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* In the first Ellery Queen novel, "The Roman Hat Mystery", the murder victim is a blackmailer. No one familiar with the rules of Golden Age mystery novels will consider "murderer is being blackmailed" a spoiler. The secret worth killing over? {{spoiler|One of the murderer's ancestors married a black woman. The line is so diluted that there are no visible signs of African descent in the murderer's appearance, but that "drop" of blood would ruin him socially and professionally.}}

* In the both the books, and the 90s TV adaptation of [[P. G. Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]]'s ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'' stories, Jeeves reveals British fascist leader Sir Roderick Spode's terrible secret to Bertie: {{spoiler|Spode owns a ladies' fashion boutique}}. Should this become widely known it would ruin his reputation.

* The reader is every bit as aware of it as she is, but Gara Petothel / Lara Notsil, in the ''[[X Wing Series]]'', is a [[Deep-Cover Agent]] who's gone through a private [[Heel Face Turn]], and is unhappily aware that the [[Heroic BSOD|badly damaged]] pilot who she's falling in love with is damaged because of her actions.

* In the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' series, many cats' forbidden relationships. The parentage of kits born to said forbidden relationships. Visiting the Dark Forest.

* [[Starcraft II]]

** {{spoiler|Tychus Findlay}}. The [[Dark Secret]] in question is {{spoiler|his deal with Mengsk: he kills Kerrigan, he's free.}} As he says in the end of the game:

** In the secret mission "Piercing The Shroud", it is discovered that {{spoiler|the Dominion is behind the Zerg-Protoss Hybrids, which play a very important part in Zeratul's missions. Yep, that's right: it seems that the Dominion (with some dirty help) wants to bring [[The End of the World as We Know It|The End Of The Universe As We Know It]].}}

* [[Ace Attorney]] has a number of these. Figuring out what they are is the whole point of the game.