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** He's particularly insidious because {{spoiler|[[Sabotutor|he deliberately built flaws into the style that he taught you so that he could use them to take you out]] upon [[The Reveal]]}}.

*** Oh, man...He was running one hell of a [[Xanatos Gambit]] the entire time, with {{spoiler|your player character}} as the [[Unwitting Pawn]]. {{spoiler|He raised you from infancy as a tool, designed flaws into your fighting style, arranged for every other student and the entire village nearby to be killed in order to "motivate you properly," set you against his own brother, and to gether the [[Plot Coupon|Plot Coupons]] so he could seize the throne and the power of a goddess for himself.}} [[Magnificent Bastard]] in every way.

* ''[[Persona 2]]'' features a variation; in both games, the Time Count provides useful services -- ones that can't be gotten anywhere else in Eternal Punishment. He turns out to actually be an avatar of Nyarlathotep, the [[Big Bad]]. Unlike most examples, it's not part of some overarching scheme -- being a trickster and manipulator, he decided it'd be more fun this way, and arrogantly believed that even if he helped them, the heroes couldn't possibly defeat him.

** In ''Persona3'', {{spoiler|it turns out that Shuji Ikutsuki was actually trying to summon Nyx and end the world since long before the game even began, and that serving as the mentor for SEES was his way of using them as a weapon to accomplish this task. Without his own Persona, he had no way of defeating the Full Moon Shadows who needed to die in order to free Nyx, so he found some people who could get the job done, and...}}

* In ''[[Dark Star One]]'', {{spoiler|Robert}} give Kayron his father's eponymous ship and sends him on his quest. In the end, he turns out to be Kayron's father's killer.

* In ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'', {{spoiler|the Golden Spider}} offers Asura cryptic advice several times in the game {{spoiler|while he is in Naraku}} to aid him in his battle against the Deities. {{spoiler|The Spider is actually the [[Bigger Bad]] behind the rise of the Gohma (and consequently the Deities' villainy as well) which was apparently a test of the Deities' worthiness to wield Mantra, and he's only aiding Asura because he wants to claim Mithra as his vessel.}}