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* Ash's plan to become a [[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]] [[To Be a Master|Master?]]

{{quote|Phase 1: Collect badges.

Phase 4: Pokémon Master! }}

** Really, it's never even shown whether or not he even knows what he's doing at this point.

Phase 6: Profit. }}

* [[Kuragehime|Kuranosuke]]'s plan to stop the tearing down of the Amamizu-kan café:

Phase 3: Amamizu-kan saved }}

* The title character of ''[[Shinryaku! Ika Musume]]'' has come up with a [[Take Over the World]] plot which goes like this:

'''Lone Star''': Extremely. And more importantly, I don't even know how I'm gonna do it. }}

* ''[[Plan 9 from Outer Space]]'':

Phase 3: Earth is no longer attempting to split the photon, and the universe doesn't explode. }}

* Harry Osborn's plan in ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man 3]]'':

* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' had a sketch where a bank just made change, nothing else. When asked how they managed to stay in business, the spokesman replied, "Volume".

* In the ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode "Midway" the Wraith plan seem to be:

Phase 3: Eat the defenseless humans! }}

** They actually got very ''close'' to fulfilling their plan in the final episode, due to finally being able to link a ZPM with a Wraith hive ship. Said ship was ''unstoppable'', and even Asgard beam weapons (who had previously taken out the much more advanced ''Ori'' ships in a few shots) had little effect. If John hadn't flown his 302 into it and detonated a nuke, they would have conquered Earth.

* ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star FOX]] Assault''. When Team Star Fox finds an Aparoid Core Memory that could show them the location of the Aparoid homeworld, Pigma Dengar nabs it. [[You Will Be Assimilated|That doesn't turn out well for him.]]

{{quote|Step 1: Steal this weird thing that Star Fox wants

Step 4: Profit }}

* ''[[Recordshop Tycoon]]'' plays this trope straight: Under the "The Office > Marketing Menu > Prices", you see a convenient illustration: Step One: Karma and Average Selling Price. Step 2: ? Step 3: Profit

* Megaman's Dr. Wily's plan for world Domination can be expressed as:

{{quote|Step 1:Create as many as 8 battle robots

Step 5:WORLD DOMINATION!!! }}

* Dr. Ned in [[Borderlands]] indicates he is going to do evil for the sake of profit. Evil seems to be raising the undead for recreational use. Later on he admits that step two never materialized and he's broke.

* When Freddie the Flying Fetus asks [[Bob the Angry Flower]] to fill in the missing steps in his plan, he actually does so. [http://www.angryflower.com/bigpla.gif Sort of].

* In ''[[Freefall]]'', [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Kornada´s]] "plan" seems to go like this:

4. [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1700/fc01661.htm Profit]. }}

** Kornada has an excuse, by the way. He's a high-ranking management official for the company, and based on the way corporations seem to be run in the Freefall universe, [[Kicked Upstairs|it's unlikely he was ever competent at anything]].

'''Riff''': You sound excited.

'''Torg''': Two of me! Think of the possibilities!

'''Torg''': We could do a really cool Doublemint commercial! }}

** Also [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20050418 Riff]:

'''Phase 3:''' WORLD DOMINATION }}

** As an added note, here's his backup plan:

'''Phase 3:''' WORLD DOMINATION <ref>Arguably, this plan made more sense</ref> }}

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': "All I have to do is... figure out what I have to do. But after that, no problem!"

Live [[Happily Ever After]]. }}

* ''[[Freakazoid]]!'' [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshades]] this in a fight against a giant snake:

'''Phase 3:''' Make something up }}

* Brain's plans from ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' usually follow this route. He explains them as "implement some bizarre technological gizmo and rise to power in the ensuing confusion", never actually explaining how he was planning to seize power.

{{quote|'''Doof''': Eh, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. }}

** Yet another example, from "Mom Attractor":

Phase 3: '''Doof'''...and I somehow take over. [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?|It's foolproof!]] }}

* Homer Simpson has probably run through quite a few, but usually they're more [[Zany Schemes]] than this; however, he once ran an online business whose business plan was something like: