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Note that this only includes situations contrived or exploited by the player. If a stupid enemy simply keeps bouncing grenades off an obstacle and standing there as the grenades explode at its feet, that's [[Artificial Stupidity]]. When different preexisting factions of [[Mooks]] fight each other as well as the player character, that's a [[Melee a Trois]].
Compare [[Let's You and Him Fight]], the non-
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* In ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'', on the level Keyes, {{spoiler|after you find the flood infected captain}}, a HUGE amount of flood forms rush into the room. It's overwhelming, unless you realize you can open the door to the next area, which causes an equally irritating Covenant spec ops team to enter the room. Then hide in the back corner while the two sides waste each other.
* Military discipline amongst the Pfhor must be very lax, as ''Doom''-like tactics of friendly fire-induced infighting are a staple of ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'' gameplay, ''[[Halo]]'s'' predecessor series, made even more exploitable by a lack of ''Doom'''s species and ranged limitations, plus a number of [[Melee a Trois|preexisting grudges]]. Inducing such brawls in the ''Marathon'' series is eased by the fact that most enemies fire slow-moving projectiles. This tactic is probably the only reason the game is even winnable on [[Nintendo Hard|higher difficulty settings]].
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*** Even more so, Archviles will [[Karma Houdini|never receive retaliation]] from other monsters (or ''other'' Archviles, which ''can'' be hurt by the radius damage of their attacks) even if the Archvile directly attacks one with its sight-required immolation blast, but it is quick to go after any monster that can hurt it, ending it in a world of pain. Of course, being it's an evil healer, it can just resurrect the demons it kills after doing its job.
** In Level 8 of ''Doom 2'', one room contains a Cyberdemon, a good sixteen Barons of Hell and four Invincibility power-ups - grab an Invincibility and get the Cyberdemon's attention, then watch the battle royale ensue. Near the beginning of Level 20, a pair of platforms lower to reveal a Cyberdemon and Spider Mastermind which promptly attack you, though the level seems designed for you to trick them into fighting each other.
*** In fact, the Spider Mastermind seems ''designed'' to use monster infighting as his downfall; his main weapon is a chaingun which will provoke attack from anything else it
* ''[[Destroy All Humans!]]'' has the “Protect” command on hostiles in the first two games, and later the Zombie Gun.
* [[The Beast Master]] class in ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' is able to charm animals and monsters into fighting other enemies, including their own kind.
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* The ''[[Condemned]]'' series. If two enemies are in the same room together and they don't see you, they will probably attack each other instead of standing there. And you can angle yourself so if two enemies are attacking you one might hit the other one and they will attack each other. It makes sense in context, since all of your enemies are insane homeless poeple who don't have any loyalties to anybody.
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', Priests have Mind Control, which is pretty straightforward. It lets you take control of a hostile humanoid character for <s>about 30 seconds or until the Priest takes damage</s> a minute, though it can break earlier and damage done to the Priest will reduce its duration.
** ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' takes this one past mooks: one boss in Naxxramas is built on this trope. Said boss hits so hard he's
** There are actually several achievements for having a boss kill their lackeys by positioning them properly.
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 4'''s cleared game gives you access to the non-lethal emotion bullets, one of which enrages enemies into attacking anything nearby, be it friend or foe.
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* This can be induced with the Charm status ailment in the ''[[Tales (series)]]'', though thanks to [[Health Damage Asymmetry]], it's mostly useful for getting enemies to ignore you temporarily.
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=== Fan Works ===▼
* In ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', Ringo easily lures thousands of monster-starved skahs warriors down to the abandoned city of Ehndris and, later, to the Vasyn warehouse, where they are promised monsters in abundance. They joyously pile into the Raleka guarding the warehouse, allowing John and Ringo to get a head start in breaking into the warehouse via the roof.▼
** Also, in New Zork, Paul escapes the “Hitler Youth” by causing hundreds of screaming Beaglemaniacs to swamp them.▼
=== Film ===▼
* Mal Reynolds [[Kiting|kites]] a massive armada of reavers to fight an equally-massive armada of Alliance in ''[[Serenity]]''. His aim is to keep the Alliance busy so that he can {{spoiler|get the secret of Miranda out to the Verse}}.▼
* [[Lampshaded]] and [[Averted]] in ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089945/ Rustler's Rhapsody.]'' As the villains move to surround him, Rex says "You know, the way you've positioned yourselves, when the shooting starts you're liable to miss me and hit each other." The badguys look nervously at each other and them move back to their original positions.▼
=== Literature ===▼
* This turns up a couple of times in [[The Bible]]:▼
** Judges 7: Gideon, after having his 32,000 men pared down to 300 by weeding out the ones without good defensive instincts, gave each man a pitcher with torches inside and a shofar and told them to do like he did. When they reached the edge of the Midianite camp, he blew his shofar, and the others did the same, and they all broke their pitchers and shouted, "''The sword of G-d and of Gideon!" This set the Midianites fighting each other and fleeing.▼
** 1 Samuel 14: Jonathan and his armorbearer went up to fight the Philistines, reasoning that God is just as good at saving His people through a few as He is through many. By the time Saul and the 600 with him reached the battle, he found that the Philistines were fighting each other in their confusion.▼
*** In both cases, the trick was to wreak so much havoc that the defenders would be tricked into thinking that they had a much larger enemy to deal with than they actually did. (The “friendly fire isn't” principle is why the uniform was eventually invented.)▼
=== Mythology ===
* In the legend of Jason and the Argonauts, Jason defeats an army of soldiers grown from dragon's teeth by throwing a rock into their midst. In the manner of a cafeteria food fight, each believes the others have betrayed them, it snowballs, and they quickly slaughter each other. This makes this trope [[Older Than Feudalism]].
=== [[Tabletop RPG]] ===
* This is a common use for “Charm Person,” “Charm Monster,” “Suggestion,” and similar spells in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''.
** Though it does not guarantee success. The creature perceives you very favorably and can often be convinced to do things which are dangerous or out of character. Smart DM's make the players actually play out that use of Charisma, making this much less effective as a combat spell, and downright devastating out of combat.
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* The House of Mirrors spell in ''[[Unknown Armies]]'' makes everyone else present see ''everyone'' as the spell's target. Trigger-happy enemies can easily end up gunning each other down if they don't realize what's happening.
=== Toys ===
* In the climax of the 2008 [[Bionicle]] webserials, a group of Bohrok sleeping in the Archives of Metru Nui are awoken to take out the oncoming enemy horde of Rahkshi.
** And way back in 2003, when the Bohrok-Kal were introduced, Tahu led a swarm of reprogrammed Bohrok to take down Nuhvok Kal. Unfortunately, they were launched into space by Nuhvok-Kal's gravity power. The Rahkshi Kuhrak also uses its Staff of Anger to turn its foes against each other.
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* In ''[[Order of the Stick]]'', [[Big Bad|Xykon]] uses a {{spoiler|“Symbol of Insanity” spell, inscribed on a bouncy-ball, to cause a roomful of paladins to attack each other. For bonus points, when the single survivor momentarily regain her senses (as the effect is permanent), she [[Driven to Suicide|commits ritual suicide]].}}
* In ''[[Kid Radd]]'', G.I. Guy uses a skill to possess a bunny that called more bunnies faster than the heroes could defeat them. After using the bunny to attack its allies, he made it commit suicide, prompting a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] from Radd.
* ''[[Vexxarr]]'' once tried to mess with a Lattroxx space station, which he quickly dubbed "[[Bullet Hell|flak garden]]". Carl decided that approaching it exposes the ship to less guns at once, and ended up landing on its surface ''between'' two turrets. Then engaged cloak and took off, leading to both turrets expiring with [[Unsound Effect]] "Stupiiidiiityyy". So the station launched interceptor drones to scrape the invader off its hull... After escaping, Carl dubbed this "offensive camouflage".
▲== Literature ==
▲* This turns up a couple of times in [[The Bible]]:
▲** Judges 7: Gideon, after having his 32,000 men pared down to 300 by weeding out the ones without good defensive instincts, gave each man a pitcher with torches inside and a shofar and told them to do like he did. When they reached the edge of the Midianite camp, he blew his shofar, and the others did the same, and they all broke their pitchers and shouted, "''The sword of G-d and of Gideon!" This set the Midianites fighting each other and fleeing.
▲** 1 Samuel 14: Jonathan and his armorbearer went up to fight the Philistines, reasoning that God is just as good at saving His people through a few as He is through many. By the time Saul and the 600 with him reached the battle, he found that the Philistines were fighting each other in their confusion.
▲*** In both cases, the trick was to wreak so much havoc that the defenders would be tricked into thinking that they had a much larger enemy to deal with than they actually did. (The “friendly fire isn't” principle is why the uniform was eventually invented.)
▲== Film ==
▲* Mal Reynolds [[Kiting|kites]] a massive armada of reavers to fight an equally-massive armada of Alliance in ''[[Serenity]]''. His aim is to keep the Alliance busy so that he can {{spoiler|get the secret of Miranda out to the Verse}}.
▲* [[Lampshaded]] and [[Averted]] in [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089945/ Rustler's Rhapsody.] As the villains move to surround him, Rex says "You know, the way you've positioned yourselves, when the shooting starts you're liable to miss me and hit each other." The badguys look nervously at each other and them move back to their original positions.
▲== Fan Works ==
▲* In ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', Ringo easily lures thousands of monster-starved skahs warriors down to the abandoned city of Ehndris and, later, to the Vasyn warehouse, where they are promised monsters in abundance. They joyously pile into the Raleka guarding the warehouse, allowing John and Ringo to get a head start in breaking into the warehouse via the roof.
▲** Also, in New Zork, Paul escapes the “Hitler Youth” by causing hundreds of screaming Beaglemaniacs to swamp them.
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