Basic Trope: A character's or a group's secret is revealed by the villain.
- Straight: Emperor Evulz reveals that Bob is a Tyke Bomb he created to destroy the heroes.
- Exaggerated: Emperor Evulz reveals that Bob is a Tyke Bomb he created, Alice has been hiding secrets about her ancestry, Charlie is really Carla, and Dracone has been hiding money from the rest of the party.
- Downplayed: Emperor Evulz doesn't reveal Bob's secret, but what he says allows the others to figure it out.
- Justified: Emperor Evulz is hoping the revealed secrets will cause his enemies to turn on each other.
- Inverted:
- Bob reveals that Emperor Evulz has been conning his people all the time.
- Emperor Evulz keeps Bob's secret from being revealed.
- Subverted: Emperor Evulz reveals that Bob is his Tyke Bomb created to destroy the heroes...only for the group to reveal that they found that out long ago.
- Double Subverted: Then Emperor Evulz tells them Alice is a member of a bad species.
- Parodied: Emperor Evulz shares the shocking truth that Bob ate the last of the shortbread.
- Zig Zagged: Emperor Evulvz keeps going back and forth between trying to reveal Bob's secrets and keeping some of them to himself.
- Averted: None of the characters have secrets.
- Enforced: The author wants a reason for the Third-Act Misunderstanding or Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure.
- Lampshaded: "Why do villains keep finding out my secrets? They keep them using them for ammunition."
- Invoked: Emperor Evulvz obsessively researches Bob trying to find secrets about him that he can reveal.
- Exploited: Bob makes up a very minor (but allegedly highly embarrassing, like being a chronic bed-wetter in his youth) secret to "reveal" to certain people, in the gamble that if Evulz ever gloats about knowing it, this will help Bob find out whether or not he has moles in his group.
- Defied:
- Bob and his companions keep no secrets from each other to prevent this from happening.
- Bob and his companions are too good at keeping secrets. Evulz doesn't even know that there are secrets to reveal, let alone is capable of revealing them.
- Evulz refuses to divulge any secrets that he finds out about Bob and his companions, not seeing the utility of stooping so low for the sake of alleged psycholoical warfare.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played For Laughs: Evulz leaks a secret, only to find out that Everybody Knew Already.
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