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Accidental Hero
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A character becomes celebrated for heroism. He says he didn't do anything special. Problem is, it isn't modesty this time, or even false modesty. He really didn't do anything special. Two flavors: The accidental hero blundered in some way that actually caused a rescue or saved the day. The accidental hero was just standing around in a place where it looked like he saved the day. In either flavor, public acclaim that just won't go away is the main complication. The subsequent plot is a good showcase for examining the fiber of the accidental hero's character and to spin a little yarn about how people ''need'' heroes. Many times he becomes a true hero by the end of the story. When someone purposely tries to look like the hero without deserving it, there may be overlap with Engineered Heroics. May be a consequence of Non-Protagonist Resolver. Compare And You Thought It Was a Game, Badass on Paper, Cowardly Lion, Framed for Heroism, God Guise, Nominal Hero, Mistaken for Badass, Spanner in the Works, Nice Job Fixing It, Villain. May result in Broken Pedestal. Frequently overlaps with Accidental Celebrity. This trope is the spiritual opposite of Nice Job Breaking It, Hero. Contrast Unwitting Instigator of Doom. |
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Rengoku: Virgil has created ADAMs based on Captain Gram memories. Beatrice, who was in love with Gram, has tampered with the uploading to remove his personality so there wouldn't be thousands of Grams and left only combat data. It turns out Virgil had a secondary plan to turn ADAMs into the new master race and needed them to develop consciousness. So while he was able to end the Machine War, Beatrice unwittingly made it so his he was unable to start the new one against mankind. | |
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Megas XLR: A team of Sailor Senshi Sendups mistook Jamie for a great hero and put him up against a powerful monster without letting him get in a word of objection edgewise. Jamie seemingly kills it by accident while trying to run away, but actually just makes it come back stronger in a few hours. | |
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The title character of Eric. He had intended to summon a demon from the Dungeon Dimensons to grant his wish. He ends up rescuing Rincewind instead. | |
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats: At one point, Snerdly puts a very, very hot dressing on a salad and plans for Benny to eat it and die. When Brain insists on taking it and serving it himself, he promptly falls into the pool with the bowl, saving Benny's life. | |
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In Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell, Johnny Gat and Kinzie Kensington descend into Hell only to rescue the Boss, who has been kidnapped by Satan. In doing so, they end up inadvertently foiling Satan's plan to invade and conquer Heaven. | |
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In an episode of Good Luck Charlie, Teddy ditches class to prove that she is not a goody-goody, which she is being called by everyone at school. However, when she is there she stops a pickpocket and is awarded a medal of honor in school the next day, and the class cheers her on by calling out "GG", short for goody-goody. | |
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In Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Stark froze in terror when confronting a solar dragon which was attacking a village, only for it to leave and keep its distance for the last three years. The villagers all see him as their hero whose mere presence has kept them safe, while Stark himself is too ashamed to admit he got lucky. Subverted when it's revealed the dragon realized Stark was strong enough to easily kill it and has been avoiding him ever since. | |
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Bone: Phoney's scam to have the townsfolk help him capture a dragon ends up accidentally saving their lives when rat creatures raid Barrelhaven and burn the settlement to the ground. Had the townsfolk been present, they would have been slaughtered by the rat creatures all the same. | |
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In the PAW Patrol episode "Ultimate Rescue: Pups Save A Movie Monster", the titular movie monster gets out of control and starts blasting fire everywhere, prompting the PAW Patrol to go on a mission to put the fires out. In the end, the monster breaks down. So now how are they going to finish the movie? Believe it or not, it was actually Daring Danny X who saved the movie. He had been following the pups on their mission and recorded the whole thing on his helmet camera. | |
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In The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries episode "A Night Louse at the White House", Scooby's parents Mumsy Doo and Dada Doo fly over to the White House solely to bring him his galoshes to make sure he dresses warmly. Mumsy Doo ends up unintentionally helping Mystery, Inc. capture the episode's criminals when she knocks them out by dropping Scooby's galoshes onto their heads. | |
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In the Angel episode "Harm's Way", negotiations with some demons go sour and they demand a blood sacrifice or else they will declare war. Harmony, who had no idea what was going on and was in the middle of a fight with a rival vampire, appears and then stakes the vampire. The demons consider that satisfactory and continue the negotiations. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Homer Defined" had Homer Simpson save the town from nuclear doom by using eeny-meeny-miney to find the right button. He is then lauded as a national hero. He later manages to recreate his blunder, but the townsfolk figure out he had no idea what he was doing, and his "reward" this time is inspiring the term "pulling a Homer". Similarly, in "Little Big Girl" Bart Simpson accidentally puts out a fire when using fire extinguishers to propel himself forward along the road... his intention was just a cheap thrill, but the material from said fire extinguishers put out a fire that he encountered along the way. The image is from "Moe Baby Blues", where Moe saves Maggie (who had been launched from the Simpsons' car in a traffic accident) just as he was about to jump off the Springfield Bridge. Also a heartwarming moment when Maggie kisses Moe and Moe smiles, saying "Life don't seem so hard no more". Homer again in "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood" when he and Bart go on a Father/Son camping trip with the Junior Campers. Homer is The Load all the way, losing their map and getting himself, Bart, and the Flanderses lost at sea. He only ends up saving the day when his keen sense of smell and the Krusty Burger map he brought along led them to food and rescue. It also turned out that the "correct" path led the campers who went down it to be attacked by mountain men, a bear, and eventually a psycho killer lurking in an abandoned campground. In "Brother's Little Helper", Bart's prank of flooding the Springfield Elementary School gymnasium accidentally saved Flanders' life by dousing the flames when Flanders set himself on fire. Of course, by flooding the gym, he prevented the firefighters from putting out the fire sooner. |
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The Very Secret Diary: Ginny's friend Emma has absolutely no idea that Ginny is being possessed and forced to attack Muggle-borns. She simply believes Ginny's frightened and unable to sleep much because of all the attacks, which then leads to her nodding off during the day and sometimes sleepwalking. So, when Ginny asks her to keep an eye on her, and stop her if she starts to wander off, she agrees. Little does she know, her interference, on multiple occasions, prevents Tom from being able to use Ginny to enact a full-scale massacre. | |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has Jeffrey Mace introduced as a super-strong Inhuman who gained fame when he was photographed holding up a wall to save the life of a woman when a conference was bombed. He's made head of S.H.I.E.L.D. and helps the organization out. However, a mission exposes that Mace is not an Inhuman and has no powers. His "saving" of that woman was actually him tripping over her trying to save his own skin and a reporter just happened to get a photograph at the perfect time and angle to make it look like Mace was holding up a wall. The President and Glen Talbot thus pushed him to take on the role for public morale. In reality, Mace hated the whole act and is ready to announce the truth but Coulson (who saw Mace risk his life to help others) urges him to keep it up in public while Coulson handles the real S.H.I.E.L.D. activities. | |
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F Troop: "The end of the Civil War was near; When quite accidentally; A hero who sneezed abruptly seized; Retreat and reversed it to victory." | |
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Most of the Wario Land games can be summed up as "Wario goes out to steal treasure, and defeats a villain who's worse than he is." Wario Land 3: Wario saves his own world and unknowingly breaks Rudy the Clown's curse on the music box world's inhabitants by defeating him purely in self-defence. The inhabitants, thinking this was intentional, reward him with freedom and all the treasure he found on his quest, which is exactly what he was after from the very beginning. Wario Land 4: He broke into the Golden Pyramid to steal its treasure, only to inadvertently defeat the Golden Diva and lift the curse on Princess Shokora. Wario World: He destroyed the Black Jewel out of revenge for destroying his castle and turning his treasure into monsters, only to inadvertently save the world from its wrath. Wario: Master of Disguise: He stole Count Cannoli's magic wand to hijack his show and get a wish from the Wishstone, only to accidentally save both his world and the TV one by defeating Terrormisu over not getting a wish. Wario Land: Shake It!: He journeys into the Shake Dimension and defeats the tyrannical Shake King just so he could get his hands on the Bottomless Coin Sack. |
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The heroes of the parody westerns The Paleface (Bob Hope) and The Shakiest Gun in the West (Don Knotts) are the second variety of this trope. Both men succeed in "saving" a convoy of covered wagons, but the real heroes are their girlfriends (secretly US agents in disguise). | |
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In the Miraculous Ladybug one-shot fanfic The Hero of Paris, a random American tourist films and livestreams a crazy man rambling about akumas and ladybugs in the bathroom of a train he's riding. He's unaware that the crazy man is Hawk Moth a.k.a. Gabriel Agreste, and that he's just caught Paris' worst terrorist red-handed. | |
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The Phantom Menace: Anakin Skywalker gets into Naboo fighter ship to avoid a firefight in a hangar on Naboo. After accidentally activating the autopilot, the ship flies to the scene of the space fight, where Anakin figures out how to turn off the auto pilot. In an effort to escape being blown up by federation fighters he flies the ship into the hangar bay of the enemy federation ship. After several robot droids notice him and start approaching his ship, he fires on them, destroying the droids. Conveniently, several of Anakin's missed shots at the droids hit a power system structure, which happens to be directly behind the droids. Anakin narrowly escapes the erupting federation ship, which is noticed by other Naboo fighters. "There's one of ours out of the hangar." After the federation ship is destroyed by Anakin's bad aim, the battle is over as without the command and control from the federation ship the attacking droids all shut down. During the battle between the Gungans and the Separatist battle droids, Jar-Jar’s clumsy actions happen to destroy a number of battle droids and enemy tanks without even trying. For example, shots that he fires off accidentally while trying to shake off a blaster stuck to his foot, all strike the enemy, and a bomb of which he loses control happens to fall into an enemy tank. |
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Mr. Ping in Kung Fu Panda ends up assisting in saving the world in more ways than he realized. In the first film, he gives Po a pep talk about his "secret ingredient soup" and it ends up providing Po with exactly the wisdom he needed to understand the Dragon Scroll and defeat Tai Lung. In the second film, his adoption of Po would end up cementing the Valley of Peace would be safe from Tai Lung. Also, by saving Po, it would ensure Po would survive from the horrific genocide of his people from Shen and face Shen years later. |
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Beavis And Butthead: Beavis and Butt-Head sometimes manage to save the day, but only unknowingly. They never realize that something is going wrong in the first place; it just so happens that they have found something that brings good luck. Sometimes, they even want things to go wrong, only for their stupidity to, ironically, make things better. Four noteworthy examples are "To the Rescue", Do America, "A Very Special Episode", and "Spill" . | |
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Bouncy Ball Man: How Bouncy Ball Man becomes a superhero. He starts out as a reluctant mascot for a toy company before accidentally saving the day. | |
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Wario Land: Shake It!: He journeys into the Shake Dimension and defeats the tyrannical Shake King just so he could get his hands on the Bottomless Coin Sack. | |
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In The Bad Guys (2022), during the film's first big heist, Mr. Wolf attempts to steal an old lady's purse, but she trips on the stairs. With his hand snagged on the purse strap, he inadvertently breaks her fall. As to not get caught, he pulls her up, and is praised for his good deed. It's later revealed that the old lady was Marmalade in disguise who exploited this trope for his own ends. | |
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In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978), Arthur becomes a hero to a race of alien birds for showing them not to take any nonsense from their machines by throwing away a cup of revolting tea substitute a Nutrimatic device had given him. | |
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Duck Dodgers is this to the Martian Queen (and only the Martian Queen). Whether it's a well-timed teleporter malfunction, or bending over at just the right moment, whenever he's around her, circumstances conspire to make him look like a badass. | |
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As Lord Vetinari remarks in The Last Hero, "[T]he thing about saving the world, gentlemen and ladies, is that it inevitably includes whatever you happen to be standing on." One of Rincewind's enduring character traits is his willingness to "heroically" face almost certain death whenever the alternative is facing absolutely certain death. | |
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Les Misérables: Thénardier. First, when he accidentally saves Georges Pontmercy's life, and then again, in his attempt to blackmail Marius. | |
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Doom Valley Prep School: A student of the heroic School of Righteousness and Honour, was apparently let in free of charge after pick-pocketing a valuable magical relic from an evil wizard who was going to destroy a city with it. Everyone calls him a hero, but he was just a homeless thief that stole the thing hoping he could sell it for a good meal. | |
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Batman: Black and White: In the comedic "Batsman: Swarming Scourge of the Underworld", many of Batsman's successes are accidents like falling through a skylight and landing on a villain he had no idea would be there. Some of them do appear to be the result of genuine skill (unless those were also happy accidents that he was quick-witted enough to claim he'd intended all along). | |
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Early on in School Rumble, Tenma tries to send a love letter by Arrowgram to her crush Karasuma. One of her botched attempts results in her accidentally foiling a bank robbery and winding up on the news. | |
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Classic Disney Shorts: In "Two-Gun Goofy", Goofy is a bumbling cowboy who gets on the wrong side of bank robber "Pistol" Pete. After suffering a series of slapstick injuries thanks to several Coincidental Dodges and other coincidences, Pete decides he's had enough and locks himself in the town jail to get away from Goofy, who is hailed as a hero and made the town's new sherriff. | |
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Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Downplayed in "Domes of Doom"; Plunder starts covering the world's forests with domes after conning his way into being appointed their protector. He plans to sell the fresh air to cities and make a fortune. Wheeler ventures into the air outtake hose to escape from the dome and find some way to stop Plunder, using a ball contraption put together by Ma-Ti's people to avoid being shaken to pieces in the process. The ball bounces out as Bleak is cornering the other Planeteers and hits him. Downplayed in "Trouble on the Half Shell"; the Planeteers find themselves in trouble when they arrive in the Galapagos Islands to stop Skumm and Greedly from destroying the tortoise population, only to find that Skumm's rats have grown to the size of dogs due to toxic waste exposure. Wheeler feeds the rats some leftover pizza as a distraction to keep them from mauling the Planeteers. However, then it turns out that eating normal food reverses the effects of the toxic waste, returning them to normal size and making them much less of a threat. |
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Dragon Ball, Idiot Hero Goku tends to make dumb decisions that work out splendidly later on, among them being: In Dragon Ball, he lets Piccolo live when he has him dead to rights. In Dragon Ball Z, he lets Vegeta leave when he has him dead to rights. They both become two of his greatest allies. He recognizes Gohan's potential and very stealthily guides him to be the one to defeat Cell. At the moment, it's monumentally stupid to send a child out to fight the Big Bad, no matter how powerful he may be. This leads to him having to conduct a Heroic Sacrifice to save everyone, which doesn't even really work because Cell comes back even stronger than before and kills Trunks — only to spur Vegeta into an unexpected rage that gives Gohan the chance to win the fight for real. Win! When Kid Buu destroys the Earth, instead of saving his sons, Present Trunks, or Piccolo, he saves Hercule, Dende, and the dog Bee. And saving Hercule is the absolute key to allowing Vegeta to use a Spirit Bomb to defeat Buu (and he also made things easier for Gohan and Videl's budding romance). When Beerus comes back to Earth in Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, Goku just waits and watches him fight everyone else — but this allows Beerus to Dope Slap Bulma, triggering another unexpected fury from Vegeta that becomes his first encroachment into God-tier power. In Dragon Ball Super, King of All Cosmos Zen-Oh had previously expressed a desire to hold a martial arts tournament between all 12 universes but never got around to it. Goku reminds him of it several story arcs later, thinking it would be fun. Only Zen-Oh's plan is to destroy the eleven losing universes, and their inhabitants immediately laid into Goku for being so heartless. But Vados points out that if Goku had not intervened, Zen-Oh would have just destroyed every universe, no questions asked. Goku doesn't care either way, because he loves a good fight, and he's even okay with people thinking he's evil if he gets a good fight out of it. |
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In Footloose, the hero is challenged to a Game of Chicken in a tractor, and finds himself the accidental victor as his shoelaces get stuck in the gearing, preventing him from bailing out. | |
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Harry Potter is credited with defeating Voldemort as a baby, when it was really his mother's love that saved Harry and destroyed Voldemort's body. Allowing Harry to grow up without all that pressure is one of the main reasons Dumbledore arranges for him to live with Muggle Foster Parents (even if said foster family went a little too far the other way.) In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the nervous Ron is applauded for making a save with his foot during practice. When Harry mentions this right before the first match of the year, Ron tells him that he fell off the broom and kicked it accidentally. Harry quickly quips, "Well, a few more accidents like that and the match is in the bag." |
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In Toriko, Zebra is hailed as a hero by a small desert village since his earlier rampages ended the war that ravaged the village (the warring countries decided to suspend their war and ally with each other against him). And by eating 26 species to extinction, he inadvertently saved the ecosystems said species were destroying. | |
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This trope is the title of the first Jack Blank book (in the second publishing run, the original title was Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation), and an accurate description of what Jack did in the first chapter. He's considered a hero for beating Revile the Undying, when all he did was blow up a school generator when he panicked and Revile got caught in the blast. He didn't even know he was a technopath at the time. | |
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The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis: In space, Bender and Homer accidentally manage to get rid of flying saucers pursuing the heroes. How exactly? Bender threw a beer bottle at Homer, the latter failed to catch the bottle, and it hit one of the flying saucers' engine, causing a chain reaction that destroyed all the flying saucers: | |
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In Dumband Dumber, as Harry's leg catches fire when he's talking to another traveller at the gas station, Lloyd is trapped in a bathroom stall with Sea Bass, a trucker they ripped off hours before. As Sea Bass gets ready to rape, and then kill, Lloyd, Harry bursts into the stall and unknowingly knocks out Sea Bass while trying to put out the fire on his leg, and demands an explanation as to why Lloyd is in the stall with another man. | |
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Saints Row: If there's ever an event where the Boss does something good for the city, it's usually by accident. Usually. The Boss still saves millions of people from a nuke and is pretty damn insistent on finding humanity a new home in Saints Row IV. In Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell, Johnny Gat and Kinzie Kensington descend into Hell only to rescue the Boss, who has been kidnapped by Satan. In doing so, they end up inadvertently foiling Satan's plan to invade and conquer Heaven. |
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Angel Densetsu: Kitano, the protagonist, half the time manages to do this by just being around and not understanding what's happening. The other half, however, he's actually saving the day. | |
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The renegade hero!!!....Invader Zim?: Zim's completely unintentional acts of sabotage against the Irken Empire have convinced the rest of the universe that he's rebelling against them to stop their conquests. Zim himself is shocked to learn this, as he sees himself as a paragon of Irken loyalty and competence. | |
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Everything Rincewind ever did in the Discworld novels that didn't involve running away like his backside was on fire. Except for the one time that he mans up, in Sourcery. But it's okay! The statue, as a reward, gets downgraded to a plaque, gets downgraded to a certificate, gets downgraded to a fine. It's implied that although a coward he may be, Rincewind also grew up on the streets of Morpork — and Survived. Which is why he chose a half-brick in a sock as his weapon against the greatest Sourcerer to ever live. There's also the fact that at heart he's not as selfish as he lets on and will stick up for those he truly cares about. Also in The Light Fantastic and Interesting Times, although he is still trying to run away in Interesting Times. He just finds the save-everybody MacGuffin while he's at it. In The Light Fantastic, he beats up the bringer of the apocalypse. With his bare hands, but that's partly because he was pissed off at Trymon for laughing at him, which brought up memories of years of humiliation at the Unseen University. As Lord Vetinari remarks in The Last Hero, "[T]he thing about saving the world, gentlemen and ladies, is that it inevitably includes whatever you happen to be standing on." One of Rincewind's enduring character traits is his willingness to "heroically" face almost certain death whenever the alternative is facing absolutely certain death. The title character of Eric. He had intended to summon a demon from the Dungeon Dimensons to grant his wish. He ends up rescuing Rincewind instead. |
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In the Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? episode "Returning of the Key Ring", Daphne brings the others along when she has lunch with her friend Sean Astin, but warns them not to say the word "ring" because it's a trigger for him after the filming of the trilogy. Velma accidentally triggers Sean when she finds a key ring. Sean's insistence on personally returning the key ring to its rightful owner pulls the gang into another mystery, preventing the villain of the week from getting away with her scheme. | |
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster: Godzilla and Rodan's battle destroys a power line tower and triggers a blackout, mere seconds before Princess Selina would have been fatally electrocuted. A stray blast from King Ghidorah triggers an avalanche that buries the assassins' car and kills all but one of them. Later, another stray blast causes the final assassin to fall to his death. |
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The Bank Dick: W. C. Fields' character, Egbert Sousé, stumbles into circumstances where it looks like he stopped a bank robber and recovered some stolen money, when in actuality one of the robbers knocked out his accomplice and another accidentally knocked out Egbert while trying to dispose of his gun. | |
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Also in The Light Fantastic and Interesting Times, although he is still trying to run away in Interesting Times. He just finds the save-everybody MacGuffin while he's at it. In The Light Fantastic, he beats up the bringer of the apocalypse. With his bare hands, but that's partly because he was pissed off at Trymon for laughing at him, which brought up memories of years of humiliation at the Unseen University. |
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He Was a Quiet Man: Bob Maconel was planning on Going Postal in his office building, but a similarly withdrawn co-worker beats him to it by roughly a minute. Bob shoots the co-worker with the gun he was carrying at that moment, and is suddenly hailed by his company and the media as a hero. | |
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In Return of the Jedi, a blind Han Solo moving a staff around without aiming accidentally strikes Boba Fett’s jet pack, causing the jet pack to fire and carry Fett permanently away from the battle. | |
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In the first film, he gives Po a pep talk about his "secret ingredient soup" and it ends up providing Po with exactly the wisdom he needed to understand the Dragon Scroll and defeat Tai Lung. | |
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In the second film, his adoption of Po would end up cementing the Valley of Peace would be safe from Tai Lung. Also, by saving Po, it would ensure Po would survive from the horrific genocide of his people from Shen and face Shen years later. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the nervous Ron is applauded for making a save with his foot during practice. When Harry mentions this right before the first match of the year, Ron tells him that he fell off the broom and kicked it accidentally. Harry quickly quips, "Well, a few more accidents like that and the match is in the bag." | |
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Adventure Time: Distant Lands: In "Together Again", Mr. Fox accidentally murdered New Death, who was possessed by The Lich, which ultimately saves all the souls in the Death World and prevents both Finn and Jake from being forced to become the next death. As a bonus, he becomes the new, new Death and is shown to be The Good King as he erases all of the monsters in the first death world and allows everyone trapped there to go free except for Wyatt. | |
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Played with in the movie Accidental Hero (also known as simply Hero): the actual person who saves the people from a burning plane is a Jerkass who has one moment of decency (a plane crashes in front of him and he grudgingly helps the victims get out). The bum who (falsely) takes credit for said rescue is otherwise the kind of person you'd believe to be a hero and uses his reputation to help other people. There's enough gray area between them for the audience to decide which (or both) is the true hero. | |
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Spinning Silver: Gorek's act of simply burying his wife and stillborn children under a tree with latent magic ends up empowering it with their essence, giving it the power to grant some wishes to his surviving family members when they pray before it. | |
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Irresponsible Captain Tylor: While he does not really become celebrated (although he gets quite the reputation amongst the enemy), Justi Ueki Tylor does seem to hit both flavors often. | |
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In 2003, Juan Catalan was facing the death penalty for a crime he claimed he was forced to confess to. He said that his alibi was that he was at an L.A. Dodgers baseball game when the murder he was accused of committing happened. When his lawyer contacted the people at the stadium for video footage, they told him that an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm was being filmed during that same day, and when the lawyer viewed the episode's crowd footage, Catalan and his daughter were recorded several times watching the game, thus clearing Catalan of any wrong doing, and labeling Larry David an accidental hero. | |
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Quantum and Woody: Quantum and Woody's first case was an investigation into the murder of Ed Palmer's wife. They follow clues all around the world until they capture Terrence Magnum, a global financier with a stolen computer chip that could decrypt military codes. Unfortunately, he had nothing to do with the murder — Mrs. Palmer was killed by her husband, as the police had originally surmised. | |
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In the first Yes! Pretty Cure 5 movie, the Big Bad has the MacGuffin in hand... but it's not complete, so it can't grant any wishes. Blame Urara, who still had that last Pinky and hadn't put it in yet. | |
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Red Dwarf: In "Officer Rimmer", when the crew come across a ship in mortal danger, rather than risk going into the asteroid field, Rimmer decides to rid himself of the problem by launching a nuclear mining torpedo at it. The missile glances off an asteroid and the blast from the explosion throws the ship clear of danger. The ship's captain responds by promoting Rimmer. | |
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In Silent Hill, beating a god to death with a pipe tends to be an objective the player character achieves while pursuing a different goal, though how heroically that turns out for the characters depends on which of the Multiple Endings you get. | |
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This is the only reason anyone in Inspector Gadget accepts the title character as an Inspector. However, he's so clueless that he believes the hype and never realizes for himself that he's not really the hero. Then again, his bumbling often genuinely does help save the day, usually in a Spanner in the Works fashion. | |
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Shadows over Meridian: To his own surprise, Phobos realizes that the Lurdens and Mogriffs venerate him with Undying Loyalty because the actions he took to get them on his side during his reign (mostly done to spite the same cultural traditions that denied him the throne due to being male) ended up giving them better standards of living than they'd had in centuries, by allowing them to regain ancestral lands that had been stolen from them. | |
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In The Lost Fleet, Commander John Geary was a commander of a small task force patroling a system near the Syndicate Worlds space. When the Syndics invaded The Alliance, one of the first attacks was on the convoy going through the system. Sending all but his ship to the jump point, Geary turns his ship towards the incoming Syndics in order to hold them off long enough to let the others escape. He evacuates the crew and himself jumps into a cryopod before his ship is destroyed. While the act is definitely heroic, when he wakes up nearly 100 years later, he finds out that the Alliance has turned him to a great hero who will someday return to lead the fleet to a glorious victory over the Syndics. The Alliance-Syndic war has continued without stopping for all this time, with both sides being too large to be easily defeated. Heavy attrition of experienced personnel has resulted in Attack! Attack! Attack! being the only fleet tactic familiar to the fleet with personal glory of ship commanders being the most important thing in battle. Geary is now a full captain with the legendary nickname "Black Jack". However, when someone points out his heroic Last Stand, he explains that this was his only battle to date, and he lost it. | |
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In Dudley Dursley Saves the World, Dudley's saving of the world is this. It comes about when he's trying to escape Privet Drive and falls on Voldemort, crushing him. | |
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Dermabrasion: Dabi is known far and wide as the "Blue Flame Vigilante", targetting traffickers, rapists, the Yakuza, and more. In reality, during those years Dabi was constantly high on drugs, unwittingly getting into incredibly dangerous situations, and decided to set everyone on fire when they pissed him off. For example, when he took down the sex trafficking ring, it was because he was one of the victims, and the kidnappers didn't suspect that the drugged up skinny teenager had one of the most dangerous quirks in existence. | |
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One The Owl House comic by MoringMark has Luz and King participating in a broom race with King getting motion sick. He ends up barfing into the forest, which lands on the neat-freak Darius as he is holding onto Eda and Raine, freaking him out long enough for the two to break free and get away. | |
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Berlin Syndrome: A little boy looking for someone to help his hurt brother interrupts Andi right when he was almost certainly about to kill Clare. | |
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In One-Punch Man, the reason why King is ranked as high as he is in the Hero Association, despite being a normal guy with below-average strength and no powers (asides from maybe Super-Luck and Inhumanly threatening presence, the actual source material is not clear about it), is that he just happens to be nearby in a lot of incidents where Saitama defeated the bad guys, and bystanders credited King because he looks more like a hero than Saitama. However, because of his false reputation, he has actually been able to save the day on his own — some bad guys flee or surrender the moment they see him. | |
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The "Recall" short from Overwatch is a retroactive example of this. When Winston sends out the recall signal for all Overwatch agents, it was also transmitted to the long abandoned Eco-point Antarctica. Waking up Sole Survivor of the outpost, Mei, mere days before the station power would have died and left her to freeze with the others. | |
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In Analog Controls Let's Play of Fable'', main character Arseface was a Nominal Hero at best and a villain at worst, but managed to reject and destroy the evil Sword of Aeons… because MJTR hit the attack button one time too many while making a joke. The hosts take the stance that pure accident is the only way Arseface could ever have actually saved the world. | |
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Goosebumps Series 2000: In "The Haunted Car", an evil ghost named Becka possesses a car and kidnaps a boy named Mitchell, going on a joyride intending to eventually kill him. They pass by his house and find it is on fire. Mitchell realizes that if he hadn't been kidnapped, he would have gone home and likely have been killed by the fire. Becka gets so pissed off that she lets him go and leaves. | |
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In the What's with Andy? episode "Busted!" Andy, who had been having a Potty Emergency the whole episode, finally relieves himself on an escalator fire putting it out. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "The Homecoming", the Bajoran resistance fighter Li Nalas was hailed a legendary hero after slaying a famous Cardassian commander/war criminal in single combat. He admits to Sisko that he'd actually just fallen down a hill, saw a Cardassian bathing in the river, and fired in sheer panic, with no idea who it was. Sisko manages to convince Nalas that he can still be of value by inspiring his people, but the role never sits comfortably and he's actually relieved to sacrifice his life for Sisko in "The Siege". In "The House of Quark", a Klingon attacks Quark in a drunken rage only to accidentally fall on his own knife. Quark quickly exaggerates the story, claiming that he'd killed his attacker in a fight to the death, which earns him a lot of notoriety (and is good for business). Then he finds out the hard way that killing a Klingon in combat has more complex legal and political implications than he'd expected. "Nor the Battle to the Strong", has Jake Sisko: a civilian, aspiring novelist and part-time journalist. While on a besieged planet, Jake defends a field hospital by causing a minor cave-in, killing two Klingon invaders and sealing the entrance — except that it was all an accident, he was panicking and shooting blindly, and the results were extraordinary luck for him. He freely admits, however, that he was acting on fear and only trying to stay alive, and notes with some surprise that he was basically acting on the same self-protection instinct that had led to an act of what might be termed cowardace just a few days earlier — it just so happened that in this case, the instinctive action happened to be one that also saved others in the process. He even writes a truthful account of it for publication. He may not be a hero, but he's a very conscientious journalist. |
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One of the early episodes of Arthur has a Cat Up a Tree leap into Buster's arms to eat his ice cream, due to it having fish, thus becoming a hero. He lets the hero stuff go to his head and Arthur and friends decide recreate the scenario via robotic cat to prove he is no hero. It succeeds, much to the disappointment of Buster, but then he (intentionally) saves Arthur and Francine from a runaway piano. Here We Go Again!. | |
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In the World of Mana series, being the chosen hero tends to happen by accident: Dawn of Mana: Keldy just wanted to find the Guardian Beast to save his Doomed Hometown...except he ends up having to clean up the very mess he helped make when Ritzia ends up possessed by the Sealed Evil in a Can instead. Secret of Mana: The Boy just wanted to cut some tall grass...though you do find out later that he comes from a heroic lineage. Whatever party you choose in Trials of Mana, the fairy just picks them to bond with because they happened to be there. |
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Make a Wish: "Mr. Black", where young Mister Potter is simply "a guy on vacation" while the bad guys are dying like flies whenever he's in the vague vicinity. | |
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In Chapter 4 of Bendy and the Ink Machine, Ink Bendy saves Henry Stein by killing the Projectionist right when he was about to kill Henry. Seeing as he is surprised when he sees Henry after killing the Projectionist and who he is, it's likely it was an accident. | |
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No Longer Allowed in Another World: Sensei accidentally slays the Death Tree, saving both his life and Tama's, by passing his "Poison" status effect on it, reducing it to a burnt stump. | |
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Doraemon Invoked in one chapter where Doraemon and Nobita use a mind-reading device and encounter a would-be criminal. Since they can't report the guy (who hasn't done anything yet) to the police, Doraemon puts a device on him that somehow causes his attempts at committing a crime to become accidental acts of heroics: him trying to snatch away a child ends up saving her from a falling beam, trying to snatch a bag from someone ends up returning it to its original owner (the guy he tried to take it from had stolen it from someone else), and trying to break into a house to steal end up saving the house from fire. Things end happily when he confesses the truth to the owner of the house he saved (who also happens to own the bag he previously tried to rob, and the father of the child he intended to kidnap), and the latter gave the guy a job so that he wouldn't have to resort to crime to buy medicine for his sick wife. In The Doraemons Special, Doraemon, Doramed and Kid are babysitting for a family. However, the baby crawls away while they're not paying attention, and in trying to find the child, they end up foiling a bank robbery. |
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Accidental Hero of the Galaxy: Given that it's Mass Effect done in the style of Ciaphas Cain, this is to be expected. Shepard in this missed the last shuttle off Elysium and when the Batarians attacked tried to run, inadvertently causing the Batarians to follow him back to Alliance reinforcements, which allowed them to win the day. Since then, he's been stuck with an evergrowing reputation for heroism he feels he doesn't deserve. | |
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Stray: The cat's only motivation is to get back to its clowder on the surface, and it saves B-12 mostly by wandering around and pawing at things. B-12 leads the way from then on in the larger plot of freeing the robots from the Walled City; the cat's Not in This for Your Revolution and it's not entirely clear whether it even knows the revolution is happening. | |
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Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, tries to seize the one Ring from Frodo as the later succumbs to its influence, now unwilling to destroy it. He claims the ring, hops with joy... and falls into the chasm of Mount Doom, destroying the ring and Sauron in the process, and in doing so, saving Middle Earth. That Gollum may accidently save the world is foreshadowed earlier when Gandalf posits that fate may yet have a use for him, and that Bilbo's mercy in not killing him when he had the chance may yet be what saves the world. Frodo forgives Gollum after his death. | |
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There's an element of this in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, after Dorothy's house squishes the Wicked Witch of the East, and it's the key to the plot. Without squishing the Wicked Witch of the East Dorothy would never have acquired the Silver/Ruby Slippers and incurred the wrath of the Wicked Witch of the West. Nor would the Wizard have assumed she was powerful enough to destroy the WWW and thus never would have sent her there. | |
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Malgudi Days: Attila the dog. Originally meant to guard the house of his owners, he befriends Ranga, a thief, and runs away with him. Later, a member of the house spots Attila in public, and yells for him to return. Ranga flees the scene, but Attila, thinking that Ranga is abandoning him, chases after him... and accidentally trips him over, causing a ring he stole from the property to fall out of his pocket. The dog is hailed as a hero for his cleverness in catching the thief, but in reality, all he had intended was to catch up to his friend. | |
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Wario: Master of Disguise: He stole Count Cannoli's magic wand to hijack his show and get a wish from the Wishstone, only to accidentally save both his world and the TV one by defeating Terrormisu over not getting a wish. | |
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BAD END THEATER: In the ESCAPED MAIDEN and HEROIC UNDERLING endings, the Underling's reasons for killing the Overlord are entirely selfish in nature, and the fact that they end up saving the Maiden in the process is a mere coincidence. Nevertheless, when the Maiden expresses her thanks to the Underling, the Underling feels proud of themself and allows the Maiden to leave the castle peacefully. | |
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Green Lantern: The Animated Series: In the episode "Steam Lantern", Gil Broome (a.k.a. Steam Lantern) is revered as the hero that saved his alternate Earth from the Anti-Monitor. He eventually confesses that he's a fraud. Duke Nigel Fortonberry had opened a dimensional rift that transported the Anti-Monitor into another universe. At the same moment, Steam Lantern fired an energy blast at the Anti-Monitor that had no effect whatsoever — but because Gil was visible to the crowd of onlookers and Duke Nigel was not, everyone assumed that Gil's attack caused the Anti-Monitor's departure, and he received all the credit. | |
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Kaeloo: In Episode 104, when Stumpy is trying to escape from Olaf's Mecha-Mooks, who are clinging onto him, he sticks his fingers into an electric socket. Somehow, the electricity passing through all of them gives him control over them, and he uses the army to rescue the others (who are being held prisoner by Olaf). | |
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In Space Brothers, Mutta accidentally foils a robbery and briefly becomes a celebrity. | |
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Audrey, Wait!: The media latches on to Audrey as the subject of infamous Break-Up Song, "Audrey, Wait!", turning her into a celebrity for no real reason other than inspiring the song. Not "heroic" in the traditional sense, but Audrey uses the media attention to good ends. | |
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Knights of the Old Republic: During the bombing of Serroco, Slyssk panicked, grabbed Gryph and ran into the nearest ship before taking off. Turns out their panicked escape saved the lives of half a battalion of Republic soldiers who were sleeping in the back. The ministry of defense turned Slyssk's accidental heroics into a propaganda campaign about Captain Benegryph Goodvalor and his trusty Trandoshan sidekick, Heroes of Serroco. | |
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Jaine Austen Mysteries: Prozac (the titular character's pet cat) gains media attention in Murder Gets a Makeover when she saves a toddler from being hit by a car while trying to eat the kid's Chicken McNugget. When at an award ceremony for a pet charity, she sees the same kid eating another McNugget and reveals what the whole thing was really about... and then she ends up saving a philanthropist from choking on his food, doing this trope again. | |
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Disney Mouse and Duck Comics: Mickey's pal Goofy has been an accidental hero so often that it became a cliche in 1960s comics. Goofy would set out to engage in some hobby or sport, capture a small-time crook by mistake, and then use the inevitable reward money toward the hobby. Every. Single. Time. This is how Fethry became the superhero Red Bat: he and Donald, journalists for the story, were infiltrating a masked party thrown by various rich people, Donald wearing a Beagle Boy-sized gorilla costume and Fethry wearing a red and grey bat costume, and when the Beagle Boys actually robbed the place disguised as gorillas and mistook Donald for one of them he tried to save his cousin-and a few blunders later the Red Bat had defeated the Beagle Boys with the help of a headless gorilla. |
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In no-one has to die., Troy revealed the security code in his second to fifth loop of the fire, leading to the others believing they could save them all, leading to them being the Sole Survivor over and over again. | |
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Lost: in "Through the Looking Glass," Jack is called a hero for pulling a woman and her son from a burning car. When the woman regains consciousness, she reveals that the reason she crashed was she was looking at Jack, who was about to jump off a bridge at the time.note The Irony being that even though he was the one to pull them from the car, it was her who saved him by being there right at that moment. | |
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In Eiyuu Senki: The World Conquest, the player's army is getting ready to invade the Taika Empire. The empress, Qin Shi Huang, is at the same time suffering from a debilitating disease and taking what she believes to be medicine but is actually liquid mercury. The player's army circulates some false rumors that Qin Shi Huang has taken a turn for the worse, causing her advisor, Sun Tzu, to return to the capital. Sun Tzu arrives and accidentally breaks Qin Shi Huang's medicine bottle just as she was about to take an extra large dose, causing both parties to inadvertently save her life. Since the game is fueled by Defeat Means Friendship, it averts Nice Job Breaking It, Hero. | |
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Kim Possible: Ron once spent an entire episode accidentally foiling the plots of Kim's Rogues Gallery because he was searching their lairs for a library book he lost. | |
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In an episode of Recess, TJ gets a black eye and won't tell anyone how he got it. The other kids convince themselves that he got it performing some heroic feat or other and is just too modest to admit it. After initial protests TJ quickly starts enjoying the hero life, even getting a parade in his honour. When he's asked to tell the tale of how he got his black eye at the parade, however, his conscience finally kicks in and he admits the truth — He was square-dancing, and his partner knocked into him. | |
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In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "The Man Who Killed Batman", a very small-time thug, "Sid the Squid", working as a lookout somehow managed to accidentally "kill" Batman, which makes him a hero and a big-shot to Gotham City's underground. It also earns him the wrath of both Joker and Rupert Thorne, who thinks Sid has been "playing dumb" and wants to depose him. Batman is actually still alive, however, and saves Sid and collars Thorne. Sid gets sent to a big prison outside of Gotham City limits, where he is still treated as a hero for almost killing Batman — and making both Thorne and the Joker look like fools. | |
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The Wizard of Oz: Upon arriving in Oz, Dorothy is hailed as a hero when her house lands on and crushes the tyrannical Wicked Witch Of The East. Dorothy didn't actually kill the Witch, since she was just trapped in her house when a tornado threw it into the air. In the climax, Dorothy does it again when the Wicked Witch of the West sets Scarecrow on fire, with her trying to put him out with a bucket of water, only for her to accidentally hit the Witch with it. |
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In Army of Darkness Ash both invokes and subverts this trope at different times. | |
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While filming his short-lived show Who Is America?, Sacha Baron Cohen seems to have unwittingly uncovered an elite pedophile ring. Rather than air the segment, he turned his footage over to the FBI. | |
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In one episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Jimmy and the gang are tasked to steal a special egg that contains a powerful element for a machine that will be used to control the world. During this heist, Carl accidentally mixes up the real egg with an identical fake one and is forced to choose which to pull down. When they return with the egg, their client betrays them and turns out to be a Mobile-Suit Human of Professor Calamitous. Fortunately, the egg they possessed was the same fake one and the Professor's machine gets destroyed. | |
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In Dragon Ball Super, King of All Cosmos Zen-Oh had previously expressed a desire to hold a martial arts tournament between all 12 universes but never got around to it. Goku reminds him of it several story arcs later, thinking it would be fun. Only Zen-Oh's plan is to destroy the eleven losing universes, and their inhabitants immediately laid into Goku for being so heartless. But Vados points out that if Goku had not intervened, Zen-Oh would have just destroyed every universe, no questions asked. Goku doesn't care either way, because he loves a good fight, and he's even okay with people thinking he's evil if he gets a good fight out of it. | |
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In Mulan, Mushu writes a fake message from General Li saying that Shang's new troops are needed on the front lines all so Mulan would get a chance to fight in the war. Turns out that it was desperately true as the village the general's troops had garrisoned had been annihilated by the Huns, leaving no one alive — not even the general — among the civilians or the army. And had Shang's troops not been in the mountains, the Huns would have made it to the capital city without a problem. | |
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When Beerus comes back to Earth in Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, Goku just waits and watches him fight everyone else — but this allows Beerus to Dope Slap Bulma, triggering another unexpected fury from Vegeta that becomes his first encroachment into God-tier power. | |
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Dawn of Mana: Keldy just wanted to find the Guardian Beast to save his Doomed Hometown...except he ends up having to clean up the very mess he helped make when Ritzia ends up possessed by the Sealed Evil in a Can instead. | |
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The Boondocks had one in the form of Tobias Lynchwater, aka Catcher Freeman. The true story surrounding him is that he wrote the first ever screenplay and showed it to his master George (who's also his illegitimate father) before informing him of a revolt by his fellow slaves. However, the revolt happened a week earlier than they said, much to Tobias' displeasure. He picked up a gun and meant to shoot the rebel leader Thelma, but ended up accidentally shooting the colonel instead because they kept moving. With everyone looking to him, Tobias just decided to roll with it and made it look like it was on purpose, thus starting the Catcher Freeman legend. | |
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Leisure Suit Larry 2: Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places): Larry Laffer meets a Latin American woman at a music store, and tries to talk in Spanish with her. Problem is, he took Spanish at high school, and doesn't understand the girl... but the girl thought that his badly spoken phrases were secret codes, and thought he was the Soviet agent she was waiting for. She gives him a Peruvian onklunk with a hidden microfilm for the evil Dr. Nonookee; Larry, incapable to understand, thought it was a gift. And so, Larry is chased around by several Soviet spies and agents of the KGB, without even being aware of it (that is, unless they capture him, and dies). Finally, the onlunk is broken when Larry falls in the middle of a jungle. Poor Larry: he saved the world, and the only thing he received for it was a bush with killer bees... | |
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In The Meg what ultimately stops the threat of the Megalodon menacing the humans is a horde of great white, tiger, bull, and great hammerhead sharks reacting on instinct to the blood the wounded Megalodon gave off and dog piling the giant shark in a feeding frenzy to tear it to pieces. | |
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In one U.S. Acres segment of Garfield and Friends, the normally cowardly Wade accidentally saves the day, and as a result becomes rather arrogant for his so-called heroism — until, of course, he is faced with a situation where he must save the day again. | |
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The Pony POV Series has an example in Clover's story in the 7 Dreams/Nightmares collection: Clover's about to be killed by her Big Bad, the Diamond Dog Fluffy the Terrible (yes, really) in a shack atop the Canterhorn mountain, when the dragon Bahamut just happens to land right on top of them (he literally didn't notice the shack until after he crushed it), sending Fluffy off the side of the mountain to his death. | |
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Archie Comics: The superhero Bob Phantom created an identity in order to get close to superheroes and learn enough about them for his exposé book. In his first appearance, however, he is mistaken for a genuine superhero, and, worse still, ends up helping another hero save the day! | |
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Malcolm in the Middle episode "Boys at Ranch" had the boy's fireworks show a drunk and lost Hal and Otto the way back home. | |
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Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja: Bash de-stunk one of his fellow students when he broke said student's musical instrument but he only broke it because he didn't like its shape. | |
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One Piece, Usopp manages to fulfill both flavors at once in Dressrosa when he is force-fed the Tatababasco-laced bon-bon, causing Usopp to freak out from its spiciness and morph his face so grotesquely that his adversary falls unconscious from shock, undoing her curse on thousands of people, some of whom had been waiting for her defeat for a decade. From the perspective of anyone outside the small room where the battle took place, however, it looked and sounded like Usopp was kicking major butt and emerged victorious after it went quiet. | |
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In Laughter in Paradise, timid bank clerk Herbert Russell has to hold up his bank manager with a toy pistol while wearing a mask in order to inherit 50,000 pounds. When he finally works up the courage to do so, he storms into the office yelling "Reach for the sky!", and startles two real hold-up men into dropping their guns. A later radio interview reveals that he is being rewarded by being promoted to branch manager. | |
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In Mugen Souls, Altis is a former demon who is so incompetent at being evil that she accidentally turned into an angel. She legitimately wants to be evil, but all her attempts to do something evil make good things happen instead. | |
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The Men from the Ministry episode "Counter Spies" has General Assistance Department arrest of couple of shop-owners in Hackney for ridiculously small irregularities in their products that go against the norms set out by EEC, and accidentally blowing the cover of two Soviet spies, allowing MI5 to catch them. | |
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In Rugrats episode "The Bank Trick", Tommy and Chuckie unwittingly trip an alarm at the bank and cause an entire police force to swarm the place. By sheer coincidence, a pair of scam artists posing as federal bank inspectors were just about to bilk the bank out of its money, and get arrested by the officer who recognized him. | |
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Toy Story 2: Rex accidentally knocks Zurg off the elevator shaft with his tail. | |
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Baldr Sky: Amazingly Gilbert ends up saving Kou's mind in Sora's route thanks to his bottomless hatred for him. The same ends up holding true for his comrades as well. | |
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Legends of the Dead Earth: In the Green Lantern Annual #5 story "Nobler in the Mind", the badly wounded Green Lantern El'qa Squa Zreenah arrives on Qualar IV and intends to recruit one of the natives, a race of giant chickens, to fight the deadly Statejian fleet in orbit. Unfortunately, the population are extremely skittish and therefore unsuitable to become Green Lanterns. Believing that he will soon die, El'qa has the ring search for someone on Qualar IV with no fear. The ring locates such a person but warns El'qa that he is not going to like it. The chosen individual, Perdoo, is erratic, disinterested in his environment and easily distracted, particularly by his appreciation for flitterbys. However, he manages to defeat the Statejians, someone that no one else in recorded history has ever been able to do, without even realising it. El'qa later learns that Perdoo felt no fear in any circumstances as he was an inmate in an insane asylum and was therefore unaware of his surroundings. | |
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On The Venture Bros., Col. Bud Manstrong is celebrated as a hero, but actually blacked out from a handjob while piloting the crashing Gargantua-1 back to Earth. | |
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Scooby-Doo: In The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries episode "A Night Louse at the White House", Scooby's parents Mumsy Doo and Dada Doo fly over to the White House solely to bring him his galoshes to make sure he dresses warmly. Mumsy Doo ends up unintentionally helping Mystery, Inc. capture the episode's criminals when she knocks them out by dropping Scooby's galoshes onto their heads. Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!: In "Where There's a Will, There's a Wraith", Scooby is included in a rich man's will for saving that man's life. It's eventually revealed that Scooby was just trying to get a piece of jerky from the man's pockets and the life-saving was accidental. In the Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? episode "Returning of the Key Ring", Daphne brings the others along when she has lunch with her friend Sean Astin, but warns them not to say the word "ring" because it's a trigger for him after the filming of the trilogy. Velma accidentally triggers Sean when she finds a key ring. Sean's insistence on personally returning the key ring to its rightful owner pulls the gang into another mystery, preventing the villain of the week from getting away with her scheme. |
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On The Fairly OddParents!, Timmy and his fairies find themselves in a magical duel with Remy Buxaplenty. Cosmo inadvertently wins the first challenge, rescuing Timmy from a gorilla, by poofing up some bananas for himself, which the gorilla takes in exchange for Timmy. | |
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Ralph Hinkley/Hanley from The Greatest American Hero was this up until the end of the series when his character was completely derailed and he became famous for being a superhero. Earlier in the series, with rare exceptions, he avoided the hero role that was thrust upon him. | |
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Forrest Gump is of a sort. Forrest ran back into the combat zone to try and find Bubba, only to be called upon by other soldiers to rescue them, which he did by carrying them to the river. What he did was technically heroic but he didn't intend to save 4 others and be awarded the Medal of Honor. | |
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Allison and Lillia: Carr Benedict agrees to take sole credit for the history-changing discovery made by Allison and Wil, when he was only present because he'd been trying to shoot them. The newly-promoted Major Carr finds the resulting mass adulation and jealousy deeply uncomfortable. His reckless actions in the next adventure (which he secretly hopes will bring his rank down a notch or two) only cement his heroic reputation. | |
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Peanuts: In a 2-3 week story arc in the 1970s, Charlie Brown is wearing a sack over his head to cover up a baseball-looking rash, at the same time that he goes to camp. While at camp, his unorthodox headgear earns him the nickname "Sack". He is elected as camp president and is credited for improving the camp, even though he never actually does anything substantial. | |
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In an episode of Living Single, Maxine is in line at the bank, when suddenly a robber pulls out gun and starts making demands. At that same time Kyle, whom Maxine has a habit of arguing with, runs into the bank since he's in a hurry to take care of some business. As he sprints into the bank, he fails to notice the robber, accidentally bumps into him, trips him, and the guard is able to apprehend him, and Kyle is labeled a hero on the evening news. | |
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Spider-Man: In The Amazing Spider-Man (Lee & Ditko) #8, the two crooks who tried to steal the Living Brain knock themselves out after running into Flash Thompson. Flash's classmates assume he stopped them, and ignore him when he tries to explain what really happened. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: Quite often the Hulk isn't actually trying to do something heroic, but he often does a lot of good with his powers anyway. | |
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My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!: During her attempts to avoid the fate the original game had her slated for, Catarina ends up affecting things she never even thought of or considered for the better. Her parents' marriage for one — it's the side effect of helping her adopted brother Keith. Catarina leaps from a tree, tensely tells a group of bullies to move aside, smiles gallantly at the victim of their bullying and then leaves before she has a chance to thank her. Or at least that's what it looks like to Sophia when in truth Catarina was simply rushing to get to the bathroom right now before she wet herself after a dog chased her up the tree in the first place and didn't have the faintest idea that Sophia had needed help. |
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Secret of Mana: The Boy just wanted to cut some tall grass...though you do find out later that he comes from a heroic lineage. | |
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While making Wallace & Gromit A Grand Day Out and A Close Shave, Nick Park had Wallace say "Wensleydale" because they liked how it was animated and because he liked the name. After making the movie, a company that made Wensleydale cheese actually wrote them a thank you message and gave them the license to make a special brand of "Wallace and Gromit Wensleydale". Because of those movies, Aardman Animations saved the company from bankruptcy and were credited for saving the company, something Nick Park was unaware of the entire time. | |
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In Warhammer 40,000, Sandy Mitchell's Commissar Ciaphas Cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM! claims that this is basically what he is in his memoir (ie. the novels and short stories). It's only partly true. In his first short story he was nothing but, credited with saving the day while allegedly scouting for and finding a Tyranid flanking attack — when he was actually trying to desert; and saving his future aide, by charging to protect him from a horde of Tyranids — when in reality, he was simply running from more, larger Tyranids in the other direction. Since then, a combination of his survival skills, extreme good luck, and diplomatic abilities has resulted in him getting out of one hairy situation after another, with his reputation as a HERO OF THE IMPERIUM snowballing. However, only some of this had him accidentally being a hero. Other times, he'd do it on purpose, even if it was only because his own skin was among those needing to be "heroically" saved, or because of his being Slave to PR. He did like that reputation. | |
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Jurassic Park Horror: A giant pterosaur unknowingly saves the farmer by swooping down and eating the last of a pack of Velociraptors that had been attacking the farm. | |
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In The Raid (1954), the drunken Lt. Keating interrupts a church service, shoots one man then tries to murder the preacher and is promptly shot dead by Maj. Benton, the raid leader, almost giving away the plot. The townspeople shower Benton with gratitude for this, not realizing his own true identity. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever: After Greg asks for money in an unmarked envelope left underneath the church recycling bin, he shovels the entire front of the church looking for the bin while wearing a ski mask. The next day, the newspaper declares him a hero for clearing the way to the church's soup kitchen. | |
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Beetle Bailey: When Beetle of all people receives a medal for being an exemplary worker. It starts when he gives his usual kind of lip ("I could do that, if I wanted to") to Sarge "asking" him to clean up some graffiti. Sarge gets angry and gives a violence-laden order for him to want to do it, then. When he's cleaning the wall, Killer happens by and asks why he's doing it, to which Beetle replies with angry sarcasm that it's because he wants to. The General also happens to walk by and is impressed by this dedication. | |
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In It Happened in Hollywood, Tim decides to hold up a bank, but just as he is about to do so, real gangsters appear and shoot a police officer. As the three robbers attempt to flee, Tim shoots them and is hailed a hero for his bravery. | |
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An episode of Jimmy Two-Shoes had Jimmy stop a thief that was stealing Lucius' treasures because his was in the middle of having a Priceless Ming Vase fight with Beezy. | |
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In Orc Eroica, Bash's only real goal is to find a wife, yet this leads him around the world and causes him to solve many problems. For example, Bash accepting a zombie-slaying quest (to earn money to buy jewelry) eventually leads him to save the elves from a Zombie Apocalypse, which others assume was his goal all along. | |
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The Mariachi in El Mariachi came into town just to find a place to play music and get some cash. Instead, when his guitar case is switched with a guitar case full of weapons owned by an infamous hit man, the villains and the Damsel in Distress mistake him for the hit man. Dumb luck allows him to kill the hit squad sent after him, elevating him to legend status. Though after the tragedy of the movie's end, the Mariachi would undergo a transformation over time into the gunslinging vengeance-driven badass that we would see in Desperado, a figure more than worthy of the legend. |
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Shantae and the Seven Sirens: Rottytops' actions inadvertently save the world. She dresses up as a half-genie to infiltrate the half-genie festival, under the identity of "Fillin the Blank", thinking Shantae had neglected to invite her. This gives Risky the opportunity to sabotage the Empress Siren's plans by switching Shantae out for her when the Sirens kidnap all the half-genies. Not only does this leave Shantae free to act, but when the Empress Siren absorbs the half-genies' life force, Rottytops' zombie energy poisons her and gives Shantae the chance to defeat her. If the Empress Siren had actually managed to absorb the life energy of all five half-genies, she would have been invincible. Rottytops declares herself a hero after finding this out. | |
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In the first chapter of Whistle!, the main character switches schools and is mistaken for a soccer star by his new team. He doesn't have the confidence to correct them, causing him to be outed embarrassingly when they actually make him play, and he's terrible. | |
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In True Lies while fighting Aziz's forces on the uninhabited island on the Florida Keys, Harry, a government super spy, gets captured by a muscular goon, as another half dozen goons rush him, Harry yells at Hellen, his wife, to shoot. Not knowing how to handle a gun, the Mac-10 she was holding falls out her hands, and as it bounces down a flight of stairs, the MaC-10 takes out all the goons. Once the magazine is empty, she give Harry a surprised thumbs up. | |
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Except for the one time that he mans up, in Sourcery. But it's okay! The statue, as a reward, gets downgraded to a plaque, gets downgraded to a certificate, gets downgraded to a fine. It's implied that although a coward he may be, Rincewind also grew up on the streets of Morpork — and Survived. Which is why he chose a half-brick in a sock as his weapon against the greatest Sourcerer to ever live. There's also the fact that at heart he's not as selfish as he lets on and will stick up for those he truly cares about. |
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In Dragon Ball, he lets Piccolo live when he has him dead to rights. In Dragon Ball Z, he lets Vegeta leave when he has him dead to rights. They both become two of his greatest allies. | |
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The Avengers: In Avengers: The Initiative, Hardball was recruited into the Initiative when he used his powers to save a little girl from being hit by an armored car — at least, that's what it looked like to witnesses. In reality, Hardball was trying to rob the armored car. The rescue was a coincidence. This is one of the first hints that Hardball is a bit too amoral for a superhero-in-training. | |
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In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Mighty Little Defenders Episode 16, the goats are given a surprise visit by Worley and Wolffy gets the idea to close the door behind him to ensure the goats don't escape. He inadvertently crushes Worley's tail with the door, and when the goats cheer him on for it he decides to play along by barking frantically (since he's a dog) at Worley. | |
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Whatever party you choose in Trials of Mana, the fairy just picks them to bond with because they happened to be there. | |
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Johnny English is based on this. Johnny English does end up actually doing something heroic (save the Queen from an assassination attempt), but by doing something really stupid rather than by doing something awesome. He gets a knighthood, since this is comedy. Usually Rowan Atkinson's characters think they are this, but aren't (usually they're too inept to actually be heroic). | |
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In the Police Squad! episode The Butler Did It (a.k.a. A Bird In The Hand), a gunman holds three police officers hostage in a room at a police station. Suddenly, Frank Drebin opens the door, hitting the gunman and allowing the police officers to apprehend him. note This scene was recreated in the second The Naked Gun movie with "Weird Al" Yankovic as the gunman. | |
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In the Pokémon Chronicle "We're No Angels", Jessie, James, and Meowth are mistaken for a fictional superhero team by the people of a backwater village. They set the record straight by wrecking what they think is a robot protecting the villagers — only to be told the mecha was about to destroy the village fields. | |
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In Amistad, when they speak with the leader of the Africans through a translator, they learn that he isn't all that confident about "leading" anyone: he became leader of the group because he killed an attacking lion with a thrown stone some time back. He doesn't feel deserving of the acclaim he got for this achievement because the stone was lucky shot that just happened to hit the lion's head in such a way as to kill it; he'd thrown it out of desperation and panic in the heat of the moment. | |
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The Rigel Black Chronicles: Some of Harry's actions in the Chamber of Secrets are genuinely heroic, but she really doesn't like the fact that people fuss about her slaying the basilisk. Voldemort commanded it to kill itself, and it did; she didn't have anything to do with that part. | |
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Invader Zim: A Bad Thing Never Ends: In Chapter 7, the fight between Zim's team and Tak ends up spilling into Aldrich Coathanger's office, interrupting him before he can murder Dib. | |
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Fantasy of Utter Ridiculousness: Marisa was able to blast away Suika with a massive Master Spark right before the oni could finish off Megas. The problem? Marisa had been stuck in her house beneath a junk pile at the time, and the Master Spark was an attempt to free herself. | |
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In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Yoriichi never tried to tutor Sumiyoshi on Sun Breathing intentionally, by then Yoriichi felt like a complete worthless person, he only showed all his Sun Breathing techniques to the Kamado's ancestors solely on Suyako's request because she found his techniques pretty to look at, so every time Yoriichi visited them Suyako would ask him to display his art; Sumiyoshi, however, felt Yoriichi wasn't worthless at all, he was their hero, he deserved to leave a legacy behind, with that Sumiyoshi made use of his extreme photographic memory to systematically learn everything Yoriichi could do by just looking at him perform Sun Breathing to them. Yoriichi left Sumiyoshi's family just hoping they live a honest good life with his cherished Hanafuda Earrings to ward evil away, he was completely unaware a secret Sun Breathing legacy was left all the way up to Tanjiro Kamado, to potentially end what he started: the quest for Muzan's death. | |
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In South Park, Cartman does this twice: The first time by being a spoiled brat in "Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods." Cartman, furious that no-one saw him on TV, knocks over the mind controlling Planetarium projector in a fit of rage, inadvertently saving Stan and Kyle and wiping the mind of the Planetarium owner. The second time by being a more overt sociopath in "Best Friends Forever." Kenny was killed by angels so he can lead Heaven's army against the forces of Hell and prevent armageddon, but is revived in a vegetative state by the hospital. Cartman is the one fighting to get Kenny unplugged, inadvertently allowing him to save the world, because he wants Kenny dead so he can inherit his Sony PSP. |
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In the first episode of T.U.F.F. Puppy, Dudley chases his chew toy, which winds up in the possession of the Diabolical Order of Mayhem (or D.O.O.M. for short). In the process of recovering his chew toy, Dudley manages to knock out Snaptrap's henchmen, and Snaptrap would have surrendered the Kruger Rat he had stolen to him had Dudley not had his mind more on his chew toy. When the Chief arrives at D.O.O.M. HQ, he is so impressed with what Dudley did that he hires him as an agent of the Turbo Undercover Fighting Force (or T.U.F.F. for short) and the partner of his top agent, Kitty Katswell. | |
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In the Warrior Cats graphic novel Rise of Scourge, we learn that Big Bad Scourge became the ruthless warlord he was in part by trying to live up to a reputation for toughness he got for beating up two dogs. One of these incidents was a complete fabrication and in the other the dog became afraid of Scourge's shadow and ran off while Scourge was yowling at him. Of course, Scourge apparently did kill a few dogs for real later. | |
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A Bride's Story: As part of his cover to avoid being accosted on his travels, Mr. Smith pretends to be a doctor and helps a man with his dislocated shoulder. Come morning, and everyone is convinced he’s a miraculous doctor and have formed a huge crowd outside his door. In chapter thirty-three, aptly entitled "Azel’s Offensive," Azel’s striking down the Badan in retaliation results in his also saving some townsmen’s lives, which he couldn't tell at the time due to the smoke. |
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Godzilla's actions in the final act of Godzilla (2014) saved countless lives; killing the Mutos saved what remains of San Francisco and stops what could have been a global epidemic of their species. | |
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Wario Land 3: Wario saves his own world and unknowingly breaks Rudy the Clown's curse on the music box world's inhabitants by defeating him purely in self-defence. The inhabitants, thinking this was intentional, reward him with freedom and all the treasure he found on his quest, which is exactly what he was after from the very beginning. | |
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Wario Land 4: He broke into the Golden Pyramid to steal its treasure, only to inadvertently defeat the Golden Diva and lift the curse on Princess Shokora. | |
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Wario World: He destroyed the Black Jewel out of revenge for destroying his castle and turning his treasure into monsters, only to inadvertently save the world from its wrath. | |
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The Brief and Meaningless Adventure of Hero Man: The Prince of Somewhere is described as incompetent and in the Tower, he's such a klutz that he's in more danger of falling down and injuring himself than from the monster encounters. However, his pathetic existence somehow convinces Lord Doldrum to kill himself in ending 8, resulting in Somewhere being saved. | |
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In the Firefly episode "Jaynestown", Jayne is idolized by the citizens of a small town who herald him as the hero who robbed their oppressor and gave them the money. What the locals do not know is that the robbery was just that: a robbery. Jayne had every intention of keeping the money, but his ship was damaged, and he had to throw the money out the window in order to escape. In fact, he was so determined to keep that money that he actually threw his partner out of the ship first. The spurned partner returns, minus an eye, and reveals the sordid truth, but this does not stop a local man from taking a shotgun blast meant for Jayne. There's even a song that the locals composed in celebration of his "heroics," an excerpt of which can be found on the quote page. Jayne also denounces heroes in and of themselves in a fit of grief after said townsman is killed, saying there's no people like that. "There's just people like me." | |
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: When Eli Mills confronts our heroes Owen, Claire, and Maisie with two armed guards at his side and reveals how Maisie is actually a clone of Lockwood's daughter (potentially hoping to convince the former two to surrender Maisie to him), the Indoraptor comes out of nowhere and mauls both of the guards to death, allowing the heroes to escape. | |
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The Family Guy episode "Blind Ambition", has two examples: Glenn Quagmire undergoes training to put his perversion under control and is put to the test in a mall to see if he can keep it in, but when he realizes Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere, he freaks out and blitzes into a security office, specifically a surveillance room displaying live camera footage of women in changing rooms. He's mortified... but then he notices a woman in one room is passing out from a heart attack, prompting him to run into the store and find her, rapidly giving her chest compressions and mouth to mouth, resuscitating her. Fellow patrons praise Quagmire for knowing CPR... to which he responds "What the hell is CPR?" Later in the episode, Peter Griffin — having recently become blind from nickel poisoning — casually strolls into the Drunken Clam, completely unaware that it's up in flames. Horace happens to be trapped inside from fallen pillar, and his pleas for Peter to grab his hand and pull — even as Peter doesn't understand why ("Jeez, Horace, you been drinking?") — prove successful, with Peter managing to unknowingly rescue him and get him out to safety. |
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Amphibia: In the second season, Grime, Sasha Waybright, and his soldiers lead a coup against King Andrias. Only to discover that Andrias was actually a mad tyrant and conqueror wearing the facade of The Good King. Though this ends up being massively deconstructed, as Anne and her team stop the toad rebellion, King Andrias regains control of Newtopia, and Anne gives him the music box. Allowing him to finally start his multiversal conquest. Played much straighter with Anne's other friend, Marcy Wu. In the episode "The Second Temple", while they were searching for Anne, Marcy showed the Plantars some cute animal videos on her phone while Anne's gemstone was still charging. Thinking they were in danger, Anne hastily takes back the gemstone just before it finishes charging, leaving it only partially charged. This would later prove to be a good thing in "True Colors" when King Andrias drops Sprig to his supposed death, causing Anne to activate her Calamity form, with Marcy taking advantage of the distracted King Andrias to save Sprig. Anne's connection with the gemstone saved herself, her family on a few occasions, and Earth by defeating Andrias in their second duel. And finally, Anne's connection with the gemstone was the key to unlocking Sasha and Marcy's Calamity Powers and saving Amphibia, meaning that Marcy practically atoned for her mistakes and saved Earth, Amphibia, and, to a lesser extent, the entire Multiverse by complete accident. Plus, as revealed in "All In", Marcy's cheerful, bubbly personality and kindness towards Andrias deeply moved him during their first meeting. He convinced the Core to spare her life by sending her and her friends on their temple quest to protect her from being killed, both effectively saving her and unintentionally setting the prophecy in motion instead of undoing it like they wanted. |
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In The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, Granny is praised far and wide as a master detective, and she herself thinks she is. While by no means incompetent, as she always makes the final deductions herself, it's Sylvester chasing Tweety Bird around wherever they're located that causes the necessary evidence or information to fall straight into Granny's hands — she has never once fully solved a case by herself. | |
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Wander over Yonder: Hater gets this twice in a row in "The Hole... Lotta Nuthin'", first when he accidentally cheers Wander up when he brings up his famous "It never hurts to help" slogan, and again when his anger gets the better of him and he rips off one of his arms to plug up the black hole. | |
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Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!: In "Where There's a Will, There's a Wraith", Scooby is included in a rich man's will for saving that man's life. It's eventually revealed that Scooby was just trying to get a piece of jerky from the man's pockets and the life-saving was accidental. | |
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The Lord of the Rings fanfiction Nine Men and a Little Lady has Gollum, who inadvertently saves the day by eating Mary Sue, having mistaken her references to her "precious" as meaning the Ring. | |
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The entire series Hong Kong Phooey was built on this trope. In earlier episodes, the titular character often lucked into his heroic acts, and in later episodes, his faithful pet cat was responsible for orchestrating the events that led to his heroism. All the while, the entire cast, the titular character included, believe him to be a skilled superhero. | |
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In Paladin's Quest, Chezni starts his journey because he was duped by his "friend" Duke, actually Zaygos, the Emperor of the Southern continent, into activating Dal Gren. | |
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1632: Puss Trelli, the protagonist of several Grantville Gazette short stories and the novel I Want to Be your Hero, first becomes a hero by accident. During a rabid dog's rampage, he freezes in terror, but by doing so, he inadvertently gets between the dog and several children, saving their lives and causing him to become a Propaganda Hero. He goes on to accomplish several genuine feats of heroism as a battlefield soldier and MP in the following months. | |
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In an episode of Frasier, Bulldog is lauded as a hero for throwing himself in front of Roz when a gunman tries to rob the coffee shop. In fact, he was mistaken about where the gunman was, and was actually trying to throw himself behind Roz, using her as a human shield. Bulldog laps up the praise, though, and refuses to admit that people have it wrong. | |
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In an episode of Friends, Ross, Chandler, and Joey go on a ride-along with a cop Phoebe is dating. When a car backfires, they mistake it for a gunshot, and Joey throws himself on top of Ross. Ross is touched at the selfless gesture, while Chandler is hurt that Joey tried to protect Ross instead of him. Joey ultimately admits that he was actually throwing himself on top of a sandwich he was holding, and Ross happened to be in the way. | |
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Subverted in All-American Girl (Meg Cabot), where the main character believes she's this but, in fact, she really did do something heroic. | |
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Happy Heroes: In Season 2, Episode 42, Big M. and Little M. are mistaken by Happy S. to have saved the president of planet Xing Xing from other criminals. They were actually trying to capture the president themselves and only fended off the other criminals because they weren't amused with them acting on the idea first. | |
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Captain Klutz: Captain Klutz begins his career (such as it is) by landing on top of an escaping robber following a bungled suicide attempt. | |
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The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure: Littlefoot and the gang accidentally stopped Ozzy and Strut’s attempts to steal eggs twice, first when they were rolling rocks down a hill near a nest the eggnappers were trying to steal from before the mother of the eggs tells them to stop, then when they shouting loud alerting the mother flyer of another nest the brothers were trying to from. | |
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