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Times where the villain creates their own hero in Fan Works.


Crossovers
  • All For Luz: Tyler Wittebane assisted the Antagonistic Governor Rodger Maxwell in creating the Death Camp for superhuman children that involved Luz turning into a ruthless and powerful Anti-Hero, with a personal vendetta to see him dead by her hands.
  • In Amazing Fantasy, Prowler's failure to obtain the genetically-altered spider Mysterio sent her after allowed it to bite Izuku and grant him spider-powers. Then her attempt to assassinate Peter led Izuku to rush into the fray to help him, which inspires All Might to give Izuku the pep talk Izuku needed to accept Peter's tutelage and begin training to become Spider-Man. Mysterio is also guilty of this, since it's implied that he was the one who tried to replicate the spider that gave Peter his powers.
  • Kwami Magi Homura Magica has the Incubators, whose actions led to the creation of Homura Akemi, and not just by contracting with her in the first place. Their actions in trying to save the universe created the conditions for anomalies in time that, alongside disastrous events like Cat Blanc, also created Homura where if nothing had changed she would have remained a civilian in the original timeline. This would eventually culminate in Homura and Marinette making a wish that completely changes history and ultimately tears apart the Incubator's universal ambitions, leaving them in a much reduced state afterwards.
  • The monsters of the H-series Monster Girl Encyclopedia have stopped killing humans to prevent the Order from getting competent Heroes, who resort to inhumane methods to produce their military might. However, crossover fics have their inability to understand why normal humans would be disgusted by them anyway (for obvious reasons) create people who oppose them inexorably, leading to either their loss or ending the conflict that’s more favorable for humanity and other non-monster races than otherwise.
    • In Knight of Death and Rebirth, the actions of the Radical Faction (particularly Meivia and Druella) cause Lelouch to become a Black Knight seeking to overthrow Lilith along with Britannia and the Chief God. The repercussions don’t help as he saves several Heroes of Lescatie from becoming monsters, who all join him as True Companions.
  • Shadows over Meridian: Taranee lampshades the irony of how Nerissa invoked this with the Guardians; had she not convinced Kandrakar that Phobos was a threat to the realms outside Meridian, they wouldn't have raised the Veil and given the Heart to the new generation of the Guardians.
  • Non-villainous example in The Superheroics of Haruhi Suzumiya. When Haruhi is transferred to Izuku's class, Bakugou suggests that the two should be friends because they're Quirkless. This single act backfires horribly as Izuku and Haruhi start training together to become Quirkless Heroes, and they steal his thunder during the Sports Festival. Moreover, when Bakugou starts insulting Haruhi, Izuku hits the Rage Breaking Point and after punching Bakugou lets him have it for all those years of bullying, telling him that he's got nobody else to blame but himself for pushing the two Quirkless kids to be friends.
  • Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse: After being stranded in the world of One Piece, Ranma Saotome and his companions initially just wanted to figure out a way to get back home. After a bunch of miscommunications with World Government Marines who, through a mixture of corruption, laziness and overzealotry, decided to label them as a pirate crew, they decided that they might as well become pirates for real, and since then have gone out of their way to beat up Marines for the fun of it.

Godzilla

  • Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): After swallowing Vivienne Graham, Ghidorah kept her alive inside itself and sought to turn her into an Artificial Hybrid in its own image, with the left head wanting Vivienne as a playmate and a sister while the dominant center head wanted to punish and break her by inflicting A Fate Worse Than Death on her. However, Ghidorah is temporarily dead when its plan for Vivienne is completed and she's reborn, with only the mind of the left head (San) around to manage her. By the time that Ghidorah's other two minds and its body have recovered enough to begin acting again, Vivienne's influence has brought San to a Heel–Face Turn, and Viv and San join Godzilla's side in opposing Ghidorah.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

  • In Sixes and Sevens, HYDRA experiments are what give Roger Aubrey his powers, and the ability to tear apart the base he was being held at.

Miraculous Ladybug

  • Adrien AUgreste: The New World After the Wish: In the post-wish timeline, Emilie Agreste is the new Butterfly villain Lycaena in place of her comatose husband Gabriel. As part of her ploy to create the perfect akuma armada against the much larger Team Miraculous, she recruits Lila and akumatizes her to transform and frame Marinette (to make her become Princess Justice, her strongest akuma, once more), Alya (who was investigating Lila's lies after temporarily becoming Scarabelle), and Max (to emotionally weaken his best friend Kim so it will be easier for him to become Dark Cupid again), causing the three to be expelled. Rather than stand down, the trio and their allies work to investigate and expose the various corruption among the rich in Paris, Emilie herself being one of their top targets.
    • The one to ultimately bring Emilie's downfall is her own son Adrien, who she had been emotionally manipulating and controlling for years and took to raise as her own from Adrien's birth mother, her twin sister Amelia. Besides fighting her and her akuma as Chat Noir, Adrien would ultimately take her down in the final chapter through his emancipation trial where he reveals her as Lycaena and how she and Gabriel have been using the Miraculouses to build theirs and the Bourgeois's wealth.

My Hero Academia

  • Purposely invoked by Toshinori in To Make A Better Hero with Izuku. After getting a hard reality check on the quality of his fellow heroes in his fateful fight with All for One, Toshinori decides to purge the heroics industry of the heroes who did nothing and coast on their fame. So when he meets Izuku, who helps him in spite of knowing that he's a supervillain, he decides to cultivate Izuku's heroism by forcing All for One on him.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

  • In the Pony POV Series:
    • Discord accidentally did this in the most literal way possible: during the G3 apocalypse, he decided to spare Pinkie and Minty for giggles and just to annoy he this partner Luna. This not only results in Pinkie surviving the entire thing and being reincarnated into the next world, but Pinkie Pie puts mortally wounded Minty's Light of Existence into the Shadow of Existence of G1 Twilight, creating G4 Twilight. In other words: two of Discord's greatest enemies are a direct result of him screwing with Luna for laughs eons ago.
    • In Dark World, it turns out that Nightmare Eclipse has been Running Both Sides in her Evil Plan to torture Discord via "Groundhog Day" Loop, meaning Twilight rebelling and assembling a team to defeat Discord was all her doing, and thus she created the very team that ultimately beats her. Discord's Heel–Face Turn and helping them beat her was also a result of her hundreds of thousands of years of torture to him.
    • Due to the nature of the Rumors, several of the Cutie Mark Crusaders' allies in defeating them gained powers or were even created outright from the Rumors themselves.

Pokémon

Total Drama

  • Cast Swap: An odd indirect example — Scarlett's early-game decision to help eliminate Amy instead of Sammy actually allows Sammy the time to grow a spine throughout the course of the show and eventually take down Scarlett in the final challenge. The twist is that Sammy isn't even aware Scarlett did this, and neither of them bring it up by the end of the season.

Young Justice

  • In Risk It All, Black Mask inadvertently awakens Ren's powers by shooting him in the head, leading to Black Mask's downfall as Ren makes it his mission to dismantle his operations.


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