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{{quote|''Even devils should beware when bargaining with Thanos of Titan.''
|'''[[Thanos]]''', [[The Infinity Gauntlet|Infinity Crusade]]}}
So, you've got this [[The Chessmaster|Chessmaster]], [[Magnificent Bastard]] or what have you. People are his playthings in any scheme he concocts. But now it seems that he's up against a deity or other supernatural entity... whats this? Did this mere mortal just turn the god into ''another'' chess piece to manipulate?
That is the essence of
This trope may intersect with [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]], especially if said [[Eldritch Abomination]] ends up coming off worse for wear as a result of the plot.
See [[Evil Is Not a Toy]] when someone attempts to invoke either this trope or make a [[Deal
{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[
* In the ''[[
* Lelouch of [[Code Geass]] manages to {{spoiler|use his Geass on what can reasonably be described as ''God'', taking control of it and forcing it to delete his parents from existence. To be fair, he did ask nicely}}. Although the scene could be read as the entity doing this willingly, it spawned the [[Memetic Mutation]] {{spoiler|LELOUCH GEASSES GOD}}.
* Izaya Orihara of ''[[Durarara
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' executes this beautifully. The [[Cosmic Horror|Angels]] are coming to merge with [[Eldritch Abomination|Adam]] and wipe out humanity. However, {{spoiler|[[Omniscient Council of Vagueness|SEELE]] cloned Adam to [[Organic Technology|make]] the [[Humongous Mecha|Evas]] and kill off the Angels so that they can [[Assimilation Plot|merge with Adam themselves, elevating humanity into a God]]. The "Adam" that the Angels search for isn't even actually Adam, and one of them realizes Adam is actually ''Lilith''. [[Gambit Pileup|At the same time]], [[Magnificent Bastard|Gendo]] has the real Adam in his hands (literally), and is scheming to kill off the Angels then screw over SEELE by having Rei merge with both Adam and [[Captured Super Entity|Lilith]] so that he can [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|get his wife back]].}} And the Angels are none-the-wiser...
** {{spoiler|Rather subverted, as in the Mythos of the Universe in question, Humans are considered EQUAL in threat and relative power level to the Angels in question. Since [[Humans Are
* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', {{spoiler|Madoka uses her single wish from Kyubey to erase all witches, throughout time, before they can come into existence.}} [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|Nice job]], Kyubey. {{spoiler|Next time, make sure you don't- Oh, wait, [[Cosmic Retcon|there's no next time]].}}
** Bonus points because the one who scams Cthulhu {{spoiler|is not a [[Chessmaster]] or a [[Magnificent Bastard]]. She's just your average, nice, extremely naive 14-year-old girl.... who has been given too much information ''[[Break the Cutie|intended to push her into despair]]'', only to use what she's [[Be Careful What You Wish For|learned]] to [[Take a Third Option]] and [[Screw Destiny]] and Kyubey over.}}
*** Of course, since this example's Cthulhu {{spoiler|likely benefits more from the new system Madoka created than the old one with witches}} some have theorized that he "fell for" the scam on purpose, and everything was [[Memetic Mutation|just]] [[Death Note
* In ''[[Saint Seiya:
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== Comic Books ==
* In ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'', Cassidy pulls off a clever scam which results in {{spoiler|him getting cured of his vampirism}} and {{spoiler|God getting killed}}. Yes, {{spoiler|that means the Christian God, who is essentially the [[Big Bad]] of the series}}.
* John Constantine from ''[[
** Then there's the reason the First of the Fallen did this: John had found out that his dying friend Brendan had sold his soul to the First of the Fallen. Five minutes before Brendan's soul ended up in the First's clutches, John suggested they share a toast; Brendan's had this magical working going that turns an underground spring into pure stout. John and the First shared a drink, then John revealed the spring was blessed by a saint, so technically, the base of what the First just drank was ''holy water''. And then the spell expired, and the First had a glassful of holy water in his gut, disrupting his body long enough for Brendan to slip away to Heaven.
* ''[[
* The Magus' [[Batman Gambit]] in ''The Infinity War'' miniseries involved the manipulation of some of the Marvel Universe's most powerful cosmic beings, from Galactus up to Eternity and even the Living Tribunal.
** And he himself was outmaneuvered by Adam Warlock and Thanos of Titan.
* Speaking of Thanos, he also at one point literally scammed [[The Devil|Mephisto]]. [[Jackass Genie|"You wanted a cosmic cube but didn't specify it had to be functioning..."]]
* [[Wolverine]], of all people, arguably outdoes them both in a [[What If]] issue, "Newer Fantastic Four". Thanos is in possession of the [[Cosmic Keystone|Infinity Gauntlet]], with Mephisto as his advisor, and Wolverine outwits them both by manipulating Thanos' love of [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] against him.
* In ''[[Watchmen]]'', {{spoiler|Veidt}}'s master plan involves the manipulation of pretty much the entire rest of the cast, up to and including Dr. Manhattan, an energy being of unimaginable power who can normally see the future as clearly as he can see the present. This is justified, as {{spoiler|Veidt}} used [[Handwavium|tachyons]] to block Manhattan's sight.
* [[Black Panther]], being the [[Chessmaster]] he is, pulled this off with Mephisto. The Black Panther pledged his soul to Mephisto in exchange for Mephisto agreeing to depower an enemy of the Panther's that he had given great demonic power to. Mephisto lived up to his end of the bargain, and so did the Panther...but when Mephisto tried to claim the Panther's soul, Mephisto found that it was linked to the souls of the Panther God and every single previous Black Panther warrior in existence, whose sheer goodness threatened to destroy him. Mephisto requested that the Black Panther agree to release him from the pact, and the Panther agreed.
* In DC Comics' [[Deal
* In ''[[
* In ''Emperor Joker'', Mr. Mxyzptlk decides to give [[The Joker]] 1% of his power to see what he would do with it, but Joker tricks him into giving ''99.99%''.
** Which makes it fitting when Superman defeats him by turning Batman into a [[Mind Virus]] (the Joker's obsession with Batman keeps bringing him back and his fear when Superman points out he can't control it makes Batman ever larger and more ominous until the Joker is overwhelmed.)
* [[Ax Crazy|Galvatron]] in the Marvel [[Transformers]] comic pulled one on Primus, making him believe Autobot and Decepticon alike had finally put their differences aside for the greater good, all so Galvatron could take revenge on Unicron.
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** This was somewhat easier than it sounds, as Primus had become so senile that he didn't even notice Unicron's approach until Unicron was right in front of him, and even then it took Ironhide to actually point it out.
* In ''Triumph and Torment'', [[Doctor Doom]] manages to trick Mephisto into doing what he wants.
* Hawkeye manages to beat the Grandmaster, one of the Elders of the Universe, (who was at the time pitting the Avengers (or [[Captain America (comics)]] and Hawkeye, the only two still alive) in an endless series of games to the death) by convincing the Grandmaster to engage in a game of chance to make it more interesting. Hawkeye, of course, wins. He did, after all, cheat.
* Loki has done this several times.
* In ''[[Red Sonja|Queen Sonja]]'' #20, [[Evil Sorcerer]] Thulsa Doom tricks an Elder God into giving him enough of its power that he is able to kill it.
== Film ==
* Davy Jones gets this in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'', although who it is that actually scammed him is up for debate. It took the combined conflicting efforts of possibly the three smartest/wittiest/cleverest Brits in the Caribbean to {{spoiler|steal his heart, though James Norrington walks away with the heart and documents at the end of the film}}
* The way the heroine from the first ''[[Wishmaster]]'' movie gets the best of the evil [[Jerkass Genie]]. He can't grant a wish that directly affects him, so she can't just wish that he stuffs himself back in his lamp. She's down to her third and final wish, and after she makes that wish he'll be free to run amok and destroy the world, and he's forcing her to take action by murdering and torturing [[And Your Little Dog, Too|people around the heroine]]. So, with some clever thinking, she comes up with a wish that will work: she wishes that a specific crane operator hadn't been drunk on the job a few days ago. That crane operator had dropped and destroyed the statue that the genie [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]] manages to trick his newfound genie servant into freeing him from a sealed cavern without making a wish by prodding the genie's ego, and gets away with it. Later on, when Aladdin is drowning and couldn't reasonably wish for rescue, the genie just takes it for granted that he would wish for it and does so, still counting it as a wish (he takes Aladdin "nodding" as a yes, though this was just Aladdin's head was dropping from lack of oxygen). And at the end of the movie, {{spoiler|Aladdin tricks Jafar into turning himself into a genie, only to remind him that genies are bound to servitude in lamps.}}
* In the film version of ''[[Coraline (
** That happens in the book as well, although the movie makes Coraline's plight more desperate. {{spoiler|In the book, the Other Parents allow willingly allow her to go home, but kidnap her parents and then try to trick her into thinking that they just abandoned her. In the movie, they don't magically return her home after she refuses (which she was expecting) and she has to escape home herself, only to find her parents being held hostage and forcing her to return to the Other World.}}
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Bill and Ted|Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey]]'', the boys first attempt to escape death by giving the Grim Reaper a wedgie and running. When they get cast into Hell, they win their souls back and continue on their quest to stop the [[Big Bad]] by challenging the Reaper to games like Battleship and electronic football (which he doesn't play, unlike chess) that they're experts at.
* In ''[[The Avengers (
== Literature ==
* "[[The Devil and Daniel Webster]]".
* In the [[Backstory]] of [[David Eddings]]' ''[[The Belgariad]]'', the prophet Gorim managed to shanghai UL, the Father of all the Gods. Initially, UL was not a part of creation, and abstained while his sons (also Gods) created the world. After all of the Gods had chosen a race of humans that pleased them as their chosen people, there were some humans left over, the Godless Ones, who languished without a God. One among them, Gorim, managed to find UL and shame him into becoming their God (and also the God of all monsters, those creatures who were imperfect because UL did not participate in their creation). Fairly impressive, overall.
** And he did it basically by sitting there and waiting. For several hundred years. The mention of it came at the time when Belgarath and his Master (One of those gods behind the creation scheme) were unable to find UL and his people. Belgarath wonders if he perhaps abandoned them again since the new Gorim was particularly irritating.
* Janus from the book Maledicte {{spoiler|pulls this off against the goddess possessing his cross-dressing girlfriend, trapping said goddess inside her with a recursive paradox that made her incapable of ever trying to kill him.}}
* In the ''[[Uplift]]'' series, every scam Earth clan tries to pull on the ancient, [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] backfires, until the very end of the series when they manage a doozy... accidentally, with a lie so ridiculous they never expected it to do more than buy them a few seconds.
** Even more impressively, what actually clinched the deal wasn't a deception at all, but the enemy misinterpreting a genuine offer of {{spoiler|surrender}}.
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'': Sauron the [[The Chessmaster|chess GRANDmaster]] of Middle Earth was outwitted by the [[Xanatos Gambit]] directing him away from Frodo. It helped that [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]].
* Happens to an extent in [[The Silmarillion]]- specifically, the story of the Downfall of Numenor, where [[Magnificent Bastard|Sauron]] essentially manipulates [[God|Eru Iluvatar]] into destroying the Numenorean empire for him. Also subverted in that Sauron only intended for [[Council of Angels|the Valar]] to get involved, and the amount of power Iluvatar was packing was enough to kill Sauron as well. Of course as anyone who's read [[The Lord of the Rings]] could tell you, Sauron came [[Back
* In the second book of the [[Xanth]] series, Bink wonders if his magical talent of {{spoiler|[[You Can't Fight Fate|bizarre luck]] preventing him from ever being hurt by magic}} actually manipulated events so that the Source of All Magic {{spoiler|the demon Xanth}} decided to play nice in the end and not destroy everything.
* In one ''[[Discworld]]'' novel, Cohen the Barbarian has to roll a 7 with one six-sided die. Naturally, being a Hero, he takes the most awesome method and ''cuts the die in two while it is spinning in the air'', rolling a 7 and cheating Fate at the same time.
** Notably, he drew inspiration from an in-universe version of the Gordian knot story, which at the time his companions declared to be cheating (Cohen himself was a little more introspective about it). He must have reckoned there's no reason to play fair with gods, who aren't known for their tendency to do so.
* Another [[Discworld]] example, Granny Weatherwax once cheated Death at a card game. Then threatened him. Though he let her win, because he's just that kind of guy, and because Granny Weatherwax is no one to be trifled with.
* In one short story by Brian Jacques (yes, [[Redwall|That one]]), a kid traded his soul so he could lie better, and ended up convincing the devil he's illiterate, voiding their soul contract, and got an angel to agree to come over to his house for cake - the latter implying he wasn't using his supernaturally-enhanced lying skills.
* In the [[Larry Niven]] short story [[Exactly What It Says
* Another short story, "That Hellbound Train", features a protagonist who ''just barely'' manages to outwit Satan after trading his soul for a watch that can stop time. He goes through his entire life, never finding the perfect moment, and as he's dying the Devil tells him that he's given the same watch away dozens of times. {{spoiler|As he rides the titular train, he realizes that a) everyone is partying like it's their last chance, because it is and b) Satan hasn't taken the watch yet!}}
* ''The Devil and Simon Flagg'': A mathematician makes a bet that the devil can't answer one question. The devil tells him that paradox and [[Logic Bomb]] questions are forbidden, so the mathematician gives him a question that ''must'' have a yes or no answer: he asks him to either prove or disprove Fermat's Last Theorem.
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* In [[His Dark Materials]], Mrs Coulter successfully lies to {{spoiler|Metatron}} of all creatures, who is explicitly stated to be able to read her heart and/or mind, by manipulating his desire to be corporeal.
* The men of the city of Gibil do this to the gods all throughout the story of ''[[Between The Rivers]]'' by [[Harry Turtledove]]. The [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] came when Sharur performed a [[Fake Defector]] gambit to fool the enemy god Enimhursag, so that Enimhursag believed that Sharur was betraying his home city, Gibil, against their hated enemies, the city of Imhursag. And Sharur successfully deceived the god even though he had to ''invite Enimhursag read Sharur's mind to see if he was lying.''
* [[Belisarius Series]] had several medieval Europeans able to outwit Link; a superrobot from millions of years in the future. Most notably Belisarius but also Damadora and Narses. Narses actually managed to deceive Link looking right in her face.
* ''[[American Gods]]'' has {{spoiler|[[Always a Bigger Fish|Cthulhu scamming other Cthulhus]] - all the gods are being manipulated by Mr. Wednesday (Odin) and Mr. World (Loki).}}
* Happened in ''[[
▲== Live Action TV ==
▲* Happened in ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' multiple times, with godlike beings practically being a franchise staple.
* The Seventh Doctor vs. the Gods of Ragnarok in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''The Greatest Show in the Galaxy''. Assuming you don't count the Doctor in the Cthulhu category.
* In [[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]], [[Bruce Campbell|Autolycus, King of Thieves]], once managed to steal Hermes's winged sandals right off of his feet.
* Both Londo and Sheridan manage to do this to the Shadows in season four of [[Babylon
* ''[[
* [[The Colbert Report|Stephen Colbert]] has a segment called "Cheating Death with Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA." The graphic shows Stephen in a lab coat playing chess with Death. [[Captain Obvious|He cheats.]]
* A magnificent example: "I of Newton" from the 1980s revival of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]''. A professor (Sherman Helmsley) trying to solve a mathematical problem accidentally summons the Devil (Ron Glass). The professor is allowed to ask three questions regarding his powers, and then a final question (or task) in exchange for his soul; if the Devil can't do it, the deal is forfeit and he keeps his soul. {{spoiler|Since it turns out the Devil has no physical limitations to his powers and can return from any place he's sent, the task "Get lost!" is impossible...}}
* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', [[Satan|Lucifer]] manages to trap [[Death]] into his servitude. Death, who is very annoyed that he's being leashed by a petulant child with daddy issues (...yes, that is how Death perceives the Devil), proves that [[Do Not Taunt Cthulhu|it's not a good idea to piss off an eternal and infinite force of nature]] by actually helping them imprison him again.
** {{spoiler|The Winchesters attempt it themselves in season 7's first episode in a last-ditch effort to stop the newly godlike Castiel. Death warns them that it won't end well for them, but he doesn't follow through on his threat after Castiel unbinds his restraints because the "mutated angel" is a bigger concern for him.}}
== Music ==
* The Devil Went Down to Georgia by The Charlie Daniels Band
** Though in that case, the Devil was beat fair and square. Johnny is just that good. The golden fiddle was exactly the agreed stake, no tricks.
== Mythology ==
* ''[[
* Sisyphus from [[Classical Mythology]] pulled this off for a little while. He was [[Fate Worse Than Death|punished for it,]] though.
* A lot of stories involving [[Deal
* Jack of the Jack O'Lantern tale in Irish folklore also scammed the Devil. He got the Devil to agree not to take his soul after scamming him twice. When he died, though, he was too wicked for Heaven and the Devil upheld his bargain not to claim his soul. The Devil gave him a glowing coal and wished him the best roaming the Earth. Jack later put the coal in a turnip he carved out and created his lantern.
** Like many Anglo-Irish folktales, stories about Jack were carried into America's Appalachian region, where they underwent [[Memetic Mutation]]. True to form,
* There's a story about little girl sold her soul to the devil for a pail of milk that she spilled. When the devil came to collect she ripped the SOLE off of her shoe, gave it to the devil, then continued skipping along, oblivious to what she just achieved while the devil just stood there dumbfounded at having been tricked by a 7 year old.
* Many indigenous American trickster figures fall for their own tricks. Of course, [[Gambit Roulette|it was likely what they wanted to do all along]].
== Radio ==
* ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Sound]]'' has a skit in which the Devil shows up to claim a man's soul, and he complains that his life of wealth and success had felt rather hollow. Satan gloats that this is what makes it all the more satisfying, until the man reminds Satan that before signing the contract he had asked if he could keep it for a few days, and tells him that he had his lawyer add a clause that prevented the Devil claiming his soul in just such an eventuality which Satan had skimmed over, and furthermore criticizes Satan for running an antiquated operation that clearly hadn't adapted well to widespread literacy.
== Tabletop Games ==
* In the ''[[Dungeons
* A [[Dungeons
* In [[Legend of the Five Rings]], the big bad evil god, Fu Leng, fell to this at the hands of Naseru, who eventually became the Emperor. When Naseru and his siblings led a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment in an attack on Fu Leng's stronghold in the Shadowlands to prevent him from taking over the heavens, while his uber-powered brothers and sister were slaying abominations left and right, Naseru, being a courtier, walked up to Daigotsu, leader of Fu Leng's forces in the material world, and began talking to him. The resulting conversation allowed Naseru to trick Fu Leng into temporarily withdrawing his dependence on Daigotsu, which gave the other gods and dead heroes enough time to take him down and send him back to hell.
* Eclipse Caste Solars in ''[[Exalted]]'' have a name for this trope: [[But for Me It Was Tuesday|Tuesday.]]
** [[Alternative Calendar|Marsday, actually.]]
** And Fiend Caste Infernals get one additional trick on top of this: they can renege on any promises they make to Eclipses or Moonshadows (the Abyssal mirror of the Eclipses) without suffering any penalties. Yes, that means they can scam the people that scam Cthulhu on a regular basis.
* The Title Image can be attributed to a plausibly exploitable rule in [[Warhammer 40
** [[Memetic Mutation|Or an entire regiment of]] [[Badass Normal|Kasrkin]] [[Memetic Mutation|in the enemy general's bathroom.]]
*** [[Up to Eleven|Or a]] [[Humongous Mecha|Titan]] [[Beyond the Impossible|in a spent firearm shell.]]
* ''[[Changeling: The
== Video Games ==
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** In fact, her plot is so impressive that the local would-be [[Magnificent Bastard]] Devil Advocat actually backs her on the deal.
*** And to top it all off, {{spoiler|that demon was summoned in order to get rid of what was the [[Big Bad]] until then. Lillet successfully [[Wishplosion|wishsploded]] two being way out of even her league.}}
* While not supernatural beings per se, the Scrin from ''[[Command
** Except, it's pretty clear that the Scrin are not the Cthulhu here. It's Kane. Even the Scrin have no idea what he is. And the fact that he hasn't aged since the 40s...
* The plot of ''[[Marvel
* This is the goal of The Emperor in ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'', who plans on living forever and manipulating the gods themselves to become something more than them.
* In ''[[Ever 17]]'', the whole point of {{spoiler|You'haru and Kaburaki's gambit is to trick a 4D being called Blick Winkel into believing that the events of 2017 and 2034 are one and the same. The clincher? [[Stable Time Loop|It was Blick Winkel himself who set up the whole gambit to do that.]]}}
* In the [[Dragon Age]] series, the player can make deals with demons and then back out of them once the demon's brought up their end, often with no consequences worse than having to fight them (which is usually what refusing to deal leads to anyway). In one particularly noteworthy case, you can even trick a demon into teaching you powerful Blood Magic... And then use said Blood Magic to kill the demon.
** Another notable case occurs in Act 1 of [[Dragon Age 2]], when Hawke can convince an ancient demon to lead you to both {{spoiler|the exit back to the Deep Roads, in exchange for defeating an ancient rock wraith}}. It turns out, {{spoiler|the wraith was sitting on a sizable treasure hoard, enough to restore family fortunes twice over.}} Varric's preferred response? Renege on your deal, kill the demon, and walk away, {{spoiler|filthy rich.}}
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[The Order of the Stick
* ''[[
* ''[[Chicanery]]'' begins with [[
* Ayanah in ''[[Pawn]]'' is implied to be doing this to Baalah, with [[Victim Falls For Rapist|unfortunate implications]].
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' Aylee comes up with a plan (and Zoë complements it) to trick some nigh-omnipotent [[Jerkass Genie
** In a parody of [[Harry Potter]] and the Chamber of Secrets, Torg outsmarts the pseudo-[[Literal Genie]] that's been interpreting people's wishes as "Turn in me into chocolate" (including someone who had merely screamed in terror rather than actually wishing) by wishing that he'd "Turn Torg Potter into chocolate." This results in the kid Torg was a body double for being turned to chocolate, allowing him to safely wish everyone back to normal. (Fortunately, the genie doesn't mess around with the remaining wishes)
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
** It's debatable if she really manipulated him, beyond revealing information enabling him to act against a common enemy.
** Not to mention that the information Terezi gave to scratch was {{spoiler|how Vriska had been playing him in the first place.}}
* [[Dominic Deegan]] had to face The Beast in the Borders of Destruction and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130426204955/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2011-02-18 he managed to get a Destroyer to take care of The Beast.]
** Later, he runs into the Beast again, and scares it away by pretending to possess the Destroyer's powers.
== Web Original ==
* [[Atop the Fourth Wall
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[
** Arguably a bit of a [[Pet the Dog]] moment as well. Xanatos could have had any wish he wanted, but passed up a ticket to wealth or power to keep his faithful servant. {{spoiler|This, incidentally, was done on purpose by Puck, who was curious about Xanatos's human nature and whether or not he ''would'' value companionship over power.}}
** Xanatos' plan with Thailog [[Gone Horribly Right|goes horribly right]] when Thailog successfully scams him in a complex "Machiavellian" scheme that Sevarius was sure was Xanatos' idea!
* The defeat of the Robot Devil in ''[[Futurama]]'' should be considered partly this, and partly [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]].
* In ''[[Metalocalypse]]'', the boys encounter the Devil (well, the Blues Devil) and sell their souls to him for Blues talent. Except they negotiate it all the way down to little more than a $5 Hot Topic giftcard.
** Oddly, he appears to very reasonably refuse the contract at the time. It's only at the end of the episode that it's revealed that he agreed to these
* Eric Cartman does this ''LITERALLY'' in the ''[[South Park]]'' episodes ''Mysterion Rises'' and ''Coon vs. Coon and Friends'' as he actually scams Cthulhu into ''doing his bidding by acting sickening cute.''
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* [[Manipulative Bastard|Vilgax]] did this to [[Eldritch Abomination]] Diagon in the finale of ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]''. Bonus points for Diagon being actually based on a Great Ancient One.
== Real Life ==
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'''[[The Muppet Show|Waldorf]]''': Yeah. Some feller named Poseidon asked me to get him some ice water.
'''[[The Stinger|Statler]]''': So what did you do?
'''[[Those Two Guys|Waldorf]]''': I gave him some ice water. With the ice already melted!
'''[[Memetic Mutation|Both]]''': Doh-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho! }}
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