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* Light Yagami of ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' is quite fond of this trope. The most notable victims of his manipulations are Misa Amane and Kiyomi Takada. Each woman was [[Yandere|incredibly in love with him]], but Light, as with all of his allies, [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|found them disposable.]]

* Sakurako Sanjou of ''[[Hana Yori Dango]]'', who in all continuities (manga, anime, drama) befriends [[Plucky Girl|Tsukushi Makino]] and looks like a kind, shy, cutesy type... at least up until she has Tsukushi drugged, takes pictures of her unconscious in compromising positions and distributes them freely among the school, leading to her assault by other students. This is revealedto be [[Evil Plan|her master plan for seducing/revenging herself upon Domyoji]], Tsukushi's [[Slap Slap Kiss]]-y love interest, which also involved her spending a fortune on plastic surgery, dropping out of school in the past, and hiring professional goons to assault ''various'' characters (not only Tsukushi). The reason for all of this is that ever since she was in kindergarten, Domyoji [[Disproportionate Retribution|bullied her and called her ugly]]. She does eventually get some much-needed [[Character Development]], however, and becomes more of a [[Good Is Not Nice]] [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]] case.

* Kyouko Mogami of ''[[Skip Beat (Manga)|Skip Beat]]'' initially followed her childhood friend Shou to Tokyo to help him to get into a music career. Although Shou didn't help her at all and even mistreated her, Kyouko still believed that all her efforts (doing several part-time jobs, paying for his training, being his de-facto unpaid maid) would be eventually repaid with love and gratitude. (Not to mention, Sho's parents were considering to make her the heiress of the family business instead of Sho.) Until she learns, from the mouth of Shou himself, that he has no feelings towards her, and the only reason he asked her to come with him was because he knew she would act as his personal maid for nothing. So she snaps, decides tnot to take it anymore, and makes the resolve to get revenge on him by trying to become as famous as him.

* Otome's "friends" Natsumi, Minami and Kumi do this to her in ''[[School Days (Visual Novel)|School Days]]''. Otome is betrayed by them twice: they first {{spoiler|videotape her having sex with Makoto, the guy she likes, and show the tape ''to the whole school''}}, and then {{spoiler|they have sex with him behind her back.}} And they do this '''for no reason at all.'''

* Sara to Yuuri in ''[[Kyo Kara Maoh (Light Novel)|Kyo Kara Maoh]]''. However, Sara does save Yuuri after betraying him and they become friends again, subverting the trope.

* ''[[The Mask (Film)|The Mask]]''. [[Intrepid Reporter]] Peggy Brandt, who pretends to be Stanley Ipkiss' friend so she can get the $50,000 bounty for betraying him to Dorian Tyrell. When Tyrell prepares to kill Ipkiss she says "[[You Said You Would Let Them Go|You Said You Wouldn't Hurt Him]]" to Tyrell, who replies "[[I Lied]]".

* ''[[Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade]]'': Elsa Schneider is ordered to seduce both Jones to steal the Grail but ends up falling in love with Indiana.

* ''[[The Truman Show (Film)|The Truman Show]]''. Truman's "best friend" since childhood (who is really an actor) at one point appears to truly be listening to Truman's plight and confusion, almost seeming to really want to help his buddy understand the crap that's going on with his life. However, he allows himself to be instrumental in the biggest Mind Screw the studio pulls on Truman in bringing his "father" back from the grave. He later leads the hunt to capture Truman once he starts escaping.

* In ''[[Black Swan (Film)|Black Swan]]'', Nina sees Lily as one of these, but [[Mind Screw|the truth is anyone's guess]].

* ''[[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]].

* Morgana, with Uther and Arthur, since the beginnng of ''[[Merlin (TV)|Merlin]]'' season 3.

* [[Columbo (TV)|Columbo]] ''admits'' to doing this (once) at the end of one of the [[ABC]] TV movies.

* A heroic example in ''[[Robin Hood (TV)|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}}.

* "I Was Only Kidding" by [[Weird Al Yankovic]] is this.

* After dominating a player in ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'', one of the Spy's [[Bond One-Liner|Bond One Liners]] is "I never really was on your side."

* ''[[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."

* In ''[[Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'', Nale drives Elan to the [[Despair Event Horizon]] by telling him that Haley is this trope, taking advantage of [[Not What It Looks Like|incriminating evidence]] and Haley's [[The Unintelligible|inability to defend herself]] to [[Evil Gloating|gloat]] about Haley's supposed betrayal of Elan's friends and Elan's stupidity in not seeing that she was [[Evil All Along]]. Elan is {{spoiler|briefly}} convinced and goes into a [[Unstoppable Rage|murderous fury]], telling Haley that he hates her, before Haley finally manages to [[Cannot Spit It Out|spit it out]].

* In ''[[The Gamers Alliance (Roleplay)|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).

* Terra in ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'', though [[Broken Bird|sympathetically so.]]

* Plankton in ''[[Spongebob SquarePants]]'''s "F.U.N." episode.

* In ''[[Hercules (Disney)|Hercules]]'' the [[Big Bad]] Hades is unable to defeat his enemy Hercules because he is unaware of his weakness. So he instructs Megara to get close to Hercules and they both end up falling in love. However, before she can tell Hercules the truth Hades ends up telling Hercules about how Meg was working for him all along in the most [[Kick the Dog|cruel manner possible]].

* Gothel in ''[[Tangled (Disney)|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 {{spoiler|Rapunzel remembered her true heritage and realized that Gothel had kidnapped her and Flynn was going to be executed}}.