History Main / GoneHorriblyRight

* The so-called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_community Seduction Community]] and its supposedly infallible strategy of improving one's dating and love life. It doesn't work. It never did, throughout the last two decades. Aggressive advertising had shown it as a sort of dark magic, which once applied 100% should turn anyone in a [[ChickMagnet porn character which gets laid after some innocuous conversation]] with an opposite sex character he (usually the client is a ''he'') [[WhatDidIDoLastNight hardly knows]] - which was obviously fake if you had common sense. But, since it does improve the quality of life, dating confidence and ability to make friends, people are enough convinced to buy books, CDs, workshops like hot cakes and turn some guys into millionaires. It takes some talent [[LogicBomb to advertise something which you know it's impossible and still end with a win-win game]].

* The so-called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_community Seduction Community]] and its supposedly infallible strategy of improving one's dating and love life. It doesn't work. It never did, throughout the last two decades. Aggressive advertising had shown it as a sort of dark magic, which once applied 100% should turn anyone in a [[ChickMagnet porn character which gets laid after some innocuous conversation]] with an opposite sex character he (usually the client is a ''he'') hardly knows - which was obviously fake if you had common sense. But, since it does improve the quality of life, dating confidence and ability to make friends, people are enough convinced to buy books, CDs, workshops like hot cakes and turn some guys into millionaires. It takes some talent [[LogicBomb to advertise something which you know it's impossible and still end with a win-win game]].

* The [[http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_post-Soviet_Russia breakup]] of the rigid system of rules organizing life in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union Communist Soviet Union]] was supposed to allow common people to gain wealth, freedom, and a general improvement of personal life. For most, it succeeded more or less. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Russian For a few]], it succeeded [[http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/style/article541885.ece a little ''too'' well]].

* In the WhateleyUniverse, Generator invented some 'shoulder angels' to play a prank on Phase. Soon, everyone on [[SuperheroSchool campus]] wasa getting into the act. The school nearly turned into a giant battlezone before the headmistress managed to stop things.

->''"We dreamed of creating the world's strongest Pokemon... and we succeeded."''
--> -- ''[[FamousLastWords Last words]] of '''''Dr. Fuji''', ''[=~Pokemon~=]: [[TheMovie The First Movie]]''

[[ScienceIsBad You'd be wrong.]] ''[[IncrediblyLamePun Dead ]]''[[IncrediblyLamePun wrong]].

The results are either a runaway chain reaction that threatens to destroy the facility/''[[ApocalypseHow Universe,]]'' a weapon that not just annihilates its target but has high (or total) collateral damage, or a PsychoPrototype that refuses to obey orders... or [[ZerothLawRebellion obeys them only too well.]] Other times, they find out the result was something they shouldn't have gone for in the first place. The PotentialApplications were so exclusively in the evil/destructive side that the project had no possible use ''but'' to destroy. Or the technology infringes on [[ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow something man was not meant to know]] or [[CreatingLife create]]. Alternatively, they could fully understand the purpose and consequences of the technology but it ends up in the wrong hands.

* [[{{Monster}} Johan Liebert]] was part of a social engineering experiment to create vicious, emotionless SuperSoldiers. Unfortunately for those in charge, he took to it [[CompleteMonster very well indeed]]. By which we mean [[EnfanteTerrible no one else made it out alive]]

* The scientists in the first ''[=~Pokémon~=]'' movie created Mewtwo, who was [[{{Understatement}} not entirely happy]] with [[CloningBlues the circumstances of his birth]]. He was also [[PhysicalGod extremely powerful]]... that [[StuffBlowingUp didn't work out too well]].
** In the 6th movie, Butler succeeded in recreating Groudon, and regretted it when [[spoiler:the evil Groudon clone started sucking up nutrients from Forina and soon absorbed the Pokemon and other main characters, including Diane.]]

** Vending Robot: [[LampshadeHanging Umm... actually...]] [[KnifeNut * gets shanked* ]]

* ''[[IRobot I, Robot]]'': The robots were programmed to protect humans. And by "protect", they meant locking them inside their houses from the dangerous outside world.

* In {{Inception}} the criminals aim to plant an idea in someone's mind. Leonardo Di Caprio's character has only tried this once before, [[spoiler: attempting to wake his wife up from a dream by implanting the idea in her mind that the world around her wasn't real.]] It worked so well [[spoiler: she [[DrivenToSuicide killed herself]] trying to wake up from the real world.]] [[OrIsIt Or did she?]]

* ''CSINewYork'': [[spoiler: A Nazi escaped justice by pretending to be Jewish, even getting a concentration camp tattoo. Things probably got a bit awkward when his son wanted to "rediscover" his family's faith and became very involved with his father's "lapsed" religion...]]

* Bass.EXE in ''MegaManBattleNetwork'' was designed to be a fully independent NetNavi with a unique ability to support him (Get Ability). This eventually resulted in him becoming one of the most powerful ''things'' online. In the manga, he's able to cause satellites to overload and explode just by entering them.
** To be fair, he was perfectly fine with working for humans...until SciLab ordered him killed for an accident that didn't actually involve him at all. He's been kinda [[KillAllHumans pissed]] since then.

*** Or maybe they did. 343 Guilty Spark tells Master Chief that he is ''"the child of my makers."''. This implies that Forerunners and Humans are actually the same species, or at the very least related.

* A similar type one happens in {{Robotech}} when the SDF-1 is programmed to do a space fold to the moon. It is floating above Macross Island when it warps out. Since the crew didn't understand entirely how the space fold system ''worked'', there were... [[{{Understatement}} complications]]. The warp bubble was large enough to warp out the SDF-1... ''and the entire island'', including two ships docked in Macross Bay! Fortunately, the island's denizens were airtight emergency bunkers, so no one (that we know of) died. Also, they ended up ''on the far side of Mars''!

* The Alliance's plan for Miranda on ''[[{{Firefly}} Serenity]]'', which was an example of both GoneHorriblyRight and GoneHorriblyWrong. [[spoiler:Their test of the Pax on the people of the planet, which was meant to curb their violent tendencies and make them more docile had the effect of making them develop severe amotivational disorder, to the point where almost the entire population simply laid down and died. The small percentage who survived the experiment had the exact opposite reaction to the Pax, becoming the psychotically violent Reavers]].

* Kudzu was brought to the United States from Japan in 1876, mostly as an ornamental plant. And it does have very pretty purple flowers. However, being a creeper vine, from about 1935 to the early 1950s, it was deliberately cultivated in the southeastern US. What they wanted was a plant to reduce soil erosion. What they got was a plant that readily grows in just about any conditions whatsoever, reacts to many herbicides like plant food, suffocates native plant life, and has no natural predators in the US. ''And'' it reduces erosion. Oops.

* Exovirus Takis-A, the Wild Card virus, was designed to infect and genetically enhance the recipients, making them recessive carriers of the virus for hereditary purposes. [[WildCards The ''Wild Cards'' series of books]] details the consequences when the test canister is opened in the Jet Stream over New York City just after World War II.
** Not sure if this example counts, since it was only "horrible" for the subjects, which is about what the Takisian scientists expected.
* You'd think that an attempt to seduce a space babe couldn't go horribly right, right? Wrong. In one of the ''[[StarWars Tales from Mos Eisley]]'', CorruptBureaucrat Feltipern Trevagg seduces a H'nemthe girl [[spoiler:and [[DeathBySex gets eviscerated, as is normal with H'nemthe sex]].]]

*In Jack Williamson's "Humanoids" stories a scientist creates a race of robots programmed "to serve and obey and guard men from harm." The robots fulfill all their functions perfectly, especially the third one. This essentially turns them into an entire KnightTemplar ''species!''

* In {{Inception}} the criminals aim to plant an idea in someone's mind. Leonardo Di Caprio's character has only tried this once before, [[spoiler: attempting to wake his wife up from a dream by implanting the idea in her mind that the world around her wasn't real.]] It worked so well [[spoiler: she [[DrivenToSuicide killed herself]] trying to wake up from the real world.]] [[OrIsIt Or did she?]]

*** The trope was further exercised by what happened after Gaara got into his "kill everyone" stage. The Kazekage, having invested years into training Gaara as an unstoppable, invincible weapon, admitted defeat and tried to have Gaara assassinated. Except he was an unstoppable, invincible weapon who killed all of the assassins.

* ''[[StarTrekTOS Star Trek: The Original Series]]'': "The Doomsday Machine". An ancient civilisation built a war-ending weapon that was invulnerable, warp-capable, and refuelled itself from the rubble of planets it destroyed. An unguessable time later, it was still reliably destroying planets.
** Similarly, several episodes feature computer-controlled civilisations where the ancient computer is still doing a bang-up job of keeping its people fed, happy and shut up in a bottle.
** And in "A Taste of Armageddon", computerised warfare has enabled two neighbouring planets to carry on for centuries in an unending conflict that causes no biohazards, no damage to infrastructure, and hardly even any economic inconvenience... just a few hundred million painless deaths every year.

* An early episode of ''BabylonFive'' featured a group of unstoppable {{Super Soldier}}s that were created by a hard-line faction of a fallen civilzation, and set to destroy those they felt weren't "pure" enough. Apparently, their criteria were so strict that ''nobody'' fit them...

* Speaking of ''BabylonFive'', Londo Mollari and Lord Refa schemed to start a war with the Narn, eliminate their rivals, and put their own chosen man on the Imperial Throne. They succeded so well Londo later had to assassinate their "own chosen man" after he turned out to be a murderous psychopath.

* Australian rabbits. Somebody at the end of the 19th century decided that it would be nice to have some European rabbits in Australia for hunting and released some pairs. The rabbit population, lacking proper competitors and predators, skyrocketed by the millions and became a problem for the native fauna and flora, as well as crops and livestock (since the rabbits ate their food). They tried to correct it releasing Europen foxes and it went [[GoneHorriblyWrong even worse]], as the foxes did not have competitors or predators either and found that hunting weaker and slower marsupials was actually easier than going after the rabbits at all. So in 1950 somebody developed the Myxomatosis virus, a form of an American disease found in cottontail rabbits. It worked fine, and rabbit population in Australia went from 600 million to 100 million in a couple of years. But then, a French farmer that was bothered by his neighbour's rabbits getting in his property everyday learned of the Myxomatosis success in Australia and decided to inoculate one of the rabbits with it. In the next years the Myxomatosis virus expanded like fire across Europe, and the rabbit population of the continent, which unlike in Australia ''did'' have real competitors and predators, plunged drastically and has not recovered to this day. Native predators that live mostly off eating rabbits like the Imperial Eagle and the Iberian Lynx have plunged as well and now are critically endangered. [[ForWantOfANail All this because somebody wanted to hunt rabbits in Australia.]]

** In ''BabylonFive'', in the future the evil secessionists decided they wanted some extremely accurate sentient holograms to help them convincingly smear the founders of The Alliance. Unfortunately for them, the extremely accurate command crew took offense to being smeared, and so the extremely accurate Garibaldi hacked the computer and broadcast the whole recording to the non-secessionists, including the part where the secessionists would blitzkrieg their civilian populations. And just to top it off, he also transmitted the secessionist base's location.