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{{trope}}
A person or group of people are invited to a social
An [[Old Dark House]] is an ideal place to pull this off.
In [[Real Life]], this is literally one of [[The Oldest Tricks in The Book]]
A subtrope of [[Lured into a Trap]]. Compare [[Reunion Revenge]], [[A Fete Worse Than Death]], [[Board to Death]] and [[Ten Little Murder Victims]].
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Lupin III]]'': "Return of Lupin III" (the first episode of the second series) features the
* A variation of this is shown in the ''[[×××HOLiC]]'' movie,
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' plays with the trope; the party isn't specifically to kill the participants, but the more people that gather there, the less likely it is that someone important will die in the summoning of an ancient witch.
* The opening chapter of ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' has a villain who uses magic to trick women into going to a party on his boat, then drugging them and selling them into slavery.
* In ''[[One Piece]]''
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
*
** Hey, [[Evil Gloating|gloating's]] ''fun''. And at least he ''tried'' to kill all the witnesses afterwards. That's more than most villains remember to do.
*** Doesn't explain why he had that insanely elaborate room built, with the rotating furniture, the scale models... oh, right -- [[Rule of Cool|Bond movie]]. I forgot.
* Several movies about [[The Mafia]], like ''[[The Godfather]]'' and ''[[Some Like It Hot]]''.
* The movie version of ''[[Clue (film)|Clue]]''
** With the twist that one of the guests, and not the host, is doing the killing {{spoiler|except in the "true" ending, where it turns out that ''all'' the guests save one and the host himself are murderers: they were invited by Mr. Boddy for the express purpose of killing his informants, conveniently cleaning up any evidence against him ''and'' ensuring they all had at least one new skeleton in the closet for Mr. Boddy to blackmail them for. Then it turns out that the ''one'' guest who was actually innocent is actually a federal agent, and he kills Mr. Boddy just as the cavalry arrives.}}
* ''[[I Still Know What You Did Last Summer]]'' has the villain Benjamin Willis concocting a convoluted plot to kill the heroine Julie and her friends; {{spoiler|first he has his son Will befriend Julie, then he has a fake radio contest in which Julie's friend Karla "wins" tickets to an island in the Bahamas, and while the group are on the island Willis starts taking out all the remaining employees so he can have Julie all to himself. Of course, things don't work out.}}
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* The Red Wedding in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''.
* Done several times in ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]''. Notable ones include Cai Mao's attempt on Liu Bei (unsuccessful), Zhuge Liang drugging a number of Nanman soldiers (they had been planning on using the banquet to make a surprise attack), and Zhou Yu's attempt on Liu Bei (also unsuccessful, as Liu Bei was accompanied by Guan Yu).
* [[Discworld]]:
** A strategy supposed to have been used by some Pictsie clans
** Also referenced as a strategy in ''[[
*** Though one of Cohen's fellow octogenarian barbarians says they could still pull it off, if they did something easy for dinner, "like pasta".
* The example above might be directly inspired by ''[[Conan]]''. In one story, he starts a fight in the middle of a victory feast, wiping out the warriors of the tribe they were allied with but no longer need to. Apparently, this form of betrayal is a local tradition and thus not dishonorable (Conan's men were simply faster to act).
* In the short story "Invitation to a Poisoning" by Peter Tremayne, the villain Nechtan invites all his enemies to dinner and then poisons
* In [[John Christopher]]'s post-apocalyptic young-adult novel ''The Prince In Waiting'', the protagonist's father (ruler of the city where the action is set) is invited to a gathering and murdered.
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: [[Xenophon]] records at least two:
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