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== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[Farscape]]'' has Rygel, who betrayed the crew at the end of the first season before coming back when he realised he couldn't benefit from it. It wasn't the last time he betrayed them in some way. At least the characters don't seem to completely forget it:

'''Rygel:''' I don't do it every chance! }}

* ''[[Firefly]]'': Jayne. Though somewhat justified, as Mal holds that fact over his head to keep him in line, and Simon dismisses a grudge between them because they're all supposed to be on the same side, and holding a grudge would be counter productive to things like survival. Also, as a surgeon he is Jayne's only real hope in case of serious injury, something Simon leaves as a vague but unsubtle threat. Meanwhile River is capable of killing him with her brain. Lastly, the rest of the crew don't actually know the extent of Jayne's treachery.

* Inverted in ''[[Overlord]]'': {{spoiler|Gnarl, shortly after betraying you, says he'll welcome you back, if you can defeat the old Overlord}}.

** He brings it in a funny but also justified way, considering his {{spoiler|'advisory' role}} up to then.

* In ''[[Exit Fate]]'', the hero is declared a traitor by his home country at the beginning of the game and joins the other side to try to bring the war to a close with as little loss of life as possible. However, {{spoiler|the fact that an enemy [[Colonel Badass|Colonel]] is immediately accepted into the highest ranks of the military does not sit well with the corrupt politicians in charge, and they eventually fabricate an excuse to charge him with treason in a [[Kangaroo Court]]}}. As a result, Daniel has to switch sides again; he's welcomed back with a lack of distrust that would be more surprising if it wasn't for the fact that the Kirgard leadership was in deep, ''deep'' trouble, and nothing he could do could possibly make their situation any worse.

* In ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'', partway through it is revealed that {{spoiler|the player character is an [[Heel Face Mind Screw|amnesiac Darth Revan]]}}. Only one member of the party seems to have a problem with this; several characters are actually ''pleased'' - though admittedly that's in character.