History Main / GoneHorriblyWrong

* {{Homestuck}}'s Jade gave her friend John an InfinityPlusOneSword for his birthday. She didn't count on it falling into the hands of [[TheStarscream Jack Noir]]. It's implied that this may be part of what leads to their game session becoming [[{{Unwinnable}} unwinnable.]]

* Scientology, according to some ex-Scientologists has gone horribly, ''horribly'' wrong since Dave Miscavage took over. Ex-members say things have been steadily going downhill since the death of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_McPherson Lisa McPherson]] caused Dave Miscavage to become an [[DomesticAbuser abusive]] [[ParanoiaFuel paranoid]] [[SmallNameBigEgo dictator]] and it pains them to see the religion that helped them through some very dark times become a [[BlackAndGrayMorality dark and twisted]] parody of itself.

* Many of the spells Anne performs in TheWotch (There's a whole arc titled "Consequences".) Cassie too, even the most innocent situations seem to have these problems.
* [[BigBad Damien]] in ElGoonishShive.
* Happens about as often as one would expect in GirlGenius, given its mad science setting, including the as-yet unspecified disaster deep within the bowels of Castle Heterodyne that ultimately led to the devastation of much of Europe.
* OrderOfTheStick: [[spoiler: Turning Xykon into a lich was partially done to give Redcloak some leverage on Xykon. It didn't work.]]

* ReBoot: Wellman Matrix was just trying to find other systems and create a doorway to them through his experimental stargate. Unfortunately the targeting scanners locked onto Killobyte in the Super Computer and transported him to the stargate and overloaded it. This triggered a massive explosion that obliterated Mainframe's twin city and spawned Megabyte and Hexadecimal in the process.

Expect these people to send out a DistressCall or chronicle the debacle in an ApocalypticLog, be visited by a group [[ClosedCircle whose car broke down,]] or have things go wrong when the stockholders/government oversight committee comes to shut them down.

See also CameBackWrong for when an attempt at bringing someone BackFromTheDead Goes Horribly Wrong. Contrast GoneHorriblyRight, for when a project succeeds ''too well'' and the result is far worse than any accident could have been.

* A rare example of sociology going horribly wrong is Joe Haldeman's ''TheForeverWar''. Instead of conscripting all the stupid people into the army, TheGoverment conscripts all the smart and fit people for military service. Needless to say, things [[GoneHorriblyWrong go horribly wrong on Earth soon afterwards.]]

* Lots of ''WhateleyUniverse'' examples, but how about the Russian program to create a nanotechnology SuperSoldier? The ''best'' iteration had one functional survivor... who melted into goo a year later.
** Or how about the bioengineering mad scientist who was found on a personal military submarine... or, rather, the people searching that submarine found around a dozen or two protozoan monstrosities, and [[{{Squick}} no trace of the crew]].

* In ''{{Gauntlet}}: Legends'' and its re-release Dark Legacy, Garm attempts to summon the Demon King Skorne and use his power to usurp his older brother, Sumner, as the ruler of the Eight Realms. To do this, he requires the thirteen Runestones, but after a long time searching, he only manages to find twelve. He grows impatient and goes ahead with the ritual anyways without the thirteenth Runestone, and manages to summon Skorne from the Underworld. Lacking the final Runestone, though, Skorne breaks free from Garm's control and crushes him to death, then proceeds to lay waste to the Realms.

* In Gauntlet: Legends and its re-release Dark Legacy, Garm attempts to summon the Demon King Skorne and use his power to usurp his older brother, Sumner, as the ruler of the Eight Realms. To do this, he requires the thirteen Runestones, but after a long time searching, he only manages to find twelve. He grows impatient and goes ahead with the ritual anyways without the thirteenth Runestone, and manages to summon Skorne from the Underworld. Lacking the final Runestone, though, Skorne breaks free from Garm's control and crushes him to death, then proceeds to lay waste to the Realms.

* The major plot element of the first arc of ''TehGladiators'', a WoW webcomic, is the fact that, to increase the popularity of the [[GladiatorGames Arenas]], the leaders of the Horde and Alliance arranged for a team of losers and idiots (the eponymous heroes) to win the Arena season by casting a Scroll of Unconditional Victory on them. This plan backfires horribly when two of the team members, {{Mad Scientist}}s Sharon and Yolanda, create a Frankenstinian monster named Cyclonator [=X32A=], which runs wild and wrecks most of Azeroth. Buffed by the scroll, it's unstoppable until Teh Glads manage to lose a match, which breaks the enchantment. [[OrIsIt Or Does It?]]

->"THIS IS A BAD EXPERIMENT! WE ARE BAD PEOPLE! WHY DID WE HAVE TO USHER FORTH THE GREEN APOCALYPSE?!"\\
-- '''FreemansMind'''

* In the 2008 ''TheIncredibleHulk'' film, the army's experiments with Gamma radiation gives birth to the Hulk, and [[spoiler: [[{{General Ripper}} Thunderbolt Ross]] and [[{{Psycho For Hire}} Emil Blonsky's]] experiments with the [[{{Captain America}} super-soldier serum]] leads to Blonsky becoming the Abomination]].

-- '''FreemansMind''' '''After the Resonance Cascade'''

->"This is a bad experiment! We are bad people! Why did we usher forth the green apocalypse?!"\\
-- '''FreemansMind'''

* Responible for quite a few supervillian origins. For example:
* [[{{Spiderman}} Norman Osbourne]] creates a compound that grants super-stregth and healing powers. And turns him into the insane '''Green Goblin'''.

* [[SonictheHedgehog Doctor Finitevus']] first use of his Chaos Siphon suit turned him into a MadScienist and [[EvilAlbino bleached his fur.]]

** Stalin also had the biggest seed deposit in the world destroyed in the 1930s and thousands of Russian biologists executed or sent to gulags in his attempt to promote Lysenkoism, a form of the already long discredited Lamarckism that should be the Socialist rival to "Burgeoise" Darwinism. In the next decades Soviet crop production plunged so hard that the USSR had to import foreign wheat, despite controlling one of the most extensive and fertile wheatfields (the Ukraine's) in the world. Proof you can't force politics on Mother Nature.
*** Tsk. Uncle Joe personally breaking lab jars? At worst, kicked out one guy from a competing camp. After he was given power and proved to be reckless (if girasol storage was cared about before switching a significant rural area to it, no one would even hear about Lysenko and his flunkies). Who formally was a Lamarckist against Weissmanism, sticking ''closer'' to Darwin. The rest was just bitching around a trough in a low priority area (this period was called "industrialization"). According to witnesses, USSR crop production sunk the moment peasants were herded into communal farms, so show-off bulls in the capitol could at worst prevent slightly offsetting this.

* [[UsefulNotes/{{Scientology}} Scientology]], according to ex-Scientologists has gone horribly, ''horribly'' wrong since Dave Miscavage took over. Ex-members say things have been steadily going downhill since the death of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_McPherson Lisa McPherson]] caused Dave Miscavage to become an [[DomesticAbuser abusive]] [[ParanoiaFuel paranoid]] [[SmallNameBigEgo dictator]] and it pains them to see the religion that helped them through some very dark times become a [[BlackAndGrayMorality dark and twisted]] parody of itself.