Learn English – What do we call someone who is used by someone else to accomplish something for him

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Please can you find me a term for someone who had been used like a string puppet by some greater force or divinity to accomplish an act of vengence for them?

mediator and the likes sounds too… tame. I'd like something to make the character feel like some kind of string puppet in the hands of someone.

Thank you very much!!!

Best Answer

Consider 'Cat's paw'

a person used unwittingly or unwillingly by another to accomplish the other's own purpose.

This has its origin in the fable of the Monkey and the Cat.

In La Fontaine's telling, Bertrand the monkey persuades Raton the cat to pull chestnuts from the embers amongst which they are roasting, promising him a share. As the cat scoops them from the fire one by one, burning his paw in the process, the monkey gobbles them up. They are disturbed by a maid entering and the cat gets nothing for its pains

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