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** The Slitheen's plan in "Boom Town", which was designed in such a way that anyone capable of actually stopping it to begin with would ultimately put it back in motion anyway.
* Michael Scofield of ''[[Prison Break]]'' is amazingly good at these, though he keeps getting caught up in the [[Gambit Pileup]]s of those around him. A major example is in ''Hell Or High Water'', when his plan succeeds in helping him escape Sona and ridding himself of Bagwell, Bellick, and Lechero. It doesn't work out completely, unfortunately.
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* Virtually every episode of ''[[Yes Minister]]'' and ''Yes, Prime Minister'' features at least one Xanatos Gambit conducted by Sir Humphrey and/or Hacker.
* Of all people, Rita Repulsa of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' has one of these. In the season 3 two-parter "A Ranger Catastrophe", she carries out a typical "separate [[The Sixth Ranger|Tommy]] from his teammates, send down a [[Monster of the Week]]" plot, but the real aim of the plot is not necessarily to destroy the Rangers, but to ingratiate her spy, the brainwashed girl Kat, into the Rangers' social circle.
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** [[Batman Gambit|Unless that spy was meant to be revealed in the first place]] as [[Kansas City Shuffle|the setup for an even bigger plan]] [[Feed the Mole|based on the completely bogus information he's carrying to the enemy]]. This is one of many ways to utilize what [[Sun Tzu]] would have called a "doomed spy."
* Nixon going to China can be seen as one: his goal being to 'open it up' but a secondary goal achieved regardless of the first is faning Soviet fears of a China-America alliance which he exploited in later summits.
* In Real Life [[Stage Magician|Magic Tricks]], there is a technique called "[[wikipedia:
** [[Penn & Teller]] managed to load ''every card in a standard 52-card deck'' while performing on a beach. Some were hidden on their persons, some on nearby sunbathers' possessions, one in a potted palm tree
* In baseball contracts, there is a stipulation called a player option. If the player thinks he is worth more than the option, he can decline it and get a better deal. If the option exceeds the player's value, he exercises and gets maximum profit. This is the main reason why the option is rarely given out.
* Psychics, mediums, and other such frauds use a technique known as 'multiple outs' where they phrase their statements in such a way that they can be made to seem accurate no matter how the sitter responds. For example:
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