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** Piccolo pulls one off against Imperfect Cell by tricking him into revealing who he is, how he was created and what his plan is by making him think that he is going to die after having all the energy in his right arm drained from Imperfect Cell.

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': During Ash's Full Battle with Paul in ''Petal to the Mettle!'' and ''Evolving Strategies!'', Paul does this throughout the battle such as having Torterra use Frenzy Plant to lock it in place and after Gliscor hits the Continent Pokémon with Fire Fang, X-Scissor and Steel Wing, Torterra recharges and grabs Gliscor's tail with Crunch, allowing Torterra to use Giga Drain. While Gliscor does free itself with Fire Fang on the vines, it's left very weakened. Paul tries these again during the Lily of the Valley rematch, but Ash and his team have gotten wise after their devastating defeat (Ash only beat Weavile with Staraptor and Ursaring with Weavile during the Lake Aucity match) and Ash foils these by switching out his Pokémon. He beats Aggron (Pikachu's counter) with Infernape, Gastrodon (Staraptor's counter) with Buizel, Ninjask (Gliscor's counter) with Infernape, Frosslass with Pikachu (the Mouse Pokémon's second counter), Drapion with Gliscor and Electivire with Infernape after the latter activates Blaze. Paul does claim he was using Aggron and Gastrodon to "figure out" Ash's strategy which lets his Drapion beat Buizel, Staraptor and Torterra, but considering this followed by the aformentioned "Ash foils Paul's counters" thing mentioned, it comes across as IMeantToDoThat.

** [[spoiler:In [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Part 6]], Ermes pulls one to defeat Sports Maxx for good. Having successfully killed him once before, his Stand's powers allowed him to be revived as a zombie and to also raise a zombie army. If that weren't enough, Sports and all his new troops are invisible, too. So Ermes leaves herself open to be attacked, counting on Sports Maxx wanting to finish her off personally. The moment he bites her head, Ermes puts a sticker on her head to make a copy of it with her brains still intact. When he removes the sticker, the chunk of her head he swallowed bursts from his chest and returns to her head, the resulting blood splatter letting her know exactly where he is.]]

** Donquixote Doflamingo has a penchant for this, which fits his [[PeoplePuppets puppetmaster powers]].His entire plan to [[spoiler:take over Dressrosa]] relied on the fact that the king would try to collect the money that Doflamingo demanded from him, instead of trying to fight back. The king, being the pacifist, obliged, which allowed Doflamingo [[spoiler:to demonize him in the eyes of his subjects and pose as as a saviour of people, after when he took over the country.]] Later, knowing that Luffy allied with Law, he starts a big gladiatorial competition [[spoiler:with [[PlayingWithFire the Mera-Mera fruit]] as a prize]], correctly guessing that Luffy would enter the competition [[spoiler: out of feelings for his brother]] and thus walk directly into his trap. He does this again when Luffy and Law make it to his castle -- this time he makes Bellamy fight Luffy, correctly guessing that even after he sent Dellinger to kill Bellamy, beaten him to near death and used him as a HumanShield, he would still fight Luffy out of his pride, while Luffy would hesitate to fight someone in his condition.