Fake Defector: Difference between revisions

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'''Garak:''' You mean no-one told you? You see, I pretend to be their friend... and then I shoot you.|'''''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'''''}}

 

* Raimundo pulls this off on one of the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] in ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]''. His efforts were aided by the fact that he once [[Face Heel Turn|actually did it for real]].

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' did this one too. In the episode "A Star is Torn" has Homer acting as Lisa's agent in an ''[[American Idol]]''-like contest. After a fight, Homer pretends to desert Lisa and team up with <s>Cameron</s> Johnny Rainbow. At the end of the episode, Homer is revealed to actually be [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|sabotaging Johnny Rainbow's chances all along]].

* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', of all shows, pulled this off with Plucky Duck. With Acme Looniversity due to play its hated rival, Perfecto Prep, in the championship game, Plucky seems to betray his Looniversity friends and begin giving Perfecto Prep inside knowledge of the Looniversity's game plan, up to and including a copy of their playbook. On game day, Plucky gives Perfecto Prep advance knowledge of the plays the Looniversity plans to use...and the Prep students suffer a humiliating defeat. In the end, it's revealed that Plucky was made into a [[Fake Defector]] [[The Plan|to sabotage Perfecto Prep's attempts to cheat.]]

* In the third episode of ''[[Tale Spin]]'''s pilot series, "Plunder & Lightning", [[Heartwarming Orphan|Kit Cloudkicker]] {{spoiler|pretends to betray Baloo, Molly and Rebecca in the Iron Vulture to his former mentor Don Karnage, to allow them to escape. The fake deception is so convincing and surprising that Baloo believes himself betrayed, and angrily leaves Higher For Hire with the Sea Duck to Louie's to party his cares away, until he hears Kit desperately radio for help in the fourth episode.}}