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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"So it wasn't Dwight after all. Looks like I'm the killer. You never expect that you're the killer. It's a great twist. Great twist."''
|'''Michael Scott''', ''[[The Office]]''}}
A character (usually the main character, but sometimes sharing equal billing) is chasing or being chased by a killer or monster.
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== Type B ==
=== Anime
* In ''[[Death Note]]'', Light Yagami, who repeatedly insists that he is not the supernatural killer Kira, and does not remember being Kira, is Kira. Note however that this only applies during his [[Memory Gambit]] during the Yotsuba arc.
* In the ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' manga-only chapter ''Onisarashi-hen'', viewpoint character Natsumi Kimiyoshi is responsible for the deaths of her family members, though she doesn't realize until the end due to [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]].
** Also, in the first arc ''Onikakushi-hen'', the main character Keiichi realizes that people around him are acting crazy and people are dying... He gets increasingly afraid, and kills his two best friends under self-defense. It wasn't. He was just being paranoid and delusional.
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=== Fan
* Who can forget the line [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/836450/1/DOOM_Repercussions_of_Evil "No, John. You are the demons"]. What a twist!
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* {{spoiler|Mariastella Cosentino}} in ''The Scent of the Night''- throughout the book everyone is looking for Gargano, who stole a lot of money from some very angry people. {{spoiler|Mariastella was in love with him and when he came to her for refuge, she shot him and blacked it out completely, so to her Gargano was still alive and missing, not dead and [[Nightmare Fuel|wrapped in plastic on her spare room bed.]]}}
* [[Michael Crichton]]'s novel ''[[Sphere]]'' used a similar twist.
* If ''[[Harry Potter and
{{quote|''"There was another attack today and I don't know where I was. Tom, what am I going to do? I think I'm going mad... I think I'm the one attacking everyone, Tom!"''}}
** At least, sort of; she's actually being possessed by {{spoiler|Tom Riddle himself}}.
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* ''[[Heavy Rain]]'' sets this up fairly early on with Ethan Mars, who has periods where he blacks out then wakes up with an origami figure in his hand. {{spoiler|It's a blatant [[Red Herring]]. However, the ''real'' Origami Killer, Scott Shelby, still is an example of this trope, but is a Type A [[Unreliable Narrator]] instead.}}
* In ''[[Twisted Metal]]: Black'', Preacher believes that he is the victim of [[Demonic Possession]] after an exorcism, with the "demon" driving him to kill. {{spoiler|When he wins, he finds out that there was no demon and that he was [[Evil All Along]]. This leads him to [[Driven to Suicide|jump off a building]] in regret.}}
* A fairly common type of bugs in RPG with [[Procedural Generation]] is missing sanity checks on most generated content. Among the other things, it allows NPCs to choose their allies and even themselves when they decide to act against a random available NPC or offer others a quest to do so. This tend to mix badly with [[Relationship Values]] and faction helping its own members, of course.
** The most famous is ''[[Crusader Kings]] II'' bug making characters try to capture or assassinate themselves, and then report themselves for this. The most famous one (thanks to [[Reddit]]) is Spymaster Roger a Muirebe reporting himself for trying to assassinate himself so that he won't discover his plot to kill himself (see on [https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2cvvul/roger_a_muirebe_master_spy/ Reddit], [https://web.archive.org/web/20200809043455/https://me.me/i/my-liege-i-write-to-you-with-shocking-news-roger-18680341 me.me]).
** ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' changelist [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=21368.0 in 2008] included «Stopped people from giving quests to kill themselves.»
* The player character in ''[[Need for Speed]]: Carbon - Own The City'' gets amnesia from a street racing accident which also claimed the life of their brother Michael "Mick" Rogers, making their move throughout the city in order to find who is responsible. It turns out that {{spoiler|it was the player all along who orchestrated the crash all along, due to how much of a toxic person Mick was to the player and their former girlfriend Sara.}}.
=== Western Animation ===
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