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Zero-Approval Gambit

712 statements
137 feature instances
106 referencing feature instances

Zero-Approval Gambit	type	FeatureClass
Zero-Approval Gambit	label	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit	page	ZeroApprovalGambit
Zero-Approval Gambit	comment	Sometimes to make a Heroic Sacrifice, a hero doesn't need to die. Sometimes they must sacrifice something else... their good name, reputation, and integrity. A character attempting a Zero Approval Gambit will knowingly risk — or deliberately seek — a 0% Approval Rating and paint themself in a bad light in order to achieve some greater good. This might involve falsely confessing to a crime they didn't commit, or it might involve them being an enormous Jerkass contrary to their true nature. The net result is that they will be hated, hunted and/or disgraced for all time. In short, they willingly become a Hero with Bad Publicity. See also Self-Made Myth. Note that this isn't a short-term trick. A Zero Approval Gambit is usually permanent or takes a huge amount of work to undo. This is an inverse of Villain with Good Publicity. Compare Good Is Not Nice, Necessarily Evil, Noble Demon, What the Hell, Hero?, Break His Heart to Save Him, and Hidden Heart of Gold. Can result in a Hero with an F in Good. Sometimes done to facilitate a Genghis Gambit. Often a job hazard of the Agent Provocateur. Most of the time it involves becoming a Silent Scapegoat.
Zero-Approval Gambit	fetched	2024-02-29T01:31:35Z
Zero-Approval Gambit	parsed	2024-02-29T01:31:35Z
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Zero-Approval Gambit	processingUnknown	FiveHundredYearsAfter
Zero-Approval Gambit	isPartOf	DBTropes
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_14d341dc	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_14d341dc	comment	In Star Trek Online Ambassador B'Vat tries to provoke a Forever War between the Federation and the Klingon Empire to ensure that the Klingons will forever have an enemy to unify against since he fears that the Empire would self-destruct without one. To that end, he attempts to sic a planet killer on Federation planets. The player disrupts the plan with help from a Klingon defector, and kills B'Vat shortly thereafter.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_154ec5c9	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_154ec5c9	comment	This has always been part of The Green Hornet; he uses his position as a supposed "bad guy" to get villains to trust him when he offers his services and to intimidate friends and foes alike (sometimes intending them to betray him!). This has remained consistent from the radio serials through the TV show and the 2011 movie.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_17293dfa	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_17293dfa	comment	This is Kokichi Oma's modus operandi in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony. He's a Consummate Liar and spends the majority of the game willfully antagonizing everyone around him for his own amusement before pretending to be the mastermind as part of an elaborate Genghis Gambit to outwit the real one.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_1b021fcb	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_1b021fcb	comment	Tokyo Ghoul:Re uses this as a major twist. For more than a decade, Kishou Arima had been conspiring with Eto to sow the seeds of revolution. He purposefully built up his fierce reputation as The Dreaded, becoming a boogeyman either worshiped or feared by everyone......so that whoever could kill him would become a Hope Bringer capable of bringing down V and the CCG. When Kaneki defeats him but won't strike the killing blow, Arima takes his own life to complete the plan.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_1bdeba5a	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_1bdeba5a	comment	One of the major arcs in Chris Claremont's classic X-Men run was the Heelâ€“Face Turn of Magneto, the team's archenemy. However, this actually caused a rift among the stable of writers and editors, with a portion of them refusing to accept that Magneto was redeemable. Bouts of Armed with Canon ensued, and Magneto would often revert to a bad guy when depicted in comics written by others. Right before leaving X-Men, Claremont introduced a justification to explain why Magneto returned to being a villain, while simultaneously respecting this huge Heelâ€“Face Turn arc, by having Magneto claiming that he could do more good for mutantkind by acting like a bad guy and being a lighting rod for manking's hatred, instead of joining with the X-Men and damning them by his association.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_1cc09117	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: Ryuuken appears to be engaged in a long-term plan to keep himself outcast from the spiritual world and his family, and hated by his son. Uryuu views Ryuuken's dismissal of Quincies as a betrayal of the family heritage, refuses to live with him and doesn't trust him. When Isshin accuses Ryuuken of allowing Uryuu to go to Hueco Mundo with Ichigo, Ryuuken quickly explains he simply doesn't care whether his son lives or dies. Souken states that Ryuuken's goal is protection, but refuses to tell Uryuu what. It's very strongly implied to be Uryuu's life, which has been in grave danger from the legendary Quincy King for at least nine years. It's also implied that Ryuuken is persona non grata among the Quincies; they are shocked to learn Uryuu exists and, while The Emperor and a very few elite Quincies have mentioned Souken, Uryuu and Uryuu's mother, even they don't speak of Ryuuken. However, the fact that he's beneath notice means he's able to conduct his research on one of Yhwach's abilities in secret, allowing him to discover a fatal weakness which he delivers to Uryu and allows Ichigo to kill him once and for all.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_1d699932	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_1d699932	comment	One story in Black Jack has Jack look after a patient who plays the bad guy on a children's show. The patient's little brother is constantly picked on by his peers, who think that because the patient plays the villain, he is a villain. At the end of the chapter, Black Jack takes advantage of his naturally creepy appearance to pretend to be a bad guy attacking the little brother. The patient plays along and "defeats" him, causing the little brother to have his pride in the patient restored.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_1dd9862b	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_1dd9862b	comment	In "Side:Hope", the final episode of Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School, the students of Class 77-B publicly take the blame for the Final Killing Game in order to ensure that the Future Foundation will be able to recover from the event and continue to help rebuild the world. They were already wanted fugitives for what they did while Brainwashed and Crazy, so taking the fall was a non-issue.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_1e123f98	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_1e123f98	comment	The Achille Talon story Le Roi des ZÃ´tres depends on this. The only other choice for ruler being a peace-loving beatnik, Achille sets out to look like a bloodthirsty madman channeling the worst dictators of history. Successfully pissing off every single age branch, social class, and profession, he barely escapes with his life but the country is restored.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_1f418bf4	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_1f418bf4	comment	In the TaleSpin episode "Plunder And Lightning", Kit pretends to betray Baloo, Rebecca, and Molly to gain Don Karnage's trust and allow them to escape the air pirates.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_1f76648	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_1f76648	comment	In A Certain Magical Index, it's revealed this is the goal of Second Princess Carissa in Volumes 17 and 18. Angered by the United Kingdom's falling status amongst the European nations due to both her mother's more pacifistic direction of leading and the encroaching influence of the Roman Catholic Church manipulating the European Union into forcing the UK to commit to nuclear disarming, she decides to unleash a coup d'etat on the nation with the Knights of England and the power of Curtana Original in order to assume power, kill off her family, and then crush all of the UK's enemies after rebuilding their military might to ensure the Catholic Church couldn't manipulate them anymore. She never really had any intentions of surviving once it was done and fully intended to be overthrown, killed, and seen by history as nothing but a tyrant if it ensured her country's security. This revelation causes most of the soldiers who were already wavering or even otherwise loyal to turn traitor and join the heroes because they wanted to spare her from that fate.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_2212773a	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_2212773a	comment	Wesley's reasoning for kidnapping Connor in Angel is that, though he's betraying his friends and they'll hate him forever, he's saving Connor and sparing them the burden of knowing that Angel's prophesied to kill his son. Unfortunately, this decision's made after several sleepless weeks, which is perhaps the only justification for the mixture of Idiot Ball misunderstandings that follow.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_22147342	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_22147342	comment	In Arrow Season Five, after facing scandal charges for covering up the murder of Detective Billy Malone and not wanting anyone else in his office to take the fall, Oliver throws the Green Arrow under the bus to take the blame for the crime. It works and the Green Arrow becomes public enemy No. 1.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_2406b303	comment	The Negotiations-verse: Not that she planned for or intended it, but Celestia is completely willing to be hated by everyone and remembered as a historical villain more detested than Hitler, Stalin, Bin Laden, Mao and Pol Pot put together as long as it means that her ponies will be safe and forgiven and able to peacefully coexist with humanity.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_261c8d3f	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_261c8d3f	comment	In The Simpsons episode "Separate Vocations", some bad guidance counseling causes Bart and Lisa to end up swapping roles, with Bart becoming the goodie-two-shoes and Lisa the surly rebel. Lisa ends up stealing all the Teachers' Edition textbooks (crippling the school, since they don't know the material otherwise), and Bart is the one to find the books in her locker. In order to keep Lisa from destroying her future by getting expelled, Bart takes the blame. His recent good relationship with Principal Skinner softens the punishment to 600 days' worth of detention.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_274fc9d3	comment	Mrs Erlynne does one on the spur of the moment in Lady Windermere's Fan: while hiding with Lady Windermere in another gentleman's house, Mrs Erlynne reveals herself, and thus exposes herself to scandal and contempt, in order to explain the presence of Lady Windermere's fan on the table, and allow her to slip away unseen.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_29ce17ec	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_29ce17ec	comment	Miou in A Profile goes out of her way to get Masayuki to distrust her, but he won't do it.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_2a6eefe5	comment	One probably happens at the end of Metroid Fusion, when at the end of the game, Samus redirects the space station's orbit to impact SR-388, to ensure that the X parasites do not take over the galaxy. It's implied that the Federation does not like this, but by now you've seen that the Federation's been breeding Metroids (even Omega Metroids) for "various purposes", which means that they're starting to do the same kinds of things as the evil Space Pirates. And what makes it worse, Samus has the DNA of the Metroids and pretty much all of the (now extinct) SR-388 ecosystem, which means the Federation will probably want to get her for many reasons now.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_2abd5315	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_2abd5315	comment	In Whose Line Is It Anyway?, to defuse some slightly more personal than usual teasing between Drew and Ryan, Colin invites them all to "make fun of the bald guy" and declares himself the "lightning rod of hate."
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_2bca217e	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_2bca217e	comment	A big theme in Into the Woods. The witch neatly sums it up:
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_2e3e7ac2	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	The Question makes an assassination attempt against Lex Luthor in Justice League Unlimited, in order to prevent a seemingly unavoidable future in which Superman kills Luthor, leading to the Justice League Jumping Off the Slippery Slope. He reasons that, since he's already considered a nutty Conspiracy Theorist by the public, his arrest and fall from grace will leave the rest of the Justice League relatively untarnished. (Of course, the show never allows heroic characters to kill human beings unless it's a Bad Future or a parallel universe, so Luthor kicks his ass.) It helped that Luthor was unknowingly the host of Brainiac, who was secretly giving Luthor enhanced strength, speed, stamina, etc. to keep him alive until Brainiac could find a better host.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_2f8201f1	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_2f8201f1	comment	Taiga's run for Student Council President in Toradora! was essentially this. Declaring that if elected she'd essentially be an Evil High School Overlord was part of a plan to get the reluctant Kitamura to step up to the plate. Subverted as the other students were perfectly aware of it.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_30a5ebfd	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Itachi Uchiha is probably the most intense example available, as it involved him killing his parents and entire clan (except Sasuke), making himself a wanted mass murderer in the eyes of the whole world, and making his brother hate him so intensely that Sasuke chases him for years just to kill him, all so that the world could know peace. He then also had to adopt the mask of an Akatsuki member for years, something he hated, just to keep up the act and continue to be of use to Konoha by keeping the Akatsuki away from the village. The gambit worked in that another major war didn't occur for about eight years. As for how it affected Sasuke... In a lighter example (though tragic as well), under the Fourth Kazekage's orders Yashamaru told Gaara that he'd never loved him and in fact hated him, that Gaara was not and never would be loved, because he blamed Gaara for his sister's death, and that his sister had also never loved Gaara and was using him to exact revenge on Suna. In reality, Yashamaru did legitimately love him, and the person he truly hated was the Fourth Kazekage, Gaara's father and Yashamaru's brother-in-law. Karura, Gaara's mother, also loved him: in fact, her love is what truly drives the sand to protect her son. If anyone was to blame for this, it was the Fourth Kazekage, who after being revived by the Edo Tensei admitted he did not deserve to be called Father by his youngest son. This is also Sasuke's motivation behind wanting to be the Hokage. By shouldering all of the hatred of the shinobi world on himself, he'll be able to create a world of peace. It doesn't take off, as Naruto puts a stop to it before it can begin.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_32c541e6	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: Roy Mustang did this when he enacted a plan to make it appear that he burned Maria Ross to death (it was actually a fake cadaver, and Ross was being sneaked out of the country). Ross was under arrest for the murder of Maes Hughes and was to be executed, so Mustang saved her life while making it appear to the higher-ups that his desire for vengeance was quenched. All the while, Ross's friends and family continue to think she's dead, making Mustang a bloodthirsty murderer in their eyes (at least until they learn the truth).
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_33e8c894	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_33e8c894	comment	Green Box: Sena was expecting that livestreaming the death of a country would get a lot of attention. While he got mainly death threats, some comments gave suggestions on what to wish for in order to escape the Green Box, and he got contacted by a journalist who knows a rumor about his situation, while the government has quickly worked out his whereabouts.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_341c02e9	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_341c02e9	comment	Batman Begins: Bruce acts as a drunken boor at his party, throwing out all the guests as they react in disgust. He was actually doing it for their own protection, as Ra's al Ghul had just shown up.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_35046184	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_35046184	comment	RealityMinds: Silvana was originally supposed to create a spell that could send Kvena's spirit to the afterlife, but secretly gave up on it because she didn't want to lose Kvena's company. Kvena then manipulates Silvana into attacking her village as part of a gambit to make the latter hate her, all to motivate Silvana to finish the spell in order to kill Kvena.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3558eaa2	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3558eaa2	comment	In Community: Pierce falsely admits to bribing the teacher to kick Jeff out of Biology 101, so that their anger would be directed back at him, instead of Jeff.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_37efe01e	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_37efe01e	comment	The end of Bill-Sanctioned Shenanigans has Bill doing this once it becomes clear that he can't stop Ao from reaching Mt. Silver and undoing the lock on the gods' powers.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_383c39a5	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_383c39a5	comment	With This Ring: When the Renegade visits Earth Fifty, he finds it still suffering from the aftermath of the Well-Intentioned Extremist Justice Lords, who have been overthrown but replaced with the tyrannical SHADE agency — which, moreover, is making deals with places like Apokolips. In order to re-establish a superhero team, he steps forward to make an only-semi-serious attempt at conquering the planet, with his real aim being to draw any remaining metahumans out of the woodwork to stop him.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3972e6b	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3972e6b	comment	Touhou Eiyashou ~ Imperishable Night. Basically, your party casts a spell that makes the night never end in order to find the source of a potentially world-threatening magic that only appear at night. If they don't find the culprit at the time the sun is supposed to rise, the entire Gensokyo will gang-up on them. You Cant Get Away With Nothing either; the Barrier Maiden Reimu Hakurei and the guardian of humans Keine Kamishirasawa (oh, and Marisa) is out for your characters' head. Subverted in that the common people don't know the protagonists were investigating the false moon, and believed they were investigating the unending night.
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Zero-Approval Gambit / int_39fe00f1	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_39fe00f1	comment	In Dragon Age: Inquisition, it's heavily implied that Maferath, the ultimate betrayer of the series' backstory, actually pulled one of these to enable his descendants to eventually take down The Empire.
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DragonAgeInquisition	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_39fe00f1
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3ba81aa2	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3ba81aa2	comment	In Toriko this apparently was Acacia's plan from the wery beginning. Turns out that he figured out the weakness of his inner demon long ago, and all this time he tried to force it to vomit all that he devoured (which included the population of countless planets). Said weakness is the fact that his inner demon hates the taste of anger and an immense amount of it can make him sick. That means that in order to free everyone who was devoured, he not only had to be defeated but also defeated by someone as angry as possible. Naturally, in order to do it, he had to be as much of a jerkass to everyone, as possible.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3ba81aa2	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3ba81aa2	featureConfidence	1.0
Toriko (Manga)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3ba81aa2
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3d22c14b	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3d22c14b	comment	The entire first season of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 is essentially this. Celestial Being appears all of a sudden and declares war against all three factions (The Union of Free Nations and Solar Energy (the Americas, Japan, and Australia), the Advanced European Union (Europe and Africa) and the Human Reform League (Russia, China and India)). Eventually, it is revealed that the small group of Celestial Being's members that the series revolves around are largely expendable and that the goal all along was essentially to piss off the three largest military powers in the world enough to make them join forces against Celestial Being, thus uniting the world and bringing an end to the conflict. It didn't work out quite as intended, as Season 2 introduces the A-LAWS, who themselves cause even more devastating conflicts than Season 1 had.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3d22c14b	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3d22c14b	featureConfidence	1.0
Mobile Suit Gundam 00	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3d22c14b
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e4a348a	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e4a348a	comment	In Town of Salem, the purpose of the Jester role is to get lynched, which requires a majority of people in the town to a) put you on the gallows to defend yourself and b) determine after the defence that you're guilty. Therefore, the Jester has to make themselves look like they're another evil role, like the Mafia or the Serial Killer, in order to get everyone else to lynch them. Of course, this is only a desired outcome for the Jester, as one of the people who voted them guilty will be found dead the next morning...
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e4a348a	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e4a348a	featureConfidence	1.0
Town of Salem (Video Game)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e4a348a
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e5de40b	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e5de40b	comment	Doctor Kelso has done this a number of times on Scrubs. He's entirely comfortable being disliked by most of the hospital, and often uses it to his advantage. In one episode, the staff becomes bitterly divided over the Iraq War. Kelso realizes that doctors constantly fighting when they need to work together is a recipe for disaster, so he deliberately introduces petty and unpopular rule changes, causing everyone to forget their arguments and come together to complain about him.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e5de40b	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e5de40b	featureConfidence	1.0
Scrubs	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e5de40b
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e5f3f53	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e5f3f53	comment	Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers: The Waluigi Arc starts picking up steam after one of these. Waluigi deliberately makes himself the most hated person in the Mushroom Kingdom by starting the T-Pose virus epidemic so he can bring his Power of Rejection to full strength. When Mario remains the only person left who wants to be his friend (if only so he can get free food), Waluigi makes Mario reject him as well by putting him and Luigi through a Saw-style Death Trap.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e5f3f53	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e5f3f53	featureConfidence	1.0
Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e5f3f53
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e8c09b9	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Attack on Titan: Eren Yeager's final plan hinges on taking all of the world's hatred of Paradis and the Eldians on to himself. In doing so, he enables the Eldians to be in a better position to achieve lasting peace by being the heroes who saved the world from him while simultaneously showing Marley and the rest of the world the problems with how they dealt with Eldians in general. By wiping his friends' memories of his confessions, he allows that all to come to pass. In the long run however, people do eventually go to war again, resulting in another war in Paradis long after the conclusion of the main plot.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e8c09b9	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e8c09b9	featureConfidence	1.0
Attack on Titan (Manga)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e8c09b9
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e9e3f22	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e9e3f22	comment	In Broadchurch, it's eventually revealed that Alec Hardy took the blame for his wife losing a crucial piece of evidence while at a hotel with her lover, to keep their daughter from learning of her mother's affair.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e9e3f22	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e9e3f22	featureConfidence	1.0
Broadchurch	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_3e9e3f22
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4127fdd6	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4127fdd6	comment	The Record of a Fallen Vampire. The humans and the vampire distrust each other. They distrust each other so much that there's a war just waiting to be launched, which would very likely destroy the world. Strauss' solution? Take on everyone's hate; both human, vampire, and dhampire, so that they will always have a common enemy to unite against, despite them STILL not liking each other. If that's not a Zero Approval Gambit, nothing is. Especially since it only works while he's alive; He's literally borne the hatred of all three races on his back for thousands of years, all while trying to revive his Queen who he didn't truly love, and having to kill the reincarnation/soul of his slain children in the form of the curse of the Black Swan.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4127fdd6	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4127fdd6	featureConfidence	1.0
The Record of a Fallen Vampire (Manga)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4127fdd6
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_41b0198a	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: In Turn Coat Warden Donald Morgan allows himself to be considered a traitor to A) prevent any blowback on the actual (mind-controlled) murderer, who he's in love with and B) prevent a civil war from breaking out in the White Council.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_41b0198a	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_41b0198a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dresden Files	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_41b0198a
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_46823c49	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_46823c49	comment	In Moriarty the Patriot, William's ultimate plan requires drawing the hatred of everyone in London and the British Empire at large as a common enemy of the people, to be defeated by them. Now, if only he weren't so darn likable...
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_46823c49	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_46823c49	featureConfidence	1.0
Moriarty the Patriot (Manga)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_46823c49
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_474c18c1	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_474c18c1	comment	BioShock Infinite: As Burial at Sea reveals, Daizy Fitzroy went to her death fully knowing that Elizabeth killing her would be the key towards her taking down Comstock. The Luteces however did have to egg her on to pull a gun on a young boy to give Elizabeth an excuse to kill her.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_474c18c1	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_474c18c1	featureConfidence	1.0
BioShock Infinite (Video Game)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_474c18c1
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_49a84be6	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_49a84be6	comment	In Final Fantasy III, the Dark Warriors are this trope combined with True Neutral. They've destroyed the overflow of light in the world to keep the balance, after which the world slowly started edging towards darkness instead. If they hadn't, the lack of balance would have caused the world to be destroyed - but in the meantime, they're known as the ones who ended the happiest era known on the planet. Luckily, the majority of the people you talk to during the game actually seem to understand this.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_49a84be6	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_49a84be6	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy III (Video Game)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_49a84be6
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4a17a92b	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4a17a92b	comment	In The PreDespair Kids, just like in canon, Mikan Tsumiki is a Shrinking Violet with zero confidence who cries at the drop of a hat. Yet she, of all people, actually pulls one of these when she pretends to side with Junko as a Remnant of Despair in an attempt to get close and stop her plan. She does this knowing it's unlikely anyone will forgive her or even hear her out, especially after Junko orders her to help during The Incident of Hope's Peak Academy.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4a17a92b	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4a17a92b	featureConfidence	1.0
The PreDespair Kids (Blog)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4a17a92b
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4a617228	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4a617228	comment	In Solar Defenders: The Role of a Shield, Kawena is known as a coward who freaks out and runs away from monster attacks. She's actually one of the Sentai heroes who defends the town from monsters, and needs an excuse to get away and transform in private.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4a617228	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4a617228	featureConfidence	1.0
Solar Defenders: The Role of a Shield	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4a617228
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4ccf8068	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4ccf8068	comment	Things get desperate enough in Thirteen Days that this gambit had to be pulled out for the sake of making sure the Cuban Missile Crisis didn't turn into the prelude to a nuclear World War III: Adlai Stevenson is the only member of Ex-Comm that continually brings up the idea of a diplomatic solution before the decision to blockade Cuba was set, even though it makes him seem like a pushover weakling (it did to Robert Kennedy, who pushes for pulling Stevenson out of the televised UN Security Council meeting regarding the missiles as Soviet Ambassador Zorin continues to pound the US while Stevenson remains calm and quiet). He is well aware that he's committing political suicide by continuing to talk of diplomacy when no one else was, lampshading it himself when he first brings up the idea of a trade (give away Guantanamo Bay and the US missiles in Turkey) by remarking that someone should be the coward and it may as well be him, an old political catnote He was the Democratic nominee for President in 1952 and 1956, both times losing to Eisenhower with little to look forward to in his twilight years. Later on, most of Ex-Comm, including Kenny, is opposed to trading away the US missiles in Turkey in exchange for the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. Both Kennedys, though, want to do it as the deadline to the start of military action against Cuba drew close. Kenny, in a rather heated exchange with Bobby, argues it would just lead to the Soviets forcing trade after trade until they demand something untradable like Berlin, by which point war would break out anyway.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4ccf8068	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4ccf8068	featureConfidence	1.0
Thirteen Days	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4ccf8068
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4dd54482	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4dd54482	comment	In Ben 10: Alien Force, Ben does this inadvertently when he attempts to resolve a pointless war on an alien planet. After he accidentally destroys a statue of one of their beloved former leaders, both sides end up being united by their mutual hatred for him.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4dd54482	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4dd54482	featureConfidence	1.0
Ben 10: Alien Force	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4dd54482
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4fc1c922	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4fc1c922	comment	In Wicked, Elphaba tells Glinda that no one can ever know the truth that she was only rebelling against a tyrannical Wizard.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4fc1c922	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4fc1c922	featureConfidence	1.0
Wicked (Theatre)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_4fc1c922
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_52dd4a4c	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_52dd4a4c	comment	In Ultimate Marvel, Bruce Banner becomes increasingly unstable following his breakup with Betty Ross and talks of the government considering pulling their budget, so the Hulk goes on a rampage through Manhattan killing over 800 people in order to demonstrate to the public that the Ultimates were needed. After turning back into Banner and explaining his motives, he's promptly kicked in the face and arrested by Captain America. His plan works without a hitch, as his teammates become celebrities and Betty decides to take him back.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_52dd4a4c	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_52dd4a4c	featureConfidence	1.0
Ultimate Marvel (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_52dd4a4c
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_538ba773	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_538ba773	comment	In The Machineries of Empire, Jedao has deliberately massacred his own men at Hellspin so that he'd be executed, but also made himself useful enough that he'd be put in the black cradle, ensuring that he'll always be there when the Hexarchate is at its weakest.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_538ba773	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_538ba773	featureConfidence	1.0
The Machineries of Empire	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_538ba773
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_53fdef82	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_53fdef82	comment	A flashback chapter of Snow White with the Red Hair reveals that upon reaching maturity Izana cruelly set up two problematic earls to fail by behaving like a much more self-centered and spoiled prince than he really is and having them beggar themselves and ruin both their own families and those loyal to them in their attempts to win his favor before stripping them of their lands and titles. It's downplayed in that those who hate him afterwards are only from two areas of the kingdom, but he was well aware at the time that his actions would likely lead to assassination attempts and wanted to send a clear message about what kind of king he was going to be while also testing the rest of the nobles in the kingdom while ensuring they are all very cautious around him.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_53fdef82	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_53fdef82	featureConfidence	1.0
Snow White with the Red Hair (Manga)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_53fdef82
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_54c2ff1e	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_54c2ff1e	comment	In both the film and the original source material, this the basic idea behind the titular Green Hornet. Disguising the hero as a villain allows him to operate with impunity, understand the inner workings of his various foes at the same level, and ideally keeps innocent bystanders and his personal allies out of the fray.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_54c2ff1e	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_54c2ff1e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Green Hornet	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_54c2ff1e
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_553051f	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_553051f	comment	Green Lantern: Hal Jordan does this in the aftermath of Lights Out and God Head, faking Kilowog's death, stealing Krona's prototype Willpower gauntlet and ditching the Corps to really pull the heat off of the Corps so that they can get on the good side of the universe again and have all of the blame and anger focused on him.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_553051f	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_553051f	featureConfidence	1.0
Green Lantern (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_553051f
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_574b26b3	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_574b26b3	comment	Nate in For The Mission. When he finds out about his partner's death, he drops all subtlety and deserts the guild after insulting them. He also has his Substitute clone tell them that he intends to take the Time Gears again, starting with Treeshroud Forest. While he is going to collect the Time Gears, Nate also insulted them and tipped them off on his destination because he knew that they would send someone after him and see that the forest was still frozen.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_574b26b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_574b26b3	featureConfidence	1.0
For The Mission (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_574b26b3
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5755b96a	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5755b96a	comment	Roy from The Order of the Stick attempts to pull this to clear out some innocent bystanders, in the most lampshade-worthy way possible. It works.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5755b96a	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5755b96a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5755b96a
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_58c15fb0	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_58c15fb0	comment	In the Hurog duology, Ward makes himself very unpopular among his allies by suggesting that they give the Big Bad the dragon bones in a cave under castle Hurog in order to save the people. In the end, he does something that makes him even more unpopular, namely killing his ghost-slave Oreg, who is magically bound to the castle, to make the cave collapse. Oreg wants to die, but Ward thinks bad of himself due to that deed.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_58c15fb0	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_58c15fb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Hurog	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_58c15fb0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_59151283	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear : It's explained that foxhound was a joint task force assembled by nato. This was later retconned for the subsistence re-release but as the story was originally intended, big boss had actually succeeded in unifying a chunk of the planet by turning himself into the world's most dangerous terrorist if he had been allowed to continue, this eventually would have forced the entire planet to form a singular unified government.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_59151283	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_59151283	featureConfidence	1.0
Metal Gear (Video Game)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_59151283
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5a3533fe	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5a3533fe	comment	In My Name Is Earl, Earl takes the blame for his ex-wife Joy so that she could take care of her children and husband.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5a3533fe	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5a3533fe	featureConfidence	1.0
My Name Is Earl	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5a3533fe
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5a3dae52	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5a3dae52	comment	Perverted a bit in Misfits where Curtis needs to break up with her ex without getting upset and triggering his time-warping guilt. Queue the awesome breakup montage.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5a3dae52	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5a3dae52	featureConfidence	1.0
Misfits	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5a3dae52
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5b28dc78	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5b28dc78	comment	In Hoshin Engi, the hero Taikobo pulls one off to ensure the safe passage of refugees through a border gate, with shades of Batman Gambit and Enforced Method Acting. He pretends to take the side of the official of the pass and attacks one of his shills harmlessly with wind magic. This angers his Humanshifting companion Yozen so much that Yozen transforms into a highly respected general to convince the official to let the people pass. Taikobo tells the official that the 'general' is a shapeshifter trying to trick him, and forces him to choose which person to believe. The official arrests Taikobo and lets the refugees pass.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5b28dc78	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5b28dc78	featureConfidence	1.0
Hoshin Engi (Manga)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5b28dc78
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5db577ba	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5db577ba	comment	The Dark Knight: At the end of the film Batman takes the blame for Harvey Dent's killing spree, knowing that if the truth came out it would destroy all of the work Dent did as one of the few non-corrupt members of Gotham's criminal justice system.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5db577ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5db577ba	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_5db577ba
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_60156176	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_60156176	comment	Vorkosigan Saga: Aral and Miles Vorkosigan both are willing to engage in this, with them using their negative reputations to help them; Aral said he was saddled with being The Butcher (even though he wasn't), but he would use the moniker because he "earned" it.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_60156176	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_60156176	featureConfidence	1.0
Vorkosigan Saga	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_60156176
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_629cfea5	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_629cfea5	comment	Yakuza has The Hero, Kazuma Kiryu, take the fall for his friend Nishiki killing their Patriarch after the latter tried to rape their mutual friend/crush Yumi at the beginning of the game. Tragically, as the events of the game (along with bonus scenes from the Kiwami remaster) progress, it might have been better off for everybody involved had Kiryu not done so.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_629cfea5	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_629cfea5	featureConfidence	1.0
Yakuza (Video Game)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_629cfea5
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_62f94c6	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_62f94c6	comment	The Dark Knight Trilogy: Batman Begins: Bruce acts as a drunken boor at his party, throwing out all the guests as they react in disgust. He was actually doing it for their own protection, as Ra's al Ghul had just shown up. The Dark Knight: At the end of the film Batman takes the blame for Harvey Dent's killing spree, knowing that if the truth came out it would destroy all of the work Dent did as one of the few non-corrupt members of Gotham's criminal justice system. Harvey Dent manages a rare short-term version in The Dark Knight when he turns himself in as Batman so that the Joker will come out of hiding and attack him, allowing the real Batman to do the same to the Joker. This works, and proves that Harvey's not Batman in the process so that his reputation is restored.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_62f94c6	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_62f94c6	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dark Knight Trilogy	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_62f94c6
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_631805af	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_631805af	comment	Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots: Roy Campbell fakes being married to Rosemary and makes himself look like a Dirty Old Man in order to prevent the Patriots from using Rosemary and Little John as leverage against Raiden, who is Rosemary's husband and Little John's actual father, which results in him being estranged from his daughter.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_631805af	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_631805af	featureConfidence	1.0
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Video Game)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_631805af
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_68959735	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_68959735	comment	In Suikoden II, Riou, Jowy and Nanami's old master, Genkaku, had to duel with his best friend from another country in a final match between champions to end the war. He finds out his own king poisoned his sword, and once the duel begins he refuses to attack, after which he is banned from his country as a traitor to go live in the other country he was previously at war with, where he is known as a coward.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_68959735	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_68959735	featureConfidence	1.0
Suikoden II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_68959735
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_6a4c8f1b	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_6a4c8f1b	comment	Saitama invokes this in One-Punch Man by claiming that the only reason he defeated a powerful monster was that all the other heroes risked their lives to weaken it. This ensures that the superhero agency continues to get support and funding, at the cost of everyone hating him for being a Glory Hound. It turns out this was GarÅ�'s plan all along. By becoming the most powerful, eternal evil in existence, he would force all of humanity's heroes to become the ideal heroes everyone can look up to and make humanity set aside its differences in order to survive and stand against him, unable to focus upon the true enemy: Itself. And yet, he refuses to kill the very Heroes he fights or any civilians, and doesn't even want to be evil. Saitama challenges this worldview throughout their final battle, not even bothering to kill him at the very end and simply asking him if he's okay with being a villain - GarÅ�'s facial expression very clearly states he isn't.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_6a4c8f1b	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_6a4c8f1b	featureConfidence	1.0
One-Punch Man (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_6a4c8f1b
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_6c3335d4	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_6c3335d4	comment	This is, essentially, what the dwarven noble protagonist does in the opening chapters of Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns, an elaborate Dragon Age Alternate Universe fanfiction which has six wardens, plus Alistair, as main cast, among other things. How does he do this? He actually, unlike the original game, figures out in advance that Bhelen is planning to kill Trian and frame the protagonist for it. But if the protagonist foils the plan, then since the protagonist is popular the Assembly will name him King. But he wants Trian on the throne, so to foil Bhelen, the protagonist deliberately frames himself for Trian's murder, and then has Trian secretly taken somewhere else to recover.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_6c3335d4	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_6c3335d4	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_6c3335d4
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_6d7c7f1c	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_6d7c7f1c	comment	Mike (a.k.a. The Pythagorean) in SomethingPositive claims that this is his superpower.*
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_6d7c7f1c	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_6d7c7f1c	featureConfidence	1.0
Something*Positive (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_6d7c7f1c
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_701f0ece	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_701f0ece	comment	In an early arc of Berserk, Guts taunts Theresa after he just killed her monstrous Apostle father the Count. Theresa furiously swears that she'll kill Guts someday, somehow. Guts sneers at this, but the moment he turns his head away he looks like he's on the brink of tears. After his own painful daddy issues are revealed, it's clear in hindsight that Guts was just trying to give Theresa something to help her deal with her grief. Guts does this a lot. Since he's constantly under attack from demons and evil spirits, anyone who follows him is at risk of hideous death. Thus he makes a complete jackass of himself whenever possible, driving them off and saving their lives. This fades as he gains friends who can handle themselves in battle.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_701f0ece	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_701f0ece	featureConfidence	1.0
Berserk (Manga)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_701f0ece
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7041cf12	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7041cf12	comment	Ishigami from Kaguya-sama: Love Is War has a tendency to redirect things to himself for others. In particular, when he's falsely accused of stalking Otomo by her boyfriend to hide his rampant infidelity, he ends up suspended from school and ostracized by all his peers; while he certainly did not intend to do this, he chooses again to remain a pariah in order to protect Otomo from further pain, humiliation, and possible abuse by her boyfriend.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7041cf12	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7041cf12	featureConfidence	1.0
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Manga)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7041cf12
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7110fae1	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7110fae1	comment	Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica: This, combined with Gambit Pileup, aptly describe the (Anti-)Villains. Your party even get to try to make people agree to your madman's scheme to drop a significant part of the Floating Continent to power-up a literal stairway to heavens in order to make real an ancient miracle that's proven to not work before. Oh, and there is a nice song playing when you drop the thing, too!
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7110fae1	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7110fae1	featureConfidence	1.0
Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica (Video Game)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7110fae1
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_73d7930f	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "Duet", the Cardassian clerk Aamin Marritza poses as his former superior and infamous war criminal Gul Darhe'el, brazenly antagonizing the Bajorans with regalings of the atrocities so that he can be executed and provide some closure for the Bajorans, and to shame his fellow Cardassians for not owning up to these crimes.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_73d7930f	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_73d7930f	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_73d7930f
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_761813a6	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_761813a6	comment	Captain Sobel in Band of Brothers is characterized as a petty tyrant and an incompetent battlefield leader, but he does know that making his soldiers hate him will get them better motivated to train harder and become better soldiers. The issue is that he takes it too far: the soldiers certainly hate him, but so much that theyâ€™re willing to kill him if he ends up commanding them in actual battle. Leadership of the company ends up breaking down because no one respects or fears Sobel enough, to the point that Sobel is reassigned. The series also suggests that this line of thinking, while effective to a point, is arguably unnecessary; it's repeatedly shown through the series that Winters is able to motivate the men without sacrificing their respect for him.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_761813a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_761813a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Band of Brothers	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_761813a6
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7668653a	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7668653a	comment	In Mass Effect 2 Tali can pull one of these to exile herself from the fleet (and destroy her reputation) to save her father's. If you play the Arrival DLC, Admiral Hackett basically tells Shepard that they're going to have to pull one to prevent a human-batarian war after you slowed the Reaper invasion by destroying a colony of 300,000 batarians. If you give a Renegade response at the end, he blatantly tells you that you're a convenient scapegoat. Notably, Shepard goes through a similar situation even if he/she isn't involved in the events of Arrival, thanks to their alliance with Cerberus.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7668653a	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7668653a	featureConfidence	1.0
Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7668653a
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7aaf9e41	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7aaf9e41	comment	On the inside, Batman is one of the most compassionate, good-hearted, and moral individuals on the face of the Earth. But hardly anyone has ever seen this side of him because he spends almost all his time cultivating a fearsome image and a gruff persona so that criminals will be afraid of him. The downside is that law-abiding members of society end up afraid of him too and other heroes think he's a jerk (if they aren't also afraid of him). Of course, this varies wildly Depending on the Writer â€” Batman has gone through every shade of pretending to be awful, being completely upstanding, and actually being a Complete Monster in an Elseworld story.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7aaf9e41	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7aaf9e41	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7aaf9e41
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7e793c21	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7e793c21	comment	In the movie version of Watchmen, Dr. Manhattan lets the world think he's gone on a murderous rampage, so they'd unite against him instead of killing each other. Not that it was his idea...
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7e793c21	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7e793c21	featureConfidence	1.0
Watchmen	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7e793c21
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7f8a38b6	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7f8a38b6	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam Wing has a two-person variation, wherein Zechs Merquise and Treize Khushrenada put themselves in charge of OZ, an Earth-based military organization, and then start the biggest, most terrible war they can so the common man will finally realize War Is Hell and actually do something to prevent it. This is apparently somewhat subtle in the anime; the manga and novelization have Zechs come right out and admit to this trope.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7f8a38b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7f8a38b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_7f8a38b6
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_847bc578	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_847bc578	comment	Steelheart in The Reckoners Trilogy can only be harmed by those who don't fear him, so he goes to great effort to ensure that everyone fears him, including creating a PR department whose function is to blame him for atrocities he didn't have the time to actually commit. Ironically, this proves to be his greatest weakness as well, as his power doesn't prevent him from accidentally killing himself.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_847bc578	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_847bc578	featureConfidence	1.0
The Reckoners Trilogy	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_847bc578
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_853f9f69	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_853f9f69	comment	In Armored Core: from the Ashes, Ghost may be doing this. Hopefully.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_853f9f69	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_853f9f69	featureConfidence	1.0
Armored Core: from the Ashes / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_853f9f69
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_879bff8f	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_879bff8f	comment	In Destiny of the Shrine Maiden, this is Chikane's gambit. The ritual requires a priestess to kill the other. In order to save Himeko, she does this and that (you know what are these) which includes apparently siding with Orochi, so that Himeko will hate her enough to kill her. The gambit is not about saving the world, it's about saving her girlfriend.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_879bff8f	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_879bff8f	featureConfidence	1.0
Destiny of the Shrine Maiden (Manga)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_879bff8f
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_88d95e84	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_88d95e84	comment	Jintetsu of Kurogane does this almost compulsively, since he thinks so little of himself. The most prominent example is when he doesn't tell Makoto who really ruined her family (her adopted "father", Renji). This leads her to continue to believe he (Jintetsu) had done it, thus allowing her to maintain her fond memories of Renji.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_88d95e84	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_88d95e84	featureConfidence	1.0
Kurogane	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_88d95e84
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_89bf8ce	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_89bf8ce	comment	30 Rock: When Jack and Liz are attending a Six Sigma conference at which Jack is supposed to speak, an accidentally hot microphone instead broadcasts his embarassing self-hype speech in the bathroom. Liz saves the day by grabbing the microphone and going onstage to convince the crowd that she is the entertainment and that Jack's mishap was actually her "Jack Donaghy impression". She then launches into a series of other (terrible) impressions, and finishes by opening her shirt and dancing. The crowd is horrified, but she successfully covers for Jack.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_89bf8ce	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_89bf8ce	featureConfidence	1.0
30 Rock	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_89bf8ce
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_8adae002	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_8adae002	comment	In I, Claudius, several decades of Claudius' competent rule as Emperor has resulted in widespread public approval for the idea of hereditary imperial rule—much to Claudius' chagrin, because he wants to restore the old Roman Republic. To counteract this, he tries to behave like his degraded predecessors Caligula and Tiberius by marrying his niece Aggripinilla and grooming her incompetent and malicious son Nero as his heir, while secretly setting up his other son Brittanicus to overthrow him later. It fails; Brittanicus refuses to go along and will assuredly die, and Nero's poor rule ended Julio-Claudian rule, but not emperors.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_8adae002	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_8adae002	featureConfidence	1.0
I, Claudius	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_8adae002
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_93acba01	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_93acba01	comment	Fire Emblem Gaiden: Emperor Rudolf of Rigel purposefully makes himself look like an Evil Overlord and tries to conquer the entire continent to ensure that Alm can rally everybody against him and lead to a natural unification of Rigel and Zofia, all while ensuring that now-Emperor Alm will obtain the power to defeat the long-since-degenerated Duma.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_93acba01	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_93acba01	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem Gaiden (Video Game)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_93acba01
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_93c8f8ff	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_93c8f8ff	comment	Tiger Mask does this four times, initially because, as a wrestling heel, the more he was hated the more people came to his matches hoping to see him defeated, meaning more money for him (and he says so to the public to make them hate him more. Left out was that he used the money to help orphans), and later, after establishing himself as a face in a world where Pro Wrestling Is Real, because he thinks he may not survive the next ordeal. It never works properly: back when he was a heel Ruriko recognized the man under the mask as her childhood friend Naoto, eventually leading to his official Heelâ€“Face Turn; at the Maskmen World Championship (a tournament set up by Tiger's Cave to murder him) Baba asked himself why Tiger Mask would take part in a tournament where his life was in such a clear danger, discovered what he wanted to use the prize for (pay for an extremely expensive surgery that would restore a girl's sight), and went out to help him win the tournament and regain his good fame; before fighting Black V, that Tiger Mask was convinced he could not beat (as he had not come up with a counter to Black V's devastating Missile Headbutt yet), even Ruriko and Baba thought he had gone insane when he inflicted a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to the aspiring wrestler Teppei Oiwa, but Teppei recognized it as a Secret Test of Character and explained it to Ruriko (and Tiger Mask himself admitted so to Baba right before facing Black V, so that someone would become Teppei's teacher in his place if Black V ended up killing him); and before going to face an apparent execution at Tiger's Cave main base the other JWA wrestlers flat-out disbelieved him due the previous incidents and followed him to Tiger's Cave main base to turn his execution in the storming and defeat of Tiger's Cave.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_93c8f8ff	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_93c8f8ff	featureConfidence	1.0
Tiger Mask (Manga)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_93c8f8ff
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_967347ea	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_967347ea	comment	Anthy from Revolutionary Girl Utena. It turns out she's an ancient Goddess-Princess who watched her brother, the God-Prince, being blamed for all the evil on earth. As a child, she decided to take the blame and let herself be punished by the world for all eternity. She subsequently spends the entire series serene and calm, while suffering the anguish and hatred of the entire world... because her brother coped by becoming evil instead. Eventually subverted when it turns out that none of it was necessary, and all it took for her to change her situation is to overcome her fear of change and simply walk away.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_967347ea	featureApplicability	-0.3
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_967347ea	featureConfidence	1.0
Revolutionary Girl Utena	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_967347ea
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9794445c	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9794445c	comment	Sweet Home (2017): Hyuk tends to create plans that involve deliberately leaving others to die or never risking lives to save others in order to encourage the others to go out of their way to keep everyone alive out of spite towards him. It gets him hated by just about everyone, but his plans almost always work perfectly.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9794445c	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9794445c	featureConfidence	1.0
Sweet Home (2017) (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9794445c
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9ab32c13	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9ab32c13	comment	In the Pony POV Series, Princess Celestia is more than willing to use an alias to write unflattering tabloid articles about herself if it benefits the greater good in some way. The tabloids would demonize her anyway, at least this way they're doing it in a way that benefits somepony. In the finale of the Princess Gaia Arc, she writes such an article, painting herself as the real Big Bad of the Nightmare Whisper incident to spare Fluttershy from being demonized by the tabloids for something she will not and cannot ever repeat so the poor girl can move on. She even has her Day Guard make it seem like she's attempting to suppress the article so the conspiracy theorists will assume it's true and leave Fluttershy alone.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9ab32c13	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9ab32c13	featureConfidence	1.0
Pony POV Series / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9ab32c13
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9d47a2a2	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: Jaime "The Kingslayer" Lannister broke his vows as a member of the Kingsguard and killed King Aerys the Mad, to prevent the total destruction of King's Landing, which Aerys planned to burn down to spite his enemies as they breached the gates. For the entire series he is reviled and distrusted by nearly everyone he meets as a result, none of whom (except for Brienne, the only person he tells the story to,) know why he did it. In the end it seems he was too occupied with the political turmoil after the murder and hunting down Aerys' other alchemists to make a big deal out of it, and by the time things had calmed down it would have looked like he was just making excuses for the murder, which his pride would not allow. Jaime was also put in a position of genuine conflicted loyalty - between his father and head of his family and his king. The realm considers what he did to be dishonorable, certainly, but it's still distinct from someone who turned traitor for money or to simply save himself. Eddard Stark attempts this gambit near the end of A Game of Thrones by admitting to the false allegations the Lannisters have cooked up against him. He wants to protect his daughters, who are effectively hostages now, and to prevent a full-scale war from breaking out. Even though most of the Lannisters are also in on the plan, and intend to spare Eddard and send him off to the Wall, Robert's successor Joffrey Baratheon chooses to publicly execute him instead, completely defeating the purpose of the gambit and resulting in said full-scale war breaking out anyway. Ned Stark, again - if R+L=J is true (as it is in the TV series). Jon is the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. This would make him the heir to the throne, and one of only three known surviving Targaryens. Only Jon's parents and Ned knew his true identity; with their deaths, and given Robert Baratheon's hatred of the Targaryens and desire to kill them all, Ned lies and claims Jon's parents are himself and an unknown prostitute. Ned takes this secret to his grave, even though the common belief that he cheated on his wife is a stain on his otherwise scrupulous honor, and drives a rift between him and his wife that never truly heals.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9d47a2a2	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9d47a2a2	featureConfidence	1.0
A Song of Ice and Fire	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9d47a2a2
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9e2f90f4	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Kaido from One Piece once yearned to be a Messianic figure known as Joy Boy, the second coming of a mysterious man who lived almost a thousand years prior. Over time, he eventually realized that this wasn't the case, and it wasn't his destiny to be this figure. So Kaido instead planned to create a world of chaos and nonstop warfare with himself at the center of it. After his defeat, we're shown a flashback where Kaido explains that whoever would succeed in defeating him would have to be the real Joy Boy. Meaning that his entire goal was to engineer a situation that would not only flush out the true savior of the world but would allow Kaido, the great evil they've come to stop, to be the first person to see him.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9e2f90f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9e2f90f4	featureConfidence	1.0
One Piece (Manga)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9e2f90f4
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9eddb2fb	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9eddb2fb	comment	On Irredeemable, Qubit endangers the entirety of the human race by letting the murderous Plutonian live and he gets his ass handed repeatedly for such an act. His refusal to kill him stems from his belief that he can put the Plutonian's power into good use without sacrificing Tony if given the chance, even when having the opportunity to kill Tony at all times. Gilgamos' plan to save humanity from the Plutonian involved making them immortal forever, which could have led to a stagnation of epic proportions. Good thing he was offered an alternative.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9eddb2fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9eddb2fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Irredeemable (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_9eddb2fb
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a3d1b28a	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a3d1b28a	comment	In The Dangers in My Heart, Ichikawa accepts an accusation from Adachi of writing his classmatesâ€™ last names down on the tombstones of a cemetery backdrop as a passive-aggressive insult. In reality, his classmate Hara wrote down common family names that just happened to include her classmates and Ichikawa was trying to protect her from their potential outrage. Things go back to normal once Hara returns to the room and clears up the misunderstanding.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a3d1b28a	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a3d1b28a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dangers in My Heart (Manga)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a3d1b28a
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a4a6b86a	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a4a6b86a	comment	In Code Geass, Lelouch sets himself up as the emperor of the world and runs Britannia with an iron fist. He does this in order to unite the world against a single, common enemy; i.e., himself. Once this is accomplished, he has Suzaku assume the identity of Zero. He then orders Suzaku to assassinate him in public in the guise of Zero, thus causing the world to rally behind its hero and eliminating the last source of hatred on Earth. It works. Similarly to her brother, Nunnally sets up a plan to use Democles as a symbol of hatred, therefore uniting all the people. Of course, Lelouch won't have any of it and uses his Geass on her, ultimately taking her place.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a4a6b86a	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a4a6b86a	featureConfidence	1.0
Code Geass	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a4a6b86a
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a4c4b7e3	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a4c4b7e3	comment	Attempted in Stroker Ace. One of Stroker's schemes to get fired involves creating an advertisement gag that is meant to piss off Torkle and NASCAR fans. He arrives in his chicken costume at the speedway sitting atop a giant egg being pulled by a wagon and tractor. In addition, he has his racecar outfitted to look like a plucked chicken. Torkle is angry, but he turns the gag on Stroker by acting like it was the best thing Stroker could do for the company, ensuring that Stroker won't try it again.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a4c4b7e3	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a4c4b7e3	featureConfidence	1.0
Stroker Ace	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a4c4b7e3
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a64f5d10	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a64f5d10	comment	The trope is Invoked in Men in Black: International by H when he, M, and C figure out High T is The Mole and is on his way to Paris to betray the organization to the Hive. H and M go off after him and H tells C to stay behind, with instructions to say that H was the mole if they fail to stop T because the revelation that one of the most decorated agents in MIB history was a mole would cripple the whole organization. Thankfully, the ploy didn't need to be used.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a64f5d10	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a64f5d10	featureConfidence	1.0
Men in Black: International	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a64f5d10
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a88c6b74	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a88c6b74	comment	In Special A we discover that antagonist Yahiro Saiga pulled one of these years ago. Having discovered that one of Akira's friends was a Gold Digger who was only interested in using her for her money, Yahiro used his family's wealth and his own skill as a Manipulative Bastard to force the girl to transfer. Akira discovered this, and rather than telling her why he did it, Yahiro let her think of him as a monster and maintain her happy memories of her friendship. Flashforward a few years to the series, and Akira still hates him for what he did, as do Yahiro's ex-friend Kei and most of the Special A class. He doesn't try to correct their image of him and instead plays the villain until well into the series.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a88c6b74	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a88c6b74	featureConfidence	1.0
Special A (Manga)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_a88c6b74
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_abfdda7f	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_abfdda7f	comment	Sang-hyun from Thirst (2009) survives a fatal disease and makes a miraculous recovery because, unknown to the world, he is given a blood transfusion from a vampire and becomes one. A small group of fanatics begins revering him as a saint and spend weeks or months camped outside of the hospital where he had been treated. At the end of the movie, he convinces all of them that he isn't a saint and that they should move on with their lives by letting himself be caught about to sexually assault a woman (he doesn't actually do anything to her).
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_abfdda7f	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_abfdda7f	featureConfidence	1.0
Thirst (2009)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_abfdda7f
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_af10a8a7	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_af10a8a7	comment	Legacy of the Force: Jacen Solo. Although in his case, he actually is being thoroughly evil, though his intentions are noble. Sort of. Corran Horn took the blame for the destruction of the garden paradise world of Ithor to spare the rest of Jedi Order.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_af10a8a7	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_af10a8a7	featureConfidence	1.0
Legacy of the Force	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_af10a8a7
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_afc86b0a	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_afc86b0a	comment	Explored from various angles in the original Ender's Game series, most explicitly with Admiral Lands of the Lusitania Fleet.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_afc86b0a	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_afc86b0a	featureConfidence	1.0
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_afc86b0a
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b0544c4b	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b0544c4b	comment	Super Robot Wars X: Though admittedly it was more "3 approval gambit" but Hopes's entire plan in the True Final Boss fight relied on him turning against the heroes to fuel Ende to with the power of love, courage, hope, friendship, and all the positive emotions that the heroes kept on going. The only ones who could tell, hence the "3", were Lelouch, C.C. (the former pulling off his infamous "Zero Requiem"), and the protagonist.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b0544c4b	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b0544c4b	featureConfidence	1.0
Super Robot Wars X (Video Game)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b0544c4b
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b05d40f	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b05d40f	comment	Played for laughs in an episode of Sister, Sister. When the girls and one of their friends get into a bitter fight during a trip, Lisa inserts herself in a very annoying way, causing the girls to complain to each other about her and forget their argument. She then smirks that all they needed was a common enemy.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b05d40f	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b05d40f	featureConfidence	1.0
Sister, Sister	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b05d40f
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b1666874	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b1666874	comment	Booster Gold, who dooms himself to being seen as a fame-obsessed fool while he's saving the universe through time travel. Since his foes are also time travelers, hiding his true importance reduces the risk of being targeted for a Grandfather Paradox. For the same reasons, his mentor and son Rip Hunter carefully hides his entire identity from everyone.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b1666874	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b1666874	featureConfidence	1.0
Booster Gold (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b1666874
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b1c94339	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b1c94339	comment	In the chronologically last of the Horatio Hornblower series, "Admiral Hornblower", Hornblower comes across a boat full of well-armed French revolutionaries out to spring Napoleon from St Helina. The only way he can foil it is to lie to them and pledge his honor that Napoleon had died. Inverted, though, in that, as Hornblower is returning to port to hand in his resignation, he is met by another ship and informed that Napoleon had actually died.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b1c94339	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b1c94339	featureConfidence	1.0
Horatio Hornblower	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b1c94339
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b233c2eb	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b233c2eb	comment	In the 90s, prior to the Onslaught storyline, The Incredible Hulk was caught up in an incident where a mysterious group known as the Alliance was causing mass destruction (in actuality, it was the supposedly-dead Leader acting through one of his minions). After a number of incidents and seemingly caught in the throes of insanity, the Hulk decided to turn the US' attention back to him and claim he was "the Alliance" by going by his Maestro personality.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b233c2eb	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b233c2eb	featureConfidence	1.0
Onslaught (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b233c2eb
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b3a8ec57	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b3a8ec57	comment	Mitsuhide in Ikemen Sengoku deliberately spreads rumors about his traitorous nature and acts as shady as humanly possible to fool his lord Nobunaga's enemies into believing that he's plotting to betray Nobunaga and would be willing to work with them in secret to take him down. Once he's "allied" with them, he either lures them into a trap or ferrets out enough incriminating evidence on them to thwart their plans.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b3a8ec57	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b3a8ec57	featureConfidence	1.0
Ikemen Sengoku (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b3a8ec57
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b4996199	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b4996199	comment	During the Spider-Man storyline "The Other", following Peter's supposed death, Wolverine hits on the grieving Mary Jane, who slaps him. His fellow heroes are disgusted until Wolverine tells them that he did it to make her angry, so she wouldn't become consumed by grief, and if she spent the rest of her life hating him for it, then so be it. Fortunately or not, Mary Jane saw through it in fairly short order, though she thanked Wolverine for putting in the effort.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b4996199	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b4996199	featureConfidence	1.0
Spider-Man (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b4996199
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b683f90f	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b683f90f	comment	Invoked by Perry Rhodan, where the hostile Cold War power blocs' common enmity against the Third Power marks the beginning of the process towards establishing One World Order.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b683f90f	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b683f90f	featureConfidence	1.0
Perry Rhodan	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b683f90f
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b962c879	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b962c879	comment	In the Edolas arc of Fairy Tail, Mystogan wants to paint himself as the villain who made the magic go away (it actually was his fault) so that Pantherlily can kill him and be the hero who will unite Edolas in their time of panic. Pantherlily wants to do it the other way around. In the end, however, it is resolved when Natsu steps up as the Great Demon King Dragneel so no one has to die.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b962c879	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b962c879	featureConfidence	1.0
Fairy Tail (Manga)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_b962c879
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ba666650	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ba666650	comment	Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: It's revealed at the end of the game that The Boss' defection was an act; in order to save America's face and prevent a nuclear war, she ends up having to be killed by Snake. The end result: The Boss is dead, her reputation is permanently ruined, and the entire world believes her to be nothing more than a war criminal and a traitor to her country. On top of it all, it's revealed in subsequent games that her death wasn't even really about preventing war; instead, the U.S government had set the whole thing up because they were scared of her and wanted to get rid of her.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ba666650	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ba666650	featureConfidence	1.0
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Video Game)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ba666650
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_bb55a676	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_bb55a676	comment	Legion of Super-Heroes: In The Death of Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl tries to pull this off by cheating in the leader election, secretly copying their abilities, and then suspending all of the Legionnaires for ridiculous reasons. That way, once Zaryan invades, she'll have all of their powers as a one woman Legion and will have pissed off her teammates so they won't want to help. It fails when Lightning Lad finds out what she was trying to do and goes to help, dying in battle against Zaryan so Saturn Girl doesn't.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_bb55a676	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_bb55a676	featureConfidence	1.0
Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_bb55a676
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_bcadd7cb	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_bcadd7cb	comment	The Far Sight Enclave army book of Warhammer 40,000 heavily implies that the motive of everything Farsight is doing is to protect the Tau from the Eye of Terror.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_bcadd7cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_bcadd7cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Warhammer 40,000 (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_bcadd7cb
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_bd4ba20f	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_bd4ba20f	comment	BlazBlue: Central Fiction: Ragna erases himself from the universe in order for the world to move on, and in order to do so, he must become 'The Enemy of the World'.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_bd4ba20f	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_bd4ba20f	featureConfidence	1.0
BlazBlue: Central Fiction (Video Game)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_bd4ba20f
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c1ef941d	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c1ef941d	comment	How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom: Duke Georg Carmine pretended that he wasn't recognizing Souma as the new king of Elfrieden and sought to reinstate his friend Albert into the throne, as part of a plot to draw out the corrupt nobles under himself so that Souma could purge them all in one fell swoop, even if this meant he would be imprisoned and executed for treason. Souma, however, has him fake his death and continue serving him as Kagetora, the leader of his secret service.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c1ef941d	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c1ef941d	featureConfidence	1.0
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c1ef941d
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c2297a9c	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c2297a9c	comment	Judge Dredd pulled this in a one shot story titled "The Beating". Dredd is filmed at a public order incident seemingly beating a biker to death with a daystick and the video goes viral. Dredd, not caring about his reputation with the media (or anyone else for that matter), deliberately set the incident up, as the biker in question was actually a Wally Squad judge who was finished an undercover assignment and needed to be reassigned, so Dredd faked his death by using a rubber daystick.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c2297a9c	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c2297a9c	featureConfidence	1.0
Judge Dredd (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c2297a9c
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c326acd9	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c326acd9	comment	Partially averted in Inazuma Eleven where in the fourth season, Inazuma Eleven GO, Gouenji Shuuya of all people turned heel and took on the name Ishido Shuuji in order to save soccer from Big Bad Senguuji Daigo. It is partially averted since quite a few people in-universe know he's actually Gouenji and vice-versa such that it doesn't hurt his reputation that much to anyone inside the Fourth Wall. In the end, his gambit paid off and his position transitioned to the leadership of La RÃ©sistance leader and Big Good Hibiki Seigou, thereby ensuring the safety of soccer for everyone. Funnily, it was played straight with the fandom.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c326acd9	featureApplicability	-1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c326acd9	featureConfidence	1.0
Inazuma Eleven (Video Game)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c326acd9
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c43df4d8	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Doctor destroys Amy's faith in him to kill the Minotaur in "The God Complex". The Seventh Doctor did the same thing to Ace in "The Curse of Fenric", for similar reasons. In "Hell Bent", the Twelfth Doctor knowingly alienates his own people, whom he spent millennia pining for, and his confidante Ohila in his effort to save Clara Oswald from her unjust, fixed-point-in-time death. Sadly, he does not earn his happy ending — he has undergone a Sanity Slippage and his goal is a Tragic Dream that cannot be fulfilled without destroying space and time. Maybe he'll mend fences with them later if they finally prove understanding.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c43df4d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c43df4d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor Who	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c43df4d8
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c4771251	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c4771251	comment	Lord Cett of Mistborn: The Original Trilogy is an interesting example who is neither particularly evil nor particularly heroic, but who goes out of his way to portray himself as a ruthless, cruel, rude, cunning conqueror. In reality, he's fairly neutral. While certainly not the nicest guy in the world, he's not nearly as bloodthirsty as he tries to convince everyone he is; Cett simply became convinced very early on that a ruler could not afford any potential outward signs of weakness. Given the setting he lives in, he's not entirely wrong.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c4771251	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c4771251	featureConfidence	1.0
Mistborn: The Original Trilogy	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_c4771251
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d0d00d31	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d0d00d31	comment	During Secret Invasion, Xavin pulls a zero-approval gambit on the rest of the Runaways, knocking them all out with a forcefield and then running away, hoping that the others will assume that they betrayed the team and elect to flee rather than trying to fight the Skrulls. It doesn't work and the team ends up rescuing Xavin when they end up in over their head. The only thing it does accomplish is making Karolina extremely cross with Xavin.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d0d00d31	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d0d00d31	featureConfidence	1.0
Secret Invasion (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d0d00d31
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d27c007d	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d27c007d	comment	Kill la Kill: Satsuki Kiryuin puts down pretty much everyone in her school in order to get her desired result — an army strong enough to take down her mother. This includes some on-the-fly lying to Ryuko when Isshin's real murderer shows up.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d27c007d	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d27c007d	featureConfidence	1.0
Kill la Kill	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d27c007d
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d3381e70	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d3381e70	comment	In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Black Widow does this by allowing her checkered background get leaked to the public. Captain America intends this for all of S.H.I.E.L.D., reasoning that they've been so thoroughly infiltrated and corrupted by HYDRA that the only way to destroy the infestation is to burn SHIELD with it.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d3381e70	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d3381e70	featureConfidence	1.0
Captain America: The Winter Soldier	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d3381e70
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d5ea01b5	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d5ea01b5	comment	The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie: At the end of the game, the Retributive Tower's Kill Sat is primed to fire ceaselessly upon whatever humanity's collective consciousness hates the most; in other words, it will keep firing until the world is destroyed. Rufus Albarea stays behind in the tower and uses its communications array to broadcast a fake ultimatum to the entire world framing himself as the ultimate evil responsible for the tower, who is now holding the world ransom; needless to say, this quickly makes him the most hated man in the world, and since he happens to currently be in the Retributive Tower itself... The rest of the party realizes what he's trying to do and manage to save him from his own Heroic Sacrifice right before the tower annihilates itself.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d5ea01b5	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d5ea01b5	featureConfidence	1.0
The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie (Video Game)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d5ea01b5
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d8811eb6	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d8811eb6	comment	In Captain SNES: The Game Masta, Alex tries one of these to convince the Sailor Scouts to get out of the line of fire when they're trying to help him fight the Sinistrals. It succeeds at the "Zero Approval" part but fails at getting them to leave.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d8811eb6	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d8811eb6	featureConfidence	1.0
Captain SNES: The Game Masta (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_d8811eb6
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_db3fbf5e	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_db3fbf5e	comment	In No More Dead Dogs, by Gordon Korman, Wallace does this at the end when he takes the blame for sabotaging the school play in order to protect the real culprit, Rachel's little brother.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_db3fbf5e	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_db3fbf5e	featureConfidence	1.0
No More Dead Dogs	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_db3fbf5e
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e2ea40b	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e2ea40b	comment	In Stephen Donaldson's Mordant's Need, King Joyce exemplifies this trope. After spending the majority of his life building his kingdom from scratch (Including collecting every magician in the world into one place), he faces new threats in his old age. In response, he pretends to descend into senility, making everyone hate him and his regime. Because his enemies think that he's weak, they attack his kingdom at the same time (to get at the magicians.) His senility flushes out all opposition to his regime at the same time.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e2ea40b	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e2ea40b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mirror of Her Dreams	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e2ea40b
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e6d0a1a2	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e6d0a1a2	comment	This Trope is a recurring theme in Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger: In episode 29, the kings of the five human nations decide to falsely confess to crimes and step down from their thrones in order to appease the citizens who want answers as to why the kings were suddenly attacked by each other's aides and are being influenced to riot by Hilbill's mind control so that war doesn't break out between the nations. Jeremy and Gerojim stop them from doing this and take the blame for the attack instead even though this means sacrificing all the work that Jeremy did to make peace between humans and Bugnarrok. It is revealed in episode 37 that Iroki, the previous ruler of Toufu that Kaguragi overthrew, made herself look like a selfish tyrant who was hoarding food for herself during a famine and ordered Kaguragi to kill her after she set the set the food stores on fire to keep anybody from finding out that the food stores had been poisoned, fearing that Toufu's reputation would be harmed if word got out. It is revealed in episode 42 that Rcules had done this as well. He had been acting as a villain for the past 17 years as part of a Long Game to get an opportunity to kill the true Big Bad Dagded. After he finally learned the identity of The Mole in his court in episode 20 which he had been looking for, he chose to use the trial by combat as an opportunity to vacate the throne to Gira and fake his death. The unhinged villainous rant he publicly went on was actually an act to make the citizens turn on him so that Gira would be accepted as the new king. Suzume was the only person who knew he had good intentions. Later, when he is finally put on trial for his actions, he requests that his motivations be kept secret so that history will remember him as a villain because he feels that his goal didn't justify his crimes.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e6d0a1a2	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e6d0a1a2	featureConfidence	1.0
Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e6d0a1a2
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e728ae90	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e728ae90	comment	My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected is a series almost exclusively about this, as main character Hachiman Hikigaya constantly comes up with the most cynical and messy solutions to Service Club client's problems that often require him to intentionally play the bad guy. By the end of the first sixth volume (or first season in the anime), he cements himself as 'the most hated guy in school' and his friends and teacher begin trying to convince him to start thinking of his own happiness above others. The wiki even has a section detailing all instances of this he's pulled called "Social Suicides Committed by Hachiman Hikigaya."
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e728ae90	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e728ae90	featureConfidence	1.0
My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e728ae90
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e75c6d45	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e75c6d45	comment	In Goblins, Big Ears the paladin scares away a crowd of innocent bystanders by pretending to be a mad monster.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e75c6d45	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e75c6d45	featureConfidence	1.0
Goblins (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_e75c6d45
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ead680b	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ead680b	comment	Explicitly stated in Fallout: Equestria: Littlepip, having become the Wasteland's face of good, acknowledges the need to secure its safety and recovery, despite what the world - and her friends - might think of her. Applies to Scootaloo as well.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ead680b	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ead680b	featureConfidence	1.0
Fallout: Equestria (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ead680b
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ed2a7866	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ed2a7866	comment	In the second episode of the anime adaptation of Sword Art Online, there is an established mistrust between the players and the beta testers, due to the latter gaining the upper hand early in the game. This nearly leads to disaster when a troublemaker begins to raise the tension between beta testers and players after and the man who organized the raid dies. In response Kirito takes all the scorn on himself, claiming that the other beta testers spent too much time on the early floors while he climbed higher into Aincrad; the end result is that he earns a reputation as "a beta tester and a cheater! A beater!", while the other beta testers are not ostracized.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ed2a7866	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ed2a7866	featureConfidence	1.0
Sword Art Online	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ed2a7866
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_f0c816fb	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_f0c816fb	comment	In the third-to-last episode of Breaking Bad, Walt pretends to be more dangerous and unhinged than he actually is and takes credit for Hank's death on a bugged phone call to Skyler in order to make her seem innocent to the police.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_f0c816fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_f0c816fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Breaking Bad	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_f0c816fb
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_f7cd4bee	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_f7cd4bee	comment	In Oz the Great and Powerful, during the final confrontation between the Wicked Witches, Oscar pretends to make a getaway in a hot air balloon with a bunch of gold, making everyone think he's abandoned them. Then, when Theodora shoots down his balloon and everyone believes he's dead, he works his stage magic and a video projector to make a grand comeback as the "true" Wizard of Oz, renewing everyone's hope and scaring the witches away.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_f7cd4bee	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_f7cd4bee	featureConfidence	1.0
Oz the Great and Powerful	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_f7cd4bee
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_f91de837	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_f91de837	comment	In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Severus Snape kills Albus Dumbledore. For the next year, he is reviled by all of his former associates and just about everybody in the wizarding world. At the end of the seventh book, it is revealed that he had arranged this with Dumbledore almost a year before, as a plot to save a student from the act and to let Dumbledore die with dignity, as well as to cement Voldemort's trust in him and thus allow him to work as The Mole now that his Double Agent role is blown.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_f91de837	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_f91de837	featureConfidence	1.0
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_f91de837
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_fb8549c	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_fb8549c	comment	During a crossover issue with the X-Men, it seems like Deadpool, who has been given probationary X-Men membership, is trying to assassinate a man who is falsely accusing the X-Men of holding his daughter hostage. The twist ending has it turn out that Deadpool's real plan was actually to save the man, who was really being threatened by Norman Osborn, from being assassinated while making it look like the X-Men saved him from Deadpool, giving a huge boost to the X-Men's reputation.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_fb8549c	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_fb8549c	featureConfidence	1.0
Deadpool (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_fb8549c
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_fc1d6ac6	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_fc1d6ac6	comment	Geralt of Rivia, in the short story The Lesser Evil. He kills Renfri, who was planning to massacre the whole village of Blaviken. Ironically, they proceed to pelt him with stones, not the least bit grateful.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_fc1d6ac6	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_fc1d6ac6	featureConfidence	1.0
The Witcher (Franchise)	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_fc1d6ac6
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ff9ab17f	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation In the episode "Sins of the Father", Worf takes discommendation and shame on his family name for the good of the Empire, even though he knows the real villain was the father of the politically powerful Duras. In the later episode "Reunion", Duras repays Worf for this by murdering his on-off lover and the mother of his son after she spurns his advances. Worf takes this about how you'd expect. In the episode "The Defector", a Romulan Admiral defects to the Federation to prevent a Romulan-Federation war.
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ff9ab17f	featureApplicability	1.0
Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ff9ab17f	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: The Next Generation	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_ff9ab17f

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