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* Double subverted in ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} and Cleopatra''. The plot is kicked off by a bet between Cleopatra and series BigBad, Julius Caesar, but for the majority of the story, the antagonists are new characters Artifis and his lackey Krukhut. However, after their schemes are foiled, Caesar sends his army to stop the Gauls from helping Cleopatra winning the bet, leading to the finale of the story being a big battle with Romans. In fact, the last appearance of Artifis and Krukhut is to interrupt the main characters (as they declare, by the names of various gods, that they will fight off Caesar) to ask, "By the way, can we go home?"

* A flaw in the later seasons of the ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' series is that the main villainess Winnowill turns out to be the one behind the machinations for ''every single plot''. Shards? Yeah, that was her, shapeshifted. Wavedancers? Yup, her again. Forevergreen? Oh look, it was her insane minion. Hidden Years? Guess who made all those mutant monsters? It gets old. In the [[CanonDiscontinuity distant future]], residual taint from her evil magics at Blue Mountain is the focus of a major subplot.

* ''ComicBook/TheFlash''

* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'': In ''ComicBook/GreenLanternRebirth'', the newly introduced Parallax Entity was directed by Sinestro.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Grendel}}'', Pope Innocent XLII, the ArcVillain of the 26th century, turns out to be Tujiro, the vampire serial killer from the 21st century arc.
* The bizarre, surreal, and hilarious -- as with everything else in the book -- reveal of the Comte de Rochefort as the ManBehindTheMan in Jason's ''The Last Musketeer''.
* ''Century: 1969'', the penultimate volume of ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', ends with the revelation that the BigBad Oliver Haddo survived his confrontation with the League by escaping to the astral plane and possessing the body of a young [[Literature/HarryPotter Thomas M. Riddle, aka Voldemort]] (the most well-known literary villain of the 21st century). Sure enough, ''Century: 2009'', the final installment, has the League facing off against Haddo inhabiting Voldemort's body.
* In ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'', the Phantom Blot sometimes does this, since he's a DiabolicalMastermind with a penchant for working from behind the scenes as either a HiddenVillain or a ManBehindTheMan. In one story, Mickey offered his services as a detective to a movie producer who seemed to be bothered by aliens. It turned out the whole thing was really a conspiracy by his various employees against him for being such a JerkAss, but the Phantom Blot was the one running the show. (He wanted to stop the making of a movie based on true events in which he had lost to Mickey.) In another, old story, the Blot was in prison, but the antagonist was an EvilGenius who Mickey suspected right away, and correctly, to be one of the Blot's subordinates. In a third story, the ''old'' villain Black Pete was acting really strangely while going out robbing things even though he was supposedly demonstrably in prison. It turned out the Blot had hypnotised both Pete and the prison warden as a RedHerring as part of a bigger plan.
* During the "Dead End Kids" arc, the ComicBook/{{Runaways}} end up in New York City in 1907. While there, they are told that the criminal underworld is supposedly run by Maneater (a sort of predecessor to the Kingpin) and the Sinners. Chase and Xavin later discover that the Sinners are actually answering to Dale and Stacey Yorkes, the parents of Chase's dead girlfriend, and enemies to the Runaways. They are understandably displeased when they find out that Gert's dead in the present day...The series also had an attempted Ultron hijack at the beginning of the second volume, but his attempt to frame Doctor Doom fails and he gets blown up by Darkhawk.
* In the ''ComicBook/SinCity'' tale ''Hell And Back'', Wallenquist was revealed as the Colonel's boss, with the Colonel's main assassin answering directly to him.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* Rastapopoulos makes a few surprise return appearances as the BigBad in a few ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'' albums (although not as many as fans seem to think).
* The ''ComicBook/TitansBeastWorld'' event is the culmination of Brother Eternity's actions in ''ComicBook/{{Titans 2023}}'', but it ends up getting hijacked by the Amanda Waller {{metaplot}}, much to his frustration.
* In ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'', Dr. Doom has pulled this '''twice''' to date: in the ''Ultimate Power'' miniseries and in ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'' vol. 3 ''. Which is weird, because he doesn't have nearly as much cred as his [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse 616]] counterpart, and except for those two instances, no one besides the Fantastic Four has dealt with him...but there you have it. The former kind of worked, the latter...[[AssPull not so much]].
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack''. A brainwashed Queen Hippolyta has led the Amazons of Themyscira to wage war on the United States! BUT WAIT! It turns out that Queen Hippolyta's attack was actually all a SecretTestOfCharacter by the goddess Athena! BUT WAIT! It turns out it was all a convoluted plot masterminded by Granny Goodness of the ComicBook/NewGods while ''disguised'' as Athena and keeping the other Greek gods imprisoned! BUT WAIT! The entire miniseries was actually a tie-in to ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'', where Granny Goodness is training hundreds of women to be female furies in connection to the Death of the New Gods! BUT WAIT! [[FourLinesAllWaiting The Death Of The New Gods/Jimmy Olsen's superpowers plotline]] from ''Countdown'' was actually all part of Darkseid's evil plan involving the Anti-Life equation, and Granny Goodness was just working for him! [[KudzuPlot WHAT.]]

* The Lockerbie Bombing was planned by al-Qaeda, but they turned out to be funded by Muammar al-Gaddafi.

* It’s been speculated not only that Hamas’s ongoing attack on Israel is funded by Iran but that Iran are being given the money to do so by Vladimir Putin, [[TheChessmaster in order to make America channel resources into supporting Israel]], thereby leaving them with less resources into defending the Ukraine, thereby enabling Putin to continue [[AssimilationPlot his attempts to annex them]] [[IfICantHaveYou with impunity]].