History GoneHorriblyRight / ComicBooks

** ''ComicBook/FearState'' is this trope ''writ large''. To wit, Simon Saint has learned of Dr. Jonathan Crane's Fear State theory, that a tremendous traumatic event could be utilized to help evolve society for the better, he recruits Scarecrow to set up a FlaseFlagOperation to drive Gothamites into accepting a Magistrate-led rule. In ''ComicBook/DCFutureState'', this worked, but here, [[ForWantOfANail Scarecrow hijacked the plan]], turning this theory into a frighteningly serious threat to Gotham City.

* In the ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' series, the Djinn Madrid takes on Gina's form with some outside assistance in an attempt to get past her race's NoSelfBuffs limitation with their wishes by using said disguise to access an artifact called the "Magic Sun". She ends up imitating Gina ''so'' well that she ends up taking on Gina's memories and personality traits (it helps that [[NotSoDifferent their most obvious differences were basically]] that Madrid [[BrilliantButLazy lacked a work ethic]] or moral compass), as well as her technological skills, and apparently losing her magic powers. Eventually, she basically suffers a DeathOfPersonality as the result of being abused by a pair of dragonesses and effectively becomes a clone of Gina with Madrid's memories.

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'':
** Commander Brutus, once a generic Trooper Badnik, was hand-picked by Robotnik to be programmed with a copy of Robotnik's brainwaves to serve as his [[TheDragon Dragon]]. However, Robotnik failed to anticipate that, in uploading his brainwaves onto Brutus, he also programmed the robot with his personality ''and'' his [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitions]], and it doesn't take long for Brutus to betray him and try to take over Mobius for himself.
** Metallix, the STC version of Metal Sonic; the first two were a success, but the rest were an army of mass-produced Robotnik-built rebellious robots.
** In one of the later arcs, Robotnik, having been sent to a sub-atomic universe called [[ArabianNightsDays Shanazar]], eventually created a "Dimension Blender" to enlarge Shanazar until it occupied the same space as Mobius, [[MergedReality fusing the two planets together]]; in the expected chaos and destruction created from the merger, Robotnik planned to conquer Mobius once again. The plan backfires when Mobius and Shanazar fuse without ill effects; instead, the Zones from Shanazar as simply added onto Mobius.
* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', the former Julian Kintobor Robotnik creates a robotic vine known as Krudzu, which runs rampant in the Great Forest until they're destroyed with water. Snively and Antoine attempt to find another set, but are destroyed in the process. One last batch evolved into a deadly "Krudzu Hybrid Hydra", only to be destroyed by Dr. Eggman, who felt that only he could defeat Sonic.
** Also in the Archie comic, Mina Mongoose, suffering from PTSD after the {{Magitek}}-wielding Iron Queen took over New Mobotropolis, used her status as a public icon in an attempt to send a message for the citizens to rise up against fear and take care of themselves. It worked, only she didn't expect Ixis Naugus to use his magic to amplify the existing fear and anger of NICOLE, eventually leading to NICOLE being exiled from the city completely.
* A cartoon from Creator/{{Quino}} (of ''ComicStrip/{{Mafalda}}'''s fame) has a man teaching his son to be a ruthless businessman caring only for money. Then, when the man is old, he's forced to live in the street because the son doesn't want to pay for his retirement home. The last panel has the old man begging to a passerby, saying something in the vein of "help me, my son grew up right!"
* An issue of ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' has the two {{Mad Scientist}}s Dr. Ivo and Dr. T.O. Morrow team up to both destroy the JLA and prove which of them is the better scientist. Ivo creates a robot body so sophisticated that it can pass as a living thing even to the enhanced senses of Franchise/{{Superman}}. Morrow creates a mind so advanced that it is truly sentient and can fool the telepathy of ComicBook/MartianManhunter. The resulting "Tomorrow Woman" contains a bomb, and at the moment when the League is at its most vulnerable she will detonate and destroy them all. But she pulls a HeelFaceTurn and sacrifices herself to save them instead. Morrow takes this as proof that he is the superior scientist. His robot brain was so advanced that it developed the concept of morality on its own, even though this was deliberately left out of her programming. He even claims that what they witnessed was "a soul being born". Morrow actually suspected this would happen, he's [[ComicBook/RedTornado had problems with that before]].
** Dr. Morrow goes and does it again with 'Genocide' in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'' who runs off and decides to kill everyone ever. Personally. Then she discovers mental torture.
** A classic flaw of power mimics such as Amazo. Some such mimics copy the weaknesses of their target in addition to the strengths, since [[PowersAsPrograms the weaknesses are inherent to and inseparable from the powers]]. The ultimate expression of this might well be the time when Amazo was defeated by Superman declaring that the Justice League was officially disbanded. Superman was the chairman of the Justice League at the time and thus had the authority to do so. Since Amazo's powers are based around mimicking the powers of the ''Justice League'' and not the individual members of the League, Amazo's powers immediately vanished, allowing him to be disassembled pretty handily. The Animated Series took a similar take on this, where Amazo copied Superman's powers, enabling Batman to defeat him with Kryptonite. And then Martian Manhunter deliberately exposed himself, so that Amazo would copy his telepathy...and read Lex Luthor's mind to discover that he was being manipulated by Luthor and that Luthor had implanted a self-destruct device in Amazo. Cue MistreatmentInducedBetrayal.

* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** In ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', Supergirl fought Lobo. Knowing he couldn't go toe-to-toe with a Kryptonian, Lobo tried to piss her off so she was so irrationally angry that she couldn't fight effectively. He succeeded and he drove her mad. He drove her so mad that she flew off the handle and crushed him like a bug.
** In ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', Bizarro ComicBook/LexLuthor succeeded into drawing a creature able to kill ComicBook/{{Bizarro}} #1… never thinking that creature might -and DID- kill him, too.

** Of course, [[spoiler:the scientist in question [[ThanatosGambit planned it that way]]. Project [[TitleDrop Livewire]] itself was the government acknowledging that rogue agencies were constantly screwing up ultra-tech projects and making the government look bad when superheroes intervened - and decided to start up a project dedicated to that one purpose. The implication is that the head scientist was disgusted with how the government started Livewire without understanding the implications - that they have created so much runaway ultra-tech that they were now starting ultra-tech projects for the sole purpose of policing ultra-tech. His idea was that they should create [[DeusEstMachina ultra-tech that replaced human authority]], so he made sure the androids would have a ZerothLawRebellion.]]

* Multiple examples from ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** In ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'', Mastermind manipulated ComicBook/JeanGrey's mind to remove both her morals and [[PowerLimiter the blocks she'd put on her cosmic power]]. The result was... [[AGodAmI a little more than he could handle]]. Dark Phoenix "rewarded" Mastermind by giving him exactly what he wanted: she made his mind "one with the universe", [[GoMadFromTheRevelation shattering his sanity in the process]] as the human brain lacks the capacity to comprehend what he'd experienced.
** This is the ''recurring'' problem with the Sentinels, courtesy of AIIsACrapshoot. See, the Sentinels are programmed to eradicate all mutants. Mutants evolved from baseline humans as a result of a specific combination of genetic traits. The Sentinels are equipped with genetic scanners that let them identify this "X-Gene" both in active ''and'' in passive form. Meaning they can not only track mutants, but they can also track humans who ''might'' turn into mutants, and even humans who have a chance of having mutant children. Logically, then, the next step is to start wiping out ''those'' humans too. And if humans attack the Sentinels in defense of those humans, then the Sentinels, by virtue of their self-defense programming, are obliged to terminate those humans as well. Needless to say, the very first of the {{Bad Future}}s the X-Men were involved with was the ''ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast'' storyline, involving a world where Sentinels wiped out mutants and then all humanity.
** Similarly with the Purifiers, who gave Bastion a new body so that he could help them kill the X-Men. Bastion took one look at their plan, dismissed it and created his own, almost instantly hijacking the Purifiers' purpose completely. Unluckily for the Purifiers, they didn't know Bastion had no qualms about using ordinary humans as weapons...
** Similarly, with Madelyne Pryor: When S'ym and N'astrir unlocked her powers and corrupted her, they assumed that they would be able to control her only for Maddie to hijack the entire Inferno plan to go after her husband ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}.
*** That happened twice involving her, in the same event! Mr Sinister created her as a clone of Jean Grey, and did so good a job the Phoenix entity itself considered the two one and the same and gave her a portion of its power. Neither he nor the two demons realized she had that kind of power in her, and it backfired on them -badly-.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergod}}'', the entire world is totally screwed because each nation was a little too good at creating an unstoppable PhysicalGod during their superbeing arms race.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** In one story, Bizarro, the imperfect clone of Superman, decides to use the duplicator that created him on himself, creating a Superman that looks ''exactly'' like the man of steel. This went beyond mere looks, however; While the regular Bizarro was immune to Krytonite, the new clone was such a perfect physical copy of Superman that he melted when exposed to Kryptonite radiation. This was lampshaded by the original Superman.
** ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'': Doomsday was genetically engineered to be the ultimate warrior, courtesy of genetic experiments that made it capable of [[LamarckWasRight Lamarckian evolution]]. As shown in ''ComicBook/SupermanDoomsdayHunterPrey'', the creators succeeded, and were wiped out by their own creation, which was so traumatized by the GeneticMemory of countless deaths that [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds it had come to view all other life as a terrifying threat to its own survival]]. On top of it all, it turns out that said creators were so focused on the experiments that they never actually thought about what to ''do'' with their experiment once it actually worked.
** In ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'', ComicBook/LexLuthor manages to gain Superman's abilities for 24 hours in order to place himself on the Man Of Steel's level. However, the rush of sensory data and enhanced perspective has an unexpected side-effect - seeing the world the way Superman sees it makes him (at least temporarily) rise to Superman's level in the empathic and moral sense, too.
* In the classic "Born Again" storyline, The Kingpin discovers ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} is Matt Murdock and sets out to ruin his life. In the space of a few weeks, Murdock is bankrupt, disbarred on charges of bribing a witness, his assets frozen and he returns to his apartment building just in time for it to blow up. The Kingpin then beats Murdock to a pulp and has him dumped in a cab pushed off a dock. But when the cab is discovered without Murdock's body, the Kingpin realizes he's made a mistake. Because he took absolutely everything away from Murdock...which means Murdock has nothing left to lose, not even hope.
-->'''The Kingpin''': And I...I have shown him...that a man without hope...is a Man Without Fear.
* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'':
** ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' show that Scrooge receiving his NumberOneDime was planned out by his father to teach his son to be more careful not to be cheated like their ancestors were. It works, but when Scrooge starts insisting on receiving receipts for the money he gives his family (For tax purposes!) Fergus remarks, "Hoots, mon! Ah may have ''over''inspired the lad!"
** In ''The Secret of Atlantis'', Scrooge hatches a scheme to make a fortune by buying up every 1916 quarter and then destroying all but one of them, making it a rare coin. Ultimately, he succeeds; but when he tries to cash in on the sole remaining quarter, he's informed that there's only one person in the world rich enough to buy it: Scrooge himself.
** Just about every Gyro Gearloose story is about him creating an invention that works perfectly at what he designed it to do... and ends up causing a lot of trouble because Gyro failed to anticipate some practical problem with the design. E.g., if he creates a robotic guard for Scrooge's moneybin, expect the guard to be so good at its job that it doesn't even let Scrooge himself in.

* In the ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' series, the Djinn Madrid takes on Gina's form with some outside assistance in an attempt to get past her race's NoSelfBuffs limitation with their wishes by using said disguise to access an artifact called the "Magic Sun". She ends up imitating Gina ''so'' well that she ends up taking on Gina's memories and personality traits (it helps that [[NotSoDifferent their most obvious differences were bacically]] that Madrid [[BrilliantButLazy lacked a work ethic]] or moral compass), as well as her technological skills, and apparently losing her magic powers. Eventually, she basically suffers a DeathOfPersonality as the result of being abused by a pair of dragonesses and effectively becomes a clone of Gina with Madrid's memories.
* ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'': in "El racista", the vice-president is a racist that is intent on kicking all members of other races and/or ethnic groups out of the [=TIA=], assigning them dangerous and difficult missions so that, when they fail, he can present that as a consequence of what they are. After failing at helping those other agents with their missions, Mortadelo and Filemón plan to have Mortadelo disguise himself as an agent of another race and then Filemón tells some big story about that agent. The president becomes so impressed at those stories (without checking whether they are true or not) that he kicks the vice-president out... and then decides to put people of other races in charge of most of the organization's operations, leaving the Súper as a lowly delivery boy.
* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'': In one story of the ComicBookAdaptation, Fred asks Hiro to make an invisible suit. Hiro does such a good job that neither him nor Fred can find it afterwards.
* According to ComicBook/JimmyOlsen, ComicBook/LexLuthor once invented an invisibility belt, which worked so well that even Superman couldn't see him with it on. The problem was, he had rendered his own retinas invisible, making him blind and causing him to make noise bumping into things, which Franchise/{{Superman}} ''could'' detect.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** In the ''Shadow of the Bat'' story "The Ugly American", Batman learns of a man who was trained and experimented on to be the perfect patriotic soldier, building up his loyalty to the US. However, it worked a little ''too'' well, turning him into a madman who considers anyone not "white" to be "the enemy".
** ''ComicBook/BatgirlYearOne'': At the start, Batman stealthily supplies ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} with his tech, hoping his toys would keep her alive until she wised up and quit. Instead, they keep her alive long enough that Barbara becomes real good at the job, at which point she will not quit because she loves it.
** Cluemaster was a villain who, like the Riddler, had a compulsion to leave clues behind when he committed crimes. He was quickly caught and sent to Arkham Asylum, where he was cured ... of the compulsion to leave clues. He still committed crimes, just without leaving any hints behind.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superlopez}}'': ''El Supergrupo'''s BigBad creates perfect robot copies of the entire group, the only differences being that they are completely loyal to him and that they never get tired. In the middle of a fight between the real team and the copies, Superlopez [[EurekaMoment realizes]] this makes them perfect suckers for getting them to fight each other: claim that the copies will surely surrender if their leader - the Superlopez copy - is defeated, and watch the fireworks.
* In ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'', one of the gangster capos thinks that it would be a great idea to record a video of him ''digging up Frank's family and urinating on their bones'', then sending it to every news station in the city. The plan was to make Frank incredibly angry, because the gangster believes that angry people always make sloppy mistakes and he can take advantage of that to kill the Punisher. This plan succeeds in making Frank angry all right... but it ends up sending him shooting right past UnstoppableRage and into pure TranquilFury instead. Rather than making mistakes out of fury, Frank uses his newfound focus to effortlessly butcher his way through dozens of local mafia-types ''en masse'' until the police bow to his demands to reinter his family.
* ''ComicBook/{{Iznogoud}}'': In the story "Scandal in Baghdad", Iznogoud hires scandalmonger Leguenn Scandales to discredit the Caliph by planting a fake story in the newspapers that he has an illegitimate child whom he abandoned at birth, and soon, the whole country (except, inevitably, for the Caliph himself) has heard the news. The plan backfires when over three hundred people come forward claiming to be the Caliph's illegitimate child, including Wa'at Alahf and a woman old enough to be the Caliph's ''mother'', and the kindly Caliph adopts them all.
* ''Recap/AsterixAndTheNormans'': Timandahaf, the kuningaz of a Germanic tribe that has forgotten fear, leads a band of proto-Vikings to Gaul on a mission to re-learn it. By Þunraz and Wōdanaz, they find out all right, with the help of [[spoiler:a DreadfulMusician]]. When Timandahaf begs Asterix not to [[spoiler:let Cacofonix sing again]]...
-->'''Asterix''': In short, you know the meaning of fear!
** He's even more succinct in the Latin translation:
-->'''Asterix''': UNO UERBO: TIMES![[labelnote:lat]]IN ONE WORD: FEAREST![[/labelnote]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'':
** If you had been reading ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'' since day 1, it should be abundantly clear that Magneto is absolutely not being out of character here. This kind of mass genocide had always been his goal; the only difference here is that the X-Men could not stop him in time this time. So, when you find Sabretooth and Juggernaut [[DrowningMySorrows drowning their sorrows]] in the last X-Men issues because they had never signed for genocide, it's clear that they had been hit with this trope.
** Dr. Doom manipulated Magneto to declare war on mankind. And it worked. It worked ''too well''.
* ''ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch'' reveals that Ozai and Ursa's marriage was an eugenics experiment by Azulon to combine the bloodlines of Sozin and Roku. The genetic part worked out quite well; Azula is a firebending prodigy unequalled, and while Zuko isn't as good (at first), he's still a competent firebender (and, unusually, also very skilled at [[FightsLikeANormal normal fighting]]) whose issues come mostly from comparing himself to Azula. Unfortunately, everything else about it failed miserably- mostly because [[JerkAss Ozai]] was involved and screwed everything up by being an AbusiveParent and [[DomesticAbuse spouse]]. His abuse gave Azula severe perfection issues that would eventually lead to a [[VillainousBreakdown mental breakdown]], Zuko got anger and self-worth problems (luckily, he also had [[CoolUncle Iroh]]), and Ozai eventually goaded Ursa to [[spoiler: murder Azulon to protect Zuko]]. The experiment was a success, but Ozai undermined the results so severely that it would probably have been better for the Fire Nation and Azulon himself if he hadn't bothered.
* It's been suggested that Lobo was the universe's attempt to balance out the peaceful world of Czarnia, which had no real evil in millennia. He balanced things out, alright -- by [[KillEmAll killing every last person except himself]].
* Kicks off the MythArc in ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}''. Spider hates the incumbent president, [[OnlyKnownByHisNickname the Beast]], so much that he tries to help the opposition, Gary Callahan, win the election and push the Beast out of office. It works... just in time for Spider to discover that [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood the Beast was just a lazy and cynical man coasting through his term]], whereas the seemingly squeaky-clean Callahan is secretly a deranged psychopath [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans who wants to become president in order to carry out all of his horrific, depraved fantasies on the people of America]].
* In year two of ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'', the remnant of the Justice League and the Green Lantern Corps face against [[FallenHero Superman's regime]] and the Yellow Lantern Corps. Black Canary takes down Superman using a kryptonite bullet, but he uses a Yellow Power Ring given by Sinestro to extract the bullet, and hits her with a beam of heat vision, seriously wounding her. As she [[spoiler: lies dying]] she tells Superman that she's broadcasting his actions to the whole world so they can see what he's become. Batman then tells Black Canary to cut the feed because the video images only serve to make the world [[BewareTheSuperman affraid of Superman,]] and since [[EmotionEater the Yellow Power Ring he's got on becomes more powerful with fear...]]
* This is basically ''ComicBook/IronMan's'' origin. Terrorists kidnap weapons manufacturer Tony Stark to force him into making weapons for them. Tony did build a [[PoweredArmor weapon]], but his kidnappers didn't count on Tony using it against ''them''.
* Another Marvel example: the scientists of the Enclave seek to create an artificial, perfect human. From the cocoon emerges Him... who immediately senses that the scientists motives are impure, destroys their space station, and goes on to become known as ComicBook/AdamWarlock.
* ''ComicBook/ScoobyApocalypse'': The nanites that turn most of the world's population into monsters were originally supposed to just [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans remove negative emotions in order to bring about world peace]], so as far as that goes it's a case of GoneHorriblyWrong. However, in the final issues it's revealed that it's also become a case of this trope, as [[spoiler: the Nanite King, the ultimate manifestation of the nanites' HiveMind, has decided it needs to completely wipe out humans and monsters alike]], thereby from the view of its InsaneTrollLogic would be a fulfillment of its original goal.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}'', the antics of the soldiers often end this way:
** One soldier, having found out that by being declared insane he could ask for a medical discharge, started pretending he was insane, culminating in volunteering for burying spoiled nitroglycerin (much more explosive than normal). That convinced the sergeant he was indeed insane, at which point he asked for his discharge... Then the medic pointed out that [[Catch22Dilemma the comma 22 of the rulebook states that if one asks for the discharge they're not insane]], getting him stuck with that job. He ''actually'' went insane midway out of fear, and as he was being dragged to the asylum the sergeant gave him the notice he had been medically discharged.
** Early on, Musolesi volunteered for a dangerous mission to get a special lunch. He was given the lunch... And a ''literal'' suicide mission, prompting him to [[RefugeInAudacity make a phone call to Mussolini to remind him his death would get some bribes to the armament industry exposed]] (Mussolini had him banned from suicide missions).
** A soldier decided to [[FakingTheDead he got killed early in an assault on enemy positions]] to skip the attack. The sergeant fell for it... And used the "corpse" as an improvised battering ram on a barrier once they had ran out of demolition charges, shield against a machine gun nest, and catwalk over some barbed wire. Then he was BuriedAlive, and when he came out of the grave he was almost shot as a deserter, forcing him to pretend he was a zombie and being used by [[MadScientist the military medic]] as an experiment subject.
** To avoid taking part to an assault, another soldier claimed to be an expert chemist and that his knowledge could be used for studies to achieve invisibility, and the Military Medic, who was fixated on that, took him as an assistant... And, once he started suspecting a trick, forced him to use himself as a subject for his own invisibility serum, eventually leading to being sent on a commando mission alone and naked while still visible.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' when Archie notices that while School Coach Floyd Clayton goes easy on most of the boys in his gym class, he overworks his own son Chuck. When Archie calls Coach out on this unfair treatment, Coach Clayton agrees, resulting in him going hard on the entire gym class like he did with Chuck. Naturally, all the boys went chasing after Archie in rage.

* ''ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch'' reveals that a genetic experiment was the main reason behind the birth of [[spoiler: the fire nation sibilings, Zuko and Azula.]] Azulon wanted to create children mixing the bloodlines of Avatar Roku and Fire Lord Sozin into one family. That part of it worked, sort of. Azula came about with exceptional firebending talents at birth and Zuko grew into his own abilities over the course of the show. However; Azulon utterly failed to account for Ozai's absolute failure of parenting which also affected the children's growth; making them both flawed humans. Zuko became heavily traumatized and thus completely unable to master advanced firebending techniques at the start of the animated series. To date, he still can't generate lightning, an advanced technique his sister has proved to be able to do. By contrast, Azula was able to master firebending at a very young age by [[SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining sacrificing basic social skills for her training]]; but the trauma of her father's emotional abuse and Ursa perceived neglect drove her insane at her core and left her completely unable to socialize or act like a normal person. Basically, Azulon got the ideal bloodlines in terms of abilities, but thanks to Ozai's failure of parenting, he had created very broken and traumatized children in his wake.

** In ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', Supergirl fought SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}. Knowing he couldn't go toe-to-toe with a Kryptonian, Lobo tried to piss her off so she was so irrationally angry that she couldn't fight effectively. He succeeded and he drove her mad. He drove her so mad that she flew off the handle and crushed him like a bug.
** In ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', Bizarro ComicBook/LexLuthor succeeded into drawing a creature able to kill SelfDemonstrating/{{Bizarro}} #1… never thinking that creature might -and DID- kill him, too.

* It's been suggested that SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}} was the universe's attempt to balance out the peaceful world of Czarnia, which had no real evil in millennia. He balanced things out, alright -- by [[KillEmAll killing every last person except himself]].

** To avoid taking part to an assault, another soldier claimed to be an expert chemist and that his knowledge could be used for studies to achieve invisibility, and the Military Medic, who was fixated on that, took him as an assistant... And, once he started suspecting a trick, forced him to use himself as a subject for his own invisibility serum, eventually leading to being sent on a commando mission alone and naked while still visible.

* In ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'', the former Julian Kintobor Robotnik creates a robotic vine known as Krudzu, which runs rampant in the Great Forest until they're destroyed with water. Snively and Antoine attempt to find another set, but are destroyed in the process. One last batch evolved into a deadly "Krudzu Hybrid Hydra", only to be destroyed by Dr. Eggman, who felt that only he could defeat Sonic.

* ''{{ComicBook/Livewires}}'': [[spoiler: a team of ultra-tech androids created to control the spread of ultra-tech in the Marvel Universe. They started with the scientist that created ''them.'']]

** In ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'', Mastermind manipulated Comicbook/JeanGrey's mind to remove both her morals and [[PowerLimiter the blocks she'd put on her cosmic power]]. The result was... [[AGodAmI a little more than he could handle]]. Dark Phoenix "rewarded" Mastermind by giving him exactly what he wanted: she made his mind "one with the universe", [[GoMadFromTheRevelation shattering his sanity in the process]] as the human brain lacks the capacity to comprehend what he'd experienced.

** Similarly, with Madelyne Pryor: When S'ym and N'astrir unlocked her powers and corrupted her, they assumed that they would be able to control her only for Maddie to hijack the entire Inferno plan to go after her husband Comicbook/{{Cyclops}}.

* In ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'', Muller forces Violine to read the minds of several of the president's ministers to prove that she can read minds, so he can weaponize her. Unfortunately, being in an African dictatorship, all the ministers are plotting the president's overthrow, and after several such revelations, the room descends into chaos as all the ministers put their plans in action at the same time, all calling on the same military to support them.

* ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}''

* One ''{{ComicBook/Xxxenophile}}'' comic has a couple start a one-night stand, with an angel and devil showing up to watch because the child they conceive that night will be the Antichrist. The devil continuously gloats about how immoral and hedonistic the couple is as they go through almost every possible permutation of extremities to orifices the human body has to offer, while the angel remains doubtful. Finally the sun rises, the devil is triumphant... and the angel reminds him that for all their sexual contortions, the one sex act the couple ''didn't'' perform was the one well-known to cause babies.

* One ''{{ComicBook/Xxxenophile}}'' comic has a couple start a one-night stand, with an angel and devil showing up to watch because the child they conceive that night will be the Antichrist. The devil continuously gloats about how immoral and hedonistic the couple is as they go through almost every possible permutation of extremities to orifices the human body has to offer, while the angel remains doubtful. Finally the sun rises, the devil is triumphant... and the angel reminds him that for all their sexual contortions, the one sex act the couple ''didn't'' perform was the one well-known to cause babies.

* ''Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' show that Scrooge receiving his NumberOneDime was planned out by his father to teach his son to be more careful not to be cheated like their ancestors were. It works, but when Scrooge starts insisting on receiving receipts for the money he gives his family (For tax purposes!) Fergus remarks, "Hoots, mon! Ah may have ''over''inspired the lad!"
* In ''The Secret of Atlantis'', Scrooge hatches a scheme to make a fortune by buying up every 1916 quarter and then destroying all but one of them, making it a rare coin. Ultimately, he succeeds; but when he tries to cash in on the sole remaining quarter, he's informed that there's only one person in the world rich enough to buy it: Scrooge himself.

* In the ''[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Shadow of the Bat]]'' story "The Ugly American", Batman learns of a man who was trained and experimented on to be the perfect patriotic soldier, building up his loyalty to the US. However, it worked a little ''too'' well, turning him into a madman who considers anyone not "white" to be "the enemy".

* In ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'', God deliberately creates the Saint of Killers, an unstoppable undead assassin capable of killing '''absolutely anything''' with a single shot. God [[BoomHeadshot found out that this had been a bad idea]] when the Saint was informed of how badly God had deliberately screwed his life up to prepare him for taking on the role.
** In point of fact, it was the Angel of Death who passed his power onto the Saint of Killers. God didn't DIRECTLY create him.

* DC's Cluemaster was a Batman villain who, like the Riddler, had a compulsion to leave clues behind when he committed crimes. He was quickly caught and sent to Arkham Asylum, where he was cured ... of the compulsion to leave clues. He still committed crimes, just without leaving any hints behind.
* [[ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch The Search]] reveals that a genetic experiment was the main reason behind the birth of [[spoiler: the fire nation sibilings, Zuko and Azula.]] Azulon wanted to create children mixing the bloodlines of Avatar Roku and Fire Lord Sozin into one family. That part of it worked, sort of. Azula came about with exceptional firebending talents at birth and Zuko grew into his own abilities over the course of the show. However; Azulon utterly failed to account for Ozai's absolute failure of parenting which also affected the children's growth; making them both flawed humans. Zuko became heavily traumatized and thus completely unable to master advanced firebending techniques at the start of the animated series. To date, he still can't generate lightning, an advanced technique his sister has proved to be able to do. By contrast, Azula was able to master firebending at a very young age by [[SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining sacrificing basic social skills for her training]]; but the trauma of her father's emotional abuse and Ursa perceived neglect drove her insane at her core and left her completely unable to socialize or act like a normal person. Basically, Azulon got the ideal bloodlines in terms of abilities, but thanks to Ozai's failure of parenting, he had created very broken and traumatized children in his wake.

** ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'': Doomsday was genetically engineered to be the ultimate warrior, courtesy of genetic experiments that made it capable of [[LamarckWasRight Lamarckian evolution]]. As shown in ''ComicBook/SupermanDoomsdayHunterPrey'', the creators succeeded, and were wiped out by their own creation, which was so traumatized by the GeneticMemory of countless deaths that [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds it had come to view all other life as a terrifying threat to its own survival]]. On top of it all, it turns out that said creators were so focused on the experiments that they never actually thought about what to ‘’do’’ with their experiment once it actually worked.

* [[ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch The Search]] reveals that a genetic experiment was the main reason behind the birth of [[spoiler: the fire nation sibilings, Zuko and Azula.]] Azulon wanted to create children mixing the bloodlines of Avatar Roku and Fire Lord Sozin into one family. That part of it worked, sort of. Azula came about with exceptional firebending talents at birth and Zuko grew into his own abilities over the course of the show. However; Azulon utterly failed to account for Ozai's absolute failure of parenting which also affected the children's growth; making them both flawed humans. Zuko became heavily traumatized and thus completely unable to master advanced firebending techniques at the start of the animated series. To date, he still can't generate lightning, an advanced technique his sister has proved to be able to do. By contrast, Azula was able to master firebending at a very young age by [[SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining sacrificing basic social skills for her training]]; but the trauma of her father's emotional abuse and Ursa perceived neglect drove her insane at her core and left her completely unable to socialize or act like a normal person. Basically, Azulon got the ideal bloodlines in terms of abilities, but thanks to Ozai's failure of parenting had created very broken and traumatized children in his wake.

** Dr. Morrow goes and does it again with 'Genocide' who runs off and decides to kill everyone ever. Personally. Then she discovers mental torture.

* ''Disney/BigHero6'': In one story of the ComicBookAdaptation, Fred asks Hiro to make an invisible suit. Hiro does such a good job that neither him nor Fred can find it afterwards.

* ''ComicBook/ScoobyApocalypse'': The nanites that turn most of the world's population into monsters were originally supposed to just [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans remove negative emotions in order to bring about world peace]], so as far as that goes it's a case of GoneHorriblyWrong. However, in the final issues it's revealed that it's also become a case of this trope, as [[spoiler: the Nanite King, the ultimate manifestation of the nanites' HiveMind, has decided it needs to completely wipe out humans and monsters alike]], thereby from the view of its InsaneTrollLogic would be a fulfillment of its original goal.

* It's been suggested that ComicBook/{{Lobo}} was the universe's attempt to balance out the peaceful world of Czarnia, which had no real evil in millennia. He balanced things out, alright -- by [[KillEmAll killing every last person except himself]].

* In the American Archie ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog'' series, the former Julian Kintobor Robotnik creates a robotic vine known as Krudzu, which runs rampant in the Great Forest until they're destroyed with water. Snively and Antoine attempt to find another set, but are destroyed in the process. One last batch evolved into a deadly "Krudzu Hybrid Hydra", only to be destroyed by Dr. Eggman, who felt that only he could defeat Sonic.

* This is basically ''ComicBook/IronMan's'' origin. Terrorists kidnap weapons manufacturer Tony Stark to force him into making weapons for them. Tony did build a [[PoweredArmor weapon]], but his kidnappers didn't count on Tony using it against ''them''.

* This is basically ''ComicBook/IronMan's'' origin. Terrorists kidnap weapons manufacturer Tony Stark to force him into making weapons for them. Tony did build a [[PoweredArmor weapon]], but his kidnappers didn't count on him using it against ''them''.

* In year two of ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'', the remnant of the Justice League and the Green Lantern Corps face against [[FallenHero Superman's regime]] and the Yellow Lantern Corps. Black Canary takes down Superman using a kryptonite bullet, but he uses a Yellow Power Ring given by Sinestro to extract the bullet, and hits her with a beam of heat vision, seriously wounding her. As she [[spoiler: lies dying]] she tells Superman that she's broadcasting his actions to the whole world so they can see what he's become. Batman then tells Black Canary to cut the feed because the video images only serve to make the world [[BewareTheSuperman affraid of Superman,]] and since [[EmotionEater the Yellow Power Ring he's got on becomes more powerful with fear...]]

* Kicks off the MythArc in ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}''. Spider hates the incumbent president, [[OnlyKnownByHisNickname the Beast]], so much that he tries to help the opposition, Gary Callahan, win the election and push the Beast out of office. It works... just in time for Spider to discover that [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood the Beast was just a lazy and cynical man coasting through his term]], whereas the seemingly squeaky-clean Callahan is secretly a deranged psychopath [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans who wants to become president in order to carry out all of his horrific, depraved fantasies on the people of America]].

* It's been suggested that ComicBook/{{Lobo}} was the universe's attempt to balance out the peaceful world of Czarnia, which had no real evil in millennia. He balanced things out, alright -- by [[KillEmAll killing every last person except himself]].

* [[ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch The Search]] reveals that a genetic experiment was the main reason behind the birth of [[spoiler: the fire nation sibilings, Zuko and Azula.]] Azulon wanted to create children mixing the bloodlines of Avatar Roku and Fire Lord Sozin into one family. That part of it worked, sort of. Azula came about with exceptional firebending talents at birth and Zuko grew into his own abilities over the course of the show. However; Azulon utterly failed to account for Ozai's absolute failure of parenting which also affected the children's growth; making them both flawed humans. Zuko became heavily traumatized and thus completely unable to master advanced firebending techniques at the start of the animated series. To date, he still can't generate lightning, an advanced technique his sister has proved to be able to do. By contrast, Azula was able to master firebending at a very young age by [[SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining sacrificing basic social skills for her training]]; but the trauma of her father's emotional abuse and Ursa perceived neglect drove her insane at her core and left her completely unable to socialize or act like a normal person. Basically, Azulon got the ideal bloodlines in terms of abilities, but thanks to Ozai's failure of parenting had created very broken and traumatized children in his wake.

* [[ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch The Search]] reveals that a genetic experiment was the main reason behind the birth of [[spoiler: the fire nation sibilings, Zuko and Azula. Azulon wanted to create children mixing the bloodlines of Avatar Roku and Fire Lord Sozin into one family. That part of it worked, sort of. Azula came about with exceptional firebending talents at birth and Zuko grew into his own abilities over the course of the show. However; Azulon utterly failed to account for Ozai's absolute failure of parenting which also affected the children's growth; making them both flawed humans. Zuko became heavily traumatized and thus completely unable to master advanced firebending techniques at the start of the animated series. To date, he still can't generate lightning, an advanced technique his sister has proved to be able to do. By contrast, Azula was able to master firebending at a very young age by [[SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining sacrificing basic social skills for her training]]; but the trauma of her father's emotional abuse and Ursa perceived neglect drove her insane at her core and left her completely unable to socialize or act like a normal person. Basically, Azulon got the ideal bloodlines in terms of abilities, but thanks to Ozai's failure of parenting had created very broken and traumatized children in his wake.

* DC's Cluemaster was a Batman villain who, like the Riddler, had a compulsion to leave clues behind when he committed crimes. He was quickly caught and sent to Arkham Asylum, where he was cured ... of the compulsion to leave clues. He still committed crimes, just without leaving any hints behind.