History GambitRoulette / AnimeAndManga

* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' when Dio received brain damage and could barely move, he tried to run away only to be stopped and beaten by Jotaro. Then it was revealed he really wanted to get near Joseph Joestar's body to drain his blood and heal himself, manipulating Jotaro into throwing him right there.

* ''Manga/OtoXMaho'' has Konata, Kanata's mother, having in the first chapter, what appears to be a [[ThePlan legitimate plan]]. Later, in a flashback scene, we find out that it was only the last stage of a Gambit Roulette years in the making, which included nothing happening to her and her son, her finding a "supervisor" (a sort of messenger for a MagicalGirl), a bad guy showing up at PRECISELY the right time, her being physically stronger than her son when it ends, and everything else that is purely in the realm of chance. Because of UnspokenPlanGuarantee, it goes off without a hitch.
* In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' episode "The Stolen Stones", Team Rocket devises a plot to steal Fire Stones involving a [[NoodleImplements rocket ship, a tandem bicycle that splits into two unicycles, a battlefield, three pitfalls (including one placed in the center of the battlefield), and two bags of fake stones]], and Jessie even lost a battle on purpose in order to pull off the plan without a hitch.

* ''Manga/InuYasha''[='s=] father, who died before the series began, is the driving force behind many events in the series, having set it them up so that his sons would get stronger and get along before they killed each other (or someone else killed them).

* In ''Manga/SoulHunter'' it turns out that the entire houshin project was really there to destroy an omnipotent being, who was in turn manipulating history. The main character turns out to be the same person as a major villain, the person whom they were, was a member of the same race as the first omnipotent being, and he had predicted the whole series of events hundreds of years earlier.

** Schneizel turning the Black Knights against Lelouch would also count. It almost didn't work, until [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Ohgi came in with Villetta and told his fellow comrades to turn on their leader]]. That said, they were at the tipping point when Ohgi came in so likely Schneizel had another piece of information or some reason to think he would be able to push them into betraying Lelouch even before Ohgi showed up. The CompilationMovie for instance had them, including Ohgi, not wanting Lelouch killed before they can actually hear the truth from him, but Schneizel's men ignore this and try shooting him anyway (though Schneizel himself apparently never told them to), leading to the events that still happen.

%%* ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh'': Shinou and Daikenja/Ken Murata had a Roulette in play for ''four thousand years'' aimed at defeating the Soushou.

** In the part 2 finale, Joseph fakes this to anger his opponent by claiming that everything (including some very unlikely circumstances) had gone as he had planned. [[IndyPloy In reality he had hardly planned anything and had to think fast in order to save his skin.]]

* ''Oto x Maho'' has Konata, Kanata's mother, having in the first chapter, what appears to be a [[ThePlan legitimate plan]]. Later, in a flashback scene, we find out that it was only the last stage of a Gambit Roulette years in the making, which included nothing happening to her and her son, her finding a "supervisor" (a sort of messenger for a MagicalGirl), a bad guy showing up at PRECISELY the right time, her being physically stronger than her son when it ends, and everything else that is purely in the realm of chance. Because of UnspokenPlanGuarantee, it goes off without a hitch.

** Madara Uchiha reveals the truth behind [[spoiler:Obito Uchiha becoming the BigBad. Obito's FaceHeelTurn was originally after his childhood crush Rin Nohara died when she was abducted by the Hidden Mist. All of the abductors were being mind-controlled by Madara and Rin herself had seal on her heart in order to she couldn't kill herself so Obito had to watch her be murdered not knowing she likely chose it. The entire thing was planned to destroy Obito's idealism and turn him evil. The fact that Rin committed suicide via Kakashi was a happy coincidence. As was the fact that Rin and Kakashki both picked up the IdiotBall and forgot their mentor Minato is ''a seal master who can teleport'', and thus didn't send one of Kakashi's dogs to get his help stabilizing the seal placed on Rin.]]