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* ''Film/MarsAttacks Franchise/TheTransformers'': Megatron decides to use the Martian invasion as a chance to ally with them and take out the Autobots. Instead, the Martians capture both Autobots ''and'' Decepticons. As Megatron yells at the aliens and vows to kill them all, Cliffjumper points out that, as robots calling themselves "Decepticons", they should have seen this coming.
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* ''Film/MarsAttacks Franchise/TheTransformers'': The Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': Megatron decides to use the Martian invasion as a chance to ally with them and take out the Autobots. Instead, the Martians capture both Autobots ''and'' Decepticons. As Megatron yells at the aliens and vows to kill them all, Cliffjumper points out that, as robots calling themselves "Decepticons", they should have seen this coming.
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* In a story in ''Vampire Tales'', a man decides to become a vampire in order to get rid of his family (no payments or anything because he's considered dead) and be immortal as long as he avoids fire and sunlight. Three days after his death, he awakes just as he was told he would... [[spoiler:just as his wife is having his disfigured remains cremated.]]
* ''ComicBook/TheWildstorm:'' Michael Cray's attempted assassination of Marlowe would've gone a lot differently had it not been for a few factors neither party saw coming: Marlowe being an alien, with xeno-biology detectors in his office which alerted him to Michael, and Michael's superpowers (which even Michael didn't know he had) saving him from Marlowe's attempt to defend himself... the result of which is that Marlowe gets blown out his office window anyway, and would've died if not for Angie Spice passing by with an advanced stolen flight suit in need of a test drive.
* ''ComicBook/TheWildstorm:'' Michael Cray's attempted assassination of Marlowe would've gone a lot differently had it not been for a few factors neither party saw coming: Marlowe being an alien, with xeno-biology detectors in his office which alerted him to Michael, and Michael's superpowers (which even Michael didn't know he had) saving him from Marlowe's attempt to defend himself... the result of which is that Marlowe gets blown out his office window anyway, and would've died if not for Angie Spice passing by with an advanced stolen flight suit in need of a test drive.
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* ''ComicBook/VampireTales'': In a story in ''Vampire Tales'', one story, a man decides to become a vampire in order to get rid of his family (no payments or anything because he's considered dead) and be immortal as long as he avoids fire and sunlight. Three days after his death, he awakes just as he was told he would... [[spoiler:just as his wife is having his disfigured remains cremated.]]
*''ComicBook/TheWildstorm:'' ''ComicBook/TheWildstorm'': Michael Cray's attempted assassination of Marlowe would've gone a lot differently had it not been for a few factors neither party saw coming: Marlowe being an alien, with xeno-biology detectors in his office which alerted him to Michael, and Michael's superpowers (which even Michael didn't know he had) saving him from Marlowe's attempt to defend himself... the result of which is that Marlowe gets blown out his office window anyway, and would've died if not for Angie Spice passing by with an advanced stolen flight suit in need of a test drive.
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* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': In ''The Avengers'' #267, One an alternate Kang deciding to forego subtlety and just nuke the Avengers. However, he's then summoned up by the Council of Kangs, who show the logical end result; World-wide nuclear war. Then the Kangs kill him for being stupid.
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* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': In ''The Avengers'' ''ComicBook/TheAvengers1963'' #267, One an alternate Kang deciding to forego subtlety and just nuke the Avengers. However, he's then summoned up by the Council of Kangs, who show the logical end result; World-wide nuclear war. Then the Kangs kill him for being stupid.
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** In James Robinson's ''Fantastic Four'' run, the Quiet Man pulls off a massive plot to turn the public against the FF, have the Thing in jail, the Human Torch depowered and Reed and Sue split up, all aided by the Psycho Man. His plan is to have Earth overwhelmed by aliens and alternate heroes from other worlds so the Quiet Man can be the big hero saving the day. When Reed tells him to go ahead and shut the portals down, the Quiet Man tries...and can't. He's totally stunned as Reed openly points out how stupid an idea it is to allow ''THE PSYCHO MAN'' to have ultimate power over two worlds. ("Seriously, the name alone...")
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** In James Robinson's ''Fantastic Four'' ''ComicBook/FantasticFour2014'' run, the Quiet Man pulls off a massive plot to turn the public against the FF, have the Thing in jail, the Human Torch depowered and Reed and Sue split up, all aided by the Psycho Man. His plan is to have Earth overwhelmed by aliens and alternate heroes from other worlds so the Quiet Man can be the big hero saving the day. When Reed tells him to go ahead and shut the portals down, the Quiet Man tries...and can't. He's totally stunned as Reed openly points out how stupid an idea it is to allow ''THE PSYCHO MAN'' to have ultimate power over two worlds. ("Seriously, the name alone...")
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* In a story in ''Vampire Tales'', a man decides to become a vampire in order to get rid of his family (no payments or anything because he's considered dead) and be immortal as long as he avoids fire and sunlight. Three days after his death, he awakes just as he was told he would ... [[spoiler:just as his wife is having his disfigured remains cremated.]]
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* In a story in ''Vampire Tales'', a man decides to become a vampire in order to get rid of his family (no payments or anything because he's considered dead) and be immortal as long as he avoids fire and sunlight. Three days after his death, he awakes just as he was told he would ...would... [[spoiler:just as his wife is having his disfigured remains cremated.]]
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* In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', [[spoiler:AIQ Squared's]] plot falls apart when he fails to plan ahead for [[spoiler:Siphon's Death Activated Super Power.]]
* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers:'' One issue has an alternate Kang deciding to forego subtlety and just nuke the Avengers. However, he's then summoned up by the Council of Kangs, who show the logical end result; World-wide nuclear war. Then the Kangs kill him for being stupid.
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* In ''ComicBook/DeathOfWolverine'' Dr. Cornelius has a plan to create an army of supersoldiers, and has everything he needs except the last ingredient: Wolverine, so he can extract his HealingFactor to allow them to survive his enhancements. After capturing Wolverine and explaining this, he then has to ruefully acknowledge that he tends to focus too much on the big picture as Wolverine cuts himself to reveal that he's lost his healing factor.
* In one ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse story Rockerduck decides to steal the blueprints for ArtificialGravity technology Scrooge got from a stranded time traveler, and has his men disguise themselves as [[TimePolice Guardians of Time]] and confiscate them with the excuse introducing a future technology before it's invented is forbidden. Cue the ''real'' Guardians of Time telling him he was spot-on on their rules, confiscating the plans, and telling him he's lucky to get off with a warning for trying to do that ''and'' ImpersonatingAnOfficer, at which point a baffled Rockerduck comments he didn't expect his idea to be so good it was actually true.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'', Mr. Dark has the Fable community to the wall. They can't run any more, and he is slowly shattering Haven's defenses. The Fables are planning a last ditch effort to defend themselves, but the chance of it actually working are slim. Then Mr. North, the North Wind, Bigby's neglectful father who he has had a serious love/hate relationship with, and who has often been shown to not really care about much outside his realm [[spoiler:sacrifices himself to shut Mr. Dark down ''permanently''.]] That it allows him to let his zephyr grandson live is a bonus. [[{{Pun}} A slam dunk]] with #4.
* In one ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse story Rockerduck decides to steal the blueprints for ArtificialGravity technology Scrooge got from a stranded time traveler, and has his men disguise themselves as [[TimePolice Guardians of Time]] and confiscate them with the excuse introducing a future technology before it's invented is forbidden. Cue the ''real'' Guardians of Time telling him he was spot-on on their rules, confiscating the plans, and telling him he's lucky to get off with a warning for trying to do that ''and'' ImpersonatingAnOfficer, at which point a baffled Rockerduck comments he didn't expect his idea to be so good it was actually true.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'', Mr. Dark has the Fable community to the wall. They can't run any more, and he is slowly shattering Haven's defenses. The Fables are planning a last ditch effort to defend themselves, but the chance of it actually working are slim. Then Mr. North, the North Wind, Bigby's neglectful father who he has had a serious love/hate relationship with, and who has often been shown to not really care about much outside his realm [[spoiler:sacrifices himself to shut Mr. Dark down ''permanently''.]] That it allows him to let his zephyr grandson live is a bonus. [[{{Pun}} A slam dunk]] with #4.
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* In ''ComicBook/DeathOfWolverine'' Dr. Cornelius has a plan to create an army of supersoldiers, and has everything he needs except the last ingredient: Wolverine, so he can extract his HealingFactor to allow them to survive his enhancements. After capturing Wolverine and explaining this, he then has to ruefully acknowledge that he tends to focus too much on the big picture as Wolverine cuts himself to reveal that he's lost his healing factor.
*''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': In one ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse story story, Rockerduck decides to steal the blueprints for ArtificialGravity technology Scrooge got from a stranded time traveler, and has his men disguise themselves as [[TimePolice Guardians of Time]] and confiscate them with the excuse introducing a future technology before it's invented is forbidden. Cue the ''real'' Guardians of Time telling him he was spot-on on their rules, confiscating the plans, and telling him he's lucky to get off with a warning for trying to do that ''and'' ImpersonatingAnOfficer, at which point a baffled Rockerduck comments he didn't expect his idea to be so good it was actually true.
*In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'': Mr. Dark has the Fable community to the wall. They can't run any more, and he is slowly shattering Haven's defenses. The Fables are planning a last ditch effort to defend themselves, but the chance of it actually working are slim. Then Mr. North, the North Wind, Bigby's neglectful father who he has had a serious love/hate relationship with, and who has often been shown to not really care about much outside his realm [[spoiler:sacrifices himself to shut Mr. Dark down ''permanently''.]] That it allows him to let his zephyr grandson live is a bonus. [[{{Pun}} A slam dunk]] with #4.
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** Frequent villain the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Thinker Mad Thinker]] is often foiled by things that even his supergenius intelligence can't predict, [[StrawVulcan such as random human behavior]].
** In James Robinson's FF run, the Quiet Man pulls off a massive plot to turn the public against the FF, have the Thing in jail, the Human Torch depowered and Reed and Sue split up, all aided by the Psycho Man. His plan is to have Earth overwhelmed by aliens and alternate heroes from other worlds so the Quiet Man can be the big hero saving the day. When Reed tells him to go ahead and shut the portals down, the Quiet Man tries...and can't. He's totally stunned as Reed openly points out how stupid an idea it is to allow ''THE PSYCHO MAN'' to have ultimate power over two worlds. ("Seriously, the name alone...")
* In ''ComicBook/GothamCityGarage'', [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] and [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Gordon]] are being chased down by a killer robot. Dick decides to split up so the robot chases ''her''... but it goes after ''him''. Dick's reaction?
** In James Robinson's FF run, the Quiet Man pulls off a massive plot to turn the public against the FF, have the Thing in jail, the Human Torch depowered and Reed and Sue split up, all aided by the Psycho Man. His plan is to have Earth overwhelmed by aliens and alternate heroes from other worlds so the Quiet Man can be the big hero saving the day. When Reed tells him to go ahead and shut the portals down, the Quiet Man tries...and can't. He's totally stunned as Reed openly points out how stupid an idea it is to allow ''THE PSYCHO MAN'' to have ultimate power over two worlds. ("Seriously, the name alone...")
* In ''ComicBook/GothamCityGarage'', [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] and [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Gordon]] are being chased down by a killer robot. Dick decides to split up so the robot chases ''her''... but it goes after ''him''. Dick's reaction?
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** Frequent villain the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Thinker Mad Thinker]] Thinker is often foiled by things that even his supergenius super-genius intelligence can't predict, [[StrawVulcan such as random human behavior]].
** In James Robinson'sFF ''Fantastic Four'' run, the Quiet Man pulls off a massive plot to turn the public against the FF, have the Thing in jail, the Human Torch depowered and Reed and Sue split up, all aided by the Psycho Man. His plan is to have Earth overwhelmed by aliens and alternate heroes from other worlds so the Quiet Man can be the big hero saving the day. When Reed tells him to go ahead and shut the portals down, the Quiet Man tries...and can't. He's totally stunned as Reed openly points out how stupid an idea it is to allow ''THE PSYCHO MAN'' to have ultimate power over two worlds. ("Seriously, the name alone...")
*In ''ComicBook/GothamCityGarage'', ''ComicBook/GothamCityGarage'': [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] and [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Gordon]] are being chased down by a killer robot. Dick decides to split up so the robot chases ''her''... but it goes after ''him''. Dick's reaction?
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* In ''ComicBook/ImmortalXMen'', Magneto steps down as part of the Quiet Council and a discussion is made as to who to replace him. Selene is one of the last to be interviewed before Hope Summers steps in at Exodus' suggestion. Sinister pushes for a vote, sure that Selene is bluffing at the idea of retaliation for not letting her on and believes the Hellfire Club members (Shaw, Frost, Pryde) would join Exodus in voting "yes" and Mystique and Destiny would as well as thanks for reviving the latter. When Destiny says "no", Sinster panics and flips his "no" to a "yes". Then, it turns out that, yes, Selene ''would'' retaliate for not joining the Quiet Council.
* Malekith the Accursed in ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' falls prey to this. [[EpicFail One panel]] after he revealed his scheme. [[spoiler:Who can stand against the mighty Grendell with Hercules and ComicBook/TheMightyThor both weakened? ''Zeus''. To add injury to insult, Grendell then ''fell on him''.]]
* ''[[ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet The Infinity War]]'' has a resurrected Magus employ a complicated scheme to [[spoiler:seize all the Infinity Gems from Warlock and his Infinity Watch]]. Because the plan is too complicated requiring all his attention, the Magus literally ''doesn't see'' the [[spoiler:combined efforts of Doctor Doom and Kang interfering with his plan]].
* In ''Film/MarsAttacks Franchise/TheTransformers'', Megatron decides to use the Martian invasion as a chance to ally with them and take out the Autobots. Instead, the Martians capture both Autobots ''and'' Decepticons. As Megatron yells at the aliens and vows to kill them all, Cliffjumper points out that, as robots calling themselves "Decepticons", they should have seen this coming.
* Malekith the Accursed in ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' falls prey to this. [[EpicFail One panel]] after he revealed his scheme. [[spoiler:Who can stand against the mighty Grendell with Hercules and ComicBook/TheMightyThor both weakened? ''Zeus''. To add injury to insult, Grendell then ''fell on him''.]]
* ''[[ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet The Infinity War]]'' has a resurrected Magus employ a complicated scheme to [[spoiler:seize all the Infinity Gems from Warlock and his Infinity Watch]]. Because the plan is too complicated requiring all his attention, the Magus literally ''doesn't see'' the [[spoiler:combined efforts of Doctor Doom and Kang interfering with his plan]].
* In ''Film/MarsAttacks Franchise/TheTransformers'', Megatron decides to use the Martian invasion as a chance to ally with them and take out the Autobots. Instead, the Martians capture both Autobots ''and'' Decepticons. As Megatron yells at the aliens and vows to kill them all, Cliffjumper points out that, as robots calling themselves "Decepticons", they should have seen this coming.
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* In ''ComicBook/ImmortalXMen'', Magneto steps down as part of the Quiet Council and a discussion is made as to who to replace him. Selene is one of the last to be interviewed before Hope Summers steps in at Exodus' suggestion. Sinister pushes for a vote, sure that Selene is bluffing at the idea of retaliation for not letting her on and believes the Hellfire Club members (Shaw, Frost, Pryde) would join Exodus in voting "yes" and Mystique and Destiny would as well as thanks for reviving the latter. When Destiny says "no", Sinster panics and flips his "no" to a "yes". Then, it turns out that, yes, Selene ''would'' retaliate for not joining the Quiet Council.
*''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'': Malekith the Accursed in ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' falls prey to this. [[EpicFail One panel]] after he revealed his scheme. [[spoiler:Who can stand against the mighty Grendell with Hercules and ComicBook/TheMightyThor both weakened? ''Zeus''. To add injury to insult, Grendell then ''fell on him''.]]
*''[[ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet The Infinity War]]'' has a ''ComicBook/TheInfinityWar'': A resurrected Magus employ employs a complicated scheme to [[spoiler:seize all the Infinity Gems from Warlock and his Infinity Watch]]. Because the plan is too complicated requiring all his attention, the Magus literally ''doesn't see'' the [[spoiler:combined efforts of Doctor Doom and Kang interfering with his plan]].
*In ''Film/MarsAttacks Franchise/TheTransformers'', Franchise/TheTransformers'': Megatron decides to use the Martian invasion as a chance to ally with them and take out the Autobots. Instead, the Martians capture both Autobots ''and'' Decepticons. As Megatron yells at the aliens and vows to kill them all, Cliffjumper points out that, as robots calling themselves "Decepticons", they should have seen this coming.
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* The {{Satan}} CaptainErsatz from Creator/JMichaelStraczynski's graphic novel ''ComicBook/MidnightNation'' literally says this line word for word [[spoiler:after TheHero with the MeaningfulName of Gray turns down his offer, chooses self sacrifice, and turns the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil right against him, something which thousands of predecessors before him had all failed to do]].
* ''ComicBook/SinsOfSinister'': Twice in the first issue: Sinister's corrupted Quiet Council votes against him, revealing that they have too much of their old personalities for him to control. Then when he decides he can't work with that, he finds his lab full of timeline-resetting Moira clones has been stolen, trapping him in the horrible timeline he made.
* ''ComicBook/SinsOfSinister'': Twice in the first issue: Sinister's corrupted Quiet Council votes against him, revealing that they have too much of their old personalities for him to control. Then when he decides he can't work with that, he finds his lab full of timeline-resetting Moira clones has been stolen, trapping him in the horrible timeline he made.
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* ''ComicBook/MidnightNation'': The {{Satan}} CaptainErsatz from Creator/JMichaelStraczynski's graphic novel ''ComicBook/MidnightNation'' literally says this line word for word [[spoiler:after TheHero with the MeaningfulName of Gray turns down his offer, chooses self sacrifice, and turns the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil right against him, something which thousands of predecessors before him had all failed to do]].
* ''ComicBook/SinsOfSinister'': Twice in the first issue: Sinister's corrupted Quiet Council votes against him, revealing that they have too much of their old personalities for him to control. Then when he decides he can't work with that, he finds his lab full of timeline-resetting Moira clones has been stolen, trapping him in the horrible timeline he made.do]].
* ''ComicBook/SinsOfSinister'': Twice in the first issue: Sinister's corrupted Quiet Council votes against him, revealing that they have too much of their old personalities for him to control. Then when he decides he can't work with that, he finds his lab full of timeline-resetting Moira clones has been stolen, trapping him in the horrible timeline he made.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'': In ''ComicBook/DeathOfWolverine'' Dr. Cornelius has a plan to create an army of supersoldiers, and has everything he needs except the last ingredient: Wolverine, so he can extract his HealingFactor to allow them to survive his enhancements. After capturing Wolverine and explaining this, he then has to ruefully acknowledge that he tends to focus too much on the big picture as Wolverine cuts himself to reveal that he's lost his healing factor.
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** In ''ComicBook/ImmortalXMen'', Magneto steps down as part of the Quiet Council and a discussion is made as to who to replace him. Selene is one of the last to be interviewed before Hope Summers steps in at Exodus' suggestion. Sinister pushes for a vote, sure that Selene is bluffing at the idea of retaliation for not letting her on and believes the Hellfire Club members (Shaw, Frost, Pryde) would join Exodus in voting "yes" and Mystique and Destiny would as well as thanks for reviving the latter. When Destiny says "no", Sinster panics and flips his "no" to a "yes". Then, it turns out that, yes, Selene ''would'' retaliate for not joining the Quiet Council.
** This happens twice in ''ComicBook/SinsOfSinister'' #1, as Sinister's corrupted Quiet Council votes against him, revealing that they have too much of their old personalities for him to control. Then when he decides he can't work with that, he finds his lab full of timeline-resetting Moira clones has been stolen, trapping him in the horrible timeline he made.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** In ''ComicBook/ImmortalXMen'', Magneto steps down as part of the Quiet Council and a discussion is made as to who to replace him. Selene is one of the last to be interviewed before Hope Summers steps in at Exodus' suggestion. Sinister pushes for a vote, sure that Selene is bluffing at the idea of retaliation for not letting her on and believes the Hellfire Club members (Shaw, Frost, Pryde) would join Exodus in voting "yes" and Mystique and Destiny would as well as thanks for reviving the latter. When Destiny says "no", Sinster panics and flips his "no" to a "yes". Then, it turns out that, yes, Selene ''would'' retaliate for not joining the Quiet Council.
** This happens twice in ''ComicBook/SinsOfSinister'' #1, as Sinister's corrupted Quiet Council votes against him, revealing that they have too much of their old personalities for him to control. Then when he decides he can't work with that, he finds his lab full of timeline-resetting Moira clones has been stolen, trapping him in the horrible timeline he made.
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* ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'': The Batman Who Laughs is an evil alternate Franchise/{{Batman}} who can effortlessly predict anything Batman tries. Until Batman resorts to teaming up with ComicBook/TheJoker. ''That'' he didn't see coming.
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* ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'': The Batman Who Laughs is an evil alternate Franchise/{{Batman}} ComicBook/{{Batman}} who can effortlessly predict anything Batman tries. Until Batman resorts to teaming up with ComicBook/TheJoker. ''That'' he didn't see coming.
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* Malekith the Accursed in ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' falls prey to this. [[EpicFail One panel]] after he revealed his scheme. [[spoiler:Who can stand against the mighty Grendell with Hercules and Comicbook/TheMightyThor both weakened? ''Zeus''. To add injury to insult, Grendell then ''fell on him''.]]
* ''[[Comicbook/TheInfinityGauntlet The Infinity War]]'' has a resurrected Magus employ a complicated scheme to [[spoiler:seize all the Infinity Gems from Warlock and his Infinity Watch]]. Because the plan is too complicated requiring all his attention, the Magus literally ''doesn't see'' the [[spoiler:combined efforts of Doctor Doom and Kang interfering with his plan]].
* ''[[Comicbook/TheInfinityGauntlet The Infinity War]]'' has a resurrected Magus employ a complicated scheme to [[spoiler:seize all the Infinity Gems from Warlock and his Infinity Watch]]. Because the plan is too complicated requiring all his attention, the Magus literally ''doesn't see'' the [[spoiler:combined efforts of Doctor Doom and Kang interfering with his plan]].
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* Malekith the Accursed in ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' falls prey to this. [[EpicFail One panel]] after he revealed his scheme. [[spoiler:Who can stand against the mighty Grendell with Hercules and Comicbook/TheMightyThor ComicBook/TheMightyThor both weakened? ''Zeus''. To add injury to insult, Grendell then ''fell on him''.]]
*''[[Comicbook/TheInfinityGauntlet ''[[ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet The Infinity War]]'' has a resurrected Magus employ a complicated scheme to [[spoiler:seize all the Infinity Gems from Warlock and his Infinity Watch]]. Because the plan is too complicated requiring all his attention, the Magus literally ''doesn't see'' the [[spoiler:combined efforts of Doctor Doom and Kang interfering with his plan]].
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* In a ''{{Dracula}}'' vs ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' crossover, Dracula's plan was to drink Superman's blood and thus gain the powers of a Kryptonian. Unfortunately he was not aware that Superman is ''solar-powered'', and drinking his blood had a similar effect to trying to chow down on an active grenade.
* In the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' storyline ''ComicBook/EndsOfTheEarth'', Comicbook/DoctorOctopus' final grand scheme was to [[spoiler:flash fry all of humanity save .08% of them, so they can rebuild and remember him as the greatest monster that ever lived]]. When confronted with this, Spidey points out the big flaw in that plan: [[spoiler:they'll live... brain dead - their brains would be flash fried, too]]. Doc Ock promptly wigs out and Spidey takes him down.
* In the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' storyline ''ComicBook/EndsOfTheEarth'', Comicbook/DoctorOctopus' final grand scheme was to [[spoiler:flash fry all of humanity save .08% of them, so they can rebuild and remember him as the greatest monster that ever lived]]. When confronted with this, Spidey points out the big flaw in that plan: [[spoiler:they'll live... brain dead - their brains would be flash fried, too]]. Doc Ock promptly wigs out and Spidey takes him down.
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* In a ''{{Dracula}}'' vs ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' crossover, Dracula's plan was to drink Superman's blood and thus gain the powers of a Kryptonian. Unfortunately he was not aware that Superman is ''solar-powered'', and drinking his blood had a similar effect to trying to chow down on an active grenade.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Inthe ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' storyline ''ComicBook/EndsOfTheEarth'', Comicbook/DoctorOctopus' ComicBook/DoctorOctopus' final grand scheme was to [[spoiler:flash fry all of humanity save .08% of them, so they can rebuild and remember him as the greatest monster that ever lived]]. When confronted with this, Spidey points out the big flaw in that plan: [[spoiler:they'll live... brain dead - their brains would be flash fried, too]]. Doc Ock promptly wigs out and Spidey takes him down.
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* In ''ComicBook/DeathOfWolverine'' Dr. Cornelius has a plan to create an army of supersoldiers, and has everything he needs except the last ingredient: Wolverine, so he can extract his HealingFactor to allow them to survive his enhancements. After capturing Wolverine and explaining this, he then has to ruefully acknowledge that he tends to focus too much on the big picture as Wolverine cuts himself to reveal that he's lost his healing factor.
* ''ComicBook/SinsOfSinister'': Twice in the first issue: Sinister's corrupted Quiet Council votes against him, revealing that they have too much of their old personalities for him to control. Then when he decides he can't work with that, he finds his lab full of timeline-resetting Moira clones has been stolen, trapping him in the horrible timeline he made.
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* In ''Death of ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' Dr. Cornelius has a plan to create an army of supersoldiers, and has everything he needs except the last ingredient: Wolverine, so he can extract his HealingFactor to allow them to survive his enhancements. After capturing Wolverine and explaining this, he then has to ruefully acknowledge that he tends to focus too much on the big picture as Wolverine cuts himself to reveal that he's lost his healing factor.
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* In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', [[spoiler:AIQ Squared's]] plot falls apart when he fails to plan ahead for [[spoiler:Siphon's Death Activated Super Power.]]
* In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'', Mr. Dark has the Fable community to the wall. They can't run any more, and he is slowly shattering Haven's defenses. The Fables are planning a last ditch effort to defend themselves, but the chance of it actually working are slim. Then Mr. North, the North Wind, Bigby's neglectful father who he has had a serious love/hate relationship with, and who has often been shown to not really care about much outside his realm [[spoiler:sacrifices himself to shut Mr. Dark down ''permanently''.]] That it allows him to let his zephyr grandson live is a bonus. [[{{Pun}} A slam dunk]] with #4.
* In ''ComicBook/ImmortalXMen'', Magneto steps down as part of the Quiet Council and a discussion is made as to who to replace him. Selene is one of the last to be interviewed before Hope Summers steps in at Exodus' suggestion. Sinister pushes for a vote, sure that Selene is bluffing at the idea of retaliation for not letting her on and believes the Hellfire Club members (Shaw, Frost, Pryde) would join Exodus in voting "yes" and Mystique and Destiny would as well as thanks for reviving the latter. When Destiny says "no", Sinster panics and flips his "no" to a "yes". Then, it turns out that, yes, Selene ''would'' retaliate for not joining the Quiet Council.
* Malekith the Accursed in ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' falls prey to this. [[EpicFail One panel]] after he revealed his scheme. [[spoiler:Who can stand against the mighty Grendell with Hercules and Comicbook/TheMightyThor both weakened? ''Zeus''. To add injury to insult, Grendell then ''fell on him''.]]
* Malekith the Accursed in ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' falls prey to this. [[EpicFail One panel]] after he revealed his scheme. [[spoiler:Who can stand against the mighty Grendell with Hercules and Comicbook/TheMightyThor both weakened? ''Zeus''. To add injury to insult, Grendell then ''fell on him''.]]
* In ''Film/MarsAttacks Franchise/TheTransformers'', Megatron decides to use the Martian invasion as a chance to ally with them and take out the Autobots. Instead, the Martians capture both Autobots ''and'' Decepticons. As Megatron yells at the aliens and vows to kill them all, Cliffjumper points out that, as robots calling themselves "Decepticons", they should have seen this coming.
** Similarly, the Martian commander assumed that shrinking Megatron removed him as a factor. [[{{BFG}} It didn't]].
** Similarly, the Martian commander assumed that shrinking Megatron removed him as a factor. [[{{BFG}} It didn't]].
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* Malekith the Accursed in ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' falls prey to this. [[EpicFail One panel]] after he revealed his scheme. [[spoiler:Who can stand against the mighty Grendell with Hercules and Comicbook/TheMightyThor both weakened? ''Zeus''. To add injury to insult, Grendell then ''fell on him''.]]
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* Malekith ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics:'' During the Accursed "Dark Mobius" arc, Jani-Ca's plan is to try and get [[PhysicalGod Enerjak]] in ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' falls prey arm's reach so she can use the Sword of Acorns to this. [[EpicFail One panel]] after he revealed depower him. She's quite surprised when, instead, [[spoiler:it gives her all his scheme. [[spoiler:Who can stand against the mighty Grendell with Hercules and Comicbook/TheMightyThor both weakened? ''Zeus''. To add injury to insult, Grendell then ''fell on him''.powers.]]
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* In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'', Mr. Dark has the Fable community to the wall. They can't run any more, and he is slowly shattering Haven's defenses. The Fables are planning a last ditch effort to defend themselves, but the chance of it actually working are slim. Then Mr. North, the North Wind, Bigby's neglectful father who he has had a serious love/hate relationship with, and who has often been shown to not really care about much outside his realm [[spoiler:sacrifices himself to shut Mr. Dark down ''permanently''.]] That it allows him to let his zephyr grandson live is a bonus. [[{{Pun}} A slam dunk]] with #4.
* In ''Film/MarsAttacks Franchise/TheTransformers'', Megatron decides to use the Martian invasion as a chance to ally with them and take out the Autobots. Instead, the Martians capture both Autobots ''and'' Decepticons. As Megatron yells at the aliens and vows to kill them all, Cliffjumper points out that, as robots calling themselves "Decepticons", they should have seen this coming.
** Similarly, the Martian commander assumed that shrinking Megatron removed him as a factor. [[{{BFG}} It didn't]].
* In ''Film/MarsAttacks Franchise/TheTransformers'', Megatron decides to use the Martian invasion as a chance to ally with them and take out the Autobots. Instead, the Martians capture both Autobots ''and'' Decepticons. As Megatron yells at the aliens and vows to kill them all, Cliffjumper points out that, as robots calling themselves "Decepticons", they should have seen this coming.
** Similarly, the Martian commander assumed that shrinking Megatron removed him as a factor. [[{{BFG}} It didn't]].
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* In ''ComicBook/ImmortalXMen'', Magneto steps down as part of the Quiet Council and a discussion is made as to who to replace him. Selene is one of the last to be interviewed before Hope Summers steps in at Exodus' suggestion. Sinister pushes for a vote, sure that Selene is bluffing at the idea of retaliation for not letting her on and believes the Hellfire Club members (Shaw, Frost, Pryde) would join Exodus in voting "yes" and Mystique and Destiny would as well as thanks for reviving the latter. When Destiny says "no", Sinster panics and flips his "no" to a "yes". Then, it turns out that, yes, Selene ''would'' retaliate for not joining the Quiet Council.
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* In ''ComicBook/ImmortalXMen'', Magneto steps down as part of the Quiet Council and a discussion is made as to who to replace him. Selene is one of the last to be interviewed before Hope Summers steps in at Exodus' suggestion. Sinister pushes for a vote, sure that Selene is bluffing at the idea of retaliation for not letting her on and believes the Hellfire Club members (Shaw, Frost, Pryde) would join Exodus in voting "yes" and Mystique and Destiny would as well as thanks for reviving the latter. When Destiny says "no", Sinster panics and flips his "no" to a "yes". Then, it turns out that, yes, Selene ''would'' retaliate for not joining the Quiet Council.
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* ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'': The Batman Who Laughs is an evil alternate Franchise/{{Batman}} who can effortlessly predict anything Batman tries. Until Batman resorts to teaming up with ComicBook/TheJoker. ''That'' he didn't see coming.
* In one ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse story Rockerduck decides to steal the blueprints for ArtificialGravity technology Scrooge got from a stranded time traveler, and has his men disguise themselves as [[TimePolice Guardians of Time]] and confiscate them with the excuse introducing a future technology before it's invented is forbidden. Cue the ''real'' Guardians of Time telling him he was spot-on on their rules, confiscating the plans, and telling him he's lucky to get off with a warning for trying to do that ''and'' ImpersonatingAnOfficer, at which point a baffled Rockerduck comments he didn't expect his idea to be so good it was actually true.
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* ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'': The Batman Who Laughs is an evil alternate Franchise/{{Batman}} who can effortlessly predict anything Batman tries. Until Batman resorts to teaming up with ComicBook/TheJoker. ''That'' he didn't see coming.
* In one ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse story Rockerduck decides to steal the blueprints for ArtificialGravity technology Scrooge got from a stranded time traveler, and has his men disguise themselves as [[TimePolice Guardians of Time]] and confiscate them with the excuse introducing a future technology before it's invented is forbidden. Cue the ''real'' Guardians of Time telling him he was spot-on on their rules, confiscating the plans, and telling him he's lucky to get off with a warning for trying to do that ''and'' ImpersonatingAnOfficer, at which point a baffled Rockerduck comments he didn't expect his idea to be so good it was actually true.
* In a story in ''Vampire Tales'', a man decides to become a vampire in order to get rid of his family (no payments or anything because he's considered dead) and be immortal as long as he avoids fire and sunlight. Three days after his death, he awakes just as he was told he would … [[spoiler:just as his wife is having his disfigured remains cremated.]]
* ''ComicBook/TheWildstorm:'' Michael Cray's attempted assassination of Marlowe would've gone a lot differently had it not been for a few factors neither party saw coming: Marlowe being an alien, with xeno-biology detectors in his office which alerted him to Michael, and Michael's superpowers (which even Michael didn't know he had) saving him from Marlowe's attempt to defend himself... the result of which is that Marlowe gets blown out his office window anyway, and would've died if not for Angie Spice passing by with an advanced stolen flight suit in need of a test drive.
* ''ComicBook/TheWildstorm:'' Michael Cray's attempted assassination of Marlowe would've gone a lot differently had it not been for a few factors neither party saw coming: Marlowe being an alien, with xeno-biology detectors in his office which alerted him to Michael, and Michael's superpowers (which even Michael didn't know he had) saving him from Marlowe's attempt to defend himself... the result of which is that Marlowe gets blown out his office window anyway, and would've died if not for Angie Spice passing by with an advanced stolen flight suit in need of a test drive.
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* ''ComicBook/TheWildstorm:'' Michael Cray's attempted assassination of Marlowe would've gone a lot differently had it not been for a few factors neither party saw coming: Marlowe being an alien, with xeno-biology detectors in his office which alerted him to Michael, and Michael's superpowers (which even Michael didn't know he had) saving him from Marlowe's attempt to defend himself... the result of which is that Marlowe gets blown out his office window anyway, and would've died if not for Angie Spice passing by with an advanced stolen flight suit in need of a test drive.
* In a story in ''Vampire Tales'', a man decides to become a vampire in order to get rid of his family (no payments or anything because he's considered dead) and be immortal as long as he avoids fire and sunlight. Three days after his death, he awakes just as he was told he would … [[spoiler:just as his wife is having his disfigured remains cremated.]]
* ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'': The Batman Who Laughs is an evil alternate Franchise/{{Batman}} who can effortlessly predict anything Batman tries. Until Batman resorts to teaming up with ComicBook/TheJoker. ''That'' he didn't see coming.
* In one ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse story Rockerduck decides to steal the blueprints for ArtificialGravity technology Scrooge got from a stranded time traveler, and has his men disguise themselves as [[TimePolice Guardians of Time]] and confiscate them with the excuse introducing a future technology before it's invented is forbidden. Cue the ''real'' Guardians of Time telling him he was spot-on on their rules, confiscating the plans, and telling him he's lucky to get off with a warning for trying to do that ''and'' ImpersonatingAnOfficer, at which point a baffled Rockerduck comments he didn't expect his idea to be so good it was actually true.
* In a story in ''Vampire Tales'', a man decides to become a vampire in order to get rid of his family (no payments or anything because he's considered dead) and be immortal as long as he avoids fire and sunlight. Three days after his death, he awakes just as he was told he would … [[spoiler:just as his wife is having his disfigured remains cremated.]]
* ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'': The Batman Who Laughs is an evil alternate Franchise/{{Batman}} who can effortlessly predict anything Batman tries. Until Batman resorts to teaming up with ComicBook/TheJoker. ''That'' he didn't see coming.
* In one ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse story Rockerduck decides to steal the blueprints for ArtificialGravity technology Scrooge got from a stranded time traveler, and has his men disguise themselves as [[TimePolice Guardians of Time]] and confiscate them with the excuse introducing a future technology before it's invented is forbidden. Cue the ''real'' Guardians of Time telling him he was spot-on on their rules, confiscating the plans, and telling him he's lucky to get off with a warning for trying to do that ''and'' ImpersonatingAnOfficer, at which point a baffled Rockerduck comments he didn't expect his idea to be so good it was actually true.
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* In a story in ''Vampire Tales'', a man decides to become a vampire in order to get rid of his family (no payments or anything because he's considered dead) and be immortal as long as he avoids fire and sunlight. Three days after his death, he awakes just as he was told he would … [[spoiler:just as his wife is having his disfigured remains cremated.]]
* ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'': The Batman Who Laughs is an evil alternate Franchise/{{Batman}} who can effortlessly predict anything Batman tries. Until Batman resorts to teaming up with ComicBook/TheJoker. ''That'' he didn't see coming.
* In one ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse story Rockerduck decides to steal the blueprints for ArtificialGravity technology Scrooge got from a stranded time traveler, and has his men disguise themselves as [[TimePolice Guardians of Time]] and confiscate them with the excuse introducing a future technology before it's invented is forbidden. Cue the ''real'' Guardians of Time telling him he was spot-on on their rules, confiscating the plans, and telling him he's lucky to get off with a warning for trying to do that ''and'' ImpersonatingAnOfficer, at which point a baffled Rockerduck comments he didn't expect his idea to be so good it was actually true.
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* In ''Death of Franchise/{{Wolverine}}'' Dr. Cornelius has a plan to create an army of supersoldiers, and has everything he needs except the last ingredient: Wolverine, so he can extract his HealingFactor to allow them to survive his enhancements. After capturing Wolverine and explaining this, he then has to ruefully acknowledge that he tends to focus too much on the big picture as Wolverine cuts himself to reveal that he's lost his healing factor.
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* In ''Death of Franchise/{{Wolverine}}'' ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' Dr. Cornelius has a plan to create an army of supersoldiers, and has everything he needs except the last ingredient: Wolverine, so he can extract his HealingFactor to allow them to survive his enhancements. After capturing Wolverine and explaining this, he then has to ruefully acknowledge that he tends to focus too much on the big picture as Wolverine cuts himself to reveal that he's lost his healing factor.
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** Frequent villain the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Thinker Mad Thinker]] is often foiled by things that even his supergenius intelligence can't predict, [[StrawVulcan such as random human behavior]].
** In James Robinson's FF run, the Quiet Man pulls off a massive plot to turn the public against the FF, have the Thing in jail, the Human Torch depowered and Reed and Sue split up, all aided by the Psycho Man. His plan is to have Earth overwhelmed by aliens and alternate heroes from other worlds so the Quiet Man can be the big hero saving the day. When Reed tells him to go ahead and shut the portals down, the Quiet Man tries...and can't. He's totally stunned as Reed openly points out how stupid an idea it is to allow ''THE PSYCHO MAN'' to have ultimate power over two worlds. ("Seriously, the name alone...")
* In ''ComicBook/GothamCityGarage'', [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] and [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Gordon]] are being chased down by a killer robot. Dick decides to split up so the robot chases ''her''... but it goes after ''him''. Dick's reaction?
-->'''Dick:''' Ah dang. Not how I saw that going '''at all'''.
* ''[[Comicbook/TheInfinityGauntlet The Infinity War]]'' has a resurrected Magus employ a complicated scheme to [[spoiler:seize all the Infinity Gems from Warlock and his Infinity Watch]]. Because the plan is too complicated requiring all his attention, the Magus literally ''doesn't see'' the [[spoiler:combined efforts of Doctor Doom and Kang interfering with his plan]].
* The {{Satan}} CaptainErsatz from Creator/JMichaelStraczynski's graphic novel ''ComicBook/MidnightNation'' literally says this line word for word [[spoiler:after TheHero with the MeaningfulName of Gray turns down his offer, chooses self sacrifice, and turns the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil right against him, something which thousands of predecessors before him had all failed to do]].
* Malekith the Accursed in ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' falls prey to this. [[EpicFail One panel]] after he revealed his scheme. [[spoiler:Who can stand against the mighty Grendell with Hercules and Comicbook/TheMightyThor both weakened? ''Zeus''. To add injury to insult, Grendell then ''fell on him''.]]
* In a ''{{Dracula}}'' vs ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' crossover, Dracula's plan was to drink Superman's blood and thus gain the powers of a Kryptonian. Unfortunately he was not aware that Superman is ''solar-powered'', and drinking his blood had a similar effect to trying to chow down on an active grenade.
* In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', [[spoiler:AIQ Squared's]] plot falls apart when he fails to plan ahead for [[spoiler:Siphon's Death Activated Super Power.]]
* In the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' storyline ''ComicBook/EndsOfTheEarth'', Comicbook/DoctorOctopus' final grand scheme was to [[spoiler:flash fry all of humanity save .08% of them, so they can rebuild and remember him as the greatest monster that ever lived]]. When confronted with this, Spidey points out the big flaw in that plan: [[spoiler:they'll live... brain dead - their brains would be flash fried, too]]. Doc Ock promptly wigs out and Spidey takes him down.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'', Mr. Dark has the Fable community to the wall. They can't run any more, and he is slowly shattering Haven's defenses. The Fables are planning a last ditch effort to defend themselves, but the chance of it actually working are slim. Then Mr. North, the North Wind, Bigby's neglectful father who he has had a serious love/hate relationship with, and who has often been shown to not really care about much outside his realm [[spoiler:sacrifices himself to shut Mr. Dark down ''permanently''.]] That it allows him to let his zephyr grandson live is a bonus. [[{{Pun}} A slam dunk]] with #4.
* In ''Film/MarsAttacks Franchise/TheTransformers'', Megatron decides to use the Martian invasion as a chance to ally with them and take out the Autobots. Instead, the Martians capture both Autobots ''and'' Decepticons. As Megatron yells at the aliens and vows to kill them all, Cliffjumper points out that, as robots calling themselves "Decepticons", they should have seen this coming.
** Similarly, the Martian commander assumed that shrinking Megatron removed him as a factor. [[{{BFG}} It didn't]].
* In ''Death of Franchise/{{Wolverine}}'' Dr. Cornelius has a plan to create an army of supersoldiers, and has everything he needs except the last ingredient: Wolverine, so he can extract his HealingFactor to allow them to survive his enhancements. After capturing Wolverine and explaining this, he then has to ruefully acknowledge that he tends to focus too much on the big picture as Wolverine cuts himself to reveal that he's lost his healing factor.
* ''ComicBook/TheWildstorm:'' Michael Cray's attempted assassination of Marlowe would've gone a lot differently had it not been for a few factors neither party saw coming: Marlowe being an alien, with xeno-biology detectors in his office which alerted him to Michael, and Michael's superpowers (which even Michael didn't know he had) saving him from Marlowe's attempt to defend himself... the result of which is that Marlowe gets blown out his office window anyway, and would've died if not for Angie Spice passing by with an advanced stolen flight suit in need of a test drive.
* In a story in ''Vampire Tales'', a man decides to become a vampire in order to get rid of his family (no payments or anything because he's considered dead) and be immortal as long as he avoids fire and sunlight. Three days after his death, he awakes just as he was told he would … [[spoiler:just as his wife is having his disfigured remains cremated.]]
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** Frequent villain the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Thinker Mad Thinker]] is often foiled by things that even his supergenius intelligence can't predict, [[StrawVulcan such as random human behavior]].
** In James Robinson's FF run, the Quiet Man pulls off a massive plot to turn the public against the FF, have the Thing in jail, the Human Torch depowered and Reed and Sue split up, all aided by the Psycho Man. His plan is to have Earth overwhelmed by aliens and alternate heroes from other worlds so the Quiet Man can be the big hero saving the day. When Reed tells him to go ahead and shut the portals down, the Quiet Man tries...and can't. He's totally stunned as Reed openly points out how stupid an idea it is to allow ''THE PSYCHO MAN'' to have ultimate power over two worlds. ("Seriously, the name alone...")
* In ''ComicBook/GothamCityGarage'', [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] and [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Gordon]] are being chased down by a killer robot. Dick decides to split up so the robot chases ''her''... but it goes after ''him''. Dick's reaction?
-->'''Dick:''' Ah dang. Not how I saw that going '''at all'''.
* ''[[Comicbook/TheInfinityGauntlet The Infinity War]]'' has a resurrected Magus employ a complicated scheme to [[spoiler:seize all the Infinity Gems from Warlock and his Infinity Watch]]. Because the plan is too complicated requiring all his attention, the Magus literally ''doesn't see'' the [[spoiler:combined efforts of Doctor Doom and Kang interfering with his plan]].
* The {{Satan}} CaptainErsatz from Creator/JMichaelStraczynski's graphic novel ''ComicBook/MidnightNation'' literally says this line word for word [[spoiler:after TheHero with the MeaningfulName of Gray turns down his offer, chooses self sacrifice, and turns the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil right against him, something which thousands of predecessors before him had all failed to do]].
* Malekith the Accursed in ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' falls prey to this. [[EpicFail One panel]] after he revealed his scheme. [[spoiler:Who can stand against the mighty Grendell with Hercules and Comicbook/TheMightyThor both weakened? ''Zeus''. To add injury to insult, Grendell then ''fell on him''.]]
* In a ''{{Dracula}}'' vs ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' crossover, Dracula's plan was to drink Superman's blood and thus gain the powers of a Kryptonian. Unfortunately he was not aware that Superman is ''solar-powered'', and drinking his blood had a similar effect to trying to chow down on an active grenade.
* In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', [[spoiler:AIQ Squared's]] plot falls apart when he fails to plan ahead for [[spoiler:Siphon's Death Activated Super Power.]]
* In the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' storyline ''ComicBook/EndsOfTheEarth'', Comicbook/DoctorOctopus' final grand scheme was to [[spoiler:flash fry all of humanity save .08% of them, so they can rebuild and remember him as the greatest monster that ever lived]]. When confronted with this, Spidey points out the big flaw in that plan: [[spoiler:they'll live... brain dead - their brains would be flash fried, too]]. Doc Ock promptly wigs out and Spidey takes him down.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'', Mr. Dark has the Fable community to the wall. They can't run any more, and he is slowly shattering Haven's defenses. The Fables are planning a last ditch effort to defend themselves, but the chance of it actually working are slim. Then Mr. North, the North Wind, Bigby's neglectful father who he has had a serious love/hate relationship with, and who has often been shown to not really care about much outside his realm [[spoiler:sacrifices himself to shut Mr. Dark down ''permanently''.]] That it allows him to let his zephyr grandson live is a bonus. [[{{Pun}} A slam dunk]] with #4.
* In ''Film/MarsAttacks Franchise/TheTransformers'', Megatron decides to use the Martian invasion as a chance to ally with them and take out the Autobots. Instead, the Martians capture both Autobots ''and'' Decepticons. As Megatron yells at the aliens and vows to kill them all, Cliffjumper points out that, as robots calling themselves "Decepticons", they should have seen this coming.
** Similarly, the Martian commander assumed that shrinking Megatron removed him as a factor. [[{{BFG}} It didn't]].
* In ''Death of Franchise/{{Wolverine}}'' Dr. Cornelius has a plan to create an army of supersoldiers, and has everything he needs except the last ingredient: Wolverine, so he can extract his HealingFactor to allow them to survive his enhancements. After capturing Wolverine and explaining this, he then has to ruefully acknowledge that he tends to focus too much on the big picture as Wolverine cuts himself to reveal that he's lost his healing factor.
* ''ComicBook/TheWildstorm:'' Michael Cray's attempted assassination of Marlowe would've gone a lot differently had it not been for a few factors neither party saw coming: Marlowe being an alien, with xeno-biology detectors in his office which alerted him to Michael, and Michael's superpowers (which even Michael didn't know he had) saving him from Marlowe's attempt to defend himself... the result of which is that Marlowe gets blown out his office window anyway, and would've died if not for Angie Spice passing by with an advanced stolen flight suit in need of a test drive.
* In a story in ''Vampire Tales'', a man decides to become a vampire in order to get rid of his family (no payments or anything because he's considered dead) and be immortal as long as he avoids fire and sunlight. Three days after his death, he awakes just as he was told he would … [[spoiler:just as his wife is having his disfigured remains cremated.]]
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