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Not to be confused with [[Pseudo Crisis]], which at least gives the appearance of a proper cliffhanger before getting resolved in two seconds after the break.
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* The penultimate episode of ''[[Aria]]'': The story arc appears to have come to a conclusion... then Alicia tells Akari that she has something to tell her. Roll credits.
* squirrelking's [[So Bad It's Good]] ''Metal Gear Solid'' fanfic, ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2946083/1/ Fight of Metal Gears]''. Also, ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsRJWZ9qwNw Halo: Halos in Space]'' by the same author ends with Joe Chief on the losing side of a battle, and then he "saw something and went to it and picked it up and said "no we win" to himself." Read ahead at your own risk: The next installment reveals that the 'something' was {{spoiler|"big wepon."}} [[Narm|DUN DUN DUNNN]]!▼
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* squirrelking's [[So Bad It's Good]] ''Metal Gear Solid'' fanfic, ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2946083/1/ Fight of Metal Gears]''.
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== [[Literature]] ==
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* ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]'' had a [[One-Paragraph Chapter]] in which Robert Langdon and his date see a thing inside a box. Whatever the grail was, it wasn't ''that thing''. (The thing turned out to be a cryptex, i.e., a tube that had a puzzle to be solved for it to open) In fact, done frequently in anything written by Dan Brown. It's pretty much the end of every chapter.
* The fourth book of the ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' series, ''A Feast For Crows'', has a scene in which one character is about to be hanged, and she says an unspecified word... and that's the last we hear of her in that book. In fact, it's the last we hear of the book.
* This was baited-and-switched in [[Robert Rankin]]'s ''The [[Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse]]'', proving there's just [[Zig-Zagging Trope|no limit to recursive subversion of a trope]]. Eddie hands something important to Jack, who asks what it is -- "it's a [[MacGuffin]]". Except we never get a better explanation than that - it's only ever referred to as a
* ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]''
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Happened in the second season of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''. For the first 8 episodes, Dean had been keeping a dark and terrible secret from Sam, told to him by their father and also withheld from the audience. The preview for the ninth episode showed Dean saying "Dad told me something... something about you," and Sam asking in consternation, "Dean, what did he tell you...?" Everyone got very excited that The Reveal was finally coming, even though most of the fandom was already fairly sure they had worked out more or less what the secret had to be. When the episode aired, those turned out to be '''the last lines spoken''' before the series went on hiatus for over a month!
* From ''[[Lost]]'': "We ain't takin the plane freckles. We're takin' the sub."
** And of course the season three premiere, which ended by revealing Ben's name. Yeah, it was nice to know the real name {{spoiler|of "Henry Gale
*** However, this becomes something of a Subversion as well: new watchers will [[Late Arrival Spoiler|probably hear about Ben]], but not
* From ''[[NCIS]]'': The last episode of season 7 gave examples of this trope.
* Several episodes of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' had this problem. Season 22 was originally shown in the UK in 45 minute chapters instead of the usual 22-25 minute episodes. When that season was shown in America, each episode was arbitrarily cut in half to fit in with the remainder of the syndication package - resulting in the story simply stopping (often in very odd places) instead of ending on a proper cliffhanger.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* Done in [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=080922 this] ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' strip.
** Done much more frustratingly [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20050123 here]. At the time, ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''
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