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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Coming Up Violet]]'', [[Alpha Bitch|Racquel]] gives [[The Chessmaster|Abby]] two cups of punch, one for Abby and one for Violet. Violet's cup is spiked so that Racquel can humiliate her. Abby swaps the cups so Racquel is [[Hoist by His Own Petard|drinking her own punch,]] since Abby wants to be rid of Racquel.
* In ''[[Tales of the Questor]]'', the fae princeling Dolan had set up a gambit both to shaft the human Duke, after DECADES of extortion, into releasing the Wild Hunt, and another to raise the princeling's own status in the Unseleighe Court and to debase a family enemy from the Seleighe court by forcing his enemy's daughter, Lady Absinthe, to ride the wild hunt for him. This led to the whole thing rather famously [https://web.archive.org/web/20120626003938/http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00524.html blowing up in his face].... with good evidence that Lady Absinthe [https://web.archive.org/web/20120625213518/http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00517.html had known the score all along and had helped set Dolan up for his fall.]
** Quentyn himself has managed to do thise with a group of people who try to repossess half his home village (including his parents' farm): upon realizing that a covanent clause cannot be indefinite (if it doesn't specify the number of generations, it will only affect the immediate successor), he takes the quest specified in the contract—and the Archivist Guild can't do a thing about it.
* ''[[Chainsawsuit]]'' [http://chainsawsuit.com/2009/01/12/strip-144/ presents]: double sting. ''[[Dateline (TV series)|Dateline]]'' tries <s>to see a live nerd</s> To Catch A Predator. Meanwhile, a <s>nerd</s> fan tries to <s>get on screen</s> see live Stone Phillips. Wooooo!!
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