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* ''Webcomic/GrimTalesFromDownBelow'' has several being pulled at the same time - in the past [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Mandy]] pulled several to cause major disasters and later exploit her immortality. Even if Grim killed her, she had plans to take over hell. Then [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Oogie Boogie]] tried to get Junior to come to his lair so he could steal his reaper powers. After a bunch of crap happens, [[SuperpoweredEvilSide the Nergal]] [[TheVirus parasite]] [[BodyHorror demons]] take over Junior's body, leading to [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Clockwerk]] pulling several Gambits at a time (seeing as how he's Clockwerk, this isn't surprising). Even later than that, [[Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls HIM]] pulls one of the [[BrotherSisterIncest most]] [[{{Squick}} disturbing]] [[GirlWithPsychoWeapon Gambits]] [[IfICantHaveYou ever pulled]]. And those are just the major ones - pretty much the only people who don't pull a gambit of some kind throughout the webcomic are the citizens of Halloween Town, [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Helga (on account of her never actually appearing)]], the people shown under Mandy's regime, the Raven narrator, Comicbook/{{Spawn}}, the demons Spawn faces, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Fred Fredburger.]] [[ParanoiaFuel But they just might be planning something...]]
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* ''Webcomic/GrimTalesFromDownBelow'' has several being pulled at the same time - in the past [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Mandy]] pulled several to cause major disasters and later exploit her immortality. Even if Grim killed her, she had plans to take over hell. Then [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Oogie Boogie]] tried to get Junior to come to his lair so he could steal his reaper powers. After a bunch of crap happens, [[SuperpoweredEvilSide the Nergal]] [[TheVirus parasite]] [[BodyHorror demons]] take over Junior's body, leading to [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Clockwerk]] pulling several Gambits at a time (seeing as how he's Clockwerk, this isn't surprising). Even later than that, [[Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls HIM]] pulls one of the [[BrotherSisterIncest most]] [[{{Squick}} disturbing]] [[GirlWithPsychoWeapon Gambits]] [[IfICantHaveYou ever pulled]]. And those are just the major ones - pretty much the only people who don't pull a gambit of some kind throughout the webcomic are the citizens of Halloween Town, [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Helga (on account of her never actually appearing)]], the people shown under Mandy's regime, the Raven narrator, Comicbook/{{Spawn}}, the demons Spawn faces, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Fred Fredburger.]] Fredburger. [[ParanoiaFuel But they just might be planning something...]]
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* ''Webcomic/GrimTalesFromDownBelow'' has several being pulled at the same time - in the past [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Mandy]] pulled several to cause major disasters and later exploit her immortality. Even if Grim killed her, she had plans to take over hell. Then [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Oogie Boogie]] tried to get Junior to come to his lair so he could steal his reaper powers. After a bunch of crap happens, [[SuperpoweredEvilSide the Nergal]] [[TheVirus parasite]] [[BodyHorror demons]] take over Junior's body, leading to [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Clockwerk]] pulling several Gambits at a time (seeing as how he's Clockwerk, this isn't surprising). Even later than that, [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Him]] pulls one of the [[BrotherSisterIncest most]] [[{{Squick}} disturbing]] [[GirlWithPsychoWeapon Gambits]] [[IfICantHaveYou ever pulled]]. And those are just the major ones - pretty much the only people who don't pull a gambit of some kind throughout the webcomic are the citizens of Halloween Town, [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Helga (on account of her never actually appearing)]], the people shown under Mandy's regime, the Raven narrator, Comicbook/{{Spawn}}, the demons Spawn faces, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Fred Fredburger.]] [[ParanoiaFuel But they just might be planning something...]]
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* ''Webcomic/GrimTalesFromDownBelow'' has several being pulled at the same time - in the past [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Mandy]] pulled several to cause major disasters and later exploit her immortality. Even if Grim killed her, she had plans to take over hell. Then [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Oogie Boogie]] tried to get Junior to come to his lair so he could steal his reaper powers. After a bunch of crap happens, [[SuperpoweredEvilSide the Nergal]] [[TheVirus parasite]] [[BodyHorror demons]] take over Junior's body, leading to [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Clockwerk]] pulling several Gambits at a time (seeing as how he's Clockwerk, this isn't surprising). Even later than that, [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Him]] [[Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls HIM]] pulls one of the [[BrotherSisterIncest most]] [[{{Squick}} disturbing]] [[GirlWithPsychoWeapon Gambits]] [[IfICantHaveYou ever pulled]]. And those are just the major ones - pretty much the only people who don't pull a gambit of some kind throughout the webcomic are the citizens of Halloween Town, [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Helga (on account of her never actually appearing)]], the people shown under Mandy's regime, the Raven narrator, Comicbook/{{Spawn}}, the demons Spawn faces, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Fred Fredburger.]] [[ParanoiaFuel But they just might be planning something...]]
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* ''Webcomic/BrokenTelephone'' provides a non-villainous example, with people who are all ''trying'' to do the right thing but keep getting in each others' way.
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* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters have accumulated (and very few have been killed off), most everyone has plans they haven't explained to their allies (or in a few cases, they're just unpredictable), and a couple brand-new political factions were then added to the deck. [[FourthWallObserver The roaches]] counted at least ''nine'' sides of the conflict, some of whom the reader hadn't even encountered, and even now nobody knows for certain who they are and what constitutes a 'side'.[[note]][[WordOfGod The author]] later clarified that this statement was not intended to be taken 100% literally, but it's not too far off the truth. In fact, depending on how you count, nine may actually be an ''under''estimate.[[/note]]
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* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Loads of characters have accumulated (and very few have been killed off), most everyone has plans they haven't explained to their allies (or in a few cases, they're just unpredictable), and a couple brand-new political factions were then added to the deck. [[FourthWallObserver The roaches]] counted at least ''nine'' sides of the conflict, some of whom the reader hadn't even encountered, and even now nobody knows for certain who they are and what constitutes a 'side'.[[note]][[WordOfGod The author]] later clarified that this statement was not intended to be taken 100% literally, but it's not too far off the truth. In fact, depending on how you count, nine may actually be an ''under''estimate.[[/note]]
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* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters have accumulated (and very few have been killed off), most everyone has plans they haven't explained to their allies (or in a few cases, they're just unpredictable), and a couple brand-new political factions were then added to the deck. [[FourthWallObserver The roaches]] counted at least ''nine'' sides of the conflict, some of whom the reader hadn't even encountered, and even now nobody knows for certain who they are and what constitutes a 'side'.
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* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters have accumulated (and very few have been killed off), most everyone has plans they haven't explained to their allies (or in a few cases, they're just unpredictable), and a couple brand-new political factions were then added to the deck. [[FourthWallObserver The roaches]] counted at least ''nine'' sides of the conflict, some of whom the reader hadn't even encountered, and even now nobody knows for certain who they are and what constitutes a 'side'.[[note]][[WordOfGod The author]] later clarified that this statement was not intended to be taken 100% literally, but it's not too far off the truth. In fact, depending on how you count, nine may actually be an ''under''estimate.[[/note]]
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* ''Webcomic/TheFarSideOfUtopia'' is starting to hit this hard - in the beginning there was Peter with ThePlan - now there is a dozen of people with ThePlan and Peter's plan has turned out to be ridiculously multifaceted from the start and they are all beginning to swirl into a major pileup.
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* ''Webcomic/TheFarSideOfUtopia'' is starting to hit this hard - in the beginning there was Peter with ThePlan - now there is are a dozen of people with ThePlan and Peter's plan has turned out to be ridiculously multifaceted from the start and they are all beginning to swirl into a major pileup.
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* The cast of ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'' can very generally be lumped into Gobwin Knob, the Royal Coalition, the Magic Kingdom and Charlescom, but they all have plenty of different factions and scheming within their own ranks (except Charlescom, which is run by one guy no-one's ever seen). The main character's SummonEverymanHero plot is apparently fulfilling four different prophecies.
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* The cast of ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'' can very generally be lumped into Gobwin Knob, the Royal Coalition, the Magic Kingdom and Charlescom, but they all have plenty of different factions and scheming within their own ranks (except Charlescom, which is run by one guy no-one's no one's ever seen). The main character's SummonEverymanHero plot is apparently fulfilling four different prophecies.
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* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'''s overarching plot goes here; the main players are the Gatekeepers, Xinchub, the UNS government in general, [[spoiler:dark-matter beasties from Andromeda, and the god-like AI Petey]]. Most of the episodic arcs look like this too. The focus characters are just regular joes trying to do a job, so they're usually used as pawns in one plot or another. Some of these factions are no longer playing though.
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* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'''s overarching plot goes here; the here. The main players are the Gatekeepers, Xinchub, the UNS government in general, [[spoiler:dark-matter beasties from Andromeda, and the god-like AI Petey]]. Petey.]] Most of the episodic arcs look like this too. The focus characters are just regular joes trying to do a job, so they're usually used as pawns in one plot or another. Some of these factions are no longer playing though.
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* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', multiple parties appear to have plans which involve Yokoka, at a minimum Betel and Yokoka's mother (who isn't Betel).
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* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters have accumulated (and very few have been killed off), most everyone has plans they haven't explained to their allies (or in a few cases, they're just unpredictable), and a couple brand-new political factions were then added to the deck. [[FourthWallObserver The roaches]] counted at least ''nine'' sides of the conflict, some of whom the reader hadn't even encountered, and even now nobody knows for certain who they are and what constitutes a 'side'.
* ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' is famous for his [[GambitRoulette overly-elaborate schemes]], but during the Storm of Souls arc, and again during the War in Hell, he was only one [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] among many.
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' pulls this off quite well, especially noticeable in the tangled web that was [[TownWithADarkSecret Sturmhalten]]. Then Mechanicsburg appeared to be headed full-tilt in that direction, with Agatha's group, the Knights of Jove, the ''other'' Knights of Jove, the Baron, the Baron's army, Zola's operation, Mechanicsburg's local government-conspiracy, the Jaegers, and [[spoiler:two Lucrezias, [[http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Tarvek_Sturmvoraus Tarvek]], and Othar back on the scene]]. That doesn't include the [[GeniusLoci Castle]] which evidently has its own plan or two, and yet more minor players with big plans and varying degrees of competency pop up with monotonous frequency. And ''then'' there popped up [[spoiler:the Storm King Conspiracy]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Girly}}'' parodies this in ''The Big Mix-Up'' -- [[spoiler:The Shadowy Guy]] was manipulating [[spoiler:the adorable men]] and [[spoiler:the [=CutePD=]]], [[spoiler:Mitchroney]] was also manipulating them, but in a different way, and they were both pretending to be manipulated by the other in order to manipulate the other, which had the effect of manipulating the main cast.
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'''s overarching plot goes here; the main players are the Gatekeepers, Xinchub, the UNS government in general, [[spoiler:dark-matter beasties from Andromeda, and the god-like AI Petey]]. Most of the episodic arcs look like this too. The focus characters are just regular joes trying to do a job, so they're usually used as pawns in one plot or another. Some of these factions are no longer playing though.
* In the tradition of the show, ''Series/DoctorWho'' fancomic ''[[http://comics.shipsinker.com/archive.php?arc=10doctors The Ten Doctors]]'' was all over this trope, with seemingly every major villain who ever showed up on the series attempting their own grand scheme that repeatedly crashed into each other. Fortunately, there were 10 Doctors to confront them. They never had a hope in hell.
* ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'' has the games of gods (Ephemural's comic-starting gambit to start), [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Evil Towers Of Ominousness]] (The Templars), the backroom scheming of a paranoid military culture (The Bastians), the war plans of the two Kedrian tribes, plus whatever the motivations are of a dozen secondary characters (three-quarters of whom are looking for Trace, either to help him or kill him). Even then, some of them are trying to help Trace and some are trying to help Templar!Trace who is his pre-amnesia counterpart who was driven insane by his use of magic. Hell, one character set up DOZENS of different plans and exploited every loop-hole he could which took years of planning to make one exiled character a general.
* ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFOXHOUND'' has a lot of these (understandable, considering [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid its source]]), although given the ending most of them don't come to fruition. For extra fun, you could consider the author's plot having gotten into a pile-up with Kojima's as one of these. There was more than one occasion where the author introduced retroactive, massive [[GambitRoulette Roulettes]] just to explain the gulf between how ''he'' wrote the story and the new elements Kojima introduced. And the result was so convoluted it actually fit ''perfectly'' with the MGS universe, hilariously so.
* ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'' takes it to ridiculous levels, considering that the goals are mostly some variant of "become party queen." The consequences of intermediate steps have become more interesting than the plans themselves.
* The Gallimaufry arc in ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'' is somewhere between this and a Thirty Dark Secret Pileup. Seen in a more literal form [[http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20080617 here]], and seen as a MacGuffinDeliveryService pileup [[http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20080410 here]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Terinu}}'' runs on this, what with Terinu being pursued by the Varn Gene mage, who is allied with Princess Titalia, who is plotting the overthrow of her queen mother. The pirate Mavra Chan is also allied with the Gene Mage, but only to grab as much power as she can while she pursues Terinu herself to make him her slave/assassin. Meanwhile Admiral Blake is trying to ''murder'' Terinu to keep him out of the Gene Mage's hands while jailing his own daughter in an attempt to suppress the history of humanity's genocide of the ferin.
* ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'' is about to run headlong into this with most (if not all) of its players, and it's all compounded by the sheer chutzpah that ''the results are all being broadcast as entertainment''. If only real reality shows had this sort of thought put into them.
* [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2009-07-19 This]] ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' reveals a new gambit in almost every panel.
* ''Webcomic/GrimTalesFromDownBelow'' has several being pulled at the same time - in the past [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Mandy]] pulled several to cause major disasters and later exploit her immortality. Even if Grim killed her, she had plans to take over hell. Then [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Oogie Boogie]] tried to get Junior to come to his lair so he could steal his reaper powers. After a bunch of crap happens, [[SuperpoweredEvilSide the Nergal]] [[TheVirus parasite]] [[BodyHorror demons]] take over Junior's body, leading to [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Clockwerk]] pulling several Gambits at a time (seeing as how he's Clockwerk, this isn't surprising). Even later than that, [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Him]] pulls one of the [[BrotherSisterIncest most]] [[{{Squick}} disturbing]] [[GirlWithPsychoWeapon Gambits]] [[IfICantHaveYou ever pulled]]. And those are just the major ones - pretty much the only people who don't pull a gambit of some kind throughout the webcomic are the citizens of Halloween Town, [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Helga (on account of her never actually appearing)]], the people shown under Mandy's regime, the Raven narrator, Comicbook/{{Spawn}}, the demons Spawn faces, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Fred Fredburger.]] [[ParanoiaFuel But they just might be planning something...]]
* How tangled up are all the diabolical schemes in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''? So tangled that [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20090130 they might destroy the very fabric of existence]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
** This is the best description of the ''Hivebent'' arc in Act 5, wherein all the Trolls [[CycleOfRevenge attempt to backstab each other]] and [[ManipulativeBastard Doc Scratch]] is first introduced. The trolls are eventually forced to team up and work together when shit hits the fan during their game session though. And if you thought Act 5 Act 1 got complicated, Act 5 Act 2 has so many insane plots going on (most of which are [[IndyPloy being made up as they go along]]) That by the end, it's hard to tell who's manipulating whom into doing what. [[spoiler: Who: Doc Scratch. Whom: Everyone. What: Everything.]]
** In Act 6, virtually everybody has some kind of plan for the [[spoiler: Post-Scratch]] session, of which the [[spoiler: Post-Scratch]] Kids are almost completely unaware.
* Every major player in ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' has some plan in motion that they believe will grant them supremacy, save the world, kill their rivals, etc. As of chapter 46 (aptly titled "Convergence") several of the main ones have started colliding, with much bloodshed to be had -- and it's only the tip of the iceberg.
* In the ChristmasEpisode of ''The Prime of Ambition'' the cast indulges in tricks around a... mistletoe. [[http://jaadrih.comicgenesis.com/d/20101225.html Observe]].
* In ''Webcomic/ImpureBlood'', [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue3/ib053.html Dara and Caspian have plans that converge]], or [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue3/ib054.html at least, Dara has convinced Caspian that he needs her for his plan]].
* The TournamentArc of ''Webcomic/BeyondTheCanopy''. Glenn just wants to be done with the fight. [[spoiler:Pedro]] crashes the fight to get revenge on Glenn. [[spoiler:Greliz]] set up the entire tournament in the first place just to scam some money, and Vogel shows up to bust him. Hoot and Holler, looking to capture Glenn, arrive at the tournament mostly by accident. Snopes, tracking an artifact and the person who carries it (who happens to be Glenn), arrives not long afterwards.
* ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'' managed to pull this off ''in a single strip'' [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2012-05-20/comic/the-bookend-of-unimaginable-power/karma-chameleon/ here]].
* The cast of ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'' can very generally be lumped into Gobwin Knob, the Royal Coalition, the Magic Kingdom and Charlescom, but they all have plenty of different factions and scheming within their own ranks (except Charlescom, which is run by one guy no-one's ever seen). The main character's SummonEverymanHero plot is apparently fulfilling four different prophecies.
* ''Webcomic/TheFarSideOfUtopia'' is starting to hit this hard - in the beginning there was Peter with ThePlan - now there is a dozen of people with ThePlan and Peter's plan has turned out to be ridiculously multifaceted from the start and they are all beginning to swirl into a major pileup.
* ''Webcomic/ExistentialComics'': "Existential Hour" has Creator/AlbertCamus only speaking in vague quotes in his interview with Creator/JeanPaulSartre because he knows that Sartre is just going to do something ridiculous in the name of radical freedom. Sartre then reveals that he isn't going to do radical freedom, but that he already turned off the cameras before the interview. Camus replies that he noticed the cameras were off and he turned them back on.
* There's a rock concert one night in the world of ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' and its {{spinoff}} ''Webcomic/StickyDillyBuns'', at which every named character on the stage or in the audience has their own agenda. Hilarity ensues. See the two comics' own pages for details.
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* ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' is famous for his [[GambitRoulette overly-elaborate schemes]], but during the Storm of Souls arc, and again during the War in Hell, he was only one [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] among many.
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' pulls this off quite well, especially noticeable in the tangled web that was [[TownWithADarkSecret Sturmhalten]]. Then Mechanicsburg appeared to be headed full-tilt in that direction, with Agatha's group, the Knights of Jove, the ''other'' Knights of Jove, the Baron, the Baron's army, Zola's operation, Mechanicsburg's local government-conspiracy, the Jaegers, and [[spoiler:two Lucrezias, [[http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Tarvek_Sturmvoraus Tarvek]], and Othar back on the scene]]. That doesn't include the [[GeniusLoci Castle]] which evidently has its own plan or two, and yet more minor players with big plans and varying degrees of competency pop up with monotonous frequency. And ''then'' there popped up [[spoiler:the Storm King Conspiracy]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Girly}}'' parodies this in ''The Big Mix-Up'' -- [[spoiler:The Shadowy Guy]] was manipulating [[spoiler:the adorable men]] and [[spoiler:the [=CutePD=]]], [[spoiler:Mitchroney]] was also manipulating them, but in a different way, and they were both pretending to be manipulated by the other in order to manipulate the other, which had the effect of manipulating the main cast.
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'''s overarching plot goes here; the main players are the Gatekeepers, Xinchub, the UNS government in general, [[spoiler:dark-matter beasties from Andromeda, and the god-like AI Petey]]. Most of the episodic arcs look like this too. The focus characters are just regular joes trying to do a job, so they're usually used as pawns in one plot or another. Some of these factions are no longer playing though.
* In the tradition of the show, ''Series/DoctorWho'' fancomic ''[[http://comics.shipsinker.com/archive.php?arc=10doctors The Ten Doctors]]'' was all over this trope, with seemingly every major villain who ever showed up on the series attempting their own grand scheme that repeatedly crashed into each other. Fortunately, there were 10 Doctors to confront them. They never had a hope in hell.
* ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'' has the games of gods (Ephemural's comic-starting gambit to start), [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Evil Towers Of Ominousness]] (The Templars), the backroom scheming of a paranoid military culture (The Bastians), the war plans of the two Kedrian tribes, plus whatever the motivations are of a dozen secondary characters (three-quarters of whom are looking for Trace, either to help him or kill him). Even then, some of them are trying to help Trace and some are trying to help Templar!Trace who is his pre-amnesia counterpart who was driven insane by his use of magic. Hell, one character set up DOZENS of different plans and exploited every loop-hole he could which took years of planning to make one exiled character a general.
* ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFOXHOUND'' has a lot of these (understandable, considering [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid its source]]), although given the ending most of them don't come to fruition. For extra fun, you could consider the author's plot having gotten into a pile-up with Kojima's as one of these. There was more than one occasion where the author introduced retroactive, massive [[GambitRoulette Roulettes]] just to explain the gulf between how ''he'' wrote the story and the new elements Kojima introduced. And the result was so convoluted it actually fit ''perfectly'' with the MGS universe, hilariously so.
* ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'' takes it to ridiculous levels, considering that the goals are mostly some variant of "become party queen." The consequences of intermediate steps have become more interesting than the plans themselves.
* The Gallimaufry arc in ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'' is somewhere between this and a Thirty Dark Secret Pileup. Seen in a more literal form [[http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20080617 here]], and seen as a MacGuffinDeliveryService pileup [[http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20080410 here]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Terinu}}'' runs on this, what with Terinu being pursued by the Varn Gene mage, who is allied with Princess Titalia, who is plotting the overthrow of her queen mother. The pirate Mavra Chan is also allied with the Gene Mage, but only to grab as much power as she can while she pursues Terinu herself to make him her slave/assassin. Meanwhile Admiral Blake is trying to ''murder'' Terinu to keep him out of the Gene Mage's hands while jailing his own daughter in an attempt to suppress the history of humanity's genocide of the ferin.
* ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'' is about to run headlong into this with most (if not all) of its players, and it's all compounded by the sheer chutzpah that ''the results are all being broadcast as entertainment''. If only real reality shows had this sort of thought put into them.
* [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2009-07-19 This]] ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' reveals a new gambit in almost every panel.
* ''Webcomic/GrimTalesFromDownBelow'' has several being pulled at the same time - in the past [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Mandy]] pulled several to cause major disasters and later exploit her immortality. Even if Grim killed her, she had plans to take over hell. Then [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Oogie Boogie]] tried to get Junior to come to his lair so he could steal his reaper powers. After a bunch of crap happens, [[SuperpoweredEvilSide the Nergal]] [[TheVirus parasite]] [[BodyHorror demons]] take over Junior's body, leading to [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Clockwerk]] pulling several Gambits at a time (seeing as how he's Clockwerk, this isn't surprising). Even later than that, [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Him]] pulls one of the [[BrotherSisterIncest most]] [[{{Squick}} disturbing]] [[GirlWithPsychoWeapon Gambits]] [[IfICantHaveYou ever pulled]]. And those are just the major ones - pretty much the only people who don't pull a gambit of some kind throughout the webcomic are the citizens of Halloween Town, [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Helga (on account of her never actually appearing)]], the people shown under Mandy's regime, the Raven narrator, Comicbook/{{Spawn}}, the demons Spawn faces, and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Fred Fredburger.]] [[ParanoiaFuel But they just might be planning something...]]
* How tangled up are all the diabolical schemes in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''? So tangled that [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20090130 they might destroy the very fabric of existence]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
** This is the best description of the ''Hivebent'' arc in Act 5, wherein all the Trolls [[CycleOfRevenge attempt to backstab each other]] and [[ManipulativeBastard Doc Scratch]] is first introduced. The trolls are eventually forced to team up and work together when shit hits the fan during their game session though. And if you thought Act 5 Act 1 got complicated, Act 5 Act 2 has so many insane plots going on (most of which are [[IndyPloy being made up as they go along]]) That by the end, it's hard to tell who's manipulating whom into doing what. [[spoiler: Who: Doc Scratch. Whom: Everyone. What: Everything.]]
** In Act 6, virtually everybody has some kind of plan for the [[spoiler: Post-Scratch]] session, of which the [[spoiler: Post-Scratch]] Kids are almost completely unaware.
* Every major player in ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' has some plan in motion that they believe will grant them supremacy, save the world, kill their rivals, etc. As of chapter 46 (aptly titled "Convergence") several of the main ones have started colliding, with much bloodshed to be had -- and it's only the tip of the iceberg.
* In the ChristmasEpisode of ''The Prime of Ambition'' the cast indulges in tricks around a... mistletoe. [[http://jaadrih.comicgenesis.com/d/20101225.html Observe]].
* In ''Webcomic/ImpureBlood'', [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue3/ib053.html Dara and Caspian have plans that converge]], or [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue3/ib054.html at least, Dara has convinced Caspian that he needs her for his plan]].
* The TournamentArc of ''Webcomic/BeyondTheCanopy''. Glenn just wants to be done with the fight. [[spoiler:Pedro]] crashes the fight to get revenge on Glenn. [[spoiler:Greliz]] set up the entire tournament in the first place just to scam some money, and Vogel shows up to bust him. Hoot and Holler, looking to capture Glenn, arrive at the tournament mostly by accident. Snopes, tracking an artifact and the person who carries it (who happens to be Glenn), arrives not long afterwards.
* ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'' managed to pull this off ''in a single strip'' [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2012-05-20/comic/the-bookend-of-unimaginable-power/karma-chameleon/ here]].
* The cast of ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'' can very generally be lumped into Gobwin Knob, the Royal Coalition, the Magic Kingdom and Charlescom, but they all have plenty of different factions and scheming within their own ranks (except Charlescom, which is run by one guy no-one's ever seen). The main character's SummonEverymanHero plot is apparently fulfilling four different prophecies.
* ''Webcomic/TheFarSideOfUtopia'' is starting to hit this hard - in the beginning there was Peter with ThePlan - now there is a dozen of people with ThePlan and Peter's plan has turned out to be ridiculously multifaceted from the start and they are all beginning to swirl into a major pileup.
* ''Webcomic/ExistentialComics'': "Existential Hour" has Creator/AlbertCamus only speaking in vague quotes in his interview with Creator/JeanPaulSartre because he knows that Sartre is just going to do something ridiculous in the name of radical freedom. Sartre then reveals that he isn't going to do radical freedom, but that he already turned off the cameras before the interview. Camus replies that he noticed the cameras were off and he turned them back on.
* There's a rock concert one night in the world of ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' and its {{spinoff}} ''Webcomic/StickyDillyBuns'', at which every named character on the stage or in the audience has their own agenda. Hilarity ensues. See the two comics' own pages for details.
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