History Main / FlockofWolves

* In ''LightNovel/HeavyObject'' the city of Lost Angels was originally a normal city but the presence of a nearby Object maintenance base resulted in spies from the other nations infiltrating the city. Said spies created "gangs" to act as covers for their presence, which soon ballooned out of control. By the time the protagonists arrive, all of the civilians have long since left the city; everyone who remains is either a spy posing as a criminal or an actual criminal profiting off their conflict.

* In ''Literature/{{Reds}}'', following the successful revolution, the newly emergent UASR turns its attention on securing the home front. One of the main obstacles in the early days, is the True Democrat party, very much the biggest standing organisation of {{Evil Reactionar|y}}ies. As such the government initiates a large-scale infiltration of the organization with undercover agents and recruitment of informants amongst its members. As a result, this trope happens quite a lot, even to the point of farce. In one particularly infamous example, it turned out that the True Democrats' local chapter in Monroe, Louisiana was made up entirely of undercover agents and paid informants from {{StateSec}}, the Louisiana Red Guards, and the local parish militia.

Compare/contrast IAmSpartacus and ResistanceAsPlanned. Then there's MoleInCharge for when the leader is a mole, which may occur with this. See also MutualMascarade. For literal wolves, see SavageWolves and NobleWolf.

Compare/contrast IAmSpartacus and ResistanceAsPlanned. Then there's MoleInCharge for when the leader is a mole, which may occur with this. For literal wolves, see SavageWolves and NobleWolf.

* In the gacha/VN hybrid ''VisualNovel/MoeNinjaGirls'', hyperactive high school girl Akari sets out to establish a "Ninja-Seeking Club" after one of her class' two new transfer students, [[OccidentalOtaku Johnny]], comes to school swearing he'd seen a ninja. She ends up browbeating a bunch of other students (including the main character, the ''other'' new transfer student) into joining the club LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya-style, oblivious to the fact that [[RealAfterAll the ninja Johnny saw]] had been attempting to assassinate him- because he's a rogue ninja himself. And then, after being unable to kill the main character, the assassin also joins the club. And then the cute underclassman Akari forcibly recruits also turns out to be a trainee ninja (with [[HeadPet the pink rabbit that sits on her head]] being her ninja familiar). Also, the school principal also has ties to several ninja clans, which is why there are so many ninjas enrolled in this school. And it turns that both the sultry upperclassman member and ''Akari's best friend'' are kunoichi employed by the school. And of course, [[LockedOutOfTheLoop Akari and Johnny remain completely unaware of this]]. And then after Akari eventually finds out, [[UpToEleven it turns out that, unbeknownst to her, her parents were ninjas from the same village as the protagonist, explaining her own natural athleticism]]. [[ButtMonkey So it's just Johnny then.]]

* The Website/BabylonBee video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmJ0HDbZi5M FBI Busts FBI Plot]].

* The Communist Party of Great Britain during the Cold War consisted of around a 35-35-30 split of Security Service agents, KGB agents, and genuine members...many of whom would either quit or join one of the other two groups.

* [[https://www.theonion.com/klan-rally-70-percent-undercover-reporters-1819566475 This]] article from ''Website/TheOnion'' parodies the rumor that the UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan consists mostly of undercover policemen. Conversely, they also once made a reference to a child porn site being busted by authorities, and every single visitor to the site claimed to be a concerned citizen trying to infiltrate the site and bring it down from the inside.

** A RunningGag is that whenever we see the mob playing poker, they have [[FiveAceCheater impossibly good hands.]] One episode shows a shot of their hands where ''all but one of the cards'' is an ace, many of which aren't even aces of standard card suits.

** A RunningGag is that whenever we see the mob playing poker, they have [[TheMagicPokerEquation impossibly good hands.]] One episode shows a shot of their hands where ''all but one of the cards'' is an ace, many of which aren't even aces of standard card suits.

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* In [[http://www.oglaf.com/kingshaped/1/ one strip]] of ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' (warning, most of the series is '''''very''''' {{NSFW}}), a king's aides reveal themselves as shapeshifting assassins, only for [[ThisWasHisTrueForm the king's death to reveal]] [[MoleInCharge he was another shapeshifter]].

* On the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', [[PresidentEvil Schlatt's]] cabinet in [[FascistButInefficient Manburg]] turned out to be this. Among the four people in the cabinet (excluding Schlatt), Tubbo was a [[LaResistance Pogtopian]] spy, and Fundy was an even more secretive Pogtopian spy. As for the other two people in the cabinet, George was an AbsenteeActor whose presence in the cabinet was ''barely even relevant'' to the plot, and [[VicePresidentWho Quackity]] was a FriendlyEnemy whose allegiance to Schlatt [[TheStarscream fluctuated]] [[YesMan depending]] [[PunchClockVillain on the day]][[note]]To clarify, he sometimes tried to rein [[TheCaligula Schlatt's behaviour]] in to help him make more reasonable decisions (since he genuinely wanted to make the country better, but to no avail every time); at other times, [[TheStarscream plotted to]] remove Schlatt from power so that he could become President instead; and occasionally acted as a devoted YesMan; but ultimately, the situation was complicated by Schlatt's mistreatment of him regardless of his allegiance at the time[[/note]] but eventually stood up for himself and left to join Pogtopia anyway. [[spoiler:By the Manburg-Pogtopia War, out of Schlatt's four main cabinet members, three of them were fighting on Pogtopia's behalf, and George didn't even show up to the final battle.]]

* The German extreme right-wing party NPD (Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, National-democratic Party of Germany) is [[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/mar/19/thefarright.germany infiltrated heavily]] by the Verfassungsschutz (Protectors of the Constitution, Germany's domestic intelligence agency). When talking about disbanding the party, the highest court ruled that with so many protectors in the party -- which would all be exempt from prosecution -- any abolishment trial would be doomed to fail. In fact, it seems that many of these planted moles are using their immunity and the paycheck from the Verfassungsschutz to actually help the party to survive and thus guarantee their own job security (if the NPD were abolished, the Verfassungsschutz would likely not need as large a staff). In one case, a high member of the NPD stated openly that without being paid from the Verfassungsschutz, he wouldn't have been able to build up the party's branch in his state.

* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype 2}}'', with a new protagonist and Mercer more intelligently leading the infection side, it goes further as you find out quite a few high-ranking Blackwatch scientists have been turned into [[HumanoidAbomination intelligent infected]] just like yourself. Of course, you find them when ''you'' infiltrate the high-security labs they are in charge of.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' has [[spoiler:the Bunker Hill merchants. All four of them are informants for The Institute, and seem to have no clue the other three are doing the same thing.]]

* This is a common plot in the ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'' series. In each game, nine people are kidnapped and forced to play a DeadlyGame by someone called "Zero".
** In ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'', [[spoiler:seven of the players were involved in some way with a past Nonary Game held nine years prior, and an eighth is the mother of two participants in that game. On top of that, the only two non-players who show up during the plot were responsible for planning that game.]] The only characters with no connection to any of this are [[spoiler:Junpei (the POV character) and Alice (who is only in the epilogue)]], and both of them are indirectly part of the backstory.
** In ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'', [[spoiler:four of the players actively worked to create the game, and another four can at least make an educated guess as to Zero's identity]]. The only two people who are as innocent as they claim are [[spoiler:an amnesiac and a young child, the former of whom plays a significant part in the game's creation]].
** Those kidnapped in ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'' are test subjects for a government experiment, and yet most of them are there illegitimately. [[spoiler:Akane, Sigma, and Phi are only there to conduct corporate espionage, Junpei threatened someone to get himself on the list, and the person supposedly known as "Q" is an artificial intelligence who was created specifically for the experiment. Oh, and Mira is a serial killer who Zero doesn't hold to the same rules as everyone else.]]

%%* [[http://adventurers-comic.com/d/20011120.html One of Khrima's plans]] in ''Webcomic/{{ADVENTURERS}}!''

* ''Series/CSIMiami'' had a version that, [[AlwaysMurder as usual]], became murderous but didn't start that way. As the investigation on the murder of a cast member of a ''Series/JerseyShore'' {{Expy}} goes on, the Miami-Dade Police crew discovers that not a single one of the "party-frat" people on the cast were [[MeanCharacterNiceActor as debauched as they first looked]], going anywhere from geniuses to a priest-in-training that wanted to use his show cred once the run was over to try to attract people to church. The murderer turned out to be a HollywoodNerd M.I.T. graduate that wanted a social life and popularity ''that badly''.

Compare/contrast IAmSpartacus and ResistanceAsPlanned. For literal wolves, see SavageWolves and NobleWolf.

* The German extreme right-wing party NPD (Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, National-democratic Party of Germany) is infiltrated heavily by the Verfassungsschutz (Protectors of the Constitution, Germany's domestic intelligence agency). When talking about disbanding the party, the highest court ruled that with so many protectors in the party -- which would all be exempt from prosecution -- any abolishment trial would be doomed to fail. In fact, it seems that many of these planted moles are using their immunity and the paycheck from the Verfassungsschutz to actually help the party to survive and thus guarantee their own job security (if the NPD were abolished, the Verfassungsschutz would likely not need as large a staff). In one case, a high member of the NPD stated openly that without being paid from the Verfassungsschutz, he wouldn't have been able to build up the party's branch in his state.

* In ''Literature/{{Reds}}'', following the successful revolution, the newly emergent UASR turns its attention on securing the home front. One of the main obstacles in the early days, is the True Democrat party, very much the biggest standing organisation of {{Evil Reactionar|y}}ies. As such the government initiates a large-scale infiltration of the organization with undercover agents and recruitment of informants amongst its members. As a result, this trope quite a lot, even to the point of farce. In one particularly infamous example, it turned out that the True Democrats' local chapter in Monroe, Louisiana was made up entirely of undercover agents and paid informants from {{StateSec}}, the Louisiana Red Guards, and the local parish militia.

* ''Literature/GoodOmens'': As seen in the the page quote, an agent of [=MI9=] tries to recruit someone to join, only for them to turn out to already be a fellow [=MI9=] member.

* ''Literature/GoodOmens'': As seen in the the page quote, one scene involves a [=MI9=] member trying to recruit someone who turns out to also be a [=MI9=] member.

* ''Let's Go to Golgotha'' by Garry Kilworth is about time travel tourism where one of the most popular trips is Christians travelling back in time to witness the Crucifixion. The tourists are disguised as Jewish citizens. In the end, the protagonist suddenly realizes that the crowd condemning Jesus to the cross is composed entirely of tourists from the future, and that no actual Jewish Jerusalemites of 33 A.D. are present at all.

-->'''Chakotay:''' You were working for her, Seska was working for them -- was anyone on that damn ship working for me?

* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' devolves into a three-way flock-of-infiltrators war between the [[ZombieApocalypse Blacklight infected]], [[EvilArmy Blackwatch]], and the player character [[HumanoidAbomination Alex Mercer]]. Blacklight can infect regular civilians and turn them into manchurian agents who then infest apartment buildings and turn them into infected hives, Blackwatch has hundreds of sleeper agents hiding in the city in plain sight, and Mercer can masquerade as any human he has eaten.
** ''VideoGame/{{Prototype 2}}'' seems to have the same setup (albeit with a new protagonist and Alex [[NotAsYouKnewThem now leading the infection]]), but as the game progresses, it's revealed that practically half of Blackwatch is secretly working for Mercer.