History BatmanGambit / WesternAnimation

** Zuko's attempt to use this Gambit against Azula in the GrandFinale is subverted. He attempts to bait the [[VillainousBreakdown already insane]] Azula into shooting lightning at him so he can redirect it back at her. Azula, in spite of her mental breakdown, chooses instead to shoot the lightning at Katara instead.

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'',

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', Garfield pulls this off when Binky the Clown's show gets cancelled in favor for the Buddy Bears, a SickeninglySweet show with a TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong message. Garfield decides to put an end to the show by going on to the set disguised as a cater and tells the Buddy Bears they're having pizza for lunch and asks them what toppings they would like. They immediately start fighting. As Garfield points out, no one in the world can ever agree on pizza toppings. When the focus groups find out about the fight, the Buddy Bears are promptly cancelled, and Binky gets his show back.

* In one episode of a Creator/CartoonNetwork [[NoExportForYou Latin American bumper]], ''WesternAnimation/TheAquamanAndFriendsActionHour'', Lex Luthor tries to sabotage ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'s kids show by making [[RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts an overly complicated scheme]] that will make a tractor, a mortal cobra, and a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot tractor driven by the mortal cobra]] (among other things) suddenly assault the live stage, and activates when Aquaman plays the guitar in an announced singalong. Lex even states that "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis it. cannot. fail]]!". At the end [[spoiler:it fails because Aquaman never actually ''plays'' the guitar and do playback instead. [[SpringtimeForHitler A Janitor at the night, however..]]]].

* ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'':
** Examples from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' that '''are not''' planned by Batman:
*** In "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE41JokersWild Joker's Wild]]", an industrialist who is secretly going broke themes his new casino after the Joker, while all the time denying the connection. He expects this to infuriate the Joker, who will come destroy the place, which will trigger the casino owner's multi-million-dollar insurance policy. Unfortunately, Batman tells the Joker all this mid-rampage (when the Joker has set up a roulette-wheel style DeathTrap designed to blow up the casino and Batman at once), and the Joker decides a better revenge is confronting the industrialist "man to clown" as he says, and then take over the place. "But that doesn't let ''you'' off the hook," he tells Batman, before altering his device so it only disposes of Batman (and true to BondVillainStupidity form, he leaves, letting Batman escape).
*** "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE7JokersMillions Joker's Millions]]" involves a gangster and rival of the Joker dying and willing him $250 million... on paper. What ''really'' happens is that only $10 million of the inheritance is real. The rival (who saw this as the perfect way to get even with the Joker before he died from his illness) was banking on the Joker's massive ego not allowing him to admit to being fooled, which makes things hard for the Joker when it's time to pay inheritance tax.
*** When Supergirl and Batgirl team up against Poison Ivy, Livewire and Harley Quinn in "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE20GirlsNightOut Girls' Night Out]]", Poison Ivy throws some seeds at Batgirl, knowing that Supergirl will vaporize them with heat vision, releasing a toxic gas.
---->'''Poison Ivy:''' You are so predictable.
** The ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS2E8Mxyzpixilated Mxyzpixilated]]" is basically a series of Batman Gambits on the part of Superman to get Mxyzptlk to disappear almost as soon as he arrives. (The final one takes a little longer, but Clark gets credit for apparently having thought up a rather clever one pretty much on the spur of the moment.)
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':
*** Batman himself pulls one off in "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E11And12ABetterWorld A Better World]]". When the EvilTwin MirrorUniverse counterparts of the Justice League, the Justice Lords, take them captive, Justice Lord Batman explicitly tells Justice League Batman that he's already thought of everything he could do to try to escape, and League-Batman tells Flash in the next cell over that he's not even going to try because of that. In the next scene, Flash fakes a heart attack get to Lord-Batman into his cell and then turns the tables on him since ''someone'' had to get them out if Batman wasn't going to. Naturally, that was Batman's plan in the first place.
---->'''League-Batman:''' I couldn't [do anything]. Not with him anticipating everything I could ever think of. But who could anticipate ''you?''
*** In "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E21And22WildCards Wild Cards]]", the Joker pulls a pretty slick one, courtesy of the Royal Flush Gang. He breaks them out of a top-secret government research facility and uses them to keep the Leaguers busy looking for the 26 bombs he's placed on the UsefulNotes/LasVegas strip. Meanwhile, he broadcasts the whole thing on live television, pulling in huge ratings...
---->'''Joker:''' And that was the point all along; this whole thing was a stunt to get as many of you watching as possible -- and it worked! My Royal Flush Gang provided the conflict, the Justice League brought the star power, and I brought the [[PlotTwist shocking surprise ending]]; everyone watching the show right now is witness to my greatest joke ever.

* ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'': [[spoiler: Mr. Fix, after being turned into a computer AI, launches one to ruin Justin Hammer, the one who placed him in this state. Fighting his programming, Fix wasn't able to attack Hammer directly, so he instead found another, ''much more effective'' method: make Hammer, through his own flaws, ''destroy his own organization.'' He poses as an unknown blackmailer, threatening to reveal Hammer's criminal activities to the world. Hammer, who's already been established as an impatient and egotistical PsychopathicManchild, quickly begins devolving into paranoia, killing off his own thugs one by one under suspicion of the blackmailer being one of his own men. When Hammer prepares to kill the last one, Killer Shrike, he allows Iron Man and War Machine into Hammer's lair to record his raving before broadcasting it to the entire world, ruining Hammer forever. After he's finally defeated by Iron Man and War Machine, Mr. Fix finally finishes him off, using his own Z Gas to do it.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'': The master of the Trope himself did it twice in the same episode, against the same villain. Said villain was using an amulet that could cause RapidAging or reverse aging. After using it to turn Superman, Aquaman, and Wonder Woman into kids, he threatened to turn Batman and Robin into "feeble old men". Batman's response was "Do your worst!" and he did, only to have Batman and Robin dodge the blast as planned and it hitting the three de-aged heroes behind him returning them to adulthood. In response, the villain turned the amulet on a guy he had previously aged, turning the poor guy to dust in order to cover his escape. Batman -- now realizing his dependence on the thing -- put the dust in a canister, then put that inside a mannequin wearing a Batman costume. When the villain tried to the de-aging thing again, he zapped the victim's remains, restoring his body and true age. (And was easily disarmed of the amulet by said former victim.)

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': This is part of [[ManipulativeBastard Slade's]] M.O.:
** In "Apprentice", Slade forces Robin to be his apprentice by infecting the other Titans with Nanoscopic Probes, which he can activate if Robin doesn't obey him. When he is about to destroy them, Robin decides to infect himself with the same probes. He tells Slade that if he loses his friends, Slade loses his apprentice. Slade angrily destroys the controller.
** Then there's the whole [[spoiler:Terra]] business. Throughout Season 2, [[spoiler:Slade manages to successfully lure the newcomer into joining his side and helping him through with his plot to take the Teen Titans out. Even though it backfires on him in the end, there was still one thing that he was victorious in doing: stopping the Teen Titans from getting a SixthRanger, because she ends up as a statue by the end of the season and regardless of what might have happened to her afterwards, she never comes back in her normal capacity again.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'':
** Characters/{{Ma|rvelComicsMagneto}}gneto brilliantly pulls 95% of one in the Season 2 finale "Day of Reckoning", manipulating four different factions -- the X-Men, the Brotherhood, Bolivar Trask's private army, and his Acolytes in order to: reveal to the world the existence of mutants, out Trask's group and destroy their Sentinel prototype, brand the X-Men as fugitives, and severely drain his enemies' resources. Only one unaccounted-for factor -- [[Characters/ScarletWitch his daughter, Wanda Maximoff]] -- prevents it from going perfectly.
** Mesmero likes this too. In "Under Lock and Key", he brainwashes Gambit into stealing one half of a spider stone, knowing that Magneto would stop him and capture Mesmero, that Magneto would have Mastermind check his mind for info on the spider, and that they'd find out its identity as a key but ''not'' learn how to use it. (We're starting to edge into GambitRoulette territory hereabouts.) Turns out [[spoiler: [[NiceJobBreakingItHero/WesternAnimation uniting the stones would free the spider monster, which only Magneto could defeat. Turns out the monster's a guardian, and with its death, one more of the three doors opened]]]]. Using other people is his favorite tactic, and his best work ''isn't'' via MindControl.

** "Here Comes Fatty Doo Doo" Token produces a reality TV show about Cartman by tricking Kyle into filming what he thinks is a documentary. When they find out, Cartman gets a cease and desist letter, but the pilot had already aired. Token "admits" that they didn't do very well in the ratings because they were scheduled against Honey Boo Boo. Cartman, angry that he lost to "that bitch," gets rid of his lawyer and agrees to do more shows with Token.

* ''Toys/PollyPocket'': In the second special ''WesternAnimation/PollyPocket2CoolAtThePocketPlaza'', Beth's plan to ruin the Pocket Plaza live opening ceremony by using Polly and Pia's TwinSwitch to her advantage was almost completely natural. She knew right ahead the girls assumed each other's identities and Ms. Throckmorton mistook one cousin for the other, and she secretly tricks Ms. Throckmorton into thinking Pia disobeyed her and when she bumps into the real Polly, she assumed it was still Pia in disguise with a phony American accent and grounds her, despite Polly trying to say she's not Pia. Pia then had to take Polly's place at the ceremony, just as Beth had expected, and since she doesn't know Polly's hotel dedication speech, Polly had to read it over the phone for Pia to deliver until Ms. Throckmorton caught her, meaning Pia's at risk of ruining Polly's reputation for not just everyone who came to the hotel, but for the whole world. [[DidntThinkThisThrough However, the only thing Beth didn't count on was that]] [[RousingSpeech Pia would improvise her own speech]], and she does so which not only saves face with her cousin, but also allows Ms. Throckmorton to realize the error of her ways and allows her to pursue her dreams of joining Polly's band; Beth's plan even fell through [[UnknownRival without the girls even knowing it was her fault.]]

* The Monarch pulls one off in Season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', coupled with LoopholeAbuse. After he is barred from arching Dr. Venture, he goes after his brother, Jonas Jr. instead, and gets him to escalate his offense to the point of actively trying to kill the Monarch. He then tricks JJ into thinking he was killed in a death ray blast, simultaneously to get JJ to stop going after him and to exploit a clause that states if your arch tries to actually kill you, you are allowed to start arching their immediate, Guild-sanctioned family; in other words, Dr. Venture.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' episode "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place", Captain Freeman and Admiral Vassery are in the middle of negotiations with [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Grand Nagus Rom and his wife First Clerk Leeta]] in starting the admissions of Ferenginar joining the Federation and the latter two are humiliating Vassery, whom he believed would be easy to negotiate with. Under the pretense of wanting to spare Vassery any more humiliation, Freeman gives them a contract that gives them everything that requested, along with a massive latinum sign-on bonus should they also recruit another planet. Rom easily signs on and mocks them for being so gullible, but Freeman turns around and starts to leave. To their confusion, Freeman smugly tells them to ReadTheSmallPrint, which reveals that the planet they need to recruit was [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Qo'nos, the Klingon homeworld]], which Leeta points out is an ImpossibleTask. Freeman tells them they forgot the 8th Rule of Acquisition, "Small Print Leads to Huge Risk", which impresses Rom a lot since the entire negotiations were also a SecretTestOfCharacter and he agrees to sign the original, unaltered contract.

* ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'': [[spoiler: Mr. Fix, after being turned into a computer AI, launches one to ruin Justin Hammer, the one who placed him in this state. Fighting his programming, Fix wasn’t able to attack Hammer directly, so he instead found another, much more effective method: make Hammer, through his own flaws, destroy his own organization. He poses as an unknown blackmailer, threatening to reveal Hammer’s criminal activities to the world. Hammer, who’s already been established as an impatient and egotistical Psychopathic Manchild, quickly begins devolving into paranoia, killing off his own thugs one by one under suspicion of the blackmailer being one of his own men. When Hammer prepares to kill the last one, Killer Shrike, he allows Iron Man and War Machine into Hammer’s lair to record his raving before broadcasting it to the entire world, ruining Hammer forever. After he’s finally defeated by Iron Man and War Machine, Mr. Fix finally finishes him off, using his own Z Gas to do it.]]

''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'': [[spoiler: Mr. Fix, after being turned into a computer AI, launches one to ruin Justin Hammer, the one who placed him in this state. Fighting his programming, Fix wasn’t able to attack Hammer directly, so he instead found another, much more effective method: make Hammer, through his own flaws, destroy his own organization. He poses as an unknown blackmailer, threatening to reveal Hammer’s criminal activities to the world. Hammer, who’s already been established as an impatient and egotistical Psychopathic Manchild, quickly begins devolving into paranoia, killing off his own thugs one by one under suspicion of the blackmailer being one of his own men. When Hammer prepares to kill the last one, Killer Shrike, he allows Iron Man and War Machine into Hammer’s lair to record his raving before broadcasting it to the entire world, ruining Hammer forever. After he’s finally defeated by Iron Man and War Machine, Mr. Fix finally finishes him off, using his own Z Gas to do it.]]

* The plan of TheChessmaster [[spoiler:Henry Haber]] in "The Millie-churian Candidate" episode of ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' is an extremely convoluted plan that's very dependent not only on playing on several people's character flaws, but that several of the involved people would fail at certain tasks -- most prominently, that Louise would get caught doing something illicit and thus get disqualified from the race. Parts of the plan bordered on GambitRoulette -- it even hinged on the fact that the only way Louise would learn [[spoiler: that Millie's "Besties" program would pair Louise with someone other than Millie]] would be by breaking into Mr. Frond's office.

* Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse:
** Examples from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' that '''were not''' planned by Batman:
*** In "Joker's Wild", an industrialist who is secretly going broke themes his new casino after [[Characters/DCAUJoker The Joker]], while all the time denying the connection. He expects this to infuriate the Joker, who will come destroy the place, which will trigger the casino owner's multi-million dollar insurance policy. Unfortunately, Batman tells the Joker all this mid-rampage (when the Joker has set up a roulette-wheel style DeathTrap designed to blow up the casino and Batman at once), and the Joker decides a better revenge is confronting the industrialist "man to clown" as he says, and then take over the place. "But that doesn't let ''you'' off the hook," he tells Batman, before altering his device so it only disposes of Batman. (And true to BondVillainStupidity form, he leaves, letting Batman escape.)
*** Another such gambit appears in "Joker's Millions", which involves a gangster and rival of the Joker dying and willing him $250 million. On paper. What ''really'' happened was that only $10 million of the inheritance was real. The rival (who saw this as the perfect way to get even with the Joker before he died from his illness) was banking on the Joker's massive ego not allowing him to admit to being fooled, which makes things hard for the Joker when it's time to pay inheritance tax.
*** When Supergirl and Batgirl teamed up against Poison Ivy, Livewire and Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy threw some seeds at Batgirl, knowing Supergirl would vaporize them with heat vision, releasing a toxic gas.
---->'''Poison Ivy''': You are so predictable.
** In [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Superman]]'s show, the episode featuring Mxyzptlk was basically a series of Batman Gambit's on the part of Clark to get the fifth dimensional being to disappear almost as soon as he arrives. (The final one took a little longer, but Superman gets credit for apparently having thought up a rather clever one pretty much on the spur of the moment.)
** In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', the Joker pulled a pretty slick one, courtesy of the Royal Flush Gang. He broke them out of a top-secret government research facility and used them to keep the Leaguers busy looking for the 26 bombs he'd placed on the UsefulNotes/LasVegas strip. Meanwhile, he broadcast the whole thing on live television, pulling in huge ratings...
--->'''Joker''': And that was the point all along; this whole thing was a stunt to get as many of you watching as possible--and it worked! My Royal Flush Gang provided the conflict, the Justice League brought the star power. And I brought the [[PlotTwist shocking surprise ending]]; everyone watching the show right now is witness to my greatest joke ever."
** Also in ''Justice League'', Batman himself pulled one off in "A Better World". When the EvilTwin MirrorUniverse counterparts of the Justice League, the Justice Lords, take them captive, Lord!Batman explicitly tells League!Batman that he's already thought of everything he could do to try to escpe and League!Batman tells Flash in the next cell over that he's not even going to try because of that. In the next scene, Flash fakes a heart attack get to Lord!Batman into his cell and then turns the tables on him since ''someone'' had to get them out if Batman wasn't going to. Naturally, that was Batman's plan in the first place.
--->'''League!Batman''': I couldn't [do anything]. Not with him anticipating everything I could ever think of. But who could anticipate ''you?''

* ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'': Dark Kat launches one in the episode "Razor's Edge". He has a couple of henchmen pretend to be an innocent couple in a building set to explode when missiles launched from the Turbokat hit it. The purpose of this was to make it look like the Swat Kats accidentally hurt innocent people, all to break Razor's confidence, knowing he wouldn't be able to fight if he thought he got innocents hurt. This would leave the Swat Kats down a member, and thus unable to stop his bigger plan. It worked, and would've kept working, had one of the henchmen not mentioned Dark Kat, which made Razor realize something was off.

* ''WesternAnimation/SwatKatsTheRadicalSquadron'': Dark Kat launches one in the episode "Razor's Edge". He has a couple of henchmen pretend to be an innocent couple in a building set to explode when missiles launched from the Turbokat hit it. The purpose of this was to make it look like the Swat Kats accidentally hurt innocent people, all to break Razor's confidence, knowing he wouldn't be able to fight if he thought he got innocents hurt. This would leave the Swat Kats down a member, and thus unable to stop his bigger plan. It worked, and would've kept working, had one of the henchmen not mentioned Dark Kat, which made Razor realize something was off.

** In "The Lich", the Lich [[spoiler: disguises himself as Billy, and tricks Finn into gathering together the Gems of Power from Ooo royalty to activate a secret power of the Enchiridion, which opens a portal to the "Time Room" owned by the wish-master Prismo. Finn tries to destroy the Enchiridion to keep it out of the Lich's hands, but it turns out breaking the Enchiridion is what activates the portal, and Finn destroying it was part of the Lich's plan all along.]]

** In "The Scarlett Getter", Stan meets an old flame from his CIA training academy and he starts to re-develop feelings for her and ignore Francine. Francine is so irritated by this hookup, she tells Roger to put on a disguise to steal Scarlett from Stan. This works, but Stan wants to break up Roger and Scarlett and hires an alien hunter to capture Roger. Stan and the hunter arrive at the cabin where Roger and Scarlett are planning to have sex, where it turns out that [[spoiler: Scarlett is an alien hunter herself. She knew Stan had an alien in his house before their "chance" encounter each other and used Stan to get to Roger and dissect him.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'':
** This is how Cricket wins against Gramma for his RiteOfPassage in "Cricket Versus". Upon seeing he's too strong to defeat, he seemingly appears to surrender and give up the fight, knowing he is truly a Green by heart, and she's fine with that. But then Cricket reveals he was just doing that so she's sympathetic enough for him to tackle her and pin her down, screaming "[[IronicEcho NEVER LET YOUR GUARD DOWN!]]" as he finally defeats her and completes the ritual.
** This was how Chip Whistler manages to become CEO of Wholesome Foods in early Season 2; he knows the Greens are innocent, sincere, and kind to their customers, so he uses their kindness to his advantage to make them (Cricket especially) think he's sorry for trying to ruin their business so they can be convinced he really means it so they can sign the contract proving they forgive him. Doing such not only grants him full power over Wholesome Foods, he can now focus on running the Greens out of the Big City without his dad interrupting him.

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''

*** In "Joker's Wild", an industrialist who is secretly going broke themes his new casino after ComicBook/TheJoker, while all the time denying the connection. He expects this to infuriate the Joker, who will come destroy the place, which will trigger the casino owner's multi-million dollar insurance policy. Unfortunately, Batman tells the Joker all this mid-rampage (when the Joker has set up a roulette-wheel style DeathTrap designed to blow up the casino and Batman at once), and the Joker decides a better revenge is confronting the industrialist "man to clown" as he says, and then take over the place. "But that doesn't let ''you'' off the hook," he tells Batman, before altering his device so it only disposes of Batman. (And true to BondVillainStupidity form, he leaves, letting Batman escape.)

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' has this in the episode "Mission Ed-Possible". Ed and Eddy catch wind of the fact that Edd is delivering their straight-F report cards to their parents, and they're relentless in chasing him to secure the report cards for themselves so that they can change them. But when they finally manage to outsmart Edd and get their hands on his satchel, they find out [[spoiler:that before the chase began, he had given the report cards to Rolf so that he could deliver them while he drew Ed and Eddy's attention.]]

* In the ''Franchise/GIJoe'' "Mass Device" story, GI Joes stages a phony internal message telling of their supposed surrender to Cobra, successfully banking on their enemy intercepting it and being fooled by what they are listening in on. As a result, Joe buys itself enough time to hunt down the last of the elements it needs; however, Destro, although fooled himself to a degree, is not taking any chances and proceeds to retrieve the same materials himself.
* ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades'' features James "Soon to Be Destro" [=McCullen=] attempting to pull this off by baiting the Joes into attacking Cobra so he can pressure Cobra for a major contract. Backfires horrifically as he ''literally'' [[YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith did not know who he was dealing with]].
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' Mabel pulls one off at the end of "Tourist Trapped" when the gnomes wanted to marry her. When the main gnome went to give her a kiss, she pulls out leaf blower, sucks him in and shoots him out of it.

* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'',

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In "M. Night Shaym-Aliens!", Rick Sanchez looks genuinely distraught over having been fooled by a simulation [[spoiler:inside a simulation ''inside a simulation'']], but he was in control the whole time. [[spoiler: He knew that if Morty mixed the ingredients together just as he said, that he would have blown himself up, and that the aliens were only trying to get the recipe the whole time]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012''

** The last episodes of the second season of ''WITCH'' are revealed to be a BatmanGambit devised by [[spoiler:Will. The gambit consisted of enlisting Phobos's help to take the Seal of Nerissa (after making him swear on the power of Candracar that he wouldn't keep it), and then, after his predictable betrayal, maneuvering him into attacking Candracar, at which point (because of his broken vow) he would forfeit the seal and everything he'd gained by it.]] (Of course, this plan [[spoiler:failed due to one small snag -- Phobos' right hand man, Cedric, having enough of Phobos' crap and ''eating him and the power right then and there'']]!)

** ComicBook/{{Magneto}} brilliantly pulls 95% of one in the Season 2 finale "Day of Reckoning", manipulating four different factions -- the X-Men, the Brotherhood, Bolivar Trask's private army, and his Acolytes in order to: reveal to the world the existence of mutants, out Trask's group and destroy their Sentinel prototype, brand the X-Men as fugitives, and severely drain his enemies' resources. Only one unaccounted-for factor -- [[ComicBook/ScarletWitch his daughter, Wanda Maximoff]] -- prevents it from going perfectly.

* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': This is how Cricket wins against Gramma for his RiteOfPassage in "Cricket Versus". Upon seeing he's too strong to defeat, he seemingly appears to surrender and give up the fight, knowing he is truly a Green by heart, and she's fine with that. But then Cricket reveals he was just doing that so she's sympathetic enough for him to tackle her and pin her down, screaming "[[IronicEcho NEVER LET YOUR GUARD DOWN!]]" as he finally defeats her and completes the ritual.