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{{smallcapssmall-caps|To best illustrate this concept, examples should be straight uses, with only some [[Playing with a Trope|playing with them]]}}.
* [[All Just a Dream]] has quite a broad scope. It can be used for a single scene (the use least likely to annoy fans), entire episodes, entire seasons (''[[Dallas]]''), or even [[Mind Screw|the entire series]] (''[[St. Elsewhere]]''). It can be a regular dream (''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''), a [[Cuckoos Nest|psychotic delusion]] told by an [[Unreliable Narrator]] (''[[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]]''), or even a "simulation" (''[[Family Guy]]''; 6th season, episodes 4th and 5th). ''[[Newhart]]'' managed to make fun of this, ''and'' [[Up to Eleven|crank it up even further]] by claiming that series was the dream of a character (played by the same actor) in ''another series''.
* [[Xanatos Gambit]] and [[Batman Gambit]] are both about specific types of ingenious plans. The thing is there is nothing saying they have to be of a certain scale. Using these plans could involve just getting a promotion from your boss, to world conquest.
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