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* In ''[[Fanfic/PatternsOfThePast Patterns of the Past]]'', the Patternista kidnaps Old Missie, Olesya's boss, and holds her for random at the White Dress Hop, a speakeasy in town. The reason she holds her there is because she's aware that Odd Squad agents, being children, don't go to speakeasies, whether on business or on their off time. In addition, once she traps most of the rescue team, she reveals that she planted listening devices all around Old Missie's office to eavesdrop on the team's plan to rescue their boss, meaning that she stayed one step ahead of them.
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* Izuku in ''Fanfic/NullAndVoidNevaraRaven'' advices Shinso to refer to Bakugo as "Kacchan", knowing that it would immediately get his attention and leave him open to be mind-controlled by his quirk.
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* In ''Fanfic/WhatTomorrowBrings'', when Visser Three and Jake come face-to-face for the first time since their memories of the original timeline have been restored, with Jake in control of a Pool Ship, Visser Three starts offering to kill only the Animorphs amd let their allies go free while Jake rejects any such offer. Marco guesses that the two will continue to debate the 'offer' until only Jake is 'obliged' to sacrifice himself, as both enemies know that is the only term Jake will accept.
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* In "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/35046859 someone new?]]" Frost apparently does this to set Barry and Caitlin up on a date with each other after Iris has left Barry under unspecified circumstances. While Chester and Allegra arranged separate dates for Barry and Caitlin via dating apps, Frost created a fake profile for Barry's date and arranged for one of Chillblaine's friends to be a fake date for Caitlin. When Chester asks why Frost didn't just work with him and Allegra to set Barry and Caitlin up directly, Frost explains that she knew the others couldn't keep a secret and Barry and Caitlin would just be awkward if they thought they'd been set up directly, but by arranging their dates in venues where Barry and Caitlin would rendezvous at Jitter's out of habit after it went wrong, Frost had faith that they would come together on their own.

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* In "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/35046859 someone new?]]" Frost apparently does this to set Barry and Caitlin up on a date with each other after Iris has left Barry under unspecified circumstances. While Chester and Allegra arranged separate dates for Barry and Caitlin via dating apps, Frost created a fake profile for Barry's date and arranged for one of Chillblaine's friends to be a fake date for Caitlin. Caitlin, thus ensuring that both would meet at Jitters afterwards (Barry's date stood him up and left him waiting there while Caitlin left the club where she was to meet her date once he proved unpleasant). When Chester asks why Frost didn't just work with him and Allegra to set Barry and Caitlin up directly, Frost explains that she knew the others couldn't keep a secret and Barry and Caitlin would just be awkward if they thought they'd been set up directly, but by arranging their dates in venues where Barry and Caitlin would rendezvous at Jitter's out of habit after it went wrong, habit, Frost had faith that they would come together on their own.
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* In ''Fanfic/TokRaApocalpyse'', the SGC and the Hunters manage to trick Abaddon and Eva into fighting each other by playing on their shared arrogance.

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* In ''Fanfic/TokraApocalpyse'', the SGC and the Hunters manage to trick Abaddon and Eva into fighting each other by playing on their shared arrogance.

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* In ''Fanfic/TokraApocalpyse'', ''Fanfic/TokRaApocalpyse'', the SGC and the Hunters manage to trick Abaddon and Eva into fighting each other by playing on their shared arrogance.
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** [[spoiler:Talia manages to play both the Justice League and the League of Assassins expertly; [[spoiler:she sends an assassin after Iris, knowing the Justice League would figure out it was her and go to the League of Assassins for help, putting all of her targets in the same location so she can wipe them all out in one fell swoop]].

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** [[spoiler:Talia [[spoiler:Talia]] manages to play both the Justice League and the League of Assassins expertly; [[spoiler:she sends an assassin after Iris, knowing the Justice League would figure out it was her and go to the League of Assassins for help, putting all of her targets in the same location so she can wipe them all out in one fell swoop]].
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* In ''Fanfic/QueenOfDiamonds'', as in the original film, Aladdin defeats Jafar by playing on his ego and tricking him into wishing that he was a genie. However, in this case Aladdin was apparently planning to do that from the beginning, whereas in the original film he seemingly came up with this 'plan' on impulse.

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* In ''Fanfic/ForgingABetterFuture'', Oliver pulls a successful one on Malcolm, apprehending Daniel Brickwell, the one who truly murdered Malcolm's wife, knowing his enemy is vengeful enough to risk exposure just so he can have the pleasure of killing Brickwell himself. As Oliver planned, Malcolm takes the bait and tries to kill Brickwell before being repelled by Oliver and Sara, which succeeds in proving the existence of the Dark Archer to the FBI, limits Malcolm's movements even more, and lends credence to the existence of Tempest, which to date had been dismissed by most of the general population as a sign that the Arrow was mentally ill.
* In "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/35046859 someone new?]]" Frost apparently does this to set Barry and Caitlin up on a date with each other after Iris has left Barry under unspecified circumstances. While Chester and Allegra arranged separate dates for Barry and Caitlin via dating apps, Frost created a fake profile for Barry's date and arranged for one of Chillblaine's friends to be a fake date for Caitlin. When Chester asks why Frost didn't just work with him and Allegra to set Barry and Caitlin up directly, Frost explains that she knew the others couldn't keep a secret and Barry and Caitlin would just be awkward if they thought they'd been set up directly, but by arranging their dates in venues where Barry and Caitlin would rendezvous at Jitter's out of habit after it went wrong, Frost had faith that they would come together on their own.
* ''Fanfic/ToHellAndBackArrowverse'';
** [[spoiler:Talia manages to play both the Justice League and the League of Assassins expertly; [[spoiler:she sends an assassin after Iris, knowing the Justice League would figure out it was her and go to the League of Assassins for help, putting all of her targets in the same location so she can wipe them all out in one fell swoop]].
** As soon as [[spoiler:Barry]] escaped from Zoom's prison, he immediately called [[spoiler:Waller to put his father into protective custody and hired Christopher Chance to take his place, believing that Zoom would try to kill Henry next. He is 100% correct and the plan goes off without a hitch]].
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* ''Fanfic/BecomingATrueInvader'': During the FinalBattle, [[BigBad the Employer]] manages to steal [[OriginalCharacter Daj's]] {{BFG}} and is aiming it at the heroes. Zim goads him into targeting him, which the Employer does... which triggers the SelfDestructMechanism that Zim had previously secretly installed in the gun [[CrazyPrepared just in case]] the [[BloodKnight quick-tempered]] Daj ever decided to shoot him. The resulting explosion fails to kill the Employer, but wounds him and takes him out of commission long enough for the heroes to slightly recover from the fighting.
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* ''Fanfic/AngerManagement'': Lucy tricks Lynn into thinking of a rhyme for her poem by telling her Lincoln is a better poet and making her jealous.
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* ''Fanfic/MadWorldInvaderZim'': It's revealed in the final chapter that the entire story was a plot put into motion by [[spoiler: Miss Bitters]], for the purpose of permanently defeating [[EldritchAbomination The Thing in the Wall]].
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* ''Fanfic/EquestriaGirlsAFairlyOddFriendship'': During the FinalBattle, [[spoiler: [[BigBadDuumvirate the Dazzlings]]]] have stolen Cosmo and Wanda's magic and fused into a {{Kaiju}}. To give Sunset (in her [[SuperMode Daydream Shimmer]] form) a chance to beat them, Timmy starts goading them into doing things that violate Da Rules, knowing that each violation will temporarily cancel out their ability to use the magic, giving Sunset openings to beat them down.
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* ''Fanfic/BoilingIslesAndBeyond'': Amity fully knew that coming out and revealing her relationship with Luz would cause her parents to throw her out and that's also what she was banking on.
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* Yukari plays a masterful one in ''[[FanFic/IcedFairysANewWorld A New World]]''. It doesn't matter she's been dead for ''[[ThanatosGambit three]] [[ManipulativeBastard hundred]] [[MagnificentBastard years]]''. It still goes off without a hitch.

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* Yukari plays a masterful one in ''[[FanFic/IcedFairysANewWorld A ''Fanfic/{{A New World]]''.World|IcedFairy}}''. It doesn't matter she's been dead for ''[[ThanatosGambit three]] [[ManipulativeBastard hundred]] [[MagnificentBastard years]]''. It still goes off without a hitch.
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* ''Fanfic/FateStarryNight'': Seeing that Illya is trying to kill Shirou at all costs, Ritsuka purposefully pushes Berserker's BerserkButton by using a Shadow Jason as a HumanShield, enraging the Greek hero so badly that he ignores Illya's orders for the sake of turning Ritsuka into a blood smear.
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* In FanFic/WorldwarWarOfEquals after an incident with [[spoiler: Hugo Chavez]], the American and Russian governments actually leak news of the fleet to very unreliable sources such as Creator/AlexJones and Radio/CoastToCoastAM in order to discredit his claims. [[spoiler: It works.]]

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* In FanFic/WorldwarWarOfEquals after an incident with [[spoiler: Hugo Chavez]], the American and Russian governments actually leak news of the fleet to very unreliable sources such as Creator/AlexJones Alex Jones and Radio/CoastToCoastAM in order to discredit his claims. [[spoiler: It works.]]
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* ''Fanfic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': In the sequel ''Picking Up the Pieces'', [[spoiler: Mist Flight develops one to get Internal Affairs in hot water with the public. Once the guards have all their work done processing the confiscated information about the Hatchery records, Mist's plan is to speak to King Well Banded, convincing him of the good publicity that ending the Hatcheries would bring; at the same time, the Royal Guards hold a protest in front of IA headquarters about their Captain being unfairly targeted, keeping them busy enough that they can't join the other Guards in bringing order to the celebrating griffons in the city that predictably get out of control. When the reason for the Royal Guards' protest is revealed, the public denounces IA for their actions, and IA responds by trying to make a deal with Gentle Step to stop the protests; as Mist Flight expected, she refuses to get involved. In retaliation, IA's commissioner orders her brought to court. In the course of the hearing in question, Gentle Step is fully reinstated as Captain-General after it comes out that IA's Commissioner has a personal grudge against her for being made Captain-General instead of him (since he was on the short list to become Captain-General, but was instead shunted off to IA after she got the job). Also, King Well Banded was in on the plan to get Gentle Step reinstated, and would have just pardoned her if Hardy Rule hadn't started losing his temper and Sweet Surprise hadn't found the physical proof they needed to damage his credibility and prove his grudge against her first.]]
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* ''Fanfic/ForTheGloryOfIrk'': Vero tricks [[spoiler:Lard Nar]] into taking him to Earth by pretending that going there would be unbearable for him. As such, the wannabe rebel is all too happy to do so, as he thinks he's tormenting his "[[PlayAlongPrisoner captive]]".
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* ''Fanfic/HeartsOfIce'': Nabiki walks into the Cat Cafe with a recorder bulging in her pocket visibly. Later, Cologne is telling Shampoo about Nabiki's pathetically obvious attempt to get her confess their ploy, right like Nabiki -who had gotten their house bugged- was expecting.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13616109/6/Precognition Precognition]]'', [[TheChessmaster Nezu]] is able to protect Izuku from the League of Villains by announcing during the teacher conference that the student is under suspicion of being a spy. It grants a false sense of security to the actual spy, and with Izuku as a potential scapegoat the League will avoid killing him until needed.
** Nezu is also does this to determine how Izuku's precognition quirk works. The principal invents several new words related to hero works that are inserted into the online dictionary, knowing that Izuku will use those words in his document of allowing students to use Support Gear during the Sports Festival. The words contain a series of codes that will be added with whatever revision Nezu would make in the future, meaning that Izuku was receiving memories of Nezu's revision and adding them to his first edition before turning it in to the principal.
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[[AC: ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'']]
* ''[[Fanfic/TheNowakverse Under the Bridge]]'' shows quite an elaborate plan to attack the Rescue Rangers with a submarine.
** Step 1: Sink a rodent-sized cruise ship with an artificial iceberg. Hardly anyone would suspect this to be an attack.
** Step 2: Wait until the Rangers arrive on the scene. They ''will'', also because they're the only small-animal rescue team nearby with aircraft capable of marine search-and-rescue missions. And nothing about this looks like a trap, especially if nobody tells them before they take off that the iceberg has appeared in front of the cruise ship out of seemingly thin air.
** Step 3: Once they've arrived, destroy their aircraft and capture them.
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* ''FanFic/StarWarsLineage:'' The Jedi Council members, seeing that Qui-Gon is in a funk after his previous Padawan Xanatos turned to the Dark Side, decide that he ought to take a new Padawan. The only problem is that he himself doesn't want to, and he's famous for being TheLastDJ. So what do they do? ''Explicitly forbid him to take a Padawan, telling him he's a bad influence.'' Sure enough, he selects Obi-Wan to be his new apprentice, to mass approval.

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* ''Fanfic/DarthVaderHeroOfNaboo'': Just by repeatedly trolling Sidious with his mere existence, Vader is able to goad him into [[spoiler: attacking Plagueis and thereby putting himself in position to be killed by him in retaliation]]. Sidious admits upon realizing this that if he weren't so pissed at being manipulated, he'd be impressed.
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* ''Fanfic/UsAndThem'': When Emerald WEAPON is approaching Junon, [[spoiler:Rufus leaks information to his father that it's on its last legs, knowing he won't be able to resist felling it himself and taking all the glory. Unfortunately for him, it's still got plenty of fight left in it and takes his chopper down, and himself shortly thereafter.]]

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*''Fanfic/UsAndThem'': When Emerald WEAPON is approaching Junon, [[spoiler:Rufus leaks information to his father that it's on its last legs, knowing he won't be able to resist felling it himself and taking all the glory. Unfortunately for him, it's still got plenty of fight left in it and takes his chopper down, and himself shortly thereafter.]]
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* Not part of an elaborate plan to defeat a villain, but in the fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9363206/1/The-Other-Has-My-Heart The Other Has My Heart]]", after the Eleventh Doctor turns himself into a human to escape his latest enemies, he deliberately sets up his human identity with a life in 1940s New York so that he can have a final meeting with Amy and Rory, allowing the three to say goodbye even if he won't know the significance of it at the time.
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* ''Fanfic/MastermindStrategistForHire'': Izuku's very first plan, used to kill Mt. Lady, turns her [[AttentionWhore media gluttony]] against her by using it to lure her into a densely-crowded area where she can't use [[GiantWoman her Quirk]]. This lets the killer [[AttackOnTheHeart stabb her in the heart]] and hide in the crowd before anyone realises what happened.

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* ''Fanfic/MastermindStrategistForHire'': Izuku's very first plan, used to kill Mt. Lady, turns her [[AttentionWhore media gluttony]] against her by using it to lure her into a densely-crowded area where she can't use [[GiantWoman her Quirk]]. This lets the killer [[AttackOnTheHeart stabb stab her in the heart]] and hide in the crowd before anyone realises what happened.
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* In ''Fanfic/BoysAndGirls'', Lincoln exploits Lori's nosiness by pretending he's going out with Hugh to strike up a conversation about him.

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