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** 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.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'':
** In the Death-T arc of the manga, Mokuba a good example of why it is ''not'' a good idea to recycle your schemes. He tries to defeat Yugi in Capsule Monsters with the same underhanded trick that didn't work the ''first'' time and only fails ''worse''.
** Inverted and downplayed in Battle City arc, Marik's duel against Mai, Marik tries to set up the same combo (Jam Defender plus Jam Breeding Machine) he used against Yami through Strings, likely to summon Ra. Doesn't work this time; Mai is able to tear the lock down with ease.
== Comic Books ==
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* This is inverted in the Polish comic series ''Kajko i Kokosz''. The villain Hegemon likes to reuse a simple plan of capturing the heros' village: build a siege tower and use it to get his soldiers over the village wall. He also has the habit of setting fire to the tower after everyone else has climbed to the top so none of his men dare retreat. This means that he has to rebuild the tower every time he recycles the plan. The trope is played straight with the heroes who will use a different method every time they have to foil his plan.
* Invoked in ''[[Superman|Adventures of Superman #520]]'': on Christmas Eve, 100 criminals plot to commit acts of theft at midnight; rounding up the criminals strains the resources of the police, even with Superman's help. Supes and the Metropolis P.D. have to round up every single criminal in order to hammer home the message that this type of scheme doesn't work because if word got out of its success, criminals in other cities without a big name superhero could overwhelm the local police by copycatting the original 100.
* [[The Joker]]. Everything he does is for the sake of comedy - or to be specific, his sick opinion of what's funny - and seeing as a joke isn't as funny the second time you tell it, he never uses the same scheme twice.
== [[Film]] ==
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