History Main / GoneHorriblyRight

* [[http://www.sr-71.org/aircraft/xb-70.php The superb XB-70 Valkyrie]] has been envisioned as [[CoolPlane a Mach 3+ nuclear bomber able to outrun any interceptor plane]], with full knowledge the airframe had been designed strictly for straight-line performance at high altitude, even projected to fly on it's own shockvawe through the air (compression lift). It performed even better than expected, being able to supercruise at Mach 3, becoming more efficient as the speed increased. Unfortunately the straight and level flight course made it a sitting duck even for late-1960s missiles... ''[[OhCrap and the shape of the airframe was just right to provide a huge radar cross-section]]''. No wonder the $700-million prototype remained a museum piece.

** Pre-game example: After the Krogan Rebellions salarians decided to cut down krogan's violent and unstable population by sabotaging their bithrates with [[DepopulationBomb biogenetic weapon]]...it worked a little bit too well and by the time that the games take place, only 1% of krogan pregnancies are succesful, leaving their whole race endangered.

* Researchers in BioMeat created BMs. They can eat anything except for glass, metal, and fiberglass. They are created for food and so they can multiply after eating. Unfortunately, if they could also destroy the entire ecosystem since they can eat everything and multiply.

* This is pretty much how General Ross describes how Bruce Banner first changed into the Hulk in 2008's ''TheIncredibleHulk''.

* TheInvisibleMan by Wells also features this. [[AdaptationDecay Unlike in virtually all adaptations]], his wish to rule the world and ruthlessness doesn't come as [[GoneHorriblyWrong byproduct of his invisibility potion.]] Rather it's the feeling in being virtually invincible (what you cannot see you cannot hit) that turns him into such a monster.

->''"We dreamed of creating the [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke world's strongest]] {{Pokemon}}... and we succeeded."''

->''"We dreamed of creating the world's strongest Pokemon...and we succeeded."''

** Or Jobe's experimental method for creating a real drow girl to be a girlfriend. He ended up getting dosed by accident. The process is working ''really well''.

* In the Horus Heresy novel Mechanicum, there is the Akashic reader, a device that basically extracts information from the Warp and downloads it through psykers. And then they use the Astronomican to power it.

*** If [[spoiler:President Rassilon]] was actually born and raised in that time, his efforts to [[spoiler:make the Master bestow his ability to endure after death]] may have actually worked. If the Doctor ended Gallifrey, the Daleks, and the Time War by [[spoiler:sending everything in the lock to the beginning of time]], then [[spoiler:the two Time Ladies likely WERE the weeping angels of old and the Master and Doctor were both the legendary Time Lords that overthrew Rassilon and the ones to make him the immortal founder of the Timelords.]]
**** [[FridgeBrilliance Woosh!]]

* In a Season Two episode of [[MightyMorphinPowerRangers MMPR]], Goldar kidnaps Kimberly in attempt to turn her into a new queen for Lord Zeed. The spell doesn't work, but Kimberly fakes it.

** And then there's Team Galactic in Platinum, whose shenanigans caused [[spoiler:an unexpected and extremely powerful Pokémon to appear right in the middle of the climatic scene and ''kidnap its summoner into a different dimension''.]]
*** It's possibly scarier that ''[[spoiler: it went exactly as planned.]]'' [[spoiler: [[SpannerInTheWorks If not for you, that is]].]]
*** Wait, what? Giratina was '''NOT''' the Pokemon being summoned in ''{{Pokemon}} Platinum''. The Pokemon Cyrus was trying to summon was Palkia and Dialga (much like in Diamond (Dialga) and Pearl (Palkia)). Giratina simply showed up because it was utterly ''pissed'' that someone was upsetting the balance between its world (IE: The Distortion/Reverse World) and the main Pokemon World.
* 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.

* The Big Daddies in ''BioShock''. Of particular note is the audio recording you can pick up near the end of the game, detailing the "failed" experiments to get the Big Daddies to protect the Little Sisters - it doesn't end well for "Papa Suchong".
** More specifically, the ''original'' Big Daddies. They were imprinted to view the Little Sisters as their own daughters, and then everyone was surprised when they went [[HeroicBSOD cra]][[RoaringRampageOfRevenge zy]] if the girls were killed.

** Well, his own Father was indeed quite proud with his "creation". He almost destroyed Midgar to give Sephiroth more energy so he could summon Meteor faster and then their all have a Family Barbecue with Lifeform Hojo, Safer Sephiroth, and Jenova Synthesis on the remains of the Planet Together!
* ''FinalFantasyVI'' having much of the same plot, offers a similar example. Though the first succesful Magitek Knight infusion destroys the sanity of the subject, the result is by far the most efficient and capable servant of the Empire. Until he kills the Emperor and destroys the world just for kicks.

** Would that make it an example of Gone Wonderfully Right?

*** [[YourMileageMayVary Your Mileage Will Definitely Vary]]. The Turian councilor's "[[GasLeakCoverup Airquotes]]", will drive all but [[TheMessiah The Most Paragon of Paragons]] into [[MultipleEndings Cerberus' long-term employ.]]
**** Just because the council were dicks to you doesn't mean you have to like the Illusive Man. It's quite possible to tell both groups to kindly fuck off.

** The forerunners only built the halo weapons to wipe out sentient races after the flood had taken over most of the galaxy. So, you could argue that it is just gone right rather than horribly right. In Halo: Legends it says they wiped out the flood food source to stop them and kept embryos to rebuild the races. Still doesn't explain why they didn't rebuild their own race ...
*** They had planned to weather the war in their [[DysonSphere Shield Worlds]] but those were compromised. The majority of their race died out, but it seems the survivors, after repopulating the other races, chose to leave known space.

* ''ResidentEvil'': Virtually every bioweapon the Umbrella Corporation made eventually became too strong to control and turned on its masters.
** You'd think they'd [[TooDumbToLive learn.]]

* In ''StarWars: KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', assassin droid HK-47 proves too effective when his master, a Systech Manager, orders him to kill all members of a rival company in order to facilitate the man's rapid promotion. Sadly, the rival company proves to simply be an offshoot of Systech Corp. HK-47 carries out his orders to the letter, and the manager ends up accidentally electrocuting himself trying to stop him.

** Arguably not an example, since from Father's perspective there ''isn't'' anything wrong with this.

* In PeterIsTheWolf, Butch comes up with a GREAT plan to get peter! http://www.peteristhewolf.com/general/161.html At present? Well, see this trope...
** Not that the final phase of this plan was to bribe another rival [[AllGirlsLikePonies with a pony]]

* TVTropes was designed to give people something to do with their spare time when they are bored. [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife It... succeeded, to say the least.]]

* When keepers at a Seattle aquarium moved a giant octopus into a larger tank with a more diverse population of predators, they figured its intelligence, stealth, and natural camouflage would keep it safe. They were right,[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFOEZh1Lbbg but the sharks already in the tank weren't so fortunate.]]
* 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 (the latter being down to less than 200 living examples, and on the verge of being the first cat species to become extinct in over 10,000 years). [[ForWantOfANail All this because somebody wanted to hunt rabbits in Australia.]]
** Its getting worse - The Rabbits are slowly becoming immune to it.
*** Well, at least the ecosystem in Europe should have a chance of recovering someday then.
*** [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption At least until the virus mutates]].

** In the ''[=~Pokemon: Jirachi Wishmaker~=]'', 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.]]
*** The Psuedo-Groudon in ''Jirachi Wishmaker'' is more of a GoneHorriblyWrong. It's not the ''real'' Groudon, but rather a horrific abomination that simply resembles it.

* The backstory, the "scenarios", and the resolution of ''[[NeonGenesisEvangelion NGE]]'' show that GEHIRN, SEELE, and NERV all have far far worse horribly right effects on their world that anything before.

* ''{{Naruto}}'': Gaara was, by the will of the Fourth Kazekage, made to be a human superweapon via [[SealedEvilInACan demonic]] [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan sealing]] at (or, technically, not long before) birth. It worked [[AxCrazy a little]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds too]] [[OmnicidalManiac well]].
** Technically it would have succeeded just fine had the villagers at large not given him the AllOfTheOtherReindeer treatment or worse. Something that's apparently common for Jinchuriki.
*** 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. [[spoiler:Though given how easily Might Guy was able to swat aside Gaara's attack, one has to wonder why the Kazekage didn't just send stronger assassins.]]

* The [[EldritchAbomination D-Reaper]], the "[[BigBad True Enemy]]" of ''[[DigimonTamers Digimon Tamers]]'' started out as a harmless automatic utility program designed to delete any data that grows beyond it's original parameters and becomes a threat to the integrity of the system. When the thing evolves into a nihilistic cybernetic menace [[PoweredByAForsakenChild powered by a forsaken child]], and begins wreaking havoc in both the Digital and Real Worlds, it does so with a single purpose: follow the prime directive, delete anything that grows too strong. Unfortunately, by that time, it pretty much means "[[OmnicidalManiac delete everything]]".

* [[CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] didn't want to clean his room, so he made an identical clone of himself and ordered the clone to clean his room. Naturally, the clone didn't want to clean Calvin's room either, so he ran off to cause mischief, knowing the original Calvin would be blamed.

*** Later in the first story, Calvin's clone gets a hold of the duplicator and starts cloning himself, with [[HilarityEnsues predictable results]].

** And one greater example as in one story [[spoiler: the robots start decimating the human population because overpopulation is a threat to humanity...]]

** Sort of, but not really. Wolverine was already pretty close to indestructible. They made him even more so, pissing him off along the way, to test the process so they could use it on their ''real'' super soldier. Unfortunately, he wasn't as indestructible as they hoped; the plan would have worked if they had left Deadpool with the tactical sense to retreat when outnumbered. Alternately, they should have realized double-crossing [[AxCrazy Sabertooth]] was unwise.

* During the Age of Legends, approxomately 3,500 years before the present in the Wheel of Time, an Aes Sedai named Mieren tried to access a new source of magic power that would allow the Aes Sedai to create unprecedented wonders. She succeeds, but the [[SealedEvilInACan source of power isn't exactly what she thought it was]]

* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''[[TheChroniclesofNarnia The Magician's Nephew]]''. [[SmugSnake Uncle Andrew]] [[MoralEventHorizon sends two small children into the void between dimensions as part of a magical experiment]]. Since he's safe at home while they face whatever dangers that await them in TheMultiverse, he's entirely convinced that [[TemptingFate nothing can possibly go wrong]]. But then the boy [[spoiler:awakens a SealedEvilInACan via SchmuckBait and ''accidentally'' brings her home to London]]. Andrew realizes that maybe his experiments had succeeded a little ''too'' well. He promptly forgets, given EvilIsSexy.

* In ''{{Frankenstein}}'', contrary to all the movies, Victor doesn't gleefully exclaim 'it's alive!' when his experiment succeeds. Instead, he's immediately and terribly {{squick}}ed out, and rejects his newly-created monster, causing it to turn evil. Honestly, Victor, you ''knew'' you were making a living being. Didn't you expect it to be alive?
** [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute He expected it to be better looking than it was.]]

** Oh please, he'd been killing people ''way'' before that. As Hartmann put it, "There's no way we could have created such a work of art!"

* In ''StarWars: KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', assassin droid HK-47 proves too effective when his master, a Systech Manager orders him to kill all members of a rival company in order to facilitate the man's rapid promotion. Sadly, the rival company proves to simply be an offshoot of Systech Corp. HK-47 carries out his orders to the letter, and the manager ends up electrocuting himself trying to stop him.

* In Star Wars, Knights of the Old Republic: Assassin Droid HK-47 proves too effective when his master, [[spoiler:a Systech Manager]] orders him to kill all members of a rival company in order to facilitate the man's rapid promotion. [[spoiler:Sadly, the rival company proves to simply be an offshoot of Systech Corp, and]] HK-47 carries out his orders to the letter[[spoiler:, leaving his master the only surviving person in the corporation.]]
* The ''[[ChzoMythos Chzo Mythos]]'' series ends with [[spoiler: Chzo getting exactly what it wants...which, it turns out, everyone else in every game has been drastically misinterpreting from the beginning.]]

* 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.
** The soil erosion they were trying to prevent? The bases of train tracks. Which means they deliberately planted it everywhere they could along rail lines. Which were the superhighways of the nineteenth century.
** As if that weren't enough, it also produces ground-level ozone.
* In Typography, Helvetica was designed to be the 'perfect' typeface; meaning it could be used on almost any design or purpose. By the end of the 20th century, it and its clones has been overused by amateurs and professionals alike to the point that it's on the verge of becoming on the banned typefaces list alongside with Comic Sans.
** Whoever told you there was a banned typefaces list lied to you, there's no such a thing, most of the so-called typography rules are nothing but sectarian thougs the only real golden rule is use what works no more, no less. However Helvetica is overused and it's already frowned upon by many -mostly young- professionals since by virtue of overexposition it has lost most of it's impact and it's associated mainly with amateur and poorly trained designers.

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* In Star Wars, Knights of the Old Republic: Assassin Droid HK-47 proves too effective when his master, [[spoiler:a Systech Manager]] orders him to kill all members of a rival company in order to facilitate the man's rapid promotion. [[spoiler:Sadly, the rival company proves to simply be an offshoot of Systech Corp, and]] HK-47 carries out his orders to the letter[[spoiler:, even on his own master.]]

-->-- ''DeepBlueSea''. [[TooDumbToLive What were you expecting to happen]]?

->''"I'm not worried about things going ''wrong''."''
-->-- '''David''', ''JohnDiesAtTheEnd: John and Dave and the Temple of X'al'naa'thuthuthu''