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''<nowiki>'</nowiki>Tell me,' said General Granger, 'is there anyone in my army who isn't a spy?'"''|''[[Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality]]''}}

 

* In one of the ''[[Project A-ko]]'' OVAs, every single customer at the Lepton-mothership-turned-restaurant turns out to be a disguised spy... all for different organizations. Cue [[Blast Out]].

* One episode of the ''[[Patlabor]]'' TV show had them helping the Japanese intelligence service pick up a Soviet defector & his experimental [[Humongous Mecha]] in a seaside resort town. Every single person there was said to be a spy of some sort. The one that really takes the biscuit being:

* This is kinda what happens in ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', except that Kyon, the [[Meta Guy]] [[The Protagonist|protagonist]], isn't one of the "wolves" and is dragged into the title character's Club For Finding Aliens, Time-Travelers, and Espers by force. However, it soon turns out that every other member of the club (including the founder) is some kind of supernatural being that they are supposed to look for. In a way, the title character ''[[Invoked Trope|invoked]]'' this trope without being aware of it, due to being a [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] [[Reality Warper]].

 

* One of [[Stanislaw Lem]]'s Ijon Tichy stories from ''[[The Star Diaries]]'' has a planet full of agents disguised as robots trying to infiltrate an evil computer's {{spoiler|nonexistent}} robotic army.

* In ''[[Good Omens]]'':

* The novel ''Beach Music'' contains a dark take or two on this. In one case, Capers, a member of the main character's [[True Companions]], joins an anti-[[Vietnam War]] student group with Shyla (another member of the nakama, and becoming her lover along the way) only to betray both the anti-war group and the nakama by having been an undercover agent the whole time. He tries to minimize the damage by saying that Shyla and the others were just innocent dupes, and the leader of the group was the real trouble. Turns out the group leader was also an agent.

** Another case is something of an inversion. An undercover police officer tries to turn a peaceful student rally into a riot, but is caught and kicked out immediately because they realize he's much too zealous and dressed like too much of a stereotype to possibly be real.

* There was an episode of ''[[Get Smart]]'' where Max becomes a [[Double Agent]] to infiltrate a KAOS cell, but it turned out everyone in the cell was from another agency (FBI, CIA, Naval Intelligence, & Scotland Yard).

* An ep of ''[[Night Court]]'' had the FBI run a sting on a visiting judge using Dan as a shill, attempting to get Dan to catch the judge on tape trying to bribe Dan; turned out a different group of FBI agents was running a sting on Dan using the judge, trying to get Dan to take a bribe. Both groups of agents burst in, and recognize each other...

"Ernie?" }}

* One sketch in ''[[Do Not Adjust Your Set]]'' has a very blatant policeman trying to infiltrate a criminal gang while they're planning a robbery. Eventually it turns that everyone there is a undercover agent of some sort. They decide to go along with the robbery anyway.

* [http://adventurers-comic.com/d/20011120.html One of Khrima's plans] in ''[[Adventurers]]!''

* [http://www.oglaf.com/kingshaped/1/ One strip] of ''[[Oglaf]]'' (warning, rest of comic is '''''very''''' [[NSFW]].)

* ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' has an noncanon [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0411.html outtake strip] in which Jim gets paranoid after encounters with shapeshifters and clones and says that [[They Look Like Us Now|anyone could be a shapeshifter clone]]. At which point the entire Jedi Council confess to being shapeshifting clones.