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''Basic Trope''': A mastermind executes a plot with inhuman precision in spite of the odds.

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''Basic '''Basic Trope''': A mastermind executes a plot with inhuman precision in spite of the odds.
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** Evulz is capable of TimeTravel
** Evulz has the blessing of LadyLuck

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** Evulz is capable of TimeTravel
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** Evulz has the blessing of LadyLuckLadyLuck.
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''Basic Trope''': A mastermind executes a plot with inhuman precision in spite of the odds.
* '''Straight''': [[MagnificentBastard Evulz's]] [[ThePlan Plan]] goes off without hitch, despite the fact that it is contingent on specific people being in the right place at the right time, most of whom typically do not operate according to schedule and use notoriously unreliable public transit options or live in high-traffic cities.
* '''Exaggerated''': Evulz's 'plan', in a [[WorldGoneMad saner world]], would have [[EpicFail collapsed immediately]] or [[ASimplePlan metastasized into something unmanageable]]- it requires [[LudicrousPrecision picosecond-precision]] [[ClockKing timing]], perfect meteorological foresight, perfect knowledge of the position and velocity of ''every speck of dust'', [[SerialEscalation so on, so forth]]. Yet, [[MindScrew somehow]], Evulz's plan [[TheBadGuyWins succeeds]] without ''any'' detectable deviations from the original specifications of the plot, all the while smelling like a rose.
* '''Downplayed''': Evulz's plan hinges on a failing bridge collapsing at noon.
* '''Justified''':
** [[ExactWords We said]] ''[[ExactWords inhuman precision,]]'' [[ExactWords did we not]]? Evulz is a [[GodOfEvil god]], [[AIIsACrapshoot hyper intelligent AI]], or other prescient being who can foresee the future.
** Evulz is capable of TimeTravel
** Evulz has the blessing of LadyLuck
* '''Inverted''': Evulz's plan is a XanatosGambit that has [[TemptingFate no conceivable path towards failure]]. [[DiabolusExMachina It falls apart anyways]].
* '''Subverted''': Evulz [[IndyPloy never had a plan at all]], or at least discarded of his old one after it's inefficacy was proven; operating off of the philosophy that he should LetNoCrisisGoToWaste and including [[ThrowItIn unexpected variables]], he's just good at XanatosSpeedChess and [[IMeantToDoThat pretending like it was apart of his plan all along]].
* '''Double Subverted''': [[ILied He lied]]. He really ''is'' invincible.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': His plan rightfully blows up in his face.
* '''Enforced''': The plot cannot progress without Evulz's impossible victory.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Boss, the [[Film.TheEmpireStrikesBack odds of this plan succeeding is approximately 3720-to-1!." "Never tell me the odds!"]]
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': The totality of Evulz's plan hinges of end environment being precisely as he had foreseen, lest his failure becomes inevitable; a SpannerInTheWorks ruins everything for him, [[ButterflyOfDoom even if the only thing that went wrong was a misplaced screw]].
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Statistically, the chance of the GambitRoulette selecting in your favor is rather low.
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%% * '''Played for Laughs''': ???
%% * '''Played for Drama''': ???
%% * '''Played for Horror''': ???

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