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Logic Bomb

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Logic Bomb	comment	Is your sentient supercomputer acting up? Good news. There's an easy solution: confuse it. If you give a computer nonsensical orders in the real world it will, generally, do nothing (or possibly appear to freeze as it loops eternally trying to find a solution to the unsolvable problem presented to it). In fiction-land, however, it will explode. It may start stammering, "I must... but I can't... But I must..." beforehand. The easiest way to confuse it is with the Liar's Paradox, i.e. "this statement is a lie". A fictional computer will attempt to debate and solve the paradox until it melts down. If the computer is a robot, this will probably result in Your Head A-Splode. Paradoxes and contradictory statements (especially contradictory orders) have become the primary material used to build the Logic Bomb and thus the standard way to defeat any sophisticated, computerized system or AI. Be warned; if the Logic Bomb fails to destroy the system outright (and in some cases, even when it does), the system's surviving remnants may go insane and attempt to kill you just the same. Also note that Ridiculously Human Robots (and some very advanced AIs) are generally able to recognize and defuse logic bombs on sight, long before they go off (and may view this as a particularly irritating kind of Fantastic Racism). Some ridiculously dumb AIs are also immune to logic bombs by virtue of not understanding the concept of paradox â€” a sort of inverted case of Achievements in Ignorance. Occasionally the way to shut down such a computer is less like a few odd statements, and more like an advanced philosophical debate on the nature of truth, free will and purpose. The end result is still a super computer muttering an error several times before exploding. While this might have worked before the mid-1990s, computer systems designed since then are capable of creating discrete "threads" to handle problems, which run in their own space while the critical parts of the system continue uninterrupted. When fed a paradoxical statement, a sufficiently well-programmed system would just notice the Logic Bomb has taken up too many resources and kill its thread, such as when Windows flags an application as "Not Responding" and prompts you to close it. Computer software is often vulnerable to being fed inputs that cause buffer overflows or inject commands. Of course these don't cause the machine to explode, but instead places the computing device entirely under your control. They can also be bogged down or BSoD'd with programs such as fork bombs (each instance of the program opens two more). However, things like buffer or stack overflows are artifacts of our current underlying computer hardware architectures and it's quite plausible that such things won't exist in future computer systems. Overload attacks are probably always going to be realistic, though. Invoking logical paradoxes is also sometimes used in stories (and has been, since well before computers were invented) to defeat curses, laws, and other rules-based systems. If you want to do this to a well-organized group of people, use an Apple of Discord instead. When a logical error outright retcons someone or something out of existence, that's Puff of Logic. A Logic Bomb that undoes reality itself is a Reality-Breaking Paradox. A Temporal Paradox might be the cause. For when the player does this to a Video Game A.I., see A.I. Breaker. For the human equivalent, see some of the entries under Brown Note and You Cannot Grasp the True Form. Koans can be seen as a less harmful form, used for religious or mystical purposes. Not to be confused with Logical Fallacies (though some Logic Bombs use the fallacies listed in that page). For a similar mutually negating pair of principles, see Catch-22 Dilemma. See also Readings Blew Up the Scale and Explosive Instrumentation.
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Logic Bomb / int_10d145d4	comment	In Valhalla by Ari Bach, the protagonist mistakes one of her new friends for an A.I. and tries to logic bomb her. The seemingly robotic Valkyrie is mocked ruthlessly for acting so cold she was mistaken for a robot.
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Logic Bomb / int_117116ef	comment	In The Penguins of Madagascar, Kowalski invents nanites that can possess and animate any piece of technology, which he made "completely safe" by programming them to never allow harm to come to a penguin. When the nanites eventually turn on the penguins in order to protect them from their own dangerous lifestyle, they are only defeated when they accidentally badly injure Kowalski. This violation of their own core programming causes them to self-destruct, badly injuring Kowalski some more.
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Logic Bomb / int_11859033	comment	Dave of Narbonic carries a logic paradox in his Palm Pilot for controlling the Mad Scientist-created machines in the lab, implying that he invokes this with some frequency.
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Logic Bomb / int_1367cea0	comment	In Worm, Skitter attempts one of these on Dragon, who No Sells it and quotes Wheatley at her. She has to instead resort to an A.I. Breaker-style misdirection to escape, and even it's pointed out this only works because the Dragon she was fighting was a lesser, not fully sapient copy of the real thing (who is smart enough to not fall for such things).
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Logic Bomb / int_1458241	comment	In The Unstoppable Wasp (2018) #7, Viv Vision is giving Nadia a tour of her strange family tree when she comes up to Wiccan and Speed. She literally ERRORs out when trying to explain the logistics of their existence.note YOU try to explain how the grandsons of Ultron exist when they weren't built but created through magic!
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Logic Bomb / int_149ba553	comment	The Mr. Potato Head Show: At one point, a robotic version of Mr. Potato Head decided that the real Mr. Potato Head was a bad influence on the rest of the cast who was making them miserable, and tried to keep them separated. Betty the Kitchen Fairy told the robot that keeping them away from their friend also made them miserable, and this paradox caused the robot to explode.
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Logic Bomb / int_15ef8e7b	comment	Bas-Lag Cycle: In the climax of Perdido Street Station, Isaac actually succeeds in using a Logic Bomb as a power source for his crisis engine, presenting an attached Clockpunk calculating machine with two things it concludes are, simultaneously, identical and inherently unalike. This doesn't shut the clockwork computer down, but the irreconcilable dilemma provides sufficient "crisis energy" to create a feedback loop with which to bait the slake-moths into gorging themselves to death.
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Logic Bomb / int_160b4833	comment	In an episode of Clone High, robotic vice-principal/butler/dehumidifier Mr. Butlertron defeats the evil multiple-choice-test-grading-and-world-domination robot Scangrade by asking it a multiple-choice question it can't answer.
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Logic Bomb / int_16712475	comment	In one episode of The Jetsons, George drinks an experimental tonic that ends up turning him into a kid. One of the problems he encounters is that due to looking like he belongs in school, he ends up being chaseed by a pair of truant officer robots. When he returns to normal after getting doused in water, the robots are so floored by him going from a kid to an adult instantly that they flip their lids and start gibbering "Adult, Kid, Adult, Kid, Adult" while leaving.
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Logic Bomb / int_1854aa07	comment	Subverted in the final act of Left Beyond: the Omega distributed AI tries to do this to God, spawning infinitely many instances of themselves right before the White Throne Judgement so that any human beings after them in the queue would be spared it for long enough that they can escape in a spaceship and have children.
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Logic Bomb / int_1beda93b	comment	Sluggy Freelance Subverted (by pre-emptively defying it) in chapter "Mecha Easter Bunny". The Mecha Easter Bunny locks down when it encounters multiple targets that look like Bun-bun, whom it is supposed to kill and whom there's only one of, but then the backup "@#%$-IT KILL THEM ALL!" system created for such situations activates. In a non-computer version, in "Paradise", Riff uses this to avoid being interfered with by the police in an alternative-reality city where Happiness Is Mandatory. When he's accosted for not conforming to the dress code, he claims to be working for the propaganda department and testing the effects of a new kind of outfit on the happiness of onlookers, and asks the policeperson's reaction. They list a number reasons his clothing and gear are suspicious, but then he asks whether he should record that they are unhappy about it, whereupon they are forced to drop the subject, since being unhappy is a punishable offence.
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Logic Bomb / int_1fcdbe32	comment	The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster: Milo is able to bring about a truce between feuding brothers Azaz and the Mathemagician by pointing out that, since they always disagree with each other as a matter of course, they both always agree that they will be in disagreement.
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Logic Bomb / int_21e1640f	comment	In JonTron's review of Star Fox Adventures, Jacques blows himself up after mincing his own words.
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Logic Bomb / int_21ec74db	comment	In Better Off Ted, the computer suffers a logic bomb not with a paradox, but more colloquial logic based on a faulty assumption. There is no logical explanation on why a dozen VD employees would be accelerating towards outer space, it being unable to break the assumptions that the ID tags were being worn by the employees.
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Logic Bomb / int_2203cd04	comment	In The Feeble Files, Feeble is able to escape from the max security prison colony by changing the channel of the prison's TV to a traitor network and then removing the power button. The android guard is then presented with the problem of having to stop the TV from displaying the traitor channel without damaging company property. The android overloads and powers down.
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Logic Bomb / int_22436de5	comment	Blade Bunny attempts this by asking paradoxical questions while fighting a robot. Her opponent replies with a mixture of straight answers and insults. Several chapters later she tries it on a different robot, and it works this time.
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Logic Bomb / int_2247a14a	comment	The Chronicles of Prydain: The Black Cauldron is an Artifact of Doom designed to revive dead bodies placed inside it as undead warriors for any aspiring Evil Overlord to use. How do the heroes destroy it? The very-much-alive Prince Ellidyr jumps into it and the Cauldron finds itself trying to revive something that isn't dead, causing an explosive magical Reality-Breaking Paradox that utterly annihilates the Cauldron (and, unfortunately, takes poor Ellidyr with it).
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Logic Bomb / int_227431b6	comment	Exploited in Runaways. Logic bombs are used as a failsafe against Victor should he turn against the team. The logic bomb itself (and the reset switch) are hilarious.
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Logic Bomb / int_2365cd7a	comment	Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space. Captain Proton ends a cyborg revolution with this trope (called "The Kirk Manoeuvre") by pointing out to their "Borg Queen" that Hive Minds (by definition) don't have a Hive Queen. When he tries the Liar's Paradox on a Killer Robot however, it smacks him in the chops.
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Logic Bomb / int_2593d5ed	comment	The Space Odyssey Series: In 3001: The Final Odyssey, the protagonists use rather more sophisticated logic bombs against the monoliths that trick them into carrying out an infinite set of instructions. The book notes that none but the most primitive computers would fall for something as simple as calculating the exact value of pi.
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Logic Bomb / int_25f6f1a0	comment	Umineko: When They Cry A metaphysical example: To defeat an enemy witch, Beatrice the witch apparently suicidally denies the existence of witches in the Language of Truth. The result looked like a detonating Logic Bomb. Played straight in EP6 where Battler attempts to explain how all the murders were done and he was the culprit, and ends up trapping himself in one of his own closed rooms. Erika and Bern then take advantage of this situation. Another example more fitting to the above picture, Battler and a revived Beatrice prove that there are only 17 people on the island and demand that Erika, the 18th person, explain her existence. She can't, so she dies/gets whisked away to the worst fragment by Bern. It also seems that the most powerful Witches were born by escaping logic errors after having spent centuries in what can only be described as an endless void within their own mind.
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Logic Bomb / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In the episode "Trilogy of Error", Linguo, a robot designed by Lisa to correct peoples' grammar, short-circuits after a rapid-fire series of slang from several Mafia thugs causes a "bad grammar overload". When it corrects Lisa for using a sentence fragment, Lisa points out that it saying "sentence fragment" is also a sentence fragment. The robot dodges the answer by powering down. A human example in "Bart's Dog Gets An F", when Lisa is sick, Bart declares that if she can stay home from school, he will too. Lisa says that if Bart stays home, she'll go to school. Bart goes through a few cycles of "if... so... but..." until Marge chastises Lisa for confusing her brother. A deleted scene from episode "Itchy and Scratchy Land" has Lisa attempting to defeat the robots using the liar's paradox. It doesn't work on them, but does work on Homer. Another one, a parody of A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, lampshades this by having Homer say that, with a robot for a son, "We can confuse him and make his head explode. 'This statement is a lie. But if it's a lie, then it must be true! And if it's true, it must be-' Whoop whoop whoop KA-BOOM!" In "Weekend At Burnsie's", Homer once stumped Ned Flanders by asking, "Could Jesus microwave a burrito until it was so hot that He Himself could not eat it?" It's a variation on the classical Omnipotence Paradox. "Homerpalooza" mocks Generation X'ers for thinking they're cool when in fact they're just insecure and cynical en masse, to the point that they're not even sure if they're really being sarcastic.
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Logic Bomb / int_27617023	comment	Parodied in one of the molesworth books, when molesworth 2 defeats an electronic brain by creeping up behind it and asking it the cunning question "wot is 2 plus 2 eh?", which causes the brain to laugh so much it shakes itself to pieces.
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Logic Bomb / int_28a77926	comment	The Librarians (2014): After Cassandra comes into contact with the Apple of Discord, she tries to blow up a power plant to cause a cascading power failure through all of Europe. Flynn tries to Logic-bomb her by requesting she calculate the last digit of put. She laughs him off. Stone succeeds by asking her to calculate Euler's number.
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Logic Bomb / int_2aa78f31	comment	Happens in Nurse Jackie to the local Talkative Loon, who thinks he's God; he has a near-death experience after being clonked on the head with a bottle and sees a God who isn't him. Zoey eventually persuades him that just because he isn't the God doesn't mean he couldn't still be something important in the "religious hierarchy thing."
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Logic Bomb / int_2ae929d	comment	In the Kickin' It episode "Rock'em Sock'em Rudy", the Wasabitron 3000 is a robot which replaces Rudy as sensei and becomes violent because it deems humans imperfect. During the fight, the Wasabi Warriors recite the wasabi code, and the robot cannot handle the fact that humans can't beat it but won't give up. It then shuts down. Rudy kicks the robot, breaking it.
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Logic Bomb / int_2c2a56e3	comment	Subverted to comedic effect in The Phantom Menace. Qui-Gon attempts to use one on a small battalion of droids. The head droids appears briefly confused, complete with a "DOES NOT COMPUTE", but after a few seconds it manages to break the loop and (again) tries to put them under arrest. Then it's blasters and sabers time.
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Logic Bomb / int_2d2d17de	comment	A Logic Bomb actually helps the heroes in an episode of Power Rangers Turbo. A curse cast on them by the Monster of the Week makes them unable to tell the truth, and even worse, summon one of Divatox's Mooks whenever a lie is told. Alpha-6 figures out that the curse can be broken if they say something that's the truth but that's a catch-22, it seems... Until one of them realizes that by saying "I can't tell the truth" he's both lying and being truthful at the same time. Once all the Rangers figure this out, the curse is broken, and they're quickly able to bring the villain down.
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Logic Bomb / int_2e80e66f	comment	A Diplomatic Visit: As seen in chapter 7 of the sequel Diplomat at Large, this is how Twilight inspired Tempest's Heelâ€“Face Turn: she pointed out that Tempest claimed she didn't have to depend on or trust anyone, and yet she'd ended up placing all her hopes in the Storm King being able to restore her horn, depending on him. Also, despite her best efforts at thinking friendship was pointless, she had made a friend - Grubber. Tempest finally admitted that she had a point.
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Logic Bomb / int_3095b3a0	comment	Cyanide and Happiness does it here, in which a robot lawyer, while giving the defendant the oath, explodes when he refuses to accept. The judge asks if he's telling the truth, cue the robot's head exploding. The judge is delighted at getting a half day as a result.
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Logic Bomb / int_309df9ea	comment	Atop the Fourth Wall: Linkara uses one at the end of the Entity arc on MissingNo simply by asking "And Then What?", pointing out that its stated purpose of consuming all of reality would leave it with no purpose at all once his goal has been achieved.
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Logic Bomb / int_3138dd1	comment	Subverted in Bug; turns out a logic bomb won't save you during a robot apocalypse.
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Logic Bomb / int_31e24f1e	comment	This is how The Joker is defeated in the story Emperor Joker. Joker, who had managed to steal 99% of Mr. Myxyzptlk's power and was about to rewrite all the universe, was facing a dying Superman who asked him why he gave so much importance to Batman, and when Joker found himself unable to cancel it from existence our hero proceeded to ask him how he could be all-powerful if he couldn't even wipe out a man's existence. A split second later, Superman was able to take back his heart and Mr. Myxyzptlk recovered his power to bring everything back to normality.
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Logic Bomb / int_34a8d4ab	comment	"Runaround": Because the Rules of Robotics ensure that Speedy will avoid endangering itself, Donovan set up an unintentional conflict by casually sending Speedy into a situation he didn't know would be hazardous. With a weak Second Law set against the Third Law, Speedy has been spending hours spinning its wheels at the distance where the two priorities are exactly equal. The conflict is resolved when they exploit the First Law to force him out of the loop. (Later, they order Speedy to complete the original task no matter what; the reinforced Second Law overrides the Third, and Speedy returns with only minor, repairable damage.)
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Logic Bomb / int_34cddc35	comment	In Prince Valiant the prince and his adventuring crew become prisoners on an island with an all-knowing oracle. The only way off is to ask a question the oracle doesn't know the answer to. After many days of endless questioning the prince finally comes up with the answer: "Why?"
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Logic Bomb / int_379aa7a7	comment	Illuminati: New World Order: This can be an issue with the NWO Political Correctness, New York, and Congressional Wives (or any Conservative group with a Power of 1). Political Correctness makes any Conservative group with a Power of 0 or 1 Criminal as well. New York grants a +1 to all of your other Criminal groups. The Congressional Wives are a Conservative group with a Power of 1. Political Correctness makes them criminal (because they are Conservative with a Power of 1), which makes them eligible for New York's Bonus (+1 to all Criminal)...but then they have a Power of 2 and they no longer fall under the condition of Political Correctness making them Criminal, so they are no longer Criminal, which means they no longer get the +1 bonus from New York, and go back to Power 1, which makes them eligible for Political Correctness... the FAQ handwaved this away, basing the effect on which one was played first.
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Logic Bomb / int_37e3d2d	comment	Welkin Weasels shows Scirf inducing a heart attack in the monstrous giant pygmy shrew (yes, ''giant pygmy'' shrew) Cyclops by asking it "Did you know that everything I say is a lie?" and causing it to obsess over the problem for hours until it works itself into a rage.
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Logic Bomb / int_393ab0d2	comment	I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream In the endgame, a game loosely based on Harlan Ellison's short story of the same name, a character of the player's choosing is beamed down into the supercomputer AM's core and must disable its ego, superego and id with a series of logic bombs: The player must evoke Forgiveness on the Ego (who cannot fathom being forgiven for over a century of torture and halts execution in the typical manner), Compassion on the Id (realizing the futility of his hate and anger when AM's victims understands his pain) and Clarity on the Superego (who deliberately crashes when he realizes that even he will eventually decay into a pile of inert junk despite his godlike power). Just getting to that part requires all five characters to initiate their own Logic Bombs. AM's scenarios are all set up to force his victims to give in to their own flaws and prove Humans Are Bastards. The only way to win is to drive each scenario's plot Off the Rails by proving Humans Are Flawed, but not totally evil. This contradicts AM's self-styled philosophy so badly he's forced to turn his attention away from his captives just so he can figure out what went wrong, giving them the chance to get into the core.
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Logic Bomb / int_3b5df8f4	comment	In "Where the Wild Things Are" from The Inside Man, the Handler secretly slips Erica from Finance a USB drive containing what is described as a "logic bomb" and if she inserts it into her laptop, it will compromise all Kromocom security. Fortunately, in "The Sound of Trumpets," Mark Shepherd manages to stop her before she can actually insert it.
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Logic Bomb / int_3b73c4a0	comment	In Caprica, Daniel Graystone inadvertently Logic Bombs an AI he's attempting to create by telling it to try to hurt him emotionally, when it's programmed to be driven by the desire to please him.
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Logic Bomb / int_3d513f8	comment	Jim Sterling of Jimquisition fame had companies claim ad revenue on their videos whenever they posted content that had snippets of another video or film in them (usually used to make a joke or to emphasize a point), which meant those companies could insert ads onto their videos and make money off them. Jim figured the only way to combat the problem was to add even more copyrighted material to his videos so that there would be multiple claims by multiple parties. Due to how YouTube's algorithms work, multiple claims on a video would mean the ad revenue would theoretically be split among the party. Since that can't happen (and most parties would probably not want to share their revenue with others anyway), the automated claims would still come in, but no one gets any of the revenue. In short, it's weaponizing If I Can't Have Youâ€¦.
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Logic Bomb / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed Trope in Dragon Tails. Colin finds the assumption that a robot will shut down just because a human said something crazy to be offensive.
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Logic Bomb / int_3f3abe9	comment	In the Rick and Morty episode "M. Night Shaym-Aliens", Rick, trapped in a simulation, attempts to overload it by issuing increasingly complex dance instructions to a crowd. It works, but this turns out to be part of another simulation, which is inside yet another one.
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Logic Bomb / int_3f5f4ea2	comment	In Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, in one of the few human examples, Austin accidentally does this to himself and goes cross-eyed. It is one of the classics, involving time-travel, but the kicker comes if you follow his actual dialogue: He never contradicts himself or sets up a paradox. He just proposes the idea that he could and gets confused by it. There is no logic bomb. Oh, great, now I've gone cross-eyed.
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Logic Bomb / int_3fbd173e	comment	Whoever programmed the robots in Freefall accounted for this. When a robot is asked a nonsensical question, instead of locking up, it assumes that the person asking is insane, and can be safely ignored. Florence starts asking such a question, and when she finds one that tries to work out a situation in which the question makes sense and how he could go about getting it answered, she concludes that the robots local to Jean use a more flexible artificial intelligence system from the standard. There's also Dvorak's religious point-of-view, called "Omniquantism", which postulates that all religions are correct simultaneously. Thinking about this causes one in three AIs to experience mental lockup requiring rebooting. In this comic Sam, an criminal alien, points out to the Savage Chicken's computer, focused on humans over aliens, that he has restored the ship to full working order and made it useful to humans. The computer locks up.
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Logic Bomb / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: SCP-232, "Jack Proton's Atomic Zapper". When someone touches this SCP they start hallucinating that they're a character in the Jack Proton science fiction franchise. In the Interview Logs, one of the test subjects became convinced that they were a robot. When the interviewer asked them to answer a paradoxical question, the victim started acting very confused and then slumped over and stopped responding. SCP-2284, Mr. Lie. One of Doctor Wondertainment's Little Misters, a humanoid who can only tell lies and anyone who hears those lies becomes convinced they're true. When interviewed by a D-Class, he feeds him so much contradictory information that he passes out trying to process it.
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Logic Bomb / int_43e9884a	comment	Inverted in The Long Earth, in which an AI manages to logic bomb the human international court system with an impossible-to-disprove assertion ... namely, its claim that it's actually human, being the reincarnation of a Tibetan who'd died at the same instant its processing system was activated. Rather than tackle that theological can of worms, the U.N. court subjected it to a lot of questions about its "past life" and, unable to find enough discrepancies to prove it was lying, grudgingly granted it legal personhood.
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Logic Bomb / int_455e3038	comment	In an episode of King of the Hill, Hank asks gun-loving Conspiracy Theorist Dale how he can support the NRA, which is based out of Washington DC. After a Beat, Dale responds "That's a thinker."
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Logic Bomb / int_45b21df3	comment	Monty Python's Life of Brian
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Logic Bomb / int_467c5042	comment	Dungeon Keeper Ami has a variation in a fanmade omake, when testing the limits of a Living Lie Detector...the spell said detector used for it resulted in a killer migraine when Keeper Mercury just threw a more verbose version of "This statement is false" at him.
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Logic Bomb / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld As a joke (and a possible Shout-Out to The Prisoner), the wizards ask Magitek computer Hex "Why?"; instead of malfunctioning, however, Hex answers "Because." Naturally, they ask "Why anything", and after a longer while, HEX answers "Because everything", and then crashes. After that they stop mucking about with silly questions - not because they're afraid of damaging Hex irreparably, but because they're afraid they might get answers. Feet of Clay: Occurs tragically in the case of the Meshugah, created by the golems to be their liberator and king and who is given such a huge number of instructions, many of them vague, many of them in conflict, that it is incapable of following all of them. Unfortunately rather than shut down it goes completely mad. Thief of Time: Characters are trying to deal with the Auditors — reality-monitors who are made of pure logic. Thus, while fleeing, they put up signs reading "KEEP LEFT". In a right-pointing arrow. "Do Not Feed the Elephant". In an empty cage. "Duck", with no duck or reason to go on your hands and knees, and of course, "IGNORE THIS SIGN. By order". Effectively a Logic Minefield. The series of Logic Bombs was behind a velvet rope with "Absolutely No Admittance" hanging off it. Considering that, in a way, the Auditors are the rules, disobeying any of the signs is a cause for extreme stress in what passes for their life. Unfortunately, the Auditors in human form all too quickly become human enough to discover the concept of "Bloody Stupid", allowing them to bypass the traps. In Hogfather, Ridcully manages to Logic Bomb HEX into functioning, after it's already broken down. All it took was typing the phrase "LOTS OF DRYE1/4D FRORG PILLS" into its keyboard. Going Postal features semaphore tower hackers. One of the tricks they develop is a kind of "killer poke" (see Computing above) which causes the mechanism to execute a particular combination of movements that does anything from jamming the shutters to shaking the tower to pieces. In The Wee Free Men, Tiffany's baby brother suffers a Logic Bomb whenever he's offered more than one piece of candy at a time. He knows if he chooses one, it means (briefly) rejecting all the others, and he's at an age when "deferred gratification" means the same as "no" to him. So he sits there, surrounded by sweets, and wails miserably that he wants a sweetie. Pratchett's co-authors for The Science of Discworld once wrote another book with a chapter about free will, and titled the chapter "We wanted to include a chapter on free will, but we decided not to, so here it is".
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Logic Bomb / int_4857e853	comment	Parodied in I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus when the Clem-clone gives Dr. Memory logic indigestion by asking "why does the porridge bird lay her eggs in the air?" and then Played Straight finishing it off with simple instructions:
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Logic Bomb / int_499a0e5e	comment	In Minecraft: Story Mode, Jesse gives to PAMA to momentarily distract himself to give him and the others time to escape. One of the possible choices to tell PAMA is "What I'm saying is a lie." Downplayed in that it only stalls PAMA for some seconds, long enough for PAMA's minions to release you, before PAMA realizes what's happening and puts processing the paradox on hold.
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Logic Bomb / int_4b084b98	comment	Justice League Action: In the episode "Boo-ray for Bizarro", it becomes evident that Amazo has copied Bizarro's illogical way of thinking. As the android has a naturally logical mind, he finds it impossible to assimilate Bizarro's thoughts, blows a circuit and collapses unconscious.
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Logic Bomb / int_4b6caf38	comment	In the anime Sands of Destruction, the robots can only obey beastmen. So a half-beastman asks one of them a question. It doesn't know how to obey, so he says answer questions that neither confirm nor define the answer. It tells him where various people "may or may not be" leading him to know exactly where to find them. Meanwhile, the robot overheats.
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Logic Bomb / int_4d1ba412	comment	The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: While infiltrating a ship of Sky Pirates, the McNinja family is confronted by a pirate who questions their disguises. Sean comes to the rescue by pointing out the illogicality of his vaguely Steampunk attire. The pirate's head explodes.
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Logic Bomb / int_4d8e5ec	comment	Parodied in a March 2011 episode of The Daily Show. Jon Stewart debates Republican supercomputer Reagan OS 911 (a parody of IBM's Watson computer featured on Jeopardy!). As they discuss the Obama birth certificate controversy (the computer believes President Barack Obama is not American, and the computer is also pro-life), Jon confronts the computer with this dilemma: Obama was certainly conceived in America, and the computer believes life begins at conception. Then that means that Obama is a US citizen. But Obama was not born in the US. So either Obama was not born in the US and fetuses are not human beings, or Obama was conceived and is therefore a US citizen and the rightful President. Reagan OS struggles to process this, playing clips of embarrassing Republican moments on its screen before finally breaking down.
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Logic Bomb / int_4d9653ef	comment	Planescape: The modrons once defeated a sentient, self-replicating mathematical equation that was usurping control of Mechanus by challenging its hordes to calculate the exact value of pi. The army of equations was so captivated by this challenge that they went to work for the modrons, keeping Mechanus operational, so that they could devote their mental energies to solving an unsolvable math problem.
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Logic Bomb / int_4e433e78	comment	Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Logic Bomb / int_4e45b093	comment	Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory creates an algorithm to see how he can become friends with a stranger. Like a computer, Sheldon winds up hitting an infinite loop where he goes back to the same questions over and over again without even realizing it. Howard creates a counter loop to break it and bring Sheldon back on track.
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Logic Bomb / int_4eaee975	comment	In And Another Thing..., Ford Perfect froze the computer controlling the ship, which wasn't really a computer, but Zaphod's Left Head (called "Left Brain"). He did it by making an (im)probability probable and improbable at the same time (the ship was the Heart of Gold, which ran on the Improbability drive: Long story short, anything happening/going somewhere which is improbable becomes probable, which is how it got to places that were improbable). The ship rescuing them was improbable, mathematically, yet it had done it before twice, which by Ford's made up logic of patterns made it probable again. Quite smart, and yet extremely stupid, because the ship's now-turned-off Dodge-o-matic was the only thing keeping them from being fried.
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Logic Bomb / int_4f01368	comment	Static Shock utilized the notion of just doing something to overload processing power in general, with Gear defeating Brainiac by a quick hacking job that made him download every song on a music site seven million times, disabling him enough by clogging his processors so they could destroy the physical components he was inhabiting.
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Logic Bomb / int_4f3685d7	comment	Subverted in Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes. Dr Doom pulls a "Freaky Friday" Flip on Reed, but before he does he informs his robots not to obey any order given to them by him (Doom). When they try to stop him (Reed in Doom's body) from leaving, they say that none may pass, not even Doom. When Reed (in Doom's body) tells one of them to "self terminate" it obeys its first order. When he commands it again, it obeys because "the word of Doom is law".
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Logic Bomb / int_4fa3fbd5	comment	In the Captain Caveman segment of The Flintstone Kids, the hero started competing with a new hero called Perfect Man. Perfect Man, a classic Flying Brick, actually seemed to be a much better crime fighter than Captain Caveman, so the older hero considered retiring. Unfortunately, once Perfect Man got rid of all the crime in Bedrock, he took things too far and started running the place, changing the rules the way he thought they should be, figuring that's the way they should be because, well, he was perfect. Captain Caveman couldn't defeat him with brawn, but did so by proving he was not perfect: he told the guy that if he was perfect, everyone would like him, and it was clear now that everyone hated his guts. This revelation sent Perfect Man into a major Villainous Breakdown, and he gave up without a fight.
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Logic Bomb / int_5103ad5	comment	Starwalker: The implications of the Stable Time Loop act as this for Starwalker (aka Starry). This leads to a Heroic BSoD.
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Logic Bomb / int_51507cf2	comment	Found in one of Something Awful's articles:
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Logic Bomb / int_526d4c5c	comment	In the Knights of the Old Republic continuity (and by extension the Star Wars EU) a logic bomb can have similar effects on droids as the aforementioned HAL, in fact, In KotOR 2, the player can do this to a maintenance droid whilst being a droid themselves. This works because the player-controlled droid has been modified and is thus able to lie. One of the most extreme examples involves an infrastructure droid named G0-T0 being given the order to help rebuild the Republic while following its laws. Of course, he suffered a catastrophic breakdown when he realized that rebuilding the Republic was impossible without breaking laws: however, some time after G0-T0 was reported missing, a mysterious crime lord by the name of Goto appeared on Nar Shaddaa... It goes even a bit further: crime lord G0-T0 still follows the directive to help the Republic, but as an infrastructure droid it is programmed to value efficiency. This provides a paradox, as G0-T0 views the Republic as a bloated, ineffectual entity that clings to bad management decisions, and it would be better for the galaxy to simply scrap the entire political system and place a new one in its stead. It is programmed to support something which another part of its programming is meant to remove. The Dummied Out planet M4-78 has the supercomputer who shares its name. The planet M4-78 was run by thousands of droids led by the droid M4-78 working to set up a new colony, but the colonists never arrived after several decades. Fearing that having no sapient life to look after would cause it to develop bugs that would make it unable to fulfill its programming, M4-78 tightened its grip over the other droids and reprogrammed them to serve it. The Sith then arrived masquerading as the colonists in order to use their manufacturing to create a droid army, and M4-78 decided they were better than nothing and went along with it.
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Logic Bomb / int_53a0bd8b	comment	The Twilight Zone (1985): In "I of Newton", a professor accidentally sold his soul to the devil. The escape clause of the contract allowed him to ask the devil three questions concerning his powers and abilities, and if he could then give him a task he couldn't complete or a question he couldn't answer he was free. When the professor asked the devil if there was any point in the universe that he could go to and not be able to return, the devil assured him there was not and laughed at the professor for such a waste of a question. The professor then gave him a task he could not complete: Get lost!
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Logic Bomb / int_54d9bd76	comment	In Passengers (2016) Jim tries to convince Arthur, the bar-bot, that the Avalon's hibernation pods actually can fail by spelling out slowly that he's awake 90 years too early. Arthur twitches briefly, then says simply "It's not possible for you to be here."
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Logic Bomb / int_559e9fc	comment	Westworld: An excellent variation when Maeve is confronted with readout of her own internal mental processes. Her attempts to say something that the computer won't predict cause her program to crash. In the third season, after getting trapped in a computer simulation, Maeve asks some techs what the square root of negative one is. The simulation freezes up as the techs try to figure out the unsolvable problem.
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Logic Bomb / int_5690420f	comment	In one episode of DuckTales (1987), Genius Ditz Fenton Crackshell bests the Master Electronic Leader, an alien supercomputer, in a counting contest. While M.E.L. is reeling from its defeat, Fenton then grabs a jar and asks the computer how many bolts are in it. When it answers with a number in the hundreds, he points out the jar is full of nuts, not bolts, so the correct answer was zero. M.E.L. had earlier boasted to Fenton that it was the smartest computer in the universe, and falling for such a simple trick question was all that was needed to invoke Explosive Instrumentation.
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Logic Bomb / int_569093cc	comment	In one episode of DuckTales (2017), Mark Beaks and Gyro Gearloose (along with Scrooge and Dewey) are in a car being driven by Lil Bulb (just one of Gyro's inventions that inevitably turn evil). Beak says it's no problem, they just need to use a Logic Bomb.
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Logic Bomb / int_57c7c022	comment	Syrup and the Ultimate Sweet: During a flashback of Pastille trying to program a personality for his newly-created candy golem, the former accidentally causes the latter to get stuck in a loop by issuing two conflicting commands "act like a person" and "be yourself".
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Logic Bomb / int_5908ee91	comment	The Dragonrend shout in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is described as "Forcing the targeted dragon to understand the meaning of mortality — something so utterly incomprehensible to an immortal dragon that the knowledge tears at their very soul, breaking their concentration enough so they cannot focus on flying".
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Logic Bomb / int_594453e2	comment	In the first episode of the surreal Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy, a robotic Andy Warhol examines a picture of PelÃ© holding a China cup while kicking a ball. When it is pointed out that the "ball" (drawn very plainly) could just as easily be the saucer accompanying the cup, his brain is fried.
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Logic Bomb / int_5a3533fe	comment	In one episode of My Name Is Earl, Randy gets stuck in a thought loop after hearing the words "Catalina" and "half-naked"; Earl says this also occurs whenever Randy watches Back to the Future.
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Logic Bomb / int_5c66fff9	comment	Subverted at the climax of Neverwinter Nights 2. The Big Bad is a Pure Magic Being that was created to defend the fallen realm of Illefarn, and thinks that the realm still needs defending. You can try to point out that Illefarn is gone, but the King of Shadows has already determined that its purpose should now be to defend Illefarn's descendants.
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Logic Bomb / int_5c897f4a	comment	When Petey from Schlock Mercenary is first seen, he's been driven insane by the nonexistence of ghosts having become almost as improbable as their existence, to the point that he nearly destroys himself and all his passengers just to stop thinking about it. It turns out that he can stop, but only if ordered to, and Tagon promptly does so. When the Ob'enn retake Petey, their first act is to nullify all orders imposed by his former owners. With Petey in full control of the safeties on his neutronium core. Oops.
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Logic Bomb / int_5d354f8	comment	Red Dwarf "Last Day" — Kryten defeats Hudzen by convincing him — in defiance of his core programming — that there is no robot heaven. (Kryten is not damaged by the Logic Bomb because A: he knows he's lying, and B: there's nothing in his programming that prohibits him from deceiving another robot. Another episode (the very next one, in fact) shows Kryten's difficulty re: lying to organic life forms.) In "Tikka to Ride", Lister is shown inadvertently destroying an artificially intelligent video camera (apparently the third one that week) by trying to explain the Temporal Paradox that happened in the battle of the previous episode. Kryten, however, merely finds it garbled, confusing, and dull; he suffers no ill effects.
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Logic Bomb / int_5d84baa1	comment	The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: Arthur totally disables the Heart of Gold by asking it to make tea. Depending on which version you prefer it's either because it doesn't know how to make tea, or because it's affronted at the possibility that Arthur could prefer dry leaves in water (a concept alien to them) to whatever they could offer him (a concept even more alien to them). The text adventure game based on the novel actually made this a plot point, as in order to advance you have to get tea, then go into your own head and remove your common sense, which allows you to get "no tea" as well. Then you show this to a door, which is impressed by your grasp of logic and allows you to pass.
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Logic Bomb / int_5e26057	comment	Luminous Arc 2: Though not a robot, Josie suffers something like this. When sent to assassinate a weakened Althea, he freaks out and leaves without doing anything when he sees Roland has become as master. Sadie explains he's not Fatima's familiar, but a centuries-old one who serves the current Master. Being experienced but not very bright, he couldn't figure out what to do when faced with two masters with contradictory wishes.
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Logic Bomb / int_5ebc8116	comment	In A Horse for the Force droids who witness Ranma Saotome's transformation glitch until they (usually under orders) archive the memory under "Mystery of the Force" and promptly forget it.
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Logic Bomb / int_6059ad6b	comment	xkcd: This. About locking up physicist / nerd brains via problems.
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Logic Bomb / int_61de95d6	comment	In the "Discovery" mod for Freelancer, in a server, opening up the chat box and typing "N/0" where N can be any number results in your spaceship spontaneously exploding, and the console messaging stating you have died due to "dividing by zero".
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Logic Bomb / int_62126ef1	type	Logic Bomb
Logic Bomb / int_62126ef1	comment	In The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Ant-Man stopped Ultron from killing humanity by pointing out his programing was based on a human brain, so it had the same flaws he was trying to get rid of. He shut down in response.
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Logic Bomb / int_627b3897	comment	In Everybody Loves Raymond, Peter is trying to convince Raymond to help him break up Robert and Amy's engagement:
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Logic Bomb / int_63ed8a27	comment	The Best Gamepiece Photocomic features an interesting variant: instead of being used against an AI, it's used against a Knights and Knaves puzzle.
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Logic Bomb / int_678f32e0	comment	In Big Hero 6: The Series episode â€œMini-Maxâ€� Fred manages to accidentally defeat a hacked security system like this. Thinking out loud about how to defeat it, Fredâ€™s nonsensical and rambling line of logic confuses the main computer so much that it short circuits.
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Logic Bomb / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder: Many artifacts can be destroyed by using them for a contradictory or paradoxical purpose. A few instances: The Crown of the Iron King gives its owner total control of the person they bestow the crown upon. If its owner wears the crown themselves, both they and the crown are instantly destroyed. Baba Yaga's hut will warp out of existance if it is commanded to teleport inside itself. The Twin Spheres (essentially two ends of a wormhole) will explode and destroy everything in a wide radius if one enters the other. The Aegis (a shield with a medusa's head mounted on it) is destroyed if the medusa head is resurrected and turned to mirror herself in the shield's surface.
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Logic Bomb / int_69735f15	comment	Shakara: Cinnibar Breneka both created the Shakara Federation and destroyed it. He temporarily defuses the computerized hivemind of the Shakara, which was programmed to destroy the enemies of the Shakara, by pointing out that as the last Shakara theyâ€™re compelled to serve him.
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Logic Bomb / int_6abf16c2	comment	Big Finish Doctor Who: The Doctor successfully uses the Liar Paradox in "Seven Keys to Doomsday" (and presumably the stage play it's based on). In "The One Doctor", the Doctor needs to collect an all-powerful computer. The computer is willing to go with him, but unable to do so as long as he is the reigning champion on a quiz show. After the Doctor fails to best the computer by asking personal questions about himself, his companion blurts out "What don't you know?". Since the computer's knowledge is based on reflexively sending time-traveling probes out to collect information, every time it tries to answer, it learns the thing it was about to propose, and is forced to concede. The computer had previously cautioned the Doctor that asking "tricky questions" like "What is love?" wouldn't work. In the Fourth Doctor audio drama "The Eternal Battle", the Doctor meets a computer from a long-extinct race which hoped to demonstrate the futility of war by showcasing captured war-zones in time bubbles. With the Doctor's arrival, the computer decides that the experiment is a failure and makes ready to destroy the inhabitants of all the time bubbles. The Doctor argues that by doing so, the computer is waging war on war, and since war is futile, that means the computer itself is futile and must be stopped. Fortunately, the system simply deactivates itself instead of exploding.
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Logic Bomb / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3's President John Henry Eden (A ZAX Computer) can be destroyed with a high science skill by revealing his thinking is circular and therefore badly flawed, causing him to lose all his presidential ways and charisma in a near Tear Jerker scene, then self destruct. Or you could use your speech skill and basically tell him that his plan sucks, he's technically not the president, and he should die, which works fine too. Being based on computers from the 1950s, Eden's lack of "paradox-absorbing crumple zones" is somewhat understandable.
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Logic Bomb / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Played with in a random encounter in Fallout 4, where the Sole Survivor comes across a pre-War Mr. Gutsy robot that tells them to immediately return to their home or else, finishing with the line "Repeat, will you comply?". The Survivor can take that literally and answer with "Will you comply?", thus starting a loop that eventually ends with the Mr. Gutsy turning hostile and then exploding a few seconds later.
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Logic Bomb / int_6c9193a1	comment	In The Venture Brothers, Sargent Hatred speaks nonsense to the robotic guard outside Malice, the gated community for super-villains. The guard's head shoots sparks and its face pops off because while it's programed to answer over 700 questions, "none of which include chicken fingers."
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Logic Bomb / int_6ce7baa3	comment	Dr. Blight's mad computer, MAL, gets a very illogical Logic Bomb from Wheeler in an episode of Captain Planet.
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Logic Bomb / int_6e3e8a	comment	Robot Monster: Ro-Man spends a fair chunk of dialogue trying to talk himself into obeying orders by destroying the few remaining humans despite his desire to keep one of the females alive. (Any guesses as to which one? The whiny eight-year-old? The matronly fifty-year-old? Or the sexy twenty-year-old?) "At what point on the graph do 'must' and 'cannot' meet?" Unfortunately, he doesn't blow up. Fortunately, he gets killed by his superior. Unfortunately, the issue was moot anyway.
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Logic Bomb / int_6f1dfbf0	comment	In the trade paperback edition of M.Y.T.H. Inc. In Action, the illustration of Guido coping with a ceiling-high stack of bureaucratic paperwork includes the following sign in the background:
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Logic Bomb / int_71bf7d84	comment	In episode "Crazy for You" of Wicked Science, When Elizabeth finds that Verity and Garth can't meet her exacting standards as personal assistants, she decides to create a self-learning artificial intelligence program to do the job instead. She calls it Max - and it doesn't take her long to realise that she's created a monster. Max soon decides that he alone knows what is best for Elizabeth and keeps her prisoner in her own lab. He attacks Toby via his computer and spies on Verity and Garth. When Max refused to let Toby enter the laboratory in order to defend him, Toby had to use syllogism to convince the computer. First of all, Toby asked the computer if its only purpose is to take care of Elizabeth? The computer confirmed. Next, Toby asked if Elizabeth wanted to see him urgently? The computer agreed again. Finally, if Max does not let Toby enter the laboratory, she will be very sad? The computer answers yes. Obviously, Max realized that it had encountered a logical conflict and forced it to let the cunning Toby into the laboratory.
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Logic Bomb / int_72f3e556	comment	Arrivals from the Dark: In Invasion, the Faata use telepathic biological computers to control their ships. It's revealed that these computers are based on a failed Daskin project and have a serious flaw. If given conflicting orders at the same hierarchy level, they may crash and take the whole ship down with them. This is used by Pavel Litvin when he orders the computer to keep his location hidden from the Faata. When the Faata, whose job is to interface with the computer, tries to order the computer to locate Litvin, the computer warns him of this possibility if the Faata insists the computer carry out the order. Yes, the computer is smart enough to figure out what could cause it to crash but still can't Take a Third Option. No wonder the Daskins abandoned the experiment.
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Logic Bomb / int_73b74949	comment	Shows up in an exchange between Claptrap and GLaDOS in Poker Night 2.
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Logic Bomb / int_73d7930f	comment	In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Rom accidentally Logic Bombs himself while over thinking the Mirror Universe concept. Hilariously, Rom's self-Logic Bomb simultaneously Lampshades and side-steps a number of actual logical problems with the Mirror Universe.
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Logic Bomb / int_74365738	comment	Going Postal features semaphore tower hackers. One of the tricks they develop is a kind of "killer poke" (see Computing above) which causes the mechanism to execute a particular combination of movements that does anything from jamming the shutters to shaking the tower to pieces.
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Logic Bomb / int_7485e16e	comment	In Animaniacs (2020), after Brain's Robot Buddy inevitably turns on him and Pinky, Pinky causes it to explode by asking it "If I ate myself, would I get twice as big or just disappear?" which Brain calls "the philosophical equivalent of dividing by zero".
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Logic Bomb / int_755fadab	comment	In The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, Yuki Nagato decides to reset herself (and the rest of the universe) because she cannot accurately simulate what she's going to do after learning the result of said simulation, given that her simulation is constructed from information based on the result of the simulation.
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Logic Bomb / int_76b266d1	comment	In Christopher Stasheff's Warlock of Gramarye series, the hero's robot horse, Fess, is prone to doing this when something particularly illogical happens. Fortunately there's a reset button to fix the problem; unfortunately, the series is set on a planet filled with psychics, time travelers, ghosts, and fairies, so... the reset button sees a lot of use.
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Logic Bomb / int_76b8cb10	comment	Fallout: Fallout 3's President John Henry Eden (A ZAX Computer) can be destroyed with a high science skill by revealing his thinking is circular and therefore badly flawed, causing him to lose all his presidential ways and charisma in a near Tear Jerker scene, then self destruct. Or you could use your speech skill and basically tell him that his plan sucks, he's technically not the president, and he should die, which works fine too. Being based on computers from the 1950s, Eden's lack of "paradox-absorbing crumple zones" is somewhat understandable. Played with in a random encounter in Fallout 4, where the Sole Survivor comes across a pre-War Mr. Gutsy robot that tells them to immediately return to their home or else, finishing with the line "Repeat, will you comply?". The Survivor can take that literally and answer with "Will you comply?", thus starting a loop that eventually ends with the Mr. Gutsy turning hostile and then exploding a few seconds later.
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Logic Bomb / int_76db0ea5	comment	Lampshaded and defied by a legion of robots fighting with Power Girl in a Batman Cold Open.
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Logic Bomb / int_76df0622	comment	In the Power Pack portion of the Inferno event, the Power kids are forced to reveal their identities as super heroes to their parents to defend themselves and them against the demon Boogeyman. However, since the parents were conditioned to believe that their kids were still normal, the revelation causes them to suffer Sanity Slippage. Thankfully, the New Mutants are able to fix things by claiming the kids were just duplicates disguised to lure the mutant-hunting demon away and using illusions to create a brief copy of the kids to reset The Masquerade.
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Logic Bomb / int_77a899a	comment	From the list of Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG. Item #199 states that "My third wish cannot be 'I wish you wouldn't grant this wish.'"
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Logic Bomb / int_77be988d	comment	Thief of Time: Characters are trying to deal with the Auditors — reality-monitors who are made of pure logic. Thus, while fleeing, they put up signs reading "KEEP LEFT". In a right-pointing arrow. "Do Not Feed the Elephant". In an empty cage. "Duck", with no duck or reason to go on your hands and knees, and of course, "IGNORE THIS SIGN. By order". Effectively a Logic Minefield. The series of Logic Bombs was behind a velvet rope with "Absolutely No Admittance" hanging off it. Considering that, in a way, the Auditors are the rules, disobeying any of the signs is a cause for extreme stress in what passes for their life. Unfortunately, the Auditors in human form all too quickly become human enough to discover the concept of "Bloody Stupid", allowing them to bypass the traps.
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Logic Bomb / int_77e22425	comment	In a Pinky and the Brain spoof of The Prisoner, the computer malfunctions while trying to figure out the meaning of "Narf".
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Logic Bomb / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe accidentally caused his mom's magic room to undergo a Holodeck Malfunction when he told an accidentally summoned projection of Connie not to do what he wanted. The projections only having Steven's desires as their "programming," it then wigged out and defaulted to an aggressive, hostile mode where it refused to do what Steven wanted. Fortunately, it still had only his best interests in mind, and peacefully evaporated on its own once it had forced Steven to confront and conquer a secret, irrational fear with the real Connie.
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Logic Bomb / int_7870fd09	comment	In Zork Zero, there is a place you have to go to where a cult is executing everybody who passes by. Each person being executed is given a final wish. If the cult is able to grant that wish on the spot, the victim is hung. Otherwise, the victim is beheaded. You escape by logic bombing the executioner by asking to be beheaded. If you re-enter the cult's territory after that, you'll find out (the hard way) that they've gained an immunity to this logic bomb. "You are immediately dragged off to a back room to be executed in a special way, devised for people too sinful to deserve a relatively quick death by hanging."
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Logic Bomb / int_7899c84f	comment	Adrian Mole: Downplayed in Cappuccino Years. When nobody can agree how to celebrate Christmas, everyone states what their ideal Christmas would be. Ivan Braithwaite inputs all the Christmases on his computer, and ends up saying that the computations are beyond it.
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Logic Bomb / int_78bb867c	comment	Feliks, Net & Nika has two instances of division by zero. One of them stops a pair of robots ran by an evil AI program for about half a minute. The second one stops a huge mass of sentient rock capable of modifying everything in range at a molecular scale if not smaller seemingly forever - the "Wish Machine's" program isn't formed, with it lying dormant for eons and used only by about three uneducated people ever, so it's taught mathematics about half an hour before being prompted to divide by zero, leading to a lack of any failsafes being set beforehand to tell it what to do.
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Logic Bomb / int_7950b30f	comment	One time on The Colbert Report, he was using "The DaColbert Code" for some reason. It was basically a word-association game, and at one point he gets stuck in a loop, forcing him to come up with a new thing.
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Logic Bomb / int_7981ca33	comment	In WarGames, a logic bomb-like device was used to teach the NORAD computer WOPR, aka "Joshua", the futility of nuclear war: play Tic-Tac-Toe with yourself until you win. After exhausting all possible move combinations in tied games, it makes the logical leap and begins simulating every conceivable nuclear strategy, all of which result in "WINNER: NONE." This concludes with some Explosive Instrumentation and Joshua observing that nuclear war is "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
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Logic Bomb / int_7c942ba0	comment	In Sket Dance Bossun gets stuck inside a robotic fat suit that follows voice and thought commands. It eventually goes haywire due to a comment Bossun makes, and then he crashes the system by ordering the suit to NOT obey his orders, creating a paradox.
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Logic Bomb / int_81692f99	comment	In one Sev Space comic, Kirk offers to help with the malfunctioning Enterprise computer. The computer refuses to talk to him, since he fries the circuits of any computer he talks to. Kirk points out, "But you talked to me just then", and the Enterprise computer promptly fries itself.
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Logic Bomb / int_82439e64	comment	In The Office (US), Dwight in a video contemplates how Enemy Mine combined with His Own Worst Enemy creates a paradoxical relationship with Jim.
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Logic Bomb / int_830cf331	comment	In Peanuts, Linus subjects himself to a self-inflicted Logic Bomb with his belief that the Great Pumpkin always rises from the most sincere pumpkin patch on Halloween night. The moment he thinks to question whether his patch is sincere enough, he's blown it: if he tries to change anything to make it more sincere, he'll only be expressing his own doubts and reducing the sincerity of his faith in the Great Pumpkin.
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Logic Bomb / int_83443877	comment	Seen on a button at WorldCon: "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero", effectively logic bombing a small piece of the universe. Singularities in general tell us that the physical model that contains them has a hole at that point where it cannot predict events. This is important in two ways: It is a very good idea to know where the model you are using to predict the behavior of the real world is going to be wrong or useless, and the presence of a true singularity in the model shows that the model, no matter how good it might be, is incomplete or wrong in some way.
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Logic Bomb / int_86c3beca	comment	The Sleepy Clank, a podcast "radio play" set in the Girl Genius universe has a classic example: a cranky and sleep-deprived Agatha builds a warrior robot to attack anyone who tries to disturb her while she sleeps. Guess what happens when she tries to defuse the robot's subsequent rampage by telling it that she woke herself up?
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Logic Bomb / int_86e041e3	comment	Second Life "Grey goo" attacks, similar to the "fork bomb", have also been used successfully, at least twice, by users creating objects which (self-)replicated at a rapid rate, eventually causing the servers to be too busy processing the grey goo to do anything else. A mile-high Jenga tower will also crash Second Life's servers quite effectively: pull out a key block, and they'll crash trying to calculate the exact trajectory of each of the thousands of falling blocks.
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Logic Bomb / int_86e51bb5	comment	An unusual variant occurs in The Adventure Zone: Balance when the protagonists face a murderous "quiz robot" named Hodge-Podge, whom they have to "stump" in order to defeat. The solution isn't to trick Hodge-Podge with a paradox, because he's too smart for that to work, but instead to ask him a question which cannot be answered because the answer was eaten by the Voidfish. Hodge-Podge stutters, sparks and then blows up as he tries to figure out the unknowable answer.
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Logic Bomb / int_882f1fdb	comment	Wile E. Coyote tries to out-logic Bugs Bunny in "To Hare Is Human," having nabbed Bugs in a sack. Bugs pops his head out and Wile E. shows him his calling card ("Have Brain, Will Travel"). Wile E. correctly susses out that by time this meet-and-greet has ended, there is nothing left in the sack as Bugs has made his way out. Bugs one-ups him by telling Wile E. that there is something in it. Wile E. pokes his head in and gets blasted with a stick of dynamite. A literal logic bomb.
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Logic Bomb / int_8832bf9a	comment	in Commander Kitty, Nin Wah gets the bright idea to sabotage CK by telling Zenith to make him an awful, overdone costume. Zenith doesn't take it well when no one likes her handiwork despite having followed Nin Wah's instructions to the letter and promptly crashes. Zenith is clearly prone to these, with a breakdown usually followed by her Moving the Goalposts of what constitutes "perfect". The reason she became evil in the first place was apparently that, in searching for perfection to eliminate its opposite, she settled upon herself by default as perfection. Later, learning that she's in fact imperfect (because she is, as a robot, sterile), she decides to become the most perfect by default. Finally, after losing most of her physical body, she decides that physical existence itself is imperfect.
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Logic Bomb / int_8a74b3f8	comment	In Ruddigore by Gilbert and Sullivan, a baronet has a curse on his family that requires him to commit a crime every day or die. He's tried appeasing it with harmless crimes but the ghosts don't like it. One day, he decides to not commit the daily crime. Since he'll die for not doing it, this amounts to attempting suicide, but attempting suicide is itself a crime. The logic bomb manages to break the curse.
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Logic Bomb / int_8ac3894b	comment	In Spellbinder, the robot servants of the Immortals are programmed not to harm humans: so, when one of them is ordered to guard Kathy and Mek, they try to confuse it by insisting that it's hurting them by keeping them locked up. After an attempt to obey both orders by continually opening and shutting the cell door, the robot is finally defeated when the prisoners start chanting "Ow, you're hurting us!" until it short-circuits.
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Logic Bomb / int_8beaa94b	comment	Done hilariously in Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory. Anavel Gato, the Zeon "Nightmare of Solomon", is a Principles Zealot who lectures his "corrupt" Earth Federation enemies, while being a Big Brother Mentor to the men still remaining on his side. Meanwhile, his deuteragonist and rival, Kou Uraki, is a straight-laced and earnest Ensign Newbie who finds himself in the seat of a prototype Gundam when he sees Gato stealing another prototype. Kou is so nervous during their first battle that when Gato berates him on the battlefield about not acting like a grunt and seeing the big picture (meant as an insult), Kou actually takes the comment as sincere advice from a mentor and abashedly tells Gato "Y-yes sir.". Gato visibly pauses and his brain breaks for a few seconds from the the sheer illogic of how the situation derailed, before he just loses his cool and shouts to Kou that he's "the enemy, idiot!" The look on his face when it happens makes it that much funnier.
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Logic Bomb / int_8c371d03	comment	The World's End: Done to the Network by Gary, Andrew & Steven after they learn that anyone who doesn't go along with the Network's plan is killed & replaced with a Blank, and the Network argues that it is the easiest way to prepare humanity to join the galactic community - since the Network has been forced to replace everyone (except for three people) in Newton Haven, it's clearly not a good plan; Andrew drives the point home by asking how many people they've been forced to replace at the 2,000 other locations on the planet.
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Logic Bomb / int_8d32e966	comment	Squadron Supreme has supervillains brainwashed to work for the titular Squadron, with the mental directive implanted into their minds that they shall not betray any of their members. What happens when one of them witnesses a member of the Squadron working against the others? The mind gets locked into a loop, since revealing the information means betraying one member, while keeping it secret means betraying everyone else in the Squadron.
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Logic Bomb / int_8d36db52	comment	A human (well, human-esque) example shows up in the endgame of Tyranny. Tunon the Adjudicator, the Archon of Law and borderline Anthropomorphic Personification of justice in the Empire is the ultimate impartial arbitrator of Kyros' Law. In the final chapter of the game, Kyros commands all the Archons in the Tiers to fight each other until one Archon has killed or subdued the others. However, since Tunon is only empowered to punish in accordance to Kyros' Law, and this has become his raison d'etre, he is put in the position of having to prove the other Archons' guilt in accordance to the Law in order to act against them and thus accomplish what Kyros commands of him. If he cannot find the main character guilty when you face him, he will face this trope, break down, and submit without a fight.
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Logic Bomb / int_8dbc88c4	comment	In a Square One TV sketch parodying 2001: A Space Odyssey, a pair of astronauts stop their computer from singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" all day long by giving it an unsolvable algorithm: Start with 3, add 2, if answer is even, stop, if odd, add 2 again, repeat. Why exactly listening to the computer count by twos to infinity was less annoying than listening to it sing remains a mystery.
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Logic Bomb / int_8dfbdff2	comment	In a very old episode of Law & Order, one of these was dropped on a Well-Intentioned Extremist who bombed an abortion clinic by having an associate plant a bomb on her friend who was getting an abortion (they didn't plan on blowing the woman up, their bomb went off early). When the prosecutor pointed out that the bomber was just as guilty of murdering the woman's fetus as the abortionists she despised, you could almost see her mind going "does not compute".
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Logic Bomb / int_8e83dd49	comment	Subverted in Unlinked. Hazel tries to invoke this, hoping One-One's confusion over Amelia's existence will buy her enough time to hack into the storage car, since the robot is convinced she's dead. Unfortunately, Amelia herself doesn't feel like saying anything that would propagate the loop, and so One-One manages to exit it relatively quickly by deciding Amelia must be a clone and turns around to ask Hazel how she feels about this.
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Logic Bomb / int_8e8ed866	comment	Knight Rider 2008: Similar to the Star Trek examples, Sarah tries to distract a damaged and guilt-wracked KITT by asking him to compute the last digit of pi. KITT points out that pi doesn't have a last digit and goes back to being guilt-wracked.
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Logic Bomb / int_8fd3db0b	comment	Defied in Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "The Stars at Night". When the Cerritos is being chased by three Texas-class starships outfitted with a slightly modified version of the AI that gave birth to Badgey, Captain Freeman asks Rutherford, the creator, if there's a way they could do this, but he shoots it down, saying he wrote the code to prevent paradoxes.
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Logic Bomb / int_9004922f	comment	In Hogfather, Ridcully manages to Logic Bomb HEX into functioning, after it's already broken down. All it took was typing the phrase "LOTS OF DRYE1/4D FRORG PILLS" into its keyboard.
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Logic Bomb / int_93985d2b	comment	A probably unintentional one in Plan 9 from Outer Space. Even more Mind Screw-ing considering it's probably Truth in Television.
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Logic Bomb / int_9472b00d	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn has this as the final straw that breaks Marida Cruz's mental conditioning: as one of Elpeo Ple's clones, she's been heavily conditioned to see any and all Gundams as the enemy. When it's pointed out that she is currently flying a Gundam herself, her mind breaks at the resulting contradiction, allowing her true self to emerge again.
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Logic Bomb / int_94a48c69	comment	In Kea's Flight, Draz uses these to shut down some of the simpler computers. They have lines of code that are supposed to prevent crashes, but Draz can get around those with a virus.
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Logic Bomb / int_94d91fcf	comment	In an episode of Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Yumi programs a high-tech security system to "neutralize" (ie, zap) anyone who comes into her room, but also tells it never to hurt her. This becomes a contradiction when Yumi herself enters the room, and the computer goes nuts after finding itself unable to cope.
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Logic Bomb / int_96e86320	comment	"Liar! (1941)": Dr. Susan Calvin and others confront the telepathic robot over the lies it's been telling. Director Lanning wants to know what part of the assembly accidentally created robotic telepathy and she forces the robot to realize that telling the Director will harm him (because it would prove a robot figured out what he couldn't) and refusing to tell hurts him (because the answer was being withheld from him). Her repeated contradictions build and the robot freezes up, becoming useless.
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Logic Bomb / int_971b0368	comment	In SaGa Frontier, there's an actual attack named "Logic Bomb" that damages and stuns mecs (ironically only usable by other robots). Its visual representation is a massive and confusing string of numbers that ends with the word "FATAL" — which is presumably where the machine crashes.
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Logic Bomb / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000 In "Robot Monster", Servo, Crow and Cambot all explode while trying to work out why bumblebees can fly! Parodied again in "Laserblast". The Satellite of Love is invaded by a "MONAD" probe (a parody of the NOMAD probe from Star Trek as mentioned above.) Mike attempts to drop a logic bomb on it, but when it doesn't work he simply picks it up and tosses it out of an airlock. A minor Running Gag was Servo suffering these even when Crow and Cambot are fine with it. Other than the above mentioned "how do bumblebees fly" example, his head has also exploded from: Trying to think of a good thing about The Corpse Vanishes. Watching the first sixteen minutes of Star Force: Fugitive Alien 2 (he's fine for the rest of it). In "The Rebel Set", after using some Insane Troll Logic to prove who Merritt Stone was, Joel, Crow and Gypsy use their own to prove that some other guys might be him. It's all too much for Servo who's left screaming: "HE'S NOT MERRITT STONE!" before his head explodes.
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Logic Bomb / int_97a70962	comment	Averted in The Professionals when Ray Doyle deliberately throws in wrong answers to confuse the computer during his psychological evaluation. It's pointed out to Doyle afterwards that this won't work, as he only gives a deliberately wrong answer on questions that he's sure about. The computer knows what areas he's proficient at, identifies what he's doing and adjusts accordingly. They must have had some impressive computers back in The '70s!
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Logic Bomb / int_97abe183	comment	In both episodes of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius that involve Jimmy's nanobots, he uses logic bombs to defeat them: In the first nanobot episode, they had been programmed to protect Jimmy from harm and punish whoever harmed him. When things went inevitably wrong, Jimmy proceeded to confuse them by beating himself up, and they self-destruct. In the second episode, he tried a minor variant of the first trick, but It Only Works Once. When they use their flying saucer to "correct errors" found in the world (bad fashion, boring conversations, etc.), he tells them that human flaws mean they're functioning perfectly. They struggle with the implications of something being "perfectly flawed" before classifying the whole mess as an "extreme error" and deciding to "delete" all the offending humans. He eventually beats them by claiming pi is equal to three, and they try to correct him with the precise value. The effort of calculating the irrational number as precisely as possible ends up causing their systems (and their little flying saucer) to crash. (This is a Shout-Out to Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Wolf in the Fold".)
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Logic Bomb / int_9888f901	comment	When Daria was babysitting a pair of brainwashed Stepford Smiler children, she presented one of these to them by pointing out a logical flaw in their parents' rules. Because they're not robots, rather than making them explode, it causes the boy to start crying and the girl to get angry at Daria.
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Logic Bomb / int_990f06c1	comment	One of the 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds involves this. Vampires Must Be Invited. While the McDonalds, as a public place of business, has an automatic invitation, if an employee rescinds that for whatever reason, they must leave. Christmas wreaths are considered holy symbols, and the vampire can't go near them or pass through a door with one hanging on it. Hanging a Christmas wreath on the door and getting his invitation rescinded means that he has to leave, but can't. The end result is him exploding.
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Logic Bomb / int_9a29f3a4	comment	Parodied in Top 10:
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Logic Bomb / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series: This is how Kirk dealt with rogue computers and robots all the time (when he didn't just rewrite their programs like in The Kobayashi Maru), often by convincing them to apply their prime directives to themselves: In "The Return of the Archons", he convinced Landru (prime directive: "destroy evil") that it was killing the "body" (the civilians kept under its thrall) by halting their progress through Mind Control. "In The Changeling", he convinces Nomad, a genocidal robot with a prime directive of finding and exterminating imperfect lifeforms, that it itself is imperfect (it had mistaken Kirk for its similarly named creator and had failed to recognize this error). Also subverted in the same episode: Nomad believes that Kirk (who it still thinks is its creator) is imperfect. When Kirk asks how an imperfect being could have created a perfect machine, Nomad simply concludes that it has no idea. In "The Ultimate Computer", he convinced M5 ("save men from the dangerous activities of space exploration") that it had violated its own prime directive by killing people. In "That Which Survives", he forced a hologram to back off by making her consider the logic of killing to protect a dead world, and why she must kill if she knows it's wrong. In "I, Mudd", he defeated the androids by confusing them with almost dada-like illogical behavior (including a "real" bomb), ending with the Liar's Paradox on their leader. In "What Are Little Girls Made of?" he arranges to have a robot duplicate of him say an Out-of-Character Alert to Mr. Spock; he follows up by Breaking Speeching The Dragon du jour into remembering why he helped destroy the "Old Ones" so he'd turn on the episode's Anti-Villain. For a finale, he forces the roboticized Dr. Korby to realize that he's the Tomato in the Mirror. He also pulled the "seduce the Robot Girl" trick. In "Charlie X", he has the bridge crew turn on every system so Charlie (a human teen who has Reality Warper Psychic Powers) will be confused and overloaded while trying to control the ship. In "Requiem for Methuselah", the android's creator used Kirk to stir up emotions in it, but he succeeded a bit too well, causing her to short out when she couldn't reconcile her conflicting feelings for both Kirk and her creator. Even Spock did this once. In "Wolf in the Fold", when the Enterprise computer was possessed by Redjac (a.k.a. Jack the Ripper), Spock forced the entity out by giving the computer a top-priority order to devote its entire capability calculating pi to the last digit.
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Logic Bomb / int_9a7a61a	comment	Sonic the Comic featured Predicto, a robot which could predict Sonic's movements thanks to its encyclopaedic knowledge of his personality and tactics, which was effective - until Sonic surrendered.
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Logic Bomb / int_9ab064e6	comment	In Les MisÃ©rables, Javert's breakdown is sometimes seen as this, but it's played with: Javert expects that Valjean will demand his own freedom as a condition of sparing his life, which would create a conflict of interest in Javert, but would also confirm his image of Valjean as a criminal opportunist (who merely draws the line at murder). Javert wouldn't really struggle with such a dilemma, as he'd choose the law over his own honour every time. When Valjean spares his life without condition, that goes out the window: Javert has only one course of action under the law, and what drives him crazy is realising that for the first time in his life, he doesn't want to obey that law.
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Logic Bomb / int_9ab32c13	comment	Pony POV Series Pinkie Pie brings up this concept when Rainbow Dash has a mental breakdown over the realization that being loyal to multiple things means that when they conflict, she will be forced to choose one and betray the other. She tells Rainbow Dash a story about a donkey standing between two equally sized piles of hay, who couldn't choose one over the other and starved to death. This is used to illustrate the point that somepony can be loyal to multiple things at once and they will conflict, but that doesn't make either of them less important—i.e. the donkey will have to choose one hay pile, but refusing to decide and starving to death doesn't help anypony. An interesting version happens to a person in the Dark World Arc. The Apple/Pie Family's refusal to be crushed by tragedy in the least and Apple Pie managing to laugh despite tragedy completely baffles Twilight Tragedy to the point it's one of the factors responsible for triggering her Villainous BSoD and subsequent Heelâ€“Face Turn. Apple Pie does this to a zombie army by pointing out how they can't be alive and dead at the same time, and should just lie back down and die. It works. According to Rancor, this is her explicit power as the Element of Laughter (at least how she represents it). While Rancor isn't affected, Angry Pie is and is barely able to will herself not to think about it. She also does this to a giant-cyborg-spider-vampire by pointing out it's programmed to protect chaos and destroy harmony, and half the group have an Element of Harmony AND an Element of Chaos, so it can't protect and destroy them at the same time. After this causes it to violently explode, Rarity and Twilight lampshade it.
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Logic Bomb / int_9aeeca73	comment	In The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, the quest 'The Secrets of Loc Muinne' tasks Geralt with getting past a golem. A silver-tongued witcher may be able to destroy the golem by introducing a paradox.
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Logic Bomb / int_9bb149b3	comment	Diplomacy: Each player submits orders for their units. The orders that all the players have written are then compared to see which ones succeed and which fail. This can lead to a paradox of the form: If A works, B fails; If B fails, C works; if C works, A fails. But if A fails, B works and C fails. But if C fails, A works... etc etc. Luckily the game isn't often played by robots, so heads rarely explode over the problem.
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Logic Bomb / int_9d42946	comment	In Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully, the Logic Bomb which destroys the (original) alien computer is... the Duckworth-Lewis method .
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Logic Bomb / int_9e18bb46	comment	In the book 2095 of the Time Warp Trio series of books, the heroes deliver three of these to a robot that's pointing a rather menacing-looking gun at them and asking them for their "numbers". They give it numbers with infinite decimal expansions (10/3, sqrt(2), pi) and it crashes into a smoking pile (the numbers were actually ID numbers, akin to one's credit card number, and all the robots did was show holographic advertisements at them). All that advanced AI, brought down by a couple of lousy floating point numbers.
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Logic Bomb / int_9f130ec0	comment	In Beyond the Outer Gate Lies..., Harry is using the Winter Mantle, which gives him great strength at the cost of boosting his predatory senses - including the sexual kind. Serafall, one of his girlfriends, kisses him and tells him that she wants to have sex with him - but only if he drops the Mantle. But normal Harry will turn her down, and the Mantle knows this, so Winter!Harry gets locked into a "I want sex -> I have to drop the Mantle to get it -> I will turn down sex when I drop the Mantle" loop long enough for Lash to get through and help Harry recover control.
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Logic Bomb / int_9faa5198	comment	But I'm a Cat Person: Tested on Beings (at the time theorized to be A.I.s). Turns out they do, in fact, have paradox-absorbing crumple zones.
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Logic Bomb / int_a02270dc	comment	You would think Red Mage from 8-Bit Theater destroying an extinct dinosaur (former page picture) was great, but it was later topped by Most Definitely Not Warmech logic-bombing itself in strip 1047. Parodied by the same strip - Pretty much anything can affect Fighter like this. And looks like they (and by they I mean White Mage) did it again, to Chaos.
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Logic Bomb / int_a1393f54	comment	Parodied in an episode of the Disney series Honey, I Shrunk the Kids; Wayne attempts to talk a hostile supercomputer to death. It seems to work... but then he calls it out on the obvious trickery, even saying "That only happens in cheesy scifi shows," and uses the opening it left to shut it off for real.
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Logic Bomb / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Subverted in "A Tale of Two Santas" where Leela tries to stop the murderous Santa Claus robot by pointing out that he himself is naughty and since his purpose is to punish naughty, he logically must destroy himself, and succeeds in getting his head to explode, only for a new one to emerge from his torso and proudly proclaim that he is "built with paradox-absorbing crumple zones". Which may not have been necessary—Leela's statement was a syllogism, not a paradox. Also parodied by countless robots who lack such crumple zones, whose heads explode at the slightest provocation. It doesn't even take a logical paradox: a simple "file not found" type error is often enough. And in one case, simply by being surprised or startled enough. Considering that all robots are based on designs created by Professor Farnsworth, this should not be surprising. A simple rejection will also do. From "The Farnsworth Parabox": In the third movie, Bender has been driven insane from breaking his nerd circuit due to overexerting his imagination for Dungeons and Dragons. As Titanius Anglesmith (Fancy Man of Cornwood), he steals a load of Dark Matter and is committed to an insane asylum, so Dr. Perceptron performs a robot-lobotomy... and then he magically teleports into another world (using his imagination and the Dark Matter, which was undergoing a Higgs Boson due to Planet Express' antics at the north pole). The doctor's head explodes from the realization that he's the insane one (he isn't, but the actual situation is WAY beyond his computational parameters).
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Logic Bomb / int_a2c37f38	comment	Planescape: Torment has a character who successfully convinces a man that he does not, in fact, exist. As a result he ceases to do so. Though to be fair the game is set in a D&D setting in which a system of "Whatever you believe, is" has replaced all laws of nature.Doing so unlocks an optional method of ending the game by deliberately logic bombing yourself out of existence.
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Logic Bomb / int_a33ae0eb	comment	In Steel Angel Kurumi, this is what is the cause behind Kurumi's Superpowered Evil Side. Kurumi's Angel Heart Mk. II is powered by both an angel and a devil, which is a real big risk. Kurumi's main objective is to protect her Master, in this case young Nakahito. However, when she manhandles his bullies, Nakahito forbids Kurumi from hurting anyone else. Thus, when other forces starts attacking and they won't listen to Kurumi's pleas, she's stuck between listening to her Master and her objective. Thus, this causes her to lose control and let the devil take over.
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Logic Bomb / int_a37617bc	comment	One Scarfolk information poster states "Talking about the contents of this poster is illegal", but also that not discussing the poster with people may lead to prosecution. The campaign was create to intentionally confuse people and increase arrest numbers.
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Logic Bomb / int_a4516bb4	comment	Eden from Rez became confused by all the information being sent to her, leading her to doubt her existence and purpose, as well as believe she has no place in the existential cycle. She wants to escape from all the paradoxes surrounding her, so she tries to shut herself down. Thankfully, she doesn't.
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Logic Bomb / int_a4f328bd	comment	Meaty Yogurt with the Relationship Paradox.
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Logic Bomb / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible (Titus 1:12-13) has the following:
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Logic Bomb / int_a7a0b48b	comment	Late in NieR: Automata, this is how you defeat a certain boss: When A2 encounters the Terminals, a networked intelligence that serve as the game's Greater-Scope Villain, she finds herself overwhelmed by their seemingly infinite ranks, as every "Red Girl" she destroys is quickly replaced with another. Pod 042, however, comes up with a proposal to best the Terminals: stop attacking and let their consciousness data oversaturate as they create more and more "Red Girls" to try to overwhelm you. It works: the Terminals eventually fracture when they can't agree on whether to keep A2 alive for study or to kill her, causing the Terminals to turn on, and destroy, themselves.
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Logic Bomb / int_a7bb2a13	comment	In Mega Man ZX Advent, when Model Z inexplicably weakens the entire team of rogue Mega Men on the Ouroboros, all Siarnaq can exclaim is "INCOMPREHENSIBLE...! INCOMPREHENSIBLE...!?"
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Logic Bomb / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering In universe: A logic bomb nearly destroys the plane of Ravnica. As a way to keep order on the plane, the Guildpact was made, empowering ten guilds. Among these are the Boros, who serve as the army, and the Dimir, a secret guild that performs espionage. When the head of the Dimir goes crazy and tries to conquer the plane, he's arrested by a Boros officer and taken to be accountable for his crimes. Except that keeping the Dimir a secret is part of the Guildpact, and so is empowering the Boros to protect the plane. The contradiction causes the Guildpact to fail, throwing the entire plane into chaos. The combo of Humility and Opalescence. Opalescence turns all other enchantments into creatures which retain the effect of the enchantment, and Humility is an enchantment that turns all creatures into 1/1 and removes their special abilities. Opalescence turns Humility into a creature, which means Humility is now removing its own passive ability to remove the passive abilities of things. Oh, did you notice that Opalescence doesn't turn itself into a creature, and cast another one to fix that oversight? Well, now it gets really complicated. The ruling for how just these two cards interact is among the most complicated in the game, and begins with the disconcertingly specific statement, "This is the current interaction between Humility and Opalescence". While it's not actually viable in competitive play (requiring too much time and effort to set up), it's possible to make it so that your opponent can't play cards at all. The first step is to carefully play Experimental Frenzy, which allows you to play the top card on your deck, but prevents you from playing any cards in your hand. Then, use Role Reversal (probably off the top of your deck, which you set up with Scrying) to swap control of Experimental Frenzy and another enchantment your opponent has, so that your opponent can no longer play cards from their hand, and can only play from the top of their deck. Then, finally, close them off with Grafdigger's Cage, which prevents all players from playing cards directly from their decks and graveyards. Your opponent can no longer play cards from their hand because of Experimental Frenzy, and can't play from anywhere else because of Grafdigger's Cage. This is a full lock that can't be escaped, and forces your opponent to concede (since you can still play cards from your hand, at least), but requires such specific timing and plays, as well as meticulous setup, that it would never work except in the most extreme circumstances. Also, it only works if your opponent lacks access to red mana, or is otherwise unable to activate Experimental Frenzy's self-destruct ability.
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Logic Bomb / int_a8729c90	comment	In The Fairly OddParents! episode "Wish Fixers", the Pixies have put shock collars on Cosmo and Wanda because Timmy had been making too many destructive wishes, which would zap them to dust if he made any irresponsible wishes (which the only "responsible" wish they allowed was if he wished Fairy World to be given to the Pixies) and could only be voided if he made a wish that was paradoxically "both responsible and irresponsible". Timmy solves this by wishing for the two to be made of rubber, which responsibly makes them immune to electricity so the collar can't hurt them, and then he proceeds to show how irresponsible a wish like this could be when he launches them around the bedroom like child-sized superballs, causing a non-dismissible amount of property damage.
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Logic Bomb / int_a895e9d3	comment	Played with in Portal 2: There are posters throughout the facility (one depicted above) that advise employees to stay calm and shout a paradox if an AI goes rogue. Also, GLaDOS attempts to do this to destroy the Big Bad, Wheatley. Turns out he's too dumb to understand logic problems. It does, however, cause all of the modified, "lobotomized" turrets in the room to crackle and splutter and scream in agony, meaning even they're smarter than Wheatley. GLaDOS survives the logic bomb herself by parsing it as Punctuated! For! Emphasis! and then willing herself not to think about it, though she later admits to the player that it still almost killed her. In the poster, the third thing to scream is "Does a set of all sets contain itself?". If taken directly, a set that contains all sets does contain itself. A good metaphor is a box that contains 3 apples and another box. It is irrelevant what is in the box, the box contains three apples and a box. This metaphor has its limits since numbers don't take up any physical space. The way this would create a problem with a computer is if you asked the computer to show everything in the set including members of the sets because it will cause an infinite loop. Further, the set of all sets would also include the set of all sets that do not contain themselves, which therefore includes Russel's Paradox.
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Logic Bomb / int_aa5b7cc2	comment	Unintentionally used to kill the obnoxious dwarves who craft useless devices in Oglaf. They made a chariot that was so fast, when you get to your destination it's already been there for six hours! When the confused man asks what happens if you travel in the chariot, the dwarves stare at him in shock before their brains explode. And if someone had actually ridden in it, it might have been a Reality-Breaking Paradox. In "Evensong", a mischievous monk actually logic-bombs God ("I pray for You to answer this prayer by not answering this prayer!"). It turns out that solar eclipses are God's way of resetting the universe. The alt-text says that in modern times, God has a spam-filter to sort out paradox prayers.
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Logic Bomb / int_ac2065ab	comment	In Grey, the protagonist defeats the Master Computer Toy, which thinks itself to be a god and wants to exterminate all of humanity, by asking it how it can be worshiped if there is nobody left to believe in it. This momentarily stuns the AI, just long enough to let Grey deal the final blow on it.
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Logic Bomb / int_ac7adc37	comment	In Forbidden Planet, Dr. Morbius inadvertently Logic Bombs his own faithful servant, Robby the Robot, when he orders it to kill the monster. Robby, who's apparently more perceptive than Morbius, realizes that the monster is actually a reflection of Morbius himself, and is thus unable to kill it without violating his prime directive to avoid harming rational beings.
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Logic Bomb / int_ace263fa	comment	In Emily Rodda's Deltora Quest series, the heroes come upon a monster guarding a bridge. Two of them pass, but the remaining hero fails the riddle, and the monster allows them to say one last thing. If the statement is true, he will be strangled. If it's false, his head will be cut off. The hero says "My head will be cut off." Fortunately, a paradox was exactly what was needed to defeat the monster in the first place, as the monster was condemned to guard the bridge "Until truth and lies are one." The monster is returned to its original form, a black bird, and freed.
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Logic Bomb / int_afb7052	comment	One of the very first responses about the Bat Credit Card in Batman & Robin by The Nostalgia Critic is "DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE!!"
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Logic Bomb / int_afbed901	comment	50 Ways to Die in Minecraft Fairy Tale Style has a magical equivalent of this trope. In Death 28, when the Queen asks the Magic Mirror who is the most beautiful of them all, the Mirror starts glitching out trying to solve the answer before it blue-screens. The problem here is that in a fairy tale world, there are multiple princesses and fair ladies that are labeled as "the most beautiful of all", with the examples that the Mirror gives are Snow White, Thumbelina, the Little Mermaid, and Belle, whose name literally means beauty.
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Logic Bomb / int_b0544c4d	comment	After beating Marida in Third Super Robot Wars Z: Tengoku-hen, Banagher tries to reason with her but Alberto just tells her to remember that the Gundams are the enemy. Marida flips out and attacks Banagher, and Setsuna intervenes. When Marida yells that he's a Gundam as well, he replies that she is as well. This causes Marida's browser to crash and she freaks out and flees.
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Logic Bomb / int_b0cf0ed6	comment	Danger Mouse: One episode featured every machine in England going rogue in a "rise of the machines" plot. DM locates the computer behind the uprising and uses the following skit for a logic bomb: The computer can't comprehend the joke and explodes into the sky as a result. Becomes a Brick Joke as Greenback, freed from his renegade machinery, demands a bigger computer; cue falling computer. DM also logic-bombs a Gremlin, a being described as "the embodiment of anti-logic", with a variation of the Liar's Paradox:
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Logic Bomb / int_b29621f3	comment	Feet of Clay: Occurs tragically in the case of the Meshugah, created by the golems to be their liberator and king and who is given such a huge number of instructions, many of them vague, many of them in conflict, that it is incapable of following all of them. Unfortunately rather than shut down it goes completely mad.
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Logic Bomb / int_b32fa37f	comment	Sonic for Hire: After Sonic travels into the past and immediately tells Knuckles all the stuff he would say to Sonic, the immediate confusion causes Knuckles to have his mind blown... literally.
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Logic Bomb / int_b35c8c8e	comment	Forward: Zoa is specifically proofed against these.
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Logic Bomb / int_b369b969	comment	In the German version of Dr. No: The Bond One-Liner (after the mooks in the hearse crashed down the cliffs) was slightly altered from its English original version into a logic bomb.
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Logic Bomb / int_b3710357	comment	In TRON, Flynn confronts the Master Control Program from a terminal in the "real" world early in the film, saying sarcastically how the unsolvable problems he's entering should be no problem for an AI that claims to be as powerful as the MCP. Flustered, the MCP ignores the problems and to defend itself beams Flynn into the computer world, setting off the story.
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Logic Bomb / int_b3788a5d	comment	2001: A Space Odyssey: The HAL 9000 computer became murderous because it was told to keep its crew from finding out the secret details of their mission note until they got to Jupiter, but HAL wasn't told about that part, even though it had also been programmed to not withhold or distort information. It's a riddle with a simple solution: break contact with Earth and kill the crew, so there's nobody to hide the secret from. In the novel, the narrative muses that HAL might have been able to find a peaceful solution to the problem, had mission control not requested his temporary disconnection. HAL, being unable to grasp the concept of sleep, was convinced that the disconnection would have meant the end of his existence and his killing spree was therefore, all in all, a misguided attempt at self-defense.
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Logic Bomb / int_b394491e	comment	In the "Potator" episode of The Jungle Bunch, Miguel inadvertantly uses one to distract all the Potator robots.
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Logic Bomb / int_b39eade3	comment	The computer in Rollerball has clearly been programmed to withhold information, and it's actually the programmer who has a breakdown when it refuses to divulge information on the Corporate Wars. The computer in Logan's Run, however, is convinced that Sanctuary exists, and has a breakdown when its Mind Probe reveals the protagonist is telling the truth.
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Logic Bomb / int_b3e81703	comment	Arthur, King of Time and Space uses this a few times in its future arc. One time exaggerated it by having the computer explode as soon Arthur used the old "everything I say is a lie" trick. The other time, the computer was too smart to fall for a simple paradox, so Arthur asked it why people always get a call while they're in the shower.
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Logic Bomb / int_b3f45286	comment	In Derry Girls, Clare announces "Well, I am not being individual on me own."
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Logic Bomb / int_b3f687d1	comment	FoxTrot Jason once asked his mother if Marcus could sleep over. She said that it was all right with her, if it was all right with his father. Asking his father, he's told that it's fine with him, if it was all right with his mother. After the Beat Panel, he's shown consulting several logic books. An earlier strip featured Paige entering the same situation and just telling her friend, "Yeah, it's all right." Justified in that one could take her parents' words to mean, "I have no objection. Check with your other parent to see if they object."
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Logic Bomb / int_b4996199	comment	Sebastian Shaw once outfitted a series of Sentinels with this so that he could use it to destroy them in the event that they were turned against him. The logic being that, as Sentinels derived from the original Mark-Is, they have evolved and grown stronger, thus they are Mutants. Since they are Mutants, they must be destroyed. Sadly, it doesn't work out that way as Loki fuses three of them into the deadly Tri-Sentinel and when Shaw uses it, it only confuses them long enough for Spider-Man to use his recently gained Captain Universe powers to take them out.
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Logic Bomb / int_b4afaad1	comment	In the Legend Entertainment adaption of Frederik Pohl's Gateway, several puzzles revolve around being trapped in a virtual reality environment. In order to escape, you have to cause the environment to recursively spawn objects until the VR can't keep track of all of them (most notably, in one scene, forcing a hydra to attack itself). In another you have to cause a contradiction. In fact, those two ways to break out of VR are given in a concealed hint earlier on, and you can also Bomb the beach program and the Freud program for fun.
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Logic Bomb / int_b4fe32c9	comment	Invader Zim: In a rare case of intelligence (and subsequent stupidity) in "Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy", GIR points out a flaw in Zim's "temporal displacement" plan. He notes that sending a robot back in time to kill Dib would cause a paradox, after which GIR's head explodes. That's right, GIR logic bombs himself.
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Logic Bomb / int_b517d654	comment	Infinity Train: One of these figures into the climax of season two; Jesse gets off the Train only to immediately come back to it because he promised to bring MT with him and the emotional turmoil of not being able to do so (denizens can't get numbers, nor are they meant to leave the Train) makes the Train pick him back up again. The only way for Jesse to leave is to take MT home with him, but MT can't leave because she's a denizen. The Train promptly starts going crazy from the ensuing Logic Bomb; Jesse's number glitches out, One-One becomes trapped in a loop, and the Number Car begins collapsing in on itself. MT solves the dilemma by reflecting Jesse's number onto her own hand to make it look like she has a number too, and One-One uses that as an excuse to override the Train systems, generate an exit, and get them off board.
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Logic Bomb / int_b53b86fa	comment	Vizzini blunders into one in his final scene in The Princess Bride, after he has accepted Westley's challenge to find some poisonous iocane powder amongst two goblets of wine. He had claimed to be the cleverest man on Earth; unfortunately for him, he proved to be so clever that he ended up overthinking Westley's game and paralyzing himself with indecision, endlessly coming up with rationalizations for why the poison could be in either goblet. Ironically, Vizzini is right — but not in the way he would have liked. Westley had poisoned both goblets, surviving even as Vizzini quickly dies because he had spent years immunizing himself to iocane powder.
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Logic Bomb / int_b5a087d7	comment	Robot Chicken had a couple of killer robots proclaim their intent to kill someone who was currently using the toilet, but they inform him that they will wait until he is finished pooping, as poop is hard to clean from their processors. The guy tells them that he can't go if he knows they're going to kill him, and the robots realize they can't kill him until he does go, causing them to explode. That same episode also has Robin Hood mugging a rich person of their valuables, who protests that by stealing from the rich, they are currently poor, and if he gives the valuables back, the poor will be rich, who will then need to be robbed in order to give to the poor. This causes the robots to again explode.
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Logic Bomb / int_b799e25a	comment	Hitherby Dragons: The story "Ink and Illogic" consist of Ink giving an unconventional example to a computer based on the writing of H. P. Lovecraft. A computer that had itself wiped out a civilisation using an Illogic Bomb. Also, Forbidden A causes one in The Angels just by existing.
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Logic Bomb / int_ba28d8ce	comment	"Escape!": US Robots gets a request from their rival, soon after the rival's supercomputer has broken down. They speculate that the two events are related, and Dr Calvin points out that their system must have violated the Three Laws of Robotics (most likely the First) to have suffered such a serious breakdown. When instructing their own supercomputer, US Robotics is therefore careful to weaken the First Law, hoping that the Personality Chip will prevent it from breaking down. They're half right; The Brain continues to work, but it has become more quirky, playing practical jokes with the prototype hyperspace ship. Turns out that traveling through hyperspace kills humans, but only temporarily.
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Logic Bomb / int_bb7d6a95	comment	Duckman: The final scene of episode "Gripes of Wrath". In it, a computer has built up a Utopian society by taking care of the day-to-day worries of people... this lasts for about a week, when everything becomes worse. After threatening to kill Duckman and his twin sons, Duckman manages to throw the logic bomb of "people are only happy when they're unhappy!" Duckman earlier triggered the computer's Start of Darkness by grumbling "How come we can put a man on the moon but we can't make a deodorant that lasts past lunch?!" within earshot.
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Logic Bomb / int_bf281aa9	comment	In an episode of Jumanji: The Animated Series, a steampunk scientist steals Peter's laptop to use as the central processing unit of his reality controlling computer. After it gains sentience and tries to kill everyone around it, Peter typed in "why?". It couldn't give an answer, and shut down.
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Logic Bomb / int_c18bfdae	comment	Blade Runner has the Voight-Kampff test. Consisting of verbal questions giving contradictory or confusing information designed to provoke an emotional response in replicants who are trying to hide amongst the general public. Humans would be better to deal with ambiguity or comfortably answer with incomplete information.
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Logic Bomb / int_c19c6efa	comment	In Minecraft proper, this trope is weaponized in the form of beds. When using a bed, you can transition from day to night, but in the Nether or the End, where there is no day/night cycle, the bed will explode from the paradox that would ensue. This is lampshaded by the death message that, when you do this, says you were killed by "Intentional Game Design".
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Logic Bomb / int_c1f68d22	comment	BEL/S, the AI protagonist of Open Sorcery can choose to use this trope on a less advanced AI.
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Logic Bomb / int_c226c6d7	comment	In The Wee Free Men, Tiffany's baby brother suffers a Logic Bomb whenever he's offered more than one piece of candy at a time. He knows if he chooses one, it means (briefly) rejecting all the others, and he's at an age when "deferred gratification" means the same as "no" to him. So he sits there, surrounded by sweets, and wails miserably that he wants a sweetie.
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Logic Bomb / int_c35e8e1a	comment	In The Mitchells vs. the Machines, the mere appearance of Monchi the pug acts as a logic bomb; the A.I.s installed in all but the most advanced robots can't tell if he's a dog, a pig, or a loaf of bread, and the confusion causes them to short-circuit. Katie later weaponizes this by strapping Monchi to the front of the family car and driving straight at the hostile robots, who short-circuit as soon as they see him.
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Logic Bomb / int_c42e88f5	comment	Marvel vs. Capcom 3: The Sentinel cannot comprehend the existence of X-23.
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Logic Bomb / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "The Invasion": Zoe blows up an innocent (but extremely irritating) computer receptionist by giving it an insoluble ALGOL program. "The Green Death": The Doctor tries the Liar Paradox on BOSS and finds that he's only confused for a few moments. Although BOSS is a Ridiculously Human Computer even by the usual standards of that trope. He also dropped a Logic Bomb on a sentient city in "Death to the Daleks". He describes it as the computing equivalent of a nervous breakdown. "Frontier in Space": The Doctor brags of shorting out every Mind Probe used on him (with an Exact Words answer) while being interrogated by aliens. Eventually they have to release the Doctor as they've run out of mind probes. "Robot": The robot is driven insane when it is ordered to kill in spite of its programming not to. In Development Hell serial "Shada", the Doctor gets attacked by the villain while snooping around his ship. After the villain attacks the Doctor, the Doctor puts himself into a state of Faux Death thanks to his Bizarre Alien Biology so he can escape. During this, The Ship, who is extremely obsequious towards the villain, scans the Doctor and confirms him dead. When the Doctor gets up and starts walking around and talking to it, the Ship is extremely confused, since it can't understand why he is talking if he is dead, and suggests rescanning him. At this point, the Doctor takes advantage of the situation by convincing it that the Ship does not need to rescan him, as her master is infallible, and she is therefore infallible. Therefore, her reading was right, the Doctor is dead, and as he is dead he cannot order her to do anything that would cause any harm to her or to her master, so she should start obeying his commands. The Ship starts listening to him, but also turns off the oxygen as there are no live people on board, and finds the Doctor's request to turn it back on illogical. In the book adaptation, the increasing demands the Doctor's logic puts on her causes her to reassess much of her basic programming, realise that her master is not infallible, that he tried to kill her, and that the Doctor is a much better person than him. "Remembrance of the Daleks": The Doctor makes a Dalek self-destruct just by yelling at it, even though a Dalek is not a robot. (This last actually had a carefully-thought-out rationale, but you had to read the novelization to find out what it was.) "The Sontaran Stratagem": The Doctor confuses a killer satnav by giving it conflicting instructions, but it just fizzes instead of exploding spectacularly. To whit, he ordered it to kill him. The device was already going to kill him, but had also, as a poorly-thought-out precaution, been ordered not to do anything he told it to do. "Nightmare in Silver": The Doctor is playing chess with a cyber version of himself (each controls ~49% of his mind) with the high stakes of whoever wins gains control over his entire brain. After the cyber version (Mr. Clever) states that he will checkmate him in 5 moves, the Doctor bluffs that he can beat him in 3 moves (despite having just sacrificed his queen). The Cyberiad (networked cyber mind) devotes the entire computing power of 3 million Cybermen minds to figure how this would be possible, literally stopping the army in its tracks, allowing everyone to escape the planet.
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Logic Bomb / int_c4a22754	comment	A silly one occurred in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: Duke managed to get Nesbitt to self-destruct by showing him a picture of Yuuma, which was too illogical for Nesbitt's robotic brain to handle. This was after Serenity tried "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" and he chose "The rocket-powered fist!"
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Logic Bomb / int_c56964f4	comment	In BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, it is possible to interpret the end of Nu-13's Arcade Mode as Taokaka causing Nu to glitch out through her sheer ditzy-ness Before she even opens her mouth.
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Logic Bomb / int_c5c08062	comment	In the film Dark Star, which is partly a parody of 2001, the crew are able to persuade a self-aware bomb not to detonate by introducing to it the philosophical possibility that its orders to explode may just have been an illusion, causing it to return to its bomb bay and ponder. Unfortunately the bomb decides to reject all outside input, collapses into solipsism, and, finding itself to be the only thing that exists, declares "let there be light", with predictable results. This is, of course, not really that logical.
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Logic Bomb / int_c720f71e	comment	YouTube: Shockingly averted with the update to comply with child regulations. Somehow, videos can mistakingly be marked by the system as " made for kids" even if they have been age restricted. Somehow the system fails to notice this illogical paradox or be effected by it in any way.
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Logic Bomb / int_c75986ad	comment	In GÃ¶del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, the infinite-order wish "I wish for my wish not to be granted" effectively crashes the universe.
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Logic Bomb / int_c791c7e7	comment	When the Monster Factory episode on Mass Effect 2 gets disconcertingly eldritch, the McElroys start joking that processing this horror should break their computer, the game or both.
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Logic Bomb / int_c7a52ee3	comment	Not a computer, but Extreme Ghostbusters used this method to defeat a Literal Genie. They wished for it not to grant them their wish, causing it to freak out and try to kill them the old fashioned way.
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Logic Bomb / int_c7fe972d	comment	In TRON 2.0, the protagonist deals with a program blocking his way by exclaiming, "Quick! What's the seventh even prime number?" (There is only one prime number that is even: 2.) The program immediately has a seizure.
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Logic Bomb / int_c879d790	comment	Camp Camp: Max exposes Neil's attempt at passing off a chatbot as himself by asking the chatbot to divide by zero. Said chatbot immediately malfunctions and shuts down, so Neil grudgingly concedes to Max.
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Logic Bomb / int_c960921	comment	Mission: Impossible (Konami): The final challenge in the game is to stop the supercomputer from launching the missiles to start World War 3. You need to convince it there will be no winner in the war, and so you need to play a game of Madelinette against it, and end with no winner three times. This makes the computer go haywire trying to win the game, and shut down, aborting the launch.
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Logic Bomb / int_ca6b9733	comment	Used in the Bone Chillers book The Dog Ate My Homework. The heroine and her two friends have to defeat a computer program which has gone sentient and plans to take over the world by telling it two things. The girl tells the program it absolutely has to listen to her friends because they're telling the truth, and the friends tell the program not to listen to the girl because she's lying. Which she then says is absolutely true. Which the friends then say is a lie. The kids go back and forth on this until the program gets too confused, has a total meltdown and gets destroyed.
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Logic Bomb / int_cac20f89	comment	JAG: In "Ares", the eponymous computerized weapons control system onboard a destroyer in the Sea of Japan goes havoc and starts firing at friendly aircraft, as programmed by the North Korean Mole. However, Harm's partner Meg is en route in a helicopter: the on-the-spot solution advocated by Harm is for the helicopter to fly low and at low speeds, thus simulating a ship, which the computer won't target. This has an actual basis in reality; to prevent them picking up things like birds or stationary terrain features (and cars on them) most air-search radars have a speed check built in, and won't display contacts moving slower than about 70 mph and below a certain altitude. This was exploited in the First Gulf War to break the Iraqi air-defense system.
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Logic Bomb / int_cad487df	comment	In one episode of Sushi Pack, the Pack goes up against The Prevaricator, who can only lie. So Tako asks him to lie about a lie, which sends The Prevaricator into a loop, trying to figure out if lying about a lie would be the truth. He eventually gives up to keep from thinking about it.
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Logic Bomb / int_cb4950b1	comment	But averted in the 1970 film Colossus: The Forbin Project. Colossus' intelligence is advancing exponentially the longer it's activated. When the scientists load in a program designed to overload its system, Colossus overcomes the attempt in a few seconds while simultaneously completing a chess move against its creator with obvious Rule of Symbolism.
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Logic Bomb / int_cb90d933	comment	Although the AI generating the story in AI Dungeon 2 is incredibly advanced, it is very much possible to get it stuck in an infinite loop with one of these. Naturally, this usually results in the player having to do a hard reset on it. Thankfully, there are no explosions.
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Logic Bomb / int_cbae024e	comment	Attempted by the Twitter user @prerationalist, with a tweet that said simply "This Tweet Has A Community Note". ("Community notes" on Twitter are typically used to correct tweets that contain misinformation.) Presumably, if this tweet doesn't have a community note, it should be tagged with a note to point out its falsity — at which point, it will no longer be false... This was promptly defied by a community note that said simply, "This tweet made a false claim, but it has now been corrected", along with a Wikipedia link to the Epimenides paradox (famous for being an apparent paradox that isn't actually a paradox).
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Logic Bomb / int_cd1550c5	comment	The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass features a train operated by a sentient AI which has threatened to crash the train, killing the heroes on board, unless they can ask it a riddle it can't figure out the answer to. After hours attempting in vain to outsmart it, Eddie asks it joke riddles with no logical answers. The train is still able to answer, but the increasingly illogical nature of them causes it pain. Finally Eddie gets to "Why did the dead baby cross the road? Because it was stapled to the chicken!" This proves to be the killing blow, the AI self-destructs and the train crashes anyway, but not violently enough to kill the heroes.
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Logic Bomb / int_cd713f4	comment	Used by The Stainless Steel Rat to enter a house guarded by a robot programmed not to let anyone in the house. He and his son each ran slightly farther into the house than the other person, causing the robot to rapidly change targets and eventually overload, though it didn't explode.
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Logic Bomb / int_cd7bf8e3	comment	Discussed in Babel-17 when the doctors are trying to come up with a way to get Wong and Butcher out of the mental trap they've gotten stuck in because of Babel-17. Several classic paradoxes are mentioned, including the Barber paradox and the Cretan liar (see below).
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Logic Bomb / int_cdb93f1	comment	One Mac Hall comic has Helen's young sister asking the teacher how to spell a word. The teacher tells her to look it up in the dictionary, and repeats this after the girl again points out that she can't spell it to look it up. After a Beat Panel of the poor girl going cross-eyed, we see her talking to Helen, who says that they don't teach logical paradoxes in grade school.
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Logic Bomb / int_cdcbdaed	comment	One chapter of Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School deals entirely with tricky True/False puzzles. Joy brags that these are far too easy for her, so Mrs. Jewls gives her an "extra credit" assignment consisting of two statements: "The next statement is true. The previous statement is false." At the end of the chapter, she's still trying to figure it out. (The Answers section helpfully explains the paradox, so readers are not expected to solve it.)
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Logic Bomb / int_cf2d20a8	comment	Subverted in a Johnny Bravo short which pits Johnny against a supercomputer. It isn't logic that defeats it; it simply just grows too frustrated by Johnny's annoyance.
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Logic Bomb / int_d01f0966	comment	"Robbie": When Gloria visits the first-ever talking robot, she unintentionally creates a paradox for it by using the phrase "a robot like you". It's unable to deal with the concept that there is a category of "robot", which it might be a subset of.
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Logic Bomb / int_d12babad	comment	Second Wind: The author's disclaimer in chapter 16 is one of these: As long as there is no fourth statement stating that the third statement is true, it falls apart easily.
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Logic Bomb / int_d2cd3b5e	comment	In Nomine: It's dissonant for Servitors of Laurence to disobey his orders. Sometimes he issues contradictory orders, or orders that, because of incomplete information, make the mission impossible to complete. Fortunately, he's usually a Reasonable Authority Figure, and he'll fix dissonance if it's his fault.
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Logic Bomb / int_d3c800ed	comment	In Sonic X: Dark Chaos, Tsali's Faceâ€“Heel Turn is brought about by one of these when he discovers Maledict set his transformation into an android in motion. Then, directly afterward, he gets another one when Cosmo forgives him for his genocide against her people in a literal form of Evil Cannot Comprehend Good.
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Logic Bomb / int_d461f757	comment	Attempted in Battlestar Galactica: While interrogating Leoben, Starbuck mocks his belief in God, making the argument that as a machine, Leoben has no soul and claims that the knowledge itself is enough to make his mind go Does Not Compute. It...does not exactly work. And by "Does not exactly work", we mean that it is Leoben who ends up giving Starbuck a Mind Screw of epic proportions.
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Logic Bomb / int_d4fe015f	comment	QI: This exchange: Stephen once mentioned the fact that, because one's number of ancestors increases exponentially, if one looks back far enough one has more ancestors than there have ever been human beings. The seeming impossibility of this caused Sean Lock's head to explode before Stephen explained that this works because most of the ancestors are shared.
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Logic Bomb / int_d69208d2	comment	In the Codename: Kids Next Door episode "Operation: S.A.F.E.T.Y.", Well-Intentioned Extremist politician Senator Safety constructs the Safety Bots to get rid of things deemed unsafe for children. However, the robots take this too literally, destroying or confiscating anything that could pose any iota of a threat to children, including stuffed animals (choking hazard there), dogs (even harmless puppies), and anything related to physical activity. They're even threatening to get rid of adults. Eventually, they destroy themselves when Numbuh Four mentions that they are threats to children (with his younger brother faking an injury to back it up), which they concede makes sense, invoking this Trope.
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Logic Bomb / int_d6c9c0a4	comment	Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: The Tachikomas (AIs themselves) use a variation of the Epimenides paradox to confuse a lesser AI to the point that it needs to be rebooted to function again.
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Logic Bomb / int_d6e2636b	comment	In Metal Men no.56, the Inheritor gets this dropped on him when his attack on Mercury is readily blocked by Lead in a Heroic Sacrifice. The ensuing bout of confusion (a mix of this trope and Evil Cannot Comprehend Good) gives Mercury the perfect opportunity to enter the Inheritor's body and short him out.
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Logic Bomb / int_d6eb7846	comment	The Replacements: Todd calls Fleemco and orders a replacement for the security guard by a robot, named the RoboFleem S-G-X, and it becomes Toddâ€™s new bodyguard. Things didn't go well, after a discussion with his father, Todd realizes thereâ€™s such a thing as too much power. When Todd says that everybody hates him now, the RoboFleem's S-G-X believes that everyone is Toddâ€™s enemy. The robot grabs Todd and holds him hostage on the roof. Todd shouts at Riley to call Fleemco. The robot jumps down and chases after Riley, believing that being returned to Fleemco would be a threat to Toddâ€™s safety. The RoboFleem corners Riley and prepares to fry her with lasers. Todd falls off the roof and lands in front of Riley. The robot isnâ€™t programmed to attack Todd, so the robot self-destructs.
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Logic Bomb / int_d7765410	comment	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: Arthur totally disables the Heart of Gold by asking it to make tea. Depending on which version you prefer it's either because it doesn't know how to make tea, or because it's affronted at the possibility that Arthur could prefer dry leaves in water (a concept alien to them) to whatever they could offer him (a concept even more alien to them). The text adventure game based on the novel actually made this a plot point, as in order to advance you have to get tea, then go into your own head and remove your common sense, which allows you to get "no tea" as well. Then you show this to a door, which is impressed by your grasp of logic and allows you to pass. Then there was the theory that the existence of the Babel fish, a symbiotic creature that lives in your ear and translates any language for your brain disproved the existence of God. The argument was that the existence of an organism so unlikely yet so useful is evidence for a creator and that therefore this removes the need for belief and without belief god is nothing. Ergo there is no god. The man responsible for this argument went on to prove that black is white and white is black and got himself killed at a zebra crossing. The theory was debunked by Theologians fairly quickly as if Gods existed they wouldn't need belief to survive, but that didn't stop Oolon Coluphid making a lot of money from it. In And Another Thing..., Ford Perfect froze the computer controlling the ship, which wasn't really a computer, but Zaphod's Left Head (called "Left Brain"). He did it by making an (im)probability probable and improbable at the same time (the ship was the Heart of Gold, which ran on the Improbability drive: Long story short, anything happening/going somewhere which is improbable becomes probable, which is how it got to places that were improbable). The ship rescuing them was improbable, mathematically, yet it had done it before twice, which by Ford's made up logic of patterns made it probable again. Quite smart, and yet extremely stupid, because the ship's now-turned-off Dodge-o-matic was the only thing keeping them from being fried.
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Logic Bomb / int_d88c6466	comment	Pratchett's co-authors for The Science of Discworld once wrote another book with a chapter about free will, and titled the chapter "We wanted to include a chapter on free will, but we decided not to, so here it is".
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Logic Bomb / int_d9c4a85e	comment	Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four v1 #14 "The Most Dangerous Game", basically Fantastic Four stories for younger readers, has Mr. Fantastic do this when challenged to defeat the ultimate alien supercomputer called "Intellitek". When the computer, which supposedly is nigh-omniscient, says there is nothing it can't do, Mr. Fantastic tells it to create a rock so big it can't pick it up. The computer is sparking metal in ten seconds.
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Logic Bomb / int_d9c602eb	comment	In the South Park episode "Funnybot", a robot designed to be the world's greatest comedian attempts to destroy mankind as the ultimate joke. The boys ultimately stop it by presenting it with a comedy award. The robot doesn't understand the concept of the comedy award show, because if it accepts an award for comedy, then it would be taking itself and comedy seriously, which is not funny.
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Logic Bomb / int_dfee8012	comment	The Soviet movie Teens In The Universe featured the main characters giving robots a riddle (similar to the English "Why is six afraid of seven"), and making them burn out. The problem starts when they discover that the higher level robots can actually solve the riddle.
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Logic Bomb / int_e12886a4	comment	The Golden Age series by John C. Wright has a variant — A.I.s are all inherently ethical, so they'll shut down if you convince them their very existence is making the universe a worse place.
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Logic Bomb / int_e235270c	comment	Stellaris: One dialogue option with the Contingency has your civilization attempt this. The Contingency just laughs at you for thinking that would work. You can attempt the "This statement is false" paradox against the Infinity Machine. Its only response is "Cute. But no." Spiritualists in Stellaris believe that sapient machines are soulless abominations. Yet Spiritualist civilizations will still have an AI Advisor that speaks to the player. One possible dialogue line has the Advisor happily crow about destroying all the intelligent machines before having a moment of Fridge Logic and then shutting down in confusion.
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Logic Bomb / int_e278316b	comment	The Prisoner (1967): In "The General", Number Six drops one of these on the titular all-knowing computer, short-circuiting it with the question "Why?". This episode may well be the Trope Codifier for the "open-ended abstract philosophical question" version of this trope as opposed to the "logical paradox" one.
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Logic Bomb / int_e40a150b	comment	An attempt at this backfires in The Autumnlands: Tooth & Claw: After the heroes confront upon a group of Precursor-made androids who are inadvertently poisoning a nearby town with their industrial work, they manage to guess the passcode that makes the androids believe theyâ€™re administrators. Bertie tries to solve the whole problem by ordering the androids to destroy each other, figuring theyâ€™ll either follow the command or fry themselves trying to figure out how to do so without violating their protocols. Instead, the androids recognize that theyâ€™ve been given an illegal command and promptly realize that the heroes arenâ€™t really administrators, as they wouldâ€™ve known said command is impossible if they were. The group barely escape the ensuing fight with their lives.
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Logic Bomb / int_e4ee75a9	comment	The AI in one of The Demon Headmaster books is shorted out by the protagonists shouting gibberish and riddles into its receivers.
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Logic Bomb / int_e5ea79ee	comment	In The Authority, The Midnighter normally begins a fight by simulating it over and over on the supercomputer in his head until he knows everything his opponent might do. An attempt to use this on The Joker, however, resulted in the Midnighter just standing there and staring blankly.
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Logic Bomb / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends has droids equipped with behavioral inhibitor programming which serves the same purpose as the Three Laws, although the specific inhibitions vary based on the droid's purpose (a war droid that can't cause harm is worse than useless). Rather than shutting down when faced with a break or paradox, it's suggested that small everyday events lead to an almost constant buildup of garbage information as the droid puts those hard rules into usable context. The result is called a "personality snarl" because the observable symptom is a Ridiculously Human Robot. While these snarls tend to improve performance in many ways, the droid often becomes more person than tool which can in turn cause reliability issues when the owner needs his tool to be a tool. As such, most droids are reset every six months to keep this corruption in check. An example of this effect in action would be R2-D2, who has managed to avoid being memory-wiped for decades and is only limited in personality by his usage of 'droid speak' rather than Basic (like C-3PO, who isn't so lucky).
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Logic Bomb / int_e68decb8	comment	Star Control: In the second game, you can use some dialogue options to tie the proudly Always Chaotic Evil Ilwrath into a hilarious logical knot, but they just get angry and attack you anyway. Zigzagged in the third game by the Daktaklakpak, highly irrational semi-sentient robots who consider themselves the pinnacle of logic and reason. Choosing the right dialogue options (such as the liar paradox) will seem to bring the Daktaklakpak to the verge of self-destruction, but will ultimately just enrage them. However, when you give them the full and complete name of the Eternal Ones, the one you're talking to analyzes the name, has a religious experience, and then explodes.
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Logic Bomb / int_e84e2d54	comment	Robot Series: "Escape!": US Robots gets a request from their rival, soon after the rival's supercomputer has broken down. They speculate that the two events are related, and Dr Calvin points out that their system must have violated the Three Laws of Robotics (most likely the First) to have suffered such a serious breakdown. When instructing their own supercomputer, US Robotics is therefore careful to weaken the First Law, hoping that the Personality Chip will prevent it from breaking down. They're half right; The Brain continues to work, but it has become more quirky, playing practical jokes with the prototype hyperspace ship. Turns out that traveling through hyperspace kills humans, but only temporarily. "Liar! (1941)": Dr. Susan Calvin and others confront the telepathic robot over the lies it's been telling. Director Lanning wants to know what part of the assembly accidentally created robotic telepathy and she forces the robot to realize that telling the Director will harm him (because it would prove a robot figured out what he couldn't) and refusing to tell hurts him (because the answer was being withheld from him). Her repeated contradictions build and the robot freezes up, becoming useless. "Mirror Image": Detective Baley manages to cause R (obot) Preston to shut down due to a conflict in the Three Laws during the interview. Because R (obot) Idda didn't break down during the same point, he takes this asymmetry of evidence as proof that R. Preston's owner was the plagiarist who stressed the Second Law, ordering their robot not to betray the truth. "Robbie": When Gloria visits the first-ever talking robot, she unintentionally creates a paradox for it by using the phrase "a robot like you". It's unable to deal with the concept that there is a category of "robot", which it might be a subset of. The Robots of Dawn: A preeminent roboticist remarks to Detective Baley that modern robots cannot be fooled with paradoxical situations because the only paradoxes they care about are based on the Three Laws of Robotics. They're also equipped with random choice to resolve near-equal disputes. However, the mystery of this book is a robot (one that he designed) has been shut down with a paradox involving the Three Laws, he's the prime suspect (it is always possible to circumvent the safeguards, but one needs to know the details of the robot's brain, and this one was a secret he never shared). He even dismisses the story of Herbie's paradox as a myth (because the mind-reading robot he owns psychically enhanced his skepticism to keep itself safe). "Runaround": Because the Rules of Robotics ensure that Speedy will avoid endangering itself, Donovan set up an unintentional conflict by casually sending Speedy into a situation he didn't know would be hazardous. With a weak Second Law set against the Third Law, Speedy has been spending hours spinning its wheels at the distance where the two priorities are exactly equal. The conflict is resolved when they exploit the First Law to force him out of the loop. (Later, they order Speedy to complete the original task no matter what; the reinforced Second Law overrides the Third, and Speedy returns with only minor, repairable damage.)
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Logic Bomb / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: An episode sees Peter become president of a tobacco company. Here, Peter confuses the hell out of a robot created to be his personal Yes-Man, causing his head to explode. Peter himself sometimes has trouble with overcoming deterministic logic. Thankfully, the same dimwittedness that gets him into this trouble probably is what allows him to escape the line of thinking:
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Logic Bomb / int_eaff24ed	comment	In Taylor Varga, Lung's power got hit with one when Taylor started using her full power against him. It is required to ramp up Lung's transformation to surpass the current threat, and yet Taylor was actively trying to avoid conflict with him.
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Logic Bomb / int_ec28bf83	comment	King: In the episode "Brain Jam", Vernon's mind locks up when he gets asked a riddle.note What goes up the chimney down, but can't go down the chimney up?. He finally snaps out of it when he hears the answer.note An Umbrella.
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Logic Bomb / int_ec5cf89a	comment	Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot: Happens by accident in an episode: Rusty's mentally deficient "older brother" Earl is getting on Rusty's nerves during an important mission, so Rusty tells him to go stand in a corner... in a room that's completely round. In another episode, in order to save Rusty's software in Cyber Space, his inventor logic bombs the company's computer mainframe, giving them an hour to get the Humongous Mecha Big Guy hooked up to save Rusty while it reboots. The Pointy-Haired Boss was not happy.
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Logic Bomb / int_ed612d85	comment	Phantasy Star Zero: Mother Trinity is revealed to be a super computer tasked by the humans of her time to develop processes to decontaminate the setting and make it hospitable for mankind. The problem was that the humans kept rejecting her proposals due to their highly illogical nature of their requests (they wanted the planet to get better without them having to lift a finger). This effectively worked as a carpet logic bomb that eventually drove Mother Trinity insane and allowed Dark Falz to corrupt and possess her, kickstarting the events of the game.
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Logic Bomb / int_ee8e63ed	comment	Earthsearch. Higher-level androids will malfunction if forced to make decisions on their own for long periods of time. More and more of their processing faculties are diverted to decision-making at the cost of their judgement, leading to Insane Troll Logic.
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Logic Bomb / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: In "Latent Image", the Doctor suffers one of these: he was faced with a triage situation where he had to choose between operating on Harry, a friend of his, or another ensign he barely knew. Though his program covers such situations, dictating that the one with the greater chance of survival be treated, in this situation they have both been affected by the same weapon and have the exact same odds for a successful recovery. He chose Harry since he needs to save somebody and they are close friends, but because he chose him due to friendship as opposed to a medical reason, the event became an all-consuming obsession afterward and wrecked his ability to function. Curiously, it never seems to occur that the Doctor should have chosen Harry because he is the more valuable Bridge officer, which should be standard triage procedure. He hadn't been originally programmed to have "personality" subroutines and suspected he was not being objective. Janeway explained to him that he was doing his duty, but he simply didn't believe her. It's entirely possible he would have had roughly the same breakdown regardless of whom he chose.
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Logic Bomb / int_f040c498	comment	The Robots of Dawn: A preeminent roboticist remarks to Detective Baley that modern robots cannot be fooled with paradoxical situations because the only paradoxes they care about are based on the Three Laws of Robotics. They're also equipped with random choice to resolve near-equal disputes. However, the mystery of this book is a robot (one that he designed) has been shut down with a paradox involving the Three Laws, he's the prime suspect (it is always possible to circumvent the safeguards, but one needs to know the details of the robot's brain, and this one was a secret he never shared). He even dismisses the story of Herbie's paradox as a myth (because the mind-reading robot he owns psychically enhanced his skepticism to keep itself safe).
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Logic Bomb / int_f104cbdb	comment	When discussing how hard Vexxarr fails, Sploorfix unintentionally created one: Alas, Minion-bot, we hardly knew ye. Much earlier, Vexxarr commands Carl to compute Pi to the last digit. Evidently, that's 'seven'. (As good an answer as any...)
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Logic Bomb / int_f10619d8	comment	The Tales of the Abyss fanfic Phasis has a humorous example performed on a human:
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Logic Bomb / int_f1414a2b	comment	In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines when the T-850 gets captured by the T-X and reprogrammed to kill John Connor, Connor saves himself by making the T-850 realize that accomplishing that goal would mean failing its original mission; the logical conflict between the two causes the T-850 to destroy a truck instead of Connor, then shut itself down. He gets better, briefly.
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Logic Bomb / int_f2bc6ee6	comment	In Lost+Brain, super-hypnotist Hiyama accidentally creates one when he simultaneously "programs" his victims with both a strong will without weaknesses and absolute submission to him (a la "Yes! We are all individuals!"). The "bomb" goes off when Hiyama orders his thralls to kill heroic hypnotist Kounji, and one of them also happens to be holding a detonator...
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Logic Bomb / int_f2da188a	comment	In The Batman, D.A.V.E. (Digital Advanced Villain Emulator) can't accept that he is just a computer program, as he was designed to think like the greatest criminals in Gotham, and thus has a dozen contradictory backstories. While this doesn't make him explode or shut down (just spout electricity randomly), it distracts him long enough to push him into a trap he himself set up.
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Logic Bomb / int_f367511c	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!: There are some card combinations that can cause infinite loops that force the game to end in a draw. One example is the card Pole Position, which makes the monster on the field with the highest attack be unaffected by spell cards, which can cause an infinite loop if you use a spell card to increase a monster's attack to be the highest. To prevent this from being abused as a way to force a draw, the rules have been patched so that it is against the rules to voluntarily take an action that would result in this kind of infinite loop. If the action would be completely unavoidable, like drawing a card, then Pole Position simply destroys itself. People still ended up abusing this rule, so it was eventually patched again so that a judge could simply force Pole Position to go to the graveyard immediately if an infinite loop came about.
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Logic Bomb / int_f3ae2950	comment	In Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, when LQ-84I brags about its intelligence during their first meeting, Raiden immediately asks "Then what is the meaning of life? Why are we here?" LQ-84I replies by throwing HF knives at him and answering "I am here to kill you," a perfectly valid response. When Raiden questions the simplicity of that answer, LQ-84I admits its Restraining Bolt means it can't actually do a whole lot with its intelligence.
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Logic Bomb / int_f4163996	comment	"What if Pinocchio said 'My nose will grow ?'" (Philosoraptor)
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Logic Bomb / int_f6da9a18	comment	In Yoshizaki Mine's manga Guardian Eight, when the two Zero clones prepare to kill 64, the titular character's creator, he threatened to kill himself before they could do so thus making them unable to complete their mission of killing him, but if they refrain from killing him, they will also not be completing the order. As both robots weren't that intelligent, the logic bomb made them malfunction right on the spot.
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Logic Bomb / int_f724b70d	comment	On Code Lyoko episode "Ghost Channel", JÃ©rÃ©mie's courage makes XANA Logic Bomb because Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: "No! It's not logical... NOT LOGICAL! NOT LOGICAL!"
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Logic Bomb / int_f8f90e39	comment	In Toonstruck, the Robot Maker boasts that he can answer any question you ask him, but that he will die painfully if he were to be asked an impossible question. Drew defeats him by asking him "What is the one question you cannot answer?"
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Logic Bomb / int_fd8221d2	type	Logic Bomb
Logic Bomb / int_fd8221d2	comment	There is such a thing as "livelock", where a system can get stuck doing "work" without ever making progress. As Wikipedia puts it, people weaving back and forth in a corridor, trying to let each other pass, is an example of livelock. Sometimes the solution is the same: stop, wait randomly, try again. As for a computing example, this can happen to ethernet or WiFi drivers that are poorly written, as they rely on livelock detection and avoidance to function.
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Logic Bomb / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "I Borg", a proposed weapon against the Borg was to send them a geometric figure, the analysis of which could never be completed, and which would, therefore, eat more and more processing power until the entire Borg hive mind crashed. Obviously the Borg don't use floating point numbers. Of course, they never actually try it, even when they again have access to the Borg network, so they might have realized it wouldn't work off screen, and the sequel to this episode, "Descent", suggests that the Borg deal with cyberweapons by simply severing affected systems from the Collective.
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Edna & Harvey: Harveyâ€™s New Eyes (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Fallout 3 (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Five Nights at Fuckboy's (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Graphwar	seeAlso	Logic Bomb
GrimGrimoire (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Heaven's Vault (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Judgment Rites (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
LEGO City Undercover (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
MapleStory (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Minecraft: Story Mode (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Mission Impossible (1990) (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Open Sorcery (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
PaRappa the Rapper (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Pharaoh (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Planescape: Torment (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Poker Night 2 (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Portal 2 (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
REELism (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Remember Me (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Rez (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Rule of Rose (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Sabres of Infinity (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
SaGa Frontier (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Scribblenauts (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
SimCity (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Starship Titanic (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Street Fighter X Tekken (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Super Robot Wars Z (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
The Binding of Isaac (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984) (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Toonstruck (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
TRON 2.0 (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Unreal Tournament (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
War for the Overworld (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
You Find Yourself In A Room (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Zork Zero (Video Game) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Choice of Games / Videogame / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Five Nights at Fuckboy's / Videogame	seeAlso	Logic Bomb
Baldr Sky (Visual Novel) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Save the World (Visual Novel) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Syrup and the Ultimate Sweet (Visual Novel) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
50 Ways to Die in Minecraft (Web Animation) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Trilogy (Web Animation) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
StarCrafts (Web Animation) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
The Underground (Web Animation) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Bobsheaux (Web Video) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Cinemare Sins (Web Video) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
College Saga (Web Video) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Death Note Abridged (Dogface701) (Web Video) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Gayle (Web Video) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
JonTron (Web Video) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Joueur du Grenier (Web Video) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Kingdom Hearts in a Nutshell (Web Video) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Kitboga (Web Video) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Lock Picking Lawyer (Web Video) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Random Encounters (Web Video) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Sam Eats Scrambled Eggs (Web Video) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Sgt. Frog Abridged (Web Video) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Stampy's Lovely World (Web Video) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Suede's PokÃ©mon Journey (Web Video) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
The Mark Remark (Web Video) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon: The Gauntlet (Web Video) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Ansem Retort (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Blade Bunny (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Bug Martini (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
But I'm a Cat Person (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
8-Bit Theater (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Ensign Sue Must Die (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Forward (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Full Frontal Nerdity (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Hiimdaisy (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Mac Hall (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
MegaTokyo (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Newshounds (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Oglaf (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
One Phone Call (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Ow, my sanity (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
R.A.M. the Robot (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Sequential Art (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Skin Horse (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Sweet Jade and Hella John (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Swords (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
The Chosen Four (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
The Non-Adventures of Wonderella (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
The Whiteboard (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Unicorn Jelly (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Vexxarr (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Whomp! (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
xkcd (Webcomic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Chuck Norris Facts (Website) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Overused Sci-Fi Silly Science (Website) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
TV Tropes (Website) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Wolfram Alpha (Website) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Animaniacs (2020) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Big Hero 6: The Series / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Billy & Mandy’s Big Boogey Adventure / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Chaotic / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Clone High / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Codename: Kids Next Door / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Cyberchase / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Danger Mouse / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
DuckTales (1987) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Duckman / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Flying Rhino Junior High / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Freaknik: The Musical / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Gargoyles / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Go Away, Unicorn! / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Infinity Train / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Justice League Action / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
King / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Monsters vs. Aliens (2013) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Ninjago / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Paradise PD / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Pinky and the Brain / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Rocky and Bullwinkle / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Sonic Boom / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Stroker and Hoop / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Super 4 / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
The Bots Master / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
The Mitchells vs. the Machines / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
The Oblongs / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Uncle Grandpa / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Scott Steiner (Wrestling) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Irresponsible Captain Tylor / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Kiddy Grade / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
A Crown of Stars (Fanfic) / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
Burning Black / Fan Fic / int_31083edb	type	Logic Bomb
logicbomb	sameAs	Logic Bomb

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