Kokoro: Kocha, who, in a quest to cure a fatal genetic disorder, has created flying plants, temporarily cured insanity, aged up a co-worker, and turned herself pink.Other inventions of his are also prone to flaws in design, or simply falling into the wrong hands. Arale, the Robot Girl he invented, was designed with flawed eyesight and literally Earth-shattering super-strength, and she's such an extreme Cloud Cuckoolander that the one time a literal bug ended up causing her to malfunction, she started acting perfectly normal (by human standards). Doctor Slump: Senbei Norimaki is a classic example.D.Gray-Man: Komui Lee, whose defective inventions are the show's Running Gag.Over the course of the series, he does manage to make many useful devices, but is also shown to bungle lots of inventions. Case Closed: Professor Agasa is introduced to us as he blows a hole in his house and his neighbor goes to help him out.Black Jack: The eponymous Jack created an artificial life form while and possibly because he was drunk.Fixit or The Professor dip occasionally into this trope. Some characters who are usually Gadgeteer Genius, Mr. Needless to say, this trope is typically found in comedy works, though there are exceptions. Strangely, it never occurs to anyone that he's anything other than a failure: the fact that he's created a working time machine does not make up for the fact that he has totally failed to make a machine that produces toast. Perhaps the strangest thing about the Bungling Inventor is that he is so bad at inventing that he occasionally accomplishes by accident what the world's most competent inventor could not do on purpose: he may be trying to fix a television and inadvertently create a device which brings fictional characters to life. The inventions might do something entirely different than what they were supposed to (like explode, or play "Yankee Doodle Dandy"), or they might seem to do their primary function but have some subtle flaw, or they might work a little too well (like a security robot that throws everyone out of a house, including the people it was designed to protect). In fact, they're prone to truly spectacular cases of Phlebotinum Breakdown. Hogfather (on Bungling Inventor "Bloody Stupid Johnson")Ī trope that started out as a subversion of the Gadgeteer Genius, but is now a trope in its own right, the Bungling Inventor is a scientist (often a Mad Scientist) whose inventions never seem to work properly.
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