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6	->'''Tempest Shadow:''' But...we...we had an agreement!\
7	'''The Storm King:''' GET WITH THE PROGRAM! I used you! It's kind of what I do.
8	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017''
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10	So you're TheHero, and a mysterious figure gives you TheCall to adventure! Naturally, you're going to [[JumpedAtTheCall jump at it]]. So, you go out on your adventure to defeat the BigBad. Finally, your quest is nearing its close, you confront the BigBad. But wait, why is he [[OminousAdversarialAmusement laughing]]? [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech You most definitely do not suck]]! You just went through all of those trials and hardships to fight the BigBad. You fought [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Mutant Robot Gorillas]] who were guarding the [[MacGuffin Ancient Artifact of Doom]] in order to use its power to defeat the BigBad! Wait a second, ''what''? You mean that the mysterious figure who gave you TheCall was the BigBad? The BigBad sent you on a quest to destroy him? [[EvilPlan Why would he do that]]? You mean your entire quest was [[JustAsPlanned all part of his plan]]? [[MacGuffinDeliveryService All this time you were bringing him]] the MacGuffin?
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12	Alternatively, the BigBad may be giving the heroes their marching orders, though the heroes are unaware of this fact. The heroes may believe they are serving some noble purpose and may or may not use this to justify any distasteful actions they undertake on the BigBad's behalf. But the truth of the matter is that all the hero's actions somehow advanced the BigBad's plan and may even include defeating a lesser villain. This lesser villain is often painted as the BigBad when he is just in the way of the true BigBad's plan.
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14	In short, when TheHero's entire adventure is an EvilPlan by the BigBad or someone else.
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16	Compare DetectivePatsy, the crime/mystery equivalent. May overlap with MacGuffinDeliveryService or KansasCityShuffle. The guy who is "using you" is often a TreacherousQuestGiver. If the hero ''knew'' he was being played this may be a case of OutGambitted. If not, then the hero is an UnwittingPawn. The realization that the heroes were being used will often lead, not entirely justifiably, to NiceJobBreakingItHero Then again, when/if the hero overcomes the resulting HeroicBSOD and saves the day, it can become NiceJobFixingItVillain
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18	This kind of gambit is one of the trademarks of a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] or MagnificentBastard and will often include said person playing the EvilMentor. At one point the hero or one of his allies may notice something is somewhat off and go running straight to the boss to sort things out. Expect them to run straight into HaveYouToldAnyoneElse like a brick wall. This is also the usual MO of the DecoyDamsel.
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20	'''Usually part of the TwistEnding, so spoilers ahoy!'''
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22	!Examples:
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26	[[folder:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]]
27	* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', all the military operations of the Amestrian Military were orchestrated to [[spoiler: sacrifice the entire country to make a ''massive'' Philosopher's Stone, so that Father could absorb Truth, i.e. Fullmetal Alchemist's god]].
28	** In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 the 2003 anime version]], the plan is instead for the Homunculi to use the country to make Philosopher's Stones and become human. [[spoiler:Except the Homunculi were '''also''' being used all along, and Dante didn't really care for turning them into humans at all, she just needed the stone to maintain her immortality.]]
29	* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth''. [[spoiler:Emeraude summons the Magic Knights to Cephiro to kill her]].
30	* In ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'', this isn't much of a twist, since we follow the VillainProtagonist William: one of the first things we see William do is test Sherlock and then decide to incorporate him and all his predicted actions into his grand master plan. Sherlock knows he's being toyed with and he's dancing to the Lord of Crime's tune, but he can't figure out how to break out of it for most of the series.
31	* ''Maybe'' Gendo Ikari, who might be on the Grey side of the [[BlackAndGreyMorality Black and Very Dark Grey Morality]], and definitely Keel Lorenz from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
32	* ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'', in which, yup, the whole thing is an EvilPlan (more like a GambitRoulette really) by the BigBad, Canaletto.
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36	* ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'': The Moonchild / TheAntichrist / [[spoiler:Literature/HarryPotter]] discovers that his adventures at a WizardingSchool were all faked by headmaster [[spoiler:Tom Riddle]] ([[spoiler:actually a BodySurfing Alistair Crowley]]) and takes it badly. As in, murder-his-friends-and-shoot-up-the-school badly.
37	* In ''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'', Bruce Wayne Junior as Batman investigates Ra's Al Ghul's organization, and when confronting the head finds out it's not Ra's but [[spoiler: Bruce Senior, who beat Ra's once and for all ten years before and has found a way to overcome the Lazarus Pit's limitations. He has turned the organization to the good while maintaining a criminal front. He then makes Junior its new CEO, and resumes his life as the Batman]].
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41	* ''Fanfic/AllForLuz'': [[spoiler: [[Characters/AllForLuzAllForOne All For One]] admits to himself that his successor, [[Characters/AllForLuzLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]], is in the end just a means to an end for his EvilPlan: To get to his world, have her steal One For All from [[BigGood All Might]] or his successor (Izuku), and then pull a VillainOverride her body and [[CameBackStrong come back to life stronger than ever]]. [[NextTierPowerUp With an evolved version of his Quirk]], he would be unstoppable, and he could reclaim his criminal empire from those who stole it when he was dead and make it even greater with the Boiling Isles and the Human Realm under his control.]]
42	* ''Fanfic/ForHisOwnSake'':
43	** Mutsumi knew who Keitaro had made his ChildhoodMarriagePromise to all along, as she was the one who'd arranged for it to happen in the first place. Granny Hinata was also aware, but kept that information to herself while manipulating her grandson to her own ends. When she reveals the truth as part of ''yet another bid'' to manipulate Keitaro, he furiously calls her out on it, coming to see both as equally manipulative.
44	** In a case of LaserGuidedKarma, Mutsumi falls victim to this herself courtesy of Chisato and Kagura. She believes that the pair are going to help her [[ShipperOnDeck get Keitaro and Naru back together]], blissfully unaware that they have their own plans.
45	* The entire rationale behind ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'' is that the four are being used by the Fans. First they're sent to C'hou by Shag and Varx as part of an undergraduate Alien Psychology experiment. After this collapses and things go weird, they're sent on a quest to remove a curse from a continent and told that's why they were sent to C'hou in the first place. [[spoiler:Everyone thinks the C'hovite gods set them on the quest path, but it was actually engineered by Jeft.]] They mostly learn the truth about [[spoiler: Jeft's]] manipulations, but they never do learn about those of Shag and Varx, because the two lie quite convincingly to the four.
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48	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
49	* ''WesternAnimation/TheManCalledFlintstone'': Fred finds out that The Green Goose, nefarious James Bond villain he's been after is actually Agent XXX (not to be confused with Vin Diesel or Ice Cube).
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53	* In ''Film/DeathWish4TheCrackdown'', Kersey finds out the rich man who offered him assistance to take out the drug dealers, [[spoiler:wasn't a corporate executive, the person he impersonated was out of the country for several months, the man he dealt with was really the rival of the other dealers, and was basically using Kersey to eliminate the competition. Please note that this plot twist appeared earlier in The Saint in New York and The Saint Meets a Phantom]].
54	* As Jack is bargaining with Barbossa for Will's life in the fantasy film ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'', and to destroy the men of the ''Dauntless'' (more or less), plus getting to sail the ''Pearl'' again as captain, Will bursts out "You've been planning this from the beginning!"
55	* ''Film/SeasonOfTheWitch'' actually is about this sort of plot--[[spoiler:the BigBad tricked not only the main character, but the entire branch of the Catholic Church backing an expedition to remove her power and its effects by taking her to an ancient monastery where a ritual can be performed to do so. Unbeknownst to them, the monks are all dead and the monastery desecrated, and the demon actually wanted to be taken there so that the usual restrictions against demons entering churches didn't apply, and she could use the particular book of rituals to destroy humanity.]]
56	** [[spoiler:In doing this, she even makes them think they've figured out her tricks (and made the audience think she was entirely ineffectual) in her obvious displays of witchcraft while she was talking about being innocent. When all along, she wanted them to think her guilty.]]
57	* This is the surprise twist in the thriller ''Film/StateOfPlay''. Critics generally called it an AssPull.
58	* The original ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' uses this, [[spoiler:with the added twist that the villain who set the plot is the protagonist himself (via MemoryGambit)]].
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61	[[folder:{{Literature}}]]
62	* Played with in ''Literature/TheFirstLaw''; the revelation is that Bayaz is actually a villain, but he doesn't hide the fact that the MacGuffin he's after- the Seed- is a terrible destructive weapon, and the enemies he plans on using it on really are as insane and dangerous as they appear to be and need to be stopped, even if Bayaz is probably more evil. Plus, the quest to find it fails (though it turned out to be closer than anyone thought), and the RagtagBunchOfMisfits he assembles aren't actually very nice people. Ferro, the one who actually finds the Seed, discovers what a treacherous backstabbing bastard Bayaz is as soon as she gets it...but decides to let him have it ''anyway'', since they happen to have the same enemies and she hates them even more than he does. Ferro regrets it, but that regret becomes an IgnoredEpiphany.
63	** Done twice in fact, when its discovered that Quai- Bayaz's assistant- was murdered and replaced by Tolomei, a girl from Bayaz's past he claims was killed by her father (when in fact he murdered both of them). Played more straight in that she wants it to bring forth TheLegionsOfHell and bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, and ''nobody'' thinks that's a good idea.
64	* In ''Literature/TheManWhoWasThursday'', Sunday does this to the entire police force/anarchy council. Unusually in this case, Sunday is a good guy, using other good guys.
65	* In the ''Literature/MemorySorrowAndThorn'' series by Tad Williams, it is revealed at the end that the titular three magic swords that the heroes were gathering to stop [[BigBad Ineluki]] were actually the three talismans necessary to ''free'' [[SealedEvilInACan Ineluki]]. What makes this especially appalling is that the heroes found out about the swords in the first place from a mystical dream, but they also knew that mystical dreams were under the control of Ineluki.
66	* In ''Literature/{{Mistborn}}'' everything the heroes have been doing in the first two and a half books were furthering the plan of [[spoiler:Ruin]].
67	* In ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'', Mr. Des Tiny has been using the entirety of both vampire clans for centuries -- he might have even created the concept of vampires in the first place -- culminating with [[spoiler:his own two sons]], Darren and [[spoiler:Steve]], as leaders of the two sides, destined to fight to the death, and whichever survives will rule the world as [[TheAntichrist Lord of the Shadows]]. Why? Because Tiny finds it entertaining.
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71	* In the seventh season of ''Series/TwentyFour'', [[spoiler:Tony turns out to be playing everyone at the end of the season. Him warning Jack, Chloe, and the FBI about an attack and Washington D.C. and working with them to stop it was all to obtain a bio-engineered virus that the terrorist cell he was working with wanted obtain, but then it turns out at the very end that he was doing that for them all to get in good graces with and meet their ringleader so he could kill him since said ringleader had masterminded the death of his pregnant wife]].
72	* Sloan and SD-6 on ''Series/{{Alias}}'', though unusually, it is revealed almost immediately.
73	* In ''Series/{{CSI}}'', we're led to believe season 8's BigBad is Lou Gedda, until the finale when [[spoiler:Undersheriff [=McKeen=] shows what's BeneathTheMask by murdering Warrick]].
74	* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has [[spoiler:the entire 16th season, also known as ''The Key to Time'', where the White Guardian asks the Doctor to find the six segments of the Key to Time, because the Black Guardian is planning to unravel the universe with it. Well, the White Guardian was the Black Guardian all along...]]
75	* Every Winchester in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' falls into this trope, due to [[spoiler: the plot formulated by Lucifer and Azazel over 20 years ago]]. Especially John and Dean, ''but especially especially'' Sam. Several people use this as evidence that there is no free will- or at very least, not for humans.
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79	* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' supplement ''Curse of the Chthonians'', adventure "The Curse of Chaugnar Faugn". The investigators are manipulated into helping a mad professor bring the statue of a powerful Mythos deity to life.
80	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' adventure ''[[http://www.rpg.net/news_reviews/reviews/rev_3253.html The Apocalypse Stone]]''. A high level wizard tricks a party of [[PlayerCharacter PC]]'s into stealing a stealing a powerful magic item for him by pretending to be a divine messenger.
81	* Dr. Etward Ritalson from the ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' adventure path ''Gatewalkers'' is introduced as the founder of the OccultDetective group the [=PCs=] work for and a scientist investigating the source of the MassSuperEmpoweringEvent they all benefitted from, and is the one who sends them on their adventures. However, he's actually already rediscovered [[EldritchAbomination the source]] of their powers and begun to worship it, and only gathers people like the [=PCs=] so he can [[BrainTheft steal their brains]] to power a portal and [[SealedEvilInACan unseal his patron]].
82	* The calling card of any plot by the [[SpaceElves Eldar]], [[TheTrickster Tzeentch]][[TreacherousAdvisor ians]], and the [[TheTrickster Deceiver]] in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''.
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85	[[folder:VideoGames]]
86	* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'': [[spoiler:All of the assassinations Al Mualim had you were performing were done so he would be the only one with knowledge and possession of the Piece of Eden. He's also the tenth Templar. MagnificentBastard indeed. Oh and NiceJobBreakingItHero.]]
87	** [[spoiler:The true BigBad Juno]] used ''everyone'', Assassins and Templars alike, throughout the entire series to [[spoiler:escape her prison and give her another chance to rule humanity]]. TheHero learns this only after he has no choice but to go along with the villain's plan, since the alternative is [[spoiler:letting the world be burned by a solar flare. Twisting the knife even further, the method he uses to save the world and free Juno also kills him so he won't be around to oppose her.]]
88	* ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos'', specifically the second game of the series. [[spoiler: You work for the person who is THE {{Magnificent Bastard}} of the entire game, although he stealthed his way out of being seen as one.]]
89	** The first game, too. As the DiscOneFinalDungeon approaches, there are hints of a mole in your party. The first three End Magnus somehow go missing on your way to Mira. [[spoiler:Actually, they weren't missing yet. Kalas passed them off to Melodia in Balancoire. He's been the mole all along--which, seeing as how he's the first character into your party, makes him the least suspicious. But he's not technically the player character; the player character is a spirit.]]
90	* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock\|1}}'': [[spoiler: You've been bioengineered, programmed, mailed to the outside world and called back to Rapture all so Frank Fontaine could use you to take over the city- given that you're the only other person in Rapture who can use the Vita-Chambers and fog the security systems. And who is Fontaine? Why he's the friendly Irish rebel who's been helping you for most of the game!]]
91	* ''VideoGame/Bomberman64'' [[spoiler: Sirius, it turns out, is using you to get to Altair.]]
92	* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia'' did this. Just saying the title's probably spoiling it, as there's really only one person who you report to in this game.
93	* ''VideoGame/CodeNameViper'' has the player rescuing fellow operatives, each of whom has bits and pieces of a message revealing the identity of the terrorist leader. [[spoiler: It turns out to be the general Viper was working for, making him the last boss fight.]]
94	* ''VideoGame/{{Crackdown}}'': [[spoiler: The Agency]] turns out to be one of these.
95	* The original ''VideoGame/MetalGear'': Big Boss is the BigBad! In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' [[spoiler:Snake's entire mission is to activate REX for Liquid]].
96	* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'': JC's employer for the first three missions is [[spoiler:[[AGodAmI a corrupt transhumanist]] whom JC then fights]].
97	* The entire quest-line involving the [[spoiler:Black Soulstone]] from ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'', which takes up the majority of the second and third acts and involves the killing of the final two Great Evils...so that [[spoiler:Adria, who it turns out is a servant of Diablo, can use it to resurrect her master as the embodiment of all seven Great Evils in one being, in accordance with his centuries-in-the-making EvilPlan to destroy the High Heavens and end [[HeavenVersusHell the war between Heaven and Hell]] once and for all]].
98	* The storyline of ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon III'', when the Lee brothers help an old person who was EvilAllAlong.
99	* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' [[spoiler: the ending reveals that Solas was using everyone for his own means the whole time - both the Inquisition and the BigBad of the game.]]
100	* In ''VideoGame/DreamfallChapters'', [[spoiler: Brian Westhouse]] approaches Helena Chang and the Azadi with promises to help them remake the world in their image. In reality, [[spoiler:Westhouse]] serves no one but [[spoiler:himself]].
101	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'': [[spoiler:All of the fal'Cie are driving the heroes to destroy Cocoon. [[AncientConspiracy ALL OF THEM.]]]]
102	* In ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'', [[spoiler: Vader reveals to Starkiller that his WeCanRuleTogether promise [[ILied was all a lie]] and he [[AbusiveParents raised him to be]] an UnwittingPawn. It's implied that he genuinely did intend to betray TheEmperor alongside him, [[DirtyCoward but chickened out once Sidious discovered their plan]].]]
103	* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'' does this twice. [[spoiler: First, the Narrator of the first two games turns out to be Gaia, a Titan who was using Kratos in the their war against Zeus. She decides to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness betray and leave him for dead]] at the beginning of the game. Then during the climax, it's revealed that [[ManBehindTheMan Athena was using Kratos]] to overthrow both Aries and Zeus so that she could rule uncontested. Zeus believed that Kratos fulfilled the prophecy of one of his children betraying him, but it was Athena who was the betrayer all along. Kratos was set off by her actions.]]
104	* ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'' takes this to its {{logical extreme}}. [[spoiler: Your master, who raised you from a child, trained you as part of an elaborate plot to kill the current Emperor. He planned everything perfectly so that you would think you are merely saving your master when instead you are clearing the way for him to become Emperor. [[MagnificentBastard Glorious Strategist indeed!]]]]
105	* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'': Donald isn't a villain, but he does start off as an [[TheUnfettered unfettered]] [[SociopathicHero sociopath]] not above abusing children for his own gains. When he learns that the Keybearer he and Goofy were told to find is a preteen boy who had just been orphaned and rendered homeless because of TheHeartless, and is looking for the other two survivors of his home's destruction, Donald promises that boy, Sora, that they'll help find his friends. But it's a trick to get him to join them on their quest. The ruse is swiftly discovered, and Sora betrays Donald out of anger when the latter breaks his promise. It's short-lived, though, and Donald gradually learns to see Sora as an ally instead of TheLoad, and by ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', they're genuinely friends.
106	* The final boss of ''Milky Way Wishes'' in ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'': [[spoiler: Marx, who asked you to summon the wish-granting comet Nova so he could wish to control Popstar.]]
107	** Again in ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamland'': [[spoiler:Magolor manipulated Kirby and his friends into rebuilding the Lor Starcutter and fighting Landia in order to steal the wish-granting Master Crown.]]
108	* ''VideoGame/{{KOLM}}'': In both games, though clearer in the second game where you have a definite goal: reunite Sis with Father. [[spoiler:Turns out it was so he could forcibly turn her into a robot.]]
109	* ''VideoGame/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'': [[spoiler:Makoto Kagutsuchi, the CEO of Amaterasu Corporation, turns out to have been using the detectives for his own agenda to take out Yomi Hellsmile the whole time.]]
110	* In ''VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission'', [[spoiler: Colonel Redips, both as himself and party member [[SdrawkcabAlias Spider]], commands X and Zero to take out Epsilon's Rebellion Army so he can get their Supra-Force Metal for himself.]]
111	* This is the storyline of Konquest mode of ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception''.
112	* In ''[[VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles Mystery Case Files: 13th Skull]]'', you have to investigate on the disappearance of the family-man Marcus Lawson in Louisiana. [[spoiler:In turns out the Lawson family made up the entire story to have the Master Detective investigate on Phineas Crown's treasure and figure out all the riddles that he couldn't. They planned to get rid of the Detective as soon as the booty was found. Hopefully, it backfires at the last second]].
113	* In ''VideoGame/RuneFactory'', the LaserGuidedAmnesia protagonist was put there as a deliberate plot to [[spoiler:awaken Terrable-a powerful dragon]]. All goes nicely according to plan until [[spoiler:Terrable is defeated and later disables the attacking 100 tanks]].
114	* ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'': Both [[BigBad Cyril Le Paradox]] and [[TheSociopath Penelope]] have been using each other for their goals involving [[ItsAllAboutMe egoism]] and [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]], respectively. In Penelope's case, she has also been using the Cooper Gang since [[VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves the third game]], even going as far as to pretend she loves [[GeniusCripple Bentley]] when she actually sees him as an idiotic MealTicket. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge The gang don't take this well]].
115	* One of the storylines in ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'' involves someone hiring the protagonists to solve a crime. [[spoiler:This person turns out to be Eggman.]] Subverted though, as he really did need their help.
116	* ''VideoGame/{{Strife}}'': Macil apparently sent you after the pieces of the Sigil to acquire the complete artifact and free the One God, though he was obviously insane and possessed by a Spectre, so he might have originally had honest intentions before he got possessed. And the Oracle (in the "bad" story branch) does the same thing, sending you after the Sigil pieces and finally mocking you for falling for its ruse. In the bad ending, it's also strongly implied that your MissionControl, Blackbird, was actually the [[BigBad Entity]] manipulating you into acquiring the Sigil and using it to free the Entity.
117	* ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2'': Dr Janice Polito had an agenda - [[spoiler:or more accurately, [[HijackedByGanon SH]][[DeadPersonImpersonation OD]][[NotQuiteDead AN]] did.]] Every one of her interactions with you is designed to make you forget what threat she poses, then, once you give her what she needs, YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness.
118	* In ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis 5'', Luke O'Neil and Marc Godart are on a mission to retrieve a briefcase containing data on the VSSE's traitor, held by Wild Dog. After Wild Dog blew himself up again, which happens not before launching the case with this rocket hand, they continue the search and the case was in Keith Martin's hands. [[spoiler:Turns out Robert was using the VSSE rookies all along so he can erase VSSE entirely and start zombifying New York's citizens to feel no pain or fear, outing him as ''the'' traitor within the VSSE.]]
119	* Kill [[spoiler: Zenith Martlet]] in ''VideoGame/UndertaleYellow'''s Genocide run, and [[spoiler: Flowey will reveal that he's been saving over your death to, rather unsurprisingly for him, get the Human Souls. Unfortunately for him, by the point of his betrayal, which is rather done out of spite, since Flowey knows the upcoming outcome, you are far stronger than him. So, being sick of Flowey's crap by this point, Clover promptly shoots him several times in the face. [[note]] Considering his canonical death in the '''''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''''' Genocide route, he got off ''easy'' in Yellow. [[/note]]]]
120	* ''VideoGame/TheUntoldTalesOfTheVocaloids'': [[spoiler: Garon pretends to be the Vocaloids' ally to make them chase Sirloth so he could easily destroys the Holy Altars sealing Onigami without the later's interference. Rin realize this after the destruction of the altar in Belany.]]
121	* ''VideoGame/WarioLand 3'': "A hidden figure" is actually Rudy the giant [[MonsterClown evil clown]], taking advantage of Wario's greed in order to unseal himself.
122	* VideoGame/{{WET}}'s first mission [[spoiler: has Rubi retrieving a stolen heart that is needed for the father of her client Trevor Ackers. One year later, Trevor's father, William Ackers, hires her to bring Trevor back from Hong Kong because he doesn't want his son mixed up in the criminal element. Only when she brings him back, William then proceeds to have Trevor's head chopped off, then leaves Rubi to die at the hands of Ze Kollecktor. Turns out that the man who Rubi got the heart for and the person who hired her for the second job weren't the same person. Kidnapping Trevor was a set up for Rubi so that Rupert Pelham could eliminate the Syndicate and it's monopoly on the Asian Drug Market]].
123	* In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' it is revealed that, throughout much of the game, [[spoiler: Dickson is using the party to kill Egil so [[EvilGod Zanza’s]] plans can be set in motion.]]
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127	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': [[spoiler:King Andrias uses Marcy Wu and the trio for the majority of Season 2 in order to fully charge the InterdimensionalTravelDevice that will allow him and his army to conquer hundreds of other worlds and drain them of their powers in one fell swoop. To make matters worse, this all banks on Marcy's [[HatesBeingAlone fear of being alone]] with the false promise that she and her friends will stay together on new adventures forever. He pulls no punches when he spells this out to Marcy and all of her friends once he gets his hands on the Calamity Box, with Andreas later stabbing Marcy to try and ensure she won't become a threat now that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he's finished using her]]]].
128	* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'': In Season 4, Saint Germain goes on a mission to search for his lover and receives help from a vampire named [[SmallNameBigEgo Varney]] who claims to be a member of Dracula's court.[[spoiler: Varney is later revealed to be [[TheGrimReaper Death]], who was using Saint Germain to revive Dracula and consume all of humanity's souls.]]
129	* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': Enid met her former best friend Elodie when training by her lonesome. After offering to help her train, they became fast friends. Eventually, they find an advertisement for tryouts to enter [[SuperheroSchool P.O.I.N.T. Prep Academy]], which essentially guarantees one becoming a superstar hero. After they both get far in the audition, when it comes down to combat, [[CannotKillTheirLovedOnes Enid just can't bring herself to hurt her best friend]] and relents. [[BitchInSheepsClothing Elodie has no such concerns]] and defeats her swiftly with a literal [[BackStab arrow to the back]]. Even when Enid shows happiness that Elodie got in instead of her, Elodie bluntly tells her that [[FalseFriend their friendship]] [[ILied was never real]] and she was just using her to learn her techniques and counter them, leaving [[BreakTheCutie her heartbroken and jaded]].
130	* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': [[spoiler:[[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Emperor Belos]] is actually [[ArtifactAlias Phillip Wittebane]], one of the first humans to travel and get stranded in the Boiling Isles. When [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]] goes [[TimeTravel back in time]] to meet him, she inadvertently causes a StableTimeLoop, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero allowing him to get exactly what he needs to set in motion his true plans for the Demon Realm]]. And he's been ''keeping her alive just to ensure that it happens'' until she [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlives her usefulness]]. In "Hollow Mind", after Belos confirms that Luz has completed the Time Loop, he takes a great deal of pleasure in rubbing the fact that his plan for total Witch [[FinalSolution genocide]] wouldn't have been possible without her in her face, before quickly attempting to [[WouldHurtAChild separate her head from her shoulders]]]].
131	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E18TexasWalkingSmall "Walking Small"]], [[Characters/SpongeBobSquarePantsSheldonPlankton Sheldon Plankton]] befriends [[Characters/SpongeBobSquarePantsTitularCharacter SpongeBob SquarePants]] and ostensibly teaches him how to be assertive, but in reality is taking advantage of his naivety to get him to drive everyone out of Goo Lagoon so he can pave over it and build the Mega Bucket. When [=SpongeBob=] finds out, he expresses shock that "you used me... for ''land development!''"
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