History Main / LethalKlutz

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': Dr. Gerald, in specific relation to vehicles. [[spoiler:ANY vehicle. They put him in a pair of roller skates and sent him into the base of a rival HQ. Said base is now a smoking crater.]]

** You can accidentally cast FATAL, which destroys the world, by just fumbling.

* Most characters from ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'', but resident [[TheDitz ditz]] Lumpy takes the cake. Pictured above is a scene from the TV episode "Home is Where the Hurt is", where after reforming Giggles' house with other characters, Lumpy opens a split door he made and accidentally [[OffWithHisHead crushes The Mole's head]].

* In ''TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}'', rolling a CriticalFailure while attempting {{Slapstick}} can result in damage to bystanders.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' gives us Caboose, who has a history of team-killing people he tries to help. So much so that, not only does the Blue Team tell Caboose to help someone they want to be shot, Command has their own keyboard shortcut for his [=TKs=] (Control+F+U).

* [[Film/ThePinkPanther Inspector Jacques Clouseau.]] All assassins who set out to kill him end up dying themselves, usually with Clouseau blissfully unaware of their presence. Whether it's by clumsiness, dumb luck, or accidental DeadlyDodging, [[TheFool Clouseau always makes it out unscathed.]] In ''Film/AShotInTheDark'', at one point Chief Dreyfus remarks "give me a dozen men like Clouseau and I could destroy the world!". It is ''far'' from being a BadassBoast. He later escalates in ''Film/RevengeOfThePinkPanther'' by calling Clouseau more destructive than the literal DoomsdayDevice Dreyfus is standing right next to at that very moment ("this… is a ''water pistol''!)

* [[Film/ThePinkPanther Inspector Jacques Clouseau.]] All assassins who set out to kill him end up dying themselves, usually with Clouseau blissfully unaware of their presence. Whether it's by clumsiness, dumb luck, or accidental DeadlyDodging, [[TheFool Clouseau always makes it out unscathed.]] In ''Film/AShotInTheDark'', at one point Chief Dreyfus remarks "give me a dozen men like Clouseau and I could destroy the world!". It is ''far'' from being a BadassBoast.

This trope is TheKlutz taken [[UpToEleven to its logical]] - and much darker - [[UpToEleven conclusion]], so it could be called a DeconstructedCharacterArchetype. But unlike most, it's PlayedForLaughs [[BlackComedy far more often]] than for drama. It's very close to LethallyStupid, though in that case, the problems are caused by the character's general idiocy, and not always specifically by his clumsiness.

* Most characters from ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'', but resident [[TheDitz ditz]] Lumpy takes it UpToEleven. Pictured above is a scene from the TV episode "Home is Where the Hurt is", where after reforming Giggles' house with other characters, Lumpy opens a split door he made and accidentally [[OffWithHisHead crushes The Mole's head]].

* Kel Kimble from ''Series/KenanAndKel'' is immensely clumsy and causes problems for those around him (mainly [[ButtMonkey Roger and Chris]]). He once [[EpicFail destroyed Chris' house while trying to take care of it]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In a flashback, the last time Butters tap danced in "The Tap Tragedy", he accidentally killed eight people (Well, technically 11 if you count one woman who was pregnant and two others who committed suicide afterwards). Stan convinces him to perform again for the South Park Diggities in "[[Recap/SouthParkS8E4YouGotFdInTheA You Got F'd In the A]]", and he ends up killing the opposing dance team.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/TrueLies'', during a scene where Helen accidentally kills a group of terrorists while trying to fire an uzi, to save her husband, Harry. The recoil causes her to lose control and fumble the weapon, sending it tumbling down the stairs in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBIrQV9PxHg slow-motion montage sequence where it continues to fire]], taking out several {{mooks}}.

* Most characters on ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'', but resident [[TheDitz ditz]] Lumpy takes it UpToEleven.

* On ''Holmes and Yoyo,'' this was the key reason Alexander Holmes, who fit this trope to a T (ask any of his partners), assigned him a humanoid partner in Gregory Yoyonovich. "Yoyo," as he liked being called, was no less of a klutz, either.

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See MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds for the extreme version of this trope. Compare TheJinx who doesn't directly cause mayhem, but somehow manages to induce bad luck in those around him. Also compare WalkingTechbane when a character is unintentionally destructive to technology. IJustShotMarvinInTheFace is a SubTrope. SpannerInTheWorks, DoomMagnet, and WalkingDisasterArea are {{Sister Trope}}s. For laughs, may turn out to be GracefulInTheirElement.

* Chneero from ''VideoGame/ZenoClash'' is a Corwid bard who's singular focus in life is playing music and dancing. Not only is his music so atrocious that only other Corwids can appreciate it ([[MagicMusic to the point that it buffs and heals them]],) his dancing is so bad that if you get too close he'll accidentally slam into you ForMassiveDamage.

* Chneero from '"VideoGame/ZenoClash'' is a Corwid bard who's singular focus in life is playing music and dancing. Not only is his music so atrocious that only other Corwids can appreciate it ([[MagicMusic to the point that it buffs and heals them]],) his dancing is so bad that if you get too close he'll accidentally slam into you ForMassiveDamage.

* Colette from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' plays around with this. She's not only a destructive klutz (leaving a [[ImpactSilhouette Colette-shaped hole]] whenever she trips into a wall) and a lucky klutz (she'll sometimes trip and fall against something that's exactly the thing that needed to be activated for the party to progress,) but in battle her klutziness can be weaponized with the Item Thief tech, which Colette to trip and fall into her opponent, causing damage and giving Colette a chance to steal a random item.

* [[Film/ThePinkPanther Inspector Jacques Clouseau.]] All assassins who set out to kill him end up dying themselves, usually with Clouseau blissfully unaware of their presence. Whether it's by clumsiness, dumb luck, or accidental DeadlyDodging, [[TheFool Clouseau always makes it out unscathed.]]

--> '''Nozumu''': [[HypocriticalHumor "What if I had died!?"]]

* The titular character in ''Series/GilligansIsland''. He's a well-meaning, but destructively clumsy fellow, which is the reason the majority of the castaways' attempts to get rescued fail.