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Inverse of [[Spanner in the Works]], where someone or something causes what would have been a perfect plan to not accomplish its goal.
Compare with [[Despite the Plan]], where it's the characters' own actions instead of an outside factor that puts things back on track.
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== [[Anime]]
* ''[[Dragonball Z]]'': Doctor Gero created several androids to kill Goku. Unfortunately for him, either they were too weak to kill him or they performed a [[Heel Face Turn]]. However, the apparation of Cell, Gero's supreme creation, who wasn't involved in the plan to kill Goku at all, managed to complete Gero's objective [[Action Bomb|by self-exploding]], [[Taking You with Me|killing Goku in the process]].
* In the last episode of ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'', after Panty and Stocking beat the [[Big Bad]], Garterbelt comments that things went "approximately as planned", reflecting on the fact that {{spoiler|he temporarily died during the battle}} and that the [[Big Bad]] managed to go [[One-Winged Angel]]. This follows up on two "just as planned" comments and one "not as planned" comment earlier in the episode.
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