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* [[Magneto]] brilliantly pulls 95% of one in ''[[X-Men: Evolution|X-Men Evolution]]'''s Season 2 finale "Day of Reckoning", manipulating four different factions -- the X-Men, the Brotherhood, Bolivar Trask's private army, and his Acolytes in order to: reveal to the world the existence of mutants, out Trask's group and destroy their Sentinel prototype, brand the X-Men as fugitives, and severely drain his enemies' resources. Only one unaccounted-for factor -- [[Scarlet Witch|his daughter, Wanda Maximoff]] -- prevents it from going perfectly.

** Mesmero likes this too. In "Under Lock and Key," he brainwashes Gambit into stealing one half of a spider stone, knowing that Magneto would stop him and capture Mesmero, that Magneto would have Mastermind check his mind for info on the spider, and that they'd find out its identity as a key but ''not'' learn how to use it. (We're starting to edge into [[Gambit Roulette]] territory hereabouts.) Turns out {{spoiler|[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero/Western Animation|uniting the stones would free the spider monster, which only Magnet could defeat. Turns out the monster's a guardian, and with its death, one more of the three doors opened.]]}} Using other people is his favorite tactic, and his best work ''isn't'' via [[Mind Control]].

* In the ''[[~~G.I. Joe (Franchise)|~~G.I. Joe]]'', "Mass Device" story, GI Joes stages a phony internal message telling of their supposed surrender to Cobra, successfully banking on their enemy intercepting it and being fooled by what they are listening in on. As a result, Joe buys itself enough time to hunt down the last of the elements it needs; however, Destro, although fooled himself to a degree, is not taking any chances and proceeds to retrieve the same materials himself.

* In the ''[[G.I. Joe]]'', "Mass Device" story, GI Joes stages a phony internal message telling of their supposed surrender to Cobra, successfully banking on their enemy intercepting it and being fooled by what they are listening in on. As a result, Joe buys itself enough time to hunt down the last of the elements it needs; however, Destro, although fooled himself to a degree, is not taking any chances and proceeds to retrieve the same materials himself.

* ''[[G.I. Joe: Renegades|G.I. Joe Renegades]]'' features James "Soon to Be Destro" McCullen attempting to pull this off by baiting the Joes into attacking Cobra so he can pressure Cobra for a major contract. Backfires horrifically as he ''literally'' [[You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With|did not know who he was dealing with]].

* In the season two finale of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Azula and her two minions dress up as Kyoshi warriors in order to infiltrate Ba Sing Se and get in with the Earth King in order to get information about the current state of affairs in the city. She then has her minions pretend to let slip that they are Fire Nation in front of the Dai Li in order to get them to capture her and bring her before Long Feng (their recently imprisoned leader) so he can blackmail her into helping the Dai Li organise a coup against the Earth King. While organising the Dai Li, she uses her charisma and intimidation to leave them in awe and fear of her. When Long Feng ([[Reliable Traitor|inevitably]]) tries to betray her and finds the Dai Li won't go through with it, she points out that they are intimidated enough of her that they'll just stand back and see what happens, before giving a [[Hannibal Lecture]] to Long Feng which gets him to submit to her. To top it all off, she gets Zuko to help her take on Aang and Katara, by dangling the first actual, tangible opportunity to fulfill his mission and restore his honour. Thus, she with the help of only two warriors (who [[Badass Normal|aren't Benders]]) and her own wits, [[Magnificent Bastard|she manages to achieve in a matter of days what whole armies couldn't in a whole century.]]

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*** To playing pranks on inattentive waiters to screwing with the animal lover's head (but at least she made the bird apologize)...she really loves this trope.

** And let's not forget the second one she pulled. She figured Discord would break out, so she had Twilight Sparkle stay in Ponyville, writing letters to her, explaining what she learned about friendship. When Discord comes and takes over Ponyville, Celestia sends all the letters to Twilight Sparkle in order to snap her out of her [[Heroic BSOD]]. Put simply, it works.

* In one episode of a [[Cartoon Network]] [[No Export for You|Latin American bumper]], ''[[Aquaman and Friends Action Hour]]'', Lex Luthor tries to sabotage [[~~Aquaman (Comic Book)|~~Aquaman]]'s kids show by making [[Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts|an overly complicated scheme]] that will make a tractor, a mortal cobra, and a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|tractor driven by the mortal cobra]] (among other things) suddenly assault the live stage, and activates when Aquaman plays the guitar in an announced singalong. Lex even states that "[[Punctuated for Emphasis|it. cannot. fail]]!". At the end {{spoiler|it fails because Aquaman never actually ''plays'' the guitar and do playback instead. [[Springtime for Hitler|A Janitor at the night, however...]]}}.

* In one episode of a [[Cartoon Network]] [[No Export for You|Latin American bumper]], ''[[Aquaman and Friends Action Hour]]'', Lex Luthor tries to sabotage [[Aquaman]]'s kids show by making [[Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts|an overly complicated scheme]] that will make a tractor, a mortal cobra, and a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|tractor driven by the mortal cobra]] (among other things) suddenly assault the live stage, and activates when Aquaman plays the guitar in an announced singalong. Lex even states that "[[Punctuated for Emphasis|it. cannot. fail]]!". At the end {{spoiler|it fails because Aquaman never actually ''plays'' the guitar and do playback instead. [[Springtime for Hitler|A Janitor at the night, however...]]}}.

* An episode of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes|Jimmy Two Shoes]]'' had {{spoiler|Lucius}} pull off a rather impressive one to prank [[All Bikers Are Hells Angels|The Rodeo Clowns]].

* In [[Spawn]]: The Animated Series, we find out during the third and final season that Al Simmons is the victim of a Batman Gambit by Maleborgia. {{spoiler|Instead of being used to lead hells army, he's actually used as a sperm donor to impregnate Wanda with a demon seed - who'll be the real human general of hells army.}}