Batman Gambits in Comic Strips.
- Calvin and Hobbes:
- Susie tricks Calvin with an elegantly simple Batman Gambit
. - Susie pulls off a far-more complex one during a story arc in which Calvin steals Susie's "Binky Betsy" doll and holds it for ransom, demanding $100 for her return (via an "anonymous" note signed "Sincerely, Calvin.") Susie puts an envelope by "the tree out front," as she was instructed to do, but hides behind the tree, out of Calvin's line of sight. Calvin sees the envelope and is overjoyed, thinking she caved and coughed up the money. However, just as Susie had planned, Calvin takes his eyes off of Hobbes for a few seconds to check the envelope, inside of which is no money, but a note that reads "Now we're even." Calvin is confused and has no idea what that means... until he turns to see Susie running off with Hobbes, whom SHE holds for ransom. Susie even comes out ahead, because in the ensuing toy exchange, Susie gets both "Binky Betsy" and a quarter in exchange for Hobbes.
- Calvin tries to pull one against Susie, but fails rather spectacularly by making the assumption that Susie thinks like him. The idea was to drop a letter containing Calvin's "secret plans" near her, she'd read it in order to foil his plans, but the misinformation contained in the letter would lead her into a water balloon ambush. The plan went wrong on Step 1, since Susie had no interest in spying on Calvin and just returned the letter to him. The only way he could get her to actually pick it up was to drop incredibly obvious hints about how he wanted her to do it- which, of course clued her in that it was a trap. She then promptly turned the tables with another Batman Gambit of her own- instead of just going to the ambush location, she hid nearby with a hose and waited for Calvin to get impatient and check where she was, at which point she soaked him.
- Susie tricks Calvin with an elegantly simple Batman Gambit
- Knights of the Dinner Table: Nitro takes revenge for a previous incident where Bob sucker-punched him by sending Bob a fake invitation to a LARP supposedly taking place at Hawg Wallers. He (correctly) figures that Bob will shoot off his mouth and get his ass kicked by the bar's rough-and-tumble clientele.
- Madam & Eve: In one strip, Eve is doing all sorts of disruptive housekeeping chores — vacuuming the floor, washing the windows, etc. — while Madam is trying to watch television in the living room. Madam eventually gets frustrated and retreats to her bedroom, leaving the TV free for Eve to watch her soap operas.
