History RewardedAsATraitorDeserves / RealLife

* In [[https://www.linkedin.com/posts/800poundguerrilla_full-interview-with-yuri-bezmenov-the-four-activity-6865993506284986368-k2cZ this interview]] with Yuri Bezmenov ([[DefectorFromCommieLand himself a traitor, as a former KGB agent]] who had been assigned to India), he notes that a major step in the Soviet Union's infiltration and subversion of other countries was getting politicians and other figures of major public influence to undermine people's faith in non-communist government, and setting those loyal to them against all who disagree, with the expectation that, when the Soviet Union takes over, they would be rewarded for betraying their country and its original principles. As he elaborates afterwards (in his own words):

* In [[https://www.linkedin.com/posts/800poundguerrilla_full-interview-with-yuri-bezmenov-the-four-activity-6865993506284986368-k2cZ this interview]] with Yuri Bezmenov ([[DefectorFromCommieLand himself a traitor, as a former KGB agent]] who had been assigned to India), he notes that a major step in the Soviet Union's infiltration and subversion of other countries was getting politicians and other figures of major public influence to undermine people's faith in non-communist government, and setting those loyal to them against all who disagree, with the expectation that, when the Soviet Union takes over, they would be rewarded for betraying their own country and its original principles. As he elaborates afterwards (in his own words):

* In [[https://www.linkedin.com/posts/800poundguerrilla_full-interview-with-yuri-bezmenov-the-four-activity-6865993506284986368-k2cZ this interview]] with former KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov ([[DefectorFromCommieLand himself a traitor, as a former KGB agent]] who had been assigned to India), he notes that a major step in the Soviet Union's infiltration and subversion of other countries was getting politicians and other figures of major public influence to undermine people's faith in non-communist government, and setting those loyal to them against all who disagree, with the expectation that, when the Soviet Union takes over, they would be rewarded for betraying their own country and its original principles. As he elaborates afterwards (in his own words):

* In [[https://www.linkedin.com/posts/800poundguerrilla_full-interview-with-yuri-bezmenov-the-four-activity-6865993506284986368-k2cZ this interview]] with former KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov ([[DefectorFromCommieLand himself a traitor, as a former KGB agent]] who had been assigned to India), he notes that a major step in the Soviet Union's infiltration and subversion of other countries was getting politicians and other figures of major public influence to undermine people's faith in non-communist government, and setting those loyal to them against all who disagree, with the expectation that, when the Soviet Union takes over, they will be rewarded for betraying their own country. As he elaborates afterwards (in his own words):

* In [[https://www.linkedin.com/posts/800poundguerrilla_full-interview-with-yuri-bezmenov-the-four-activity-6865993506284986368-k2cZ this interview]] with former KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov ([[DefectorFromCommieLand himself a traitor, as a former KGB agent]] who had been assigned to India), he notes that a major step in the Soviet Union's infiltration and subversion of other countries was getting politicians and other figures of major public influence to undermine people's faith in non-communist government, and setting those loyal to them against all who disagree, with the expectation that, when the Soviet Union takes over, they will be rewarded for betraying their own country. As he elaborates immediately after (in his own words):

--> '''Yuri Bezmenov''': [... ] When their job is completed, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they are not needed any more.]] They know too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist-Leninists come to power—obviously they get offended—they think that they will come to power. That will never happen, of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot.

--> '''Yuri Bezmenov''': When their job is completed, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they are not needed any more.]] They know too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist-Leninists come to power—obviously they get offended—they think that they will come to power. That will never happen, of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot.

*** Pompey had previously done the same when his previous nemesis Quintus Sertorius (a rebellious Roman general who essentially tried to create a second Rome in Hispania) was assassinated by one of his own generals. Said general surrendered to Pompey, who had him killed on the spot.
*** Averted with Quintus Dellius, who betrayed Mark Antony during the Battle of Actium and took the battle plans with him, which led to the latter's decisive defeat. While Octavian, later Emperor Augustus, praised him, later historians gave Dellius the derogatory name "horse changer of the civil war", having earlier defected from Caesar's assassin Cassius to Mark Antony.
*** However, when Theodorus, the tutor of Mark Antony's heir Antyllus, betrayed him to Octavian, the future emperor sentenced Theodorus to death via crucifixion, after first beheading Antyllus. Theodorus's official charge was stealing the jewellery of the deceased Antyllus, but whether this was a convenient excuse for Octavian to eliminate potential future traitors is anyone's guess.

** The trope was set to be repeated, but {{subverted|Trope}} with Corocotta, who some have for a native leader in the Cantabrian Wars (the Roman source merely speaks of "a bandit in Spain"): the Romans offered 200,000 sestertii to the man that brought him to them; hearing of the reward, [[RefugeInAudacity Corocotta himself]] went to the Romans and demanded the reward, and the Romans were so impressed with his balls of steel that they decided to pay him and let him go.

* Sadly subverted in the case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iva_Toguri_D%27Aquino Iva Toguri D'Aquino]], allegedly one of the voices behind TokyoRose, a number of female propaganda broadcasters for Imperial Japan. Following the war, Toguri was convicted of treason, stripped of her citizenship, and given a 10 year prison sentence, of which she served six. Despite skepticism towards her guilt, it was not until 1974 that her case was reexamined by a journalist, who found out that two key witness lied under oath due to the FBI threatening them with their own treason charges if they did not cooperate. Furthermore, many of the Allied troops and prisoners of war who wrote her radio scripts defended her, noting her smuggling of food for imprisoned servicemen and [[SoBadItsGood ineffectiveness of her broadcasts as propaganda]], and US military investigators found no evidence of her involvement in any treachery. She was investigated and charged nevertheless due to unscrupulous gossip columnists exaggerating her guilt, which in turn led to the [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion public turning against her]]. She was eventually given a presidential pardon in 1977, as well as an award for bravery by the WWII Veterans Committee prior to her death in 2006.

* American voters seem to feel this way in regard to people who switch parties to win elections. Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter lost his primary after switching to a Democrat after over thirty years as a Republican senator. In Alabama, Representative Parker Griffith switched to the Republicans barely a year after being elected as a Democrat and was hammered in a huge defeat in the Republican primary. On the other hand, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shelby Richard Shelby]] (also from Alabama) jumped ship to the Republicans in 1994 (the ''day after'' the party's midterm landslide!) and has been easily reelected in every election since.
** Subverted with the Dixiecrats. The South used to be solidly Democratic because the Republicans were the party of Lincoln, who had conquered the South and taken away their slaves. Likewise, many Blacks voted for the Republican party, because their former slave masters were for the Democrats. The Democrats, however, were a highly populist party, and over time both parties became increasingly progressive, a trend which continued into the early 20th century. When FDR implemented many policies in the 1930s that helped Blacks, many Blacks defected to the Democratic party, and the Democratic party became progressively less racist. Eventually, the Democrats embraced desegregation and equal rights for people of all races. This enraged the southern Democrats, who were conservative and deeply racist, who briefly formed the so-called Dixiecrats before defecting en-masse to the Republican party over the course of several decades, a process accelerated by Richard Nixon taking advantage of them via the so-called Southern Strategy - appealing to Southern racists in order to get elected in 1968, but without any real intention of getting rid of the rights gained by Blacks. It worked, but in the process the Republican party ended up picking up virtually all of the conservatives in the United States, concentrating them all into the same party. Once Nixon fell, it gained control of the Republican party and massively changed its agenda, leading to the so-called Moral Majority and Ronald Reagan. This was one of the most important shifts in American political history and redefined the Republican party into what it is today. However, the modern Republican party frequently tries to pretend it ''never happened'' and still tries to cash in on the "party of Lincoln" bit to encourage Black citizens to vote for them.

* This was the cause of the so-called "X-odus" of artists from Creator/MarvelComics in the early 1990s, when they formed Creator/ImageComics. When creators such as Creator/RobLiefeld, Creator/JimLee, Whilce Portico and Marc Silversti started selling massive numbers of books the editor Bob Harras kept giving them more and more authority, steamrolling the other creatives involved and alienating people who had worked for Marvel for decades and made it the powerhouse it was. The most notable case of this was the alienation of Creator/ChrisClaremont, which lead to him leaving the X-Men after writing it for nearly thirty years. The move to Image was at the time perceived as being ego-driven, with people assuming the artists left because they wanted even more power than they already had. However, many years after the fact, Rob Liefeld said that they were actually shocked at how badly Marvel had treated Claremont, and realized that once they were no longer the flavor-of-the-day the editors would turn on them as well.

* Sadly subverted in the case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iva_Toguri_D%27Aquino Iva Toguri D'Aquino]], allegedly one of the voices behind TokyoRose, a number of female propaganda broadcasters for Imperial Japan. Following the war, Toguri was convicted of treason, stripped of her citizenship, and given a 10 year prison sentence, of which she served six. Despite skepticism towards her guilt, it was not until 1974 that her case was reexamined by a journalist, who found out that two key witness lied under oath due to the FBI threatening them with their own treason charges if they did not cooperate. Furthermore, many of the Allied troops and prisoners of war who wrote her radio scripts defended her, noting her smuggling of food for imprisoned servicemen and [[SoBadItsGood ineffectiveness of her broadcasts as propaganda]], and US military investigators found no evidence of her involvement in any treachery. She was investigated and charged nevertheless due to unscrupulous gossip columnists exaggerating her guilt, which in turn leading to the [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion public turning against her]]. She was eventually given a presidential pardon in 1977, as well as an award for bravery by the WWII Veterans Committee prior to her death in 2006.

* UsefulNotes/JohnWilkesBooth was - by historical notes - expecting to be hailed as a hero in the south for assassinating UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln. What he found instead was that the southern politicians condemned him as a traitor to the newly reunited nation and left him to his fate because the war had ended and they were now ''very'' concerned that the north would retaliate to extremes and tax them to oblivion - if not just send the army to wipe them out. They wept with the rest of the nation at Lincoln's death and shed no tears when Booth was finally caught up to by the military, trapped in a burning barn, and shot through the neck by a rouge Union soldier 12 days after Lincoln's murder. [[DeathByIrony To add insult to injury]], the family housing Booth betrayed him by locking him in the barn in his sleep and planned to report him under suspicion that he and his partner would steal horses from them (though they were unaware he had assassinated Lincoln).

* This was the cause of the so-called "X-odus" of artists from Creator/MarvelComics in the early 1990s, when they formed Creator/ImageComics. When creators such as Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee, Whilce Portico and Marc Silversti started selling massive numbers of books the editor Bob Harras kept giving them more and more authority, steamrolling the other creatives involved and alienating people who had worked for Marvel for decades and made it the powerhouse it was. The most notable case of this was the alienation of Chris Claremont, which lead to him leaving the X-Men after writing it for nearly thirty years. The move to Image was at the time perceived as being ego-driven, with people assuming the artists left because they wanted even more power than they already had. However, many years after the fact, Rob Liefeld said that they were actually shocked at how badly Marvel had treated Claremont, and realized that once they were no longer the flavor-of-the-day the editors would turn on them as well.

* This was the cause of the so-called "X-odus" of artists from Creator/MarvelComics in the early 1990s, when they formed Creator/ImageComics. When creators such as Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee, Whilce Portico and Marc Silversti started selling massive numbers of books the editor Bob Harras kept giving them more and more authority, steamrolling the other creatives involved and alienating people who had worked for Marvel for decades and made it the powerhouse it was. The most notable case of this was the alienation of Chris Claremont, which lead to him leaving the X-Men after writing it for nearly thirty years. The move to Image was at the time perceived as being ego-driven, and the artists left because they wanted even more power than they already had. However, many years after the fact, Rob Liefeld said that they were actually shocked at how badly Marvel had treated Claremont, and realized that once they were no longer the flavor-of-the-day the editors would turn on them as well.

* UsefulNotes/JohnWilkesBooth was - by historical notes - expecting to be hailed as a hero in the south for assassinating UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln. What he found instead was that the southern politicians condemned him as a traitor to the newly reunited nation and left him to his fate because the war had ended and they were now ''very'' concerned that the north would retaliate to extremes and tax them to oblivion - if not just send the army to wipe them out. They wept with the rest of the nation at Lincoln's death and shed no tears when Booth was finally caught up to by the military, trapped in a burning barn, and shot through the neck by a rouge Union soldier 12 days after Lincoln's murder. [[DeathByIrony To add insult to injury, the people housing him sold him out to the army and locked him in the barn in his sleep]].

* UsefulNotes/JohnWilkesBooth was - by historical notes - expecting to be hailed as a hero in the south for assassinating UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln. What he found instead was that the southern politicians condemned him as a traitor to the newly reunited nation and left him to his fate because the war had ended and they were now ''very'' concerned that the north would retaliate to extremes and tax them to oblivion - if not just send the army to wipe them out. They wept with the rest of the nation at Lincoln's death and shed no tears when Booth was finally caught up to by the military, trapped in a burning barn, and shot through the neck 12 days after Lincoln's murder. [[DeathByIrony To add insult to injury the people housing him sold him out to the army and locked him in the barn in his sleep]].

* UsefulNotes/JohnWilkesBooth was - by historical notes - expecting to be hailed as a hero in the south for assassinating UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln. What he found instead was that the southern politicians condemned him as a traitor to the newly reunited nation and left him to his fate because the war had ended and they were now ''very'' concerned that the north would retaliate to extremes and tax them to oblivion - if not just send the army to wipe them out. They wept with the rest of the nation at Lincoln's death and shed no tears when Booth was lynched by being trapped in a burning barn 12 days after Lincoln's murder.

* Olympic figure skater Beverly Zhu was a Chinese-American who after failing to qualify for America, was offered a chance to compete for RedChina in the 2022 Winter Olympics on the grounds that she defect and renounce her U.S. citizenship. After doing so and even changing her name to Zhu Yi, she ended up falling during her routine multiple times and breaking down into tears. Both American and Chinese viewers mocked her heavily for being a traitor and a fraud respectively who did it {{all for nothing}}, and the Chinese government was so ashamed [[BannedInChina they attempted to erase all footage of her performance]].

** When Pompey lost the CivilWar against UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, he fled to Egypt, where he was assassinated by the very people he thought would give him shelter. Caesar travelled to Egypt in pursuit of Pompey and he was presented with Pompey's head by Ptolemy XIII's chancellor, Pothinus. Pothinus planned to win Caesar to his side with this action, but this was an EpicFail because of ValuesDissonance: rather than grateful, Caesar was [[AntagonistInMourning enraged]] to see that [[EveryoneHasStandards a consul of Rome]] and [[FriendlyEnemies lifelong personal friend of his]] like Pompey had been betrayed, butchered and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking insulted]] by "barbarians"[[note]]It is also speculated that Caesar planned to publically forgive Pompey once he had captured him [[SlaveToPR to boost his own reputation]], something Caesar had done to other enemies in the past[[/note]], and demanded the beheading of Pothinus, which he was granted.

* This was the cause of the so-called "X-odus" of artists from Creator/MarvelComics in the early 1990s, when they formed Creator/ImageComics. When creators such as Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee, Whilce Portico and Marc Silversti started selling massive numbers of books the editor Bob Harras kept giving them more and more authority, steamrolling the other creatives involved and alienating people who had worked for Marvel for decades and made it the powerhouse it was. The most notable case of this was the alienation of Chris Claremont, which lead to him leaving the X-Men after writing it for nearly thirty years. The move to Image was usually perceived as being ego-driven, and the artists left because they wanted even more power than they already had. However many years after the fact Rob Liefeld said that they were shocked at how badly Marvel had treated Claremont, and they realized that once they were no longer the flavor-of-the-day that the editors would turn on them as well.

** When Pompey lost the CivilWar against UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, he fled to Egypt, where he was assassinated by the very people he thought would give him shelter. Caesar traveled to Egypt in pursuit of Pompey and he was presented with Pompey's head by Ptolemy XIII's chancellor, Pothinus. Pothinus planned to win Caesar to his side with this action, but this was an EpicFail because of ValuesDissonance: rather than grateful, Caesar was [[AntagonistInMourning enraged]] to see that [[EveryoneHasStandards a consul of Rome]] and [[FriendlyEnemies lifelong personal friend of his]] like Pompey had been betrayed, butchered and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking insulted]] by "barbarians"[[note]]It is also speculated that Caesar planned to publically forgive Pompey once he had captured him [[SlaveToPR to boost his own reputation]], something Caesar had done to other enemies in the past[[/note]], and demanded the beheading of Pothinus, which he was granted.

** During his [[MakeAnExampleOfThem punitive invasion of the Khwarezmian Empire]], while besieging the city of Otrar for five months in 1219, where the man responsible for provoking the invasion, Inalchuq [[note]]Inalchuq seized a Mongol trade caravan that came to Otrar, executed the traders as spies, then murdered the Mongol diplomats Genghis sent to demand a explanation[[/note]] was holed up, a traitorous sub-commander named Qaracha defected with his men and opened the city gates to the Mongols. Qaracha and his fellow defectors were killed along with the rest of the city's defenders by the Mongols, who declared they would not trust traitors to serve them.
* Here's a few examples from UsefulNotes/{{England}}:
** Pre-Norman Conquest English nobleman and HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Eadric Streona switched sides multiple times during the wars between the Danes and the English and gave terrible advice to the English king Aethelred the Unready.[[note]]This is the reason for his modern nickname of "the Unready". "Unready" is a pun on the Old English word "unraed", which roughly means "poorly counseled", as his name Aethelred means "wise counsel". The nickname is because he trusted the wrong people.[[/note]] When the viking king Cnut the Great had finally conquered England with the help of Eadric's treachery he invited him to a feast were he handed out titles to all of his followers. When Eadric's turn came, Cnut bade him kneel and then told his right-hand man Eirik jarl to "''[[BondOneLiner Give this man what we owe him]]''". Eirik jarl took an axe and chopped off Eadric's head.

** In the 1280s, Dafydd ap Gruffydd conned his brother, the Prince of Wales Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, into betraying a peace agreement with King Edward I of England. He then turned on Llewelyn, got him killed, and proclaimed ''himself'' the Prince of Wales. He was ultimately captured, sentenced to death for "high treason", and became first recorded example of someone in England being "[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill hanged, drawn, and quartered]]".
* Hungarian tradition has the story of György Szondi, who heroically defended a small fort against the Turkish forces led by Hadim Ali Pasha in the 16th century. The story goes that a tanner from the fort snuck over to the enemy camp and offered to give away the weak points of the fort to Ali in return for "as much gold as his skins can hold". One guess on how Ali (an honorable man)[[note]]He was such a WorthyOpponent to Szondi that at least according to literary tradition Szondi sent his two pages to Ali before the battle to get them out of the fight. After the castle was lost, the two pages still sung an elegy for their lord there and the Pasha's soldier sent to get them to come back to the Pasha's camp catches himself admitting Szondi fought like [[Literature/{{TheShahnameh}} Rustam.]] [[/note]] decided to pay the reward after they won.
* In 1306, Kildrummy Castle in Aberdeen was betrayed to Edward I of England by the castle blacksmith, Osborne, in exchange for gold. When the battle was won and as Osborne came to collect his gold, [[EvenEvilHasStandards the English]] [[SarcasmMode rewarded Osborne]] by [[HoistByHisOwnPetard pouring molten gold down his throat]].
* {{Averted}} in the case of UsefulNotes/BenedictArnold. While not especially well-liked by the British, he was (despite his treasonous plot ''failing'') still paid and given a commission as a brigadier general in the British Army. He still died in debt and despised by the few million people he had betrayed, though. It should be noted that the British perceived him as abandoning treachery, not engaging in it. He was, after all, switching sides from rebelling against the king to fighting for him.

** In the end, the Nazis "rewarded" all Jews equally: it didn't matter how enthusiastically you collaborated with them, in the end, you would end up being shot or sent to the gas chamber. You could win a bit more time and better surroundings for yourself if you turned traitor, however. A big example would be the ''Sonderkommando'', who assisted the SS in burning the bodies of dead prisoners and ushering other prisoners into the gas chambers but were taken out and shot on a fixed basis for [[HeKnowsTooMuch knowing too much]]. (However, [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse not all]] ''[[AnOfferYouCantRefuse Sonderkommando]]'' [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse collaborated willingly]].)

* The dealings between Britain and Hussein bin Ali can be classified as this, although the 'reward' was more a result of British opportunism than a principal stance against betrayal. Hussein, a subject of the Ottoman Empire, was persuaded during World War I to start an Arab revolt against the Ottomans, being promised an Arab kingdom in exchange. Due to other secret deals the British had made on the side however (the Sykes-Picot agreement being the most prominent one), said kingdom turned out to be much smaller than Hussein had envisioned. Furious about the betrayal, he refused to ratify the treaty of Versailles or any other treaty with the British and as a result the British stood by as his kingdom was conquered by the Saudis.

* American voters seem to feel this way in regards to people who switch parties to win elections. Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter lost his primary after switching to a Democrat after over thirty years as a Republican senator. In Alabama, Representative Parker Griffith switched to the Republicans barely a year after being elected as a Democrat and was hammered in a huge defeat in the Republican primary. On the other hand, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shelby Richard Shelby]] (also from Alabama) jumped ship to the Republicans in 1994 (the ''day after'' the party's midterm landslide!) and has been easily reelected in every election since.
** Subverted with the Dixiecrats. The South used to be solidly Democratic because the Republicans were the party of Lincoln, who had conquered the South and taken away their slaves. Likewise, many Blacks voted for the Republican party, because their former slave masters were for the Democrats. The Democrats, however, were a highly populist party, and over time both parties became increasingly progressive, a trend which continued into the early 20th century. When FDR implemented many policies in the 1930s that helped Blacks, many Blacks defected to the Democratic party, and the Democratic party became progressively less racist. Eventually, the Democrats embraced desegregation and equal rights for people of all races. This enraged the southern Democrats, who were conservative and deeply racist, who briefly formed the so-called Dixiecrats before defecting en-masse to the Republican party over the course of several decades, a process accelerated by Richard Nixon taking advantage of them via the so-called Southern Strategy - appealing to Southern racists in order to get elected in 1968, but without any real intention of getting rid of the rights gained by Blacks. It worked, but in the process the Republican party ended up picking up virtually all of the conservatives in the United States, concentrating them all into the same party. Once Nixon fell, they gained control of the Republican party and massively changed its agenda, leading to the so-called Moral Majority and Ronald Reagan. This was one of the most important shifts in American political history and redefined the Republican party into what it is today. However, the modern Republican party frequently tries to pretend it ''never happened'' and still tries to cash in on the "party of Lincoln" bit to encourage Black citizens to vote for them.

* UsefulNotes/JohnWilkesBooth was - by historical notes - expecting to be hailed as a hero in the south for assassinating UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln. What he found instead was that the southern politicians condemned him as a traitor to the newly reunited nation and left him to his fate because the war had ended and they were now ''very'' concerned that the north would retaliate to extremes and tax them to oblivion - if not just send the army to wipe them out. They weeped with the rest of the nation at Lincoln's death and shed no tears when Booth was lynched by being trapped in a burning barn 12 days after Lincoln's murder.

* Another common not-so-fatal variant is often discussed in advice columns when mistresses write in seeking advice on the adulterous men they're trying to persuade to get a divorce. As the columnist almost invariably points out, if a man was willing to dump his wife for you because he got tired of her, how long do you really think you have before he'll get tired of you and start cheating on you too? The best bet for a mistress, therefore, is to "beat the rush" and dump her adulterous boyfriend preemptively.

* Some of Stalin's first victims in the purges were people who abused the trust of the Tsar's government, the whites, or other anti-communist forces to aid the revolution; he made the (mostly accurate) assumption that these people had little genuine love for communism but could simply see the writing on the wall and chose to aid who they perceived would win in the end: if these people had betrayed one government, in Stalin's mind, nothing would stop them from doing so again. Then he effectively [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness purged the bolsheviks as soon as he could get younger loyal followers to act as enforcers]]. After all, these people had proved that they had a revolutionary streak.

* Aung San Suu Kyi was a well-known activist known for her various periods of exile from, or imprisonment by, Burma/Myanmar in the latter quarter of the 20th century and into the [=2000s=]. After her final release from prison in 2010, she stood for election, and was voted into Parliament in 2012, then becoming State Counsellor (their equivalent to a Prime Minister) in 2016. Once promoted, some agencies were noticing her silence in regards to the Myanmar junta's treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority. She defended the junta's actions against the Rohingya in the International Court of Justice in 2019. Since 2017, she has been stripped of many of her humanitarian awards. She was arrested and deposed by the junta in February 2021, and sentenced to four years in prison for purported election improprieties on December 6, 2021. She was promptly given a partial pardon, and her sentence was commuted to two years before an additional four years was added for rule violations.

* This was the cause of the so-called "X-odus" of artists from Creator/MarvelComics in the early 1990s, when they formed Creator/ImageComics. When creators such as Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee, Whilce Portico and Marc Silversti started selling massive numbers of books the editor Bob Harras kept giving them more and more authority, steamrolling the other creatives involved and alienating people who had worked for Marvel for decades and made it the powerhouse it was. The most notable case of this was the alientation of Chris Claremont, which lead to him leaving the X-Men after writing it for nearly thirty years. The move to Image was usually perceived as being ego-driven, and that the artists left because they wanted even more power than they already had. However many years after the fact Rob Liefeld said that they were shocked how badly Marvel had treated Claremont, and they realized that once they were no longer the flavor-of-the-day that the editors would turn on them as well.

** According to ancient Roman historical legend, the Tarpeian Rock (which was used as a place of execution) got its name from Tarpeia, who let a Sabine invasion force into the city in exchange for "[[ExactWords what they bore on their arms]]." She meant their gold bracelets; instead, they killed her by bashing her with their shields.

** After having a lot of trouble with the Lusitanian rebel leader Viriathus in Hispania, the Romans decided to deal with him by bribing his own ambassadors to assassinate him. They killed him in his sleep and returned for their reward, but the Roman general, Quintus Servilius Caepio, replied that "[[ILied Rome does not pay traitors]]" and had them executed.

* In UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, during the Allied invasion of Vichy-held North Africa, French soldiers cut vital communication lines so orders to fire on the invading American forces couldn't go through. The pro-Nazi Vichy government (which was allowed to continue in power in North Africa for political reasons) later sentenced those soldiers for treason, and General Patton refused to exert pressure to get them released because to him a traitor was a traitor, no matter what the cause. This was averted when most other Western Allied leaders of note threatened the Vichy admin with annihilation if they went through with it, on the basis that the French soldiers were not traitors to the Vichy government (which was itself a traitorous regime of collaborators to the Nazis) but loyal to the Free French. Pretty much all of them were quietly transferred over to De Gaulle in order to avoid the resulting stink.

*** Averted with Quintus Dellius, who betrayed Mark Antony during the Battle of Actium and took the battle plans with him, which led to the latter's decisive defeat. While Octavian, later Emperor Augustus, praised him, later historians gave Dellius the derogatory name "horse changer of the civil war", having earlier defected from Caesar's assassin Crassius to Mark Antony.