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* MassiveMultiplayerScam: Engineered situations and several people are used in an elaborated [[TheCon con]].
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* NeverRecycleYourSchemes: Never improving on plans that failed once before.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''
** In ''Fanfic/JimmysVisitWithDrFranklin'' Jimmy came up with one of these to bring his brother back to life.
** In ''Fanfic/JimmysVisitWithDrFranklin'' Jimmy came up with one of these to bring his brother back to life.
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* DeathIsTheOnlyOptionDeathIsTheOnlyOption: The only choice is to die, unless something resurrects you.
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DespairGambit: The villain tries to let your guard down by luring you into a DespairEventHorizon.
*DidYouJustScamCthulhuDidYouJustScamCthulhu: You manage to trick an EldritchAbomination.
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* BatmanGambitBatmanGambit: A plan that revolves around your victims doing what they do naturally.
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* WoundedGazelleGambitWoundedGazelleGambit: Pretending to be in danger, injured, etc. to manipulate others.
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* MassiveMultiplayerScam: Engineered situations and several people are used in an elaborated [[TheCon con]].
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'''Evil Knight #1:''' [[MissingStepsPlan What about the middle bits?]]\\bits?\\
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In nearly every work, you have a [[{{Plots}} Plot]]. Frequently, a plan will guide the plot, often an EvilPlan, hatched by the villain. Some plans are complex, with so many unforeseen events acting in concert, making it a GambitRoulette. Other characters try to stick with ASimplePlan, which always gets more complicated. If the character doesn't plan ahead, it's an IndyPloy. If you can't figure out what subtrope a character's plan belongs to, just PotHole it here.
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In nearly every work, you have a [[{{Plots}} Plot]].{{Plot|s}}. Frequently, a plan will guide the plot, often an EvilPlan, hatched by the villain. Some plans are complex, with so many unforeseen events acting in concert, making it a GambitRoulette. Other characters try to stick with ASimplePlan, which always gets more complicated. If the character doesn't plan ahead, it's an IndyPloy. If you can't figure out what subtrope a character's plan belongs to, just PotHole it here.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei comes up with a three step plan to raise money for 4*Town concert tickets.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei comes up with a three step plan to raise money for 4*Town concert tickets.
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[[DidntSeeThatComing Until it isn't.]]]]-]
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* SurpriseInspectionRuse - Pretend to be inspectors checking the facility in order to gain access.
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* MagnificentBastard Cyric from ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms''. This guy has so many different {{plan}}s going on that even HE doesn't know about all of them sometimes. The guy is a little AxeCrazy. One of his greatest plans involved pretending to hold the IdiotBall for years, only to convince the other greater gods that he was useless in his position as Greater Evil God and attempt to strip him of his power. All this ended with Cyric destroying the love of his two greatest enemies, (sort of) regaining his sanity, and pissing off the entire pantheon of other gods, with them being able to do NOTHING AT ALL to stop him.
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* MagnificentBastard Cyric from ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms''. This guy has so many different {{plan}}s going on that even HE doesn't know about all of them sometimes. The guy is a little AxeCrazy. One of his greatest plans involved pretending to hold the IdiotBall for years, only to convince the other greater gods that he was useless in his position as Greater Evil God and attempt to strip him of his power. All this ended with Cyric destroying the love of his two greatest enemies, (sort of) regaining his sanity, and pissing off the entire pantheon of other gods, with them being able to do NOTHING AT ALL to stop him.
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* Pictured above is a Lord of Change, Greater Daemon of the Chaos god Tzeentch, patron deity of sorcerers, planners, backstabbers and mutants in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''. Tzeentch, his daemons and his mortal agents/pawns specialize in making plans, so many in fact that all of them are the backup plan for another plan failing/require another plan to fail in order to work. It's all but stated that Tzeentch does this on purpose, deliberately setting his plans up for failure because his final victory over all other gods (Chaos, C'tan, elf/Eldar and otherwise) would also be his defeat, [[AndThenWhat leaving him with nothing to do.]]
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* Pictured above is a Lord of Change, Greater Daemon of the Chaos god Tzeentch, patron deity of sorcerers, planners, backstabbers and mutants in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''.''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' give us Tzeentch, Lord of Change, Greater Daemon of the Chaos god, patron deity of sorcerers, planners, backstabbers and mutants. Tzeentch, his daemons and his mortal agents/pawns specialize in making plans, so many in fact that all of them are the backup plan for another plan failing/require another plan to fail in order to work. It's all but stated that Tzeentch does this on purpose, deliberately setting his plans up for failure because his final victory over all other gods (Chaos, C'tan, elf/Eldar and otherwise) would also be his defeat, [[AndThenWhat leaving him with nothing to do.]]
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'''Evil Knight #1:''' [[MissingStepsPlan What about the middle bits?\\bits?]]\\
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* OperationJealousy - Make a love interest jealous.
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* The plot of ''Manga/DeathNote'' is almost entirely driven by the plans of Light Yagami (Kira) and L [[spoiler: later replaced by Near]], who both try to outwit each other in what's essentially a wide-scale game of cat-and-mouse where AnyoneCanDie.
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* The plot of ''Manga/DeathNote'' is almost entirely driven by the plans of Light Yagami (Kira) and L [[spoiler: later (later replaced by Near]], Near)]], who both try to outwit each other in what's essentially a wide-scale game of cat-and-mouse where AnyoneCanDie.
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** Finally, Caleb made a plan [[spoiler:,not quite knowing Ava was manipulating him, made a more mundane ploy, by trying to get Nathan piss drunk, steal his key card, reprogram the house's security protocols to unseal the doors during a power outage instead of sealing, and he could make a getaway with Ava when she caused one last outage]]. Nathan saw right through this, and didn't let himself be manipulated. [[spoiler:This would have kept Ava in her room, except Caleb suspected Nathan was still watching during the power outages (he was right), and did the legwork the ''night before'', letting Ava get out]]. At this point, all three parties plans were in shambles, and [[IndyPloy would have to wing it]].
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** Finally, Caleb made a plan [[spoiler:,not Finally Caleb, [[spoiler:not quite knowing Ava was manipulating him, made a more mundane ploy, by trying to get Nathan piss drunk, steal his key card, reprogram the house's security protocols to unseal the doors during a power outage instead of sealing, and he could make a getaway with Ava when she caused one last outage]]. Nathan saw right through this, and didn't let himself be manipulated. [[spoiler:This would have kept Ava in her room, except Caleb suspected Nathan was still watching during the power outages (he was right), and did the legwork the ''night before'', letting Ava get out]]. At this point, all three parties parties' plans were in shambles, and they [[IndyPloy would have to wing it]].
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* ''{{Film/Remember}}'': Max and Zev, two Jewish men in a New York City nursing home, have put together one to track down the Nazi Otto Wallisch who killed their families before he dies (or they do). [[spoiler: It's revealed Max also has a second one-Zev ''is'' Wallisch, so Max's manipulated him into hunting down his accomplice and then himself.]]
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* ''{{Film/Remember}}'': Max and Zev, two Jewish men in a New York City nursing home, have put together one to track down the Nazi Otto Wallisch who killed their families before he dies (or they do). [[spoiler: It's revealed Max also has a second one-Zev one -- Zev ''is'' Wallisch, so Max's manipulated him into hunting down his accomplice and then himself.]]
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* Played in ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' by Creator/RickRiordan. It consisted of the Senates decision to send Percy and company to Alaska in a leaky dinghy.
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* Played in ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' by Creator/RickRiordan. It consisted of the Senates Senate's decision to send Percy and company to Alaska in a leaky dinghy.
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* In ''Literature/SkippyDies'', Lori and friends have a series of convoluted plans all referred to as "The Plan", none of which pan out:
** The first iteration of "The Plan", revealed after Skippy's death, involves Lori [[spoiler: telling her parents she's dating Skippy (the Betty in her BettyAndVeronica LoveTriangle), while secretly seeing Carl. She tells Carl that Skippy doesn't mean anything to her, but she's actually still in love with Skippy. Carl doesn't really understand the plan, and he screws it up by releasing a sex tape of him and Lori to the whole school. The fallout from this causes a confrontation between Skippy and Lori that contributes to his overdose death.]]
** The second iteration of "The Plan", in the third part, is similar to the first one, but with Janine [[spoiler: blackmailing Carl into secretly seeing her to avoid word about the first plan getting out, while Janine works to get Lori and Carl back together.]] But Lori isn't interested in seeing Carl, and doesn't even care once the plan is revealed.
** The third iteration of "The Plan" occurs near the end of the book. Lori plans to [[spoiler: kill herself with an overdose of diet pills from her secret stash, but is waylaid when Ruprecht appears and she gives him an unexpected pep talk that gives them both a new lease on life.]]
** The first iteration of "The Plan", revealed after Skippy's death, involves Lori [[spoiler: telling her parents she's dating Skippy (the Betty in her BettyAndVeronica LoveTriangle), while secretly seeing Carl. She tells Carl that Skippy doesn't mean anything to her, but she's actually still in love with Skippy. Carl doesn't really understand the plan, and he screws it up by releasing a sex tape of him and Lori to the whole school. The fallout from this causes a confrontation between Skippy and Lori that contributes to his overdose death.]]
** The second iteration of "The Plan", in the third part, is similar to the first one, but with Janine [[spoiler: blackmailing Carl into secretly seeing her to avoid word about the first plan getting out, while Janine works to get Lori and Carl back together.]] But Lori isn't interested in seeing Carl, and doesn't even care once the plan is revealed.
** The third iteration of "The Plan" occurs near the end of the book. Lori plans to [[spoiler: kill herself with an overdose of diet pills from her secret stash, but is waylaid when Ruprecht appears and she gives him an unexpected pep talk that gives them both a new lease on life.]]
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** Hari Seldon invented psychohistory, a set of [[PrescienceByAnalysis mathematical formulas that can predict human behaviour]]. Using psychohistory, he observes that the [[GalacticSuperpower Galactic Empire]] is in [[VestigialEmpire decline and social forces will tear it apart]], resulting in [[TenThousandYears thirty thousand years of anarchy]] before a Second Galactic Empire is established throughout the galaxy. Unhappy with this, he creates a plan (the Seldon Plan) where a small colony at the extreme edge of the galaxy will [[RisingEmpire build a new empire]] within [[ThousandYearReign only 1,000 years]].
--->''"When the Galactic Empire began to die at the edges, and when the ends of the Galaxy reverted to barbarism and dropped away, Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists planted a colony, the Foundation, out here in the middle of the mess, so that we could incubate art, science, and technology, and form the nucleus of the Second Empire. [...] The future course of the Foundation was plotted according to the science of psychohistory, then highly developed, and conditions arranged so as to bring about a series of crises that will force us most rapidly along the route to future Empire. Each crisis, each Seldon crisis, marks an epoch in our history."'' -- '''Hober Mallow''', "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces"
** Hari Seldon invented psychohistory, a set of [[PrescienceByAnalysis mathematical formulas that can predict human behaviour]]. Using psychohistory, he observes that the [[GalacticSuperpower Galactic Empire]] is in [[VestigialEmpire decline and social forces will tear it apart]], resulting in [[TenThousandYears thirty thousand years of anarchy]] before a Second Galactic Empire is established throughout the galaxy. Unhappy with this, he creates a plan (the Seldon Plan) where a small colony at the extreme edge of the galaxy will [[RisingEmpire build a new empire]] within [[ThousandYearReign only 1,000 years]].
--->''"When the Galactic Empire began to die at the edges, and when the ends of the Galaxy reverted to barbarism and dropped away, Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists planted a colony, the Foundation, out here in the middle of the mess, so that we could incubate art, science, and technology, and form the nucleus of the Second Empire. [...] The future course of the Foundation was plotted according to the science of psychohistory, then highly developed, and conditions arranged so as to bring about a series of crises that will force us most rapidly along the route to future Empire. Each crisis, each Seldon crisis, marks an epoch in our history."'' -- '''Hober Mallow''', "Literature/TheMerchantPrinces"
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** The Foundation Trilogy:
*** The Seldon Plan is a very very ''very'' [[LongGame long-term plan]]. The Seldon Plan involves the entire galaxy, populated by a few quadrillion people at least, over a period of a millennium, with a dash of XanatosSpeedChess ([[spoiler:The Second Foundation]]) thrown in to keep the whole thing from going off the rails.
*** The Mayors: Salvor Hardin plans to eliminate Wienis, corrupt uncle to the King of a nearby Kingdom, by handing a LostTechnology battleship to the enemy [[spoiler:and using conveniently timed sabotage to "show" the legitimacy of the "Religion of Science"]].
*** ''Literature/SecondFoundation'': When the eponymous organization is discovered by the First Foundation to be hidden on Terminus, they [[spoiler:are actually fooling the First Foundationers, allowing a few members to be sacrificed to convince Terminus that the threat of being controlled by the Second Foundation is over, while their stronghold secretly survives on Trantor]].
*** The Seldon Plan is a very very ''very'' [[LongGame long-term plan]]. The Seldon Plan involves the entire galaxy, populated by a few quadrillion people at least, over a period of a millennium, with a dash of XanatosSpeedChess ([[spoiler:The Second Foundation]]) thrown in to keep the whole thing from going off the rails.
*** The Mayors: Salvor Hardin plans to eliminate Wienis, corrupt uncle to the King of a nearby Kingdom, by handing a LostTechnology battleship to the enemy [[spoiler:and using conveniently timed sabotage to "show" the legitimacy of the "Religion of Science"]].
*** ''Literature/SecondFoundation'': When the eponymous organization is discovered by the First Foundation to be hidden on Terminus, they [[spoiler:are actually fooling the First Foundationers, allowing a few members to be sacrificed to convince Terminus that the threat of being controlled by the Second Foundation is over, while their stronghold secretly survives on Trantor]].
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''Literature/TheFoundationTrilogy'':
*** The Seldon Plan is a very very ''very'' [[LongGame long-term plan]]. The Seldon Plan involves [[TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay the entiregalaxy, Milky Way galaxy]], populated by a few quadrillion people at least, over a period of a millennium, with a dash of XanatosSpeedChess ([[spoiler:The Second Foundation]]) thrown in to keep the whole thing from going off the rails.
***The Mayors: "Literature/TheMayors": Salvor Hardin plans to eliminate Wienis, corrupt uncle to the King of a nearby Kingdom, by handing a LostTechnology battleship to the enemy [[spoiler:and using conveniently timed sabotage to "show" the legitimacy of the "Religion of Science"]].
*** ''Literature/SecondFoundation'': When the eponymous organization is discovered by the First Foundation to be hidden on Terminus, they [[spoiler:are actually fooling the First Foundationers, allowing a few members to be sacrificed to convince Terminus that the threat of being controlled by the Second Foundation is over, while their stronghold secretly survives on Trantor]].Science"]].
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* Pulled in ''Series/{{Friends}}'' off by Chandler to get a baby named after him (instead of Joey).
** Which, since Chandler is a ButtMonkey, backfires when the baby turns out to be a girl and the parents refuse to change the name.
** Which, since Chandler is a ButtMonkey, backfires when the baby turns out to be a girl and the parents refuse to change the name.
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* Pulled in ''Series/{{Friends}}'' off by Chandler to get a baby named after him (instead of Joey).
**Joey). Which, since Chandler is a ButtMonkey, backfires when the baby turns out to be a girl and the parents refuse to change the name.
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