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This is when, normally in a movie or television adaptation of a superhero story, the villain discovers the hero's secret identity, but is killed in that same story/arc/episode/whatever two minutes after. |
This is when, normally in a movie or television adaptation of a superhero story, the villain discovers the hero's secret identity, but is killed in that same story/arc/episode/whatever two minutes after. |
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A sub-trope of [[It's Personal]] and [[Killed to Uphold The Masquerade]], but in this situation it's normally the writers' decision to pull the [[Secret Identity]] trigger when they need to raise the stakes on a particular story/arc/series, but don't want to deal with long-term consequences. |
A sub-trope of [[It's Personal]] and [[Killed to Uphold The Masquerade]], but in this situation it's normally the writers' decision to pull the [[Secret Identity]] trigger when they need to raise the stakes on a particular story/arc/series, but don't want to deal with long-term consequences. |
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== Anime & Manga == |
== Anime & Manga == |
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* This sometimes happens to ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' villains. Specific examples are Jadeite and Nephrite in the first series, and all of the Animamates. In Jadeite, Sailor Iron Mouse, and Sailor Aluminum Siren's cases, they were both killed by the main Big Bad of the series before they could tell the Big Bad they |
* This sometimes happens to ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' villains. Specific examples are Jadeite and Nephrite in the first series, and all of the Animamates. In Jadeite, Sailor Iron Mouse, and Sailor Aluminum Siren's cases, they were both killed by the main Big Bad of the series before they could tell the Big Bad they had discovered at least one Senshi's secret identity (Siren and Jadeite both died pleading that they had that knowledge, but Iron Mouse didn't even get a chance to say anything about it to Galaxia, she was so scared and blabbering about unanswerable Japanese riddles). |
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* ''[[Case Closed]]'': Pisco, a member of the Black Organization, figures out Ai's identity, but he's executed by Gin for screwing up on an assassination before he can say anything. (On the other hand, Vermouth also knows, but keeps mum due to her friendship with Shinichi's mother and perhaps also a desire to see whether or not Shinichi succeeds in taking the organization down.) |
* ''[[Case Closed]]'': Pisco, a member of the Black Organization, figures out Ai's identity, but he's executed by Gin for screwing up on an assassination before he can say anything. (On the other hand, Vermouth also knows, but keeps mum due to her friendship with Shinichi's mother and perhaps also a desire to see whether or not Shinichi succeeds in taking the organization down.) |
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** Done again with {{spoiler|Irish}} in the 13th film. |
** Done again with {{spoiler|Irish}} in the 13th film. |
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