Using You All Along: Difference between revisions

* In ''Superman/Batman : Generations'', Bruce Wayne Junior as Batman investigates Ra's Al Ghul's organization, and when confronting the head finds out it's not Ra's but {{spoiler|Bruce Senior, who beat Ra's once and for all ten years before and has found a way to overcome the Lazarus Pit's limitations. He has turned the organization to the good while maintaining a criminal front. He then makes Junior its new CEO, and resumes his life as the Batman}}.

 

* The entire rationale behind ''[[With Strings Attached]]'' is that the four are being used by the Fans. First they're sent to C'hou by Shag and Varx as part of an undergraduate Alien Psychology experiment. After this collapses and things go weird, they're sent on a quest to remove a curse from a continent and told that's why they were sent to C'hou in the first place. {{spoiler|Everyone thinks the C'hovite gods set them on the quest path, but it was actually engineered by Jeft.}} They mostly learn the truth about {{spoiler|Jeft's}} manipulations, but they never do learn about those of Shag and Varx, because the two lie quite convincingly to the four.

 

* This is the surprise twist in the thriller ''[[State of Play (film)|State of Play]]''. Critics generally called it a [[Shocking Swerve]].

* ''[[Total Recall]]'' uses this, {{spoiler|with the added twist that the villain who set the plot is the protagonist himself (via [[Memory Gambit]])}}.

* "[[Season of the Witch]]" actually is about this sort of plot-- {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] tricked not only the main character, but the entire branch of the Catholic Church backing an expedition to remove her power and its effects by taking her to an ancient monastery where a ritual can be performed to do so. Unbeknownst to them, the monks are all dead and the monastery desecrated, and the demon actually wanted to be taken there so that the usual restrictions against demons entering churches didn't apply, and she could use the particular book of rituals to destroy humanity. }}

** {{spoiler|In doing this, she even makes them think they've figured out her tricks (and made the audience think she was entirely ineffectual) in her obvious displays of witchcraft while she was talking about being innocent. When all along, she wanted them to think her guilty.}}

 

== [[Literature]] ==

** Done twice in fact, when its discovered that Quai- Bayaz's assistant- was murdered and replaced by Tolomei, a girl from Bayaz's past he claims was killed by her father (when in fact he murdered both of them). Played more straight in that she wants it to bring forth [[The Legions of Hell]] and bring about [[The End of the World as We Know It]], and ''nobody'' thinks thats a good idea.

 

* In ''[[CSI]]'', we're led to believe season 8's [[Big Bad]] is Lou Gedda, until the finale when {{spoiler|1=Undersheriff McKeen shows his [[True Colors]] by murdering Warrick}}.

* Sloan and SD-6 on ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'', though unusually, it is revealed almost immediately.

* Every Winchester in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' falls into this trope, due to {{spoiler|the plot formulated by Lucifer and Azazel over 20 years ago}}. Especially John and Dean, ''but especially especially'' Sam. Several people use this as evidence that there is no free will- or at very least, not for humans.

* [[Doctor Who]] and {{spoiler|the entire 16th season, also known as ''The Key to Time'', where the White Guardian asks [[Doctor Who|the Doctor]] to find the six segments of the Key to Time, because the Black Guardian is planning to unravel the universe with it. Well, the White Guardian was the Black Guardian all along...}}

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' adventure ''[http://www.rpg.net/news_reviews/reviews/rev_3253.html The Apocalypse Stone]''. A high level wizard tricks a party of [[PC]]'s into stealing a stealing a powerful magic item for him by pretending to be a divine messenger.

* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' supplement ''Curse of the Chthonians'', adventure "The Curse of Chaugnar Faugn". The investigators are manipulated into helping a mad professor bring the statue of a powerful Mythos deity to life.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Wario Land]] 3'': "A hidden figure" is actually Rudy the giant [[Monster Clown|evil clown]], taking advantage of Wario's greed in order to unseal himself.

* ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'': {{spoiler|All of the fal'Cie are driving the heroes to destroy Cocoon. [[Ancient Conspiracy|ALL OF THEM.]]}}

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==