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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' Take Washu, add Mihoshi, cue [[Big No]]
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== [[Myth and Legend]] ==
* There's a legend about Saint Albertus Magnus who supposedly had built a working android, which could walk, would do household chores, and according to some could even speak. Albertus' greatest student Thomas Aquinas destroyed it (thinking it was the result of demonic possession), after which Albertus was said to have spoken: "The work of fifteen/twenty/thirty years is ruined." In Latin, of course.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* Subverted in [[Real Life]] with Sir Isaac Newton. In his early career he was not very good at getting himself published, he tended to just let the finished work pile up on his desk. One day his dog knocked over a candle and much of his life's work up to that point went up in flames. So he sat down and wrote it all out again. "Diamond! Thou little knowest the mischief thou hast done!".▼
* [[wikipedia:Alfred Russell Wallace|Alfred Russell Wallace]] was a Victorian naturalist whose work parallelled Darwin's. In 1848 he began a 4-year expedition to the Amazon collecting plant and animal specimens. In 1852 he took ship back to England with his collection. Four weeks later the ship caught fire. The crew abandoned ship but most of Wallace's collection was destroyed. At least it was insured.▼
* [http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/DeathOnAStick DeathOnAStick], who spent a year and a half on a single game of ''[[Nethack]]'', spending most of that time collecting rocks, transforming them into gems, putting them into [[Bag of Holding|bags]], and creating [[Monster Allies|pet giants]] to hold the bags full of gems. Then he accidentally drank a cursed potion of gain level, which moves you up a ''[[Stealth Pun|dungeon]]'' level, which put him past a [[Point of No Return]]. Without his gems.▼
== [[Theater]] ==
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* Sarda of ''[[8-Bit Theater|8-bit Theater]]'' has a habit of doing this to people, when he does [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/12/30/episode-496-a-wizard-did-itto-himself/ it to himself].
* Helen and Micah first met in ''[[Mac Hall]]'' when he accidentally jumped off a balcony and just barely missed landing on her semester project.
* Gavin's Project Orwell software in ''[[Kate Modern]]''. When it gets stolen, he becomes bitter and delusional.▼
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', in an episode where Mr Freeze vents his frustration by destroying peoples' life's work.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': "MY CABBAGES!!!"
* [[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'s crashing into a truck loaded with beetroot or something similar ruins a old guys memoirs which were written with red ink.
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▲* Subverted in [[Real Life]] with Sir Isaac Newton. In his early career he was not very good at getting himself published, he tended to just let the finished work pile up on his desk. One day his dog knocked over a candle and much of his life's work up to that point went up in flames. So he sat down and wrote it all out again. "Diamond! Thou little knowest the mischief thou hast done!".
▲* Gavin's Project Orwell software in ''[[Kate Modern]]''. When it gets stolen, he becomes bitter and delusional.
▲* [[wikipedia:Alfred Russell Wallace|Alfred Russell Wallace]] was a Victorian naturalist whose work parallelled Darwin's. In 1848 he began a 4-year expedition to the Amazon collecting plant and animal specimens. In 1852 he took ship back to England with his collection. Four weeks later the ship caught fire. The crew abandoned ship but most of Wallace's collection was destroyed. At least it was insured.
▲* [http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/DeathOnAStick DeathOnAStick], who spent a year and a half on a single game of ''[[Nethack]]'', spending most of that time collecting rocks, transforming them into gems, putting them into [[Bag of Holding|bags]], and creating [[Monster Allies|pet giants]] to hold the bags full of gems. Then he accidentally drank a cursed potion of gain level, which moves you up a ''[[Stealth Pun|dungeon]]'' level, which put him past a [[Point of No Return]]. Without his gems.
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