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Divide and Conquer

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Divide and Conquer	comment	Why work when you can get someone else to do the work for you? A favored tactic of The Chessmaster, both villain and Anti-Hero, is to get two of your enemies to fight each other instead of you. If one wins, he should be weakened enough from battle that you can knock him off before he recovers. Most often, this is when the villain decides to let another, unaffiliated villain absorb the majority of the Hero's time and energy. Truly skilled use of this trope is when the villain can break up the Five-Man Band. The Power of Friendship is a powerful thing. Some villains realize its strength after getting beaten by it too many times, so they try to somehow split up whatever team of heroes they're facing. This might involve getting two heroes to hate each other, getting one hero to hate the others, or otherwise forcing the team to split up. The Lancer is a common target of this tactic. On the opposite side, it's the usual hero tactic when their enemies try working together. Of course, they're usually much easier to divide, since not only do they typically lack The Power of Friendship, but they're probably already planning to double-cross each other anyway. By contrast, when the villain sets two groups of heroes against each other, they're much more likely to figure it out and team up. Compare Let's You and Him Fight and Set a Mook to Kill a Mook. Contrast Enemy Mine and Defeat Means Friendship. #9 in The Thirty-Six Stratagems, making this one of The Oldest Tricks in the Book. Not to be confused with the Third Age: Total War sub-mod of the same name.
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Divide and Conquer / int_1861f45b	comment	Kerrigan does this to everyone in Starcraft Brood War.
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Divide and Conquer / int_1ad4fe9a	comment	Might and Magic VII involves this on the Dark path — at one point in the game, you are asked to recruit a new arbiter, who will oversee negotiations between the countries of Erathia and Tularea regarding a contested territory. The Light choice of arbiter helps arrange a reasonable compromise, and reminds the two of the real common enemy. The Dark choice allows the negotiations to break down and a full-scale war to erupt... which is in your favour, since making that choice allies you with the aforementioned real common enemy.
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Divide and Conquer / int_1cc09117	comment	Aizen's plan in the Soul Society arc of Bleach incorporates large amounts of this. He has Ichimaru let Ichigo's crew escape, so the thirteen squads spend their time and energy fighting them. At the same time, he manipulates Rukia's execution to cause splits within the thirteen squads, and after faking his own death, manipulates Hinamori into attacking Ichimaru, Kira, and Hitsugaya. All of these things manage to divert attention from his machinations, and if it wasn't for Ichigo doing a little better than expected and Captain Unohana realising something was wrong with his 'dead' body, Aizen's plan would have succeeded, he would have escaped scot-free, and a significant amount of his enemies would be dead.
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Divide and Conquer / int_1f9f4419	comment	In The Thing (1982), The Thing realizes it can't win against a united camp, so it tries to sow paranoia and distrust among them. It frames Macready as a Thing to keep the remaining humans from being united under his leadership and assimilates Norris and Palmer, the two least likely to be suspected as Things.
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Divide and Conquer / int_1ff419c5	comment	By the end of Kingdom Hearts II, Sora is too busy dealing with the Nobodies and Organization XIII to properly deal with Maleficent, Pete and the Heartless.
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Divide and Conquer / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem During the first half of Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, the Loptr cult's agents manipulate the royalty and other authority figures in virtually every nation on the continent so they can all go to war with Grannvale as part of their plan to lay the foundation of a new Loptrian Empire. This is a key element of the plan of "those who slither in the dark" in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. For years, they had been manipulating events between the Adrestian Empire and Kingdom of Faerghus so that the two factions can go to war, in the process destroying the power structure pioneered by the central Church of Seiros and devastating the continent so they can emerge from hiding and reconquer what's left. To do this, they assisted the respective Decadent Courts of both nations to seize power (in Adrestia) or eliminate their ruler (in Faerghus), motivating the respective heirs of each nation to go to war to achieve their goals (Edelgard to topple the Church and nobility, Dimitri to exact his revenge on those who killed his father).
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Divide and Conquer / int_22126d33	comment	Andor: In "Announcement" Dedra realizes the Rebels are purposefully conducting operations over multiple Imperial sectors, realizing that the ISB's people in charge of them are very jealous over control, with great reluctance to share information so they aren't connecting the dots, which weakens or even prevents an effective response. She works to counteract this upon spotting their strategy, despite it infuriating Blevin.
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Divide and Conquer / int_22211d68	comment	In the eighth season finale of Bones, Christopher Pelant uses this tactic on Booth, blackmailing him by threatening to go on a new killing spree if he married Brennan. The season ends with Brennan and Booth both devastated, and Booth unable to even tell her why he had to break off their engagement.
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Divide and Conquer / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League: Grodd did this with the Justice League in "Secret Society". We are treated to a Moment of Awesome when Batman takes out the Injustice League like this. While chained up in the basement.
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Divide and Conquer / int_30d28009	comment	Conqueror: In the first book, Wen Chao keeps up hostilities between the Mongols and Tartars to keep both sides weak and thus allow the Chin to extract tribute from them. Unfortunately for him, the Mongols manage to win the war under Temujin, who quickly ends the practise. In the second book, the Chin emperor refuses to send aid to Emperor Wei of Xi Xia when the latter is attacked by the Mongols, specifically saying that it's better for one's enemies to fight each other.
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Divide and Conquer / int_3583b777	comment	Eternal Darkness lets you cast the Bind spell, which effectively brainwashes enemies into fighting for you. Even without this magick, enemies who serve opposing Ancients will still fight amongst themselves assuming that you don't run into the fray and give them a common foe.
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Divide and Conquer / int_36ee2abe	comment	Paranoia: Friend Computer would like to remind all citizens that this is an effective way of dealing with commie mutant traitors. Also that knowledge of such techniques is treason.
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Divide and Conquer / int_37f1c1bb	comment	In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW), the changelings separate the group with a cave-in and start causing feuds between them through the use of disguises and personal insults. It works.
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Divide and Conquer / int_3be307d1	comment	This is the goal of Yugi in Tenchi In Tokyo.
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Divide and Conquer / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed but averted in Batman: Under the Red Hood. When Black Mask asks why Batman isn't after the Red Hood, Ms. Li thinks that he's waiting to see which side will win, so that he can take on the winner. However, Black Mask knows that Batman doesn't work that way, and so must be reluctant to take on the Red Hood for his own reasons.
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Divide and Conquer / int_3e9f7421	comment	Occurs in Swordquest: Waterworld when The Rival convinces two warring factions to settle their dispute with a Combat by Champion between the two protagonists, who just happen to be on opposite sides and have forgotten who they were before.
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Divide and Conquer / int_413d2e95	comment	In Halo: Glasslands and Halo: The Thursday War, the Office of Naval Intelligence thinks they're doing this to the Sangheili/Elites. In practice, they're actually just making it harder for the pro-human Sangheili to prevent their anti-human counterparts from attacking human worlds; in fact, ONI's machinations inadvertently contribute to the formation of the most powerful anti-human Covenant remnant.
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Divide and Conquer / int_44127c7c	comment	The number of times they've done this in Power Rangers is beyond counting. Often more than once in the same season.
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Divide and Conquer / int_44715363	comment	In the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga's "Death-T" arc, one of the challenges is a room being gradually filled with huge falling blocks. It's intended to force the heroes to think only of themselves rather than trying to save their friends.
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Divide and Conquer / int_49a2c30e	comment	This is a key element in A Fistful of Dollars, which got the plot from Kurosawa's Yojimbo which in turn got it from a 1930 gangster film called Roadhouse Nights which was based on Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest. The same plot was used in the western Django, Last Man Standing, and Desert Heat.
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Divide and Conquer / int_4ab17360	comment	Naraku from Inuyasha tried several times to put Sango against the others by threatening the life (or some such) of her little brother. The first time, he managed to make her steal Inuyasha's Tessaiga, but she's gotten wiser since. He also uses various tricks to physically split up the team so he can take them out one by one.
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Divide and Conquer / int_4f46b380	comment	The Hellfire Club tries to do this by engineering the Cuban Missile Crisis in X-Men: First Class.
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Divide and Conquer / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: A major part of how the Condesce maintains control of her empire is by ensuring that the landdwelling and seadwelling subspecies of the troll race exist as independent and culturally distinct forces and that they despise one another, using their mutual hatred, fear and distrust to keep them from uniting against her.
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Divide and Conquer / int_5119e890	comment	Sicario: Day of the Soldado: This is the strategy the US government decides on to fight the drug cartels in Mexico-use false flag operations so they all turn against each other.
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Divide and Conquer / int_51852b35	comment	The conflict in the Blake's 7 audio "Fractures" comes from the pre-existing weaknesses in the Liberator crew, which are exploited by sabotage to the power system so they must split up to fix it. Isolated, they can be slowly pushed into paranoia.
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Divide and Conquer / int_51c15d94	comment	Any good Risk player has done this.
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Divide and Conquer / int_526d4c5c	comment	The end game of Darth Vitiate in Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars: The Old Republic. Set himself up as Emperor of the Sith, use the Sith to contract with the Mandalorians, use the Mandalorians against the Republic (devastating both) while staying hidden. Divide the Jedi using the war (which accounts for the protagonists of the first two games), by turning Revan, Malak, and their followers. When that plan didn't work, lie low and spend the next three centuries in hiding, then use the Sith Empire against the Republic and Jedi. But the Sith empire he allegedly ruled was just a ruse - he was embezzling from it the entire time to fund and build an entirely new Empire on the side under the identity of "Valkorian." The end game was to destroy both the Republic and Sith empires, then use the Eternal Empire to wipe up what's left and/or destroy the whole universe and set himself up as A God Am I.
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Divide and Conquer / int_534f0200	comment	Kamen Rider Saber: The moment Touma Kamiyama starts looking for the traitor in the Sword of Logos and makes it clear he isn't going to play ball with her, Reika Shindai has him branded a traitor and gets his former comrades to go after him. While they're all fighting, the real traitors execute their plans.
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Divide and Conquer / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959) episode " The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street", aliens do this, taking advantage of the fact that Humans Are Bastards. An ordinary street, in an ordinary town, suffers a sudden and inexplicable power outage, with a few suspicious items still functioning. The neighborhood gets together and comes to the somewhat strange conclusion that alien invaders are messing with things, and then start accusing each other of being in league with the invaders. End result: mass hysteria. Cut to two Human Aliens on a hill overlooking Maple Street, marveling at how they won't have to fire a single shot, the humans can easily be tricked into killing each other!
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Divide and Conquer / int_5567bde9	comment	In The Golden Apple, Ulysses invokes this tactic by name, splitting the people of Rhododendron on the issue of Helen to win her back from them.
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Divide and Conquer / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: The Inter Fiend Cooperation Commission seek to keep the battles between the Order, the Linear Guild, and Team Evil going as part of their Gambit Roulette. On a smaller level, General Tarquin is poised to take over the entire Western continent this way. In an inversion, he's going to keep the continent split amongst himself and his confederates so that no one country is seen as a threat or a tempting prize.
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Divide and Conquer / int_59da62aa	comment	Not a gameplay element, but Caesar from Fallout: New Vegas cites this as how he was able to take the puny Blackfoot tribe ... and conquer 85 others. This is a deliberate homage to the Real Life Caesar, as is the entire nation he's trying to found.
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Divide and Conquer / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond has a lot of it. Three deal with USSR x USA, From Russia with Love (source of the page quote), You Only Live Twice and The Spy Who Loved Me (first two are Blofeld-led SPECTRE). Tomorrow Never Dies has the villain trying to get World War III between the UK and China, just to get broadcasting rights in the latter. This also seems to be Quantum's strategy in the new movies: get Bond so paranoid about his superiors, and so confused by the abrupt shift into a World Half Empty with a Black-and-Grey Morality, he ends up failing to defeat them. It's later revealed that Quantum was an arm of SPECTRE, so they follow the same strategy.
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Divide and Conquer / int_5c3b1859	comment	Helmut Zemo does this to Captain America and Iron Man in Captain America: Civil War, using Bucky Barnes to exacerbate their existing tensions about the Super Registration Act, with the final blow being to reveal that Bucky killed Tony's parents back when he was the Winter Soldier, which Steve had figured out but said nothing about. The real twist is that Zemo actually has no larger Evil Plan; dividing the Avengers was his entire goal all along, as he holds them responsible for the death of his family in Sokovia.
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Divide and Conquer / int_5c622d7f	comment	The entire plot of Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening revolves around Jester/Arkham deliberately pitting Dante, Vergil, and Lady against each other and then capitalizing on their strengths and contributions to his plan when the time is right.
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Divide and Conquer / int_5c66fff9	comment	In Neverwinter Nights 2, there is a section where a group of Fire Giants want to kill a nearby Dragon and the Dragon wants to kill the Fire Giants that have been harassing it. They both request your aid to deal with the other, and they both have something valuable that you may wish to take (for the Fire Giants, it's a quest item. For the Dragon, it's a massive pile of gold). No matter who you ally with, in the end you're given the option to betray both of them and let them duke it out with each other. Whichever side survives will be in a weakened state, thus allowing you to easily finish them off.
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Divide and Conquer / int_5db577ba	comment	In The Dark Knight, this is the Joker's strategy: get Batman so riled up with the Black-and-Grey Morality, fighting the police and trying to redeem Harvey Dent, he can barely take on the Joker.
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Divide and Conquer / int_62164fb7	comment	Shadows over Meridian: The first active stage of Jade's plan on the Meridian side of things is to split up her and Phobos' forces and send them to different regions, in order to both distract Elyon and gather more supporters for Phobos by exposing the various problems with Elyon's reign.
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Divide and Conquer / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: This is a favored tactic of the Skrulls. They pretend to be someone and use that to sow conflict and discord, banking on either Marvel's superheroes being fractuous or the sheer gullibility of the Marvel public (or both). They nearly broke up the Avengers during Avengers: The Kree/Skrull War by pretending to be the original Avengers and telling the current team that they'd screwed up. Where the Skrulls tend to fail is getting overconfident and revealing themselves when they think they've got the upper hand, at which point the heroes overcome whatever issues the Skrulls caused in favour of beating the stuffing out of them. In one issue of The Incredible Hercules, Malekith combines this with Let's You and Him Fight to weaken both Hercules and Thor sufficiently that his secret weapon will be able to defeat them easily. His plan fails ignominiously due to him not being aware that Zeus was standing right there when he sprang this trap.
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Divide and Conquer / int_626a75bc	comment	An important thing to note is that this conflict is so integral to the plot of BlazBlue: Continuum Shift that if anyone - anyone - were to mend the girls' psyches, everything would fall apart. Fortunately, just about the rest of the cast is indifferent to or despises Tsubaki, indifferent to or despises Noel, could give a shit less about them both, or is exploiting their relationship for their own ends. The exception is Makoto Nanaya, their common friend, who signed on with NOL Intelligence and proved dangerously competent at her job, forcing Terumi to send her to Ibukido, her assignment meant to dead-end her job or have her killed from seithr overexposure or cauldron timefuckery. Even THAT failed to do her in, and instead made her even more dangerous to the overall scheme, forcing Hazama to take matters into his own hands. As proof that the entire plot was completely brittle to Makoto's touch, in Arcade mode Terumi interfered after Makoto knocked Noel out to move the poor girl into the tempering phase ahead of schedule - he literally had no choice, as Makoto was going to talk some sense into Noel after she came to, and had subdued Tsubaki earlier to keep her from killing Noel. Suffice it to say he didn't take it well.
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Divide and Conquer / int_671d5c19	comment	Done (as a reference to the Beatles, once again!) in an episode of The Powerpuff Girls (1998).
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Divide and Conquer / int_67c02f03	comment	World War: Inverted. The invading aliens' millennia-old unifications means their technology has been purposely stagnated by the government to prevent disruptive changes in society, while humans being disunited and constantly at war with each other means we're able to change much quicker.
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Divide and Conquer / int_684610	comment	BlazBlue: The seat of "Ministerial Secretary to Jin Kisaragi" falls into this trope due to its effects on two of the girls involved. This was deliberately invoked by Hazama / Yuuki Terumi to make both girls more compliant with his whims, and for the most part it worked. Noel Vermillion was offered the seat six months prior to her graduation as a means to restore prestige to her family, and took it with the blessing of her friends. This is a bad thing, since Jin had come off the war a massive jackass (well, more than prior), and used her as a means to vent his frustrations. This was for the sake of mindraping her into the Sword of the Godslayer at a later time, using Jin's horrid mentality and ingrained disdain for her as a means to wear her down, going so far as to cut her off from her two friends. Tsubaki Yayoi, who was more competent at this role (and who was originally supposed to receive it), was delegated to the Zero Squadron instead. She loves Jin, but could not follow, and was left "cleaning up the trash". A side-effect of Noel getting the job was that Tsubaki would become lonely due to being cut off from her friends and harbor jealousy over Noel getting the job, and this was his in-road to mindraping her into a Brainwashed and Crazy loyalist to the NOL. In the end, Tsubaki tries to accost Noel over the resulting jealousy, going so far as to try to kill her. An important thing to note is that this conflict is so integral to the plot of BlazBlue: Continuum Shift that if anyone - anyone - were to mend the girls' psyches, everything would fall apart. Fortunately, just about the rest of the cast is indifferent to or despises Tsubaki, indifferent to or despises Noel, could give a shit less about them both, or is exploiting their relationship for their own ends. The exception is Makoto Nanaya, their common friend, who signed on with NOL Intelligence and proved dangerously competent at her job, forcing Terumi to send her to Ibukido, her assignment meant to dead-end her job or have her killed from seithr overexposure or cauldron timefuckery. Even THAT failed to do her in, and instead made her even more dangerous to the overall scheme, forcing Hazama to take matters into his own hands. As proof that the entire plot was completely brittle to Makoto's touch, in Arcade mode Terumi interfered after Makoto knocked Noel out to move the poor girl into the tempering phase ahead of schedule - he literally had no choice, as Makoto was going to talk some sense into Noel after she came to, and had subdued Tsubaki earlier to keep her from killing Noel. Suffice it to say he didn't take it well.
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Divide and Conquer / int_699f37a1	comment	In Silent Storm, Thor's Hammer is trying exactly that with the Allies and the Axis. While they didn't start the war, they are taking advantage or it by supplying both sides with advanced weapons, while keeping the best goodies for themselves.
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Divide and Conquer / int_6e5d88b1	comment	The Shadoens in Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends have a goal to conquer Earth, which would be much harder if all the aliens there were working together and with the humans. To prevent that, they sent an agent to pose as the head of the Alliance and keep tensions and between the various alien races and the humans high, and hostilities simmering.
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Divide and Conquer / int_742d029d	comment	In Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts, Class F utilizes this against Class A during a summoner war. They use favors gained from defeating the other classes, or deception in the case of Class C, to have them wear down Class A before the fight. Class F nearly succeeds with it, until the school starts to break down, causing the Class F rep to be distracted momentarily.
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Divide and Conquer / int_75149ccd	comment	The overarching plot of the first four books of the X-Wing Series has Imperial spymaster Ysanne Isard unleashing a Synthetic Plague on the imperial capital of Coruscant just before the Rebels capture it. The plague has two main characteristics - it is gruesomely lethal to most alien races, and easily cured with bacta. The net result is that the New Republic gets to bankrupt itself trying to fight the Krytos virus, all while resentment and paranoia over why humans are immune to it threatens to tear apart the multi-species coalition. Later in the same series, Warlord Zsinj has a brilliant scheme to invoke this by using extremely quick Brainwashing on members of various species to create fake terrorist threats, supposedly along species lines.
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Divide and Conquer / int_791fca44	comment	Probably one of the better ways to deal with enemies in BioShock, particularly the Big Daddies. Just casually goad a Splicer into attacking you while you're standing near one of the lumbering Daddies. More than likely one of their attacks will hit him instead of you, and after that you can honestly just slide on over to the sidelines while they go at each other.
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Divide and Conquer / int_7988cb68	comment	In Mass Effect this is the M.O. of the Reapers, the big bulletpoint at the top of the plan behind every invasion. Starting by using the Citadel to decapitate galactic governments, followed by shutting down the Mass Relays to isolate systems from one another so they cannot receive help. Nevermind their Indoctrination tricks to further divide those who oppose them long before the Reapers actually appear on the field. It's a brutally efficient demonstration of the trope. It's noted by Javik that each cycle seems to have a major faction that ends up getting delusions of using the Reapers and indoctrinated, becoming nothing more than an Unwitting Pawn that sabotages everyone else. Cerberus fills the role in this cycle. If not for the Protheans deciding to throw a Spanner in the Works, who knows how long the cycle could have gone on for?
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Divide and Conquer / int_7fbd159a	comment	ThunderCats invoked example: in one episode Lion-O is bodyguarding some old peasant and fights off an attacker, who turns out to be Tigra. And the peasant turns out to be Mumm-Ra, who told Lion-O that a thief would attack him and told Tigra that a thief was following him. The end result was that Lion-O's magic sword was broken because he battled a fellow Cat.
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Divide and Conquer / int_81692f99	comment	A common tactic of the Federation's enemies in Star Trek: This is the strategy that the Dominion uses in their campaign to take over the Alpha Quadrant—they use shape-shifting infiltrators to set the major powers against each other so that they'll weaken each other and be in worse shape to withstand the eventual invasion. This is the Romulan Empire's hat. Throughout every series, they're constantly trying to play their opponents off each other or break up the Federation-Klingon alliance to make it easier to conquer them in the long run. Indeed the first chronological introduction of the Romulans was their use of drone ships to try and spark wars between Earth, Vulcan, the Andorians, and the Tellarities. However, like almost all their attempts at this trope, it backfired spectacularly and resulted in the formation of The Federation.
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Divide and Conquer / int_83d81bd4	comment	Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War has this as the driving force behind its plot. 15 years before the game began, the country of Belka tried to take over the world and failed, eventually setting off 7 nuclear weapons on their own cities to stave off the approaching allied forces that included Osea and Yuktobania. In the present day, Yuktobania attacks Osea, and the two are plunged into a bitter war that drags on until nobody can remember why they're fighting. After the player's squadron is betrayed, the truth is revealed: Belka, the country that was defeated 15 years earlier, was behind the whole thing. They started the war in hopes that it would eventually exhaust both of the other superpowers, and helped to escalate it at several key points. After rescuing the Osean president and Yuktobanian Prime Minister (and getting them to stage a peace rally in order to end the war), the Razgriz Squadron takes down the Belkans' last superweapon, ending the threat for good.
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Divide and Conquer / int_84dfb5d5	comment	Galactic Civilizations 2 is known for its rather ruthless and diverse AI (which only cheats if you ask it to). It has been known to produce some Magnificent Bastard moments, where one AI empire will not declare war on you, but instead convince/bribe two (or more) other empires to do so. They tend to mock you in your moments of death (should you be killed) by revealing this fact. And it doesn't even know who the player is, so it even pulls these on other AIs.
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Divide and Conquer / int_863b7825	comment	Why? Well, as it turns out, Yes, Minister isn't that far wrong: the Foreign Office, recognising that Britain could no longer hold on to these territories (or in the case of Ireland, most of it), still wanted to maintain some semblance of British influence without being too bothered about the details. So they set things up so they could play powers against each other when they wanted to be engaged, while allowing them to formally "deplore" all the nastiness on the ground (recall that even in Ireland, the formal British military and police were not the major violent players on the Unionist/Loyalist side even at the height of The Troubles).
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Divide and Conquer / int_8722cd	comment	In Outbound Flight, this is sort of what Commander Thrawn did. Sort of. Due to his Batman Gambit, the entire Vagaari fleet came out of space near where Outbound Flight was trying to decide what to do about him. The Vagaari being probably the most unambiguously evil side Zahn has ever written, they attack Outbound Flight, and the Jedi at its weapons stations sense the Living Shields on the outsides of the ships, so they use the Force to more or less scramble the minds of the Vagaari. Then Thrawn triggers the second programming level in the droids he'd arranged to be on the Vagaari ship so that they slaughter the Vagaari high command, while also cuing the droid starfighters to buzz the Vagaari ships and shoot between the hostages. Being in such close contact with beings being slaughtered en masse, the Jedi are stunned and can't react in time to prevent Thrawn shooting out all of the weapon stations, killing most of them. Outbound Flight wasn't his enemy in the same way that the Vagaari were, even if its commander took an instant hatred to him. If that commander hadn't been a budding megalomaniac, or if Thrawn hadn't followed his standard policy of shooting out the weapons systems of anyone who he distrusted but wasn't all-out enemies with, the major problems probably would not have happened.
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Divide and Conquer / int_87e00d8e	comment	The very first episode of Teen Titans (2003) is called "Divide And Conquer" and deals with the fallout between Robin and Cyborg which allows the Villain of the Week to successfully escape. They catch the villain only at the end of the episode when they finally make up.
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Divide and Conquer / int_8b419fa5	comment	Lackadaisy: The Marigold gang is rather vigorously cleaning house, and a comment by one of their higher ups has one of ther more dangerous enforcers looking into the murders he's been asked to commit in a way that implies he's thinking of betraying them. All of this killing among supposedly allied gangsters appears to be tied to the actions of one clever member of the Treasury Department that's trying to take them down.
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Divide and Conquer / int_8cdbeb34	comment	In Legion after Michael helps the group of travelers stranded in the isolated desert diner fight off a horde of heaven sent abominations, they begin fighting each other as paranoia and suspicion get the better of them, and old grudges resurface.
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Divide and Conquer / int_8d8157e0	comment	In Lexx, His Divine Shadow the last survivor of the Insect Civilization used this strategy to defeat his true enemy humanity. He set up a brutal theocracy centered around slavish devotion to himself. After thousands of years, most of the humans in the Light Universe were under his rule, with resistance all but stamped out. By the end, his followers were so indoctrinated that they literally fed themselves to him when he asked. In his own words, he "used humans to defeat themselves."
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Divide and Conquer / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Shego manages to pull this off in the Kim Possible Made-for-TV Movie "A Sitch In Time" by having Ron's mother get a job that requires their family to move.
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Divide and Conquer / int_90ab7fe1	comment	In Recess, Vince and Gretchen are running against each other for class president, which is naturally Serious Business. The voters are divided along gender lines (except for Gus and Mikey, who refuse to choose between their friends), so T.J., representing Vince, convinces Ashley A. to run and divide the girls' vote. Spinelli recognizes the tactic and gets her to drop out in exchange for promising an important post in Gretchen's government.
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Divide and Conquer / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs: This is the strategy David uses once he goes Sixth Ranger Traitor. Well aware that he's just one morpher against six, he opts to split the team up and take them down one by one. This strategy is wildly successful, and leads to him defeating (and very nearly killing) four of the six Animorphs in a single night.
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Divide and Conquer / int_90f42a9b	comment	May not be entirely accurate, but Mordeth in The Wheel of Time seems to have managed to pull this on an entire city.
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Divide and Conquer / int_9bedccbc	comment	Proud Pink Sky: Many in the gay republic are focused on purging bi, queer, and trans people from the city â€“ but in the end they all face a common danger.
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Divide and Conquer / int_9d34190a	comment	In The Elder Scrolls, this is a favored tactic of the Thalmor, the extremist ruling party and State Sec of the Aldmeri Dominion. Taking credit for resolving the Oblivion Crisis within their homeland made them popular enough to seize numerous leadership positions. They would then manipulate events over the next two centuries to destabilize the crumbling Cyrodiilic Empire. After seceding, annexing Valenwood, and gaining Elsweyr as a client state, they incited the Argonians into invading Morrowind to get revenge for thousands of years of slavery at the hands of the Dunmer, costing the Empire two more provinces. The Dominion then engaged the Empire in the Great War prior to the events of Skyrim, but were fought to a stalemate by the surprisingly resilient Empire, especially after they brought in their Nord reinforcements from Skyrim. Knowing that victory would be too costly, the Dominion settled for peace treaty known as the White-Gold Concordat. However, in an attempt to further destabilize the Empire, they forced divisive terms into the treaty including the Empire ceding half of Hammerfell to the Dominion and a ban on Talos worship, the most popular deity among the Nords. Hammerfell quickly seceded from the Empire (and managed to beat back the Thalmor on their own, gaining independence in the process) and Skyrim erupted into Civil War, further weakening the Empire. During Skyrim, it is also revealed that they are doing everything in their power to ensure that the civil war drags on for as long as possible, severely weakening both sides and depleting their resources in preparation for the inevitable second Great War.
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Divide and Conquer / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: Varys and Littlefinger both do this in order to further their goals. Both of them work to instigate a civil war between the various houses of Westeros, having them destroy each other so that they have little chance of ultimately opposing their goals. And when things appear to stabilize, they just give another light push to get things to fall apart again. The difference between Littlefinger and Varys, however, is that Varys is creating the power vacuums for House Targaryen to take back the throne, while Littlefinger is aiming to take over Westeros for himself.
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Divide and Conquer / int_9e2f90f4	comment	This is Baron Omatsuri's M.O. (Lily Carnation, actually) in One Piece. He disguises his island as a resort for pirate crews, where they would play activities and games that are actually designed to cause infighting among the crews. He's so good at this that he succeeds with the Straw Hats, who have an almost familial bond among each other. When Luffy finds out about this, he gets so gravely offended that though it's not canon, Lily Carnation is Luffy's first direct kill in the series.
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Divide and Conquer / int_a0bfcecb	comment	In Haegemonia: Legions of Iron, the Darzok use this method to break up their enemies. They convince a Kariak general to rebel against the Human-Kariak alliance, allowing them to build up their forces while the Kariak fight among each other.
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Divide and Conquer / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass: Lelouch uses this strategy to weaken the Pureblood faction within the Britannian military: by threatening one of them, Jeremiah, with revealing the secret of "Orange" (which he made up on the fly and doesn't actually exist) before using his Geass to force him to assist in rescuing Suzaku, he was able to not only cripple the Pureblood's reputation, but also sow distrust among them towards Jeremiah. The strategy Schneizel uses twice on Lelouch: first, to make him believe Suzaku betrayed him by having him arrested during the meeting, and the second time by getting the Black Knights to betray him.
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Divide and Conquer / int_a5549ed0	comment	This is how Joshua leads the Israelites to take over most of Canaan in The Bible.
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Divide and Conquer / int_a68c19b8	comment	During the first half of Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, the Loptr cult's agents manipulate the royalty and other authority figures in virtually every nation on the continent so they can all go to war with Grannvale as part of their plan to lay the foundation of a new Loptrian Empire.
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Divide and Conquer / int_ac1fe681	comment	After Doomsday by Poul Anderson. Earth has been destroyed, apparently by the Kandemir in retaliation for a secret aid agreement between the Soviet government and their enemies the Vorlakka (the Soviets will build weapons in exchange for secret instruction in Vorlakkan technology). When one of the human survivors confronts a Kandemiran intelligence officer with the accusation, he points out that they'd hardly go to the trouble when there's a more efficient method they've used before—approach the United States and tell them what the Soviets are doing. Why expend Kandemirian lives to conquer Earth when humans would be willing to do half the job for them?
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Divide and Conquer / int_af42a07f	comment	Used in Serenity, where Mal pits the Alliance and the Reavers against each other to buy enough time to broadcast the secret of Miranda to the entire verse.
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Divide and Conquer / int_b0329377	comment	This is exploited and said word-for-word in an episode of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3. The Koopas paint half the townsfolk red and half blue, and spark riots between them.
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Divide and Conquer / int_b99da0d	comment	In one issue of The Incredible Hercules, Malekith combines this with Let's You and Him Fight to weaken both Hercules and Thor sufficiently that his secret weapon will be able to defeat them easily. His plan fails ignominiously due to him not being aware that Zeus was standing right there when he sprang this trap.
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Divide and Conquer / int_bad6ce79	comment	X-Men: Toad employs this on a tactical level. Since he's outnumbered 3-to-1 after Mystique goes to fight Wolverine, he takes Cyclops, Storm, and Jean Grey on all at once. His first move is to knock out Cyclops, lock him up, and kick Storm and Jean away from each other. Toad then throws Storm to the next floor to force Jean to fight him alone, immobilizes her, and then lays a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on Storm. It doesn't quite work since Storm turns out to be more durable than he anticipated.
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Divide and Conquer / int_bb5be2d4	comment	As director of wrestling operations, this was MVP's default strategy to dealing with wrestlers who opposed his rule of TNA. Forcing them to fight each other under penalty of termination was so effective it took a Deus ex machina to stop him, though the tactic turned out to work on the (weakened) group too when Bobby Roode eventually turned Bobby Lashley and MVP against each other, despite MVP recognizing the tactic and telling King and Lashley not to fall for it.
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Divide and Conquer / int_bdde27c9	comment	Nirvana in Fire: Xia Jiang and Prince Yu recognize that Mei Changsu is Jingyan's trump card. They try to plant seeds of distrust between them by making it appear like Mei Changsu heartlessly used Consort Jing's predicament as part of his strategies. This almost works — it's really hard to appeal to The Power of Friendship when you're the only one who knows that you are friends.
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Divide and Conquer / int_be0c33a5	comment	Khotun Khan in Ghost of Tsushima utilizes this to his advantage. He exploits pre-existing divisions in Tsushima's inhabitants to turn them against one another and recruit collaborators to invade the mainland with. Very much Truth in Television as while the Mongol army was fearsome, they were never large and relied extensively on local collaborators to swell their ranks. He also identifies the strong familial bond between Jin and Lord Shimura immediately and deliberately tries to sow discord between them by telling Shimura about Jin's "dishonorable" tactics.
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Divide and Conquer / int_bf6690ba	comment	In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls â€“ Rainbow Rocks, the Dazzlings turn the whole school, including the staff, against each other with their Hate Plague-inducing Mind-Control Music, with the exception of Sunset, the Rainbooms, and Vinyl Scratch. They also manage to sabotage the mane characters' plans so that they argue and generate further negative emotions for the Dazzlings to feed on.
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Divide and Conquer / int_bfd7c6e0	comment	Drowtales: This is the main strategy of the Big Bad, Snadhya'rune Vel'Sharen. She doesn't have enough followers to take over the Drow race uncontested, so instead, her agents have been secretly manipulating all the major factions across the underworld into destroying one another so that she can fill the power vacuum.
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Divide and Conquer / int_c4282b71	comment	Discord in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic splits up the Mane Six physically when they enter his hedge maze. He takes the opportunity to Mind Rape them one by one to split up their friendship as well. The Grand Finale has the Big Bad Triumvirate getting the earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorns to distrust one another when they made their move on the heroes. It almost works (with unintended extra consequences, as it caused the Windigos to return)...until the younger generation steps up to remind them that unity was what rid them of the Windigos in the past.
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Divide and Conquer / int_c511c682	comment	In Asterix and the Roman Agent, this is the natural gift of the titular Tortuous Convolvulus (French: Tullius DÃ©tritus), who foments conflicts between the inhabitants of the little Gaulish village that come close to enabling Caesar to take it.
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Divide and Conquer / int_c6dbe98e	comment	In Monster, one of Johan's most common strategies is to get different groups of people to fight against one another. In the finale, he has guns distributed around an entire town and gets everyone to start shooting everyone else.
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Divide and Conquer / int_cbad9b62	comment	In Legend of the Galactic Heroes this is the key to Reinhardt and Oberstein's strategies to win both the Imperial Civil War and the Long War: In the Imperial Civil War, Reinhardt's faction captured Ovlesser, one of the best commanders of the Lippstadt League... And then Oberstein sent him to the League's stronghold of Geiersburg without getting him to defect or brainwashing him while announcing that Ovlesser's men had been executed. The League's leaders promptly execute Ovlesser (who had not found out of the apparent execution until he arrived to Geiersburg), getting the League's officers to start suspecting each other and lowering the morale of the soldiers to the point that, coupled with the incompetence and pride of their noble-born leaders, they ended up mutinying during Reinhardt's final assault. As the above was happening, the Free Planets Alliance would have been able to rebuild their fleet, decimated in the latest battles, and maybe even attack, so Reinhardt freed a number of prisoners as a sign of goodwill... and to insert a Mole, who promptly used the mistrust between the corrupt politicians and the competent members of the military to have admiral Greenhill launch a coup, thus triggering the Alliance Civil War when Yang and his men refused to join the junta out of respect for the ideals of democracy. After the Long War ended in an Imperial victory but with the Alliance still independent, Oberstein manipulated the Alliance politicians into believing that Yang was assembling a clandestine military force to take over and restart the war (in fact, Yang was assembling a clandestine military force... but to counter the Imperial fleet in case the war restarted), leading to Yang's arrest and attempted execution and his men freeing him, leaving the Alliance divided and giving the empire the excuse to invade. As the war started, Reinhardt gave an epic speech in which he blamed the Alliance's leadership for restarting the war by violating their own laws to try and kill Yang (conventiently ignoring Oberstein's involvement) and asked Yang and his men to join him to restore justice, thus preventing a reconciliation between the Alliance government and the one military commander who could stop Reinhardt's fleet.
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Divide and Conquer / int_ccf0819f	comment	When Vince Jr bought out the WWWF, his father supposedly sent out letters to various NWA promoters telling them that his son was coming for them next and to get ready. Whatever the case, the territories knew Vince McMahon Jr was aiming to drive them all out of business but too many promoters were making money hand over foot, too confident in their ability to keep doing so, too paranoid to trust someone else not to mess up their cash flow and thus refused to take on Vince Jr as a united force, allowing him to destroy the territories one by one, with EMLL outright abandoning the Alliance when it got news it would have to go against the WWWF. Eventually, Jim Crockett decided that NWA would unite against McMahon whether the members liked it or not and ended up shutting down more territories than Vince Jr himself.
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Divide and Conquer / int_cd13c469	comment	Uprooted: The neighboring countries of Polnya and Rosya are constantly tense and wary of each other, and for the past twenty years in particular there's been simmering enmity over an incident where the Queen of Polnya either ran away with or was abducted by a Rosyan prince, and both were subsequently lost in the malevolent Wood that lies on the border. The Wood itself engineered that incident and several others to make sure the two countries stay antagonistic. That way they will first off not form an alliance versus the Wood, and secondly weaken themselves against each other so that they're softer targets.
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Divide and Conquer / int_cd899ed6	comment	The Grand Finale has the Big Bad Triumvirate getting the earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorns to distrust one another when they made their move on the heroes. It almost works (with unintended extra consequences, as it caused the Windigos to return)...until the younger generation steps up to remind them that unity was what rid them of the Windigos in the past.
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Divide and Conquer / int_cf9c72e6	comment	Used in Lucky Number Slevin, which is unfortunately a huge spoiler. Slevin had been playing a con the entire movie to kill both the mob bosses by setting them against each other. He also puts himself in the middle of it by appearing like a harmless bystander, but eventually he gets his revenge for the murder of his parents, two decades in the making.
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Divide and Conquer / int_d31cdea	comment	In The Hunger Games/Angel crossover "Demon's Games"; Coin appears to be setting up Gale for this purpose, suggesting a disapproval of Angel's decision to spare the human Peacekeepers by suggesting to Gale that Angel's belief in redemption will come back to bite them. Snow attempts a similar scheme by planting various subtle psychological suggestions in Buffy's mind after her resurrection so that she will negatively associate Katniss with Faith, even though basically the only thing the two have in common is that they are brunette Slayers.
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Divide and Conquer / int_d3631a89	comment	Robin Hood (2010): This is Philip's plan to conquer England. He sends his agent, Godfrey (who's a friend of England's king, John) and has him act in John's name to incite the barons against him. It almost works, but Robin exposes this plan before he can invade, uniting them against Philip.
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Divide and Conquer / int_d451023d	comment	Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina: In "The Moisture Farmer's Tale", the titular character tries to make peace with the Sand People. He realizes that they will leave moisture farmers alone if offered some water, and attack them as the farms have been unintentionally encroaching on their land. However, while getting a woman who they had recently kidnapped released, stormtroopers attack the Sand People, destroying that possibility. She then tells him that the Empire wants them all divided with trouble on the planet, as then they won't unite or realize that the Empire is the real enemy. He decides to join the Rebellion over this, and hopes to show the others this is true.
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Divide and Conquer / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series: Team Rocket use this plan a few times to catch the PokÃ©mon of the episode and almost get away with it until the last minute.
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Divide and Conquer / int_df7fa951	comment	This also seems to be Quantum's strategy in the new movies: get Bond so paranoid about his superiors, and so confused by the abrupt shift into a World Half Empty with a Black-and-Grey Morality, he ends up failing to defeat them. It's later revealed that Quantum was an arm of SPECTRE, so they follow the same strategy.
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Divide and Conquer / int_e04f934e	comment	This is a key element of the plan of "those who slither in the dark" in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. For years, they had been manipulating events between the Adrestian Empire and Kingdom of Faerghus so that the two factions can go to war, in the process destroying the power structure pioneered by the central Church of Seiros and devastating the continent so they can emerge from hiding and reconquer what's left. To do this, they assisted the respective Decadent Courts of both nations to seize power (in Adrestia) or eliminate their ruler (in Faerghus), motivating the respective heirs of each nation to go to war to achieve their goals (Edelgard to topple the Church and nobility, Dimitri to exact his revenge on those who killed his father).
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Divide and Conquer / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Spike (inspired by The Beatles) tries it at the end of Season 4 at the behest of the Big Bad Adam, which initially works quite well. Unfortunately, itâ€™s only then that he realizes that another part of Adam's plan involved the Scoobies sharing information. So he had to convince them to talk to each other again, whereupon they figured out what's going on and reconcile. This is the official motto of a league of assassins, the Order of Taraka.
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Divide and Conquer / int_e3ce7a29	comment	The Hound Of The D Urbervilles features a two-way version of this, with a pair rival criminal masterminds each trying to pit a great detective against the other (although one of them is rather incompetent at it, turning himself into a much more obvious target than his rival). The eventual winner is the detective himself. The masterminds wind up getting each other killed, meaning he pulls an accidental version of this trope. And incidentally, the great detective being manipulated is none other than Sherlock Holmes, the less competent mastermind is Professor Moriarty, and the plot ultimately culminates at Reichenbach Falls.
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Divide and Conquer / int_e42289f8	comment	Bazil Broketail: Waakzaam's first attempted strategy at destroying the Argonath involves sowing dissent between its kingdoms and provinces, hoping the empire will be fragmented as a result. This ultimately fails. Although the Marneri province Aubinas does secede from the empire, the resulting uprising is quickly suppressed, and Waakzaam himself is attacked by Bazil and Relkin, forcing him to retreat through an interdimensional gate and thus preventing him from spreading his influence in Argonath any further.
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Divide and Conquer / int_e4732abc	comment	In Stargate Atlantis, McKay reactivates the Replicators' programming that causes them to attack the Wraith. Unfortunately, it backfires pretty badly when the Replicators determine that the most efficient way to wipe out the Wraith is to eliminate their food supply.
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Divide and Conquer / int_e59216c7	comment	In The Gamer's Alliance, the mage Jemuel plays both the Grand Alliance and the Yamato Empire against each other during the Great War in order to carve his empire while the two are busy fighting. He succeeds, crushes the remaining Yamatian troops in the kingdom and frames the Alliance in the eyes of the populace for causing a catastrophe which has devastated a part of the continent.
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Divide and Conquer / int_e6267766	comment	From Star Wars Legends: In Outbound Flight, this is sort of what Commander Thrawn did. Sort of. Due to his Batman Gambit, the entire Vagaari fleet came out of space near where Outbound Flight was trying to decide what to do about him. The Vagaari being probably the most unambiguously evil side Zahn has ever written, they attack Outbound Flight, and the Jedi at its weapons stations sense the Living Shields on the outsides of the ships, so they use the Force to more or less scramble the minds of the Vagaari. Then Thrawn triggers the second programming level in the droids he'd arranged to be on the Vagaari ship so that they slaughter the Vagaari high command, while also cuing the droid starfighters to buzz the Vagaari ships and shoot between the hostages. Being in such close contact with beings being slaughtered en masse, the Jedi are stunned and can't react in time to prevent Thrawn shooting out all of the weapon stations, killing most of them. Outbound Flight wasn't his enemy in the same way that the Vagaari were, even if its commander took an instant hatred to him. If that commander hadn't been a budding megalomaniac, or if Thrawn hadn't followed his standard policy of shooting out the weapons systems of anyone who he distrusted but wasn't all-out enemies with, the major problems probably would not have happened. The overarching plot of the first four books of the X-Wing Series has Imperial spymaster Ysanne Isard unleashing a Synthetic Plague on the imperial capital of Coruscant just before the Rebels capture it. The plague has two main characteristics - it is gruesomely lethal to most alien races, and easily cured with bacta. The net result is that the New Republic gets to bankrupt itself trying to fight the Krytos virus, all while resentment and paranoia over why humans are immune to it threatens to tear apart the multi-species coalition. Later in the same series, Warlord Zsinj has a brilliant scheme to invoke this by using extremely quick Brainwashing on members of various species to create fake terrorist threats, supposedly along species lines. This was how the Republic survived as long as it did. Various incarnations of the Sith Empire tried to conquer the Republic, and were a brutal state built on warfare and individual prowess. Your average Sith or Imperial soldier could more than outclass their Republic or Jedi counterpart. But the Sith also ran on Chronic Backstabbing Disorder and Klingon Promotion, and their non-Force-wielding underlings emulated their Sith masters. Engineering even a small amount of dissent in the ranks tended to get the Empire imploding before it caused too much damage to the Republic. It was only when Palpatine embraced this tactic himself by engineering the Clone Wars (essentially a Republic civil war) that the Republic collapsed. Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina: In "The Moisture Farmer's Tale", the titular character tries to make peace with the Sand People. He realizes that they will leave moisture farmers alone if offered some water, and attack them as the farms have been unintentionally encroaching on their land. However, while getting a woman who they had recently kidnapped released, stormtroopers attack the Sand People, destroying that possibility. She then tells him that the Empire wants them all divided with trouble on the planet, as then they won't unite or realize that the Empire is the real enemy. He decides to join the Rebellion over this, and hopes to show the others this is true.
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Divide and Conquer / int_eb3f3551	comment	The kett of Mass Effect: Andromeda used this when they started their war with the angara. Initially pretending to be peaceful, they abducted and killed the angaran ambassadors, then claimed it was retaliation for the angara attacking them, while delivering contradictory accounts of which planet the attacks came from. The angara were too caught up blaming one another to notice the fact their ambassadors had been murdered, and the kett used this to kill their leaders. For the next seventy-odd years the angara, despite knowing what had happened soon enough, still were unable to get their act together.
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Divide and Conquer / int_eb6802b4	comment	An element of gameplay in Final Fantasy XIII. Because of the different alignments enemies can have (Cocoon monsters, Pulse Machines, Pulse Monsters), occasionally the player will find two factions of monsters fighting each other. They can then fight the stronger enemy alongside the second enemy, then when the first enemy is defeated, the second enemy is weakened.
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Divide and Conquer / int_ed45546f	comment	In Hangmen Also Die!, the Germans' plan is to sow division among the Czechoslovakian populace by executing hostages until Heydrich's killer is caught, counting on the people to disagree about whether the killer should be sacrificed to save the hostages. They are moderately successful; the people do indeed get into arguments about whether he should turn himself in, but ultimately nobody is willing to collaborate with the Nazis by selling him out.
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Divide and Conquer / int_f4e799ee	comment	Michael pulls one of these about every third episode of Burn Notice. It is used against him in one episode. The big bad uses technology and manipulation to issolate Michael from his team and family. The light dawns when his brother shows up to read him the riot act for ignoring their attempts to contact him. Michael realizes his phone has been tampered with.
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Divide and Conquer / int_f5c74709	comment	The Silerian Trilogy: Tansen uses this tactic when fighting the Society, setting various waterlords against each other with false flag attacks.
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Divide and Conquer / int_faea2e0	comment	Tomorrow Never Dies has the villain trying to get World War III between the UK and China, just to get broadcasting rights in the latter.
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Divide and Conquer / int_fdd5c1d6	comment	In Margin for Error, Otto Horst claims that this is his best propaganda strategy for Nazism in America:
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Divide and Conquer / int_feb24a76	comment	Braindead 2016: When they get him forcibly drunk so he'll be truthful, a bug-infected man explains the bugs make people become more extreme in their views so they'll fight each other to a greater degree, and make it easier for them to conquer humanity.
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Divide and Conquer	processingCategory2	Dirty Social Tricks
Divide and Conquer	processingCategory2	Discord Tropes
Divide and Conquer	processingCategory2	Gambit Index
Divide and Conquer	processingCategory2	Plots
Divide and Conquer	processingCategory2	The Oldest Tricks in the Book
Bleach: Hell Verse / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
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91 Days / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Tenchi in Tokyo / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
The Sea Prince and the Fire Child / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Blake's 7 (Audio Play) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders (Comic Book) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
DC Comics Bombshells (Comic Book) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Dark Times (Comic Book) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Fatal Attractions (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
JLA: A League of One (Comic Book) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
JLA: Rock of Ages (Comic Book) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Justice League of America: Rock of Ages (Comic Book) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Secret Wars (2015) (Comic Book) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Seven Soldiers of Victory (Comic Book) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW) (Comic Book) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
The Clone Saga (Comic Book) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Vote Loki (Comic Book) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
New Avengers (2015) (Comic Book) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Ra's Al-Ghul / Comicbook	seeAlso	Divide and Conquer
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality / Fan Fic / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
The Immortal Game / Fan Fic / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
The Weaver Option (Fanfic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
A Stitch In Time (Fanfic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
An Eagle Among Lions (Fanfic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Avengers of the Multi-verse (Fanfic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Avengers of the Ring (Fanfic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
CN Akumas (Fanfic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Danganronpa Re:Programmed (Fanfic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Dead Garden (Fanfic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
I Woke Up As a Dungeon, Now What? (Fanfic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
J-WITCH Series (Fanfic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
My Little Denarians (Fanfic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Re:Coded (Fanfic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Shadows over Meridian (Fanfic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Something Lost Something Found (Fanfic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Son of the Seven Kingdoms (Fanfic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Super Robot Wars High (Fanfic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Tale of a Thief and His New Party (Fanfic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
The Savior King, the Master Tactician and the Queen of Liberation (Fanfic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Transformers Animated Season 4 (Fanfic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Barbie (2023) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Captain America: Civil War / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Cohen and Tate / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Dead End Drive-In / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
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El Cid / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Enter the Dragon / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Escape Room (2019) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Licence to Kill / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Lucky Number Slevin / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Mindhunters / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Revenge of the Sith / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Robin Hood (2010) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Sicario: Day of the Soldado / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
The Thing (1982) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
X-Men: First Class / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
A Certain Magical Index / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
A Storm of Swords / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Age of Fire / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Federation of the Hub / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
I, Claudius / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
In a Good Cause— / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Internment / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Jack Blank / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Malory Towers / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Outbound Flight / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Pact / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Proud Pink Sky / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Red Harvest / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Red Queen / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Reds!: A Revolutionary Timeline / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Release That Witch / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Ringing Bell / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
The Aurelian Cycle / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
The Demon Headmaster / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
The Night's Dawn Trilogy / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
The Saga of Tanya the Evil / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
The Silerian Trilogy / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
The Troy Saga / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
The Woods Are Always Watching / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Uprooted / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
DivideandConquer	sameAs	Divide and Conquer
Example Sectionectomy	seeAlso	Divide and Conquer
JeremyTheGrueSlayer	seeAlso	Divide and Conquer
Kipling's Finest	seeAlso	Divide and Conquer
Lost+Brain (Manga) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Say "I Love You" (Manga) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
We ARE Struggling Together / Real Life	seeAlso	Divide and Conquer
The Gamer's Alliance (Roleplay) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Warhammer Fantasy Divided Loyalties (Roleplay) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
BattleBots / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
BrainDead (2016) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Britannia / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Frank Herbert's Dune / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Imposters / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Nirvana in Fire / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Run For Money: Tousouchuu / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Snowpiercer / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Survivor / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
The 100 / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
The Phil Silvers Show / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Three's Company / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Twilight Imperium (Tabletop Game) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
The Mannequins' Ball (Theatre) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Centurion: Defender of Rome (Video Game) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Deceit (Video Game) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga (Video Game) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Eternal Darkness (Video Game) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Fallout 3 (Video Game) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Far Cry 6 (Video Game) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Ghost of Tsushima (Video Game) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Hallow's End (Video Game) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Hunt: Showdown (Video Game) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (Video Game) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (Video Game) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Paint the Town Red (Video Game) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Video Game) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
The Elder Scrolls Online (Video Game) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Star Trek Specter (Web Animation) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Jimquisition (Web Video) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
7FATES: CHAKHO (Webcomic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
TwoKinds (Webcomic) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Neo-Duelist League (Website) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Aladdin: The Return of Jafar / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Avengers Assemble / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Batman: Under the Red Hood / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Liberty's Kids / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls â€“ Rainbow Rocks / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Montel Vontavious Porter (Wrestling) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
National Wrestling Alliance (Wrestling) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Swordquest (Comic Book) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (Video Game) / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer

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