1 | Index of social blow under the proverbial belt: The social counterpart of the physical combat index ThisIndexFightsDirty. |
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11 | * AbominationAccusationAttack-- Accusing someone of being some kind of monster. |
12 | * TheBabyTrap-- Someone in a relationship deliberately causes a pregnancy without their partner's consent, in an attempt to bind their partner to them. |
13 | * BadReviewThreat-- Threatening to give someone's business a terribly negative review. |
14 | * BavarianFireDrill-- Act like you're in charge and people will obey you. |
15 | * BedTrick-- X sleeps with Y by pretending to be Z. |
16 | * {{Blackmail}}-- Pay up or someone finds out something you want kept quiet. |
17 | ** FabricatedBlackmail: Just because the "secret" isn't real doesn't mean that someone can't do damage with it. |
18 | * BlatantLies-- Lies so obvious they lack even a shred of plausibility. |
19 | * BriarPatching-- Deliberately using ReversePsychology to gain a desired result. |
20 | * BrideAndSwitch-- The bride isn't who the groom thinks she is. |
21 | * TheCakeIsALie-- Someone lies about the reward that will be given for completing a task. |
22 | * CallingTheCopsOnTheFBI-- Hindering covert law enforcement by making them suspicious to regular cops. |
23 | * ChewbaccaDefense-- "Winning" a debate through failing at logic. |
24 | * TheComplianceGame-- Someone tries to get someone else (usually a kid) to do something by passing it off as a game. |
25 | * ConfessionDeferred-- Lying until it benefits you to tell the truth. |
26 | * ConsummationCounterfeit-- Falsifying BloodstainedDefloration |
27 | * ContraceptionDeception-- Lying to a sexual partner about one's fertility or use of contraceptives. |
28 | * ContrivedClumsiness-- Publicly doing something nasty to someone else and pretending it was an accident. |
29 | * CrocodileTears-- Pretending to cry in order to gain others' sympathy. |
30 | * DivideAndConquer: Keeping people divided and disunited, and therefore easier to control. |
31 | * ExtendedGreetings-- Someone introduces themselves in a lengthy fashion. |
32 | * FakedFoodContaminant: Faking something disgusting in one's food to get a free meal/damage the restaurant's reputation. |
33 | * FakePregnancy-- A woman lies about being pregnant. |
34 | * FalseRapeAccusation-- Someone accuses someone else of rape, even though that person is innocent. |
35 | * {{Frameup}}-- Framing an innocent person. |
36 | ** ThisBearWasFramed-- Making a murder look like an animal attack. |
37 | * {{Gaslighting}}-- Changing things around behind someone's back to make them doubt their own sanity. |
38 | * GuiltTripping-- Invoking guilt towards another person for a past wrongdoing. |
39 | * IntentionalMessMaking-- Dirtying or breaking something on purpose. |
40 | * ItsACostumePartyISwear-- Someone is invited to a party, being told it is a costume party, and shows up wearing an elaborate costume, only to find out the party wasn't a costume party. |
41 | * InsidiousRumorMill -- Using lies and manipulation to turn everyone against someone else within the same social circle out of spite and vengeance. |
42 | * JoinOrDie-- ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. |
43 | * LendingABackhand-- A character gives "help" they know is harmful. |
44 | * LeonineContract-- A bargain in which one side has no choice. |
45 | * LoopholeAbuse-- Blatant cheating through semantics. |
46 | * MaliciousSlander-- Lies and rumours spread to discredit someone. |
47 | * MarryingTheMark-- Entering a relationship with someone to con or commit a crime against them. |
48 | * ModelScam-- Pretending to be a person of taste and/or influence in order to take titillating pictures of another. |
49 | * MotivationalLie-- Lies used to motivate someone so they can more effectively deal with a hardship. |
50 | * MovingTheGoalposts-- Continually changing your standards so people will never be able to meet them. |
51 | * NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization-- A rapist claims their victim enjoyed it, and therefore it was fine. |
52 | * ObfuscatingDisability-- Pretending to be disabled or embellishing one's preexisting disability, often to their own personal gain, specifically for sympathy and/or money. |
53 | * AnOfferYouCantRefuse-- An offer where the choices are "Accept or die". |
54 | * OnTheRebound-- After going through a bad breakup, someone very quickly jumps into a new relationship. |
55 | * PainlessDeathForAPrice-- Someone on death's doorstep is offered a MercyKill in exchange for something valuable. |
56 | * PassiveAggressiveKombat-- Social situation presented as a battle. |
57 | * PersonalDictionary-- Forcing your opponent to accept your strawman as valid in order to debate you at all. |
58 | * PlayingTheFamilyCard-- A character manipulates someone by using family ties to guilt-trip them. |
59 | * PlayingTheVictimCard-- A character uses their victimhood to resist taking responsibility for their actions. |
60 | * PoliceBrutalityGambit-- Employing a WoundedGazelleGambit against authority figures to avoid punishment. |
61 | * PolitenessJudo-- A character gets their way simply by being polite. |
62 | * PostRapeTaunt-- A rapist taunts the hero by gloating (and lying) about how the victim [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization "loved it"]], or commenting that the victim [[ButForMeItWasTuesday "was disappointing"]]. |
63 | * ProppingUpTheirPatsy-- A culprit proclaims the innocence of another suspect to conceal their own culpability or further their own agenda. |
64 | * QuoteMine-- Certain parts of a quote are omitted to make it sound like the author meant something different from what they actually said. |
65 | * RecordedSplicedConversation-- Passing off a modified recording of an individual as a live statement. |
66 | * RevengePornBlackmail: Threatening someone via indecent material of them. |
67 | * RestrictedRescueOperation-- A rescue operation is hindered by outside forces. |
68 | * SadisticChoice-- Someone is forced to choose one of two terrible choices, mainly resulting in MortonsFork. |
69 | ** SuicidalSadisticChoice-- ...or in death. |
70 | * ScarpiaUltimatum-- "Have sex with me, or else your loved one gets it." |
71 | * SelfDefenseRuse: Falsely claiming self-defense to justify a murder. |
72 | * SexualExtortion-- Withholding something from a target until they agree to sex. |
73 | * SlippingAMickey-- Putting a knockout chemical into someone's drink. |
74 | * SuddenContestFormatChange--Changing the entire format of a contest or competition in the middle of it. |
75 | * SuddenlySignificantRule-- When a rule or law that is usually not given much thought is suddenly invoked. |
76 | * ThreateningToCutTies: Threatening to cut ties with someone as an intimidation tactic. |
77 | * UnsuspectinglySoused: Someone drinks a beverage unaware there is alcohol in the drink and become intoxicated. May or may not be the result of someone planning a DateRape. |
78 | * WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou-- Someone resorts to violence to end an argument, but manages to make the other person feel guilty about it. |
79 | * WithholdingTheCure-- The cure really works and it is what people really need, but someone is keeping it from people for their own selfish reasons. |
80 | * WoundedGazelleGambit-- Pretending to be a victim to manipulate others. |
81 | * WoundedGazelleWarcry-- The weakest combatant rushes into harm's way to motivate the others into action. |
82 | [[/index]] |
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