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* This is a key element in ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]''
** ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'' got the plot from Kurosawa's ''[[Yojimbo]]'' which in turn got it from a 1930 gangster film called ''Roadhouse Nights'' which was based on [[Dashiell Hammett]]'s novel ''Red Harvest''.
** The same plot was used in the western ''[[Django]]'' and ''[[Last Man Standing (graphic novel)|Last Man Standing]]''.
* Used in ''[[Serenity]]'', where Mal pits {{spoiler|the Alliance and the Reavers}} against each other to buy enough time to {{spoiler|broadcast the secret of Miranda to the entire verse}}.
* And in ''[[Lucky Number Slevin]]'', which is unfortunately a huge spoiler.
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* Very common tactic players use in video games that allow [[NPC]]s to fight each other, such as ''[[Half-Life]]'' (letting Combine fight Zombies, HECU to fight aliens) and ''[[Halo]]'' (letting the Flood take out the Covenant). It can be traced back at least as far as ''[[Doom]]'', where "monster infighting" was crucial to beating some parts. Doom 2, for example, has a Spider Mastermind and a Cyberdemon right next to each other. The only effective way to survive is to get them fighting each other.
* {{spoiler|Sturm}} attempts to do this in the first [[Advance Wars]]. He tried to get the nations of Orange Star, Blue Moon, Green Earth and Yellow Comet to engage in a brutal war that would leave all sides devastated, so he could sweep in with his own forces and conquer all of Wars World.
* Kerrigan does this to ''{{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|everyone]]}}'' in ''[[
* ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3'': {{spoiler|Jester/Arkham}}.
* Any Pit player worth his weight in salt does this as well when deploying [[Limit Break|Palutena's Army]] in ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]''. It's one of the few Final Smashes that allows the user to move and act freely with his own moveset during its execution. The reason it falls here is that the Centurions are dangerous in their own right, and the player has to choose to either focus on dodging them or dodging Pit, though a skilled player can do both for the most part.
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** One of the reasons Japan was able to conquer large portions of China in the 1930s - the Communist Chinese wanted their own government defeated even more than Japan did, while the ruling Chinese Nationalists were conversely so preoccupied with trying to stamp them out (not to mention being hopelessly corrupt, incompetent and unpopular-those going together) they caved easily before the Japanese.
** The German-led Axis took advantage of this during their invasion of Yugoslavia in WWII by rallying the country's neighbors to help invade and by arming the radicalized minorities (most notably the Croats with some Slovene, local Hungarian, and Albanian support) against the Serbian-dominated Royal government. It worked devastatingly well - [[Gone Horribly Right|probably too well]], if the subsequent bloodshed and the resulting rise of the Partisans and the Chetniks and their effective tying up of hundreds of thousands of Axis troops shows. Some of the Croatian groups the Nazis stirred up were also such fanatically brutal killers that ''[[Even Evil Has Standards|even SS death squads were sickened by them]]'', and left the Serbs burning for revenge...
** The Soviets tried to do this throughout their history (and started before the Soviet Union even existed yet) by trying to drive wedges between their enemies, whoever they might be at the time. In [[World War
*** This was countered by United States opening up (relatively) friendly relations with China despite their ideological incompatibility, as each considered the Soviets to be the greater threat (America seeing them as such because the USSR was simply more powerful than China, and China because the USSR was literally right next door to them).
* Large companies have been known to do this as well. During the [[wikipedia:Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886|Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886]], [[Railroad Baron]] Jay Gould allegedly boasted that he could "hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."
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