History Main / TheDogWasTheMastermind

* One that's really only known in Japan is the culprit in the old mystery game [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portopia_Renzoku_Satsujin_Jiken The Portopia Serial Murder Case]] (although some may have heard about its ShoutOut in {{Haruhi-chan}}). The culprit is quite literally the one you'd least suspect, since not only is he your assistant, he's also (since the main character is an unseen HeroicMime) ''the guy executing the player's commands and speaking for the main character''. The revelation was so out of left field that the phrase "Yasu is the culprit" is something of a [[MemeticMutation minor meme]] for this sort of trope.

* One that's really only known in Japan is the culprit in the old mystery game [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portopia_Renzoku_Satsujin_Jiken The Portopia Serial Murder Case]] (although some may have heard about its ShoutOut in Haruhi-chan). The culprit is quite literally the one you'd least suspect, since not only is he your assistant, he's also (since the main character is an unseen HeroicMime) ''the guy executing the player's commands and speaking for the main character''. The revelation was so out of left field that the phrase "Yasu is the culprit" is something of a [[MemeticMutation minor meme]] for this sort of trope.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUDcSeUvkOw The dog ending]] in ''SilentHill 2''.

* In ''GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': [[MagnificentBastard The Laughing Man]]'s icon reads "I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those dumb deaf-mutes". The Laughing Man actually does this several times. Apart from his ability to hack into people's cybernetic eyes and edit himself from their vision, he appears as [[spoiler: a random forum goer the Major speaks to about the Laughing Man case]] and he spent the years in between his first "attack" and the events of the series [[spoiler: pretending to be an actual deaf-dumb mute]]. Finally in the end he chooses to live the rest of his life [[spoiler: working in a library]].

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* [[ShugoChara Shugo Chara]] has one, though it could also be considered an [[AssPull Ass Pull.]] Who was the [[ManBehindTheMan Man Behind The Man?]] [[spoiler: Hikari.]]

** Let's state that again: out of roughly 16 theories ranging from plausible to [[EpilepticTrees insane]] and everywhere in between, ''not one of them'' even came ''''close.'''

* Used/Parodied by Linkara in a "prievously" that had nothing to do with the comic.

Linkara: You! Your the secret manipulator behind everything! *pulls out a stuffed bear* BEARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

* ''TheAdventuresofDrMcNinja'' story has one such reveal in the story [[spoiler: "There Is A Raptor In My Office". It turns out everything was engineered by the Fox News weatherman. Earlier in the story, he was all puffed up to do a story about three hurricanes in the Atlantic forming a Mickey Mouse shape only to be deflated by a lead in story about velociraptor riding banditos. The entire story sprung from his efforts to keep Dr. [=McNinja's=] latest adventure under the rug so that everyone will be interested in his story.]]

* TheAdventuresofDrMcNinja story has one such reveal [[spoiler: It was the Fox News weatherman. Earlier in the story, he was all puffed up to do a story about three hurricanes in the Atlantic forming a Mickey Mouse shape only to be deflated by a lead in story about velociraptor riding banditos. His plot is to sweep Dr Mc Ninja's latest adventure under the rug so that everyone will be interested in his story.]]

* ''InspectorGadget'': While Gadget stumbles around, providing a distraction, his niece Penny and her dog Brain solve the case.

* The the original SilverAge ''[=~Spider-Man~=]'' comic book, The Big Man -- a New York crimelord and leader of the Enforcers -- was revealed to be Frederick Foswell, a browbeatened reporter at ''The Daily Bugle.''