History Main / AwfulTruth

** The movie goes on to explain that Pink Diamond was ''not'' immune to PrivilegeMakesYouEvil, and had her own occasional psychotic breaks. Which she inflicted on the villain of the movie.

** [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheGoldenGuard Hunter]] finds out that not only is he the latest in a long line of of disposable clones, the ideals he dedicated his life to were a complete lie. This reveal completely breaks him, and he suffers a panic attack almost immediately after Eda pulls him and Luz out of Belos' mind.
** [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]] learns that Belos is actually Philip Wittebane and that her trip to the past gave him the tools necessary to both take over the Boiling Isles and put in motion his plans to enact genocide on the population of the Demon Realm. She appears to handle it slightly better, though she's obviously on the edge of tears as the episode ends.

* Everything that's [REDACTED] or [DATA EXPUNGED] on the Wiki/SCPFoundation is to prevent the general public from learning what they keep locked up. Most of the time, it's for the best (see Procedure 110-Montauk).

* The second episode (and the latter part of the first) of ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'', Shana explains that [[spoiler: people get eaten from existence, between the space of seconds, and it is such a regular occurrence that replacement humans are needed to keep the universe from destabilizing.]]

* In ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'' reaching Level 10 Taboo reveals the forbidden knowledge of the world: [[spoiler:It explains how humanity nearly destroyed the world in the past and are now reliant on the eternally suffering Goddess to survive. The skill system recycles souls and their energy to provide skills and XP, distorting the souls in the process. Due to centuries of incompetent management and MA generators continuing to damage the world, newly-born souls are on the verge of collapsing]].

* In ''LightNovel/WorldEndWhatDoYouDoAtTheEndOfTheWorldAreYouBusyWillYouSaveUs'' it’s eventually revealed that the [[EldritchAbomination 17 Beasts]] [[spoiler: were originally human.]] Or so we were led to believe. [[spoiler: It turns out that the Beasts were the original inhabitants of the world who were unwillingly transformed into humans and other races by the extraterrestrial Visitors. The “curse” keeping humans from reverting to their original form simply failed over time, resulting in the Beasts re emerging 500 years prior to the main story. Their anger at what the Visitors had done to their home twisted them into violent monsters with an insatiable urge to destroy all non Beast life, which they viewed as a blight on their once beautiful world.]]

* ''LightNovel/TsuyokuteNewSaga'': Many of Kail's friends from his previous timeline turn out to have had problems in their pasts that he was never aware of that painfully clash with his memories of them. [[spoiler:Zentos was responsible for assassinating the princess, Maizar is plotting to use him for his own purposes, Minagi can't handle her money and went off on her own with little experience as an assassin (which to be fair in the original timeline worked out but only due to her natural talent and a TON of luck which is lampshaded in story as irresponsible), Luctera was deathly ill for a long time with a complicated love life involving a dark elf that resulted in a child to boot, and Kail's master and Seren's mother Lelia worships the universe's Goddess of Darkness. Outside of his circle of friends King Remonas, who Kail though was an good ruler, is revealed to have caused most of the problems the human race faced diplomatically, leading up to the demon invasion.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' fanfic has it with ''{{FanFic/Alex}}'': she's the reason Marceline and Princess Bubblegum hate each other as she started their falling out.

* Played for laughs in [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Guilty Gear -REVELATOR-]] when Ky finally realizes that Sol [[spoiler: is the father Dizzy. Since Ky is now married to Dizzy, that means that Sol is now his ''father-in-law''.]]

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Dr. Marcoh refuses to tell Ed how the philosophers stones are made from using [[spoiler: [[PoweredByAForsakenChild live humans]]]].

* In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' ForWantOfANail fanfic ''FanFic/BuildYourWingsOnTheWayDown'', the price Edward paid for Al's soul was his arm and his ignorance. Ed has to live with the fact that alchemy is powered by death, alchemy's darkest abuses and the [[HumanResources resources needed]] to make a Philosopher's Stone. Ed is absolutely horrified by this and is ''burdened'' by the truth. He would have kept it a secret if it wasn't for Al pushing the subject.

** In the manga, her stepmother Natsue unleashes another one on Himeno: Himeno's late mother died because [[IllGirl her frail body]] couldn't handle the strain of pregnancy and childbirth. [[DeathByChildbirth In other words, Himeno unknowingly killed her mother.]]

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'': Dante doesn't take the revelation of [[spoiler:Trish working for Mundus all along]] rather well.
* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'': Nero is bent on taking revenge against the mysterious demon who ripped his arm. He's briefly out of words when that "demon" is actually [[spoiler:his father Vergil. After revealing this, Dante specifically points out that he wanted to keep it a secret so that Nero won't have to kill his old man. It turns out even Trish and Lady knew it as well, and the latter also tries to convince Nero that killing your father isn't something you can recover from. Fortunately, Nero thinks of an alternative option; stop the fight between Dante and Vergil so that nobody dies among them]].

** Anderton goes to see Dr. Iris Hineman, one of the people who helped develop the Pre-crime program and she reveals to him that [[spoiler:the precogs are the sole survivors of experiments to test children of neuroin addicts for precognitive abilities.]]
** Hineman also reveals that [[spoiler:the precogs sometimes see different visions from each other, called a "minority report". These discrepancies are reviewed and purged from the official record, as group precognition agreement is the foundation of the Precrime bylaws. In other words, there is a good chance that some of the people Pre-crime has put away are potentially innocent. This knowledge greatly distresses Anderton who up until he was accused of murder was a staunch supporter of Precrime.]]
** The most damning revelation is the lengths which [[spoiler:Pre-crime founder Lamar Burgess went to in order to validate and maintain the Precrime system. When Anne Lively, the mother of one of the precogs decided she wanted her daughter back, Burgess used a weakness in the precogs' visions and murdered her, while making it look like she had in fact been saved from an earlier murder attempt. When Anderton began looking into Anne's disappearance, Burgess used the Precrime system to frame him for murder, even going as far as making Anderton think his supposed predestined victim had killed Anderton's son. With his crimes exposed and Precrime revealed to be less than perfect, Burgess kills himself to avoid being incarcerated and living to see all he worked for destroyed, and the Precrime system is shut down.]]

** SCP-5000 is the corpse of a man and his diary from an alternate timeline where the Foundation suddenly went insane and tried to wipe out humanity. It is hinted that this happened because the Foundation went poking around in the depths of the human mind and discovered something horribly wrong with humanity that frightened them so much that they decided they had to kill everyone to stop it.

* ''Film/MinorityReport'': Anderton and by proxy the audience learn some dark secrets about the Pre-crime program he works for and has defended.

** Hineman also reveals that [[spoiler:the precogs sometimes see different visions from each other, called a "minority report". These discrepancies are reviewed and purged from the official record, as group precognition agreement is the foundation of the Precrime bylaws. In other words, there is a good chance that some of the people Pre-crime has put away are potentially innocent.]]
** The most damning revelation is the lengths which [[spoiler:Pre-crime founder Lamar Burgess went to in order to validate and maintain the Pre-crime system. When Anne Lively, the mother of one of the precogs decided she wanted her daughter back, Burgess used a weakness in the precogs' visions and murdered her, while making it look like she had in fact been saved from an earlier murder attempt. When Anderton began looking into Anne's disappearance, Burgess used the Pre-crime system to frame him for murder, even going as far as making Anderton think his supposed predestined victim had killed Anderton's son. With his crimes exposed and Pre-crime revealed to be less than perfect, Burgess kills himself to avoid being incarcerated and living to see all he worked for destroyed and the Pre-crime system is shut down.]]

** The most damning revelation is the lengths which [[spoiler:Pre-crime founder Lamar Burgess went to in order to validate and maintain the Pre-crime system. When Anne Lively, the mother of one of the precogs decided she wnated her daughter back, Burgess used a weakness in the precogs' visions and murdered her, while making it look like she had in fact been saved from an earlier murder attempt. When Anderton began looking into Anne's disappearance, Burgess used the Pre-crime system to frame him for murder, even going as far as making Anderton think his supposed predestined victim had killed Anderton's son. With his crimes exposed and Pre-crime revealed to be less than perfect, Burgess kills himself to avoid being incarcerated and living to see all he worked for destroyed and the Pre-crime system is shut down.]]

* While Franchise/WonderWoman uses the lasso of truth to lay the truth bare in ways that do horrify most villains she does so very carefully, when Genocide gets ahold of if it in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'' Diana knows that she intends to use it to brutally reveal truths to people that will make them kill themselves.

-->-- ''VideoGame/MOTHER3''

** ''Justice for All'':

*** [[spoiler:There was no killer. All the victims were brainwashed into committing suicide as part of Tengen's plan to brainwash the world into permanently feel nothing but hope.]]

*** It's subverted with the reveal of [[spoiler: Sakura's real suicide note]]. Monokuma ''hoped'' that telling everyone that [[spoiler: Aoi tried to get them all killed for nothing, because Sakura didn't really hate the other students]] would serve as this, but it instead serves to make everyone forgive [[spoiler: both Sakura ''and'' Aoi, the former because they realized she was on their side all along, and the latter because they realized she'd been manipulated into it and wasn't really to blame]], much to Monokuma's shock.

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** Ian [[http://www.errantstory.com/2006-12-13/598 learns]] that his sister, whom he adored, is dead at the hands of his mother, whom he hated, triggering his descent into TheMadnessPlace.
** Miyo [[http://www.errantstory.com/2007-10-05/714 learns (offstage)]] that Meji's father, for whom she has carried a torch for ''eighteen years'', wants nothing more to do with her, and as for his daughter ... well ... see under OffingTheOffspring.
** Sarine [[http://www.errantstory.com/2005-09-26/419 figures out]] that the Paedagogusi, emissaries of the ancient gods (whom Sarine still worships despite her estrangement from elven society), are completely crazy ... and worse, that [[http://www.errantstory.com/2006-05-15/510 the elves have known it all along]].
** But all of these put together, plus every other example in the strip, can't hold a candle to the entire ''universe'' of awful truths inflicted on Meji when she gets [[http://www.errantstory.com/2010-07-12/4871 Senilisized]].

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Dr. Marco refuses to tell Ed how the philosophers stones are made from using [[spoiler: [[PoweredByAForsakenChild live humans]]]].

* In Anime/{{Madlax}}, the fact that [[spoiler: a very young Margaret had to kill her BrainwashedAndCrazy father Richard when he tried to kill her after a plane crash]] is a truth so awful... that [[spoiler: she created two alternate personalities (Madlax herself and Laetitia) to escape it. And she doesn't admit it to herself until the penultimate episode of the anime.]]