History Quotes / HoistByHisOwnPetard

->''"Every- everything [[LetsPlay/{{Dream}} you]] hate about the prison was YOUR idea. You should exp- You should- Y'know what? Y'know what, I'm GLAD! I'm glad you haven't seen the light in a while! This was literally- this was literally the experience YOU WANTED for the prisoners. You- you... This is- You made this bed! Literally! I may have built it, I may have engineered it, but it was- [...] We both know- You told me to build this so you could put [[PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize Tommy]] in here, didn't you? That's why you wanted people to be able to visit, that way you could FLAUNT Tommy, who you've got stuck in a cell, in front of everyone. That's why you wanted people to be able to visit. That's why you didn't want the courtyard, because you didn't WANT that for Tommy. And you didn't want him to have a good place to live, you didn't want him to have good food, because you- You wanted to give him RAW POTATOES! You didn't want to give him steak! You just wanted him to have a HORRIBLE life in here! So... Keep it for yourself, Dream. You... You DESERVE this."''

-->-- '''Sam''', ''WebOriginal/DreamSMP''

->''"[The Harlequin] had fired off the firecracker rockets that said: I will attend the ll5th annual International Medical Association Invocation at 8:00 p.m. precisely. I do hope you will all be able to join me.\\

-> ''Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.''
-->-- '''Literature/SherlockHolmes''', paraphrasing '''Literature/TheBible''', in regard to the death of '''Doctor Grimesby Roylott''' in '''The Adventure of the Speckled Band'''

->'''Ares''': I was trying... to make you a great warrior!\\
'''Kratos''': [[GoneHorriblyRight You succeeded.]] ''*finishes off Ares*''
-->-- ''VideoGame/GodOfWarI''

->'''Sideshow Bob''': ''Oh, dear...Sideshow Bob...hoist...on his own petard...''\\
'''Lisa''': It's hoist ''with'' his own petard.\\
'''Sideshow Bob''': Oh, get a life.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

-> ''Do you think Saint Thrastus complained when he was strung up by his petard? No! Not one word! That's piety. Now get on with your work, you little ingrate.''
-->-- ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: Literature/DarkHeresy''

-->-- ''Literature/TheBible'' (New International Version), [[Literature/BookOfPsalms Psalms 7:15-16]]

-->-- ''Literature/TheBible'' (New International Version), [[Literature/BookOfPsalms Psalm 141:10]]

-->-- ''Literature/TheBible'' (New International Version), [[Literature/BookOfProverbs Proverbs 26:27]]

-->-- ''Literature/TheBible'' (New International Version), [[Literature/BookOfEcclesiastes Ecclesiastes 10:12]]

->''For 'tis the sport to have the engineer\\
Hoist with his own petard: and 't shall go hard''
-->-- '''Hamlet''', ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''

->''Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric. I am justly killed with mine [[PoisonedWeapons own treachery]].''
-->-- '''Laertes''', ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''

->'''Narrator:''' It looks as though Boris Badenov is now hoist with his own petard. Meanwhile...\\
'''Boris:''' Hold it. Hold it! What does it mean I'm hoist with my own... what's its name?\\
'''Narrator:''' It means you fell into your own trap.\\
'''Boris:''' Then why didn't you say so? Okay, let's go.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle''

->''"The irony is exquisite, isn't it? Your mutant gifts will be used to bring your kind to its knees. This is your true destiny: the harbinger of mutant extinction."''
-->-- '''Bastion''', ''VideoGame/XMenNextDimension''

->''But I'm not my "kind", not anymore — your shadow leeches saw to that. I'm half Toa of Light, half Toa of Shadow. This was what you wanted, wasn't it? Toa consumed by darkness, Toa not hampered by things like mercy or morality. Well, [[GoneHorriblyRight now you can choke on it]].''
-->-- '''Takanuva''', ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}''

->''"[[IWantMyMommy Daddy, I don't want to be on Namek anymore…]]"''
-->-- '''Freeza''' after getting bisected by one of his own Death Saucers, ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''

->'''King Kai:''' Freeza — got cut in half!\\
'''Tien:''' Wow. I didn't think Goku had it in him.\\
'''King Kai:''' He doesn't. Freeza did it to himself.
-->-- ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''

->''Oh, foiled by my own shoddy merchandiiiiiiiise!''
-->-- '''Herman''', [[ItMakesSenseInContext attempting to use a pair of shoddy counterfeit jeans as a zipline]], ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

->''Take care. Your curses last too long, and may turn on someone you love.''
-->-- '''Richard III''', ''The White Queen''

->'''[[TheseQuestionsThree Bridge keeper]]:''' What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?\\
'''King Arthur:''' What do you mean? [[BrickJoke An African or an European swallow?]]\\
'''Bridge keeper:''' Uh?! I don't know that! (gets magically thrown off the bridge)
-->-- '''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'''

->''"I am the architect of my own destruction. So this is it… [[ArcWords What is written in the timeline… cannot be changed…]] ''[hears [[spoiler:the Dahaka]] looking for him]'' Come for me, then. In my quest to [[spoiler:destroy the Sands of Time]], I have [[spoiler:been the one to create them]]…"''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:The Prince of Persia]]''', ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin''

->''One's demise is always one's own making.''
-->--'''Hawkeye Gough''', ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''

->''The spear thrown by Kytheon's own hand was the weapon that felled his friends.''
-->--'''[[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=398610 Tragic Arrogance]]''' FlavorText, ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''

->Everything tied back to Shinji's own scheming. He had been snared in a web of his own making. The phrase 'hoisted by his own petard' didn't even begin to cover this sort of thing.
-->-- ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji''

->'''Bilbo:''' I used to know this guy, Minty. He had a dog who he'd trained to attack rich people. He was into the whole [[EatTheRich class-war thing.]] He called the dog Gramsci after an Italian Marxist. Rumor has it, it could smell wealth from up to 20 feet. The thing is, it all backfired. Minty won 100 grand on a scratchcard… and Gramsci bit his knees off.\\

->'''Franchise/{{Superman}}:''' Do you remember that mountain of graves we noticed on Warworld? That's what gave me the answer! The Warzoons weren't buried in a mass grave as there'd be if the race was destroyed by some great illness!\\
'''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}:''' You're right! The Warzoons must've died one by one! They buried each other — except for the last one buried by the peace-loving Largas!\\
'''Superman:''' Precisely! And there's only one thing on that entire satellite capable of killing the Warzoon one at a time — the control helmet in the command console!\\
'''Supergirl:''' The massive energy-drain must've proven too much for their minds to endure! One by one they were destroyed by the very weapon their warlike race had spent untold centuries creating — one by one, they died — victims of massive cerebral hemorrhage — and their own insatiable lust for power!
-->-- ''Comicbook/WarWorld''

->'''Britta:''' Shouldn't have worn that petard if you didn't want to be hoisted by it.\\
'''Jeff:''' ...What do you think the expression "hoisted by your own petard" is referencing?\\
'''Britta:''' [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant I guess I just assumed]] that in the old days a petard was a special outfit like a leotard, with a lot of fancy buckles and loops on it, and that rich people would wear them when they were feeling especially smug, but then poor people would tie a rope through one of the loops, and hoist them up a pole and then let them dangle there as punishment for being cocky.\\
'''Jeff:''' Never look it up. [[EntertaininglyWrong Your explanation is way better.]]
-->-- ''Series/{{Community}}'', "[[Recap/CommunityS6E05LawsOfRoboticsAndPartyRights Laws of Robotics and Party Rights]]"

->''"You types never learn... [[TacticalSuicideBoss You always end up taking yourselves down.]]"''
-->-- '''Yooka''' to Capital B of ''VideoGame/YookaLaylee'' just before he starts using [[MisguidedMissile guided missiles]].

->''You never know when the sparks that you helped create will cause a fire and blow back in your direction. If you're already facing into the wind, it's too late.''
-->--'''Moguro Fukuzou''', ''[[Manga/LaughingSalesman Laughing Salesman NEW]]'', Episode 7 "The Rule of Mommy Friends"

->''"I was hoisted by my own petard! The one petard I thought would never hoist me!"''
-->-- '''Todd''', ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman''

->Your machine utilized and magnified my emotions... my energies... it never occurred to you that I could follow you? That I could claim this power?
-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}''', ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade''

->''"The only thing Zorran succeeded in doing that was trapping himself instead of the Star Tugs."''
-->-- '''Captain Starr''', ''WesternAnimation/{{TUGS}}''

-->--AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho, ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho005TheFearmonger The Fearmonger]]''

->''"Aren't guns just [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] great, [[BigBad Hammerson]]?"''
-->-- '''Smith''', ''Film/ShootEmUp'', after shooting Hammerson with his own gun.

->'''Beast:''' There's no running, Dr. Cornelius. I can smell you, whichever part of this place you're hiding in. I hope you appreciate the irony, because I wouldn't even have [[SuperSenses these senses]] if you hadn't given me this despicable feral snout. Brought down by your own hubris? I like to think of it as poetic justice.
-->-- ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen''

-> ''"'Let's overthrow the palace and cut all their heads off!' said Robespierre, cutting everybody's head off until someone eventually got mad and cut his head off."''
-->-- '''WebVideo/BillWurtz''', ''WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess''

->''"They burned themselves. With a choice made long ago by a conspiracy of men who thought they could sleep with the enemy. Only to awaken another enemy."''
-->-- '''Fox Mulder''' on the fate of the Syndicate, ''Series/TheXFiles'', "[[Recap/TheXFilesS06E12OneSon One Son]]"

->''"Remember when you told me you should mix your own drinks? That's good advice for everybody!"''
-->--'''Hayley Stark''', ''Film/HardCandy''

->'''Clinton''': I mean, that's nice. Good for them.
->'''Claire''': I thought you'd be more excited. A human and a robot, in love!
->'''Clinton''': It's not, like, the first time that has happened. And I don't know either of them super-well, so...
->'''Claire''': Ugh. I was so hyped up to tell you. What a disappointment.
->'''Clinton''': Wait, you wanted me to play it cool, but now you're disappointed that I'm being cool about it?
->'''Claire''': W-well-
->'''Clinton''': ''Hah!'' You thought I was gonna be a dork about it, but it's ''you'' who is the dork about it!
->'''Claire''': *covering her head* Noooo! My petard!
-->-- ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''

->''"You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation!"''
-->--'''Fantomah''', about to kill a villain with the same [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom giant tidal wave]] he tried to drown the jungle with.

->''"The trouble you brew today, you'll drink tomorrow."''
-->--'''Hisham''' to '''Delilah''', ''Film/SamsonAndDelilah''

->''"When children learn to devalue others, they can devalue anyone. Even their parents."''
-->--'''Jean-Luc Picard''', ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''

->''"Ironic. Done in by his own creation."''
-->-- '''Daffy Duck''', ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''

->''"Every- everything you hate about the prison was YOUR idea. You should exp- You should- Y'know what? Y'know what, I'm GLAD! I'm glad you haven't seen the light in a while! This was literally- this was literally the experience YOU WANTED for the prisoners. You- you... This is- You made this bed! Literally! I may have built it, I may have engineered it, but it was- [...] We both know- You told me to build this so you could put [[PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize Tommy]] in here, didn't you? That's why you wanted people to be able to visit, that way you could FLAUNT Tommy, who you've got stuck in a cell, in front of everyone. That's why you wanted people to be able to visit. That's why you didn't want the courtyard, because you didn't WANT that for Tommy. And you didn't want him to have a good place to live, you didn't want him to have good food, because you- You wanted to give him RAW POTATOES! You didn't want to give him steak! You just wanted him to have a HORRIBLE life in here! So... [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Keep it for yourself, Dream.]] You... You DESERVE this."''
-->-- '''Sam''', ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP''

->''"Once a name is written down in the Death Note, you can't do anything about it. [[VillainProtagonist You]] more than anybody else here should know that. [[IronicEcho Goodbye]], [[spoiler:[[IronicEcho Light Yagami]]]]."''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:Ryuk]]''', ''Manga/DeathNote'', Chapter 107, "Curtain"

->'''Ansem:''' KINGDOM HEARTS! Fill me with the power of darkness! Supreme darkness…\\
'''Sora:''' You’re wrong. I now know without a doubt… Kingdom Hearts… is ''light!''\\
''(cue the door to Kingdom Hearts opening to reveal a massive burst of light)''\\
'''Ansem:''' …light… but why…? (explodes)
-->-- ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI''

->''"Brainiac is gone-- Destroyed by his own devices!"''
-->-- '''Superman''', ''ComicBook/LetMyPeopleGrow''

->The Pa'anuri hypercannon, the most powerful (and longest ranged) weapon for twelve light years in any direction... hyperspace is a tangled mess, but the Pa'anuri have gotten pretty good at firing through it. Still... '''"tangled mess"'''. If someone messes with your targeting data, you might not notice the problem until you see that you've missed. Then again, depending on the exact nature of the bad data, you might [[ForcedFriendlyFire never notice anything at all...]]
-->-- '''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''', ''[[spoiler:[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2020-06-14 Ennesby tricking the Pa'anuri into firing on and destroying their own weapon]]]]''.

-->-- ''Literature/TheBible'' (New International Version), Psalms 7:15-16

-->-- ''Literature/TheBible'' (New International Version), Psalm 141:10

-->-- ''Literature/TheBible'' (New International Version), Proverbs 26:27

-->-- ''Literature/TheBible'' (New International Version), Ecclesiastes 10:12

-->-- '''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''', ''[[spoiler:[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2020-06-14 Ennesby tricking the Pa'anuri into firing on and destroying their own weapon]]]].

-->-- '''Literature/SherlockHolmes''', paraphrasing '''Literature/TheBible''', in regard to the death of Doctor Grimesby Roylott in '''The Adventure of the Speckled Band'''

-->-- '''Literature/SherlockHolmes''', [[OlderThanTheyThink paraphrasing]] '''Literature/TheBible''', in regard to the death of Doctor Grimesby Roylott in '''The Adventure of the Speckled Band'''

-->-- '''Albus Dumbledore''', ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', Chapter 18 - Dobby's Reward, Pg. 331[[note]]Gilderoy Lockhart, reduced to a TalkativeLoon by his own backfired [[LaserGuidedAmnesia Memory Charm]], responds with "[[LiteralMinded Sword? I haven't got a sword.]] [[TheHero [Harry Potter[=]=]]] does, though. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Ask him.]]"[[/note]]

->'''[[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney Ace]]:''' Captain Jack was a Captain with a squad who also explored the Schwartzwelt and we gave them some of our technology so they can help us back. It was a mistake as they used our technology to do horrible experiments to demons. In fact, they experimented on Jimenez and Bugaboo. Bugaboo was about to die, so I used the technology of the lab and my Demonica to fuse Jimenez and Bugaboo together. I confronted Captain Jack and told me he was only in it for the money.\\
(Hanako looks at Ace, disturbed.)\\
'''[[VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories Hanako]]:''' ...That's really messed up...\\
'''Steele:''' ...What a pathetic waste of humanity.\\
'''Ace:''' Indeed, Captain Jack was a really messed up man and the ensuing fight took a long time. In the end, the Jimenez/Bugaboo fusion killed Captain Jack. The technology he planned to abuse created a being that murdered him in the end. How fitting.\\
'''Hanako:''' ...How indeed...\\
'''Steele:''' Indeed.
-->-- ''Roleplay/WeAreOurAvatars''

->Everything tied back to Shinji’s own scheming. He had been snared in a web of his own making. The phrase ‘hoisted by his own petard’ didn’t even begin to cover this sort of thing.

->''Brought down by my own Godslayer...[[GracefulLoser You've become quite strong, kid.]]''
-->--'''Dagda''', ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'', Bonds route

->'''[[CorruptPolitician Sherilyn Harper]]:''' I wanted to show them strength in adversity, be an example!
->'''The Doctor:''' Of course. And for them to understand, you had to make them a little bit afraid.
->'''Sherilyn Harper:''' You ''do'' understand!
->'''The Doctor:''' Of course I do... and so do they.
->'''Sherilyn Harper:''' [[FlatWhat What.]]
->'''The Doctor:''' They understand [[ANaziByAnyOtherName who's been making them afraid]]. Those people out there [[EngineeredPublicConfession heard]] about [[YesMan Roderick]]'s arrest. I don't think the election's much of an issue for you anymore.
->'''Sherilyn Harper:''' He covered for me.
->'''The Doctor:''' They didn't believe him... and why should they? You've been telling them for ages they can't trust people. You made the mob, and [[TorchesAndPitchforks now it's coming for you]].

->''"Once a name is written down in the Death Note, you can't do anything about it. [[VillainProtagonist You]] more than anybody else here should know that. [[spoiler:[[IronicEcho Goodbye, Light Yagami]]]]."''

->''"Once a name is written down in the Death Note, you can't do anything about it. You more than anybody else here should know that. [[spoiler:[[IronicEcho Goodbye, Light Yagami]]]]."''

->''"Once a name is written down in the Death Note, you can't do anything about it. You more than anybody else here should know that. [[spoiler:[[IronicEcho Goodbye, Light Yagami]]."''

->'''Ryuk:''' I told you in the very beginning that I would be the one writing your name in the notebook when you die. That is the rule between the {{shinigami}} who brings the notebook into the human realm, and the first human to pick up the notebook. If they put you in prison, who knows when you'll die? I don't want to just lie around waiting for you to die, so it's all over. You should die right here.
->'''Light:''' N-NO! I don't want to die! I don't want to go to prison either! Do something! I know there's a way out of it, Ryuk!
->'''Ryuk:''' Once a name is written down in the Death Note, you can't do anything about it. You more than anybody else here should know that. [[IronicEcho Goodbye, Light Yagami.]]
-->-- ''Manga/DeathNote'', Chapter 107, "Curtain"

->'''Ryuk:''' Once a name is written down in the Death Note, you can't do anything about it. You more than anyone else here should know that. '''[[IronicEcho Goodbye, Light Yagami.]]'''

->'''The Doctor:''' Of course. And for them to understand, you had to [[AppealToFear make them a little bit afraid]].

->"Ironic. Done in by his own creation."

-->''"You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation!"''

->'''The Doctor:''' They understand [[ANaziByAnyOtherName who's been making them afraid]]. Those people out there [[EngineeredPublicConfession heard about]] [[YesMan Roderick]]'s arrest. I don't think the election's much of an issue for you anymore.

-->-- '''Albus Dumbledore''', ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', Chapter 18 - Dobby's Reward, Pg. 331[[note]]Gilderoy Lockhart, reduced to a TalkativeLoon by his own backfired [[LaserGuidedAmnesia Memory Charm]], responds with "[[LiteralMinded Sword? I haven't got a sword.]] [[TheHero [Harry Potter[=]=]]] does, though. [[SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny Ask him.]]"[[/note]]