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** Greninja's trailer first reveals Charizard as its own character fighting against many of the veterans while showing a strange silhouette looking similar to Mewtwo (three fingers creating some energy in its hands). Then the [[SignatureMove Water Shuriken]] appears, revealing Greninja.

-->'''Narrator:''' Once upon a time, a man drew [[MickeyMouse a little mouse]] and his animated vision enchanted children of all ages. This summer, that man will ''spinning in his grave''.

* A TV spot for ''SavingSilverman'' used the same typeface as ''{{Hannibal}}'''s ads to spell out "Get rid of the fava beans. Hide the Chianti. He's coming" before cutting to Jack Black's "Beer bong for the lady?".
* One ''StarWars: [[AttackOfTheClones Episode II]]'' commercial--not a trailer, because trailers are SeriousBusiness to ''StarWars'' fans, but a simple TV commercial--seemed to start out referring to ''Film/{{Spider-Man}}'', complete with metallic webbing and the ''Film/{{Spider-Man}}'' font: "Swing into action with the summer's newest action hero!" It then cut to... Yoda, who cut a pose and did one of his little CoolOldGuy growls. Then he starts jumping and fighting Count Dooku...

* Commercials for ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}: [[VideoGame/BattlefieldBadCompany Bad Company]]'' spoofed ''VideoGame/RainbowSix'', ''GearsOfWar'', and ''Franchise/MetalGear'' franchises. Usually they led the viewer on for a few moments before switching to the more "goofy" ''Bad Company'' style.
* The Introduction trailers for both Wii Fit Trainer and Rosalina & Luma for ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros for WiiU[=/=]Nintendo3DS'' are both this.
** The first starts as what appears to be a trailer for some new Wii Fit game, before pulling out to reveal Mario, Link, and Kirby holding the pose shown on screen, where upon the Trainer gets their attention before attacking them.
** The latter starts out with Kirby flying along with with Air Ride music before coming upon Rainbow Road from VideoGame/MarioKart causing the viewer to expect an Air Ride game then an Air Ride/Mario Kart cross over... Then something shoots off a [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy Launch Star]], causing Kirby to crash. Luma splits off from the something and lands. Rosalina appears shortly after and the words "Rosalina and Luma Launch Into Battle!" appear.
** Subverted with the first trailer. It first shows the Super Smash Bros. cross in view before flashing to...a scene from ''AnimalCrossing''. The Villager (whose face isn't shown yet) is seen picking up his mail, and upon reading the letter, rushes across town, leaving the letter behind. It then reveals that the letter has a Super Smash Bros. icon on it before the trailer really kicks off. We were lead into thinking this was a trailer for ''Smash Bros.'', then for ''Animal Crossing'', then back to ''Smash Bros.'' again.
** Greninja appears like this. First it reveals Charizard as its own character fighting against many of the veterans while showing a strange silhouette looking similar to Mewto (three fingers creating some energy in its hands). Then the Water Shuriken appears.

* The Introduction trailers for both Wii Fit Trainer and Rosalina & Luma for ''VideoGameSuperSmashBros for WiiU[=/=]Nintendo3DS'' are both this.

** Zig-zagged with the first trailer. It first shows the Super Smash Bros. cross in view before flashing to...a scene from ''AnimalCrossing''. The Villager (whose face isn't shown yet) is seen picking up his mail, and upon reading the letter, rushes across town, leaving the letter behind. It then reveals that the letter has a Super Smash Bros. icon on it before the trailer really kicks off. We were lead into thinking this was a trailer for ''Smash Bros.'', then for ''Animal Crossing'', then back to ''Smash Bros.'' again.

* The Introduction trailers for both Wii Fit Trainer and Rosalina & Luma for SuperSmashBros for WiiU[=/=]Nintendo3DS are both this.

** Subverted with the first trailer. It first shows the Super Smash Bros. cross in view before flashing to...a scene from ''AnimalCrossing''. The Villager (whose face isn't shown yet) is seen picking up his mail, and upon reading the letter, rushes across town, leaving the letter behind. It then reveals that the letter has a Super Smash Bros. icon on it before the trailer really kicks off. We were lead into thinking this was a trailer for Smash Bros., then for Animal Crossing, then back to Smash Bros. again.

->''"Wait, wait, wait, stop! Is this [[LampshadeHanging another Muppet trailer parody?]]? Why don't we just show a real trailer? I mean, what are we hiding? Did we [[TrailersAlwaysLie make the movie in Swedish]] or something?"''\\
--'''Jason Segel''', ''Film/TheMuppets''

* One trailer appeared to be for the next JamesBond movie, showing 007 onscreen. Then it turned upside down and pulled back, revealing ''LooneyTunesBackInAction''.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAbsyxYZV9U This trailer]] for TheRugratsMovie, which appeared to be for a horror movie along the lines of ''{{Film/Gremlins}}'' or ''{{Poltergeist}}''.

** Subverted with the first trailer. It first shows the Super Smash Bros. cross in view before flashing to...a scene from ''AnimalCrossing''. The Villager (whose face isn't shown yet) is seen picking up his mail, and upon reading the letter, rushes across town, leaving the letter behind. It then reveals that the letter has a Super Smash Bros. icon on it before really the trailer really kicks off. We were lead into thinking this was a trailer for Smash Bros., then for Animal Crossing, then back to Smash Bros. again.

** The latter starts out with Kirby flying along with with Air Ride music before coming upon Rainbow Road from VideoGame/MarioKart causing the viewer to expect an Air Ride game then an Air Ride/Mario Kart cross over... Then something shoots off a [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy Launch Star]], causing Kirby to crash. Luma splits off from the something and lands. Rosalina appears shortly after and the words "Rosalina and Luma Launch Into Battle!" appear.

* The Introduction trailers for both Wii Fit Trainer and Rosalina & Luma for SuperSmashBros for WiiU/Nintendo3DS are both this.

* The Introduction trailers for both Wii Fit Trainer and Rosalina & Luma for SuperSmashBros [=U/3DS=] are both this.

* The Introduction trailers for both Wii Fit Trainer and Rosalina & Luma for SuperSmashBros U/3Ds are both this.

** The Latter starts out with Kirby flying along with with Air Ride music before coming upon Rainbow Road from MarioKart causing the viewer to expect an Air Ride game then an Air Ride/MarioKart cross over... Then something shoots off a lunch star, causing Kirby to crash. Luma Splits off from the something and lands. Rosalina appears shortly after and the words "Rosalina and Luma Launch into battle!" appear.

->'''Wait, wait, wait, stop! Is this [[LampshadeHanging another Muppet trailer parody?]]? Why don't we just show a real trailer? I mean, what are we hiding? Did we [[TrailersAlwaysLie make the movie in Swedish]] or something?"''\\

->'''Wait, wait, wait, stop! Is this [[LampshadeHanging another Muppet trailer parody?]]? Why don't we just show a real trailer? I mean, what are we hiding? Did we [[TrailersAlwaysLie make the movie in Swedish]] or something?"''
--> -- '''Jason Segel''', ''Film/TheMuppets''

* OlderThanTheyThink: From 1976, the trailer for ''ThePinkPanther Strikes Again'' was able to take advantage of this trope thanks to the story upping the stakes from previous installments. At first, the trailer appears to be for a straight action movie -- until the reveal that the diabolical villain is Inspector Dreyfus, and his evil plot threatening the world is motivated solely by his desire to get rid of Inspector Clouseau once and for all.

* The trailer uses actual footage from ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober''.

* In a teaser trailer for ''TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie'', it shows the Paramount logo (which the Nickelodeon movie was distributed by), then cuts to several live-action men in a submarine - making the movie look like a sea epic. But then we hear the trademark laugh, and see the silhouette on a radar-tracker...and it turns out that the "submarine" is a toy that [=SpongeBob=] is playing with in the bath.

* A trailer for the [[LiveActionAdaptation live-action]] ''{{Thunderbirds}}'' movie baited audiences with the idea of a ''[[TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] 2'' teaser by having citizens scream and shout and the sight of something big and green before cutting to a number "2" on a green background. The camera pulled back, revealing that it was the hull of Thunderbird 2.

* The trailer for MonstersUniversity is the kind of Trailer Spoof that doesn't hide the movie, but parodies a commercial for a college.

* Commercials for ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}: [[VideoGame/BattlefieldBadCompany Bad Company]]'' spoofed ''RainbowSix'', ''GearsOfWar'', and ''Franchise/MetalGear'' franchises. Usually they led the viewer on for a few moments before switching to the more "goofy" ''Bad Company'' style.

Wait, that's not what {{Batman}} looks like! It's... ScoobyDoo?!?

Congratulations. You've just been had by a TrailerSpoof.

* A trailer for the ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' LiveActionAdaptation pretended to be for a ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' movie -- until the silhouette that looked like Batman turned out to be Scooby. Supposedly, a lot of ''Batman'' fans were pissed.