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== Anime & Manga ==
* [[Magical Project S]]" The whole show being a parody of the magical girl genre, you wouldn't expect much in the way of plot twists. Cue [[Wham! Episode|Episode 19]]- Sammy's [[Shrinking Violet]] best friend, Misao is really the sadistic [[Dark Magical Girl]], Pixy Misa. More so, Pixy Misa is her ''default'' form; the shy and demure Misa was only a result of repressing her negative traits.
* ''[[
* Episodes 14 and 21 of ''[[Code Geass]] R2'' are pretty much [[Info Dump|Infodumps]] on the nature of Geass and everything involved.
* ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' combines this with [[The Rashomon]], with Yuki, Mikuru, and Itsuki each explaining Haruhi's true nature and their own.
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** At the beginning of the manga and animes, Edward's automail arm isn't revealed until he foils an attack that would have destroyed a flesh-and-blood arm.
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] Strikers''. Protagonist Subaru, who has been a regular narrator ever since episode 1 (where as a little girl she is rescued by Nanoha and decides to become a hero too), finally battles the combat cyborgs but failos to rescue her sister and is seriously injured. Then we see her arm. Along with the blood, we see metal and cables. Subaru ''is a combat cyborg too''.
* In ''[[Kirby:
* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', the secret behind Geass, as well as numerous other examples of this trope that pop up from time to time.
* The [[Distant Finale]] of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' reveals that the narrator speaking at the beginning of every episode is actually Simon in his forties.
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* In the film ''[[The Illusionist (film)|The Illusionist]]'', it's where it turns out that Sophie was alive all along, that [[Manipulative Bastard|Eisenheim]] successfully fooled the Police Inspector, [[More Than Mind Control|causing the Prince to kill himself]], ''and'' that he got away with all of this scot-free. And Eisenheim's the ''protagonist''.
* In ''[[Tootsie]]'', the big reveal for [[Show Within a Show|the fictional soap]] is when the main character - who had been masquerading as a woman to land a part on a soap opera - takes off his wig and many of his feminine touches and reveals himself to be a man during a live taping.
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings|The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]]'', Gandalf the Grey is believed to be dead, having died in the previous film, and his death being recapped at the beginning of this film. Director Peter Jackson utilized various film techniques (distorted voice, blinding light covering his face) to hide that the mysterious White Wizard was actually Gandalf [[Back
** Note the scene is directly derived from the one in the book, in which at first the others cannot tell Gandalf from Saruman, as Gandalf has been sent back "as Saruman, as the way he should have been".
* Similar to the previous entry, the advertising killed this trope for ''[[Terminator]]'' 2. If one watches it back-to-back with the original you notice that, cleverly, it is left completely ambiguous why the T-800 has returned until the point where he rescues John Connor in the hallway.
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* Again, lack of complete sincerity, in the movie ''Just One Of the Guys'', Terry reveals her true gender to Rick who responds with the line, ''"Where d'you get off having tits?"''
* In ''[[A Beautiful Mind]]'', The Reveal is that John Nash [[It Was His Sled|has schizophrenia]] and has been imagining all the spy work he was been doing for the government - along with several of the other characters.
* There are not one but two major reveals in the first ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' movie - that Phelps is alive after being presumed KIA on a mission, and later that {{spoiler|he and Claire are working together against Ethan}}.
** [[Mission Impossible III]] starts with a very tense scene in which Ethan Hunt's wife is tied to a chair, whilst [[Big Bad]] Philip Seymour Hoffman threatens to kill her. At the end of the movie {{spoiler|it's revealed that it was a woman who worked for the bad guy. She is wearing a mask of Ethan Hunt's wife's face.}}
* [[It Was His Sled|One of the most famous]] is from ''[[Planet of the Apes]]''.
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* [[Agatha Christie]]'s ''The Mousetrap'', when the killer is revealed to be {{spoiler|...nope, nice try.}}
* Khaled Hosseini's ''[[The Kite Runner]]'' where Amir discovers that Hasaan is his half-brother.
* In [[Ben Counter]]'s [[Warhammer
* In [[James Swallow]]'s ''The Flight of the Eisenstein'', when Garro [[Friend or Foe|insists on hailing]] a Thunderbird he has been ordered to shoot down, and learns that it's Tarvitz, trying to warn the Space Marines on the planet of Horus's treacherous attack. Sendek, who prided himself on being [[The Stoic]], has a [[Not So Stoic]] moment of pure surprise.
{{quote|''"Saul Tarvitz," whispered Sendek. "First Captain of the Emperor's Children. Impossible! He's a [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|man of honour]]! If he's turned traitor, then the galaxy has gone insane!"
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**** Not quite. Sin is the armor that Yu Yevon creates for himself by possessing the Final Aeon. What he is really summoning is "The dream of the Fayth", a dream version of a Zanarkand that never lost the war; ''the Zanarkand that Jecht and Tidus came from.'' Yu Yevon's defeat means that Sin will finally disappear, along with the dream Zanarkand and Tidus.
** Auron's confession that he's an unsent (solid ghost). It was his devotion to his previous summoner and Tidus' father that allowed him to retain his human form (and not become a fiend), so he could [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]].
* At the End of Red's Story in ''[[
* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'', built as it is upon a well-crafted [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] plot, is ''made'' of these, and doesn't stop until the very end - expect reveals about enemies, allies, old flames, rivals... even the main character. In fact, every attainable companion in the game has one of these, if you talk to them and dig deep enough.
* Subverted in ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Radiant Dawn'', in which the Black Knight's true identity is spoiled to you by Ranulf rather casually a few chapters before your final showdown with him.
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** The first game's final case has two of them, in sequence. Lana Skye has already admitted guilt as your defendant, leading to a lot of suspicion as to: Why would you do that? When investigating a very obviously-related incident referred to as SL-9, you must go through the testimony of her younger sister, Ema Skye, to find out what happened. Many players here expect this murder gives the proof and motive to put the real culprit behind bars. The result? You accidentally find proof positive to the real killer in that incident: Ema. This sets up for a bigger reveal later on.
** Throughout the fifth game the question we've been building up to is whether the Yatagarasu is Kay's father Byrne Faraday, as Kay claims, or Calisto Yew, as Yew claims. In the penultimate challenge of the game we find out that the answer is neither option. The Yatagarasu was actually ''three people''—Faraday, Yew, and Faraday's partner Detective Badd, putting their respective skills together to commit the thefts. Compared to that the reveal of the [[Big Bad]] is almost minor.
* ''[[Fate/stay night]]''. In the Fate route Saber is revealed to be {{spoiler|King Arthur (or [[Distaff Counterpart|Arturia]])}}, the Holy Grail is actually {{spoiler|an [[Artifact of Doom]] [[Jackass Genie]]}} and {{spoiler|that random priest at the very start}} is the [[Big Bad]]. In Unlimited Blade Works route Archer is actually {{spoiler|a [[Future Badass]] version of Shirou}}. In Heaven's Feel route {{spoiler|Sakura is Rin's younger sister who was given to the evil Matou family and during eleven years was subject of horrendous domestic abuse and [[Training
* ''[[Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors|Nine Hours Nine Persons Nine Doors]]'' has its first major reveal during the Safe Ending, where you find out that Ace is Gentarou Hongou, the CEO of Cradle Pharmaceuticals and the perpetrator of the first Nonary Game. {{spoiler|Except he isn't Zero. Zero, as revealed by the True Ending, is June, and that you've actually been playing as her, not Junpei, the whole time. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].}}
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* ''[[Broken Saints]]'' has quite a few, but the most memorable comes in at the end of the penultimate chapter. Palmer is found dead, and in a storm of [[Mind Rape]] we see the face of the ''real'' [[Big Bad]]. The hobo Raimi encountered by the alley, AKA, Lear Dunham.
* ''[[Ruby Quest]]'' has several moments that would qualify, but the biggest is probably "Today is october 31st".
* In ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'s [[Darker and Edgier|Reconstruction series]]'', the fact that [[Only Sane Man|Church]] is the [[
** Another reveal in the most recent season: Tex is [[Failure Is the Only Option|destined to fail at every single thing she tries]] - no matter what she does - because that's what she's based on.
* The biggest reveal in the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' was the fact that Stone's mother was a supervillain, and that his father abandoned him at an orphanage in order to hide him from her.
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