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Your major safety is he likes being entertained, so sometimes will [[Fighting for Survival|willingly subvert his bosses]] if he has his own agenda and help you -- oryou—or at least not hinder you. He'll get you into trouble, but he'll assure you afterwards he knew you could deal with it. He'll betray you, but he won't tell your enemies all they really need to know about you.

This is [[Older Than Print]] -- the—the archetypical example is the Prose Eddas depiction (which, for whatever it's worth, diverges markedly from that within the older Poetic Eddas) of the [[Norse Mythology|Norse god Loki]]. Much like the Lovable Traitor, it's a misconception to think of him simply as evil -- althoughevil—although he's not above being [[The Jester]] in the most classy way he can.

* Xellos, fan-favorite {{spoiler|demon}} and self-proclaimed trickster priest from ''[[The Slayers]]''. Always an amiable sort, Xellos will often manage to passively "betray" his allies by ''oops'', allowing them to die horribly, alternately help and hinder our heroes and merrily subvert the status quo to his own amusement and greater purpose - sometimes ''all in the course of one episode''.

** Of course, as a [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil|Mazoku]], his greater purpose is ''[[Omnicidal Maniac|nothing less than the complete and total destrucion of the universe and everything in it, himself included]]''. At least, that's the theory...

* Nagi in ''[[MaiMy-HiME]]'' (less so in ''[[Mai-Otome]]'', where he is the [[Big Bad]])

* Hoggle the grumpy dwarf in ''[[Labyrinth]]''.

* Mac from ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]''.

* Edmund Pevensie from ''[[Chronicles of Narnia]]''. Although this might be due to [http://chanatta.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/rtuk_feature_skandar_keynes_01.jpg the actor]'s enjoyable personality and [[Tall, Dark and Handsome|looks]], especially in the second movie.

* Depending on what you do in ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'', {{spoiler|Zelos}} falls within this category.

* Jill, a Wyvern Rider in the [[Fire Emblem]] series, becomes a traitor not once, but ''three times.'' First, she leaves Daein to spy on Ike in ''Path of Radiance,'' which leads to her altogether abandoning her country and joining the Crimean Army. Then, in ''Radiant Dawn'', she's fighting Crimea on Daein's side. ''Then'', it's possible to make her betray Daein and join Crimea again. Luckily, she's heroic enough (and a spectacular unit to boot) that the audience overlooks her constant flip-flopping.

** Naesala, too. In ''Path of Radiance'', he basically sells Reyson into slavery--withslavery—with the intention of later freeing him, but the heroes beat him to it. He then later {{spoiler|sneaks into Gritnea Tower disguised as a Daein soldier in order to save Leanne while the guards are occupied with fighting the heroes}}, but ''insists'' he's still not a good guy. Come ''Radiant Dawn'', and he has betrayed the Laguz Alliance yet again, once more leading to death threats from Tibarn--butTibarn—but once again, he had a perfectly good reason for his actions; {{spoiler|Kilvas was subject to a Blood Pact.}} Which, when you think about it, might explain his actions in ''Path of Radiance'' as well... ({{spoiler|His time as a villain during that game starts at Chapter 13, when the heroes first cross into Begnion, and ends in Chapter 19, the last chapter before they cross into Daein. And Oliver, the slave trader he sold Reyson to, was a Begnion senator. All of his villainous actions could conceivably be traced back to his Blood Pact with Lekain.}})

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