A good Magnificent Baddie is expected to pull off their ploys with great cunning, but it takes a particularly sharp strategic mind to have others carry out your plan for you without them even realizing.

Named after the titular DC Superhero, who famously relies on it to defeat many of his foes, the Batman Gambit is a plan that relies on knowing the behavior and thought process of one's enemies or even allies and exploit it, building strategies based on what they're expected to do and even have them unwittingly carry out one's plan.

The Batman Tactician can read the people around them very well and predict their next movement, taking advantage of both their flaws and even their virtues.

Good examples of Batman Gambits pulled off by Magnificent Baddies include:

• Megatron predicting that, when he stood in front of a device that would instill Omega Supreme's clones with his personality, the treacherous and ambitious Starscream would push him away to instill his own and, immediately after, the undyingly loyal Lugnut would push Starscream away in turn and accidentally stay in front of the device at the time of its activation. This would lead to the clones sharing Lugnut's unfaltering loyalty to Megatron, rather than the strong personality of the leader himself, which could have driven them to try and turn against him out of ambition.
• Grand Admiral Thrawn letting Agent Kallus attempt to send a transmission to the Rebels, allowing him to accidentally help the Empire track down the secret Rebel base.
• Mr. Wolf seeing the good in Mr. Snake and leaving only a Push-Pop in the Bad Guys' lair, which had been raided by the police, knowing that, push came to shove, Snake would've shown his soft side by sharing it with Mr. Shark, motivating him, Shark, Ms. Tarantula and Mr. Piranha to turn good.
• Gus Fring having two people attack Jesse and Mike, which resulted in Jesse having doubts on his loyalty to Walter White, who then further damaged his relationship with Jesse himself due to his ego and nasty attitude, allowing Gus to alienate Jesse from Walter until the latter became replaceable and could be eliminated.
• King Barlowe leaving a huge will of mostly falsified money to his hated enemy, the Joker, knowing full well that the clown would impulsively spend every last penny of the real money and then have nothing left to pay taxes with and that, narcissistic that he is, Joker would rather face trouble with the IRS than explain he was fooled by Barlowe.
• Caroline Palmer letting Kelly, Hannah and Darbie keep their memories of magic so they could gain access to the magic spice garden, and then she could destroy the spice garden and wipe the girls' magic-related memories in one fell swoop.
• Gale sending her son Pueblo to annoy Miles' son into angrily chasing him, luring him away from the others and into her trap.
• Prowler letting a scared Miles get away, only for them to stalk the boy as he escaped to his fellow Spider-people, allowing Prowler and his colleagues to track all of them down.
• Molloy leading the citizens of Springfield to a palm tree with the belief there would be treasure only for it to be revealed there was no treasure and that it used the time to escape from prison.
• Junko and Hecatia Lapislazuli expecting the Lunarians to retreat to the Dream world upon their attack on the Lunar Capital, resulting in them falling for their trap.
• Obito Uchiha who capitalized on Sasuke's vengeful nature by telling him the truth about the massacre of his clan, so that Sasuke will side with him instead of returning to Konoha, all so that he could use Sasuke to capture tailed beasts.
• Eren Yeager using his brother Zeke by letting him think he supported his plans for euthanizing the Eldians, all so that Zeke could lead him to Ymir Fritz so that Eren could begin the Rumbling.
• Titan who took the Moon as a hostage for his plan to lure the Earth into the asteroid belt, knowing that the Earth valued the moon and would go for him.
• Evil Morty who used Rick's tendency to defy authority by warning them to not leave the Citadel, causing most of them to disobey him and teleporting themselves into the dimensional grinder to kill them and powering up his machine.

NOTE:

• The MB's plan must rely heavily on what the pawns will do, it mustn't be just a small part of their gambit.
• This is only for characters who are confirmed or at least very heavily implied to have pulled off a Batman Gambit, characters who are just speculated to have done so do not count (i.e. Diane Foxington, who may have harshly criticized the Bad Guys live so that Mr. Wolf and the others, in a fit of egotism, would try to steal the Golden Dolphin the following day and be caught, which they did).
• This is also only for Magnificent Baddies whose Batman Gambit succeeded or came very close to succeeding.
• Also, this is Not a category dedicated to Magnificent Baddies from the Batman franchise.
• The Batman Gambit is different from the Xanatos Gambit since the Batman Gambit generally has a failure condition with the planner relying on their knowledge of the target themselves to avoid it while the Xanatos Gambit ensures some degree of victory for all potential possibilities. However, there are cases where an MB can make a plan that utilizes both gambits (e.g. Gus Fring, Mother Talzin, Eren Yeager, King Barlowe, Titan, Luthen Rael and Lalo Salamanca).