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:* The Time Lords created a method for saving themselves from the Time War by implanting a signal {{spoiler|in the Master, which drove him insane}}. No surprise he eventually causes the undoing of their plan by turning on them {{spoiler|and helping the Doctor save ''everything'' else from the Time Lords' plan}}.
:* Then there's the Plasmavore from "Smith and Jones", who had been hiding from Judoon scanners by feeding on humans and incorporating their DNA. Then the Doctor lets her feed on him, and as we (especially those Judoon scanners) all know, ''he's not human, either''.
:* Weeping Angels are fiends that can only attack you if you aren't looking directly at them. If you are, they're statues, if you aren't, well, nobody ever survives long enough to find out. In "Blink", the Tenth Doctor tricks a pack of them by surrounding the TARDIS and telling his two allies to activate it, sending it into the past; the Weeping Angels are thus tricked into looking at each other, trapping them in their stone form - possibly forever.
* 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!
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