History Quotes / HoistByHisOwnPetard

-->--'''Beast''', ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen''

-->--'''ComicBook/{{Fantomah}}''', about to kill a villain with the same [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom giant tidal wave]] he tried to drown the jungle with.

->''"Brainiac is gone-- Destroyed by his own devices!"''

-> ''"'[[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution Let's overthrow the palace and cut all their heads off!]]' said [[UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre Robespierre]], cutting everybody's head off until someone eventually got mad and cut his head off."''
-->-- '''WebVideo/BillWurtz''', ''WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess''

->''"Every- everything [[Characters/DreamSMPDream you]] hate about the prison was YOUR idea. You should exp- You should- Y'know what? Y'know what, I'm GLAD! I'm glad you haven't seen the light in a while! This was literally- this was literally the experience YOU WANTED for the prisoners. You- you... This is- You made this bed! Literally! I may have built it, I may have engineered it, but it was- [...] We both know- You told me to build this so you could put [[PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize Tommy]] in here, didn't you? That's why you wanted people to be able to visit, that way you could FLAUNT Tommy, who you've got stuck in a cell, in front of everyone. That's why you wanted people to be able to visit. That's why you didn't want the courtyard, because you didn't WANT that for Tommy. And you didn't want him to have a good place to live, you didn't want him to have good food, because you- You wanted to give him RAW POTATOES! You didn't want to give him steak! You just wanted him to have a HORRIBLE life in here! So... Keep it for yourself, Dream. You... You DESERVE this."''
-->-- '''Sam''', ''WebVideo/DreamSMP''

->'''[[ManipulativeBastard Dr. Keppel]]''': You have to admit, Lieutenant; you never would have solved it without [[SubliminalAdvertising using my technique.]]

->''"When children learn to devalue others, they can devalue anyone. Even their parents."''

->'''Narrator:''' It looks as though Boris Badenov is now hoist with his own petard. Meanwhile...\\
'''Boris:''' Hold it. Hold it! What does it mean I'm hoist with my own... what's its name?\\

'''Boris:''' Then why didn't you say so? Okay, let's go.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle''

-->--'''Hisham''' to Delilah, ''Film/SamsonAndDelilah''

-->--'''Fantomah''', about to kill a villain with the same [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom giant tidal wave]] he tried to drown the jungle with.

->Your machine utilized and magnified my emotions... my energies... it never occurred to you that I could follow you? That I could claim this power?

->'''Beast:''' There's no running, Dr. Cornelius. I can smell you, whichever part of this place you're hiding in. I hope you appreciate the irony, because I wouldn't even have [[SuperSenses these senses]] if you hadn't given me this despicable feral snout. Brought down by your own hubris? I like to think of it as poetic justice.
-->-- ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen''

->''"Once again, his hatred for me clouded his judgment! He overlooked the fact that in altering my recollection of the incident that started our feud...he imprinted his own attitudes on the clone's mind-- complete with his own biases, distortions, and paranoia!

->''"Everything tied back to Shinji's own scheming. He had been snared in a web of his own making. The phrase 'hoisted by his own petard' didn't even begin to cover this sort of thing."''

->''He who digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit he has made. The trouble he causes recoils on himself; his violence comes down on his own head.''
-->-- '''[[Literature/BookOfPsalms Psalms 7:15-16]]''', ''Literature/TheBible'' (NIV)

->''Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.''
-->-- '''[[Literature/BookOfPsalms Psalms 141:10]]''', ''Literature/TheBible'' (NIV)

->''If a man digs a pit, he will fall into it; if a man rolls a stone, it will roll back on him.''
-->-- '''[[Literature/BookOfProverbs Proverbs 26:27]]''', ''Literature/TheBible'' (NIV)

->''Words from the mouth of the wise are gracious, but fools are [[SayingTooMuch consumed by their own lips]].''
-->-- '''[[Literature/BookOfEcclesiastes Ecclesiastes 10:12]]''', ''Literature/TheBible'' (NIV)

->''"Do you think Saint Thrastus complained when he was strung up by his petard? No! Not one word! That's piety. Now get on with your work, you little ingrate."''

->''"[The Harlequin] had fired off the firecracker rockets that said: I will attend the 115th annual International Medical Association Invocation at 8:00 p.m. precisely. I do hope you will all be able to join me.\\
The words had burned in the sky, and of course the authorities were there, lying in wait for him. [[BatmanGambit They assumed, naturally, that he would be late.]] He arrived twenty minutes [[SubvertedTrope early]], while they were setting up the spiderwebs to trap and hold him, and blowing a large bullhorn, he frightened and unnerved them so that their own moisturized encirclement webs sucked closed, and they were hauled up, kicking and shrieking, high above the amphitheater's floor."''

-->-- '''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho''', ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho005TheFearmonger The Fearmonger]]''

->''The spear thrown by Kytheon's own hand was the weapon that felled his friends.''
-->--'''[[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=398610 Tragic Arrogance]]''' FlavorText, ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''

->The Pa'anuri hypercannon, the most powerful (and longest ranged) weapon for twelve light years in any direction... hyperspace is a tangled mess, but the Pa'anuri have gotten pretty good at firing through it. Still... '''"tangled mess"'''. If someone messes with your targeting data, you might not notice the problem until you see that you've missed. Then again, depending on the exact nature of the bad data, you might [[ForcedFriendlyFire never notice anything at all...]]
-->-- '''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''', ''[[spoiler:[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2020-06-14 Ennesby tricking the Pa'anuri into firing on and destroying their own weapon]]]]''.

->'''Franchise/{{Superman}}:''' Do you remember that mountain of graves we noticed on Warworld? That's what gave me the answer! The Warzoons weren't buried in a mass grave as there'd be if the race was destroyed by some great illness!\\

->''"Everything tied back to [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji]]'s own scheming. He had been snared in a web of his own making. The phrase 'hoisted by his own petard' didn't even begin to cover this sort of thing."''