[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
->''"What are you so afraid of, Cell? Isn't this what you wanted? {{I warned you}}! I told you what would happen if you pushed me too far! But you didn't listen. You ''forced'' me to awaken my hidden power, and now that you've seen it, you're afraid, because you know that I'm going to ''destroy'' you."''
-->--'''Gohan''', ''Anime/DragonBallZ''

->''"We dreamed of creating the world’s strongest Franchise/{{Pokemon}}... and we succeeded."''
-->--'''Dr. Fuji''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iWgonJ85jY moments before Mewtwo blows up the lab and kills the scientists who created it,]] ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Comic Strips]]
->'''Hobbes:''' Your duplicator is a big success.\\
'''Calvin:''' [[OhCrap Oh no!]]\\
'''[[MesACrowd Calvin Clone]]:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Are you kidding? It burned out after the fifth one of us!]]
-->-- ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fan Works]]
->''"A lesson for all you budding {{mad scientist}}s out there. It's an old lesson, but one that bears repeating. When you set out to build an unstoppable killing machine, please, ladies and gentlemen, make certain you really really want an unstoppable killing machine first."''
-->--'''Artie''', ''A Brief Moment of Culture: Jeffrey Wells's Very Long Webcomic/{{Narbonic}} Fanfic''

->''"When other unicorns' spells go wrong they fail horribly. But noooo, for me they go wrong by working even better than I ever needed... or wanted."''
-->--'''Twilight Sparkle''', ''Fanfic/{{Composure}}''

->'''Yami:''' Ugh! The Seal of Orichalcos?! Why would you give this to me?!\\
'''Raphael:''' The only way to prove how evil you are, is to force you to play a card that makes you be evil.\\
''[after the Pharoah uses the Seal]''\\
'''Raphael:''' Now do you see how right I was about being evil?\\
'''Yami:''' Yes, Raphael. I see ''exactly'' what you mean. And now that I know how evil I can be, I am going to destroy you and everything you hold dear, and bathe in the afterglow of your demise. [[EvilLaugh HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!]]\\
'''Raphael:''' Well, well... good. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck I'm glad this worked out. Yay.]]
-->--''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''

->''"[=ReGenesis=] was an effort by certain individuals to create a super-soldier," he explained, "It was made with a combination of Reaper technology and magic. The project was headed by Professor Membrane and funded by the Globex Corporation, who expected a being that could tear dimensions asunder, destroy continents in the blink of an eye, and essentially achieved[sic] godlike power."\\
\\
His look darkened.\\
\\
"They succeeded," he snarled, "And now they're all dead."''
-->--''Fanfic/HalloweenUnspectacular 1'', "Conclusion"

->''"It worked!... Too well."''
-->--'''Makoto Fujiwara''' after his new “Armor Break” technique destroys his opponent’s clothes along with her armor, ''Fanfic/MarriageOfHeavenAndHell''

->'''Sophia''': "Emma, it worked!"\\
'''Emma''': "...what worked?"\\
'''Sophia''': "[[BarbaricBully You know! It must have been, uh, that locker thing I guess, the timing's about right]], it could have been something after that, but it worked! She is a fighter, and it's absolutely kick ass!"\\
Emma stared.\\
'''Sophia''': "Look, uh, it was late last night. Armsmaster brought in a new cape who'd just joined after one hell of a debut, said she'd agreed to join the Wards and they were going through the paperwork. [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu She fucked up Lung!]]"\\
[[OhCrap Emma was getting a sinking feeling]].\\
'''Sophia''': "And she said she was going to unmask to us straight off, because her powers were terrifying so she wanted to make sure they didn't think she was a psychopath or something, I guess if they don't like my powers and theme and they keep getting on my case, it might be a problem for some people or something, but – fuck me if it isn't Taylor! And her power is so badass! [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower She can control insects, and spiders, and stuff like that. All of them inside this, uh, huge range, it's at least a few blocks, and there's way more of those than I'd ever thought so it's even better than it sounds. She could fucking swarm the school in bugs – wasps, spiders, whatever – they might call her something like Weaver because of PR bullshit but she could be a goddamn apocalypse for the gangs – she fucked up Lung solo on her first night out]]. So it worked! It's brilliant!"\\
Emma was mostly screaming internally.
-->-- ''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/saphroneths-smaller-snippets.947731/page-132#post-96466493 Shadow Stalker's Sincerity]]''

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
->'''Monty Uno:''' Come on, Ben, five kids with that kind of tactical genius and strategy? Had to be ex-Kids Next Door that you [[BrainwashedAndCrazy delightfulized]] until something [[GoneHorriblyWrong went terribly wrong]].\\
'''Benedict Uno:''' You mean something went terribly RIGHT! My first Delightfulization Chamber blew a fuse, increasing its power eleventy-billionfold! I lost the machine, but gained five [[CreepyChild perfect delightful children]]!
-->--''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor: WesternAnimation/OperationZero''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
->''"We increased the sharks' brain mass, and as a side effect, the sharks got smarter."''
-->--''Film/DeepBlueSea''

->''"''Everyone'' forgot [about me]! That's why they weren't afraid anymore! That's why I needed Jason to kill for me, to get them to remember! But now he just won't ''stop!''"''
-->--'''Freddy Krueger''', ''Film/FreddyVsJason''

->'''[[ComicBook/RedHulk Thunderbolt Ross]]:''' You must realize that what I'm about to tell you is very sensitive, both to me and to the Army. You know that we have a Bio-Force Department, and that we had a bio-force enhancement research project developed during World War II...\\
'''Emil Blonsky:''' A SuperSoldier.\\
'''Ross:''' A simplification, but yes. We decided to dust it off, and give it another go, aiming to create the better soldier. Banner's work was very early-phase. It wasn't even weapons application, he thought he was working on radiation resistance. I would never have told him what it was really for, but he was so sure about what he was doing he tested it on himself. And something went very wrong... or it went very right.
-->--''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008''

->''"At least you know it works. It's just a shame that your guinea pig had to be a homicidal maniac like Jack Frost, who I now have to put back... in a test tube."''
-->--'''Agent Manners''', ''Film/JackFrost1997''

->''"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they ''[[ForScience could]]'', they didn't stop to think if they ''should''."''
-->--'''Dr. Ian Malcolm''', ''Film/JurassicPark''

->''"I was so careful... [[SpringtimeForHitler I picked the wrong play. The wrong director. The wrong cast...]] ''where did I go right?''"''
-->--'''Max Bialystock''', ''Film/TheProducers''

->''"The G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression. Well, it works. The people here stopped fighting. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, they stopped breeding, talking, eating. There's 30 million people here, and they all just let themselves die."''
-->--'''Dr. Caron''', ''Film/{{Serenity}}''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Literature]]
->''"i do not think the prudent one hastes to initiate\\
a sequence of events which he lacks power to terminate"''
-->--'''[[Literature/ArchyAndMehitabel archy]]''', "prudence"

->'''Cain:''' The goal of a [[ReligionOfEvil Chaos Cult]] is to try and attract the attention of their [[GodOfEvil patron deity]]. If they're lucky, they'll muck about, enacting rituals they don't understand, and maybe manage to wiggle themselves into some position of power where they can disrupt the day-to-day goings of the Imperium.\\
'''Cadet:''' What if they are not lucky?\\
'''Cain:''' [[EvilIsNotAToy They succeed in attracting said attention.]]
-->-- ''Literature/CiaphasCain''[[note]]'''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM'''[[/note]], "Cain's Last Stand"

->'''Rune Haako:''' Stop! Enough! We ''surrender'', do you understand? You can't just ''kill'' us-\\
'''Darth Vader:''' [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Can't I?]]\\
'''Rune Haako:''' We're unarmed! We surrender! Please - please, you're a ''Jedi!''\\
'''Darth Vader:''' You fought a war to destroy the Jedi. [[PreMortemOneLiner Congratulations on your success.]]
-->--''Franchise/StarWars: Literature/RevengeOfTheSith'' ([[TheBookOfTheFilm novelization]])

->''"We should point out that ''mechanically'', these [[AsteroidMiners massive haulers]] performed flawlessly. Unfortunately, a simple and understandable error was made in the search programming. It is rather amusing in a way.\\
"We have determined that due to the random vagaries of their search patterns, the two ore processors detected ''each other''. Apparently each Automated Mineral Exploiter identified a large target of fabulously pure metal. The titanic ships came together and began dismantling each other for the ore. From our distant vantage point on one of the former pirate bases, we could only watch as the ore processors became the biggest scrap heap in this sector.\\
"We should emphasize that other than this minor error, the Automated Mineral Exploiter worked perfectly. The proof-of-concept has been completed, and all blueprints remain in the databanks of Orko [=SkyMine=] Corp. Given the potential wealth of the Hoth asteroid belt, it only makes sense to begin a second attempt.\\
"In the meantime we apologize for our error and throw ourselves at the mercy of the chairman, Durga the Hutt."''
-->-- Incident report, ''The Illustrated Star Wars Universe'' (referencing the mutual destruction of two "World Devastator" resource gatherers in ''Literature/{{Darksaber}}'')
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
->'''Blackadder:''' Deny everything, Baldrick.\\
''[Baldrick takes the witness stand]''\\
'''George:''' Are you Private Baldrick? \\
'''Baldrick:''' No!\\
'''George:''' Oh. Um... but you are Captain Blackadder's batman?\\
'''Baldrick:''' No!\\
'''Blackadder:''' ''[HeadDesk]''
-->--''Series/{{Blackadder}}''

->''"The stunt that went horribly right."''
-->--'''Julian Morrow''' on their [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaser_APEC_pranks stunt at the 2007 APEC Summit in Sydney]], ''Series/TheChasersWarOnEverything''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
->''"If the [[KillerRobot Modulons]] were built to simplify human lives, perhaps they actually succeeded in that goal — [[RobotWar beyond all expectations]]."''
-->--''TabletopGame/TheEndOfTheWorld: Revolt Of The Machines'', "The Modular Menace - Post-Apocalypse"

->''"His mind whirled with great plans, never thinking of what might happen if he were to succeed."''
-->--''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=230788 "Laboratory Maniac"]]

->''"Of course [[BlobMonster it]] will grow beyond control - it was designed to choose its own evolution."''
-->--'''Momir Vig''', ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=107385 "Experiment Kraj"]]

->''"You sought to anger me, Nahiri. Soon you will see how well you have succeeded."''
-->--'''Sorin Markov''', ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', [[http://magiccards.info/query?q=%21Merciless+Resolve "Merciless Resolve"]]

->''"Day 31: I finally succeeded in my time reversal experiment!''\\
''"[[DidntThinkThisThrough Day 30]]: [[OhCrap I might have a problem here]]."''
-->--'''Journal of the [[MadScientist Prime Izmagnus]]''', ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', [[https://scryfall.com/card/w17/10/inspiration "Inspiration"]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Video Games]]
->'''Gunvolt:''' Why are you the only one in here? Where did the personnel go?\\
'''Elise:''' Oh, you didn't see them on the way down? [[NightOfTheLivingMooks You know, the living corpses?]]\\
'''Gunvolt:''' (Zombies? Even in a world full of [[PsychicPowers Adepts]], it sounded crazy.)\\
'''Elise:''' Sumeragi wanted our power. The power of Resurrection... So we gave it to them... all of them. I guess they should have been more specific.
-->--''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt''

->''"In the city, science was unstoppable, until one day, science couldn't be stopped."''
-->--''VideoGame/BioShock2'' trailer

->''We constructed the Peacekeeper, the pinnacle of engineering and technology. This mighty war machine was designed to rid us of the Freedom Fighters, as well as any other potential threats to the peace we have so long pined for.\\
Its artificial intelligence ensures that this singular function is carried out with cold and calculating precision. Indeed, the 10,000 Peacekeeper units we created have now routed every threat to peace...including us.''
-->--'''Long-forgotten Correspondence''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV: Endwalker'', "The Dead Ends"

->''"[[WhatCouldHaveBeen This was supposed to be for use in Nebulas and other, more creepy areas]], but listen to the thing! ''FTL'' is not a psychological horror game, and this track was [[NightmareFuel way too freaky and claustrophobic]]. Still pretty cool, though."''
-->--'''Ben Prunty''', ''Videogame/FTLFasterThanLight'' soundtrack liner notes on the CutSong "Horror"

->'''Ares:''' [[FamilyExtermination That night]]... [[TheyWereHoldingYouBack I was trying to make you a great warrior!]]\\
'''Kratos:''' ''[[PreMortemOneLiner You succeeded]]''.
-->--''VideoGame/GodOfWarI''

->''"I'm sorry to say I was ever proud of [the [[KillerRobot Faro Swarm]]]. But Ted could really sell a concept, and in the labs, in the light of creation... That first test run, when you saw they understood their own structures, could rebuild themselves from memory and light... there were no limits. Oh God... [[ApocalypseHow there were no limits!]]"''
-->--'''Brad Andac''', ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn''

->''"[Cerberus] thought they were so clever. Turns out, mess with someone's head enough and you can turn a scared kid into an all-powerful bitch. Fuckin' idiots."''
-->--'''[[{{Tykebomb}} Jack]]''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''

->'''Shepard:''' I met your creators. They told me what you did to them.\\
'''Catalyst:''' We did as we were expected.\\
'''Shepard:''' They said [[AIIsACrapshoot you betrayed them]]. That you turned them into [[EldritchAbomination Harbinger]].\\
'''Catalyst:''' When they asked that I solve the problem of conflict, they failed to understand they were part of the problem themselves. The flaws of their organic reasoning could not perceive this. They lacked the foresight to understand their destruction was part of the very solution they required.
-->--''VideoGame/MassEffect3''

->''"Alright, just to clarify, these rounds aren’t faulty. Heck, I’d say they’re better than the standard, but... that’s kind of the problem. I don’t know if it was a new shipment of materials, or a problem with the assembly line, but these rounds are supposed to [[ArmorPiercingAttack pierce armor]]. Not [[TheJuggernaut pierce through the armor, five feet of reinforced concrete, a few warehouses, and an armored truck]]. Could you guys look into this so we don’t like, violate any Geneva Conventions or anything?"''
-->--'''Armor-Piercing Rounds shipping log''', ''Videogame/RiskOfRain2''

->''"They placed their hopes and dreams on our shoulders and bid us fight for all that was good and right. We fought, and we fought and we fought... until there was no one left to fight. We ''won''... and now [[FateWorseThanDeath our world is being erased from existence]]. We did ''everything'' right, everything that was asked of us, and still - ''still'' it came to this!"''
-->--'''Arbert''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV Heavensward''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Animation]]
->''"Successful as Bertron's experiment was, it was ''anything'' but a good idea."''
-->--'''Wiz''' on the creator of [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman Doomsday]], ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle''

->'''Maria:'''They're not strong or ferocious. They drain your will to go on. Bartleby's estate was haemorrhaging money towards the end. He wanted to cut costs on Huntsman protection, but in order to do that, he needed everyone calm. Always.\\
'''Oscar:''' [''Quoting''] ''"Managed to get two away from their pack. Hike back was miserable, but got the bastards in the cellar. Wife thinks I was out sealing the waterway entrance. I'll do it tomorrow, and tell her the truth once these things take the edge off of everyone. I'm... tired."''\\
'''Maria:''' The next page proves that he did, but not before the rest of the pack followed their missing pair all the way home. My guess is that they made their way beneath the estate through the water tunnels that Bartleby sealed up the next morning. Bartleby's plan worked. No-one was angry, or sad, or scared. No-one was anything. And then... no-one was left.
-->-- ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', "Alone in the Woods"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Webcomics]]
->'''Bunnigus:''' UNS military scientists have been working on soldier boosts for centuries. Thirty-one years ago someone put all the different programs under the same roof. Summarizing: They found that the right combination of these technologies would make any human functionally immortal.\\
'''Breya:''' Okay, but what were the side effects?\\
'''Bunnigus:''' You mean ''besides'' turning the entire population into a standing army of {{Super Soldier}}s? No side effects. Clean as a razor sharp, double-edged sword-whistle.
-->--''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Original]]
->''"Africanized bees owe their existence to science. Warwick E. Kerr created them in Brazil during the 1950s by crossing a European bee with an African bee. He wanted a bee that could live in the jungle. He got a bee that swarms by the hundreds of millions, is insanely territorial, mindlessly aggressive, has killed anywhere from a few dozen to a few thousand people, and can live in the jungle.\\\
"And after they escaped and swarmed northward, [[OhCrap it turned out they were a-OK with deserts, too.]] They'll be in Montana by 2010."''
-->--''{{Website/Cracked}}'', [[http://www.cracked.com/article_15816_the-5-most-horrifying-bugs-in-world.html "The 5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World"]]

->''"So the good news is, [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Godzilla]]'s back. The bad news is, '''[[TheTokyoFireball Godzilla's back]]'''."''
-->--'''Creator/JamesRolfe''' reviewing ''Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah''


->'''[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1440 SCP-1440]]:''' Should you choose to [[ChessWithDeath challenge Death to a game of cards for your life]], there is one thing you must never do.\\
'''Dr. ████:''' And what is that?\\
'''SCP-1440:''' [[WhoWantsToLiveForever Win]].
-->-- ''Website/SCPFoundation''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Western Animation]]
->''"Avatar Aang! Can you hear me? Your friend is safe! It was just a trick to trigger the Avatar State...and it worked!"''
-->--'''General Fong''', ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheAvatarState The Avatar State]]", trying to calm Aang down after he enters [[SuperMode The Avatar State]] and nearly destroys the entire fortress.

->'''Calculon:''' The year was 2019, and I was just a lowly robot arm working on [[WhatDidYouExpectWhenYouNamedIt Project Satan]], a savage, intelligent military car built from the most evil parts of the most evil cars in all the world: the steering wheel from [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]]'s staff car, the left-turn signal from UsefulNotes/CharlesManson's VW, the windshield wipers from that car that played Series/KnightRider-\\
'''Fry:''' Knight Rider wasn't evil!\\
'''Calculon:''' His windshield wipers were. It didn't come up much in the show, though. Anyway, only after bringing Project Satan to life did they discover they had made a terrible mistake! For you see... it was pure ''evil!''
-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "The Honking"

->'''Owen:''' You mean that creature is still out there; it has the money, it's as powerful as Goliath... and it's smarter than you?\\
'''Xanatos:''' Owen, I think I created a monster.
-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''

->''"Oh, the humanity! So much air! So much air! [[ExplainExplainOhCrap ...Whoa, too much air! TOO MUCH AIIIR!]]"''
-->--'''Maurice "Twister" Rodriguez''', ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower''

->''"Oh, no! Everything's going according to plan!"''
-->--'''Star Butterfly''' as her BluntMetaphorsTrauma-induced plot to destroy a rival football team goes off, ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''

->'''Grandpa:''' Now, where have you two been? Can't you see that aliens are attacking and the city's in flames?!\\
'''Arnold:''' Slow down, Grandpa. It was us. We did it to scare you.\\
'''Gerald:''' We did a radio show on the roof. It was us!\\
'''Grandpa:''' This is no time for jokes, boys! Look! ''[points to the sky]'' There's their mothership!\\
'''Arnold:''' Grandpa, that's the water tower. Stinky's up there. He lit it with Christmas lights.\\
'''Grandpa:''' Hoo, what?! W-What about them silver, bulbous, ugly-looking creatures at my front door?\\
'''Arnold:''' That was Helga and Harold and all the other kids in my class.\\
'''Grandpa:''' Hold the phone! That was ''you'' on the radio.\\
'''Arnold:''' Yeah, we used your old transmitter from the attic and we set it up so you guys would pick up a broadcast at the Halloween party.\\
'''Gerald:''' Yeah, check this out. ''[holds up a megaphone and talks like an announcer]'' "We interrupt this program to bring to you a special bulletin. Aliens have landed."\\
'''Grandpa:''' Well, what do you know? That ''was'' you! Ooh, very impressive. Hey, what about Douglas Kane flappin' his gums about it on TV? How'd you convince ''him?''\\
'''Arnold:''' Wait a minute. Douglas Kane was talking about it on TV?\\
'''Grandpa:''' Yeah, it was a special bulletin, just like your prank. Except he was showin' a video of the same aliens that came to our front door. The news is all over town, the city's in panic!\\
'''Gerald:''' [[OhCrap Uh oh.]]\\
'''Arnold:''' The TV station must have picked up our radio show. Grandpa, what happened to Helga and the kids after you saw them?\\
''[screaming is heard; they look around the corner and see them running for their lives from an angry mob]''\\
'''Grandpa:''' Well, Shortman, looks like we better go save your friends.
-->--''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', "Arnold's Halloween"

->''"All right. Good luck being everything. Sorry I helped."''
-->--'''Ensign D'Vana Tendi''', after watching a friend AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence in the slowest and most horrifying way possible, ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks''

->''"So, my plan worked ''too'' well. Surely I can't be faulted for such an extraordinary level of success. ''Surely'' not."''
-->--'''Cleveland Brown''', ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Real Life]]
->''"Someone near him said: 'It worked.'\\
Someone else said: 'Now we are all sons of bitches.'"''
-->--'''Kenneth Bainbridge''', on the Trinity atomic bomb

->''Suppose we have an AI whose only goal is to make as many paper clips as possible. The AI will realize quickly that it would be much better if there were no humans because humans might decide to switch it off. Because if humans do so, there would be fewer paper clips. Also, human bodies contain a lot of atoms that could be made into paper clips. The future that the AI would be trying to gear towards would be one in which there were a lot of paper clips but no humans.''
-->-- '''Nick Bostrom''' [[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/artificial-intelligence-oxford_n_5689858 On the dangers of AI with the goal without human morality.]]
[[/folder]]

%%->"If this substance falls into the wrong hands, half the world population might die!"\\
"And if it falls into the right hands, is it the whole population then?"
%%-->-- "Hunt for a Pirahna"
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