The Dog Was the Mastermind: Difference between revisions

* ''[[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.}}

 

 

* In ''Taz: Wanted'', {{spoiler|TWEETY}} is the mastermind behind it all. This is especially mind-numbing when you consider that {{spoiler|he's been your tutorial and hint provider for the ENTIRE GAME, including the final level.}}

* In ''[[Baten Kaitos]]: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean'', it turns out the traitor is the one person everyone suspected least: {{spoiler|Kalas, the player character}}.

** Until the reveal from a Drama CD revealing that {{spoiler|Saya was brought forth to Relius shortly after her kidnapping and Relius made a cryptic comment that she's going to be a vessel for something, meaning Imperator Saya, for all means, could be a [[Puppet King]] manipulated by Relius and Hazama, therefore the mastermind may have been both of them since the very beginning.}}

* One that's really only known in Japan is the culprit in the old mystery game ''[[wikipedia:Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken|The Portopia Serial Murder Case]]'' (although some may have heard about its [[Shout-Out]] in [[Haruhi-chan]]). The culprit is quite literally the one you'd least suspect, since not only is he your assistant, he's also (since the main character is an unseen [[Heroic Mime]]) ''the guy executing the player's commands and speaking for the main character''. The revelation was so out of left field that the phrase "Yasu is the culprit" is something of a [[Memetic Mutation|minor Japanese meme]] for this sort of trope.