Line #2 GambitPileup/FanWorks


1	* ''Fanfic/AllGuardsmenParty'': One of the reasons so many people died in the back story of the "The Interplanetary Man of Mystery" was because there were a half dozen factions running around trying to kill each other or obstructing each other's work.
2	* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/48341/1/Changelings%2C-Changelings%2C-Everywhere/ Changelings, Changelings Everywhere]]'' is an unusual case of the trope being used for side-splitting comedy alongside DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent. It blatantly devolves into a parody of the trope at the end due to the gambit-encouraging problems inherent in introducing a race of {{Voluntary Shapeshift\|ing}}ers. ''Inanimate objects'' are revealed to be Changelings in disguise, and nobody is quite sure anymore who they're working for, since there's so much backstabbing and RightHandVersusLeftHand. Queen Chrysalis wants to rule the Changelings, but is opposed by Lord Chitin, who is supposedly a deposed Changeling noble who has a birthright to the throne. But they're both opposed to The New Larval Republic, who want to break free of royalty altogether. Then Lord Chitin makes a deal with the NLR, but not everyone accepts. But some Changelings have a change of heart, and defect. The [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Mare]] amid the shenanigans is [[BigGood Princess Celestia]], and [[HeroicBSOD even she doesn't last that long]].
3	* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' and its verse have such tangled gambits and schemers that it now has its own [[GambitPileup/ChildOfTheStorm page]].
4	* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfRemnant'': While the story primarily follows Jaune's attempts to negotiate genuine peace between the Kingdoms and the Grimmlands, there are plenty of other groups all competing to achieve their objectives:
5	** Blake, Emerald, Weiss, and Pyrrha are accidentally sabotaging his plan.
6	** Cinder, Klein, Jay Winchester, and Roman are ''actively'' sabotaging his plan.
7	** Yang and her team are trying to make the Claimed more comfortable at Beacon and show the world they're not inherently dangerous.
8	** The Ozluminati are just trying to keep the situation under control.
9	** The Atlas Council is actively preparing to fire the first shot of a war with Salem.
10	** Jacques, Winter, Ghira, and Kali are trying to assassinate the Claimed.
11	** And through all of this, Salem's plan remains completely unclear.
12	* ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'' has Professor Moriarty and Beth Lestrade. Moriarty is TheChessmaster; Beth just plans simply and utilizes the IndyPloy when she has to. Most notably, Moriarty makes a CloningGambit and allows his own death to occur, and when his clone pops up in the 22nd century, Beth's era, she has the body of Literature/SherlockHolmes ''restored to life'' to aid her and New Scotland Yard. Only to find that Moriarty is now a VillainWithGoodPublicity, and she and Sherlock will have to discredit him.
13	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14225438/1/The-Coward The Coward]]'': Coil has his own plans going on to rule Brockton Bay and is vaguely aware Cauldron is planning something or other but assumes it doesn't involve him. Cauldron has their own plans of using Brockton Bay as an experiment in cape feudalism, along with their plans to stop Scion. But the very end reveals that Contessa and Doctor Mother are using Earth Bet as an experiment in letting parahumans hold positions of power and are getting ready to abandon the world (and the rest of Cauldron) as expendible.
14	* ''Fanfic/DeathNoteEquestria'': Given [[Manga/DeathNote one half of the source material]], it shouldn't be a surprise this ends up happening. Twilight and L's moves against each other count from the start already, but then [[{{Shinigami}} Mer]] goes off Twilight's script to reach her own ends. And on top of that, not only does [[spoiler:[[TooCoolToLive Pinkie Pie]]]] appear to have set up a ThanatosGambit before her death, but Celestia is strongly implied to be running her own scheme against Kira as well.
15	* Fanfic/DeathNoteIITheHiddenNote has this happen: [[spoiler:A woman shows up at the doorway in a trenchcoat, a fedora and sunglasses. She is apparently the new Kira's conspirator. In her Death Note, she writes down the names of the people she sees and waits for forty seconds. But wait! Near pulls out what he says is the real Death Note and says the one the woman is holding is fake. Not only that, Near accuses KJ of being the new Kira. But wait! The woman reads out the names she wrote and describes how the four people she wrote the names of would die. Each one dies seemingly in that way. Suddenly, The woman takes off her fedora and sunglasses to reveal she's Near's daughter Angela! Everyone is suddenly surrounded by Shinigami. Arik flashes his Death Note in Near's face. Near realizes that the Death note he and Angela have are both fake. Near asks KJ where the real Death Note was. KJ says the first entry he wrote in his journal, which mentions an angel. It is then that Near realizes he held the real Death Note in his hands and put it back. It is at this point he exclaims how it was the Hidden Note.]]
16	* ''Fanfic/DirtySympathy'' has Klavier and Apollo's plan to frame their abusers clashing with Phoenix's plan [[spoiler:of proving Kristoph guilty and restoring his good name]] and Kristoph's plan [[spoiler:of poisoning the Mishams to tie up loose ends.]]
17	* ''FanFic/DivineBlood'' has no less than sixteen people pursuing their own, often mutually independent goals with no collaboration between them.
18	* ''FanFic/DragonAgeTheCrownOfThorns''. The first chapters already paint Orzammar as the game of lies, but things keep evolving for real when the [[WisePrince dwarven noble]] [[GuileHero protagonist]] and the other wardens return to the dwarven city to get military aid. And this is not counting the pileup dealing with the main plotline, one in which not just the Wardens and Loghain are involved, but also [[spoiler:a Fade Spirit]], of all things, and, more recently, probably [[spoiler:the Archdemon]] as well.
19	* In ''Fanfic/ExtraLife'', Junko and Izuru are both manipulating each other for the Neo World Program plan; Junko uses Izuru to get her AI in so [[BrainUploading she can upload her personality in the event of her death]], while he goes along with it to test whether hope can beat despair. For that purpose, he anonymously backs the Future Foundation so they don't get destroyed before the program is finished, plans to exploit Makoto's kindness to get himself and Class 77 placed in the program, and [[spoiler:makes the time to toss a MemoryGambit in there just in case the worst scenario comes to pass.]]
20	* ''Fanfic/FinalFantasyVIIAnotherSide'': Shinra has plans of course, AVALANCHE has plans to stop them, but in the mix is also Genesis, who, depending on the day, may or may not be working with Shinra, and Deepground who are definitely working outside Shinra's interests.
21	* Bound to happen in ''Fanfic/TheGoodHunter'' due to the politicking involved between the three factions.
22	** TheOrder faction:
23	*** The Chief God has been raising human [[TheChosenOne heroes]], in hopes that they can strike down the Monster Lord. The [[https://monstergirlencyclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Chief_God wiki]] reveals that the Chief God opts for this indirect method as a result of being gravely wounded after trying to destroy the Demon Lord and her husband in battle.
24	*** Jophiel, Watchman of the Chief God, aims to remove Sheffield, one of the Oberon League's territories, of any monster influence in the long-run. However, the attack on the Union Festival, together with Father Zachariah's involvement in said attack put a wrench in this [[ThePlan plan]], seeing that the common folk of Sheffield are obviously not happy with the attack, together with the fact that it [[AwakenTheSleepingGiant galvanised]] [[OutsideContextProblem the Hunter]] into action. As of now, she and many other bishops of TheOrder are prioritising on negotiations with the First Founder of the Oberon League. In order for them to make progress, the sponsor of the attack has to be delivered, a task she and another bishop, Ria, are trying to accomplish. Furthermore, she is keeping an eye on the Hunter, in order to find out any way of putting down this unknowable threat, assuming there is one.
25	** The Monster faction:
26	*** Adrastia is working with the deposed royals of the Kingdom of Erebus so as to sabotage the interests of Samael TheUsurper, the current king of Erebus. This ensures that her slaver raids in the villages of Erebus remains unhindered, allowing the kingdom to become a part of the Demon Lord's realms.
27	** The Oberon League:
28	*** King Samael the Thirteenth aims to root out all the slavers and marauders that are taking the men away from their villages. While he was not able to act directly against them, due to the troubles he had to deal with in his DecadentCourt, this [[ThePlan plan]] is made viable thanks to securing a powerful agent that is the Hunter.
29	*** Cyril Sutherland, the Hunter himself, is by no means a planner. Knowing that many who are in power may seek to exploit his skillset to further their agendas, he thought it would be better for him to simply play along and wait until some idiot makes a mistake.
30	* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''/''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' crossover ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'' has one of these rapidly developing: As per W.I.T.C.H. canon, [[TheChessmaster Nerissa]] is manipulating the war between Phobos and the Rebellion to her own ends, but at the same time, [[KnowledgeBroker Charles Ludmoore]] and his two brothers are doing the same thing, with even more efficiency than Nerissa. Meanwhile, [[TokenGoodTeammate Viscount Servantis]] is trying to steer Phobos in a lighter-handed, less oppressive rule (and when he's [[spoiler:captured by the rebels]], his allies in the nobility essentially go rouge, planning to crush the Rebellion themselves without Phobos' oversight), [[EvilSorcerer Daolon Wong]] becomes TheStarscream to Phobos [[spoiler:and upon the failure of his plans allies with a Jiangshi to regain his lost power]], [[SealedEvilInACan Tarakudo]] has woken up and taken an interest in events, [[spoiler:[[MysteriousWatcher Nimue]]]] is keeping an eye on things, and on the Earth side of things, [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang's]] Dark Hand is flexing its muscle [[spoiler:and is actually [[RunningBothSides manipulating Section 13]] as part of its [[WellIntentionedExtremist larger plan]]]], with Jackie [[TheMole infiltrating them]] to bring them down. And then there's also the [[EldritchAbomination Cavalcade of Horrors]] and their master, who are implied to be using all of the above as pawns in a larger plot.
31	** Even the arc dedicated solely to dealing with the Dark Hand has one of these. There's whatever Chang's been working towards, the Section 13-backed Chan Clan and Guardians working to take Chang down, Will plotting a secretive side mission with only Jade and Caleb's knowledge, [[KnightTemplar Quentin Ross]] going rogue out of disgust at Section 13 not going far enough to eliminate the Dark Hand, and newcomer [[WildCard Nyx]] running her own agenda against the Dark Hand. And there's the Oni watching from the sidelines via Hak Foo's mask, while [[spoiler:Nimue]] eventually steps in to manipulate the Chans and Guardians as part of her own agenda.
32	* ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'': Once Quirrell allows [[{{Turncoat}} traitors]] in the combat games, ''everyone'' wants to have a secret plot, even if they don't actually want to change their loyalties. Every soldier in all three armies has something going on, though only a few are actually depicted. Harry encourages this for several reasons, the main one being that he knows he can handle the ensuing chaos better than Draco and Hermione. The chaos escalates to the point that aspiring WildCard Blaise Zabini manages to become a '''''quintuple''''' agent in a war with only three sides, [[spoiler:by selling those three sides out to Quirrell and Dumbledore and PlayingBothSides between those two.]]
33	* ''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDXD'': [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku's]] plan to deal with [[Literature/HighSchoolDxD Riser]] is this. First, he uses [[CoolSword Flame Delete]] to nullify Riser's fire attack and then injure him in such a way he cannot regenerate so easily. When Riser tries to throw him off the roof, he just [[TakingYouWithMe brings him down with him]]. And, when Riser chokes him and threatens to kill him in order to force Rias to surrender, [[spoiler:he pulls out [[ChekhovsGun Ibara's holy water bottle]], Boosts it and smashes it on his head, incapacitating him long enough for Izuku to Dragon Smash him to kingdom come.]]
34	* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': Misato has a bunch of plans to deal with the huge number of global conflicts and destroy SEELE, SEELE has a plan to destroy HERZ and bring about [[AssimilationPlot instrumentality]], GEIST has a plan to defeat SEELE for good, and the Children has a plan of their own...
35	* ''FanFic/KingdomHeartsNewEpicTheFirst'', by chapter five, already has the plans and counterplans affiliated with Wolfang Richler, the official BigBad, the President of the Alliance Alric Maynes, the Inverse Organization who has just appeared and who seem to have history with Wolfang, the two immediately apparent members of the Inverse Organization seem to have divergent goals if not means, and then there's the introduction of Summerill, who immediately decided he wanted to try to use and manipulate Wolfang to advance his own plans.
36	** Then there's Perseus Sarasho, TheDragon to Wolfang, who wants to use Wolfang to create a war for him, since he feels useless in a world of perpetual peace, and that others like him are devalued.
37	** Then there's Doctor Doom, who wants to make use of the wish Wolfang has promised him for something, while also making his own plans. That Loki is also involved guarantees he too has plans in this vein.
38	** Then there's the heroes, and the fact the new generation might have plans that conflict with one another's plans as well as creating conflict with the plans of the old heroes (Sora, Riku and Kairi).
39	* ''FanFic/LeftBeyond'' Every major and minor faction has an agenda, and except for God's, they all intersect in several ways. At the very end, [[spoiler:All the minor factions' plans get preempted by Satan's plan to start the Last War and conquer the Temple, which gets preempted by God's plan to fulfill the final prophecies in the Bible, which gets preempted by the Omega's plan to endlessly duplicate their souls and cause the White Throne Judgement to never complete, thus allowing the space colonists to safely reach Alpha Centauri.]]
40	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11864574/1/Like-A-Wish Like A Wish]]'' features not only Lelouch/Zero's plots against Britannia and Cornelia's plots against Zero, but also Kallen's, Suzaku's, and Nunnally's plots to help Lelouch and/or punish the ones who betrayed him. Further complicating matters is that Kallen, Suzaku, and Nunnally are each unaware that the other two have also [[PeggySue been sent back in time]]. Notably, few of Lelouch's plans go the way he expects because he can't anticipate the three of them and isn't aware Suzaku and Nunnally are even involved in any plotting.
41	* ''Fanfic/MyChoicesTwistedTalesThroughTime'': The story's later chapters reveal that modern Equestrian history is being steered by a tangle of three long-running plots operating largely outside of each other's active notice -- [[spoiler:the Royal Sisters are manipulating events to create the perfect bearers for the Elements of Harmony, Celestia is being unknowingly manipulated by Luna to that very same effect, and the [[AncientConspiracy Order of Stars]] has its own unspecified agenda]].
42	* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': The tournament two-parter in Season 2 ends up turning into this: the Tallest are hosting it as a publicity stunt to turn the Irken public away from [[MalevolentMaskedMen Miz's]] [[EnemyCivilWar revolutionary message]], Zim is entering to spite them [[spoiler:and gain a propaganda coup for his Miz persona]], while unknown to anyone the various New Irken Order cells are working together to launch an attack on the tournament in Miz's name, and the allied Resisty and Team Save Earth are planning to launch an attack of their own. [[spoiler:These plans all ultimately fail due to colliding -- the NIO's attack disrupts the tournament, destroying any hopes of good PR for the Empire and ruining Zim's attempts at a win, while the chaos of the fighting scares off the Resisty from carrying out their own planned attack.]]
43	* ''Fanfic/PerfectionIsOverrated'': In Chapters 17 through 19, [[spoiler:Bachiko and Meiko try to force certain people to fall in love or, failing that, kill the [[Anime/MyHime Himes]]. Ishigami decides he can use them and decides to try to use Yukariko to coerce the Himes into fighting one another. Meanwhile, Nagi, trying to advance his own agenda, tries to manipulate Shiho, who is unconvinced that Yuuichi has truly fallen for her, into killing Mai.]]
44	* ''Fanfic/PoniesOfOlympus'': ''Atlas Strongest Tournament'' has this occurring between Luna and [[TheDragon Aurelia]] in their moves and countermoves against each other behind the scenes of the tournament. It's taken to MindScrew levels at some points.
45	* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfSeven'' eventually sees the characters caught up in one by Chapter 57. Harry and his seven partners are aware that the Death Eaters tried to 'smuggle' Pansy Parkinson into their group and plan to FeedTheMole to take the initiative from Voldemort. Dumbledore and Bill are plotting to lure Harry into a trap and have Voldemort kill him, needing Voldemort to go along with this somehow. And Voldemort has been using the Ring Horcrux to make Dumbledore think the Resurrection Stone is letting him talk to Grindelwald, and thus manipulating Dumbledore towards... well, basically exactly what Dumbledore is doing. And Voldemort's looking for the Elder Wand, as he did in canon. And some of the Order members (mostly the Weasleys, Tonks, and Lupin) are aware of what Harry's doing and trying to help him against Dumbledore and the Order members still loyal to him.
46	* The plot of ''[[Fanfic/GameTheoryLyricalNanoha Power Games]]'' arises from the colliding agendas of six different factions.
47	* ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse:'' The story "The Hero of Oaton" eventually turns into one of these, with several people (some of whom aren't even ''there'') having plans which all collide, with Trixie, Raindrops and Cheerilee caught in the middle.
48	* ''FanFic/RedactionOfTheGoldenWitch'' has [[ConspiracyTheorist Karl]]'s theory about what ''really'' happened in ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry''. In his version of events, all of the Ushiromiya's servants were working for different players in a worldwide conspiracy, all aimed at claiming the family's secret stash of wealth.
49	* ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'' takes ''Evangelion'''s existing pileup between SEELE's instrumentality and Gendo's plan to bring Yui back, and adds in Kaworu's plan to turn humanity into a HiveMind and Shinji's own plans to protect Tokyo 3 and being a SpannerInTheWorks for the other three's plans.
50	* ''FanFic/SilentPartnerUnfinishedBusiness'': The entire second half of the story is gambits repeatedly smashing into each other. [[spoiler:Naomi and Misa ruin Light's plan to secretly help the Egawas as the Yotsuba Kira by changing their presentation to the Yotsuba Group, Light then ruins their plan to prove he's Kira by ''killing himself'', the Egawas then throw Light, Naomi, Misa, and Rem into chaos by using the Death Note to call all of Kira's faithful to abduct Misa Amane...]]
51	* ''FanFic/SonOfTheSevenKingdoms'' is a crossover with ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', so of course there's plenty of this:
52	** First, and most obvious, there's the civil war.
53	** Then, the Tyrells' attempts to become TheManBehindTheMan via Margaery.
54	** Dorne is now trying to get as much as they can from whoever they ally with - notwithstanding the possibility that they may still be banking on the Targaryens.
55	** North of the Wall, there's an alliance between the White Walkers [[spoiler:led by Alduin, the Devourer of Worlds]] and the Volkihar vampire clan - which is obviously going to break as soon as either of them finds it convenient - against the combined forces of the Night's Watch and the Dawnguard, plus the Wildlings' desperate attempts to save themselves.
56	** In Essos, Daenerys' attempts to reach Westeros lead to her finding much about herself, and potentially find herself in conflict with an unknown person that can use the Thu'um that lives in Volantis.
57	** There's also the Mythic Dawn cult, which seeks to bring Mehrunes Dagon into the mortal realm.
58	** And finally, it is slowly becoming obvious that the gods are trying to aid mortals as best as they can, as exemplified by [[spoiler:Talos himself giving William the words to the Unrelenting Force shout]] and [[spoiler:Valeria Targaryen, the Messenger of Akatosh, helping Daenerys several times.]]
59	* ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos''. Loads of characters, and virtually ''all'' of them have their own individual plans and plots. All of them end up falling apart by the end of the story thanks to the [[SpannerInTheWorks interference]] of [[EldritchAbomination Dark Tails]].
60	** Maledict wishes to defeat the Metarex so he can unleash Tsali on his enemies and rule the universe. [[TheChessmaster He is also secretly controlling the Metarex]] as part of his enormously complicated GambitRoulette. He also wants to get the Chaos Emeralds in order to keep them away from the Metarex [[spoiler:and is trying to protect Sonic the Hedgehog because he's Maledict's son.]]
61	** Tsali steals Planet Eggs so he has enough power to exterminate the Seedrians and destroy the Metarex. And anyone else who gets in his way.
62	** Allysion want to kill Tsali and then launch an attack on the Milky Way to upset Maledict's plans.
63	** Jesus sends his servant Tephiroth to see if Sonic would be a useful ally, and recruits Trinity to spy on the Demons and find out what they're up to.
64	** Venus the Seedrian is trying to expose Maledict's plan in order to stop him from taking over the universe.
65	** Dark Oak and the Metarex are stealing and mutating Planet Eggs in order to keep themselves and their organization alive.
66	* ''Fanfic/StarWarsTheOneCanon'': The heroes of the New Republic wish to maintain the freedom won after they overthrew the Galactic Empire. Their efforts are contested by multiple Imperial Remnants and outside threats like the Yuuzhan Vong, the Ssi-ruk, the Yevetha, and the Sith, all of which try to usurp the New Republic and are working at cross purposes to try and take control for themselves.
67	* ''Fanfic/SuddenContact'':
68	** In ''Sudden Contact'' The Sons of Korhal and the Citadel Council allied together against the threats of the zerg and protoss while defeating the Confederacy. Daggoth is sent to Citadel space and waging war against Sovereign, who in turn is using [[spoiler:Liara as his indoctrinated agent to find the Conduit.]] The protoss reduced to fighting in a civil war. The Magistrate/[[spoiler:Illusive Man]] plotting against the Dominion while Duran is working behind the scene within Cerberus. And finally the newly established United Earth Directorate is preparing to invade the Koprulu sector.
69	** In ''Sudden Supremacy'': The UED finally arrives to the Koprulu sector and tries to establish an alliance with the Kel-Morian Combine and Cerberus against the Dominion. ITSA colonies are being mysteriously attacked and its colonists abducted. The protoss have finally ended their civil war and tries to establish diplomacy with the Citadel.
70	* This isn't too uncommon for ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fics, but if one stands above the rest in that regard, it's probably [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/12741975/1/Total-Drama-Legends-vs-Nobodies Total Drama: Legends vs. Nobodies]]. Almost every player is aggressively pursuing their own plans, to varying degrees of success, alliances last anywhere from one episode to the entire fic depending on the characters, and nobody is safe from the schemes of their peers.
71	* ''Fanfic/UltimateVideoRumble'':
72	** The second Rumble kicks off with no less than four villain groups -- [[Franchise/StreetFighter Shadaloo]], [[Franchise/MortalKombat the Outworld]], [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Ultratech]] (temporarily) allied with [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Rugal Bernstein]], and [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Mizuki Rashojin]] (for the moment) allied with [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Pyron]] -- actively trying to capture Haohmaru's soul, each hiring and/or forcing still more competitors into assisting. The heroes spend several chapters just trying to work out who's working with who, and [[spoiler:it turns out this entire part of the pileup is itself a BatmanGambit of Demitri, who tipped everyone off (heroes included) with just enough information to get them to act, and counts on them all to wear each other and Haohmaru down while he slips in.]] Meanwhile, the [[Franchise/MortalKombat Lin Kuei are gunning for Sub-Zero]], [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Saishuu Kusanagi is trying to corrupt his son]] as always, [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes Doctor Doom]] [[spoiler:gets inconveniently stuck in [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Jago's body]] (ItMakesSenseInContext)]], and [[SpiritedCompetitor some competitors don't give a crap about any of this and just want to win the tournament]].
73	** The third Rumble is even more chaotic. Take a deep breath: [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes the Infinity Gems]], [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters the Orochi source]], [[VideoGame/SoulSeries the Soul Edge]], and [[VideoGame/MaceTheDarkAge the Mace of Tanis]] are all targeted for capture/exploitation by one or more villains; [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Iori]] and [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Amakusa]] are stealing the elemental force of all the [[PlayingWithFire fire-projectile competitors]]; [[EvilTwin EX]] [[VideoGame/FatalFury Andy Bogard]] is ruining his counterpart's life ForTheEvulz; [[VideoGame/TimeKillers Rancid]] is accidentally "[[BlessedWithSuck enhanced]]" with [[VideoGame/WarGods the Ore]] and wants it out of him; demons are trying to grab the souls of [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Ryo]], [[VideoGame/VirtuaFighter Jeffrey]], and/or [[Franchise/StreetFighter Guy]]... oh, and a lot of people ''really'' have it out for [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Demitri]]. Also [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Eddy Gordo]]. Most of these plots continue, tripping over each other repeatedly, straight through to the finale.
74	* In ''Fanfic/TheVictorsProject'' and its spinoffs, the District 1 resistance hits this snag. There's the primary rebel cell, with their inner-district organization, and a plan to take the district strategically and with little bloodshed, and a dozen other, unorganized groups ranging from the oppressed workers to the Great Houses with plans of their own which involve little more than killing as many of their oppressors as possible, Once the fighting actually starts, things get out of control quickly.
75	* In ''FanFic/{{Webwork}}'', there are several plans and schemes starting to emerge. There's [[BigBad Tarakudo's]] plan to keep [[DragonInChief Jade]] under his metaphorical thumb, Jade's desire to protect her kits, [[spoiler:whatever [[DiabolicalMastermind Chang]] is up to]], the plans of Black's superiors to reduce their dependence on contractors (namely the J-Team), [[spoiler:and [[TheStarscream Tara planning to overthrow Jade]] with the help of the [[NotQuiteDead Gumo Queen's ghost]].]]
76	* ''Fanfic/WeissReacts'' has the constant pranking war going on between everyone that even the staff are players in. And then there's the Great Antic War arc...
77	* In ''Fanfic/WhatAboutWitchQueen'' it seems everybody has a plot in place, and not all of them has been revealed yet. And they already start crashing into each other. To list just a few:
78	** Militaristic cabal in Arendelle wants to start Arendelle-Weselton war to prevent Arendelle-Weselton & The Isles war.
79	** ...but Hunter (and maybe Margaret) starts Weselton-Arendelle war before militarists can do it on their own terms, and it seems he needs war for some goal of his.
80	** ...but Elsa schemes to stop both parties from starting the war, and then schemes to stop the war and Hunter.
81	** Michael wants to take over the Isles.
82	** ...but Hans is doing the same, and he already has a head start.
83	** ...but [[spoiler:Anna arrives on Westerguard]] which might put a bit of dent in his plans... or not.
84	** And then there's mysterious smuggler king Felix Drachner who has his own plans.

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