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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?

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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?	comment	A scheme concocted by the resident chessmaster or manipulative bastard ends up involving the manipulation of a supernatural entity. Such a plan may include the deity from the outset, or the deity may be integrated into the plan along the way. Yet despite being up against a deity, the mortal somehow pulls it off, making a fool out of something vastly more powerful than themselves. Variants common enough to have their own tropes include Chess with Death, Faustian Rebellion (more likely to succeed if The Devil Is a Loser), and Wishplosion (when involving genies and other wish-granting entities). If successfully employed against a Trickster God, it's a case of Hoist by Their Own Petard. Overlaps with Fire Stolen from the Gods where this trope is used as a mythic origin of knowledge now held by mortals. Contrast Evil Is Not a Toy when someone attempts to either invoke this trope, but fails.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_11017077	comment	Hours 'Verse: In Patchwork Hearts, Akira recounts how he pranked Minato and Ryoji back in Facing the Sun, before trailing off in bemusement by the realisation that pranking Minato means he pranked the most powerful Wild Card on the planet. It doesn't help when Sumire tells him that not many people can truthfully boast that they managed to get one over on the living manifestation of death itself.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_11d0af1	comment	In His Dark Materials, Mrs Coulter successfully lies to Metatron of all creatures, who is explicitly stated to be able to read her heart and/or mind, by manipulating his desire to be corporeal.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_12300cc3	comment	In Watchmen, Veidt's master plan involves the manipulation of pretty much the entire rest of the cast, up to and including Dr. Manhattan, an energy being of unimaginable power who can normally see the future as clearly as he can see the present.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_129c7b57	comment	In Ultimate Spider-Man (2012), Spidey manages to trick LOKI by playing to his ego, saying that unless he defeats Thor while the Thunder God is in his normal form, no one will respect him for it. As Loki undoes his Forced Transformation, Peter lampshades how he can't believe Loki fell for that!
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_1331990c	comment	In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Madoka uses her single wish from Kyubey to erase all witches, throughout time, before they can come into existence. Nice job, Kyubey. And then he decides against cutting his losses and tries to scam her back, and From Bad to Worse doesn't even begin to cover what happens to him. Bonus points because the one who scams Cthulhu is not The Chessmaster or a Magnificent Bastard. She's just your average, nice, extremely naive 14-year-old girl... who has been given too much information intended to push her into despair, only to use what she's learned to Take a Third Option and Screw Destiny and Kyubey over. Extra bonus points: Kyubey tries to screw her back by pointing out that, by absorbing the grief of all Witches and keeping them from becoming Witches, Madoka will become the most powerful Witch in existence, one who could crack the earth in half. Madoka points out her wish was the ability to erase all Witches... and removes herself from existence, transcending the limitations of existence and becoming godlike.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_1aa268e4	comment	Harbinger (Finmonster) (Danny Phantom, ParaNorman): How Danny's ancestor won his Chess with Death. Basically, he knew he couldn't win against Death (who couldn't just take his wife's soul due to the seal he had set up before committing suicide so he could try to keep her alive) so he tricked Death into a draw, knowing that the Reaper had other duties and couldn't take any longer than he already had.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: In the series, the player can make deals with demons and then back out of them once the demon's brought up their end, often with no consequences worse than having to fight them (which is usually what refusing to deal leads to anyway). In one particularly noteworthy case, you can even trick a demon into teaching you powerful Blood Magic... And then use said Blood Magic to kill the demon.Said noteworthy case is more of an inversion: the Mage Warden was already a prodigy by their own kind's standard before they even became a Gray Warden and the demon possessing Connor is the one who's desperately trying to scam its way out of a direct confrontation. If all else fails it'll give you blood magic as a straight-up bribe in exchange for just letting it live. Another notable case occurs in Act 1 of Dragon Age II, when Hawke can convince an ancient demon to lead you both to the exit back to the Deep Roads, in exchange for defeating an ancient rock wraith. It turns out, the wraith was sitting on a sizable treasure hoard, enough to restore your family fortunes twice over. Varric's preferred response? Renege on your deal, kill the demon, and walk away, filthy rich.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_1beda93b	comment	In Sluggy Freelance: Aylee comes up with a plan (and ZoÃ« compliments it) to trick some nigh-omnipotent Jerkass Genies into granting what seems like a worthless wish (making it rain the blood of the innocent), without them realizing that "the blood of the innocent" is exactly what Torg's Cool Sword needs to become a magical weapon that can kill just about anything, including, that's right, nigh-omnipotent Jerkass Genies. In a parody of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Torg outsmarts the pseudo-Literal Genie that's been interpreting people's wishes as "Turn me into chocolate" (including someone who had merely screamed in terror rather than actually wishing) by wishing that he'd "Turn Torg Potter into chocolate." This results in the kid Torg was a body double for being turned to chocolate, allowing him to safely wish everyone back to normal. (Fortunately, the genie doesn't mess around with the remaining wishes)
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_1bfa015e	comment	In Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, the boys first attempt to escape death by giving the Grim Reaper a wedgie and running. When they get cast into Hell, they win their souls back and continue on their quest to stop the Big Bad by challenging the Reaper to games like Battleship and electronic football (which he doesn't play, unlike chess) that they're experts at.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_1cf9029e	comment	DEATH BATTLE! has an example in Bill Cipher vs. Discord, which is fitting, given Bill's whole shtick. However, he's the one who gets scammed. While Bill starts out already having conquered Equestria and manages to kill Discord during their fight (Twice, even), his opponent manages to trick him back into the Nightmare Realm, rendering all his accomplishments for naught while Discord succeeds in his real goal: saving his friends.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_1f140feb	comment	Happens to an extent in The Silmarillion—specifically, the story of the Downfall of NÃºmenor, where Sauron manipulates Eru IlÃºvatar into destroying the NÃºmenÃ³rean empire for him. Also subverted in that Sauron only intended for the Valar to get involved, and the amount of power IlÃºvatar was packing was enough to kill Sauron as well. Of course as anyone who's read The Lord of the Rings could tell you, Sauron came Back from the Dead, and at any rate it's impressive to set up a situation where God wipes out your enemies for you in a 'verse where God is both competent and good. It was implied that NÃºmenÃ³rean dominion over the world had in the end become worse than Sauron's ever was, so Eru may simply have chosen lesser evil.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_1f76648	comment	In a side story of A Certain Magical Index, the Amakusa Church prevents R'leyh from rising by making it seem like Cthulhu had already defeated them; because of the way magic works in the setting, the spell became nonfunctional once no humans remained to terrorize.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_2212773a	comment	Angel manages to manipulate the Circle of the Black Thorn for most of Season Five.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_22d74b2e	comment	In one short story by Brian Jacques (yes, That one), a kid traded his soul so he could lie better, and ended up convincing the devil he's illiterate, voiding their soul contract, and got an angel to agree to come over to his house for cake - the latter implying he wasn't using his supernaturally-enhanced lying skills.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_2372359	comment	The Belgariad: In the Backstory, the prophet Gorim managed to shanghai UL, the Father of all the Gods. Initially, UL was not a part of creation, and abstained while his sons (also Gods) created the world. After all of the Gods had chosen a race of humans that pleased them as their chosen people, there were some humans left over, the Godless Ones, who languished without a God. One among them, Gorim, managed to find UL and shame him into becoming their God (and also the God of all monsters, those creatures who were imperfect because UL did not participate in their creation). Fairly impressive, overall. And he did it basically by sitting there and waiting. For several hundred years. The mention of it came at the time when Belgarath and his Master (One of those gods behind the creation scheme) were unable to find UL and his people. Belgarath wonders if he perhaps abandoned them again since the new Gorim was particularly irritating. That's not the only time, either. In-universe, the existence of the book Polgara the Sorceress is predicated on Ce'Nedra figuring out the buttons of an immortal sorceress who's older than the country of Sendaria. Or more accurately two such sorceresses, since getting Polgara to do it required convincing Polgara's mother to weigh in on her side.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror XXIX" sees Homer does this to Cthulhu after being scammed him a promise of an eating contest. Cthulhu goes "Oh, Crap!" upon learning that Homer hadn't had breakfast and sure enough, Homer outeats the Old One and Cthulhu offers anything Homer wants and delivers — which is eating Cthulhu himself.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_267cbfa	comment	Dominic Deegan had to face The Beast in the Borders of Destruction and he managed to get a Destroyer to take care of The Beast. Later, he runs into the Beast again, and scares it away by pretending to possess the Destroyer's powers.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_27f4c7fb	comment	In Coraline, the eponymous character does this to the Beldam, the demonic master of a pocket universe who needs to consume the souls of children to live. Frustrated with a boring life and uncaring parents, Coraline is enticed into the Beldam's world which appears as an ideal version of her own home and family. The kicker comes when she is prevented from leaving and imprisoned when she refuses to give up her soul (by having buttons sewed onto her eyes, like all creatures in the Beldam's world) and her real parents are captured and held hostage by the Beldam to force Coraline to give in. Coraline makes a deal with the Beldam to play a game by betting she can find the souls of three previous children taken by the Beldam along with her parents. Knowing the Beldam won't concede if Coraline wins, she pretends to lose before stealing the key back to her own world and escaping with her parents to safety. That happens in the book as well, although the movie makes Coraline's plight more desperate. In the book, the Other Parents willingly allow her to go home, but kidnap her parents and then try to trick her into thinking that they just abandoned her. In the movie, they don't magically return her home after she refuses (which she was expecting) and she has to escape home herself, only to find her parents being held hostage and forcing her to return to the Other World.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_29984214	comment	In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency, exactly how much of this, how much simple punching, and how much absolute dumb luck contributed to Joseph's defeat of Kars is up to Joseph himself, and he's not particularly truthful. Being a consummate Guile Hero, it is probably largely options one and three.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_2ec27115	comment	In Teen Titans Go!, when all of the Titans except for Raven are turned old and promptly die, Raven goes to the underworld to get their souls back from Death. Death offers to give Raven their souls in exchange for her own, but once he gives them to her she reveals that she's a half-demon and has no soul; this results in the Titans coming back as zombies, which Raven is ecstatic about.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_309df9ea	comment	Atop the Fourth Wall: Linkara pulled this one off in a big way against "The Entity" in his Electric Tale of Pikachu review. After all, the Entity wants to become all things, know all things. But does it know what happens to an elder god when it dies? Would it like to find out?
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_32c541e6	comment	In Fullmetal Alchemist fanfic build your wings on the way down Edward exploits the fact that the Gate is bound to follow its own rules when reversing Nina's chimera transmutation. So despite the Gate wanting to screw Ed over, it has to give Ed the allotted energy when Ed trades Alexander for Nina.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_334120fc	comment	8-Bit Theater: Thief outsmarting Trickster God Raven.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_342d46c9	comment	In Anderson: Psi-Division, Cassandra Anderson manages to make Satan blow himself up by forcing himself into a Douglas Adams-style self-contradiction.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_35e05f2a	comment	In RWBY, Big Bad Salem has such an event in her backstory. When the God of Light refused to revive her lover, Salem sought out his much-feared younger brother and pretended that he had been her first choice. The lonely God of Darkness was so delighted to finally receive worship from a human, he granted her request without a second thought. This brought the God of Light to his realm, and the brothers nearly came to blows over the perceived violation of their agreement. The Brothers were furious when they realized a mere human had LIED to them, and cursed Salem with Complete Immortality. Unable to die, Salem tricked others into joining her in a war with the Gods. It ended as one might expect, with the Gods wiping humanity out and abandoning Salem alone as the last sentient being on the planet. She still didn't learn her lesson, and continues to seek ways to spite the Gods.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_375e8f14	comment	In The Last Hero, Cohen the Barbarian has to sell a God Guise by rolling a 7 on a six-sided dice. Being a Hero, he tosses the die in the air and slices it in half with his sword, so that the pieces land on a 1 and 6. Notably, he drew inspiration from an in-universe version of the Gordian knot story, and while his companions declared it to be cheating, Cohen must have reckoned there's no reason to play fair with gods, who aren't known for their tendency to do so.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_3adfb1ba	comment	In House of Mouse, Mickey has tricked powerful Disney baddies into helping him. Once, when Pete tries to get all the customers out by dunning the thermostat for money until it's "broke" and the club overheats, Mickey manages to talk Hades into staying, because so long as there's even one guest in the club, Pete can't shut the show down. And when Daisy accidentally makes the House of Mouse disappear, Mickey gets Jafar to bring it back by promising him "the city of Agrabah." Once he does, Mickey gives him an Agrabah snow globe.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: Dragon Ball Z deconstructs this trope in the Buu Arc. Super Buu demands to see the 'Strong Fighter'/Gotenks (Goten and Trunks fused together) he was promised by Goku. In an effort to buy some time, Piccolo suggests that Buu amuse himself by terrorizing the people of Earth while the fighter prepares himself, knowing they can be revived with the Dragon Balls. Super Buu manages to eradicate the human race, with one Beam Spam, in two minutes and never left Kami's Lookout while doing it. All of humanity had become a sacrificial lamb for the sake of giving Goten and Trunks just two more minutes to train in The Hyperbolic Time Chamber. The Universe 6 arc of Dragon Ball Super has Frost, who manages to completely pull one over on Champa. Champa is a true, for-realsies God of Destruction, and with the exception of his assistant the strongest being in Universe 6.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_3b34143f	comment	In the fairy tale "The Three Brothers" in Harry Potter, all three brothers are granted "gifts" from Death, who is actually mad at them for using magic to stay alive. The first two request items of great power which lead to their downfall and Death collects them swiftly. The third brother, however, recognizes why Death is offering these favors and asks for an item that would make it so not even Death could find him. Death is forced to surrender his own invisibility cloak and the third brother leaves unmolested. He chooses to die at a very advanced age and "greets Death as an old friend."
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_3c08531b	comment	In Avengers Assemble, Galactus appoints Tony Stark to be his Herald. Tony loyally finds Galactus an energy-rich planet to devour... but Galactus doesn't learn until after he's eaten it that it's so energy-rich because its core is about to explode. This effectively takes the Devourer of Worlds out of commission.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_3c5675b	comment	Black Panther, being The Chessmaster he is, pulled this off with Mephisto. The Black Panther pledged his soul to Mephisto in exchange for Mephisto agreeing to depower an enemy of the Panther's that he had given great demonic power to. Mephisto lived up to his end of the bargain, and so did the Panther... but when Mephisto tried to claim the Panther's soul, Mephisto found that it was linked to the souls of the Panther God and every single previous Black Panther warrior in existence, whose sheer goodness threatened to destroy him. Mephisto requested that the Black Panther agree to release him from the pact, and the Panther agreed.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_3efde824	comment	Johannes Cabal the Necromancer: Johannes pulls a Kansas City Shuffle on Satan to prevent giving him an ownership contract for an innocent woman's soul. He first offers to trade Satan a box of soul contracts, then accedes to Satan's demand for the contracts in the box instead, having already removed the woman's contract from the box.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: Harry often comes off as a meathead, but he can play the game when he needs to. In Small Favor, as part of a Faerie power play, the Summer Court sends the Three Billy Goats Gruff (actually fae hitmen, each one more powerful than the last) after Harry. A whole lot of shenanigans later, the last one, Eldest Gruff, has cornered Harry. Eldest Gruff doesn't really want to kill Harry since the mess has been resolved by that point but is obligated two as long as they both remain on the "field of battle"- i.e. Demonreach Island, where the climax is taking place. Luckily for Harry, the events of an earlier book mean that Summer owes him a favor, but unluckily, he can't ask Eldest Gruff to spare his life. So instead, he asks for a donut. With white frosting and sprinkles, but no jelly. And not a magically conjured donut, but a real one from a bakery. Given that they're in the middle of the Great Lakes, in the time it takes Eldest Gruff to buy the donut and return, Harry will have solved the book's conflict and be off Demonreach, and thus no longer a valid target. Gruff, seeing the point and finding it both appropriate and hilarious, acquiesces and gets Harry a hot coffee to go with it. Later books reveal that the entire Summer Court was laughing about it for days. In Changes, Harry seizes on a sarcastic remark to save his life: When he accidentally ends up in the home of the king of the wild hunt (who really, really wants to kill Harry), who sarcastically greets him, Harry instead interprets the greeting literally, invoking Sacred Hospitality to prevent anyone present from harming him. The King found this amusing enough to permit it.note The Erlking may have also allowed it as a form of Politeness Judo; "You're 'trapped' in my hall, how are you going to try to escape before I try to hunt in earnest?" The fact that Harry used his brain to latch onto something he said and attempt to use Exact Words intrigued the Erlking enough to let it play out. Mab makes this an explicit part of Harry's job in Skin Game. Due to an old favor she owes, Harry has to help Nicodemus on a heist. Both parties know the others aren't trustworthy (the Denarians are backstab addicts and Mab has a grudge against them and is good at the long game), but can't afford to be the one to break the agreement. When Harry discusses the job with Mab, she makes it clear that she expects that Harry and Nicodemus will try to screw each other over, she just wants him to come out ahead in the backstabbing contest by making sure that Nicodemus doesn't get what he wants and is left holding the bag. Harry succeeds by subverting Goodman Grey before the heist and then mocking Deirdre's death to Nicodemus to get him to break the agreement first by trying to kill Harry, thus allowing Harry to retaliate and permanently tarnishing his word.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: Similarly to the Metalocalypse example below, SCP-738 is an office chair and desk set that features a Deal with the Devil. After a few Red Shirts get tossed in, they send in a lawyer with the single instruction to write up a contract that results in a net gain for the Foundation. Forty-one hours later, the lawyer collapsed from exhaustion, with no deal struck, despite 900 pages of a legal document being written. A note was found in the lawyer's pocket that read "Please come back any time. I haven't had this much fun in years." SCP-1848 is a Trickster God that used to torment the Foundation until 1994, when it tricked them into letting it become one of its researchers. All records still claim it to be a dangerous shapeshifter still in containment, supposedly not because they fell for its prank, but because its actually doing a fantastic job as researcher. In SCP-5935, "Blood and the Breaking of my Heart", if you can parse it out between all the prose, is about a member of the O5 Council that makes a deal with a Fae god of names to bring his son Jacob back to life. The god does so, partially, masquerading as Jacob and playing along with the O5, though planning to consume all names in existence once the masquerade is over. Once the O5 realizes what has happened, and comes to term with his son's death, he offers the god a new deal: He has constructed his dream city within his mind. If the god would come there and pretend to be Jacob for a bit longer, the O5 will willingly give up his name and not attempt to stop them. The god takes the deal, but realizes too late that the Foundation has somehow placed a copy of SCP-184 within the O5's mind. 184 continuously expands any space it is placed in, which now includes the imaginary city. By the time the god realized the ploy, the city was already impossibly big, and it would take thousands of years for the god to escape it. The O5 is trapped as well, kept in a coma by the Foundation for safety, but he's trapped the god with him.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: Lucifer manages to trap The Grim Reaper into his servitude. Death, who is very annoyed that he's being leashed by a petulant child with daddy issues (...yes, that is how Death perceives the Devil), proves that it's not a good idea to piss off an eternal and infinite force of nature by ignoring Lucifer's orders and actually helping the Winchesters against him. Subverted in "Appointment In Samarra" when Dean tries to blackmail Death into helping him by using Death's ring (which Death previously loaned to Dean) as leverage. Death notes that Dean's gamble assumes that he doesn't already know the location of his own weapon, but he remains open to an equal exchange and asks Dean to become him for a single day. In season 7's first episode "Meet the New Boss", the Winchesters attempt to bind Death themselves in a last-ditch effort to stop the newly godlike Castiel. Death warns them that it won't end well for them, but he doesn't follow through on his threat after the new villain unbinds Death's restraints because the "mutated angel" is a bigger concern for him.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion executes this beautifully. The Angels are coming to merge with Adam and wipe out humanity. However, SEELE cloned Adam to make the Evas and kill off the Angels so that they can merge with Adam themselves, elevating humanity into a god. The "Adam" that the Angels search for isn't even actually Adam, and one of them realizes Adam is actually Lilith. At the same time, Gendo has the real Adam in his hands (literally), and is scheming to kill off the Angels then screw over SEELE by having Rei merge with both Adam and Lilith so that he can get his wife back. The Angels are none-the-wiser....
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: In The Last Hero, Cohen the Barbarian has to sell a God Guise by rolling a 7 on a six-sided dice. Being a Hero, he tosses the die in the air and slices it in half with his sword, so that the pieces land on a 1 and 6. Notably, he drew inspiration from an in-universe version of the Gordian knot story, and while his companions declared it to be cheating, Cohen must have reckoned there's no reason to play fair with gods, who aren't known for their tendency to do so. In Maskerade, Granny Weatherwax challenges Death to a poker game over the soul of a dying child. Granny initially tries to cheat, but Death insists they swap hands - and then concedes, because Granny ends up with four Queens, leaving Death with only "four ones." Of course, Granny would've broken his arm if she'd lost, but still.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_46aac2a3	comment	Elden Ring: It is entirely possible, if difficult and spoilery, to pull one over the Frenzied Flame in order to save your companion Melina. First, you have to complete Millicent's quest, then defeat Malenia, Blade of Miqualla, in order to get the item that lets you do it; then, you have to go find the Frenzied Flame, agree to inherit it, use it for the purpose Melina would otherwise sacrifice herself for, and then use the key item in the boss arena of Dragonlord Placidusax, which will purge the Frenzied Flame from you and allow you to complete the game as normal. Though Melina will be horrified by what you've done and leave you for good.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_47f0eac3	comment	In Metalocalypse, the band attempts to sell their souls to the Blues Devil in exchange for mastery of the blues. Except that they are such experts in contract negotiation that by the end of it the Devil would have to give them part of his soul instead, while getting little more than a $5 Hot Topic gift card. Oddly, he appears to very reasonably refuse the contract at the time. It's only at the end of the episode that it's revealed that he agreed to these terms — presumably, he was just that impressed with someone actually managing to put one over on him.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_493cd7e8	comment	Astalon: Tears of the Earth centers around the wizard Algus' pact with the death god Epimetheus, who, in exchange for undoing the deaths of him and his companions, will take his soul once their quest is completed. However, by doing a certain sidequest, it's possible for Algus to escape the pact by tricking him into taking a homunculus, which was made with a part of his soul, rather than his entire soul.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_49ad83ee	comment	In World of Warcraft Legion, Destruction Warlocks do this to obtain their Artifact Weapon, the Jeweled Scepter of Sargeras, by stealing it from then-Big Bad Gul'dan. The adventurer pretends to join the Burning Legion to get close enough to him to steal it. Gul'dan is Genre Blind just long enough for the plan to work.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_4a94a5fc	comment	In Maskerade, Granny Weatherwax challenges Death to a poker game over the soul of a dying child. Granny initially tries to cheat, but Death insists they swap hands - and then concedes, because Granny ends up with four Queens, leaving Death with only "four ones." Of course, Granny would've broken his arm if she'd lost, but still.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_4b187e74	comment	The Odyssey: Who has blinded you? 'Nobody'! 'Nobody' has blinded me! Of course, Odysseus promptly screws this scam up by boasting and basically telling the cyclops his name and address once he knows he's safe. Since the cyclops is Polyphemus, son of Poseidon, and Odysseus has to cross the sea to get home, this was what they call a bad move. The sea god makes the rest of Odysseus' journey a living hell, which is the reason for the rest of the story.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_4b8906a8	comment	In Ever17, the whole point of You'haru and Kaburaki's gambit is to trick a 4D being called Blick Winkel into believing that the events of 2017 and 2034 are one and the same. The clincher? It was Blick Winkel himself who set up the whole gambit to do that.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_4c095a1f	comment	In The Transformers episode "Ghost in the Machine", Starscream, reduced to a ghostly form, makes a deal with the decapitated Unicron to regain his body in exchange of turning Cybertron into Unicron's new body. Eventually, Starscream demands Unicron to give him a body so that he would fulfill his end of bargain and connect his head to Cybertron, but once he doesâ€¦
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_5022a2c4	comment	Xena: Warrior Princess: In "The Reckoning", Ares frames Xena for several murders that get her arrested and put on death row. In an attempt to get her to return to the dark side, he promises that she can call on him to summon anyone she asks for, alive or dead, to help her, believing she will call on an army to massacre the people holding her. Instead, she asks to bring back the people who were murdered, who clear Xena's name. Ares is a Graceful Loser, complimenting her cleverness and allowing the people he brought back to remain alive. In "The Furies", the Furies seek to punish Xena for not avenging the death of her father. Her mother was the one who killed her father (because he went mad), and Xena doesn't want to kill her. Out of nowhere, Xena claims that her father isn't dead, because Ares is her father. Gabrielle and her mother play along, pointing out stories of Ares coming to the wives of husbands out to war in their husband's forms. Ares tries to deny it, but Xena duels him and narrowly manages to beat him, convincing the Furies that she is indeed his daughter, and causing them to leave.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_50bcf7a6	comment	In Homestuck, Terezi pulls this on the supernatural Doc Scratch in order to bait him into enacting her revenge on Vriska. Yes, Terezi managed to manipulate an omniscient being. She is simply the best there is.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_50f011f8	comment	Spoony tells a story in his Counter Monkey series of a player's attempt to scam the Lady of Pain by purposefully antagonising her enough to get mazednote In short, she sends the Ne'er-do-well into a custom built, nigh-impossible to escape labyrinth, trusting that his character's racial ability to automatically know the correct path out of any dungeon would help him. He was right! The exit? 100 million miles down that straight, featureless corridor.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_513c73f3	comment	In Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World Richter makes a deal with the demons of Niflheim - they give him the power to kill Ratatosk, whose lifeforce prevents demons from entering the mortal realm. Richter gets to satisfy his desire for revenge against Ratatosk while the demons get to cause chaos in the mortal realm. Except that, after killing Ratatosk, Richter plans on sacrificing himself to seal away the demons once again. It's implied that if the heroes hadn't talked him down, his plan would have succeeded.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_52e8fba	comment	Land of Oz: Oscar Diggs, a third-rate Nebraska con artist, used nothing more than a combination of parlor tricks, late 19th century technology, brains, misdirection, and an amazing ability to bullshit to effectively muscle his way into power and force four of the most powerful magic users in Nonestica into an Enforced Cold War with himself as the unquestioned ultimate ruler, the Wizard of Oz. It went pretty well for him for nearly fifteen years, until a little girl from Kansas exposed the scam.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_53a0bd8b	comment	A magnificent example: "I of Newton" from The Twilight Zone (1985). A professor (Sherman Helmsley) trying to solve a mathematical problem accidentally summons the Devil (Ron Glass). The professor is allowed to ask three questions regarding his powers, and then a final question (or task) in exchange for his soul; if the Devil can't do it, the deal is forfeit and he keeps his soul. Since it turns out the Devil has no physical limitations to his powers and can return from any place he's sent, the task "Get lost!" is impossible...
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_569093cc	comment	DuckTales (2017): In "House of the Lucky Gander!", Donald is pitted against Gladstone in a challenge for who will be freed from an evil luck vampire. Donald wins, but the luck vampire still claims ownership of Gladstone, so Scrooge tricks the demon into thinking that Donald, of all people, is the luckier one since he won so that he'll take Donald instead. Scrooge only has to count the seconds until the spirit kicks Donald out, poisoned due to Donald's horrible luck, and flees their dimension.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_5752f55e	comment	Probably the most clever of them all, Lillet Blan from GrimGrimoire tricks a very powerful demon into leaving the human it's possessing by asking for a wish from it at the cost of her soul, and then wishes for the demon to DEVOTE ITSELF TO GOD. The demon refuses... which sends it back to Hell. In fact, her plot is so impressive that the local would-be Magnificent Bastard Devil Advocat actually backs her on the deal. And to top it all off, that demon was summoned in order to get rid of what was the Big Bad until then. Lillet successfully wishploded two beings way out of even her league.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: This is Redcloak's ultimate goal, to harness the power of The Snarl and hold the world hostage so he can negotiate with the pantheon of gods to get a better deal for the race of Goblins in-universe, rather than just serving as sources of XP for adventurers. Also something of a Xanatos Gambit; if the plan fails and the world is destroyed by The Snarl, then the gods will remake it - this time with the goblin deity The Dark One among their number, and he'll make sure the goblins don't get screwed again. Whether he will ultimately succeed is open to interpretation, but it is later revealed to the audience that at a minimum he is missing some critical information, chiefly that, as a relatively new deity, The Dark One lacks the necessary reserves of energy to survive the transition between the destruction of the old world and the creation of the new one, which means he won't be around to have any say in how the gods make it after all. When told this, Redcloak assumes it's a bluff.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim: In Azura's Daedric quest, she tasks you with recovering and cleansing Azura's Star, her artifact which doubles as a rechargeable Grand Soul Gem (the most powerful tier of soul). However, you can choose to take it to a mage who can corrupt it into the Black Star, a reusable Black Soul Gem capable of trapping sapient souls (which are always equivalent to Grand Souls even if you get them from wimpy early-game bandits). Better yet, the Black Star can still hold non-sapient souls as well, making it the all around better option. Several questlines and actions have you, essentially, pledging your soul to a Daedric Prince or another deity. Completing the Dark Brotherhood questline means that Sithis has a claim on your soul. Completing the Thieves' Guild questline means making a deal with Nocturnal to spend your afterlife guarding her temple. Becoming a werewolf means Hircine has a claim on your soul. Becoming a vampire means Molag Bal has a claim on your soul. Completing the Dragonborn DLC questline means that Hermaeus Mora has a claim on your soul. You can do all of these things without issue, with the only exception being that you can't be a vampire and a werewolf at the same time. It's also possible that your soul isn't even yours to give in the first place, since you are a Dragonborn, a mortal imbued with the divine soul of a dragon by the Aedric Top God, Akatosh.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_5999b1ec	comment	In the second book of the Xanth series, Bink wonders if his magical talent of bizarre luck preventing him from ever being hurt by magic actually manipulated events so that the Source of All Magic the demon Xanth decided to play nice in the end and not destroy everything.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_59bdd803	comment	In Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas, with some help, Pope Sage managed to seal Thanatos into the Holy Coffer.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_5b344855	comment	Wolverine, of all people outdoes them both in a What If? issue, "Newer Fantastic Four". Thanos is in possession of the Infinity Gauntlet, with Mephisto as his advisor, and Wolverine outwits them both by manipulating Thanos' love of Death against him.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_5c23f23f	comment	In We Are Not All Made Of Colour, the Dark Mage Gorog is defeated when Gwynn goads him into "admitting" that he's mortal. Because Gorog has infinite power, "admitting" that he's mortal causes him to become mortal, and Gorog - being 360,000 years old - was long overdue to die by mortal standards. He promptly turns into dust.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_5ca2f3f9	comment	In Wizards of Waverly Place it happens in part two of the "Wizards VS Angels" special:
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_5ce2f08b	comment	At the end of the (non-canon) second season of Black Butler, Ciel manages to pull this on Sebastian, with some help from Hannah and Alois. Contracted to have his soul eaten once their deal was complete, Ciel is turned into a demon himself; Sebastian can't eat the soul of another demon, meaning that he's trapped in a loophole and bound to serve his master for all eternity.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: Eclipse Caste Solars have a name for this trope: Tuesday. And Fiend Caste Infernals get one additional trick on top of this: they can renege on any promises they make to Eclipses or Moonshadows (the Abyssal mirror of the Eclipses) without suffering any penalties. Yes, that means they can scam the people who scam Cthulhu on a regular basis. Present at lower levels of the game, as well. Raksha are even mechanically rewarded for letting a mortal 'trick' them, since even defeat involves delicious delicious emotions — but a mortal who gets in the habit will discover that the Raksha don't do habits, and instead do omnom on souls.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_60556b3f	comment	Ayanah in PAWN is implied to be doing this to Baalah, with unfortunate implications.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_6059314b	comment	In xkcd, Mephistopheles encounters the E.U.L.A.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_62203e9d	comment	In the The Devil's Advocate, Kevin Lomax succeeds in his suicide attempt, undoing the Devil's entire scheme. But the Devil is not so easily denied.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_63e72a51	comment	2000 AD: In Anderson: Psi-Division, Cassandra Anderson manages to make Satan blow himself up by forcing himself into a Douglas Adams-style self-contradiction. In Judge Dredd, PJ Maybe is defending his new residence as the husband of an aging billionaire from looters and the infected during Chaos Day. Three of the Dark Judges, omnicidal life-hating ghosts, show up to kill everyone in sight. Maybe keeps his cool and manages to trap them inside a bottle after promising them new bodies.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: The Tome of Magic tells the story of Andromalius, a former herald of Olidammara, god of rogues and tricksters. On his deathbed, Andromalius repented of his lifetime of thievery and mischief, effectively stealing his soul from his own deity, thus proving himself as the greatest prankster in history. Olidammara quickly saw the humor in this, yet was faced with a conundrum - if he accepted Andromalius' soul it would ruin the joke, but Olidammara was also leery of letting such a clever servant go to another deity. So Olidammara stole Andromalius' soul and hid it from the rest of the cosmos as a vestige, an entity beyond normal conceptions of life and death. "Whether Andromalius deemed this result an honor or not remains unclear." The Malconvoker Prestige Class specializes in summoning evil extraplanar creatures and tricking them into serving good causes. High-level Malconvokers acquire demon lords as their patrons who provide them with great power under the false impression that they're using that power to spread misery and destruction. In reality they're using it to slay monsters and bring down corrupt rulers, making the world a better place on the sly. A successful Malconvoker puts every skill point they can into Bluff... In this story, a party of adventurers suffer a near-Total Party Kill. The dead characters each get to challenge Death to a game of their choosing, and will be brought back to life if they win. They don't win.note Well, the cleric technically did, but Death was one step ahead of him. Then the Sole Survivor, a binder, challenges Death to a game of hide-and-seek. If he wins, Death has to bring everyone back, but if he loses, he dies too. Death can hide anywhere across the planes and the binder has two weeks to find him. Death accepts the challenge and goes off to hide. The binder... just turns around and purposely gets himself killed fighting the same enemies that wiped out the rest of his party, which of course summons Death right to him to reap his soul. "Found you." Death thought this was hilarious and brought everyone including the binder back as requested. One adventure from Dungeon magazine has the PCs searching the stronghold of a powerful evil wizard who died very recently. Their mission is complicated by the arrival of three different Lower Planar beings, all of whom had contracts for sole possession of the dead wizard's soul and are outraged to find out about the other two fiends' claim upon it.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_6eb4ca5c	comment	In Jackie Chan Adventures, Jade uses Exact Words to trick the Monkey King, the ultimate trickster, into pulling on Jackie's detached puppet leg (It Makes Sense in Context) returning him to puppet form (as Jade says, the spell required the Monkey King to pull Jackie's leg, but it didn't say it had to be attached at the time!). She gets a few others, like when she pulls a Batman Gambit on the Demon Sorcerers, and tricks Tarakudo (she is THE awesome Guile Hero!).
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: Team Avatar try to pull this on Wan Shi Tong by promising not to use the knowledge they could learn in his library for violence. He doesn't entirely believe them but gives them the benefit of the doubt, and is not happy when he finds out they lied to his face and intend to use the knowledge to take down the Fire Nation. In The Legend of Korra it is revealed that this is how Wan, the person who became the first Avatar, gained his first elemental power. He was a normal human who stole Firebending from a Giant Lion Turtle (in a Prometheus allusion) and never returned it as was customary. According to the turtle that appeared in the finale of the first show, things may have been different in the prior era, as it claims that "In the era before the Avatar, we bent not the elements but the energy within ourselves."
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_74fb542e	comment	That Mitchell and Webb Sound has a skit in which the Devil shows up to claim a man's soul, and he complains that his life of wealth and success had felt rather hollow. Satan gloats that this is what makes it all the more satisfying, until the man reminds Satan that before signing the contract he had asked if he could keep it for a few days, and tells him that he had his lawyer add a clause that prevented the Devil claiming his soul in just such an eventuality which Satan had skimmed over, and furthermore criticizes Satan for running an antiquated operation that clearly hadn't adapted well to widespread literacy.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_755fadab	comment	In Haruhi Suzumiya, Kyon forces the near-godlike Data Overmind to back down by threatening to provoke the even more godlike Haruhi into recreating the universe with him, to a place where the Overmind would not exist. Did You Just Blackmail Cthulhu?
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_78146d21	comment	Davy Jones gets this in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, although who it is that actually scammed him is up for debate. It took the combined conflicting efforts of possibly the three smartest/wittiest/cleverest Brits in the Caribbean to steal his heart, though James Norrington walks away with the heart and documents at the end of the film.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_7950b30f	comment	Stephen Colbert had a recurring segment called "Cheating Death with Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA." The graphic shows Stephen in a lab coat playing chess with Death. He cheats. In his final installment in the Grand Finale, Death, instead of giving a "Seriously?" gesture, starts strangling Stephen, who shoots Death with Sweetness.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_7ab10627	comment	V'Ger of Star Trek: The Motion Picture effortlessly destroys anything that affronts it — including a Klingon task force of three battlecruisers — on its way to Earth. Depending on the cut of the film you're watching, the energy field that V'Ger creates around itself has a diameter either greater than that of the solar system, or just greater than Earth's orbit around the sun. When it arrives at Earth, the machine casually prepares to obliterate the planet's biosphere. None of that stops Jim Kirk from playing chicken with V'Ger, and winning; making the leviathan stand down by threatening to not reveal who its creator is if it doesn't. It should be noted that at this point in the film, Kirk had no idea who V'Ger's creator was.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_7fc78282	comment	In The Lord of the Rings: Sauron the chess GRANDmaster of Middle-Earth was outwitted by the Kansas City Shuffle directing him away from Frodo. It helped that Evil Cannot Comprehend Good.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_81692f99	comment	Happened in Star Trek multiple times, with godlike beings practically being a franchise staple.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_817acecf	comment	Fables: Jack Horner's signature ability. Although half of his schemes fails miserably, his successes outclass his failures. Jack once managed to trick a whole legion of Devils (including Lucifer, Chernabog, and Old Nick) into making him nigh-immortal. Then there was the time where he defeated the Devil in poker, and the time he trapped the Grim Reaper in a Bag of Holding.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_8281aef3	comment	KonoSuba: Midway through the series, Aqua ends up purchasing a young hatching which she names Emperor Zell for 75 million Eris that she claims to be a dragon, but suspiciously looks and acts like an ordinary fowl chick and continuously pours her divine energy into the hatchling since it would empower him once he evolved if he truly is a dragon. In the end, when Emperor Zell finally evolves, he transforms into a regular full grown chicken, revealing that Aqua really was just scammed out of her money thanks to her low intelligence stat.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_82a3c9d7	comment	In Emperor Joker, Mr. Mxyzptlk decides to give The Joker 1% of his power to see what he would do with it, but Joker tricks him into giving 99.99%. Which makes it fitting when Superman defeats him by turning Batman into a Mind Virus (the Joker's obsession with Batman keeps bringing him back and his fear when Superman points out he can't control it makes Batman ever larger and more ominous until the Joker is overwhelmed.)
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_83443877	comment	John Constantine, being a conman, has screwed a lot of gods from different religions and mythologies, but none can compare to the events in Hellblazer Issue 128. With the First and other of his enemies still on John's tail to take his soul to Hell, John decided to have a face-to-face talk with the Judeo-Christian God—the most powerful being in whole existence and the God of all Gods. During their campfire discussion, John literally blackmailed God by saying that if his soul goes to Hell, he has the necessary skills and cunning to easily take it over. God, who knew of John's reputation and what he could do, was forced to save John's soul and forever keep him out of the reach of Hell and its minions. Though, being that God is The Omniscient, perhaps John wasn't the one pulling the con...
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_83d41855	comment	Gargoyles: Xanatos (of course) did this to Puck, when he chose Owen Burnett instead of a wish, forcing Puck to play human for the rest of Xanatos' life. note Not that Puck/Owen has any problem with this. A Pet the Dog moment as well. Xanatos could have had any wish he wanted, but passed up a ticket to wealth or power to keep his faithful servant. This, incidentally, was done on purpose by Puck, who was curious about Xanatos's human nature and whether or not he would value companionship over power. Then again, Xanatos is 'never boring'
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_84986bf9	comment	RuneScape: Ariane in sort of pulls this off, but the Cthulhu scams her right back. Ariane has been working for years to try to master her visions of the future, which often come in association with pain. A caged demon in the Wizard's tower offers to interpret her visions of impending doom to the tower, but she must first offer a drop of her blood as fealty to Zamorak. Ariane makes the cut, the pain instantly triggering a vision of what the demon was about to say. Sweet! She doesn't need to actually offer the blood! She won, right? The demon responds by loudly thanking her for her offering, convincing the other wizards in the tower that she IS a demon worshipper and getting her kicked out of the tower. A certain book of background lore detailing the history of Zaros describes him making a contract for control of a certain number of demonic legions with an ancient demon named Hostilius the Autocrat. Hostilius, not aware of Zaros' true identity, attempts to word the contract so that the control of the legions will go to the oldest among them. The deal backfires when Zaros reveals that he's older than the entire demonic plane, resulting in Hostilius being forced to hand the legions over to Zaros for nothing whatsoever in return. The quest "Smoking Kills" is about an attempt by Amascut the Devourer to get you killed by banshees in the Smoking Dungeon. To get you involved, she takes human form, tells you about a sister in peril (also Amascut in disguise), and offers you her services upon completion of the rescue. When you successfully find a way to carry out the rescue, "Sumona" is bound by her word and forced to serve as a Slayer Master. In this case, the "Cthulhu" scammed herself.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_85a79afb	comment	In "Ivan Turbincă", the titular character cheats Death into leaving him alone, thus gaining immortality.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: What power level the Other - a time-traveling Body Snatcher - is at can be ambiguous, but they/she/it is evidently way past normal human level. Which makes it surprising when Zola (the Other's niece) managed to trick the Other into trying to possess Zola, when Zola was actually Immune to Mind Control, and thus had the Other's memories downloaded to her mind instead.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_86e51bb5	comment	In The Adventure Zone: Balance, Kravitz offers Magnus the chance to win Noelle's soul in a quick game of chance. Magnus happens to have a deck of cards on him, but the deck is a cheat deck. Magnus wins handily and Kravitz never spots the cheat. Unusually for this trope, Kravitz doesn't really mind losing the game anyway, because Noelle's resurrection wasn't her fault and she did just help prevent a disaster, so he's more than happy to give her a chance to avoid being reaped.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_87e9a6c4	comment	Channel Zero: The Candle Cove story ends with this. The force behind the titular Show Within a Show, Eddie Painter's ghost, forces Mike into entering his realm and accepting a Grand Theft Me by kidnapping his daughter. Once she's free, Mike distracts Eddie by talking him into playing out a game of cards they never finished years earlier. And while Eddie wins it, they're distracted long enough for Mike's mother to Mercy Kill Mike's comatose body, thus trapping both Mike's spirit and Eddie in the latter's realm forever.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_880640ea	comment	Noriko Null from Beyond the Impossible:
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_88e4c402	comment	The main character in Card Shark plays a game of cards with Death if he dies in order to return to life. And, the game being what it is, you can cheat at it.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_898a1932	comment	Journey to Chaos: At the end of Journey to Chaos, Nunnal is revealed to have Order himself into not only wasting resources and freeing elves, but also preventing him from ever invading her village again. It was basically a high stakes bet; she allows him into Dnnac Ledo to thwart the Mana Mutation Summit and prevent its agreements going forward, in exchange for several conditions. The catch was that if he failed, he couldn't try again later. Little did he know that Nunnal's adoptive daughter and houseguest prepared a plan to destroy his vessel and repel him.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_8ba4613a	comment	Death Note: This is the only way for a human to kill an otherwise-immortal Shinigami. Shinigami will die if they kill a human to prolong another human's life, since (as gods of death) they aren't meant to save lives. Light, world champion of the Gambit Roulette, manages to manipulate Rem, a Shinigami, into killing L and Watari in order to save Misa, and she dies cursing him as she crumbles to dust. Clever indeed — although Ryuk is not so easily manipulated. Ryuk himself is revealed to have tricked the Shinigami King into giving him a second Death Note... how exactly he did this is unknown, but the Shinigami King is as far above the rest of the Shinigami as Shinigami are above humans, and Rem notes that it is extremely difficult to deceive the King.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_8df544cd	comment	In Superior, it looks like the demon Ornom has succeeded in forcing kid Simon to sell his soul in exchange for becoming the super-hero Superior and gloats on winning the deal before the allotted time is up.. Simon's new friend Madeline shows up and details how Ornom has missed one key item: Superior is a figure so powerful that even his cells will keep going on if his body is destroyed and thus can never truly die. And if someone can never die...then how is Ornom going to collect his soul? Too late, Ornom realizes he's screwed just as his fellow demons drag him to Hell, mocking him all the way for falling for this loophole.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_8f873d70	comment	Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2: Near the end of the game, Towa, by hijacking the Time Patrol's communications systems and impersonating the Supreme Kai of Time, dupes Beerus and Whis into going to the Time Nest, thus ensuring that Whis won't be there to hit the Reset Button on Frieza's blowing up the Earth. They quickly realize what happened and go back to fix it, and when that's done, Beerus is absolutely pissed that Towa had the gall to trick him.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_8ffd1b86	comment	In the climax of Doctor Strange (2016), the good Doctor manages to beat Dormammu, inhabitant of the Dark Dimension, by entering it as he magically creates a loop of repeating time. The Dark Dimension normally lacks any aspect of time so, although Dormammu can effortlessly kill Strange — and does so, repeatedly — Strange dying keeps resetting the loop until Dormammu is begging him to make the time-loop stop, and agrees to retreat from the Earth and never bother it again so Strange will release the loop. When Dormammu tells Strange that the latter cannot win their confrontation, Strange replies: "No. But I can lose. Again and again and again and again, forever. And that makes you my prisoner."
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_90c73dda	comment	Happens in one book of Animorphs when a Yeerk steals the Time Matrix and rewrites history. The Animorphs get to go back and stop him, in exchange for the one of the Animorphs dying. Jake dies to honor the deal, but the team gets around this and brings Jake back to life by using the Time Matrix to prevent the birth of the Yeerk's host, thus preventing it from ever finding the Time Matrix and preventing the Yeerk's rewriting from ever happening, thus accomplishing what they set out to do without losing anybody.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_95f45f6b	comment	In Shadowrun Returns: Hong Kong, the Player Character can inflict one of these on Qian Ya in the finale, forcing her to retreat unless you summon all her siblings clamoring for revenge to kill both of you. You can then force her to release all her slaves and taken souls by pointing out that by her own laws, she has forfeited all rights because she attempted to renegotiate the bargain by asking about said thralls in the first place.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_985ad25d	comment	The Universe 6 arc of Dragon Ball Super has Frost, who manages to completely pull one over on Champa. Champa is a true, for-realsies God of Destruction, and with the exception of his assistant the strongest being in Universe 6.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_9908ca47	comment	In a parody of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Torg outsmarts the pseudo-Literal Genie that's been interpreting people's wishes as "Turn me into chocolate" (including someone who had merely screamed in terror rather than actually wishing) by wishing that he'd "Turn Torg Potter into chocolate." This results in the kid Torg was a body double for being turned to chocolate, allowing him to safely wish everyone back to normal. (Fortunately, the genie doesn't mess around with the remaining wishes)
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_9a8bf274	comment	While not supernatural beings per se, the Scrin from Command & Conquer are Sufficiently Advanced Aliens with psychic powers and access to exotic, Tiberium-powered technologies. They are led to believe by Kane that the civilisation on Earth has collapsed and that Earth is ripe for Tiberium mining. Not so much. By the time the Scrin realise they've been suckered to landing on Earth, they are already having their asses handed to them by Nod and GDI alike (and the two won't even stop fighting each other to fight the Scrin).
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_9aeeca73	comment	Happens in the The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings during the first act. Geralt comes across a pair of former soldiers who were a part of the events directly responsible for an insane asylum burning down and becoming haunted by the spirits of the people burned alive and the enemy soldier that was tortured and killed. One of the ways he can resolve the issue is by collecting pig or monster eyes and hearts, and offering them to the Wraith to sate his desire for vengeance. However, he gets the Wraith to remove the curse before handing over his fake parts, which he promptly sees through now that he has them in his grasp and attack Geralt. Of course, Geralt is a genetically engineered mutant who's trained to kill monsters and spectres, and promptly puts him down.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: The series' in-game book Azura and the Box features an example. An old Dwemer (a notably Naytheistic race) philosopher manages to prove Azura, a Daedric Prince, wrong in front of live audience. This doesn't end well for him, although he dies very pleased with himself. The book notes that the ending differs based on which race is telling the tale: the Dunmer, who unlike the Dwemer are very religious and worship Azura, instead tell that Azura easily saw through his attempted legerdemain and squashed him like a bug. Another in-game book, Song of Hrormir is about a warrior who offers to take an oath of loyalty to Nocturnal, but words his oath of loyalty in such a way that the one of the first lines of the oath ("To turn my back on truth") exempts him from adhering to the rest of it. Thieves simply love stealing from the Daedric Princes. Nocturnal, despite being, essentially, the patron deity of thieves has had multiple items stolen from her by mortals throughout history, including the Grey Cowl, the Skeleton Key, and the Eye of Nocturnal. This usually ends badly for the thief, however, as incidentally, most of the time it will be you that will recover her items (except the Gray Cowl and in the fourth game, the Skeleton Key where it's given as reward). Similarly, the legendary Khajiit thief Rajhin stole the Ring of Khajiiti off the arm of Mephala herself. In the Obscure Text Lord Vivec's Sword-Meeting with Cyrus the Restless, Cyrus convinces Vivec, a Physical God, that he knows the "pankratosword" technique and is willing to use it, in order to get Vivec to cough up a valuable treasure. (It's a bluff, but it works.) According to the legends of the Skaal, the ancient King Ysgramor was known to have outsmarted Hermaeus Mora, the Daedric Prince of Knowledge, on a regular basis. Skyrim: In Azura's Daedric quest, she tasks you with recovering and cleansing Azura's Star, her artifact which doubles as a rechargeable Grand Soul Gem (the most powerful tier of soul). However, you can choose to take it to a mage who can corrupt it into the Black Star, a reusable Black Soul Gem capable of trapping sapient souls (which are always equivalent to Grand Souls even if you get them from wimpy early-game bandits). Better yet, the Black Star can still hold non-sapient souls as well, making it the all around better option. Several questlines and actions have you, essentially, pledging your soul to a Daedric Prince or another deity. Completing the Dark Brotherhood questline means that Sithis has a claim on your soul. Completing the Thieves' Guild questline means making a deal with Nocturnal to spend your afterlife guarding her temple. Becoming a werewolf means Hircine has a claim on your soul. Becoming a vampire means Molag Bal has a claim on your soul. Completing the Dragonborn DLC questline means that Hermaeus Mora has a claim on your soul. You can do all of these things without issue, with the only exception being that you can't be a vampire and a werewolf at the same time. It's also possible that your soul isn't even yours to give in the first place, since you are a Dragonborn, a mortal imbued with the divine soul of a dragon by the Aedric Top God, Akatosh.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_9e2dbb4d	comment	In Regular Show, Skips accidentally kills Rigby for cheating in arm wrestling, he then challenges Death to an arm wrestling match for Rigby's soul. Skips wins by using the same trick Rigby used on him.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Caesar Clown embezzled research funds from Big Mom, one of the Four Emperors, confident that he would be safe from her as long as he had the protection of Doflamingo (who in turn was a business partner of Big Mom's fellow Emperor, Kaido). Following his capture in the Punk Hazard arc and Doflamingo's arrest in the Dressrosa arc, however, that protection is reduced to dust, and Big Mom's subordinates seize the opportunity to retrieve Caesar so that he can deliver Big Mom the research he promised. In two weeks, or else. Despite her immense, top-tier power and influence, Big Mom is fairly susceptible to this. Her mental instability and somewhat simpleminded nature occasionally leads to her falling for the tricks of much weaker foes, or even the tricks of her own child in the case of Charlotte Perospero's ruse during the last third of Whole Cake Island Arc. After she defeats Brook, she decides that a living skeleton is indeed a rare creature, and decides to keep him as a curiosity. The Straw Hats rescue Brook by swapping him with a dead skeleton (with seaweed to mimic Brook's afro) while Big Mom is fast asleep. Come the next morning, she thinks that Brook has died, only to get shocked a few hours later when he shows up at Sanji's wedding. As for Perospero, following the fiasco of the wedding, Big Mom undergoes another of her hunger pangs, this time craving the wedding cake that she didn't get to eat. Problem is, the cake was destroyed by the Straw Hat Pirates while trying to rescue Sanji, and then the castle exploded. Oh, and Streusen, the chef who baked the first cake, has been knocked out cold and won't wake up for a few days. Because Big Mom will not calm down unless she's given the exact kind of food she's hungry for, this means that unless someone can magically conjure another cake, Totto Land and the Big Mom Pirates are effectively doomed. In order to stall for time, Perospero desperately lies out of his own ass and convinces a barely cognizant Big Mom that there was a second cake, but that the Straw Hat Pirates have stolen it. Against all odds, Big Mom believes Perospero, but roars that she will kill him if she finds that he's lying. Judging from Perospero's expression, it is likely that he crapped his pants then and there.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_9f7704e8	comment	The Unexplored Summon://Blood-Sign: This is the main way in which Kyousuke achieves his victories over the White Queen, by exploiting his understanding of her psychology and her love for him. For example, in the last battle in the first volume, he deliberately summons the Black Maw, another Eldritch Abomination that normally kills its own summoner. The Queen is therefore forced to fight the Black Maw to save Kyousuke, and is (temporarily) destroyed as a result. That said, it's hinted that the Queen is smarter than she lets on and only pretends to fall for Kyousuke's tricks because of her aforementioned love for him. Another attempt at doing this to the White Queen is the reason for her Start of Darkness. A number of people, including Kyousuke's adoptive siblings, tried to gain control over the White Queen by copying Kyousuke's voice and behavior. This initially worked (to the point that the Queen split into multiple bodies to follow each impersonator around). However, when she saw the real Kyousuke, she realized the deception and killed almost all of the impersonators.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_a2c37f38	comment	In Planescape: Torment, it's impossible for people to tell if The Nameless One is lying- something about him prevents them from detecting his falsehoods if he's charismatic enough. Doesn't matter if it's a lowly harlot in the Hive or the telepathic Hive Mind of Cranium Rats, you can put the blinds on them without fail every time. Yes, you can successfully lie to beings who are actively reading your mind at the time. It's easily possible to bluff your way through deals with beings of Physical God status.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_a49a890c	comment	Seen at in at least two instances in the comics Preacher which results in God getting killed (yes, that means the Christian God, who is the Big Bad of the series). The protagonist Jesse Custer met up with the Saint of Killers to plan for God's demise. The Saint called him out on his plan, saying that it would be nigh-impossible to kill God as long as he was on his throne. But Jesse suggested that he would use himself as bait to get God off his throne. This would give the Saint the chance to come up to Heaven, destroy the whole Heavenly Host, and wait for God there and kill him. Cassidy himself pulls off a clever scam with God that resulted in him getting cured of his vampirism and unwittingly helped Jesse and the Saint in killing God. Cassidy didn't know of Jesse's deal with the Saint of Killers which would result in God's demise. Cassidy's deal basically spelled out, "I'll bring you Jesse so you can kill him (and thus kill Genesis) on the condition we both leave alive." The deal was honored: Jesse dies, then comes back, and Cassidy becomes human again. It's only coincidence that Jesse planned to get himself killed anyway. It was the only way God would be comfortable enough to return to Heaven. Only thing is, the Saint of Killers would be waiting for Him for some much-overdue payback, armed with a gun forged from the metal of the Angel of Death's sword.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Lelouch of Code Geass manages to use his Geass on what can reasonably be described as God, taking control of it and forcing it to delete his parents from existence.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_a5852f44	comment	In Small Favor, as part of a Faerie power play, the Summer Court sends the Three Billy Goats Gruff (actually fae hitmen, each one more powerful than the last) after Harry. A whole lot of shenanigans later, the last one, Eldest Gruff, has cornered Harry. Eldest Gruff doesn't really want to kill Harry since the mess has been resolved by that point but is obligated two as long as they both remain on the "field of battle"- i.e. Demonreach Island, where the climax is taking place. Luckily for Harry, the events of an earlier book mean that Summer owes him a favor, but unluckily, he can't ask Eldest Gruff to spare his life. So instead, he asks for a donut. With white frosting and sprinkles, but no jelly. And not a magically conjured donut, but a real one from a bakery. Given that they're in the middle of the Great Lakes, in the time it takes Eldest Gruff to buy the donut and return, Harry will have solved the book's conflict and be off Demonreach, and thus no longer a valid target. Gruff, seeing the point and finding it both appropriate and hilarious, acquiesces and gets Harry a hot coffee to go with it. Later books reveal that the entire Summer Court was laughing about it for days.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_a7c9f8e9	comment	In Legend of the Five Rings, the big bad evil god, Fu Leng, fell to this at the hands of Naseru, who eventually became the Emperor. When Naseru and his siblings led a Big Damn Heroes moment in an attack on Fu Leng's stronghold in the Shadowlands to prevent him from taking over the heavens, while his uber-powered brothers and sister were slaying abominations left and right, Naseru, being a courtier, walked up to Daigotsu, leader of Fu Leng's forces in the material world, and began talking to him. The resulting conversation allowed Naseru to trick Fu Leng into temporarily withdrawing his dependence on Daigotsu, which gave the other gods and dead heroes enough time to take him down and send him back to hell.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_a8639b13	comment	Fablehaven concludes this way after the good guys amass their forces to oppose the threat of a demonic army escaping its can. After the demons do break loose, those that survive the battle divert their attention to invading and raiding the Fairy Queen's domain, since the portal to her realm is still open after she led her troops into combat. The Fairy Queen and her entourage proceed to seal the demons into that now-vacant realm and set up shop in the demons' old prison.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_ad6a095e	comment	Princess: The Hopeful: Several Princesses of Spades managed to trick the True Fae into promises that they'd never return to the human world.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_b0cf0ed6	comment	Danger Mouse faces a Demon of the Fourth Dimension ("Demons Aren't Dull"), to whom he quotes one of the rules of the 4-D Union ("Devious and Diabolical Dimensional Demons, affiliated with Gremlins, Ghouls, Ghosts and Things That Go "Waaaaoohh!"). It states that any victim not destroyed by the end of episode four must be returned to their own dimension or said demon's powers are revoked by the Boss Demon. Buying it as he's scared witless, the Demon of the Fourth Dimension returns DM and Penfold to their world. The catch: DM made the rule up. Which is fine as the Demon returned the two heroes some five miles into the air, leaving them plummeting to Earth.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_b2700e28	comment	Kitten plays with this trope in If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device. Step 1) Challenge Tzeench to a children's card game with the soul of Magnus the Red as the stakes. Step 2) Remove all of Tzeench's most pressing traps and defenses and attack head-on with some souped-up monsters, taking his lifepoints down to zero in just one turn. One could argue it's a perfect example, except Kitten had no plan going into the duel. Jopallian Planetary Governor Lance Cashpants tricks Loyalist Primarch Corvus Corax into signing a contract while Corax is distracted with saving his brother Vulkan from a virus. The contract forces Corax to buy several useless things at the low, low price of everything he owns, leaving him and his comrades stranded and stripped of their gear. Corax gets his revenge after convincing the regiments to rebel, and the episode ends with Cashpants being guillotined by the exploited masses.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_b6c9037f	comment	''The Magnus Archives'' has a case of this combined with the traditional Chess with Death folktale in the appropriately titled episode Cheating Death. A soldier killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill has the chance to play against Death for his soul, being guaranteed he won't die if he wins. He challenges Death to the card game Faro, and spends the entire game with a concealed string attached to a key piece. At the last moment, he pulls the piece and guarantees his win. Death doesn't notice, and he thinks he's free and clear...until he starts decaying away into a new Reaper and is informed that not dying is very different from living. In a particularly wicked twist on this trope, the original Reaper was himself a victim of this game, and was in fact scamming the soldier by letting him win.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_ba6e04f6	comment	The Cuphead Show!: The Devil is trying to claim Cuphead's soul, but it's unable due to him wearing a magical invisible sweater made by Mugman. After many attempts of tricking him to remove the sweater, Cuphead tells him that he'll do it if the Devil paints the fence for them. The Devil really gets into it, using magic paintbrushes to fly around and paint to the tune of Danse Macabre. It's not until later, when he's finished, that he realizes that Cuphead and Mugman left for the amusement park.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_bb1b8e8c	comment	Critical Role: In the second campaign the party encounter Isharnai, a hag who offers people deals for whatever they want in exchange for great misery and had turned Nott the Brave into a goblin. Jester convinces the hag to eat a cupcake sprinkled with a magical dust that leaves her vulnerable to a Modify Memory spell. Using the spell, Jester convinces Isharnai that they spent the afternoon talking amiably and that Isharnai voluntarily lifted the curse she placed on Nott because she found Jester so charming.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_bc3b58c9	comment	Chicanery begins with Pokey having just embezzled Giygas' $44,000,000 retirement fund.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_bc810180	comment	52: Ralph Dibney uses his own death to trap Neron, DC's Devil stand-in, in stasis forever.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: The Dark Eldar special character Lady Malys does this in her backstory. The Cthulhu in question was an Eldritch Abomination dwelling in the Webway, which she beat in a battle of wits, so it literally gifted her with its crystal heart, which she proceeded to replace her own heart with. It's also heavily implied to be the Trickster God the Harlequins worship. It's hinted, however, that she may not have won as much as she thought she did, as the creepy-insane laughter coming out of her quarters can attest to. Then there's that one time Abaddon landed on a planet and outwitted a Lord of Change with a deal. In a contest of wits, the daemon would be bound to Abaddon's service if he won, but if he lost, Abaddon would forfeit his wargear but be told the Changer's True Name. Abaddon lost, but he then used the planet's nature of moving backward in time to inform his past self of the Changer's Name, thus effectively winning the contest without actually having to participate. While canon is deliberately short on specifics, the Emperor is strongly indicated to have made pacts with all four Chaos gods in order to get what he needed to finish the Primarch program before the Great Crusade. The Emperor later went back on the deal, though this eventually backfired on him, leading to the events of the Horus Heresy, In a blurb of one of the Chaos Daemon codexes, it was said that Tzeentch's Crystal Labyrinth only had one successful escape. Everyone else fell victim as there's only one true path and that is guarded by a riddle-speaking guardian. But somehow a little girl with a little black dog found her way through the labyrinth and succeeded in answering all the riddles.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_bd4ba20f	comment	In BlazBlue: Central Fiction, being drawn into the Embryo causes most of their cast to lose their memories of the last three games. However, the one person who turns out to have been Faking Amnesia is Hazama, the now-empty vessel of Yuuki Terumi. Not only does he successfully convince Terumi, one of the most powerful characters in the canon and one of the evilest people in fiction, that he has no idea what's going on, he convinces Terumi to lend him his power and very nearly steals it for good. The sheer balls of this manoeuvre are frankly impressive.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_bdcd318c	comment	In Son of the Sannin, Naruto threatens to turn himself over to Akatsuki and let Kurama be sealed in the Gedo Mazo statue (which he considers to be a Fate Worse than Death) if he doesn't supply the necessary chakra to save Gaara's life with a transfusion. Naruto later admits that he was bluffing.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_c0d295c4	comment	In the Team Fortress 2 metaplot, the Medic manages to screw over Old Nick in a Deal with the Devil through the simple expedient of supplementing the soul he sold with eight others, meaning that when he dies, he holds a vote on whether to go to hell, in which the Devil gets one share. When Old Nick tries to get violent about it, Medic then gets himself resurrected by pointing out that that him going to hell nice and fairly is a simple matter of the Devil getting four of the other eight souls, and points out that Old Nick got one of them, four more should be a simple matter. And to prove his point, he sells one more for a pen that he takes back to the living world with him.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_c2297a9c	comment	In Judge Dredd, PJ Maybe is defending his new residence as the husband of an aging billionaire from looters and the infected during Chaos Day. Three of the Dark Judges, omnicidal life-hating ghosts, show up to kill everyone in sight. Maybe keeps his cool and manages to trap them inside a bottle after promising them new bodies.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_c2374a54	comment	In Queen Sonja #20, Evil Sorcerer Thulsa Doom tricks an Elder God into giving him enough of its power that he is able to kill it.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_c4282b71	comment	In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Discord gets to be on the receiving end of this when a heavily weakened Tirek promises him that he'll let Discord go back to the way he was before his Heelâ€“Face Turn if he helps him drain all the ponies of their magic, which Discord happily accepts. When Tirek gets powerful enough, he then steals Discord's own power.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: This is one of the Doctor's favorite tactics on, particularly his seventh incarnation. For instance, in "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" he outwitted the Gods of Ragnarok and in "The Curse of Fenric", he out-gambitted the titular character who is defined as being an Eldritch Abomination and a Chess Master. Four lifetimes later in "Blink," he tricked a group of Weeping Angels into looking at each other (immobilizing them, since Weeping Angels can't move while being observed). If you count the Doctor as Cthulhu, the (very) few times somebody runs a truly effective scam on the Doctor also apply. One scammer even noted it was an honor to have gotten him with the same scam twice.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_c51cb60a	comment	Changeling: The Lost features an Entitlement known as the Legates of the Black Apple. When The Fair Folk come barging into the freehold, it's the job of the Legates to try to figure out what they want and how to get them to go away. Mind you, this doesn't necessary involve giving them exactly what they want, and negotiations can involve intimidation just as well as diplomacy. Mind you, being a member of the Entitlement is quite risky — you don't want to know what the Gentry did to the guy who preferred to use intimidation tactics once they found out his frailty.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm: Doctor Stephen Strange who as the Sorcerer Supreme, does this sort of thing both professionally and for fun. For instance, the main plot of the series is essentially the foreground of a time-travel based Gambit Roulette set in motion by him involving, amongst others, Loki, a Magnificent Bastard in his own right, Odin, who's even better than Loki (after all, he taught him), Chthon, the various higher-ups of SHIELD, MI13, HYDRA, and the Red Room (who are Manipulative Bastards of necessity), Doctor Doom, and at least four of the Endless. Including Destruction, who is here perhaps better known as The Phoenix Force. He's played them all, and many more besides, without lying even once. John Constantine also appears a couple of times, though he doesn't manipulate anyone while onscreen. Mention is, however, made of the "tricking three arch-demons to cure his lung cancer" incident (which means that he conned Lucifer), as well as an incident involving the Zataras.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_cb6abef3	comment	In The Avengers (2012), Black Widow pretends that Loki's taunting is affecting her more than it actually is (she even pretends to cry). In his arrogance, he makes a comment that allows her to figure out his scheme, and she thanks him. The look on the God of Lies' face when he realizes he's been tricked is priceless.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_cdf9ce15	comment	Janus from Maledicte pulls this off against the goddess possessing his cross-dressing girlfriend, trapping said goddess inside her with a recursive paradox that made her incapable of ever trying to kill him.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_ce5d6e59	comment	During the first episode of the Atum mini-arc in Vaguely Recalling JoJo, Telence T. D'Arby somehow got Double's soul off-screen, as her doll is seen in Telence's collection. Telence wouldn't last five seconds against an Eldritch Abomination like Double, so he probably used his words to get her to play video games with him.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_cf82131a	comment	The plot of Marvel Ultimate Alliance is Dr. Doom making a Chain of Deals that winds up suckering or screwing over most of the other villains in the universe, including gods like Loki, Mephisto, and Odin.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_d0744832	comment	The Avengers: Hawkeye manages to beat the Grandmaster, one of the Elders of the Universe, (who was at the time pitting the Avengers [or at least Captain America and Hawkeye, the only two still alive] in an endless series of games to the death) by convincing the Grandmaster to engage in a game of chance to make it more interesting. Hawkeye, of course, wins. He did, after all, cheat.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_d3fdf6e0	comment	The series' in-game book Azura and the Box features an example. An old Dwemer (a notably Naytheistic race) philosopher manages to prove Azura, a Daedric Prince, wrong in front of live audience. This doesn't end well for him, although he dies very pleased with himself. The book notes that the ending differs based on which race is telling the tale: the Dunmer, who unlike the Dwemer are very religious and worship Azura, instead tell that Azura easily saw through his attempted legerdemain and squashed him like a bug.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_d4f9ccf	comment	The title character in Aladdin manages to trick his newfound genie servant into freeing him from a sealed cavern without making a wish by prodding the genie's ego. Genie realizes too late he's been played, so he warns that Aladdin won't get any more "freebies". Later on, when Aladdin is drowning and couldn't reasonably wish for rescue, the genie just takes it for granted that he would wish for it and does so, still counting it as a wish (he takes Aladdin "nodding" as a yes, though this was just Aladdin's head was dropping from lack of oxygen). And at the end of the movie, Aladdin tricks Jafar into turning himself into a genie, only to remind him that genies are bound to servitude in lamps. When Jafar went after Aladdin in the sequel he had the handicap of being unable to directly kill Aladdin or his allies, though he's not above plain torturing them or tricking others into doing the job for him.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_d5505073	comment	In the Uplift series, every scam Earth clan tries to pull on the ancient, Sufficiently Advanced Aliens backfires, until the very end of the series when they manage a doozy... accidentally, with a lie so ridiculous they never expected it to do more than buy them a few seconds. Even more impressively, what actually clinched the deal wasn't a deception at all, but the enemy misinterpreting a genuine offer of surrender.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_d616724d	comment	When Swain of League of Legends was struck down in battle, he was approached by a demon of secrets looking to make a deal in exchange for saving him. The demon underestimated just how cagey Swain was however, and the Grand General quickly scammed the demon instead. Sparing himself from death and stealing the demons great power for himself.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_d8cdd857	comment	In Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Autolycus, King of Thieves, once managed to steal Hermes's winged sandals right off of his feet.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_d9c602eb	comment	Eric Cartman does this literally in the South Park episodes "Mysterion Rises" and "Coon vs. Coon and Friends" as he actually scams Cthulhu into doing his bidding by acting sickeningly cute.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_d9e5ee89	comment	John Constantine, the Hellblazer, is the Trope Codifier. In what may be Constantine's highest Moment of Awesome, the First of the Fallen, aka Satan, tried to get Constantine's soul, so Constantine sold his soul to two of the most powerful demons in Hell at once, which would force them into a war with each other and leave Hell open to a full-out assault from Heaven, leaving them no choice but to cure his terminal lung cancer and keep him alive. And then he flipped them off—the logic being that if he died someone had to claim him, and since each one of the three Fallen had a claim to his soul, just giving it up to another would be a sign of weakness. And if they actually went to war with each other over it, Heaven would take advantage of the chaos and invade. Mind you, this whole thing backfired when the First of the Fallen decided to simply kill his fellow rulers and come after Constantine himself.... Then there's the reason the First of the Fallen did this: John had found out that his dying friend Brendan had sold his soul to the First of the Fallen. Five minutes before Brendan's soul ended up in the First's clutches, John suggested they share a toast. Brendan had this magic working that turns an underground spring into pure stout. John and the First shared a drink, then John revealed the spring was blessed by a saint, so technically, the base of what the First just drank was holy water. And then the spell expired, and the First had a glassful of holy water in his gut, disrupting his body long enough for Brendan to slip away to Heaven. When the First of the Fallen killed his fellow lords of Hell, this left John in a very tight position. He even contemplated just dying, since his girlfriend, Kit Ryan, left him. But John, being a Magnificent Bastard, hadnâ€™t given up yet and decided to use a Gambit Roulette. The first came when he made a scheme to recruit the Archangel Gabriel. He did this by using a succubus to seduce Gabriel that led to his banishment from Heaven. The plan soon failed when the First got wind of the plan from one of John's friends, and killed Gabriel. With his first plan having failed, John made a second gambit by surrendering himself to the First. John entertained him with a series of his own ideas of the world that contradicted that of the Devil's. While chatting, John's succubus friend stabbed The First with the Twin Blade, a knife that can kill anyone—even the First—with one strike. The First died... or did he? The two would soon meet again in the Critical Mass storyline, when the First was resurrected by God as a mortal as part of his new punishment. The First plotted his revenge on Constantine by using the Archdemon Buer to take the soul of the son of Constantine's friend as hostage. In return for the child and his safety, John had to offer his soul to the First by means of suicide. In a standoff (and with no way out), John chose to save the child by taking the deal with the First, killing himself by stabbing his abdomen. The First then took John's soul to Hell to be tormented for all the humiliation John did to him and Hell itself. When the First thought he already won, John later reappeared unharmed. John then told the First that before the confrontation he collected all the bad side of his soul, formed it into his image, and had that part of him sent to Hell, while the good side stayed safe. The First was yet again fooled. Speaking of God... John Constantine, being a conman, has screwed a lot of gods from different religions and mythologies, but none can compare to the events in Hellblazer Issue 128. With the First and other of his enemies still on John's tail to take his soul to Hell, John decided to have a face-to-face talk with the Judeo-Christian God—the most powerful being in whole existence and the God of all Gods. During their campfire discussion, John literally blackmailed God by saying that if his soul goes to Hell, he has the necessary skills and cunning to easily take it over. God, who knew of John's reputation and what he could do, was forced to save John's soul and forever keep him out of the reach of Hell and its minions. Though, being that God is The Omniscient, perhaps John wasn't the one pulling the con...
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_db48d0cd	comment	In DC Comics' Underworld Unleashed, the Trickster, in a Heelâ€“Face Turn, managed to scam the Devil.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_db96ded4	comment	In The Legend of Korra it is revealed that this is how Wan, the person who became the first Avatar, gained his first elemental power. He was a normal human who stole Firebending from a Giant Lion Turtle (in a Prometheus allusion) and never returned it as was customary. According to the turtle that appeared in the finale of the first show, things may have been different in the prior era, as it claims that "In the era before the Avatar, we bent not the elements but the energy within ourselves."
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_dded5020	comment	"The Devil and Daniel Webster": This classic of the form has a struggling New Hampshire farmer named Jabez Stone sell his soul to the Devil in return for seven years of good luck. When the Devil comes to collect, Stone gets Dan'l Webster as his lawyer, and Dan'l must face Old Scratch in a trial for Stone's soul.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_df277244	comment	American Gods has Cthulhu scamming other Cthulhus - all the gods are being manipulated by Mr. Wednesday (the American offshoot of Odin) and Mr. World (the American offshoot of Loki). They convinced the old and new gods respectively that there wasn't enough belief to go around and that they should start a war with each other. Odin and Loki then arranged circumstances so they could not only have many of their rivals off each other, but also draw power from the ensuing carnage by having Loki symbolically dedicate it to Odin beforehand, turning the bloodbath into a blood sacrifice.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_e144ba19	comment	Another notable case occurs in Act 1 of Dragon Age II, when Hawke can convince an ancient demon to lead you both to the exit back to the Deep Roads, in exchange for defeating an ancient rock wraith. It turns out, the wraith was sitting on a sizable treasure hoard, enough to restore your family fortunes twice over. Varric's preferred response? Renege on your deal, kill the demon, and walk away, filthy rich.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_e235270c	comment	In Stellaris, forming a covenant with The End of the Cycle is generally considered to be the only true instance of Schmuck Bait in the game, as after the time limit for all the benefits it confers you is up, it destroys your empire down to a single planet (and sometimes not even that) before using the life-force of your slain peoples to wage war on all living things, so that it may end the cycle of life. This is one of the only times where you cannot defeat or outmaneuver an Eldritch Abomination in-game, and the game explicitly tells you this in regards to forming a Covenant with the end of the cycle: Do not do this. However, players who have the Nemesis DLC installed and have acquired enough Menace to become an Endgame Crisis usually end up taking the Cycle up on its offer. Why? Because their end-game plan entails destroying the galaxy yourself. And then invading and conquering the Shroud.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_e4a1416	comment	In Changes, Harry seizes on a sarcastic remark to save his life: When he accidentally ends up in the home of the king of the wild hunt (who really, really wants to kill Harry), who sarcastically greets him, Harry instead interprets the greeting literally, invoking Sacred Hospitality to prevent anyone present from harming him. The King found this amusing enough to permit it.note The Erlking may have also allowed it as a form of Politeness Judo; "You're 'trapped' in my hall, how are you going to try to escape before I try to hunt in earnest?" The fact that Harry used his brain to latch onto something he said and attempt to use Exact Words intrigued the Erlking enough to let it play out.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_e556181c	comment	Mab makes this an explicit part of Harry's job in Skin Game. Due to an old favor she owes, Harry has to help Nicodemus on a heist. Both parties know the others aren't trustworthy (the Denarians are backstab addicts and Mab has a grudge against them and is good at the long game), but can't afford to be the one to break the agreement. When Harry discusses the job with Mab, she makes it clear that she expects that Harry and Nicodemus will try to screw each other over, she just wants him to come out ahead in the backstabbing contest by making sure that Nicodemus doesn't get what he wants and is left holding the bag. Harry succeeds by subverting Goodman Grey before the heist and then mocking Deirdre's death to Nicodemus to get him to break the agreement first by trying to kill Harry, thus allowing Harry to retaliate and permanently tarnishing his word.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_e9c7b01b	comment	This is the goal of The Emperor in Dissidia Final Fantasy, who plans on living forever and manipulating the gods themselves to become something more than them.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_ec28245c	comment	Dragon Ball Z deconstructs this trope in the Buu Arc. Super Buu demands to see the 'Strong Fighter'/Gotenks (Goten and Trunks fused together) he was promised by Goku. In an effort to buy some time, Piccolo suggests that Buu amuse himself by terrorizing the people of Earth while the fighter prepares himself, knowing they can be revived with the Dragon Balls. Super Buu manages to eradicate the human race, with one Beam Spam, in two minutes and never left Kami's Lookout while doing it. All of humanity had become a sacrificial lamb for the sake of giving Goten and Trunks just two more minutes to train in The Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_ee221a4e	comment	The Transformers (Marvel): Galvatron in the Marvel comic pulled one on Primus, making him believe Autobot and Decepticon alike had finally put their differences aside for the greater good, all so Galvatron could take revenge on Unicron. This was somewhat easier than it sounds, as Primus had become so senile that he didn't even notice Unicron's approach until Unicron was right in front of him, and even then it took Kup to actually point it out.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_eedac02b	comment	Izaya Orihara of Durarara!! fame, who screws with everyone every chance he gets. Celty and Saika included.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_f236a7c7	comment	Belisarius Series had several medieval Europeans able to outwit Link, a superrobot from millions of years in the future. Most notably Belisarius but also Damadora and Narses. Narses actually managed to deceive Link looking right in her face, in spite of the ability to otherwise tell when someone is lying to her.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_f74b5f80	comment	Both Londo and Sheridan manage to do this to the Shadows in season four of Babylon 5.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_fbb719c5	comment	In Constantine (2005), the film version of Hellblazer, the titular character manages to defeat the film's Big Bad by attempting suicide, knowing that Satan will personally come to collect his soul, at which point Satan will realize what's going on and stop the Big Bad, whose attempt to start the apocalypse early would screw up Satan's plans. Satan shows his gratitude by offering Constantine a favor, and he asks that a wrongfully damned soul go to Heaven. Satan then realizes too late that Constantine had just performed a Heroic Sacrifice, which allowed him to go to Heaven as well despite committing suicide. Satan instead resurrects Constantine and cures him of his lung cancer in hopes that he will sin again.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_fc1ccc3	comment	The way the heroine from the first Wishmaster movie gets the best of the evil Jackass Genie. He can't grant a wish that directly affects him, so she can't just wish that he stuffs himself back in his lamp. She's down to her third and final wish, and after she makes that wish he'll be free to run amok and destroy the world, and he's forcing her to take action by murdering and torturing people around the heroine. So, with some clever thinking, she comes up with a wish that will work: she wishes that a specific crane operator hadn't been drunk on the job a few days ago. That crane operator had dropped and destroyed the statue that the genie had been trapped inside of, so the wish undoes everything the genie had done and winds up with him imprisoned again.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_fdbace96	comment	In Gravity Falls, Bill Cipher is a dream demon who is as smart as he is powerful, and is able to play one heck of a long game (as in over a trillion years.) By the series finale, through a series of well-done maneuvers and bargains, Bill managed to turn the town into an apocalyptic hellscape of pure chaos by merging the Nightmare Realm with the real world. Unfortunately for him, his power doesn't extend outside the town and he needs Ford's permission to enter his mind to get the information he needs to escape it. What ultimately does him in is a supreme case of Hoist by Their Own Petard, as when he does strike a bargain, he falls for a Twin Switch by Stan Pines, aka the greatest con man in Gravity Falls, that allows his brother Ford to destroy him while he mistakenly possesses Stan's mind instead.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_fe83990a	comment	In Saint Seiya, Gemini Canon becomes infamous for this with his 13 year spanning scheme involving Poseidon and a holy war to Take Over the World. Also, the Gold Saints pull that on Hades one arc later.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?	processingCategory2	Speculative Fiction Tropes
Bakugan: Battle Planet / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Escaflowne: The Movie / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
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Fables (Comic Book) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Hellblazer (Comic Book) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Madame Xanadu (Comic Book) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Mary Jane & Black Cat (Comic Book) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Thanos (Comic Book) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
The Infinity War (Comic Book) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
The Sandman Universe (Comic Book) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
The Transformers: Dark Cybertron (Comic Book) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
The Transformers: Unicron (Comic Book) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
What If? (Comic Book) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
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Hawkeye / Comicbook / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
From Fake Dreams (Fanfic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Avenging Class (Fanfic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Fate: Zero Sanity (Fanfic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Friendship Is Magical Girls (Fanfic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Harbinger (Finmonster) (Fanfic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Hours 'Verse (Fanfic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Monstrous Compendium Online (Fanfic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Now You Feel Like Number None (Fanfic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Old Man Henderson (Fanfic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Repairs, Retrofits and Upgrades (Fanfic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Skin (Fanfic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Skin (UsagiSquared) (Fanfic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Someone Else (Fanfic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Son of Sea Foam (Fanfic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Son of the Seven Kingdoms (Fanfic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Doctor Strange (2016) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Faust: Love of the Damned / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Leprechaun 2 / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Oz the Great and Powerful / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Rat Race / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Santa's Slay / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
The Seventh Seal / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
The Undead / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Watchmen / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Wishmaster / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
KonoSuba / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
A Net of Dawn and Bones / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
A Practical Guide to Evil / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Belisarius Series / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Darth Plagueis / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Demon Road / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Gambling Hansel / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Grave Peril / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Ivan Turbincă / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Johannes Cabal and the Fear Institute / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
KonoSuba / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Mistborn: Secret History / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Otaku Girl / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
The Black Company / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
The Black Spider / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
The Elder Scrolls In-Universe Books / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
The Gods Are Bastards / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
The Iliad / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
The Silence of the Lambs / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
The Soldier And Death / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
The Unexplored Summon://Blood-Sign / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Unfinished Tales of NÃºmenor and Middle-earth / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
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Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas (Manga) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
The Seven Deadly Sins (Manga) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Wanted! (1998) (Manga) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
A Song Of Peace (Roleplay) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Personification Life (Roleplay) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Warhammer Fantasy Divided Loyalties (Roleplay) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Channel Zero / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Reaper / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Sapphire and Steel / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Spooks / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Changeling: The Lost (Tabletop Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Deadlands (Tabletop Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Demon: The Descent (Tabletop Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Legend of the Five Rings (Tabletop Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Astalon: Tears of the Earth (Video Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Baldur's Gate III (Video Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Buckshot Roulette (Video Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Card Shark (Video Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Cult of the Lamb (Video Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (Video Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island (Video Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Grim Fandango (Video Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
GrimGrimoire (Video Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Guitar Hero (Video Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Marvel Ultimate Alliance (Video Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Memoria (Video Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Memoria (2013) (Video Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Mortal Kombat 4 (Video Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Pandora's Box (1999) (Video Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Planescape: Torment (Video Game) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Shadowrun Returns / Videogame / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Sucker for Love (Visual Novel) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Double King (Web Animation) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Overly Sarcastic Productions (Web Animation) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Assist Me (Web Video) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Bart Baker (Web Video) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
CDawgVA (Web Video) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Counter Monkey (Web Video) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Vaguely Recalling JoJo (Web Video) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Chicanery (Webcomic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
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Dominic Deegan (Webcomic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Girls Next Door (Webcomic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Pawn (Webcomic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
The 10 Doctors (Webcomic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
xkcd (Webcomic) / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
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Marblegen / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Teen Titans Go! / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
Everworld / int_ef0a5ce	type	Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
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