History Main / Superdickery

* Some trailers and promotional material for ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'' showed Rey as a Sith Lord, having fallen to TheDarkSide. In the film proper, [[spoiler:this is a nightmare sequence depicting a BadFuture, and we later find out it technically isn't even Rey in this vision: it's Palpatine hijacking her body]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' episode "Above and Beyond" features the Plumbers' Helpers, who need to go to a space station to save Max, who's being attacked by an apparently psychotic Ben. [[spoiler:The entire thing turns out to just be a test to see if they qualify for Plumbers Academy.]] Still turns out pretty creepy.

** The 1991 annual of ''The Adventures of Superman'' proved that the tactic didn't die with the Silver Age -- it depicted Superman and [[HopelessSuitor Maxima]] making out in a graveyard, with Maxima seated on the tombstone of Lois Lane -- who died married to Superman and ''pregnant''. The story turns out to take place in an AlternateUniverse.

** The cover ''Superman #293: The Miracle of Thirsty Thursday'' shows the citizens of Metropolis dying of thirst while Superman holds them back from a gushing fire hydrant, preventing them from drinking. Of course, a thoughtful reader may assume that the clarifying context is that the water is contaminated in some way, and Superman is protecting them. But in this case, the "context" is that the cover is a lie: in the actual story, the people of Metropolis are affected by a serum that creates an ''aversion'' to water, and Superman has to come up with a means to make them drink.

In comics, a CoverDrop will often explain the truth behind the dickery. Compare with ClickbaitGag, an InUniverse use of one of Superdickery's web equivalents, Clickbait.

** The season 3 opener, "Clash of the Superheroes!", is essentially a half-hour ShoutOut to the Super Dickery website. Superman, affected by Red Kryptonite, re-enacts many of the classic covers (including the page image), while references are made to Lois' endless attempts to trick Supes into marriage and Jimmy's attempts to learn his identity. At one point, Jimmy even says "Superman's turned into such a di-" before [[CurseCutShort Lois butts in with "-different person"]].

** The UsefulNotes/PlayStation ''Spider-Man'' [[VideoGame/SpiderMan2000 video game]] opens with Spidey stealing some technology. Yes, he's stealing it from Doctor Octopus, but that's not why it's Super Dickery -- it's because it's not Spider-Man, but rather [[spoiler:Mysterio, who's stealing the tech on Doctor Octopus' behalf.]] It's part of their BatmanGambit to frame Spidey and accomplish their EvilPlan without being disturbed. The cinematic where this happens ''shows'' Peter Parker taking pictures at the scene and commenting, "Wait a minute, I thought ''I'' was Spider-Man."

* ComicBook/New52 had the most brutal Wonder Woman to ever be regularly featured in DC's "main" setting, but several covers still felt the need to make her look viscious even during her softer moments. ''Wonder Woman'', volume 4, #45 shows depicts her lifting the battered body of Donna Troy off the ground ByTheHair, while preparing to finish Donna off with a BladeBelowTheShoulder. In the actual story Donna Troy is suicidal and Diana has imprisoned Donna for her own safety. ''Teen Titans'' volume 5 #18 shows Wonder Woman standing over the broken bodies of the Titans while [[HoistHeroOverHead hoisting Cassie Sandsmark over her head]]. The actual contents of the story Diana is hunting ''[[OneSteveLimit Cassandra]]'', for the sake of ''protecting'' the Titans since Cassandra had a hand in the murder of Cassie's father.