Keeping Secrets Sucks: Difference between revisions

 

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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==

* The fact that everyone in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' is hiding something is one of the main reasons for how badly things always turn out. Because everyone is keeping secrets, {{spoiler|they can't trust each other and work together, and the [[Hate Plague]] will seize on that distrust and turn one or more of them into a delusional, homicidal serial killer}}, which is the ''last'' thing they need with everything else that's going wrong. Interestingly, though, [[They're Called "Personal Issues" for a Reason]] also comes up and is an important part of at least two arcs.

* ''[[Inuyasha]]'': Totosai's role in hiding his dead master's plan for developing Sesshoumaru enough to {{spoiler|finally obtain Bakusaiga}} results in him putting his life on the line, as Sesshoumaru detests being manipulated so much he has a tendency to kill anyone he catches doing that.

* Chloe on ''[[Smallville]]'' keeps Clark's secret, but also keeps Lana's and some others. She lashed out at Clark at least once, when Clark complained that she didn't tell him about somebody else; she replied tartly that just because she's keeping his secret from others doesn't mean she can't keep others' secrets from him.

** Pete found this out too, with Clark's secret torturing him for much of Season 3. Chloe eventually gets caught up in that aspect of it as well, withdrawing from life and having fewer and fewer friends who aren't in on [[The Masquerade]]. By Season 9 she's permanently become Watchtower and really has no life outside the infant JLA.

* It's not always puppies and sunshine for the cast of ''[[Hannah Montana]]'', mainly due to this trope. In fact, {{spoiler|the title character breaks down ''twice'' for it. In the movie, she decides she's done leading a double-life and gives away her identity, but the crowd talks her into staying as Hannah. She breaks down again in the final season and finally reveals it on national television.}}

* You'd think the characters on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' would learn to let people know about any drastic changes in their love life after season two or so. Failure to do so has led to character deaths, [[Put on a Bus|permanent bus trips]], the gang nearly tearing itself apart with mistrust, and more.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** Eventually the stress drives Twilight mad and after struggling to keep herself quiet ends up blurting out {{spoiler|Spike's "[[The Not-Secret|secret]]" crush on Rarity}}.

* The title character of ''[[Jem]]'' maintains a double-life as the titular pop star and as Jerrica Benton, which wreaks havoc on her love life since she ends up getting her boyfriend, Rio, attracted to ''both'' identities and never does get the nerve to tell him for fear of how he'd react to being led on. She also deals with the affections of Riot from The Stingers, who's attracted to her Jem persona only. It also causes other problems since her method of staying in persona requires that she wear a pair of holographic earrings (as opposed to make-up), such as not being able to get through metal detectors. Furthermore, since Jem is entirely made up as a person, Eric Raymond tries to exploit this in one episode by setting most of the city on a massive manhunt to learn her real identity, though she's able to get people to calm down and leave her be at the end of the episode.