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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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* Light Yagami of ''[[Death Note]]'', master of the [[Gambit Roulette]], repeatedly uses this phrase to let Ryuk know that what appears to be an outmaneuvering actually falls in line with his long-term goals. Including the ''very'' memetic moment of him winning the [[Gambit Roulette]] [[Memory Gambit]].
** 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}}.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* This is part of the Tzeentchians' hat in [[Warhammer
** 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 ''[[Nobilis]]''.
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* Possibly as a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Death Note|Kira]], after he has the negative emotion of [[Co-Dragons|Prometheus and Pandora]] [[Emotion Eater|sucked into the]] [[Artifact of Doom|Model Ws]] in the background, awakening them and forming the [[Ouroboros]], Master Albert from ''[[Mega Man ZX]] Advent'' said:
{{quote|''Just as I planned!''}}
* Similar to the ''[[Nobilis]]'' quote above, {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Arthas]]}} of ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' plans himself right into a grave. Spending half the Wrath of the Lich King expansion [[You Have Failed Me...|killing off sub-bosses]] as if they were mooks, until finally {{spoiler|when the players in their 10 or 25 man group face him, claims it was all according to his plan to train and equip the most powerful people in the world so he can kill them and use them as generals in his army.}} Oops.
* In [[Tsukihime]], {{spoiler|Kohaku pretty much says this once it's revealed that she was behind almost the entire plot of the Far Side routes.}}
{{quote|{{spoiler|''That's right. All of it was something I wished would happen, Shiki-san.''}}}}
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* [[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]: '' "The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne" '', when Bruce Wayne is chained and Alfred is tied in Doctor Strange's basement:
{{quote|'''Alfred:''' Oh master Bruce! I am so sorry, this [[It's All My Fault]]!
'''[[The Chessmaster|Bruce Wayne:]]''' Nonsense Alfred, believe or not, this is working out, just as I planned
'''[[Servile Snarker|Alfred:]]''' How reasuring! }}
* In ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'' "[[The Legend of Korra/Recap/B1/E06 And the Winner Is...|And the Winner Is...]]", when [[The Dragon|The Lieutenant]] tells [[Big Bad|Amon]] that the city is defying his threat.
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