Tropescilloscope: Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!

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

More Tropes It Can Think Antagonist Title Conspicuous CG Woman in White Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Gone Horribly Right Awesome, but Impractical Setting Update Rule of Cool Villain Protagonist One-Man Army Gainax Ending Well-Intentioned Extremist Adaptational Villainy Drill Sergeant Nasty Sir Swears-a-Lot Video Credits Hate Sink Bottomless Magazines Intrepid Reporter The Dog Bites Back Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Insult Backfire Off with His Head! Demoted to Extra I Have Your Wife Redshirt Army You Killed My Father Flashback My Beloved Smother Ambiguous Disorder Diabolus ex Machina From Nobody to Nightmare Actor Allusion Asshole Victim Artistic License – Military One-Word Title Stylistic Suck Moment Killer Double-Meaning Title Storming the Castle Large Ham Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Irony Karma Houdini Evil Sounds Deep The Un-Reveal All There in the Script Fire-Forged Friends Arranged Marriage Dutch Angle Funny Foreigner Loads and Loads of Characters Sequel Hook Reasonable Authority Figure Our Vampires Are Different Card-Carrying Villain Big Brother Instinct Artistic License – Gun Safety Five-Man Band One Steve Limit Decoy Protagonist Important Haircut Match Cut Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Darkest Hour Earn Your Happy Ending Epic Fail Almost Kiss Serious Business Bittersweet Ending Central Theme "Shaggy Dog" Story Henpecked Husband Whole Plot Reference Names to Run Away from Really Fast Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Mind Screw Ominous Latin Chanting Australian Movies Implacable Man Hypocritical Humor Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Oh, Crap! Dies Wide Open "Awesome McCool" Name Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Real Life The Faceless Twist Ending Spared by the Adaptation Bond One-Liner More Dakka Older Than They Look Badass Normal Animal Title Index Heroes Want Redheads The Place Back from the Dead Every Car Is a Pinto Accidental Murder Bland-Name Product Children Are Innocent Vomit Discretion Shot Drives Like Crazy Documentary The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Cool Shades Despair Event Horizon Crucified Hero Shot Shoot the Shaggy Dog Enemy Mine Politically Incorrect Villain Determinator aka: The Determinator Death by Irony Coming-of-Age Story Obviously Evil Major Injury Underreaction As Himself Disney Villain Death Bullying a Dragon Exact Words Shower Scene Mugging the Monster Time Skip Hollywood Darkness Dissonant Serenity Obfuscating Stupidity Heterosexual Life-Partners Heroic BSoD Neck Snap Informed Ability Developing Doomed Characters Sealed Evil in a Can The Bully Small Name, Big Ego Character Development Wicked Cultured The Chick Outrun the Fireball Adapted Out He Knows Too Much Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Fate Worse than Death Fiery Redhead The Mafia French Films Attempted Rape Face–Heel Turn Big Eater Femme Fatale Captain Ersatz And I Must Scream Superhero All Men Are Perverts Would Hit a Girl Shown Their Work Not Quite Dead Deconstruction Insane Troll Logic Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Only a Flesh Wound Faux Affably Evil The Quiet One Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Slashed Throat Japanese Films Manchild Extreme Doormat Chekhov's Gun Get Out! I Need a Freaking Drink The Smart Guy Guile Hero He Who Fights Monsters Deliberate Values Dissonance Silent Movie Beard of Evil Italian Films Rule of Three Stuff Blowing Up Didn't Think This Through Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Would Hurt a Child Establishing Character Moment Canadian Movies Re-Cut Sadistic Choice Not So Different Title Drop Cat Fight Mystery and Detective Films Historical Villain Upgrade It's Personal The Remake Sports Stories Hero Antagonist Mistaken for Gay Only Known by Their Nickname Sanity Slippage Dark and Troubled Past Expository Hairstyle Change Spanner in the Works Light Is Not Good Genre Savvy Dirty Cop My God, What Have I Done? Adaptational Attractiveness Protagonist Title Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Continuity Nod Genre Shift Truth in Television Toplessness from the Back Fatal Family Photo I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Armor-Piercing Question Posthumous Character Refuge in Audacity Hair-Trigger Temper Gold Digger Action Prologue Body Horror Black and Gray Morality Affectionate Parody Naïve Newcomer Hell Is That Noise Award-Bait Song Too Dumb to Live Girl-on-Girl Is Hot I Did What I Had to Do Up to Eleven Overprotective Dad Hypocrite Skewed Priorities Crazy-Prepared She Cleans Up Nicely Bowdlerise Loophole Abuse All for Nothing Your Cheating Heart The Mole Dressing as the Enemy Brick Joke The '80s Hong Kong Films Green-Eyed Monster Hope Spot Cowboy Cop German Films Alpha Bitch Sassy Black Woman Drowning My Sorrows Dramatic Gun Cock Spiritual Successor Good Is Not Nice Gory Discretion Shot Offscreen Teleportation There Is No Kill Like Overkill Reality Ensues Same Language Dub Knife Nut Mr. Fanservice Reckless Gun Usage N-Word Privileges The Alleged Car From Bad to Worse Madness Mantra Badass Grandpa Tempting Fate No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Parental Incest NO INDOOR VOICE Even Evil Has Loved Ones No OSHA Compliance Grey and Gray Morality Never My Fault Bond Villain Stupidity Parental Abandonment Mythology Gag Creepy Child Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Non-Indicative Name Take That! Morality Pet Boom, Headshot! Killed Mid-Sentence Crapsack World Composite Character Easily Forgiven Bury Your Gays Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping British Films Deliberately Monochrome Undying Loyalty Meaningful Echo Curb-Stomp Battle Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Artistic License – History Slasher Smile Pre-Mortem One-Liner Real Life Writes the Plot Word of God Historical-Domain Character Scenery Porn Big "NO!" Stepford Smiler Comically Missing the Point Big Fancy House Dumb Blonde Fantasy Films Amusing Injuries Bolivian Army Ending The Sociopath Deus ex Machina Broken Pedestal Random Events Plot Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Load '80s Hair Bunny-Ears Lawyer Instant Death Bullet Calling the Old Man Out Evil Plan Leitmotif Straight Gay No Name Given Anti-Hero Mr. Exposition Creative Closing Credits Training Montage Token Minority Aluminum Christmas Trees Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Arc Words Homage Male Frontal Nudity Laser-Guided Karma "Well Done, Son!" Guy Does This Remind You of Anything? Love at First Sight Took a Level in Jerkass Product Placement Wretched Hive Slasher Movie Those Two Guys Psychological Thriller The Stinger Aside Glance Babies Ever After Historical In-Joke Take a Third Option Cool Old Lady Humiliation Conga Evil vs. Evil Made of Explodium Fish out of Water Sci-Fi Horror Sinister Minister Novelization Victoria's Secret Compartment Off-into-the-Distance Ending Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Kick the Dog Darker and Edgier Unusually Uninteresting Sight Auto Erotica Eldritch Abomination Face Death with Dignity Anachronic Order Faking the Dead Obstructive Bureaucrat Disguised in Drag Once More, with Clarity! You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Contrived Coincidence Not Even Bothering with the Accent Silence Is Golden Amoral Attorney Horror Comedy Animal Motifs Red Oni, Blue Oni The Atoner For the Evulz Works Set in World War II Our Zombies Are Different Not What It Looks Like Red Right Hand Dying Moment of Awesome Martial Arts Movie Your Head A-Splode Big Bad A God Am I Laughing Mad Those Wacky Nazis Soft Glass Broken Aesop Blatant Lies Anyone Can Die Show Within a Show Film Noir The Stoner The Smurfette Principle Recycled IN SPACE! Imagine Spot The Cameo Honor Before Reason Ghost Fiction Trailers Always Spoil Deadpan Snarker Evil-Detecting Dog I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Stealth Hi/Bye Slap-Slap-Kiss What Happened to the Mouse? Playing Gertrude Mundane Made Awesome Ironic Echo Rasputinian Death Black Best Friend Bait-and-Switch Plot Hole A Date with Rosie Palms Heroic Sacrifice Double Entendre Pretty in Mink Flipping the Bird Disappeared Dad Author Avatar Handicapped Badass The Voiceless Four-Temperament Ensemble Chiaroscuro Cruel and Unusual Death Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Men Are the Expendable Gender timeperiod Adult Fear Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Blackmail The '50s Combat Pragmatist A Minor Kidroduction Death Glare Final Girl Artistic License – Biology Tap on the Head Cloudcuckoolander Here We Go Again! Mooks Lock and Load Montage 20 Minutes into the Future Malevolent Masked Men Chekhov's Skill Plucky Comic Relief Foreshadowing Soundtrack Dissonance May–December Romance Naked People Are Funny And Starring For Want of a Nail In the Back Evil Brit In Medias Res Facial Horror Pimped-Out Dress Ungrateful Bastard Meaningful Name Jerk Jock Parental Substitute Beta Couple Foregone Conclusion Air-Vent Passageway Bloodier and Gorier Papa Wolf Spiteful Spit Genre Throwback Throwing Your Sword Always Works Smug Snake Suspiciously Specific Denial Meet Cute Punny Name Wham Shot Never Trust a Trailer Put on a Bus Very Loosely Based on a True Story Artistic License – Law Vitriolic Best Buds Covers Always Lie Bilingual Bonus Adaptation Expansion Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Frame-Up Science Fiction Films Took a Level in Badass Bloody Hilarious Becoming the Mask Breaking the Fourth Wall The X of Y Only Sane Man Really Gets Around Canon Foreigner The Vamp Broken Bird No Celebrities Were Harmed All Girls Want Bad Boys Closed Circle Revenge Animated Credits Opening The Great Depression Kick the Son of a Bitch Scenery Gorn Sexy Discretion Shot Dirty Old Man Eiffel Tower Effect The Ditz Reality Has No Subtitles A.I. Is a Crapshoot Yandere Wounded Gazelle Gambit Half the Man He Used to Be Fainting Dwindling Party The Casanova Sole Survivor Worthy Opponent Shipper on Deck Bound and Gagged Running Gag Hero of Another Story Leaning on the Fourth Wall Redemption Equals Death Betty and Veronica All Just a Dream Chewing the Scenery Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Hero Dies The Musical Improvised Weapon Cassandra Truth Batman Gambit Dramatic Irony Adaptation Dye-Job Kill 'em All The Dreaded Narrator Catch-Phrase Missing Mom Downer Ending Film Series This Is Gonna Suck The Bad Guy Wins Guns Akimbo Mercy Kill Car Fu Last-Name Basis Cain and Abel Badass Boast Big Applesauce Zombie Stories Freeze-Frame Bonus Jump Scare Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Deal with the Devil Poor Communication Kills Badass in a Nice Suit Death by Sex Camp Gay Actually Pretty Funny Failed a Spot Check Pragmatic Adaptation Gratuitous English Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Jerkass Has a Point Beauty Is Never Tarnished Cold-Blooded Torture As You Know As Long as It Sounds Foreign Bad "Bad Acting" Corrupt Corporate Executive My Greatest Failure Exactly What It Says on the Tin Creator Cameo In Name Only Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Accidental Misnaming Nothing Is Scarier Big-Bad Ensemble Ripped from the Headlines Danny Peary Cult Movies List The Stoic Rousing Speech Friend to All Children Demonic Possession Parental Neglect Romantic Comedy Destination Defenestration Ship Tease The End... Or Is It? True Companions Leave the Camera Running Eyepatch of Power Curse Cut Short Interrupted Suicide Artistic License – Physics War Is Hell Humans Are Bastards Dropped a Bridge on Him Taking the Bullet Break the Cutie Paper-Thin Disguise Credits Gag Freudian Excuse Never Found the Body Unreliable Narrator What the Hell, Hero? Properly Paranoid Line-of-Sight Name Rich Bitch Villain Ball Dull Surprise Bad Boss Together in Death As the Good Book Says... B-Movie Apocalypse How Let's Get Dangerous! Villain Opening Scene Getting Crap Past the Radar Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The Starscream Bloodless Carnage Retired Badass Call-Back Ambiguous Ending Totally Radical Anguished Declaration of Love Based on a True Story Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Manipulative Bastard Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Not So Above It All Vomit Indiscretion Shot Pyrrhic Victory Serial Killer Neck Lift Crazy Jealous Guy Scary Black Man Grievous Bottley Harm An Arm and a Leg The Alcoholic Alliterative Name Due to the Dead Affably Evil Badass Longcoat Super Strength Hoist by His Own Petard Rated M for Manly Police Brutality Not Using the "Z" Word Villain Song O.O.C. Is Serious Business Woman Scorned Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Psychopathic Manchild Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Driven to Suicide The Chessmaster World of Ham Say My Name Kill It with Fire Gorn Foil Idiot Ball Advertised Extra Death by Adaptation The Big Guy Fantastic Racism Fan Disservice Agony of the Feet Have a Gay Old Time Visual Pun Anti-Villain The Lost Lenore Cool Car Abhorrent Admirer Corpsing Be Careful What You Wish For Lampshade Hanging Black Comedy Rape Anachronism Stew Romantic False Lead Retcon Spell My Name with an "S" Eye Scream Distracted by the Sexy Happily Married Gilligan Cut Overly Long Gag The Ghost Did Not Get the Girl Ax-Crazy Fingore Unusual Euphemism Sequel Escalation Chekhov's Gunman Index of Film Westerns Annoying Younger Sibling The Hero Immune to Bullets Catapult Nightmare No Ending Motor Mouth Unspoken Plan Guarantee Arch-Enemy I'm a Humanitarian Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Evil Is Hammy Death Seeker Wham Line Reality Is Unrealistic Ascended Extra Shout-Out Empathic Environment Dual Wielding Hidden Depths Rewatch Bonus Brutal Honesty Precision F-Strike Dirty Coward Defiant to the End Room Full of Crazy Meaningful Background Event Jerkass Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Offscreen Moment of Awesome Unwitting Instigator of Doom Self-Deprecation Belligerent Sexual Tension And the Adventure Continues Not So Stoic The '90s Fanservice Extra Riddle for the Ages Public Domain Feature Films Chase Scene The Cavalry Television Movie Index Bald of Evil Kids Are Cruel Market-Based Title Evil Is Petty Stock Footage Black Dude Dies First Jerk with a Heart of Gold Adaptation Distillation Red Eyes, Take Warning The Power of Love Bare Your Midriff Logo Joke Celebrity Paradox Book-Ends No-Sell Expy Camera Abuse Thriller Stealth Pun Lighter and Softer Drugs Are Bad You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Evil Counterpart "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Mad Scientist Adorkable Villain with Good Publicity Age Lift Punch-Clock Villain Man on Fire Groin Attack Authority Equals Asskicking Eureka Moment Ms. Fanservice How We Got Here Bar Brawl Only in It for the Money Police are Useless The Film of the Book It Will Never Catch On Fanservice Needs Wiki Magic Love Berserk Button Left the Background Music On Gender Flip Music Stories Mood Whiplash Break the Haughty Race Lift Military and Warfare Films Nice Hat Suspiciously Similar Substitute Rule of Funny Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Beware the Nice Ones Hollywood Law Dark Action Girl Roaring Rampage of Revenge Daddy's Girl Alas, Poor Villain Film Noir Index Nice Guy After the End Even Evil Has Standards Mighty Whitey The Brute Disney Death Vampire Fiction The Reveal Vacation Films Red Herring Horror Films Early-Bird Cameo Knight Templar Scare Chord Historical Hero Upgrade Cool Old Guy Improbable Weapon User Hooker with a Heart of Gold Only One Name You Have Failed Me All There in the Manual Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Shut Up, Hannibal! Extremely Short Timespan Adaptation Name Change Defrosting Ice Queen An Aesop Everyone Has Standards Christmas Movies Index Death of a Child Famous Last Words Daylight Horror Heel Realization Fat Bastard Cat Scare Action Survivor Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Funny Background Event Costume Porn Married to the Job Noodle Incident MacGuffin Big Bad Duumvirate Manic Pixie Dream Girl Damsel in Distress Stalker with a Crush Race Against the Clock Big Damn Heroes Those Two Bad Guys Dogged Nice Guy Action Girl BFG Country Matters Jitter Cam Adults Are Useless Pay Evil unto Evil Smoking Is Cool Epic Movie It's All About Me Karmic Death Dark Is Not Evil Taking You with Me Butt-Monkey Ass Shove Fun with Acronyms Brother–Sister Incest Artistic License – Geography Pretty Little Headshots Domestic Abuse Intergenerational Friendship Pet the Dog Suddenly SHOUTING! Eagleland Retirony Monumental Damage Translation Convention The '70s Cool Guns Red Shirt Better to Die than Be Killed Sacrificial Lion A Father to His Men Black Comedy La Résistance An Axe to Grind Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Heel–Face Turn Biopic Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality What You Are in the Dark Cluster F-Bomb Made of Iron Disproportionate Retribution Early Installment Weirdness Depraved Bisexual Shell-Shocked Veteran "The Reason You Suck" Speech The Lancer Improbable Aiming Skills Villainous Breakdown Pragmatic Villainy Department of Redundancy Department Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Rape as Drama Blood from the Mouth Insistent Terminology Manly Tears Kubrick Stare Fake Shemp Badass Bookworm Dramedy Casting Gag Love Triangle Brainless Beauty She's Got Legs Framing Device Fourth Date Marriage Wrong Genre Savvy Mexican Standoff Evil Laugh Tranquil Fury Action Genre Male Gaze Star-Crossed Lovers Russian Films Call-Forward Blood Knight The '60s Tagline Shirtless Scene Dark Reprise folderlabel Unresolved Sexual Tension Bring My Brown Pants Maybe Ever After The Oner Mama Bear No-Holds-Barred Beatdown No Antagonist Captain Obvious Make It Look Like an Accident Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Determinator Bavarian Fire Drill Abusive Parents Rule of Symbolism Adaptational Badass Adaptational Heroism Ambiguously Gay Greater-Scope Villain Bi the Way The Dragon Fatal Flaw Psycho for Hire Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Does Not Like Shoes The Ace Author Appeal