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[[File:FriezaOwnAttack 2703.png|link=Dragon Ball|frame|Hit by his own attack? Let's just call that poetic justice.]]
* Near the end of the Stone Ocean arc of ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'', [[Knight Templar|Enrico]] [[Sinister Minister|Pucci]] achieves godlike status as he has gained the ability to speed up time and move the universe towards destruction and recreation. Pucci has already killed off most of the heroes, and all that's left is [[Tagalong Kid]] Emporio Alnino. Pucci stops the universal reset just short of a full cycle in order to catch Emporio at the one moment they were both in the same location -- the Green Dolphin Street prison -- in order to kill him. Pucci thinks this will be easy enough, seeing as how Emporio has one of the weakest abilities in the entire series, but unknownst to him, Emporio borrowed one of his fallen friend's abilities, and just as Pucci is in the perfect position to kill Emporio, Emporio is in the perfect position to kill Pucci. The kid surprises him with a weather-changing ability and uses it to poison him with fatal levels of oxygen.
* ''[[Digimon Savers]]'': The [[Big Bad]] Kurata committed genocide,created collateral damage to [[Motive Decay|to take over the world]] in the mean time he sucked in void bending devices,so what does he do when he gets defeated? He activates a huge explosion that causes the Digital World to crash into Earth,and he disappears into a light while doing it.This action also is the final straw for the [[Final Boss]].
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** ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer]]'': The Vegans managed to make huge technological breakthroughs by exploiting ores of the material radioactive known as Vegatron. However, it led to his planet becoming unstable, forcing them to find new worlds to colonize. The vegatron bombs they rained upon Fleed scorched the Fleedian army to ashes, but they also turned the planet they intended to colonize on a radioactive wasteland. And finally, Vegatron radiation destroyed their homeworld and rendered their Moon [[Space Base]] -their last safe haven- inhabitable.
* ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' kills off Medlock by having Ralph override her ship and order her own killer robots to tear her apart. The real [[Irony]] is that she had recently turned good, and the good guys assumed she got out safely like they did and didn't think anything of looking for her...
* Many ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' characters died this way (in fact, the protagonists themselves rarely kill anyone, except for [[Monster of the Week|monsters-of-the-week]]) -- at least when they were not offed by the [[Big Bad]] [[You Have Failed Me...|for their constant failures]], betrayed by their peers, or redeemed. Kunzite died of his own reflected attack (though Sailor Moon still qualifies for that kill by reflecting it); Mimete died when she used a machine built by Eudial, whom she killed; Tellu was eaten by the giant plant she summoned; Viluy had her [[Nanomachines]] turn against her and "erase" her; Cyprine and Ptilol (regarded as one person) were tricked into blasting each other, and Sailor Lead Crow was sucked into the black hole that she tried to use against Sailor Moon, though only because her black hole device was sabotaged by her sociopathic teammate, Tin Nyanko.
** This only happened in the anime; the Scouts regularly killed villains in the manga.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'',
* In the second season of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'', when Yugi dueled Marik's mind-slave <s>Steve the mime</s> Strings, the only way he was able to beat his invincible card setup was to use it to his own advantage so that his monster would be destroyed and regenerated an infinite number of times within a single turn, and due to one of the effects Marik had on the field, Strings was forced to keep drawing cards from his deck every time the monster regenerated, until he ran out of cards and lost the duel by default.▼
** In the first season, when Yugi [[Beat Them At Their Own Game| defeated Ryuji Otogi (Duke Devlin) at Dungeon Dice Monsters]], it was, in a way, Otogi's fault; he had inadvertently designed the DDM version of Dark Magician, Yugi's favorite monster, incredibly powerful, with abilities that made Yugi able to use it with almost as much synergy as he did in Duel Monsters. Yugi could not help but ''thank'' him for making such an accurate version of his favorite card before he delivered the winning blow.
** ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's|Yu-Gi-Oh 5 Ds]]'' plays it in another angle. While locked in the Facility, Yusei is forced into a duel with the head jailer. His Iron Chain strategy is to exhaust the opponent's deck, but Yusei reveals that his last two cards (from a deck all cobbled together from other jailed duelists) actually ''depended'' on a high graveyard count, and he wins the duel with them.▼
▲** In the second season of
** In the Virtual World arc, the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] all suffer a defeat this way. Oshita (Gansley) insults Yugi's Kuriboh, and loses because of its effects; Otaki (Crump) laughs at Black Magician Girl (Dark Magician Girl) for being useless without her master, so Anzu (Téa) Summons it; Oka (Johnson), a smug lawyer, falls for an ''obvious'' bluff; Ota (Nesbitt), who viewed Shizuka (Serenity) as the weak link, loses to her St. Joan; Daimon (Leichter), who viewed himself as superior to Kaiba, loses when Kaiba Summons a card strong enough to attack his [[Kill Sat]]; and when merged together, they view Jounouchi (Joey) as [[The Load]] to Yugi, only to have Jounouchi's cards be instrumental to victory.
** When [[Evil Versus Evil| Yami Bakura duels Yami Marik]], he loses because of this. In the anime, he tries to win this way by using Dark Designator in order to add Ra to Yami Marik's hand, and then Exchange in order to steal Ra. However, the moment he tries to summon Ra, Marik activated a trap card that drained Bakura's sacrifices of their attack power, meaning Ra had zero attack points. He then sacrificed it to summon a new monster, which allowed Marik to revive Ra with Monster Reborn, the card Marik took from Bakura because of Exchange. The manga plays it out a bit differently, but is still ultimately this trope. After using Dark Designator to add Ra to Marik's hand, Bakura activates Multiple Destruction, a hand destruction card, sending Ra to the graveyard, which gives Marik the chance to revive it with Monster Reborn. In both versions, Bakura was unaware of Ra's additional powers.
** In the Waking the Dragons arc, the Seal of Orichalcos was an utterly overpowered card, but once it was activated, whoever lost the Duel lost their soul. There were only two instances onscreen where the person who activated the card didn't lose the Duel, and one of those was a draw.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX|Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]'':
** In season one, the second of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad| Shadow Riders]], Camula, had a card called Illusion Gate. It destroyed all monsters her opponent controlled and then let her summon one monster from her opponent's Graveyard. The cost? If she lost the Duel, her soul would be forfeit to the [[Eldrich Abomination| Sacred Beasts]]. She normally used her Shadow Charm to offer someone else's soul instead, but when Judai (Jaden)'s own charm cancelled out hers, she was left with no choice but to stake her own soul. And naturally, she lost.
** In season two, Judai dueled X, a Pro Duelist who used a Mill Deck; Judai won by decking him out. X was [[Jerkass| a very unpleasant person]] (even Edo (Aster), who witnessed the duel, didn't like him), so this was sort of poetic justice. Of course, Judai does this using one of his Neo-Spacians, and a common theme with his duels is that the villains never understand how they work and never take them into consideration. Even the most [[Crazy Prepared]] villain can never prepare for something he knows nothing about.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's|Yu-Gi-Oh 5 Ds]]'':
** The first example was way back in episode two. Yusei duels a guy who uses Insect cards, and had a Spell Card on the field (Ant Lion's Vengeance/Retribution of the Ant Lion) that damages a player whenever their monster goes to the Graveyard. Yusei pulls off a combo that destroys all three of his opponent's monsters, and lets his own Spell card do the rest. (Given that the guy purposely destroys one of his own Insects earlier in the duel to use its effect, he's obviously not entirely clear on how his own card works; long story short, he was an [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]], more or less.)
** Arguably, this is how Yusei defeated Jack the first time. Jack was in his pre-[[Heel Face Turn]] days, and tried to troll Yusei by summoning Red Dragon Archfiend and Stardust Dragon, the latter of which is Yusei's ace card that Jack stole. Unfortunately for him, Yusei was expecting that, activates Harmonium Mirror to seize control of it, and wins. Well, he would if the duel hadn't been interrupted, but Yusei won in Jack's eyes, [[Villainous Breakdown| much to his horror.]]
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** This could also be construed as how Team 5Ds defeated Team Ragnarok. Harold's Trap Card, Gjallarhorn, would have banished all three of his Divine Beast monsters in three turns and then deal damage to Yusei equal to their ATK, and make them and Harold nearly invincible until that happened. Yusei was able to turn this card against him by summoning Shooting Star Dragon for the first time. This causes Harold to use his Odin's Eye Trap, which again, is what Yusei was expecting; he counters with a Trap of his own to shanghai control of the Trap, making the three Divine monsters vulnerable; a second Trap causes their Scores to drop to zero, meaning when the effect of Gjallarhorn finally activates, Yusei takes no damage at all. Harold, however, is now defenseless, and wide open.
** In ''Yu Gi Oh Bonds Beyond Time'', Paradox's Sin set does him in. Paradox's set essentially hinged on weakening his opponents' monsters enough so that his overpowered beasts could curbstomp Yami Yugi, Judai and Yusei, killing them. Yami Yugi starts the unraveling when he takes back Yusei's stolen Stardust Dragon and it was more or less a defensive waiting game, tanking attacks and rescuing fallen monsters until the time was right to flatten Paradox and save all of time. Not that taking on [[Dream Team| all three of them at once]] was what fans would have considered a good idea...
* Minor example in [[Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal]].in the episode where Rio demanded a duel from her brother, Shark. Rio tried to win by using a Field Spell that benefits Water-Attribute monsters and Xyz monsters, and used them to gain an advantage for a turn, summoning a powerful Xyz called Ice Princess Zereort. Unfortunately, she seemed to forget that her brother also specialized in Water-Attribute Xyzs, and was able to use the Field Spell to summon a far more powerful one called Shark Caesar, which was able to wipe her out.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V]]'':
** Shingo steals two of Yuya's cards and gives him the weak monster Block Spider as an insult, saying it's nothing but trash. When they duel, Block Spider deals the final attack to Shingo.
** Later in the series, Yugo invokes this trope against a trio of Obelisk Force soldiers, wiping out their entire monster lineup, causing their own Spell Card, Ancient Armageddon Gear, to deal damage to them equal to the total ATK of the monsters they just lost.
** A humorous and ''very'' ironic example occurs during Yuya's duel with Michio, a celebrity chef who is also a duelist. Yuya can't get his act together here because he skipped breakfast, but he certainly does when his mom shows up and throws him a sandwich, which she made using one of ''Michio's recipes''!
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', Negi used the same power Rakan tried to use on him. It failed to keep him down for the count though.
* ''[[Dragon Ball|Dragon Ball Z]]''
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*** It almost happened in a flashback as well, when Itachi used [[Master of Illusion|genjutsu]] to trick Deidara into wrapping explosive around ''himself'' instead of Itachi, but Itachi stopped him because it was his mission to get Deidara to join Akatsuki.
** Pain lost one of his remote-controlled bodies when he used it to absorb Naruto's Sage chakra. Without proper training, said chakra turns people into stone frogs.
** Kisame suffers this ''twice''. First, his own sword Samehada betrays him for Killerbee/the Eight-Tails because he fed it so much of his chakra while they fought. Then it turns out that the huge water jutsu he used to drain the Eight-Tails chakra and trap Killerbee attracted the attention of Raikage and company. Raikage and Killerbee (rejuvenated by the chakra Samehada just gave him) promptly team up to decapitate Kisame. [[Faking the Dead|While this was]] [[
** Sasuke absorbed Orochimaru into his body using the technique Orochimaru intended to use to take over Sasuke's body.
** Danzo's death is also an interesting case. Having spent his whole life preaching his principles that a shinobi should never show any emotions in battle, and consider the mission to be above comrades, guess how he died? Sasuke pierced his Chidori right through his teammate (whom Danzo had held hostage) to kill Danzo.
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** Also with Eneru, the very gold ball he grafted onto Luffy's arm meant to slow him down becomes the very thing that ends up stopping Eneru's energized death ball and defeating the fake "god".
** Moria uses his 'Shadows Asguard' technique in order to absorb one thousand shadows on the island to fight Luffy. While he's much bigger and stronger, he's also slower and struggling to keep the shadows in. Luffy defeats him handily through a combination of Gear 2nd and Gear 3rd.
** Sugar forced an unconscious Usopp to eat a grape that he had tried to force her to eat. She thought it was poison (although it actually wasn't a conventional poison). Usopp's startling and horrifying reaction to eating the grape scares her unconscious and gave her a fear of long noses and things that look like long noses. And, of course, [[No Ontological Inertia|the things she did did stopped happening]]
* Subverted in ''[[Rave Master]]'' with [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Six Guard's]] Sean. When he's knocked out by his own sleep-inducing power, he ends up fighting in his sleep and is even ''stronger'' than when he's awake. He grinds his teeth, too.
* In ''[[Death Note]]'':
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* In the [[Bile Fascination]]-filled ''[[Queen's Blade|Queens Blade]]'', the assassin Melona's primary means of attack is to squirt some sort of acidic fluid... from her breasts. Reina defeats her by blocking off her nipples with her [[Breast Plate]], causing the acidic liquid to back up, swelling Melona's breasts to massive sizes.... and blowing them up.
* ''[[Ranma ½]]'' includes this on a few occasions, usually as a way for Ranma to beat opponents who, for whatever reason, outclass him. The best example is the Musk Dynasty story; Ranma's opponent Herb is far stronger and better trained at ki attacks then Ranma is, and knows how to disrupt the Hiryu Shoten Ha, which normally feeds off of the opponent's ki (which makes it a tentative example of this trope). Realizing that his opponent's attacks have left large quantities of ki floating loosely, he tricks his foe into apparently destabilizing the Hiryu Shoten Ha again- instead, Herb actually gives Ranma what he needs to gather all of the available ki, coalesce it into a single massive bolt, and drop it right on his head.
** In an earlier story, the Date Monster of Watermelon Island, Ranma is stuck in female form and defenseless against Tatewaki Kuno, who has lost his delusions and thus is capable of actually concentrating on defeating Ranma for once. Aware that his [[Training
** The Martial Arts Dining story might also count by a technicality; Ranma's winning move, the Parley du Foie Gras, not only takes advantage of a loophole in the rules, but also turns Piccolet Chardin's normally advantageous mutations into Ranma's key to victory. Piccolet's rubber-like face allows him to eat faster then Ranma can, but also makes it easy for Ranma to force his own food down Piccolet's throat.
*** Actually referred to by name in an anime-exclusive OAV; early into the Christmas Scramble OAV, Kodachi mockingly points out that Kuno's unidentified but huge present is far too big to even get through the door, never mind into Akane Tendo's stocking. Kuno, horrorstruck, points out that he's been hoisted with his own petard (probably not in the original Japanese, though, as Kuno's Shakespearean references are a [[Woolseyism]]). And is promptly squashed under Shampoo's bicycle.
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* In ''[[Kamen Rider Spirits]]'', [[Kamen Rider V 3|Riderman]] has to deal with his old enemy Marshall Armor, whose [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|thick armor]] deflects all but the strongest attacks. So Riderman manages to drill a single hole in the shell, then pump it full of bullets, which bounce around inside Armor's shell and shred him to pieces.<ref>And before [[Memetic Mutation|anyone says it]], yes Armor's a [[Giant Enemy Crab]], and yes Riderman [[Attack Its Weak Point|Attacked Its Weak Point]] [[For Massive Damage]]</ref>
* In ''[[Ultimate Teacher]]'' Ganbachi plants a spike to the ground in order to kill Hinako who was dropping from above, only to be nudged towards the spike and have Hinako drop on top of ''him'', impaling him in the process.
* In the first episode of ''[[One Punch Man]]'', the [[Monster of the Week]] is the younger brother of a [[Mad Scientist]], whose brother has turned him into a [[Kaiju]]-sized monstrosity. Said older brother is directing him from his right shoulder, and then Saitama lands on the giant's ''left'' shoulder. The older brother shouts to his sibling, "There's someone on your shoulder! Crush him!" Suffice to say, he really should have specified ''which'' shoulder.
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