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• Straight: Alice discovers that Alex is her long lost brother despite any foreshadowing or that being informed that she even had a brother to begin with.
• Exaggerated: Alice discovers that Alex is her long lost brother AND and a descended from royalty, AND an alien, AND a clone, AND the Big Bad AND that she was Dead All Along.
• Justified: No one bothered to tell Alice because they thought that it would not be of use.
  • Alternatively, Alice never heard about a twin because she doesn't have one; Alex is mistaken.
• Inverted: Incredible amounts of foreshadowing are displayed throughout the course of the story only to not be revealed at all.
  • Aborted Arc, Missing Secret, and some types of Red Herring
• Subverted:
  Alice: "So are you really my brother?!"
  Alex: "Naaah, Just shittin with ya. Ha ha.
• Double Subverted: Alex: "But I am your father, no kidding."
• Parodied: Every time a twist is revealed with no foreshadowing, a "BUM BUM BUM" is played with Alice's reaction.
• Deconstructed: Without any evidence prior to the revelation to back his story, Alice rejects the idea out of hand and dismisses any new evidence as fabricated after the fact.
• Reconstructed: Only for a long-lost letter from their parents to arrive and confirm the story, shocking her all over again.
• Zig Zagged: Alice: "You're my father?"
  • Alex: "Nah, that's a lie. But actually, I'm your uncle!"
• Averted: Alice was told by many people that she had a brother.
• Enforced: "Hey, I have a good idea! Let's have Alex be Alice's brother!" "Aren't we a little far into the story?" "Who cares? They won't notice."
• Lampshaded: Alice: Wow, I'm surprised nobody ever told me about you!"
• Invoked: Bob withholds knowledge of Alice having a brother by any means to push her in a Heroic BSOD.
• Exploited: Bob ensures Alice learns she has an unknown brother then sends Chuck to throw her further off-balance by claiming to be said brother.
• Defied: Bob tells everyone that Alice has a brother and gives them hints to give Alice to push her in a Heroic BSOD
• Discussed: "This is... impossible. Why didn't anybody mention anything? It's like some bad story where they just toss this crap in to keep the reader on their feet!"
• Conversed: "The story was pretty good, but then in the last half hour they just pulled this major twist out of nowhere. Really ruined the story for me."