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- Blacksad: At the end of Somewhere in the Shadows, Ivo Statoc, Natalie's murderer, taunts Blacksad about how he's too good of a man to shoot someone in cold blood. Unfortunately for the villain, that taunting (and the smug nature underlying it) is exactly enough provocation to piss Blacksad off enough to shoot him.
- 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.
- The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: In Issue #7, McIver's henchmen have Indy cornered in a corridor. They open fire and their Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy accuracy blows the open the locked door that was blocking Indy, allowing him to escape.
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1992): 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!"
- The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck: Soapy Slick would have managed to steal Scrooge's mine, but he decided to humiliate him, read his mail aloud and joke about his mother's death. No one knows exactly what happened after that, except that somehow a piano flew through the window, the steamboat exploded, and Soapy Slick ended up in jail.
- My Little Pony Generations: Since Violet Shiver doesn't know the first thing about making streamers by hoof, she resorts to using spells. Twilight sees this, becomes suspicious of her and takes the streamers to Zecora where they find the dark spell strands within it. After this causes Twilight and Pinkie to fight and nearly possesses Twilight, Twilight and Zecora realize that it's a magic not of their world and pinpoint the G1 universe where Zecora manages to make a doorway to and sends the rest of the heroes to go find help.
- The Powerpuff Girls: 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.
- Sonic the Hedgehog:
- In Sonic the Comic, Sonic's Superpowered Evil Side Super Sonic was sealed in the Black Asteroid but was able to escape by charging himself up so much that he made himself into a sort of electron bomb in order to destroy the Asteroid. The explosion produced an electro-magnetic pulse that spread all over planet Mobius, which caused the totally unintentional side effect of deactivating all of Robotnik's Badniks and computers, and contributing to the end of Robotnik's dictatorship; all Super Sonic intended to do was to escape the Black Asteroid, and then kill Sonic and then everyone else.
- Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man: Worlds Collide has Sonic and Mega Man attempt to use Chaos Control to fix their worlds. Mega Man's set back to normal, but Eggman's desperate attempt to win ends up messing up Mobius, turning it into a different world... as well as voiding all of his victories, restoring the Freedom Fighters to the point where they Took a Level in Badass and giving them more allies to use in their fight. His actions also had the benefit of cancelling out, at this time, nearly all of the other villains and assorted threats in the comic, with only those from the games and American cartoons still around.
To top it off, as Eggman adapts to the new timeline he says that his new memories will overtake his old ones. It was his realization that Sonic's an embodiment of chaos that drove him to make the tech that led to the crossover and slowly tear apart the Freedom Fighters to begin with. Once his memories fully adjust, he'll become less of a threat than before.
- Star Trek (IDW): In the "Vulcan's Vengeance" arc, the Narada survivors' attempt to destroy Romulus with the Red Matter is averted, but the substance itself is left behind in the custody of the Romulan Senate. Ironically, this gives the Senate the eventual power to prevent the planet from being consumed by the supernova from their nearby sun, which is what happened to their Prime Universe counterparts.
- Street Fighter:
- Rose left behind an amnesiac Killer Bee (renamed Cammy) at a British Embassy to begin a new peaceful life, but some terrorist attacked which triggered her Killer Bee Mode that made her defeat all of the terrorists in front of Delta Red. She was invited to join Delta Red and helped them against Shadaloo from then on.
- Vega did this twice in the comic:
- The first was when Cammy was being reprogrammed into Killer Bee, but stopped it, since he believes beautiful people shouldn't be punished that way. That caused Cammy to sneak Chun-Li and Guile into the Shadaloo base to foil Bison's plans.
- Another was when he nearly defeated Ken, but instead of ending it quickly, he read him a letter from Eliza saying she's pregnant giving Ken a second wind and defeated the assassin.
- Vader's Quest: When Vader learns that the Death Star's destroyer is named Skywalker, several Bounty Hunters are in the vicinity, and he decides Murder Is the Best Solution 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 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.
- Usagi Yojimbo: 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.
- The 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 Literal Genie 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.
- Children's 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. 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 (they are good for kicking bloodthirsty weasels to kingdom come).
