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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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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'':
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' has a rare example for the villain, though it's slightly subverted. Voldemort is unaware that {{spoiler|Harry is his final Horcrux.}} As a result, he gave himself a way to win even after the other sources of his power were destroyed. Subverted because Harry still kicks his ass.▼
** It happens all the time in the series. Harry even [[
{{quote|"We plan, we get there, all hell breaks loose."}}
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** Dumbledore's various plans for Harry, {{spoiler|the Horcruxes}}, and {{spoiler|the Hallows}} were all met with some kind of adversity, but managed to work out in the end. Dumbledore apparently had even more elaborate plans prior to {{spoiler|putting on the cursed ring}}, since he stated that this made things "much more straightforward".
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', Gandalf and Aragorn's [[Batman Gambit]] pays off in getting the One Ring to Mount Doom, but the One Ring itself [[Spanner in the Works|spans]] their plans by finally corrupting Frodo at the last crucial moment. Fortunately, Gollum shows up to take the ring for himself before accidentally falling into the volcano and destroying it.
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