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Alice has been spending the the last N years of her life focusing on a single great project, putting most or all of her leisure time and free money into it. Finally, it's approaching completion...but just before she can reveal it to the world at large, an unlikely and destructive chain of [[Disaster Dominoes]] and violent intruders conspires to utterly wreck everything she has accomplished. Cue [[Big No]]. Or if you're looking to mix it up, [[Angrish]]. Specially if she had [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]].
Also a typical comedic relationship between the [[Mad Scientist]], [[Wrench Wench]], or [[Gadgeteer Genius]] and [[The Ditz]] or resident [[Cloudcuckoolander]].
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Compare to the relationship between the [[Spanner in The Works]] and the [[Chessmaster]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Happened to Em in ''[[Misfile]]''. When, at the beginning, an angel misplaces two years of Emily's life that she'd spent working incredibly hard at school so she could get accepted to Harvard. She'll just have to do it all over again!
* Sarda of ''[[
* Helen and Micah first met in ''[[Mac Hall]]'' when he accidentally jumped off a balcony and just barely missed landing on her semester project.
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