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Most of the time, this is when the characters have to let the truth out, no matter the feelings hurt, the harmful secrets revealed, the comfortable illusions shattered.
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* [[Judge Dredd]]. Chief Judge Fargo told Dredd that his family was killed when he was a child. Just before his death Fargo tells Dredd the truth: Dredd was created in a lab, and so was Rico.
* [[Return of the Jedi]]: When Obi-Wan can no longer gain by hiding the truth from Luke, he tells him that Vader is in fact his father and that Leia is his twin sister.
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* [[Shrek]], Fiona, at the altar at sunset, chooses Shrek over Farquaad and reveals her nature and her curse.
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* [[Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone]]: z'Acatto needs to tell Cazio that his own drunken stupidity led to the death of Cazio's father because if he didn't he knew the young man would chase shadows until he died.
* [[The Lord of the Rings]]: Aragorn shows himself to Sauron in the palantir when there can be no more gain by hiding himself and who he is.
** Well, that and it's also part of a larger deception to convince Sauron that he has the
* [[Harry Potter]]: When Dumbledore tells Harry what little he hadn't pieced together about Voldemort and the Prophecy, he lampshades this pretty well verbatim.
== Video Game ==
* [[Dragon Age Origins]]: The Grey Wardens are made of this. They keep the Joining ritual secret until the last moment, and they keep the [[Heroic Sacrifice]] needed by a Warden to slay an Archdemon secret until the end.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
* The [[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]] series has several of these, often when Phoenix's clients are innocent of the crimes they're accused of but hold off on explaining the full truth to Phoenix and the court until the climax of the trial. One major example involves Lana from the DS version of the first game.
* When you receive Mordin's loyalty mission in ''[[Mass Effect]] 2'', he tells Shepard that he wasn't entirely truthful about his previous work in the STG, studying the effects of the genophage -- {{spoiler|when they discovered the krogan were adapting, he and his team revised the genophage to keep the krogan subdued}}.
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