History Main / HeelFaceMole

* Black Boy, a {{heel}} {{jobber}} who was fired from the IWA and told to go back to WWC, where he was a baby face. He should have at least been a suspected mole but was received as a baby{{face}} again, before he revealed himself not to be a mole. But not for the IWA but for the Dominican Republic! See he hated himself for being Puerto Rican but found a solution, be a Dominican Boy instead.

* Black Boy, a {{heel}} {{jobber}} who was fired from the IWA and told to go back to WWC. He should have been an obvious mole but was received as a baby{{face}} for a while, before he revealed himself not to be a mole for the IWA, but for the whole of Puerto Rico! See he hated himself for being Puerto Rican but found a solution, be a Dominican Boy instead.

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* In ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', [[spoiler: O'Brien pretends to be part of the resistance against Big Brother. It is implied that there is no actual resistance, just a Party-sponsored fake one used to catch "thoughtcriminals"]].

* In the second (or third) [[Film/FantasticFour Fantastic Four movie]], the Four are assisted in the Silver Surfer's capture by [[spoiler:Victor von Doom]]. They were reluctant at first, understandably and for good reason.

* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]'' episode [[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresMadLove "Mad Love"]], Harley Quinn sends a message saying that she's turned against the Joker because [[EvenEvilHasStandards he's gone too far]] and plans to kill everyone in Gotham City. It's actually a trap intended to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Batman]] so that Mistah J will [[FoeYay give up his obsession]] and start paying attention to her.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' episode based on ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}} III'', Alucard turned out to be one of these. This is not even close to the worst thing they did to his character.

* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]'' episode [[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresMadLove "Mad Love"]], Harley Quinn sends a message saying that she's turned against the Joker because [[EvenEvilHasStandards he's gone too far]] and plans to kill everyone in Gotham City. It's actually a trap intended to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Batman]] so that Mistah J will [FoeYay give up his obsession]] and start paying attention to her.

** Emperor Vondole of ''SecretOfMana'' pulls a similar stunt, but doesn't drag it out as long -- as soon as the heroes arrive at the planned conference with him, he throws them in the dungeon.

Compare FakeDefector, CivilianVillain, ReliableTraitor and DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent. Contrast ReformedButRejected. See also BecomingTheMask.

* In the ''CaptainNTheGameMaster'' episode based on ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}} III'', Alucard turned out to be one of these. This is not even close to the worst thing they did to his character.

--> ''Once a rabbit wanted to get to the other side of the lake. A crocodile told him, "You can ride on my back."
--> "But you will eat me", responded rabbit.
--> "I will not, I've changed," said crocodile. So rabbit sat on the crocodile's back. But when they were in the middle of the lake, crocodile started to eat rabbit.
-->"You lied to me!" screamed rabbit.
--> [[TheFarmerAndTheViper "I'm a crocodile. What were you expecting?"]]
---> '''Don Diego de la Vega''', '''{{Zorro}}'''

* [[spoiler:Constable Neyla]] from SlyCooper 2 is an interesting case. She pretends to be a double-agent who is slipping hints to the Cooper Gang behind Interpol's back, only to betray the Cooper Gang to Interpol. However, she later betrays Interpol, so she's really just looking out for herself.

* Constable Neyla from SlyCooper 2 is an interesting case. She pretends to be a double-agent who is slipping hints to the Cooper Gang behind Interpol's back, only to betray the Cooper Gang to Interpol. However, she later betrays Interpol, so she's really just looking out for herself.

* Averted in three consecutive episodes of ''[[Series/StargateSG1 Stargate SG-1]]'': Between the finale of Season 4 and the first episode of season 5, Apophis {{brainwashed}} Teal'c into believing he was one of these all along. He consequently behaved [[BrainwashedAndCrazy as though he were still militantly loyal to Apophis]]--until he was [[{{Deprogram}} deprogrammed]] in "Threshold". To nobody's great surprise, his [[HeelFaceTurn defection]] at the beginning was genuine after all--although it took a lot more than logic to convince him of that.
* Almost all of Mulder's informants in ''{{The X-Files}}'' are in fact loyal agents of The Consortium, engaged in a disinformation campaign to keep him distracted from what they don't want him to find out.
* Season 2 of ''{{Warehouse 13}}'': H.G. Wells rejoined the Warehouse just so she could [[spoiler:get ahold of the world's first weapon of mass destruction and use it to trigger another ice age.]] She does a HeelFaceTurn for real after the incident though, [[spoiler:to the point where at the end of Season 3, she sacrifices herself to save the protagonists from a bomb with the force of the entire German ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe Luftwaffe.]]'' Let me say that again: [[BigBulkyBomb THE ENTIRE. GERMAN. LUFTWAFFE.]]]]

* Seasons 3 through 5 of Supernatural had Ruby, a demon who appeared to be fighting alongside the Winchesters (or, more specifically, Sam) whilst on the run from her own kind. Except in the S5 season finale, [[spoiler:she turned out to have been the linchpin of Lilith's plan to break Lucifer out of Hell, and as she described herself, "the best of [the demons], the most loyal!"]]

* [[spoiler: [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Lotso]]]] actually becomes one at the end of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''.

* In the [[TheBible Bible]] it is unclear but reasonably deduced that King Saul, after two incidents, would only ''continue'' abusing his position as king whether David should succeed him or not.

** David's son Adonijah. ''Oh boy, Adonijah!''

** [[spoiler:Beatrice plays it straighter in EP 3.]]

* In ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'', the Decepticon subgroup claims that they want to defect from the Predacons and join the Autobots. (Since the Decepticons, in this continuity, are actually reprogrammed Autobots, this isn't as unlikely as it sounds.) Optimus Prime welcomes them happily, but their leader's acting abilities aren't quite up to the job, and he reveals that it's a scam just before the Decepticons can find out where the Autobots' secret base is.
* In one episode of Manga/InuYasha, Sango's [[{{Brainwashed}} brother Kohaku]] appears to be free from being brain-controlled, [[IdentityAmnesia Identity Amnesia included]]. However, at the end of the episode we see that he's still controlled by [[BigBad Naraku]], since it was all part of his insidious plan.
* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}} Best Wishes'' [[spoiler: Meowth pulled this, joining Ash's group for several episodes in order to lure them into a trap set by Team Rocket at Nimbasa City.]]
** Ash's Pikachu [[GenreSavvy didn't buy it]] for a second, glaring at him constantly.

* The PreCrisis [[{{Superman}} Luthor]] did this repeatedly. Because they were friends in their youth, {{Superman}} would usually give him a fair chance, even though he knew he could never fully trust him. In one famous [[WhatIf "Imaginary Story"]] by Jerry Seigel, this led to Luthor actually killing him.

* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull''. [[spoiler:Mack was a good guy turned bad turned good... but the last turn was a lie]].

* In ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', [[spoiler: O'Brien pretends to be part of the resistance against Big Brother. It is implied that there is no actual resistance, just a Party-sponsored fake one used to catch "thoughtcriminals"]].

* Happens in the classic Uncle Remus tale [[http://www.nexuslearning.net/books/Holt-EOL2/Collection%206/brerpossumpg1.htm Brer Possum's Dilemma.]]

* Subverted in ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Juliet was set up to do this but, unknown to Ben, she had turned for real.
* Averted in three consecutive episodes of ''[[Series/StargateSG1 Stargate SG-1]]'': Between the finale of Season 4 and the first episode of season 5, Apophis {{brainwashed}} Teal'c into believing he was one of these all along. He consequently behaved [[BrainwashedAndCrazy as though he were still militantly loyal to Apophis]]--until he was [[{{Deprogram}} deprogrammed]] in "Threshold". To nobody's great surprise, his [[HeelFaceTurn defection]] at the beginning was genuine after all--although it took a lot more than logic to convince him of that.

* Almost all of Mulder's informants in ''{{The X-Files}}'' are in fact loyal agents of The Consortium, engaged in a disinformation campaign to keep him distracted from what they don't want him to find out.
* Kashyk, the charming Devore inspector from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'''s "Counterpoint", defects from his species and seeks asylum aboard Voyager, romancing Janeway to get her to trust him. [[spoiler:She doesn't]].
* [[spoiler:Boomer]] does this in ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'' in order to [[spoiler:kidnap Hera]].

* From ''{{Glee}}'': Jesse St. James, who seemingly gave up his UCLA scholarship and position as [[OpposingSportsTeam lead male of]] [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter Vocal Adrenaline]] for Rachel. [[SarcasmMode Yeah, we'll give you a second to get over that shocking revelation]]. [[spoiler: Subverted, though, as it's revealed he was never a spy or a saboteur and reuniting Rachel and her mother was definitely not the motive anybody expected.]]
* Season 2 of ''{{Warehouse 13}}'': H.G. Wells rejoined the Warehouse just so she could [[spoiler:get ahold of the world's first weapon of mass destruction and use it to trigger another ice age.]] She does a HeelFaceTurn for real after the incident though, [[spoiler:to the point where at the end of Season 3, she sacrifices herself to save the protagonists from a bomb with the force of the entire German ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe Luftwaffe.]]'' Let me say that again: [[BigBulkyBomb THE ENTIRE. GERMAN. LUFTWAFFE.]]]]

* Kerrigan in ''{{Starcraft}}: Brood War'', who successfully pulls this scheme on several rival organizations simultaneously, ultimately playing them off each other to consolidate her control over the Zerg Swarm. [[MagnificentBastard "Pretty much the Queen Bitch of the Universe,"]] indeed.
** Duran does that too. Twice.

* [[spoiler:Terrence]] in ''KateModern'', despite having secretly become a much nastier villain than before.

** Most likely it was the latter. If ''7'' had been released before the cartoon, Bass would have been Dr. Wily's offsider and Proto Man would have kept his canonical role of mysterious loner big brother. Probably. With ''that'' cartoon, you never know.
** In ''3'', Dr. Wily repents and works with Dr. Light. [[HijackedByGanon It ends predictably.]]

* In the ''CaptainNTheGameMaster'' episode based on ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}} III'', Alucard turned out to be one of these. This is not even close to the worst thing they did to his character.
* A ''USAcres'' segment from ''GarfieldAndFriends'' had Gort pulling this on Orson and the gang.
* ''CodenameKidsNextDoor'' had one of these in Op. U.N.D.E.R.C.O.V.E.R., where one of the Delightful Children joins the KND. [[spoiler:Of course, in this case, all the good guys except [[DumbMuscle Numbuh Four]] [[GenreSavvy knew he was lying]].]]
* ''TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'' episode "Can a Luthor Change His Spots?" Luthor convinces Perry White that he's gone straight and is given a laboratory in the Daily Planet building. Jimmy Olson correctly believes that Luthor is lying and tries to catch him committing a crime.