Hoist by His Own Petard/Video Games: Difference between revisions

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* Can occur in a interesting way in [[Ape Escape]] 3: Certain monkeys can do a special attack that knocks the player on his/her butt and drop their equipped item. It's limited to the Stun-Club [[Oh Crap|and the Monkey-Net]]. If, let's say, get's caught by your own monkey-net, what do you think happens? You get sent back to the hub-level. [[Hoist by His Own Petard|Truly hoisted by the player's own petard!]]

* Stross of ''[[Dead Space 2]]'' pulls a [[Face Heel Turn]] to start the third act of the game. He does so by poking [[Action Girl]] Ellie's [[Eye Scream|eye out with a screwdriver]]. When he goes to do the same thing to [[Player Character|Isaac]], Stross promptly [[Cutscene Boss|gets the same screwdriver]] [[Karmic Death|pierced into his brain]].

** Plays the trope straight in that, if the Petard is attacked and killed, the unit explodes anyway, leading to a literal case of [[Hoist by His Own Petard]].

** Spamming these is a quick way to take down most buildings, and don't worry, [[We Have Reserves]] .

** Nitro Splicers plus the [[Mind Over Matter|Telekinesis Plasmid]] is a very literal example of this trope.

* In ''[[Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia]]'', Dracula's power is borrowed to form the Dominus Glyph. Shanoa kills him with it.

** Bowser's plots in those two games to create an "evil empire" are above his station and full of flaws, but the biggest monkey wrench to his plans is holding Princess Peach in his clutches, as he wants her to rule alongside him. While it used to help the trouble he caused in the classic Super Mario games remain intact as Princess Peach was the only one who could break the spells, now it does nothing but increase Mario's chance of foiling Bowser's self-deluded, inevitably doomed plot.

** In the ''[[Mario & Luigi]]'' series, many enemy attacks could be countered by sending their own attacks back to them.

* ''[[StarCraft II]]'': Wings of Liberty, Raynor was able to recover an old recording of Mengsk's " [[Bastardly Speech|I will rule this sector" speech]]. Then broadcast it by using Mengsk's own media.

** Even better: The operation was supported by the [[Awesome Yet Impractical]] [[Humongous Mecha|Odin]] that Mengsk commissioned as a publicity stunt and was being piloted by Tychus Findley {{spoiler|whom Mengsk himself released and sent to Raynor as [[The Mole]] to assassinate Kerrigan.}}

** In ''Might & Magic VIII'', the Regnan pirates are taking advantage of the chaos in a major way. You get to Regna by hijacking the submarine they had used to stealthily resupply one of their outposts. Once there, you sink a good chunk of the Regnan fleet while it is in harbour by means of a Regnan prototype super-cannon, intended (once they'd made a version that could fit on a ship) to ensure the Empire of the Endless Ocean's complete dominance over the seas.

* In ''[[Luigi's Mansion]]'', one of the portrait ghosts, Slim Bankshot, is a billiards master. He'll shoot billiards around the room when you enter, and very rarely, one of them will hit him as he walks around the table.

* In ''[[Wild ARMs]]'', the demon Berserk lures the heroes into some ruins that happen to have a device that amplifies a demon's powers, with the intent of taking out the heroes with the increased power. Unfortunately for him, a rather trigger happy ally of the heroes happens to be in the same room as the device that controls the amplifier, and proceeds to break the crap out of it (despite not knowing what it does). The result: Berserk actually gets WEAKER, allowing the humans to defeat him. As is typical with this trope, he didn't even NEED the power boost; Berserk was more than strong enough to take them as he was, having toyed with them in the previous encounter(s) with him. Had he fought them elsewhere and seriously, he would've killed them easily.

* In ''[[Pikmin]] 2'', a new enemy called the Decorated Cannon Beetle shoots boulders that home in on the current captain. It's entirely possible to manipulate the boulders into hitting the Cannon Beetle or other enemies in the area. See [[Misguided Missile]].

** In Moscow, Thorton can forge an alliance with a rival band of covert operatives, G22, who will agree to sell him weapons and intel for his future missions. Very shortly, however, he can decide to go with a different handler for a critical mission, which makes G22 his enemies. This decision, however, will not be made until ''after'' Thorton has had the opportunity to buy all of G22's intel for the mission, including a strategically placed sniper rifle that he can use to kill dozens of their agents.

* In ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]]'' ''VI'', {{spoiler|Uriel}} manipulates Anastasya into killing her own father (kicking off the plot of the game) with dark magic through a comb he gave her as a gift. Once Anastasya discovers the truth and masters her powers as a Necromancer, she uses their mental connection to attack his mind. {{spoiler|Since Uriel was currently engaged in battle with demons at the time, this leads directly to his death.}}