...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Mysterious Informant

234 statements
44 feature instances
65 referencing feature instances

Mysterious Informant	type	FeatureClass
Mysterious Informant	label	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant	page	MysteriousInformant
Mysterious Informant	comment	A type of messenger, the mysterious informant exists to feed information to the good guys, often just enough to keep them on track to expose The Conspiracy. The information is usually fragmentary and/or in cryptic Spy Speak. They tend to meet the main character in secluded areas like parking garages or shadowy alleys, be impossible to find unless they want to be found, always wear a Conspicuous Trenchcoat, and are usually masters of the Stealth Hi/Bye, to prevent heroes from pursuing them. He also insists that I Was Never Here. In police shows, this role may be filled by a snitch. In shows involving conspiracies, the mysterious informant is usually an anonymous insider. In Speculative Fiction, this role is often filled by psychics and prophets. The Trope Maker and a major inspiration for Stock Shout-Outs is Deep Throat (decades later revealed to be W. Mark Felt, a deputy director of the FBI), the Washington Post's mysterious informant during the Watergate scandal that drove US President Richard Nixon out of office. The real-life Deep Throat, being Properly Paranoid, did in fact deliver vague, cryptic information in the dead of night in a parking garage and take other extreme precautions against being discovered. Compare and contrast Mysterious Employer: he tells the characters what to do, but provides minimal information. Examples
Mysterious Informant	fetched	2023-06-04T12:14:51Z
Mysterious Informant	parsed	2023-06-04T12:14:51Z
Mysterious Informant	processingComment	Dropped link to BuffyTheVampireSlayer: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
Mysterious Informant	processingComment	Dropped link to CoolMask: Not an Item - FEATURE
Mysterious Informant	processingComment	Dropped link to EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Not an Item - FEATURE
Mysterious Informant	processingComment	Dropped link to MysteriousInformant: Not an Item - FEATURE
Mysterious Informant	processingComment	Dropped link to ParkingGarage: Not an Item - FEATURE
Mysterious Informant	processingComment	Dropped link to TruthInTelevision: Not an Item - CAT
Mysterious Informant	processingUnknown	BuffyTheVampireSlayer
Mysterious Informant	isPartOf	DBTropes
Mysterious Informant / int_10550610	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_10550610	comment	This trope was parodied in Happy Days when Milwaukee is in the midst of a bitter garbage strike and Richie is investigating a story about it. Fonzie says he has a source, but since he wants to be anonymous, he will only appear as a silhouette on a window blind standing outside to give yes or no signs to questions. When he steps forward, Richie notes that it is obviously Al, but Fonz insists that Richie plays along. Reluctantly, he cooperates with his questions until Al forgets himself and answers a question by talking. Now with the silliness completely pointless, Richie opens the blind and the two finish their conversation normally.
Mysterious Informant / int_10550610	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_10550610	featureConfidence	1.0
Happy Days	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_10550610
Mysterious Informant / int_2297bb85	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_2297bb85	comment	Prom Wars: Someone calling herself Linda Lovelace from the girls' school repeatedly calls the Selby kids to tip them off about upcoming competition twists or Lancaster cheating. The tipster turns out to be Jen L., the member of the Girl Posse running the completion who (besides Diana) most hates the Lancaster students and wants to see them lose.
Mysterious Informant / int_2297bb85	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_2297bb85	featureConfidence	1.0
Prom Wars	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_2297bb85
Mysterious Informant / int_22f49cdf	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_22f49cdf	comment	Castle had a secret informant for the conspiracy involving Beckett's mother's murder. Instead of helping solve the case, however, his job was to tell Castle when to tell Beckett to back off an investigation, so the murder wouldn't come after her too. He was apparently killed and had his identity revealed, but showed up for one last meeting in the same mysterious manner even though he was addressed by name.
Mysterious Informant / int_22f49cdf	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_22f49cdf	featureConfidence	1.0
Castle	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_22f49cdf
Mysterious Informant / int_261c8d3f	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons parodied this in "Sideshow Bob Roberts" with a trenchcoat-wearing, cigarette-smoking Mr. Smithers. His identity was blatantly obvious from the shape of his head while standing in the shadows, even before Homer shined his car headlights on Smithers.
Mysterious Informant / int_261c8d3f	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_261c8d3f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Simpsons	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_261c8d3f
Mysterious Informant / int_2bb4ae0f	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Rebel in Heroes volume 4. But it was not that hard to guess his true identity.
Mysterious Informant / int_2bb4ae0f	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_2bb4ae0f	featureConfidence	1.0
Heroes	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_2bb4ae0f
Mysterious Informant / int_2c0b7945	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_2c0b7945	comment	In Mother of Learning, Zorian Kazinski is living through a month long time-loop and invokes this trope in order to feed information to authority figures about The Conspiracy, without drawing attention to himself. At the start of the story, he sends anonymous letters; by the end, after a decade of constant magical training, he can create disguised clones that dissolve after handing over information directly.
Mysterious Informant / int_2c0b7945	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_2c0b7945	featureConfidence	1.0
Mother of Learning	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_2c0b7945
Mysterious Informant / int_2c57b2d0	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_2c57b2d0	comment	Hidden Agenda has Captain Harris, who claims to have been with British military intelligence and have information in the form of a tape recording that shows a conspiracy high in the government.
Mysterious Informant / int_2c57b2d0	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_2c57b2d0	featureConfidence	1.0
Hidden Agenda	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_2c57b2d0
Mysterious Informant / int_2d01f8dc	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_2d01f8dc	comment	Spoofed in the Beavis and Butt-Head book "The Butt-Files". In a section parodying The X-files, Beavis and Butt-head take the roles of Scully and Mulder, and get a tip from Deep Throat. Angered, Beavis yells "Dammit, you're always pulling this crap! If you know everything, why the hell don't you just tell us so we can go home! Now it's gonna take us another 45 minutes to figure this out!" Deep Throat initially refuses, but "Scully" persuades him with a kick to the crotch.
Mysterious Informant / int_2d01f8dc	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_2d01f8dc	featureConfidence	1.0
Beavis and Butt-Head	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_2d01f8dc
Mysterious Informant / int_35fdf2ed	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_35fdf2ed	comment	Kujaku from RG Veda is one of very few people who knows what's going on with the prophecy, and the only one who helps the heroes.
Mysterious Informant / int_35fdf2ed	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_35fdf2ed	featureConfidence	1.0
RG Veda (Manga)	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_35fdf2ed
Mysterious Informant / int_3759bc72	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_3759bc72	comment	In Mega Man Reawakened, Robert hears from one in Arc 5, chapter 6. It's Darian Darhk.
Mysterious Informant / int_3759bc72	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_3759bc72	featureConfidence	1.0
Mega Man Reawakened / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_3759bc72
Mysterious Informant / int_3790ae45	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_3790ae45	comment	Inverted with Daniela in Double Homework. She gathers a lot more information about the protagonist than she gives him, and she only gives him a few tidbits to nudge him in the direction that her employer wants him to go.
Mysterious Informant / int_3790ae45	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_3790ae45	featureConfidence	1.0
Double Homework (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_3790ae45
Mysterious Informant / int_3b7abee2	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_3b7abee2	comment	The G-Man in the Half-Life series.
Mysterious Informant / int_3b7abee2	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_3b7abee2	featureConfidence	1.0
Half-Life (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_3b7abee2
Mysterious Informant / int_3e8c09b9	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Attack on Titan features a character known as "Owl" in Grisha Yeager's flashbacks. "Owl" is sending the Eldian Restoration Movement (which Grisha is the leader of) information to help them in their quest to restore the Eldia Empire to its former glory. This includes the supposedly true story of Ymir Fritz, the ancestor of the Eldians and creator of the Titans and getting Dina Fritz, the last remaining royal left on the continent (as opposed to the branch of the Fritz family that fled to Paradis Island). Grisha and Dina end up marrying and having a son named Zeke. Zeke was supposed to be Eldia's last hope, but he turned in his parents and other members of the Movement to the Marleyan military. The group are then sent to Paradis Island are are to be turned into mindless Titans. All of them are, except Grisha, who is saved by a soldier named Eren Kruger. Kruger reveals himself as "Owl" before turning into the Attack Titan and killing all the other military officials that were with him on Paradis Island. He then bequeaths the Attack Titan to Grisha and tells him to make it to Paradis Island's walled cities so that he can complete Kruger's ultimate goal of retrieving the Founding Titan. Essentially, he's responsible for setting a lot of the main events of the story in motion.
Mysterious Informant / int_3e8c09b9	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_3e8c09b9	featureConfidence	1.0
Attack on Titan (Manga)	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_3e8c09b9
Mysterious Informant / int_44e08ee8	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_44e08ee8	comment	Homicide: Life on the Street: In the "Fire" two-parter, the detectives are given tips on how to solve a series of arsons by a mysterious burglar who's face is never shown onscreen and never gives his name. They do attempt to track him down, but fail, and it's never revealed what his exact relationship to the arsonist is or why he's telling them anything.
Mysterious Informant / int_44e08ee8	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_44e08ee8	featureConfidence	1.0
Homicide: Life on the Street	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_44e08ee8
Mysterious Informant / int_468bebb0	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_468bebb0	comment	In the Discworld novel The Truth, there is a mysterious informant known only to William De Worde as Deep Bone, who provides him some key information about the alleged attempted murder at the palace.
Mysterious Informant / int_468bebb0	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_468bebb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Discworld	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_468bebb0
Mysterious Informant / int_4ce5263e	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_4ce5263e	comment	The Council Spokesman/The Informant in XCOM: Enemy Unknown and XCOM 2, who is connecting XCOM with their benefactors in the first game and is a mole within ADVENT in the 2nd.
Mysterious Informant / int_4ce5263e	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_4ce5263e	featureConfidence	1.0
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_4ce5263e
Mysterious Informant / int_4f88f22b	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_4f88f22b	comment	Those That Wake has the Librarian, who went off the grid shortly before Big Black.
Mysterious Informant / int_4f88f22b	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_4f88f22b	featureConfidence	1.0
Those That Wake	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_4f88f22b
Mysterious Informant / int_51c47bd9	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_51c47bd9	comment	In Hey Arnold! The Movie, there was a principal character who was impersonating "Deep Voice", a reference to "Deep Throat". This character also wore a trenchcoat and used a voice simulator. It was really Helga Pataki.
Mysterious Informant / int_51c47bd9	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_51c47bd9	featureConfidence	1.0
Hey Arnold! The Movie	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_51c47bd9
Mysterious Informant / int_562e8a6e	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_562e8a6e	comment	The original Max Payne gave us Alfred Woden, who supplied Max with useful data throughout the game, before revealing himself as the head of the counter-conspiracy to Project Valhalla and giving him the name of the Final Boss in the endgame.
Mysterious Informant / int_562e8a6e	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_562e8a6e	featureConfidence	1.0
Max Payne (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_562e8a6e
Mysterious Informant / int_59151283	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: Used in both Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. The mysterious informants both dub themselves "Deep Throat", although the second then says to call him Mr. X (The X-Files) because Raiden, in Fan Girl mode, made comparisons to the Shadow Moses "Deep Throat". Then subverted in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, where Snake guesses who the mysterious informant is about three sentences into the conversation:
Mysterious Informant / int_59151283	featureApplicability	-0.3
Mysterious Informant / int_59151283	featureConfidence	1.0
Metal Gear (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_59151283
Mysterious Informant / int_631805af	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_631805af	comment	Then subverted in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, where Snake guesses who the mysterious informant is about three sentences into the conversation:
Mysterious Informant / int_631805af	featureApplicability	-0.3
Mysterious Informant / int_631805af	featureConfidence	1.0
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_631805af
Mysterious Informant / int_6715932e	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_6715932e	comment	Ban in the first few chapters of Spirit Hunter: NG, where he provides information on spirits to Akira but keeps his sources a secret, and is evasive enough about his private life to even give the Yakuza a run for their money. Not so much after he joins Akira's group and slowly opens up to him about his occupation and past.
Mysterious Informant / int_6715932e	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_6715932e	featureConfidence	1.0
Spirit Hunter: NG (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_6715932e
Mysterious Informant / int_691be369	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files turned it into a cottage industry. Mulder's very first informant was Deep Throat, atoning for his deeds and helping Mulder's cause, (killed by The Men in Black in the season 1 finale); after him, there were the ex-MIB X (killed by another MIB in the season 4 pilot), Marita "SRSG" Covarrubias (infected with black oil in season 5, survived, and stopped helping Mulder), and the Well-Manicured Man (only in The Movie, killed himself with a car bomb).
Mysterious Informant / int_691be369	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_691be369	featureConfidence	1.0
The X-Files	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_691be369
Mysterious Informant / int_73d7930f	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In "Improbable Cause" Odo meets with a Cardassian who keeps his face in shadow, claiming that he's altered his appearance since they last worked together (during the Bajoran Occupation). He was meant to be a recurring character but this was dropped, with main character Garak (a Cardassian 'tailor' with a Mysterious Past) filling in for the intelligence gathering role.
Mysterious Informant / int_73d7930f	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_73d7930f	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_73d7930f
Mysterious Informant / int_746814ae	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_746814ae	comment	Arthur: In the episode "Buster the Myth-Maker", after Buster hears a supposed rumor of a pair of escaped Siberian tigers living in the nearby nature reserve, he and Arthur meet with a masked informant named Deep Float, who claims to have more information. Of course, Deep Float is Brain, whose Mom accidentally blows his cover and he made the whole thing about the tigers up just to see how people would react.
Mysterious Informant / int_746814ae	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_746814ae	featureConfidence	1.0
Arthur	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_746814ae
Mysterious Informant / int_791f9a4a	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_791f9a4a	comment	Sylia occasionally receives job offers and intelligence from one of these in Bubblegum Crisis. He spends at least half of each meeting hitting on her.
Mysterious Informant / int_791f9a4a	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_791f9a4a	featureConfidence	1.0
Bubblegum Crisis	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_791f9a4a
Mysterious Informant / int_82dd13a	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_82dd13a	comment	In Crock, the Foreign Legion would go to "The Fat Man" for information on whether their fort was in danger. The Fat Man would then insist on being called "full-figured" or agree that the fort was in danger...from termites, and try to sell them an insurance plan.
Mysterious Informant / int_82dd13a	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_82dd13a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Maltese Falcon (1941)	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_82dd13a
Mysterious Informant / int_84d455d4	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_84d455d4	comment	The Big O anime: Big Ear, Roger Smith's information source. He's always in the same bar (in the same seat, no less) and almost never looks directly at Roger, reading the newspaper as they talk. Also, it's eventually revealed that he's an android.
Mysterious Informant / int_84d455d4	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_84d455d4	featureConfidence	1.0
The Big O	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_84d455d4
Mysterious Informant / int_94cfab39	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_94cfab39	comment	All the President's Men has the original Deep Throat, Bob Woodward's government source who tells him to "follow the money."
Mysterious Informant / int_94cfab39	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_94cfab39	featureConfidence	1.0
All the President's Men	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_94cfab39
Mysterious Informant / int_9ce851a3	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_9ce851a3	comment	Malcolm in the Middle: When Hal is being indicted for his masterminding of a vast conspiracy to defraud the company he worked at, he's met by one of these at the public library who tells him that he's got six months to live and wants to die with a clean conscience. It's then neatly subverted when the informant turns up at court, testifies AGAINST Hal and says that the medical records were mixed up and he's going to be fine.
Mysterious Informant / int_9ce851a3	featureApplicability	-0.3
Mysterious Informant / int_9ce851a3	featureConfidence	1.0
Malcolm in the Middle	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_9ce851a3
Mysterious Informant / int_a0ae470	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_a0ae470	comment	Chatter Telephone from Toy Story 3 helped Woody out when things turned sour. He also has a kick-ass film noir voice.
Mysterious Informant / int_a0ae470	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_a0ae470	featureConfidence	1.0
Toy Story 3	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_a0ae470
Mysterious Informant / int_a796bde8	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_a796bde8	comment	Used in both Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. The mysterious informants both dub themselves "Deep Throat", although the second then says to call him Mr. X (The X-Files) because Raiden, in Fan Girl mode, made comparisons to the Shadow Moses "Deep Throat".
Mysterious Informant / int_a796bde8	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_a796bde8	featureConfidence	1.0
Metal Gear Solid (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_a796bde8
Mysterious Informant / int_a8729c90	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_a8729c90	comment	Used in The Fairly OddParents! special Channel Chasers when Tootie gives Timmy's parents information about her sister Vicky's evil deeds under the alias of "Deep Toot" (the name of which Timmy's dad finds hilarious).
Mysterious Informant / int_a8729c90	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_a8729c90	featureConfidence	1.0
The Fairly OddParents!	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_a8729c90
Mysterious Informant / int_aadd2d80	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_aadd2d80	comment	In Chrysalis Visits The Hague, this role is filled by Golden Dirk, a mysterious Royal Guard sergeant with direct access to the Royal Canterlot Archives. There's even a Shout-Out to Deep Throat.
Mysterious Informant / int_aadd2d80	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_aadd2d80	featureConfidence	1.0
Chrysalis Visits The Hague (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_aadd2d80
Mysterious Informant / int_b5e3fd5f	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_b5e3fd5f	comment	SSS ("Three Speed") from Madlax, the eponymous character's employer/contact who ends up selling out Madlax to Enfant under pressure. She doesn't hold a grudge at him for this.
Mysterious Informant / int_b5e3fd5f	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_b5e3fd5f	featureConfidence	1.0
Madlax	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_b5e3fd5f
Mysterious Informant / int_bd310eaa	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, Dr. Sciuridae served as this to Mr. Verres before Damien's death.
Mysterious Informant / int_bd310eaa	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_bd310eaa	featureConfidence	1.0
El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_bd310eaa
Mysterious Informant / int_c6fec0cf	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_c6fec0cf	comment	In Denpa Teki na Kanojo, Kid Detective Juu gets a phone call with only a word with a distorted voice saying park, the place where the Serial Killer would strike next. Subverted because the informant is really The Man Behind the Man trying to get Juu Lured into a Trap.
Mysterious Informant / int_c6fec0cf	featureApplicability	-0.3
Mysterious Informant / int_c6fec0cf	featureConfidence	1.0
Denpa Teki na Kanojo	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_c6fec0cf
Mysterious Informant / int_c72c2d06	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_c72c2d06	comment	Star Wars Rebels: In the first season, the Lothal Rebels have an informant referred to as "Fulcrum", whose identity is kept secret. Eventually they are revealed as former Jedi Ahsoka Tano, working as part of a larger network of Rebel cells throughout the galaxy. In Season 3, another "Fulcrum" provides the Rebels with intelligence about Imperial operations. This time, it turns out to be Agent Kallus.
Mysterious Informant / int_c72c2d06	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_c72c2d06	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Wars Rebels	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_c72c2d06
Mysterious Informant / int_d5d98e35	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_d5d98e35	comment	Police Squad! (the six-episode ABC series that later became the Naked Gun movies) also parodied this with Johnny the Shoeshine Boy, who knew everything if you had the price. After every visit by Frank Drebin, Johnny had to deal with a celebrity looking for advice or help on their special areas of expertise (Dick Clark asking about ska music, Dr. Joyce Brothers asking about psychology, and so on).
Mysterious Informant / int_d5d98e35	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_d5d98e35	featureConfidence	1.0
Police Squad!	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_d5d98e35
Mysterious Informant / int_df07d96e	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_df07d96e	comment	An episode of Lois & Clark featured a constantly coughing informant called "Sore Throat". When Perry asked him to give them more information he said "What, like 'follow the money'? I never understood that." One episode guide refers to him as "an obvious parody of Deep Throat in The X-Files".
Mysterious Informant / int_df07d96e	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_df07d96e	featureConfidence	1.0
LoisAndClark	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_df07d96e
Mysterious Informant / int_e5ad610d	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_e5ad610d	comment	The Storage Papers has 4th Trumpet, a Twitter user who claims to be a high-ranking member of Project Hydra who sometimes provides Jeremy with information. They're remarkably informative as far as this trope goes.
Mysterious Informant / int_e5ad610d	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_e5ad610d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Storage Papers (Podcast)	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_e5ad610d
Mysterious Informant / int_ea4f62db	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy has also had one, with the shadowed informant obviously being Kermit The Frog. In another episode where they had become a reality TV family and Meg was kicked out of the family for being boring, Peter and Lois met her in this fashion, complete with offering her a cigarette.
Mysterious Informant / int_ea4f62db	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_ea4f62db	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Guy	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_ea4f62db
Mysterious Informant / int_eedac02b	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_eedac02b	comment	In Durarara!!, Izaya might not be nice or helping the good guys too often, but he is mostly definitely an informant.
Mysterious Informant / int_eedac02b	featureApplicability	1.0
Mysterious Informant / int_eedac02b	featureConfidence	1.0
Durarara!!	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_eedac02b
Mysterious Informant / int_f655ed11	type	Mysterious Informant
Mysterious Informant / int_f655ed11	comment	The Mysterious Informant shows up, and is subverted, in the Frasier episode "Three Days of the Condo." A secretive figure approaches Frasier in the car garage of his apartment building and urges him to stand as a candidate against the current chair of the condo board in the upcoming election. When Frasier asks why his informant insists on remaining anonymous, the figure replies that he's redecorating his bathroom and doesn't want his bidet request to be denied. Then he gets in his car and zooms away. Later in the episode, Frasier's Mysterious Informant sends him an "anonymous" letter saying the building tenants are supporting Frasier.
Mysterious Informant / int_f655ed11	featureApplicability	-0.3
Mysterious Informant / int_f655ed11	featureConfidence	1.0
Frasier	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_f655ed11

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Mysterious Informant	processingCategory2	Characters as Device
Mysterious Informant	processingCategory2	Information Desk
My-HiME / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
The Big O / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Lois Lane (Comic Book) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Absolute Trust (Fanfic) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Black & White / Fan Fic / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Trope Pantheons (Fanfic) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
All the President's Men / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Dick / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
El Dorado / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Hidden Agenda / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Ousama Game / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
The Golden Child / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
The Pentagon Wars / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Appointment with F.E.A.R. / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Denpa Teki na Kanojo / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Joe Grey / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Kitty Norville / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Mother of Learning / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Otherland	seeAlso	Mysterious Informant
Otherland / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
The State Counsellor / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Those That Wake / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
WALL•E Forum Roleplay (Roleplay) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Fringe / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
iZombie / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Nowhere Man / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Police Squad! / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Psi Factor / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Switched at Birth / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Terriers / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
The Dropout / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
The X-Files / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
White Collar / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Brindlewood Bay (Tabletop Game) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Delta Green (Tabletop Game) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
A Hat in Time (Video Game) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Beyond Sunset (Video Game) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Blocks That Matter (Video Game) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Breath of Fire I (Video Game) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Crime O'Clock (Video Game) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Fashion Police Squad (Video Game) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Grandia II (Video Game) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Haunting Ground (Video Game) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller (Video Game) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
KGB (Video Game) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Metal Gear (Video Game) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Metal Gear Solid (Video Game) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (Video Game) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
The X-Files Game (Video Game) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Zodiac Story Of The Guardian (Video Game) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
The Reconstruction / Videogame	seeAlso	Mysterious Informant
Double Homework (Visual Novel) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Adventurers! (Webcomic) / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Clerks: The Animated Series / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Ozzy & Drix / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Toy Story 3 / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Arc Of Sacrifices / Fan Fic / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant
Burning Black / Fan Fic / int_5008a1bb	type	Mysterious Informant

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.