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* GuiltTripping
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* RingerPloy: A gambit where everyone is disguised as the same person.
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Per TRS, this trope was merged with The Con


* MassiveMultiplayerScam: Engineered situations and several people are used in an elaborated [[TheCon con]].
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* If you get a site declared a landmark to save it, that's a LandmarkDeclarationGambit.


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* LandmarkDeclarationGambit
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* BatmanGambit

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* BatmanGambitBatmanGambit -- where the plan revolves around the victims doing what they naturally do.



* DespairGambit

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* DespairGambitDespairGambit -- where the villain tries to goad the hero into a DespairEventHorizon so they are vulnerable.



* WoundedGazelleGambit

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* WoundedGazelleGambitWoundedGazelleGambit -- where the plan revolves around pretending to be a victim of some sort of danger or injury to manipulate others.
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* MassiveMultiplayerScam: Engineered situations and several people are used in an elaborated [[TheCon con]].
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* If you think you won, but actually did exactly what the other person wanted, you are an UnwittingPawn - but simply furthering the plot doesn't qualify you as one.

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* If you think you won, but actually did exactly what the other person wanted, you are an UnwittingPawn - -- but simply furthering the plot doesn't qualify you as one.



** If someone plans to fail, and accidentally succeeds--in other words, they ''fail to fail'', then it's SpringtimeForHitler.

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** If someone plans to fail, and accidentally succeeds--in succeeds -- in other words, they ''fail to fail'', then it's SpringtimeForHitler.



* If the plan involves deliberately poisoning yourself or at least pretending to be poisoned in order to poison someone else, then it's a {{Self Poisoning Gambit}}.

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* If the plan involves deliberately poisoning yourself or at least pretending to be poisoned in order to poison someone else, then it's a {{Self Poisoning Gambit}}.SelfPoisoningGambit.



* AccidentalSuicide - specific to DeathIsTheOnlyOption

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* AccidentalSuicide - -- specific to DeathIsTheOnlyOption



* SpannerInTheWorks - where someone ruins the plan by accident.
** UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom - where someone ruins the good guys' attempt against the EvilPlan by doing something very minor

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* SpannerInTheWorks - -- where someone ruins the plan by accident.
** UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom - -- where someone ruins the good guys' attempt against the EvilPlan by doing something very minor
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* InvestigatorImpersonation

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