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1'''Basic Trope''': There is something important about the main character(s) or setting that the characters know and would normally be explained from the start, but it's left for a last minute TwistEnding [[TheReveal reveal.]]
2* '''Straight''': The [[FiveManBand Second Eagle Division]] is supposedly a heroic group of humans threatened by a sinister AlienInvasion, [[VillainProtagonist but they turn out to be a group of alien bastards]] threatening a [[AliensAreBastards friendly human visit.]]
3* '''Exaggerated''': The Second Eagle Division is supposedly a heroic group of humans threatened by a sinister alien invasion, but turn out to be [[PerspectiveFlip aliens threatened by humans]], and then are are revealed to have invaded Earth before and the humans try to get it back, but it is revealed that those humans are carrying a plague that turns them into cannibalizing [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot vampire-zombie versions of the aliens,]] while the invading aliens had peacefully mixed with the non-infected humans due to {{Magitek}} [[BenevolentAlienInvasion in order to save them.]]
4* '''Downplayed''': The Second Eagle Division turns out to be a group of aliens halfway through, and then the story continues on without much change.
5* '''Justified''': Despite the Aliens acting friendly, the Second Eagle Division are the only ones that know their true nature.
6* '''Inverted''': DramaticIrony.
7* '''Subverted''': The Second Eagle Division is [[RedHerring heavily implied]] to be going to turn out to be a group of aliens, but then it turns out that they're still humans.
8* '''Double Subverted''': The Second Eagle Division are actually TransplantedHumans, with their own culture and history, while the invader civilization is [[PerspectiveFlip Earth]] [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans.]]
9* '''Parodied''': The Second Eagle Division have [[RubberForeheadAliens green skin, forehead ridges]] [[StarfishLanguage and communicate via flatulance]], yet at the end of the story it is [[CaptainObviousReveal anticlimactically revealed]] "The Second Eagle Division is not, in fact, human."
10* '''Zig Zagged''': See Exaggerated.
11* '''Averted''': Everyone is who they seemed to be.
12* '''Enforced''': ???
13* '''Lampshaded''': ???
14* '''Invoked''': The Second Eagle Division is a unit specifically trained to emulate human behavior, culture, and warfare in order to play to the sympathies of their aggressor.
15* '''Exploited''': ???
16* '''Defied''': From the beginning, it's clear to both sides of the war (and the audience) what their goal is and who their enemy is.
17* '''Discussed''': ???
18* '''Conversed''': ???
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24%%* '''Implied''': ???
25%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
26%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
27%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
28%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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