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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	* IntentionalMessMaking-- Dirtying or breaking something on purpose.
39	* 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.
40	* InsidiousRumorMill -- Using lies and manipulation to turn everyone against someone else within the same social circle out of spite and vengeance.
41	* JoinOrDie-- ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
42	* LendingABackhand-- A character gives "help" they know is harmful.
43	* LeonineContract-- A bargain in which one side has no choice.
44	* LoopholeAbuse-- Blatant cheating through semantics.
45	* MaliciousSlander-- Lies and rumours spread to discredit someone.
46	* MarryingTheMark-- Entering a relationship with someone to con or commit a crime against them.
47	* ModelScam-- Pretending to be a person of taste and/or influence in order to take titillating pictures of another.
48	* MotivationalLie-- Lies used to motivate someone so they can more effectively deal with a hardship.
49	* MovingTheGoalposts-- Continually changing your standards so people will never be able to meet them.
50	* NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization-- A rapist claims their victim enjoyed it, and therefore it was fine.
51	* ObfuscatingDisability-- Pretending to be disabled or embellishing one's preexisting disability, often to their own personal gain, specifically for sympathy and/or money.
52	* AnOfferYouCantRefuse-- An offer where the choices are "Accept or die".
53	* OnTheRebound-- After going through a bad breakup, someone very quickly jumps into a new relationship.
54	* PainlessDeathForAPrice-- Someone on death's doorstep is offered a MercyKill in exchange for something valuable.
55	* PassiveAggressiveKombat-- Social situation presented as a battle.
56	* PersonalDictionary-- Forcing your opponent to accept your strawman as valid in order to debate you at all.
57	* PlayingTheFamilyCard-- A character manipulates someone by using family ties to guilt-trip them.
58	* PlayingTheVictimCard-- A character uses their victimhood to resist taking responsibility for their actions.
59	* PoliceBrutalityGambit-- Employing a WoundedGazelleGambit against authority figures to avoid punishment.
60	* PolitenessJudo-- A character gets their way simply by being polite.
61	* 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"]].
62	* ProppingUpTheirPatsy-- A culprit proclaims the innocence of another suspect to conceal their own culpability or further their own agenda.
63	* QuoteMine-- Certain parts of a quote are omitted to make it sound like the author meant something different from what they actually said.
64	* RecordedSplicedConversation-- Passing off a modified recording of an individual as a live statement.
65	* RevengePornBlackmail: Threatening someone via indecent material of them.
66	* RestrictedRescueOperation-- A rescue operation is hindered by outside forces.
67	* SadisticChoice-- Someone is forced to choose one of two terrible choices, mainly resulting in MortonsFork.
68	** SuicidalSadisticChoice-- ...or in death.
69	* ScarpiaUltimatum-- "Have sex with me, or else your loved one gets it."
70	* SelfDefenseRuse: Falsely claiming self-defense to justify a murder.
71	* SexualExtortion-- Withholding something from a target until they agree to sex.
72	* SlippingAMickey-- Putting a knockout chemical into someone's drink.
73	* SuddenContestFormatChange--Changing the entire format of a contest or competition in the middle of it.
74	* SuddenlySignificantRule-- When a rule or law that is usually not given much thought is suddenly invoked.
75	* ThreateningToCutTies: Threatening to cut ties with someone as an intimidation tactic.
76	* 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.
77	* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou-- Someone resorts to violence to end an argument, but manages to make the other person feel guilty about it.
78	* WithholdingTheCure-- The cure really works and it is what people really need, but someone is keeping it from people for their own selfish reasons.
79	* WoundedGazelleGambit-- Pretending to be a victim to manipulate others.
80	* WoundedGazelleWarcry-- The weakest combatant rushes into harm's way to motivate the others into action.
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