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* ''[[Watchmen]]'': Adrian Veidt is set up to be the ultimate in [[Ambiguously Gay]], with all of the preening attention to his own physical appearance and lack of fighting ability that is associated with that trope. Then somebody tries to shoot him, and he responds by ''picking up an eight-foot-tall floor lamp and using it to bash the gunman into a fountain'', then climbing in after him and demanding to know who sent him ''while shaking and choking him''. {{spoiler|Subverted even further when we find out that Veidt hired the assassin himself as a red herring, and when Veidt proceeds to beat the everloving crap out of Nite Owl and Rorschach ''simultaneously'', and then proves his skill further by catching a bullet.}}

** The ending can be seen as a major subversion {{spoiler|Rorschach and Nite Owl confront the now realized-to-be-the-evil-villain Adrian, he explains his master plan and when told that he will be stopped, he informs them that [[You Are Too Late|he carried out his plan before they even got there]]}}.

 

* This is a staple of much of the comedy on ''[[Mongrels]]''; starting out with what seems to be a buildup to an obvious joke only to quickly turn it around (often [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] it in the process), like so:

{{quote|'''Nelson:''' How did you get these documents?