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Off the Rails

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Off the Rails	comment	The Game Master has created an epic plot that spans time, space, and dimensions. Its scope is exceeded only by its elegance, its elegance only bettered by its plot, its plot only bested by its setting, and the whole thing is held together by a compelling supporting cast of NPCs. The campaign is perfect... or so the GM thinks. Meanwhile, the players have decided that the huge scope has made the world shallow, it's only "elegant" if you like a Cliché Storm, the plot was lifted straight from the third remake of something, the setting looks like it came from Manos: The Hands of Fate with the Serial Numbers Filed Off, and the so-called supporting cast of NPCs are cookie-cutter stereotypes who make the players feel like the supporting cast. It's about halfway through the campaign, and the players have decided that everything is only going to get worse. The time has come to strike a blow for freedom, for better plots, and for teaching this idiot Game Master a lesson he won't soon forget. The time has come to go Off the Rails. Going Off the Rails can take many forms, and isn't always malicious or even intentional. More benign variants come from a dissonance between the expectations of the GM and the players, in which the latter derails the former's campaign simply because they didn't know any better. At its core, the players disrupt the Game Master's carefully-crafted plot by Sequence Breaking, employing an Outside-the-Box Tactic, killing an important NPC that was supposed to survive, saving an NPC that was supposed to die, finding out about an important secret at exactly the wrong moment, suddenly turning evil or turning good, or just refusing to go where the plot demands they should go. If the Game Master is inflexible, the GM ignores all actions that disrupt his plot, changes the rules so that his plot stays on the rails, or drops a whole ton of rocks on everybody when he can't take it anymore. A more creative Game Master, on the other hand, will take this player revolt and run with it, spinning a new plot out of the threads of the players' actions. One of the hallmarks of a good GM is being able to roll with the punches and adapt the game on the fly or just pull something out of thin air. On rare occasions, a truly great Game Master will be able to change the story itself to work with the players' actions, creating something entertaining for everyone involved. Of course, good Game Masters rarely have their players revolt on them in the first place. A party going thoroughly and maliciously Off the Rails is often the beginning of the end of the gaming group, or at least the end of one person's tenure as Game Master. Alternately, if there's just one player who's dissatisfied that keeps grabbing the throttle and gunning the proverbial train, that player's character may be subject to a lightning bolt on a cloudless day, or sudden violent chest pains, or a drive-by mauling by a mind flayer that leaves everyone else untouched, or the rest of their group forcing the train back on the rails by way of tossing their body into the boiler. The Henderson Scale of Plot Derailment has been invented by 1d4chan (the wiki for all things /tg/) to measure just how far off the rails a game can go, named in honor of the legendary Old Man Henderson. This trope is effectively the players' version of Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies. Compare Total Party Kill, where the game-ending disaster comes from incompetence rather than malice or loss of control over the game. Note that this doesn't apply when there were no rails to begin with. Occasionally, the train can be put back on track (any track) with a little help from SchrÃ¶dinger's Gun and copious amounts of improvising. The winners in this situation are usually all involved. Compare Spanner in the Works, when the plot and plotter being derailed are In-Universe, as opposed to an outside author, and Screw Destiny, where characters decide to go Off the Rails on a more cosmic scale. Not to be confused with Derailing, which is what happens when someone wants to forcibly change a discussion topic or others' plans, or Plot Detour, which can form part of an attempt by an author of a campaign to spin out the story through misdirection or change its direction. Also not to be confused with actual trains coming off actual rails.
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Off the Rails / int_10b060ee	comment	Happens far too many times to count in Dork Tower, usually due to their overzealous gaming strategies. They once had a game based on The Lord of the Rings. The campaign opened with Merry killing and gutting Gandalf, Pippin beating Frodo to death... they were planning to institute a military draft in the Shire when Matt (the GM) went catatonic. In the second attempt, one of the players is assigned to play Gandalf... but with his abilities limited to talking to birds and casting fireworks. The players ended up using Gandalf as a Bulletproof Human Shield and battering ram. Another session ended with the players having taken over the kingdom, forged an empire, and conquered all of the known lands... when their goal was to just rescue the princess. One strip had Matt crying to a friend about how his characters had not only derailed his adventure by killing everyone, they had also summoned Elder Gods to destroy the game universe. They had been playing Bunnies & Burrows (a game where all the characters are normal, mundane rabbits).
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Off the Rails / int_11a510c	comment	The Bella Twins debuted with a gimmick where one twin would wrestle, and the other would hide under the ring to switch at some point during the match. After one match, Brie didn't get out from under the ring in time and had to stay under for the rest of the taping. Including a match between the Big Show and the Great Khali!
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Off the Rails / int_1326389	comment	Lita was defending her Women's Championship against Trish Stratus. She was set to retain, but tore her ACL moments into the match. The women visibly had to improvise a quick finish where Trish beat her and regained the title.
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Off the Rails / int_14bf4e7a	comment	Golden Sun: Dark Dawn is about your quest being derailed by the bad guys, who have their own agenda they want you to fulfill. Your Psynergy Vortex business can wait, right? No, it couldn't.
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Off the Rails / int_1520783f	comment	While small divergences from STO-canon are present throughout The War of the Masters (especially the expanded passage of time), the big point of divergence happens in approximately 2409-2410 when an armistice is inked between the Federation and the Empire well before the discovery of the Dyson Spheres in Season 8. At time of writing Cryptic had not significantly advanced the game's chronology in several real-world years due to lack of funding.
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Off the Rails / int_17e6cb15	comment	Bojack Horseman has an episode where Bojack is a contestant on a gameshow hosted by Mr. Peanutbutter. The game is obviously rigged against Bojack as Bojack only gets hard questions while the other contestant only gets easy questions. During a commercial break, Princess Carolyn points out to Bojack that he can tell what the correct answers are on the multiple choice questions by watching Mr. Peanutbutter's ears. Bojack gets every question right after that and ends up in first place. For the final question he is given an easy question, but he deliberately fails out of spite, which loses him all the money he won, thus ending the show on an Anticlimax and ruining their plans for the other contestant to win.
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Off the Rails / int_183eda76	comment	In Sean Bean Saves Westeros, the "real life" Sean Bean is transported into the land of Westeros of A Song of Ice and Fire. Now living as Ned Stark, not just playing him on TV, Bean is almost literally Armed with Canon, having read all of the books, and tries his damnedest to divert the course of the War of Five Kings and save Westeros.
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Off the Rails / int_18bcfe7f	comment	Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte: Endo and Kobayashi's intent to change MagiKoi to a Lieselotte/Siegwald ending, by definition, makes the Magikoi universe go off the rails since that's not one of the games original endings. And it's quite literally so, since Kuon is effectively in the Game Master's position, so Endo and Kobayashi are literally doing what the Game Master wants the least.
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Off the Rails / int_196b618d	comment	You can do this in the PokÃ©Star Studios films in PokÃ©mon Black 2 and White 2. While you're given a script for the movies, deviating from them can change the film. You can either get a bad ending, which ends badly and is received poorly by fans, or you get a Strange ending, which derails the story into something else entirely, and end with a Twist Ending. Sometimes your changes get so off-topic that it barely resembles the point of the movie: the strange ending to the first Giant Woman movie ends with her not becoming a giant woman at all.
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Off the Rails / int_19a42c6f	comment	In A Hard Day's Night, Paul McCartney's Grandfather is sitting atop a freight elevator under the set of a German operetta forging Beatle autographs when he heard The Beatles' fictional manager Norm approaching. He quickly stands up, but inadvertently activates the elevator and interrupts the performance to the annoyance of the director. He does it again towards the end, during the Beatles' concert while playing "She Loves You", though this time, Paul just pushes him offstage.
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Off the Rails / int_1af341a1	comment	All of the Disgaea games have at least one ending like this. Pass the Human World bill in Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, and you'll get an opportunity go invade Earth instead of moving on to Celestia. This leads to a couple mildy difficult encounters, followed by a final showdown where General Carter turns into a Prism Ranger, you beat the crap out of him, and then take over the earth. "Etna Mode" from the PSP/DS remake is all about this, since it's about what would happen if Laharl died at the beginning of the game. Defeating Laharl in one of Disgaea 2's Hopeless Boss Fights treats you to an ending where he blows up the planet in retaliation. Replaying the stage where you fight the ghost of Mao's father in Disgaea 3 nets you an ending where pretty much none of the plot threads are resolved. If you kill Feinne the first time you encounter her in Soul Nomad & the World Eaters, this leads to a fight with Asagi, who blows up the planet after beating her, whereupon Gig breaks the fourth wall to complain about having to restart the game. The Demon Path is something of a campaign based solely around this, since it begins with Revya accepting Gig's Deal with the Devil and killing Layna.
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Off the Rails / int_1b7ca727	comment	The Stanley Parable. While there is a story that comes from doing exactly what the narrator tells you to do, (which, ironically, is about a man who frees himself from a mind-controlling machine) the vast majority of the game's content, multiple endings and entertainment value comes from going repeatedly off the rails. Depending on when and what you do, the narrator/GM will try to cajole, threaten or manipulate the player into returning to the main story path, try to create new story narratives, mock the player character, mock the player, encourage the player to strike out randomly to see what you find, break down in despair at your unwillingness to play ball, attempt to destroy the game world, plead with you to prevent you from destroying the game world, and generally get more erratic the further you go. Ultimately averted though, as there's no major action that the player can make that narrator has nothing to say about. The whole point of the game is to zigzag this trope on a meta level.
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Off the Rails / int_1bf83ffb	comment	Another episode had basically the same plot only Piglet is trying to tell a story about a scientist, but Tigger thinks the story isn't exciting enough and turns the story into Frankenstein, with a giant Pooh as the monster.
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Off the Rails / int_1cf9029e	comment	The DEATH BATTLE! fight between Deadpool and Pinkie Pie goes completely off the rails once Deadpool learns Pinkie Pie knows how to break the fourth wall, too. It leads to the duo hopping into past Death Battles before ultimately confronting the actors who play Wiz and Boomstick.
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Off the Rails / int_1dd9862b	comment	In the Side: Future portion of Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School, the game is thrown off-course by Chisa killing herself and setting Munakata off with the revelation. Among other things, this causes him to go berserk, start treating everyone as an active Despair agent, and attempt to kill everyone in the building. He somehow manages to kill the mastermind in the process of this rampage. Much later, the mastermind reveals Ryouta wasn't even supposed to be participating, throwing off their plan to use him to brainwash everyone into Ultimate Hope. All this meddling also screwed with the original endgame for them, which would have resulted in everyone except Ryouta dying.
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Off the Rails / int_2161674a	comment	This concept was memorialized in the movie The Gamers: Hands of Fate where a large part of the plot revolves around a game that is a send up of Legend of the Five Rings. A standard fantasy game ended up importing both Science Fiction and World War II elements due to weird tournament winner requests, and during the plot of the movie a group of players are trying to eliminate an entire victory condition despite the designer not wanting that to happen.
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Off the Rails / int_21c08fc5	comment	Friendship is Dragons: Twilight's player does this on a regular basis. She manages to awaken the Elements of Harmony, correctly assigns the Elements to each party member, and correctly deduces the sixth Element, thus allowing them to defeat Nightmare Moon. The campaign was supposed to go on for years, but she did all this in the first session. Worse, she did it all completely in-character, meaning the DM can't come up with a good excuse to disallow any of it. When the parasprites show up, she immediately kills them off before they can multiply. This is Lampshaded in the Diamond Dog arc: The climax of the Grand Galloping Gala arc features the author himself going off the rails. His plot ending up diverging so far from the show that he could not illustrate it with actual screencaps, and was forced to get a friend (the author of Star Mares) to make many pages of fake screencaps to allow him to show his final battle.
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Off the Rails / int_22058212	comment	Bottom: Live 2 gives us this exchange: The recorded version of the live show "Hooligan's Island" also has Eddie grabbing a medical kit from a World War II Japanese bunker in Act 1, which wasn't meant to be revealed until Act 2.
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Off the Rails / int_22c28cbe	comment	Un Lun Dun seems like your average "The Chosen One goes to another world and goes on a quest that is also a Coming of Age Story in between all the Fetch Quests" story. Then the Chosen One gets bonked on the head, and it's up to her friend (who was, according to the prophecy, the "funny sidekick") to go on the long, epic, Fetch Quest-filled journey. Except, after the first one, she decides (Correctly) 'I don't have time for this shit,' gets the Un-Gun, and becomes the Unchosen One.
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Off the Rails / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington telegraphs much of the plot if you understand what the story is based on. Then someone goes ahead and nukes Napoleon...
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Off the Rails / int_2665fc4e	comment	For a prime example, there's the Summerslam 1989 match between The Red Rooster, aka Terry Taylor, and Mr. Perfect, aka Curt Hennig. Taylor very obviously blows out his knee during an exchange, and moments later Hennig is forced to hit the Perfectplex out of nowhere for the finish. Taylor was out for a couple months afterward.
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Off the Rails / int_27906e15	comment	Puffin Forest has a few videos where he talks about this happening in campaigns he ran or was in. In one campaign he ran his players found a mysterious temple. He had planned for his players to come back to the temple later in the campaign but due to a lucky dice roll they learned how to use the temple's magic circle before they were supposed to and insisted on using it, resulting in them getting teleported to the moon without any way to get back. In an another story a Call of Cthulhu game he ran was ruined when a player instantly guessed that an NPC they just met in a hospital was possessed by the villain, despite the fact that it hadn't even been hinted yet that the villain was capable of possessing people, and the NPC had only smiled and waved at that point. Another Call of Cthulhu game was derailed into a Total Party Kill. While everyone dying is not unexpected in Call of Cthulhu, this one happened because of an idiot player setting everything on fire to keep a monster away and trapping himself in the fire, and the fire spread and killed the other surviving player. Ironically, the final player had requested a Plotline Death before the session had even started as he wanted to play a different character. When he ran Fane of the Night Serpent (part of Tomb of Annihilation) he accidentally skipped over the part of the book explaining how the players are supposed to get into the Temple. The players were supposed to either disguise themselves as the enemy, or let themselves be captured by the enemy and make an alliance with one of the villains, but what happened instead is the players had to fight their way though every single enemy, just barely managing to win after a very long and hard battle. In a dystopian ICONS campaign that he ran, the heroes are sent on a mission to find out what happened to some people who were sent to recover a typewriter and never came back. The heroes find that they were attacked by bandits and incorrectly assume they are dead, and end up killing them instead by blowing up the bandit's base. It goes further off the rails when they find the typewriter and accidentally smash it, and discover a mysterious data disc inside which they were not supposed to know about, and they keep it for themselves instead of delivering it to the guy who sent them on the mission. After this he started running the campaign without rails and instead gave them several different plot threads they could choose to follow or ignore. In the Black Market Blues story he and his party are confronted by assassins when visiting a black market who are suspicious of the party's paladin. When talking their way out doesn't work the Paladin starts a fight with them and causes chaos in the black market and everybody gets arrest and the black market shut down. When they are in jail, Puffin realizes that it didn't make sense for the town to have a black market because everybody already knew it was there and was ok with it. Another campaign that he ran ended up going of the rails at the very end when the players fail to kill the villain. The players succeed in stopping the villain's plan but the final battle between the villain and the last player standing ultimately comes down to one last dice roll, which the player misses. The standing player character is forced to retreat, and the rest of player characters get scattered across the universe and never see each other again although end up in nice places. Since they failed to kill the villain using the Villain-Beating Artifact he will eventually come back, and so it seems like a Bitter Sweet Ending, however it ends on a funny note because the villain ended up on Mount Celestia, the realm of Pure Lawful Good where he is immediately captured and imprisoned for a very long time. "DM.exe has crashed!" must be seen to be believed. The players break into a school because they were too impatient to get a warrant to enter legally and get into a fight, and an idiotic samurai player tries to defuse the situation by firing a gun, and it just gets worse from there, as he gets into a completely unnecessary standoff with the police, which all could have been avoided if they had just waited for the warrant.
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Puffin Forest (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_27906e15
Off the Rails / int_27b0262b	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_27b0262b	comment	MythBusters: In the MacGyver special, Adam and Jamie are put through a series of challenges to test their MacGyvering abilities, set up by Tory and Grant. The final challenge involves creating a signal that could reach a certain height. Tory and Grant set up the surroundings to provide all of the materials needed to build a potato cannon — which results in quite a surprise when Adam and Jamie build a kite instead, using the rope that they were tied up with at the very beginning of the segment. As the solution was both effective and in the spirit of the challenge, it was deemed successful. In another episode, Adam and Jamie made a challenge for each other: to build home-made hovercraft using household materials and under a budget and have a race with the machines they build. Both conform to the rules — at first. Then Adam begins cheating. He ends up spending twice the budget on a truly ungainly "hovercraft" that requires him to flap his arms around while wearing press board "wings" and getting pushed by assistants to the goal line. He does, however, attempt to justify it; while Adam had gone over budget, the finished product did not.
Off the Rails / int_27b0262b	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_27b0262b	featureConfidence	1.0
MythBusters	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_27b0262b
Off the Rails / int_29d0306c	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_29d0306c	comment	A crossover between Danganronpa Abridged Thing and 50% OFF had Nagisa participate in a killing game to get a scholarship. Rather than kill one of the students and try to prove his innocence in the trial, he just opts to slaughter the whole class while they're still in the gym because nobody could disprove him if no one was around to.note If you're wondering, this IS addressed in Danganronpa proper: Monokuma hadn't thought of it, but when it's suggested, immediately declares that anything more than a double homicide is a violation of the rules and will result in execution
Off the Rails / int_29d0306c	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_29d0306c	featureConfidence	1.0
Danganronpa Abridged Thing (Web Video)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_29d0306c
Off the Rails / int_2a9edae	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_2a9edae	comment	The Kids in the Hall: in the "Bad Straight Man" sketch, Dave utterly ruins the "Who's On First?" routine.
Off the Rails / int_2a9edae	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_2a9edae	featureConfidence	1.0
The Kids in the Hall	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_2a9edae
Off the Rails / int_2abd5315	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_2abd5315	comment	Whose Line Is It Anyway?: One famous instance of the Irish Drinking Song about "yelling out the wrong name in bed" quickly went off the rails when Drew screwed up his line and spewed out gibberish — and Ryan dutifully rhymed with him. Wayne and Drew laughed too hard to do their next lines before Colin threw out a loud "Meow!". Everybody except for Colin fell apart for about 15 seconds before the musicians regained their composure. Colin then yelled "Meow!" again and was the only performer to finish the song without corpsing. It frequently happens during the Sound Effects games, largely because it relies on audience members who aren't always very good at making sound effects. One memorable example sees the story of Noah ending with Noah and his wife watching their log float away and leave them to die in the flood. During a game of Song Styles, Wayne sings to an audience member named Howard in the style of "YMCA", which includes spelling his name — which he did "H-O-R-W-A-R-D". That threw everyone off enough that keyboardist Laura Hall accidentally increased the song's tempo, causing an increasingly frantic Wayne to desperately try to bring the song back on the rails. In one game of "Party Quirks", Ryan Stiles' character is "Carol Channing whose heads keeps getting stuck on things". Towards the end of the game, Ryan tries putting his head on Drew Carey's desk, but accidentally hits the neon sign and breaks the glass. Drew tries to stop the game, but Ryan insists on finishing.
Off the Rails / int_2abd5315	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_2abd5315	featureConfidence	1.0
Whose Line Is It Anyway?	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_2abd5315
Off the Rails / int_2bca217e	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_2bca217e	comment	At about two thirds of Into the Woods, the characters find themselves forced to sacrifice a man to a giantess. The narrator laments their cruel fate. They all promptly look over at the narrator and decide to sacrifice him. And because only the narrator know how things were supposed to go things really went south for the characters.
Off the Rails / int_2bca217e	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_2bca217e	featureConfidence	1.0
Into the Woods (Theatre)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_2bca217e
Off the Rails / int_2c2a56e3	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_2c2a56e3	comment	The first was a fantasy campaign held between The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, run by the main GM. The characters let their Munchkin be killed by the main villain, left him dead, and after they killed the villain resurrected him and joined his side. The end result is the plot of The Princess Bride.
Off the Rails / int_2c2a56e3	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_2c2a56e3	featureConfidence	1.0
The Phantom Menace	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_2c2a56e3
Off the Rails / int_2ddf611	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_2ddf611	comment	Discussed in The Valley of Dust and Fire, a module for the Dark Sun setting. Properly played, the Dragon of Tyr should be impossible for a bunch of plucky PCs to kill, and its death would completely wreck the setting. However, the book mentions that a PC group is probably going to try, and might even succeed with a generous DM, and says "okay, but you're on your own if you want to play something this insane out."
Off the Rails / int_2ddf611	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_2ddf611	featureConfidence	1.0
Dark Sun (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_2ddf611
Off the Rails / int_2e00e54c	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_2e00e54c	comment	The Weaving Force: The actions of the various parahumans incidentally derail Sidiousâ€™ plan to turn Dooku to the Sith as in canon, leading to Dooku killing Master Yaddle is derailed by several Jedi Masters, Knights, and Padawans responding to Dookuâ€™s call for help, including Anakin, Taylor, and Vicky, as well as the mercenaries Dooku hired. Unfortunately, this leads to Sidious realizing that Dooku is a loose end, as heâ€™s already revealed himself as Palpatine to Dooku to attempt to turn him only to fail. He fights Dooku for a while before the other Jedi Masters get to him to rescue him, killing him with Force Lightning using the stationâ€™s metal as a conduit just as they reach the battle.
Off the Rails / int_2e00e54c	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_2e00e54c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Weaving Force (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_2e00e54c
Off the Rails / int_2e2efbf9	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_2e2efbf9	comment	In Back to the Future, Marty tries to stage a Date Rape Averted scenario so that his father, George, can "rescue" Lorraine, Marty's mother, but the plan is subverted when Lorraine is doing the advances. But when Biff takes over and tries to molest her for real, that's when George delivers the badass quote, "Hey you, get your damn hands off her", which was originally meant as part of the play, and then punches Biff out when he doesn't listen.
Off the Rails / int_2e2efbf9	featureApplicability	-0.3
Off the Rails / int_2e2efbf9	featureConfidence	1.0
Back to the Future	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_2e2efbf9
Off the Rails / int_2e6bceb9	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_2e6bceb9	comment	Monster of the Week, also Powered by the Apocalypse, downplays this: in addition to regular "threats", each scenario must have a "Mystery Countdown"—a linear sequence of increasingly evil acts the Monster will carry out if the player characters don't prevent them. However, the book also warns against sticking to it too closely, as the Hunters' interference with the Monster normally makes it abort or alter the latter steps of the countdown (usually by shifting its aim from its original objective to killing those pesky Hunters). In other words, every scenario starts on the rails but is fully expected to go off-track by the midpoint.
Off the Rails / int_2e6bceb9	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_2e6bceb9	featureConfidence	1.0
Monster of the Week (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_2e6bceb9
Off the Rails / int_31e66c2b	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_31e66c2b	comment	H.Bomberguy made a video called "ROBLOX_OOF.mp3", which starts with him detailing the history of the Roblox "oof" death noise and its origins, which ends fairly conclusively after about half an hour. And then, he accidentally does a little more research about Tommy Tallarico, the guy in charge of the company that hired the person who originally did the "oof" noise, and it quickly spirals out of control into detailing the Blatant Lies that Tallarico runs on to make himself seem more important than he actually is. At one point, Hbomb reminds the audience that he started making the video "because [he] thought a sound effect was funny" but has now gone down a very deep rabbit hole just about Tallarico.
Off the Rails / int_31e66c2b	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_31e66c2b	featureConfidence	1.0
H.Bomberguy (Web Video)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_31e66c2b
Off the Rails / int_3249c02d	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_3249c02d	comment	The Whatever After series is about a girl and her brother getting sucked into various fairy tales by a Magic Mirror, accidentally fracturing the plot of these fairy tales, and having to make sure that the characters still get their happy ending before they can go back home. For example, the first book has them stop Snow White from eating the poisoned apple, only to belatedly realize that this means that Snow won't meet her prince and they have to figure out a way to get them to still meet and defeat the Evil Queen before she can ruin things.
Off the Rails / int_3249c02d	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_3249c02d	featureConfidence	1.0
Whatever After	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_3249c02d
Off the Rails / int_331e009	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_331e009	comment	The plot of the Borderlands 2 DLC Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep is a game of "Bunkers and Badasses" that threatens to do this multiple times. Sometimes this is because Tina, the DM, is unprepared (she sets a scene in a sunny day when it's supposed to be Eternal Night, tries to make a powerful boss one of the first encounters, and allows Mr. Torgue into the game to destroy the town's surveillance blimps). And other times it's because the players act unexpectedly (wander into an area Tina hadn't balanced yet, kill the dwarven king who was supposed to become their ally, and drop a die onto the miniature of an NPC, destroying him). To say nothing of Tina continually wanting to halt the game until Roland shows up even though she should be fully aware he's dead and Lilith, Brick, and Mordecai's shock and outrage at this. Eventually the players realize that the whole game is a way for Tina to process her grief over his death, become more understanding, and the story reaches a triumphant conclusion.
Off the Rails / int_331e009	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_331e009	featureConfidence	1.0
Borderlands 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_331e009
Off the Rails / int_33cee4c8	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_33cee4c8	comment	Penny Saves Paldea: The events that take place early on in PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet are implied to have still happened in the fic, but the various glitchy phenomena occurring around the region results in Penny deciding she can't ignore what's going on anymore shortly after the school Treasure Hunt starts. She ends up cancelling Operation Starfall to prioritize preserving reality, causing one of the game's three main storylines to grind to a halt. Juliana, meanwhile, is unknowingly trying to keep the plot on-track by continuing to dismantle Team Star bases even after the operation's cancellation.
Off the Rails / int_33cee4c8	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_33cee4c8	featureConfidence	1.0
Penny Saves Paldea (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_33cee4c8
Off the Rails / int_35e05f2a	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_35e05f2a	comment	In RWBY Volume 9, Team RWBY finds themselves in the Ever After, the main location of the story "The Girl Who Fell Through The World". All four of them had read the story as kids, but only Blake believes they are in said story. After Yang steals back her robotic arm and Ruby finds and takes one of Penny's Maiden Power-created swords, they opt to follow Blake's idea and just follow the story as is. However, when a key player is replaced with another, Weiss believes that they're actually in the story's "stupid sequel".
Off the Rails / int_35e05f2a	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_35e05f2a	featureConfidence	1.0
RWBY (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_35e05f2a
Off the Rails / int_36ee2abe	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_36ee2abe	comment	Inherent in Paranoia to such a degree that many GMs recommend not installing the rails in the first place. (Especially since by the first 'station', everyone will probably be dead.) On the other hand, if the GM really really wants the characters to be at Point X, all it takes is one order from The Computer, and they are being frog-marched X-ward by a heavily-armed Vulture Squadron "escort".
Off the Rails / int_36ee2abe	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_36ee2abe	featureConfidence	1.0
Paranoia (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_36ee2abe
Off the Rails / int_38ce5997	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_38ce5997	comment	The Boys (2019): In "Good for the Soul", Starlight, the newest member of the Seven is sent to the Believe Expo, a Christian festival, as a publicity stunt and is scheduled to give a speech about how God gave her superpowers to protect people, but decides that the speech written for her is full of assumptions based on biased biblical interpretations, and tells everyone in the crowd that no one has the answers to the mysteries of universe, anyone who claims otherwise is a liar, and calls out the festivals organizers for fleecing people by charging a hefty sum to attend. She also uses the opportunity to go public about being sexually assaulted. The only person who is impressed by her off-script speech is Hughie, her new love interest.
Off the Rails / int_38ce5997	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_38ce5997	featureConfidence	1.0
The Boys (2019)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_38ce5997
Off the Rails / int_393ab0d2	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_393ab0d2	comment	The game I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream makes this an intentional example. AM, maniacal AI and Big Bad, puts the five main characters into situations that it fully expects to cause them to give into their weaknesses. If all the players of his "little game" proceed to conquer their Fatal Flaws and prove AM wrong, then this enrages him so much that it will initiate a Logic Bomb; then the characters are given the opportunity to take down AM once and for all as he retreats into introspection to figure out what the hell happened.
Off the Rails / int_393ab0d2	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_393ab0d2	featureConfidence	1.0
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_393ab0d2
Off the Rails / int_393f45f8	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_393f45f8	comment	The 2015 Elimination Chamber match for the vacated Intercontinental Championship went off the script completely when partially through the match, Wade Barrett threw Dolph Ziggler into the door of Mark Henry's pod, only for Ziggler to go through it instead after the plexiglass that covered the pod broke. This caused Henry to enter the match well before he was supposed to be called up, completely ruining the planned script of the match. After Barrett was eliminated by Henry (again, well before that was supposed to happen), Ziggler took control of the match and tried his damn best to rescript it on the fly with what he had to work with, bumping like a madman to try and keep the match entertaining before Ryback's eventual triumph. The match was - and still is - considered one of the worst Elimination Chamber matches of all time because of this, but Ziggler's efforts to salvage the match was commendable.
Off the Rails / int_393f45f8	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_393f45f8	featureConfidence	1.0
Elimination Chamber (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_393f45f8
Off the Rails / int_3b73f906	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_3b73f906	comment	The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: One episode has Pooh narrate the story of the Three Little Pig(let)s that quickly descends into chaos when Pooh, being Pooh, keeps on slipping honey references in there and Tigger keeps on trying to "improve" the story. Rabbit makes a valiant effort to keep the story on track, but it all ends in a spectactular explosion of rain clouds and honey geysers. Literally. Another episode had basically the same plot only Piglet is trying to tell a story about a scientist, but Tigger thinks the story isn't exciting enough and turns the story into Frankenstein, with a giant Pooh as the monster. In another episode where the gang are actors in a western play without a fourth wall, the plot goes off the rails for a twist ending. Earlier when Piglet was afraid of confronting the Big Bad, he was reassured that Pooh was scripted to save him in the end, making it a Foregone Conclusion. This does not happened due to Pooh having an Epic Fail which wasn't in the script (and involved going off the rails rather literally in a mine cart). Just before the Big Bad beats up Piglet, Piglet's sheriff badge falls off, which causes the Big Bad to conclude through Insane Troll Logic that now he can't beat up Piglet, and doesn't know what to do next. Piglet offers to let the Big Bad be sheriff now, and he happily accepts and turns on his gang, scaring them all off and saving the town, saying that he had always wanted to be sheriff.
Off the Rails / int_3b73f906	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_3b73f906	featureConfidence	1.0
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_3b73f906
Off the Rails / int_3caec7aa	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_3caec7aa	comment	In Unabridged episode 5 in a game of "Goblins & Gauntlets" Zito is GM for, he has set up a Big Bad - the Shadowmancer who killed Lani's character's (Fuk'Ra the Gobarian) entire family - but all the rest of the players, Lani included, keep dodging the plot hook to mess around (with Lani pointing out as opposed to wanting vengeance Fuk'Ra is no rush to meet the man again). The players keep doing this and Zito keeps trying to force them back into the plot.
Off the Rails / int_3caec7aa	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_3caec7aa	featureConfidence	1.0
Unabridged (Web Video)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_3caec7aa
Off the Rails / int_3ce6a231	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_3ce6a231	comment	In We Will Rock You, Killer Queen's performance of "Don't Stop Me Now" is usually interrupted by Khashoggi, who informs her of the heroes' escape. During the sixth anniversary performance, however, Killer Queen took things off the rails by chewing out Khashoggi for constantly interrupting the song and declaring that this time, she's going to finish it. Khashoggi protested that that wasn't in the script, to which Killer Queen replied "Screw the script!" before launching back into "Don't Stop Me Now". A downplayed example since the actual overall plot was unaffected.
Off the Rails / int_3ce6a231	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_3ce6a231	featureConfidence	1.0
We Will Rock You (Theatre)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_3ce6a231
Off the Rails / int_3df10170	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_3df10170	comment	All Out 2022 ended with CM Punk regaining the AEW World Championship in his home town of Chicago and the returning MJF winning the Casino Ladder Match which gave him a guaranteed title shot. The clear plan for the next world title feud was veteran Face versus cocky upstart Heel. That lasted for a little under an hour until the media scrum just after the PPV where Punk, depending on who you ask, either went on an unprofessional public ego trip or let months of frustration from dealing with immature douchebags boil over, and ranted against former best friend Colt Cabana, company EVP's Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks, and wrestling media in general. When Punk returned to the locker room The Elite kicked down the door to his dressing room to confront him and got into a physical fight with Punk and Ace Steel that ended with one of the Bucks knocked unconscious and Steel allegedly biting a chunk out of Omega. All the participants were suspended and the World Championship, plus the Elite's new Trios titles, were vacated, stopping the planned Punk vs MJF feud cold.
Off the Rails / int_3df10170	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_3df10170	featureConfidence	1.0
All Elite Wrestling (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_3df10170
Off the Rails / int_3e299490	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_3e299490	comment	A slight one occurs in The Fallen Gods when the party goes to the basement of the Tower in Palanthis instead of the top like DM Alan had hoped, leading to them discovering a series of portals to different planes. A major one happens a few episodes later inside the Tower of Lunitari where instead of going through a portal to return to Mara, they throw the wizard who opened the portal through instead.
Off the Rails / int_3e299490	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_3e299490	featureConfidence	1.0
The Fallen Gods (Podcast)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_3e299490
Off the Rails / int_3ec0e37	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_3ec0e37	comment	Happens quite a lot in Full Frontal Nerdity. A good example would be this, where they manage to turn a Harry Potter RPG into an arena deathmatch between the Hogwarts houses. At one point Frank turned this against them by setting up a campaign where successful power-gaming required them to spend a large amount of time role-playing. When they realized he had planned them going off the rails from the start, they went further off the rails by deciding to kill them all. Nelson once stole the campaign when Frank stated that he was the returning long-lost king, by giving the other two characters Monty Haul missions and such good items that "Even your socks will be +5 Weapons". As a result of their growing familiarity with (and contempt for) each other, Frank and Genre Savvy players have begun to undergo negotiations about how much off-the-rails is acceptable whenever someone (usually Nelson) smells a rat. This eventually gets lampshaded.
Off the Rails / int_3ec0e37	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_3ec0e37	featureConfidence	1.0
Full Frontal Nerdity (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_3ec0e37
Off the Rails / int_404b0f84	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_404b0f84	comment	The Homestuck Epilogues and Homestuck: Beyond Canon involve one timeline that is rendered non-canonical by a character's actions, resulting in characterization and events unraveling at a cosmic level, essentially turning the universe into a series of fanfiction tropes. The other timeline which preserved its own canonicity involves another character deciding that the only way not to fall into narrative oblivion is to keep the story alive by becoming its antagonist.
Off the Rails / int_404b0f84	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_404b0f84	featureConfidence	1.0
The Homestuck Epilogues	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_404b0f84
Off the Rails / int_422df537	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_422df537	comment	One Piece: Grand Line 3.5: The players work to derail the campaign as soon as they hear there are pirates in it, mostly so that they can be pirates themselves. These are the players that will eventually control Luffy and Zoro. Later, the GM does it to himself. When he rolls a Critical Failure for the arc boss's attack on an NPC, it grants that NPC an immediate Attack of Opportunity, at which point the GM throws three natural twenties in a row, an Instant-Win Condition. The end result: Sanji.
Off the Rails / int_422df537	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_422df537	featureConfidence	1.0
One Piece: Grand Line 3.5 (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_422df537
Off the Rails / int_427c480e	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_427c480e	comment	At the start of the second game session of Larp Trek, before Geordi (the GM) can even open his mouth, Picard and Wesley get a murder mystery going.
Off the Rails / int_427c480e	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_427c480e	featureConfidence	1.0
Larp Trek (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_427c480e
Off the Rails / int_42b82607	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_42b82607	comment	The book The Munchkin's Guide to Power Gaming features another hypothetical example, in which a GM wants the players to go into a dungeon, but 'all they want to do is find out what's down the road from the dungeon entrance'.
Off the Rails / int_42b82607	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_42b82607	featureConfidence	1.0
The Munchkin's Guide to Power Gaming	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_42b82607
Off the Rails / int_42ffb88e	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation has a downloadable video game used for containing SCP-245. The game has two secret endings that can be found by going off the rails of the game. The first one is found by preventing SCP-245 from entering the control room at the beginning of the game. This allows you to completely skip most of the game and prevent SCP-245's plan to trick you. The second one is found by intentionally losing the boss battle with SCP-245 at the end of the good ending. If you do this then SCP-245 freaks out about why you would do something so stupid and then realizes you already know he is tricking you and kicks you out of the game.
Off the Rails / int_42ffb88e	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_42ffb88e	featureConfidence	1.0
SCP Foundation (Website)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_42ffb88e
Off the Rails / int_43576f5	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_43576f5	comment	The entire world of Supernatural appears to be run like a massive RPG, with God as the GM and all of the other characters as the players. God remains behind the scenes while everybody else navigates the various challenges and levels of His campaign. However, knowing that He exists and is ignoring everybody has led to virtually all the characters trying to either trash the whole setting out of spite, or else abandoning the idea that there is any kind of divine plan and just doing whatever they want. For His part, God is letting this all play out. But He does meddle to make sure that the key players (Dean, Sam and Castiel) are never permanently killed, which might end the game. Until the end of season 14, when Sam, Dean, and Castiel finally push things too far off the rails by refusing a direct command to kill Jack, despite God insisting that itâ€™s the only way forward. Fed up with how far things have derailed, God decides itâ€™s time to just discard this setting and start over... and as a final parting "fuck you" to his players for not getting with the program, he initiates the Apocalypse on his way out. "Scoobynatural" has this happen in-universe. Sam, Dean, and Castiel are magically transported into an old episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, and their presence (and that of the ghost that brought them) sends the episodeâ€™s plot flying off the rails. Amongst other things, the suspects from the actual episode get brutally murdered by the ghost early on, Shaggy breaks his arm in a fall, Dean keeps trying unsuccessfully to woo Daphne, and Mystery Inc very nearly go mad from the revelation that paranormal things are real. Things couldâ€™ve gone even crazier, but Dean makes the others uphold the Fourth Wall specifically to avoid this.
Off the Rails / int_43576f5	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_43576f5	featureConfidence	1.0
Supernatural	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_43576f5
Off the Rails / int_43d5d8e7	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_43d5d8e7	comment	The musical Pippin ends when Pippin refuses to obey the Leading Player's 'script' and light himself on fire. The Leading Player doesn't know what to do, so he ends the show, after having a giant breakdown.
Off the Rails / int_43d5d8e7	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_43d5d8e7	featureConfidence	1.0
Pippin (Theatre)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_43d5d8e7
Off the Rails / int_43f52aa9	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_43f52aa9	comment	Oblivion and Skyrim do not follow in the same vein as Morrowind; quest important NPCs are simply "knocked out" briefly, averting this possibility.
Off the Rails / int_43f52aa9	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_43f52aa9	featureConfidence	1.0
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_43f52aa9
Off the Rails / int_444ef61b	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_444ef61b	comment	During a game in politics class on Not Always Learning, one student convinces over half the class to pool their money with him, then declares the alliance too big to maintain, dissolves it, and keeps all the money for himself, becoming an emperor.
Off the Rails / int_444ef61b	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_444ef61b	featureConfidence	1.0
Not Always Learning (Website)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_444ef61b
Off the Rails / int_4529d601	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_4529d601	comment	Cryme Tyme were set to face Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch in a match that was scripted to end in a double count-out. Behind the scenes, Cade and Murdoch changed it and got the referee in on the plan. So they rushed to the ring and the referee counted fast. Shad was legitimately pissed off and hit the referee with his finisher.
Off the Rails / int_4529d601	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_4529d601	featureConfidence	1.0
Cade and Murdoch (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_4529d601
Off the Rails / int_455ede40	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_455ede40	comment	Invoked in Super Paper Mario. In Sammer's Kingdom, the party is told that it must fight 100 Sammer Guys in a row. The format of the game so far has been set up to suggest that the player will fight 25 Sammer Guys in each of four levels, before receiving the Pure Heart at the end. The player doesn't even finish the first level when Count Bleck and his minions arrive to destroy that world. The party survives the destruction and returns to the world's ruins, only to be sent to the next world by Dimentio, and thus plays the seventh world early.
Off the Rails / int_455ede40	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_455ede40	featureConfidence	1.0
Super Paper Mario (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_455ede40
Off the Rails / int_47b50df9	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_47b50df9	comment	If a wrestler suffers a serious injury that means he cannot safely continue (e.g. Bret Hart breaking his ribs in a match with Dino Bravo), becomes concussed and therefore can no longer take instructions or pull his punches, or is otherwise impaired, his opponent needs to end the match immediately for both their sakes, regardless of the planned finish. Popular methods include pinning him for real, getting themselves disqualified, or getting one of them counted out (this is the favoured method in title matches, since titles can only change hands on a pin or submission). For a prime example, there's the Summerslam 1989 match between The Red Rooster, aka Terry Taylor, and Mr. Perfect, aka Curt Hennig. Taylor very obviously blows out his knee during an exchange, and moments later Hennig is forced to hit the Perfectplex out of nowhere for the finish. Taylor was out for a couple months afterward. The infamous TNA match between Sting and Jeff Hardy is a particularly notorious example, as a clearly intoxicated Jeff was obviously in no condition to perform, and Sting had to end the match within a minute and a half.
Off the Rails / int_47b50df9	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_47b50df9	featureConfidence	1.0
Bret Hart (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_47b50df9
Off the Rails / int_47dc9ef0	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_47dc9ef0	comment	The RPG Spirit of the Century makes a point of encouraging the GM to run with any derailments by making highway systems rather than railroads and paving as they go. On the other hand, it does allow you to offer Players rewards for having their character perform actions suggested by the GM, so long as it has something to do with the character's Aspects, which the Players choose to begin with.
Off the Rails / int_47dc9ef0	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_47dc9ef0	featureConfidence	1.0
Spirit of the Century (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_47dc9ef0
Off the Rails / int_48c634f1	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_48c634f1	comment	In the final session of the second season of the Dice Games Italia campaign titled La Compagnia Del' Inetto (The Fellowship of the Inept) Rodrek, being the Dumb Muscle he is, eats the Red Spark instead of simply taking it away like the Master wanted him to, leaving the Master completely baffled. This makes Rodrek promptly erupt into flames... and gain some sweet new fire-based powers once the third season comes around.
Off the Rails / int_48c634f1	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_48c634f1	featureConfidence	1.0
Dice Games Italia (Web Video)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_48c634f1
Off the Rails / int_49a87cb3	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_49a87cb3	comment	Final Fantasy VII features a humorous In-Universe instance of this with the Golden Saucer date sequence. If the player is with Tifa, they'll end up going to the amusement park's stage show and get cast in that night's play as the brave knight and Damsel in Distress. However, if the player keeps making stupid choices (such as claiming he's there to rescue the dragon rather than the princess), Tifa will get so pissed off that she smacks Cloud upside the head and defeats the dragon herself with a flying kick, causing the other actors to declare that the princess is the hero of the land.
Off the Rails / int_49a87cb3	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_49a87cb3	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_49a87cb3
Off the Rails / int_4bd693d0	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_4bd693d0	comment	As Told by Ginger: The Halloween Episode, "I Spy a Witch" revolves around a school play of a story reminiscent of The Crucible - about an innocent girl accused of witchcraft. Miranda conspires to replace Ginger as the lead by framing her for defacing the school statue by dressing it up to look like a Wicked Witch, to which Ginger is suspended from school for. Once a photo of Miranda doing it reaches Ginger, thanks to Carl beinging Maude Back from the Dead, she crashes the play with the photo - and she and her friends change the ending so that the lead character is a witch and is found guilty. It is implied after the fact, Ginger's suspension was reversed and Miranda and Mipsy were rightfully punished.
Off the Rails / int_4bd693d0	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_4bd693d0	featureConfidence	1.0
As Told by Ginger	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_4bd693d0
Off the Rails / int_4c44acb7	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_4c44acb7	comment	In just about any round of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue where the panellists are given access to sound effects for the purposes of the game, the game will almost certainly end up being forgotten in favour of playing as many random sound effects on top of each other as possible.
Off the Rails / int_4c44acb7	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_4c44acb7	featureConfidence	1.0
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_4c44acb7
Off the Rails / int_4da4f20	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_4da4f20	comment	In Dream Park: The Barsoom Project, Game Master Dwight Wells has to do this twice: Early in the Fimbulwinter Game, a monster goes off its programming (the first sign that something is very wrong in the Game). It was supposed to kill out an actor because his role in the Game is done, but instead it chases and kills a Gamer. Wells bets the actor that he can kill him out without breaking the rules, with the stakes being the actor's pay: if Wells wins, the actor gets zip, but if the actor wins he gets triple his agreed-on pay. The script for the Game includes a detailed description of how the Gamers are supposed to defeat the Big Bad. However, the Gamers come up with another way to do it — entirely plausible within the rules and within the context — so Wells has to throw away a big chunk of his programming and improvise much of the Game's ending.
Off the Rails / int_4da4f20	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_4da4f20	featureConfidence	1.0
Dream Park	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_4da4f20
Off the Rails / int_4de3f3df	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_4de3f3df	comment	In both Halkegenia Online and Fae Is Foul, Louise summoning the entirety of ALFhiem Online ends up causing about .75 Hendersons to nearly a full Henderson of damage to the The Familiar of Zero plot and completely destroys the Sword Art Online plot.
Off the Rails / int_4de3f3df	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_4de3f3df	featureConfidence	1.0
Halkegenia Online (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_4de3f3df
Off the Rails / int_4e866cb9	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_4e866cb9	comment	During the 2005 Royal Rumble match, Batista was supposed to dump John Cena over the top rope. But Batista accidentally sent himself over the ropes with Cena, causing them both to hit the floor at the exact same time. Cena, Batista and the referees improvised an argument about who won until Vince McMahon came down to the ring to restart things with just the two of them. Incidentally, McMahon would also tear both of his quadriceps getting into the ring, resulting in a Game-Breaking Injury for him.
Off the Rails / int_4e866cb9	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_4e866cb9	featureConfidence	1.0
Royal Rumble (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_4e866cb9
Off the Rails / int_4f1f3628	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_4f1f3628	comment	The Suite Life of Zack & Cody has a Whole-Plot Reference to A Midsummer Night's Dream when the class have to put on a play of it. Cody is stuck playing Bottom, while his girlfriend is Hermia and Zack is Lysander (and she of course has fallen for him instead). Agnes (playing the role of Titania) brings the play off the rails by suggesting Bottom give Hermia True Love's Kiss. This results in much squabbling on stage. The teacher does nothing to stop it, because "it's the best acting they've done in months."
Off the Rails / int_4f1f3628	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_4f1f3628	featureConfidence	1.0
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_4f1f3628
Off the Rails / int_4fa3f3eb	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_4fa3f3eb	comment	Good News Week: The show was supposed to go from 8:30 to 9:30, but they always ended up getting distracted by a humourous aside or five. Then they changed the ending time to 9:45, then to 10:00, but it always ends about fifteen to twenty minutes late. Wanna know why?
Off the Rails / int_4fa3f3eb	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_4fa3f3eb	featureConfidence	1.0
Good News Week	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_4fa3f3eb
Off the Rails / int_5057aae3	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_5057aae3	comment	The climax of the Grand Galloping Gala arc features the author himself going off the rails. His plot ending up diverging so far from the show that he could not illustrate it with actual screencaps, and was forced to get a friend (the author of Star Mares) to make many pages of fake screencaps to allow him to show his final battle.
Off the Rails / int_5057aae3	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_5057aae3	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Mares (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_5057aae3
Off the Rails / int_5068e7b2	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_5068e7b2	comment	Much of Star Trek The Kobayashi Maru revolves around this, detailing the ways certain crew members subverted the test. Kirk "won" the test by cheating: he secretly reprogrammed it to make the opposing Klingon commander recognize him as a famous captain, giving him enough leverage to negotiate a peaceful solution. Chekov tried to save his crew by ordering an evacuation of the ship, before charging and destroying the Klingon ships in a kamikaze attack. Unfortunately, the test overseer pointed out that the massive explosion would have not only obliterated any escape pods, it would have made the area untraversable for the next century. Sulu simply abandoned the Kobayashi Maru to its fate, reasoning that it was likely a Klingon trap. Montgomery Scott attempted a technobabble trick that worked fine on paper and therefore apparently in the simulator, but was impossible in reality. The computer essentially declared Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies, and Starfleet Academy rerouted Scotty from command track to engineering, which was what he wanted all along. (And a funny thing about the Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies scenario is how long it would have taken: Scotty would need to sleep eventually....)
Off the Rails / int_5068e7b2	featureApplicability	-0.3
Off the Rails / int_5068e7b2	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek The Kobayashi Maru	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_5068e7b2
Off the Rails / int_50bcf7a6	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Once the second part of Homestuck begins it becomes clear there is something terribly wrong with the kid's game of Sburb. Later parts reveal that multiple, connected sessions have gone the same way, with over-powered villains running about and people dying that shouldn't. But there is always ambiguity right up until the end of the comic whether the game is genuinely off the rails, or that the game is deliberately testing how well the players can keep up. A number of events have conspired to doom the kids' Sburb session: Jack, who was meant to offer a means of helping the players dethrone the Black Queen before the Reckoning, gained access to a.) a weapon of unbelievable power, b.) nigh-omnipotence, and c.) complete insanity, and immediately began to destroy not just the Sburb session he originated in but also other sessions. Having learned that their game was doomed, Rose searches for a way to break the game because winning it in the traditional fashion is no longer possible. It appears that, in the future, she is ultimately successful. After scratching the original session, the new session afterward went Off the Rails before the game even started. The agents of Derse are killing dreamselves before the game in violation of the normal rules, and someone has repeatedly tried to assassinate Jane on Earth. It got further Off the Rails when due to circumstance none of the post-scratch kids prototyped their sprites before entering the Medium, which causes the Battlefield to never fully form and the game to be nearly completely Unwinnable. It later is revealed that some of these events were the result of the Troll Empress infiltrating the session and taking the place of the black queen before the game started, planning to claim the new universe for herself. And then Caliborn manages to take the cake by attempting to play all by himself, which turns the Medium into a desolate dead place. Caliborn isn't very worried since Hussie informed him that it was like playing in the highest difficulty setting. Aranea claims that Caliborn's species was never meant to play Sburb at all, so not only did the game go off the rails the moment Caliborn & Calliope entered the game, it went off because the game began. This is supported by the fact that Caliborn & Calliope were naturally born instead of being paradox clones, destined to play the game because they were created by the game like all the other players. Word of God revealed that in most game sessions, Wayward Vagabond is supposed to serve as a "back door" of sorts who aids the players in defeating the Black King if things go too far off the rails. This is why he revolts against the Black King during the kids session; the game was trying to help the kids get things back on track. This failed and only caused things to derail even more spectacularly. Andrew Hussie's Author Avatar explains during the comic that their are three different classes of derailment that can happen to a Sburb session. A Null session has the potential to create a new universe, but the players are doomed by fate to fail. This happened to the Pre-Scratch troll session due to Doc Scratch putting a glitch in the game that caused the ectobiology lab to fail to appear, thus preventing the players from being born, and so they were forced by fate to invoke the Scratch in order to correct the paradox. This also happened to the Pre-Scratch human session due to Karkat giving the human universe cancer by failing to find the last frog needed to create the genesis tadpole, and this cancer was personified in the form of the overpowered Jack Noir, who prevented the Post-Scratch troll players from entering the human universe and later destroyed the human universe. A Void session occurs when none of the player put anything to the Kernelsprites before entering the game, which is what happened to the Post-Scratch human session. This results in an Endless Game because the battlefield never forms. The only possible way to complete a void session and create a new universe is for the missing parts of the game to be brought in from another session. Although in the case of the Post-Scratch human session, the game might not have been off the rails at all because the game already knew that they would fail to prototype the Kernelspites and would get help from the Pre-Scratch human session, as none of the players were assigned to the space or time aspect required to complete the game, and the towers on Prospit and Derse and the queen's rings didn't even have the orbs to receive the prototypings, and long dead consorts in the game were aware that new players were destined to arrive to help the players. A Dead session happens when a player tries to play the game alone by killing the other players and their dreamselves before the game is started as in Caliborn's case. Unlike a Void session, it is completely impossible for a dead session to create a new universe, as it causes Skaia to turn black, and they are designed to be completely unwinnable. Dead sessions exist mainly exist to punish the players who start them. Players in dead session are forced to chose between sacrificing themselves for the good of the universe or attempting an Unwinnable challenge that will reward them with great power. Caliborn only managed to win because 1: his character class gave him a big advantage, 2: three of the planets that he needed to destroy as part of the unwinnable challenge managed to fall into the black hole by themselves, and 3: he had the Author Avatar explaining everything to him. The Homestuck Epilogues and Homestuck: Beyond Canon involve one timeline that is rendered non-canonical by a character's actions, resulting in characterization and events unraveling at a cosmic level, essentially turning the universe into a series of fanfiction tropes. The other timeline which preserved its own canonicity involves another character deciding that the only way not to fall into narrative oblivion is to keep the story alive by becoming its antagonist.
Off the Rails / int_50bcf7a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_50bcf7a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Homestuck (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_50bcf7a6
Off the Rails / int_51c1e03f	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_51c1e03f	comment	TOON actively encourages this to emulate The Golden Age of Animation. Players are supposed to come up with crazy and creative ways to deal with the GM's campaign, with the more creative it is awarding more points to level up the character.
Off the Rails / int_51c1e03f	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_51c1e03f	featureConfidence	1.0
Toon (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_51c1e03f
Off the Rails / int_52eb7183	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_52eb7183	comment	Irregular Webcomic! has (at least) two of its storylines being characters in roleplaying games. When time travel is introduced into both storylines, the PCs quickly disrupt the timeline, preventing events that for them have already happened from happening, resulting in paradoxes that contribute to the destruction of all reality. It should be noted that the DM was dead at the time (his disappearance is noticed in the "Space" storyline), so he was unable to prevent this catastrophic derailment.
Off the Rails / int_52eb7183	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_52eb7183	featureConfidence	1.0
Irregular Webcomic! (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_52eb7183
Off the Rails / int_55c20cb5	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_55c20cb5	comment	Overlord (2012): In an attempt to get his demihuman minions to better understand Puny Earthlings and thus stop defaulting to "kill the worthless humans", Ainz holds a game session with a strictly barebones campaign (a village chief asks the heroes to get rid of a nearby goblin tribe) with premade characters. It starts with Albedo declaring she attacks the quest-giver for being a human and goes downhill from there (resulting in one of the funniest moments in the entire series). The heroes are attacked by bandits. Ever practical, Demiurge starts stripping them for parts, including flaying the corpses. When the heroes run into a bunch of fairies (whose treasure was stolen by the bandits), the heroes negotiate their way out of a fight by showing the fairies... the bandits' skins. A treasure chest contains various potions with magical effects. On learning that it takes a turn to drink one, Albedo asks if she can just keep hers in her mouth to save time. Mare finds a potion that switches his gender (Mare already being an Elfeminate crossdresser), Aura finds one that ages her a few years (being an elf, there's little change there either), Demiurge roleplays his potion's requirement that he say "Ribbit" to get a damage bonus by adding it to every single sentence, and Shalltear's will cause her to explode the next time she takes fire damage. The final one is a can of Coke. Having finally gotten the team to work together, Ainz is almost ready to wrap it up and have the village chief reward the heroes... and then Demiurge starts picking apart the scenario, coming to the conclusion that the village chief was in cahoots with the goblins all along, having developed a lucrative business sending murderhoboes to their deaths in the goblins' cave and splitting the loot with them. Ainz says "screw it", makes the village chief a demon in disguise, and the campaign ends in a blaze of glory... with his underlings still thinking humans are worthless creatures.
Off the Rails / int_55c20cb5	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_55c20cb5	featureConfidence	1.0
Overlord (2012)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_55c20cb5
Off the Rails / int_5690420f	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_5690420f	comment	DuckTales (1987) has the episode "Launchpad's Civil War," where Launchpad is playing the part of his ancestor in a reenactment of a famous battle that his ancestor bungled. In the process, he comes across the disgraced troops his ancestor led and switches them into the reenactment so they can "defeat" the opposing side and get their dignity back.
Off the Rails / int_5690420f	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_5690420f	featureConfidence	1.0
DuckTales (1987)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_5690420f
Off the Rails / int_5755b96a	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: In an early strip, the Order is able to kill a monster that was intended to be a Recurring Boss before it could escape. There are several other events in the plot that could be argued are examples of this too (if you believe that the story is all just a roleplaying game with a DM planning everything) such as the large number of Nice Job Breaking It, Hero moments, but this is the only one that the characters point out. Tarquin freaks out as he slowly realizes that his son's adventuring party is ANYTHING but clichÃ© tropes, leaving him unable to predict what will happen next. He's less emotional when faced with life-or-death situations.
Off the Rails / int_5755b96a	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_5755b96a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_5755b96a
Off the Rails / int_5892c75b	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_5892c75b	comment	In an episode of The Unbelievable Truth, Henning Wehn abandons his lecture on computers to give a rant about people impersonating him on Facebook.
Off the Rails / int_5892c75b	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_5892c75b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Unbelievable Truth (Radio)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_5892c75b
Off the Rails / int_59da62aa	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas has a few major factions that you can ally with to complete the game. Performing quests for each faction may make opposing factions warn you that they'll stop accepting your support if you persist in helping the other factions - if you continue, you'll no longer be able to progress in their missions (though they will remain non-hostile as long as you don't). You can then make all three major factions mad at you - possibly by meeting with their leaders, killing them, and eating their corpses - which will give you a special perk. This leaves you only one way to beat the game - going off the rails the three factions built and taking over Vegas yourself with the help of Yes Man. But even this rail can be jumped off; while killing him with normal weapons has his body get replaced with a new Securitron when you leave the casino, disintegrating him or turning him into glowing green goo breaks the respawn script and permanently kills him. If you play the NCR route, it's possible to complete the game without ever confronting Benny or getting the Platinum Chip. In the Honest Hearts add-on, you can go off the rails of helping the Zionites by killing people integral to the plot or getting caught stealing. If you do, the quests to help Zion will immediately fail and a new quest, "Chaos in Zion" will start - it consists of you getting one of the maps Daniel drew so that you can find your way back to the Mojave Wasteland. However, the Sorrows, Dead Horses, and New Cannanites all now want you dead.
Off the Rails / int_59da62aa	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_59da62aa	featureConfidence	1.0
Fallout: New Vegas (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_59da62aa
Off the Rails / int_59ef17b0	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_59ef17b0	comment	Afterschool Special: This was an Unbuilt Trope in OG Readmore's TV specials. He gets pulled into a classic story, tries to 'fix' the 'bad bits', only for things to fall to pieces thanks to him going off script.
Off the Rails / int_59ef17b0	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_59ef17b0	featureConfidence	1.0
Afterschool Special	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_59ef17b0
Off the Rails / int_59fb8a3b	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_59fb8a3b	comment	The Young Ones did something similar when they parodied Monty Python's "Cheese Shop Sketch", which is immediately brought to a halt when the shopkeeper notes that it's not a cheese shop.
Off the Rails / int_59fb8a3b	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_59fb8a3b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Young Ones	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_59fb8a3b
Off the Rails / int_5afbc0cb	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_5afbc0cb	comment	The Mettaton sequences in Undertale were planned by Alphys on the assumption that you would solve all of the puzzles properly except the final amazingly difficult tile puzzle. If you do anything else, Alphys and Mettaton's reactions as they scramble to get the "lizard scientist helps human child defeat killer robot" subplot back on track are... something. It's all Played for Laughs, up until the CORE, where it quickly becomes obvious that Mettaton isn't fully on board with the part of Alphys's plan where you win in the end, and the plan starts falling apart as he rearranges the CORE's rooms, hires monsters to fight you in places where she wasn't expecting them, and subverts the puzzles so her attempts at help fail, eventually culminating when Mettaton reveals the charade and announces that he intends to change the ending to "Mettaton kills the human and takes their SOUL".
Off the Rails / int_5afbc0cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_5afbc0cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Undertale (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_5afbc0cb
Off the Rails / int_5b42bbed	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_5b42bbed	comment	Replaying the stage where you fight the ghost of Mao's father in Disgaea 3 nets you an ending where pretty much none of the plot threads are resolved.
Off the Rails / int_5b42bbed	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_5b42bbed	featureConfidence	1.0
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_5b42bbed
Off the Rails / int_5f6f0132	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_5f6f0132	comment	Defeating Laharl in one of Disgaea 2's Hopeless Boss Fights treats you to an ending where he blows up the planet in retaliation.
Off the Rails / int_5f6f0132	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_5f6f0132	featureConfidence	1.0
Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_5f6f0132
Off the Rails / int_6059ad6b	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_6059ad6b	comment	The xkcd installment "Outbreak" has Cueball and Megan derail the Zombie Apocalypse by promptly killing Patient Zero and destroying all the Toxin X-7 they've created.
Off the Rails / int_6059ad6b	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_6059ad6b	featureConfidence	1.0
xkcd (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_6059ad6b
Off the Rails / int_6289ea7c	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_6289ea7c	comment	Mallrats has Jay knocking out two of the contestants intended for the game show Truth or Date, so as for Brodie and TS to replace them as part of their Zany Scheme for TS to try and win Brandi back. During the show, Brodie pretty much hijacks it, aiming quips at the third contestant Gil and launching into a story about his Cousin Walter jerking off on an airplane (much to the amusement of the audience and the TV execs). After that, it culminates in a sex tape being played on the monitor banks, implicating Shannon Hamilton in underage sex.
Off the Rails / int_6289ea7c	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_6289ea7c	featureConfidence	1.0
Mallrats	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_6289ea7c
Off the Rails / int_63f08c20	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_63f08c20	comment	One strip had Matt crying to a friend about how his characters had not only derailed his adventure by killing everyone, they had also summoned Elder Gods to destroy the game universe. They had been playing Bunnies & Burrows (a game where all the characters are normal, mundane rabbits).
Off the Rails / int_63f08c20	featureApplicability	1.0
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Bunnies & Burrows (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_63f08c20
Off the Rails / int_6566e35a	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_6566e35a	comment	TFS at the Table has suffered a few of these during its run: In Chapter 2 Session 3, a Boss Battle against a vampiric fallen Paladin was thrown off from the very beginning. The party was in the room fighting another vampire while the Paladin's armored "corpse" was hanging from a giant crucifix on the ceiling. Grant tried to use Ezra's fire ring against the vampire, but he missed and instead hit the "corpse", which caused it to scream in pain and reveal that it was actually alive. When the Paladin came down to fight, Game Master Zito rolled three Natural 1s in a row, which caused the vampire to slip on the ball bearings Ezra had thrown on the floor, hitting the bottom of the ship so hard that he broke through it and quickly sank to the bottom of the ocean. Needless to say, Zito asked for a few minutes to collect himself, then let out a giant "DAMMIT!" after he'd gotten off-camera. In Session 4 the party comes across an island with no intelligent life but a disturbing number of deer. After they make landfall, Lanipator has his character Wake lure one deer close with a handful of grass...and then kill it with a punch to the head, prompting a Thousand-Yard Stare from the DM, Zito. It turns out that the island is under a Wendigo's druid curse and anyone who kills a deer becomes one, and Zito specifically intended that the PCs would be unaffected by it so they could investigate. The group rolls with it even after Zito admits what happened in a post-session wrap-up. Session 6 has the party confronting the villain behind all this, but instead of an epic boss battle Eloy manages to nail the Wendigo with Hypnotic Pattern, leaving him stupefied for a full minute. The team takes the opportunity to stuff the villain's clothing full of explosives, douse them in oil, and light it up; the subsequent explosion one-shots the boss. Subverted in that Zito was okay with this, since the players earned the victory with their skills and equipment, unlike the vampire Paladin fight above which was just terrible luck on his part and wasted all the effort he'd spent planning it out.
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Off the Rails / int_6566e35a	featureConfidence	1.0
TFS at the Table (Web Video)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_6566e35a
Off the Rails / int_660b9f7	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_660b9f7	comment	The Wizard, The Witch, and Two Girls from Jersey is an Affectionate Parody about two teenage girls getting sucked into an Epic Fantasy... and accidentally killing The Chosen One within five minutes. One of the girls is a long time fan of the book who knows the plot like the back of her hand, and the other is an Alpha Bitch who doesn't willingly read anything but magazines. Guess which one is mistaken for (and must replace) the Chosen One and which one is thought to be her handmaiden?
Off the Rails / int_660b9f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_660b9f7	featureConfidence	1.0
The Wizard, the Witch, and Two Girls from Jersey	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_660b9f7
Off the Rails / int_66abe7c6	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_66abe7c6	comment	The Fate Series has the horrible, horrible events of the Third Holy Grail War that shaped many of the awful circumstances that would later haunt the protagonists of the Fourth and Fifth. The Edelfelt sisters cheated using their Ore Scales ability to summon two Sabers. It ended with the sisters defeated, one of them running away from Japan. Darnic Prestone attempted to steal the Greater Grail with Nazi help. It ended with the Imperial Army duking it out with the Nazis in Fuyuki. The Einzberns tried to cheat by summoning a God of Evil. It ended tainting the Grail with All the World's Evils. And in all the hoopla, the Lesser Grail was destroyed.
Off the Rails / int_66abe7c6	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_66abe7c6	featureConfidence	1.0
Fate Series (Franchise)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_66abe7c6
Off the Rails / int_679edf73	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_679edf73	comment	Terminator Genisys: The timeline from the original Terminator movie goes fully off the rails when both a shotgun-wielding T-800 appears for the first Terminator at the observatory, and Sarah Connor rams the storefront and the T-1000 in an armored truck and then steals Kyle Reese's line.
Off the Rails / int_679edf73	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_679edf73	featureConfidence	1.0
Terminator Genisys	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_679edf73
Off the Rails / int_67cdde7d	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_67cdde7d	comment	A tongue-in-cheek Dragon article about etiquette at the gaming table notes that when the DM carefully unpacks an adventure called Hills of the Hobgoblins, several hobgoblin minatures, and his personally-compiled dictionary of the hobgoblin language, and asks the players what they want to do, the correct answer is not "Go to the lowlands and hunt kobolds."
Off the Rails / int_67cdde7d	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_67cdde7d	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon (Magazine)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_67cdde7d
Off the Rails / int_68c8e9ad	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_68c8e9ad	comment	There are instances in old Super Robot Wars games where this can happen through the following: If you defeat all enemies at a turn before their reinforcements are meant to arrive, you'd just skip those fights. Many games also have bosses who will unleash particularly unpleasant abilities, almost always including restoring their health to full, when they're hurt badly enough. However, the earlier ones can't handle said bosses being killed instead of dropped to low health, and they simply die early despite having the ability to restore themselves. In Super Robot Wars 2, destroying Cecily's mobile suit near the end will prevent her from appearing again as an allied NPC later on. In Super Robot Wars 3, certain cutscenes can be skipped outright with the proper application of force on bosses when the game expects you to just destroy mooks. In F/Final, Angels can be killed prior to their intended death scenes. Super Robot Wars V features an In-Universe one: In the second to last stage Black Noir reveals themself as having orchestrated the events of the game in a manner very similar to a dungeon master, and is planning on destroying the world just because it would make for a different type of ending than usual. Naturally, the protagonists disagree. Of course, the mastermind's plans had been falling apart well before the heroes learned the truth, and in a very meta nod to the series's habit of doing this relative to the source materials, most of the things that were "supposed" to happen are things that did happen in the original animes, for example, Kappei's family were supposed to have all died, Banjo Haran was supposed to lose his purpose after defeating the meganoids and drop off the face of the Earth, and Akito Tenkawa was supposed to become obsessed with revenge to the exception of all else.
Off the Rails / int_68c8e9ad	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_68c8e9ad	featureConfidence	1.0
Super Robot Wars (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_68c8e9ad
Off the Rails / int_6ad790d3	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_6ad790d3	comment	In an episode of Top Gear (UK) about track day cars, Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson mention how James May cheated during a game of Monopoly by staging a robbery of the bank. May attempts to defended himself by saying it "made [the game] more authentic".
Off the Rails / int_6ad790d3	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_6ad790d3	featureConfidence	1.0
Top Gear (UK)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_6ad790d3
Off the Rails / int_6b3cfe38	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_6b3cfe38	comment	During the first year of Bob and George, since it would be a while before the real strip could launch, the Mega Man cast decide to reenact the story of the first game. Things go wrong the first time when Mega Man gets fed up with the constant delays and abandons the strip, so they attempt to have Proto Man stand in for him, only for Proto Man to accidentally kill Dr. Light. Then the comic's author steps in to resurrect Dr. Light, and then he ends up being roped into being Mega Man's substitute for the reenactment until the real Mega Man returns and forces the Author to launch the real comic. When the real comic didn't last long, the reenactment is restarted with the real Mega Man and follows the same story beats... until the end, when Dr. Wily realizes that, with his original resources restored, he has a second chance at taking over the world, and takes the opportunity to kidnap and kill the Author, since nobody liked working in the strip anyway.
Off the Rails / int_6b3cfe38	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_6b3cfe38	featureConfidence	1.0
Bob and George (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_6b3cfe38
Off the Rails / int_6b85085e	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_6b85085e	comment	This happens in a Mortal Kombat sprite comic arc called "Rise of the Robots", in which Sektor tells Sub-Zero he's going to beat Liu Kang. Sub-Zero knows that Liu Kang won't die until Deadly Alliance, but doesn't tell Sektor. Then Reptile happens. He lives.
Off the Rails / int_6b85085e	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_6b85085e	featureConfidence	1.0
Mortal Kombat (Franchise)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_6b85085e
Off the Rails / int_6c1d09b3	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3's plot involves talking to about a dozen NPCs, each directing you to the next NPC, until you meet the one person who can unlock the door to the Citadel. A faster way involves trading your only weapon for lots of ammo crates (each filled with 1 bullet) and building a big staircase out of them to get past the locked door. You can also accidentally skip the first main plot quest or two if you - The developers did anticipate a couple of these skips. If you already know where your father is when talking to Three Dog (or smooth-talk him into telling you before his errand), then the reward for finishing his quest will change from Three Dog telling you where your father went to Three Dog telling you where a weapons cache is located.
Off the Rails / int_6c1d09b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_6c1d09b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Fallout 3 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_6c1d09b3
Off the Rails / int_6c1d09b4	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Subverted in Fallout 4: You really can't reach The Institute holding your kid until you find out where they are: under bedrock, with no physical entrances or exits, because they invented teleportation, and then you have to build the right transportation vehicle to get there. After that, the railroading's over, go nuts.
Off the Rails / int_6c1d09b4	featureApplicability	-0.3
Off the Rails / int_6c1d09b4	featureConfidence	1.0
Fallout 4 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_6c1d09b4
Off the Rails / int_6e1d5f36	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape: In "Won't Get Fooled Again", John Crichton is made to believe that he's still on Earth and never left. Having already gone through a similar fake-out in the first season he immediately works out that someone is messing with him and starts pushing back by pointing out things that don't make sense. This forces his captors to crank up the Mind Screw elements in order to break him. Crichton even drops the trope name just before his Not-So-Imaginary Friend shows up to explain what's happening.
Off the Rails / int_6e1d5f36	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_6e1d5f36	featureConfidence	1.0
Farscape	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_6e1d5f36
Off the Rails / int_6fe107ca	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_6fe107ca	comment	One sketch on At Last the 1948 Show involves an educational segment where four actors teach basic English vocabulary, and one distraught, underpaid actor (played by John Cleese) derails the segment completely by inserting bogus words into his lines, vandalizing the set, and pouring scalding hot tea on the heads of his co-actors.
Off the Rails / int_6fe107ca	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_6fe107ca	featureConfidence	1.0
At Last the 1948 Show	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_6fe107ca
Off the Rails / int_73d7930f	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "Q-Less", Q creates a scenario pitting himself against Sisko in a boxing match. Q is his normal chipper self, toying with his opponent — until Sisko gets annoyed and knocks him to the floor. Q, used to fighting Picard, is stunned: In "Our Man Bashir", Bashir's holodeck character, a James Bond pastiche, helps the villain destroy the world, and the poor computer almost has a nervous breakdown trying to keep the simulation running. That's probably why they came up with the "Vic Fontaine" holoprogram, which is designed to operate off the rails. In "The Way of the Warrior", Kira, while playing Queen Guinevere in a King Arthur scenario, punches out Lancelot after he comes on to her. Makes sense for her character, though; she is a married woman.
Off the Rails / int_73d7930f	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_73d7930f	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_73d7930f
Off the Rails / int_75232910	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_75232910	comment	This has become an common occurrence in Masters of the Metaverse to the point where the viewers have started keeping a running tally of just how many times the GM breaks per episode.
Off the Rails / int_75232910	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_75232910	featureConfidence	1.0
Masters Of The Metaverse (Web Video)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_75232910
Off the Rails / int_754dc5c1	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_754dc5c1	comment	The Tom Bergeron run of The Hollywood Squares saw the "You Fool! Incident", where thanks to Gilbert Gottfried, the first game stretched out for the entire episode.
Off the Rails / int_754dc5c1	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_754dc5c1	featureConfidence	1.0
The Hollywood Squares	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_754dc5c1
Off the Rails / int_7713bf90	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_7713bf90	comment	One of the characters from Paradox Space sets her game of Dungeons and Dragons in a dungeon, but all the other players object to how stereotypical this is and she's forced to set it in the belly of a dragon.
Off the Rails / int_7713bf90	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_7713bf90	featureConfidence	1.0
Paradox Space (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_7713bf90
Off the Rails / int_77a899a	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_77a899a	comment	Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG is a long list of attempts by somebody who seems to be the Casey Jones of games gone off the track.
Off the Rails / int_77a899a	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_77a899a	featureConfidence	1.0
Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG (Blog)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_77a899a
Off the Rails / int_78ae0d07	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_78ae0d07	comment	The "Lawn Wax" episode of You Don't Know Jack ends up this way. The interns have only six questions written out of ten when the game starts. It all spirals out of control as the staff races to get questions done in time for the the rest of the show, each one less prepared than the last: the seventh question has a duplicate answer, the eighth question is by Donny, the ninth question is interrupted by Kim, and the tenth question is just a bit of trivia that Cookie reads off of a Snapple cap—which doesn't even have a category name. In the end, Chad quickly puts together a "minimalist, back to basics" Jack Attack for Cookie very quickly, and initially Cookie's elated. It's when he reads the category: "Do What I Say and We'll Get Through This Together" that he starts to realize what Chad has actually done: In a take on Exact Words, Chad put what you want to match "in quotes" and you want to hit your buzzer when that phrase comes up.
Off the Rails / int_78ae0d07	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_78ae0d07	featureConfidence	1.0
You Don't Know Jack (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_78ae0d07
Off the Rails / int_78f6ed77	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_78f6ed77	comment	The 2012 D20 Live campaign fell off the rails early on, when the players all refused the Lawful Neutral alignment the DM gave them. And later on, they challenge a colossal black dragon all on their own (and win!) when the DM expected them to return to the city, warn the head of the local guild and return with an army
Off the Rails / int_78f6ed77	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_78f6ed77	featureConfidence	1.0
D 20 Live (Web Video)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_78f6ed77
Off the Rails / int_791df429	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_791df429	comment	The Fanmake Blooper Series' main theme surrounds the idea that a Film Fic that's just a Transplanted Character Fic is doomed to get derailed simply because the characters have changed. And sometimes, the characters purposefully derail the story just to be entertained. A good example is the very first chapter of Sleeping Blooper, where during the scene where Maleficent (played by Queen Chrysalis) first appears, Van Helsing shoots her right as she was about to curse Kairi (playing the role of Princess Aurora). The rest of the fanfic is trying to make an entertaining story despite the fact that the main driving force of the story is destroyed.
Off the Rails / int_791df429	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_791df429	featureConfidence	1.0
The Fanmake Blooper Series / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_791df429
Off the Rails / int_7988cb68	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_7988cb68	comment	The Mass Effect and Command & Conquer Fusion Fic Renegade follows the canon Mass Effect plotline fairly closely, up until Kane shows up and throws the entire political situation for a loop, followed by the Scrin attacking the GDI Embassy on the Citadel (during which Shepard is killed and resurrected as an angry cyborg) and then heading off to the opposite side of the galaxy from canon while GDI and the quarian Migrant Fleet ally to launch a full-scale war on the geth. Also, the Collectors are attacking an entire game early.
Off the Rails / int_7988cb68	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_7988cb68	featureConfidence	1.0
Mass Effect (Franchise)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_7988cb68
Off the Rails / int_798e6a69	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_798e6a69	comment	By contrast, the webcomic that inspired Darths and Droids, DM of the Rings, features a scenario where every single attempt by the players at getting Off the Rails is met by either failure or cruel retaliation on the part of the Railroading GM. The DM does face a problem when Legolas kills Gollum early on. And later on they even get to kill GrÃÂma Wormtongue and Saruman. In a smaller example, Gimli's player manages to derail Gandalf's battle against the Balrog by pointing out that it would be against their alignments to squander the Heroic Sacrifice, meaning the Final Speech the GM had written up for that scene goes unused while the Fellowship legs it. Since Gandalf is the over-powered character played by the GM, he gets payback by resurrecting him later in the campaign (with a high power boost), much to the annoyance of the players. There is one major success: the hobbit players all get sick of this treatment and leave the game. The DM has to scramble to build some new rails for the remaining players to follow. He ends up playing the Hobbits himself in the background, meaning the final battle comes down to a single will save by a non player character who isn't in the scene.
Off the Rails / int_798e6a69	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_798e6a69	featureConfidence	1.0
DM of the Rings (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_798e6a69
Off the Rails / int_7d842696	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_7d842696	comment	Not Another DND Podcast: While Murph is a good DM and allows the players to do whatever they want without any significant Railroading, there's been a couple of times he's admitted they really threw him for a loop. Murph believed Hardwon wouldn't dare kill Galad Rosell after learning that Hardwon's mother had become a Revenant to seek revenge on Rosell for destroying their family, and her soul would be lost if anyone but her landed the killing blow. He was mistaken. The consequences of this decision would later form the backbone of the Shadowfell arc. The Endoterra arc was planned to begin with the brutal execution of a then-throwaway NPC, Glorg. However, Fia actually managed to save Glorg with some quick thinking, separating herself from the rest of the group in the process. Since circumstances prevented the party from quickly reuniting after this happened, each of the players ended up rolling a second character, and the most of the rest of the arc was played bouncing between the two parties.
Off the Rails / int_7d842696	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_7d842696	featureConfidence	1.0
Not Another D&D Podcast (Podcast)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_7d842696
Off the Rails / int_7f069934	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_7f069934	comment	Final Fantasy VII Remake, handles this trope much, much more seriously. Starting with Sephiroth appearing far earlier than he did in the original game, the plot begins to diverge in ways both small and large. This causes mysterious specters called the "Arbiters of Fate" to appear and try to force the story back onto the "train tracks" as much as possible, but the game ends with the protagonists slaying the Arbiters, signifying that the story will not just be a beat-for-beat retelling of the original. This is best emphasized by the final cutscene showing Zack Fair's Last Stand from Crisis Core...except this time Zack lives. And to make matters worse, it's implied that Sephiroth engineered the whole thing because he knew he was destined to lose, so he tricked the heroes into destroying destiny to give him another chance to fulfill his plans. The sequel, Rebirth, reveals that there are at least three timelines of the FFVII-verse: the original one, one that is like the original but not quite the same (the main timeline of the remake trilogy), and one that is a complete deviation (the one where Zack lives). Sephiroth's plan is to merge these timelines together, but his plan is temporarily foiled by Aerith, who, like him, has realized the existence of the multiverse.
Off the Rails / int_7f069934	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_7f069934	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy VII Remake (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_7f069934
Off the Rails / int_7f57a813	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_7f57a813	comment	This is a regular occurence in the Oxventure series. Despite the best efforts of Dungeon Master Johnny Chiodini to only plan the key parts of the story (to avoid planning that goes nowhere), the party (played by Outside Xbox and Outside Xtra) routinely ends up subverting their plans. Most of the time, this is by accident, due to the gang's tendency to avoid combat where possible and think unilaterally. Special mention goes to the episode "Bad Chair Day", where a minor detail blew up into a half-hour mess that accomplished nothing except to burn time and ruin a local business in the town of that story. This was especially harrowing for Johnny, given that it was a convention live show and the gang had a time limit to vacate the stage.
Off the Rails / int_7f57a813	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_7f57a813	featureConfidence	1.0
Oxventure (Web Video)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_7f57a813
Off the Rails / int_7fc78282	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_7fc78282	comment	They once had a game based on The Lord of the Rings. The campaign opened with Merry killing and gutting Gandalf, Pippin beating Frodo to death... they were planning to institute a military draft in the Shire when Matt (the GM) went catatonic. In the second attempt, one of the players is assigned to play Gandalf... but with his abilities limited to talking to birds and casting fireworks. The players ended up using Gandalf as a Bulletproof Human Shield and battering ram.
Off the Rails / int_7fc78282	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_7fc78282	featureConfidence	1.0
The Lord of the Rings	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_7fc78282
Off the Rails / int_81692f99	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_81692f99	comment	On Star Trek, holodeck simulations are often portrayed as a kind of futuristic LARP session. And sometimes the characters can't resist the urge to go Off the Rails: On Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine has issues comprehending the challenge of a holodeck simulation and tends to throw things off the rails by Cutting the Knot. In the episode "Night", Tom Paris invites Seven to his "Captain Proton" simulation and has her play a Damsel in Distress who gets captured by Satan's Robot. Seven just does what she thinks is most logical and pulls out the robot's wiring. Seven also uses the Leonardo da Vinci holoprogram for a little time to herself. Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Qpid", Q drops Picard in the middle of a Robin Hood-like fantasy world and tells the captain that if he doesn't rescue Maid Marion (who is his love interest, Vash), she's going to be executed by Sir Guy of Gisbourne. Both Q and Picard are quite surprised when the eminently practical Vash agrees to marry Sir Guy, as it makes more sense than some stupidly heroic rescue plan. Q had stated that he had given the fantasy "a life all its own, so I have no more idea what's going to happen than you do." In "Elementary, Dear Data", Geordi invites Data to a Sherlock Holmes holo-novel, only to find out that Data had read all the books — so he solves what's supposed to be a feature-length case in minutes. Geordi tweaks the simulation to have the computer pastiche elements of the novels, but Data can see right through it and still solves the case in minutes. On his third attempt, Geordi intends to ask the computer to create a simulation that can beat Holmes, but accidentally tells it to beat Data. Cue virtual Moriarty, a self-aware holodeck construct capable of interfering with the ship's basic systems. The rest of the crew starts freaking out. In the Grand Finale "All Good Things...", Picard is flung into the past, landing when he first took command of the Enterprise. He senses that something's wrong when Starfleet orders him not to head to Farpoint Station like he had in the pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint". Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "Q-Less", Q creates a scenario pitting himself against Sisko in a boxing match. Q is his normal chipper self, toying with his opponent — until Sisko gets annoyed and knocks him to the floor. Q, used to fighting Picard, is stunned: In "Our Man Bashir", Bashir's holodeck character, a James Bond pastiche, helps the villain destroy the world, and the poor computer almost has a nervous breakdown trying to keep the simulation running. That's probably why they came up with the "Vic Fontaine" holoprogram, which is designed to operate off the rails. In "The Way of the Warrior", Kira, while playing Queen Guinevere in a King Arthur scenario, punches out Lancelot after he comes on to her. Makes sense for her character, though; she is a married woman.
Off the Rails / int_81692f99	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_81692f99	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek (Franchise)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_81692f99
Off the Rails / int_847a1ace	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_847a1ace	comment	The second one took place between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, this time run by female Roleplayer Annie as the GM. Her planned campaign would've been the plot to the Twilight series, but the players, with their kill-on-sight mentality towards vampires and werewolves, turned it into the plot for Van Helsing.
Off the Rails / int_847a1ace	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_847a1ace	featureConfidence	1.0
Attack of the Clones	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_847a1ace
Off the Rails / int_84986bf9	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_84986bf9	comment	In the RuneScape quest, "Kindred Spirits". Sliske puts the player character, his undead slaves, and some other prisoners through a series of games involving sadistic choices. During one of the games, the player character accidentally knocks down a wall and is able to escape into a part of Sliske's lair that they were not supposed to enter and discover information about Sliske's true plans as well as the knowledge that the player character's name had been spoken by a man driven mad by an Eldritch Abomination long before the player character was born. When the player fails to show up at the start of the next game, Sliske decides to skip the game and steal the player character's soul, but while he is extracting the player character's soul, he sees the player character's memory of what they did, and he goes berserk, completely losing his normal Faux Affably Evil peronality. He then gives the player a massive beating, turns Linza into a wight after revealing that she had made a deal with him, and then threatens to kill the player character's loved ones, but his undead minions manage to escape from his control long enough to allow the player character and remaining prisoners to escape.
Off the Rails / int_84986bf9	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_84986bf9	featureConfidence	1.0
RuneScape (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_84986bf9
Off the Rails / int_85aa7b4e	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_85aa7b4e	comment	Old Man Henderson, "the man who won Call of Cthulhu." (Actually, it was Trail of Cthulhu, but still.) To make a long story short: A Killer Game Master pisses off The Roleplayer of the group by offing his character in a ridiculously contrived manner (and not for the first time from the sound of things). Said player decides to get revenge by creating Old Man Henderson, a schizophrenic stoner who is convinced that the local cult of Hastur stole his massive collection of lawn gnomes (he actually donated them to charity, then got high and forgot about it). The player had a 320-page backstory that justified all of Henderson's many skills, and was deliberately made to be so long nobody would ever bother to read it. Henderson proceeded to tear through the GM's campaign, culminating in a grand finale of taking advantage of certain rules/mythology and copious amounts of high explosives to permanently kill Hastur. 4chan's tabletop gaming board used this story to create The Henderson Scale of Plot Derailment, which is a scale to show just how far Off the Rails things have gone.
Off the Rails / int_85aa7b4e	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_85aa7b4e	featureConfidence	1.0
Old Man Henderson (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_85aa7b4e
Off the Rails / int_86772227	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_86772227	comment	A very common plot seen with the Knights of the Dinner Table comics. In some strips they manage to go off the rails before the adventure starts because they refuse to listen to they guy who's supposed to tell them what the adventure is. In one, after they've stolen the king's silverware during a banquet and therefore had a huge battle with the guards rather than be sent on a quest, B.A. finally storms off after Bob says the adventure was much better than he expected, and Brian recommends he get the other modules in that series. We also see such gems as: Brian trying to take out a nemesis by throwing a sack containing 47 12-ounce bottles of nitroglycerine. The result is mistaken in-universe for a meteor strike. Sarah gets a chance to run the top-of-the-line module Adventure To Castle Lonely, only for the players to refuse to even go to the castle and run off chasing squirrels. And, to add insult to injury, then complain about how badly written the module is. Brian shooting Bob's new character for no discernible reason. The party defeating a dungeon by sweeping all the traps with animals.
Off the Rails / int_86772227	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_86772227	featureConfidence	1.0
Knights of the Dinner Table (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_86772227
Off the Rails / int_86c4c725	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_86c4c725	comment	Villainess Level 99: The protagonist Yumiella is a college girl who died and reincarnated in a game world that is a mix of RPG and Otome game as a villainess who becomes its Superboss. Her actions done with this knowledge are causing the story to veer far away from how it was supposed to. She notices this the first time when the game's heroine, Alicia, has already become friends with the three male leads way earlier than in the game. Later Yumiella starts to suspect Alicia is also a reincarnated person from another world just like her, although she later concludes that her own actions indirectly pushed Alicia closer to the male leads. The love interests inadvertently stunt Alicia's growth by protecting her all the time instead of allowing to face hardships that would help her.
Off the Rails / int_86c4c725	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_86c4c725	featureConfidence	1.0
Villainess Level 99	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_86c4c725
Off the Rails / int_86e51bb5	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_86e51bb5	comment	In The Adventure Zone: Balance, a series of event known as â€œArms Outstretchedâ€� forced DM Griffin to abort an entire planned arc in the Astral Plane (afterlife) and rewrite a significant amount of the finale.
Off the Rails / int_86e51bb5	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_86e51bb5	featureConfidence	1.0
The Adventure Zone: Balance (Podcast)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_86e51bb5
Off the Rails / int_8a8cf1db	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_8a8cf1db	comment	Get Over It is a high school retelling of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the finale is a production of the play itself (taking the place of the wedding tableau from the source material). Berke is the Lysander equivalent who has been pining for the Hermia equivalent, and in turn is pined after by the Helena equivalent. He has a realization towards the end of the movie and during the play (where they're all playing the corresponding parts) he improvises and changes the ending - to have Lysander end up with Helena instead.
Off the Rails / int_8a8cf1db	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_8a8cf1db	featureConfidence	1.0
Get Over It	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_8a8cf1db
Off the Rails / int_8b7b9cd5	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	The fourth campaign with Ben as the GM, taking place between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. Ben had planned a campy, Lighter and Softer superhero spoof where the players were supposed to be a team of superheroes trying to catch a masked vigilante who was going around beating up criminals, and the plot would've been the old Adam West Batman (1966) TV series. But the players decided to lure the vigilante out in the open by becoming criminals themselves, and the end result was the Darker and Edgier The Dark Knight Trilogy.
Off the Rails / int_8b7b9cd5	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_8b7b9cd5	featureConfidence	1.0
A New Hope	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_8b7b9cd5
Off the Rails / int_8df13f86	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_8df13f86	comment	In Shadow of Israphel, the writers have come up with a fairly good story, but due to a combination of Simon Lane and Lewis Brindley being inept, mobs appearing and freak accidents, things don't always go as planned.
Off the Rails / int_8df13f86	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_8df13f86	featureConfidence	1.0
Shadow of Israphel (Web Video)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_8df13f86
Off the Rails / int_8f165ac0	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_8f165ac0	comment	Mass Effect: Human Revolution goes off the rails before the prologue is finished, when Shepard is murdered in her hospital bed, resulting in Adam Jensen becoming the central figure to a plotline revolving less around epic space opera and more about Cyberpunk Buddy-cops unraveling a galactic conspiracy.
Off the Rails / int_8f165ac0	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_8f165ac0	featureConfidence	1.0
Mass Effect: Human Revolution (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_8f165ac0
Off the Rails / int_8fd3db0b	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_8fd3db0b	comment	In the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus", Boimler, Mariner, Tendi and Rutherford are playing in the titular holoprogram, but early on, Boimler gets some news that takes the wind out of his sails and he starts trying to push the program to get through the plot as fast as possible, leaving the poor love interest for Boimler's character confused and lost since he's ignoring her and she's meant to play that role. When Boimler hears a random NPC talking about The Meaning of Life, he chases after that, letting Tendi and Rutherford take over the main plot while the holodeck is forced to compensate for Boimler's sudden B-plot addition, earning Mariner's ire until she learns why: Boimler's transporter duplicate, William, had been killed.
Off the Rails / int_8fd3db0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_8fd3db0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Lower Decks	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_8fd3db0b
Off the Rails / int_90eb5a2	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_90eb5a2	comment	An in-universe example of sorts takes place in The Reconstruction, but not by the main characters. Throughout most of the game, the Watchers seem like the main masters of the plot, with some kind of grand scheme that your guild has been working towards. But then suddenly, the Big Bad derails everything by killing them and taking over the world.
Off the Rails / int_90eb5a2	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_90eb5a2	featureConfidence	1.0
The Reconstruction / Videogame	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_90eb5a2
Off the Rails / int_914ba844	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_914ba844	comment	In Magicians & Munchkins, everybody decides to be a Min-Maxing Munchkin, including the GM, whose Final Boss is an all-powerful Wicked Witch with the drawback of "Vulnerability to Water". Which the players accidentally discover 3 Sessions earlier than the GM intended them to.
Off the Rails / int_914ba844	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_914ba844	featureConfidence	1.0
The Wizard of Oz	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_914ba844
Off the Rails / int_93bf081b	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_93bf081b	comment	The Delver's Guide to Beast World generally encourages GMs to have a light touch anyway. However the adventure Leaving Erin has a sidebar considering the possibilty that the players may completely ignore their first plot-significant NPC even though they've either been specifically told to find him or he's just obviously the person they need to speak to. The sidebar recommends throwing the entire adventure over your shoulder and fixing the players with a withering sigh.
Off the Rails / int_93bf081b	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_93bf081b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Delver's Guide to Beast World (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_93bf081b
Off the Rails / int_97bb943d	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_97bb943d	comment	Maximus in Gladiator manages to derail a gladiatorial reenactment of a battle (that his side should have lost). It's even remarked on by the emperor. Somewhat played with in that the problem was that he played the role too well; his tactics were appropriate for the Carthaginian infantry they're portraying, but his side were expected to fight as individuals and be massacred.
Off the Rails / int_97bb943d	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_97bb943d	featureConfidence	1.0
Gladiator	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_97bb943d
Off the Rails / int_9a7241c4	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_9a7241c4	comment	The Elfslayer Chronicles. In a game of DnD played over an IRC chat, the DM (who was a blatant Yaoi Fangirl with an elf fetish) had intended the party to help the human prince save his forbidden love with the captain of the elf guard. One player, who was fed up with the DM's insistence that humans were bigotous, overly-patriotic warmongers and elves were peaceful, wonderful, in tune with nature, and barely ever went bad, decided to embrace his bigotous, overly-patriotic warmongering heritage and had his human illusion mage character murder the prince and frame the elf captain.
Off the Rails / int_9a7241c4	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_9a7241c4	featureConfidence	1.0
Elfslayer Chronicles	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_9a7241c4
Off the Rails / int_9aac12df	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_9aac12df	comment	There was an episode of U.S. Acres where Orson tried to read Rumpelstiltskin to Booker and Sheldon. The boys kept asking Orson to change the characters into things like ninjas or monsters, but Orson put a stop to that for the most part. Then Wade (who played the miller's daughter) butted in and had the daughter be changed to a son, and as a result, the price to be paid became the son's VCR. Things really got crazy and devolved into a Summon Bigger Fish duel when the miller's son was about to guess Rumpelstiltskin's name because Roy (a Super Hero-style Rumpelstiltskin) tried to alter the ending in his character's favor, much to the protest of Wade and Orson:
Off the Rails / int_9aac12df	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_9aac12df	featureConfidence	1.0
U.S. Acres (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_9aac12df
Off the Rails / int_9b270b9c	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_9b270b9c	comment	The "Phantom Submission Match", of November 22nd 1985. Between 1984 and 1985, David Sammartino, son of famed wrestler Bruno Sammartino, wrestled for the WWF. His entire run was a transparent ploy to lure Bruno back on TV. If Bruno was in his son's corner, David was pushed to the moon; if he wasn't, David was buried. Eventually David got tired of this treatment and decided to quit as decisively as possible. On the match in question, he quickly tapped out to a bearhug from Jobber Ron Shaw, forcing the referee to declare Ron the winner or break Kayfabe by refusing to accept David's unscripted submission. Naturally he was fired shortly after.
Off the Rails / int_9b270b9c	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_9b270b9c	featureConfidence	1.0
Bruno Sammartino (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_9b270b9c
Off the Rails / int_9cc9639	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_9cc9639	comment	Pass the Human World bill in Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, and you'll get an opportunity go invade Earth instead of moving on to Celestia. This leads to a couple mildy difficult encounters, followed by a final showdown where General Carter turns into a Prism Ranger, you beat the crap out of him, and then take over the earth. "Etna Mode" from the PSP/DS remake is all about this, since it's about what would happen if Laharl died at the beginning of the game.
Off the Rails / int_9cc9639	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_9cc9639	featureConfidence	1.0
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_9cc9639
Off the Rails / int_9d34190a	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind readily allows the player to break the main quest by killing any of dozens of plot-significant NPCs. The game thankfully gives you a warning if you kill one of these NPCs, but from there you can still choose to ignore it and just troll around endlessly in the Wide-Open Sandbox. There is, however, still a "back-path" method to finishing the main quest which requires only one specific NPC to be alive Yagrum Bagarn but it is well hidden and much more difficult to complete. Finally, even if the back-path is rendered impossible, you can use the Alchemy Exploit to give yourself god-like levels of power and use the Tools of Kagrenac without Wraithguard to unbind the Heart of Lorkhan, which is normally instant death for the player. Oblivion and Skyrim do not follow in the same vein as Morrowind; quest important NPCs are simply "knocked out" briefly, averting this possibility. This entertaining video shows how a player can use hacks and cheats to send the opening of Skyrim flying off the rails at insane speeds. Some highlights include two people who are scripted to die surviving, an army of Alduin clones, giant chickens, and the player using hacks to kill an entire regiment of guards and critically wounding one of the Alduins before being blown to bits but a blast of fire.
Off the Rails / int_9d34190a	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_9d34190a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Elder Scrolls (Franchise)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_9d34190a
Off the Rails / int_a0219faa	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_a0219faa	comment	In Star Trek: New Frontier, Mackenzie Calhoun chooses to Shoot the Hostage, reasoning that the crew of the civilian ship was either A) already dead, B) would prefer death to Klingon captivity, or C) were traitors working with the Klingons to trap him.
Off the Rails / int_a0219faa	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_a0219faa	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: New Frontier	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_a0219faa
Off the Rails / int_a04c736b	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_a04c736b	comment	One of the most awesome cases of this happened in his Thieves' World campaign. The campaign first started to go off the rails when the players were sent on a mission to investigate a cultist's lair, but instead of reporting their findings back to the Quest Giver, they decided to launch a raid on the lair by themselves. Spoony had designed the lair to be too difficult for the party to beat without assistance but they managed to do it anyway though a ton of careful planning and strategizing. But the campaign became irreversibly derailed when a character impulsively flung an acid flask at a figure entering through a door after they had defeated all the enemies, interrupting Spoony before he could say who the figure was - and ended up hitting the party's Quest Giver, a semi-immortal champion of the setting's god of war, burning off half his face. Spoony had intended for him to show up at that moment to get the campaign back on the rails and confiscate most of the loot because Spoony didn't intend for the players to claim all of the cult's treasure for themselves. Proving that Tropes Are Not Bad, Spoony managed to run with this and changed the campaign so that the Quest Giver became the Big Bad, and the players earned several awesome moments by using their brains, wits, and skills to best the man at practically every turn, becoming crime lords and eventually leaders of a rebellion that manages to kill the guy (at least temporarily, but by the time he came back they'd be long dead of old age).
Off the Rails / int_a04c736b	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_a04c736b	featureConfidence	1.0
Thieves' World	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_a04c736b
Off the Rails / int_a2c7e6ce	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_a2c7e6ce	comment	Robot Wars: This fight is a four-way free-for-all in which House Robot Shunt gets flipped onto its side in the first five seconds, resulting in general mayhem — including the Refbot falling into the Pit of Doom, the other House Robot getting caught in a 4-on-1, and a washing machine landing in the middle of the arena (It Makes Sense in Context). The match could only be decided by what was left after two robots suicided into the Pit; indeed, the whole thing came about because the match wasn't part of the main competition, and the competitors decided to screw around and take on the House Robots instead of each other. A one-on-one match between two robots saw one winning almost immediately, flipping both House Robots and only getting caught out by the Flipper randomly going off mid-match. Several times, Razer will celebrate a victory by trying to destroy one or both of the House Robots. In the Southern Annihilator, it did this. Poor Mathilda.
Off the Rails / int_a2c7e6ce	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_a2c7e6ce	featureConfidence	1.0
Robot Wars	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_a2c7e6ce
Off the Rails / int_a57cf54d	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_a57cf54d	comment	Darths & Droids: The webcomic imagines the plot of the Star Wars films being a series of tabletop RPG campaigns in a universe where they never existed. The entire plot comes about because "Qui-Gon" (Jim) and "Obi-Wan" (Ben) decide to search a room on the Trade Federation ship when they're supposed to be ambassadors, causing the GM to retaliate with a punishment they survive. The characters of the webcomic have campaigns that take place offscreen between film recreations, and many of them tend to fall apart (for better or worse). The first was a fantasy campaign held between The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, run by the main GM. The characters let their Munchkin be killed by the main villain, left him dead, and after they killed the villain resurrected him and joined his side. The end result is the plot of The Princess Bride. The second one took place between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, this time run by female Roleplayer Annie as the GM. Her planned campaign would've been the plot to the Twilight series, but the players, with their kill-on-sight mentality towards vampires and werewolves, turned it into the plot for Van Helsing. The third campaign was run by Jim between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. Nothing was derailed in terms of the plot, but he intended the campaign to be very serious and dramatic while the players took it to be hilarious. It's revealed he tried to do Zero Hour! (1957) and ended up with Airplane!. The fourth campaign with Ben as the GM, taking place between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. Ben had planned a campy, Lighter and Softer superhero spoof where the players were supposed to be a team of superheroes trying to catch a masked vigilante who was going around beating up criminals, and the plot would've been the old Adam West Batman (1966) TV series. But the players decided to lure the vigilante out in the open by becoming criminals themselves, and the end result was the Darker and Edgier The Dark Knight Trilogy. A couple of the "alternate" strips go Off the Rails: In Magicians & Munchkins, everybody decides to be a Min-Maxing Munchkin, including the GM, whose Final Boss is an all-powerful Wicked Witch with the drawback of "Vulnerability to Water". Which the players accidentally discover 3 Sessions earlier than the GM intended them to. In Trenchcoats & Turncoats, Ilsa and Victor are Dirty Communists who steal the plans and escape on the plane because Jim (as Rick) is dumb enough to believe their cover story that they're Americans despite the facts that Annie (as Ilsa) speaks with a thick Russian accent and Sally (as Victor) only speaks in stock Russian phrases. But what really gets the GM frothing at the mouth is that he'd intended the campaign to be an epic, exciting, globe-spanning adventure but the players hardly ever left the bar where they all met in. In a non-canon strip, Jim uses Summon Bigger Fish and doesn't take it back thus killing the queen and her retinue. An out-of-universe example is the killing of Greedo senior, thus making the "Greedo" from Episode IV "Han Solo" and "Han Solo" "Greedo". This is not unusual for the comic due to the Random Number God and the players doing the unexpected. Other examples usually have to do with killing characters the GM doesn't want them to (i.e. General Grievous), killing characters they weren't supposed to (Darth Maul/Zam Wesell), killing character's before they were supposed to (Jango Fett), not taking the obvious hints to go to someplace or do something (which inadvertently sends Boba Fett to want revenge and Naboo being defeated), etc. Several times the GM made very detailed maps of an area just to have the players go through the center of the Earth or book someplace weird. A Running Gag in Revelation of the Sith is that the DM is trying to move the action to Naboo, and the players are either oblivious or, in Ben's case, actively trolling him.
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Off the Rails / int_a57cf54d	featureConfidence	1.0
Darths & Droids (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_a57cf54d
Off the Rails / int_a7c9f8e9	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_a7c9f8e9	comment	Happens fairly often in Legend of the Five Rings, since the storyline is based on tournament results. Sometimes, when players go entirely against the grain, entire storylines can be derailed; an arc's Big Bad underwent a Heelâ€“Face Turn because a mass movement of Dragon Clan players flatly refused to use corrupted decks, despite the Dragon Clan cards of that era being designed to support a corruption-heavy playstyle. The example given above is a strange case of recursive Off The Rails. Players expect that their collective behavior (as a clan) at tournaments to be reflected in future story lines. When the story team went Off The Rails by making their clan champion the Big Bad and their clan corrupt despite not having any such behavior reflected in previous tournaments, the Dragon clan players went Off The Rails in response. This concept was memorialized in the movie The Gamers: Hands of Fate where a large part of the plot revolves around a game that is a send up of Legend of the Five Rings. A standard fantasy game ended up importing both Science Fiction and World War II elements due to weird tournament winner requests, and during the plot of the movie a group of players are trying to eliminate an entire victory condition despite the designer not wanting that to happen.
Off the Rails / int_a7c9f8e9	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_a7c9f8e9	featureConfidence	1.0
Legend of the Five Rings (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_a7c9f8e9
Off the Rails / int_a81325d3	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy VII features a humorous In-Universe instance of this with the Golden Saucer date sequence. If the player is with Tifa, they'll end up going to the amusement park's stage show and get cast in that night's play as the brave knight and Damsel in Distress. However, if the player keeps making stupid choices (such as claiming he's there to rescue the dragon rather than the princess), Tifa will get so pissed off that she smacks Cloud upside the head and defeats the dragon herself with a flying kick, causing the other actors to declare that the princess is the hero of the land. Final Fantasy VII Remake, handles this trope much, much more seriously. Starting with Sephiroth appearing far earlier than he did in the original game, the plot begins to diverge in ways both small and large. This causes mysterious specters called the "Arbiters of Fate" to appear and try to force the story back onto the "train tracks" as much as possible, but the game ends with the protagonists slaying the Arbiters, signifying that the story will not just be a beat-for-beat retelling of the original. This is best emphasized by the final cutscene showing Zack Fair's Last Stand from Crisis Core...except this time Zack lives. And to make matters worse, it's implied that Sephiroth engineered the whole thing because he knew he was destined to lose, so he tricked the heroes into destroying destiny to give him another chance to fulfill his plans. The sequel, Rebirth, reveals that there are at least three timelines of the FFVII-verse: the original one, one that is like the original but not quite the same (the main timeline of the remake trilogy), and one that is a complete deviation (the one where Zack lives). Sephiroth's plan is to merge these timelines together, but his plan is temporarily foiled by Aerith, who, like him, has realized the existence of the multiverse.
Off the Rails / int_a81325d3	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_a81325d3	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy (Franchise)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_a81325d3
Off the Rails / int_afc879df	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_afc879df	comment	The main plot of Until Dawn goes completely off the rails around the time of 3AM because the Big Bad, Josh, had no idea that there were genuine monsters killing his friends on the mountain where he was performing his pranks.
Off the Rails / int_afc879df	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_afc879df	featureConfidence	1.0
Until Dawn (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_afc879df
Off the Rails / int_b0544c25	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_b0544c25	comment	In Super Robot Wars 2, destroying Cecily's mobile suit near the end will prevent her from appearing again as an allied NPC later on.
Off the Rails / int_b0544c25	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_b0544c25	featureConfidence	1.0
Super Robot Wars 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_b0544c25
Off the Rails / int_b0544c26	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_b0544c26	comment	In Super Robot Wars 3, certain cutscenes can be skipped outright with the proper application of force on bosses when the game expects you to just destroy mooks.
Off the Rails / int_b0544c26	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_b0544c26	featureConfidence	1.0
Super Robot Wars 3 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_b0544c26
Off the Rails / int_b0544c27	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_b0544c27	comment	In F/Final, Angels can be killed prior to their intended death scenes.
Off the Rails / int_b0544c27	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_b0544c27	featureConfidence	1.0
Super Robot Wars 4 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_b0544c27
Off the Rails / int_b0544c49	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_b0544c49	comment	Super Robot Wars V features an In-Universe one: In the second to last stage Black Noir reveals themself as having orchestrated the events of the game in a manner very similar to a dungeon master, and is planning on destroying the world just because it would make for a different type of ending than usual. Naturally, the protagonists disagree. Of course, the mastermind's plans had been falling apart well before the heroes learned the truth, and in a very meta nod to the series's habit of doing this relative to the source materials, most of the things that were "supposed" to happen are things that did happen in the original animes, for example, Kappei's family were supposed to have all died, Banjo Haran was supposed to lose his purpose after defeating the meganoids and drop off the face of the Earth, and Akito Tenkawa was supposed to become obsessed with revenge to the exception of all else.
Off the Rails / int_b0544c49	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_b0544c49	featureConfidence	1.0
Super Robot Wars V (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_b0544c49
Off the Rails / int_b0605518	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_b0605518	comment	At WCW Souled Out 2000, Dean Malenko faced Billy Kidman in a â€œCatch Wrestlingâ€� match. The match was contested under a rigidly enforced old-school set of rules, i.e. no coming off the ropes, no strikes, no leaving the ring, etc., just shoot-style mat-based technical wrestling. Malenko, who was booked to win, straight up forgot the stipulation, slid out of the ring two minutes into the match, and was immediately disqualified.
Off the Rails / int_b0605518	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_b0605518	featureConfidence	1.0
Dean Malenko (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_b0605518
Off the Rails / int_b0666b59	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_b0666b59	comment	In Neverwinter Nights, it is theoretically possible to slaughter the entire population of the city of Neverwinter...except for Aribeth, who is totally indestructible and doesn't react to anything you do other than talk to her. Shop owners can still glitch to be invincible, and then follow you (EVERYWHERE, even through doors), attacking you till you die.
Off the Rails / int_b0666b59	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_b0666b59	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwinter Nights (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_b0666b59
Off the Rails / int_b166795b	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_b166795b	comment	In the third episode of Dog City, Elliot is pressured by his editor to include the editor's own character, Meat the Butcher to make the cartoon more violent to please the audience. Since Elliot didn't create Meat, he has no control over him like he does everything else in the setting. This makes him genuinely concerned for Ace since he can't guarantee a victory for him this time.
Off the Rails / int_b166795b	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_b166795b	featureConfidence	1.0
Dog City	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_b166795b
Off the Rails / int_b226ea10	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_b226ea10	comment	Match Game was designed around the celebrities appearing to go Off the Rails, but the School Riot was a rare actual example.
Off the Rails / int_b226ea10	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_b226ea10	featureConfidence	1.0
Match Game	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_b226ea10
Off the Rails / int_b2700e28	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_b2700e28	comment	In If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device Special 6, the characters play a game of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay with Magnus as the GM, which quickly goes off the rails when the players accidentally cause the death of their quest giver. After a messy detour, Magnus offers them a way back into the rails, only for Whammudes to throw his offer back in his face because they chose this derailed path to hell, and that makes it their own adventure and worth fighting for. By the end, the Great Maw has been boarded up, the Ogre Kingdoms have been left without a leader and Magnus has incinerated the game world out of petty rage.
Off the Rails / int_b2700e28	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_b2700e28	featureConfidence	1.0
If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_b2700e28
Off the Rails / int_b3710357	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_b3710357	comment	A near-literal case in TRON. During the light-cycle game, one of Sark's Mooks crashes into a wall, de-rezzing, but leaving a glitch in the wall's side. Flynn decides "what the hell" and runs straight for the glitch, escaping the Game Grid. Tron and Ram think he's completely glitched, but decide he might just have the right idea.
Off the Rails / int_b3710357	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_b3710357	featureConfidence	1.0
TRON	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_b3710357
Off the Rails / int_b46d4dee	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_b46d4dee	comment	The Ballad of Edgardo is the tale of a forum game that went so off-the-rails the mods shut down the entire thing. Edgardo had an attack called Raw Spirit, which dealt little damage but can't be blocked or resisted in any way, and Edgardo's Overflowing Spirit perk meant that he could hold as much Spirit as he has time to accumulate. In practice, this amounted to Edgardo having to wait days just to use an attack that did more than knock the wind out of an enemy. Then the narrator learns about the city of Haven, home of the Spirit Well. While inside the city, the effects of the Spirit Well cause characters to constantly regenerate all of their Spirit instantly. Since Edgardo had Overflowing Spirit, this gave him infinite Spirit. Cue Edgardo punching straight through the Big Bad's impenetrable force field and right into his smug face with an unblockable infinite-damage attack. The entire player base complained so loudly on the out-of-character board that by the next day, the entire forum was shut down "due to popular opinion".
Off the Rails / int_b46d4dee	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_b46d4dee	featureConfidence	1.0
The Ballad of Edgardo (Roleplay)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_b46d4dee
Off the Rails / int_b5a2b326	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_b5a2b326	comment	Morrowind readily allows the player to break the main quest by killing any of dozens of plot-significant NPCs. The game thankfully gives you a warning if you kill one of these NPCs, but from there you can still choose to ignore it and just troll around endlessly in the Wide-Open Sandbox. There is, however, still a "back-path" method to finishing the main quest which requires only one specific NPC to be alive Yagrum Bagarn but it is well hidden and much more difficult to complete. Finally, even if the back-path is rendered impossible, you can use the Alchemy Exploit to give yourself god-like levels of power and use the Tools of Kagrenac without Wraithguard to unbind the Heart of Lorkhan, which is normally instant death for the player.
Off the Rails / int_b5a2b326	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_b5a2b326	featureConfidence	1.0
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_b5a2b326
Off the Rails / int_b712435c	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_b712435c	comment	A constant problem of the Leverage crew is that their plans will often go off kilter by some unforseen complication. Nate lampshades that you can never totally predict how a mark is going to be behave which is why he always has a "down and dirty Plan G" that will work if all else fails. In "The Gold Job", Hardison crafts a "new-style con" that involves a cipher, a watch, a Cantonese Bible, a tunnel cave-in and a faked death. To his shock, the marks get tired of jumping through all these hoops and just quit. Nate is able to take them down with his "Plan G" and relates that Hardison had to learn a lesson in how the simple cons are always the best. In the sequel series episode "The Bucket Job", the gang decides to give a dying librarian a goodbye gift with a "spy adventure". But it goes awry when the guy steals a car to help an "injured" Elliot get away. Then, a batch of real spies show up — as it turns out, the "librarian" is a legendary retired spy himself.
Off the Rails / int_b712435c	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_b712435c	featureConfidence	1.0
Leverage	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_b712435c
Off the Rails / int_b7c37594	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_b7c37594	comment	In Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, when Kanna, Saikawa, and Shouta, Tohru, Elma, Fafnir, and Lucoa decide to put on a production of "The Little Match Girl", it somehow morphs into being about magical girls and a battle for the fate of the world. It's hugely popular at the retirement home they perform at.
Off the Rails / int_b7c37594	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_b7c37594	featureConfidence	1.0
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (Manga)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_b7c37594
Off the Rails / int_b80e5912	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_b80e5912	comment	In My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, the main character is a normal-ish schoolgirl who died and reincarnated as Catarina Claes, the daughter of a duke. When she gets her memories back, she quickly realizes she's not just any noble, she's actually a character from an otome game and the villain at that. If she does what the game character does she'll probably end up murdered or exiled, so she sets out to avoid her 'destruction ends' by making sure to train in magic and swordsmanship so she'll be harder to take out, learns to plow a field in case she fails and gets exiled and practices throwing toy snakes at her fiancee. However, while these are all ideas doomed to failure, she does still derail the game script almost immediately because unlike the game character, the new Catarina is super nice and accidentally seduces all the love interests that were supposed to fall for the game's heroine, who also falls in love with Catarina. She remains completely oblivious to all of this, and is still convinced that she's the villain of the piece and is desperately trying to avoid obsolete bad ends.
Off the Rails / int_b80e5912	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_b80e5912	featureConfidence	1.0
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_b80e5912
Off the Rails / int_b9b58c14	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_b9b58c14	comment	Several times in Ruby Quest. They were not supposed to smash their way into that medicine cabinet with a crowbar. Because they'd gotten in, they could tranquilize Stitches instead of killing him, and they then stuffed him in a healing locker with the photograph of everyone standing around happily for when he wakes up. Later, he attacks Ace at the last moment, saving Tom from having to make a Heroic Sacrifice. Weaver also hadn't even considered that they'd try to save Jay or have Tom use his MANLY PHYSIQUE to kill Filbert instead of letting him tempt them with information about their past. All of which actually gave them a better ending. Putting the hand in the pneumatic tube prevented Ruby and Tom watching the videos of Ruby assaulting Red and killing Tom until after they'd bonded. If it had happened earlier, Tom might well never had decided to trust Ruby again, or he might have killed her outright in the belief she might still be insane. Silly it may have been, but it definitely contributed to the happy ending.
Off the Rails / int_b9b58c14	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_b9b58c14	featureConfidence	1.0
RubyQuest	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_b9b58c14
Off the Rails / int_ba3d2748	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_ba3d2748	comment	The Incredibles: Syndrome's master plan is letting loose a robot to attack a major city which only he is able to control with a remote, thereby "saving the day", to show that superheroes, specifically Mr. Incredible/Bob Parr, are unneccessary. However, the robot manages to figure out that Syndrome's using that remote to control him, so he shoots it out of his hands and easily subdues him, and it's up to the Parr family and Frozone to stop the robot themselves, thereby restoring the public perception of superheroes after years of scrutiny and distrust.
Off the Rails / int_ba3d2748	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_ba3d2748	featureConfidence	1.0
The Incredibles	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_ba3d2748
Off the Rails / int_bb478d5e	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_bb478d5e	comment	Bait and Switch (STO) started with only a slightly modified version of Star Trek Online's continuity. However, midway through the Iconian War, the authors' disgust at the Cutscene Incompetence and Hollywood Tactics of the official questline drives them to jump ship on the original plot.
Off the Rails / int_bb478d5e	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_bb478d5e	featureConfidence	1.0
Bait and Switch (STO) (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_bb478d5e
Off the Rails / int_bc531e07	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_bc531e07	comment	Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs: Justified. Multiple people from modern-day Japan reincarnated as background characters in the setting of a Science Fantasy otome game series, and several used their out-of-game knowledge to their advantage: Leon hijacked the spawn point for the first game's microtransaction store to get a noble title in his own right and avoid the Arranged Marriage from Hell, Marie usurped the role of the first game's protagonist Olivia to pursue the Reverse Harem route in hopes of an easy life, and Lelia reincarnated as the previously nonexistent twin sister of the second game's protagonist and claimed the "easy" Love Interest for herself. The problem is, none of the reincarnated Japanese actually have complete knowledge of the game world (Leon is the only one of the three to actually beat one of the games himself and died before the other two came out, while Marie and Lelia just watched the cutscenes and read online walkthroughs), and real people react differently than video game characters following a script. This means that their interference and competing gambits gradually tie the storylines of the games in knots: they end up having to beat the final boss of the third game in the first game's timeframe, and by the time the third Story Arc comes around, none of them have any idea what's supposed to happen next anymore.
Off the Rails / int_bc531e07	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_bc531e07	featureConfidence	1.0
Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_bc531e07
Off the Rails / int_bcb32dc6	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Then there was his "Shadowrun: The Code" story, where what should have been a routine breaking and entering job at a low-security museum got out of hand thanks to a tripped alarm. The PCs quickly show their true colors by barricading themselves inside the museum, taking hostages, and then executing the hostages for seemingly no reason other than they found it funny; that, and "They saw our faces!". After killing all the hostages and placing enough explosives to take out a city block, the players escaped through the sewers...and ran smack into the Cyber Psycho Squad, Spoony's righteous wrath in human form.
Off the Rails / int_bcb32dc6	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_bcb32dc6	featureConfidence	1.0
Shadowrun (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_bcb32dc6
Off the Rails / int_bcdad500	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_bcdad500	comment	That Guy Destroys Psionics is ranked as being an even greater tale of plot derailment than Old Man Hendersonnote Even if one uses Henderson's own scale, at that. One Henderson ("Plot's a goner, time for a new one") was the original tale, this is around, or possibly over two ("Plot's a goner, and we need a new universe"), which the person who added >2 Hendersons to the scale genuinely didn't know was possible.. In a psionics-heavy Pathfinder game (plot was that magic was fading away and psionics were becoming more common), a lone wizard manages to completely and utterly wreck the game by not only destroying the Plane of Force (by opening a permanent gate to where the planes of Void and Negative Energy meet, causing considerable planar distress), thereby rendering all psionics (including the campaign's Big Bad) completely useless, but also managing to take away the psychic power away from the Big Bad again after the DM already gave him his powers back (by luring him into a plane of his own making, where psionic powers were useless), and finally killing the Big Bad after the DM gave him his powers back a second time with his personal crafting constructs. To recap: the narrator PC manages to boss kill the supposed Big Bad (using the DM's own house rules) three times in a row. All of this happened in the very first session of the campaign. The derailment was so bad, that the DM didn't even bother to give him a Rock Falls, Everyone Dies ending and just said "you're out."
Off the Rails / int_bcdad500	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_bcdad500	featureConfidence	1.0
That Guy Destroys Psionics (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_bcdad500
Off the Rails / int_bd310eaa	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive: One NP storyline has Ellen as a first-time DM. On their way out of the questgiver's mansion, all of her players make a Critical Failure on a flight of stairs and end up tripping and falling over each other, so Ellen conjures up a random cleric NPC to come in and heal them to re-rail the story. Instead of taking this for the "pity res" that it is, however, the players (save for George, who recognized what happened but decided to play dumb) become suspicious about this "random" cleric character and wrongfully assume that he's a Chekhov's Gunman involved in the kidnapping they have to solve. Rather than try and persuade them that the cleric really was an unimportant bit character who just happened to be there (which would only make them fixate on him even more), Ellen realizes that her players' theories about the cleric's involvement would both better fit the narrative and make for a much more interesting story than that of the vanilla adventure module she'd been following, and quietly rewrites the plot to make the cleric the actual villain.
Off the Rails / int_bd310eaa	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_bd310eaa	featureConfidence	1.0
El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_bd310eaa
Off the Rails / int_be6a09b5	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_be6a09b5	comment	The infamous debut of The Shockmaster in WCW went off the rails from his planned character. A prop malfunction combined with a difficult to see out of mask (a Stormtrooper helmet covered in glitter and sequins) led the wrestler to trip over the set during his debut on live TV. The character was hastily rewritten from being a complete bad ass to being a somewhat clumsy comedy character.
Off the Rails / int_be6a09b5	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_be6a09b5	featureConfidence	1.0
Fred Ottman (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_be6a09b5
Off the Rails / int_c3ec8bd7	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_c3ec8bd7	comment	The writer of You Got HaruhiRolled! went all out for the 81st chapter, written in commemoration of the story's one-year anniversary. In it, the craziness and the situations are absurd even by Crack Fic standards. It's so nuts, the characters themselves are aware of it, especially after the writer self-inserts himself into the story and causes havoc. It's no wonder why the chapter is literally titled "Off the Rails".
Off the Rails / int_c3ec8bd7	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_c3ec8bd7	featureConfidence	1.0
You Got HaruhiRolled! / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_c3ec8bd7
Off the Rails / int_c4da1e17	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_c4da1e17	comment	The Mario Opera is built around everyone except Mario knowing his role as a video game character and how things are "supposed" to go, so when Mario dies at the end of Act 1 nobody knows what to do next. Peach eventually decides to marry Bowser to unite the kingdoms, and Ludwig summons Luigi and brainwashes him to do what Mario couldn't so he can take over instead.
Off the Rails / int_c4da1e17	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_c4da1e17	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mario Opera (Theatre)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_c4da1e17
Off the Rails / int_c5299b35	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_c5299b35	comment	In I'm In Love With the Villainess, protagonist Rei Taylor is transported into the world of her favourite otome game, and is no longer constrained by the original choices. Combined with her prior knowledge and incredible intelligence, she pointedly ignores the three original Prince love interests, and instead chases after The Rival character, Claire, actively preventing or preparing against numerous tragedies and major events along the way.
Off the Rails / int_c5299b35	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_c5299b35	featureConfidence	1.0
I'm In Love With the Villainess	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_c5299b35
Off the Rails / int_c675b3d7	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_c675b3d7	comment	A recurring trope in the Star Trek Expanded Universe is for captains to come up with creative solutions to the Kobayashi Maru simulator from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The simulation is intended to railroad the officer taking it into death to see how they react under pressure, but sometimes unusual things happen that the programmers didn't think of. Much of Star Trek The Kobayashi Maru revolves around this, detailing the ways certain crew members subverted the test. Kirk "won" the test by cheating: he secretly reprogrammed it to make the opposing Klingon commander recognize him as a famous captain, giving him enough leverage to negotiate a peaceful solution. Chekov tried to save his crew by ordering an evacuation of the ship, before charging and destroying the Klingon ships in a kamikaze attack. Unfortunately, the test overseer pointed out that the massive explosion would have not only obliterated any escape pods, it would have made the area untraversable for the next century. Sulu simply abandoned the Kobayashi Maru to its fate, reasoning that it was likely a Klingon trap. Montgomery Scott attempted a technobabble trick that worked fine on paper and therefore apparently in the simulator, but was impossible in reality. The computer essentially declared Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies, and Starfleet Academy rerouted Scotty from command track to engineering, which was what he wanted all along. (And a funny thing about the Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies scenario is how long it would have taken: Scotty would need to sleep eventually....) In Star Trek: New Frontier, Mackenzie Calhoun chooses to Shoot the Hostage, reasoning that the crew of the civilian ship was either A) already dead, B) would prefer death to Klingon captivity, or C) were traitors working with the Klingons to trap him. In the novel Sarek, Kirk's nephew Peter beat an updated version of the simulation that used the Romulans by challenging the opposing captain to a ritual duel, forcing the other ships to stand by while the duel took place and allowing his crew to rescue the civilians on the Kobayashi Maru. Peter notes that in this case, it is a no-win scenario, but only for him. And only reason he knew to request the duel was because he was involved with some Romulans earlier in the book; the simulation noticeably lagged while trying to deal with going off-script. One of the officers running things admits to needing to watch out for 'unexpected life experiences' like that in the future. The short story "Til Death" says that Will Riker had a space suit brought to him so that he could personally fight the enemy ships.
Off the Rails / int_c675b3d7	featureApplicability	-0.3
Off the Rails / int_c675b3d7	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek Expanded Universe (Franchise)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_c675b3d7
Off the Rails / int_c72021c5	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_c72021c5	comment	There's a point in Deus Ex where you are ordered to kill an unarmed NSF higher-up (Juan Lebedev) who knows a lot about what's going on — and is willing to tell the player. Halfway through the explanation Anna Navarre will show up and order you to finish the job. You can either refuse (Anna will kill him herself and get annoyed with you for refusing orders) or do the job yourself — or waste Navarre (causing Alex Jacobson to freak out) and Lebedev will complete the explanation of what's going on. It's that the game in no way suggests that this third way is an option and it's entirely up to the player to decide to betray the side he's working for and murder his partner that really sets Deus Ex apart from other 'non-linear' RPGs. With wall mines and Exploding Barrels you can also arrange for Anna to get herself killed as she forces her way into the room before this dilemma even comes up. It requires a little knowledge of what is to come, but the game will distinctly recognize what happened and carry on regardless. However, most plot-critical NPCs are invincible until they've outlived their usefulness to the plot. For example, Walton Simons, Joseph Manderly, Anna and Gunther are all invincible until UNATCO betrays you. However, you can kill Maggie Chow before you even speak to her. The sequel does this much more. The player can kill anybody they have access to, assuming they have at a functional weapon on them, no matter how important this person is, and the plot adapts. In fact, at one point you can trap two characters who the global society depends on in a room, and irradiate them to death. There's actually a specific ending where the requirement is "Kill every single important NPC in the game". Turns out the Omar were planning on you doing that.
Off the Rails / int_c72021c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_c72021c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Deus Ex (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_c72021c5
Off the Rails / int_c7599675	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_c7599675	comment	In Tootsie, the Southwest General part of Emily Kimberly was written to be a tough female role model, but actor Michael Dorsey is told that her given lines make her out to be a wimp and she should be improvising instead, so that's exactly what he makes his alter ego, Dorothy Michaels, do with the character. Despite the director's grievances with these spontaneous changes, they prove very popular with the show's audience, leading to Emily being made a regular character.
Off the Rails / int_c7599675	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_c7599675	featureConfidence	1.0
Tootsie	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_c7599675
Off the Rails / int_ca0e7947	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_ca0e7947	comment	Angry Marine's Ruby Quest is much shorter than the original Ruby Quest, because an Angry Marine is playing it and shouts down any attempt by the GM to tell him what he can and can't do to the point where it might as well be the player Railroading the GM.
Off the Rails / int_ca0e7947	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_ca0e7947	featureConfidence	1.0
Angry Marines Ruby Quest / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_ca0e7947
Off the Rails / int_ca5d97f1	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Monty Python's Flying Circus's "Parrot Sketch" is one of the show's most famous. In live performances where the troupe would recreate the sketch, occasionally Michael Palin, in his role as the shop owner, would mix things up a little bit (and force John Cleese to keep up). Among the things Palin did: In a performance at Drury Lane, when Cleese asks Palin if the replacement slug talks, Palin answers with a prompt "Yes." Cleese pauses briefly and responds, "Right, I'll have that one then." In another performance, Palin is asked if the slug talks and says, "Well, he mutters a little." Cleese couldn't hold it together on that one; he busted out laughing so hard that when he came to, he had to ask the audience to remind him how far they'd gotten in the sketch. In another performance, at the beginning of the sketch, Cleese first complains that the parrot is dead — and Palin examines it, announces "So it is!" and offers a full refund. Cleese stands there briefly in shock, then turns to the audience and says, "Well, you can't say Thatcher hasn't changed some things."
Off the Rails / int_ca5d97f1	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_ca5d97f1	featureConfidence	1.0
Monty Python's Flying Circus	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_ca5d97f1
Off the Rails / int_cb994711	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_cb994711	comment	A Flintstones Christmas Carol: While most of the play the gang is performing in stays pretty close to the original story, there's a minor example near the end, where Scrooge (played by Fred) runs across none other than his lost love Belle (played by Wilma) whose joined the collection agency Scrooge rebuffed the previous day and uses this a chance to try and make things up to her. This isn't actually part of the story, as throughout the film several of the actors have gotten sick forcing Wilma to step in, so she's supposed to be playing two different characters, but Fred intentionally runs with this even though it goes against the plot as an in-character way of trying to apologize to Wilma for being so selfish and thick-headed earlier in the day.
Off the Rails / int_cb994711	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_cb994711	featureConfidence	1.0
A Flintstones Christmas Carol	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_cb994711
Off the Rails / int_cc4bdd4	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_cc4bdd4	comment	JFK: Reloaded is all about you trying to recreate the JFK assassination. But what happens if you decide otherwise?
Off the Rails / int_cc4bdd4	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_cc4bdd4	featureConfidence	1.0
JFK: Reloaded (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_cc4bdd4
Off the Rails / int_ccae327f	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_ccae327f	comment	Spoony has several stories about this happening in his Counter Monkey videos. In Spoony's story about Vegan Steve and the Deck of Many Things is a living testament to this: Spoony had based his campaign around cursing the player characters to turn into mindless animals unless they find a Genie within a week and wish to be cured. However, when they finally summon the spirit and it offers them a wish, Vegan Steve shouts: "I wish for a Deck of Many Things!" After all the other players try to murder his character in retribution, he runs off, pulling cards off the deck at random. Miraculously getting nothing but positive cards allowing him to escape, only to instantly die when he pulls his last card. In a Vampire: The Requiem LARP, Spoony wanted to play a Nice Guy character, but was forced into joining the local Church Militant sect by the other players and the Game Master refused to do anything about it. His response was to use his character's extensive knowledge of chemistry to produce enough plastic explosive to level a city block, then snuck it into the local Prince's sanctum. Making it even better, he did it all within the rules, and the Game Master was too lazy or clueless to catch on until it was too late. He was kicked out of the game, but he felt it was worth it. In his "All Jedi or No Jedi" video, Spoony also tells the story of a Star Wars game he ran, where he decided to have Darth Vader cameo... which, unfortunately for him, inspired the players to completely abandon their previous mission and focus entirely on trying to kill the Dark Lord of the Sith. He says this taught him the hard lesson that you do not include established characters in an RPG, lest such an event happen. One of the most awesome cases of this happened in his Thieves' World campaign. The campaign first started to go off the rails when the players were sent on a mission to investigate a cultist's lair, but instead of reporting their findings back to the Quest Giver, they decided to launch a raid on the lair by themselves. Spoony had designed the lair to be too difficult for the party to beat without assistance but they managed to do it anyway though a ton of careful planning and strategizing. But the campaign became irreversibly derailed when a character impulsively flung an acid flask at a figure entering through a door after they had defeated all the enemies, interrupting Spoony before he could say who the figure was - and ended up hitting the party's Quest Giver, a semi-immortal champion of the setting's god of war, burning off half his face. Spoony had intended for him to show up at that moment to get the campaign back on the rails and confiscate most of the loot because Spoony didn't intend for the players to claim all of the cult's treasure for themselves. Proving that Tropes Are Not Bad, Spoony managed to run with this and changed the campaign so that the Quest Giver became the Big Bad, and the players earned several awesome moments by using their brains, wits, and skills to best the man at practically every turn, becoming crime lords and eventually leaders of a rebellion that manages to kill the guy (at least temporarily, but by the time he came back they'd be long dead of old age). Then there was his "Shadowrun: The Code" story, where what should have been a routine breaking and entering job at a low-security museum got out of hand thanks to a tripped alarm. The PCs quickly show their true colors by barricading themselves inside the museum, taking hostages, and then executing the hostages for seemingly no reason other than they found it funny; that, and "They saw our faces!". After killing all the hostages and placing enough explosives to take out a city block, the players escaped through the sewers...and ran smack into the Cyber Psycho Squad, Spoony's righteous wrath in human form. In his "Sorbo the Conquerer" video he tells a story about a group of players who are attacked by cultists in a Town with a Dark Secret. The players fail to kill their attackers quickly enough and one escapes and raises the alarm, causing the entire town to come after the players with Torches and Pitchforks. In desperation, the players pull out their Talking Weapon, Willy the Wand of Wonder, and the dice roll lands on "An angry rhinoceros appears." Said rhinoceros charges the mob and tramples them and then demolishes the town, wrecking the entire adventure. Sometimes it's not player choice, but cruel fate that derails games: In "Botchamania", Spoony relates the story of a Spycraft campaign he ran where the players were supposed to rappel from a helicopter onto a high-speed train, but due to a streak of spectacularly bad dice rolls, the more athletic party members died either from failing to make the jump or from their allies' botched attempts to bandage them up, leaving them with precisely nobody capable of boarding the train. And bear in mind that this was with Spoony fudging things to give the players as many chances as possible to try and salvage the plot.
Off the Rails / int_ccae327f	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_ccae327f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_ccae327f
Off the Rails / int_cd899ed6	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_cd899ed6	comment	In the Grand Finale "All Good Things...", Picard is flung into the past, landing when he first took command of the Enterprise. He senses that something's wrong when Starfleet orders him not to head to Farpoint Station like he had in the pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint".
Off the Rails / int_cd899ed6	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_cd899ed6	featureConfidence	1.0
Grand Finale	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_cd899ed6
Off the Rails / int_cdd994cc	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_cdd994cc	comment	Phantasy Star III can be game-breakingly derailed at the beginning. You are put in a cell after proposing to the Princess by the King, only to be rescued soon later. However, if instead of approaching the door on your cell, you use an escapipe (which you can only buy beforehand if you sell your starting gear), the Event Flag that removes the NPC Roadblock from the town's entrance never clears, and the game cannot continue. Lampshaded by the King himself with this tasteful message: "You used your escapipe! Normally a smart move, but now I'm afraid the game can't be continued. Please press the Reset Button and try again."
Off the Rails / int_cdd994cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_cdd994cc	featureConfidence	1.0
Phantasy Star III (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_cdd994cc
Off the Rails / int_d154285c	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_d154285c	comment	The infamous TNA match between Sting and Jeff Hardy is a particularly notorious example, as a clearly intoxicated Jeff was obviously in no condition to perform, and Sting had to end the match within a minute and a half.
Off the Rails / int_d154285c	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_d154285c	featureConfidence	1.0
Impact Wrestling (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_d154285c
Off the Rails / int_d212cf4	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_d212cf4	comment	NerdÂ³ managed to do this to himself in a solo play session. What was supposed to be a survival game of ARK: Survival Evolved got irreparably derailed when he accidentally put the wrong values in when loading the game to record a new episode, snapping his carefully-tweaked difficulty balance completely. He was forced to improv an end to the series by trying to get a T-rex to the highest mountain peak he could find.
Off the Rails / int_d212cf4	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_d212cf4	featureConfidence	1.0
NerdÂ³ (Lets Play)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_d212cf4
Off the Rails / int_d30b220e	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_d30b220e	comment	Knights of Buena Vista starts off covering Frozen (2013), and Adriana thinks this happened when Elsa's powers are revealed, but Walter, the Game Master, says it only went off a little bit. It truly went off the rails when a Critical Failure caused an Endless Winter in the kingdom.
Off the Rails / int_d30b220e	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_d30b220e	featureConfidence	1.0
Knights of Buena Vista (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_d30b220e
Off the Rails / int_d31cdea	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_d31cdea	comment	The ending of The Hunger Games. Katniss caused an Off The Rails scenario by convincing Peeta into a Suicide Pact rather than have them fight to the death, thereby denying the Capitol their Victor and creating two martyrs instead.
Off the Rails / int_d31cdea	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_d31cdea	featureConfidence	1.0
The Hunger Games	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_d31cdea
Off the Rails / int_d3634dbb	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_d3634dbb	comment	In Trenchcoats & Turncoats, Ilsa and Victor are Dirty Communists who steal the plans and escape on the plane because Jim (as Rick) is dumb enough to believe their cover story that they're Americans despite the facts that Annie (as Ilsa) speaks with a thick Russian accent and Sally (as Victor) only speaks in stock Russian phrases. But what really gets the GM frothing at the mouth is that he'd intended the campaign to be an epic, exciting, globe-spanning adventure but the players hardly ever left the bar where they all met in.
Off the Rails / int_d3634dbb	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_d3634dbb	featureConfidence	1.0
Casablanca	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_d3634dbb
Off the Rails / int_d448d760	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_d448d760	comment	The Nameless Mod includes a few ways for the player to go off the rails, including having one of the endings dependent on going off the rails several times. Specifically, Trestkon as the PC must complete 3 out of 5 possible actions that are considered "impossible" in-game (such as getting access to Despot's apartment when your character doesn't have the in-game knowledge of how to do so). Completing these actions leads the Narcissus Entity (the in-game AI director of, well...everything) to Break the Fourth Wall, leading to an opportunity for the player to take Narcissus' place a small time later. Additionally, should Trestkon kill Scara B. King in person rather than banning him at the end of the game, Narcissus will kill you for breaking the game.
Off the Rails / int_d448d760	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_d448d760	featureConfidence	1.0
The Nameless Mod (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_d448d760
Off the Rails / int_d48cd93	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_d48cd93	comment	In Ryan North's To Be or Not To Be: That Is the Adventure, the Interactive Narrator clearly thinks his version of Hamlet is better than the original. You're given numerous opportunities to try and derail his plot, but if you want to succeed at it you have to pick carefully; some choices lead to him throwing tantrums and trying to retcon away your actions. Do it right though, and you can do stuff like having Hamlet shoot himself out of a cannon or travel back in time to bang his past self.
Off the Rails / int_d48cd93	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_d48cd93	featureConfidence	1.0
To Be or Not To Be: That Is the Adventure	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_d48cd93
Off the Rails / int_d67b8fb8	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_d67b8fb8	comment	Little Busters! is set mainly in a world of Kyousuke's creation. While it normally functions well enough, there are two examples of Riki inadvertently setting it off the rails: firstly, he ends up falling for Kurugaya and in doing so causes the world to break down because this was completely unexpected and so unaccounted for in the world's structure. Secondly, and much more disastrously, there was Kyousuke's plan to send Rin off to another school in order to get her used to the real world and toughen her up. It ends up being harder on her than he expected, and more importantly, Riki does not go along with it. In the end, he runs away with her, and ultimately ends up losing her completely.
Off the Rails / int_d67b8fb8	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_d67b8fb8	featureConfidence	1.0
Little Busters! (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_d67b8fb8
Off the Rails / int_d6b6971d	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_d6b6971d	comment	Survivor: Redemption Island was hyped up as a grudge match between two well-known returning players, Russell and "Boston" Rob. But Russell's tribe knew he would backstab them for the lulz the first chance he got, so they threw a challenge in order to vote him out almost immediately. Unfortunately, this meant that Rob went unopposed for the rest of the season, as the other tribe gave him their Undying Loyalty.
Off the Rails / int_d6b6971d	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_d6b6971d	featureConfidence	1.0
Survivor	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_d6b6971d
Off the Rails / int_d6d0eb5e	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_d6d0eb5e	comment	Eve Torres was scripted to win a #1 contenders battle royal in 2012. Except while doing a spot with Kaitlyn, she accidentally fell off the apron. The reigning Divas' Champion Layla was visibly shocked watching at ringside. This worked out for Kaitlyn in the long run - where the resulting storyline had Eve arranging to have her attacked before her title match, and Kaitlyn and Layla trying to prove it. Kaitlyn ended up becoming the top face of the division for a while.
Off the Rails / int_d6d0eb5e	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_d6d0eb5e	featureConfidence	1.0
Eve Torres (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_d6d0eb5e
Off the Rails / int_d73c86a7	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_d73c86a7	comment	In the sequel series episode "The Bucket Job", the gang decides to give a dying librarian a goodbye gift with a "spy adventure". But it goes awry when the guy steals a car to help an "injured" Elliot get away. Then, a batch of real spies show up — as it turns out, the "librarian" is a legendary retired spy himself.
Off the Rails / int_d73c86a7	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_d73c86a7	featureConfidence	1.0
Leverage: Redemption	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_d73c86a7
Off the Rails / int_d861bfb	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_d861bfb	comment	The Infinite Loops: Most loopers take great pleasure in messing up the plotlines of their various series in amusing ways. Even more when it interferes with a non-looping character's Xanatos Gambit (Shinji in particular loves messing with Gendo's scenario). Going Off The Rails is also a typical response by Loopers who Loop into an unpleasant situation outside of their baseline (such as when Twilight Sparkle Looped into a Nineteen Eighty-Four setting) and immediately decide to do something about it. It's also noted that some characters (mostly certain Loopers, non-Loopers and Loop-Aware Entities obsessed with preserving the timeline) tend to react poorly when Loopers do this. Such beings are usually suffering from Setsuna Syndrome; this is usually fixable by having the truth about the Loops explained to them, sometimes multiple times, after which they eventually learn to accept the situation as it is and go with it.
Off the Rails / int_d861bfb	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_d861bfb	featureConfidence	1.0
The Infinite Loops / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_d861bfb
Off the Rails / int_d8e0164e	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_d8e0164e	comment	The Dark Artifices: The reason why Thule is a Villain World is because Clary Fairchild was killed during the Battle of the Burren in 2007, thus allowing Jonathan Morgenstern to win the Dark War. And the reason why Clary was killed is because in this world, someone empowered Lilith, giving her the means to slay Clary rather than disappear when the Shadowhunters ambushed the Burren as what happened in the main world.
Off the Rails / int_d8e0164e	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_d8e0164e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dark Artifices	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_d8e0164e
Off the Rails / int_d9c602eb	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_d9c602eb	comment	In the South Park episode "The Red Badge of Gayness," Cartman tries to win a bet by running the local Civil War re-enactment Off the Rails, dressing up as Robert E. Lee and convincing the Confederate re-enactors to actually fight back, which results in their winning a battle they historically lost. He then proceeds to try and win the entire war, up to and including forcing then-President Bill Clinton to recognize the Confederacy as a soverign nation; he almost succeeded, but Stan and Kyle forced things back onto the rails by dressing up as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis and acting out the Confederacy's surrender.
Off the Rails / int_d9c602eb	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_d9c602eb	featureConfidence	1.0
South Park	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_d9c602eb
Off the Rails / int_da92c130	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_da92c130	comment	The very first thing that happens in Erfworld. One faction finds one more jewel than they were planned to, which lets them buy an extra unit, which turns a critical battle, which sets the actual plot in motion.
Off the Rails / int_da92c130	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_da92c130	featureConfidence	1.0
Erfworld (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_da92c130
Off the Rails / int_dc25de3f	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_dc25de3f	comment	Portal and Portal 2 are both linear games. The plot, however, involves you going completely off the rails with respect to whatever plans the AI Mission Control has. In the first game, you escape from GLaDOS' Death Trap and wind up literally taking her apart in order to avoid her vengeful wrath. In the sequel, it happens no less than three times: first, when Wheatley derails GLaDOS' plans to murder you; second, when Wheatley manages to derail his own plans before they even get started by smashing you into the elevator shaft and dropping you into Old Aperture; third, when you escape Wheatley's Death Trap in "The Part Where..." Given that escaping GLaDOS's lab in the original Portal requires the player to make extensive use of the Portal Gun (which GLaDOS's test chambers have been training the player character to use for the entire game), there is a popular fan theory that The Game Never Stopped, which would make it a subversion of this trope.
Off the Rails / int_dc25de3f	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_dc25de3f	featureConfidence	1.0
Portal / Videogame	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_dc25de3f
Off the Rails / int_dd16d007	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_dd16d007	comment	Devil Venerable Also Wants To Know: The book Abusive Romance was originally written to be a heterosexual love story with its female protagonist Baili Qingmiao being unwaveringly in love with He Wenzhao in spite of his often-crappy treatment of her and several other male characters, including Wenren E, falling in love with her too. However, when Wenren E gets a copy of this book, he has no interest in becoming one of Baili Qingmiao's Hopeless Suitors and takes steps to change the plot that end up snowballing into him falling in love with his male subordinate instead and Baili Qingmiao deciding that she's better off single than staying in her Destructive Romance with He Wenzhao, among many, many other changes. The story becomes so different from the original one, in fact, that copies of another book series God of Annihilation, which tells the plot from He Wenzhao's perspective instead of Baili Qingmiao's, are dropped into the hands of the characters who had the closest relationships with He Wenzhao with the stated aim of encouraging these characters to undo the drastic changes being made to the plot that are causing He Wenzhao to not obtain the power or harem he got in the original story. However, this just results in the plot deviating even further as the characters who get the books also decide to try to alter the plot to benefit themselves more instead of trying to get it back on the rails.
Off the Rails / int_dd16d007	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_dd16d007	featureConfidence	1.0
Devil Venerable Also Wants To Know	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_dd16d007
Off the Rails / int_df7a30e1	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_df7a30e1	comment	In Addams Family Values, Wednesday does this in the middle of a Thanksgiving play while playing Pocahontas. After citing the future transgressions made against the Native Americans, she burns the "pilgrim" cast at the stake.
Off the Rails / int_df7a30e1	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_df7a30e1	featureConfidence	1.0
The Addams Family	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_df7a30e1
Off the Rails / int_e1a6ac86	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_e1a6ac86	comment	The animated adaptation of the Scott Pilgrim series, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, starts out close to the plot that was set out by the original comic book series and the live-action film with Scott meeting Ramona and falling in love with her. However, the First-Episode Twist comes along to derail the plot and diverge it from the previous incarnations by having Scott lose to the first Evil Ex Matthew Patel and die at the end of the episode. The rest of the series shifts the story focus to other members of the main cast, particularly Ramona.
Off the Rails / int_e1a6ac86	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_e1a6ac86	featureConfidence	1.0
Scott Pilgrim (Franchise)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_e1a6ac86
Off the Rails / int_e1eeee72	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_e1eeee72	comment	In Tackylocks and the Three Bears, Tacky and the others do a play for a group of penguin schoolchildren. Tacky eats all the porridge (rather than only Baby Bear's) and falls asleep in the beds after rumpling them and dislodging the set dressing. When his friends finally wake him up, he initiates a pillow fight. However, the penguin children actually find this far more entertaining than if the show had gone as planned.
Off the Rails / int_e1eeee72	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_e1eeee72	featureConfidence	1.0
Tacky the Penguin	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_e1eeee72
Off the Rails / int_e3ce3877	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_e3ce3877	comment	In 1982, Ric Flair wrestled Dominican wrestler Jack Veneno for the NWA Heavyweight Championship in Veneno's home country. Flair was booked to retain, but, when he realised how hardcore and passionate the Dominican fans were, he was genuinely afraid they would riot if he beat the hometown hero. He called a new ending on the fly where Veneno had him in a sleeper hold just as the time ran out. Flair then ran to the airport and as soon as he was safely back in the States, the NWA "stripped" Veneno of the title and pretended the match never happened.
Off the Rails / int_e3ce3877	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_e3ce3877	featureConfidence	1.0
Ric Flair (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_e3ce3877
Off the Rails / int_e43ab410	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_e43ab410	comment	The whole point of the Film Reroll involves playing through movies as if they were RPG's. They then go off the rails and make a whole new movie.
Off the Rails / int_e43ab410	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_e43ab410	featureConfidence	1.0
Film Reroll (Podcast)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_e43ab410
Off the Rails / int_e6a7dda9	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_e6a7dda9	comment	Parodied in Scooby-Doo Abridged, where the writers are terminated for making Fred say a pun. The gang then has to deal with the robots through improvising, before a new writer comes in to Hand Wave continuity issues.
Off the Rails / int_e6a7dda9	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_e6a7dda9	featureConfidence	1.0
Scooby-Doo Abridged (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_e6a7dda9
Off the Rails / int_e8605f7	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_e8605f7	comment	This happens regularly in Dingo Doodles' Fool's Gold campaign, with Sips usually being responsible. This is to be expected when you play an angsty Chaotic Neutral/Chaotic Good Uplifted monkey wild magic sorcerer with serious anger issues. In the very first video, Sips manages to accidentally unleash a Tarrasque due to a spell going wild. Felix, luckily, is a very flexible DM and manages to either roll with whatever happens or find believable ways to get the story back on track. Dingo also tells a story in this video about her favourite Nat 1 and Nat 20 moments about how, partially due to a combination of house rules, her ridiculously lucky player roles and her boyfriend and Game Master Felix's ridiculously unlucky rolls coming together all at once her mini-Minotaur character one shotted the Big Bad of the campaign prior to Fool's Gold after being thrown at him whilst he was monologuing ending the main plot earlier. This game carried on a while after with Felix having to wing it, but apparently they ended up in a Total Party Kill sometime later.
Off the Rails / int_e8605f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_e8605f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Dingo Doodles (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_e8605f7
Off the Rails / int_e8c62c6d	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_e8c62c6d	comment	The players manage to very quickly break their first quest during one of the early episodes of Rollplay D&D. Having retrieved a magical glass orb and an Infinity -1 Sword they attempt to have them identified before returning them to the quest giver. Since formal identification turned out to be too expensive one player decided to learn more about the orb by dropping it on the ground to see if it smashes. It did. Having failed the quest the players decided that they might as well ignore the quest giver and wander off with the powerful weapon. The GM sends an assassin after the party who seemed to be powerful enough to have killed them all in a fair fight, but they somehow manage to trip her and then pin her underneath an unconscious party member whilst impaling her through the arm. The following week the GM gave up on heavily planned quests and kept preparations brief since it was clear that his players were too unpredictable to railroad.
Off the Rails / int_e8c62c6d	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_e8c62c6d	featureConfidence	1.0
Rollplay (Podcast)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_e8c62c6d
Off the Rails / int_e944602	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_e944602	comment	The world of Goblin Slayer is run by a pair of divine beings named Truth and Illusion who act similarly to the Game Master of an RPG. Goblin Slayer's being Crazy-Prepared makes him immune to the effects of the god's dice and his crusade against goblins has completely changed the world's tone into something far Lighter and Softer than what it was intended to be. It turns out that The Chosen One was destined to have a Dark and Troubled Past, but Goblin Slayer killed the goblins that would've caused it, and the drastic reduction in the number of goblins made saving the world relatively easily. Truth and Illusion are both annoyed and fascinated respectively with Goblin Slayer for messing up their intended story.
Off the Rails / int_e944602	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_e944602	featureConfidence	1.0
Goblin Slayer	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_e944602
Off the Rails / int_eb37bd61	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_eb37bd61	comment	Code Prime: Considering that the Autobots reveal their presence on global television in Chapter 5, irrevocably abandoning their normal "Robots in Disguise" strategy, this is definitely in play. Then the global status quo, and the entire Code Geass side of the plot, is thrown completely out of whack at the end of R1 - Rebellion when the Decepticons betray and overthrow the Britannian Empire, taking their place as the main villains.
Off the Rails / int_eb37bd61	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_eb37bd61	featureConfidence	1.0
Code Prime (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_eb37bd61
Off the Rails / int_ec28245c	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_ec28245c	comment	There are a few Dragon Ball Z games where it is possible to win battles in the story mode using a character who isn't supposed to win either because you are supposed to lose or switch to a different character or change to a different form if you are very skilled at the game. Sometimes but not always there is some humorous Easter Egg dialog that happens when you win with an unexpected character. For example, in Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 in the story mode level based on the first Broly film, it is possible to beat Broly with Master Roshi, leading to a shocked reaction from Goku, although in some other levels there is no extra dialog programed for winning with an unexpected character so the level just ends without any dialog.
Off the Rails / int_ec28245c	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_ec28245c	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Ball Z	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_ec28245c
Off the Rails / int_ecd3889f	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_ecd3889f	comment	John Cena's rap improvisation during a Halloween skit (while he was dressed as Vanilla Ice) led them re-writing his character from generic tough young dude to a white rapper, which evolved to his current megastar persona. Not bad for a guy who was probably a few weeks from being cut by the WWE.
Off the Rails / int_ecd3889f	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_ecd3889f	featureConfidence	1.0
John Cena (Wrestling)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_ecd3889f
Off the Rails / int_eedfc516	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_eedfc516	comment	In Mazes and Monsters, Jay Jay ruins his group's current campaign by having his character jump into a spike pit. He does this with the express intent of starting a new game, with himself as the Game Master, to make use of his idea to LARP in the local steam tunnels. Spoony highlights this out in his review of M&M, pointing out the GM's Thousand-Yard Stare as the mark of a Dungeon Master who's fully aware that his entire game has just gone Off the Rails (he even uses this exact term).
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Off the Rails / int_eedfc516	featureConfidence	1.0
Mazes and Monsters	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_eedfc516
Off the Rails / int_ef076a36	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_ef076a36	comment	On Star Trek: Voyager, Seven of Nine has issues comprehending the challenge of a holodeck simulation and tends to throw things off the rails by Cutting the Knot. In the episode "Night", Tom Paris invites Seven to his "Captain Proton" simulation and has her play a Damsel in Distress who gets captured by Satan's Robot. Seven just does what she thinks is most logical and pulls out the robot's wiring. Seven also uses the Leonardo da Vinci holoprogram for a little time to herself.
Off the Rails / int_ef076a36	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_ef076a36	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Voyager	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_ef076a36
Off the Rails / int_ef9ba9b4	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_ef9ba9b4	comment	The third campaign was run by Jim between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. Nothing was derailed in terms of the plot, but he intended the campaign to be very serious and dramatic while the players took it to be hilarious. It's revealed he tried to do Zero Hour! (1957) and ended up with Airplane!.
Off the Rails / int_ef9ba9b4	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_ef9ba9b4	featureConfidence	1.0
Revenge of the Sith	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_ef9ba9b4
Off the Rails / int_f01a5e0	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_f01a5e0	comment	The end result of the GM's plot getting between a Deathwatch kill team and loot.◊ In brief, what is intended as a light infiltration mission ends when the players crush the base they're supposed to infiltrate with an avalanche, and escape by hijacking a helicopter moments before it's crushed.
Off the Rails / int_f01a5e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_f01a5e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Deathwatch (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_f01a5e0
Off the Rails / int_f15f622e	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_f15f622e	comment	In the MacGyver special, Adam and Jamie are put through a series of challenges to test their MacGyvering abilities, set up by Tory and Grant. The final challenge involves creating a signal that could reach a certain height. Tory and Grant set up the surroundings to provide all of the materials needed to build a potato cannon — which results in quite a surprise when Adam and Jamie build a kite instead, using the rope that they were tied up with at the very beginning of the segment. As the solution was both effective and in the spirit of the challenge, it was deemed successful.
Off the Rails / int_f15f622e	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_f15f622e	featureConfidence	1.0
MacGyver (1985)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_f15f622e
Off the Rails / int_f1e29745	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_f1e29745	comment	Super Magic Wars V: Touma making fast friends with Chinatsu and having her at his side when he fights Stiyl Magnus. And then a Void Beast crashes the party, leading Chinatsu to summon her Servant, Lancer. A few Original Characters joining in on the fight between Musubi and the lightning twins. The twins also drop hints about the Sekirei Plan to one of them, Erek Erycies, a TSAB Agent, without incriminating anything against their Ashikabi Seo. Then several other characters are present for Minaka's Do Not Adjust Your Set segment, and are all threatened with force if they tell. And then the twins show up to get jobs at the shop where the announcement was given. Two Original Generation characters are present for the upcoming battle against Gertrud, who does not retreat after her minions are defeated. Sayaka is also given a beam axe.
Off the Rails / int_f1e29745	featureApplicability	1.0
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Super Magic Wars V (Roleplay)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_f1e29745
Off the Rails / int_f1f8bc6a	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_f1f8bc6a	comment	This is the name of the game all over the place in Interstitial: Actual Play. The biggest example, though, probably occurs during the Reality and Other Falsehoods one-shot. Tony Hawk fades from existence, forcing Riley to create a new character in the second episode. They choose Piccolo, and thus Wheels changes the final boss to Perfect Cell.
Off the Rails / int_f1f8bc6a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Off the Rails / int_f2ce02ea	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_f2ce02ea	comment	Key & Peele: Played for Laughs. In a Dungeons & Dragons parody sketch, one of the players, "Kanye the Giant", decides he wants to "get some bitches" instead of embark on the Game Master's quest. Chaotic derailment ensues. The GM eventually quits.
Off the Rails / int_f2ce02ea	featureApplicability	1.0
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Key & Peele	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_f2ce02ea
Off the Rails / int_f655ed11	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_f655ed11	comment	In the Frasier episode "Ham Radio", Niles gets so upset at Frasier's over-directing an Audio Play that he decided to take action.
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Off the Rails / int_f66cb07c	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_f66cb07c	comment	Another example is the infamous 1998 "Brawl For All" boxing tournament. Although the whole point of the tournament was that it was a "shoot", with non-scripted finishes, the winner of the tournament Bart Gunn claims that the WWF had all but anointed "Dr. Death" Steve Williams as the champion behind the scenes, including paying him the prize money after the first round. Gunn alleges that he was asked to job to Williams and refused. He legitimately knocked Williams out and won the tournament, and claims his 35 second loss by knockout at Wrestlemania to Butterbean (an actual boxer) and subsequent firing was a punishment for screwing up the plan.
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Off the Rails / int_f66cb07c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Off the Rails / int_fa003b78	comment	WarioWare Gold includes a feature to dub some most but not all of the cutscenes in the game. You can choose to follow the script... or go completely off-script.
Off the Rails / int_fa003b78	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_fa003b78	featureConfidence	1.0
WarioWare Gold (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_fa003b78
Off the Rails / int_faf84cd	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_faf84cd	comment	Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is slowly revealed to be one long assassination plot cooked up by Smiling Jack, hoping that someone, hopefully Prince LaCroix, is dumb enough to believe the rumors of an ancient vampire sleeping in the Ankaran Sarcophagus and opens it, only to find a pile of C4 that goes off in their face. The end result is that the Anarchs retake L.A., as they're the only faction that won't be dumb enough to believe the rumors or open the sarcophagus. In the LaCroix, Anarch, Independent, or The Player Opens The Sarcophagus endings, this comes true, but there are two endings where this plot fails. In the Strauss ending, the Camarilla remains in power and Strauss becomes the new Prince, with the player as a high-ranking underling. The Ankaran Sarcophagus is left unopened and is placed in storage, denying Jack the explosive ending he wanted. In the Kuei-Jin ending, the player opens the path for Ming-Xiao to allow the Kuei-Jin to take over L.A., and she immediately betrays them. The Ankaran Sarcophagus is dumped into the ocean unopened, with the player chained to it. The Clan Quest Mod one-ups both of these endings by leaving no ambiguity to the fates of everyone else. The player can join the Sabbat at King's Way, and go around diablerizing all the no-longer-plot-relevant NPCs. All Camarilla and Anarch quests are null and void, as the Anarchs and the Nosferatu will now attack the player on sight. After the player takes out the Giovanni and the Society of Leopold, the Camarilla and Anarchs are forced to ally now that the Sabbat has become an organized threat, and they take out the Kuei-Jin to claim the key to the Ankaran Sarcophagus. This culminates in the player invading the Tremere Chantry and fighting a Boss Rush of Damsel, Nines, Skelter, Bertam, and finally Strauss to take the key. The invasion of Venture Tower goes the same, only with Andrei arriving at the end to proclaim his intent to open the sarcophagus and diablerize the ancient inside. The player can allow him to, rerailing the plot at the last second, but they can also fight him to prevent him from doing so, or convince him to destroy the ancient instead. The sarcophagus is burnt in a crematorium, LaCroix is tied to a spire on Venture Tower and left to face the sunrise, and the Sabbat claim L.A., leaving Jack, the only survivor, to flee the city.
Off the Rails / int_faf84cd	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_faf84cd	featureConfidence	1.0
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (Video Game)	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_faf84cd
Off the Rails / int_fbf8acc	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_fbf8acc	comment	In The Cabin in the Woods, Marty and Dana escape the boundaries of the kill-zone by breaking into the underground facility through the Redneck Torture Zombies' grave.
Off the Rails / int_fbf8acc	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_fbf8acc	featureConfidence	1.0
The Cabin in the Woods	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_fbf8acc
Off the Rails / int_fdf7a632	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_fdf7a632	comment	In a Vampire: The Requiem LARP, Spoony wanted to play a Nice Guy character, but was forced into joining the local Church Militant sect by the other players and the Game Master refused to do anything about it. His response was to use his character's extensive knowledge of chemistry to produce enough plastic explosive to level a city block, then snuck it into the local Prince's sanctum. Making it even better, he did it all within the rules, and the Game Master was too lazy or clueless to catch on until it was too late. He was kicked out of the game, but he felt it was worth it.
Off the Rails / int_fdf7a632	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_fdf7a632	featureConfidence	1.0
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Off the Rails / int_fe9b480e	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_fe9b480e	comment	The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong: Shen Yuan, after being transmigrated into the body of Shen Qingqiu, a Starter Villain from a poorly-written Web Serial Novel series who got brutally killed by the protagonist Luo Binghe, seeks to change enough of the novel's plot to avoid being killed. Along the way, he not only saves several characters who were supposed to die (with both positive and negative consequences) but also unintentionally causes Luo Binghe, who had a harem of hundreds of wives in the original novel, to become so smitten with him that he completely ignores all of the women who were supposed to become part of his harem in favor of single-mindedly pursuing him instead.
Off the Rails / int_fe9b480e	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_fe9b480e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_fe9b480e
Off the Rails / int_ff9ab17f	type	Off the Rails
Off the Rails / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Qpid", Q drops Picard in the middle of a Robin Hood-like fantasy world and tells the captain that if he doesn't rescue Maid Marion (who is his love interest, Vash), she's going to be executed by Sir Guy of Gisbourne. Both Q and Picard are quite surprised when the eminently practical Vash agrees to marry Sir Guy, as it makes more sense than some stupidly heroic rescue plan. Q had stated that he had given the fantasy "a life all its own, so I have no more idea what's going to happen than you do." In "Elementary, Dear Data", Geordi invites Data to a Sherlock Holmes holo-novel, only to find out that Data had read all the books — so he solves what's supposed to be a feature-length case in minutes. Geordi tweaks the simulation to have the computer pastiche elements of the novels, but Data can see right through it and still solves the case in minutes. On his third attempt, Geordi intends to ask the computer to create a simulation that can beat Holmes, but accidentally tells it to beat Data. Cue virtual Moriarty, a self-aware holodeck construct capable of interfering with the ship's basic systems. The rest of the crew starts freaking out. In the Grand Finale "All Good Things...", Picard is flung into the past, landing when he first took command of the Enterprise. He senses that something's wrong when Starfleet orders him not to head to Farpoint Station like he had in the pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint".
Off the Rails / int_ff9ab17f	featureApplicability	1.0
Off the Rails / int_ff9ab17f	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: The Next Generation	hasFeature	Off the Rails / int_ff9ab17f

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Big Brother / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Big Fat Quiz of the Year / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Conan / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Continuum / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Deadliest Catch / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Dexter / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
From Dusk Till Dawn / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
GLOW (2017) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Have I Got News for You / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
He Will Not Divide Us / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Heels / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
I Love Money / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Impractical Jokers / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
I've Got a Secret / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Kamen Rider Geats / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Kenny vs. Spenny / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Limitless / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Match Game / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Mock the Week / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Nathan for You / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Our America With Lisa Ling / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Password / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
QI / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Robot Wars / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Survivor / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The Drew Carey Show / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The Electric Company (2009) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The Glass House / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The Gong Show / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The Midnight Club (2022) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The Mole / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The Shannara Chronicles / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The West Wing / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
They Think It's All Over / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Would I Lie to You? / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
C°ntinuum: roleplaying in The Yet (Tabletop Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Maid RPG (Tabletop Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Paranoia (Tabletop Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Unknown Armies (Tabletop Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Into the Woods (Theatre) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The Prince (Theatre) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Amanda the Adventurer (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Armored Core: Silent Line (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Azur Lane (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Baba is You (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Blaseball (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Brave Hero Yuusha (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Chrono Trigger (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Crusader Kings II: Game of Thrones Mod (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Europa Universalis (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Final Fantasy VII Remake (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
God of War (PS4) (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Gravitas (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Hearts of Iron (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Illbleed (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
JFK: Reloaded (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The 7th Stand User (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Kenshi (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
King of Dragon Pass (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Left 4 Dead 2 (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Myst IV: Revelation (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Paper Mario: Sticker Star (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Persona 4: Arena (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Phantasy Star III (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
PokÃ©mon Black 2 and White 2 (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Portal (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Portal 2 (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Portal: Prelude (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Princes Of Darkness (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Puella Magi Madoka Magica Portable (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Punishing: Gray Raven (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Radiant Historia (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Sonic.EXE: Project Eclipse (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Super Paper Mario (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The BOSS: A Jacksepticeye Fan Game (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The Closer: Game of the Year Edition (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The Hobbit (1982) (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The King of Fighters All Star (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The Stanley Parable (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Tyranny (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Undertale Yellow (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Until Dawn (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Vanguard Bandits (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Wario Land II (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
WarioWare Gold (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Warriors All-Stars (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Who's Your Daddy? (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
You Don't Know Jack (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Yume Nikki (Video Game) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Dream Daddy (Visual Novel) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Everlasting Summer (Visual Novel) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Zero Time Dilemma (Visual Novel) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Angel Hare (Web Animation) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
But Really Really Fast (Web Animation) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Glitchtale (Web Animation) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
JoCat (Web Animation) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Puffin Forest (Web Animation) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Unforgotten Realms (Web Animation) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Adventure Is Nigh (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Angel Hare (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Auralnauts Star Wars (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Aventures (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Ben Drowned (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Best of the Worst (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Binging with Babish (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Code MENT (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Counter Monkey (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Dimension 20 (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Fact Fiend (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] Abridged (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Masters Of The Metaverse (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
None Piece (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Outside Xbox (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Oxventure (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Real-Time Fandub (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Shadow of Israphel (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Shadowland Campaign (Web Video)	seeAlso	Off the Rails
TableTop (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The Party (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The Sega Scourge - Sonic: What If? (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon Red (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Unus Annus (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Verum (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Video Games Awesome! (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
What the Fuck Is Wrong with You? (Web Video) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Cheating Men Must Die (Webcomic) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
DM of the Rings (Webcomic) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Darths & Droids (Webcomic)	seeAlso	Off the Rails
Darths & Droids (Webcomic) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Dork Tower (Webcomic) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Erfworld (Webcomic) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Fate/Gag Order (Webcomic) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Forestdale (Webcomic) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Friendship is Dragons (Webcomic) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Full Frontal Nerdity (Webcomic) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Funkinverse (Webcomic) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
KnightsOfTheDinnerTable	seeAlso	Off the Rails
Mr. Boop (Webcomic) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
One Piece: Grand Line 3.5 (Webcomic) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Paradox Space (Webcomic) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Ruby Quest (Webcomic) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
xkcd (Webcomic) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Barbie in the Pink Shoes / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Celebrity Deathmatch / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Dog City / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Garfield and Friends / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Space Ghost Coast to Coast / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
WALLâ€¢E / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Bret Hart (Wrestling) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Elimination Chamber (Wrestling) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals / Fan Fic / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The Reconstruction / Videogame / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Charlie the Unicorn (Web Animation) / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails

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