Line #15 PlayingWith/SixthRangerTraitor


1	'''Basic Trope''': A SixthRanger who reveals to be evil (in the FiveManBand) or good (in the evil FiveManBand) all along.
2	* '''Straight''':
3	** Charlie, the SixthRanger in the FiveManBand, is actually TheMole sent in by the evil FiveManBand to send in information to their leader.
4	** Alternatively, Charlie joins the FiveManBand as TheSixthRanger, but feels that GoodIsBoring and does a FaceHeelTurn.
5	** Or, Tony, the SixthRanger in the evil FiveManBand, is TheStarscream.
6	** Alternatively, Tony is TheSixthRanger in the evil FiveManBand, but after a while feels that GoodFeelsGood and does a HeelFaceTurn.
7	* '''Exaggerated''':
8	** Charlie is MostDefinitelyNotAVillain! No sir! He is most definitely ''not'' Tony wearing a PaperThinDisguise!
9	** Charlie has been a seemly genuine SixthRanger for a long time, only to be revealed as none other than ''[[BigBad Emperor Evulz]]'' [[MoleInCharge himself]]!
10	** Even before joining the team, Charlie has a ''looong'' history of [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betraying whatever team he's on to their sworn enemies]], whatever side of the [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor good/evil]] divide they're on.
11	* '''Downplayed''': Charlie wasn't a traitor to start, he simply deserts instead of defecting after a morally questionable action. He doesn't help them but he doesn't aid their foes either beyond his leaving weakening them.
12	* '''Justified''':
13	** As the SixthRanger, Charlie is often considered the most useless member of the group and gets comparatively less reward and attention, leading to a MistreatmentInducedBetrayal.
14	** As the SixthRanger, Charlie is feared by the others and treated as a potential traitor, so he [[ThenLetMeBeEvil becomes one]].
15	** Charlie is a FakeDefector who pretends to reform, his UndyingLoyalty to the original leader does not change.
16	* '''Inverted''':
17	** Every member of the team save Tony or Charlie defects to the opposite side, leaving only them.
18	** Charlie doesn't betray the team, but rather one of the original FiveManBand members.
19	* '''Subverted''':
20	** Charlie realizes that it's better to be good, so he is BecomingTheMask.
21	** Or, Tony decides not to fight against his leader, since there is a good chance that he will be killed.
22	** The FiveManBand suspects that Charlie may really be Tony, TheMole, only to find that, no, despite their distrust, [[RedHerringMole he really is the good guy]].
23	* '''Double Subverted''':
24	** Turns out Charlie lied about BecomingTheMask just to get closer with the FiveManBand, making his betrayal all the more effective.
25	** Or, Tony knows that it would be worth it to fight against the evil FiveManBand to uphold justice, even if it costs his life.
26	** But actually he was just pretending so good.
27	* '''Parodied''': When Charlie joins most of the team starts taking bets as to whether or not he'll turn within two years.
28	* '''Zig Zagged''': After Tony joines the heroes as TheMole, he starts BecomingTheMask, but then he is blackmailed by the BigBad and rejoins him. Later Tony decides that GoodFeelsGood, comes back to the heroes and stays with them even when TheLeader switches to evil side. But after some Time he thinks that GoodIsBoring and again becomes evil. [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor For a while]]...
29	* '''Averted''':
30	** TheSixthRanger has nothing to do with betraying.
31	** Nobody is SixthRanger.
32	* '''Enforced''': Creators want somebody to be a traitor but do not want anybody who audience already knows and likes to be him.
33	* '''Lampshaded''':
34	** "We should have suspected that if you had not been with us from the beginning you could betray us."
35	** "What, you wanted to join us? Of all the timing you picked the moment when we are already full? I knew it, you're the traitor!"
36	* '''Invoked''': Charlie betrays the party whenever he feels like it.
37	* '''Exploited''':
38	** Charlie deliberately betray the party to [[FakeDefector blend himself into the enemies]].
39	** The party deliberately hire potential traitors for their UriahGambit.
40	* '''Defied''':
41	** The heroes double check everybody who wants to join them knowing that he may be TheMole.
42	** The heroes immediately [[HeelFaceDoorSlam kills whoever wants to reform]] in case he might be TheMole.
43	* '''Discussed''': "We only have five seats, I'm pretty sure he's the traitor."
44	* '''Conversed''': "Thank you for letting me to join you, how generous. Well, PrepareToDie! [[FateWorseThanDeath Over and over again]]!"
45	* '''Deconstructed''': Even if he truly wanted to, Charlie, having defected to the FiveManBand, finds that he is trusted by absolutely ''no one'' on the team. In fact, they distrust him so heartily, that routinely give him the most dangerous assignments not to trust him with their success but to occasion his demise.
46	* '''Reconstructed''': The FiveManBand realize that they can't function without trust, even if the ''only'' one they distrust is Charlie it would sour relations between the original five eventually. So they engineer a series of secret tests to find out whose side Charlie is on, and so that if he really is evil the intelligence he takes back helps them take down the evil FiveManBand.
47	* '''Played For Laughs''': Charlie is so comically obvious as a traitor that the rest of the FiveManBand have to fight to keep a straight face while feeding him false intel.
48	* '''Played for Drama''': Charlie is genuinely sad about betraying the FiveManBand, and realizes that afterwards no one will trust him, and his evil associates will probably dispose of him [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness once he's no longer useful.]] As a result, [[BecomingTheMask Charlie]] pulls a genuine HeelFaceTurn after a ''lot'' of convincing.
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50	Back to SixthRangerTraitor, thank you for letting me to join you and digging a grave for yourself.
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52	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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54	%%* '''Implied''': ???

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