Disaster Dominoes: Difference between revisions

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''[[Accidental Murder|who killed the owlet,]]''<br />

''and now Mother Owl won't wake the sun''<br />

 

* Your inevitable fate in ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]''. Dwarves can be aggravated through grief or dissatisfaction to a point of murderous, crazy rage. The thing is, one dwarf rampaging around smashing property and killing friends, pets and spouses will often upset other dwarves enough to go nuts too. Players refer to this situation as a 'tantrum spiral'. Cases often follow a pattern like:

Dwarf C finds out about the statue and... well you see where this is going. }}

** See the saga of [[Boatmurdered]], an epic tale of mismanagement and bloody death which ends with legendary former leaders beating dwarves to death while on fire and the inferno causes the entire fortress to devolve into a massive flaming brawl while the flaming corpse of a monarch butterfly wedges open the front gates and keeps the Doomsday Device from being activated. Arguably this is the entire reason Dwarf Fortress is so awesome.

* The movie ''[[Robots]]'' plays with this trope using literal dominoes; a few get knocked over, leading to a chain of increasingly complex setups that ends with a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|wave of dominoes large enough to surf on]].

* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|Ed, Edd n Eddy]]'': This is how Ed manages to destroy the Eds' cardboard city in "Urban Ed".

* A scene of this nature from ''[[Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers]]'' is initiated when Goofy bumps Mickey and causes him to drop shoe polish into the bucket of water Goofy was using to mop. Amazingly this leads to Pete's bathtub to fall through several floors. Later, a sequence where Goofy runs through a window from a high tower not only causes a chain reaction of painful events, [[Chekhov's Gun|but also proves to be a solution when Goofy gets the idea to use the]] ''[[Chekhov's Gun|perfectly]]'' [[Chekhov's Gun|duplicatable sequence to his advantage]].

* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' - The Monarch needs to create a diversion at the Venture yard sale (so he can sneak inside and use the bathroom). The place is full of super-scientists and archvillains, so one well-placed flying projectile starts a fight that becomes an all-out riot in seconds.

 

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