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** ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]] class watches a video where a female scientist explains the concept of {{Alternate Universe}}s. She's later shown working for Kingpin, and Peter [[CasanovaWannabe tries to charm her]] for information. A ''[[ForScience creepier]]'' comment she makes prompts him to ask for her name: Olivia Octavius, a.k.a. a {{Gender Flip}}ped [[Characters/MarvelComicsOttoOctavius Doctor Octopus]].

This trick may also be used in adaptations. One of the main characters is properly introduced, looking like a CanonForeigner, absent in the original work. Later in the work (or even [[TheEndingChangesEverything in the end]]) this character reveals that he ''is'' a character from the original canon, usually pointing that that's an alternate, old, or secret name of them. Alternatively, he undergoes the character's OriginsEpisode ''during'' the series, rather than in the first episode or in a distant flashback, and then turns into the character from the original canon.

* In the ''WebAnimation/MinilifeTV'' "LOST EPISODE" special, the newly-introduced DJ DIAL-UP reveals himself to be one of the twin laptops Archie gave birth to in "How I Got Your Laptops" grown up at the end of the special.