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* ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics A2]]'' provided a very unintentional version of a Genghis Gambit. One particularly rich individual wanted to start a construction project in the Rupie Mountains and sent various hired hands like House Bowen to evict those clans who refused to step aside. One of the big attractions in the Rupie Mountains is the heated rivalry between the Bangaa Brotherhood and the Nu Mou Nobles. Guess what this individual, via House Bowen, wound up ending thanks to intervention by Clan Gully?
* ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2'': Played terrifyingly straight. {{spoiler|General Shepherd}} deliberately incites a shooting war with Russia in order to {{spoiler|instill patriotism, incite volunteers to the military, and unify America. If this sounds a little [[Anvilicious]], it comes across that way in the game, too. The death screens even warn about the dangers of excessive patriotism.}}
* In ''Front Mission Evolved'', Cornelius Werner tries this by {{spoiler|pointing a [[Kill Sat]] at all the world capitals}}.
* Two of the endings in ''[[Blood Storm]]'' have this happen unintentionally. {{spoiler|Razor unites the planet by leading a vengeance-fueled genocidal campaign against Cyberia, stopping the supply of weapons coming from that province while making the rest of the alliance stronger. Tempest, on the other hand, accidentally reveals she started the whole mess, and all eight provinces unite in hunting her down for her execution.}}
* Discussed and averted in [[Heroes of Might and Magic]] IV. A [[Genre Savvy]] necromancer rejects a perfectly reasonable plan to conquer one of the newly-emerging nations of Axeoth and rule it along with his own kingdom, because he doesn't want to become the enemy that the rest of the world unites against.
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* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' invoked this trope [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-05-04 here.]
** Except that it's inverted because the threat was totally outside Petey's control. In fact, this is more a case of [[Enemy Mine]] than this trope.
* ''[[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 (webcomic)|Bug]]'' argues that [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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