History Main / ManipulativeBastard

* WebVideo/PartyCrashers: In ''VideoGame/MarioParty'', Nick thrives on gaslighting the others into doing his bidding in order to better his chances of winning, such as convincing them into not stealing from him whenever they visit the Boo while he's currently in 1st place. This is best exemplified in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpkLvRYeKlM an average game of Mario Party]]", where he convinces Brent into doing a gameshow to decide who gets their Star stolen between Nick and Vernias instead of just choosing Nick outright.

* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: In ''VideoGame/MarioParty'', Nick thrives on gaslighting the others into doing his bidding in order to better his chances of winning, such as convincing them into not stealing from him whenever they visit the Boo while he's currently in 1st place. This is best exemplified in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpkLvRYeKlM an average game of Mario Party]]", where he convinces Brent into doing a gameshow to decide who gets their Star stolen between Nick and Vernias instead of just choosing Nick outright.

* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: In ''VideoGame/MarioParty'', Nick frequently gaslights the others into doing his bidding in order to better his chances of winning, such as convincing them into not stealing from him whenever they visit the Boo while he's currently in 1st place. This is best exemplified in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpkLvRYeKlM an average game of Mario Party]]", where he convinces Brent into doing a gameshow to decide who gets their Star stolen between Nick and Vernias instead of just choosing Nick outright.

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[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
* ''Literature/TheBible'': '''THE''' Ultimate Manipulative Bastard Himself: {{Satan}}. His modus operandi is to tempt humanity and make them fall to their own worst sins. He had been doing this since Adam and Eve were created... [[ForbiddenFruit and it was effective the first time]], damning humanity to death and {{Hell}}. He will also target vulnerable, sinful or malicious people, [[DealWithTheDevil offering immense temporal power in exchange for their soul]]. It will only take someone with a lot of HeroicWillpower, like [[MessianicArchetype Jesus]], to resist him, his offers and his psychological manipulations.
* ''Literature/BookOfEsther'': Haman the Agagite exploits his position as the Emperor's [[EvilChancellor vizier]] to obtain power, and to convince the latter to permit him to perpetrate genocide against Persian Jewry.
* ''Literature/BookOfGenesis'': Rebekah, the wife of Isaac, deceived her oldest son Esau into giving up his birthright for a meal to Jacob, his younger brother.

[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* Former Wrestling/{{ECW}} president and SmugSnake extraordinaire Wrestling/PaulHeyman fits this troop to a tee. He stole most of his ideas from other promoters like [[Wrestling/EdFarhat The Sheik]], Joel Goodhart, and Atsushi Onita, and was not only able to convince his fans that they were his ideas, but that anyone else who used them was stealing from him. He was also able to convince them that they were watching only high quality wrestling, and that the WWF and Wrestling/{{WCW}} wrestlers were crap, while he made stars out of people like [[Wrestling/{{TPE}} the Public Enemy]] and [[Wrestling/AlPoling 911]]. Then there is the way he treated his wrestlers, which made them loyal to him despite the fact he had not paid them for the last six months. Even though most people that worked for him realize what a bastard he was in retrospect, he still has a strong CreatorWorship following today despite his all his failures in the industry.
** It was said of him in the DVD (''Rise and Fall of ECW'') that Paul always lied to the wrestlers, but he'd never lie to the fans.
* Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s commentators don't refer to Wrestling/TripleH as "The Cerebral Assassin" for nothing.
* Wrestling/{{Raven}}, especially during his first ECW run and his WCW run, is another prime example just for his ability to gain loyal follower after loyal follower. The man got [[Wrestling/JimFullington The Sandman]]'s ''own wife and son'' to turn against him, for god's sake.
* There's a good reason Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} is known as the "Master Manipulator".

[[folder:Roleplay]]
* ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'':
** As a budding politician, Devin's spent years having to interpret people's true intentions, and as a result he's become a sweet talker who uses his words to deal with sticky situations.
** Melissa realises that Daigo is gaga for her, and uses his feelings to manipulate him and his gang as she sees fit. She shows the same manipulative tactics when she convinces the Dark Dragon to attack civilians as part of her own plot, and when she attempts to sweettalk Irene into working together with her.
* Ladies and gentlemen, ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'''s Aaron Hughes. This is a guy who, instead of killing an attacker, lets his ally get killed by said attacker, and goes back to his other allies portraying the poor victim as dying in a HeroicSacrifice in an attempt to encourage them to get revenge on the murderer. Yikes.

* The HighSchoolHustler: Expert in [[ZanyScheme Zany Schemes]], charming people into getting what he wants, and remaining sympathetic while doing so.

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Different methods of Manipulative Bastardry exists, depending on these characters' favorite tricks to manipulate people:

** Watts is skilled at manipulating both technology and people. He frames Penny for a massacre he engineers with Tyrian's assistance, leaving Mantle mistrustful of Atlas even after it's proven Penny didn't do it. He also entices Jacques with advice on how to get the upper hand in his conflict with Ironwood, resulting in Jacques firing all "non-essential" personnel, blaming Ironwood's embargo and telling to elect him a councilman if they want the embargo to end and their jobs restored. The news incites riots throughout Mantle, inflaming the division between Mantle and Atlas that the villains are seeking. [[spoiler:He rigs the election to ensure Jacques wins in return for Jacques' login credentials. Upon elevation to the Council, his upgraded security access gives Watts full access to Atlas' most sensitive systems, allowing him to shut down Mantle's heating grid and lock Atlas out of its own network. The panic and negativity this causes in Mantle's population, triggers a full-scale Grimm invasion.]]

* The SatanicArchetype, a [[DealWithTheDevil tempter]] who takes advantage of people's worst flaws and desires in order to make themselves give up into them.

* ''Literature/TheBible'': '''THE''' Ultimate Manipulative Bastard Himself: {{Satan}}. His modus operandi is to tempt humanity and make them fall to their own worst sins. He had been doing this since Adam and Eve were created... [[ForbiddenFruit and it was effective the first time]], damning humanity to death and {{Hell}}. It took someone with a lot of HeroicWillpower, like [[MessianicArchetype Jesus]], to resist him, his offers and his psychological manipulations.

* The SatanicArchetype, a [[DealWithTheDevil tempter]] who takes advantage of humanity's worst flaws and desires in order to make themselves give up into them.

* ''Literature/TheBible'': '''THE''' ultimate Manipulative Bastard himself: {{Satan}}. His modus operandi is to tempt humanity and make them fall to their own worst sins. He had been doing this since Adam and Eve were created... [[ForbiddenFruit and it was effective the first time]], damning humanity to death and {{Hell}}.

* '''THE''' Manipulative Bastard of ''Literature/TheBible'' and by extension all of the Abrahamic Religions: {{Satan}}. His modus operandi is to tempt humanity and make them fall to their own worst sins.