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* The "twist" of one [[Agatha Christie]] novel, ''{{spoiler|The Hollow}}'', was that the person found standing over the corpse, holding the smoking gun that killed him, was the murderer—despite all the evidence to the contrary.
** [[Agatha Christie]]'s ''first'' novel, ''The Mysterious Affair at Styles'', could be considered a meta-twist of the trope "the prime suspect is never guilty", but the good lady meta-twisted that one too often for subsequent examples to count as a meta-twist of ''her own'' twists.
* The first four, maybe five, ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books follow a specific pattern: the people Harry suspects are never the actual bad guys. In ''[[
** ''Half-Blood Prince'' also has another one: Up until then, the DA-teacher always had been a character newly introduced in the respective book. (Except in the first book of course, where ''everyone'' was "newly introduced".) This turned out ''not'' to be the case in ''HBP''. Even Harry & friends were surprised by this.
* Most of [[Dan Brown]]'s work to date has involved the final villain of the story actually being a trusted ally in disguise, and the obvious villain just doing the dirty work for said person. So it was quite a surprise in ''[[The Lost Symbol]]'' when the obvious villain was the primary antagonist from start to finish.
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* By the third season finale of ''[[24]]'', fans have come to expect some huge cliffhanger twist. Jack enters his car, there's a long silence as the viewer waits expectantly... and then Jack breaks down crying. Woah.
* ''[[Lost]]'' is well known for its use of flashbacks, a fact which was taken into account in the first episode of both seasons two and three, each of which began with what appeared to be a flashback but was revealed to be showing a previously unseen area of the island.
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