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* [[Kicked Upstairs]]: Repeatedly. He's currently the Vice President in charge of ''paper clips.'' This bites everyone in the rear end, when he (as a Vice President) is allowed to fill in for someone actually important and competent. {{spoiler|He immediately proceeds to think of a way to use his new position to rob a half billion people while simultaneously committing genocide via lobotomy on them. And leave the human colony barely viable. }}
* [[Monkeys on a Typewriter]]: He managed to have a ''[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3000/fc02935.htm worse]'' result.
* [[Obliviously Evil]]: Kornada is an utterly amoral man who is so completely [[It's All About Me|oblivious to the feelings and desires of others]] that he arranges for a computer program to be written that will lobotomize millions of sentient robots and potentially cripple the
** Which is obvious [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3000/fc02940.htm even to his supporter]:
{{quote|'''Blunt''': Mr. Kornada. Does not possess. The levels of empathy. Necessary. To be malicious. }}
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: It's the only way he could be useful. His boss even temporarily promoted him as a placeholder - with the express purpose "to do nothing". Though he managed to mess this up.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Sentenced to community service, Mr. Kornada [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3100/fc03029.htm objects] to working in a fast food joint, Cricket Burger. "What could be worse than this?" The other option turns out to be work in a plant that makes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_trifluoride chlorine trifluoride]. When told that's one atom of chlorine bound to three fluorine atoms, his response is, "Compared to this place, how difficult can four atoms be?" <br/>('''tl;dr''' for chlorine trifluoride is that it can set just about anything on fire, [[Up to Eleven|including asbestos and/or wet sand]], and [[It Got Worse|gives off horrifically toxic and corrosive fumes]].)
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Almost literally. They had to trick him into running away from a hurricane!
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