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* Mycroft Holmes invokes this with regards to Campion Bond in ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]''. When Mina asks if Bond will be punished for his deeds, Holmes replies in the negative, saying, "It is often useful to have employees whom you know to be treacherous."
* In ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', Eggman has stated that he knows full well that [[The Starscream|Snivley]], Lien-Da, and several others are planning to overthrow him, but because of that they will work the hardest for him, because they want to inherit a strong empire. He actually goes through the trouble of saving Lien-Da simply because he was impressed by her attempt at his position.
** He actually recruits by asking people to try to overthrow him, and calls it "The Game"
* It was recently revealed that [[Loki]] allowed himself to die at the end of "Siege" and be reborn as a child because he realized he had become a Reliable Traitor. As a god of trickery and chaos, he could not bear to be ''predictable''.
* The One Sith in ''[[Star Wars Legacy]]'' try very hard to avoid being Reliable Traitors. The self-serving nature of the Dark Side makes it very difficult.
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