History PlayingWith / SpannerInTheWorks

** Bob is something of an OutsideContextProblem; he wasn't even supposed to ''be'' there, and Evulz didn't know he existed. Bob just took a wrong turn on his road trip to somewhere else and blundered into a key part of the plan by pure dumb luck.

* '''Conversed''': "The idiot always ruin the mastermind's plan if not monitored."

** Bob is something of an OutsideContextProblem; he wasn't even supposed to ''be'' there, and Evulz didn't know he existed, but he took a wrong turn on his road trip and blundered into a key part of the plan by pure dumb luck.

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob TheFool unintentionally derails an entire GambitPileup between several factions... One that had been going on for ''millennia'' prior to his unexpected involvement!

** Evulz didn't factor Bob into his plan at all, exactly because Bob is a buffoon and therefore was beneath Evulz's notice.

** Evulz didn't factor Bob into his plan at all, exactly because Bob is a buffoon and therefore beneath Evulz's notice.

* '''Justified''': Bob is TooDumbToFool for Evulz to manipulate him into his plans.

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

* '''Straight''': Bob TheFool derails Emperor Evulz plan to TakeOverTheWorld completely by accident.

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

* '''Lampshaded''': "Did that idiot just broke my plan by accident!? [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOOO!]]"

%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???

** Alternatively, Evulz' first KickTheDog act once he has the heroes at hand will be to kill Bob in front of the rest of cast (most probably in an unceremonious fashion), declaring Bob as dangerous ''because'' he was TooDumbToFool (and thus, ironically, [[TooCoolToLive Too Cool]] [[TooPowerfulToLive (or Powerful) To Live]]).

** Alternatively, Evulz' first KickTheDog act once he has the heroes at hand will be to kill Bob in front of the rest of cast (most probably in an unceremonious fashion), declaring Bob as dangerous ''because'' he was TooDumbToFool (and thus, ironically, TooCoolToLive).

** Alternatively, Evulz' first KickTheDog act once he has the heroes at hand will be to kill Bob in front of the rest of cast (most probably in an unceremonious fashion), declaring Bob as dangerous ''because'' he was TooDumbToFool (and thus, ironically, TooPowerfulToLive).

** Alternatively, Evulz' first KickTheDog act once he has the heroes at hand will be to kill Bob in front of the rest of cast (most probably in an unceremonious fashion), declaring Bob as dangerous ''because'' he was TooDumbToFool (and narratively speaking pulling a ShooOutTheClowns).

** Alternatively, Evulz' first KickTheDog act once he has the heroes at hand will be to kill TheFool of the cast (most probably in an unceremonious fashion), declaring said person as dangerous ''because'' he was TooDumbToFool.

* '''Defied''': Emperor Evulz have his guards set fences, strictly enforce the "No Commoners Allowed" rule, and place his animal in case they do.

* '''Invoked''': Bob is such a WalkingDisasterArea that the only reason his friends so much as ''tolerate'' him is the outside chance that, should anything bad happen, his unlucky bumbling will wreck the enemy's plans before the enemy wrecks ''them''. Alternatively, Evulz needs to lull the heroes into a false sense of security, and what better way of doing so than sacrificing a plan or two and making himself look like someone that can easily be thwarted by any random brain-dead idiot?

* '''Invoked''': Bob is such a WalkingDisasterArea that the only reason his friends so much as ''tolerate'' him is the outside chance that, should anything bad happen, his unlucky bumbling will wreck the enemy's plans before the enemy wrecks ''them''.

* '''Double Subverted''': ???

* '''Invoked''': ???

* '''Inverted''': UnwittingPawn.

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

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob TheFool unintentionally derails an entire GambitPileup.

* '''Parodied''': Bob TheFool derails Evulz attempt [[PokeThePoodle Poking The Poodle]]

* '''Conversed''': "The idiot always ruin the mastermind's plan if not monitored."

'''Basic Trope''': A character, like the TheDitz, TheCloudcuckoolander, or the TheFool, ruins a plan completely by accident.

* '''Enforced''': "Evulz is a DevilInPlainSight who can [[ConsumateLiar fool nearly everyone]]. We need to find someone who can ignorantly break his plan.