Help
Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Mess up
Mess up verb - To make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way.
Usage example: messed up the drawing and had to start over
Both terms in one sentence
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Acts all moron all the time, but but if you mess up his Moe items not even a God or Devil can help you because he'll kick their butt too.
Source: Light Novel / Magician's Academy -
Ingame, this is the home of the Bronze Dragonflight, Guardians of Time, which need the players' help against the Infinite Dragonflight which are trying to mess up the timeline.
Source: Timey-Wimey Ball - They don't require civilians to act, they protect them when they try to help but mess up (like performing CPR wrong when they haven't even been trained).
Source: Accomplice by Inaction
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