1 | '''Basic Trope''': The least likely character to be the HiddenVillain (The BigBad, TheMole, TheManBehindTheMan) actually is. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Detective Bob finds out that [[PunnyName Carl]], the friendly car dealership owner who sold him a car earlier, is the Mafia boss he had been tracking. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Detective Bob, after investigating several crime lords and shady politicians, finds out that his wife Alice's dog, Fido, is the real DiabolicalMastermind. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Carl is an associate of the Mafia boss. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** Carl takes on a normal job, which has no connection to crime, so he would never be suspected. |
7 | ** The car dealership was a useful place to launder money. |
8 | * '''Inverted''': |
9 | ** Detective Bob suspected Carl from the start, [[ProperlyParanoid even without any reason to.]] |
10 | ** Carl is revealed to be the story's BigGood all along. |
11 | ** Bob, who has amnesia, learns that [[TomatoInTheMirror he was the Mafia boss]] himself! |
12 | * '''Subverted''': Carl the car dealership owner is a former mafia boss under the Witness Protection Program. |
13 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
14 | ** ...Who is actually a detective, investigating the true {{Man Behind the Man}}. |
15 | ** Carl supposedly proves his innocence to Bob, then it is revealed that he had been pulling the strings all along. |
16 | * '''Parodied''': Fido enjoys seeing Detective Bob not suspecting him, just because he is a dog. But it's just a ruse so he could take over the world [[UnwittingPawn once all of the suspects (who are his greatest enemies) are arrested.]] |
17 | * '''Zig Zagged''': The man did it, but wait, he was really behind TheDragon, but TheDragon was really the man behind the mastermind... |
18 | * '''Averted''': The {{Man Behind the Man}} is just one of the suspects or some other likely person, not the least likely person. |
19 | * '''Enforced''': "Hey, how about we make the boss Carl, the car dealership owner? [[AssPull The readers won't ever find out.]]” |
20 | * '''Lampshaded''': "Carl, you're the Mafia boss? How sneaky of you for adopting that ruse." |
21 | * '''Invoked''': Carl becomes a car dealership owner so he could become a Mafia boss without anybody knowing. |
22 | * '''Exploited''': Since Fido knows that no one will ever suspect him as being a serial killer, he becomes one and frame people left and right, warding detectives off the right path. |
23 | * '''Defied''': Detective Bob refuses to believe that the least likely suspect is the criminal, and Carl doesn't adopt such a silly cover job. |
24 | * '''Discussed''': "Hey, it's probably the dog who did it all, because he knew we wouldn't suspect him." "The dog? Seriously? [[YouWatchTooMuchX You've been reading too many cheap mystery thrillers lately.]]" [[GilliganCut Cut]] to a scene where Fido makes a SarcasticConfession. |
25 | * '''Conversed''': |
26 | ** "This is such a [[ClicheStorm predictable movie...]] Wait a minute! What just happened? ''Carl'' was behind it all? Why? [[{{Asspull}} It doesn't make any sense!]]" |
27 | ** "It was Carl, the car mechanic?! It's always the one you least expect. But I guess it would be less memorable the other way." |
28 | * '''Implied''': At the end of the story, after Bob nabs what looks like the mafia boss, and all seems well, we see Carl talking on the phone, saying that “the decoy was a success.” |
29 | * '''Plotted A Good Waste''': The creator knew that this nonsensical twist would upset the fans, and [[TrollingCreator deliberately included it to troll them.]] |
30 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
31 | ** Fido really was the mastermind, but because he didn't plan ahead, Fido panics and does something that incriminates him. |
32 | ** Fido realizes he simply doesn’t have the resources to pull his plan off, so it never gets off the air. |
33 | ** Carl gets arrested for tax evasion, and [[MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot the rest of his activities come out soon after.]] |
34 | * '''Reconstructed''': But since Detective Bob thinks that Fido is innocent (as he's just a dog), Fido gets to continue his EvilPlan [[KarmaHoudini scot-free.]] |
35 | * '''Played For Laughs''': It's ''[[ObviousJudas really freaking obvious]]'' that Carl is a Mafia boss putting up a ruse as a car dealership owner, but hilarity ensues when Bob ''outright refuses'' to acknowledge that, even when the evidence is ''[[ImplausibleDeniability right in front of him!]]'' |
36 | * '''Played For Drama''': Fido successfully pulls off his EvilPlan, but he wasn't CrazyPrepared enough when he's revealed to be the mastermind. His crimes gets him 260 different life sentences. |
37 | * '''Played For Horror''': Detective Bob kills the Chesapeake Piano Wire Strangler in a climactic ChaseScene and sits down alone with Carl for a brew during the epilogue, and when he looks away from Carl for a second [[CruelTwistEnding a very familiar length of piano wire suddenly comes from behind and wraps itself around his neck]]. |
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39 | Wait, the [[TheDogWasTheMastermind main page]] was behind it all? That’s impossible! |
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