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As written, just seems to be Evil Plan. Might be Batman Gambit as well but as written it seems fairly straightforward.
Edited by Larkmarn Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Batman Gambit is often confused. It means a plan that relies on a specific prediction about the behavior of the victims/dupes, based on knowledge of their psychology/patterns. It fails if they don't behave as predicted.
Evil Plan is one of those supertropes that's almost a qualifier for omnipresence. The example given above is little more than a summary of the plot.
Edited by Fighteer "It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"A lot of Evil Plan examples are former examples of Xanatos Gambit that did misuse it and were changed to Evil Plan as the better trope.
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Is it an Evil Plan or a Batman Gambit?