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* ''[[Mazinger Z]]'': [[Big Bad]] Dr. Hell played straight it most of the time, coming up with a new [[Robeast]], weapon or device put Kouji or Mazinger Z through the wringer (Gromazen R9's acid blaster could melt Aphrodite A's armor, Kingdan X10 projected mirages, Holzon V3 set eathquakes off, Jinray S1 flew at Match 5, Aeros B2 could absorb Mazinger's attacks and hurling them back, Desma A1 caused hallucinations, Gumbina M5 was nearly impervious to all Mazinger's weapons...) and then he never again used it. However, sometimes he averted the trope, improving some old weapon or reusing formerly intended strategies.
* Orochimaru of ''[[Naruto]]'' had the ability to bring any dead person [[Back From the Dead]] and under his control which can only be killed by sealing its soul away, for the cost of any other one person ([[We Have Reserves|which he would gladly give up]]). Yet he only uses it one time.
** The scheme '''is''' eventually recycled on a mass scale later on and, true to the trope, is quickly figured out by the heroes, until the technique brings back multiple [[Physical God
** To clarify, its used by his [[Bastard Understudy]] Kabuto for the puroposes of global war. Oro was crippled following that fight took several hundred chapters / episodes to recover, so he never really had the ''chance'' to use it again. It could also be a question of their different fighting styles- Oro used it mainly for psychological warfare, and he is ''more'' than willing and able to take on some of the toughest characters in the series man to man-, or that Oro is more [[Genre Savvy]] since most of these zombies are beaten by teamwork relatively easily (Oro used used them to overwhelm a single powerful opponent) and Kabuto is implied to overestimate how effective the jutsu actually is, especially since many of the zombies actually [[Explaining Your Power to the Enemy|tell their opponents how to beat them]] because they just don't like being controlled, or don't want to hurt their old teammates.
* While played straight for the most part in ''[[Samurai Pizza Cats]]'', one episode Big Cheese decided to build a giant killer robot that was an amalgam of every single one of the giant killer robots they used before. Not only did it look even more ridiculous than usual, but it was destroyed rather unceremoniously when Lucille panicked and unloaded her missile hairdo on it.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In the ''Timemaster'' game, the primary alien villains never reused a plan. And in a time travel game, you really ''could'' keep trying until you got it right. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] by said aliens being obsessed with "perfection"
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== Western Animation ==
* Plankton from ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''. "I've used every plan from A to Y!" He then proceeds to use Plan Z.
* Averted in the [[Looney Tunes|Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote cartoons]]. Wily frequently reuses his plans, either in that short or in the following ones, to the point that most episodes start with a bowl of "Free Birdseed" in the middle of the road. If the Road Runner didn't stop for [[Schmuck Bait|suspiciously free birdseed]] ''every time'', most of the Coyote's schemes ''wouldn't even begin''. It's rather redundant since they never, ever succeed no matter what, and many of his failures aren't actually a result of any flaw in his plan or anything the Road Runner
* Non-villainous, [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] example: in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode ''Today I Am A Clown'', Maggie has locked herself in the bathroom. The family try various ways to get her out including using a coat hanger. All attempts to open the door fail. The family is just about to try their zaniest scheme yet when Lisa announces she got Maggie out. Everyone asks how. Lisa replies, "I tried the coathanger again. I don't understand why we only try things once."
* ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' seemed to not only use each plan once, but would often consider the plan a failure if the ''funding stage'' failed. Brain then [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade on this]] by spending one episode trying to find new methods when he thinks all his old plans amount to the same thing...
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* The plans of Koopa in ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'' were always foiled because the heroes just happened to be around whenever he carried out his plan. If Koopa ever went back and tried again after the heroes left he could have succeeded.
* In one episode of ''[[Superfriends]]'', Braniac uses a super vacuum to suck the ring right off Green Lantern's finger. ''He never uses this again'' despite it being capable of ''immediately disabling one of the most powerful Superfriends''.
** ''Challenge of the Superfriends'' was notorious for this. The Legion of Doom would come up with matter teleporters, time travel devices, and all matter of wonder
* Dr. Wily in the Ruby-Spears ''[[Mega Man (animation)|Mega Man]]'' show never repeated a plan. Sometimes [[Justified]] by Dr. Light coming up with a counter to whatever he had tried.
** In "Cold Steel" he ''tried'' to recover his device so he could start the plan over later, but Mega Man stopped him.
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