Double Subversion: Difference between revisions

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'': Sakaki types "cats" in a search engine, and everything she gets is a big bunch of random matches (including a page titled "We Love Neko Koneko"), thus subverting [[It's a Small Net After All]]. Then she types "Iriomote cat", and it seems like one of the very first matches is a plot relevant news article about {{spoiler|how Mayaa's mother got killed}}, thus playing this same trope straight. (But even then it's vaguely justified, because the Iriomote cat is an extremely endanged species, so a story about a plot-relevant cat isn't as much of a coincidence as it would otherwise be.)

* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' contains a Double Subversion of [[The Unwanted Harem]]. It turns out most of the girls don't have any actual romantic interest in the lead, but enough of them ''do'' (Nodoka, Yue, Ako, Anya, Chachamaru...) that it ends up qualifying as a harem after all.

* ''[[Digimon Savers]]'' subverted the usual [[Digimon]] brand of [[Disney Death]] by {{spoiler|playing it straight for the first arc, then having the protagonists find out there was a way to ''permanently'' kill Digimon. But the Double Subversion comes later: Agumon "dies" in the Disney way by reverting back to an egg that will hatch later, but Masaru is repeatedly told that Agumon won't remember anything about their life together. Agumon the Digimon is alive, but Agumon who was Masaru's 'follower' is gone forever... except he's not. He hatches, and he latches onto Masaru's face like a leech (possibly as an [[Homage]] to ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'''s [[Pilot Movie]]) and they lived [[Happily Ever After]]. To be fair, this may have been foreshadowed by Piyomon retaining his memories after one death; apparently, exposure to humans and a Digisoul changes the rules.}}

* In ''[[Princess Tutu]]'', Mytho is a [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] but isn't evil at all. But {{spoiler|then the second season comes around}}...

* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Tashigi fangirling over Zoro's sword skillz for a while, and then [[Fan Disillusionment|finding he was a pirate]] superficially looks like a subverted example of [[Even Heroes Have Heroes]], except it becomes a double subversion when she grudgingly realizes he's actually a pretty awesome guy anyway.

* The Oracion Seis arc of ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' looked like it was subverting [[Authority Equals Asskicking]] by {{spoiler|having the leader of the villains, Blaine, be defeated easily and the actual strongest member be his son Midnight. Then Midnight went down, and it turned out to be the last key needed to wake up Zero, Blaine's [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]...}}.

* ''[[Death Note]]'': Misa Amane initially subverted the [[wangst]]y, [[Nietzsche Wannabe|nihilistic]] [[Loners Are Freaks|Loner]] [[Goth]] stereotype by turning out to actually be a [[Perky Female Minion|cheerful]], [[Genki Girl|enthusiastic]] [[Perky Goth]] with a successful career as an actress/model. It's only later that we learn what a [[Yandere|complete]] [[Ax Crazy|and total]] [[Psycho for Hire|nutjob]] [[Love Makes You Evil|she really is]].

* ''[[Tekkaman Blade]]'' double subverts [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: D-Boy claims to have amnesia, but it turns out he's faking it. Then, near the end of the series, he starts losing his memory for real.

 

* ''[[Quantum and Woody]]'' double subverts the [[Scary Black Man]] trope with Eric Henderson (Quantum). While he ''is'' a tall, muscular, and physically intimidating black man, his full-body costume and articulate speaking pattern means he's inevitably assumed to be Caucasian. People don't ''really'' freak out until they find out he's black underneath.

{{quote|"You're '''black?''' [[T-Word Euphemism|S-word!]]"}}

 

 

* In addition to all the other times it [[Playing with a Trope|plays with a trope]], ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'' features a Double Subversion of [[Did Not Do the Research]]. Originally, a chapter was written assuming that Sasaki was a character's given name, rather than her family name as it actually is. The writer was doing his research, but the source from which he got the research had not done the research, making it a Double Subversion.

 

 

* In ''[[All About Eve]]'', Karen thinks about [[The Only Way They Will Learn|tricking Margo to help her understand]], and justifies it to herself that Margo will like it, and there's no reason not to tell her..."in time."

* In the 2009 ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' film, an obvious [[Red Shirt]] has to open his parachute in time to hit a floating platform. At first it seems he won't open his parachute in time and pancake himself onto the planet below, but in fact he does open it just in time... to burn up in the platform's rocket flame trail.

 

 

* One pre-titles segment of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' features a young girl diving in a competition. Standard procedure with the claiming of slight illness and shots of insides. She dives in, emerges and finds the judge on the floor, vomiting blood. After the titles, it transpires the entire audience and swimmers are being tested for meningitis. It's at this point the girl turns up again, with bizarre symptoms which aren't meningitis.

* ''[[Golden Palace]]'', pilot: Involving a robbery incident. See [[The Ditz]].

* ''ARG!'' [http://iamarg.com/2015/02/02/reserved/ here] does it with puns.

 

* In [http://inkblort.deviantart.com/#/d2fmn8y this] short, the viewer is led to believe {{spoiler|that Arthur has been using Excalibur to cut up people.}} Then, it turns out he was cutting lasagna. {{spoiler|Then it turns out that yes, he was cutting up a person. [[I'm a Humanitarian|And eating them.]]}}

* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NggUSbgRUhc Wish I Had a] [[Portal (series)|Portal Gun]], starting around 1:47.

 

 

* ''[[House of Mouse]]'': [[Donald Duck]] has set up his computer. A viewer would tend to expect that the computer would take all day to start up. Just 15 seconds after he turns it on, however, the screen reads "Startup Done", just long enough for the viewer to think "Huh?" before the word "Almost" is added to the screen, and it ends up taking all day after all.

* ''[[Batman Beyond]]: Return of the Joker'': One of Jokerz mouthed off to ''the'' Joker after [[You Have Failed Me...|failing his mission]]. Joker pulls a gun and pulls the trigger - [["BANG!" Flag Gun|which produces a flag that says "BANG!" on it]] - then pulls it again, ejecting the flagpole at high speed and impaling the guy in the chest.

 

 

* The [[Brick Joke]] is a double subversion of the [[Chekhov's Gun]] principle.

* [[Voodoo Shark]] is possibly a double subversion of [[Plot Hole]].

 

 

* The Todd River Race in Alice Springs, Australia, is a tongue-in-cheek subversion of conventional river regattas in which the "rowers" must carry their boats along the dried-up riverbed. Nature sometimes sabotages the event by inconsiderately filling the river with water, subverting the intended subversion.

 

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