Times where someone attempts to Make Wrong What Once Went Right in Comic Books.
- The premise of William Gibson's Archangel is that in an alternate timeline, the United States used their second atomic bomb not on Nagasaki, but in a sneak attack on the Soviet port of Arkhangelsk, taking out Stalin and most the USSR's chain of command. With the USSR crippled, the resulting timeline leads to the United States becoming The Empire, and the planet eventually becoming a radioactive husk. The comic itself is about the remnant of America's leadership fleeing to the critical juncture point in 1945 - and they want to make sure their history repeats itself.
- The Avengers: In Avengers Annual #2, the villain is the Scarlet Centurion (an alternate identity of Kang the Conqueror's), who used time travel to intervene in the events of Avengers #2 to prevent the Hulk leaving the Avengers... and then convinced them to Take Over the World.
- The ultimate example of this trope would be the Anti-Monitor's attempt to seize and destroy the newborn universe at the moment of its creation in Crisis on Infinite Earths. He gets as far as to actually begin closing his colossal hand's fingers around the small cosmos, before the Spectre sucker-punches him, drags the hand back through the time portal and closes it, averting the trope.
- In the graphic novel Danny Phantom: A Glitch in Time, upon escaping from his imprisonment, Dark Danny, Danny's evil alternate future self travels into the past to change the present for Danny and the rest of Team Phantom, requiring the heroes to go back in time to stop him.
- Death Wreck: Facing defeat and death in 2099, the warlord Burgen decides that his only way to stop the cyborg bounty hunter Death's Head is to rewrite the past to remove him, so he sends a bomb back to 2018 to kill Death's Head's creator Dr. Necker and her initial Flawed Prototype, the titular Death Wreck. It doesn't work out as planned.
- Doctor Who Magazine:
- In the comic "Time and Time Again", the Black Guardian, Anthropomorphic Personification of Chaos, creates a timeline where the Doctor became President and never left Gallifrey, meaning various monsters are fighting over Earth.
- In "The Glorious Dead" the Master gets involved with a man who got made immortal thanks to one of the Doctor's adventures; with the Master's backing, he takes over the world, turning Earth into a religiously fanatic xenophobic spacefaring empire by the 20th century.
- Doomsday Clock revolves around Dr. Manhattan doing this to the New 52 and DC Rebirth timelines in order to test Superman's resolve. He prevents the Justice Society of America from ever forming by killing Alan Scott, almost erases Wally West, rescues Superman's father from the destruction of Krypton only to corrupt him into The Dragon, and much more as he tampers with an entire decade's worth of events.
- The Flash: The first Reverse-Flash's modus operandi, screwing over Barry Allen's entire life in the name of petty revenge, and conveniently giving him an updated, Darker and Edgier backstory. And if not Barry, then anyone who ever remotely annoyed him.
- In Gotham Academy Annual #1 Derek Powers has traveled back in time to kill Warren McGinnis as a child, thereby preventing Terry McGinnis from existing.
- Loki: Agent of Asgard:
- The Big Bad, a once-again evil Loki from the future, does this on occasion, such as altering the meeting between Thor and Angela so that they fight. Subverted when it alters several events in such a way that they turn out better than the older Loki remembered, such as Odin admitting he is actually proud of Thor and Loki. So, Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!
- The guy's grand plan also turned out to be this, or from older Loki's point of view Set Right What Once Went Wrong. You see, this Big Bad is a Fallen Hero, who believes that the fall is inevitable so might as well cut the hero thing altogether. Loki was never big on self-awareness so the plan failed because his older version didn't account for their own stubbornness and contrarian nature, and that the meddling actually helped teenage Loki build human relationships.
- The ultimate objective of The Organization in Paperinik New Adventures is to create a future where they rule uncontested from the shadows.
- In his first appearance, the Raider, their best agent, attempted to do it. Knowing how difficult is to pick the right event to alter without accidentally creating a future that is even worse for their goals, he tries by assembling a device that would take the timeline off the rails and let him choose the new one, but is stopped at the last moment.
- The Organization later succeeds by chance: in a timeline where the Raider died saving Paperinik, the Gryphon (actually the Raider's son, raised by the Organization and convinced it had been Pk's fault) destroys Paperinik's reputation and nearly kills him, accidentally setting off a series of events ending with the Time Police replaced by a front of the Organization. This timeline is erased by Odin Eidolon taking Trip (the Raider's son) just before the Raider went in the mission that killed him and brought him back in time, resulting in the Raider suspending the mission to search for his son (and annulling it after he learned what would happen to Trip if he went through it) and Trip swearing he'll never become like the Gryphon.
- In another occasion it's the Time Police trying to do it. What went right? Duckburg not being destroyed by a cold fusion experiment gone awry, as in the original timeline the experiment did destroy Duckburg. In the end, after too much interference from Paperinik and the Raider, they settle for making sure the experiment fails without the explosion.
- In the reboot a group of Evronians led by Zondag get their hands on Kronin (a Composite Character of the Raider and his predecessor) and his Time Machine, and uses it to prevent the formation of their enemies, the Guardians of the Galaxy (No, not those guysnote ). This results in the destruction of the militaristic Evronian Empire and its replacement with pacifist Evronians, to their immense horror and Kronin's hilarity (as he smugly explains, there was a good reason if Kronin never tried to change the past: the danger of something like this happening).
- Secret Empire: In the lead up to the event, an alternate Captain America believed that he was a HYDRA agent and that the Allies, on the cusp of defeat by the Nazis and HYDRA, had used a Cosmic Cube to steal away that victory and create a world where the Allies won World War II. Upon retrieving the full Cosmic Cube that was once Kubik, this Steve Rogers proceeds to change history "back" to the way he believed it was. Thankfully, it was a Batman Gambit on the side of the heroes that allowed them to save Kubik and the real Steve Rogers and ultimately put the faker in his place.
- Sonic the Comic has a unique example of a hero making wrong what was made right.The Brotherhood of Metallix traveled back in time and prevented the Freak Lab Accident that transformed kind veterinarian Ovi Kintobor into the evil Ivo Robotnik. As the doctor played an integral role aiding Sonic and the Freedom Fighters in opposing the faction, this created a Bad Future where the Brotherhood conquered Mobius and renamed it "Planet Metallix". Sonic then went back and set up the accident, leaving us with the disturbing knowledge that the Blue Blur is responsible for unleashing a great evil in the series, even if it was to prevent a greater evil from taking place.
- The Star Trek: The Next Generation mini-series The Last Generation had Braxton, a Starfleet captain from the 29th Century that once ran into the crew of the Voyager prevent the Khitomer Accords from being signed in 2293 as there was a great catastrophe that would destroy the Milky Way if the Federation continued to exist. That catastrophe? The Hobus supernova.
- The new Ultimate Universe is born from the Maker, the original Ultimate Reed Richards meddling with the origins of many superheroes, such as capturing the spider that bit Peter Parker and making Howard Stark into a war-profiteering Iron Man, in order to create his "utopia": a world under the thumb of a shadowy cabal. He is opposed by Kang the Conqueror from the future as well as Tony Stark, who tries to undo the Maker's damage by restoring the heroes years after their destined twilight age.
- Bedlam, the kid-villain who was responsible for Young Justice coming together, uses Impulse's time-traveling clones (a power he had at the time, but which was later ignored) to mess up everyone's origins, creating a universe where, for all intents and purposes, Superboy and Robin don't exist, and the remaining members of the team are a dangerous mix of amoral and incompetent.
