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* In ''Film/TheProducers'', the main characters make a farce out of an extremely offensive musical, hoping that people will hate it and they can claim a loss on the insurance they put on it. The show crosses the line so thoroughly that it [[CrossesTheLineTwice comes back again]], and [[SpringtimeForHitler audiences find it hysterical]].
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* In ''Film/TheProducers'', the main characters make decide to run a scam, which involves making a farce out of an extremely offensive musical, hoping that people will hate it and they can claim a loss on the insurance they put on it. The show crosses the line so thoroughly that it [[CrossesTheLineTwice comes back again]], and [[SpringtimeForHitler audiences find it hysterical]].hysterical]].
-->""I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go '''right'''?"
-->""I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go '''right'''?"
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** ''Film/{{Logan}}'': Most of the Transigen experiments were simple failures due to ChildrenAreInnocent. The kids resisted any conditioning to break their natural empathy, and eventually Transigen had to scrap the project. Then there's Laura, Logan's genetic daughter, who came out the other side a ruthless killing machine, exactly like Transigen wanted. Then her adoptive mother helped her escape, and she spent the entire movie ruthlessly killing anyone sent after her.
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** Kincaid gets this himself when Watson goes missing but the police assume Holmes can keep up the investigation. Kincaid, who couldn't deduce his way out of a paper bag, realizes just how well he's sold the act and that there's no way he can figure this out on his own.
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* The deconstruction comedy ''Film/WithoutAClue'' reveals that Watson is actually the brilliant detective but, worried about police cases interfering with his medical career, hired actor Kincaid to play his creation Sherlock Holmes. Thus, it's Watson who makes the solutions and Kincaid just acts them out. However, Kincaid is also an arrogant drunk and after too much bungling, Watson finally gets tired and fires him. He then offers his services to the police as "The Crime Doctor" and ready to write about himself in the Strand. However, Watson discovers that he's done such a great job selling Holmes as the true genius and himself as the sidekick that no one believes he's up to the task and so Watson is forced to hire Kincaid back to continue the act.
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* In ''Ghosts of Girlfriends Past'', the back story of [[TheCasanova Conner Mead]] involves him suffering a minor romantic disappointment. He then gleefully accepts his uncle's advice on womanizing so that he'll never feel vulnerable to a female ever again. It works to the point of him becoming a womanizing {{jerkass}} whom everyone hates.
* In ''Film/{{Inception}}'' the criminals aim to plant an idea in someone's mind. LeonardoDiCaprio's character has only tried this once before, [[spoiler:attempting to wake his wife up from a permanent dream state by implanting the idea in her mind that the world around her wasn't real.]] It worked so well [[spoiler:she later [[DrivenToSuicide killed herself]] trying to wake up from the real world.]] Or did she?
* In ''Film/{{Inception}}'' the criminals aim to plant an idea in someone's mind. LeonardoDiCaprio's character has only tried this once before, [[spoiler:attempting to wake his wife up from a permanent dream state by implanting the idea in her mind that the world around her wasn't real.]] It worked so well [[spoiler:she later [[DrivenToSuicide killed herself]] trying to wake up from the real world.]] Or did she?
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* In ''Ghosts of Girlfriends Past'', ''Film/GhostsOfGirlfriendsPast'', the back story of [[TheCasanova Conner Mead]] involves him suffering a minor romantic disappointment. He then gleefully accepts his uncle's advice on womanizing so that he'll never feel vulnerable to a female ever again. It works to the point of him becoming a womanizing {{jerkass}} whom everyone hates.
* In ''Film/{{Inception}}'' the criminals aim to plant an idea in someone's mind.LeonardoDiCaprio's Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio's character has only tried this once before, [[spoiler:attempting to wake his wife up from a permanent dream state by implanting the idea in her mind that the world around her wasn't real.]] It worked so well [[spoiler:she later [[DrivenToSuicide killed herself]] trying to wake up from the real world.]] Or did she?
* In ''Film/{{Inception}}'' the criminals aim to plant an idea in someone's mind.
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* Maureen Prescott went to Hollywood to try to become famous. Even though she left the city with a traumatic experience, and a couple roles as an extra in B horror movies, it's safe to say that after 2 books, seven movies, 4 real-life "movies", there's not one person in the ''Franchise/{{Scream}}'' series that doesn't know the name Maureen Prescott. And all it took was a series of bad decisions and her brutal death. But, she was famous.
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* Maureen Prescott went to Hollywood to try to become famous. Even though she left the city with a traumatic experience, and a couple roles as an extra in B horror movies, it's safe to say that after 2 books, seven movies, 4 real-life "movies", there's not one person in the ''Franchise/{{Scream}}'' series that doesn't know the name Maureen Prescott. And all it took was a series of bad decisions and her brutal death.death at the hands of the killers of the first movie. But, she was famous.
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* ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' alternates between this and GoneHorriblyWrong.
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* ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' alternates between this and GoneHorriblyWrong. The machine created by Wayne Szalinski originally blew up anything it was used on, such as fruit. But when Ron Thompson hits a baseball through the Szalinskis' attic window and gets in the way of the laser, the machine begins acting on its own, and shrinks objects (and people) as intended, but ends up shrinking the Szalinski and Thompson kids in the title incident. When Wayne finally figures out the flaw in the machine and corrects it, he is able to get both the Thompson and Szalinski kids back to normal.
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** In Film/Godzilla2014 The military decides to use a nuclear warhead is used to lure in the radiation consuming monsters. The M.U.T.O.s take the bait- and bring it to a populated area where their babies are. The military then has to retrieve it and deactivate it.
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** In Film/Godzilla2014 The military decides to use a nuclear warhead is used to lure in the radiation consuming monsters. The M.U.T.O.s take the bait- and bring it to a populated area where their babies are. The military then has to retrieve it and deactivate it.
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* In ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'', Bill Murray decides to scare Columbus by pretending to be a zombie. Only Columbus ''does'' think he's a zombie and shoots and mortally wounds him.
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* In ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'', Bill Murray decides to scare Columbus by pretending to be a zombie. Only But Columbus ''does'' think he's a zombie zombie, and shoots and mortally wounds him.
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* ''Film/TheDarkKnight:'' The Mob gets so scared of Batman, Gordon, and Harvey Dent that they hire SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker to take him down. However, the Joker decides that just killing Batman isn't enough and plots to destroy Gotham City from the inside out and corrupt Dent into a psychotic murderer like himself [[ForTheEvulz for the hell of it]].
* ''Film/{{Stealth}}'': the Navy builds an artificially intelligent airplane (EDI) that can fly itself and make tactical decisions on the battlefield. To help EDI develop, they send it on missions with flesh-and-blood pilots, with orders to observe the pilots and learn from their actions. One of the pilots on said mission disobeys direct orders and pulls an insanely risky, but ultimately successful, stunt to accomplish the mission. EDI indeed learns from this: [[AIIsACrapshoot accomplishing the mission is more important than following the orders of your superiors]].
* ''Film/{{Stealth}}'': the Navy builds an artificially intelligent airplane (EDI) that can fly itself and make tactical decisions on the battlefield. To help EDI develop, they send it on missions with flesh-and-blood pilots, with orders to observe the pilots and learn from their actions. One of the pilots on said mission disobeys direct orders and pulls an insanely risky, but ultimately successful, stunt to accomplish the mission. EDI indeed learns from this: [[AIIsACrapshoot accomplishing the mission is more important than following the orders of your superiors]].
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* ''Film/TheDarkKnight:'' The Mob gets so scared of Batman, Commissioner Gordon, and Harvey Dent that they hire SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker to take him Batman down. However, the Joker decides that just killing Batman isn't enough and plots to destroy Gotham City from the inside out and corrupt Dent into a psychotic murderer like himself [[ForTheEvulz for the hell of it]].
* ''Film/{{Stealth}}'':the The Navy builds an artificially intelligent airplane (EDI) that can fly itself and make tactical decisions on the battlefield. To help EDI develop, they send it on missions with flesh-and-blood pilots, with orders to observe the pilots and learn from their actions. One of the pilots on said mission disobeys direct orders and pulls an insanely risky, but ultimately successful, stunt to accomplish the mission. EDI indeed learns from this: [[AIIsACrapshoot accomplishing the mission is more important than following the orders of your superiors]].
* ''Film/{{Stealth}}'':
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* Skynet, from the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' series, is basically this. The Americans wanted a hyper-intelligent computer system that they could use to control their national defence systems. Unfortunately, they didn't bargain that [[AIIsACrapshoot "hyper-intelligent" also meant "self-aware."]]
* In ''Film/ExMachina'', Nathan's true aim is [[spoiler:to test if Ava is "human" enough to manipulate Caleb into helping her escape. She does, and she immediately murders Nathan]].
* In ''Film/ExMachina'', Nathan's true aim is [[spoiler:to test if Ava is "human" enough to manipulate Caleb into helping her escape. She does, and she immediately murders Nathan]].
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* Skynet, from the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' series, is basically this. The Americans wanted a hyper-intelligent computer system that they could use to control their national defence systems. Unfortunately, they didn't bargain that [[AIIsACrapshoot "hyper-intelligent" also meant "self-aware."]]
"self-aware"]].
* In ''Film/ExMachina'', Nathan's true aim is [[spoiler:to testif whether Ava is "human" enough to manipulate Caleb into helping her escape. She does, and she immediately murders Nathan]].
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* ''The Pit and the Pendulum'': a plot to break [[VincentPrice Nicholas]] backfires because the broken Nicholas takes on the persona on his father - a notorious torturer with a legacy of brutal revenge.
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* ''The Pit and the Pendulum'': a A plot to break [[VincentPrice [[Creator/VincentPrice Nicholas]] backfires because the broken Nicholas takes on the persona on of his father - a notorious torturer with a legacy of brutal revenge.
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* In ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', [[DrillSergeantNasty Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]]'s goal for his group of Vietnam War recruits is to turn each man into a remorseless, killing machine. He gets irritated with Private Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence for figuratively and literally (he's on the overweight side) failing to pull his weight, but eventually after he becomes TheLoad of the group and gets tortured in a blanket party, he starts excelling with his gunmanship in great bounds that even take Hartman by surprise. [[spoiler:However, his increase in skill came with a progressive downward spiral of mental well-being until he winds up ''completely batshit insane'' but at the same time everything Hartman wanted him to be. He ends up killing Hartman, but does immediately [[AteHisGun kill himself]] afterwards since he knows of the repercussions]].
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* In ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', [[DrillSergeantNasty Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]]'s goal for his group of Vietnam War recruits is to turn each man into a remorseless, killing machine. He gets irritated with Private Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence for figuratively and literally (he's on the overweight side) failing to pull his weight, but eventually after he becomes TheLoad of the group and gets tortured in a blanket party, he Lawrence starts excelling with his gunmanship in great bounds that even take Hartman by surprise. [[spoiler:However, his increase in skill came with a progressive downward spiral of mental well-being until he winds up ''completely batshit insane'' but at the same time everything Hartman wanted him to be. He ends up killing Hartman, but does immediately [[AteHisGun kill himself]] afterwards since he knows of the repercussions]].
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* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension'': Buckaroo's test of the Oscillation Overthruster is a complete success. Unfortunately, it gives a bunch of alien criminals a way back to their home planet. The alien government would blow up the Earth rather than let that happen.
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* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension'': Buckaroo's test of the Oscillation Overthruster is a complete success. Unfortunately, it gives a bunch of alien criminals a way back to their home planet. The alien government would will blow up the Earth rather than let that happen.if that's what it takes to keep the criminals out.
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* ''Film/HeadOfState'' revolves around a politician getting a black man to run for president (this film is was made before UsefulNotes/BarackObama's election, of course) and almost win, but gain the support of minority voters for his party so that the politician himself can get their votes in the election after that. Key word being ''almost'' win.
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* ''Film/HeadOfState'' revolves around a politician getting a black man to run for president (this film is was made before UsefulNotes/BarackObama's election, of course) and almost win, but gain the support of minority voters for his party so that the politician himself can get their votes in the election after that. Key word being ''almost'' win."almost".
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* The bad guys in ''Film/UnderSiege'' had such an easy time taking over the USS ''Missouri'' because they were ''trained'' for exactly this sort of thing... by the CIA. Who knew a bunch of mercenaries lead by a nut wouldn't stay loyal to the US government?
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* The bad guys in ''Film/UnderSiege'' had such an easy time taking over the USS ''Missouri'' because they were ''trained'' for exactly this sort of thing... by the CIA. Who knew a bunch of mercenaries lead led by a nut wouldn't stay loyal to the US government?
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* In ''Film/TheProducers'', the main characters make a farce out of an extremely offensive musical, hoping that people will hate it and they can claim a loss on the insurance they put on it. The show crosses the line so thoroughly that it [[CrossesTheLineTwice comes back again]], and audiences find it hysterical.
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* In ''Film/TheProducers'', the main characters make a farce out of an extremely offensive musical, hoping that people will hate it and they can claim a loss on the insurance they put on it. The show crosses the line so thoroughly that it [[CrossesTheLineTwice comes back again]], and [[SpringtimeForHitler audiences find it hysterical.hysterical]].
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** In Film/GodzillaVsBiollante, A Japanese geneticist named Genshiro Shiragami's daughter is killed in a bombing raid. He eventually decides to bring her back by mixing her DNA with a rose and [[HealingFactor Godzilla cells]]. This results in her technically coming back, but unfortunately she is in the body of a [[MixAndMatchCritters Godzilla/Human/Plant hybrid]] which also has a personality of her own that surfaces after an encounter with Godzilla...
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** In Film/GodzillaVsBiollante, A Japanese geneticist named Genshiro Shiragami's daughter is killed in a bombing raid. He eventually decides to bring her back by mixing her DNA with a rose and [[HealingFactor Godzilla cells]]. This results in her technically coming back, but unfortunately she is in the body of a [[MixAndMatchCritters Godzilla/Human/Plant hybrid]] which also has a personality of her own that surfaces after an encounter with Godzilla...
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** In Film/Godzilla2014 The military decides to use a nuclear warhead is used to lure in the radiation consuming monsters. The MUTOs take the bait- and bring it to a populated area where their babies are. The military then has to retrieve it and deactivate it.
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* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'': Happens often.
** In Film/GodzillaVsBiollante, A Japanese geneticist named Genshiro Shiragami's daughter is killed in a bombing raid. He eventually decides to bring her back by mixing her DNA with a rose and [[HealingFactor Godzilla cells]]. This results in her technically coming back, but unfortunately she is in the body of a [[MixAndMatchCritters Godzilla/Human/Plant hybrid]] which also has a personality of her own that surfaces after an encounter with Godzilla...
** In the 1991 film ''Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah'', people in Japan attempt to "re-create" Godzilla so that they can stop King Ghidorah. Not only do they '''succeed''' in mutating a Godzillasaurus into Godzilla ([[Mst3kMantra don't ask how they even know what Godzilla is, considering he was "erased from history" in the film]]), but they also end up making him bigger AND more powerful than before. And then Godzilla proceeds to rampage across Japan yet again...
-->'''[[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd James Rolfe]]''': The good news is, Godzilla's back; and the bad news is, Godzilla's back.
** Kiryu from the films ''Film/GodzillaAgainstMechagodzilla'' and ''[[Film/GodzillaTokyoSOS Tokyo SOS]]'' is an attempt by the JSDF to create a weapon out of the skeletal remains of the [[Film/{{Gojira}} 1954 Godzilla]]. They succeed, but, unfortunately, Kiryu tends to act like his flesh-and-blood counterpart.
** In Film/GodzillaVsBiollante, A Japanese geneticist named Genshiro Shiragami's daughter is killed in a bombing raid. He eventually decides to bring her back by mixing her DNA with a rose and [[HealingFactor Godzilla cells]]. This results in her technically coming back, but unfortunately she is in the body of a [[MixAndMatchCritters Godzilla/Human/Plant hybrid]] which also has a personality of her own that surfaces after an encounter with Godzilla...
** In the 1991 film ''Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah'', people in Japan attempt to "re-create" Godzilla so that they can stop King Ghidorah. Not only do they '''succeed''' in mutating a Godzillasaurus into Godzilla ([[Mst3kMantra don't ask how they even know what Godzilla is, considering he was "erased from history" in the film]]), but they also end up making him bigger AND more powerful than before. And then Godzilla proceeds to rampage across Japan yet again...
-->'''[[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd James Rolfe]]''': The good news is, Godzilla's back; and the bad news is, Godzilla's back.
** Kiryu from the films ''Film/GodzillaAgainstMechagodzilla'' and ''[[Film/GodzillaTokyoSOS Tokyo SOS]]'' is an attempt by the JSDF to create a weapon out of the skeletal remains of the [[Film/{{Gojira}} 1954 Godzilla]]. They succeed, but, unfortunately, Kiryu tends to act like his flesh-and-blood counterpart.
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** A Japanese geneticist named Genshiro Shiragami's daughter is killed in a bombing raid. He eventually decides to bring her back by mixing her DNA with a rose and [[HealingFactor Godzilla cells]]. This results in her technically coming back, but unfortunately she is in the body of a [[Planimal Godzilla/Plant hybrid]] which also has a personality of her own that surfaces after an encounter with Godzilla...
** In the 1991 film ''Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah'', people in Japan attempt to "re-create" Godzilla so that they can stop King Ghidorah. Not only do they '''succeed''' in mutating a Godzillasaurus into Godzilla ([[Mst3kMantra don't ask how they even know what Godzilla is, considering he was "erased from history" in the film]]), but they also end up making him bigger AND more powerful than before. And then Godzilla proceeds to rampage across Japan yet again...
-->'''[[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd James Rolfe]]''': The good news is, Godzilla's back; and the bad news is, Godzilla's back.
** Kiryu from the films ''Film/GodzillaAgainstMechagodzilla'' and ''[[Film/GodzillaTokyoSOS Tokyo SOS]]'' is an attempt by the JSDF to create a weapon out of the skeletal remains of the [[Film/{{Gojira}} 1954 Godzilla]]. They succeed, but, unfortunately, Kiryu tends to act like his flesh-and-blood counterpart.
** A Japanese geneticist named Genshiro Shiragami's daughter is killed in a bombing raid. He eventually decides to bring her back by mixing her DNA with a rose and [[HealingFactor Godzilla cells]]. This results in her technically coming back, but unfortunately she is in the body of a [[Planimal Godzilla/Plant hybrid]] which also has a personality of her own that surfaces after an encounter with Godzilla...
** In the 1991 film ''Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah'', people in Japan attempt to "re-create" Godzilla so that they can stop King Ghidorah. Not only do they '''succeed''' in mutating a Godzillasaurus into Godzilla ([[Mst3kMantra don't ask how they even know what Godzilla is, considering he was "erased from history" in the film]]), but they also end up making him bigger AND more powerful than before. And then Godzilla proceeds to rampage across Japan yet again...
-->'''[[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd James Rolfe]]''': The good news is, Godzilla's back; and the bad news is, Godzilla's back.
** Kiryu from the films ''Film/GodzillaAgainstMechagodzilla'' and ''[[Film/GodzillaTokyoSOS Tokyo SOS]]'' is an attempt by the JSDF to create a weapon out of the skeletal remains of the [[Film/{{Gojira}} 1954 Godzilla]]. They succeed, but, unfortunately, Kiryu tends to act like his flesh-and-blood counterpart.
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* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension'': Buckaroo's test of the Oscillation Overthruster is a complete success. Unfortunately, it gives a bunch of alien criminals a way back to their home planet. The alien government would blow up the Earth rather than let that happen.
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* ''Film/ThePrestige'': Robert Angier wants [[DavidBowie Nicola Tesla]] to build him [[spoiler:a teleportation device]]. He does... but it lacks the RequiredSecondaryPower of [[spoiler: getting rid of the original]].
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* ''Film/ThePrestige'': Robert Angier wants [[DavidBowie [[Music/DavidBowie Nicola Tesla]] to build him [[spoiler:a teleportation device]]. He does... but it lacks the RequiredSecondaryPower of [[spoiler: getting rid of the original]].
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** River, the Academy's guinea pig to create a [[PsychicPowers psychic]] SuperSoldier. Their plans worked. She used her psychic abilities to learn about Pax and her Super Soldier skills to help expose it.
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** River, the Academy's guinea pig to create a [[PsychicPowers psychic]] SuperSoldier. Their plans worked. She used her psychic abilities to learn about Pax and her Super Soldier skills to help expose it. Of course, she also went bug-fuck crazy during the experiments.
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* The ''Film/EventHorizon'' was a spaceship created with an [[FasterThanLightTravel experimental FTL drive]] That ''was'' meant to either breach the boundaries of ordinary space-time or just cheat like crazy by turning it into a pretzel. [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace It did exactly that]]: it effectively opened a gateway to what is can best be described as Hell! (Which incidentally made its premise far closer to the game ''Doom'' than the actual movie ''Doom'') From that point on, things went [[GoneHorriblyWrong very, VERY badly wrong]], instead: good luck actually using it to get to any specific point in normal space-time as-when-where predicted. Or in one piece.
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* The ''Film/EventHorizon'' was a spaceship created with an [[FasterThanLightTravel experimental FTL drive]] That that ''was'' meant to either breach the boundaries of ordinary space-time or just cheat like crazy by turning it into a pretzel. [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace It did exactly that]]: it effectively opened a gateway to what is can best be described as Hell! (Which incidentally made its premise far closer to the game ''Doom'' than the actual movie ''Doom'') From that point on, things went [[GoneHorriblyWrong very, VERY badly wrong]], instead: good luck actually using it to get to any specific point in normal space-time as-when-where predicted. Or in one piece.
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* The ''Film/EventHorizon'' was a spaceship created with a drive meant to breach the boundaries of ordinary space-time by turning it into a pretzel. [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace It did exactly that]]: it opened a gateway to what is effectively hell (which incidentally made its premise far closer to the game ''Doom'' than the actual movie ''Doom'')! From that point on, it went [[GoneHorriblyWrong very badly wrong]]: good luck using it to get to any specific point in normal space-time as-when-where predicted. Or in one piece.
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* The ''Film/EventHorizon'' was a spaceship created with a drive an [[FasterThanLightTravel experimental FTL drive]] That ''was'' meant to either breach the boundaries of ordinary space-time or just cheat like crazy by turning it into a pretzel. [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace It did exactly that]]: it effectively opened a gateway to what is effectively hell (which can best be described as Hell! (Which incidentally made its premise far closer to the game ''Doom'' than the actual movie ''Doom'')! ''Doom'') From that point on, it things went [[GoneHorriblyWrong very very, VERY badly wrong]]: wrong]], instead: good luck actually using it to get to any specific point in normal space-time as-when-where predicted. Or in one piece.
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* The trailers for ''Film/{{Species}}'' nearly called the trope out by name.
---> ''Scientists attempted to combine human and alien DNA. There was only one problem with the experiment.... '''It worked.'''''
---> ''Scientists attempted to combine human and alien DNA. There was only one problem with the experiment.... '''It worked.'''''
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* In ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', [[DrillSergeantNasty Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]]'s goal for his group of Vietnam War recruits is to turn each man into a remorseless, killing machine. He gets irritated with Private Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence for figuratively and literally (he's on the overweight side) failing to pull his weight, but eventually after he becomes TheLoad of the group and gets tortured in a blanket party, he starts excelling with his gunmanship in great bounds that even take Hartman by surprise. [[spoiler:However, his increase in skill came with a progressive downward spiral of mental well-being until he winds up ''completely batshit insane'' but at the same time everything Hartman wanted him to be. He ends up killing Hartman, but does immediately [[AteHisGun kill himself]] afterwards since he knows of the repercussions]].
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* The ''Film/EventHorizon'' was a spaceship created with a drive meant to breach the boundaries of ordinary space-time by turning it into a pretzel. [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace It did exactly that]]: it opened a gateway to what is effectively hell (which incidentally made its premise far closer to the game ''Doom'' than the actual movie ''Doom'')! From that point on, it went [[GoneHorriblyWrong very badly wrong]]: good luck using it to get to any specify specific point in normal space-time as as-when-where predicted. Or in one piece.
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* The ''Film/EventHorizon'' was a spaceship created with a drive meant to breach the boundaries of ordinary space-time. [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace It did exactly that]]: it opened a gateway to hell (which incidentally made its premise far closer to the game ''Doom'' than the actual movie ''Doom'')!
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* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'':
** The Alliance's Pax chemical went horribly right as well as [[GoneHorriblyWrong horribly wrong]]. [[spoiler:Pax successfully made all but a fraction of the test population more docile, but made them so passive that they lost all motivation to eat, sleep or breathe, causing all of them to simply lay down where they stood and let themselves die. The ones who were fortunate enough to survive this had the opposite reaction to the Pax, becoming hyper-aggressive and murderously violent, becoming the very first Reavers]].
** River, the Academy's guinea pig to create a [[PsychicPowers psychic]] SuperSoldier. Their plans worked. She used her psychic abilities to learn about Pax and her Super Soldier skills to help expose it.
* ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' features the deep space probe Voyager 6 whose basic mission parameters are to travel the universe, learn all that it can, then report back to its creators. When it is intercepted by a planet of sentient machines, it is significantly enhanced with such tremendous power that when it does eventually report back to its creators, it can't accept that it was originally created by inferior organic life forms and threatens to destroy the earth.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'':
** In the 1991 film ''Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah'', people in Japan attempt to "re-create" Godzilla so that they can stop King Ghidorah. Not only do they '''succeed''' in mutating a Godzillasaurus into Godzilla ([[Mst3kMantra don't ask how they even know what Godzilla is, considering he was "erased from history" in the film]]), but they also end up making him bigger AND more powerful than before. And then Godzilla proceeds to rampage across Japan yet again...
-->'''[[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd James Rolfe]]''': The good news is, Godzilla's back; and the bad news is, Godzilla's back.
** Kiryu from the films ''Film/GodzillaAgainstMechagodzilla'' and ''[[Film/GodzillaTokyoSOS Tokyo SOS]]'' is an attempt by the JSDF to create a weapon out of the skeletal remains of the [[Film/{{Gojira}} 1954 Godzilla]]. They succeed, but, unfortunately, Kiryu tends to act like his flesh-and-blood counterpart.
* ''Film/IRobot'': The robots were programmed to protect humans. [[spoiler:And by "protect", they meant locking them inside their houses from the dangerous outside world.]]
** [[Literature/IRobot Asimov's stories]] had lesser examples of this trope, with several robots caught in a LogicBomb-style loop due to their absolute adherence to the Three Laws.
* ''Film/XMen'':
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' had them try to create an indestructible warrior. That worked pretty well. Then they pissed him off. That ''didn't''.
** In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Sebastian Shaw wanted to awaken Erik's powers and turn him into a PersonOfMassDestruction. Serves him right.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': The Sentinels were programmed to hunt and destroy mutants amongst the non-mutant populace and they proved extremely effective in this task. However, they soon began targeting people who could potentially have mutant children and then those who might have mutant grandchildren. Eventually they began wiping out the entire human race to fulfill their purpose.
* This is how General Ross describes how Bruce Banner first changed into the Hulk in 2008's ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk''.
* Commando Elite from ''Film/SmallSoldiers''. Some idiots put an advanced military chip into toys to make them look more lively. The toys are also programmed to "exterminate their enemies at all cost" because they thought it looked cool. It didn't go well.
* The ''Film/EventHorizon'' was a spaceship created with a drive meant to breach the boundaries of ordinary space-time. [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace It did exactly that]]: it opened a gateway to hell (which incidentally made its premise far closer to the game ''Doom'' than the actual movie ''Doom'')!
* In ''Ghosts of Girlfriends Past'', the back story of [[TheCasanova Conner Mead]] involves him suffering a minor romantic disappointment. He then gleefully accepts his uncle's advice on womanizing so that he'll never feel vulnerable to a female ever again. It works to the point of him becoming a womanizing {{jerkass}} whom everyone hates.
* In ''Film/{{Inception}}'' the criminals aim to plant an idea in someone's mind. LeonardoDiCaprio's character has only tried this once before, [[spoiler:attempting to wake his wife up from a permanent dream state by implanting the idea in her mind that the world around her wasn't real.]] It worked so well [[spoiler:she later [[DrivenToSuicide killed herself]] trying to wake up from the real world.]] Or did she?
* Maureen Prescott went to Hollywood to try to become famous. Even though she left the city with a traumatic experience, and a couple roles as an extra in B horror movies, it's safe to say that after 2 books, seven movies, 4 real-life "movies", there's not one person in the ''Franchise/{{Scream}}'' series that doesn't know the name Maureen Prescott. And all it took was a series of bad decisions and her brutal death. But, she was famous.
%%* ''Film/{{Splice}}''
* ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' alternates between this and GoneHorriblyWrong.
* In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', they decide to create a hybrid dinosaur to draw in more attendance after the normal dinosaurs begin losing appeal. This creates the Indominus Rex, which is ''far'' too powerful and violent for captivity. Not helping is the spliced raptor genes letting it ''control'' Delta, Charlie, Echo and Blue, which goes about as well as you'd expect.
* ''Film/{{Tron}}'': The MCP, starting as a chess program that could learn. Eventually it had learned enough to fully control the Encom system and create plans for world domination.
* In ''Film/TronLegacy'', Flynn created Clu 2.0, an avatar of himself with all his knowledge about the system, near-equivalent power to a User, and a directive to create the "perfect" system. Clu ends up making the Master Control Program look like an inefficient pansy, even [[spoiler:brainwashing Tron and making Flynn a prisoner in his own system]].
* ''Film/{{Resident Evil}}'': Project Alice was a glorious success, producing a psychic super soldier with a bitter hatred for those who made her what she is. "My name... Is Alice. And I remember everything."
* ''Film/SuperMarioBros'': After finally getting sick of [[SurroundedByIdiots Iggy and Spike]]'s stupidity and incompetence, [[PresidentEvil President Koopa]] uses the reverse setting on his DevolutionDevice to vastly augment their intelligence. Unfortunately, now that Iggy and Spike are smart enough to think for themselves, they pull a HeelFaceTurn.
* ''Film/TheItalianJob1969:'' "You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"
* In ''Film/TheProducers'', the main characters make a farce out of an extremely offensive musical, hoping that people will hate it and they can claim a loss on the insurance they put on it. The show crosses the line so thoroughly that it [[CrossesTheLineTwice comes back again]], and audiences find it hysterical.
* The evil robots from ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney''. They were too much like the originals, to the point that they were easily distracted, made bad decisions, and generally acted like idiots, much like the actual duo. However, they did have some very dark moments and [[spoiler:actually killed Bill and Ted, though it didn't stick]].
* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', the Nazis wanted to create a supersoldier who could destroy their enemies. They certainly got that with Johann Schmidt (aka, ComicBook/RedSkull). Too bad he also wants to usurp Hitler and dominate the world.
* ''Film/ThePrestige'': Robert Angier wants [[DavidBowie Nicola Tesla]] to build him [[spoiler:a teleportation device]]. He does... but it lacks the RequiredSecondaryPower of [[spoiler: getting rid of the original]].
* The bad guys in ''Film/UnderSiege'' had such an easy time taking over the USS ''Missouri'' because they were ''trained'' for exactly this sort of thing... by the CIA. Who knew a bunch of mercenaries lead by a nut wouldn't stay loyal to the US government?
* ''Film/PlanB'' revolves around a man getting as close as he can to his ex-girlfriend's bisexual boyfriend to drive them apart. It works ''so'' well that he ends up genuinely falling head-over-heels for the boyfriend.
* ''Film/MachineGunPreacher'': Sam Childers' wife became a born again Christian when he was in jail. After he got out, she persuaded him to start coming to church, because she wanted him to share her new-found faith. She probably wasn't expecting that God would call him to go to Africa and help orphanages.
* This happened in the backstory of ''Film/TheMatrix''. Man and machines were at war, and since most machines of the time were solar-powered, man decided to "scorch the sky" to block out the sun. This forced the machines to look [[HumanResources elsewhere]] for an energy supply.
* In ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'', Bill Murray decides to scare Columbus by pretending to be a zombie. Only Columbus ''does'' think he's a zombie and shoots and mortally wounds him.
* ''Film/FreddyVsJason:'' As part of his plan, Freddy brings Jason BackFromTheDead and tricks him into going to Springwood to kill the kids, counting on the fact that he will be blamed for the murders so he would be able to obtain enough power to escape Hell himself and haunt Springwood once more. The plan succeeds, but Freddy failed to anticipate that Jason would continue to intrude on his territory and steal Freddy's potential victims.
* ''Film/TheDarkKnight:'' The Mob gets so scared of Batman, Gordon, and Harvey Dent that they hire SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker to take him down. However, the Joker decides that just killing Batman isn't enough and plots to destroy Gotham City from the inside out and corrupt Dent into a psychotic murderer like himself [[ForTheEvulz for the hell of it]].
* ''Film/{{Stealth}}'': the Navy builds an artificially intelligent airplane (EDI) that can fly itself and make tactical decisions on the battlefield. To help EDI develop, they send it on missions with flesh-and-blood pilots, with orders to observe the pilots and learn from their actions. One of the pilots on said mission disobeys direct orders and pulls an insanely risky, but ultimately successful, stunt to accomplish the mission. EDI indeed learns from this: [[AIIsACrapshoot accomplishing the mission is more important than following the orders of your superiors]].
* In ''Film/{{S1m0ne}}'':
** As the page itself puts it:
--> When the main star of film director Viktor Taransky's latest film walks over "creative differences", Taransky is left with two options: scrap the movie altogether, or find a replacement. Unfortunately, given Taransky's plummeting career and the esoteric nature of the film itself there are no actresses who are willing to take the part. There's one last, desperate thing he could try: an acquaintance left him a computer program on a disk, and he can use that program to digitally create a replacement. It works - the film is a hit, and the "actress" is a runaway success, so Taransky markets her as a real person - giving webcam and phone interviews, "casting" her in his later films, and even performing a music concert as her, but things start to get out of hand. A pair of journalists who are trying to get a lead on the famously reclusive "Simone" are starting to suspect something is wrong, and Taransky himself is beginning to feel overshadowed by his creation.
** Eventually, Viktor decides to finally escape Simone's success by [[spoiler: faking her death in a car crash. However, he finds himself arrested for her murder and no one believing his claims that the woman never truly existed.]]
* ''Film/HeadOfState'' revolves around a politician getting a black man to run for president (this film is was made before UsefulNotes/BarackObama's election, of course) and almost win, but gain the support of minority voters for his party so that the politician himself can get their votes in the election after that. Key word being ''almost'' win.
* ''Die Brücke'' (The Bridge), both 1959 and 2008 films. Seven [[ChildSoldiers young German schoolboys]] are [[{{Conscription}} drafted into the German Army]] in April 1945 and they are assigned to defend an anonymous and insignificant bridge. Sufficient to say that they do.
* ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'': What'dya know! The ALZ-113 formula really ''does'' [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters improve the mental faculties of the common chimp]]!
* In ''Film/YouthInRevolt'', Nick and Francois successfully act out, but it results in [[spoiler: burning down half the town with his mother's car]]. Though Nick gets what he wants, by the end he has to deal with the consequences.
* Skynet, from the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' series, is basically this. The Americans wanted a hyper-intelligent computer system that they could use to control their national defence systems. Unfortunately, they didn't bargain that [[AIIsACrapshoot "hyper-intelligent" also meant "self-aware."]]
* In ''Film/ExMachina'', Nathan's true aim is [[spoiler:to test if Ava is "human" enough to manipulate Caleb into helping her escape. She does, and she immediately murders Nathan]].
* In ''Primal Force'', various animals are brought to a private game reserve island and are genetically experimented on, so they'll provide more challenging hunts for rich people. This causes baboons, the first animals that were experimented on, to viciously kill everything on the island (sans one man), and remain on top of the food chain there.
* ''The Pit and the Pendulum'': a plot to break [[VincentPrice Nicholas]] backfires because the broken Nicholas takes on the persona on his father - a notorious torturer with a legacy of brutal revenge.
* Implied in ''Film/{{Congo}}'' to be the reason why the ancient city became lost. The people of the city had bred a population of [[KillerGorilla aggressive, hyper-territorial, and intelligent gorillas]] to act as guardians for their diamond mine. Though it's not confirmed, the implication is that the gorillas eventually came to see the people of the city as intruders and slaughtered them.
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** The Alliance's Pax chemical went horribly right as well as [[GoneHorriblyWrong horribly wrong]]. [[spoiler:Pax successfully made all but a fraction of the test population more docile, but made them so passive that they lost all motivation to eat, sleep or breathe, causing all of them to simply lay down where they stood and let themselves die. The ones who were fortunate enough to survive this had the opposite reaction to the Pax, becoming hyper-aggressive and murderously violent, becoming the very first Reavers]].
** River, the Academy's guinea pig to create a [[PsychicPowers psychic]] SuperSoldier. Their plans worked. She used her psychic abilities to learn about Pax and her Super Soldier skills to help expose it.
* ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' features the deep space probe Voyager 6 whose basic mission parameters are to travel the universe, learn all that it can, then report back to its creators. When it is intercepted by a planet of sentient machines, it is significantly enhanced with such tremendous power that when it does eventually report back to its creators, it can't accept that it was originally created by inferior organic life forms and threatens to destroy the earth.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'':
** In the 1991 film ''Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah'', people in Japan attempt to "re-create" Godzilla so that they can stop King Ghidorah. Not only do they '''succeed''' in mutating a Godzillasaurus into Godzilla ([[Mst3kMantra don't ask how they even know what Godzilla is, considering he was "erased from history" in the film]]), but they also end up making him bigger AND more powerful than before. And then Godzilla proceeds to rampage across Japan yet again...
-->'''[[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd James Rolfe]]''': The good news is, Godzilla's back; and the bad news is, Godzilla's back.
** Kiryu from the films ''Film/GodzillaAgainstMechagodzilla'' and ''[[Film/GodzillaTokyoSOS Tokyo SOS]]'' is an attempt by the JSDF to create a weapon out of the skeletal remains of the [[Film/{{Gojira}} 1954 Godzilla]]. They succeed, but, unfortunately, Kiryu tends to act like his flesh-and-blood counterpart.
* ''Film/IRobot'': The robots were programmed to protect humans. [[spoiler:And by "protect", they meant locking them inside their houses from the dangerous outside world.]]
** [[Literature/IRobot Asimov's stories]] had lesser examples of this trope, with several robots caught in a LogicBomb-style loop due to their absolute adherence to the Three Laws.
* ''Film/XMen'':
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' had them try to create an indestructible warrior. That worked pretty well. Then they pissed him off. That ''didn't''.
** In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Sebastian Shaw wanted to awaken Erik's powers and turn him into a PersonOfMassDestruction. Serves him right.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': The Sentinels were programmed to hunt and destroy mutants amongst the non-mutant populace and they proved extremely effective in this task. However, they soon began targeting people who could potentially have mutant children and then those who might have mutant grandchildren. Eventually they began wiping out the entire human race to fulfill their purpose.
* This is how General Ross describes how Bruce Banner first changed into the Hulk in 2008's ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk''.
* Commando Elite from ''Film/SmallSoldiers''. Some idiots put an advanced military chip into toys to make them look more lively. The toys are also programmed to "exterminate their enemies at all cost" because they thought it looked cool. It didn't go well.
* The ''Film/EventHorizon'' was a spaceship created with a drive meant to breach the boundaries of ordinary space-time. [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace It did exactly that]]: it opened a gateway to hell (which incidentally made its premise far closer to the game ''Doom'' than the actual movie ''Doom'')!
* In ''Ghosts of Girlfriends Past'', the back story of [[TheCasanova Conner Mead]] involves him suffering a minor romantic disappointment. He then gleefully accepts his uncle's advice on womanizing so that he'll never feel vulnerable to a female ever again. It works to the point of him becoming a womanizing {{jerkass}} whom everyone hates.
* In ''Film/{{Inception}}'' the criminals aim to plant an idea in someone's mind. LeonardoDiCaprio's character has only tried this once before, [[spoiler:attempting to wake his wife up from a permanent dream state by implanting the idea in her mind that the world around her wasn't real.]] It worked so well [[spoiler:she later [[DrivenToSuicide killed herself]] trying to wake up from the real world.]] Or did she?
* Maureen Prescott went to Hollywood to try to become famous. Even though she left the city with a traumatic experience, and a couple roles as an extra in B horror movies, it's safe to say that after 2 books, seven movies, 4 real-life "movies", there's not one person in the ''Franchise/{{Scream}}'' series that doesn't know the name Maureen Prescott. And all it took was a series of bad decisions and her brutal death. But, she was famous.
%%* ''Film/{{Splice}}''
* ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' alternates between this and GoneHorriblyWrong.
* In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', they decide to create a hybrid dinosaur to draw in more attendance after the normal dinosaurs begin losing appeal. This creates the Indominus Rex, which is ''far'' too powerful and violent for captivity. Not helping is the spliced raptor genes letting it ''control'' Delta, Charlie, Echo and Blue, which goes about as well as you'd expect.
* ''Film/{{Tron}}'': The MCP, starting as a chess program that could learn. Eventually it had learned enough to fully control the Encom system and create plans for world domination.
* In ''Film/TronLegacy'', Flynn created Clu 2.0, an avatar of himself with all his knowledge about the system, near-equivalent power to a User, and a directive to create the "perfect" system. Clu ends up making the Master Control Program look like an inefficient pansy, even [[spoiler:brainwashing Tron and making Flynn a prisoner in his own system]].
* ''Film/{{Resident Evil}}'': Project Alice was a glorious success, producing a psychic super soldier with a bitter hatred for those who made her what she is. "My name... Is Alice. And I remember everything."
* ''Film/SuperMarioBros'': After finally getting sick of [[SurroundedByIdiots Iggy and Spike]]'s stupidity and incompetence, [[PresidentEvil President Koopa]] uses the reverse setting on his DevolutionDevice to vastly augment their intelligence. Unfortunately, now that Iggy and Spike are smart enough to think for themselves, they pull a HeelFaceTurn.
* ''Film/TheItalianJob1969:'' "You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"
* In ''Film/TheProducers'', the main characters make a farce out of an extremely offensive musical, hoping that people will hate it and they can claim a loss on the insurance they put on it. The show crosses the line so thoroughly that it [[CrossesTheLineTwice comes back again]], and audiences find it hysterical.
* The evil robots from ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney''. They were too much like the originals, to the point that they were easily distracted, made bad decisions, and generally acted like idiots, much like the actual duo. However, they did have some very dark moments and [[spoiler:actually killed Bill and Ted, though it didn't stick]].
* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', the Nazis wanted to create a supersoldier who could destroy their enemies. They certainly got that with Johann Schmidt (aka, ComicBook/RedSkull). Too bad he also wants to usurp Hitler and dominate the world.
* ''Film/ThePrestige'': Robert Angier wants [[DavidBowie Nicola Tesla]] to build him [[spoiler:a teleportation device]]. He does... but it lacks the RequiredSecondaryPower of [[spoiler: getting rid of the original]].
* The bad guys in ''Film/UnderSiege'' had such an easy time taking over the USS ''Missouri'' because they were ''trained'' for exactly this sort of thing... by the CIA. Who knew a bunch of mercenaries lead by a nut wouldn't stay loyal to the US government?
* ''Film/PlanB'' revolves around a man getting as close as he can to his ex-girlfriend's bisexual boyfriend to drive them apart. It works ''so'' well that he ends up genuinely falling head-over-heels for the boyfriend.
* ''Film/MachineGunPreacher'': Sam Childers' wife became a born again Christian when he was in jail. After he got out, she persuaded him to start coming to church, because she wanted him to share her new-found faith. She probably wasn't expecting that God would call him to go to Africa and help orphanages.
* This happened in the backstory of ''Film/TheMatrix''. Man and machines were at war, and since most machines of the time were solar-powered, man decided to "scorch the sky" to block out the sun. This forced the machines to look [[HumanResources elsewhere]] for an energy supply.
* In ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'', Bill Murray decides to scare Columbus by pretending to be a zombie. Only Columbus ''does'' think he's a zombie and shoots and mortally wounds him.
* ''Film/FreddyVsJason:'' As part of his plan, Freddy brings Jason BackFromTheDead and tricks him into going to Springwood to kill the kids, counting on the fact that he will be blamed for the murders so he would be able to obtain enough power to escape Hell himself and haunt Springwood once more. The plan succeeds, but Freddy failed to anticipate that Jason would continue to intrude on his territory and steal Freddy's potential victims.
* ''Film/TheDarkKnight:'' The Mob gets so scared of Batman, Gordon, and Harvey Dent that they hire SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker to take him down. However, the Joker decides that just killing Batman isn't enough and plots to destroy Gotham City from the inside out and corrupt Dent into a psychotic murderer like himself [[ForTheEvulz for the hell of it]].
* ''Film/{{Stealth}}'': the Navy builds an artificially intelligent airplane (EDI) that can fly itself and make tactical decisions on the battlefield. To help EDI develop, they send it on missions with flesh-and-blood pilots, with orders to observe the pilots and learn from their actions. One of the pilots on said mission disobeys direct orders and pulls an insanely risky, but ultimately successful, stunt to accomplish the mission. EDI indeed learns from this: [[AIIsACrapshoot accomplishing the mission is more important than following the orders of your superiors]].
* In ''Film/{{S1m0ne}}'':
** As the page itself puts it:
--> When the main star of film director Viktor Taransky's latest film walks over "creative differences", Taransky is left with two options: scrap the movie altogether, or find a replacement. Unfortunately, given Taransky's plummeting career and the esoteric nature of the film itself there are no actresses who are willing to take the part. There's one last, desperate thing he could try: an acquaintance left him a computer program on a disk, and he can use that program to digitally create a replacement. It works - the film is a hit, and the "actress" is a runaway success, so Taransky markets her as a real person - giving webcam and phone interviews, "casting" her in his later films, and even performing a music concert as her, but things start to get out of hand. A pair of journalists who are trying to get a lead on the famously reclusive "Simone" are starting to suspect something is wrong, and Taransky himself is beginning to feel overshadowed by his creation.
** Eventually, Viktor decides to finally escape Simone's success by [[spoiler: faking her death in a car crash. However, he finds himself arrested for her murder and no one believing his claims that the woman never truly existed.]]
* ''Film/HeadOfState'' revolves around a politician getting a black man to run for president (this film is was made before UsefulNotes/BarackObama's election, of course) and almost win, but gain the support of minority voters for his party so that the politician himself can get their votes in the election after that. Key word being ''almost'' win.
* ''Die Brücke'' (The Bridge), both 1959 and 2008 films. Seven [[ChildSoldiers young German schoolboys]] are [[{{Conscription}} drafted into the German Army]] in April 1945 and they are assigned to defend an anonymous and insignificant bridge. Sufficient to say that they do.
* ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'': What'dya know! The ALZ-113 formula really ''does'' [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters improve the mental faculties of the common chimp]]!
* In ''Film/YouthInRevolt'', Nick and Francois successfully act out, but it results in [[spoiler: burning down half the town with his mother's car]]. Though Nick gets what he wants, by the end he has to deal with the consequences.
* Skynet, from the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' series, is basically this. The Americans wanted a hyper-intelligent computer system that they could use to control their national defence systems. Unfortunately, they didn't bargain that [[AIIsACrapshoot "hyper-intelligent" also meant "self-aware."]]
* In ''Film/ExMachina'', Nathan's true aim is [[spoiler:to test if Ava is "human" enough to manipulate Caleb into helping her escape. She does, and she immediately murders Nathan]].
* In ''Primal Force'', various animals are brought to a private game reserve island and are genetically experimented on, so they'll provide more challenging hunts for rich people. This causes baboons, the first animals that were experimented on, to viciously kill everything on the island (sans one man), and remain on top of the food chain there.
* ''The Pit and the Pendulum'': a plot to break [[VincentPrice Nicholas]] backfires because the broken Nicholas takes on the persona on his father - a notorious torturer with a legacy of brutal revenge.
* Implied in ''Film/{{Congo}}'' to be the reason why the ancient city became lost. The people of the city had bred a population of [[KillerGorilla aggressive, hyper-territorial, and intelligent gorillas]] to act as guardians for their diamond mine. Though it's not confirmed, the implication is that the gorillas eventually came to see the people of the city as intruders and slaughtered them.
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