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In a crisis, nobody wants to feel useless or left out. Some people may want to run away, but otherwise they'll usually try to help. The problem is, sometimes this help turns out to be rather unhelpful. Depending on the situation, it can be anywhere from irritating to downright dangerous, for the "helper" and the "helpee". As such, this situation can have several different outcomes, ranging from simple annoyance on the part of the people being inconvenienced to extremely dire consequences that involve a lot of people getting killed. Compare Chronic Hero Syndrome, Unwanted Rescue, Tragically Misguided Favor, Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like, The Load, The Millstone, Ungrateful Bastard. Especially self-righteous and/or stubborn "helpers" may display Condescending Compassion. Contrast Shut Up and Save Me!. Can lead to Always Need What You Gave Up if the person ends up in a position where the aid of the person they ordered not to help is needed. May overlap with Overzealous Underling. For "helpers" provided by a program who annoy or otherwise have a negative effect on the player, see Annoying Video Game Helper. |
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A Bug's Life: Due to Flik's inventions backfiring or malfunctioning, many feel this way to him. Because of this, when on trial for what happened to the offering, Flik mentions that he only wanted to help. Mr. Soil, a member of the council, then replies: "Then help us: DON'T HELP US!" | |
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In The Aristocats, the geese Abigail and Amelia find Thomas floating in a river, mistake his efforts to get to shore as him trying to teach himself to swim, and approach him to offer a swimming lesson. One of them attempts to cut the branch he's gripping in his mouth as a climbing rope, thinking it will encourage him to strike out on his own, and he panics and almost drowns. | |
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When Shawn Michaels and Triple H lost the tag titles as Degeneration-X during the build-up to Michaels versus Undertaker at Wrestlemania 26. Michaels tagged in on an unaware Triple H, who turned to argue with him over it. The opponents charged into them, rolling up Michaels and knocking Triple H into a position where he couldn't break the sudden pin. Other examples include managers or teammates who attack their ally's opponent in a match, causing the opponent to win by disqualification. | |
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FreedomToons depicts big government as this via The Social Contractor and Jason, with the former often portrayed as making things worse for the latter whenever he tries to "help" him. | |
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What's New? with Phil and Dixie on helpful animal companions: "...These are worse." | |
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A Heartfelt Andante: The suicidal Yeonjo is reluctant to accept the aid of Da-ul, who is a stranger to her, and keeps trying to get him to leave. | |
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The Bad Guys (2022): During the Golden Dolphin heist, Ms. Tarantula struggles at first to hack the security system guarding it. Mr. Wolf and Mr. Snake, talking to her through their earpieces, desperately give her nonsense advice, only succeeding in irritating her. | |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: On his first day a Little Stowaway to the crew, Reynir's offers to make himself useful didn't quite line up with the need of help, to the point that Tuuri pretended to need something just to get him out of the room in which she was working. Mikkel's motivations in sending Reynir back to bed were probably split 50-50 between genuine worry that he hadn't gotten enough sleep during the night and a desire to keep him out of the way. Ironically, Reynir ends up helping people during his sleep by complete accident: in the midst of making himself familiar with the mage-exclusive dreamspace, a mix of sheer luck and Wrong Context Magic enables him to help the crew's official mage (who was sleeping as well) make contact with his cousin back home after some trouble doing so in previous chapters. | |
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Private Partz in A Day in the Life of a Commissar, a Dawn of War machinima, brings down all three Space Marine heroes on poor Commissar Steeve, by saying things like: "I bet he could take on all three of ya! even if you had, like, Psychic Powers!" | |
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Paranoia: The Computer sometimes decides to contact Troubleshooters and give helpful advice when they're trying to do something sneaky and/or illegal, or just pop it up on the HUD implanted into their eyes and obscure 90% of their vision when they're in the middle of a firefight. | |
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The Cracked article "5 Popular Forms of Charity (That Aren't Helping)" has several examples that fall under this: Participation in awareness campaigns in general makes people less likely to give money to charity, as they feel that they've already done their part. Breast cancer awareness campaigns are especially bad with this, because, in order to make themselves more marketable, they often misrepresent the problem by focusing on young, sexy women instead of the older women who are the most likely to get breast cancer. Clothing donations crippled the textile industries in African nations, which couldn't hope to compete with floods of free clothing donated by the West. They're also incredibly inefficient, taking up space on transports that could go to food and medicine. Choosing a charity based on its overhead (i.e. how much is spent on administrative costs and bureaucracy versus actual aid) can cause the exact problem that it is supposed to prevent. As it turns out, the money "wasted" on overhead is actually necessary for keeping the charity operating smoothly, and charities with low overhead costs are typically a lot less competent due to them Cutting Corners in their work. Earmarking the money you donate so that it goes to a particular cause can lead to the more high-profile causes getting more attention at the expense of others. After the 2004 tsunami, charities started building McMansions in Indonesia in order to do something with all the money that had been earmarked for housing, and Japan received so much aid after the 2011 earthquake/tsunami that they had to tell aid workers to stop coming in. Volunteering to do aid work overseas is usually a bad idea unless you are properly trained for what it is you're doing and you know the local language and customs. There are tons of people already there who can do the work you're doing, and you'll wind up getting in the way and consuming food and water that could go to the people you're trying to help. This is especially true in the critical few days and weeks after a major natural disaster where many thousands of people are in need of rescue (case in point, the thousands trapped beneath rubble after the 2010 Haiti earthquake). Unless you're trained for this sort of thing specifically, you'll just waste everyone's time. |
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Freefall: When talking with the police about Clippy, in this strip, Mr. Kornada is forced to order Blunt to shut up, despite Blunt believing he was helping Kornada by revealing that he was responsible for the release of Gardener in the Dark. | |
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Garfield: Jon reminds Garfield how last time they went to the farm, Garfield tried to grow chickens by planting them in the ground. | |
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The Order of the Stick Elan's enthusiastic attempts to help his friends with his music are sometimes... less than useful. Possibly even better: |
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In Sinfest, after Squiggly ruined Slick's date, he volunteers to help with fixing this. Slick explains what he wants his friend to do. | |
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Happens all the time in Schlock Mercenary. On one occasion, when Schlock accidentally lets slip to the clients they're planning to con that they made plans to... well, con them. Elf manages to explain it away as a security precaution. In this strip, Dr. Bunnigus tells Schlock to shut up while she's trying to counsel a distraught Para Ventura over her fear about killing others. |
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In There Will Be Brawl, Link finally says it: "SHUT THE FUCK UP, NAVI!", and throws his canteen at her. | |
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Some services impose restrictions on what you can have in a password, like requiring at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, and one number, or either requiring non-alphanumeric "special" characters or banning them. This is supposed to help people come up with more secure passwords, but for many it just ends up forcing them to make a less memorable password that, ultimately, isn't much more secure than the password they initially had in mind (xkcd is known for the "string some random words together" method of password creation, which is widely regarded as secure but will often lead to rejected passwords if the above password requirements are in place). Restrictions on passwords also make it easier for malicious individuals to Try Everything for a password in hopes of gaining access, since there are less possible passwords to attempt; to be fair, some services and systems lock out the user after too many failed password attempts, but that has its own problems. | |
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This is the general reaction Sin Eaters have to Hunters in the New World of Darkness. Sin Eaters are humans who died, but came back by agreeing to share their body with a Geist (a hybrid of human ghost and death spirit). As a result, they have a wide array of necromantic powers, from the innate ability to see and touch ghosts, to arcane rituals that can be used to send ghosts forcibly back to the underworld and make them stay there. Hunters, meanwhile, are ordinary humans who are trying to take a stand against the creatures of the night. Whilst some select groups do have access to magic (or near-magical technology), as a general rule, they have very little they can do to detect or interact with ghosts. More often than not, if the hunters even realize the ghosts are there, they tend to make things worse, complicating the mission of the Sin Eaters. And that's without getting into the fact that Fantastic Racism means hunters will tend to mistake Sin Eaters as witches or people suffering from Demonic Possession and react accordingly. Which generally translates to trying to murder the Sin Eaters. | |
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Grrl Power: Sydney cheerleading while Dabbler is doing some quite complex mathematics isn't welcomed. | |
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In Life With Lamarr, Kleiner's "helpful advice" drives Magnusson insane. | |
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In programming languages that are dynamically typed, you can usually start using a variable without specifying what kind of information it has to hold, and the compiler will just do its best to figure it out from context; these contrast with strongly-typed languages, where variables must be declared and given a specific type that cannot later be changed. Dynamic Typing can lead to some fairly spectacular (and sometimes difficult to diagnose) failures if, for instance, you intend a variable to hold an integer but accidentally refer to it as if it were a boolean — where thanks to a quality generally called "Truthiness" (no relation to The Colbert Report) 0 will be read as "False" but any other value at all will be interpreted as "True". Dynamically-typed languages try to help you, the coder, get the job done quickly, and they work great — right up to the point where they suddenly don't. | |
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In El Arca, in the English dub at least, Xiro and Dagnino are having their final battle, and this happens: | |
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Zebra Girl: Sandra's vampires apologize for their actions by saying they were "Just Trying to Help" after she scolds them. | |
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Girl Genius: Sparks often get a little carried away with having fun and forget they're supposed to actually, you know, be doing things. Also, Moloch trying to argue with what was a sadistically insane A.I. when it was functioning properly. Gil's plan on getting into Castle Heterodyne required a large crowd knowing that he went in (so that his father wouldn't try to level it in the meantime). Unfortunately for him, his companions were a bit.. salacious in describing why he was going in, and the crowd's roars of approval drowned out his attempts at getting them to stop. The impression left was rather different and more risque than Gil intended. When Tarvek is making is way to England, the forces Martellus send against him include one highly trained and sophisticated assassin and a pack of excitable Spark Hounds. |
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Weregeek: A Shadowrun campaign where a pyromaniacal rigger Twitch (Abbie's PC) saved Aeon (Mark's PC): Later his PC needs some help once more: |
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Red vs. Blue: Caboose is a frequent offender. The character that is so inept that other characters tell him that their enemies are on their side, just so Caboose will "teamkill" his enemies. They even have a macro on their keyboards at command to record Caboose's teamkills (Ctrl+F+U). When Sarge is pinned against the base by the Warthog, Doc, at the Warthog's controls, keeps attempting to back it up but accidentally accelerates it repeatedly, just causing further harm to Sarge. |
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Jareth in Roommates is really enthusiastic about helping his friends but he sucks at being good or even at vaguely helpful. Direct examples: His plan for fixing his roommate's relationship involved turning the guy into a kid again. And when they needed to rescue someone from a stuck elevator he was the one shouting and being in the way (at least he wasn't the one with the dynamite). | |
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Meet the BLU Medic has the rest of the BLU Team dreading getting healed by the Medic, particularly since the "healing" does the opposite. In fact, for once the team had the upper hand up until the Medic stepped in. | |
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Madison Rayne's second TNA Beautiful People feud saw her get some unexpected assistance from "fan" Brittany...who she told not to get involved with for her own health after they gave her a concussion, leading to her appear but literally do nothing when Madison was cheated out of the knockout's title to see if she really didn't want help... | |
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Although by the end of the movie he's actually managed to be fairly helpful, Mushu of Mulan starts off as an incredibly awful companion to her. Witness how he tries to help her "befriend" her fellow soldiers, thus leading to a free-for-all, a great deal of resentment, and a very bad first impression on Shang. Not to mention his advice on how to be a man is at best contradictory and at worst, just plain wrong. What makes this worse is that the only way he'll ever get in good with the ancestors again is if he succeeds in making Mulan a hero — so his pathetic attempts to help Mulan not only make things worse for herself, they shoot him in the foot as well. Mulan gets it better than the last member of the Fa family Mushu got assigned to, however: apparently Mushu got demoted from his position as a guardian because his guidance led to Fa Deng getting his head chopped off. When Mulan is found out and subsequently disgraced, Mushu, equally disgraced, finally comes clean about himself. | |
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In the Book of Acts, a spirit-possessed girl saw who was influencing the prophets, and was so awed that she started following them around, crying out to everyone that they were sent by Him to save people. This continued for a few days, until Paul, "greatly annoyed", ordered the spirit to leave her body. note Some believe that he did this to thwart evil intentions on the spirit's part, but that doesn't explain why he waited for so long. | |
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Kazunari Murakami, in his efforts to help Naoya Ogawa almost compromised his friendship with Shinya Hashimoto at the 2005 Rikidozan memorial. He apologized, but never really got the hint, continuing to try and "help" Ogawa. | |
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Ravenloft: A paladin summoning their magic warhorse or a spellcaster calling for a familiar gets a dread companion, which is exactly the same except its alignment is always evil. Rather than being opposed to its master, it is loyal to a fault and aware of its master's secret thoughts and desires, and will try to "help" him by, for instance, stealing an item he covets, or secretly murdering someone who annoyed him a bit. Resplendent cloakers are strange creatures who resemble cloaks, gleaming white on the inside and brightly shimmering on the outside with shining golden claws which resemble a clasp when they link together and a "collar" of eyes that resemble burning jewels. The whole cloak gives off a dazzling glow. Resplendent cloakers feed by forcibly attaching themselves to people like a normal cloak and regenerating any damage their victim incurs. So far so good? Well, A) The resplendent cloaker looks like an incredibly expensive-looking shining beacon for any thief or monster to immediately notice the person wearing it—while the cloaker does quickly heal its target it's still gradual healing and can be outpaced, B) If the resplendent cloaker is ever in complete darkness it starts rapidly taking damage, and C) If the resplendent cloaker takes damage from any source (such as aforementioned darkness or a blow that his it or both it and its wearer), it drains some life force from its victim to heal itself. It can be removed with an enormous effort once attached, but this will either kill or paralyze the wearer. Some do think the healing the cloak offers is worth its dangers however. |
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In Impure Blood, Dara resents her bodyguard, but since she didn't hire her, can't get rid of her. Not that Elnor likes it very much either. | |
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In one Questionable Content storyline, Hannerlore's mom assigns her a P.A., Tilly, who is hypercompetent, incredibly eager to serve, and has been instructed to ignore all evidence that Hanners doesn't want or need a P.A. This leads them to doing things like climbing over the counter at Coffee of Doom because it's their job to make Hanners coffee, despite the fact Dora has already made it clear that Hanners works there and Tilly doesn't. | |
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Father Ted actor Frank Kelly (Father Jack) released a parody version of the carol The Twelve Days of Christmas from the point of view of the recipient of Twelve Days worth of increasingly extravagant and extraordinary gifts, sent by an Abhorrent Admirer. The person on the receiving end gets more heartfelt and eloquent concerning the expenses and damage caused by, for instance, a cumulative total of thirty-five swans-a-swimming or thirty-two maids-a-milking (with associated cows to be milked), considers this taking the gift-giving too far, and begs for it all to come to an end right now. | |
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Princess: The Hopeful: This is the drawback to the Subsumed By Another Shadow Umbra. Any servant of the Darkness possessing this Umbra will automatically try to enthrall any Darkspawn that enters his vicinity. On a good roll, the Darkspawn believes the possessor of the Umbra to be its natural master, and will protect him to the best of its abilities, seek to gratify what it thinks are his desires, and even follow simple orders. Of course, being creatures thoroughly corrupted by the All-Consuming Darkness, and usually with little more mind than an animal, Darkspawn have a lot of trouble grasping that their master might not want them to kill anyone who does anything remotely offensive to him, or that you're really supposed to pay for groceries rather than just taking whatever the master wanted and breaking the cashier's arms to make him stop bothering you. And you can't just order them to go away, either. The book explicitly states that that is the one order they will never follow. |
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A pet peeve of Luis's in Safe Havens, as he's perfectly capable of taking care of himself and hates when people only see that he's in a wheelchair. It's why he ends up falling for the self-centered Jenny, of all people, because she does not offer unwanted assistance. | |
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In The Incredibles, Mr. Incredible encounters a really annoying boy, Buddy Pine, who tries to be his sidekick, Incredi-Boy. When turned down, Buddy gets mad and grows up to become the villain, Syndrome. | |
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A Shadowrun campaign where a pyromaniacal rigger Twitch (Abbie's PC) saved Aeon (Mark's PC): | |
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YouTube has disabled comments on all videos for young children and videos featuring anyone younger than the age of 12, moving them into the YouTube Kids category (people often dread seeing that logo). The claim is that it's to protect kids (which is dubious, given its past of allowing pro-pedophilia content in the name of free speech), however, sometimes users 12 and older, and even users 18 and older, are automatically branded YouTube Kids. It's also had a few related consequences, like inability to discuss favorite moments of kids shows like Sponge Bob Squarepants or Power Rangers, and to warn users of scam (especially the ones related to games or contents targeting kids). The vague language has led some to believe "for kids" and "not for kids" means "family friendly" versus "not family friendly", causing some people putting PG and PG-13 rated content in YouTubeKids by mistake. YouTube doesn't notify people that they did this so they might wonder why they aren't getting comments then notice their video got moved to "for kids". People have begun adding profanity to videos with a cartoony art style to avoid being marked YouTubeKids. It didn't help that YouTube scared users into doing so with threats of $41,000,000 FCC fines if they marked "for kids" content as "not for kids", pushing this into Well-Intentioned Extremist territory. |
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Strange Magic: One of the Bog King's mooks keeps asking if he needs help during his duel with Marianne. He refuses it, even when it would be useful probably because of how flirtatious the duel had become. | |
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In The Dresden Files, there is often side commentary from Harry, Bob, and Billy on the game and its contents. Harry's and Billy's are often related to useful notes on gameplay or the wizarding world. Bob's range from him just putting his (usually unwanted) two cents in to asking Harry an Armor-Piercing Question. Harry's response is always "Shut up, Bob"; it becomes so prolific that an entry for "Shut Up, Bob" actually appears in the game's index. | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: In Marching to the New Wonderland, the Spider of Justice is not well-liked because, while he simply wants to help people, he drives them away instead because he has no idea his help annoys them more than anything. In Flying Island: The Sky Adventure episode 18, the Rainbow Beans go around trying to assist people, not noticing until later that they're not helping by much (for example, they turn off the TV when someone was trying to watch a kaiju movie under the logic that the viewer was scared of it, and when Wilie says he's not hungry, they feed him anyway and intensify the stomachache he has). |
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Cabin Pressure: Arthur Shappey loves helping people, whether they want his help or not, and since Arthur is a tremendous ditz, they very often do not. But he'll help anyway. | |
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Erfworld has most of Stanley the Tool's major units take this attitude towards their boss. In the second book Maggie uses hypnosis and thus successfully asks Stanley to put Lord Hamster in charge and leave their headquarters so that he could think. This is actually a double example, as it was the exact opposite of Lord Hamster's actual plan to promote someone on-site since the command bonus would be enough to turn the tide. | |
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Kin in Goblins yells to stop helping, when Minmax stabs her a second time while attempting to stab the alternate Kin who's attacking her. | |
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Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues: Luna asks Jenna to go and help Zia with preventing Crispin's escape when they try to kidnap him. She then regrets it when Jenna, as a sentient insect swarm, disperses herself over the two of them and only makes things more chaotic. Sebastian's superpower also comes with an eldritch spirit that serves as his advisor. However, a lot of her advice involves murder to some degree, leading to him ignoring her a lot. |
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Katawa Shoujo: Hisao tells Jigoro not to give him so much advice, mentally adding that he at least does not want advice that Jigoro does not follow himself. Hisao can refuse advice at other points, but it's never a good idea. Hanako's bad ending. has her explode at Hisao and her best friend Lilly for treating her so delicately. Hisao and Lilly genuinely wanted to help Hanako, a lonely and traumatized girl, but unwittingly ended up coming off as patronizing in how they chose to give their help. |
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