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{{quote|'''Father Brown:''' For an intelligent murderer, such as you or I might be, it is an impossible plan to make sure that nobody is looking at you.
'''Flambeau:''' But what other plan is there?
'''Father Brown:''' There is only one... To make sure that everybody is looking at something else.
|''[[Father Brown|The God Of The Gongs]]''}}
{{quote|''"I will periodically send my assassins to kill random conspiracy nuts in suspicious-looking ways. There is little danger that they will find out about my plans and no one would have believed them anyway, but the heroes will be convinced that they were killed for what they knew and will get so wrapped up in trying to foil my diabolical plan to [[Epileptic Trees|give all trees epilepsy]] that my real plans will go unchallenged. Plus it gives my assassins something to do."''
|[[All the Tropes Additional Evil Overlord Vows|All The Tropes Additional Evil Overlord Vow #84]] [[Additional Evil Overlord List Cellblock A|Cellblock A]] (see also sub-vows A - D)}}
Generally speaking, when you're a [[Diabolical Mastermind]] and you want to cover up [[Evil Plan|some kind of nefarious activity]], the general desire is to be low-key, go about one's business and [[Villain Ball|not attract undue attention]]. This is especially critical when you don't want the other guys to know that you're being nefarious all over their business. What's the point of breaking in and stealing the codebook if they know you have it and simply change the code? So you keep it simple, keep it quiet, don't rock the boat...
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* On ''[[Gargoyles]]'' [[Dragon with an Agenda|the Weird Sisters]] actually manage to get away with this: they have Demona and Macbeth steal the [[Time Travel|Phoenix Gate]], the [[A Darker Me|Eye of Odin]], the [[Spell Book|Grimorum Arcanorum]], and [[Cyborg|Coldstone]]'s body. As Coldstone is much larger and more noticeable, and as the other three objects were only being held by the Gargoyles to keep it out of other people's hands, they only initially notice Coldstone's absence, which was [[Batman Gambit|exactly what the Weird Sisters were hoping for]].
* On ''[[Young Justice]],'' [[Humanoid Abomination|Klarion]] and his allies cast a spell that splits the world in two, with one dimension for adults and one for children and teens. While the heroes are eventually able to trace the magic to its source and stop them, they fail to notice that in the confusion, [[Archnemesis Dad|Sportsmaster]] and [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|the Riddler]] {{spoiler|steal Starro's tissue sample from STAR Labs}}. Klarion's colleague [[Brain In a Jar|the Brain]] even [[lampshade]]s the fact that causing a ''world-wide catastrophe'' for the cover-up was "''[[Poirot Speak|peut-etre]]'' extreme," but that's Klarion for you.
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