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!!Often a DeathTrope, so expect to see unmarked spoilers ahead.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': Due to the nature of many fights in the series, a lot of them involve the heroes (and sometimes the villains) using their opponents' powers against them:
** This happens twice to Bruford from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]''. First, he attempts to handicap Jonathan by forcing them to fight underwater, only for Jonathan to find an air source via a reservoir of air bubbles to breathe from and then use the water as a conductor for [[PowerOfTheSun Hamon]]. Then, when he tries to stab Jonathan while he's pinned to a tree, Jonathan kicks Bruford's sword, then conducts Hamon through the sword and into Bruford, melting his arm.
** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'':
*** Caesar Zeppeli comes very close to actually beating Wamuu, using his bubbles created by Hamon to reflect sunlight onto the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Pillar Man]]. However, just as Caesar goes in for the killing blow, his body blocks the sunlight just long enough for Wamuu to hit him with a [[RazorWind Divine Sandstorm]], lethally injuring Caesar.
*** This happens to Wamuu several times during his fight against Joseph. First, he attempts to use a Divine Sandstorm, giving Joseph the chance to wrap Hamon-infused reins around his arms, damaging them to the point that he can't use Divine Sandstorm anymore. Then, Joseph uses Wamuu's own rebounding crossbow shot tactic against him in order to sneak a hit in on him. Finally, when Wamuu attempts to hit Joseph with his [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Atmospheric Rift]] attack, he's unable to aim properly due to his own self-inflicted [[EyeScream eye wounds]], and gets tricked into sucking in oil and Caesar's burning bandana, causing him to explode.
*** Kars gets this as well. Having just become the [[UltimateLifeForm Ultimate Being]], he can now [[HealingFactor regenerate from anything]], transform his body into any living being on Earth, and is immune to both the sun and Hamon. However, his decision to give [[TheHero Joseph]] an [[DeathByIrony ironic death]] via Hamon massively comes back to bite him, as [=JoJo=] uses the Red Stone of Aja - the same MacGuffin which gave Kars immortality to begin with - to reflect it; Kars is launched into space by a volcano eruption triggered by his own power, where his AdaptiveAbility generates a shell that [[AndIMustScream prevents him from dying]]. To add insult to the injury, Joseph [[AnArmAndALeg gets one of his hands sliced off]] just as Kars emerges from the volcano. While Kars tries to fly away and leave Joseph to die, that same hand gets flung into Kars, distracting him long enough for debris to knock him out of the atmosphere and into outer space before Kars could react in time and escape.
** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'':
*** Devo's [[FightingSpirit Stand]], Ebony Devil, possesses a [[CreepyDoll doll]] in order to attack Polnareff. However, [[{{Synchronization}} any damage done to a Stand is also done to the User]], and due to Ebony Devil now being bound to a physical object, this means that any damage done will be doubled, which is ultimately Devo's undoing when Polnareff finishes Ebony Devil off.
*** Hol Horse's Stand, Emperor, takes the form of a gun [[ImprobableAimingSkills whose bullets can be controlled mid-flight]]. On two occasions, this has led to Hol Horse accidentally shooting himself with his own bullets[[note]]Granted, the first time wasn't actually his fault, but still[[/note]].
*** Arabia Fats, who uses the Stand, The Sun, hides behind a mirror while his Stand, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a replica of the sun]], attacks the Crusaders for him. However, the shadows created by The Sun are ultimately what cause the Crusaders to pinpoint his location and take him out. And to add insult to injury, the reason their attack was so effective is because Arabia Fats needed to remain in his air-conditioned car or else the extreme heat The Sun was causing would have affected him too.
*** Boingo's Stand, Thoth, takes the form of a comic book that predicts the future with 100% accuracy, which he uses to try and kill the Crusaders with the help of his brother Oingo, who has the Stand, Khnum, which allows him to [[MasterOfDisguise perfectly disguise himself as anybody]]. Unfortunately, while everything that appears in the comic book will always happen, there's enough wiggle room that [[ProphecyTwist when it predicts Jotaro getting his face split open by an orange rigged with explosives, it instead happens to Oingo when he ends up having to disguise himself as Jotaro to infiltrate the group with the exploding orange]].
*** Mariah's Stand, Bastet, allows her to [[MagnetismManipulation magnetize people]] with growing strength, which she uses to complicate things for Joseph and Avdol and to attempt to lure them to their deaths twice. The second time, they have so much additional weight due to the various metal objects stuck to them that when she stands between them, they're able to use the magnetic pull to fly together and crush her to near-death.
*** Alessi, near the end of the fight against him, embeds his own axe in the ground. Then, after getting pummeled by a seven-year-old Jotaro, he stumbles backwards and trips over his own axe, knocking himself unconscious and causing the [[FountainOfYouth effects]] of his Stand to deactivate.
*** [[TheGambler Daniel J. D'Arby]]'s Stand, Osiris, will activate when his opponent admits defeat in their heart. When he faces Jotaro in a poker game, Jotaro pulls off an epic bluff and psyches D'Arby into failing to call it, thus admitting defeat to himself and causing his Stand to [[YourSoulIsMine release the souls of all his past opponents]].
*** During [[TeamPet Iggy]]'s battle against [[BrutalBirdOfPrey Pet]] [[AnIcePerson Shop]], Iggy defeats him by forcing Pet Shop's beak shut while he tries to fire an icicle out of it, causing it to burst within Pet Shop's head and kill him.
*** [[TheDragon Vanilla Ice]]'s vampirism is what keeps him alive throughout his fight against Polnareff and Iggy, but it's also his vampirism that allows Polnareff to defeat him by exploiting his weakness to sunlight. It helps that Ice didn't actually ''know'' he was a vampire, because DIO didn't bother to tell him that he'd been turned into one.
** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'':
*** Okuyasu Nijimura has the Stand, The Hand, which can erase anything by swiping it with its right hand, causing anything surrounding the empty space to close in and fill it in. He'll occasionally use this to teleport himself forward a few feet or pull things towards him, but the first time he demonstrates this use by pulling [[TheHero Josuke]] towards him, he also accidentally pulls forward a nearby potted plant, which hits him in the head and knocks him out.
*** His brother Keicho's Stand, Bad Company, is a small army of tiny soldiers, tanks, and attack helicopters. After he critically wounds Josuke with a landmine and a few helicopter-fired missiles, he gleefully prepares for a killing salvo. However, before that could happen, Josuke blindsides him by sending two of his own helicopter's missiles back at him, having previously destroyed them with his own Stand, whose power is to regenerate anything that's been broken. Keicho's death a bit after this fight is also a case of this trope, as his death comes at the hands of Akira Otoishi's Stand, Red Hot Chili Pepper, a Stand Akira wouldn't have had it not been for Keicho empowering him with the [[MacGuffin Stand Arrow]].
*** During the hunt for the rats Akira hit with the Stand Arrow, Josuke and Jotaro set up some rat traps for them. Later on, one of the rats, Bug-Eaten, uses one of the traps to trick Josuke into exposing himself for an attack.
*** This ends up being a regular occurrence for the Part's BigBad, Yoshikage Kira, with his own abilities being exploited by the heroes every time they fight him. First, his left hand receives a drastic increase in weight when Koichi's Stand, Echoes [=ACT3=], uses its ability on Kira's Sub-Stand, [[ActionBomb Sheer Heart Attack]]. Then, he's unable to attack Hayato because he planted [[GroundhogDayLoop Bites the Dust]] on him. And finally, Josuke tricks him into accidentally blowing up his father with one of his own bombs.
** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'':
*** StarterVillain Leaky-Eye Luca attempts to attack a frog created by [[TheHero Giorno]]'s Stand, [[CreatingLife Gold Experience]], with a shovel, only for the damage to be [[AttackReflector sent back onto him]], causing him to knock himself out.
*** [[TheGunslinger Guido Mista]] '''cannot''' go one fight without one of his opponents using their Stand ability to send his own bullets flying back at him. And unlike Hol Horse, Mista's bullets aren't actually ''part'' of his Stand but instead simply manipulated by his Stand, so they won't vanish if he deactivates the Stand.
*** Sale attempts to finish off Mista by sending one of his bullets back at him, only for Mista's Stand, Sex Pistols, to kick the bullet back at him. Then, when he tries to block the bullet, he ends up accidentally sending a piece of it into the wound from a bullet he had managed to stop earlier, sending the bullet deeper in and causing him to pass out.
*** Pesci's Stand, Beach Boy, is a fishing rod that [[AttackReflector reflects any damage done to the line onto whatever is hooked]]. Bruno defeats him by wrapping the line around Pesci's neck, reflecting the damage onto him and breaking his neck.
*** After defeating the Stand, Baby Face, Giorno transforms its remains into a venomous snake, which returns to Baby Face's User, Melone, and bites him.
*** Risotto Nero's Stand, Metallica, can create its own magnetic field and remove iron, and therefore oxygen, from a person's blood. [[TheDragon Doppio]] defeats him by using the magnetic field to alert Team Bucciarati of Risotto's presence, and his lack of oxygen causes Narancia (whose Stand, Aerosmith, can detect people through carbon dioxide) to think only Risotto's there and attack him.
*** This is done twice to Secco. First, he uses his Stand, Oasis, to drag a car underground, which Bruno uses by popping one of the tires and shattering Secco's eardrums. Then, Bruno uses his Stand, Sticky Fingers, to attach Secco's hand to his neck, causing Oasis to start melting his throat.
** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'':
*** [[BloodKnight Viviano Westwood]]'s Stand, Planet Waves, attracts meteors towards him from Earth's orbit, evaporating them just before they hit him, and [[TheHero Jolyne]] gets scorched just trying to deflect them. At one point, Westwood attracts one through a wall behind Jolyne, boasting that it'll be the one hit that takes her out. However, Jolyne revealed that she managed to remove one of his boots, with which she deflected the blow, sending a flaming boot flying into Westwood's face.
*** Miumiu's Stand, Jail House Lock, traps people in an [[AmnesiaLoop amnesia-induced loop]], making it impossible for anyone affected by it to escape the prison. After Jolyne defeats her and takes her hostage, this ability ends up aiding her and the other heroes in their escape from the prison.
*** Ungalo has the Stand, Bohemian Rhapsody, which causes any fictional character to come to life. Weather Report defeats him by telling a story of a superhero that rounds up all the fictional characters and places them back into their respective stories, with Bohemian Rhapsody causing it to come to life and do just that.
*** Rikiel, near the end of his fight with Jolyne, wraps his hand around the back of her neck to put out the fire she lit on herself so that the rods can absorb the heat from her brainstem. However, his hands covering her neck end up preventing the rods from absorbing the heat completely before he ends up succumbing to his injuries.
*** Near the end of the Part, [[KnightTemplar Enrico]] [[SinisterMinister Pucci]] achieves godlike status as he has gained Made in Heaven, a Stand that can [[StoryBreakerPower speed up time and move the universe towards destruction and recreation]]. Pucci has already killed off most of the heroes, and all that's left is TagalongKid Emporio Alniño. Pucci stops the universal reset just short of a full cycle in order to catch Emporio at the one moment they were both in the same location -- the Green Dolphin Street prison -- in order to kill him. Pucci thinks this will be easy enough, seeing as how Emporio has a non-combat based Stand, but unknownst to him, Emporio borrowed one of his fallen friends' Stand, and just as Pucci is in the perfect position to kill Emporio, Emporio is in the perfect position to kill Pucci. The kid surprises him by using the Stand, [[WeatherManipulation Weather Report]], to poison him with fatal levels of oxygen. It gets even better when you realize that said fallen friend used Pucci's Stand, [[PowersAsPrograms Whitesnake]], to create the disc that would allow Emporio to use Weather Report. In fact, Emporio doesn't even try to use it at first - Pucci accidentally pushed it in his body while he was trying to catch him, activating the Stand and giving his victim a way to defeat him. Also worth mention, Made in Heaven makes it so that anyone (except Pucci, its User) who ends up in the remade universe is forced to follow the exact same path they followed "the first time around". The only exception is if Pucci directly interacts with someone. So Pucci's attempt at killing Emporio is exactly what allowed Emporio to escape his predetermined fate. And just to add insult to injury, Enrico is killed by the oxygen toxicity because Made in Heaven sped up time enough that it affected him faster than it normally would have.
** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'':
*** Dr. Ferdinand has the Stand, Scary Monsters, which unleashes a [[TheVirus virus]] that turns anything it infects into a dinosaur, [[TheBeastmaster which he can control]]. Once the Stand has been deactivated, it turns out that two of the Utahraptors Dr. Ferdinand created were actually two ''very angry'' mountain lions, which proceed to maul him.
*** Magent Magent has the Stand, 20th Century Boy, an armor that leaves him [[NighInvulnerability completely invulnerable]] as long as he's kneeling. He's defeated when he's thrown into a river and put in a state where he can ''only'' kneel, with 20th Century Boy keeping him from drowning and [[AndIMustScream trapping him at the bottom of the river]].
*** Funny Valentine tries to trick [[TheHero Johnny]] by convincing him he wants to help him, while secretly bringing a gun from another dimension to kill him. However, Johnny sees through the plan and tosses the same gun from their dimension at Valentine, [[NeverTheSelvesShallMeet causing both guns to explode]].
** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'':
*** The younger of the two A. Phex Brothers has the Stand, Schott Key No. 2, which releases a DeadlyGas. They're defeated when [[TheHero Josuke]] uses the bubbles created by his Stand, Soft & Wet, to smother them in the gas.
*** Yoshikage Kira attempts to take out the Rock Humans' Smuggling Cartel by using his Stand, Killer Queen, to blow up their yacht. He ends up being the only person to get seriously injured in the explosion.
*** Poor Tom has the Stand, Ozon Baby, which allows him to control the air pressure of the surrounding area. He's defeated when Josuke takes advantage of the air pressure to seal poisonous yew seeds in the bubbles created by Soft & Wet, then popping them to turn them into a chemical spray.

* Narrowly averted in ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem''. Mingyi throws his noble wife out for harassing Xiaxi, indifferent towards her family. Much, much later his family needs the assistance of her father, who seems only too glad to tell the Wang Pu family to piss off after how they treated his daughter. However, he ends up reluctantly agreeing to help when he realizes how serious the current situation actually is.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': Due to the [[PuzzleBoss nature]] of many fights in the series, a lot of them involve the heroes (and sometimes the villains) using their opponents' powers against them:
** This happens twice to Bruford from ''Manga/PhantomBlood''. First, he attempts to handicap Jonathan by forcing them to fight underwater, only for Jonathan to find an air source via a reservoir of air bubbles to breathe from and then use the water as a conductor for [[PowerOfTheSun Hamon]]. Then, when he tries to stab Jonathan while he's pinned to a tree, Jonathan kicks Bruford's sword, then conducts Hamon through the sword and into Bruford, melting his arm.

* ''{{Manga/Naruto}}'':

* ''Manga/SailorMoon'': In contrast with the manga, many anime characters died this way (in fact, the protagonists themselves rarely kill anyone, except for [[MonsterOfTheWeek monsters-of-the-week]] and {{Big Bad}}s) -- at least when they were not offed by the BigBad [[YouHaveFailedMe for their constant failures]], betrayed by their peers, or redeemed. Malachite/Kunzite died of his own reflected attack (though Sailor Moon still qualifies for that kill by reflecting it); Mimet/Mimete died when she used a machine built by Eugeal/Eudial, whom she killed; Telulu/Tellu was blown up by the giant plant she summoned; Byruit/Viluy had her {{Nanomachines}} turn against her and "erase" her; Cyprin/Cyprine and Petirol/Ptilol (regarded as one person) were tricked into blasting each other, Rubeus is killed when he blows up his ship, and Sailor Lead Crow was sucked into the black hole that she tried to use against Sailor Moon, though only because her black hole device was sabotaged by her sociopathic teammate, Tin Nyanko.

* ''Manga/SgtFrog'': Happens a lot to Tamama and Keroro..

* ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote'': The criminals in ''The Backyard Knows'', animated as episodes 9-12. Basically speaking: they steal some rare butterfly samples from the museum, wanting to sell to collectors. The problem is one of them is particularly poisonous; one of them got poisoned to the point that calling the ambulance became unavoidable...

* ''Anime/YuGiOh'':
** In the second season where Yugi dueled Marik's mind-slave Strings, the only way he was able to beat his invincible card setup was to use it to his own advantage so that his monster would be destroyed and regenerated an infinite number of times within a single turn, and due to one of the effects Marik had on the field, Strings was forced to keep drawing cards from his deck every time the monster regenerated until he ran out of cards and lost the duel by deck-out.
** In the anime, when Yugi [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame defeated Ryuji Otogi (Duke Devlin)]] at ''Dungeon Dice Monsters'', it was, in a way, Otogi's fault; he had inadvertently designed the DDM version of Dark Magician, Yugi's [[TheAce favorite monster]], incredibly powerful, with abilities that made Yugi able to use it with almost as much synergy as he did in Duel Monsters. (Yugi could not help but ''thank'' him for making such an accurate version of his favorite card before he delivered the winning blow.)
*** The above example is a bit different in the original Japanese. As it turns out, it was ''Pegasus'' who decided to expand the DDM game, adding new monsters and features based on the Duel Monsters, and Otogi apparently hadn't checked the new additions in depth before facing Yugi, and he was thrown for a complete loop since he had no idea of the Dark Magician's abilities. Still counts as an example since, as the original creator, he should have checked the game more throroughly.
** In the Virtual World arc, the QuirkyMinibossSquad all suffer a defeat this way, and each one is directly because of the Deck Master system that they implemented.

*** Oka (Johnson), a smug lawyer, cheated throughout the entire Duel by rigging Jounouchi's (Joey) gambling cards, but when he was forced to play fair, he fell for an obvious bluff that allowed Jounouchi to use his Deck Master, the Flame Swordsman, to win the Duel.

** In the quarterfinals of Battle City, Mai attempts to defeat Marik this way, using the effect of Amazoness Chain Master to steal The Winged Dragon of Ra. However, it backfires on her because she can't read the text on the card, which is needed in order to command it. Marik recites the text and reclaims control of it.
** When Yami Bakura duels Yami Marik, he loses because of this. In the anime, he tries to win this way by using Dark Designator in order to add Ra to Yami Marik's hand, and then Exchange in order to steal Ra. However, the moment he tried to summon Ra, Marik activated a trap card that drained Bakura's sacrifices of their attack power, meaning Ra had zero attack points. He then sacrificed it to summon a new monster, which allowed Marik to revive Ra with Monster Reborn, [[IronicEcho the card Marik took from Bakura because of Exchange]]. The manga plays it out a bit differently, but is still ultimately this trope. After using Dark Designator to add Ra to Marik's hand, Bakura activates Multiple Destruction, a hand destruction card, sending Ra to the graveyard, which gives Marik the chance to revive it with Monster Reborn. In both versions, Bakura was unaware of Ra's additional powers.
** In the Waking the Dragons arc, the Seal of Orichalcos was an utterly overpowered card, but once it was activated, whoever lost the Duel lost their soul. There were only two instances onscreen where the person who activated the card didn't lose the Duel, and one of those was a draw.

* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'':
** In season one, the second of the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Shadow Riders]], Camilla (Camula), had a card called Illusion Gate. It destroyed all monsters her opponent controlled and then let her summon one monster from her opponent's Graveyard. The cost? If she lost the Duel, her soul would be forfeit to the [[EldritchAbomination Sacred Beasts]]. She normally used her Shadow Charm to offer someone else's soul instead, but when Judai (Jaden)'s own charm canceled out hers, she was left with no choice but to stake her own soul. And naturally, she lost.
** In season two, Judai dueled X, a Pro Duelist who used a Mill Deck; Judai won by decking ''him'' out. X was a very [[{{Jerkass}} unpleasant person]] (even Ed (Aster), who witnessed the duel, didn't like him), so this was sort of poetic justice. (Of course, Judai does this using one of his Neo-Spacians, and a common theme with his duels is that the villains never understand how they work and never take them into consideration. Even the most CrazyPrepared villain can never prepare for something he knows nothing about.)
** The turning point in the final duel against Darkness comes when Jaden uses Black Panther to copy his Neosphere's ability and re-set his Darkness field spell, bricking Darkness' strategy entirely.

* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' had a few:
** The first example was way back in episode two. Yusei duels a guy who uses Insect cards, and had a Spell Card on the field (Ant Lion's Vengeance/Retribution of the Ant Lion) that damages a player whenever their monster goes to the Graveyard. Yusei pulls off a combo that destroys all three of his opponent's monsters, and lets his own Spell card do the rest. (Given that the guy ''purposely'' destroys one of his own Insects earlier in the duel to use its effect, he's obviously not entirely clear on how his own card works; long story short, he was an IneffectualSympatheticVillain, more or less.)
** Arguably, this is how Yusei defeated Jack the first time. Jack was in his pre-HeelFaceTurn days, and tried to {{troll}} Yusei by summoning Red Dragon Archfiend ''and'' Stardust Dragon, the latter of which is Yusei's ace card that Jack stole. Unfortunately for him, Yusei was expecting that, activates Harmonium Mirror to seize control of it, and ultimately wins. (Well, he would if the duel hadn't been interrupted, but Yusei won in Jack's eyes, [[VillainousBreakdown much to his horror]].) The rematch at the end of the Fortune Cup has Jack deliberately reenact his previous strategy to win, but it turns into an IKnowYouKnowIKnow that ends with Yusei pulling out the victory.
** The duel with Takasu plays it in another angle. While locked in the Facility, Yusei is forced into a duel with the head jailer. The idea of Takasu's Iron Chain strategy is to exhaust the opponent's Deck, but Yusei reveals that his last two cards (from a deck all cobbled together from other jailed duelists) actually ''depended'' on a high Graveyard count, and he wins the duel with them.
** Durring Yusei's "Concentration Duel" (a ruleset that combines Duel Monsters with Concentration) with Clark, Clark cheats by marking his cards so that his glasses can see what kind of card he's about to flip over. However, he's too blatant about his cheating (at one point flipping over the same card 3 times in a row, which Yusei notes is an almost 1 in 10000 chance), and Yusei catches on quickly that the game is rigged. A lucky power outage exposes the trick to Yusei, allowing him to exploit the reflection in Clark's glasses to pull off a combo to win.
** This could also be construed as how Team [=5Ds=] defeated Team Ragnarok. Harold's Trap Card, Gjallarhorn, would have banished all three of his Divine Beast monsters in three turns and then deal damage to Yusei equal to their ATK, ''and'' make them and Harold nearly invincible until that happened. Yusei was able to turn this card against him by summoning Shooting Star Dragon for the first time. This causes Harold to use his Odin's Eye Trap, which again, is what Yusei was expecting; he counters with a Trap of his own to shanghai control of the Trap, making the three Divine monsters vulnerable; a second Trap causes their Scores to drop to zero, meaning when the effect of Gjallarhorn finally activates, Yusei takes no damage at all. Harold, however, is now defenseless, and wide open.

* ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'':
** The episode where Rio demanded a duel from her brother, Shark. Rio tried to win by using a Field Spell that benefits Water-Attribute monsters ''and'' Xyz monsters and used them to gain an advantage for a turn, summoning a powerful Xyz called Ice Princess Zereort. Unfortunately, she seemed to forget that her brother ''also'' specialized in Water-Attribute Xyzs, and was able to use the Field Spell to summon a ''far'' more powerful one called Shark Caesar, which was able to wipe her out.
** During Yuma's duel with Eliphas, Eliphas uses a deck focused around using Rank-Up Magic cards to keep upgrading his Xyz Monsters, culminating in a Rank 13 ace monster that, on top of having an insane 5000 base ATK, gets more powerful with every Over Ray Unit attached to it and mills the opponent's deck for more Units whenever they Xyz Summon (by the end of the duel, it has a whopping 33 ORU attached). Yuma defeats it by summoning a Rank 1 Xyz Monster that gets more powerful when it attacks an Xyz Monster depending on the difference in their Ranks, and how many ORU the opposing monster has. Coupled with "Double Up Chance", this gives Yuma's monster ''79200 ATK''.
** DoubleSubverted with the duel between Yuma and Nasch. Nasch uses the Quick-Play Spell "Glorious Seven" to counter Yuma's signature combo of "Double Up Chance" and Hope, but Yuma stops the second attack at the last second. "Glorious Seven" would have reflected the battle damage back at Yuma, which would have make him lose, but since the damage this turn is 0, Nasch's LP become 0 due to the effect of his "Glorious Seven". Which means him attempting to use this trope on Yuma ended up backfiring on him instead.
* ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'':
** Sawatari steals two of Yuya's cards and gives him the weak monster Block Spider as an insult, saying it's nothing but trash. When they duel, Block Spider deals the final attack to Sawatari.
** Later in the series, Yugo invokes this trope against a trio of Obelisk Force soldiers, wiping out their entire monster lineup, causing their own Spell Card, Ancient Armageddon Gear, to deal damage to them equal to the total ATK of the monsters they just lost.
* ''Anime/YuGiOhVRAINS'':
** In his second duel with Playmaker, Revolver would have been able to win with less flair if he didn't go all the way to steal Firewall Dragon.
** Revolver had so many chances to win in his fourth battle with Playmaker but went all the way to create an Extra Link just to give Yusaku despair. Had he just attacked or powered up his monsters before creating the Extra Link, he could had dealt enough damage to defeat Playmaker before he's able to get the cards he needs.
** Likewise, if Revolver simply sat on his Borrels for lockdown as Borreload Savage Dragon would have been able to negate card effects. But he banished his own monsters with Zeroboros in order to clear the board, giving Soulburner the chance for a comeback with Burning Draw.
** Playmaker summons "Cyberse Clock Dragon" and boosts its ATK to 7500 so he can end the duel in one turn, but Ai uses a Spell Card to negate the attack and summon the rest of his Extra Deck ace monsters to the field as set up for his Link-6 summon.
** Playmaker unintentionally sets himself up for defeat the moment he attempts to use "Quantum Dragon's" effect during the battle to return "The Arrival Cyberse" to the Extra Deck, not knowing that the latter is unaffected by other card effects while it has a counter.
** Ai's attempt to use "[=TAi=] Strike" to defeat Playmaker backfires, as the latter uses the effect of "Code Hack" in his GY to negate the Spell Card, increase "Decode Talker's" ATK by 700, and wipe out Ai's remaining 100 LP. Ai even lampshades that he shouldn't have fallen for it, since it was pretty obvious that Playmaker chose "Decode Talker" on purpose.

* In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', the HeroKiller [[NinetiesAntiHero Stain]] has a Quirk that allows him to temporarily freeze someone in place by ingesting their blood. After Midoriya, Todoroki, and Iida manage to defeat and subdue him, Stain suddenly regains consciousness, breaks free from his bonds, puts the ''absolute fear of God'' into the onlooking heroes... then suddenly freezes. A rib broken in the earlier battle had pierced through his lung, causing him to ingest his own blood and get frozen in place by his own Quirk.[[note]]Given that he was [[BloodFromTheMouth bleeding from the mouth]] seconds before his initial defeat, it's implied that this is how he lost in the first place.[[/note]]
** How All for One was defeated. The original prototype for One for All was just the Quirk that can transfer itself to others. All For One actually put ''another'' Quirk, SuperStrength, either out of pity or pride. As One for All is a cumulative power, it just enabled the 2 codominant Quirks to evolve with the help of the first one's eventual successors, all the way until by the time of the 8th user, All Might, it had evolved into the only way All For One can finally be defeated. And that's how All Might defeated him, twice in fact, [[BroughtDownToNormal until the second one finally drained him]].
*** Happens to AFO again in his final battle. He uses the Rewind Quirk to constantly recover from fatal injuries, at the cost of growing younger and younger. But as the fight progresses, he gets constantly distracted with fighting others and by the end, the quirk causes him to dissapear.