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* [[Comicbook/{{Hydra}} HYDRA's]] plan in the ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' episode [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E6FracturedHouse "Fractured House"]]. First, they attack the UN [[FalseFlagOperation disguised as]] Comicbook/{{SHIELD}} to convince the governments of the world to hunt down SHIELD agents across the world and then [[spoiler:have the Belgian Foreign Secretary, who's actually a [[MoleInCharge member of HYDRA]], declare his country a safe haven for SHIELD agents, luring agents in from around the world so HYDRA can kill them.]]
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* In the Season 2 finale of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', Oliver needs to inject Slade with the cure for the mirakuru, but can't get close enough to do it. Slade has kidnapped Laurel, the woman Oliver loves. Knowing that, and having recently found out that Slade had cameras all over his house, Oliver has a conversation with Felicity in front of the cameras and tells her that Slade took the wrong woman, and that she's the one he loves. Slade kidnaps her and attracts Oliver to her. What Slade didn't see is that Oliver gave Felicity the cure and the whole thing was a plan to get her close to him and use it. It worked.
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* In ''Series/{{The Flash|1990}}'' a criminal mastermind gathers a team to supposedly steal a foreign treasure. While the police sit on the treasure, he sends them out to pick the city clean. As it turns out they're just distractions to pull the police away so he ''can'' steal the treasure.
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* Appropriately enough, ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' has a brilliant example of one, although it's done by [[spoiler: Oswald Cobblepot, aka the Penguin]] rather than Bruce Wayne. [[spoiler: In exchange for information about his [[TheStarscream treacherous Dragons]], Don Falcone allows Cobblepot to be executed by Jim Gordon, who Cobblepot (correctly) believes he can persuade to fake his death. Cobblepot then is able to come back to Gotham, infiltrate a rival gang in order to act as TheMole, provoke his former boss and Falcone's treacherous underling Fish Mooney to overreact, kill her lover/conspirator on the orders of the rival crime boss, and get the rival crime boss to give Falcone a seemingly worthless piece of real estate]] as "compensation".
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* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'':
** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS08E09Abyss Abyss]]": [[spoiler:Brainiac started [[LaserGuidedMemory removing Chloe's memories]], knowing that in his desperation, Clark would rebuild the [[DeusExMachina Fortress]] to save her, which allows Brainiac to take over the Fortress, fully morph Davis into Doomsday and possess Chloe, which is another gambit as Brainiac knows Clark will never hurt Chloe even with Brainiac inside her.]]
** The whole episode of "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E05Roulette Roulette]]" is one courtesy of [[spoiler:Chloe Sullivan]], who's revealed to have hired the villain in order to get Oliver to return to heroism and did it right under Clark's nose. Like all things involving Oliver, it is of rather dubious morality. She claims [[IDidWhatIHadToDo she did what she had to do]], and for the most part she anticipated Oliver's actions, but with [[PhysicalGod Clark]] involved but not knowing the plan, it could [[GoneHorriblyWrong go horribly wrong]] very easily.
** Amanda Waller pulls off one in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E11E12AbsoluteJustice Absolute Justice]]". It looks like she's having the members of the long-retired ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica killed as a continuation of the government frame that originally put them out of business. Reality is [[spoiler: she's provoking the surviving JSA members to come out of retirement to get back in the game, and meet and inspire the new generation of superheroes, because of something coming that will cause the planet to need all of its heroes]].
** "[[Recap/SmallvilleS08E09Abyss Abyss]]": [[spoiler:Brainiac started [[LaserGuidedMemory removing Chloe's memories]], knowing that in his desperation, Clark would rebuild the [[DeusExMachina Fortress]] to save her, which allows Brainiac to take over the Fortress, fully morph Davis into Doomsday and possess Chloe, which is another gambit as Brainiac knows Clark will never hurt Chloe even with Brainiac inside her.]]
** The whole episode of "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E05Roulette Roulette]]" is one courtesy of [[spoiler:Chloe Sullivan]], who's revealed to have hired the villain in order to get Oliver to return to heroism and did it right under Clark's nose. Like all things involving Oliver, it is of rather dubious morality. She claims [[IDidWhatIHadToDo she did what she had to do]], and for the most part she anticipated Oliver's actions, but with [[PhysicalGod Clark]] involved but not knowing the plan, it could [[GoneHorriblyWrong go horribly wrong]] very easily.
** Amanda Waller pulls off one in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E11E12AbsoluteJustice Absolute Justice]]". It looks like she's having the members of the long-retired ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica killed as a continuation of the government frame that originally put them out of business. Reality is [[spoiler: she's provoking the surviving JSA members to come out of retirement to get back in the game, and meet and inspire the new generation of superheroes, because of something coming that will cause the planet to need all of its heroes]].
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** [[Characters/DexterDexterMorgan Dexter Morgan]]
*** [[spoiler:He tells Oliver Saxon he will kill him with the pen on his desk when he comes to perform a GSR test on him. Oliver grabs the pen and stabs him with it, but misses and lodges it in his shoulder; Dexter seizes the opportunity to overpower him, grab the pen, and lodge it in his neck, thereby allowing Dexter to argue for self defence.]]
*** Also finally nabs Little Chino by accurately predicting that Chino will try to kill the child informant who ratted out his gang.
** [[Characters/DexterDexterMorgan Dexter Morgan]]
*** [[spoiler:He tells Oliver Saxon he will kill him with the pen on his desk when he comes to perform a GSR test on him. Oliver grabs the pen and stabs him with it, but misses and lodges it in his shoulder; Dexter seizes the opportunity to overpower him, grab the pen, and lodge it in his neck, thereby allowing Dexter to argue for self defence.]]
*** Also finally nabs Little Chino by accurately predicting that Chino will try to kill the child informant who ratted out his gang.
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* ''Series/HenryDanger'': Ray's old friend "Invisible Brad" was suddenly hit by a bus at the end of his debut episode, and was thought to have died; come Season 2, it turns out Brad survived, and he only [[FakingTheDead faked his death]] to trick the people of Swellview into thinking just that so he could sneak into Ray's life and take over his identity as Captain Man.
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*** YMMV on whether it counts as "ingenious" - the fight lasted less than an episode, and directly led them to the idea which helped them destroy the season's BigBad. If it was a BatmanGambit, it wasn't a very good one.
*** The fight only ended so quickly because [[GoneHorriblyRight Spike realised that if they weren't talking, Willow wouldn't decode the]] MacGuffin [[GoneHorriblyRight for the team]] and so he had to remind her to do it, which led to the gang talking, which led to them figuring out that Spike had been manipulating them the whole time. [[ForWantOfANail If Spike and Adam had given it a little more thought, it would have worked perfectly.]]
*** The fight only ended so quickly because [[GoneHorriblyRight Spike realised that if they weren't talking, Willow wouldn't decode the]] MacGuffin [[GoneHorriblyRight for the team]] and so he had to remind her to do it, which led to the gang talking, which led to them figuring out that Spike had been manipulating them the whole time. [[ForWantOfANail If Spike and Adam had given it a little more thought, it would have worked perfectly.]]
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* In ''Series/{{Andor}}'', Luthen Rael, who is TheSpymaster to the precursor of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' original trilogy's [[TheAlliance Rebel Alliance]], pulls one on ''the entire [[TheEmpire Empire]]''. Luthen realized almost from when Palpatine first seized power that Palpatine is a cruel and evil despot, and worse yet, is patient and clever enough to increase his authoritarian power and strip civil rights from society one step at the time, slowly enough that most people don't realize what is happening. Luthen counteracts this by staging attacks against the Empire, both with the rebel cell that he controls directly and by aiding other rebel/resistance movements in their own causes. Eventually, his cell stages a major and showy attack/heist directly on Imperial garrison because he knows that such an embarrassment and appearance of weakness is intolerable to an authoritarian ruler. Sure enough, in the wake of the attack the Empire abandons the prior approach of slowly consolidating absolute power and instead goes on a galaxy wide crackdown that begins shocking the population out of complacency and begins swinging public opinion away from the Empire and feeding into the growing rebellion.
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* In ''Series/{{Andor}}'', ''Series/{{Andor}}'':
** Luthen Rael, who is TheSpymaster to the precursor of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' original trilogy's [[TheAlliance Rebel Alliance]], pulls one on ''the entire [[TheEmpire Empire]]''. Luthen realized almost from when Palpatine first seized power that Palpatine is a cruel and evil despot, and worse yet, is patient and clever enough to increase his authoritarian power and strip civil rights from society one step at the time, slowly enough that most people don't realize what is happening. Luthen counteracts this by staging attacks against the Empire, both with the rebel cell that he controls directly and by aiding other rebel/resistance movements in their own causes. Eventually, his cell stages a major and showy attack/heist directly on Imperial garrison because he knows that such an embarrassment and appearance of weakness is intolerable to an authoritarian ruler. Sure enough, in the wake of the attack the Empire abandons the prior approach of slowly consolidating absolute power and instead goes on a galaxy wide crackdown that begins shocking the population out of complacency and begins swinging public opinion away from the Empire and feeding into the growingrebellion.rebellion.
** Throughout season 1, there are multiple plans in motion to either capture or murder Cassian; all of these plans converge at the funeral of his adoptive mother, Maarva, as his enemies wait for him to show up so they can go after him. Cassian, however, torpedoes all of their plans by simply ''not showing up''. Not only that, but Maarva then posthumously throws everything further to hell with a holographically-recorded speech encouraging the citizens of Ferrix to rise up against TheEmpire. As the funeral descends into a chaotic riot, Cassian executes his ''own'' plan to rescue Bix Caleen from captivity; with everyone caught in the riot, he walks into the prison and walks out with Bix virtually unopposed.
** Luthen Rael, who is TheSpymaster to the precursor of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' original trilogy's [[TheAlliance Rebel Alliance]], pulls one on ''the entire [[TheEmpire Empire]]''. Luthen realized almost from when Palpatine first seized power that Palpatine is a cruel and evil despot, and worse yet, is patient and clever enough to increase his authoritarian power and strip civil rights from society one step at the time, slowly enough that most people don't realize what is happening. Luthen counteracts this by staging attacks against the Empire, both with the rebel cell that he controls directly and by aiding other rebel/resistance movements in their own causes. Eventually, his cell stages a major and showy attack/heist directly on Imperial garrison because he knows that such an embarrassment and appearance of weakness is intolerable to an authoritarian ruler. Sure enough, in the wake of the attack the Empire abandons the prior approach of slowly consolidating absolute power and instead goes on a galaxy wide crackdown that begins shocking the population out of complacency and begins swinging public opinion away from the Empire and feeding into the growing
** Throughout season 1, there are multiple plans in motion to either capture or murder Cassian; all of these plans converge at the funeral of his adoptive mother, Maarva, as his enemies wait for him to show up so they can go after him. Cassian, however, torpedoes all of their plans by simply ''not showing up''. Not only that, but Maarva then posthumously throws everything further to hell with a holographically-recorded speech encouraging the citizens of Ferrix to rise up against TheEmpire. As the funeral descends into a chaotic riot, Cassian executes his ''own'' plan to rescue Bix Caleen from captivity; with everyone caught in the riot, he walks into the prison and walks out with Bix virtually unopposed.
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** "Skinny Dipper" is the culmination of one by Adam. [[spoiler: Knowing Henry will not willingly kill, Adam first gives Henry indisputable proof that Adam really is a fellow immortal, while not letting Henry see his face. He goes to elaborate lengths to convince Henry that a psychopathic mental patient is Adam, and convinces the other man that he's passed on his immortality to him, then sends him to confront Henry in his home. He times it so that Abe is out, leading Henry to near-panic at the thought of what "Adam" might have done to his elderly son, but Abe arrives home in the middle of the confrontation, putting Henry in immediate fear for [[PapaWolf his son's safety]]. Adam knows that if Henry thinks the man he is fighting is immortal, he'll be willing to kill him to get him out of the house and away from his son; Adam's ultimate goal is for Henry to kill a mortal, and [[TheBadGuyWins Henry plays right into the plan]].]]
** Henry uses Adam's homicidal nature and inherent need to gloat to his advantage in "The Last Death of Henry Morgan." [[spoiler: Henry arranges to meet Adam to hand over his dagger. He clearly knows Adam will likely kill him, possibly for good, since Abe is stationed by the river waiting for Henry to emerge, but is acutely anxious about whether he will. He also anticipates that Adam will make sure he doesn't die instantly, giving him a chance to lure him closer to gasp out what may be his last words. Sure enough, Adam leans closer to hear what Henry has to say, giving him a chance to use a syringe (presumably brought for the purpose) to inject an air embolism into the vessels feeding Adam's brainstem, causing in effect a stroke that results in Locked-In Syndrome, preventing Adam from killing himself and resurrecting in perfect health. Henry [[ThanatosGambit didn't know for certain he would survive]] the gambit, but clearly felt it would be worth it to neutralize Adam.]]
** "Skinny Dipper" is the culmination of one by Adam. [[spoiler: Knowing Henry will not willingly kill, Adam first gives Henry indisputable proof that Adam really is a fellow immortal, while not letting Henry see his face. He goes to elaborate lengths to convince Henry that a psychopathic mental patient is Adam, and convinces the other man that he's passed on his immortality to him, then sends him to confront Henry in his home. He times it so that Abe is out, leading Henry to near-panic at the thought of what "Adam" might have done to his elderly son, but Abe arrives home in the middle of the confrontation, putting Henry in immediate fear for [[PapaWolf his son's safety]]. Adam knows that if Henry thinks the man he is fighting is immortal, he'll be willing to kill him to get him out of the house and away from his son; Adam's ultimate goal is for Henry to kill a mortal, and [[TheBadGuyWins Henry plays right into the plan]].]]
** Henry uses Adam's homicidal nature and inherent need to gloat to his advantage in "The Last Death of Henry Morgan." [[spoiler: Henry arranges to meet Adam to hand over his dagger. He clearly knows Adam will likely kill him, possibly for good, since Abe is stationed by the river waiting for Henry to emerge, but is acutely anxious about whether he will. He also anticipates that Adam will make sure he doesn't die instantly, giving him a chance to lure him closer to gasp out what may be his last words. Sure enough, Adam leans closer to hear what Henry has to say, giving him a chance to use a syringe (presumably brought for the purpose) to inject an air embolism into the vessels feeding Adam's brainstem, causing in effect a stroke that results in Locked-In Syndrome, preventing Adam from killing himself and resurrecting in perfect health. Henry [[ThanatosGambit didn't know for certain he would survive]] the gambit, but clearly felt it would be worth it to neutralize Adam.]]
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'': The episode "Uncle Simon" features a perfect textbook example. The titular uncle's plan to torment his never-do-well niece from beyond the grave depends on one single condition: that she will be so stubborn she will try to fulfill [[OnOneCondition the stipulation he left on the will]] (to be a servant to an indestructible robot of his invention that acts even more childishly than he did) and not just decide that the inheritance is not WorthIt and walk away.
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** In "The Obsolete Man", Wordsworth's plan to ridicule the Chancellor and his regime depend on them being so driven to not show any weakness that they would prefer to let the Chancellor be blown up by a bomb (that Wordsworth asked them to install in his bedroom as the way he wished to be executed) rather than, say, kick down the door to Wordsworth's room and blow him away. And that the Chancellor would be totally incapable to FaceDeathWithDignity when told he is locked in a room with a time bomb about to go off. But [[FaceDeathWithDespair he didn't]], and they didn't, and that [[LaserGuidedKarma sealed the Chancellor's fate]].
** The episode "Uncle Simon" features a perfect textbook example. The titular uncle's plan to torment his never-do-well niece from beyond the grave depends on one single condition: that she will be so stubborn she will try to fulfill [[OnOneCondition the stipulation he left on the will]] (to be a servant to an indestructible robot of his invention that acts even more childishly than he did) and not just decide that the inheritance is not WorthIt and walk away.
** In "The Obsolete Man", Wordsworth's plan to ridicule the Chancellor and his regime depend on them being so driven to not show any weakness that they would prefer to let the Chancellor be blown up by a bomb (that Wordsworth asked them to install in his bedroom as the way he wished to be executed) rather than, say, kick down the door to Wordsworth's room and blow him away. And that the Chancellor would be totally incapable to FaceDeathWithDignity when told he is locked in a room with a time bomb about to go off. But [[FaceDeathWithDespair he didn't]], and they didn't, and that [[LaserGuidedKarma sealed the Chancellor's fate]].
** The episode "Uncle Simon" features a perfect textbook example. The titular uncle's plan to torment his never-do-well niece from beyond the grave depends on one single condition: that she will be so stubborn she will try to fulfill [[OnOneCondition the stipulation he left on the will]] (to be a servant to an indestructible robot of his invention that acts even more childishly than he did) and not just decide that the inheritance is not WorthIt and walk away.
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* '’Series/TheTwilightZone'': The episode "Uncle Simon" features a perfect textbook example. The titular uncle's plan to torment his never-do-well niece from beyond the grave depends on one single condition: that she will be so stubborn she will try to fulfill [[OnOneCondition the stipulation he left on the will]] (to be a servant to an indestructible robot of his invention that acts even more childishly than he did) and not just decide that the inheritance is not WorthIt and walk away.
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* '’Series/TheTwilightZone'': ''Series/TheTwilightZone'': The episode "Uncle Simon" features a perfect textbook example. The titular uncle's plan to torment his never-do-well niece from beyond the grave depends on one single condition: that she will be so stubborn she will try to fulfill [[OnOneCondition the stipulation he left on the will]] (to be a servant to an indestructible robot of his invention that acts even more childishly than he did) and not just decide that the inheritance is not WorthIt and walk away.
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* '’Series/TheTwilightZone'': The episode "Uncle Simon" features a perfect textbook example. The titular uncle's plan to torment his never-do-well niece from beyond the grave depends on one single condition: that she will be so stubborn she will try to fulfill [[OnOneCondition the stipulation he left on the will]] (to be a servant to an indestructible robot of his invention that acts even more childishly than he did) and not just decide that the inheritance is not WorthIt and walk away.
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* In ''Series/{{Andor}}'', Luthen Rael, who is TheSpymaster to the precursor of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' original trilogy's [[TheAlliance Rebel Alliance]], pulls one on ''the entire [[TheEmpire Empire]]''. Luthen realized almost from when Palpatine first seized power that Palpatine is a cruel and evil despot, and worse yet, is patient and clever enough to increase his authoritarian power and strip civil rights from society one step at the time, slowly enough that most people don't realize what is happening. Luthen counteracts this by staging attacks against the Empire, both with the rebel cell that he controls directly and by aiding other rebel/resistance movements in their own causes. Eventually, his cell stages a major and showy attack/heist directly on Imperial garrison because he knows that such an embarrassment and appearance of weakness is intolerable to an authoritarian ruler. Sure enough, in the wake of the attack the Empire abandons the prior approach of slowly consolidating absolute power and instead goes on a galaxy wide crackdown that begins shocking the population out of complacency and begins swinging public opinion away from the Empire and feeding into the growing rebellion.
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* ''Series/TheRookieFeds'' episode "Burn Run" features an assassin who specialises in killing people in a manner that looks like accidents, who stages a plan to force a reclusive billionaire out of his penthouse. In order to do this, the assassin kills the billionaire's former lover, anticipating that the woman's death would prompt the man to attend her funeral and thus be in a position for the assassin to go after him.
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* Sticking with ''Star Trek'', there is the big one pulled during the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' finale "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E25Endgame Endgame]]". Getting everyone home safe involved one hell of a BatmanGambit on the Borg. [[spoiler:Admiral Janeway from the future steals a time-traveling ship and knowledge of a neurolytic pathogen and travels to present Janeway's timeline so as to speed up the trip home by some 19 years, thanks to a Borg Transwarp Hub and a some subtle mindgames she plays with the Borg Queen. The mindgames continue until the Queen finally "checkmates" Future!Janeway and assimilates her... which was ''exactly'' what Future!Janeway wanted, as she had taken the pathogen... an anti-Borg weapon. Assimilation meant the Borg-killing bug would hit the Borg collective from the top down, crippling them and allowing ''Voyager'' to complete its daring run for home.]]
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* Sticking with ''Star Trek'', there is the big one pulled during the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' finale "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E25Endgame "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E23Endgame Endgame]]". Getting everyone home safe involved one hell of a BatmanGambit on the Borg. [[spoiler:Admiral Janeway from the future steals a time-traveling ship and knowledge of a neurolytic pathogen and travels to present Janeway's timeline so as to speed up the trip home by some 19 years, thanks to a Borg Transwarp Hub and a some subtle mindgames she plays with the Borg Queen. The mindgames continue until the Queen finally "checkmates" Future!Janeway and assimilates her... which was ''exactly'' what Future!Janeway wanted, as she had taken the pathogen... an anti-Borg weapon. Assimilation meant the Borg-killing bug would hit the Borg collective from the top down, crippling them and allowing ''Voyager'' to complete its daring run for home.]]
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* ''Series/JustRollWithIt'': This was revealed to have been pulled by DJ Dirty Dan's family in "Family Squabbles". While Owen and Blair are meeting Dirty Dan's children, they tell him he recently lost his job and the family is on the risk of going broke and living OffTheGrid. Owen feels bad for them and he and Blair answer their bonus question wrong on purpose so Dirty Dan can win the game and money out of generosity, but then it's revealed that Dirty Dan never lost his job and he and his family tricked the kids into feeling sincere for them so they can steal the victory. Byron is angry at them for being tricked, but is nevertheless happy they did the right thing in their book.
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* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Occasionally used by Miss Brooks to have Mr. Conklin or Mr. Stone go along with her ideas - or to help someone get out of trouble.
** In "New School TV Set" (a radio episode), Miss Brooks [[ZanyScheme has everyone talk like a cowboy]] to demonstrate the deleterious effect the television had on the students and faculties alike (in the 1950s, with certain exceptions, Westerns dominated television schedules). Mr. Stone, in exasperation, demands the television set be disposed of.
** In "Turnabout Day" (a television episode), when students act as teachers and teachers as students, Miss Brooks protects Walter Denton from being ''expelled'' for forging a letter from Mr. Stone approving the event. Miss Brooks uses gossip she heard about Mr. Stone's recent absent-mindedness to convince him he forgot approving the letter and should go on vacation ''immediately''. Miss Brooks also gets Mr. Stone to give her and Mr. Boynton a free trip to the (well-chaperoned) vacation lodge in Eagle Springs.
** In "New School TV Set" (a radio episode), Miss Brooks [[ZanyScheme has everyone talk like a cowboy]] to demonstrate the deleterious effect the television had on the students and faculties alike (in the 1950s, with certain exceptions, Westerns dominated television schedules). Mr. Stone, in exasperation, demands the television set be disposed of.
** In "Turnabout Day" (a television episode), when students act as teachers and teachers as students, Miss Brooks protects Walter Denton from being ''expelled'' for forging a letter from Mr. Stone approving the event. Miss Brooks uses gossip she heard about Mr. Stone's recent absent-mindedness to convince him he forgot approving the letter and should go on vacation ''immediately''. Miss Brooks also gets Mr. Stone to give her and Mr. Boynton a free trip to the (well-chaperoned) vacation lodge in Eagle Springs.
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* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': In "Megan's Revenge", Megan responds to her brothers seemingly killing her pet hamster by mistake by simply acting calm and unfazed, knowing that her brothers' paranoia over her usual elaborate pranks will result in them turning on and humiliating each other. She reveals the ploy at the end of the episode once Drake and Josh send each other through a floor and into the garage.
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** In "Peruvian Puff Pepper", after Megan enters Salsa Fest, she orders a secret ingredient from the secret service which Drake and Josh secretly take from her; the ingredient is revealed to be the Peruvian Puff Pepper, which they use for their salsa entry. The boys win first prize, but then Megan asks for their secret ingredient and they reveal the peppers, and they are eventually disqualified because the peppers were banned in North America for causing kidney failures and chapped lips, leaving Megan, who was the runner-up, to win in their place. Megan reveals she knew the peppers were illegal and tricked the boys into losing to her.
** In "Megan's Revenge", Megan responds to her brothers seemingly killing her pet hamster by mistake by simply acting calm and unfazed, knowing that her brothers' paranoia over her usual elaborate pranks will result in them turning on and humiliating each other. She reveals the ploy at the end of the episode once Drake and Josh send each other through a floor and into the garage.
** In "Peruvian Puff Pepper", after Megan enters Salsa Fest, she orders a secret ingredient from the secret service which Drake and Josh secretly take from her; the ingredient is revealed to be the Peruvian Puff Pepper, which they use for their salsa entry. The boys win first prize, but then Megan asks for their secret ingredient and they reveal the peppers, and they are eventually disqualified because the peppers were banned in North America for causing kidney failures and chapped lips, leaving Megan, who was the runner-up, to win in their place. Megan reveals she knew the peppers were illegal and tricked the boys into losing to her.
** In "Megan's Revenge", Megan responds to her brothers seemingly killing her pet hamster by mistake by simply acting calm and unfazed, knowing that her brothers' paranoia over her usual elaborate pranks will result in them turning on and humiliating each other. She reveals the ploy at the end of the episode once Drake and Josh send each other through a floor and into the garage.
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* In an episode of Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle where Malcolm Reese and Dewey are blackmailing Francis with an incriminating letter Francis sends his friends over to get the letter, after Malcolm tells Reese where the letter is hidden and Richie manages to read Reese's face to find it, Malcolm proudly reveals that he predicted all of this, hiding a fake letter and telling Reese the wrong location knowing that Francis would call Richie and that Reese would give the location away.
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-->'''Malcolm:''' I knew Francis wouldn't leave us alone without getting something and I knew you'd give it away. I knew exactly what everyone would do.
-->'''Reese:''' So where's the real letter?
-->'''Malcolm:''' I had to think of the one place they'd never think of looking. I had to give it to the one person they'd never think I'd give it to. I did the most brilliant thing of all: I gave it to Dewey.
-->'''Dewey:''' [[SubvertedTrope And I hid it under Mom's pillow!]]
-->'''Malcolm:''' [[OhCrap You what?!]]
-->'''Malcolm:''' I knew Francis wouldn't leave us alone without getting something and I knew you'd give it away. I knew exactly what everyone would do.
-->'''Reese:''' So where's the real letter?
-->'''Malcolm:''' I had to think of the one place they'd never think of looking. I had to give it to the one person they'd never think I'd give it to. I did the most brilliant thing of all: I gave it to Dewey.
-->'''Dewey:''' [[SubvertedTrope And I hid it under Mom's pillow!]]
-->'''Malcolm:''' [[OhCrap You what?!]]
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* Walt does this throughout ''Series/BreakingBad'' and he continually gets better at stringing together assassination plans and manipulating those around him as the show progresses. Eventually, he pulls off a huge gambit in the season 4 finale where he manages to pull of three of these at once in his plan to take out [[spoiler:Gus Fring.]] [[spoiler:The plan requires Gus to be so consumed by vengeance that he would want to kill Hector himself, Hector hating Gus more than he hates Walt, and Hector being willing to take himself out if it means taking Gus with him. All three of these assumptions prove to be correct, and the plan goes off perfectly.]]
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* Walt does this throughout ''Series/BreakingBad'' and he continually gets better at stringing together assassination plans and manipulating those around him as the show progresses. Eventually, he pulls off a huge gambit in the season 4 finale where he manages to pull of three of these at once in his plan to take out kill [[spoiler:Gus Fring.]] [[spoiler:The The plan requires Gus to be so consumed by vengeance relies on three assumptions: [[spoiler: that he would want to kill Hector himself, Hector hating Salamanca hates Gus more than he hates Walt, and Hector being Walter, that he's willing to take himself out if it means taking die to get revenge on Gus, and that Gus with him. All would want to [[LeaveHimToMe kill Hector personally]] if he thinks Hector ratted on him to the DEA. Walter is right on all three of these assumptions prove to be correct, counts, and the plan goes off perfectly.Gus is killed by a suicide bomb Walter puts in Hector's wheelchair.]]
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** Subverted in Season 1. When Stringer and D'Angelo suspect that someone in the Pit crew is a police informant, Stringer recommends that D'Angelo invent a fake reason to withhold the crew's pay; he believes that the informant will be the one member of the crew who ''doesn't'' raise a fuss, since they'll be the one most eager to avoid attention and stay on the boss' good side. Of course, [[DramaticIrony the audience already knows]] that there ''isn't'' an informant, and that the police have been getting their information by tapping the gang's phones. Turns out that the person who doesn't complain about being denied pay [[spoiler:is actually StealingFromTheTill, not snitching]].
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** Subverted in Season 1. When Stringer and D'Angelo suspect that someone in the Pit crew is a police informant, worked with KarmicThief Omar to rob the crew, Stringer recommends that D'Angelo invent a fake reason to withhold the crew's pay; he believes that the informant will be the one member of the crew who ''doesn't'' raise a fuss, since they'll be the one most eager to avoid attention and stay on the boss' good side. Of course, [[DramaticIrony the audience already knows]] that there ''isn't'' an informant, and that the police have been getting money from working with Omar and won't need their information by tapping the gang's phones. Turns out that the regular pay. There is one person who doesn't complain about being denied pay [[spoiler:is their pay, and it turns out that she was actually StealingFromTheTill, not snitching]].working together with the thieves who robbed them.
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*** The MCU decides to arrest Cheese, not because they think he'll give up his bosses, but because they believe that Joe will replace him on the corner with the denser and more talkative Drac, his own nephew, who might give up his bosses on the wiretap. But then Joe picks Lavelle to replace Cheese instead.
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*** The MCU decides to arrest Cheese, a competent drug lieutenant, not because they think he'll give up his bosses, but because they believe hope that Joe will replace him on the corner with the denser and more talkative Drac, his own who is Joe's nephew, who might give up his bosses accidentally spill critical information on the wiretap. But then Joe picks Lavelle to replace Cheese a different nephew, Cheese, instead.
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** GoneHorriblyRight for Prop Joe in Season 5. After failing to convince Marlo Stanfield to join the coop, he sets up Marlo to get robbed by Omar. The result is Marlo changing his mind and joining the coop, [[spoiler: but it backfires. Marlo Stanfield begins scheming to destroy the coop from within by convincing Prop Joe's main drug contact, The Greek, to do business with him. He turns Prop Joe's nephew Cheese against him, which allows Marlo access to kill him. Afterwards, he disbands the coop and raises the price for the drugs he now controls.]]
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** GoneHorriblyRight for Prop Joe in Season 5. Joe. After initially failing to convince Marlo Stanfield to join the coop, co-op (a sort of round table of the city's drug kingpins, who cooperate on drug product and settle disputes at a discussion table instead of via MobWar in the street), at the start of Season 4, he sets up Marlo to get robbed by Omar. The result is Sure enough, this and the other benefits of the co-op make Marlo changing change his mind and joining join the coop, [[spoiler: but co-op, which also gives the co-op the power of Marlo's army of trained killers. Ultimately this it backfires. backfires, as by Season 5 Marlo Stanfield begins scheming has decided to destroy take over the coop co-op from within by convincing within, as he [[spoiler:convinces Prop Joe's main drug contact, supplier, The Greek, to do business with him. Marlo after Marlo kills Joe and becomes the new head of the co-op. He then turns Prop Joe's nephew Cheese against him, Joe, which allows Marlo access to kill him. Joe. Afterwards, he disbands forcibly absorbs the coop and raises co-op into becoming part of his drug empire, making Marlo the price for undisputed king of the drugs he now controls.city, ruling nearly all of the drug trade in Baltimore.]]
