1 | [[quoteright:202:[[Webcomic/EightBitTheater https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/weridbook_1618.png]]]] |
2 | |
3 | ->'''Red Mage''': You just fell for the oldest trick in the book, Lich King!\ |
4 | '''Thief''': The one where you get three gullible suckers to make you their undisputed leader?\ |
5 | '''Red Mage''': You just fell for the ''second'' oldest trick in the book, Lich King!\ |
6 | '''Lich''': The trick where you put your soul into a gem so you can't be killed and instead become an invincible ruler of the dead?\ |
7 | '''Red Mage''': You just fell for the '''third''' oldest trick in the book, Lich!\ |
8 | '''Fighter''': You mean attaching two sword hilts by a length of chain--\ |
9 | '''Red Mage''': Okay, that is '''so''' not in trick book! |
10 | -->-- Webcomic/EightBitTheater, [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/02/10/episode-382-so-many-mortal-coils/ Episode 382]] |
11 | |
12 | TheOldestOnesInTheBook of tricks. |
13 | ---- |
14 | !!Tropes: |
15 | [[index]] |
16 | * BackupBluff |
17 | * BandwagonTechnique |
18 | * BedTrick: Getting someone to sleep with you by pretending to be their lover, which is rape by deception. |
19 | * BriarPatching: Tricking someone into doing what you want by convincing them that you don't want them to do it. |
20 | * CryingWolf |
21 | * DefensiveFeintTrap |
22 | * DivideAndConquer |
23 | * EngineeredHeroics |
24 | * HeWentThatWay |
25 | * HoneyTrap |
26 | * IAteWhat: Tricking someone into eating something unpleasant. |
27 | * INeverSaidItWasPoison |
28 | * LookBehindYou: Telling someone to turn around and look at something that's not really there in order to escape the person. |
29 | * NastyParty |
30 | * RevengeIsADishBestServed |
31 | * SlippingAMickey |
32 | * SleepingDummy |
33 | * UsefulNotes/TheThirtySixStratagems |
34 | * TrickingTheShapeshifter: Tricking a shape-shifter into assuming a form where they can easily be defeated. |
35 | * WoundedGazelleGambit: Manipulating people by pretending that you got hurt. |
36 | * YouJustToldMe |
37 | [[/index]] |
38 | ---- |
39 | |
40 | -->'''[[Literature/KnownSpace "Ursula"]]''': Actually, the oldest trick in the book is kidnapping a couple of teenagers, brainwiping them, waking them up in a prepared habitat, and saying, "[[Literature/BookOfGenesis I made you out of dust and I made her out of one of your ribs]]." |
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