Gambit Roulette: Difference between revisions

** Another common theory is that he was trying to do this trope and did so badly, which is why leaders on both sides saw him as a threat to his own plans.

* Admiral Yamamoto's plan for the Battle of Midway was supposed to be a Gambit Roulette that involved splitting his forces into seven different groups across the entire Pacific to defeat the American carrier fleet. A simpler idea like "Put all my ships in one fleet, sail in to attack Midway. The Americans don't have enough ships to stop such a fleet, so if they do force a battle, I destroy their fleet. If they don't, I conquer Midway," would have been a pretty good [[Xanatos Gambit]]. Yamamoto's roulette plan ended in a spectacular failure when American codebreakers figured out key details of his plan. Because his ships were split up into many groups, they couldn't support each other, leading to many ships not even seeing action; this was especially damaging since the escort cruisers with Yamamoto's scout planes were all assigned to a battleship taskforce which was not in position to scout for the carrier taskforce.

* A certain screenwriter, presumably just to get attention, claimed that a particularly ludicrous Roulette was performed against him by 20th Century Fox. In summary, he alleged that a script of his was stolen by Fox, who then gave it to [[Alan Moore]] to be turned into a comic (''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'') specifically so it could be filmed without people guessing its true source. The resulting [[Frivolous Lawsuit]] treated Moore, who had done nothing wrong, so badly that he chose to cut all ties with the film industry.

* There's an [[Urban Legend]] that on his death, [[Walt Disney]] left a series of films dictating, in detail, exactly how every aspect of the Walt Disney Company was to progress for the next twenty years—films ''directly addressed'' to the various members of the staff, as if he were still in conference with all of them. (As Snopes [http://snopes.com/disney/wdco/dejaview.asp points out], all one need do to demonstrate the fallacy of this is to look at the company's record in the 1970s: '''dead''' Walt could have done better than ''The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes'' and ''Now You See Him, Now You Don't''.)