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{{quote|''"When you've been a wizard as long as I have, my boy, you'll learn that as soon as you find anything that offers amazing possibilities for the improvement of the human condition it's best to put the lid back on and pretend it never happened."''
|'''The Senior Wrangler'''
Also called simply "[[Potential Applications]]".
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* Think of the Military Potential!
* Think of the Lives We Could Improve!
* Think of the Money We Could Make!<ref>Despite this being on the list, this trope should not be confused with [[Think of the Advertisers!]] Well, not usually.</ref>
Potential Applications is a trope often used to justify the existence of a dangerous situation and/or provide motivation for a disinterested antagonist, such as a corporation.
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* In ''[[Spider-Man: Noir]]'', Dr. Otto Octavius conducts inhumane experiments on apes. Robbie Robertson is disgusted by what he sees in Octavius' lab, but Peter tells him the possibilities for humanity are endless. Robbie is adamant that Octavius' work is "the ''opposite'' of humanity."
== [[Literature]] ==
* In the novel ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', John Hammond is convinced the technology to clone dinosaurs is a gold mine. In the movie, he just wants to make children happy. In both versions, both of the above mentioned likely plot developments come into play: The park is stocked with dinosaurs that are incredibly dangerous, and a corporate spy lets the dinosaurs loose as part of a plan to steal the technology that made them.
* Spoofed in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
** There's also Leonard of Quirm, who compulsively sketches the blueprints for lethal weaponry alongside his more artistic works, complete with lists of needed materials and assembly instructions. Naturally, he's sure no one would ever actually use them against ''people'', although some might be helpful against wild animals or for moving mountains out of the way.
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', Boromir thinks the One Ring has the potential to destroy the [[Big Bad]]. It does, in the hands of a sufficiently powerful and strong-willed person, just with the [[Pyrrhic Victory|minor side effect]] of the person [[Artifact of Doom|becoming just as evil and dangerous as Sauron]] in the process.
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