Playing Both Sides: Difference between revisions

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If a leadership of both sides is [[Playing Both Sides]], that's [[Running Both Sides]].

Overlaps with [[False Flag Operation]].

Overlaps with [[False-Flag Operation]].

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** And ''Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo'', which was also inspired by ''Yojimbo''.

** And ''[[Last Man Standing (Film)|Last Man Standing]]'', which was also inspired by ''Yojimbo''.

** And ''Sukiyaki Western Django'', which was inspired by ''[[A ~~Fistfulof~~ Dollars]]'' which was inspired by ''Yojimbo''.

** And ''Sukiyaki Western Django'', which was inspired by ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'' which was inspired by ''Yojimbo''.

* ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies (Film)|Tomorrow Never Dies]]'': This is exactly what Elliot Carver's plan is. He intends to use the impending war between Britain and China to gain exclusive broadcast rights in China for himself, deliberately amping up the tension himself the entire time. The plot is not uncommon in ''[[James Bond (Film)|James Bond]]'' films: it's also SPECTRE's plan in ''[[You Only Live Twice (Film)|You Only Live Twice]]'', Stromberg's plan in ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me (Film)|The Spy Who Loved Me]]'' (in both cases to start a nuclear conflict between the US and USSR), and Koskov's plan in ''[[The Living Daylights (Film)|The Living Daylights]]'' (getting the British and Soviet intelligence agencies to duke it out while he gets away with his scam).

* ''[[Lucky Number Slevin]]'' turns a gang warfare into a full-blown [[Kansas City Shuffle]].

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* In [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[American Gods (Literature)|American Gods]]'', {{spoiler|the [[Batman Gambit]] Odin and Loki have been working on together is to goad the home-grown modern gods into fighting the immigrant gods to the death, so both Odin and Loki could feed off ensuing battle}}.

* ''[[The Sum of All Fears]]'' contains a plot of this sort in both book and movie form.

* #9 of ''[[The Thirty Six Stratagems]]'' is practically this.

* #9 of ''[[The Thirty-Six Stratagems]]'' is practically this.

* ''[[Honor Harrington (Literature)|Honor Harrington]]'' has {{spoiler|Mesa}} doing this to Manticore and Haven for a variety of reasons. Things are starting to come unravelled as of the latest books though.

* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'': Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish's preferred Modus Operandi.

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* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' season 4, the part-man, part-demon, part-robot Adam incites violence between soldiers and demons in order to get a big pile of body parts for making more monsters like himself.

* In the ''[[The X Files]]'' episode "Kill Switch", the AI sets up two rival drug gangs to have a shoot out in order to kill the real target, the hacker trying to get at the AI. And that's the AI's sense of humor.

* In the ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]'' serial "Frontier in Space", the Daleks exacerbate tensions between Earth and the Draconians, hoping to spark a war that will weaken both sides and allow the Daleks to conquer both empires.

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial "Frontier in Space", the Daleks exacerbate tensions between Earth and the Draconians, hoping to spark a war that will weaken both sides and allow the Daleks to conquer both empires.

* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' once featured a Charles Manson [[Expy]] who intended to spark a race war between Caucasians and Native Americans.

* ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'': In season 4, Crichton and his shipmates incite a riot between the techs (Kalish) and soldiers (Charrids) of the bad guys (Scarrans) to cover their escape.

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