Misapplied Phlebotinum: Difference between revisions

== [[Web Original]] ==

* The eponymous object in ''[[Erikas New Perfume|Erika's New Perfume]]'' never really does more but take up space in Erika's bedroom after Sarah uses it, despite having at least two of its three demonstrated functions with a definite audience for them and having even more [[All There in the Manual]]. This might partially be because the characters themselves don't ''have'' the manual, though.

* Phase is single-handedly wrecking this trope in the [[Whateley Universe]]. Only a freshman at [[Super-Hero School|Whateley Academy]], he's already going around getting inventors to sign up with his financial service and marketing their inventions to fix this problem. Bugs had a weird gadget that faked painting on stuff: Phase saw how to turn it into the best toy ever. Jericho had some stuff that Phase is trying to patent and turn into the best medikit in the world. Loophole had a gadget that helped her get awesome performance out of her self-built car: Phase wants to market it as a way of cranking up automotive fuel efficiency world-wide.

* ''[[Sailor Nothing]]'' author Stephan Gagne's ''[http://www.pixelscapes.com/unrealestate/ Unreal Estate]'' is set [[In a World]] where technology that allows pocket universes to be created to order is ubiquitous. It's mostly used to create a few [[Planet of Hats|Worlds of Hats]]—the most unusual world is the [[First-Person Shooter]] world that automatically respawns "players" after lethal wounds. {{spoiler|The [[Big Bad]] reveals that he has a Vision about using the technology to its full potential, and [[You Can't Make an Omelette]]...}}