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* '''Played For Laughs''': Evulz leaks a secret, only to find out that EverybodyKnewAlready.



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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???Emperor Evulvz keeps going back and forth between trying to reveal Bob's secrets and keeping some of them to himself.



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"Why do villains keep finding out my secrets? They keep them using them for ammunition."
* '''Invoked''': ???Emperor Evulvz obsessively researches Bob trying to find secrets about him that he can reveal.



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** Emperor Evulz' keeps Bob's secret from being revealed.

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** Emperor Evulz' Evulz keeps Bob's secret from being revealed.



* '''Exploited''': Bob makes up a very minor (but allegedly highly embarrassing, like being a chronic bed-wetter in his youth) secret to "reveal" to certain people, in the gamble that if Evulz ever gloats about knowing it [[FeedTheMole this will help Bob find out whether or not he has moles in his group]].

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* '''Exploited''': Bob makes up a very minor (but allegedly highly embarrassing, like being a chronic bed-wetter in his youth) secret to "reveal" to certain people, in the gamble that if Evulz ever gloats about knowing it it, [[FeedTheMole this will help Bob find out whether or not he has moles in his group]].



** Bob and his companions are too good at keeping secrets. Evulz doesn't even knows that there are secrets to reveal, let alone is capable of revealing them.

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** Bob and his companions are too good at keeping secrets. Evulz doesn't even knows know that there are secrets to reveal, let alone is capable of revealing them.

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* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Bob and his companions keep no secrets from each other to prevent this from happening.

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Bob makes up a very minor (but allegedly highly embarrassing, like being a chronic bed-wetter in his youth) secret to "reveal" to certain people, in the gamble that if Evulz ever gloats about knowing it [[FeedTheMole this will help Bob find out whether or not he has moles in his group]].
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Bob and his companions keep no secrets from each other to prevent this from happening. happening.
** Bob and his companions are too good at keeping secrets. Evulz doesn't even knows that there are secrets to reveal, let alone is capable of revealing them.
** Evulz refuses to divulge any secrets that he finds out about Bob and his companions, not seeing the utility of [[EvenEvilHasStandards stooping so low for the sake of alleged psycholoical warfare]].
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'''Basic Trope''': A character's or a group's secret is revealed by the villain.
* '''Straight''': Emperor Evulz reveals that [[TheHero Bob]] is a TykeBomb he created to destroy the heroes.
* '''Exaggerated''': Emperor Evulz reveals that [[TheHero Bob]] is a TykeBomb he created, [[LoveInterest Alice]] has been hiding secrets about [[TokenHeroicOrc her ancestry]], [[TheLancer Charlie]] is really [[SweetPollyOliver Carla]], and Dracone has been hiding money from the rest of the party.
* '''Downplayed''': Emperor Evulz doesn't reveal Bob's secret, but what he says allows the others to figure it out.
* '''Justified''': Emperor Evulz is hoping the revealed secrets will cause his enemies to turn on each other.
* '''Inverted''':
** Bob reveals that Emperor Evulz [[VillainWithGoodPublicity has been conning his people all the time.]]
** Emperor Evulz' keeps Bob's secret from being revealed.
* '''Subverted''': Emperor Evulz reveals that Bob is his TykeBomb created to destroy the heroes...only for the group to reveal that they found that out long ago.
* '''Double Subverted''': Then Emperor Evulz tells them Alice is a [[TokenHeroicOrc member of a bad species]].
* '''Parodied''': Emperor Evulz shares the shocking truth that Bob ate the last of the shortbread.
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* '''Averted''': None of the characters have secrets.
* '''Enforced''': The author wants a reason for the ThirdActMisunderstanding or PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure.
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* '''Defied''': Bob and his companions keep no secrets from each other to prevent this from happening.
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Oh, troper, how nice to see you! Did you know that someone sneaked behind the [[VillainRevealsTheSecret main page's]] back...and created this PlayingWith subpage? ''[[[EvilLaugh Maniacal cackle]]]''
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