Basic Trope: The Masquerade is broken forever.
- Straight: Vampires exist, and while they've been able to keep their existence a secret for centuries, their existence has been revealed, and society changes as a result.
- Exaggerated: The knowledge of vampires being real practically changes society overnight.
- Downplayed: The fact that vampires are real was always a rumor that some people took seriously. The reveal simply confirmed their suspicions.
- Justified:
- Modern technology makes it much more difficult to keep the existence of vampires a secret.
- There was a conspiracy of people who fought to reveal the existence of vampires to the world, and they were ultimately successful.
- Inverted: Everyone knows vampires are real, but the vampires enact a massive plan to convince people that their existence was an elaborate con, so people begin to think they aren't.
- Subverted: Definitive proof that vampires are real exists, and is released to the world, but everyone believes it's fake.
- Double Subverted: Then, additional proof is released, confirming that vampires are real.
- Parodied: A diner in a restaurant has a dramatic reaction to being served garlic. The bystanders immediately assume he must be a vampire, and therefore, vampires are real. Despite the flimsy proof, the rest of society believes them without question.
- Zig-Zagged: People debate extensively as to the validity of the evidence of vampires' existence, and whether vampires are real or not.
- Averted:
- Vampires were always known to exist.
- There are no vampires, or other entities living in secret.
- Enforced: By revealing the existence of vampires to the world, the authors can write stories about how the characters, and society at large, reacts to that.
- Lampshaded: "Now everyone knows vampires are real. This is going to change the world forever."
- Invoked: An investigative reporter finds proof that vampires are real, and decides to release it publicly.
- Exploited: The reporter tried to report the existence of vampires in the past, but was never taken seriously. Finding proof will help her fix her reputation.
- Defied: There are people working to maintain the secrecy of vampires' existence, willing to go to great lengths to keep them secret.
- Discussed: "You think vampires are real? I wonder what the world would be like if we all learned that they are."
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: One vampire is going to great lengths to keep the fact that he's a vampire secret. Several years later, the same vampire is talking with some humans, and the fact that he's a vampire is known by all of them.
- Played for Drama: Two vampires struggle with the fact that their existence is now known to be real by normal humans, and how this will change their lives.
- Played for Horror: Now that vampires are known to exist, they get the courage to attack humans much more openly, causing people to live in fear.
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