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* Blue (or Green, in the English version) in ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' pulls off at least one of these per story arc, some more complicated than others. [[Gambit Roulette|And some that are just plain]] [[Ass Pull|ass pulls]].
* The aptly named episode
* Falling astray of a vast mesh of [[Xanatos
** One ''[[Shadowrun]]'' adventure module has this fate befalling a friggin' dragon, previously the indisputable master of the technique. It's also worth remembering that ''Shadowrun'' is, along with ''[[Paranoia]]'', one of the few tabletop RPGs where it's perfectly acceptable to turn on the rest of the party.
** Special note goes to Dunkelzahn's [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to prevent the Horrors from invading the Earth. As anyone who played Earthdawn will point out, the Horrors managed to drive a few ''gods'' mad back in the Fourth World. So it's even odds whether Big D's plan is going to succeed or not.
* ''Survivor: One World'' had an Either/Or Gambit by Sabrina Thompson. Considered a serious threat to win the million against Kim Spradlin, no less ''by'' [[The Chessmaster]] herself, she pulled off the [[Scheherazade Gambit]] by threatening her with a [[Genghis Gambit]]. If she ended up on the jury, she would spin it as betraying an original ally just to piggyback on the sure thing ([[Spicy Latina]] Alicia). With the mood of the jury (especially Troyzan) at the Ponderosa, Kim would almost certainly be on the ouch end of a [[Humiliation Conga]]. There were no major incidents. Kim took Chelsea and Sabrina to the end and appeased the jury. And Sabrina got the silver for her efforts.
* Death, from the ''[[Final Destination]]'' series, does this. And boy, it is a ''big one!'' Brace yourselves... Death targets Sam (from ''Final Destination 5'', which is a prequel to the first ''Final Destination'') and Sam and his friends escape. Death, however, had planned for just such a thing to happen and after Candice (a friend of Sam) dies, her boyfriend Peter blames Molly, who survived in the original vision and goes after her; when Sam kills him, (after everyone else except Nathan, Peter, Sam and Molly are dead) Molly escapes Death, thus putting her on the list. So... guess where she and Sam go? Yep! Flight 180. Death later targets them there and blows up the plan. Alex Browning, from the ''first'' ''Final Destination'', sees this vision, panics and gets himself and his friends off. As they die off one by one, the people from ''Final Destination 2'' witness their deaths (from offscreen) and they are mentioned in ''Final Destination 2''. As it turns out, by witnessing the events of ''Final Destination'' meant that the people (from ''Final Destination 2'') escaped their actual deaths and were targeted on Route 23. Again, Kimberly, the protagonist, panics and gets them all off. Once again, Death has planned for this, goes backwards down the line and kills them all of, including Clear Rivers, the only survivor from ''Final Destination 1''. This is later mentioned in ''Final Destination 3'', and [[Word of God]] states that Kimberly and Thomas, the only survivors of ''Final Destination 2'', die five years later, just before the last three people of ''Final Destination 3'', thus sealing the really complicated rift created by their survival.
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