Glad You Thought of It: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|'''Maladict:''' I don't want to, you know, spoil the spirit of the moment, but that is a really awful idea. The el-tee won't agree to something as wild as that.

You know how the [[Glad I Thought of It]] trope is when a character suggests something, only to have another scoff at the idea, but then claim it to have been their own idea when it succeeds? Well, maybe there's a trope involving a character who has a plan, but wants someone else to think it's their idea and thus drops subtle hints about carrying out the plan under the idea that it was their idea to begin with. But it'd need someone to make such a page, and I can't think who...

{{examples|You could perhaps put examples here maybe?}}

== Film ==

* ''[[My Big Fat Greek Wedding]]'': Getting the father to allow Toula to work at her aunt's place.

* ''[[Inception]]'' {{spoiler|the meaning behind the name,}} and the entire point of the film.

== Literature ==

* ''Over Sea Under Stone'', the first novel in Susan Cooper's ''[[The Dark Is Rising]]'' series. While the protagonists are trying to figure out a riddle, their Great Uncle Merry (Merriman Lyon) repeats one part of it ("the signs that wax and wane but do not die") to help them figure out that it's talking about the phases of the moon. You could use this trivia nugget as an example maybe?

* ''[[Codex Alera]]'': In the last book, Ehren uses this to get {{spoiler|Attis}} to get himself killed trying to {{spoiler|fight Invidia}}. Considering the effectiveness and the [[Refuge in Audacity|sheer audacity]] of his choice of victim, it winds up as not just an example Ehren's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], but also might be listable as an example of Glad You Thought of It.

* Polly tries to get Blouse to do this in ''[[Discworld/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]''. It doesn't go ''quite'' how she planned.

* ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'': Colonel Hogan did this to Colonel Klink all the time.

* ''[[Psych]]'' had an episode where Shawn realized that Carlton Lassiter really needed a jolt of confidence, so he and Gus spend the episode solving the week's case, and then relaying the information to Carlton in such a way that he solves it on his own, much like how you're coming up with all these examples now.

== Newspaper Comics ==

* In ''[[Luann]]'', Crystal manipulates her friend [[Alpha Bitch|Tiffany]] into flirting with [[Hollywood Nerd|Gunther]] in order to attract hunky exchange student Quill's interest. When the plan backfires, the following exchange occurs:

{{quote|'''Tiffany:''' Your dumb plan ''tanked'', Crystal!

::Crystal then goes on to suggest, at first mockingly ("[[Portmanteau Couple Name|Gunthany!]]"), then seriously, that Gunther would in fact be a better match for her friend. This time, however, Tiffany doesn't take the bait. This could be an example of a subversion, such a thing might add some variance to the page, no?

* ''[[Xanadu|Xanadu On Broadway]]'':

{{quote|'''Kira''': If only there were a book, a magic book, that listed all the locations in Los Angeles, and had their phones numbers next to it.

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[Erfworld]]'': When [[Manipulative Bitch|Wanda]] tells Parson how to deal with [[Pointy-Haired Boss|Stanley]] she says: "Arrange it so that he thinks it was his idea. Let him have your way."

* Darren of ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' not only tells Katherine to use this technique on Monica, but he [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/sothetrickis/ uses this technique to make the suggestion.]

== Western Animation ==

* Jaga from ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' pulls one of these, carefully cloaking references to "Sight Beyond Sight" in aphorisms about Kingly behavior, to coax Lion-O into admitting he's had a vision. Unfortunately, he decides that having won Lion-O's trust, the details can wait... Unfortunatly for ''both'' of them [[It Got Worse]].

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