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Sequencing Deception

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Sequencing Deception	comment	A trope commonly seen in mysteries. Cut from Scene A to Scene B, or alternate between two scenes. The viewer assumes that B shortly follows A in the first case, or that both are occurring simultaneously in the second. In truth, there is a much larger gap, or the scenes do not occur in that order. Often used for temporally-based examples of Cut Apart. See also Meanwhile, in the Future… and Flashback B-Plot, for when events from different time frames are edited together for the sake of suspense or exposition, without necessarily being deceptive. Since this trope is usually associated with reveals, all spoilers in the examples below will be unmarked. You Have Been Warned!
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Sequencing Deception / int_109f7814	comment	Sherlock: After Moriarty's apparent death in "The Reichenbach Fall", the show starts teasing the possibility that he actually survived. This culminates in "The Final Problem", where Moriarty shows up in person on the island where Sherlock and John have just been taken captive — only it turns out that Moriarty's visit to the island actually took place years earlier, before "The Reichenbach Fall". It is then explained that the person he met then has been faking Moriarty's continued existence using recordings he made before he died.
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Sequencing Deception / int_12300cc3	comment	Watchmen: The protagonists' confrontation with Ozymandias is intercut with the on-the-street scenes in New York. Once he explains his Genghis Gambit, he adds "I did it 35 minutes ago." Cut to all those people being killed, which we then know all happened before the other scenes began. Note there are clocks all over the place in both the Karnak scenes and New York scenes so people paying careful attention wouldn't be surprised.
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Sequencing Deception / int_1543f8a	comment	In Zero Time Dilemma, after "Coincide", the camera alternates between the three teams as all of them receive the game rules by Zero. However, each team is getting information at completely different times, with each exposition separated by two hours. The scene the player sees is the conjunction of every scattered exposition in the form of a quick summary, effectively fooling the player into believing that all three teams are listening to Zero at the same time when actually they're not.
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Sequencing Deception / int_192a3cba	comment	At the end of the first part of Tag and Bink Are Dead, the two protagonists are on board the Death Star, disguised as Imperial soldiers (with helmets hiding their faces). Darth Vader shows up, informing that Rebel ships are incoming and orders them to follow him. The next scene shows, apparently, Tag and Bink fighting in the battle of Yavin as Vader's wingmen, then dying when the Death Star is blown up. However, the beginning of the second part reveals that these were just two random Imperial Soldiers; Tag and Bink ran off as soon as Vader turned his back, and by luck they escaped the Death Star in time. Then the author, Kevin Rubio, makes a brief appearance and comments on the trick.
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Sequencing Deception / int_1a8374cb	comment	Charlie the Unicorn's finale alternates between between two different plots, one with a new character named Nyx dealing with an unleashed Sealed Evil in a Can, and another with the Blue and Pink unicorns taking Charlie with them to deal with said Sealed Evil in a Can. In part 4 it is revealed the plot with Nyx actually took place ten thousand years in the past. We are actually seeing the story of how the demons possessing the Blue and Pink unicorns were unleashed upon the world. The Sealed Evil in a Can Blue and Pink were talking about was probably a lie.
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Sequencing Deception / int_1f1beedc	comment	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Dr. Sheppard, the narrator of the mystery, turns out to be the murderer. When he says that he entered the study with Ackroyd at 8:40 and left at 8:50 he is telling the factual truth, but does not mention that in that ten-minute interim he murdered Ackroyd. When he describes coming back to the house and finding Ackroyd dead he says "I did what little needed to be done." It comes off as innocuous when he says it, but at the end he admits that "what little needed to be done" included altering the crime scene to cover his tracks and support his alibi.
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Sequencing Deception / int_2275c659	comment	House invokes this during the Three Stories episode. House is telling the medical students about three cases involving leg problems and each with its own diagnosis. At one point, the flashback scene shows House talking with his own staff about one case, then brings up one of the other cases — only his team looks confused, and House reveals that that case didn't occur until three months later.
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Sequencing Deception / int_2984946b	comment	Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire: In the "Hatima" short, it first looks like that the plot is going back and forth between a battle in the Fish People underwater settlement and a young human woman on the surface who is studying the Hatima right as the battle is happening. It then turns out that the human segment is actually depicting the forgotten origin story of the Fish People, who were all ill or disabled people who considered transforming into one to be a reasonable price to pay to be cured, only to find out that the other humans didn't agree.
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Sequencing Deception / int_29efc2f3	comment	"Broken", the first episode of Season 2, alternates between events in Storybrooke, and the Enchanted Forest version of Sleeping Beauty. Since Season 1 has primed the audience to think of Enchanted Forest scenes as flashbacks, and "What happened to the Enchanted Forest after the curse?" is not a question that's even been asked at this point, the lack of regular characters is not enough to clue the audience in that the scenes are happening simultaneously.
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Sequencing Deception / int_444d8a51	comment	Throughout the entirety of Remember11, the viewpoint switches between Kokoro and Satoru's bodies (though not their minds). Roughly halfway through the game, it is confirmed that there is a 1-year gap between the two time periods. Additionally, the end of the game also reveals that there was an additional 33 minute gap between perspective switches, which had remained undetected until then due to an inaccurate clock.
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Sequencing Deception / int_46009ec4	comment	Mulholland Dr., in its last act (which conflicts with much of what is shown before), does some rapid intercutting between scenes that take place before and after the second-to-last scene.
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Sequencing Deception / int_4b8906a8	comment	The prologue of Ever17 switches back and forth between the two possible protagonists (Takeshi and the Kid). The two viewpoints are made to appear as though it is a mere perspective flip (including some scenes in which the viewpoint character changes in mid-conversation), but are actually similar events that take place on either side of a 17-year gap.
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Sequencing Deception / int_50bcf7a6	comment	The first four Acts of Homestuck concern four friends, all young teenagers, who begin playing the videogame Sburb on the same day. Things get very confusing from there, so much so that Act 5 ends with characters triggering a Cosmic Retcon and jumping into a new universe. Act 6 begins with four new friends, all slightly older teenagers and obvious parallels of the comic's starting cast, starting their own game of Sburb. One of the twists in this Act is that these four teens aren't even living in the same century: Jane and Jake are living in 2011, while Dirk and Roxy are living about four centuries later. They communicate like they're contemporaries via a chat client that can send messages backwards and forwards in time.
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Sequencing Deception / int_55145659	comment	So I'm a Spider, So What?: One of the biggest twists in the entire series, but obvious when you think about it. All of the reincarnators were born at the same time, so everything happening to Kumoko, active from the moment she is born, is happening over a decade before everyone else, who had to actually grow up. The deception is further augmented due to Julius, Shun's elder brother, being a dead ringer for Shun during Kumoko's time.
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Sequencing Deception / int_558aa396	comment	Played with in Second Sight where the narrative seems to alternate between the present and flashbacks into the past. The order of events is correct, but the 'flashbacks' are actually the present, while the 'present' is actually flashforwards into a possible future.
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Sequencing Deception / int_559e9fc	comment	Westworld: In the first season, William and Logan's story is strongly hinted, and eventually revealed by the ninth episode, to be taking place years before the other events of the series, with William going on to become the "Man in Black" seen elsewhere in the story. Several scenes appear to feature Bernard chatting with Dolores. They actually took place decades ago, before the park even opened. Bernard is a Host made in the image of Arnold, who Dolores was actually talking to.
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Sequencing Deception / int_58808436	comment	Higurashi: When They Cry: Ending to Watanagashi-hen. Scene cuts from a woman announcing she's killed all her targets to police investigating outside the last target's apartment. In fact, the last target is still alive at the time of the announcement.
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Sequencing Deception / int_7a9e5e8a	comment	The Reader (2016) makes it seem like Lon and Mareah's studies are taking place at the same time as Sefia's quest. In actuality, they happened years before, and Lon and Mareah are Sefia's parents.
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Sequencing Deception / int_7fb63996	comment	The Fifth Season follows three main characters- a girl named Damaya, a young woman named Syenite and a woman named Essun. It is eventually made clear that all three are the same person, in flashback. Somewhat played with in that it was always clear that the Damaya and Syenite segments took place in the past, as the city of Yumenes is destroyed in the Essun segments but still exists in the other plots. The exact temporal relationship isn't clear until later on however.
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Sequencing Deception / int_89aabbdb	comment	Jigsaw goes even further — the barn game takes place over ten years before the rest of the movie's events.
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Sequencing Deception / int_8ae673e5	comment	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The first scene, where Joel goes out to Montauk and meets Clementine, actually takes place after most of the events in the rest of the film, right after Joel's memories are completely erased.
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Sequencing Deception / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost: Every episode in the first three seasons devotes much of its runtime to flashbacks to the life of that episode's centric character before they landed on the Island. The Season 3 finale appears to depict a Darkest Hour in the life of the de facto protagonist Jack, which in the end turns out to be flash-forward to after he and five other survivors managed to escape the Island. Flash-forwards to this aftermath became the norm in Season 4. One particular Season 4 episode featured what appeared to be flash-forwards to Sun being in labor while Jin desperately tries to buy her a gift and meet her at the hospital on time. As it turns out, Jin's segments are actually flashbacks to him buying a gift for his boss's wife, from a time when he and Sun had been married for mere weeks. The flash-forward then clarifies that Jin was not one of the six who left the Island.
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Sequencing Deception / int_a183d57f	comment	One Futurama comic has Fry, Bender, and Leela forced to get into separate escape pods, which freeze them until they land on a habitable planet. Fry ends up in a Western planet, Bender ends up in a parody of Mad Max, and Leela ends up in a parody of Avatar. Near the end, it's discovered that not only are all these planets the same, but the trio landed within days of each other and met the exact same natives. After the outlaw attacks,Fry was the one who convinced them to invent automobiles and build a giant post-apocalyptic walled city. Then Bender took over the city, destroyed it, and caused them to flee into the woods, where they shed their clothes (freeing their tails) and covered themselves in blue war paint in an attempt to scare Bender away. These are the "Na'vi" Leela met (called the "Na'ive" because of their willingness to immediately change themselves whenever a stranger tells them to).
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Sequencing Deception / int_a309575c	comment	Jonathan Creek, episode Angel Hair: Events that we think were recorded days in advance actually turn out to be happening live over a closed-circuit TV system rigged to look like a VCR. An exact inversion of the trope use in Saw II.
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Sequencing Deception / int_ab2a760	comment	The Five Nights at Freddy's series manages to do this across games. The second game initially presents itself as a direct sequel to the first game, with emphasis on a brand new restaurant with shiny new animatronics (known as the "Toy" animatronic line) replacing the original ones from the first game, who are in a state of disrepair and left in a maintenance room. The paycheck that the protagonist gets after completing the fifth night eventually reveals it's actually a prequel, with the supposed new restaurant being later closed down to move to a small location, the Toy generation getting scrapped, and the original animatronics getting refurbished and used again.
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Sequencing Deception / int_ad4d7d6a	comment	Your Name: Two Japanese teenagers, Taki and Mitsuha, begin switching bodies at random. They've never met, but as they keep switching they start learning more about each other. Eventually Taki decides to take a train to meet Mitsuha- but discovers she died three years earlier, and they've been switching through time as well as switching bodies. The rest of the plot involves them trying to stop her death from occurring. Another example occurs much earlier in the film. The very first scene is "Mitsuha" waking up, and we quickly deduce that it's actually Taki, a guy, in Mitsuha's body. The very next scene is "Mitsuha" coming down the stairs... except it actually is Mitsuha. The next day. She (and the viewer) then proceed to find out what all happened in the day between those two scenes.
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Sequencing Deception / int_b183ae8b	comment	Similar to Ever17, 12Riven's opening features what appears to be a mere perspective flip of the same incident. In the final route, we find out that these perspective flips are actually between two very similar events, exactly 24 hours apart.
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Sequencing Deception / int_b4f84973	comment	In Kamen Rider: The First, there's a sub-plot of a man in a hospital and a girl who tries to befriend him (against his will) that seems to have nothing to do with anything. Slowly, she gets him to defrost, and we find she is ill as well and just likes making people happy. They plant flowers together near the end. We cut from that to the field where the two defeated Shocker lieutenants have landed - it's the same one, and the flowers have grown, as the hospital scenes were in fact years go. The two generals, seeing the flowers, remember their true selves as the two from those scenes, just before dying.
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Sequencing Deception / int_b9a9d4b0	comment	Babel: The four story threads appear pretty much concurrent. At the end, it turns out the subplot involving the deaf girl takes place about a week after the three others.
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Sequencing Deception / int_ba99af8f	comment	In Saw II, there are two plot lines: the victims in the Nerve Gas House, and the police watching them on closed-circuit TV. It later turns out that the TV footage is recorded, and Eric's son is in fact in the same building in which he's watching the recordings. It's an interesting example since the characters have the same mistaken impression as the viewer — to tragic effect.
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Sequencing Deception / int_ba99af9c	comment	Saw IV plays a similar trick. The first scene is chronologically the last; everything else takes place during the previous film.
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Sequencing Deception / int_bb4af8d3	comment	In an episode of Young Justice, one of the heroes is cornered by two supervillains; the show cuts to commercial and then returns to what seems to be the same moment, with the hero starting his escape. It later turns out that the hero is an unwitting Manchurian Agent pawn of the villains, and spent the commercial break in a trance as they gave him his instructions.
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Sequencing Deception / int_c4282b71	comment	In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Our True Colors, what at first appears to be a flashback describing how an orphaned Scootaloo came to Ponyville is in fact a second plot line detailing a different pony's past.
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Sequencing Deception / int_ce531eb8	comment	AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative initially presents itself as two investigations taking place six years apart, when different halves of a victim's body are uncovered. The "past" protagonist Ryuki's already-fragile mental state deteriorates further due to stress as the investigation remains unsolved, and the "present" protagonist Mizuki is a child in the "past" that grows up to become an investigator and takes over the case. However, there are some discrepancies in events, which is revealed towards the end to be because of this type of deception; half of Ryuki's segments actually take place in the "present", and half of Mizuki's segments were actually the player taking control of her older doppelganger in the "past".
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Sequencing Deception / int_de6659ec	comment	Once Upon a Time: "Broken", the first episode of Season 2, alternates between events in Storybrooke, and the Enchanted Forest version of Sleeping Beauty. Since Season 1 has primed the audience to think of Enchanted Forest scenes as flashbacks, and "What happened to the Enchanted Forest after the curse?" is not a question that's even been asked at this point, the lack of regular characters is not enough to clue the audience in that the scenes are happening simultaneously. Similarly, Season 7's "Is This Henry Mills" interweaves Adult Henry resisting the truth in Hyperion Heights with Young Henry finishing school back in Storybrooke (shortly before he leaves for the New Enchanted Forest, as seen in the season opener). Not until Roni tells Adult Henry that the reason nobody in Storybrooke knows they're missing is that the curse sent them back in time, does it turn out that Young Henry's graduation is happening now. (This is the least of the chronological confusions in this season, but most of the others are explained as they come up.)
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Sequencing Deception / int_df870b3f	comment	Arrival is dotted with flashbacks of protagonist Louise's backstory, raising her daughter who died of cancer at the age of twelve. Late in the film, she asks the heptapods who the little girl is that she's been seeing in these visions — they're actually flash-forwards and the daughter hasn't been born yet; her grasp of the heptapod language has allowed Lousie to become a Non-Linear Character like them.
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Sequencing Deception / int_e2788349	comment	The big twist in The Prisoner (2009) involves a Flashback B-Plot that turns out to be something rather more complicated. The audience is led to assume that the scenes in New York are all set before the protagonist's arrival in the Village — and then the protagonist in New York remembers something that happened in the Village. It turns out that the Village isn't a physical location, but a shared subconscious dream state, and that the protagonist's conscious self has been going about his life in New York at the same time that his dreaming self has been exploring the Village.
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Sequencing Deception / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother had a season 4 episode that used this effectively: the title itself, "Three Days of Snow," was already a hint.
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Sequencing Deception / int_f0d516bd	comment	Lucy ~The Eternity She Wished For~: The game is interspersed with what appears to be flashbacks but are actually flash forwards. The short interludes with the Doctor and Lucy are in actuality the player character and Lucy interacting 15 years after the original ending.
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Sequencing Deception / int_fb873b86	comment	Used several times by the Saw franchise as a form of The Reveal: In Saw II, there are two plot lines: the victims in the Nerve Gas House, and the police watching them on closed-circuit TV. It later turns out that the TV footage is recorded, and Eric's son is in fact in the same building in which he's watching the recordings. It's an interesting example since the characters have the same mistaken impression as the viewer — to tragic effect. Saw IV plays a similar trick. The first scene is chronologically the last; everything else takes place during the previous film. Jigsaw goes even further — the barn game takes place over ten years before the rest of the movie's events.
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