In Hellraiser: Inferno, Detective Joseph has an ex-con snitch named Bernie running an icecream truck, whom he abuses for information on the Engineer. Ironically he's assassinated by a man who turns out to be an informant himself. In The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Eddie ( Robert Mitchum) is what can only be termed an aspiring informant. Lenny's men quickly and ruthlessly turn on him, especially since some of them, including The Dragon have gone to prison based on that testimony. At the very end of the film it's revealed to be The Don himself, Lenny. In the Guy Ritchie movie Rock N Rolla, the London underworld is puzzled by he identity of an informant whose testimony has been putting away multiple well connected gangsters.Clarence Darlington in Lakeview Terrace is a small time drug dealer and Dirty Cop Abel Turner's informant.
The informant in The French Connection is portrayed more seemingly realistically than the norm described in the trope description at the top of this page, perhaps because the film is based somewhat closely on a true story. Juan Martinez in Running Scared (1986). Compare Baker Street Regular for a more sympathetic version of the trope. Informants fear prison, since they probably become a Pariah Prisoner, fearing Prison Rape or lethal violence. Not to be confused with 2009 Matt Damon film The Informant!, which is actually about a Stool Pigeon, kind of. This trope may be averted entirely if a particular crime boss or criminal empire is considered too scary to inform on. Mysterious Informant is a Sister Trope to, and The Stool Pigeon is a Sub-Trope of, The Informant. Probably there are those who will not find him lovable.Ī subtrope of Knowledge Broker and Indispensable Scoundrel. In such a case, he is likely to be a Lovable Coward as well as a Lovable Traitor. Sometimes a sort of patronizing affection is granted him. The Informant lives in a miserable fashion selling information. 
they are both prostitutes, but one is considered "high class".)
(This difference is sort of like the difference between a courtesan and a street-walker. But where a Knowledge Broker is high status and has an arbitrarily greater reputation, this character is just a stoolie. He is a low level version of the Knowledge Broker perhaps even the minion of one. He is beneath the level of more dignified, "honest" crooks. Even the cops who make use of his services hate him. This is the character in Cop Shows, Detective Dramas, and Espionage Thrillers that everyone despises.
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