Line #28 TheMole/WesternAnimation


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8	* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' was tentatively entitled "Mole Hunt", where Archer starts a rumor about there being a mole in ISIS, causing everyone to, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hunt for the mole]]. And it turned out [[spoiler: [[AccidentalTruth there really was a mole]].]]
9	* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'':
10	** It is revealed in "Mud Is Thicker Than Water" that a Tetramand named Gorvan has infiltrated the Plumbers and has been stealing their weapons for Psyphon and his minions. Of course, the Plumbers were smart enough to have Lucy infiltrate Psyphon's gang as another mole.
11	** Gorvan also did this in the video game ''VideoGame/{{Ben 10 Alien Force}}'' where he is a rogue Plumber who has been stealing alien tech to help the Highbreed build their Weather Tower in preparation for the war. He even tricked Ben Gwen and Kevin into stealing some of the items for him.
12	* Chip Whistler in ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' becomes this in "Reckoning Ball". After discovering the Greens' kindness and heeding advice from Bill to "put in the work" before he can "reap the rewards", he pretends to apologize for his misdeeds and make amends with them, which is enough to woo Cricket into believing he really means it, and is the first to sign his forgiveness contract as proof before the rest sign as a family, but Gramma Alice remains suspicious. Now the CEO of Wholesome Foods and with his dad out of the picture, this gambit eventually results in the shutdown of Big Coffee and an ultimate battle to protect the Greens' legacy before it is destroyed forever by Chip's megastore expansion. Cricket soon realizes what he did and ultimately regrets his actions.
13	* ''WesternAnimation/ButtUglyMartians'' has Shaboom Shaboom, a female Martian on good terms with B-Bop A-Luna, [=2T=] Fru-T, and Do-Wah Diddy who pretends to be on Emperor Bog's side so that he remains unaware that the Butt-Uglies have abandoned their mission to invade Earth out of coming to love the planet.
14	* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has one in the form of Chad Dickson (a.k.a. [[SixthRangerTraitor Numbuh 274]].) Starting in the Season 2 finale when Chad has his FaceHeelTurn moment [[spoiler:by trying to hurl the KND Moon Base into the sun]] and thus becoming a villain for the rest of the series until the second-to-last episode [[spoiler:which reveals that he was a double agent the whole time and that all off his attempts were actually him preventing other villains from doing the same to the KND and being successful]].
15	* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': Danny suspects new love interest Gregor is The Mole for the [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction Guys in White]] because of his white clothes and his coincidental arrival at the same time as those guys. [[spoiler: He's not.]] Unfortunately, the reveal was too easy to point out. [[spoiler: Though I didn't suspect he was a {{Fauxreigner}}]]!
16	* Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse:
17	** In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', it turns out that [[spoiler: Hawkgirl]] has been The Mole the entire time. [[spoiler: Albeit one who did a HeelFaceTurn and left feeling she required self-imposed penance, but still one that they had a hard time trusting for the rest of the run of the series.]]
18	** An odd variation of the theme occured in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' multi-part episode "The Call". After a member of the Justice League was injured in a suspicious accident, Superman recruited Terry in an effort to find out if there was, indeed, a traitor among their members. [[spoiler: As it turned out, Superman himself was the traitor, but not intentionally; he was under the MindControl of one of the aliens he had kept at the Fortress of Solitude for so many years.]]
19	* In Season Two of ''[[WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk Dragons: Race to the Edge]]'', the gang's ally Heather becomes one when she manages to infiltrate the Dragon Hunters, passing information to the Riders to sabotage their hunts, [[spoiler:until she is finally exposed and forced to join the Riders full-time]].
20	* ''WesternAnimation/FantasticVoyage''
21	** "The Menace from Space". Dr. Kasdan, an expert on interstellar biology, is added to the team when it investigates a manned space flight which has been infiltrated by a dangerous space life form. He turns out to be a traitor working for a hostile government and tries to sabotage the mission so that the ship will crash in the U.S. and release the life form there.
22	** "The Mind of the Master". When Guru suffers brain damage as the result of an attack by an unidentified opponent, the team must miniaturize and enter his brain to repair it. They take along a man who is Guru's oldest associate, and who is revealed to have been the man who attacked him.
23	* In the ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' TV movie "WesternAnimation/ChannelChasers", [[spoiler:Timmy's FutureBadass self become dictator [[BidBad Vicki's]] [[TheDragon Dragon]] so he could SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong when Vicki gives him a TimeTravel device to keep her path to dictatorship clear after he captured the device from his friends Chester and AJ.]]
24	* ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades'' has a couple of benevolent examples. Lady Jaye subverts Flint's efforts to catch the Joes, and Breaker had an inside man in Cobra for awhile.
25	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'' had a trial for [[WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel Morroco Mole]], accused of being a terrorist, but Birdgirl reveals he was this trope instead. The charges were dropped and Morocco was ordered to stay away from Judge Mentok's yard.
26	%%* ''WesternAnimation/HuntikSecretsAndSeekers'' has one and it's [[spoiler:Zhalia Moon]].
27	* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' TOS.
28	** "The Quetong Missile Mystery". Lieutenant Singh of the Quetong Police has sold out to General Fong.
29	** "Skull and Double Crossbones". Jose the cook is secretly a member of the pirate crew stalking the Quest team.
30	** "Treasure of the Temple". The Indian guide Montoya is in league with a ruthless treasure hunter.
31	** "The Curse of Anubis". Dr. Ahmed Kareem is actually the villain.
32	* ''So the Drama'', the (first) GrandFinale to ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', has a rather obvious mole, who nonetheless fools everyone.
33	%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': In a WhamEpisode, we find out about [[spoiler:Hiroshi Sato]].
34	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Fluttershy becomes one in part 1 of "The Cutie Map" so she can eavesdrop on Starlight Glimmer and find out where she keeps the Mane Six's cutie marks.
35	* ''WesternAnimation/NascarRacers'': Lyle was this at the beginning as he was officially a Fastex driver but was spying on them for Garner Rexton.
36	* ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]'' episode "You Scratch My Back" has Nightwing acting as this to fool Catwoman into Batman's plot of bringing her and the villain of this episode in.
37	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' capture Rowdyruff Boy Boomer (episode "Bubble Boy") then they have Bubbles infiltrate the other Rowdyruffs disguised as Boomer. It speaks volumes that Brick and Butch's intelligence didn't catch on as Boomer doesn't have a high pitched voice and baby blue eyes.
38	* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' is full of moles and [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder traitors]], as you'd expect from a show that exemplifies the GambitPileup. [[spoiler: Marcie (a.k.a. Hot Dog Water)]] reforms, joins Mystery Inc., ''betrays'' Mystery Inc. to Mister E, betrays Mister E ''for'' Mystery Inc., and finally [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice dies to slow down Pericles' robots]] so the gang can escape]]. [[spoiler: Freddy's real parents]] are obvious spies from the start, but who they're working for changes halfway through the plan, [[spoiler: and they die while attempting to change allegiances ''again'']].
39	* The season finale of ''WesternAnimation/ShaggyAndScoobyDooGetAClue'' reveals that [[spoiler: Uncle Albert [[HiddenInPlainSight has been undercover a Dr. Phibe's right hand man]] [[SdrawkcabName Dr Trebla.]]]]
40	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
41	** Plankton is this in "New Leaf", as he pretends to go out of business and turns the Chum Bucket into a gift shop to trick Mr. Krabs into handing the secret formula to him. Until it's revealed he was OutGambitted and Mr. Krabs knew all along.
42	** [=SpongeBob=] becomes a brief one in "One Coarse Meal" after confronting Mr. Krabs for tormenting Plankton into suicide with his whale phobia and lets Plankton in on Mr. Krabs' fear of mimes to get back at him.
43	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
44	** At one point, this is parodied when there's a squealer in the group.
45	-->'''Fat Tony:''' Now some unpleasant news. I have learned that someone in this room is a squealer.\
46	'''Legs:''' We've narrowed it down to either Johnny Tightlips or Frankie the Squealer.\
47	'''Frankie:''' Okay, it's me! I can't help it! I just like squealing! It makes me feel big!
48	** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E18AStarIsTorn A Star is Torn]]", Lisa enters a singing contest hosted by Krusty, with Homer as her manager. After she fires Homer for being a [[StageMom Stage Dad]], he begins managing her competitor... who then loses all his fans and popularity in the final. Homer shows himself to be this to Lisa at the end.
49	* Near the end of the ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS1E16TheJihad The Jihad]]", party member Charr reveals himself as the person behind the theft of the Soul of the Skorr.
50	* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'':
51	** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E6DownfallOfADroid "Downfall of a Droid"]]/[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E7DuelOfTheDroids "Duel of the Droids"]]: R3-S6, a pseudo-SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for R2-D2 who briefly replaces the famous droid after he was captured, and tries to mask his attempts to kill Anakin and co. as accidents.
52	** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E9CloakOfDarkness "Cloak of Darkness"]]: [[spoiler:Captain Argyus, head of the Senate Commandos]]; the wow-factor in this case comes from the fact that, as an [[spoiler:elite bodyguard in the employ of the Galactic Senate]], most would expect him to be as loyal as they come.
53	** [[spoiler:Clone trooper Sergeant Slick]] sells out the planet Christophsis in [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E16TheHiddenEnemy "The Hidden Enemy"]]. What made it more surprising than [[spoiler:Captain Argyus]] is that he's [[spoiler:a clone. Men who you would not think would do that. Or be capable of such a thing due to their training/programming.]]
54	* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'':
55	** The first season has [[spoiler:Senator-in-Exile Gall Trayvis, who, working for [[StateSec the ISB]], posed as a VoiceOfTheResistance to monitor rebel cells and lure troublesome ones such as the ''Ghost'' crew into "accidents". The crew winds up blowing his cover by escaping the trap set for them.]]
56	** In [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E04BreakingRanks "Breaking Ranks"]], Ezra, while undercover as an Imperial cadet, befriends a fellow cadet, [[HeroOfAnotherStory Zare]] [[Literature/ServantsOfTheEmpire Leonis]], who's joined the Imperial academy to search for his sister, an Imperial cadet who mysteriously vanished. He chooses to stay behind at the end of the episode, but agrees to give the ''Ghost'' crew intel.
57	** In season 3, [[spoiler:Agent Kallus]] has become disenchanted with the Galactic Empire, but instead of defecting to the Rebellion he becomes a spy who reports under the code name [[spoiler:Fulcrum]]. Conveniently, [[spoiler:as a high-ranking member of the Imperial Security Bureau, ''he'' is the one responsible for rooting out spies and traitors in this particular sector of the Empire, and thus in a good position to ensure that spies and traitors don't actually get found while framing other Imperial officers for his own actions (or would've been if not for [[MagnificentBastard Grand Admiral Thrawn]] arriving in the sector)]].
58	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': PlayedForLaughs in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E5HitTheDiamond "Hit the Diamond"]]. [[spoiler:Garnet unfuses so that Ruby]] can infiltrate a team of enemy Gems — and she's [[BadLiar absolutely TERRIBLE]] at it, and only avoids being caught because the people she's trying to fool are complete idiots who can't even count themselves properly.
59	* Several in 1973-74 season ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' episodes.
60	** In "The Fantastic Frerps", Poly Lean is secretly an agent for the villain King Plasto.
61	** In "The Power Pirate", a space alien takes the form of Sir Cedric Cedric to fool the Super Friends.
62	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'':
63	** Terra, which is an adaptation of a famous story arc from [[ComicBook/TeenTitans the comic's]] 1980s heyday, "The Judas Contract". Unlike the comics, it's done with a sympathetic angle towards Terra.
64	** Bumblebee is a mole for the Titans in Blood's school, although Cyborg doesn't know it and tries to fight her for real. When Brother Blood finds out about this, he is not amused, as this was the second mole found in his school in such a short period of time (the other being Cyborg).
65	--->'''Brother Blood:''' ''[getting more agitated as he continues speaking]'' Another spy? Tell me, was anyone at my school actually there to LEARN?\
66	'''Bumblebee:''' ''[gets into a fighting pose]'' I learned plenty.
67	** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in the first season finale. [[MagnificentBastard Slade]] [[TheReveal reveals]] his season-long EvilPlan to [[TheHero Robin]]: Slade had [[spoiler:lured Robin away from the rest of the Titans, leaving them to deactivate his "Chronoton Detonator" which was actually a device that injected them with deadly nanites, allowing Slade to kill them with the push of a button]]. After this reveal, Slade [[spoiler: made Robin his new apprentice]], thus making Robin somewhat of a FakeDefector, albeit [[spoiler:with the villain commandeering the operation specifically designed to make the unwilling defector comply and prevent him from informing his comrades because then, they would most assuredly die, thereby making the goodies, ''not the bad guys'', the ones to be deceived by the hero's false defection.]] Following the establishment of his apprenticeship under Slade via a little crime spree and [[ShootYourMate a show-down with his ex-teammates]] Robin's friends fully believe that he has been lost to TheDarkSide, for good. This makes the discovery that Robin was really [[spoiler: on their side the entire time]] all the more surprising, from their P.O.V.
68	* As shown on the characters page, Owen from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Action'' was one for Chris, although he was rather reluctant, and had a legitimate reason for doing so.
69	* Shockwave from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''. The Autobots know him as Longarm Prime, head of Autobot Intelligence.
70	** Sideways in ''Anime/TransformersArmada''. After switching between the Autobots and Decepticons several times, he is revealed to be an agent of Unicron, making both sides fight each other to fuel him with their hatred.
71	** And Sideways in ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'', not to be confused with the Sideways mentioned above, is a mole in the Decepticons working to...actually, it's never quite clear why he's there.
72	*** He wants the Cyber Planet Keys for himself, so as to annihilate Gigantion and avenge his homeworld Planet X, which was destroyed by one of its own weapons in a war with Gigantion. He eventually settled for being with the Decepticons, because he felt their aggression would serve him better. He sided with Starscream eventually, betting on the madbot {{Determinator}} who had the bearings to attack all the Autobots at once to get what he was after. Eventually Sideways bailed on the 'Cons entirely after almost getting vaporized by Optimus Prime, and thereafter worked solely with his fellow survivor Soundwave.
73	** [[spoiler: Tarantulas]] from ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''. Turns out that he was working for [[spoiler: the [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness Tripredacus Council]]]] the whole time. [[spoiler: And possibly Unicron. [[HiddenAgendaVillain We're still not quite sure.]]]]
74	* In season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', [[spoiler:the new teacher Avalon]] is actually Darkar's spy in Alfea. The real [[spoiler:Avalon]] is locked up in Darkar's dungeon.
75	* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'':
76	** A major plot point is that apparently a member of the team is a traitor. Artemis seems to the most obvious candidate, though her debut episode and an issue of the tie-in comic make it seem like this is a red herring. An episode had the team leader, two supervisors, a member, and an outside friend sit down and discuss the possibilities. According to them, Artemis has suspect connections, Conner has suspect origins, and M'gann has a suspect story, while Wally, Robin, and Kaldur are "above suspicion". In the end [[spoiler:The mole was nobody on the team. Wally, Robin and Kaldur were above suspicion after all, while Artemis, Superboy and M'gann were all blackmailed, but opted to come clean about their secrets rather than betray the team. Red Arrow was the mole (and he was an unknowing brainwashed one), and he was to be the mole for the Justice League (having worked his way into their ranks by the end of the season) and not the Young Justice team. Implying they had a mole in their team was just to sow dissent.]]
77	** In season 2, [[spoiler:Kaldur has pretended to undergo a FaceHeelTurn to spy on the villains. He is later joined by Artemis, who has faked her death and assumed a new identity.]]
78	** In season 3, [[spoiler:[[ItWasHisSled Terra]] and [[MadScientist Helga Jace]], the former is set up to be rescued by Nightwing's team and reports to Deathstroke, while the latter joins them earlier on and reports to Ultra-Humanite. Only Terra's is played sympathetically, arguably even more than in ''Teen Titans'' above, as while she still went through with attacking her teammates in TT before undergoing her HeelFaceTurn, she undergoes hers in YJ before she even attempts successfully to hurt anyone.]]

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