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* In ''After.Life'' [[Liam Neeson]] plays a mortician named Elliot who claims to have the ability to [[Psychopomp|speak to the dead]]. Throughout the movie, he talks to the main character (who is dead) in hopes of getting her to move on with her life. It turns out in the end that he was lying the whole time and that the main character was alive the whole time. However, there have been foreshadowing for ''both'' options on whether he was lying or not. With lots of those moments pointing towards the former. [[Complete Monster|And one large hint that he]] [[Karma Houdini|has been doing it for a long time]].

* In ''[[Shutter Island]]'', we learn at the end that the protagonist isn't a cop anymore; just a delusional mental patient. Everyone he's met, including his partner, has been playing along in the hope that it'll let him get over it and the apparent conspiracy was all in his mind. Not only that, but he killed his wife; it was this incident that caused his psychotic break and he's been blocking it out.

* In the 2011 ''[[Unknown]]'', [[Liam Neeson]] plays Dr. Martin Harris, a scientist who came to Berlin with his wife for a biotechnology conference. He gets in a car accident, wakes up in the hospital after a four-day coma and finds that another man has completely taken over his life. Harris' wife believes the other man, who seems to know everything Harris knows, is her husband. [[The Reveal]] is that Harris is a deep-cover assassin who was on a mission to kill someone at the conference, but now believes his own cover story as a result of the brain damage he suffered in the car accident: Harris' "wife" is actually his partner, and the other man was a backup assassin who took over the role of "Dr. Harris" when the protagonist disappeared.

* In the 2011 ''[[Unknown (2011 film)|Unknown]]'', [[Liam Neeson]] plays Dr. Martin Harris, a scientist who came to Berlin with his wife for a biotechnology conference. He gets in a car accident, wakes up in the hospital after a four-day coma and finds that another man has completely taken over his life. Harris' wife believes the other man, who seems to know everything Harris knows, is her husband. [[The Reveal]] is that Harris is a deep-cover assassin who was on a mission to kill someone at the conference, but now believes his own cover story as a result of the brain damage he suffered in the car accident: Harris' "wife" is actually his partner, and the other man was a backup assassin who took over the role of "Dr. Harris" when the protagonist disappeared.

** And in the '''2006''' ''Unknown'', the film's conclusion reveals that James Caviezel's character is actually an undercover cop, who had infiltrated the kidnapping ring and was about to bust them when a toxic gas rendered both kidnappers and kidnappees unconscious and amnesiac. And then the ''very'' last scene twists the twist, by revealing that he'd also been sleeping with the wife of the kidnapped millionaire, and had ''incited'' the rest of the criminal gang to abduct the man so he could murder him and set the gang up to take the fall.

* In ''[[Psycho Beach Party]]'' it turns out it was all a dream in the main character's mind, that later got turned into a film where the main character then goes to kill some of the audience... so arguably you have to wonder when she got put away, who actually died, who was the actual murderer... and it raises so many questions.

* Used to creative effect in this short film by Mathieu Ratthe "Lovefield" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4meeZifCVro. In the middle of a secluded cornfield a man appears to be finishing killing a woman off screen. Hurrying back to his truck, he grabs a towel and the audience presumes he's trying to cover up the body and perhaps dispose it in some way. Then just at the end the man says "It's a boy", and a newborn baby appears in view. The woman who sounded like she was dying was in fact in the midst of delivering a child and the blood was just the afterbirth.

* Near the end of ''[[Identity]]'', it's revealed that none of the people at the motel are real. They are only the figments of Malcolm Rivers' imagination, each of them a separate personality of his mind.

* Near the end of ''[[Identity (film)|Identity]]'', it's revealed that none of the people at the motel are real. They are only the figments of Malcolm Rivers' imagination, each of them a separate personality of his mind.

* ''Four Dogs Playing Poker'' has four friends who had stolen a statuette find it has disappeared. They need to pay for it or be killed by the buyer- so they take out insurance policies on each other, and draw cards to see who will be the murderer and victim. But there's a twist...

* Excessively used in the American remake of the horror movie "[[Silent House]]", after being chased around the house by a mysterious burly man, and her father and uncle get attacked by the man and taken away, she finds out from a woman who claims to be her child hood friend that her father and uncle used her and the main character in child pornagraphy and that the mysterious woman was the killer the whole time. Then it turns out the woman doesn't exist and that the main character was the killer. THEN, after killing her unrepentant father and sparing her repentant uncle, it turns out neither of them exist. [[Mind Screw|Maybe?]]

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== Live-Action TV ==

* The [[wikipedia:St. Elsewhere#Final episode|final scene]] of the final episode of ''[[St Elsewhere]]'' showed such a radically different interpretation of the major characters it opens the possibility that the entire series was an in-story delusion. One series writer [[wikipedia:Tommy Westphall#The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis|deduced]] through [[Canon Welding]] that "90% of all television" is a subplot of a ''St. Elsewhere'' episode.

* The [[wikipedia:St. Elsewhere#Final episode|final scene]] of the final episode of ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'' showed such a radically different interpretation of the major characters it opens the possibility that the entire series was an in-story delusion. One series writer [[wikipedia:Tommy Westphall#The Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis|deduced]] through [[Canon Welding]] that "90% of all television" is a subplot of a ''St. Elsewhere'' episode.

* One particularly impressive example is the ''[[CSI]]'' episode "Got Murder?". After finding that a dismembered body belongs to the estranged ex-wife of a man who had been accused of her murder several years earlier, the investigators discover that that man's daughter is pregnant, and find evidence that he was molesting her. Just as their case starts to look watertight—that he killed his wife when she returned to find him in bed with their daughter—the truth comes out: it's just a [[wikipedia:False pregnancy|hysterical pregnancy.]] The daughter killed her mom for threatening her fantasy life. Dad had no idea what the heck was going on.

** Another episode ends with the perp(?) delivering this [[Mind Screw|immortal line]] - "I swear to God it's the truth... even if it never happened."<ref>Which, it should be noted, is a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]''.</ref>

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'''Sebastian Cabot:''' "No, Mr. Smith. You're not in Heaven or Hell. You're on an airplane."

'''Mr. Smith:''' [turns and sees a creature destroying the plane's wing] "There's a gremlin destroying the plane! You've gotta believe me!"

'''Sebastian Cabot:''' [[Godwin's Law|"Why should I believe you? You're Hitler!"]]

'''Mr. Smith/Hitler:''' "Noooooo! Eva Braun! Help me!"

''Eva takes off her facemask, revealing she is a human-fly.''

''Mr. Smith screams''

'''Bender:''' Saw it comin'. }}

* There's a ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' episode where Sid thinks Stinky is a vampire and at the end he turns out to be right. This has no impact on the rest of the show.

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