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* ''Fanfic/MyChoicesTwistedTalesThroughTime'': The story's later chapters reveal that modern Equestrian history is being steered by a tangle of three long-running plots operating largely outside of each other's active notice -- [[spoiler:the Royal Sisters are manipulating events to create the perfect bearers for the Elements of Harmony, Celestia is being unknowingly manipulated by Luna to that very same effect, and the [[AncientConspiracy Order of Stars]] has its own unspecified agenda]].
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* In Chapter 17-19 of ''Fanfic/PerfectionIsOverrated'', [[spoiler:Bachiko and Meiko try to force certain people to fall in love or, failing that, kill the [[Anime/MyHime Himes]]. Ishigami decides he can use them and decides to try to use Yukariko to coerce the Himes into fighting one another. Meanwhile, Nagi, trying to advance his own agenda, tries to manipulate Shiho, who is unconvinced that Yuuichi has truly fallen for her, into killing Mai.]]
* The ''FanFic/PoniesOfOlympus'' story ''Atlas Strongest Tournament'' has this occurring between Luna and [[TheDragon Aurelia]] in their moves and countermoves against each other behind the scenes of the tournament. It's taken to MindScrew levels at some points.
* The ''FanFic/PoniesOfOlympus'' story ''Atlas Strongest Tournament'' has this occurring between Luna and [[TheDragon Aurelia]] in their moves and countermoves against each other behind the scenes of the tournament. It's taken to MindScrew levels at some points.
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* ''Fanfic/PerfectionIsOverrated'': In Chapter 17-19 of ''Fanfic/PerfectionIsOverrated'', Chapters 17 through 19, [[spoiler:Bachiko and Meiko try to force certain people to fall in love or, failing that, kill the [[Anime/MyHime Himes]]. Ishigami decides he can use them and decides to try to use Yukariko to coerce the Himes into fighting one another. Meanwhile, Nagi, trying to advance his own agenda, tries to manipulate Shiho, who is unconvinced that Yuuichi has truly fallen for her, into killing Mai.]]
*The ''FanFic/PoniesOfOlympus'' story ''Fanfic/PoniesOfOlympus'': ''Atlas Strongest Tournament'' has this occurring between Luna and [[TheDragon Aurelia]] in their moves and countermoves against each other behind the scenes of the tournament. It's taken to MindScrew levels at some points.
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* ''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDXD'': [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku's]] plan to deal with [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD Riser]] is this. First, he uses [[CoolSword Flame Delete]] to nullify Riser's fire attack and then injure him in such a way he cannot regenerate so easily. When Riser tries to throw him off the roof, he just [[TakingYouWithMe brings him down with him]]. And, when Riser chokes him and threatens to kill him in order to force Rias to surrender, [[spoiler:he pulls out [[ChekhovsGun Ibara's holy water bottle]], Boosts it and smashes it on his head, incapacitating him long enough for Izuku to Dragon Smash him to kingdom come.]]
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* ''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDXD'': [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku's]] plan to deal with [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD [[Literature/HighSchoolDxD Riser]] is this. First, he uses [[CoolSword Flame Delete]] to nullify Riser's fire attack and then injure him in such a way he cannot regenerate so easily. When Riser tries to throw him off the roof, he just [[TakingYouWithMe brings him down with him]]. And, when Riser chokes him and threatens to kill him in order to force Rias to surrender, [[spoiler:he pulls out [[ChekhovsGun Ibara's holy water bottle]], Boosts it and smashes it on his head, incapacitating him long enough for Izuku to Dragon Smash him to kingdom come.]]
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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14225438/1/The-Coward The Coward]]'': Coil has his own plans going on to rule Brockton Bay and is vaguely aware Cauldron is planning something or other but assumes it doesn't involve him. Cauldron has their own plans of using Brockton Bay as an experiment in cape feudalism, along with their plans to stop Scion. But the very end reveals that Contessa and Doctor Mother are using Earth Bet as an experiment in letting parahumans hold positions of power and are getting ready to abandon the world (and the rest of Cauldron) as expendible.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''/''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' crossover ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'' has one of these rapidly developing: As per W.I.T.C.H. canon, [[TheChessmaster Nerissa]] is manipulating the war between Phobos and the Rebellion to her own ends, but at the same time, [[KnowledgeBroker Charles Ludmoore]] and his two brothers are doing the same thing, with even more efficiency than Nerissa. Meanwhile, [[TokenGoodTeammate Viscount Servantis]] is trying to steer Phobos in a lighter-handed, less oppressive rule (and when he's [[spoiler:captured by the rebels]], his allies in the nobility essentially go rouge, planning to crush the Rebellion themselves without Phobos' oversight), [[EvilSorcerer Daolon Wong]] becomes TheStarscream to Phobos [[spoiler:and upon the failure of his plans allies with a Jiangshi to regain his lost power]], [[SealedEvilInACan Tarakudo]] has woken up and taken an interest in events, [[spoiler:[[MysteriousWatcher Nimue]]]] is keeping an eye on things, and on the Earth side of things, [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang's]] Dark Hand is flexing its muscle [[spoiler:and is actually [[RunningBothSides manipulating Section 13]] as part of its [[WellIntentionedExtremist larger plan]]]], with Jackie [[TheMole infiltrating them]] to bring them down. And then there's also the [[EldritchAbomination Cavalcade of Horrors]] and [[UltimateEvil their master]], who are implied to be using all of the above as pawns in a larger plot.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''/''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' crossover ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'' has one of these rapidly developing: As per W.I.T.C.H. canon, [[TheChessmaster Nerissa]] is manipulating the war between Phobos and the Rebellion to her own ends, but at the same time, [[KnowledgeBroker Charles Ludmoore]] and his two brothers are doing the same thing, with even more efficiency than Nerissa. Meanwhile, [[TokenGoodTeammate Viscount Servantis]] is trying to steer Phobos in a lighter-handed, less oppressive rule (and when he's [[spoiler:captured by the rebels]], his allies in the nobility essentially go rouge, planning to crush the Rebellion themselves without Phobos' oversight), [[EvilSorcerer Daolon Wong]] becomes TheStarscream to Phobos [[spoiler:and upon the failure of his plans allies with a Jiangshi to regain his lost power]], [[SealedEvilInACan Tarakudo]] has woken up and taken an interest in events, [[spoiler:[[MysteriousWatcher Nimue]]]] is keeping an eye on things, and on the Earth side of things, [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang's]] Dark Hand is flexing its muscle [[spoiler:and is actually [[RunningBothSides manipulating Section 13]] as part of its [[WellIntentionedExtremist larger plan]]]], with Jackie [[TheMole infiltrating them]] to bring them down. And then there's also the [[EldritchAbomination Cavalcade of Horrors]] and [[UltimateEvil their master]], master, who are implied to be using all of the above as pawns in a larger plot.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/48341/1/Changelings%2C-Changelings%2C-Everywhere/ Changelings, Changelings Everywhere.]]'' is an unusual case of the trope being used for sidesplitting comedy alongside DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent. It blatantly devolves into a parody of the trope at the end due to the gambit-encouraging problems inherent in introducing a race of {{Voluntary Shapeshift|ing}}ers. ''Inanimate objects'' are revealed to be Changelings in disguise, and nobody is quite sure anymore who they're working for, since there's so much backstabbing and RightHandVersusLeftHand. Queen Chrysalis wants to rule the Changelings, but is opposed by Lord Chitin, who is supposedly a deposed Changeling noble who has a birthright to the throne. But they're both opposed to The New Larval Republic, who want to break free of royalty altogether. Then Lord Chitin makes a deal with the NLR, but not everyone accepts. But some Changelings have a change of heart, and defect. The [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Mare]] amid the shenanigans is [[BigGood Princess Celestia]], and [[HeroicBSOD even she doesn't last that long.]]
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' and its verse have such tangled gambits and schemers that it now [[GambitPileup/ChildOfTheStorm has its own page]].
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' and its verse have such tangled gambits and schemers that it now [[GambitPileup/ChildOfTheStorm has its own page]].
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* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/48341/1/Changelings%2C-Changelings%2C-Everywhere/ Changelings, Changelings Everywhere.]]'' Everywhere]]'' is an unusual case of the trope being used for sidesplitting side-splitting comedy alongside DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent. It blatantly devolves into a parody of the trope at the end due to the gambit-encouraging problems inherent in introducing a race of {{Voluntary Shapeshift|ing}}ers. ''Inanimate objects'' are revealed to be Changelings in disguise, and nobody is quite sure anymore who they're working for, since there's so much backstabbing and RightHandVersusLeftHand. Queen Chrysalis wants to rule the Changelings, but is opposed by Lord Chitin, who is supposedly a deposed Changeling noble who has a birthright to the throne. But they're both opposed to The New Larval Republic, who want to break free of royalty altogether. Then Lord Chitin makes a deal with the NLR, but not everyone accepts. But some Changelings have a change of heart, and defect. The [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Mare]] amid the shenanigans is [[BigGood Princess Celestia]], and [[HeroicBSOD even she doesn't last that long.]]
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* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' and its verse have such tangled gambits and schemers that it now has its own [[GambitPileup/ChildOfTheStormhas its own page]].
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' and its verse have such tangled gambits and schemers that it now has its own [[GambitPileup/ChildOfTheStorm
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* ''Fanfic/DeathNoteEquestria'': Given [[Manga/DeathNote one half of the source material]], it shouldn't be a surprise this ends up happening. Twilight and L's moves against each other count from the start already, but then [[{{Shinigami}} Mer]] goes off Twilight's script to reach her own ends. And on top of that, not only does [[spoiler: [[TooCoolToLive Pinkie Pie]]]] appear to have set up a ThanatosGambit before her death, but Celestia is strongly implied to be running her own scheme against Kira as well.
* Fanfic/DeathNoteIITheHiddenNote has this happen: [[spoiler: A woman shows up at the doorway in a trenchcoat, a fedora and sunglasses. She is apparently the new Kira's conspirator. In her Death Note, she writes down the names of the people she sees and waits for forty seconds. But wait! Near pulls out what he says is the real Death Note and says the one the woman is holding is fake. Not only that, Near accuses KJ of being the new Kira. But wait! The woman reads out the names she wrote and describes how the four people she wrote the names of would die. Each one dies seemingly in that way. Suddenly, The woman takes off her fedora and sunglasses to reveal she's Near's daughter Angela! Everyone is suddenly surrounded by Shinigami. Arik flashes his Death Note in Near's face. Near realizes that the Death note he and Angela have are both fake. Near asks KJ where the real Death Note was. KJ says the first entry he wrote in his journal, which mentions an angel. It is then that Near realizes he held the real Death Note in his hands and put it back. It is at this point he exclaims how it was the Hidden Note]].
* ''Fanfic/DirtySympathy'' has Klavier and Apollo's plan to frame their abusers clashing with Phoenix's plan [[spoiler: of proving Kristoph guilty and restoring his good name]] and Kristoph's plan [[spoiler: of poisoning the Mishams to tie up loose ends]].
* Fanfic/DeathNoteIITheHiddenNote has this happen: [[spoiler: A woman shows up at the doorway in a trenchcoat, a fedora and sunglasses. She is apparently the new Kira's conspirator. In her Death Note, she writes down the names of the people she sees and waits for forty seconds. But wait! Near pulls out what he says is the real Death Note and says the one the woman is holding is fake. Not only that, Near accuses KJ of being the new Kira. But wait! The woman reads out the names she wrote and describes how the four people she wrote the names of would die. Each one dies seemingly in that way. Suddenly, The woman takes off her fedora and sunglasses to reveal she's Near's daughter Angela! Everyone is suddenly surrounded by Shinigami. Arik flashes his Death Note in Near's face. Near realizes that the Death note he and Angela have are both fake. Near asks KJ where the real Death Note was. KJ says the first entry he wrote in his journal, which mentions an angel. It is then that Near realizes he held the real Death Note in his hands and put it back. It is at this point he exclaims how it was the Hidden Note]].
* ''Fanfic/DirtySympathy'' has Klavier and Apollo's plan to frame their abusers clashing with Phoenix's plan [[spoiler: of proving Kristoph guilty and restoring his good name]] and Kristoph's plan [[spoiler: of poisoning the Mishams to tie up loose ends]].
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* ''Fanfic/DeathNoteEquestria'': Given [[Manga/DeathNote one half of the source material]], it shouldn't be a surprise this ends up happening. Twilight and L's moves against each other count from the start already, but then [[{{Shinigami}} Mer]] goes off Twilight's script to reach her own ends. And on top of that, not only does [[spoiler: [[TooCoolToLive [[spoiler:[[TooCoolToLive Pinkie Pie]]]] appear to have set up a ThanatosGambit before her death, but Celestia is strongly implied to be running her own scheme against Kira as well.
* Fanfic/DeathNoteIITheHiddenNote has this happen:[[spoiler: A [[spoiler:A woman shows up at the doorway in a trenchcoat, a fedora and sunglasses. She is apparently the new Kira's conspirator. In her Death Note, she writes down the names of the people she sees and waits for forty seconds. But wait! Near pulls out what he says is the real Death Note and says the one the woman is holding is fake. Not only that, Near accuses KJ of being the new Kira. But wait! The woman reads out the names she wrote and describes how the four people she wrote the names of would die. Each one dies seemingly in that way. Suddenly, The woman takes off her fedora and sunglasses to reveal she's Near's daughter Angela! Everyone is suddenly surrounded by Shinigami. Arik flashes his Death Note in Near's face. Near realizes that the Death note he and Angela have are both fake. Near asks KJ where the real Death Note was. KJ says the first entry he wrote in his journal, which mentions an angel. It is then that Near realizes he held the real Death Note in his hands and put it back. It is at this point he exclaims how it was the Hidden Note]].
Note.]]
* ''Fanfic/DirtySympathy'' has Klavier and Apollo's plan to frame their abusers clashing with Phoenix's plan[[spoiler: of [[spoiler:of proving Kristoph guilty and restoring his good name]] and Kristoph's plan [[spoiler: of [[spoiler:of poisoning the Mishams to tie up loose ends]].ends.]]
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* In ''Fanfic/ExtraLife'', Junko and Izuru are both manipulating each other for the Neo World Program plan; Junko uses Izuru to get her AI in so [[BrainUploading she can upload her personality in the event of her death]], while he goes along with it to test whether hope can beat despair. For that purpose, he anonymously backs the Future Foundation so they don't get destroyed before the program is finished, plans to exploit Makoto's kindness to get himself and Class 77 placed in the program, and [[spoiler:makes the time to toss a MemoryGambit in there just in case the worst scenario comes to pass]].
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* In ''Fanfic/ExtraLife'', Junko and Izuru are both manipulating each other for the Neo World Program plan; Junko uses Izuru to get her AI in so [[BrainUploading she can upload her personality in the event of her death]], while he goes along with it to test whether hope can beat despair. For that purpose, he anonymously backs the Future Foundation so they don't get destroyed before the program is finished, plans to exploit Makoto's kindness to get himself and Class 77 placed in the program, and [[spoiler:makes the time to toss a MemoryGambit in there just in case the worst scenario comes to pass]].pass.]]
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* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''/''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' crossover ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'' has one of these rapidly developing: As per W.I.T.C.H. canon, [[TheChessmaster Nerissa]] is manipulating the war between Phobos and the Rebellion to her own ends, but at the same time, [[KnowledgeBroker Charles Ludmoore]] and his two brothers are doing the same thing, with even more efficiency than Nerissa. Meanwhile, [[TokenGoodTeammate Viscount Servantis]] is trying to steer Phobos in a lighter-handed, less oppressive rule (and when he's [[spoiler: captured by the rebels]], his allies in the nobility essentially go rouge, planning to crush the Rebellion themselves without Phobos' oversight), [[EvilSorcerer Daolon Wong]] becomes TheStarscream to Phobos [[spoiler: and upon the failure of his plans allies with a Jiangshi to regain his lost power]], [[SealedEvilInACan Tarakudo]] has woken up and taken an interest in events, [[spoiler: [[MysteriousWatcher Nimue]]]] is keeping an eye on things, and on the Earth side of things, [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang's]] Dark Hand is flexing its muscle [[spoiler: and is actually [[RunningBothSides manipulating Section 13]] as part of its [[WellIntentionedExtremist larger plan]]]], with Jackie [[TheMole infiltrating them]] to bring them down. And then there's also the [[EldritchAbomination Cavalcade of Horrors]] and [[UltimateEvil their master]], who are implied to be using all of the above as pawns in a larger plot.
** Even the arc dedicated solely to dealing with the Dark Hand has one of these. There's whatever Chang's been working towards, the Section 13-backed Chan Clan and Guardians working to take Chang down, Will plotting a secretive side mission with only Jade and Caleb's knowledge, [[KnightTemplar Quentin Ross]] going rogue out of disgust at Section 13 not going far enough to eliminate the Dark Hand, and newcomer [[WildCard Nyx]] running her own agenda against the Dark Hand. And there's the Oni watching from the sidelines via Hak Foo's mask, while [[spoiler: Nimue]] eventually steps in to manipulate the Chans and Guardians as part of her own agenda.
** Even the arc dedicated solely to dealing with the Dark Hand has one of these. There's whatever Chang's been working towards, the Section 13-backed Chan Clan and Guardians working to take Chang down, Will plotting a secretive side mission with only Jade and Caleb's knowledge, [[KnightTemplar Quentin Ross]] going rogue out of disgust at Section 13 not going far enough to eliminate the Dark Hand, and newcomer [[WildCard Nyx]] running her own agenda against the Dark Hand. And there's the Oni watching from the sidelines via Hak Foo's mask, while [[spoiler: Nimue]] eventually steps in to manipulate the Chans and Guardians as part of her own agenda.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''/''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' crossover ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'' has one of these rapidly developing: As per W.I.T.C.H. canon, [[TheChessmaster Nerissa]] is manipulating the war between Phobos and the Rebellion to her own ends, but at the same time, [[KnowledgeBroker Charles Ludmoore]] and his two brothers are doing the same thing, with even more efficiency than Nerissa. Meanwhile, [[TokenGoodTeammate Viscount Servantis]] is trying to steer Phobos in a lighter-handed, less oppressive rule (and when he's [[spoiler: captured [[spoiler:captured by the rebels]], his allies in the nobility essentially go rouge, planning to crush the Rebellion themselves without Phobos' oversight), [[EvilSorcerer Daolon Wong]] becomes TheStarscream to Phobos [[spoiler: and [[spoiler:and upon the failure of his plans allies with a Jiangshi to regain his lost power]], [[SealedEvilInACan Tarakudo]] has woken up and taken an interest in events, [[spoiler: [[MysteriousWatcher [[spoiler:[[MysteriousWatcher Nimue]]]] is keeping an eye on things, and on the Earth side of things, [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang's]] Dark Hand is flexing its muscle [[spoiler: and [[spoiler:and is actually [[RunningBothSides manipulating Section 13]] as part of its [[WellIntentionedExtremist larger plan]]]], with Jackie [[TheMole infiltrating them]] to bring them down. And then there's also the [[EldritchAbomination Cavalcade of Horrors]] and [[UltimateEvil their master]], who are implied to be using all of the above as pawns in a larger plot.
** Even the arc dedicated solely to dealing with the Dark Hand has one of these. There's whatever Chang's been working towards, the Section 13-backed Chan Clan and Guardians working to take Chang down, Will plotting a secretive side mission with only Jade and Caleb's knowledge, [[KnightTemplar Quentin Ross]] going rogue out of disgust at Section 13 not going far enough to eliminate the Dark Hand, and newcomer [[WildCard Nyx]] running her own agenda against the Dark Hand. And there's the Oni watching from the sidelines via Hak Foo's mask, while[[spoiler: Nimue]] [[spoiler:Nimue]] eventually steps in to manipulate the Chans and Guardians as part of her own agenda.
** Even the arc dedicated solely to dealing with the Dark Hand has one of these. There's whatever Chang's been working towards, the Section 13-backed Chan Clan and Guardians working to take Chang down, Will plotting a secretive side mission with only Jade and Caleb's knowledge, [[KnightTemplar Quentin Ross]] going rogue out of disgust at Section 13 not going far enough to eliminate the Dark Hand, and newcomer [[WildCard Nyx]] running her own agenda against the Dark Hand. And there's the Oni watching from the sidelines via Hak Foo's mask, while
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* ''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDXD'': [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku's]] plan to deal with [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD Riser]] is this. First, he uses [[CoolSword Flame Delete]] to nullify Riser's fire attack and then injure him in such a way he cannot regenerate so easily. When Riser tries to throw him off the roof, he just [[TakingYouWithMe brings him down with him]]. And, when Riser chokes him and threatens to kill him in order to force Rias to surrender, [[spoiler: he pulls out [[ChekhovsGun Ibara's holy water bottle]], Boosts it and smashes it on his head, incapacitating him long enough for Izuku to Dragon Smash him to kingdom come.]]
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': Misato has a bunch of plans to deal with the huge number of global conflicts and destroy SEELE, SEELE has a plan to destroy HERZ and bring about [[AssimilationPlot instrumentality]], GEIST has a plan to defeat SEELE for good, and the Children has a plan of their own…
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': Misato has a bunch of plans to deal with the huge number of global conflicts and destroy SEELE, SEELE has a plan to destroy HERZ and bring about [[AssimilationPlot instrumentality]], GEIST has a plan to defeat SEELE for good, and the Children has a plan of their own…
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* ''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDXD'': [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku's]] plan to deal with [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD Riser]] is this. First, he uses [[CoolSword Flame Delete]] to nullify Riser's fire attack and then injure him in such a way he cannot regenerate so easily. When Riser tries to throw him off the roof, he just [[TakingYouWithMe brings him down with him]]. And, when Riser chokes him and threatens to kill him in order to force Rias to surrender, [[spoiler: he [[spoiler:he pulls out [[ChekhovsGun Ibara's holy water bottle]], Boosts it and smashes it on his head, incapacitating him long enough for Izuku to Dragon Smash him to kingdom come.]]
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': Misato has a bunch of plans to deal with the huge number of global conflicts and destroy SEELE, SEELE has a plan to destroy HERZ and bring about [[AssimilationPlot instrumentality]], GEIST has a plan to defeat SEELE for good, and the Children has a plan of theirown…own...
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': Misato has a bunch of plans to deal with the huge number of global conflicts and destroy SEELE, SEELE has a plan to destroy HERZ and bring about [[AssimilationPlot instrumentality]], GEIST has a plan to defeat SEELE for good, and the Children has a plan of their
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* ''FanFic/LeftBeyond'' Every major and minor faction has an agenda, and except for God's, they all intersect in several ways. At the very end, [[spoiler: All the minor factions' plans get preempted by Satan's plan to start the Last War and conquer the Temple, which gets preempted by God's plan to fulfill the final prophecies in the Bible, which gets preempted by the Omega's plan to endlessly duplicate their souls and cause the White Throne Judgement to never complete, thus allowing the space colonists to safely reach Alpha Centauri]].
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* ''FanFic/LeftBeyond'' Every major and minor faction has an agenda, and except for God's, they all intersect in several ways. At the very end, [[spoiler: All [[spoiler:All the minor factions' plans get preempted by Satan's plan to start the Last War and conquer the Temple, which gets preempted by God's plan to fulfill the final prophecies in the Bible, which gets preempted by the Omega's plan to endlessly duplicate their souls and cause the White Throne Judgement to never complete, thus allowing the space colonists to safely reach Alpha Centauri]].Centauri.]]
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* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': The tournament two-parter in Season 2 ends up turning into this: the Tallest are hosting it as a publicity stunt to turn the Irken public away from [[MalevolentMaskedMen Miz's]] [[EnemyCivilWar revolutionary message]], Zim is entering to spite them [[spoiler: and gain a propaganda coup for his Miz persona]], while unknown to anyone the various New Irken Order cells are working together to launch an attack on the tournament in Miz's name, and the allied Resisty and Team Save Earth are planning to launch an attack of their own. [[spoiler: These plans all ultimately fail due to colliding -- the NIO's attack disrupts the tournament, destroying any hopes of good PR for the Empire and ruining Zim's attempts at a win, while the chaos of the fighting scares off the Resisty from carrying out their own planned attack.]]
* In Chapter 17-19 of ''Fanfic/PerfectionIsOverrated'', [[spoiler:Bachiko and Meiko try to force certain people to fall in love or, failing that, kill the [[Anime/MyHime Himes]]. Ishigami decides he can use them and decides to try to use Yukariko to coerce the Himes into fighting one another. Meanwhile, Nagi, trying to advance his own agenda, tries to manipulate Shiho, who is unconvinced that Yuuichi has truly fallen for her, into killing Mai]].
* In Chapter 17-19 of ''Fanfic/PerfectionIsOverrated'', [[spoiler:Bachiko and Meiko try to force certain people to fall in love or, failing that, kill the [[Anime/MyHime Himes]]. Ishigami decides he can use them and decides to try to use Yukariko to coerce the Himes into fighting one another. Meanwhile, Nagi, trying to advance his own agenda, tries to manipulate Shiho, who is unconvinced that Yuuichi has truly fallen for her, into killing Mai]].
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* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': The tournament two-parter in Season 2 ends up turning into this: the Tallest are hosting it as a publicity stunt to turn the Irken public away from [[MalevolentMaskedMen Miz's]] [[EnemyCivilWar revolutionary message]], Zim is entering to spite them [[spoiler: and [[spoiler:and gain a propaganda coup for his Miz persona]], while unknown to anyone the various New Irken Order cells are working together to launch an attack on the tournament in Miz's name, and the allied Resisty and Team Save Earth are planning to launch an attack of their own. [[spoiler: These [[spoiler:These plans all ultimately fail due to colliding -- the NIO's attack disrupts the tournament, destroying any hopes of good PR for the Empire and ruining Zim's attempts at a win, while the chaos of the fighting scares off the Resisty from carrying out their own planned attack.]]
* In Chapter 17-19 of ''Fanfic/PerfectionIsOverrated'', [[spoiler:Bachiko and Meiko try to force certain people to fall in love or, failing that, kill the [[Anime/MyHime Himes]]. Ishigami decides he can use them and decides to try to use Yukariko to coerce the Himes into fighting one another. Meanwhile, Nagi, trying to advance his own agenda, tries to manipulate Shiho, who is unconvinced that Yuuichi has truly fallen for her, into killingMai]].Mai.]]
* In Chapter 17-19 of ''Fanfic/PerfectionIsOverrated'', [[spoiler:Bachiko and Meiko try to force certain people to fall in love or, failing that, kill the [[Anime/MyHime Himes]]. Ishigami decides he can use them and decides to try to use Yukariko to coerce the Himes into fighting one another. Meanwhile, Nagi, trying to advance his own agenda, tries to manipulate Shiho, who is unconvinced that Yuuichi has truly fallen for her, into killing
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* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfSeven'' eventually sees the characters caught up in one by chapter 57. Harry and his seven partners are aware that the Death Eaters tried to 'smuggle' Pansy Parkinson into their group and plan to FeedTheMole to take the initiative from Voldemort. Dumbledore and Bill are plotting to lure Harry into a trap and have Voldemort kill him, needing Voldemort to go along with this somehow. And Voldemort has been using the Ring Horcrux to make Dumbledore think the Resurrection Stone is letting him talk to Grindlewald, and thus manipulating Dumbledore towards... well, basically exactly what Dumbledore is doing. And Voldemort's looking for the Elder Wand, as he did in canon. And some of the Order members (mostly the Weasleys, Tonks, and Lupin) are aware of what Harry's doing and trying to help him against Dumbledore and the Order members still loyal to him.
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* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfSeven'' eventually sees the characters caught up in one by chapter Chapter 57. Harry and his seven partners are aware that the Death Eaters tried to 'smuggle' Pansy Parkinson into their group and plan to FeedTheMole to take the initiative from Voldemort. Dumbledore and Bill are plotting to lure Harry into a trap and have Voldemort kill him, needing Voldemort to go along with this somehow. And Voldemort has been using the Ring Horcrux to make Dumbledore think the Resurrection Stone is letting him talk to Grindlewald, Grindelwald, and thus manipulating Dumbledore towards... well, basically exactly what Dumbledore is doing. And Voldemort's looking for the Elder Wand, as he did in canon. And some of the Order members (mostly the Weasleys, Tonks, and Lupin) are aware of what Harry's doing and trying to help him against Dumbledore and the Order members still loyal to him.
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* ''FanFic/SilentPartnerUnfinishedBusiness'': The entire second half of the story is gambits repeatedly smashing into each other. [[spoiler: Naomi and Misa ruin Light's plan to secretly help the Egawas as the Yotsuba Kira by changing their presentation to the Yotsuba Group, Light then ruins their plan to prove he's Kira by ''killing himself'', the Egawas then throw Light, Naomi, Misa, and Rem into chaos by using the Death Note to call all of Kira's faithful to abduct Misa Amane...]]
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* ''FanFic/SilentPartnerUnfinishedBusiness'': The entire second half of the story is gambits repeatedly smashing into each other. [[spoiler: Naomi [[spoiler:Naomi and Misa ruin Light's plan to secretly help the Egawas as the Yotsuba Kira by changing their presentation to the Yotsuba Group, Light then ruins their plan to prove he's Kira by ''killing himself'', the Egawas then throw Light, Naomi, Misa, and Rem into chaos by using the Death Note to call all of Kira's faithful to abduct Misa Amane...]]
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** And finally, it is slowly becoming obvious that the gods are trying to aid mortals as best as they can, as exemplified by [[spoiler:Talos himself giving William the words to the Unrelenting Force shout]] and [[spoiler:Valeria Targaryen, the Messenger of Akatosh, helping Daenerys several times]].
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** And finally, it is slowly becoming obvious that the gods are trying to aid mortals as best as they can, as exemplified by [[spoiler:Talos himself giving William the words to the Unrelenting Force shout]] and [[spoiler:Valeria Targaryen, the Messenger of Akatosh, helping Daenerys several times]].times.]]
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** Maledict wishes to defeat the Metarex so he can unleash Tsali on his enemies and rule the universe. [[TheChessmaster He is also secretly controlling the Metarex]] as part of his enormously complicated GambitRoulette. He also wants to get the Chaos Emeralds in order to keep them away from the Metarex [[spoiler: and is trying to protect Sonic the Hedgehog because he's Maledict's son]].
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** Maledict wishes to defeat the Metarex so he can unleash Tsali on his enemies and rule the universe. [[TheChessmaster He is also secretly controlling the Metarex]] as part of his enormously complicated GambitRoulette. He also wants to get the Chaos Emeralds in order to keep them away from the Metarex [[spoiler: and [[spoiler:and is trying to protect Sonic the Hedgehog because he's Maledict's son]].son.]]
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* This isn’t too uncommon for ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fics, but if one stands above the rest in that regard, it’s probably [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/12741975/1/Total-Drama-Legends-vs-Nobodies Total Drama: Legends vs. Nobodies]]. Almost every player is aggressively pursuing their own plans, to varying degrees of success, alliances last anywhere from one episode to the entire fic depending on the characters, and nobody is safe from the schemes of their peers.
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* This isn’t isn't too uncommon for ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fics, but if one stands above the rest in that regard, it’s it's probably [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/12741975/1/Total-Drama-Legends-vs-Nobodies Total Drama: Legends vs. Nobodies]]. Almost every player is aggressively pursuing their own plans, to varying degrees of success, alliances last anywhere from one episode to the entire fic depending on the characters, and nobody is safe from the schemes of their peers.
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** The second Rumble kicks off with no less than four villain groups -- [[Franchise/StreetFighter Shadaloo]], [[Franchise/MortalKombat the Outworld]], [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Ultratech]] (temporarily) allied with [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Rugal Bernstein]], and [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Mizuki Rashojin]] (for the moment) allied with [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Pyron]] -- actively trying to capture Haohmaru's soul, each hiring and/or forcing still more competitors into assisting. The heroes spend several chapters just trying to work out who's working with who, and [[spoiler:it turns out this entire part of the pileup is itself a BatmanGambit of Demitri, who tipped everyone off (heroes included) with just enough information to get them to act, and counts on them all to wear each other and Haohmaru down while he slips in]]. Meanwhile, the [[Franchise/MortalKombat Lin Kuei are gunning for Sub-Zero]], [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Saishuu Kusanagi is trying to corrupt his son]] as always, [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes Doctor Doom]] [[spoiler:gets inconveniently stuck in [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Jago's body]] (ItMakesSenseInContext)]], and [[SpiritedCompetitor some competitors don't give a crap about any of this and just want to win the tournament]].
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** The second Rumble kicks off with no less than four villain groups -- [[Franchise/StreetFighter Shadaloo]], [[Franchise/MortalKombat the Outworld]], [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Ultratech]] (temporarily) allied with [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Rugal Bernstein]], and [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Mizuki Rashojin]] (for the moment) allied with [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Pyron]] -- actively trying to capture Haohmaru's soul, each hiring and/or forcing still more competitors into assisting. The heroes spend several chapters just trying to work out who's working with who, and [[spoiler:it turns out this entire part of the pileup is itself a BatmanGambit of Demitri, who tipped everyone off (heroes included) with just enough information to get them to act, and counts on them all to wear each other and Haohmaru down while he slips in]]. in.]] Meanwhile, the [[Franchise/MortalKombat Lin Kuei are gunning for Sub-Zero]], [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Saishuu Kusanagi is trying to corrupt his son]] as always, [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes Doctor Doom]] [[spoiler:gets inconveniently stuck in [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Jago's body]] (ItMakesSenseInContext)]], and [[SpiritedCompetitor some competitors don't give a crap about any of this and just want to win the tournament]].
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* In ''FanFic/{{Webwork}}'', there are several plans and schemes starting to emerge. There’s [[BigBad Tarakudo’s]] plan to keep [[DragonInChief Jade]] under his metaphorical thumb, Jade’s desire to protect her kits, [[spoiler: whatever [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang]] is up to]], the plans of Black’s superiors to reduce their dependence on contractors (namely the J-Team), [[spoiler: and [[TheStarscream Tara planning to overthrow Jade]] with the help of the [[NotQuiteDead Gumo Queen’s ghost]].]]
* ''Fanfic/WeissReacts'' has the constant pranking war going on between everyone that even the staff are players in. And then there's the Great Antic War arc....
* ''Fanfic/WeissReacts'' has the constant pranking war going on between everyone that even the staff are players in. And then there's the Great Antic War arc....
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* In ''FanFic/{{Webwork}}'', there are several plans and schemes starting to emerge. There’s There's [[BigBad Tarakudo’s]] Tarakudo's]] plan to keep [[DragonInChief Jade]] under his metaphorical thumb, Jade’s Jade's desire to protect her kits, [[spoiler: whatever [[spoiler:whatever [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang]] is up to]], the plans of Black’s Black's superiors to reduce their dependence on contractors (namely the J-Team), [[spoiler: and [[spoiler:and [[TheStarscream Tara planning to overthrow Jade]] with the help of the [[NotQuiteDead Gumo Queen’s Queen's ghost]].]]
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* ''Fanfic/WeissReacts'' has the constant pranking war going on between everyone that even the staff are players in. And then there's the Great Antic War
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* ''Fanfic/AllGuardsmenParty'': One of the reasons so many people died in the back story of the "The Interplanetary Man of Mystery" was because there were a half dozen factions running around trying to kill each other or obstructing each other's work.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/48341/1/Changelings%2C-Changelings%2C-Everywhere/ Changelings, Changelings Everywhere.]]'' is an unusual case of the trope being used for sidesplitting comedy alongside DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent. It blatantly devolves into a parody of the trope at the end due to the gambit-encouraging problems inherent in introducing a race of {{Voluntary Shapeshift|ing}}ers. ''Inanimate objects'' are revealed to be Changelings in disguise, and nobody is quite sure anymore who they're working for, since there's so much backstabbing and RightHandVersusLeftHand. Queen Chrysalis wants to rule the Changelings, but is opposed by Lord Chitin, who is supposedly a deposed Changeling noble who has a birthright to the throne. But they're both opposed to The New Larval Republic, who want to break free of royalty altogether. Then Lord Chitin makes a deal with the NLR, but not everyone accepts. But some Changelings have a change of heart, and defect. The [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Mare]] amid the shenanigans is [[BigGood Princess Celestia]], and [[HeroicBSOD even she doesn't last that long.]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/48341/1/Changelings%2C-Changelings%2C-Everywhere/ Changelings, Changelings Everywhere.]]'' is an unusual case of the trope being used for sidesplitting comedy alongside DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent. It blatantly devolves into a parody of the trope at the end due to the gambit-encouraging problems inherent in introducing a race of {{Voluntary Shapeshift|ing}}ers. ''Inanimate objects'' are revealed to be Changelings in disguise, and nobody is quite sure anymore who they're working for, since there's so much backstabbing and RightHandVersusLeftHand. Queen Chrysalis wants to rule the Changelings, but is opposed by Lord Chitin, who is supposedly a deposed Changeling noble who has a birthright to the throne. But they're both opposed to The New Larval Republic, who want to break free of royalty altogether. Then Lord Chitin makes a deal with the NLR, but not everyone accepts. But some Changelings have a change of heart, and defect. The [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Mare]] amid the shenanigans is [[BigGood Princess Celestia]], and [[HeroicBSOD even she doesn't last that long.]]
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* ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'': Once Quirrell allows [[{{Turncoat}} traitors]] in the combat games, ''everyone'' wants to have a secret plot, even if they don't actually want to change their loyalties. Every soldier in all three armies has something going on, though only a few are actually depicted. Harry encourages this for several reasons, the main one being that he knows he can handle the ensuing chaos better than Draco and Hermione. The chaos escalates to the point that aspiring WildCard Blaise Zabini manages to become a '''''quintuple''''' agent in a war with only three sides, [[spoiler:by selling those three sides out to Quirrell and Dumbledore and PlayingBothSides between those two.]]
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': Misato has a bunch of plans to deal with the huge number of global conflicts and destroy SEELE, SEELE has a plan to destroy HERZ and bring about [[AssimilationPlot instrumentality]], GEIST has a plan to defeat SEELE for good, and the Children has a plan of their own…
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': Misato has a bunch of plans to deal with the huge number of global conflicts and destroy SEELE, SEELE has a plan to destroy HERZ and bring about [[AssimilationPlot instrumentality]], GEIST has a plan to defeat SEELE for good, and the Children has a plan of their own…
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* ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'': Once Quirrell allows [[{{Turncoat}} traitors]] in ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfRemnant'': While the combat games, ''everyone'' wants story primarily follows Jaune's attempts to have a secret plot, even if they don't actually want negotiate genuine peace between the Kingdoms and the Grimmlands, there are plenty of other groups all competing to change achieve their loyalties. Every soldier in all three armies has something going on, though only a few objectives:
** Blake, Emerald, Weiss, and Pyrrha areactually depicted. Harry encourages this for several reasons, accidentally sabotaging his plan.
** Cinder, Klein, Jay Winchester, and Roman are ''actively'' sabotaging his plan.
** Yang and her team are trying to make themain one being that he knows he can handle Claimed more comfortable at Beacon and show the ensuing chaos better than Draco and Hermione. world they're not inherently dangerous.
** Thechaos escalates Ozluminati are just trying to keep the point that aspiring WildCard Blaise Zabini manages situation under control.
** The Atlas Council is actively preparing tobecome a '''''quintuple''''' agent in fire the first shot of a war with only three sides, [[spoiler:by selling those three sides out to Quirrell Salem.
** Jacques, Winter, Ghira, andDumbledore Kali are trying to assassinate the Claimed.
** And through all of this, Salem's plan remains completely unclear.
* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'' has Professor Moriarty andPlayingBothSides between those two.]]
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': Misato has a bunch ofBeth Lestrade. Moriarty is TheChessmaster; Beth just plans to deal with simply and utilizes the huge number of global conflicts IndyPloy when she has to. Most notably, Moriarty makes a CloningGambit and destroy SEELE, SEELE allows his own death to occur, and when his clone pops up in the 22nd century, Beth's era, she has the body of Literature/SherlockHolmes ''restored to life'' to aid her and New Scotland Yard. Only to find that Moriarty is now a VillainWithGoodPublicity, and she and Sherlock will have to discredit him.
* ''Fanfic/DeathNoteEquestria'': Given [[Manga/DeathNote one half of the source material]], it shouldn't be a surprise this ends up happening. Twilight and L's moves against each other count from the start already, but then [[{{Shinigami}} Mer]] goes off Twilight's script to reach her own ends. And on top of that, not only does [[spoiler: [[TooCoolToLive Pinkie Pie]]]] appear to have set up a ThanatosGambit before her death, but Celestia is strongly implied to be running her own scheme against Kira as well.
* Fanfic/DeathNoteIITheHiddenNote has this happen: [[spoiler: A woman shows up at the doorway in a trenchcoat, a fedora and sunglasses. She is apparently the new Kira's conspirator. In her Death Note, she writes down the names of the people she sees and waits for forty seconds. But wait! Near pulls out what he says is the real Death Note and says the one the woman is holding is fake. Not only that, Near accuses KJ of being the new Kira. But wait! The woman reads out the names she wrote and describes how the four people she wrote the names of would die. Each one dies seemingly in that way. Suddenly, The woman takes off her fedora and sunglasses to reveal she's Near's daughter Angela! Everyone is suddenly surrounded by Shinigami. Arik flashes his Death Note in Near's face. Near realizes that the Death note he and Angela have are both fake. Near asks KJ where the real Death Note was. KJ says the first entry he wrote in his journal, which mentions an angel. It is then that Near realizes he held the real Death Note in his hands and put it back. It is at this point he exclaims how it was the Hidden Note]].
* ''Fanfic/DirtySympathy'' has Klavier and Apollo's plan todestroy HERZ and bring about [[AssimilationPlot instrumentality]], GEIST has a plan to defeat SEELE for good, and the Children has a plan of frame their own…abusers clashing with Phoenix's plan [[spoiler: of proving Kristoph guilty and restoring his good name]] and Kristoph's plan [[spoiler: of poisoning the Mishams to tie up loose ends]].
** Blake, Emerald, Weiss, and Pyrrha are
** Cinder, Klein, Jay Winchester, and Roman are ''actively'' sabotaging his plan.
** Yang and her team are trying to make the
** The
** The Atlas Council is actively preparing to
** Jacques, Winter, Ghira, and
** And through all of this, Salem's plan remains completely unclear.
* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'' has Professor Moriarty and
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': Misato has a bunch of
* ''Fanfic/DeathNoteEquestria'': Given [[Manga/DeathNote one half of the source material]], it shouldn't be a surprise this ends up happening. Twilight and L's moves against each other count from the start already, but then [[{{Shinigami}} Mer]] goes off Twilight's script to reach her own ends. And on top of that, not only does [[spoiler: [[TooCoolToLive Pinkie Pie]]]] appear to have set up a ThanatosGambit before her death, but Celestia is strongly implied to be running her own scheme against Kira as well.
* Fanfic/DeathNoteIITheHiddenNote has this happen: [[spoiler: A woman shows up at the doorway in a trenchcoat, a fedora and sunglasses. She is apparently the new Kira's conspirator. In her Death Note, she writes down the names of the people she sees and waits for forty seconds. But wait! Near pulls out what he says is the real Death Note and says the one the woman is holding is fake. Not only that, Near accuses KJ of being the new Kira. But wait! The woman reads out the names she wrote and describes how the four people she wrote the names of would die. Each one dies seemingly in that way. Suddenly, The woman takes off her fedora and sunglasses to reveal she's Near's daughter Angela! Everyone is suddenly surrounded by Shinigami. Arik flashes his Death Note in Near's face. Near realizes that the Death note he and Angela have are both fake. Near asks KJ where the real Death Note was. KJ says the first entry he wrote in his journal, which mentions an angel. It is then that Near realizes he held the real Death Note in his hands and put it back. It is at this point he exclaims how it was the Hidden Note]].
* ''Fanfic/DirtySympathy'' has Klavier and Apollo's plan to
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* ''FanFic/LeftBeyond'' Every major and minor faction has an agenda, and except for God's, they all intersect in several ways. At the very end, [[spoiler: All the minor factions' plans get preempted by Satan's plan to start the Last War and conquer the Temple, which gets preempted by God's plan to fulfill the final prophecies in the Bible, which gets preempted by the Omega's plan to endlessly duplicate their souls and cause the White Throne Judgement to never complete, thus allowing the space colonists to safely reach Alpha Centauri]].
* ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'' takes ''Evangelion'''s existing pileup between SEELE's instrumentality and Gendo's plan to bring Yui back, and adds in Kaworu's plan to turn humanity into a HiveMind and Shinji's own plans to protect Tokyo 3 and being a SpannerInTheWorks for the other three's plans.
* In ''Fanfic/WhatAboutWitchQueen'' it seems everybody has a plot in place, and not all of them has been revealed yet. And they already start crashing into each other. To list just a few:
** Militaristic cabal in Arendelle wants to start Arendelle-Weselton war to prevent Arendelle-Weselton & The Isles war.
** ...but Hunter (and maybe Margaret) starts Weselton-Arendelle war before militarists can do it on their own terms, and it seems he needs war for some goal of his.
** ...but Elsa schemes to stop both parties from starting the war, and then schemes to stop the war and Hunter.
** Michael wants to take over the Isles.
** ...but Hans is doing the same, and he already has a head start.
** ...but [[spoiler:Anna arrives on Westerguard]] which might put a bit of dent in his plans... or not.
** And then there's mysterious smuggler king Felix Drachner who has his own plans.
* ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'' takes ''Evangelion'''s existing pileup between SEELE's instrumentality and Gendo's plan to bring Yui back, and adds in Kaworu's plan to turn humanity into a HiveMind and Shinji's own plans to protect Tokyo 3 and being a SpannerInTheWorks for the other three's plans.
* In ''Fanfic/WhatAboutWitchQueen'' it seems everybody has a plot in place, and not all of them has been revealed yet. And they already start crashing into each other. To list just a few:
** Militaristic cabal in Arendelle wants to start Arendelle-Weselton war to prevent Arendelle-Weselton & The Isles war.
** ...but Hunter (and maybe Margaret) starts Weselton-Arendelle war before militarists can do it on their own terms, and it seems he needs war for some goal of his.
** ...but Elsa schemes to stop both parties from starting the war, and then schemes to stop the war and Hunter.
** Michael wants to take over the Isles.
** ...but Hans is doing the same, and he already has a head start.
** ...but [[spoiler:Anna arrives on Westerguard]] which might put a bit of dent in his plans... or not.
** And then there's mysterious smuggler king Felix Drachner who has his own plans.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/48341/1/Changelings%2C-Changelings%2C-Everywhere/ Changelings, Changelings Everywhere.]]'' is an unusual case of the trope being used for sidesplitting comedy alongside DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent. It blatantly devolves into a parody of the trope at the end due to the gambit-encouraging problems inherent in introducing a race of {{Voluntary Shapeshift|ing}}ers. ''Inanimate objects'' are revealed to be Changelings in disguise, and nobody is quite sure anymore who they're working for, since there's so much backstabbing and RightHandVersusLeftHand. Queen Chrysalis wants to rule the Changelings, but is opposed by Lord Chitin, who is supposedly a deposed Changeling noble who has a birthright to the throne. But they're both opposed to The New Larval Republic, who want to break free of royalty altogether. Then Lord Chitin makes a deal with the NLR, but not everyone accepts. But some Changelings have a change of heart, and defect. The [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Mare]] amid the shenanigans is [[BigGood Princess Celestia]], and [[HeroicBSOD even she doesn't last that long.]]
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* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/48341/1/Changelings%2C-Changelings%2C-Everywhere/ Changelings, Changelings Everywhere.]]'' In ''Fanfic/ExtraLife'', Junko and Izuru are both manipulating each other for the Neo World Program plan; Junko uses Izuru to get her AI in so [[BrainUploading she can upload her personality in the event of her death]], while he goes along with it to test whether hope can beat despair. For that purpose, he anonymously backs the Future Foundation so they don't get destroyed before the program is an unusual finished, plans to exploit Makoto's kindness to get himself and Class 77 placed in the program, and [[spoiler:makes the time to toss a MemoryGambit in there just in case of the trope being used for sidesplitting comedy alongside DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent. It blatantly devolves into a parody worst scenario comes to pass]].
* ''Fanfic/FinalFantasyVIIAnotherSide'': Shinra has plans of course, AVALANCHE has plans to stop them, but in thetrope at mix is also Genesis, who, depending on the end day, may or may not be working with Shinra, and Deepground who are definitely working outside Shinra's interests.
* Bound to happen in ''Fanfic/TheGoodHunter'' due to thegambit-encouraging problems inherent politicking involved between the three factions.
** TheOrder faction:
*** The Chief God has been raising human [[TheChosenOne heroes]], inintroducing hopes that they can strike down the Monster Lord. The [[https://monstergirlencyclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Chief_God wiki]] reveals that the Chief God opts for this indirect method as a race result of {{Voluntary Shapeshift|ing}}ers. ''Inanimate objects'' being gravely wounded after trying to destroy the Demon Lord and her husband in battle.
*** Jophiel, Watchman of the Chief God, aims to remove Sheffield, one of the Oberon League's territories, of any monster influence in the long-run. However, the attack on the Union Festival, together with Father Zachariah's involvement in said attack put a wrench in this [[ThePlan plan]], seeing that the common folk of Sheffield arerevealed obviously not happy with the attack, together with the fact that it [[AwakenTheSleepingGiant galvanised]] [[OutsideContextProblem the Hunter]] into action. As of now, she and many other bishops of TheOrder are prioritising on negotiations with the First Founder of the Oberon League. In order for them to make progress, the sponsor of the attack has to be Changelings in disguise, delivered, a task she and nobody another bishop, Ria, are trying to accomplish. Furthermore, she is quite sure anymore who they're keeping an eye on the Hunter, in order to find out any way of putting down this unknowable threat, assuming there is one.
** The Monster faction:
*** Adrastia is workingfor, since with the deposed royals of the Kingdom of Erebus so as to sabotage the interests of Samael TheUsurper, the current king of Erebus. This ensures that her slaver raids in the villages of Erebus remains unhindered, allowing the kingdom to become a part of the Demon Lord's realms.
** The Oberon League:
*** King Samael the Thirteenth aims to root out all the slavers and marauders that are taking the men away from their villages. While he was not able to act directly against them, due to the troubles he had to deal with in his DecadentCourt, this [[ThePlan plan]] is made viable thanks to securing a powerful agent that is the Hunter.
*** Cyril Sutherland, the Hunter himself, is by no means a planner. Knowing that many who are in power may seek to exploit his skillset to further their agendas, he thought it would be better for him to simply play along and wait until some idiot makes a mistake.
* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''/''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' crossover ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'' has one of these rapidly developing: As per W.I.T.C.H. canon, [[TheChessmaster Nerissa]] is manipulating the war between Phobos and the Rebellion to her own ends, but at the same time, [[KnowledgeBroker Charles Ludmoore]] and his two brothers are doing the same thing, with even more efficiency than Nerissa. Meanwhile, [[TokenGoodTeammate Viscount Servantis]] is trying to steer Phobos in a lighter-handed, less oppressive rule (and when he's [[spoiler: captured by the rebels]], his allies in the nobility essentially go rouge, planning to crush the Rebellion themselves without Phobos' oversight), [[EvilSorcerer Daolon Wong]] becomes TheStarscream to Phobos [[spoiler: and upon the failure of his plans allies with a Jiangshi to regain his lost power]], [[SealedEvilInACan Tarakudo]] has woken up and taken an interest in events, [[spoiler: [[MysteriousWatcher Nimue]]]] is keeping an eye on things, and on the Earth side of things, [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang's]] Dark Hand is flexing its muscle [[spoiler: and is actually [[RunningBothSides manipulating Section 13]] as part of its [[WellIntentionedExtremist larger plan]]]], with Jackie [[TheMole infiltrating them]] to bring them down. And then there'sso much backstabbing also the [[EldritchAbomination Cavalcade of Horrors]] and RightHandVersusLeftHand. Queen Chrysalis [[UltimateEvil their master]], who are implied to be using all of the above as pawns in a larger plot.
** Even the arc dedicated solely to dealing with the Dark Hand has one of these. There's whatever Chang's been working towards, the Section 13-backed Chan Clan and Guardians working to take Chang down, Will plotting a secretive side mission with only Jade and Caleb's knowledge, [[KnightTemplar Quentin Ross]] going rogue out of disgust at Section 13 not going far enough to eliminate the Dark Hand, and newcomer [[WildCard Nyx]] running her own agenda against the Dark Hand. And there's the Oni watching from the sidelines via Hak Foo's mask, while [[spoiler: Nimue]] eventually steps in to manipulate the Chans and Guardians as part of her own agenda.
* ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'': Once Quirrell allows [[{{Turncoat}} traitors]] in the combat games, ''everyone'' wants torule the Changelings, but is opposed by Lord Chitin, who is supposedly have a deposed Changeling noble who has a birthright to the throne. But they're both opposed to The New Larval Republic, who secret plot, even if they don't actually want to break free change their loyalties. Every soldier in all three armies has something going on, though only a few are actually depicted. Harry encourages this for several reasons, the main one being that he knows he can handle the ensuing chaos better than Draco and Hermione. The chaos escalates to the point that aspiring WildCard Blaise Zabini manages to become a '''''quintuple''''' agent in a war with only three sides, [[spoiler:by selling those three sides out to Quirrell and Dumbledore and PlayingBothSides between those two.]]
* ''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDXD'': [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku's]] plan to deal with [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD Riser]] is this. First, he uses [[CoolSword Flame Delete]] to nullify Riser's fire attack and then injure him in such a way he cannot regenerate so easily. When Riser tries to throw him off the roof, he just [[TakingYouWithMe brings him down with him]]. And, when Riser chokes him and threatens to kill him in order to force Rias to surrender, [[spoiler: he pulls out [[ChekhovsGun Ibara's holy water bottle]], Boosts it and smashes it on his head, incapacitating him long enough for Izuku to Dragon Smash him to kingdom come.]]
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': Misato has a bunch ofroyalty altogether. Then Lord Chitin makes a plans to deal with the NLR, but not everyone accepts. But some Changelings huge number of global conflicts and destroy SEELE, SEELE has a plan to destroy HERZ and bring about [[AssimilationPlot instrumentality]], GEIST has a plan to defeat SEELE for good, and the Children has a plan of their own…
* ''FanFic/KingdomHeartsNewEpicTheFirst'', by chapter five, already has the plans and counterplans affiliated with Wolfang Richler, the official BigBad, the President of the Alliance Alric Maynes, the Inverse Organization who has just appeared and who seem to havea change history with Wolfang, the two immediately apparent members of heart, the Inverse Organization seem to have divergent goals if not means, and defect. The [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Mare]] amid then there's the shenanigans is [[BigGood Princess Celestia]], introduction of Summerill, who immediately decided he wanted to try to use and [[HeroicBSOD manipulate Wolfang to advance his own plans.
** Then there's Perseus Sarasho, TheDragon to Wolfang, who wants to use Wolfang to create a war for him, since he feels useless in a world of perpetual peace, and that others like him are devalued.
** Then there's Doctor Doom, who wants to make use of the wish Wolfang has promised him for something, while also making his own plans. That Loki is also involved guarantees he too has plans in this vein.
** Then there's the heroes, and the fact the new generation might have plans that conflict with one another's plans as well as creating conflict with the plans of the old heroes (Sora, Riku and Kairi).
* ''FanFic/LeftBeyond'' Every major and minor faction has an agenda, and except for God's, they all intersect in several ways. At the very end, [[spoiler: All the minor factions' plans get preempted by Satan's plan to start the Last War and conquer the Temple, which gets preempted by God's plan to fulfill the final prophecies in the Bible, which gets preempted by the Omega's plan to endlessly duplicate their souls and cause the White Throne Judgement to never complete, thus allowing the space colonists to safely reach Alpha Centauri]].
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11864574/1/Like-A-Wish Like A Wish]]'' features not only Lelouch/Zero's plots against Britannia and Cornelia's plots against Zero, but also Kallen's, Suzaku's, and Nunnally's plots to help Lelouch and/or punish the ones who betrayed him. Further complicating matters is that Kallen, Suzaku, and Nunnally are each unaware that the other two have also [[PeggySue been sent back in time]]. Notably, few of Lelouch's plans go the way he expects because he can't anticipate the three of them and isn't aware Suzaku and Nunnally are evenshe doesn't last involved in any plotting.
* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': The tournament two-parter in Season 2 ends up turning into this: the Tallest are hosting it as a publicity stunt to turn the Irken public away from [[MalevolentMaskedMen Miz's]] [[EnemyCivilWar revolutionary message]], Zim is entering to spite them [[spoiler: and gain a propaganda coup for his Miz persona]], while unknown to anyone the various New Irken Order cells are working together to launch an attack on the tournament in Miz's name, and the allied Resisty and Team Save Earth are planning to launch an attack of their own. [[spoiler: These plans all ultimately fail due to colliding -- the NIO's attack disrupts the tournament, destroying any hopes of good PR for the Empire and ruining Zim's attempts at a win, while the chaos of the fighting scares off the Resisty from carrying out their own planned attack.]]
* In Chapter 17-19 of ''Fanfic/PerfectionIsOverrated'', [[spoiler:Bachiko and Meiko try to force certain people to fall in love or, failing that, kill the [[Anime/MyHime Himes]]. Ishigami decides he can use them and decides to try to use Yukariko to coerce the Himes into fighting one another. Meanwhile, Nagi, trying to advance his own agenda, tries to manipulate Shiho, who is unconvinced thatlong.]]Yuuichi has truly fallen for her, into killing Mai]].
* ''Fanfic/FinalFantasyVIIAnotherSide'': Shinra has plans of course, AVALANCHE has plans to stop them, but in the
* Bound to happen in ''Fanfic/TheGoodHunter'' due to the
** TheOrder faction:
*** The Chief God has been raising human [[TheChosenOne heroes]], in
*** Jophiel, Watchman of the Chief God, aims to remove Sheffield, one of the Oberon League's territories, of any monster influence in the long-run. However, the attack on the Union Festival, together with Father Zachariah's involvement in said attack put a wrench in this [[ThePlan plan]], seeing that the common folk of Sheffield are
** The Monster faction:
*** Adrastia is working
** The Oberon League:
*** King Samael the Thirteenth aims to root out all the slavers and marauders that are taking the men away from their villages. While he was not able to act directly against them, due to the troubles he had to deal with in his DecadentCourt, this [[ThePlan plan]] is made viable thanks to securing a powerful agent that is the Hunter.
*** Cyril Sutherland, the Hunter himself, is by no means a planner. Knowing that many who are in power may seek to exploit his skillset to further their agendas, he thought it would be better for him to simply play along and wait until some idiot makes a mistake.
* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''/''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' crossover ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'' has one of these rapidly developing: As per W.I.T.C.H. canon, [[TheChessmaster Nerissa]] is manipulating the war between Phobos and the Rebellion to her own ends, but at the same time, [[KnowledgeBroker Charles Ludmoore]] and his two brothers are doing the same thing, with even more efficiency than Nerissa. Meanwhile, [[TokenGoodTeammate Viscount Servantis]] is trying to steer Phobos in a lighter-handed, less oppressive rule (and when he's [[spoiler: captured by the rebels]], his allies in the nobility essentially go rouge, planning to crush the Rebellion themselves without Phobos' oversight), [[EvilSorcerer Daolon Wong]] becomes TheStarscream to Phobos [[spoiler: and upon the failure of his plans allies with a Jiangshi to regain his lost power]], [[SealedEvilInACan Tarakudo]] has woken up and taken an interest in events, [[spoiler: [[MysteriousWatcher Nimue]]]] is keeping an eye on things, and on the Earth side of things, [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang's]] Dark Hand is flexing its muscle [[spoiler: and is actually [[RunningBothSides manipulating Section 13]] as part of its [[WellIntentionedExtremist larger plan]]]], with Jackie [[TheMole infiltrating them]] to bring them down. And then there's
** Even the arc dedicated solely to dealing with the Dark Hand has one of these. There's whatever Chang's been working towards, the Section 13-backed Chan Clan and Guardians working to take Chang down, Will plotting a secretive side mission with only Jade and Caleb's knowledge, [[KnightTemplar Quentin Ross]] going rogue out of disgust at Section 13 not going far enough to eliminate the Dark Hand, and newcomer [[WildCard Nyx]] running her own agenda against the Dark Hand. And there's the Oni watching from the sidelines via Hak Foo's mask, while [[spoiler: Nimue]] eventually steps in to manipulate the Chans and Guardians as part of her own agenda.
* ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'': Once Quirrell allows [[{{Turncoat}} traitors]] in the combat games, ''everyone'' wants to
* ''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDXD'': [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku's]] plan to deal with [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD Riser]] is this. First, he uses [[CoolSword Flame Delete]] to nullify Riser's fire attack and then injure him in such a way he cannot regenerate so easily. When Riser tries to throw him off the roof, he just [[TakingYouWithMe brings him down with him]]. And, when Riser chokes him and threatens to kill him in order to force Rias to surrender, [[spoiler: he pulls out [[ChekhovsGun Ibara's holy water bottle]], Boosts it and smashes it on his head, incapacitating him long enough for Izuku to Dragon Smash him to kingdom come.]]
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': Misato has a bunch of
* ''FanFic/KingdomHeartsNewEpicTheFirst'', by chapter five, already has the plans and counterplans affiliated with Wolfang Richler, the official BigBad, the President of the Alliance Alric Maynes, the Inverse Organization who has just appeared and who seem to have
** Then there's Perseus Sarasho, TheDragon to Wolfang, who wants to use Wolfang to create a war for him, since he feels useless in a world of perpetual peace, and that others like him are devalued.
** Then there's Doctor Doom, who wants to make use of the wish Wolfang has promised him for something, while also making his own plans. That Loki is also involved guarantees he too has plans in this vein.
** Then there's the heroes, and the fact the new generation might have plans that conflict with one another's plans as well as creating conflict with the plans of the old heroes (Sora, Riku and Kairi).
* ''FanFic/LeftBeyond'' Every major and minor faction has an agenda, and except for God's, they all intersect in several ways. At the very end, [[spoiler: All the minor factions' plans get preempted by Satan's plan to start the Last War and conquer the Temple, which gets preempted by God's plan to fulfill the final prophecies in the Bible, which gets preempted by the Omega's plan to endlessly duplicate their souls and cause the White Throne Judgement to never complete, thus allowing the space colonists to safely reach Alpha Centauri]].
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11864574/1/Like-A-Wish Like A Wish]]'' features not only Lelouch/Zero's plots against Britannia and Cornelia's plots against Zero, but also Kallen's, Suzaku's, and Nunnally's plots to help Lelouch and/or punish the ones who betrayed him. Further complicating matters is that Kallen, Suzaku, and Nunnally are each unaware that the other two have also [[PeggySue been sent back in time]]. Notably, few of Lelouch's plans go the way he expects because he can't anticipate the three of them and isn't aware Suzaku and Nunnally are even
* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': The tournament two-parter in Season 2 ends up turning into this: the Tallest are hosting it as a publicity stunt to turn the Irken public away from [[MalevolentMaskedMen Miz's]] [[EnemyCivilWar revolutionary message]], Zim is entering to spite them [[spoiler: and gain a propaganda coup for his Miz persona]], while unknown to anyone the various New Irken Order cells are working together to launch an attack on the tournament in Miz's name, and the allied Resisty and Team Save Earth are planning to launch an attack of their own. [[spoiler: These plans all ultimately fail due to colliding -- the NIO's attack disrupts the tournament, destroying any hopes of good PR for the Empire and ruining Zim's attempts at a win, while the chaos of the fighting scares off the Resisty from carrying out their own planned attack.]]
* In Chapter 17-19 of ''Fanfic/PerfectionIsOverrated'', [[spoiler:Bachiko and Meiko try to force certain people to fall in love or, failing that, kill the [[Anime/MyHime Himes]]. Ishigami decides he can use them and decides to try to use Yukariko to coerce the Himes into fighting one another. Meanwhile, Nagi, trying to advance his own agenda, tries to manipulate Shiho, who is unconvinced that
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* In Chapter 17-19 of ''Fanfic/PerfectionIsOverrated'', [[spoiler:Bachiko and Meiko try to force certain people to fall in love or, failing that, kill the [[Anime/MyHime Himes]]. Ishigami decides he can use them and decides to try to use Yukariko to coerce the Himes into fighting one another. Meanwhile, Nagi, trying to advance his own agenda, tries to manipulate Shiho, who is unconvinced that Yuuichi has truly fallen for her, into killing Mai]].
* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'' has Professor Moriarty and Beth Lestrade. Moriarty is TheChessmaster; Beth just plans simply and utilizes the IndyPloy when she has to. Most notably, Moriarty makes a CloningGambit and allows his own death to occur, and when his clone pops up in the 22nd century, Beth's era, she has the body of Literature/SherlockHolmes ''restored to life'' to aid her and New Scotland Yard. Only to find that Moriarty is now a VillainWithGoodPublicity, and she and Sherlock will have to discredit him.
* ''Fanfic/DeathNoteEquestria'': Given [[Manga/DeathNote one half of the source material]], it shouldn't be a surprise this ends up happening. Twilight and L's moves against each other count from the start already, but then [[{{Shinigami}} Mer]] goes off Twilight's script to reach her own ends. And on top of that, not only does [[spoiler: [[TooCoolToLive Pinkie Pie]]]] appear to have set up a ThanatosGambit before her death, but Celestia is strongly implied to be running her own scheme against Kira as well.
* Fanfic/DeathNoteIITheHiddenNote has this happen: [[spoiler: A woman shows up at the doorway in a trenchcoat, a fedora and sunglasses. She is apparently the new Kira's conspirator. In her Death Note, she writes down the names of the people she sees and waits for forty seconds. But wait! Near pulls out what he says is the real Death Note and says the one the woman is holding is fake. Not only that, Near accuses KJ of being the new Kira. But wait! The woman reads out the names she wrote and describes how the four people she wrote the names of would die. Each one dies seemingly in that way. Suddenly, The woman takes off her fedora and sunglasses to reveal she's Near's daughter Angela! Everyone is suddenly surrounded by Shinigami. Arik flashes his Death Note in Near's face. Near realizes that the Death note he and Angela have are both fake. Near asks KJ where the real Death Note was. KJ says the first entry he wrote in his journal, which mentions an angel. It is then that Near realizes he held the real Death Note in his hands and put it back. It is at this point he exclaims how it was the Hidden Note]].
* ''Fanfic/DirtySympathy'' has Klavier and Apollo's plan to frame their abusers clashing with Phoenix's plan [[spoiler: of proving Kristoph guilty and restoring his good name]] and Kristoph's plan [[spoiler: of poisoning the Mishams to tie up loose ends]].
* ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos''. Loads of characters, and virtually ''all'' of them have their own individual plans and plots. All of them end up falling apart by the end of the story thanks to the [[SpannerInTheWorks interference]] of [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]].
** Maledict wishes to defeat the Metarex so he can unleash Tsali on his enemies and rule the universe. [[TheChessmaster He is also secretly controlling the Metarex]] as part of his enormously complicated GambitRoulette. He also wants to get the Chaos Emeralds in order to keep them away from the Metarex [[spoiler: and is trying to protect Sonic the Hedgehog because he's Maledict's son]].
** Tsali steals Planet Eggs so he has enough power to exterminate the Seedrians and destroy the Metarex. And anyone else who gets in his way.
** Allysion want to kill Tsali and then launch an attack on the Milky Way to upset Maledict's plans.
** Jesus sends his servant Tephiroth to see if Sonic would be a useful ally, and recruits Trinity to spy on the Demons and find out what they're up to.
** Venus the Seedrian is trying to expose Maledict's plan in order to stop him from taking over the universe.
** Dark Oak and the Metarex are stealing and mutating Planet Eggs in order to keep themselves and their organization alive.
* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'' has Professor Moriarty and Beth Lestrade. Moriarty is TheChessmaster; Beth just plans simply and utilizes the IndyPloy when she has to. Most notably, Moriarty makes a CloningGambit and allows his own death to occur, and when his clone pops up in the 22nd century, Beth's era, she has the body of Literature/SherlockHolmes ''restored to life'' to aid her and New Scotland Yard. Only to find that Moriarty is now a VillainWithGoodPublicity, and she and Sherlock will have to discredit him.
* ''Fanfic/DeathNoteEquestria'': Given [[Manga/DeathNote one half of the source material]], it shouldn't be a surprise this ends up happening. Twilight and L's moves against each other count from the start already, but then [[{{Shinigami}} Mer]] goes off Twilight's script to reach her own ends. And on top of that, not only does [[spoiler: [[TooCoolToLive Pinkie Pie]]]] appear to have set up a ThanatosGambit before her death, but Celestia is strongly implied to be running her own scheme against Kira as well.
* Fanfic/DeathNoteIITheHiddenNote has this happen: [[spoiler: A woman shows up at the doorway in a trenchcoat, a fedora and sunglasses. She is apparently the new Kira's conspirator. In her Death Note, she writes down the names of the people she sees and waits for forty seconds. But wait! Near pulls out what he says is the real Death Note and says the one the woman is holding is fake. Not only that, Near accuses KJ of being the new Kira. But wait! The woman reads out the names she wrote and describes how the four people she wrote the names of would die. Each one dies seemingly in that way. Suddenly, The woman takes off her fedora and sunglasses to reveal she's Near's daughter Angela! Everyone is suddenly surrounded by Shinigami. Arik flashes his Death Note in Near's face. Near realizes that the Death note he and Angela have are both fake. Near asks KJ where the real Death Note was. KJ says the first entry he wrote in his journal, which mentions an angel. It is then that Near realizes he held the real Death Note in his hands and put it back. It is at this point he exclaims how it was the Hidden Note]].
* ''Fanfic/DirtySympathy'' has Klavier and Apollo's plan to frame their abusers clashing with Phoenix's plan [[spoiler: of proving Kristoph guilty and restoring his good name]] and Kristoph's plan [[spoiler: of poisoning the Mishams to tie up loose ends]].
* ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos''. Loads of characters, and virtually ''all'' of them have their own individual plans and plots. All of them end up falling apart by the end of the story thanks to the [[SpannerInTheWorks interference]] of [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]].
** Maledict wishes to defeat the Metarex so he can unleash Tsali on his enemies and rule the universe. [[TheChessmaster He is also secretly controlling the Metarex]] as part of his enormously complicated GambitRoulette. He also wants to get the Chaos Emeralds in order to keep them away from the Metarex [[spoiler: and is trying to protect Sonic the Hedgehog because he's Maledict's son]].
** Tsali steals Planet Eggs so he has enough power to exterminate the Seedrians and destroy the Metarex. And anyone else who gets in his way.
** Allysion want to kill Tsali and then launch an attack on the Milky Way to upset Maledict's plans.
** Jesus sends his servant Tephiroth to see if Sonic would be a useful ally, and recruits Trinity to spy on the Demons and find out what they're up to.
** Venus the Seedrian is trying to expose Maledict's plan in order to stop him from taking over the universe.
** Dark Oak and the Metarex are stealing and mutating Planet Eggs in order to keep themselves and their organization alive.
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* In Chapter 17-19 of ''Fanfic/PerfectionIsOverrated'', [[spoiler:Bachiko and Meiko try to force certain people to fall in love or, failing that, kill ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfSeven'' eventually sees the [[Anime/MyHime Himes]]. Ishigami decides he can use them and decides to try to use Yukariko to coerce the Himes into fighting one another. Meanwhile, Nagi, trying to advance his own agenda, tries to manipulate Shiho, who is unconvinced that Yuuichi has truly fallen for her, into killing Mai]].
* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'' has Professor Moriarty and Beth Lestrade. Moriarty is TheChessmaster; Beth just plans simply and utilizes the IndyPloy when she has to. Most notably, Moriarty makes a CloningGambit and allows his own death to occur, and when his clone popscharacters caught up in the 22nd century, Beth's era, she has the body of Literature/SherlockHolmes ''restored to life'' to aid her one by chapter 57. Harry and New Scotland Yard. Only to find that Moriarty is now a VillainWithGoodPublicity, and she and Sherlock will have to discredit him.
* ''Fanfic/DeathNoteEquestria'': Given [[Manga/DeathNote one half of the source material]], it shouldn't be a surprise this ends up happening. Twilight and L's moves against each other count from the start already, but then [[{{Shinigami}} Mer]] goes off Twilight's script to reach her own ends. And on top of that, not only does [[spoiler: [[TooCoolToLive Pinkie Pie]]]] appear to have set up a ThanatosGambit before her death, but Celestia is strongly implied to be running her own scheme against Kira as well.
* Fanfic/DeathNoteIITheHiddenNote has this happen: [[spoiler: A woman shows up at the doorway in a trenchcoat, a fedora and sunglasses. She is apparently the new Kira's conspirator. In her Death Note, she writes down the names of the people she sees and waits for forty seconds. But wait! Near pulls out what he says is the real Death Note and says the one the woman is holding is fake. Not only that, Near accuses KJ of being the new Kira. But wait! The woman reads out the names she wrote and describes how the four people she wrote the names of would die. Each one dies seemingly in that way. Suddenly, The woman takes off her fedora and sunglasses to reveal she's Near's daughter Angela! Everyone is suddenly surrounded by Shinigami. Arik flasheshis Death Note in Near's face. Near realizes seven partners are aware that the Death note he Eaters tried to 'smuggle' Pansy Parkinson into their group and Angela have are both fake. Near asks KJ where the real Death Note was. KJ says the first entry he wrote in his journal, which mentions an angel. It is then that Near realizes he held the real Death Note in his hands and put it back. It is at this point he exclaims how it was the Hidden Note]].
* ''Fanfic/DirtySympathy'' has Klavier and Apollo'splan to frame their abusers clashing FeedTheMole to take the initiative from Voldemort. Dumbledore and Bill are plotting to lure Harry into a trap and have Voldemort kill him, needing Voldemort to go along with Phoenix's plan [[spoiler: of proving Kristoph guilty this somehow. And Voldemort has been using the Ring Horcrux to make Dumbledore think the Resurrection Stone is letting him talk to Grindlewald, and restoring his good name]] and Kristoph's plan [[spoiler: of poisoning thus manipulating Dumbledore towards... well, basically exactly what Dumbledore is doing. And Voldemort's looking for the Mishams to tie up loose ends]].
* ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos''. Loads of characters, and virtually ''all'' of them have their own individual plans and plots. All of them end up falling apart by the endElder Wand, as he did in canon. And some of the story thanks to Order members (mostly the [[SpannerInTheWorks interference]] of [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]].
** Maledict wishes to defeat the Metarex so he can unleash Tsali on his enemiesWeasleys, Tonks, and rule the universe. [[TheChessmaster He is also secretly controlling the Metarex]] as part Lupin) are aware of his enormously complicated GambitRoulette. He also wants to get the Chaos Emeralds in order to keep them away from the Metarex [[spoiler: what Harry's doing and is trying to protect Sonic the Hedgehog because he's Maledict's son]].
** Tsali steals Planet Eggs so he has enough power to exterminate the Seedrians and destroy the Metarex. And anyone else who gets in his way.
** Allysion want to kill Tsali and then launch an attack on the Milky Way to upset Maledict's plans.
** Jesus sends his servant Tephiroth to see if Sonic would be a useful ally, and recruits Trinity to spy on the Demons and find out what they're up to.
** Venus the Seedrian is trying to expose Maledict's plan in order to stophelp him from taking over the universe.
** Dark Oakagainst Dumbledore and the Metarex are stealing and mutating Planet Eggs in order Order members still loyal to keep themselves and their organization alive.him.
* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'' has Professor Moriarty and Beth Lestrade. Moriarty is TheChessmaster; Beth just plans simply and utilizes the IndyPloy when she has to. Most notably, Moriarty makes a CloningGambit and allows his own death to occur, and when his clone pops
* ''Fanfic/DeathNoteEquestria'': Given [[Manga/DeathNote one half of the source material]], it shouldn't be a surprise this ends up happening. Twilight and L's moves against each other count from the start already, but then [[{{Shinigami}} Mer]] goes off Twilight's script to reach her own ends. And on top of that, not only does [[spoiler: [[TooCoolToLive Pinkie Pie]]]] appear to have set up a ThanatosGambit before her death, but Celestia is strongly implied to be running her own scheme against Kira as well.
* Fanfic/DeathNoteIITheHiddenNote has this happen: [[spoiler: A woman shows up at the doorway in a trenchcoat, a fedora and sunglasses. She is apparently the new Kira's conspirator. In her Death Note, she writes down the names of the people she sees and waits for forty seconds. But wait! Near pulls out what he says is the real Death Note and says the one the woman is holding is fake. Not only that, Near accuses KJ of being the new Kira. But wait! The woman reads out the names she wrote and describes how the four people she wrote the names of would die. Each one dies seemingly in that way. Suddenly, The woman takes off her fedora and sunglasses to reveal she's Near's daughter Angela! Everyone is suddenly surrounded by Shinigami. Arik flashes
* ''Fanfic/DirtySympathy'' has Klavier and Apollo's
* ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos''. Loads of characters, and virtually ''all'' of them have their own individual plans and plots. All of them end up falling apart by the end
** Maledict wishes to defeat the Metarex so he can unleash Tsali on his enemies
** Tsali steals Planet Eggs so he has enough power to exterminate the Seedrians and destroy the Metarex. And anyone else who gets in his way.
** Allysion want to kill Tsali and then launch an attack on the Milky Way to upset Maledict's plans.
** Jesus sends his servant Tephiroth to see if Sonic would be a useful ally, and recruits Trinity to spy on the Demons and find out what they're up to.
** Venus the Seedrian is trying to expose Maledict's plan in order to stop
** Dark Oak
* ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse:'' The story "The Hero of Oaton" eventually turns into one of these, with several people (some of whom aren't even ''there'') having plans which all collide, with Trixie, Raindrops and Cheerilee caught in the middle.
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* ''Fanfic/WeissReacts'' has the constant pranking war going on between everyone that even the staff are players in. And then there's the Great Antic War arc....
* ''FanFic/KingdomHeartsNewEpicTheFirst'', by chapter five, already has the plans and counterplans affiliated with Wolfang Richler, the official BigBad, the President of the Alliance Alric Maynes, the Inverse Organization who has just appeared and who seem to have history with Wolfang, the two immediately apparent members of the Inverse Organization seem to have divergent goals if not means, and then there's the introduction of Summerill, who immediately decided he wanted to try to use and manipulate Wolfang to advance his own plans.
** Then there's Perseus Sarasho, TheDragon to Wolfang, who wants to use Wolfang to create a war for him, since he feels useless in a world of perpetual peace, and that others like him are devalued.
** Then there's Doctor Doom, who wants to make use of the wish Wolfang has promised him for something, while also making his own plans. That Loki is also involved guarantees he too has plans in this vein.
** Then there's the heroes, and the fact the new generation might have plans that conflict with one another's plans as well as creating conflict with the plans of the old heroes (Sora, Riku and Kairi).
* In ''Fanfic/TheVictorsProject'' and its spinoffs, the District 1 resistance hits this snag. There's the primary rebel cell, with their inner-district organization, and a plan to take the district strategically and with little bloodshed, and a dozen other, unorganized groups ranging from the oppressed workers to the Great Houses with plans of their own which involve little more than killing as many of their oppressors as possible, Once the fighting actually starts, things get out of control quickly.
* In ''FanFic/{{Webwork}}'', there are several plans and schemes starting to emerge. There’s [[BigBad Tarakudo’s]] plan to keep [[DragonInChief Jade]] under his metaphorical thumb, Jade’s desire to protect her kits, [[spoiler: whatever [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang]] is up to]], the plans of Black’s superiors to reduce their dependence on contractors (namely the J-Team), [[spoiler: and [[TheStarscream Tara planning to overthrow Jade]] with the help of the [[NotQuiteDead Gumo Queen’s ghost]].]]
* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfSeven'' eventually sees the characters caught up in one by chapter 57. Harry and his seven partners are aware that the Death Eaters tried to 'smuggle' Pansy Parkinson into their group and plan to FeedTheMole to take the initiative from Voldemort. Dumbledore and Bill are plotting to lure Harry into a trap and have Voldemort kill him, needing Voldemort to go along with this somehow. And Voldemort has been using the Ring Horcrux to make Dumbledore think the Resurrection Stone is letting him talk to Grindlewald, and thus manipulating Dumbledore towards... well, basically exactly what Dumbledore is doing. And Voldemort's looking for the Elder Wand, as he did in canon. And some of the Order members (mostly the Weasleys, Tonks, and Lupin) are aware of what Harry's doing and trying to help him against Dumbledore and the Order members still loyal to him.
* ''Fanfic/SuddenContact'':
** In ''Sudden Contact'' The Sons of Korhal and the Citadel Council allied together against the threats of the zerg and protoss while defeating the Confederacy. Daggoth is sent to Citadel space and waging war against Sovereign, who in turn is using [[spoiler:Liara as his indoctrinated agent to find the Conduit.]] The protoss reduced to fighting in a civil war. The Magistrate/[[spoiler:Illusive Man]] plotting against the Dominion while Duran is working behind the scene within Cerberus. And finally the newly established United Earth Directorate is preparing to invade the Koprulu sector.
** In ''Sudden Supremacy'': The UED finally arrives to the Koprulu sector and tries to establish an alliance with the Kel-Morian Combine and Cerberus against the Dominion. ITSA colonies are being mysteriously attacked and its colonists abducted. The protoss have finally ended their civil war and tries to establish diplomacy with the Citadel.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11864574/1/Like-A-Wish Like A Wish]]'' features not only Lelouch/Zero's plots against Britannia and Cornelia's plots against Zero, but also Kallen's, Suzaku's, and Nunnally's plots to help Lelouch and/or punish the ones who betrayed him. Further complicating matters is that Kallen, Suzaku, and Nunnally are each unaware that the other two have also [[PeggySue been sent back in time]]. Notably, few of Lelouch's plans go the way he expects because he can't anticipate the three of them and isn't aware Suzaku and Nunnally are even involved in any plotting.
* ''FanFic/KingdomHeartsNewEpicTheFirst'', by chapter five, already has the plans and counterplans affiliated with Wolfang Richler, the official BigBad, the President of the Alliance Alric Maynes, the Inverse Organization who has just appeared and who seem to have history with Wolfang, the two immediately apparent members of the Inverse Organization seem to have divergent goals if not means, and then there's the introduction of Summerill, who immediately decided he wanted to try to use and manipulate Wolfang to advance his own plans.
** Then there's Perseus Sarasho, TheDragon to Wolfang, who wants to use Wolfang to create a war for him, since he feels useless in a world of perpetual peace, and that others like him are devalued.
** Then there's Doctor Doom, who wants to make use of the wish Wolfang has promised him for something, while also making his own plans. That Loki is also involved guarantees he too has plans in this vein.
** Then there's the heroes, and the fact the new generation might have plans that conflict with one another's plans as well as creating conflict with the plans of the old heroes (Sora, Riku and Kairi).
* In ''Fanfic/TheVictorsProject'' and its spinoffs, the District 1 resistance hits this snag. There's the primary rebel cell, with their inner-district organization, and a plan to take the district strategically and with little bloodshed, and a dozen other, unorganized groups ranging from the oppressed workers to the Great Houses with plans of their own which involve little more than killing as many of their oppressors as possible, Once the fighting actually starts, things get out of control quickly.
* In ''FanFic/{{Webwork}}'', there are several plans and schemes starting to emerge. There’s [[BigBad Tarakudo’s]] plan to keep [[DragonInChief Jade]] under his metaphorical thumb, Jade’s desire to protect her kits, [[spoiler: whatever [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang]] is up to]], the plans of Black’s superiors to reduce their dependence on contractors (namely the J-Team), [[spoiler: and [[TheStarscream Tara planning to overthrow Jade]] with the help of the [[NotQuiteDead Gumo Queen’s ghost]].]]
* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfSeven'' eventually sees the characters caught up in one by chapter 57. Harry and his seven partners are aware that the Death Eaters tried to 'smuggle' Pansy Parkinson into their group and plan to FeedTheMole to take the initiative from Voldemort. Dumbledore and Bill are plotting to lure Harry into a trap and have Voldemort kill him, needing Voldemort to go along with this somehow. And Voldemort has been using the Ring Horcrux to make Dumbledore think the Resurrection Stone is letting him talk to Grindlewald, and thus manipulating Dumbledore towards... well, basically exactly what Dumbledore is doing. And Voldemort's looking for the Elder Wand, as he did in canon. And some of the Order members (mostly the Weasleys, Tonks, and Lupin) are aware of what Harry's doing and trying to help him against Dumbledore and the Order members still loyal to him.
* ''Fanfic/SuddenContact'':
** In ''Sudden Contact'' The Sons of Korhal and the Citadel Council allied together against the threats of the zerg and protoss while defeating the Confederacy. Daggoth is sent to Citadel space and waging war against Sovereign, who in turn is using [[spoiler:Liara as his indoctrinated agent to find the Conduit.]] The protoss reduced to fighting in a civil war. The Magistrate/[[spoiler:Illusive Man]] plotting against the Dominion while Duran is working behind the scene within Cerberus. And finally the newly established United Earth Directorate is preparing to invade the Koprulu sector.
** In ''Sudden Supremacy'': The UED finally arrives to the Koprulu sector and tries to establish an alliance with the Kel-Morian Combine and Cerberus against the Dominion. ITSA colonies are being mysteriously attacked and its colonists abducted. The protoss have finally ended their civil war and tries to establish diplomacy with the Citadel.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11864574/1/Like-A-Wish Like A Wish]]'' features not only Lelouch/Zero's plots against Britannia and Cornelia's plots against Zero, but also Kallen's, Suzaku's, and Nunnally's plots to help Lelouch and/or punish the ones who betrayed him. Further complicating matters is that Kallen, Suzaku, and Nunnally are each unaware that the other two have also [[PeggySue been sent back in time]]. Notably, few of Lelouch's plans go the way he expects because he can't anticipate the three of them and isn't aware Suzaku and Nunnally are even involved in any plotting.
to:
* ''Fanfic/WeissReacts'' has the constant pranking war going on ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'' takes ''Evangelion'''s existing pileup between everyone that even the staff are players in. And then there's the Great Antic War arc....
* ''FanFic/KingdomHeartsNewEpicTheFirst'', by chapter five, already has the plansSEELE's instrumentality and counterplans affiliated with Wolfang Richler, the official BigBad, the President of the Alliance Alric Maynes, the Inverse Organization who has just appeared and who seem to have history with Wolfang, the two immediately apparent members of the Inverse Organization seem to have divergent goals if not means, and then there's the introduction of Summerill, who immediately decided he wanted to try to use and manipulate Wolfang to advance his own plans.
** Then there's Perseus Sarasho, TheDragon to Wolfang, who wants to use Wolfang to create a war for him, since he feels useless in a world of perpetual peace, and that others like him are devalued.
** Then there's Doctor Doom, who wants to make use of the wish Wolfang has promised him for something, while also making his own plans. That Loki is also involved guarantees he too has plans in this vein.
** Then there's the heroes, and the fact the new generation might have plans that conflict with one another's plans as well as creating conflict with the plans of the old heroes (Sora, Riku and Kairi).
* In ''Fanfic/TheVictorsProject'' and its spinoffs, the District 1 resistance hits this snag. There's the primary rebel cell, with their inner-district organization, and aGendo's plan to take the district strategically bring Yui back, and with little bloodshed, and a dozen other, unorganized groups ranging from the oppressed workers to the Great Houses with plans of their own which involve little more than killing as many of their oppressors as possible, Once the fighting actually starts, things get out of control quickly.
* In ''FanFic/{{Webwork}}'', there are several plans and schemes starting to emerge. There’s [[BigBad Tarakudo’s]]adds in Kaworu's plan to keep [[DragonInChief Jade]] under his metaphorical thumb, Jade’s desire turn humanity into a HiveMind and Shinji's own plans to protect her kits, Tokyo 3 and being a SpannerInTheWorks for the other three's plans.
* ''FanFic/SilentPartnerUnfinishedBusiness'': The entire second half of the story is gambits repeatedly smashing into each other. [[spoiler:whatever [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang]] is up to]], Naomi and Misa ruin Light's plan to secretly help the plans of Black’s superiors to reduce Egawas as the Yotsuba Kira by changing their dependence on contractors (namely presentation to the J-Team), [[spoiler: Yotsuba Group, Light then ruins their plan to prove he's Kira by ''killing himself'', the Egawas then throw Light, Naomi, Misa, and [[TheStarscream Tara planning to overthrow Jade]] with the help of the [[NotQuiteDead Gumo Queen’s ghost]].]]
* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfSeven'' eventually sees the characters caught up in oneRem into chaos by chapter 57. Harry and his seven partners are aware that using the Death Eaters tried Note to 'smuggle' Pansy Parkinson into their group and plan call all of Kira's faithful to FeedTheMole to take the initiative from Voldemort. Dumbledore and Bill are plotting to lure Harry into a trap and have Voldemort kill him, needing Voldemort to go along with this somehow. And Voldemort has been using the Ring Horcrux to make Dumbledore think the Resurrection Stone is letting him talk to Grindlewald, and thus manipulating Dumbledore towards... well, basically exactly what Dumbledore is doing. And Voldemort's looking for the Elder Wand, as he did in canon. And some of the Order members (mostly the Weasleys, Tonks, and Lupin) are aware of what Harry's doing and trying to help him against Dumbledore and the Order members still loyal to him.
* ''Fanfic/SuddenContact'':
** In ''Sudden Contact'' The Sons of Korhal and the Citadel Council allied together against the threats of the zerg and protoss while defeating the Confederacy. Daggoth is sent to Citadel space and waging war against Sovereign, who in turn is using [[spoiler:Liara as his indoctrinated agent to find the Conduit.]] The protoss reduced to fighting in a civil war. The Magistrate/[[spoiler:Illusive Man]] plotting against the Dominion while Duran is working behind the scene within Cerberus. And finally the newly established United Earth Directorate is preparing to invade the Koprulu sector.
** In ''Sudden Supremacy'': The UED finally arrives to the Koprulu sector and tries to establish an alliance with the Kel-Morian Combine and Cerberus against the Dominion. ITSA colonies are being mysteriously attacked and its colonists abducted. The protoss have finally ended their civil war and tries to establish diplomacy with the Citadel.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11864574/1/Like-A-Wish Like A Wish]]'' features not only Lelouch/Zero's plots against Britannia and Cornelia's plots against Zero, but also Kallen's, Suzaku's, and Nunnally's plots to help Lelouch and/or punish the ones who betrayed him. Further complicating matters is that Kallen, Suzaku, and Nunnally are each unaware that the other two have also [[PeggySue been sent back in time]]. Notably, few of Lelouch's plans go the way he expects because he can't anticipate the three of them and isn't aware Suzaku and Nunnally are even involved in any plotting.abduct Misa Amane...]]
* ''FanFic/KingdomHeartsNewEpicTheFirst'', by chapter five, already has the plans
** Then there's Perseus Sarasho, TheDragon to Wolfang, who wants to use Wolfang to create a war for him, since he feels useless in a world of perpetual peace, and that others like him are devalued.
** Then there's Doctor Doom, who wants to make use of the wish Wolfang has promised him for something, while also making his own plans. That Loki is also involved guarantees he too has plans in this vein.
** Then there's the heroes, and the fact the new generation might have plans that conflict with one another's plans as well as creating conflict with the plans of the old heroes (Sora, Riku and Kairi).
* In ''Fanfic/TheVictorsProject'' and its spinoffs, the District 1 resistance hits this snag. There's the primary rebel cell, with their inner-district organization, and a
* In ''FanFic/{{Webwork}}'', there are several plans and schemes starting to emerge. There’s [[BigBad Tarakudo’s]]
* ''FanFic/SilentPartnerUnfinishedBusiness'': The entire second half of the story is gambits repeatedly smashing into each other. [[spoiler:
* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfSeven'' eventually sees the characters caught up in one
* ''Fanfic/SuddenContact'':
** In ''Sudden Contact'' The Sons of Korhal and the Citadel Council allied together against the threats of the zerg and protoss while defeating the Confederacy. Daggoth is sent to Citadel space and waging war against Sovereign, who in turn is using [[spoiler:Liara as his indoctrinated agent to find the Conduit.]] The protoss reduced to fighting in a civil war. The Magistrate/[[spoiler:Illusive Man]] plotting against the Dominion while Duran is working behind the scene within Cerberus. And finally the newly established United Earth Directorate is preparing to invade the Koprulu sector.
** In ''Sudden Supremacy'': The UED finally arrives to the Koprulu sector and tries to establish an alliance with the Kel-Morian Combine and Cerberus against the Dominion. ITSA colonies are being mysteriously attacked and its colonists abducted. The protoss have finally ended their civil war and tries to establish diplomacy with the Citadel.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11864574/1/Like-A-Wish Like A Wish]]'' features not only Lelouch/Zero's plots against Britannia and Cornelia's plots against Zero, but also Kallen's, Suzaku's, and Nunnally's plots to help Lelouch and/or punish the ones who betrayed him. Further complicating matters is that Kallen, Suzaku, and Nunnally are each unaware that the other two have also [[PeggySue been sent back in time]]. Notably, few of Lelouch's plans go the way he expects because he can't anticipate the three of them and isn't aware Suzaku and Nunnally are even involved in any plotting.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''/''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' crossover ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'' has one of these rapidly developing: As per W.I.T.C.H. canon, [[TheChessmaster Nerissa]] is manipulating the war between Phobos and the Rebellion to her own ends, but at the same time, [[KnowledgeBroker Charles Ludmoore]] and his two brothers are doing the same thing, with even more efficiency than Nerissa. Meanwhile, [[TokenGoodTeammate Viscount Servantis]] is trying to steer Phobos in a lighter-handed, less oppressive rule (and when he's [[spoiler: captured by the rebels]], his allies in the nobility essentially go rouge, planning to crush the Rebellion themselves without Phobos' oversight), [[EvilSorcerer Daolon Wong]] becomes TheStarscream to Phobos [[spoiler: and upon the failure of his plans allies with a Jiangshi to regain his lost power]], [[SealedEvilInACan Tarakudo]] has woken up and taken an interest in events, [[spoiler: [[MysteriousWatcher Nimue]]]] is keeping an eye on things, and on the Earth side of things, [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang's]] Dark Hand is flexing its muscle [[spoiler: and is actually [[RunningBothSides manipulating Section 13]] as part of its [[WellIntentionedExtremist larger plan]]]], with Jackie [[TheMole infiltrating them]] to bring them down. And then there's also the [[EldritchAbomination Cavalcade of Horrors]] and [[UltimateEvil their master]], who are implied to be using all of the above as pawns in a larger plot.
** Even the arc dedicated solely to dealing with the Dark Hand has one of these. There's whatever Chang's been working towards, the Section 13-backed Chan Clan and Guardians working to take Chang down, Will plotting a secretive side mission with only Jade and Caleb's knowledge, [[KnightTemplar Quentin Ross]] going rogue out of disgust at Section 13 not going far enough to eliminate the Dark Hand, and newcomer [[WildCard Nyx]] running her own agenda against the Dark Hand. And there's the Oni watching from the sidelines via Hak Foo's mask, while [[spoiler: Nimue]] eventually steps in to manipulate the Chans and Guardians as part of her own agenda.
** Even the arc dedicated solely to dealing with the Dark Hand has one of these. There's whatever Chang's been working towards, the Section 13-backed Chan Clan and Guardians working to take Chang down, Will plotting a secretive side mission with only Jade and Caleb's knowledge, [[KnightTemplar Quentin Ross]] going rogue out of disgust at Section 13 not going far enough to eliminate the Dark Hand, and newcomer [[WildCard Nyx]] running her own agenda against the Dark Hand. And there's the Oni watching from the sidelines via Hak Foo's mask, while [[spoiler: Nimue]] eventually steps in to manipulate the Chans and Guardians as part of her own agenda.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''/''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' crossover ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'' has one ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos''. Loads of these rapidly developing: As per W.I.T.C.H. canon, [[TheChessmaster Nerissa]] is manipulating the war between Phobos characters, and the Rebellion to her virtually ''all'' of them have their own ends, but at the same time, [[KnowledgeBroker Charles Ludmoore]] individual plans and his two brothers are doing the same thing, with even more efficiency than Nerissa. Meanwhile, [[TokenGoodTeammate Viscount Servantis]] is trying to steer Phobos in a lighter-handed, less oppressive rule (and when he's [[spoiler: captured plots. All of them end up falling apart by the rebels]], his allies in end of the nobility essentially go rouge, planning story thanks to crush the Rebellion themselves without Phobos' oversight), [[EvilSorcerer Daolon Wong]] becomes TheStarscream to Phobos [[spoiler: and upon the failure [[SpannerInTheWorks interference]] of his plans allies with a Jiangshi to regain his lost power]], [[SealedEvilInACan Tarakudo]] has woken up and taken an interest in events, [[spoiler: [[MysteriousWatcher Nimue]]]] is keeping an eye on things, and on the Earth side of things, [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang's]] Dark Hand is flexing its muscle [[spoiler: and is actually [[RunningBothSides manipulating Section 13]] as part of its [[WellIntentionedExtremist larger plan]]]], with Jackie [[TheMole infiltrating them]] to bring them down. And then there's also the [[EldritchAbomination Cavalcade of Horrors]] and [[UltimateEvil their master]], who are implied to be using all of the above as pawns in a larger plot.
** Even the arc dedicated solely to dealing with theDark Hand Tails]].
** Maledict wishes to defeat the Metarex so he can unleash Tsali on his enemies and rule the universe. [[TheChessmaster He is also secretly controlling the Metarex]] as part of his enormously complicated GambitRoulette. He also wants to get the Chaos Emeralds in order to keep them away from the Metarex [[spoiler: and is trying to protect Sonic the Hedgehog because he's Maledict's son]].
** Tsali steals Planet Eggs so he hasone of these. There's whatever Chang's been working towards, the Section 13-backed Chan Clan and Guardians working to take Chang down, Will plotting a secretive side mission with only Jade and Caleb's knowledge, [[KnightTemplar Quentin Ross]] going rogue out of disgust at Section 13 not going far enough power to eliminate exterminate the Seedrians and destroy the Metarex. And anyone else who gets in his way.
** Allysion want to kill Tsali and then launch an attack on the Milky Way to upset Maledict's plans.
** Jesus sends his servant Tephiroth to see if Sonic would be a useful ally, and recruits Trinity to spy on the Demons and find out what they're up to.
** Venus the Seedrian is trying to expose Maledict's plan in order to stop him from taking over the universe.
** DarkHand, Oak and newcomer [[WildCard Nyx]] running her own agenda the Metarex are stealing and mutating Planet Eggs in order to keep themselves and their organization alive.
* ''Fanfic/SuddenContact'':
** In ''Sudden Contact'' The Sons of Korhal and the Citadel Council allied together against theDark Hand. And there's threats of the Oni watching from the sidelines via Hak Foo's mask, zerg and protoss while [[spoiler: Nimue]] eventually steps in to manipulate defeating the Chans Confederacy. Daggoth is sent to Citadel space and Guardians waging war against Sovereign, who in turn is using [[spoiler:Liara as part of her own agenda.his indoctrinated agent to find the Conduit.]] The protoss reduced to fighting in a civil war. The Magistrate/[[spoiler:Illusive Man]] plotting against the Dominion while Duran is working behind the scene within Cerberus. And finally the newly established United Earth Directorate is preparing to invade the Koprulu sector.
** In ''Sudden Supremacy'': The UED finally arrives to the Koprulu sector and tries to establish an alliance with the Kel-Morian Combine and Cerberus against the Dominion. ITSA colonies are being mysteriously attacked and its colonists abducted. The protoss have finally ended their civil war and tries to establish diplomacy with the Citadel.
** Even the arc dedicated solely to dealing with the
** Maledict wishes to defeat the Metarex so he can unleash Tsali on his enemies and rule the universe. [[TheChessmaster He is also secretly controlling the Metarex]] as part of his enormously complicated GambitRoulette. He also wants to get the Chaos Emeralds in order to keep them away from the Metarex [[spoiler: and is trying to protect Sonic the Hedgehog because he's Maledict's son]].
** Tsali steals Planet Eggs so he has
** Allysion want to kill Tsali and then launch an attack on the Milky Way to upset Maledict's plans.
** Jesus sends his servant Tephiroth to see if Sonic would be a useful ally, and recruits Trinity to spy on the Demons and find out what they're up to.
** Venus the Seedrian is trying to expose Maledict's plan in order to stop him from taking over the universe.
** Dark
* ''Fanfic/SuddenContact'':
** In ''Sudden Contact'' The Sons of Korhal and the Citadel Council allied together against the
** In ''Sudden Supremacy'': The UED finally arrives to the Koprulu sector and tries to establish an alliance with the Kel-Morian Combine and Cerberus against the Dominion. ITSA colonies are being mysteriously attacked and its colonists abducted. The protoss have finally ended their civil war and tries to establish diplomacy with the Citadel.
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* In ''Fanfic/ExtraLife'', Junko and Izuru are both manipulating each other for the Neo World Program plan; Junko uses Izuru to get her AI in so [[BrainUploading she can upload her personality in the event of her death]], while he goes along with it to test whether hope can beat despair. For that purpose, he anonymously backs the Future Foundation so they don't get destroyed before the program is finished, plans to exploit Makoto's kindness to get himself and Class 77 placed in the program, and [[spoiler:makes the time to toss a MemoryGambit in there just in case the worst scenario comes to pass]].
* The second ''Fanfic/UltimateVideoRumble'' kicks off with no less than four villain groups -- [[Franchise/StreetFighter Shadaloo]], [[Franchise/MortalKombat the Outworld]], [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Ultratech]] (temporarily) allied with [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Rugal Bernstein]], and [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Mizuki Rashojin]] (for the moment) allied with [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Pyron]] -- actively trying to capture Haohmaru's soul, each hiring and/or forcing still more competitors into assisting. The heroes spend several chapters just trying to work out who's working with who, and [[spoiler:it turns out this entire part of the pileup is itself a BatmanGambit of Demitri, who tipped everyone off (heroes included) with just enough information to get them to act, and counts on them all to wear each other and Haohmaru down while he slips in]]. Meanwhile, the [[Franchise/MortalKombat Lin Kuei are gunning for Sub-Zero]], [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Saishuu Kusanagi is trying to corrupt his son]] as always, [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes Doctor Doom]] [[spoiler:gets inconveniently stuck in [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Jago's body]] (ItMakesSenseInContext)]], and [[SpiritedCompetitor some competitors don't give a crap about any of this and just want to win the tournament]].
* The second ''Fanfic/UltimateVideoRumble'' kicks off with no less than four villain groups -- [[Franchise/StreetFighter Shadaloo]], [[Franchise/MortalKombat the Outworld]], [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Ultratech]] (temporarily) allied with [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Rugal Bernstein]], and [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Mizuki Rashojin]] (for the moment) allied with [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Pyron]] -- actively trying to capture Haohmaru's soul, each hiring and/or forcing still more competitors into assisting. The heroes spend several chapters just trying to work out who's working with who, and [[spoiler:it turns out this entire part of the pileup is itself a BatmanGambit of Demitri, who tipped everyone off (heroes included) with just enough information to get them to act, and counts on them all to wear each other and Haohmaru down while he slips in]]. Meanwhile, the [[Franchise/MortalKombat Lin Kuei are gunning for Sub-Zero]], [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Saishuu Kusanagi is trying to corrupt his son]] as always, [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes Doctor Doom]] [[spoiler:gets inconveniently stuck in [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Jago's body]] (ItMakesSenseInContext)]], and [[SpiritedCompetitor some competitors don't give a crap about any of this and just want to win the tournament]].
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* In ''Fanfic/ExtraLife'', Junko and Izuru are both manipulating each other for the Neo World Program plan; Junko uses Izuru to get her AI in so [[BrainUploading she can upload her personality in the event of her death]], while he goes along with it to test whether hope can beat despair. For that purpose, he anonymously backs the Future Foundation so they don't get destroyed before the program is finished, plans to exploit Makoto's kindness to get himself and Class 77 placed in the program, and [[spoiler:makes the time to toss a MemoryGambit in there just in case the worst scenario comes to pass]].
*''Fanfic/UltimateVideoRumble'':
** The second''Fanfic/UltimateVideoRumble'' Rumble kicks off with no less than four villain groups -- [[Franchise/StreetFighter Shadaloo]], [[Franchise/MortalKombat the Outworld]], [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Ultratech]] (temporarily) allied with [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Rugal Bernstein]], and [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Mizuki Rashojin]] (for the moment) allied with [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Pyron]] -- actively trying to capture Haohmaru's soul, each hiring and/or forcing still more competitors into assisting. The heroes spend several chapters just trying to work out who's working with who, and [[spoiler:it turns out this entire part of the pileup is itself a BatmanGambit of Demitri, who tipped everyone off (heroes included) with just enough information to get them to act, and counts on them all to wear each other and Haohmaru down while he slips in]]. Meanwhile, the [[Franchise/MortalKombat Lin Kuei are gunning for Sub-Zero]], [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Saishuu Kusanagi is trying to corrupt his son]] as always, [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes Doctor Doom]] [[spoiler:gets inconveniently stuck in [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Jago's body]] (ItMakesSenseInContext)]], and [[SpiritedCompetitor some competitors don't give a crap about any of this and just want to win the tournament]].
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** The second
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* ''Fanfic/AllGuardsmenParty'': One of the reasons so many people died in the back story of the "The Interplanetary Man of Mystery" was because there were a half dozen factions running around trying to kill each other or obstructing each other's work.
* ''Fanfic/FinalFantasyVIIAnotherSide'': Shinra has plans of course, AVALANCHE has plans to stop them, but in the mix is also Genesis, who, depending on the day, may or may not be working with Shinra, and Deepground who are definitely working outside Shinra's interests.
* ''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDXD'': [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku's]] plan to deal with [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD Riser]] is this. First, he uses [[CoolSword Flame Delete]] to nullify Riser's fire attack and then injure him in such a way he cannot regenerate so easily. When Riser tries to throw him off the roof, he just [[TakingYouWithMe brings him down with him]]. And, when Riser chokes him and threatens to kill him in order to force Rias to surrender, [[spoiler: he pulls out [[ChekhovsGun Ibara's holy water bottle]], Boosts it and smashes it on his head, incapacitating him long enough for Izuku to Dragon Smash him to kingdom come.]]
* ''FanFic/SilentPartnerUnfinishedBusiness'': The entire second half of the story is gambits repeatedly smashing into each other. [[spoiler: Naomi and Misa ruin Light's plan to secretly help the Egawas as the Yotsuba Kira by changing their presentation to the Yotsuba Group, Light then ruins their plan to prove he's Kira by ''killing himself'', the Egawas then throw Light, Naomi, Misa, and Rem into chaos by using the Death Note to call all of Kira's faithful to abduct Misa Amane...]]
* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': The tournament two-parter in Season 2 ends up turning into this: the Tallest are hosting it as a publicity stunt to turn the Irken public away from [[MalevolentMaskedMen Miz's]] [[EnemyCivilWar revolutionary message]], Zim is entering to spite them [[spoiler: and gain a propaganda coup for his Miz persona]], while unknown to anyone the various New Irken Order cells are working together to launch an attack on the tournament in Miz's name, and the allied Resisty and Team Save Earth are planning to launch an attack of their own. [[spoiler: These plans all ultimately fail due to colliding -- the NIO's attack disrupts the tournament, destroying any hopes of good PR for the Empire and ruining Zim's attempts at a win, while the chaos of the fighting scares off the Resisty from carrying out their own planned attack.]]
* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfRemnant'': While the story primarily follows Jaune's attempts to negotiate genuine peace between the Kingdoms and the Grimmlands, there are plenty of other groups all competing to achieve their objectives:
** Blake, Emerald, Weiss, and Pyrrha are accidentally sabotaging his plan.
** Cinder, Klein, Jay Winchester, and Roman are ''actively'' sabotaging his plan.
** Yang and her team are trying to make the Claimed more comfortable at Beacon and show the world they're not inherently dangerous.
** The Ozluminati are just trying to keep the situation under control.
** The Atlas Council is actively preparing to fire the first shot of a war with Salem.
** Jacques, Winter, Ghira, and Kali are trying to assassinate the Claimed.
** And through all of this, Salem's plan remains completely unclear.
* ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse:'' The story "The Hero of Oaton" eventually turns into one of these, with several people (some of whom aren't even ''there'') having plans which all collide, with Trixie, Raindrops and Cheerilee caught in the middle.
* ''Fanfic/FinalFantasyVIIAnotherSide'': Shinra has plans of course, AVALANCHE has plans to stop them, but in the mix is also Genesis, who, depending on the day, may or may not be working with Shinra, and Deepground who are definitely working outside Shinra's interests.
* ''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDXD'': [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku's]] plan to deal with [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD Riser]] is this. First, he uses [[CoolSword Flame Delete]] to nullify Riser's fire attack and then injure him in such a way he cannot regenerate so easily. When Riser tries to throw him off the roof, he just [[TakingYouWithMe brings him down with him]]. And, when Riser chokes him and threatens to kill him in order to force Rias to surrender, [[spoiler: he pulls out [[ChekhovsGun Ibara's holy water bottle]], Boosts it and smashes it on his head, incapacitating him long enough for Izuku to Dragon Smash him to kingdom come.]]
* ''FanFic/SilentPartnerUnfinishedBusiness'': The entire second half of the story is gambits repeatedly smashing into each other. [[spoiler: Naomi and Misa ruin Light's plan to secretly help the Egawas as the Yotsuba Kira by changing their presentation to the Yotsuba Group, Light then ruins their plan to prove he's Kira by ''killing himself'', the Egawas then throw Light, Naomi, Misa, and Rem into chaos by using the Death Note to call all of Kira's faithful to abduct Misa Amane...]]
* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': The tournament two-parter in Season 2 ends up turning into this: the Tallest are hosting it as a publicity stunt to turn the Irken public away from [[MalevolentMaskedMen Miz's]] [[EnemyCivilWar revolutionary message]], Zim is entering to spite them [[spoiler: and gain a propaganda coup for his Miz persona]], while unknown to anyone the various New Irken Order cells are working together to launch an attack on the tournament in Miz's name, and the allied Resisty and Team Save Earth are planning to launch an attack of their own. [[spoiler: These plans all ultimately fail due to colliding -- the NIO's attack disrupts the tournament, destroying any hopes of good PR for the Empire and ruining Zim's attempts at a win, while the chaos of the fighting scares off the Resisty from carrying out their own planned attack.]]
* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfRemnant'': While the story primarily follows Jaune's attempts to negotiate genuine peace between the Kingdoms and the Grimmlands, there are plenty of other groups all competing to achieve their objectives:
** Blake, Emerald, Weiss, and Pyrrha are accidentally sabotaging his plan.
** Cinder, Klein, Jay Winchester, and Roman are ''actively'' sabotaging his plan.
** Yang and her team are trying to make the Claimed more comfortable at Beacon and show the world they're not inherently dangerous.
** The Ozluminati are just trying to keep the situation under control.
** The Atlas Council is actively preparing to fire the first shot of a war with Salem.
** Jacques, Winter, Ghira, and Kali are trying to assassinate the Claimed.
** And through all of this, Salem's plan remains completely unclear.
* ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse:'' The story "The Hero of Oaton" eventually turns into one of these, with several people (some of whom aren't even ''there'') having plans which all collide, with Trixie, Raindrops and Cheerilee caught in the middle.
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* ''Fanfic/AllGuardsmenParty'': One of In ''Fanfic/TheVictorsProject'' and its spinoffs, the reasons so many people died in District 1 resistance hits this snag. There's the back story of primary rebel cell, with their inner-district organization, and a plan to take the "The Interplanetary Man of Mystery" was because there were district strategically and with little bloodshed, and a half dozen factions running around trying other, unorganized groups ranging from the oppressed workers to kill each other or obstructing each other's work.
* ''Fanfic/FinalFantasyVIIAnotherSide'': Shinra hasthe Great Houses with plans of course, AVALANCHE has plans to stop them, but in their own which involve little more than killing as many of their oppressors as possible, Once the mix is also Genesis, who, depending on the day, may or may not be working with Shinra, and Deepground who are definitely working outside Shinra's interests.fighting actually starts, things get out of control quickly.
*''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDXD'': [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku's]] In ''FanFic/{{Webwork}}'', there are several plans and schemes starting to emerge. There’s [[BigBad Tarakudo’s]] plan to deal with [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD Riser]] is this. First, he uses [[CoolSword Flame Delete]] keep [[DragonInChief Jade]] under his metaphorical thumb, Jade’s desire to nullify Riser's fire attack and then injure him in such a way he cannot regenerate so easily. When Riser tries to throw him off the roof, he just [[TakingYouWithMe brings him down with him]]. And, when Riser chokes him and threatens to kill him in order to force Rias to surrender, protect her kits, [[spoiler: he pulls out [[ChekhovsGun Ibara's holy water bottle]], Boosts it whatever [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang]] is up to]], the plans of Black’s superiors to reduce their dependence on contractors (namely the J-Team), [[spoiler: and smashes it on his head, incapacitating him long enough for Izuku [[TheStarscream Tara planning to Dragon Smash him to kingdom come.overthrow Jade]] with the help of the [[NotQuiteDead Gumo Queen’s ghost]].]]
*''FanFic/SilentPartnerUnfinishedBusiness'': The entire second half of ''Fanfic/WeissReacts'' has the story is gambits repeatedly smashing constant pranking war going on between everyone that even the staff are players in. And then there's the Great Antic War arc....
* In ''Fanfic/WhatAboutWitchQueen'' it seems everybody has a plot in place, and not all of them has been revealed yet. And they already start crashing into each other.[[spoiler: Naomi and Misa ruin Light's plan To list just a few:
** Militaristic cabal in Arendelle wants tosecretly help the Egawas as the Yotsuba Kira by changing their presentation start Arendelle-Weselton war to the Yotsuba Group, Light then ruins their plan to prove he's Kira by ''killing himself'', the Egawas then throw Light, Naomi, Misa, and Rem into chaos by using the Death Note to call all of Kira's faithful to abduct Misa Amane...]]
* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'':prevent Arendelle-Weselton & The tournament two-parter in Season 2 ends up turning into this: the Tallest are hosting Isles war.
** ...but Hunter (and maybe Margaret) starts Weselton-Arendelle war before militarists can do itas a publicity stunt to turn the Irken public away from [[MalevolentMaskedMen Miz's]] [[EnemyCivilWar revolutionary message]], Zim is entering to spite them [[spoiler: and gain a propaganda coup for his Miz persona]], while unknown to anyone the various New Irken Order cells are working together to launch an attack on the tournament in Miz's name, and the allied Resisty and Team Save Earth are planning to launch an attack of their own. [[spoiler: These plans all ultimately fail due to colliding -- the NIO's attack disrupts the tournament, destroying any hopes of good PR for the Empire and ruining Zim's attempts at a win, while the chaos of the fighting scares off the Resisty from carrying out their own planned attack.]]
* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfRemnant'': Whileterms, and it seems he needs war for some goal of his.
** ...but Elsa schemes to stop both parties from starting thestory primarily follows Jaune's attempts war, and then schemes to negotiate genuine peace between stop the Kingdoms war and Hunter.
** Michael wants to take over theGrimmlands, there are plenty of other groups all competing to achieve their objectives:
** Blake, Emerald, Weiss,Isles.
** ...but Hans is doing the same, andPyrrha are accidentally sabotaging he already has a head start.
** ...but [[spoiler:Anna arrives on Westerguard]] which might put a bit of dent in hisplan.
** Cinder, Klein, Jay Winchester, and Roman are ''actively'' sabotaging his plan.
** Yang and her team are trying to make the Claimed more comfortable at Beacon and show the world they're not inherently dangerous.
** The Ozluminati are just trying to keep the situation under control.
** The Atlas Council is actively preparing to fire the first shot of a war with Salem.
** Jacques, Winter, Ghira, and Kali are trying to assassinate the Claimed.
plans... or not.
** Andthrough all of this, Salem's plan remains completely unclear.
* ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse:'' The story "The Hero of Oaton" eventually turns into one of these, with several people (some of whom aren't even ''there'') having plans which all collide, with Trixie, Raindrops and Cheerilee caught in the middle.then there's mysterious smuggler king Felix Drachner who has his own plans.
* ''Fanfic/FinalFantasyVIIAnotherSide'': Shinra has
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* In ''Fanfic/WhatAboutWitchQueen'' it seems everybody has a plot in place, and not all of them has been revealed yet. And they already start crashing into each other.
** Militaristic cabal in Arendelle wants to
* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'':
** ...but Hunter (and maybe Margaret) starts Weselton-Arendelle war before militarists can do it
* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfRemnant'': While
** ...but Elsa schemes to stop both parties from starting the
** Michael wants to take over the
** Blake, Emerald, Weiss,
** ...but Hans is doing the same, and
** ...but [[spoiler:Anna arrives on Westerguard]] which might put a bit of dent in his
** Cinder, Klein, Jay Winchester, and Roman are ''actively'' sabotaging his plan.
** Yang and her team are trying to make the Claimed more comfortable at Beacon and show the world they're not inherently dangerous.
** The Ozluminati are just trying to keep the situation under control.
** The Atlas Council is actively preparing to fire the first shot of a war with Salem.
** Jacques, Winter, Ghira, and Kali are trying to assassinate the Claimed.
** And
* ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse:'' The story "The Hero of Oaton" eventually turns into one of these, with several people (some of whom aren't even ''there'') having plans which all collide, with Trixie, Raindrops and Cheerilee caught in the middle.
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* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': The tournament two-parter in Season 2 ends up turning into this: the Tallest are hosting it as a publicity stunt to turn the Irken public away from [[MalevolentMaskedMen Miz's]] [[EnemyCivilWar revolutionary message]], Zim is entering to spite them [[spoiler: and gain a propaganda coup for his Miz persona]], while unknown to anyone the various New Irken Order cells are working together to launch an attack on the tournament in Miz's name, and the allied Resisty and Team Save Earth are planning to launch an attack of their own.
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* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': The tournament two-parter in Season 2 ends up turning into this: the Tallest are hosting it as a publicity stunt to turn the Irken public away from [[MalevolentMaskedMen Miz's]] [[EnemyCivilWar revolutionary message]], Zim is entering to spite them [[spoiler: and gain a propaganda coup for his Miz persona]], while unknown to anyone the various New Irken Order cells are working together to launch an attack on the tournament in Miz's name, and the allied Resisty and Team Save Earth are planning to launch an attack of their own. [[spoiler: These plans all ultimately fail due to colliding -- the NIO's attack disrupts the tournament, destroying any hopes of good PR for the Empire and ruining Zim's attempts at a win, while the chaos of the fighting scares off the Resisty from carrying out their own planned attack.]]
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* ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos''. LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, and virtually ''all'' of them have their own individual plans and plots. All of them end up falling apart by the end of the story thanks to the [[SpannerInTheWorks interference]] of [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]].
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* ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos''. LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, Loads of characters, and virtually ''all'' of them have their own individual plans and plots. All of them end up falling apart by the end of the story thanks to the [[SpannerInTheWorks interference]] of [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]].
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** The third Rumble is even more chaotic. Take a deep breath: [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes the Infinity Gems]], [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters the Orochi source]], [[VideoGame/SoulSeries the Soul Edge]], and [[VideoGame/MaceTheDarkAge the Mace of Tanis]] are all targeted for capture/exploitation by one or more villains; [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Iori]] and [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Amakusa]] are stealing the elemental force of all the [[PlayingWithFire fire-projectile competitors]]; [[EvilTwin EX]] [[VideoGame/FatalFury Andy Bogard]] is ruining his counterpart's life ForTheEvulz; [[VideoGame/TimeKillers Rancid]] is accidentally "[[BlessedWithSuck enhanced]]" with [[VideoGame/WarGods the Ore]] and wants it out of him; demons are trying to grab the souls of [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Ryo]], [[VideoGame/VirtuaFighter Jeffrey]], and/or [[VideoGame/StreetFighter Guy]]... oh, and a lot of people ''really'' have it out for [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Demitri]]. Also [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Eddy Gordo]]. Most of these plots continue, tripping over each other repeatedly, straight through to the finale.
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** The third Rumble is even more chaotic. Take a deep breath: [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes the Infinity Gems]], [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters the Orochi source]], [[VideoGame/SoulSeries the Soul Edge]], and [[VideoGame/MaceTheDarkAge the Mace of Tanis]] are all targeted for capture/exploitation by one or more villains; [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Iori]] and [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Amakusa]] are stealing the elemental force of all the [[PlayingWithFire fire-projectile competitors]]; [[EvilTwin EX]] [[VideoGame/FatalFury Andy Bogard]] is ruining his counterpart's life ForTheEvulz; [[VideoGame/TimeKillers Rancid]] is accidentally "[[BlessedWithSuck enhanced]]" with [[VideoGame/WarGods the Ore]] and wants it out of him; demons are trying to grab the souls of [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Ryo]], [[VideoGame/VirtuaFighter Jeffrey]], and/or [[VideoGame/StreetFighter [[Franchise/StreetFighter Guy]]... oh, and a lot of people ''really'' have it out for [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Demitri]]. Also [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Eddy Gordo]]. Most of these plots continue, tripping over each other repeatedly, straight through to the finale.
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* ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse:'' The story "The Hero of Oaton" eventually turns into one of these, with several people (some of whom aren't even ''there'') having plans which all collide, with Trixie, Raindrops and Cheerilee caught in the middle.
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* In Chapter 17-19 of ''Fanfic/PerfectionIsOverrated'', [[spoiler:Bachiko and Meiko try to force certain people to fall in love or, failing that, kill the [[Anime/MaiHime Himes]]. Ishigami decides he can use them and decides to try to use Yukariko to coerce the Himes into fighting one another. Meanwhile, Nagi, trying to advance his own agenda, tries to manipulate Shiho, who is unconvinced that Yuuichi has truly fallen for her, into killing Mai]].
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* In Chapter 17-19 of ''Fanfic/PerfectionIsOverrated'', [[spoiler:Bachiko and Meiko try to force certain people to fall in love or, failing that, kill the [[Anime/MaiHime [[Anime/MyHime Himes]]. Ishigami decides he can use them and decides to try to use Yukariko to coerce the Himes into fighting one another. Meanwhile, Nagi, trying to advance his own agenda, tries to manipulate Shiho, who is unconvinced that Yuuichi has truly fallen for her, into killing Mai]].
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* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''/''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' crossover ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'' has one of these rapidly developing: As per W.I.T.C.H. canon, [[TheChessmaster Nerissa]] is manipulating the war between Phobos and the Rebellion to her own ends, but at the same time, [[KnowledgeBroker Charles Ludmoore]] and his two brothers are doing the same thing, with even more efficiency than Nerissa. Meanwhile, [[TokenGoodTeammate Viscount Servantis]] is trying to steer Phobos in a lighter-handed, less oppressive rule (and when he's [[spoiler: captured by the rebels]], his allies in the nobility essentially go rouge, planning to crush the Rebellion themselves without Phobos' oversight), [[EvilSorcerer Daolon Wong]] becomes TheStarscream to Phobos [[spoiler: and upon the failure of his plans allies with a Jiangshi to regain his lost power]], [[SealedEvilInACan Tarakudo]] has woken up and taken an interest in events, [[spoiler: [[MysteriousWatcher Nimue]]]] is keeping an eye on things, and on the Earth side of things, [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang's]] Dark Hand is flexing its muscle [[spoiler: and is actually [[RunningBothSides manipulating Section 13]] as part of its [[WellIntentionedExtremist larger plan]]]], with Jackie [[ReverseMole infiltrating them]] to bring them down. And then there's also the [[EldritchAbomination Cavalcade of Horrors]] and [[UltimateEvil their master]], who are implied to be using all of the above as pawns in a larger plot.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''/''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' crossover ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'' has one of these rapidly developing: As per W.I.T.C.H. canon, [[TheChessmaster Nerissa]] is manipulating the war between Phobos and the Rebellion to her own ends, but at the same time, [[KnowledgeBroker Charles Ludmoore]] and his two brothers are doing the same thing, with even more efficiency than Nerissa. Meanwhile, [[TokenGoodTeammate Viscount Servantis]] is trying to steer Phobos in a lighter-handed, less oppressive rule (and when he's [[spoiler: captured by the rebels]], his allies in the nobility essentially go rouge, planning to crush the Rebellion themselves without Phobos' oversight), [[EvilSorcerer Daolon Wong]] becomes TheStarscream to Phobos [[spoiler: and upon the failure of his plans allies with a Jiangshi to regain his lost power]], [[SealedEvilInACan Tarakudo]] has woken up and taken an interest in events, [[spoiler: [[MysteriousWatcher Nimue]]]] is keeping an eye on things, and on the Earth side of things, [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang's]] Dark Hand is flexing its muscle [[spoiler: and is actually [[RunningBothSides manipulating Section 13]] as part of its [[WellIntentionedExtremist larger plan]]]], with Jackie [[ReverseMole [[TheMole infiltrating them]] to bring them down. And then there's also the [[EldritchAbomination Cavalcade of Horrors]] and [[UltimateEvil their master]], who are implied to be using all of the above as pawns in a larger plot.
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* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfRemnant'': While the story primarily follows Jaune's attempts to negotiate genuine peace between the Kingdoms and the Grimmlands, there are plenty of other groups all competing to achieve their objectives:
** Blake, Emerald, Weiss, and Pyrrha are accidentally sabotaging his plan.
** Cinder, Klein, Jay Winchester, and Roman are ''actively'' sabotaging his plan.
** Yang and her team are trying to make the Claimed more comfortable at Beacon and show the world they're not inherently dangerous.
** The Ozluminati are just trying to keep the situation under control.
** The Atlas Council is actively preparing to fire the first shot of a war with Salem.
** Jacques, Winter, Ghira, and Kali are trying to assassinate the Claimed.
** And through all of this, Salem's plan remains completely unclear.
** Blake, Emerald, Weiss, and Pyrrha are accidentally sabotaging his plan.
** Cinder, Klein, Jay Winchester, and Roman are ''actively'' sabotaging his plan.
** Yang and her team are trying to make the Claimed more comfortable at Beacon and show the world they're not inherently dangerous.
** The Ozluminati are just trying to keep the situation under control.
** The Atlas Council is actively preparing to fire the first shot of a war with Salem.
** Jacques, Winter, Ghira, and Kali are trying to assassinate the Claimed.
** And through all of this, Salem's plan remains completely unclear.
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* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': The tournament two-parter in Season 2 ends up turning into this: the Tallest are hosting it as a publicity stunt to turn the Irken public away from [[MalevolentMaskedMen Miz's]] [[EnemyCivilWar revolutionary message]], Zim is entering to spite them [[spoiler: and gain a propaganda coup for his Miz persona]], while unknown to anyone the various New Irken Order cells are working together to launch an attack on the tournament in Miz's name, and the allied Resisty and Team Save Earth are planning to launch an attack of their own.
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* ''FanFic/SilentPartnerUnfinishedBusiness'': The entire second half of the story is gambits repeatedly smashing into each other. [[spoiler: Naomi and Misa ruin Light's plan to secretly help the Egawas as the Yotsuba Kira by changing their presentation to the Yotsuba Group, Light then ruins their plan to prove he's Kira by ''killing himself'', the Egawas then throw Light, Naomi, Misa, and Rem into chaos by using the Death Note to call all of Kira's faithful to abduct Misa Amane...]]
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* In ''Fanfic/TheVictorsProject'' and its spinoffs, the District 1 resistance hits this snag. There's the primary rebel cell, with their inner-district organization, and a plan to take the district strategically and with little bloodshed, and a dozen other, unorganized groups ranging from the oppressed workers to the Great Houses with plans of their own which involve little more than killing as many of their oppressors as possible, Once the fighting actually starts, things get out of control quickly.
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* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfSeven'' eventually sees the characters caught up in one by chapter 57. Harry and his seven partners are aware that the Death Eaters tried to 'smuggle' Pansy Parkinson into their group and plan to FeedTheMole to take the initiative from Voldemort. Dumbledore and Bill are plotting to lure Harry into a trap and have Voldemort kill him, needing Voldemort to go along with this somehow. And Voldemort has been using the Ring Horcrux to make Dumbledore think the Resurrection Stone is letting him talk to Grindlewald, and thus manipulating Dumbledore towards... well, basically exactly what Dumbledore is doing. And Voldemort's looking for the Elder Wand, as he did in canon. And some of the Order members (mostly the Weasleys, Tonks, and Lupin) are aware of what Harry's doing and trying to help him against Dumbledore and the Order members still loyal to him.
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* This isn’t too uncommon for
''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fics, but if one stands above the rest in that regard, it’s probably [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/12741975/1/Total-Drama-Legends-vs-Nobodies Total Drama: Legends vs. Nobodies]]. Almost every player is aggressively pursuing their own plans, to varying degrees of success, alliances last anywhere from one episode to the entire fic depending on the characters, and nobody is safe from the schemes of their peers.
''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fics, but if one stands above the rest in that regard, it’s probably [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/12741975/1/Total-Drama-Legends-vs-Nobodies Total Drama: Legends vs. Nobodies]]. Almost every player is aggressively pursuing their own plans, to varying degrees of success, alliances last anywhere from one episode to the entire fic depending on the characters, and nobody is safe from the schemes of their peers.
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* This isn’t too uncommon for
for ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fics, but if one stands above the rest in that regard, it’s probably [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/12741975/1/Total-Drama-Legends-vs-Nobodies Total Drama: Legends vs. Nobodies]]. Almost every player is aggressively pursuing their own plans, to varying degrees of success, alliances last anywhere from one episode to the entire fic depending on the characters, and nobody is safe from the schemes of their peers.
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* ''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDXD'': [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku's]] plan to deal with [[LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD Riser]] is this. First, he uses [[CoolSword Flame Delete]] to nullify Riser's fire attack and then injure him in such a way he cannot regenerate so easily. When Riser tries to throw him off the roof, he just [[TakingYouWithMe brings him down with him]]. And, when Riser chokes him and threatens to kill him in order to force Rias to surrender, [[spoiler: he pulls out [[ChekhovsGun Ibara's holy water bottle]], Boosts it and smashes it on his head, incapacitating him long enough for Izuku to Dragon Smash him to kingdom come.]]
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* This isn’t too uncommon for
''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fics, but if one stands above the rest in that regard, it’s probably [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/12741975/1/Total-Drama-Legends-vs-Nobodies Total Drama: Legends vs. Nobodies]]. Almost every player is aggressively pursuing their own plans, to varying degrees of success, alliances last anywhere from one episode to the entire fic depending on the characters, and nobody is safe from the schemes of their peers.
''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fics, but if one stands above the rest in that regard, it’s probably [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/12741975/1/Total-Drama-Legends-vs-Nobodies Total Drama: Legends vs. Nobodies]]. Almost every player is aggressively pursuing their own plans, to varying degrees of success, alliances last anywhere from one episode to the entire fic depending on the characters, and nobody is safe from the schemes of their peers.
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* ''Fanfic/FinalFantasyVIIAnotherSide'': Shinra has plans of course, AVALANCHE has plans to stop them, but in the mix is also Genesis, who, depending on the day, may or may not be working with Shinra, and Deepground who are definitely working outside Shinra's interests.
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* ''FanFic/LeftBeyond'' Every major and minor faction has an agenda, and except for God's, they all intersect in several ways. At the very end, [[spoiler: All the minor factions' plans get preempted by Satan's plan to start the Last War and conquer the Temple, which gets preempted by God's plan to fulfill the final prophecies in the Bible, which gets preempted by the Omega's plan to endlessly duplicate their souls and cause the White Throne Judgement to never complete, thus allowing the space colonists to safely reach Alpha Centauri]].
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* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' and its verse have such tangled gambits and schemers that it now [[GambitPileup/ChildOfTheStorm has its own page]].
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* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' and its sequel, ''Ghosts of the Past'', gleefully take this trope and run with it.
** First off, we have a post HeelFaceTurn ReformedButNotTamed Loki, [[TheSpymaster who's got a Nine Realms wide spy network]] and is continually scheming for the good of Asgard and the Nine Realms while [[TheLancer watching his brother's back]].
** Odin is mostly operating on a hands off basis, leaving his sons to do what they do best, but has put a number of his servants into play, with Freki and Geri (his wolves) protecting Harry, Huginn and Muninn occasionally advising him and Sif and the Warriors Three taking part in a little training of Harry and monster hunting, while keeping an eye out for an opportunity to get even with Thanos for what he did to Loki (it wasn't mind control, but it wasn't pleasant) and to Krypton. As of ''Ghosts of the Past'', this now involves [[spoiler: trying to manage circumstances to protect his grandson from himself and the power of the Phoenix that resides within him]] and forestalling the return of [[spoiler: Surtur]], who's trying to get back into the galaxy and devour it again.
** Then we have Baron Von Strucker, who wants to restore HYDRA to the status it possessed during WWII. He is eliminated in chapter 50 of the first book for incompetence and threatening Narcissa by Lucius Malfoy.
** Lucius Malfoy, who is sick of being afraid and wants to make everyone else afraid of him, while protecting his family. Oh, and he wants revenge on Fury. To this end, he seeks to bring down the Avengers and fuse HYDRA and the Death Eaters into a gestalt entity under his sole command. In chapter 50, he succeeds and prepares for the next step - the destruction of any and all potential threats to HYDRA, starting with the Avengers. Then, in chapter 74 he graduates to full on EvilOverlord when [[spoiler: he succeeds in neutralising the Avengers, destroying Avengers Tower]] and effectively has the world at his mercy. By chapter 77, however, this has all fallen apart and he's scuttled off to find a rock to hide under.
** Gravemoss [[OmnicidalManiac wants to kill everything]] and rule over a universe of the dead. Cue [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing]]. Eventually, in chapter 76, he finds out that EvilIsNotAToy, gets possessed by [[spoiler: Chthon,]] then possibly vaporised by [[spoiler: an Infinite Mass Punch from Jean-Paul.]] Or blasted somewhere past Jupiter. No one's really sure.
** Alexander Pierce, meanwhile, seems pretty comfortable with just going with the flow. For now. Chapter 76 has him stab Lucius in the back by cheerfully asserting that what Nick Fury does in his free time - [[spoiler: raise another team of Avengers and work with Jane Foster to find and crush HYDRA]] - is not his business, before hanging up. Then, it turns out that Fury was tracing the call and catches him red-handed. In ''Ghosts of the Past'', he is seen extending his life by keeping as many secrets to himself as he can, making himself more useful alive than dead.
** Dealing with all of these is Nick Fury, who's trying (and, to be fair, mostly succeeding) to crush HYDRA and is gunning for Lucius Malfoy in particular, [[ItsPersonal because he has a score to settle,]] while simultaneously trying to limit Loki's influence (it's not that he thinks that Loki's evil, it's just that he's got a job to do. And he doesn't trust him). By chapter 80 of ''Child of the Storm'', he's got Malfoy on the run, HYDRA in ruins, and has not only found Pierce, but got him in a lock up, with a purge of HYDRA to follow.
*** By ''Ghosts of the Past'', his focus has shifted to dealing with the Red Room, and all of the disruption in the magical and Muggle worlds that Harry tends to cause.
** His protégé, Agent (later Director) Wisdom [[spoiler: a.k.a. Regulus Black]], is masterminding the defence of Britain and, seemingly, the creation of a British Avengers team in the form of Excalibur, occasionally blackmailing Wanda Maximoff into helping out. He's also trying to ensure that [=MI13=] supplants the Ministry of Magic as the prime handler of matters supernatural and superhuman, poaching staff members and seeking to bring it to heel. On top of that, he's implied to be after the Department of Mysteries.
*** By ''Ghosts of the Past'', he's TheManBehindTheMan for muggle Britain, and is gunning for magical Britain too, as well as levying [[spoiler: Britain's new mountain of vibranium and mithril, courtesy of the Elder Wyrm and Doctor Strange]] for maximum advantage.
** Draco Malfoy, meanwhile [[spoiler: and the mysterious voice in his head which may or may not be the NotQuiteDead Prospero Slytherin]] is up to something, plotting a largely neutral course, though helping out the good guys with a tip-off here and there. What he's actually up to is, as of chapter 49 of ''Ghosts of the Past'', an enduring mystery.
** Dumbledore is rapidly rearranging his plans to bring down the Death Eaters and deal with Voldemort in response to the ever changing Status Quo, while also protecting Harry and the rest of his students to the best of his ability.
** Professor Xavier is holding off the Hellfire Club with one hand and keeping Harry away from his maternal cousin Jean with the other. The latter is a case of IDidWhatIHadToDo, as it's shown that he's very much unhappy with it, and in chapter 67, it's revealed to be a PredestinationParadox - he had to keep them apart because he had been specifically warned to by a time travelling [[spoiler: future Harry]]. Later on, Harry and Jean get to meet, but it's not long after that Xavier gets several new students to look after.
** Magneto is lurking on the edge of things and keeping an eye on events. In chapter 77 he makes his long awaited appearance in the form of a BigDamnHeroes moment when he crumples HYDRA's [[spoiler: wounded but still deadly helicarrier, the ''Dreadnought'',]] like tinfoil. As of ''Ghosts of the Past'', he's taking a more active role in protecting Mutantkind. However, he's adopted an attitude of [[MartialPacifist don't go after my people and I (probably) won't go after yours]]. He's also teaching Harry, and gets involved against the Red Room, because [[spoiler: they took Harry, and more pertinently, his younger daughter Lorna]], and therefore, ItsPersonal.
** Alison Carter, the much younger sister of Peggy [[spoiler: (actually, daughter of Peggy and Steve)]], is nominally retired, but practically speaking playing spy games. As of ''Ghosts of the Past'', she's come out of retirement in earnest and reclaimed her rank as Deputy Director of SHIELD (this time jointly with Maria Hill). She's also revealed to have schemed with [[spoiler: Jor-El]] to keep his son secret and safe, which she did extraordinarily well.
** Wanda Maximoff, as heir apparent to the Sorcerer Supreme, is trying to keep a lid on the incursions caused by the Darkhold's weakening of the borders of reality, to protect her godson and [[spoiler: to keep her daughter's existence secret and safe]]. From chapter 27 of ''Ghosts'' onwards, she's [[spoiler: the Sorceress Supreme in her own right, Strange having abdicated the position after faking his death]], and has much more to deal with.
** [[spoiler: It turns out that Lily Potter isn't quite dead and has merged with the Phoenix Force/Destruction of the Endless to become the White Phoenix of the Crown.]] She can't do very much because of The Rules, but is keeping an eye on Harry, and helps out where she can.
** Meanwhile Chthon schemes to bring about his return to the universe through the Darkhold, a plan which nearly works until he gets [[spoiler: hit by an Infinite Mass Punch and then psychically kicked out by Harry]].
** And, as of Chapter 60, [[spoiler: the Winter Soldier has shaken off his brainwashing, performed a HeelFaceTurn and is now acting as a secret mole inside HYDRA for the good guys]]. Then in chapter 74, he [[spoiler: is caught out and brainwashed again]]. Finally, he makes a full and permanent HeelFaceTurn in chapter 77, joining the Avengers as an associate member and [[BodyguardingABadass bodyguard]] and [[SenseiForScoundrels mentor]] to Harry.
** Chapter 80 has [[AntiHero Namor]], who's first and foremost concerned with protecting Atlantis, but also feeling out a potential alliance with Magneto against the rest of the world if they are ever turned on.
** [[spoiler: Doctor Nathaniel Essex a.k.a. Sinister]] has been stated to be the mysterious force that kept Harry at Privet Drive, messing with Mrs Figg's head, heading off investigations and the like, having developed an interest in Harry because of his mother being related to Jean Grey. In ''Ghosts of the Past'', he makes his move [[spoiler: kidnapping Harry and, as an afterthought, Carol, using Maddie Pryor - Jean's twin sister who he stole at birth, faking her death, and raised as a LivingWeapon - to subdue them, as part of a scheme with the Red Room.]] The latter group, led by General Lukin, are scheming to regain their lost power and Russia's lost empire, forcibly recruiting assets old and new. The [[spoiler: Dark Phoenix]] puts a stop to that, and the leaders are put in SHIELD custody.
** In ''Ghosts of the Past'', Gambit crops up, working for [[spoiler: Sinister and the Red Room]] against his will, though with apparent grudging loyalty. In reality, he's [[spoiler: trying to free the Red Room's prisoners, and coax Sinister's right hand 'hound' Maddie Pryor into a HeelFaceTurn, working with Natasha as her mole in the Red Room.]] He ultimately succeeds, and eventually returns to New Orleans despite [[spoiler: finding out that he's the clone/brother of Scott Summers]].
*** In same arc, [[spoiler: Maddie Pryor a.k.a. Rachel Grey]] makes her bow, and while is at first loyal to [[spoiler: Sinister,]] first Gambit then [[spoiler: Harry]] sow the seeds of doubt, leading to a HeelFaceTurn and her attempting to [[spoiler: protect Harry from Sinister and the Red Room. The second attempt is more successful than the first.]] Thereafter, she tries to make her own path.
** Voldemort [[spoiler: takes over Wormtail's body and, now that he has a physical body once more, goes off to learn from Selene.]] Both of them are interested in the ''Word of Kemmler,'' and planning to betray the other. And, of course, Voldemort is trying to kill Harry, but knows better than to try and face him flat-out. He's still responsible for putting Harry's [[spoiler: name in the Goblet of Fire,]] with his reasons currently unknown.
** Dracula shows up in the sequel as King of the Grey Court of Vampires, looking to [[spoiler: ritually drain Carol's blood]] so as to make himself, and therefore every new vampire he sires from then on (and potentially every single one he's sired already - no one's entirely sure), [[spoiler: immune to sunlight]], and putting them in prime position to exploit the confusion and instability the Red Room's empire building caused in Eastern Europe. Harry, the Avengers, and a few other friends and allies put a stop to that.
** Also appearing in the sequel is ComicBook/DoctorDoom, who is revealed to be planning to not just strengthen Latveria, but establish himself as the prime supernatural (and probably mundane) power in Eastern Europe, and to that end [[spoiler: helps Harry stop Dracula and save Carol, on the grounds that Dracula is a major regional rival, and if his ritual went to plan, he'd come for Doom first]]. It's also revealed that his Doombots are sent to occasionally attack and draw the attention of the Avengers because [[spoiler: he's using them to take the Avengers' measure, on the grounds that the Avengers are theoretically TheUnfettered and have deposed leaders they took a dislike to before, and he knows that he might well be on their hit-list, so is therefore getting their measure to prepare defences against them]].
** And then there's Doctor Strange, who's manipulating the hell out of ''everyone'' and is unequivocally 'up to something', but no one has even the faintest idea what that something is, until Chapter 80 of ''Child of the Storm'' reveals that he's preparing Earth to go up against Thanos. After that, several characters in the know note that they know ''what'' his goal is, but have absolute no idea how he's going to get there. [[spoiler: As of chapter 34 of ''Ghosts'', it appears that he's faked his death, passed his mantle of Sorcerer Supreme to Wanda, and is now working quietly to continue his plans in whatever time he has left.]] Confused yet?
** First off, we have a post HeelFaceTurn ReformedButNotTamed Loki, [[TheSpymaster who's got a Nine Realms wide spy network]] and is continually scheming for the good of Asgard and the Nine Realms while [[TheLancer watching his brother's back]].
** Odin is mostly operating on a hands off basis, leaving his sons to do what they do best, but has put a number of his servants into play, with Freki and Geri (his wolves) protecting Harry, Huginn and Muninn occasionally advising him and Sif and the Warriors Three taking part in a little training of Harry and monster hunting, while keeping an eye out for an opportunity to get even with Thanos for what he did to Loki (it wasn't mind control, but it wasn't pleasant) and to Krypton. As of ''Ghosts of the Past'', this now involves [[spoiler: trying to manage circumstances to protect his grandson from himself and the power of the Phoenix that resides within him]] and forestalling the return of [[spoiler: Surtur]], who's trying to get back into the galaxy and devour it again.
** Then we have Baron Von Strucker, who wants to restore HYDRA to the status it possessed during WWII. He is eliminated in chapter 50 of the first book for incompetence and threatening Narcissa by Lucius Malfoy.
** Lucius Malfoy, who is sick of being afraid and wants to make everyone else afraid of him, while protecting his family. Oh, and he wants revenge on Fury. To this end, he seeks to bring down the Avengers and fuse HYDRA and the Death Eaters into a gestalt entity under his sole command. In chapter 50, he succeeds and prepares for the next step - the destruction of any and all potential threats to HYDRA, starting with the Avengers. Then, in chapter 74 he graduates to full on EvilOverlord when [[spoiler: he succeeds in neutralising the Avengers, destroying Avengers Tower]] and effectively has the world at his mercy. By chapter 77, however, this has all fallen apart and he's scuttled off to find a rock to hide under.
** Gravemoss [[OmnicidalManiac wants to kill everything]] and rule over a universe of the dead. Cue [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing]]. Eventually, in chapter 76, he finds out that EvilIsNotAToy, gets possessed by [[spoiler: Chthon,]] then possibly vaporised by [[spoiler: an Infinite Mass Punch from Jean-Paul.]] Or blasted somewhere past Jupiter. No one's really sure.
** Alexander Pierce, meanwhile, seems pretty comfortable with just going with the flow. For now. Chapter 76 has him stab Lucius in the back by cheerfully asserting that what Nick Fury does in his free time - [[spoiler: raise another team of Avengers and work with Jane Foster to find and crush HYDRA]] - is not his business, before hanging up. Then, it turns out that Fury was tracing the call and catches him red-handed. In ''Ghosts of the Past'', he is seen extending his life by keeping as many secrets to himself as he can, making himself more useful alive than dead.
** Dealing with all of these is Nick Fury, who's trying (and, to be fair, mostly succeeding) to crush HYDRA and is gunning for Lucius Malfoy in particular, [[ItsPersonal because he has a score to settle,]] while simultaneously trying to limit Loki's influence (it's not that he thinks that Loki's evil, it's just that he's got a job to do. And he doesn't trust him). By chapter 80 of ''Child of the Storm'', he's got Malfoy on the run, HYDRA in ruins, and has not only found Pierce, but got him in a lock up, with a purge of HYDRA to follow.
*** By ''Ghosts of the Past'', his focus has shifted to dealing with the Red Room, and all of the disruption in the magical and Muggle worlds that Harry tends to cause.
** His protégé, Agent (later Director) Wisdom [[spoiler: a.k.a. Regulus Black]], is masterminding the defence of Britain and, seemingly, the creation of a British Avengers team in the form of Excalibur, occasionally blackmailing Wanda Maximoff into helping out. He's also trying to ensure that [=MI13=] supplants the Ministry of Magic as the prime handler of matters supernatural and superhuman, poaching staff members and seeking to bring it to heel. On top of that, he's implied to be after the Department of Mysteries.
*** By ''Ghosts of the Past'', he's TheManBehindTheMan for muggle Britain, and is gunning for magical Britain too, as well as levying [[spoiler: Britain's new mountain of vibranium and mithril, courtesy of the Elder Wyrm and Doctor Strange]] for maximum advantage.
** Draco Malfoy, meanwhile [[spoiler: and the mysterious voice in his head which may or may not be the NotQuiteDead Prospero Slytherin]] is up to something, plotting a largely neutral course, though helping out the good guys with a tip-off here and there. What he's actually up to is, as of chapter 49 of ''Ghosts of the Past'', an enduring mystery.
** Dumbledore is rapidly rearranging his plans to bring down the Death Eaters and deal with Voldemort in response to the ever changing Status Quo, while also protecting Harry and the rest of his students to the best of his ability.
** Professor Xavier is holding off the Hellfire Club with one hand and keeping Harry away from his maternal cousin Jean with the other. The latter is a case of IDidWhatIHadToDo, as it's shown that he's very much unhappy with it, and in chapter 67, it's revealed to be a PredestinationParadox - he had to keep them apart because he had been specifically warned to by a time travelling [[spoiler: future Harry]]. Later on, Harry and Jean get to meet, but it's not long after that Xavier gets several new students to look after.
** Magneto is lurking on the edge of things and keeping an eye on events. In chapter 77 he makes his long awaited appearance in the form of a BigDamnHeroes moment when he crumples HYDRA's [[spoiler: wounded but still deadly helicarrier, the ''Dreadnought'',]] like tinfoil. As of ''Ghosts of the Past'', he's taking a more active role in protecting Mutantkind. However, he's adopted an attitude of [[MartialPacifist don't go after my people and I (probably) won't go after yours]]. He's also teaching Harry, and gets involved against the Red Room, because [[spoiler: they took Harry, and more pertinently, his younger daughter Lorna]], and therefore, ItsPersonal.
** Alison Carter, the much younger sister of Peggy [[spoiler: (actually, daughter of Peggy and Steve)]], is nominally retired, but practically speaking playing spy games. As of ''Ghosts of the Past'', she's come out of retirement in earnest and reclaimed her rank as Deputy Director of SHIELD (this time jointly with Maria Hill). She's also revealed to have schemed with [[spoiler: Jor-El]] to keep his son secret and safe, which she did extraordinarily well.
** Wanda Maximoff, as heir apparent to the Sorcerer Supreme, is trying to keep a lid on the incursions caused by the Darkhold's weakening of the borders of reality, to protect her godson and [[spoiler: to keep her daughter's existence secret and safe]]. From chapter 27 of ''Ghosts'' onwards, she's [[spoiler: the Sorceress Supreme in her own right, Strange having abdicated the position after faking his death]], and has much more to deal with.
** [[spoiler: It turns out that Lily Potter isn't quite dead and has merged with the Phoenix Force/Destruction of the Endless to become the White Phoenix of the Crown.]] She can't do very much because of The Rules, but is keeping an eye on Harry, and helps out where she can.
** Meanwhile Chthon schemes to bring about his return to the universe through the Darkhold, a plan which nearly works until he gets [[spoiler: hit by an Infinite Mass Punch and then psychically kicked out by Harry]].
** And, as of Chapter 60, [[spoiler: the Winter Soldier has shaken off his brainwashing, performed a HeelFaceTurn and is now acting as a secret mole inside HYDRA for the good guys]]. Then in chapter 74, he [[spoiler: is caught out and brainwashed again]]. Finally, he makes a full and permanent HeelFaceTurn in chapter 77, joining the Avengers as an associate member and [[BodyguardingABadass bodyguard]] and [[SenseiForScoundrels mentor]] to Harry.
** Chapter 80 has [[AntiHero Namor]], who's first and foremost concerned with protecting Atlantis, but also feeling out a potential alliance with Magneto against the rest of the world if they are ever turned on.
** [[spoiler: Doctor Nathaniel Essex a.k.a. Sinister]] has been stated to be the mysterious force that kept Harry at Privet Drive, messing with Mrs Figg's head, heading off investigations and the like, having developed an interest in Harry because of his mother being related to Jean Grey. In ''Ghosts of the Past'', he makes his move [[spoiler: kidnapping Harry and, as an afterthought, Carol, using Maddie Pryor - Jean's twin sister who he stole at birth, faking her death, and raised as a LivingWeapon - to subdue them, as part of a scheme with the Red Room.]] The latter group, led by General Lukin, are scheming to regain their lost power and Russia's lost empire, forcibly recruiting assets old and new. The [[spoiler: Dark Phoenix]] puts a stop to that, and the leaders are put in SHIELD custody.
** In ''Ghosts of the Past'', Gambit crops up, working for [[spoiler: Sinister and the Red Room]] against his will, though with apparent grudging loyalty. In reality, he's [[spoiler: trying to free the Red Room's prisoners, and coax Sinister's right hand 'hound' Maddie Pryor into a HeelFaceTurn, working with Natasha as her mole in the Red Room.]] He ultimately succeeds, and eventually returns to New Orleans despite [[spoiler: finding out that he's the clone/brother of Scott Summers]].
*** In same arc, [[spoiler: Maddie Pryor a.k.a. Rachel Grey]] makes her bow, and while is at first loyal to [[spoiler: Sinister,]] first Gambit then [[spoiler: Harry]] sow the seeds of doubt, leading to a HeelFaceTurn and her attempting to [[spoiler: protect Harry from Sinister and the Red Room. The second attempt is more successful than the first.]] Thereafter, she tries to make her own path.
** Voldemort [[spoiler: takes over Wormtail's body and, now that he has a physical body once more, goes off to learn from Selene.]] Both of them are interested in the ''Word of Kemmler,'' and planning to betray the other. And, of course, Voldemort is trying to kill Harry, but knows better than to try and face him flat-out. He's still responsible for putting Harry's [[spoiler: name in the Goblet of Fire,]] with his reasons currently unknown.
** Dracula shows up in the sequel as King of the Grey Court of Vampires, looking to [[spoiler: ritually drain Carol's blood]] so as to make himself, and therefore every new vampire he sires from then on (and potentially every single one he's sired already - no one's entirely sure), [[spoiler: immune to sunlight]], and putting them in prime position to exploit the confusion and instability the Red Room's empire building caused in Eastern Europe. Harry, the Avengers, and a few other friends and allies put a stop to that.
** Also appearing in the sequel is ComicBook/DoctorDoom, who is revealed to be planning to not just strengthen Latveria, but establish himself as the prime supernatural (and probably mundane) power in Eastern Europe, and to that end [[spoiler: helps Harry stop Dracula and save Carol, on the grounds that Dracula is a major regional rival, and if his ritual went to plan, he'd come for Doom first]]. It's also revealed that his Doombots are sent to occasionally attack and draw the attention of the Avengers because [[spoiler: he's using them to take the Avengers' measure, on the grounds that the Avengers are theoretically TheUnfettered and have deposed leaders they took a dislike to before, and he knows that he might well be on their hit-list, so is therefore getting their measure to prepare defences against them]].
** And then there's Doctor Strange, who's manipulating the hell out of ''everyone'' and is unequivocally 'up to something', but no one has even the faintest idea what that something is, until Chapter 80 of ''Child of the Storm'' reveals that he's preparing Earth to go up against Thanos. After that, several characters in the know note that they know ''what'' his goal is, but have absolute no idea how he's going to get there. [[spoiler: As of chapter 34 of ''Ghosts'', it appears that he's faked his death, passed his mantle of Sorcerer Supreme to Wanda, and is now working quietly to continue his plans in whatever time he has left.]] Confused yet?
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* ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'' features at least '''''[[UpToEleven seventy five]]''''' plots during the armies arc's last battle before Christmas, though not all of them are actually depicted. Especially notable is the presence of a quintuple agent who thinks he's a quadruple agent in a game with only three sides. It was even lampshaded [[ShoutOut by name]] in the author's notes. (See quote page) Even outside of the armies, ''everyone'' has a plot, or several: Quirrel, Dumbledore, Harry, Draco, Lucius, Snape, Hat&Cloak, "Santa Claus"... A chapter has Snape commenting "If I have learned anything in my tenure as Head of Slytherin, I have learned what ridiculous messes arise when there is more than one plotter and more than one plan."
** That specific example is ultimately subverted as there are 3 levels of plotters. The second level had Harry orchestrating the chaos for it's own sake (since his own faction had the advantage in uncertain situations) and Dumbeldore as the fourth side for said quadruple agent manipulating the results and being the real source of the generals' master plans to trick them into a tie. Then above ''that'' there's Quirrel, the secret fifth side, manipulating the second level plotters and playing the whole mess like a fiddle.
** That specific example is ultimately subverted as there are 3 levels of plotters. The second level had Harry orchestrating the chaos for it's own sake (since his own faction had the advantage in uncertain situations) and Dumbeldore as the fourth side for said quadruple agent manipulating the results and being the real source of the generals' master plans to trick them into a tie. Then above ''that'' there's Quirrel, the secret fifth side, manipulating the second level plotters and playing the whole mess like a fiddle.
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* ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'' features at least '''''[[UpToEleven seventy five]]''''' plots during the armies arc's last battle before Christmas, though not all of them are actually depicted. Especially notable is the presence of a quintuple agent who thinks he's a quadruple agent in a game with only three sides. It was even lampshaded [[ShoutOut by name]] ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'': Once Quirrell allows [[{{Turncoat}} traitors]] in the author's notes. (See quote page) Even outside of the armies, combat games, ''everyone'' has a plot, or several: Quirrel, Dumbledore, Harry, Draco, Lucius, Snape, Hat&Cloak, "Santa Claus"... A chapter has Snape commenting "If I wants to have learned anything in my tenure as Head of Slytherin, I have learned what ridiculous messes arise when there is more than one plotter and more than one plan."
** That specific example is ultimately subverted as there are 3 levels of plotters. The second level had Harry orchestrating the chaos for it's own sake (since his own faction had the advantage in uncertain situations) and Dumbeldore as the fourth side for said quadruple agent manipulating the results and being the real source of the generals' master plans to trick them intoa tie. Then above ''that'' there's Quirrel, the secret fifth side, manipulating plot, even if they don't actually want to change their loyalties. Every soldier in all three armies has something going on, though only a few are actually depicted. Harry encourages this for several reasons, the second level plotters main one being that he knows he can handle the ensuing chaos better than Draco and playing Hermione. The chaos escalates to the whole mess like point that aspiring WildCard Blaise Zabini manages to become a fiddle.'''''quintuple''''' agent in a war with only three sides, [[spoiler:by selling those three sides out to Quirrell and Dumbledore and PlayingBothSides between those two.]]
** That specific example is ultimately subverted as there are 3 levels of plotters. The second level had Harry orchestrating the chaos for it's own sake (since his own faction had the advantage in uncertain situations) and Dumbeldore as the fourth side for said quadruple agent manipulating the results and being the real source of the generals' master plans to trick them into
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*** By ''Ghosts of the Past'', he's TheManBehindTheMan for muggle Britain, and is gunning for magical Britain too.
** Draco Malfoy, meanwhile [[spoiler: and the mysterious voice in his head which may or may not be the NotQuiteDead Prospero Slytherin]] is up to something, plotting a largely neutral course, though helping out the good guys with a tip-off here and there. What he's actually up to is, as of chapter 18 of ''Ghosts of the Past'', an enduring mystery.
** Draco Malfoy, meanwhile [[spoiler: and the mysterious voice in his head which may or may not be the NotQuiteDead Prospero Slytherin]] is up to something, plotting a largely neutral course, though helping out the good guys with a tip-off here and there. What he's actually up to is, as of chapter 18 of ''Ghosts of the Past'', an enduring mystery.
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too, as well as levying [[spoiler: Britain's new mountain of vibranium and mithril, courtesy of the Elder Wyrm and Doctor Strange]] for maximum advantage.
** Draco Malfoy, meanwhile [[spoiler: and the mysterious voice in his head which may or may not be the NotQuiteDead Prospero Slytherin]] is up to something, plotting a largely neutral course, though helping out the good guys with a tip-off here and there. What he's actually up to is, as of chapter18 49 of ''Ghosts of the Past'', an enduring mystery.
** Draco Malfoy, meanwhile [[spoiler: and the mysterious voice in his head which may or may not be the NotQuiteDead Prospero Slytherin]] is up to something, plotting a largely neutral course, though helping out the good guys with a tip-off here and there. What he's actually up to is, as of chapter
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** Magneto is lurking on the edge of things and keeping an eye on events. In chapter 77 he makes his long awaited appearance in the form of a BigDamnHeroes moment when he crumples HYDRA's [[spoiler: wounded but still deadly helicarrier, the ''Dreadnought'',]] like tinfoil. As of ''Ghosts of the Past'', he's taking a more active role in protecting Mutantkind. However, he's adopted an attitude of [[MartialPacifist Don't go after my people and I (probably) won't go after yours]].
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** Magneto is lurking on the edge of things and keeping an eye on events. In chapter 77 he makes his long awaited appearance in the form of a BigDamnHeroes moment when he crumples HYDRA's [[spoiler: wounded but still deadly helicarrier, the ''Dreadnought'',]] like tinfoil. As of ''Ghosts of the Past'', he's taking a more active role in protecting Mutantkind. However, he's adopted an attitude of [[MartialPacifist Don't don't go after my people and I (probably) won't go after yours]]. He's also teaching Harry, and gets involved against the Red Room, because [[spoiler: they took Harry, and more pertinently, his younger daughter Lorna]], and therefore, ItsPersonal.
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** Wanda Maximoff, as heir apparent to the Sorcerer Supreme, is trying to keep a lid on the incursions caused by the Darkhold's weakening of the borders of reality, to protect her godson and [[spoiler: to keep her daughter's existence secret and safe]].
** [[spoiler: It turns out that Lily Potter isn't quite dead and has merged with the Phoenix Force/Destruction of the Endless to become the White Phoenix of the Crown.]] She can't do very much because of The Rules, but is keeping an eye on Harry.
** [[spoiler: It turns out that Lily Potter isn't quite dead and has merged with the Phoenix Force/Destruction of the Endless to become the White Phoenix of the Crown.]] She can't do very much because of The Rules, but is keeping an eye on Harry.
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** Wanda Maximoff, as heir apparent to the Sorcerer Supreme, is trying to keep a lid on the incursions caused by the Darkhold's weakening of the borders of reality, to protect her godson and [[spoiler: to keep her daughter's existence secret and safe]]. \n From chapter 27 of ''Ghosts'' onwards, she's [[spoiler: the Sorceress Supreme in her own right, Strange having abdicated the position after faking his death]], and has much more to deal with.
** [[spoiler: It turns out that Lily Potter isn't quite dead and has merged with the Phoenix Force/Destruction of the Endless to become the White Phoenix of the Crown.]] She can't do very much because of The Rules, but is keeping an eye onHarry.Harry, and helps out where she can.
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** In ''Ghosts of the Past'', Gambit crops up, working for [[spoiler: Sinister and the Red Room]] against his will, though with apparent grudging loyalty. In reality, he's [[spoiler: trying to free the Red Room's prisoners, and coax Sinister's right hand 'hound' Maddie Pryor into a HeelFaceTurn, working with Natasha as her mole in the Red Room.]] He ultimately succeeds, and eventually returns to New Orleans.
*** In same arc, [[spoiler: Maddie Pryor a.k.a. Rachel Grey]] makes her bow, and while is at first loyal to [[spoiler: Sinister,]] first Gambit then [[spoiler: Harry]] sow the seeds of doubt, leading to a HeelFaceTurn and her attempting to [[spoiler: protect Harry from Sinister and the Red Room. The second attempt is more successful than the first.]]
*** In same arc, [[spoiler: Maddie Pryor a.k.a. Rachel Grey]] makes her bow, and while is at first loyal to [[spoiler: Sinister,]] first Gambit then [[spoiler: Harry]] sow the seeds of doubt, leading to a HeelFaceTurn and her attempting to [[spoiler: protect Harry from Sinister and the Red Room. The second attempt is more successful than the first.]]
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** In ''Ghosts of the Past'', Gambit crops up, working for [[spoiler: Sinister and the Red Room]] against his will, though with apparent grudging loyalty. In reality, he's [[spoiler: trying to free the Red Room's prisoners, and coax Sinister's right hand 'hound' Maddie Pryor into a HeelFaceTurn, working with Natasha as her mole in the Red Room.]] He ultimately succeeds, and eventually returns to New Orleans.Orleans despite [[spoiler: finding out that he's the clone/brother of Scott Summers]].
*** In same arc, [[spoiler: Maddie Pryor a.k.a. Rachel Grey]] makes her bow, and while is at first loyal to [[spoiler: Sinister,]] first Gambit then [[spoiler: Harry]] sow the seeds of doubt, leading to a HeelFaceTurn and her attempting to [[spoiler: protect Harry from Sinister and the Red Room. The second attempt is more successful than the first.]]]] Thereafter, she tries to make her own path.
*** In same arc, [[spoiler: Maddie Pryor a.k.a. Rachel Grey]] makes her bow, and while is at first loyal to [[spoiler: Sinister,]] first Gambit then [[spoiler: Harry]] sow the seeds of doubt, leading to a HeelFaceTurn and her attempting to [[spoiler: protect Harry from Sinister and the Red Room. The second attempt is more successful than the first.
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* ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'' features at least '''''[[UpToEleven seventy five]]''''' plots during the armies arc's last battle before Christmas, though not all of them are actually depicted. Especially notable is the presence of a quintuple agent who thinks he's a quadruple agent in a game with only three sides. It was even lampshaded [[ShoutOut by name]] in the author's notes. (See quote page) Even outside of the armies, ''everyone'' has a plot, or several: Quirrel, Dumbledore, Harry, Draco, Lucius, Snape, Hat&Cloak, "Santa Claus"... A chapter has Snape commenting "If I have learned anything in my tenure as Head of Slytherin, I have learned what ridiculous messes arise when there is more than one plotter and more than one plan."
** That specific example is ultimately subverted as there are 3 levels of plotters. The second level had Harry orchestrating the chaos for it's own sake (since his own faction had the advantage in uncertain situations) and Dumbeldore as the fourth side for said quadruple agent manipulating the results and being the real source of the generals' master plans to trick them into a tie. Then above ''that'' there's Quirrel, the secret fifth side, manipulating the second level plotters and playing the whole mess like a fiddle.
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': Misato has a bunch of plans to deal with the huge number of global conflicts and destroy SEELE, SEELE has a plan to destroy HERZ and bring about [[AssimilationPlot instrumentality]], GEIST has a plan to defeat SEELE for good, and the Children has a plan of their own…
* ''FanFic/DivineBlood'' has no less than sixteen people pursuing their own, often mutually independent goals with no collaboration between them.
* ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'' takes ''Evangelion'''s existing pileup between SEELE's instrumentality and Gendo's plan to bring Yui back, and adds in Kaworu's plan to turn humanity into a HiveMind and Shinji's own plans to protect Tokyo 3 and being a SpannerInTheWorks for the other three's plans.
* In ''Fanfic/WhatAboutWitchQueen'' it seems everybody has a plot in place, and not all of them has been revealed yet. And they already start crashing into each other. To list just a few:
** Militaristic cabal in Arendelle wants to start Arendelle-Weselton war to prevent Arendelle-Weselton & The Isles war.
** ...but Hunter (and maybe Margaret) starts Weselton-Arendelle war before militarists can do it on their own terms, and it seems he needs war for some goal of his.
** ...but Elsa schemes to stop both parties from starting the war, and then schemes to stop the war and Hunter.
** Michael wants to take over the Isles.
** ...but Hans is doing the same, and he already has a head start.
** ...but [[spoiler:Anna arrives on Westerguard]] which might put a bit of dent in his plans... or not.
** And then there's mysterious smuggler king Felix Drachner who has his own plans.
* ''FanFic/DragonAgeTheCrownOfThorns''. The first chapters already paint Orzammar as the game of lies, but things keep evolving for real when the [[WisePrince dwarven noble]] [[GuileHero protagonist]] and the other wardens return to the dwarven city to get military aid. And this is not counting the pileup dealing with the main plotline, one in which not just the Wardens and Loghain are involved, but also [[spoiler:a Fade Spirit]], of all things, and, more recently, probably [[spoiler:the Archdemon]] as well.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/48341/1/Changelings%2C-Changelings%2C-Everywhere/ Changelings, Changelings Everywhere.]]'' is an unusual case of the trope being used for sidesplitting comedy alongside DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent. It blatantly devolves into a parody of the trope at the end due to the gambit-encouraging problems inherent in introducing a race of {{Voluntary Shapeshift|ing}}ers. ''Inanimate objects'' are revealed to be Changelings in disguise, and nobody is quite sure anymore who they're working for, since there's so much backstabbing and RightHandVersusLeftHand. Queen Chrysalis wants to rule the Changelings, but is opposed by Lord Chitin, who is supposedly a deposed Changeling noble who has a birthright to the throne. But they're both opposed to The New Larval Republic, who want to break free of royalty altogether. Then Lord Chitin makes a deal with the NLR, but not everyone accepts. But some Changelings have a change of heart, and defect. The [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Mare]] amid the shenanigans is [[BigGood Princess Celestia]], and [[HeroicBSOD even she doesn't last that long.]]
* The ''FanFic/PoniesOfOlympus'' story ''Atlas Strongest Tournament'' has this occurring between Luna and [[TheDragon Aurelia]] in their moves and countermoves against each other behind the scenes of the tournament. It's taken to MindScrew levels at some points.
* In Chapter 17-19 of ''Fanfic/PerfectionIsOverrated'', [[spoiler:Bachiko and Meiko try to force certain people to fall in love or, failing that, kill the [[Anime/MaiHime Himes]]. Ishigami decides he can use them and decides to try to use Yukariko to coerce the Himes into fighting one another. Meanwhile, Nagi, trying to advance his own agenda, tries to manipulate Shiho, who is unconvinced that Yuuichi has truly fallen for her, into killing Mai]].
* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'' has Professor Moriarty and Beth Lestrade. Moriarty is TheChessmaster; Beth just plans simply and utilizes the IndyPloy when she has to. Most notably, Moriarty makes a CloningGambit and allows his own death to occur, and when his clone pops up in the 22nd century, Beth's era, she has the body of Literature/SherlockHolmes ''restored to life'' to aid her and New Scotland Yard. Only to find that Moriarty is now a VillainWithGoodPublicity, and she and Sherlock will have to discredit him.
* ''Fanfic/DeathNoteEquestria'': Given [[Manga/DeathNote one half of the source material]], it shouldn't be a surprise this ends up happening. Twilight and L's moves against each other count from the start already, but then [[{{Shinigami}} Mer]] goes off Twilight's script to reach her own ends. And on top of that, not only does [[spoiler: [[TooCoolToLive Pinkie Pie]]]] appear to have set up a ThanatosGambit before her death, but Celestia is strongly implied to be running her own scheme against Kira as well.
* Fanfic/DeathNoteIITheHiddenNote has this happen: [[spoiler: A woman shows up at the doorway in a trenchcoat, a fedora and sunglasses. She is apparently the new Kira's conspirator. In her Death Note, she writes down the names of the people she sees and waits for forty seconds. But wait! Near pulls out what he says is the real Death Note and says the one the woman is holding is fake. Not only that, Near accuses KJ of being the new Kira. But wait! The woman reads out the names she wrote and describes how the four people she wrote the names of would die. Each one dies seemingly in that way. Suddenly, The woman takes off her fedora and sunglasses to reveal she's Near's daughter Angela! Everyone is suddenly surrounded by Shinigami. Arik flashes his Death Note in Near's face. Near realizes that the Death note he and Angela have are both fake. Near asks KJ where the real Death Note was. KJ says the first entry he wrote in his journal, which mentions an angel. It is then that Near realizes he held the real Death Note in his hands and put it back. It is at this point he exclaims how it was the Hidden Note]].
* ''Fanfic/DirtySympathy'' has Klavier and Apollo's plan to frame their abusers clashing with Phoenix's plan [[spoiler: of proving Kristoph guilty and restoring his good name]] and Kristoph's plan [[spoiler: of poisoning the Mishams to tie up loose ends]].
* ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos''. LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, and virtually ''all'' of them have their own individual plans and plots. All of them end up falling apart by the end of the story thanks to the [[SpannerInTheWorks interference]] of [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]].
** Maledict wishes to defeat the Metarex so he can unleash Tsali on his enemies and rule the universe. [[TheChessmaster He is also secretly controlling the Metarex]] as part of his enormously complicated GambitRoulette. He also wants to get the Chaos Emeralds in order to keep them away from the Metarex [[spoiler: and is trying to protect Sonic the Hedgehog because he's Maledict's son]].
** Tsali steals Planet Eggs so he has enough power to exterminate the Seedrians and destroy the Metarex. And anyone else who gets in his way.
** Allysion want to kill Tsali and then launch an attack on the Milky Way to upset Maledict's plans.
** Jesus sends his servant Tephiroth to see if Sonic would be a useful ally, and recruits Trinity to spy on the Demons and find out what they're up to.
** Venus the Seedrian is trying to expose Maledict's plan in order to stop him from taking over the universe.
** Dark Oak and the Metarex are stealing and mutating Planet Eggs in order to keep themselves and their organization alive.
* The plot of ''[[Fanfic/GameTheoryLyricalNanoha Power Games]]'' arises from the colliding agendas of six different factions.
* ''FanFic/RedactionOfTheGoldenWitch'' has [[ConspiracyTheorist Karl]]'s theory about what ''really'' happened in ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry''. In his version of events, all of the Ushiromiya's servants were working for different players in a worldwide conspiracy, all aimed at claiming the family's secret stash of wealth.
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' and its sequel, ''Ghosts of the Past'', gleefully take this trope and run with it.
** First off, we have a post HeelFaceTurn ReformedButNotTamed Loki, [[TheSpymaster who's got a Nine Realms wide spy network]] and is continually scheming for the good of Asgard and the Nine Realms while [[TheLancer watching his brother's back]].
** Odin is mostly operating on a hands off basis, leaving his sons to do what they do best, but has put a number of his servants into play, with Freki and Geri (his wolves) protecting Harry, Huginn and Muninn occasionally advising him and Sif and the Warriors Three taking part in a little training of Harry and monster hunting, while keeping an eye out for an opportunity to get even with Thanos for what he did to Loki (it wasn't mind control, but it wasn't pleasant) and to Krypton. As of ''Ghosts of the Past'', this now involves [[spoiler: trying to manage circumstances to protect his grandson from himself and the power of the Phoenix that resides within him]] and forestalling the return of [[spoiler: Surtur]], who's trying to get back into the galaxy and devour it again.
** Then we have Baron Von Strucker, who wants to restore HYDRA to the status it possessed during WWII. He is eliminated in chapter 50 of the first book for incompetence and threatening Narcissa by Lucius Malfoy.
** Lucius Malfoy, who is sick of being afraid and wants to make everyone else afraid of him, while protecting his family. Oh, and he wants revenge on Fury. To this end, he seeks to bring down the Avengers and fuse HYDRA and the Death Eaters into a gestalt entity under his sole command. In chapter 50, he succeeds and prepares for the next step - the destruction of any and all potential threats to HYDRA, starting with the Avengers. Then, in chapter 74 he graduates to full on EvilOverlord when [[spoiler: he succeeds in neutralising the Avengers, destroying Avengers Tower]] and effectively has the world at his mercy. By chapter 77, however, this has all fallen apart and he's scuttled off to find a rock to hide under.
** Gravemoss [[OmnicidalManiac wants to kill everything]] and rule over a universe of the dead. Cue [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing]]. Eventually, in chapter 76, he finds out that EvilIsNotAToy, gets possessed by [[spoiler: Chthon,]] then possibly vaporised by [[spoiler: an Infinite Mass Punch from Jean-Paul.]] Or blasted somewhere past Jupiter. No one's really sure.
** Alexander Pierce, meanwhile, seems pretty comfortable with just going with the flow. For now. Chapter 76 has him stab Lucius in the back by cheerfully asserting that what Nick Fury does in his free time - [[spoiler: raise another team of Avengers and work with Jane Foster to find and crush HYDRA]] - is not his business, before hanging up. Then, it turns out that Fury was tracing the call and catches him red-handed. In ''Ghosts of the Past'', he is seen extending his life by keeping as many secrets to himself as he can, making himself more useful alive than dead.
** Dealing with all of these is Nick Fury, who's trying (and, to be fair, mostly succeeding) to crush HYDRA and is gunning for Lucius Malfoy in particular, [[ItsPersonal because he has a score to settle,]] while simultaneously trying to limit Loki's influence (it's not that he thinks that Loki's evil, it's just that he's got a job to do. And he doesn't trust him). By chapter 80 of ''Child of the Storm'', he's got Malfoy on the run, HYDRA in ruins, and has not only found Pierce, but got him in a lock up, with a purge of HYDRA to follow.
*** By ''Ghosts of the Past'', his focus has shifted to dealing with the Red Room, and all of the disruption in the magical and Muggle worlds that Harry tends to cause.
** His protégé, Agent (later Director) Wisdom [[spoiler: a.k.a. Regulus Black]], is masterminding the defence of Britain and, seemingly, the creation of a British Avengers team in the form of Excalibur, occasionally blackmailing Wanda Maximoff into helping out. He's also trying to ensure that [=MI13=] supplants the Ministry of Magic as the prime handler of matters supernatural and superhuman, poaching staff members and seeking to bring it to heel. On top of that, he's implied to be after the Department of Mysteries.
*** By ''Ghosts of the Past'', he's TheManBehindTheMan for muggle Britain, and is gunning for magical Britain too.
** Draco Malfoy, meanwhile [[spoiler: and the mysterious voice in his head which may or may not be the NotQuiteDead Prospero Slytherin]] is up to something, plotting a largely neutral course, though helping out the good guys with a tip-off here and there. What he's actually up to is, as of chapter 18 of ''Ghosts of the Past'', an enduring mystery.
** Dumbledore is rapidly rearranging his plans to bring down the Death Eaters and deal with Voldemort in response to the ever changing Status Quo, while also protecting Harry and the rest of his students to the best of his ability.
** Professor Xavier is holding off the Hellfire Club with one hand and keeping Harry away from his maternal cousin Jean with the other. The latter is a case of IDidWhatIHadToDo, as it's shown that he's very much unhappy with it, and in chapter 67, it's revealed to be a PredestinationParadox - he had to keep them apart because he had been specifically warned to by a time travelling [[spoiler: future Harry]]. Later on, Harry and Jean get to meet, but it's not long after that Xavier gets several new students to look after.
** Magneto is lurking on the edge of things and keeping an eye on events. In chapter 77 he makes his long awaited appearance in the form of a BigDamnHeroes moment when he crumples HYDRA's [[spoiler: wounded but still deadly helicarrier, the ''Dreadnought'',]] like tinfoil. As of ''Ghosts of the Past'', he's taking a more active role in protecting Mutantkind. However, he's adopted an attitude of [[MartialPacifist Don't go after my people and I (probably) won't go after yours]].
** Alison Carter, the much younger sister of Peggy [[spoiler: (actually, daughter of Peggy and Steve)]], is nominally retired, but practically speaking playing spy games. As of ''Ghosts of the Past'', she's come out of retirement in earnest and reclaimed her rank as Deputy Director of SHIELD (this time jointly with Maria Hill). She's also revealed to have schemed with [[spoiler: Jor-El]] to keep his son secret and safe, which she did extraordinarily well.
** Wanda Maximoff, as heir apparent to the Sorcerer Supreme, is trying to keep a lid on the incursions caused by the Darkhold's weakening of the borders of reality, to protect her godson and [[spoiler: to keep her daughter's existence secret and safe]].
** [[spoiler: It turns out that Lily Potter isn't quite dead and has merged with the Phoenix Force/Destruction of the Endless to become the White Phoenix of the Crown.]] She can't do very much because of The Rules, but is keeping an eye on Harry.
** Meanwhile Chthon schemes to bring about his return to the universe through the Darkhold, a plan which nearly works until he gets [[spoiler: hit by an Infinite Mass Punch and then psychically kicked out by Harry]].
** And, as of Chapter 60, [[spoiler: the Winter Soldier has shaken off his brainwashing, performed a HeelFaceTurn and is now acting as a secret mole inside HYDRA for the good guys]]. Then in chapter 74, he [[spoiler: is caught out and brainwashed again]]. Finally, he makes a full and permanent HeelFaceTurn in chapter 77, joining the Avengers as an associate member and [[BodyguardingABadass bodyguard]] and [[SenseiForScoundrels mentor]] to Harry.
** Chapter 80 has [[AntiHero Namor]], who's first and foremost concerned with protecting Atlantis, but also feeling out a potential alliance with Magneto against the rest of the world if they are ever turned on.
** [[spoiler: Doctor Nathaniel Essex a.k.a. Sinister]] has been stated to be the mysterious force that kept Harry at Privet Drive, messing with Mrs Figg's head, heading off investigations and the like, having developed an interest in Harry because of his mother being related to Jean Grey. In ''Ghosts of the Past'', he makes his move [[spoiler: kidnapping Harry and, as an afterthought, Carol, using Maddie Pryor - Jean's twin sister who he stole at birth, faking her death, and raised as a LivingWeapon - to subdue them, as part of a scheme with the Red Room.]] The latter group, led by General Lukin, are scheming to regain their lost power and Russia's lost empire, forcibly recruiting assets old and new. The [[spoiler: Dark Phoenix]] puts a stop to that, and the leaders are put in SHIELD custody.
** In ''Ghosts of the Past'', Gambit crops up, working for [[spoiler: Sinister and the Red Room]] against his will, though with apparent grudging loyalty. In reality, he's [[spoiler: trying to free the Red Room's prisoners, and coax Sinister's right hand 'hound' Maddie Pryor into a HeelFaceTurn, working with Natasha as her mole in the Red Room.]] He ultimately succeeds, and eventually returns to New Orleans.
*** In same arc, [[spoiler: Maddie Pryor a.k.a. Rachel Grey]] makes her bow, and while is at first loyal to [[spoiler: Sinister,]] first Gambit then [[spoiler: Harry]] sow the seeds of doubt, leading to a HeelFaceTurn and her attempting to [[spoiler: protect Harry from Sinister and the Red Room. The second attempt is more successful than the first.]]
** Voldemort [[spoiler: takes over Wormtail's body and, now that he has a physical body once more, goes off to learn from Selene.]] Both of them are interested in the ''Word of Kemmler,'' and planning to betray the other. And, of course, Voldemort is trying to kill Harry, but knows better than to try and face him flat-out. He's still responsible for putting Harry's [[spoiler: name in the Goblet of Fire,]] with his reasons currently unknown.
** Dracula shows up in the sequel as King of the Grey Court of Vampires, looking to [[spoiler: ritually drain Carol's blood]] so as to make himself, and therefore every new vampire he sires from then on (and potentially every single one he's sired already - no one's entirely sure), [[spoiler: immune to sunlight]], and putting them in prime position to exploit the confusion and instability the Red Room's empire building caused in Eastern Europe. Harry, the Avengers, and a few other friends and allies put a stop to that.
** Also appearing in the sequel is ComicBook/DoctorDoom, who is revealed to be planning to not just strengthen Latveria, but establish himself as the prime supernatural (and probably mundane) power in Eastern Europe, and to that end [[spoiler: helps Harry stop Dracula and save Carol, on the grounds that Dracula is a major regional rival, and if his ritual went to plan, he'd come for Doom first]]. It's also revealed that his Doombots are sent to occasionally attack and draw the attention of the Avengers because [[spoiler: he's using them to take the Avengers' measure, on the grounds that the Avengers are theoretically TheUnfettered and have deposed leaders they took a dislike to before, and he knows that he might well be on their hit-list, so is therefore getting their measure to prepare defences against them]].
** And then there's Doctor Strange, who's manipulating the hell out of ''everyone'' and is unequivocally 'up to something', but no one has even the faintest idea what that something is, until Chapter 80 of ''Child of the Storm'' reveals that he's preparing Earth to go up against Thanos. After that, several characters in the know note that they know ''what'' his goal is, but have absolute no idea how he's going to get there. [[spoiler: As of chapter 34 of ''Ghosts'', it appears that he's faked his death, passed his mantle of Sorcerer Supreme to Wanda, and is now working quietly to continue his plans in whatever time he has left.]] Confused yet?
* ''Fanfic/WeissReacts'' has the constant pranking war going on between everyone that even the staff are players in. And then there's the Great Antic War arc....
* ''FanFic/KingdomHeartsNewEpicTheFirst'', by chapter five, already has the plans and counterplans affiliated with Wolfang Richler, the official BigBad, the President of the Alliance Alric Maynes, the Inverse Organization who has just appeared and who seem to have history with Wolfang, the two immediately apparent members of the Inverse Organization seem to have divergent goals if not means, and then there's the introduction of Summerill, who immediately decided he wanted to try to use and manipulate Wolfang to advance his own plans.
** Then there's Perseus Sarasho, TheDragon to Wolfang, who wants to use Wolfang to create a war for him, since he feels useless in a world of perpetual peace, and that others like him are devalued.
** Then there's Doctor Doom, who wants to make use of the wish Wolfang has promised him for something, while also making his own plans. That Loki is also involved guarantees he too has plans in this vein.
** Then there's the heroes, and the fact the new generation might have plans that conflict with one another's plans as well as creating conflict with the plans of the old heroes (Sora, Riku and Kairi).
* In ''FanFic/{{Webwork}}'', there are several plans and schemes starting to emerge. There’s [[BigBad Tarakudo’s]] plan to keep [[DragonInChief Jade]] under his metaphorical thumb, Jade’s desire to protect her kits, [[spoiler: whatever [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang]] is up to]], the plans of Black’s superiors to reduce their dependence on contractors (namely the J-Team), [[spoiler: and [[TheStarscream Tara planning to overthrow Jade]] with the help of the [[NotQuiteDead Gumo Queen’s ghost]].]]
* ''Fanfic/SuddenContact'':
** In ''Sudden Contact'' The Sons of Korhal and the Citadel Council allied together against the threats of the zerg and protoss while defeating the Confederacy. Daggoth is sent to Citadel space and waging war against Sovereign, who in turn is using [[spoiler:Liara as his indoctrinated agent to find the Conduit.]] The protoss reduced to fighting in a civil war. The Magistrate/[[spoiler:Illusive Man]] plotting against the Dominion while Duran is working behind the scene within Cerberus. And finally the newly established United Earth Directorate is preparing to invade the Koprulu sector.
** In ''Sudden Supremacy'': The UED finally arrives to the Koprulu sector and tries to establish an alliance with the Kel-Morian Combine and Cerberus against the Dominion. ITSA colonies are being mysteriously attacked and its colonists abducted. The protoss have finally ended their civil war and tries to establish diplomacy with the Citadel.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11864574/1/Like-A-Wish Like A Wish]]'' features not only Lelouch/Zero's plots against Britannia and Cornelia's plots against Zero, but also Kallen's, Suzaku's, and Nunnally's plots to help Lelouch and/or punish the ones who betrayed him. Further complicating matters is that Kallen, Suzaku, and Nunnally are each unaware that the other two have also [[PeggySue been sent back in time]]. Notably, few of Lelouch's plans go the way he expects because he can't anticipate the three of them and isn't aware Suzaku and Nunnally are even involved in any plotting.
* ''FanFic/SonOfTheSevenKingdoms'' is a crossover with ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', so of course there's plenty of this:
** First, and most obvious, there's the civil war.
** Then, the Tyrells' attempts to become TheManBehindTheMan via Margaery.
** Dorne is now trying to get as much as they can from whoever they ally with - notwithstanding the possibility that they may still be banking on the Targaryens.
** North of the Wall, there's an alliance between the White Walkers [[spoiler:led by Alduin, the Devourer of Worlds]] and the Volkihar vampire clan - which is obviously going to break as soon as either of them finds it convenient - against the combined forces of the Night's Watch and the Dawnguard, plus the Wildlings' desperate attempts to save themselves.
** In Essos, Daenerys' attempts to reach Westeros lead to her finding much about herself, and potentially find herself in conflict with an unknown person that can use the Thu'um that lives in Volantis.
** There's also the Mythic Dawn cult, which seeks to bring Mehrunes Dagon into the mortal realm.
** And finally, it is slowly becoming obvious that the gods are trying to aid mortals as best as they can, as exemplified by [[spoiler:Talos himself giving William the words to the Unrelenting Force shout]] and [[spoiler:Valeria Targaryen, the Messenger of Akatosh, helping Daenerys several times]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''/''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' crossover ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'' has one of these rapidly developing: As per W.I.T.C.H. canon, [[TheChessmaster Nerissa]] is manipulating the war between Phobos and the Rebellion to her own ends, but at the same time, [[KnowledgeBroker Charles Ludmoore]] and his two brothers are doing the same thing, with even more efficiency than Nerissa. Meanwhile, [[TokenGoodTeammate Viscount Servantis]] is trying to steer Phobos in a lighter-handed, less oppressive rule (and when he's [[spoiler: captured by the rebels]], his allies in the nobility essentially go rouge, planning to crush the Rebellion themselves without Phobos' oversight), [[EvilSorcerer Daolon Wong]] becomes TheStarscream to Phobos [[spoiler: and upon the failure of his plans allies with a Jiangshi to regain his lost power]], [[SealedEvilInACan Tarakudo]] has woken up and taken an interest in events, [[spoiler: [[MysteriousWatcher Nimue]]]] is keeping an eye on things, and on the Earth side of things, [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang's]] Dark Hand is flexing its muscle [[spoiler: and is actually [[RunningBothSides manipulating Section 13]] as part of its [[WellIntentionedExtremist larger plan]]]], with Jackie [[ReverseMole infiltrating them]] to bring them down. And then there's also the [[EldritchAbomination Cavalcade of Horrors]] and [[UltimateEvil their master]], who are implied to be using all of the above as pawns in a larger plot.
** Even the arc dedicated solely to dealing with the Dark Hand has one of these. There's whatever Chang's been working towards, the Section 13-backed Chan Clan and Guardians working to take Chang down, Will plotting a secretive side mission with only Jade and Caleb's knowledge, [[KnightTemplar Quentin Ross]] going rogue out of disgust at Section 13 not going far enough to eliminate the Dark Hand, and newcomer [[WildCard Nyx]] running her own agenda against the Dark Hand. And there's the Oni watching from the sidelines via Hak Foo's mask, while [[spoiler: Nimue]] eventually steps in to manipulate the Chans and Guardians as part of her own agenda.
* In ''Fanfic/ExtraLife'', Junko and Izuru are both manipulating each other for the Neo World Program plan; Junko uses Izuru to get her AI in so [[BrainUploading she can upload her personality in the event of her death]], while he goes along with it to test whether hope can beat despair. For that purpose, he anonymously backs the Future Foundation so they don't get destroyed before the program is finished, plans to exploit Makoto's kindness to get himself and Class 77 placed in the program, and [[spoiler:makes the time to toss a MemoryGambit in there just in case the worst scenario comes to pass]].
* The second ''Fanfic/UltimateVideoRumble'' kicks off with no less than four villain groups -- [[Franchise/StreetFighter Shadaloo]], [[Franchise/MortalKombat the Outworld]], [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Ultratech]] (temporarily) allied with [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Rugal Bernstein]], and [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Mizuki Rashojin]] (for the moment) allied with [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Pyron]] -- actively trying to capture Haohmaru's soul, each hiring and/or forcing still more competitors into assisting. The heroes spend several chapters just trying to work out who's working with who, and [[spoiler:it turns out this entire part of the pileup is itself a BatmanGambit of Demitri, who tipped everyone off (heroes included) with just enough information to get them to act, and counts on them all to wear each other and Haohmaru down while he slips in]]. Meanwhile, the [[Franchise/MortalKombat Lin Kuei are gunning for Sub-Zero]], [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Saishuu Kusanagi is trying to corrupt his son]] as always, [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes Doctor Doom]] [[spoiler:gets inconveniently stuck in [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Jago's body]] (ItMakesSenseInContext)]], and [[SpiritedCompetitor some competitors don't give a crap about any of this and just want to win the tournament]].
** The third Rumble is even more chaotic. Take a deep breath: [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes the Infinity Gems]], [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters the Orochi source]], [[VideoGame/SoulSeries the Soul Edge]], and [[VideoGame/MaceTheDarkAge the Mace of Tanis]] are all targeted for capture/exploitation by one or more villains; [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Iori]] and [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Amakusa]] are stealing the elemental force of all the [[PlayingWithFire fire-projectile competitors]]; [[EvilTwin EX]] [[VideoGame/FatalFury Andy Bogard]] is ruining his counterpart's life ForTheEvulz; [[VideoGame/TimeKillers Rancid]] is accidentally "[[BlessedWithSuck enhanced]]" with [[VideoGame/WarGods the Ore]] and wants it out of him; demons are trying to grab the souls of [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Ryo]], [[VideoGame/VirtuaFighter Jeffrey]], and/or [[VideoGame/StreetFighter Guy]]... oh, and a lot of people ''really'' have it out for [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Demitri]]. Also [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Eddy Gordo]]. Most of these plots continue, tripping over each other repeatedly, straight through to the finale.
* ''Fanfic/AllGuardsmenParty'': One of the reasons so many people died in the back story of the "The Interplanetary Man of Mystery" was because there were a half dozen factions running around trying to kill each other or obstructing each other's work.
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** That specific example is ultimately subverted as there are 3 levels of plotters. The second level had Harry orchestrating the chaos for it's own sake (since his own faction had the advantage in uncertain situations) and Dumbeldore as the fourth side for said quadruple agent manipulating the results and being the real source of the generals' master plans to trick them into a tie. Then above ''that'' there's Quirrel, the secret fifth side, manipulating the second level plotters and playing the whole mess like a fiddle.
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': Misato has a bunch of plans to deal with the huge number of global conflicts and destroy SEELE, SEELE has a plan to destroy HERZ and bring about [[AssimilationPlot instrumentality]], GEIST has a plan to defeat SEELE for good, and the Children has a plan of their own…
* ''FanFic/DivineBlood'' has no less than sixteen people pursuing their own, often mutually independent goals with no collaboration between them.
* ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'' takes ''Evangelion'''s existing pileup between SEELE's instrumentality and Gendo's plan to bring Yui back, and adds in Kaworu's plan to turn humanity into a HiveMind and Shinji's own plans to protect Tokyo 3 and being a SpannerInTheWorks for the other three's plans.
* In ''Fanfic/WhatAboutWitchQueen'' it seems everybody has a plot in place, and not all of them has been revealed yet. And they already start crashing into each other. To list just a few:
** Militaristic cabal in Arendelle wants to start Arendelle-Weselton war to prevent Arendelle-Weselton & The Isles war.
** ...but Hunter (and maybe Margaret) starts Weselton-Arendelle war before militarists can do it on their own terms, and it seems he needs war for some goal of his.
** ...but Elsa schemes to stop both parties from starting the war, and then schemes to stop the war and Hunter.
** Michael wants to take over the Isles.
** ...but Hans is doing the same, and he already has a head start.
** ...but [[spoiler:Anna arrives on Westerguard]] which might put a bit of dent in his plans... or not.
** And then there's mysterious smuggler king Felix Drachner who has his own plans.
* ''FanFic/DragonAgeTheCrownOfThorns''. The first chapters already paint Orzammar as the game of lies, but things keep evolving for real when the [[WisePrince dwarven noble]] [[GuileHero protagonist]] and the other wardens return to the dwarven city to get military aid. And this is not counting the pileup dealing with the main plotline, one in which not just the Wardens and Loghain are involved, but also [[spoiler:a Fade Spirit]], of all things, and, more recently, probably [[spoiler:the Archdemon]] as well.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/48341/1/Changelings%2C-Changelings%2C-Everywhere/ Changelings, Changelings Everywhere.]]'' is an unusual case of the trope being used for sidesplitting comedy alongside DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent. It blatantly devolves into a parody of the trope at the end due to the gambit-encouraging problems inherent in introducing a race of {{Voluntary Shapeshift|ing}}ers. ''Inanimate objects'' are revealed to be Changelings in disguise, and nobody is quite sure anymore who they're working for, since there's so much backstabbing and RightHandVersusLeftHand. Queen Chrysalis wants to rule the Changelings, but is opposed by Lord Chitin, who is supposedly a deposed Changeling noble who has a birthright to the throne. But they're both opposed to The New Larval Republic, who want to break free of royalty altogether. Then Lord Chitin makes a deal with the NLR, but not everyone accepts. But some Changelings have a change of heart, and defect. The [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Mare]] amid the shenanigans is [[BigGood Princess Celestia]], and [[HeroicBSOD even she doesn't last that long.]]
* The ''FanFic/PoniesOfOlympus'' story ''Atlas Strongest Tournament'' has this occurring between Luna and [[TheDragon Aurelia]] in their moves and countermoves against each other behind the scenes of the tournament. It's taken to MindScrew levels at some points.
* In Chapter 17-19 of ''Fanfic/PerfectionIsOverrated'', [[spoiler:Bachiko and Meiko try to force certain people to fall in love or, failing that, kill the [[Anime/MaiHime Himes]]. Ishigami decides he can use them and decides to try to use Yukariko to coerce the Himes into fighting one another. Meanwhile, Nagi, trying to advance his own agenda, tries to manipulate Shiho, who is unconvinced that Yuuichi has truly fallen for her, into killing Mai]].
* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'' has Professor Moriarty and Beth Lestrade. Moriarty is TheChessmaster; Beth just plans simply and utilizes the IndyPloy when she has to. Most notably, Moriarty makes a CloningGambit and allows his own death to occur, and when his clone pops up in the 22nd century, Beth's era, she has the body of Literature/SherlockHolmes ''restored to life'' to aid her and New Scotland Yard. Only to find that Moriarty is now a VillainWithGoodPublicity, and she and Sherlock will have to discredit him.
* ''Fanfic/DeathNoteEquestria'': Given [[Manga/DeathNote one half of the source material]], it shouldn't be a surprise this ends up happening. Twilight and L's moves against each other count from the start already, but then [[{{Shinigami}} Mer]] goes off Twilight's script to reach her own ends. And on top of that, not only does [[spoiler: [[TooCoolToLive Pinkie Pie]]]] appear to have set up a ThanatosGambit before her death, but Celestia is strongly implied to be running her own scheme against Kira as well.
* Fanfic/DeathNoteIITheHiddenNote has this happen: [[spoiler: A woman shows up at the doorway in a trenchcoat, a fedora and sunglasses. She is apparently the new Kira's conspirator. In her Death Note, she writes down the names of the people she sees and waits for forty seconds. But wait! Near pulls out what he says is the real Death Note and says the one the woman is holding is fake. Not only that, Near accuses KJ of being the new Kira. But wait! The woman reads out the names she wrote and describes how the four people she wrote the names of would die. Each one dies seemingly in that way. Suddenly, The woman takes off her fedora and sunglasses to reveal she's Near's daughter Angela! Everyone is suddenly surrounded by Shinigami. Arik flashes his Death Note in Near's face. Near realizes that the Death note he and Angela have are both fake. Near asks KJ where the real Death Note was. KJ says the first entry he wrote in his journal, which mentions an angel. It is then that Near realizes he held the real Death Note in his hands and put it back. It is at this point he exclaims how it was the Hidden Note]].
* ''Fanfic/DirtySympathy'' has Klavier and Apollo's plan to frame their abusers clashing with Phoenix's plan [[spoiler: of proving Kristoph guilty and restoring his good name]] and Kristoph's plan [[spoiler: of poisoning the Mishams to tie up loose ends]].
* ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos''. LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, and virtually ''all'' of them have their own individual plans and plots. All of them end up falling apart by the end of the story thanks to the [[SpannerInTheWorks interference]] of [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]].
** Maledict wishes to defeat the Metarex so he can unleash Tsali on his enemies and rule the universe. [[TheChessmaster He is also secretly controlling the Metarex]] as part of his enormously complicated GambitRoulette. He also wants to get the Chaos Emeralds in order to keep them away from the Metarex [[spoiler: and is trying to protect Sonic the Hedgehog because he's Maledict's son]].
** Tsali steals Planet Eggs so he has enough power to exterminate the Seedrians and destroy the Metarex. And anyone else who gets in his way.
** Allysion want to kill Tsali and then launch an attack on the Milky Way to upset Maledict's plans.
** Jesus sends his servant Tephiroth to see if Sonic would be a useful ally, and recruits Trinity to spy on the Demons and find out what they're up to.
** Venus the Seedrian is trying to expose Maledict's plan in order to stop him from taking over the universe.
** Dark Oak and the Metarex are stealing and mutating Planet Eggs in order to keep themselves and their organization alive.
* The plot of ''[[Fanfic/GameTheoryLyricalNanoha Power Games]]'' arises from the colliding agendas of six different factions.
* ''FanFic/RedactionOfTheGoldenWitch'' has [[ConspiracyTheorist Karl]]'s theory about what ''really'' happened in ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry''. In his version of events, all of the Ushiromiya's servants were working for different players in a worldwide conspiracy, all aimed at claiming the family's secret stash of wealth.
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' and its sequel, ''Ghosts of the Past'', gleefully take this trope and run with it.
** First off, we have a post HeelFaceTurn ReformedButNotTamed Loki, [[TheSpymaster who's got a Nine Realms wide spy network]] and is continually scheming for the good of Asgard and the Nine Realms while [[TheLancer watching his brother's back]].
** Odin is mostly operating on a hands off basis, leaving his sons to do what they do best, but has put a number of his servants into play, with Freki and Geri (his wolves) protecting Harry, Huginn and Muninn occasionally advising him and Sif and the Warriors Three taking part in a little training of Harry and monster hunting, while keeping an eye out for an opportunity to get even with Thanos for what he did to Loki (it wasn't mind control, but it wasn't pleasant) and to Krypton. As of ''Ghosts of the Past'', this now involves [[spoiler: trying to manage circumstances to protect his grandson from himself and the power of the Phoenix that resides within him]] and forestalling the return of [[spoiler: Surtur]], who's trying to get back into the galaxy and devour it again.
** Then we have Baron Von Strucker, who wants to restore HYDRA to the status it possessed during WWII. He is eliminated in chapter 50 of the first book for incompetence and threatening Narcissa by Lucius Malfoy.
** Lucius Malfoy, who is sick of being afraid and wants to make everyone else afraid of him, while protecting his family. Oh, and he wants revenge on Fury. To this end, he seeks to bring down the Avengers and fuse HYDRA and the Death Eaters into a gestalt entity under his sole command. In chapter 50, he succeeds and prepares for the next step - the destruction of any and all potential threats to HYDRA, starting with the Avengers. Then, in chapter 74 he graduates to full on EvilOverlord when [[spoiler: he succeeds in neutralising the Avengers, destroying Avengers Tower]] and effectively has the world at his mercy. By chapter 77, however, this has all fallen apart and he's scuttled off to find a rock to hide under.
** Gravemoss [[OmnicidalManiac wants to kill everything]] and rule over a universe of the dead. Cue [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing]]. Eventually, in chapter 76, he finds out that EvilIsNotAToy, gets possessed by [[spoiler: Chthon,]] then possibly vaporised by [[spoiler: an Infinite Mass Punch from Jean-Paul.]] Or blasted somewhere past Jupiter. No one's really sure.
** Alexander Pierce, meanwhile, seems pretty comfortable with just going with the flow. For now. Chapter 76 has him stab Lucius in the back by cheerfully asserting that what Nick Fury does in his free time - [[spoiler: raise another team of Avengers and work with Jane Foster to find and crush HYDRA]] - is not his business, before hanging up. Then, it turns out that Fury was tracing the call and catches him red-handed. In ''Ghosts of the Past'', he is seen extending his life by keeping as many secrets to himself as he can, making himself more useful alive than dead.
** Dealing with all of these is Nick Fury, who's trying (and, to be fair, mostly succeeding) to crush HYDRA and is gunning for Lucius Malfoy in particular, [[ItsPersonal because he has a score to settle,]] while simultaneously trying to limit Loki's influence (it's not that he thinks that Loki's evil, it's just that he's got a job to do. And he doesn't trust him). By chapter 80 of ''Child of the Storm'', he's got Malfoy on the run, HYDRA in ruins, and has not only found Pierce, but got him in a lock up, with a purge of HYDRA to follow.
*** By ''Ghosts of the Past'', his focus has shifted to dealing with the Red Room, and all of the disruption in the magical and Muggle worlds that Harry tends to cause.
** His protégé, Agent (later Director) Wisdom [[spoiler: a.k.a. Regulus Black]], is masterminding the defence of Britain and, seemingly, the creation of a British Avengers team in the form of Excalibur, occasionally blackmailing Wanda Maximoff into helping out. He's also trying to ensure that [=MI13=] supplants the Ministry of Magic as the prime handler of matters supernatural and superhuman, poaching staff members and seeking to bring it to heel. On top of that, he's implied to be after the Department of Mysteries.
*** By ''Ghosts of the Past'', he's TheManBehindTheMan for muggle Britain, and is gunning for magical Britain too.
** Draco Malfoy, meanwhile [[spoiler: and the mysterious voice in his head which may or may not be the NotQuiteDead Prospero Slytherin]] is up to something, plotting a largely neutral course, though helping out the good guys with a tip-off here and there. What he's actually up to is, as of chapter 18 of ''Ghosts of the Past'', an enduring mystery.
** Dumbledore is rapidly rearranging his plans to bring down the Death Eaters and deal with Voldemort in response to the ever changing Status Quo, while also protecting Harry and the rest of his students to the best of his ability.
** Professor Xavier is holding off the Hellfire Club with one hand and keeping Harry away from his maternal cousin Jean with the other. The latter is a case of IDidWhatIHadToDo, as it's shown that he's very much unhappy with it, and in chapter 67, it's revealed to be a PredestinationParadox - he had to keep them apart because he had been specifically warned to by a time travelling [[spoiler: future Harry]]. Later on, Harry and Jean get to meet, but it's not long after that Xavier gets several new students to look after.
** Magneto is lurking on the edge of things and keeping an eye on events. In chapter 77 he makes his long awaited appearance in the form of a BigDamnHeroes moment when he crumples HYDRA's [[spoiler: wounded but still deadly helicarrier, the ''Dreadnought'',]] like tinfoil. As of ''Ghosts of the Past'', he's taking a more active role in protecting Mutantkind. However, he's adopted an attitude of [[MartialPacifist Don't go after my people and I (probably) won't go after yours]].
** Alison Carter, the much younger sister of Peggy [[spoiler: (actually, daughter of Peggy and Steve)]], is nominally retired, but practically speaking playing spy games. As of ''Ghosts of the Past'', she's come out of retirement in earnest and reclaimed her rank as Deputy Director of SHIELD (this time jointly with Maria Hill). She's also revealed to have schemed with [[spoiler: Jor-El]] to keep his son secret and safe, which she did extraordinarily well.
** Wanda Maximoff, as heir apparent to the Sorcerer Supreme, is trying to keep a lid on the incursions caused by the Darkhold's weakening of the borders of reality, to protect her godson and [[spoiler: to keep her daughter's existence secret and safe]].
** [[spoiler: It turns out that Lily Potter isn't quite dead and has merged with the Phoenix Force/Destruction of the Endless to become the White Phoenix of the Crown.]] She can't do very much because of The Rules, but is keeping an eye on Harry.
** Meanwhile Chthon schemes to bring about his return to the universe through the Darkhold, a plan which nearly works until he gets [[spoiler: hit by an Infinite Mass Punch and then psychically kicked out by Harry]].
** And, as of Chapter 60, [[spoiler: the Winter Soldier has shaken off his brainwashing, performed a HeelFaceTurn and is now acting as a secret mole inside HYDRA for the good guys]]. Then in chapter 74, he [[spoiler: is caught out and brainwashed again]]. Finally, he makes a full and permanent HeelFaceTurn in chapter 77, joining the Avengers as an associate member and [[BodyguardingABadass bodyguard]] and [[SenseiForScoundrels mentor]] to Harry.
** Chapter 80 has [[AntiHero Namor]], who's first and foremost concerned with protecting Atlantis, but also feeling out a potential alliance with Magneto against the rest of the world if they are ever turned on.
** [[spoiler: Doctor Nathaniel Essex a.k.a. Sinister]] has been stated to be the mysterious force that kept Harry at Privet Drive, messing with Mrs Figg's head, heading off investigations and the like, having developed an interest in Harry because of his mother being related to Jean Grey. In ''Ghosts of the Past'', he makes his move [[spoiler: kidnapping Harry and, as an afterthought, Carol, using Maddie Pryor - Jean's twin sister who he stole at birth, faking her death, and raised as a LivingWeapon - to subdue them, as part of a scheme with the Red Room.]] The latter group, led by General Lukin, are scheming to regain their lost power and Russia's lost empire, forcibly recruiting assets old and new. The [[spoiler: Dark Phoenix]] puts a stop to that, and the leaders are put in SHIELD custody.
** In ''Ghosts of the Past'', Gambit crops up, working for [[spoiler: Sinister and the Red Room]] against his will, though with apparent grudging loyalty. In reality, he's [[spoiler: trying to free the Red Room's prisoners, and coax Sinister's right hand 'hound' Maddie Pryor into a HeelFaceTurn, working with Natasha as her mole in the Red Room.]] He ultimately succeeds, and eventually returns to New Orleans.
*** In same arc, [[spoiler: Maddie Pryor a.k.a. Rachel Grey]] makes her bow, and while is at first loyal to [[spoiler: Sinister,]] first Gambit then [[spoiler: Harry]] sow the seeds of doubt, leading to a HeelFaceTurn and her attempting to [[spoiler: protect Harry from Sinister and the Red Room. The second attempt is more successful than the first.]]
** Voldemort [[spoiler: takes over Wormtail's body and, now that he has a physical body once more, goes off to learn from Selene.]] Both of them are interested in the ''Word of Kemmler,'' and planning to betray the other. And, of course, Voldemort is trying to kill Harry, but knows better than to try and face him flat-out. He's still responsible for putting Harry's [[spoiler: name in the Goblet of Fire,]] with his reasons currently unknown.
** Dracula shows up in the sequel as King of the Grey Court of Vampires, looking to [[spoiler: ritually drain Carol's blood]] so as to make himself, and therefore every new vampire he sires from then on (and potentially every single one he's sired already - no one's entirely sure), [[spoiler: immune to sunlight]], and putting them in prime position to exploit the confusion and instability the Red Room's empire building caused in Eastern Europe. Harry, the Avengers, and a few other friends and allies put a stop to that.
** Also appearing in the sequel is ComicBook/DoctorDoom, who is revealed to be planning to not just strengthen Latveria, but establish himself as the prime supernatural (and probably mundane) power in Eastern Europe, and to that end [[spoiler: helps Harry stop Dracula and save Carol, on the grounds that Dracula is a major regional rival, and if his ritual went to plan, he'd come for Doom first]]. It's also revealed that his Doombots are sent to occasionally attack and draw the attention of the Avengers because [[spoiler: he's using them to take the Avengers' measure, on the grounds that the Avengers are theoretically TheUnfettered and have deposed leaders they took a dislike to before, and he knows that he might well be on their hit-list, so is therefore getting their measure to prepare defences against them]].
** And then there's Doctor Strange, who's manipulating the hell out of ''everyone'' and is unequivocally 'up to something', but no one has even the faintest idea what that something is, until Chapter 80 of ''Child of the Storm'' reveals that he's preparing Earth to go up against Thanos. After that, several characters in the know note that they know ''what'' his goal is, but have absolute no idea how he's going to get there. [[spoiler: As of chapter 34 of ''Ghosts'', it appears that he's faked his death, passed his mantle of Sorcerer Supreme to Wanda, and is now working quietly to continue his plans in whatever time he has left.]] Confused yet?
* ''Fanfic/WeissReacts'' has the constant pranking war going on between everyone that even the staff are players in. And then there's the Great Antic War arc....
* ''FanFic/KingdomHeartsNewEpicTheFirst'', by chapter five, already has the plans and counterplans affiliated with Wolfang Richler, the official BigBad, the President of the Alliance Alric Maynes, the Inverse Organization who has just appeared and who seem to have history with Wolfang, the two immediately apparent members of the Inverse Organization seem to have divergent goals if not means, and then there's the introduction of Summerill, who immediately decided he wanted to try to use and manipulate Wolfang to advance his own plans.
** Then there's Perseus Sarasho, TheDragon to Wolfang, who wants to use Wolfang to create a war for him, since he feels useless in a world of perpetual peace, and that others like him are devalued.
** Then there's Doctor Doom, who wants to make use of the wish Wolfang has promised him for something, while also making his own plans. That Loki is also involved guarantees he too has plans in this vein.
** Then there's the heroes, and the fact the new generation might have plans that conflict with one another's plans as well as creating conflict with the plans of the old heroes (Sora, Riku and Kairi).
* In ''FanFic/{{Webwork}}'', there are several plans and schemes starting to emerge. There’s [[BigBad Tarakudo’s]] plan to keep [[DragonInChief Jade]] under his metaphorical thumb, Jade’s desire to protect her kits, [[spoiler: whatever [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang]] is up to]], the plans of Black’s superiors to reduce their dependence on contractors (namely the J-Team), [[spoiler: and [[TheStarscream Tara planning to overthrow Jade]] with the help of the [[NotQuiteDead Gumo Queen’s ghost]].]]
* ''Fanfic/SuddenContact'':
** In ''Sudden Contact'' The Sons of Korhal and the Citadel Council allied together against the threats of the zerg and protoss while defeating the Confederacy. Daggoth is sent to Citadel space and waging war against Sovereign, who in turn is using [[spoiler:Liara as his indoctrinated agent to find the Conduit.]] The protoss reduced to fighting in a civil war. The Magistrate/[[spoiler:Illusive Man]] plotting against the Dominion while Duran is working behind the scene within Cerberus. And finally the newly established United Earth Directorate is preparing to invade the Koprulu sector.
** In ''Sudden Supremacy'': The UED finally arrives to the Koprulu sector and tries to establish an alliance with the Kel-Morian Combine and Cerberus against the Dominion. ITSA colonies are being mysteriously attacked and its colonists abducted. The protoss have finally ended their civil war and tries to establish diplomacy with the Citadel.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11864574/1/Like-A-Wish Like A Wish]]'' features not only Lelouch/Zero's plots against Britannia and Cornelia's plots against Zero, but also Kallen's, Suzaku's, and Nunnally's plots to help Lelouch and/or punish the ones who betrayed him. Further complicating matters is that Kallen, Suzaku, and Nunnally are each unaware that the other two have also [[PeggySue been sent back in time]]. Notably, few of Lelouch's plans go the way he expects because he can't anticipate the three of them and isn't aware Suzaku and Nunnally are even involved in any plotting.
* ''FanFic/SonOfTheSevenKingdoms'' is a crossover with ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', so of course there's plenty of this:
** First, and most obvious, there's the civil war.
** Then, the Tyrells' attempts to become TheManBehindTheMan via Margaery.
** Dorne is now trying to get as much as they can from whoever they ally with - notwithstanding the possibility that they may still be banking on the Targaryens.
** North of the Wall, there's an alliance between the White Walkers [[spoiler:led by Alduin, the Devourer of Worlds]] and the Volkihar vampire clan - which is obviously going to break as soon as either of them finds it convenient - against the combined forces of the Night's Watch and the Dawnguard, plus the Wildlings' desperate attempts to save themselves.
** In Essos, Daenerys' attempts to reach Westeros lead to her finding much about herself, and potentially find herself in conflict with an unknown person that can use the Thu'um that lives in Volantis.
** There's also the Mythic Dawn cult, which seeks to bring Mehrunes Dagon into the mortal realm.
** And finally, it is slowly becoming obvious that the gods are trying to aid mortals as best as they can, as exemplified by [[spoiler:Talos himself giving William the words to the Unrelenting Force shout]] and [[spoiler:Valeria Targaryen, the Messenger of Akatosh, helping Daenerys several times]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''/''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' crossover ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'' has one of these rapidly developing: As per W.I.T.C.H. canon, [[TheChessmaster Nerissa]] is manipulating the war between Phobos and the Rebellion to her own ends, but at the same time, [[KnowledgeBroker Charles Ludmoore]] and his two brothers are doing the same thing, with even more efficiency than Nerissa. Meanwhile, [[TokenGoodTeammate Viscount Servantis]] is trying to steer Phobos in a lighter-handed, less oppressive rule (and when he's [[spoiler: captured by the rebels]], his allies in the nobility essentially go rouge, planning to crush the Rebellion themselves without Phobos' oversight), [[EvilSorcerer Daolon Wong]] becomes TheStarscream to Phobos [[spoiler: and upon the failure of his plans allies with a Jiangshi to regain his lost power]], [[SealedEvilInACan Tarakudo]] has woken up and taken an interest in events, [[spoiler: [[MysteriousWatcher Nimue]]]] is keeping an eye on things, and on the Earth side of things, [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang's]] Dark Hand is flexing its muscle [[spoiler: and is actually [[RunningBothSides manipulating Section 13]] as part of its [[WellIntentionedExtremist larger plan]]]], with Jackie [[ReverseMole infiltrating them]] to bring them down. And then there's also the [[EldritchAbomination Cavalcade of Horrors]] and [[UltimateEvil their master]], who are implied to be using all of the above as pawns in a larger plot.
** Even the arc dedicated solely to dealing with the Dark Hand has one of these. There's whatever Chang's been working towards, the Section 13-backed Chan Clan and Guardians working to take Chang down, Will plotting a secretive side mission with only Jade and Caleb's knowledge, [[KnightTemplar Quentin Ross]] going rogue out of disgust at Section 13 not going far enough to eliminate the Dark Hand, and newcomer [[WildCard Nyx]] running her own agenda against the Dark Hand. And there's the Oni watching from the sidelines via Hak Foo's mask, while [[spoiler: Nimue]] eventually steps in to manipulate the Chans and Guardians as part of her own agenda.
* In ''Fanfic/ExtraLife'', Junko and Izuru are both manipulating each other for the Neo World Program plan; Junko uses Izuru to get her AI in so [[BrainUploading she can upload her personality in the event of her death]], while he goes along with it to test whether hope can beat despair. For that purpose, he anonymously backs the Future Foundation so they don't get destroyed before the program is finished, plans to exploit Makoto's kindness to get himself and Class 77 placed in the program, and [[spoiler:makes the time to toss a MemoryGambit in there just in case the worst scenario comes to pass]].
* The second ''Fanfic/UltimateVideoRumble'' kicks off with no less than four villain groups -- [[Franchise/StreetFighter Shadaloo]], [[Franchise/MortalKombat the Outworld]], [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Ultratech]] (temporarily) allied with [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Rugal Bernstein]], and [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Mizuki Rashojin]] (for the moment) allied with [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Pyron]] -- actively trying to capture Haohmaru's soul, each hiring and/or forcing still more competitors into assisting. The heroes spend several chapters just trying to work out who's working with who, and [[spoiler:it turns out this entire part of the pileup is itself a BatmanGambit of Demitri, who tipped everyone off (heroes included) with just enough information to get them to act, and counts on them all to wear each other and Haohmaru down while he slips in]]. Meanwhile, the [[Franchise/MortalKombat Lin Kuei are gunning for Sub-Zero]], [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Saishuu Kusanagi is trying to corrupt his son]] as always, [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes Doctor Doom]] [[spoiler:gets inconveniently stuck in [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Jago's body]] (ItMakesSenseInContext)]], and [[SpiritedCompetitor some competitors don't give a crap about any of this and just want to win the tournament]].
** The third Rumble is even more chaotic. Take a deep breath: [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes the Infinity Gems]], [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters the Orochi source]], [[VideoGame/SoulSeries the Soul Edge]], and [[VideoGame/MaceTheDarkAge the Mace of Tanis]] are all targeted for capture/exploitation by one or more villains; [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Iori]] and [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Amakusa]] are stealing the elemental force of all the [[PlayingWithFire fire-projectile competitors]]; [[EvilTwin EX]] [[VideoGame/FatalFury Andy Bogard]] is ruining his counterpart's life ForTheEvulz; [[VideoGame/TimeKillers Rancid]] is accidentally "[[BlessedWithSuck enhanced]]" with [[VideoGame/WarGods the Ore]] and wants it out of him; demons are trying to grab the souls of [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Ryo]], [[VideoGame/VirtuaFighter Jeffrey]], and/or [[VideoGame/StreetFighter Guy]]... oh, and a lot of people ''really'' have it out for [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Demitri]]. Also [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Eddy Gordo]]. Most of these plots continue, tripping over each other repeatedly, straight through to the finale.
* ''Fanfic/AllGuardsmenParty'': One of the reasons so many people died in the back story of the "The Interplanetary Man of Mystery" was because there were a half dozen factions running around trying to kill each other or obstructing each other's work.
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