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* In the first ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movie, ''Film/Transformers2007'', it turns out that the government has been studying Transformers for decades in a secret base under the Hoover Dam, and that [[ETGaveUsWiFi most modern technology is actually the product of their reverse-engineering efforts]].
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* ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'': When Cooper and Murph discover the mysterious NASA camp, the officials therein reveal to him that they have been researching gravitational anomalies for almost 50 years.
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* ''Film/IndependenceDay'', when they visit {{Area 51}}, it turns out TheGovernment knew about the aliens all along. They just didn't get around to telling the elected part, i.e. ''the President'', until some time after the shit hit the fan.
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* ''Film/IndependenceDay'', when they visit {{Area 51}}, it turns out TheGovernment knew about the aliens all along. They just didn't get around to telling kept the elected part, i.e. ''the President'', LockedOutOfTheLoop until some time after the shit hit the fan.fan, and even then only because ''winning the fight was more important than PlausibleDeniability''.
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* Used in ''Film/Godzilla2014'', where it's revealed the government knows about Godzilla and his ilk, and are in the midst of preparing contingency measures for them.
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* Used in ''Film/Godzilla2014'', where it's revealed the government (or a specific international coalition, MONARCH) knows about Godzilla and his ilk, and are in the midst of preparing contingency measures for them.
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* The Wiki/SCPFoundation approaches this trope from the side of the mysterious research organization. Each of the main SCP entries details first how to contain an anomalous object the Foundation has detected or captured, then research into its function, origins, and probable effects if it were to breach containment. Said effects can range from LaserGuidedAmnesia and people being KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade, to TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt in any flavor you can imagine. The Foundation has hundreds if not thousands of these objects in secret labs and warehouses around the world.
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* The Wiki/SCPFoundation Website/SCPFoundation approaches this trope from the side of the mysterious research organization. Each of the main SCP entries details first how to contain an anomalous object the Foundation has detected or captured, then research into its function, origins, and probable effects if it were to breach containment. Said effects can range from LaserGuidedAmnesia and people being KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade, to TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt in any flavor you can imagine. The Foundation has hundreds if not thousands of these objects in secret labs and warehouses around the world.
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* Used in ''Film/{{Godzilla2014}}'', ''Film/Godzilla2014'', where it's revealed the government knows about Godzilla and his ilk, and are in the midst of preparing contingency measures for them.
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* In the first ''Film/{{Underworld}}'' movie, when Selene tells Michael about the werewolves and the vampires.
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* The Wiki/SCPFoundation approaches this trope from the side of the mysterious research organization, and plays with it quite a bit. The foundation has warehouses and biological containment sites full of things that simply should not be, which they constantly struggle to explain, or at least ''understand'' even after over 150 years of operation. In the world of the foundation, MagicAIsMagicA is horrifyingly deconstructed, and SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic may only make you realize that the object previously deemed harmless is actually destroying the fabric of spacetime. There are times when the reader finds themselves understanding why its entirely reasonable for someone to be KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade. The consequences of a BrokenMasquerade are potentially TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
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* The Wiki/SCPFoundation approaches this trope from the side of the mysterious research organization, organization. Each of the main SCP entries details first how to contain an anomalous object the Foundation has detected or captured, then research into its function, origins, and plays with probable effects if it quite a bit. were to breach containment. Said effects can range from LaserGuidedAmnesia and people being KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade, to TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt in any flavor you can imagine. The foundation Foundation has hundreds if not thousands of these objects in secret labs and warehouses and biological containment sites full of things that simply should not be, which they constantly struggle to explain, or at least ''understand'' even after over 150 years of operation. In around the world of the foundation, MagicAIsMagicA is horrifyingly deconstructed, and SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic may only make you realize that the object previously deemed harmless is actually destroying the fabric of spacetime. There are times when the reader finds themselves understanding why its entirely reasonable for someone to be KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade. The consequences of a BrokenMasquerade are potentially TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.world.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GlitchTechs'': After main characters Miko and Five witness a glitch being unleashed, with [[LaserGuidedAmnesia only one of them actually being able to remember the event]], they trail one of the people involved in the incident. After said person locks the teens in his truck to deal with them later, the duo end up activating BITT when trying to escape. As a robot meant to inform and assist, it automatically assumes the duo are new trainees and attempts to give them on-the-job training regarding the whole "fighting monsters that exit video games into the real world" situation they've stumbled onto.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GlitchTechs'': After main characters Miko and Five witness a glitch being unleashed, with [[LaserGuidedAmnesia only one of them actually being able to remember the event]], event,]] they trail one of the people involved in the incident. After said person locks the teens in his truck to deal with them later, the duo end up activating BITT when trying to escape. As a robot meant to inform and assist, it automatically assumes the duo are new trainees and attempts to give them on-the-job training regarding the whole "fighting monsters that exit video games into the real world" situation they've stumbled onto.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GlitchTechs'': When looking for a way out of Mitch's truck in the pilot episode, Miko and Five end up activating BITT, who assumes the duo are new trainees and attempts to give them on-the-job training when it detects the nearby glitch Mitch is fighting.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GlitchTechs'': When looking for a way out of Mitch's truck in the pilot episode, After main characters Miko and Five witness a glitch being unleashed, with [[LaserGuidedAmnesia only one of them actually being able to remember the event]], they trail one of the people involved in the incident. After said person locks the teens in his truck to deal with them later, the duo end up activating BITT, who BITT when trying to escape. As a robot meant to inform and assist, it automatically assumes the duo are new trainees and attempts to give them on-the-job training when it detects regarding the nearby glitch Mitch is fighting.whole "fighting monsters that exit video games into the real world" situation they've stumbled onto.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GlitchTechs'': When looking for a way out of Mitch's truck in the pilot episode, Miko and Five end up activating BITT, who assumes the duo are new trainees and attempts to give them on-the-job training when it detects the nearby glitch Mitch is fighting.
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->'''Mulder''': They're here, aren't they?\\
'''Deep Throat''': Mr. Mulder, "they" have been here for a long, long time.
-->-- ''Series/TheXFiles'', "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E02DeepThroat Deep Throat]]"
TheHero encounters some [[TheMasquerade weird shit]]. ''[[MindScrew Really]]'' weird shit. However, just as he is about to say bye-bye to his sanity, some [[TheMenInBlack impeccably dressed gentlemen]] take him into a [[SecretGovernmentWarehouse sciencey lab]] where TheProfessor explains that what the hero saw was a perfectly scientific phenomenon they've studied for years, and really, just another kind of AppliedPhlebotinum that TheWorldIsNotReady for yet...
This trope is a form of {{Exposition}} that would have become an InfoDump, if it wasn't so long overdue, since it comes after the protagonist (and the audience) is [[InMediasRes thrust right into the middle]] of a situation he cannot even begin to understand. It doesn't have to be {{Phlebotinum}} per se: any kind of {{Masquerade}} will do, as long as the hero stumbles into a life-threatening situation before people who know what's going on show up. Compare RedundantResearcher.
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* In the first two episodes of ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' TheHero accidentally saves a scientist working under TheMasquerade and on the run receives a hasty explanation of what's going on. Of course, the true nature of the series is shown only when it all is twisted into BlackComedy.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' begins with this very trope. Shinji, a slightly dysfunctional boy, witnesses an EldritchAbomination attacking the city then is promptly thrown into the cockpit of a HumongousMecha that's not really a mecha at all: it's [[PhysicalGod alive]] and is VERY [[TheBerserker bloodthirsty]]. It takes a few episodes until he gets the explanation about what the hell is going on but never gets [[AwfulTruth told about ''what'' he's piloting]] until three episodes from the end. It's unclear which is worse: that [[LockedOutOfTheLoop he was told so late]] or that [[ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow he was told at all]]. Regardless which one is true, Shinji got an all-expenses-paid visit to the DespairEventHorizon for his effort.
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* ''Film/IndependenceDay'', when they visit {{Area 51}}, it turns out TheGovernment knew about the aliens all along. They just didn't get around to telling the elected part, i.e. ''the President'', until some time after the shit hit the fan.
* In the first ''Film/{{Underworld}}'' movie, when Selene tells Michael about the werewolves and the vampires.
* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'':
-->'''Dr. Scott:''' This sonic transducer...it is, I suppose, some kind of audio-vibratory-physio-molecular transport device?\\
'''Brad:''' You mean...?!\\
'''Dr. Scott:''' Yes, Brad, it's something we ourselves have been working on for quite some time. But it seems our friend here has found a means of perfecting it. A device which is capable of breaking down solid matter and projecting it through space...and who knows, perhaps even time itself!
* Happens in the first ''Film/MenInBlack'' movie, when K gives J a rundown on the little known facts during the latter's first entry to the MIB HQ.
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* Used in ''Film/{{Godzilla2014}}'', where it's revealed the government knows about Godzilla and his ilk, and are in the midst of preparing contingency measures for them.
* In ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'', the hero learns that his accidentally acquired power to reset time was a condition known to two people already who were busy doing research on it for some time already. More would have known, but attempts to inform military high command had gone... badly.
* In the first ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movie, it turns out that the government has been studying Transformers for decades in a secret base under the Hoover Dam, and that [[ETGaveUsWiFi most modern technology is actually the product of their reverse-engineering efforts]].
* Prodigium in ''Film/TheMummy2017'' has been studying monsters and searching for a "cure for evil" for a very long time. [[spoiler: They're presently headed up by none other than [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Dr. Henry Jekyll]].]]
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* ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime'': Meg and Charles find out that their father went missing because [[spoiler: the government had him experimenting with tesseracts, which left him stranded on another planet.]]
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* The spaceship containing the PowerSource of the chronosphere from ''Series/SevenDays''. Of course, a later episode reveals that the Americans aren't the only ones who have been doing that. Russians also had a time travel program that was shut down due to the lack of a potent power source. However, after another alien vessel was found in Siberia, it was restarted (by a RenegadeRussian general seeking to usurp the presidency).
* Happens all over the MythArc of ''Series/TheXFiles'', such as when Mulder goes to great lengths to recover the tiniest sliver of evidence that the aliens have visited Earth--only to be told by his MysteriousInformant that aliens have been on Earth for decades and some government circles have been in cahoots with them the entire time.
* In ''Series/{{Switched}}'', after Ayumi has lost hope of learning how to switch bodies from Umine, who clearly knows the secret, she is invited to meet with Ukon, the local expert on the red moon phenomenon. As it turns out, many people have switched bodies before. Ukon specifically says there have been three other cases besides Ayumi's and [[spoiler:her own]]. This is how Ayumi and Kaga learn that [[spoiler:if Ayumi kills herself in front of Umine during the red moon, she will simply die rather than switch back]].
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* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'': "We were all involved in the early stages of the Project during the Gulf War..." This refers to [[spoiler:Project Valhalla, the origin of the mysterious drug Valkyr that has caused Max so much trouble, to put it mildly]].
* In the later sections of ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', it is revealed that the dimensional rift at the beginning of the game was not a completely random coincidence. The piece of crystal that made the particle accelerator go crazy and open portals to another dimension was of same the type that another department at the research facility used in their development of teleportation technology for a very long time. Not only is the Lambda Core a huge device several stories tall and powered by its own nuclear power plant, the Addon ''Opposing Force'' shows quite clearly that expeditions to other dimensions have been going on for years and they have their own zoo for captured alien wildlife.
* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', the PlayerCharacter is working as a member of the [[SecretPolice Blades]], investing two dangerous cults who are becoming active in the game's setting. One of the cults, the Sixth House, worships the deranged PhysicalGod Dagoth Ur, who has [[KingInTheMountain re-awakened]] after being thought killed thousands of years in the past. He is believed to be connected to the [[MysticalPlague Blight]], which can spread the crippling, uncurable Corprus Disease. While investigating a Sixth House base, [[spoiler:the PC is naturally inflicted with the disease by one of Dagoth Ur's minions]]. Thought to be a death sentence, your QuestGiver sends to you meet with the [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld ancient]] [[TheMagocracy Telvanni]] wizard, Divayth Fyr, who runs a "Corprusarium" to provide refuge for the infected. It turns out that Fyr has been studying the disease for years. It saps the mind of those infected, leaving them with little more than animalistic intelligence, while also causing their body to bloat and grow cancerous, leprous chunks. It also makes the suffered into TheAgeless and gives them IdealIllnessImmunity. He has been [[FindTheCure working on a cure]]...but it has killed every test subject so far. When he uses it [[spoiler:on the PC, it works...at least according to what he was trying to do. The PC still has the disease, but the negative aspects have been cured, leaving the positive ones of biological immunity and complete disease immunity]].
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* ''Webcomic/{{Weregeek}}'' begins with Mark drooling at a look on dice and being chased by the HunterOfMonsters. He is saved by Joel and the others, who explain to him that he is a weregeek, just like themselves, which is why he was being hunted. It is much later explained that [[spoiler:Joel, in fact, is the leader of LaResistance hunting the Hunters and he knows much more about them than he tells anyone]].
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* The Wiki/SCPFoundation approaches this trope from the side of the mysterious research organization, and plays with it quite a bit. The foundation has warehouses and biological containment sites full of things that simply should not be, which they constantly struggle to explain, or at least ''understand'' even after over 150 years of operation. In the world of the foundation, MagicAIsMagicA is horrifyingly deconstructed, and SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic may only make you realize that the object previously deemed harmless is actually destroying the fabric of spacetime. There are times when the reader finds themselves understanding why its entirely reasonable for someone to be KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade. The consequences of a BrokenMasquerade are potentially TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
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'''Deep Throat''': Mr. Mulder, "they" have been here for a long, long time.
-->-- ''Series/TheXFiles'', "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E02DeepThroat Deep Throat]]"
TheHero encounters some [[TheMasquerade weird shit]]. ''[[MindScrew Really]]'' weird shit. However, just as he is about to say bye-bye to his sanity, some [[TheMenInBlack impeccably dressed gentlemen]] take him into a [[SecretGovernmentWarehouse sciencey lab]] where TheProfessor explains that what the hero saw was a perfectly scientific phenomenon they've studied for years, and really, just another kind of AppliedPhlebotinum that TheWorldIsNotReady for yet...
This trope is a form of {{Exposition}} that would have become an InfoDump, if it wasn't so long overdue, since it comes after the protagonist (and the audience) is [[InMediasRes thrust right into the middle]] of a situation he cannot even begin to understand. It doesn't have to be {{Phlebotinum}} per se: any kind of {{Masquerade}} will do, as long as the hero stumbles into a life-threatening situation before people who know what's going on show up. Compare RedundantResearcher.
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* In the first two episodes of ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' TheHero accidentally saves a scientist working under TheMasquerade and on the run receives a hasty explanation of what's going on. Of course, the true nature of the series is shown only when it all is twisted into BlackComedy.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' begins with this very trope. Shinji, a slightly dysfunctional boy, witnesses an EldritchAbomination attacking the city then is promptly thrown into the cockpit of a HumongousMecha that's not really a mecha at all: it's [[PhysicalGod alive]] and is VERY [[TheBerserker bloodthirsty]]. It takes a few episodes until he gets the explanation about what the hell is going on but never gets [[AwfulTruth told about ''what'' he's piloting]] until three episodes from the end. It's unclear which is worse: that [[LockedOutOfTheLoop he was told so late]] or that [[ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow he was told at all]]. Regardless which one is true, Shinji got an all-expenses-paid visit to the DespairEventHorizon for his effort.
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* ''Film/IndependenceDay'', when they visit {{Area 51}}, it turns out TheGovernment knew about the aliens all along. They just didn't get around to telling the elected part, i.e. ''the President'', until some time after the shit hit the fan.
* In the first ''Film/{{Underworld}}'' movie, when Selene tells Michael about the werewolves and the vampires.
* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'':
-->'''Dr. Scott:''' This sonic transducer...it is, I suppose, some kind of audio-vibratory-physio-molecular transport device?\\
'''Brad:''' You mean...?!\\
'''Dr. Scott:''' Yes, Brad, it's something we ourselves have been working on for quite some time. But it seems our friend here has found a means of perfecting it. A device which is capable of breaking down solid matter and projecting it through space...and who knows, perhaps even time itself!
* Happens in the first ''Film/MenInBlack'' movie, when K gives J a rundown on the little known facts during the latter's first entry to the MIB HQ.
%%Please fix the Administrivia/ZeroContextExample below before uncommenting it:
%%* Occurs in ''Film/TheAdjustmentBureau''.
* Used in ''Film/{{Godzilla2014}}'', where it's revealed the government knows about Godzilla and his ilk, and are in the midst of preparing contingency measures for them.
* In ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'', the hero learns that his accidentally acquired power to reset time was a condition known to two people already who were busy doing research on it for some time already. More would have known, but attempts to inform military high command had gone... badly.
* In the first ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movie, it turns out that the government has been studying Transformers for decades in a secret base under the Hoover Dam, and that [[ETGaveUsWiFi most modern technology is actually the product of their reverse-engineering efforts]].
* Prodigium in ''Film/TheMummy2017'' has been studying monsters and searching for a "cure for evil" for a very long time. [[spoiler: They're presently headed up by none other than [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Dr. Henry Jekyll]].]]
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* ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime'': Meg and Charles find out that their father went missing because [[spoiler: the government had him experimenting with tesseracts, which left him stranded on another planet.]]
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* The spaceship containing the PowerSource of the chronosphere from ''Series/SevenDays''. Of course, a later episode reveals that the Americans aren't the only ones who have been doing that. Russians also had a time travel program that was shut down due to the lack of a potent power source. However, after another alien vessel was found in Siberia, it was restarted (by a RenegadeRussian general seeking to usurp the presidency).
* Happens all over the MythArc of ''Series/TheXFiles'', such as when Mulder goes to great lengths to recover the tiniest sliver of evidence that the aliens have visited Earth--only to be told by his MysteriousInformant that aliens have been on Earth for decades and some government circles have been in cahoots with them the entire time.
* In ''Series/{{Switched}}'', after Ayumi has lost hope of learning how to switch bodies from Umine, who clearly knows the secret, she is invited to meet with Ukon, the local expert on the red moon phenomenon. As it turns out, many people have switched bodies before. Ukon specifically says there have been three other cases besides Ayumi's and [[spoiler:her own]]. This is how Ayumi and Kaga learn that [[spoiler:if Ayumi kills herself in front of Umine during the red moon, she will simply die rather than switch back]].
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* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'': "We were all involved in the early stages of the Project during the Gulf War..." This refers to [[spoiler:Project Valhalla, the origin of the mysterious drug Valkyr that has caused Max so much trouble, to put it mildly]].
* In the later sections of ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', it is revealed that the dimensional rift at the beginning of the game was not a completely random coincidence. The piece of crystal that made the particle accelerator go crazy and open portals to another dimension was of same the type that another department at the research facility used in their development of teleportation technology for a very long time. Not only is the Lambda Core a huge device several stories tall and powered by its own nuclear power plant, the Addon ''Opposing Force'' shows quite clearly that expeditions to other dimensions have been going on for years and they have their own zoo for captured alien wildlife.
* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', the PlayerCharacter is working as a member of the [[SecretPolice Blades]], investing two dangerous cults who are becoming active in the game's setting. One of the cults, the Sixth House, worships the deranged PhysicalGod Dagoth Ur, who has [[KingInTheMountain re-awakened]] after being thought killed thousands of years in the past. He is believed to be connected to the [[MysticalPlague Blight]], which can spread the crippling, uncurable Corprus Disease. While investigating a Sixth House base, [[spoiler:the PC is naturally inflicted with the disease by one of Dagoth Ur's minions]]. Thought to be a death sentence, your QuestGiver sends to you meet with the [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld ancient]] [[TheMagocracy Telvanni]] wizard, Divayth Fyr, who runs a "Corprusarium" to provide refuge for the infected. It turns out that Fyr has been studying the disease for years. It saps the mind of those infected, leaving them with little more than animalistic intelligence, while also causing their body to bloat and grow cancerous, leprous chunks. It also makes the suffered into TheAgeless and gives them IdealIllnessImmunity. He has been [[FindTheCure working on a cure]]...but it has killed every test subject so far. When he uses it [[spoiler:on the PC, it works...at least according to what he was trying to do. The PC still has the disease, but the negative aspects have been cured, leaving the positive ones of biological immunity and complete disease immunity]].
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* ''Webcomic/{{Weregeek}}'' begins with Mark drooling at a look on dice and being chased by the HunterOfMonsters. He is saved by Joel and the others, who explain to him that he is a weregeek, just like themselves, which is why he was being hunted. It is much later explained that [[spoiler:Joel, in fact, is the leader of LaResistance hunting the Hunters and he knows much more about them than he tells anyone]].
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[[folder:WebOriginal]]
* The Wiki/SCPFoundation approaches this trope from the side of the mysterious research organization, and plays with it quite a bit. The foundation has warehouses and biological containment sites full of things that simply should not be, which they constantly struggle to explain, or at least ''understand'' even after over 150 years of operation. In the world of the foundation, MagicAIsMagicA is horrifyingly deconstructed, and SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic may only make you realize that the object previously deemed harmless is actually destroying the fabric of spacetime. There are times when the reader finds themselves understanding why its entirely reasonable for someone to be KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade. The consequences of a BrokenMasquerade are potentially TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
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