to become one of Franchise/SpiderMan's enemies, the Lizrd.

** Erma's former boyfriend Tavas Ikalik, ''big time'': Tavas was an ambitious but run-of-the-mill pilot who had a hot girlfriend (Erma), and a good life behind them. Had Tavas hadn't tried to convince Erma not taking part of the Battle of Derzon and simply had he left the whole thing peacefully, [[spoiler:he wouldn't had become so vindictive against her, he wouldn't had convinced the EDF on sending Erma to Ekosiak, and very probably, the whole events on the ILR attack on Dornthant had ocurred in a very different fashion]].

* In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe, Captain America was a successful SuperSoldier made back in WWII, but there were NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup, and no more super soldiers could be made since the death of both Rogers and the creator. Attempts to recreate the super soldier formula created two villains, Hulk and Green Goblin, and even the mutant race.

* In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe, Captain America was a successful SuperSoldier made back in WWII, but there were NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup, and no more super soldiers could be made since the death of both Rogers and the creator. Attempts to recreate the super soldier formula created two villains, Hulk and Green Goblin, and even the mutant race.

* ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'': While in continental Europe, a young Jenny Sparks gives some advice to a down-on-his-luck artist: go into politics. [[AdolfHitler Take a wild guess as to who this artist was and what he went on to do.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' is this in a very large way in ''{{ComicBook/Secret Empire}}'': [[spoiler: Steve Rogers has been comsic-cube'd into a Hydra agent and Wade started working for him without knowing this. During that time, S.H.I.E.L.D agent Phil Coulson figures out what happened, but before he can warn anyone, he is assassinated by Wade on Cap's orders. With Steve's cover intact, Hydra's plans proceed unchallenged, and they take over America and trap Manhattan under a dark-force dome. Wade mentions in chapter 32, that he didn't know Cap went LawfulEvil until after he joined him. He tells Preston the same in a flashback in chapter 33, admitting he didn't know any of the following would happen -like the dome over Manhattan.]]

* ''First X-Men'' has Victor Creed's then girlfriend, Holo die, and he blames Wolverine for convincing her to stay and fight with him. But that shouldn't be a big deal for Victor, who is over one hundred years old, and they only had a short relationship, right? Well, when she was mortally wounded, she used her powers to show Victor an illusion of the two having a family and living a long, fulfilled life, and he thought that was what was happening and experienced it first-hand, and she told him that ''this'' is what he should remember... before cutting the illusion and revealing that she was actually still mortally wounded. She tells him that it "doesn't have to mean anything less". Well, he took this to heart, and determined that it logically meant that Logan had taken it all ''away'', and would spend the rest of his life ensuring that Logan would never find any''thing'' or any''one'' worth living for ever again. So it's less "you got my short-term girlfriend killed" and more "you took away my happy ending". On that day, Holo's nice little parting gift and last words created an archnemesis for Wolverine that would go on to menace him and everyone around him for the rest of his life. And they're both immortal.