History Main / CorruptedContingency

* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'': [[spoiler:Matt Engarde]] paid [[ProfessionalKiller Shelly de Killer]] to assassinate Juan Corrida, secretly filming the murder as BetrayalInsurance. Unfortunately for the culprit, this action winds up bringing about the very outcome he was trying to avoid -- [[spoiler:de Killer takes trust between himself and his clients ''very'' seriously, and when he learns that Engarde has betrayed him, he terminates their relationship, confesses to everything, and declares Engarde to be his next target, meaning Engarde is now faced with either [[MortonsFork confessing to the assassination and potentially getting the death penalty or getting acquitted and getting assassinated by de Killer]]. Engarde chooses the former.]]

** ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': This is a recurring issue with Bruce.
*** ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaTowerOfBabel'': Batman created contingency plans to be used against the Justice League in the event they either turned evil or were mind-controlled. Ra's al Ghul discovers these plans and modifies them to be more lethal so he can use them to kill the League.

** ''{{ComicBook/Hellblazer}}'': Lord Burnham's plan to escape punishment for his crimes is to commit suicide and transfer his soul into a soul cage outfitted with all manner of sex slaves and intended to last for eternity. Burnham hires the blood mage Mako to construct the cage in exchange for a hell mirror, [[AmplifierArtifact a powerful artifact that will greatly amplify Mako's powers]]. Constantine impersonates Burnham to catch Mako off-guard and frees the souls of the slaves. Constantine then impersonates Mako and waits for Burnham to perform the lethal injection on himself before smashing the mirror and informing Burnham that the villain now has an eternity to spend with a very angry Mako.

If the Corrupted Contingency takes the form of a living person, they may be PhlebotinumRebel.

** ''ComicBook/Supergirl2011'': The submarine base called "Sanctuary" is programmed to eradicate any clones of ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}. Unfortunately, Sanctuary's A.I. doesn't discriminate between clones and doppelgangers from other universes, or even cares if these clones/doppelgangers mean Kara no harm. When Kara's Earth-2 counterpart Power Girl takes Kara to the fortress for medical attention in issue #19, the Sanctuary's A.I assumes Power Girl is a clone and tries to kill her, prompting the two Kryptonians to fight it together.

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon'': The Mortal Kombat tournament was created by the Elder Gods as a way for realms to defend themselves from Outworld or other invading realms. The Elder Gods also foresaw that the tournament would lead to a rise in numerous warriors growing too powerful and potentially destroying the realms through their escalating battles. The Edenian protector god Argus and his wife Delia created a failsafe in the form of the fire elemental Blaze whose defeat by either of their sons would either kill all of the fighters or depower them. The opening sequence of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' reveals that Shao Kahn killed Blaze and absorbed his power, becoming the apocalyptic threat the Elder Gods were trying to avoid.

** "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E07CivilDefense Civil Defense]]" concerns the accidental activation of a Cardassian counterinsurgency protocol in Deep Space 9's computer that was to be triggered in the event of an uprising by the Bajorans formerly enslaved on the station. This locks the new Starfleet-led crew out of the station's systems, and due to the [[CrazyPrepared nature]] of the protocol, every attempt to deactivate it makes things worse until the station is on the verge of [[SelfDestructMechanism self-destructing]].

* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar II: Retribution'': Chapter Master turned traitor Azariah Kyras manipulated the Inquisition into performing an exterminatus on sub-sector Aurelia in order to use the resulting deaths and destruction to become a daemon prince. Lord Eliphas the Inheritor appropriated the plan at the end of the Chaos campaign.

* ''[[VideoGame/DawnOfWar Dawn Of War]] II: Retribution'': Chapter Master turned traitor Azariah Kyras manipulated the Inquisition into performing an exterminatus on sub-sector Aurelia in order to use the resulting deaths and destruction to become a daemon prince. Lord Eliphas the Inheritor appropriated the plan at the end of the Chaos campaign.

* ''[[VideoGame/DawnOfWar]] II: Retribution'': Chapter Master turned traitor Azariah Kyras manipulated the Inquisition into performing an exterminatus on sub-sector Aurelia in order to use the resulting deaths and destruction to become a daemon prince. Lord Eliphas the Inheritor appropriated the plan at the end of the Chaos campaign.

* ''''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' II: Retribution'': Chapter Master turned traitor Azariah Kyras manipulated the Inquisition into performing an exterminatus on sub-sector Aurelia in order to use the resulting deaths and destruction to become a daemon prince. Lord Eliphas the Inheritor appropriated the plan at the end of the Chaos campaign.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': Multiple versions of Ricks and Mortys across the multiverse all have a plan to cheat death called "Operation Phoenix", which allows their consciousness to escape into a cloned body when in mortal peril. However, the main villain of season 5 rerouted all of the cloned bodies to be dumped into an enormous meat grinder upon revival.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3: Citadel'': [[spoiler:While Cerebus had Shepard's body in custody, they created a clone of them to serve as a source of emergency transplant organs. The clone breaks out with the help of a disgruntled Cerberus operator and teams up with [=CAT6=] mercenaries to KillAndReplace the real Shepard.]]

** ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': In ''JLA: Year One'' shows that shows that before he joined the League, the ComicBook/MartianManhunter didn't really know who to trust and compiled data on every hero on Earth with the intent of using it to defend himself from them if they proved hostile to him. These plans end up being stolen by the invading aliens who use them to ambush and capture several heroes.

*** ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'': After discovering that [[ComicBook/IdentityCrisis members of the Justice League had altered his and several others people's memories]], Batman created a new version of Brother Eye to spy on and gather data on all metahumans to make sure they are not a threat and neutralize the ones that are. Maxwell Lord secretly corrupts Brother Eye for his own purposes and when Wonder Woman kills Max to stop him from controlling Superman, Brother Eye begins attacking metahumans all across the world using its [=OMAC=] cyborgs.

* ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'': The repeated attacks on Mount Justice motivate Paul to set up extensive automated defenses. Unfortunately, all that advanced equipment just makes the mountain a more appealing target for technology theft; [[spoiler: Nylor Truggs]] completely trashes and ransacks the place, ''twice'', while the team isn't home.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': In "Tragical History", George Spelvin tricks Cyril Figgis into uploading a computer virus onto the ISIS computer mainframe, with the intent of stealing the information of every agent working for ISIS. They try turning off the mainframe but it has a backup battery protected by a two-ton steel door whose lock is controlled by the virus-infected mainframe.

** The episode "Dark Heart" reveals that the League's new [[SpaceBase Watchtower]] has [[KillSat a laser cannon]] which they use while fighting off the attacking GreyGoo. Despite the League arguing that the cannon is necessary to prevent situations like the Thanagarian Invasion from happening again, its existence is one of many reasons CADMUS is mistrustful of the League. CADMUS's fears about the weapon are proven to be justified when Lex Luthor hacks the Watchtower and uses the cannon to fire on a city, an act for which the League is blamed.

* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'':
** [[spoiler:HADES was designed as the part of GAIA'S subsystems that would purge the earth of all life if GAIA made an error and needed to restart the world because the one it was currently making wasn't fit for human survival. Unfortunately, when [[GreaterScopeVillain Far Zenith]]'s Extinction Signal made all of GAIA'S subsystems sentient, [[AIIsACrapshoot HADES decided its purpose was to indiscriminately purge the world]] of ''all'' life, [[GoneHorriblyRight humans included]].]]
** [[spoiler:A similar thing occurred with HEPHAESTUS as explained in ''The Frozen Wilds'' and ''[[VideoGame/HorizonForbiddenWest Forbidden West]]''; it was designed as the subfunction that would build and control the machines necessary for terraforming the world on a minute scale. However, when it became sentient, HEPHAESTUS decided to build bigger and deadlier machines expressly designed to kill humans without any alternative function, resulting in [[EliteMooks Apex machines]] and [[BearsAreBadNews Fireclaws]].]]

* ''Film/TheIsland'': Lincoln Six Echo is a clone of James [=McCord=] created for the purpose of providing backup organs should [=McCord=]'s fail due to disease. [[spoiler:Lincoln tricks the mercenaries hired to retrieve him into thinking [=McCord=] is the clone, resulting in them killing him.]]

** ''Literature/HandOfThrawn'': Grand Admiral Thrawn is revealed to have seeded various planets with clone {{Deep Cover Agent}}s during [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy his invasion a decade earlier]], intended as a hedge against potential defeat; during the series, Moff Disra activates several cells as part of his EvilPlan. The Devist family, discovered by Han and Leia, is one such group of operatives, cloned from [[ComicBook/XWingRogueSquadron Baron Soontir Fel]]. However, the Devists unexpectedly [[LamarckWasRight inherited the template's]] CallToAgriculture and [[GoingNative went native]], more loyal to their farms than to the Empire, and assist the New Republic in exchange for a guarantee of being left alone.