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{{quote|''"In other words, the story does not trick the player, it is the player that tricks himself."''|'''[[Hideo Kojima]]'''}}
'''CAUTION:''' ''Read this article carefully before using it''
Basically, this is playing bait and switch with a trope. A work makes you think a trope is going to happen, but it doesn't.
But how could people know a trope is going to happen? Well [[
Phrased another way, the work is ultimately [[The Reveal|revealed]] ''not'' to be using the trope at all, but in the meantime was ''played up'' to look like it was.
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== Anime ==
* ''[[Cross Game]]'': A beautiful girl is attacked by three delinquents. But lo, a hero arrives! With but three mighty punches he decks the villains, saving the girl. Noticing her injured hand he gentlemanly offers to provide medical treatment at his conveniently nearby home..
Wait a minute... we've seen this hero before. Gasp! He was part of the gang of delinquents—it's an [[Invoked Trope]]! Oh dear, what will happen to the beautiful innocent girl now? Will our onlooking heroine warn her in time?!
Wait... what is the beautiful innocent victim doing now? She's got her cell phone out! She's calling the police! "That was extortion they tried to commit -- the police need to know about it." The "delinquents" flee, revealing the truth.
An [[Invoked Trope]] that then got subverted.
* [[Rurouni Kenshin]] has a degree of subversion of the [[Determinator]] trope, in how he reacts when he's truly put into a dangerous fight. The layers of his friendly, pacifistic personality start to fall away, until beyond a certain point he becomes the cold-blooded killer he once was.
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''(The camera then moves a step to the side, revealing a straight-laced ranger with glasses)''
'''Ranger McFadden:''' Right here, sir, behind the drunk. }}
** A third example, also from "Monty Can't Buy Me Love," is when Mr. Burns, Homer et al have finally found the Loch Ness monster, who proves impossible to subdue. Finally Mr. Burns walks toward the monster with a stern look in his face. We expect an epic fight where Mr. Burns is revealed as a [[Badass Grandpa]] handing out an [[Let's Get Dangerous|unexpected ass-kicking]]
{{quote|'''Burns:''' I was a little worried when he swallowed me, but ... well, [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome|you saw the rest]].}}
** Another episode subverts the car driving towards glass example mentioned above. In this case, the car hits the glass, but simply knocks it down flat on the ground and drives over it. The workers then pick the glass back up noting "wow, tough glass."
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