The Reveal: Difference between revisions

* [[Master of Martial Hearts]]'s ending brings this trope to utter madness:

** The almost unseen {{spoiler|[[Cute Mute]], [[Hot Mom]] of Natsume? She's actually [[Stepford Smiler]]. On the top of it, she used to be one of the past [[Action Girl|contestants]] of the ''Platonic Heart'' martial heart tournament. Defeated, she literally got her voice box ripped out of her, her sanity shattered and spent an unspecified number of years as sexual slave before escaping and rebuilding a semblance of normalcy around herself. Simply unable to let it go, she then hatched a complex [[Revenge by Proxy]] plan involving her offsprings organizing the current edition of the ''Platonic Heart'' tournament, lure the daughter of the (still living) past winner and the (then dead) past promoter of the contest and have her relive every bit of her experience, including defeat, maiming and slavery. Just [[Disproportionate Retribution|to get some vengeance]] }}

** Aya's {{spoiler|caring [[Hot Mom]] and her dead loving father? According to Miko and the whole Natsume's family a sadistic [[Dark Action Girl]] and a sadistic rapist who had his way with the Action Girls defeated by her wife}}.

** Every single character thought to be dead or defeated {{spoiler|according to the ''Platonic Hearts'' rulebook, unknown and unmentioned until the very end, the defeated contestant get [[Mind Raped]] into drooling idiots, may get their vocal cords surgically excised to avoid useless noises and are sold into slavery. Even the sympathetic ones. And you're shown the whole supporting cast in that pitiful state. Until they die. Every single one}}.