History Main / UriahGambit

* ''{{Vexxarr}}'' was once sent to conquer [[PunyEarthlings a bunch of dirt-monkeys in a far away system]] as an alternative to [[ThrownOutTheAirlock flushing into space]] not offending his clan -- it's a [[http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=012805 win-win]].
** [[http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=012506 Later]] Vexxarr can identify this situation at a glance:
--->'''a Shlumpoid''': Suicide mission? What makes you think the Supreme Council wants me dead?
--->'''Vexxarr''': Oh, I don't know... There's just something about being sent against a technically superior enemy without possessing [[InvisibleAnatomy so much as an opposable thumb]] that sort of sets off my conspiratorial side...

** And in a later episode, they send him to a harsh alien boot camp in the hope that he'll be killed, while at the same time holding a betting pool on how long Zim will last. Not only is Zim the only member of his training unit to survive, but the Tallest end up losing an extremely large amount of money to the one guy who bet on Zim surviving.
*** Of course, The Tallest being [[{{Jerkass}} who]] [[CompleteMonster they]] [[EvillyAffable are,]] they solve both problems by shooting both Zim and the guy who won the bet into the center the sun.

* Palpatine does this to Dooku and Grevious in ''StarWars''.

* In ''IronMan'' Obadiah Stane arranges to have Tony Stark killed by terrorists in Afghanistan while he is presenting a new missile system to the american troops stationed there. [[SuperHeroOrigin It doesn't quite work out as planned.]]

* ''Dark Force Rising'', the middle book of the Thrawn trilogy, had an interesting variation. [[SmugSnake Borsk]] [[DividedWeFall Fey'lya]], going out to the site of the Katana Fleet in a ship crewed solely by his most ardent supporters, following right after some political adversaries, ended up ambushed by a superior Imperial force. He got the ship and its escort to turn around and start to flee, leaving Luke, Han, and Rogue Squadron high and dry. However, he got tricked into an EngineeredPublicConfession in which he stated his belief that those who weren't with him were his enemies, no one cared if their enemies died, and he wouldn't lose his allies, who were of purely political significance, to anything as outmoded as loyalty. His ship and its escort promptly turned back for a BigDamnHeroes moment.

* In ''Flashman and the Mountain of Light,'' the Sikh ruling class deliberately starts a war with the British empire so that their unruly and regicidal army will be slaughtered.

* Though not technically a subordinate of him, this is attempted by Klaus Hauptman on Honor Harrington in the fifth Honor Harrington book where she is sent out in a Q-ship to hunt pirates. If she succeeds, Klaus's ships are safer, if she dies, then she's dead and out of his way. Either way he wins.

* Bellerophon, also of Greek mythology, was sent to King Iobates [[PleaseShootTheMessenger bearing a missive that asked the king to kill its bearer]]. Before reading it, the two had feasted well together and simply killing Bellerophon [[SacredHospitality might bring divine wrath upon the kingdom]]. Instead, Iobates repeatedly sent Bellerophon on suicidal missions where he continuously succeeded until the hero ultimately earned the wrath of Zeus and was struck down.

* In ''Oblivion'', one of the Mage's Guild leaders has you go pull a ring out of the bottom of a well. A ring that happens to weigh as much as a full suit of armor. One of your predecessors is floating around in said well when you dive in. [[spoiler: Guess which Mage's Guild leader turns out to be working with the Necromancers?]]

* The Pariah Dog in ''{{Fallout 2}}'' comes with the Jinxed perk, causing everyone in combat to fail spectacularly. (If you've ever played a Jinxed character, you'll be familiar with the lost ammo, destroyed own weapon, critically missed and crippled own arm shtick.) It doesn't aid in combat or even absorb blows for you, uses up a follower slot, and your Luck drops to 1. It doesn't help that doom doggy has 750hp, runs when you attack it but comes back once you stop, and you're missing half the time (and losing all your ammo). Suggestions for [[http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/fallout2/show_msgs.php?topic_id=m-1-41373450&pid=63576 how to off it]] get pretty interesting... But heaven help you if you critical kill it a zero damage attack, as its negative effects will never leave even though it's dead!

* In the film version of ''TheManInTheIronMask'', King Louis XIV, upon finding out that one of the women he desires is already engaged to a soldier, sends him to the front lines to die in battle. Though the plan succeeds, it also backfires since the soldier also happened to be the son of one of the legendary Three Musketeers.

* Palpatine does this to Dooku and Grevious in ''StarWars''.
** One of the major reasons Palpatine orchestrated the Clone Wars, and manipulated it to continue for as long as it did, was to reduce the Jedi's numbers.

* In ''RoadToPerdition'', the Rooneys try to kill Sullivan by sending him out to collect on a debt, then offering the debtor a deal - his debt will be forgiven if he kills Sullivan. In a particularly bold and ruthless twist, [[spoiler: Sullivan himself is given the note bearing the offer to deliver.]]

* In ''AvalonHigh'', Will's father pulls this off on one of his underlings because he is in love with his wife and wishes to begin ComfortingTheWidow. It works off so perfectly that people suspect as much and it is an open secret in the town. [[spoiler: It is also part of the motivation of the book's antagonist, Marco, since it was his father who died]].

* In ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' II, you find out that the Battle of Malachor V was like this too. Revan stacked the fleet with Jedi and soldiers who might oppose his upcoming rise to power. Only one Jedi survived the battle.

* In ''[[Videogame/GodOfWar God of War]] III'', Hephaestus learns that Kratos intends to open Pandora's Box, which will require Pandora, who Hephaestus regards as his daughter, to be sacrificed. So he sends Kratos to retrieve an Omphalos Stone, on a promise that he will use it to create a new weapon for Kratos, not mentioning that the stone is inside the guts of the Titan Cronos. It doesn't work.

* In ''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick'', Roy's first adventuring party kept sending Durkon on suicidal missions, but Durkon kept surviving. Durkon was actually aware they were trying to get rid of him, but he was resigned to it until Roy stood up for him, at which point the two left to form their own group.
** Miko Miyazaki overlaps this trope and SnipeHunt. She's so unbearable to be around that she's repeatedly sent on missions away from Azure City, usually for months at a time; she's so bad that they actually consider it worth the bad publicity of having her representing the city if it means getting her out of their hair. No one ever explicitly says they're trying to kill her, but the other paladins sort of give the idea that no one would be particularly ''sad'' if she did die, either.
** Inverted by Tarquin, who decides he wants to marry a woman from the Free City of Doom who is already married to a Pikeman on the city's south wall. When his soldiers invade, they take special care of her husband. [[EvilGloating Which he then told her about.]]

* ''ReBoot'' has Megabyte do this to his own henchmen Hack & Slash because he's sick of their incompetence.

* In one episode of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'', an Earth Kingdom soldier mentions that one way the Fire Nation deals with war prisoners is dressing them up in military uniforms and sending them to the front lines without weapons.
** It's implied (or at least suspected by some suspicious-minded fans) that this happened to Iroh's son, who died before the series started in battle.
** Also suspected by suspicious fans is that Ozai sent Zuko away on a SnipeHunt ''hoping'' that he would get killed sooner rather than later, so that Ozai could have him out of his hair permanently without getting his hands dirty. Well, dirtier.

-->-- '''[[Literature/TheBible 2 Samuel 11:14-15]]'''

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* TruthInTelevision. The Soviets are suspected of taking advantage of the Warsaw Uprising that way (they claim they were just out of gas, but they also refused landing to supply planes from the Western Allies). They allowed the fighters in the city to bleed out, then they occupied the city destroyed by German soldiers.
* According to one version North Vietnam actually intended that the Viet-cong be wiped out at Tet. In any case that was what actually happened. The VC never recovered and further fighting was mostly with [=NVAs=].
* In the [[SecondSinoJapaneseWar Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945]], the Chinese Nationalist government, in an effort to "use space to buy time" repeatedly held back their best-equipped and most loyal forces and left the nominally nationalist-aligned warlords and bands of civilians to fight the Japanese alone and in guerrilla warfare. The Communists did their best to avoid combat and leave the hard fighting to the nationalists, building their strength whilst launching grassroots publicity campaigns emphasizing their comparative willingness to fight the Japanese directly.
** The Chinese have a long and proud history of playing "let's you and him fight" in war and politics. Initially a very minor player in party politics, Mao originally came to power as the most powerful surviving leader of the Communists; he had left most of his rivals and their followers to face the purges of the Nationalists alone and be massacred, taking care of the remainder himself. During the Vietnam War, the PRC played both sides, sought to prolong the war as long as possible to ingratiate themselves with the North Vietnamese and weaken the US (who they wanted off of their borders).
* Very popular method as used by Ottoman rulers: Untrustworthy generals were sent to invade Europe, often resulting in [[XanatosGambit win-win situations]]. For the Sultan, that is.
* Before World War II started, the Western Democracies, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union all attempted to maneuver their two enemies into a devastating war, so they would be able to walk all over the rump forces that would remain after such a conflict. In the end, Stalin was the one who managed to pull it off - not that it helped him any later on.
** Another interpretation is that Nazi Regime simply wanted to fight the UK and USSR one after another without these two being allies; USSR wanted to delay the war as much as possible and maybe have an army able to shoot and having guns by then; and the UK would like to be somewhere across the channel from whatever fight would break out (no fight would also be acceptable). All three failed.
** During the war, one of the key points of contention between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies was what the Soviets perceived as a delay in the Western Allies opening up a second European front to take some of the pressure off the Eastern front. The Soviets pretty much accused the Western Allies of this trope, suggesting that they were delaying as long as possible to make sure that the Nazis and Soviets essentially fought each other to the death.
*** Some have speculated that the disastrous Dieppe Raid was designed to appease the Soviets and prove that the Allies were not ready for such an invasion. Others just ascribe it to incompetence and bad luck. It avoids being a UriahGambit as nobody has suggested that the planners had anything against the actual troops performing the assault.
* The United States is suspected to do this in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956 Hungarian revolution of 1956]]: they encouraged the anti-Soviet revolution by promising help and support. However, when Soviet reinforcements arrived and turned the tides, nobody intervened, letting the Soviets crush the revolution just to make them a bad media reputation.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge The Soviets]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror already had]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_Massacre a lot of]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor bad publicity]].
** Actually, it was a win-win situation for the US. The revolution broke out at about the same time as the Suez crisis, so the US and the Soviets made a quiet deal that if the US leaves Hungary alone, the USSR leaves the canal's vicinity alone. Basically, the Soviets sacrificed a strategic advantage in the Mediterranean in exchange for keeping US forces out of the communist bloc and preventing a [[EscalatingWar potential escalation]] to a nuclear exchange. Don't forget, this is the ColdWar we're talking about, Mutually Assured Destruction and all.
** The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring Prague Spring]] and following [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia invasion]] was also a win-win result for the USA.
*** At least 300,000 highly educated people fled the nation and settled in NATO nations.
*** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu Nicolae Ceausescu]] censored the invasion, refused to send aid, and maintained his [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19095_the-5-most-shockingly-insane-modern-dictators.html relationships]] with non-communist nations.
*** The East German military did not truly invade, they crossed the border and then left after a few days.
*** Communist parties in Western Europe began to break away from the Soviet position and formed more independent beliefs.
* In 1968, the [[MagnificentBastard Mexican government]] manipulated the army into committing the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre Tlatelolco Massacre]] by positioning armed agents from one faction of the army within the crowd of protesting students and convincing the rest of the army that the students were firing at them.
* During the Algerian Civil War of the 1990's, it was suspected that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe_Islamique_Arm%C3%A9#Claims_of_Algerian_Government_involvement the Algerian military government infiltrated the Islamist GIA]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2om_F2uaCxA helped perpetuate massacres on both sides to hold onto power]].
* [[EmperorCaligula Caligula]] once sent a woman's husband to die in battle so he could have her all to himself. Hey, it's [[TheCaligula Caligula]], what do you expect?
* Hiero II of Syracuse was known for it. When the Mamertines decleared war on Syracuse, he only had just some unreliable and greedy mercenaries to fight them with. Aware of their unreliability and half-hearted loyalty, Hiero wanted to replace them with an army made of Syracusan citizens but he couldn't just get rid off them since he didn't had the power needed to, so he sent them to fight in suicidal battles, killing them off one by one while delaying and weakening the Mamertines and their newfound allies the Carthaginians, giving him time to train Syracusan citizens into professional soldiers. Once all the mercenaries were dead, he had a "citizen army" of professional and loyal soldiers. The Mamertines at that point were too tired, exhausted and weak to fight his new army and so they were defeated.
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* Bellerophon, also of Greek mythology, was sent to King Iobates bearing a missive that asked the king to kill its bearer. Before reading it, the two had feasted well together and simply killing Bellerophon [[SacredHospitality might bring divine wrath upon the kingdom]]. Instead, Iobates repeatedly sent Bellerophon on suicidal missions where he continuously succeeded until the hero ultimately earned the wrath of Zeus and was struck down.

-->-- '''[[TheBible 2 Samuel 11:14-15]]'''

* Done in the MirrorUniverse novel [[StarTrekTNG Dark Mirror]] to mirror![[DoomedByCanon Jack Crusher]] by Evil!Picard to take possession of Beverly. Original!Picard is horrified to learn this.

* Fans of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' speculated that Picard had done this to his First Officer, Jack Crusher, a notion that the show's producers tried to refute, [[MoralDissonance for obvious reasons]].
* In the ''[[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries ST:TOS]]'' episode "Court Martial", Kirk is accused of having done this to Finney [[spoiler:who turns out to have faked his own death in order to frame Kirk.]]

* On ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', during the Dominion War, Klingon Chancellor Gowron felt threatened by General Martok's increasing popularity, so he repeatedly sent Martok on near-suicidal missions (instead of using him where he'd be most effective). [[spoiler:It didn't work; [[KlingonPromotion Worf killed Gowron in a duel over this and gave Martok the chancellorship]].]]

* In ''TheHungerGames, Book II, Catching Fire'', President Snow has a problem; many districts are beginning to rebel, using Katniss as their inspiration. An obvious death would just incite them further. What can he do? [[spoiler: Just [[BlatantLies coincidentally discover that the Quarter Quell makes her fight in The Games again]].]]

* In ''[[VorkosiganSaga Shards of Honour]]'' by LoisMcMasterBujold, the (failed) invasion of Escobar is used by Emperor Ezar to [[OffingTheOffspring dispose]] of [[TheCaligula Crown Prince Serg]] and weaken the faction supporting him.

* Those who encounter [[GrooTheWanderer Groo]] keep sending the titular character against impossible odds with little support both to get rid of Groo and sometimes serve as a distraction (This includes his family and "friends"). But since he's a [[OneManArmy One Man Army]] and has the element of surprise (since no one would be stupid enough to attack, except Groo) he succeeds with the unintended consequences on those who sent him.

* [[spoiler:The Sign of the Broken Sword]] by GKChesterton. An interesting twist on both tropes: The murderer, [[spoiler:General St. Claire, [[UnfriendlyFire killed]] his victim first, and then planned otherwise pointless assault so that it would happen at exactly the same spot, thus hiding his victim among other casualties.]]

* Though not technically a subordinate of him, this is attempted by Klaus Hauptman on Honor Harrington in the fifth Honor Harrington book where she is sent out in a Q-ship to hunt pirates. If she succeeds, Klaus's ships are safer, if she dies, then she's dead and out of his way. Either way he wins.

* In the first game of the ''[[BaldursGate Baldur's Gate]]'' series, certain [=NPCs=] come in pairs and will leave the party together, as the one kicked out will initiate dialogue and take the other one with them. Dead, booted-out [=NPCs=], however, cannot initiate such dialogue and frees up a slot while leaving their partner in the party. [[VideogameCrueltyPotential Jaheira used to have a nasty tendency of charging headfirst into marauding hobgoblin bands without armour and weapons on once Yeslick became available]]... As did Dynaheir right off the bat if the PC was a mage.

* In ''{{Community}}'' episode [[Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare Modern Warfare]] Jeff discovers the position of the Glee Club by telling Pierce [[ReversePsychology "not" to come over to him]].

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* Yang Wenli in ''LegendOfGalacticHeroes'' was given the mission of taking the impregnable Iserlohn fortress with half a fleet after opposing the Patriotic Corps. [[spoiler:He takes it without losing a single ally.]]
** Happens to Reinhard ''quite'' a few times. The first battle of the series was an attempt to get him killed by depriving him of most of his talented sub-commanders, then sending him into battle and arranging for the enemy to find out he's coming so they'll send a much larger fleet to stop him.
*** The first movie was an even more blatant attempt, where his commander sent his fleet out to the front of the battle unsupported, then gave the rest of his force orders to not worry about hitting friendlies when the shooting started. Just to make this clear, he was willing to kill over a thousand of ''his own ships'' and their crews just to see Reinhard dead. [[spoiler:Just like Yang, Reinhard turns it around on him]].

** Earlier in the book, somebody else tried to kill the hero this way, twice. It didn't work.

* In ''The Bone Doll's Twin'', [[spoiler:the king sends Lord Rhius on suicidally dangerous missions, to dispense with his influence over his son, second in line for the throne]].
* ''Dark Force Rising'', the middle book of the Thrawn trilogy, had an interesting variation. [[SmugSnake Borsk]] [[DividedWeFall Fey'lya]], going out to the site of the Katana Fleet in a ship crewed solely by his most ardent supporters, following right after some political adversaries, ended up ambushed by a superior Imperial force. He got the ship and its escort to turn around and start to flee, leaving Luke, Han, and Rogue Squadron high and dry. However, he got tricked into an EngineeredPublicConfession in which he stated his belief that those who weren't with him were his enemies, no one cared if their enemies died, and he wouldn't lose his allies, who were of purely political significance, to anything as outmoded as loyalty. His ship and its escort promptly turned back for a BigDamnHeroes moment.

* In ''CurseOfTheWolfgirl'' The Avenaris Guild of Werewolf hunters have an accountant who just cost them their cushy expenses account. Said accountant is transferred to frontline werewolf hunting activity forthwith. Subverted as it[[spoiler: turns out this was the accountant's plan all along as part of his BatmanGambit]].

* In the {{Shadowrun}} novel ''Lone Wolf'', the undercover cop protagonist mouths off to the war chief of the street gang he's infiltrated, and nearly falls prey to this trope the next time he's sent on an errand for the gang. He lampshades the analogy between his predicament and Uriah's.
* The ''{{Robotech}}'' novelization says that War Correspondent Sue Graham was attached to the Jupiter Fleet trying to free the Earth from the Invid by Lisa Hayes-Hunter because she was trying to get too friendly with Rick. Lisa wasn't specifically trying to get Sue killed (though she did that on her own), she just wanted her several thousand light-years away from her husband.
** Ironically, this happened to the Hunters themselves in ''The Sentinels'', when T.R. Edwards managed to get them both (and their supporters like Max and Miyria) sent off with the Sentinels.

* ''{{Paranoia}}'' encourages [=PCs=] to throw their underlings under the bus this way, while pretending that you're doing them a favor ("Suck-R, go disarm that berserk scrubot, you'll probably get a commendation for it"). If the underling seems devious enough to actually pull it off, then you may need to pile on some complications ("oh, but leave your toolkit here, we wouldn't want it to get damaged").

* There's an interesting version in ''{{Cyrano de Bergerac}}''. At the beginning of the play, the Comte de Guiche is a [[TheCasanova lecherous]] [[AristocratsAreEvil evil aristocrat]] who wants to make Roxane his mistress and is the enemy of Cyrano and his cadets. During a battle with Spain, he sends a spy to tell the Spanish how to attack the Cadets so they will be massacred. What makes this interesting, is that although this scheme results in the death of Roxane's husband, Christian (which is typical of a Uriah Gambit), this wasn't the intent and seems to have prompted de Guiche's HeelRealization, as post-time skip, he admires Cyrano's virtue and is [[JustFriends just a close friend]] to Roxane, who is now a nun.

** You can reasonably argue that ''all'' of [=LaCroix's=] missions are an example of this. [[FridgeBrilliance Or did you think that being sent all by yourself against increasingly suicidal odds was just a gaming convention?]]

** Nevermind that the player [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential can do this to characters they don't like.]] Hell, in [[FireEmblemJugdral Genealogy]], thanks to the automatic RelationshipValues, it's a viable tactic to use this to [[MurderTheHypotenuse deal with unwanted pairings]].

-->'''Kane:''' [[BondOneLiner Yes. Power shifts more quickly than some people think.]]
* In ''[[Videogame/GodOfWar God of War]] III'', Hephaestus learns that Kratos intends to open Pandora's Box, which will require Pandora, who Hephaestus regards as his daughter, to be sacrificed. So he sends Kratos to retrieve an Omphalos Stone, on a promise that he will use it to create a new weapon for Kratos, not mentioning that the stone is inside the guts of the Titan Cronos. It doesn't work.

*** Of course, The Tallest being [[{{Jerkass}} who]] [[CompleteMonster they]] [[EvillyAffable are,]] they solve both problems by shooting both Zim and the guy who won the bet into the center the sun.

** It's implied (or at least suspected by some suspicious-minded fans) that this happened to Iroh's son, who died before the series started in battle.

* {{Truth in Television}}. The Soviets are suspected of taking advantage of the Warsaw Uprising that way (they claim they were just out of gas, but they also refused landing to supply planes from the Western Allies). They allowed the fighters in the city to bleed out, then they occupied the city destroyed by German soldiers.
* According to one version North Vietnam actually intended that the Viet-cong be wiped out at Tet. In any case that was what actually happened. The VC never recovered and further fighting was mostly with [=NVAs=].

* Before World War II started, the Western Democracies, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union all attempted to maneuver their two enemies into a devastating war, so they would be able to walk all over the rump forces that would remain after such a conflict. In the end, Stalin was the one who managed to pull it off - not that it helped him any later on.

*** Some have speculated that the disastrous Dieppe Raid was designed to appease the Soviets and prove that the Allies were not ready for such an invasion. Others just ascribe it to incompetence and bad luck. It avoids being a UriahGambit as nobody has suggested that the planners had anything against the actual troops performing the assault.

*** At least 300,000 highly educated people fled the nation and settled in NATO nations.
*** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu Nicolae Ceausescu]] censored the invasion, refused to send aid, and maintained his [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19095_the-5-most-shockingly-insane-modern-dictators.html relationships]] with non-communist nations.
*** The East German military did not truly invade, they crossed the border and then left after a few days.

* Hiero II of Syracuse was known for it. When the Mamertines decleared war on Syracuse, he only had just some unreliable and greedy mercenaries to fight them with. Aware of their unreliability and half-hearted loyalty, Hiero wanted to replace them with an army made of Syracusan citizens but he couldn't just get rid off them since he didn't had the power needed to, so he sent them to fight in suicidal battles, killing them off one by one while delaying and weakening the Mamertines and their newfound allies the Carthaginians, giving him time to train Syracusan citizens into professional soldiers. Once all the mercenaries were dead, he had a "citizen army" of professional and loyal soldiers. The Mamertines at that point were too tired, exhausted and weak to fight his new army and so they were defeated.

* In ''StarCraft'', Mengsk sends Kerrigan to hold off the Protoss during a Zerg invasion, and when the Zerg begin to overwhelm the Terrans and Protoss alike he abandons her. It's implied the reason he did this was because she and Raynor were beginning to get a bit too defiant to his increasingly extreme methods.

* In the ''[=~M*A*S*H~=]'' episode, "The Tooth Shall Set You Free," the doctors discover that a racist commander has a particularly slimy way of dealing with the African American soldiers he was assigned with. Namely, he always orders them into dangerous duty instead of white soldiers in hopes of them earning points to be transferred out faster, if they aren't killed in action of course. The medical staff arrange a sting to force him to resign his commission.

* Any soldier that you take a dislike to in XCOM will most likely end up being the first one through the doors of a UFO.

* Any soldier that you take a dislike to in XCom will most likely end up being the first one through the doors of a UFO.

* Any soldier that you take a dislike to in X-Com will most likely end up being the first one through the doors of a UFO.

* In AgathaChristie's ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'', General [=MacArthur=] had used a similar method to dispose of his wife Leslie's lover (who also was his NumberTwo) during WorldWarI. Afterward he avoided attending church whenever the David and Bathsheba story was scheduled to be read, and Leslie later succumbed to DeathByDespair. Otherwise, it went so well that even Scotland Yard detectives, told afterwards that murder is involved, cannot be sure that it really is. [[spoiler: Too bad a certain HangingJudge ''and' MagnificentBastard got notice of it and decided to murder him, alongside other {{Karma Houdini}}s.]]

->''And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and [[PleaseShootTheMessenger sent it by the hand of Uriah]]. And he wrote in the letter, saying: Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.''

* In the final episode of [[spoiler: Torchwood Miracle Day, Oswald Danes]] is the guy that ends up acting as a suicide bomber when the team needs one.

* Implied in ''{{Pokemon}}'' of all things when Giovanni tries to get rid of James and Jessie by assigning them to a really dangerous airplane flight.

* In the animated film ''{{Antz}}'', the evil general sent the part of the army loyal to the queen to be slaughtered in the war against the termites.

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