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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"My dear girl, don't flatter yourself. What I did this evening was for [[Lie Back and Think of England|Queen and country]]. You don't think it gave me any pleasure, do you?"''
|'''[[James Bond]]'''}}
{{quote|''"...he betrayed them... HE WAS THEIR FRIEND!"''
|'''[[Harry Potter]]''', ''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban''}}
This describes a person, who may be a [[Manipulative Bastard]], a [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]], [[Alpha Bitch]], etc. who gets close to you and pretends to be your ally, friend, lover, etc. Basically, they earn your trust, and when you least expect it, they betray you and reveal they've merely been playing you this whole time. Another variation on this is that the manipulative character may find himself [[Becoming the Mask]], developing real feelings for the person he betrayed. Sometimes, the betrayer may turn out to be someone you've known pretty much your whole life.
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{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Elfen Lied]]'': During Lucy's childhood, she made friends with another girl who promised to keep the fact that Lucy was taking care of a puppy a secret from a group of boys who frequently bullied her. Eventually, the boys found out about the puppy and [[Moral Event Horizon|beat it to death in front of Lucy while making her watch]]. It turns out the girl Lucy made friends with had ''deliberately'' told the boys about the puppy, and while she's pretending to cry about it and feel bad about what she did, we see her ''smile'' through her crocodile-tears. Lucy then snaps forever and '''kills''' [[Karmic Twist Ending|her along with the bullies]].
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* When Riff from ''[[Count Cain]]'' has his confusing {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn]] and "dies," it is revealed that Riff, the manservant ''personality'' was never actually real, and that ''Riffael'' the owner of the body, is, in fact, a [[Complete Monster]].}} This is Cain's manservant by the way, the only one who can "see his scars, make his tea, and tie his shoelaces." Epic [[Tear Jerker]].
* {{spoiler|Haruko}} turns out to have been playing her friend from the start in ''[[School Mermaid]]'' as part of a horrific [[Batman Gambit]].
* This trope is combined with a brutal subversion of the [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]
* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' an [[Alternative Character Interpretation]] of
* Sara to Yuuri in ''[[Kyo Kara Maoh!
* ''[[Master of Martial Hearts]]'': Let's just say that the final episode of the OVA defines the trope and leave it at that.
== Comic Books ==
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
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** There are deleted scenes that indicate that Marlon/Louis does in fact feel guilty about what he's doing to Truman, and the (actual, real-life) actor said that the character has a drug addiction from the stress.
* In ''[[Black Swan]]'', Nina sees Lily as one of these, but [[Mind Screw|the truth is anyone's guess]].
== Literature ==
* ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'': {{spoiler|O'Brien}} tricks Winston and Julia into thinking he's their friend and gets him to trust them, especially as far as identifying himself as a member of the Inner Party but [[Double Agent|is really a member of]] [[La Résistance]]. He then leads the raid to capture the protagonists, brings them to the Ministry of Love and oversees their torture and brainwashing.
* In one of the ''[[Southern Vampire Mysteries]]'' novels, it's revealed that {{spoiler|Bill}} was ordered by his queen to seduce Sookie, as part of a plan to use her telepathy for whatever it is a vampire queen needs a telepath for.
* ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'':
** [[
** Prince Karathanelan tricks Selenay into wedding him, but doesn't survive the "betrayal" part.
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'': {{spoiler|Wormtail}} does this when he betrayed Harry's parents to Voldemort, even though they were his best friends. When his remaining friend {{spoiler|,Sirius,}} chased him down after James and Lily's deaths, {{spoiler|Wormtail shouted that Sirius had been the one to sell out the Potters, caused an explosion that killed a dozen innocent people, and faked his death before escaping, pinning the murders of himself, the Potters, and all the other people on Sirius}}.
** Let's not forget {{spoiler|Tom Riddle}} doing this to {{spoiler|Ginny}} and, to a lesser extent, {{spoiler|Professor Slughorn}}. Half-Blood Prince elaborates on this (along with the Horace Slughorn example) by showing that he seemingly befriended a wealthy woman named Hepzibah Smith, but when he realized that she was in possession of Helga Hufflepuff's cup
* ''[[The 39 Clues]]'': [[Handsome Devil|Ian Kabra]] pretended to like [[Smart Girl|Amy]] so he and his sister could steal the clue from right under [[Brother-Sister Team|Amy and Dan's]] noses.... Only... [[In Love with the Mark|it isn't]] [[Unrequited Love Switcheroo|quite that simple]].
* In ''[[The Traitor Game]]'', [[Friendless Background|Micheal]] comes to believe that [[Cool Loser|Francis]] has spent their entire friendship laughing about their games with his friends. The consequences are nothing short of disastrous.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* In ''[[Oz]]'' [[Complete Monster|Schillinger]] arranges for [[Depraved Bisexual|Chris Keller]] to meet [[Butt Monkey|Tobias Beecher]], Schillinger's former sex slave, with the intent of gaining his trust and seducing him. A mutual attraction instantly forms between them, and the two eventually exchange confessions of love. Unfortunately for Beecher he finds out that the man he fell in love with was working with his arch enemy all along (and informs him that he never loved him right before breaking Beecher's arms and legs). Keller clearly enjoys the beating, but is briefly seen experiencing a moment of regret when he returns to his empty cell and eventually realizes that he has fallen in love with Beecher.
* Morgana, with Uther and Arthur, since the
* [[Columbo]] ''admits'' to doing this (once) at the end of one of the [[ABC]] TV movies.
* A heroic example in ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'' was Marian, who cultivates a "friendship" of sorts with Guy of Gisborne so that she can pass on information to Robin. She even goes so far as to pull off a perfectly executed [[Decoy Damsel]] ploy, which Guy falls for hook, line and sinker. Of course, Guy was something of a False Friend himself considering he seems more than ready to have Marian punished if she disobeys him, and when he learns that she's in love with [[Robin Hood]], he {{spoiler|stabs her to death}}.
* {{spoiler|HG}} from ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' does this using the other agents to get an artifact so {{spoiler|she}} could destroy the world though she does somewhat [[Becoming the Mask|become the mask]], getting talked down from doing this when her friend tells her to shoot her instead of being a coward and killing her with the rest of the world.
{{quote|'''Myka:''' If I am wrong, then kill me. Do it! Kill me now! I mean, we're all gonna die anyway right, so what's the difference? So shoot me! Shoot me now. Kill me. But not like this. Not like a coward. I want you to look me in the eyes and. Take. My. Life.}}
== Music ==
* "I Was Only Kidding" by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] is this.
*
== Theatre ==
* ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'': Given the shallow Parisian society at [[The Cavalier Years]], this play is full of them:
** De Guiche [[Girl Posse|pays a fine court of obsequious noblemen]], but the nobles really distrust and despise him because he is a gascon. They only bow to him because he is successful.
{{quote|'''Second Marquis''': Faugh!. . .Another Gascon!
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'''Cyrano:''' Thou!. . .Marry!. . .thou!. . .Pray when
Did we herd swine together, you and I! }}
* Iago of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare's]] ''[[Othello]]''.
== Video Games ==
* There's an odd version of this in the ''[[Phoenix Wright]]'' series. Dahlia Hawthorne tricks Phoenix into thinking she's in love with him, just so she can get a piece of evidence back that incriminates her for a previous murder. She tries to kill him when it doesn't work. It's somewhat subverted when Dahlia has her sister impersonate her for a while, and her sister actually does fall in love with Phoenix.
** {{spoiler|Kristoph Gavin became Phoenix's "friend" only to closely monitor his activities after Kristoph got him disbarred, and ends up framing him for a murder. Phoenix was aware of this, however.}}
* After dominating a player in ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', one of the Spy's [[Bond One-Liner
* A variation occurs in Specter's ending in ''[[Twisted Metal]] Black'' - {{spoiler|The man of her dreams has been forced to marry her by way of some brain surgery,}} but he's still able to tell her "I...will...''never''...love...you."
* The Boss in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 3'', before defecting, was Snake's mentor and one of his closest friends. She celebrates her [[Face Heel Turn]] by beating him up and stealing his rescued hostage.
** {{spoiler|Subverted ''and'' played straight, however, as The Boss was really a [[Fake Defector]] sent in by the U.S. government to play the False Friend to [[Big Bad]] Colonel Volgin.}}
* In ''[[Uncharted 2]]'', Harry Flynn did this to Nathan Drake at the end of the Museum mission, causing poor Drake to rot in prison for 3 months.
* ''[[Magical Diary: Horse Hall]]'': {{spoiler|Damien.}} That ''bastard''.
** If you get his good ending, it turns into [[Becoming the Mask]] .... maybe. If you believe ''anything'' he says by that point!
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* In ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', it's possible for Hawke to do this to Fenris when he finally confronts his former master Danarius by handing Fenris back to him. This will push him over the [[Despair Event Horizon]] so much that he'll simply submit without a fight. This act is considered a [[Moral Event Horizon]] by the other companions save for Anders, who hates Fenris.
* ''[[Touhou]]: Mystic Square'' features the [[Playing with Fire|fire]] and [[An Ice Person|ice]] magicians [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Yuki and Mai]] as a [[Dual Boss]]. If you defeat Mai first, Yuki will be furious and [[Turns Red|crank up the heat]]. But if you defeat Yuki first, Mai will smugly declare that her comrade was nothing more than "dead weight" dragging her down (though ironically Mai's regarded as the easier of the two). Mai's [[Leitmotif]] is appropriately named "Treacherous Maiden ~ Judas Kiss."
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Megatokyo]]''. Miho did this to Piro some time before the start of the series.
* ''[[The Dreamland Chronicles]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20120626075534/http://www.thedreamlandchronicles.com/the-dreamland-chronicles/page-690/ here]
* In ''[[The
** Nale also uses a suggestion spell to make Elan angrier, hence the uncharacteristic murderous fury.
* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'', Tarvek and Gil's childhood friendship ''was'' real. Sadly, circumstances separated them and they both became convinced that the other was a False Friend due to some more unfortunate circumstances. They are currently [[Fire-Forged Friends]] / [[Vitriolic Best Buds]].
== Web Original ==
* In ''[[The Gamers Alliance]]'', [[Manipulative Bastard|Ferron]] befriends [[Loveable Rogue|Refan]] during the Great War but does so only for two reasons: to avenge his lover who died by Refan's hand and to use Refan to get rid of [[The Dragon]] who had also wronged him (hoping that the two weaken each other enough in battle so that he can finish both of them off).
== Western Animation ==
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** Terra, though [[Broken Bird|sympathetically so.]] (She's much, ''much'' nastier in [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|the comics]] -- see the entry in ''Comic Books'', above.)
▲** She's much, ''much'' nastier in [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|the comics]], as Terra was not a lost girl brainwashed by Slade. She was a pure psychopath that Slade was almost ''scared of.'' (You read that right). Worse is that she was also Slade's [[Squick|underage girlfriend]]. What makes it especially hilarious is that at no point in the lead-up of the comic arc does she ever really pretend that she doesn't dislike nearly everyone on the team nor isn't lying constantly to them, so the Titans, in retrospect, were [[Too Dumb to Live]].
** Malchior is this to Raven in the "Spellbound" episode.
** And Blackfire, Starfire's sister, who pretended to care for her sister while framing her for the crimes she committed so Starfire would get taken to jail instead. Starfire eventually finds out the truth and engages her in battle which leads to Blackfire rightfully getting captured by the police.
* Plankton in ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'''s "F.U.N." episode.
* In ''[[Hercules (1997 film)
* "Mother" Gothel in ''[[Tangled]]'' tried to make Rapunzel believe that Flynn was this, that he was only after the crown and never caring for her. She nearly succeeded, until
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