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A Subverted Trope happens, or seems to happen... and then that subversion is subverted within itself. These let a writer eat their cake and have it too: get the trick of a Subverted Trope, without abandoning the plot-furthering nature of that trope. It is more frequent when the subverted form of the trope is very common, almost a trope in itself, so the second subversion really does subvert an existing trope. It is possible to triple subvert a trope (and so on); see Zig-Zagging Trope. See Playing with a Trope for a comparison with many other ways that a trope can be used. This page may contain unhidden spoilers. Caution advised. |
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Adventure Time does this with the Magical Land trope. On one hand, Ooo has all the problems endemic to human societies (child neglect, insanity, crime), and the daily monster attacks don't help matters. The wise monarch is of questionable sanity, the magic causes problems just as much as it solves them, and the fantastic creatures are often jerks. On the other hand, it really isn't much worse than any modern society, and, well, it is a pretty amazing place. | |
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Season 12 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit uses this quite cleverly to get around a potential case of Narrowed It Down to the Guy I Recognize. The initial suspect in the kidnapping of a young girl is played by Henry Ian Cusick, but he turns out to be a Red Herring. This meant that when the same character showed up again in the subsequent episode, viewers weren't inclined to see him as a suspect (especially since the episode didn't frame him as one) despite him being played by Cusick, which allowed them to actually surprise the viewers with The Reveal that Cusick's character is the rapist. | |
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Ranma ½ double-subverts Fanservice in an early anime episode. Ranma takes Clothing Damage which would lead to some nice Under Boobs. If he was a girl. Then he jumps through a fountain, activating his Gender Bender curse (which is triggered by cold water). | |
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Bleach has Isshin training Ichigo in the precipice world, letting him learn a Dangerous Forbidden Technique. They could only do this because Aizen destroyed the cleaner that goes through the precipice world. Seems to be Nice Job Fixing It, Villain, but Aizen said that he planned that so that Ichigo could become stronger. Ichigo went even further, ascending to another state of being, making his reiatsu undetectable by normal Shinigami and letting him shrug off attacks that would have decimated Isshin or Urahara. Nice Job Fixing It, Villain indeed. Zommari invokes this once he enters Resurrecion. He states Byakuya quickly moved out of the way, thinking he was going to mount an attack, only to find nothing. Then, he shows the true danger of his power. |
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Tales of Monkey Island doubly subverts Spoiler Title in its fourth chapter: "The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood". The premise invoves Guybrush being put on trial, so judging by the title you'd expect the trial goes badly and The Hero Dies. Except Guybrush is cleared of all charges thanks to a Big Damn Heroes moment from former villain Le'Chuck. Who then proceeds to kill Guybrush for real at the end of the chapter, making the Spoiler Title Right for the Wrong Reasons. | |
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In Better Off Ted, Lem becomes deeply uncomfortable when he learns Dr. Bhamba is dating his mother. The next day, he sees Bhamba enthusiastically telling a story to a group of friends, while demonstrating a series elaborate hip thrusts. When he gets close enough to hear the conversation, Bhamba says "... and that's how I won the hula-hoop competition. And gained the pelvic stamina necessary to satisfy Lem's mom." | |
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In CSI: NY, Danny attempts an Honorable Marriage Proposal after Lindsay tells him she's pregnant. She declines, but a few episodes later he lures her to the Justice of the Peace and proposes again, and this time she says yes. | |
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One pre-title segment of House features a young girl diving in a competition. Standard procedure with the claiming of slight illness and shots of insides. She dives in, emerges and finds the judge on the floor, vomiting blood. After the title sequence, it transpires the entire audience and swimmers are being tested for meningitis. It's at this point the girl turns up again, with bizarre symptoms which aren't meningitis. | |
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The Simpsons, especially during its golden age in the 1990s, was a master at this trope. The writers often refer to jokes built on double subversion (as well as jokes built on simple subversion) as "screw the audience" jokes. One example: Homer is trying to find Lisa in a crowd. Thinking a bird's-eye-view will help him, he buys a gigantic bunch of balloons from a vendor.... then he turns around and offers the balloons to a cherry picker operator. The cherry picker operator says he already has some balloons, but "they're not this nice," so he lets Homer use it. |
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct video released on August 8, 2018 features a trailer appearing to reveal the inclusion of King K. Rool. Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong look out their window and see a silhouette of King K. Rool—but he throws off the disguise to reveal it's actually King Dedede. Then, while King Dedede is running around laughing about the prank he just played, he gets clobbered from behind and falls over, revealing the actual King K. Rool. And then there's the E3 2019 trailer that served as a direct follow-up, even playing out almost the same way. This time, Banjo and Kazooie are the ones being teased as a DLC character, the silhouette actually turns out to be Duck Hunt in disguise, and then the real bear and bird (quite literally) drop in to cement their reveal. For the Nintendo Direct that aired on September 13, 2018, it presented one last trailer for a new Animal Crossing game, featuring Isabelle working around the office. Then she receives a letter saying she's been invited, and it turns out this whole thing was a reveal for Isabelle as a playable character in Smash Bros Ultimate. Shortly after that, however, we cut to Tom Nook congratulating Isabelle on her inclusion and saying he needs to get the town ready for the player's return, which does indeed end up advertising a new Animal Crossing game. |
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Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII double subverts I Have Your Wife. Bhunivelze holds Lightning's sister, Serah's, soul hostage so that Lightning will follow his orders to prepare humanity for the end of the world and become the new Goddess of Death. Lightning eventually discovers that he doesn't have Serah at all and decides to kill him for lying to her; however, it's later revealed that Bhunivelze does have Hope's soul, which forces Lightning to continue doing God's bidding. At least until she can kill him and save Hope. | |
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SiIvaGunner has done this a few times: Normally, the channel is dedicated to posting comedic video game remixes under the guise that they're simply uploads of the original song (or, in their parlance, "high quality video game rips"). Then April Fools' Day rolls around, and they post the entire soundtrack to a Flintstones game without any alterations. Shortly thereafter came three unrelated video game songs that sounded like the Flintstones theme, but were unaltered (a switch from the channel's tendency to change video game music to incorporate the Flintstones theme. Another Running Gag centered around "Grand Metropolis"; they uploaded six versions of the song ("Demo", "Alpha Mix", "Original Mix", "Alternate Mix", "Unused", and "Unused Demo") that were completely unaltered, then made a seventh that actually was. |
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Happens twice during the pilot episode of Castle. Mystery writer Richard Castle is informed that, in Real Life police investigations, fingerprint matches can take up to a week to get done, and the most likely suspect usually is the person who did it. Castle than proceeds to sweet talk the mayor into giving their fingerprint search priority, getting it done in under an hour, and proves that the most likely suspect was actually framed. | |
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann does this for a couple mecha tropes. The most obvious one is at Episode 3. Kamina intends to create a Combining Mecha with Simon's Lagann...only to just place it on Gurren's head...which then starts the Transformation Sequence. | |
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Naruto: Neji tells Naruto that he should give up on becoming Hokage because the past Hokage were destined to be Hokage and Naruto, being a nobody, will never be one no matter how hard he tries. After Naruto beats him, it seemed like Naruto was defying fate until its revealed that Naruto is the son of the 4th Hokage and the previous Nine Tails Jinchuriki. Taken to the extreme when we learn that he is a reincarnation of Ashura, the son of the Sage of Six Paths and his successor. In the epilogue, we see Naruto as the 7th Hokage, and its no surprise that he succeeded. Neji was right after all. | |
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The Joker really loves this trope. An especially ingenious one is in the short story "Laughter After Midnight," in which he's walking home after being thrown out of a blimp by Batman (and surviving, of course). Feeling hungry, the Joker stops by a donut shop - frightening away the other customers - and helps himself to some jelly donuts before putting them over his eyes like a mask and saying "This is a stick-up, see?" to the man at the counter. Thinking the Joker has a gun, the man frantically pulls open the register and says the Joker can have everything in it - only to be reassured that "I'm just funning with you, keed." Then, in a very uncharacteristic move, the Joker pulls out a wad of dollar bills and pays the man for the donuts. But then the man notices that the bills are counterfeits with the Joker's face on them - and the Joker explains that he coated them with a toxic chemical that can only be activated by human sweat (which the counter guy has been releasing buckets of because he was so afraid of being shot). Long story short, the donut man is exposed to "Joker Venom" and dies after all with a whitened, perpetually smiling face. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: During a fight against Wrath, Fu attempts a Heroic Sacrifice, only to get foiled by his opponent. Just when things look hopeless, Buccaneer also sacrifices himself, and their united efforts manage to wound Wrath. One character manages to double-subvert Handicapped Badass, but the context is pretty spoilery. Roy Mustang retains his ridiculously powerful flame alchemy following his encounter with Truth late in the manga, but he's blinded. People in FMA learn to work around potentially career-ending injuries all the time - Lan Fan, for example, masters an automail arm in a quarter of the time it takes most people - but Roy gets blinded in the immediate preamble to the final battle, meaning that he's The Load during said battle... until Riza Hawkeye, who's not really healthy enough to properly participate given that she nearly died of blood loss maybe an hour previously, starts serving as his "spotter". |
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8-Bit Theater Double Subverts Offscreen Moment of Awesome in the comic's final battle: Chaos is defeated just offscreen while the main characters argue. Then the story does a Flashback to the confrontation with Chaos... which cuts off just before the battle actually happens. | |
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In Community episode "Interpretive Dance" Jeff says that as soon as he and Professor Slater kiss, the blinds will open. They don't, but then it shown that blinds across the hall did open revealing his relationship to his friends. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Here's one example of a triple subversion. | |
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House of Mouse: Donald Duck has set up his computer. A viewer would tend to expect that the computer would take all day to start up. Just 15 seconds after he turns it on, however, the screen reads "Startup Done", just long enough for the viewer to think "Huh?" before the word "Almost" is added to the screen, and it ends up taking all day after all. | |
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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: Rentarou double subverts Oblivious to Love. Rentarou is extraordinarily perceptive to his girlfriends' feelings and unspoken concerns, and even the love in outside relationships or fiction. But any time his girlfriends have an intimate moment with each other (typically Hakari and Karane, but occasionally even with Hahari's antics), he attributes it to their just being good friends and fails to see the romantic subtext. Perhaps a more accurate description would be Oblivious to Lust. In Chapter 74, Kusuri invites Rentarou to her home to meet her parents. Rentarou’s harem at this point includes Hahari and Chiyo, and so he expects Kusuri’s mother to be his next girlfriend... but she isn’t. Then at the end of the chapter, Kusuri’s grandmother comes home and—ZING!! |
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Maeby Fünke of Arrested Development is a double subversion of Brainy Brunette: she's rebellious and Book Dumb, but outside school fends for herself quite easily, even landing a plum job in Hollywood. | |
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The Enchanted Forest Chronicles does this with the Everyone Can See It trope... many of the people Mendanbar and Cimorene encounter assume they are in love, for extremely silly and superficial reasons that are obviously wrong, when they are both extremely practical, goal-oriented people, not sentimental lovebirds. But having those traits in common is exactly why they are indeed perfect for each other after all. | |
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Rick and Morty During an episode where the main duo try to steal a giant's treasure and get arrested, the show double subverts a joke about Prison Rape: The show's treatment of Remember the New Guy? falls into this territory. The season two episode Total Rickall Justifies it with the introduction of telepathic parasites who implant false memories of new people into the host's brains, causing scores of new characters to pop up only for the family to treat them as old friends. Eventually, Morty figures out how to tell the real memories from the fake ones, and he and his family wipe out the parasites. Unfortunately for poor Mr. Poopybutthole, he turned out to be a Double Subversion by playing the trope completely straight: he wasn't a parasite, but a new character whom the rest of the cast had apparently known for a long time but simply hadn't appeared before this episode. |
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In Princess Tutu, Mytho is white-haired but isn't evil at all. But, then the second season comes around... | |
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In an early The Dresden Files novel, Harry Dresden tells us that a Deal with the Devil is safe enough to skilled wizards. Demons will accept deals that don't give enough influence over the human to have an effect. Indeed, he pulls this off. The demon then offers Harry his heart's desire. He refuses, but is reduced to a total wreck and does so despite himself. Turns out that Our Hero is just incredibly stupid. | |
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A season two episode of Supernatural begins with a terrifed woman desperately trying to escape a dark pursuer, only to have her head chopped off. It's clearly the Victim of the Week dying to set up the episode's plot... only for Sam and Dean to inspect the corpse and realize she was a vampire killed by friendly fellow hunter Gordon, who's trying to find and eradicate the nest and is happy to have the Winchesters onboard. Then it turns out that her coven is actually feeding off of cattle because they don't want to kill humans, so the woman was an innocent victim all along. Gordon refuses to consider this and wants to slaughter them all anyway. | |
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The first two seasons of Total Drama (Island and Action) did the same thing in the last two episodes. The final three contestants are The Big Bad of the season (Heather in Island, Courtney in Action), the person who's conflict with said Big Bad has been built up for most of the season (Gwen in Island, Duncan in Action), and a third character who by some miracle made it that far just because no one saw them as a threat and they never did anything offensive enough to warrant elimination (Owen in Island, Beth in Action). People would go in to these episodes fully expecting The Load to be eliminated so The Hero and the Big Bad could have their Final Battle in the season finale, only for said Big Bad to abruptly be defeated an episode before the finale so the season could end with a Dark Horse Victory. By season 3 (World Tour) it seemed like they were ready to pull this again as geeky Butt-Monkey Cody was seconds away from beating Magnificent Basterd Alejandro to the final round, only for it to end in a draw and Alejandro being declared the winner in the next episode becoming the first Big Bad to make it to the final round. Of course at that point Heather was probably the last person anyone was expecting to get a win so it probably still counts as a Darkhorse Victory. | |
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PandoraHearts sets up several tropes in the beginning that go through rounds and rounds of subversion by the end. The most notable double-subversion: the protagonist Oz Vessalius is set up as a Chosen One and Messianic Archetype prophesied to save the world like his previous incarnation Jack Vessalius, only for it to be revealed later that he's actually the key to ending it. Then it's doubly subverted when he ends up sacrificing his life to stop The End of the World as We Know It anyways. The character Gilbert's Undying Loyalty to Oz, which initially was set up to be from his childhood friendship with him, only to be subverted when Gilbert remembers his old life, realizes he's been brainwashed into loyalty to whoever he calls 'master' and that Oz is actually technically his enemy, and then shoots Oz in the chest. Then it's doubly subverted when Gilbert calms down from his Freak Out, reconciles this fact with himself, and decides to still be loyal to Oz anyways. |
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Nick Knight (pilot for later series Forever Knight) double subverts the old pane-of-glass trope: A runaway car, barreling down the hill. Guys carrying pane of glass across the road. Driver yelling and trying to wave them off. Frightened face of car's helpless driver reflected in the glass. Guys make it out of the way in time, saving the glass...except they're so busy watching the car, they walk into a nearby tree, smashing the glass anyway. | |
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Homestuck is this. So subversive is Homestuck that it it is hard to even classify what format it's in. Think about that for a minute. Homestuck isn't so much a webcomic as it is its own unique format. It subverts its double-subversions, and then keeps on subverting until it comes all the way back around. | |
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Star Trek (2009): An obvious Red Shirt has to open his parachute in time to hit a floating platform. At first it seems he doesn't open his parachute in time and misses the platform. It seems like he will pancake himself onto the planet below, but in fact he does manage to open it. ...Only for the parachute to catch onto the platform and swing him right into the energy beam projecting from the bottom, vaporizing him instantly. | |
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In Atomic Robo, Doctor Dinosaur double-subverts Techno Babble. The not-so-good doctor's output of pseudoscientific gibberish would be par for the course in a lot of comic books, but in this world it usually causes Robo to yell about how ridiculous whatever Dr Dinosaur just said was. Then it works anyway. This makes Robo very sad indeed. | |
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Quantum and Woody double subverts the Scary Black Man trope with Eric Henderson (Quantum). While he is a tall, muscular, and physically intimidating black man, his full-body costume and articulate speaking pattern means he's inevitably assumed to be Caucasian. People don't really freak out until they find out he's black underneath. | |
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Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker: One of Jokerz mouthed off to the Joker after failing his mission. Joker pulls a gun and pulls the trigger - which produces a flag that says "BANG!" on it - then pulls it again, ejecting the flagpole at high speed and impaling the guy in the chest. This is based on a scene from the comics, in "Dreadful Birthday, Dear Joker!" (Batman #321). | |
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Stephenson loves this trope - the same thing happens in The Diamond Age. | |
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Overtime, an Undertale and Team Fortress 2 crossover fangame, double subverts I Surrender, Suckers. If you accept Dell Conagher's offer of mercy, he lets you go on, and even encourages you to save. Once you continue, however, you'll get killed by the Sentry Guns waiting for you. | |
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Golden Palace, pilot: Involving a robbery incident. See The Ditz. | |
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In American Dad!, Steve tells Stan that his English teacher hates him and that's why he has a failing grade. Stan says in a sinister tone that he'll "pay the teacher a little visit." Cut to Stan having a friendly chat with the teacher and his family, implying that he had come over for dinner and had a wonderful time with them all. He then walks to the door, starts to say his goodbyes, then says, "I almost forgot..." (pulls his gun and slams the teacher against a wall) "Why are you failing my son?!?" Later in the same episode, Roger has this: A second episode double subverts Training from Hell when Steve admits that he's scared to ask someone out: |
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Azumanga Daioh: Sakaki types "cats" in a search engine, and everything she gets is a big bunch of random matches (including a page titled "We Love Neko Koneko"), thus subverting It's A Small Net After All. Then she types "Iriomote cat", and it seems like one of the very first matches is a plot relevant news article about how Mayaa's mother got killed, thus playing this same trope straight. This is likely justified, however, as recent news articles commonly show up high on a search list, especially for sensitive topics like endangered species (such as the aforementioned cat). | |
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In the first episode of Milo Murphy's Law, Zack starts to panic when he learns that he and Milo are in the middle of Coyote Woods. Milo quickly assures him that the woods were named after the actor, not the animal; Peter Coyote donated them to the city years ago... as a wolf preserve. Cue howling. | |
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In this Jojos Bizarre Adventure comic dub, Jotaro and Joseph are flying back from Egypt when the former realizes he's on a plane with his grandfather, which usually ends with the plane crashing. Jotaro calms down after remembering that DIO's dead and they aren't any enemies left... and then Kars comes down from space and crashes into in the exact plane to get revenge on Joseph. | |
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In The Owl House episode "Witches Before Wizards", Luz, eager to go on an adventure to prove that she's special, encounters a mystical wizard: | |
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In the Birthright branch of Fire Emblem Fates, Izana's introduction double subverts his Cloud Cuckoolander traits. The party is suspicious of his overly-casual speech, with Hinoka accusing him of being an imposter due to just how over the top he is. It turns out that she's right, and the "Izana" that everyone just met actually is an imposter... but then later, upon meeting the real Izana, it turns out that he really is like that. | |
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A Brother's Price: Jerin saves the life of a princess. One might expect him to get a Standard Hero Reward, but that's subverted; royals don't marry commoners. But then, it turns out that Jerin's grandfather was a prince, which makes him a possible option for the princesses. He does not only marry the one he saved, but also the one who saved him, and the whole rest of them (there are ten), but technically, it is still "hero marries princess after saving her". There is also a scene, where Jerin disguises himself as female whore. Lipstick is used. However: A normal man in this setting has long hair, usually worn in a braid, wears jewelery, and while trousers are not unheard of, men often wear robes or kilts. So, in order to resemble a female whore, he'd need to wear trousers and short hair? Wrong - the female prostitutes have exclusively female customers, who are heterosexual more often than not. Therefore, they try to resemble men as much as possible. However, no real man would walk around in public, unchaperoned and unveiled like the prostitutes do. Or even put on lipstick to advertise how good he is with his mouth. (Not that Jerin is not good using his mouth to pleasure a woman, but it is improper to talk about that.) Oh, and then there is the additional problem that they have to make his shirt look like he tries to hide breasts under there. |
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In the first-season Farscape episode "Bone to Be Wild," an odd alien woman named M'Lee asks Moya's crew to protect her from a hideous monster. Subversion #1: the monster is a well-spoken scientist named Br'Nee who wanted to warn Moya's crew about M'Lee, who murders people and eats their bones. Subversion #2: Br'Nee is responsible for starving M'Lee's people to death (and kidnapping one of Crichton's friends), and M'Lee was only motivated by extreme hunger. | |
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Porky Pig double subverts the Precision F-Strike in this clip not meant for general audiences. | |
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In For Love, after Hinata is sent back to her childhood, she attempts to improve her life, starting by preventing her uncle Hizashi's unjust death, to keep her cousin Neji from growing up as an orphaned and embittered fatalist again. Unfortunately, the usual Peggy Sue trope is subverted when her plan to foil the Kumo ambassador's attempt to kidnap hernote which in her original timeline caused her father Hiashi to kill him while saving her, leading Kumo to demand Hiashi's dead body in reparation and the Hyuuga clan to give them his twin brother Hizashi instead completely fails and the ambassador is killed again... but because she had fostered a better relationship with Hizashi this time around, it's Hizashi who kills the ambassador rather than Hiashi, so he's executed for something he actually did rather than dying in his brother's place, double subverting it. And then because of her improved relationship with Hizashi, Neji is able to better accept his father's death than before anyway and grows up happier and steadfastly loyal to Hinata, rather than cynical and quite happy to see her dead, triple subverting it. | |
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Digimon Data Squad subverts the usual Digimon brand of Disney Death by playing it straight for the first arc, then having the protagonists find out there is a way to permanently kill Digimon. Later comes the Double Subversion: Agumon "dies" in the Disney way by reverting back to an egg that will hatch later, but Masaru is repeatedly told that Agumon won't remember anything about their life together. Agumon the Digimon is alive, but Agumon who was Masaru's 'follower' is gone forever... except he's not. He hatches, and he latches onto Masaru's face like a leech (possibly as an Homage to Digimon Adventure's Pilot Movie) and they lived Happily Ever After. To be fair, this may have been foreshadowed by Piyomon retaining his memories after one death; apparently, exposure to humans and a Digisoul changes the rules. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: A first season episode double-subverts Possession Implies Mastery — Zhao notices the swords on the wall of Zuko's cabin and comments that he didn't know Zuko could do swordwork. Zuko contends that he can't; they're just decoration. It's later revealed that he can do swordwork, and damn well, too, but was lying in order to throw off Zhao's suspicions that he's the Blue Spirit. The show later double-subverts a Heel–Face Turn. Zuko, after being set up for a turning face since the introduction of his character, fails to complete it in the final episode of the second season by helping his sister Azula capture Aang. Halfway through the third season, Zuko finally turns face by telling off his father and vowing to help the Avatar. |
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Smokey and the Bandit 2 has the Bandit attempt to leave a shipping yard, but Justice blocks his path and holds him at gunpoint. The Bandit then invokes It Works Better with Bullets by tricking him into using up the rest of his bullets. But Justice sees it coming and asks Junior for his gun, subverting the trope. Then Justice attempts to shoot the Bandit with Junior's gun, only to discover it's empty as well. It turns out that when Junior puts bullets in his gun, it gets too heavy. | |
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And then there's the E3 2019 trailer that served as a direct follow-up, even playing out almost the same way. This time, Banjo and Kazooie are the ones being teased as a DLC character, the silhouette actually turns out to be Duck Hunt in disguise, and then the real bear and bird (quite literally) drop in to cement their reveal. | |
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In ×××HOLiC, it initially seems that there is a Love Triangle between Watanuki, Himawari, and Domeki, with Himawari being the object of desire. However, that trope is erased when it is revealed that Domeki and Himawari aren't romantically interested in each other. But THEN, it's shown that both Himawari and Doumeki are more interested in Watanuki, once again creating a Love Triangle, but with the object of desire being Watanuki. | |
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Rebuild World: It looks like the Femme Fatale Carol is giving Akira Marshmallow Hell, but due to her wearing Powered Armor, his face is just being ground against metal, so Carol lets go. Just when Akira thinks he’s safe, Carol unzips her suit and shoves his head between her bare breasts. | |
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Better Call Saul has one in the Season 6 mid-season break episode. The audience expects that a Dying Candle from opening the door to the Saul & Kim apartment will be Lalo, a cartel boss who is currently gunning for Gus Fring as part of some cartel business. It turns out to be Howard, who was just humiliated by Saul & Kim in a totally unrelated Revenge Reveal Story. Shortly after a second Dying Candle shot happens and this time it is Lalo. Who walks in, says a few words before executing Howard with a Boom, Headshot!. | |
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Under the Pendulum Sun has this treatment of the trope Alien Geometries in the Land of Faerie. Upon first arriving in the Faelands, the Catherine has this exchange with the coachman driving her to her lodgings: Much later, near the end of the book, she speaks to the coachman again, and he tells her this: |
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The Secret of Platform 13 does this with Rags to Royalty: the Prince was kidnapped by a Rich Bitch who wanted a son, and grew up to be a Spoiled Brat. Then it turns out that the brat is the Rich Bitch's actual child, and the kidnapped Prince is the family servant. | |
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At one point in Monsters vs. Aliens, the heroes are wearing Paper Thin Disguises. Unfortunately, one of the enemies sees right through them... wait, scratch that. He only saw through one of them. The rest of the disguises seem to be working just fine. He even helps the heroes "arrest" the one he spotted. | |
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In 30 Rock, Jack has a heart attack and is rushed to a hospital. When the doctor comes out to speak to Liz, Jack's mother, and Jack's fiance, he's covered in blood. He was at a costume party, and he was attacked by the host's dog. So he had to stab it. | |
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Death Note: Misa Amane initially subverted the wangsty, nihilistic Loner Goth stereotype by turning out to actually be a cheerful, enthusiastic Perky Goth with a successful career as an actress/model. It's only later that we learn what a complete and total nutjob she really is. Except that we first find out that she's a complete and utter nutjob, and only then find out that she is also a Perky Goth. Alternately, we are first introduced to her as The Ditz. But then, she proves herself to Light, having even the power he doesn't and finding him out by just staying in a hidden place, which would make even Light applaud and making us think we'll have a third Chessmaster in the show. The twist? She's still The Ditz, directly going to his house and having lengthily talks about the Death Note in a non-secure environment, telling him the secrets she promised not to which would have kept her alive and less of a tool much longer, and what not. Which may have saved her considering that Light was going to find and kill her anyway if she stayed in the darkness. She also had Rem watching over her and the fact that she thought Light woudn't murder her if she could prove to be useful, and he doesn't. This leads to a second double subversion, as initially Light thinks that he'll have to kill Misa if she becomes too much of a hindrance to his plans, only for Rem to make it clear that if he even tries, Rem will kill him before he can, even though that would kill Rem too. Eventually Light manages to find a way to kill Rem, clearing the way for him to eliminate Misa if necessary... but ultimately he never actually does, even when he cold-bloodedly kills a different one of his girlfriends, Kiyomi Takada, for becoming too much of a liability, and Misa survives to the end of the manga, outliving Light. However, after surviving everything she then killed herself after learning Light was dead, making it a triple subversion. |
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The Road has a double subversion of Nameless Narrative. For most of the story, no one ever has their name mentioned. The main characters are simply referred to as "the Man" and "the Boy". That is, until they encounter an old man whose name is Ely... but then it turns out that Ely is a pseudonym, and he doesn't give away his real name. Neither do any of the other characters they meet in the rest of the story. | |
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Double Subversion / int_923dd091 | type |
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Double Subversion / int_923dd091 | comment |
In the CollegeHumor "Wish I Had aPortal Gun", starting around 1:47: we're led to believe that the singer wants to use the titular device to suck his own dick, but he merely uses it to change pants without having to look down. Then: | |
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The Dragon Prince does this with Even Evil Has Loved Ones. Despite his rising maliciousness through the first three seasons, Viren occasionally shows that he truly loves his family. Several of the credits image show him having sweet casual moments with Claudia and Soren. Which makes it all the scarier when he tells Claudia that getting the dragon egg takes priority over Soren's life, and his behavior towards Claudia is similarly toxic (although he still balked at the way Aaravos called her an "asset"). Ultimately, his death and revival lead him to realize that his obsessions and use of dark magic have turned him into someone he doesn't like being and he willingly goes to his final death rather than risk hurting his children any more than he already has. | |
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Double Subversion / int_9614fa1e | type |
Double Subversion | |
Double Subversion / int_9614fa1e | comment |
In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indy is hiding in a Nazi base when he beats up a Nazi for his uniform. Unfortunately, the uniform's too small for him, becoming more awkward when another officer shows up and berates him for his appearance until Indy beats him up, taking his better-fitting uniform. | |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark | hasFeature |
Double Subversion / int_9614fa1e | |
Double Subversion / int_97bb943d | type |
Double Subversion | |
Double Subversion / int_97bb943d | comment |
Towards the end of Gladiator, Commodus stabs Maximus before their Coliseum battle so that he can get an unfair advantage, but Maximus is so much of a badass Determinator that he still kills him, though he dies from the stabbing shortly afterwards. | |
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Double Subversion / int_9833749a | type |
Double Subversion | |
Double Subversion / int_9833749a | comment |
In the Calvinverse, Socrates is Locked Out of the Loop by the other four protagonists regarding the transmitter chip in his head. After Calvin finally tells him about it in Retro Chill, he marches over to Sherman, plucks him up, and... begins laughing. After everyone else starts laughing, he abruptly stops and angrily tells him to take it out. | |
Double Subversion / int_9833749a | featureApplicability |
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Swing123AndGarfieldodiesCalvinverse | hasFeature |
Double Subversion / int_9833749a | |
Double Subversion / int_9cc9639 | type |
Double Subversion | |
Double Subversion / int_9cc9639 | comment |
Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness has Pleinair, originally just the Dark Assembly guide for that game, as a recruitable character, no sidequest needed, as soon as the tutorial is completed, setting up a use of Disc-One Nuke. However, she's only recruitable in a New Game Plus, which is the subversion... until you remember that you can see one of the endings in about half an hour by losing to Mid-Boss at the end of the first chapter (and if you don't level grind at least a little, it's not all that hard to lose on that level). Hence the double subversion. | |
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Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Double Subversion / int_9d34190a | type |
Double Subversion | |
Double Subversion / int_9d34190a | comment |
The Elder Scrolls does this with Chekhov's Volcano. Arena shows us Red Mountain, a giant volcano in Morrowind belching smoke... which keeps on belching smoke all throughout the game. Morrowind revisits Red Mountain... and ends with it calming down. Then the novels that came out in the run-up to Skyrim reveal that the events of Morrowind led to a chain of events that caused the volcano to erupt a few years after the events of Oblivion. | |
Double Subversion / int_9d34190a | featureApplicability |
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The Elder Scrolls (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Double Subversion / int_9e2dbb4d | type |
Double Subversion | |
Double Subversion / int_9e2dbb4d | comment |
Regular Show: In the episode "Guys Night 2" the park workers and Thomas get involved in a car chase as they try to help him hide from the KGB. Rigby starts gasping as it looks like the car is approaching two construction workers carrying a giant pane of glass, but they drive past the workers and the camera cuts back to Rigby looking at a text from Eileen. The workers then dropped and broke the glass by accident as they were watching the chase. | |
Double Subversion / int_9e2dbb4d | featureApplicability |
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Regular Show | hasFeature |
Double Subversion / int_9e2dbb4d | |
Double Subversion / int_9e2f90f4 | type |
Double Subversion | |
Double Subversion / int_9e2f90f4 | comment |
In One Piece, Tashigi fangirling over Zoro's sword skills for a while, and then finding he was a pirate superficially looks like a subverted example of The Knights Who Say "Squee!", except it becomes a double subversion when she grudgingly realizes he's actually a pretty awesome guy anyway. | |
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One Piece (Manga) | hasFeature |
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Double Subversion / int_9ec61fa1 | type |
Double Subversion | |
Double Subversion / int_9ec61fa1 | comment |
In the NewsRadio episode "Stupid Holiday Charity Talent Shot", Jimmy tells the WNYX staff that in order for Matthew to get his job back, someone from the station will have to enter and win the upcoming corporate talent show. Matthew repeatedly tries to tell the group that he has a talent he can use, but everyone ridicules or dismisses him. Finally, when all hope appears lost, Matthew finally informs the group that he has a ventriloquist act and has been competing in ventriloquist competitions for years. Viewers would expect that at this point, Matthew goes on stage, knocks them dead, and wins his job back, right? But that's not what happens. Matthew sucks... really badly. But... he ends up winning the competition anyway, on a pity vote. | |
Double Subversion / int_9ec61fa1 | featureApplicability |
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NewsRadio | hasFeature |
Double Subversion / int_9ec61fa1 | |
Double Subversion / int_a1117942 | type |
Double Subversion | |
Double Subversion / int_a1117942 | comment |
Tekkaman Blade double subverts Laser-Guided Amnesia: D-Boy claims to have amnesia, but it turns out he's faking it. Then, near the end of the series, he starts losing his memory for real. | |
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Double Subversion / int_a183d57f | type |
Double Subversion | |
Double Subversion / int_a183d57f | comment |
Futurama also enjoys this, even setting up its own jokes to subvert doubly. One example involved the smelloscope, a telescope that allowed you to smell distant objects. After smelling Jupiter and Saturn, Fry said that he would be happy to smell more, as long as the professor didn't point it at Uranus. The other characters expressed confusion at his joke, and Professor Farnsworth noted that they renamed Uranus in order to end that stupid joke once and for all. The new name? Urectum. In the episode "Mars University" the super intelligent monkey Guenter is hanging from a fraying rope and about to fall to his doom, but is considering letting himself fall because he has no place in either monkey or human society. He appears to change his mind, cheerfully saying "On the other hand-"... and that's when the rope breaks. |
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Double Subversion / int_a4cdab75 | type |
Double Subversion | |
Double Subversion / int_a4cdab75 | comment |
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them demonstrates a Double Subversion of Gas Leak Cover-Up. A cop tries to claim the destruction at Kowalski's apartment is the result of a gas leak, only for all the witnesses to berate him and point out the lack of gas's scent. One man steps up to say that they all saw a magical beast cause the destruction, but before he can, Newt casts a spell over all of the witnesses and they suddenly agree that it was a gas leak that caused everything. | |
Double Subversion / int_a4cdab75 | featureApplicability |
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | hasFeature |
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Double Subversion / int_a535581a | type |
Double Subversion | |
Double Subversion / int_a535581a | comment |
One gag in The Emperor's New Groove involves Bucky the squirrel threatening to pop a llama-shaped balloon to wake up the jaguars sleeping all around Kuzco. Kuzco pleads with Bucky not to, Bucky does so anyway with a very loud POP, and...the jaguars stay asleep. Kuzco, upon realizing this, laughs and THAT'S when the jaguars decide to wake up and chase his llama ass through the forest. | |
Double Subversion / int_a535581a | featureApplicability |
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Double Subversion / int_a535581a | |
Double Subversion / int_a56d81c3 | type |
Double Subversion | |
Double Subversion / int_a56d81c3 | comment |
qxlkbh features this in 74: unexpected: La Croix owns a grove of trees with blood and not sap, and they mention that the "subversions almost make up for it"... then mention double subversion by name when pointing out how good of a cover story the trees are for that one time with a fanservice-obsessed cueball's corpse. | |
Double Subversion / int_a56d81c3 | featureApplicability |
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qxlkbh (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Double Subversion / int_a895e9d3 | type |
Double Subversion | |
Double Subversion / int_a895e9d3 | comment |
Portal 2 does this with respect to Boss-Arena Idiocy. It's set up earlier that the AI in charge of the mainframe cannot remove the parts of the system that are designed to swap cores in the event of corruption. The Final Boss appears to ignore this in setting up its Evil Plan, and indeed during the fight you do cause a core transfer to be initiated. However, the boss actually did plan for this possibility by placing a Booby Trap designed to kill you when you attempt to press the Stalemate Resolution Button. What brings about its final defeat is that, all along, it's been ignoring the progressive collapse of the Enrichment Center due to an impending reactor meltdown. | |
Double Subversion / int_a895e9d3 | featureApplicability |
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Portal 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Double Subversion / int_a9d9d1f1 | type |
Double Subversion | |
Double Subversion / int_a9d9d1f1 | comment |
The Rose of Versailles contains an epic one for The Guards Must Be Crazy. After meeting with Marie Antoinette at night, Fersen is leaving Versailles only to be stopped by a group of French Guards, a regiment infamous for sleeping on guard duty (in fact all the Household Regiments were known for that, the French Guards and the Swiss Guards were just the worst ones). Their recently posted commander Oscar then shows up, her too expecting them to lazy on the job and in fact planning to catch them in the act to discipline them and, after realizing the absurd situation, saves Fersen... And redirects him to a gate guarded by the Swiss Guards she had just checked they were, in fact, sleeping (and, not being from her regiment, it wasn't her problem). | |
Double Subversion / int_a9d9d1f1 | featureApplicability |
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Double Subversion / int_ab3076a5 | type |
Double Subversion | |
Double Subversion / int_ab3076a5 | comment |
VG Cats: This strip has Leo chase a Pokemon in Pokémon GO and wander off to the big city where he meets a scary man in the alley. The man reveals he also loves Pokemon Go, only to mug Leo anyway. | |
Double Subversion / int_ab3076a5 | featureApplicability |
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Double Subversion / int_aca7b22d | type |
Double Subversion | |
Double Subversion / int_aca7b22d | comment |
The Amazing World of Gumball at first seems to parody The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday; the "Awesome Store" where Richard bought a pet turtle isn't there anymore because it's a van that drove away. Then that turtle turns out to be an indestructible force of evil, and the van returns in later episodes selling other mysterious items. | |
Double Subversion / int_aca7b22d | featureApplicability |
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Double Subversion / int_af82b856 | type |
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Another: Initially, Kouichi thinks that Misaki is just a normal girl. But after some heavy miscommunication, it appears that Misaki is actually the girl who died in his hospital ward the week he was in there with a lung ailment, and is haunting the school. Except, no. No she isn't. But she does have one thing that sets her apart; her glass eye can see the color of death. | |
Double Subversion / int_af82b856 | featureApplicability |
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Double Subversion / int_b04397aa | type |
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Chapter 14 of Sonic Generations: Friendship Is Timeless does this with The Password Is Always "Swordfish". When accessing Eggman's system the heroes find out that the system requires a password. Tails suggests EGGMAN, which doesn't work. The double subversion occurs with the password turning out to be PASSWORD. | |
Double Subversion / int_b04397aa | featureApplicability |
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Sonic Generations: Friendship Is Timeless / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
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Double Subversion / int_b370ddd1 | type |
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Thor does this to The Big Damn Kiss when Thor and Jane lean forward to kiss, only for Thor to pull away and kiss Jane's hand. But Jane un-subverts it when she pulls him into the kiss anyways. | |
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Double Subversion / int_b3aba9af | type |
Double Subversion | |
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Six Feet Under actually got a few of these into the opening sequences involving the deaths each episode revolved around. | |
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Double Subversion / int_b4709254 | type |
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TV Tropes: The Brick Joke is a double subversion of the Chekhov's Gun principle. Voodoo Shark is possibly a double subversion of Plot Hole. Dream Within a Dream is a double subversion of the All Just a Dream trope. |
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Double Subversion / int_b5e2a911 | type |
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Two Guys and Guy: Guy says her ex is crazy and obsessed with her though it looks obsessed with her because she left him with their child. But it turns out that he's just crazy enough to kidnap a child. | |
Double Subversion / int_b5e2a911 | featureApplicability |
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Double Subversion / int_b8e7bb8 | type |
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Double Subversion / int_b8e7bb8 | comment |
Each installment of Toei's Super Sentai during its early years has always started with a Five-Man Band of heroes and very rarely deviated from that concept.note other than J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai started with four, but added a fifth member mid-series, as well as Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan, the first installment in the franchise to have only three members Choujuu Sentai Liveman, 1988 installment, starts its first episode with five friends who we are led to believe will become the titular Liveman team... But then two of the friends (Mari and Takuji) are killed off by the villains ten minutes into the episode, leaving the surviving friends (Yūsuke, J�, and Megumi) with the duty to avenge their deaths as a trio. Halfway through the series, we are introduced to the fallen friends' heretofore unseen younger siblings (Tetsuya and Jun-ichi), who join the Liveman team, completing the five-member team. | |
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At the start of Secret of Mana the main character pulls a sword out of a stone signaling that he is probably the Chosen One. However, soon after that, he is told by Jema that he is too young to be a hero, and he was only able to remove the sword because the power of Mana is weakening. Much later in the game, it turns out that he was definitely the Chosen One all along. | |
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Double Subversion / int_b962c879 | type |
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The Oracion Seis arc of Fairy Tail looked like it was subverting Rank Scales with Asskicking by having the leader of the villains, Brain, be defeated easily and the actual strongest member be his son Midnight. Then Midnight went down, and it turned out to be the last key needed to wake up Zero, Brain's Superpowered Evil Side.... | |
Double Subversion / int_b962c879 | featureApplicability |
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Double Subversion / int_ba3d2748 | type |
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The Incredibles does this with A.I. Is a Crapshoot. Bob is hired to take out a Killer Robot called the Omnidroid which was highly intelligent and could adapt to and defeat tactics used against it. He was told that the robot had gotten "smart enough that it wondered why it had to take orders". However, it was a lie. The Omnidroid was under the control of Fan Boy-turned-villain Syndrome the whole time, and the whole point of the venture was to either kill Bob or get information from Bob's defeat of the Omnidroid to improve the next version, in preparation for an ultimate version which would be part of Syndrome's plan to set himself up as a hero. The plan was that the Omnidroid would serve as a villain, and Syndrome would show up and defeat it using a remote control. However, Syndrome neglected to consider the implications of the Omnidroid's extremely thorough combat programming. The Omnidroid figured out that Syndrome was using a remote control to fight it, and acted to defeat that tactic and beat Syndrome. | |
Double Subversion / int_ba3d2748 | featureApplicability |
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Double Subversion / int_bc848d30 | type |
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Double Subversion / int_bc848d30 | comment |
SpongeBob SquarePants has one episode where Spongebob tries to throw out an old krabby patty rather then sell it because it's gone bad. Mr. Krabs tries to prove that it's still edible by taking a bite. There's an Ambulance Cut just before he takes a bite, followed by him remarking, "Oh look, an ambulance." He then takes a bite, and is shown in hospital. Plankton's Army also has a case of this at the beginning, when a robot walks into the Krusty Krab, clearly one of Plankton's creations, right after Mr. Krabs finished discussing how that day was the 25th anniversary of the first time Plankton ever tried to steal the secret formula... and orders a bag of chili coral bits. A surprised Mr. Krabs offers it a Krabby Patty, is turned down, which leads to Mr. Krabs giving him the coral bits and the robot leaves (after melting the doors with Heat Vision). Ten seconds afterwards, Plankton jumps out of the dollar bill the robot used to pay for it. |
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In Buster Keaton's "One Week" (1920), a couple of newlyweds is given a portable house and a piece of land. Towards the end of the film, they discover that they have built the house on the wrong lot, and have to tow it across railroad tracks; predictably, the house jams on top of the tracks. The couple attempts to make it budge while arguing. Cut to footage of speeding train. Cut to train whistle letting off steam. Cut to couple jumping and looking past the house. Cut to larger plan of the couple making, in vain, a last-minute effort to move the house with the speeding train in the background, before stepping aside. Just as the train is expected to hit the house, the camera pans right, revealing the train passing on the tracks just next to the house. Cut to sighs of relief of the couple, who resume their arguing. Cut to another train running through the house from the other direction. | |
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Double Subversion / int_bca72091 | type |
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For the Nintendo Direct that aired on September 13, 2018, it presented one last trailer for a new Animal Crossing game, featuring Isabelle working around the office. Then she receives a letter saying she's been invited, and it turns out this whole thing was a reveal for Isabelle as a playable character in Smash Bros Ultimate. Shortly after that, however, we cut to Tom Nook congratulating Isabelle on her inclusion and saying he needs to get the town ready for the player's return, which does indeed end up advertising a new Animal Crossing game. | |
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Double Subversion / int_c2eb1b78 | type |
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Delicious in Dungeon: Shuro double subverts Screw This, I'm Outta Here. He appears to abandon the party early on, only to come back later and attempt to rescue Falin. When this goes horribly wrong, he really does leave for good. | |
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Double Subversion / int_c35714d6 | type |
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In the Blackadder special Blackadder: Back & Forth, this is done with Product Placement. The time-travelling Edmund tries to present Queen Elizabeth I with a Tesco Clubcard in a case of Product Placement, which is subverted when everyone (even Edmund himself) realises what a useless gift this is in the 16th century. Cue double subversion when he then wins her favour with a Polo Mint. | |
Double Subversion / int_c35714d6 | featureApplicability |
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Blackadder | hasFeature |
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Double Subversion / int_c7fe972d | comment |
TRON 2.0 pulled this on a meta level with Role Reprise. Cindy Morgan (Lora and Yori) was brought back to the franchise to play an entirely different character (the Benevolent A.I. Ma3a), with Lora Baines-Bradley killed off in the Backstory, but at the halfway point in the game, you stumble on the Story Breadcrumbs that reveal that Ma3a really is Lora (what's left of her consciousness anyway) merged with an AI. This makes Morgan (along with David Warner and Jeff Bridges) the third actor to play three different roles in the franchise. | |
Double Subversion / int_c7fe972d | featureApplicability |
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Nation double-subverts the Chekhov's Gun - or, in this case, axe. Mau is taking part in a tribal Rite of Passage that involves an axe left in a tree by the last person to do it. He takes the axe, does the ritual, leaves it in the branch for the next guy - and then his island gets hit by a massive storm that kills everyone but him. In the immediate aftermath, the tree drifts by with the axe still stuck in it. He tries to free it again, but fails, and even feels vaguely cheated. Naturally, he finds it again during his showdown with the villain. | |
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The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack double subverts the Lost Him in a Card Game trope. K'nuckles bet Flapjack in a card game, but wins and discovers that the person he was playing against also bet his kid sidekick. | |
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Jojos Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind: Ghiaccio double subverts Logical Weakness. His Stand, White Album, encases him in a suit made of ice. Mista figures out that he needs to be able to breathe, and locates a hole on the back of Ghiaccio's neck... only for Ghiaccio to activate a secondary ability, White Album Gently Weeps, that lets him throw back any projectile. But Mista also realizes that Inertia Is a Harsh Mistress, lines Ghiaccio up with a broken lamp post, and empties his pistol at him. Ghiaccio throws the bullets back, but each throw propels him backwards due to Newton's Third Law, and ends up impaling his neck on the post. | |
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AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative has one of The Tape Knew You Would Say That in the climax. Tearer set up several things in the event of his death to make sure the Nirvana Initiative went off without a hitch, including some videos to play at the stadium. In it, he predicts several of the heroes' tactics and explains the countermeasures taken to fight them. It is only at the end where he has a tape talking about how he freed humanity after the rocked is destroyed where he gets something wrong. In that video, Tokiko glitches in to say "Plan... Success..." to further add to this subversion. However, Tokiko's addition isn't talking about the Nirvana Initiative. She planned for it to fail so she could give the player the means to access the Gainax Ending where she escapes the reality of the game to achieve Moksha. While Tearer's plan wasn't a success, her plan ultimately was. | |
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Superman double-subverts Yank the Dog's Chain. At the end of Adventure Comic #5, where Superboy Prime admits that he hates what he has become and just wants a happy ending. Laurie Lemmon enters the basement and comforts him, telling him that they are sorry for what they did to him and are going to leave him alone—"they" being previously mentioned as being the writers at DC Comics. As they embrace, a Black Lantern ring is shown on Laurie's hand that detects the hope within Prime's heart, implying she is really a Black Lantern and is manipulating him into feeling hope before she kills him. However, when Superboy-Prime is accidentally transported back to New Earth, a flashback shows him reconnecting with Laurie Lemmon and his parents, implying she is the real Laurie Lemmon and they are happy together. Sadly for Prime, he is separated from his loved ones again. He blames the Teen Titans and battles them. When he loses, they imprison him within the Source Wall. | |
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The climax of Big Trouble in Little China triple-subverts Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Jack misses his knife-throw at Lo Pan by half a mile. When Lo Pan throws the knife back at him, though, Jack easily catches it and returns the throw, striking Lo Pan between his eyes and killing him instantly. "It's all in the reflexes." | |
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The Turing Test has audio logs where the rest of the crew accuses TOM, the AI of the mission, of mind controlling them via their implants. Sure enough, Ava, the protagonist, soon enters an area where "YOU ARE BEING CONTROLLED", "DRONE", and "TOM'S SLAVE" is written all over the place. As Ava progresses through this area, the player increasingly loses control over her, drawn along a certain path, their vision glitching out as Ava approaches a Faraday cage which the crew promises will free Ava of TOM's mind control. Typical mind control plot, right? Wrong! When Ava finally enters the cage, the player's vision cuts out entirely, to be replaced by an overhead camera view of Ava in the cage. TOM wasn't taking control over her - he was *losing* control over her. The player is not playing the game from the point of view of Ava, they're playing the game from the point of view of TOM, the malevolent AI, and have been mind controlling Ava for the entire game up to that point. | |
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In the South Park episode "Here Comes the Neighborhood" where many extremely rich black people were moving into South Park, Mr. Garrison exclaims that "their kind" are taking over the place. When one asks what he means, he states because they are "rich". Garrison then convinces the town's whites to engage in anti-rich people protests that obliviously resemble traditional racist tropes (ie; dressing up in white sheets and hoods on the grounds that these are spooky "ghost" costumes that will scare the rich folk away). However at the end, after all the rich people are successfully driven of Town, Mr. Garrison exclaims they can now sell the empty houses and become rich. When it is pointed out to him that doing so will make them the same as the people they just drove out, Mr. Garrison replies, "at least we got rid of those damn nig-(interrupted by credits)". | |
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In Soul Music The Band get a new guitar for Buddy from a cluttered little shop owned by a strange old woman. Once Cliff and Glod start to suspect something is wrong with the guitar, they head back to the shop to ask about it, only to find a blank wall. Glod begins ranting about how he knew there was something suspicious about the guitar, talking about how everyone knows that things bought from The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday always have something wrong with them... only for Cliff to point out that he's looking on the wrong side of the street, and the shop is right over there. After they finish fruitlessly questioning the owner, Cliff offhandedly mentions Glod's apparent display of Wrong Genre Savvy to her as an amusing anecote on his way out- and once he's gone the old woman curses her failing memory and pulls a lever that relocates the shop to the other side of the street again. | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi contains a Double Subversion of The Unwanted Harem. It turns out most of the girls don't have any actual romantic interest in the lead, but enough of them do (Nodoka, Yue, Ako, Anya, Chachamaru...) that it ends up qualifying as a harem after all. | |
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In 1941 (1979), amidst all the Patriotic Fervor dishwasher Wally Stephens steals an Army uniform, but not with the intent of becoming a War Hero, but only because a specific club now run by the USO no longer admits civilians. However, when Wally wins the dancing contest held at the club, his prize is a seven-year contract in movie business, so he will hardly have to go to war at all... but later that evening he joins a tank crew whose commander has been knocked unconscious, and rides the tank all the way until they face the enemy, yet still becoming a sort of hero anyway. | |
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Family Guy: The show is fond of double subversions in general, possibly because it's a sneaky way to get two jokes for the price of one, or a way to sneak a joke in an otherwise mundane transition. One example is in "A Hero Sits Next Door" with their double subversion of Eye Scream. Lois mentions that someone "lost an 'eye' (I) during Bingo". We see a Flash Back of a scene of the MC calling out an "I" number, then dropping it on the floor and losing it. Just when we think the gag is over, he bends over to look for it and slams his eye into the corner of the table. The double subversion is lampshaded in another episode. A commercial from "hearing warehouse" enthusiastically promotes AIDS, with lots of innuendos leading the audience to believe they are very awkwardly promoting hearing aids - before they reveal that they really meant the HIV. A similar gag in another episode when Mayor West is dating Lois's sister. Since their relationship is getting serious, he feels it's only fair to warn her he has AIDS. Political aides, that is, who'll be accompanying him on all their dates. Poor things. They've both got AIDS. When Peter is sent to prison, as he walks down the hall all the prisoners hoot and jeer obvious sexual innuendo at him, about how they can't wait "to get to know him" etc. Peter, obliviously, comments how "nice everyone is here." He then adds, "I mean, they'll be sad when they learn I'm not gay, but still!" |
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In All About Eve, Karen thinks about tricking Margo to help her understand, and justifies it to herself that Margo will like it, and there's no reason not to tell her..."in time." | |
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Robin from How I Met Your Mother invites Barney back to her place. The dialogue suggests she wants you-know-what, although it's obviously intentionally vague. Sure enough, she just wanted to show him a video. And then... | |
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Men in Black: The Series: In "The Star System Syndrome", something is doing in the alien actors of Hollywood. They believe it's the Space Demon, a washed-out actor who looks like the Alien, but he just wants to get another movie deal. It turns out to be the Astro Tots, the cute little hosts of a children's show. And then, it turns out the Astro Tots are exactly as harmless as they appear, and that rather than killing the missing victims, they were only using a teleportation device to imprison the other actors for setting a bad example. | |
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The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "I, Borg" does this to the Whoopi Epiphany Speech. When Picard (reluctantly) allows Dr. Crusher to aid the badly-injured Borg drone Third of Five (eventually nicknamed "Hugh"), Guinan, whose people had been practically eradicated by the Borg, gives a dark speech warning Picard of how the Borg are inherently untrustworthy. Geordi, who's also helping Hugh's recovery, gives one to Guinan in Hugh's defense. After finally meeting Hugh, Guinan gives another speech to Picard: | |
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