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I stood over his grave and I said, "You never really got the hang of planning, did you?"|Rebecca Borgstrom, ''[[Nobilis]]''}}

* In the ''[[Dollhouse]]'' episode "Needs," Adelle DeWitt uses a somewhat different phrase to give the same effect:

'''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?

* ''[[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?"

* 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:

* 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.}}

* Ocelot in nearly every Metal Gear Game he appears in.

* Subverted in the ''[[Errant Story]]'' strip "[http://www.errantstory.com/ Nick of Time]":

{{spoiler|'''Sarine''':}} -I mean, ''just as planned''. }}

* Used a lot in ''[[Touhou Nekokayou]]''. It even got inverted in one of the newer strips.

* In ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' that Cree says this when modifying the garbage disposal rocket she was inside to fly towards the KND Moonbase.

* [[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:

'''[[The Chessmaster|Bruce Wayne:]]''' Nonsense Alfred, believe or not, this is working out, just as I planned<br />

'''[[Servile Snarker|Alfred:]]''' How reasuring! }}

* In ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'' "[[The Legend of Korra/Recap/S1 E6 And the Winner Is|And the Winner Is...]]", when [[The Dragon|The Lieutenant]] tells [[Big Bad|Amon]] that the city is defying his threat.

'''[[The Chessmaster|Amon:]]''' Perfect. Everything is going according to plan. }}