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(Note for Americans reading this: 'Spanner' is the British English word for what you would call a 'wrench', with the added benefit of it being slang for a stupid person. Disgruntled French workers also did this by throwing sabots (wooden-soled clogs) into machinery - giving us the word sabotage.

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The trope is reputedly named for the Industrial Revolution-era practice of disgruntled workers throwing a spanner into a machine, either because of fears that machines would put them out of work, or as a bargaining chip for better working conditions (and often because they were the only ones who knew how to repair the machines as well). See also Immune to Fate, for characters that manage to be this to Fate itself. Also, compare Evil Cannot Comprehend Good, where the flaw is that the villain can't see someone being generous or brave or honest enough to foul up his plan. Compare Too Dumb to Fool, where the character is too stupid even to be baffled by explanations.

Compare with Out-Gambitted, where someone's plan is (or could have been) successful but ineffective against a better-thought-out plan.

Inverse of Unintentional Backup Plan, where a character accidentally completes an imperfect plan that would have otherwise failed. This is the main cause of Didn't See That Coming, this trope being the 'that'. Opposite of the Unwitting Pawn, often is the Unwitting Pawn until the final crucial moment. Compare Finagle's Law, It Began with a Twist of Fate, Nice Job Fixing It, Villain, Outside-Context Problem, Remembered Too Late.