This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Lale: Should intentional Explosive Overclocking of a villain's Applied Phlebotinum to destroy it (in other words, reversed Tim Taylor Technology) be listed here or under its own trope?
Seth: I go by rule of three, if there are more of three examples of a specific variation of a trope then it is worthy of its own entry. So i say keep it.
Lots42: Just a note. Over at Narbonic.com, a webcomic, they intentionally blew up the entire universe just to send vital information back in time. It was the only way. Does this count?