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PCD
Since: May, 2021
3rd Jul, 2022 02:13:25 PM
There's Unexpected Positive for a medical test (not intended for health purposes).
Gone Horribly Wrong for a result in a final exam training situation that seems to send everything off the rails.
Maybe your more technical results need a trope.
Edited by PCD
jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
3rd Jul, 2022 02:31:51 PM
closest i can think of is Miraculous Malfunction
Someone is trying to perform some form of test, only for it to fail (or succeed) in a manner nobody was expecting. Examples:
- Battlebots: In an attempt to measure the speed of Tombstone's weapon bar, the refs attach an accelerometer to the bar's tip and send the bot into the small-scale "test-box" outside. The meter gets as far as 20 Gs before Tombstone spins up so fast that the sheer centripetal force causes the meter to "nope" itself into the test-box wall at a speed that obliterates the poor thing.
- Mythbusters: One of their long-standing quotes, "failure is always an option," refers to the fact that as long as the test itself goes smoothly, the result doesn't have to be a success to count, like in the Bifurcated Boat revisitnote , where said boat, at a mere 25 miles per hour, split the channel marker instead of its own hull.
- A personal project of mine: When Kelly restates a prior experience with some engineering buddies of hers, she notes that their last attempt to recreate the Machina's engines resulted in an all-consuming anomaly "eating" half the lab (although Kelly's biggest complaint was that her slushie was caught in said anomaly).
- Related to the above: Kelly later states that the mini-engine was based on a jet engine instead of what the ship actually uses, which begs the question: How the hell did a jet engine produce what is essentially a localized black hole!?
Edited by Gofastmike