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Theatre_Maven_3695
(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)

TL;Dr: Is there a Trope for characters that like to play with electricity and in the process happen to blow stuff up? Psycho Electro doesn't seem to apply since that's about supernatural power.
So I am editing a movie [Vet Hard, but unless you're Dutch or Flemish it will probably be very obscure to you] and it features a character that just likes to play with electricity, with disastrous results. There's nothing supernatural about this at all; it's just a character that has an obsession to "wire things up" and happens to often electrocute himself in the process, or sometimes cause a fire (but the latter is totally secundary / coincidentally, thus it's not a case of Pyromaniac). I originally labelled this character Pyromaniac, but upon better reading the description of that trope, that applies to supernatural powers. So what would be the trope for a character obsessed with playing with electricity and in the process blowing stuff up - in a totally NON-supernatural way?