History WoundedGazelleGambit / WesternAnimation

** One episode has Sarah leave Jimmy in the care of the Eds. She gives him a whistle "If anything goes wrong". When Ed accidentally blows the whistle himself, Jimmy quickly shoves some dirt in his mouth and starts crying. He tells Sarah the Eds made him eat dirt and were mean to him, when actually Jimmy had been antagonizing the Eds this whole time.

** In "Feud Fight", Chip Whistler assumes Cricket calling a truce with him is just so he can forfeit the fight and entice him into attacking him in order to make him look bad. ''No one'' was happy to see this.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': This is a classic trick that Tritonio likes to use. In the episode “Combat Camp,” when he tricks the Plantars into stealing a diamond from a train, he has Sprig pose as a “crippled orphan boy.” Much later into the series, after [[spoiler: Andrias takes over Amphibia]], Tritonio leads his own resistance they will often have the youngest member pose as a “crippled orphan boy.” [[spoiler: His backstory revealed that he was actually an orphan, and in order to survive, he had to join gangs. He learned the “crippled orphan boy” trick from them, where he would be the boy in question, but his gang would leave him behind.]]

** The episode "Homer of Seville" saw Homer become an opera singer after injuring his back [[ItMakesSenseInContext (don't even ask)]] had him being stalked by various fangirls. Most of them are of the AbhorrentAdmirer or OldMaid variety (hey, it ''is'' opera), but there is one gorgeous black-haired female biker who goes so far as to [[StalkerWithACrush pay a visit to Homer at home and strip nude right in front of him]]. As Homer looks on in terrified shock, the woman threatens to cry rape if Homer tells Marge what he has seen. Cue Marge asking Homer if everything is all right in the living room, and Homer lying: [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial "Uh, everyone's wearing clothes in here!"]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':

** In the finale, "Watching and Dreaming", [[spoiler:after being defeated in the final battle, Belos appears as Phillip and pulls a story out of his ass about being possessed by some nebulous dark magic that made him do all his evil deeds against his will. By this point, Luz doesn't even try to buy it, and Phillip gradually drops the façade for a KnightTemplar MotiveRant as the acid rain of the Boiling Isles begins melting what's left of him down into a gloopy skeleton before Eda, King, and Raine finish him off]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': [[SentientVehicle Super Bike]], in one of the many ways he manipulates Timmy, pretends to fall down and get injured, including pulling off and breaking his mirror. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard This ends up being his undoing]], as the broken mirror clues Timmy in on how to get past his NighInvulnerability.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':

** The episode "Homer of Seville" saw Homer become an opera singer after injuring his back [[ItMakesSenseInContext (don't even ask)]] had him being stalked by various fangirls. Most of them are of the AbhorrentAdmirer or ChristmasCake variety (hey, it ''is'' opera), but there is one gorgeous black-haired female biker who goes so far as to [[StalkerWithACrush pay a visit to Homer at home and strip nude right in front of him]]. As Homer looks on in terrified shock, the woman threatens to cry rape if Homer tells Marge what he has seen. Cue Marge asking Homer if everything is all right in the living room, and Homer lying: [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial "Uh, everyone's wearing clothes in here!"]]

** In "Hollow Mind", [[spoiler:Luz and Hunter encounter a little boy in Belos's mind, believing him to be a manifestation of one of Belos's emotions, and subsequently try to protect him from the giant sludge monster they believe to be Belos's inner self. The boy seems ''terrified'' of the monster, often crying, clinging to Luz's legs, and whimpering in fear when they encounter it. It's not until the monster has been caught that the truth is revealed -- the monster was an amalgamation of all the Palismen souls Belos has been consuming, while the little boy was the ''actual'' inner Belos, who [[EvilLaugh cackles evilly]] before transforming back into his adult form.]]

** In "Chocolate with Nuts", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick almost pull one on a customer, but that customer turns out to be seriously injured. He eventually turns out to be the con man they encountered, who pretended to be injured to take all the money they've earned.

** In "Hospitaliky", Popeye and Bluto discover that Olive Oyl works as a nurse at the local hospital. They try to feign illness to get her affection, but that falls flat when they start fighting. They spend the next several minutes trying and failing to get themselves injured so that they can be admitted to the hospital. Popeye finally succeeds when he force-feeds Bluto spinach, which somehow forces him to brutally assault Popeye. The episode closes with Popeye in a hospital bed [[BamdageMummy covered in bandages]], with Olive at his side.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon "Seein' Red, White and Blue" has Bluto faking injury and poor health to get out of being conscripted into the Navy. He gives up the charade on the Navy's behalf after seeing Japanese saboteurs beating up Popeye.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Plankton Vs. Krabs", Plankton slips while in the Krusty Krab and decides to pretend to be seriously injured and sue Krabs for everything he's got, including the Krabby Patty formula. He almost succeeds in the court case (on account of his own good acting and Krabs' genuine nastiness) until [=SpongeBob=] exposes his lies in front of the judge.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling D.W.]] thoughtlessly destroys Arthur's model plane he told her multiple times not to touch. After Arthur loses his temper and punches her in retaliation, she has a DelayedReaction before bursting into tears, indicating that Arthur didn't actually hit her that hard and she used CrocodileTears to get him grounded.

* A very dark example from ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'': in one episode Disney/{{Bambi}} shows up with his mother's bullet-ridden corpse, and Captain Hero, struck with guilt, decides that it is unfair to hunt game with assault weapons, destroying all of the weapons in the world. Later on, the deer and other animals get their revenge on humans, and Bambi later admits he killed his own mother just to go along with his Wounded Deer Gambit.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': In "Chameleon", Lila lies about having injured her wrist so everyone brings her food from the cafeteria since she supposedly can't get it herself. To prove that Lila is lying, Marinette throws a napkin at her and she catches it with the hand that was supposedly sprained. When Marinette points this out, Lila claims that she once saw a man get his eye gouged out by a napkin and was trying to save Max, who was standing next to her, from the same fate, even if it meant further injuring her wrist. She then pretends to be in great pain, so the class turns against Marinette for supposedly bullying an innocent student.

* Myra Brandish kidnaps ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' by pretending to be unconscious at the side of the road when they are out learning to drive. Next comes the knockout gas and waking up bound in a filthy motel full of cats.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E33GarnetsUniverse "Garnet's Universe"]], [[spoiler: Ringo]] does this to make Garnet [[spoiler: defeat the Fox that protects a magical gem]]. It works.