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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]]''}}
Somebody [[A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing|disguises themselves]] as a member of some group [[The Infiltration|to sneak among them]]. However, it turns out everyone else in the area is also in disguise. Primarily used in comedy.
If they turn out to have been on the same side too, then it is [[Right Hand Versus Left Hand]]. Sometimes the result of a [[Gambit Pileup]]. Might also drive a character to demand: "Okay, will the real [X] please stand up?" - and then ''everybody'' stands up.
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* One strip of [[Twisted Toyfare Theatre]] had Reed Richards turn into a Skrull and gloat to Susan Richards about having tricked her into having sex with him. She promptly turns into another (male) Skrull and replies "Bob, you idiot."
* In a Don Martin ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' gag strip, all the passengers on an airplane look around shiftily. Then they all get up at the same time, brandishing a weapon, and shout "All right, nobody move! This is a hijack!" Everyone looks at each other and sits down, embarrassed.
* A cartoon that ran in one magazine showed Hispanic-looking revolutionaries overrunning the dictator's office. The dictator, confronting the revolutionary leader, snarled, "You fool — I'm CIA, too!"
* See the ''[[Miracleman]]'' example under [[Not My Driver]]. To go into a bit more detail: {{spoiler|the City was created as a place to dump all the spies whose lifetime of paranoia had left them mentally unprepared to live in a [[Utopia]]. Everyone who lives there is a spy, but they all think ''most'' of the others are the ordinary civilians they're protecting.}}
* One ''[[Nightwing]]'' comic featured an entire town where almost every inhabitant was someone in the Witness Relocation program.
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* 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.
* In the ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode "Honest Abe", Mac gets shanghaied by his CIA agent friend Abe to take down a South American dictator and a corrupt Army Major (played by Ben Stein) supplying the former with weapons. Eventually, one of the Major's lackeys reveals to the other he's a Federal agent seeking to bring down the Major... and the other lackey reveals he's one as well. And via background checks they discover that Abe is a CIA agent (they thought he had retired) and Mac is with the Phoenix Foundation. Naturally they are dumbfounded at the revelation that they are involved in an operation involving ''four'' secret agents of different agencies while they previously thought they were acting alone.
* In a ''[[The Daily Show]]'' episode spoofing [[Chat Roulette]]'s recent media attention, Jon decides to try it out. Besides the usual perverts, everybody Jon encounters is either a reporter or another Daily Show correspondent. When he gets to Katie Couric, she even complains that she is trying to do a piece on Chatroulette but so far she only got reporters.
* Parodied on ''[[The Office]]'', where ''every single'' member of a gun standoff turns out to be a double agent.
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== Webcomics ==
* Happened in the first ''[[Spying With Lana]]'' storyline when [http://harrington-artwerkes.com/Lana2.htm the good guys kept getting meaningless assignments.] ([[NSFW]]). The one in the story was actually a plot by the chief to fish out the double agent behind it.
* [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]].)
{{quote|'''Shapeshifter:''' Well, now I just feel like an idiot.}}
* ''[[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.
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