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* In the first arc of ''Manga/DragonBall'', Yamcha and Puar, desert bandits at the beginning, decide that if they can't take the Dragon Balls from Goku's group by force, they should follow and move in when all seven are collected. This plan more or less goes out the window when Pilaf's gang steals the Balls first.
** In the Namek arc of ''Dragon Ball Z'', Vegeta leads Gohan and Krillin to his stash of Dragon Balls so they can use the wish before Freeza gets a chance to — only for the Ginyu Force to show up and take them all in one fell swoop. Ginyu decides to bring them all to Freeza himself while the rest of the force decide to put the Z-Fighters through the gauntlet.

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In the first arc of ''Manga/DragonBall'', arc, Yamcha and Puar, desert bandits at the beginning, decide that if they can't take the Dragon Balls from Goku's group by force, they should follow and move in when all seven are collected. This plan more or less goes out the window when Pilaf's gang steals the Balls first.
** In the Namek arc of ''Dragon Ball Z'', ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Vegeta leads Gohan and Krillin to his stash of Dragon Balls so they can use the wish before Freeza gets a chance to — only for the Ginyu Force to show up and take them all in one fell swoop. Ginyu decides to bring them all to Freeza himself while the rest of the force decide to put the Z-Fighters through the gauntlet.



* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' movies love this trope. They did it ''twice'' in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', and did it again in the subsequent movies.
** Lampshaded in the second instance in ''Raiders'':

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* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' movies love this trope. They did it ''twice'' in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', and did it again ''Franchise/IndianaJones''
** It happens twice
in the subsequent movies.
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movie -- first with the idol in the Amazon and then with the Ark itself -- that Indy runs all the risks to retrieve a valuable artifact, only for Belloq to be waiting at the entrance to take it off him. Lampshaded in the second instance in ''Raiders'':instance:
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* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' supplement ''Horror on the Orient Express''. The two main villains of the adventure, Mehmet Makryat and the vampire Fenalik, cannot acquire the pieces of the Sedefkar Simulacrum themselves. They trick the Investigators into gathering the pieces for them and try to steal the pieces from the Investigators.

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