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== Comic Book ==
* [[Hellboy (comics)|Hellboy]] is a victim of this trope. He's had guns jam and blow up on him, and once had a jetpack blow its engines, causing him to drop hundreds of feet in freefall into a vampire castle. Lucky for him he's more or less indestructible.
* Black Canary despises computers, and the feeling is mutual. In the first issue splash panel of ''[[Birds of Prey]]'' she is seen looking terrified and screaming "No! NO! Take it away! It's too horrible". Turn the page to learn that Oracle has just bought her a computer.
* Kitty Pryde of the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] has this as a side effect of her intangibility powers: Phasing through any sort of electronic device will cause it to instantly short circuit. (Unusually for this trope, she is a skilled programmer as long as she stays tangible.)
* [[Superman|Clark Kent]] has to write his news articles on a typewriter because his powers sometimes cause computers to malfunction.
== Film ==
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* Cole McGrath, the hero in ''[[Infamous (video game series)|In Famous]]'', becomes a walking techbane at the beginning of the game. His [[Shock and Awe|electrical powers]] work well enough around electrical devices ([[Mundane Utility|enough to recharge batteries if need be]]), but devices with certain chemical components get very unstable around him: he can't sit in a car without it breaking down, and one attempt to handle a gun results in it exploding. And [[No Hugging, No Kissing|let's not get started on his girlfriend...]]
* Cyan/Cayenne from ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' is terrified of (though fascinated by) machinery, though the first time you meet him he jumps into a suit of Magitek armor and (eventually) pilots it without too much problem; at one point has a great deal of difficulty ''stepping on a simple pressure switch''.
* Major Zero in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'' was heavily implied to be this. He usually needs to read Sigint's notes word for word when explaining what some of his technologies do, and Sigint also was about to tell a story about Major Zero and a Brand New Washing Machine before he was cut off, which resulted in a [[Noodle Incident]], although it could be assumed that the story was going to be about Zero unintentionally wrecking the washing machine somehow.
== Webcomics ==
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* [[Eddie Izzard]] describes the results thus: "[[Failed a Spot Check|I've wiped the file?]] ...[[Up to Eleven|I've wiped all the files?]] ....[[Epic Fail|I've wiped the ''Internet''?]] Aww, no! [[Beyond the Impossible|I don't even have a modem!]]"
** "I don't have that ''[techno-fear]''. I have techno-''joy'': I love machines. ... And the first thing you do when you have techno-joy is you get the instructions and ''THROW them out the window!!''"
* Comes up fairly often on [[(The Customer is) Not Always Right]].
* The Usenet newsgroup alt.sysadmin.recovery had tales of [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sysadmin.recovery/browse_thread/thread/729e94c6bf3082d4/8e142051db9a011b?hl=en&q=telecom+destruction+bunny#8e142051db9a011b The Telecom Destruction Bunny].
{{quote|"''Unfortunately, our Bright Young PFY will no longer be assisting with expeditions downtown, as he has been dubbed the Telecom Destruction Bunny and banned from taking his aura anywhere near anything major.''" - Anthony DeBoer}}
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