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* The Trickster and the Pied Piper attempted to infiltrate their old friends, the [[Flash]]'s [[Rogues Gallery]] -- an apparent reversal of their [[Heel Face Turn|Heel Face Turns]]. When they appeared to have been complicit in the murder of Bart Allen, the Flash, they found it impossible to convince people of their sincerity.
* ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Dark Empire]]'' had Luke Skywalker falling to the Dark Side, if only to try to bring it down from within.
* The ''[[Squadron Supreme]]'' limited series sees the entire team pretending to be brainwashed into joining the Institute of Evil.
* The first story arc of [[Ultimate X-Men]] has Cyclops storming off and joining Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants. Guess why he does it.
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* Kyra joining the Necromongers in ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]''.
* In ''[[X-Men: First Class|X Men First Class]]'', Darwin does this to Sebastian Shaw's group of evil mutants as a ploy to give his teammate Havok a clear shot at Shaw's group (Darwin's own mutant ability will protect him from Havok's attack, and their friend but genuine traitor Angel, who wouldn't be safe otherwise). {{spoiler|[[Black Dude Dies First|It doesn't turn out so good for Darwin]] when Shaw's group survives unscathed due to Shaw's mutant ability allowing him to absorb Havok's attack.}}
* Interestingly done in ''[[The Prestige]]''. Angier sends his assistant, Olivia to work for Borden and feed him information. Knowing Borden would be suspicious, he tells her to admit that Angier sent her as a spy, but to claim that she was so mad at Angier for treating her like a pawn that she's willing to feed him information about Angier. In other words, the whole plan is completely transparent, both sides know full well she's working as a double agent, but neither can be sure whether she's a defector or a fake defector.
* In ''[[The Godfather]]'', Don Corleone send Luca Brasi to infiltrate the gang of Sollozzo to garner information, but Sollozzo is wise to the plot, and Luca ends up sleeping with the fishes.
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** {{spoiler|Sialeeds}} does this when she betrays the heroes in ''[[Suikoden V]]'' for the same reasoning as Jowy's: kill the corrupt people of the Senate from the inside so that no one will oppose the [[The Hero|Prince]] and Lym.
* Axel in ''[[Kingdom Hearts|Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories]]'' pretended to help [[The Starscream|Marluxia]] for most of the game (even killing {{spoiler|Vexen}} in the process), then turns around and ruins his plans.
* The "staged breakdown" version of this is the premise of ''[[Splinter Cell]]: Double Agent'', except that the death of Sam's daughter was very real; that [[Myth Arc]] is to be continued in ''Conviction''.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Sicinnus: the private tutor of Themistocle's children took a message to King Xerxes at the Battle of Salamis advising him to attack. Whereupon the Persian fleet fell into an ambush.
* Eric Erickson was an American-born Swedish businessman who pretended to have converted to Naziism in order to visit Germany -- and scout German petroleum facilities for targeting by Allied bombers.
* Ivan Susanin, who agreed to lead Polish troops deep into Russia undetected... and [[Heroic Sacrifice|led them into a deep forest where nobody made it out alive.]]
* Actually this was a pretty common phenomenon during the cold war... in order to diminish the effectiveness of REAL defectors, the USSR sent several false defectors to flood US intelligence agencies with conflicting stories. One famous example came during the Golystin-Nosenko controversy, which ultimately led to the CIA shifting completely away from human intelligence to signals intelligence (e.g. wiretapping, satellite photos, cryptography...)
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