History Main / NeverTrustaTrailer

* The preview for ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'', which shows the characters like a trailer, is quite dishonest. It says "this is [Sonichu's] adventure and nothing less", while Sonichu becomes a DecoyProtagonist after a couple of issues. Also, it mentions in passing [[BigBad Walsh]] and the [[PoliceAreEvil Jerkops]] as throaway villains who the author doesn't care about. They are the most important antagonists in thr story.

* ''Music/{{Gloryhammer}}'': The first music video released on [=YouTube=] for the album "Return to the Kingdom of Fife" was an animated one for "Keeper of the Celestial Flame of Abernethy". The animation makes it look like the beginning of the album's story (the Zargothrax clone awakening) is shortly followed by the climax of the story (the clone awakening the original), when there are apparently decades in between.

* ''Music/{{Gloryhammer}}'': The first music video released on YouTube for the album "Return to the Kingdom of Fife" was an animated one for "Keeper of the Celestial Flame of Abernethy". The animation makes it look like the beginning of the album's story (the Zargothrax clone awakening) is shortly followed by the climax of the story (the clone awakening the original), when there are apparently decades in between.

* When ''Webcomic/MyImpossibleSoulmate'' was first announced, the initial preview and premise made it look like a grounded, high school romance with a simple story of unrequited love. Once the comic officially debuted however, the author revealed other genre of the comic, an {{Isekai}} fantasy.

* More of a case of Never Trust An End-of-Episode Preview: The end of {{LetsPlay/Chuggaaconroy}}'s semifinal episode of his LetsPlay of [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Emerald]] shows a dramatic reveal of [[spoiler:[[BrickJoke Pokemaniac Steve]] wanting a rematch,]] leaving a {{Cliffhanger}} for the finale. In the finale, [[spoiler:Chugga beats Steve in under half a minute and spends most of the actual episode fighting [[BonusBoss Steven]].]]

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* Not a trailer, but a preview fragment. [[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14904662/ These 2 panels]] give the impression that the heroes of ''Swords and Sausages'' are going to wake up in bed together, naked, under the same blanket. [[http://www.tigerknight.com/ss/8-20 The full page]] reveals that Tor was only shirtless and Silver slept fully dressed -- her hair partially obscured her vest, which has the same colour as Tor's pants.

* The season 7 trailer for ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' showed both Church and Tex watching over the Red and Blue teams in Valhalla. Neither actually appears in that season. In fact, according to WordOfGod, [[spoiler:the "original" Church actually ''died'' at the end of the last season, so it seems likely Tex did as well.]] The difference here is that ''Red vs. Blue'' trailers are more like prelude episodes than actual previews. The season 7 trailer contained no footage from later episodes because it wasn't supposed to. Church and Tex seem to have been inserted into it to encourage WildMassGuessing as to what unseen role they may have had in the season.

Indeed, the creation of fake trailers to make a movie look like it's from a completely different genre has become one of the Internet's most beloved recent art forms, such as ''Film/TheShining'' as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0 family-oriented romantic comedy]], ''Film/MaryPoppins'' as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic slasher horror flick]], ''Film/{{Elf}}'' as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkwdYSn3Uws a thriller]], ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gpED0Z57RU '90s sitcom]], or the one that started it all, ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956'' as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kqqMXWEFs high school romantic comedy]].

* The solicit introducing the new post-''Comicbook/FearItself'' [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]] line-up showed the teenage version of ComicBook/TheVision from ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers''. When the book actually dropped, the cover had been altered to instead show the classic, adult Vision. Presumably, this was to hide the fact that the Teen!Vision was being killed off in ''Comicbook/TheChildrensCrusade''.

[[caption-width-right:350:[-[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsqb69huwPk The trailer]] for the second season of our ''WebVideo/EchoChamber'' webshow.-] ]]

** This ended up backfiring a bit for the initial episodes, as early trailers made it look like a fairy tale-themed ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy'' when it actually starts out as a high school-themed fantasy. The first few episodes turned out to be more gradual and comedic with little fight scenes, causing some disappointment among fans. Creator/RoosterTeeth admitted they gave a pretty poor showing with that choice a little around the time of the series debut.
** The first two trailers, "Red" and "White", don't show off the characters well. They instead focus on showing off the series' action potential. Ruby and Weiss are both much more somber than usual, which confused many fans when the series revealed them to be a GenkiGirl and AcademicAlphaBitch instead.
** They messed with the fans a little more deliberately with the trailer for Volume 2, altering scenes to disguise their true context. The most obvious is a shot of Ruby cradling Weiss's unconscious body; the trailer makes this look like a serious moment in a real battle, since they're both in their normal fighting clothes and Weiss is holding her sword. This seemingly promised fans that this volume would be DarkerAndEdgier than the first. However, this shot's counterpart in the show itself (same animation, but a different render) is played completely for laughs, because they're actually just participating in a food fight, wearing their school uniforms, and Weiss is just holding a swordfish instead of a real weapon. While Volume 2 ''did'' eventually deliver some pretty dark moments, and Weiss does get messed up pretty badly later on, it's ''Blake'' who eventually ends up cradling her, and in a completely different shot.

Indeed, the creation of fake trailers to make a movie look like it's from a completely different genre has become one of the Internet's most beloved recent art forms, such as ''Film/TheShining'' as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0 family-oriented romantic comedy]], ''Film/MaryPoppins'' as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic slasher horror flick]], ''Film/{{Elf}}'' as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkwdYSn3Uws a thriller]], ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gpED0Z57RU '90s sitcom]], or the one that started it all, ''Film/TheTenCommandments'' as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kqqMXWEFs high school romantic comedy]].

* CoversAlwaysLie: The illustration on the front of the book has nothing to do with the book itself. Some cases, it's gorier or sexier than the real thing.

* CoversAlwaysLie
** ContemptibleCover: The illustration on the front of the book is oversexualized, more violent than you'd think, or just downright ''wrong.''

* DaydreamSurprise: The greatest way for a trailer to exploit the lack of context. That scene we saw in the trailer is actually just someone's imagination, and does not count.

* When ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'' was first announced, DC billed it as Lex Luthor allying the various villains of the DCU to systematically take down the Justice Leagues & every other costume vigilante; the actual story is about Lex Luthor teaming up with any remaining heroes and villains to take down an ''alternate universe'' Justice League who have taken over Earth.

* Many fans have created fake "trailers" for movies [[InTheStyleOf that make them out to be an entirely different genre than the actual film]]. Such works have a home on the Web at [[http://www.thetrailermash.com/ The Trailer Mash]].

'''STRONG BAD:''' (dressed as ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'') Yeah, I was gonna, but when I got to Hammacher Schlammacher's, they were all sold out. I did get an awesome Shiatsu massage wine opener, though.

'''STRONG BAD:''' (dressed as ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' Yeah, I was gonna, but when I got to Hammacher Schlammacher's, they were all sold out. I did get an awesome Shiatsu massage wine opener, though.

-->'''COACH Z:''' Hey, Strong Bad! I thought you was gonna dress up as the alien this year!\\
'''STRONG BAD:''' Yeah, I was gonna, but when I got to Hammacher Schlammacher's, they were all sold out. I did get an awesome Shiatsu massage wine opener, though.

* Most of the hype for ''ComicBook/Earth2'' focused on that world's versions of the Big Three: Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. [[spoiler: [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler They're killed off in the first issue.]]]]