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The Hero is looking for answers, beating up bikers, paying off informants and searching through the [[Library of Babel]]. His [[True Companions|best friend]] and [[Heterosexual Life Partners|partner]] pleads with him to stop, it won't bring "her" back, and it just puts him in danger. Yet still the hero persists.
A few acts later, he's getting beat on by the [[Giant Mook]], it looks like it's all going to fade to black when... [[The Cavalry|his partner shows up]], [[Chandler's Law|gun in hand!]] Wait, why is he pointing the tranquilizer gun at
The best friend has been in league with (or is) the [[Big Bad]] behind the whole plot. However, they genuinely like the hero and would rather he live a long and happy life. He might try a [[Circling Monologue]] to bring him onboard, but chances are he already knows the hero's moral code is such that he'd just be wasting both their time by doing it. Still, he just might try, for old time's sake. Compounding matters, he's usually a [[Straw Traitor]] to some horrible ideal, is either directly or indirectly responsible for much of the heroes recent suffering, and/or was covering it up.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Gaheris Rhade from ''[[Andromeda]]''. However, the episode "The Unconquerable Man" put one hell of a twist on it. {{spoiler|Gaheris actually ''won'' the fight originally, but got frozen in time like Hunt did in the pilot. He eventually gets rescued by Beka and company, just like in the pilot. In fact, he lives through much of the series plot, though it plays out far differently. [[The Atoner|He tries to rebuild the Commonwealth to make up for the fact that his people pretty much slaughtered everything that moved after the Andromeda was lost]], and were ultimately nowhere near the [[Warrior Poet
* In [[Joss Whedon]]'s ''[[Dollhouse]]'', lovable, loyal {{spoiler|Boyd}} turns out to be the [[Big Bad]].
* On season 4 of ''[[Angel]]'', the Big Bad orchestrating the disappearance of the sun and master of the giant rock demon turns out to be {{spoiler|Cordelia, although she's actually being controlled by a god}}.
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* Old school Japanese PC/NES adventure game ''Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken (The Case of the Portopia Serial Killer)'' has this as [[The Reveal]], as the titular killer turns out to be {{spoiler|Yasuhiko "Yasu" Mano, who is not only the main character's ''partner'' [[The Dog Was the Mastermind|but also the single most unlikely suspect]] as he is with you ''throughout the entire game, executing the commands of the unseen protagonist''.}} The shock factor was so high that nowadays the phrase "{{spoiler|Yasu}} is the culprit" is something of a [[Memetic Mutation|meme]] amongst old fans. It was even given a [[Shout-Out]] in ''[[Haruhi-chan]]''.
** It gets shouted out again in Episode 7 of ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]''.
* Flipped around in ''[[Dragon Age]]'': The villain Loghain thinks that his king and son in law is a
** Return to Ostagar reveals that {{spoiler|the king was indeed planning to divorce Loghain's daughter Anora and marry the Empress of Orlais had he survived the battle}}.
* {{spoiler|Gary Smith}} from ''[[Bully (video game)|Bully]]'' pulled a serious [[Face Heel Turn|dick move]].
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* In ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]'', Iris is considered like a kid sister to the rest of RKS, including Tia. Of course, {{spoiler|what they don't know is that she's really the [[Big Bad]] who's making RKS fight against the [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Empire]] [[For the Evulz]]. She eventually reveals to Tia who she really was and the real reasons for the war, and that she's really a [[Complete Monster]] who did all that for both said reason and [[A God Am I|to become god of the world]]. That's where none of RKS trusts her anymore}}.
* At the end of [[Divine Divinity|Beyond Divinity]], {{spoiler|its revealed that your only ally throughout the game, the unnamed Death Knight, is actually, Damian, the [[Big Bad]] of the ''Divinity'' series.}}
* {{spoiler|Citan Uzuki}} from ''[[Xenogears]]'' isn't only a
** {{spoiler|[[Subverted|But it's all a ruse, though]].}}
* In [[Paladin's Quest]], Duke, an apparent classmate of Chezni, is actually Zaygos.
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