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Garak: I'm glad to see the plan is going as scheduled.
Jem'Hadar Soldier: What plan is that?
Garak: You mean no-one told you? You see, I pretend to be their friend... and then I shoot you. [shoots him]
Every so often, a hero (usually a police officer or spy) will pretend to go to The Dark Side in order to reach the Big Bad. This is not the same as The Infiltration; in this case, the hero keeps his true identity, but convinces the bad guys that his loyalties have switched. Frequently many of the good guys end up believing it too.
The hero will often have to persuade the bad guys of his authenticity by attacking one of his 'old' comrades or doing something else evil. Another frequent tactic is for the hero not to contact the bad guys, but instead just arrange for his life to fall apart — get fired from his job, start to drink, and so on — and wait for his enemies to contact him.
The audience is usually told in advance that the hero is doing this, but occasionally they are not. Often it is subject to a sort of Unspoken Plan Guarantee: if the audience knows, the bad guys are more likely to know as well.
Compare the inverse, the HeelFace Mole.
As a betrayal trope many examples will contain spoilers.
Jem'Hadar Soldier: What plan is that?
Garak: You mean no-one told you? You see, I pretend to be their friend... and then I shoot you. [shoots him]
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- Chiyuri from Accel World ended up in this for joining Dusk Taker, but it turns out she didn't. She only sticks on his side to become strong enough and see that her ability known as 'Citron Call' can reverse time to give back Haru's wings that Nomi has stolen from him.
- In Beelzebub Himekawa pretends to desert his True Companions in favor of a stronger guy. Turns out the machine everyone thought was helping his new crew out was actually storing up Baby Beel's energy until it was enough to handle Takamiya and Lucifer. Himekawa proceeds to destroy the million-dollar machine to release the energy the second he has confirmation that it is enough and dismisses the loss as "pocket change" before revealing he held Beel's third crest all along, all but stating that his loyalty has always been to Oga.
- Bleach:
- Byakuya does a pretty good one in the Zanpakuto arc. The ally he has to kill is his sister Rukia's Zanpakuto, Sodeno Shirayuki, and he does it without flinching (of course).
- Uryu Ishida pretends to join the Vandenreich in an attempt to assassinate their leader, Yhwach. However, Yhwach sees through the ploy immediately and appoints him his successor, meaning everybody's eyes will be on him and an assassination attempt will be all but impossible. While Uryu's assassination attempt was on a far bigger scale than merely a sneak attack on Yhwach (namely, spreading the innocuous-looking components of a Fantastic Nuke all over Yhwach's palace to wipe out the entire Vandenreich, to be triggered while Yhwach is sleeping), right-hand-man Haschwalth figures out his plan anyway.
- Hinata from Bloody Cross. At first it looks like he's a traitor who tried to kill Tsukimiya and sided with Arcana, but it turns out he's a fake defector who's still working for Tsuduki.
- Rowan Dietrich from Blue Comet SPT Layzner becomes this during the last arc.
- Lelouch, along with Suzaku from Code Geass pull this off at the end of the series. They pretend to become the new villains who take over the world, but it turns out Lelouch had planned his own death to bring world peace.
- Digimon Savers: Kurata rolls out the red carpet Touma to do this. Touma goes so far as to get into a fistfight with Masaru and nearly kills Ikuto and Yatagaramon.
- Dragon Ball:
- In Dragon Ball GT, Gill appears to betray the team to the machine mutants. Only Trunks is in on the plan.
- In the Garlic Jr. Saga of Dragon Ball Z, Piccolo did a variation of faking defection to Garlic Jr: He ended up being bitten by one of the Black Water Mist-infected characters, and then faked infection himself and fought Gohan and Krillin ruthlessly in order to get close enough to Garlic Jr. and then free Kami and Mr. Popo. He only let Krillin in on the plan when he was "biting" him on the neck, resulting in Krillin faking defection as well.
- Gajeel was revealed to be one of these for the Fairy Tail guild.
- Also Gray in a filler arc. Gray does this a second time, along with Levy, in the manga's Avatar mini-arc.
- Saruhiko Fushimi does this brilliantly in K: Return of Kings. Since he is one of the few Clansman known to have left one Clan to join another, he and his King use that reputation, stage a fight in front of the whole Clan, and have him storm off and reactivate his JUNGLE account, making it look like a regular case of Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. When his true plan and choices are revealed, it turns everything that has been shown of that character so far on its head. His King even goes to the Clansman of his old Clan who still holds a grudge over his original "betrayal", and tells him that there is one way for the Fake Defector to survive - that is, to actually betray his King and join the Clan he's infiltrating. "You are his friend, and know him well. Do you think that's something he would do?" And even that character knows it isn't.
- Conrad pulls one of these in Kyo Kara Maoh!.
- The event reshapes the entire series and leads to huge amounts of character development—you can pretty much divide the series into 'before' and 'after' this arc, with a brief transition period between his disappearance and his reemergence as Belial's new Dragon.
- The audience is not let in on the arrangement, nor is any other living hero. We are given blatant foreshadowing of the apparent FaceHeel Turn about three minutes before The Reveal.
- Conrad wears a similar coat and has a similar scene in the same arena in season three, and you can see Yuuri's stomach turn over as he says half-jokingly 'not this again.' Conrad reassures him. Then he declares his own bid for the Shimaron throne on the strength of an unbroken family line that lost power four hundred years ago. Certainly messes with everyone's plans.
- The fact that they still have Conrad's severed left arm in its original sleeve while he's walking around with two working arms is a big tip-off that something more convoluted happened than just the most loyal person ever deciding to betray his king, or even Brainwashed and Crazy. It's basically 'cause God Is Evil. Or..possessed by evil. Basically God is playing Xanatos Speed Chess with himself, without anyone else suspecting there's more than one will nudging the pieces. Yuuri is the culmination of the good and evil plots, because there's no way either of them would have succeeded in getting there if they hadn't built on the other's foundations for their own purposes. You Can't Fight Fate and yet he very much has a choice and control.
- In the The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Plus manga, the Violet Link pulled this off in order to learn of the enemy's plans, even knocking out the Green Link in order to prove his "loyalty".
- Chie pulls this off in Mai-Otome by pretending to side with the Valkyries as part of two separate plans:
- To wrest them and any other Otomes who may have sided with Nagi from his control, and
- To knock Tomoe off her high horse, knowing fully well that she would take the first opportunity to sell them all out. The first part succeeds easily, but the second? Not so much, as Tomoe is too stubborn to be swayed into a HeelFace Turn, and snaps instead.
- In Pokémon, it is implied in the beginning of the Manaphy movie that Jack Walker had to pull off a fake defection in order to get close to Phantom and retrieve Manaphy's egg to prevent him from accessing the Samiyan Sea Temple.
- In Naruto, Itachi Uchiha of the criminal organization Akatsuki is revealed after his death to have been a double agent who was loyal to Konoha the entire time. In fact, the real reason he killed his entire clan was to prevent a civil war which would have devastated the village; in exchange, his superiors promised that they would spare his brother Sasuke.
- Viewing his previous behavior in light of this revelation makes it pretty clear that he was doing best to delay Akatsuki and not kill anyone.
- In One Piece, in the filler Alternate Universe Detective Memoirs of Chief Straw Hat Luffy, Zoro, a travelling monk, appears to be an Aloof Ally, helping out Vivi when the Buggy Clowns chased her. Buggy decides to hire him to defeat Luffy. But during the fight, Zoro intentionally has Luffy hit all of Buggy's crew. And when Mohji and Cabaji tries to attack Vivi, he stopped them.
- Recently in the story proper Brook pretends to enjoy Jora's "art" in order to trick her into changing his cane and violin back to normal so he can cut her up.
- Nancy does this with Yomiko in the Read or Die OAV, while quoting "to deceive your enemy, first you must deceive your friend".
- In the Grand Finale of Sailor Moon, Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune do this, and even kill Pluto and Saturn in order to gain Sailor Galaxia's trust (don't worry, they get better). Of course, as it turns out, they only did it because the Applied Phlebotinum handed out to Galaxia's henchmen was the only weapon that could defeat her. Or so it seemed.
- This scene often appears in the Sera Myu, or stage musicals, and even has its own song.
- In an earlier arc, Sailor Moon herself feigned a falling out with the other senshi and attempted to join the Dark Kingdom so she could find the entrance to the Dark Kingdom. Pity she tried this on the most cunning of the Dark Kingdom's servants...
- In the Hades saga of Saint Seiya, all of the Gold Saints who died during the events of the 12 Temples arc are ressurected after swearing loyalty to Hades, God of the Underworld. Thus, they lead an invasion to the Sanctuary with the intent of assassinating Athena, eventually succeeding it. We then learn that the reason behind their betrayal was to a)kill Athena so she can awaken her Eighth Sense and descend into Hades's Underworld without being bound by its rules, and b)shed the Goddess's blood in order to ressurect Athena's Cloth so she can use it to fight the Lord of the Underworld.
- Yukimura pulls one in Samurai Deeper Kyo.
- Soul Eater in the first episode of Soul Eater. It's hard to tell if Maka was in on it, but if so, she's quite the actor.
- Mirage pulls one of these in Transformers: Robots in Disguise. After having a genuine fight with his team, he realizes that the Predacons have been listening in and promptly takes advantage of the situation to pretend that he wants to defect.
- In the X1999 anime, Arashi joins the Dragons of Earth to save her boyfriend Sorata from sacrificing himself for her. When Fuuma gives her an order to kill him though, she betrays him. Sorata almost manages to take Fuuma down... but he still ends up dying for her sake.
- During season 2 in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, almost every student from the Obelisk Dorm or Ra Dorm gets brainwashed after being defeated and joins the Society of Light. However, it is strongly implied that Daichi Misawa fakes being brainwashed as his goal was only to join the Society of Light, so he will be acknowledged as a good duelist and not being ignored. Unlike others, he lost on purpose to join the Society and he never shows any arrogance like the other members, shows expression of wanting to challenge the leader Saiou, and notably, he does not lose a duel to "snap out". While he's clearly on the side of the villains at that time, he is not antagonizing the heroes either.
Comic Books
- Nightwing becomes a fake defector in the year following the Infinite Crisis storyline. This was done to give him additional credibility among several rival gangs. His success is debatable; on one hand Slade asks him to train his daughter Rose as the new Ravager, but on the other hand, his actions lead to an encounter with Superman. Revealing both Slade's insight and foresight, Slade prepares a gizmo to give Nightwing's heartbeat the sound of a truthful man rather than a liar.
- Post Badass Decay, Juggernaut (an X-Man at the time) is ordered to fake-defect to gain intel on the New Bastards on the Block. Unfortunately, Juggernaut's kindred-spirit Squid Boy was not in the loop and, getting caught in the crossfire during a battle, tells Juggernaut he'll never forgive him before promptly expiring. Ouch.
- The Trickster and the Pied Piper attempted to infiltrate their old friends, The Flash's Rogues Gallery — an apparent reversal of their Heel Face Turns. When they appeared to have been complicit in the murder of Bart Allen, the Flash, they found it impossible to convince people of their sincerity.
- Star Wars: Dark Empire had Luke Skywalker falling to the Dark Side, if only to try to bring it down from within.
- In Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Ulic Qel-Droma pretends to be a fallen Jedi in order to take down a cult of darksiders. Unfortunately, he adopted the persona a bit too well.
- The Squadron Supreme limited series sees the entire team pretending to be brainwashed into joining the Institute of Evil.
- The first story arc of Ultimate X-Men has Cyclops storming off and joining Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants. Guess why he does it.
Fan Works
- In The Chong Sheng Trilogy's third installment, Mai does this in a particularly horrifying example. Subverted slightly in that she's also trying to avoid execution with the rest of Zuko's advisors. In order to prove it, she's forced to torture a captured Zuko while Katara is Forced to Watch. Zuko buys the act completely at first, but Mai lets him know her true intentions by the marks she carves into his arms.
- In Winter War, Hisagi apparently defected to Aizen during the Fake Karakura Town battle when it became obvious that he was going to win. He did so at Yamamoto's orders... but with Yamamoto and everyone else who was in on it dead, La Résistance believes he defected for real. Even when he contacts them and offers to help them invade Hueco Mundo, they have no way of knowing if he's genuinely on their side... and neither does the reader, until we get a chapter in his POV a while later.
- Zecora in Fallout: Equestria. Tragically, her plan to assassinate the Zebra Caesar might have worked if she hadn't ran into Applesnack during her 'escape'. He beat her to death.
- In Sometimes I Hate The Life I Made, Skye fakes to side with Ultron.
- In Tales of Bleach: Unreal Society Orihime joins Cruxis as one of its Seraphim, but in reality she is on Kratos' side. Considering the person involved and a conversation that happens before this incident, the fact that it's this trope and not a true and tried FaceHeel Turn should be obvious.
- In Lovehammer Inc Angron feigns pledging his Legion's allegiance to Khorne, before turning upon the War God's army and personally attacking Khorne's greatest champion.
- In The Rehabilitation of Dawn Bellwether, after finding that the new conspiracy is led by her own abusive father, Aster Bellwether, who intends to perform multiple simultaneous terrorist attacks all over Zootopia to make it a prey-only city, and ultimately a sheep-only city, Dawn seems to revert to her old predator-hating ways. However, as soon as the other conspirators are distracted, she sabotages a pump, unleashing the deadly night howler gas upon them and herself, giving her real friends a chance to escape.
Films — Live-Action
- There's an example of a reverse of this trope in The Living Daylights in which Koskov pretends to defect to the West. Turns out he's playing both sides against the middle and used the defection as an opportunity to get his girlfriend offed by James Bond (who doesn't actually do it and ends up taking off her clothes later in the movie).
- Kyra joining the Necromongers in The Chronicles of Riddick, only to help Riddick when he faces the Lord Marshal in the final fight. Of course, when she joined them, she thought that Riddick was dead. It's only when he comes back does she decide to help him.
- In X-Men: First Class, Darwin does this to Sebastian Shaw's group of evil mutants as a ploy to give his teammate Havok a clear shot at Shaw's group (Darwin's own mutant ability will protect him from Havok's attack, and their friend but genuine traitor Angel, who wouldn't be safe otherwise). It doesn't turn out so good for Darwin when Shaw's group survives unscathed due to Shaw's mutant ability allowing him to absorb Havok's attack.
- Interestingly done in The Prestige. Angier sends his assistant, Olivia to work for Borden and feed him information. Knowing Borden would be suspicious, he tells her to admit that Angier sent her as a spy, but to claim that she was so mad at Angier for treating her like a pawn that she's willing to feed him information about Angier. In other words, the whole plan is completely transparent, both sides know full well she's working as a double agent, but neither can be sure whether she's a defector or a fake defector.
- In The Godfather, Don Corleone send Luca Brasi to infiltrate the gang of Sollozzo to garner information, but Sollozzo is wise to the plot, and Luca ends up sleeping with the fishes.
- In the film version of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Lincoln's friend Speed pretends to sell Lincoln out to the vampires as part of a Batman Gambit to lure Adam into a trap. Unfortunately, he pays with his life.
- The trope is used as a minor Mind Screw to the audience and a major one to the protagonist in Total Recall (1990), as Hauser tricks Quaid who is Hauser, post memory wipe into thinking he has betrayed Cohagen when in fact it's all an elaborate gambit by Cohagen. Throw in not one, but two moles and you've got one hell of a manipulative conspiracy.
- In the charmingly goofy family B Movie Mystery Monsters! (Released on DVD and Netflix as Goobers!), protagonist Tommy's plan for freeing the monsters involves convincing Big Bad Queen Mara that Jerkass Jimmy has sold Tommy and Susie out. The audience is not informed in advance, and to try to sell it that he's really betrayed them, Jimmy's HeelFace Turn beforehand is seemingly transparently phony, with a little more than a Heel Realization that he's a selfish, obnoxious jerk who is both hated by everyone and deserves to be spurring on his desire to be something else.
- In I, Robot, Sonny pretends to be swayed by VIKI's "undeniable" logic, and suddenly holds Dr. Calvin hostage. It's all a ploy to get them safely out of the room with VIKI so they can head towards her positronic brain and shut it down, but it's only when Sonny winks at Spooner (a gesture Spooner had earlier described to him as a sign of trust) that he and the audience realize what's going on. Poor Dr. Calvin is still out of the loop.
Dr.Calvin: [as they rush up the staircase] I assume we'll discuss what just happened later?
- During the climax of The Negotiator, Roman is trying to convince Big Bad Frost to talk, but Sabian notices that it's not working, drags Roman out of hiding, and shoots him, stating that in compensation, he wants half of the money that Frost stole. Frost agrees, destroys the evidence, and walks out of the house to find that his entire agreement with Sabian was broadcast to the police, implicating him quite effectively. Sabian only shot Roman non-fatally.
- In Counterfeit Traitor, Eric Erickson is this, in the movie dramatization of what he did, as noted in the "Real Life" section below.
- In Star Trek: First Contact, Data is seduced by the Borg Queen with the promise of becoming more human by having human skin grafted onto his body and serving as her consort. He pretends to join them by deactivating the Enterprise's self-destruct and firing at the Phoenix... and deliberately missing. He gets to deliver a Badass Boast ("Resistance. Is. Futile.") before killing the Borg Queen and defeating the Borg single-handedly. Data notes that he actually considered the offer for 0.68 seconds — for an android like him that is an eternity.
- A long-term example in The Good Shepherd, where a Soviet defector named Valentin Mironov spends years working with Edward Wilson in Wilson's counterintelligence unit. Another Soviet defector later shows up to claim that he's the real Mironov, while the first one is actually Yuri Modin, a KGB agent. They don't believe the second "Mironov" and torture him until he jumps out a window to his death (it doesn't help that he's dosed with LSD at that point). The first "Mironov" offers to take a polygraph test to prove that he is who he says he is, but Wilson refuses. Later, though, Wilson shows up on Mironov's doorstep in the middle of the night and demands that Mironov play his accordion. When Mironov agrees and asks why, Wilson replies that he wanted to finally hear something from "Mironov" that was true. Obviously, he figured out that the second "Mironov" was the real deal.
- Loki in Thor was raised believing that the Frost Giants are monsters and the arch enemy of Asgard. After being told by Odin that he actually is one that Odin and his wife adopted centuries ago, he tricks his biological father Laufey into believing that he wants him to kill Odin, only to kill Laufey himself, making it look as if he saved his adoptive father's life and hoping to regain his love this way.
- A Song of Ice and Fire:
- The beyond honorable Jon Snow becomes a fake defector in order to spy on the wildling king, Mance Rayder, for the Night's Watch at the orders of his superior officer, Qhorin Halfhand; he is forced to kill Qhorin Halfhand as Qhorin ordered him to do in order to gain the trust of the wildling leaders. And then to have sex with his new wildling girlfriend every night to maintain their trust. How else would he convince them he's forsworn those vows of chastity he honors so much? He does feel very bad about all this. During his role as fake defector — though he comes to see ordinary wildlings as regular men, women and children and feels compassion for them — he learns of the wildling king's plans to attack the Wall and must work to prevent this and warn the Night's Watch. He comes to fall in love with aforementioned wildling girl but must leave her as he has always been loyal to the Night's Watch and must fulfill his duty.
- The Westerling family counts as well. The family is of minor nobility and are sworn to the Lannisters. After their daughter Jeyne, likely the only family member who doesn't fit this trope, marries the King in the North, Robb Stark, leader of one of the armies opposed to the Lannisters in the War of Five Kings, the Westerlings pretend to declare loyalty to the Starks. However, Robb's direwolf Grey Wind, an Evil-Detecting Dog, indicates that something is wrong about the family. Later, Jeyne's mother reveals to Jaime Lannister that she has been in contact with his father, Tywin Lannister, the head of the Lannister family, and was aware of the planned betrayal of Robb Stark at the hands of one of his sworn families. She also gave her daughter drugs to prevent conception, thus ensuring the male line of the Stark family died with Robb (or so she thought).
- Wyman Manderly, ever loyal to the Starks, pretends to defer to the Freys and Boltons when it's really all a ruse to dish up some revenge of his own.
- Fiona Samson in the Bernard Samson Series, who was playing this for a seriously long time.
- John le Carré novels use this a lot - with large amounts of detail on how you go about doing this (slowly dropping out of society, becoming a drunk, etc). Alec Leamas's defection to East Germany in the first half of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold is probably his most famous example.
- Successfully pulled by Sir Horace Harkness in the Honor Harrington series, when their ship was taken by Havenite State Sec. A life of smuggling and bootlegging certainly paid off — he managed to deceive his watchdogs, hack the enemy ship's central computer, free his mates, and blow the entire ship to Kingdom Come after making a clean getaway. He was deservingly knighted for this performance.
- Professor Severus Snape of the Harry Potter series. Interestingly, he defected to both sides at different points, so we're kept guessing for most of the series about which side he's a fake defector to. (Fans debated it to hell and back.) It all ends with a very unusual twist: his deception is successful but his mission fails. Voldemort believes Snape, but kills him anyway, out of expediency. That said, he was able to prevent a whole lot of worse abuse towards the students of Hogwarts using his position as Headmaster, and was able to give Harry his all-important memories about Voldemort's extra Horcrux, so in a way he succeeded.
- Subverted in Emperor: The Gods of War by Conn Iggulden, where Brutus actually has done a face-heel turn and betrayed Caesar. However Caesar and his generals play it out as a fake defector, and even Brutus himself does so in order to get into Caesar's daughter's bed.
- In Watership Down Bigwig tells the Efrafans that he's a member of the Owsla who escaped the destruction of his warren by Men, which is true except Bigwig neglects to mention that he's part of a group of similar refugees hoping to spring some of the Efrafan does for their own warren.
- Lara of the X-Wing series started off as a bad guy playing The Mole in the New Republic. She caused the near-total destruction of an X-wing squadron, then went back to the Imperials, got disgusted by her newest boss's insistence that We Have Reserves, and engineered his death. Then, awaiting another chance, she went undercover among the New Republic again, joined an X-wing squadron, and started Becoming the Mask and finding that Good Feels Good, so she switched sides and started getting close with the only survivor of the X-wing squadron she'd destroyed. Then her true origin was revealed and she was forced to flee and rejoin the bad guys as a Fake Defector, contributing to a major New Republic victory. It ends on a bittersweet note at first (she has to live the rest of her life under a different identity to avoid being condemned to death for her actions as an Imperial agent), but a later book shows that things went all the better for her, as she started both a family and a successful business with the aforementioned survivor.
- In Orson Scott Card's novel Shadow Puppets, Suriyawong spends most of his time working his way up to being the Big Bad's second-hand man so that when the time comes he can give the good guys a chance to shoot the Big Bad in the head.
- In Tim Powers's novel Declare his protagonist Andrew Hale is more or less shoved into making a false defection in order to get close to his nemesis Kim Philby.
- In Sandy Mitchell's Warhammer 40,000 Scourge the Heretic, when they are infiltrating a smuggling operation, Kyrlock claims to have deserted the Imperial Guard and need to escape. Later, when their guide attempts to rape a girl also waiting to be smuggled, and Elyra is unable to get him to back down, Kyrlock tells him that while Elyra doesn't want to share, he would be willing. This lets him get close enough to bring the man down. Though it is over in a couple of minutes, Elyra is nearly convinced that he means it; when he says he knew she would back him up, she is embarrassed and can not admit how close it came.
- Happens many times in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Especially noteworthy is just before the battle of Chi Bi; after Cao Cao's loyal admiral is executed thanks to a plot of Zhou Yu's, the admiral's brothers use it as a cover story for their supposed defection. However, they are easily discovered, but Zhou Yu just proceeds to play along so as to plant his own Fake Defector to defeat Cao's giant navy.
- Also common in Kamakura-era retellings of the Tale of Genji. Many scenes in Genji make it clear that Genji was having an affair with the Emperor's chief wife, and even fathered her child. To avoid the unpatriotic implications, the retellings would have them go through the same conversations... but later reveal they were faking the whole thing to fool their enemies! And then NINJAS ATTACK!
- As of The Gathering Storm, Verin is revealed to be one of these, having joined the Black Ajah to save herself, then studied it and eventually brought it down from within. Considering how well she fooled her fellow Blacks, and the Loophole Abuse she used to be able to divulge all (which also entailed a Heroic Sacrifice),it's tempting to call her a Magnificent Bitch despite still being one of the Heroes. She's certainly mistress of The Plan.
- Briefly done by Ax, of all
peopleAndalites, in Animorphs. It was a spur-of-the-moment idea, and he only stuck with it long enough to get into a better position to fight back.- In a more extended version, Ax fakes defecting to, er, his own side, technically—when a small Andalite squad comes to Earth, the Animorphs (rightly) suspect their motives and pretend to break up, freeing Ax to go join up with the Andalites and find out what they're up to.
- In Tom Clancy's Cardinal of the Kremlin, Jack Ryan pulls this, staging several 'incidents' to trick the Russians into trying to recruit him, including a rather public incident involving a gay senator. He's not actually going undercover, though — he just needs to arrange a one-on-one with the KGB Chief, so he can blackmail HIM into defecting, bringing along the titular mole.
- In the Star Trek Double Helix novel "Double Or Nothing", Mackenzie Calhoun needs to infiltrate the Big Bad, so he punches out an admiral. (He was supposed to have a loud argument with him, but he decided that he needed to be punched...to make the charade more authentic, of course). It is subverted, however, in that the Big Bad sees right through it and keeps it hidden until the big moment.
- The female lead of the James Bond novel and film From Russia with Love was told that her mission was to become one of these to leak false intelligence to the West. Her mission is actually a set up to lure Bond into a situation where SMERSH/SPECTRE (Depending on the adaptation) can kill both of them in a manner that embarrasses the British government.
- In The Dresden Files novel Changes, Martin pretends to defect to the Red Court, serving as a Double Agent and setting up their total destruction. The protagonist was incredibly surprised, naturally.
- In Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn, Lucky Starr allows himself to be captured by Earth's enemies, the Sirians, and then gives away one of his fellow Councilmen of Science to the Sirians and testifies about his betrayal for Sirius at an interstellar conference. Of course, it's all an elaborate ploy to get on the stand and present testimony that is devastating to Sirius. The act is especially hard on Lucky's sidekick and best friend Bigman, who believes Lucky is turning traitor in exchange for his, Bigman's, life.
Lucky: [You] gave me the opportunity to make it look as though I were sincerely swapping Wess's freedom for your life. It took less acting to do that than to give Wess away under any conditions I could have dreamed up in your absence. In fact, as it was, I didn't have to act at all. It was a good swap.
- In The Hunger Games it seems like Peeta has teamed up with the careers to kill Katniss. In actuality he teamed up with them to lure them away from her and help keep her alive.
- In Christian Nation, the protagonist convincingly fakes being "born again" so that he could escape being executed by the American theocratic government.
- In The Black Company you have Blade, who "defects" after Croaker suspects him of having an affair with Lady, Croaker's wife. In the months long con that followed, Croaker repeatedly sent the religious fanatics of his own army against Blade's forces, thinning his pressed army of the malcontents while Blade turned nearly his entire enemy force to the Company side.
- Seen in the Warrior trilogy of BattleTech novels about the Fourth Succession War, with not a clue whatsoever to an uninitiated reader until the Reveal late in the final novel. Of course, the surprise will likely be lost on most modern readers already familiar with the universe's backstory who'll recognize the name Justin Xiang Allard easily enough; it worked better when the books (some of the first ever written) were still new.
- In Warrior Cats, it appears that Tigerheart is eagerly following his grandfather Tigerstar's teachings, but he's really spying on Tigerstar and the Dark Forest, unbeknownst to the reader and other characters (even Ivypool, who worked as a spy herself after joining and realizing that they're really hell-bent on destroying the Clans.)
Live-Action TV
- Wolf of The 10th Kingdom is a particularly well-done version of this trope. It keeps you guessing, even right up to the very end, which side he will truly turn out to be on. It helps that, as a deconstruction of many fairy tale tropes, Happy Ever After was not guaranteed by any means, and the ending still remains rather dark...
- Game of Thrones:
- Osha offers to pledge herself to Theon to allow her to help Bran and Rickon escape.
- Jon Snow joins the wildlings in "Valar Morghulis" and remains with them throughout Season 3.
- Spock did this in Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Enterprise Incident" to help Kirk steal a Romulan cloaking device.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- In the two-parter "Gambit", Picard (rather inadvertently) goes undercover with a group of Space Pirates; when Riker shows up, Picard sets him up as the Fake Defector to keep him alive. Meanwhile they had to act like they didn't know each other and would happily kill one another.
- In the appropriately titled "The Defector", a Romulan officer falsely claims to be a middle-ranking clerk of negligible importance who had come across some important information about a secret base which the Romulans planned to launch an attack on the Federation from. His defection was sincere, but he was lying about his identity. He wanted to warn the Federation about the attack so a war could be prevented, but he did not want to further betray his homeworld. He finally admits that he is an Admiral and agrees to hand over any required information to the Federation. Tragically, it turns out that he is the Unwitting Pawn, fed false information by Commander Tomalak to lure the Enterprise into crossing into the Neutral Zone first so they could ambush them and justify an invasion of the Federation. Fortunately, Captain Picard arranged ahead of time for the Klingons to sneak in with them in case they needed rescuing. Both sides retreat without a war starting.
- Star Trek: Voyager
- A subtle variation, over multiple episodes of Season 2. Tom Paris starts showing up late, picking a fight with his superior, starts the crew gambling. He lines up a new job and is leaving the ship forever. Instead of getting approached by the other side they decide to kidnap him, exactly according to plan.
- In "Counterpoint" an officer for an anti-telepath society seeks sanctuary on Voyager, claiming to have never really agreed with the policy and to have worked to stop his subordinates finding out how Voyager's crew were smuggling refugees. It turns out to be an elaborate sting to find the wormhole the refugees are escaping to and destroying it. Janeway out-gambits him.
- Jack Bauer in 24 series 3, breaking out Ramon Salazar from prison was an elaborate sting operation. In order to convince the Salazars that he had gone to the bad side, he had to point an (unloaded) pistol at Chase's head and pull the trigger. He is assisted by Gael Ortega, who goes so deep undercover as a mole that CTU arrests and interrogates him before realizing their mistake.
- This is in addition to the cocaine habit he starts in the same season to convince Salazar of his defection. Proving once again that Jack Bauer is a badass.
- Done again by both Tony Almeda and Jack in the season 7. Also Greg Seaton fakes a bad-to-good defection.
- This is in addition to the cocaine habit he starts in the same season to convince Salazar of his defection. Proving once again that Jack Bauer is a badass.
- Jack Bristow in Alias, pretending to leave the CIA to work for SD-6.
- Gary Best in The Bill, whose undercover assignment involved faking his sacking for assault. Adam Okaro and Lewis Hardy also did this. The latter shot to miss Roger Valentine.
- Mission: Impossible had at least one such episode, if not more. And then there are the episodes where they have to convince an enemy agent that a real defector is actually a fake defector so that the intelligence they leaked will be disregarded.
- Same can be said for Starsky & Hutch.
- The abrupt Series Finale of Angel involved a similar device.
- In an earlier episode, Angel Neck Snapped his teammate (who was part demon and able to survive such an attack) to get a Nazi-like team to accept him so he could figure out their plans.
- In an episode of Get Smart, Max is "fired" from CONTROL and becomes a drunk, all part of a scheme to get him approached by KAOS so he can learn their latest evil plan.
- It turns out to be somewhat pointless, as it turned out that the KAOS unit was long defunct, and being run by infiltrators from various government agencies.
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent has an episode where Goren is forced on leave and ends up working with some bad cops, and his partner nearly shoots him. Yeah, it was all planned by Goren and the captain.
- On Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in the season 3 episode "Enemies," Angel pretends to have turned into his evil alter ego Angelus. Buffy is in on the plan, but the audience doesn't find out until the moment when Angel reveals himself.
- Angel used a much shorter version of this in Spike's first episode. During Spike's attack on Sunnydale High, he strolled right up with Xander in a headlock, claiming to have been playing Buffy. Spike didn't buy it, having known Angelus much better than Faith did.
- In several episodes of the second season of Star Trek: Voyager, Tom Paris becomes sullen and insubordinate so his fake defection (part of a mission to root out an informant) looks real.
- He goes as far as setting up a gambling ring and skimming from the betting pool to increase the appearance of an unreliable, unethical officer.
- Battlestar Galactica: In order to get to her daughter on board a Cylon Baseship, Athena tells Caprica Six that she thinks that Hera is safer there.
- Boomer does that too. Ellen thinks that Boomer helped them escape. Boomer only pretended so to get access to Galactica and steal Hera.
- Stargate SG-1: In the episode "Shades of Grey", Colonel O'Neill gets suspended from duty for stealing technology from aliens. This allows him to infiltrate a group of bad guys, but in the process he alienates his team, who are quite shocked at his behaviour (not being in on the plan). Of course, they're all friends again by the next episode.
- Interesting thing is that in that episode Daniel appears to have a friendly talk to Jack at the end, and reveals he came because he lost the draw.
- Teal'c fools Ba'al into believing he was brainwashed in "Stronghold".
- Teal'c is also brainwashed by Apophis into thinking that he was this trope, when he was "really" still loyal to Apophis.
- Carter also had to pretend to be infected by a Goa'uld symbiote clone among an entire town infected by them to trick them into being arrested by the SGC. In order to sell the deception, she also had to hit one of her allies beforehand. It worked because Carter was once the unwilling host to a Tok'ra symbiote (same species, different ideology), and any host or former host has some naquadah in his or her blood that can be sensed by a symbiote.
- Mason Drake in Lois and Clark. Immediately after Lois and Clark agree to share their information with her (against Lois' judgment), she's sharing it with Intergang's The Dragon. Immediately after that, though, it turns out this is part of Lois' plan to make him incriminate himself on tape.
- The opening quote of this article, from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, turned out to be in a holodeck scenario. But the scene was such a perfect fit to Garak's devious personality that most fans forget he didn't really do it.
- In Crime Story, the lawyer for the Federal task force that is trying to take down Big Bad Ray Luca, pretends to be drunk and gets kicked out of the agency, so that he can become Luca's lawyer, and then inform the task force about everything Luca is doing. However, Luca points out to one of his henchmen who questions whether the lawyer would be loyal to Luca, that even if this lawyer was pretending to go to his side, because of lawyer-client confidentiality rules, nothing he tells the feds can be used against him.
- Bo pretended to be a dirty cop for a while on Days of Our Lives.
- In the Lost episode "The Economist," we see Hurley questioning Locke's leadership. In his next scene, he tells Sayid and Kate that he has abandoned Locke's group. It turns out to be a ruse, to which the audience was kept in the dark.
- Also, Benjamin Linus pulls this in "What They Died For", even going as far as to kill Charles Widmore (though that part probably wasn't an act) to convince the Man in Black where his loyalties lie. Oddly enough, he doesn't actually accomplish much, other than to allow Miles and Richard to escape the Man in Black's wrath and eventually get off the island.
- Sgt. Miller pretended to collaborate with a criminal gang in an episode of Heartbeat, though the writers didn't even try to explain why he didn't tell the other police what was going on.
- Hiro from Heroes pretends to stab Ando with a katana in order to join the other side.
- In the Pushing Daisies episode "The Norwegians", Olive resents the fact that she is perpetually Locked Out of the Loop and decides to join the Norwegian detective team that is trying to put Emerson out of business and would have exposed Ned in the process. It's revealed that she was faking all along in order to throw them off the track.
- Sentai examples:
- In Kousoku Sentai Turboranger Pink Turbo winds up joining the bad guys in attempt to recover an antidote for the poisoned Blue Turbo by fighting alongside the monster of the week and "accidentally" getting poisoned by it as well forcing it to give her the antidote. Oddly enough this didn't seem to be planned in advance at all, she just happened to take a hit to her head during a battle and decided to fake memory loss to join the bad guys. The other guys had no idea what she was doing until the Reveal when Blue was shown to be healed. She even was perfectly willing to shoot a machine gun at them as part of her plan.
- Chouriki Sentai Ohranger repeated this plot only this time had it fail. Ohyellow joins the bad guys in attempt to recover an antidote however unlike Pink Turbo faking amnesia Ohyellow faked cowardice and surrendered instead. Ohyellow also lets herself get hit by the poison darts and tries to get the antidote however she wore a bulletproof vest to protect herself unlike Pink Turbo who allowed herself to be poisoned. Since Ohyellow doesn't take as many risks the bad guys aren't fooled and give her a fake antidote instead. They then need to use a backup plan instead.
- A not-so-much copy-paste-from-Turborangers Fake Defector plot is also shown in Choujin Sentai Jetman, the 'fake defector' none other than Red Hawk himself, pretending to join the bad guys so they will return his girlfriend-turned-evil. Turns out he was trying to sneak into their base and destroy their mean to transport themselves into the real world. Plan failed, but in the end, their chief praised him and his teammates for being powerful and cunning enough to break through the enemy's defenses.
- Happens again in Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger; Maharo (who was a dragon for the villians before her HeelFace Turn) makes a deal with Abarekiller and rejoins the villians with all of her former power restored. The heroes quickly learn that this is all part of her plan to A) free Asuka from the dark armor and B) get close to the Big Bad and wait for a chance to strike. The first half of her plan goes smoothly, but not the second half.
- Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger has Luka attempt this to free herself, Joe, Don and Ahim in episode 16... and it fails right off the bat, because Basco, the one who had kidnapped them, didn't buy it for a second.
- And in the other hemisphere, Kat tried this in an episode of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers; when Tommy went to search for the Zeo Crystal (a powerful magical item Master Vile wanted, that had been protected from him with a spell that would destroy anything evil that touched it), Kat thought she could buy Tommy time by approaching the Zedd and Rita and saying she wanted to rejoin them. Unfortunately, they showed surprising genre-savvyness (for them) this time, and wouldn't trust Kat unless she first submitted herself to a brainwashing device (not mentioning until she agreed to this that it would be irreversible once complete, also mentioning then that Tommy's past as the Green Ranger would still cause the spell protecting the Crystal to react. (He still managed, even having to struggle through some personal demons to do so, and got back in time to rescue Kat and the Ninja-Falconzord too.)
- King Mondo had a Monster of the Week use this trick in Power Rangers Zeo. (The viewers knew what the plan was, but the heroes didn't, so you honestly can't blame the Rangers for wanting to believe the guy was sincere.)
- Power Rangers Operation Overdrive involves a Fake Defector plot when the Rangers need to acquire a Houou statute from a villain faction.
- Done in The Unit, which takes it pretty far... Sam McBride, to find Big Bad Leon Drake, "attempts" to rape Bridget Sullivan (who isn't in on this), engages in a shootout and kidnaps Molly Blaine. The result of this is Molly separating from Jonas and Jonas telling Colonel Ryan that he's no longer fit for command, to which Ryan eventually agrees, taking a promotion.
- It is revealed late in season 4 of Farscape that Scorpius has pulled one of these on the Scarran emperor. For a time, it is unclear if his devotion to the Peacekeepers was the real fake, but when he helps destroy the Scarran's evolutionary edge, it becomes obvious that his loyalties never lay with them.
- Same season, Braca. He appeared to have switched his loyalties to Grayza following the destruction of Scorpius' Command Carrier at the end of Season 3 - gleefully aiding in torturing him for information and even shooting him. However, it was all part of another of Scorpius' plans. Braca even acted as The Mole for Scorpius while the half-breed was hiding out on Moya.
- Adric from Doctor Who does this not once but three times during his tenure as a companion. Unfortunately, most fans miss the "fake" part (except in "Four to Doomsday" where he actually does side with the villain, but only because he seriously believes that Monarch's intentions are benevolent) and use it as credibility towards his status as The Scrappy.
- The Doctor himself does it in "The Almost People" when he briefly pretends to be in on the doppelgangers' murderous plan so that he can undermine it later.
- And again in "The Claws of Axos," when the Doctor pretends to abandon Earth to the Axon menace to escape with the Master in his TARDIS, only to lure the Master into the heart of the Axos alien being and deal with them both.
- Canton Everett Delaware III in between "The Impossible Astronaut" and "Day of the Moon", to get Amy, Rory, River, and the Doctor all back in one place.
- Mulder of The X-Files does this in season five's "The Pine Bluff Variant". He even had to hide it from Scully, who was not pleased that she was kept out of the loop.
- During the oft-maligned Leviathan story arc of the cult classic Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, several characters who had managed to resist or overcome the power of the Leviathan cult later pretended to fall back in with said cult in order to help take it down.
- In an episode of Arrested Development, Michael and Gob formulated a plan to get back at Oscar for his cruel pranks on them as children which drove the two brothers apart. Gob immediately went to Oscar and told him the plan, or so it seemed. Gob's defection was fake and part of the plan from the beginning. It was believable because Gob would have had no qualms about betraying Michael for real.
- Jane attempts this in the fourth season finale of The Mentalist, hoping to convince Red John that he'd truly given up and was willing to join him. He even goes so far as to pretend to kill Lisbon and bring her head to Red John as a gift. Needless to say, things didn't go as planned.
- Steve Jinks in Warehouse 13 is fired after pulling a gun on Mrs. Frederic when she insisted on torturing a detainee. He's then recruited by The Dragon to work for the Big Bad. The whole thing was planned by Mrs. Frederic and Jinks off screen, and they were the only ones in on it until Jinks revealed the plan to Claudia late in the game. Unfortunately, Sykes has his Dragon kill Jinks after his usefulness runs out. Fortunately, Claudia manages to revive him with Johann Maelzel's Metronome, and Jinks reconnecting with his estranged mother in a later episode brings him back fully.
- On Brooklyn Nine-Nine, at the end of season 1, Jake Peralta goes undercover into the mob and pretends as if he was fired from the NYPD and now harbors bad feelings towards them.
Myths & Religion
- In The Aeneid and The Odyssey Sinon surrenders to the Trojans, after claiming to have defected from the Greeks, for the express purpose of convincing the Trojans that the Trojan horse was a gift. He also added the detail that they under no circumstances should bring it into the city because then it would make the city invincible. You know the saying "never trust Greeks bearing gifts?" In context that's actually about Sinon in specific. Older Than Feudalism.
- In the Biblical Book of Judith (considered Apocrypha by Jews and, following them, Protestants), our heroine convinces the Assyrian general Holofernes who is besieging her city that she will betray the Jews to him. Then she waits for him to get drunk and does this.◊
Tabletop Games
- In the Battletech universe done by Justin Allard whose fall from grace was manufactured to give him credibility with Capellan Confederation
- In Warhammer 40,000, the Alpha Legion's true allegiance is to the Emperor, in the most twisted way possible.
- In Wraith: The Oblivion, an entire Guild, the Mnemoi, pretended to become corrupt to hide that they had been entrusted with saving the memories of Charon, ruler of Stygia, until he could come back. Unfortunately, it worked a little too well; the Mnemoi were hunted down fanatically, and by the time Charon did return, so many of his memories were missing because those who held them had been destroyed.
Video Games
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is a deconstruction of the trope. The Boss "defects" to the side of Big Bad Volgin, but after the US is caught with one of its planes in Soviet airspace during one of Volgin's attacks, the American top brass shifts the blame for the incident onto The Boss to cover their own asses, and her defection suddenly becomes a one-way street, making it necessary for Snake to kill her in order to prevent World War III from erupting. Tragically, Snake learns her defection was fake only after her death.
- It gets even worse in Peace Walker, when it is revealed near the end that Not only was the launching of the nuke planned, but the true objective of both the Virtuous Mission and Operation Snake Eater was to kill off The Boss from the start by a single deviously cunning strategist. Coldman even admits (with a sickening amount of glee and satisfaction) that he was the one who set The Boss up.
- In every single Metal Gear Solid game (up through 3 at least), in fact, Revolver Ocelot is a Fake Defector to whomever the current game's Big Bad is. He always, always double-crosses his apparent boss at the end. Even more than that, he's not even typically working for the people he "defected" from, but is solely loyal to the Pro-Big Boss faction.
- In fact he gave such behavior its name.
- Other than the Chronic Backstabbing Disorder moments, Ocelot's backstory is that he originally worked for the NSA until he and a colleague of his defected to the Soviet Union. However, it was suggested to be a fake defection due to still working for the CIA. Like mother, like son.
- One story option, which will happen most of the time in Tales of Symphonia unless you choose Kratos at the Flanoir doctor scene, features Zelos doing this, in part to get one of the required elements to create the Eternal Sword. In the other story path, he really does join the villains and you have to kill him.
- If you piece all the story together, Kratos plays with this trope as well. Ultimately, Kratos doesn't believe in Mithos' vision of the world, but his inherent fatalism — and the knowledge of what happened last time he tried — keeps him from truly abandoning the Cruxis leader. This leads to Kratos playing the two of you up against each other and helping in his own fashion, hoping that ultimately Lloyd will win so Kratos will be able to die. He'll never actively oppose Mithos unless you choose him in the aforementioned scene, however.
- Subverted in the UBW route in the Fate/stay night game by Servant Archer, defecting to one side, betraying them, then turning around and attacking his original side, revealing himself to have been acting in his own personal interests all along.
- Jowy Atreides from Suikoden II is an archetypical example of this trope (and a classic Starscream. Originally the main character's best friend and ally in the oncoming war against the demonic and psychopathic Prince Luca Blight (not the Luca above), he betrays said best friend and joins up with Luca, believing that the only way to stop him is from the inside. His plans are successful and in the end of the game, you can choose whether to fight him to the death of not.
- Sialeeds does this when she betrays the heroes in Suikoden V for the same reasoning as Jowy's: kill the corrupt people of the Senate from the inside so that no one will oppose the Prince and Lym.
- Axel in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories pretended to help Marluxia for most of the game (even killing Vexen in the process), then turns around and ruins his plans.
- The "staged breakdown" version of this is the premise of Splinter Cell Double Agent, except that the death of Sam's daughter was very real; that Myth Arc is to be continued in Conviction.
- Except Conviction reveals that Sam's boss hid Sam's daughter away and faked her death.
- Megan Kher in the Playdom game Gardens of Time. With help from Alistair and Eleanor, she pulls this on none other than Julius Caesar. Or better said, his younger and face heel turned self. It's a long story.
- In Lunar: The Silver Star, when the party obtains the Dragon Helmet, Nash betrays them and takes it to Xenobia. He couldn't explain beforehand that he was planning to double-cross the Vile Tribe, and he returns injured but with the Dragon Helmet intact. This is altered in the remakes.
- In Mass Effect 3, the cloned Rachni queen, assuming you killed the real queen in 1 will pull this on you just to get access to your big emergency superweapon project, then sabotage the project on behalf of the Reapers. The real queen, should she still be alive, is genuinely on your side though, and her brood of worker drones will provide you with more War Assets than some fleets.
Web Comics
- Darth Maul attempts to do this in Darths & Droids, pretending to betray Palpatine for Nute Gunray. Unfortunately, Gunray sees right through it.
- In American Barbarian, Rick's ploy for getting to Two Tank Omen
- The Legend of Maxx: Maxx defects to the Naiad side and joined forces with Xylan, but it's revealed to be a ploy so he can stab Xylan in the back and get the Naiad's sword.
Web Original
- In The Gamer's Alliance, Briss betrays the Grand Alliance and escorts one of the heroes' enemies to Trinity Gask where he hopes to meet with Big Bad Glaurung Losstarot and gain her trust. However, it's only an act on Briss's part because he's still secretly loyal to the heroes and see his defection as the only means to appear to genuinely join the villains and gain their trust so that he can proceed with his plan to gather intel. Things get a bit more complicated for him when he is reunited with his old fling Tiyana in the city and learns that she is working for the villains and is pregnant with his child.
Western Animation
- Fluttershy becomes one in the two-part episode "The Cutie Map" in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Despite all of the fake smiles that the Equal Ponies put on, Fluttershy found them genuinely charming. It's this kindness that allowed Fluttershy and the rest of the Mane Six to convince cult leader Starlight Glimmer that Fluttershy was interested in joining them, when all Fluttershy really wanted to do was find their cutie marks. This later gets exploited again by the Mane Six to expose Starlight Glimmer as a Hypocrite who doesn't follow her own philosophy.
- Gargoyles:
- In the episode "Revelations," as an initiation into the Illuminati, Matt Bluestone leads Goliath into a trap set by Mace Malone at the Hotel Cabal, where they intend to break him mentally and then interrogate him. Matt ultimately reveals his true intentions when he saves Goliath from being outright killed by Mace. Viewers learn in the end that Goliath was in on it from the beginning. Additionally, Matt gets into the Illuminati regardless, as the only person who realized his intentions was Mace, who is left trapped in the hotel for his failure and driven insane.
- In "Protection," Elisa goes undercover as a Corrupt Cop to get evidence on Draco's protection racket. Out of the loop, Goliath and Broadway notice what appears to be strange behavior and are confused by what's gotten into her. However, they pick it up fast enough and even join in the deception to help bring Draco down.
- Codename: Kids Next Door:
- The ep "Op FUGITIVE" is mistakenly thought of as one by many. Details under What Happened to the Mouse?. "Operation: M.A.U.R.I.C.E." is a genuine one, with the Fake Defector being a chicken-pox researcher kidnapped by Cree. As the quotes page reveals, Chad (Numbah 274) was this all along in "Operation T.R.E.A.T.Y.", not that it made him any less of a jerk.
- "Operation: U.N.D.E.R.C.O.V.E.R." has Lenny of the Delightful Children defect to the KND to supply them with information. Of course it's revealed he is actually a Fake Defector who did this to steal some valuable intel from the KND. THEN it's revealed the KND knew from the start he was this, and the "intel" he stole was actually a bomb that blows their coffee-drilling oil rig to smithereens.
- There was one of these in Beast Wars, with Rattrap pretending to join the Predacons. Ironically, in the first season of the sequel series Beast Machines, he actually goes over temporarily. Well, sorta... Megatron was insanely vulnerable, and he made an agreement to make sure the heroes DON'T kill Megatron. Ironically, Megatron keeps his word, outfitting the weaponless Rattrap with MASSIVE weapons. It appeared he even would have let Rattrap keep them when the battle continued, except Rattrap refused the weapons. (Turns out Rattrap's a HACKER now.)
- Autobot Punch of Transformers Generation 1. He changes his robot mode's appearance to infiltrate the Decepticons as "Counterpunch."
- On Exo Squad, Marsala does this once. Oddly, in a much later episode, the Neo Megas sorta pull one on him.
- Raimundo pulls this off on one of the Big Bads in Xiaolin Showdown. His efforts were aided by the fact that he once actually did it for real.
- The Simpsons did this one too. In the episode "A Star is Torn" has Homer acting as Lisa's agent in an American Idol-like contest. After a fight, Homer pretends to desert Lisa and team up with
CameronJohnny Rainbow. At the end of the episode, Homer is revealed to actually be sabotaging Johnny Rainbow's chances all along.Homer: He's about to learn the most important lesson in the music business: don't trust people in the music business. - Tiny Toon Adventures, of all shows, pulled this off with Plucky Duck. With Acme Looniversity due to play its hated rival, Perfecto Prep, in the championship game, Plucky seems to betray his Looniversity friends and begin giving Perfecto Prep inside knowledge of the Looniversity's game plan, up to and including a copy of their playbook. On game day, Plucky gives Perfecto Prep advance knowledge of the plays the Looniversity plans to use...and the Prep students suffer a humiliating defeat, with the final play not only being completely different from Plucky's signal, but with Plucky himself scoring the game-winning touchdown. In the end, it's revealed that Plucky was made into a Fake Defector to sabotage Perfecto Prep's attempts to cheat.
- In the third episode of TaleSpin's pilot series, "Plunder & Lightning", Kit Cloudkicker pretends to betray Baloo, Molly and Rebecca in the Iron Vulture to his former mentor Don Karnage, to allow them to escape. The fake deception is so convincing and surprising that Baloo believes himself betrayed, and angrily leaves Higher For Hire with the Sea Duck to Louie's to party his cares away, until he hears Kit desperately radio for help in the fourth episode.
- Watching that scene, it seems that the only reason Karnage bought it was because Baloo himself bought it... he seemed fairly skeptical, then looked at the unfeigned rage on Baloo's face and that's what sold him on it.
- That and Kit actually went so far as to snap at Molly and make her cry.
- Both Cyborg and Robin do this in Teen Titans. Robin was less successful, as Slade has already figured out who "Red X" is.
- An episode of Cyberchase features Digit pretending to have gone bad again and being rehired by Hacker, in order to prevent Hacker from finding the secret of invincibility.
- The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers episode "Renegade Rangers" was all about this trope, with the heroes pretending to go criminal in order to get to the Black Hole Gang. MaCross (second in charge) never believed it for a second, but Daisy O'Mega, a former Bounty Hunter who went renegade herself, is taken in by the ploy (and Shane's Chick Magnet ability).
- The titular heroes in Centurions did this in two episodes, "Max Ray... Traitor" and "Cyborg Centurion". A guest star used the same ploy in "Atlantis Adventure".
- Duke from The Mighty Ducks feigned returning to a life of crime after an old member of his mob came to Earth to find out what he was stealing, and why, for Dargaunus.
- Done in an episode of Dudley Do-Right so he could infiltrate Snidely Whiplash's fur-smuggling ring. The unspeakable evil act that got him thrown out of the Mounties? Eating peas with a knife.
- The G.I. Joe two-parter "The Traitor": When Cobra learns that the Joes have developed an armor treatment that makes their vehicles impervious to their weapons, the Twins approach Dusty and offer to pay his mother's medical bills in exchange for the formula. At first, Dusty only gives them information on the Joes' strategy to stop their next attack, but as the expenses pile up, he eventually steals the formula and turns it over to them, which is followed by Duke being knocked into a coma when a "trap" he and Flint set for Dusty backfires and he's trapped on an oil rig that explodes. Dusty is convicted at court martial and given a life sentence, but Cobra attacks as he's on his way to prison and break him out. Fully indoctrinated with the bad guys, he leads two Cobra raids on chemical plants to acquire materials for their mind control gas and even helps capture an entire squadron of Joes. When Cobra Commander gives Dusty the honor of testing the mind control gas on the captured Joes, Dusty instead releases the gas into the main chamber, where it corrodes the armor-treated Cobra vehicles and Mooks, then frees the Joes and escapes. It turns out that the Joes knew the armor treatment was unstable and wanted Cobra to get it, so Duke and Dusty came up with the plan to get the formula into their hands... but nobody else knew that Dusty's defection was all an act. (Also, the chemical combination that created the mind control gas could also be turned into a compound that neutralized the armor treatment, resulting in the hilarious scenes of both tans and uniforms completely disintegrating.)
- From Young Justice the truth of Kaldur's supposed FaceHeel Turn.
- Rogue does this is Wolverine and the X-Men, but the X-Men actually don't believe her at first and lock her up when she comes to warn them about the Brotherhoods plan, until they start doing exactly what she said they would do. This is because it seemed she had done this in an earlier episode only to lure the X-Men into a trap. It's ambiguous as to whether she was pulling a Fake Defector all long, or legitimately joined the Brotherhood, only to later change her mind and claim it so the X-Men would take her back.
- A later episode of Kim Possible refers to this as a "Scenario 17", which Kim's Cousin Larry executed against Professor Dementor with remarkable skill and cunning, only because he believed it was a LARP session for his birthday.
- Detentionaire: Lee needs an in on the Down With Lee Club, so he and Cam stage a fight so Cam can gain entrance. It doesn't end up working, as RadCircles tips off the other club members about the ruse.
- The episode "Operation Beifong" from The Legend of Korra reveals that Zhu Li only pretended to betray Varrick so she could get close to Kuvira and sabotage the superweapon the Earth Empire is trying to build.
- The 1960's Secret Squirrel series episode "Not So Idle Idol" had Secret pretend to switch sides in order to locate an idol stolen by Yellow Pinkie.
- NASCAR Racers: In "Duck Out of the Way", Fastex Team's chief mechanic leaves Fastex and joins Rexcor to find out how Rexton was sabotaging Fastex cars.
Real Life
- Sicinnus: the private tutor of Themistocles' children took a message to King Xerxes at the Battle of Salamis advising him to attack. Whereupon the Persian fleet fell into an ambush.
- During the Three Kingdoms of China, this sort of trick was sometimes pulled. In 228, for example, Zhou Fang, the commander of Wu's Poyang commandery, offered to surrender the city of Huan to the Wei general Cao Xiu. The whole thing was a plot to draw Cao Xiu out and kill him, as he'd been a major thorn to the Wu empire for years. Some of Cao Xiu's colleagues realised it was most likely a trap and tried to warn the Wei Emperor, but Cao himself realised he'd been had and tried to withdraw before falling into the trap. Wu's forces still demolished his forces and he later died of his wounds, so it was a partial success.
- One of the most famous examples happened before the Battle of Chibi, where the general Huang Gai sent letters to Cao Cao offering to defect. As Cao Cao had been receiving many such letters from various officials over the past few weeks, he had no reason to be particularly suspicious of Huang Gai. However, Huang Gai's ships pulled barges full of flammable material behind them and rammed Cao Cao's fleet, which combined with unseasonal winds sent fire raging through Cao Cao's fleet. Huang Gai himself nearly died during the course of the action, but was rescued by his old friend Han Dang.
- Eric Erickson was an American-born Swedish businessman who pretended to have converted to Nazism in order to visit Germany — and scout German petroleum facilities for targeting by Allied bombers.
- This was actually a pretty common phenomenon during the Cold War... in order to diminish the effectiveness of REAL defectors, the USSR sent several false defectors to flood US intelligence agencies with conflicting stories. One famous example came during the Golystin-Nosenko controversy, which ultimately led to the CIA shifting completely away from human intelligence to signals intelligence (e.g. wiretapping, satellite photos, cryptography...)
- One reason that the Germans had such poor intelligence in World War II was that one of the finishing instructors in the spy school was actually an MI-6 plant, allowing them to pick up virtually every German spy in the first few weeks.
- Contrary to popular belief, Vince Russo was not one, but when he left for WCW he was so bad that Vince Mcmahon and others would ask if Russo was still on their payroll.
- In 1942, a German battalion housed in a Russian village needed to get into the rear of a Soviet unit. An 83 year old guy named Matvey Kuzmin volunteered to lead them there for a good sum and a hunting gun. Before they left, Matvey sent his grandson ahead to warn the Soviets. The German commander shot him once the ambush became obvious, but the 50 dead and 20 captured men (the news reported four times that, of course) were enough to make Matvey the oldest ever Hero of the Soviet Union.


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Berlin, 4th June 2012: With E3 starting tomorrow, game publisher and developer Infernum is unveiling new details about the open beta and the final release of Brick-Force. An entire arsenal of innovations awaits the players: Very soon, the game will have a shiny new appearance thanks to the browser version, two new shooter modes, interface reworks and loads of improvements to game mechanics. Editors will be able to catch a first glance at these updates throughout the week of E3.
Within the next few weeks, the sandbox shooter will switch from the limited VIP Open Beta to the final open beta phase. From that point on, the online game will be open for all players, with the official release to follow soon after. The completely redesigned interface introduces visual as well as functional changes compared to the previous version.
Furthermore, two brand new features, requested by fans of "Brick Force" will soon create a whole new thrilling game mode: For the first time, "Build and Destroy" will enable the opposing teams to place bricks as well as destroy them within the shooter environment. At the same time, both teams fight each other in a classic Team Deathmatch. The second new feature will be the "Defense" mode. Brave square heads will have to fight wave after wave of different monsters. Besides these major changes, players can also look forward to improved balancing, new and sometimes interactive brick types, new costumes, an achievement system, new items and stats.
In addition, Mac users are in for some great news. The browser version is currently in the middle of its final preparations and will be available for PC and Mac-Users with the next update. Also, the development of the mobile versions for smartphones and tablet computers is well underway.
Take a look at the first screenshots and further details on the official website www.brick-force.com.
This sandbox shooter allows players to create worlds and maps that they've always dreamed of, brick by brick. They can also share these virtual playgrounds with the community and use them as the backdrop for fast paced shooter matches against fellow players or computerized opponents. This comic style online game is built on the 'Unity 3D' engine and will be playable in web browsers. The 'sandbox' mode, in which players use simple building blocks to construct complex environments, can be played on social networks and mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Brick-Force is being developed by Korean game developer EXE Games as a co-production with Infernum. The Open Beta will start on the April 26th. The release will follow this Summer. More information can be found at www.brick-force.com.
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Hello from the Alentejo
Just a quick note to say hello and to share how incredible I feel the Alentejo region is. I've seen five really interesting and innovative bodegas whose wines all pose new flavors and exciting levels of quality. In fact, it is by far the most tourist friendly wine region I have had the pleasure of visiting so far in Iberia. However, because I will be traveling for a few more days, I wanted to at least leave you a few pictures of my trip: one is of a sunset in the Alentejo near Evora and the other has a story behind it that's a bit hard to believe.
The containers you see in the second picture are still used to produce wine in the traditional way. In fact, seven of the barrels are used for blending their highest quality wine from one of the bodegas I visited. I'll tell you which one later, but for now, I'd love for you to take a stab at the following statement. Let's see if you can fill in the blanks:
It takes ___ men, ____ days to ferment the wine in these clay tanks and then to clean them out. They are also cooled during the fermentation to a safe temperature by ____________ them.
Post a comment or send a note. The wine is red and only goes through primary fermentation in these tanks. Bonus: How much does it cost in Euros to replace one? This is good information considering that these barrels are still produced even today!
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I Was Fired
If it sounds too good to be true........
1. If they offer you a bonus, get it in writing.2. If you're the first person they have hired, since taking over, RUN!3. If they keep telling you, things will get better, just hang in there, RUN!4. If they the never keep their promises of training, follow-up meetings, communication, RUN!5. If management makes excuses for others' unprofessional behavior, RUN!6. If coworkers have complete disregard for P&P and verbally say they don't care, RUN!7. If anyone says they are there to just do their job and nothing outside their tasks, RUN! Healthcare is not a solo profession.8. If your gut says get the hell out, RUN!9. If you're harassed and management makes excuses, RUN!10. If a manager witnesses harassment and walks away, RUN!11. If PCT's and LPN's openly defy your RN opinion and management won't put a stop to it, RUN! Especially, when your RN assessment of the patient and course of treatment saves a life, time and time again, RUN!12. If management thinks it's only 'fair' to have everyone rotate an after hours job, one which a PCT is qualified to do, and justifies paying an RN's to do it as 'fair.' then complains when you take OT to do what only an RN can do, RUN!13. When everyone, management, PCT's, LPN's, and other RN's think their jobs are equal to one another, RUN! People are equal, but education, licenses, diplomas, certifications will always create a ladder of authority. A Phd has authority over an RN just as an RN has authority over a PCT. Does the Dr listen to the RN and the RN listen to the PCT, yes. But I would never openly disagree with a Dr in front of a patient and a PCT shouldn't do that with a RN. It's not who's right and who's wrong, it's not about who's better, it's about professionalism, and doing what's right for the patient. 14. If you received your education from an accredited nursing school, never work for a company that will hire nurses educated from a non-accredited school. Your asking for trouble.I know I made mistakes, punching the time clock on time is not my forte. But the worst one was staying, hoping, trusting. Thinking I could continue to be the best nurse I could be and require the same commitment out of everyone else, was a huge mistake. Especially when your working with people who don't understand what it means to be professional, show confidence, admit they don't know an answer, feel they have to belittle you to make themselves feel better. In the end I was terminated by a letter sent Federal Express and never allowed to speak or defend myself. Their reasons were based on unsubstantiated accusations of misconduct, from the very same individuals who were known to have harassed me earlier in the year. As the nurse before me wrote in, tell yourself, remind yourself of all the good things you are.A. I'm a GOOD PERSON, with a good heart!B. I'm an excellent nurse and have always been an advocate for my patients and their families.C. I deserve to be treated fairly, and I am the only person who can stand up for myself.D. Hold my head high, I have been true to myself, my license, my patients. I ran into a doctor I had worked with prior to this position and gave him a synopsis of my horrible experience. When the shock of the accusations about me left his face, he said "sounds like a bad case of jealousy to me." I'm going to start my own campaign and write former co-workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, doctors, managers and ask them if they could write a letter of recommendation for me. I wish I had asked for that from them throughout my career. It always helps to have the recommendations for future employment, but its also something tangible that I can refer to anytime I doubt myself.There are good people in this world and they do outnumber the nasty ones. I'm determined this time to find a job from a company that places value in education, knowledge, common sense, humor, professionalism, and has zero tolerance for harassment, selfishness and two-faced talking.Thank you for reading.
Watch out for promotions
Like everything else that seems to good to be true, getting promoted can be a trap full of punji stakes. I was promoted from a case manager's position to that of Director of Professional Services on a Wednesday and fired from it the following Friday. While I grant that I am a job jumper, this is ridiculous! I was fired by a social worker who knew NOTHING about the field of nursing and was willing to admit it. The place is now imploding around him. I got a quick lesson in office politics, which I will admit is not anything I am either interested in nor care so to become. I will admit to having made a mistake on a visit to a patients' house, but it was nothing of even a minor nature. I guess the work ethic is out of vogue these days as ethics in general seem to be in the killing pursuit of money and power. I'll know better the next time I am offered any promotions, but doubt that will happen as I am 63 years old, white and a male.
Fired after 9 1/2 years at same facility!
It all stated many years ago when I was first out of nursing school and was made charge nuse when I was only approximately 4 months out of school. During that time we got minimimal feedback from administration and how they wanted to have things run. I concentrated on the nurses working for me, and making sure those nurses provided appropriate patient care no matter what else happened. When I changed jobs to go in the ICU at the same facility my montra remained the same.. Take care of my patients and their families as best as would could, then help the other nusrses take care of their assignments the same. I have always been oriented about what was best for the patient and the patient family. Not necessarily if it was the perfect administrative way to handle it. I even went to work with school based nursing for approximately 3 years. I really enjoyed that work - one on one with the student trying to make a difference in their daily lives. I feel like I had an impact on the students there and hopefully an impact on the way they will live their lives. I decided to go back to working full-time in the hospital setting in the ER. I had worked some relief there but decided I liked it enough to go full-time. I love how you never know what will come in the door next. It could be a GSW or a tooth ache. In between the trauma, you get really sick patients who need to be taken care of as compassionately and quickly as possible. Their family also needes a moment to try to grasp what is going on with their family member. This is where is am partly my best. Yes I can stablize a pt near the brink of death, but that doesn't mean anything unless the family can be there to be with their loved one. I had to do this last weekend - call a family in Texas and tell them their mother had a massive CVA and would not be able to recover from it. Thankfully, both brother and sister made it to the bedside before she passed away. That makes me feel good that the children were able to be with their mother at the time of their passing. That's what nursing is to me - taking care of the patients and the families. My problem evidently lied where I was too vocal and adament that a pt be moved up stairs quickly so the family and pt would be more comfortable that being in an ER. I also expected alot of my nurses to move patients efficently either toward disposition or admission. If everyone isn't working toward a common goal, it can become lost and gridlocked. Everyone has to be a team member - the doctor, nurse, resp therapist, tech, secretary, radiology, phlebotomist, house keeping, food services, etc has a job to do that helps take care of one pt. All to often there is a breakdown in one of these teams that cane affect how a pt gets cared for. That is where the Charge Nurse comes in. It is his/her duty to make sure everything runs smoothly and everyone gets the job done for the patient and the family. As a charge nurse I worked so hard to get the patients into the er and get them back out of the er as quickly as possible. Find out want was wrong with them along with the other team members, develop treatment plan, and either admit the pt to the hospital or send the pt home with the proper advice and follow up. It has been said that not all nurses appreciate what I am trying to do in moving pts as quickly as possible. They complain that they don't want their rooms filled up with pts again, that they haven't had their smoke break, etc. The floors complain that the patients come upstairs too soon even though the patient has been waiting in the ER on a stretcher for 12-15 hours waiting for their room to get cleaned. I think if you know that a patient is coming to a room you should be ready whether it comes in 5 mintues or 5 hours. Ambulance drivers not knowing what they are bring in or the severity of what they are bring in also makes the life of a charge nurse anxiety ridden. Have they diagnosed the pt correctly and started the apporpriate treatment or have they made things worse. Did the medic bring the pt to the wrong hospital. What was the pt and family's wishes. This can call for heated exchanges between the ambulance personnel and the charge nurse. But no matter in the end the pt is the one we will take care of no matter what. I always felt my job was to #1 take care of the patients and their families, #2 make sure my staff was taken care of and was doing their jobs correctly and efficiently, #3 Be the go to person for when anyone needs advice or a skill leason, #4 was there for my staff when ever or where ever they needed me. They could always count on me to be there for them. Administration just didn't like the fact that I took care of all these people so loudly that I "shook the cages" to often. I only wanted to provided the best care to the patients, the patient families, and to support and care for my staff of doctors, nurses, techs, and secretaries to the best of my abilities. Maybe I was to vocal or took to much one at one time. I would like another chance to concentrate on patient care again. I will miss the ones I concered by extended family.
Weird Termination
Nursing appears to be a very territorial profession and sadly, many compete for the favor of our doctors. If you ever have a preceptor who takes more smoke breaks than work assignments, ask to be re-assigned (forget about hurt feelings) your livelihood is on the line.When switching from one department to another; when asked, be carefull how you portray the old department.
terminated, without due process
I have a 33 year career history, with no prior negative apsects (always 4+ on evaluations, never written up) and in the course of the last year, I have been written up, had something called a "last chance agreement", which I was forced to sign while under duress, followed by numerous "investigations" which were unfounded by managments investigation, but never apologized for; suspended, and then terminated; without due process permitted (the suspension/termination: " was, is this you ?; you did this on this date ?; you're suspended pending further investigation: then terminated, without allowing me to give events from my side." My advice: Remember three things : -1.) you are a GREAT nurse. (lawyer/accountant/whatever). -2.) you are a GREAT person. -3.) you LOVE yourself. Repeat these three things 10 times upon rising each morning. Additionally, you must go forward. -find another job; whether permanent or per diem (to keep you financially afloat.)So you do not have to take a payout on your investments. -create a "plan that works best for you." And above all, I hope everyone who goes through what I did, has a supporting mate, and remembers this is not the end of the world. Look at your options, what can be done to resolve the issue amicably, so you may list the former employer, for future jobs. Good Luck to all !!
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Here's the comic I drew in 2003 that became my tattoo in 2005
<---- There is a picture of me with my tattoo, in case you were curious. I will be pretty sad if you copy this for yourself. Two new interviews are up! One is an article about webcartoonists from Campus Progress and the other is a video from my newest retailer Things From Another World.
Please check out my brand new comic!
Well, here we are, the final strip!
I've written a big long letter about my decision to end DAR and what you can expect to see from me next over here.
The entire run of DAR! plus my various other books are available through my store.
Thank you again for reading, I'm gunna go pass the fuck out now.
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Has anyone suggested that government agencies of whatever country do not, or will not, have access to the non blurred out* version (*ie license plates at people's homes etc..)?
John Battelle points this out in a recent post, and asks "how long 'til this stuff is live video?"
Many asked the same questions a few months back when Microsoft unveiled Virtual Earth Live.
Cameras aren't new, maps aren't new, the internet isn't new, nor is Google or Microsoft. So why does this feel so freshly creepy to so many?
You're welcome to share replies here if you like. Try testing out Google's new facial recognition search feature while you're at it.
Meanwhile, screw all that, here's more easter eggs.
Patrick W says,
Thong action! Link!BB reader scott lamorte sez,
Here's a google street-level view of a man unloading the Good Vibrations van, which is parked behind a "road work ahead" sign. what kind of tools does he stash in that van, anyway? Link.BB reader Matt Hamrick got caught by Google sneaking into work late.
All this talk about privacy concerns with respect to Google Street View seemed pretty academic until I noticed that the back of our Prius was captured as I was turning into the parking lot at work. From the angle the shadow casts, you can tell that I was probably sneaking into work at around 11AM. If you pan right a little bit, you can see mi amigo Aaron (the guy with the beard in the white shirt) delivering a latte to a patron at Dana Street Coffee Roasting.Nick West says,I was using a less frequently used and less visible entrance to the parking lot on a day that I got into work late. I was surprised to find documentary evidence on the web that I wasn't in my cube at 9AM.
I was cruising Google Maps' new Street View in San Francisco...and saw this billboard for competitor Microsoft's Virtual Earth. There's also a "black hole" in the same shape as the billboard right next to it -- it even obscures an edge. Maybe Google intended to delete the entire billboard for "privacy", but missed by a few feet? Link.
Using Google Maps streetview, here are the famous Golden Gate Park bison. I was in SF this weekend, and visited the bison, who are now wearing dreadlocks of winter coat that is too cool for words (but not visible in the image, sigh).robert dixon says,
Go to telegraph ave, berkeley, ca on google maps and switch on street view. The Steet View Man Icon returns to the summer of love... Link.Bill says,
I saw the Google Van last March and had my Canon S110 handy. These shots were taken from a car stopped at the light next to the van after it took a trip around the Cal State East Bay campus. At 2.1 Mpix not too hires but better than the blurry phonecam shots I've seen so far.(posted from the road in central america / xeni)
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AMORY – The Amory Police Department has arrested a trio of Monroe County residents suspected in a series of vehicle break-ins during a 24-hour period Monday.
John Earl Melton, 22; Ashley Foster Gray, 23; and Sierra Leigh Allen, 24, were each charged with three counts of burglary of a vehicle, one count of burglary of a dwelling and one count of grand larceny.
The burglaries took place during the daylight hours in one neighborhood. The suspects were apprehended at the scene of a residential burglary in that same area on Monday.
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Folder locking by other process/application...
Hi Friends,
I'm getting the "Access is Denied" exceptions while trying to create file with help of FileOutputStream in java.
Please note that,
- My application has write access to the folder,
- Target folder isn't read-only,
- There isn't a folder existing already at the target location with same name as the filename i create
Still i get this application. One thing i noted is machine restart helps me come out of this problem.
A standalone program written is able to write file at same application as well..
Please help me with your thoughts o how can i determine the process/application that is locking my target folder...Is there a way in java to determine this?
Bharath M
You can't determine which program is using the file/folder in Java.
This is not a problem with Java but with your computer. Some other program is already accessing the file when your program wants to. In Windows 7, the easiest way to determine this is to right click the file and delete it. It will says "Cannot delete, file is open in {PROGRAM NAME}."
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I agree this isn't a problem with java...but i would rather need a way to know which process is holding a lock over the file/folder...
Would Process Explorer be handy for this?
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Is your program behaving in this manner:
After restart of machine, run your program and see if it works?
If it works only for the first time and from second time onwards it starts giving the exception, then its your program which is causing the trouble.
Just try this and let us know the program behavior. If this is the case, may be I can help.
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With a little effort, you can find a support group that addresses your need — whether it's your own loneliness or your ADHD child's anxiety or learning disability. Two national ADD support and advocacy organizations, CHADD and Attention Deficit Disorder Association, sponsor regional networking and educational events. The Learning Disabilities Association of America also offers local meetings.
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