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6[[caption-width-right:260:There's fearless, and [[FearlessFool then there's reckless]].]]
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8->''"The big downside of the plan to infuriate an emotionally traumatized psychopath into trying to kill me was part two, where the lunatic actually did it."''
9-->-- '''Harry Dresden''', ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': ''Literature/SkinGame''
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13You'd think the opposite of GoneHorriblyWrong would be a ''good'' thing, right?
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15You'd be wrong. Maybe even ''{{dead|lyEuphemism}}'' wrong.
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17Rather than have something [[DidntSeeThatComing unexpected]] happen that sabotages the program, the researchers have everything proceed in an orderly fashion. The results are everything they hoped for — better, in fact. Unfortunately, they've succeeded ''too'' well, and it's this success that dooms them. The result turns out to be too intense, too powerful, or the researchers [[DidntThinkThisThrough didn't fully consider the consequences]] of what they wanted to do. Or, maybe they just made an awesome stealth device... [[UselessUsefulStealth that they can't find because they can't see it]].
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19Sometimes the results are a runaway chain reaction that threatens to destroy the facility/city/region/country/continent/world/''[[ApocalypseHow universe]],'' a weapon that not only annihilates its target but has high (or total) collateral damage, or a PsychoPrototype that [[ZerothLawRebellion obeys orders, only too well]]. Other times, the instigators find out the result was something they shouldn't have attempted in the first place. The PotentialApplications were so exclusively in the evil/destructive side that the project had no possible use ''but'' to destroy.
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21Things that have Gone Horribly Right might not be immediately apparent. The researchers may create and market an entire product line based on their SuperPrototype that only later [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turns on them]], or over-performs its duty like, say, a genetically engineered plant that has a high CO[[subscript:2]] consumption out-competing every other plant on the planet ''and'' causing massive fires to keep feeding. Usually, this is paired with a FantasticAesop that ([[{{Anvilicious}} heavily]]) implies the intended use or goal of the research is to blame.
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23This trope may be [[TropeCodifier most succinctly captured]] in ''Film/JurassicPark'', and directly spelled out in Aesop fashion, with Ian Malcolm's line "Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they ''could'' that they didn't stop to think if they ''should''."
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25A SubTrope of LiteralGenie, putting it in the scientific category as opposed to BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, which is when what the character wanted falls in their lap through coincidence or magic rather than their own planning and hard work. A Supertrope to TheGenieInTheMachine, where the machine does ''exactly'' what you told it to. Since {{Love Potion}}s never work, any one that "works as intended" will usually end up in this category. Often overlaps with DangerousForbiddenTechnique. Compare SpringtimeForHitler, WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong, NiceJobBreakingItHero, HoistByHisOwnPetard, TheBadGuyWins. DidntThinkThisThrough often follows the realization of this trope. May become a GameBreaker. A form of {{invisibility|Cloak}} that the creators now can't find because it's invisible could be considered UselessUsefulStealth. Sometimes goes hand in hand with ALessonLearnedTooWell.
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29!!Example Subpages:
30[[index]]
31* GoneHorriblyRight/AnimeAndManga
32* GoneHorriblyRight/ComicBooks
33* GoneHorriblyRight/FanWorks
34* [[GoneHorriblyRight/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
35* GoneHorriblyRight/{{Literature}}
36* GoneHorriblyRight/LiveActionTV
37* GoneHorriblyRight/TabletopGames
38* GoneHorriblyRight/VideoGames
39* GoneHorriblyRight/{{Webcomics}}
40* GoneHorriblyRight/WesternAnimation
41[[/index]]
42!!Other Examples:
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44[[foldercontrol]]
45
46[[folder:Advertising]]
47* A [[https://youtu.be/4phbv5Xg9is UPS ad]] from the nineties features a ''very'' small company opening for business. The dozen or so employees hover over their brand-new website, then celebrate when the first order comes in...dozens of orders...thousands! Then they [[MassOhCrap stare in dawning horror]] as the number of orders rapidly rises to [[DemandOverload tens and then]] ''[[DemandOverload hundreds]]'' [[DemandOverload of thousands]].
48* Stride chewing gum's first ad campaign was about the company growing increasingly desperate because their gum's flavor lasts so long, all their customers are still chewing on their first piece of gum, forcing them to halt production and find ridiculous ways to force people to spit out their gum and chew more.
49* One very ill-advised campaign for mental health awareness in the early noughties featured a video advert that would play [[ParanoiaFuel quiet whispering sounds]] while you browsed the webpage it was on. Only finding and hovering over the advert would reveal it as the source: an attempt to raise awareness about paranoia.
50* A lost ad for Sprite in 1996 features a little girl drinking a Sprite. She enjoys it, but then [[spoiler:a sugar cube falls out her ear.]]
51* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK11q3Zj4sw An ad for the Dutch insurance company Centraal Beheer]] has a box marked "FRAGILE" being transported to a harbor. After numerous near misses, it's finally loaded into its destination... [[spoiler:the R.M.S. Titanic.]]
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54[[folder:Asian Animation]]
55* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Joys of Seasons'' episode 96, Wolffy is separated from his wife Wolnie when she gets sick with the flu and has to be quarantined. Wolffy, not happy with this prospect, seeks to make himself sick to be with his sweetheart, and finally falls ill after consuming a virus of his own creation. Problem is, by the time he's made it into quarantine, his wife recovered already, and in the end nothing changed.
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58[[folder:Audio Plays]]
59* In ''AudioPlay/TheNewAlbionRadioHour'', the city-state of New Albion is controlled by a brutal authoritarian government. The leader of a voodoo cult[=/=]resistance cell figures out a way to cripple the government's soldiers by transmitting a hypnotic song into their helmets. Unfortunately, once the soldiers are enthralled they start singing along, which infects everyone near them until the entire city is trapped in a trance, leaving only a few people conscious enough to try and fix things.
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62[[folder:Comedy]]
63* Wyatt Cenac says that he gets so irritated with his friends trying to set him up with the only other black person they know, that he decided to say that he's into weird fetishes. Until they said he should meet another person they knew.
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66[[folder:Comic Strips]]
67* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot''
68** In another strip Jason Fox mentioned to Marcus that the last time they went as fast as they did via tobogganing on a hill in the winter, they were thrown off the toboggan when they released the brake chute, so they learned from that mistake by taping themselves with a lot of tape so they ''can't be thrown off'' when they use the brake chute. It worked too well, however, as while they were successful in not falling off, their toboggan was shown flying through the air with them on it due to it being a windy day.
69** [[http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrotclassics/2009/07/27 At one point]], Andy plants 24 zucchini plants in the back yard, with the intention of getting and eating fresh homegrown zucchini. She got zucchini, all right...more than even [[BigEater Peter]] could eat.
70* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'':
71** Calvin didn't want to clean his room, so he made an identical clone of himself and ordered the clone to clean his room. Naturally, the clone didn't want to clean Calvin's room either, so he ran off to cause mischief, knowing the original Calvin would be blamed. Later in the story, the clone gets a hold of the duplicator and starts cloning himself, with [[HilarityEnsues predictable results]].
72--->'''Hobbes''': He's a clone of you, all right.\
73'''Calvin''': What are you talking about?! ''This'' guy's a total jerk!
74** In the second clone storyline, Calvin makes a clone of simply his ''good'' side. The good version of Calvin does indeed do all the chores cheerfully and gets excellent grades -- unfortunately, he also writes poetry and makes Valentine cards for Susie. Again, the original Calvin has to face the consequences.
75** The [[{{Snowlems}} Snow Goons]] story. Calvin built a snowman with the intent to bring it to life. He succeeded... and it immediately [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters tried to kill him]].
76* In several early ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' strips, Orson uses hypnotism on Wade in order to remove his fears. It works all too well, and Wade goes from being a [[LovableCoward lovable coward]] to shortly being a fearless and ''reckless'' JerkAss who [[FearlessFool fears absolutely nothing]].
77** [[https://garfield.com/usacres/1989/01/15 Roy decides to play a prank on Wade]] by dangling a fake spider in front of a napping Wade before waking him up. Wade, scared by the spider, proceeds to scream... only for [[WrittenSoundEffect the scream to travel across the Earth before striking Roy from behind]].
78* In ''ComicStrip/PricklyCity'', the solar-powered drone works right the first time, and targets Winslow.
79* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
80** [[http://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1982/10/31 Wanting to approach birds without being noticed by them]], Garfield glued some feathers on him and put on some swim fins. He ended up being chased by other cats.
81** In the 2014 birthday comic, [[http://gocomics.com/garfield/2014/06/19 Garfield changes the year on the calendar]], thinking he'll get younger on his birthday if he does so. It turns out this also affected Odie and Jon.
82** In [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2020/07/19 this comic]], Garfield tries to lure a seagull with a slice of bread so he can catch it, only to get buried under an entire flock of seagulls.
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85[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
86* Some versions of Creator/{{Aesop}}'s "[[AWolfInSheepsClothing wolf in sheep's clothing]]" tale end with [[IronicDeath the farmer deciding to kill a sheep for food]] [[KarmicDeath and settling on the wolf]].
87[[/folder]]
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89[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
90* ''WesternAnimation/AstroBoy'': The President wants to put the evil red orb inside the war machine to make it more aggressive and violent. Well, it ''worked''...to an extent, absorbing him and causing widespread damage.
91* ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys2022'': [[spoiler:Professor Marmalade]] manipulates the Bad Guys into a HeelFaceTurn with the assumption that VirtueIsWeakness and will make them easier to manipulate, including finding a way to turn their caper skills towards a zeal for good. This ends up biting him in the rump in a big way, as this gives the Bad Guys both the skill and motivation needed [[ALessonLearnedTooWell to band together and foil his evil plot]].
92* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'': The eccentric inventor's food machine really works! Unfortunately, it works so well that it starts churning out superstorms of food big enough to crush landmarks and bury cities, causing an apocalypse on a global scale.
93* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': Miguel's great-great-grandmother believed her husband walked out on them to be a musician, which resulted in her banning music from their family. In the land of the dead, she has refused to hear him out and has ensured he will be forgotten by their family by not putting his picture on their ofrenda. [[spoiler:Then she discovers that he was murdered trying to come home and their daughter, the last living person who remembers him, is losing her memories of him, which means he'll soon be DeaderThanDead.]]
94* In the Sorcerer's Apprentice sequence of ''{{WesternAnimation/Fantasia}}'', Mickey Mouse brings a broomstick to life to carry buckets of water to fill his master's cauldron. However, he doesn't know enough about magic to stop the broom once the job is done and the cauldron overflows. Mickey tries to destroy the broomstick with an axe, but each piece [[HydraProblem turns into a new broomstick with its own buckets]].
95* In ''Animation/FiringRange'', the inventor created an [[TheEmpath empathic tank]] that uses hatred and fear to avoid attacks and attack, respectively, for the purpose of revenge. It succeeds marvelously, [[spoiler:shame he grew afraid of it too...]]
96* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'', Syndrome builds a robot able to [[AwesomenessByAnalysis analyze]] the combat style of its opponents and adapt to defeat whatever tricks they were using to fight it. This works very well for him until [[spoiler:he tries to stage a fight with the robot, which realizes Syndrome was fighting it by use of a remote control...]]
97* In ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'', Agent Dicker succeeds in getting Tony to forget Violet’s secret identity. Unfortunately, he ends up erasing all of Tony's memories of Violet, including their budding relationship. As a result, Tony unwittingly stands Violet up on their movie date, leaving her in a depressive state for a while. When Bob calls Dicker on it, he says that memory wiping isn't an exact science.
98* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart'': At the start of the movie, Lucy admonishes Emmet for his [[ThePollyanna niceness and optimism]], saying he needs to [[TookALevelInBadass grow up and become tough]], just like her, advice he ends up taking to heart. [[spoiler:After she finds out that the Systarians are as [[SheepInSheepsClothing nice as they claim to be]] and actually want to ''stop'' Armamageddon, she tries to talk Emmet out of stopping their plan. Unfortunately, her abandonment of her badass persona and claim that she secretly liked bright and colorful things convinced Emmet she's been brainwashed, as "The real Lucy would never say that". Not to mention her advice had led Emmet to become [[FutureBadass Rex]] [[BigBad Dangervest]], who has all of the cynicism and toughness she wanted but none of the kindness and empathy she loved about Emmet.]]
99* In ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons,'' [[ChildProdigy Lewis,]] feeling low after another family chose not to adopt him, bitterly complains that even his own birth mother didn't want him. [[ParentalSubstitute Mildred,]] the director of the orphanage, tries to convince him that he doesn't know that--she may well have wanted to keep him but couldn't, for some reason. Unfortunately Lewis takes this means that she ''definitely'' did want him, and that his only hope for a happy family is tracking her down.
100* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', [[DiabolicalMastermind Megamind]] creates a dastardly plan to thwart his nemesis [[FlyingBrick Metro Man]] and be rid of him once and for all by firing an orbital laser at him. It succeeds, but Megamind quickly realizes that by killing Metro Man, he's removed the one thing in life that gave him purpose. This happens again when he sets out to create himself a new SuperHero ArchEnemy, giving Metro Man's powers to another character and then, when this less-than-heroic superhero is not so keen to fight, provoking him by insulting him in various ways. While the "creating a hero" part GoesHorriblyWrong, the "creating an enemy" part works all right -- only this time, the invincible guy after Megamind [[EvilerThanThou is not going to settle]] for just putting him in the CardboardPrison.
101* ''WesternAnimation/{{Migration}}'': An example that's PlayedForLaughs at the very end: [[spoiler:Mack actually seeks another adventure by agreeing to help the penguins get back to the South Pole, which means another big trip for the Mallards. Pam even jokingly comments, "I've created a monster!"]]
102* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'': Chef Skinner [[InVinoVeritas gets Linguini drunk to make him divulge everything about Rémy.]] However, it works so well that all he ends up with is a drunk Linguini talking about the dish 'ratatouille' and how it doesn't sound like the name for a delicious dish.
103* During the washing sequence of ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', Dopey is given one strict order by Doc: "Get the soap!" Dopey [[SlipperySoap struggles to keep his grip on a bar of soap]] which leads to him chasing it more aggressively. Dopey's persistence pays off as he successfully captures the soap... but only by accidentally swallowing it, leaving him to hiccup bubbles for the rest of the scene.
104* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanVsTheElite'': The Elite spend most of the movie convincing people that [[ThouShaltNotKill Superman's morals]] are outdated and that [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim killing the bad guys]] is the new, better way of things, mocking Superman's protests. [[spoiler:When Superman [[BewareTheSuperman finally decides to buy what they've been selling]], words cannot begin to describe the horror they've unleashed. Subverted, as in the end it was revealed that it was [[ThePowerOfActing all an act]] meant to successfully convince people that the Elite's methods are flawed.]]
105* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', Woody decides to use R.C. to knock Buzz off the desk so that Andy won't see him and will take Woody to Pizza Planet instead. Well, R.C. knocks Buzz over--and the impact causes a chain reaction between the bulletin board, a ball, crayons, and a swing-arm lamp that throws Buzz out of the ''window'' into the shrubbery below. Not only did Woody not intend to actually hurt Buzz, but the rest of Andy's toys turn against him for what looks a lot like a jealousy-driven murder.
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108[[folder:Jokes]]
109* An old Mexican joke tells us that Pepito used to play pranks on his family. He would go to his relatives and say with an evil smirk, "I know ''[[ParanoiaFuel everything]]''." The relatives would bribe him to keep the secret. It worked perfectly well, until he said it to the milkman, who instead of bribing him, hugged him and yelled: "[[CheatingWithTheMilkman My son]]!"
110* An old MoonLandingHoax joke is that NASA ''did'' fake the moon landing...except they hired Creator/StanleyKubrick to help them do so, and he immediately demanded [[ThePerfectionist that they shoot it on-location.]]
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113[[folder:Music]]
114* Harry Chapin's "Cats in the Cradle":
115-->''And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me''\
116''He'd grown up just like me''\
117''My boy was just like me''
118* Music/{{GWAR}} created Gor Gor the Tyrannosaur to be a killing machine, but he occasionally gnaws on the band members.
119* "Gamma Unchained" by Music/TheMegas has Dr. Wily create Gamma to end the war between humans and robots. He deliberately does ''not'' make Gamma ThreeLawsCompliant to ensure that Gamma will have the necessary freedom to come up with a solution. Gamma decides that the best way to make peace is to KillAllHumans, so there will be no more war between humans and robots.
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122[[folder:Music Videos]]
123* Music/KateBush's song "Experiment IV", which tells the story of a group of scientists contracted into a military experiment to create a sound-based weapon. In the original song the lyrics are somewhat ambiguous in regards to the outcome, but in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTUcoR8_pyE the video]], the scientists are unfortunate enough to succeed in creating the sound-based weapon, which proceeds to kill everyone working in the building (and it might have ''escaped''). To make matters worse, the general who contracted the scientists actually seems ''pleased'' with the results, implying that he may actually attempt to implement it as a regular weapon.
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126[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
127* ''Literature/TheBookOfMormon'': Jared recruits the king's friend, Akish, to assassinate the king and put Jared on the throne. However, Akish doesn't simply do the job himself; he gathers all his friends and family and forms an entire oath-bound secret organisation. The king flees before they can finish him, and Jared gets the throne like he wanted, but Akish is now next in line and has command of a group of people whose job is to kill the reigning monarch...
128* The concept of "felix culpa" or fortunate fall in Christianity makes the temptation in the Garden of Eden this for the Serpent. The fall allowed God to bring good out of evil and set up the eventual birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
129* UsefulNotes/{{Hinduism}} has a couple instances where a HoneyTrap goes a bit too far.
130** When in need of seducing demons, Vishnu takes the form of a beautiful female avatar, Mohini, and never fails to save the day. The problem is that Mohini is so damn gorgeous that when Shiva sees her, he falls in love, causing some amusing hijinks. Thos eventually involve Shiva and Mohini having sex and producing the god Shasta.
131** Tilottama is a beautiful apsara created by Brahma's orders to seduce two unbeatable demons, Sunda and Upsunda, into killing each other. When Tilotamma returns, however, it's the gods' own turn to fall in love with her, so much that Shiva and Indra grow many heads and eyes, respectively, in order not to stop looking at her.
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134[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
135* Gran Apache spent years of his Wrestling/{{AAA}} career trying to wreck the relationship between his daughter Fabi and Billy Boy. Billy Boy did eventually snap, but rather than leave Fabi, Billy Boy became a {{Domestic Abuse}}r.
136* The man asks for a chair. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIuTPKpQjI4 The crowd obliged, catapulting the seating for the first six rows in all directions.]] You never do see the two wrestlers on the mat escape the nigh-instant barrage. It wasn't the only time either, you'd think they'd have known after the first.
137* ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'', Jan 4. 1999: Sure, Wrestling/TonySchiavone, go ahead and spoil to your TV viewers that Wrestling/MickFoley, who wrestled for your company at one point in his career, is going to win [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} your chief competition's]] primary championship title to prevent them from changing the channel. And be sure to end it with "That'll put some butts in the seats!" [[SarcasmMode It's not like they're gonna do just that or anything...]]
138* In 2022, Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} decided to [[FaceHeelTurn stop caring what the fans thought about him]] because [[TheUnfettered it was holding him back]], and [[TheCorrupter encouraged others to do the same]]. This worked great-- until his recruits declared that they just had one last thing to get rid of, namely ''him''.
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141[[folder:Radio]]
142* In one episode of ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry'' Mr. Lamb is being depressed by the utter boredom of his life, and Mildred and Mr. Lennox-Brown decide to make him take dancing lessons so that he will find more joy in his life. He does find dancing very enjoyable, so much that he plans to quit his job in the Ministry and become a professional dancer.
143* RealLife: In 1964 the U.S. Federal Communications Commission adopted the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_Non-Duplication_Rule FM Non-Duplication Rule]], limiting owners of AM stations in large cities to simulcasting only 50% of their content on FM stations they owned. The idea was that, by requiring more original content on FM, a slow market for the technology would noticeably pick up.\
144It did. After 1967, the year the rule went into full effect, a slowly growing FM sector boomed as freeform radio took off, primarily playing a lot of late 1960s rock that had fanbases but never got played on AM Top 40 radio, and by the late 1970s more people were listening to FM than AM. So much so that the FCC repealed the rule in 1986 because ''AM'' stations were struggling.[[note]]They would eventually recover by switching primarily to sports and political talk shows.[[/note]]
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147[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
148* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
149** Ahzek Ahriman casts the Rubric of Ahriman, a powerful spell to permanently save himself and the rest of the Thousand Sons legion from the Flesh Change, the Flesh Change being a horrible genetic condition that causes a bad case of [[BodyHorror rapid and violent mutations]] in those affected. It works a little too well and all the legionaries have been cured... by being turned to dust and therefore have no flesh to change in the first place. Ahriman is now on a quest to find the Black Library, which contains the [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow forbidden knowledge]] there that will allow him to reverse this. Let's just say that Ahriman learned to {{Be Careful What You Wish For}}, especially when his boss is a [[GodofEvil malevolent god of change and trickery]] who probably contributed to the end result for shits and giggles.
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152[[folder:Theatre]]
153* ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'':
154** Given his own company, the Gascon Cadets, disrespects him, De Guiche plans a LastStand for them. [[spoiler: Later in the play, De Guiche at last wins the respect of the Gascon Cadets, but the enemy army is already there… De Guiche will die LonelyAtTheTop, his only real moment of popularity would be among the men he sacrificed.]]
155** Cyrano loves Roxane, but he plans to [[PlayingCyrano help Christian win Roxane’s love]]. [[spoiler:Christian dies and given Roxane will love his memory for years, that dooms Roxane and Cyrano to a loveless and shallow life.]]
156* Theatre/{{Hamlet}} did reach his end goal of killing the king... pity that [[EverybodyDiesEnding almost everybody else he cared about became collateral casualties, and he dies as well]].
157** Depending on the [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation interpretation]] his madness may also be this by the end.
158* Theatre/{{Hamilton}} ''did'' clear his name of embezzlement accusations. The way he went about it - releasing a pamphlet stating that he was not embezzling government funds to James Reynolds, but instead using his own money to pay the man off in exchange for allowing him to sleep with his wife - absolutely cleared his name because he had no reason to implicate himself in something just as bad if he was lying. Unfortunately, it nearly destroyed his marriage and inadvertently [[spoiler:led to his son's death]]. At least he wasn't being accused of perjury anymore, right?
159* Theatre/{{Elisabeth}} of Austria(-Hungary) got her way alright, traveling the world and doing whatever she damn well wanted, unburdened by the rigmaroles of court and a loving (the feeling quickly became non-mutual for her) but ineffectual husband. It, however, came at the cost of/resulted in:
160** [[spoiler:The death of two of her children, Sophie by sickness due to a trip Sisi insisted she go on, Rudolf by suicide due to Sisi choosing non-interference in his issues because she had cut her bonds with the Emperor long ago.]]
161** [[spoiler:Franz Joseph cheating on her and infecting her with a STD. He regretted it, but the damage was done.]]
162** Her turning into a bitter and cold BrokenBird, [[spoiler:only able to find solace in the arms of Death. Creator/TakarazukaRevue's treatment has [[SayMyName Death calling for Sisi]] as Lucheni stabs her, turning it into a [[DeathSeeker suicide]] than a murder.]]
163* In ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', this occurs with both main characters. Sweeney wants revenge for his false imprisonment, but gradually slips into a SerialKiller philosophy thanks to a bout of BlackAndWhiteInsanity. Mrs. Lovett [[AllLoveIsUnrequited loves Sweeney and wants to be with him]], but he's too busy pining for his [[TheLostLenore dead wife Lucy]]. [[spoiler: In the end, the two plots intersect: Sweeney's obsessive bloodlust sees him unknowingly murder Lucy, who wasn't dead after all, just driven insane by her trauma. Mrs. Lovett, who knew the truth but kept it hidden for her own agenda, ''does'' get Sweeney all to herself--at least for the thirty or so seconds between TheReveal and Sweeney [[KillItWithFire burning her alive for lying to him.]]]]
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166[[folder:Web Animation]]
167* ''WebAnimation/MadnessCombat'': [[BigBad The Auditor]] started creating [[GiantMook magnified soldiers]] to combat [[DarkMessiah Jebus]], Hank, Sanford and Deimos. An "agent magnification chamber" was constructed to speed the process up, and for all we know it worked: Mag v4's were seen in action less than five minutes after the incomplete v3 was killed. What the Auditor didn't expect was the possibility that Deimos would use the chamber ''[[EmpoweredBadassNormal on Hank]]''.
168* In ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', Project Freelancer's bad ideas worked much better than their good ones. There's a reason why in the present day its operations consist largely of recovering its agents' armor and enhancements.
169** In order to get enough A.I. to properly test (they were only provided with one), they tortured it until it [[LiteralSplitPersonality fragmented]]. The resulting fragments worked great paired with elite Freelancers... and included two ([[AmbitionIsEvil Sigma]] and [[ThePowerOfHate Omega]]) who were not only disloyal, but ''actively malevolent''.
170** The point of pairing soldiers with A.I. was to create an unstoppable super soldier. They got what they were aiming for in [[ImplacableMan The Meta]] (Originally Maine with the aforementioned Sigma), whose primary goal was ''killing other Freelancers'' and taking their A.I. and enhancements.
171** Top Freelancer agents were encouraged to compete amongst each other, which stoked interpersonal issues that resulted in Freelancer teams falling apart.
172* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': The Apathy are not strong or ferocious, but their mere presence drains the will to live of anyone who's within range. Facing financial ruin, Bartleby's last desperate scheme is to cut the costs of [[HunterOfMonsters Huntsman protection]] by artificially keeping his farmstead community permanently calm to avoid [[EmotionEater Grimm attacks]]. After capturing two Apathy and locking them in the cellar, he is too drained to seal the tunnels until the following day, allowing the rest of the pack to relocate their missing members. By unknowningly sealing the entire pack into the tunnels, Bartleby creates such an apathetic community that, once they retire to bed, they never rise again.
173-->'''Maria:''' Bartleby's plan worked. No-one was angry, or sad, or scared. No-one was anything. And then... no one was left.
174* ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'': Max spends Season 1 trying to break David out of his ThePollyanna nature. In the season finale, he succeeds... and promptly goes into MyGodWhatHaveIDone mode because a broken David is kinda completely terrifying.
175* ''WebAnimation/TheWrathOfGigaBowser'': The description of the video on the original forum thread where it was posted describes the goal of Ganondorf, Mewtwo and Dr. Mario as being to "attempt to create a monster". Needless to say, they succeed... and said monster proceeds to immediately [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turn on them]], before going on a rampage throughout which it kills every single character that crosses its path.
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179* ''Series/CobraKai'' High school student Eli is a ShrinkingViolet who takes up Karate to learn to stop being bullied and give himself confidence. He then grows a mohawk and changes his name to Hawk. Over the course of the series he becomes such a jerk to all of his friends that they abandon him, drinks beer, commits various acts of assault and vandilism, gets tattooed, breaks his former best friend's arm, and almost beats his former bully to death in front of his dojo after his opponent gives up and spits on him after he is defeated just to prove that he cannot be pushed around anymore.
180* In ''Literature/ElfslayerChronicles'', the DM established that in her world, HumansAreBastards and you CantArgueWithElves. This backfired on her when a player annoyed by the elf posturing decided that his character, a human, would ''not'' be an exception to the rule and therefore [[OffTheRails have no reason to play along with the DM's plot of helping the elves]]. Oh, and he would also be a total MagnificentBastard who used the elements the DM introduced to turn the campaign into a XanatosGambit of getting away with sabotaging the party's mission via murdering the guy who they were supposed to escort back home to stop a war.
181* ''Literature/TheFireNeverDies:'' In an effort to stem the flow of American arms to the Entente, Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare. This leads to a reckless U-boat captain sinking a British merchant ship while still in American waters, leading to the United States declaring war on Germany. However, this in turn escalates an ongoing dockworkers' strike into a general strike by the Industrial Workers of the World, and ultimately into a full-blown socialist revolution that seizes control of much of the country, including most of the American industrial base. With the US now embroiled in a SecondAmericanCivilWar, the supply of arms is indeed cut off... but now it looks like the socialists will ''win''.
182* The backstory of the Monster Girl Encyclopedia has an example that managed to go horribly wrong ''and'' horribly right at the same time. A [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubus]] takes the throne of the Demon King with help from a human hero she'd fallen in love with, and uses her powers to give all the monsters succubus aspects so as to turn their hatred towards humanity into lust and affection. The part that went horribly wrong: Monsters can only give birth to other monsters, [[OneGenderRace all of whom are female]], thus dooming the species to a slow extinction. The part that went horribly right: The newfound affection did not come with a ''conscience'', leading to monsters becoming sex-crazed rapists. [[SarcasmMode Good judgment call there, Demon King]].
183* Website/TaerelSetting: The kin'toni project. (Project Bloodmoon), yes, they made their superhuman soldiers, but shame they turned on the Xeara zu'aan empire right?
184* ''Literature/{{Starwalker}} Earth'': The new drive works perfectly. It can [[spoiler: modify the gravity around a star to open a door to another star by going outside the universe. This has two effects: It turns the drive into a time machine and it damages the stars it flies through.]]
185* In ''Literature/PayMeBug'', [[TheCaptain Grif Vindh]] wound up with the score of a lifetime, through more than a little blind luck. Of course, blind luck doesn't do much for one's reputation, so he spun a yarn involving him breaking into Ur Voys ([[TheEmpire The Empire of the Radiant Throne]]'s most secure facility) single-handedly, stealing the contraband, and smuggling it out right under the noses of The Radiant Throne's [[{{Telepathy}} Swords]]. Unfortunately for him, a certain black-ops division of [[TheFederation The Alliance of Free Worlds]]' military hears the story. They also want to steal something from Ur Voys, and they're not above blackmailing someone of Vindh's "skill" to get it for them.
186-->'''Grif Vindh:''' If I'd known the Alliance was going to get wind of this, I'd have thought of a much less self-aggrandizing lie.
187* Several man-made [=SCPs=] collected by the Website/SCPFoundation have this as their origin story. Mostly those made by The Factory, Dr. Wondertainment or Prometheus Labs (though the former two are so enigmatic that it's hard to tell ''what'' they were trying to accomplish).
188* One hypothetical situation on ''Atomic Rockets'' had a computer virus intended to sabotage missile anti-countermeasure computers by allowing them to [[GrowBeyondTheirProgramming "endlessly self-modify their programming"]] results in the missiles [[InstantAIJustAddWater gaining sentience]] and [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters declare themselves a sovereign nation]]. [[spoiler:And they all lived happily ever after-the newly sapient weapons force a cease fire agreement between the warring factions and go on to become galaxy-wide diplomats.]]
189* On the now-defunct [[http://www.grudge-match.com/current.html WWWF Grudge Match]] website (devoted to UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny fights), every so often, particularly when both combatants were very much TheScrappy, fans would clamor for the "All Killed And Mutilated" button to be incorporated. The people running the match were generally loathed to do so... but they finally caved when the match was a to-the-death match between [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Scrappy-Doo]] and [[Franchise/StarWars Jar-Jar Binks]], refereed by Carrot Top. The staff commentators even warned against voting for "All Killed And Mutilated." Not surprisingly, many people ignored it... and it turned out that picking to kill both Scrappy and Jar-Jar resulted in [[DarkHorseVictory Carrot Top winning]]. As noted in the comments for the match, this caught many people by anguished surprise. This was likely [[BatmanGambit all planned by the site runners]], as the next match was a Tournament of Champions, seeing which of the year's previous winners would then kill Carrot Top.
190* The story for artist Keith Thompson's [[https://www.deviantart.com/keithwormwood/art/The-Warden-13801851 "The Warden"]] sees this happen with the ChangelingTale. The Warden was a young faerie left in the crib when the Fey Folk stole a human child. However, his human parents proved to be ''impossibly'' patient and loving, and he came to love them in return. Once he reached adulthood, he stayed with them until they passed away, and then set out to make the Fey Folk feel every bit of the sorrow they had ever inflicted on humanity.
191* ''Roleplay/RollToDodge'' has this baked into the system. If you roll a 6 on your action for the turn (referred to as Overshot), then it "succeeds", but with disastrous consequences due to an overly large effort.
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195* During ''WebVideo/{{Cornerstone}}'', Smiffy of LetsPlay/HatFilms attempts to troll LetsPlay/{{Sjin}}, LetsPlay/{{Rythian}} and LetsPlay/HannahRutherford by posing as a Creeper. They panic and then kill him.
196* In one of the ''WebVideo/SMBCTheater'' skits, a woman designs a Lie Detector, a [[BadNewsInAGoodWay Reframing Detector]], and a [[ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject Change The Subject Detector]] because she is tired of first date bullshit. However, it works so well that by the end of it, it's revealed that her date is an unemployed, horny homeless guy living under his friend's van, and she made these in order to humiliate a man after her last boyfriend dumped her, and that she doesn't believe she could do better than the guy she's currently on a date with.
197* In ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'', [[spoiler:Linkara's gun]] is [[PoweredByAForsakenChild powered by a soul of a little girl]], who was tortured and killed in order to make the ultimate weapon for a cult. Needless to say, the gun killed the cultists, proving that they had, in fact, made the ultimate weapon.
198* ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'':
199** Overlaps with BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor. AffablyEvil [[WellIntentionedExtremist Dr. Horrible]] dreams of joining the Evil League of Evil. To get in, he has to commit murder ([[ThouShaltNotKill which he doesn't like doing]]). He ends up compromising by planning to attack his downright evil hero nemesis, Captain Hammer, and kill him to get into the ELE. He gets into the Evil League of Evil, alright, [[spoiler: when his plan goes pear-shaped and Hammer tries to kill Horrible with his own gun. The gun explodes and shrapnel kills the girl Dr. Horrible loved. Her death counts as the necessary murder to get in.]]
200** In a prequel comic, Horrible tries to beat Hammer by making a SuperSerum using Hammer's DNA to give him the superhero's strength. It works... but it also reduces his intelligence to Hammer's level, resulting in Horrible and Hammer engaging in an unending slugfest until Horrible grabs the IdiotBall again and restores his intelligence by using the antidote... while also leaving him the same weakling as before, allowing Hammer to pummel him.
201* LetsPlay/SimonLane, while playing a modded game of ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', once decided to spawn in numerous nagas with the intention of trolling LetsPlay/DuncanJones and LetsPlay/KimRichards. They did their job too well, killing him numerous times and utterly destroying parts of the server.
202* At the end of the first season of ''WebVideo/TheGuild'' Codex decides to help Zaboo stand up to his overbearing mother. Up to this point she's been trying to get rid of him for being a bit of a stalker. After his mother is "defeated" the team walks away smiling at their victory only for Zaboo to remark he's now free to spend his time with Codex. The final words of the season are Codex's realization and a loud "Oh, shi..."
203* The one-time enemies of WebVideo/TeamAvolition, Rice Think, implemented a system on their ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' server that detected changes to individual blocks, theoretically alerting admins to abuse and griefing. In practice, all this meant was that Team Avo ''had to wipe the structures off the face of the earth''.
204* ''WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun'' sees this happen twice with the ''Workplace'' two-parter. In the first part, the crew has to pass themselves off as professional consultants hired by Ian to bring a "new paradigm to beige" to stop him from getting in trouble. On succeeding, they realize the only fake part of this arrangement was their own lack of qualifications, and they're now expected to do it. In the second, Paul succeeds in creating "vantabeige," the purest form of beige possible and theoretical ultimate goal of Ian's company -- which now no longer has a reason to exist, promptly cancels Taupecon and fires Ian, and is bought by Lockheed-Martin because [[JustThinkofThePotential they want to explore vantabeige's hypnotic effects]].
205* Seen in the ''WebVideo/ScottTheWoz'' episode "Game Stores"; when working at the game store "Games on a Shelf", Scott is told by the manager to lose subtleties and manners and just push the store membership. When the next customer walks towards the register, Scott greets them with this:
206-->'''Scott:''' (cheerily) Join our membership, f*ckhead!
207* In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPwvq_IrVMY Don't Panic]]" by ''WebVideo/DoorMonster'', the commander realizes that his crew actually [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy shoot better when they're blindly flailing around in a panic than when they stay calm and aim]], and tries to get them to panic. He immediately realizes that this was an ''awful'' idea, because now they're nearly hitting him most of the time.
208* Claire Luvcat from ''WebVideo/CreamHeroes'' trains one of her cats Nana to ring a bell after teaching her to shake and high-five. Cue Nana ringing the bell constantly to get extra love and attention from Claire, and even trying to get the other cats to do it.
209* ''WebVideo/JetLagTheGame'': At the end of Day 2 of ''Crime Spree'', Sam & JT decide to stay at the Boston Airport Hotel, but then realize that it would be too obvious, so they exploit a rule that allows them to turn off their tracker 30 minutes before arriving at any hotels they stay at. They drive away from the Boston Airport Hotel, turn off the tracker, and then do a U-turn, all to make it look like they are going somewhere else. Adam & Ben are fooled by this, and they realize that they have no way of finding Sam & JT at this point, so they decide to turn in for the night... at the Boston Airport Hotel.
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