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* At the end of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', Harry uses the Pensive to look into Snape's memories, one of which contains him [[spoiler:telling Mundungus to give the idea of having 7 Potters to the Order and to make him present it as his own.]]
* ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'': In ''Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies'', Hornblower conceives and carries out a complex scheme to capture a Spanish slave-runner ship and make it look like the idea came from his flag captain.

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'''Edna:''' You push too ''hard'', darling--but I accept.
* In ''[[Toys/PollyPocket Pollyworld]]'', Lorelei tries to have Polly sent to a boarding school by convincing Polly's dad it's ''his'' idea.

* In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', Palpatine pulls this gambit on Jar-Jar in order to force a declaration of emergency powers that will ultimately lead to his rise as Emperor. Interestingly, he does this by having ''his chief of staff'' drop the hint rather than doing so himself, leaving him free and clear of any accusations despite the hinting being obvious and heavy-handed.
* In ''Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding'', Toula's relatives subtly convince her patriarchal father to let Toula get a job. The aunt, who owns a travel agency, loudly laments how she needs an assistant. Toula's mother sighs that such an assistant would need to be good at computers, and isn't it unfortunate that none of the family's sons fit the bill? Cue lightbulb moment. Toula's mother [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this practice, which is apparently [[MoreDeadlyThanTheMale common to all women]], with a succinct quote: "The man may be the head of the family, but the woman is the ''neck.'' And she can turn the head any way she wants."

'''Cosmo:''' ''(sarcastically)'' I'm glad you thought of it.

* ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'': In "Maid to Order", Darrin insists on hiring a maid for pregnant Samantha to prevent strain. She settles on Naomi, a sweet but incredibly clumsy woman. Naomi fully acknowledges her own klutziness, explaining that she's a widow who desperately needs a job to pay for her son's medical schooling. Thanks to some magical help from Sam, Naomi is able to succeed, but she ultimately ends up quitting, as she [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy wants what's best]] for the Stephens and their unborn baby. Before she goes, though, she produces a list of the things she's broken and, without missing a beat, rapidly determines the exact percentage of her salary that should be withheld to pay the damages. Impressed by Naomi's calculator-like mind, Samantha suggests that Darrin find her a job in his advertising firm's accounting department, where she can get more money and play to her strengths. She rushes to tell Naomi the good news, saying "Mr. Stephens had the most wonderful idea!"

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* ''[[Theatre/{{Xanadu|2007}} Xanadu on Broadway]]'':

-->"Uh...yeah. You see right through me."

* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'': Vehemence personally organized the whole attack of supervillains on the ARCHON team a few days after the superheroes revealed themselves to the public, but he let Vekter, a powerful telekinetic, think it was his idea and lead the charge... until the moment of Vehemence's inevitable betrayal, of course.

* Jaga from ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'' pulls one of these, carefully cloaking references to "Sight Beyond Sight" in aphorisms about Kingly behavior, to coax Lion-O into admitting he's had a vision. Unfortunately, he decides that having won Lion-O's trust, the details can wait... Unfortunately for ''both'' of them things go downhill from there.

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-->'''Bob''': A new suit? Well, where the heck am I gonna get a new suit?\\
'''Edna''': YOU CAN'T! It's impossible, I'm far too busy, so ask me now before I again become sane!\\
'''Bob''': ...wait. You wanna make me a suit?\\
'''Edna''': You push too ''hard'', darling--but I accept.

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--->'''Vetinari''': May I suggest Ankh–Morpork?\\
'''Ashal''': No. On neutral territory, of course.\\
'''Vetinari''': But where, between Ankh-Morpork and Klatch, is there such a thing?\\
'''Ashal''': I suppose... there is Leshp.\\
'''Vetinari''': What a good idea. That would not have occurred to me.

--->'''Ridcully''': The statutes say you can only be a wizard by passing through the University in the normal way or by performing some great service of benefit to magic, and I'm afraid that--\\
'''Rincewind''': Couldn't you just send me back to my island? I liked it there. It was dull!\\
'''Ridcully''': No can do, I'm afraid. The offence has been committed over a period of many years. And since you haven't passed any exams or performed ''any service of great benefit to magic'', I'm afraid I shall have to instruct the bledlows to fetch some rope and--\\
'''Rincewind''': Er. I think I may have saved the world a couple of times. Does that help?\\
'''Ridcully''': Did anyone from the University see you do it?\\
'''Rincewind''': No, I don't think so.\\
'''Ridcully''': Probably doesn't count, then. It's a shame, because ''if you had performed any service of great benefit to magic'' then I'd be happy to let you keep that hat and, of course, something to wear it on. ''({{Beat}})'' So, since it seems that you haven't actually passed your exams OR PERFORMED A SERVICE OF GREAT BENEFIT TO MAGIC, then--\\
'''Rincewind:''' ''(bowing to the inevitable)'' I suppose... I could try to perform some great service?\\
'''Ridcully''': Really? Hmm? Well, that's definitely a thought.

* ''Series/TheATeam'', "[[Recap/TheATeamS4E4LeaseWithAnOptionToDie Lease with an Option to Die]]". B.A.'s mother thinks he's the head of the A-Team, so the others play along. When the subject of a plan comes up, Hannibal thinks of one while saying that B.A. had told them about it on the way. B.A. goes along with it.
* ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'': In "Maid to Order," Darrin insists on hiring a maid for pregnant Samantha to prevent strain. She settles on Naomi, a sweet but incredibly clumsy woman. Naomi fully acknowledges her own klutziness, explaining that she's a widow who desperately needs a job to pay for her son's medical schooling. Thanks to some magical help from Sam, Naomi is able to succeed, but she ultimately ends up quitting, as she [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy wants what's best]] for the Stephens and their unborn baby. Before she goes, though, she produces a list of the things she's broken and, without missing a beat, rapidly determines the exact percentage of her salary that should be withheld to pay the damages. Impressed by Naomi's calculator-like mind, Samantha suggests that Darrin find her a job in his advertising firm's accounting department, where she can get more money and play to her strengths. She rushes to tell Naomi the good news, saying "Mr. Stephens had the most wonderful idea!"
** An earlier episode uses a similar trick. Samantha comes up with some clever ideas for Darrin's latest advertising client (a soup-making company), and at first, he loves them--but then he decides that the only way she could have possibly devised the slogans was with her magic (in case you hadn't noticed, ''Bewitched'' is heavy on UnfortunateImplications). After a massive fight, the two eventually make up, with Samantha casually remarking "How silly that a can of soup would come between us." Darrin decides that it's the perfect slogan, and heads out...at which point Samantha tells Endora that she ''knew'' it would be a great idea, and deliberately let Darrin think it was his. Endora [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the whole situation and points out its issues, but Samantha resignedly tells her that it's the way things have to be. Yeah...

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', this is how [[spoiler:the High Priest of Hel (who's [[DemonicPossession possessing Durkon]]) gets Roy to take him to the Godsmoot. He can't just tell Roy where it is, or ask Roy to take him there (and if Roy knew what "Durkon's" [[OmnicidalManiac intentions]] were, he would absolutely refuse), so he and Roy look around Tinkertown until they find someone heading to the Godsmoot, under the pretense of looking for someone who can resurrect Durkon. As the High Priest puts it to Durkon, he's a vampire, making something seem organic when it's really an unnatural facade is his entire thing]].

-->'''Jake''': Then just make her think it's her idea. [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar That's how you make the ladies do what you want]].[[note]][[ThatCameOutWrong It's not what you think]]; the "lady" in context is [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a weeping female monster that Finn had already decided he must fight alone]], meaning that the [[NotWhatItLooksLike sleazy-sounding line]] was, presumably, [[NonSequitur combat advice]]. Though knowing [[AManIsAlwaysEager Jake]], [[CloudCuckoolander never say never]]...[[/note]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'', Bob goes to see super-suit designer Edna Mode to repair his old costume after it gets damaged on a mission. She claims that it's a "hobo suit" and says he needs a new outfit, leaving Bob to wonder where he can possibly get one. Edna immediately agrees to make one for him, all the while insisting that Bob is "making" her do so; Bob himself isn't trying to be tricky, as he genuinely just wanted Edna to patch up the damage. Much like Bob himself, Edna misses the GloryDays when she regularly designed super-suits, but she doesn’t want to outright admit it.

* In ''Anime/AnimeGataris'', this turns out to be the M.O. of [[spoiler:Nakano]]. In order to further his plan to [[spoiler:turn the real world into anime]], he nudges the Anime Club in the right direction by suggesting they follow through with events that allign with his goals. The most blatant example of these is in episode 9, where [[spoiler:Minoa hears Nakano's encouraging words echoing in her ears, only for the next shot to reveal he's right there whispering]].

!!You could perhaps put examples here maybe?:

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', when Louie the alligator refuses to take the heroes to the person that can break their spell (due to how dangerous it is), [[GuileHero Naveen]] starts saying that is a pity he cannot fulfill his dream of playing jazz in the river boats, and that maybe if he wasn't a gator, it may be possible. After a few seconds, Louie says that he could ask to become human, with Naveen calling him a genius for "getting" that idea.

'''Cosmo:''' ''[sarcastically]'' I'm glad you thought of it.

--->'''Vetinari''': May I suggest Ankh–Morpork?
--->'''Ashal''': No. On neutral territory, of course.
--->'''Vetinari''': But where, between Ankh-Morpork and Klatch, is there such a thing?
--->'''Ashal''': I suppose... there is Leshp.
--->'''Vetinari''': What a good idea. That would not have occurred to me.

'''Rincewind''' ''(bowing to the inevitable)'': I suppose... I could try to perform some great service?\\

* In ''[[Literature/HoratioHornblower Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies]]'', Hornblower conceives and carries out a complex scheme to capture a Spanish slave-runner ship and make it look like the idea came from his flag captain.

* In ''[[Literature/TalesOfTheFiveHundredKingdoms The Snow Queen]]'', Aleksia's job is to arrange happy endings in her fairy tale kingdom, and it's often easier if her clients don't realize what she's doing. To do this, she's providing yet another instance where ideas are being given and created as someone else's idea. This could be useful in demonstrating the trope.
-->Between the two of them, she and Kaari had managed to put it into Essa's thick skull that this would be a grand betrothal token for Suvi, and even more cleverly, had managed to make him believe that ''he'' had thought of it.

'''Machiavelli:''' Of Your Majesty's ''infinite resourcefulness.''

* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' has an episode where Shawn realized that Carlton Lassiter really needed a jolt of confidence, so he and Gus spend the episode solving the week's case, and then relaying the information to Carlton in such a way that he solves it on his own, much like how you're coming up with all these examples now.

--> '''Jake''': Then just make her think it's her idea. [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar That's how you make the ladies do what you want]].[[note]] [[ThatCameOutWrong It's not what you think]]; the "lady" in context is [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a weeping female monster that Finn had already decided he must fight alone]], meaning that the [[NotWhatItLooksLike sleazy-sounding line]] was, presumably, [[NonSequitur combat advice]]. Though knowing [[AManIsAlwaysEager Jake]], [[CloudCuckoolander never say never]]... [[/note]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', Bob goes to see super-suit designer Edna Mode to repair his old costume after it gets damaged on a mission. She claims that it's a "hobo suit" and says he needs a new outfit, leaving Bob to wonder where he can possibly get one. Edna immediately agrees to make one for him, all the while insisting that Bob is "making" her do so; Bob himself isn't trying to be tricky, as he genuinely just wanted Edna to patch up the damage. Much like Bob himself, Edna misses the GloryDays when she regularly designed super-suits, but she doesn’t want to outright admit it.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' realized that deliberately invoking this on his boss was about the only way to get funding for an idea Dilbert came up with. Considering [[GladIThoughtOfIt his]] [[PointyHairedBoss boss]], he's right. Dilbert refers to this as "bossifying" his idea, and an example can be seen [[http://dilbert.com/strip/2014-01-12 here]]...

-->'''Bob''': A new suit? Now where the heck am I gonna get a new--\\

** Crystal manipulates her friend [[AlphaBitch Tiffany]] into flirting with [[{{Nerd}} Gunther]] in order to attract hunky exchange student Quill's interest. When the plan backfires, the following exchange occurs:

* In ''[[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheRecollection Red vs. Blue: The Recreation]]'', Simmons, Lopez, and Donut are being hunted by the Meta. When Lopez makes one of his usual sarcastic Hispanic comments, Donut (who took high school Spanish but is nowhere near as proficient as he thinks he is) assumes Lopez has come up with a way to escape, and relates this idea to Simmons. Simmons likes the idea, and congratulates Lopez for his thinking. Meanwhile, Lopez, who can only speak Spanish, can't tell either of them that the idea has a few holes in it.

* Throughout Season One of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', Martin is haunted by the [[ThatOneCase one case he couldn't solve]], and the revelation that the victim's mother is dying only pushes him further, as he wants to give her closure before she goes. One night, Frasier, Niles, and Daphne go over their father's collected evidence and see a solution that he hadn't--namely, that the victim's jealous ex-boyfriend used a trained chimpanzee to commit the murder--and think they've solved the mystery. They don't want to steal Martin's glory, though, so they rearrange the photos and documents to make him discover their solution and thus come to it himself. The plan works, albeit in an AccidentallyAccurate way: the actual murderer was someone else, but the trio inadvertently arranged the clues in such a way that Martin ''did'' notice the possibility for the first time.