History Main / TreacherousQuestGiver

* Played with in ''Fifty/Fifty'': when [[{{CIA}} Martin Sprue]] hired [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Sam French and Jake Wyer]] to help [[LaResistance Akhantar]] overthrow General Bosavi, he is completely sincere, and genuinely wants to help the people of Tekara. Then Bosavi cuts a deal with the US government, and Sprue gets ordered to sell out Jake and Frenchie.

* Played with in ''Fifty/Fifty'': when [[CIA Martin Sprue]] hired [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Sam French and Jake Wyer]] to help [[LaResistance Akhantar]] overthrow General Bosavi, he is completely sincere, and genuinely wants to help the people of Tekara. Then Bosavi cuts a deal with the US government, and Sprue gets ordered to sell out Jake and Frenchie.

* In the DoctorWho story arc "The Key to Time", the White Guardian commissions the Doctor to retrieve the fragments of the Key to Time to keep them out of the hands of the Black Guardian. [[spoiler: It turns out that it was the Black Guardian in disguise all along, using the Doctor as a convenient collecting tool.]]

* In ''EtrianOdyssey II'', a couple of SideQuests were actually posted by bandits taking advantage of the noticeboard system to lure unwary adventurers into traps. The bartender who manages the request system is understandably ''pissed'' when he finds out, and warns your Guild when they take the second mission.

* Pretty much the entire plot of [[spoiler:Mortal Kombat: Deception]]

* [[RatchetAndClank Ratchet & Clank]] spend the first half of the game trying to contact [[TheMole Captain Quark]], who sends them to his hidden base planet in order to demonstrate their heroic worth. [[spoiler: Or, y'know, kill them on the orders of the BigBad he's been working for in exchange for [[MoneyDearBoy corporate sponsorship]].]]
** [[RatchetAndClank Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando]]: It turns out the whole time, the man the duo have been working for was [[spoiler: Captain Quark]] in disguise.

* In {{Homestuck}}, the guide for both [[VigilanteMan Vigilante Troll]] Terezi and [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder "bluh bluh huge bitch"]] Vriska is the [[spoiler: Black Queen, who they exiled via Operation Regisurp]], guiding them to go against the plan with her own motives to [[spoiler: destroy her prototyping ring so that [[TheMole Archagent Jack Noir]] can't get his hands on it.]]

* Guild Wars: Divinity coast, several prophecies mission before the last one, Possibly a few Palawa Joko quests.
* The Pope in Grandia 2 sends you to go collect all of the [[SealedEvilInACan pieces]] of Valmar, the god of evil, to be resealed. Unfortunately [[spoiler: it turns out his god, Granas, is [[GodIsDead dead]], and he's a bit [[GoMadFromTheRevelation insane]], and is now trying to resurrect the god of evil.]]

* The Illusive Man in MassEffect2, who feeds you misinformation about your former squadmates (he should know what Liara is doing, at least), leaks info about you to Alliance intelligence to further alienate you from old friends, and [[spoiler: sends you, without your knowledge, to spring a trap]].

Often overlaps with XanatosGambit, BatmanGambit, BitchInSheepsClothing, TheCakeIsALie, MacGuffinDeliveryService, and, clearly, requires an UnwittingPawn, or someone who [[{{ObfuscatingStupidity}} acts like one]] to [[{{ThirtyXanatosPileup}} further their own plan]]. If the QuestGiver is someone who CanNotTellALie, expect [[{{FromACertainPointOfView}} the truth to be bent unrecognizably]].

Often overlaps with XanatosGambit, BatmanGambit, BitchInSheepsClothing, TheCakeIsALie, MacGuffinDeliveryService, and, clearly, requires an UnwittingPawn, or someone who [[{{ObfuscatingStupidity}} acts like one]] to [[{{ThirtyXanatosPileup}} further their own plan]]. If the QuestGiver is someone who CanNotTellALie, expect [[{{FromACertainPointOfView}} the truth to bent unrecognizable]].

A common PlotTwist found in {{Role Playing Games}} and {{Video Game}}s, but also found in Adventure, Action, or anything that loosely resembles TheHerosJourney. When the QuestGiver directly tries to deceive the PC/Hero for their own hidden purposes. They have managed to disguise thier own XanatosGambit or BatmanGambit as the CallToAdventure. Upon finding out, TheHero must either [[{{RedemptionQuest}} change their goals]] , or simply go though with the evil-killing procedure that [[{{NiceJobFixingItVillain}} was so generously to mapped out for them]] in the first place.

** [[spoiler: Queen Anora]] betrays the party during her own rescue, once she suspects FailureIsTheOnlyOption. [[spoiler: If you decide she's not ruler material, she'll do it again at the Landsmeet.]] YourMileageMayVary on if this is ChronicBackstabbingDisorder [[spoiler: or just TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask]]
** [[spoiler: Flemmeth is priming the warden to conceive a [[{{MacGuffinGirl}} Mac Guffin Girl/Boy]] in a master plan to TakeOverTheWorld.]]

* Basically [[spoiler:Kreia]] in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''.

** The PC gathers items and eventually frees The Death Knight Teron Gorefiend. Players eventually fight him in the Raid Black Temple.. Known to be one of the hardest bosses in there.
* The crone you meet along the game's single longest questline who sends you to meet and revitalize Thorim [[spoiler:was Thorim's evil brother Lokar. Lokar humbles and enslaves the full-powered Thorim and then dares you to do something about it.]]

* OrderOfTheStick: Nale relies on Roy's willingness to accept a sidequest in order to send him on a useless quest for starmetal in order to slow him down.

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