Mole in Charge/Playing With

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    Basic Trope: The Mole has taken the organization to be infiltrated.

    • Straight: Alex, having infiltrated the government, becomes the Dark Messiah.
    • Exaggerated: Alex is secretly manipulating every organization, except the one he really works for.
    • Downplayed: Alex is in charge of a small organization.
    • Justified: Alex is a Consummate Liar, he uses this to slip up to a high position.
    • Inverted: Alex the janitor is The Mole
    • Subverted: The hero brings evidence that Alex is the Mole, but it is proven wrong.
    • Double Subverted: As soon as Alex is alone, Alex says that he is glad that he was not caught.
    • Parodied: Alex is obviously a mole, but is elected anyway.
    • Deconstructed: Alex's organisation eventually finds out he's The Mole. He is executed for this.
    • Reconstructed: Instead of executing him, they use him to feed false information to their enemies.
    • Zig Zagged:
    • Averted: The leader of the organization is not The Mole. Lower members might be moles though.
    • Enforced: "Alex is supposed to be Smart, but he really isn't. Let's make him a bad guy, and make his 'stupidity' really intentional."
    • Lampshaded: "So Alex, the president is really one of the bad guys."
    • Invoked: ???
    • Exploited: ???
    • Defied: People are suspicious of Alex. They let him in, but don't let him lead until the know he is trustworthy.
    • Discussed: "Anyone here could be bad, even Alex himself."
    • Conversed: See Lampshaded, but said by someone watching the show, not one of the characters.

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