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* ''[[Harry Potter]]'': {{spoiler|when Voldemort made it clear that he would kill Lily Potter, Snape went to Dumbledore and became a Mole for the Order of the Phoenix in the Death Eaters. When he killed Dumbledore, while he made it so that it looked like he was doing it for Voldemort, in fact he was performing a [[Mercy Kill]] on Dumbledore's orders.}}
* Ulic Quel-droma started out this way in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe|EU]]. [[The Dark Side]] being the Dark Side, however, he can't keep up the charade.
* All loose ends are tied up at the end of [[James Thurber]]'s masterpiece of whimsy ''[[The 13 Clocks]]'' when {{spoiler|the [[Aristocrats Are Evil|Wicked Duke's]] spy Hark reveals himself to be a faithful servant of Good King Gwain of Yarrow, sent to watch over [[
* [[G. K. Chesterton]] subverts the hell out of this trope in ''[[The Man Who Was Thursday]]'': the protagonist himself [[The Infiltration|infiltrates the Central Council of Anarchists,]] then gradually discovers that {{spoiler|the other five members of the Central Council of Anarchists are undercover police agents who aren't aware of each other's existence; he learns this as he confronts one member after another. Eventually the six join forces against the President of the Council, only to learn that he ''is'' the policeman who sent them all to infiltrate the council in the first place. Not to mention [[God Was My Co-Pilot|God]]}}.
* Someone surprising does this to the Zhentarim in ''Crown of Fire'' (a ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' novel).
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