What's it called when an inventor's invention backfires on them?
What's it called when an inventor's invention backfires on them?
Is there a name for this specific concept? Where somebody invents something (to do them good) but then that thing turns around and backfires on them?
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Hubris. Irony.
35 0 ReplyMight subcategorize, like "Frankensteinian irony."
8 0 ReplyOr even Frankenstein Ian. Shelleyesque
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