Out-Gambitted: Difference between revisions

*** Which is to say Thrawn figured out the real target was Bilbringi and planned accordingly. But he ''wasn't'' counting on the [[Neutral No Longer|Smugglers' Alliance]] to join the war and, assuming that the Republic was striking at Tangrene, plan their ''own'' attack on Bilbringi which just happened to coincide with the Republic's offensive and helped turn certain defeat into a crushing victory. A case of a cunning plan being defeated by a cunning-er plan [[Spanner in the Works|but rescued by a]] ''[[Gambit Pileup|botched]]'' [[Gambit Pileup|plan]].

*** Which could still have turned out to be an Imperial victory if {{spoiler|Rukh didn't kill Thrawn}}.

** Though it should be noted that Sauron was ultimately right - ''no-one'' has the willpower to destroy [[Artifact of Doom|the One Ring]]. It's the interference of fate, in other words of [[God|Eru Ilúvatar]] that ultimately results in Sauron's fall.

*** [[The Plan]] against [[God]](s) may be futile as [[Power Level|power levels]] don't work very well when dealing with infinity. If dealing with an omni-intelligent god, It'd be irrelevant, as [[Carl Sagan]] once noted: 'a Googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number One'.

* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' Princess Celestia defeats Discord's efforts to keep the Elements of Harmony powerless by returning all of Twilight's friendship aesop letters, which convinces Twilight to fight for her bonds with her friends. Yes, Celestia outwitted a [[Reality Warper]] spirit of chaos by ''mailing a bunch of letters''.

* In ''[[Generator Rex]]'', all of the villains who spent the entire series scheming to obtain the Meta-Nanites, the keys to godhood, {{spoiler|were outmaneuvered before the series even began. The Salazars -- Cesar and his parents -- had programmed the Meta-Nanites in such a way that only Rex could tap into their full power.}}

 

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