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

* In ''[[Primeval]]'', Oliver Leek amasses a mind-controlled army of vicious predators from the future in a bid to obtain power. This royally screws up when the mind-control device breaks, and the predators kill him.

** Similarly, the woman who had raised a sabre-toothed tiger from a cub that she found is killed by it at the end.

** In the earlier two-parter "Year of Hell", the [[Big Bad]] uses a ship that has the power to [[Ret-Gone]] anything. Janeway's [[Heroic Sacrifice]] causes the ship to target ''itself'' and everything that happened in the episode is undone. Oddly enough, this actually gives the [[Big Bad]] a ''happy'' ending -- he had unwittingly wiped out his own homeworld and family when he used the ship during a war. With the ship gone from the timeline, the life he lost had been restored. {{spoiler|Though he is once again working on temporal calculations.}}

{{quote|'''Goddard:''' And by tonight, Henry Van Statten will be a homeless, brainless junkie living on the streets of San Diego, Seattle, Sacramento... Someplace beginning with S.}}

** In ''Genesis of the Daleks'', when the Daleks turn on Davros and his followers Davros (in his one and only moment of compassion) begs the Daleks to have pity on the scientists who helped to create them - but they don't, because Davros did not include pity in their data banks. More or less the same exact thing happens ''every single time he appears''- he makes more Daleks to replace the batch the Doctor has killed, and they turn on and either kill or imprison him soon afterwards. You'd think he'd notice the pattern at some point, but no.

{{quote|::'''John Lumic''': I will upgrade [[Tempting Fate|only with my last breath]].

::'''Cyberman''': [[Literal Genie|Then breathe no more]]. ''*disconnects apparatus*'' }}

* In the ''[[Lost]]'' Season 4 finale, Ben kills Keamy with Keamy's own knife. It also works on a metaphorical level; killing Keamy has the result of killing everyone on the freighter, including innocent people; Ben had been avoiding killing innocents until Keamy "changed the rules" by killing Alex. Thus Keamy dies by his own weapon and as a result of his own actions.

* On an episode of ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'', a killer was captured in Canada, with the defense arguing that he shouldn't be extradited, because he could be executed for the murder upon return to the US. (The Canadian government is politically opposed to the death penalty.) When the judge asks if that wouldn't result in Canada becoming a haven for American killers, the attorney says that's only a theoretical possibility and shouldn't influence the decision. Then ADA Alex Cabot announces they only want to extradite the perpetrator for kidnapping and car theft, which aren't capital crimes. When the defense complains that it's just a ploy so they can get him back to the US and then charge him with murder, the judge ([[Magnificent Bastard|with obvious amusement]]) [[Ironic Echo|points out that it's just a theoretical possibility which won't necessarily influence his decision]]. Owned!