* Referenced in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', but [[AvertedTrope averted]] by [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-02-18 discussing the plan]] ''before'' trying it, allowing someone else to point out the flaw ahead of time.
-->'''Female Immortal:''' I hate being invisible and intangible; it feels like cheating.
-->'''Male Immortal:''' We can't exactly claim to be "everyday students" and expect to pass unnoticed in Elliot's house.
-->'''Female Immortal:''' We could pretend to be burglars! That would make sense, right?
-->'''Male Immortal:''' ... I don't think you've thought this through...
** Abraham. Almost ''everything'' he ever did and we know about, starting from an enchantment GoneHorriblyWrong for which he became infamous.
*** To be more specific, he (among other things) swore to destroy every creature created by his botched enchantment, the Dewitchery Diamond, on the assumption that the Diamond would be used against curses, thus creating monsters. He hadn't accounted for the Diamond being used to rid people of relatively harmless conditions [[spoiler: such as Elliot's use of it to cure his GenderBender problem by creating Ellen, an (mostly) innocent OppositeSexClone]].
*** At one point, he claims he did everything he could to destroy the diamond, which failed. Within ten seconds, someone is able to think of something he didn't: ''Chuck it into a volcano''. Maybe it wouldn't work, but c'mon, it didn't even occur to him?
*** [[FridgeLogic Even if that didn't destroy it, nobody's going to be able to use it.]]

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*  ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''
** Referenced, but [[AvertedTrope averted]] by [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-02-18 discussing the plan]] ''before'' trying it, allowing someone else to point out the flaw ahead of time.
-->'''Female Immortal:''' I hate being invisible and intangible; it feels like cheating.\\
'''Male Immortal:''' We can't exactly claim to be "everyday students" and expect to pass unnoticed in Elliot's house.\\
'''Female Immortal:''' We could pretend to be burglars! That would make sense, right?\\
'''Male Immortal:''' ... I don't think you've thought this through...
** Abraham. Almost ''everything'' he ever did and we know about, starting from an enchantment GoneHorriblyWrong for which he became infamous.  He (among other things) swore to destroy every creature created by his botched enchantment, the Dewitchery Diamond, on the assumption that the Diamond would be used against curses, thus creating monsters. He hadn't accounted for the Diamond being used to rid people of relatively harmless conditions [[spoiler: such as Elliot's use of it to cure his GenderBender problem by creating Ellen, an (mostly) innocent OppositeSexClone]].  At one point, he claims he did everything he could to destroy the diamond, which failed. Within ten seconds, someone is able to think of something he didn't: ''Chuck it into a volcano''. Maybe it wouldn't work, but c'mon, it didn't even occur to him?  Even if that didn't destroy it, nobody's going to be able to use it for a good long while.

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