Unwanted Assistance in Live-Action Films.
- The Abyss: When Lindsey is trying to get the rest of the crew to believe her about the underwater aliens, Hippy, the resident conspiracy nut, goes into his usual Conspiracy Kitchen Sink speech. This results in a zinger:Lindsey: Hippy, do me a favor? Stay off my side.
- In All of Me, Roger provides a concise summary of the ways that Edwina, whose soul has been trapped inside his body for a large part of the film, has tried to help him, and the less-than-desirable effects this has had:Roger: Since you started helping me, in the last twenty-four hours, I've lost my girl, my job, I've alienated my dog! I broke my sunglasses! You can't even get that kind anymore. Stop helping me!!
- Jackie Chan's Passepartout in the 2004 adaptation of Around the World in Eighty Days yelled to Fogg to stop trying to help, in the middle of a big fight with multiple opponents.
- Blazing Saddles: Lyle had no use for Bart's extra information:Bart: Uh, excuse me, sir? [Taggart] specifically requested two niggers? To tell a family secret, my grandmother was Dutch.
Lyle: Git on that handcart and take it to the end of that line!
Bart: Just tryin' to help.
Lyle: GIT! - In John Woo's Broken Arrow, the Big Bad tells one of his henchmen, with gritted teeth, "Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" when they're in a fight with the main protagonist.
- In the 2017 film Churchill, about the titular prime minister of the UK in the run-up to D-Day, Churchill—who has spent the film worrying that the Allied invasion of Normandy will result in needless Allied deaths, while their senior commanders are never exposed to danger—gets it into his head that he's going to take part in the invasion himself, by observing it from one of the participating ships, HMS Belfast, and he manages to rope King George VI into accompanying him. However, wiser headsnote prevail, and George VI, having been persuaded offscreen that it's a terrible idea, has a scene where he tactfully points out to Churchill that they'll just be in the way, and that their possible deaths would be far worse for the war effort than any brief boost they might provide to the troops' morale. This works when he makes the ultimate appeal to Churchill's sense of duty. (This was Truth in Television: Churchill did want to observe Operation Overlord, he did persuade George VI to do it with him, and George VI did change his mind and tell Churchill that it was a bad idea.)
- Dance of the Dead: The Sci-Fi club loudly yell out for Steven to ask Gwen out right as he's awkwardly trying to deny association with them while talking to her.
- The Dark Knight: Batman doesn't want copycats' help in taking down Scarecrow and his customers:Juvenile vigilantes: (after being tied up by Batman) We're trying to help you!
- In Diamonds Are Forever, James Bond switches out a real computer tape for a fake one to derail a villain's plan... only to find that his latest Bond Girl, out to be helpful, also switched the tapes.James Bond: You stupid twit, you put the real one back!
- High School High: When Victoria is winning a fight with a thug, Richard tries to heroically swoop in but ends up hitting Victoria more than her opponent.
- In Hudson Hawk, Anna tries to help Eddie (Bruce Willis), who's fighting Battle Butler Alfred, with a gun. Unfortunately, she's never fired a gun before. Her first shot ricochets off Eddie's belt buckle, causing him to quote the Fifth Commandment.note Her next shot wings him, causing him to exclaim "Stop helping me!".
- In Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Harry manages to blurt this out a few times to Gay Perry, who is fiercely pissing off the thug who has some electrodes attached to Harry's googlies.
- Neo holds this attitude towards "Kid" in the sequels to The Matrix.
- Sir Robin's minstrels in Monty Python and the Holy Grail praise him as a hero to potential enemies he'd rather run away from.
- There's also this exchange when Sir Lancelot shows up to "save" Sir Galahad from the "peril" of eight score blondes and brunettes between the ages of 16 and 19½:Lancelot: We were in the nick of time! You were in great peril.
Galahad: I don't think I was.
Lancelot: Yes you were, you were in terrible peril!
Galahad: Look, let me go back in there and face the peril.
Lancelot: No, it's too perilous.
Galahad: It's my duty as a knight to sample as much peril as I can!
Lancelot: No, we've got to find the Holy Grail. Come on!
Galahad: Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?
Lancelot: No. It's unhealthy.
Galahad: ...I bet you're gay.
Lancelot: ... No, I'm not.
- There's also this exchange when Sir Lancelot shows up to "save" Sir Galahad from the "peril" of eight score blondes and brunettes between the ages of 16 and 19½:
- Throughout the first Once Upon a Time in China movie, Wong Fei-Hung is facing considerable legal difficulties with the authorities, ultimately resulting in him being arrested. These difficulties are entirely the fault of his students recklessly brawling with the local gang and trying to help their teacher without thinking anything through, resulting in Fei-Hung getting blamed for the disruption and property damage they cause as their leader.
- The Producers: In the original movie, when Leo Bloom stands up at their trial to speak in Max Bialystock's defense, he starts by listing all of Max's faults and shortcomings. "Stop helping me," Max says.
- In Sense and Sensibility, Marianne and Brandon are starting to become friendly with each other, until (as noted in Emma Thompson's commentary) Mrs. Jennings tries to push them together. This only causes Brandon to be embarrassed and Marianne to draw back sharply due to her dislike of Mrs. Jennings. Soon after she falls hard for Willoughby.
- In Shaun of the Dead, friends' help is just as likely to hurt, to the point of a Running Gag. During Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" scene, Diane 'helps' Shaun fend off a zombie bartender by throwing darts, with mixed success.Shaun: [after Diane scores a hit]' Yes! In the head! Aaaaow!
- Star Wars: This is the heroes' initial reaction to Lando getting them out of Cloud City's prisons:Lando: [while being strangled by Chewbacca] Just trying to help...
- Mr. Shoop from Summer School (1987) goes to court and his students try to help him, to which he replies, "Guys, don't help."
- In True Lies, Gib is trying to help Harry get over his wife cheating on him (she isn't, but Harry thinks she is):Harry Tasker: Stop cheering me up!
