What's it called when an inventor's invention backfires on them? - eviltoast

Is there a name for this specific concept? Where somebody invents something (to do them good) but then that thing turns around and backfires on them?

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      6 months ago

      Not to be confused with segued, which is ‘to move easily and without interruption from one piece of music, part of a story, subject, or situation to another’.