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* In ''LetsPlay/AnalogControl''''s LetsPlay of ''{{VideoGame/Fable}}'', main character Arseface was a NominalHero 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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* ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'': "[[Recap/TheAmazingDigitalCircusE2CandyCarrierChaos Candy Carrier Chaos!]]": Jax throws Pomni into action against her will, mainly because he's more concerned with going through the adventure than with her feelings on this matter. This accidentally starts the chain of events that makes her snap out of her depression by placing her in a position to wind up out of the game map's bounds.
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In ''LetsPlay/AnalogControl''''s the LetsPlay of ''{{VideoGame/Fable}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'', main character Arseface was a NominalHero 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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* ''Fanfic/BurningSecret'': Lincoln is hailed as a hero by the school personnel for seemingly being the one who pulled the alarm, even though he was the one who started the fire to begin with (albeit by accident) and he didn't really pull the alarm.
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* ''WebVideo/JurassicWhatIf'': In Episode 4 ("What If The Spinosaurus was in Jurassic World?"), the ''Spinosaurus'' surprise-attacks the ''Indominus rex'' just in time to prevent it from killing Zach and Gray Mitchell.
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* ''Fanfic/InvasionOfFalls'': Zim destroys [[spoiler: the monster transformation amulet]] because it's a threat to him personally, and ends up praised for saving everyone else from it in the process.
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* "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5697122/68/Crumpled-Horned-Plot-Bunnies Vernon Dursley's Bad Day]]" sees Vernon Dursley becoming the accidental savior of the Wizarding World when, while at the wheel of the Weasleys' out-of-control Ford Anglia (which had rescued he, Petunia and Dudley from a pack of Death Eaters), he flies it into Hogwarts and turns a now-mortal Voldemort into a smear on the ground during the final battle in ''Deathly Hallows''. Harry, for his part, thinks the irony of a magic-hater saving the magical world (even if it's completely by accident) is hilarious.
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** The second time by being a more overt sociopath in "[[Recap/SouthParkS9E4BestFriendsForever 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 [[UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable Sony PSP]]''.

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** The second time by being a more overt sociopath in "[[Recap/SouthParkS9E4BestFriendsForever 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 [[UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable [[Platform/PlaystationPortable Sony PSP]]''.
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* Medal of Honor winner [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodger_Wilton_Young Rodger Young]] ignored his officer's order to withdraw, advancing (while wounded) on an enemy machine-gun until he was killed, thus covering the withdrawal of his fellow soldiers. However, Young was almost deaf, so likely never heard the order in the first place. That doesn't make him any less brave -- Young could have avoided combat by being sent to hospital to have his deafness treated, but refused.

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* [=WWII=] Medal of Honor winner recipient [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodger_Wilton_Young Rodger Young]] ignored his officer's order to withdraw, advancing (while wounded) on an enemy machine-gun until he was killed, thus covering the withdrawal of his fellow soldiers. However, Young was almost deaf, so likely never heard the order in the first place. That doesn't make him any less brave -- Young could have avoided combat by being sent to hospital to have his deafness treated, but refused.

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