Hoist by His Own Petard/Live-Action TV: Difference between revisions

* One episode of ''[[CSI]]'' featured a woman and her father who co-owned a construction company and wanted to end the marriage to the woman's husband without getting a divorce, since Nevada divorce law would give the husband half of her shares in the company. They try to frame him for attempted murder, since Nevada law also requires that criminals not profit from their misdeeds, which would have meant the husband wouldn't get anything belonging to his wife. The scheme backfires horrifically when the CSIs uncover the woman and her father's plan and charge them with conspiracy, and it's implied that, under the very same law they tried to use to deprive the husband of any part of the construction company, he's going to end up owning the whole thing.

** Meanwhile, in [[CSI: Miami|Miami]], a wife uses the fact that she's part of a set of triplets to set up what seems to be an airtight alibi for herself (and thus, all of them) for her husband's murder. Except it turns out that the husband has been using a body double because of his high profile job, and the body double was the one who died.

* The inventor of Hymie the KAOS robot on ''[[Get Smart]]'' gets killed by his own invention. Something similar happens to many [[Big Bad|Big Bads]], including "Mr. Big" in the pilot.

* The inventor of the Cybernauts on ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' gets killed by his own invention, as does his brother who tries to follow in his footsteps.