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* Mr. Jingles from ''[[The Green Mile]]''. The narrator doesn't think so, but there's definitely room for doubt.
* Mr. Jingles from ''[[The Green Mile]]''. The narrator doesn't think so, but there's definitely room for doubt.
* ''The Raven's Knot'' by [[Robin Jarvis]] has a man who believed himself to have been saved by angels in WWII, but realizes eventually that he is one, trapped in human form since he descended. Oh, and angels look like [[Our Angels Are Different|giant two-headed dragons that breathe holy light]].
* ''The Raven's Knot'' by [[Robin Jarvis]] has a man who believed himself to have been saved by angels in WWII, but realizes eventually that he is one, trapped in human form since he descended. Oh, and angels look like [[Our Angels Are Different|giant two-headed dragons that breathe holy light]].
* Michael Valentine Smith from ''[[Stranger in A Strange Land]]'' by Robert Heinlein is strongly implied to be [[The Archangel Michael]] of the Bible. (It's never quite stated outright, but the ''particular'' way in which we never see both at the same time—with the angel Michael being mysteriously absent from what we see of Heaven for most of the book—strongly suggests the connection. Or else a ''suspiciously'' plot-convenient coincidence, of course.)
* Michael Valentine Smith from ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'' by Robert Heinlein is strongly implied to be [[The Archangel Michael]] of the Bible. (It's never quite stated outright, but the ''particular'' way in which we never see both at the same time — with the angel Michael being mysteriously absent from what we see of Heaven for most of the book — strongly suggests the connection. Or else a ''suspiciously'' plot-convenient coincidence, of course.)
* [[Dragonlance|Reorx]] often walks Krynn disguised as a rather fashionable dwarf named Dugan Redhammer, often revealing himself at the end of the story.
* ''[[Dragonlance]]'': Reorx often walks Krynn disguised as a rather fashionable dwarf named Dugan Redhammer, often revealing himself at the end of the story.
* In the short story "The Last Trump" by [[Isaac Asimov]], a character is revealed to be the ''Devil'' in the end - and it is unclear whether ''he'' is aware of that.
* In the short story "The Last Trump" by [[Isaac Asimov]], a character is revealed to be the ''Devil'' in the end - and it is unclear whether ''he'' is aware of that.
* Inverted in [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[Chronicles of Chaos]]'': the protagonist is this to a minor character who gives her a lift. She and her friends later repay the favor by curing his [[Driven to Madness]] relative.
* Inverted in [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[Chronicles of Chaos]]'': the protagonist is this to a minor character who gives her a lift. She and her friends later repay the favor by curing his [[Driven to Madness]] relative.
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