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{{trope}}
{{quote|I defeated his minions, and he cackled and said, "Exactly as I planned."
I discovered his secret fortress. "Exactly as I planned."
I breached his defenses, and still he said, "Exactly as I planned."
I slew him in single combat, and with his dying breath he gasped, "Exactly as I planned."
I stood over his grave and I said, "You never really got the hang of planning, did you?"|Rebecca Borgstrom, ''[[
Uh-oh, looks there's trouble for our beloved villain (Or [[Guile Hero]]). The heroes destroyed his [[Phlebotinum]] research facility, the government realized that the man they thought was president was actually an evil robotic duplicate, and his entire accounting staff has just turned into mimes. What's his response?
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''[[Cheshire Cat Grin|Excellent.]]'' Everything is going according to plan.
That one little phrase in its various forms - "'''All According to Plan'''", "[[Exactly As Planned]]", "[[Just As Planned]]", and others - is all it takes to cause even the most monumental apparent loss to be completely turned on its head. Was the villain [[Crazy Prepared]] enough to insure that even his failure [[Xanatos Gambit|somehow turns into a victory]]? Did he prepare a plan only just incompetent enough that the heroes could [[Batman Gambit|predictably defeat him]]? Or was [[The Plan]] something else entirely?
Well, we're not going to find out anytime soon. In all likelihood he's relying on the [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]] to catch everyone off guard so that we can [[You Can't Thwart Stage One|proceed to the real plot]]. Stay tuned next week for the exciting new development!
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In terms of writing, this is a relatively meta trope in that in most cases it's technically irrelevant. Regardless of whether anyone actually says the phrase, whatever gambits are floating around are still floating around. This is because the phrase is used primarily as re-assurance- either for the audience, or other characters. Strictly speaking it can be used with plans that as far as anyone can tell are ''already'' going as planned- it's just a status update so that we only ever worry when people stop saying it.
At the same time, WATCH OUT FOR [[Spanner in
'''Since complex schemes are often involved in this trope, be wary of spoilers.'''
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Light Yagami of ''[[
** Light also thinks a phrase very close to this one [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825181155/http://www.mangaeden.com/en-manga/death-note/102/6/ during the final showdown], after {{spoiler|Near explains his plan to prove that Light is Kira. Of course, things [[Out-Gambitted|don't go according to plan]] for him...}} There aren't any spoilers on the page linked to above, but no promises if you look at any of the other pages in that chapter.
* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', [[Manipulative Bastard|Gendo Ikari]] (along with his right-hand man, Fuyutsuki) and the members of [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness|SEELE]] were fond of saying things were going "all according to the scenario." Should be noted that they were ultimately pulling for different scenarios, but no matter what, whatever happened was ''always'' according to the scenario, or at the very least irrelevant to it.
** Their differing scenarios were only divergent at the end, so it makes sense. At the point where something went according to Gendo's scenario that was NOT according to SEELE's scenario, {{spoiler|SEELE sent in the JSSDF to kill every single last person at NERV HQ}}.
* Just like with Gendo and Kira, his forebears, [[Code Geass
** Unfortunately for Lelouch, that line is roughly his version of "What could possibly go wrong" in that the [[Spanner in
* ''[[
* ''[[
== Film ==
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* In the ''[[Dollhouse]]'' episode "Needs," Adelle DeWitt uses a somewhat different phrase to give the same effect:
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'''DeWitt:''' ''(smiles)'' "...Right on schedule." }}
* In the season six finale of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', three senior members of the ''Voyager'''s crew (including Captain Janeway) beam over to a Borg ship. After infiltrating it, they are eventually caught and assimilated. The crew on the ship has been monitoring their life signs, and they detect the assimilation of the three. Commander Chakotay's response?
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* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. The Mayor (the [[Big Bad]] for Season 3) is more [[Genre Savvy]] on this. [[The Dragon|Faith]] is eager for some action and asks her boss if there's likely to be any fighting. The Mayor replies no, not if everything goes according to plan "but since when do things go according to plan?"
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* This is part of the Tzeentchians' hat in [[Warhammer 40
** Recently, Games Workshop has hinted that the failure of all thirteen Black Crusades, which has given Abaddon the Despoiler a reputation as a [[General Failure]], were actually this trope. How better to gauge your enemy's strength over the millennia?
* This trope is played with in one of the margin-quotes from ''[[
== Video Games ==
* Possibly as a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Death Note
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* Similar to the ''[[
* In [[
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* Ocelot in nearly every Metal Gear Game he appears in.
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* Subverted in the ''[[Errant Story]]'' strip "[http://www.errantstory.com/ Nick of Time]":
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{{spoiler|'''Sarine''':}} -I mean, ''just as planned''. }}
* Used a lot in ''[[
* ''The Prime of Ambition'' [[Christmas Episode]] filler had this [http://jaadrih.comicgenesis.com/d/20101225.html twice in a row]. Oh, well...
* [[Homestuck]]: John meets the ghost of Meenah, a troll girl {{spoiler|who is an alternate-universe counterpart of the Condesce}}. When she finds out she's dead, she exclaims happily that her plan worked. {{spoiler|Turned out her plan was to kill herself and the rest of her session's players with a bomb to avoid oblivion when the Scratch happened.}}
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== Web Original ==
* Referenced in the [[
== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Codename
* [[Batman: The Animated Series
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'''[[The Chessmaster|Bruce Wayne:]]''' Nonsense Alfred, believe or not, this is working out, just as I planned
'''[[Servile Snarker|Alfred:]]''' How reasuring! }}
* In ''[[
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'''[[The Chessmaster|Amon:]]''' Perfect. Everything is going according to plan. }}
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