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[[File:masterdog 8866.jpg|link=Silent Hill 2|frame|Huh. [[Sarcasm Mode|That explains]] [[Gainax Ending|everything.]]]]
{{quote|''"The real killer was. . . the {{spoiler|guy on the floor}}. After all, no one would have expected the {{spoiler|guy on the floor}}, because he has '''nothing to do with this movie'''!''
|'''[[Confused Matthew]]''', in his review of ''[[Saw]]''.}}
You're getting close. The clues are fitting together, and everything is unraveling. You're ''this close'' to finding [[The Man Behind the Man]]. Your trail of clues finally ends, and the [[Big Bad]] is...
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* ''[[Rat-Man]]'': one story has the eponymous "hero" meeting Graziello, a stick figure who annoys him by telling corny jokes and laughing in a monotonous way, and Rat-Man can't get rid of him. In the end we discover that everything that happened in the issue was Graziello's plan: as a failed comic book character who never got the chance to be published, he lured Rat-Man to the comic book school and in doing that he had appeared in a ''Rat-Man'' issue, thus finally [[Medium Awareness|being published and read by many people]]!
* An [[Anti-Hero]] version of this trope happened in ''[[Watchmen]]''. Rorschach's identity was mostly a secret until it is revealed he was {{spoiler|that random homeless guy that was always hanging out in the background.}}
* This happens ''twice'' in ''[[52]]''. The first time is a huge early reveal that {{spoiler|the time issues going on are the work of Skeets, Booster Gold's sidekick. Oh, and he kills Booster.}} In the very last issues {{spoiler|after Booster is revealed to be alive due to time travel tricks, it's discovered that Skeets is possessed by Mister Mind.}} Said villain had only appeared in a few panels without ever saying a word in the early issues.
== Fan Works ==
* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' story ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4101650/1/Backward_With_Purpose_Part_I_Always_and_Always Backward With Purpose]'' involved Harry, Ginny, and Ron [[Set Right What Once Was Wrong|traveling back in time]] [[Peggy Sue|to fix]] a [[Bad Future]]. At the same time ([[Timey-Wimey Ball|relatively]]), someone else is also traveling from the future and [[The Man Behind the Man|tweaking things behind their backs]]. It is revealed to be {{spoiler|Harry and Ginny's son Albus, who was never seen previously and had not yet even existed in any form or timeline from the main characters' (and audiences') perspective}}. Perhaps most bizarrely, if you read the sequel ''it all makes sense''.
* In the ''[[Firefly]]'' fanfic ''[[Forward]]'', it turns out that the mastermind behind the events of the "Charity" episode was {{spoiler|Katie, the little girl following Zoe around, who was actually a powerful psychic}}.
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== Literature ==
* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series has its own page for [[Chekhov's Gun]] and its various [[Sub Tropes]], so this comes up a few times.
** ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (novel)|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]''
** ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (novel)|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'': {{spoiler|Tom Riddle}}, who gets double points for who he really is. Come now, reading the book for the first time, who ever seriously suspected {{spoiler|Riddle}} of doing anything? Let alone of {{spoiler|being the younger form of Lord Voldemort himself}}.
** ''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (novel)|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'': {{spoiler|Scabbers, Ron's pet rat}}. Of course, he's actually {{spoiler|Peter Pettigrew in Animagus form}}.
** ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (novel)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'': {{spoiler|Mad-Eye Moody}} can count, as the reveal that not only was he responsible for everything that happened in the book, but that he was also {{spoiler|Barty Crouch Jr in disguise}} was rather sudden.
*** These became so expected that Rowling ended up adding a page to her website's FAQ where she asked readers not to assume that
* In the second book of the ''[[Foundation]]'' trilogy it is revealed that the Mule is {{spoiler|Magnifico the clown}}.
* In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', the masterminds of Deep Thought's experiment were the lab mice that humans thought they were experimenting on.
* In the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] series ''[[New Jedi Order]]'', an evil alien race called the Yuuzhan Vong invades. Their leader is [[Evil Overlord|Supreme Overlord]] Shimrra, a God-King who truly looks the part. The last novel in the series reveals that {{spoiler|he is actually being force controlled by his jester, Onimi}}, a being so far below Shimrra that he was considered as little more than a pet.
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* DS [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Time Hollow]]'' posits the notion, in an optional extended ending, that {{spoiler|Sox the cat was the being behind most if not all of the game's events, or at the least that he's a mightier being than he lets on.}}
* [[The World Ends With You]]: Okay, on the one hand, something was seriously wrong with Joshua. On the other hand, I don't think anyone was expecting him to be {{spoiler|the composer}}.
* Before the final fight in ''[[Battle Golfer Yui]]'', {{spoiler|Shadow Thunder revealed that she disguised herself as Tomoko Okui and helped Yui Mizuhara out in order to encourage her growth and gather data on her golfing skills.}}
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