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[[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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* {{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]]}}.
* The''[[Harry bookPotter versionand the Order of [[the Phoenix (novel)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' has Marietta Edgecombe snitch on Dumbledore's Army instead of Cho Chang. She's portrayed as a Betrayer Barry, but her reasons are partially sympathetic; her mother worked for the ministry, and she was being pressured into disbelieving Harry and following Umbridge's rules. Harry and co take no sympathy for her, however, and she's left with permanent facial scarring when HermoineHermione hexed the club list - she ends up with the word "Snitch" written across her face in boils.
 
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