Basic Trope: A character discovers that they were wrong about how they believed someone died.
- Straight: Alice believes that her friend Bob died in a car crash, but it turns out that Charlie murdered him instead.
- Exaggerated: Alice believes that Bob was killed in a car crash... but he didn't actually die at all, and is still out there.
- Downplayed: Alice believes that Bob died in a car accident, and that he was deemed dead on arrival. In reality, Bob actually survived the initial crash, but emergency workers couldn't revive him.
- Justified:
- Alice got her information on Bob's death from a non-reputable source.
- Critical information was not available when the accident was first investigated.
- Inverted: Alice is falsely told that Bob is still alive, when in fact he's dead.
- Subverted: Alice learns that Bob actually wasn't murdered by Charlie...
- Double Subverted: ...in fact, he died of a heart attack.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged:
- … triggered by Charlie. (Jury's still out on if he knew what his actions would do)
- There are several possible causes of death for Bob, and it's left ambiguous as to which one is true.
- Averted:
- Bob never dies.
- Alice finds out how Bob dies, and it turns out to be accurate the first time.
- Enforced: The show's writers wanted to retcon the cause of Bob's offscreen death, so they stated that the original report of his death was false.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Charlie gives Alice false information to cover his tracks.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice doesn't believe the false information about Bob's death, and demands to know how he actually died.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed:
- Alice makes many guesses on how Bob died, but all her statement are proven false. She then decides that enough is enough and quits being a detective out of resentment towards her peers.
- Alice keeps on being fed lies as to how Bob died, which drives her towards depression and fear of people.
- Reconstructed:
- Alice actually makes for a whole lot better detective than she thinks she is according to her parents, which restores her motivation to deduce how Bob actually died.
- Alice is told to not trust the people who lied to her about Bob's death, and asks for help from the more trustworthy people who have more reliable evidence.
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