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* ''Webcomic/FireEmblemHeroesADayInTheLife'': In "[[https://fire-emblem-heroes.com/en/manga/part/index.html#part200513 Who Needs Iote's Shield?]]", the Summoner warns Petra about bows being effective against Flying units. Her solution is to climb off her pegasus and land on the ground, meaning she technically passes as an Infantry unit. Yune and Lilith, two flying units who can float, follow suit by simply landing and walking away from the battlefield. The Summoner is not pleased, telling them to play by the rules.
* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/TerrorIsland,'' one arc involving a competition to skateboard over a river ends with the alien baddie teleporting over the river instead; he wins, because "teleporting" is [[http://www.terrorisland.net/strips/257.html one of the few things ''not'' prohibited by the contest's rules]], as the people drawing it up [[PunyEarthlings couldn't conceive of it]].
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'':
** A hilarious variation occurs, where the crew of the mercenary ship effectively avoid any litigation by becoming legally appointed bounty hunters, hunting members of the lawyer collective. They could still be sued if anyone apart from them used non-Collective attorneys, but Massey is the only non-Collective lawyer we've seen, and he's a member of the company.
--->'''Tagon''' (Having just shot someone's lawyer-drones): Get as mad as you want. You're going to have a hard time suing me.
** Presumably, after [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-09-06 this strip]] there's now a company policy regarding air vents, where there wasn't one previously. Since the air vents are properly small, the number of beings that could move around in them was limited... but for Schlock, air duct size doesn't matter much.
** Tailor is a clothing fabrication robot given to Captain Tagon by his father. The captain hates robots, his father, and isn't particularly crazy about new clothes, so he refuses to agree to any fittings. Tailor freaks out about not being able to fulfill his purpose, until the company doctor points out that the captain is responsible for clothing the entire company--therefore, Tailor can fulfill his purpose by creating clothing for her.
--->'''Tailor:''' I'll have to padlock a couple logic gates, but I think it can work.
** At one point, their ship is in orbit around what might be an ancient artifact, and Kevyn is ordered [[ExactWords not to collaborate with anyone on figuring out what it is]]. (The conversation ''after'' that takes a quick turn into 'how many assistants count as collaboration'. Cindy thought they were pushing the envelope as it was.) When Tagon later asks Kevyn his opinion on the value of where they're located, he throws back [[IronicEcho "You explicitly ordered me not to collaborate on figuring this out."]] Tagon's reply? "I gave you an order with loopholes in it."
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** Therkla invokes this trope to her advantage in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0562.html this page]], using the exact phrasing of her orders to justify betraying the spirit of them. Fortunately for her, her [[invoked]] LawfulEvil master appreciates the effort.
---> '''[[spoiler:Kubota]]:''' Well done, Therkla. You managed to weasel your way out of responsibility for your own actions like a seasoned veteran.
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0897.html The IFCC]] used this trope to their advantage via their [[DealWithTheDevil deal]] with Vaarsuvius: [[spoiler: they never said their brief ownership of V's soul would take place ''after their death''.]]
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1000.html In the one-thousandth strip]]: The Godsmoot has strict rules that include the stipulation that any bodyguard of a high priest who attacks another high priest is to be killed immediately. However, if it should be the case that someone was tricked to be the bodyguard of a priest who isn't what they say they are, there's no rule against attacking your ''own'' priest.
** A little later, the loophole to attack the high priest in question gets closed when [[spoiler:the High Priest of Hel]] transfers his position [[spoiler:to another vampire as he leaves to dominate the Dwarven Elders]]. Since Roy wasn't designated as the bodyguard [[spoiler:of that vampire, he's not allowed to kill her]]. However, he quickly exploits another loophole to ensure that [[spoiler: Malack's staff]] doesn't fall into their hands.
---->'''Roy''': The Order of the Stick is not responsible for any damage that may occur during the delivery of unholy relics.
** This is the [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1083.html source]] of Hel's enmity with Thor. As part of their wager, she claims the soul of every dead dwarf by default, unless [[spoiler:they die with honor. Specifically to avoid that fate, the dwarves formed the most honor-bound society on the planet, because...]]
---> '''Hel:''' '''I didn't know Thor would ''tell'' them about it!'''
** Invoked with followers of Loki, god of trickery. Since followers of Loki are supposed to be [[spoiler:dishonorable, acting dishonorably honors their god, and so they can still go to Valhalla if they act dishonorably. However, acting honorably is still honorable, so they can go to Valhalla even if they act honorably.]] Not only that, but when it's pointed out that the gods might not tolerate this LoopholeAbuse, Hilgya points out that Loki ''exists'' to perform LoopholeAbuse on the gods, and is tolerated exactly because of what they can learn from this.
** Thor also uses this to get around a rule stating that gods cannot discuss [[EldritchAbomination the Snarl]] with mortals, unless the mortal already knows about it somehow. Minrah lets it slip that she's heard the term "Snarl" mentioned by Durkon in passing, and Thor declares that's good enough for him, and he thinks it's a dumb rule.
** When the dwarf clan elders are taking a vote that a group of vampires try to affect, and the heroes try to stop them, it becomes a duel of loopholes in the magically enforced rules. The first gate to the chamber dispels all magic and prevents non-dwarfs from entering, and no magic may be used within the second gate, so the dwarf-bodied vampires go through the first gate and use CharmPerson after that. After that, they just have to give orders to the dominated elders -- that's just talking so there's no rule against it -- and further, nobody can use magic even to dispel the domination without being turned to stone. Durkon counters by [[spoiler: breaking the table by which the elders sit, because even though he gets turned to stone for that too, the rules say no vote can be held without all the details like a proper table being in place.]]
* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/TerrorIsland,'' one arc involving a competition to skateboard over a river ends with the alien baddie teleporting over the river instead; he wins, because "teleporting" is [[http://www.terrorisland.net/strips/257.html one of the few things ''not'' prohibited by the contest's rules]], as the people drawing it up [[PunyEarthlings couldn't conceive of it]].
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'':
** A hilarious variation occurs, where the crew of the mercenary ship effectively avoid any litigation by becoming legally appointed bounty hunters, hunting members of the lawyer collective. They could still be sued if anyone apart from them used non-Collective attorneys, but Massey is the only non-Collective lawyer we've seen, and he's a member of the company.
--->'''Tagon''' (Having just shot someone's lawyer-drones): Get as mad as you want. You're going to have a hard time suing me.
** Presumably, after [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-09-06 this strip]] there's now a company policy regarding air vents, where there wasn't one previously. Since the air vents are properly small, the number of beings that could move around in them was limited... but for Schlock, air duct size doesn't matter much.
** Tailor is a clothing fabrication robot given to Captain Tagon by his father. The captain hates robots, his father, and isn't particularly crazy about new clothes, so he refuses to agree to any fittings. Tailor freaks out about not being able to fulfill his purpose, until the company doctor points out that the captain is responsible for clothing the entire company--therefore, Tailor can fulfill his purpose by creating clothing for her.
--->'''Tailor:''' I'll have to padlock a couple logic gates, but I think it can work.
** At one point, their ship is in orbit around what might be an ancient artifact, and Kevyn is ordered [[ExactWords not to collaborate with anyone on figuring out what it is]]. (The conversation ''after'' that takes a quick turn into 'how many assistants count as collaboration'. Cindy thought they were pushing the envelope as it was.) When Tagon later asks Kevyn his opinion on the value of where they're located, he throws back [[IronicEcho "You explicitly ordered me not to collaborate on figuring this out."]] Tagon's reply? "I gave you an order with loopholes in it."
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** Therkla invokes this trope to her advantage in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0562.html this page]], using the exact phrasing of her orders to justify betraying the spirit of them. Fortunately for her, her [[invoked]] LawfulEvil master appreciates the effort.
---> '''[[spoiler:Kubota]]:''' Well done, Therkla. You managed to weasel your way out of responsibility for your own actions like a seasoned veteran.
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0897.html The IFCC]] used this trope to their advantage via their [[DealWithTheDevil deal]] with Vaarsuvius: [[spoiler: they never said their brief ownership of V's soul would take place ''after their death''.]]
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1000.html In the one-thousandth strip]]: The Godsmoot has strict rules that include the stipulation that any bodyguard of a high priest who attacks another high priest is to be killed immediately. However, if it should be the case that someone was tricked to be the bodyguard of a priest who isn't what they say they are, there's no rule against attacking your ''own'' priest.
** A little later, the loophole to attack the high priest in question gets closed when [[spoiler:the High Priest of Hel]] transfers his position [[spoiler:to another vampire as he leaves to dominate the Dwarven Elders]]. Since Roy wasn't designated as the bodyguard [[spoiler:of that vampire, he's not allowed to kill her]]. However, he quickly exploits another loophole to ensure that [[spoiler: Malack's staff]] doesn't fall into their hands.
---->'''Roy''': The Order of the Stick is not responsible for any damage that may occur during the delivery of unholy relics.
** This is the [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1083.html source]] of Hel's enmity with Thor. As part of their wager, she claims the soul of every dead dwarf by default, unless [[spoiler:they die with honor. Specifically to avoid that fate, the dwarves formed the most honor-bound society on the planet, because...]]
---> '''Hel:''' '''I didn't know Thor would ''tell'' them about it!'''
** Invoked with followers of Loki, god of trickery. Since followers of Loki are supposed to be [[spoiler:dishonorable, acting dishonorably honors their god, and so they can still go to Valhalla if they act dishonorably. However, acting honorably is still honorable, so they can go to Valhalla even if they act honorably.]] Not only that, but when it's pointed out that the gods might not tolerate this LoopholeAbuse, Hilgya points out that Loki ''exists'' to perform LoopholeAbuse on the gods, and is tolerated exactly because of what they can learn from this.
** Thor also uses this to get around a rule stating that gods cannot discuss [[EldritchAbomination the Snarl]] with mortals, unless the mortal already knows about it somehow. Minrah lets it slip that she's heard the term "Snarl" mentioned by Durkon in passing, and Thor declares that's good enough for him, and he thinks it's a dumb rule.
** When the dwarf clan elders are taking a vote that a group of vampires try to affect, and the heroes try to stop them, it becomes a duel of loopholes in the magically enforced rules. The first gate to the chamber dispels all magic and prevents non-dwarfs from entering, and no magic may be used within the second gate, so the dwarf-bodied vampires go through the first gate and use CharmPerson after that. After that, they just have to give orders to the dominated elders -- that's just talking so there's no rule against it -- and further, nobody can use magic even to dispel the domination without being turned to stone. Durkon counters by [[spoiler: breaking the table by which the elders sit, because even though he gets turned to stone for that too, the rules say no vote can be held without all the details like a proper table being in place.]]
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* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/TerrorIsland,'' one arc involving a competition to skateboard over a river ends with the alien baddie teleporting over the river instead; he wins, because "teleporting" is [[http://www.terrorisland.net/strips/257.html one of the few things ''not'' prohibited by the contest's rules]], as the people drawing it up [[PunyEarthlings couldn't conceive of it]].
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'':
** A hilarious variation occurs, where the crew of the mercenary ship effectively avoid any litigation by becoming legally appointed bounty hunters, hunting members of the lawyer collective. They could still be sued if anyone apart from them used non-Collective attorneys, but Massey is the only non-Collective lawyer we've seen, and he's a member of the company.
--->'''Tagon''' (Having just shot someone's lawyer-drones): Get as mad as you want. You're going to have a hard time suing me.
** Presumably, after [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-09-06 this strip]] there's now a company policy regarding air vents, where there wasn't one previously. Since the air vents are properly small, the number of beings that could move around in them was limited... but for Schlock, air duct size doesn't matter much.
** Tailor is a clothing fabrication robot given to Captain Tagon by his father. The captain hates robots, his father, and isn't particularly crazy about new clothes, so he refuses to agree to any fittings. Tailor freaks out about not being able to fulfill his purpose, until the company doctor points out that the captain is responsible for clothing the entire company--therefore, Tailor can fulfill his purpose by creating clothing for her.
--->'''Tailor:''' I'll have to padlock a couple logic gates, but I think it can work.
** At one point, their ship is in orbit around what might be an ancient artifact, and Kevyn is ordered [[ExactWords not to collaborate with anyone on figuring out what it is]]. (The conversation ''after'' that takes a quick turn into 'how many assistants count as collaboration'. Cindy thought they were pushing the envelope as it was.) When Tagon later asks Kevyn his opinion on the value of where they're located, he throws back [[IronicEcho "You explicitly ordered me not to collaborate on figuring this out."]] Tagon's reply? "I gave you an order with loopholes in it."
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** Therkla invokes this trope to her advantage in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0562.html this page]], using the exact phrasing of her orders to justify betraying the spirit of them. Fortunately for her, her [[invoked]] LawfulEvil master appreciates the effort.
---> '''[[spoiler:Kubota]]:''' Well done, Therkla. You managed to weasel your way out of responsibility for your own actions like a seasoned veteran.
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0897.html The IFCC]] used this trope to their advantage via their [[DealWithTheDevil deal]] with Vaarsuvius: [[spoiler: they never said their brief ownership of V's soul would take place ''after their death''.]]
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1000.html In the one-thousandth strip]]: The Godsmoot has strict rules that include the stipulation that any bodyguard of a high priest who attacks another high priest is to be killed immediately. However, if it should be the case that someone was tricked to be the bodyguard of a priest who isn't what they say they are, there's no rule against attacking your ''own'' priest.
** A little later, the loophole to attack the high priest in question gets closed when [[spoiler:the High Priest of Hel]] transfers his position [[spoiler:to another vampire as he leaves to dominate the Dwarven Elders]]. Since Roy wasn't designated as the bodyguard [[spoiler:of that vampire, he's not allowed to kill her]]. However, he quickly exploits another loophole to ensure that [[spoiler: Malack's staff]] doesn't fall into their hands.
---->'''Roy''': The Order of the Stick is not responsible for any damage that may occur during the delivery of unholy relics.
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---> '''Hel:''' '''I didn't know Thor would ''tell'' them about it!'''
** Invoked with followers of Loki, god of trickery. Since followers of Loki are supposed to be [[spoiler:dishonorable, acting dishonorably honors their god, and so they can still go to Valhalla if they act dishonorably. However, acting honorably is still honorable, so they can go to Valhalla even if they act honorably.]] Not only that, but when it's pointed out that the gods might not tolerate this LoopholeAbuse, Hilgya points out that Loki ''exists'' to perform
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** Thor also uses this to get around a rule stating that gods cannot discuss [[EldritchAbomination the Snarl]] with mortals, unless the mortal already knows about it somehow. Minrah lets it slip that she's heard the term "Snarl" mentioned by Durkon
** When the dwarf clan elders are taking a vote that a group of vampires try to affect, and the heroes try to stop them, it becomes a duel of loopholes in the magically enforced rules. The first gate to the chamber dispels all magic and prevents non-dwarfs from entering, and no magic may be used within the second gate, so the dwarf-bodied vampires go through the first gate and use CharmPerson after that. After that, they just have to give orders to the dominated elders -- that's just talking so there's no rule against it -- and further, nobody can use magic even to dispel the domination without being turned to stone. Durkon counters by [[spoiler: breaking the table by which the elders sit, because even though he gets turned to stone for that too, the rules say no vote can be held without all the details like a proper table being in place.]]
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* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/BratHalla'', there ain't no rule saying that a god dueling another as a tie-breaker in the [[TournamentArc Pantheon Games]] can't call in his independently sentient, disembodied eyeball in a HumongousMecha to help him. For extra amusement, after t'other god tries to cite its absence in the rules, that there ain't no rule saying you ''can'', the eyeball in its mech comes in and cites the rule in question. [[http://brat-halla.com/comic/233-pantheon-games-an-eye-for-the-rules/ Linksky]].
* According to ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'', there is no rule forbidding the use of cross-country skis in paintball games. Doc checked ''very'' carefully.
* Emily wins her first race in ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}''. Ain't no rule against driving 25 mph once you're ahead of your opponent!
* According to ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'', there is no rule forbidding the use of cross-country skis in paintball games. Doc checked ''very'' carefully.
* Emily wins her first race in ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}''. Ain't no rule against driving 25 mph once you're ahead of your opponent!
* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', the Genie tells the titular character he cannot make anyone fall in love, he cannot bring anyone back from the dead, and that Aladdin is not allowed to wish for more wishes. A webcomic has Aladdin get around this by wishing for Jasmine to ''lust'' after him (instead of ''love''), retroactively make his loved ones immortal so they never died to begin with, and then wishes for a hundred more genies.
* Tristan pulls this in ''Webcomic/AngelMoxie'' so she can get away with a NonUniformUniform in the form of striped stockings. She [[http://www.venisproductions.com/angelmoxie/archives/4/8/486.html even recites the specific rule]], noting that while there ''are'' limits on what kind of ''socks'' can be worn, stockings are allowed as an alternative and there are no such limitations for them.
* ''Webcomic/AvengersAdventure'': This is how Natalie is able to get Heimdall's power back: since Loki was the one who let in the Jotun who started the chain of events that led to him on the throne, his claim is technically illegitimate.
* In ''Webcomic/BadMachinery'': [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20130116 Here.]]
-->'''Erin:''' I can't exactly tell [the police] there's a devil-man sucking up people's SOULS.\\
'''Lottie:''' Yeah, it does sound dippy. And also probably not even a crime.\\
'''Mildred:''' THE LAW IS AN ASS.
* The Chrome Cowboy discusses the concept with ''Webcomic/BladeBunny'' [[http://www.bladebunny.com/comic/book-16-page-5/ here]].
* Protoman in ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' does this with his {{Three Laws Complian|t}}ce.
-->'''George''': You're a robot! You're not allowed to kill humans!\\
'''Protoman''': That only applies if I think he's a human, which I don't.
* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/BratHalla'', there ain't no rule saying that a god dueling another as a tie-breaker in the [[TournamentArc Pantheon Games]] can't call in his independently sentient, disembodied eyeball in a HumongousMecha to help him. For extra amusement, after t'other god tries to cite its absence in the rules, that there ain't no rule saying you ''can'', the eyeball in its mech comes in and cites the rule in question. [[http://brat-halla.com/comic/233-pantheon-games-an-eye-for-the-rules/ Linksky]].
* Tristan pulls this in ''Webcomic/AngelMoxie'' so she can get away with a NonUniformUniform in the form of striped stockings. She [[http://www.venisproductions.com/angelmoxie/archives/4/8/486.html even recites the specific rule]], noting that while there ''are'' limits on what kind of ''socks'' can be worn, stockings are allowed as an alternative and there are no such limitations for them.
* ''Webcomic/AvengersAdventure'': This is how Natalie is able to get Heimdall's power back: since Loki was the one who let in the Jotun who started the chain of events that led to him on the throne, his claim is technically illegitimate.
* In ''Webcomic/BadMachinery'': [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20130116 Here.]]
-->'''Erin:''' I can't exactly tell [the police] there's a devil-man sucking up people's SOULS.\\
'''Lottie:''' Yeah, it does sound dippy. And also probably not even a crime.\\
'''Mildred:''' THE LAW IS AN ASS.
* The Chrome Cowboy discusses the concept with ''Webcomic/BladeBunny'' [[http://www.bladebunny.com/comic/book-16-page-5/ here]].
* Protoman in ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' does this with his {{Three Laws Complian|t}}ce.
-->'''George''': You're a robot! You're not allowed to kill humans!\\
'''Protoman''': That only applies if I think he's a human, which I don't.
* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/BratHalla'', there ain't no rule saying that a god dueling another as a tie-breaker in the [[TournamentArc Pantheon Games]] can't call in his independently sentient, disembodied eyeball in a HumongousMecha to help him. For extra amusement, after t'other god tries to cite its absence in the rules, that there ain't no rule saying you ''can'', the eyeball in its mech comes in and cites the rule in question. [[http://brat-halla.com/comic/233-pantheon-games-an-eye-for-the-rules/ Linksky]].
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* ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'': The Domain version of the Website/{{Facebook}} game Farmville [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2010/kk0905.html apparently doesn't disallow players from raiding their own henhouse]].
* Website/GaiaOnline's four towns engaged in loophole abuse during the "Reject Olympics" plot, by recruiting nonhuman athletes for their teams.
** [[EvilutionaryBiologist Johnny]] K. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Gambino]] was apparently forbidden from creating new [[ZombieApocalypse zombie serums]]. So for the Reject Olympics, he pulled an old prototype from storage instead.
* Website/GaiaOnline's four towns engaged in loophole abuse during the "Reject Olympics" plot, by recruiting nonhuman athletes for their teams.
** [[EvilutionaryBiologist Johnny]] K. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Gambino]] was apparently forbidden from creating new [[ZombieApocalypse zombie serums]]. So for the Reject Olympics, he pulled an old prototype from storage instead.
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* The Constitution didn't provide for insane bunny senators and therefore did not lay down a rule about what to do when one goes missing. In ''Webcomic/PricklyCity'', this matters.
* ''WebComic/EerieCuties'': The bonus story of vol.2's print edition has Blair trick Kade and Ace into playing a game of [[spoiler: [[StripPoker "Strip]] TabletopGame/TrivialPursuit"]] against Layla and Brooke, during which, he rigs the game so [[spoiler: he can see the girls naked]]. Layla guesses wrong on her next turn, leaving her no choice but to [[spoiler: take off her bra]]. However, Brooke saves her by [[spoiler: cupping Layla's breasts from behind]]. When the boys object, she counters:
-->'''Brooke: (smug)''' "Ha! You boys haven't won anything yet!"
-->'''Kad:''' "No fair!"
-->'''Ace:''' "That's against the rules!"
-->'''Brooke: (smug grin)''' "I'm technically made of snakeskin, so I [[spoiler: count as clothing]]!"
* Protoman in ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' does this with his {{Three Laws Complian|t}}ce.
-->'''George''': You're a robot! You're not allowed to kill humans!\\
'''Protoman''': That only applies if I think he's a human, which I don't.
* Tristan pulls this in ''Webcomic/AngelMoxie'' so she can get away with a NonUniformUniform in the form of striped stockings. She [[http://www.venisproductions.com/angelmoxie/archives/4/8/486.html even recites the specific rule]], noting that while there ''are'' limits on what kind of ''socks'' can be worn, stockings are allowed as an alternative and there are no such limitations for them.
* ''WebComic/EerieCuties'': The bonus story of vol.2's print edition has Blair trick Kade and Ace into playing a game of [[spoiler: [[StripPoker "Strip]] TabletopGame/TrivialPursuit"]] against Layla and Brooke, during which, he rigs the game so [[spoiler: he can see the girls naked]]. Layla guesses wrong on her next turn, leaving her no choice but to [[spoiler: take off her bra]]. However, Brooke saves her by [[spoiler: cupping Layla's breasts from behind]]. When the boys object, she counters:
-->'''Brooke: (smug)''' "Ha! You boys haven't won anything yet!"
-->'''Kad:''' "No fair!"
-->'''Ace:''' "That's against the rules!"
-->'''Brooke: (smug grin)''' "I'm technically made of snakeskin, so I [[spoiler: count as clothing]]!"
* Protoman in ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' does this with his {{Three Laws Complian|t}}ce.
-->'''George''': You're a robot! You're not allowed to kill humans!\\
'''Protoman''': That only applies if I think he's a human, which I don't.
* Tristan pulls this in ''Webcomic/AngelMoxie'' so she can get away with a NonUniformUniform in the form of striped stockings. She [[http://www.venisproductions.com/angelmoxie/archives/4/8/486.html even recites the specific rule]], noting that while there ''are'' limits on what kind of ''socks'' can be worn, stockings are allowed as an alternative and there are no such limitations for them.
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* The Constitution didn't provide In ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'', [[spoiler:Descending-Helix made a deal that he be paid for insane bunny senators his work by making him and therefore did not lay all his descendants immune to divine interference and prophecy]]. A few thousand years (and the laws of genetics) later, his great*n-granddaughter gets roped into that business anyway, thanks to the interference of a prophetic ''slug''. His ghost admits that he had neglected to fill that particular loophole.
* ''WebComic/DragonBallMultiverse'':
** Only two people can enter the arena at a time. Keyword being ''enter''. Meaning that Goten and Trunks can get away with fusing as Gotenks, entering the arena, and eventually defusing and competing as two people cause hey, only ''one'' actually entered the arena. [[spoiler: Which happened with ''two'' incarnations of Gotenks. This also accidentally happened to U9 Videl when her Z Sword broke and released the old Kai in it. Since he came from the sword he was ruled an ally and allowed to stay in the arena.]]
** [[spoiler: Much later, U3 Raichi takes this trope up to eleven, where he summons the Frost Demons, all of Planet Vegeta AND the previously defeated combatants. Doesn't stop U13 Vegeta from instantly wiping a few of them out.]]
** A few characters have taken advantage of the rule made to prevent excessive hiding or leaving, that if the judges cannot see you for more than thirty seconds you forfeit. XXI uses it against [[spoiler: U16 Vegetto, trapping him in another dimension where time ran differently just to be sure]] and U18 Uub uses it on U11 Buu, vaporizing him downa rule about what to do when one goes missing. In ''Webcomic/PricklyCity'', this matters.
small final bit and then putting that bit in a container before he could reform. Technically the judges could not see Buu, and thus he lost.
* ''WebComic/EerieCuties'': The bonus story of vol.2's print edition has Blair trick Kade and Ace into playing a game of[[spoiler: [[StripPoker [[spoiler:[[StripPoker "Strip]] TabletopGame/TrivialPursuit"]] against Layla and Brooke, during which, he rigs the game so [[spoiler: he [[spoiler:he can see the girls naked]]. Layla guesses wrong on her next turn, leaving her no choice but to [[spoiler: take [[spoiler:take off her bra]]. However, Brooke saves her by [[spoiler: cupping [[spoiler:cupping Layla's breasts from behind]]. When the boys object, she counters:
-->'''Brooke: (smug)''' "Ha! You boys haven't won anythingyet!"
-->'''Kad:'''yet!"\\
'''Kad:''' "Nofair!"
-->'''Ace:'''fair!"\\
'''Ace:''' "That's against therules!"
-->'''Brooke:rules!"\\
'''Brooke: (smug grin)''' "I'm technically made of snakeskin, so I[[spoiler: count [[spoiler:count as clothing]]!"
*Protoman Immortals in ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' does this with his {{Three Laws Complian|t}}ce.
-->'''George''': You're a robot! You're not''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' are only allowed to kill humans!\\
'''Protoman''': Thatguide and empower mortals without risking the wrath of other immortals. Those are the rules, here are the loopholes:
** [[spoiler:Helena and Demetrius tricked consent from a younger Susan and Nanase by giving them the false impression that they were the onlyapplies if I two who could stop a monster. This ended up causing Susan enormous emotional damage, which later deeply angered Jerry, another immortal, when he learned her story]].
** Chaos has twisted the rules into pretzels by [[spoiler:''forcibly'' empowering unsuspecting mortals and pumping enough power into them to make them susceptible to suggestion bordering on MindControl]]. Her son notes when explaining this, "even immortals have loopholes." We find out that this is an even bigger loophole later, because [[spoiler:Chaos wasn't the one who did that. Another immortal left clues that made her son think it was her, thus remaining hidden for months]].
** An immortal can only attack a mortal in self-defense, [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2010-06-28 but according to Jerry]] Grace is lucky he's ahuman, which I don't.
* Tristan pulls"wise and jolly" immortal ("Like Santa Claus!") because making a threat display, like the way Grace did, towards a more flinchy immortal would have been enough to make that immortal panic and attack the offender.
** An immortal is [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2107 "pushing guide and empower as far as they'll bend"]] by [[spoiler:appearing as a godlike figure in the middle of a crowded mall and lying to a creature convinced that immortals are forbidden from lying]].
** As it turns out, the rules aren't an agreement between immortals, but a sort of species-wide curse they cast on themselves. If an immortal breaks the rules, the other immortals don't decide to fight them. The other immortals automatically gain knowledge of what happened, and the power to work together to force the offending immortal to [[ResurrectiveImmortality reset]]. The immortals wouldn't have agreed to thisin ''Webcomic/AngelMoxie'' if there was some way to break the rules on accident, so she only the opinion of the immortal breaking the rules matters on deciding whether or not something is breaking the rules. This is why Chaos can get away with a NonUniformUniform in so much loophole abuse: She's crazy and thinks everything she's doing is within the form bounds of striped stockings. She [[http://www.venisproductions.com/angelmoxie/archives/4/8/486.html the rules.
** Subverted when Voltaire vows not to attempt to kill Elliot. Mr. Verres points out that if Voltaire ''successfully'' kills Elliot, it's not an "attempt." Voltaire disagrees, and thinks that's a really stupid loophole since he'd have to be insane for that loophole to evenrecites the specific rule]], noting work, but rewords his vow to close that while there ''are'' limits loophole anyway just so Edward will get off his back on that.
** Chaos [[spoiler:increased the overall magic concentration in Moperville to incredibly high levels, allowing novices to use spells that they should never be able to. When Sarah learns of this, she immediately realizes that Chaos basically "empowered" the entire town. Furthermore, when Chaos realizes she has to fix whatkind of ''socks'' can be worn, stockings are she did, she needs help from a mortal (which falls under the "guiding" rule), since she's not allowed as an alternative to "dis-empower," even though she was behind the original empowering]].
** Magic itself is a quasi-sentient force that wants to be used andthere known about, but not widely known about or able to be used by many, which would seem to be contradictory goals since there's nothing stopping magic users from telling others about it ''and'' providing them the means to use it themselves, nor can magic simply go away. [[spoiler: But there's nothing saying magic can't change the way it works, so that previous methods of using it are no such limitations for them.rendered useless, and only a few rare individuals will be initially able to use it again. Chaos/Pandora witnessed the last time this happened several centuries ago in her past life]].
* ''WebComic/DragonBallMultiverse'':
** Only two people can enter the arena at a time. Keyword being ''enter''. Meaning that Goten and Trunks can get away with fusing as Gotenks, entering the arena, and eventually defusing and competing as two people cause hey, only ''one'' actually entered the arena. [[spoiler: Which happened with ''two'' incarnations of Gotenks. This also accidentally happened to U9 Videl when her Z Sword broke and released the old Kai in it. Since he came from the sword he was ruled an ally and allowed to stay in the arena.]]
** [[spoiler: Much later, U3 Raichi takes this trope up to eleven, where he summons the Frost Demons, all of Planet Vegeta AND the previously defeated combatants. Doesn't stop U13 Vegeta from instantly wiping a few of them out.]]
** A few characters have taken advantage of the rule made to prevent excessive hiding or leaving, that if the judges cannot see you for more than thirty seconds you forfeit. XXI uses it against [[spoiler: U16 Vegetto, trapping him in another dimension where time ran differently just to be sure]] and U18 Uub uses it on U11 Buu, vaporizing him down
* ''WebComic/EerieCuties'': The bonus story of vol.2's print edition has Blair trick Kade and Ace into playing a game of
-->'''Brooke: (smug)''' "Ha! You boys haven't won anything
-->'''Kad:'''
'''Kad:''' "No
-->'''Ace:'''
'''Ace:''' "That's against the
-->'''Brooke:
'''Brooke: (smug grin)''' "I'm technically made of snakeskin, so I
*
-->'''George''': You're a robot! You're not
'''Protoman''': That
** [[spoiler:Helena and Demetrius tricked consent from a younger Susan and Nanase by giving them the false impression that they were the only
** Chaos has twisted the rules into pretzels by [[spoiler:''forcibly'' empowering unsuspecting mortals and pumping enough power into them to make them susceptible to suggestion bordering on MindControl]]. Her son notes when explaining this, "even immortals have loopholes." We find out that this is an even bigger loophole later, because [[spoiler:Chaos wasn't the one who did that. Another immortal left clues that made her son think it was her, thus remaining hidden for months]].
** An immortal can only attack a mortal in self-defense, [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2010-06-28 but according to Jerry]] Grace is lucky he's a
* Tristan pulls
** An immortal is [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2107 "pushing guide and empower as far as they'll bend"]] by [[spoiler:appearing as a godlike figure in the middle of a crowded mall and lying to a creature convinced that immortals are forbidden from lying]].
** As it turns out, the rules aren't an agreement between immortals, but a sort of species-wide curse they cast on themselves. If an immortal breaks the rules, the other immortals don't decide to fight them. The other immortals automatically gain knowledge of what happened, and the power to work together to force the offending immortal to [[ResurrectiveImmortality reset]]. The immortals wouldn't have agreed to this
** Subverted when Voltaire vows not to attempt to kill Elliot. Mr. Verres points out that if Voltaire ''successfully'' kills Elliot, it's not an "attempt." Voltaire disagrees, and thinks that's a really stupid loophole since he'd have to be insane for that loophole to even
** Chaos [[spoiler:increased the overall magic concentration in Moperville to incredibly high levels, allowing novices to use spells that they should never be able to. When Sarah learns of this, she immediately realizes that Chaos basically "empowered" the entire town. Furthermore, when Chaos realizes she has to fix what
** Magic itself is a quasi-sentient force that wants to be used and
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* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'':
** [[http://xkcd.com/115/ "There's no rule on the books saying a meerkat can't play rugby."]] Though, according to the AltText, there ''are'' rules against gorillas and [[Film/AirBud golden retrievers]].
** In one of Black Hat's schemes, he takes the observation that standard internet server racks and beehive frames are both 19 inches and have similar pitches and runs with it, noting that most web hosting [=TOSes=][[labelnote:*]]Terms of Service[[/labelnote]] [[http://xkcd.com/1439/ don't mention beehives]] in what's not allowed. The AltText calls back to the example listed above, noting that most [=TOSes=] also don't prevent dogs from playing baseball in the server facility.
** [[https://xkcd.com/1086/ This strip]] has Black Hat repeatedly trying to go around rules on meta-wishes in very convoluted ways. None seems to work.
** "[[http://xkcd.com/1552/ There's nothing in the rulebook]] that says we can't kill and eat your dog."
** Played with in [[https://xkcd.com/1593/ #1593]], where Beret Guy [[GretzkyHasTheBall seems to believe]] that stealing a base in baseball is loophole abuse. His reaction is, "Everyone's real mad but I guess they checked the rules and there's nothing that says he can't do that."
* ''Webcomic/FruitIncest'' double-subverts this one in [[http://fruitincest.com/archives/rule/ "Rule"]]. There's no rule against a duck playing on the school soccer team, but there ''is'' a rule that every player on the team must be enrolled as a student. But there's no rule against a duck being enrolled as a student, either.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Rhapsodies}}'' the local office of the [[CelestialBureaucracy Department of Minor Nuisances]] is unable to covertly support the Circle Band due to rules and budget concerns. [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=2571 Nothing wrong with doing it overtly though.]]
** [[http://xkcd.com/115/ "There's no rule on the books saying a meerkat can't play rugby."]] Though, according to the AltText, there ''are'' rules against gorillas and [[Film/AirBud golden retrievers]].
** In one of Black Hat's schemes, he takes the observation that standard internet server racks and beehive frames are both 19 inches and have similar pitches and runs with it, noting that most web hosting [=TOSes=][[labelnote:*]]Terms of Service[[/labelnote]] [[http://xkcd.com/1439/ don't mention beehives]] in what's not allowed. The AltText calls back to the example listed above, noting that most [=TOSes=] also don't prevent dogs from playing baseball in the server facility.
** [[https://xkcd.com/1086/ This strip]] has Black Hat repeatedly trying to go around rules on meta-wishes in very convoluted ways. None seems to work.
** "[[http://xkcd.com/1552/ There's nothing in the rulebook]] that says we can't kill and eat your dog."
** Played with in [[https://xkcd.com/1593/ #1593]], where Beret Guy [[GretzkyHasTheBall seems to believe]] that stealing a base in baseball is loophole abuse. His reaction is, "Everyone's real mad but I guess they checked the rules and there's nothing that says he can't do that."
* ''Webcomic/FruitIncest'' double-subverts this one in [[http://fruitincest.com/archives/rule/ "Rule"]]. There's no rule against a duck playing on the school soccer team, but there ''is'' a rule that every player on the team must be enrolled as a student. But there's no rule against a duck being enrolled as a student, either.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Rhapsodies}}'' the local office of the [[CelestialBureaucracy Department of Minor Nuisances]] is unable to covertly support the Circle Band due to rules and budget concerns. [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=2571 Nothing wrong with doing it overtly though.]]
to:
* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'':
** [[http://xkcd.com/115/ "There's no rule on''Webcomic/FireEmblemHeroesADayInTheLife'': In "[[https://fire-emblem-heroes.com/en/manga/part/index.html#part200513 Who Needs Iote's Shield?]]", the books saying a meerkat can't play rugby."]] Though, according to the AltText, there ''are'' rules Summoner warns Petra about bows being effective against gorillas Flying units. Her solution is to climb off her pegasus and [[Film/AirBud golden retrievers]].
** In one of Black Hat's schemes, he takes the observation that standard internet server racks and beehive frames are both 19 inches and have similar pitches and runs with it, noting that most web hosting [=TOSes=][[labelnote:*]]Terms of Service[[/labelnote]] [[http://xkcd.com/1439/ don't mention beehives]] in what's not allowed. The AltText calls back to the example listed above, noting that most [=TOSes=] also don't prevent dogs from playing baseball in the server facility.
** [[https://xkcd.com/1086/ This strip]] has Black Hat repeatedly trying to go around rules on meta-wishes in very convoluted ways. None seems to work.
** "[[http://xkcd.com/1552/ There's nothing in the rulebook]] that says we can't kill and eat your dog."
** Played with in [[https://xkcd.com/1593/ #1593]], where Beret Guy [[GretzkyHasTheBall seems to believe]] that stealing a base in baseball is loophole abuse. His reaction is, "Everyone's real mad but I guess they checked the rules and there's nothing that says he can't do that."
* ''Webcomic/FruitIncest'' double-subverts this one in [[http://fruitincest.com/archives/rule/ "Rule"]]. There's no rule against a duck playingland on the school soccer team, but there ''is'' a rule that every player on ground, meaning she technically passes as an Infantry unit. Yune and Lilith, two flying units who can float, follow suit by simply landing and walking away from the team must be enrolled as a student. But there's no rule against a duck being enrolled as a student, either.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Rhapsodies}}''battlefield. The Summoner is not pleased, telling them to play by the local office of the [[CelestialBureaucracy Department of Minor Nuisances]] is unable to covertly support the Circle Band due to rules and budget concerns. [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=2571 Nothing wrong with doing it overtly though.]]rules.
** [[http://xkcd.com/115/ "There's no rule on
** In one of Black Hat's schemes, he takes the observation that standard internet server racks and beehive frames are both 19 inches and have similar pitches and runs with it, noting that most web hosting [=TOSes=][[labelnote:*]]Terms of Service[[/labelnote]] [[http://xkcd.com/1439/ don't mention beehives]] in what's not allowed. The AltText calls back to the example listed above, noting that most [=TOSes=] also don't prevent dogs from playing baseball in the server facility.
** [[https://xkcd.com/1086/ This strip]] has Black Hat repeatedly trying to go around rules on meta-wishes in very convoluted ways. None seems to work.
** "[[http://xkcd.com/1552/ There's nothing in the rulebook]] that says we can't kill and eat your dog."
** Played with in [[https://xkcd.com/1593/ #1593]], where Beret Guy [[GretzkyHasTheBall seems to believe]] that stealing a base in baseball is loophole abuse. His reaction is, "Everyone's real mad but I guess they checked the rules and there's nothing that says he can't do that."
* ''Webcomic/FruitIncest'' double-subverts this one in [[http://fruitincest.com/archives/rule/ "Rule"]]. There's no rule against a duck playing
* In ''Webcomic/{{Rhapsodies}}''
* ''Webcomic/FruitIncest'' double-subverts this one in [[http://fruitincest.com/archives/rule/ "Rule"]]. There's no rule against a duck playing on the school soccer team, but there ''is'' a rule that every player on the team must be enrolled as a student. But there's no rule against a duck being enrolled as a student, either.
* Website/GaiaOnline's four towns engaged in loophole abuse during the "Reject Olympics" plot, by recruiting nonhuman athletes for their teams.
** [[EvilutionaryBiologist Johnny]] K. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Gambino]] was apparently forbidden from creating new [[ZombieApocalypse zombie serums]]. So for the Reject Olympics, he pulled an old prototype from storage instead.
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
** The Jägermonsters have agreed not to enter Mechanicsburg until there is a new Heterodyne and the Doom Bell rings. While Gkika has remained in town this is an open secret as far as the baron is concerned, since she's running a bar under her own name and the two are personally acquainted, the rest of the Jägers take this agreement seriously but see no problem with entering Mechanicsburg's labyrinth of underground passageways through "the sneaky gate" as long as they don't get caught or go upstairs into the town itself since they haven't ''really'' entered Mechanicsburg.
** It's never explicitly spelled out, but it's highly likely that during his attack on Mechanicsburg, the wasp-infected Baron Wulfenbach does this with whatever orders he is given by Lucrezia.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', demons making a deal with mortals have to obey the terms of their deal to the letter, or they are revoked and the demon is horribly punished. When Saves a Fox and Dies Horribly are searching for the Orb of Bloodlight, they find that it is guarded by demons. One demon holds an orb and promises it in exchange for a mortal soul. Dies, knowing his MeaningfulName is going to have to trigger sooner or later, immediately agrees to the terms so that Fox can at least get the orb. Of course it's a fake. [[spoiler:Too bad for the demon, she agreed to give the orb in exchange for ''a'' mortal soul. Due to the artificial hand that Klik gave him, a bit carelessly, Dies Horribly actually now has ''two'' souls. So the deal is revoked, causing Dies to return to life ''with his [[ProphecyTwist prophetic death having already technically happened]]'', ''and'' the demon gets hit with a heaping dose of LaserGuidedKarma. Thus, the heroes ''accidentally'' abuse Loophole Abuse, canceling out deliberate Loophole Abuse.]]
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': When it comes time to choose a new Court Medium for dealing with the Forest, everyone is sure it will be Annie who gets the position, and Coyote has been not-so-subtly hinting that he wants it to happen as well. The Headmaster, however, wanting to curb Annie's behavioral problems, names Andrew the Medium instead. [[TheTrickster Coyote]] immediately turns it around on the Court and appoints Annie as ''the Forest's'' Medium for dealing with the Court, declaring her an honorary member of the Forest (as she had lived there for a summer). The Court has no right to interfere in Forest matters, so Coyote and Annie get what they want anyway.
* Website/GaiaOnline's four towns engaged in loophole abuse during the "Reject Olympics" plot, by recruiting nonhuman athletes for their teams.
** [[EvilutionaryBiologist Johnny]] K. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Gambino]] was apparently forbidden from creating new [[ZombieApocalypse zombie serums]]. So for the Reject Olympics, he pulled an old prototype from storage instead.
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
** The Jägermonsters have agreed not to enter Mechanicsburg until there is a new Heterodyne and the Doom Bell rings. While Gkika has remained in town this is an open secret as far as the baron is concerned, since she's running a bar under her own name and the two are personally acquainted, the rest of the Jägers take this agreement seriously but see no problem with entering Mechanicsburg's labyrinth of underground passageways through "the sneaky gate" as long as they don't get caught or go upstairs into the town itself since they haven't ''really'' entered Mechanicsburg.
** It's never explicitly spelled out, but it's highly likely that during his attack on Mechanicsburg, the wasp-infected Baron Wulfenbach does this with whatever orders he is given by Lucrezia.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', demons making a deal with mortals have to obey the terms of their deal to the letter, or they are revoked and the demon is horribly punished. When Saves a Fox and Dies Horribly are searching for the Orb of Bloodlight, they find that it is guarded by demons. One demon holds an orb and promises it in exchange for a mortal soul. Dies, knowing his MeaningfulName is going to have to trigger sooner or later, immediately agrees to the terms so that Fox can at least get the orb. Of course it's a fake. [[spoiler:Too bad for the demon, she agreed to give the orb in exchange for ''a'' mortal soul. Due to the artificial hand that Klik gave him, a bit carelessly, Dies Horribly actually now has ''two'' souls. So the deal is revoked, causing Dies to return to life ''with his [[ProphecyTwist prophetic death having already technically happened]]'', ''and'' the demon gets hit with a heaping dose of LaserGuidedKarma. Thus, the heroes ''accidentally'' abuse Loophole Abuse, canceling out deliberate Loophole Abuse.]]
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': When it comes time to choose a new Court Medium for dealing with the Forest, everyone is sure it will be Annie who gets the position, and Coyote has been not-so-subtly hinting that he wants it to happen as well. The Headmaster, however, wanting to curb Annie's behavioral problems, names Andrew the Medium instead. [[TheTrickster Coyote]] immediately turns it around on the Court and appoints Annie as ''the Forest's'' Medium for dealing with the Court, declaring her an honorary member of the Forest (as she had lived there for a summer). The Court has no right to interfere in Forest matters, so Coyote and Annie get what they want anyway.
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* Immortals in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' are only allowed to guide and empower mortals without risking the wrath of other immortals. Those are the rules, here are the loopholes:
** [[spoiler:Helena and Demetrius tricked consent from a younger Susan and Nanase by giving them the false impression that they were the only two who could stop a monster. This ended up causing Susan enormous emotional damage, which later deeply angered Jerry, another immortal, when he learned her story]].
** Chaos has twisted the rules into pretzels by [[spoiler:''forcibly'' empowering unsuspecting mortals and pumping enough power into them to make them susceptible to suggestion bordering on MindControl]]. Her son notes when explaining this, "even immortals have loopholes." We find out that this is an even bigger loophole later, because [[spoiler:Chaos wasn't the one who did that. Another immortal left clues that made her son think it was her, thus remaining hidden for months]].
** An immortal can only attack a mortal in self-defense, [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2010-06-28 but according to Jerry]] Grace is lucky he's a "wise and jolly" immortal ("Like Santa Claus!") because making a threat display, like the way Grace did, towards a more flinchy immortal would have been enough to make that immortal panic and attack the offender.
** An immortal is [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2107 "pushing guide and empower as far as they'll bend"]] by [[spoiler:appearing as a godlike figure in the middle of a crowded mall and lying to a creature convinced that immortals are forbidden from lying]].
** As it turns out, the rules aren't an agreement between immortals, but a sort of species-wide curse they cast on themselves. If an immortal breaks the rules, the other immortals don't decide to fight them. The other immortals automatically gain knowledge of what happened, and the power to work together to force the offending immortal to [[ResurrectiveImmortality reset]]. The immortals wouldn't have agreed to this if there was some way to break the rules on accident, so only the opinion of the immortal breaking the rules matters on deciding whether or not something is breaking the rules. This is why Chaos can get away with so much loophole abuse: She's crazy and thinks everything she's doing is within the bounds of the rules.
** Subverted when Voltaire vows not to attempt to kill Elliot. Mr. Verres points out that if Voltaire ''successfully'' kills Elliot, it's not an "attempt." Voltaire disagrees, and thinks that's a really stupid loophole since he'd have to be insane for that loophole to even work, but rewords his vow to close that loophole anyway just so Edward will get off his back on that.
** Chaos [[spoiler:increased the overall magic concentration in Moperville to incredibly high levels, allowing novices to use spells that they should never be able to. When Sarah learns of this, she immediately realizes that Chaos basically "empowered" the entire town. Furthermore, when Chaos realizes she has to fix what she did, she needs help from a mortal (which falls under the "guiding" rule), since she's not allowed to "dis-empower," even though she was behind the original empowering]].
** Magic itself is a quasi-sentient force that wants to be used and known about, but not widely known about or able to be used by many, which would seem to be contradictory goals since there's nothing stopping magic users from telling others about it ''and'' providing them the means to use it themselves, nor can magic simply go away. [[spoiler: But there's nothing saying magic can't change the way it works, so that previous methods of using it are rendered useless, and only a few rare individuals will be initially able to use it again. Chaos/Pandora witnessed the last time this happened several centuries ago in her past life]].
* In ''Webcomic/BadMachinery'': [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20130116 Here.]]
-->'''Erin:''' I can't exactly tell [the police] there's a devil-man sucking up people's SOULS.\\
'''Lottie:''' Yeah, it does sound dippy. And also probably not even a crime.\\
'''Mildred:''' THE LAW IS AN ASS.
** [[spoiler:Helena and Demetrius tricked consent from a younger Susan and Nanase by giving them the false impression that they were the only two who could stop a monster. This ended up causing Susan enormous emotional damage, which later deeply angered Jerry, another immortal, when he learned her story]].
** Chaos has twisted the rules into pretzels by [[spoiler:''forcibly'' empowering unsuspecting mortals and pumping enough power into them to make them susceptible to suggestion bordering on MindControl]]. Her son notes when explaining this, "even immortals have loopholes." We find out that this is an even bigger loophole later, because [[spoiler:Chaos wasn't the one who did that. Another immortal left clues that made her son think it was her, thus remaining hidden for months]].
** An immortal can only attack a mortal in self-defense, [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2010-06-28 but according to Jerry]] Grace is lucky he's a "wise and jolly" immortal ("Like Santa Claus!") because making a threat display, like the way Grace did, towards a more flinchy immortal would have been enough to make that immortal panic and attack the offender.
** An immortal is [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2107 "pushing guide and empower as far as they'll bend"]] by [[spoiler:appearing as a godlike figure in the middle of a crowded mall and lying to a creature convinced that immortals are forbidden from lying]].
** As it turns out, the rules aren't an agreement between immortals, but a sort of species-wide curse they cast on themselves. If an immortal breaks the rules, the other immortals don't decide to fight them. The other immortals automatically gain knowledge of what happened, and the power to work together to force the offending immortal to [[ResurrectiveImmortality reset]]. The immortals wouldn't have agreed to this if there was some way to break the rules on accident, so only the opinion of the immortal breaking the rules matters on deciding whether or not something is breaking the rules. This is why Chaos can get away with so much loophole abuse: She's crazy and thinks everything she's doing is within the bounds of the rules.
** Subverted when Voltaire vows not to attempt to kill Elliot. Mr. Verres points out that if Voltaire ''successfully'' kills Elliot, it's not an "attempt." Voltaire disagrees, and thinks that's a really stupid loophole since he'd have to be insane for that loophole to even work, but rewords his vow to close that loophole anyway just so Edward will get off his back on that.
** Chaos [[spoiler:increased the overall magic concentration in Moperville to incredibly high levels, allowing novices to use spells that they should never be able to. When Sarah learns of this, she immediately realizes that Chaos basically "empowered" the entire town. Furthermore, when Chaos realizes she has to fix what she did, she needs help from a mortal (which falls under the "guiding" rule), since she's not allowed to "dis-empower," even though she was behind the original empowering]].
** Magic itself is a quasi-sentient force that wants to be used and known about, but not widely known about or able to be used by many, which would seem to be contradictory goals since there's nothing stopping magic users from telling others about it ''and'' providing them the means to use it themselves, nor can magic simply go away. [[spoiler: But there's nothing saying magic can't change the way it works, so that previous methods of using it are rendered useless, and only a few rare individuals will be initially able to use it again. Chaos/Pandora witnessed the last time this happened several centuries ago in her past life]].
* In ''Webcomic/BadMachinery'': [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20130116 Here.]]
-->'''Erin:''' I can't exactly tell [the police] there's a devil-man sucking up people's SOULS.\\
'''Lottie:''' Yeah, it does sound dippy. And also probably not even a crime.\\
'''Mildred:''' THE LAW IS AN ASS.
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* Immortals in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' are only allowed to guide and empower mortals without risking ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'': The Domain version of the wrath of other immortals. Those are the rules, here are the loopholes:
** [[spoiler:Helena and Demetrius tricked consent from a younger Susan and Nanase by giving them the false impression that they were the only two who could stop a monster. This ended up causing Susan enormous emotional damage, which later deeply angered Jerry, another immortal, when he learned her story]].
** Chaos has twisted the rules into pretzels by [[spoiler:''forcibly'' empowering unsuspecting mortals and pumping enough power into them to make them susceptible to suggestion bordering on MindControl]]. Her son notes when explaining this, "even immortals have loopholes." We find out that this is an even bigger loophole later, because [[spoiler:Chaos wasn't the one who did that. Another immortal left clues that made her son think it was her, thus remaining hidden for months]].
** An immortal can only attack a mortal in self-defense, [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2010-06-28 but according to Jerry]] Grace is lucky he's a "wise and jolly" immortal ("Like Santa Claus!") because making a threat display, like the way Grace did, towards a more flinchy immortal would have been enough to make that immortal panic and attack the offender.
** An immortal isWebsite/{{Facebook}} game Farmville [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2107 "pushing guide and empower as far as they'll bend"]] by [[spoiler:appearing as a godlike figure in the middle of a crowded mall and lying to a creature convinced that immortals are forbidden kevinandkell.com/2010/kk0905.html apparently doesn't disallow players from lying]].
** As it turns out, the rules aren't an agreement between immortals, but a sort of species-wide curse they cast on themselves. If an immortal breaks the rules, the other immortals don't decide to fight them. The other immortals automatically gain knowledge of what happened, and the power to work together to force the offending immortal to [[ResurrectiveImmortality reset]]. The immortals wouldn't have agreed to this if there was some way to break the rules on accident, so only the opinion of the immortal breaking the rules matters on deciding whether or not something is breaking the rules. This is why Chaos can get away with so much loophole abuse: She's crazy and thinks everything she's doing is within the bounds of the rules.
** Subverted when Voltaire vows not to attempt to kill Elliot. Mr. Verres points out that if Voltaire ''successfully'' kills Elliot, it's not an "attempt." Voltaire disagrees, and thinks that's a really stupid loophole since he'd have to be insane for that loophole to even work, but rewords his vow to close that loophole anyway just so Edward will get off his back on that.
** Chaos [[spoiler:increased the overall magic concentration in Moperville to incredibly high levels, allowing novices to use spells that they should never be able to. When Sarah learns of this, she immediately realizes that Chaos basically "empowered" the entire town. Furthermore, when Chaos realizes she has to fix what she did, she needs help from a mortal (which falls under the "guiding" rule), since she's not allowed to "dis-empower," even though she was behind the original empowering]].
** Magic itself is a quasi-sentient force that wants to be used and known about, but not widely known about or able to be used by many, which would seem to be contradictory goals since there's nothing stopping magic users from telling others about it ''and'' providing them the means to use it themselves, nor can magic simply go away. [[spoiler: But there's nothing saying magic can't change the way it works, so that previous methods of using it are rendered useless, and only a few rare individuals will be initially able to use it again. Chaos/Pandora witnessed the last time this happened several centuries ago in her past life]].
* In ''Webcomic/BadMachinery'': [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20130116 Here.]]
-->'''Erin:''' I can't exactly tell [the police] there's a devil-man sucking up people's SOULS.\\
'''Lottie:''' Yeah, it does sound dippy. And also probably not even a crime.\\
'''Mildred:''' THE LAW IS AN ASS.raiding their own henhouse]].
** [[spoiler:Helena and Demetrius tricked consent from a younger Susan and Nanase by giving them the false impression that they were the only two who could stop a monster. This ended up causing Susan enormous emotional damage, which later deeply angered Jerry, another immortal, when he learned her story]].
** Chaos has twisted the rules into pretzels by [[spoiler:''forcibly'' empowering unsuspecting mortals and pumping enough power into them to make them susceptible to suggestion bordering on MindControl]]. Her son notes when explaining this, "even immortals have loopholes." We find out that this is an even bigger loophole later, because [[spoiler:Chaos wasn't the one who did that. Another immortal left clues that made her son think it was her, thus remaining hidden for months]].
** An immortal can only attack a mortal in self-defense, [[http://egscomics.com/?date=2010-06-28 but according to Jerry]] Grace is lucky he's a "wise and jolly" immortal ("Like Santa Claus!") because making a threat display, like the way Grace did, towards a more flinchy immortal would have been enough to make that immortal panic and attack the offender.
** An immortal is
** As it turns out, the rules aren't an agreement between immortals, but a sort of species-wide curse they cast on themselves. If an immortal breaks the rules, the other immortals don't decide to fight them. The other immortals automatically gain knowledge of what happened, and the power to work together to force the offending immortal to [[ResurrectiveImmortality reset]]. The immortals wouldn't have agreed to this if there was some way to break the rules on accident, so only the opinion of the immortal breaking the rules matters on deciding whether or not something is breaking the rules. This is why Chaos can get away with so much loophole abuse: She's crazy and thinks everything she's doing is within the bounds of the rules.
** Subverted when Voltaire vows not to attempt to kill Elliot. Mr. Verres points out that if Voltaire ''successfully'' kills Elliot, it's not an "attempt." Voltaire disagrees, and thinks that's a really stupid loophole since he'd have to be insane for that loophole to even work, but rewords his vow to close that loophole anyway just so Edward will get off his back on that.
** Chaos [[spoiler:increased the overall magic concentration in Moperville to incredibly high levels, allowing novices to use spells that they should never be able to. When Sarah learns of this, she immediately realizes that Chaos basically "empowered" the entire town. Furthermore, when Chaos realizes she has to fix what she did, she needs help from a mortal (which falls under the "guiding" rule), since she's not allowed to "dis-empower," even though she was behind the original empowering]].
** Magic itself is a quasi-sentient force that wants to be used and known about, but not widely known about or able to be used by many, which would seem to be contradictory goals since there's nothing stopping magic users from telling others about it ''and'' providing them the means to use it themselves, nor can magic simply go away. [[spoiler: But there's nothing saying magic can't change the way it works, so that previous methods of using it are rendered useless, and only a few rare individuals will be initially able to use it again. Chaos/Pandora witnessed the last time this happened several centuries ago in her past life]].
* In ''Webcomic/BadMachinery'': [[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20130116 Here.]]
-->'''Erin:''' I can't exactly tell [the police] there's a devil-man sucking up people's SOULS.\\
'''Lottie:''' Yeah, it does sound dippy. And also probably not even a crime.\\
'''Mildred:''' THE LAW IS AN ASS.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Sheldon}}'': One storyline has Gramp going on a liquid diet and attempting this. First he helps himself to some melted ice cream, which Arthur points out isn't technically a liquid ("'''''I KNOW! AND IT HAS COOKIE DOUGH CHUNKS!'''''" Gramp admits). Then he sticks a Twinkie in a blender and tried to purée it. It eventually culminates in him somehow getting his hands on a beaker of hydro-chloric acid and pouring it on a steak in order to create liquid steak. Which then proceeds to eat through the plate.
* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal''
** A strip involves a lawyer exploiting a loophole in the [[ThreeWishes classic genie rules]] by [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2740 renaming wishes to "splorks" and wishing that the rules only applied to the word "wish"]].
** Another strip does a similar joke, except tying it to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_value the absolute value]] [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3279 of wishes.]]
** Parodied in [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/last-meal "Last Meal"]], where a convict asks for his last meal to be the executioner, and they have to comply.
---> '''Executioner''': "On the one hand I'm mad, but on the other hand ''wow'' what a loophole."
** [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/testing "Testing"]]: If your bio-ethics professor doesn't believe in non-medical animal testing, then she can't ask you to take an exam.
* ''WebComic/DragonBallMultiverse'':
** Only two people can enter the arena at a time. Keyword being ''enter''. Meaning that Goten and Trunks can get away with fusing as Gotenks, entering the arena, and eventually defusing and competing as two people cause hey, only ''one'' actually entered the arena. [[spoiler: Which happened with ''two'' incarnations of Gotenks. This also accidentally happened to U9 Videl when her Z Sword broke and released the old Kai in it. Since he came from the sword he was ruled an ally and allowed to stay in the arena.]]
** [[spoiler: Much later, U3 Raichi takes this trope up to eleven, where he summons the Frost Demons, all of Planet Vegeta AND the previously defeated combatants. Doesn't stop U13 Vegeta from instantly wiping a few of them out.]]
** A few characters have taken advantage of the rule made to prevent excessive hiding or leaving, that if the judges cannot see you for more than thirty seconds you forfeit. XXI uses it against [[spoiler: U16 Vegetto, trapping him in another dimension where time ran differently just to be sure]] and U18 Uub uses it on U11 Buu, vaporizing him down to one small final bit and then putting that bit in a container before he could reform. Technically the judges could not see Buu, and thus he lost.
* ''Webcomic/PvP'': Apparently, playing as the [[{{Series/DoctorWho}} Doctor]] in a medieval-themed LARP is [[http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2013/04/11/Fielddoctor absolutely possible]].
* The Chrome Cowboy discusses the concept with ''Webcomic/BladeBunny'' [[http://www.bladebunny.com/comic/book-16-page-5/ here.]]
* In ''Webcomic/MMBN7TheWorldTournament'' [[spoiler: Dr. Hikari realises in his match against Ryu & Cosmoman that Cosmoman's Infinite Cosmos attack locates the enemy and fires off an infinite number of meteors at them, but Cosmoman needs to actually ''see'' the opponent for it to work.]]
* In the fantasy comic strip ''Webcomic/{{Yamara}}'', a toad familiar is tasked with bringing a newly-revived ex-vampire her first non-blood meal in centuries. The cleric forbids him from serving her meat, while another character threatens him with punishment if he offers her fruits or vegetables. [[TakeAThirdOption His solution]] is to serve her cream of mushroom soup.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'', [[spoiler:Descending-Helix made a deal that he be paid for his work by making him and all his descendants immune to divine interference and prophecy]]. A few thousand years (and the laws of genetics) later, his great*n-granddaughter gets roped into that business anyway, thanks to the interference of a prophetic ''slug''. His ghost admits that he had neglected to fill that particular loophole.
* ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' has hitball, dodgeball under a different name so as to get around the dodgeball ban. In the game itself, a girl is covered with duct tape to avoid getting out, because you'd only be out if a ball hits you then the floor.
* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': Mikkel pulls two of these in a row in Chapter 10, after Sigrun refuses to take him on a mission. He simply leaves on his own, claiming that Sigrun never told him not to leave the [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier Cat-Tank]], she just told him he couldn't go with ''her''. When Tuuri points out that there ''is'' a rule against leaving non-immunes without a guard, he indicates Lalli, who is both immune and a capable fighter... and is so deeply asleep that multiple people moving him around and touching his face has failed to wake him.
* WebAnimation/TheOdd1sOut has a comic named "Parental Rules", featuring a young boy who was told by his father that "under his roof, you follow his rules". The boy then proceeds to burst the house's roof.
* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal''
** A strip involves a lawyer exploiting a loophole in the [[ThreeWishes classic genie rules]] by [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2740 renaming wishes to "splorks" and wishing that the rules only applied to the word "wish"]].
** Another strip does a similar joke, except tying it to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_value the absolute value]] [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3279 of wishes.]]
** Parodied in [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/last-meal "Last Meal"]], where a convict asks for his last meal to be the executioner, and they have to comply.
---> '''Executioner''': "On the one hand I'm mad, but on the other hand ''wow'' what a loophole."
** [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/testing "Testing"]]: If your bio-ethics professor doesn't believe in non-medical animal testing, then she can't ask you to take an exam.
* ''WebComic/DragonBallMultiverse'':
** Only two people can enter the arena at a time. Keyword being ''enter''. Meaning that Goten and Trunks can get away with fusing as Gotenks, entering the arena, and eventually defusing and competing as two people cause hey, only ''one'' actually entered the arena. [[spoiler: Which happened with ''two'' incarnations of Gotenks. This also accidentally happened to U9 Videl when her Z Sword broke and released the old Kai in it. Since he came from the sword he was ruled an ally and allowed to stay in the arena.]]
** [[spoiler: Much later, U3 Raichi takes this trope up to eleven, where he summons the Frost Demons, all of Planet Vegeta AND the previously defeated combatants. Doesn't stop U13 Vegeta from instantly wiping a few of them out.]]
** A few characters have taken advantage of the rule made to prevent excessive hiding or leaving, that if the judges cannot see you for more than thirty seconds you forfeit. XXI uses it against [[spoiler: U16 Vegetto, trapping him in another dimension where time ran differently just to be sure]] and U18 Uub uses it on U11 Buu, vaporizing him down to one small final bit and then putting that bit in a container before he could reform. Technically the judges could not see Buu, and thus he lost.
* ''Webcomic/PvP'': Apparently, playing as the [[{{Series/DoctorWho}} Doctor]] in a medieval-themed LARP is [[http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2013/04/11/Fielddoctor absolutely possible]].
* The Chrome Cowboy discusses the concept with ''Webcomic/BladeBunny'' [[http://www.bladebunny.com/comic/book-16-page-5/ here.]]
* In ''Webcomic/MMBN7TheWorldTournament'' [[spoiler: Dr. Hikari realises in his match against Ryu & Cosmoman that Cosmoman's Infinite Cosmos attack locates the enemy and fires off an infinite number of meteors at them, but Cosmoman needs to actually ''see'' the opponent for it to work.]]
* In the fantasy comic strip ''Webcomic/{{Yamara}}'', a toad familiar is tasked with bringing a newly-revived ex-vampire her first non-blood meal in centuries. The cleric forbids him from serving her meat, while another character threatens him with punishment if he offers her fruits or vegetables. [[TakeAThirdOption His solution]] is to serve her cream of mushroom soup.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'', [[spoiler:Descending-Helix made a deal that he be paid for his work by making him and all his descendants immune to divine interference and prophecy]]. A few thousand years (and the laws of genetics) later, his great*n-granddaughter gets roped into that business anyway, thanks to the interference of a prophetic ''slug''. His ghost admits that he had neglected to fill that particular loophole.
* ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' has hitball, dodgeball under a different name so as to get around the dodgeball ban. In the game itself, a girl is covered with duct tape to avoid getting out, because you'd only be out if a ball hits you then the floor.
* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': Mikkel pulls two of these in a row in Chapter 10, after Sigrun refuses to take him on a mission. He simply leaves on his own, claiming that Sigrun never told him not to leave the [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier Cat-Tank]], she just told him he couldn't go with ''her''. When Tuuri points out that there ''is'' a rule against leaving non-immunes without a guard, he indicates Lalli, who is both immune and a capable fighter... and is so deeply asleep that multiple people moving him around and touching his face has failed to wake him.
* WebAnimation/TheOdd1sOut has a comic named "Parental Rules", featuring a young boy who was told by his father that "under his roof, you follow his rules". The boy then proceeds to burst the house's roof.
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* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
** The Jägermonsters have agreed not to enter Mechanicsburg until there is a new Heterodyne and the Doom Bell rings. While Gkika has remained in town this is an open secret as far as the baron is concerned, since she's running a bar under her own name and the two are personally acquainted, the rest of the Jägers take this agreement seriously but see no problem with entering Mechanicsburg's labyrinth of underground passageways through "the sneaky gate" as long as they don't get caught or go upstairs into the town itself since they haven't ''really'' entered Mechanicsburg.
** It's never explicitly spelled out, but it's highly likely that during his attack on Mechanicsburg, the wasp-infected Baron Wulfenbach does this with whatever orders he is given by Lucrezia.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', demons making a deal with mortals have to obey the terms of their deal to the letter, or they are revoked and the demon is horribly punished. When Saves a Fox and Dies Horribly are searching for the Orb of Bloodlight, they find that it is guarded by demons. One demon holds an orb and promises it in exchange for a mortal soul. Dies, knowing his MeaningfulName is going to have to trigger sooner or later, immediately agrees to the terms so that Fox can at least get the orb. Of course it's a fake. [[spoiler:Too bad for the demon, she agreed to give the orb in exchange for ''a'' mortal soul. Due to the artificial hand that Klik gave him, a bit carelessly, Dies Horribly actually now has ''two'' souls. So the deal is revoked, causing Dies to return to life ''with his [[ProphecyTwist prophetic death having already technically happened]]'', ''and'' the demon gets hit with a heaping dose of LaserGuidedKarma. Thus, the heroes ''accidentally'' abuse Loophole Abuse, canceling out deliberate Loophole Abuse.]]
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': When it comes time to choose a new Court Medium for dealing with the Forest, everyone is sure it will be Annie who gets the position, and Coyote has been not-so-subtly hinting that he wants it to happen as well. The Headmaster, however, wanting to curb Annie's behavioral problems, names Andrew the Medium instead. [[TheTrickster Coyote]] immediately turns it around on the Court and appoints Annie as ''the Forest's'' Medium for dealing with the Court, declaring her an honorary member of the Forest (as she had lived there for a summer). The Court has no right to interfere in Forest matters, so Coyote and Annie get what they want anyway.
* Webcomic/SkinHorse: The titular team provides services to non-humans, defined as "[[http://skin-horse.com/comic/will-be-provided/ individuals capable of identifying themselves as intelligent nonhuman sapients]]". A human brain wired to a helicopter is just as human as [[http://skin-horse.com/comic/prefer-doctor/ a human in a wheelchair]] -- unless he's capable of ''identifying'' as a non-human, in which case the definition applies. You may think this is silly, but [[http://skin-horse.com/comic/at-the-conclusion/ it doesn't matter what you think; all that matters is]] '''[[http://skin-horse.com/comic/at-the-conclusion/ It's written down somewhere]]'''.
-->'''Dr. Lee:''' So logic bows to paperwork.\\
'''Tip:''' Of course. We're the government.
* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', the Genie tells the titular character he cannot make anyone fall in love, he cannot bring anyone back from the dead, and that Aladdin is not allowed to wish for more wishes. A webcomic has Aladdin get around this by wishing for Jasmine to ''lust'' after him (instead of ''love''), retroactively make his loved ones immortal so they never died to begin with, and then wishes for a hundred more genies.
* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'': In "Hell Train: The Dallar Show", the characters take part in a (deadly serious) competition inside a maze of pipes. Then [[TheHero Bam]] discovers that the stage is set up against his team so that he'd need to be on the opposite end of the maze to use his overpowered abilities to help his companions, who'll encounter the enemy boss at any moment. Well, the rules say you have to stay inside the pipes, but not that you can't magically move them to rearrange their structure so that the one you're in attaches to another on the opposite side.
** The Jägermonsters have agreed not to enter Mechanicsburg until there is a new Heterodyne and the Doom Bell rings. While Gkika has remained in town this is an open secret as far as the baron is concerned, since she's running a bar under her own name and the two are personally acquainted, the rest of the Jägers take this agreement seriously but see no problem with entering Mechanicsburg's labyrinth of underground passageways through "the sneaky gate" as long as they don't get caught or go upstairs into the town itself since they haven't ''really'' entered Mechanicsburg.
** It's never explicitly spelled out, but it's highly likely that during his attack on Mechanicsburg, the wasp-infected Baron Wulfenbach does this with whatever orders he is given by Lucrezia.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', demons making a deal with mortals have to obey the terms of their deal to the letter, or they are revoked and the demon is horribly punished. When Saves a Fox and Dies Horribly are searching for the Orb of Bloodlight, they find that it is guarded by demons. One demon holds an orb and promises it in exchange for a mortal soul. Dies, knowing his MeaningfulName is going to have to trigger sooner or later, immediately agrees to the terms so that Fox can at least get the orb. Of course it's a fake. [[spoiler:Too bad for the demon, she agreed to give the orb in exchange for ''a'' mortal soul. Due to the artificial hand that Klik gave him, a bit carelessly, Dies Horribly actually now has ''two'' souls. So the deal is revoked, causing Dies to return to life ''with his [[ProphecyTwist prophetic death having already technically happened]]'', ''and'' the demon gets hit with a heaping dose of LaserGuidedKarma. Thus, the heroes ''accidentally'' abuse Loophole Abuse, canceling out deliberate Loophole Abuse.]]
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': When it comes time to choose a new Court Medium for dealing with the Forest, everyone is sure it will be Annie who gets the position, and Coyote has been not-so-subtly hinting that he wants it to happen as well. The Headmaster, however, wanting to curb Annie's behavioral problems, names Andrew the Medium instead. [[TheTrickster Coyote]] immediately turns it around on the Court and appoints Annie as ''the Forest's'' Medium for dealing with the Court, declaring her an honorary member of the Forest (as she had lived there for a summer). The Court has no right to interfere in Forest matters, so Coyote and Annie get what they want anyway.
* Webcomic/SkinHorse: The titular team provides services to non-humans, defined as "[[http://skin-horse.com/comic/will-be-provided/ individuals capable of identifying themselves as intelligent nonhuman sapients]]". A human brain wired to a helicopter is just as human as [[http://skin-horse.com/comic/prefer-doctor/ a human in a wheelchair]] -- unless he's capable of ''identifying'' as a non-human, in which case the definition applies. You may think this is silly, but [[http://skin-horse.com/comic/at-the-conclusion/ it doesn't matter what you think; all that matters is]] '''[[http://skin-horse.com/comic/at-the-conclusion/ It's written down somewhere]]'''.
-->'''Dr. Lee:''' So logic bows to paperwork.\\
'''Tip:''' Of course. We're the government.
* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', the Genie tells the titular character he cannot make anyone fall in love, he cannot bring anyone back from the dead, and that Aladdin is not allowed to wish for more wishes. A webcomic has Aladdin get around this by wishing for Jasmine to ''lust'' after him (instead of ''love''), retroactively make his loved ones immortal so they never died to begin with, and then wishes for a hundred more genies.
* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'': In "Hell Train: The Dallar Show", the characters take part in a (deadly serious) competition inside a maze of pipes. Then [[TheHero Bam]] discovers that the stage is set up against his team so that he'd need to be on the opposite end of the maze to use his overpowered abilities to help his companions, who'll encounter the enemy boss at any moment. Well, the rules say you have to stay inside the pipes, but not that you can't magically move them to rearrange their structure so that the one you're in attaches to another on the opposite side.
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* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
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*''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': When it comes time WebAnimation/TheOdd1sOut has a comic named "Parental Rules", featuring a young boy who was told by his father that "under his roof, you follow his rules". The boy then proceeds to choose a new Court Medium burst the house's roof.
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** Therkla invokes this trope to her advantage in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0562.html this page]], using the exact phrasing of her orders to justify betraying the spirit of them. Fortunately fordealing her, her [[invoked]] LawfulEvil master appreciates the effort.
--->'''[[spoiler:Kubota]]:''' Well done, Therkla. You managed to weasel your way out of responsibility for your own actions like a seasoned veteran.
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0897.html The IFCC]] used this trope to their advantage via their [[DealWithTheDevil deal]] with Vaarsuvius: [[spoiler: they never said their brief ownership of V's soul would take place ''after their death''.]]
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1000.html In theForest, everyone is sure it will be Annie who gets the position, and Coyote one-thousandth strip]]: The Godsmoot has been not-so-subtly hinting strict rules that he wants it to happen as well. The Headmaster, however, wanting to curb Annie's behavioral problems, names Andrew include the Medium instead. [[TheTrickster Coyote]] immediately turns stipulation that any bodyguard of a high priest who attacks another high priest is to be killed immediately. However, if it around on should be the Court and appoints Annie as ''the Forest's'' Medium for dealing with case that someone was tricked to be the Court, declaring her an honorary member bodyguard of the Forest (as she had lived there for a summer). The Court has no right to interfere in Forest matters, so Coyote and Annie get priest who isn't what they want anyway.
* Webcomic/SkinHorse: The titular team provides servicessay they are, there's no rule against attacking your ''own'' priest.
** A little later, the loophole tonon-humans, defined attack the high priest in question gets closed when [[spoiler:the High Priest of Hel]] transfers his position [[spoiler:to another vampire as "[[http://skin-horse.com/comic/will-be-provided/ individuals capable of identifying themselves he leaves to dominate the Dwarven Elders]]. Since Roy wasn't designated as intelligent nonhuman sapients]]". A human brain wired to a helicopter is just as human as [[http://skin-horse.com/comic/prefer-doctor/ a human in a wheelchair]] -- unless the bodyguard [[spoiler:of that vampire, he's capable of ''identifying'' as a non-human, in which case the definition applies. You may think this is silly, but [[http://skin-horse.com/comic/at-the-conclusion/ it doesn't matter what you think; all that matters is]] '''[[http://skin-horse.com/comic/at-the-conclusion/ It's written down somewhere]]'''.
-->'''Dr. Lee:''' So logic bows to paperwork.\\
'''Tip:''' Of course. We're the government.
* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', the Genie tells the titular character he cannot make anyone fall in love, he cannot bring anyone back from the dead, and that Aladdin isnot allowed to wish kill her]]. However, he quickly exploits another loophole to ensure that [[spoiler: Malack's staff]] doesn't fall into their hands.
---->'''Roy''': The Order of the Stick is not responsible formore wishes. A webcomic has Aladdin any damage that may occur during the delivery of unholy relics.
** This is the [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1083.html source]] of Hel's enmity with Thor. As part of their wager, she claims the soul of every dead dwarf by default, unless [[spoiler:they die with honor. Specifically to avoid that fate, the dwarves formed the most honor-bound society on the planet, because...]]
---> '''Hel:''' '''I didn't know Thor would ''tell'' them about it!'''
** Invoked with followers of Loki, god of trickery. Since followers of Loki are supposed to be [[spoiler:dishonorable, acting dishonorably honors their god, and so they can still go to Valhalla if they act dishonorably. However, acting honorably is still honorable, so they can go to Valhalla even if they act honorably.]] Not only that, but when it's pointed out that the gods might not tolerate this LoopholeAbuse, Hilgya points out that Loki ''exists'' to perform LoopholeAbuse on the gods, and is tolerated exactly because of what they can learn from this.
** Thor also uses this to get aroundthis a rule stating that gods cannot discuss [[EldritchAbomination the Snarl]] with mortals, unless the mortal already knows about it somehow. Minrah lets it slip that she's heard the term "Snarl" mentioned by wishing Durkon in passing, and Thor declares that's good enough for Jasmine him, and he thinks it's a dumb rule.
** When the dwarf clan elders are taking a vote that a group of vampires try to''lust'' affect, and the heroes try to stop them, it becomes a duel of loopholes in the magically enforced rules. The first gate to the chamber dispels all magic and prevents non-dwarfs from entering, and no magic may be used within the second gate, so the dwarf-bodied vampires go through the first gate and use CharmPerson after him (instead of ''love''), retroactively make his loved ones immortal so that. After that, they never died just have to begin with, and then wishes for a hundred more genies.
* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'': In "Hell Train: The Dallar Show",give orders to the characters take part in a (deadly serious) competition inside a maze of pipes. Then [[TheHero Bam]] discovers that the stage is set up dominated elders -- that's just talking so there's no rule against his team so it -- and further, nobody can use magic even to dispel the domination without being turned to stone. Durkon counters by [[spoiler: breaking the table by which the elders sit, because even though he gets turned to stone for that he'd need to be on the opposite end of the maze to use his overpowered abilities to help his companions, who'll encounter the enemy boss at any moment. Well, too, the rules say no vote can be held without all the details like a proper table being in place.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' has hitball, dodgeball under a different name so as to get around the dodgeball ban. In the game itself, a girl is covered with duct tape to avoid getting out, because you'd only be out if a ball hits youhave to stay inside then the pipes, but floor.
* The Constitution didn't provide for insane bunny senators and therefore did notthat you can't magically move them lay down a rule about what to rearrange their structure so that the do when one you're in attaches to another on the opposite side.goes missing. In ''Webcomic/PricklyCity'', this matters.
** The Jägermonsters have agreed not to enter Mechanicsburg until there is a new Heterodyne and the Doom Bell rings. While Gkika has remained in town this is an open secret as far as the baron is concerned, since she's running a bar under
** It's never explicitly spelled out, but it's highly likely
* In ''Webcomic/MMBN7TheWorldTournament'' [[spoiler:Dr. Hikari realises in his match against Ryu & Cosmoman that
* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', demons making a deal with mortals have to obey the terms of their deal to the letter, or they are revoked
*
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** Therkla invokes this trope to her advantage in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0562.html this page]], using the exact phrasing of her orders to justify betraying the spirit of them. Fortunately for
--->'''[[spoiler:Kubota]]:''' Well done, Therkla. You managed to weasel your way out of responsibility for your own actions like a seasoned veteran.
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0897.html The IFCC]] used this trope to their advantage via their [[DealWithTheDevil deal]] with Vaarsuvius: [[spoiler: they never said their brief ownership of V's soul would take place ''after their death''.]]
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1000.html In the
* Webcomic/SkinHorse: The titular team provides services
** A little later, the loophole to
-->'''Dr. Lee:''' So logic bows to paperwork.\\
'''Tip:''' Of course. We're the government.
* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', the Genie tells the titular character he cannot make anyone fall in love, he cannot bring anyone back from the dead, and that Aladdin is
---->'''Roy''': The Order of the Stick is not responsible for
** This is the [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1083.html source]] of Hel's enmity with Thor. As part of their wager, she claims the soul of every dead dwarf by default, unless [[spoiler:they die with honor. Specifically to avoid that fate, the dwarves formed the most honor-bound society on the planet, because...]]
---> '''Hel:''' '''I didn't know Thor would ''tell'' them about it!'''
** Invoked with followers of Loki, god of trickery. Since followers of Loki are supposed to be [[spoiler:dishonorable, acting dishonorably honors their god, and so they can still go to Valhalla if they act dishonorably. However, acting honorably is still honorable, so they can go to Valhalla even if they act honorably.]] Not only that, but when it's pointed out that the gods might not tolerate this LoopholeAbuse, Hilgya points out that Loki ''exists'' to perform LoopholeAbuse on the gods, and is tolerated exactly because of what they can learn from this.
** Thor also uses this to get around
** When the dwarf clan elders are taking a vote that a group of vampires try to
* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'': In "Hell Train: The Dallar Show",
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--> '''Hades''': If you want to avoid Tartarus and instead get back to your mortal life outside you will have to fill these forms correctly. I have found about 30 typos specifically in the sections Alpha 437 to Delta 304. Your name was signed incorrectly twice, oh and... did I mention this? Ancient Greek 2.0 is no longer valid language in this domain. You will have to take a course to learn the version 3, as there are quite a few terms that changed.
--> '''Persephone''': Wow... some punishments truly are [[FateWorseThanDeath worse than Tartarus]].
--> '''Hades''': Thank you, dear. I do my best.
--> '''Persephone''': Wow... some punishments truly are [[FateWorseThanDeath worse than Tartarus]].
--> '''Hades''': Thank you, dear. I do my best.
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* ''Webcomic/PvP'': Apparently, playing as the [[{{Series/DoctorWho}} Doctor]] in a medieval-themed LARP is [[http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2013/04/11/Fielddoctor absolutely possible]].
* In ''Webcomic/{{Rhapsodies}}'' the local office of the [[CelestialBureaucracy Department of Minor Nuisances]] is unable to covertly support the Circle Band due to rules and budget concerns. [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=2571 Nothing wrong with doing it overtly though.]]
* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'':
** A strip involves a lawyer exploiting a loophole in the [[ThreeWishes classic genie rules]] by [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2740 renaming wishes to "splorks" and wishing that the rules only applied to the word "wish"]].
** Another strip does a similar joke, except tying it to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_value the absolute value]] [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3279 of wishes.]]
** Parodied in [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/last-meal "Last Meal"]], where a convict asks for his last meal to be the executioner, and they have to comply.
---> '''Executioner''': "On the one hand I'm mad, but on the other hand ''wow'' what a loophole."
** [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/testing "Testing"]]: If your bio-ethics professor doesn't believe in non-medical animal testing, then she can't ask you to take an exam.
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'':
** A hilarious variation occurs, where the crew of the mercenary ship effectively avoid any litigation by becoming legally appointed bounty hunters, hunting members of the lawyer collective. They could still be sued if anyone apart from them used non-Collective attorneys, but Massey is the only non-Collective lawyer we've seen, and he's a member of the company.
--->'''Tagon''' (Having just shot someone's lawyer-drones): Get as mad as you want. You're going to have a hard time suing me.
** Presumably, after [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-09-06 this strip]] there's now a company policy regarding air vents, where there wasn't one previously. Since the air vents are properly small, the number of beings that could move around in them was limited... but for Schlock, air duct size doesn't matter much.
** Tailor is a clothing fabrication robot given to Captain Tagon by his father. The captain hates robots, his father, and isn't particularly crazy about new clothes, so he refuses to agree to any fittings. Tailor freaks out about not being able to fulfill his purpose, until the company doctor points out that the captain is responsible for clothing the entire company--therefore, Tailor can fulfill his purpose by creating clothing for her.
--->'''Tailor:''' I'll have to padlock a couple logic gates, but I think it can work.
** At one point, their ship is in orbit around what might be an ancient artifact, and Kevyn is ordered [[ExactWords not to collaborate with anyone on figuring out what it is]]. (The conversation ''after'' that takes a quick turn into 'how many assistants count as collaboration'. Cindy thought they were pushing the envelope as it was.) When Tagon later asks Kevyn his opinion on the value of where they're located, he throws back [[IronicEcho "You explicitly ordered me not to collaborate on figuring this out."]] Tagon's reply? "I gave you an order with loopholes in it."
* ''Webcomic/{{Sheldon}}'': One storyline has Gramp going on a liquid diet and attempting this. First he helps himself to some melted ice cream, which Arthur points out isn't technically a liquid ("'''''I KNOW! AND IT HAS COOKIE DOUGH CHUNKS!'''''" Gramp admits). Then he sticks a Twinkie in a blender and tried to purée it. It eventually culminates in him somehow getting his hands on a beaker of hydro-chloric acid and pouring it on a steak in order to create liquid steak. Which then proceeds to eat through the plate.
* ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'': The titular team provides services to non-humans, defined as "[[http://skin-horse.com/comic/will-be-provided/ individuals capable of identifying themselves as intelligent nonhuman sapients]]". A human brain wired to a helicopter is just as human as [[http://skin-horse.com/comic/prefer-doctor/ a human in a wheelchair]] -- unless he's capable of ''identifying'' as a non-human, in which case the definition applies. You may think this is silly, but [[http://skin-horse.com/comic/at-the-conclusion/ it doesn't matter what you think; all that matters is]] '''[[http://skin-horse.com/comic/at-the-conclusion/ It's written down somewhere]]'''.
-->'''Dr. Lee:''' So logic bows to paperwork.\\
'''Tip:''' Of course. We're the government.
* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': Mikkel pulls two of these in a row in Chapter 10, after Sigrun refuses to take him on a mission. He simply leaves on his own, claiming that Sigrun never told him not to leave the [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier Cat-Tank]], she just told him he couldn't go with ''her''. When Tuuri points out that there ''is'' a rule against leaving non-immunes without a guard, he indicates Lalli, who is both immune and a capable fighter... and is so deeply asleep that multiple people moving him around and touching his face has failed to wake him.
* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/TerrorIsland,'' one arc involving a competition to skateboard over a river ends with the alien baddie teleporting over the river instead; he wins, because "teleporting" is [[http://www.terrorisland.net/strips/257.html one of the few things ''not'' prohibited by the contest's rules]], as the people drawing it up [[PunyEarthlings couldn't conceive of it]].
* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'': In "Hell Train: The Dallar Show", the characters take part in a (deadly serious) competition inside a maze of pipes. Then [[TheHero Bam]] discovers that the stage is set up against his team so that he'd need to be on the opposite end of the maze to use his overpowered abilities to help his companions, who'll encounter the enemy boss at any moment. Well, the rules say you have to stay inside the pipes, but not that you can't magically move them to rearrange their structure so that the one you're in attaches to another on the opposite side.
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* ''Webcomic/AvengersAdventure'': This is how Natalie is able to get Heimdall's power back: since Loki was the one who let in the Jotun who started the chain of events that led to him on the throne, his claim is technically illegitimate.
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* ''Webcomic/AvengersAdventure'': This According to ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'', there is how Natalie is able to get Heimdall's power back: since Loki was no rule forbidding the use of cross-country skis in paintball games. Doc checked ''very'' carefully.
* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'':
** [[http://xkcd.com/115/ "There's no rule on the books saying a meerkat can't play rugby."]] Though, according to the AltText, there ''are'' rules against gorillas and [[Film/AirBud golden retrievers]].
** In onewho let of Black Hat's schemes, he takes the observation that standard internet server racks and beehive frames are both 19 inches and have similar pitches and runs with it, noting that most web hosting [=TOSes=][[labelnote:*]]Terms of Service[[/labelnote]] [[http://xkcd.com/1439/ don't mention beehives]] in what's not allowed. The AltText calls back to the example listed above, noting that most [=TOSes=] also don't prevent dogs from playing baseball in the Jotun who started server facility.
** [[https://xkcd.com/1086/ This strip]] has Black Hat repeatedly trying to go around rules on meta-wishes in very convoluted ways. None seems to work.
** "[[http://xkcd.com/1552/ There's nothing in thechain of events rulebook]] that led says we can't kill and eat your dog."
** Played with in [[https://xkcd.com/1593/ #1593]], where Beret Guy [[GretzkyHasTheBall seems to believe]] that stealing a base in baseball is loophole abuse. His reaction is, "Everyone's real mad but I guess they checked the rules and there's nothing that says he can't do that."
* In the fantasy comic strip ''Webcomic/{{Yamara}}'', a toad familiar is tasked with bringing a newly-revived ex-vampire her first non-blood meal in centuries. The cleric forbids himon the throne, his claim from serving her meat, while another character threatens him with punishment if he offers her fruits or vegetables. [[TakeAThirdOption His solution]] is technically illegitimate.to serve her cream of mushroom soup.
* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'':
** [[http://xkcd.com/115/ "There's no rule on the books saying a meerkat can't play rugby."]] Though, according to the AltText, there ''are'' rules against gorillas and [[Film/AirBud golden retrievers]].
** In one
** [[https://xkcd.com/1086/ This strip]] has Black Hat repeatedly trying to go around rules on meta-wishes in very convoluted ways. None seems to work.
** "[[http://xkcd.com/1552/ There's nothing in the
** Played with in [[https://xkcd.com/1593/ #1593]], where Beret Guy [[GretzkyHasTheBall seems to believe]] that stealing a base in baseball is loophole abuse. His reaction is, "Everyone's real mad but I guess they checked the rules and there's nothing that says he can't do that."
* In the fantasy comic strip ''Webcomic/{{Yamara}}'', a toad familiar is tasked with bringing a newly-revived ex-vampire her first non-blood meal in centuries. The cleric forbids him
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* ''Webcomic/FireEmblemHeroesADayInTheLife'': In "[[https://fire-emblem-heroes.com/en/manga/part/index.html#part200513 Who Needs Iote's Shield?]]", the Summoner warns Petra about bows being effective against Flying units. Her solution is to climb off her pegasus and land on the ground, meaning she technically passes as an Infantry unit. Yune and Lilith, two flying units who can float, follow suit by simply landing and walking away from the battlefield. The Summoner is not pleased, telling them to play by the rules.
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** Thor also uses this to get around a rule stating that gods cannot discuss [[EldritchAbomination the Snarl]] with mortals, unless the mortal already knows about it somehow. Minrah lets it slip that she's heard the term "Snarl" mentioned by Durkon in passing, and Thor declares that's good enough for him, and he thinks it's a dumb rule.
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** This is the [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1083.html source]] of Hel's enmity with Thor. As part of their wager, she claims the soul of every dead dwarf by default, unless t[[spoiler:hey die with honor. Specifically to avoid that fate, the dwarves formed the most honor-bound society on the planet, because...]]
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* ''Webcomic/AvengersAdventure'': This is how Natalie is able to get Heimdall's power back: since Loki was the one who let in the Jotun who started the chain of events that led to him on the throne, his claim is technically illegitimate.
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** Invoked with followers of Loki, god of trickery. [[spoiler:Since followers of Loki are supposed to be dishonorable, acting dishonorably honors their god, and so they can still go to Valhalla if they act dishonorably. However, acting honorably is still honorable, so they can go to Valhalla even if they act honorably.]] Not only that, but when it's pointed out that the gods might not tolerate this LoopholeAbuse, Hilgya points out that [[spoiler:Loki ''exists'' to perform LoopholeAbuse on the gods, and is tolerated exactly because of what they can learn from this.]]
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** Invoked with followers of Loki, god of trickery. [[spoiler:Since Since followers of Loki are supposed to be dishonorable, [[spoiler:dishonorable, acting dishonorably honors their god, and so they can still go to Valhalla if they act dishonorably. However, acting honorably is still honorable, so they can go to Valhalla even if they act honorably.]] Not only that, but when it's pointed out that the gods might not tolerate this LoopholeAbuse, Hilgya points out that [[spoiler:Loki Loki ''exists'' to perform LoopholeAbuse on the gods, and is tolerated exactly because of what they can learn from this.]]
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** A little later, that loophole gets closed when [[spoiler: the High Priest of Hel transfers his position to another vampire as he leaves to dominate the Dwarven Elders. Since Roy wasn't designated as that vampire's bodyguard, he's not allowed to kill her.]] However, he quickly exploits another loophole to ensure that [[spoiler: Malack's staff]] doesn't fall into their hands.
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** A little later, that the loophole to attack the high priest in question gets closed when [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the High Priest of Hel Hel]] transfers his position to [[spoiler:to another vampire as he leaves to dominate the Dwarven Elders. Elders]]. Since Roy wasn't designated as the bodyguard [[spoiler:of that vampire's bodyguard, vampire, he's not allowed to kill her.]] her]]. However, he quickly exploits another loophole to ensure that [[spoiler: Malack's staff]] doesn't fall into their hands.
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** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0897.html More recently]], the IFCC used this trope to their advantage via their [[DealWithTheDevil deal]] with Vaarsuvius: [[spoiler: they never said their brief ownership of V's soul would take place ''after their death''.]]
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** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0897.html More recently]], the IFCC The IFCC]] used this trope to their advantage via their [[DealWithTheDevil deal]] with Vaarsuvius: [[spoiler: they never said their brief ownership of V's soul would take place ''after their death''.]]
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** Therkla invokes this trope to her advantage in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0562.html this page]], using the exact phrasing of her orders to justify betraying the spirit of them. Fortunately for her, her LawfulEvil master appreciates the effort.
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** Therkla invokes this trope to her advantage in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0562.html this page]], using the exact phrasing of her orders to justify betraying the spirit of them. Fortunately for her, her [[invoked]] LawfulEvil master appreciates the effort.
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--> '''Hades''': If you want to avoid Tarturas and instead get back to your mortal life outside you will have to fill these forms correctly. I have found about 30 typos specifically in the sections Alpha 437 to Delta 304. Your name was signed incorrectly twice, oh and... did I mention this? Ancient Greek 2.0 is no longer valid language in this domain. You will have to take a course to learn the version 3, as there are quite a few terms that changed.
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** In one strip, Niomi reluctantly allows Sam to stay in her room for one night while they're on the station. Sam takes off, since she never said it had to be ''that'' night. Niomi isn't happy about it but reluctantly concedes the point.
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*** A little later, that loophole gets closed when [[spoiler: the High Priest of Hel transfers his position to another vampire as he leaves to dominate the Dwarven Elders. Since Roy wasn't designated as that vampire's bodyguard, he's not allowed to kill her.]] However, he quickly exploits another loophole to ensure that [[spoiler: Malack's staff]] doesn't fall into their hands.
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*** Invoked with followers of Loki, god of trickery. [[spoiler:Since followers of Loki are supposed to be dishonorable, acting dishonorably honors their god, and so they can still go to Valhalla if they act dishonorably. However, acting honorably is still honorable, so they can go to Valhalla even if they act honorably.]] Not only that, but when it's pointed out that the gods might not tolerate this LoopholeAbuse, Hilgya points out that [[spoiler:Loki ''exists'' to perform LoopholeAbuse on the gods, and is tolerated exactly because of what they can learn from this.]]
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** Subverted when Voltaire vows not to attempt to kill Elliot. Mr. Verres points out that if Voltaire ''successfully'' kills Elliot, it's not an "attempt." Voltaire disagrees, and thinks that's a really stupid loophole, but rewords his vow to close that loophole anyway.
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** Magic itself is a quasi-sentient force that wants to be used and known about, but not widely known about or able to be used by many, which would seem to be contradictory goals since there's nothing stopping magic users from telling others about it ''and'' providing them the means to use it themselves, nor can magic simply go away. [[spoiler: But there's nothing saying magic can't change the way it works, so that previous methods of using it are rendered useless, and only a few rare individuals will be initially able to use it again. Chaos/Pandora witnessed the last time this happened several centuries ago.]]
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** Magic itself is a quasi-sentient force that wants to be used and known about, but not widely known about or able to be used by many, which would seem to be contradictory goals since there's nothing stopping magic users from telling others about it ''and'' providing them the means to use it themselves, nor can magic simply go away. [[spoiler: But there's nothing saying magic can't change the way it works, so that previous methods of using it are rendered useless, and only a few rare individuals will be initially able to use it again. Chaos/Pandora witnessed the last time this happened several centuries ago.]]ago in her past life]].
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*** Invoked with followers of Loki, god of trickery. [[spoiler:Since followers of Loki are supposed to be dishonorable, acting dishonorably honors their god, and so they can still go to Valhalla if they act dishonorably. However, acting honorably is still honorable, so they can go to Valhalla even if they act honorably.]]
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*** Invoked with followers of Loki, god of trickery. [[spoiler:Since followers of Loki are supposed to be dishonorable, acting dishonorably honors their god, and so they can still go to Valhalla if they act dishonorably. However, acting honorably is still honorable, so they can go to Valhalla even if they act honorably.]] Not only that, but when it's pointed out that the gods might not tolerate this LoopholeAbuse, Hilgya points out that [[spoiler:Loki ''exists'' to perform LoopholeAbuse on the gods, and is tolerated exactly because of what they can learn from this.]]
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* Peonio, a power hungry fairy from ''Webcomic/FairyDust'', wants to bribe two trolls into staying on his island, where only tiny sized peoples live. When one of them says that he would stay if he had women of the proper size, using his friend as a standard, Peonio brings him women the size of a dragon hatchling that was given the same name as his friend.
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** Presumably, after [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-09-06 this strip]] there's now a company policy regarding air vents, where there wasn't one previously. Since the air vents are properly small, the number of beings that can move around in them was limited... but for Schlock, that size doesn't matter much.
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** Presumably, after [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-09-06 this strip]] there's now a company policy regarding air vents, where there wasn't one previously. Since the air vents are properly small, the number of beings that can could move around in them was limited... but for Schlock, that air duct size doesn't matter much.
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** Presumably, after [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-09-06 this strip]] there's now a company policy regarding air vents, where there wasn't one previously.
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** Presumably, after [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-09-06 this strip]] there's now a company policy regarding air vents, where there wasn't one previously. Since the air vents are properly small, the number of beings that can move around in them was limited... but for Schlock, that size doesn't matter much.
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** When the dwarf clan elders are taking a vote that a group of vampires try to affect, and the heroes try to stop them, it becomes a duel of loopholes in the magically enforced rules. The first gate to the chamber dispels all magic and prevents non-dwarfs from entering, and no magic may be used within the second gate, so the dwarf-bodied vampires go through the first gate and use CharmPerson after that. After that, they just have to give orders to the dominated elders -- that's just talking so there's no rule against it -- and further, nobody can use magic even to dispel the domination without being turned to stone. Durkon counters by [[spoiler: breaking the table by which the elders sit, because even though he gets turned to stone for that too, the rules say no vote can be held without all the details like a proper table being in place.]]
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** And [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1000.html later still]], Roy exploits a loophole in the rules for the Godsmoot, allowing him to [[spoiler:attempt to kill the High Priest of Hel, negating the goddess's vote]]:
--->'''Wrecan:''' But the rules of the Godsmoot are unambiguous: [[spoiler:A bodyguard who raises arms against the priest of another god must be put to death immediately]]!\\
'''Roy:''' Are there any rules about what happens if [[spoiler:a bodyguard attacks '''their own''' priest]]?\\
'''Wrecan:''' ...No.
--->'''Wrecan:''' But the rules of the Godsmoot are unambiguous: [[spoiler:A bodyguard who raises arms against the priest of another god must be put to death immediately]]!\\
'''Roy:''' Are there any rules about what happens if [[spoiler:a bodyguard attacks '''their own''' priest]]?\\
'''Wrecan:''' ...No.
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** And [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1000.html later still]], Roy exploits a loophole in In the rules for the Godsmoot, allowing him to [[spoiler:attempt to kill the High Priest of Hel, negating the goddess's vote]]:
--->'''Wrecan:''' But the rules of theone-thousandth strip]]: The Godsmoot are unambiguous: [[spoiler:A has strict rules that include the stipulation that any bodyguard who raises arms against the of a high priest of who attacks another god must high priest is to be put killed immediately. However, if it should be the case that someone was tricked to death immediately]]!\\
'''Roy:''' Are there any rules about what happens if [[spoiler:abe the bodyguard attacks '''their own''' priest]]?\\
'''Wrecan:''' ...No.of a priest who isn't what they say they are, there's no rule against attacking your ''own'' priest.
--->'''Wrecan:''' But the rules of the
'''Roy:''' Are there any rules about what happens if [[spoiler:a
'''Wrecan:''' ...No.
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* In Disney's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', the Genie tells the titular character he cannot make anyone fall in love, he cannot bring anyone back from the dead, and that Aladdin is not allowed to wish for more wishes. A webcomic has Aladdin get around this by wishing for Jasmine to ''lust'' after him (instead of ''love''), retroactively make his loved ones immortal so they never died to begin with, and then wishes for a hundred more genies.
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* In Disney's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', the Genie tells the titular character he cannot make anyone fall in love, he cannot bring anyone back from the dead, and that Aladdin is not allowed to wish for more wishes. A webcomic has Aladdin get around this by wishing for Jasmine to ''lust'' after him (instead of ''love''), retroactively make his loved ones immortal so they never died to begin with, and then wishes for a hundred more genies.
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* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'': In "Hell Train: The Dallar Show", the characters take part in a (deadly serious) competition inside a maze of pipes. Then [[TheHero Baam]] discovers that the stage is set up against his team so that he'd need to be on the opposite end of the maze to use his overpowered abilities to help his companions, who'll encounter the enemy boss at any moment. Well, the rules say you have to stay inside the pipes, but not that you can't magically move them to rearrange their structure so that the one you're in attaches to another on the opposite side.
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* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'': In "Hell Train: The Dallar Show", the characters take part in a (deadly serious) competition inside a maze of pipes. Then [[TheHero Baam]] Bam]] discovers that the stage is set up against his team so that he'd need to be on the opposite end of the maze to use his overpowered abilities to help his companions, who'll encounter the enemy boss at any moment. Well, the rules say you have to stay inside the pipes, but not that you can't magically move them to rearrange their structure so that the one you're in attaches to another on the opposite side.
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** At one point, their ship is in orbit around what might be an ancient artifact, and Kevyn is order [[ExactWords not to collaborate with anyone on figuring out what it is]]. (The conversation after that take a quick turn into 'how many assistants count as collaboration'.) When Tagon later asks Kevyn his opinion on the value of where they're located, he throws back [[IronicEcho "You explicitly ordered me not to collaborate on figuring this out."]] Tagon's reply? "I gave you an order with loopholes in it."
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** At one point, their ship is in orbit around what might be an ancient artifact, and Kevyn is order ordered [[ExactWords not to collaborate with anyone on figuring out what it is]]. (The conversation after ''after'' that take takes a quick turn into 'how many assistants count as collaboration'.collaboration'. Cindy thought they were pushing the envelope as it was.) When Tagon later asks Kevyn his opinion on the value of where they're located, he throws back [[IronicEcho "You explicitly ordered me not to collaborate on figuring this out."]] Tagon's reply? "I gave you an order with loopholes in it."
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** Flashbacks show that this is how Florence got her education. Her adoptive parents couldn't get her into school as a student, because no one would accept a genetically engineered talking wolf. They ''were'' able to get her in as a helper dog for a disabled neighbor boy.
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* In the parody webcomic ''Webcomic/VanVonHunter'', Von Hunter and his assistant get out of facing the ghoul court several times by this method. Early attempts are things like 'Are you ready for your sentencing?' 'No.' '...How about now?' 'Not really'. Later they encounter the ghouls again and the ghouls point out that they can't make their last request 'Drop all the charges against me'. Von Hunter and his (nameless) assistant instead each ask the judge for them to drop all charges against ''the other one''. However, the real loophole abuse is after the assistant asks for all charges to be dropped against Von Hunter, which the court grants. Since he's no longer being sentenced, he now no longer has a last request to have his assistant released as well.
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* In the parody webcomic ''Webcomic/VanVonHunter'', Von Hunter and his (nameless) assistant agree to get out of facing the ghoul court several times court's sentencing by this method. Early attempts are things like 'Are you ready for your sentencing?' 'No.' '...How about now?' 'Not really'. Later they encounter the ghouls again and the ghouls point out that they can't make making their last request requests 'Drop all the charges against me'. Von Hunter and his (nameless) assistant instead each ask the judge for them to drop all charges against ''the other one''. However, the real loophole abuse is after my friend'. After the assistant asks for all charges to be dropped against successfully gets Von Hunter, which Hunter set free this way, the court grants. Since judge points out that he's no longer being sentenced, sentenced. Meaning he now no longer has isn't entitled to a last request to have his assistant released as well.use on releasing her.
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* In the parody webcomic ''Webcomic/VanVonHunter'', Von Hunter and his assistant get out of facing the ghoul court several times by this method. Early attempts are things like 'Are you ready for your sentencing?' 'No.' '...How about now?' 'Not really'. Later they encounter the ghouls again and the ghouls point out that they can't make their last request 'Drop all the charges against me'. Von Hunter and his (nameless) assistant instead each ask the judge for them to drop all charges against ''the other one''. However, the real loophole abuse is after the assistant asks for all charges to be dropped against Von Hunter, which the court grants. Since he's no longer being sentenced, he now no longer has a last request to have his assistant released as well.
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* In the ''Webcomic/{{Punderworld}}'' comic "[[https://www.deviantart.com/sigeel/art/death-by-paperwork-815736433 death by paperwork]]", Persephone recommends dumping Theseus and Pirithous in Tartarus for trying to kidnap her. Since there are protocols for admissions to Tartarus, Hades has them fill out a mountain of paperwork instead. Persephone could not help but be impressed.
--> '''Hades''': If you want to avoid Tarturas and instead get back to your mortal life outside you will have to fill these forms correctly. I have found about 30 typos specifically in the sections Alpha 437 to Delta 304. Your name was signed incorrectly twice, oh and... did I mention this? Ancient Greek 2.0 is no longer valid language in this domain. You will have to take a course to learn the version 3, as there are quite a few terms that changed.
--> '''Persephone''': Wow... some punishments truly are [[FateWorseThanDeath worse than Tartarus]].
--> '''Hades''': Thank you, dear. I do my best.
--> '''Hades''': If you want to avoid Tarturas and instead get back to your mortal life outside you will have to fill these forms correctly. I have found about 30 typos specifically in the sections Alpha 437 to Delta 304. Your name was signed incorrectly twice, oh and... did I mention this? Ancient Greek 2.0 is no longer valid language in this domain. You will have to take a course to learn the version 3, as there are quite a few terms that changed.
--> '''Persephone''': Wow... some punishments truly are [[FateWorseThanDeath worse than Tartarus]].
--> '''Hades''': Thank you, dear. I do my best.
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*** Invoked with followers of Loki, god of trickery. [[spoiler:Since followers of Loki are supposed to be dishonorable, acting dishonorably honors their god, and so they can still go to Valhalla if they act dishonorably. However, acting honorably is still honorable, so they can go to Valhalla even if they act honorably.]]
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* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'': In "Hell Train: The Dallar Show", the characters take part in a (deadly serious) competition inside a maze of pipes. Then [[[TheHero Baam]] discovers that the stage is set up against his team so that he'd need to be on the opposite end of the maze to use his overpowered abilities to help his companions, who'll encounter the enemy boss at any moment. Well, the rules say you have to stay inside the pipes, but not that you can't magically move them to rearrange their structure so that the one you're in attaches to another on the opposite side.
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* ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'': In "Hell Train: The Dallar Show", the characters take part in a (deadly serious) competition inside a maze of pipes. Then [[[TheHero [[TheHero Baam]] discovers that the stage is set up against his team so that he'd need to be on the opposite end of the maze to use his overpowered abilities to help his companions, who'll encounter the enemy boss at any moment. Well, the rules say you have to stay inside the pipes, but not that you can't magically move them to rearrange their structure so that the one you're in attaches to another on the opposite side.
