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** Also his namesake, Hillaire Belloc's Lord Finchley, who "tried to mend/the electric light himself," with fatal results.
* Neil from ''[[The Young Ones]]''. He even laments that technology is rebelling against him.
* Captain Kirk was never this in ''[[Star Trek]]'', but he is often [[Flanderized]] into it in humor based on the series, due to the fact that he destroyed several [[AI Is a Crapshoot]] [[Master Computer|all-controlling computers]] in different episodes. As writer David Gerrold commented in a book about ''Star Trek'', "How IBM must hate that man!"
* Spencer from ''[[iCarly]]'' has had this joke used on him in a number of episodes in which many things - even things that don't have an ignition source or don't even use electricity (one example being a drum set) - spontaneously combust. At one point, after putting out a fire with a liquid, ''the liquid caught on fire''. [[Lampshade Hanging|He was unaware as to how, exactly, that could occur]].
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