History BatmanGambit / Superman

* ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfLuthor'': Subverted. Luthor declares he will use his knowledge of feminine psychology to get rid of Supergirl, but his chosen method to lure her into a trap -a baby buggy dashing down the street- would have worked with any male hero.
* Superman pulled one of these on ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, and himself in ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004''. After rescuing ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} from being a Female Fury, Supes inducts her as an official hero and sort of parades her around Earth. Angered about losing his prize, Darkseid comes to Earth and seemingly vaporizes her with his Omega Beams. Superman goes apeshit over losing her and beats Darkseid to a pulp and seals him inside the Source Wall. Superman then meets with ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, who used a device to teleport away at the last second, and reports that the plan was successful. They were able to goad Darkseid into coming to fight them personally, and the mere ''sight'' of Supergirl's seeming death was able to trigger Superman's UnstoppableRage so he could curb stomp Darkseid's ass. Batman muses that the plan had no input from him, it was all Clark, and it was brilliant.

* A double subversion occurs in ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #304. Supergirl encounters Black Flame, a woman who seems to be a super-powered Kryptonian, in the process of some rather destructive vandalism. The villainess claims she's from the distant future of the year 4000, and "invites" Supergirl to view her time using a computerized exhibition device. It shows the heroine a terrible future where Black Flame extorts wealth from thousands of worlds (as in, she can blow them to little pieces if they don't comply). Worst part: she's Supergirl's direct descendent, "Supergirl XXV", and the citizens of this distant future despise the first one just as much for starting this hated family line. Supergirl is naturally very upset, and after pursuing numerous leads (she senses something fishy here) including visiting the bottled city of Kandor, and eventually decides to unearth a chuck of gold kryptonite, and use it to erase her own powers, eliminating the possibility she could pass them down to a descendant, in effect, making Black Flame RetGone. Then Black Flame appears with a cruel laugh, revealing her ''true'' identity, that of an assistant of a criminal from the Kandor who was interred in the Phantom Zone. Black Flame had set up the plan out of revenge, leaving Kandor and using something called Red-K to increase her size, then pulled the ruse ''hoping'' Supergirl would depower herself. After listening to the powerless heroine her beg a little, she shoves Supergirl into a pit of quicksand and watches her drown. Or so it seems. [[spoiler: Black Flame gets a big surprise as the Red-K wears off, shrinking herself to normal size, because Supergirl actually figured the plan out, and was [[OutGambit outgambitting her]] with her own BatmanGambit; now that she's shrunk, Supergirl grabs her, showing her the - fake - chuck of gold kryptonite and shoving her inside a make-up compact that holds a few minute grains of ''real'' gold kryptonite. As she ships the criminal back to Kandor, the last panel of the story shows the one flaw in Black Flame's plan - a cavity in her teeth with a dental filling that Supergirl noticed while investigating records in a Kandor dental clinic, something a superpowered descendant would not have]].

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'''Superman:''' ''"I was depending on Batman to notice something. That's not a gamble. That's a plan."''

{{Batman Gambit}}s seen in ''Franchise/{{Superman}}''.

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* Superman pulled one of these on ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, and himself in ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004''. After rescuing Franchise/{{Supergirl}} from being a Female Fury, Supes inducts her as an official hero and sort of parades her around Earth. Angered about losing his prize, Darkseid comes to Earth and seemingly vaporizes her with his Omega Beams. Superman goes apeshit over losing her and beats Darkseid to a pulp and seals him inside the Source Wall. Superman then meets with ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, who used a device to teleport away at the last second, and reports that the plan was successful. They were able to goad Darkseid into coming to fight them personally, and the mere ''sight'' of Supergirl's seeming death was able to trigger Superman's UnstoppableRage so he could curb stomp Darkseid's ass. Batman muses that the plan had no input from him, it was all Clark, and it was brilliant.

* Superman pulled one of these on ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, and himself in ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004''. After rescuing ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} from being a Female Fury, Supes inducts her as an official hero and sort of parades her around Earth. Angered about losing his prize, Darkseid comes to Earth and seemingly vaporizes her with his Omega Beams. Superman goes apeshit over losing her and beats Darkseid to a pulp and seals him inside the Source Wall. Superman then meets with Supergirl, who used a device to teleport away at the last second, and reports that the plan was successful. They were able to goad Darkseid into coming to fight them personally, and the mere ''sight'' of Supergirl's seeming death was able to trigger Superman's UnstoppableRage so he could curb stomp Darkseid's ass. Batman muses that the plan had no input from him, it was all Clark, and it was brilliant.

* ''ComicBook/BatmanSupermanWorldsFinest'': When Superman seals himself in a cave together with the devil Nezha, the heroes are despairing...until Batman realizes the Phantom Zone Projector, which Superman used to try to send Nezha into the Phantom Zone, is missing. Quickly the group hurry back to the dimensional tear which was created when Nezha tore his way out of the Zone, and pull Superman out. When Batman comment Superman's gambit was very risky, his old buddy replies that a plan which relies on Batman noticing something isn't a gambit. It is strategy.
-->'''Batman:''' ''"That was a Hell of a gamble."''\\

!!''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''

* Superman pulled one of these on ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}, ''and himself'' in ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004''. After rescuing ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} from being a Female Fury, Supes inducts her as an official hero and sort of parades her around Earth. Angered about losing his prize, Darkseid comes to Earth and seemingly vaporizes her with his Omega Beams. Superman goes apeshit over losing her and beats Darkseid to a pulp and seals him inside the Source Wall. Superman then meets with Supergirl, who used a device to teleport away at the last second, and reports that the plan was successful. They were able to goad Darkseid into coming to fight them personally, and the mere ''sight'' of Supergirl's seeming death was able to trigger Superman's UnstoppableRage so he could curb stomp Darkseid's ass. Batman muses that the plan had no input from him, it was all Clark, and it was brilliant.

!!''Franchise/{{Superman}}''

* In ''ComicBook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'', when Franchise/{{Superman}} shoves ComicBook/LexLuthor's robot into the ground, the mecha's head detaches from the body and blasts off. Superman flies after it and discovers that it is a decoy. Meanwhile, Lex gets away laughing loudly.

* In ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 2005 story arc]]'' "Girl Power", Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman have to spot an imposter Supergirl. Superman hits both Supergirls, assuming that his real cousin will not retaliate. His plan fails because both girls fight back.

* In "ComicBook/EscapeFromThePhantomZone", ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} taunts and baits Xa-Du until he becomes so mad that he blurts out that he lied to his minions about getting them out of the PhantomZone. His minions, who let Xa-Du slaughter plenty of them to fuel his power, believing he would set the survivors free, are not ''amused''. Realizing that he has been baited and his minions have turned against him, Xa-Du gets angrier at Babs, who reminds him that she ''told'' she ''knew'' his kind.