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Anime heroes are known for being hot-blooded and extremely confident, but there are times when these brazen traits don’t save the day. In fact, these loud habits and personalities can actively help or even save the villain from defeat.
Most of the time, this was unintentional. Either the hero was in the dark, or they were being played by the villains. Whichever the case may be, these instances of heroic stupidity helped the villains more than anyone else.
WARNING: Spoilers ahead.
10 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood — The Elric Brothers Saved Central Command From Assassination
The reboot Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood literally started with a bang, as the Elric Brothers were tasked to take down the rogue alchemist Isaac McDougal. When the Elrics confronted Isaac, the latter was raving about Central Command’s corruption that needed to be stopped at all costs. Isaac’s plan was to freeze the capital, but they put a stop to this.
Unfortunately, the brothers’ drive to prove themselves and follow orders backfired. Isaac’s one-man coup was actually his last-ditch effort to save Amestris from Father’s plans, which needed all of Amestris to be transmuted. The Elrics’ naivety didn’t just save Amestris’ corrupt elite, but bought Father enough time to almost succeed in his plans.
9 Bleach — Ichigo Kurosaki’s Rescue Plan Sped Up Sosuke Aizen’s Machinations
Ichigo’s very existence as a Substitute Shinigami made him a wild card, so much so that his mere presence in Soul Society threw the afterlife into chaos. That said, the one person who saw this coming was the Machiavellian captain Aizen. In fact, Aizen orchestrated everything inside and outside of Ichigo’s life so that he’d unknowingly do his bidding.
From the Hollow attack where Ichigo’s parents first met to Rukia Kuchiki being deployed in Ichigo’s hometown, Aizen pulled everybody’s strings before Bleach even began. Though he heroically raided Soul Society to save Rukia, Ichigo’s brash recklessness did more harm than good as he unknowingly advanced Aizen’s ploys.
8 One Piece — Monkey D. Luffy Overestimated Himself & Strengthened The World Government’s Stranglehold
Thanks to his Devil Fruit powers and the Straw Hats, the boundlessly confident Luffy believed that he and his friends could win any challenge and breeze their way into the New World. Unfortunately, their defeat at Sabaody proved otherwise. This then led Luffy down a path of impulsive decisions that only helped the World Government in the long run.
By rushing into Impel Down and Marineford, Luffy inadvertently set the stage for the deaths of his brother Portgas D. Ace and the legendary pirate Whitebeard. Worse, Luffy’s mistakes helped the World Government tighten its grip on the world, as it was able to deal crushing blows to the pirates while cementing its rule on the remaining free territories.
7 Inuyasha — Kagome Higurashi Shattered The Jewel Of Four Souls & Spread Evil Throughout The Realm
To be fair to Kagome and literally everyone in the anime, nobody knew that the wish-granting Jewel of Four Souls was sentient and evil. Additionally, Kagome’s plan to stop the crow that stole the jewel by firing an arrow with the bird’s talon tied to it was clever. However, Kagome’s gambit worked too well and she didn’t foresee the jewel exploding on impact.
Because of this oversight, the jewel broke into numerous shards that spread across the country. Not only that, but the shards either cursed innocent people or strengthened monsters, thus endangering the entire world. Kagome may have had the right idea, but this miscalculation inadvertently aided the Jewel’s plan to spread its darkness.
6 Puella Magi Madoka Magica — Madoka Kaname Unknowingly Defended Kyubey
Just like any magical girl anime protagonist would, Madoka found Kyubey cute. Not only that, but Madoka felt obligated to protect the catlike creature when she first saw them being chased by her cold gun-slinging classmate Homura Akemi. Without realizing it, Madoka doomed herself and her friends to yet another loop of suffering.
Kyubey is the source of the magical girls’ powers, pain, and deaths, and Homura decided that killing them would be an easier way to free magical girls from this hell. Madoka, whose memories were just reset by Homura’s time loop, understandably didn’t know the horrors that Kyubey would unleash, but her clichéd naivety prolonged everyone’s misery.
5 Blood+ — Saya Otonashi Was Tricked Into Unleashing Diva Onto The World
The big twist of Blood+ is that the heroine, Saya, is the older twin sister of the villain, Diva. What’s worse is that Saya is directly responsible for unleashing Diva onto the world, even if she didn’t know who Diva really was at the time. This is because when Saya first found Diva in her prison tower, she thought she was an unfortunate soul, not an imprisoned evil.
Diva lured her sister with her angelic singing, which a young and naïve Saya wanted to let her adoptive family listen to. Upon being freed, Diva killed Saya’s family and set Saya down a path of bloody vengeance. While Saya was only acting out of the goodness of her heart, her innocence inadvertently led to Diva’s centuries-long reign of terror.
4 Tokyo Revengers — Takemich Hanagaki’s Time Leaping Turned Kisaki Into A Powerful Gang Boss
By traveling back and forth in time, Takemichi doesn’t just hope to rewrite his personal life into a better one but to also save the Tokyo Manji Gang from its dark fate. At the end of Tokyo Revengers‘ first intense season, Takemichi did just this: by engineering a peaceful merge between Tokyo Manji and Valhalla, he was hailed as both gangs’ savior.
Cut to the present, and Takemichi realized too late that he forgot to stop the true antagonist: Tetta Kisaki. By making sure that Tokyo Manji expanded and thrived, Takemichi accidentally cemented the sadistic Kisaki’s rise through the ranks. The season ended with Kisaki crowning himself as the gang’s boss and aiming a gun at Takemihci’s head.
3 Code Geass — Lelouch Vi Britannia Ordered His Nemesis To Live No Matter What
Though he presents himself as a cold mastermind, Lelouch cares for those closest to him. One such person was his childhood friend Suzaku Kururgi, who was serving in the Britannian army he was fighting against. During a close call, a panicked Lelouch (disguised as the freedom fighter Zero) used his Geass on Suzaku and ordered him to “live” and snap out of his death wish.
While this saved himself and Suzaku from aerial bombardment, Lelouch inadvertently turned Suzaku into his most relentless and unstoppable foe. Every time Suzaku felt threatened or was ready to surrender, Lelouch’s command would activate and turn him into the Black Knight’s deadliest threat and Britannia’s fiercest warrior.
2 Mobile Suit Gundam Wing — Heero Yuy Literally Killed The Peace Treaty
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing kicked off with five Gundam pilots from the Space Colonies being sent to Earth to assassinate the high-ranking officers of the Earth Alliance’s extremist militant division: the Organization of the Zodiac (OZ). The militarily obedient Heero saw this plan to fruition and unwittingly doomed the world to war in doing so.
This culminated in a battle at New Edwards Base, which the pilots were told was an OZ base. In truth, it was the site of a peace treaty. Worse, Heero quickly blew up an escaping OZ shuttle that actually had the pro-peace politicians in it. Earth took this as an act of war and let OZ’s fanatical leader Treize Khushrenada assume command, and he dragged everyone into war just when it was almost averted.
1 Rebuild Of Evangelion — Shinji Ikari Unwittingly Initiated Two Impacts
In Neon Genesis Evangelion, Shinji only had the illusion of choice; SEELE and his cruel father Gendo took advantage of his desperation for validation and other weaknesses to manipulate him into doing what they needed. This was taken to the extreme in the four-part Evangelion movie series, where Shinji almost ended the world twice without realizing it.
In Evangelion 2.0, Shinji finally stood up for himself and saved Rei from the Angel Zeruel, but started the Third Impact in the process. Looking to redeem himself in Evangelion 3.0, Shinji helped awaken the Twelfth Angel under the assumption that doing so would reverse the previous apocalypse. Instead, this only kickstarted the Fourth Impact.
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