Basic Trope: A seemingly captive character turns out to be working for their "captures".
- Straight: Bob rescues Alice from Emperor Evulz, only for her to stab him In the Back.
- Exaggerated: Emperor Evulz was a mere figurehead, Alice was the true ruler.
- Downplayed: Alice is rescued, but Evulz still has her sister Claire, so Alice is forced to betray her rescuers.
- Justified: Alice is into BDSM.
- Inverted: Bob seemingly frees Alice from Evulz, only for him to take her to a dingy basement "for her own protection". After being repeatedly smuggled between similar locations, Alice realizes she never was free to begin with.
- Subverted: Alice flashes a wicked smirk behind Bob's back, but she turns out to be innocent.
- Double Subverted: ...but she actually isn't and captures Bob.
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- Exploited: Bob realizes Alice is secretly working for Evulz, and makes her death look like a random casuality.
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- Implied: Ever since Alice's seeming rescue, Evulz suddenly has access to information he once did not have.
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