Disastrous Demonstration: Difference between revisions

 

A subtrope of [[Gone Horribly Wrong]].

 

* In the original ''Amazing Spider-Man'', Dr. Octavius has problems during his new invention's demonstration, which sets him on the path to become supervillain Doctor Octopus. The movie ''Spider-Man 2'' carried over this element of his origin-story.

 

* In ''[[Rise of the Planet of the Apes]]'', Bright Eyes escapes and rampages through the biotech company's facility, until she's shot right in front of its board of directors. The serum that'd made her intelligent is immediately shelved, even though her escape was a result of handlers' errors and her own [[Mama Bear]] nature, not the serum.

* In ''[[RoboCop]]'', the demonstration of a glitching ED-209 results in one of the company's lesser executives becoming [[Ludicrous Gibs]]. The ED design is sent back to the drawing board in favor of Robocop.

* In ''Deal Of The Century'', when a UAV is launched at a military aircraft demonstration, it malfunctions and destroys the expo. The design is justifiably scrapped when these technical difficulties are found to have resulted from the drone not being water-resistant.

 

* One episode of ''[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids]]'''s TV spinoff featured an alternative-energy car (powered primarily by burping) that Szelinksi felt might revolutionize the industry ... however a traveler from the future warned them that something had gone wrong during its planned production, resulting in a Bad Future, and they had to find a way to stop it. It was ultimately the foul-smelling exhaust that turned investors off.

* In a blackout sketch on ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'' he plays a TV pitchman selling a new cleaning product; he tosses some liquid (juice?) on the wall and a man in a labcoat uses the product to clean up - except the product doesn't clean off the stain, it cleans the wall's decorative paint off while leaving the stain.

* [[Paula Abdul]]'s video for [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7aShcmEksw "Cold Hearted"]; maybe not a "disaster", but clearly [[Hotter and Sexier|not what the guys holding the audition were expecting.]]

 

* ''[[Antihero for Hire]]'' chapter "Iron Fists", where it went badly for Ichabod Bernt. His show itself had a good chance to sell, but the whole plan was far too greedy to be safe.

{{quote|'''General Lumberdon''': That's [[Made of Explodium|more fireworks than the Fourth of July during a nuclear war]]. To think I was going to pay you to build [[Humongous Mecha|those piles of muskrat droppings]].}}

 

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