Mole in Charge/Playing With

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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