Using self-inflicted injuries, real or fake, to deceive others and manipulate them into doing what you want. Often used to frame a third party, ...

Basic Trope: Somebody pretends to be a victim to get others' sympathy and manipulate them into, e.g. turning against a supposed aggressor.

Played very, VERY straight in a filler case where a girl who was subjected to a cruel Prank Date decides to turn the tables on the guy who did it to her by ...

Western Animation ». Wounded Gazelle Gambit · The episode "Homer of Seville" sees Homer become an opera singer after injuring his back (don't even ask) and ...

Wounded Gazelle Gambits in Video Games. In the third Ace Attorney game, Dahlia Hawthorne milks this trope for all it's worth. Thankfully, Mia Fey is not easily ...

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Sae: It's simple. What you think if you saw a lion in front of you and next it was a wounded gazelle down on the ground? Kairi: Well, I would think that it had ...

A page for describing Laconic: Wounded Gazelle Gambit. Pretending to be a victim to manipulate others.

Wounded Gazelle Gambit tvtropes.org/Main/WoundedGazelleGambit Credit: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2009-04-11.

A ploy in which the Schemer pretends to be a victim in order to garner sympathy for themselves and/or foster animosity towards the alleged aggressor.