History UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom / VisualNovels

** ''Part I'':

** ''Part II'': [[spoiler:Genjiro Kaneda scamming a factory out of its owner's hands and driving him to suicide were what caused Hibino to go on a series of murder whose victims included Yoko, Genjiro's son, and Genjiro himself along with Hibino chasing after Shinobu until she died from getting hit by a car when she witnessed Genjiro's murder]].

** Part II'': [[spoiler:Genjiro Kaneda scamming a factory out of its owner's hands and driving him to suicide were what caused Hibino to go on a series of murder whose victims included Yoko, Genjiro's son, and Genjiro himself along with Hibino chasing after Shinobu until she died from getting hit by a car when she witnessed Genjiro's murder]].

* ''VisualNovel/FamicomDetectiveClub Part II'': [[spoiler:Genjiro Kaneda scamming a factory out of its owner's hands and driving him to suicide were what caused Hibino to go on a series of murder whose victims included Yoko, Genjiro's son, and Genjiro himself along with Hibino chasing after Shinobu until she died from getting hit by a car when she witnessed Genjiro's murder]].

** The games have one (although it's more attributed to the series being a LongRunner more than anything): [[spoiler:Tsukasa Oyashiki[=/=]Katherine Hall]] is indirectly responsible for [[ThatOneCase the DL-6 incident]], and therefore the events of the series as a whole, thanks to [[spoiler:inadvertently hiding the IS-7 victim's body. This was due to the fact that she stole and hid some sherbet sculptures made by the victim (a famous sculptor whose works her adoptive father enjoyed) in order to prevent his final works from being destroyed, not realizing that the killer hid the body among them until well after the fact. The body going missing led to Blaise Debeste forging an autopsy report and passing it on to Manfred von Karma, which led to von Karma getting a penalty when Gregory Edgeworth revealed the forgery in court (and the fact that they coerced a confession from the suspect)]], which in turn led to the DL-6 incident [[spoiler:where Manfred killed Gregory and adopted his son Miles to get RevengeThroughCorruption]]. DL-6 in turn ruined Miles Edgeworth and Yanni Yogi's lives, ruined the reputation of the Fey family (causing the family strife that was a partial StartOfDarkness for Morgan and Dahlia), and led to the conflict between Mia Fey and Redd White, which ended in the latter murdering the former. [[spoiler:Katherine]]'s got a ''lot'' of blood on her hands she doesn't even know about, and all because she wanted to do something nice for her dad.

* ''FamicomDetectiveClub Part II'': [[spoiler:Genjiro Kaneda scamming a factory out of its owner's hands and driving him to suicide were what caused Hibino to go on a series of murder whose victims included Yoko, Genjiro's son, and Genjiro himself along with Hibino chasing after Shinobu until she died from getting hit by a car when she witnessed Genjiro's murder]].

** The games have one (although it's more attributed to the series being a LongRunner more than anything): [[spoiler:Tsukasa Oyashiki[=/=]Katherine Hall]] is indirectly responsible for [[ThatOneCase the DL-6 incident]], and therefore the events of the series as a whole, thanks to [[spoiler:inadvertently hiding the IS-7 victim's body. This was due to the fact that she stole and hid some sherbet sculptures made by the victim (a famous sculptor whose works her adoptive father enjoyed) in order to prevent his final works from being destroyed, not realizing that the killer hid the body among them until well after the fact. The body going missing led to Blaise Debeste forging an autopsy report and passing it on to Manfred von Karma, which led to von Karma getting a penalty when Gregory Edgeworth revealed the forgery in court (and the fact that they coerced a confession from the suspect)]], which in turn led to the DL-6 incident [[spoiler: where Manfred killed Gregory and adopted his son Miles to get RevengeThroughCorruption]]. DL-6 in turn ruined Miles Edgeworth and Yanni Yogi's lives, ruined the reputation of the Fey family (causing the family strife that was a partial StartOfDarkness for Morgan and Dahlia), and led to the conflict between Mia Fey and Redd White, which ended in the latter murdering the former. [[spoiler: Katherine]]'s got a ''lot'' of blood on her hands she doesn't even know about, and all because she wanted to do something nice for her dad.

** ''Dual Destinies'' establishes that there were two cases behind the 'Dark Age of the Law' that occurred during the timeskip. While one of these involved a deliberate plot to discredit a lawyer ([[spoiler: Kristoph Gavin framing Phoenix Wright for forging evidence]]), the other was not and only became a legal mess because of things that happened afterwards. [[spoiler: The phantom's mission was just to sabotage the [=HAT=] rockets, and he killed Metis Cykes when she found him. He certainly didn't expect Metis's daughter Athena to incriminate herself while in a state of shell-shock, nor for prosecutor Simon Blackquill to take the fall for her, and it was the controversy surrounding Simon's conviction that helped lead to the Dark Age of the Law.]]
** In ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'', Inspector Satoru Hosonaga plays this role in the first game's second case just by existing in the general direction of the case's main actors. [[spoiler: Nina Pavlova]] enters Kazuma Asogi's room looking for a pet cat, and they have a talk that turns into OneDialogueTwoConversations, during which [[spoiler: Nina begs him not to tell anyone that she's onboard the steamship because she's running away from her abusive ballet troupe back in Russia and intends to start a new life in America.]] Kazuma says that he wants a second opinion about the matter -- Kazuma ''meant'' protagonist Ryunosuke Naruhodo, his best friend who he'd smuggled onboard, but [[spoiler: Nina]] assumed he was talking about Inspector Hosonaga because [[spoiler: Kazuma made a move towards the wardrobe where Ryunosuke was sleeping, which happened to be right next to the alarm bell, which she thought he was going to pull to alert Hosonaga outside. The thought of being discovered and shipped back to her terrible life back in Russia made her panic and, without thinking, she shoved Kazuma, who hit his head in just the wrong place on his bedpost, ended up in a coma, and got amnesia, which would drastically effect events from then on]].

** In [[spoiler: Ignis]]'s route, in the past, humans unwittingly woke up [[spoiler: Vanar]] who would develop a taste for human flesh, which would be passed on to its descendant [[spoiler: Ignis]] and compelling them to develop an insatiable hunger.
** [[spoiler: The A.I. God in Caelm]] reveals their original creator were humans who brought their technology and science to the world almost ten thousand years ago. It's also revealed that [[spoiler: humans were used as a template for angels.]]
** [[spoiler: Yggdrasil]] was of human origin but [[spoiler: the magic in Medio's soil]] caused it to become wildly out of control and needing [[spoiler: fairy souls]] in order to sustain itself.

** ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'': Fuyuhiko plays a video game set up by Monokuma, which reveal details about [[spoiler: his sister's murder and how Mahiru is connected to it.]] He attempts to confront her on the matter, but this leads to [[spoiler:Peko killing Mahiru under the misguided belief that it was according to her master's will.]]

** Also, [[spoiler: Nanami, Hikari and Otome's GirlPosse]] can become the trope, when [[spoiler: they '''horribly''' bully Kotonoha to [[ShippingTorpedo keep her away from Makoto]] [[ShipperOnDeck and make sure Sekai gets him]].]] This can either lead to [[spoiler: Makoto ''completely cutting Sekai off his life'' before choosing Kotonoha since he thinks she's the one instigating the bullying that Koto has been a victim of [[note]](she's almost surely '''not''', but Makoto is simply too angry to consider that because school bullying is his BerserkButton)[[/note]] ]] or to [[spoiler: Kotonoha [[GoMadFromtheRevelation breaking down so badly]] for said harassment that ''she murders Sekai in broad daylight''.]] In either way, their support to one girl over the other ''makes things MUCH worse for the one they wanted to "help"''.

** Furthermore, if that's the case, then [[spoiler: ''Rudolf and Kyrie'']] are also responsible. [[spoiler: Had they not [[ParentWithNewParamour married too soon after the death of Battler's beloved mother]] for the teenage Battler's taste, he would have not broken ties with his paternal family. Therefore, he would've showed up in Rokkenjima sooner and/or more frequently and, as the GuileHero he is, he would've found a way to help poor Sayo deal with their crappy situation, promise or not.]]

* In ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'', Zero mentions a story of how a ''snail'' caused 6 deaths by just being where it was. A woman [[spoiler: heavily hinted to be Eric's mother]] used a different way than usual because a snail was on the usual one. This caused her to meet a young SerialKiller, [[spoiler: who turns out to be Mira]], and get killed. An innocent man [[spoiler: later revealed to be Akane's father]] was caught and sentenced to death, which lead to his wife to commit suicide. The man was going to catch a taxi but he couldn't, and the taxi driver took a surgeon going to operate a kid. The taxi had an accident and both the driver and the surgeon died. Since the kid never received his surgery, he died as well. [[ArcWords Life is simply unfair]].

** In ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'', Inspector Satoru Hosonaga plays this role in the first game's second case just by existing in the general direction of the case's main actors. [[spoiler: Nina Pavlova]] enters Kazuma Asogi's room looking for a pet cat, and they have a talk that turns into OneDialogueTwoConversations, during which [[spoiler: Nina begs him not to tell anyone that she's onboard because she's running away from her abusive ballet troupe back in Russia and intends to start a new life in America.]] Kazuma says that he wants a second opinion about the matter -- Kazuma ''meant'' protagonist Ryunosuke Naruhodo, his best friend who he'd smuggled onboard, but [[spoiler: Nina]] assumed he was talking about Inspector Hosonaga because [[spoiler: Kazuma made a move towards the wardrobe where Ryunosuke was sleeping, which happened to be right next to the alarm bell, which she thought he was going to pull to alert Hosonaga outside. The thought of being discovered and shipped back to her terrible life back in Russia made her panic and, without thinking, she shoved Kazuma, who hit his head in just the wrong place on his bedpost, ended up in a coma, and got amnesia, which would drastically effect events from then on]].

** In ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'', Inspector Satoru Hosonaga plays this role in the first game's second case just by existing in the general direction of the case's main actors. [[spoiler: Nina Pavlova]] enters Kazuma Asogi's room looking for their cat, and they have a talk that turns into OneDialogueTwoConversations, during which Kazuma Asogi mentions wanting a friend's opinion. Kazuma ''meant'' Ryunosuke Naruhodo, his school friend who he'd smuggled onboard in his wardrobe, but the other person assumed he was talking about Inspector Hosonaga. [[spoiler: Since Nina wasn't supposed to be there in the first place, she freaked out over the thought of being discovered and shoved Kazuma, who hit his head in just the wrong place on his bedpost, ended up in a coma, and got amnesia]].

** In ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'', Inspector Satoru Hosonaga plays this role in the first game's second case just by existing in the general direction of the case's main actors. [[spoiler: Nina Pavlova]] enters Kazuma Asogi's room looking for their cat, and they have a talk that turns into OneDialogueTwoConversations, during which Kazuma Asogi mentions wanting a friend's opinion. Kazuma ''meant'' Ryunosuke Naruhodo, his school friend who he'd smuggled onboard in his wardrobe, but the other person assumed he was talking about Inspector Hosonaga. [[spoiler: Since Nina wasn't supposed to be there in the first place, she freaked out over the thought of being discovered and shoved Kazuma, who hit his head in just the wrong place on his bedpost and died]].

** In ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'', Satoru Hosonaga plays this role in the first game's second case just by being there. At night, Kazuma Asougi gets a visit from [[spoiler:Nina Pavlova, who's looking for her cat]], and Asougi, mistaking the visitor or Hosonaga, addresses the person as "Inspector" and describes said inspector as a "friend." After Asougi [[spoiler:learns about the visitor's true identity]], he decides to get a second opinion from his friend- namely, Ryunosuke Naruhodo, who's hiding in the wardrobe- but the visitor assumes that he's talking about Hosonaga. Afraid of what would happen if a law enforcement officer [[spoiler:learned her true identity, Pavlova pushes him over, causing his apparent death.]]

** In ''Justice for All'', when Adrian Andrews discovered the dead body of Juan Corrida, she swiped a card from the crime scene and tampered a few more things. The card in question is a literal CallingCard of assassin Shelly de Killer (and obviously Corrida's killer), who ''intentionally'' leaves them behind so the police would know right away that he's the one who committed the crime. But the police never found the card, and Andrews planted enough evidence to implicate Matt Engarde, de Killer's "client", as the murderer. Because of this de Killer kidnaps Maya Fey in order to blackmail Phoenix Wright into defending Engarde in court.

** The games have one (although it's more attributed to the series being a LongRunner more than anything): [[spoiler:Tsukasa Oyashiki[=/=]Katherine Hall]] is indirectly responsible for [[ThatOneCase the DL-6 incident]], and therefore the events of the series as a whole, thanks to [[spoiler:inadvertently hiding the IS-7 victim's body. This was due to the fact that she stole and hid some sherbet sculptures made by the victim (a famous sculptor whose works her adoptive father enjoyed) in order to prevent his final works from being destroyed, not realizing that the killer hid the body among them until well after the fact. Because of that, she's responsible for the forgery of evidence and Manfred von Karma's single black spot on his beloved perfect record, which caused him to murder Gregory Edgeworth and adopt Miles out of revenge]]. Even worse, the DL-6 Incident led to [[spoiler:the Feys losing their reputation, causing Morgan's husband to leave her and Dahlia to grow up to become a serial killer.]] Poor [[spoiler:Katherine]]'s got a ''lot'' of blood on [[spoiler:her]] hands and probably doesn't even realize it.

** The games have one (although it's more attributed to the series being a LongRunner more than anything): [[spoiler:Tsukasa Oyashiki[=/=]Katherine Hall]] is indirectly responsible for the DL-6 incident, and therefore the events of the series as a whole, thanks to [[spoiler:inadvertently hiding the IS-7 victim's body. This was due to the fact that she stole and hid some sherbet sculptures made by the victim (a famous sculptor whose works her adoptive father enjoyed) in order to prevent his final works from being destroyed, not realizing that the killer hid the body among them until well after the fact. Because of that, she's responsible for the forgery of evidence and Manfred von Karma's single black spot on his beloved perfect record, which caused him to murder Gregory Edgeworth and adopt Miles out of revenge]]. Even worse, the DL-6 Incident led to [[spoiler:the Feys losing their reputation, causing Morgan's husband to leave her and Dahlia to grow up to become a serial killer.]] Poor [[spoiler:Katherine]]'s got a ''lot'' of blood on [[spoiler:her]] hands and probably doesn't even realize it.

*** In the third chapter, Kiyotaka asks Makoto to take him to see [[ArtificialIntelligence Alter Ego]], because [[spoiler:Taka's best friend, Mondo, killed Alter Ego's creator, Chihiro]], something Taka felt very guilty about being unable to stop. Makoto obliges, despite the fact that Kyoko doesn't want anyone near Alter Ego unless absolutely necessary, and the conversation with Alter Ego results in Taka [[spoiler:taking on Mondo's spirit and becoming obsessed with Alter Ego. He then feuds with Hifumi, [[{{Robosexual}} who lusts after Alter Ego]], and Celeste uses that feud to play the two against each other, resulting in Celeste manipulating Hifumi into killing Taka, Celeste killing Hifumi [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness once his part is done]], and Celeste being executed once she's discovered as the culprit]]. The anime had Makoto avert this trope, since Taka was with everyone else when they first found Alter Ego, so Makoto played no role in Taka's conversation with Alter Ego or resulting breakdown.

*** In the third chapter, Kiyotaka asks Makoto to take him to see [[ArtificialIntelligence Alter Ego]], because [[spoiler:Taka's best friend, Mondo, killed Alter Ego's creator, Chihiro]], something Taka felt very guilty about being unable to stop. Makoto obliges, despite the fact that Kyoko doesn't want anyone near Alter Ego unless absolutely necessary, and the conversation with Alter Ego results in Taka [[spoiler:taking on Mondo's spirit and becoming obsessed with "Alter Ego." He then feuds with Hifumi, who lusts after Alter Ego, and Celeste uses that feud to play the two against each other, resulting in Hifumi killing Taka, Celeste killing Hifumi and Celeste being executed once she's discovered as the culprit]]. The anime had Makoto avert this trope, since Taka was with everyone else when they first found Alter Ego, so Makoto played no role in Taka's conversation with Alter Ego or resulting breakdown.

** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': When the cast try out a virtual reality program, Himiko has to remind herself that her right hand is the one she holds her chopsticks with when inserting two wires into the headset. [[spoiler:Gonta turns out to be left-handed, so after hearing her, he gets the wires mixed up and is unable to remember anything that happened in the simulation, including him murdering Miu.]]

** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': When the cast try out a virtual reality program, Himiko has to remind herself that her right hand is the one she holds her chopsticks in when inserting two wires into the headset. [[spoiler:Gonta turns out to be left-handed, so after hearing her, he gets the wires mixed up and is unable to remember anything that happened in the simulation, including him murdering Miu.]]

** Also, [[spoiler: Nanami, Hikari and Otome's GirlPosse]] can become the trope, when [[spoiler: they '''horribly''' bully Kotonoha to [[ShippingTorpedo keep her away from Makoto]] [[ShipperOnDeck and make sure Sekai gets him]].]] This can either lead to [[spoiler: Makoto ''completely cutting Sekai off his life'' before choosing Kotonoha since he thinks she's the one instigating the bullying that Koto has been a victim of [[note]](she's almost surely '''not''', but Makoto is simply too angry to consider that because school bullying is his BerserkButton)[[/note]] ]] or to [[spoiler: Kotonoha [[GoMadFromtheRevelation breaking down so badly]] for said harrassment that ''she murders Sekai in broad daylight''.]] In either way, their support to one girl over the other ''makes things MUCH worse for the one they wanted to "help"''.

** To begin with, there's Rie, who holds the party at the resort, giving the killer a place to kill the victims without anyone calling for help.
** Rie's best friend Runa also counts. She insists that Rie invite Hiro and his girlfriend Momoko, despite the fact that Runa had been in love with the former, simply because she did not want to leave their friends out. She also proposed doing a matching cosplay with Runa, genuinely hoping to befriend her despite their difficulties in the past. [[spoiler:After carrying out her plan of killing Hiro, Momoko uses the rope wrapped around her kimono to hang herself]].