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Candi
Since: Aug, 2012
13th Aug, 2017 09:10:03 PM
Please ask in Trope Finder. :)
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Irene
(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
13th Aug, 2017 09:10:14 PM
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I'm not sure this is a trope because I can't seem to find anything simply by searching, but I see it so often that is should be. Why.. do the "bad guys" always track down their traitors and instead of just killing them or simply packing up potentially compromised operations and reorganizing/restructuring, they demand to know what they told their interrogators. Why bother? If you have the chance to execute them, do so! Stop screwin' around. Or, just leave them be to prevent further exposure and just reorganize whatever resources were potentially compromised. I see so many "bad guys" make this mistake that they wind up throwing their entire organization into the drain just to recover from this one Human Resources issue. When the organization is heavily compartmentalized; it makes violating this trope so much more baffling.