Beat Them At Their Own Game: Difference between revisions

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*** Technically, she didn't cheat. The only thing she did that wasn't within the rules of the game was to turn off the computer club's cheat.

* During the Kyoto [[Story Arc]] in ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', Saitou challenges Sanosuke to hand-to-hand combat (the latter's specialty), even going so far as to suspend [[Combat Pragmatist|fighting dirty]], in order to prove that Sano isn't on his or Kenshin's level (and consequently, a liability in the coming battles). Needless to say, it was a [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]], and not in Sano's favor.

* The favored method of the D'arby Bros. in ''[[~~Jo Jo~~'s ~~Bizarre Adventure|Jo Jos~~ Bizarre Adventure]]'' is to force the heroes to play an innocuous game (poker, a video game, or Rock-Paper-Scissors) and then cheat like hell at it to win (since, according to them, it isn't cheating if you don't get caught). Naturally, the heroes have to cheat right back while catching the D'arbys in the midst of their own cheating. The results were... [[Villainous Breakdown|memorable.]]

* The favored method of the D'arby Bros. in ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' is to force the heroes to play an innocuous game (poker, a video game, or Rock-Paper-Scissors) and then cheat like hell at it to win (since, according to them, it isn't cheating if you don't get caught). Naturally, the heroes have to cheat right back while catching the D'arbys in the midst of their own cheating. The results were... [[Villainous Breakdown|memorable.]]

* In [[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]], Judai manages to defeat a deck destruction expert by deck out.

** He also beats a guy using a quiz deck with a quiz of his own.

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* A literal example: a team of ''[[League of Legends]]'' developers was beaten at ''League of Legends'' by a team of ''[[Heroes of Newerth]]'' developers, their [[Dueling Games|chief competitors]] in the market, which is doubly ironic because ''HoN'' is considered by many to have a higher skill cap, which ''LoL'' fans often vehemently deny.

* [[God of War (series)|Kratos]] pulls this on {{spoiler|Hades. The God of the Underworld tries to steal his soul. Kratos takes his soul-stealing weapons, then uses them on Hades.}}

* Don Flaminco in ''[[Punch Out]]'' uses this against you. For most opponents, you have to block or dodge their attacks and then counterattack. Don does the same trick against you, refusing to land a blow on you unless you strike first so he can counter. Of course, you can counter his counterattack.

* Don Flaminco in ''[[Punch-Out!!]]'' uses this against you. For most opponents, you have to block or dodge their attacks and then counterattack. Don does the same trick against you, refusing to land a blow on you unless you strike first so he can counter. Of course, you can counter his counterattack.

* In ''[[Evolva]]'', you're forced to do this, as you must mutate to get the defeated enemies' attacks and use them against the enemies, if you don't want to complete the game only with your fists. It's still not recommended to use an attack against the enemy that gave you the attack in the first place.

* In ''[[Skyrim]]'', dragons have the natural ablity to use "[[Words Can Break My Bones|shouts]]". When humanity learned how to use shouts (which the dragonborn can do as easily as a dragon) from {{spoiler|[[Defector From Decadence|the dragon Paarthurnax]]}} they developed {{spoiler|a shout called "dragonrend", which was basically made of the draconic words for "mortal", "finite" and "tempory". As they were basically a race of [[Time Abyss]] near-gods, the mere concept of relative time (particularly something ending) screwed with them so much [[Weaksauce Weakness|it could be weaponised]] against them}}.

* In ''[[Sonic Colors]]'', the [[Final Boss]] uses Wisp powers against Sonic, who had been using them up to this point, complete with even having the same announcer.

* In the final battle of ''[[~~Kirbys~~ Return to Dream Land]]'', {{spoiler|Magolor's second form and Soul form imitates the various [[Limit Break|Super Abilities]] used by Kirby as attacks after he [[Turns Red]].}}

* In the final battle of ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land]]'', {{spoiler|Magolor's second form and Soul form imitates the various [[Limit Break|Super Abilities]] used by Kirby as attacks after he [[Turns Red]].}}

* Vitally important in both the [[X-COM]] series and [[UFO Afterblank]] series. Humanity only stands a chance against the alien invaders by stealing and reverse-engineering all of their technology as quickly as possible, as well as capturing the aliens themselves, dead or alive, for dissection or interrogation respectively.