History PlayingWith / SpannerInTheWorks

* '''Straight''': Bob TheFool accidentally derails Emperor Evulz's plan to TakeOverTheWorld.

* '''Straight''': Bob TheFool accidentally derails Emperor Evulz plan to TakeOverTheWorld.

'''Basic Trope''': A character, (sometimes TheDitz, a CloudCuckooLander, or TheFool), ruins ThePlan completely by accident.

** The knowledge that Bob's essentially Evulz' Kryptonite allows people to breathe easier whenever Evulz unleashes another evil plan and goes to the national networks professing that ''this'' time they will all suffer, true, evil pinky promise with additional evil truth syrup and an evil cherry on top.

* '''Played For Laughs''': "Now I'm invincible!" "Ohhhhh... WhatDoesThisButtonDo?" "How did this idiot entered my impenetrable fortress? No, wait, DON'T TOUCH --- !!!" ''Ker-bloom! Evulz looks at the ruins of his plan, starts crying like a little baby... literally''.

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* '''Averted''': Bob TheFool has not derailed Evulz's plans to TakeOverTheWorld

'''Basic Trope''': A character, like TheDitz, a CloudCuckooLander, or TheFool, ruins ThePlan completely by accident.

* '''Exploited''': John, a GuileHero, notes that Bob is an idiot, and, with a few supervisors for the latter, use Bob as an UnwittingPawn against Emperor Evulz. Bob, being the idiot he is, is unaware of this.

** In response to his alienation, Bob works to be an even better person for his friends, while his luck causes him to trounce his assassins as easily as he trounces Evulz. Bob's friends come to terms with the fact that Bob is the reason why Evulz has never succeeded in his goals, and why they are still alive and well. Although his apparent lack of realisation of their ire causes it to grow, seeing Bob continue to treat them as companions in spite of their behaviour slowly turns it into guilt. His friends put aside their jealousy, and their friendship is restored.

** In response to his alienation, Bob works to be an even better person for his friends, while his luck causes him to trounce his assassins as easily as he trounces Evulz. Bob's friends eventually acknowledge that Bob is the reason why Evulz has never succeeded in his goals and why they are still alive and well, and although his apparent lack of realisation of their ire causes it to grow, seeing Bob continue to treat them as companions in spite of their behaviour slowly turns it into guilt. His friends put aside their jealousy, and their friendship is restored.

* '''Reconstructed''': The knowledge that Bob's essentially Evulz' Kryptonite allows people to breathe easier whenever Evulz unleashes another evil plan and goes to the national networks professing that ''this'' time they will all suffer, true, evil pinky promise with additional evil truth syrup and an evil cherry on top.

* '''Played For Laughs''': "Now I'm invincible!" "Ohhhhh... WhatDoesThisButtonDo?" "How did tis idiot entered my impenetrable fortress? No, wait, DON'T TOUCH --- !!!" ''Ker-bloom! Evulz looks at the ruins of his plan, starts crying like a little baby... literally''.

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* '''Subverted''': It may appear that Bob has destroyed Evulz's plans, but Evulz [[XanatosSpeedChess had changed his plans in case someone were to ruin it]].
* '''Double Subverted''': ...but it turns out that in changing the plans to prevent ''Bob'' from ruining them, Evulz has left himself wide open for ''[[BrainlessBeauty Alice's]]'' bumbling to devastate them.

** Evulz didn't factor Bob into his plan at all, exactly because Bob is a buffoon and therefore was beneath Evulz's notice. Evulz was therefore completely blind-sighted when Bob, through his bumbling, somehow got messed up in the plan.