It doesn’t always work. Sometimes it turns out there’s little discernible difference between having sprung the trap on purpose than in having walked into it accidentally. Heroes have walked into their doom in the invocation of this trope. But it can pay off. Two types of heroes have been especially known to succeed: The kind that can think like a Chessmaster and use some critical piece of knowledge of the plan to foil the villain’s aims while apparently “falling” into their trap, and the kind that is a master of thinking on their feet and making things up as they go along.