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* ''[[http://draco664.fanficauthors.net/The_Widower_Maker/The_Widower_Maker/ The Widower Maker]]'' has Magical Britain enact a Marriage Law that all but enslaves half-bloods and Muggleborns to old Pureblood families, as the former are forced to marry into the latter, which gain control over everything the former possess. However, Harry's wives and their families die one after the other in accidents or "accidents", which he cannot be accused of since the spells forbid him from doing any harm to them. [[spoiler:He gets out of it [[StableTimeLoop by using a Time Turner]], going from a point after the people die (moment in which the spells stop working) to cause all of the accidents and get scot free - and with all of those families' possessions, to boot.]]

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* ''[[http://draco664.fanficauthors.net/The_Widower_Maker/The_Widower_Maker/ The Widower Maker]]'' has Magical Britain enact a Marriage Law that all but enslaves half-bloods and Muggleborns to old Pureblood families, as families. The wording of the former are forced to marry into law gives the latter, which gain purebloods control over everything their spouses possess, and the former possess. spouses are subjected to spells so they won't be able to either harm their Pureblood spouse or do anything against their will. However, Harry's wives and their families die one after the other in accidents or "accidents", which "accidents" while he cannot be accused of since anything: the spells forbid him prevent Harry from causing the "accidents" and he couldn't seek help or bring the wives to a doctor since it would mean doing any harm to them. something against their will. [[spoiler:He gets out of it ''is'' causing the accidents, but he's [[StableTimeLoop by using a Time Turner]], going Turner]] to avoid any consequences: by time-traveling from a point after the said people die (moment in which (which cause all the spells to stop working) to cause all of before, he gets to kill the accidents and get scot free people trying to enslave him while averting any consequences thanks to the legal loophole - and with all of those families' possessions, to boot.]]
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* In ''Fanfic/ToldThatDevilToTakeYouBack'', when Dean makes a deal with Toni that she’ll give Emma back in exchange for information about the hunters in America, Dean only tells her about either hunters he knows are dead or hunters he doesn’t like that much.
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* Defied in ''Fanfic/TrustDoesntRust''; according to Bobby Singer’s research, Low Shoulder sacrificing Jennifer rather than making a traditional deal means that they won’t go to Hell after ten years like they would in a standard DealWithTheDevil, but they would still go to Hell when they died for killing someone like that in the first place.
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* ''Fanfic/FateHaremAntics'': Ruler challenges Berserker. As they prepare to battle, Shirou tries to avoid violence by pointing out Ruler is not supposed to fight in the Holy Grail War. Ruler says it is not a fight, it is an unofficial spar.
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** Uncle is able to create a stun spell to use against Wong despite the Star of Threbe rendering the Guardians and the good chi wizards powerless because it was made ''after'' the Star was activated, and since its purpose is to defeat the evil wizard, not stop Elyon from returning to Meridian.

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** Uncle is able to create a stun spell to use against Daolon Wong despite the Star of Threbe rendering the Guardians and the good chi wizards powerless because it was made ''after'' the Star was activated, and since its purpose is to defeat the evil wizard, not stop Elyon from returning to Meridian.



** By the time of the fight in the Tibetian temple storing the Pan'Ku Box, [[DefiedTrope Valerie has become aware of Jade's habit of doing this and makes Jade and Paco to remain in a safe spot by wording her instructions in a precise way that makes Jade unable to worm her way out of them]].
** When Valmont expresses his disgust over Shendu using his body to kiss Valerie for the first time, Shendu says that because Valmont wasn't in control of his body at the time, it wasn't him who kissed Valerie.
** When Shendu demands a kiss from Valerie in exchange for the location of Hsi Wu's hiding place, she merely keeps her lips on his for one second, saying that he didn't specify what kind of or how long for the kiss should be. He accepts the excuse when she reminds how demons like working on loopholes.

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** By the time of the fight in the Tibetian temple storing the Pan'Ku Box, [[DefiedTrope Valerie has become aware of Jade's habit of doing this and makes Jade and Paco to remain in a safe spot by wording her instructions in a precise way that makes Jade unable to worm her way out of them]].
** When Valmont expresses his disgust over Shendu using his body to kiss Valerie for the first time, Shendu says that Valmont shouldn't care because since Valmont wasn't in control of his body at the time, it wasn't him who kissed Valerie.
** When Shendu demands a kiss from Valerie in exchange for the location of Hsi Wu's hiding place, she merely keeps her lips on his for one second, saying that he didn't specify what kind of or how long for the kiss should be. He accepts the excuse when she reminds points out how demons like working on loopholes.

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* ''Webcomic/FateGamersOnly'':
** Rikku in Extra Comic 007 deals with Medb's own Loophole Abuse to enter the competition multiple times because there was no rule stated preventing her from doing so by threatening the judges at gunpoint to give her a score higher than 11 because there are no rules against threats or a stated score limit of 10, and Medb is unable to disqualify her because invalidating Rikku's cheating should invalidate her own cheating too.
** Rikku materializes dynamite using the device that changes her clothes by telling it that her desired item is part of her clothing, as she found out that it can't tell the difference between clothing and other objects.

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* ''FanFic/TheWeaverOption'':
** A Cardinal of the Ecclesiarchy demands having a copy of [[spoiler:the files found in the STC]], arguing that nowhere in the Treaty of Olympus is indicated that only the Mechanicus can get them, only that the originals have to be sent to Mars.
** In the same chapter, [[spoiler:Harrowmaster Isley's surviving Alpha Legionnaires]] are technically wiped out by an Imperial Tribunal. In reality? An Alpha Legion warband walked into the courtroom. The founding members of the [[spoiler:20th Legion's only known Loyalist Successor Chapter, the Heracles Wardens,]] walked out. The assignment of Taylor and company to oversee their reintegration into Imperial administration, and to make sure they STAY loyal, potentially foreshadows [[spoiler:the Heracles Wardens engaging in their own Alpha-characteristic Loophole abuses in regards to recruitment and equipment.]]
** Taylor learns that she meets all of the qualifications to be named [[spoiler:Empress of the Aeldari Empire]] despite it no longer existing and her being a different species. The creators were so arrogant they never considered the possibility of another species both qualifying for the rank and reaching the place where they could claim it.
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* In [[https://mcheang.tumblr.com/post/189657260655/secret-santa-clause?is_related_post=1 Secret Santa Clause]], Marinette and Adrien both use this trope to their advantage during the class Secret Santa. Marinette gets Lila and is at first devastated but ultimately realizes that the rules only state that the gifts must be meaningful, not that said meaning must be pleasant or positive; as such, she gives Lila a Ladybug purse (infuriating the secret Ladybug-hater), a sinfully rich brownie that her father tried out but discarded as a bakery item (forcing Lila to work off the calories), a cheap pearl bracelet (referencing Lila turning into a clam as Chameleon) and finally arranging for her mother to visit and collapse her house of lies. Adrien on the other hand is able to give Marinette ''insanely'' expensive and valuable gifts simply because they don't cost him anything due to him getting them through his father's company.






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* A particularly twisted example in "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12994226/1/A-Darker-Curse A Darker Curse]]"; when Cora cast the Dark Curse rather than Regina, she had the initial 'handicap' that she didn't have anything she loved enough to use as the instigating sacrifice, but Rumpel helped her find a loophole by sacrificing her twisted husband, Snow's father, as Cora had loved him in a sense when they initially married even if it was never a ''true'' love.
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* In the third chapter of ''Fanfic/NewHopeUniversityMajorInMurder'', Monokuma is willing to let students take weapons out of the armory, but warns the class that anyone who does so will be recorded on the surveillance cameras, with the footage available upon request. The third culprit gets around this by [[spoiler:firing a rocket launcher from inside the armory, meaning that the weapon never left the building]].
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* In ''FanFic/{{Dominoes}}'', after being emotionally beaten down by his father's BreakingSpeech, Shinichi offers his friends a compromise: he'll stop investigating the disappearances if they promise to save the missing children, and will go back to being a 'docile little soccer player' if they promise to attend the championship game (providing his team makes it there). The Irregulars happily agree... but by the time said championship rolls around, they've gone back to treating Shinichi as less pressing than all their other priorities. When they remember a little too late, Kazuha reassures them that the game wasn't really that big a deal, revealing how [[EmptyPromise empty that promise]] was. Unfortunately for them, Shinichi suspected as much, [[ExactWords hence his phrasing]] -- since they failed to keep their word, he returns to his investigating, trusting them even less than before.
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* In ''Fanfic/MarcBeingInAGangRights'', after Nathaniel was kidnapped, Marc gives him a knife to keep on hand incase something happened in the future. Lila notifies Damocles that Nathaniel has a knife in his locker and tries to suspend him for bringing a weapon to school, only for Marc to bail him out, pointing out that Section 3, page 87, third paragraph of the school's rulebook allows knives below 5-inches (the knife itself four inches) for self-defense purposes. The fact that it was in his locker and not being used maliciously certainly helped Marc and Nathan's case.
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* In ''Fanfic/RapunzelGoesHome'', Corona's Royal Guard is about to arrest Flynn Rider on sight when Rapunzel introduces herself as the Lost Princess. The soldiers are now bound to take her to the palace in order to confirm her identity, and since Flynn is travelling with her they cannot touch him -- it would be rather unseemly to hang the princess' savior, after all.
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13375948/1/My-Hero-Academia-Hero-Time My Hero Academia: Hero Time]]'', [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku]] is able to get away with being a vigilante because in the eyes of the law, vigilantes must have quirks, which Izuku does not have. Instead, he has an [[Franchise/Ben10 Omnitrix]].
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** When the police first learn about the new vigilante, they can't officially call Izuku that yet because he hasn't fought any villains; he just alerted Pro-Heroes to crimes-in-progress so ''they'' can deal with the villains.

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** When the police first learn about the new vigilante, they can't couldn’t officially call Izuku one until they found out that yet he [[LoopholeAbuse beat up]] [[AttemptedRape a would-be rapist to save a reporter]] because until that point he hasn't fought didn’t fight any villains; he just alerted Pro-Heroes to crimes-in-progress so ''they'' can deal with the villains.
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** Uncle is able to create a stun spell to use against Wong despite the Star of Threbe rendering the Guardians and the good chi wizards powerless because it was made ''after'' the Star was activated, and since its purpose is to defeat the evil wizard, not stop Elyon from returning to Meridian.
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** Due to the kind of danger support gear posses if it every fell into villainy, building anything that would even fall under the broad category of support gear-related engineering would be thoroughly confiscated or shut down without a license and corporate contract... but ''sports'' gear is much easier to build and paten, so Izuku files his HoverBoard as an experimental form of sports gear.

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** Due to the kind of danger support gear posses if it every ever fell into villainy, building anything that would even fall under the broad category of support gear-related engineering would be thoroughly confiscated or shut down without a license and corporate contract... but ''sports'' gear is much easier to build and paten, patent, so Izuku files his HoverBoard as an experimental form of sports gear.



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* ''FanFic/HorizonStarDriven'':
** Due to the kind of danger support gear posses if it every fell into villainy, building anything that would even fall under the broad category of support gear-related engineering would be thoroughly confiscated or shut down without a license and corporate contract... but ''sports'' gear is much easier to build and paten, so Izuku files his HoverBoard as an experimental form of sports gear.
** When Izuku begins to draw the attention of pro-heroes who try to arrest him when he is testing his hover tech, Izuku points out that pro-heroes can't ''legally'' arrest people. They can "detain" people (and even then it's sketchy to call it "legal" detainment) for police officers to arrest, but since pro-heroes go through a completely different form of training than the police and are less associated with the procedural side of law-enforcement, a compromise was reached. Izuku doesn't even have to let them catch him since they can't charge him with "resisting arrest."
---> '''Byte''': Oh my god. You can't be charged. At all.\\
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** The Sensational Sisters, [[BrainlessBeauty despite not being otherwise very bright]], were quite good at this with things that annoyed them, as shown when they kicked Misty out of their home by giving her a special permit so she could have an early start as a trainer and avoiding getting into legal troubles. Of course, when they tried to pull a similar stunt on Ash, [[LaserGuidedKarma it backfired horribly on them]].
** A minor example on Ash's part; he technically faces Giovanni with seven Pokémon, as he sends Pikachu's Poke Ball back to Professor Oak so that he can equip himself with a six-'mon team specifically selected to go up against Ground-Types, but Pikachu accompanies the girls to the stands to watch the battle rather than sitting on Ash's shoulder as usual.


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** The Sensational Sisters, [[BrainlessBeauty despite not being otherwise very bright]], were quite good at this with things that annoyed them, as shown when they kicked Misty out of their home by giving her a special permit so she could have an early start as a trainer and avoiding getting into legal troubles. Of course, when they tried to pull a similar stunt on Ash, [[LaserGuidedKarma it backfired horribly on them]].
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** A minor example on Ash's part; he technically faces Giovanni with seven ''seven'' Pokémon, as he sends Pikachu's Poke Ball back to Professor Oak so that he can equip himself with a six-'mon team specifically selected to go up against Ground-Types, but Pikachu accompanies the girls to the stands to watch the battle rather than sitting on Ash's shoulder as usual.

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** Ash benefits from another loophole instance in his League battle with Joshua when [[spoiler:he defeats Joshua's Fearow by punching it himself; while technically League battles should just be between the trainers' Pokémon, Joshua was attempting to psyche Ash out by having Fearow fly too close to Ash's position on the field, with the League referee observing that ''anyone'' would lash out at a Fearow getting that close to them and it was actually safer to do it himself rather than use Pikachu when Ash still had Exeggutor on the field]].
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* ''Fanfic/FateBlackDawn'': Like most of Shirou's magic, his time travel involved him finding a "loophole" in a supposedly immutable magical law. He notes that not only [[TheArchmage Zelretch]] but [[GeniusLoci the world itself]] could easily decide to stop him, but they don't.
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** When the police first learn about the new vigilante, they can't really call Izuku that yet because he hasn't fought any villains; he just alerted Pro-Heroes to crimes-in-progress so ''they'' can deal with the villains.

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** When the police first learn about the new vigilante, they can't really officially call Izuku that yet because he hasn't fought any villains; he just alerted Pro-Heroes to crimes-in-progress so ''they'' can deal with the villains.

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* ''Fanfic/ViridianTheGreenGuide'': As Izuku finds out, the Quirkless technically cannot be vigilantes, as vigilantism as defined by the law is to use one's quirk similar to a pro-hero without a hero license.

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As Izuku finds out, the Quirkless technically cannot be vigilantes, as vigilantism as defined by the law is to use one's quirk similar to a pro-hero without a hero license.
** When the police first learn about the new vigilante, they can't really call Izuku that yet because he hasn't fought any villains; he just alerted Pro-Heroes to crimes-in-progress so ''they'' can deal with the villains.
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* ''Fanfic/BlackFoxSeries''has vigiante Izuku being quirkless makes him suffer less charges than he was supposed to have when the heroes found him, as the legal definition for vigilantism had been change from taking the law into one's own hands to using your quirk for heroic purposes without a license, which a quirkless person cannot do by definition.

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* ''Fanfic/BlackFoxSeries''has ''Fanfic/BlackFoxSeries'' has vigiante Izuku being quirkless makes him suffer less charges than he was supposed to have when the heroes found him, as the legal definition for vigilantism had been change from taking the law into one's own hands to using your quirk for heroic purposes without a license, which a quirkless person cannot do by definition.
* ''Fanfic/ViridianTheGreenGuide'': As Izuku finds out, the Quirkless technically cannot be vigilantes, as vigilantism as defined by the law is to use one's quirk similar to a pro-hero without a hero license.

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* ''Fanfic/JWITCHSeason1'':
** As usual, [[WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures Jade]] is a master of this trope. When Jackie makes her promise not to involve the [[WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}} Guardians]] in fighting the Dark Hand, Jade decides that she can warn them about the Talisman-empowered criminals, and that it'll be up to the girls to decide if they'll get involved or not.
** When Ratso first faces Irma, he says that his mother told him not to hit girls. However, he still traps her in a bear hug, trips her and pushes her to the ground, reasoning that said moves don't technically count as hitting.
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* ''Fanfic/BlackFoxSeries''
Izuku being quirkless makes him suffer less charges than he was supposed to have when the heroes found him, as the legal definition for vigilantism had been change from taking the law into one's own hands to using your quirk for heroic purposes without a license, which a quirkless person cannot do by definition.

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* ''Fanfic/BlackFoxSeries''
''Fanfic/BlackFoxSeries''has vigiante Izuku being quirkless makes him suffer less charges than he was supposed to have when the heroes found him, as the legal definition for vigilantism had been change from taking the law into one's own hands to using your quirk for heroic purposes without a license, which a quirkless person cannot do by definition.
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* ''Fanfic/BlackFoxSeries''
Izuku being quirkless makes him suffer less charges than he was supposed to have when the heroes found him, as the legal definition for vigilantism had been change from taking the law into one's own hands to using your quirk for heroic purposes without a license, which a quirkless person cannot do by definition.

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