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Mysterious Informant
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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 |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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Rebel in Heroes volume 4. But it was not that hard to guess his true identity. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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In Mega Man Reawakened, Robert hears from one in Arc 5, chapter 6. It's Darian Darhk. | |
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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. | |
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The G-Man in the Half-Life series. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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Those That Wake has the Librarian, who went off the grid shortly before Big Black. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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: |
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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: | |
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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. | |
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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). | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. |
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All the President's Men has the original Deep Throat, Bob Woodward's government source who tells him to "follow the money." | |
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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. | |
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Chatter Telephone from Toy Story 3 helped Woody out when things turned sour. He also has a kick-ass film noir voice. | |
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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". | |
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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). | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, Dr. Sciuridae served as this to Mr. Verres before Damien's death. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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). | |
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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". | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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In Durarara!!, Izaya might not be nice or helping the good guys too often, but he is mostly definitely an informant. | |
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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. |
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