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* On Day 5 of ''[[WebVideo/LifeSMP Double Life SMP]]'', while discussing how Scar stole the Enchanting Table the previous day and how he and his allies would have to find a way to get it from him, Martyn remarks, "There's no way he's not buried it in the Panda Sanctuary, by the way, it's just gonna be underneath a couple of, like, dirt blocks or something for sure." As it turns out, according to [[SwitchingPOV Scar's episode]] for Day 4, that's ''exactly'' what he did, and that's what the Red Lives (who want Scar dead) find when they start griefing the Panda Sanctuary. While spying on the griefing of the Panda Sanctuary later, Martyn lampshades that he called it.

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* On Day 5 of ''[[WebVideo/LifeSMP Double Life SMP]]'', ''WebVideo/DoubleLifeSMP'', while discussing how Scar stole the Enchanting Table the previous day and how he and his allies would have to find a way to get it from him, Martyn remarks, "There's no way he's not buried it in the Panda Sanctuary, by the way, it's just gonna be underneath a couple of, like, dirt blocks or something for sure." As it turns out, according to [[SwitchingPOV Scar's episode]] for Day 4, that's ''exactly'' what he did, and that's what the Red Lives (who want Scar dead) find when they start griefing the Panda Sanctuary. While spying on the griefing of the Panda Sanctuary later, Martyn lampshades that he called it.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'' story ''The Atlantis Chronicles'' get a lots of mileage out of the fact that the text-boxes are directly from the Atlantis Chronicles, but the events on-panel are what actually happened. This is generally played for laughs, but it turns horrific at the end of one volume, where the chronicler notes that the princess was reportedly frigid on her wedding night, and chalks it up to nerves (it being her first time and all). The reader, however, knows that she had been raped the previous night.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'' story ''The Atlantis Chronicles'' ''ComicBook/TheAtlantisChronicles'' get a lots of mileage out of the fact that the text-boxes are directly from the Atlantis Chronicles, but the events on-panel are what actually happened. This is generally played for laughs, but it turns horrific at the end of one volume, where the chronicler notes that the princess was reportedly frigid on her wedding night, and chalks it up to nerves (it being her first time and all). The reader, however, knows that she had been raped the previous night.
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* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': The Sith Inquisitor class story has a couple moments of this.
** Major Bessiker on Balmorra loves his son so much he'll strong-arm the Sith Inquisitor into saving him ([[ButThouMust if they so decline]]) and [[spoiler:becomes so enraged if you kill his son that he'll attack, forcing you to kill him]], but the player quickly learns that said son is a cruel, {{arrogant|KungFuGuy}}, UngratefulBastard who considers his loving father beneath him, and thus was never worthy of Bessiker's fatherly devotion.
** On Taris, the Inquisitor encounters Ashara Zavros, a Jedi Padawan being made by two Jedi Masters to try to [[QuietingTheUnquietDead get the ghost of her Dark Jedi ancestor to pass on]]. Being a Forcewalker, the Inquisitor ironically is exactly the person they need to deal with Kalatosh Zavros's Force ghost, but [[ReformedButRejected Masters Ryen and Ocera are too anal to accept the Inquisitor's help even if it's offered]].

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* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'':
** In volume 2, the possibility that a student might have killed [[spoiler:Darius Grenville]] is suggested, and then [[VaryingCompetencyAlibi immediately dismissed as impossible]], even though that's exactly what happened. [[spoiler:In their defense, it indeed ''shouldn't'' have been possible: Oliver only succeeded in assassinating Grenville because no sane mage would expect a first-year magic student to have a [[UnblockableAttack spellblade]].]]
** In a {{flashback}} in volume 10, Chloe Halford hopes that her friend "Emmy", i.e. current Kimberly Headmistress Esmeralda, will become a CoolBigSis figure to her child even though Chloe turned her down romantically. Esmeralda was shown in the series' prologue striking the blow that killed Chloe.



** ''Literature/{{Shatterpoint}}'': In the first chapter, Mace Windu favorably regards Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine's spartanly furnished office and simple, humble lifestyle, and remarks to Yoda, "A shame he can't touch the Force. He might have made a fine Jedi." The reader, of course, should know full well that Palpatine is anything but what Windu believes him to be: he is in fact Darth Sidious, Dark Lord of the Sith, the BigBad of the entire ''Franchise/StarWars'' film series, meaning that this is quite possibly the biggest moment of intentional irony that any ''Star Wars'' EU author ever put to paper before or since.

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** ''Literature/{{Shatterpoint}}'': In the first chapter, Mace Windu favorably regards Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine's spartanly furnished office and simple, humble lifestyle, and remarks to Yoda, "A shame he can't touch the Force. He might have made a fine Jedi." The reader, of course, should know full well that Palpatine is anything but what Windu believes him to be: he is in fact Darth Sidious, Dark Lord of the Sith, the BigBad of the entire ''Franchise/StarWars'' film series, meaning that making this is quite possibly the biggest moment of intentional irony that any ''Star Wars'' EU author ever put to paper before or since.
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* ''Literature/TheBookOfMormon'': After arriving in the land of Bountiful, Laman and Lemuel complain (again) about leaving Jerusalem, and lament about how they would have been wealthy and happy if they had stayed. Comparing the dates with the Bible suggests that the complete destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians, every inhabitant being either killed or enslaved, would have been happening at or near the time they were speaking.
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* ''Literature/OuterDark'':
** Rinthy is correct in assuming that the tinker who recently passed by the house she lives in had her baby at some point, a product of incest between her and her brother, Culla, and so she goes out to find the tinker. However, she believes that Culla gave the baby to the tinker, but the reality is much worse: Culla abandoned the baby to die out in the woods and it was only through luck that the tinker just so happened to be passing by again and was able to rescue him.
** While passing through a terrible storm on a barge that leaves Culla as the only survivor, he sees three men standing at the riverbank who are able to help him off, and they invite him to join them at their campfire. What Culla doesn't realize is that these three men have been following right behind him throughout his whole journey, killing people he recently interacted with and thereby framing him for murders he didn't commit and causing people to chase him out of various towns.

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* In ComicBook/RedHulk, the titular character is hounded by General Fortean, who believes Red Hulk killed Fortean's mentor, namely General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross. [[spoiler:The irony of this situation is not lost on Red Hulk, who ''is'' Ross. He's all too aware of how Fortean follows in his footsteps.]]

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* For a while in ''Comicbook/PowerPack'', Franklin Richards was actually staying with the Powers family, because his father was worried that a superhero base like the Baxter Building wasn't a safe place for a child. Reed has no idea that the Powers kids have superpowers, that Franklin has bypassed the restraints on his own powers, and the whole bunch of them are regularly having SpaceOpera adventures.
* In ComicBook/RedHulk, ''ComicBook/RedHulk'', the titular character is hounded by General Fortean, who believes Red Hulk killed Fortean's mentor, namely General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross. [[spoiler:The irony of this situation is not lost on Red Hulk, who ''is'' Ross. He's all too aware of how Fortean follows in his footsteps.]]
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* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'': As we learn in ''[[VideoGame/GuiltyGearSTRIVE -STRIVE-]]'', despite all his shadowy and antagonistic actions in the past games, when [[BigBad That Man]] [[spoiler:(aka. Asuka R. Kreutz)]] tells Sol Badguy [[spoiler:that he never betrayed him and that he's still his friend and wants what's best for him, [[GoodAllAlong he is for once being completely transparent and honest with what he's saying]]. In fact, a lot of the evil things commonly attributed to his That Man persona [[NotMeThisTime weren't even his fault anyway]]. All he wants is for his old friends to get together and for Gears and humans to live in peace, but he is [[NoSocialSkills completely unable to understand human relationships]] or [[PoorCommunicationKills communicate his intentions clearly]].]]

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* ''WebVideo/TheAutobiographyOfJaneEyre'': Most of the viewers are familiar with the story of ''Literature/JaneEyre'', so they knew that the man who nearly ran Jane over in his car was in fact her employer. Naturally, they happily cringed at her when Jane tried to calm herself down, saying: "It's not like I'm ever gonna see him again anyway." Oh, Jane! You don't even...
* On Day 5 of ''[[WebVideo/LifeSMP Double Life SMP]]'', while discussing how Scar stole the Enchanting Table the previous day and how he and his allies would have to find a way to get it from him, Martyn remarks, "There's no way he's not buried it in the Panda Sanctuary, by the way, it's just gonna be underneath a couple of, like, dirt blocks or something for sure." As it turns out, according to [[SwitchingPOV Scar's episode]] for Day 4, that's ''exactly'' what he did, and that's what the Red Lives (who want Scar dead) find when they start griefing the Panda Sanctuary. While spying on the griefing of the Panda Sanctuary later, Martyn lampshades that he called it.



* Happens fairly often in ''WebVideo/EscapeTheNight'':
** Season 1:
*** At the end of Episode 2, Justine starts trash-talking [[spoiler:Andrea]], whom she had failed to save earlier. Almost immediately afterwards, the group receives word of a traitor amongst them and everyone suspects Justine. In Episode 3, Justine confesses her fear of claustrophobia to her best friend, then cut to the group realising they need to [[spoiler:bury one of them alive]]. Justine begins to cry TearsOfFear, but everyone else expects them to be CrocodileTears and [[spoiler:she is buried alive]]. Shortly afterwards, they realise Justine wasn't TheMole and they just [[spoiler:killed an innocent person]].
*** In Episode 6, [[spoiler:Matt]] tries to make a HeroicSacrifice during an exorcism, but after he forgets to read the full instructions, he ends up accidentally killing his teammate. Had he read the whole note, he would've read that he had the [[SuicidalSadisticChoice choice of either killing himself or his teammate]].
** In Season 3 Episode 2, Jc is voted by Mat to partake in a death challenge, since Mat did not witness Jc's contributions, being in a separate group earlier in the episode. Afterwards, Jc is forced to pick one person to help him in the final challenge. He picks Mat. Nevertheless, Mat tries his best to save Jc, [[spoiler:but ultimately fails]].



* ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'' has several examples, including Lizzie's declaration that she feels sorry for whichever hapless girl ends up dating "that douche" Darcy and her somewhat later statement that she'll be reduced to drastic measures if Lydia turns out to be connected in some way to someone related to Darcy.
* ''Film/NoobLaQueteLegendaire'' centers around a [[FictionalVideoGame fictional]] {{MMORPG}} questline that is intended to end with fighting a world boss that is controlled by a human being rather than artificial intelligence. The players that are doing the questline are doing it in secret because they are not exactly part of the tier of players that usually takes care of that kind of thing and will ''have'' to hand it over to the game's elite if they find out about it. The web-movie has companion short feature that is basically the story from the perspective of the guy controlling the world boss. It shows him getting bored out his mind waiting for people to show up and getting the impression that nodody cares about his questline despite TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt being the alternative to fighting him. He does run into a few other players, but they all seem to be doing completely unrelated stuff... except that two were unknowingly involved in the questline and three were actually involved and deliberately keeping silent about it.



* ''WebVideo/TheAutobiographyOfJaneEyre'': Most of the viewers are familiar with the story of ''Literature/JaneEyre'', so they knew that the man who nearly ran Jane over in his car was in fact her employer. Naturally, they happily cringed at her when Jane tried to calm herself down, saying: "It's not like I'm ever gonna see him again anyway." Oh, Jane! You don't even...
* ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'' has several examples, including Lizzie's declaration that she feels sorry for whichever hapless girl ends up dating "that douche" Darcy and her somewhat later statement that she'll be reduced to drastic measures if Lydia turns out to be connected in some way to someone related to Darcy.
* ''Film/NoobLaQueteLegendaire'' centers around a [[FictionalVideoGame fictional]] {{MMORPG}} questline that is intended to end with fighting a world boss that is controlled by a human being rather than artificial intelligence. The players that are doing the questline are doing it in secret because they are not exactly part of the tier of players that usually takes care of that kind of thing and will ''have'' to hand it over to the game's elite if they find out about it. The web-movie has companion short feature that is basically the story from the perspective of the guy controlling the world boss. It shows him getting bored out his mind waiting for people to show up and getting the impression that nodody cares about his questline despite TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt being the alternative to fighting him. He does run into a few other players, but they all seem to be doing completely unrelated stuff... except that two were unknowingly involved in the questline and three were actually involved and deliberately keeping silent about it.
* Happens fairly often in ''WebVideo/EscapeTheNight'':
** Season 1:
*** At the end of Episode 2, Justine starts trash-talking [[spoiler:Andrea]], whom she had failed to save earlier. Almost immediately afterwards, the group receives word of a traitor amongst them and everyone suspects Justine. In Episode 3, Justine confesses her fear of claustrophobia to her best friend, then cut to the group realising they need to [[spoiler:bury one of them alive]]. Justine begins to cry TearsOfFear, but everyone else expects them to be CrocodileTears and [[spoiler:she is buried alive]]. Shortly afterwards, they realise Justine wasn't TheMole and they just [[spoiler:killed an innocent person]].
*** In Episode 6, [[spoiler:Matt]] tries to make a HeroicSacrifice during an exorcism, but after he forgets to read the full instructions, he ends up accidentally killing his teammate. Had he read the whole note, he would've read that he had the [[SuicidalSadisticChoice choice of either killing himself or his teammate]].
** In Season 3 Episode 2, Jc is voted by Mat to partake in a death challenge, since Mat did not witness Jc's contributions, being in a separate group earlier in the episode. Afterwards, Jc is forced to pick one person to help him in the final challenge. He picks Mat. Nevertheless, Mat tries his best to save Jc, [[spoiler:but ultimately fails]].



* On Day 5 of ''[[WebVideo/LifeSMP Double Life SMP]]'', while discussing how Scar stole the Enchanting Table the previous day and how he and his allies would have to find a way to get it from him, Martyn remarks, "There's no way he's not buried it in the Panda Sanctuary, by the way, it's just gonna be underneath a couple of, like, dirt blocks or something for sure." As it turns out, according to [[SwitchingPOV Scar's episode]] for Day 4, that's ''exactly'' what he did, and that's what the Red Lives (who want Scar dead) find when they start griefing the Panda Sanctuary. While spying on the griefing of the Panda Sanctuary later, Martyn lampshades that he called it.
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* In ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia 012]]'', Kain and the Warrior of Light learn ''some'' of the truth behind the [[GroundhogDayLoop cycles of war]]. [[spoiler:Though at that point they still don't know Cosmos only summoned all of them to die fighting Chaos in order to make him stronger]]. When Cosmos [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone tries to confess the truth]]. The Warrior interrupts her, [[{{Irony}} telling her that her task of keeping the world safe with her power is more important than the safety of her warriors]].

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* In ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia 012]]'', Kain and the Warrior of Light learn ''some'' of the truth behind the [[GroundhogDayLoop cycles of war]]. [[spoiler:Though at that point they still don't know Cosmos only summoned all of them to die fighting Chaos in order to make him stronger]]. When Cosmos [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone tries to confess the truth]]. The truth]], the Warrior interrupts her, [[{{Irony}} telling her that her task of keeping the world safe with her power is more important than the safety of her warriors]].

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