History BatmanGambit / VisualNovels

*** Even Case 3 has one, though it's relatively minor in comparison and was pulled off by someone completely unrelated to the ones above. [[spoiler:After realizing she had been unwittingly hiding a body disguised as an ice sculpture for 18 years, Katherine Hall opts to take revenge on the culprit. Except she still had no idea who the culprit was, so she staged a very publicized art gallery opening featuring the sculpture, figuring that if the culprit heard about it, they would immediately [[OhCrap crap their pants]] and head straight to the gallery to remove the body before anyone noticed it, triggering a poison gas trap that she had set to go off upon opening the sculpture's display case. It doesn't go ''quite'' according to plan, as the culprit receives prompt medical treatment and survives, but he's still outed as the culprit, since why else would he open the case if not to retrieve the body?]]

*** Case 2: Patricia Roland kills Horace Knightley in prison, and Sebastian arrests Simon Keyes based on InsaneTrollLogic. [[spoiler: Simon had exacerbated her paranoia over [[ProfessionalKiller Sirhan Dougan]] and convinced her that Horace was one of Dougan's men by planting a chisel on him. He didn't expect to [[RightForTheWrongReasons get arrested for the wrong reasons]], but he was able to get Edgeworth on his side to prove his innocence. He then [[XanatosSpeedChess alters his revenge plans on the spot]] to involve pointing Edgeworth at his targets.]]

*** Case 2: Patricia Roland kills Horace Knightley in prison and frames Simon Keyes for it. [[spoiler: Simon had exacerbated her paranoia over [[ProfessionalKiller Sirhan Dougan]] and convinced her that Horace was one of Dougan's men by planting a chisel on him. He didn't expect to [[FramingTheGuiltyParty be framed by Patricia]], but he was able to get Edgeworth on his side to prove his innocence. He then [[XanatosSpeedChess alters his revenge plans on the spot]] to involve pointing Edgeworth at his targets.]]

** And in ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations 2'' [[spoiler: Simon Keyes turns out to be running a massive revenge scheme involving playing every culprit and victim against each other and then pointing Edgeworth at them once a murder occurs. He gets Patricia Roland to kill Horace Knightley by giving the latter a chessboard containing a chisel, knowing that Patricia would connect the chisel to [[ProfessionalKiller Sirhan Dogan]] and kill Knightley out of paranoia. For Blaise Debeste, he told the girlfriend of one of Debeste's victims about his involvement, then told him the woman would be gunning for him- and then so that Edgeworth would take the case, he put Kay Faraday in the line of fire, knowing that Debeste would take the opportunity to kill or frame her, the latter of which ended up happening. The final case isn't so much a single incident as realizing that Simon was involved in every ''previous'' incident.]]

** And in ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations 2'' [[spoiler: Simon Keyes turns out to be running a massive revenge scheme involving playing every culprit and victim against each other and then pointing Edgeworth at them once a murder occurs. He gets Patricia Roland to kill Horace Knightly by giving the latter a chessboard containing a chisel, knowing that Patricia would connect the chisel to [[ProfessionalKiller Simon Dogan]] and kill Knightly out of paranoia. For Blaise Debeste, he told the girlfriend of one of Debeste's victims about his involvement, then told him the woman would be gunning for him- and then so that Edgeworth would take the case, he put Kay Faraday in the line of fire, knowing that Debeste would take the opportunity to kill or frame her, the latter of which ended up happening. The final case isn't so much a single incident as realizing that Simon was involved in every ''previous'' incident.]]

** And in ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations 2'' [[spoiler: The ''ENTIRE GAME'' turns out to the result of the BigBad pointing Edgeworth at the people they want revenge on. The final case isn't so much a proper case is it is piecing together all the loose ends of the previous cases and realising they all point to one person.]]

** In [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney the first game]], Manfred von Karma had one of these as a backup plan, in case something went wrong (which, for him, has happened once in his 40 years as a prosecutor). Even if he failed to convict [[spoiler:Edgeworth for the murder on Gourd Lake, he was hoping that the trauma from the investigation and trial revealing how the Gourd Lake murder parallels and connects to the DL-6 Incident would make Edgeworth confess his guilt to being the culprit of DL-6 himself]]. He did, just as planned. In a more humorous, CrazyPrepared example, the infamous [[MakeTheDogTestify parrot cross-examination]] is something Phoenix did after von Karma mockingly suggested he do it. It turns out that [[spoiler:von Karma expected this possibility was goading him into looking foolish by putting the parrot on the stand without knowing that von Karma had already retrained the parrot to stonewall any questions]].

** In case 4-2 of ''Apollo Justice'', [[spoiler:the whole reason Alita (the real killer) hired Apollo to defend Wocky was because she was convinced that, if anyone could flub up his defense, it would be a rookie lawyer from a seedy "talent agency" run by a fifteen year-old stage magician.]]

** In [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney the first game]], Manfred von Karma had one of these as a backup plan, in case something went wrong (which, for him, has happened once in his 40 years as a prosecutor). [[spoiler:If he failed to convict Edgeworth for the murder on Gourd Lake, he was hoping that he would confess to the DL-6 Incident. He did, just as planned.]] In a more humorous, CrazyPrepared example, the infamous [[MakeTheDogTestify parrot cross-examination]] is something Phoenix did after von Karma mockingly suggested he do it. It turns out that [[spoiler:von Karma expected this possibility was goading him into looking foolish by putting the parrot on the stand without knowing that von Karma had already retrained the parrot to stonewall any questions]].
** In case 1-5, the main character himself pulled a beautiful one against [[spoiler: Damon Gant. He used a legal loophole to withhold a piece of evidence that would have otherwise cleared Gant of the murder. The angry Gant then confessed about everything short of the murder itself to get himself off the hook. Then Wright shows the evidence, which made said confession to incriminate him of the murder. The aforementioned legal loophole was that the evidence still needed one or two requirements before being shown, which backfires on Gant when he realizes his confession helped it meet those requirements.]]

** In [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney the first game]], Manfred von Karma had one of these as a backup plan, in case something went wrong (which, for him, has happened once in his 40 years as a prosecutor). [[spoiler:If he failed to convict Edgeworth for the murder on Gourd Lake, he was hoping that he would confess to the DL-6 incident. He did, just as planned.]]

* During the final battle of ''VisualNovel/SilverCrisis'', Lucas quickly realizes that Silver will only let his guard down around Lucario due to his belief that he's better than his original self in every way. So after saving him, [[spoiler: he hides Rope Snake who is holding a Silver Arrow inside of Lucario's tail, and acts as a distraction to bait Silver into a false sense of security, allowing Silver to kill him. Lucario, faking an act of giving into his rage to further lure Silver into this, takes the opportunity to stab him with the Arrow, ending this Crisis once and for all.]]
* In ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', [[spoiler:it is revealed in the later routes that almost any part of the game related to the Tohno family (any/all given routes) was all an enormous Batman Gambit of epic proportions, schemed by the maid Kohaku as an attempt to get her revenge on the Tohno family for all the horrendous abuse Makihisa dealt out to her; it fully succeeds in 2 of the endings. Don't even get fans started on this topic, as they are highly divided on to ''what'' extent things were orchestrated.]]

* In ''VisualNovel/KissedByTheBaddestBidder'', Eisuke Ichinomiya's favorite method of managing a situation is to walk out into the public eye and create a false impression about what he's doing, then sit back and let people react until their reactions create an opportunity that he can take advantage of. The best example takes up most of the latter half of his route: a particular competitor is out to undermine his recent business deal with TheMafia, and isn't above trying to [[IHaveYourWife use Eisuke's "girlfriend" as leverage]]. So Eisuke very publicly breaks up with her. It doesn't keep his competitor from kidnapping her, but it ''does'' give Eisuke [[spoiler:an in with the competitor's female second-in-command, who wants a shot with him herself. As a result, Eisuke is able to form an alliance with her and assist her in taking over the competitor's company while her boss is occupied with kidnapping the protagonist and thinks he has the upper hand.]] And, as a side bonus, the public "breakup" also puts an end to the AlphaBitch's jealous bullying.

* In ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', we see Battler pull one off in ''Dawn''. [[spoiler:He sets up a story to prove he understands Beatrice's game and demonstrate the possibility that he COULD be the culprit, predicting that Erika would pitch a fit about not being allowed duct tape, and when she does have it, predicting that she would kill the other "victims" (Battler himself being the sixth) but fail to kill Battler because he somehow escaped. This prompts a Logic Error accusation, which could see the game board destroyed if Battler can't come up with an allowable solution, and Battler asks for time to think, trapping himself in the room until he figures out how to escape while not contradicting any confirmed information. It is then that Chick Beatrice acquires the memories of the original Beatrice and sends Kanon to rescue Battler, then having him disappear via magic. The kicker? The return of Beatrice was Battler's '''GOAL''', with the game's progression, Erika's murders, the Logic Error and resulting isolation, all being part of the '''PLAN'''.]] What keeps it from being a GambitRoulette is that there '''WERE''' reasonable failure conditions, such as, for example, [[spoiler:Dlanor running out of patience and demanding an answer from Battler before Beatrice could provide one]].[[/labelnote]]

** In case 1-5, the main character himself pulled a beautiful one against [[spoiler: Damon Gant. He used a legal loophole to withhold a piece of evidence that would have otherwise cleared Gant of the murder. The angry Gant then confessed about everything short of the murder itself to get himself off the hook. Then Wright shows the evidence, which made said confession to incriminate him of the murder. The aforementioned legal loophole was that the evidence still needed one or two requirements before being shown, which backfires on Gant when he tries claiming it as illegal evidence as his last resort.]]

** In case 1-5, the main character himself pulled a beautiful one against [[spoiler: Damon Gant. He used a legal loophole to withhold a piece of evidence that would have otherwise cleared Gant of the murder. The angry Gant then confessed about everything short of the murder itself to get himself off the hook. Then Wright shows the evidence, which made said confession to incriminate him of the murder.]]

** In the third game's case 3, Phoenix pulls a fast one on [[spoiler:Furio Tigre]] by [[spoiler:intentionally presenting the wrong bottle of evidence as the poison Tigre used to kill Glen Elg, counting on Tigre to correct him; if Tigre, who had just stepped into the courtroom and had previously impersonated Phoenix at Maggey's initial trial, is innocent, then it should be his first time seeing the real container. Tigre indeed corrects Phoenix and describes the real bottle of poison in detail, implicating himself as the murderer.]]

** In the third game's case 3, Phoenix pulls a fast one on [[spoiler:Furio Tigre]] by [[spoiler:intentionally presenting the wrong bottle of evidence as the poison Tigre used to kill Glen Elg, counting on Tigre to correct him; if Tigre, who had just stepped into the courtroom and had previously impersonated Phoenix at Maggey's initial trial, is innocent, then it should be his first time seeing the real container. Tigre indeed corrects Phoenix and describes the real bottle of poison in detail, implicating himself in the process.]]

* During the final battle of ''VisualNovel/SilverCrisis'', Lucas quickly realizes that Silver will only let his guard down around Lucario due to his belief that he's above his original self in every way. So after saving him, [[spoiler: he hides Rope Snake who is holding a Silver Arrow inside of Lucario's tail, and acts as a distraction to bait Silver into a false sense of security, allowing Silver to kill him. Lucario, faking an act of giving into his rage to further lure Silver into this, takes the opportunity to stab him with the Arrow, ending this Crisis once and for all.]]

** [[spoiler:Matt Engarde]], ManipulativeBastard that he is, used one to hinder his rival by [[spoiler: confessing that he had previously been in a relationship with his manager. Since his rival was currently in a relationship with his manager, he broke up out of pride. Having been heartbroken twice by the same man, she commited suicide.]]

** And in ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations 2'' [[spoiler: The ''ENTIRE GAME'' turns out to have been one by the BigBad. So much so that the final case isn't so much a proper case is it is piecing together all the loose ends of the previous cases and realising they all point to one person.]]

* The ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' games used these a few times.

** And in Ace Attorney Investigations 2 [[spoiler: The ''ENTIRE GAME'' turns out to have been one by the BigBad. So much so that the final case isn't so much a proper case is it is piecing together all the loose ends of the previous cases and realising they all point to one person.]]
* Half of ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' is about Apollo being manipulated by [[TheChessmaster Phoenix]] in his bid to reform the justice system and clear his own name. It starts when Phoenix is framed for murder by [[spoiler:his "friend", Kristoph Gavin]], whom he calls to defend him in court, but then get suspicious when Kristoph lets slip something about the death in the call, so he insists on having ''Apollo'' defend him instead, intending to [[spoiler:manipulate the trial to get Apollo to prove Gavin did it]]. And since [[spoiler:Apollo has now put his own boss in jail for murder]] this means Phoenix is now able to take Apollo under his wing to groom as his successor. Phoenix has come a long way since the first game.

** In case 1-5, the main character himself pulled a beautiful one against [[spoiler: Damon Gant. He used a legal loophole to withhold an evidence that would have otherwise cleared Gant of the murder. The angry Gant then confessed about everything short of the murder itself to get himself off the hook. Then Wright shows the evidence, which made said confession to incriminate him of the murder.]]

* In ''{{VisualNovel/Tsukihime}}'', [[spoiler:it is revealed in the later routes that almost any part of the game related to the Tohno family (any/all given routes) was all an enormous Batman Gambit of epic proportions, schemed by the maid Kohaku as an attempt to get her revenge on the Tohno family for all the horrendous abuse Makihisa dealt out to her; it fully succeeds in 2 of the endings. Don't even get fans started on this topic, as they are highly divided on to ''what'' extent things were orchestrated.]]

** In the first game, Manfred von Karma had one of these as a backup plan, in case something went wrong (which, for him, has happened once in his 40 years as a prosecutor). [[spoiler:If he failed to convict Edgeworth for the murder on Gourd Lake, he was hoping that he would confess to the DL-6 incident. He did, just as planned.]]
** In case 1-5, the [[PhoenixWright main character]] himself pulled a beautiful one against [[spoiler: Damon Gant. He used a legal loophole to withhold an evidence that would have otherwise cleared Gant of the murder. The angry Gant then confessed about everything short of the murder itself to get himself off the hook. Then Wright shows the evidence, which made said confession to incriminate him of the murder.]]

** Of course, [[spoiler: he was part of another BatmanGambit to eliminate the other {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s by Zero.]]

** [[IndyPloy Quite a long way indeed.]]
** To a lesser extent, Klavier uses this against Apollo, letting him figure out and prove things Klavier had figured out long before, then turning these things against Apollo.