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Walking Techbane

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Walking Techbane	comment	Some people are just naturally good with technology, while others can barely surf the Internet. And then there are those who go beyond the "use the CD-ROM drive as a cup holder" crowd, and can cause a computer to catch fire and explode while trying to turn it on, or even by standing next to it. That's the Walking Techbane in a nutshell. For added irony, sometimes the Walking Techbane wants to be good with technology, but is prevented from doing so by the apparent plague of gremlins that follows them whenever they try to work anything with moving parts. In this case, they may overlap with Bungling Inventor. Sub-Trope of The Jinx. Contrast Hopeless with Tech, and the polar opposite Walking Techfix. Electromagnetic Ghosts can sometimes be this. If it's not the user, but the computer itself, it's The Alleged Computer. It's Anti-Magic if the user's presence turns off magic instead of technology. See also Magic Harms Technology, where an entire place or setting becomes this due to magical energy interfering with technology.
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Walking Techbane / int_102b7173	comment	Cole McGrath, the hero of inFAMOUS, becomes a walking techbane at the beginning of the game. His electrical powers work well enough around electrical devices (enough to recharge batteries if need be), but devices with certain chemical components get very unstable around him: he can't sit in a car without it breaking down, and one attempt to handle a gun results in it exploding. And let's not get started on Trish, his girlfriend... Though it begs the question how exactly Kessler; his future self, was able to have two daughters with Trish in the first place.
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Walking Techbane / int_1215a23d	comment	Genshin Impact: Lynette and machinery do not mix, and is thankful that she has an adoptive brother in Freminet who can fix the machines she inadvertently breaks. Ironically, she has ties to the two most technologically advanced nations in Teyvat.
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Walking Techbane / int_13a8a9fe	comment	Weaponized in the Magic 2.0 series. Any wizard deemed untrustworthy will be sent back to their own time, stripped of any powers, and given a magnetic field that disables all electronics. This prevents them from finding some way to access the file again. And yet two of them manage to reverse the effects anyway, although it takes Jimmy 30 years to do that (in large part because the others dumped him in Argentina, knowing he didn't speak either Spanish or Portuguese, so he had to get back either on foot, on a bicycle, or by hitching train rides). He tricks a pair of US Treasury agents into doing the work for him, while he shouts instructions at them from a distance while observing through a telescope. Todd does this by convincing a greedy prison guard to do the same.
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Walking Techbane / int_14494034	comment	Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Monster X can cause appropriately Titan-level power fluctuations around technology, but they also at one point instead cause Percussive Maintenance.
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Walking Techbane / int_18923c16	comment	Nina Mercury from Lost Universe is infamous for breaking or ruining anything electronic she touches. It only works if she touches them, but she's capable of doing it to just about anything. She breaks Canal's CPU by hugging her holographic projection. In the final arc, Mille exploits this by using her "curse" to short out a Lost Technology-based Dangerous Forbidden Technique.
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Walking Techbane / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Kitty Pryde has this as a side effect of her intangibility powers: Phasing through any sort of electronic device will cause it to instantly short circuit. (Unusually for this trope, she is a skilled programmer as long as she stays tangible.)
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Walking Techbane / int_1c555606	comment	Linus Tech Tips: In The WAN Show clip "I think I'm cursedâ€¦", Linus says bricked an Ubuntu computer in less than an hour. All he tried to do was launch Steam and play Counter-Strike: Global Offense. He says Jake figures he "must have some kind of aura" and that he's cursed to break any Linux machine he uses.
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Walking Techbane / int_1d7c7e1b	comment	In When She Was Bad, Gail becomes one for a time due to her unstable, constantly-changing secondary superpower.
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Walking Techbane / int_1f0bc3d3	comment	Hellboy: Hellboy is a victim of this trope. He's had guns jam and blow up on him, and once had a jetpack blow its engines, causing him to drop hundreds of feet in freefall into a vampire castle. Lucky for him he's more or less indestructible.
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Walking Techbane / int_21d41a16	comment	In The Saints the Industrial Path of Magic lets a mage screw with technology.
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Walking Techbane / int_23be51db	comment	Black Canary: Black Canary despises computers, and the feeling is mutual. In the first issue splash panel of Birds of Prey she is seen looking terrified and screaming "No! NO! Take it away! It's too horrible". Turn the page to learn that Oracle has just bought her a computer.
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Walking Techbane / int_261c8d3f	comment	Homer Simpson of The Simpsons once caused a nuclear meltdown. On a test device. It wasn't connected to any fissionable material. The mop-up crew knew him by name. Of course, this is more an extension of Homer's tendency to epically fail than his ability to use machines (this is the same man who once had a bowl of cold cereal burst into flames, after all). In the same episode, he also, somehow, caused a meltdown with a model of a proton accelerator in a classroom.
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Walking Techbane / int_27a5dc39	comment	Doctor Who (IDW): Played for Drama in one issue, where a man has lived his whole life as a living techbane, because he is actually a sentient EMP, which makes him a target for a pair of warring aliens. Eventually undone when the Doctor drains enough of the energy to give him an average lifespan, which is what he wanted to begin with.
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Walking Techbane / int_28f30dc9	comment	This is another example of anomalous phenomena that fascinates Fortean Times. FT broke the Jacqueline Priestman story (below) and regularly features odd things, like people who can cause street lights to blow just by walking underneath them.
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Walking Techbane / int_28fe1376	comment	Joseph Meeger from the Fringe episode "Power Hungry" is this to a deadly degree, as a result of experimentation with human electrical fields. It gets worse the more upset he becomes. He actually causes an elevator to actively drive itself into the ground.
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Walking Techbane / int_2b82b95f	comment	Spencer from iCarly has had this joke used on him in a number of episodes in which many things - even things that don't have an ignition source or don't even use electricity (one example being a drum set) - spontaneously combust. At one point, after putting out a fire with a liquid, the liquid caught on fire. He was unaware as to how, exactly, that could occur.
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Walking Techbane / int_2bab1210	comment	The Fiend, one of the three monsters that potentially hunt the player in Monstrum, can be easily identified by the lights and your flashlight flickering in his presence. They go out entirely when he is close enough, which is your cue to either get out or find a hiding spot immediately. Thankfully, they start working again when he moves away and the effect isn't strong enough to short out any of the vital equipment you need to escape the ship you're trapped on.
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Walking Techbane / int_2ef7cb74	comment	While Subaru from Lyrical Nanoha isn't bad when it comes to using technology, her Vibration Shatter is specifically designed to be extra destructive on electronics and machinery. This makes her especially dangerous when facing off against other cyborgs, and is the main reason why she had to handicap herself while facing off against a brainwashed Ginga.
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Walking Techbane / int_33028c13	comment	Max Steel (2013): The main character Max does this to technology that he touches after he got his powers. It got to the point that he was trying to drive a car with car floor mats.
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Walking Techbane / int_3371ee58	comment	Roswell, New Mexico: Main character Max Evans has a lot of trouble controlling his Shock and Awe powers. Though he's able to use computers if he's calm, he blows out a lot of light sources and electrical infrastructure if he's upset. Rosa Ortecho accidentally got Max's powers in a Touched by Vorlons situation, and is even worse at controlling them.
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Walking Techbane / int_34de22dc	comment	Mr. Bean causes television sets to switch to static just by walking in front of them... unless he's wearing no more than a cardboard box. Which is even weirder considering that in the exact same scene, he manages to wire up a plug by simply screwing the plug onto the power cable.
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Walking Techbane / int_35e4a689	comment	Luke from Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS. All he has to do is touch a piece of machinery and it short-circuits. As one can imagine, he's weaponized this, oftentimes going into fighting stances to utilize it. However, he needs to wear the wristwatch he received from his great-grandfather to invoke it and claims he can only do it twice a day. Yuga initially attributes this to the Pauli Effect, however when everyone else tries it while wearing the watch, none of them can replicate it.
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Walking Techbane / int_36894fb5	comment	Erin from Dragon City is terrible with computers since she's always causing them to crash and needs help from her family to do basically anything. This is a contrast to her family since her parents and brother are VERY computer savvy to the point her dad is a computer technician for a power plant and her mom used to be one.
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Walking Techbane / int_37825b05	comment	In UC, the minor character Jess managed to delete the entire internet from her computer. Also, the major character Kelsi, shorts out electronics when she is surprised.
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Walking Techbane / int_38304f1d	comment	In Phantasy Star II, Josh Kain was a mechanic and aspiring engineer, who found that most things he tried to repair would end up exploding spectacularly. When he found that a group of rebels was out to disable the world-controlling supercomputer gone haywire, he made the best of this and switched his career to hunting and sabotaging rogue robots.
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Walking Techbane / int_3b34143f	comment	In Harry Potter, single wizards can't cause this, but the elaborate charms, wards, and protections in Hogwarts and most wizard dwellings that uphold The Masquerade and protect against dark wizards do, which also conveniently explains why Harry never buys walkie-talkies for his pals the few dozen times they would otherwise come in handy.
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Walking Techbane / int_3f4a104b	comment	In Dilbert the titular character has this happen to him when he loses "The Knack" (for engineering) in the animated series. This trope also pays a visit to Dilbert starting here when he's assigned a new lab partner named Paul Tergeist.
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Walking Techbane / int_40b27fe3	comment	Gloria Burgle from Fargo: Season Three not only has trouble using computers and phones but hand driers and automatic doors won't acknowledge her presence. In part turns out to be a good thing since Narwhal can't track her through computer use.
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Walking Techbane / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: Harry Dresden shorts out any advanced technology (almost anything past the '50s) because he's a wizard. (Magic makes microscopic improbabilities more probable — and electronics are particularly vulnerable to small current surges.) This occurs with all wizards, but he interacts with Muggles more often than most. This forces him to drive an old-school VW Bug, use an old wood-fired stove and icebox in his home, and go completely without central heating, air conditioning, or hot waternote One wonders why an old-school gas water heater is not an option. It also proves problematic in his more mundane Private Detective activities because he has to be extremely careful around anything even slightly modern, like a computer or USB drive since all information stored therein is often completely wiped. His friends won't let him within 20 feet of a computer (for good reason!), and he avoids hospitals as much as possible for fear of accidentally shorting out someone's life support, one of the reasons he calls upon Butters for Open Heart Dentistry. He does find a few ways to suppress his Walking Techbane status, but so far they've all been imperfect and temporary solutions. From Fool Moon on Harry makes use of a directed form (Hexus), essentially simply ramping up this tendency to short out anything electrical. He makes the point multiple times that it's possibly the easiest thing in the world for a wizard to do since it happens all the time anyway. Hexus manages to make machines spectacularly self-destruct, too. When he tries to do it as mildly as he possibly can, he winds up getting way more of the effect when he wanted. When a wizard who can ruin gadgetry just by being around it whether he wants to or not tries to mess with your motor, your security system, or your computer, it's less "glitches" and more "KABOOM." This is actually used by a tech-savvy crook in Dead Beat — knowing that wizards fry electronics, the only clue he provides for the location of a powerful necromantic text is a set of GPS numbers stored on a USB drive, which he swallows. Doesn't spare him, though; the necromancer he's trying to deal with is convinced that no mere mortal can out-fox him, and kills him rather than pay for the book, and subsequently is unable to find the book he's after. Ghost Story mentions that in the past wizards had vastly different effects such as their presence souring milk and things like that — and that in the future, it will likely be something different again. Cold Days tells us that one such effect was the wizards' appearance being altered. When magic was as bad for your skin as it is for your computer today, you get the "ugly, warty witch/warlock" stereotype. Harry also finds that magical supernatural entities such as the Fae do NOT suffer from this. He theorizes it's because humans are innately conflicted, with emotions constantly churning around inside them and affecting their magical output, while other magical entities don't have that problem. This is supported by the times in the series when tech breaks down more often around Harry when he's upset. But then you have Molly, who becomes the Winter Lady, and as a result is able to use things like cell phones without incident, which disturbs Harry considerably and raises the question of how much the Techbane aversion is attributed to personality and how much to the type of power being used.
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Walking Techbane / int_44e0b783	comment	While not a computer, Jon's father from the Garfield comics has never seen a faucet head before in his life, having used pumps. As a result, he's assured he can figure out how to work it, but rips off the faucet by mistake, although he chalks it up to the faucet being faulty and poor. That same arc also showed he carries a rooster in a bag when he travels rather than an alarm clock.
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Walking Techbane / int_4522fd1	comment	Overload of the Whateley Universe is an Energizer with a powerful electromagnetic field. That he can't control. The special Whateley Academy laptops are ruggedized to prevent damage from Energizers, but he was able to accidentally wreck his roommate's Whateley laptop a couple times a week. Most of the school calls him 'Glitch' instead of his preferred codename.
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Walking Techbane / int_483a069c	comment	Mortadelo y FilemÃ³n: In "Los invasores", after Mortadelo and FilemÃ³n discover the alien they've been fighting during the chapter is actually a robot, Mortadelo tells FilemÃ³n to just touch it, to invoke this trope with FilemÃ³n and destroy the robot. He succeeds. In "El ordenador... Â¡quÃ© horror!", IbÃ¡Ã±ez writes a couple of pages full of Self-Deprecating Humor where he casts himself as this. His Techbane status is such that, after a series of Epic Fails in attempting to work, his computer ends up outright vanishing - along with his computer mouse and his cat.
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Walking Techbane / int_4c06d071	comment	In X-Men: Evolution, Kitty Pryde is no better.
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Walking Techbane / int_4c095a1f	comment	Astoria Carlton-Ritz, the titular character from the The Transformers episode "The Girl Who Loved Powerglide"; this turns out to be helpful when the Decepticons try to use the Psycho-Probe on her and it repeatedly malfunctions. First the readings come up as empty; then the leads fall off her head, then Soundwave and Rumble get shocked as they try to hold them in place... Though when the probe gave its result as being "subject's mind completely empty", it might have been on to something.
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Walking Techbane / int_5307b01d	comment	Gabe of Penny Arcade is apparently one of these, if Tycho is to be believed, as pictured above. Ironically, Gabe's excuse for not knowing how to do computers is said at a point where he would need to become a savior; an old man is strongly implied to be having a heart attack or pacemaker failure while walking by his house. Inversely in this comic, Gabe's son is the opposite where he built a computer from scratch and turned it on without it breaking on him. Gabe considers the cycle broken.
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Walking Techbane / int_53a0bd32	comment	Bartlett Finchley from The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "A Thing About Machines". Also his namesake, Hilaire Belloc's Lord Finchley, who "tried to mend/the electric light himself," with fatal results.
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Walking Techbane / int_546769dd	comment	Slender Man + electronic recording devices = horrendous audio distortion, bizarre visual glitches, and tapes and files getting irreparably corrupted. In some series, this extends to people who have spent too much time around him- for instance, in Marble Hornets, footage of the exact same places from a few feet away is much more distorted when it comes from Tim's camera instead of Jay's.
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Walking Techbane / int_547279cf	comment	In Code Name: Hunter mages and supernatural beings wreak havoc with modern technology, in one of the comics from the early days of RSCI one agent's revolver jams only to become unstuck when the gargoyle they were fighting dies. However, it's later stated that American tech is more resistant to magic than English tech, which acts as foreshadowing to the revelation that England was the only country that attempted to seal away their magic.
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Walking Techbane / int_57a3683f	comment	Comes up fairly often on Not Always Right. The creepiest example is a woman who claims that she has helicopters in her blood that destroy what she touches. Thus she has to test things to see if they're "helicopter-proof". The creepy part is that she picks up a flashlight, turns it on and off a few times... and then it suddenly stops working.
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Walking Techbane / int_59da62aa	comment	Doctor 0 from the Fallout: New Vegas expansion, Old World Blues. To put it in his words: "I have a gift with machines. I can render anything inoperable - preserve them in a non-functioning state."
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Walking Techbane / int_59fb8a3b	comment	Neil from The Young Ones. He even laments that technology is rebelling against him.
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Walking Techbane / int_5cf8a4e8	comment	Phoebe and Her Unicorn has goblins whose laughter causes every app on Phoebe's phone to crash. It also turns milk sour.
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Walking Techbane / int_6059ad6b	comment	Cueball in xkcd is sometimes shown as developing inexplicable tech problems, such as when his attempt to upgrade his desktop machine led to the destruction of the desktop and the laptop, and being surrounded by sharks, the time a simple, basic OS command led to a very odd error message, note ls is supposed to list files in the current directory; fuller explanation here. the time his computer was literally haunted, or when he had a keyboard problem that spread to other computers via keyboards. He's also sometimes shown as writing his own code despite being really bad at it, so it's possible some of this is his own fault.
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Walking Techbane / int_606e56fc	comment	One of the powers utilized by the Bound in Geist: The Sin-Eaters, the Curse of the Gremlin, inflicts this upon the hapless victim. More than just affecting electronic technology, however, this curse can outright prevent someone from even starting a fire.
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Walking Techbane / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad!: in the episode "CIAPOW", Stan and his CIA team weaponise this trope when trapped in a high-tech Thai prison, by having their older, un-tech-savvy colleague Dick try to use the computer that runs the place. He proceeds to click on an obscene number of pop-up ads until the sheer number of viruses he ends up downloading causes the computer to crash.
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Walking Techbane / int_65d9acd2	comment	The Sarah Jane Adventures introduces Sky, an alien girl designed to destroy her race's enemies, who are biomechanical. This has the side effect of destroying any technology around her when she cries as a baby. When she is aged up to around human age 12 she has slightly more control, but sentient computer Mr. Smith is still nervous around her and doesn't want her to get too close. After the first storyline of the series, she loses most of her power and this no longer happens.
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Walking Techbane / int_6f6c1eb7	comment	Digimon Data Squad: Marcus Damon is very bad with computers and has done significant damage to DATS's operations on the few occasions where he's tried to use a workstation. He once caused an electrical short which knocked the Digital Dive out of commission for two weeks by typing too hard on the keyboard (though to be fair, Keenan Crier was jumping up and down inside the Dive at the same time, which probably didn't help), and long before that he accidentally deleted part of their database by randomly pressing keys.
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Walking Techbane / int_705bb59a	comment	Vampire: The Masquerade: While originally only suffering from Missing Reflection, Clan Lasombra in Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition have a variation of this trope. While they can use technology just fine, their reflection and recording (live or otherwise) is distorted, and just making a phone call requires them to pass a skill check. Oh, and despite these issues, their bane won't reliably obscure their identity, and anyone who knows what to look for (like the Second Inquisition) will recognize the effect on sight.
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Walking Techbane / int_7bc04973	type	Walking Techbane
Walking Techbane / int_7bc04973	comment	Ghost Story mentions that in the past wizards had vastly different effects such as their presence souring milk and things like that — and that in the future, it will likely be something different again. Cold Days tells us that one such effect was the wizards' appearance being altered. When magic was as bad for your skin as it is for your computer today, you get the "ugly, warty witch/warlock" stereotype.
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Walking Techbane / int_7c60fb0f	comment	The Simpsons: In one issue, Mr. Burns tries to learn how to use a computer, but each console he gets near short-circuits at his touch. Smithers then explains to Burns' computer tutor that after years of absorbing nuclear radiation, Mr. Burns can't even go near a calculator.
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Walking Techbane / int_7ca39194	type	Walking Techbane
Walking Techbane / int_7ca39194	comment	From Fool Moon on Harry makes use of a directed form (Hexus), essentially simply ramping up this tendency to short out anything electrical. He makes the point multiple times that it's possibly the easiest thing in the world for a wizard to do since it happens all the time anyway. Hexus manages to make machines spectacularly self-destruct, too. When he tries to do it as mildly as he possibly can, he winds up getting way more of the effect when he wanted. When a wizard who can ruin gadgetry just by being around it whether he wants to or not tries to mess with your motor, your security system, or your computer, it's less "glitches" and more "KABOOM."
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Walking Techbane / int_7cea4fb2	comment	Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): Due to his electrical powers, Ghidorah tends to short circuit or damage any technology in his broad vicinity.
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Walking Techbane / int_807deccb	comment	Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight has Haru reveal to Futaba that she's one of these along with Hopeless with Tech. She doesn't know how to use her smartphone, she thought "booting the computer" meant kicking it, any new computer she touches immediately dies, and she's had to take her own computer in 10 times. Futaba is shocked, saying "I've only heard about people like you in urban legends!"
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Walking Techbane / int_83892b47	type	Walking Techbane
Walking Techbane / int_83892b47	comment	This is actually used by a tech-savvy crook in Dead Beat — knowing that wizards fry electronics, the only clue he provides for the location of a powerful necromantic text is a set of GPS numbers stored on a USB drive, which he swallows. Doesn't spare him, though; the necromancer he's trying to deal with is convinced that no mere mortal can out-fox him, and kills him rather than pay for the book, and subsequently is unable to find the book he's after.
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Walking Techbane / int_847a1ace	comment	To put it in context, the past three strips had Jason being camped out in front of the computer trying to get tickets for Attack of the Clones for what is strongly implied for an extremely long time (as Jason put it, the connection to the Pavilionplex's web server was running slower than a Bantha on Hoth), and the reason for the long delay was revealed to be because one of the Pavilionplex staffers somehow mistook the Pavilionplex's web server for the butter server and soaked it in soapy water, making the staffer applicable for this trope for the sheer stupidity of his action. Also qualifies as an Epic Fail.
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Walking Techbane / int_86814e56	comment	Cyan from Final Fantasy VI is terrified of (though fascinated by) machinery, though the first time you meet him, he jumps into a suit of Magitek armor and (eventually) pilots it without too much problem; at one point, he has a great deal of difficulty stepping on a simple pressure switch.
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Walking Techbane / int_86913807	comment	Glitch Girl of the Legion of Net.Heroes has this as a superpower. When she can keep it under control, it's fairly useful. When she can't...
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Walking Techbane / int_87cf8985	comment	The same name is used for the Physical Limitation that adds up to Techbane in ''Urban Fantasy Hero''.
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Walking Techbane / int_89465e75	comment	Half-Bloods in Percy Jackson and the Olympians have horrendous luck with most modern technology, due to their semi-divine parentage making them better suited to ancient times. They understand how to operate it, but can't go more than a few minutes before something inevitably goes wrong. Using anything computerized is also a bad idea since it allows monsters to find them much easier. The children of Hephaestus subvert this somewhat, due to being Technopaths and a Walking Techfix. Though this is usually only in regards to machinery or engineering. The gods themselves seemingly avert this, notably Hermes, who is seen talking on or checking emails with a phone in most of his appearances. This is, when put alongside other examples, however, played mostly straight, the gods seem to have developed their own versions of many modern technologies, implied to be mostly made by Hephaestus, or by him and Hermes collaborating.
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Walking Techbane / int_8ad518ed	comment	C14 Dating: Shoji's father can cause an electronic device to stop working merely by touching it. His mother's field of expertise is repairing electronics. As one can guess, things worked out well for them. However, it's a good thing that his father has his own job very far away from his mother's repairshop.
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Walking Techbane / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: Clark Kent has to write his news articles on a typewriter because his powers sometimes cause computers to malfunction.
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Walking Techbane / int_8ec33aad	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles X has a side mission revolving around Jo, who has very bad luck with machines. First, she breaks the coffee machine at the cafe where she works, requiring you to find replacement parts for her. When you do, she offers to make you an iced latte as a reward, and promptly breaks the freezer and runs away because she's afraid of being fired. After finding more replacement parts for the freezer, she decides to talk to her boss... only for her cell phone to break. You have the option of letting her borrow yours, but the game also gives you the option to "keep your comm device far far away from this girl".
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Walking Techbane / int_8fe66664	comment	In the Alcatraz Series all of the Free Lands technology can do this to the more mundane technology Hushlanders (we) use. Special notice goes to the titular character who has the ability to break things, and can do this to anything and possibly anyone.
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Walking Techbane / int_909b004d	comment	The Transformers (IDW): There's one Autobot named Damus, tellingly known as "Glitch" to his friends, who has this as a power. Luckily for him (and his comrades) his powers only affect non-sentient machines.At least until his power evolves to the point where it can cause a cybertronian spark to explode, and the fact Megatron corrupts him into becoming the vicious leader of the Deception Justice Division, He now goes by the name of Tarn.
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Walking Techbane / int_90f18253	comment	The Battletech roleplaying game A Time of War (made by the same company) features the same flaw, with the same effect. The quote for the trait illustrates it nicely.
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Walking Techbane / int_942349dc	comment	Joseph Joestar in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders is this by necessity. Due to the way his Stand works, he ends up destroying whatever mechanical device — from a Polaroid camera to a television set — he happens to be funneling information through usually with explosive results, much to his bemusement. Other than that, he's shown using a Walkman without issue, but has a bad habit of getting into plane crashes. He does manage to keep his prosthetic arm working without incident most of the time, though that might just be because there is some legitimately insane German engineering in that arm.
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Walking Techbane / int_95e4bed	comment	Art from Sequential Art has an anti-technology field, said to be a side effect of being an artist. The effects are also said to be 100 times worse if the author is aware of their condition, evidenced by Art setting off the anti-shoplifting towers on his way out of the store and frying a TV, DS, cellphone, and incandescent lamp just by walking through his home. He gets a (placebo) chip in his head to suppress this, and it works for several dozen pages, but he eventually has to 'disable' it in his efforts to thwart an evil supercomputer, OzBasic. With the 'chip' gone, he crashes the automated turret defenses, security doors, and a section of hallway lights just by tapping control panels, and kills the supercomputer by colliding with it. And it has returned yet again where a group of Dalek Expies have deemed Art a threat, as they are "of technology." Though he claims to have lost it after the OzBasic incident.
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Walking Techbane / int_95f381c9	comment	In Leftover Soup Ellen says that she thinks some people have gremlins.
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Walking Techbane / int_974da8af	comment	Izumiko of RDG: Red Data Girl can't send a text without breaking her cell, manages to short out the power to every computer in her school's computer lab after a strange experience involving the room filling with water only she could feel, and even manages to break turnstiles and stall trains on her trip to Tokyo.
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Walking Techbane / int_97d48df5	comment	MonsterVerse: Godzilla (2014): The MUTOs make their presence known with an EMP field they emit, causing all electronic devices to fail within their radius. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): Due to his electrical powers, Ghidorah tends to short circuit or damage any technology in his broad vicinity.
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Walking Techbane / int_98c55b59	comment	In Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura, Natural Law and Magick are inherently in opposition because magic violates physical laws while technology obeys them. Steampunk-themed objects such as guns, trains, and automatons will fail to work, function less effectively, or react violently when in close proximity to magic, mainly: Tech weapons, gear, devices, and chemicals are less effective when used by mages or on magical targets. A player character wanting to ride the railway must answer several questions regarding their relationship to magic, such as having a magical racial background, being an adept mage, or carrying potent magic items. Failing to answer honestly tends to result in spectacular train wrecks. Equipping technological items on a mage increases their chance of critical failure based on their magical aptitude and the complexity of the item. For instance, if you equip the mage companion Raven with a pyrotechnic bow and tech armor, she runs a very real risk of lopping her arm or head off. With a bow.
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Walking Techbane / int_9a14e122	comment	The said character of the Mastermind series somehow managed to tangle up a wireless router. The techs trying to fix it were nothing short of astounded.
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Walking Techbane / int_9a9b24fa	comment	In Jurassic Park (1993), characters joke that paleontologist Alan Grant is one when he seems to cause a computer monitor to burst into static whenever he points to it. Lampshaded later when the park shuts down for reasons unrelated to him, and he immediately asks what (presumably crucial component) he just touched.
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Walking Techbane / int_9e876c22	comment	Newton Pulsifer from Good Omens. As a lad, he caused a black-out throughout his entire house by trying to fix a radio, which is apparently an improvement over the last time he tried that, when he blacked-out his entire neighborhood. He once assembled a joke electronics kit that wasn't supposed to do anything; when he turned it on, it picked up Radio Moscow. His car breaks down so often, he's taken to calling it "Dick Turpin" (after the famous British highwayman), because "Wherever I go, I hold up traffic." His bad luck with electronics finally comes in handy when he has to sabotage a launch computer at a military base. He does this after several false starts by attempting to fix it, which is to say, he says "I don't know if I can do that..." and placing his hand on a console, and everything immediately breaks.
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Walking Techbane / int_9ebb8e6f	comment	X-Force: Bedlam, a member of X-Force for much of the late 1990s, can produce a bio-electric field around his body that disrupts machines and electronics. He joined X-Force when they were fugitives and by the time he left they were black ops, making him a very valuable member of the team.
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Walking Techbane / int_9ff7441c	comment	In The Men from the Ministry, if there's a way to get a machine malfunctioning or make an error while using it, Mr. Lamb can and will do it. This even gets him noticed by the Technology Insitute in one episode, as they (unsuccessfully) try to make him a test user for their newest machinery.
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Walking Techbane / int_a7862aa1	comment	Mr. Yashiro (Ren's manager) from Skip Beat! is one of these. However, it only works if he has direct skin contact with the object, and said contact is for at least ten seconds. He uses this as a threat against Ren to get information out of him, holding Ren's cellphone as a hostage. Ren is later seen receiving a new cellphone from the LME president, obviously deciding the sacrifice was worth keeping the information.
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Walking Techbane / int_ab67d84	comment	Ctrl+Alt+Del: A lot of Lucas' customers are the Roger Fox variety of this. Particulary this guy.
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Walking Techbane / int_aba7ffb9	comment	Laura S. Arseid in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel games. She was brought following the way of the sword in her remote hometown of Legram and doesn't have any experience with the recent advances in "orbal technology" in the world of Zemuria. If you do her bonding event in Cold Steel II, she causes a Domestic Appliance Disaster with an orbal washing machine and messes up several other appliances as well. In Cold Steel III, her first ARCUS mail message to Rean is in Caps Lock and she admits - "POSTSCRIPT: IT TOOK ME AN ENTIRE HOUR TO WRITE THIS. ORBMAIL IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT." (The message is only a few sentences long.)
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Walking Techbane / int_ac259af8	comment	Mihoko from Saki, when trying to print off Mahjong tournament records from an average personal computer, somehow turned the whole of the room into a mass of wire wrapped around her body with the intent of not letting her go.
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Walking Techbane / int_ae727300	comment	In the Paradox Trilogy, moderate to large phantoms cause any technology in their vicinity to malfunction.
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Walking Techbane / int_b2bd761b	comment	In Citadel PVT John "Chaosman" Peterson, one of the Marines stationed on Troy, is infamous for breaking anything technological he uses, even if the item is supposed to be completely immune to complete and total failure. Considering his job involves operating in space, this isn't exactly the best of situations.
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Walking Techbane / int_b36f7cc5	comment	In R.I.P.D., Dead-os' "soul stank" causes electrical problems.
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Walking Techbane / int_b3b15bc1	comment	Jubilee from X-Men: The Animated Series; her powers tended to interact with electronics with explosive results, at least early on. It gets to the point where the owner of a local electronics shop knew immediately what Jean and Scott are in for and jokes how she's good for business.
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Walking Techbane / int_b3f687d1	comment	Roger from FoxTrot has blown up his wife and younger son's computers at least five times. He also seems to have the "talent" of accidentally deleting the files of the computer with one click. He needs an entire manual to find the ON button, and once even mistook the computer simply being turned off as being frozen! It's not just the computer that he has wrecked. He also wrecked several other electrical appliances, and in one arc, he also ended up flooding the house just by attempting to use the dishwasher. Other than Roger, there's also an implied instance of this trope in this comic: To put it in context, the past three strips had Jason being camped out in front of the computer trying to get tickets for Attack of the Clones for what is strongly implied for an extremely long time (as Jason put it, the connection to the Pavilionplex's web server was running slower than a Bantha on Hoth), and the reason for the long delay was revealed to be because one of the Pavilionplex staffers somehow mistook the Pavilionplex's web server for the butter server and soaked it in soapy water, making the staffer applicable for this trope for the sheer stupidity of his action. Also qualifies as an Epic Fail. Johnson is a semi-recurring gag. One strip has Jason find an unbelievably broken, incredibly rare drop in World of Warquest, only to be disconnected just before he can pick it up. The next panel shows the game's headquarters (along with Jason's Big "NO!" Distant Reaction Shot) with someone going "Johnson, did you trip over this cable?" In one storyline, Paige and Jason accidentally wrecked their mom's computer by spilling a soda on it. When Roger tried to use it next, he thought he was responsible (even though all he did was turn it on again), because of his own problems with tech in the past. Andy flipped out and chewed him out so viciously that Paige and Jason were afraid to 'fess up (though they eventually did).
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Walking Techbane / int_b6079e8b	comment	This may be why Wile E Coyote, Super Genius, always has his plans backfire in his Looney Tunes shorts.
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Walking Techbane / int_b8c8f3b5	comment	Piled Higher & Deeper would like to talk about your research adviser's negation field.
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Walking Techbane / int_b8e28f2e	comment	Just like in the book it's based on, Newton Pulsifer from Good Omens (2019) merely needs to attempt to use/fix/assemble anything technical for it (and everything else in a generous area around it) to break down in spectacular fashion. Thanks to the Setting Update from the early '90s to 2019, this makes his life much more difficult because it's nearly impossible to find a job that doesn't involve computers. One of his first scenes is getting fired when he blacks out the office upon logging in to his desktop. This becomes a key moment in the finale as The Four Horsemen have set up nuclear launches via interconnected computer systems. When asked if he could "Speed it up," Newton, thinking nothing can be done anyway, types a few commands to set the launches off...and instead it completely undoes the system, restoring control to the proper authorities and averting Armageddon.
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Walking Techbane / int_ba666650	comment	Major Zero in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater was heavily implied to be this. He usually needs to read Sigint's notes word for word when explaining what some of his technologies do, and Sigint also was about to tell a story about Major Zero and a Brand New Washing Machine before he was cut off, which resulted in a Noodle Incident, although it could be assumed that the story was going to be about Zero unintentionally wrecking the washing machine somehow.
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Walking Techbane / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob's cousin Stanley literally causes things he touches to explode. The reason why he's with SpongeBob in the first place is that SpongeBob's uncle is getting tired of him destroying his house.
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Walking Techbane / int_bca5b926	comment	In The Magicians, magic is revealed to have unpredictable effects on electronics, hence why Brakebills looks so Victorian; magicians can use technology no problem, but if they try to cast spells around it, electrical devices usually break down. For example, there's a contraband videogame console set up on the campus, but it automatically resets if anyone casts a spell within two hundred yards of it - in other words, constantly.
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Walking Techbane / int_bcb32dc6	comment	In Shadowrun characters can pick up a flaw called "Gremlins" that does this. Of course, they are getting extra build points, so it might be an even trade depending on the character. The same name is used for the Physical Limitation that adds up to Techbane in ''Urban Fantasy Hero''. The Battletech roleplaying game A Time of War (made by the same company) features the same flaw, with the same effect. The quote for the trait illustrates it nicely.
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Walking Techbane / int_c72021c5	comment	You can become your own techbane in Deus Ex by enabling the "iamwarren" (Warren being the games development lead) cheat code - which makes literally anything computerized fizzle and die when you walk within five feet of it.
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Walking Techbane / int_cb2db091	comment	Wobbler in Terry Pratchett's Johnny Maxwell Trilogy... sometimes. In the first book, he's a fairly skilled Playful Hacker, but by the second he can't turn his computer on without it smelling of burning plastic.
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Walking Techbane / int_ccf127f4	comment	In Cross Cases, Harry gets fairly envious of Sam's ability to both have scary psychic powers and use laptops and smartphones without blowing them out, providing them with valuable information for their investigation into the demons. For once, he'd like to be in Star Trek rather than Lord of the Rings. Sam's also bemused and fascinated by Dresdenverse wizards' inability to use technology.
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Walking Techbane / int_ce1f7b52	comment	In The Dresden Files RPG, anyone with channeling (and by extension Evocation) can fry electronics (and anyone with magical powers might end up frying technology at inconvenient times for Fate Points). There's also a weak supernatural power that allows one to fry electronics the same way normal spellcasters do.
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Walking Techbane / int_cf6f9a97	comment	Kaori Makimura from City Hunter was once convinced to try work as a journalist. While the smashed fax machine was the result of her not noticing it was unplugged and trying Percussive Maintenance with a giant Hyperspace Mallet, the electric typing machine exploded when she touched it, and she managed to destroy a document and erase part of the database before the journalists restrained her. In a variation, she's fully capable to make Ryo wear a chastity belt with an electronic lock without blowing it up.
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Walking Techbane / int_d23e6c9a	comment	In Amazing Fantasy, Izuku can short out and make any piece of complex technology explode if he uses his powers to phase through it. Luckily, he can handle anything he has on his person with him prior to turning intangible without harm, letting him bring his web-shooters and cell phone along.
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Walking Techbane / int_d408bbc7	comment	Brad, from The Class Menagerie, is an EXTREME Techbane (and being a bit of a Luddite does not help matters), one crossover storyline ended up with him completely wiping out a company's network just by ending up in the server room. In fact, the only machine he could handle without it breaking is a coffee-maker (which he can't live without anyway).
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Walking Techbane / int_d51adb3a	comment	I=MGCM: According to Seira's Leucosia dress story, Nymphs have a strange invisible field effect that nullifies electronic waves, especially internet connections.
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Walking Techbane / int_d6cda3a9	comment	The Philadelphia Experiment has this occur to a character as a result of getting shocked by a high power generator involved in a Time Travel accident. As he walks around, he shorts out nearby electronics and attracts thunderstorms to himself.
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Walking Techbane / int_d7aab7c1	comment	In Sailor Moon, Minako (Sailor Venus) is also shown to be lethal around Rei's (Sailor Mars) music player which she manages to somehow blow up whilst trying simply play a cassette. Fans of the show then exaggerated this trait in fanfics to the point of Minako destroying any electronic device she touches in some instances.
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Walking Techbane / int_d7b28eac	comment	For Chinami Ebihara from Code-E, involuntarily frying electronics 20 Minutes into the Future must really suck.
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Walking Techbane / int_da52a723	comment	In Rivers of London, using magic near electronic devices will cause them to short out if they aren't disconnected from their power source, and using it near such a device that also contains computer chips will reduce those chips to silicon dust. Peter, the protagonist, rigs his cell phone with a cutout switch so he won't have to stop and take out its battery every time he uses magic.
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Walking Techbane / int_dd4059a3	comment	In Zeroes, Crash has the power to destroy any complex technology in her vicinity. She has a difficult time controlling this power and stays away from places like hospitals for fear of accidentally breaking something vital.
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Walking Techbane / int_de8fbcb1	comment	Godzilla (2014): The MUTOs make their presence known with an EMP field they emit, causing all electronic devices to fail within their radius.
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Walking Techbane / int_e270b7e1	comment	Genius: The Transgression's Clockstoppers/Hollow Ones are pretty much the literal embodiment of this trope. Wonders, firearms and explosives don't do a blasted thing against them, and at really high levels, any technology attempting to influence the Clockstopper fails completely. This includes medical technology, and that's a shame considering they're not superhuman or anything and a good right hook will do the trick just fine. And then there's the matter of magic... As far as Wonders go, mere mortals are this as well, Clockstoppers have an array of special abilities aimed at destroying and/or disabling Wonders and can affect mundane items.
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Walking Techbane / int_e3417a68	comment	Danny 2462 is perhaps one of the most infamous, both harnessing existing glitches and bugs and stumbling upon new ones entirely in every single game played. While Kerbal Space Program (his main source of videos) isn't exactly the most bug-free game, he still finds completely unknown bugs just by trying fairly normal things, and even the stable games he picks suddenly spaz out.
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Walking Techbane / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS: GURPS: Thaumatology has a ritual called "Machines Hate You" that makes machines and computers mess up in a way that will make the target's life miserable. GURPS Supers has the Dampen power, which allows a character to turn this on and off at will... unless they have the Always On drawback to the power. One NPC created in the GURPS Mixed Doubles book has this unfortunate combo.
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Walking Techbane / int_e6b86f09	comment	In the Towers Trilogy, Xhea becomes one when her dark magic awakens. Technically, she only disrupts other magic, not pure technology; but due to the Magitek nature of the City, even devices which appear purely mechanical in nature are often powered by magic behind the facade. As a result, Xhea can't so much as press an elevator call button without shorting something out.
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Walking Techbane / int_e837917e	comment	Fino from I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job finds employment in an appliance store, where she is constantly frying devices. This is because her world uses Magitek instead of technology and as the Demon Lord's daughter, she's capable of blowing every fuse in an entire house. Fortunately, she learns to turn down her wattage after a few episodes.
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Walking Techbane / int_ef0486a3	comment	The Runepunk podcast series from RPGMP3 features a character called Kieron Hammerfall, an Andari Rune caster. Kieron is imbued with momentous arcane power, as well as the durability of a dry twig. He's a member of the Andari race, which means he's blessed with immortality (barring any unfortunate accidents - which, considering his virtually non-existent toughness, could involve being knocked over by a stiff breeze or something). Furthermore, Andari and technology don't mix.
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Walking Techbane / int_ef43ada7	comment	Angry Birds MakerSpace: The pig in E3 that tries to use the smart speaker. He smashes it on the ground and leaves in frustration, and then it starts working.
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Walking Techbane / int_f275d973	comment	Kokkuri from Gugure! Kokkuri-san combines this trope with Technologically Blind Elders. One of the series' Running Gag is to poke fun at Kokkuri's age, and he's so inept with technology that machines break whenever he touches them.
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Walking Techbane / int_f52439f2	comment	Alicia, the title character of the game Bullet Witch seems to be one of these specifically for aircraft. Any time she's on an aircraft, something happens to cause it to crash — it happens twice in the course of the game, and she's convinced not to attempt it a third time. She also died in a plane crash before the game even started.
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Walking Techbane / int_f565604d	comment	Eyeshield 21: Shin Seijuro is so Hopeless with Tech, he has a tendency to break any piece of technology handed to him within a minute, at the most. It started with him breaking a video camera by accident, which was followed up by him trying to open a GPS like a normal map. He apparently breaks the ticket machine every time he takes the train to school, and he can't even buy a can of soft drink from a vending machine without disabling it. Considering the guy is able to perform vertical push-ups on his index fingers, one can make a plausible guess about the reason. The most technologically advanced piece of equipment he is shown using in the series is a stopwatch. In the supplemental material within the manga, there is a girl who looks like him and has a crush on him, that in order to be as much like him as possible, she breaks three computers a month on purpose.
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Walking Techbane / int_f6a54e75	comment	Sora of the Kingdom Hearts franchise. Upon encountering the computer in Kingdom Hearts II containing the Hollow Bastion world, he just pounds the keyboard until ending up getting sucked into the world of TRON along with Donald and Goofy. Then, back in the real world, he again bangs on the keyboard after learning the data he was seeking is corrupt, despite this sort of thing being what got him in trouble in the first place.
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Walking Techbane / int_f95eaabe	comment	The MLP Loops: One Loop has the Equestria Girls version of Ditzy as one of these, exploited by Sunset to prevent the plot of Friendship Games. She merely has to point an oblivious Ditzy in Sci-Twi's direction, and the girl kills Twilight's magic-draining device the instant she touches it.
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Walking Techbane / int_fc668aad	comment	Tear Of Grace isn't quite as bad, but he always manages to stumble onto at least one bug on everything, and if a game has even the slightest lack of polish he will end up running into it, enough that even the comments remark that his copies of each game seem especially screwy.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
FoxTrot (Comic Strip) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Phoebe and Her Unicorn (Comic Strip) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Ziggy (Comic Strip) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
XCOM: RWBY Within / Fan Fic / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
A Ninjas Guide To Gotham (Fanfic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
A Raven Under the Starlight (Fanfic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
A Zaunite Technomage On The Isle (Fanfic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Beyond the Outer Gate Lies... (Fanfic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Beyond the Outer Gates Lies... A high school library? (Fanfic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Children of the Force (Fanfic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Cross Cases (Fanfic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Death Echoes (Fanfic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Harry Is a Dragon, and That's OK (Fanfic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Harry Is A Dragon, And That's Okay (Fanfic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Heels Over Head (Fanfic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Null (Fanfic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
The Many Dates of Danny Fenton (Fanfic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
The Taste of Peaches (Fanfic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Weiss Reacts (Fanfic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Apartment 143 / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Eliminators / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Jurassic Park (1993) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
The Men Who Stare at Goats / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
The Philadelphia Experiment / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
ProtonJon (Lets Play) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Campione! / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Blood of Stars / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Campione! / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Fool Moon / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Good Omens / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
In Death / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Johnny Maxwell Trilogy / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Legion of Net.Heroes / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Magic 2.0 / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Paradox Trilogy / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
RDG: Red Data Girl / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Shattered Continent / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
The Areal / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Towers Trilogy / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Fortean Times (Magazine) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
FeoTakahari	seeAlso	Walking Techbane
Grimalkin	seeAlso	Walking Techbane
WalkingTechBane	seeAlso	Walking Techbane
Code-E (Manga) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Strike Witches (Manga) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Well There's Your Problem (Podcast) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
We Are Our Avatars Escapist (Roleplay) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Fargo: Season Three / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Good Omens (2019) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Made in Canada / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Roswell, New Mexico / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Dark Heresy (Tabletop Game) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Geist: The Sin-Eaters (Tabletop Game) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Giant Guardian Generation (Tabletop Game) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Psionics: The Next Stage in Human Evolution (Tabletop Game) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Shadowrun (Tabletop Game) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura (Video Game) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Bullet Witch (Video Game) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Marvel: Avengers Alliance (Video Game) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
One Night at Flumpty's (Video Game) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2 (Video Game) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Xenoblade Chronicles X (Video Game) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Yohane the Parhelion -BLAZE in the DEEPBLUE- (Video Game) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
C14 Dating (Visual Novel) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
JaidenAnimations (Web Animation) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Mastermind (Web Animation) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Ongezellig (Web Animation) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Filian (Web Video) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Is It a Good Idea to Microwave This? (Web Video) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Linus Tech Tips (Web Video) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Nebride (Web Video) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
The GREYLOCK Tapes (Web Video) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Anacrine Complex (Webcomic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Between Failures (Webcomic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Katamari (Webcomic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Leftover Soup (Webcomic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
PHD (Webcomic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Sequential Art (Webcomic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
The Class Menagerie (Webcomic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
The Trenches (Webcomic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
The Whiteboard (Webcomic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
VG Cats (Webcomic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
xkcd (Webcomic) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
The Onion (Website) / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Angry Birds MakerSpace / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Fantomcat / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Foot 2 Rue / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
Transformers: Animated / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane
X-Men: Evolution / int_88fa35e0	type	Walking Techbane

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