Unwitting Instigator Of Doom / Video Games

Unwitting Instigators of Doom in video games.

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• Ace Combat
  • In Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere, Rena Hirose is eventually revealed to have been the test pilot for General Resource’s X-49 Night Raven. Thing is, she was a child when she tested the thing, and an interview with her at the age of 9, lead to a massive scandal that forced General Resource to cut their losses, namely by killing anyone and everyone who was involved with the project. One of them was a woman named Yoko Martha Inoue, whose death lead to Abyssal Dision and Simon Orestes Cohen to vow revenge, which lead to Corporate War between General Resource and Neucom.
  • In Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, Rosa Cossette D’Elise, the princess of Erusea, declares war on Osea over the construction of the Lighthouse, under the belief it represents encroaching Osean imperialism on the Usean continent. However, its eventually revealed that she was manipulated by young Erusean officers called the Radicals, who wanted to use the drone army that they had acquired from the Belkans. Said drone army was controlled by an Artificial Intelligence, and with the help of a belkan scientist named Dr. Schroeder, who collected flight and neurological data from the retired Erusean Ace Pilot Mihaly Shilage, the AI controlling the drones was gradually made smarter and smarter. It eventually resulted in the creation of Hugin and Munin, who turned out to be far smarter than they had anticipated, as they sought to spark off a Skynet-like revolution on humanity.
    • Dr. Schroeder also turns out to be one, as it is heavily implied that his research into improving the AI that was controlling Erusea’s drone army will eventually result in the creation of Nemo.
• "Principal Of The Thing" from Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning seems to be completely unaware of the fact that putting the player-character in the detention room raises his risk of getting caught by an angry Baldi.
• In Baldur's Gate III, the devil Raphael became the Greater-Scope Villain by complete accident. He was the one who raised Big Bad Wannabe Lord Gortash into The Antichrist and indirectly gave him the idea of stealing the Artifact of Doom he needed for his plan, simply because he wanted a slave. His whole The Chessmaster act is simply a desperate attempt to regain control of the situation and manipulate the Player Character into helping him come out on top.
• Banjo-Kazooie: Tooty insisting Banjo and Kazooie return to the top of Gruntilda's Lair at the end of the first game to finish her off may have made sense to ensure that she doesn't become a Karma Houdini, but on the other hand by not letting it go, it put together the pieces for her next three attacks, including the destruction of Spiral Mountain and Banjo's house and the (temporary) deaths of Bottles and King Jingaling.
• In Bastion The Manipulative Bastard who seduced and betrayed Zia indirectly caused The Calamity by driving Zia's father into sabotaging the Calamity and getting the Mancers panicked enough to set it off.
• In the Borderlands series:
  • Handsome Jack's hunger for the riches of the mysterious Eridian Vaults unwittingly set into motion an apocalyptic war that would kill billions of people. In fact, Jack was warned about this repeatedly by Colonel Zarpedon and her Lost Legion, whose mission was to either defend the Vaults or destroy them to prevent them from falling into the hands of humans, but Jack dismissed everything they said and was so blinded by his own greed that he never even considered turning back.
  • From The Pre-Sequel, the Watcher's entire plan is this. Starting off with the Meriff's attempt to shoot Jack while his back is turned after Jack chose to spare him teaches Jack that showing mercy to your enemies is a foolish idea that will inevitably come back to bite you in the ass. This, in addition to Roland, Lilith, and Moxxi betraying him later in the game, is what causes Jack to go from someone with genuinely heroic aspirations to a raving megalomaniac who is only the hero in his own mind. Athena even pinpoints the moment that she considers Jack the Hero to have "died", leaving Handsome Jack the Big Bad in his place.
• Breath of Fire
  • Breath of Fire III has Loki. A Lazy Bum and Dirty Coward to the extreme, he convinces Ryu, Teepo and Rei to raid Mayor McNeil's manor to give his riches to the town so that the townspeople won't have to work anymore. What Loki didn't realize until too late was that not only is McNeil as corrupt as they suspected, but he's also got connections to that world's equivalent to The Mafia, who doesn't like being stolen from. Balio and Sunder, Co-Dragons to The Don Mikba, were sent to deal with the troublemakers. Loki turns tail, and Ryu and his friends have to fend for themselves, causing the game's infamous Player Punch when Balio and Sunder beats the crap out of them, and be left for dead.
  • In Breath of Fire IV, Deuteragonist Fou-lu is hiding peacefully in a small village called Sonne, until Imperial troops come looking for him. Fou-lu escapes, but Mami, the girl who nursed him back to health, gets caught for trying to help him. Even worse, Mami is tortured into becoming Human Resources for the Carronade, which is then used to dispose of Fou-lu once and for all. It didn't work because Fou-lu (as a Physical God) survives, eventually deciding on Humans Are Bastards. He heads to the Imperial Capital and orders one of his minions (previously a Guardian Entity for the capital until Fou-lu, the first emperor, returned) to turn against the city, setting up the endgame. All this happened because of the landlord of Sonne, who alerted the Imperials in the first place, just because he was paranoid (and maybe even envious) about Fou-lu's presence in his village.
• Bug Fables: Yale, the trinket seller on Metal Island, confesses that he once gave Hoaxe the Ancient Crown after fishing it up from the lake, which resulted in him becoming the Wasp King, overthrowing Queen Vanessa II and nearly plunging all of Bugaria to its doom under his tyrannical rule.
• Chicory: A Colorful Tale: As Chicory tells Pizza during the Wielder's Trials, Blackberry kept quiet about the flaws she noticed in Chicory until it was time to actually pass down her title, at which point she tried to take the brush back. This only exacerbated Chicory's anxiety, creating corruption through the brush, while also giving Chicory reason to isolate herself from her mentor and bottle up her emotions, making the corruption grow even worse.
• Cyberpunk 2077 had Rache Bartmoss, The Ace netrunner and the Big Brother Mentor of Johnny Silverhand's crewmate Spider Murphy. Rache was a Well-Intentioned Extremist who left a Dead Man's Switch in the form of the DataKrash virus, which was intended to infect corporate databases and leak their files. After he was assassinated by Arasaka, his plan had Gone Horribly Wrong and DataKrash infected 80% of the Internet, in turn unleashing multiple AIs being developed by the U.S. government that inevitably turned evil. 55 years later and nobody's been able to fix it since, plus the constant threat of a Robot War now lingers over humanity's collective heads thanks to him and the corps.
• Dwight of Dead by Daylight happened to lose his glasses during a chase in the Entity's realm. While fumbling about for them, he stumbled onto and accidentally solved an odd puzzle box that had appeared in the realm. That box was the Lament Configuration and thanks to him, the survivors now have Pinhead to deal with.
• Deepwoken: Mortus is a Capra who teaches players how to use Monster Bait to attract monsters such as Megalodaunts, Terrapods and Threshers. However, he also unwittingly caused the infamous "The Dreaded Winter of 1291", more known as the Sharko Rumbling, as greedy players placed multiple Megalodaunt Bait at once, mostly notably at Etris, which resulted in a flood of Megalodaunts trambling across the entire Luminant, and resulted in the deaths of the hundreds of people alongside sending many of them into the Depths.
• Dragon Age:
  • Varric Tethras once found out about a family of destitute former nobles trying to earn enough coin to buy back their estate. Taking a liking to them and figuring they could help, he decided to let them in on an expedition to the Deep Roads. Through an unlikely chain of events, this eventually leads to a civil war and nearly the apocalypse. Ironically, Trespasser reveals that both he and Hawke (below) were Unwitting Instigators of Salvation, because releasing Corypheus meant that he was around to mess up a completely unrelated plot to destroy the world that none of the heroes knew about until Corypheus had already ruined it beyond repair and forced the mastermind to look for a backup.
  • The Warden Commander of Ferelden (regardless of whether s/he was the Hero who vanquished the Blight or an Orlesian Warden sent as replacement) took the runaway mage Anders under his/her wing, protected him from the Templars who had been pursuing him, thus showing him that Templars could be openly defied and led him to meet the spirit of Justice, events which started Anders' radicalization and led to the eventual start of the Mage-Templar war.
  • Hawke, and not just because s/he started the Mage-Templar War. In fact, the entire reason the Breach opened and the world is being threatened in Inquisition is because Hawke accidentally released Corypheus from his prison while trying to stop a cult from doing the same in the Legacy DLC.
  • It is revealed in Dragon Age: Inquisition that the capacity for the Rite of Tranquility to strip mages of their magic was discovered when a mage attempted to join the Seekers of Truth. Without that, the Seekers would never have started using the Rite on mages, and its use would not have been abused for political, and occasionally baser, purposes, which are among the things that led mages to rebel. All because of one well-meaning mage who thought he found a reliable way to keep mages from becoming possessed. In addition, the Seekers have always known that it's possible to reverse the Rite but have kept it in the dark. Now the knowledge may only serve to fuel the fire of the conflict.
  • Isabela stole the Tome of Koslun from the qunari, thus leaving the Arishok stuck in Kirkwall. This led to the qunari attack which killed Viscount Dumar, leaving a power vacuum which Meredith stepped in to fill, kicking off the Mage-Templar War and... you know the rest.
• Dragon Quest:
  • In an unique variation of this in Dragon Quest VII, the owner of Greenthumb Gardens, Burdock, ends up setting the stage for several characters’ misery when he notices that his lazy and irresponsible son, Dill, has fallen for Lavender, who’s working to repay the debt her parents had left. Thinking that it would help Dill mature into a more responsible person, he proposes that Lavender marry Dill, offering to forgive her parents’ debt if she does. However, despite accepting the proposal, Lavender was already in love with Carraway, and her engagement causes him to back off from her in the belief that marrying Dill would be better for her and pursuing a relationship with her anyway would cause trouble for his family, despite Lavender’s pleas that they should elope. Also in the mess is Cayenne, a maid that is in love with Dill, who also pushes Carraway to leave with Lavender so she can have Dill for herself, despite his repeated refusals. Eventually, Lavender ends up getting angry and shouts at Carraway that she never wants to see him again after he refuses her pleas, resulting in him leaving Greenthumb to make everyone happy rather then fight for Lavender’s love like she had hoped. This departure results in two things. One, Dill doesn’t mature like Burdock hoped, instead becoming more lazy and even abusive, and ends up losing the garden and family home to the next richest man, resulting in Lavender ditching him and her son and Cayenne marrying the new man in order to poison him, forcing Dill to take the heat for her once she’s exposed, driving the both of them out of Greenthumb. Two, the herb garden Carraway started, Wilted Heart, ends up eventually driving Greenthumb out of business, leaving it as an abandoned garden in the middle of the plains in present day. So while it doesn’t hinder the heroes’ quest, Burdock ultimately ended up helping cause the downfall of his own town and legacy with his attempt at pushing Dill into maturing, causing the both to be forgotten in time.
  • In Dragon Quest IX, during a pre-game flashback, Serena's father is responsible for Corvus' Start of Darkness by showing up at the worst possible moment lying to the guards that Serena tricked Corvus into drinking a sleeping potion in order to have him sold out to the Gittish Empire in exchange for Wormwood's safety. Corvus feels that he has been betrayed, and in spite of fulfilling his end of the bargain, Serena's father, and Serena herself, who he was trying to protect, are both still murdered by the soldiers for their trouble, and Corvus is locked up for 300 years. When he is finally freed near the end of the game, he intends to destroy humanity in light of the perceived betrayal he suffered which has led him to believe that Humans Are Bastards. Thanks for nothing, old man.
• In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Aventus Aretino is a boy who wants to summon the Dark Brotherhood to kill the evil headmistress of an orphanage in Riften. Being the Player Character, you, naturally, have to do the deed. By doing so, you actually come into contact with the Brotherhood, who want to recruit you. You can either turn on their leader, silencing what is possibly one of the last branches of the Brotherhood, or you can join them, starting a blood-soaked questline that culminates in you personally killing the Emperor. All because of this little boy's wish.
• In Fallout 2, the protagonist can go back in time and set in motion the events from the previous game by breaking the water chip.
• Fatal Frame often has one of these in the past that led to the disaster that happened.
  • In almost all games, a man that made the sacrifice fall for him results in the sacrifice failing and thus here breaking out.
  • Folklorists such as Makabe in the second game or Asou in the fifth game also tend to draw misfortune by messing with the rituals in one way or another.
  • Kyozo Kururugi from the fifth game managed to unwittingly destroy almost all protections from the Night Spring. He killed countless Mikos on the mountain which haunted Ouse, making her unsteady and also killed the protectors of the Holy Fire which is one of the last resorts to calm the the Night Spring.
• In Final Fantasy II, the cowardly Prince Gordon eventually musters the courage to assist the rebellion and departs for his home of Kashuan. Except he departs just when Firion's party needs to enter Kashuan Keep, which can only be opened by a member of the Kashuan royal family or the Goddess's Bell, forcing Firion's party to detour to the Snow Cavern to retrieve the Goddess's Bell. Their guide, Josef, doesn't return from the Snow Cavern.
• Final Fantasy VI: In the flashback showing Emperor Ghestal's invasion of the Esper world, an unnamed Esper declares that Madeline, a human who had crossed the gate by accident two years before, probably led the Empire there. This upsets Madeline enough for her to make a run for the gate with her half-Esper daughter, Terra, thinking that none of the Espers wanted them there. While her husband, Maduin, was able to convince her to stay, it was too late and the entire family was thrown into the human world. Ghestal murdered Madeline and took Terra to be used as the baseline for how to infuse humans with magical abilities. The first magitek soldier was Kefka. That entire catastrophic chain of events started with one Esper shooting her mouth off.
• Final Fantasy VII:
  • Professor Gast certainly counts. While he has the best intentions at heart and tries to obtain knowledge to help make the lives of the people better, he released Jenova from its prison, mistakes it for a Cetra, then writes a journal that Sephiroth reads that kicks off his descent into darkness.
  • To a lesser extent, Shinra executive Reeve counts as well. He's the one who designed the Mako Reactors and the Mako refining process. If he had never made his discovery then Shinra wouldn't have risen to power, probably wouldn't have found Jenova, and the many world-ending events the planet experiences over the next two decades wouldn't have happened. He later becomes The Atoner who tries to make up for the harm he did to the world by helping to build Shinra's power base.
• Final Fantasy X:
  • The destruction of Kilika Port near the beginning of the game is a result of the actions of several characters. Two NPCs, who were from Kilika, wanted to divert Sin's attention (not heeding Wakka's warnings) to steer it away from their town, only to anger Sin further, and the Crusaders Luzzu and Gatta, whose confidential cargo on board the ship is later revealed to be a Sinspawn; as one character puts it, "Sin will always return for its spawn". But then there's perhaps Tidus himself, when a revelation about Sin a little later in the game makes him realize he's the one that keeps drawing Sin out.
  • So Yuna and her friends have uncovered the truth about Maester Seymour, and are getting ready to send his ash to the Farplane, when Trommel intervenes and interrupts the ritual. Then, Trommel, after being confronted with Seymour's wrongdoing destroys the sphere of Seymour's father warning about his son's Start of Darkness, with the excuse that "the Guado deal with Guado affairs." Needless to say, with this action, Yuna and company are forced into hostile terms with not just the Guado, but the entirety of Spira as well, and the unsent Seymour goes on to attack the party several times, proving to be a deadly recurring villain. The decision does later cause trouble for the Guado when Seymour nearly wipes out the Ronso, leading to the near retaliatory genocide of the Guado in the sequel.
  • In Final Fantasy X-2, Maester Wen Kinoc sent a battalion of Crusaders, known as the "Crimson Squad", on a dangerous mission inside the Den of Woe. The real objective of the mission is to figure out what to make of illusions of an ancient machine being seen inside the cave. The Crimson Squad wind up turning their guns on each other, becoming a total massacre, with only four survivors. That's not the doom part, since Kinoc never intended for any of the Crimson Squad to live, and immediately ordered a hit on the survivors. The real doombringer is how one of the Crimson Squad survivors winds up getting possessed by the evil spirit imprisoned in the cave, who plans on getting revenge on all of Spira, resulting in most of the events of the game.
• Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers: The player is initially led to believe that the Echo, the blessing from Hydaelyn that renders them impervious to mind control from the primals, would also protect them from being corrupted by the light of the First's Lightwardens. This was actually a lie Urianger told, as Y'shtola realizes through her Aura Vision that the player character is not immune to the Light, but is slowly being subsumed by it the more of the Lightwardens' aether they absorb. Subverted in that Urianger and the Crystal Exarch knew about this, but the Exarch was prepared for this and planned to pull off a Heroic Sacrifice, taking the Light for himself before slipping into the interdimensional rift, laying down his life to free the First from danger.
  • Endwalker presents more examples with Hermes, an Ancient, and Meteion, his creation. Hermes created Meteion and her sisters from a new form of energy called "Dynamis" with the mission of seeking out new worlds, new civilizations, and finding out what they believed was the purpose of life. Unfortunately, their findings were not conducive to a promising answer: the life on the planets Meteion's sisters found were either already extinct, in the process of going extinct, or fell into despair and went extinct because of Meteion's arrival. Lacking the emotional maturity to deal with this, and possessing powers that bordered on being a Reality Warper, Meteion came to the conclusion that there is no purpose to life: to live was to suffer and die, ergo, the only humane course of action was to accelerate the process by which all life in the universe would go extinct, then seal away the aether that served as the foundation of life so nothing may be born, and nothing may live, ever again. Hermes, himself disenfranchised by the cavalier attitude his peers took to the lives of their creations, initially decided to help her, but had his memories of Meteion's declaration of war against life erased. After the World Sundering and his subsequent rebirth as the Ascian known as Fandaniel, though, he would resume his dark work.
• The plot to Find the Cure! kicks off when some scientists travel to Earth from another dimension, revolutionize society, but unwittingly bring an asymptomatic disease that transmits through proximity and kills anyone infected exactly 25 years later.
• Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem
  • Boah becomes this after convincing Princess Nyna to marry Prince Hardin, a man whom she cares for but is not in romantic love with (she loves Camus the Black Knight while Hardin is in love with her), for the sake of the continent of Archanea. The consequences? Emperor Hardin finds out later and falls into drunken depression, allowing his defenses to become low enough to get Brainwashed and Crazy when given a certain Dragonsphere by a disguised villain... and ultimately, to have Hardin as the Big Bad of the second part of the game. And Boah pays with his own life, his last words to Marth being an apology for the mess he caused while trying to help everyone.
  • It turns out that Nyna's ancestor and the founder of House Archanea, Adrah the Thief, might have caused pretty much every single plot-relevant disgrace in the Archanea series with his actions. Originally a thief who stole the invaluable Shield of Seals (created by Naga herself) from its place (the Fane of Raman), he took five powerful gemstones off it and sold them to fund his war campaign. Using the funds gained from selling the orbs, Adrah raised an army and used it as well as three stolen weapons (the lance Gradivus, the sword Mercurius, and the bow Parthia) to conquer the world and found the kingdom of Archanea. Since the shield had given him such good fortune, he made it the emblem of the royal family and it was renamed the Fire Emblem. Thing is... by removing magical gemstones off a Seal that Naga had created to seal away the Earth Dragons, who had turned feral and were threatening to destroy humanity, Adrah weakened said seal and that allowed Medeus and other Earth Dragons to go crazy one way or another and antagonize humanity. Even worse, the Shield of Seals/Fire Emblem itself would eventually be cursed by Adrah's descendant Princess Artemis, leading the House of Archanea and many people allied with it in one way or another to lead immensely tragic lives... just as it happened to the above-mentioned Nyna, the last member of the Archanea line. Even when the gemstones are eventually returned and put back in the Shield/Emblem, the damage is more or less done.
• Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade features King Desmond of Bern, who is venomously jealous of his son Zephiel for being better at him in almost every respect. He regularly abused the prince, culminating in poisoning him at his coming-of-age ceremony. Zephiel, however, miraculously survived and killed Desmond in retaliation...but it didn't stop there. The poison damaged Zephiel's brain and twisted him from a would-be Wise Prince into a Misanthrope Supreme who saw his father as the prime example of Humans Are the Real Monsters. This led him to ally with the Dragons and spark a war to wipe out mankind and have Dragons take over the continent of Elibe. The events of this war are covered in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade.
• In Fire Emblem: Awakening
  • Near the start of the game, Vaike belches, which offends Maribelle and causes her to storm off, resulting in her being left behind when the rest of the Shepherds head to Regna Ferox. While they're away, Maribelle is captured by the Plegians and accused of being a spy as a Pretext for War, resulting in a war between Ylisse and Plegia that culminates in Emmeryn committing Heroic Suicide to prevent Chrom from handing over the Fire Emblem.
  • In the game, which takes place 2000 years after the Archanea games, the first Exalt of Ylisse used the aforementioned Shield of Seals/Fire Emblem to defeat the Earth Dragon Grima, but could barely handle its enormous power and had four of its gemstones removed from it again. As a consequence, the other four gemstones were scattered around the continents of Ylisse and Valm during a schism, which ultimately "helped" a LOT in having Grima revived in the Bad Future. So the last part of the game's plot (plus a three-part DLC) are focused on recovering the stones again and re-putting them on the Emblem, plus preventing them to be used by the Grimleal to awaken Grima.
  • The biggest one, however, is someone that nobody had expected... According to Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, set in the Archanea continuity, there was a blood mage and Mad Scientist named Forneus. His attempt to create the Ultimate Life Form would result in a being determined to bring about The End of the World as We Know It and who would be fated to succeed in at least two timelines. (And the only reason he ultimately failed is because Naga laid contingency plans to Screw Destiny.) And what's the name of that creature? Grima. Yes, GRIMA.
• The (largely) unseen child killer in the Five Nights at Freddy's series seems to have no idea that his murders have been the cause of every bad thing seen throughout, as his victims haunt the animatronics, leading to the death of at least one security guard, the Bite of '87, the closing of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and, ironically enough, his own death (and subsequent possession of Springtrap).
• Lord Albion of Glory of Heracles III hopes to seal the holes that monsters emerge from the Underworld through. To seal the largest hole, he hopes to reanimate the petrified Atlas. Except Prometheus had intended for the heroes to revive a different petrified being, and using the Gorgons' blood on Atlas instead ruins Prometheus's plans to avert Zeus causing The End of the World as We Know It.
• Ashley Butler, in a cameo in Grand Theft Auto V, has sex with the violently unstable Trevor Phillips for a quick fix. This leads to the death of Johnny Klebitz, the massacre of the entire Liberty City chapter of The Lost, and Ashley herself either being killed by Trevor, or dying in a crack orgy afterwards.
• Harvest Festival 64: Implied. Each of the villagers dies using or utilizing the items the player character gathered for them. The pie lady has her decapitated head stuffed onto a pumpkin pie, the villager asking for wood to build the pyre is seen burning within it, the villager the player gathered shiny stones for has them sewn into his stomach and goes to drown himself and the villager who asked for mushrooms ate them all in one go, overdosing on amanita muscaria and killing himself.
• A minor example occurs in inFAMOUS: Second Son, at the end of the Paper Trail event. Celia, who was sent to Seattle by Augustine as her agent, witnessing Delsin's fight against the DUP, mistaking it for a call to arms against those who fear Conduits, and begun a series of murders reminiscent to the other escaped Conduits, believing that freedom cannot be given, only taken. After witnessing her memories, Delsin has this to say:
  Delsin: Celia, I hate to think that I had a hand in making you what you are. But if I ever find you, I will correct that mistake.
• Cole Phelps of L.A. Noire is a pretty big one. A good chunk of the horrible things that happen throughout the game are ultimately a result of his glory-hounding and incompetence during the war. Not only was he directly responsible for driving Hogeboom insane and hardening Courtney Sheldon's heart and indirectly for Kelso's code of silence about their respective misdeeds during and after the war, but the military surplus heist was entirely driven by his former comrades' resentment of Cole for his undeserved honors. When Cole realizes what he's responsible for he's ultimately Driven to Suicide.
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has the King of Hyrule unwittingly kickstart a series of events that results in Hyrule being in danger and affecting several key characters. 100 years ago, a fortune teller tells the Royal Family that Calamity Ganon will make a return quite soon. In order to prepare, the King has his people unearth ancient technology that was used to battle Ganon 10,000 years prior. Princess Zelda wants to take part in researching the technology so she can assist with the plan, but her father forbids her from "playing scholar" and that she should focus on training her sealing magic so she can be ready to seal Ganon away and he also assigns Link as Zelda's personal knight. Her father also mentions how the townsfolk are spreading rumors on how she is a failure for not being able to wield the power of the goddess passed down to her. As a result, Zelda becomes unconfident with herself since she feels that she is a failure and Link being around is a reminder of that fact, which also causes her to be unable to awaken her powers. When Ganon attacks, he turns all the Guardians and Divine Beasts against their masters, causing the death of the Champions, the King, and nearly causes Link to die as well, which also breaks Zelda since she feels responsible for not being able to prevent the disaster dominoes. After her powers awaken from the traumatic event, Zelda has Link taken to the Shrine of Resurrection while she faced Ganon alone and has been in a deadlock sealing battle with him ever since. Had the King simply allowed Zelda to do what she wished, not only would her confidence not have been shaky, but she would have likely found a way to awaken her powers on her own.
• Live A Live has three characters with short and unwitting but critical roles in turning Oersted, The Hero of the Middle Ages chapter, into the Big Bad Odio:
  • The King of Lucrece. His decision at the beginning of the chapter to hold a tournament where the winner will be granted the right to marry Alethea and be his heir indirectly threatens to doom all realities, because Streibough participates in it and fails to achieve the right to marry his love by being defeated by Oersted in the final round. For holding the tournament in the first place, Streibough plots to have the king killed by Oersted, who then takes the blame. This is just the beginning of Streibough's revenge plot that eventually gives birth to Odio.
  • Uranus, Oersted's mentor, stresses the importance of continuing to fight as long as one person still believes in him right before his own death. This causes Oersted to psychologically latch on to his Love Interest Alethea as his Living Emotional Crutch, and when even she rejects him he completely snaps.
  • Alethea, Oersted's fiancee. She initially tells Oersted that she will always believe in him, but by the time he kills the chapter's Arc Villain said villain has gaslighted her into believing that he never even tried to save her. She proceeds to spit on Oersted's efforts in the worst way possible - by declaring her love for said Arc Villain and committing suicide right in front of him. Her death directly triggers Oersted's total psychotic breakdown and Face–Heel Turn.
  • And of course, there's a downplayed version in the Arc Villain Streibough, who successfully usurped the throne of the Lord of Dark and stole Alethia's love from Oersted, but then squandered them trying to use his new power to utterly destroy Oersted by turning him into a complete pariah. And he did - which then created the True Dark Lord from Oersted's shattered soul, who went on to do far, far worse than what Streibough was planning. When you encounter his enslaved form in the final chapter, he's left in complete broken shock that he managed to create a being so evil that it killed thousands of innocents across seven different time periods.
• Lonely Wolf Treat: Mango, the old rabbit living with Treat's pack, unwittingly drove his daughter Juju into becoming the racist Knight Templar she is today when he stayed with the wolves who helped him after an avalanche that caused him injury, leading Juju to believe he was eaten.
• Mass Effect:
  • Mass Effect 2 has a slight case of this in Joker. Shepard dies at the start of the game specifically because Joker refused to leave the Normandy when it was going down in flames. Shepard was forced to pull off a Heroic Sacrifice for him. Despite this, Joker is still a popular character, but it did earn him some haters. (Then again, if Shepard hadn't died in the beginning, Cerberus wouldn't have given Shepard the Normandy SR-2 and a whole new Badass Crew, and it's unlikely that the Alliance would have been so generous...)
  • It stops being an elephant in the room in Mass Effect 3. In the Paragon post-Thessia conversation, Joker admits that he blames himself for Shepard dying and now being "like, half-robot at this point — no offense, EDI." It also has some surprising long-range consequences for the ending that no one could have anticipated at the time; because Shepard is a mixture of an organic and a synthetic, s/he can now select the "Synthesis" option, breaking down the barriers between synthetics and organics, but on the down side, "Destroy" will almost certainly kill Shepard along with other synthetics unless the player has enough Effective Military Strength.
• In Mega Man X, an archaeologist, Doctor Cain, digs up a hundred-year-old genuinely heroic and kind fully sapient robot, X, who is more advanced than anything known to modern science, to the point that parts can't even be understood. Nevertheless, he tries duplicating the robot, and many other people follow suit, since the resulting replica androids are useful for all sorts of tasks and more intelligent than anything previous. This ultimately leads to at least a half-dozen apocalypses and, ultimately, the extinction of the human species (at least as a unique species). After waking X up and popularizing replica androids, Cain more or less never appears again. It is hinted that he died of old age only shortly before everything starts going to hell with the first Colony Drop.
  • As of Mega Man 11, Dr. Light is this for the entire franchise, thanks to a single moment of callousness towards Wily's Double Gear system serving as his Start of Darkness after he loses out on funding for the project. Wily then went on to be the Greater-Scope Villain, with his creation Zero sparking the devastating Maverick Wars and the even more devastating Elf Wars.
• The Metal Gear series has this:
  • ArmsTech CEO Kenneth Baker in Metal Gear Solid was desperate to save his company which was in danger of going bankrupt, so he bribed DARPA to allow him to reignite the eponymous Metal Gear project. Even after Snake manages to prevent Liquid from using Metal Gear REX against the United States, Baker's development of REX lead to the data being used in the creation of RAY, which in turn lead to the perfection of mass produced, commercially-available Metal Gears, including the enormous EXCELSUS by the time of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
  • During the events of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Venom Snake carries out a mission that, in a simple way, sounds like something a good-natured Ecologist Organization would like done, only that it was secretly a Cipher-owned shell company named "SANR" (South African Natural Resources) that ordered it. With the oil that originally contaminated the rivers now clear, the waters were able to have bodies carrying the Vocal Cord Parasites that have the Kikongo strain travel downstream, infecting the UNITA mercenaries stationed at Bwala ya Masa, killing them and causing a literally-viral incident that was prevented previously with the oil contamination. Great work, Diamond Dogs.
• In Metroid Prime, the Omega Pirate tried to crush Samus upon death, giving her the Phazon Suit. At first the suit proved useful for the protagonist, even helping her to defeat the eponymous Final Boss by using the Hypermode ability for the first time. But after the battle, the remnants of the DNA of Samus (and, by extension, that of the Omega Pirate) in the Phazon Suit led to the creation of Dark Samus, which leads to the events of Echoes and Corruption.
• In the Mother franchise, every evil can be traced back to one act: George, the great grandfather of the first game's protagonist, stealing PSI from an alien race. If he didn't do that, Giygas wouldn't have had to attack Earth. If that never happened, Giygas wouldn't have gone insane in the second game as a result and turn into the embodiment of evil. If that never happened, Porky Minch would never have risen in power. If that never happened, Porky would not have gone into the future in the third game to destroy the world. George definitely did not mean for all of this to happen and only appears in the first game, but if he never stole PSI, the events of the entire franchise would never have happened.
• Peret em Heru: For the Prisoners:
  • After the Bratty Half-Pint Rin plays several cruel pranks on him, Ayuto resolves to completely ignore the elementary school. This turns out to be More Insulting than Intended, causing her to run deeper into the underground ruins by herself. Depending on how the player handles the situation from there, this can result in her getting Killed Off for Real.
  • Kyosuke triggers a cavalcade of this when his Oblivious Guilt Slinging drives Yoko into Ayuto's arms for comfort and reassurance. In doing so, she unintentionally opens up both Nei and herself to the pyramid's judgment.
• Later on in Persona 4, a politician visits Inaba and interviews a young child about the fog. The problem is twofold — people who appear on TV tend to become targets for kidnapping, even if their faces or names aren't mentioned, and the young child is none other than Nanako Dojima, the main character's cousin — which means that the visit ended up causing one of the darkest parts of the game.
  • The first murder victim Mayumi Yamano was last heard visiting the Amagi Inn. Because her complaints apparently caused Yukiko's mother to collapse, it would cause the police to suspect Yukiko as a murderer. It also causes the inn to gain a reputation of being cursed and having much unwanted attention.
• In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Big Good Captain Cyllene takes it upon herself to record the Player Character's exploits. Unfortunately, her Identical Grandson Cyrus in the modern age exploited this knowledge and used the power of the Red Chain in an attempt to Rage Against the Heavens and remake reality in his own image (with Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon showing that in at least one timeline, he succeeded).
• In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Briar is desperate to get into Area Zero so she can prove that her ancestor Heath's writings were accurate. Her wish is granted in The Indigo Disk, but she's so focused on finding the "Hidden Treasures" of Area Zero that she ignores other things going on around her. Specifically, Kieran is equally desperate to find another Legendary Pokémon so he can finally one-up the player character after the events of The Teal Mask. Briar tunes out Kieran's Motive Rant due to being absorbed in double-checking the Scarlet/Violet Book, and she eagerly tells him to Terastalize Terapagos after he catches it so they can see its true power. This leads to Terapagos going berserk since its Stellar form is too hard to control, and Kieran just barely pulls himself together in time to help the player take it down. Briar clearly feels horrible after everything calms down, and she apologizes for unintentionally putting the player, Kieran, and Carmine in danger.
• The Quarry:
  • Jacob sabotages the van to have one more night to fix his relationship with Emma. This results in him and his fellow counselors being trapped at camp with werewolves on the loose and no way to get back home. Jacob himself can even take full responsibility and confess to Emma that it’s his fault they’re stuck out there.
  • Laura decides to go to Hackett’s Quarry one night early, despite an officer’s and her boyfriend Max’s suggestions to go to the Harbinger Motel instead. Her impulsiveness results in her boyfriend being infected with the werewolf curse and later turning into one himself, the couple being locked up for two months, with her losing an eye in the process, and later being infected and turning into a werewolf herself via her own boyfriend.
  • Emma is indirectly responsible for two characters getting bitten or dying, depending on player choice:
    • Her kissing Nick on a dare leads to his Love Interest, Abigail, running away and him going after her. This ends up putting them squarely in the crosshairs of the werewolves and causes Nick to become infected and later turn, which can lead to Abigail’s death.
    • Her also deciding to open the trapdoor in the treehouse on the island sets the aforementioned Max free while in his werewolf form. This causes the aforementioned Laura to get bitten after going to check on him, which can lead to a few deaths as well.
  • Kaitlyn not only tells the aforementioned Jacob how to sabotage the van, but also comes up with the dare for Emma to either kiss Jacob or Nick, with both these scenarios having disastrous results mentioned above.
  • Dylan is the one to suggest throwing a party after it’s made clear that the counselors will be staying one more night. His idea is supported by most of the group and keeps them from going inside against their camp leader’s orders. Unfortunately, this ends up putting them in danger with the werewolves lurking in the woods.
  • Kaylee Hackett starts a fire as a distraction to free Silas The Wolf Boy from his cage during a circus act. Not only does Silas bite her brother Caleb and Caleb bite her father Chris in turn, but she also ends up inadvertently cursing the entire Hackett family after the circus’s owner, Eliza, begins to seek vengeance as a ghost. Even worse, hundreds of people die in the fire and the werewolf incident plagues Hackett’s Quarry for the next 6 years, with Kaylee herself becoming a victim. Thus, the main threat of the game is created.
• In Red Dead Redemption II, one mandatory mission involves collecting a debt from the Downes family, who haven't paid it back because Thomas Downes is sick. Thomas is ill with tuberculosis, an infectious and at the time untreatable lung infection. When Arthur beats him up during the mission, Thomas coughs on Arthur and inadvertently passes on his TB, which results in Arthur's death by the end of the game, either directly or by weakening him enough for Micah to kill him in a fight.
  • Even worse, Leopold Strauss' requests for debt-collection — namely, sending Arthur to shake down Thomas Downes — is what leads to Arthur's death a couple months later from tuberculosis.
  • It appears that Thomas isn't the only one with his spread of tuberculosis to Arthur. Although his TB has a latency period that would have stayed for years, it's during Chapter 3 that Colm O'Driscoll must have picked an opportunity to hasten the TB progression into active infection by having his boys knock out and shoot Arthur, and then kidnap and torture him and deny him food and water for days, which, when combined with his smoking and alcoholism, are high risk factors for TB progression; which (unbeknownst to Colm and his boys) could eventually end up sending the high-honor Arthur to the big ranch in the sky, or sending the low-honor Arthur to the fiery pits. As Austin Hourigan of Game Theory puts it:
  "Being shot with a gun and not being properly fed for days means [Arthur's] going to be suffering from physical trauma and malnutrition, both of which increase the likelihood that his tuberculosis will progress. [...] It's here, at this moment, that Arthur Morgan's fate is solidified; and it's telling that the first real cough that you see from him is after this point in the game. [...] If he wasn't living a risky life of constant violence with no time to rest at all, it's possible he could have recovered from his infection, or possibly not even progressed into active tuberculosis at all."
  • Toward the end of Chapter 6, while Arthur and Micah Bell are at a standoff against each other, with John Marston and Susan Grimshaw at the side of the former, Javier Escuella arrives and warns everyone that the Pinkertons are approaching; unfortunately, his warning inadvertently distracts Susan in the process, giving Micah time to fatally shoot her in the stomach.
• Resident Evil:
  • In Resident Evil 2, an unnamed USS agent shoots scientist William Birkin and leaves him for dead while stealing his new virus. Consequently, Birkin injects himself with said virus in an attempt to save himself, and the result is 100,000 deaths and the destruction of an American city at the hands of the United States government by air strike.
  • Resident Evil 6: Derek Simmons's obsession with Ada Wong led to him transforming his girlfriend Carla Radames into a doppelgänger of her. When Carla's memories and true personality resurfaced she decided to take revenge on Simmons by creating a viral outbreak to throw the world into chaos and framing the real Ada Wong for her crimes.
• Julius Little of Saints Row badly underestimated taking in the Playa on the first game. Julius thought he'd just have a leg-breaker and a kid who he'd be able to sell out. What he didn't expect was the Playa getting very accustomed to gang life and becoming a sociopath. By the time the three gangs have been taken down, the Third Street Saints have been doing more damage in collateral and getting innocents killed in the means of stopping the other three gangs, and weren't about to let go of that power. So, he tries to blow up the Playa in a bomb attack on a yacht while selling out his gang to the authorities in a means to put the game behind him. However, he also causes a massive power vacuum that creates three new gangs by the time of Saints Row 2 but allowed Ultor to rise to power as well...oh, and obviously the Playa survived the threat and is back on a new tear through the city.
  • In "The Trouble with Clones" DLC of Saints Row: The Third the Aisha and Tag Brutes have gotten together and it looks like you'll be able to take them away without further trouble... then a National Guard helicopter blows the Aisha Brute up with a missile and the Tag Brute runs away again.
  • In the Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell expansion, Matt Miller finds a Ouija board in Zinyak's collection, and presents it to the Saints so they can play a party game with it on Kinzie's birthday. Problem is, that Ouija board belonged to Aleister Crowley, and it opens a portal to Hell when used, enabling Satan himself to kidnap the Boss and force them to marry his daughter Jezebel. Nice going, Matt.
• ShadowrunReturns: Deconstructed. Telestrian II had an affair with a human, then casually papered the child support over with money and misinformation to prevent anyone from finding out. The two bastard children became dangerous sleazebags as a result of too much money (which was quickly misspent) and not enough parental guidance; Sam sold his mother's organs, while Samantha became a serial-killing cultist who nearly destroyed all of Seattle with zombie spirit bugs. Except all of this resulted in a net benefit for Telestrian's son, Telestrian III. Samantha congregated many of his enemies in one place (including Telestrian's bitch ex-wife), set up a convoluted revenge scheme that outed her and the cult, which would have gone down this path even if Samantha hadn't joined, and then Telestrian sent an agent (the player character) to use experimental weapons to wipe them out. Weapons that he then sells to another corporation for a huge profit so they can play hero. The only comeuppance he gets is that his beloved daughter now has a permanent case of entomophobia - and through this trauma he can potentially get her, with the player's help, to break up with that boyfriend he hates. In a grimdark cyberpunk dystopia, doom is profitable.
  • Shadowrun: Hong Kong: Your stepfather used to be a corporate-raised super-engineer, and his magnum opus was supposed to be a Magitek luck-creating machine. It worked - and then it got hacked, by a Horror, who used it to make the lives of everyone within the Walled City an endless hell. He's spent his whole life trying to design a way to undo it.
• Shantae: The unexpected revival of the Pirate Master in Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, turns out to have been unwittingly caused by Risky herself when she used Shantae's magic to create an evil Shantae clone at the end of Shantae: Risky's Revenge. This act had the unintentional side-effect of creating a new source of Dark Magic converted from Shantae's Light Magic after Risky used it for evil, which re-awakened the Scourge of Sequin Land.
• In Shovel Knight Specter of Torment, an adventurer named Luan decided to seek out a magic amulet in the Tower of Fate with his partner Donovan wanting to protect his son from his own recklessness. In the room with the amulet, they encounter Shield Knight, who tries to warn them about the amulet's true nature. However, Donovan gets influenced by the amulet's magic and becomes hostile to where he attacks both Shield Knight and Luan to grab the amulet. This directly results in him and Luan dying when the floor caves in on them. Releasing the amulet also causes Shield Knight to be possessed and turning her into the Enchantress, Donovan becoming Specter Knight, Shovel Knight having a Heroic BSoD and going into retirement and just about all the conflict of the Shovel Knight campaigns. And all this started because Luan wanted to protect his son.
• In Slime Rancher, largo slimes (formed when a regular slime eats another slime type's plort) can turn themselves into Grey Goo oil monsters, known as "tarr", by eating another kind of plort, leading to all sorts of chaos — particularly if it happens on the ranch, and the tarr begins bouncing around eating your other slimes. The slimes themselves do not realise this, because they're slime creatures with fairly limited brains, meaning that you will likely see lots and lots of tarr outbreaks. The most likely sources of the tarr-pocalypse are pink slimes (which are omnivorous and as such can produce a plort in any location that contains something edible), phosphor slimes (which appear almost everywhere at night, adding a third type of slime to areas that usually only have two and as such would normally be tarr-proof), tabby slimes (which love to run around with things, including plorts), honey slimes (whose plorts are Alien Catnip for other slimes), and tangle slimes (which will grab plorts right out of the next-door corral), but any location that has three or more slime types naturally is going to host a tarr outbreak at one point or another, so it's probably best to go for that water tank sooner, rather than later.
• Sonic Frontiers has two characters who act as this, those being Sage and Sonic. Sonic is being used as an Unwitting Pawn by The End, who goads him into destroying the Titans to rescue his friends, with Sonic not realizing that he's also freeing The End by doing this. Sage knows what's going on, but because she's an AI made by Eggman, she's duty-bound to withhold information from Sonic, and by the time she does think to explain things to Sonic, it's too late, and The End has already been freed.
• Norman Osborn in Spider-Man (PS4) has absolutely no idea that his jerkassery caused the creation of two supervillains (Mr. Negative aka Martin Li and Dr. Octopus aka Otto Octavius) until they spell it out for him.
• In The Suffering, Torque causes the apocalypse just by setting foot on Carnate Island. He didn't have a choice considering he was being sent to death row at the penitentiary on the island.
• In the Bowser's Fury campaign on the Switch re-release of Super Mario 3D World, it is revealed that Bowser Jr. is the reason why his father was transformed into a large, black, angry version of himself after he painted him black with his magic paintbrush during his nap.
• The whole plot of Terminal Velocity (1995) results from Sy Wickens, a janitor from Proxima Seven, getting himself accidentally digitized by S-Max supercomputer. As a result S-Max goes crazy, expands to cover entire planet and starts a crusade against Earth.
• Prisoner 849's rampage throughout planet Na Pali in Unreal led to tke Skaarj Empire's renewed interest in humanity, to the point of them invading Earth and leading humanity to (almost) extinction, as mentioned in later games.
• Until Dawn:
  • Jessica was the one who orchestrated the prank against Hannah in the beginning and unwittingly caused a string of tragedies to occur, from both Hannah and Beth disappearing, Josh's undergoing severe depression, Josh's mad plot to get revenge on all the friends and most damningly, Hannah's transformation into a Wendigo. Of course, Jessica never meant for Hannah to get hurt or for things to go that far, expressing guilt and remorse over the prank.
  • While Josh wanted to get revenge on his friends and traumatized them with his prank, he had never meant for anyone to get physically hurt. But because he invited everyone back to Washington Mountain where the Wendigos were, this can result in some or all the teenagers' deaths.
• Valkyria Chronicles 4: Riley completing her father's research on Ragnite implosion and handing it to the United States of Vinland led to all sorts of trouble. Vinland collaborated with the Federation to locate young girls who were decendants of the Valkyrur, but the experience was so horrible that many of the girls were Driven to Suicide. Kai (the real one), who was with the squad responsible the mission, leaked their location to the Empire, but it was useless as his squad was prepared for the assault and fought them off, getting shot in the leg for his treachery. As a result, he believed that the Federation had become "twisted" and defected to the Empire, changing his identity to Forseti. With that out of the way, the Federation had constructed snow cruisers powered by the girls, which were also designed as Fantastic Nukes that had the capacity to wipe out a whole city. After forming a friendship with the girl powering the cruiser her squad was on, and learning about the truth of Operation Cygnus, Riley was really upset that her need for vengeance led to so many girls suffering.
• What Remains of Edith Finch during one of the stories has Kay Finch. She is bathing her one-year-old Gregory in the bathtub, when she steps away to talk to her husband on the phone, getting distracted into an argument with him. Gregory plays with his bath toys and obliviously turns the faucet on, then drowns in the tub.
• The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings: A band of treasure hunters kidnapped an insane girl while stealing a massive fortune, then started bickering and infighting over both. In the chaos, the madwoman stole the treasure, and eventually used it to buy her son's career, allowing him to lord over an entire town as a genocidal tyrant and mass-rapist.
• World of Warcraft
  • In the "Invasion of the Firelands" quest chain, the players can become one in a rare instance in which they cause disaster without being an Unwitting Pawn. Shortly before the attack on the Firelands is about to begin, Hamuul asks the player to investigate a Druid of the Flame nearby. The Druid of the Flame, Leyara, attacks the player and Hamuul, badly burning Hamuul and preventing the protectors of Hyjal from going on the offensive until the player gets enough Marks of the World Tree to unlock the next phase of daily quests.
  • There were many people, events and circumstances that caused Garrosh Hellscream to become the Big Bad of Mists of Pandaria. But who ultimately introduced him to Thrall, causing him to bring Garrosh out of his Heroic BSoD and make him his successor as Warchief? The Horde players did, while questing in Nagrand, two expansions before Garrosh's rise to power.
  • In Wrath of the Lich King, the Horde is betrayed by the Royal Apothecary Society of Undercity, under the command of Varimathras and Apothecary Putress. Who did the legwork for most of their twisted experiments with the New Plague? Three guesses, first two don't count. Horde players doing all those Apothecary quests all the way back to Vanilla.
  • Garrosh Hellscream's escape to alternate Draenor is done with the help of a bronze dragon, Kairoz. How does Kairoz manage to open a portal to another dimension despite the bronze dragons losing their powers at the end of Cataclysm? By collecting Epoch Stones from the Timeless Isle to create the Vision of Time, a device that can traverse timelines. And who helps collect those stones? Oh that's right, the player. This could have even bigger ramifications than previously thought — as well as Garrosh's Iron Horde invasion, Warlords of Draenor seems t be building up to a Burning Legion invasion of our Azeroth.
• Xenoblade Chronicles:
  • The events of the series, were started by Dmitri Yuriev and the Salvator/Savorites causing unrest on the world due to a human rights bill that would've protected them failing to pass in Congress, culminating in an attack on the First Low Orbit Station. The Station happened to be working on the Conduit experiment Klaus was conducting in order to make a better future for mankind, though when activated, it split the world into two, with Klaus becoming the Architect in one world, and his God like ego becoming Zanza in another world, meaning Dmitri was directly responsible for the whole plots of Metal Face/Mumkhar, Zanza, Malos, Amalthus, and Moebius.
  • One sidequest in Xenoblade Chronicles X occurs after you introduce the Ma-Non to pizza. The Ma-Non love pizza so much that sales from New LA's pizzeria explodes. Unfortunately, the unexpected increase in work drives Camilla, wife and co-owner of the establishment, to depression and subsequent suicide. Her husband, Powell, starts murdering Ma-Non until he ends his own life.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3: House Reid's fall from grace can be entirely tied back to Mrs. Reid's actions. While her husband failed to become an Ouroboros candidate, there is no implication he felt any resentment about it and was even on good terms with Guernica Vandham if Shania's painting is to be believed. Shania's decent began due to her verbal and emotional abuse, and her insistence that Shania push herself to become Ouroboros put a wedge between her and Ghondor. Made worse by the fact that it's implied she married into the house, with her obsession to maintain its status leading to it's downfall.
• While not finalized, there is an idea floating around for Yandere Simulator where Kokona Haruka, the game's pre-release test dummy, asks Ayano for help rehearsing a play about a serial killer where Kokona is playing various victims. This simultaneously serves as the game's tutorial and gives Ayano the idea of using violence to solve her problems.

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