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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Be it thy course to busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels."''
|'''King Henry IV''', '''''[[William Shakespeare|Henry IV, Part 2]]'''''}}
OK, so you have a bunch of different factions who fight against each other all the time. Wouldn't it be so much better if they could all get along? Unfortunately, that's not going to happen, as they hate each other's guts.
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Can be a Sub-trope of [[Zero-Approval Gambit]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', {{spoiler|Lelouch makes ''himself'' this threat, and then goes a step further by arranging his own assassination, thus creating world peace}}. Interestingly enough, {{spoiler|his sister, Nunnally, was trying the same thing with Damocles}}. It's [[In the Blood]], it seems.
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* In ''[[Watchmen]]'', the [[Big Bad]] plans to force America and Russia to put aside their differences and work together by {{spoiler|making it seem as if a massive [[Alien Invasion]] is imminent.}} Whether or not it works on the long run is left up to the reader.
* In ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'', Cable once resurrected Apocalypse as a common threat to unite the fractious mutants.
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** Cable turned ''himself'' into one of these in ''Cable And Deadpool''. It all works out until Reed Richards calls in {{spoiler|the friggin' ''[[Silver Surfer]]''}} to take him down.
** It should be noted, however, that being {{spoiler|taken down was Cable's entire plan in the first place}}. And he still pulled off a pretty sick display of power defending against the {{spoiler|Surfer.}}
* In an issue of Marvel's ''[[What If?]]
* ''[[Camelot 3000 AD]]'' has an interesting version. The newly resurrected knights are not dealing well with each other, so Kai, who was always the least liked of the knights, chooses to remain in the role by acting like an asshole towards the other knights. Thus he gives the other knights someone common to look down
== Film ==
* In ''[[Canadian Bacon]]'', the government of the U.S.A. tries to curb economic recession and civilian discontent by renewing the Cold War. When it turns out that Russia is not interested in playing along, the United States government and the media embark on a campaign to unite Americans in a hatred of Canada, of all peoples. Turns out to be a bad idea.
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* ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'': Nale's Father did this unintentionally; he later created a more complicated plan involving a coalition of [[The Man Behind the Man|Men Behind Men]] working to create three empires instead of one, that are actually working together to stay unified.
** He does use it on a smaller scale as well as part of that unification plan, using the threat of the other conquering nations to pressure smaller states into capitulating into his empire for their own protection. What they ''don't'' know is that his companions control those other major nations and are doing the same thing to gradually absorb every independent state in the region.
* ''[[Bug Martini|Bug]]'' argues that [https://web.archive.org/web/20130513212016/http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/peacemaker/ this is what the UN should be doing].
* Apparently the reason why {{spoiler|Tavor}} was made immortal in ''[[Looking for Group]]'', {{spoiler|so he could unite the enemies of Kethenecia [http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/483 into one imperialistic force] that would attempt to conquer the northern tribes who Cale could rally into rebuilding the ancient city}}
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* Part of the reasoning behind [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]. Even if none of the 40 guys in any given platoon can agree on anything else, they can all rally behind the idea that the bastard sergeant needs to die a slow, painful and embarrassing death...
* In many ways the "Crusades" were just a recruiting slogan that got attitude problems as Christians and Muslims fought each other before and after the official dates for the Crusades, quite commonly because they were Christians and Muslims (politics and ethnic prejudice and basically any other reason to fight also factored in, making for some weird alliances across the frontiers), and in fact there is really no distinct point where you can say that a war between Christians and Muslims is a Crusade or a Jihad other then someone using the word. Be that as it may, when the Crusades and their successors did become fashionable one of the most important reasons was to clear Europe of unruly knights and dump them in the Middle East where they could be someone else's problem.
* A common downplaying is a bloodless (or at least without intentional bloodshed) [[Genghis Gambit]]. This is the common habit of engaging in ostentatious PR projects: temples, palaces, monuments, even NASA arguably. Part of the reason is to draw attention to the ruler's [[Glory Seeker|grandeur]]. But another part is to provide a goal to work toward. In this case "the other" can be said to be nature rather than humans.
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