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Rules Lawyer

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Rules Lawyer	comment	In most games (and Real Life, too), players can often get by without knowing every single rule. Some rules rarely come up, after all, and it would be insane to memorize them all, particularly for something as complex as a Tabletop Game... ...unless you are the Rules Lawyer. Every gaming group seems to have one — that one player who memorized the entire rulebook cover-to-cover and is more interested in the rules than in the actual game being played with them. Three common flavors of Rules Lawyer are: Obnoxious Rules Lawyer: Uses their knowledge of the rules to give themselves advantages, even if it would be a detriment to the game or to other players. As long as the rules say they can do it, they'll do it. Dumb Rules Lawyer: Always insists on following the rules even when it's clear that doing so won't work, or would be detrimental to the game experience. Helpful Rules Lawyer: Use their knowledge of the rules to help out other players, even if doing so would put themselves at a disadvantage. What unites all of these is a nigh-encyclopedic knowledge of every single aspect of the rules of the system. Where they differ is in their attitude and how they use that knowledge. The Obnoxious Rules Lawyer - also sometimes called a "Rule Shark" - is probably the most recognized kind and is the reason that the term "Rules Lawyer" is seen as a negative. They believe that if they can find a rule for something, the people in charge must allow them to do it, even if it doesn't make sense, would screw with what's going on, or just make the game worse to play. They will attempt to exploit every loophole, every odd circumstance, and every footnote they can. Most annoyingly, they tend to be deliberately selective in what rules they remember, and will conveniently fail to mention rules that don't benefit them. Such people will insist on Exact Words whenever necessary. The Dumb Rules Lawyer is incompetent instead of malicious. They'll constantly grind play to a halt to make sure that everyone is following the rules, even if it makes no difference to the end result. They won't allow any technique to be used that isn't specified in the rules, stifling creativity and causing the game to become rigid. If the Game Master decides to make some well-designed and balanced homebrews then this lawyer will start throwing a fit. Usually, the first rule the Rules Lawyer conveniently "forgets" while making their arguments is Rule Zero: the Game Master is always right. Squashing them with this early is the best bet; attempting to argue about rules with them only encourages their behavior. If invoked, they might dare to argue that Rule Zero is an unwritten rule and is therefore not enforceable - fortunately, some rule systems are wise to this and do have a form of Rule Zero codified. However, Rules Lawyers aren't always a bad thing - having one can be an real asset to a gaming group too, and this is where the Helpful Rules Lawyer comes in. They can easily spot a cheating player and force them to play fair. They're also invaluable as game guides, since they can quickly explain any aspect of the gameplay no matter how obscure, which avoids the need to look up rules and helps the game to move along at a good pace. They may also know about the potentially-wonky interactions of various expanded and optional rules sets and how to handle these, which frees the GM to focus on creating a rich world, vibrant characters, and compelling narrative for the players to interact with. Rules Lawyers can also keep a misbehaving Game Master in check by preventing them from changing rules mid-game, which might happen if the GM is trying to force their own preferences onto the group. A Rules Lawyer can help to police such game abuse by pointing out when the GM is overstepping the bounds of the game. If a rule ever seems to be written rather verbosely, or explain things that seem like they should be common sense, it's the writers trying to stop people like this. Rules Lawyers are among the few people who Read the Fine Print, and will always use Exact Words to their advantage. When two Rules Lawyers at the table decide to butt heads, see My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours. In Real Life, a person trying to be a Rules Lawyer is usually countered by an authority figure invoking Rule Zero, Screw the Rules, I Make Them!, or even simply a Big "SHUT UP!". A Rules Lawyer may be susceptible to Hit Them in the Pocketbook. In fantasy, The Fair Folk, The Trickster, and the Literal Genie are often Rules Lawyers. See also Puzzle Thriller, a style of story which revolves around characters finding creative ways to exploit or circumvent the rules of their universe.
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Rules Lawyer / int_10b143c3	comment	Njal in Njal Gets Burned, who pulls all kinds of tricks to get Gunnar out of trouble. Shining examples include: balancing Gunnar killing Thorgeir's brother against Thorgeir having slept with Njal's niece, leading to Gunnar walking free in the homicide case; declaring that Norwegians weren't legally people, and disqualifying any jurors who disagreed with him after the panel was already selected. However, the losers don't simply accept his shenannigans, and things inevitably turn violent.
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Rules Lawyer / int_117bdb6b	type	Rules Lawyer
Rules Lawyer / int_117bdb6b	comment	In The Emerald Phoenix, Ochako guarantees victory for herself and Iida in the Heroes vs Villains exercise by sneaking the bomb outside of the testing area. All-Might praises her outside the box tactics before saying such a move would not be allowed in future matches.
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Rules Lawyer / int_11c6567a	comment	In Something Rotten, a professional croquet team includes a squad of lawyers, since Rules Lawyering is a significant (and expected) part of the game in that universe.
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Rules Lawyer / int_1296e5f6	type	Rules Lawyer
Rules Lawyer / int_1296e5f6	comment	Kelly from We're Alive gets caught sleeping on guard duty and points out that, while there is a rule that everyone has to "pull guard duty," there is no rule against falling asleep in the guard room. She is an actual lawyer after all, so it shouldn't be a surprise.
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Rules Lawyer / int_136469af	type	Rules Lawyer
Rules Lawyer / int_136469af	comment	In Pact and Pale by Wildbow, magical practitioners and Others cannot lie or they will lose their power, with the amount of power lost proportional to the severity of the lie. In the worst case, if you break an oath and are called out on it, you will become Forsworn and will not only be permanently depowered but the universe itself will be actively hostile to you. As a result literally everyone who is awakened to the supernatural becomes both a Literal Genie and a Rules Lawyer, as failing to adhere to one's Exact Words would spell disaster.
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Rules Lawyer / int_17fa5f0a	type	Rules Lawyer
Rules Lawyer / int_17fa5f0a	comment	Harry himself is a rules lawyer in his final confrontation with Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In this case, he actually tries to be a Helpful Rules Lawyer, as he feels sorry for Voldemort and the fate that awaits him, should he lose the fight. According to the rules of wand ownership, the wand Voldemort uses actually belongs to Harry. Should Voldemort use it against Harry, it will backfire on him. Since Voldemort awaits a Fate Worse than Death, Harry explains the rules to him and offers him a chance to repent. Not taking said chance would result in his demise.
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Rules Lawyer / int_1945111	comment	Albert Haddock in AP Herbert's Uncommon Law is a rules lawyer for the actual law, able to twist any statute or precedent into supporting a completely ludicrous case, and leading unfortunate judges to have to rule on things like whether a motor car traversing a flooded road could be considered a boat.
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Rules Lawyer / int_1a1bd616	comment	The Chaotic Masters: When the heroes raid Roulette's auction, she points out that it was organized legally, and that most of the attendees have good enough public personas that they can't be touched without definitive proof of criminal activity, with the more blatantly evil ones being brushed off as having snuck in. As such, not only can she and most of her guests not be arrested, but the heroes have to actually pay for both the artifacts they're trying to confiscate and the damage caused by the fighting.
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Rules Lawyer / int_1a8d488a	type	Rules Lawyer
Rules Lawyer / int_1a8d488a	comment	Parodied (naturally) in the card game Munchkin with the card Invoke Obscure Rules. This card has been translated as Regelneuker in the Dutch version, which is actually the Dutch word for a Rules Lawyer and literally translates as "rule fucker." It is completely legal to play Go Up A Level cards on your opponents while they are facing monsters that have a "Will not pursue under level X" restriction. (This wasn't the original intention of the card when it was made, but the creators of the game officially confirmed it as a valid tactic, as it was in the spirit of the game.) Or, after several cards have been played to jump to a level that can actually kill the enemy in question, dumping a "Friendly" on it. No treasure, no fight, no level up. If you fail to defeat/run away from the Orcs, you lose levels equal to the number you roll on a die unless it's a one or a two, in which case you die. However, if you are "unlucky" enough to have a Chicken-on-your-Head (subtract one from all die rolls) you can actually roll a zero, which is neither a one or a two so you don't die, and you lose zero levels. In Munchkin Cthulhu, the Cultist class gets a bonus for each other Cultist in play. It's possible to multiclass using Super Munchkin and become a Cultist Cultist, which gives you a +4 bonus for being yourself. Twice. One card even specifies 'reveal your hand' as 'your cards, not the thing at the end of your arm'. The rules actually include one very important rule for rules-lawyers. "If in doubt, the owner of the game wins." Meaning that it is always a better idea to be the owner of that particular copy of the game.
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Rules Lawyer / int_1e49b692	type	Rules Lawyer
Rules Lawyer / int_1e49b692	comment	Will on Sons of Guns occasionally has to work around some legal issues for clients. Such as, you can't own a spring-loaded knife that shoots out. But you can own a knife-shooting gun that uses gunpowder as a propellant.
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Rules Lawyer / int_1fe5c882	type	Rules Lawyer
Rules Lawyer / int_1fe5c882	comment	In Long Road to Friendship, Student Council President Lyra serves this role. After Sunset Shimmer is tasked with putting on the Winter Ball, Lyra says that if it doesn't make enough money, Sunset will be banned from all other school events. At the Ball, despite managing to bring everyone together and being named Princess, Sunset still gets banned by Lyra, because the ball didn't turn a big enough profit. At least, Lyra tries to ban Sunset, until Principal Celestia outs Lyra as an Obstructive Bureaucrat. Turns out Lyra was lying, since the rule that would have let Lyra ban Sunset was revoked over ten years ago, and Lyra just did it out of a personal vendetta. When Twilight finds out, she promptly gives Lyra a slap to the face.
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Rules Lawyer / int_21aa8fe8	comment	Big Sky: Cassie and Legarski briefly engage in a dialogue over who would be legally in the right to shoot when she tracks him to the bar where he's keeping the captives. She wins and shoots him when he tries to draw his gun.
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Rules Lawyer / int_224696b7	comment	The Whiteboard: A badger abusing paintball rules regarding broken balls counting a person out takes his complaints to several refs at Red's field. In retaliation, the staff arranges a game with everyone else against the one badger, which in spite of the badger's complaint isn't prohibited by the rules.
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Rules Lawyer / int_22e5872a	comment	Donkey Kong Country In the first Donkey Kong Country, the player "puts the controller down" (which counts as finishing) when K Rool still has one hit point. The Kongs stand there for a few seconds before K Rool runs into them, hitting one Kong and triggering the other to tag-in... right on top of Rool's head.
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Rules Lawyer / int_24c84e00	comment	In the Team Fortress 2 webcomic, it's revealed that the Medic sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for incredible medical knowledge. Fortunately, the contract specifies that it's only valid if Hell owns the majority of the Medic's soul - and he put that knowledge to good use and managed to surgically implant himself with eight other souls, rendering the contract invalid.
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Rules Lawyer / int_24ffd341	comment	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: In the episode "Chardee Macdennis", Frank becomes a Rules Lawyer for the episode's eponymous game after being trapped in a dog kennel with the rule book. He later uses it to catch Dennis and Dee cheating, giving Mac and Charlie their best-ever chance of winning the game. In a cruel twist of fate, Dennis and Dee win anyway.
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Rules Lawyer / int_25f6f1a0	comment	Umineko: When They Cry treats Knox's 10 Commandments as rules enforced by a heavenly court. In Episode 6, Erika is demoted from the role of Detective, which limits her ability to investigate the crime and disprove the existance of magic. This also means she's no longer prohibited from killing (Knox's 7th). She uses this to completely derail the plot, causing the Gameboard to end after only the First Twilight. Really, the entire visual novel relies on this. Hints are given in Red Text, but often only in unconventional ways.
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Rules Lawyer / int_27906e15	type	Rules Lawyer
Rules Lawyer / int_27906e15	comment	Discussed by Puffin Forest. He differentiates between Rules Lawyers and what he calls Rules Traditionalists. Rules Traditionalists are just out to have fun and thinks that you should follow the rules in order to have fun, which is ultimately just one way of playing, and nothing inherently wrong. Rules Lawyers, on the other hand, are out to exploit the rules. They're not trying to be fair, they're trying to win.
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Rules Lawyer / int_27adca87	comment	Crystal Heart: Guy is one. Seen especially in one case when he helps Lily's character to get a crystal she wants from another agent of their organization by citing a probable interpretation of the rules - when making his argument, he is portraited with a wig like british lawyers wear them and stops his argument with an "I rest my case".
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Rules Lawyer / int_298a47a9	comment	The Big Lebowski: Walter Sobchak is a particularly extreme example when it comes to bowling. When a fellow bowler slips his foot over the line and attempts to record his score anyway, Walter threatens him at gunpoint to mark his score zero.
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Rules Lawyer / int_2ac38f3a	type	Rules Lawyer
Rules Lawyer / int_2ac38f3a	comment	My Hero Playthrough: Izuku is the master of Loophole Abuse to the point that All-Might is glad he was on the hero side of the Heroes vs Villains exercise. When Izuku's partner balks at the idea of the villain team creating traps because they weren't in the rules, Izuku counters that they weren't not in the rules either. During the Lions and Gazelles exercise, Izuku is the main reason that All-Might has to keep adding new rules to cover strategies the class comes up with to get around the spirit of the game. Eventually, Kirishima remarks that Izuku is rubbing off on the rest of the class who start doing the same thing.
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Rules Lawyer / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	In the Heroes/The Twilight Saga crossover "Dark Days", Bella and Peter rely on this to avoid a conflict between the Cullens and the Quillettes. The treaty between the two prohibits the Cullens turning anyone else, but although Bella was changed by Elle Bishop (who has become a vampire and Edwardâ€™s mate), she feels that this doesnâ€™t break the treaty as Elle isnâ€™t technically a Cullen. Peter in turn feels that the Cullens arenâ€™t responsible for Bellaâ€™s change as it only happened because of him, as Bella was injured because of Peter's inability to control his powers.
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Rules Lawyer / int_2cdff851	comment	In The Power of Seven, Susan Bones essentially fills this role, telling Harry, Hermione, Ginny and Luna about an old pure-blood rule that would allow Harry to take multiple wives given his status as the last heir of two pure-blood families (Potter and Black), as well as how Susan and Luna, as the last of their respective bloodlines, could marry a man and keep their names so that their children would continue their families rather than their husband's. In Chapter 30, Susan accompanies Harry to confront Dumbledore after Harry's multiple relationships go public, with Susan neatly dismantling every argument Dumbledore could use to prove that they're doing anything illegal by making it clear how much Dumbledore stands to lose if he takes legal action.
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Rules Lawyer / int_2d0c481d	comment	In Fantasy Island (2020), Gwen in particular demonstrates this, as she is able to both argue that she should be allowed to change her original fantasy (accepting her then-boyfriend's marriage proposal) as she isn't redoing her true greatest regret (indirectly causing a man's death in a fire), and point out that Sloane should get her own wish, as Sloane wasn't brought to the island as a conventional guest but as part of Melanie's twisted revenge fantasy.
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Rules Lawyer / int_3558eaa2	comment	On Community, Asian!Annie tries to win by default, rejecting an offer of peace from her opponent. The moderator reminds her that the real UN appreciates impractical gestures, handing the victory to the study group.
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Rules Lawyer / int_36ee2abe	comment	Paranoia encourages this! Theoretically, the rules recommend that the players aren't even supposed to read the rules. If they show any sign that they do, the GM is encouraged to kill their character's current clone (all Paranoia PCs have a series of clones so that they can be allowed to die many times without doing character creation each time). Some of the more successful strategies for manipulating other PCs involve using one's (secret) knowledge of the rules to either manipulate an "ally" into breaking a rule or make them look like they've read the rules. The rulebook encourages this, as "reading the rules and lying about it" is perfectly in the spirit of the game.
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Rules Lawyer / int_39cb5e47	comment	In the first Donkey Kong Country, the player "puts the controller down" (which counts as finishing) when K Rool still has one hit point. The Kongs stand there for a few seconds before K Rool runs into them, hitting one Kong and triggering the other to tag-in... right on top of Rool's head.
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Rules Lawyer / int_3adc93be	comment	In The Phil Silvers Show, Sgt. Bilko is a master of the obscure rule. He's apparently memorized all the army regulations, dating back to the Spanish-American war. He has no interest in keeping the rules but finds it useful to be able to use them against his opponents.
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Rules Lawyer / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Dumbledore acts as Harry's lawyer ... er, Witness for the Defense, during Harry's hearing. In a rather unusual take on this trope, Dumbledore is forced to play Rules Lawyer because the Wizengamot are deliberately ignoring their own laws. When professor Trelawney is fired by Umbridge in the same book, Dumbledore takes on this role once again, telling Umbridge she has no right to banish teachers from the castle, only to fire them. After Umbridge tries to appoint a new teacher, Dumbledore interupts her once more, stating she may only appoint teachers when the headmaster is unable to do so himself. At that point, he introduces her to his new Divination teacher Firenze. Harry himself is a rules lawyer in his final confrontation with Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In this case, he actually tries to be a Helpful Rules Lawyer, as he feels sorry for Voldemort and the fate that awaits him, should he lose the fight. According to the rules of wand ownership, the wand Voldemort uses actually belongs to Harry. Should Voldemort use it against Harry, it will backfire on him. Since Voldemort awaits a Fate Worse than Death, Harry explains the rules to him and offers him a chance to repent. Not taking said chance would result in his demise.
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Rules Lawyer / int_3b3649c0	comment	Rhysling's final voyage in "The Green Hills of Earth" — spaceship regulations are getting more stringent about allowing him to catch informal rides, so he invokes the "Distressed Spaceman" clause entitling stranded spacers to a ride home, pointing out to the skeptical captain that there's no time limit on invoking the rule.
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Rules Lawyer / int_3bd3db2c	comment	In This Bites!, this is played right into the ground during the Davy Back Fight, especially Cross's insistence that Soundbite and Lassoo are full-fledged crew members so that Foxy can't get all three of them in the same round.
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Rules Lawyer / int_3c38c613	comment	As the title character from The Merchant of Venice pointed out, The Devil can cite Scripture to his own purpose (he even has a debate over it with Jesus in the New Testament). Quoting individual lines or phrases devoid of context is generally a good indication of this behaviour, since if the full story or lesson was really saying that it would be more effective to use than just the quote.
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Rules Lawyer / int_3e2a2c8f	comment	In the Lost in the Woods sequel No Good Deed, Picard is on trial for violating the Prime Directive while in Alliance space by making contact with Serenity and destroying the Reavers. Picard's defence counsel is Karras, a retired Klingon warrior renowned for his strong sense of honour and judgement of character, who clearly explains the various loopholes that justify Picard's choices in these matters, such as how Picard had no way to know if there was anywhere else for him to go in that universe and describing the potential horror the Reavers could have inflicted on the galaxy if they hadn't been stopped.
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Rules Lawyer / int_3eb3a36f	comment	The boys of Class-3E in Assassination Classroom get in on this during the sports festival. After Asano forces them to compete in a pole-toppling game, the boys memorize the rule book to outsmart Class A. Tactics included were using their own pole as a weapon and leaving the playing field by running into the stands since the rules never said they couldn't do it. Four of the students also pull this at the end results of the first term finals — it wasn't stated that they couldn't place first in a subject outside of the main ones, so they studied to score a four-way tie in Home Economics. Koro-sensei is shocked, but impressed they thought outside the box.
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Rules Lawyer / int_3ec0e37	comment	Lewis in Full Frontal Nerdity. Nelson technically does this a lot more than Lewis does, but tends not to do the 'assumption' part and instead water-proofs most of his acts from DM (and other players') intervention beforehand.
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Rules Lawyer / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: The Supernatural Community is rife with this kind of thing. Being a proficient Rules Lawyer is considered a necessary skill when it comes to keeping your head on your shoulders. The Unseelie Accords, the rules that govern interactions between the supernatural "nations" were written by Queen Mab, who set them up so that there is no "spirit of the Law", just the literal wording. A note by one of the characters in the margins even calls Mab a Rules Lawyer. In Summer Knight, after agreeing not to try to use the threat of retribution to coerce Harry into accepting her job, Mab tweaks his injured hand; when Harry complains that she agreed not to do any of that, she points out that that wasn't coercion, that was just for spite, which was completely acceptable according to the terms of their agreement. The Red King employs a Completely Unnecessary Translator for this purpose: when he reneges on a deal, he can truthfully say that he never agreed to anything. At one point Harry needs to disrupt a ritual, and one of the better ways to get close is to use necromancy to create a zombie to escort him there. One of the Rules of Magic bans necromancy... specifically, against humans. So he creates a non-human zombie....
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Rules Lawyer / int_42934a7c	comment	Daphne Greengrass and the Boy Who Lived; Snape demonstrates this approach to convince Daphne to be honest with him on certain occasions, observing that he would have no evidence against Harry for committing certain actions even if Daphne told him the truth so he would like to be sure why sheâ€™s defending Harry in the first place. Also used by Sirius regarding the family visits for the final Triwizard task; while Sirius considers himself Harry's family, since he's also at the Tournament for security purposes he argues that the Weasleys and Greengrasses have equal rights to be there as well given their mutual close ties to Harry. Used against Dumbledore by Fudge, who draws up a rule that forbids anyone teaching at Hogwarts if they have a previous criminal conviction, the rule phrased in such a manner that Sirius is prevented from acting as the Defence teacher and Hagrid has to be fired from his own teaching role even their "convictions" were overturned and both were proven innocent.
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Rules Lawyer / int_42ffb88e	comment	In SCP Foundation SCP-738 is a supernatural entity that can grant wishes in exchange for suffering, naturally granted to the letter. Eventually they send the installation's legal counsel to bargain with it, and they engage in an extended bout of My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours, ending only when the legal counsel, having human limitations the entity doesn't possess, collapses from exhaustion. The last thing he remembers is that they were discussing the technical definition of the word "shall", and the document had reached 900 pages. He received a letter from SCP-738 inviting him to come back any time, as he hasn't had that much fun in ages. The worst part is that SCP-738 usually takes on the appearance of something that makes you uncomfortable: the legal counsel saw the entity he was bargaining with as his old college law professor.
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Rules Lawyer / int_43576f5	comment	In the Supernatural/Doctor Who crossover "Persistence of Memory", (named after Salvador DalÃ's "The Persistence of Memory") the Year of Hell when the Master conquered Earth takes place during the time when Dean's deal to save Sam would have 'expired', with Martha meeting the Winchesters during her travels around the world. As a result, after Martha is able to restore their memories of the Year, Sam is able to literally negotiate with Hell to argue that Dean has already gone to Hell, he can't be sent back as he hasn't actually done anything to merit going there aside from make the deal, and he's agreed that he won't make new deals for Sam's life as he has to accept that Sam will die some day.
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Rules Lawyer / int_43b328fd	comment	In Lightning Only Strikes Once, Lexa demonstrates this when coming with the new rules for choosing a commander in place of the existing conclave, as she also wants to create a system that will prevent potential future obstacles. One rule she includes is that the ambassadors can vote on a new Commander if the previous one hadn't chosen an heir themselves before their deaths, Lexa recognising that the ambassadors at least need the illusion of more power. She also rules out the idea of a Nightblood becoming the Flamekeeper as that creates a scenario where a future Nightblood might be able to make themselves Commander rather than making a more practical choice, even if she trusts that none of her current Nightbloods would do such a thing.
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Rules Lawyer / int_446f751	comment	Shibuya from Roll to Breathe combs through metahuman law and manages to legally free an imprisoned teammate using only her AIGIS connections and a law over 50 years old.
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Rules Lawyer / int_4522fd1	comment	Whateley Universe has Elaine Nalley, codenamed "Loophole". She earned her codename days into her first term by constantly abusing loopholes in the school rulebook. Her lawyering is so extensive that her Mutant ID has no actual details beyond "Homo Sapiens, Further notations pending court trial." She doesn't fully manifest her powers until her sophomore combat final because she'd managed to talk her way out of everything that could cause her to manifest up to that point. Even then, it only manifests because her coach tries to murder her by flinging a car at her.
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Rules Lawyer / int_453a04b0	comment	In The Fairly Oddparents, when faced with devious genie Norm, realizing he wasn't a match for the 50,000-year-old trickster, Timmy wishes for a literal lawyer to help him get what he needs. It works.
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Rules Lawyer / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill - Hank teaches Bobby to play baseball:
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Rules Lawyer / int_4e45b093	comment	Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory takes this trope to its fullest extent, not only in games but in the "rules" he expects in his everyday life. He even required Leonard to sign an extensive Roommate Agreement (and later Amy to sign a Relationship Agreement) which he sees as the final word on any conflict. He is also clearly an Obnoxious Rules Lawyer - when the rules go against him, he has told both outright that they are missing the point: that the agreements exist for his benefit.
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Rules Lawyer / int_4eaee975	comment	There is a good Vogon in And Another Thing.... He doesn't want to cause Earth Shattering Kabooms, but objecting on moral grounds on a Vogon ship is a good way to get Thrown Out the Airlock. He eventually decided that Rules Lawyering is a good way to obstruct the malicious Obstructive Bureaucrats without suspicion.
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Rules Lawyer / int_4fd9904a	comment	In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Dumbledore acts as Harry's lawyer ... er, Witness for the Defense, during Harry's hearing. In a rather unusual take on this trope, Dumbledore is forced to play Rules Lawyer because the Wizengamot are deliberately ignoring their own laws.
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Rules Lawyer / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: undyingUmbrage/Caliborn manages to "beat" his sister uranianUmbra/Calliope at chess by putting a set of decorative crowns on his king and queen so that they looked like each other, even going so far as to play both pieces as kings and to ask to have their starting positions swapped. There's no rule against decorating one's pieces - which is good for uranianUmbra because she apparently does it all the time.
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Rules Lawyer / int_50e2e357	comment	Star Trek: The main characters are constantly quoting regulations at each other to justify why they're not following orders, why other people shouldn't be following orders, and why their superiors should change their orders. McCoy even sneaks Kirk onto the Enterprise by making him sick on purpose with a hypospray and claiming that as Kirk's attending medical officer, he's allowed to take him aboard.
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Rules Lawyer / int_5985a57f	comment	Darkseid. He'll always keep his promises, treaties, and deals, but he'll abuse every loophole, error, or precise wording to get his way anyway. One memorable story had him be forced into a deal with Superman that stated that Darkseid could never come back to Earth. Barely a day later, Darkseid showed up at Superman's front door and beat the ever-living shit out of him. As he explained, the Exact Words of the document stated that Darkseid could never come to Earth and attack Supergirl. He could still come to Earth to attack anybody else.
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Rules Lawyer / int_5b8491b1	comment	In The Handbook of Heroes, Cleric will interrupt combat to complain about the exact letter of the rules not being followed, even if it's to his allies' detriment. It's a trait that first appears in "Lawful Pedantic" and is used in a number of subsequent jokes.
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Rules Lawyer / int_5f5b8099	comment	In The Parselmouth of Gryffindor, Hermione gains a reputation as a relentless finder of loopholes, to the point that Dumbledore calls on her when the Sorting Hat is being difficult about his pledge not to reveal what he sees in students' minds during a Sorting.
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Rules Lawyer / int_60156176	comment	In the Vorkosigan Saga novel Barrayar, the only person who has the authority to countermand an order given to a Count's Armsman is the Emperor. So when Cordelia needs to leave Tanery Base to rescue her son from Vordarian, the fact that Bothari, the Armsman seconded to her, is under orders to stay there is a problem. Then Bothari explains that when the Count's heir seconded him to her, he said to obey her orders as if they were his own. And since that heir, Aral Vorkosigan, was the Imperial Regent (even if he wasn't thinking of himself in that position when giving the order), that meant Cordelia has the legal authority of the Emperor as far as Bothari is concerned.
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Rules Lawyer / int_60f02ddb	comment	In one episode of American Dad!, after a sketchy Jenga move, Roger tells Hayley that he called Hasbro in advance and they told him that what he was doing was against the spirit of the game, but technically legal.
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Rules Lawyer / int_63230cb	comment	In the "Cell vs." spinoff of Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Cell uses the rules of competitive Yu-Gi-Oh! to frustrate Yugi into rage-quitting.
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Rules Lawyer / int_6449e41d	comment	In Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves Paul told the tale of him getting a blow-job by an Orthodox Jew. When he pointed out the paradox of this the man said — in complete seriousness — that he had indeed "Never laid with a man as one lies with a woman" — he had been on his knees the whole time.
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Rules Lawyer / int_68f93cf5	comment	In Before The Dawn, Carlisle is able to point out to the Quillettes that no rules have been broken with Bella being turned into a vampire as none of the Cullens changed her and she wasnâ€™t even in Forks at the time.
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Rules Lawyer / int_69daf29	comment	Grrl Power: Sydney argues that a laser can pass through a force field because light can pass through in a tabletop superhero RPG in the first three comics, setting up just how savvy she is.
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Rules Lawyer / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Obviously, Dungeons & Dragons. People are fond of finding incredibly powerful abilities and combos that would allow them to create practically unbeatable characters. Two which stand out for being blatant chicanery that doesn't even follow the rules with loopholes are Pun-Pun, a character that starts with infinite stats; and the Locate City Bomb, a combination of metamagic feats from a few different splatbooks that turns a simple navigation spell into the 3.5 equivalent of a Kill Sat. The Fastest Metal Man. Rules Lawyering = moving faster than the speed of light. The most egregious example (although it is usually played for laughs) is the fact that while it has rules restricting what you can do while you are dying, there are no such rules for dead characters. By a completely literal interpretation of the rules, you could argue that there is no reason a dead player can't get right back up and continue adventuring without having to worry about hp anymore. A rather famous (though not particularly serious and now outdated) bit of rules-lawyering is the "Villager Railgun", which abuses the mechanics behind "free actions". Basically, a free action is any action which takes so little time/effort, it can be done virtually instantaneously - examples include gestures, dropping items, and, of course, talking. Free actions are, well, free - a character can use any number of them, even if it's not their turn. Older editions allowed characters to pass suitably light objects to someone standing right next to them as a free action. Players with a working knowledge of physics quickly stumbled upon a loophole - line up a few thousand villagers in a straight line, all standing right next to each other, with one end of the line next to a pile of light objects and the other close to the designated target. Have the villager on one end of the line pick up a light object and, on the "firing" turn, have them pass it to the next person in line as a free action. Then have that person pass it to the next person as a free action. Repeat until it reaches the other end of the line. Option one: the receiver throws it at his target. Physics indicates that the object just travelled several thousand metres in less than six seconds (the length of a round in D&D), giving it enough kinetic energy to destroy pretty much anything it's thrown at. Unfortunately, there's no rules covering momentum in this way, so the DM is free to call shenanigans. Option two: put it down. In a completely legal-by-the-rules way, the object has just traveled an arbitrary distance in six seconds. The DM is advised to rule that 1.8x10^9 meters is the limit for this sort of stunt, as that is six light-seconds, but up to there... Another amusing example is the "Chicken Infested" flaw. Only available to Commoners, it gives you a 50% chance to pull out a chicken from a container. Pulling things out of a spell pouch is a free action. Can you say instant infinite chickens? In-universe, the Archdevil Glasya is a master at Rules Lawyering, with mortals most commonly calling to her to get out of a bargain with another Devil in exchange for pledging their souls to her instead.
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Rules Lawyer / int_6cb2d709	comment	The Harry Potter fic â€œWandwoodâ€� features several versions of this after the presumed-squib Harry is abandoned by the Potters, only to be adopted by Sirius and taken to America; Dumbledore asks Harry to return to Hogwarts to access the Chamber of Secrets as the only known Parselmouth, only to attempt to have Harry sent to Azkaban for using â€˜dark magicâ€™ in the form of Parseltongue, when Harry didnâ€™t know it was considered illegal in Britain and Dumbledore explicitly asked him to use it. Later parties observe that Dumbledoreâ€™s legal authority is all that was required to give Harry permission, so the whole charge is irrelevant. When Harry is sent to Azkaban as part of the initial arrest on his charge for using Parseltongue, Harry is able to escape as he is a fox animagus, and an American investigator observes that Harry canâ€™t be charged with breaking out of prison as nothing was broken and he just walked out. When the Ministry attempts to seize Siriusâ€™s assets by invoking an old treaty with the goblins, Fudge and Umbridge are outraged to learn that they paid a fee of over fifteen hundred galleons to receive assets of thirteen sickles and a deed to a property that turns out to be an old outhouse. The treaty requires a fee to be paid based on the value listed in the last account statement, but since the last statement was issued Sirius withdrew most of his assets (over three hundred thousand galleons) from the British branch of Gringotts, so the goblins arenâ€™t responsible for the fact that thereâ€™s now basically nothing of value left in the Black accounts for the Ministry to seize. When Harry is forced to compete in the Triwizard Tournament, the Daily Prophet is put out when Sirius reveals that under the terms of the contract that required Harry to compete, if any of the representatives of the visiting schools is attacked by a local party unrelated to the tournament the matter can be settled in the complainantâ€™s country, which means the Prophet can be sued in American courts. After Dumbledore attempts to disadvantage Harry by pitting him against a cockatrice rather than a dragon for the first task, goblin lawyers inform Dumbledore that Hogwarts and the Ministry are now obliged to pay fines to compensate for the violation, particularly since they could have easily obtained other dragons from the reserves that provided the other four. The Prophet attempts to get around the terms of the contract when the publisher suggests that the paper be placed directly under the authority of the Ministry for the duration of the tournament, preventing the Prophet being sued directly by the Blacks. Unfortunately for the Prophet, Sirius counters by buying up the necessary resources for the paper to print itself in the first place, such as a controlling interest in the ink supplier.
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Rules Lawyer / int_6d6ccc60	comment	Moongobble and Me: Urk is the helpful variety. In book 1, after Moongobble tries to demonstrate three spells for Fazwad the Mighty and messes up the last one, Fazwad tries to forbid him from practicing magic... only for Urk to point out (complete with page number from the Society of Magicians Rulebook) that if Moongobble completes three Mighty Tasks, he can still join the Society. In book 2, Urk points out to Fazwad that Moongobble can't complete his second Task because there is no Weeping Werewolf (anymore), but also informs Fazwad of a page in the Rulebook, pointing out that "if the Mighty Task turns out to be invalid, then the candidate shall receive credit for it as if he had passed it."
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Rules Lawyer / int_6e11257f	comment	The Icelandic Sagas: A great deal of the plot of NjÃ¡l's Saga revolves around playing with the legal code of the Icelandic Commonwealth, not always successfully. NjÃ¡l is best at this, but many of the other lawyers in the saga are pretty good at manipulating the law as well. At a moment of climax in the saga, the wily Eyjolf gets the entire prosecution of the burners thrown out of court on a technicality, which angers Thorhall so much that he strides into the courtroom with a spear and ganks the first guy he sees. The biggest battle in the saga breaks out immediately after, which is all the more dramatic given that violence was taboo at the Althing.
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Rules Lawyer / int_6f1dfbf0	comment	Unsurprisingly, given its source material, several conditional modifiers in Hoyle's Rules of Dragon Poker were deliberately written to be vague so as to encourage rule lawyering. Example:
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Rules Lawyer / int_72137254	comment	In the opening scene of The Wild Hunt, Argyle and Bjorn's duel devolves into an argument over LARP rules.
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Rules Lawyer / int_755e2357	comment	Judge Dead from the Noob franchise is the Game Master for a MMORPG and seems to lean on the By-the-Book Cop side. This trope can be easily assumed to be part of his job description.
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Rules Lawyer / int_77a899a	comment	Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG: Mr. Welch seems to be a loonie Rules Lawyer. Many of the things he has tried are legal within the rules, which are indicated when he says he can't do something "even if the rules allow it." For example, making a pistol belt fed.
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Rules Lawyer / int_7884ec15	comment	In the Bubble Boy episode of Seinfeld, George and the Bubble Boy are playing Trivial Pursuit, when George draws a card with a misprint. The question is "Who invaded Spain in the 8th century?" The misprinted card reads "The Moops". George, eager to see his opponent miss for a change, insists that the Bubble Boy's answer of "Moors" is incorrect, leading to hilarity ensuing.
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Rules Lawyer / int_791e7b7f	comment	Zootopia: Judy Hopps knows the laws of Zootopia backwards and forwards and uses that very often to work her way around obstacles, such as blackmailing the owner of an ice cream parlor with a health code violation, Nick with felony tax evasion, and working her way into a locked vehicle compound citing probable cause because Nick went in there without permission to grab her pen and she simply followed him inside.
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Rules Lawyer / int_798e6a69	comment	Happens a lot in DM of the Rings between the players and the DM, a few appearing as instances the DM is surprised the players paid attention to the material given to them, and was the main focus on one strip where Gimli realizes both he and Legolas, in-character, have morals that were opposed to disturbing the dead or otherwise side with them when the party reached the point of entering the caves, and another strip when Aragorn not only successfully argued to keep their horses (as in the ones they would have left in the camp site way back before the army of the dead note which the DM and Gimli alike were quick to catch on that it meant the horses were not ridden on yet dragged into the caves anyways, dragged out of the caves and onto a boat, and then stayed in the boat without being used during the entire war at Gondor), but all the equipment the horses were left with and spoils gained from the last few battles.
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Rules Lawyer / int_82439e64	comment	In The Office (US), Angela becomes this when she makes a highly abnormal sex contract with Dwight. It becames one of the show's main plot points
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Rules Lawyer / int_86772227	comment	The ultimate Rules Lawyer is Brian Van Hoose of Knights of the Dinner Table, who is constantly digging up obscure rules to frustrate B.A.'s best-laid plans. Note that this trope works both ways for Brian: He will immediately call out anyone who outright cheats, and when the rules speak against him, he will abide by them to the hilt.
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Rules Lawyer / int_87ac7d5a	comment	Dana from Wayside fits this trope to a T.
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Rules Lawyer / int_87cf8985	comment	An early edition of Champions had a section titled "Are you a powergamer?" featuring characters who bent the rules into a Gordian knot. Some examples included: The Landlord. When purchasing a Base, for every +5 points your Base doubles in size. After spending a couple hundred points in this manner, you'll have a Base whose grounds cover the known universe. Furthermore, when purchasing Henchmen to man your Base, every +5 points doubles the number of henchmen you have; so at 170 points, you can have 8 billion loyal followers (the entire population of Earth and then some). Nova Man. If anybody disturbs him in his private hospital ward, he explodes, doing 700d6 damage (to which he has personal immunity). He could afford such a big blast because he took enough physical limitations, vulnerabilities, and susceptibilities to be threatened by every molecule in the known universe. Azathoth. He has X-ray vision, scads of Telescopic vision, and a powerful Mental Attack. Since mental powers suffer no range penalty and only require line-of-sight, he can attack anyone anywhere in the universe without moving.
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Rules Lawyer / int_87daee81	comment	Discord in The Great Slave King uses his knowledge of the rules to allow the Slave King to take over as Lord of the Earth without any interference from the rest of the pantheon.
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Rules Lawyer / int_8a08048e	comment	This is a big part of the series Taskmaster, to the point that construing the wording of the challenges to Cut The Knot is often necessary to succeed. The challenge is to score a hole-in-one without touching the red mat? Remove your shirt, place it on the mat, and stand on the shirt. The challenge is to transfer water from one bucket to another without moving the bucket? Pay Alex 80 quid to move the bucket for you. The challenge is to get three exercise balls onto the mat at the top of the hill? Interpret "at the top of the hill" as identifying the specific mat you must use and move the mat to the bottom of the hill. Depending on the mood of The Taskmaster, he may react with disgust to the person who bent the rules and put them last, or react with disgust to the other contestants for not trying such a stunt — notably for the exercise balls, they actually consulted a linguist who determined the contestant's specific interpretation of "the mat at the top of the hill" was valid and awarded 5 points. There's a reason this series is the only work to have a dedicated page under Loophole Abuse.
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Rules Lawyer / int_8aaeda7e	comment	In the MonsterVerse fic "Wild Child AU", when Madison Russell admits that she's not ready to return to the human race after living with Godzilla for five years even if she wants to spend time with her father and brother, Doctor Serizawa and Andrew Russell each propose a suitable compromise. As Andrew observes, since "Madison Russell" is still legally dead (having been presumed killed in the battle against the MUTOs), all Mark has to do is leave that declaration valid so that Madison can choose to live where she wants. For Serizawa's part, he points out that the changes Madison has gone through due to prolonged 'exposure' to Godzilla, including growing scales in places and an ability to absorb radiation, mean that she can be legally classified as a Titan, putting her under Monarch's authority and free to come and go as she pleases.
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Rules Lawyer / int_8ba4613a	comment	Light Yagami from Death Note is constantly exploiting the rules of the Death Notes in obscure and bizarre ways to accomplish his goals. Arguably, the entire series is about Rules Lawyering. Example: a victim can't be made to write things about Death Notes before they die because they don't know about them and so wouldn't reasonably write about them. But what they can be made to do is write a poem where the first letter of each line "just happens" to form a message about Death Notes or just about anything else. In the live-action movie adaptation, Light gets around the rule that says you can't use the Death Note to make someone commit murder by engineering a situation where murder is the only possible way a death could happen (writing "Person A will go to this isolated location and be accidentally shot dead at 10:05 PM" and "Person B will obtain a gun, go to that same location, and discharge their gun at 10:05 PM"). One rule that seems to be about stopping Rules Lawyering (and doesn't come up in the story): If you misspell someone's name they don't die, and if you do so by accident four times in a Death Note, they can no longer be killed by that Death Note. But if you misspell their name deliberately four times, then you die. Yeah, the book knows the difference.
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Rules Lawyer / int_8c517364	comment	The Ticket Keeper in The Devil's Carnival serves this role, maintaining all 666 rules in the titular carnival.
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Rules Lawyer / int_8d36db52	comment	Tyranny encourages this. As an enforcer of the Evil Overlord Kyros and agent of Tunon, Archon of Law, you must do what the law says... but the law is often a little vague on the particularities. Some highlights include: The quarreling armies of the Scarlet Chorus and Disfavored must conquer Vendrian's Well by the next Kyros' Day of Swords after the Edict is proclaimed. Kyros' Day of Swords falls eight days after you are expected to proclaim the Edict, leading to a mad dash. Unless you lollygag in camp for at least eight days; the Edict dishes out consequences on Kyros' Day of Swords, but doesn't specify a year, only that it's the next one, giving you, the Chorus, and the Disfavored much more time. The Edict of Storms will rage until the enemy's royal line is ended. By the time you reach the palace, the last in the line is an infant. Planning on committing infanticide? But here's the thing; the kid is a bastard, adopted by the late king. His commoner mother is his regent, and has the authority to rescind his adoption, meaning the royal line ends, but the baby doesn't.
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Rules Lawyer / int_8ee65bc	comment	In Space Cadet (Heinlein), one of the heroes early in the story attempts to exploit military regulations to make it too inconvenient for his superiors to give him orders he does not like. He is soon warned about what happens to "space lawyers".
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Rules Lawyer / int_8f25225c	comment	Monokuma in the Danganronpa series has a strict set of rules for his Killing Game that he enforces to the letter, ranging from "No littering" to "No killing more than two people at once". This actually gets used against him in the second game's second trial, where Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu gets himself mortally wounded trying to save the killer from execution. Because the rules state that if the correct person is voted guilty in a trial, they alone will die, letting Fuyuhiko die would be a violation, thus Monokuma has to allow him to survive.
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Rules Lawyer / int_952797ee	comment	The PokÃ©mon Trading Card Game has had rule nitpicking on the scale of Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh! as well, resulting in a list of rulings a mile long despite Rule Zero applying to judges and tournament officials. One widespread case involved any attack Cast from Hit Points; the cards would reference self-inflicted damage by the PokÃ©mon's name. For instance, Base Set Zapdos's Thunder attack could cause the effect described on the card as "Zapdos takes 30 damage to itself." The problem lies in PokÃ©mon that can copy the moves of other PokÃ©mon and use them as their own: those moves copy the card text word for word, leading people to put what should be self-inflicted damage onto the PokÃ©mon that originally owned the move instead. In this case, if World Hobby Fair Mew copied and used Thunder from Zapdos, people would put the 30 damage onto Zapdos instead of Mew against all logic, turning a disadvantage into an advantage. The list of official tournament rulings promptly clarified that all self-inflicted effects on a copied attack would go to the attack's user regardless of the PokÃ©mon named in the card text. The game would later put in an Obvious Rule Patch, using the phrase "this PokÃ©mon" instead of the PokÃ©mon's name to eliminate any ambiguity on this matter.
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Rules Lawyer / int_95f45f6b	comment	The final boss in Shadowrun: Hong Kong can be defeated via rules-lawyering if the player did the appropriate research beforehand.
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Rules Lawyer / int_986e857e	comment	If an animated show goes past a certain number of episodes (around sixty) then the regular voice actors are entitled to a share of the profits under guild regulations. This is why many cartoons are cancelled after two seasons, so the networks can avoid paying out the extra money. However, technically, Ben 10 (52 episodes), Ben 10: Alien Force (46 episodes), Ben 10: Ultimate Alien (52 episodes) and Ben 10: Omniverse (80 episodes), all count as different shows; Cartoon Network keep reworking and retitling the series before it qualifies. This may also be why Justice League was retooled into Justice League Unlimited, why Batman: The Animated Series became Batman and Robin and then then New Batman Adventures, why Scooby-Doo keeps getting rebooted, and so on.
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Rules Lawyer / int_9a1a8272	comment	Odd Squad: Oprah becomes a stickler for rules in "6:00 to 6:05" only, enforcing "no running" and "no walking fast" rules. This puts Olive and Otto at a disadvantage, as they need to find out who let the dinosaurs out of the dinosaur room in exactly 5 minutes. The Task Force department, introduced in "Xs and Os", is designed to make sure that Odd Squad agents aren't breaking any rules. In the episode, Xavier and Xena, two agents who are part of "The X's", attempt to shut down Precinct 13579 for going over budget, while ignoring the fact that they are why the precinct's money is being sapped away. In "Friends of Odd Squad", Mr. Fonts serves this role among the group that Oprah leaves in charge of Precinct 13579, almost to the point of being a Nervous Wreck. Brutus becomes this in "Villain Networking", exploiting the trope in order to stop the villains that The Shadow has gathered from leaving. Octavius, being a library-museum person who runs the Odd Squad Main Library, is very much a stickler for rules. He has shushed so many people that his throat has become dry, and the Mobile Unit decides to gift him a "shushing stick" in exchange for forgiving Orla's overdue book.
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Rules Lawyer / int_9abdaedf	comment	Tin Cup: Roy, the hero, makes a bet with his smarmy jackass of an antagonist: the guy who hits a golf ball the farthest wins. Roy nails his shot, hitting it about 225 yards down the driving range. The antagonist smiles, turns around, and hits the ball out of the course, down a long asphalt road. It's still bouncing when the scene ends.
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Rules Lawyer / int_9b4ea9b5	comment	In the Jupiter Ascending fic "Rise", Titus falls victim to these when he is charged for his attempt to kill Jupiter and various other crimes. Despite Titus's own confidence, he is found guilty and stripped of his Entitled status and most of his existing assets. While he could theoretically appeal against the court, he was charged by judges who specifically deal with Entitled matters only, and since Titus is no longer an Entitled he would only have access to 'lower' courts who can't do anything about Entitled-related matters.
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Rules Lawyer / int_9b530c26	comment	Reggie Mantle of Archie Comics, when he's not actually indulging in cheating himself. Put him in any kind of competition, and when the odds are against him, he'll just whip out a small book from which he'll quote an obscure, archaic rule that automatically defaults him to win. Jughead even lampshades this tendency by stating that Reggie must have the largest collection of rulebooks in town.
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Rules Lawyer / int_9ba64971	comment	In The Search for Victory, when Daniel discovers tablets hidden in a broken statue, he observes that he isnâ€™t technically stealing them from the museum as the museum didnâ€™t even know the tablets were there.
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Rules Lawyer / int_a022b74f	comment	In volume 6 of Cooking With Wild Game, the villains attempt to do this when they're brought to justice. The idea is that sleep-drugging a crowd of guests technically did not harm them, and was therefore kosher under the law of Sacred Hospitality. Also that it was okay to kidnap and rape some of those guests because, due to the The Cavalry's unexpected arrival on the scene, no rape actually occurred. The rest of the village — being Noble Savages to the core — are not convinced.
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Rules Lawyer / int_a183d57f	comment	In a particular Futurama episode, both the Professor and his son, Cubert, are in danger of being convicted in court. The prosecution drops the charges against Cubert because he is a child. Bender then points out that because Cubert is the Professor's clone, they are technically the same person. Therefore, the Professor must not be found guilty, since he cannot be tried twice for the same crime.
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Rules Lawyer / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Lelouch vi Britannia from Code Geass often applies this to his Geass powers (mostly in season 1). Best example (in season 1) would be when he used his Geass on himself to alter his own memories, so the mind-reader he was fighting wouldn't grasp Lelouch's real plan until it was too late. In season 2 he just outright cheats. Or at least this is how he sees it. He starts commanding people to follow all of his orders. Basically wishing for unlimited wishes.
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Rules Lawyer / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible: As the title character from The Merchant of Venice pointed out, The Devil can cite Scripture to his own purpose (he even has a debate over it with Jesus in the New Testament). Quoting individual lines or phrases devoid of context is generally a good indication of this behaviour, since if the full story or lesson was really saying that it would be more effective to use than just the quote. Also in the New Testament, the Pharisees are portrayed this way about following the Law of Moses, causing Jesus to lambaste them for following the letter of the Law but ignoring the spirit of it. One example given is that one of God's commandments was "Honor your father and mother", while Jewish law also allowed people to declare possessions "corban", or dedicated to God so that they couldn't be used for something as mundane as, say, retirement pension. People were exploiting this to avoid supporting their parents, and Jesus called them out for using a law they made up to get around one that God Himself had given.
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Rules Lawyer / int_a57cf54d	comment	Pete from Darths & Droids is usually more of a conventional Munchkin in trying to stack his stats to his own advantage, but isn't above trying this now and again. Towards the end of the Return of the Jedi arc it turns out he's an actual lawyer. He does it just as aggressively when the rules are against him, most dramatically with his Rogue One character.
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Rules Lawyer / int_a5e160e0	comment	The Lucifer (2016) fic "Devilish Savior" introduces William Geoffrey, Lucifer's lawyer, when Lucifer and Chloe are trying to draw up a custody agreement for Lucifer's daughter Beatrice (Lucifer adopted Beatrice in the belief he was saving her from an abusive father and only learned years later that she was stolen from her biological family first). Geoffrey notes that it's unusual for the biological family to not demand custody, but Chloe explains that she recognises that Lucifer has been a good father to Beatrice and she doesn't want to take her daughter away from the parent she's known for years. With Lucifer and Chloe each in agreement that Dan Espinoza doesn't deserve contact with Beatrice when he's the reason she was abducted, Geoffrey notes that their best chance is to talk with the judge straight away, reasoning that they don't need to tell Dan about the situation in advance as he has no existing custody agreement anyway.
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Rules Lawyer / int_a6b9b759	comment	In The Guild, Vork sees himself as heroic because he's a rules lawyer.
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Rules Lawyer / int_a796bde8	comment	Metal Gear Solid: Several super soldiers were "created" due to the Government and military splicing their DNA with that of Big Boss's DNA. When Snake mentions that such an act is supposed to be banned under international law, Naomi Hunter explains that it is, but they don't apply as they were merely declarations and not actual treaties. Also with the Metal Gear launching nukes. Since it uses a rail gun and not fuel, it technically wasn't launching a rocket, so treaties wouldn't cover it.
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Rules Lawyer / int_a7ba3dc6	comment	In The Confectionary Chronicles, Hermione demonstrates this on her first day at Hogwarts when she sits at the Gryffindor table rather than the Slytherin one at breakfast, observing that the House students are only to sit at their House tables during a formal feast and can otherwise sit where they want to encourage inter-house unity.
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Rules Lawyer / int_a825da3e	comment	Similarly to Munchkin, much of the point of Magic: The Gathering is to find unusual ways to twist the rules to win. While any Game-Breaker will eventually be banned, Magic notably has no "rule zero" or "rule seven" enforcing the spirit of the rules or prohibiting things that don't make sense according to the game's story. If you can figure out a legitimate loophole in the letter of the rules, there's nothing to prevent you from exploiting it until the rules are officially changed. Magic tournament judges can impose penalties on players who push their rules-lawyering too far if they deem to be disruptive to the tournament or as stalling to run out the clock. Over the years the tournament rules have changed a lot to give judges a lot of leeway when handling stuff like this. A famous example of a judge cracking down on rules lawyers occurred at French Nationals when a few players discovered that the DCI (ruling body of sanctioned tournament Magic) made a mistake when posting updated card wordings on their webpage. One card was posted with an old, obsolete wording which allowed for an obscenely powerful combo. Since the wording on the webpage was considered to supersede any other wording, the players tried to use it in the tournament. The Head Judge disallowed the combo and when some of the players played it anyway, he expelled them from the tournament. The DCI backed him on it and upheld the penalties. Famous (apocryphal) example: Player casts a spell with the effect "Target player loses the game," then points at a completely different table and says "That guy." The judge deemed this legal, as (at the time) there was no specific rule saying that a spell cannot target something in a completely different game. One that was patched within a couple days of discovery: a player used an existing ruling on the Time Vault card to argue that mana generation cards could be used between turns as well as during them. A particular card had the limitation that it could not be used more than once during a single turn. Hello, infinite mana (with a card combo to prevent infinite damage from mana burn.) Chaos Orb is a rather bizarre card that lends itself to rather bizarre interpretations of the rules—its effect is that you flip it up in the air, and it destroys any cards it lands on. One quick glance at the errata gives you an idea of the headaches it has caused but the example has to be the player who ripped the card into pieces and then scattered it over his opponent's cards. This incident was immortalized in the Chaos Confetti card which demands that Chaos Confetti be used in this exact manner. Clearly, this is a single-use card. In late 2011, a tournament rules document was revised to no longer penalize players for missing their own beneficial triggered abilities. The accompanying caveat was that even if you remembered the ability, you could choose to ignore it, and your opponent couldn't point it out and force you to resolve it either. This revision was quickly yanked when people realized that you could play the card Transcendence and refuse to ever gain life (a "beneficial ability"), making you effectively unkillable by damage. It's worth noting that MTG Rules Lawyers are a legitimate demographic for WotC (they're referred to as "Melvin"). In one of the Un sets, a card by the name Rules Lawyer was added, with the following text: And this means Exactly What It Says on the Tin, though there are several classifications and specifications, and they're actually found exactly where the cards indicates that can be. Sometimes the rules-lawyering may be completely valid and legit, but still result in tournament rules changes when abused. For example, some time ago in a tournament a player played with a deck that was heavily based on Borborygmos Enraged. His opponent played a Pithing Needle and said "Borborygmos" in order to stop its activated ability from being used. The first player went to consult a judge and then came back and continued playing and at some point played the Borborygmos Enraged and proceeded to use its activated ability. When his opponent protested he said: "You said Borborygmos, not Borborygmos Enraged." Turns out there's a completely different card named Borborygmos (that wasn't used in that deck, or even that entire tournament by anybody), and technically speaking the Pithing Needle was hindering that card, not the Borborygmos Enraged card. Exact words are exact. This was confirmed by the judge. (Because of this incident tournament rules were changed afterwards so that naming a card partially, or even just describing a card, is enough to indicate the intended card if it's clear to both players.) Another example is the infamous "Combat" incident. In a different tournament, a player had a Wildfast Engineer on the board, which had a mandatory beneficial effect that triggered at the beginning of Combat. The player said "Combat", and tried to crew a vehicle based on Engineer's triggered effect. However, his opponent called the judge, invoking an incredibly obscure rule which said that saying "Combat" meant the player was skipping the "Beginning of Combat" phase entirely and instead counter intuitively going to the "declaring attackers" step. It was seen as targeted Rules Lawyering, as the Wildfast Engineer player was not a native English speaker, and most of pros noted they had never heard of this rule and routinely declared "Combat" with the understanding they are going to the "Beginning of Combat" phase. Wizards of the Coast threw out the shortcut after this debacle. The game's refusal of rule 7 and any requirement for interactions to make sense was immortlized in the silver-bordered (i.e. illegal in every official format) card "Flavour Judge". The card is played onto the stack when interactions are already happening, and the players turn to a third party outside the game to explain, in lore/narrative terms, what the cards and effects are trying to do to each other. If the third party "Judge" decides the interaction doesn't make logical sense, Flavour Judge counters the illogical spell.
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Rules Lawyer / int_aea7df03	comment	Martin Bryce in Ever Decreasing Circles embodies the good version of this, obsessively following the letter of the law even if it works against him. For example, in "The Footpath", he discovers that his house is built over a public footpath, and takes it upon himself to put a sign indicating the footpath in his front garden and a stile over the fence in his back garden, ignoring his wife's concerns about a steady stream of ramblers walking across their property. It isn't until a member of the local Council tells him that only they can erect footpath signs, and they have no plans to do so since the footpath through the Bryces' garden became defunct when the house was built in the 1970s, that he removes the sign.
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Rules Lawyer / int_b1143709	comment	Repeatedly in The Water Phoenix King — justified in that one of the heroes is a lawyer, and the story largely hinges on questions of rightful authority and jurisdiction, which means Bureaucracy. It's still hilarious every time it happens. (Especially when it's in the middle of a battle with a cyborg.)
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Rules Lawyer / int_b36a4699	comment	The entire plot of Exam hinges on the characters becoming Rules Lawyers, as they realize that anything not explicitly forbidden by the Invigilator is fair game, up to and including murder.
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Rules Lawyer / int_b370ddd1	comment	Heimdall in Thor is Asgard's resident badass Rules Lawyer. While he is bound by oath to serve whoever sits on the throne, he's very good at finding excuses to ignore orders he doesn't like. In the first film, he cannot betray Loki as he sits on the throne at that moment, but the rules never said he had to be particularly careful. Cue him confirming the Warriors Three intended to betray Loki and then walking away... while essentially leaving the key to the teleporter in the ignition. He hasn't betrayed Loki, he was just not looking when others did. (Helped here that he was skeptical about Loki's claim to the throne.). In the second film, this situation is given the Obvious Rule Patch by the much more legit Odin that Heimdall must now report any treachery to Odin the moment he becomes aware of it. This now allows Heimdall much more leeway in betraying Odin because now all he has to do is inform Odin of his own betrayal as soon as he realizes he is going to do it.
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Rules Lawyer / int_b54d12c1	comment	Lost in Camelot; In an interesting sense, Uther does this to himself; when Bo uses her abilities to convince Uther to let Lancelot remain in Camelot, the king appoints Lancelot Dyson's manservant rather than make him a knight. Various characters attempt this after Morgause challenges Arthur to a duel, but all are unable to find a way out of the duel if both parties are willing.
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Rules Lawyer / int_b86827a7	comment	1 For All has Pat become, for that session, a rare example of a DM being the Rules Lawyer, despite Eva trying to invoke Rule of Cool. Eventually, they decide to use some malicious compliance to make him realise how much of an ass he was being. (He still wouldn't let them take the loot, since they were approaching encumberance.)
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Rules Lawyer / int_b8ddbb11	comment	In Becoming LÃfÃ¾rasir, Gobber helps to ensure Hiccup will face no repercussions from trying to lead the defence against the Red Death while in disguise by observing that Hiccup can't demand that service as repayment of a debt as debts are only owed to outsiders, while Hiccup is free to lead as one of the heirs of the tribes and him wearing a mask and going by a false name could just be an elaborate joke.
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Rules Lawyer / int_bae020ef	comment	Queen of Diamonds; Genie manifests duplicates to act as this, consulting various scrolls before concluding that it wouldnâ€™t cost Aladdin a wish to turn Abu back into a monkey as Aladdin only wished for himself to change rather than Abu. He enlists them again at the end to point out that Aladdin arguably was the one to find Jasmine and thus could claim to be entitled to her hand in marriage, as was originally promised to whoever returned the princess after her "kidnapping" (in reality Jasmine left on her own).
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Rules Lawyer / int_bb3fde3d	comment	Discussed in the Danny Phantom/Sabrina the Teenage Witch crossover "The Phantom and the Witch", when the Spellmans move in next door to the Fentons; as Zelda observes, considering that all of Amity Park knows that ghosts are real, the Witches' Council isn't going to make too big a deal about Sabrina telling Danny, Tucker and Sam her secret, so long as the Spellmans don't reveal their magic to the entire town.
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Rules Lawyer / int_bb7a7568	comment	Celestine of Flawed is familiar with both the laws and The Guild's guidelines, and is aware that the Flawed guidelines have nothing to do with the actual law. So, when a cop tries to arrest her and two other Flawed for standing together in line, she boldly argues that not only is the cop enforcing something that isn't actually a law, but he's also not doing his job of protecting her as he should. It doesn't go well.
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Rules Lawyer / int_bc197b8e	comment	In Did I Make the Most of Loving You?, when the rebel Cylons ask for asylum, Roslin observes that there is a precedent for this in 'Asylum after Defection', when refugees from one Colony could receive asylum from another (before the Colonies were united) so long as they could provide actionable military intelligence.
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Rules Lawyer / int_bc1dc95a	comment	In the Pirates of the Caribbean fic "The Curse of the White Sword", Jack Sparrow invokes this when Gibbs points out that itâ€™s bad luck to have a woman on board; as Jack argues, itâ€™s not bad luck to have two women on board (Anamaria and Elizabeth).
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Rules Lawyer / int_bf805b09	comment	The character of Dave, in Canadian tabletop wargaming strip Larry Leadhead, is a guy who spends a lot of time with the rulebooks looking for ways to exploit Loophole Abuse. in fact, this appears to be his greatest reason for playing.
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Rules Lawyer / int_c08cd678	comment	Blue Moose: When a game warden shows up and tells Mr. Brenton it is illegal to keep a tame moose, the moose argues that he is not tame.
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Rules Lawyer / int_c24a2f2b	comment	Most members of SMPLive won't follow the server's rules themselves, but still know them very well. When they see an opportunity to get someone else in trouble, they won't hesitate to take it.
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Rules Lawyer / int_c35714d6	comment	In the last season of Blackadder Captain Blackadder ignores a direct order to charge a German position on the grounds that the order is addressed to "Catpain Blackudder".
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Rules Lawyer / int_c3e4d044	comment	There's a saying among players of Star Fleet Battles: "Legal Officer, report to the bridge!" The fact that the rulebook is the size of the Manhattan phone directory doesn't help. Players have been spotted with buttons reading "Scotty, I need a rule in five minutes or we're all dead!" (From Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, suitably tweaked).
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Rules Lawyer / int_c4282b71	comment	During the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "A Trivial Pursuit", Pinkie Pie has put herself and Twilight Sparkle way behind in Trivia Trot due to being such a Cloud Cuckoolander. In order to get back in the lead, Twilight starts using her in-depth knowledge of Trivia Trot regulations to nitpick the other teams' minor infractions. Subsequently, Twilight is able to have Pinkie disqualified, allowing Twilight to partner with the much smarter and more level-headed Sunburst, as allowed by the rules. Eventually, Sunburst throws this back at her, trying to get Twilight disqualified and making Twilight realize what she's done.
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Rules Lawyer / int_c506ec46	comment	Blood Sisters; This is exploited to stop Dyson requesting sanctuary when he's called as a witness to Bo's recent activities, as he can't claim sanctuary if he isn't actually accused of a crime but there's equally nothing to stop the Ash's forces keeping him locked in a cell for a long time until they get around to him... While the treaty between the Cullens and the Quillettes stops them turning other humans, that doesn't affect pre-existing claims of other fae who have come to Forks, so Billy Black affirms to Jacob that they can't do anything about Bo's claim on Kenzi.
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Rules Lawyer / int_c9233220	comment	It's All in the Details; During the time he believed that â€˜Casâ€™ was a pagan god who would essentially â€˜eatâ€™ Deanâ€™s soul, Sam assumed that he could save Dean from his fate by making Dean immortal so that he couldnâ€™t die in the first place. Castiel muses that he drew up the contract for Deanâ€™s soul based on his experience of contracts from when he worked with Crowley, allowing him to include a few loopholes that the Winchesters only realise later on were intended to benefit Dean and Sam, most notably a rule that Cas would bring Sam back to life if he died at any point in the year before Deanâ€™s contract comes due.
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Rules Lawyer / int_ce1f7b52	comment	In one of the books for The Dresden Files RPG, there is a section on the Unseelie Accords, the rules that govern interactions between the supernatural "nations". The Accords were written by Queen Mab, who set them up so that there is no "spirit of the Law", just the literal wording. A note by one of the characters in the margins even calls Mab a Rules Lawyer.
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Rules Lawyer / int_d7720ed7	comment	In Beyond Skyrim: Bruma, Neremus Agrecian, the chief minister at the Cathedral of St. Martin in Bruma, is getting grief from local Thalmor agents, lead by Armion, that him worshipping and proselytizing about a descendant of Talos constitutes a violation of the White-Gold Concordat. Neremus refuses to be intimidated: Even then, Neremus is even more in the right from the fact that Martin Septim isn't actually worshipped as a god, but as a saint of Akatosh, the perfectly legal god Martin was a priest of.
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Rules Lawyer / int_d79bb655	comment	In Eight Billion Genies, the post-genie world has Exactitude, an enclave that is composed entirely of lawyers who write loophole-free wishes for their clients. They are paid entirely in genies and have become very powerful as a result.
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Rules Lawyer / int_da92c130	comment	Erfworld is what happens when a Rules Lawyer gets summoned by the denizens of an RPG Mechanics 'Verse. Most of the natives instinctively know and follow the Rules as Intended, but Parson and the few natives creative enough to experiment have figured out that the Rules as Written aren't all that well thought out...
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Rules Lawyer / int_dcc4fa1d	comment	Sora from No Game No Life, often using the Ten Pledges to his advantage.
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Rules Lawyer / int_de8ae019	comment	In Star Carrier: Center of Gravity, as the America battlegroup is preparing to leave for Alphekka to undertake Operation Crown Arrow, a message drone arrives from the colony at 70 Ophiuchi saying the Sh'daar have arrived. Based on past performance Koenig knows that the Confederation Central Command will scrub Crown Arrow in favor of sending him to defend the colony, so he has the battlegroup leave early before the orders can be transmitted.
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Rules Lawyer / int_de914b60	comment	Ever played the Star Wars Customizable Card Game? You need to be a Rules Lawyer basically. Make sure to have a calculator ready if someone plays Brainiac.
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Rules Lawyer / int_dfddfe84	comment	In Broken Bow, Hippolytus pulls this off on Athena, Goddess of Wisdom. While she is castigating the heroes for getting involved in historical events when they promised her they wouldn't, he points out that the promise was made just a few days before, while the events occurred centuries or millennia ago, ergo their interference technically predated the promise.
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Rules Lawyer / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In Tales Of The Slayer: The Rule of Silence knows the regulations of the Inquisition and tries on multiple occasions after being arrested to invoke what passes for due process at the time. Unfortunately, the Inquisitors are believers in Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
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Rules Lawyer / int_e30f4153	comment	Captain Sharon Raydor of Major Crimes has this as one of the main weapons in her arsenal. Nobody has managed to outmaneuver her yet.
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Rules Lawyer / int_e5964cdb	comment	Chess has had a few interesting interpretations of the rules over the centuries: The pawn promotion rule is now specified very carefully to avoid certain abuses — such as remaining a pawn or promoting to an enemy piece. Yes, there are positions where those options are good, although it's vanishingly unlikely that they'd ever occur. See here for an example of when promoting to an enemy piece is more beneficial (to checkmate, blocking the king's escape with something he can't capture), and here for an example of when remaining a pawn is more beneficial (to run yourself out of moves and force a stalemate quicker than your opponent can force a checkmate). There's one story where a student promoted his pawn to a king because his teacher, George Koltanowski, had forgotten to mention this was illegal. George says he responded by checkmating both kings at once. To patch a serious Loophole Abuse, the rules were rewritten to specifically state that the move producing the checkmate must be a legal move. Before this change, some players argued that a checkmate could be performed with an illegal move and still achieve victory because of the rule that any violations cannot be reported after the game is over and, in theory, the game is over the moment you checkmate. A chess puzzle revealed that castling could be done in three directions: queen-side, king-side, and filewise —that is, if a pawn was promoted to rook on the same file as the king, castling could then occur vertically if the new rook had not yet moved. The rules were clarified to say the rooks had to be on the same rank as the King.
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Rules Lawyer / int_eb8227c9	comment	In The Mermaid and the Genie, Genie basically serves as one to himself when he "replays" an earlier conversation with Ariel and must concede that she didn't use her second wish to save Sebastian as Ariel never actually said "I wish".
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Rules Lawyer / int_ec28245c	comment	Some rather impressive rules lawyering is used during the Frieza saga in Dragon Ball Z. Two sets of Dragon Balls exist; the Earth set grants one wish and only works while Piccolo is alive, and the Namek set grants three wishes and only works while Guru is alive. At the start, Piccolo is dead on Earth and all other characters are alive on Namek. The characters gather the Namek dragon balls and use their first two wishes to revive Piccolo and transport him to Namek, but before they can make a third wish, Guru dies. But with Piccolo's revival, the Earth dragon balls are back, so they are gathered and used to revive everyone killed by Frieza or anyone working for him. This brings back Guru, which brings back the Namek set with one wish remaining, which is then used to transport everyone on Namek, save Frieza and Goku (at his request), to Earth. End result: good guys get everything they wanted, villain utterly thwarted. For bonus points, Frieza got to the Namek dragon in time to steal the third wish for himself, only to be ignored... because Porunga only accepts wishes spoken in Namekian, and Frieza doesn't speak it (not to mention killed off most of the species).
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Rules Lawyer / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother: Barney tries to do this with The Bro Code to make himself feel better about sleeping with Robin, Ted's ex-girlfriend. Unfortunately for him, Marshall, who is an actual lawyer, cannot even find a suitable loophole because the rules are that well-written.
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Rules Lawyer / int_f367511c	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! has a few ways of exploiting its very odd rules. For example, there's a card that requires you to discard a monster from your hand to summon it. The card can discard itself to summon itself. There's also the Synchro Monster 'Colossal Fighter' which, when destroyed, can special summon a warrior-type monster from either player's Graveyard. Since 'Colossal Fighter' activates this effect while itself is in the graveyard, it can actually summon itself back onto the field. One card (before it had its wording changed) called Magical Blast is a moderately useful card on its own. It deals damage to your opponent by an amount dictated by how many Spellcasters you have on the field, for a max of 1000 damage in a game where the players start with 8000 life. However, you could skip your next draw phase to get the card back into your hand. But if someone wanted to take it by the wording rather than the intent, then it becomes obvious you can do this any time, like right after casting it once, allowing you to do infinite damage (on turn one no less if you draw it and a Spellcaster monster) if your opponent doesn't have a way to counter and remove the spell from the game. The errata'd version of the card states that you can only return it to your hand at your draw step (instead of drawing) which is how it was supposed to work.
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Rules Lawyer / int_f3fd4c52	type	Rules Lawyer
Rules Lawyer / int_f3fd4c52	comment	Equestria Girls: A Fairly Odd Friendship: As per canon, Timmy has learned from experience how to work around Da Rules to get what he wants from his wishes. During the Final Battle, he weaponizes this knowledge against the Dazzlings, repeatedly tricking them into making wishes that violate Da Rules so that they'll be rendered temporarily powerless. And afterward, he uses this same skill to keep Jorgen from taking Cosmo and Wanda and erasing the Rainbooms' memories.
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Rules Lawyer / int_f6c05e8e	type	Rules Lawyer
Rules Lawyer / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends: Played for laughs in Season 6. When Chandler and Monica decide to move in together, Rachel has to move out and Ross, who's secretly back in love with her, agrees to take her in. When she brings him the news that she's no longer moving because Chandler and Monica had a big fight over what do with her room and have called the whole thing off, Ross steps in to try and get them to make up and move in together so he can get Rachel. After trying to win them over verbally, Ross ends up resorting to some obscure New York contracting rules to enforce their agreement before storming off to find Rachel and tell her the move's back on.
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Rules Lawyer / int_f6c16bab	comment	In The Saga of Darren Shan, when Darren has to undertake the Trials of Death, Seba Nile, a well-respected vampire, helps find some useful loopholes in the rules of the Trials to give Darren a better chance when he's competing in trials intended to test full vampires. One of the rules Seba brings into play is the Rite of Preparation where the vampire will have a couple of days before and after each trial to recover and prepare for the next one; most modern vampires do them all at once but there's no rule stating that they have to do it that way. Later in the novel, one of Darren's trials is even postponed because he needs more time to recover by having the Vampire Princes (at least one of whom has to oversee the Trial) all claim to be too busy to attend it themselves for a day or so.
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Rules Lawyer / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: Several of the protagonists, but the biggest is undoubtedly Commander Sinclair, the character who gets the most focus in the first season. The most notable example is "By any Means Necessary", in which he is ordered to use "any military means necessary" to force striking workers to return to work, which he then does by going into the station's military budget and giving the workers the concessions they were asking for. (This example is a bit special, though, since we are outright told that the only reason Sinclair got away with bending the spirit of his orders like he did was that the voting public approved of his actions, so much so that the fascist political faction on Earth who desperately wanted a crackdown on the striking workers in order to Make an Example of Them didn't dare censure him or they'd risk losing popularity.) Captain Sheridan and Captain Lochley both had their moments as well, and all of the ambassadors were known to twist reality and language as far as the rules and circumstances would let them for their own nations' political gain.
Rules Lawyer / int_f74b5f80	featureApplicability	1.0
Rules Lawyer / int_f74b5f80	featureConfidence	1.0
Babylon 5	hasFeature	Rules Lawyer / int_f74b5f80
Rules Lawyer / int_f8386754	type	Rules Lawyer
Rules Lawyer / int_f8386754	comment	In Model United Nations, rules lawyering is called "parliamentary maneuvering" and is considered to be a valuable skill in some circles. Additionally, since Model UN is supposed to be a simulation of real parliamentary-style debate, in which the rules are everything, Rule Zero gets twisted around. Many chairs will ignore "parliamentary maneuvering" and force the debate forwards via force of personality. Indeed, it is widely considered to be irritating and spiteful to make incessant points of order, parliamentary procedure, etc, because it slows the debate to a crawl and generally makes everyone bored. It is also frequently exploited by WAAC (win at all costs) MUNers/Gavelhunters in order to give themselves the maximum amount of speech-time. Of course, this can often lead to My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours—if the Chair tries to fight back against a delegate making these maneuvers, that delegate may appeal to the rulebook—and since the Chair typically has an Undersecretary-General and Secretary-General above him/her as arbiters of the rules, they may not get their way.
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Model United Nations (Roleplay)	hasFeature	Rules Lawyer / int_f8386754
Rules Lawyer / int_f8d7d3e4	type	Rules Lawyer
Rules Lawyer / int_f8d7d3e4	comment	Kimberly T's Gargoyles: When a Quarryman infiltrates the castle and seriously injures Broadway's wing, Xanatos provokes him into leaving the city and not reporting his near-success to the Quarrymen by visiting the man in his cell and talking about his family in a manner that implies that the gargoyles would eat his children without ever actually saying that they would do such a thing, observers musing that Xanatos is very clever about never making an explicit threat. Deadly Moon, Owen avoids telling Thailog about the nature of the geas placed on him that binds his powers as Puck (he has sworn an oath to Xanatos that he will receive a lifetime's service from Owen Burnett, and the geas prevents Puck using his powers unless he is training or protecting Alexander Xanatos) as Owen recognises that Thailog is smart enough to serve as this trope; a lifetime's service to Xanatos would end if Thailog killed Xanatos, and so long as Thailog threatened Alexander's life Puck would be bound to go along with his other demands.
Rules Lawyer / int_f8d7d3e4	featureApplicability	1.0
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Kimberly T's Gargoyles (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Rules Lawyer / int_f8d7d3e4
Rules Lawyer / int_fc281dbc	type	Rules Lawyer
Rules Lawyer / int_fc281dbc	comment	The Sunne in Splendour: Richard III is this, using the letter of the law to disinherit his nephews, Edward, Richard and Edward and taking the crown for himself. In the story, he has been given a Historical Hero Upgrade, and as such he doesn't murder two of his nephews because he's so confident in his legal maneuvering, he doesn't feel he has to. He unfortunately doesn't realize that the Duke of Buckingham doesn't feel the same.
Rules Lawyer / int_fc281dbc	featureApplicability	1.0
Rules Lawyer / int_fc281dbc	featureConfidence	1.0
The Sunne in Splendour	hasFeature	Rules Lawyer / int_fc281dbc
Rules Lawyer / int_fc5a3e15	type	Rules Lawyer
Rules Lawyer / int_fc5a3e15	comment	John Constantine from Hellblazer relies heavily on manipulation of rules to survive, playing with entities whose raw might would normally allow them to squash him like a bug, but the magical rules that bind them prevent it. Some of his most serious threats are from regular humans who can attack him directly without any concern for rules.
Rules Lawyer / int_fc5a3e15	featureApplicability	1.0
Rules Lawyer / int_fc5a3e15	featureConfidence	1.0
JohnConstantine	hasFeature	Rules Lawyer / int_fc5a3e15
Rules Lawyer / int_fd0da518	type	Rules Lawyer
Rules Lawyer / int_fd0da518	comment	In The Wrong Reflection Eleya sidesteps any potential trouble with Starfleet Command (she's sort of on their shit-list at the moment) on her request to get a MACO unit assigned to her ship by cutting them out of the loop and going straight to the regional commander, which is allowed according to a strict reading of the regs.
Rules Lawyer / int_fd0da518	featureApplicability	1.0
Rules Lawyer / int_fd0da518	featureConfidence	1.0
The Wrong Reflection (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Rules Lawyer / int_fd0da518
Rules Lawyer / int_ff9ab17f	type	Rules Lawyer
Rules Lawyer / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "The Ensigns of Command", as Data tries to convince a colony to evacuate, Picard tries to navigate the Treaty of Armens between the Federations and the Sheliak, a race of aliens who are very anal about those terms and are ready to obliterate the colony. Thankfully Picard finds something to use to outmaneuver them. In "Ethics", Worf is paralyzed by a falling cargo container. He intends to commit ritual suicide in accordance with Klingon tradition (by their standards, being disabled such that one cannot fight is a major dishonor), and asks Riker to help with the ritual. Riker is outright appalled at the thought of Worf killing himself, but does not want to disrespect his friend's beliefs. He researches the tradition in question, and discovers that it is the duty of a family member to assist, preferably the oldest son (in this case, Alexander). Worf says Alexander is just a boy, but Riker notes that Klingon males are considered men the moment they can hold a weapon. As Riker expected, Worf does not want his son to watch him stab himself in the chest, and so he instead opts for an experimental procedure to replace his damaged spine.
Rules Lawyer / int_ff9ab17f	featureApplicability	1.0
Rules Lawyer / int_ff9ab17f	featureConfidence	1.0
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