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* The short film "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kThvYlo2Lc Collusion]]" follows a man chased by shadowy government agents who is ultimately revealed to be a pedophile running from the cops.
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* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/the-little-lost-dragon This]] [[Wiki/SCPFoundation Foundation Tale]] seems, behind the numerous redacted segments, to be about an ordinary college student who winds up lost in some sort of alternate hell-dimension. It's only by looking at the full title and paying attention to [[CatchPhrase the last line]] that you can figure out the narrator is SCP-682, the NighInvulnerable reptilian monster that the Foundation [[AndIMustScream keeps in a tank of acid]] to stop it from killing ''[[OmnicidalManiac everything]]'' because it finds our world "disgusting."

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* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/the-little-lost-dragon This]] [[Wiki/SCPFoundation [[Website/SCPFoundation Foundation Tale]] seems, behind the numerous redacted segments, to be about an ordinary college student who winds up lost in some sort of alternate hell-dimension. It's only by looking at the full title and paying attention to [[CatchPhrase the last line]] that you can figure out the narrator is SCP-682, the NighInvulnerable reptilian monster that the Foundation [[AndIMustScream keeps in a tank of acid]] to stop it from killing ''[[OmnicidalManiac everything]]'' because it finds our world "disgusting."
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* A relatively common [[Website/FourChan greentext format]] involves the narrator talking about buying a game, then going on to describe [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential several of the more sociopathic things they do in the game]]. The last line is something along the lines of ">go home > boot up [name of game], implying he did all that stuff in real life instead of in the game.

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* A relatively common [[Website/FourChan greentext format]] involves the narrator talking about buying a game, then going on to describe [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential several of the more sociopathic things they do in the game]]. The last line is something along the lines of ">go home > boot up [name of game], game]", implying he did all that stuff in real life instead of in the game.
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* A relatively common [[FourChan greentext format]] involves the narrator talking about buying a game, then going on to describe [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential several of the more sociopathic things they do in the game]]. The last line is something along the lines of ">go home > boot up [name of game], implying he did all that stuff in real life instead of in the game.

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* A relatively common [[FourChan [[Website/FourChan greentext format]] involves the narrator talking about buying a game, then going on to describe [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential several of the more sociopathic things they do in the game]]. The last line is something along the lines of ">go home > boot up [name of game], implying he did all that stuff in real life instead of in the game.
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* A relatively common [[FourChan greentext format]] involves the narrator talking about buying a game, then going on to describe [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential several of the more sociopathic things they do in the game]]. The last line is something along the lines of ">go home > boot up [name of game], implying he did all that stuff in real life instead of in the game.
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* Website/{{Reddit}} produced a few short stories like this that looked like normal posts or comments until they turned out to be from the viewpoint of a famous fictional character. Examples include [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo a young man]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/97jht/i_hate_my_job/ complaining about his coworkers]] and [[Franchise/StarWars another young man]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/alae8/warning_potentially_disturbing_question_sexy/c0i6kuh/ responding to a question about uncomfortably sexy relatives]]. A similar story ([[http://www.dorkly.com/post/67492/an-epic-tale-of-friendzoning-told-in-10-tweets compiled]] on the website Dorkly) appeared in the form of a Website/{{Twitter}} thread about an unrequited crush on a friend.

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* Website/{{Reddit}} produced a few short stories like this that looked like normal posts or comments until they turned out to be from the viewpoint of a famous fictional character. Examples include [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo a young man]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/97jht/i_hate_my_job/ complaining about his coworkers]] and [[Franchise/StarWars another young man]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/alae8/warning_potentially_disturbing_question_sexy/c0i6kuh/ responding to a question about uncomfortably sexy relatives]]. A similar story ([[http://www.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20151213001056/http://www.dorkly.com/post/67492/an-epic-tale-of-friendzoning-told-in-10-tweets compiled]] on the website Dorkly) Dorkly]] appeared in the form of a Website/{{Twitter}} thread about an unrequited crush on a friend.
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* The parody {{creepypasta}} "[[http://www.creepypasta.com/day-of-all-the-blood/ DAY OF ALL THE BLOOD]]" wherein it is revealed that the man that all the blood was coming from [[spoiler:WAS YOU!!! (OR HE WAS A LADY IF YOU ARE A LADY) AND YOU FORGOT THAT THIS HAPPENED]]
* The comic, [[http://i.imgur.com/3DdGA.jpg "Product"]] follows a human grown in a test tube in a post-nuclear war world and the realization of what his purpose is. Who is he? [[spoiler:The Kool-Aid Man]].
* A lot of creepypasta stories have tried to pull this off, of course, but arguably one of the most well-known and effective is the story [[http://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Doors Doors]], in which the narrator witnesses a psychopath murdering his adoptive parents and kidnapping his sister. [[spoiler:We don't find out until the last sentence that the narrator is a dog.]]
* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/the-little-lost-dragon This]] [[Wiki/SCPFoundation Foundation Tale]] seems, behind the numerous redacted segments, to be about an ordinary college student who winds up lost in some sort of alternate hell-dimension. It's only by looking at the full title and paying attention to [[CatchPhrase the last line]] that you can figure out the narrator is [[spoiler:SCP-682, the NighInvulnerable reptilian monster that the Foundation [[AndIMustScream keeps in a tank of acid]] to stop it from killing ''[[OmnicidalManiac everything]]'' because it finds our world "disgusting."]]
* The TearJerker CreepyPasta [[http://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Experiment_84-B Experiment 84-B]] is about a child who was DrivenToSuicide, convinced to take part in a {{Mad Scientist}}'s experiment, and mutated into a monster. In the end, it's revealed that [[spoiler:he's Franchise/{{the Slender Man|Mythos}}]].

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* The parody {{creepypasta}} "[[http://www.creepypasta.com/day-of-all-the-blood/ DAY OF ALL THE BLOOD]]" wherein it is revealed that the man that all the blood was coming from [[spoiler:WAS WAS YOU!!! (OR HE WAS A LADY IF YOU ARE A LADY) AND YOU FORGOT THAT THIS HAPPENED]]
HAPPENED.
* The comic, [[http://i.imgur.com/3DdGA.jpg "Product"]] follows a human grown in a test tube in a post-nuclear war world and the realization of what his purpose is. Who is he? [[spoiler:The The Kool-Aid Man]].
Man.
* A lot of creepypasta stories have tried to pull this off, of course, but arguably one of the most well-known and effective is the story [[http://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Doors Doors]], in which the narrator witnesses a psychopath murdering his adoptive parents and kidnapping his sister. [[spoiler:We We don't find out until the last sentence that the narrator is a dog.]]
dog.
* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/the-little-lost-dragon This]] [[Wiki/SCPFoundation Foundation Tale]] seems, behind the numerous redacted segments, to be about an ordinary college student who winds up lost in some sort of alternate hell-dimension. It's only by looking at the full title and paying attention to [[CatchPhrase the last line]] that you can figure out the narrator is [[spoiler:SCP-682, SCP-682, the NighInvulnerable reptilian monster that the Foundation [[AndIMustScream keeps in a tank of acid]] to stop it from killing ''[[OmnicidalManiac everything]]'' because it finds our world "disgusting."]]
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* The TearJerker CreepyPasta [[http://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Experiment_84-B Experiment 84-B]] is about a child who was DrivenToSuicide, convinced to take part in a {{Mad Scientist}}'s experiment, and mutated into a monster. In the end, it's revealed that [[spoiler:he's he's Franchise/{{the Slender Man|Mythos}}]].Man|Mythos}}.



* ''[[WebAnimation/DorklyOriginals Dorkly]]'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXsSgzKJ0fY Sonic Meets Original Fan Characters]] is revealed at the end to be [[spoiler:a fanfiction by Luigi]].
* In ''VideoGame/BearStearnsBravo'', this is PlayedForLaughs when Franco (the main character) [[spoiler:is revealed to be a girl!]]

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* ''[[WebAnimation/DorklyOriginals Dorkly]]'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXsSgzKJ0fY Sonic Meets Original Fan Characters]] is revealed at the end to be [[spoiler:a a fanfiction by Luigi]].
Luigi.
* In ''VideoGame/BearStearnsBravo'', this is PlayedForLaughs when Franco (the main character) [[spoiler:is is revealed to be a girl!]]girl!



** [[spoiler:Randall knows that his own surname is Octogonapus, but the viewer doesn't.]]
** [[spoiler:At the same time, [[DramaticIrony the]] ''[[DramaticIrony viewer]]'' [[DramaticIrony knows that the villain's name is Doctor Octogonapus, but]] ''[[DramaticIrony Randall]]'' [[DramaticIrony doesn't.]]]]
* [[https://youtu.be/wpfbuAVmYhU This]] satirical video from the Website/YouTube channel "Circlejerk" (devoted to parodying Website/{{Reddit}}) starts out like a typical rant about "social justice warriors" but ultimately reveals that one of the SJW Reddit moderators is actually [[spoiler:Wrestling/JohnCena]].

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** [[spoiler:Randall Randall knows that his own surname is Octogonapus, but the viewer doesn't.]]
doesn't.
** [[spoiler:At the same time, [[DramaticIrony the]] ''[[DramaticIrony viewer]]'' [[DramaticIrony At the same time]], the ''viewer'' knows that the villain's name is Doctor Octogonapus, but]] ''[[DramaticIrony Randall]]'' [[DramaticIrony doesn't.]]]]
but ''Randall'' doesn't.
* [[https://youtu.be/wpfbuAVmYhU This]] satirical video from the Website/YouTube channel "Circlejerk" (devoted to parodying Website/{{Reddit}}) starts out like a typical rant about "social justice warriors" but ultimately reveals that one of the SJW Reddit moderators is actually [[spoiler:Wrestling/JohnCena]].Wrestling/JohnCena.



* [[https://yoraikun.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/there-is-a-narrative-trick-in-this-story/ "There is a Narrative Trick in this Story"]] is all about this trope, with the two characters discussing examples of how it can appear. Of course, as implied by the title, the story itself also uses the trope, with the characters turning out to be [[spoiler:teachers, not students]].

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* [[https://yoraikun.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/there-is-a-narrative-trick-in-this-story/ "There is a Narrative Trick in this Story"]] is all about this trope, with the two characters discussing examples of how it can appear. Of course, as implied by the title, the story itself also uses the trope, with the characters turning out to be [[spoiler:teachers, teachers, not students]].students.
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* In ''Bear Stearns Bravo'', this is PlayedForLaughs when Franco (the main character) [[spoiler:is revealed to be a girl!]]

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* In ''Bear Stearns Bravo'', ''VideoGame/BearStearnsBravo'', this is PlayedForLaughs when Franco (the main character) [[spoiler:is revealed to be a girl!]]



* [[https://youtu.be/wpfbuAVmYhU This]] satirical video from the Website/YouTube channel "Circlejerk" (devoted to parodying Website/{{Reddit}}) starts out like a typical rant about "social justice warriors" but ultimately reveals that one of the SJW Reddit moderators is actually [[spoiler:Wrestling/JohnCena (see the "Radio" section above)]].

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* [[https://youtu.be/wpfbuAVmYhU This]] satirical video from the Website/YouTube channel "Circlejerk" (devoted to parodying Website/{{Reddit}}) starts out like a typical rant about "social justice warriors" but ultimately reveals that one of the SJW Reddit moderators is actually [[spoiler:Wrestling/JohnCena (see the "Radio" section above)]].[[spoiler:Wrestling/JohnCena]].
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* In ''WebVideo/ScootertrixTheAbridged'' a major twist is that Rarity, up until this point being portrayed as a harmless {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, is actually a shapeshifting changeling who fled to Equestria from the Badlands because she was NeverAcceptedInHerHometown. Since Equestria is currently at war with the changelings, this has major ramifications from this point on.

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* In ''WebVideo/ScootertrixTheAbridged'' a major twist is that Rarity, up until this point being portrayed as a harmless {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, is actually a shapeshifting changeling who fled to Equestria from the Badlands because she was NeverAcceptedInHerHometown. [[NeverAcceptedInHisHometown Never Accepted in Her Hometown.]] Since Equestria is currently at war with the changelings, this has major ramifications from this point on.
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* In ''WebVideo/ScootertrixTheAbridged'' a major twist is that Rarity, up until this point being portrayed as a harmless {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, is actually a shapeshifting changeling who fled to Equestria from the Badlands because she was NeverAcceptedInHerHometown. Since Equestria is currently at war with the changelings, this has major ramifications from this point on.
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* The parody creepypasta "[[http://www.creepypasta.com/day-of-all-the-blood/ DAY OF ALL THE BLOOD]]" wherein it is revealed that the man that all the blood was coming from [[spoiler:WAS YOU!!! (OR HE WAS A LADY IF YOU ARE A LADY) AND YOU FORGOT THAT THIS HAPPENED]]

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* The parody creepypasta {{creepypasta}} "[[http://www.creepypasta.com/day-of-all-the-blood/ DAY OF ALL THE BLOOD]]" wherein it is revealed that the man that all the blood was coming from [[spoiler:WAS YOU!!! (OR HE WAS A LADY IF YOU ARE A LADY) AND YOU FORGOT THAT THIS HAPPENED]]



* A lot of {{Creepypasta}} stories have tried to pull this off, of course, but arguably one of the most well-known and effective is the story [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Doors Doors]], in which the narrator witnesses a psychopath murdering his adoptive parents and kidnapping his sister. [[spoiler:We don't find out until the last sentence that the narrator is a dog.]]

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* A lot of {{Creepypasta}} creepypasta stories have tried to pull this off, of course, but arguably one of the most well-known and effective is the story [[http://creepypasta.wikia.fandom.com/wiki/Doors Doors]], in which the narrator witnesses a psychopath murdering his adoptive parents and kidnapping his sister. [[spoiler:We don't find out until the last sentence that the narrator is a dog.]]



* The TearJerker CreepyPasta [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Experiment_84-B Experiment 84-B]] is about a child who was DrivenToSuicide, convinced to take part in a {{Mad Scientist}}'s experiment, and mutated into a monster. In the end, it's revealed that [[spoiler:he's Franchise/{{the Slender Man|Mythos}}]].

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* The TearJerker CreepyPasta [[http://creepypasta.wikia.fandom.com/wiki/Experiment_84-B Experiment 84-B]] is about a child who was DrivenToSuicide, convinced to take part in a {{Mad Scientist}}'s experiment, and mutated into a monster. In the end, it's revealed that [[spoiler:he's Franchise/{{the Slender Man|Mythos}}]].



* PlayedForLaughs in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHQr0HCIN2w this]] collaboration with WebVideo/FreddieWong and Series/KeyAndPeele.

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* PlayedForLaughs in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHQr0HCIN2w this]] collaboration with WebVideo/FreddieWong Creator/FreddieWong and Series/KeyAndPeele.



* Website/{{Reddit}} produced a few short stories like this that looked like normal posts or comments until they turned out to be from the viewpoint of a famous fictional character. Examples include [[https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/97jht/i_hate_my_job/ a young man complaining about his coworkers]] and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/alae8/warning_potentially_disturbing_question_sexy/c0i6kuh/ another young man responding to a question about uncomfortably sexy relatives]]. A similar story ([[http://www.dorkly.com/post/67492/an-epic-tale-of-friendzoning-told-in-10-tweets compiled]] on the website Dorkly) appeared in the form of a Website/{{Twitter}} thread about an unrequited crush on a friend.

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* Website/{{Reddit}} produced a few short stories like this that looked like normal posts or comments until they turned out to be from the viewpoint of a famous fictional character. Examples include [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo a young man]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/97jht/i_hate_my_job/ a young man complaining about his coworkers]] and [[Franchise/StarWars another young man]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/alae8/warning_potentially_disturbing_question_sexy/c0i6kuh/ another young man responding to a question about uncomfortably sexy relatives]]. A similar story ([[http://www.dorkly.com/post/67492/an-epic-tale-of-friendzoning-told-in-10-tweets compiled]] on the website Dorkly) appeared in the form of a Website/{{Twitter}} thread about an unrequited crush on a friend.



* [[https://yoraikun.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/there-is-a-narrative-trick-in-this-story/ "There is a Narrative Trick in this Story"]] is all about this trope, with the two characters discussing examples of how it can appear. Of course, as implied by the title, the story itself also uses the trope.

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* [[https://yoraikun.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/there-is-a-narrative-trick-in-this-story/ "There is a Narrative Trick in this Story"]] is all about this trope, with the two characters discussing examples of how it can appear. Of course, as implied by the title, the story itself also uses the trope.
trope, with the characters turning out to be [[spoiler:teachers, not students]].
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* The famous "Raptor Story" on Website/GameFAQs's Current Events forum. At the beginning of the story, the first-person narrator crashes his sister's lesbian spin the bottle party and is about to make out with her...until she is revealed to be a velociraptor, something that was somehow completely unknown to the narrator. The twist is actually in the first act of the story, not at the end.
* The parody creepypasta "[[http://www.creepypasta.com/day-of-all-the-blood/ DAY OF ALL THE BLOOD]]" wherein it is revealed that the man that all the blood was coming from [[spoiler:WAS YOU!!! (OR HE WAS A LADY IF YOU ARE A LADY) AND YOU FORGOT THAT THIS HAPPENED]]
* The comic, [[http://i.imgur.com/3DdGA.jpg "Product"]] follows a human grown in a test tube in a post-nuclear war world and the realization of what his purpose is. Who is he? [[spoiler:The Kool-Aid Man]].
* A lot of {{Creepypasta}} stories have tried to pull this off, of course, but arguably one of the most well-known and effective is the story [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Doors Doors]], in which the narrator witnesses a psychopath murdering his adoptive parents and kidnapping his sister. [[spoiler:We don't find out until the last sentence that the narrator is a dog.]]
* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/the-little-lost-dragon This]] [[Wiki/SCPFoundation Foundation Tale]] seems, behind the numerous redacted segments, to be about an ordinary college student who winds up lost in some sort of alternate hell-dimension. It's only by looking at the full title and paying attention to [[CatchPhrase the last line]] that you can figure out the narrator is [[spoiler:SCP-682, the NighInvulnerable reptilian monster that the Foundation [[AndIMustScream keeps in a tank of acid]] to stop it from killing ''[[OmnicidalManiac everything]]'' because it finds our world "disgusting."]]
* The TearJerker CreepyPasta [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Experiment_84-B Experiment 84-B]] is about a child who was DrivenToSuicide, convinced to take part in a {{Mad Scientist}}'s experiment, and mutated into a monster. In the end, it's revealed that [[spoiler:he's Franchise/{{the Slender Man|Mythos}}]].
* There's an [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/albert-einstein-copypasta infamous religious copypasta]] about a student at a secular StrawmanU beating a smug HollywoodAtheist professor in an argument. In the end, we find out that the student was UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein. Due to the...''questionable'' veracity of this anecdote, the phrase "And his name? Albert Einstein!" has become a common response to tall tales on TheInternet, akin to "Yeah, right."
* PlayedForLaughs in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHQr0HCIN2w this]] collaboration with WebVideo/FreddieWong and Series/KeyAndPeele.
* ''[[WebAnimation/DorklyOriginals Dorkly]]'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXsSgzKJ0fY Sonic Meets Original Fan Characters]] is revealed at the end to be [[spoiler:a fanfiction by Luigi]].
* In ''Bear Stearns Bravo'', this is PlayedForLaughs when Franco (the main character) [[spoiler:is revealed to be a girl!]]
* The third episode of ''WebAnimation/TheLazerCollection'' uses this along with DramaticIrony:
** [[spoiler:Randall knows that his own surname is Octogonapus, but the viewer doesn't.]]
** [[spoiler:At the same time, [[DramaticIrony the]] ''[[DramaticIrony viewer]]'' [[DramaticIrony knows that the villain's name is Doctor Octogonapus, but]] ''[[DramaticIrony Randall]]'' [[DramaticIrony doesn't.]]]]
* [[https://youtu.be/wpfbuAVmYhU This]] satirical video from the Website/YouTube channel "Circlejerk" (devoted to parodying Website/{{Reddit}}) starts out like a typical rant about "social justice warriors" but ultimately reveals that one of the SJW Reddit moderators is actually [[spoiler:Wrestling/JohnCena (see the "Radio" section above)]].
* Website/{{Reddit}} produced a few short stories like this that looked like normal posts or comments until they turned out to be from the viewpoint of a famous fictional character. Examples include [[https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/97jht/i_hate_my_job/ a young man complaining about his coworkers]] and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/alae8/warning_potentially_disturbing_question_sexy/c0i6kuh/ another young man responding to a question about uncomfortably sexy relatives]]. A similar story ([[http://www.dorkly.com/post/67492/an-epic-tale-of-friendzoning-told-in-10-tweets compiled]] on the website Dorkly) appeared in the form of a Website/{{Twitter}} thread about an unrequited crush on a friend.
* "Killer On The Loose", an episode of streaming-only horror anthology series ''The Witching Season'': It initially seems to be about a woman breaking into a house to get away from an escaped homicidal maniac, but in the end it turns out she ''is'' the maniac and the person she's been hiding from inside is her victim. A few standard horror tropes are played with to make the audience reach the initial conclusion: The man in the house looks villainous because he's sneaking around wearing a [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason-style]] hockey mask (as part of a Halloween costume), and you're meant to think he's already inside of the house because of OffscreenTeleportation, not because he was never outside chasing her to begin with.
* [[https://yoraikun.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/there-is-a-narrative-trick-in-this-story/ "There is a Narrative Trick in this Story"]] is all about this trope, with the two characters discussing examples of how it can appear. Of course, as implied by the title, the story itself also uses the trope.

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