Counterplan
Counterplan noun - A plot intended to subvert another plot.
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Plan and counterplan are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Plan" instead a noun "Counterplan".
Plan
Plan noun - A method worked out in advance for achieving some objective.
Usage example: there is a contingency plan in the office for handling almost any emergency
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- Megatron, in any of the many Transformers incarnations, where he proves to be a cunning schemer whose steel trap mind, conceives and implements plan upon counterplan upon contingency plan.
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Any and all plans the Prelate makes will go according to plan unless someone else is running a counterplan.
Source: Gambit Roulette - Likewise, the Elrics end up needing their former Anti-Hero/ Anti-Villain enemy Scar in the manga for his literacy skills in order to decode his deceased brother's counterplan to the villain's master plan.
Source: Can't Kill You, Still Need You
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