Unwitting Pawn/Playing With

Basic Trope: The Hero has been tricked into accomplishing the villain's plans.

• Straight: Alice has been tricked into killing innocent people by Bob.
• Exaggerated: Alice is manipulated by every villain.
  • On the flip side, Bob manipulates every character.
  • Alice the Hero is easily tricked by Bob the Destroyer of All Good into slaying the residents of the Kingdom of Light and Alice does not suspect a thing until much later.
• Justified: Alice had no reason to think that Bob was tricking her. Alternatively, Alice is easy to fool.
• Inverted: Bob is tricked into saving innocents by Alice.
• Subverted: Alice realizes that Bob is trying to make her kill innocents, so she manages to avoid doing so.
  • At first, Alice believed that Bob had used her to kill innocents, but later on, Alice discovers that she killed the wrong people and ended up hindering Bob's plans.
• Double Subverted: Which is exactly what Bob wanted.
• Parodied: ???
• Zig Zagged: Bob tricks Alice into a lot of things, but not even Bob will know if Alice's actions will help or hurt him until later.