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** An even bigger, nastier second helping is served up to Tidus when the Fayth admit he's a dream of theirs brought to Spira to end this spiral of death because they're exhausted after 1000 years and just want to ''finally'' die.

* You'll probably get 2/3 of the way through ''Literature/The Cyberiad'' before realizing that [[spoiler: all of the characters are robots and humans are extinct]].

* ''Sluggy Freelance'' uses this in the Ocean's Unmoving arc; Bunbun fights over and over again against a mysterious enemy that [[spoiler: was him all along via a looping in time; in an attempt to find his way out, he followed his old self, since he knew he had gotten out before. But in his frustration with his previous incarnation, he beat said incarnation severely enough to cause memory loss, resulting in the very loss of memory that put him in this situation to begin with.]]

* This[[http://www.fimfiction.net/s/59705/]] WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfic.

* http://www.fimfiction.net/story/59705/This WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfic.

* The BigFinishDoctorWho audio play ''The Natural History of Fear''. To say any more would ruin it.

* A few of the ''ArseneLupin'' stories actually use this. The POV character or a protagonist appears to be some normal, often helpless, man who is embroiled in a conflict between Lupin and whoever opposes him. Then the story reveals that said character is actually Lupin is disguise, keeping tabs on the other side.

* In IcewindDale we have the narrator, who reads a book describing the adventures of the PlayerCharacter party. After completing the game, in the epilogue, his voice get very angry. [[spoiler: Turns out he personally witnessed the story - he's the BigBad [/
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* In Icewind Dale we have the narrator, who reads a book describing the adventures of the PlayerCharacter party. After completing the game, in the epilogue, his voice get very angry. [spoiler] Turns out he personally witnessed the story - he's the BigBad [/spoiler]

* Used to powerful effect in the video for TheProdigy's "Smack My Bitch Up". The video is shot from first-person viewpoint, showing a clubgoer going about their routine... which starts with a line of cocaine in the clubgoer's home and later involves binge-drinking, vomiting into a toilet, accosting a woman in a bar, meeting another woman in an alleyway and then returning home with her to have sex. At the end, however, [[spoiler:the camera finally turns to a mirror, and the clubgoer is revealed... as a woman. Most viewers will likely find their assessment of the preceding events jarred significantly by the discovery.]]

* A recent ''New Yorker'' short story, ''Daughters of the Moon'', ends in a perfect example: [[spoiler:The inhabitants of the planets turn out to be woolly mammoths! [[FridgeLogic Albeit clothes-wearing, motorcycle-riding woolly mammoths with an apparent nudity taboo...]]]]

** Even bigger than that, Tidus appears to come from Zanarkand 1000 years into the past. [[spoiler:It turns out Zanarkand exists in the present day, and it's just a dream of the Fayth, so by extension Tidus is just a dream too.]]

* TheKinks's "Lola" is about a woman the narrator met in a bar and fell in love with, but in the final line it's revealed that Lola is actually [[spoiler: a transvestite.]]
** Though if you listen to the lyrics, it's pretty obvious right from the beginning of the song.
** While the interpretation in the spoiler above is pretty clearly the correct one (given what TheKinks have said about how it came to be written), all the clues and the final line itself are just ambiguous enough to allow an alternative interpretation (for example, the last line ''could'' mean "Lola is also glad I'm a man"). Almost certainly done intentionally to avoid censorship.

* At the very end of LoisDuncan's book ''IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'', two of the main characters, Bud and Collie [[spoiler: turn out to be the same person: Collingsworth Wilson, brother of the dead boy]]. The reader is unaware of this because [[spoiler: different characters who meet him at different times call him by different nicknames]].

The resolution of a plot (usually but not always for a SpeculativeFiction story) by the sudden revelation of some important detail which has been deliberately hidden from the viewer. However, the detail hasn't been hidden from the "viewpoint" of the ''character(s)'', and is often something that they would consider an obvious and mundane detail. Often, had this detail been made known at the beginning of the story, much the of dramatic tension would have been missing.

** In UK comedy (at least) this trope is also known by the phrase "And then i got off the bus", the humour coming from the fact that the set-up was something that led the audience to think the teller was at home, probably including nudity.

* In D. J. McHale's "Pendragon" series, [[spoiler:Ibara occupies the same physical world as Veelox but is in the future]].