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** In [[Film/Scream3 the third film]], it's revealed [[spoiler:John Milton raped Maureen Roberts, conceiving a child named Roman and traumatizing Maureen into promiscuous behavior. Years later, Roman was rejected by Maureen and started filming her trysts, including one with Billy Loomis' father. Roman showed Billy the footage, persuaded him to recruit an accomplice (Stu Macher) and murder Maureen, setting off the first of five mass murder sprees, including one perpetrated by Roman where Milton himself was killed]].
** In [[Film/Scream2022 the fifth film]], Creator/RianJohnson ends up making [[ShowWithinAShow the 8th "Stab" installment]], which meets... negative critical and fandom reception. [[spoiler:So much so that a pair of {{Loony Fan}}s kill 6 people in an attempt to bring the franchise back to its former glory]].

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** In [[Film/Scream3 the third film]], it's revealed [[spoiler:John Milton raped Maureen Roberts, conceiving a child named Roman and traumatizing Maureen into promiscuous behavior. Years later, Roman was rejected by Maureen and started filming her trysts, including one with Billy Loomis' father. Roman showed Billy the footage, persuaded him to recruit an accomplice (Stu Macher) and murder Maureen, setting off the first of five six mass murder sprees, including one perpetrated by Roman where Milton himself was killed]].
** In [[Film/Scream2022 the fifth film]], Creator/RianJohnson ends up making [[ShowWithinAShow the 8th "Stab" installment]], which meets... negative critical and fandom reception. [[spoiler:So much so that a pair of {{Loony Fan}}s kill 6 people in an attempt to bring the franchise back to its former glory]].glory and their deaths in turn spawn [[Film/ScreamVI another murder spree]]]].
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* ''Film/MightyMoprhinPowerRangersTheMovie'': The construction workers who find the chamber in which [[BigBad Ivan Ooze's]] egg was kept in, resulting in Zedd finding said egg and unleashing Ivan upon the planet.

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* ''Film/MightyMoprhinPowerRangersTheMovie'': ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'': The construction workers who find the chamber in which [[BigBad Ivan Ooze's]] egg was kept in, resulting in Zedd finding said egg and unleashing Ivan upon the planet.
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* ''Film/BoyEatsGirl'': First Grace causes her son to hang himself accidentally, and then through [[CameBackWrong resurrecting him wrong]] ultimately she kills most of the town.
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** The Alien Queen wouldn't have had the chance to get on the Sulaco had Ripley not mashed the call buttons for ''both'' service elevators, which allowed the Queen to follow Ripley and Newt to their rendezvous point with Bishop.
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** Sonny showing interest in Sollozzo's deal despite his father's opposition to said deal is what spurs Sollozzo to plot an attempt on Vito's life.
** It's revealed that Sonny is the one to invite Carlo to Vito's birthday and thus, introduce Carlo to Connie, setting up their eventual wedding and the DomesticAbuse that soon occurs.

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** Sonny showing interest in Sollozzo's deal despite his father's opposition to said deal is what spurs Sollozzo to plot an attempt on Vito's life.
life, which in turn leads to Michael getting involved and his StartOfDarkness and all the pain and grief he experienced throughout the trilogy as he fell from grace.
** It's revealed that Sonny is the one to invite Carlo to Vito's birthday and thus, introduce Carlo to Connie, setting up their eventual wedding and the DomesticAbuse that soon occurs.occurs, which in turn is used to cause Sonny's own death.
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* In ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', a man from 2015 makes an offhand comment to Marty [=McFly=] about using knowledge of the future to bet on sports games. The end result is the Biff-horrific 1985 that Doc Brown and Marty return to. When Doc and Marty travel to 1955, we see that the man was actually the mechanic who fixed Biff's car after it got wrecked in the first film, which retroactively makes him this trope for that film, too, as Biff's anger about how expensive the repairs were drives him to hunt down Marty and then tries to assault Lorraine.

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* In ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', a man from 2015 makes an offhand comment to Marty [=McFly=] about using knowledge of the future to bet on sports games. The end result is the Biff-horrific 1985 that Doc Brown and Marty return to. When Doc and Marty travel to 1955, we see that the man was actually the mechanic who fixed Biff's car after it got wrecked in the [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 first film, film]], which retroactively makes him this trope for that film, too, as Biff's anger about how expensive the repairs were drives him to hunt down Marty and then tries to assault Lorraine.
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* ''Film/AHauntingInVenice'':
** [[spoiler: Leopold]]'s blackmail of [[spoiler: Rowena]] results in [[spoiler: Rowena]] almost killing Poirot and actually murdering [[spoiler: two people, including Leopold's father]] who the latter had suspected was the real blackmailer.
** The entire plot started because [[spoiler: Olga unwittingly overdosed Alicia with poisoned honey.]]
** [[spoiler: Ariadne and Vitale]] feed [[spoiler: Reynolds]] inside knowledge of Alicia's death which would convince [[spoiler: Rowena]] that [[spoiler: Reynolds]] was the blackmailer leading to [[spoiler: Reynolds]]'s murder.

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