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The First Episode Spoiler is a specific type of plot twist in which the first episode of a series contains a plot twist which comes as a surprise to viewers who have just started watching, but immediately goes on to become an important plot point or premise to the series. As such, it may be hard (and in many cases impossible) to describe the series without completely ruining the suspense during the first episode. This is most common in plot-driven series, although it can occasionally be found in the pilot episodes of premise-based series. For a literary example to qualify, the twist should take place within the first few chapters, or else it becomes a regular plot twist. In media such as manga or comic books, the practice of Writing for the Trade might mean the twist does not take place within the very first issue; it should still be very early in the work. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })If a First Episode Spoiler is at the end of a book or series and is ruined by subsequent installations, then it becomes Late-Arrival Spoiler. First Episode Spoilers are prone to being ruined by trailer or opening credits for the series. Some shows use a shorter, or completely absent opening in the first episode in order to avoid this. If there are Powers in the First Episode, this becomes exponentially more likely. Contrast with All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game" and/or compare with It Was His Sled, where the spoiler doubles as being known to all the late-arrival viewers. Compare Late-Arrival Spoiler and Mid-Season Twist. This is a spoilers trope, so consider yourself warned. |
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Sherlock: At the end of the first episode, Mark Gatiss's sinister character is revealed to be Mycroft Holmes, not Moriarty as we'd been led to believe. | |
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Terminator: The fact that its title-character is a time-traveling cyborg and its reasons for targeting all women named Sarah Connor, to prevent the birth of her future son, John Connor. Then there's the entire Stable Time Loop that the first and second film sets up regarding Kyle Reese being John's father and the Terminators being both the precursors to Skynet (both directly as agents and indirectly when Cyberdine builds upon their remnants) as well as things Skynet invented in the future. The sequel makes an early spoiler/twist out of the second Terminator of the same model being the good guy and the new face being the bad guy, not another resistance fighter. It's difficult to tell in retrospect that they were trying to keep a lid on the idea that Ah-nuld is supposed to be the good guy this time around. |
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In Megas XLR, the entire plot of the series is a guy with a self-modified giant robot fighting evil aliens with his best friend and a chick from the future, but that doesn't become obvious until halfway through the first episode. | |
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In Gone, the first book reveals that various characters get supernatural powers, something not revealed for a number of chapters, which then goes on to become immensely important through the rest of the series. | |
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Sleepless Domain: The first chapter is fairly standard magical girl fare featuring the adventures of Team Alchemical. However, by the end of the second chapter three members of the team, Sally, Gwen, and Sylvia, are killed and Tessa, the leader, burns out her powers saving Undine. | |
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In The Spirit Thief, it's hard to discuss Mellinor without bringing up the fact that it's not just the name of a kingdom, but also the name of an inland sea that once occupied its space and whose spirit resides within Miranda and aids her from the second book onward. | |
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The first chapter/episode of Tokyo Ghoul has the main character Kaneki going on a date with Rize, who is revealed to be a ghoul when she attacks him. She dies and her organs are transplanted into Kaneki, which turns him into a ghoul. | |
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Skin Deep: the main world premise of the series, along with the true natures of all the central characters. It begins as a normal college story, and has a big reveal at the end of the first chapter. | |
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Ranma ½ starts off with Genma Saotome coming to the Tendo home with a girl. Said girl is his son Ranma, who'd been cursed by falling into a spring, so that he'll turn into a girl when splashed with water. That fact is intended to be a plot twist, but it's also a major part of the premise for the series. | |
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Child's Play: the original script pushed back the reveal that the possessed Chucky doll could move independently until the end, with the audience being left to suspect the murderer was Andy. In the finished product, only the first murder (Andy's babysitter) is left ambiguous as to whodunnit. | |
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School Days: Most of the first episode (and a good chunk of the next three) are taken up by Sekai trying to get Makoto and Kotonoha together. Then she kisses him at the end, kickstarting the Love Triangle that drives the rest of the series. | |
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The second game has Nagito Komaeda being revealed as a hope-obsessed and rather unstable Death Seeker midway through the first trial, a characterization that becomes important throughout the rest of the game. | |
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Try to explain the premise of the Destroyermen series without spoiling the twists in the first novel...or even at the end of the first chapter for that matter. Honourable mention goes towards the skull aboard the first Grik ship captured. | |
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In Solatorobo, the fact that Elh is a girl is shown fairly early. This makes tropes involving her rather difficult, due to both some serious Pronoun Trouble and the amount of Ship Tease she has with Red, who is creeped out by Camp Gay Alman (perhaps that's the ''reason'' he flipped out so much when he finally learned the truth: he was getting Sweet on Polly Oliver and worried it was a case of You Are What You Hate, and wished she'd spared him the mental grief). | |
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Roxas being the Nobody of Sora, and the fact that he's been living in a simulation with fake memories and friends from Kingdom Hearts II. | |
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Most covers of Now and Then, Here and There spoil the fact that it's a Grim Dark war story rather than the generic shonen action-comedy it appears to be in episode 1. | |
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Ultimate FF has four members, just like every permutation of the Fantastic Four - until the end of the first issue, when a fifth member joins: Victor Van Damme, aka Doctor Doom. | |
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Try to explain anything about Megan Whalen Turner's Queen's Thief series without mentioning that in the first book main character Eugenides turns out not to be a street urchin from Sounis but a member of the Eddisian royal family. It gets worse in book two, when Eugenides winds up married to the queen of Attolia. Good luck describing book three without giving those away. | |
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Motorcity: Julie, one of the Burners, sneaks into Kane Co. It appears she's been caught by Abraham Kane. But instead, he hugs her much to her annoyance. Turns out she's his daughter. The rest of the Burners don't know this. | |
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Crisis: In the very first episode, the apparently mild-mannered and inoffensive Francis Gibson turns out to be the mastermind of the hostage-takers. | |
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White Collar: The basic premise is that a con man is released from jail into the FBI's custody to help solve crimes. Therefore, the entire first quarter or so where the Federal Agent main character is debating whether to actually release him or not is completely pointless. | |
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It's practically impossible to talk about Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty in-depth without mentioning the early-game character switch. Unlike the Assassin's Creed I example above, however, most reviewers tried their best to write around the twist until it became It Was His Sled territory. Konami themselves also tried their best to hide the twist in each subsequent Updated Re-release, finally relenting in the HD Collection version which included a brief blurb about the Plant Chapter in its official summary. | |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Simply put: #CoulsonLives! - which is revealed by the first scene of the pilot, the briefest of teasers/trailers for the same, and the fact that the series happens at all. | |
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It can be fairly hard to explain the plot of Death Parade to someone new to it, especially considering the opening theme is so jarringly peppy compared to what the show is really all about, which may lead to fans of Darker and Edgier anime to shy away from it or fans of Lighter and Softer anime to want to watch it. The couple that walks into Quindecim is dead. The bartender is an arbiter, and the games are created with the sole intent of bringing out the true colors of the players in question and judging whether they will go to "heaven" (really reincarnation) or to "hell" (being sent to a void for all of eternity). | |
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Fringe: The pilot is about a young FBI agent trying to save the life of her partner/lover after his infection by a bioweapon by recruiting a Mad Scientist and his son. Of course it all turns out to basically be a "Shaggy Dog" Story, she saves him only to have him die in a car accident ANYWAY, be revealed to be a double agent and play a bit of a posthumous role in a few later episodes but be mostly forgotten with the assembled team taking over as the focus. | |
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In The Parasol Protectorate, Alexia Tarabotti gets married at the end of book 1, and learns she is pregnant at the end of book 2. Given that the main plot of book 3 involves her trying to prove she could be pregnant by her allegedly sterile husband, it's nearly impossible to describe without giving away the plot twists of book 1 and 2. | |
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Heroes: We find out at the end of the pilot episode that HRG is Claire Bennet's father and that she is adopted. Their relationship becomes one of the most prominent running story arcs throughout the series. | |
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Also, House of Chains in the same series gives us the new character Karsa Orlong, who is revealed to be Toblakai from Deadhouse Gates at the end of the first of four sections in the book. | |
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Grand Theft Auto V drops several major drama bombs in the tutorial mission, an Action Prologue detailing the nature of Michael and Trevor's friendship (and even revealing that "Michael De Santa" is a Witness Protection cover for Michael Townley, who wanted out of the game and betrayed his best friend to the FIB), all of which had been kept under wraps before release. It also happens to be the only mission in the game where you can't skip any Cutscenes, so good luck trying to replay the game for a friend without giving away some major spoilers. Given how critical this is to the story, it becomes pretty much impossible to talk about single-player without spoiling at least some of it. | |
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Naruto is one of the most famous anime/manga examples. The protagonist has a nine-tailed fox sealed inside him, and this is revealed as a surprise in the very first episode, where Naruto himself learns about it for the first time. | |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: The expedition's hidden motive of salvaging Old World books. It ends up being the part of the crew's mission that is shown the most. The research they were officially funded for and need to do in parallel to cover their backs only shows up in the form of the Rash cure investigations and Tuuri taking a camera with her on a couple of outings. | |
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M.A.N.T.I.S.: Keeps the title hero in shadow for the first half of the pilot, suggesting he could be another character who is very physically fit, while wheelchair-bound industrialist Dr. Miles Hawkins is a shady industrialist with his own agenda. Then Dr. Hawkins applies the M.A.N.T.I.S. suit to himself, revealing that the suit enables him to walk on two feet. | |
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The very first joke in Unhappily Ever After is one of these. Jenny is saying goodbye to a man, talking about how even though the divorce is over, they've been through so much, and they can still be friends, on the most harmonious of terms, etc. Then it turns out that, ha ha, the man is her divorce lawyer, not her ex-husband, and of course she's not going to be that friendly with her ex-husband. But of course, if you've ever seen any other episode of the show, you are already familiar with the ex-husband, for he's a main character (Jack, played by Geoff Pierson). So the joke is based on making the viewer think that the man is her ex-husband, but of course this requires that you haven't seen any of the rest of the show. Or other sources of information (like the trailers advertising the show!) that would let you know which characters are which. | |
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Mad Men: At the end of the first episode, Don Draper, who starts off the episode by spending the night with a woman he has a relationship with in the city, is characterized by gossips throughout the ad agency he works for as a womanizer, and later attempts to charm a female client who he meets for dinner, returns to a home in suburbia where he greets his wife and two children. There'd been no indication throughout the episode that he was married. | |
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The final page of issue #1 of Black Magick reveals that Detective Rowan Black is not simply a Wiccan, but has actual magical powers. | |
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Nikita: Alex is set up throughout the first episode as a possible main rival to Nikita, a girl in the same position she was once in as she's recruited by Division to stay out of jail. At the end we learn that she's working with Nikita, as her agent inside Division. | |
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Shrek: Fiona turns into an ogress. This was a big twist in the first film where Shrek the ogre was himself an (initially happily) shunned outcast and Fiona a supposedly human Damsel in Distress. She remained an ogress for the remainder of the film series (though she briefly turned back in the second one), which the posters weren't shy about. | |
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Ratman takes place in a world where superheros are a common occurrence. The main character is Shute, a boy who dreams of one day becoming a hero. Naturally, he becomes an Ascended Fanboy. The twist that needs to be explained if one wants to understand the actual premise and main plot of the series at all, and is even explained on the back of the books even though the initial story avoids any major tipoff? A crime syndicate tricks Shute into becoming their personal Anti-Hero. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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In Simoun's first episode Amuria, who was being set up as the hero of the story, dies as a result of attempting the Emerald Ri Maajon, and Aer is sent to replace her. Those facts, plus Neviril's Heroic BSoD over that, has a significant impact on the plot. | |
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Dragon Ball has an interesting case, where Chapter 197 (or episode 155 in the anime overall) drops the bombshell that Goku is an alien from another planet who was originally sent to conquer Earth, only to receive a head injury which resulted in him becoming a gentle soul. At the time this was a swerve as massive as learning that Goku had a son only a few pages/minutes earlier. The trick is that in the anime series, this was covered as the second episode of Dragon Ball Z, and today Z is far more popular than Dragon Ball. Outside of Japan this is compounded by the franchise not taking off until Z was first aired, and the ViZ adaptation titled that half of the story with Z as well. | |
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Harry Potter: The Philosopher's Stone keeps it a mystery for the whole book as to whether Snape is a spy attempting to get the eponymous stone. It turns out he's not, and the real villain is Professor Quirrell - a character who doesn't appear past this book. The Chamber of Secrets doesn't reveal until the last act that Tom Riddle is actually who Lord Voldemort used to be. Later books go deeper into Voldemort's backstory in his rise for power. |
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Andrew Plotkin's Spider and Web: The entire game is premised on the fact that you are not just a tourist, despite the opening's attempt to mislead you otherwise. | |
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Raines: Similar to Perception, the first episode ends with the revelation that his ex-partner was killed in his career-ending shooting and is another figment of Raines's imagination. | |
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Ringer: Siobhan faked her death to get away from people trying to kill her. | |
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Attack on Titan: Eren's mother getting eaten by a titan, to the point where it's revealed in some official descriptions of the show. | |
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The first episode of Princess Tutu opens with Ahiru (which means "Duck" in Japanese, and is translated as such in the dub) having a dream that she's a bird, but waking up to be a human. She insists in her introduction that she's just a girl that happens to be named after a bird, but by the end of the episode she remembers that she really IS a duck, and her human form was just a magical disguise. | |
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In Mawaru-Penguindrum, Himari, one of the main characters, dies in the first episode just after appearing to be doing better. Later in the same episode, she comes back to life, which becomes a major driver of the show. | |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Bloo goes to live in the titular foster home, with the plot of the pilot movie surrounding Mac and Bloo's attempt to create the deal that would allow the latter to live there without fear of adoption. | |
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Tin Man just has three episodes, but the first keeps Azkadellia's history with DG quite vague until the last five minutes - where it's revealed that the two are actually sisters. Naturally this is a major plot point of the remaining episodes - DG appealing to sisterly love to save Azkadellia. | |
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Assassin's Creed I: It's all a simulation imposed on a man in the near future. It's the very first thing we actually find out in game but when it first came out, all the promo material tried to hide it, and several fans complained that sites were giving away the "twist" in their reviews, though some reviewers tried to hide it. | |
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Gardens of the Moon, the first book of the series, combines this and Decoy Protagonist and gives both a good rattle. It's difficult to describe the plot of the novel to newcomers without mentioning that the closest thing identifiable as a protagonist at the beginning gets knifed within pages of taking on his commission as Captain of the Bridgeburners. Fortunately, and similarly spoilerific, he survives, but it's immensely important for the further plot progression. | |
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Whateley Universe: Erik Mahren has an explosive burnout and turns into an artificer. Admittedly this isn't the first episode (It doesn't even happen until around the third story with Erik's viewpoint), but you try explaining any of the Eldritch stories without revealing this. | |
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In The Terrible Two, Teacher's Pet Niles being the school prankster is revealed not too far into the book. It's the first of a planned series, so it will be pretty hard to avoid mentioning that he's the second main character. The cover practically gives it away, since he's one of two characters featured on it, and it's called "The Terrible Two". Hmm, I wonder who that could refer to? The official website doesn't even bother keeping it hidden. | |
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The original television run of the first episode of Super Dimension Fortress Macross had a cobbled-together opening designed to hide the fact that the fighter planes are, in fact, Transforming Mecha. Also the Space Fold that occurs in the third episode. The fairly convoluted plot of defending South Ataria island against the Zentraedi fleet suddenly stops, and a new status quo is established (the Macross, not the island, is the main setting) which never quite changes for the rest of the series. |
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Discworld: One of the reveals of Men at Arms is that Angua is a werewolf. Treating this as a spoiler makes it fairly difficult to say pretty much anything else about her. | |
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The first two episodes of Axis Powers Hetalia has Germany's search for the "mighty" descendent of the great Roman Empire end with the discovery that he is in fact the weak, stupid Italy. The rest of the series has Italy latch on as Germany's ineffectual ally, who Germany tries in vain to teach to be competent. | |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine: The fact that Captain Holt is gay is treated as a surprise reveal for both the characters and the audience in the pilot. As it's often referred to in later episodes, it becomes this for anyone who missed the pilot. | |
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Torchwood: Begins with Gwen as a Cardiff police officer, observing the title mysterious Black Ops team. Afterwards, she becomes a team member. The first episode of Torchwood also has the second-in-command - who'd been featured in the publicity for the series just like all the others - being revealed to have gone insane, and then she commits suicide, and a definite and obvious example of this trope, the revelation that Captain Jack is now immortal. In the first episode, this is very surprising. Thereafter it's used constantly. |
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At the end of the first issue of Thunderbolts it was revealed that the heroes, who were portrayed as noble replacements for all of the Marvel Universe's fallen non-mutant heroes, were actually villains in disguise. Marvel was planning on releasing a monthly comic about Spider-Woman during the events of Secret Invasion, with the ending of the first issue revealing that Veranke, the Skrull Queen, was impersonating her. The comic was delayed several months with the reveal happening in the main mini-series instead. |
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Flame of Recca. The fact that Recca has flame-based abilities isn't revealed until the end of the first episode, then goes on to drive about half of the plots in the series. The remaining plots are driven by Yanagi's abilities that are revealed in the same episode, albeit a bit earlier. | |
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The Last Werewolf: The narrator, Jake, is not the last werewolf. The title belongs to his Love Interest, Talulla, who isn't even introduced until more than halfway through the first book. It's impossible to read even the most vague blurb about the second and third books in the trilogy without realising this. | |
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag: Edward is not an Assassin for most of the game, instead impersonating an assassin he had just killed and spends a good portion of his time playing both the Assassins and Templars for his own benefit. | |
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The Vision of Escaflowne. Hitomi gets taken to the world of Gaea at the end of the first episode. When this originally came out in Japan as can be seen in early VHS fansubs, it left off the opening credits on the first episode, just to keep this a real surprise. | |
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The first chapter of Yuureitou shows us in the last page that the mysterious, handsome Tetsuo is female. We aren't told until chapters later that he's a trans man instead of a Sweet Polly Oliver though. | |
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By the end of the first chapter of Snow White with the Red Hair it has been revealed that the helpful fellow traveler Shirayuki met in the woods is actually a prince and second in line to the throne of Clarines. | |
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Griffin's Daughter: Jelena is the title daughter. "The Griffin" is the ring Jelena carries, a keepsake from her late mother which turns out to be a copy of the White Griffin, a magic ring traditionally worn by the king of the Elves. Family members in the direct line of ascension wore non-magical replicas (The one Jelena owns belonged to King Keizo, when he was still the Crown Prince). The prolog itself establishes Jelena's elven father is a member of the royal bloodline, but which one is a secret until the end of the first book. Her paternity becomes a Late-Arrival Spoiler in the latter two books. | |
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Mazinger Z: Kouji's grandfather gets assassinated in the first episode. Shortly before dying he reveals to his grandsons that he was secretly building a Humongous Mecha. | |
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Much of the plot of the first volume of Accel World involves Kuroyukihime being stalked by a rival Brain Burst player, Cyan Pile, who's trying to claim a bounty on her. While Kuroyukihime is convinced that it's Haru's Childhood Friend Chiyu, Haru refuses to believe it, and seeks to prove that Chiyu isn't Cyan Pile. Much to Haru's shock, Cyan Pile is his other Childhood Friend, Taku, and the climax of the volume involves Haru unlocking his Duel Avatar's power of Flight, defeating Taku and convincing him to join Kuroyukihime's legion. Since Taku's often shown among the heroes, and it's fairly well known that Haru's Duel Avatar, Silver Crow, can fly, these twists won't be much of a surprise to anyone who's heard about the series before. | |
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Both the Higurashi: When They Cry anime and manga do this. In its first episode (or first chapter) it resembles a quirky, everyday high school series, with the male lead surrounded by several girls, but ends with said male lead discovering the town's dark secret and the resident Cloud Cuckoo Lander holding a cleaver over his head. The manga is even better at this as it has an ominous intro but the anime just straight up shows Keiichi bashing Rena and Mion to death at the start. | |
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The prologue of The Last of Us reveals that Joel had a daughter that was killed by a soldier just hours after the outbreak of the Cordyceps strain. | |
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In Undertale, Flowey's the first character you encounter, and is described as "your best friend" in the demo manual. He also reveals himself to be a villain soon after tricking you into following a fake tutorial wherein he's actually trying to kill you. | |
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The Origins comic book miniseries detailing Wolverine's untold origin introduces Dog, the son of Thomas Logan (a gruff, violent groundskeeper with Wolverine's trademark mane and the last name that has been Wolverine's assumed name for a long time) and doesn't reveal who Wolverine is until issue 2 when sickly boy James Howlett pops his claws to kill Thomas. Since then, James Howlett, or at least "James", has been his real name in the main comics and in various other adaptations including X-Men Origins: Wolverine. | |
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Episode 1 of GaoGaiGar reveals that Tagalong Kid Mamoru Amami is actually an alien brought to Earth by Galeon. | |
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Koshiro and Nanoka from Koi Kaze are siblings who haven't seen each other in years. They don't realize this until their father meets up with them at the end of the first episode...after they've already gone on their first date. | |
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Red Dwarf: Lister is the last human alive and is stranded 3 million years into deep space, accompanied by the hologram of his dead bunkmate and a creature that evolved from his pet cat. Naturally, watching the pilot episode means waiting for this situation to establish itself. An early plan for the show, discussed in DVD commentaries, was to take this idea even further. The senior staff of the ship would have been played by well-known actors and the first episode would focus on them, right up to the point where they all died and attention shifted to characters who had been treated as little more than extras up to that point. |
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In Fifty Shades of Grey, Christian Grey is revealed after hundred pages as secretly practicing BDSM and wants Anna as his sub. This is the first book of a trilogy. | |
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Stargate: Stargate SG-1: Daniel and Jack come out of retirement, and the Stargate goes to more than one other planet. Those aren't exactly spoilers so much as departures from the movie. However, Teal'c changing sides and Kowalski dying in the second episode would certainly be spoilers. Stargate Atlantis: That guy named Sheppard will turn out to be very important. Robert Patrick, on the other hand, is a Dead Star Walking. |
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Deception (2018): Superstar magician Cameron Black has a twin brother, Jonathan, who's been kept secret from the public to help Cameron with his illusions. When Jonathan is framed for a woman's death, the secret is exposed to the world. Notable in that none of the promos for the show hinted at this although the series opening explains it to the audience. | |
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Codex Alera: The end of the first book reveals that the apparently brain-damaged slave Fade is actually the legendary swordsman Araris Valerian, generally believed dead. This, in turn, serves as strong foreshadowing towards the series' biggest reveal regarding protagonist Tavi, which isn't formally revealed to the reader until late in the third book. | |
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Vivid reveals at the end of the first chapter via Page Turn Surprise that, not only is Vivio's Older Alter Ego back (albeit, in a much weaker version from the one forced on her in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS), but she can now access it whenever she wants. Prior to its release, all promotional material related to ViVid only showed her as a child. | |
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In A Study in Scarlet, Dr. Watson spends the best part of the first two chapters trying to figure out the occupation of his mysterious roommate Sherlock Holmes. (Spoiler: he's a detective.) | |
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Zombie Land Saga manages to pull it off twice during its first episode. The cold opening sets up the show as being your typical Slice of Life Schoolgirl Series, with main character Sakura's narration being abruptly ended when she gets hit by a truck as soon as she leaves her house. Then after spending seven minutes of appearing to be a zombie Survival Horror in the vein of the above mentioned School-Live!, the loud and brash Kotaro strides into the scene declaring that Sakura and the other zombies will be a new idol group, finally revealing the show's true identity as a wacky Horror Comedy idol series. | |
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In the first chapter of The Promised Neverland, we're introduced to a secluded orphanage lead by a kind caretaker. Once the children reach the age of 12 they leave to be adopted by a familly. Emma finds out that the orphanage is actually a meat farm for monsters who prey on humans. | |
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In the first episode of The Noddy Shop, Kate and DJ discover a mysterious box and decide to open it, revealing goblins that unleash chaos in the shop, and it also contains dolls of Noddy and Big Ears. Both of these also get spoiled in the opening theme. And to make matters worse, in North America, Noddy is the title of the show itself. | |
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Pretty Cure: By the first few minutes of each incarnation's first episode, it's easy to know which girls will join the team during the first half and what their Cure forms are because of the opening credits that play after the first few minutes. It's also spoiled anywhere from a day to a week prior, as merchandise revealing information about the new series will be released during the period of the prior series' finale to the day before the new series begins. | |
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Roswell: The first scene of the first episode has Max, the main protagonist, heal Liz, the main love interest, from a gunshot wound, thus revealing himself to be an alien. (The "missing" gunshot wound plays a key part in most of the first season, including explaining why the sheriff, FBI, and local alien hunters all suspect Max.) | |
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In the first story of the Facing the Future Series, Sam gets ghost powers of her own and becomes Danny's new partner, setting up the rest of the series. | |
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Stargate SG-1: Daniel and Jack come out of retirement, and the Stargate goes to more than one other planet. Those aren't exactly spoilers so much as departures from the movie. However, Teal'c changing sides and Kowalski dying in the second episode would certainly be spoilers. | |
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The first episode (and chapter, for the manga) of Fullmetal Alchemist sees us discovering that Edward Elric has two prosthetic 'automail' limbs and that his brother Alphonse is a disembodied spirit bonded to a suit of armour. We are also treated to several extremely transparent 'hints' regarding the crime they committed in the first place: trying to bring their mother back from the dead. For the rest of the series this information is commonplace and, in many cases, paramount to understanding the plot. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Aang is the Avatar. Due to being a fish out of temporal water, he has to wait until the second episode to find out he's also the "Last Airbender". | |
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In Big Hero 6, the main character Hiro Hamada's Cool Big Bro Tadashi dies in the first act of the movie, which the movie's marketing didn't even hide. | |
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In Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Sayaka Maizono is set up as the protagonist's Love Interest, but not only is she the victim of the first case, it's revealed that she actually intended to murder someone and frame him for it. Notably, the demo tried to hide this by changing the killer and the victim of the first case. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In Deep Space Nine the wormhole is a part of the opening credits. They made a special version of the credits for the first episode without the wormhole in order to keep the First Episode Spoiler unspoiled. Which they distinctly failed to do in the opening credits for the first episode of the seventh season, which revealed the existence of Ezri Dax a good forty minutes before she shows up at the end of the episode. Also failed to do in the opening credits of the first episode of the fourth season, which revealed that Worf had joined the regular cast a good twenty minutes before he turned up and a good ninety minutes before he joined the station's crew. |
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Outlander: The central conceit of the show is that protagonist Claire Beauchamp accidentally travels back in time to 18th century Scotland. It's pretty hard to talk about the show in any meaningful way without spoiling this premise. | |
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Band of Brothers's first episode deals with the men's training in Toccoa under Drill Sergeant Nasty Herbert Sobel. It's not until the end of the episode that we discover Sobel is Kicked Upstairs thanks to his incompetency. David Schwimmer being part of only two episodes would give that away. | |
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Commander Shepard's resurrection at the beginning of Mass Effect 2 would be a surprising and dramatic opening, except that it's practically impossible to discuss the game in any sort of depth without that coming up. This doubles-up with Trailers Always Spoil: the announcement trailer had a long list of Shepard's personnel file, ending with: "Killed in action", with a pull-back reveal that Shepard's N7 armor you were seeing had, in fact, just been a piece of chestplate that was grafted onto a Geth unit. Fandom speculation abounded about whether Shepard was faking dead, had somehow been turned into a Geth, or if they HAD died and you were now playing a new character. |
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In the first book in Feliks, Net & Nika series we find out that Nika is an orphan with psychic powers and that Madfred is not the case of A.I. Is a Crapshoot. It's hard to talk about next parts without mentioning this two. | |
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Tales of Symphonia does this backwards by cutting off as Lloyd is about to name the World Tree. Symphonia is a prequel to Tales of Phantasia, in which the World Tree Yggdrasil was just one mundane example of many gratuitous references to Norse mythology. | |
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In Chrono Crusade, the cute little boy is really a Demon. Almost everyone that watches or reads the series these days knows this going in (and pretty much any summary will spoil it), but it's actually hidden until the second chapter/episode of the series, with the first only showing that he has strange powers | |
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This Is Us: The advance publicity for the show, and even an epigram shown at the beginning of the premiere, emphasized that the main characters share a birthday (implying, but never outright stating, that they share no other specific connection), on which the first episode takes place. These characters are a man whose wife goes into labor with triplets, a disillusioned actor and his twin sister, and a black man confronting the biological father who abandoned him (the three other birthday celebrants are white). Only in the last scene is it revealed that the triplet childbirth takes place in 1980; the other three characters are the adult children in 2016, the couple having adopted an abandoned baby when one of the triplets didn't survive. But anyone describing the show after that would call it the story of one multigenerational family. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: Bilbo's ring is an Artifact of Doom. Of course, this one practically verges on It Was His Sled now. | |
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Earth 2: Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman die fighting off the parademon invasion, which makes way for the true premise and characters of the series. | |
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For all that goes on in the sequels to The Three Sisters, it's pretty much impossible to talk about without spoiling the original story's revelation that Rarity is not only a changeling, but the younger sister of Queen Chrysalis. | |
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At the end of Detective Comics #27, it is revealed that The "Bat-Man" is actually the Commissioner's young socialite friend, Bruce Wayne. | |
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In New Danganronpa V3, Kaede Akamatsu is set up as the protagonist for the game in promotional materials, but instead turns out to be the first killer, resulting in her being executed at the end of the first chapter and Shuichi Saihara taking over as the protagonist in one of the most-discussed plot twists in the game. | |
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Gargoyles: The Scottish Clan of Gargoyles from 995 AD are all slaughtered except for Goliath and 5 others, who are reawakened in 1995 New York by David Xanatos, who also reveals Goliath's former gargoyle mate survived too. Xanatos is in fact not the nice guy he claimed to be: he's a Magnificent Bastard who has been manipulating the Gargoyles for his own ends. Goliath's former mate is a villain too; she helped betray their slaughtered clansmates and she's taken a name: Demonanote The name is a spoiler because the Scottish Gargoyles don't take names, except for Goliath. | |
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All of the advertising for The Last Man on Earth made it seem like Phil, the protagonist, was the only living human on the planet, and the entire series would be a one-man show. Then, at the very end of the pilot, Carol is introduced, and subsequent episodes would go on to introduce more and more characters. | |
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The time travel aspect in Back to the Future was a complete surprise to test audiences in 1985, since the first fifteen minutes of the film seem like an Eighties teen movie (albeit with a quirky scientist as a side character). Naturally, time travel is more than a bit crucial to the trilogy as a whole. | |
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Transformers Prime: Cliffjumper's death in the first ten minutes is referenced in several episodes after it happens, driving Arcee's primary character plot. | |
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Michael Vey reveals in the first book that Taylor had a missing twin sister and that Michael's bullies, Jack and Wade, become friends with him. | |
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Girl Genius. That mousy lab assistant? She's a major Spark who turns out to be the most important figure in recent history and is about to turn the world on its ear. Didn't the title clue you in? | |
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Million Yen Women: The series of opens six months into the situation that was imposed upon Shin: living with five women he doesn't know because someone invited them to do so. However, there are a few strange details about Shin himself that seem to have nothing to do with his unusual living arrangement, such as him getting harassed via his fax machine and treating it a normal occurence, handwriting his stories while living in twenty-first century Japan, and refusing to kill the characters of novels he writes. At the end of the episode, it turns out that his father in on death row for murdering his mother, her lover and a policeman. The series being a Psychological Thriller, this fact inevitably becomes an integral part of the plot. | |
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The first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series: the fact that the Greek gods are still around isn't revealed for several chapters, and which god is Percy's father is a mystery for even longer, but even the vaguest familiarity with the series assures you know that much. | |
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Death in Paradise: Camille, who seems to be a random thief and a major suspect, is actually an undercover police officer and becomes The Lancer to Detective Poole. The opening makes this pretty obvious though. Speaking of which, the fact that Pool's assistant for the pilot isn't in the opening and isn't in any later episode pretty much gives away that she's the Killer of the Week. | |
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NBC's Dracula reveals at the end of the pilot episode that Dracula and Van Helsing — traditionally portrayed as archenemies — are in this interpretation working together against the Order of the Dragon. | |
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Another Bandai franchise, Cocotama, also does something similar by releasing toys of the characters before the Legendary Cocotama Caretakers get them on the show and showing these characters with the caretakers in the opening and ending themes. Hirake! Cocotama was notable for having its' toys released a month before the show began as a result of a "best of" series playing in between Himitsu no Cocotama and Hirake! Cocotama. | |
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LOST: The first (unseen) appearance of the monster about halfway through the pilot made it clear that there was much more to the island than it seemed, which set the stage for the rest of the series. Originally, the writers were planning on having another twist in the pilot, casting a big-name actor as Jack (they specifically had Michael Keaton in mind) only for him to be a Decoy Protagonist and a Dead Star Walking to show that Anyone Can Die. Jack instead became one of the main characters. |
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Taxi: For much of the first episode, Louie De Palma, played by then-unknown Danny DeVito, shouts his usual bile from inside an elevated dispatcher's cage that only reveals his face. At the climax, he emerges from the cage and appears at the bottom of the steps, and is revealed to be incongruously short for his personality — estimates vary but DeVito is well under 5 feet tall. It's a trick that only works once, ever. | |
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If you've watched any episode of The Cleveland Show other than the pilot, you already know that Cleveland marries Donna and adopts Roberta and Rallo, ditching his plans to move to California. Of course, when you do watch the pilot, you'll have this spoiled by the episode itself in the first few minutes when they play the Expository Theme Tune: "Right back in my hometown / with my new family (gestures at Donna and the kids)"! | |
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Prison Break: The last minute of the pilot reveals that Michael Scofield tattooed the plan of the prison on his body in order to free his incarcerated brother. And before that, midway through the pilot, there's the revelation that Michael Scofield (the soft-spoken, well-to-do structural engineer) and Lincoln Burrows (the hard-edged thug on death row) are brothers. | |
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In Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Azurda performs a Heroic Sacrifice at the end of the first chapter and then regenerates into a smaller, younger form. Thus, it can be rather difficult to explain why everyone refers to that wise, soft-voiced pixie as "Gramps." | |
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Darker Than Black: The fact that Li Shenshung is a bit more than he appears isn't clear until the middle of the second episode, and exactly what he can do isn't clarified until around episode 6. Li is the alias of Hei, a.k.a. "The Black Reaper," a contractor, spy, and assassin with electricity-based powers. Oh, yeah, and that black cat we keep seeing in the background? It can talk. | |
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Danganronpa: In Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Sayaka Maizono is set up as the protagonist's Love Interest, but not only is she the victim of the first case, it's revealed that she actually intended to murder someone and frame him for it. Notably, the demo tried to hide this by changing the killer and the victim of the first case. The second game has Nagito Komaeda being revealed as a hope-obsessed and rather unstable Death Seeker midway through the first trial, a characterization that becomes important throughout the rest of the game. In New Danganronpa V3, Kaede Akamatsu is set up as the protagonist for the game in promotional materials, but instead turns out to be the first killer, resulting in her being executed at the end of the first chapter and Shuichi Saihara taking over as the protagonist in one of the most-discussed plot twists in the game. |
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In the premiere of Public Morals it is established that the cops of NYPD's Public Morals Division and The Irish Mob have a very cozy "arrangement" and great care is taken so that nothing disrupts it. The relationship is further highlighted by the fact that Mr. O, a local Irish gangster, is the father of Sean O'Bannon and uncle of Terry Muldoon, two cops working for PMD. He is killed in the final moments of the first episode and the beginning of the second episode reveals that the murder was committed by Rusty Patton, the son of The Don of The Irish Mob. Everything the first episode set up is about to be turned upside down as the O'Bannon and Muldoon clans seek revenge. | |
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Ga-Rei -Zero- is a very interesting and shocking case. The first episode (as well as practically all promotional materials) featured a Badass Five-Man Band; the leader specifically had a vendetta with an established villain from Ga-Rei. The spoiler in question? Dead Stars Walking, ALL of them. At the hands of a former main protagonist, at that. | |
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Furthermore, the fact that Phoenix is no longer a lawyer and is the defendant in the first case of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney. You probably could've figured that out from the trailer too. | |
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Shakugan no Shana, the first episode reveals that the hero, Yuji Sakai, is Dead All Along. His existence was long-devoured by a Crimson Lord, killing him. Now he is a "Torch," a false person created with the existential residue which helps maintain the balance of the world by burning out slowly rather than vanishing all at once. What kind of Torch (and which specific kind of that subtype) he is is also revealed quite soon (at the end of the first story arc), and keeps the story going, since him burning out would most likely end the story, or at least change the genre. | |
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In Jinzō Konchū Kabuto Borg VxV, Big Bang is the villain persona of Taiki Amanogawa, making him the Archnemesis Dad of Ryūsei. This is revealed as a surprise at the end of episode 1, where Ryūsei himself and his friends learn about it for the first time. | |
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Dragged out for a little bit longer than one episode, but in Bokurano, the fact that the current pilot of Zearth will die after a battle is not revealed fully until episode 4 (volume 2 of the manga). This fact becomes the major element of the rest of the series. This is masked by having the first pilot disappear, and the second one seems to die for unrelated reasons. | |
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Mia's death in the first Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney; her status as a Spirit Advisor is of some importance, but she dies right after the shortest case in the series, which can be considered a tutorial. | |
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The Good Place: The first episode surprises us by revealing that Eleanor Shellstrop is accidentally in the "wrong" place. Later episodes build on this to make it even clearer just how wrong her place is. | |
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Dark Blue: The first episode revolves around trying to pull main character and team member Dean out from a long undercover gig, with no idea if he's still loyal to the badge or become his criminal undercover persona, until the bust at the end when he kills his target in the line of duty. | |
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MOTHER 3: Lucas's mother is killed in the first chapter—only a few minutes after we got to name her. And then his twin brother Claus runs off to avenge her and is presumed dead, despite him being playable in the prologue battle. | |
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The first episode of Princess Principal is the 13th case chronologically, establishing the protagonist team's style of operation, their personalities on the job, and the grittiness of their work. The second episode is the first chronological case, and contains the reveals that the two leads made a Prince and Pauper switch ten years ago, the Pauper-turned-Prince(ss) in the scenario is only in the team so they can help her go from fourth-in-line to rightful Queen, and since they're the only ones in the know about their identity-switch secret, pretty much all of their loyalties gain a few extra layers. | |
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Two cases in the first novel of the Sword of Truth series: | |
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Code Geass: Within the first episode we are introduced to the Geass, and by the next it's revealed that not only are Suzaku and C.C. still alive, but that Lelouch is a dishonored prince of Britannia, points which are, needless to say, central for the rest of the series. Geass actually had two- in the first episode of R2, which, due to the new evening time slot, got quite a few additional viewers compared to the first season, the fact that Lelouch is Zero isn't revealed until the end. It's a pretty big reveal to those who haven't seen the first season, and amusingly, it comes as quite a surprise to Lelouch himself. |
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The first chapter and episode of Haikyuu!! sets up Kageyama as Hinata's rival that he'll have to overcome sometime in the future, only to reveal the twist ending where the two end up going to the same high school and are now teammates on the same volleyball team. | |
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Petriculture ends with the reveal that Pinkie Pie is essentially Twilight Sparkle's childhood Imaginary Friend summoned into reality by accident. The story's sequels are fueled by the ramifications of that revelation. | |
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Get Smart: The pilot included Max meeting for the first time his unnamed contact 'Agent 99'. The surprise reveal that she was a hot chick and Action Girl loses a lot of impact for anyone who knows anything about the show after that. | |
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PriPara: The main plot is set off by the fact that Laala cannot perform in the titular world because she is an elementary schooler and her school bans it. By the end of the episode, Laala becomes one after finding Mirei's lost PriTicket bag. | |
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Malazan Book of the Fallen: Gardens of the Moon, the first book of the series, combines this and Decoy Protagonist and gives both a good rattle. It's difficult to describe the plot of the novel to newcomers without mentioning that the closest thing identifiable as a protagonist at the beginning gets knifed within pages of taking on his commission as Captain of the Bridgeburners. Fortunately, and similarly spoilerific, he survives, but it's immensely important for the further plot progression. Similarly, Deadhouse Gates, the second book in the series, introduces a new setting and as soon as Chapter 5, Sha'ik, leader of the Whirlwind Rebellion, is shot in the head on the brink of starting said rebellion. Seeing as the rebellion still is led by a seer named Sha'ik until its end, this comes as quite a shock to anyone not in the know. Also, House of Chains in the same series gives us the new character Karsa Orlong, who is revealed to be Toblakai from Deadhouse Gates at the end of the first of four sections in the book. |
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Life on Mars: This show is about a police detective who is struck by a car in 2006 and wakes up in 1973. If you were one of the very lucky few not to know the premise of the show before you sat down to watch the first episode, then the sequence in which this happens was one of the most surprising "Wait. What? WHOA!" moments ever, transforming what initially appeared to be a rather uninspired by-the-numbers cop show into an intriguing Ontological Mystery. | |
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Temeraire: His Majesty's Dragon ends with a twist about Temeraire's breed: he's not, as was assumed, a rare Chinese Imperial, but is actually a Chinese Celestial, a breed so rare they're only given to emperors. Much of the plot of the other books hinges on this, and even when it doesn't, there's frequent mention of Temeraire's Divine Wind, an ability found only in Celestials. | |
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Game of Thrones: Much like its source material, the twist that much of the subsequent plot of the show hinges on occurs early on with the reveal of Cersei and Jaime Lannister's incestuous relationship at the end of the Pilot Episode, which Bran is pushed out of a window for discovering. | |
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Saw: The Serial Killer Jigsaw is the guy lying on the floor of the room, assumed to be dead. He's also the guy who's played by Tobin Bell that appears in flashbacks to Laurence's hospital. Every other installment is up front about him as the main villain. | |
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Jericho: The last shot of the pilot is a view of mushroom clouds, setting up the series for survival in a post-nuclear-apocalypse America. | |
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Betrayed, the second book of The House of Night reveals that Neferet, the protagonist's kind, wise mentor-figure, is actually the Big Bad. It is very difficult to describe the main story arc without revealing this. Which is a pity, as the relevant reveal was enjoyably unexpected. | |
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Modern Family: This show was initially advertised as being about three separate examples of "modern" families: a typical suburban nuclear family-of-five; a newlywed interracial couple with a large age gap, raising the wife's son together; and a gay couple who'd just adopted a baby. The end of the pilot revealed that they were all in fact related: the older husband (Jay) was the father of the stay-at-home mom (Claire) and one of the gay dads (Mitchell), who were his kids from a previously unmentioned first marriage. It is impossible to watch any subsequent episode without picking up on this very quickly. | |
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The BU - BTS's Darker and Edgier music video universe - starts off with the "I NEED U (Original version)" music video, which features the characters - played by the members - suffering in various ways, with at least one character ending up dead (by burning himself alive) and another one committing murder. These events are key for the story of the ''BU'' at large. | |
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In Fairy Tail we have both that the guy casting Charm in the port city and then throwing a party on his boat is not a member of Fairy Tail, and that Natsu, the man with the most-easily-induced motion sickness ever, is a member of Fairy Tail. Comes as an initial surprise in the manga, but the latter part is spoiled by the anime's opener. Three, in fact, if we count that he also is the real salamander, which the fake member said to be. |
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Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood: the safehouse where Desmond was transported to for most of the second game is not only in Italy, but a few hours' drive from the Monteriggioni villa. | |
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The Pokémon anime's Third-Option Adaptation of the games (Ash's first mon being Pikachu, the former Trope Namer) is of course one of these. | |
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Superstore somehow does this with a character's name. A Running Gag is that America Ferrera's character never wears a nametag bearing her actual name. She doesn't even reveal it to Jonah until the end of the pilot. It's Amy. | |
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In Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name, Conrad becomes a vampire. But since he's been portrayed as such in official art ever since BEFORE it happened... | |
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Friday Night Lights has star quarterback Jason Street get injured and paralyzed during the first game of the season, ending his promising football career. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Twilight Sparkle becomes True Companions with five other ponies, they unlock the power of the Elements of Harmony and use them to defeat Nightmare Moon, who is revealed to be Princess Celestia's sister Luna. All of this is common knowledge in later episodes. | |
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Doctor Who: Susan and her doctor grandfather are time travellers from another planet, and the Doctor steals Ian and Barbara away in his time machine the TARDIS so they wouldn't tell anyone. Also, many serials had a surprise twist at the end of their first episode (usually the reveal of the villain/alien/monster) that were central to the rest of the story. These are almost always spoiled by the DVD cover now. This is most obvious with serials where the Master was the villain, particularly during Anthony Ainley's tenure. Since the Master was a Master of Disguise, he'd spend most of the first episode or two in heavy makeup and they even used a pseudonym in the closing credits. Now he's on the cover. For example, it wasn't until the second episode of the second serial we got to meet the mysterious inhabitants of the mysterious apparently deserted city on a planet covered with radiation. They're called the Daleks. And that serial is now named after them. |
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Monster opens with Dr. Tenma finding his calling in life after saving a young boy, only to reveal not much later that the boy grows up to be the titular Monster. | |
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Twilight: There is a mysterious boy named Edward in Bella's class who seems to be keeping some secret about his identity. Much of the first half of the first book is spent with Bella trying to figure out what the secret of the Cullen family might be. Of course, any suspense there might have been is spoiled by knowing anything at all about the entire premise of the series.... (He's a vampire.) | |
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CSI: In the first episode we are introduced to new CSI Agent Holly Gribbs, the show makes it seem that she'll be one of the major players in the series, only for her to be shot and killed on assignment by the end of the first episode. | |
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In Addicted, Ryke Meadows is revealed to be Loren Hale's half brother in the first of ten books. It's nearly impossible to discuss anything about the characters without bringing up this fact, and is considered common knowledge in the fandom. | |
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Beast Wars: Dinobot's defection to the Maximals in the 2-part pilot. | |
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In Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, Ledo has accidentally rediscovered Earth That Was. The second episode quickly establishes that the planet is entirely ocean, which is why everyone lives in ships. | |
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It is virtually impossible to talk about Doki Doki Literature Club! without spoiling the fact that it is a horror game, and not the romantic visual novel it pretends to be. | |
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ARAGO: Ewan is murdered by the Patchman in the first chapter, and his death is the driving force behind Arago becoming a detective. | |
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Fruits Basket looks like a normal shojo manga for most of the first chapter/episode... and then Tohru manages to turn Kyo into a cat. The next chapter/episode explains the Sohma curse and how Kyo, Yuki, and others transform into animals of the Zodiac upon being hugged by the opposite gender. More specifically, it is very difficult to describe any of the characters' personalities without also revealing the various traumas and abuse they've undergone (or inflicted on others). | |
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The Messengers, Joshua finds out his pregnant wife had an affair with his father and thus their unborn baby may be his brother. The end of the pilot also reveals that the man who fell on earth is Satan. | |
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Once Upon a Time: Emma is the daughter of Prince Charming and Snow White. Throughout the first episode, it's also left up in the air as to whether Regina's Storybrooke counterpart is as evil as the Enchanted Forest one - as she's presented as a concerned but well-meaning stepmother. The end of the episode has her taking the gloves off, as she becomes the antagonist of the first season. The Season 3 premiere has Henry finding a Lost Boy played by Robbie Kaye, who appears to be trying to escape from Peter Pan and the others. It's not until the end of the episode that he's revealed to be Peter Pan - and the main antagonist of the season. |
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Blood Drive: Aki, Christopher's partner in Contracrime, is actually an android built by Heart Industries, with a different Aki model kidnapping him at the end of the episode and experimenting on him in subsequent ones. | |
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Valvrave the Liberator went to great lengths in all of its promotional material to portray the main robot as a white and red gunslinger samurai, like just about any other generic Gundam clone. As soon as the robot's activated, its white paintjob turns black, its swords open up into scythes, the pilot is turned a vampire, and you realize you're in for an entirely different sort of show. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Jesse McNally's death. He's initially set up to seem like one of the main characters (Joss Whedon even wanted to include him in the opening credits, but didn't have the budget to make an alternate version) but is killed halfway through the pilot. | |
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Stargate Atlantis: That guy named Sheppard will turn out to be very important. Robert Patrick, on the other hand, is a Dead Star Walking. | |
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Ace Attorney: Mia's death in the first Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney; her status as a Spirit Advisor is of some importance, but she dies right after the shortest case in the series, which can be considered a tutorial. Furthermore, the fact that Phoenix is no longer a lawyer and is the defendant in the first case of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney. You probably could've figured that out from the trailer too. Also from Apollo Justice, the first case sets up Kristoph Gavin as Apollo's boss and mentor, much like Mia Fey from the first game. By the end of the case, it turns out that Kristoph is the murderer, and Apollo ends up going to work for Phoenix instead. |
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In Yuri Is My Job, the end of the first volume reveals that Mitsuki Ayanokouji, the one person who isn't won over by Hime Shiraki's cutesy façade, is actually Mitsuki Yano, Hime's former friend from elementary school. It's almost impossible to talk about Mitsuki's character without mentioning this fact, and the second volume's summary makes no secret of the fact that Hime and Mitsuki knew each other. | |
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Goblins: Life Through Their Eyes. Practically everybody gets killed, and the five remaining goblins decide to become adventurers so they can gain levels and stand a fighting chance against the players who consider goblins to be easy exp. The joke is that the goblins still don't know just how doomed their hometown, for which they're leveling up in order to protect, is. Odds are Kore will have destroyed it long before they ever get back there. | |
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Firefly: The pilot episode built suspense around which passenger was leaking information to the Alliance. Every passenger except The Mole went on to be a regular cast member...not that you couldn't have guessed from the credits. And let's not forget "The Girl In The Box", proclaimed by every Fox ad. Kaylee also gets shot, and there's a big fakeout where Mal tells Simon she died - only to reveal she's alive and well. Jewel Staite being part of the main cast would give this away. To make matters worse, the pilot wasn't actually the first episode Fox showed. There's a reason fans accuse the network of assassinating the series. |
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Str.A.In.: Strategic Armored Infantry: the main character is a happy girl who idolizes her awesome big brother and gleefully awaits her graduation alongside Those Two Guys and the Dogged Nice Guy. At first. Neither her friends, her brother's sanity, or her own mental health survive the first episode. | |
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Spec Ops: The Line was marketed as a straightforward modern military shooter in the vein of Battlefield or Modern Warfare, but it rapidly became common knowledge that it is in fact a Genre Deconstruction. Exactly what point in the game this becomes clear is subject to debate, but the first instance the player has to fight against American troops (about forty-five minutes into the game) is a fairly good indicator that it's not a straightforward shooter. | |
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At the end of the first chapter of World Trigger its revealed that Osamu Mikumo, the teenage boy who got his ass kicked by some bullies earlier in the chapter, is actually an agent of Border (a military organisation designed to fight aliens) and that Yuma Kuga, the mysterious boy that he was defending earlier from said bullies, is actually a Badass Neighbour (AKA one of the aliens Border was built to fight). | |
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Saikano: Chise is the Ultimate Weapon. The first episode of Saikano didn't even have any titles, with the name of the show only coming onto the screen after The Reveal of Chise standing in front of Shuji in the middle of a ruined city with wings and a minigun where her right arm should be. If you didn't know anything about the series (including what the title meant) before you started watching, it was genuinely shocking. | |
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The identities of the heroes of Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger, as well as the weapons and mecha, were revealed by merchandise a month before it even aired thanks to a series commemorating the Heisei era of the Super Sentai series delaying the series by a month. | |
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School-Live!'s first chapter presents itself as a fairly normal Slice of Life Schoolgirl Series. Then it turns out that the main character is delusional and it's set in a Zombie Apocalypse. The anime adapted this by padding out episode 1 with cute scenes of her at school with slight foreshadowing something is wrong, only to pan out to a ruined classroom near the end. | |
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The very first chapter in the Lupin III manga is about the police trying to find Lupin. If you're aware that Lupin's a young guy with black hair and long sideburns, you're probably not gonna be fooled by the Red Herring. Lupin is wearing glasses. | |
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Yomawari: Night Alone begins the main character, a little girl, walking her dog, with the game providing a tutorial for the controls. One of these tutorials ends with the dog getting rammed by an oncoming truck. Luckily, most trailers and promotional material keep this a secret, saying that the dog simply went missing. It helps that the little girl believes he's missing, spending much of the game in complete denial over his death. | |
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Mister Ed: Ed doesn't talk until halfway through the first episode, at which the talking comes off as a surprise. And he didn't give his "Hello, I'm Mister Ed" greeting until after the first few episodes. | |
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Rurouni Kenshin: At the end of the first episode, it turns out that the guy going around killing people under the name of "Battousai" is not the legendary assassin. That goofy, red-headed wanderer carrying a Reverse Blade Sword that Kaoru had dismissed earlier, on the other hand... | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: We're introduced to a new ship and new crew on a seemingly routine mission just as we'd seen in TNG and DS9, only to have the ship lost on the other side of the Galaxy on the first episode, thus setting the premise of the series. Perhaps more surprising is nearly the entire introduced senior staff of the ship (including the First Officer, Chief Medical Officer, Navigator, and Chief Engineer) being killed off before even the midpoint of the pilot episode. Several apparent guest characters (the crew of another ship, the convict acting as their guide, the two aliens they meet) end up becoming the new senior staff. Also, the fact that Tuvok is The Mole among the Maquis crew is obvious to anyone who has seen another episode the moment Janeway mentions her chief of security is undercover there. |
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Assassin's Creed III has you start off playing as british Noble Haytham Kenway, despite all the hype for the game being about playing as a Native American Assassin. After a few missions with him, it's revealed Haytham defected to the side of the villainous templars and the group he spent so much trouble putting together were all templars. Once you start playing as Native American Connor, Haytham is set up to be the Big Bad. | |
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Anthropology: It is revealed after a few chapters that Lyra is a human. It can be hard to recommend the story as the pony-on-Earth fic it is without spoiling. | |
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Amazing Fantasy #15: and any other media adaptation of Spider-Man's origin story: Uncle Ben's killer turns out to be the same burglar Peter allowed to escape, making his inaction indirectly responsible for Ben's death. | |
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How I Met Your Mother: In the pilot, Ted meets and begins a long relationship with Robin; at the end, narrator Future!Ted tells his kids "And that's how I met your Aunt Robin." In other words, she is not the mother of the title. | |
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Breaking Bad: This show is very difficult to describe without including the fact that Walter is diagnosed with cancer in the first episode. However the show manages to make it a Subverted Trope with the first scene of the pilot. Most people know that Walt "breaks bad" and starts cooking methamphetamine before they watch the series, and expect the first scene of the pilot, with its intense action to be a flashforward to a much later part of the series, even the final scene. However that scene is reached well before the end of the pilot, and the series progresses far past that point. Even if someone has had the plot completely spoiled for them, the first scene of the pilot would still throw them for a loop (unless one of the main things they remembered was Bryan Cranston losing his hair). |
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Angel of Death: The fact that all liches must consume human souls to stay alive is a plot twist in the first entry. It's also an important part of the series' premise. | |
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Charmed (1998): The first episode has Piper dating a man called Jeremy. He looks like he's set up to be her love interest, until he's revealed to be a warlock and therefore the first enemy the Halliwells have to vanquish. Him not being part of the main cast would make this twist a little more obvious to new viewers. The Season 3 premiere introduces a District Attorney Cole Turner as a potential love interest to Phoebe. Then it's revealed he's a demon. A huge part of his character is Phoebe's love swaying him from his mission. Season 4 introduces a new character played by Rose McGowan right after Prue is Killed Off for Real. It's not until halfway through the premiere that she's revealed as their half-sister - and therefore a potential Charmed One. There's also genuine doubt as to what side she'll choose when she gets her powers. Naturally Paige being a series regular for five more seasons would give this away. |
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Marvel was planning on releasing a monthly comic about Spider-Woman during the events of Secret Invasion, with the ending of the first issue revealing that Veranke, the Skrull Queen, was impersonating her. The comic was delayed several months with the reveal happening in the main mini-series instead. | |
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Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors features, as the title suggests, nine major characters, and the promotional material for the game gives all nine of them equal prominence. Despite this, immediately after everyone is introduced, the 9th Man dies, serving as a Sacrificial Lamb to demonstrate how serious the Deadly Game the characters are playing really is. | |
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Similarly, Deadhouse Gates, the second book in the series, introduces a new setting and as soon as Chapter 5, Sha'ik, leader of the Whirlwind Rebellion, is shot in the head on the brink of starting said rebellion. Seeing as the rebellion still is led by a seer named Sha'ik until its end, this comes as quite a shock to anyone not in the know. | |
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Assassin's Creed: Assassin's Creed I: It's all a simulation imposed on a man in the near future. It's the very first thing we actually find out in game but when it first came out, all the promo material tried to hide it, and several fans complained that sites were giving away the "twist" in their reviews, though some reviewers tried to hide it. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood: the safehouse where Desmond was transported to for most of the second game is not only in Italy, but a few hours' drive from the Monteriggioni villa. Assassin's Creed III has you start off playing as british Noble Haytham Kenway, despite all the hype for the game being about playing as a Native American Assassin. After a few missions with him, it's revealed Haytham defected to the side of the villainous templars and the group he spent so much trouble putting together were all templars. Once you start playing as Native American Connor, Haytham is set up to be the Big Bad. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag: Edward is not an Assassin for most of the game, instead impersonating an assassin he had just killed and spends a good portion of his time playing both the Assassins and Templars for his own benefit. |
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The Bourne Series: Jason Bourne is an ex-assassin who used to work for the CIA until he grew a conscience on his last mission. | |
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Transformers: Transformers Prime: Cliffjumper's death in the first ten minutes is referenced in several episodes after it happens, driving Arcee's primary character plot. Beast Wars: Dinobot's defection to the Maximals in the 2-part pilot. |
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Crash Zone: The first episode is all about the question: which of the five kids gets the job? The second episode likewise has a lot of tension about the fate of Virgil. All of these characters end up becoming regular protagonists. | |
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Revolution: Ben Matheson's keychain that he gives to Aaron is a device that can undo the effects of the worldwide blackout and restore power to nearby electronics. Nate appears to be a well-meaning stranger who offers Charlie water and later saves Charlie's life, but he's revealed to be an incognito militia member. Miles' army buddy from the pre-blackout time is Monroe, aka, the present-day Big Bad General Monroe and head of the militia. All this is revealed in the pilot episode. | |
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