Hoist by His Own Petard/Film: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]'': The Nazis were trapped in a theater and burned - gunned down if they tried to escape - [[wikipedia:Burning of the Riga synagogues|just like they had done to Jews in synagogues]].

* In ''[[Muppet Treasure Island]]'', the first step of Silver's planned mutiny is convincing First Mate Mr Arrow to leave the ship in a leaky lifeboat, causing the rest of the crew to assume he drowned. When the plan fails and Silver winds up in the brig, he escapes and flees the ship... in a lifeboat which later turns out to be incredibly leaky.

* ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|Harry Potter]] [[Harry Potter (film)|Part 2]]'' has one involving Snape. He invented Sectumsempra, a spell used for emulating the effect of a sword. Guess exactly which throat Voldemort slices with it? (In the book, Nagini is used instead.)

* At the end of ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'', [[God Save Us From the Queen|the Evil Queen]] (disguised as [[One-Winged Angel|the Witch)]] actually threatens to kill the seven dwarfs by crushing them with a boulder after they've discovered that she actually [[Disney Death|"killed"]] Snow White with a poisoned apple and had her cornered at a cliff. Just right before she dislodges the boulder, the Queen is immediately hit by lightning, [[Disney Villain Death|and tumbles off the edge.]] Shortly afterwards, her own boulder falls off the same cliff in the same direction as the Queen.

* Invoked in ''The Big Red One'' where a character discusses what a bother it is to set a Bangalore Torpedo(several tubes filled with explosives and fitted together to make a kind of snake-like petard).

 

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