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Note: As this is a trope that reveals the true motivations of several characters, '''here be spoilers'''. This is your last warning.

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* The DC hero [[Aztek]]. When Aztek had his own solo book, he was a man who'd been trained from birth by "The Q Society" to fight the incarnation of the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca in the modern world. When that book was cancelled, Aztek got ported over to [[Justice League of America|JLA]]... where Aztek found out that (as had been foreshadowed in the solo book) The Q Society had been funded entirely by Lex Luthor, so that he could get a hero in his pocket on the Justice League. (The whole Tezcatlipoca thing was true, mind you, and Lex didn't want the world to be ended any more than anyone else, but he intended to get his money's worth in the meantime.) Aztek quits the team thereafter, but returns and makes a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to free Superman from mind control by a galaxy-destroying menace.

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