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* In ''The Loud House'', Luan Loud becomes one of these every April 1st. In "April Fools Rules" she rigs the entire Loud household and even outside of it with elaborate [[Crazy Awesome]] pranks for her own amusement, watches the pranks go off on their victims with diabolical glee (and bad puns, of course), is [[Crazy Prepared]] for nearly everything, pulls one big [[Batman Gambit]] on Lincoln by inviting Ronnie Anne to come over on that day (ensuring he takes all the pranks willingly) and [[Karma Houdini|gets away with all of it in the end.]] Her second pranking spree in "Fool's Paradise" starts with a well thought-out plan to get her family into a motel where she could then trap them into dangerous pranks that she'd already set up there, the whole affair playing out as a G-rated ''Saw'' movie with Luan as the [[Diabolical Mastermind]]. During her third one, she completely [[Out-Gambitted]] her family's plan by paying the stunt doubles they hired to put them on humiliating situations, before finally being [[Out-Gambitted]] herself when her family makes a plan to [[Xanatos Speed Chess|prank her back]] by pretending they're moving away due to their maligned reputations.
* In ''The Loud House'', Luan Loud becomes one of these every April 1st. In "April Fools Rules" she rigs the entire Loud household and even outside of it with elaborate [[Crazy Awesome]] pranks for her own amusement, watches the pranks go off on their victims with diabolical glee (and bad puns, of course), is [[Crazy Prepared]] for nearly everything, pulls one big [[Batman Gambit]] on Lincoln by inviting Ronnie Anne to come over on that day (ensuring he takes all the pranks willingly) and [[Karma Houdini|gets away with all of it in the end.]] Her second pranking spree in "Fool's Paradise" starts with a well thought-out plan to get her family into a motel where she could then trap them into dangerous pranks that she'd already set up there, the whole affair playing out as a G-rated ''Saw'' movie with Luan as the [[Diabolical Mastermind]]. During her third one, she completely [[Out-Gambitted]] her family's plan by paying the stunt doubles they hired to put them on humiliating situations, before finally being [[Out-Gambitted]] herself when her family makes a plan to [[Xanatos Speed Chess|prank her back]] by pretending they're moving away due to their maligned reputations.
* In the 2017 reboot of ''[[DuckTales]]'', Scrooge's old flame and "ex-everything," Goldie O'Gilt, is a beautiful, conniving treasure hunter who rivals Scrooge himself in sheer wit and tenacity. Lacking Scrooge's scruples and possessed of a penchant for betrayal, Goldie has backstabbed Scrooge countless times to leave him in the wake of danger while she constantly walks off untouched. In her debut episode, Goldie plays both Scrooge and Flintheart in her pursuit of the Golden Lagoon, using Scrooge to locate the Lagoon for her before managing to fake her death with the Eye of Demogorgon and making off with the treasure herself, completely untouched in the end. Even through their constant quarreling and rivalry, Goldie and Scrooge retain a fierce, mutual respect for each other, with Goldie always knowing Scrooge will make it out alive out of whatever conundrum she leaves him in and Scrooge acknowledging her as his greatest [[Worthy Opponent]].
* In the 2017 reboot of ''[[DuckTales]]'', Scrooge's old flame and "ex-everything," Goldie O'Gilt, is a beautiful, conniving treasure hunter who rivals Scrooge himself in sheer wit and tenacity. Lacking Scrooge's scruples and possessed of a penchant for betrayal, Goldie has backstabbed Scrooge countless times to leave him in the wake of danger while she constantly walks off untouched. In her debut episode, Goldie plays both Scrooge and Flintheart in her pursuit of the Golden Lagoon, using Scrooge to locate the Lagoon for her before managing to fake her death with the Eye of Demogorgon and making off with the treasure herself, completely untouched in the end. Even through their constant quarreling and rivalry, Goldie and Scrooge retain a fierce, mutual respect for each other, with Goldie always knowing Scrooge will make it out alive out of whatever conundrum she leaves him in and Scrooge acknowledging her as his greatest [[Worthy Opponent]].
* In ''[[Voltron]]'': ''Legendary Defender'', Prince Lotor quickly ascends to the position after his father's disappearance, easily besting Throk in battle and also a master of portraying himself as a benevolent ruler who many planets would prefer to risking rebellion with Voltron. He goes on to launch a highly audacious [[Xanatos Gambit]] involving a parallel reality, and sure enough one of the ways he could win pans out.
* In ''[[Voltron]]'': ''Legendary Defender'', Prince Lotor quickly ascends to the position after his father's disappearance, easily besting Throk in battle and also a master of portraying himself as a benevolent ruler who many planets would prefer to risking rebellion with Voltron. He goes on to launch a highly audacious [[Xanatos Gambit]] involving a parallel reality, and sure enough one of the ways he could win pans out. He eventually forges an alliance with the Voltron Coalition, managing to save the life of Keith and the even the entire crew at least twice and even killing his father, Emperor Zarkon, in a battle. Beating out Sendak and all other challengers for Zarkon's throne, Lotor becomes the new ruler of the Galra Empire and, keeping the alliance with the Coalition going, persuades Princess Allura into assisting him in unlocking the Quintessence Field of Oriande, where Lotor sought to power his Sincline ships, specially made to form into a new defender robot, in order to bring about his own rule over the galaxy, where he could position himself as a benevolent peacemaker despite wishing to expand a new Altean Empire and wipe the universe clean of all who were opposed to him and he felt were unneeded in his new reign. Believing his cause to be noble, having a very sincere affection for Altean culture and Allura that he used to his best advantage in order to win the princess over to his side, and possessing such charisma, intellect, and firm convictions that he even had the Paladins fooled, Lotor proved far more dangerous than his father ever was.
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