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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22 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
23 | %% |
24 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
25 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
26 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
27 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
28 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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