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** Almost every story arc of his ComicBook/BlackPanther run involves at least five or six would-be [[TheChessMaster Chessmaster]] types trying to {{Out Gambit|ted}} each other.
** It shows up in his Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica stuff as well.
** It shows up in his Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica stuff as well.
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** Almost every story arc of his ComicBook/BlackPanther ''ComicBook/BlackPanther1998'' run involves at least five or six would-be [[TheChessMaster Chessmaster]] types trying to {{Out Gambit|ted}} each other.
** It shows up in hisFranchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' stuff as well.
** It shows up in his
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* Once in a while, ''Comicbook/{{Diabolik}}'' has a story where the protagonist has a fight with Eva and decides to make an heist alone and Eva decides to one-up him by making that heist before him, resulting in their plans interfering with each other. If the victim is a criminal, there's a good chance that [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Ginko]] or another cop is investigating him, further complicating things (and in at least one occasion causing Eva, who had already stole the loot, to frame Diabolik as TheMole who informed the police. The actual mole was ''Eva's roommate'').
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* Once in a while, ''Comicbook/{{Diabolik}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'' has a story where the protagonist has a fight with Eva and decides to make an heist alone and Eva decides to one-up him by making that heist before him, resulting in their plans interfering with each other. If the victim is a criminal, there's a good chance that [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Ginko]] or another cop is investigating him, further complicating things (and in at least one occasion causing Eva, who had already stole the loot, to frame Diabolik as TheMole who informed the police. The actual mole was ''Eva's roommate'').
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* Marvel's CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/TheInfinityWar'' features [[ComicBook/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]], his even more chessmastery EnemyWithout The Magus, Comicbook/{{Thanos}}, ''another'' Thanos, and Doctor Freakin' Doom, each with their own plans for how to further or stop the cause of universal domination. "Thirty Gambit pileup" is a low estimate.
* "The Immigration of the Body Snatchers" -- a parody of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' and ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' -- in ''[[Comicbook/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Heebie-Jeebie Hullabaloo]]'' climaxes with Homer being hauled into an insane asylum for claiming that "pod people" are taking over the Earth. Everyone makes fun of him until the cops find some alien pods along the highway, which is when Dr. Marvin Monroe admits he knew about the pod-people invasion the whole time....[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E28WillTheRealMartianPleaseStandUp because he is actually a spy from the planet Venus (removing his doctor's headgear to reveal a third "alien" eye) paving the way for a ''Venusian'' takeover of the Earth. Then one of the policemen rips off his disguise to reveal that "he" is actually two]] [[LittleGreenMen Little Green Martians]] [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E28WillTheRealMartianPleaseStandUp who are way ahead of both the pod-people and the Venusians in preparing for a ''Martian'' conquest of Earth]]. ''Then'' another policeman strips off his disguise, and turns out to be a "robot ghost clone from the future" who is here to shoot everybody - twice. Things get increasingly absurd from that point on, with various conspiracy theorists showing up claiming that they're all in Hell or that they're part of an alien race's scientific experiment, et. al. Finally, Sideshow Bob appears and tells the crowd that [[MediumAwareness they're all characters in a comic book]], which causes everyone present to laugh at him...but of course, they eventually figure out that Bob's right when he points out the FourthWall. All the characters then panic and scream, realizing that when the reader closes the comic, they will all [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]].
* "The Immigration of the Body Snatchers" -- a parody of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' and ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' -- in ''[[Comicbook/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Heebie-Jeebie Hullabaloo]]'' climaxes with Homer being hauled into an insane asylum for claiming that "pod people" are taking over the Earth. Everyone makes fun of him until the cops find some alien pods along the highway, which is when Dr. Marvin Monroe admits he knew about the pod-people invasion the whole time....[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E28WillTheRealMartianPleaseStandUp because he is actually a spy from the planet Venus (removing his doctor's headgear to reveal a third "alien" eye) paving the way for a ''Venusian'' takeover of the Earth. Then one of the policemen rips off his disguise to reveal that "he" is actually two]] [[LittleGreenMen Little Green Martians]] [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E28WillTheRealMartianPleaseStandUp who are way ahead of both the pod-people and the Venusians in preparing for a ''Martian'' conquest of Earth]]. ''Then'' another policeman strips off his disguise, and turns out to be a "robot ghost clone from the future" who is here to shoot everybody - twice. Things get increasingly absurd from that point on, with various conspiracy theorists showing up claiming that they're all in Hell or that they're part of an alien race's scientific experiment, et. al. Finally, Sideshow Bob appears and tells the crowd that [[MediumAwareness they're all characters in a comic book]], which causes everyone present to laugh at him...but of course, they eventually figure out that Bob's right when he points out the FourthWall. All the characters then panic and scream, realizing that when the reader closes the comic, they will all [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]].
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* Marvel's CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/TheInfinityWar'' features [[ComicBook/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]], his even more chessmastery EnemyWithout The Magus, Comicbook/{{Thanos}}, ComicBook/{{Thanos}}, ''another'' Thanos, and Doctor Freakin' Doom, each with their own plans for how to further or stop the cause of universal domination. "Thirty Gambit pileup" is a low estimate.
* "The Immigration of the Body Snatchers" -- a parody of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' and ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' -- in''[[Comicbook/TheSimpsons ''[[ComicBook/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Heebie-Jeebie Hullabaloo]]'' climaxes with Homer being hauled into an insane asylum for claiming that "pod people" are taking over the Earth. Everyone makes fun of him until the cops find some alien pods along the highway, which is when Dr. Marvin Monroe admits he knew about the pod-people invasion the whole time....[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E28WillTheRealMartianPleaseStandUp because he is actually a spy from the planet Venus (removing his doctor's headgear to reveal a third "alien" eye) paving the way for a ''Venusian'' takeover of the Earth. Then one of the policemen rips off his disguise to reveal that "he" is actually two]] [[LittleGreenMen Little Green Martians]] [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E28WillTheRealMartianPleaseStandUp who are way ahead of both the pod-people and the Venusians in preparing for a ''Martian'' conquest of Earth]]. ''Then'' another policeman strips off his disguise, and turns out to be a "robot ghost clone from the future" who is here to shoot everybody - twice. Things get increasingly absurd from that point on, with various conspiracy theorists showing up claiming that they're all in Hell or that they're part of an alien race's scientific experiment, et. al. Finally, Sideshow Bob appears and tells the crowd that [[MediumAwareness they're all characters in a comic book]], which causes everyone present to laugh at him...but of course, they eventually figure out that Bob's right when he points out the FourthWall. All the characters then panic and scream, realizing that when the reader closes the comic, they will all [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]].
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* In ''Comicbook/JusticeLeagueGenerationLost'', Max Lord has made everyone forget he exists, while he seeks revenge on Wonder Woman by destroying her as publicly as possible. At the same time, in ''Comicbook/WonderWomanOdyssey'', Nemesis takes revenge on Wonder Woman by making everyone forget she exists. Max has RippleEffectProofMemory, and is not happy about the irony.
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* In ''Comicbook/JusticeLeagueGenerationLost'', ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueGenerationLost'', Max Lord has made everyone forget he exists, while he seeks revenge on Wonder Woman by destroying her as publicly as possible. At the same time, in ''Comicbook/WonderWomanOdyssey'', ''ComicBook/WonderWomanOdyssey'', Nemesis takes revenge on Wonder Woman by making everyone forget she exists. Max has RippleEffectProofMemory, and is not happy about the irony.
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* The ''ComicBook/XMen'' crossover ''Messiah Complex'' has everyone with the same goal, the first mutant born since M-Day who just happens to be a baby. So we have Comicbook/{{Cyclops}}' main group going after the Marauders (who are also looking for the baby that the X-Men think they have), getting Comicbook/XFactor to both infiltrate the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Purifiers]] and explore two future timelines for information, the ComicBook/NewXMen going off on their own to attack the Purifiers, [[spoiler:Lady Deathstrike and her men helping the Purifiers as a favor]], Predator X hunting after the baby's powerful mutant genes to eat it, Professor X trying to get the New X-Men on his side (and failing), [[spoiler:Cable]] with the baby trying to avoid everyone else and [[spoiler:go into the future to protect and raise the baby]], [[spoiler: ComicBook/{{Mystique}} using the Marauders to get the baby and save Rogue's life with the help of]] Comicbook/{{Gambit}} AND FINALLY, [[spoiler:Bishop trying to kill the baby under everyone's noses to avoid his horrid future and using a techno-organic virus to turn the Sentinel pilots around the mansion into killing machines to buy time]]. Did you get all that?
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* The ''ComicBook/XMen'' crossover ''Messiah Complex'' has everyone with the same goal, the first mutant born since M-Day who just happens to be a baby. So we have Comicbook/{{Cyclops}}' ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}' main group going after the Marauders (who are also looking for the baby that the X-Men think they have), getting Comicbook/XFactor ComicBook/XFactor to both infiltrate the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Purifiers]] and explore two future timelines for information, the ComicBook/NewXMen going off on their own to attack the Purifiers, [[spoiler:Lady Deathstrike and her men helping the Purifiers as a favor]], Predator X hunting after the baby's powerful mutant genes to eat it, Professor X trying to get the New X-Men on his side (and failing), [[spoiler:Cable]] with the baby trying to avoid everyone else and [[spoiler:go into the future to protect and raise the baby]], [[spoiler: ComicBook/{{Mystique}} using the Marauders to get the baby and save Rogue's life with the help of]] Comicbook/{{Gambit}} ComicBook/{{Gambit}} AND FINALLY, [[spoiler:Bishop trying to kill the baby under everyone's noses to avoid his horrid future and using a techno-organic virus to turn the Sentinel pilots around the mansion into killing machines to buy time]]. Did you get all that?
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* "The Immigration of the Body Snatchers" -- a parody of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' and ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' -- in ''[[Comicbook/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Heebie-Jeebie Hullabaloo]]'' climaxes with Homer being hauled into an insane asylum for claiming that "pod people" are taking over the Earth. Everyone makes fun of him until the cops find some alien pods along the highway, which is when Dr. Marvin Monroe admits he knew about the pod-people invasion the whole time....[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E64WillTheRealMartianPleaseStandUp because he is actually a spy from the planet Venus (removing his doctor's headgear to reveal a third "alien" eye) paving the way for a ''Venusian'' takeover of the Earth. Then one of the policemen rips off his disguise to reveal that "he" is actually two]] [[LittleGreenMen Little Green Martians]] [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E64WillTheRealMartianPleaseStandUp who are way ahead of both the pod-people and the Venusians in preparing for a ''Martian'' conquest of Earth]]. ''Then'' another policeman strips off his disguise, and turns out to be a "robot ghost clone from the future" who is here to shoot everybody - twice. Things get increasingly absurd from that point on, with various conspiracy theorists showing up claiming that they're all in Hell or that they're part of an alien race's scientific experiment, et. al. Finally, Sideshow Bob appears and tells the crowd that [[MediumAwareness they're all characters in a comic book]], which causes everyone present to laugh at him...but of course, they eventually figure out that Bob's right when he points out the FourthWall. All the characters then panic and scream, realizing that when the reader closes the comic, they will all [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]].
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* "The Immigration of the Body Snatchers" -- a parody of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' and ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' -- in ''[[Comicbook/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Heebie-Jeebie Hullabaloo]]'' climaxes with Homer being hauled into an insane asylum for claiming that "pod people" are taking over the Earth. Everyone makes fun of him until the cops find some alien pods along the highway, which is when Dr. Marvin Monroe admits he knew about the pod-people invasion the whole time....[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E64WillTheRealMartianPleaseStandUp [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E28WillTheRealMartianPleaseStandUp because he is actually a spy from the planet Venus (removing his doctor's headgear to reveal a third "alien" eye) paving the way for a ''Venusian'' takeover of the Earth. Then one of the policemen rips off his disguise to reveal that "he" is actually two]] [[LittleGreenMen Little Green Martians]] [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E64WillTheRealMartianPleaseStandUp [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E28WillTheRealMartianPleaseStandUp who are way ahead of both the pod-people and the Venusians in preparing for a ''Martian'' conquest of Earth]]. ''Then'' another policeman strips off his disguise, and turns out to be a "robot ghost clone from the future" who is here to shoot everybody - twice. Things get increasingly absurd from that point on, with various conspiracy theorists showing up claiming that they're all in Hell or that they're part of an alien race's scientific experiment, et. al. Finally, Sideshow Bob appears and tells the crowd that [[MediumAwareness they're all characters in a comic book]], which causes everyone present to laugh at him...but of course, they eventually figure out that Bob's right when he points out the FourthWall. All the characters then panic and scream, realizing that when the reader closes the comic, they will all [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]].
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* Marvel's CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/TheInfinityWar'' features [[ComicBook/{{Warlock}} Adam Warlock]], his even more chessmastery EnemyWithout The Magus, Comicbook/{{Thanos}}, ''another'' Thanos, and Doctor Freakin' Doom, each with their own plans for how to further or stop the cause of universal domination. "Thirty Gambit pileup" is a low estimate.
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* Marvel's CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/TheInfinityWar'' features [[ComicBook/{{Warlock}} [[ComicBook/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]], his even more chessmastery EnemyWithout The Magus, Comicbook/{{Thanos}}, ''another'' Thanos, and Doctor Freakin' Doom, each with their own plans for how to further or stop the cause of universal domination. "Thirty Gambit pileup" is a low estimate.
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* Marvel's CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/TheInfinityWar'' features Comicbook/AdamWarlock, his even more chessmastery EnemyWithout The Magus, Comicbook/{{Thanos}}, ''another'' Thanos, and Doctor Freakin' Doom, each with their own plans for how to further or stop the cause of universal domination. "Thirty Gambit pileup" is a low estimate.
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* Marvel's CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/TheInfinityWar'' features Comicbook/AdamWarlock, [[ComicBook/{{Warlock}} Adam Warlock]], his even more chessmastery EnemyWithout The Magus, Comicbook/{{Thanos}}, ''another'' Thanos, and Doctor Freakin' Doom, each with their own plans for how to further or stop the cause of universal domination. "Thirty Gambit pileup" is a low estimate.
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* The BatFamilyCrossover event ''ComicBook/StarWarsWarOfTheBountyHunters'' is this when one takes both the main event miniseries and the simultaneous plots of the tied-in series into account. There's whatever sort of power play [[spoiler: [[Film/{{Solo}} Crimson Dawn]]]] is trying to make with the [[AuctionOfEvil auction over the carbonite block containing Han Solo]], the attending syndicates all competing in the auction, Sly Moore trying to use the auction to undermine Vader, Vader himself showing up to claim Han for himself, Aphra and Sana infiltrating the auction on behalf of Domina Tagge, Aphra's former associate Just Lucky and his partner Ariole Yu also infiltrating so that they can carry out an assassination for their employer, the Rebels trying to crash the auction so that they can save Han, and on top of all that, Boba Fett trying to steal back Han so that he can complete his contract with Jabba.
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* ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' turned the Great War and its leadup into this. Ixis Naugus wanted the throne, Warlord Kodos wanted war and Julian Kintobor wanted the world. It took awhile and some double crossing from each other, but all three got what they wanted.
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* ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' turned the Great War and its leadup into this. Ixis Naugus wanted the throne, Warlord Kodos wanted war and Julian Kintobor wanted the world. It took awhile and some double crossing from each other, but all three got what they wanted.
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* In ''Comicbook/JusticeLeagueGenerationLost'', Max Lord has made everyone forget he exists, while he seeks revenge on Wonder Woman by destroying her as publicly as possible. At the same time, in ''Comicbook/WonderWomanOdyssey'', Nemesis takes revenge on Wonder Woman by making everyone forget she exists. Max has RippleEffectProofMemory, and is not happy about the irony.
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* The MythArc of ''ComicBook/{{Monstress}}'' runs on this. At first glance, the situation is simple, as the Federation of Man and the Arcanic Courts are teetering on the edge of renewed warfare. However, once we get a closer look at things, it becomes more complicated -- the [[CorruptChurch Cumea]] and the government are competing for control of the Federation military, while the Arcanics are torn between the Dawn and Dusk Courts, who each have their own agendas (and are further divided by widening rifts between the ruling [[ImmortalRuler Ancients]] and their mortal children). Meanwhile, there's also a conspiracy within the [[spoiler: Cumea leadership]] to free the [[EldritchAbomination Old Gods]] from their imprisonment (with it being implied that the Old Gods are having their own internal divisions), while [[DarkMessiah the Lord Doctor]] and his [[RenegadeSplinterFaction Blood Court]] are playing all of the above so they can TakeOverTheWorld following the resulting chaos. And in the middle of all this is protagonist [[AntiHero Maika]], who is acting as a WildCard as she tries to stay out of everyone else's clutches.
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* "The Immigration of the Body Snatchers" - a parody of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' - in ''[[Comicbook/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Heebie-Jeebie Hullabaloo]]'' climaxes with Homer being hauled into an insane asylum for claiming that "pod people" are taking over the Earth. Everyone makes fun of him until the cops find some alien pods along the highway, which is when Dr. Marvin Monroe admits he knew about the pod-people invasion the whole time....[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_the_Real_Martian_Please_Stand_Up%3F because he is actually a spy from the planet Venus (removing his doctor's headgear to reveal a third "alien" eye) paving the way for a ''Venusian'' takeover of the Earth. Then one of the policemen rips off his disguise to reveal that "he" is actually two]] [[LittleGreenMen Little Green Martians]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_the_Real_Martian_Please_Stand_Up%3F who are way ahead of both the pod-people and the Venusians in preparing for a ''Martian'' conquest of Earth]]. ''Then'' another policeman strips off his disguise, and turns out to be a "robot ghost clone from the future" who is here to shoot everybody - twice. Things get increasingly absurd from that point on, with various conspiracy theorists showing up claiming that they're all in Hell or that they're part of an alien race's scientific experiment, et. al. Finally, Sideshow Bob appears and tells the crowd that [[MediumAwareness they're all characters in a comic book]], which causes everyone present to laugh at him...but of course, they eventually figure out that Bob's right when he points out the FourthWall. All the characters then panic and scream, realizing that when the reader closes the comic, they will all [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]].
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* "The Immigration of the Body Snatchers" - -- a parody of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' - and ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' -- in ''[[Comicbook/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Heebie-Jeebie Hullabaloo]]'' climaxes with Homer being hauled into an insane asylum for claiming that "pod people" are taking over the Earth. Everyone makes fun of him until the cops find some alien pods along the highway, which is when Dr. Marvin Monroe admits he knew about the pod-people invasion the whole time....[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_the_Real_Martian_Please_Stand_Up%3F [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E64WillTheRealMartianPleaseStandUp because he is actually a spy from the planet Venus (removing his doctor's headgear to reveal a third "alien" eye) paving the way for a ''Venusian'' takeover of the Earth. Then one of the policemen rips off his disguise to reveal that "he" is actually two]] [[LittleGreenMen Little Green Martians]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_the_Real_Martian_Please_Stand_Up%3F [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E64WillTheRealMartianPleaseStandUp who are way ahead of both the pod-people and the Venusians in preparing for a ''Martian'' conquest of Earth]]. ''Then'' another policeman strips off his disguise, and turns out to be a "robot ghost clone from the future" who is here to shoot everybody - twice. Things get increasingly absurd from that point on, with various conspiracy theorists showing up claiming that they're all in Hell or that they're part of an alien race's scientific experiment, et. al. Finally, Sideshow Bob appears and tells the crowd that [[MediumAwareness they're all characters in a comic book]], which causes everyone present to laugh at him...but of course, they eventually figure out that Bob's right when he points out the FourthWall. All the characters then panic and scream, realizing that when the reader closes the comic, they will all [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]].
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* A storyline in ''ComicStrip/{{Nodwick}}'', which started with the heroes' attempt to stop an Orc Invasion of two kingdoms, turned into one of these for comedic effect. Especially when it was revealed that every person in the palace was attempting to control the kingdom one way or another. Story starts [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2008-07-02 here]], revelation of gambits starts [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2008-08-13 here]], page most relevant to this trope is [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2008-08-20 this one]].
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* A storyline in ''ComicStrip/{{Nodwick}}'', which started with the heroes' attempt to stop an Orc Invasion of two kingdoms, turned into one of these for comedic effect. Especially when it was revealed that every person in the palace was attempting to control the kingdom one way or another. Story starts [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2008-07-02 [[http://comic.nodwick.com/?comic=2008-07-02 here]], revelation of gambits starts [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2008-08-13 [[http://comic.nodwick.com/?comic=2008-08-13 here]], page most relevant to this trope is [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2008-08-20 [[http://comic.nodwick.com/?comic=2008-08-20 this one]].
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* ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' turned the Great War and its leadup into this. Ixis Naugus wanted the throne, Warlord Kodos wanted war and Julian Kintobor wanted the world. It took awhile and some double crossing from each other, but all three got what they wanted.
* Pre-reboot, ''ComicBook/TheBlackbloodAlliance'' had one of these. The saberteeth are trying to conquer the wolves of Inaria, who seek help from the Blackblood wolves, who Blade's faction are plotting against. But only some Blackbloods want to help Inaria, so the Blackblood group quickly splits in two. Also, there is a secret group of malcontents within Inaria's pack who want to usurp the current alpha(s), so they orchestrated the [[PraetorianGuard Blackblood wolves]]' exile years before. Now, the Blackblood wolves actually know about this faction and what it did to them, but the Inarian pack refuses to believe them, [[spoiler:partly because the malcontents are led by one of the alphas' daughters]]. All this is established in one issue.
* A ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' Sunday strip features a game of football between the namesake characters, for the duration of which they reveal gambit after gambit ad ridiculum, to great comedic effect; Calvin is a double-agent for the opposing team posing as a member of Hobbes's team, however Hobbes knew the whole time and secretly switched the location of their goals, etcetera etcetera. Naturally, it ended up turning into {{Calvinball}}.
* Creator/ChristopherPriestComics is a big fan of these.
** Almost every story arc of his ComicBook/BlackPanther run involves at least five or six would-be [[TheChessMaster Chessmaster]] types trying to {{Out Gambit|ted}} each other.
** It shows up in his Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica stuff as well.
** He plays with it in ''ComicBook/QuantumAndWoody'', where Quantum often suspects these, but is usually wrong.
* Once in a while, ''Comicbook/{{Diabolik}}'' has a story where the protagonist has a fight with Eva and decides to make an heist alone and Eva decides to one-up him by making that heist before him, resulting in their plans interfering with each other. If the victim is a criminal, there's a good chance that [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Ginko]] or another cop is investigating him, further complicating things (and in at least one occasion causing Eva, who had already stole the loot, to frame Diabolik as TheMole who informed the police. The actual mole was ''Eva's roommate'').
* In ''ComicBook/FallOfCthulhu'', each of the elder gods has a gambit running and mankind will be lucky to survive, since we barely qualify as pawns.
* Marvel's CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/TheInfinityWar'' features Comicbook/AdamWarlock, his even more chessmastery EnemyWithout The Magus, Comicbook/{{Thanos}}, ''another'' Thanos, and Doctor Freakin' Doom, each with their own plans for how to further or stop the cause of universal domination. "Thirty Gambit pileup" is a low estimate.
* "The Immigration of the Body Snatchers" - a parody of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' - in ''[[Comicbook/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Heebie-Jeebie Hullabaloo]]'' climaxes with Homer being hauled into an insane asylum for claiming that "pod people" are taking over the Earth. Everyone makes fun of him until the cops find some alien pods along the highway, which is when Dr. Marvin Monroe admits he knew about the pod-people invasion the whole time....[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_the_Real_Martian_Please_Stand_Up%3F because he is actually a spy from the planet Venus (removing his doctor's headgear to reveal a third "alien" eye) paving the way for a ''Venusian'' takeover of the Earth. Then one of the policemen rips off his disguise to reveal that "he" is actually two]] [[LittleGreenMen Little Green Martians]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_the_Real_Martian_Please_Stand_Up%3F who are way ahead of both the pod-people and the Venusians in preparing for a ''Martian'' conquest of Earth]]. ''Then'' another policeman strips off his disguise, and turns out to be a "robot ghost clone from the future" who is here to shoot everybody - twice. Things get increasingly absurd from that point on, with various conspiracy theorists showing up claiming that they're all in Hell or that they're part of an alien race's scientific experiment, et. al. Finally, Sideshow Bob appears and tells the crowd that [[MediumAwareness they're all characters in a comic book]], which causes everyone present to laugh at him...but of course, they eventually figure out that Bob's right when he points out the FourthWall. All the characters then panic and scream, realizing that when the reader closes the comic, they will all [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]].
* The 2011 ''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery'' series: [[spoiler:Loki goes up against HIMSELF]]. Things get very complicated and nobody wins.
* In ComicBook/JudgeDredd, Mega City One ended up in one of these following the events of [[HatePlague Chaos Day]] and [[IconofRebellion Luthor]]'s [[LaResistance Insurrection]], with various [[ThePlan machinations]] and power struggles against numerous individual and factions, both internal and external, such as their own Black-Ops Division, Texas City, Total War, the Sons of Booth, rogue Citi-Def units, the Dragon and individuals such as Senior Brit-Cit Judge Gulliver Mayhew, Gideon Dallas, Carol Smart and the Red Prince amongst others.
* The French comic ''ComicBook/LargoWinch'' has an album devoted to this. First we have a young woman named Saidee join a friend of Largo's and get invited to her art exhibition. Meanwhile an old flame of Largo's secretary shows up, while his daughter says she's Largo's NumberTwo's new SexySecretary. Then it turns out Saidee is part of an Islamist terror cell, sent to make friends with the artist so as to get close to Largo and kill him and his NumberTwo. Then it turns out the imam running the cell is OnlyInItForTheMoney (being both blackmailed by, and promised 40 million dollars from, the CIA), with no intention of sacrificing himself for the cause (but the rest are apparently true believers). ''Then'' it turns out Saidee is actually working for the same CIA agent, who're holding her brother hostage in Guantanamo. The father and daughter team mentioned above were actually industrial spies. And ''then'' it's revealed the CIA agent is actually working for another industrialist (the actual CIA is not involved), with the money the imam's supposed to collect actually intended for him. The album's name? Chassé-croisé, which is close enough to Gambit Pileup.
* A storyline in ''ComicStrip/{{Nodwick}}'', which started with the heroes' attempt to stop an Orc Invasion of two kingdoms, turned into one of these for comedic effect. Especially when it was revealed that every person in the palace was attempting to control the kingdom one way or another. Story starts [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2008-07-02 here]], revelation of gambits starts [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2008-08-13 here]], page most relevant to this trope is [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2008-08-20 this one]].
-->'''Nodwick:''' Piffany, we'll have even ''more'' conspirators to add to the chart.\\
'''Piffany:''' Oh, I gave up when Jules arrived. I'm just going to draw some duckies and bunnies for a while.
** And that exchange came after our heroes learned that [[spoiler:everyone in the krutzing KINGDOM had some sort of plan in the works or in motion]].
-->'''Yeagar:''' If you're serious about it, getcher butts up here and take a number!
* In ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' Tim takes the assassin Scarab out of prison in order to interrogate her on the source of her advanced tech since the authorities haven't even been able to uncover her name; in turn she agrees to go with him in order to lead him to a trap so that an organization she belongs to can enter an assassination tournament to find the best assassin of the age in which he's been set as a target. The attack gives him an excuse to look into the long running tournament and her a chance to escape even though the other members are caught. Then he's abducted by the Daughters of Acheron when trying to interfere in their entry into the tournament as they want to use him in their own long planned ceremony while simultaneously winning the tournament, though they're possibly being manipulated by ComicBook/RasAlGhul to his own ends, and the tournament itself was set up by a mysterious ancient figure who wants to kill the most dangerous assassin of each generation rather than reward them and who is also looking for an heir for some of the duties they've created for themselves. Then ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}} prevented everything from playing out.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'''s ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Gates/Igle run]]'', Alura orders her daughter Kara to capture Reactron and bring him back to ComicBook/NewKrypton. When Supergirl drags him along to the planet, a mob attempts to lynch him and Alura takes advantage of the ensuing chaos to fake his death, throw him into a cell and torture him for information... which was a bad idea because ComicBook/LexLuthor and Sam Lane had turned Reactron into a living bomb ready to go off and take the whole planet with him.
* In an issue of ''ComicStrip/WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie'' dedicated to spy-based [=RPG=]s, two battling UsefulNotes/ColdWar-era agents intersperse their gunfire with insults ("Imperialist dog!" "Commie scum!"). Each spy taunts the other, revealing that he's found the well-hidden proof that the other is TheMole. Both spies cry "What?! Then my cover's blown!" in unison, then go back to fighting each other, slinging the same insults, but with their political loyalties reversed.
* The ''ComicBook/XMen'' crossover ''Messiah Complex'' has everyone with the same goal, the first mutant born since M-Day who just happens to be a baby. So we have Comicbook/{{Cyclops}}' main group going after the Marauders (who are also looking for the baby that the X-Men think they have), getting Comicbook/XFactor to both infiltrate the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Purifiers]] and explore two future timelines for information, the ComicBook/NewXMen going off on their own to attack the Purifiers, [[spoiler:Lady Deathstrike and her men helping the Purifiers as a favor]], Predator X hunting after the baby's powerful mutant genes to eat it, Professor X trying to get the New X-Men on his side (and failing), [[spoiler:Cable]] with the baby trying to avoid everyone else and [[spoiler:go into the future to protect and raise the baby]], [[spoiler: ComicBook/{{Mystique}} using the Marauders to get the baby and save Rogue's life with the help of]] Comicbook/{{Gambit}} AND FINALLY, [[spoiler:Bishop trying to kill the baby under everyone's noses to avoid his horrid future and using a techno-organic virus to turn the Sentinel pilots around the mansion into killing machines to buy time]]. Did you get all that?
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* Pre-reboot, ''ComicBook/TheBlackbloodAlliance'' had one of these. The saberteeth are trying to conquer the wolves of Inaria, who seek help from the Blackblood wolves, who Blade's faction are plotting against. But only some Blackbloods want to help Inaria, so the Blackblood group quickly splits in two. Also, there is a secret group of malcontents within Inaria's pack who want to usurp the current alpha(s), so they orchestrated the [[PraetorianGuard Blackblood wolves]]' exile years before. Now, the Blackblood wolves actually know about this faction and what it did to them, but the Inarian pack refuses to believe them, [[spoiler:partly because the malcontents are led by one of the alphas' daughters]]. All this is established in one issue.
* A ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' Sunday strip features a game of football between the namesake characters, for the duration of which they reveal gambit after gambit ad ridiculum, to great comedic effect; Calvin is a double-agent for the opposing team posing as a member of Hobbes's team, however Hobbes knew the whole time and secretly switched the location of their goals, etcetera etcetera. Naturally, it ended up turning into {{Calvinball}}.
* Creator/ChristopherPriestComics is a big fan of these.
** Almost every story arc of his ComicBook/BlackPanther run involves at least five or six would-be [[TheChessMaster Chessmaster]] types trying to {{Out Gambit|ted}} each other.
** It shows up in his Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica stuff as well.
** He plays with it in ''ComicBook/QuantumAndWoody'', where Quantum often suspects these, but is usually wrong.
* Once in a while, ''Comicbook/{{Diabolik}}'' has a story where the protagonist has a fight with Eva and decides to make an heist alone and Eva decides to one-up him by making that heist before him, resulting in their plans interfering with each other. If the victim is a criminal, there's a good chance that [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Ginko]] or another cop is investigating him, further complicating things (and in at least one occasion causing Eva, who had already stole the loot, to frame Diabolik as TheMole who informed the police. The actual mole was ''Eva's roommate'').
* In ''ComicBook/FallOfCthulhu'', each of the elder gods has a gambit running and mankind will be lucky to survive, since we barely qualify as pawns.
* Marvel's CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/TheInfinityWar'' features Comicbook/AdamWarlock, his even more chessmastery EnemyWithout The Magus, Comicbook/{{Thanos}}, ''another'' Thanos, and Doctor Freakin' Doom, each with their own plans for how to further or stop the cause of universal domination. "Thirty Gambit pileup" is a low estimate.
* "The Immigration of the Body Snatchers" - a parody of ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' - in ''[[Comicbook/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Heebie-Jeebie Hullabaloo]]'' climaxes with Homer being hauled into an insane asylum for claiming that "pod people" are taking over the Earth. Everyone makes fun of him until the cops find some alien pods along the highway, which is when Dr. Marvin Monroe admits he knew about the pod-people invasion the whole time....[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_the_Real_Martian_Please_Stand_Up%3F because he is actually a spy from the planet Venus (removing his doctor's headgear to reveal a third "alien" eye) paving the way for a ''Venusian'' takeover of the Earth. Then one of the policemen rips off his disguise to reveal that "he" is actually two]] [[LittleGreenMen Little Green Martians]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_the_Real_Martian_Please_Stand_Up%3F who are way ahead of both the pod-people and the Venusians in preparing for a ''Martian'' conquest of Earth]]. ''Then'' another policeman strips off his disguise, and turns out to be a "robot ghost clone from the future" who is here to shoot everybody - twice. Things get increasingly absurd from that point on, with various conspiracy theorists showing up claiming that they're all in Hell or that they're part of an alien race's scientific experiment, et. al. Finally, Sideshow Bob appears and tells the crowd that [[MediumAwareness they're all characters in a comic book]], which causes everyone present to laugh at him...but of course, they eventually figure out that Bob's right when he points out the FourthWall. All the characters then panic and scream, realizing that when the reader closes the comic, they will all [[CessationOfExistence cease to exist]].
* The 2011 ''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery'' series: [[spoiler:Loki goes up against HIMSELF]]. Things get very complicated and nobody wins.
* In ComicBook/JudgeDredd, Mega City One ended up in one of these following the events of [[HatePlague Chaos Day]] and [[IconofRebellion Luthor]]'s [[LaResistance Insurrection]], with various [[ThePlan machinations]] and power struggles against numerous individual and factions, both internal and external, such as their own Black-Ops Division, Texas City, Total War, the Sons of Booth, rogue Citi-Def units, the Dragon and individuals such as Senior Brit-Cit Judge Gulliver Mayhew, Gideon Dallas, Carol Smart and the Red Prince amongst others.
* The French comic ''ComicBook/LargoWinch'' has an album devoted to this. First we have a young woman named Saidee join a friend of Largo's and get invited to her art exhibition. Meanwhile an old flame of Largo's secretary shows up, while his daughter says she's Largo's NumberTwo's new SexySecretary. Then it turns out Saidee is part of an Islamist terror cell, sent to make friends with the artist so as to get close to Largo and kill him and his NumberTwo. Then it turns out the imam running the cell is OnlyInItForTheMoney (being both blackmailed by, and promised 40 million dollars from, the CIA), with no intention of sacrificing himself for the cause (but the rest are apparently true believers). ''Then'' it turns out Saidee is actually working for the same CIA agent, who're holding her brother hostage in Guantanamo. The father and daughter team mentioned above were actually industrial spies. And ''then'' it's revealed the CIA agent is actually working for another industrialist (the actual CIA is not involved), with the money the imam's supposed to collect actually intended for him. The album's name? Chassé-croisé, which is close enough to Gambit Pileup.
* A storyline in ''ComicStrip/{{Nodwick}}'', which started with the heroes' attempt to stop an Orc Invasion of two kingdoms, turned into one of these for comedic effect. Especially when it was revealed that every person in the palace was attempting to control the kingdom one way or another. Story starts [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2008-07-02 here]], revelation of gambits starts [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2008-08-13 here]], page most relevant to this trope is [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2008-08-20 this one]].
-->'''Nodwick:''' Piffany, we'll have even ''more'' conspirators to add to the chart.\\
'''Piffany:''' Oh, I gave up when Jules arrived. I'm just going to draw some duckies and bunnies for a while.
** And that exchange came after our heroes learned that [[spoiler:everyone in the krutzing KINGDOM had some sort of plan in the works or in motion]].
-->'''Yeagar:''' If you're serious about it, getcher butts up here and take a number!
* In ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' Tim takes the assassin Scarab out of prison in order to interrogate her on the source of her advanced tech since the authorities haven't even been able to uncover her name; in turn she agrees to go with him in order to lead him to a trap so that an organization she belongs to can enter an assassination tournament to find the best assassin of the age in which he's been set as a target. The attack gives him an excuse to look into the long running tournament and her a chance to escape even though the other members are caught. Then he's abducted by the Daughters of Acheron when trying to interfere in their entry into the tournament as they want to use him in their own long planned ceremony while simultaneously winning the tournament, though they're possibly being manipulated by ComicBook/RasAlGhul to his own ends, and the tournament itself was set up by a mysterious ancient figure who wants to kill the most dangerous assassin of each generation rather than reward them and who is also looking for an heir for some of the duties they've created for themselves. Then ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}} prevented everything from playing out.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'''s ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Gates/Igle run]]'', Alura orders her daughter Kara to capture Reactron and bring him back to ComicBook/NewKrypton. When Supergirl drags him along to the planet, a mob attempts to lynch him and Alura takes advantage of the ensuing chaos to fake his death, throw him into a cell and torture him for information... which was a bad idea because ComicBook/LexLuthor and Sam Lane had turned Reactron into a living bomb ready to go off and take the whole planet with him.
* In an issue of ''ComicStrip/WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie'' dedicated to spy-based [=RPG=]s, two battling UsefulNotes/ColdWar-era agents intersperse their gunfire with insults ("Imperialist dog!" "Commie scum!"). Each spy taunts the other, revealing that he's found the well-hidden proof that the other is TheMole. Both spies cry "What?! Then my cover's blown!" in unison, then go back to fighting each other, slinging the same insults, but with their political loyalties reversed.
* The ''ComicBook/XMen'' crossover ''Messiah Complex'' has everyone with the same goal, the first mutant born since M-Day who just happens to be a baby. So we have Comicbook/{{Cyclops}}' main group going after the Marauders (who are also looking for the baby that the X-Men think they have), getting Comicbook/XFactor to both infiltrate the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Purifiers]] and explore two future timelines for information, the ComicBook/NewXMen going off on their own to attack the Purifiers, [[spoiler:Lady Deathstrike and her men helping the Purifiers as a favor]], Predator X hunting after the baby's powerful mutant genes to eat it, Professor X trying to get the New X-Men on his side (and failing), [[spoiler:Cable]] with the baby trying to avoid everyone else and [[spoiler:go into the future to protect and raise the baby]], [[spoiler: ComicBook/{{Mystique}} using the Marauders to get the baby and save Rogue's life with the help of]] Comicbook/{{Gambit}} AND FINALLY, [[spoiler:Bishop trying to kill the baby under everyone's noses to avoid his horrid future and using a techno-organic virus to turn the Sentinel pilots around the mansion into killing machines to buy time]]. Did you get all that?
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