[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
->''"Once a name is written down in the Death Note, you can't do anything about it. [[VillainProtagonist You]] more than anybody else here should know that. [[IronicEcho Goodbye]], [[spoiler:[[IronicEcho Light Yagami]]]]."''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:Ryuk]]''', ''Manga/DeathNote'', Chapter 107, "Curtain"

->''You never know when the sparks that you helped create will cause a fire and blow back in your direction. If you're already facing into the wind, it's too late.''
-->--'''Moguro Fukuzou''', ''[[Manga/LaughingSalesman Laughing Salesman NEW]]'', Episode 7 "The Rule of Mommy Friends"
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
->''"You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation!"''
-->--'''Fantomah''', about to kill a villain with the same [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom giant tidal wave]] he tried to drown the jungle with.

->''Your machine utilized and magnified my emotions... my energies... it never occurred to you that I could follow you? That I could claim this power?''
-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}''', ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade''

->''"Brainiac is gone– Destroyed by his own devices!"''
-->-- '''Superman''', ''ComicBook/LetMyPeopleGrow''

->''There's no running, Dr. Cornelius. I can smell you, whichever part of this place you're hiding in. I hope you appreciate the irony, because I wouldn't even have [[SuperSenses these senses]] if you hadn't given me this despicable feral snout. Brought down by your own hubris? I like to think of it as poetic justice. ''
-->--'''Beast''', ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen2001''

->'''ComicBook/{{Superman}}:''' Do you remember that mountain of graves we noticed on Warworld? That's what gave me the answer! The Warzoons weren't buried in a mass grave as there'd be if the race was destroyed by some great illness!\\
'''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}:''' You're right! The Warzoons must've died one by one! They buried each other — except for the last one buried by the peace-loving Largas!\\
'''Superman:''' Precisely! And there's only one thing on that entire satellite capable of killing the Warzoon one at a time — the control helmet in the command console!\\
'''Supergirl:''' The massive energy-drain must've proven too much for their minds to endure! One by one they were destroyed by the very weapon their warlike race had spent untold centuries creating — one by one, they died — victims of massive cerebral hemorrhage — and their own insatiable lust for power!
-->-- ''ComicBook/WarWorld''

->''"Once again, his hatred for me clouded his judgment! He overlooked the fact that in altering my recollection of the incident that started our feud...he imprinted his own attitudes on the clone's mind-- complete with his own biases, distortions, and paranoia!''
-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''', ''ComicBook/TheLifeStoryOfSuperman''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fan Works]]
->"Everything tied back to Shinji's own scheming. He had been snared in a web of his own making. The phrase 'hoisted by his own petard' didn't even begin to cover this sort of thing."
-->-- ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
->''If you're gonna hire Machete to kill the bad guy, you'd better make damn sure the bad guy isn't you!''
-->-- ''Film/{{Machete}}'' trailer, ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}''

->''"Remember when you told me you should mix your own drinks? That's good advice for everybody!"''
-->--'''Hayley Stark''', ''Film/HardCandy''

->'''[[TheseQuestionsThree Bridge keeper]]:''' What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?\\
'''King Arthur:''' What do you mean? [[BrickJoke An African or an European swallow?]]\\
'''Bridge keeper:''' Uh?! I don't know that! (gets magically thrown off the bridge)
-->-- '''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'''

->''"The trouble you brew today, you'll drink tomorrow."''
-->--'''Hisham''' to Delilah, ''Film/{{Samson and Delilah|1949}}''

->''"Aren't guns just [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] great, [[BigBad Hammerson]]?"''
-->-- '''Smith''', ''Film/ShootEmUp'', after shooting Hammerson with his own gun.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Literature]]
->He who digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit he has made. The trouble he causes recoils on himself; his violence comes down on his own head.
-->-- ''[[Literature/BookOfPsalms Psalms 7:15-16]]'', ''Literature/TheBible'' (NIV)

->Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
-->-- ''[[Literature/BookOfPsalms Psalms 141:10]]'', ''Literature/TheBible'' (NIV)

->If a man digs a pit, he will fall into it; if a man rolls a stone, it will roll back on him.
-->-- ''[[Literature/BookOfProverbs Proverbs 26:27]]'', ''Literature/TheBible'' (NIV)

->Words from the mouth of the wise are gracious, but fools are [[SayingTooMuch consumed by their own lips]].
-->-- ''[[Literature/BookOfEcclesiastes Ecclesiastes 10:12]]'', ''Literature/TheBible'' (NIV)

->When Haman entered, the king asked him, “What should be done for the man the king delights to honor?”\\
Now Haman thought to himself, “Who is there that the king would rather honor than me?” So he answered the king, “For the man the king delights to honor, have them bring a royal robe the king has worn and a horse the king has ridden, one with a royal crest placed on its head. Then let the robe and horse be entrusted to one of the king’s most noble princes. Let them robe the man the king delights to honor, and lead him on the horse through the city streets, proclaiming before him, ‘This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!’”\\
“Go at once,” the king commanded Haman. “Get the robe and the horse and do just as you have suggested for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Do not neglect anything you have recommended.”
-->-- ''[[Literature/BookOfEsther Esther 6:6-10]]'', ''Literature/TheBible'' (NIV)

->"Do you think Saint Thrastus complained when he was strung up by his petard? No! Not one word! That's piety. Now get on with your work, you little ingrate."
-->-- ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: Literature/DarkHeresy''

-> ''"Impaled on your own sword, Gilderoy!'"''
-->-- '''Albus Dumbledore''', ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets''

->"[The Harlequin] had fired off the firecracker rockets that said: I will attend the 115th annual International Medical Association Invocation at 8:00 p.m. precisely. I do hope you will all be able to join me.\\
The words had burned in the sky, and of course the authorities were there, lying in wait for him. [[BatmanGambit They assumed, naturally, that he would be late.]] He arrived twenty minutes [[SubvertedTrope early]], while they were setting up the spiderwebs to trap and hold him, and blowing a large bullhorn, he frightened and unnerved them so that their own moisturized encirclement webs sucked closed, and they were hauled up, kicking and shrieking, high above the amphitheater's floor."
-->-- ''Literature/RepentHarlequinSaidTheTicktockman''

-> ''Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.''
-->-- '''Literature/SherlockHolmes''', paraphrasing '''Literature/TheBible''', in regard to the death of Doctor Grimesby Roylott in ''The Adventure of the Speckled Band''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
->'''Britta:''' Shouldn't have worn that petard if you didn't want to be hoisted by it.\\
'''Jeff:''' ...What do you think the expression "hoisted by your own petard" is referencing?\\
'''Britta:''' [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant I guess I just assumed]] that in the old days a petard was a special outfit like a leotard, with a lot of fancy buckles and loops on it, and that rich people would wear them when they were feeling especially smug, but then poor people would tie a rope through one of the loops, and hoist them up a pole and then let them dangle there as punishment for being cocky.\\
'''Jeff:''' Never look it up. [[EntertaininglyWrong Your explanation is way better.]]
-->-- ''Series/{{Community}}'', "[[Recap/CommunityS6E05LawsOfRoboticsAndPartyRights Laws of Robotics and Party Rights]]"

->'''Bilbo:''' I used to know this guy, Minty. He had a dog who he'd trained to attack rich people. He was into the whole [[EatTheRich class-war thing]]. He called the dog Gramsci after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci an Italian Marxist]]. Rumor has it, it could smell wealth from up to 20 feet. The thing is, it all backfired. Minty won 100 grand on a scratchcard… and Gramsci bit his knees off.\\
'''Tim:''' That's terrible.\\
'''Bilbo:''' Not really. [[BittersweetEnding He used the money to buy new knees.]]
-->--''Series/{{Spaced}}''

->''"When children learn to [[{{Demonization}} devalue]] others, they can devalue anyone. Even their parents."''
-->--'''Jean-Luc Picard''', ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''

->''"They burned themselves. With a choice made long ago by a conspiracy of men who thought they could sleep with the enemy. Only to awaken another enemy."''
-->-- '''Fox Mulder''' on the fate of the Syndicate, ''Series/TheXFiles'', "[[Recap/TheXFilesS06E12OneSon One Son]]"

->'''Dr. Keppel''': You have to admit, Lieutenant; you never would have solved it without [[SubliminalAdvertising using my technique.]]
->'''Columbo''': That's right, Doc. If there was a reward, I'd support your claim to it.
-->--'''Series/{{Columbo}},''' ''[[Recap/ColumboS03E04 Double Exposure]]''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Radio]]
->'''[[CorruptPolitician Sherilyn Harper]]:''' I wanted to show them strength in adversity, be an example!\\
'''The Doctor:''' Of course. And for them to understand, you had to make them a little bit afraid.\\
'''Sherilyn Harper:''' You ''do'' understand!\\
'''The Doctor:''' Of course I do... and so do they.\\
'''Sherilyn Harper:''' [[FlatWhat What.]]\\
'''The Doctor:''' They understand [[ANaziByAnyOtherName who's been making them afraid]]. Those people out there [[EngineeredPublicConfession heard]] about [[YesMan Roderick]]'s arrest. I don't think the election's much of an issue for you anymore.\\
'''Sherilyn Harper:''' He covered for me.\\
'''The Doctor:''' They didn't believe him... and why should they? You've been telling them for ages they can't trust people. You made the mob, and [[TorchesAndPitchforks now it's coming for you]].
-->-- ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'', ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho005TheFearmonger The Fearmonger]]''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
->The spear thrown by Kytheon's own hand was the weapon that felled his friends.
-->--[[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=398610 Tragic Arrogance]] FlavorText, ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Theatre]]
->''For 'tis the sport to have the engineer\\
Hoist with his own petard: and 't shall go hard''
-->-- '''Hamlet''', ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''

->''"Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric. I am justly killed with [[PoisonedWeapons mine own treachery]]."''
-->-- '''Laertes''', ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Toys]]
->''But I'm not my "kind", not anymore — your shadow leeches saw to that. I'm half Toa of Light, half Toa of Shadow. This was what you wanted, wasn't it? Toa consumed by darkness, Toa not hampered by things like mercy or morality. Well, [[GoneHorriblyRight now you can choke on it]].''
-->-- '''Takanuva''', ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Video Games]]
->''One's demise is always one's own making.''
-->--'''Hawkeye Gough''', ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''

->'''Ares:''' I was trying... to make you a great warrior!\\
'''Kratos:''' [[GoneHorriblyRight You succeeded.]] ''*finishes off Ares*''
-->-- ''VideoGame/GodOfWarI''

->''"That gun came off one of the same hunter-choppers that you're up against. I always like to bring a little irony to a firefight."''
-->-- ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''

->'''Ansem:''' KINGDOM HEARTS! Fill me with the power of darkness! Supreme darkness…\\
'''Sora:''' You’re wrong. I now know without a doubt… Kingdom Hearts… is ''light!''\\
''(cue the door to Kingdom Hearts opening to reveal a massive burst of light)''\\
'''Ansem:''' …light… but why…? (explodes)
-->-- ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI''

->''"I am the architect of my own destruction. So this is it… [[ArcWords What is written in the timeline… cannot be changed…]] ''[hears [[spoiler:the Dahaka]] looking for him]'' Come for me, then. In my quest to [[spoiler:destroy the Sands of Time]], I have [[spoiler:been the one to create them]]…"''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:The Prince of Persia]]''', ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin''

->''"The irony is exquisite, isn't it? Your mutant gifts will be used to bring your kind to its knees. This is your true destiny: the harbinger of mutant extinction."''
-->-- '''Bastion''', ''VideoGame/XMenNextDimension''

->''"You types never learn... [[TacticalSuicideBoss You always end up taking yourselves down.]]"''
-->-- '''Yooka''' to Capital B of ''VideoGame/YookaLaylee'' just before he starts using [[MisguidedMissile guided missiles]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Webcomics]]
->'''Clinton:''' I mean, that's nice. Good for them.\\
'''Claire:''' I thought you'd be more excited. A human and a robot, in love!\\
'''Clinton:''' It's not, like, the first time that has happened. And I don't know either of them super-well, so...\\
'''Claire:''' Ugh. I was so hyped up to tell you. What a disappointment.\\
'''Clinton:''' Wait, you wanted me to play it cool, but now you're disappointed that I'm being cool about it?\\
'''Claire:''' W-well-\\
'''Clinton:''' ''Hah!'' You thought I was gonna be a dork about it, but it's ''you'' who is the dork about it!\\
'''Claire:''' *covering her head* Noooo! My petard!
-->-- ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''

->''The Pa'anuri hypercannon, the most powerful (and longest ranged) weapon for twelve light years in any direction... hyperspace is a tangled mess, but the Pa'anuri have gotten pretty good at firing through it. Still... '''"tangled mess"'''. If someone messes with your targeting data, you might not notice the problem until you see that you've missed. Then again, depending on the exact nature of the bad data, you might [[ForcedFriendlyFire never notice anything at all...]]''
-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', "[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2020-06-14 Ennesby tricking the Pa'anuri into firing on and destroying their own weapon]]".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Original]]
->''"'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party."''
-->-- '''[[https://twitter.com/cavalorn/status/654934442549620736?lang=en Adrian Bott]]''' on Website/{{Twitter}}
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Video]]
->''"I killed him with his own technique. Heh, isn't that a kick in the—[[SubvertedTrope AUGH!]]"''
-->-- '''Cell''', ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', after thinking he killed Goku with a Kamehameha.

->''"[[IWantMyMommy Daddy, I don't want to be on Namek anymore…]]"''
-->-- '''Freeza''' after getting [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisected]] by one of his own Death Saucers, ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''

->'''King Kai:''' Freeza — got cut in half!\\
'''Tien:''' Wow. I didn't think Goku had it in him.\\
'''King Kai:''' He doesn't. Freeza did it to himself.
-->-- ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''

->''"Every– everything [[Characters/DreamSMPDream you]] hate about the prison was YOUR idea. You should exp– You should– Y'know what? Y'know what, I'm GLAD! I'm glad you haven't seen the light in a while! This was literally– this was literally the experience YOU WANTED for the prisoners. You– you... This is– You made this bed! Literally! I may have built it, I may have engineered it, but it was– [...] We both know– You told me to build this so you could put [[PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize Tommy]] in here, didn't you? That's why you wanted people to be able to visit, that way you could FLAUNT Tommy, who you've got stuck in a cell, in front of everyone. That's why you wanted people to be able to visit. That's why you didn't want the courtyard, because you didn't WANT that for Tommy. And you didn't want him to have a good place to live, you didn't want him to have good food, because you– You wanted to give him RAW POTATOES! You didn't want to give him steak! You just wanted him to have a HORRIBLE life in here! So... Keep it for yourself, Dream. You... You DESERVE this."''
-->-- '''Sam''', ''WebVideo/DreamSMP''

->''"'[[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution Let's overthrow the palace and cut all their heads off!]]' said [[UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre Robespierre]], cutting everybody's head off until someone eventually got mad and cut his head off."''
-->-- '''WebVideo/BillWurtz''', ''WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess''

->''"See, normally this is where I would say, 'Well I got the correct answer, so I should just get to roll with it', right? I was clearly correct. Unfortunately, earlier on, [[FailedASpotCheck I said a wrong answer and he gave it to me]] [[LoopholeAbuse and I said that we're gonna go off his decision,]] [[GoneHorriblyRight which means I fucked myself and I have to reset!]]"''
-->--'''WebVideo/DougDoug''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyqK2Tsujho Peggle speedrun, but an AI robot threatens me with trivia]]''

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Western Animation]]
->''"I was hoisted by my own petard! The one petard I thought would never hoist me!"''
-->-- '''Todd''', ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman''

->''"Ironic. Done in by his own creation."''
-->-- '''Daffy Duck''', ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''

->'''Narrator:''' Well, Boris tried to drop the Treasure of Monte Zoom on our heroes, but wound up hoist with his own petard. Meanwhile...\\
'''Boris:''' Hold it! Hold it! What means this "hoist with my own... what's this"?\\
'''Narrator:''' It means you fell into your own trap.\\
'''Boris:''' Oh, well why didn't you say so? Okay, let's go.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'', "The Treasure of Monte Zoom"

->''Oh, foiled by my own shoddy merchandiiiiiiiise!''
-->-- '''Herman''', [[ItMakesSenseInContext attempting to use a pair of shoddy counterfeit jeans as a zipline]], ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

->'''Sideshow Bob:''' ''Oh, dear...Sideshow Bob...hoist...on his own petard...''\\
'''Lisa:''' It's hoist ''with'' his own petard.\\
'''Sideshow Bob:''' Oh, get a life.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' So, you were an alien all the time, and you didn't even tell me!\\
'''[[TheDitz Patrick]]:''' I didn't even know!\\
'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Yeah? Well, I got you now!\\
'''Patrick:''' Oh, but it's not ''you'' who's got ''me'', it's— ''[[[EpicFail captures himself with his own net gun]]] Me'' that's got me!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', "[[Recap/SpongebobSquarepantsS1E8SandysRocketSqueakyBoots Sandy's Rocket]]"

->''"The only thing Zorran succeeded in doing that was trapping himself instead of the Star Tugs."''
-->-- '''Captain Starr''', ''WesternAnimation/{{TUGS}}''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Miscellaneous]]
%% I've put this quote in here because I don't know whether this came from the novel or the TV series that it was based off of. If you know, then please put this quote in its proper place.
->''Take care. Your curses last too long, and may turn on someone you love.''
-->-- '''Richard III''', ''The White Queen''
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