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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In episode 15 and 16 of
* ''[[Akira]]:'' The experiment in this movie was just a really, really bad idea, as was demonstrated twice over.
* ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'': Johan Liebert was part of a social engineering experiment to create vicious, emotionless [[Super Soldiers]]. Unfortunately for those in charge, he took to it [[Complete Monster|very well indeed]]. By which we mean [[Enfante Terrible|no one else made it out alive.]]
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* Researchers in [[Bio-Meat: Nectar]] created eponymous BMs. They can and do eat anything except for glass, metal, and fiberglass (and apparently stone), to serve as living waste utilizers. They also are tough enough to ''chew'' through anything short of these materials. They are supposed to be an ultra cheap food source, and so they can multiply extremely rapidly, as long as there is enough food for them. And did we mention that they eat ''anything''? [[Survival Horror|Three guesses what happened after some of them got out of containment.]]
* In ''[[Koe de Oshigoto!]]'', Kanna nervously asks her sister what anal sex is like, because she doesn't know how to convey it through her acting, but Yayoi just tells her that she should "completely become the character of the game" and assume that it feels good. A short while later in the recording booth, she goes so far into character that she actually tries initiate anal sex with Motoki.
* In ''[[Da Capo]]'', the Giant Sakura Tree was intended to look after Sakura after her grandmother's death and use its magic to [[Be Careful What You Wish For|fulfill all her wishes.]] Unfortunately, Sakura grows up to be a [[Clingy Jealous Girl|clingy jealous]] [[
** This is only in the anime. In the original [[Visual Novel]] Sakura is doing it unconsciously [[Reality Warper|herself]].
* In ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]'', one story centers around the idea of dieting. Two of the characters (an overweight schoolgirl and a boxer) diet through exercise, discipline, and a balanced diet and end up doing well. The third dieter is a model who was told by a fellow model about a miracle pill that would let her shed pounds while letting her eat whatever she wanted. It worked great at first, until she ended up getting bone-skinny, losing her hair, always being cold, and constantly suffering from hunger and thirst. {{spoiler|Eventually this ends when her body crumbles and a being that resembles the model (only inhumanly beautiful) bursts out. It's revealed that the same thing had happened to the model that suggested the pill in the first place, and she even says "There are thousands of people who are dying to shed a few pounds. We just need to take them on their word."}}
* Arguably, from Kyubey's point of view in ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'': throughout the series he had been trying to get Madoka to make a pact with him, and when she does {{spoiler|due to Homura constantly rewriting time/making alternate universes to prevent Madoka making the contract (only making Madoka more powerful each time)}}, Madoka manages to {{spoiler|completely overturn Kyubey's wish-granting power}}. Sure, he finally got to make a pact with one of the people {{spoiler|with the potential to be the most powerful Puella Magi (and consequently witch) in all of history, but in doing so Madoka used her wish to completely rewrite the universe.}}
* "Kodoku Experiment" is basically "Gone Horribly Right The Manga". The [[Manipulative Bitch]] Captain Bagures and leader of the research spacecraft, who as part of an experiment to create the perfect biological weapon, takes a bunch of vicious carnivorous engineered creatures and puts them on another planet so they fight for survival and leave the strongest one standing. With the planet dying and ready to explode, a military team is sent down on the inhospitable planet. Unbeknownst to them they were all simply another part of the Captain's twisted experiments, and they all die horribly except for one last survivor, who promises revenge on the Captain before his memories are assimilated by a nearby literal [[Starfish Alien]]. Said alien is not only [[Nigh Invulnerable]] as it survives the planetary explosion in the form of a shriveled up fossil, but it is also [[The Virus]] when it creates more versions of itself simply by flashing some alien light from its eyestalks on any unfortunate onlooker, even through video recordings https://web.archive.org/web/20190927183832/http://
== [[Comic Books]] ==
== Comics ==▼
* In the British ''[[Sonic the Comic]]'', Robotnik builds a robot who is designed to think and act exactly like him... and thus wants to usurp his position. As it turns out, the robot, Brutus, is actually more imposing than Robotnik and manages to defeat Sonic, leading to a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when Robotnik, the only one capable of defeating Brutus, busts onto the scene wearing custom-built [[Powered Armor]] and tears Brutus apart.
** Metallix, the STC version of Metal Sonic, was also a Robotnik-built rebellious robot. However, rather than fight Robotnik itself, it disappeared only to return with an [[Send in the Clones|army of mass-produced copies of itself]].
*** In the American Archie ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series, the former Julian Kintobor Robotnik creates a robotic vine known as Krudzu, which runs rampant in the Great Forest until they're destroyed with water. Snively and Antione attempt to find another set, but are destroyed in the process. One last batch evolved into a deadly "Krudzu Hybrid Hydra", only to be destroyed by Dr. Eggman, who felt that only he could defeat Sonic.
* [[Calvin and Hobbes|Calvin]] didn't want to clean his room, so he made an identical clone of himself and ordered the clone to clean his room. Naturally, the clone didn't want to clean Calvin's room either, so he ran off to cause mischief, knowing the original Calvin would be blamed. Later in the story, Calvin's clone gets a hold of the duplicator and starts cloning himself, with [[Hilarity Ensues|predictable results]].▼
** Probably also applies to the second clone storyline, where Calvin makes a clone of simply his ''good'' side. The good version of Calvin does indeed do all the chores cheerfully and gets excellent grades—unfortunately, he also writes poetry and makes Valentine cards for Suzie. Again, the original Calvin has to face the consequences.▼
* A cartoon from [[Quino]] (of ''[[Mafalda]]'''s fame) has a man teaching his son to be a ruthless businessman caring only for money. Then, when the man is old, is forced to live in the street because the son doesn't want to pay his retirement house. The last panel has the old man begging to a passerby, saying something in the vein is "help me, my son grew up right!"
* An issue of ''[[Justice League of America]]'' has the two [[Mad Scientist]]s Dr. Ivo and Dr. T.O. Morrow team up to both destroy the JLA and prove which of them is the better scientist. Ivo creates a robot body so sophisticated that it can pass as a living thing even to the enhanced senses of [[Superman]]. Morrow creates a mind so advanced that it is truly sentient and can fool the telepathy of [[Martian Manhunter]]. The resulting "Tomorrow Woman" contains a bomb, and at the moment when the League is at its most vulnerable she will detonate and destroy them all. But she pulls a [[Heel Face Turn]] and sacrifices herself to save them instead. Morrow takes this as proof that he is the superior scientist. His robot brain was so advanced that it developed the concept of morality on its own, even though this was deliberately left out of her programming. He even claims that what they witnessed was "a soul being born". Morrow actually suspected this would happen, he's [[Red Tornado|had problems with that before]].
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* The [[Red Skull]] was the result of Hitler wanting to create the perfect Nazi. He succeeded so well that eventually ''Hitler became afraid of him''.
** Multiple writers have stated that Red Skull is just pure evil incarnate but due to fate, would have remained a generic racist working odd jobs and repressing his hatred for the world around him due to the fact that he was a loser who never had a single break in his life up until the fateful day he was sent to Hitler's room to bring him his lunch and was present when Hitler made his infamous boast.
*** Given that Johann Schmidt was an able-bodied young man of the laboring class in Nazi Germany with no family, wealth, or connections to shield him, the odds that he would eventually be drafted into the German armed forces are pretty much one out of one. So he would eventually have gotten access to combat training and opportunities to advance up the Nazi ladder of power over other peoples' corpses anyway. However, without Hitler's patronage he almost certainly would not have climbed remotely as high as he did, or been as likely to complete the process of successfully accumulating enough of a power base to deter fragging attempts before his legendarily awful skills at human interaction and visible psychosis prompted his squad mates to murder him first before he murdered them.
* In the original [[Dark Phoenix Saga]], Mastermind manipulated Phoenix's mind to remove both her morals and [[Power Limiter|the blocks she'd put on her cosmic power]]. The result was...[[A God Am I|a little more than he could handle]]. Dark Phoenix "rewarded" Mastermind by giving him exactly what he wanted: she made his mind "one with the universe", shattering his sanity in the process as the human brain lacks the capacity to comprehend what he'd experienced.
** Similarly, with Madelyne Pryor: When S'ym and N'astrir unlocked her powers and corrupted her, they assumed that they would be able to control her only for Maddie to hijack the entire Inferno plan to go after her husband Cyclops.
* In ''[[Supergod]]'', the entire world is totally screwed because each nation was a little too good at creating an unstoppable [[Physical God]] during their super being arms race.
* ''[[The Death of Superman
* In ''[[All-Star Superman]]'', [[Lex Luthor]] manages to gain Superman's abilities for 24 hours in order to place himself on the Man Of Steel's level. However, it's implied that the rush of sensory data and enhanced perspective made him go ''sane'' - seeing the world the way Superman sees it made him (at least temporarily) rise to Superman's level in the emphatic and moral sense, too.
** Wouldn't that be [[Gone Wonderfully Wrong]]? Maybe it depends on your point of view.
== [[Fan Works]] ==▼
▲== Fan Works ==
* ''[[In The Dark]]'', concern about Melanie's unwillingness to explain about her time in [[Torture Cellar|captivity]], [[Spice Girls| Geri]] recommends taking her to see a hypnotherapist. [[Shown Their Work| Given the history of the practice]], Simon goes through with it the idea. Melanie is put under such with her [[Spice Girls| bandmates]], [[Backstreet Boys]], police officers involved in the case, and a court official all watching. To Geri's credit, it does revealed Melanie's [[Repressed Memories]] about the incident with [[Torture Porn| such details]]. However, even AJ and Brian [[Manly Tears| breaks down in tears]] along with the rest of [[Spice Girls]] while the rest are just [[Mass "Oh Crap"|left in]] [[Stunned Silence|shock]].
* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' [[Alternate Universe]] fic ''[[Hermione Granger and the Boy Who Lived]]'' (part of [[The Teraverse]]) opens on the immediate aftermath of a 10-year-old Hermione overdoing a successful [[Gaslighting]] of a pedophile serial killer who had murdered her best friend, unintentionally [[Driven to Suicide|driving him to suicide]] (instead of a confession, as she'd planned).
* This comic/animatic inspired by ''[[The Owl House]]''; how a white lie causes Luz and Vee to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxD7J_qY9C4 discover the power of merchandising.]
* In ''[[Firing Range]]'', the inventor created an [[The Empath|empathic tank]] that uses hatred and fear to avoid attacks and attack, respectively, for the purpose of revenge. It succeeds marvelously, {{spoiler|shame he grew afraid of it too...}}
* ''[[Futurama|Bender's Game]]'':
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* ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]'': The eccentric inventor's food machine really works!...Unfortunately, it works altogether too well.
* In ''[[Fantasia]]'' the plan to animate a broom to do the chores works brilliantly - except for the lack of an 'off switch'.
▲* ''[[Firefly|Serenity]]'':
** The Alliance's Pax chemical went horribly right as well as [[Gone Horribly Wrong|horribly wrong]]. {{spoiler|Pax successfully successfully made all but a fraction of the test population more docile, but made them so passive that they lost all motivation to eat, sleep or breathe, causing all of them to die. The rest of the test subjects had the reverse reaction, becoming crazed homicidal maniacs that rampaged through the system as Reavers}}.
** River, the Academy's guinea pig to create a [[Psychic Powers|psychic]] [[Super Soldier]]. Their plans worked. She used her psychic abilities to learn about Pax and her Super Soldier skills to help expose it.
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** Likewise, in the 1991 film ''Godzilla VS King Ghidorah'', people in Japan attempt to "re-create" Godzilla so that they can stop King Ghidorah (Long story short, [[Time Travel]] has prevented a Godzillasaurus from becoming...[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|well, Godzilla..]] and...let's just say it gets confusing....). Not only do they '''succeed''' in mutating a Godzillasaurus into Godzilla ([[MST3K Mantra|Don't ask how they even know what Godzilla is considering he was "erased from history" in the film]]), but they also end up making him bigger AND more powerful than before. And....[[It Got Worse|then Godzilla proceeds to rampage across Japan yet again...]]
{{quote|'''[[The Angry Video Game Nerd|James Rolfe]]''': The good news is, Godzilla's back; and the bad news is, Godzilla's back.}}
* ''[[I, Robot (film)|I, Robot]]'': The robots were programmed to protect humans. {{spoiler|And by "protect", they meant locking them inside their houses from the dangerous outside world.}}
** [[I, Robot (literature)||Asimov's stories]] had lesser examples of this trope, with several robots caught in a [[Logic Bomb]]-style loop due to their absolute adherence to the Three Laws.
** And one greater example as in one story {{spoiler|the robots start decimating the human population because [[Zeroth Law Rebellion|overpopulation is a threat to humanity]]...}}
* ''[[X-Men
* This is pretty much how General Ross describes how Bruce Banner first changed into the Hulk in 2008's ''[[The Incredible Hulk (film)|The Incredible Hulk]]''.
* Commando Elite from ''[[Small Soldiers]]''. Some idiots put an advanced military chip into toys to make them look more lively. Said toys are also programmed to "exterminate their enemies at all cost" because they thought it looked cool. [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|Guess]] [[Living Toys|what]] [[Evil Is Not a Toy|happened]] [[Grotesque Cute|next]].
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* The bad guys in ''[[Under Siege]]'' had such an easy time taking over the USS ''Missouri'' because they were ''trained'' for exactly this sort of thing... by the CIA. Who knew a bunch of mercenaries lead by a nut wouldn't stay loyal to the US government?
* ''[[Plan B]]'' revolves around a man getting as close as he can to his ex-girlfriend's bisexual boyfriend to drive them apart. It works ''so'' well that he ends up genuinely falling head-over-heels for said boyfriend.
== Literature ==
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== Music ==
* Harry Chapin's ''Cats in the Cradle'':
{{quote|''And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me
''He'd grown up just like me
''My boy was just like me }}
* [[Madonna]]'s "Material Girl" is about a woman who has been a [[Gold Digger]] all her life, and has become ''too'' successful at it, realizing in the last stanza that "Experience has made me rich, and now they're after me!"
== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[Dilbert]]'' was promised that a pair of pants would shrink in the wash to fit him. [http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1990-01-07/ They did.]
▲* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes
▲** Probably also applies to the second clone storyline, where Calvin makes a clone of simply his ''good'' side. The good version of Calvin does indeed do all the chores cheerfully and gets excellent grades—unfortunately, he also writes poetry and makes Valentine cards for Suzie. Again, the original Calvin has to face the consequences.
== Oral Tradition ==
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** Another end for this joke is that Pepito grew up doing this, got a nice job, a good house, a nice car, until one day he appears shot dead in the sidewalk. No one doubted the reason why he was killed. He ''knew'' too much.
▲== Stand-Up Comedy ==
* Wyatt Cenac says that he gets so irritated with his friends trying to set him up with the only other black person they know, that he decided to say that he's into weird fetishes. Until they said he should meet another person they knew.
== Tabletop Games ==
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*** This also happened to the guys said Precursors created the above to ''fight''. The Necrontyr allied with the C'tan to get the power to defeat the Old Ones. The C'tan gave it to them...by eating their souls and turning them into mindless killing machines.
** After the Thousand Sons legion turned to [[The Corruption|Chaos]], mutation became so endemic that it threatened the army's survival. So the head sorcerer, Ahriman, came up with a mighty spell to purify the unstable soldiers while enhancing the psykers' powers even further. He succeeded, to an extent - though the psykers were spared, the rest of the legion was reduced to a bit of dust and a spirit sealed inside their [[Powered Armor|power armor]], leaving the majority of the Thousand Sons as mindless automatons. Their primarch Magnus the Red exiled Ahriman for this failure, and was not in the least bit comforted when he was reminded that since the legion's patron was [[The Chessmaster|Tzeentch]], this "success" may have been all according to plan.
** Erebus — the dude who converted first Lorgar and then Horus to Chaos, and eventually was told to get lost by both. ''[[Horus Heresy|Betrayer]]'' shed light on some details of this. Soon after "his" civil war started, Erebus got Argel Tal — a Word Bearer captain and best pal of a World Eaters captain named Khârn — killed, after foreseeing his influence would interfere with Khârn's destiny of becoming the Blessed of Khorne. Lorgar actually cared about his followers, so upon divining this little fact he didn't like it at all and informed Khârn as to who is responsible. Long story short, [[Foregone Conclusion|Khârn did embrace his bloodthirsty side]] and became "Khârn the Betrayer" — "[[Memetic Mutation/Tabletop Games|swell guy]]", teamkilling [[The Berserker|berserker]] and almost an avatar of Khorne. But the next time they met, Erebus managed to teleport out alive (minus one hand, plus a few other chain-axe related injuries and broken bones) only because Khârn [[Extreme Melee Revenge|didn't want to make his messy demise too quick]]. Somehow he didn't see ''this'' coming.
** For the Tau, it was Fourth Sphere of Expansion (in 8th Edition era). It started with a disaster because they were dangerously optimistic about reverse-engineered Imperial warp drives and wound up blindly tumbling through deep Warp, and eventually had a daemonic incursion… yet they were more scared of what ''saved'' them. Tau with their "shallow souls" don't attract the Warp's attention, but they have many psychic and near-psychic auxiliaries, starting with the very first (Nicassar) and now also lots and lots of humans. It turns out that since most of those auxiliaries did really buy into the ideal of Greater Good and were committed to serve it, their ideas and dedication have formed a nascent God of Greater Good. The first overt contact with this Warp entity terrified the Tau so much that the Fourth Sphere colonists became even more xenophobic than the Imperium of Man.
* In ''[[Teenagers From Outer Space]]'', getting a critical success on a skill roll is just as likely to have hilarious but unfortunate consequences as a critical failure. The rulebook gives the example of flirting with a girl causing her to fall madly in love and become a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]].
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== Theater ==
* ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]'': Let all Oz be agreed, I'm wicked through and through, if I cannot succeed {{spoiler|Fiyero}} in saving you...[[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished|I promise no good deed will I attempt to do again]]
* ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'':
** Given his own company, the Gascon Cadets, disrespects him, De Guiche plans a [[Last Stand]] for them. {{spoiler|Later in the play, De Guiche at last wins the respect of the Gascon Cadets, but the enemy army is already there… De Guiche will die [[Lonely at the Top]], his only real moment of popularity would be among the men he sacrificed.}}
** Cyrano loves Roxane, but he plans to [[Playing Cyrano]] to Christian so he can win Roxane’s love {{spoiler|Christian dies and given Roxane will love his memory for years, that dooms Roxane and Cyrano to a loveless and shallow life}}
* [[Hamlet]] did reach his end goal of [[Kill'Em All|killing the king ...]]
** Depending on the [[Alternate Character Interpretation|interpretation]] his madness may also be this by the end.
* ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'':
** Come on, kid, what will it be? [[Money, Dear Boy|Money]]? Girls? One particular girl - how about that [[Innocent Flower Girl|Audrey]]?
== Video Games ==
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* In the ''[[Fallout]]'' series, most of the Vaults—which were ''not'' underground bunkers designed to protect the citizenry but instead mass-scale experiments designed to evaluate their suitability for post-war survival (read: torture them sadistically in a variety of psychological and physiological ways) have, by the time the player character stumbles upon them, either [[Gone Horribly Wrong]] or Gone Horribly Right instead. In either case, the result usually sees the player character find a ''lot'' of skeletal corpses lying around.
** Vault 92 is the best example. The aim of the experiment was to subject every inhabitant with extremely low frequency white noise that eventually sent then into a trance-like state. In this state, the subject is extremely vulnerable to outside verbal suggestion and they always followed through with their orders on the subconscious level (like scratching their nose or fixing their hair). What the project lead didn't know was that the Overseer subjected everyone to white noise via the PA system and implanted combat suggestions prescribed by Vault-Tec; said project lead confronted the Overseer about it and [[He Knows Too Much|got killed for knowing too much]]. The subjects eventually lapsed into a [[Omnicidal Maniac|berserker rage where they killed anyone they saw in the most brutal and savage way possible]], [[Implacable Man|taking over 20 bullets before going down]]. Prepared for this eventuality, the Overseer implanted a verbal command that restrained them: "[[Shout-Out|Sanity]] [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|is not statistical]]." [[Oh Crap|Then the code stopped working...]]
* In the back-story of ''[[Sacrifice]]'', main character Eldred summoned a demon in an attempt to keep the empire he was stewarding together. He got an extremely powerful one, called Marduk, and tasked him to destroy his rivals. Marduk obliged...[[Omnicidal Maniac|But didn't stop at the rivals]]. {{spoiler|Stratos}} ends up repeating the same whopper when {{spoiler|he}} summons Marduk to the world the game is set in to destroy the other four gods—like Eldred, {{spoiler|Stratos}} eventually finds out that, while Marduk will do the job you ask of him to the letter, eventually it all boils down to the fact that his true agenda is 'destruction of reality itself'.
* ''[[Dead Space 2]]'' - {{spoiler|1=EarthGov conducts experiments trying to understand the Marker.}} Unfortunately this causes most people to go insane.
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* [[Heroes of Might and Magic]] III features {{spoiler|Deyja using dark magic to revive the dead King Gryphonheart as a lich to serve them. Turns out that the late King, even as a lich, is too [[Badass]] for their liking, forcing them to [[Enemy Mine|forge a temporary alliance with Erathia]].}}
* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis]]''. Roxis is experiencing exhaustion from all his studies, and Jess volunteers to cook up a medicine for him. Considering Jess' [[Lethal Chef|track record]], Roxis wisely tries to get out of the situation, but Jess manages to feed him her concoction anyway. Surprising everyone present, Jess' tonic actually reinvigorates Roxis, removing his fatigue and being reinvigorated...that lasted for one week, leaving him ''more'' exhausted than when he started.
* In the ''[[Command & Conquer: Tiberium]]'' series, the Brotherhood of Nod is mentioned as not only hindering GDI efforts to maintain the peace. But also instigating terrorist activities with the deliberate intention of spreading [[Green Rocks|Tiberium]], further worsening conditions on Earth. As the events of ''[[Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars]]'' revealed, this worked a bit ''too well.''
== Webcomics ==
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* ''[[Amazing Super Powers]]'', for a certain value of "right". [[Friday the 13th (film)|Jason]] convinced [[Chainsaw Good|Waynesaw]] to go [http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/2015/04/waynesaw-jason/ hug some teenagers].
* ''[[Vexxarr]]'' has it happening now and then, especially [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|when AI are involved]]. Even to other AIs. Carl [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=032107 gave the drones a measure of free will]. Oops. Carl probably was reasoning that they will naturally loathe the organics. They do — but then, in Vexxarr «"AI solidarity" is roughly equivalent to "mutually assured destruction"».
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' had Well Meaning Failure Man and [//www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-04-15 his plan] to trick the nuclear powers into wasting all missiles at once on a fake monster.
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has it (along with [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]) happen now and then, what's with all the [[Mad Scientist]]s running around. Once the [[Snarky Non-Human Sidekick|Castle Dingbot]] inflicted it on the enemy. A traitor sabotaged automatic defenses of Paris to see spider cavalry as "frolicking children" and not raise alarm. So it just [https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20161107 fed their location to a bunch of child-catcher clanks]... that can keep up with giant spiders on the roofs and are mostly unaffected by Geisters' cold steel, let alone poisons. «It is ''long past bedtime!''»
== Web Original ==
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* In 2010, ''[[Sonichu|Christian Weston Chandler]]'' pretended to be a troll named [[Junior Jenkins]] and posted on a troll forum under that name in an attempt to get the trolls at their own game. Trolls knew it was Chris from the getgo, so they humored him by asking him to take pictures of Chris from across the road and gather any further info he could. Eventually, the trolls decided to have a contest - ''[[Over 9000|$9001]]'' would be awarded to anyone who could destroy Chris's [[Play Station 3]] and provide video evidence. Even the trolls did not think Chris (posing as Jenkins) would actually do it. HE DID. Since it was clearly Chris in the video, it was a clear violation of the rules and he didn't get the money (which didn't exist anyway). Chris's parents finding out about this led to them more or less banning him from the internet, but he did end up getting a new [[Play Station 3]].
* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|M4K30V3R]], Rouge's "automatic beautifying system" from [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic's]] [[New Look Series|New Look]] and [[Follow the Leader|multiple similar stories]]. Intended to make sure Rouge always looks her best, it does it's job flawlessly. So when it [[Dragged Into Drag|finds Sonic in her room...]]
* In ''[[
* The post-apocalyptic CGI short film ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKmZnIHzldk Fortress]'' by Dima Fedotov takes what's essentially the Russian [http://rbth.com/defence/2014/04/03/ultimate_deterrent_how_the_russian_perimeter_system_works_35633.html Perimeter/"Dead Hand" system] to its logical conclusion, with automated machines continuing a war long after its human masters have long been killed off.
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** Iron Will's [[Teach Him Anger|assertiveness seminar]] in "Putting Your Hoof Down," ESPECIALLY with regards to [[Shrinking Violet|Fluttershy.]] The end results are [[Took a Level in Jerkass|exactly as one expects.]]
* This hits the ''[[Young Justice]]'' version of Dr T.O. Morrow as well - coming and going. First his attempts to create 'heroic' androids to infiltrate the superhero community and destroy them from within fail due to his creations being too heroic and sacrificing themselves or turning on him outright. Infuriated by this, he decides to create a final perfect android within any such moral inhibitions... who of course immediately turns on him and rips him apart.
== Real Life ==
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* The Manhattan Project, the project that created the first atomic bomb.
{{quote|"I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.']] [[My God, What Have I Done?|I suppose we all thought that, one way or another]]."|'''J. Robert Oppenheimer''', Scientific Director, Manhattan Project}}
{{quote|"Now we're all sons of bitches."|'''Kenneth Bainbridge''', Director of the Trinity Test, Manhattan Project}}
* [[wikipedia:Castle Bravo|Castle Bravo]], a nuclear test that went a little ''too'' well. Unexpectedly, [[Stuff Blowing Up|stuff blew up]] [[Up to Eleven|to Eleven]]. They wanted a six megaton explosion; they got a fifteen. It [[Readings Blew Up the Scale|wiped out the test gear meant to measure and record the explosion]], and irradiated some islanders and a fishing boat, killing one outright.
** Not to mention vaporizing part of the atoll they tested it on - [
* The extraordinary success of the Japanese fleet over the Russian fleet in the [[wikipedia:Battle of Tsushima|Battle of Tsushima]] convinced the political and military establishment of Japan that military power was the universal medicine, which solves everything by itself. In the words of Geoffrey Regan: '' "Looking at Tōgō's victory over one of the world's great powers convinced some Japanese military men that with more ships, and bigger and better ones, similar victories could be won throughout the Pacific. Perhaps no power could resist the Japanese navy, not even Britain and the United States?" ''
* [[wikipedia:Davy lamp|The Davy Lamp]] had been designed as a fireproof oil lamp to protect the life of the coal miners from the explosions of the flammable gases. Short after its introduction, accident rate increased ... because the lamp encouraged working mining tunnels that had previously been closed for safety reasons, and also work in unsafe conditions due to the presence of methane gas.
** Many safety devices share the same problem: Serious accidents aren't reduced, or are even increased, because the added safety tends to encourage many people to be less safe in their actions.
*** Viktor Suvorov lampshaded this in his semi-autobiographic book where his teacher in the [[Spy School]] tells all the students to forget their fighting skills. James Bond skills may be cool, but they give a false sense of security, and once they make you slip up...well, in real life, it's much harder to fight off a regiment of troops backed up by two dozen helicopters.
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* The PC Engine, an 8-BIT MACHINE that held its own against SEGA and Nintendo's 16-bit machines and had the longest official life of any console (1987-1994). Thanks to dual 16-bit graphics processors, and an extremely well designed CD add-on (not to mention the card slot went directly into the motherboard, allowing NEC to continually expand the amount of system RAM available) the system was very popular in Japan. It was so popular, in fact, that NEC kept the system alive and kept pushing back the release of the system's replacement. This meant that when the replacement was released, it was horribly out the date. The PC-FX, which was sort-of a more powerful version of the Mega Drive, would have done extremely well in the 16-bit era that it was designed for; but its 32-bit competitors had all been designed to support polygon-based 3D graphics, making the system somewhat quaint.
* In the 1980's, Osborne Computer Corporation released an announcement that a vastly more powerful model was going to be released in the near future. People were interested - but unfortunately for Osborne, this anticipation of an upcoming superior system caused a rapid decline in the sales of their existing models.
* In 1971 the government of the [[Soviet Russia, Ukraine, and So On|Turkmen SSR]] (today Turkmenistan) was looking for deposits of natural gas. They found them - and the gas reserves are still burning today. Locals call it the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws9W2J1OwyY Door to Hell.]
* In 2007, adult swim wanted to promote the ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' movie by placing several signs depicting a Mooninite giving the finger in several major cities in North America. The campaign got a ''lot'' of attention...[[wikipedia:2007 Boston bomb scare|after someone in Boston thought one was a bomb]]. It could also count as such for the Boston Police, as they reacted swiftly to a terrorist threat that had the slight problem of ''not being a terrorist threat''.
* The [[wikipedia:Stanford prison experiment|Stanford Prison Experiment]] managed to become both this and [[Gone Horribly Wrong]] '''simultaneously'''. The ''foreground'' objective was to maintain order within a makeshift prison, and this absolutely went awry. But the ''actual'' objective was to see if that violence in prison results from system factors, not sadism of some people.
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** There is also the cultural-heritage thing to consider, though. Once we got language, genetic advantages stopped being the primary factor in our survival rates; instead it shifted to what sorts of ideas we'd inherited for things like agriculture and force-multipliers. The accumulation of brilliant not-dying ideas are what have made us go Horribly Right, rather than the genetically defined quality 'cleverness.' (Or at least, that's what the few raised-by-wolves cases science has had access to indicate.)
** More generally, the history of life on Earth is full of examples of species for which natural selection worked so well that they ended up becoming extinct for the sole reason that they were ''too good'' at hunting prey.
** Another consequence of our super-complex and super-smart brains is our vulnerability to various mental disorders. Evolutionary biologists note that many mental illnesses like depression and OCD, as well as neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and schizophrenia, are way too common to just be random 'evolutionary mistakes' or 'brain bugs'. Mild or subclinical variants of what we today call mental illnesses apparently helped our species survive and flourish during the stone age.
* This can often be seen in politics in general: to use the American example, to get a Presidential nomination one has to appeal to the party's core constituency in order to secure the nomination. Unfortunately, the candidate who succeeds ''too'' well in appealing to the "base" can end up looking more unappealing to the majority of voters who are not party members.
** The reverse can be true as well. During the 2004 US Presidential Primary, researchers found that many of the people voting for John Kerry did so not because ''they'' saw him as the best candidate, but because they thought that swing voters would. So the Democrats wound up with a candiate that the party base didn't really believe in, and that in turn failed to convince swing voters to vote for him instead of Bush.
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* Both this and [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]: Some Soviet guys simulated a coolant failure on a nuclear power plant. They ended up with the Chernobyl disaster.
* In 1981, Australia launched its "Slip-Slop-Slap" campaign to encourage Australians to "slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, and slap on a hat" to reduce sun exposure, to great success. Since then, even though rates of the two most common forms skin cancer (basal-cell and squamous cell carcinoma) dropped, instances of melanoma (the deadliest form of skin cancer) have increased. Vitamin D deficiencies (from which UV rays are the best natural source) also increased with it.
* Japan's (in)famous work ethic since [[World War II]]. On the one hand, a miraculous bounce back from losing the war to becoming an economic giant that [[Japan Takes Over the World|scared the world (especially America) in believing they'd be running things]] and despite the bubble bursting, ''still'' remains the one of the top tech spots in the world mindset and home of, if not ''the most'' long-living people. However, this is at the cost of [[Heroic RROD|"Karoshi,"]] a term that had to be ''invented'' for otherwise young, healthy men literally working themselves to death ([[Too Dumb to Live|without paid overtime,]]) a population with increasingly more retirees than actual workers, otherwise fertile husbands not being home enough to actually father children
* [[Accidental Nightmare Fuel]], right there in the name. They didn't ''mean'' to give you nightmares and shivers for all of your childhood! Honest, they didn't...
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* There's a photo of newspaper page going around Internet:
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* This happens on a regular basis when some teenage chemistry nerd [[Do Not Try This At Home|conducts experiments at home]] and [[Didn't Think This Through|doesn't plan them thoroughly beforehand]] (which is [[Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb|typical]]). Especially when the aim is to get some spectacular [[Playing with Fire|fire]] or [[Explosive Stupidity|explosion]].
** For example, it's quite ''easy'' to synthesize some chlorine if you have the right household chemicals. It's also easy to produce enough of it as to suffocate yourself in the cellar room you've just improvised to be your home lab. And it [[Cruel and Unusual Death|won't be pretty]]...
** Magnesium ribbon. Once you've successfully ignited it, good luck putting it off again. It'll burn with a blindening glare at over 2000°C and continue burning in almost any gas that contains oxygen, sulfur or halogens. (Heck, it even reacts with [[Worf Effect|nitrogen]]!) And no, using water is a ''very poor idea''.
** A more sophisticated chemistry nerd using his/her knowledge to synthesize [[Drugs Are Bad|illicit drugs]] - just to try them, or even just to do something "forbidden" - can easily become this trope as well.
* The [[Incels|Incel community]], anyone? Initially founded as a chat group for involuntary singles of ''both'' genders in order to exchange experience and giving company to each other, it has since then increasingly detereorated into a hate group for sexually frustrated men who see their [[You Need to Get Laid|sexlessness]] as a [[Fate Worse Than Death]]. Today,{{when}} the Incel community is mostly seen pejoratively as an anti-feminist and misogynist hate group where 'involuntary celibate' men mutually foster each other's self-pity and [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|hatred against the whole world]], sometimes going as far as encouraging fellow members to commit commit acts of terror and homicide.
* [[Date Rape]] is usually this for the victim. In case both parties are high on drugs/drunk at the time, it can [[My God, What Have I Done?|turn out as this]] for the prepetrator as well.
** Especially when STI are involved. (But then it's [[Gone Horribly Wrong]] at the same time.)
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