Batman Gambit/Visual Novels


 * In Tsukihime,
 * The Ace Attorney games used these a few times.
 * In the first game, Manfred von Karma had one of these as a backup plan, in case something went wrong (which, for him, has happened once in his 40 years as a prosecutor).
 * In case 1-5, the main character himself pulled a beautiful one against
 * , Manipulative Bastard that he is, used one to hinder his rival by
 * And in Ace Attorney Investigations 2
 * Half of Apollo Justice Ace Attorney is about Apollo being manipulated by Phoenix in his bid to reform the justice system and clear his own name. It starts when Phoenix is framed for murder by, whom he calls to defend him in court, but then get suspicious when Kristoph lets slip something about the death in the call, so he insists on having Apollo defend him instead, intending to . And since this means Phoenix is now able to take Apollo under his wing to groom as his successor. Phoenix has come a long way since the first game.
 * Quite a long way indeed.
 * To a lesser extent, Klavier uses this against Apollo, letting him figure out and prove things Klavier had figured out long before, then turning these things against Apollo.
 * Performed in Nine Hours Nine Persons Nine Doors by
 * Of course,