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'''Basic Trope''': Everyone knows a deep, dark secret about a character...except the character themselves. |
'''Basic Trope''': Everyone knows a deep, dark secret about a character...except the character themselves. |
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* '''Straight''': Alice has a dark past - ten years ago, she unknowingly slaughtered a bunch of innocents, then later forgot due to [[Laser |
* '''Straight''': Alice has a dark past - ten years ago, she unknowingly slaughtered a bunch of innocents, then later forgot due to [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]. Bob and the rest of the [[Five-Man Band]] keep this from her. |
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* '''Exaggerated''': Everyone in the [[Five |
* '''Exaggerated''': Everyone in the [[Five-Man Band]] has some deep, dark secret - and each member is the only one who doesn't know their own secret. |
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* '''Justified''': Bob is afraid that if Alice found out about her past, she'd recreate the massacre. |
* '''Justified''': Bob is afraid that if Alice found out about her past, she'd recreate the massacre. |
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* '''Inverted''': |
* '''Inverted''': |
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* '''Parodied''': The "secret" is something incredibly mundane, like Alice's real hair color. However, everyone keeps it from her with the strictest confidence. |
* '''Parodied''': The "secret" is something incredibly mundane, like Alice's real hair color. However, everyone keeps it from her with the strictest confidence. |
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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice finds out about the massacre, and proves Bob's fears right...she does recreate it, and he's the first victim. |
* '''Deconstructed''': Alice finds out about the massacre, and proves Bob's fears right...she does recreate it, and he's the first victim. |
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** Alternatively, she finds out about the secret anyway...then leaves the [[Five |
** Alternatively, she finds out about the secret anyway...then leaves the [[Five-Man Band]] because she feels she can't trust them anymore. |
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* '''Reconstructed''': She eventually learns about the secret, but realizes that it was kept from her for good reason, so no harm done. |
* '''Reconstructed''': She eventually learns about the secret, but realizes that it was kept from her for good reason, so no harm done. |
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* '''Zig Zagged''': Due to the magic of [[Laser |
* '''Zig Zagged''': Due to the magic of [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]], ''what'' she knows and ''how much'' she knows all vary from time to time. |
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* '''Averted''': Either there is no secret, or she knows everything from the outset. |
* '''Averted''': Either there is no secret, or she knows everything from the outset. |
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* '''Enforced''': "We need some tension among this team, and I think there's no better way to have that than there to be some secret they're keeping from someone." |
* '''Enforced''': "We need some tension among this team, and I think there's no better way to have that than there to be some secret they're keeping from someone." |
Revision as of 12:25, 9 January 2014
Basic Trope: Everyone knows a deep, dark secret about a character...except the character themselves.
- Straight: Alice has a dark past - ten years ago, she unknowingly slaughtered a bunch of innocents, then later forgot due to Laser-Guided Amnesia. Bob and the rest of the Five-Man Band keep this from her.
- Exaggerated: Everyone in the Five-Man Band has some deep, dark secret - and each member is the only one who doesn't know their own secret.
- Justified: Bob is afraid that if Alice found out about her past, she'd recreate the massacre.
- Inverted:
- Alice keeps the knowledge of the massacre to herself for fear that the others won't trust her.
- Keeper of Forbidden Knowledge
- Subverted: It seems like Bob is keeping the knowledge of the past from Alice, but that turns out to be incorrect - she knows what she did as well.
- Double Subverted: ...To an extent. She knows she did something, but Bob didn't fill her in on all the details.
- Parodied: The "secret" is something incredibly mundane, like Alice's real hair color. However, everyone keeps it from her with the strictest confidence.
- Deconstructed: Alice finds out about the massacre, and proves Bob's fears right...she does recreate it, and he's the first victim.
- Alternatively, she finds out about the secret anyway...then leaves the Five-Man Band because she feels she can't trust them anymore.
- Reconstructed: She eventually learns about the secret, but realizes that it was kept from her for good reason, so no harm done.
- Zig Zagged: Due to the magic of Laser-Guided Amnesia, what she knows and how much she knows all vary from time to time.
- Averted: Either there is no secret, or she knows everything from the outset.
- Enforced: "We need some tension among this team, and I think there's no better way to have that than there to be some secret they're keeping from someone."
- Lampshaded: "Why is it that when I bring up the Great Troperia Massacre of '96, everyone looks uncomfortable and changes the subject?"
- Invoked: "Look, she caused that massacre, and if she ever learns she did it, we know she'll freak out again. She can't know."
- Defied: Bob decides to sit down and tell Alice the truth.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "You'd think that team would trust each other enough to where there wouldn't need to be secrets."
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