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-also the ending of Hickman's Secret wars, when Doom admits that Reed could have done a better job than him saving the world.
The trope seems to go hand in hand with increased vulnerability of the characters.
No because the Wham line or the reveal rely on the audience having no idea about the information. In mine, it's pivotal that the audience already knows for it to be satisfying.
^ "Knows" in what way? The Unreveal? Internal Reveal?
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As I showed in my examples, these are not reveals per say. It's just the audience who gets to here something that was implicit during the whole story finally be said explicitly, which creates satisfaction and catharsis. In the World's end, we know Gary king is broken, but at the end we finally get to hear him say it explicitly in tears. In breaking bad, we know Walter White cooks meth because he has a gigantic ego and never did anything great in his life, but during the whole show he tells his wife otherwise (even though she sees through him), but in the finale we finally get to hear HIM say it, but nothing is actually revealed, just explicitly said. In secret wars, everyone knows Doom's world is a failure, even Doom, and that Reed, being the hero and the smartest man on earth, could do better, and in the end we hear both of them admit to this in a extremely tense and emotional scene.
There is no reveal. It's like telling someone that you love them when they already know it (or having having them tell you, when you already know it) : nobody's learning anything, but it's extremely satisfying and cathartic.
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That'd be Foreshadowing's payoff
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Not really, because again, there is no revelation, just making explicit what was implicit. Forshadowing is a clue for what will come. Mine there isn't any clue, just a character and the way he is and acts.
It is neither a revelation nor a surprise!
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Good news for you: "Confirming" is itself a form of revelation. And we use Foreshadowing for that case.
We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
Is there a trope for when, around the end of a story, a character says his or another character's motivation or interior truth out loud, which the viewer has known on some level since the beginning, but was never explicitly said, usually because it's too horrible to accept. This brings huge satisfaction and catharsis to the viewer, who finally hears the words he has been waiting for. Example [spoilers] :
-Breaking Bad : "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it..."
-the World's end : (after taking nothing seriously during the whole movie) "it never got better than that night ! That was supposed to be the beginning of my life! All that promise and fucking optimism, That feeling like we could take on the whole universe: it was a big lie! Nothing happened!
-the Big Short: "they knew... They knew the tax payers would bail tell out. They weren't being stupid. They just didn't care!"
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