The TVTropes Trope Finder is where you can come to ask questions like "Do we have this one?" and "What's the trope about...?" Trying to rediscover a long lost show or other medium but need a little help? Head to Media Finder and try your luck there. Want to propose a new trope? You should be over at You Know, That Thing Where.
MetaFour
MOD
(Old Master)
Miss_Desperado
Since: Sep, 2016
16th Apr, 2018 10:13:07 AM
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
A conspiracy that gets hijacked by new members.
Alice the Bomb Throwing Anarchist is cooking up an evil plot such as the Conspicuously Public Assassination of a politician. Bob hears of the plot... and hijacks it for his own purposes, by making a senator opposing him as the target. Charlie hears of the plot, and blackmails them into using assassins from country X as he wants to start a war there. Daniel hears of the plot, and arranges for the bodyguards to be hired by his brother-in-law's security firm to bankrupt him. Ed hears of the plot, and arranges for the assassination to be carried out in his rival's city (Ed is the mayor and it's election year). At some point Alice has a Moral Myopia-fueled Villainous Breakdown over what was going to be a noble and heroic act being reduced to mere crime by self-interested monsters.