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Bah! Just redirect it to Dramatic Unmask. It's real trope without all confusing melodrama.
Ok, more serious now. Is it really a trope-worthy? The laconic page (A person discovers the truth behind the Masquerade.) seems to suggest that it's The Same, but More Specific of The Reveal. The description focus far too much on the hidden element itself (and being melodrama) than the act and/or effect of the discovery, IMO (in fact, it already list potential examples in the description, divided by the nature of the hidden things instead of source works, and that result in blocks of ZCE).
Edited by Kuruni
The trope page Broken Masquerade is a bit... odd. To start, it's sort of written "in character", like the writer is part of the masquerade and is delivering The Reveal to the reader. From what I've seen, that sort of thing seems to be used more in Self-Demonstrating/ pages than Main/. Maybe this is actually okay; it just struck me as a bit unusual.
The bigger issue, though, is that there isn't an example list. There's a subbullet under each main "type" of masquerade (like Tomato in the Mirror, Hidden Realm, etc) with a list of "Signature Examples" provided, but it's just a list of works with no explanation of how they fit.
Is it okay to restructure it like a typical trope page, with examples in a separate section? Broken Masquerade currently has 752 wicks, so I could probably find at least a 5-10 good examples to start off the crosswicking.
Edited by Willowleaf24