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* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' when [[PlayerCharacter Commander Shepard]] runs into a young man looking to join up with the gangsters hunting [[TheLancer Garrus]]. Shepard breaks his gun and tells him to get lost for his own good, and later receives an email from him thanking them after he realized they saved him from certain death.
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* ''Literature/SheWhoBecameTheSun'': {{Invoked|Trope}} by Zhu when she first [[SweetPollyOliver disguises herself as a man]] and joins a monastery. She "slips" and falls into the public bath while the senior monks are there, so [[SadistTeacher Master Fang]] furiously bans her from ever using it, saving her from needing to undress in front of the other novices.
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* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'', Indy is about to be hanged by the Nazis when a bomb blows the floor out from under them. With his hands tied behind his back, the only thing that stops him from plunging to his death is the rope around his neck.
* The ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' book ''Black Vein Prophecy'' has a meta-example: you have to ''fail'' a luck test to find one of the items you need to finish the book.
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* The ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' book Black Vein Prophecy has a meta-example: you have to ''fail'' a luck test to find one of the items you need to finish the book.
* In ''Literature/GuardsGuards'', Havelock Vetinari, the [[JustTheFirstCitizen Patrician]] of Ankh-Morpork, is deposed by a fake heir to the throne of Ankh-Morpork. However, [[MagnificentBastard being]] [[BatmanGambit Havelock]] [[AwesomenessByAnalysis Vetinari]], he's planned for this: the dungeons were modified to have heavy locks on the inside, as well as secret escape routes only he knows. As a result, when a dragon starts killing people, he's in one of the safest places in the entire city, and can choose the best moment to leave.
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* In ''Literature/GuardsGuards'', Havelock Vetinari, the [[JustTheFirstCitizen Patrician]] of Ankh-Morpork, is deposed by a fake heir to the throne of Ankh-Morpork. However, [[MagnificentBastard being]] [[BatmanGambit Havelock]] [[AwesomenessByAnalysis Vetinari]], he's planned for this: the dungeons were modified to have heavy locks on the inside, as well as secret escape routes only he knows. As a result, when a dragon starts killing people, he's in one of the safest places in the entire city, and can choose the best moment to leave.
* Cartman from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' attempts this in ''Breast Cancer Show.'' After getting challenged to a fight by Wendy and failing to convince her to call it off, Cartman takes a dump on Mr. Garrison's desk to get detention. [[spoiler:It ends up backfiring when the other boys convince her to wait until the ''next'' morning. Despite his best efforts, the fight eventually happens regardless, and she [[CurbStompBattle wipes the floor with him]].]]
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* In one story arc of ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'' comic, everybody gets mutated by an explosion at an event being held at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant except for Bart, who was grounded.
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* Cartman from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' attempts this in ''Breast Cancer Show.'' After getting challenged to a fight by Wendy and failing to convince her to call it off, Cartman takes a dump on Mr. Garrison's desk to get detention. [[spoiler: It [[spoiler:It ends up backfiring when the other boys convince her to wait until the ''next'' morning. Despite his best efforts, the fight eventually happens regardless, and she [[CurbStompBattle wipes the floor with him]].]]
