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13	!!Movies/series with their own pages:
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16	* ''TheReveal/{{Saw}}''
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20	!!Individual examples:
21	* ''Film/ThirteenSins'': [[spoiler:For the last challenge, Elliot finds out his brother Michael is the second contestant and their father played the game years before, killing their mother in order to pass his 13th challenge. Elliot takes this about as well as you'd expect.]]
22	* Two in ''Film/TwoThirtySeven'':
23	** [[spoiler:Marcus raped his sister Melody.]]
24	** The one who committed suicide was [[spoiler:Kelly, who up to this point had not been a viewpoint character.]]
25	* ''Film/AbandonedMine'': All the scary, supernatural stuff the group's been encountering in the Jarvis Mine [[spoiler:is actually all an elaborate prank that Brad set up to play on his friends on Halloween Night. He even got a few of his victims in on the act over the course of the night]].
26	* ''Film/AClassicHorrorStory'': [[spoiler:Fabrizio, who was with the group of carpoolers from the beginning, is actually a high-ranking member of the mafia. He brings people to the woods and crashes their vehicles so he can make them get killed in FolkHorror-styled {{Snuff Film}}s.]]
27	* ''Film/Aftermath2021'': [[spoiler:Otto, Erin's former lover, has been living in the walls of Kevin's and Natalie's new home. He's also the one who was turning down the thermostat and moving things around the house, and is the one who killed Odi with Nerium. He's also become infatuated with Natalie, and planned to kill Kevin so that he can have her all to himself.]]
28	* In the final shot of ''Film/{{Andhadhun}}'', it is revealed that Akash [[ObfuscatingDisability is able to see again]], putting [[UnreliableNarrator his account of the events into question]].
29	* ''Film/{{Antebellum}}'': [[spoiler: This film ''doesn't'' take place in the pre-Civil War South, but in 21st-century America. The "plantation" is actually a white-supremacist theme park called Antebellum, which gives white people the chance to live out their racist fantasies with kidnapped African-Americans as its "slaves".]]
30	* ''Film/{{Apparitional}}'': Mr. Gaffney is revealed at the end of the movie to have been the doctor at Freeland State Penitentiary who tortured and maimed the patients in his experiments. He hired the "Ghost Sightings" crew because he thought they were exorcists who could remove the ghosts from the prison for him.
31	* ''Literature/AvalonHigh'': The Disney Channel movie based off of the original book changes matters around. The night that King Arthur returns, it turns out that Will's evil stepbrother Marco isn't Mordred; he had just been putting up a JerkassFacade to try protecting him. The real Mordred is the history teacher Mr. Moore. And moments after that, we find out that contrary to what ''everyone'' thought, [[spoiler:Will isn't King Arthur's reincarnation]]. ''[[spoiler:Allie is]].''
32	* In ''Film/ABeautifulMind'', the Reveal is that John Nash [[ItWasHisSled has schizophrenia]] and has been imagining all the spy work he was been doing for the government -- along with several of the other characters.
33	* ''Film/{{Bethany}}'': Dr. Brown does some digging into hospital records, and learns the truth about [[spoiler:Claire's old imaginary friend, Bethany. Bethany was actually Clare's twin sister, who was born with birth defects. As a result, Claire's mom basically hid Bethany away from the world, sewing a mask to her face and making her live in the walls of the house. Bethany's only contact with the outside world (besides being fed from a pet dish) was Claire, who didn't know about her, thinking Bethany was her imaginary friend]].
34	* Close to the end of ''Film/BigGame'', the big reveal is that Hazar is not a terrorist, but a CIA operative and it's Herbert and the vice president who have masterminded the whole attack. Notably, the characters never find out.
35	* In ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', there was never any kidnapping or ransom money at all. Bunny left to visit friends without telling anyone, and Lebowski gave Walter and The Dude a suitcase full of worthless junk, fully intending for them to screw up the "negotiations" so that he could use the fake kidnapping to cover up an embezzlement scheme (he wanted to get his hands on the money in his family's charity, since he never actually made any money of his own, and only inherited his mansion from his wealthy wife). The various other characters in the film either had nothing to do with the fake kidnapping threat, or were just trying to profit from the resultant confusion for their own ends.
36	* ''Film/BillyClub2013'': Alison takes off Billy's mask and finds Bobby's face beneath it. We then learn via {{Flashback}}s that Bobby Spooner was actually a pizza delivery guy that Billy killed earlier. After killing him, Billy took Bobby's [=ID=] and assumed his identity to find the rest of the team.
37	* ''Film/BlackWake'': Dr. Moreira finds out that the homeless guy that Detective Micaels got the book from is actually her son, and that she was abducted by an EldritchAbomination years ago and made to be its Messiah. The government asked her to help investigate the murders because they new she had some sort of connection.
38	* ''Film/TheBody2012'': [[spoiler:Álex is responsible for the death of Jaime's wife who is also Carla's mother. Carla schemed to make Álex kill Mayka and then Jaime took it on him to [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslight]] and poison Álex.]]
39	* ''Film/BreakingTheGirls'': [[spoiler:Sara]] and [[spoiler:Nina]] are actually half-sisters.
40	* ''Film/TheBurning'': Upon confronting Cropsy, flashbacks reveal that Todd was one of the campers responsible for the prank that disfigured him.
41	* ''Calvary'': [[spoiler:Jack the butcher]] is the parishioner who shows up on the beach to kill Father James, as stated in the opening scene. An interesting version of this trope because for the character it's TheUnreveal: James knew all along who it was and wasn't really interested in turning him in or stopping it.
42	* ''Film/{{Chinatown}}''. Katherine Cross is Evelyn Mulawray's sister. ''And'' [[ParentalIncest her daughter.]]
43	* ''Film/CitizenKane'': "Rosebud" [[ItWasHisSled was Kane's sled]].
44	* ''Film/{{Collateral}}'': Vincent's final target is Annie, the federal prosecutor Max had befriended earlier that night.
45	* ''Film/{{Cruella}}'':
46	** It wasn't Estella's fault that the Dalmatians attacked her mother and pushed her off a cliff. [[spoiler: They weren't really chasing after ''her'', but were called by the Baroness with a dog whistle to attack Catherine and make her murder look like an accident.]]
47	** It turns out that [[MacGuffin Estella's necklace]] [[spoiler: contains a key to a chest containing her birth certificate. It turns out [[UnpleasantParentReveal the Baroness is her biological mother]]; she wanted nothing to do with the baby and tasked her valet John with disposing of her, but he wouldn't go through with it and instead gave her to Catherine, then one of mansion's maids, to raise as her own.]]
48	* ''Film/{{Crush\|2022}}'': AJ confesses that she's King Pun, the tagger who Paige is searching for.
49	* ''Film/CruzDiablo'':
50	** Nostromus, the man living in the palace's walls, is hinted throughout the movie to be Cruz Diablo, though in some scenes he shares the room with the man. At the end of the movie it's revealed that both Nostromus and Chacho, his son, share the collective identity of Cruz Diablo.
51	** Marta threatens to reveal Diego de la Barrera is not the actual Count of Luna and that Marcela is not his daughter. Later she also reveals the Marquess Pedro de Florida and Commander Rocafuerte helped him along.
52	* All of the movies in ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' have one, in some form or another:
53	** ''Film/BatmanBegins'': Henri Ducard [[spoiler:was the leader of the League of Shadows all along; "ComicBook/RasAlGhul" is just a title passed down by leaders of the League. He's also TheManBehindTheMan to Dr. Crane and the Falcone family, and he's planning to use Crane's fear gas to drive Gotham into anarchy]].
54	** ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': Officers Wuertz and Ramirez [[spoiler:are crooked cops in ComicBook/TheJoker's employ. They were the ones responsible for Harvey and Rachel's capture]].
55	** ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'': "Miranda Tate" is actually [[spoiler:Ra's al-Ghul's daughter [[ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul Talia]], the new leader of the League of Shadows. She was the one who escaped from the Middle Eastern prison as a child, not Bane]].
56	* In ''Film/DesktopDesperadoes'', [[spoiler:Alex, the antagonist obsesses over kidnapping Pointer and utilising his abilities for nefarious criminal purposes but it's later revealed he was in fact Pointer 95, Pointer's obsolete sibling who was also intent on transferring Pointer's data from his body into his with no regard for Pointer's life]]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc1tr1cwiZs
57	* ''Film/DominickAndEugene'': [[spoiler:Nicky's ChildhoodBrainDamage wasn't caused by an accident. His father was violently beating him.]]
58	* ''Film/DontListen'': After visiting someone who apparently knows about the house Daniel was renovating, Ruth comes in and tells him and her father that [[spoiler:the house was a courthouse 300 years ago. In that time, during The Spanish Inquisition, lots of women were tried there and executed as witches. The anger of one of them remained after her death, and has haunted the house ever since]].
59	* One of the funniest ones ever comes from ''Film/DownWithLove'', when Renee Zellweger's character explains her GambitPileup in a breathless three-minute single-take [[CharacterFilibuster monologue]] which, when it's all finished, leaves Ewan [=McGregor=] with a truly priceless expression of bemused confusion on his face.
60	* ''Film/{{Evidence}}'': After an entire movie's worth of looking through and analyzing footage recovered from the scene of a mass murder to try and identify the killer, the investigators realize [[spoiler:the footage they've been watching was edited and planted by the killer specifically to throw them off and waste their time while they got away. And also there were actually two killers taking turns in the same outfit, and also those two killers were the "survivors" of the massacre, one of whom the cops had just let go.]]
61	* In ''Film/ExMachina'', Nathan recruited Caleb for his psych profile, not his computer skills. The actual Turing Test is to see whether Ava can manipulate him into helping her escape.
62	* ''Series/TheFamily'': Willa faked the DNA test which showed Ben is Adam.
63	* ''Film/FastAndFurious6'' has one in its stinger as Han's death scene from ''Tokyo Drift'', which takes place after this one, is shown again, but what's different is that you find out [[spoiler: his death wasn't an accident, [[SequelHook it was the beginning of a revenge plan against Dom's crew by Owen Shaw's older brother, Deckard]], who's played by]] ''[[spoiler: Creator/JasonStatham]]''
64	--> [[spoiler: '''Deckard Shaw''' ''(Calling Dom)'']]: You don't know me, but you're about to.
65	* ''Film/FightClub'': Tyler Durden turns out to have been the narrator's split personality all along.
66	* ''Film/FishStory'' has several, owing to its AnachronicOrder: The missing minute of the song is the lead singer breaking down and asking if this will ever be heard by anyone. The WordSaladLyrics are the result of a poor translation job on an English-language novel. The record store employee is the son of Gekirin's manager. The college student failed to save the girl, but bought her the opportunity to save them both. The champion of justice was their son, who takes back the ship from the terrorist cult. The student on board the ship is a mathematical genius who calculates the trajectory of the missiles to blow up the comet.
67	* ''Film/FishTank'': Mia breaks into Conor’s home while no one is there. While looking through his camera, she finds video footage that proves Conor is not the single man he was passing himself off as, but a married man with a family.
68	* ''Film/GhostsOfWar'': The events of the movie are happening inside a computer simulation. The soldiers aren't fighting in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, but in the Middle East against [=ISIS=]. They were supposed to have been helping protect an allied Middle Eastern family known as the Helwigs, but when [=ISIS=] showed up, the soldiers hid in the wall and did nothing but watch the family be tortured to death for helping the Americans. A grieving survivor tried to blow them up in a suicide bombing, but only severely wounded them. In her final moments, she cursed the soldiers to be haunted for the deaths they refused to prevent by being attacked inside the simulation by the ghosts of the Helwig family.
69	* ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'':
70	** "The time has come for the Cobra to rise. You will call me... '''''[[spoiler:Commander.]]"''''
71	** "It's good to be back everyone!" Then [[spoiler:he sits back down at the President's desk and whistles Zartan's "Jolly Good Fellow".]].
72	** The Doctor has a lot of these.
73	* ''Film/GrandmothersHouse'': David's grandfather is revealed at the end of the movie to actually be his biological father by way of the woman in the blue dress, his mother.
74	* Midway through ''Film/{{Gravity}}'', a character who had quite obviously very much died earlier in the movie, mysteriously comes back -- something you don't expect from what had been until then fairly realistic fiction. Dr. Stone has a long and important conversation with the character, who refuses to say how he came back. [[spoiler: Because he never did -- she's [[HelpfulHallucination imagining]] the whole conversation, you only learn after the conversation is over.]]
75	* Lesser example in ''Film/TheGrey.'' Ottway states early in the film to the memory of a woman, "you left me." A picture of them in her room shows her in a wedding dress. Ottway occasionally flashes back to her, always in a white bed. Ottway also seems to know what the body experiences during death. This all lines up toward the end of the film, when the camera pans in the flashback, showing the IV drip that Ottway's late wife is connected to.
76	* ''Film/TheGuestHouse'': Amy slept with Rachel's dad before the two met. Rachel's disgusted and breaks up with her.
77	* Three in ''Film/TheGuilty'':
78	** [[DeathOfAChild Iben and Michael's infant son Oliver was killed.]]
79	** [[OffingTheOffspring Iben, not Michael, killed Oliver.]]
80	** [[VigilanteExecution Asger killed a young man in the line of duty]] and then lied and said it was in [[KillingInSelfDefense self-defence]].
81	* ''Film/Hayride2'': Ol' Pitchfork, or rather, R.W. Rayborn, is actually Steven's great uncle. Morgan, his father, ran off with Rayborn's daughter, Steven's mother, because Rayborn was an AbusiveParent.
82	* In the French film ''Film/HeLovesMeHeLovesMeNot'' (which stars Audrey Tautou), the first half is a whimsical unrequited love story, getting a bit creepy, and then as the LoveInterest is being taken away to prison, the film rewinds and you see it from his point of view -- he's met this [[ClingyJealousGirl strange woman]] once or twice in passing and doesn't know who all the love notes are coming from. It turns out she's mentally ill with "[[StalkerWithACrush erotomania]]," and is ultimately institutionalised.
83	* ''Film/{{Hostile}}'': At the end of the film, the Reaper is on top of [[TheProtagonist Juliette]], and reaching for her face. When it puts its hand on her, it runs the tips of its fingers along her face just like Jack's mom used to do for him. This reveals to her that the Reaper she's been keeping at bay all night is Jack.
84	* ''Film/HowToBlowUpAPipeline'': Xochitl and Theo planned to take the fall all along, covering for everyone else with help from Rowan.
85	* ''Film/{{Identity}}'': [[spoiler:None of the people at the motel are real. They are only the figments of Malcolm Rivers' imagination, each of them [[SplitPersonality a separate personality of his mind]]. And the personality that's been killing off all of the others? Actually the seemingly-cute [[CreepyChild nine-year-old kid]], who we'd assumed had been killed earlier in the film]].
86	* In the film ''Film/TheIllusionist2006'', it's where it turns out that Sophie was alive all along, that [[ManipulativeBastard Eisenheim]] successfully fooled the Police Inspector, [[MoreThanMindControl causing the Prince to kill himself]], ''and'' that he got away with all of this scot-free. And Eisenheim's the ''protagonist''.
87	* Two in succession in ''Film/{{Impostor}}''. Dr. Olham's innocence is proven when Hathaway reveals that his wife has been replaced with the real biorobot sent to assassinate the chancellor. Shortly afterwards they discover the real Olham's body, as it turns out that both the Olhams had been killed and replaced with copies.
88	* ''Film/IslandOfTheFishmen'': Claude and Amanda go into Amanda's father's laboratory, and find [[spoiler:Jose in a large water tank, half-transformed into a fishman.]] Turns out, [[spoiler:all the fish people on the island are the native humans transformed into humanoid fish creatures as part of Amanda's father's goal to create a new dominant species for Earth after humans go extinct]].
89	* Not every Reveal has to be serious. In the 1982 comedy ''Jimmy the Kid'', some low-grade crooks use a crime novel about a kidnapping to plan a genuine abduction for ransom. The chosen target, a kid genius, leads them on until he can slip away with the ransom money. At the end, he reveals why he's so successful at manipulating his abductors: because he ''wrote'' the book they based their crime on.
90	* Again, lack of complete sincerity, in the movie ''Just One Of the Guys'', Terry reveals her true gender to Rick who responds with the line, ''"Where d'you get off having tits?"''
91	* ''Film/KildTV'': The crew are all trapped inside the television studio with a killer, who they need to learn the identity of. [[spoiler:Thanks to Conrad's unfinished video, it's revealed that Adel is the killer.]]
92	* ''Film/KnivesOut'': [[spoiler:Marta didn't actually give Harlan Thrombey an accidental morphine overdose. The labels on the drugs were switched by his grandson Ransom, in an attempted BatmanGambit to get Marta disqualified from inheriting Harlan's fortune, but Marta was such a skilled nurse that she inadvertedly gave him the correct medication due to instinctively knowing the weight of the vial. Furthermore, if Harlan had simply listened to Marta's insistence on calling an ambulance, he would still be alive]].
93	* In ''Film/LaPielQueHabito'' (''The Skin I Live In''), half way through it's revealed that [[spoiler: Vera is actually Vicente, the man who ended up being unfortunate enough to mistake Robert's daughter's insanity for weed buzz ''and'' stupid enough to try and have sex with her. As a part of his RoaringRampageOfRevenge he has been ''turned surgically into a woman''.]]
94	* ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter'' has several:
95	** Chloe is a DreamWalker, with skills commonly considered to be of DarkMagic.
96	** Kaulder will live only as long as Witch Queen's heart continues beating - meaning that she isn't truly dead.
97	** Kaulder's immortality isn't the Queen's curse, but her way of "storing" the immortality until she needs it for resurrection.
98	** 37th Dolan is a witch spy within Axe and Cross.
99	* ''Film/{{Laura}}'' has a twist middle. She's actually alive.
100	* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'', Gandalf the Grey is believed to be dead, having died in the previous film, and his death being recapped at the beginning of this film. Director Peter Jackson utilized various film techniques (distorted voice, blinding light covering his face) to hide that the mysterious White Wizard was actually Gandalf [[BackFromTheDead brought back]], [[NotQuiteDead alive and well]], as Gandalf the White. Although Jackson presents this in the film as a surprise, even tricking the audience to believe it may be the evil wizard Saruman, the reveal is [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil completely ruined by all of the trailers]] and TV spots for the film, which included this pivotal moment to advertise the film. And the fact that the movie was a film adaptation of a book that had been out for fifty years by that point.
101	* ''Film/{{Lycan}}'': Isabella, along with her adopted mother, are {{serial killer}}s.
102	* Several films in the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' have them, many of which (though not all) help build up the series' MythArc.
103	** ''Film/IronMan1'': Coulson's organization knows that Tony Stark is Iron Man, and they want to recruit him for a special team. And Coulson's boss? His name is ''ComicBook/NickFury''.
104	** ''Film/{{The Avengers\|2012}}'': The Other's boss -- and the true leader of the Chitauri army -- is ''ComicBook/{{Thanos}}''.
105	** ''Film/IronMan3'': "The Mandarin" is actually an actor named Trevor Slattery, hired to distract the American people from the real mastermind behind his attacks: Aldrich Killian.
106	** ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': The Tesseract and the Aether are two of the six "Infinity Stones", a powerful set of artifacts sought by Thanos.
107	** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'': S.H.I.E.L.D. was infiltrated by H.Y.D.R.A. soon after World War II, and it's been secretly ruled by them ever since. Also, the Winter Soldier is Steve's brainwashed old friend Bucky Barnes...though [[ItWasHisSled that's only a surprise if you didn't read the comics]].
108	** ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy\|2014}}'': Peter Quill is half-alien on his father's side, and Yondu's Ravagers were hired to abduct him by [[DisappearedDad his real father]].
109	** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': H.Y.D.R.A. wants Loki's scepter because it was powered by an Infinity Stone all along.
110	** ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'': Bucky was the one who murdered Howard and Maria Stark on H.Y.D.R.A.'s orders.
111	* ''Film/Masquerade2021'': [[spoiler: The plot is about ''two'' home invasions, with the second an act of revenge carried out by the victim of the first.]]
112	* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'':
113	** One of the creepiest reveals ever is when Morpheus explains the true nature of the Matrix itself. Namely, the fact that [[spoiler: it is just a simulation meant to give everybody ignorant bliss and distract them from [[CrapsackWorld the nature of the real world]]: dark and decaying, with their bodies harvested by the machines for energy...]]
114	** There's more in the sequels, [[CerebusSyndrome pulling the bleak world even bleaker]] with a dose of YouCantFightFate. [[spoiler: Neo isn't the only "One", not because it's not predetermined, but exactly the opposite: there's already five before him, and their, and now his, job is to reboot the Matrix whenever it's about to crash, picking certain people to survive and repopulate, or choose to do nothing and allow the machine to crash, killing the entire human race. This is done to give humanity a false sense of hope, because their world will always reset every now and then, including the supposedly safe zone Zion, which has similarly been rebuilt five times. Of course Neo TakesAThirdOption and does succeed.]]
115	* When the central protagonist in ''Film/{{Memento}}'' finally does...''Remember Sammy Jankis''.
116	* ''Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries'':
117	** There are not one but two major reveals in ''Film/MissionImpossible1996''-- that Phelps is alive after being presumed KIA on a mission, and later that [[spoiler:he and Claire are working together against Ethan]].
118	** ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'' starts with a very tense scene in which Ethan Hunt's wife is tied to a chair, whilst BigBad Philip Seymour Hoffman threatens to kill her. At the end of the movie [[spoiler: it's revealed that it was a woman who worked for the bad guy. She is wearing a mask of Ethan Hunt's wife's face.]] Also [[spoiler:Musgrave is the one in Davian's employ. His attempts to frame Director Brassel were intended to throw off suspicion of himself]].
119	** ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'' -- Intelligence analyst William Brandt isn't just a mere analyst; he's also a highly-trained field agent who was once tasked with guarding Ethan's wife, whom he supposedly failed to protect, which is why he is very reluctant to take up field missions again. At the end of the film, it's revealed that [[spoiler: she's alive and well; Ethan has been hiding her from his enemies for quite a while.]]
120	** ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' -- The Syndicate is actually [[spoiler: a proposed [=MI6=] black operation that was rejected by the British PM, but that the head of [=MI6=] authorized anyway. Also, the director of the CIA is not a total InspectorJavert]].
121	* ''Film/MissSloane'':
122	** [[spoiler:It turns out Sloane isn't the only person involved in political corruption speaking in the committee room.]]
123	** Also, the piece of paper Schmidt gave Sloane [[spoiler:reveals she was working for free the whole time.]]
124	** Finally, [[spoiler: Jane's been a FakeDefector; she's been working for Sloane the entire time]].
125	* Some of the films by ''Creator/MNightShyamalan'' love this trope:
126	** ''Film/TheSixthSense'': Malcolm was a ghost this whole time.
127	** ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'': Elijah was the one who caused the train accident that David was in, and claims to be the "villain" to David's "hero."
128	** ''Film/{{Signs}}'': The aliens are afraid of water, which is like acid to them, which explains why the daughter kept leaving glasses of water all over the house.
129	** ''Film/TheVillage2004'': The whole film was actually set in modern times and the elders created the village to escape all the hardships of the modern world. Oh, and the monsters in the woods? They were just the elders in costumes as a way to keep the other villagers from ever escaping and finding out the truth.
130	** ''Film/TheVisit'': The kids "grandparents" are actually escaped mental patients who killed the real grandparents and stole their identities.
131	** ''Film/{{Old}}'': The island resort is actually a conspiracy by a pharmaceutical company to use unwitting people as guinea pigs to study the lifelong effects of their drugs. The RapidAging is their way of getting to the "lifelong" part much faster.
132	* There are two big ones in ''Film/MonsoonWedding'':
133	** Aditi has been having an affair with a married man. She finally tells her groom to be before the wedding and he thanks her for her honesty. This reveal is part of what triggers them to open up and fall in love.
134	** Ria's uncle has been sexually abusing her and then moves on to her younger cousin. When she finally confronts him in front of his brother it triggers drama resulting ultimately in [[spoiler:Lalit banning his brother from his house to protect his family]].
135	* In ''Film/{{Moon}}'', neither of the two men claiming to be Sam Bell is the real deal -- they're just two clones out of countless hundreds of them that are kept stockpiled at the mining station with implanted memories so that they can be used as slave labor. Each clone is designed with a three-year lifespan (hence, Sam's three-year contract with the mining company) and each one is killed at the end of his tenure so that the next clone can be awoken. Also, that creepy HAL-esque robot with the smiley face and Kevin Spacey's voice? It's totally not evil.
136	* ''Film/MyLittleSister'': The full home movie reveals that [[spoiler:Igor's sister retaliated for a prank pulled on her by him and their father by tricking the father into splashing acid in his face. In response, Igor freed his mother (who's the crazy woman in white wandering about the woods) and killed his sister]].
137	* ''Film/MysteryOfTheWaxMuseum'': After Igor [[ObfuscatingDisability gets up from his wheelchair]] and grabs Charlotte while ranting about his Marie Antoinette, she starts hitting his face, which [[DramaticUnmask crumbles away]] to reveal that it was [[LatexPerfection a rather convincing]] wax mask and that he was the disfigured bodysnatcher seen throughout the film all along.
138	* "Take a chill pill" in ''Film/MysteryTeam''.
139	* ''Film/TheNegotiation'': Why does Tae-gu only want to negotiate with Chae-youn? [[spoiler:His sister, Hyun-ju, was in cahoots with him when she died in Chae-youn's arms, and he wants Chae-youn to realize that there was much more to her death.]]
140	* ''Film/{{Nightbooks}}'': [[spoiler:Natacha isn't the original witch; she's a former victim ("unicorn girl") who escaped, realized she'd been abandoned by her family during her time in captivity, returned to the apartment, trapped the original witch in a deep sleep and began stealing her power.]]
141	* ''Film/NightOfTheDribbler'': At the end, we find out that the Dribbler is Stan's dad. He's been removing other members of the basketball team so Stan can have a better chance of joining. He's doing it because he's a former member of the team, and it would look bad for him if his son wasn't allowed to join.
142	* ''Film/NowYouSeeMe'':
143	** This being a movie about magic tricks, there are several Reveals, mainly pertaining to said magic tricks but including the tricks of [[spoiler: Wilder's "death" and Rhodes's fake identity.]]
144	** The reveal that the Four Horsemen's heists are [[spoiler: not about money. They ended up with zero money from the heists since they gave away all their money. The real intention behind these heists is to get revenge on the people who wronged Dylan's father.]]
145	* ''Film/NowYouSeeMe2'':
146	** Walter Mabry is actually [[spoiler:the son of the first film's BigBad, Arthur Tressler, and his whole plan is an orchestrated revenge scheme on his father's behalf]].
147	** [[spoiler:Thaddeus Bradley [[GoodAllAlong isn't actually a villain]], but a senior member of the Eye, and the former partner of Rhodes's father Lionel Shrike (Bradley would use his debunker show to actually drum up publicity for Shrike's act), who, after Shrike's death, spent the years secretly assisting Rhodes in his revenge plot]].
148	* ''Film/{{Oblivion 2013}}'' : [[spoiler: The war with the Scavs never happened. Rather, the Tet kidnapped the real Jack and Victoria, cloned them a billion times and used them to KillAllHumans and TakeOverTheWorld to use as a fuel source for itself.]]
149	* ''Film/ParanormalAsylum'': Evelyn is [[spoiler:Mary Mallon's half-sister, and has been using Mary's ghost to lure men to her so she can consume their youth to stay young. Also, Mary's father used to molest her until she had her stroke, since her being unable to move took the joy out of it for him]].
150	* The big reveal that Captain Barbossa has returned to life at the end of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest''. More so, in that [[EnforcedMethodActing even the actors didn't know it would be Barbossa.]] They assumed Anamaria would be coming down the stairs, and their expressions of surprise are real ones.
151	* ''Film/{{Pitchfork}}'': The killer is [[spoiler:Ben Holister, the son of Hunter's family's psychotic neighbours]].
152	* [[ItWasHisSled One of the most famous]] is from ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'', in which the eponymous planet turns out to be [[EarthAllAlong an Earth devastated by nuclear war]]. And George Taylor, TheHero of the film, only finds this out upon seeing the ruins of the Statue of Liberty.
153	* ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' provides a retroactive reveal for ''Film/{{Alien}}'': [[spoiler:The Space-Jockey from ''Alien'' was an [[{{Precursors}} Engineer]]. Given that Engineers look nearly human, the reason for the Space-Jockey's strange elephant-like features was because it was merely his ''[[OrganicTechnology space helmet]]''. Also, the Space-Jockey's ship was a warship carrying {{Bioweapon Beast}}s that escaped and killed their creator.]]
154	* ''Film/{{Psychos}}'': Norma [[spoiler:is the daughter of a child molester, who made her play dress-up for sex roleplaying, and filmed the sessions]]. Also, [[spoiler:Norma's two friends, Sasha and [=JJ=], are [[ImaginaryEnemy Imaginary Faux Friends]] born of her father's abuse, and have been verbally abusing her into committing very atrocious acts against her father]].
155	* ''Film/TheQuiet'':
156	** Nina comes home one day to hear Dot playing the piano until [[spoiler:one of the strings breaks and Dot exclaims "Shit!," revealing that she can talk]].
157	** Dot also soon discovers [[spoiler:Nina is being raped by her dad]].
158	* ''Film/RedwoodMassacreAnnihilation'': Two.
159	** [[spoiler:Max has been bringing people to the Redwood killer so he can watch the killer murder them.]]
160	** [[spoiler:The underground base is a former experimental hospital where research on people like the Redwood killer was carried out.]]
161	* ''Film/{{Replicas}}'': William's boss, Jones, [[spoiler:knew all along that William and Ed stole the technology from Bionyne to clone William's family. He allowed it to happen because he knew it would lead to the breakthrough that Bionyne was in need of. After William is successful, Jones attempts to have the Fosters assassinated and William's research stolen.]]
162	* ''Film/ReservoirDogs'': The rat is Mr Orange.
163	* In ''Film/RobotHolocaust'', Valeria [[spoiler: turns out to be a robot.]] Jorn [[spoiler: is eaten by The Dark One, who's apparently a triffid-like thing, giving the appearance of Jorn becoming an avocado-man.]]
164	* ''Film/TheRocketeer'': Neville Sinclair is in fact a Nazi agent working to steal the McGuffin jetpack.
165	* ''Film/TheRoom2003'': Johnny, Denny, Peter, and Mark congregate at Johnny's apartment wearing tuxedos to play catch with a football. Mark is the last to arrive, and when he does, the camera zooms in tightly on his face accompanied by dramatic music on the soundtrack to reveal he has shaved his beard.
166	* Every single ''Film/{{Scream}}'' contains a scene where the masked Ghostface killer reveals his/her true identity and motives. It usually [[RewatchBonus changes the way you see the entire movie]].
167	* Parodied in ''Film/AShotInTheDark'', where it's revealed that [[spoiler: all but one supporting character introduced in the film is either a murderer or a blackmailer.]] In addition, [[spoiler: the killer of those four bystanders was Dreyfus, who was attempting to kill Clouseau, having been driven to insanity by Clouseau's incompetence. He tries to car-bomb Clouseau in the climax, but the Ballons and their staff inadvertently take it instead... Of course, [[NonFatalExplosions due to a certain franchise policy,]] it wouldn't have killed ''Clouseau'' either anyway.]]
168	* The hidden setup of ''Film/SoIMarriedAnAxeMurderer''. [[spoiler: Harriet isn't Mrs. X, her sister Rose is. Harriet has trouble maintaining serious relationships because Rose is a ClingyJealousGirl who murders all of Harriet's lovers so she can have her to herself.]]
169	* ''Film/SoylentGreen'': The main ingredient of the eponymous food.
170	* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
171	** ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'': After the hearing in San Francisco, Captain Kirk and his command crew are soon taken up to space dock in a travel pod that's taking them to their new ship. None of them know anything about the new ship, not even her name. Sulu believes they're going to be taking over the USS ''Excelsior'' and the pod does seem to be heading that way. But they continue going right past the ''Excelsior'', revealing their destination - the [[spoiler:USS ''Enterprise-A'']].
172	** ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'':
173	*** After getting toyed with HisNameIs when Kirk gets beamed away from Rura Penthe only to catch the surviving conspirator on board the ''Enterprise'', the identities of the masterminds of the conspiracy is revealed through a mind meld.
174	*** In the climax, Kirk saves the Federation president from a Klingon assassin, and Scotty kills the assassin before he can shoot anyone else. In the theatrical cut, the remaining conspirators are rounded up with no further comment on the assassin, while in the [[ReCut director's cut]], the assassin is revealed to be [[spoiler: [[DeletedRole Colonel West]] [[LatexPerfection in disguise]], making the whole point of Klingons having AlienBlood earlier in the film relevant, since the blood coming from West's body isn't Klingon blood]].
175	** ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'':
176	*** "John Harrison" is actually [[spoiler:Khan Noonien Singh, of ''[[Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed Space Seed]]'' and ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' fame]].
177	*** Admiral Marcus [[spoiler:sent the ''Enterprise'' to be destroyed, as a pretext to start a war with the Klingons]].
178	** ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'': Krall is [[spoiler: hero of The Federation Balthazar Edison, the ''human'' captain of the ''USS Franklin,'' who is NotQuiteDead.]]
179	* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
180	** The all-time most famous is "[[LukeIAmYourFather No, I am your father]]" from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', as well as the revelation that Leia is his sister in the next movie. Vader's status as Luke's father was actually a reveal to near everyone, even those involved in the production, considering only a very select few knew about it up until near the film's release. Even Creator/DavidProwse, the actor within the suit, did not know the truth. The line he spoke while filming, believing it would be the final line, was "''Obi-Wan'' killed your father." ''That'' would have been [[MindScrew pretty screwy]], too and in fact, is in a way also MetaphoricallyTrue. A sign of the pre-Internet times the movie was released in: "LukeIAmYourFather" was actually revealed first in the {{novelization}} of the movie... which was released over a month prior to the movie itself.
181	** Another major yet minor reveal in ''The Empire Strikes Back'' is the fact that Vader is merely TheDragon to [[BigBad The Emperor]], as up until that point, Vader had been built up as the BigBad of the ''Star Wars'' trilogy. It's a different story in-universe though, as the Emperor is widely known across the galaxy, and Vader is merely one of his enforcers. It was hinted beforehand, since Vader mentions the Emperor, as does Tarkin, who he takes orders from at the time, showing Vader's not the top dog.
182	** After all the speculation and hype ''Film/TheLastJedi'' reveals that Rey's parents are [[spoiler:complete nobodies. A pair of junk traders from Jakku that sold their daughter for drinking money, and have been dead for some time.]]
183	** This reveal is then completely undone by the next film, ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', where it's revealed that, in fact, Rey's father IS somebody: [[spoiler:''the son of Emperor Palpatine'', making Rey a Palpatine herself]].
184	* ''Film/Summerland2020'': Frank is Vera's son (on a side note, he's also part black as a result, though this wasn't very obvious since he passes for completely white, simply having curly hair), as Alice, Vera's former lover, learns to her shock. She'd been taking care of Frank without knowing (which it turns out Vera set up, believing in her abilities to keep her son safe).
185	* ''Film/TellNoOne'': the entire plot comes about because Margot murdered Phillipe in self-defense, and her father, knowing the BigBad would come after her and her family, not only covered it up, but [[FakingTheDead faked her death]].
186	* ''Film/TequilaSunrise'': Escalante, a Mexican cop, and Carlos, the drug dealer everyone's chasing, are one and the same.
187	* ''Film/TheTerminal'': Two-thirds of the way through the film, Viktor finally reveals the contents of the old Planters' Peanut can he carries with him constantly, about which there has been much speculation by the other characters, to Amelia at dinner. [[spoiler:It's a copy of the famous photograph "A Great Day in Harlem", showing 57 prominent jazz musicians of the time, along with the autographs of 56 of those musicians that Viktor's father collected before he died. Viktor has come to New York to get the autograph of Benny Golson, the last one.]]
188	* Similar to another mentioned entry, the advertising killed this trope for ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''. If one watches it back-to-back with the original you notice that, cleverly, it is left completely ambiguous why the T-800 has returned until the point where he rescues John Connor in the hallway.
189	* In ''Film/{{Tootsie}}'', the big reveal for [[ShowWithinAShow the fictional soap]] is when the main character - who had been masquerading as a woman to land a part on a soap opera - takes off his wig and many of his feminine touches and reveals himself to be a man during a live taping.
190	* ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'': Keyzer Soze is Verbal Kint.
191	* ''Film/AWakefieldProject'': [[spoiler:Chloe is [[SerialKiller Nathan Cross]]' ex-girlfriend and would-be seventh victim. In fact, it was her infidelity that motivated him to commit the crimes that he did in life.]]
192	* ''Film/WerewolvesWithin'': Cecily [[spoiler:is a werewolf who came to Beaverfield in hopes of finding the perfect hunting grounds. She's tried it before in other towns, but it would always end up in the papers. She's counting on the people of Beaverfield being too distrustful of each other to really look into it and figure out she's a killer]].
193	* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' has a disturbing one as the callous [[HangingJudge Judge Doom]] whose glasses often lighted up to cover his stare [[spoiler: is revealed to be the Toon who killed Eddie's brother, complete with an insanely high pitched voice and cartoonish eyes that could be best described as coming straight from a mentally disturbed animator or Hell itself.]] Eddie was likely not the only one who was terrified of this scene.
194	* ''Film/TheWholeTruth2021'': The StringyHairedGhostGirl that Putt and Pim have been seeing in the next house through the hole in the wall is their dead older sister, Pinya. They and their parents used to live with their grandparents years ago when Pim was a baby, Putt was still in his mother's womb, and their father, Krit, was alive. One day, when everyone put Pinya and Krit were out, Pinya asked Krit to play hide and seek with her. He agreed to, and she hid in the room under the stairs. Unfortunately, Krit's alcoholism made him forget all about the game and take a nap on the couch. Later, Wan saw the door under the stairs unlocked, and locked it, trapping her inside. She then apparently died from consuming the rat poison Wan stored there, and Krit [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]] by taking Phong's gun and shot himself in the head.
195	* ''Film/{{Winterskin}}'': Agnes' story of skinless men lurking in the woods is entirely made up to deter [[TheProtagonist Billy]] from leaving the house. [[spoiler:What's more, she's a SerialKiller who's M.O. is [[FlayedAlive skinning her victims]] and listening to them scream. The only skinless man seen in the movie was Billy's father.]]
196	* ''Film/{{Wishcraft}}'': Mr. Turner, the school history teacher, is the killer.
197	* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'' has two for the prices of one.
198	** Ares has been posing as Sir Patrick Morgan, not General Erich Ludendorf.
199	** Also, Wonder Woman herself is the godkiller weapon created by Zeus to destroy Ares.
200	* ''Film/TheZombieApocalypseInApartment14F'': The conflict of the film starts when Raymond, Joey, and Bradly witness what looks like hordes of zombies attacking people two floors below them. Later on, Joey takes a closer look at the footage, and sees a guy holding a boom mic in the background, revealing that it was all a shooting for a zombie movie.

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