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{{quote|'''Gerrard:''' (''To Yawgmoth'') You're not my Hanna!|''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]'', [http://magiccards.info/ap/en/27.html Jilt]}}
 
A character is being fooled by an illusion, but for reasons that may vary (just two examples: [[A Glitch in Thethe Matrix]] or newfound self-confidence), the illusion is finally destroyed.
 
Said illusion could be the work of a [[Shape Shifter]], a [[Lotus Eater Machine]], or [[The Final Temptation]]. See also [[Epiphanic Prison]], in which [[Shattering the Illusion]] allows the character to learn something.
 
A common consequence of [[Spot the Thread]]. Compare [[A Glitch in Thethe Matrix]], in which the illusion isn't necessarily destroyed. See also [[Shapeshifter Guilt Trip]]. A [[Glamour]] is often dispelled this way, causing [[Glamour Failure]].
 
As a reveal trope, consider this a '''Spoiler Warning!'''
 
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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
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== [[Card Games]] ==
* ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]''
** Gerrard {{spoiler|does a [[Face Heel Turn]]}} in order to win Hanna back from the dead. As he's going to give her {{spoiler|Urza's head}}, however, he suddenly realizes she's nothing but an illusion created by [[Big Bad|Yawgmoth]]. He shatters the illusion by ''[http://magiccards.info/ap/en/27.html slaying]'' the fake Hanna.
** The trope is represented mechanically in cards like [http://magiccards.info/m10/en/57.html Illusionary Servant] and [http://magiccards.info/m11/en/69.html Phantom Beast]: targeting them with a spell or ability breaks the illusion, causing them to vanish.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Happens literally in the ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'' episode "Frame of Mind", in which Riker realises he's actually a prisoner in a virtual reality, and the illusion literally shatters like chunks of glass.
* An episode of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' had a comedy variant of this, in which the characters started pointing out each other's flaws. Each "revelation" was accompanied by a sound of glass shattering as the "illusion" was shattered.
** Also, the episode tag had the illusion of a deaf person shatter by literally putting onscreen "Glass Shattering" in subtitles.
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'': season 2 finale has House realizing that nearly everything thus far in the episode has been a hallucination. He is only able to shatter the illusion by using a surgery robot to slice his Patient of the Week open lengthwise... and even then there's an agonizing few moments where he isn't sure there was an illusion in the first place.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In episode 2 of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', Twilight Sparkle and her friends are menaced by an illusion conjured by the [[Big Bad]] that makes terrifying faces appear on the trees of the Everfree Forest. The happy-go-lucky Pinkie Pie is apparently unaffected, and helps her friends shatter the illusion by [[That Reminds Me of a Song|singing a silly little song]] about laughing away your fears.
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Usually, if you suddenly become aware that you're dreaming, you're going to wake up immediately after. If you don't, welcome to [[A Glitch in Thethe Matrix|the world of lucid dreams]].
 
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