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Author: DAN004

Aug 25th 2013 at 1:07:59 PM

Often done by DangerouslyGenreSavvy people (except perhaps the explaining part).

Some examples in DGS of careful plannings
* In OnePiece,Crocodile captures the heroes in an indestructible cage, rigs the cage to be flooded, and throws away the key, which gets eaten by one of many giant crocodiles in the area. For bonus points, the key thrown away was a fake, and the real one was with Crocodile the entire time. He also anticipates every possible counter to his plans, including taking into account Heroic Sacrifices and such. (And no, [[ImmuneToBullets he couldn't have just shot them.]])
** The amazing thing about this plan is it actually had no mistakes in it. The only reason the Straw Hats get out of this is because Crocodile didn't know that there was another pirate in Luffy's crew, Sanji, who would come and break them out of the cell. If Crocodile had known Sanji existed, they would have been doomed. Not only that, he has three layers of plans to kill Luffy. The only reason he fails is because of a massive amount of PlotArmor. 
* In MegaManZero 4, Weil anticipated the very likelihood that Zero and the Resistance would most likely attempt to derail Operation Ragnarok when they inevitably found out about it, so he deliberately kept the specific details of Operation Ragnarok extremely vague and had the Einherjar warriors commit their own attack patterns in order to distract both the Area Zero citizenry and the Resistance/Zero long enough for him to finish the actual thing behind Operation Ragnarok: the space battle station Ragnarok, which would target Area Zero. In addition, he also restricted access to Ragnarok to the extent that the only one to board Ragnarok is himself, and also put up various cyberspace protections in the event that someone had to infiltrate via that method. It's also implied that he also revived the Einherjar Eight to fight alongside him to delay Zero as he's trying to get at the core. He also merged with the core so that, in the event that Zero somehow managed to get to him, he'd be forced to fight and potentially damage the core, and thus have Zero risk being destroyed by the destruction of the Space Station.
** Also counts as a XanatosGambit since theoretically, he managed to still "win" even when a spanner was thrown into one of the above schemes (specifically [[spoiler:Craft hijacking the Ragnarok and then used it to shoot Weil directly]]).