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Author: SolidSamurai

Oct 13th 2011 at 7:26:42 PM

What about another example (this trope unfortunately demands long ones)?

Hero A is fighting Bad Guy M in the obligatory sword duel.  Bad Guy M withdraws, Hero A says 'Ha Coward!', but then is surprised when BGM begins laughing.  BGM says 'None have yet to survive my ultimate attack!' and then uses the secret forbidden maneuver that had originally been established to the audience that Hero A was going to use in a moment of weakness (presumably, the audience must now assume that the villain is in a moment of weakness).  The hero counters this with the power of love and the villain is seemingly destroyed.  Only then, when the hero's guard is dropped, does the villain rise up (from whatever black pit he was thrown into) and stab the hero, slaying him.

The villain laughs again, only to be engulfed by a monster from the same black pit which he rose out of.  The audience learns from the investigator supporting character that the villain had taught the Hero the forbidden maneuver in the event that he could instill dark phlebotinum on him and lure him over to the dark side.  We also learn that the villain was originally a knight sent to hell to free a captive love interest, only to fall pray to demons in hell where he was corrupted by brain spiders and turned evil.

After an intermission - the investigator ressurects Hero A from death with applied phlebotinum, only to learn that the ressurection has pulled Hero A's spirit away from hell before he could learn the invasion plans of the real big bad demon lord, thus dooming earth.

And then a character that nobody cares about wakes up, discovering it's all a dream.  And then a demon eats him in a horrifying manner.  Genre twist?!