Index of social blow under the proverbial belt: The social counterpart of the physical combat index ThisIndexFightsDirty.
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* AbominationAccusationAttack-- Accusing someone of being some kind of monster.
* TheBabyTrap-- Someone in a relationship deliberately causes a pregnancy without their partner's consent, in an attempt to bind their partner to them.
* BadReviewThreat-- Threatening to give someone's business a terribly negative review.
* BavarianFireDrill-- Act like you're in charge and people will obey you.
* BedTrick-- X sleeps with Y by pretending to be Z.
* {{Blackmail}}-- Pay up or someone finds out something you want kept quiet.
** FabricatedBlackmail: Just because the "secret" isn't real doesn't mean that someone can't do damage with it.
* BlatantLies-- Lies so obvious they lack even a shred of plausibility.
* BriarPatching-- Deliberately using ReversePsychology to gain a desired result.
* BrideAndSwitch-- The bride isn't who the groom thinks she is.
* TheCakeIsALie-- Someone lies about the reward that will be given for completing a task.
* CallingTheCopsOnTheFBI-- Hindering covert law enforcement by making them suspicious to regular cops.
* ChewbaccaDefense-- "Winning" a debate through failing at logic.
* TheComplianceGame-- Someone tries to get someone else (usually a kid) to do something by passing it off as a game.
* ConfessionDeferred-- Lying until it benefits you to tell the truth.
* ConsummationCounterfeit-- Falsifying BloodstainedDefloration
* ContraceptionDeception-- Lying to a sexual partner about one's fertility or use of contraceptives.
* ContrivedClumsiness-- Publicly doing something nasty to someone else and pretending it was an accident.
* CrocodileTears-- Pretending to cry in order to gain others' sympathy.
* DivideAndConquer: Keeping people divided and disunited, and therefore easier to control.
* ExtendedGreetings-- Someone introduces themselves in a lengthy fashion.
* FakedFoodContaminant: Faking something disgusting in one's food to get a free meal/damage the restaurant's reputation.
* FakePregnancy-- A woman lies about being pregnant.
* FalseRapeAccusation-- Someone accuses someone else of rape, even though that person is innocent.
* {{Frameup}}-- Framing an innocent person.
** ThisBearWasFramed-- Making a murder look like an animal attack.
* {{Gaslighting}}-- Changing things around behind someone's back to make them doubt their own sanity.
* GuiltTripping-- Invoking guilt towards another person for a past wrongdoing.
* IntentionalMessMaking-- Dirtying or breaking something on purpose.
* ItsACostumePartyISwear-- Someone is invited to a party, being told it is a costume party, and shows up wearing an elaborate costume, only to find out the party wasn't a costume party.
* InsidiousRumorMill -- Using lies and manipulation to turn everyone against someone else within the same social circle out of spite and vengeance.
* JoinOrDie-- ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* LendingABackhand-- A character gives "help" they know is harmful.
* LeonineContract-- A bargain in which one side has no choice.
* LoopholeAbuse-- Blatant cheating through semantics.
* MaliciousSlander-- Lies and rumours spread to discredit someone.
* MarryingTheMark-- Entering a relationship with someone to con or commit a crime against them.
* ModelScam-- Pretending to be a person of taste and/or influence in order to take titillating pictures of another.
* MotivationalLie-- Lies used to motivate someone so they can more effectively deal with a hardship.
* MovingTheGoalposts-- Continually changing your standards so people will never be able to meet them.
* NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization-- A rapist claims their victim enjoyed it, and therefore it was fine.
* ObfuscatingDisability-- Pretending to be disabled or embellishing one's preexisting disability, often to their own personal gain, specifically for sympathy and/or money.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse-- An offer where the choices are "Accept or die".
* OnTheRebound-- After going through a bad breakup, someone very quickly jumps into a new relationship.
* PainlessDeathForAPrice-- Someone on death's doorstep is offered a MercyKill in exchange for something valuable.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat-- Social situation presented as a battle.
* PersonalDictionary-- Forcing your opponent to accept your strawman as valid in order to debate you at all.
* PlayingTheFamilyCard-- A character manipulates someone by using family ties to guilt-trip them.
* PlayingTheVictimCard-- A character uses their victimhood to resist taking responsibility for their actions.
* PoliceBrutalityGambit-- Employing a WoundedGazelleGambit against authority figures to avoid punishment.
* PolitenessJudo-- A character gets their way simply by being polite.
* PostRapeTaunt-- A rapist taunts the hero by gloating (and lying) about how the victim [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization "loved it"]], or commenting that the victim [[ButForMeItWasTuesday "was disappointing"]].
* ProppingUpTheirPatsy-- A culprit proclaims the innocence of another suspect to conceal their own culpability or further their own agenda.
* QuoteMine-- Certain parts of a quote are omitted to make it sound like the author meant something different from what they actually said.
* RecordedSplicedConversation-- Passing off a modified recording of an individual as a live statement.
* RevengePornBlackmail: Threatening someone via indecent material of them.
* RestrictedRescueOperation-- A rescue operation is hindered by outside forces.
* SadisticChoice-- Someone is forced to choose one of two terrible choices, mainly resulting in MortonsFork.
** SuicidalSadisticChoice-- ...or in death.
* ScarpiaUltimatum-- "Have sex with me, or else your loved one gets it."
* SelfDefenseRuse: Falsely claiming self-defense to justify a murder.
* SexualExtortion-- Withholding something from a target until they agree to sex.
* SlippingAMickey-- Putting a knockout chemical into someone's drink.
* SuddenContestFormatChange--Changing the entire format of a contest or competition in the middle of it.
* SuddenlySignificantRule-- When a rule or law that is usually not given much thought is suddenly invoked.
* ThreateningToCutTies: Threatening to cut ties with someone as an intimidation tactic.
* UnsuspectinglySoused: Someone drinks a beverage unaware there is alcohol in the drink and become intoxicated. May or may not be the result of someone planning a DateRape.
* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou-- Someone resorts to violence to end an argument, but manages to make the other person feel guilty about it.
* WithholdingTheCure-- The cure really works and it is what people really need, but someone is keeping it from people for their own selfish reasons.
* WoundedGazelleGambit-- Pretending to be a victim to manipulate others.
* WoundedGazelleWarcry-- The weakest combatant rushes into harm's way to motivate the others into action.
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