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* In ''Film/Armageddon1998'', while aboard the Russian space station AJ is told to keep an eye on the fuel pressure and pull a lever if it gets too strong. When the pressure spikes, AJ tries to pull the lever and has it snap off in his hand. Cue StuffBlowingUp.

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* In ''Film/Armageddon1998'', while ''Film/Armageddon1998'': While aboard the Russian space station station, AJ is told to keep an eye on the fuel pressure and pull a lever if it gets too strong. When the pressure spikes, AJ tries to pull the lever and has it snap off in his hand. Cue StuffBlowingUp.

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* ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'': In season 2 episode 3, Chika finds a solution for Aquors to get from the Love Live qualifiers and their school's open house in time by using an orange farm monorail from a classmate's family plantation. However, the monorail turns out to be quite slow, causing Kanan to grab at the level and try to speed it up. She ends up breaking the level and makes the monorail rocket down like a rollercoaster, which humorously ''does'' let the girls reach their school in time to perform.



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* Inverted in ''Literature/SargassoOfSpace'', where one of the heroes, Ali, accidentally breaks the main control lever of the [[{{Precursors}} Forerunners]]' gravity-magnifying superweapon while turning it ''off'', so it no longer can be turned back ''on''. This saves the police cruiser attemptitng to land on the planet, but also seals the heroes with no light and limited supply of air inside of the machine's colossal maze-like grid that rapidly drains any active power source within it. Luckily, they are able to navigate to the outer wall of the maze by memory and counting steps, and melt their way out with blasters before those get drained too.
* ''Literature/SkinGame'': to pass the Gates of Ice, Harry has to run through an ever-shifting maze of giant ice blocks and turn it off with a lever so the other party members may follow. Later, when pursued by the Genoskwa, Harry uses his Winter Knight's strength to turn the lever back on and snap it off in a single motion before darting back through the reactivated trap, [[spoiler: correctly]] expecting his much larger enemy to get caught somewhere and be ground into paste.
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* ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'': While [=LeBron=] and Bugs are retrieving the Looney Tunes from across the Serververse, they find Daffy acting as "Super Duck", having tied up a conductor so he can win the glory for stopping a speeding train. Unfortunately, he breaks the brake lever while trying to use it, requiring Superman to come to the rescue.
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Someone breaks a lever, so whatever was turned on with it can't be turned off and so the machine or process goes into overdrive. Likely to result in an OhCrap moment for the culprit and/or witnesses.

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Someone breaks a lever, so whatever was turned on with it can't be turned off and so the machine or process [[ItWontTurnOff goes into overdrive.overdrive]]. Likely to result in an OhCrap moment for the culprit and/or witnesses.
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* In the black comedy ''Film/UndertakingBetty'', Creator/ChristopherWalken's character is a progressive funeral director arranging for a Star Trek-themed funeral. But HilarityEnsues when a machine that is supposed to lift the coffin a couple of feet up goes out of control after its lever breaks off resulting in the coffin breaking through the churches' ceiling. Watch the scene [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r7EmZNQ10E&t=179 here]].

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* In the black comedy ''Film/UndertakingBetty'', Creator/ChristopherWalken's character is a progressive funeral director arranging for a Star Trek-themed funeral. But HilarityEnsues when then a machine that is supposed to lift the coffin a couple of feet up goes out of control after its lever breaks off resulting in the coffin breaking through the churches' ceiling. Watch the scene [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r7EmZNQ10E&t=179 here]].
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Someone breaks a lever, so whatever was controlled by it can't be turned off and it goes into overdrive. Likely to result in an OhCrap moment for the culprit and/or witnesses.

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Someone breaks a lever, so whatever was controlled by turned on with it can't be turned off and it so the machine or process goes into overdrive. Likely to result in an OhCrap moment for the culprit and/or witnesses.
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* In ''Film/AvatarTheWayOfWater'', [[spoiler:Spider]] seizes the opportunity in the middle of the battle to sabotage the bad guys' ship. He [[RescueEquipmentAttack uses a fire extinguisher to knock out a pilot]], then shoves the power lever forward and smashes it with the fire extinguisher so they can't turn it off. Sure enough, this makes the ship crash on the rocks.
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Contrast DestructionEqualsOffSwitch. See also RemovableSteeringWheel and FailsafeFailure.

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Contrast DestructionEqualsOffSwitch. See also DetachableDoorknob, RemovableSteeringWheel and FailsafeFailure.
FailsafeFailure. Contrast DestructionEqualsOffSwitch.

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