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{{trope}}
[[File:stoolpigeon 1886.jpg|link=Looney Tunes|frame| [[Visual Pun|"Oh, he did so do it. I taw him with my very own eyes. So there."]]]]
The tattletale. The blabbermouth. The squealer. That no-good snitch! You can't go through life without having the misfortune of coming across someone who's willing to rat you out and get you in trouble.
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', Shizune goes to Homura and Koharu regarding Tsunade allowing Naruto to go on missions where he might encounter the Akatsuki. She's clearly a Concerned Claire over Naruto's well-being, where Tsunade is far more inclined to take it on faith that [[Idiot Hero|Naruto]] will make it out alright. She gradually begins to accept Tsunade's reasoning, but when she does, the elders come in to attempt to restrict Naruto's movements based on what Shizune told them, and in the anime, Tsunade gets quite upset with Shizune.
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* In the manga version of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', Kaji was a Betrayer Barry when he was a kid. He and his friends were stealing food and supplies from a military base. Kaji was caught, and gave up his friends to the soldiers to keep from being killed. The soldiers killed his friends, and he's been haunted by [[Survivor Guilt]] ever since.
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* In ''[[Identity Crisis]]'', Wally West averts this trope, even though he'd fall squarely into the Whistleblower Wilson category, when he decides not to {{spoiler|tell Superman and Batman that a group of Justice League members have been wiping supervillains' memories via Zatanna to protect their secret identities, even when he learns they went so far as to effectively lobotomize Dr. Light and, when Batman found out and objected, mind-wiped him as well.}}
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* Lando in ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' turns over Han to the Empire under extreme duress (the threatened occupation of Cloud City) and turns on them after Vader [[Moving the Goalposts|alters the deal]].
{{quote|'''Chewbacca''': (strangles Lando)
'''Lando''': [[Crowning Moment of Funny|I...had...no...choice!]]
'''Leia''': [[Sarcasm Mode|Oh, we understand him, don't we Chewie? "He had no choice!"]] }}
* ''[[The Insider]]'' is all about this.
* In ''[[Bullitt]]'', Johnny Ross, a Chicago mobster who agrees to testify against the Mafia. Naturally, the Mafia wants him dead for this—and for the money Johnny stole from them.
* In ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'', Chatter Phone was the Lacerated Larry type: he ended up confessing to Lotso and his minions about Woody and the others escaping from Sunnyside from what was implied to be torture.
* The film version of Order of the Phoenix made Cho Chang into a Lacerated Larry. Dumbledore's Army was initially angered at her betrayal, but then it is revealed that the only reason she squealed was because Umbridge fed her a drink laced with Veritaserum, thus literally leaving Cho with no choice but to spit out the existence of Dumbledore's Army.
* The admiral in the 2009 [[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]] movie also ended up a squealer to the Romulans, specifically as a Lacerated Larry, because after he left the ship, they interrogated him and implanted a bug into his system that forces him to reveal everything he knows about Starfleet Academy.
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* {{spoiler|Stelli}}, in Paula Volsky's novel ''Illusion'', is somewhere between a Petty Patty and a Disgruntled Daria: She blames [[Spoiled Sweet]] heroine Eliste{{spoiler|—for whom she used to work as a maid—}}for {{spoiler|being unable to save her fiancé's life}} (and in all fairness, Eliste ''tried'') and sells the noblewoman out to the revolution. {{spoiler|Eliste gets away.}}
* {{spoiler|Tuller}}, in the ''[[Col Sec Trilogy]]'', sells out the main characters to the cops—supposedly to make them leave his gang alone, but it's made fairly clear that he mainly just did it to be a jerk. The rest of the gang are dubious about this to begin with{{spoiler|...and when they find out that the cops have no intention of keeping their end of the bargain, they [[Karmic Death|turn on Tuller]] and [[Death of a Thousand Cuts|knife him]]}}.
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== [[Live
* Jayne of the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode "Ariel" tried to turn in the Tams to the Alliance during the hospital heist due to him generally resenting the Tams and wanting them both off the ship for a variety of reasons, and due to River recently slashing him with a butcher knife and his concern about her doing it to anyone else. The reward money that the Alliance were offering wasn't a bad incentive either. Jayne was somewhere between Petty Peter and Betrayer Barry, but after Jayne got betrayed himself and arrested right along with them, he decided to get both Simon and River out. He still had to face [[Thrown Out the Airlock|the airlock]] and a [[Papa Wolf|very pissed off Mal]] because of what he did though.
* In a [[Very Special Episode]] of ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' Cindy learns not to tattle - then is [[Broken Aesop|asked to tattle]] to find a valuable certificate.
* The culprit of the week in the ''[[Monk]]'' episode "Mr. Monk and Mrs. Monk's" main motivation in trying to intercept various documents and tapes that detailed journalistic work that Trudy Monk and Janice worked on was because {{spoiler|one of the tapes contained evidence that he was the person inside the dock union who was involved in ousting the former president from power due to corruption charges, and it is heavily implied that had his fellow union workers discovered his involvement, he'd be in deep trouble with his "friends."}}
** Mr. Monk and the Dentist had an odd variation of the Lacerated Larry type from the murder [[Asshole Victim|"victim"]] of the week: The victim (an ex-cop who went renegade and started robbing armored trucks) ended up having to go to the dentist for a chipped tooth that he got in a scuffle with one of the armored truck drivers during a heist (he was technically a cop, so he was on their dental plan). While going through the routine
* In "The Telling", a third season episode of ''[[The Middle]]'', we learn that Frankie has been rewarding Brick for years with candy cigarettes for informing on his older siblings.
* Happened [[Once Per Episode]] in the ''[[Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?]]'' game show. Once the [[Villain of the Week]] was apprehended, he or she would phone the winning contestant to sell Carmen out, telling them what continent to look for her, leading to the lightning round. There was even one recurring villain who was a [[Rat-Man]] who told the contestant that "If there's one thing a rat can do, it's ''rat''!"
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* In one arc of ''[[Peanuts]]'', Freida becomes the Concerned Claire type, reporting Snoopy to the Head Beagle for refusing to go with her to chase rabbits; Freida had always been encouraging him to do so - her probable reason being that he needed more exercise - but ''this'' time she really went too far. Fortunately for Snoopy, [[Reasonable Authority Figure|the Head Beagle was "very understanding".]]
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* In the [[Jack Chick]] tract, The Last Generation, Bobby turns in his grandfather for being a Christian in order to get a reward. One of the Christians, Paul reveals the location of the cabin where Connie and Charles are hiding, afraid of being caught and tortured.
* [[Bob and George]]: [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/050417c X reveals that Zero was going to dump his body in the river, and gets accused of being a snitch].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Candace from [[Phineas and Ferb]] seems to vary between Snobby Sara, Obnoxious Oscar, Concerned Claire or Petty Peter, depending entirely on [[Rule of Fun|what is more fun at the moment]].
** Vanessa too.
** ''And'', one fan actually made a video where both of them express their motives for being Stool Pigeons ''in a musical number''. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soiw4Bh6lig Watch it here.]
* [[Aaahh Real Monsters]]: Zimbo, he not only acts as the Snorch's Familiar, he also acts as the Gromble's personal spy who reports back any unruly behavior by the other monsters, plus he's the only one who understands the Snorch's speech clearly.
* Randall ''Randall'' '''RANDALL''' from [[Recess]] is The Obnoxious Oscar and '''HOW'''!!
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* In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', Earl Cooper was a Whistleblower William who was nearly killed by his bosses for trying to go public about a potential lethal safety defect in his company's newest model of car and was saved by Batman. He lost his job and was living on the streets when Batman saved him again... by tracking him down and hiring him to design the Batmobile.
* A [[World War II]]-era cartoon had a guy bragging about his being entrusted with keeping a secret. Unfortunately, he ended up becoming exceptionally drunk, and told the nearest woman in the tavern about his secret (being on a ship and its coordinates), who also turned out to be a Nazi spy, resulting in his death and the implication that he went to hell for it. In other words, he acted as a unwitting Lacerated Larry on ''himself''. This cartoon can also be seen at the International Spy Museum.
* In her first appearance in ''[[The Owl House]]'', Amity is this, tattling on Willow for cheating on her assignment with Luz's help. While Amity comes off as an [[Alpha Bitch]] here, she does have a valid point - and this wouldn't be the last time Luz would be confronted for [[Moral Myopia]].
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