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* Inverted in the ''[[Prydain Chronicles]]'', where Taran goes on a search for his parents. He encounters a crippled shepherd who reveals that he is Taran's father {{spoiler|but after a few months of living with Taran, the guy has a fatal accident and reveals that he was lying, that his son died years ago and that he told Taran this because he was so lonely.}}
** Inverted again at the end of the series, when {{spoiler|it's revealed that the identity of Taran's parents will never be known.}}
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** [[Terry Pratchett]] does a great job of [[Lampshade Hanging]] on this one in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld/Maskerade|Maskerade]]''. In an early scene, Nanny Ogg explains the plot of the opera ''La Triviata'' to Granny Weatherwax thusly: "Well, there's a lot of humorous dressin' up, etcetera, someone will probably turn out to be someone's long-lost father or somethin'..." Near the end of the book, it is revealed that the star singer in the production of ''Il Trucadore'' really ''is'' the long-lost father of a young man in the audience. When Agnes (the junior witch) complains "This sort of thing ''does not happen''!" the more [[Genre Savvy]] Nanny replies, "Happens all the time in opera."
** A more interesting variation happens in ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]''. First, Susan has to {{spoiler|tell Lobsang Ludd that he and Jeremy Clockson are the twin sons of the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of Time}}. Later, she {{spoiler|admits she was lying, sort of: Lobsang and Jeremy aren't twins, they're [[Starfish Character|the same individual]], bifurcated at birth by the complexities of Time going through labor.}} For that matter, Susan's discovery that {{spoiler|there are other children of [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]s, and natural-born, not adopted}}, almost qualifies but fails the "met before" requirement.
** Subverted in ''[[Discworld/Witches Abroad|Witches Abroad]]'', where {{spoiler|Mrs. Gogol never does more than hint to Ella that she's her mother}}.
* This happens not once, but ''twice'', and to the ''same character'', in Ann Radcliffe's 1796 Gothic novel, ''[[The Italian]]''. In the first instance, the evil monk Schedoni is about to murder the virginal heroine in her sleep when he happens to glimpse her locket—her ownership of which reveals that she is (gasp!) ''his long-lost daughter!''... Only, turns out she isn't. Still, it was a pretty good reveal, wasn't it? She actually turns out to be the long-lost child of a nun who was nice to her earlier in the book, and to whom she'd previously felt a "mysterious connection."
** Even though it turns out that Schedoni isn't Elena's father, {{spoiler|he does turn out to be the brother of her long-deceased father whom he closely resembles, making him her uncle. Thus, this is perhaps an example of ''[[Everyone Is Related]]''.}}
* ''[[The Inheritance Cycle]]'': {{spoiler|Murtagh reveals that the evil Dragon Rider Morzan was Eragon's father, making Eragon and Murtagh brothers. This is subverted in the third book, when it turns out that Morzan is not Eragon's father, and it was actually Brom, who fell in love with Selena, Morzan's consort (also known as the Black Hand), thus making Murtagh and Eragon only half-brothers. There is also a scene where Arya is revealed to be the daughter of the elf queen Islanzadi, but this may or may not qualify since both Arya and Islanzadi knew about it even if the reader did not.}}
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