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Interestingly, [[Truth in Television|real-life]] relationships can be just as tortuous and surprising as the fictional ones; for a famous example, [[Jack Nicholson]] learned just days before the premiere of ''[[Chinatown]]'' that his recently deceased "sister" was in fact his natural mother, and that the parents who raised him were in fact his grandparents (similar switches occurred in other people's lives, such as singer Bobby Darrin).
Compare with [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]. Also compare [[Chekhov MIA]], when the missing person actually shows up in the flesh.
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'': The main character's [[Disappeared Dad]] {{spoiler|turns out to be Bhaal, God of Murder.}}
* Done twice in ''[[Disgaea]]'', with both parents of [[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness/Characters|Laharl]]. Laharl's father is {{spoiler|[[Mid Boss]], or rather the Dark Adonis, working behind the scenes to reunite the Netherworld and Celestia}}, while his mother is {{spoiler|Big Sis Prinny, paying penance for the sin of taking her own life to save Laharl's.}}
* ''[[Jade Empire]]'': One of the Lotus Assassins sent to kill Master Li's family couldn't bring himself to kill his infant child, {{spoiler|Dawn Star ? who ended up being raised by Master Li at his school in Two Rivers, neither even suspecting their relationship until they're told about it late in the game}}.
* ''[[Ace Attorney]]'''s Kay Faraday {{spoiler|took up the thief's lifestyle after finding out that her dead father was the original Yatagarasu. She doesn't find out the [[Collective Identity|major twist]] until later.}}
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