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* ''You'' can actually do this in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', at least in [[MultipleEndings certain endings]]. [[spoiler:If you side with Mr. House (or just yourself), but also have a high enough reputation with the NCR, you can fight most of the Battle of Hoover Dam as though you were allied with them. If your NCR "allies" fail to break through to the Legate's camp, your Securitrons and other assorted allies will still finish off the Legion. If the NCR succeeds, the Securitrons will then be turned on the NCR.]]

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* ''You'' can actually do ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' allows [[PlayerCharacter The Courier]] to pull this in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', at least off in [[MultipleEndings certain endings]]. [[spoiler:If you side with Mr. House (or just yourself), but also have a high enough reputation with the NCR, you can fight most of the Battle of Hoover Dam as though you were allied with them. If your NCR "allies" fail to break through to the Legate's camp, your Securitrons and other assorted allies will still finish off the Legion. If the NCR succeeds, the Securitrons will then be turned on the NCR.]]
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* In a minor example from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4,'' bonus content from the game shows that at one point, [[spoiler:Wesker]], who's the "shadowy third party" involved in the game's story, passively takes advantage of a Xanatos-Gambit-type situation arising. Though he originally [[spoiler:orders Ada to kill Leon, he changes his mind when Leon proves himself to be far more resilient than Wesker originally thought. Wesker then decides to take advantage of Leon's apparent skill and simply ''let'' him duke it out with the BigBad Saddler, since he wants both of them dead anyway. No matter which one loses, he wins (if they kill each other, he wins twice as much).]]

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* In a minor example from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4,'' bonus content from the game shows that at one point, [[spoiler:Wesker]], who's the "shadowy third party" involved in the game's story, passively takes advantage of a Xanatos-Gambit-type situation arising. Though he originally [[spoiler:orders Ada to kill Leon, he changes his mind when Leon proves himself to be far more resilient than Wesker originally thought. Wesker then decides to take advantage of Leon's apparent skill and simply ''let'' him duke it out with the BigBad Saddler, [[BigBad Saddler]], since he wants both of them dead anyway. No matter which one loses, he wins (if they kill each other, he wins twice as much).]]

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