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This includes non-lethal alternatives that prevent the villain from exploiting the secret such a coma, amnesia(total or merely [[LaserGuidedAmnesia laser-guided), mental breakdown, or imprisonment(particularly if the latter renders them [[AndIMustScream unable to communicate]]).

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This includes non-lethal alternatives that prevent the villain from exploiting the secret such a coma, amnesia(total or merely [[LaserGuidedAmnesia laser-guided), laser-guided]]), mental breakdown, or imprisonment(particularly if the latter renders them [[AndIMustScream unable to communicate]]).

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This includes non-lethal alternatives that prevent the villain from exploiting the secret such a coma, amnesia, mental breakdown, or imprisonment.

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This includes non-lethal alternatives that prevent the villain from exploiting the secret such a coma, amnesia, amnesia(total or merely [[LaserGuidedAmnesia laser-guided), mental breakdown, or imprisonment.
imprisonment(particularly if the latter renders them [[AndIMustScream unable to communicate]]).
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This is when, normally in a movie or television adaptation of a superhero story, the villain discovers the hero's secret identity, but is killed in that same story/arc/episode/whatever two minutes after.

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This is when, normally in a movie or television adaptation of a superhero story, the villain discovers the hero's secret identity, identity(or hidden base or other important secret), but is killed in that same story/arc/episode/whatever two minutes after.
before they can spread the information around.
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** Inverted when Shigechi finds out that Yoshikage Kira is the serial killer responsible haunting Morioh for 15 years, leading Kira to kill him to maintain his peaceful life. However, Shigechi in his dying breathe has his Stand Harvest delivers a loose button to Josuke, allowing the heroes a clue to find Kira.
** [[spoiler:Kira would have a weaponized inversion in the form of Killer Queen's third bomb Bites the Dust, which kills anyone that finds out his identity through Hayato Kawajiri, then [[GroundhogDayLoop turns time back an hour for Hayato]] and makes sure the deaths will still happen as long as Bites the Dust is still active. It's subverted if one finds out Kira is Kosaku not from Hayato, as Josuke and Okuyasu do in the third loop]].

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** Inverted when Shigechi finds out that Yoshikage Kira is the serial killer responsible haunting Morioh for 15 years, leading Kira to kill him to maintain his peaceful life. However, Shigechi in his dying breathe breath has his Stand Harvest delivers a loose button to Josuke, allowing giving the heroes a clue to find Kira.
** [[spoiler:Kira would have eventually obtain a weaponized inversion in the form of Killer Queen's third bomb Bites the Dust, which kills anyone that finds out his identity through Hayato Kawajiri, then [[GroundhogDayLoop turns time back an hour for Hayato]] and makes sure the deaths will still happen as long as Bites the Dust is still active. It's subverted if one finds out Kira is Kosaku not from Hayato, as Josuke and Okuyasu do in the third loop]].

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