History Main / DoubleSubversion

* ''Anime/DigimonSavers'' subverts the usual Franchise/{{Digimon}} brand of DisneyDeath by [[spoiler:playing it straight for the first arc, then having the protagonists find out there is a way to ''permanently'' kill Digimon. Later comes the Double Subversion: Agumon "dies" in the Disney way by reverting back to an egg that will hatch later, but Masaru is repeatedly told that Agumon won't remember anything about their life together. Agumon the Digimon is alive, but Agumon who was Masaru's 'follower' is gone forever... except he's not. He hatches, and he latches onto Masaru's face like a leech (possibly as an {{Homage}} to ''Anime/DigimonAdventure's'' PilotMovie) and they lived HappilyEverAfter. To be fair, this may have been foreshadowed by Piyomon retaining his memories after one death; apparently, exposure to humans and a Digisoul changes the rules.]]

* At the start of ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'' the main character pulls a [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield sword out of a stone]] signaling that he is probably the ChosenOne. However, soon after that, he is told by Jema that he is too young to be a hero, and he was only able to remove the sword because the power of Mana is weakening. Much later in the game, it turns out that he was definitely the Chosen One all along.
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' does this with respect to BossArenaIdiocy. It's [[JustifiedTrope set up earlier]] that the AI in charge of the mainframe [[RestrainingBolt cannot remove]] the parts of the system that are designed to swap cores in the event of corruption. The FinalBoss appears to ignore this in setting up its EvilPlan, and indeed during the fight you do cause a core transfer to be initiated. However, the boss [[SubvertedTrope actually did plan for this possibility]] by placing a [[spoiler:BoobyTrap designed to kill you when you attempt to press the Stalemate Resolution Button]]. What brings about its final defeat is that, all along, it's been ignoring the progressive collapse of the Enrichment Center due to an impending reactor meltdown.

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'' doubly subverts SpoilerTitle in its fourth chapter: "The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood". The premise invoves Guybrush being put on trial, so judging by the title you'd expect the trial goes badly and TheHeroDies. [[spoiler: Except Guybrush is cleared of all charges thanks to a BigDamnHeroes moment from former villain Le'Chuck. Who ''then'' [[WhamEpisode proceeds to kill Guybrush for real at the end of the chapter]], making the SpoilerTitle RightForTheWrongReasons.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheTuringTest'' has audio logs where the rest of the crew accuses TOM, the AI of the mission, of mind controlling them via their implants. Sure enough, Ava, the protagonist, soon enters an area where "YOU ARE BEING CONTROLLED", "DRONE", and "TOM'S SLAVE" is written all over the place. As Ava progresses through this area, the player increasingly loses control over her, drawn along a certain path, their vision glitching out as Ava approaches a Faraday cage which the crew promises will free Ava of TOM's mind control. Typical mind control plot, right? [[spoiler: Wrong! When Ava finally enters the cage, the player's vision cuts out entirely, to be replaced by an overhead camera view of Ava in the cage. TOM wasn't taking control over her - he was *losing* control over her. The player is not playing the game from the point of view of Ava, they're playing the game from the point of view of TOM, the malevolent AI, and have been mind controlling Ava for the entire game up to that point.]]
* ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'' pulled this on a meta level with RoleReprise. Cindy Morgan (Lora and Yori) was brought back to the franchise to play an entirely different character (the BenevolentAI [=Ma3a=]), with Lora Baines-Bradley killed off in the {{Backstory}}, but at the halfway point in the game, you stumble on the StoryBreadcrumbs that reveal that [=Ma3a=] really ''is'' Lora ([[BrainUploading what's left of her consciousness anyway]]) merged with an AI. This makes Morgan (along with David Warner and Jeff Bridges) the third actor to play three different roles in the franchise.
* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''. The Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct video released on August 8, 2018 features a trailer appearing to reveal the inclusion of King K. Rool. Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong look out their window and see a silhouette of King K. Rool--but he throws off the disguise to reveal it's actually King Dedede. Then, while King Dedede is running around laughing about the prank he just played, he [[InTheBack gets clobbered from behind]] and falls over, [[DynamicEntry revealing the actual King K. Rool]].
** And then there's the [=E3=] 2019 trailer that served as a direct follow-up, even playing out almost the same way. This time, [[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo and Kazooie]] are the ones being teased as a DLC character, the silhouette actually turns out to be Duck Hunt in disguise, and then the real bear and bird ([[DynamicEntry quite literally]]) drop in to cement their reveal.
** For the Nintendo Direct that aired on September 13, 2018, it presented one last trailer for a new ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' game, featuring Isabelle working around the office. Then she receives a letter saying she's been invited, and [[CommercialSwitcheroo it turns out this whole thing was a reveal for Isabelle as a playable character]] in ''Smash Bros Ultimate''. Shortly after ''that'', however, we cut to Tom Nook congratulating Isabelle on her inclusion and saying he needs to get the town ready for the player's return, which does indeed end up advertising [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons a new]] ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons Animal Crossing]]'' [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons game]].

* Shown in [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1330/ this]], ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness''.
** They actually do this a lot: [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/2066/ "Shredder",]] [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1547/ a flasher,]] [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1635/ this example of]] CaughtWithYourPantsDown, [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1806/ a serial killer being who you wouldn't expect,]] [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1895/ a pedophile]], [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1911/ a banana in your pocket]] OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe, [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/2020 some guy's slutty]] [[YourMom mom]] and [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/2168 burning copies of the Quran]].
* Also in [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1727 this]] ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''.
* [[http://e621.net/post/show/143962 This]] [NSFW] ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fancomic.
** [[http://mariokidd319.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4qhzlt These]] [[http://mariokidd319.deviantart.com/art/Potion-Motion-286450776 two]] as well, which were made shortly after ''Hearts And Hooves Day''. In the first part, OC Kidder, who has a crush on Twilight Sparkle, appears to be getting her to making the potion from that episode. Then in the second part, it turns out he was making a potion that is supposed to [[FreakyFridayFlip switch the bodies of two ponies]], but the second subversion comes during the hints that [[ILied Kidder lied]] in his dialog in the next panel, where Kidder says "That's weird. Says there are some different versions of the potion and I made the north-south one.". Applejack asks what that means, and he says "Something about opposites. Let's try it!", as he has a mischievous expression on his face. What happened after all this, though, is anyone's guess, as [[AbortedArc the storyline ended after that]].
* Here is a [[ZigZaggingTrope Triple subversion]] example of {{Throwing The Distraction}} from ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}:'' the goblins [[http://www.goblinscomic.com/11262006/ try to distract the Brassmoon City gate guards]] [[http://www.goblinscomic.com/11272006/ by throwing a rock]], but instead of going to investigate the noise, one of them shouts "Someone's throwing rocks at us from the woods!" However, the guards still go to investigate the place whence the rock was thrown, and [[IdiotBall start arguing]] there. Being distracted, they let a couple goblins enter the city (double!). But then, the distraction doesn't last long enough, and the last two goblins are spotted while trying to get in (triple!).
* [[http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/2012/07/happy-ending/ Used in]] ''WebComic/AmazingSuperPowers''.

* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' Double Subverts OffscreenMomentOfAwesome in the comic's final battle: Chaos is defeated just offscreen while the main characters argue. Then the story does a {{Flashback}} to the confrontation with Chaos... which cuts off just before the battle actually happens.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', especially during its golden age in the 1990s, was a master at this trope. The writers often refer to jokes built on double subversion (as well as jokes built on simple subversion) as "screw the audience" jokes.
** One example: Homer is trying to find Lisa in a crowd. Thinking a bird's-eye-view will help him, he buys a gigantic bunch of balloons from a vendor.... then he turns around and offers the balloons to a cherry picker operator. The cherry picker operator says he already has some balloons, but "they're not this nice," so he lets Homer use it.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' double subverts the LostHimInACardGame trope. K'nuckles bet Flapjack in a card game, but wins and discovers that the person he was playing against also bet his kid sidekick.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** A first season episode double-subverts PossessionImpliesMastery -- Zhao notices the swords on the wall of Zuko's cabin and comments that he didn't know Zuko could do swordwork. Zuko contends that he can't, [[OrnamentalWeapon they're just decoration]]. It's later revealed that he ''can'' do swordwork, [[MasterSwordsman and damn well, too]], but was lying in order to [[spoiler:throw off Zhao's suspicions that he's the Blue Spirit]].
** The show later double-subverts a HeelFaceTurn. [[spoiler: Zuko, after being set up for a turning face since the introduction of his character, fails to complete it in the final episode of the second season by helping his sister Azula capture Aang. Halfway through the third season, Zuko finally turns face by [[CallingTheOldManOut telling off his father]] and vowing to help the Avatar.]]
* WesternAnimation/PorkyPig double subverts the PrecisionFStrike in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P49sLoe6H8 this clip]] not meant for general audiences.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Steve tells Stan that his English teacher hates him and that's why he has a failing grade. Stan says in a sinister tone that he'll "pay the teacher a little visit." Cut to Stan having a friendly chat with the teacher and his family, implying that he had come over for dinner and had a wonderful time with them all. He then walks to the door, starts to say his goodbyes, then says, "I almost forgot..." (pulls his gun and slams the teacher against a wall) "Why are you failing my son?!?"
** Later in the same episode, Roger has this:
-->'''Roger:''' You're going to go to jail, and they're going to take your cherry. Jell-O. Away. In the lunch line. After you're raped.
** A second episode double subverts TrainingFromHell when Steve admits that he's scared to ask someone out:
--> '''Stan:''' Steve, I'm going to motivate you the same way the CIA motivates its assassins. You know, when they have trouble asking out a girl. *clamps an electronic collar around Steve's neck* There. If you don't ask Debbie out in 24 hours, the collar will sense your stress levels and blow up.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** The show is fond of double subversions in general, possibly because it's a sneaky way to get [[RapidFireComedy two jokes for the price of one]], or a way to sneak a joke in an otherwise mundane transition. One example is in "A Hero Sits Next Door" with their double subversion of EyeScream. Lois mentions that someone "lost an 'eye' (I) during Bingo". We see a FlashBack of a scene of the MC calling out an "I" number, then dropping it on the floor and losing it. Just when we think the gag is over, he bends over to look for it and slams his eye into the corner of the table.
** The double subversion is lampshaded in another episode. A commercial from "hearing warehouse" enthusiastically promotes AIDS, with lots of innuendos leading the audience to believe they are ''very'' awkwardly promoting hearing aids - before they reveal that they really meant the HIV.
--> '''Peter:''' Well, they were talking about AIDS.
** When Peter is sent to prison, as he walks down the hall all the prisoners hoot and jeer obvious sexual innuendo at him, about how they can't wait "to get to know him" etc. Peter, obliviously, comments how "nice everyone is here." He then adds, "I mean, they'll be sad when they learn I'm not gay, but still!"
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Here Comes the Neighborhood" where many extremely rich black people were moving into South Park Mr. Garrison exclaims that "their kind" are taking over the place. When one asks what he means, he states because they are "'''rich'''". Garrison then convinces the town's whites to engage in anti-rich people protests that obliviously resemble traditional racist tropes (ie; dressing up in white sheets and hoods on the grounds that these are spooky "ghost" costumes that will scare the rich folk away). However at the end, after all the rich people are successfully driven of Town, Mr. Garrison exclaims they can now sell the empty houses and become rich. When it is pointed out to him that doing so will make them the same as the people they just drove out, Mr. Garrison replies, "at least we got rid of those damn [[CurseCutShort nig-]]''([[SmashToBlack interrupted by credits]])''".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' at first seems to parody TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday; the "Awesome Store" where Richard bought a pet turtle isn't there anymore because it's a ''van'' that drove away. Then that turtle turns out to be an indestructible force of evil, and the van returns in later episodes selling other mysterious items.
* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'', Zack starts to panic when he learns that he and Milo are in the middle of Coyote Woods. Milo quickly assures him that the woods were named after the actor, not the animal; Creator/PeterCoyote donated them to the city years ago... as a ''wolf'' preserve. Cue howling.
* WesternAnimation/MenInBlack: In "The Star System Syndrome", something is doing in the alien actors of Hollywood. They believe it's the Space Demon, a washed-out actor who looks like the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', but he just wants to get another movie deal. It turns out to be the Astro Tots, the cute little hosts of a children's show. And then, it turns out the Astro Tots are ''exactly'' as harmless as they appear and that they only trapped the other actors for setting a bad example.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' does this with the MagicalLand trope. On one hand, Ooo has all the problems endemic to human societies (child neglect, insanity, crime), and the [[MonsterOfTheWeek daily monster attacks]] don't help matters. The wise monarch is of [[MadScientist questionable]] [[CuteAndPsycho sanity]], the magic causes problems just as much as it solves them, and the fantastic creatures are often jerks. On the other hand, it really isn't much worse than any modern society, and, well, it ''is'' a pretty amazing place.

* In the ''Series/NickyRickyDickyAndDawn'' episode "To Be Invited or Not to Be", the quads are worried that Simone's butler is trying to steal her inventions, but ultimately, not only is the man not trying to steal her inventions, but he is her father, not her butler. She is actually testing them to see if they are trustworthy to be her friends.

* Shows which fulfil their StartToCorpse quote within the ColdOpen -- ''Series/{{House}}'', ''Series/{{Casualty}}'', anything ''Series/{{CSI}}'' -- generally start employing BaitAndSwitch quite quickly to throw viewers off, before resorting to Double Subversion, sometimes [[ZigZaggingTrope zig-zagging]] the trope to the point of RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts.

* ''Nick Knight'' (pilot for later series ''Series/ForeverKnight'') double subverts the [[SheetOfGlass old pane-of-glass trope]]: A runaway car, barreling down the hill. Guys carrying pane of glass across the road. Drive yelling and trying to wave them off. Frightened face of car's helpless driver reflected in the glass. Guys make it out of the way in time, saving the glass...except they're so busy watching the car, they walk into a nearby tree, smashing the glass anyway.
* Comedy double act ''Lee and Herring'' used this trope a lot. In the first series of This Morning With Richard Not Judy, Richard Herring would describe some disgusting act (often involving bestiality) he had partaken in. For example in one episode he described going to the sewage works and swimming in the sewage. Stewart Lee would then accuse Rich of being sick, prompting Rich to say "But who is the real sick man in this so-called ''society''. Is it the man who regularly has harmless pleasure swimming in sewage, or is ''the business man in his suit and tie'' who goes to the toilet and thus produces the sewage in the first place?" Stu would then point out that in that example it was the first man because the business man hadn't done anything wrong. It was triply subverted in the final episode of series one, a business man who wears a suit and tie turned up to complain, Rich was suitably apologetic, but then the as the business man walked away they saw that the back of his suit was missing and he was wearing bondage gear underneath. Rich was delighted to find out that the business man was the sick one after all.

* Ghal Maraz, the title AncestralWeapon of the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' franchise, was the personal weapon of Sigmar Heldenhammer, the warrior-king who [[FounderOfTheKingdom united the Empire]]. The warhammer is passed down from one Emperor to another on succession; however, Sigmar himself left no (legitimate) descendants, and the Empire's status as an ElectiveMonarchy means that even the succedding Emperor is not guaranteed to be a blood relation of his predecessor. The double subversion comes from the fact that Sigmar intentionally set this situation up so that the Empire would not be the perpetual possession of one dynasty or blood line; rather, he in effect bequeathed the Empire to ''all'' his subjects as fellow Men, and anyone worthy enough to hold the position of Emperor and protect the Empire's subjects would also be the rightful heir of Ghal Maraz.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' does this with ChekhovsVolcano. ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsArena Arena]]'' shows us Red Mountain, a giant volcano in Morrowind belching smoke... which keeps on belching smoke all throughout the game. ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' revisits Red Mountain... and ends with it ''calming down''. Then [[Literature/TheElderScrolls the novels]] that came out in the run-up to ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' reveal that the events of ''Morrowind'' led to [[TraumaCongaLine a chain of events]] that caused the volcano to erupt a few years after the events ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]''.

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* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=561 Here's one example]]. More commonly, the comic itself is already a triple subversion, while the AltText comic contains ''another'' subversion, [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=1407#comic like this]] (mouseover the red circle to see it). Artist Zack Weiner even outdoes himself [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=176#comic here]] with ''another'' subversion.

* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=561 Here's one example]]. More commonly, the comic itself is just a subversion, while the AltText comic contains the double subversion, [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=1407#comic like this]] (mouseover the red circle to see it). Artist Zack Weiner even outdoes himself [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=176#comic here]] with a ''quadruple'' subversion.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles The Incredibles]]'' does this with [[spoiler: AIIsACrapshoot. Bob is hired to take out a KillerRobot called the Omnidroid which was highly intelligent and could adapt to and defeat tactics used against it. He was told that the robot had gotten "smart enough that it wondered why it had to take orders". However, it was a lie. The Omnidroid was under the control of the villain Syndrome the whole time, and the whole point of the venture was to either kill Bob or get information from Bob's defeat of the Omnidroid to improve the next version, in preparation for an ultimate version which would be part of Syndrome's plan to set himself up as a hero. The plan was that the Omnidroid would serve as a villain, and Syndrome would show up and defeat it using a remote control. However, [[DidntThinkThisThrough Syndrome neglected to consider the implications]] of the Omnidroid's AdaptiveAbility. The Omnidroid figured out that Syndrome was using a remote control to fight it, and adapted to defeat that tactic and [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters beat]] Syndrome.]]

* ''Film/StarTrek2009'': An obvious RedShirt has to open his parachute in time to hit a floating platform. At first it seems he won't open his parachute in time and pancake himself onto the planet below, but in fact he does open it just in time... to burn up in the platform's rocket flame trail.
* [[TheGrimReaper Death]] likes to play these in the ''Franchise/FinalDestination'' movies. Think that chain of events will kill our sure victim? Nope, he barely made it. But another trigger kills him anyway.

* The climax of ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'' double-subverts ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: [[spoiler:Jack misses his knife-throw at Lo Pan by half a mile. When the villain sends the knife flying at him with magic, though, Jack [[CatchAndReturn catches it and throws it right between his eyes]]. "It's all in the reflexes."]]
* ''Film/{{Thor}}'' does this to [[spoiler: TheBigDamnKiss when Thor and Jane lean forward to kiss, only for Thor to hesitantly pull away]] and [[IKissYourHand kiss Jane's hand]]. But Jane un-subverts it when [[spoiler: she pulls him into the kiss anyways.]]
* Towards the end of ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', [[GameBreakingInjury Commodus stabs Maximus]] before their Coliseum battle [[DirtyCoward so that he can get an unfair advantage]], but Maximus is so much of a badass {{Determinator}} [[spoiler:that he still kills him, though he dies from the stabbing shortly afterwards.]]

* ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' demonstrates a Double Subversion of GasLeakCoverUp. A cop tries to claim the destruction at Kowalski's apartment is the result of a gas leak, only for all the witnesses to berate him and point out the lack of gas's scent. One man steps up to say that they all saw a magical beast cause the destruction, but before he can, Newt casts a spell over all of the witnesses and they frantically claim in agreement that it was a gas leak that caused everything.

* ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'': DonaldDuck has set up his computer. A viewer would tend to expect that the computer would take all day to start up. Just 15 seconds after he turns it on, however, the screen reads "Startup Done", just long enough for the viewer to think "Huh?" before the word "Almost" is added to the screen, and it ends up taking all day after all.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' double-subverts YankTheDogsChain. At the end of Adventure Comic #5, where Superboy-Prime admits that he hates what he has become and just wants a happy ending. Laurie Lemmon enters the basement and comforts him, telling him that they are sorry for what they did to him and are going to leave him alone—"they" being previously mentioned as being the writers at DC Comics. As they embrace, a Black Lantern ring is shown on Laurie's hand that detects the hope within Prime's heart, implying she is really a Black Lantern and is manipulating him into feeling hope before she kills him. However, when Superboy-Prime is accidentally transported back to New Earth, a flashback shows him reconnecting with Laurie Lemmon and his parents, implying she is the real Laurie Lemmon and they are happy together. Sadly for Prime, he is separated from his loved ones again. He blames the Teen Titans and battles them. When he loses, they imprison him within the Source Wall.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' double-subverts a HeelFaceTurn. [[spoiler: Zuko, after being set up for a turning face since the introduction of his character, fails to complete it in the final episode of the second season by helping his sister Azula capture Aang. Halfway through the third season, Zuko finally turns face by [[CallingTheOldManOut telling off his father]] and vowing to help the Avatar.]]

* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': Sakaki types "cats" in a search engine, and everything she gets is a big bunch of random matches (including a page titled "We Love Neko Koneko"), thus subverting ItsASmallNetAfterAll. Then she types "Iriomote cat", and it seems like one of the very first matches is a plot relevant news article about [[spoiler:how Mayaa's mother got killed]], thus playing this same trope straight.
** But even then it's vaguely justified, because the Iriomote cat is an extremely endangered species, so a story about a plot-relevant cat isn't as much of a coincidence as it would otherwise be.
*** Even more justified in that recent news articles on subjects often show up high on a search list, especially for sensitive topics like endangered species (such as the Iriomote cat).
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' contains a Double Subversion of TheUnwantedHarem. It turns out most of the girls don't have any actual romantic interest in the lead, but enough of them ''do'' (Nodoka, Yue, Ako, Anya, Chachamaru...) that it ends up qualifying as a harem after all.

* [[NationsAsPeople The personification of Russia]] in ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' double subverts the GentleGiant. Russia is [[HuskyRusskie huge and intimidating]], but also [[{{Moe}} looks and acts cute]], is very polite, acts friendly, and is almost always [[PerpetualSmiler calmly smiling]]. [[StepfordSmiler He's really]] a cruel-minded, manipulative PsychopathicManchild with {{Yandere}} tendencies...however, he desires friends more than anything, and is innocent for the most part, unaware of his cruelty. He also becomes a lot more gentle in modern day, compared to his unstable period as the Soviet Union.

** Another notable one is the character Gilbert's UndyingLoyalty to Oz, which initially was set up to be from his childhood friendship with him, [[spoiler: only to be subverted when Gilbert remembers his old life, realizes he's been brainwashed into loyalty to whoever he calls 'master' and that Oz is actually technically his enemy, and then shoots Oz in the chest. Then it's doubly subverted when Gilbert calms down from his FreakOut, reconciles this fact with himself, and decides to still be loyal to Oz anyways.]]

* Chapter 14 of ''[[FanFic/SonicGenerationsFriendshipIsTimeless Sonic Generations: Friendship is Timeless]]'' does this with ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish. When accessing Eggman's system the heroes find out that the system requires a password. Tails suggests EGGMAN, which doesn't work. The double subversion occurs with the password turning out to be PASSWORD.

* In ''FanFic/ForLove'', after [[PeggySue Hinata is sent back to her childhood]], she attempts to improve her life, starting by preventing her uncle Hizashi's unjust death, to keep her cousin Neji from growing up as an orphaned and embittered fatalist again. Unfortunately, the usual PeggySue trope is subverted when her plan to foil the Kumo ambassador's attempt to kidnap her[[note]]which in her original timeline caused her father Hiashi to kill him while saving her, leading Kumo to demand Hiashi's dead body in reparation and the Hyuuga clan to give them his twin brother Hizashi instead[[/note]] completely fails and the ambassador is killed again... but because she had fostered a better relationship with Hizashi this time around, it's ''Hizashi'' who kills the ambassador rather than Hiashi, so he's executed for something he actually did rather than dying in his brother's place, double subverting it. And then because of her improved relationship with Hizashi, Neji is able to better accept his father's death than before anyway and grows up happier and steadfastly loyal to Hinata, rather than cynical and quite happy to see her dead, ''triple'' subverting it.

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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

* Manga/RanmaOneHalf double subverts FanService in an early anime episode. Ranma takes ClothingDamage which would lead to some nice UnderBoobs. [[GenderBender If he was a girl.]] Then he [[WeaksauceWeakness jumps through a fountain]], activating his GenderBender {{curse}} (which is triggered by [[WeaksauceWeakness cold water]]).
-->'''Ranma''': Aww, that was my favourite shirt!
-->'''[[TheRival Ryoga]]''': [[ForeShadowing You sound like a girl, Ranma!]]

* ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'' contains an ''epic'' one for TheGuardsMustBeCrazy. After meeting with Marie Antoinette at night, Fersen is leaving Versailles only to be stopped by a group of French Guards, a regiment ''infamous'' for sleeping on guard duty (in fact all the Household Regiments were known for that, the French Guards and the Swiss Guards were just the worst ones). Their recently posted commander Oscar then shows up, her too expecting them to lazy on the job and in fact planning to catch them in the act to discipline them and, after realizing the absurd situation, saves Fersen... And redirects him to a gate guarded by the Swiss Guards she had just checked they were, in fact, sleeping (and, not being from her regiment, it wasn't her problem).

[[folder:Films -- Animated]]

[[folder:{{Literature}}]]

* Ghal Maraz, the title AncestralWeapon of the ''{{TabletopGame/Warhammer}}'' franchise, was the personal weapon of Sigmar Heldenhammer, the warrior-king who [[FounderOfTheKingdom united the Empire]]. The warhammer is passed down from one Emperor to another on succession; however, Sigmar himself left no (legitimate) descendants, and the Empire's status as an ElectiveMonarchy means that even the succedding Emperor is not guaranteed to be a blood relation of his predecessor. The double subversion comes from the fact that Sigmar intentionally set this situation up so that the Empire would not be the perpetual possession of one dynasty or blood line; rather, he in effect bequeathed the Empire to ''all'' his subjects as fellow Men, and anyone worthy enough to hold the position of Emperor and protect the Empire's subjects would also be the rightful heir of Ghal Maraz.

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* In [[http://inkblort.deviantart.com/#/d2fmn8y this]] short, the viewer is led to believe [[spoiler: that Arthur has been using Excalibur to cut up people.]] Then, it turns out he was cutting lasagna. [[spoiler: Then it turns out that yes, he was cutting up a person. [[ImAHumanitarian And eating them.]]]]
* In the ''Website/CollegeHumor'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NggUSbgRUhc Wish I Had a]] [[{{Videogame/Portal}} Portal Gun]], starting around 1:47: we're led to believe that the singer wants to use the titular device to [[spoiler:[[ScrewYourself suck his own dick]]]], but he merely uses it to change pants without having to look down. [[spoiler:Then:]]

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6CP7wRLE3E Running With Scissors]] (ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin), [[spoiler:it looks like the guy's about to stab himself in the eye with scissors upon falling down. Then, he's safe because they merely fly out of his hands. Flying into and cutting a rope, which drops a piano on his head.]]
* A RunningGag in WebAnimation/PeteraDzive is how anyone who drinks booze will pass out and wake up naked. Peter, the main character, wakes up naked and grabs a bottle of booze, only to wake up again fully clothed, surprised that he didn't end up naked as usual. He celebrates with drinks and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot9DlcGpNxY wakes up naked again]].

* In episode 19 of Part Timers, [[spoiler: Mads appears to fall off of the roof to her death... but [[Main/HopeSpot she actually lands safely on a pile of rags.]] [[Main/MoodWhiplash Then she gets run over]] [[Main/KilledOffForReal and killed by a car.]]]]

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* The BrickJoke is a double subversion of the ChekhovsGun principle.
* VoodooShark is possibly a double subversion of PlotHole.
* DreamWithinADream is a double subversion of the AllJustADream trope.
* An old joke: A child is born without ears. Every family member comments on it, until the exasperated father promises himself that he'll knock out the next person to comment on it. Cue another relative arriving and remarking "Oh dear. I hope he'll have perfect eyesight." "What? Why?" "Well, how the hell is he going to keep his glasses on?"
* The [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-people-shower "How People Shower"]] meme is a double subversion of a racial stereotype joke.
* A variant of a popular joke is a double subversion:
-->''"My grandfather died at a Nazi concentration camp."''
-->''"How?"''
-->''"He fell out of a guard tower."''
-->''"Your grandfather was a Nazi?!"''
-->''"He was trying to escape." (beat) "The prisoners were rioting."''
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* ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego'' seems to do this with LanguageFluencyDenial. In "The Masks of Venice Caper," Zack diguises himself as a museum worker to distract ACME while Carmen and Shadowsan attempt to steal the masks to keep them safe from [[BigBad VILE]]. One of the agents begins to pick up suspicion and Zack responds to them by telling them they're "safekeeping them." The ACME agent asks why he didn't tell them in advance, him responding by saying his English wasn't too good. Cue the agent speaking Italian... [[SubvertedTrope then he speaks a fluent sentence in Italian]] as a reply. The agent continues the conversation in Italian, ''only for Zack to freeze up in confusion after one sentence.'' Cue assist from [[TeenGenius Player]].

** And then there's the [=E3=] 2019 trailer that served as a direct follow-up, even playing out almost the same way. This time, [[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo and Kazooie]] are the ones being teased as a DLC character, the silhouette actually turns out to be Duck Hunt in disguise, and then the real bear and bird drop in to cement their reveal.

* CompleteMonster/TheJoker really loves this trope. An especially ingenious one is in the short story "Laughter After Midnight," in which he's walking home after being thrown out of a blimp by Batman (and [[JokerImmunity surviving, of course]]). Feeling hungry, the Joker stops by a donut shop - frightening away the other customers - and helps himself to some jelly donuts before putting them over his eyes like a mask and saying "This is a stick-up, see?" to the man at the counter. Thinking the Joker has a gun, the man frantically pulls open the register and says the Joker can have everything in it - only to be reassured that "I'm just funning with you, keed." Then, in a ''[[OutOfCharacterMoment very]]'' [[OutOfCharacterMoment uncharacteristic move]], the Joker pulls out a wad of dollar bills and pays the man for the donuts. But then the man notices that the bills are counterfeits with the Joker's face on them - and the Joker explains that he coated them with a toxic chemical that can only be activated by human sweat (which the counter guy has been releasing buckets of because he was so afraid of being shot). Long story short, the donut man is exposed to "Joker Venom" and dies after all with a [[UndeathlyPallor whitened]], [[GoOutWithASmile perpetually smiling face]].