History TheMole / VideoGames

* 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 MagicMirror 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 Genovefa's parents and the rest of her race that leaves her as the LastOfHerKind, 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 [[HardTruthAesop hard but sound advice]] about how some people cannot be changed by kindness, mere moments before betraying her.]]

* [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3 Xenoblade Chronicles 3]]: Colony Mu; unlike other colonies, it is not quite clear who exactly their Consul is. She used to show up at the colony, but eventually disappeared, never to be heard from again. [[spoiler: However, it turns out that she was a part of the colony the whole time, and that Irma, one of the colony’s active residents, was actually the Consul (Consul [[OneLetterName I]] to be exact). Unlike a lot of other examples, [[BecomingTheMask she actually feels remorse about betraying her former colony-mates,]] and once Irma/I dies, they actually grieve for her, especially Fiona.]]

* ''VideoGame/JustCause4'': Subverted: Rico floats the idea when Black Hand forces start popping up in places they shouldn't unless they knew about his plans but, no, it just turns out that their intielligence branch is clever enough to figure out that if an internationally renowned terrorist has stolen one of the things someone who intends to hit a specific high-value target needs, he's probably coming after other things someone with that goal in mind would need.

* ''VideoGame/{{Ever17}}'' has [[spoiler:'Takeshi']] which is revealed in the final route. Minor subversion in that [[spoiler:it was being done as part of a plan orchestrated by the good guys who simply couldn't tell anyone what was going on]].

** In the Imperial Agent story of ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' you spend the second act acting as a Republic Intelligence (called the SIS) mole inside Imperial Intelligence as part of an Imperial Intelligence plot to take down a particular team of SIS agents. And then things get ''complicated''...

** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' 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]].

* ''VideoGame/WinBack: Covert Operations'': Your squad leader, who happens to be the brother of the BigBad that was offed by TheDragon [[TheStarscream turned traitor himself]]. Before the penultimate battle, he reveals that he [[HellishCopter sabotaged the helicopter]], causing it to explode and [[FakingTheDead faking his death]], and that he killed the two teammates you found StuffedIntoTheFridge.

* The [[TheArtifact currently unplayable]] ''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.

* ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'': An important plot line throughout the game is the adults trying to find the whereabouts of the mole in the Psychonauts, because only somebody within headquarters would have known how to kidnap Truman Zanotto. [[spoiler:It's eventually discovered that [[TheDogWasTheMastermind the mail clerk Nick Johnsmith]] was the one behind Truman's kidnapping, and that "Nick Johnsmith" isn't even his real name at all! In truth, his real name is Gristol Malik, and his reason for infiltrating the Psychonauts was to find and bring back his childhood hero [[BigBad Maligula]] back to his home country of Grulovia so she could help him return to his rightful position as the Gzar of the country.]]

* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' - [[spoiler:Doctor Judith Mossman betrays Black Mesa East to the Combine. Turns out, she was working primarily for herself and begins to help the Resistance more.]]

** [[spoiler:The BigBad Driscoll]] is the HeelFaceMole and SmugSnake who joyously torments ''anyone'' and ''everyone'' who knows the truth.

** [[spoiler:Katarina/Eine]] from ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem]]'' is a spy that wants to kill Marth. [[HeelFaceTurn You can recruit her again later on]].

** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' reveals rather early on that there is a [[TheMole mole]] in the player's party, but who they are is ambiguous. Potential candidates include [[TallDarkAndSnarky Volke]] and Nasir, based on the timing of the reveal, and Sothe, based on the timing of his appearance and his seemingly-flimsy excuse for stowing away on the ship, but when [[TheLancer Soren]] confronts Nasir over the possibility during a mid-game conversation, Nasir basically shrugs him off and implies that ''Soren'' is hiding something. It turns out to [[spoiler:have been Nasir all along]], but the game does a ''really'' good job of making it ambiguous as to who the real one is: to the extent that you may not be using either of the playable units under suspicion until it all clears up for fear of them backstabbing you mid-chapter. It doesn't help that ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' had exactly that happen, so people who played that game knew that the developers weren't above such trickery.

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

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

* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'', the evidence seems to point La Volpe towards [[spoiler:Machiavelli]] being the mole, but it really is [[spoiler: some one-eyed thief briefly glimpsed in the first Sequence.]]

* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGate II'' there is [[spoiler:Yoshimo. He is forced to spy on you due to a curse Irenicus put on him]]. Interestingly enough if you kick him out of the party before you visit Spellhold and then visit him when you're done he'll die as soon as you come near him.

* Scias from ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV''. Though to be fair, he never was ''supposed'' to be on their side in the first place - apparently the party sort of forgot that he was the guard assigned to keep an eye on them.
** Fortunately, Scias takes his orders [[ExactWords 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]].

** ''Anime/Danganronpa3'' has the “attacker” within the [[spoiler:Future Foundation]] council, killing the other members one-by-one. [[spoiler:Technically, ''everyone'' is the attacker, being DrivenToSuicide by a [[BrownNote Despair video]], though it could also be considered [[MoleInCharge Chairman Kazuo Tengan]], who set up the videos in the first place]].

* ''VideoGame/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}}]]

** [[spoiler: EVA]] from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', who was actually a spy for the Chinese. Due to [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Big Boss']] amazing pheromones, [[spoiler:she]] is eventually converted to his side and is extremely loyal, but that's later.
*** As it turns out, it wasn't the Big Boss' pheromones that converted [[spoiler:EVA]], but [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer the Boss']].

* In ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'', [[spoiler: Celeste Wilson turns out to working with Project Icarus, a joint operation between the CPF and Pirandello-Kruger that is training cops in the art of LeParkour to bring down the Runners, and she is also the assassin of mayoral candidate Robert Pope]].

* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration'' 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.

* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** 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]]
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', [[spoiler:Udina]] becomes this.
** [[spoiler:Maya Brooks]] is revealed to be a Cerberus spy near the end of the ''Citadel'' {{DLC}},
* 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 defenses are being sabotaged by your operatives.

** ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' has [[spoiler:Chiaki Nanami as the "traitor". However, both her 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 the same person as Hajime Hinata]]]].

** [[spoiler:Chairman Reiji Sakata]], suspected as be TheMole, turns out to be the ReverseMole who finally reveals his position upon learning that [[spoiler:his own ''son'']] is behind most of the evil.

* 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 Genovefa's parents and the rest of her race that leaves her as the LastOfHerKind, 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 [[HardTruthAesop hard but sound advice]] about how some people cannot be changed by kindness, mere moments 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...[[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 [[HardTruthAesop hard but sound advice]] about how some people cannot be changed by kindness, mere seconds before betraying her.]]