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** ''HalfBloodPrince'' also has another one: Up until then, the DA-teacher always has been a character newly introduced in the respective book. (Except in the first book of course, where ''everyone'' was "newly introduced".) Even the characters were surprised when this turned out to not be the case in ''HBP''.

** ''HalfBloodPrince'' also has another one: Up until then, newly hired teachers did always teach DA. (Except in the first book of course, where ''everyone'' was "new" for Harry and the readers.) Even the characters were surprised when this turned out to not be the case in ''HBP''.

** ''HalfBloodPrince'' also has another one: Up until then, new teachers would always teach DA. (Except in the first book of course, where ''everyone'' was "new" for Harry and the readers.) Even the characters were surprised when this turned out to not be the case in ''HBP''.

** ''HalfBloodPrince'' also has another one: Up until then, newly introduced teachers would always teach DA. (Except in the first book of course, where ''everyone'' was "newly introduced".) Even the characters were surprised when this turned out to not be the case in ''HBP''.

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** His other ctachphrase is "it's never Lupus." Except that one time when it is Lupus.

* After making a whole lot of surrealist films, DavidLynch directed ''The Straight Story''. The twist: There are ''no'' monster fetuses, talking women in radiators or violent porn scenes. It's just a normal film.

** Well, people may have been disappointed for [[SoBadItsHorrible other reasons]]...

* The first [[strike: five]] four ''HarryPotter'' books follow a specific pattern: the people Harry suspects are never the actual bad guys. In ''HalfBloodPrince'', Harry is actually ''right'' about who's responsible. (There's a slight twist, admittedly, but we don't find that out until ''DeathlyHallows''.)
** The supposed villain in Order of the Phoenix is not the MAIN villain, but is most certainly [[TyrantTakesTheHelm villainous.]]
*** Umbridge is not the "supposed villain" in [=OotP=]. She's nasty, but she was never a suspect for sending the Dementors, murdering [[spoiler:Bode]] or the other mysteries in that book. In fact, the way [=OotP=] breaks the pattern is that [[spoiler:other than who sent the Dementors, who did what is ''never'' explained]].

*** Umbridge is not the "supposed villain" in [=OotP=]. She's nasty, but she was never a suspect for [[spoiler:sending the Dementors]], murdering [[spoiler:Bode]] or the other mysteries in that book. In fact, the way [=OotP=] breaks the pattern is that [[spoiler:other than who sent the Dementors, who did what is ''never'' explained]].

** [[spoiler:The ''plants'' being behind the whole thing]] wasn't a twist?!?!?

* Due to it being the ''SpeedRacer'' Movie, you expect TheReveal from [[LongLostSibling Racer X]] that he's Speed's missing older brother Rex Racer. Speed is even GenreSavvy enough to expect this. The Meta Twist comes from TheReveal being [[TheUntwist an Untwist]], that it isn't Rex Racer. ...Then they [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] this [[TheUntwist untwist]] at the end of the film revealing to the audience that he really is Rex Racer. Meta enough?
* ''{{Film/Watchmen}}'' has a fairly interesting case as a byproduct of the adaptation process. Adrian Veidt in the graphic novel is a kind, open-hearted man, the best-adjusted of all the former superheroes. It then turns out that he's ''also'' the mysterious murderer whose slaying of another onetime superhero begins the story, the propelling force behind nearly all the main events of the plot, and to top it all off he kills millions of people to try to frighten humanity into uniting rather than threatening nuclear war. By the time the film was made, the idea of "the least likely person in the cast turns out to be the antagonist" had become a time-honored trope in itself, so in the film he was rewritten as a cold, aloof, rather sneering man to make him the most obvious choice of villain (and therefore, to a twist-accustomed audience, the ''least'' likely, in a strange way). And then it turns out it was him all along, just as in the book- yet then messes with expectations one last time by having him plainly be way more unsettled by his own decision that UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans than he ever was in the book (down to the point of surrendering himself to a harsh beating at the hands of one of the heroes).

** The supposed villain in Order of the Phoenix is not the MAIN villain, but is most certainly [[TheUmbridge villainous.]]

*** Season 5 has an interesting variation: by this point, most of the audience knows that the opening scene will be set on the Island, but this time the opening scene turns out to be [[spoiler:set in the 1970s with Pierre Chang]] and then we see [[spoiler:Daniel Faraday]], so the audience has no idea if this his a flashback or flashforwards. Indeed, it isn't until much, ''much'' later in the season that this scene is revisited.

Compare with TheUntwist.

* ''{{Lost}}'' is well known for its use of flashbacks, a fact which was taken into account in the first episode of both seasons two and three, each of which began with what appeared to be a flashback but was revealed to be showing a previously unseen area of the island. The real meta twist occurred in the first episode after the mid-season three break which began with a few of the Others working in a hospital that seemed a lot more modern than anything seen on the island before... because they're ''not'' on the island, it really is a flashback this time.
** Used again in the Season 3 finale, with what appears to be a typical flashback turns out to be a ''flashforward'' instead.
** And yet again in the season six opener, where what looks like a flashback to the crash diverges from the actual events, and we get our first ''flashsideways''.

** Well, people may have ben disappointed for [[SoBadItsHorrible other reasons]]...

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* The first five ''HarryPotter'' books follow a specific pattern: the people Harry suspects are never the actual bad guys. In ''HalfBloodPrince'', Harry is actually ''right'' about who's responsible. (There's a slight twist, admittedly, but we don't find that out until ''DeathlyHallows''.)

**well I don't get how it is a meta twist because isn't the definition of a twist something you don't expect?