False Friend: Difference between revisions

* Kuro from ''[[One Piece]]'' does this to Kaya as part a lengthy scheme to gain her trust so he can claim her fortune and retire from piracy. When Kaya finds out his true nature, he freely admits that he ''hated'' having to act the kindly butler to her.

** It is again used by the [[CP 9]] as they act friendly, become well-loved members of Water 7, befriend many members of Dock 1, including Paulie, but when they reveal themselves, they also reveal that they never had any attachment to the city or to the people inside it. Paulie can't believe it at first, and even asks his traitorous good friend Rob Lucci:

'''Rob Lucci:''' [[Was It All a Lie?|Only you thought that.]] }}

* 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]].

* 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.

 

 

* [[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.

Believe me, we had best make our bow to him. }}

** The poets who frequent Raguenaus company claim to love Raguenau’s poetry, but they only want to leech him off.

** Cyrano defies this trope with all his will, as lampshaded in Act II Scene VII:

Did we herd swine together, you and I! }}

* Iago of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare's]] [[Othello]].