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Looks like there's trouble for the villain. The heroes destroyed their Phlebotinum research facility, the government realized that the man they thought was the president was actually an evil robotic duplicate, and his entire accounting staff has just turned into mimes. What's his response? Excellent. Everything is going according to plan. That one little phrase is all it takes to cause even the most apparently monumental loss to be completely turned on its head. Was the villain Crazy-Prepared enough to ensure that even their failure somehow turns into a victory? Did they prepare a plan only just incompetent enough that the heroes could predictably defeat them? Or was their Evil Plan something else entirely? Well, we're not going to find out anytime soon. In all likelihood, they're relying on the Unspoken Plan Guarantee to catch everyone off guard so that we can proceed to the real plot. Stay tuned next week for the exciting new development! In terms of writing, this is a relatively meta trope in that in most cases it's technically irrelevant. Regardless of whether anyone actually says the phrase, whatever gambits are floating around are still floating around. This is because the phrase is used primarily as reassurance, either for the audience or other characters. Strictly speaking it can be used with plans that as far as anyone can tell are already going as planned — it's just a status update so that we only ever worry when people stop saying it. At the same time, watch out for spanners and opposing chessmasters. They're notorious for popping up right when something like this gets said in one way or another. When it's too late for the Spanner in the Works to do anything, and the whole plan gets explained, then the trope is Check and Mate. Compare Gambit Roulette where even probability itself goes all according to plan. See also Failure Gambit. Contrast with Didn't See That Coming. Combine this phrase with Blatant Lies, and you get I Meant to Do That. Sister trope to Ominous Adversarial Amusement. Since complex schemes are often involved in this trope, be wary of spoilers. Examples |
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A Champion in Earth-Bet: The Guild is confronting the Villain with Good Publicity Skylance, protector and overseer of the Kyushu refugee camps, who is graciously agreeing to surrender peacefully into their custody to avoid needless casualties in her camp (and incidentally, make her into an ultranationalist martyr for her supporters who would pressure the government into releasing her). Then a battalion of vans and villains arrive led by another ultranationalist villain Fuji-Sama, who first calls out Skylance for her apparent cowardly surrender and then encourages her to join forces with him to fight off the Guild. The Avatar's thoughts? | |
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In the Teen Titans (New 52)/The Ravagers storyline "The Culling", the villain Harvest is pretty much the guy in the page quote, never shutting up about how all is going according to plan no matter how thoroughly everything we actually see him try to do goes down the tubes. Repeatedly copy-pasting "exactly as planned" into the dialogue of a guy who demonstrates very little in the way of planning skill does not a Diabolical Mastermind make! | |
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In Kirby Super Star, we have Marx. In Milky Way Wishes, the sun and moon are fighting. A little puffball named Marx asks Kirby to summon NOVA to wish for the sun and moon to stop. In the end, when Kirby finally gets to NOVA, Marx pushes Kirby out of the way, and wishes to control Popstar. Cue him morphing into an Eldritch Abomination and saying this: | |
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In Guild Wars 2 after he was Awakened by Joko and bound to serve him, Koss took every opportunity he could to flout orders and make life hell for his superiors. This culminated with him finally being banished to "guard" an empty cave for the rest of eternity - exactly what Koss had wanted as he found it preferable to serving Joko. | |
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In Episode 5 of The Frantics' television show Four On The Floor, a sketch involving two burglars breaking into a building to crack a safe parodies this by having the mastermind repeatedly inform his partner that everything that happens, including a security guard conveniently dropping dead from a heart attack at just the right moment is "Just like I planned it!" | |
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"The Mayors": Hari Seldon appears on the Foundation's 80th anniversary to announce that, if all has gone according to plan, Terminus is now using the Spiritual Power against the military of the neighboring barbarian kingdoms. However, he warns that this is merely a new Balance of Power, similar to what was used thirty years ago. Terminus will have to abandon their false religion in order to expand into the rest of the galaxy. | |
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Subversion in the opening of Count Duckula: | |
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Bleach: Sousuke Aizen. When things go not quite as planned, he still has a backup plan. Sometimes he doesn't, but he'll make you think he did and then it goes all according to plan because you gave him time to make it so. Urahara doesn't have one grandiose plan, but he does have multiple contingencies for the most unlikely of scenarios. Aizen acknowledges him as being on his level for this, and Yhwach recognizes that this makes Urahara unpredictable enough to be included among the Five Special War Powers. That being said, pretty much every battle in Bleach will have multiple of these moments. Most of the Arrancar and Thousand Year Blood War arcs involve characters telling each other that they had planned for their opponent to plan for their plan that had planned for their plan that had been planned ahead of time to counter their opponents plan... Before their opponent says "But I planned for you to do that..." |
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In Know Thyself, the "Dark Lord" is a deliberately programmed factor placed into the Matrix by the machines as a method of culling and controlling the otherwise unpredictable Wizard population that crops up. This is also why wizards are more antiquated than muggles; since a Dark Lord utterly destroys their community every thirty years, by the time they manage to rebuild they already have another one and History Repeats all over again. | |
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Similar to the Nobilis quote above, Arthas of World of Warcraft plans himself right into a grave. Spending half the Wrath of the Lich King expansion killing off sub-bosses as if they were mooks, until finally when the players in their 10 or 25 man group face him, claims it was all according to his plan to train and equip the most powerful people in the world so he can kill them and use them as generals in his army. He nearly succeeds, though, letting you cut him down to 10% health before instakilling the raid and putting all your souls in his grip, ready to implement his plan... and it takes something of a Deus ex machina for his plan to finally be derailed. Kil'jaeden's plans are pretty much ALL this. Even failures, because he EXPECTS most of his minions to fail. If they succeed, great. If not, well, he hadn't planned for them to succeed, so no real loss. He's also immortal and plans really, really long-term. He finally lost his cool when he honest-to-goodness for real failed when he came to Azeroth...which is also where his brother, whom he's been chasing for 25,000 years currently resides. Said brother ends up having a hand in his defeat, so yeah, Azeroth was literally his ONLY real failure in over 25,000 years. And he still isn't dead. All it takes for him to come back is some schmuck opening the Sunwell portal. Blood Elves never have been too responsible with magic... |
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How many episodes of either Hustle or Leverage have shown things going horribly, the team on the verge of being busted and go to jail, the mark getting away...and then they grin at each other on "right on schedule?" | |
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The Duck Dodgers episode "Corporate Pigfall", when the Eager Young Space Cadet becomes the head of a powerful corporation, Dodgers decides to bring him back, and drags the new cadet (Egghead Jr from Foghorn Leghorn cartoons) into it, despite deriding all Egghead Jr.'s carefully-drawn plans. In the end, Egghead Jr. is given the Cadet's position with the company, enabling him to return to the Galactic Protectorate, and the final scene is him writing on his drawing board "Exactly as I planned". | |
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The Half-Life series started with an accident when a sample of an unknown material was rushed through an experiment, which happened to fall on a day when the computers had crashed earlier and where still acting somewhat strange from time to time. Which lead to the scanning machine and the material sample acting as a kind of teleportation device, opening an interdimensional rift through which aliens invaded Earth. The sample happened to come from another project at the research facility, which used the crystals in interdimensional teleportation devices, and at the same time a human looking alien manipulated things in the background so the protagonist Gordon Freeman would kill the leader of the invading aliens, which benefited another unknown power he was working for. 12 years later, Half-Life 2: Episode 2 reveals that it wasn't an accident at all and the strange alien had set everything up to cause the interdimensional rift from the very beginning. | |
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Subverted by Kuja in Final Fantasy IX. He says this trope, almost word-for-word, as his common catchphrase, but later it's revealed that he wasn't as in control as he thought. (Or, more accurately, it really did go all according to plan as far as using the heroes was concerned, but he didn't account for his boss predicting his actions.) Fortunately for Kuja, while his Chessmastery needs polish, he plays a damn good game of Xanatos Speed Chess. | |
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The big turn of Total Recall (1990) is villain Cohaagen revealing Hauser never turned on him but agreed to be mind-wiped to become Quaid to infiltrate the rebels and help eliminate them. All the aid Quaid has gotten was planted by Cohaagen and used to push Quaid along. Interestingly, it then lampshades the trope. | |
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In Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gendo Ikari (along with his right-hand man, Fuyutsuki) and the members of SEELE were fond of saying things were going "all according to the scenario." Should be noted that they were ultimately pulling for different scenarios, but no matter what, whatever happened was always according to the scenario or irrelevant to it. Their differing scenarios diverge at the end, so it makes sense. At the point where something went according to Gendo's scenario that was NOT according to SEELE's scenario, SEELE sent in the JSSDF to kill every single last person at NERV HQ. | |
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Augusgus from Tower of God utters this regarding the outcome of the Room Game and FUG's plans. | |
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The Child of Love: In the first chapters Gendo reiterates everything is going as planned when he gets notified details about Asuka’s pregnancy. That was the first hint that something was very, very wrong behind Asuka getting pregnant. | |
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Homestuck: John meets the ghost of Meenah, a troll girl who is an alternate-universe counterpart of the Condesce. When she finds out she's dead, she exclaims happily that her plan worked. Turned out her plan was to kill herself and the rest of her session's players with a bomb to avoid oblivion when the Scratch happened. Previously, Doc Scratch managed to pull a version of this on the entire cast, with the event that went as planned being the entirety of Acts 1 through 5. It's only after his own death that the full machinations of Doc Scratch are finally revealed; in fact, it's Doc Scratch's death that allows his master, Lord English, to finally make his appearance. It's his final line that really sells it: |
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Ultimate Marvel: Ultimate X-Men: Uttered by Wolverine during "Return to Weapon X" when Jean apologizes to him, on account of his being captured. Turns out he wanted to be captured so Nick Fury can use him to find where Weapon X was. The Ultimates: Iron Man claims that he saw the events of The Ultimates 2 coming (except the "Natasha betraying him" part) and figures it all worked out pretty well for him. Hulk is trying to crack open the tank of Captain America? Excellent. Everything is going according to plan. |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars, "Innocents of Ryloth": When one of the battle droids tells the tactical droid that the gunships are still headed their way despite the barrage the tactical droid responds with "Just as I calculated". | |
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"The Encyclopedists": Hari Seldon appears on the Foundation's 50th anniversary to announce that, if all has gone according to plan, Terminus is now abandoned by the decaying empire. They are a small world of scientists and engineers, threatened by the vast and rapidly expanding reaches of their barbarian neighbors. Only one course of (obvious) action will keep them safe. | |
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Ocelot in nearly every Metal Gear game he appears in. There's a reason he's renowned for his Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. | |
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Happens in Persona 5. Albeit a heroic example this time. Joker has been arrested, The Dragon has just finished scraping his brains off the interrogation room floor, and there is nothing standing between the Big Bad and the Prime Minister's seat... right? | |
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The Expanse has an in-universe example that is very much Played for Drama. Marco Inaros is a narcissistic psychopath who combines this with Never My Fault to refuse to ever acknowledge that he miscalculated. To be fair to him, he is a good enough tactician to plan and execute devastating first strikes, and he is good at taking advantage of the new opportunities to hurt his enemies that inevitably arise in the chaos he spreads. However, he totally lacks the ability to reconcile his quick-changing short-term goals with a larger-scale plan, and he is too arrogant to listen to people who could help him with this even when he is quite obviously losing ground. The result is that he alienates all his intelligent and reasonable allies, leaving him with just a small group of cultishly-loyal, hate-fuelled fanatics who follow him blindly as he lashes out at the easiest target while insisting that the opportunity to do so was his plan all along. | |
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Subverted in The Dark Knight. While the Joker says these (or nearly these) exact words, he's describing how other people tend to make intricate plans and schemes, while he (nominally) is an agent of chaos. | |
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Deus Salve O Rei, Catarina's great plan to control Montemor goes up in flames when Rodolfo marches in and steamrolls all resistance and she is taken prisoner. Turns out the conflict was engineered between the two monarchs with Catarina being supposed to lose and then they would later marry, officially uniting the two crowns. What Rodolfo didn't expect is that Catarina would find a way to dispose of him so that she could rule by herself. | |
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Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman: In "Morning Coffee", Selina smugly claims things are all going according to plan when Diana catches her. This isn't much of a surprise to the reader given that Selina made it clear she was waiting for Diana to do so, however in the end Diana still catches her after she thought she'd made a clean getaway. | |
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Implied in Avengers: Infinity War, although it's the heroes doing it. The film ends with Thanos killing half the universe, but Dr Strange indicates that this was the only outcome where the Avengers could ultimately beat Thanos...prior to his own disintegration, that is. This gets its payoff in Avengers: Endgame, where it turns out Strange gave up the Time Stone to set up the scenario in this film where Tony can steal the Infinity Stones from Thanos and perform a Heroic Sacrifice that saves the universe. In Endgame, Strange still won't tell Tony what the plan actually is, because its success is dependent on Tony figuring it out on his own. | |
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Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- inverts the trope. With all the Scry vs. Scry going on the Big Bad admits that "It looks like my plan won't go exactly per my prepared script." There are entire chapters with one chessmaster or another detailing what did or did not go wrong after a major event. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged has this happen in Episode 60, where it's revealed that practically all of the Cell Saga was a gigantic Batman Gambit set up by Goku of all people, who wanted Gohan to replace him as Earth's protector since he knew he wouldn't be around forever. However, he missed one important detail: Gohan is a kind-hearted intellectual and not a fight-happy martial artist like his father, which almost causes the entire thing to go pear-shaped. Lampshaded by having a parody of the Death Note example above, or more specifically the memetic mock fansub version "All according to keikaku" except, Goku being Goku, he says "cake" instead, and is promptly corrected by translation notes. | |
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Die Hard: When the cops arrive at Nakatomi Plaza, Hans assures his men that their arrival is merely a temporary incovenience; they were going to show up at some point and it was just a matter of when. He also adds that their arrival was necessary to his plan; Hans demands the release of terrorists, forcing the cops to call the FBI; the FBI, thinking the bad guys are terrorists, cut the power to the building... which was Hans' plan all along because the power loss means the vault containing bearer bonds can be opened. | |
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In Jackie Chan Adventures episode "Black Magic", Tarakudo says this after he has tricked the resident Oni Mask wielder Captain Black to summon the Sumo Khan (beginning his corruption by the Oni General) and allowed him to take the Enforcers into custody and imprison them in Section 13 where three other Oni Masks are stored. | |
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Subverted in the Errant Story strip "Nick of Time": | |
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Yuuji Sakamoto acts this way in Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts, but his tactics ZigZag for comedic effect. | |
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They use it again in Avatar, when the Colonel Badass is escaping his flaming aircraft. | |
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Discussed in Monster of the Week: | |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil Toffee of Septarsis In "Storm the Castle", not only does he successfully get Star to come to his territory, but gets her to destroy the wand to save Marco. Even being destroyed by the resulting explosion was to his benefit, as he gained possession of half the wand in the process. Almost everything he does in Season 2 and "The Battle For Mewni" falls under this as well. Only one thing goes truly awry in his plan: he intended on gaining both his finger and Star's half of the wand so that he can be resurrected and have full power over the corrupted magic. But Star was smart enough not to bring her wand with her when she confronts Ludo, and Ludo is sensible enough to listen to Star about what's going on and allows her to perform the Whispering Spell on his half of the wand. With a full-powered wand no longer a possibility, Toffee settles on just resurrecting with his finger and leaving Star stranded in the Realm of Magic, only for her to claim the last spark of uncorrupted magic, achieve Super Mode, and return to defeat Toffee. |
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Light Yagami of Death Note uses this phrase when his Memory Gambit and Batman Gambit to convince the police and his own family that he is not in possession of the Death Note, and is not the known serial killer, Kira goes perfectly right. Just as Light regains his memories, after touching the Death Note once more, he mentally cants, "Exactly as planned," a phrase that has reached memetic status. Light also thinks a phrase very close to this during the final showdown, after Near explains his plan to prove that Light is Kira. Of course, things don't go according to plan for him... |
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Doing It Right This Time: When Rei gets informed about Shinji's arrival to Tokyo-3 she is glad because all is going according her plan. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series episode "The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne", when Bruce Wayne is chained and Alfred is tied in Doctor Hugo Strange's basement: | |
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"The Mule" sees the Foundation's major players come together at the Time Vault to hear Seldon's advice on how to deal with the titular warlord. Seldon instead starts talking about how the Foundation is either in or on the verge of a civil war - the Mule is completely outside the Seldon Plan. | |
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In the Dollhouse episode "Needs", Adelle DeWitt uses a somewhat different phrase to give the same effect: | |
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The W.I.T.C.H. (2004) episode "Q is for Quarry" begins with a battle which results in defeat for the resident villains, leading to this exchange: | |
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Exaggerated in Tealove's Steamy Adventure, where Tealove getting captured by a cave troll, meeting a new ally in captivity, and escaping was somehow exactly according to Baron Zeppeli's plan. Then parodied in the sequel, Diamond and Silver's Excellent Adventure, where someone asks Zeppeli what the plan actually is, and he can't remember. And then it turns out he's actually saying a Zebrew phrase that happens to sound like "Exactly as planned!" Translated, it actually means "These matters are very concerning to me." | |
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Zeo from One Piece both subverts this and takes it to ridiculous extremes, claiming that absolutely everything goes according to his plans. Even the bad stuff. Especially the bad stuff. For example, his response to getting knocked down and Brook standing on his head? He's actually slowly wearing him down by headbutting his foot. Being turned into a frail old fishman due to energy steroid abuse? He did that on purpose. | |
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At the end of Good Omens, the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley speculate that the aversion of Armageddon due to a large number of improbable coincidences (including an anti-Christ who decided that he liked the world the way that it was may well have been what God — who is supposed to be infallible, after all — intended all along. | |
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Parodied in an episode of Rugrats where Angelica, imitating a villain on TV, says "Everything is going accordion to plan." | |
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Referenced in the Rifftrax commentary for 300. ("I know it looks bad but its all part of the plan!" during one of the many scenes when Spartans are slaughtering large numbers of Persians.) They use it again in Avatar, when the Colonel Badass is escaping his flaming aircraft. |
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The Foundation Trilogy: Despite having died decades to centuries ago, Hari Seldon planned the events of each chapter. Appearing in the "Time Vault", he announces the primary conflict of the story and reassures the people of Terminus that it will be resolved in their favour. His predictions become known as the Seldon Plan. "The Encyclopedists": Hari Seldon appears on the Foundation's 50th anniversary to announce that, if all has gone according to plan, Terminus is now abandoned by the decaying empire. They are a small world of scientists and engineers, threatened by the vast and rapidly expanding reaches of their barbarian neighbors. Only one course of (obvious) action will keep them safe. "The Mayors": Hari Seldon appears on the Foundation's 80th anniversary to announce that, if all has gone according to plan, Terminus is now using the Spiritual Power against the military of the neighboring barbarian kingdoms. However, he warns that this is merely a new Balance of Power, similar to what was used thirty years ago. Terminus will have to abandon their false religion in order to expand into the rest of the galaxy. "The Mule" sees the Foundation's major players come together at the Time Vault to hear Seldon's advice on how to deal with the titular warlord. Seldon instead starts talking about how the Foundation is either in or on the verge of a civil war - the Mule is completely outside the Seldon Plan. |
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Last Child of Krypton: Parodied in an omake when Pen Pen revealed he was behind the entire plot, and all went as he planned. | |
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Used a lot in Touhou Nekokayou. It even got inverted in one of the newer strips. | |
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Ultimate X-Men: Uttered by Wolverine during "Return to Weapon X" when Jean apologizes to him, on account of his being captured. Turns out he wanted to be captured so Nick Fury can use him to find where Weapon X was. | |
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Lelouch of Code Geass is fond of saying "All tasks at hand have been cleared"... and that line is roughly his version of "What could possibly go wrong". The Spanner always hits the Works about 2 nanoseconds later - things are going just as planne-Oh no, IT'S THE LANCELOT! *boom* | |
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Underverse: In 0.5, XGaster claims that every single action taken by Sans, Frisk, and Chara contribute to his plans in some fashion, even if their decisions are unexpected. They all oppose him. | |
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At the end of episode eleven of If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, the Emperor is shown sitting on his throne and musing that everything is going Just. As. Planned. So far, the viewer's idea of what the plan is is pretty sketchy. However, looking back a dozen plus episodes later and he really did have all of his pieces in motion by that point; the question is how much further the chain reaction will go now that the "Holy Shit!" Quotient has topped itself at Beyond the Impossible so many times. | |
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In two of the endings of A Heist with Markiplier, either Bob or Wade breaks Mark out of jail.... as part of a master plan to get Mark permanently sent to jail. | |
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Undercover Brother. An alarm goes off at Multinational Inc. and reveals that the BROTHERHOOD agent Undercover Brother has infiltrated the building. Instead of being dismayed, The Dragon Mr. Feather says "The Brotherhood is making their move. Just as I expected." | |
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Warhammer 40,000 This is part of the Tzeentchians' hat. Tzeentch is essentially the God of Evil plans, gambits and other schemes, worshipped by sorcerers and the ambitious, who sees so far into the future that all his plans are mutually contradictory: the success of one means the failure of another and vice versa. It is customary, when reducing your opponent to incoherent rage and skyward screaming, to smile smugly and declare Just as planned." (Gendo glasses and hands optional). More information here. Games Workshop has hinted that the failure of all thirteen Black Crusades, which has given Abaddon the Despoiler a reputation as a General Failure, were actually this trope. How better to gauge your enemy's strength over the millennia? Moreover, the assumption that the Black Crusades failed contradicts the manifest unwillingness of the Chaos Gods to tolerate failure, and their equally manifest willingness to allow Abbadon to remain Warmaster for 10,000 years. This line of thought makes Abbadon even more horrifying than he prima facie is: he has convinced players of the game that he's incompetent, even while giving his unholy patrons exactly what they want. To clarify: the Imperium, and many players, interpret the Black Crusades as failures because the invaders are always driven back and never hold territory. What's actually happening is that the vast bulk of the invaders are independant forces joined together by the most fragile of alliances, and so most of the war is little more than a smokescreen from Abaddon's perspective. Once he and his actual loyalists have achieved whatever their real objective is they return to their own territory and leave the rest of the Chaos forces to their own devices, where lacking any central leadership or direction they are inevitably defeated eventually. This was confirmed in the The Gathering Storm supplement. He'd been systematically demolishing an ancient anti-Chaos pylon network the Imperium didn't know about, so that finishing off the main cluster on Cadia unleashed a warpstorm that covered the galaxy. |
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The Warhammer tie-in novel, The Master of Death, is a complete send-up of this trope. The Villain Protagonist W'soran spends the entire book manipulating the disparate human and undead residents of the region in a centuries-long plot to get him in a room to duel his more powerful rival and take the throne of Mourkain. Every seeming reversal is revealed to have been accounted for in his labyrinthine master plan. After everything falls into place perfectly he fights his way through the unwinnable battle for the capital to seize the crown for himself and win in one final stroke... and then he realizes he never actually thought of a way to do that. Despite what he had constantly assured his followers, himself, and the reader he never really had a plan. | |
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Doctor Who During a conversation at the beginning of "Genesis of the Daleks", a Time Lord smugly tells the Doctor that he is a "special case" in Time Lord history, that they "allow" him his freedom to roam about the universe doing whatever he feels like. Never mind that he ran away in a stolen TARDIS before anyone could stop him. Not to mention the Master, or the Rani, or the Meddling Monk. It turns out he's referring to what the Doctor is allowed to do after he was caught and served his penance on Earth. In "The Haunting of Villa Diodati", the Doctor is forced to give the lone Cyberman what it wants to stop him destroying the world, despite being specifically warned not to do this by Jack Harkness. When his companions beg the Doctor to say this was all according to plan, she says it was...and Step Two of that plan is fixing the mess she just created. |
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Thrawn in Star Wars Rebels is fond of this trope, assuring the audience that despite the loss the empire took this week it's all somehow still working towards his greater plan. A contrast to how he was originally presented in The Thrawn Trilogy where he would actually display said clever plans. | |
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Ajnabee: Big Bad Vicky enjoys making ludicrous and convoluted plans by predicting Raj's behavior, to the point saying "All According to Plan" is his catchphrase and the password of his bank account. | |
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The Ultimates: Iron Man claims that he saw the events of The Ultimates 2 coming (except the "Natasha betraying him" part) and figures it all worked out pretty well for him. Hulk is trying to crack open the tank of Captain America? Excellent. Everything is going according to plan. |
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In Codename: Kids Next Door Cree says this when she first gets captured by the KND, and again after modifying the garbage disposal rocket she was inside of to fly towards the KND Moonbase. Subverted when she finally arrives at the Moonbase and declares her intent to Hurl It into the Sun (which was her mission all along), only for an imprisoned Chad to tell her not to bother as he just tried doing exactly that and failed. | |
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In The Legend of Korra "And the Winner Is...", when The Lieutenant tells Amon that the city is defying his threat. | |
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In Tsukihime, Kohaku pretty much says this once it's revealed that she was behind almost the entire plot of the Far Side routes. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Mayor (the Big Bad for Season 3) is smart about this. Faith is eager for some action and asks her boss if there's likely to be any fighting. The Mayor replies no, not if everything goes according to plan "but since when do things go according to plan?" Played straight with the heroine in "The Freshman". Buffy is spying on a nest of vampires when she falls through the skylight into their midst. |
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Iron Man claims that he saw the events of The Ultimates 2 coming (except the "Natasha betraying him" part) and figures it all worked out pretty well for him. | |
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On the Firefly episode "Jaynestown", the contact Mal meets up with is upset the townspeople have embraced Jayne as a hero. Mal assures the contact that it's all according to their new plan. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: During the second season, Maquis crewmember Michael Jonas began providing information to the Kazon. While Jonas believed that even if his transmissions were detected they would be dismissed as background noise, Tuvok detected them right away but wasn't able to identify the specific crew member who was The Mole. Tuvok and Captain Janeway recruited Tom Paris to take part in an operation to flush out the mole in which over the course of several weeks Paris apparently became increasingly insubordinate and dissatisfied with Starfleet life. This culminated in him leaving the ship to join a Talaxian convoy, which Jonas communicated to the Kazon, who then kidnapped Paris. While on the Kazon ship Paris was able to access the communications revealing Jonas as the mole, and communicated that back to Janeway. It all worked out as Tuvok and Janeway planned. In the season six finale, three senior members of the Voyager's crew (including Captain Janeway) beam over to a Borg ship. After infiltrating it, they are eventually caught and assimilated. The crew on the ship has been monitoring their life signs, and they detect the assimilation of the three. Commander Chakotay's response? |
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While not necessarily a villain, Barney Stintson in How I Met Your Mother suffers the worst possible bachelor party, complete with a terrible hotel room, the worst entertainment (including the stripper being his ex-fiancée), losing a ton of money in a gambling game, and ultimately Robin seemingly ending their engagement. It's not until after this final devastating blow do we find out that it was all orchestrated by his fiancée Robin in order to exceed Barney's unrealistic expectations for his bachelor party. | |
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In The Little Mermaid, Ursula the sea witch, transformed into the human woman "Vanessa," sings "What a lovely little bride I'll make / My dear, I'll look divine / Everything is working out according to my ultimate design." This, however, is actually something of a subversion in that Ursula is experiencing a Sanity Slippage because her original plan isn't working out. She had thought that she could just take Ariel's voice and this would be enough to keep her from ever getting Prince Eric to give her the kiss of true love. After a near-miss only just stopped by her eel henchmen, she hastily concocted this plan to put Prince Eric under her spell and marry him herself. | |
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