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* ''Webcomic/TheHuntersOfSalamanstra'': 130 years before the story begins, the titular country of Salamanstra tried to fire a magical superweapon to protect its borders and defeat its magic-greedy enemies. [[http://salamanstra.keenspot.com/d/20170104.html It protected Salamanstra alright]], by accidentally summoning a horde of {Eldritch Abomination}}s that promptly ate all the enemy soldiers and then terrorized Salamanstra until it became a hollow ruin. For extra irony, the mercenaries coming from all of Salamanstra's neighbors spend all their time ''protecting'' Salamanstra's borders, mainly to keep the eldritch hordes from crossing over. Few people ''want'' Salamanstra's magic anymore, but they love harvesting resources from the very monsters that were summoned to murder their ancestors, ensuring that Salamanstra will be forever populated by magic-hating foreign mercenaries that ''literally'' are its entire civilization.
%%** To add insult to injury, Salamanstra was an ultra-racist country; their little stunt also summoned alien mortals from other worlds, and now there's millions of half-human hybrids, the strongest of which frequently trample over the bones of dead Salamanstrans.



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** Andrew Hussie, the author, knew Act 5's [=EoA=] flash ''[S] Cascade.'' would be very popular, so decided that he'd best go and look for an outside host. He chose Website/{{Newgrounds}}, a site well-known for being able to handle freaking ''huge'' numbers of persons. And then, upon release, his fanbase crashed the site. Then Hussie proceeded to crash several of Megaupload's servers when he offered it up for download after Newgrounds failed. There's a reason it's called the post that ''broke the Internet.''

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** Andrew Hussie, the author, knew Act 5's [=EoA=] flash ''[S] Cascade.'' would be very popular, so decided that he'd best go and look for an outside host. He chose Website/{{Newgrounds}}, Platform/{{Newgrounds}}, a site well-known for being able to handle freaking ''huge'' numbers of persons. And then, upon release, his fanbase crashed the site. Then Hussie proceeded to crash several of Megaupload's servers when he offered it up for download after Newgrounds failed. There's a reason it's called the post that ''broke the Internet.''
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* In ''Webcomic/{{Thunderstruck}}'', Judas Iscariot ([[Literature/TheBible yes, that]] [[PublicDomainCharacter one]]) informs Sharon and Gail of what happened with Jesus' plans. Sharon, being snide, guesses that it all went horribly wrong, and Judas corrects her with... well, this trope.
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** Redcloak transforming Xykon into a lich in ''StartOfDarkness'' went perfectly, as it allowed them to escape a trap set by a druid who had developed a magic-nullifying disease (undead are immune to disease). Of course, it also added the powers of lichdom to the already ChaoticEvil Xykon, in addition to making him smarter, thus changing him from Redcloak's more-or-less equal partner into a BigBad determined to prove how much EvilerThanThou he could be. Xykon proceeded to take over Redcloak's agenda and rule him with an iron fist, to the point where Redcloak is now forced to gamble everything on the completion of his Plan before Xykon grows too strong/impatient/finds out what he's really planning. It is, however, later stated that [[spoiler:Redcloak is actually feigning it all, is subtly manipulating Xykon, and views Xykon as nothing more than a useful tool that he only ''pretends'' to kowtow to so that Xykon doesn't get suspicious.]]

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** Redcloak transforming Xykon into a lich in ''StartOfDarkness'' went perfectly, as it allowed them to escape a trap set by a druid who had developed a magic-nullifying disease (undead are immune to disease). Of course, it also added the powers of lichdom to the already ChaoticEvil [[invoked]]ChaoticEvil Xykon, in addition to making him smarter, thus changing him from Redcloak's more-or-less equal partner into a BigBad determined to prove how much EvilerThanThou he could be. Xykon proceeded to take over Redcloak's agenda and rule him with an iron fist, to the point where Redcloak is now forced to gamble everything on the completion of his Plan before Xykon grows too strong/impatient/finds out what he's really planning. It is, however, later stated that [[spoiler:Redcloak is actually feigning it all, is subtly manipulating Xykon, and views Xykon as nothing more than a useful tool that he only ''pretends'' to kowtow to so that Xykon doesn't get suspicious.]]
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* ''Webcomic/{{Crankrats}}'': Creating a bunch of [[PsychoElectro walking electrical storms]] for the express purpose of exterminating your enemies is revealed to be a bad idea.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Crankrats}}'': Creating a bunch of [[PsychoElectro walking electrical storms]] for the express purpose of exterminating your enemies is revealed to be a bad idea. Even without accounting for the inevitable rebellion.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Xkcd}}'' strip #1320 "Walmart":

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* ''Webcomic/{{Xkcd}}'' strip #1320 "Walmart":"[[https://xkcd.com/1320/ Walmart]]":
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* In one ''Another Videogame Webcomic'' [[http://www.digitalpimponline.com/comic/avw/150/ strip]], Player One, sick of all the [[CreatorsPet media attention]] [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Denver Broncos]] quarterback Tim Tebow is getting, conspires to put Tebow on the cover of ''[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Madden 2013]]'' in the hopes of passing the infamous [[PopCultureUrbanLegends Madden Curse]] onto him and afflicting him with a season-ending injury. The plan works and Tebow is put on IR, but this only gives the talking heads an excuse to focus on him even more, pushing aside normal sports coverage in favor of endless reports on Tim Tebow's physical condition and road to recovery.

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* In one ''Another Videogame Webcomic'' [[http://www.digitalpimponline.com/comic/avw/150/ strip]], Player One, sick of all the [[CreatorsPet media attention]] [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Denver Broncos]] quarterback Tim Tebow is getting, conspires to put Tebow on the cover of ''[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Madden 2013]]'' in the hopes of passing the infamous [[PopCultureUrbanLegends Madden Curse]] onto him and afflicting him with a season-ending injury. The plan works and Tebow is put on IR, the Injury Reserve list, but this only gives the talking heads an excuse to focus on him even more, ''even more'', pushing aside normal sports coverage in favor of endless reports on Tim Tebow's physical condition and road to recovery.
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* In one ''Another Videogame Webcomic'' [[http://www.digitalpimponline.com/comic/avw/150/ strip]], Player One, sick of how much of a [[CreatorsPet media darling]] then-[[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Denver Broncos]] quarterback Tim Tebow is, conspires to put Tebow on the cover of ''[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Madden 2013]]'' in the hopes of passing the infamous [[PopCultureUrbanLegends Madden Curse]] onto him and getting him put on IR. The plan works and Tebow suffers a season-ending injury as a result, but this only gives the talking heads an excuse to focus on him even more, pushing aside normal sports coverage in favor of endless reports on Tim Tebow's physical condition and road to recovery.

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* In one ''Another Videogame Webcomic'' [[http://www.digitalpimponline.com/comic/avw/150/ strip]], Player One, sick of how much of a all the [[CreatorsPet media darling]] then-[[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague attention]] [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Denver Broncos]] quarterback Tim Tebow is, is getting, conspires to put Tebow on the cover of ''[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Madden 2013]]'' in the hopes of passing the infamous [[PopCultureUrbanLegends Madden Curse]] onto him and getting afflicting him put on IR. with a season-ending injury. The plan works and Tebow suffers a season-ending injury as a result, is put on IR, but this only gives the talking heads an excuse to focus on him even more, pushing aside normal sports coverage in favor of endless reports on Tim Tebow's physical condition and road to recovery.

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