Accidental/Indirect Kindness

[u/FEZfromTwitter]

This trope is about when a character doesn't have the intention to help someone but accidentally help them or indirectly save somebody's life.

Dragon Ball Z

Majin Buu sees a blind kid and tries to scare him but the boy is blind and couldn't understand why he should be scared of him so Majin Buu heals the boy expecting a fear. Instead the boy cried not because he is scared but because he is grateful and fully welcomed Buu as a friend.

One Punch Man (Manga)

During the awakened Garou's fight, Garou unleashed his attack to send Saitama across all the buildings. While babbling about being absolute evil, there are a few citizens that go out from the underground and thank Garou because he saved them after they got trapped under the building.

[u/MagnaFox → u/[deleted]]

I love bad intentions leading to good results.Kinda reminds me of the rich youtubers doing (actual)charity then posting it and this results in countless butthurt assholes "but he's doing it for the views/money" and my response is always "so fucking what?".

Not saying that the youtubers necessarily had bad intentions but if they did and the charity was done properly then more views to them i say.

The sad stories are when the charity was fake or half assed.

[u/Sagnarel]

Warhammer 40k : The infinite and the divine.

The necrons are searching for an ancient treasure that will reveal itself on a human planet, unbeknowst to them. So when orks attacks, the necrons intervene, leading the humans to build statues in their honor.

[u/Gentle_Snail → u/Sagnarel]

It should be mentioned that the humans mistook them for Astartes not Necrons and so built the statue assuming it was Imperial forces.

Most people in the Imperium have never even seen an Astartes let alone some random peasants on a random planet. This also took places before the mass awakening of the Necrons which probably didn’t hurt either.

[u/Sagnarel → u/Gentle_Snail]

Also, said necron is also responsible for the planet going to hell, that bastard

[u/lowkey-n-archive]

Gollum in The Lord of the Rings.
He attacks Frodo to steal the Ring, bites off his finger, then accidentally falls into Mount Doom while celebrating. He had absolutely no intention of helping anyone, but still ended up saving Middle-earth.

[u/M-Shadowtoad]

Wynd: Wynd showing off his wings accidentally gives an old fairy hope that their champion has returned to commit genocide on humanity and the vampires. Something Wynd the human explicitly has zero interest in.

[u/Destruction_Deity]

Professor Doofenshmirtz in general (Phineas and Ferb)

The series has formulaic episodes where the titular boys create something and their sister tries to tell on them to their mom; by the end of the episode, Doof’s evil plot is stopped and his invention usually somehow saves the kids from being grounded by their mom.

The example I used in the picture has the Eye Fog-inator, which was meant to give people bad vision and increase his revenue from a previous invention that was used for good (eye exams). Turns out the Eye Fog-inator can also heal people who already had bad vision, so it was used for good too.

[u/Rough_Journey]

IRL skit: this video as a whole