The Un-Reveal: Difference between revisions

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Can be either frustrating or hilarious, depending on how badly the viewer wants the reveal, and how far the viewer was strung along expecting it.

If The Reveal is cancelled because the revealer suddenly dies, it's [[His Name Is]].

If The Reveal is cancelled because the revealer suddenly dies, it's [[His Name Is--]].

A [[Sound Effect Bleep]] can be used to create an Un-Reveal. Another weapon in '''The Un-Reveal''' arsenal is the end-of-episode cutoff.

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** We do get to (very briefly) see his face late in ''Destiny'' during a flashback to his mask getting shot off in SEED. However, just to twist the knife in even further, it looks completely normal, well, as normal as a {{spoiler|clone of a famous politician}} can look. I guess the mask was just there to hide that fact.

*** The reason for the shocked reactions, presumably, is that {{spoiler|said famous politician is Mu's father (who also bankrolled the experiments that led to Kira's birth)}}.

* '''Every chapter''' of ''[[~~Twentieth~~ Century Boys]]''. There are about 15 different Unreveals in the manga (one for each volume). Sometimes the villain has a mask (three of them). He's "seen" in flashback as one of two identically masked children, or again as a child in a different mask. He's seen again in {{spoiler|a virtual reality program, but since there are no photos of him as a child, his face is a blank sphere.}} Later he is {{spoiler|unmasked and killed,}} but because he has always appeared as a masked man, an imitator (or is it the genuine article?) appears. Cue the rest of the manga. {{spoiler|his actual identity is only implied in the very last page of the manga's epilogue, 21st Century Boys. He had only been mentioned twice before, and on both occasions the person speaking said they thought he was dead.}}

* '''Every chapter''' of ''[[20th Century Boys]]''. There are about 15 different Unreveals in the manga (one for each volume). Sometimes the villain has a mask (three of them). He's "seen" in flashback as one of two identically masked children, or again as a child in a different mask. He's seen again in {{spoiler|a virtual reality program, but since there are no photos of him as a child, his face is a blank sphere.}} Later he is {{spoiler|unmasked and killed,}} but because he has always appeared as a masked man, an imitator (or is it the genuine article?) appears. Cue the rest of the manga. {{spoiler|his actual identity is only implied in the very last page of the manga's epilogue, 21st Century Boys. He had only been mentioned twice before, and on both occasions the person speaking said they thought he was dead.}}

* Duero's hair is flipped in the last episode of ''[[Vandread]]'', revealing his supposedly handsome face. We still don't see it, though.

* In ''[[Ranma ½]]'', Principal Kunō threatens to reveal everyone's English test scores for all to find out. Ranma initially doesn't care, but when the principal implies his score is so bad he couldn't reveal it, Ranma gives chase and the principal later changes his mind about revealing his score. Even Ranma's English teacher forgot what she actually gave him. When he finally caught him, it turns out that what the principal had was actually a cheesy prank of a poster with his face with the words "Kiss me!" and he accidentally left everyone's test scores in a hot-air balloon ([[Brick Joke|which is initially how he was going to let everyone know]]). The scores reach the international news somehow; Akane's score turns out to be very good, and while Ranma's isn't revealed, it's implied he actually did not too bad.

* In ''[[Super ~~Gals~~|Gals!]]'', Towa reveals Ran's secret to Kasumi. But whatever it was, it isn't actually interesting.

* In ''[[Super GALS!|Gals!]]'', Towa reveals Ran's secret to Kasumi. But whatever it was, it isn't actually interesting.

* ''[[School Rumble]]''. When Eri & Yakumo were fighting in the school play, Eri asks Yakumo about her relationship with Harima. Her answer is never revealed but it is enough to make Eri yield.

* ''[[Bokurano]]'', with its premise of {{spoiler|killing all of the "chosen" pilots as part of a gigantic, winner-takes-all tournament that would determine the last universe remaining}}, seemed to have been heading towards an ending finally explaining how and why all the events in the manga happened with its last chapter, titled {{spoiler|Dung Beetle}}. Instead, said character offers one theory for why everything has happened, before {{spoiler|proceeding with its [[No Ending]].}}

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* Possibly the earliest "[[MacGuffin]] case" is the one containing the "Great Whatzit" in ''Kiss Me Deadly''. All we see is that it gives off a blindingly bright glow (possibly nuclear in origin); the briefcase in ''Pulp Fiction'' is speculated by some to be a [[Shout-Out]] to this.

* Same again, for the contents of the car trunk in ''[[Repo Man]]''. A similar blindingly-bright glow is seen radiating from it whenever somebody opens the trunk {{spoiler|and is disintegrated}}. An alleged photo of the contents is shown on a tabloid newspaper, but is far too blurred and ambiguous to be recognizable.

* The "Rabbit's Foot" from ''[[Mission Impossible (film)|Mission Impossible]] 3''. They even mention in-universe that it's a [[MacGuffin]] and it doesn't matter what it is exactly. That we know that it is powerful is enough to know.

* The "Rabbit's Foot" from ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)||Mission Impossible]] 3''. They even mention in-universe that it's a [[MacGuffin]] and it doesn't matter what it is exactly. That we know that it is powerful is enough to know.

** It has a biohazard label on the container.

* ''[[Dragonheart]]'' begins this trope when the dragon tries to tell the hero his name, but gets interrupted before he can start.

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* A rare real-life version of this happened with the National Geographic Channel's highly-publicised television special in 2003. Supervised by leading Egyptologist Dr Zahi Hawaas, the show was a first-time stunt in the history of TV - The television crew and Hawass' expedition used a robot to peer into a narrow shaft that opens into the queen's chamber of the Great Pyramid - Within the shaft Hawass found another stone block, possibly a door, and Hawass was made a laughingstock in front of live TV audiences from 140 countries. Poor guy.

* [[Played for Laughs]] on the [[April Fools' Day]] 2011 episode of ''[[The Price Is Right]]''. Throughout the whole show, host Drew Carey hypes up a "10,000th something", which at the end is {{spoiler|nothing}}.

* Wilson, Tim Taylor's neighbor in ''[[Home Improvement]]'', always has the lower half of his face obscured from the viewers, usually by the fence which separates his yard from Tim's. In the few episodes when a full body shot of Wilson is shown, he is only shown from behind. There was even one episode where Wilson attends a party at Tim's house, but in every close-up of his face, there is always some other item in front of him to prevent the viewers from seeing the lower half of his face.

* Wilson, Tim Taylor's neighbor in ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'', always has the lower half of his face obscured from the viewers, usually by the fence which separates his yard from Tim's. In the few episodes when a full body shot of Wilson is shown, he is only shown from behind. There was even one episode where Wilson attends a party at Tim's house, but in every close-up of his face, there is always some other item in front of him to prevent the viewers from seeing the lower half of his face.

** And in one instance, the lower half of his face is revealed, only for the top part to be covered with a mask.

*** In another, he was out in the woods on a camping trip. No convenient scenery to conceal his face, but he was wearing a parka zipped up to his nose.

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* Frequently done in ''[[Footrot Flats]]''. Whenever anyone is about to say the Dog's first name, the dog [[Embarrassing First Name|actively prevents it from being said or revealed in any way]].

* ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'' once had one to how [[The Sopranos]] ended.

{{quote|'''Rat''': I can't believe it...All this time has passed and I still can't get over the [[The Sopranos|Sopranos]] ending...How [[Smash to Black|the screen just went black]]...

'''Goat''': Wow, you should have said something...[[Contrived Coincidence|I'm personal friends with the writer David Chase. Matter of fact, he's here now.]]

'''Rat''': OH MY GOD! DAVID CHASE! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! YOU'VE GOT TO TELL ME WHAT HAPPENS! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE '''PLEASE!'''

'''David Chase''': Hahaha...No problem...Well, after the fellow in the "Members Only" jacket makes that turn to the restroom, he-

(The next panel is almost completely covered by a black smudge.)

'''[[Author Avatar|Stephen Pastis]]''': (Looking at the comic) [[Lampshade Hanging|Heckuva time for an ink spill]].

'''Rat''': (Very pissed off) [[Rage Against the Author|I'M...GONNA...KILL...YOU...]] }}

** Another strip had a very similar joke.

{{quote|'''A Croc''': Hullo, zeeba neighba...How is you?

'''Zebra''': You know, I've been wanting to ask you this for a while. What is that [[Funetik Aksent|stupid accent]] you guys have?

'''A Croc''': Oh...You not know? We is speaking (word whited out)

'''Stephan Pastis''': (looking at the comic) Stupid liquid paper. }}

* ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'': Sarge and the Captain once conspire to see Beetle's eyes by scaring him so that his hat will jump off. When they do, it turns out he's wearing shades underneath.

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=== Web Original ===

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6TuC3olGws This] [[~~Youtube~~ Poop]]. Probably a good thing, given [[Squick|what he decides not to reveal]].

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6TuC3olGws This] [[YouTube Poop]]. Probably a good thing, given [[Squick|what he decides not to reveal]].

* One of the many ''[[Tumblr]]'' blogs for ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', [http://junebug-answers.tumblr.com Junebug Answers], had everyone asking what Junebug's cutie mark is, since it didn't appear in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E10 Secret of My Excess|the show]], being obscured by her saddlebags. She decides to reveal it, only to have Spike jump in front of the camera and block our view of her flank.

* [[That Guy With The Glasses]] music reviewer [[Todd in the Shadows]] has [[The Gimmick]] of [[The Faceless|never revealing his face]] by doing his reviews in silhouette and wearing a mask for appearances elsewhere. When [[The Nostalgia Chick]]'s Makeover Fairy tries to improve his image, she lifts up his mask, [[Take Our Word for It|screams in terror]], and replaces it. All shot from behind Todd, of course.

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=== Western Animation ===

* ''[[The Fairly ~~Odd Parents~~]]'', "Father Time": Timmy is talking to a kid whose nickname is Dad (naturally, his future father; Timmy's here because of [[Time Travel]]). When he's mentioning his real name, a truck is whizzing by blowing its horn. "Dad" is pointing to a girl he says has a beautiful name. We don't get to hear since yet another truck is whizzing by. But guess what everyone calls her: Mom (of course, Timmy's mom in the future).

* ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'', "Father Time": Timmy is talking to a kid whose nickname is Dad (naturally, his future father; Timmy's here because of [[Time Travel]]). When he's mentioning his real name, a truck is whizzing by blowing its horn. "Dad" is pointing to a girl he says has a beautiful name. We don't get to hear since yet another truck is whizzing by. But guess what everyone calls her: Mom (of course, Timmy's mom in the future).

* ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]'', "The Junkman Cometh": Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen travel into space via an open-cockpit rocket (as has been the case in many episodes, and even the original movie). When Sheen wonders how they can survive without spacesuits, Jimmy responds as if nothing could be more elementary, but his explanation is conveniently drowned out by Carl suddenly breaking into song in the background, and done later in the episode when Sheen asks how they get to the moon so fast rather than taking several days.

* One episode of ''[[The Secret Show]]'' had several noises preventing the audience from hearing whenever Changed Daily's original name was mentioned.

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