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Tropes about characters not getting what they expected. (Hope that doesn't shock you too much.)

One of the most useful emotions in a writer's toolbox and so one of the commonest in all sorts of stories.

See also Betrayal Tropes, Plot Twist, Twist Ending. Tropes in those indices will not be covered here.

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Tropes

• Big "NO!"
• Big "WHAT?!"
• Blank White Eyes
• Blue with Shock
• Color Failure
• Conveniently-Timed Attack from Behind
• Didn't See That Coming
• Dramatic Curtain Toss
• Dropping The Bombshell
• Drop What You Are Doing
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• Matchlight Danger Revelation
• My God, What Have I Done?
• No More Lies
• Oh Crap
  • Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap
  • Mass Oh Crap
• Open The Door And See All The People
• Personal Effects Reveal
• Refrigerator Ambush
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• The Picture Came With The Frame
• These Hands Have Killed
• This Cannot Be!
• Thunder Shock
• Two Rights Make A Wrong
• Unsettling Gender Reveal
• Waking Up Elsewhere
• Wham Episode
• What Have I Become?
• Why Won't You Die?
• Wild Take
• You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
• You Said You Would Let Them Go
• You're Insane!

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