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-->-- '''Darth Sidious''' to [[ItWasHisSled Darth Plagueis]], ''Literature/DarthPlagueis''

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-->-- '''Darth Sidious''' to [[ItWasHisSled Darth Plagueis]], Sidious''', ''Literature/DarthPlagueis''



->'''[[NiceJobBreakingItHero Way To Go,]] [[VideoGame/ChronoCross Serge:]]''' It will eventually turn out that, for a minimum of the first sixty percent of the game, you were actually being manipulated by the forces of evil into [[MacGuffinDeliveryService doing their sinister bidding for them]]. In extreme cases this may go as high as 90%. The clear implication is that [[NeverBeAHero it would have been better to not get involved in the first place]].

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->'''[[NiceJobBreakingItHero Way ->'''Way To Go,]] [[VideoGame/ChronoCross Serge:]]''' Go, Serge:''' It will eventually turn out that, for a minimum of the first sixty percent of the game, you were actually being manipulated by the forces of evil into [[MacGuffinDeliveryService doing their sinister bidding for them]].them. In extreme cases this may go as high as 90%. The clear implication is that [[NeverBeAHero it would have been better to not get involved in the first place]].place.


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->Only by engaging in mortal combat could you regain your sanity... For you have been unwitting pawns in a vicious plan!
-->-- '''Wizard Shazam''', ''ComicBook/SupermanVsShazam''
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->''"Your son didn't kill those people. He's not a murderer. He was used."''
-->--'''[[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]]''', ''Film/IronMan3''
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->'''Dr. Leo Quintum''': I'm sorry, Superman. If I hadn't tried to steal fire from the sun, none of this would have happened.\\
'''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''': Don't apologize. You couldn't have known.\\
'''Quintum''': But *he* knew. It was his plan all along. Luthor used me to kill you.
-->--''WesternAnimation/AllStarSuperman''
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->''"Sir, I fear we are being used!"''
-->--'''Sassy Sue''', ''Film/ZombieStrippers''

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->'''"Inquisitor Ralei":''' [[AmbiguousRobot We've]] played you, [[KnightTemplar little man]]. We've pulled your strings. We've brought you here and watched you dance.
->'''Inquisitor Sasham:''' You didn't bring me. My masters sent me to-
->'''"Inquisitor Ralei":''' No. Wrong. ''I'' sent you. A simple transmission. A few stolen authorizations.

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->'''"Inquisitor Ralei":''' [[AmbiguousRobot We've]] played you, [[KnightTemplar little man]]. We've pulled your strings. We've brought you here and watched you dance.
->'''Inquisitor
dance.\\
'''Inquisitor
Sasham:''' You didn't bring me. My masters sent me to-
->'''"Inquisitor
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'''"Inquisitor
Ralei":''' No. Wrong. ''I'' sent you. A simple transmission. A few stolen authorizations.


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->"The answer is no."\\
"But, your excellency—"\\
"NO. Doom does not conspire. Doom is not used. Doom uses! This conversation is ended." He stabbed a button on his console that would not only break the contact, but prevent further contact from being made.\\
The gall. The insufferable, common-man gall of the representative. To think that he himself, Doctor Doom, would possibly—could possibly—be induced to participatory activity with a too-large band of costumed inferiors in a disruptory mission of ill-defined intent.
-->-- ''Fanfic/{{FIRE}}''
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-->--'''[[spoiler: The Lich disguised as a dead Billy]], WesternAnimation/AdventureTime

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-->--'''[[spoiler: The Lich disguised as a dead Billy]], Billy]]''', WesternAnimation/AdventureTime
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->''"Somewhere in this [[MasterApprenticeChain cyclical history of bequeathings]], a chosen one will appear and reenact the Keyblade war. When [[Characters/KingdomHeartsXehanortsIncarnations this scapegoat]] arrives and takes my Keyblade in hand, [[TheManBehindTheMan that will be the time to take the stage and finish my role.]]''

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->''"Somewhere in this [[MasterApprenticeChain cyclical history of bequeathings]], a chosen one will appear and reenact the Keyblade war. When [[Characters/KingdomHeartsXehanortsIncarnations this scapegoat]] arrives and takes my Keyblade in hand, [[TheManBehindTheMan [[TheManInFrontOfTheMan that will be the time to take the stage and finish my role.]]''
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->''"Somewhere in this [[MasterApprenticeChain cyclical history of bequeathings]], a chosen one will appear and reenact the Keyblade war. When [[Characters/KingdomHeartsXehanortsIncarnations this scapegoat]] arrives and takes my Keyblade in hand]], [[TheManBehindTheMan that will be the time to take the stage and finish my role.]]''

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->''"Somewhere in this [[MasterApprenticeChain cyclical history of bequeathings]], a chosen one will appear and reenact the Keyblade war. When [[Characters/KingdomHeartsXehanortsIncarnations this scapegoat]] arrives and takes my Keyblade in hand]], hand, [[TheManBehindTheMan that will be the time to take the stage and finish my role.]]''
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->''"Somewhere in this [[[[MasterApprenticeChain cyclical history of bequeathings]], a chosen one will appear and reenact the Keyblade war. When [[Characters/KingdomHeartsXehanortsIncarnations this scapegoat]] arrives and takes my Keyblade in hand]], [[TheManBehindTheMan that will be the time to take the stage and finish my role.]]''

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->''"Somewhere in this [[[[MasterApprenticeChain [[MasterApprenticeChain cyclical history of bequeathings]], a chosen one will appear and reenact the Keyblade war. When [[Characters/KingdomHeartsXehanortsIncarnations this scapegoat]] arrives and takes my Keyblade in hand]], [[TheManBehindTheMan that will be the time to take the stage and finish my role.]]''
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->''"Somewhere in this cyclical history of bequeathings, a chosen one will appear and reenact the Keyblade war. When [[Characters/KingdomHeartsXehanortsIncarnations this scapegoat]] arrives and [[MasterApprenticeChain takes my Keyblade in hand]], [[TheManBehindTheMan that will be the time to take the stage and finish my role.]]''

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->''"Somewhere in this [[[[MasterApprenticeChain cyclical history of bequeathings, bequeathings]], a chosen one will appear and reenact the Keyblade war. When [[Characters/KingdomHeartsXehanortsIncarnations this scapegoat]] arrives and [[MasterApprenticeChain takes my Keyblade in hand]], [[TheManBehindTheMan that will be the time to take the stage and finish my role.]]''
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-->-- -->--'''Luxu/[[spoiler: Xigbar]]''', ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''

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-->-- -->--'''Luxu/[[spoiler: Xigbar]]''', ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''
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->''"Somewhere in this cyclical history of bequeathings, a chosen one will appear and reenact the Keyblade war. When [[Characters/KingdomHeartsXehanortsIncarnations this scapegoat]] arrives and [[MasterApprenticeChain takes my Keyblade in hand]], [[TheManBehindTheMan that will be the time to take the stage and finish my role.]]''
-->-- -->--'''Luxu/[[spoiler: Xigbar]]''', ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''

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->[[AmbiguousRobot We've]] played you, [[KnightTemplar little man]]. We've pulled your strings. We've brought you here and watched you dance.
-->--'''"Inquisitor Ralei"''' to Inquisitor Sasham, ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: Xenology''

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->[[AmbiguousRobot ->'''"Inquisitor Ralei":''' [[AmbiguousRobot We've]] played you, [[KnightTemplar little man]]. We've pulled your strings. We've brought you here and watched you dance.
-->--'''"Inquisitor Ralei"''' to Inquisitor Sasham, ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: ->'''Inquisitor Sasham:''' You didn't bring me. My masters sent me to-
->'''"Inquisitor Ralei":''' No. Wrong. ''I'' sent you. A simple transmission. A few stolen authorizations.
-->--''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000:
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->[[AmbiguousRobot We've]] played you, [[KnightTemplar little man]]. We've pulled your strings. We've brought you here and watched you dance.
-->--'''"Inquisitor Ralei"''' to Inquisitor Sasham, ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: Xenology''
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-->--'''John Doe,''' ''Film/{{Se7en}}: [[ComicBookAdaptation Greed]]''

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-->--'''John Doe,''' ''Film/{{Se7en}}: [[ComicBookAdaptation Greed]]''Wrath]]''
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->Oh Detective Mills, how you tease with [[HotBlooded testosteroned veins and adrenaline-flushed skin]]. How you [[IronicEcho feed off those emotions]]. You're going to be so good for me.
-->--'''John Doe,''' ''Film/{{Se7en}}: [[ComicBookAdaptation Greed]]''
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-->-- ''Red Right Hand'' by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

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-->-- ''Red Right Hand'' by Nick Cave Music/NickCave and the Bad Seeds
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->You're one microscopic cog\\
In his catastrophic plan\\
Designed and directed by\\
His red right hand
-->-- ''Red Right Hand'' by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
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->''"Thanks, Finn. I couldn't have done it without you."''
-->--'''[[spoiler: The Lich disguised as a dead Billy]], WesternAnimation/AdventureTime
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-->-- [[http://www.oocities.org/evilsnack/innocent.htm The Normal Innocent Bystander's Survival Guide]]

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-->-- [[http://www.''[[http://www.oocities.org/evilsnack/innocent.htm The Normal Innocent Bystander's Survival Guide]]
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-->-- [[spoiler: Malacoda]] to [[spoiler: Shroud]] in ''Literature/DisAcedia''

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-->-- [[spoiler: Malacoda]] '''[[spoiler: Malacoda]]''' to [[spoiler: Shroud]] in ''Literature/DisAcedia''
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->A basic rule of covert ops is let someone else do your dirty work. Let someone else find the guy you want to kill. It's a great technique, as long as you're not the "someone else".

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->A basic rule of covert ops is let someone else do your dirty work. Let someone else find the guy you want to kill. It's a great technique, as long as you're ''you're'' not the "someone else".
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->A basic rule of covert ops is let someone else do your dirty work. Let someone else find the guy you want to kill. It's a great technique, as long as you're not the "someone else".
-->--'''Michael Westen''', a master of turning others into pawns finding himself on the receiving end, ''Series/BurnNotice''
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->''"You can see, of course, his ready fund of resentment, his sense of isolation. All these things make him vulnerable and malleable. He's the man we've been taught to hate. He's the solitary American gun nut."''
-->-- '''Dr. David Dobbler''', ''Literature/PointOfImpact''
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->''"If the Evil Overlord offers you immortality, superpowers, or infinite wealth, and all you have to do is something that seems terribly trivial, don't. It's a trick. You will be used as a pawn in a larger game, and then crushed like a bug."''
-->-- [[http://www.oocities.org/evilsnack/innocent.htm The Normal Innocent Bystander's Survival Guide]]
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->I was using you guys as test players to collect data. It was all for creating the ultimate game!
-->--'''[[spoiler: Kuroto Dan]]''', ''Series/KamenRiderExAid''
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-> A decent puppeteer can manipulate pawns, yes… but a true master pulls strings on string-pullers themselves.
-->-- [[spoiler: Malacoda]] to [[spoiler: Shroud]] in ''Literature/DisAcedia''
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->They don't know. They really don't. I can only guess that they think they're the ones in control: they gesture, [[CastingAShadow the Void moves in that direction]], they presume that they are giving orders. I suppose that the honey guide believes that it orders the ratel to destroy the beehive, kill the bees and feast on the honey, all purely so that they honey guide has its choice of leftovers. It would probably like to think that the ratel is obeying its commands.
-> So it is with the Lasombra. [[PuppetKing Strings run from their hands]] off [[LivingShadow into the blackness]], and they believe that they are the ones who do all the pulling.
-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Malkavian (Revised)''
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-->-- '''Fenric''' to Ace, ''Series/DoctorWho'' ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric The Curse of Fenric]]''

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-->-- '''Fenric''' to Ace, ''Series/DoctorWho'' ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric The Curse of Fenric]]''
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-->-- '''Fenric to Ace''', ''Series/DoctorWho'' ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric The Curse of Fenric]]''

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-->-- '''Fenric '''Fenric''' to Ace''', Ace, ''Series/DoctorWho'' ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric The Curse of Fenric]]''

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