Times where someone attempts to Make Wrong What Once Went Right in Anime and Manga.
- Numerous Doraemon films have the gang going on adventures in the past, only to run into villains which, in a surprising twist, turn out to be criminals from the 22nd Century who went back in time to evade authorities.
- Notably, Gigazombie from Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan uses his technology to enslave a stone-age tribe and make himself worshipped as a God.
- Cash and his underlings from Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas traveled back to The Golden Age of Piracy and perform ilicit experiments of creating giant monsters by mutating various life forms (resulting in inspiring the myths of the Krakken, Leviathan, Bunyip and other monster legends).
- Professor Storm from Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters goes back to the past to ensure an avoided apocalypse will actually happen, so he can manipulate the apocalypse for his own benefits and rule over mankind in the aftermath.
- On Flint the Time Detective, the main characters travel back in time to fix the problems caused in the time line when the Time Shifters were scattered. However, the villain, Petrafina, usually planned to use the Shifters' power for her own gain in whatever particular time period she was in.
- The spin-off of High School D×D called DxD EX is about Loki, the Big Bad of volume 7, going back in time to rewrite history in which he wins against the Occult Research Club. His actions result in the very unpopular changes to the plot seen in Season 3 of the anime. Unfortunately for him, Issei's kids are involved and manage to get history back on track.
- The villain trio Ojamaman of the Time Bokan series, Time Patrol Tai Otasukeman, does this under the instructions of Tomomot, the Big Bad of the show. Fortunately they always stopped by the heroes.
- The Rave Master world is a case of Set Right What Once Went Wrong, so the late-story villains are doing everything in their power to undo that and restore the "True" world, a barren wasteland.
- Yo-kai Watch featured this trope in two of its episodes: In the former, Kin and Gin decide to first send Jibanyan back when he was a normal cat living with Amy in order to avoid his supposed disgrace upon death note by letting her be hit by the truck instead, in order to avert his fateful meeting with Nate in the present; and in the latter, they send Whisper to the Sengoku era when he was Ishida Mitsunari's tactician in order to avoid his historical death, with the same sinister purpose as the above. Thankfully, both attempts blew on their faces because in the former, Amy was supposed to dienote , so Jibanyan pulled an Heroic Sacrifice, and Amy was actually calling herself lame and tearfully mourned the death of his dear cat; and in the latter, the Shogun accepted his grim fate and allowed himself to be inspirited by Whispocrates one last time in order to enter the annals of history.
- They did a rather successful attempt in the first film by having two Wicked inspirit some bullies and attack Nathaniel's friend, all while Nathaniel was too scared to do anything, in order for his friend to berate him and in turn cause Nathaniel to lose any hope in friendship, which in turn made any purpose to create the Yo-kai Watch moot and to Nate to lose his and all his memories about it. It stuck for a while until Hovernyan himself encouraged Nate to travel to the past and eventually Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
- Yugi, Judai and Yusei view Paradox's goals as this in Yu-Gi-Oh!: Bonds Beyond Time. Paradox's endgame plan is to go back in time and murder Pegasus, preventing Duel Monsters from existing.
