Tropescilloscope: Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!

The hero's efforts to fix things make things worse instead. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Is Serious Business Slasher Smile Cloudcuckoolander Big Bad Heel Realization Becoming the Mask Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Sequel Escalation Facial Horror Bring My Brown Pants Did Not Get the Girl Dramatic Irony Laughing Mad Anyone Can Die In Name Only Gratuitous English Badass Grandpa Disney Death Police are Useless May–December Romance Coming-of-Age Story Suspiciously Similar Substitute Determinator aka: The Determinator Evil Is Petty Adult Fear Interrupted Suicide The Remake Mexican Standoff Brick Joke Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Skewed Priorities Last-Name Basis The Ghost Bolivian Army Ending Big Applesauce You Have Failed Me Beware the Nice Ones Retirony Real Life Defrosting Ice Queen Jerk with a Heart of Gold Evil-Detecting Dog Chekhov's Gunman Failed a Spot Check Manic Pixie Dream Girl Insult Backfire Blackmail Soundtrack Dissonance Betty and Veronica Dark and Troubled Past Eye Scream "Well Done, Son!" Guy Aluminum Christmas Trees Thriller Exactly What It Says on the Tin Shout-Out Works Set in World War II Bury Your Gays Motor Mouth Hell Is That Noise 20 Minutes into the Future Horror Films The Atoner Canadian Movies No-Holds-Barred Beatdown He Knows Too Much The Smart Guy Sealed Evil in a Can Sacrificial Lion Cool Old Lady Dirty Cop Mama Bear Empathic Environment Random Events Plot Disguised in Drag The Musical Anti-Hero Only One Name Papa Wolf "Where Are They Now?" 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