Detective Mole/Playing With

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    Basic Trope: A detective turns out to be a bad guy.

    • Straight: Jason, a police detective investigating a murder, was working with the criminals the whole time.
    • Exaggerated: Jason was the mastermind.
    • Downplayed: Jason was an accomplice, being blackmailed into helping the murderers.
    • Justified: Jason hoped that by pretending to help, that no one would suspect him.
    • Inverted: Reverse Mole
    • Subverted: Jason pretends to be a detective to get information on the police, but he undergoes Becoming the Mask.
    • Double Subverted: But in the final moments, chooses to stay faithful to the crooks.
    • Parodied: Jason is obviously the bad guy, always giving obviously incorrect clues and leads, and intentionally distracting the investigators from any legitimate leads, but no one seems to notice.
    • Zig Zagged: ???
    • Averted: There is no bad guys investigating the crime.
    • Enforced: ???
    • Lampshaded: ???
    • Invoked: Jason worked hard to earn a badge and a good reputation as a cop just for this moment that he can commit a crime and lead the other detectives astray.
    • Exploited: ???
    • Defied: ???
    • Discussed: ???
    • Conversed: ???

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