History TheMole / VideoGames

* [[spoiler: Sanchez]], of ''VideoGame/SuikodenI'', turns out to be a traitor. He pledges allegiance immediately when discovered, and, despite his hand in some horrific events [[spoiler: from Odessa's death to sabotaging the Resistance's raid on the Empire's most important fortress]], [[JokerImmunity the hero doesn't execute him on the spot]]. He does spend the rest of his life in a prison though. Really, you should have known: [[spoiler: he has a [[NominalImportance face portrait]] and hangs around you, but is ''not'' one of the [[OneHundredAndEight 108]] warriors]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona3}}'', [[spoiler:Ikutsuki, who was TheMentor to the S.E.E.S. team, turns out to have been pulling their strings. Defeating the Bosses of each month, which he claimed would end the Dark Hour, instead brought about [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the end of the world as they knew it]].]]

* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' opens with the police stating that someone within the Thieves sold you out, leading to your capture and interrogation. [[spoiler:It's SixthRanger party member Goro Akechi, who's revealed to actually be TheDragon for the bad guys.]] In a further twist, [[spoiler:the path to the good ending reveals that you and the rest of the Thieves ''knew'' he was the traitor the entire time, and that you deliberately let him sell you out as part of a plan to fake your death]].

* Xian Mei of ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'' is...something along these lines. A mole for Chinese special forces spying on the island, throughout the games she evolves from a freaked survivor to hardened warrior to the point it's hinted that she's always been this way. Before the outbreak she worked as a handler for an assassin recovering information, and last we see of her she's lost any interest in a possible cure, seeking instead to destroy any possibility of the virus spreading.

*** [[spoiler: Sjoring Hard-Heart, leader of the Fighters Guild]], is actually a [[TheSyndicate Camonna]] [[TheMafia Tong]] agent, and two of the sub-leaders are his assistants. He's leading the Tong's war on the Imperial import ThievesGuild. You can either help him eradicate the Thieves Guild, or help the second-in-command of [[spoiler: the Fighter's Guild]] expose and eliminate him.

* In ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'', [[spoiler:Nash eventually turns out to be a traitor who was working for Ghaleon, helping him spy on your every move. And depending on the version you played, Nash either turns out to be a double mole, or has a SexFaceTurn after the actions of another party member, Mia]].

* ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'''s Double initially introduces himself to X during the Maverick Hunters' conflict with their sister organization Repliforce as a rookie Maverick Hunter. He is small, clumsy and chubby, and seems pretty harmless. He presents X the 8 Repliforce bosses and acts every bit X's ally, even pleading with him to not go fight Repliforce's Colonel. However, once X has taken care of them and heads to their space station [[KillSat Final Weapon]], Double receives a transmission from Sigma to stop the Hunters from reaching Final Weapon at all costs, right in the middle of being teased by some of the Reploids in X's unit who were gearing up to follow X into space. He then proceeds to [[TransformationSequence transform into his TRUE form]]... An ass kicking demonic looking bot with laser blades on the back of his hands. Turns out he is actually semi-made of liquid metal a-la T-1000, and able to change between his real form and a smaller innocent looking one. He then proceeds to slaughter every single one of the Hunters in the Hangar in probably the most [[HighPressureBlood graphic scene ever put in a Mega Man game.]] He then goes to Final Weapon himself, and intercepts X in his small form, bursting out laughing, claiming both the Hunters and Repliforce as idiots. He transforms, much to X's shock, as he had trusted his new ally, and attacks him. After he is defeated, he reveals had been sent as a spy from the very beginning to keep an eye on X.

* In ''VideoGame/RadiaSenkiReimeihen'', [[spoiler:Saria turns out to be not only a spy for Nova, but his own daughter. She ultimately makes a HeelFaceTurn, leading to RedemptionEqualsDeath.]]

** In the first game, Hendrix is one of these for the player and the titular Red Faction. He works as Ultor's security technician, but secretly helps the Faction by providing them with information and hacking into Ultor's security systems.

** The sequel does this with a twist. The Shadow Mirrors send Lamia Loveless, a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots robot]] created by the MadScientist Lemon Browning, to act as a mole to spy on Kyosuke Nanbu. The player knows she's a mole right off the bat, and the drama is that Lamia is becoming self aware, and wonders if what she is doing is right.

** The VideoGame/TalesSeries loves this trope so much, along with party member betrayal, that fans were legitimately shocked that ''VideoGame/TalesOfZestiria'' never had anyone turncoat on you or be revealed to be working for the BigBad. Its prequel, ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'', [[RedHerring makes it seem like Magilou]] will be the traitor due to her suspicious behavior and and an early game incident where she sold out Velvet to avoid interrogation. [[spoiler:The real traitor turns out to be her Malak, Bienfu, who was forced to leak info on the party due to Melchior's {{Geas}}.]]

** [[spoiler:Maya Brooks]] is revelead to be a Cerberus spy near the end of the ''Citadel'' {{DLC}},

* ''VideoGame/FrontMission'' loves this trope. Most of the [[spoiler:PMO]] are ignorant of what goes on in [[spoiler:Sakata Industries]], being on the outside looking in. But there are those [[TheMole Moles]] who are well aware of such things, including [[spoiler:President Koichi Sakata himself!]]

* Nox from ''VideoGame/ChildOfLight''. When first encountered, she uses the pseudonym "Norah" and appears to care about her stepsister Aurora and fights alongside her, guiding Aurora to the magic mirror that would take her home...[[spoiler:but instead it leads Aurora to the BigBad Umbra, who reveals she married Aurora's father so she could kill his daughter, as Aurora's mother banished Umbra's mother from Lemuria long ago. At this point, "Norah" reveals her real name and status as one of Umbra's daughters, and declares that she never considered Aurora family. [[TookALevelInJerkass It gets worse]]: it is heavily implied that Nox is responsible for the death of Genevieve's parents and the rest of her race, as the ogre that ate them said he was guarding the door to the Temple of the Sun, where Nox resides after betraying Aurora. Nox is also a {{Hypocrite}}; she gives Aurora what would normally be [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop hard but sound advice]] about how some people cannot be changed by kindness, mere seconds before betraying her.]]

** The BigBad of ''Dual Destinies'' is one. [[spoiler:It's another DetectiveMole, Bobby Fulbright, who was actually killed and replaced by the BigBad before the game even begins!]]

** Fortunately, Scias takes his orders literally. He was told to keep an eye on them, not to ''stop them from leaving the castle.'' He points this out to his employer, who, annoyed, has to agree that Scias fulfilled his contract. [[spoiler: At which point Scias gives the money back when he has a case of BecomingTheMask]].

* [[spoiler:Katarine/Eine]] from [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAkaneia Fire Emblem Shin Monshou No Nazo]] is a spy that wants to kill Marth. [[HeelFaceTurn You can recruit her again later on]].
* This becomes a plot point on every path in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', with varying levels:
** In ''Birthright'', it turns out that TheMole is done twice - first with Zola who is taken as a captive, but [[BecomingTheMask legitimately wants what's best for Corrin]], even begging Garon to spare their life. After Zola is removed from the equation, however, it's revealed much later that [[spoiler: Takumi]] is this trope unintentionally.
** Corrin and Azura are suspected of being this in ''Conquest'', but they eventually earn Garon and Iago's respect.
** In ''Revelation'', an important plot point in the game's third act is the fact that [[spoiler: Scarlet]] is killed upon entry to Valla, and the group is constantly bombarded by ambushes and traps. As it turns out, there are two, Anthony and [[spoiler: Gunter]]. The former was made as one and the latter is [[spoiler: possessed by Anankos, and he even kills Scarlet while attempting to take Corrin's life.]]

* After three games of questioning who's side Ash Crimson is on, ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters XIII'' eventually reveals him to be this for Those Of The Past. His ultimate plan is to earn BigBad Saiki's trust until the moment he can stab him in the back and erase him from existence via a TemporalParadox [[spoiler:([[RetGone even at the cost of his own existence due to being to Saiki being his distant ancestor.]])]]
* Jansen Friedh of ''VideoGame/LostOdyssey'' starts off the game as The Mole, but is very bad at it, probably as a result of just not caring that much about his employer's instructions. Not suprisingly, he quickly [[BecomingTheMask discovers that he likes Kaim and Seth a lot more than he likes his boss]].

* ''VideoGame/MegaMan 7'': [[spoiler:Bass/Forte]] only sought to steal the armor parts intended for Mega/Rock Man. The antagonism (nothing more than mere rivalry) of this [[TheMole Mole]], however, becomes more openly displayed from then on. He's also just an occasional PunchClockVillain, and the rivalry is put aside several times in many a temporary truce between the two as they unite against common menaces. Their final truce is implicitly permanent in ''Mega Man 10''.
* ''[[VideoGame/MegaManX Mega Man X4]]'''s Double initially introduces himself to X during the Maverick Hunters' conflict with their sister organization Repliforce as a rookie Maverick Hunter. He is small, clumsy and chubby, and seems pretty harmless. He presents X the 8 Repliforce bosses and acts every bit X's ally, even pleading with him to not go fight Repliforce's Colonel. However, once X has taken care of them and heads to their space station [[KillSat Final Weapon]], Double receives a transmission from Sigma to stop the Hunters from reaching Final Weapon at all costs, right in the middle of being teased by some of the Reploids in X's unit who were gearing up to follow X into space. He then proceeds to [[TransformationSequence transform into his TRUE form]]... An ass kicking demonic looking bot with laser blades on the back of his hands. Turns out he is actually semi-made of liquid metal a-la T-1000, and able to change between his real form and a smaller innocent looking one. He then proceeds to slaughter every single one of the Hunters in the Hangar in probably the most [[HighPressureBlood graphic scene ever put in a Mega Man game.]] He then goes to Final Weapon himself, and intercepts X in his small form, bursting out laughing, claiming both the Hunters and Repliforce as idiots. He transforms, much to X's shock, as he had trusted his new ally, and attacks him. After he is defeated, he reveals had been sent as a spy from the very beginning to keep an eye on X.

* Reiko from ''Oneechanbara 2''. She's an agent of an organization that joins Aya in her attempt to rescue her half-sister, Saki. Turns out said organization is ''evil'', and she tagged along so that when Aya defeated the villain that had kidnapped Saki, Reiko could ''eat'' her heart and gain Baneful Blood powers. However, since this game only came out in Japan and the PAL territories, most US players only know this from the summary of the previous games included in the guides and manuals for the US-released ''Oneechanbara'' games.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona3}}'', [[spoiler:Ikutsuki, who was TheMentor to the S.E.E.S. team, turns out to have been pulling their strings. Defeating the Bosses of each month, which he claimed would end the Dark Hour, instead brought about the end of the world as they knew it.]]

* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars: Original Generation'' has a variation on this. He's really in with the good guys, but he's mentally programmed by the bad guys so that he can't do anything that directly goes against them. So he made a female clone of himself that doesn't have the programming before he activated.
** The sequel does this with a twist. The Shadow Mirrors sends Lamia Loveless a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots robot]] created by the MadScientist Lemon Browning, to act as a mole to spy on Kyosuke Nanbu. The player knows she's a mole right off the bat, and the drama is that Lamia is becoming self aware, and wonders if what she is doing is right.

* In ''VideoGame/PerfectDark Zero'', Chandra is secretly working for Zhang Li, which she reveals after killing Dr. Carroll. She herself is [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness sacrificed by Zhang]] at the end of the game [[DevourTheDragon to gain her life force]].

* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' villains are really good at being moles, especially [[spoiler:Matt Engarde who you'd think would be incapable of simply brushing his teeth without his manager, much less kill someone.]] Other examples include [[spoiler:Calisto Yew aka Shih-na]] in the fifth game, and [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin who is the player's ''[[TreacherousAdvisor freaking boss]]'']] in the fourth game.

** The BigBad of Dual Destinies is one. [[spoiler:It's another DetectiveMole, Bobby Fulbright, who was actually killed and replaced by the BigBad before the game even begins!]]

* ''Franchise/DanganRonpa'' has [[OnceAnEpisode one for each game]], with one of the students, seemingly trapped in [[BigBad Monokuma]]’s DeadlyGame, actually working with him.
** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' and its sequel ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2'' each have one, though both of them are played with. In the first game, it's [[spoiler:Sakura Oogami, who is being blackmailed into being the mole, and Mukuro Ikusaba, who is [[TwinSwitch disguised as her twin sister]]. In the backstory, both Mukuro and her sister [[BigBad Junko Enoshima]] were this, infiltrating Hope’s Peak Academy and Makoto’s class to kick off their TakeOverTheWorld plot]]. The second game has [[spoiler:Chiaki Nanami as the "traitor". However, both Nanami and the person she's working for (Usami) [[ReverseMole have the students' best interests at heart]]. The real traitor is Izuru Kamukura, who inserted the Monokuma/Junko virus in the first place, and is [[TomatoInTheMirror Hajime Hinata pre-amnesia]]]].
** In ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'', it turns out that [[spoiler:Toko Fukawa made a deal with Nagito Komeada to deliver Komaru Naegi to him in exchange for [[DistressedDude Byakuya Togami]]’s safety. She regrets this and goes back on the deal. More traditionally, Shirokuma was Junko all along, manipulating LaResistance to go where she needs them to]].

** ''VisualNovel/NewDanganRonpaV3'' takes this UpToEleven by having [[spoiler:Tsumugi Shirogane not only be the mole, but also the BigBad who killed Rantaro Amami and pinned the blame on [[DecoyProtagonist Kaede Akamatsu]] at the beginning of the game to ensure the killing game went off smoothly]].
* The [[TheArtifact currently unplayable game known as]] ''VideoGame/{{Darkspore}}'' uses a heroic version of this trope; Jinx joined the Nocturni Legion with the intention of betraying them horribly once she was of a high enough rank among them.

* Nox from ''VideoGame/ChildOfLight''. When first encountered, she uses the pseudonym "Norah" and appears to care about her stepsister Aurora and fights alongside her, guiding Aurora to the magic mirror that would take her home...[[spoiler:but instead it leads Aurora to the BigBad Umbra, who reveals she married Aurora's father so she could kill his daughter, as Aurora's mother banished an ancestor of Umbra long ago. At this point, "Norah" reveals her real name and status as one of Umbra's daughters, and declares that she never considered Aurora family. [[TookALevelInJerkass It gets worse]]: it is heavily implied that Nox is responsible for the death of Genevieve's parents and the rest of her race, as the ogre that ate them said he was guarding the door to the Temple of the Sun, where Nox resides after betraying Aurora. Nox is also a {{Hypocrite}}; she gives Aurora what would normally be [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop hard but sound advice]] about how some people cannot be changed by kindness, mere seconds before betraying her.]]

* Nox from ''VideoGame/ChildOfLight''. When first encountered, she uses the pseudonym "Norah" and appears to care about her stepsister Aurora and fights alongside her, guiding Aurora to the magic mirror that would take her home...but instead it leads Aurora to the BigBad Umbra, who reveals she married Aurora's father so she could kill his daughter, as Aurora's mother banished an ancestor of Umbra long ago. At this point, "Norah" reveals her real name and status as one of Umbra's daughters, and declares that she never considered Aurora family. [[TookALevelInJerkass It gets worse]]: it is heavily implied that Nox is responsible for the death of Genevieve's parents and the rest of her race, as the ogre that ate them said he was guarding the door to the Temple of the Sun, where Nox resides after betraying Aurora.

* After three games of questioning who's side Ash Crimson is on, ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters XIII'' eventually reveals him to be this for Those Of The Past. His ultimate plan is to earn BigBad Saiki's trust until the moment he can stab him in the back and erase him from existence via a TemporalParadox ([[RetGone even at the cost of his own existence due to being to Saiki being his distant ancestor.]])

* In ''VideoGame/LufiaIIRiseOfTheSinistrals'', [[spoiler:Iris is actually Erim, the Sinistral of Death]]. In the remake, ''VideoGame/LufiaCurseOfTheSinistrals'', [[spoiler:she has [[BecomingTheMask Become the Mask]] in NewGamePlus]].
** In the sequel, ''VideoGame/LufiaTheLegendReturns'', it's [[spoiler:Seena]], though [[spoiler:she only wants to put an end to the Sinistrals for good]].

* ''ComicBook/MarvelUltimateAlliance sees [[spoiler:a subplot where the heroes suspect that the ComicBook/BlackWidow is really a mole for ComicBook/DoctorDoom, only for ComicBook/NickFury to reveal that she was working on an off-the-books operations to get back some plans Doom stole--and TheStinger to reveal that Widow is indeed working against ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}]]

* In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheAzranLegacy'', [[spoiler: ''[[WhamEpisode Emmy herself]]'' is revealed to have been a mole for Targent all along. ''[[PlayerPunch OUCH]]''.]]
** Earlier in the game, following up on a plot thread touched upon in "Miracle Mask", [[spoiler:Simon Bloom]] is outed as Targent's mole in Scotland Yard.

* In the ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' [[DownloadableContent DLC]], ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' there's [[spoiler:Tela Vasir, an Asari spectre who acts as the mole to the Shadow Broker. Ironically she provides a boss fight that is arguably even tougher than the fight with the Broker himself]]
** And in ''Mass Effect 3'', [[spoiler:Udina]] becomes this.
*** [[RuleOfThree And in the]] ''Citadel'' {{DLC}}, [[spoiler:Maya Brooks]].

* ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'' and its sequel ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2'' each have one, though both of them are played with. In the first game, it's [[spoiler:Sakura Oogami, who is being blackmailed into being the mole]], while the second game has [[spoiler:Chiaki Nanami as the "traitor". However, both Nanami and the person she's working for (Usami) have the students' best interests at heart]].
** '''VisualNovel/NewDanganRonpaV3'' takes this UpToEleven by having [[spoiler:Tsumugi Shirogane not only be the mole, but also the BigBad who killed Rantaro Amami and pinned the blame on [[DecoyProtagonist Kaede Akamatsu]] at the beginning of the game to ensure the killing game went off smoothly.]]

* In ''[[Franchise/ProfessorLayton Professor Layton and the Azran Legacies]]'', [[spoiler: ''[[WhamEpisode Emmy herself]]'' is revealed to have been a mole for Targent all along. ''[[PlayerPunch OUCH]]''.]]

* ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos'' is an interesting case in that [[spoiler:the mole is the main character, and you don't know until the second disc. He goes on to become The Dragon for a while until his defeat at the hands of his former friends, and then performs a genuine Heel Face Turn]].

* In ''[[Franchise/ProfessorLayton Professor Layton and the Azran Legacies]]'', [[spoiler: ''Emmy herself'' is revealed to have been a mole for Targent all along. ''[[WhamEpisode OUCH]]''.]]

** In the sequel ''Liberation Day'', [[NumberTwo Ava]] notices that PACT has been able to track down the Sunrider with uncanny precision on several occasions, and realizes that somebody in the crew must be feeding them intel on the ship’s movements. She concludes that it’s Chigara, the ship’s Chief Engineer, [[TomatoInTheMirror who bears a disturbing resemblance to]][[ArtificialHuman the Prototypes]] who lead PACT and could be leaking valuable information to them through their HiveMind, intentionally or not. [[spoiler:She’s half-right: Chigara ''is'' a Prototype spy, but she’s not the leak. The actual leak is Claude, the ship’s doctor, who’s been working with the Prototypes since before she joined the crew.]]

* In ''Videogame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar'', it is possible to create moles of your own to infiltrate enemy fortresses by sending in your brainwashed Orcs to gain positions under the local Overlord. This can result in a [[TheSiege Fortress Battle]] where all of the capture points are "protected" by your moles who are just holding the spot for you.

* In ''Videogame/MiddleEarthShadowsOfWar'', it is possible to create moles of your own to infiltrate enemy fortresses by sending in your brainwashed Orcs to gain positions under the local Overlord. This can result in a [[TheSiege Fortress Battle]] where all of the capture points are "protected" by your moles who are just holding the spot for you.

-->'''CarmenSandiego:''' Well, well well. It seems we have an unexpected guest. Or should I say, an uninvited pest. ''Get the ACME Infiltrator!''

* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'' revolves around the protagonist Wei Shen being an undercover policeman within the [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Sun On Yee]], but ''so'' deep undercover that at one point his handler voices suspicions that he'd "gone native", not least since he'd ended up killing to "prove" that he's not an undercover, and by that point had killed many, ''many'' more.

* In ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' Brood War, Samir Duran helps the Terran forces at the early missions of the campaign. Halfway through the game, he manipulates the Terran Commander Gerard Dugalle that his childhood friend, Vice-Admiral Alexei Stukov was a traitor to the United Earth Directorate. Dugalle then gives Duran the mission to kill Stukov, after which Duran reveals himself as the real traitor and works with Sarah Kerrigan.
** Then the trope is fulfilled again when Duran betrays Kerrigan at a critical hour, later revealing himself as "a servant of a far greater power" which will likely figure prominently in the sequel.
*** And now has.