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9	This trope takes place when a FiveManBand or PowerTrio finds [[SixthRanger a new ally]]. Things are good for a while, however, at a certain point in the story, it turns out said new member was TheMole all along, working for the villains or, worse, is the BigBad themself. He now knows all of the party's secrets, how to exploit them, and how to push all of their emotional buttons. They've got a new enemy, but, on the plus side, they'll have an excuse to keep their team down to a PowerTrio or FiveManBand from now on, so [[StatusQuoIsGod the status quo will remain unchanged]].
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11	Like the SixthRanger, the Sixth Ranger Traitor is its ''own'' villainous counterpart, instead reflecting the member of the group who betrays the others, either by pulling a HeelFaceTurn, [[FakeDefector faking one]], simply for their own ends, or on rare occasions [[BrainWashed against their will]].
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13	In {{Role Playing Game}}s and other videogame genres, they tend to be the GuestStarPartyMember. If the party has to fight them at some point in the story, then they went from TemporaryPartyMemberToVillain.
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15	SubTrope of TheMole.
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17	!!As this is a {{Betrayal Trope\|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]].
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19	!!Example subpages:
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21	[[index]]
22	* SixthRangerTraitor/AnimeAndManga
23	* SixthRangerTraitor/ComicBooks
24	* SixthRangerTraitor/FanWorks
25	* SixthRangerTraitor/LiveActionTV
26	* SixthRangerTraitor/VideoGames
27	* SixthRangerTraitor/WesternAnimation
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30	!!Other examples:
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34	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
35	* ''Film/DogSoldiers'' - [[spoiler: Megan]], who was a werewolf in secret from the start and believed the squad could somehow save her, betrays the soldiers after coming to the conclusion that either they weren't there to help her and that they'd kill her if they found out her secret, or that their chances of surviving the night were nil, or a combination of both.
36	* In ''Film/TheFaculty'', [[spoiler:Marybeth]] is this in a meta sense. While the other five protagonists didn't know each other before the events of the movie, they ''are'' pretty obviously based on the group from ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' ([[JerkJock Stan]]'s counterpart is Andy, [[AlphaBitch Delilah]]'s is Claire, Casey's is Brian, [[{{Delinquents}} Zeke]]'s is Bender, and [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold Stokely]]'s is Allison), leaving one to wonder where [[spoiler: Marybeth]] fits in. The answer: she doesn't. She's the [[spoiler: [[HiveQueen queen alien]] leading the {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s that are taking over the school]].
37	* In ''Film/GraveEncounters2'' [[spoiler: Lance]] appears out of nowhere, having apparently survived [[spoiler: the first movie]] and shows up to aid the remaining survivors. Too bad for them he is taking orders from the hospital itself which speaks by scratching words into the walls or following him around invisible in the darkness of the hospital. To make this even worse, he [[spoiler: kills Trevor]] and attempts to escape the hospital himself. [[spoiler: too bad the demons of the hospital double crossed him too.]]
38	%%* In ''Film/TheHungerGames'', [[spoiler:Peeta Mellark]] is this to the Career Tributes like the novels below.
39	%%* ''Film/TheLosers'' - [[spoiler: Roque]].
40	%%* ''Film/TheExpendables'' - [[spoiler: Gunnar. [[EasilyForgiven They let it slide]] before the [[Film/TheExpendables2 sequel]]]].
41	%%* ''Film/SuckerPunch'': [[spoiler: Blondie]].
42	%%* ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'': [[spoiler: Sentinel Prime]].
43	%%* ''Film/TheItalianJob2003'' - [[spoiler: Steve]].
44	* In ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'', [[spoiler:Walker]] is set up to be the [=IMF=]'s new additional member and a {{Foil}} to Ethan. Turns out he's actually the terrorist John Lark who's been acting as TheMole within the team to frame Ethan and steal the plutonium for Solomon Lane.
45	* In ''Film/Seven1979'', Mailei reveals herself to TheMole inside TheSyndicate: providing to information to Harris and the feds on their plans to take over Hawaii, and then sent to help the Seven to stop them. However, she later turns out to be a double agent, providing TheSyndicate with information about how much the feds know, and tries to kill Cowboy.
46	* ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': The Mutants are initially happy simply to have found others like them, but the group eventually splits over fundamental differences in ideology.
47	** After a fun evening spent demonstrating their powers, [[spoiler: Angel]] abandons the team after their CIA safehouse is attacked, agreeing with Shaw that Mutants should not have to fear the humans.
48	** After the combined US and Cuban militaries attempt to kill the Mutant squad that has just kept the two countries from initiating what promised to be a costly and destructive war, [[spoiler: Magneto and Raven]] decide it's dangerously naive to continue to work with the CIA-backed team. [[spoiler:Magneto]] will go on to use the leadership skills he learned from Charles and the increased abilities Charles helped him hone to establish the Brotherhood of Mutants.
49	%%* Lando Calrissian acts as this at in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' but he quickly makes a HeelFaceTurn and becomes a regular SixthRanger.
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53	* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': [[spoiler:David]]. Note that no one really wanted him to join, and he didn't either, but [[spoiler:he'd found the morphing cube and his parents had been taken by Yeerks, while the Animorphs barely rescued him from being taken as well.]] While he doesn't side with the Yeerks, his goal being becoming rich with an army of morph-capable minions, he runs the team ragged by demonstrating how difficult it is to track and fight someone with their powers. He ends up [[spoiler:permanently [[ShapeshifterModeLock trapped]] in rat morph]], and his fate [[spoiler:(a MercyKill by Rachel or left to live as a rat)]] is left deliberately vague.
54	* In ''[[Literature/TheInfernalDevices The Clockwork Prince]]'', [[spoiler:Jessamine Lovelace]] betrays the Institute [[spoiler:because of her love for Nate]].
55	%%* ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' - [[spoiler:Eben Shatterstone]].
56	* Senna from ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'' is sort of an odd example--she technically put together the group, but keeps flitting in and out of it herself (until book #7, when she stays with them until her final betrayal). She's definitely a TokenEvilTeammate, though, and after a while doesn't even try to conceal the fact that she's manipulating them, though she keeps her exact plans hidden. Unfortunately, the others have to put up with her, since she's MacGuffinSuperPerson and the only one who can bring them home.
57	* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'': [[spoiler:Severus Snape]] is actually a Sixth Ranger Traitor for the villains, earning himself a (sudden) special place in the hearts of many readers who had previously hated his guts.
58	%%* In ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', [[spoiler:Peeta Mellark]] is this to the Career Tributes.
59	%%* ''Literature/LorienLegacies'' has also got this trope, except it's a '''[[spoiler:[[{{Pun}} Fifth]]]]''' ranger traitor.
60	* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': In volume 6, the Sword Roses are joined by an eccentric NewTransferStudent, Yuri Leik, who quickly befriends Oliver and even joins a team with him and Nanao for the TournamentArc in the next volume. Yuri is in fact an ArtificialHuman made from a SoulFragment of Professor Demitrio Aristides, and a ManchurianAgent infiltrating the student body to investigate the recent murders of two other instructors on behalf of his master.
61	%%* ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'':
62	%%** [[spoiler:Jacen]], though it's fairly obvious before he actually becomes a Sith.
63	%%** Kyp in the ''Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy''.
64	%%** In the Coruscant Nights Trilogy, [[spoiler:Dejah Duare]].
65	* ''Literature/VillainsByNecessity'': Robin, the last and sixth member of the party to join, is a spy from Mizzamir. However, he isn't really evil, and switches sides after learning their quest is right.
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69	%%* Judas Iscariot, the UrExample.
70	* Hushai plays the role of TheMole for King David in the story of Absalom's rebellion. The guy even has the balls to lampshade it ''in front of Absalom''.
71	%%* Mordred in Myth/ArthurianLegend.
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75	* Wrestling/CMPunk played the good version of this in Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s {{Wrestling/ECW}} revival, infiltrating [[PowerStable the New Breed]] in order to break them apart from within.
76	* Wrestling/{{EVIL\|Wrestler}} played the... well, evil version of this in [[Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling NJPW]], betraying Wrestling/LosIngobernablesDeJapon and joining Wrestling/BulletClub in 2020. LIJ had been a full-blown heel stable when he joined, but had transitioned to being tweeners by the time he left.
77	* Wrestling/{{MJF}} played the evil version ''twice'' in [[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling AEW]]:
78	** In late 2019, he allied himself with Wrestling/CodyRhodes and his Nightmare Family, seemingly turning face, but betrayed Cody a few weeks later, cementing himself as a heel.
79	** A year later, he joined AEW's top heel stable, the Wrestling/InnerCircle, but manipulated them for months, driving original member Sammy Guevara from the stable and attempting to usurp Wrestling/ChrisJericho as leader. Jericho then booted MJF from the stable in March 2021, only to find that MJF [[StartMyOwn started his own heel stable]]. MJF's group, soon unveiled as The Pinnacle, beat the Inner Circle down, effectively turning the latter face.
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83	* ''Webcomic/TheCrossoverlord'': [[spoiler:The Green Avenger]] was this. Justified, because she was [[spoiler: brainwashed by Smiling Man]].
84	* Eikre from ''Webcomic/RPGWorld'' was heavily implied to be one of these when he joined the party. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out he was [[RedHerringMole on the level]] and the real [[TheMole mole]] was a flower that he bought from a random NPC to give to Cherry.]]
85	* [[spoiler:[[SquishyWizard Emily]] ]]from ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'' turned out to be a PuppeteerParasite ManchurianAgent of the [[TheEmpire Souballo Empire]].
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89	* ''WebVideo/CriticalRoleCampaignThree'': In terms of guest player characters:
90	** Dusk, an elf paladin who joined the group after getting rescued and telling them she was close with Fearne's long-lost parents, was later revealed to be the Unseelie changeling Yu, who was hunting Fearne's parents down over their theft of the Moontide Crown and used Fearne to lure them out of hiding.
91	** After Bells Hells was split up across Exandria in the wake of the Apogee Solstice, Orym, Ashton, and Laudna ended up in Issylra with three strangers, Deni$e, Prism, and Bor'Dor. After telling everyone he was a simple shepherd with no magic experience and fighting alongside them, Bor'Dor was pressured by Deni$e into confessing his lies, immediately attempting to kill the group and revealing that he was one of the Ruby Vanguard who was fighting against Bells Hells on the Apogee Solstice. [[spoiler: He became the first player character in the history of ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' to be murdered by another party member because of this.]] Even worse, according to [[WordOfGod his player]], Bor'Dor's original plan was to attempt to kill them mid-teleport.
92	* In ''[[WebVideo/MoonQuest MarsQuest]]'', [[spoiler:LetsPlay/{{Sjin}}]] joins up with LetsPlay/LewisBrindley, LetsPlay/SimonLane and LetsPlay/DuncanJones to get to Mars and rescue the captive [[spoiler:LetsPlay/{{Sips}}]]. Once the goal is achieved, he tries backstabbing Team J.A.F.F.A, but this fails ''horribly''.
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