Gone Horribly Wrong: Difference between revisions

This is comparable to a [[Freak Lab Accident]], except at the beginning of a story. Heck, a lot of [[Speculative Fiction]] serves no purpose ''but'' to have something [[Go Horribly Wrong]].

immediately after its debut, it's a [[Disastrous Demonstration]].

* [[Franken Fran]]: Fran really just wants to help people, but she seldom thinks through the non-biological consequences of her operations.

** Though, admittedly, only half the time. {{spoiler|The rest [[Gone Horribly Right|goes horribly right.]]}}

* In [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]], the Second Impact (a cataclysmic event which changed the world forever) is strongly implied to have been caused by an experiment on a huge god-like being Gone Horribly Wrong.

** This begs the question of what kind of result did they think they would get. "I'll just stick this thingy into the huge god-like being that we don't under..."(Recording irreparably damaged from this point on)

** ''Epitaph One'' is a bonus episode set in a future where ''everything'' has gone horribly horribly wrong.

* Pretty much all science on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' with the possible exception of Warren's robots. Whether it's mutant steroid fish men, demonic Frankensteinian cyborgs, the animated dead looking for a girlfriend, or just the plan to collect the school library info on a database, if it's on the Hellmouth it will work and then start killing people.

** "Half a Life": They attempt to revitalise a star, and instead it goes supernova.

** "New Ground": the test a "soliton wave", which will allow ships a warp without a need for a warp drive, but {{spoiler|it destroys the test ship and threatens to destroy the target planet as well.}}

* Happens all the time in ''[[Genius: The Transgression]]''.

* Each Lineage in ''[[Promethean: The Created]]'' started with one human trying to raise the dead for whatever reason - companionship, curiosity, slavery - and getting bitten hard in the ass by this trope. Prometheans themselves can fall prey to this trope, as they need to produce another Promethean in order to complete their [[To Become Human|Pilgrimage]]—and if they screw it up, they spawn a number of [[Came Back Wrong|Pandorans]] that will turn on them and try to eat them alive.

** Someone asked along the line why, 40,000 years in the future, the Imperium seems to not have any robots at all, at most an automated defense array or like that. Because, tens of thousands of years in "the past", they DID have robots all over the galaxy.. Until they [[Turned Against Their Masters|decided they didn't want to be slaves any more]] and started a war that almost decimated the human race. Thus started a ban that, millenia later, has been incorporated as sacred law into the tech-worshiping religion of the Mechanicum. That's basically the [[Crapsack World|best case scenario]] when something goes wrong here.

* Happens ''all the time'' in [[Ravenloft]], where [[Things Man Was Not Meant to Know]] seem to be a required course in any university science program.

*** [[Badass Normal|Leo]] wasn't part of the experiment. That gives it a 50% Omnicidal Maniac output.

*** And they learned how to do it right after they tried it on Kefka, anyway.

* In the ''[[Geneforge]]'' world, experiments go wrong so often that laboratories, workshops, and schools are designed with the expectation that this will happen sooner or later. Some are built on uninhabited island, some are [[Collapsing Lair|built underground]], and some just rely on thick doors to [[Sealed Evil in a Can|seal the place off]].

** Which makes the Shapers the most [[Genre Savvy]] and sensible group on this page, since they know what they do is dangerous and try to control the experiments and consequences as much as possible. Almost all the strife and catastrophes in the series come from intentional misuse of Shaping.

* In the ''[[Fallout]]'' series, most of the underground Vaults seemingly designed to spare the population were in fact huge-scale social experiments designed to test their residents in order to determine their suitability and effectiveness in the event of the populace escaping the war on ''starships''. As the player character, you can locate and explore several of these vaults... most of which are abandoned, in ruins, littered with skeletal corpses and containing plenty of evidence to suggest that these experiments went very ''very'' badly wrong. Considering that the nature of most of these experiments took the form of sadistic and largely pointless psychological torture, [[Foregone Conclusion|this is not entirely surprising]]. And then there's the ones that had [[Gone Horribly Right]] instead...

* ''[[Star Control]] 2'' has several examples: first, the Slylandro Probes. The Slylandro meant to program the Probes to go out and make contact with other alien species, and in the meantime, self-replicate using nearby raw materials. They accidentally set the priority for "self-replicate" above "make contact", unfortunately, meaning that the Probes see ''everything'' as raw materials to be used in self-replicating (the Slylandro are horrified when they learn of this). The other example is the Mycon, a race of sentient fungi engineered by the [[Precursors]] as a terraforming system... that, due to several millenia of being left to its own devices with no input, now terraforms in reverse, seeking out fertile, beautiful planets and turning them into hellish firestorms in which to make more Mycon.

* ''[[Portal 2]]'' halfway through the game introduces the origins of GLaDOS and how she became the overhead of Aperture Science. {{spoiler|1=Cave Johnson had his secretary, Caroline, be uploaded to a computer should he die before he could be uploaded. Caroline didn't want this at all, but she was forced against her will and essentially became immortal and stuck running the facility forever as GLaDOS. She then proceeded to kill all the scientists that tried to control her and make test chambers full of death traps.}}

** Stalin also had the biggest seed deposit in the world destroyed in the 1930s and thousands of Russian biologists executed or sent to gulags in his attempt to promote Lysenkoism, a form of the already long discredited Lamarckism that should be the Socialist rival to "Burgeoise" Darwinism. In the next decades Soviet crop production plunged so hard that the USSR had to import foreign wheat, despite controlling one of the most extensive and fertile wheat fields (the Ukraine's) in the world. Proof you can't force politics on Mother Nature. (The story of the scientists at one of these seed deposits, in Leningrad, during that city's 900-day siege during [[World War II]], is told in [[The Decemberists]]' song "When the War Came," off of ''The Crane Wife'').

* Mao's Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.

* [[wikipedia:Olestra|Olestra]], a fat substitute created in the late nineties, infamously used in WOW! brand potato chips. By "infamously", we mean it was found to have certain side effects, including stomach cramps, and "[[Bring My Brown Pants|anal leakage]]."

** [[Jeff Foxworthy]] talked about this in his bit about [[Side Effects Include|side effects]] of popular drugs and other products. "Anal seepage! That's not even fun to ''say''!"