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.
Might subcategorize, like "Frankensteinian irony."
Or even Frankenstein Ian. Shelleyesque
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