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* MurphysBullet: Stray bullets will always hit someone.

* MurphysBullet

-->-- '''Dr. Emmett Brown''', ''Film/BackToTheFuture''

* DeusAngstMachina when taken UpToEleven

See also HanlonsRazor. No relation to [[Film/TheHorrorOfPartyBeach Fingal's Quarry]]; nor to Webcomic/MurphysLaw, a webcomic. For other uses of Murphy's Law, see [[MurphysLaw the disambiguation page]].

Sometimes called "Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives." [[LaymansTerms A simplified version]], often called MurphysLaw (or Sod’s law) is this:

* DataVampires

There is another related Murphy's Law -- "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it." In layman's terms, that means that if someone plugs in a toaster [[ReversePolarity backwards]] and it fries itself, the problem isn't just that some idiot plugged it in backward, but that it was able to be plugged in backwards in the first place. ''Someone's'' going to try and mess it up [[HanlonsRazor (or mess it up without trying)]]. Murphy was, unsurprisingly, an engineer.

* DoomedAutographedBall

%%* The Autographed Ball - unlaunched

* TheAutographedBall

* PricelessMingVase
** AshesToCrashes
** DoomedNewClothes
** ThePreciousPreciousCar
** RippingOffTheStringOfPearls
** WatchThePaintJob

The true Finagle's Law is stronger than "anything that can go wrong ''will'' go wrong". It allows for things going well, as the universe is merely lulling you into a false sense of security before proceeding to screw things up for you. It also allows for [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong things that can't possibly go wrong]] going wrong; some cases of this count as GoneHorriblyRight.

Sometimes called "Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives." [[LaymansTerms A simplified version]], often called Murphy's law (or Sod’s law) is this:

There is another related Murphy's Law -- "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it." In layman's terms, that means that if someone plugs in a toaster [[ReversePolarity backwards]] and it fries itself, the problem isn't just that some idiot plugged it in backward, but that it was able to be plugged in backwards in the first place. ''Someone's'' going to try and mess it up [[HanlonsRazor (or mess it up without trying)]]. Murphy was, of course, an engineer.

There is another related Murphy's Law -- "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it." In layman's terms, that means that if someone plugs in a toaster [[ReversePolarity backwards]] and it fries itself, the problem isn't just that some idiot plugged it in backward, but that it was able to be plugged in backwards in the first place. ''Someone's'' going to try and mess it up [[HanlonsRazor (or mess it up without trying)]].