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* ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'': Aperture Science, the company behind the insanity at the heart of the plot, is almost entirely built on this trope.
** Originally contracted to create shower curtains for the Army, Aperture patented their [[Teleporters and Transporters|portal gun]] technology as a "man-sized ad-hoc quantum tunnel through physical space ''with possible applications as a shower curtain''." This is a device that breaks the laws of thermodynamics, implicitly allows [[Faster-Than-Light Travel]], and would revolutionize the world, and it gets used to run hapless test subjects through mazes like lab rats.
** GLaDOS, a fully sentient AI, was originally designed as a ''fuel line de-icer''. She was also designed in apparent ignorance of the [["Three Laws
* ''[[Portal 2]]'' reveals that most of Aperture Science's products fall into this trope:
** Aerial Faith Plates - Compact and quite powerful catapults capable of launching adult humans dozens of feet into the air. Marketed as truck cargo loading devices, despite being WAY too powerful for that causing the cargo to be damaged and/or bounced right back out of the truck. Also used for launching humans into space, apparently without any protective suits.
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