Scientist turns on his machine

>Scientist turns on his machine
>The entire city blacks out

Name TWO movies where this happens

>Scientist turns on his machine
>Nothing happens
>Mashes all the buttons and switches angrily
>"Whoops! Forgot to plug it in!"

Men in Black 2

man i really enjoy this post and the frog image. no sarcasm, thank man

>Science machine has buttons that do entire actions instead of separate things

The Prestige when Tesla powers the thing

That was at least justified because Tesla was also providing the power

denzel washington and his time machine

>Computer has a button that does two separate functions
>Button performs the task the character wanted instead of the other task it's capable of doing

true, true

>super smart nerd can't fix something
>chad protag hits it
>it works

AMERICAN COMPONENTS, RUSSIAN COMPONENTS, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!

>computer detects anomalous DNA
>goes ahead and carries on with the transfer anyway instead of crashing due to unexpected condition
>it must have literally been programmed to do that

>Scientist turns on the city
>his machine blacks out

"Should I cancel the task and bring this anomaly to his attention? Nah, he'll probably just get mad at me."

Ivan Vasilievich Changes Occupation

>Scientist is a hermit and doesn't know how to talk to girls despite earning 6 figures.

>scientist lives in his mother's basement

>Car alarms go off
>Dogs are barking

>doorbell rings
>the protagonist goes to open the door

unbelievable what we let them get away with

Ocean's 11

Worked in a lab, happens all the time.

Well done, however, there is something called "Recall State"
nobody manually sets everything up every time they do a thing

>that Eva episode where they use the positron rifle and it blacks out the whole of Japan

fantastic 4 2005 and 2015

At least they had to specifically rig it to do that though, unlike in OP where a random person on the grid can apparently overload the entire system.

>Shinji manages to eyeball the second shot.
Impresive shot from a total failure of a person.