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Opportunistic Bastard

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Opportunistic Bastard	comment	We all know The Chessmaster: Theyâ€™ve got a plan ready to go months in advance, with every detail jotted down. If that plan fails, theyâ€™ve got backup after backup already in place. Then you've got this guy. The Opportunistic Bastard doesn't have a plan, or at least not a clearly outlined one. He may have a vague goal that he's working towards, but when it comes to getting there, he's winging it. Other times the Opportunistic Bastard doesn't even have that going for him and just latches onto other people's schemes in the name of making as much short-term profit as he can. The evilest ones often choose to align themselves with a Big Bad that can offer them a share in his power and a lot of rivalry may ensue regarding who will get the biggest share from the others. As the name suggests, characters like this excel at grabbing onto the opportunities that others present. Unlike The Chessmaster, who often fails when things don't go according to plan, the Opportunistic Bastard typically rolls well with unexpected results, exploiting every new circumstance to his own advantage. Where they tend to suffer is in the long term â€” a good opportunist can keep his head above water on any given day, but is ultimately going to crash and burn because they lack the vision to stay in it for the long haul. A particularly capable Opportunistic Bastard might actually be able to give the impression of being a Chessmaster, due to their ability to adapt to new situations, but even then, they are liable to paint themselves into a corner due to their lack of forethought. Opportunists of this type are usually motivated only by their own self-interest. If their actions do benefit someone else, it's either accidental or because that person belongs to the select group of people that our opportunist actually cares about. Similarly, they are rarely loyal to any cause larger than their personal self-advancement, or at best, the well-being of themselves and a select group; if an Opportunistic Bastard has an ideology, it is likely to be ill-defined, self-serving, and/or shallow. As a result, this character is liable to be an antihero at best, and outright villain at worst. Unlike The Starscream, who has a pretty clear goal and lives for the moment that he will manage to become the new Big Bad, many of these opportunists will gladly take over and become a Dragon Ascendant if it so happens, but in general do not have such grand visions and just try to grab as much as they can without caring about the status quo. Hierarchically, they could be anyone from a minor character to the Big Bad himself. Some of the less ambitious can be Creons if they are fine with someone else getting the lion's share as long as they get their piece. Compare/contrast with The Chessmaster. Related is Gambit Roulette, where someone (who may be The Chessmaster or this trope)'s plan seems to partly involve events that happen randomly, which the guy shouldn't be able to see coming. See also Manipulative Bastard and Xanatos Speed Chess. Can easily become a Wild Card. Likely to be a Dirty Coward or to suffer from Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. Might belong to Les Collaborateurs or even become The Quisling. Always personifies the 12th of The Thirty-Six Stratagems.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_1331990c	comment	Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Arguably, Kyubey. While the Incubators do have a goal in mind, they are shown to exploit new circumstances to try and manipulate girls into contracting (best example: he waits until Mami is literally dying in a car crash before appearing) and invoke Exact Words, Literal Genie and You Didn't Ask to conveniently hide the (multiple) uncomfortable facts of being a Magical Girl. Also, he tends to cut corners while granting wishes as a means of conserving energy; making the phrasing of each girl's wish essential.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_13668e6e	comment	Sylvester, the narrator of Twig, is fundamentally this, but tries to act as The Chessmaster, often to his detriment. A twelve-year-old Tyke Bomb created with the ability to plot but not the ability to strategize, he has severe difficulty setting realistic goals and is often distracted by other objectives which he makes up on the spot, such as getting himself and his fellows official badges or making sure that the Villain of the Week respects him as an adversary. Even if he has a goal in mind, he'll often try for everything at once and get nothing.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_1858fe06	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Patch, Antoine's Mirror Universe counterpart, was swapped with Antoine Prime when Anti-Sonic/Scourge got sick of his repeated attempts to be The Starscream and banished him to Mobius Prime. Once there, Patch decided to use the situation to his advantage to seize power and take over the Kingdom of Acorn. He came pretty damn close, too. Dr. Eggman has a habit of taking advantage of different situations to either advance his own plans or just because: In issue 191, he sends Metal Sonic to attack Freedom HQ, only to discover Scourge and the Suppression Squad have taken it over and booted the Freedom Fighters out. Eggman is about to have Metal Sonic leave but ultimately decides to have Metal attack Scourge instead. This is basically his entire role in the Shattered World Crisis. After his initial shock at the effects the Super Genesis Wave had, and Dark Gaia's awakening, Eggman quickly recovers and sets out to thwart the Freedom Fighters' efforts to heal the world, solely because he wants to control how Mobius is put back together.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_1c24c068	comment	A Young Girl's Guerrilla War: The Six Houses of Kyoto are a group of oligarchs, aristocrats, plutocrats, and imperial holdovers who willingly aligned with the Britannian Area Administration shortly after the war ended, taking the entire Kyoto prefecture with them. As the â€œNumbers Advisory Committeeâ€� with significant investments in businesses and lands across the country. Most Japanese consider them traitors, but their loyalty to Britannia is largely fleeting, with many opting to selectively fund and supply anti-Britannian groups to undermine the colonial authorities. Even then however, many opt to withhold materiel and monetary support to insurgent groups they view as either lacking in ability, too maverick to keep under their control, or too contrary to their visions of what future they want for Japan, with more of a concern for advancing their own positions. â€œLady Sophieâ€� Sumeragi Kaguya, head of Sumeragi House and de facto heir to the long-defunct Chrysanthemum Throne, applies this in a different way: she genuinely wants Japan liberated and quickly allies with Tanya as the RSBSâ€™s â€œbenefactorâ€� and Kozuki Organizationâ€™s supplier despite the other Houses viewing them as beneath their notice, and immediately turns this to pushing a more militaristic approach.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_1c649ab3	comment	Malty of The Rising of the Shield Hero has a habit of jumping on any opportunity for amusement, revenge, or personal gain without considering the consequences fully. As this usually comes at the expense of her comrades she makes a lot of enemies while gradually increasing the potential rewards if she succeeds. This escalates from getting a better Hero while stealing Naofumi's money to killing her sister to gain the throne, killing her family to gain the throne, and finally killing her family and the Heroes for the world.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_271c1469	comment	In Death Parade, the Myth Arc gets kicked off because Nona took advantage of the extremely overworked Arbiters in the Information Processing Bureau. People are dying at higher rates than the staff is capable of analyzing, which often leads to mistakes in how they are organized. Usually these mistakes are corrected, but when one of these humans ends up at Quindecim, Nona takes advantage of Decimâ€™s interest in humans and allows her to stay as his assistant. This was all just part of her plan to change the system according to her own whims. In fact, most of the important plot beats in the show were implied to have been set up by Nona as well.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_2a7e10f5	comment	There and Back Again: Ser Brynden "Blackfish" Tully regards his brother Hoster as always having been one of these. During Robert's Rebellion, he married both of his daughters off to two high lords of the continent's great noble houses in exchange for the Riverlands' military support despite having no real reason to rebel against the crown at the time and the fact that House Tully only became the ruling lords of the Riverlands because of the Targaryens. Similarly, Jon Arryn believes Hoster would have no problem with marrying Sansa off to King Robert just to have a granddaughter as the queen of the Seven Kingdoms without any consideration for her own well-being with regards to the big age gap between them (as was shown by how Hoster pushed Lysa to marry the much older Jon). Lord Eldon Estermont sees the Tyrells this way and considers them to be worse than the Targaryen loyalists since they could easily switch sides at a moment's notice should the winds start blowing in another direction. True to form, Lord Mace Tyrell attempted to push his daughter Margaery as a prospective wife for Robert once Cersei and Jaime's incest was revealed and even when Robert arranges Margaery's marriage to Renly, her grandmother Olenna intends to take advantage by telling Margaery to bear a child with Renly as soon as possible while counting on the past his prime Robert meeting his end in battle.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_2e833eb	comment	Fallout: Equestria: This trope demonstrates just how scummy the Enclave is. First, they touch down outside the base of the Goddess, an Obviously Evil Transhuman Abomination with a plan to assimilate all life into herself, hoping to team up with her for their gain. Then, when they realize she's seconds away from being killed, they quickly book it out of there, and claim to the public that they were the ones who killed her to stop her treachery.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_309d7300	comment	Sonic and the Secret Rings: Early on, the Erazor Djinn tries to shoot Shahra with a flaming arrow, but Sonic takes the hit and is afflicted with a life-draining curse. Erazor uses it to his advantage, telling Sonic he'll remove the arrow and break the curse if Sonic gathers all of the World Rings for him. As it turns out, he just intends to sacrifice Sonic in order to obtain full mastery of the World Rings for himself since he couldn't use their true power as long as their collector is alive, but settles for Shahra instead when she jumps in front of the killing blow. This ends up biting him in the ass because not only does this not give him the full mastery he desired, a rip-roaring pissed Sonic ends up stealing three of the Rings from him and using them to power up and rip him a new one.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Madara Uchiha had a plan with an actual claim to Chessmaster status before his resurrection. However, he was returned to life with a series of mishaps: his former apprentice having hijacked his old plan and him being revived by the dark Impure World Resurrection technique rather than the true resurrection he expected, and since then has been trying to improvise his way to victory. Madara proceeded to wait for an opportunity to break free of the caster's control before finding his apprentice Tobi had already revived the monstrous Ten-Tailed Beast with no intention of sharing that power with Madara. Then Madara tries to regain control of the situation using his backup plan but eventually got Out-Gambitted from Tobi. Further Madara sits and waits until the Alliance weaken Obito sufficiently, in order to have Black Zetsu force him to revive Madara. Sasuke Uchiha is no better; his role as an antagonist is a series of him merely betraying a more ambitious and powerful villain and hijacking their resources or achievements for his own use. First Orochimaru, then Tobi and then Kaguya. At the conclusion, he finally executes his masterstroke, waiting until all of the most powerful threats amongst the heroes and villains had eliminated each other, with only Naruto to stop him.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_31313512	comment	ANNO: Mutationem: After his proposal to reinstate the Gatekeeper Project was rejected, C sets off a scheme to access Hinterland by engineering Ryan's capture to lure Ann in and forcibly using her powers to obtain the Artifact of Doom.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: Lucius Malfoy is a Smug Snake of an opportunist, latching onto anything that will either help his ambition or help him save his own hide. He doesn't usually have a plan either—he'll let somebody else do the thinking, and try to benefit from their work. In the backstory, he joins Lord Voldemort for the power involved, and also because its racist cause adhered with his prejudiced mindset. After Voldemort's power is shattered and the Dark Lord disappears, Lucius abandons his master and pretends his deeds were because of brainwashing, allowing him to escape justice. Perhaps the best example of Lucius's "planning capabilities" is how he orchestrated the opening of the Chamber of Secrets. He simply plopped Tom Riddle's diary into Ginny Weasley's lap, let Tom Riddle do all the work, and sat back, taking advantage of the chaos for his own ends. When Lord Voldemort returned to power in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Lucius goes back to Voldemort to avoid incurring the Dark Lord's wrath, and once again carries out Voldemort's will. Throughout the series, Lucius only has one consistent loyalty and that's to his family. Eventually, when Voldemort's cause endangers his son's life, Lucius defects from the Death Eaters for Draco's safety. Wormtail is a humbler example as a Dirty Coward and chronic backstabber who just looks for the biggest shadow to crawl and live in. First he "befriended" the Marauders at Hogwarts because they were popular, then he betrayed them as an adult, becoming The Mole for the Death Eaters in the Order of the Phoenix because Voldemort was gaining more and more power. Wormtail sold out his "friends," the Potters, and their one-year-old son to their deaths, just to secure his position, then after that backfired, he went and framed his other "friend" Sirius and went into hiding. It speaks volumes of Wormtail's level of cowardice and self-interest that he was willing to live as a rat for over a decade, just on the off chance Voldemort returned and he needed to offer Harry up as a sacrifice to get back in his good graces. It's only when he has literally no other option that he seeks out Voldemort and helps him return to full power, just to have the protection of someone powerful again.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_3be12f54	comment	Nemesis the Warlock: Nemesis seizes on any opportunity to undermine Torquemada's power, but always stops short of killing him, which inevitably allows the Grand Master of Termight a chance to regroup and rebuild his forces. On more than one occasion this has led to Nemesis requiring his allies to get him out of a sticky situation. This is because Nemesis is the avatar of chaos, and also a Blood Knight who doesn't want to stop battling Torquemada.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_3fc361ad	comment	Graffiti Heart: The Stealth Recovery Exam encourages all of the students involved to behave this way in order to retrieve the items they've been secretly assigned to collect. The only thing off-limits is using violence; everything else goes.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_432e5c6f	comment	Stone Ocean: Donatello Versus considers himself to be the one worthy of obtaining the power of Heaven. As soon Weather Report is near his location, Versus quickly restores his memory in an effort to have Pucci killed by The Virus so that he could have a chance at achieving Heaven.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_43576f5	comment	Crowley from Supernatural has worked his way from a demonic salesman to the King of Hell by working his way into various situations, betraying those he works with, and being fully willing to subvert situations to his benefit. He takes advantage of Dean and Sam's wish to kill Lucifer to aid them while keeping his involvement secret. Crowley later uses Sam and Dean to defeat Lucifer and takes the opportunity to seize control of Hell by becoming its king. Crowley spends the next few seasons playing up and shifting alliances with various characters, always ready to seize an opportunity when it presents itself.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_47dfc6f	comment	Total Drama: In three out of the four seasons Courtney competes in, she at least attempts to find some way to get some money regardless. In Island she sues the show, in Action she convinces Duncan to split the money in his ending and plans to sue again in Beth's, and in World Tour she tries to talk Alejandro into giving her 1/5 of the million in exchange for her help during the finale.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_48ed41c8	comment	Governor Ratcliffe from Pocahontas. Openly xenophobic towards the Native Americans, he was plotting to wage war on them from the start. When John Smith is captured by the Powhatan tribe and threatened with execution for killing Kocoum (actually done by Thomas, who shot Kocoum to save Smith), Ratcliffe immediately seizes the chance to rally his men.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_490a7d52	comment	The Karma of Lies: Part of what makes Lila so dangerous is her ability to play Xanatos Speed Chess, quickly adjusting her schemes in order to capitalize upon any opportunity that might present itself. Got an interest? She's more than happy to spin a web about how she just so happens to have big-name connections that could help you out. And once she's got her hooks in somebody, she'll tailor her schemes specifically towards exploiting whatever her victim has to offer. This gets highlighted especially well when her classmates are comparing notes, figuring out what each of them lost to her. She bilked each one out of the most valuable things they had to offer, promising them whatever they desired most while systematically destroying their chances of actually achieving any of their dreams.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_4ff41a9c	comment	In Origins, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands/Halo Massive Multiplayer Crossover, the Republic Intelligence Service's director slides into this territory. There's no evidence he or his organization knew that the Flood was coming, but boy does he take advantage of it like no tomorrow, using it as an excuse to receive ever greater power along with increasingly unaccountable budgets. He even implies in press conferences that yes, RISE knew about this whole thing in advance to buy more credibility.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_502cbd09	comment	HernÃ¡n "Shades" Alvarez from Luke Cage (2016) is always try to get in the graces of someone with more power than him, be it a corrupt guard at Seagate or Diamondback, the latter even calls him out on it when he guessed that Shades planned on being Mariah's right-hand man and Evil Mentor as he saw more potential with her than with Diamondback.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_52e8fba	comment	Land of Oz: Oscar Diggs, a third-rate carny and con artist from Nebraska, ends up getting his hot air balloon caught in a storm. The storm lands him dead-center in the world of Nonestica, in the capital city of Oz. The king and queen recently died, the only heir is their infant daughter, the four arch-mages ("Witches") have secured territory and are threatening all-out war. Using a combination of carnival tricks, Steampunk gadgetry, and sheer bullshit, Diggs manages to bluff the people into thinking he's more powerful than the Witches, making the four stand down in an Enforced Cold War. From there, he is able to sell the true heir to the throne into slavery (bespelled as the wrong gender!), and weasel his way into becoming a de facto God-Emperor with unquestioned rule. It was working pretty well until Dorothy blundered into Oz and set off a chain reaction that exposed him as a humbug, and Ozma was able to free herself.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_53a73ca0	comment	Hondo Ohnaka from Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. Hondo is quick to side with and backstabs anyone if he thinks he can make a quick profit out of it.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_584365d4	comment	In Melody, thereâ€™s no indication that Bethany plans very far ahead to force the protagonist to come back. Sheâ€™s mostly just doing whatever she can think of.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_59140854	comment	In Jessica Jones (2015) Malus refers to Dr. Kozlov as such, citing he stole Malus' drugs to develop the combat enhancers for the military.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_59da62aa	comment	Benny from Fallout: New Vegas. The Big Bad Wannabe of the game, Benny wants to seize the city of New Vegas for his own but has little in the way of actual planning ability. In the backstory, he killed the chief of his tribe in a duel to the death and supplanted him because the former leader wanted their people to remain nomadic rather than take the more profitable route of joining the New Vegas leadership. Though nominally aligned with New Vegas's "autocrat," Mr. House, Benny really craved more power and had one of Mr. House's securitrons reprogrammed to spill all of Mr. House's secrets. The securitron, Yes-Man, told Benny about a platinum computer chip that could be used to upgrade the securitrons of New Vegas into unstoppable killing machines, and then formulated plans on how Benny could foil Mr. House's plans while hijacking the platinum chip for Benny's own use. Benny was an ambitious man who forged alliances as often as he broke them, but it's made abundantly clear that he was only a danger because he leeched off the plans of those smarter than himself, such as Mr. House and Yes-Man, for his own use.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_5b3356f8	comment	In Turning Red, when Tyler finds out that Mei can turn into a panda and has been using it to raise concert money, he blackmails her into being the star of his birthday party. This goes wrong when he attempts to micromanage her as soon as she tries to take a break, and she says she needs some time alone after finding out the concert is the same night as the ritual.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_5df0d2d9	comment	Le Papillon Rising: As a Villain Protagonist, Adrien has no long-term plans; he's really just winging it, pouncing upon any opportunities that present themselves. Even the ones that make his stomach churn when he lets himself contemplate what he's actually doing.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_629cd094	comment	Queen Anora from Dragon Age: Origins will manipulate or backstab anyone so long as it satisfies her two goals: remaining in power and securing the physical safety of her father Loghain. Being a choice-based game, there are a number of options for how Anora will react if certain decisions are made. Should the Player Character, the Warden, decide to back her at the Landsmeet, she will turn against her father, the regent, to secure power for herself. However, should the Warden decide to back Alistair instead, she will betray the Warden and side with her father, despite the fact that Loghain had arranged her husband's death, conducted numerous evil actions, and in doing so risked a civil war in Ferelden even as the Archdemon led the Darkspawn to Rape, Pillage, and Burn the country. In order to preserve her political power, Anora will also go through with political marriages, such as she will to a Noble Human Grey Warden, seeing him as a popular figure. She'd even go so far as to marry Alistair, the bastard brother of her beloved, late husband, the very same man she'd also order executed for being a threat to her in another possible play through where she rules alone. Anora has no master plan to get her way and few scruples, she'll simply latch on to anyone who is most likely to give her the power she wants and do as they ask in return. The one exception to this is marrying whoever personally executes her father. That is the one thing she will not do no matter the benefits.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_62c077b3	comment	A Moth to a Flame: While normally The Chessmaster, King Andrias isn't against seizing an opportunity to present itself. Seeing Marcy's reaction to Anne calling Sprig her best friend, he decides to give her the green light to drop the frog boy out of the castle window to make the heroes suffer a loss.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_657b4c67	comment	Mandalay: Tanya is a heroic example. First, she blackmails a police officer into not only releasing her without charges but also handing her 1000 rupees because he happens to be one of her clients in the brothel. This quick thinking allows her to escape to Mandalay. While doing that, Tony finds her and tries to convince her to be the hostess of a brothel he'll open. While still processing the fact Tony's alive, Tanya devices a plan to get rid of him permanently. She remembers Dr. Burton's stack of iodine, so when Tony dares to ask her to make him a drink, she poisons it with abundant, deathly iodine. Tony, by contrast, embodies both the opportunistic and bastard parts of this trope. His gun-trafficking affairs land him in a sticky situation — he's got to pay lots of money he doesn't have. What does he do? Sell his girlfriend as a Sex Slave. Later, when Nick informs him he's got the police hot on his heels, he fakes his own suicide by leaving hints that he took poison and jumped overboard.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_69c4d530	comment	The Scorpion Jar: When it looks like Katsuki has finally managed to break Izuku's will and forced him to give up on his Tragic Dream of becoming a Pro Hero, many of the other bullies at Aldera latch onto the idea that they can force Izuku to do their homework for them. This comes back to bite them all when Izuku spins this to his advantage, playing them against each other to gather enough evidence of everyone's misdeeds to take to the Board of Education.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Turk Barret tends to take dirty jobs rather than spearhead any plans himself. This is why he'll betray criminals to dangerous bosses, like selling the Russians out to Fisk or ratting out Chico to Cottonmouth. In Jessica Jones (2015) Malus refers to Dr. Kozlov as such, citing he stole Malus' drugs to develop the combat enhancers for the military. HernÃ¡n "Shades" Alvarez from Luke Cage (2016) is always try to get in the graces of someone with more power than him, be it a corrupt guard at Seagate or Diamondback, the latter even calls him out on it when he guessed that Shades planned on being Mariah's right-hand man and Evil Mentor as he saw more potential with her than with Diamondback.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_69d9b72f	comment	Nezumi Otoko, or Rat Man, from GeGeGe No Kitaro is frequently a headache to Kitaro and friends. Frequently seizing on to insane schemes that inevitably go wrong, Ratman often ends up causing all sorts of catastrophes and relies on Kitaro and his friends to save people from his errors. However, Rat Man is not above sheer treachery if he feels it's better for him. When the Tanuki Yokai invade, he switches sides to them instantly when he feels they'll win and assists them against his supposed friends before switching back to Kitaro's side to avoid punishment.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_6dab1b2f	comment	Dynamo5: With Captain Dynamo's death, numerous villains are now taking advantage by targeting Tower City for their crimes. In particular, it is implied that the mother and daughter supervillain team Chrysalis and Synergy are taking advantage of Captain Dynamo's death (Chrysalis' former lover and Synergy's father) by having Synergy impersonate Captain Dynamo/William Warner to increase their power base.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_6f73a6e9	comment	Jared from Weak Hero can't fight well and isn't even that smart; his position as Wolf's Number Two came about by him latching on to anyone that was strong and steadily pulling himself up the ladder that way. This comes back to bite him when all of his wrongdoings are exposed; he has no strength to fight back against the people seeking revenge on him, and his superficial allies are quick to turn on him.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_747efb44	comment	Quirk: Sequencer: Since Izuku's Quirk lets him copy other people's abilities from their DNA and use them to create his own powers, he quickly learns how to take advantage of any opportunities to gather new samples. For instance, he likes spending time around kids because of their tendency to get hurt while playing, and rushes to the aid of an old man who'd burned himself with ulterior motives.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: Marty stopped by Beach City to give Greg a royalty check, but when he found out Sour Cream was going to DJ at a concert, he decides to use it to promote Guacola.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_7d8c61a2	comment	The Bounty Hunter Player Character from Star Wars: The Old Republic gets two opportunities to address a huge audience. They're expected to either make inspiring speeches or threaten The Republic. But instead, you can... make a sales pitch. Heck, you're never going to get a better chance than this!
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	Hans from Frozen who admits to not having a real plan. He first intended to woo Elsa. When he realised she was an Ice Queen, he turned his attention to her sister Anna, intending to arrange an accident for Elsa. Then Elsa reveals her powers and runs away, with Anna in pursuit, and he tries to ingratiate himself to the public while they are gone. Finally, when Anna comes home, he tries to have her killed, then tells the assembled nobles that they got married, making him king; when she and Elsa turn up alive he tries to kill them both to cover his tracks. At no point does he have a master plan; he's just aiming to be king through whatever means are available.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_824766fc	comment	Marinette Dupain-Cheng's Spite Playlist: Lila eagerly leaps upon any opportunity to slander her 'opponents', especially Marinette. Never mind how Marinette transferred to another school; so far as she's concerned, that just leaves her free to twist the knife even further.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_85a5a3b9	comment	The Transformers: Prime incarnation of Starscream tends to fall into this trope. He's not got the brawn to overthrow Megatron by force, and Megatron is cunning enough to spot and foil most planned gambits, so his best chance is seizing on events as they come up. To this end, he's ended up both working with and against Decepticons and Autobots alike... sometimes at the same time. In a subversion, he ends up growing out of the trope somewhat and seems genuinely content to be second in command (though he turns his attention to keeping that position.)
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_86814cd2	comment	Final Fantasy IX: This applies to Kuja, from disc 3 onward. In the first two discs, Kuja had a true Evil Plan, but it gets immediately curbstomped the second that his boss, Garland, decides that he has outlived his usefulness. Kuja immediately goes into hiding and, with his treachery revealed, has no choice but to acquire power by any means necessary. He tries a few things that also fail before opportunity shines and one of the good guys taps into their Super Mode right in front of him. From that moment on, his plan is to let the heroes fight both him and Garland, and win, and then Turn Red and invoke his own Super Mode permanently. And it works. At that point, Kuja had everything he needed to take over the world, but there was one thing he didn't count on.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_86e51bb5	comment	Garfield the Deals Warlock of The Adventure Zone: Balance doesn't care that he sells weapons to adventurers aiming to save all of humanity â€” he's out for money. And a replica of Magnus's body.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_90887d43	comment	XenoGears: Krelian gets the Gazel Ministry into having Cain killed so they could bring Mahanon out to the surface. After obtaining the data from Razael's Tree, Krelian has the ministry terminated.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_94377b17	comment	Steel Ball Run: Diego originally didn't know about the corpse parts and likely had a different plan to achieve his ambitions, but meeting Valentine and accepting the latter's offer gave him an opportunity to use the corpse to his advantage.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_960062b7	comment	In My Hero Academia, the pro hero Mt. Lady makes her debut by upstaging fellow hero Kamui Woods, delivering the final blow to the villain he'd been battling and subsequently hogging all the media attention for herself while Kamui sulks miserably on a nearby rooftop.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_9614fa1e	comment	RenÃ© Belloq from Raiders of the Lost Ark. He's not as successful an archaeologist or adventurer as Indiana Jones is, so he usually lets Indy do all the work before swooping in to steal the artifacts his nemesis recovers. After Indy retrieves a golden idol at the beginning of the movie from a booby-trapped temple, Belloq just takes it from him by conning the local Hovitos into helping him. Later he helps the Nazis steal the Ark of the Covenant from Indy after the latter discovered its rightful location. The Novelization says Belloq's essentially made a career out of doing this to Indy, not just stealing artifacts from him but also plagiarizing an essay in graduate school and excavating a dig site while Indy spent months preparing.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: Bronn intends to rise in the world any way he can and attaches himself to anybody who can do that for him. Starting out as a simple sellsword, he first latches onto Catelyn Stark's retinue transporting Tyrion Lannister to the Vale, for the possibility of a reward. He then proceeds to quickly switch sides from Catelyn to Tyrion, championing him in a Trial by Combat, thus becoming the right-hand man of one of the richest and most powerful men in the Seven Kingdoms. He stays on for a while, accumulating riches, titles, and a knighthood, before eventually refusing Tyrion's request to champion him again in the trial over Joffrey's murder because Cersei Lannister offered him a marriage into a powerful noble house with no risk to himself. Seizing any opportunity that came his way, Bronn went from an ordinary mercenary all the way to the Lord Protector of House Stokeworth. Lord Walder Frey, head of House Frey and Lord of the Crossing, only reacts to the plans of others and only openly aligns with anyone when he believes it will serve his best interests. In the backstory it's established he didn't join Robert's rebellion against the Targaryeans until it was all but confirmed Robert would be victorious, earning him the nickname "The Late Lord Frey." In Game of Thrones, he only joins Robb's war with the Lannisters when Catelyn grants him generous enticements, including a marriage between Robb and one of his daughters. When Robb breaks his marriage vow, Walder happily latches onto Tywin's side when he offers Walder's son Emmon the position of new Lord of Riverrun. Lord Walder then proceeded to butcher Robb and most of his bannermen when they were defenseless and assumed themselves safe under Lord Walder's roof; a pragmatic move that made Lord Walder one of the most powerful, and despised, men in all of Westeros. Brown Ben Plumm, the commander of the sellsword company the Second Sons. Prior to his promotion, Ben first works for Yunkai as another mercenary defender. However, after Daenerys defeats his company and causes their leader, Mero, to disappear, Ben becomes the company's new leader and joins Daenerys against his former employers. He stays with her until she conquers Mereen at which point, believing she can't win against the newly reformed Yunkai forces and having found out she can't control her dragons, he abandons her and again allies himself with Yunkai. When he believes Daenerys is about to become a Dragon Rider, however, Ben plans to sell out Yunkai again and realign with Daenerys. He's also a man who notices golden opportunities when presented with them. At a slave auction, he tries to buy Ser Jorah Mormont and Tyrion Lannister. The former he plans on killing and presenting as a "wedding present" in order to get back into Daenerys's good graces. The latter he plans on selling for the bounty on his head, which includes a lordship in Westeros. Eventually Tyrion is able to talk Ben into allowing both him and Jorah to join the company, but only after convincing him he can give Plumm vast more riches as Lord of Casterly Rock than he can as a head on a pike. Ben is a man of no loyalties who will backstab anyone if the odds aren't in their favor, and who is driven by a lust for riches and self-preservation above all else. Plumm believes that successful and long-lived sellswords like himself are opportunistic bastards at heart, and those that aren't tend not to be very long-lived. Petyr Baelish manages to be both this and The Chessmaster. He concocts elaborate plans, plots and counterplots like The Chessmaster; yet, never misses a beat when one or more of them get disrupted, and adapts to gain something from it so quickly and smoothly that it appears to be Just as Planned, even though a large chunk of the original plan actually got bolluxed up to a fare thee well. Most of his plots are, in fact, aimed at nothing more or less than causing more chaos, because a destabilized realm allows for more upward mobility for a suitably flexible and opportunistic man such as himself to ride on. So, it doesn't matter too much exactly how things become disorganized, just that they do become messy. Heck, he'll even make plans to counter other plans of his... just to keep others confused as to what he's actually aiming at acquiring. Marillion, a bard, shows what can happen if you only have the skills to partially follow through. He manages to Butt-Monkey his way into Catelyn's entourage at the same time Bronn spots his chance to make good. From there, he successfully becomes the court minstrel of the Eyrie when he flatters Lysa Arryn enough. Unfortunately, Marillion's an unlikable Slime Ball who manages to make himself so thoroughly disliked by most of the nobles of the Vale that, when he is made into The Scapegoat in a scheme aimed at facilitating a regime change, nobody cares to look too hard into it, let alone question it, especially before his actual and very convenient death. There are hints that some Vale factions may be poking into the events surrounding Marillion's judicial murder for their own opportunistic reasons (since they are being fairly discrete), but this does him absolutely no good now. Aurane Waters is chosen to be Cersei's Master of Ships for little more reason than because she finds him attractive, but when she's imprisoned he takes the opportunity to abscond with nearly the entire fleet, freshly built at ruinous expense, and uses it to become a pirate lord.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_9dab421d	comment	While in the first film Jack Sparrow was shown to rely on the Batman Gambit quite a bit, the other films have also shown him to be quite the opportunist as well, and sometimes, it's not clear which one he is, this or The Chessmaster.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: How could a rather ineffectual, lazy, and really goofy number like Buggy get to where he is now, despite being largely outclassed by most of his cohorts and the people he acquaints with? Simple: Buggy is nothing short of excellent at spotting and seizing the right opportunities at the right time and taking advantage of any situation and other people's gullibility, as he showed during the Impel Down Arc. And while he never meant to become one of the Warlords, he was quick to adapt to his accidental notoriety and entrench it firmly enough to build a successful business of mercenaries. Marshall D. Teach, aka "Blackbeard", is best described this way. He wants to become the Pirate King, but being The Fatalist that he is (which the rest of the crew shares), he's content with just waiting for good opportunities to show up so that he can seize it. He used to be a humble member of Whitebeard Pirates, but when he saw his higher-up, Thatch, acquiring the Devil Fruit he wanted, the Dark-Dark Fruit, he killed Thatch to gain the fruit and its powers, then ran away to make his own pirate group. Some time later, when Ace (another member of Whitebeard Pirates) hunted him down, Blackbeard used this opportunity to defeat him in a duel, bring him to the Marines, and use him (Ace is a highly-wanted pirate) as a bargaining chip to become one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, getting special privileges in the process. He then exploited those privileges to sneak into the world's largest prison, Impel Down, and take a few of the powerful prisoners to be part of his crew (all while there's a Prison Riot courtesy of Luffy). It culminates in the Marineford Arc, where he uses the opportunity to enter the battle of Marineford (between the Marines and Whitebeard Pirates, who wanted to stop Ace's execution) to kill Whitebeard and gain his earthquake powers in the process. Only then can he safely declare that from then on, "this is [his] era".
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_9f331042	comment	The Wolves in the Woods: The whole plotline is kicked off by False Friend Alya exploiting Lila's false claims about Marinette to turn almost the whole class against her, out of envy over Marinette's recent successes as a fashion designer and wanting to 'knock her down a few pegs'. This appears to be their regular MO, as it's heavily implied that they only helped Marinette deal with Chloe in order to 'play the hero' and make the other girl dependent upon them, and are not pleased by the prospect of her being more than an Extreme Doormat.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_a040500a	comment	Benna Murcatto of Best Served Cold is an amoral snake of a man who latches on to his talented elder sister Monza while she uses her skills in strategy, tactics, and combat to bring them to higher positions. Benna's role seems to be deciding who to betray and when, while charming his way into the good graces of others. When they're taken in as kids by the mercenary Nicomo Cosca, Benna has him deposed when he realizes Monza is more popular than Cosca. when they attack a city known as Caprile, Benna takes the chance to 'lose' Monza's orders to spare the populace to benefit him further. Finally, it's revealed Benna was going to double-cross their current employer, Duke Orso, if Orso hadn't acted first to kill Benna before he got the chance.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_a2b7c5ee	comment	No Name on the Bullet: Stricker is this, both in his method of acquiring part of Ben Chaffee's mine, and later suggests to Reeger that they let a drunk Lou Fraden challenge Gant to a duel rather than intervene, out of the off chance that he might win.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_a3748187	comment	Golden Wind: Secco, as soon as he's learned Cioccolata was killed, discards his act to remain as a pet, noting that betraying Diavolo would be more beneficial for him.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_a3ef164b	comment	Ultimate X Men: Despite not knowing Colossus is gay, Longshot manipulates the latter's overprotective nature, and also manipulates the X-Men in general by playing up the "wrongly condemned innocent" angle.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_a5fbd473	comment	The Mayor from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, who's looking to revitalize Swallow Falls after its primary (and nearly only) export of sardines suffered a market crash when "people realized that sardines are super-gross." When the Mayor's own vague plan to open a sardine-based theme park to make his town into a tourist attraction proves something less than successful, he quickly latches on to the success of protagonist Flint's new invention which produces food as a form of weather, elevating both Flint and himself to fame through some well-placed flattery and hype. When his burgeoning ambitions cause a catastrophe, he then uses what little sway he still has over his constituents to ensure that he's the first one out of town.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_a8150af4	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Sauron didn't have any plan and met Galadriel by chance, and from there, he just latched onto her schemes. He didn't plan either to confront Adar or meet and influence Celebrimbor, all those events happen by chance and he goes along with it, taking advantage of the situation. He states that his initial goal was reaching NÃºmenor, and stumbling upon Galadriel in the middle of the ocean was also a cosmic coincidence.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_a9a0ba0e	comment	Dodged a Beetle: On top of his willingness to exploit anyone having a bad time by akumatizing them in their moments of weakness, Gabriel decides to punish Adrien for attending a birthday party his friends threw him by refusing to attend the upcoming Parental Career Day. At least, that's what he tells him; Gabriel never actually intended to go in the first place, and uses the incident as an excuse while guilt-tripping his son and making him believe it's his own fault that his father refuses to spare the time for him.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_aa0c474	comment	In Violine, Kombo endangers the heroes regularly for his greed, at one point even contemplating turning Violine and her father in for a reward. Still not a villain, though.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind: Secco, as soon as he's learned Cioccolata was killed, discards his act to remain as a pet, noting that betraying Diavolo would be more beneficial for him. Stone Ocean: Donatello Versus considers himself to be the one worthy of obtaining the power of Heaven. As soon Weather Report is near his location, Versus quickly restores his memory in an effort to have Pucci killed by The Virus so that he could have a chance at achieving Heaven. Steel Ball Run: Diego originally didn't know about the corpse parts and likely had a different plan to achieve his ambitions, but meeting Valentine and accepting the latter's offer gave him an opportunity to use the corpse to his advantage. JoJolion: Ojiro Sesame follows after Tsurugi for an opportunity to steal the fruits Jobin has been harvesting.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Tywin Lannister. Joffrey himself points out that during Robert's rebellion, Tywin effectively hid underneath Casterly Rock and only supported King Robert when all was decided. He effectively pulled a Walder Frey before Walder Frey. He did not see Joffrey's murder coming at all despite knowing how hated he was, but he still finds some utility to it by grooming a less psychotic king (and thus more amenable to Tywin's advice) to replace him in Tommen, and force Jaime into becoming Tywin's successor with promises to spare Tyrion's life by exiling him to the Night's Watch. The show version of Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish falls into this category. While the book version is adept at seizing opportunities that come his way, he predominantly relies on long-term plans to get what he wants. The show version of Littlefinger puts much more emphasis on sowing chaos explicitly for the purpose of reaping any opportunities that arise in the fallout, with the nebulous end goal of sitting on the Iron Throne with Sansa Stark as his queen. His constant betrayals and warmongering gain him substantial power in the short-term but ultimately end up coming back to bite him, first by arranging Sansa's marriage to the psychotic Ramsay Bolton he destroys any goodwill he'd earned from her, and second, trying to turn Sansa against Arya results in the exposure of his crimes and subsequent execution.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_b712435c	comment	Leverage: Jim Sterling will do what he needs to in order to come out on top or at least reduce collateral damage to himself. In the first season finale, protagonist Nate Ford offers him a choice: take Nate's "oversight requests" to remove the corrupt CEO Ian Blackpool from his position in Sterling's company and other policy changes, or Nate will reveal to the police and the victims of the art gallery Nate just robbed Blackpool was given notice by Nate of his intention to rob the gallery and, on tape, admits he won't bother calling the police, which leaves Blackpool and the company open for negligence lawsuits. Nate notes that the people who will come after his target may not bother with Sterling if he helps offer the man up. It takes Sterling all of five seconds before laughing and agreeing to Nate's demands, while said target is there begging and pleading with Sterling to not betray him.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_b86b5220	comment	Ashur from Spartacus: Blood and Sand decides, after he is crippled by the Gladiator Crixus, that his only goals in life are revenge and rising in power. Using his cleverness to ingratiate himself to his master Batiatus, Ashur becomes his errand boy and supporter, hoping to tie his fortunes to Batiatus's own. When he is indebted to Gladiator named Barca, Ashur quickly makes it appear as if Barca has betrayed Batiatus and arranges his death. Ashur takes advantage of Batiatus's gratitude to steal Crixus's lover, and after Batiatus falls, Ashur simply aligns himself with Praetor Gaius Claudius Glaber and uses Spartacus's rebellion to get Glaber to assign him his own private squad of enforcers with which he terrorizes Capua. Ashur uses his intelligence and lack of morality to make himself invaluable to those he serves while simultaneously using their favor to push himself higher.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_babeae6a	comment	The Godzilla vs. Kong movie novelization's expansion reveals that the Big Bad Wannabe, Apex CEO Walter Simmons, is this trope. Godzilla being driven to his first attack on Apex's Pensacola factory was a genuine accident on Apex's part, but once they realized what they'd done, Simmons was all too happy to take advantage of the disaster to paint Godzilla as a monster that needs to be put down before he tries to deliberately engineers a repeat of the incident in one of the most densely-populated cities in the world, so that everyone will assume Apex are saving mankind from Godzilla once they set Mechagodzilla on him with the aim of usurping the King of the Monsters.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_bb3b5431	comment	Esketra from Dark Crusade. She has no qualms about using her good looks to her advantage, first seducing aspiring general Javro and then, when her city is overrun by the Dark Crusade, living in comfort as the lover of leader Orted Ak-Ceddi. And she would betray anyone if she thought it would help her. Unfortunately for her, women are immune to her charms and there is one that really wants to get her Revenge and righty suspects that Esketra would be able to convince Javro to forgive her.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_bc1dc95a	comment	Pirates of the Caribbean: While in the first film Jack Sparrow was shown to rely on the Batman Gambit quite a bit, the other films have also shown him to be quite the opportunist as well, and sometimes, it's not clear which one he is, this or The Chessmaster. Lord Cutler Beckett, for all his pretensions of being The Chessmaster, mostly accomplishes his goals by relying on other, more capable people of doing his dirty work for him. Whenever the opportunity arises, Beckett will make a deal with whoever seems most likely to give him what he wants, like Will, Elizabeth, Norrington, Governor Swann, Sao Feng, and even his nemesis, Jack Sparrow. However, he's just as like to betray them afterwards depending on what he considers "good business."
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_c0eadab8	comment	Sonic X: Eggman's first reaction upon arriving on Earth is to simply decide to conquer it if he can't conquer Sonic's world. Near the end of Season 1, after tricking Knuckles into giving him the rest of the Chaos Emeralds, he flat-out admits that he only cares about establishing the Eggman Empire; whether he does so on Sonic's world or Earth makes no difference.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_c154d9b6	comment	Tenzen Yakushiji from Basilisk is a vicious ninja who takes advantage of the shogun succession war to seize control of the Iga clan and routinely seizes any opportunity he can get to control the war and eliminate the Koga while trying to make the Iga leader Oboro his own. Later attaching himself to the entourage of the potential heir Takechiyo, and his caretaker, Tenzen intends on using them to rule the Shogunate from the shadows himself, constantly using and abandoning those he comes across as is convenient.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_c24a2f2b	comment	SMPLive: Cooper will take any chance he can get for a prank or to get someone else in trouble.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_c290824a	comment	Black Sails has John Silver (later to be known as "Long" John Silver) who is a self-described opportunist and will latch onto any chance to advance his position or at least keep himself from getting killed. When told that in a few months his usefulness will be gone and he will probably be killed he merely sees this as a time to make friends with his captors. Most of the other major characters have some sort of plan or goal they are working toward but Silver simply jumps at any opportunity that presents itself and goes where it takes him. This almost backfires on him in season 2 when he volunteers to join Flint on a Suicide Mission convinced that Flint has some brilliant plan to get them out of the trouble they are in. To Silver's horror, Flint fully intends to go through with the mission.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_c35714d6	comment	Blackadder: The various incarnations of the title Edmund Blackadder will take any chance that offers itself to make money and gain influence, with the exception of the First World War incarnation, who is more concerned with getting out of the trenches. And even he qualifies as he chose to become a soldier of fortune as an easy and safe way to make money and travel around the world and only kill enemies with weapons too primitive to be considered weapons. Actual plans made by Blackadders tend to spiral into chaos during the first 25 minutes of the episode, but spontaneous opportunities are seized, exploited, and turned into admittedly temporary profit. Most obvious when his Regency incarnation had swapped places with the Prince Regent in order to duel the Duke of Wellington; when Wellington shot the "butler" and killed the Prince Regent, Blackadder effortlessly replaced him and ended up as King George IV.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_c4b82575	comment	Kraven of the Underworld (2003) film franchise has no loyalty to anyone or anything but his own ambition. When spared from death by his own cowardice at the hands of the Lycan werewolves' leader Lucien, Kraven aligns himself with Lucien's plans to seize power for himself in the vampire covens. Kraven seizes on a chance to allow Lucien's Lycans to massacre the vampire elder Amelia, and when his treachery is exposed, he later betrays and murders Lucien before taking advantage of the resulting power vacuum from the large scale battle at the conclusion of the second film to attempt to murder the final sleeping vampire elder and rule the coven. Lacking his own plans, Kraven simply ingratiates himself to whoever is in power for his own success and has no compunction taking any chance fate gives him in pursuit of it.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_c67be877	comment	Flashman: Flashman himself is a British soldier with no loyalty to anything but himself. Constantly roped along into adventures despite his intentions, Flash will seize on any opportunity, betray anyone and do whatever he has to in order to stay on top. Flash almost never goes into his adventures with a plan, instead preferring to seize on opportunities as they present themselves, always eager to end up with wealth, women and to make himself appear to be a hero.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_c6ebe632	comment	Two Letters: Chat Noir knew that Ladybug needed his help against Hawkmoth, and that their enemy could use strong negative emotions to akumatize others. He gleefully exploited this in order to screw around and do whatever he pleased — after all, Ladybug couldn't express all her anger and frustration with his antics and sexual harassment without risking Hawkmoth swooping in. Several citizens of Paris began taking Ladybug's protection completely for granted, to the point that they saw nothing wrong with letting themselves be akumatized as an emotional outlet. Sure, they'd be going on unchecked rampages, but so what? As long as Ladybug was around, she'd swoop in and save the day, right?
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_c73f511c	comment	Boardwalk Empire: Gaston Bullock Means is a shameless manipulator and back-stabber who acts only to swindle as much money as he possibly can out of whomever he's currently conning. Means spends most of his time in season three Playing Both Sides on the Nucky Thompson and DA Daughtery power struggle, waiting to ally himself with whichever one comes out on top. In season four, he again pretends to be on Nucky's side only to sell out information about him to the FBI to save his own ass. Even when he's being raided by the CIA he spends his remaining seconds trying to extort increasingly exorbitant amounts of money out of Nucky for information on The Mole in Nucky's organization. Mickey Doyle, a Polish bootlegger working in Nucky's organization who has a habit of betraying anyone if it looks like he can get more power from the other side. He betrays Nucky to the D'Alessio brothers in season one, then betrays the brothers to Nucky before the season's out, then he betrays Nucky again in favor of Jimmy's coup in the second season. After that fails, he somehow manages to not only survive again but once again weasel his way back into Nucky's organization, where he stays until the final season. He finally meets his end when he attempts to betray Nucky for a third time in the middle of a Mob War, this time to "Lucky" Luciano and Meyer Lansky. At this point, Luciano is in no mood for his crap and shoots him in the throat just to finally shut him up.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_ca08598f	comment	Calvin "Cheese" Wagstaff of The Wire is defined by his ambition and his utter lack of loyalty to anyone. Cheese starts out as an enforcer and lieutenant of his uncle, the notorious drug kingpin "Proposition Joe." When Marlo Stanfield begins his rise to power, Cheese promptly aligns with him for a bigger slice of the pie and betrays his uncle to his death. He then aligns with Marlo instead. When Marlo is no longer in the picture, Cheese tries to seize control of the loose alliance of Drug Dealers, basically admitting his shifting loyalties and opportunism in front of them.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_d8b3ca2a	comment	One of Edge's Red Barons is "The Ultimate Opportunist." He earned it by saving his Money in the Bank contract (the first-ever, no less) for a rainy day - e.g., if the then-Champion was weak after an Elimination Chamber match.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_db339bad	comment	Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger: This is Darth Nihilus's modus operandi. Unlike Salem, Nihilus doesn't think in the long term; preferring to sit back and wait for an opportunity to present itself as the situation develops around him.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_dd07e332	comment	Peret em Heru: For the Prisoners: Professor Tsuchida discovers a sprawling underground ruin beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza. Problem is, he's not supposed to be there and doesn't want to alert the proper authorities and have them 'steal his glory'. Good thing there's a tour group passing by he can talk into joining him, spinning it as the chance of a lifetime... when really he's just looking for free labor, and unwitting meat shields he can use to get past the booby traps inside... Then there's Mizumi, who figures out one of the women's Dark Secret and promptly decides to Blackmail her into sex. Jerkass even gloats about how this isn't the first time he's taken advantage of someone like this.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_e04f934e	comment	Acheron from Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes is nicknamed "The Weathervane" for his tendency to switch sides based on what he thinks will give him the most clout. He has no respect for Claude, the heir to the Leicester Alliance leadership, so he often attempts to curry favor with The Empire in hopes of increasing his political standing. In turn, neither the Alliance nor the Empire takes Acheron seriously, and his failure to read the prevailing winds always spells his downfall, especially in Three Hopes when (on Scarlet Blaze) he tries to sell supplies he stole from the Imperial army, thinking they'll pay out the nose to recover them and/or buy his services, or (on Golden Wildfire) he defects from the Alliance in the middle of a rescue mission, potentially dying before the Empire finds out about his betrayal.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_e1ec0e62	comment	Dimitri Rascalov of Grand Theft Auto IV, a man with serious loyalty issues starts as the number 2 to the unstable Russian gangster Mikhail Faustin. When protagonist Niko Bellic shows up, Dimitri takes his chance to manipulate Niko into murdering Mikhail so Dimitri can take over. He then tries to have Niko killed as well by quickly allying with Ray Bulgarin, an old enemy of Niko's. Dimitri spends the rest of the game getting friendly with those who can aid his pursuit of wealth and power, and will betray anyone in an instant if he finds a better opportunity in it.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Angelus in Season 2 has no real plan beyond "screw with Buffy". It isn't until the last few episodes that Acathla arrives and gives him an actual goal to work towards, and even that falls into his general attitude of "I will be as big a dick as I can." The First Evil in Season 7, as revealed in "Showtime." Buffy's resurrection in the opening of Season 6 caused an imbalance in the powers protecting the Slayer line; the First took advantage of it to try to wipe it out completely.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_e3349241	comment	Diabolik is usually the Magnificent Bastard, but sometimes he's forced to resort to this because whatever he's planning to steal is too heavily protected under normal circumstances or otherwise out of his reach.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_e4732abc	comment	Stargate Atlantis: Todd is a Wraith who is noticeably more pragmatic than the rest of his vampiric ilk, constantly forging Enemy Mine alliances with the Atlantis expedition for his own benefit when the opportunity falls into his lap. While his schemes often don't go the way he intended, he's always able to adapt to new circumstances and walking away from it unscathed, usually in a more powerful position than he was in before. Colonel Sheppard is fully aware that he'd betray them in a heartbeat if he saw some benefit to it.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_e694aadb	comment	In the Ciaphas Cain books, Cain himself rarely goes into a situation with a concrete plan for how to tackle it (or even, at times, a complete picture of what he's actually getting into), but he has a remarkable tendency to find and exploit any advantage that could possibly give him an edge when he's in the thick of things. Interestingly, he's one of the rare few examples of this trope who's self-aware enough of just how shallow his motives run and who has enough of a conscience to actually beat himself up over it in quieter moments (that is, if we take his own account at face value).
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_ed2a7866	comment	Sword Art Online: Sugou Nobuyuki admits to Asuna that he'd been researching mind control using FullDive for a while, and took advantage of the SAO incident to reroute 300 survivors to ALO for human experimentation. He's the same in the video game continuity; he confesses that he ended up in SAO by accident, but inherited a super account and took advantage of the situation for the sake of his research.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_f89f466d	comment	Torchwood: Miracle Day had Jilly Kitizgenger. An opportunist, fast-talking PR rep, she was mostly concerned with getting work. She represented the evil cooperation and the crazy murderer/child molester even she admitted was off-putting, but her loyalties lie with whatever will get her to the top. Before approaching the murderer, she approached a doctor working with the heroes for the exact opposite goals.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_f929518c	comment	Succession: Cousin Greg has no discernible goal beyond keeping his job at Waystar and proves himself to be adept at hitching rides on the shoulders of more powerful people, aligning himself with whoever seems to be in a more advantageous position at any given moment. Kendall's ostensible best friend Stewy is a parasite constantly piggybacking off other people's success and influence. Even his job as a private equity shark is centered around benefiting from other people's failures.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_fb0c0a3b	comment	The Boazanians from Voltes V often surveill Big Falcon and their pilots in case chaos ensues and they can capitalize off of it. They enjoy dangling the possibility of the Go brother's father being alive in their faces, and Heinel even takes advantage of unexpected situations like Katherine luring Kenichi away from the Earthling base.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_fb2991d8	comment	Justified lends itself to characters of this type by its very premise. With all the competing families and gangs, there will always be those looking to exploit the chaos to their own advantage. Some of the more notable include: Johnny Crowder, Boyd's power-hungry cousin, never missed a chance to improve his own position at the expense of others. Whether it was backing Boyd against Devil's internal coup, blackmailing Colton Rhodes about his drug addiction, providing the US Marshals with information, or manouvering between genuine power players like Boyd, his Uncle Bo, Wynn Duffy, Nicky Augustine, Hotrod Dunham, and Mr. Yoon, Johnny would grab at any chance to make a profit or increase his chances of taking over the Crowder family. Even after gaining control of Hotrod's organization in Season 5, he doesn't have a plan, beyond "hurt Boyd as much as possible", which leads to his defeat at the hands of his chessmaster cousin. Driven by greed and revenge (he held Boyd responsible for his crippling), and superb at playing the odds, Johnny could survive almost any situation, but the conclusion was never in doubt. Season 5's Daryl Crowe Jr. is described as such by his right-hand man, Jean-Baptiste, who comments on Daryl's penchant for finding employ with someone else and then making their business his. He did this to the Muchado family's sugar smuggling operation in Florida. After coming to Kentucky he first tries to take over his cousin Dewey's brother, leading to conflict with Boyd Crowder, then hires himself out to Boyd as an enforcer. Most recently, while on a job for Boyd in Mexico, he and his brother Danny have sabotaged Boyd's operation in an attempt to weaken Boyd enough that he will not have a choice but to offer Daryn an equal partnership. If anything, this unpredictability, and general lack of attention to detail makes Daryl more dangerous, as nobody can really anticipate how he'll try to take advantage of the situation, only that he will. The same season gives us Mara Paxton and Sheriff Nick Moony, both of whom bounce back and forth between working for Boyd and working for Lee Paxton (Mara's husband) based on whoever seems strongest at the time, in an attempt at getting the best possible position for themselves. Moony had a history of this sort of behaviour long before Season 5, selling out Doyle Bennett to Boyd, Tillman Napier to Boyd, and then Boyd to Paxton, all based on who was offering the most at any given time. His refusal to just pick a side in the Boyd Crowder/Lee Paxton war is what ultimately gets him killed.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_fb7c549b	comment	Feralnette AU: Lila fancies herself to be an expert at this, treating practically anything and everything that happens in her vicinity as something she can twist to her advantage. How effective this proves to be varies; part of what makes her such a frustrating foe for Marinette is how she always seems to squirm her way out of any serious consequences by turning on the Crocodile Tears and Playing the Victim Card. A prime example of this comes when Mylene wants Marinette to make an Impractically Fancy Outfit for their production of The Little Mermaid. Lila immediately makes clear that a 'true friend' would go out of their way to clear space in her busy schedule to make Mylene's dreams come true, encouraging Ms. Bustier to help her pressure Marinette into agreeing. Upon learning that Felix is nonbinary, she immediately threatens to 'raise her concerns' with the school board unless they submit to her demands. She's so gleeful about seizing this opportunity that she fails to consider how this might not fly with anyone present to witness her making her threats. Least of all Alya. Marinette takes advantage of this tendency of hers by Taking the Heat after Alya assaults Lila, offering her the chance to paint her favorite target as the guilty party.
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Opportunistic Bastard / int_ff0b6458	comment	All For Luz: All For One didn't plan on making Luz his successor, having never heard of the girl in his life, never mind met her due living in a different dimension from his own. But since he's trapped in her Mental World and has inherited his Quirk, he decided to make do with her instead of Tomura. Jonah Smith didn't come to the battle planning to use Camila's corpse to break Luz by tricking to think she accidently killed her with her Deadly Force Field, he just remembered he murdered her when being pressured by his much more powerful target.
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