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** Twice in series 5, {{spoiler|the freakin' ''Daleks''}} pull one on {{spoiler|the Doctor}}.
*** First, in {{spoiler|"Victory of the Daleks", they let him declare himself as the Doctor and identified his enemies. This was exactly what the Daleks wanted, as their Progenator wouldn't recognize their spoiled DNA. They needed their oldest and most powerful enemy to tell the Progenator who they were, setting off the creation of a new bigger, badder, and [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|technicolor]] Dalek race. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]...}}
*** Then, in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31
** In series 6, the Doctor defeats the Silence by {{spoiler|scattering his allies, building a prison and cloaking the TARDIS, all to get a Silent to say ''one phrase''}}.
* The Argentinian series ''[[Los Simuladores]]'' is entirely about pulling Batman Gambits on unsuspecting people to make them change somehow or right a wrong. One episode, for example, features a faked bank robbery meant to delay the purchase of a bank, while another involves staging a date with a [[Paul McCartney]] impostor in order to bring up her self-esteem and make her more socially active.
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'''Nathan Ford:''' Yeah, that's a stretch. }}
** One episode revolves around the team working with Nate's ex-wife, Maggie. She points out a flaw in his plan: you can't just ''make'' people do what you want them to. The team reacts with surprise, horror, and amusement to this revelation.
* Spike of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' uses this to good effect in the episode "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S4
** YMMV on whether it counts as "ingenious" - the fight lasted less than an episode, and directly led them to the idea which helped them destroy the season's [[Big Bad]]. If it was a [[Batman Gambit]], it wasn't a very good one.
*** The fight only ended so quickly because [[Gone Horribly Right|Spike realised that if they weren't talking, Willow wouldn't decode the]] [[MacGuffin]] [[Gone Horribly Right|for the team]] and so he had to remind her to do it, which led to the gang talking, which led to them figuring out that Spike had been manipulating them the whole time. [[For Want of a Nail|If Spike and Adam had given it a little more thought, it would have worked perfectly.]]
** Giles pulls one on Buffy in "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S3
* Todd Gack from ''[[Seinfeld]]'' has figured out a "dating loophole" where he makes a bet with a woman about something he knows isn't true, offering to treat her to dinner if he loses. This allows him to essentially go on as many dates as he wants without ever having to actually ask any women out.
** Attempted by Jerry and George to switch Jerry's girlfriend with her roommate by offending her by suggesting a mengé á trios. It all blows up in their faces when it turns out {{spoiler|the girlfriend and roommate were both "into it."}}
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