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Create Your Own Hero
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The Big Bad's had it pretty good so far, steamrolling through any opposition in their path, taking over the world and generally being a complete and utter bastard with no one being able to stop them in any way. Unfortunately for them, they end up killing the family of a child that grows up to be an utter badass with a vengeance, or cause an accident which gives someone superpowers, or through their actions force a Heroic Neutral to declare that It's Personal and be Neutral No Longer, usually with a Doomed Hometown. In other words they've created their own hero. Someone to be a beacon of hope in the world's Darkest Hour, someone to lead the token resistance against their rule and eventually overcome them, all because of an act they did on a random Tuesday that they can't even remember. Sometimes involving a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. Now they have to deal with the possibility of being killed in a fight with their personally created nemesis, or (in some cases) killed by their partners when they realize whose fault it is that this do-gooder keeps ruining all their plots. Subtrope of Nice Job Fixing It, Villain, and the ultimate expression of Villains Act, Heroes React. Opposite of Create Your Own Villain, and Superhero Paradox. Related to Genocide Backfire, Nice Job Breaking It, Herod, and I Need You Stronger (where the villain instead helps the hero to level grind). Supertrope to Phlebotinum Rebel and Faustian Rebellion (in that the villain literally and intentionally empowers the would-be hero who then rebels against them) and so examples of that kind fall into those tropes. Not to be confused with Character Customization. |
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Megamind tries to invoke this trope. After accidentally killing Metroman, he misses playing the bad guy and creates a new super-hero by giving powers to a random man named Hal. However, Hal actually uses his power to become a villain even worse than Megamind the moment that being good doesn't satisfy his selfish needs and ironically, is one of many people who unintentionally helps Megamind to become a hero. | |
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie: Bowser ends up turning the Mario Bros. into the Super Mario Bros. by capturing Luigi and antagonizing Mario for being close to Peach, which only motivates Mario to be a hero and Luigi to be brave. By the climax of the film, his stolen Super Star ends up giving Mario and Luigi the power needed to defeat him and his army, leading Brooklyn to hail them as heroes. | |
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In Disney's Hercules, Hades failed attempt to kill Hercules as a baby to guarantee his future plans to usurp Olympus won't fail ends up causing Hercules to become the very hero that ultimately defeats Hades in the end. | |
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Leviathan: The Tempest: This is how Ahabs are created. A person who the Leviathan has wronged in some way is exposed to the mind-shattering effects of the Wake, and instead of becoming a cultist obsessed with serving the Leviathan he becomes obsessed with destroying the Leviathan, able to draw on the Leviathan's own self-loathing for power. | |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Had King Candy not screwed with Vanellope's code, she would not have gained her glitching powers which would go on to make her a major factor to ruining his master plan in taking over the arcade. Whoops. | |
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In the sequel, it's revealed that the spider was pulled into Miles' reality from another universe, and the same scientist responsible ended up in a Freak Lab Accident when Miles destroyed the Collider, simultaneously being an example of Create Your Own Villain. | |
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One of the villains in Crimestrikers is Roderick Norco, a Mad Scientist whose lifelong dream is to create Super Soldiers through genetic engineeering. His most successful creations, Nyx Marama and Arcana, both Turned Against Their Masters and joined the titular hero team. | |
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Done deliberately by Mercurius in Dies Irae. He specifically created the protagonist Ren with the explicit purpose of being the antagonist towards his close friend and the Big Bad Reinhard. All to give Reinhard the fight he has so longed for to allow him to go all out. Mercurius also has a secondary purpose to this. Namely to allow the soul within Ren to grow in order to be able to replace Mercurius as the God of the world. | |
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: It's implied that the spider which bites Miles and gives him his powers is "radioactive" due to the Collider (either it came from another universe through the Collider or it was somehow contaminated by the Collider's energy). When a frightened Miles returns to the scene of the bite, he witnesses a battle between Kingpin and his universe's Spider-Man, and when the battle ends in Spider-Man's death, he vows to finish what Peter Parker started. Furthermore, the other five Spider-people — Peter B. Parker, Gwen Stacy, Peni Parker, Spider-Ham, and Spider-Man Noir — are pulled into Miles's universe by the same experimental tech. In the sequel, it's revealed that the spider was pulled into Miles' reality from another universe, and the same scientist responsible ended up in a Freak Lab Accident when Miles destroyed the Collider, simultaneously being an example of Create Your Own Villain. |
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This is very common in Dragon Gate. Even during the Toryumon Japan days, M2K turned perennial renegades Crazy Max into faces by default when they purposefully sabotaged El Numero Uno Tournament CIMA and Magnum Tokyo were favorites to win in order to make Masaaki Mochizuki look better. After losing a hair vs hair match to CIMA caused Masaaki Mochizuki to realize what a jerk he had been and clean up his act, Crazy Max ensured the now virtuous M2K would still oppose them by manipulating Darkness Dragon and Chocoball KOBE into betraying Mochizuki and M2K itself would make an unnecessary enemy out of one of it's own founders for that matter when Susumu Mochizuki rejected Masaaki's reforms and banished him from the group. Darkness Dragon ultimately brought one of the keys to ending his own Power Stable Do FIXER in his own protege Dragon Kid, who would go on to join the more facey Typhoon of CIMA. | |
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Fate/stay night: Both Gilgamesh and Kotomine's role in the fire that killed Shirou's parents and his arrogant displays of power against him with the Gate of Babylon inspired the young man to form the basis of Unlimited Blade Works and the EMIYA persona who would go on to become their most persistent enemy in the franchise. | |
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Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors: The entire plot of the game is a case of this: Hongou forcing Akane to be a test subject for his experiment on morphogenetic fields 9 years ago leads Akane to manipulate him into killing his subordinates and creating the second Nonary Game to save herself from him Because Destiny Says So. | |
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