Hoist By His Own Petard / Fan Works

aka: Fan Fiction

Often a Death Trope, so expect to see unmarked spoilers ahead.

Times where characters were Hoist By Their Own Petards in Fan Works.

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Crossovers

• Akko Kagari Universe: In Gospel of Aradia, Crawford Seam is forced to concede in the Kangaroo Court he set up for Akko's conviction and clear her of all her charges that he engineered because convicting her under the circumstances given and the evidences of her innocence provided will lead to the violation of a law that he himself had enacted previously.
• In Amazing Fantasy, Rocker Racer Number One spends most of his villainous debut stealing from others and knocking out the opposition with his rocket-powered glove. Peter goads him into trying to use it on him, only for Peter to dodge at the last second. Number One's hand goes right through a wall behind Peter, leaving the upstart Villain's fingers horribly mangled.
• Ascension of the Tyrant King has Voldemort try to use a baby Harry as a sacrifice to summon a Servant to fight against a Dead Apostle Ancestor. He summons Lancer Artoria Alter, but he and the six followers he had providing power to the spell all had their souls ripped form their bodies, thereby even making his Horcruxes useless.
• The Bagges Take Ostania:
  • Loid forces Katz to consume a lollipop containing some active nanobots.
  • By sneaking some candy bars and selling them, Eustace is nearly harmed by the nanobots.
• A Chant of Blood and Light: Riku blasting Sora away lands him in Thedas. Since Kairi's Heart is still inside Sora, it ensures Riku will never complete his quest until - if - Sora returns. Oops...
• In Children of an Elder God, Nylarathotep tried to drive Asuka to despair. He was successful... to the point that she decided to burn everything down, starting with him.
• Several villains in Children of Time. Notably Dalek Caan and Colonel Marshall in "The Manhattan Conspiracy"... Caan wants to study a Time Lord's regenerative use of the Time Vortex? Give 'im the Time Vortex, then... And Marshall is quite taken with the power of the atomic bomb — the two Time Lords of the story plan accordingly.
• In A Clash Of Neets, Kazuma teaches Megumin how to fight dirty by throwing dirt into her enemy's eyes and then kicking them down. She promptly uses both tricks on him.
• In The Confectionary Chronicles, when Malfoy attempts to get his rivals caught by Filch with the fake wizard’s duel, Hermione taunts him with the fact that his actions could be interpreted as a forfeit of the duel, and Malfoy can’t admit otherwise without admitting that he always intended to set them up, which goes against the idea that he’s meant to be accepting of Hermione’s place in Slytherin.
• In the Angel/The Hunger Games fic Demon's Games, Alma Coin, initially a powerful witch and the third-in-command of District Thirteen after Angel and Illyria, attempts to stage a coup by manipulating Gale into turning on Angel. However, as the final confrontation with Wolfram & Hart approaches, Coin attempts a ritual that will allow her to drain the magic of the rescued Willow, but Willow evades Coin and unintentionally traps her opponent in Coin's own ritual, resulting in her own magic being drained off with nobody to absorb it. During the final battle, Willow uses a similar trap against the Senior Partners in Snow's body, modifying the totems they use to draw energy from Panem to cast a spell that traps the Partners in Snow's body so that Angel can kill them.
• Equestria Girls: A Fairly Odd Friendship: Sunset's bullying of Moondancer comes back to bite her HARD. The Dazzlings are able to goad Moondancer into providing evidence of Sunset's past misdeeds, which they can use to claim to Timmy that Sunset is still an evil bully.
• The Equestrian Wind Mage: At the end of Season 2, when Demise is resurrected out of Ganondorf's body, he absorbs the Triforce of Power. However, the Elements of Harmony communicate with it, and turn it against him. The Elements and Triforce then work together to strike him down and render him Deader than Dead.
• In eXtra power twin, after Fudge is voted out of office, he attempts to use the Imperius Curse on Scrimgeour to try and maintain some of his old authority, only to be automatically arrested and sent to Azkaban under the rules Fudge himself created about harsher sentences for those who attempt to attack the Minister of Magic.
• In the Harry Potter/Fate/stay night crossover Harry and the Botched Cult Ritual, first, the apparition of Tom Riddle from his diary decides he doesn't need to follow orders from the original Voldemort and attacks him. Since they have the same powers and can speak Parseltongue, they command the Basilisk to kill the other, so the Basilisk is torn on who to obey. Then Rider and Avenger show up. Since they are both Medusa, they can speak Parseltongue and have more authority over snakes than even the Heir of Slytherin, and command the Basilisk to kill both Voldemort and Riddle, which the Basilisk happily obeys.
• Harry and the Shipgirls sees five fleets of hostile Abyssals join forces to defeat Hoppou the Northern Ocean Princess. They manage to win, albeit with extreme casualties to their side...and because of how few of them were left afterwards, a patrol of shipgirls was able to finish them off with little difficulty.
• In Harry Potter and the Wand of Uru, Flint's decision to have Wood injured badly enough to be removed from the game comes back to bite him when the replacement Keeper (Hermione) proves to be just as good and have better gear. Then she and Harry knock the opposing Seeker out of the game, making it impossible for Slytherin to not lose horribly since the only way to forfeit is for both captains to agree and Wood's still in the hospital wing.
• In the RWBY/Transformers: Prime crossover Hunting Decepticons, when Starscream attempted to drop a bomb into the energon mine from Transformers Prime S 1 E 2 Darkness Rising Part 2, Pyrrha just launched the bomb right back at him with her Polarity semblance, sending Starscream and the bomb into the atmosphere before the bomb detonated. He didn't survive.
• The Indie Heroes: an assassin tries to kill The Beheaded with a holy fire spell; the greater the victim's sins, the stronger the flame. Unfortunately for him, the Beheaded killed a lot of people. The resulting conflagration burns and blinds the assassin so badly, he can't defend himself when the Beheaded steals his body.
  The Beheaded: Wait, murder is not a sin, is it!?
  Assassin: What?! Of course it is!
  The Beheaded: Oh boy...
• In Infinity Crisis, Thor and Jane destroy Hela by attacking her with Stormbreaker and Mjolnir respectively; applies as Mjolnir was only a factor after Hela asked Thanos to recreate it for her, only for the hammer to 'reject' Hela due to the new worthiness enchantment while permitting Jane to wield it instead.
• In The Last Spartan, Garrus kills Dr. Saleon by locking him in a test chamber with a Flood infection form, something Saleon had done to at least two other test subjects already.
• Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations provides us a frighteningly karmic example: In one chapter, the impostor Makoto Fukami shoots Mitsuzane from behind, not once, but twice! Which is a callback from episode 26 of Kamen Rider Gaim where he shoots Kouta in the back.
  Mitsuzane: It's very haunting to think that how I once shot my friend in the back would eventually bite me in the ass.
• Around the climax of My Little Avengers, this happens twice. First, when it appears as though the villains have won, Trixie attempts to betray Loki, only for him to turn her own magic back on her. She survives and escapes, but is left horribly scarred. Later, during Loki and Thor's Final Battle, Loki pulls an I Surrender, Suckers, but Thor anticipates it and redirects Loki's own Soul Seal spell back on him, killing him.
• The Night Unfurls:
  • Vault wants to have Kyril by his side for his dream of a Sex Empire to come to fruition, so he offers Kyril to join him. Vault is hit hard by this in both versions of the story, either creating his biggest obstacle for his conquest (original) or outright leading to his demise (remastered).
  • Shamuhaza does research on the Black Dogs' behalf via Black Magic and Playing with Syringes. He eventually experiments on Morgan and the Leaping Lizards, something that Vault admits to have ruined things between the Lizards and the Dogs. Now that his plans are delayed further by "a crazy man who had decided to off one of his contacts", Vault lampshades that the situation is not worsened at the very least, since Shamuhaza had not made it to Ken, the capital of Eostia, which would've caused as much havoc as he did in Rad.
• In One Flew into the Cuckoos' Nest, a jealous Quire tries to psychically lobotomize Harry, only to be turned into a drooling vegetable when Harry's own mutant ability reflects the attack with increased force.
• In Origins, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands/Halo Massive Multiplayer Crossover, the Republic Intelligence Service tries to capture a Force-sensitive Siren. However, their attack only makes the target stronger. Naturally, this target is not happy. Ass-kicking ensues.
  • The Force-sensitive Siren in general was this for those who made it. Through some Loophole Abuse, these creators hoped to alleviate themselves of duties they found boring. Their creation saw right through their wordplay and decided to apply the consequences demanded by the law for those who sought to undermine it. Subverted in that creators eventually subdued their creation, at least until the events of Fractured set Sarah free...
• The Princess of Themyscira: Ares uses the Alicorn Amulet to open a portal to Tartarus and unleash the army of demons there in order to start a Forever War. When the Amulet is destroyed by Diana, the portal closes, and Ares' attempts at keeping it open only result in him getting sucked in and trapped inside.
• The Stars Will Aid Their Escape: The Big Bad Herald ends up being defeated by several of his own actions throughout the story. Throwing the jar containing the CMC's souls over the waterfall not only allows them to be retrieved but takes away the one thing that might have stopped Pinkie Pie from banishing him to outside of reality the same way he did it to the Princesses. That action in and of itself ends up costing him, as it allows them to fight him at full strength without having to worry about hurting their subjects as they would in Equestria, allowing them to begin winning the fight. This also buys the Mane Six enough time to kill the Dark Young and stop Shub-Niggurath's summoning.
• In Star Wars: Arda Unleashed- part of a series where Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi joined the War of the Ring during the Clone Wars- a chain of events lead to Anakin learning about Order 66 and Palpatine's plans for him after the advice of his friends from Arda has turned him away from the Dark Side. However, since Palpatine was so convinced he could corrupt Anakin to be his apprentice, the clones are automatically ordered to consider Anakin a commander even after Order 66 has been given, allowing Anakin to order the clones to back down and let the Jedi return to the Temple for safety so long as neither side attacks the other.
• Thousand Shinji has these examples:
  • In chapter 8, wanting to pay Rei back for ruining his latest "Annoy Asuka" ploy, Shinji nudges Asuka to take Rei on a shopping trip. Asuka bites the bait... but then she announces that he would carry their shopping bags.
    The look on Shinji’s face would warm both Rei and Asuka for a long time as he was most definitely hoisted by his own petard.
  • In chapter 14, Shinji realizes his planning and scheming has backfired completely.
    Everything tied back to Shinji’s own scheming. He had been snared in a web of his own making. The phrase ‘hoisted by his own petard’ didn’t even begin to cover this sort of thing.
  • Initially, Shinji wanted to get back at his father for abandoning him, but after a while, he cast his planned revenge aside because he had found a real family. Then Gendo hurt his family to try to keep him under control. So Shinji hurt him back.
• The Tick vs... MY HERO ACADEMIA! had the battle between Eraserhead and the titular Tick be decided when Eraserhead bound Tick with his capture scarf, only to find it just means he made it easier for the invulnerable, superstrong crazy person to bash him around.
• Time Lords and Terror: Hydia, who spent the whole story trying to release the S'Muz, ends up being its first victim. Also, the S’Muz itself is defeated when the ponies use their Elements of Harmony to absorb both the PKE it stole and the PKE that makes up its body and disperse it into Equestria.
• Psimon in We Are Legion wipes Legion's memories entirely when they meet. Then the swarm of bugs Legion previously controlled go berserk and act on instinct, eating every living being in the camp, including Psimon himself.
• The Harry Potter/A Nightmare on Elm Street crossover We Are Nothing features two of these;
  • Snape's torment of Harry during their Occlumency "lessons" causes so much damage to Harry's mental shields that he even breaks down the standard barriers everyone naturally possesses, leaving Harry's mind so open that Freddy Krueger is able to use Harry to attack Hogwarts (albeit 'limited' to attacking anyone that Harry was already angry at in some way), with Snape being one of Krueger's first victims.
  • When Umbridge attempts to use these new murders as an excuse to interrogate Harry, she has two Aurors question him while he's under the influence of Veritaserum, confident that this will prove that Harry has been lying about everything. Unfortunately for Umbridge, not only can Harry honestly say that he's never killed anyone, but he also confirms that Voldemort is alive, and Umbridge is so fixated on her own beliefs that she nearly poisons Harry by giving him an overdose of the potion trying to make him stop "lying", which gives the aurors sufficient evidence to arrest her instead.
• In The Weaver Option, under Omegon's control the Alpha Legion's actions have become increasingly chaotic, with identifying their actual goals being all but impossible. However this makes them prime targets for Malal, Chaos God of Anarchy; by the end of the Black Crusade arc, Omegon has been forcibly converted into the Daemon Primarch of Anarchy and much of his Legion is falling to Malal.
• Happens a couple times in With Pearl and Ruby Glowing:
  • Si and Am find that it's easy to get caught in a lie when that lie is that the resident Sweet Polly Oliver got you pregnant.
  • As some of the villains found out, if you're a Dirty Cop with a penchant for Prison Rape, maybe make sure that your latest victim isn't the police chief's nephew.
  • Ratigan preys on geniuses, but after he got Dr. Flug pregnant with 5.0.5., Flug found evidence that he worked for the Ark and blackmailed him into giving him child support money. Later on, he turned some of his past victims into God's Will First so they wouldn't go after him for being gay, but when the remnants were apprehended, their leader Judge Hopkins gave up Ratigan's name to the police, which caused him to go on the run.
• Y'all Are Stupid: Lung thought he could attack Team Skull, kill their leader and break them down. Unfortunately for him, this is a crossover with Worm, and his actions cause nineteen members of the team to trigger right then and there. It doesn't end well for him.

Ace Attorney

• Turnabout Lockdown: As it turns out, Diego spent six weeks terrorizing his cellmate Kristoph. When a fire broke out, he tried getting him out of the top bunk and away from the smoke; unfortunately, Kristoph mistook it for an attack. The ensuing struggle made the bunks topple, with Diego fatally hitting his head on the toilet bowl. Diego himself acknowledges that this was effectively his own fault.

Adventure Time

• In Alex (MovieVillain), the titular antagonist provokes her opponent Marceline to spit at her coat, the same way she spat at Princess Bubblegum's jacket at "What Was Missing". When she does it, the Witch uses a magic spell to put it at her gray top instead. Much after that, she has Finn and some wolves attacking her, the same way she did it to the former in "Go With Me".

Angel

• In Another Hero- Season Four, a woman attempts to kill Angel after he's had her arrested and sent to solitary confinement by summoning Gaap, a liquid-based demon who essentially drowns his hosts. Unfortunately for April, since Angel is technically dead, Gaap possesses April instead as he can only possess a living body when summoned and she was the only one in the room.

Animorphs

• All Assorted Animorphs AUs: In What if Tom's yeerk got the morphing cube from David first?, when Jake accidentally activates the morphing cube, Tom's Yeerk realises that Jake is one of the "Andalite bandits" and attempts to Body Surf into him. He didn't consider the possibility that the real Tom would pull him out of Jake's ear and throw him at the wall.

Arrowverse

• Never Be Silent features Malcolm Merlyn forcing Star, a little girl with the metahuman ability to draw out peoples’ fears, to attack Team Arrow with illusions of their own fears, such as Thea being confronted by Roy telling her she’s a poor successor to him or Laurel hearing Diggle say she’s useless without her powers. Once Oliver finds Star, he removes the headband Malcolm is using to protect him from Star’s illusions and Star attacks Malcolm with an illusion of Rebecca’s death, allowing Oliver and Thea to kill him.
• What It Takes: After it's revealed that Ray survived, he struggles to arrange a court date for his legal resurrection, due to Darhk's spitefulness. This backfires when Ray gets arrested at a protest. His lawyer points out that he's still considered legally dead, and they can't "hold a dead man for a crime", forcing them to release him.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

• Azula's punishment: Azula's Batman Gambit in giving Zuko credit for supposedly killing the Avatar backfires badly on her. Like in canon, her plan was to have Zuko claim credit for something she reasonably assumed he would do, knowing that if Aang were alive he would be the one to face the consequences of lying. Zuko ends up disclaiming the credit and reveals to Ozai that Aang is still alive. The result is worse than canon in this fanfic. Deciding that Azula's lie means she can never be trusted again, Ozai has Mai, Ty Lee, and a trio of Firebenders ambush Azula, gag her, chain her up, and throw her into the ocean to drown.
• The Fall of the Fire Empire: Azula is ultimately only defeated because one of her own undyingly loyal Chosen is tricked into killing her.

Ben 10

• In The New Look Series: Ben's New Look, Ben turns into Grey Matter to peep on a woman, but due to a rat in the vents, he ends up getting caught and Gwen decides to punish him by dressing him as a girl.

Bleach

• In Winter War, the Barragan Fragment's power to age things to dust extends to its blood. The fight is going badly when Isane guesses that it might be vulnerable to its own power. At her suggestion, Ukitake and Soi Fong put its blood on their swords before attacking again. Luckily for them, it works.

Calvin and Hobbes

• The Calvinverse villain Rupert Chill usually disguises himself as a human criminal of the same name whenever he'd arrive on Earth. (The Five Calvins implies this was intentional on alien!Rupert's part.) This comes back to bite him at the end of Calvin & Hobbes: The Series' Season 5 premiere when Calvin arranges for Rupert to be arrested by police while wearing his human disguise, and they dismiss his frantic attempts to tell them who he really is as insanity.

Coco

• In Los Dos Ernestos, Ernesto's plan to kill Hector backfires because he mistakenly drinks from the poisoned glass and gives Hector the other one.

The DCU

• Batman Beyond Revisited: If the sadistic Chainsaw isn't burned to death by his own lighter, he's killed by his WMD exploding. An explosion caused by his own lighter.
• In Daughter of Fire and Steel, General Zod's decisions consistently ruin his chances to achieve his goals. He gets Lois kidnapped, even though Kara points out such an action will make Kal-El not trust them; and he turns down Kara's suggestion to convince Superman into helping them look for another suitable world, even though she had already talked her cousin into it, which makes Kara help Superman to take him down.
• In Hellsister Trilogy, Mordru is more than powerful enough to wipe out the Legion of Super-Heroes single-handedly. But he isn't satisfied with his already vast levels of power so he travels to the actual Hell to make himself one with the essence of Evil. While he's attempting the merge, though, he puts himself in a vulnerable position which gives Colossal Boy and Supergirl the opportunity to destroy him.
• With this Ring... (Green Lantern): As he is using his telekinesis to crush Hal Jordan, Hammond telepathically taunts the Green Lantern, giving Hal the chance to send his own mental attack through the opened mind-link.

Discworld

• In A.A. Pessimal's The New Guild, Mrs. Sandra Battye has banded together a Guild of seamstresses, but the problem is that the City of Anhk-Morpork already has a Guild of Seamstresses, led by Mrs. Rosie Palm. So Battye's solution is to file all legal Guild formation documents with the name "Guild of Prostitutes, Copulatrices, and Working Women" (and Battye is able to explain in a very deadpan and euphemism-loaded fashion that actual seamstresses fall under the broad definiton of those terms). Vetinari is so amused by Battye's Refuge in Audacity that he allows the formation of the Guild, to Palm's sputtering outrage.^note Pessimal mentions in the author's notes that Sir Terry already had mentioned in various books like Night Watch that the Guild of Seamstresses also employed the actual seamstresses of the city for those clients who just wanted to have their clothes fixed (after Battye arrived to town and became the first actual seamstress in the guild - and went to make so much more money fixing clothes that Palm got the point), but he wanted to write his take on it.

Disney Animated Canon

• In Crowns of the Kingdom, Maleficent falls victim to her own time-twisting spell due to Sleeping Beauty not being made until four years after Disneyland was built.

Dragon Ball

• What If Frieza Turned Good?:
  • Frieza pretends that he's willing to help Goku escape Namek alive so that he can kill him in space. This backfires majorly, causing him to effectively lose everything.
  • King Cold is slain by Trogen, whom he created to replace Frieza.
  • Trogen proves to be his own undoing when he transforms into his fifth form, as he hadn't perfected it. This causes his stamina and power to drop dramatically. Frieza notes that history repeats itself, as he'd made a similar mistake.
• What If Raditz Turned Good?: Goku Black planned to fuse with Future Zamasu. Instead, his intended partner is sealed away, and Raditz and Goku Potara-fuse themselves. They also take a page from his playbook and reduce him to nothing more than a blast shadow the first chance they get.

Dungeons & Dragons

• Vow of Nudity: Petrichor, a villainous bard and the main antagonist of one story, is eaten by the same sea monster he hoped to control.

Fallout

• In Children of the Atom, The Super Mutants stockpile lime to smoke Rivet City's defenders out. Jason uses it on its creators.

Fate/stay night

• In Nerve Damage, after Shirou breaks the Heaven's Feel, Zouken forces Sakura to summon another servant besides Rider, even over her desperate desire not to fight Shirou. Cue her summoning an Assassin with just the power set to kill him off for real while leaving Sakura alive, who disdains the Grail and all who seek it as blasphemers, and who sees Zouken as just the type of monster she was designed to fight.

Godzilla

• In Kaiju Revolution, the Morlocks used Biollante's cells to create the Guilala, which means that Biollante herself is able to absorb them into her bodies when fighting them.

Harry Potter

• In The Child of Azkaban, Voldemort and Quirrel bring Harry down into the Chamber of Secrets to be fed to the Basilisk. The Basilisk becomes enraged when he finds out that he was trying to feed him a parselmouth and that Quirrel himself was not a speaker, causing the enraged snake to devour Quirrel and become a protector to Harry.
• An excellent one from the oneshot Community Service: Voldemort's curse on the Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts position really comes back to bite him, when Dumbledore gets the "Eureka!" Moment to allow all accused Death Eaters to get off with just community service. Specifically, two years mandated community service as DADA professor. It's so successful that by the time Voldemort gets his body back, Wormtail is the only free Death Eater left.
• Different manor features Harry, Ron and Hermione being 'captured' by Daphne Greengrass rather than the Malfoys, which leads to Harry falling in love with Daphne as she explains some of the finer details of pure-blood society. Unfortunately for Hermione, her refusal to believe Daphne leads to her constantly making her own position worse, determined to try and win the war her way when if she just went along with Daphne's new plans Voldemort would be defeated and Hermione would just have to tolerate reduced personal freedoms while still enjoying various opportunities.
• In Do Not Meddle In The Affairs Of Wizards, Harry (who was framed for Neville's murder and sent to Azkaban while no one believed in his innocence), after killing Voldemort, decides to leave the magical world behind, only for Dumbledore to force him to return to Hogwarts. Dumbledore expected this would ensure Harry would eventually forgive everyone. Instead, the continuous contact with people he can't trust only erodes what little regard he might still have, and the time spent there allows him to ruin Dumbledore's reputation and leave him completely unable to use magic, which Harry happily points out at the end of the story.
  • Also, Ginny Weasley attempts to make Harry marry her by using a potion that gets her pregnant with Harry's child, expecting he'll accept a Shotgun Wedding. Instead, Harry uses the way Ginny did it to ensure she'll never be able to marry him.
• In Harry and Hermione's Unexpected Family Ties Dumbledore magically throws the cursed ring Horcrux at Harry after sealing the Gaunt shack so no escape is possible. Harry uses an emergency portkey to his new school and the magical bubble left behind after his departure bounces the ring back at Dumbledore who, too weakened by the curse to drop his own seals, dies in screaming agony.
• Harry Crow: Lucius Malfoy has 24 hours to withdraw the contents of his Gringotts vaults and anything left behind after then will be unreachable until his son comes of age. Lucius is forced to miss the deadline because the Ministry has him under arrest and his wife can't do it for him because he never gave her permission to withdraw more than one hundred thousand Galleons per day. Later he gets another heaping dose when he does send his wife for those hundred thousand and she offers the money to Fudge to have the charges thrown out. Fudge promptly charges him with a bribery attempt and uses the cash as evidence.
• The Obligatory Marriage Law Fic: Fudge approves a law to force Muggleborn and half-blood wizards and witches to marry purebloods, as well as another law to prevent Ministry workers from dealing with the Muggle bureaucracy because of how intricate it is. When Harry is ordered to marry a pureblood witch (with the later reveal that the pureblood woman would be given access to magic to control Harry), Harry instead gets married to Ginny, using the second law to make it legal, and then blackmails Fudge into not pressing the issue while pointing out he would have done nothing if Fudge had chosen to leave him alone.
• In A Lion and His Cub, Umbridge sets off an explosion in the Great Hall to try to convince a social worker that Harry's baby daughter would be safer in Ministry custody. When Harry is seriously injured while protecting her, the social worker approves his guardianship on the grounds that any good parent would "set aside their entire being for the child."
• The Power of Seven:
  • When Hermione works out a way for Harry to survive his status as a horcrux by forming a spiritual and sexual bond with seven witches, Susan Bones becomes part of the planned harem. When Dumbledore threatens to expose Harry's plans to the Ministry, Susan uses her own experience of the wizarding legal system to 'remind' Dumbledore that he can't expose what Harry's doing with the girls without getting in more trouble himself, as Dumbledore has no physical evidence that they've done anything, would actually get in trouble for using legilimancy on minors if he provided anything he read in their minds as proof, and can't let Harry go on trial without risking Harry revealing the truth about the horcruxes.
  • In a later chapter, Demelza Robbins (another member of Harry's harem) manages to escape captivity by grappling with Rudolphous Lestrange and forcing her magic into his own wand, causing the wand to fire out random spells that kill Lestrange and leave Demelza with a wound in her shoulder.
• The Rigel Black Chronicles: After Harry beats Peter Pettigrew, he's then finished off by the Dominion Jewel.
• In The Widower Maker, the post-Voldemort Ministry writes a Marriage Law that forces half-bloods and Muggleborns to marry into Pureblood families (in reality turning them into slaves of said families). However, the wording of this is such that Harry is able to kill all the Pureblood families he's forced to marry into and gets away with it, allowing him to inherit all their money and, most importantly, political positions - which he then uses to repeal the law.
• Wish Carefully: The Death Eaters get exactly what they thought they wanted when Harry Potter negotiates a deal to let them take over Wizarding England. Harry and his allies go on to build a new, flourishing magical community of their own in the Pacific while the Death Eaters discover all the downsides of their twisted ideology.

Hetalia: Axis Powers

• In Seven Little Killers, Canada has been dumping the bodies of the people America allows to be killed in the river. Unfortunately for him, he turns out to be one of the people America decides to let die. Guess where he winds up drowning?

Invader Zim

• Invader Zim: A Bad Thing Never Ends: Zim's brainwashed lawyer James Conroy does this to Aldrich Coathanger on the witness stand during the Courtroom Episode, bringing up Coathanger Electronics' state of the art surveillance cameras that should have video evidence supporting his charge of property theft against Zim, but which he isn't sharing because they also have incriminating footage of Aldrich's own criminal activities. Conroy then uses this to segue into past allegations against Aldrich, eventually riling him up so much that he blurts out a confession to one of his previous child murders. Aldrich then has to resort to throwing money at the judge and jury, causing a riot that ends the trial in what is technically a win for Zim.
• The New Adventures of Invader Zim:
  • Season 2:
    • At one point in Episode 4, Tak ends up having to fight the same Ham Demon she once unleashed on Zim.
    • In Episode 5, Quis' plan is to set up Dib to look like he was running a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax and get him kicked out of the SEN for fraud. Instead, events play out so that Quis is exposed, with him being the one kicked out.
    • In Episode 13, this is how the Nightmare Weaver is ultimately defeated: after everyone escapes from the nightmares it initially trapped them in, it drags them all into its personal Mental World and attacks them with manifestations of the nightmares in a more brute force way. However, this means that the invisibility that Steve is subsequently afflicted with makes him invisible to it too, allowing him to get close while it's distracted by the others and blow up its head with a conjured bazooka, finally waking everyone up.
  • The non-canon spinoff New Adventures: Mature Edition:
    • In the third entry, this happens to both Tak and Gaz. The rocket Tak intends to blow up the nudist commune with ends up incinerating her clothes instead, while Gaz's attempt to take money from her father's safe leads to her being tossed naked out of the house by his security system, where she's arrested by the police she called on Dib earlier.
    • In the fifth entry, this happens to both Gaz and Zim. Gaz steals Viera's fur bikini costume, leaving her naked in public, so that she herself has something to wear to the dance (which has mandatory attendance and costume rules); Viera chases after her and, after taking the bikini back, tosses the now nude Gaz in front of the whole student body, after which Miss Bitters punishes her for this indecent exposure by dumping her into the Underground Classrooms. Meanwhile, Zim's obsessive efforts to strip Dib and publicly humiliate him leads to him accidentally stripping Tak and Tenn as well; enraged, the two females then strip him and toss him into the gym to expose him to all the attendants.
• In Tales of Terror: The Ring, Gaz tries to get payback on Miss Bitters for daring to actually challenge her in school by offering her a "gift" in the form of a ring that grants uncontrollable mind-reading powers and which is cursed to not come off. However, it has no apparent effect on Miss Bitters, who takes it off with no problem; confused and angry, Gaz puts it on herself and is soon driven nearly crazy by the thoughts of everyone around her.

Jackie Chan Adventures

• Queen of All Oni: Jade has Verde construct her an enchanted dog carrier to contain the Oni-masked Scruffy while speaking with the Bat-General; Tohru later uses this dog carrier to capture her (her minions save her, however). On top of that, Tohru reverse-engineers the magic involved to create sutra scrolls capable of restraining Oni.
  • Later, when Lung, Daolon Wong's former apprentice, captures Jade and tries to bind her and thus her Shadowkhan to his will, his defenses are no match for her servants and he is Killed Off for Real for torturing Jade and nearly killing her. No tears were shed.
• Shadows Awakening:
  • Turns out Tarakudo was imprisoned in the Shadow Realm because when he fled there to hide the mask made to seal him, his enemies just sealed him inside.
  • The Queen is defeated during the Final Battle when Uncle and Tohru invoke a Super-Power Meltdown via her unbalanced chi, which she herself unbalanced by going One-Winged Angel.

Jennifer's Body

• In Get Me Out of My Mind, Gets You Out of Those Clothes, Needy accompanies Jennifer when Low Shoulder abducts her for the sacrifice and manages to fight the band off when they're about to kill Jennifer. As a result, when Needy kills the lead singer in self-defence, she is the one who gets the benefits of the ritual, such as a perfect SAT score, while the singer is turned into a demon that the two kill later.

Love Hina

• For His Own Sake:
  • Naru effectively does this to herself throughout the entire work. Being a Spoiled Brat who believes she can force the world to bend to her will if she just uses enough threats, temper tantrums, and outright violence, she keeps making matters worse for herself, all while angrily denying that she has anything to do with her mounting problems. She even goes so far as to disown her parents and family, only to be shocked when she finds that she can't force them to help her out, with Saori pointing out that Naru turned her back on them first, and has only turned to them expecting help because Granny Hina cut ties with her — something else that only happened due to Naru's misbehavior.
  • Sarah also finds that Crossing the Burnt Bridge is easier said than done when she disowns her adoptive father Seta after he refuses to let her act out the same way that Naru and Motoko did back at the inn. She expects Granny Hina and the Hinata girls to help her escape St Clavius, her strict new boarding school, but learns during the finale that none of them are coming. She ultimately breaks down crying upon realizing that she drove away the person who cared most about her.
  • When the police arrive during the climax, Kagura betrays her cohort Chisato and jumps into her limo to quickly escape without her. However, doing so actually seals her fate: instead of her butler, Mayako is behind the wheel. Without Chisato's help, she's got no chance of escaping. Mayako even remarks that getting arrested likely looks a lot better now by comparison.

Lyrical Nanoha

• Infinity: Lindy spends most of chapter 25 getting smacked around by Precia. Near the end, she reveals that she's been sealing Precia's magic the whole time, and electrocutes her with all the magic Precia used during the fight.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

• Dial: The algorithm that Arnim Zola created to track down anyone anywhere in the world for HYDRA's benefit is taken by Jury Rigg!Dial and repurposed into an algorithm to instead identify all HYDRA agents worldwide, allowing SHIELD to excise them precisely.
• In If I Could Start Again, Alexander Pierce sends Ava Starr to spy on the would-be Avengers. She ends up walking in on the team right as they are discussing how to deal with the HYDRA infiltration, not only revealing the organization's existence to her but also confirming the fact that they had never intended to cure her condition. She subsequently kills Pierce in cold blood, and Pierce's own paranoia about his personal security means that it's relatively easy for Fury and other agents in the know to cover up any evidence incriminating Ava and create the idea that Pierce's death is part of an internal coup in HYDRA itself.
• In The Other Side (memoriaeterna), when Quentin Beck tries to trick Peter into giving him access to EDITH, he is caught off-guard when Peter reveals that they already hacked his drone system. As a result, while Beck thought he was talking to Peter alone on the roof of Avengers Tower, he’s actually been surrounded by all four of the New Avengers (Peter, Wanda Maximoff, Yelena Belova and Kate Bishop).

Marvel Universe

• FIRE! (DarkMark): During one battle, Doctor Doom seemingly blasts the Fantastic Four into pieces, unaware that Franklin Richards is watching the battle via the Fantasticar camera. Franklin snaps utterly and uses his reality-warping powers to turn Doom into a literal bloody pulp.

Miraculous Ladybug

• In general, Lila Rossi experiencing this is a very popular Fandom-Specific Plot; the vast majority of the examples below have Lila's downfall come about because of her own actions.
• Aku-maid has Hawkmoth give an Akuma the power of... transforming the clothes of every male in Paris into a maid's outfit. Including Hawkmoth - who is transformed back into Gabriel (complete with an outfit that makes him look like "some sort of BDSM role-player with a maid kink") and now can't recall the Akuma because the Butterfly Miraculous is not part of the outfit.
• All's Fair in Love and War (And Turnabout's Fair Play): All Adrien has to do in order to set Lila's downfall in motion is give an interview where he admits that he's being terrorized by a stalker at his school. Though he doesn't name names, he truthfully lists off several of the things she's done to him, such as forcibly kissing him while staging a selfie and attempting to kill him while akumatized.
• The Babysitting Fiasco: According to Alya, Lila was the one who first suggested that she make Marinette handle all her babysitting duties for free, claiming that "true friends" are more than happy to help out without needing any compensation. When Marinette's forced to cancel, Alya turns to Lila next, using that very same logic against her. This also has the side effect of putting Lila right in Marlena's crosshairs when she catches her with the kids; this snowballs into her contacting Mrs. Rossi and exposing all of her lies.
• Adrien takes Lila down with grace and charm in best (fake) smile by the simple expedient of escorting her to Fashion Week and "excitedly" dragging her around to see the many famous people she claims connections with, acting as if he believes her stories of having worked with them, saved their kittens, etc. — and capturing their baffled denials on his social media feeds. Bonus points for having both Jagged Stone and Ladybug politely but unfavorably contrast her behavior with Marinette's, sinking the boot into Lila's downfall amongst their class. And when she furiously confronts Adrien later, he captures her angry admissions on video.
• This is central to the plot of BURN THE WITCH:
  • Adrien convinced Marinette to stop trying so hard to expose Lila by reasoning that her lies would eventually catch up to her like this. While this proves to be true, the fic takes a sledgehammer to his logic by illustrating how he didn't consider that she would continue manipulating everyone until she gets caught out. Rose pays the price, as Lila exploits her efforts to help out her non-existent charity, lining her pockets with all the cash she and others are so generously donating to her cause.
  • Lila's exposure happens in part because she used a good chunk of her ill-gotten funds on filling out her wardrobe with the latest, most expensive trends. Once Rose confronts her and starts asking where the money's gone, Chloé cheerfully contributes by pointing out to her classmates just what she's wearing.
  • Her attempt to repay Marinette's efforts to protect her from the mob by sacrificing her as a distraction completely backfires, as it only draws Witch Hunter's attention to her and ruins her Paper-Thin Disguise.
  • Then she takes shelter with a family willing to hide her from the masses, only to shoot herself in the foot by trying to Maintain the Lie of painting Marinette as her bully. Unaware that she's speaking to the mother and brother of one of her classmates, and that neither is willing to buy her claims — even when she doubles down on them, unwilling to admit the truth.
  • To top it all off, Hawkmoth shatters her illusions that he won't let her come to any real harm by delivering a Breaking Speech through Witch Hunter, spelling out how she isn't useful any longer now that all of Paris knows her true nature. He finishes off his speech by sarcastically calling her his 'friend', causing her to realize that he just played her the same way she played all of her 'friends' - using her as an Unwitting Pawn while she was none the wiser.
• Cat Out of the Bag: During the fight with Wishmaker, Chat Noir intentionally gets hit by their power, which results in both his and Ladybug's secret identities being exposed. Only Viperion's presence and swift use of Second Chance prevents this knowledge from getting out. This comes back to haunt Adrien when he later quits being Chat Noir out of jealousy over Ladybug daring to work with other heroes. Viperion is also present for this, and reveals his status as a Secret Secret-Keeper to Marinette; after witnessing Chat Noir's temper tantrum, he realized that he was only enabling his bad behavior.
  • Plagg similarly falls victim to this when he shows up in Marinette's room and tries manipulating her into blaming herself for Chat Noir's resignation. Luka calls him out on this, and he accidentally lets slip that Adrien was intentionally skipping fights and had to be convinced to show up for the last one.
• Chicken Scratch Rules: After learning that the Rooster Miraculous lets him create rules of his own, Gabriel expects to use it to instantly get what he wants. Unfortunately for him, it works on Exact Words, and he repeatedly fails to consider the importance of phrasing. When he ultimately gives himself the Wish granting power of the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous, he still can't get it to function... and Orikko casually points out that he set himself up as a Wish granter, not a beneficiary of that power. Then Orikko wishes that Gabriel was a chicken, forcing him to transform himself.
• Coffee Catastrophe: Lila attempts to dump a cup full of hot coffee on Marinette, but since Marinette sees it coming a mile away, all she gets is having to clean it all by herself. And then Adrien swipes her phone and uses it to send Lila's mother proof of all the stuff Lila's been up to since she came to Paris, causing Lila's castle of lies to fall.
• Compartmentalization: Adrien quits being Chat Noir, sending Plagg to Ladybug along with a note of resignation. He expects her to come chasing after him; unfortunately for him, Marinette had been anticipating something like this, with how he'd pulled similar stunts in the past. Plagg also takes the opportunity to reveal to her several incidents she hadn't been aware of, such as his threat to let all of Paris drown under Syren's floodwaters. As a result, she decides that she's better off without him.
• The CONSEQUENCES series focuses on this happening to Lila. Each story is named after and focused on one of her many cruel, vicious, unhealthy, and malicious behaviors, and how acting on those behaviors leads to her downfall.
  • STALKING: Lila breaks into Marinette's room and takes pictures of her poster collection of Adrien and his schedule that she keeps, then also takes pictures of her near his photoshoots. Then, she shows it to all her classmates so they will think Marinette is a crazy stalker. Turns out, she keeps the schedules for all her classmates so she can schedule class events on dates when everyone will be available, and she was at Adrien's photoshoot because she was hired as his assistant. Then, the class gets suspicious that Lila has photos of Marinette's private bedroom and belongings when they know Marinette hates Lila and would never allow her within five feet of her person, let alone give her access to her room. Not only does Marinette's reputation remain pure, now the class believes LILA to be the stalker, not Marinette, who slaps Lila with a restraining order, along with Adrien.
  • BREAKING AND ENTERING: Lila breaks into Marinette's room to find something to blackmail her with. When she tries to snatch her diary, Marinette's trap box triggers and snaps shut on her hand, causing Lila to scream in pain and give herself away to the Dupain-Chengs, who call the police and have Lila arrested.
  • SEXUAL HARRASSMENT: Adrien finally reaches his breaking point when Lila threatens to hurt Kagami unless he dumps her for Lila and goes to start exposing the liar. Lila stops him and corners him, forcing herself on him and touching him all over his body. Gabriel catches her in the act and not only fires her as a model, he exposes her to her mother and publicly and successfully sues her for sexual assault, her conviction becoming a landmark ruling.
  • THREATENING A TSURUGI: Lila goes after Kagami to get her to break up with Adrien. The sick girl even sets up an accident for Kagami's blind mother Tomoe that lands her in a coma. Kagami responds by exposing Lila to her mother, assisted by a video catching Lila in the act of setting up Tomoe's accident. Lila is exposed as a cruel, unsympathetic bully to her whole class, plus the world.
  • CAT BLANC: In the Cat Blanc timeline, the fight of Ladybug and Cat Noir versus Hawk Moth draws the attention of the class, including Lila, having a picnic nearby. Lila jumps in and restrains Ladybug for Hawk Moth, admitting her hatred and vendetta against the heroine in front of her classmates, before Cat Blanc destroys the world. Bunnyx shows this to Ladybug, who tells Cat Noir after coming home to the present. Ladybug tells Alya, who, as Rena Rouge, casts illusions of Hawk Moth and Mayura approaching Lila, getting her to confess everything about collaborating with the bad guys, with the police hiding nearby. After she's exposed, Gabriel drops her as an ally and leaves her to her fate.
  • MARC AND NATHANIEL: Nathaniel figures out Lila's lying, thanks to Marc. When she tries to leech off the success of their comic book by saying she got them a position as guests of honor at the big sci-fi convention through her connections, Nathaniel confronts her. She responds by stealing some comic pages, claiming them as her own and telling their editor that Nathaniel and Marc stole their comic from her. Of course, Nathaniel and Marc are able to debunk her claims by recreating the art and handwriting respectively to match the comic styles in front of their editor, while Lila cannot. She tries to ruin the pages of their newest comic in a last-ditch effort, but that misdeed results in her mother draining her trust fund to give the boys financial compensation. Of course, word about what she did gets out to their class, and Lila becomes an outcast overnight.
  • BULLYING: This story deconstructs the Fandom-Specific Plot of the class bullying Marinette on Lila's false claims of being bullied by her. At first, it seems to follow the standard plot, with the class appearing to beat up Marinette and destroy her belongings. However, the plot climax reveals that the class has been wise to Lila's game for a long time, and all the "bullying" was mostly faked to lure her into a sense of false security and set her up for an Engineered Public Confession.
  • SINS OF THE PAST: First mentioned in BULLYING above, Frederick was a boy in Germany who suffered extreme bullying from his former friends when Lila came along and painted him as a villain. Everyone around him insulted him, ruined his things, tripped him, and dumped food on him. It got so bad, Frederick was eventually Driven to Suicide and was only saved in the nick of time by his cousin. Soon after Lila moved away, Frederick decided to move in with his cousin and his parents in Paris to start fresh. When he sees Lila in his new class, he freaks out and panics that she will do the same thing in Germany to him all over again here. The pain of the memories and the fear of her bullying is so strong, he is akumatized into the Inquisitor and kidnaps Lila, forcing her to confess her crimes on live TV.
  • MAMA BEAR: One day in the park, Lila finds Manon playing with the Ladybug doll Marinette gave her. In an act of spite, she snatched the doll away and rips it up in front of Manon, who goes crying to her mother, Intrepid Reporter Nadja Chamack. After confirming Lila's identity, Nadja goes to her house to confront her, only to catch her scheming with Hawk Moth. She records the conversation, digs up all the dirt she can, and exposes Lila on TV. Lila is convicted and expected to not be free until she's middle-aged. When she meets Nadja again while being escorted out of the courthouse, the journalist reveals that she did this because it was her daughter who Lila bullied in the park. As she is taken away to face punishment, Lila is left to reflect on how that single act of petty cruelty set off the chain of events that ruined her life.
  • RUNNING AMOK: Gabriel decides to give Lila the newly-repaired Peacock Miraculous, with specific rules she must follow to protect herself and their plans, like never wear the brooch in plain sight to ward off suspicion about her identity or don't attack the heroes directly and let the sentimonsters do the dirty work since she only has powers to create outside help and nothing to do any damage herself. Of course, Lila is so arrogant and entitled that she willingly ignores all his rules, from flaunting her new jewelry to the class for attention to creating a Cool, but Inefficient costume for herself as the new Peacock villainess that hinders her mobility all the way to directly fighting the heroes to steal their Miraculous for herself. Of course, thanks to the limits of her costume and her lack of damaging powers, she is easily defeated and arrested. Not only that, Ladybug and Cat Noir get Duusu, who reveals to them Hawk Moth's true identity and helps Adrien create a version of Lila's villain alter ego that's on the good side, who tricks Hawk Moth into letting the heroes close enough to finally take him down once and for all. After that, Senti-Bird goes on to work with Prince Ali in his charities and Lila has to live with all the news of her Good Counterpart getting all the fame and glory she herself always wanted.
  • EXPOSED: Lila releases a video of Marinette detransforming from her Ladybug ego and exposed her secret identity. Cat Noir wastes no time in using the Fox Miraculous to cast illusions of his hero self and his Lady to tell the press that Marinette was only filling in for Ladybug temporarily. Not only is her secret saved and any previous suspicion absolved, Lila is made to look like a fool. She is dismissed by the press, fired from her modeling job, and hated by all her former fans/classmates. But hey, how can you expect to not be hated when you try to endanger everyone's favorite superhero and everyone else by extension?
  • MAX-IMUM EFFECT: After months of leaving her homework and assignments unfinished, Lila is told she must finish an insane amount of make-up schoolwork or be held back a year. Lila tries to coerce Max, the class genius, into doing the work for her. When he politely refuses, she reveals her true colors by crushing his fingers with his laptop and threatening to turn everyone against him, confessing that she has been doing just that to Marinette. Of course, Max is a smart cookie, smart enough to pull one over on Lila. He promises to do the work for her, but does all her work with a font that he created and thus the teacher knows can only be used on his laptop. When the font is noticed and Lila is questioned, Max proves that she threatened him by showing the class a recording that Markov, his AI robot best friend, took of her Motive Rant, admitting her true intentions and plans to destroy anyone who gets in her way. Just goes to show you that it's probably not the best move to threaten a guy who's smart enough to create a robot with real thoughts and emotions.
  • TEACHERS:
    • EYES OF THE OWL: Lila only got away with pretending to be pushed down the stairs in Ladybug because the security cameras were busted. Once they're fixed, Mr. Damocles sees the footage, intending to clear up things once and for all, and watches her fake-out. He apologizes to Marinette, contacts Lila's mom at the embassy, and forces her to apologize in front of the whole school, after which she is sent who live on a remote farm with super-strict grandmother with no modern technology.
    • MALICIOUS COMPLIANCE: Lila does everything she can to invade Adrien's life, from butting in between him and his friends to clinging to him physically. Of course, it takes a toll on the poor boy and the teacher notices. When she asks, he breaks down about Lila, plus his hectic schedule. When Miss Bustier asks Lila politely to respect Adrien's personal boundaries, Lila instead retaliates against his "tattling" by threatening him, forcing a kiss on him, and slapping him in the face. Unfortunately for her, Caline's Mama Bear-teacher instincts compelled her to collect Lila, whom she catches in the act. Since she was caught assaulting a Teen Idol, her crimes make it to public media, both traditional and social, and any chances she has of stardom shrivel up and die. Not to mention, since Adrien's face is legal trademark of his father's brand, she gets sued by Gabriel, who delights in blacklisting her from the fashion world entirely.
    • SCIENTIFIC APPROACH: Ms. Mendeleiev won't believe Lila's claims of illness and disability without notes from a doctor and/or her parents, nor will she excuse Lila's absences without a note from her mother. To get out of truancy, Lila forges her mother's signature. Sadly for her, she did not expect Ms. Mendeleiev to expect forgery. The woman is Crazy-Prepared, having collected samples of students' handwriting just for this kind of crime, so she can spot out forgery. Lila has all her things sold to pay her truancy fine, is forced to confess to her class, and then is expelled from school after she's caught grabbing an akuma.
  • ELLIE-MENT OF SURPRISE: Nathaniel's twin sister Eloise, the Teen Idol Ellie K, visits and keeps bringing up the lying disease Lila claimed to have in "Ladybug" whenever Lila says anything, ensuring nobody believes her claims. In revenge, Lila steals and defaces Ellie's lyrics for her new song, but she outs herself as the culprit by mentioning what went missing before Nathaniel had said it. Ellie gets akumatized into Vam-Power and goes after Lila; Lila tries to get out of trouble by saying she too works for Hawk Moth, but neither Vam-Power nor Hawk Moth are willing to listen, and the conversation is overheard by Ladybug, Cat Noir and Cocorico (Nathaniel given the Rooster Miraculous). As it turns out, Ellie had a hidden camera that caught Lila stealing her lyrics, which gets her convicted; the claims of working with Hawk Moth wouldn't have been proven, except Lila intentionally got herself akumatized during her trial.
  • CUTTING THE STRINGS: Kim and Max poke holes in Lila's fake claims of injuries and disabilities by explaining exactly how they should be treated and how Lila hasn't been doing any of that, which gives Marinette an opening to expose all her other lies. Lila seeks out an akuma for revenge and manages to use her puppeteering strings to incapacitate both Marinette and Adrien before they can transform… but they had a contingency set up after the Reflekdoll incident, so Tikki and Plagg take their Miraculouses to Max and Kim. While the two of them keep Lila's attention, Marinette and Adrien organize the hostages to use her own strings against her, and Max then ricochets a bouncy-ball Lucky Charm off the strings to defeat her. And since her accepting the akuma was recorded, she's in serious legal trouble.
  • WORLD BEYOND gives Hawkmoth and Mayura a turn at this; the latter convinces her boss to use the newly stolen Miracle Box to go on a worldwide Monumental Damage spree, claiming hundreds of innocent lives while attempting to lay the blame at Ladybug and Chat Noir's feet for not being able to stop them. This only succeeds in cementing them as a worldwide threat, resulting in a coordinated effort to take the magical terrorists down, and ensures that both will be sentenced to death for their crimes.
    • WORLD BEYOND: PART II does the same for Félix he happily aided and abetted his uncle's terrorism while believing that the Graham de Vanily's status rendered them completely untouchable. His overconfidence gets his mother arrested for protecting him, and they're stripped of their nobility, triggering her Villainous Breakdown.
  • SUN'S WRATH: Not only does Lila cause Adrien's akumatization by pushing Luka into the path of a car, said car had a dashboard camera that caught her in the act. Hell-ios also gets her to expose her true nature with a Batman Gambit: he takes a little boy hostage and pretends to threaten his life, knowing she'll never agree to trade himself for his safety. Her refusal to do so ensures that none of the other people taking shelter will try to protect her; in fact, they ensure she can't escape while the heroes are dealing with Hell-ios.
  • UN-FOUR-TUNATE: Lila tries to piggyback off 4*Town's success by claiming she inspired their music... while the band is in Paris, easily able to learn about her lies and disprove them.
  • CAGED: Gabriel gets another turn at this when he reacts to Adrien's relationship with Luka by ripping him out of public school, imprisoning him in the Agreste Manor, and akumatizing the utterly furious Luka into Cage-Master without considering just WHO Luka is so pissed off at. Namely him. This results in him being exposed as Hawkmoth by the very akuma he created.
  • ZOMBIZOU has Lila sabotage Marinette's gift instead of Chloé, which results in Zombizou targeting her upon realizing that she's immune to her powers due to being so insanely self-absorbed that she's simply not capable of love.
• Court Summons: Lila convinces Alya, Adrien, and several of the other temporary Miraculous holders to hold a Kangaroo Court where they accuse somebody of being Mayura. Unfortunately for the conspirators, her target is Marinette, who is Ladybug, and repays their betrayal by laying a Curse upon each of the participants... which is precisely what Lila intended to manipulate Ladybug into doing to Marinette.
• Dad Villain AU:
  • Gabriel sets up his own downfall with his selfish, reality-altering Wish in two ways. Firstly, his petty vendetta against Ladybug provided Tom Dupain-Cheng with ample motivation to take up the Butterfly Brooch once Nooroo escaped the Agreste Manor... and since he'd Wished to be the only person who remembered the original reality, Tom is able to trick him into exposing himself by using Nooroo's recollection to craft a collection of Miraculous-themed treats that Gabriel reacts poorly to.
  • Chloé incorporated cyberbullying into her harassment of Marinette, posting pictures and video of her various cruelties online in hopes of further humiliating her. As she eventually learns the hard way, this was also creating ample evidence of how she'd spent years harassing Marinette, which Tom gathers and uses against her upon pressing charges against her family.
• In Designer Decoy, Lila sabotages Marinette's entry into a design contest by destroying her dress. Fortunately, Marinette anticipated this, bringing her practice dress along for her to find... and setting up a hidden camera linked to her tablet. Lila's Evil Gloating as she does the dirty deed serves as an Engineered Public Confession, leading to her swift downfall.
• Everything You Deserve: Chat Noir betrays Ladybug in order to make several selfish Wishes on the Earrings and Ring, hoping to warp reality into his personal parade. Instead, Exact Words ensures that all of his requests are twisted and turned against him:
  • He asked for a world where he was free to do whatever he pleased, using his Miraculous to 'have fun'. This makes him a notorious villain, with new Miraculous heroes rising up to stop him. Including a different Cat, since he didn't bother specifying that 'his Miraculous' would be the Ring.
  • He wanted Ladybug to be his devoted, doing girlfriend. Instead of 'his lady' being Brainwashed into his ideal servant, the Earrings went to Chloé instead.
  • His desire to 'get what he deserves' ensures that Laser-Guided Karma will bring an end to his reign of terror, with no way of reversing his Wish to weasel out of the consequences.
• Fashion Upgrade:
  • Lila suggested the idea of Marinette's new class holding a fashion show specifically because she was hoping to see the anxiety-prone designer crash and burn. But the plan completely backfires thanks to Mme. Mendeleiev's class rallying together and treating the project as a true group project rather than dumping all the responsibility onto her shoulders.
  • Lila's attempt to sabotage the fashion show blows up in her face, as she gets Caught on Tape getting doused by an ink trap, and ends up sacrificing her spot as the lead actress since she can't get cleaned up in time.
  • She also runs into this when she tells Gabriel about her plan, claiming that she intended to expose Marinette as a fraud/accuse her of stealing his designs. He calls her out on the lie and berates her for plotting to sabotage a fellow designer.
  • As if all of that wasn't enough, her downfall is ensured by her harassing Mylene: she gets Caught on Tape again, and unlike Alicia, Ivan has no qualms about releasing the video so that the whole school sees how she was treating his girlfriend.
  • Mlle. Bustier also gets hit by this: since she relied so heavily upon Marinette to 'be the bigger person' and help settle disputes, she finds herself increasingly at a loss once she's transferred out and isn't around for her to lean upon anymore.
• Feralnette AU:
  • Alya effectively manages to hang herself while attempting to defend Lila from Ladybug and Chat Noir's anger, by telling them about her 'lying disease' that supposedly compels her to tell Blatant Lies. Ladybug immediately points out that Alya has just admitted that she knows Lila has trouble with the truth, yet still freely uses her as a 'trusted source' for her Ladyblog. This spurs Ladybug to publicly condemn and blacklist the Ladyblog, ruining her reputation...which Alya's reaction shows is the only thing she really cares about.
  • When Felix arrives at Dupont, he learns from Alya that Lila falsely claimed to have worked with him as a model. He takes advantage of this to lament how unprofessional she was, claiming that none of the photos from those sessions were released due to her being such a sub-par model.
  • Lila takes considerable pride in how she's secretly helping Hawkmoth. So much so that when she's hit by an akuma that manifests one's inner voice as a phantom, said phantom can't stop bragging about working with the terrorist in front of their horrified audience.
• RicardianScholar-Clark-Weasley's Five Times Lila X fics show Lila undergoing this:
  • In Five times Lila Rossi suffered the consequences of her lies: Lying about being Ladybug's friend gets her kidnapped by Hawkmoth and exposed; antagonizing Chloé puts the latter on the warpath while Adrien and Marinette stand aside; her skipping classes to "work on charities" gets her held back a year; her lies about meeting Jagged Stone get her sued by the singer, and her "lying disease" excuse means no one believes her Celebrity Lies anymore.
  • In Five times Lila Rossi was defeated by common sense: Lying about being Ladybug's friend leads Alya to not post her interview to protect her, only for Lila to quickly reveal herself as a liar; telling her mother that her school closed down because of an Akuma attack causes the woman to send her back to Italy, and lying about saving Jagged Stone's cat instead allows everyone to realize she's a liar because a Google search tells them the singer is allergic to cats.
  • In Five times Lila was killed: Her harassment of Marinette leads to Jagged Stone accidentally killing her with a piano when he attempts to play a concert for Marinette; her willingness to work with Hawkmoth leads to the villain doing a Human Sacrifice with her; her lies about knowing Prince Ali lead to Achu's Secret Service sending an assassin to deal with her; declaring her wish that Marinette would kill herself gets her killed when Chat Noir accidentally Cataclysms her, and her Crying Wolf being revealed means no one believes her when she genuinely begins to choke on a chicken bone.
• the high road: Lila falsely claims to have various conditions and disabilities in order to get special attention and treatment. Marinette keeps track of every single one of these lies and makes plans to accommodate them all...regardless of how that impacts the rest of the class. While Lila, naturally, does not care how her actions affect others so long as she gets what she wants, this makes everyone else increasingly resentful... and encourages them to start questioning her claims more.
• In I See What You Do Behind Closed Doors, Adrien starts dating Marinette so that he can pretend he's actually with Ladybug... unaware that they're one and the same. He then tells Marinette his Secret Identity despite knowing Ladybug would never approve and continues pursuing Ladybug, arrogantly confident that Marinette will never find out. Unsurprisingly, this blows up in his face, resulting in his akumatization — which, in turn, leads to the whole class learning about Lila and his Betrayal by Inaction.
• I'm In Love With Another Boy: After learning as Chat Noir that Ladybug has a crush on Adrien, he intentionally endangers himself as a civilian so that she'll be forced to save him. In doing so, he neglects his heroic duties; Chat Noir keeps showing up late to fights, if not simply skipping out on them entirely. This reaches the point that Ladybug decides enough is enough and confronts him; when Chat Noir tries dismissing her concerns, she decides to strip him of the Ring.
• In Jerk in Sheep's Clothing, while the Lila situation is not as bad here as it usually is in most salt fics, it is tense enough between Marinette and the class to have her fall victim to the charms of the new Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, Henri LeRoi. While the class is somewhat cold and indifferent to Marinette because of Lila, Henri showers her with unquestionable affection and loyalty. This makes Marinette feel as if Henri is a better, more reliable, and trustworthy ally than her class. So, naturally, when Henri starts bullying the class behind her back and lying to her about it, she believes him over the class and shuns her friends for "picking on" him.
  • Henri also uses Adrien's advice about the high road against him to paint him as a Manipulative Bastard to Marinette, insisting that he asked her not to expose Lila for his own comfort and convenience rather than a desire to keep the peace, that Adrien sees fit to let his friends and teachers get led on by Lila's lies as long as he himself isn’t getting hurt.
• The Karma of Lies:
  • Adrien puts himself ahead of everybody else; the main reason he doesn't want to expose Lila is because he doesn't want to deal with the fallout, especially having others get angry or blame him for it. His refusal to act ultimately makes things far worse for him in the long run, as the karmic backlash builds up until it bursts — and his Karma Houdini Warranty runs out.
  • His placing his reputation over his responsibilities combines with his willingness to let Lila do as she pleases when a call comes in for him to help out the heroes... while he's hosting a party at the manor. Lila doesn't let him slip away to transform into Chat Noir, latching onto his arm and whining about him trying to 'abandon' her until he relents, not wanting the others to see him as a Dirty Coward. This means that he misses out on the Final Battle with Hawkmoth, making Ladybug and her allies much angrier with him.
  • Since Adrien firmly believes that, as one of the 'good guys', everything will work out precisely the way he wants, Lila is easily able to convince him that he's shown her the error of her ways by 'taking the high road'. This enables her to stab him in the back — and because of his carelessness around her, she's even able to sweeten the pot for herself by siphoning money out of the Agreste emergency fund account, since he entered the passwords right in front of her.
  • Once Adrien realizes that Lila's betrayed him, he's immediately willing to reveal the truth about her. But because he so staunchly refused to do so in the past, nobody believes him. It also makes his self-serving nature far more apparent, since he only cares now that he's one of her victims.
    • He also shoots himself in the foot by being completely honest during his police interviews, presuming that he'll be believed because he's telling the truth. As the Agreste family lawyer eventually explains to him, he literally told the cops that he spent months standing by and letting Lila con his classmates. Whether they believe him or not, he's just made clear that he sees absolutely nothing wrong with that, making him look even shadier.
  • All of this comes to bear in the Final Battle against Mayura, as he goes after her solo in an attempt to 'prove' that he's a real hero after all. After unmasking her, Nathalie asks for a hand up, then swipes the Ring off his finger; this is Caught on Tape, and to an outside observer looks as though he gave her the Ring. Given the amount of suspicion he was already regarded with, this ensures he's Convicted by Public Opinion and completely loses the 'golden boy' reputation he cared so much about.
  • Alya and most of Marinette's former classmates/friends decide to try going over her head by asking her parents to make their daughter forgive them. This harassment only gets them into deeper trouble, especially after Kagami counters by presenting their families with ample evidence of said harassment and of how they treated Marinette at Lila's urging.
• LadyBugOut:
  • Alya's decision to post the picture of Ladybug and Chat Noir Kissing Under the Influence of Oblivio's Laser-Guided Amnesia bites her in the butt when her classmates start questioning the circumstances surrounding that photo. Her reluctance to admit the truth only serves to highlight how she's deliberately and knowingly misrepresenting the situation, and her insistence that Ladybug should just resign herself to being lied about convinces Marinette to start her own blog in order to combat misinformation. This leads to Alya's reputation being ruined once it's exposed how she was lying to her audience for the sake of getting views.
  • Lila naturally pretends to be helping Ladybug maintain the titular blog. When Marinette posts a video where she "interviews" her alter ego in The Interview Ruse, Lila accuses them of trying to make her look bad... but Ivan points out that Marinette wasn't around whenever Lila bragged about her involvement. Her panicked attempts to blame somebody else only manage to further rile up her classmates, and when she attempts to invoke Exact Words by claiming that she never actually said she was working on the blog, only that Ladybug had asked her for help, she's called out on it. This leads to everyone but Alya, Nino, and Adrien turning on her after realizing that she'd been lying the whole time, losing all her influence.
• A Lady's Scout (and the Salt within her Soul): After Rena Rouge is replaced by Fennec, a new Fox Hero, Lila attempts to deepen the rift between Alya and Marinette by suggesting the latter had something to do with it. The resulting rumors set up her eventual downfall, as the class becomes convinced that Marinette is working as a 'hero scout', spurring several of them to promptly abandon Lila in hopes of currying favor with Marinette again, just like they had before. Her Celebrity Lies also come back to bite her when Ladybug accuses her of being a stalker.
• In The Lament Series (ChaoticNeutral): Gabriel and Chloé learn to Be Careful What You Wish For when they gain the Miraculi and make their reality-altering wish, sending them into a Self-Inflicted Hell.
  • Gabriel’s Lament: Gabriel wishes to prevent his wife’s coma, but the reality makes it so that Emilie’s broken miraculous that caused her coma was never damaged, giving her all the freedom to use it. Plus, since he didn’t need Adrien out of the house to be Hawkmoth, Adrien never went to public school and made friends, causing his resentment towards his father to come to a boil and cause his akumatization, one that Gabriel cannot bring him out of thanks to their strained relationship, forcing Emilie to risk herself to try to save her son and Gabriel being Forced to Watch.
  • Chloé’s Lament: Miracle Queen wishes to have everything Marinette/Ladybug has. When Chloé wakes up, she has switched lives with Marinette, her father being a baker while Marinette’s mom and dad are the Mayor and hotel owner, respectively. Chloé thinks this will mean she will be the Class Princess and new Ladybug hero that Marinette was, while Marinette herself will take her place as the Alpha Bitch Hated by All. But In Spite of a Nail, Chloé is still a Spoiled Brat and bully, while Marinette is as sweet and kind and helpful as ever. Not only is Chloé still friendless and without a Miraculous, she has lost her leverage as the Mayor’s daughter to get away with her bratty behavior at school, leaving her facing a mountain of consequences for bullying Marinette. Not only that, she has lost her Only Friends, as Sabrina is not her loyal lackey in this reality, and Adrien, who has a better understanding of friendship here thanks to having Marinette as his second Childhood Friend, is more estranged from her and sticks with her only out of pity rather than a misguided idea of friendship.
• Leave for Mendeleiev:
  • Chloé steals one of Marinette's designs and has it flawlessly recreated... including the secret signature hidden in the embroidery. This helps Marinette prove that it was her work, leading to Chloé's immediate disqualification and humiliation.
  • Lila claims to be Ladybug's best friend and that she's actually the Fox Heroine Volpina. This gets her taken hostage by Mime, and Chat Noir 'helpfully' reassures Ladybug that she can get herself out of trouble, forcing her to admit the truth.
  • Chloé's attempt to corner Marinette after she's forced to attend her party brings her face to face with Aurore, who shuts her down HARD. Chloé then snaps at her "Then why don't you just leave!", only to find that not only are the two of them more than happy to do so, so is everybody else, as Kim calls out "Pool party!" and causes a mass exodus, leaving her standing alone in utter shock. Even Adrien, the one she's throwing the whole shebang for, leaves without so much as saying goodbye.
  • Adrien takes his 'partnership' with Ladybug for granted, letting her handle the bulk of fighting akumas while he flirts and screws about, and treating her Miraculous Cure as a magical Reset Button. His overreliance upon her bites him in the butt when he manages to lose the Ring to Syren — rather than trying to fix the problem himself, he hopes that the Cure will bail him out again and restore the status quo. Instead, the Cure returns the Ring to the Guardian, and Plagg proceeds to meet up with Master Fu and inform him of all of Adrien's transgressions, ensuring that he won't be getting the Ring back and bringing Chat Noir's career to an abrupt end.
• Lying on the Job has Ladybug confront Chat Noir after learning about several ways he betrayed her trust, such as lying to Theo about their supposed relationship, skipping out on patrols, and trying to tempt Xavier Ramier into becoming akumatized again. Faced with her demands to relinquish his Miraculous, he declares that she can't take it because she doesn't know his Secret Identity, and has always stressed the importance of protecting it. Unfortunately, this just leads her to seriously consider all the clues and evidence that had gradually piled up over the course of their partnership, correctly deducing that he's none other than Adrien Agreste... a revelation that only strengthens her resolve to reclaim the Ring and give it to somebody who won't treat protecting Paris like it's just a game.
• The (Not-So) Truther: Lila gets akumatized into Truther, who forces people to say lies. She uses it on Adrien to make him say he enjoys spending time with her - but Marinette quickly turns the tables on her by asking Adrien obvious things he lies about, cluing everyone into Lila's true nature.
• One step backwards and Three forwards has this as a running theme: though Hawkmoth triumphed in the original world, the new reality shaped by the Wishes he and his supporters made (and the furious Tikki and Plagg) ensures that their decisions come back to haunt them:
  • Alya wished to become a great Intrepid Reporter, only to learn the downsides of Going for the Big Scoop. Especially without a superhero like Ladybug around to bail her out when she gets in over her head, or the protection of the Fox after Marinette switches it out for a decoy.
  • After Dame Papillion's debut, Lila 'subtly hints' to Adrien that she's the secretive superheroine, claiming credit for her good deeds. This bites her hard once Gabriel learns about the new hero and is convinced that Lila must have stolen the Butterfly from him.
  • Lila snaps a photo of Felix comforting Rose in order to try and make him look like a two-timer. Not only does Felix counter the rumors with Brutal Honesty, she's quickly outed as the anonymous poster 'Volpina', with Juleka spinning it around to look like she was jealous of her relationship with Rose.
• The One to Make It Stay:
  • Lila's claims to have worked with Prince Ali work against her in this 'verse, thanks to Rose having his contact information and texting him, eager to learn more.
  • Lila also unintentionally undermines her grasp on Alya, one of her most fervent defenders, by secretly messing with Alya's phone during one of their outings. By turning off her notifications, she causes her to miss some important calls from her family, getting her into serious trouble... and her subsequent realization that Lila was the only one who could have done so goes a long way towards convincing her that she's a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
  • Chat Noir's decision to refuse to help Ladybug fight akuma until she agrees to start dating him leads her to rely upon temporary heroes like Viperion more and more. The disrespect he then shows towards these other heroes drives a deeper wedge between them.
  • Ultimately, Adrien/Chat Noir's entitled attitude towards Ladybug and staunch belief that he can harass her into giving in to his romantic advances is directly responsible for his downfall: Miracle Queen disguises herself as Ladybug and offers a false confession. Despite her acting nothing like the real Ladybug, Chat Noir eagerly accepts the idea that he's finally browbeaten her into 'accepting his love', even ordering her to 'prove it' by kissing him. This gives her an opening to slip his ring right off his finger, passing it on to Hawkmoth.
• In Payback, when Lila lies about being up-and-coming designer MDC, the class realizes she's a liar because they all know MDC is Marinette - and that they have been scammed by her claims. Instead of confronting her, they decide to get their money back by using her above lie and her claims about friends being willing to give free stuff to each other to get her to "make" (read buy) things from the MDC webpage for them, wiping her savings (which includes the money she scammed from them) while everyone gets their money's worth in MDC clothes.
• Telling Lies? No, Mama: Here’s a tip for you, Lila. If you don’t want your mother to find out that you’ve been lying to her and everyone else, maybe you shouldn’t have let Alya post videos of you telling lies on the Internet.
• In to lose someone, Lila convinces the class to betray Marinette by tearing up her sketchbook. When Marinette arrives and sees the carnage, rather than breaking down, she just sighs and snaps a picture for evidence. Then she calmly explains to them that she has multiple sketchbooks and that the one they just ruined was full of projects she'd been working on for them...meaning that they aren't getting those things anymore.
• Unconventional Scenarios: Gabriel attempts a dramatic cane-twirl while he's hiding under a stage. He ends up whacking himself in the head.
• Watch Me Burn: Chat Noir's Skewed Priorities and insistence on harassing his partner bites him in the butt when he steals her yo-yo during a battle with the Rat King. As he dismisses the threat the akuma causes, declaring that it doesn't matter how people are dying since the Miraculous Cure will bring them back, his ignored adversary proceeds to strike him down, seizing his Ring and revealing his Secret Identity.
• In Watch Your Step, Lila attempts to push Marinette down a flight of stairs. Thanks to Marinette bending over to retrieve her dropped pencil, however, she misses and winds up taking a header down the stairs herself, leaving her with a broken wrist and a crowd of witnesses.
• What Goes Around Comes Around:
  • Gabriel sets his own defeat in motion when he decides to make a personal appearance while attacking the Dupain-Cheng bakery. This gives Ladybug the chance to take him down and unmask him in front of a news camera, revealing his identity to all of Paris.
  • Gabriel recorded several of his discussions about Hawk Moth-related matters with Nathalie, in order to share that information with his wife and partner in crime. The police subsequently find these recordings and use them as evidence against him and his co-conspirators.
  • Lila and Chloé unwittingly destroy any chance of being seen as Unwitting Pawns when Catastrophe sends an akumatizing butterfly into their holding center. The girls eagerly chase after and fight each other for it, with the whole thing being witnessed and Caught on Tape.
  • During the final assault on Paris, Adrien and Felix are tied up inside the Doomsday Tank as hostages. This backfires against them when Felix apologizes to Adrien and slips him a ring, enabling Hawkbug to turn Adrien into her Champion Shockwave. Catastrophe even protests that her tank should have been invulnerable to everything short of internal electrical failure... which their hostages was perfectly situated to cause.
• The Wolves in the Woods:
  • Lila's Celebrity Lies come back to haunt her when her classmates assume that she'll use her connections to help them out. Lila breaks down crying as she realizes that she's effectively become their new Marinette: expected to provide everything they demand with the threat of being cast aside and turned upon the moment she doesn't deliver hanging over her head.
    Lila: I told them I knew Clara Nightingale. I told them I knew Jagged Stone and Prince Ali. Please tell me what part of that means 'I'll do you these favors for free'?! Are they going to turn on me too?! Just like Marinette?! Am I just their wish-granter? Do they even see anyone as a friend?!
  • Alya's Moral Myopia spurs her to assault Ben in front of several witnesses, including Ms. Mendeleiev. Unlike her own homeroom teacher, Mendeleiev doesn't simply ignore the attack; when Alya refuses to stop, she calls her mother, letting Marlene hear exactly what her daughter is saying and getting her into serious trouble.
    • This gets Alya into further trouble when she tries to rope the rest of her classmates into her plans to maliciously slander Marinette's new friends at St. Catherine's. All of the information she presents, along with her Lack of Empathy, makes Nino and the others incredibly uncomfortable with what she's suggesting, and her pitch is Caught on Tape, with her sister Nora giving it to their parents.
  • Ms. Bustier's decision to lead most of her class to march on the Dupain-Cheng bakery in hopes of harassing Marinette into doing what they demand results in her being hit with a lawsuit, her questionable teaching methods exposed to public scrutiny, and getting her license revoked.
  • Adrien keeps trying to cover for Lila during the trial; as a result, when the truth comes out, he's charged with perjury. On top of this, Nathalie ensures that his father hears his full testimony, and Gabriel is not pleased with his son's behavior, yanking him out of Francoise Dupont and returning him to homeschooling under heavy monitoring.
  • Chat Noir throws a fit when the Iberian Holders introduce themselves, as he dislikes Ladybug having other heroes to turn to that aren't him. Trying to assault one of the new arrivals lands him on the wrong end of a Curb-Stomp Battle and results in Ladybug learning his secret identity, much to her horror and disgust.
  • All of Adrien's selfish behavior as Chat Noir results in his reputation being ruined when Nadja runs an exhaustive expose revealing and recounting all of his misdeeds to the public.
• The Recursive Fanfiction for The Lament Series (ChaoticNeutral) Your Wish is my Command sees Lila use the Wish to have Adrien's life. She wakes up in a reality where her own mother married Gabriel instead of Emilie. At first, she delights over her new luxurious bedroom and her photos in ads all over the city. But she soon finds out that while Gabriel as an ally was enabling of her in the past life, Gabriel as a father is very controlling and less forgiving of her behavior, micromanaging her life so that she cannot weasel out of studying at school, and cracking down on her whenever she tries her old tricks. Plus, she doesn’t have the class fawning over her, and they in fact start to avoid her after she pushes the New Transfer Student too far and causes him to be akumatized. So instead of lazing in luxury and coasting through life, she now has voided her Karma Houdini Warranty and trapped herself in Adrien’s Gilded Cage with a Missing Mom, while Adrien himself is living happily with his mom, aunt, and cousin.
• In this post, Lila spikes Marinette's drink, hoping she'll embarrass herself while drunk. Marinette proceeds to topple Lila's entire mini-empire at Dupont courtesy of her lacking any filter or inhibitions.
• Lila's desire for attention proves her undoing in this untitled oneshot when she claims to have pointed Alya's parents towards the designer who made the beautiful dress they'd gotten for their daughter's birthday. Her brazenly claiming the credit right in front of Alya's parents (who had commissioned Marinette for it) infuriates them both, putting a swift end to the party as they confront her and Alya about the lie.
• In this colaborative work, Adrien intentionally misrepresents a confrontation where Marinette had slapped him in order to paint himself as the victim. Unfortunately for him, Felix witnessed the incident... and when Adrien continues attempting to throw her under the bus in order to save himself, Marinette repeats what he'd said to her after the Chameleon incident. Namely, how he'd stated that "She's a liar, I know." This leaves much of the class convinced that he'd manipulated Marinette by pretending to be on her side, as Lila leaps at the chance to present herself as the victim of his Malicious Slander. Adrien thus finds most of the class is now pissed off at him for lying, unaware of just what he's really been lying about.

My Hero Academia

• Throughout Cain, Katsuki keeps trying to get Izuku in trouble with every authority figure he can appeal to. All he accomplishes with his efforts is revealing his true colors, which keeps getting him in trouble with most of these authority figures.
  • At one point, while helping clean up the beach, Katsuki attempts to cause a landslide of garbage in hopes of burying Izuku beneath it. The only one who gets injured is Katsuki himself.
• Death Daggers: A Smug Snake possesses an emotional manipulation Quirk that lets him paralyze anyone overwhelmed by the emotion he's projecting. This can be countered if the target feels another emotion that's stronger than what he's attempting to make them feel. He favors despair; however, when he brags to Izuku and his friends that he's going to use his father's connections to ruin their lives and their families, his would-be victims are overcome with rage instead... rage that not only protects them from his powers but leads to fatal consequences.
• Monoma suffers this twice during the joint training exercises between Class 1-A and 1-B in Deku? I think he's some pro...:
  • When Tokoyami chooses to fight Monoma, Monoma tries to copy his Quirk, only for his incarnation of Dark Shadow to buck and attack everyone indiscriminately (including Monoma himself) like a wild animal. Since Tokoyami's Shadow is much tamer and more obedient, it pins Monoma down and wins him the match.
  • Monoma picks Izuku as his opponent when he discovers that he was the fifth recommendation student, thinking that he must have a powerful Quirk that he intends to copy. Izuku offers him a chance to copy someone else's Quirk before the fight, but Monoma declines, thinking he is being boastful. He manages to reach Deku and touches him, but his recklessness and the shock of realizing Izuku is Quirkless leave him wide open and unable to fight back when Izuku just pins him to the ground.
• Erased Potential:
  • During the USJ assault, Shigaraki decides to taunt Izuku by disintegrating his equipment. Specifically, he targets his eskrima rods. This turns out to have been a phenomenally bad idea, as the disintegration causes them to blow up in his hands.
  • With concerns rising after the USJ incident, Nedzu decides to hire Midoriya Inko to serve as a liaison between U.A. and the parents and guardians of his charges. He clearly intends for this to be a largely ceremonial role, only to find that his new employee takes their job very seriously. They soon make clear that he can either make some critical changes to protect his students and staff, such as making the Sports Festival a private event rather than broadcasting it for the whole world — and villains — to see, or prepare for a PR nightmare.
• Failure to Explode:
  • The staff at Aldera Middle School coddled Katsuki for years, letting him parade around like a Big Jerk on Campus and enabling all his bad behavior in hopes that once he made it big, he'd shill the school by crediting it for all his success. Since he'd constantly gotten his way at Aldera, he arrogantly assumed that he'd make it into his dream school, only applying to U.A.'s Hero Course. When he subsequently fails to pass the Entrance Exam's Secret Test of Character, he has nothing to fall back upon — no backup plans at all, forcing him to attend the only school he didn't have to submit any applications to: Aldera High. Meaning the district now has to deal with the Spoiled Brat they spent all that time enabling as he copes with an unpleasant reality check, along with all his accompanying issues.
  • Making matters worse, Izuku did make it in — meaning that their most 'successful alumni' they've produced was a victim of years of unchecked bullying, giving him absolutely no reason to promote his old school. In fact, the staff are terrified of him telling anyone about his experiences there, as his remarks are likely to be less than complimentary...
• In Fear No Evil, All for One willingly worked with Humarise by giving them funding and helping them avoid legal detection because it deeply angered All Might and they would give their quirks to him to "purify" themselves. Humarise then kidnaps his son Izuku, using the very same power he provided them with to smuggle Izuku out of the country.
• In Heaven's Eye, Monoma copies Aoyama's navel laser during the Sports Festival. Without Aoyama's special belt, Monoma only manages a cloud-like emission rather than a focused laser. When he tries to force it for several seconds, the backlash causes Monoma to soil himself.
• Mastermind: Strategist for Hire: During his fight against Overhaul, Mastermind stabs him with a knife coated in his own Quirk-erasing drug, rendering him Quirkless and ultimately leading to his death.
• Mean Rabbit: As usual, Katsuki ignores All Might's orders and uses one of his gauntlets to try and blow Izuku up during their first training exercise, sneering that he'll be fine if he dodges. Izuku does — and proceeds to dart in and pull the pin out of his other gauntlet. Katsuki isn't able to react before it goes off, exploding around his arm.
• The Personality Swap AU series plays this for laughs. Aizawa chooses Izuku's impersonation assignments mostly by what will unsettle and upset his coworkers the most. Much to the amusement of his targets, several assignments end up upsetting Aizawa himself more than his coworkers, with special mention going to the Recovery Girl impersonation. When Aizawa's actions inspire Nezu to give Izuku impersonation prompts like Mirko and Ms. Joke, all the rest of the staff can do is laugh at Aizawa's misery.
• In The Scorpion Jar, Izuku ensures that Bakugou and everyone else who mistreated him at Aldera gets brought down by quietly gathering evidence of their various crimes and misdeeds. Katsuki seals his own fate by threatening him while Izuku is secretly recording the whole exchange, and he sets several of the bullies against each other, having them gather dirt on their rivals and give it to him in exchange for test answers.
• Sleeper Hit AU: Bakugou's utter refusal to see anything wrong with how he treated Midoriya bites him HARD during their climactic confrontation.
  • Firstly, there's the fact that he's crashing his meet-up with Kirishima and a handful of others in the first place. Bakugou certainly wasn't invited to Dagobah Beach, and shows up entirely of his own accord — and unlike the others, who came in casual wear, he's in full hero attire, hinting at his hostile intentions.
  • He then goes on a blistering Motive Rant where he blames Deku for all his problems, even declaring that he wishes Izuku had broken after being expelled and taken his advice... because while he may not have meant it at the time, now he sincerely wishes that Midoriya had killed himself back then and stopped 'getting in his way'.
  • Then he attacks him, bringing the full force of his powers against his fellow Pro — and this, along with the rest of their confrontation, is all caught on video thanks to Aizawa, ensuring that he won't be able to escape the consequences of his actions.
  • On top of all of this, the fact that he openly admits to bullying Izuku without the slightest hint of remorse or shame costs him Kirishima's regard, as he drops his 'Bakubro' nickname and reminds him of Shigaraki's declaration that he was more villain than hero.
• In Supporting a Hero, Shigaraki accidentally kills himself when he has a tantrum and slaps his hand to his chest, triggering his Decay Quirk.
• Think Before You Speak:
  • Since Nedzu won't let him expel Midoriya or anyone else in his class, Aizawa attempts to circumvent the principal by ruining Midoriya's reputation, falsely blaming him for Tenya being injured in a training exercise. He expects Midoriya to be Convicted by Public Opinion; instead, public opinion turns against him and Tensei instead, as the majority are appalled at adults attempting to throw a student under the bus.
  • Tensei's complaints to the media wind up doing more damage to his own reputation than it does to his target.
• Whispered Tribulation:
  • Aizawa goes behind Nedzu's back and brings Toshinori in to speak to Izuku while he's in solitary confinement, hoping that the boy's Hero Worship will get him to 'confess his crimes'. Toshinori is not appraised of the situation beforehand, and when he sees Izuku, takes the opportunity to apologize for what he said on the roof and reassure him that he can become a hero. Once he learns what's happening, he reams Aizawa out for accosting an innocent student based on Contrived Coincidences. So Aizawa's scheme puts more people in Izuku's corner while putting him further on the back foot.
  • Katsuki manages to completely shred his own Karma Houdini Warranty when he goes after Izuku, ranting about how he's going to beat the hell out of him for daring to come to U.A., even though he's 'only' in the General Education course. His ranting is Caught on Tape, leading to his prompt expulsion and blacklisting from any Hero Courses.
• With Confidence:
  • Iwamoto encouraged his students' cruelty by outing Midoriya as quirkless, casually commenting on his grades, and turning a blind eye to how they treated him. As a result, his students became so confident and comfortable with bullying that they thought nothing of recording it — so when Iwamoto reveals Midoriya's plans for the future, Izuku is easily able to retrieve evidence of the breach of confidentiality.
  • Along similar lines, Hada Shiro's online activity holds plenty of proof of their misdeeds, ensuring that none of the Hero Schools want to even touch him.
• Yesterday Upon The Stair: In order to protect Izuku from Overhaul, Mirio shoots the latter with his own Quirk-destroying bullets. The perfected ones, no less.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

• Happens to a nameless Griffin Mook in Ace Combat: The Equestrian War. When he tries to bomb Stalliongrad, the pegasi manage to send the bomb he drops back at him, coupled with Derpy knocking the soldier toward the incoming bomb that went off.
  • The sequel mirrors this, with an Exile Pegasus trying to bomb Ponyville. This time, it's Sunburst getting the kill: he delivers a powerful kick to stun the bomber, and then catches the bomb and throws it at his foe (who's already falling out of the sky) to finish him off. There's even a brief cut to the bomber's perspective, as he helplessly watches his own bomb coming at him! And to top it all off, there's Sunburst's Pre-Mortem One-Liner:
    Sunburst: You forgot something! (KABOOM!)
• Alicornundrum: Duke Blueblood is ultimately brought down when Nyx and her friends break into his home and find proof of his conspiracy against the throne, which is enough to horrify his son Prince Blueblood enough to help expose him. And all this only happened because the Duke spread photoshopped pictures of Nyx and her friends in lewd conditions as part of a petty smear campaign.
• The barrier in The Conversion Bureau: The Other Side of the Spectrum does this to the Solar Empire ponies. While it's their main trump card (as they'd have been destroyed within days without it), it's made abundantly clear that the Barrier is, for lack of a better term, screwing them over. Since it destroys everything made by humans, like agriculture, infrastructure, buildings, and the information on how to make those things, the TCB!ponies that are trying to colonize earth are forced to build everything from scratch (for example, they can't use human steel to make railroads since that gets destroyed) while also diverting their resources to the war. And thanks to the massive influx of newfoals, production of food (and virtually everything else) is at an all-time low.
  • Also in this TCB-verse, unicorns can turn human firearms against their shooters. So the PHL puts runes on their guns to make trying... painful.
  • The Fujin missile which took down the Great Equestrian airship was able to do so by absorbing all the magic the TCB!ponies used in a failed attempt to stop it.
  • TCB!Cloudchaser was hit by a poison that works like this — it absorbs any magic in the area and kills the person or pony slowly. Thankfully, Discord saves the day.
• Loved and Lost: Several decisions made by the Big Bad Jewelius end up planting the seeds for his downfall:
  • After Jewelius has most of the injured Royal Guards murdered for their loyalty to the Princesses, he replaces them with criminals whom he has bribed to be loyal to himself. Later on, one of the guards gets too close to the bars of Queen Chrysalis' cell, allowing her to steal his keys and escape.
  • Jewelius tries to escape in his chariot, but fails because the wedding cake toppers he gave Spike to torment the exiled baby dragon are jammed into a wheel by Spike, ejecting Jewelius from the chariot.
  • The same Changelings whom Jewelius betrayed and, following their escape, foolishly ignored in favor of pursuing the heroes return the favor by eating Jewelius alive.
• My Little Mages: The Nightmare's Return: The Diamond Dogs chase the girls into an Ursa Minor's cave, hoping they'll enrage it and it'll kill them. Fluttershy manages to calm it down, and then sic it on the dogs.
  • The Grand Master — Pinkie's father — injects her with Heart's Desire extract in order to bring out her dark side, so she'll join him. Unfortunately for him, said dark side is Cupcakes levels of crazy, and she ends up nearly killing him before he retreats.
• The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: If Sunset Shimmer had waited for the dance, she could have gotten the crown easily. Instead, she has Snips and Snails steal it early, is caught in the act, and banned from the dance.
• In the Pony POV Series, at the climax of the Dark World Series, this is how Nightmare Eclipse/Paradox is ultimately defeated. Twilight copies her time magic and uses it to take advantage of how badly Paradox's "Groundhog Day" Loop plan has screwed up the timeline to summon the G1, G2, G3, and (pre-Reign of Chaos) G4 Mane Casts in order to use their combined Elements of Harmony to finally defeat Paradox and her Psycho Rangers.
  • She also gets a double dose because her plan of merging with every version of Nightmare Purgatory the moment of their birth results in all the alternate Nightmare Eclipses being linked to her, so her defeat ends up taking all of them with her.
  • Earlier in Dark World, Rancor showed awareness of this trope and avoided it as best she could, refusing to use her Concept Killing Spear in battle with the Elements of Harmony, and later destroys it after using it to steal Destruction's power from Discord, so no one can ever use it against her. That said, her insistence on fighting Dark World!Spike backfires when he figures out how to get around her immunity to violence to actually hurt her.
  • The Dazzlings run on The Power of Hate. For this reason, when they are frozen in Windigo ice, their own power strengthens the ice and stops it from melting.
• In The Rise of Darth Vulcan, Big Boss, a dragon who obtained a massive hoard of gems by enslaving and abusing the Diamond Dogs, is defeated when the title character uses his magic to form talons from the gems and metals of that very hoard, grabs him, and smashes him around repeatedly with them. And then, Vulcan seals his mouth and nostrils shut with that treasure, causing the backfire that blows Big Boss' head off.
• Shorn: The Order of Harmony demands that anyone seeking to access their stores of knowledge must shave their mane and tail and present themselves as a humble supplicant. Even the Princesses were forced to do so ages before... which, Celestia eventually realizes, gives her and Luna seniority. So when the current Head goes on a blistering Motive Rant that reveals he only wants them to submit to his will as part of a personal ego trip, she responds by pulling rank and declaring that things WILL change in how the Order is run... including all of their archives becoming public access, copied and spread throughout the lands.

Naruto

• Androgyninja's A Drop of Poison: Ino suffers this twice during her preliminary match with Sakura.
  • Firstly, she's more interested in breaking Sakura down and humiliating her; when she attempts a slap, Sakura brings up a senbon, letting the momentum from Ino's swing drive the needle deep into her own palm. Not only does this hurt like hell, the poison that's coating said needle comes back to haunt Ino later.
  • Secondly, when she manages to Mind Transfer into Sakura, she continues dragging things out while mocking her helplessness, riling her up enough that Sakura is able to force her out of her head before Ino can force her to concede.
• Shikamaru's match with Tenten goes this way in A Drop of Poison. Tenten immediately opens with her best technique which involves throwing massive numbers of weapons at her enemy then, if they dodge, pulling the weapons back with the wires attached to them and throwing again. Unfortunately for her, each of those wires casts a shadow, which leads directly to her own shadow. As Shikamaru explained, once that happened, he just needed to grab one of her weapons to make her bring one to her throat. It didn't help that because she leaps high into the air, she injures her legs upon landing since she can only mimic Shikamaru's movements.
• Escape From The Hokage's Hat: The Third Hokage forbade anyone from revealing that Naruto has the Kyuubi sealed inside of him. While this was intended to protect him, the adults in Konoha worked around this, turning him into a pariah by warning their children away from him without explaining why. When Ino and Chouji finally confront their parents, the law prevents them from sharing the truth; as a result, they look as though they were just being hateful pricks to an orphan without reason, straining their relationships with their children.
• Ffreire's NaruFox AU:
  • In this universe, certain bloodlines have Little Bit Beastly traits; in Suna, such people are revered, so Rasa married Karura in order to exploit her high status. Once it became clear that Gaara was an exceptionally powerful tanuki, he schemed to exploit his son's power... but when the people of Suna learned about his plans, they revolted, and Rasa wound up dying in prison.
  • During Gaara and Lee's preliminary match during the Chuunin Exams, Lee winds up doing much more damage to himself with the Gates than Gaara does to him.
• During the fiancé arc of A Growing Affection, Hinata's grandfather Hyouta uses the Hyuga Clan's laws and traditions to try to break up Naruto and Hinata. When he thinks he has won, he says the wrong thing, and those same laws get turned on him. The result is Hyouta getting curb-stomped by Naruto, and then losing his power and status.
• The Kakashi Way:
  • Danzo meddled heavily in Sasuke's life, masterminding the massacre of his clan and ensuring he never got psychological support after the tragedy, aiming to mold him into an avenger hellbent on achieving his goals at any cost. Many years later, Sasuke has become an adult, now fully aware of what Danzo did... and powerful enough to accidentally pull a Peggy Sue. Upon realizing what's happened, Sasuke promptly decides to kick Danzo's butt and expose his treachery then and there.
  • Danzo giving himself a Healing Factor also contributes to his downfall; when Sasuke dumps him outside the hospital after ripping off his right arm, the staff are naturally alarmed... and even more alarmed when his arm starts regenerating while they're attempting to stabilize him, alerting them to the fact that something is deeply wrong.
  • Despite knowing just how screwed he'd be if anyone ever discovered hard evidence of his scheming, and being careful to censor the publicly accessible records, Danzo also kept private records that extensively chronicled everything he'd done, apparently because he enjoyed reviewing his crimes and was arrogant enough to believe nobody would ever be able to access his collection. Naturally, this provides massive amounts of evidence upon their inevitable discovery.
• Early in Son of the Sannin, Naruto teaches Sakura, Hinata, and Karin how to perform Tsunade's strength-enhancing technique when they were all in the academy. Both Sakura and Hinata end up using it against him when they face him in the Chunin Exams.
• In Vapors, Deidara accidentally drops some of his explosive clay on himself when Aiko closes the distance before he can blink. When he detonates all of his clay as a distraction to escape, the bit he'd dropped in his own lap blows his leg half-off.
• Your Heart a Haven of Thorns: During his preliminary match with Sakura, Kabuto "heals" her throat in such a way that temporarily disables her vocal cords, rendering her unable to call for help. He then toys with her, pressing the offensive whenever she attempts to yell anyway. Picking up on this pattern, Sakura exploits this, feigning another attempt to call for help that lures him in right before she flares her chakra — something she doesn't actually know how to do, and is only attempting because he cut off her ability to speak. Cue Achievements in Ignorance as Sakura accidentally punches a hole clear through his chest, taking Kabuto down without actually intending to, with a move she never would have tried otherwise.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

• Advice and Trust: Ritsuko orders Shinji and Asuka to start spending more time with Rei, hoping that they help Rei to raise her synch scores. However, the result is that Shinji and Asuka are learning things about Rei that neither Ritsuko nor Gendo want them knowing. Even worse, they have helped Rei to become self-reliant and have bonded with her, and now she questions Gendo's will, trusts Shinji and Asuka more than she trusts him, and is willing to disobey his orders.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide: Kluge forms an alliance with the Emerald Tablet, a rogue A.I. to help him and SEELE bring down NERV and cause Instrumentality. After getting inside the Geofront with Kluge's help, the Tablet quickly concludes that Kluge has outlived his usefulness and kills him.

Odd Squad

• In All Mixed Up!, Mariana Mag is turned into her own personalized anagrammed object by her beam hitting Otto's mirror instead of him and sending it right back to her.

One Piece

• This Bites!: Spandam had a black book of all missions carried out by CP9 while under his control, liking to review what he considered his achievements. Then the Straw Hat Pirates and their allies attacked Enies Lobby to rescue Nico Robin, Cross found the black book... and proceeded to read it aloud through the SBS, telling the entire world about it all. An eight percent of the World Government's nations swiftly turn Revolutionary, another twelve percent rise up in arms against it, thousands of Marines resign, and Spandam gets thoroughly punished by a completely incandescent Sengoku.

The Owl House

• The Forbidden Drink: During the Final Battle, Luz makes a point of using some of the glyph combos she learned from Belos' old journal against him.

Pokémon

• The Legend of Hunter A revolves around Hunter J kidnapping Ash as a baby and raising him to be her heir, including using a gun to petrify Pokemon as in the canon. Guess how the bounty hunter meets her downfall when confronting her tyke bomb when it was defused. If you guessed by being turned to stone by the same gun she uses to steal other people's Pokemon, then you are correct.

RWBY

• The NSFW fanfic The Man of Their Dreams has Salem use Sex Magic to give every woman in Beacon an Erotic Dream of Jaune Arc (he had the best Aura, making him ideal for her purposes). The plan was that they would descend into jealousy and anarchy, allowing her to pick them apart at her leisure. Not only does she end up falling for Jaune, he also somehow manages to unite all these girls (including Salem's own female minions who happened to be in range, and whom Salem included for her own amusement) into an invincible army, defeating Salem and forcing her to the negotiating table. She is rather sulky at the end.
  It turned out that taking the brightest talents of the entire world's Huntresses and making them fall in love with the same man, when it didn't end in the apocalyptic catfight that really should have happened, made the most militarily skilled harem the world had ever seen, backed up with not one, but two traitors from her faction. It was a savage seraglio that left Salem's faction suddenly outgunned and overwhelmed as an army of women driven by love and mutual support and some kind of Semblance bullshit effortlessly kicked through her castle and brought her back to Vale.
• Subverted in Pyrrha(c) Victory. One of the characters buys the equivalent of a love potion, intending to use it on the boy she likes...and eventually decides not to, reasoning that it would be wrong, and that it probably wouldn't work anyway. Despite this, she trips and accidentally doses herself with it. Moral of the story? Illegal substances are nobody's friend.

Sherlock Holmes

• Mortality: Most likely Moran gets killed by either Holmes or Watson after Moran tries to kill the former.

The Smurfs

• The Smurfs That Canon Forgot: Gargamel lost an ear to one of his own inventions.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022)

• In Shadow of Memory, Commander Walters thinks Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles could still be a valuable asset, and so works out a deal that grants extraterrestrials citizenship on Earth. Great...except according to the wording of the deal, Shadow is entitled to citizenship as well and is therefore out of G.U.N.'s jurisdiction. As is Rouge.

Spy X Family

• In the NSFW douijin Spy x Sex, it happens to both Yuri and Loid. Jealous that Loid married Yor, Yuri hid several microphones in the Forgers' apartment to gather evidence that Loid is a bad husband and use it to have a legitimate excuse to have him executed, while Loid is more concerned Yuri's trying to expose him as Twilight. Since he can't destroy Yuri's microphones or use Frankie's jammer without blowing his cover, Loid activates the jamming device when he asks Yor to sleep with him (Loid assumed Yuri would freak out, turn off his receiver, and then blame the jamming on equipment failure), explaining to her that it's strange for a married couple to not have such relations, but Yor gets scared and locks herself in her room. When Loid tries to apologize for pressuring her to have sex because a breakup would jeopardize Operation Strix, Yor allows him into her room and he sees her wearing sexy lingerie, and she explains that Camilla told her he would leave her if he felt sexually unsatisfied and they share Their First Time together as a married couple. However, in the end, both men get more than they bargained for. After Loid notices the jammer had run out of power, Yuri is shown crying inconsolably after listening to his beloved older sister having sex with her husband, and the narrating text says he couldn't go to work the next day. When Loid decides to call it an evening and go back to his room, since he was ready for just a romp or two, Yor pins him down on the bed and makes him keep going for the whole night, and the narrating text mentions he too wasn't able to go to work the next day.
• In the NSFW douijin What's Yor's, after Loid tucks Anya in and she goes to sleep, he goes into his bedroom and finds Yor naked and waiting for him. After they finish having sex, she says "I love you," and immediately covers her mouth in regret only for Loid to tell Yor he's glad she's the woman he chose to start a family with and he also says "I love you" to her. After Loid dozes off, she gets up and goes to the bathroom, where Fiona/Nightfall removes her makeup, wig, and contact lenses, gets dressed, and leaves the Forgers' apartment. Outside the apartment building in the middle of the night, she sees Yor, wearing a trench coat over her Thorn Princess outfit, running home. Realizing that her scheme to get close enough to Loid/Twilight to embrace and make love to him only ended up driving him further into the arms of her romantic rival, Fiona bitterly says "you're welcome" to Yor when they cross paths, and while the latter stands there bewildered, Fiona sadly walks away in defeat.

Star Trek

• In The Prodigal Daughter, Section 31’s agent in the Starfleet Justice Department arranges for Marla Gilmore to receive her discharge from Starfleet as her sentence for her role in the events on the Equinox so that nobody will look for her after she's abducted by Section 31. However, after she's rescued by Voyager, that same judge is unable to have Marla transferred to a psychiatric hospital as Captain Janeway and Doctor Bashir each observe that Marla currently isn’t a member of Starfleet, meaning he now has no legal authority to take her anywhere.
• One Star Trek: The Next Generation Fan Fic involving Q creating a second Jean Luc seems to be written just to conclude with Data telling him "I'd say you were hoist by your own Picard."

Star vs. the Forces of Evil

• Queens of Mewni: Nixie the Queen Poisoner got her name from poisoning her sister, Queen Hemera, as well as herself and their husbands. The motive for this drastic action was born years ago, when Nixie developed a crush on a new squire, Roman Fields, but was too nervous to approach him herself, so she asked her big sister to talk to him for her. Hemera promised to help and got close to Roman to get to know him. Unfortunately, the more time they spent together, the more Hemera started developing romantic feelings for Roman as well. She kept trying to get her sister to talk to Roman, but Nixie kept refusing and pushed her sister to keep spending time with him on her behalf, which, of course, pushed them closer together. By the time Nixie finally got over her nerves and decided to approach Roman herself, he had already fallen in love with Hemera, whom he had spent months getting to know. Nixie caught him kissing her sister, who had only summoned him to set up an accidental meeting between him and Nixie, who was furious and never forgave Hemera for “stealing” him. It certainly didn’t help her grudge that Hemera continued seeing Roman, with whom she was too in love to turn away, and eventually married and had a daughter with him. You could say Hemera had her share of blame for the whole mess, but the whole mess could have been avoided in the first place if Nixie hadn’t let her insecurities get in the way and approached Roman sooner.

Star Wars

• Implied in Sibling Revelry, where Imperial Intelligence Agent Barrows tries to save his own skin by delegating the task of bringing bad news to Vader to his subordinate. The subordinate does it to another lower-ranked agent, who repeats this process until one of them decides to use a mouse droid to bring the report to the Dark Lord. The droid then (deliberately) mis-delivers it to Admiral Piett, who reports the mistake (alongside the bad news) to Vader. An irate Vader quickly dispatches Barrows for using mouse droid to deliver confidential information. Given that in a previous chapter, Vader had deliberately isolated himself before reading a separate bad news to avoid killing his bridge officers in a fit of rage, Barrows might have had a better chance of surviving had he delivered the news to Vader himself.
• Supreme Chancellor Obi-Wan Kenobi: Palpatine falsifying scores of Jedi mission briefings to keep Obi-Wan away from Anakin as much as possible (to further cement his own hold over the boy) results in the leaders of every planet Obi-Wan was sent to remembering how he saved them. Dozens of them band together to call for a vote of No Confidence in Palpatine and a second vote to have Obi-Wan instated as Supreme Chancellor (Jedi Council members are technically considered senators). Furthermore, Obi-Wan proves so popular on all the planets he was sent to that within a single month, fifty-five end up defecting from the Separatists because they remember him and know he'll root out the corruption in the senate.

Teen Titans (2003)

• Orange coloured cliffs: The Citadelians inject Starfire with a drug designed to overload her sex drive so she can service as many masters as possible before the overload of energy simply kills her. What the Citadelians didn’t know is that Starfire is Mindlink Mates with Robin and their bond is so strong that once drugged, her heightened desire is expressed through violence, quickly killing anyone she encounters who's not Robin. And just to add insult to injury, Starfire's bloodlust bleeds over to Robin through their bond, making him more efficient at fighting the Citadelians.

Transformers

• Starscream And The Drones: Megatron tires of Starscream's antics getting in the way of the Decepticon cause and decides to replace him with a bunch of mindless drones that do whatever people tell them to. Since the drones are mindless, they have no self-preservation instinct and jump off a cliff to their demise when Starscream orders them to do so.

Worm

• Atonement: Going to Brockton Bay leads to the deaths of everyone in the Nine except Burnscar and Mannequin and the end of the Slaughterhouse Nine as a threat.
• Confrontation (ack1308): Regent's nerve control is well suited to having people defeat themselves. He makes Bakuda fumble a throw with her bombs, which fly too low as a result, bouncing off her windscreen and back into the Jeep. When the explosion clears, there's nothing left but a large hole in the ground.
• A Champion in Earth-Bet: Due to the Avatar's use of fate manipulation, the Simurgh ends up shooting herself with her own Anti Matter Tinker cannon. Which is all the opening the Avatar needs.

Yu-Gi-Oh!

• Happens quite a bit in Arc-Ved Protagonists:
  • In "Coming Right Back": Yugi was able to get Maximum use out of the spell card United We Stand because he was able to fill his entire field with Kuriboh tokens by the effect of kuritablet, which would only do so after Yuya destroyed a monster. Furthermore, because Yuya attacked one last time after that, Yugi had one open space to be filled with Dark Magician (the monster United We Stand was used with) thanks to Eternal Soul.
  • In "Synchro Testing" Yusei would only be able to use the effect of his Synchro Uprising Trap if one of his Synchro monsters was destroyed that turn. Once Yugo used the effect of his Clear Wing Synchro Dragon on Junk Warrior, Yusei was able to play it to allow him to summon Cosmic Blazar Dragon and win the duel.
  • In "Shining Warrior, Dark Dragon", Yuto played Magic Cylinder against Yuma, Which can negate an attack and inflict Damage to his opponent equal to the attack of the monster whom had its attack negated. As an added bonus, Yuma's monster actually had an effect that can take it off the field and dodge the trap card, but because Yuma powered it up with Stoic Challenge, he wasn't allowed to activate that effect, costing him the duel.
  • In "Reluctant Choice", Atticus using the effect of Red-Eyes Wyvern winds up helping Yuri more than it helped him, as without it, there wouldn't have been enough monsters on the field for Yuri to use as Fusion Material on his next turn.
  • In "Dark Fusion", Jaden's strategy to defeat Dennis heavily relied on the fact that Dennis's Pendulum cards were treated as spell cards while in the Pendulum Zone, both to power up his monsters and to get rid of one to stop its effect from getting in the way. To make it even more of this trope, Jaden hadn't even heard of Pendulum Summoning when the duel started or knew anything about Pendulum cards; Jaden only knew this info because Dennis made use of it on his previous turn.

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