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Also a typical comedic relationship between the [[Mad Scientist]], [[Wrench Wench]], or [[Gadgeteer Genius]] and [[The Ditz]] or resident [[Cloudcuckoolander]].
 
Compare to the relationship between the [[Spanner in Thethe Works]] and the [[Chessmaster]].
 
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' Take Washu, add Mihoshi, cue [[Big No]]
** For that matter Mihoshi could be a never ending occurrence of this for Kiyone.
 
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* In the first ''[[Dennis the Menace]]'' movie, Mr. Wilson spent forty years growing a plant that only flowers once for a few seconds. So he invites the neighborhood to the flowering, but Dennis causes a distraction at the crucial instant.
* In ''[[Twice Upon a Time]]'', Synonamess Botch drives his head nightmare writer Scuzzbopper to [[Driven to Suicide|attempted suicide]] (and a [[Heel Face Turn]]) by dismissively throwing his manuscript for a "Great A-Murkian Novel" out a window.
* King Triton actually destroys Ariel's collection of salvaged treasure in Disney's ''[[The Little Mermaid (Disney)|The Little Mermaid]]'' after finding out that she was secretly in love with a human prince.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* An episode of ''[[Black AdderBlackadder]] the Third'' centers on Baldrick's unwittingly destroying Dr. [[Samuel Johnson]]'s life's work, the very first English dictionary. Johnson is, of course, enraged...until it turns out the manuscript that Baldrick burned was ''Blackadder's'' life's work, a novel that he'd spent over seven years writing. {{spoiler|And then at the end of the episode, Baldrick really ''does'' toss the dictionary into the fire.}}
* [[Playing Withwith a Trope|Played with]] in an episode of ''[[Reno 911]]'' where an author's novel manuscript is trapped in a burning building. He pleads with the cops to go in and save it, but they want to know if it's any good first. He describes it, but it turns out it's a derivative knockoff, and they let it burn.
* Played for laughs in a British sketch show starring ex-[[The Goon Show|Goon]] Michael Bentine. A guest on an interview show has spent ten years building a magnificent model of St. Paul's Cathedral out of matchsticks. Unfortunately the heat of the studio lights cause it to catch fire. The interviewer mutters, "Well, I expect we'll be seeing you again in ten years. Only this time I'd suggest taking the match heads off first."
* In the ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' episode "Orchis Fatalis", someone takes revenge on an orchid collector by pouring weedkiller over his priceless orchid collection. This being Midsomer, things soon escalate to murder.
* The sketch-comedy show ''[[Almost Live]]'' regularly featured a kung-fu parody called "Mind Your Manners with Billy Quan"; the fights would often start with the same oaf thoughtlessly destroying Billy's latest painstaking masterpiece.
* In a ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'' episode, Lowell shows Joe the model blimp he's spent years creating and makes Joe promise not to play with it. Joe plays it with anyway, and it promptly gets smashed behind a door.
 
== [[Myth and Legend]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* A major part of the fourth game in the ''[[Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)|Ace Attorney]]'' series involves this: {{spoiler|Valant Gramarye has been waiting for seven years to inherit his mentor's magic tricks. Turns out they passed on to someone else. And he finds this out on ''the day he was due to finally perform them''}}.
* This is Lady Vayle's reason for revenge against Artix in ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds (Video Game)|Adventure Quest Worlds]]'' and ''[[Dragon Fable (Video Game)|Dragon Fable]]''. {{spoiler|She had dedicated her entire life in the pursuit of necromancy in order to [[Necromantic|bring her brother back]], but thanks to Noxus being a dick and Artix destroying the crystal that had her brother's spirit orb inside after having to destroy the [[Monster From Beyond the Veil]] that her brother's body had become...yeah.}}
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* In a episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Bart ended up destroying George Bush Sr.'s memoirs.
* All of those times an [[Ancient Egypt|Ancient Egyptian]] is making the final few taps on the nose of the Sphinx, only to have a chase go by and make him make ONE too many taps. Poor nose!
* ''[[Batman: theThe Animated Series]]'', in an episode where Mr Freeze vents his frustration by destroying peoples' life's work.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': "MY CABBAGES!!!"
* [[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'s crashing into a truck loaded with beetroot or something similar ruins a old guys memoirs which were written with red ink
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
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