History Main / TheUnReveal

* ''[[Creator/DetsniyOffSkiword Profesor Layton Vs Jack The Raper]]'' does this with [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jack The Raper]] at one point, where his FaceFramedInShadow is revealed, except the characters don't recognize it.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', after you fall down a waterfall, a mysterious voice that knows your name calls out to you in the darkness, and in very slow ScrollingText says "My name is..." just before the screen whites out completely. It is only made clear much later in the True Pacifist route that [[spoiler:Frisk is flashing back to Chara/The Fallen Child's, well, fall -- since they land in the same bed of golden flowers -- and that the speaker is Asriel. The voice shows up again in the mysterious phone call Frisk gets on the elevator, during the True Pacifist ending, but it's not until the very end that Frisk and the player can make the connection.]]

* ''VideoGame/ZenoClash'': {{Subverted|Trope}}. Ghat refuses to speak of why he broke with Father-Mother, no matter how much he is prodded, with the intention seemingly being to allow the audience to draw their own conclusions, much as with the rest of the story. [[spoiler: With a minute left of the game Golem decides to tell everyone against Ghat's wishes: that Father-Mother is neither their father nor their mother.]]

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', fans demanded to know what Gamzee's title was. When he later talks about it with Dave, he's actually forgotten half of it. [[spoiler: This was later given a proper reveal as the Bard of Rage.]]
** In Act 6 Act 3, we almost get a look at [[spoiler:Calliope's Juju]]. And then [[BreakingTheFourthWall this happens]]:

* On the morning of the 1996 US presidential election, ''The New York Times'' crossword puzzle contained this clue: "Lead story in tomorrow's newspaper (!)". The remarkable feature of the puzzle is that the clue could be answered either "CLINTON ELECTED" or "BOB DOLE ELECTED" (minus the spaces), because all of the clues and answers that crossed it would work either way (e.g. "Black Halloween animal" could be either BAT or CAT for the first letter). The complete crossword is available [[http://www.xwordinfo.com/Crossword?date=11/5/1996 here]].

* Creator/SamAndMickey's "16 and Pregnant" assigns Barbie with organizing Yasmin's baby's gender reveal party, even though Barbie thinks such parties sound "archaic". Yasmin decides to pop a balloon to reveal the gender, and orders Barbie to fill it with blue confetti if she'll have a son, or pink confetti if she'll have a daughter. [[spoiler:Instead, white personalized message confetti spells out, "Who gives a f*ck?"]]

* Creator/SamAndMickey's "16 and Pregnant" assigns Barbie with organizing Yasmin's gender reveal party, even though Barbie thinks such parties sound "archaic". Yasmin decides to pop a balloon to reveal the gender, and orders Barbie to fill it with blue confetti if she'll have a son, or pink confetti if she'll have a daughter. [[spoiler:Instead, white personalized message confetti spells out, "Who gives a f*ck?"]]