History Main / NotTheIntendedUse

** Shardblades and Shardplate are sacred weapons and armor, LostTechnology from the ancient Knights Radiant, the greatest killing tools a ProudWarriorRace could ever wish for. In ''Literature/TheWayOfKings'', Dalinar uses his set to carve a latrine through solid rock, a task which is likely at least a little sacrilegious. Though that's by the standards of the BloodKnight Alethi. Syl mentions in a later book that her own original Radiant thousands of years ago often used his Blade to cut aqueducts for people. Since the Blades are [[spoiler:in fact the bonded spren of the Knights, they don't have a problem with such mundane tasks any more than a soldier would have a problem with building bridges]].

* To go along with all the MacGyvering he has to do in order to stay alive on Mars all by himself, Mark Watney of ''Literature/TheMartian'' repurposes a lot of equipment meant for the ''Ares'' missions for things they weren't meant to be used for, such as the radioactive thermal generator meant to power spacecraft as a space heater for his rover because the in-cabin heater drains a lot of battery power, unused liquid hydrazine from the Martian Ascent Vehicle to convert into water for his potato crop in his makeshift greenhouse, and some of his crewmates' now-abandoned spacesuits (which don't fit him) as a cistern to hold said water.

* ''LightNovel/FateZero'': Kiritsugu's [[DepletedPhlebotinumShells Origin Bullets]] use his natural affinity for mending spells to ''wrongly'' mend whatever they damage. Shooting an object, they structurally weaken the object. Shooting a human, they inflict a WoundThatWillNotHeal. Shooting a spell, they ''violently short out the Magic Circuits of the magus who cast it''.
* The titular character of ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' lives and breathes this trope. He and his team will use anything at their disposal if it means achieving their goals, [[LethalHarmlessPowers often using mundane items in frighteningly effective ways]].

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'': PlayedForLaughs. Prior to issuing an EngagementChallenge at the climax of book two/anime season 1, Issei receives a flyer from Sirzechs with an invitation on one side allowing him to warp to Hell and issue the challenge, and a summoning circle for a Griffon on the other side, providing him with a dimension-hopping mount to get back. After Issei succeeds with said challenge as is romantically helping Rias onto the griffon's back to ride home with him, Sirzechs dryly mutters that the mount was meant as a panic button in case Issei lost and needed to flee for his life. [[ShipperOnDeck He much prefers this application, though]].

* ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'': Any games played are enforced by a MagicallyBindingContract to ensure the stakes are adhered to. When Sora hears there might be a saboteur giving false reports among the kingdom's advisers, he orders them all to play a game of rock-paper-scissors and lose, with the stakes being that the loser can't falsify reports.
* ''LightNovel/{{Overlord|2012}}'':

* In ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'', Slave Crests function as a MagicallyBindingContract between master and slave. When applied to someone, they become physically incapable of disobeying their master's orders. If they try to disobey the order anyway, the crest gives the slave a magical electric shock [[{{Geas}} until they do whatever it was that they were told to do]]. During a court trial, a Slave Crest can be applied to a witness with the judge as their master, who then orders the witness to "[[TruthSerums tell the truth]]". This would make the Slave Crest shock the witness if they lied in court. [[spoiler:This application of a Slave Crest is how Malty's FalseRapeAccusation against Naofumi gets dismissed; Malty is such a CompulsiveLiar that she can't help but lie in court, even after being told what the Crest would do and being shocked repeatedly from lying to the judge. Malty is eventually asked point-blank if Naofumi attempted to rape her; when Malty says that he did, she's zapped by the Slave Crest with such intensity that she's knocked flat on her back. Since it's clear that Malty is lying, the charges against Naofumi are dropped.]]

** Kirito has a unique skill <<Dual Blades>> from the game [[TitleDrop Sword Art Online]]. When he got out of the game and started playing another game called Alfheim Online, he lost the skill but managed to use it by chaining one-handed abilities with each of his hand, controlling both of his hands separately by using muscle memory and calculating his skill use timing with the skill cooldowns. It was not supposed to happen at all, [[HandWave but he does have the excuse of having the best reflexes in]] ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' [[HandWave (which is why he got the aforementioned unique ability) and had to learn how to fight efficiently due to being a solo player]]. He used the blade his character got during its creation in Gun Gale Online (another thing that was not supposed to happen) to deflect bullets shot by other characters with help of their own targeting markers. After returning to Alfheim Online, he started using his blades to deflect spells as well.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline'': In tournaments, corpses do not disappear immediately when a player dies, and stick around as "Immortal Objects". It's mostly intended to simulate real war better, letting players identify kills and so on. In the first Squad Jam tournament LLENN uses the corpses of her enemies for a BulletproofHumanShield (helped by the fact that she's tiny and can hide behind them). In the second Squad Jam, Team SHINC takes it a step further and sacrifices their biggest team member so that she can act as cover for the rest.

** Dwarves can suck in moisture through their skin, with their pores getting larger the more dehydrated they are. Mulch takes advantage of this by not drinking any water a few days before a heist so he can use them to use his pores like suction cups.

* Hobbyists have taken an interest in installing Linux or Android onto educational children's toys, particularly tablets or game consoles, primarily because they are often cheaper than the 'grown-up version'. The Nabi 2, for instance, was an Android tablet marketed towards children with edutainment content serving as a [[TheMoralSubstitute family-friendly alternative]] to iPads. As it turns out, it has more or less the same hardware as a Nexus 7, the only major difference being a lower-resolution screen, for much cheaper. Cue tech-savvy folk seeing a way to save some bucks.

** In a similar vein, the iconic overdriven guitar sound appeared only because someone turned the input volume way too high.

* AutoTune was originally intended to change the frequency of the singer's singing or musician's playing to the correct one. Then Mark Taylor and Brian Rawling noticed while working on Cher's "Believe" that if you set it on the most aggressive setting, it sounds unnatural, but kind of neat.
** On a deeper level, the technology behind Auto-Tune wasn't originally developed for music production at all - it was to help oil drillers interpret seismograph data.

Usually a GameBreaker, it often leads to GameplayDerailment, but not always: in some cases, it can become an AscendedGlitch, or is considered "fair" in some way, for example if the intended use is at least just as useful, and there is some limit on how frequently you can use the unintended mechanic. [[note]]Like in the Time Outs in Sports example below.[[/note]] Does not apply to mechanics that are deliberately flexible in ways meant to cover things the creators/developers/etc. didn't ''necessarily'' think of, unless it either goes so far as to break intended mechanics or goes way beyond what any reasonable person could have expected. For example, a character creation tool making a character that plays well for gamers of all stripes probably wouldn't quality. If, said character had graphics or stats that bugged the game, or initiate some form of Arbitrary Code Execution, then it almost certainly counts.

** [[spoiler:Boyfriend in battle with multi-story Invincible Horror as the building they are both in was cut loose into the VoidBetweenTheWorld? Brute-force a puddle into another MagicMirror and target the fellow with a Summon Other-Dimensional Servitor incantation (yes, the "heeding my word alone" cause would likely leave him sort of mind-slaved, but [[GodzillaThreshold that is a Deal-With-Once-There-Is-A-Later problem]])]].

* ''LightNovel/BofuriIDontWantToGetHurtSoIllMaxOutMyDefense'': Maple tends to innovate this with her skills, such as using [[TakingTheBullet Cover Move]] as a movement skill to keep up with Sally or using her Venom Capsule trap on herself to neutralize fall damage down a cliff.

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* ''LightNovel/ArifuretaFromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongest'': Synergists are considered weak because their ability can only be used to transform objects. [[TheHero Hajime Nagumo]] learns how to use it offensively by transforming the terrain to create deadly traps.

** In general making decks centered around creatures outside of their usual colors. For example zombies are usually Black and most multicoloured zombies have Black in their mana cost so you're supposed to include it, but you can make highly efficient White-Blue zombie decks.

* ''[[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgnOYNE9AK8Rz8sCah-Pq_0PeF38_J4UI PokeRole with Critical Chaos]]'': Sophie's Axew has the Rivalry ability, which makes him more competitive when facing against other male Pokemon. At one point the group take advantage of this to help them find a female Snorunt, this allowing Sophie [[BizarreSexualDimorphism to train a Froslass]].

* Scoops are holes in the playfield the ball can fall into, upon which a device pops the ball back out. The idea is to hold the ball in a safe location as something else is going on, such as calculating points, but players quickly discovered it was an easy way to regain control of the ball: If the ball is bouncing wildly and rapidly everywhere, try aiming for a scoop--because the machine will always spit the ball out at a fixed speed and in a fixed direction, you'll know where the ball will go next. This is key to playing well on machines like ''Pinball/TheAddamsFamily'' or ''Pinball/TheTwilightZone'', which have scoops angled such that you can then catch the ball with either flipper at the bottom.

** For instance, basketball, water polo, and lacrosse. Intended to allow teams to meet and plan strategy. Can be used tactically to prevent a player from losing possession and restart play in a controlled manner. Only possible in ''American'' basketball (i.e., the NBA, NCAA, and NFHS [high school] rule sets). Can also be used to disrupt and interrupt the opponents' rhythm. Other countries (which use FIBA rules) will only allow a timeout when the game clock is stopped. In water polo, the use of a timeout is even more powerful, as it can be used thrice and basically resets the game to give advantage to whomever has possession. Using a timeout is an easy goal opportunity when used correctly.

** For instance, basketball and lacrosse. Intended to allow teams to meet and plan strategy. Can be used tactically to prevent a player from losing possession and restart play in a controlled manner. Only possible in ''American'' basketball (i.e., the NBA, NCAA, and NFHS [high school] rule sets). Can also be used to disrupt and interrupt the opponents' rhythm. Other countries (which use FIBA rules) will only allow a timeout when the game clock is stopped.

* The ''[[TabletopGame/YuGiOh Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game]]'' has more than a few instances of this:
** There are quite a few cards that operate at the cost of letting your opponent draw cards. Since you instantly lose if your deck runs dry some savvy players built decks ''entirely'' out of these cards, using their intended effects as defense while they bled their opponent of all his resources.
** [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Barrel_Behind_the_Door Barrel Behind the Door]] was initially meant to bounce back damage done to you by effects. It works just as well bouncing non-cost damage from your cards to your opponent. It was even released in the same set as [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Ring_of_Destruction Ring of Destruction]], a card that does massive amounts of damage to you and your opponent; the Ring/Barrel combo swiftly became one of the most popular in the game.
** [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Gate_Guardian Gate Guardian]] is a high-ATK monster that's incredibly hard to get out... but you don't need to get him on the field to fuse him with a card released much later, [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/UFOroid [=UFOroid=]]], to form an even stronger [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/UFOroid_Fighter [=UFOroid=] Fighter]], or discard him to pump up the ATK of [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Zubaba_General Zubaba General]] for a monster with nearly 6000 ATK.
** [[http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Royal_Oppression Royal Oppression]] was designed to be used as an anti-meta card to cripple meta decks reliant on special summoning. But then players began to realize that they could swarm the field with big monsters and then activate it during the opponent's turn to lock them out from their own special summons. This ultimately resulted in it getting banned.
** [[http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Divine_Sword_-_Phoenix_Blade Divine Sword - Phoenix Blade]] is a subpar Equip Card, exclusive to Warriors, that provides a miniscule ATK boost. However, it was also a staple in one of the most popular Decks of its day, Diamond Dude Turbo, for its secondary effect of "banish two Warriors in your Graveyard to add this card back to your hand." Players would use Phoenix Blade's secondary effect over and over, use it as a discard fodder, and then activate [[http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Dimension_Fusion Dimension Fusion]] to resummon all the cards they banished. Additionally, years later, players realized that since it could keep returning to the hand, as long as you had Warriors in your Graveyard, Phoenix Blade was effectively a replenishable source of discard fodder--making it very useful in decks focused around the [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Knightmare Knightmare]] lineup, which all have discard effects and frequently saw use in Warrior-heavy decks like Gouki and Dark Warrior, and could be gotten into the Graveyard immediately via [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Isolde,_Two_Tales_of_the_Noble_Knights Isolde]]. The card was actually banned in the OCG for that reason.
** Which players are the biggest users of [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Toon_Table_of_Contents Toon Table of Contents]], a card that lets you search out any card with "Toon" in its name? If you guessed Toon players, you'd be wrong - Toon Table of Contents is used in nearly all modern [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Exodia Exodia decks]]. This is because you can use Toon Table of Contents to search out copies of itself, and there's no limit to how often it can be used. That translates to three cards removed from your Deck, and three Spell Counters on [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Royal_Magical_Library Royal Magical Library]], and you can then either search out [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Toon_World Toon World]] for a fourth counter, or [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Blue-Eyes_Toon_Dragon Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon]] to discard for [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Trade-In Trade-In]]. Toon Table of Contents is actually straight-up better than [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Gather_Your_Mind Gather Your Mind]], a card where this use ''is'' the intended use. [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Sky_Striker Sky Striker decks]], which rely on having at least 3 Spell Cards in the Graveyard to make full use of their Spell Cards, also tech in copies of Toon Table of Contents as a quick and easy way to get those requisite Spells into the Graveyard.
** The intended playstyle of the T.G. archetype was clearly supposed to be based on spamming out powerful Synchro monsters, through using the replenishing effects of their Main Deck monsters to build up a large amount of resources that could be used for Synchro Summoning. However, a number of players realized that those same resources could be used to simply beat the opponent normally, and so T.G. became instead best known as a stun deck, focusing on using a massive pile of Traps to interrupt the opponent's plays while an endlessly-replenishing horde of monsters beat them up.
** This is what got [[http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Self-Destruct_Button Self-Destruct Button]] (a card that forces the Duel to a draw if your opponent has 7000 more LP than you) banned. Instead of using it as a last-resort TakingYouWithMe, players would fill their decks with cards that gave your opponent LP, then activate Self-Destruct Button at the first possible opportunity.
** [[http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Last_Turn Last Turn]] is meant to be [[DeathOrGloryAttack an extreme last-resort gamble]]: it can only be used when your LP are 1000 or less. It picks a monster on your side of the field, then sends everything else to the Graveyard, then your opponent Summons something from their Deck and attacks, with the survivor winning the Duel. The gamble involved was the risk that your opponent could Summon something stronger. However, Last Turn ignored the possibility of cards that could stop the Special Summon in some manner ([[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Jowgen_the_Spiritualist Jowgen the Spiritualist]], [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Vanity%27s_Fiend Vanity's Fiend]], [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/The_Last_Warrior_from_Another_Planet Last Warrior from Another Planet]]) and the existence of cards that could pay massive amounts of LP ([[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Wall_of_Revealing_Light Wall of Revealing Light]], [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Inspection Inspection]], [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Backs_to_the_Wall Backs to the Wall]]). If the opponent couldn't Summon a monster for Last Turn, you won by default. The resulting "Last Turn OTK" sent Last Turn to the banlist.
** [[http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Lyrilusc_-_Independent_Nightingale Lyrilusc -- Independent Nightingale]] is intended to be MagikarpPower -- its effects are dependent on its level, and its level is dependent on the monsters used to summon it. If you work your butt off, you can fuse together the proper monsters to make its level 5 or 6... or you could just summon it with Instant Fusion and Tribute it for [[http://yugipedia.com/wiki/The_Tyrant_Neptune The Tyrant Neptune]], which absorbs the effects of its Tributes and is Level 10 normally. For just two cards and 1000 LP, you could have a 6000-ATK monster that's unaffected by card effects and can inflict 5000 damage every turn. The combo was deadly enough that Tyrant Neptune was banned before Nightingale was even ''released'' in America.
** Similar to the above, [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Supreme_King_Dragon_Starving_Venom Supreme King Dragon Starving Venom]] has the same effect as The Tyrant Neptune. But while it's two Levels lower, you can bring it out with two DARK Pendulum monsters and no other cards, meaning you don't have to hope you draw into it like you would with Neptune. It also packs 6800 ATK, making it more powerful than Neptune overall.
** Supreme King Dragon Starving Venom could be abused in other ways, namely through [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Odd-Eyes_Revolution_Dragon Odd-Eyes Revolution Dragon]]. Revolution Dragon has an affect that makes it gain ATK/DEF equal to half your opponent's Life Points - which would give it 4000 ATK at the start of a duel. You could also use it to shuffle all other cards on the field and in Graveyards into the deck, which would seriously mangle most decks and leave your opponent open to an attack. Unfortunately, [[AwesomeButImpractical its harsh summoning condition makes it not worth bringing out]]. Its main use was its effect, which let you pay 500 LP to search out [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Odd-Eyes_Pendulum_Dragon Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon]]. Starving Venom ties this all together: you drop Revolution Dragon into the Graveyard with its discard effect, bring out Starving Venom, nuke the field, and attack with a 6800 ATK monster. Your opponent most likely won't have the resources to come back from the duel at this point, much less have a way to take down this monster.
** This hit no less than two of the main [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Guardian Guardian]] equips, originally designed to provide small boosts and make summoning their Guardians possible. [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Butterfly_Dagger_-_Elma Butterfly Dagger -- Elma]] returns itself to the hand when destroyed, with the intent being to keep the opponent from destroying it. As it turned out, it also comboed with [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Gearfried_the_Iron_Knight Gearfried the Iron Knight]], which destroys anything equipped to it, and could therefore be looped infinitely in combination with cards like Royal Magical Library or [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Magical_Marionette Magical Marionette]] to build up infinite Spell Counters. [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Rod_of_Silence_-_Kay%27est Rod of Silence - Kay'est]] has the secondary effect of destroying Spells that target the equipped monster, obviously meant for protection. Instead, people ran it in [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Vylon Vylons]], where thanks to [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Vylon_Element Vylon Element]], which summons a Vylon Tuner whenever one of their equips is destroyed, and the standard Vylon equips, which search out more of themselves when destroyed, they could rapidly swarm the field with Tuners and usually summon [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Vylon_Omega Omega]] on the first turn.
** The [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Destiny_HERO Destiny Hero archetype]] was intended to be played as its own set of cards, with a focus on Standby Phase effects, stalling, and building up tribute fodder for powerful boss monsters. Instead, many players realized that they worked much better as a draw engine, combining the effects of [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Destiny_Draw Destiny Draw]], [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Destiny_HERO_-_Malicious Malicious]], [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Destiny_HERO_-_Diamond_Dude Diamond Dude]], and [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Destiny_HERO_-_Disk_Commander Disk Commander]], along with the search power of [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Elemental_HERO_Stratos Elemental Hero Stratos]] to shore up on their own strategies. This particular case was big enough, that the Destiny Hero engine in its various forms have been the core strategy of multiple decks that is considered a Tier 0 GameBreaker.
** {{Kaiju}} monsters have the ability to tribute your opponent's monster to summon them to your opponent's field, and so long as there's a kaiju on their field, you can summon one to your side of the field without cost. They were supposed to be a deck of their own. Instead, [[http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Gameciel,_the_Sea_Turtle_Kaiju the weakest among them]] are used as a form of LoopholeAbuse to get rid of normally NighInvulnerable monsters; monsters that are immune to destruction or card effects are not (usually) immune to tributing, because tributing is a player action that has to be specifically disallowed. A later support card meant to bolster the deck ''actually made this use better.'' In a similar category is [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/The_Winged_Dragon_of_Ra_-_Sphere_Mode The Winged Dragon of Ra - Sphere Mode]], a support card for [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/The_Winged_Dragon_of_Ra The Winged Dragon of Ra]]. The card's intended use is to tribute it to summon Winged Dragon of Ra, letting you get it on the field with 4000 ATK/DEF instead of relying on its life point conversion effect. However, Sphere Mode lets you tribute three monsters on either side of the field, meaning you can completely break an opponent's setup in return for giving them only one card, and since no one plays Winged Dragon of Ra, they can't exploit its tribute effect.
** A particular breakout example in the competitive scene is the Gem-Knight archetype's own [[http://yugipedia.com/wiki/Brilliant_Fusion Brilliant Fusion]], a Continuous Spell that can Fusion Summon a Gem-Knight Fusion monster by sending the corresponding material from the main deck. Intended as a Gem Knight support, it gained notoriety for its ability to Fusion Summon [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Gem-Knight_Seraphinite Gem-Knight Seraphinite]] by sending a Gem-Knight and a Light monster from the deck. This combo gives you an extra normal summon, puts a monster on the field as a fodder for other summons, and mills 1 Light attribute monster of choice to set up further combos, while also thinning the deck by 2. Brilliant Fusion is so popular as a deck engine that at one point, [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Gem-Knight_Garnet Gem-Knight Garnet]], a completely ordinary 1900 vanilla, fetched quite a price on the secondary market entirely because it was the highest ATK Normal-summonable Gem-Knight monster. The Brilliant Fusion engine even birthed a new term amongst the fanbase: a "Garnet" is a card that is a mandatory engine requirement, yet is completely useless while in the hand.
** [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Wetlands Wetlands]] is a Field Spell that gives a fairly hefty 1200 ATK boost to level 2 or lower Aqua/Water-type monsters. Given its time of release and theming, it's not hard to assume it was meant to be used in [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Frog Frog decks]], which generally fit the bill and have very poor stats, meaning they'd appreciate the boost. However, Frog statlines are [[WeakButSkilled so poor all-around]] that they couldn't really make use of it (only [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Swap_Frog Swap Frog]] and the rarely-used [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Submarine_Frog Submarine Frog]] have tolerable beater stats with it active), and preferred making use of other engines such as Tributes or Xyz when they wanted more firepower. Instead, it found its home in [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Ice_Barrier Ice Barrier decks]] (which frequently used it to power up [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Prior_of_the_Ice_Barrier Prior]], [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Dewdark_of_the_Ice_Barrier Dewdark]], and [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Cryomancer_of_the_Ice_Barrier Cryomancer]] and bolster their lacking offense) and the rather silly [[LethalJokeCharacter Slime Token Beatdown]] (which comboed it with [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Token_Stampede Token Stampede]] to churn out 2700 beaters).
** Probably the silliest case of "archetype card that nobody uses in its archetype" is [[http://yugipedia.com/wiki/M-X-Saber_Invoker M-X-Saber Invoker]]. It was designed to try and ease [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/X-Saber X-Sabers]], normally a powerhouse Synchro deck, into the Xyz era. To that end, it was a Rank 3 with the ability to Summon a Level 4 EARTH Warrior or Beast-Warrior from the deck, seemingly meant to support the swarm-happy playstyle that X-Sabers were known for. However, X-Saber players looked at their roster and realized that only four X-Sabers fit the criteria, only one of them was actually good, and that one couldn't use its effect if summoned by Invoker, so they mostly ignored it. As it turned out, though, a lot of Decks could make Invoker easily and had a monster that ''did'' meet the qualifications and they wanted out quickly, including [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Wind-Up Wind-Ups]], [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Madolche Madolches]], [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Six_Samurai Six Samurai]], [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Zoodiac Zoodiacs]], [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Gouki Goukis]], and even certain FTK builds. Invoker actually got banned in the TCG because pretty much any deck that ''wasn't'' its own archetype could get some mileage out of it.
** Goukis themselves, based on their monster effects and their Links, were intended to be played as an aggressive beatdown deck that would use its main gimmick (all main-deck Goukis search out another Gouki upon being sent to the Graveyard) as a way to replenish its resources and win grind games. Instead, players realized that when combined with the pre-errata [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Firewall_Dragon Firewall Dragon]] (which could summon monsters from the hand upon a monster being sent to the Graveyard), Goukis were able to keep putting monsters on the field for use as material, turning the archetype into a very easy swarm deck that flooded the field with Link monsters and could lock the opponent out of summons altogether.
** The [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Lunalight Lunalight archetype]] was clearly supposed to be based around Fusion Summoning, considering that all of their Extra Deck monsters are Fusions. However, at the height of their competitive viability, the ease at which the deck could swarm the field with Level 4 monsters made them far better suited for Xyz Summoning.
** [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Union_Carrier Union Carrier]] is, as the name suggests, intended to be support for union monsters, particularly the A-to-Z archetype. However, it can be used to easily bring hard to summon monsters with floating effects onto the field, such as [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Earthbound_Immortal_Aslla_piscu Aslla Piscu]] (enabling an extremely consistent First-Turn Kill strategy), or to play equip monsters that normally have very specific equip targets, such as [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Dragon_Buster_Destruction_Sword Dragon Buster Destruction Sword]], which got Union Carrier banned in the TCG.
** [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Predaplant_Verte_Anaconda Predaplant Verte Anaconda]]. Despite being part of the Predaplant archetype, it saw way more usage in literally every other deck due to how easy it was to summon (2 effect monsters). It's effect let it basically search fusion spells from the deck, meaning that it could easily bring out juggernauts such as Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon and Destiny HERO - Destroyer Phoenix Enforcer in a few steps. The overusage was so wild that it was banned in both formats.

* Up until [[TheSixties the mid-'60s]], guitar players took care not to crank their amps up too far so that they wouldn't distort. But then acts such as Music/TheRollingStones, Music/TheWho and especially Music/JimiHendrix came along. First they simply let distortion happen. Then they forced their amps into distortion.

* Watch recorded footage of ''Pinball/FunHouse'', and chances are the player, when launching a ball, will always pick the "Power On" path beneath the bumpers. This is because this is the only one guaranteed to carry the ball safely to a flipper. Even if the ball somehow ends up falling into the right outlane, [[AntiFrustrationFeature it will return harmlessly to the plunger]] (this being the ''only'' instance of a ball save-like feature in the game). All of the other ball launch options (including the intended SkillShot behind Rudy) will send the ball somewhere that will likely cause it to go out of control quickly.