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== [[Web Comics]] ==

* At the end of the "Professor Madblood and the Doppelganger Gambit" arc in ''[[Narbonic]]'', Helen claims the whole chaotic sequence of events was her plan. As the series goes on, it's hinted that she plans a great deal more than typically believed - Artie at one point suspects everything about him was engineered so that he could save Helen's life at one crucial, impossible-to-predict moment. Of course, Helen ''is'' a megalomaniac (albeit an extremely cute one), so some or all of this could be from her own self-aggrandizing. Indeed, in another comic, she explicitly claims a fondness for the [[Indy Ploy]] approach: "It's times like these I almost question my usual strategy of doing whatever dumb thing pops into my head."

* From ''Daily Victim'' by Dave "Fargo" Kosak, the features [http://archive.gamespy.com/dailyvictim/index.asp?id=527 "Okay man, listen up: I've developed a 32-step program designed to get my hot girlfriend into cosplay,"] where the focus character tries to get his girlfriend to like dressing up without realizing that she's being manipulated, and [http://archive.gamespy.com/dailyvictim/index.asp?id=648 "My 6-month plan to get my hot girlfriend into cosplay has colossally backfired"], where his plan has worked ''too well'', and he needs to wean her off of her obsession via an equally circuitous scheme.

* From ''Daily Victim'' by Dave "Fargo" Kosak, the features [https://web.archive.org/web/20100728192257/http://archive.gamespy.com/dailyvictim/index.asp?id=527 "Okay man, listen up: I've developed a 32-step program designed to get my hot girlfriend into cosplay,"] where the focus character tries to get his girlfriend to like dressing up without realizing that she's being manipulated, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20100728192303/http://archive.gamespy.com/dailyvictim/index.asp?id=648 "My 6-month plan to get my hot girlfriend into cosplay has colossally backfired"], where his plan has worked ''too well'', and he needs to wean her off of her obsession via an equally circuitous scheme.

** And then there's the system administrator who [http://archive.gamespy.com/dailyvictim/index.asp?id=356 always has a backup plan]: "You see, you never want to fake a major organ failure to hijack an ambulance to a concert where you falsify medical documents and sneak into the trunk of your friend's car in a Spider-Man costume unless you're PREPARED for the eventuality that someone might get hurt if the car slams into a deer."

** And then there's the system administrator who [https://web.archive.org/web/20100813114308/http://archive.gamespy.com/dailyvictim/index.asp?id=356 always has a backup plan]: "You see, you never want to fake a major organ failure to hijack an ambulance to a concert where you falsify medical documents and sneak into the trunk of your friend's car in a Spider-Man costume unless you're PREPARED for the eventuality that someone might get hurt if the car slams into a deer."

* Near the end of ''[[Walkyverse|It's Walky]]'', a [[We Can Rule Together]] speech by Penny and (presumably correct) extrapolation by Alan reveal that Dargon founded SEMME in the ''seventies'' specifically to gather abductees and Martian technology, the former to be given just this [[We Can Rule Together]] speech, the latter in anticipation of SEMME's eventual disbandment and the resultant scattering of Martian technology to military centers around the world. The latter event, by the way, was ''thirty years later'' and contingent on an HA caper they couldn't possibly have predicted, itself following his ''death and resurrection''. If either Dargon or Penny had lived long enough, we might have seen what, exactly, they planned to do with the world's military infrastructure destroyed.

** The trope was actually ''parodied'' near the beginning of the strip:

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* Mentioned extensively in [http://www.cracked.com/article_16848_6-most-pointlessly-elaborate-movie-murder-plots.html Cracked.com's 6 Most Pointlessly Elaborate Movie Murder Plots].

* The purple and pink unicorns of the [http://youtube.com/watch?v=CsGYh8AacgY&feature=user Charlie the Unicorn] fame went through some pretty crazy convoluted schemes just to steal from Charlie. In [http://youtube.com/watch?v=QFCSXr6qnv4 Charlie the Unicorn 2], the fact that they get sucked into a [[Swirly Energy Thingy|strange vortex]] and find an amulet to return to the alleged â��Bo-nana Kingâ�, have a somewhat [[gratuitous Spanish]] conversation to a giant block Z, ride a giant sneaker, arrive at the Temple of the Bananas, then perform in a sing-a-long accompanied with a chorus just to discover that [[Twist Ending|Charlie was the Banana King all along]] is a completely outrageous chain of events seeing how this was just used to distract Charlie long enough to rob him of his valuables. Then again, the pink and purple unicorns could just be [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]â�¦or are they?.

* [http://www.seventhsanctum.com/gens/evilplot.html This webpage] lets you create your own plots which can easily become Gambit Roulettes, for example: Your unstoppable plot: hone your psychic powers, easily allowing you to summon a powerful spirit, easily allowing you to kidnap a popular singer for a huge ransom, easily allowing you to force your minions to make a super battleship, so you can create an evil temple, so you can acquire an unstoppable mega-tank, which allows you to kidnap the prime minister so you can replace him/her with an imposter, so you can force your minions to make a high-tech submarine, easily allowing you to summon a demonic force, which sets the stage to seize control of a legion of golems, which sets the stage to build a clone machine, which sets the stage to pillage the hemisphere which will slake your dark need for power!

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130104181337/http://www.seventhsanctum.com/gens/evilplot.html This webpage] lets you create your own plots which can easily become Gambit Roulettes, for example: Your unstoppable plot: hone your psychic powers, easily allowing you to summon a powerful spirit, easily allowing you to kidnap a popular singer for a huge ransom, easily allowing you to force your minions to make a super battleship, so you can create an evil temple, so you can acquire an unstoppable mega-tank, which allows you to kidnap the prime minister so you can replace him/her with an imposter, so you can force your minions to make a high-tech submarine, easily allowing you to summon a demonic force, which sets the stage to seize control of a legion of golems, which sets the stage to build a clone machine, which sets the stage to pillage the hemisphere which will slake your dark need for power!

* In the early days of the [[League of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions]] The Man In Black would claim that things were going exactly as planned, even if there was no way he could have planned it.

* In an [http://www.giantitp.com/articles/rTKEivnsYuZrh94H1Sn.html article on creating villains], the sample villain, the Fire King, infiltrates an elven noble's household, takes over the household, becomes the king's trusted advisor, starts a war, eliminates elements ''on both sides'' to prevent peace. The point of all this is to wipe out all the elves so that he can perform a ritual to absorb all the magical energy in the world, and ''conquer hell''.