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1->''"Thanks, Finn. I couldn't have done it without you."''
2-->--'''[[spoiler: The Lich disguised as a dead Billy]]''', ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''
3
4->'''Dr. Leo Quintum''': I'm sorry, Superman. If I hadn't tried to steal fire from the sun, none of this would have happened.\
5'''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''': Don't apologize. You couldn't have known.\
6'''Quintum''': But *he* knew. It was his plan all along. Luthor used me to kill you.
7-->--''WesternAnimation/AllStarSuperman''
8
9->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".
10-->--'''Michael Westen''', a master of turning others into pawns finding himself on the receiving end, ''Series/BurnNotice''
11
12->You were nothing more than a pawn in a game played by a genuine master.
13-->-- '''Darth Sidious''', ''Literature/DarthPlagueis''
14
15-> A decent puppeteer can manipulate pawns, yes… but a true master pulls strings on string-pullers themselves.
16-->-- '''[[spoiler: Malacoda]]''' to [[spoiler: Shroud]] in ''Literature/DisAcedia''
17
18-> The wolves of Fenric, descendants of the Viking who first buried the flask - all pawns in my game. Dr Judson, Commander Millington, the Ancient One, Captain Soren - and now ''you''.
19-->-- '''Fenric''' to Ace, ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric The Curse of Fenric]]''
20
21->There is nothing you can say, Dominic. There is nothing you can do. For the first time in a long time, you can only see. So look well upon the fate of your friend. Look well upon my victory. Look well upon the new face of damnation. Look well upon the beginning of the '''Court of Karnak'''. And while you're at it, you should be able to see that the cause and outcome of this war were '''all thanks to you'''.
22-->-- '''Karnak''', ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan''
23
24->That was a good fight. You should be commended... Psych! You're dead meat!! Enemies you've been fighting against, supposedly "Mechanized Aliens," were actually. our [sic] guys, the missing battlefleet you learned about in the academy. You were killing our guys without knowing it! [[JustAsPlanned But I planned that all along!]] And your death... would be a nice finishing touch to my whole scheme. My special forces are the best of the best and they will be welcoming you with fierce fier [sic] power. SeeYouInHell!
25-->-- '''[[spoiler:Your commander]]''' in ''[[VideoGame/DonPachi DoDonPachi]]'', if you fulfill the conditions to reach the game's [[NewGamePlus second loop]]
26
27->You have to understand, the three of us are just their pawns. Well, you're a pawn. Dave and I are two gummy bears your retard brother stuck to the chessboard.
28-->-- '''John''' to Lance Falconer, ''Don't Open This Book It's Full Of Spiders''
29
30->And you, Preston, the supposed savior of the resistance, are now its destroyer. And along with them, you've given me yourself. Calmly... coolly... entirely without incident.
31-->-- '''[=DuPont=]''', ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' [[note]]'''Preston:''' [[SubvertedTrope No.]] ''[[TranquilFury Not without incident.]]''[[/note]]
32
33->"The answer is no."\
34"But, your excellency—"\
35"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.\
36The 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.
37-->-- ''Fanfic/FireDarkMark''
38
39->'''Talon''': Oh, Elisa...\
40'''Elisa''': Hush, it's alright.
41-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''
42
43->'''Way To 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 doing their sinister bidding for them. In extreme cases this may go as high as 90%. The clear implication is that it would have been better to not get involved in the first place.
44-->-- ''Website/TheGrandListOfConsoleRolePlayingGameCliches''
45
46->''"Your son didn't kill those people. He's not a murderer. He was used."''
47-->--'''[[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]]''', ''Film/IronMan3''
48
49->[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My god, I am sick.]]\
50I've been used!\
51And you knew\
52All the time!\
53God I'll never ever know\
54Why you chose me for your crime\
55For your foul bloody crime.\
56You have murdered me!
57-->-- '''Judas''', ''Music/JesusChristSuperstar''
58
59->I was using you guys as test players to collect data. It was all for creating the ultimate game!
60-->--'''[[spoiler: Kuroto Dan]]''', ''Series/KamenRiderExAid''
61
62->''"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, [[TheManInFrontOfTheMan that will be the time to take the stage and finish my role.]]''
63-->--'''Luxu/[[spoiler: Xigbar]]''', ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''
64
65->[[spoiler:John Locke]] was not a believer, Jack. He was a ''sucker''.
66-->-- The BigBad, ''Series/{{Lost}}''
67
68->''"You are the victim of deception, sorcerer."''
69-->--'''Liu Kang''' to Shang Tsung, ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1''
70
71->Hey, hotshot! Hey, thanks for helping us out. We've been able to pick up every Blacklist racer, thanks to you. Now, I'd take that into consideration and you give yourself up. So what's it gonna be?
72-->--'''[[CowboyCop Sergeant Cross]]''', ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedMostWanted''
73
74->''"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."''
75-->-- ''[[http://www.oocities.org/evilsnack/innocent.htm The Normal Innocent Bystander's Survival Guide]]''
76
77->'''Qarr:''' We have pawns?\
78'''Cedrik:''' Definitely.\
79'''Nero:''' Even though most of them don't know it.\
80'''Lee:''' Destructive unnecessary conflict is pretty much all they do.\
81'''Qarr:''' ...they look like total morons.\
82'''Cedrik:''' They are! Isn't it just perfect?
83-->-- ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''
84
85->''"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."''
86-->-- '''Dr. David Dobbler''', ''Literature/PointOfImpact''
87
88->You're one microscopic cog\
89In his catastrophic plan\
90Designed and directed by\
91His red right hand
92-->-- ''Red Right Hand'' by Music/NickCave and the Bad Seeds
93
94->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.
95-->--'''John Doe,''' ''Film/{{Se7en}}: [[ComicBookAdaptation Wrath]]''
96
97->'''Homer:''' I can't believe everyone was in on it.\
98'''Willie:''' WILLIE WASN'T!
99-->--''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E7TheGreatMoneyCaper The Great Money Caper]]''
100
101->I have seen you in the nightfires, Victarion Greyjoy. You come striding through the flames stern and fierce, your great axe dripping blood, blind to the tentacles that grasp you at wrist and neck and ankle, the black strings that make you dance.
102-->-- '''Moqorro''', ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''
103
104->I'm the [[BreakingTheFourthWall author of this webcomic!]] I can see to it that I win even if you ''don't'' '''do''' '''''ANYTHING!''''''
105-->-- '''Mark''', in @/StongRadd's webcomic-to-be
106
107->'''Seth:''' No... I had almost reclaimed the empire.\
108'''[[spoiler: M. Bison:]]''' What if I told you everything has gone according to my plan?
109-->-- ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV''
110
111->If they make greeting cards for helping with evil plans, I owe you one.
112-->-- '''Dimentio''', ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario''
113
114->If you won't be my knight, you will be my pawn.
115-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}''' to Franchise/{{Superman}}, ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''
116
117->Sorry, but I don't see [[{{Eagleland}} any patriotism]] here. All I see is [[AxCrazy a psycho who latched on to an excuse to kill people]], and who's '''so stupid''' he doesn't realize he's being used by Luthor.
118-->-- '''Franchise/{{Batman}}''', ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies''
119
120->Only by engaging in mortal combat could you regain your sanity... For you have been unwitting pawns in a vicious plan!
121-->-- '''Wizard Shazam''', ''ComicBook/SupermanVsShazam''
122
123->If you had just died this would have all gone according to plan.
124-->-- '''[[spoiler:Robert Baxter]]''', ''[[VideoGame/TimeCrisis Time Crisis 5]]''
125
126->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.
127-> 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.
128-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Malkavian (Revised)''
129
130->'''Dracula:''' WHY DO YOU THINK I BROUGHT YOU HERE, GAVE YOU THIS CASTLE, EQUIPPED YOUR LABORATORY?!\
131'''Dr. Frankenstein:''' You said- You said you believed in my work.\
132'''Dracula:''' And I ''do''. But now that it is, as you yourself have said, a triumph of science over GOD! It must now serve ''my'' purpose.\
133'''Dr. Frankenstein:''' What purpose?
134-->-- ''Film/VanHelsing''
135
136->'''"Inquisitor Ralei":''' [[AmbiguousRobot We've]] played you, [[KnightTemplar little man]]. We've pulled your strings. We've brought you here and watched you dance.\
137'''Inquisitor Sasham:''' You didn't bring me. My masters sent me to-\
138'''"Inquisitor Ralei":''' No. Wrong. ''I'' sent you. A simple transmission. A few stolen authorizations.
139-->--''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: Xenology''
140
141->''"Sir, I fear we are being used!"''
142-->--'''Sassy Sue''', ''Film/ZombieStrippers''

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