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* In ''[[Discworld]]'', it has been said (in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]'', I think) that a lot of the conspirations against Vetinari are run by Vetinari himself.

* Part of [[The Reveal]] in [[GK Chesterton]]'s novel {{spoiler|''[[The Man Who Was Thursday]]''}}, used for [[Mind Screw]] and [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory]] purposes.

* In the ''[[Fablehaven (Literature)|Fablehaven]]'' series, {{spoiler|it turns out that the Sphinx is both the captain of the Knights of Dawn, dedicated to keeping the demon prison sealed, and the mastermind behind The Society of The Evening Star, who are trying to gain control of the means to open the prison.}}

* ''[[Ender's Game]]'' has Peter and Valentine Wiggin. They are genius children using primitive, pre-Internet [[Sock Puppet|Sock Puppets]], Locke and Demosthenes respectively, to manipulate the major political thinkers through phoney debates; Demosthenes a warmongering demogogue, Locke a diplomacy-minded intellectual, and contrary to Peter or Valentine's actual beliefs. It's all an elaborate plan on Peter's part to formally establish himself as a great political mind, with influence and hopefully ''power'', without the handicap of his age.

* {{spoiler|Irving}} of ''[[Wild Arms 2 (Video Game)|Wild Arms 2]]'' is behind both ARMS and Odessa. The theory was that [[Xanatos Gambit|either the world unites behind ARMS to defeat Odessa and then the true BigBad, or else Odessa conquers the world and deals with the problem themselves]].

* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'', both the Desians and the Church of Martel are run by {{spoiler|Mithos Yggdrasil and Cruxis, who want to keep the two worlds Sylvarant and Tethe'alla in a permanent struggle for mana in a misguided effort to prevent another of the [[Magitek]] wars that ended up killing Mithos' [[Dead Little Sister]], the Church's namesake.}}

* In ''[[Deus Ex Invisible War (Video Game)|Deus Ex Invisible War]]'', it turns out that {{spoiler|the WTO and the Order are both being run by members of the Illuminati. The entire conflict between them is orchestrated by the respective leaders, who are working together}}.

* ''[[Xenogears (Video Game)|Xenogears]]'' is a ''subversion''. Both sides in the initial Kislev/Aveh war are being orchestrated, through various puppets, by {{spoiler|Krelian}}, but it later turns out that this war is a pure sideshow to the actual events of the storyline, where there are multiple top-level factions with their own puppets, along with a couple of genuinely independent groups.

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