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Thought They Knew Already

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Thought They Knew Already	comment	At its simplest, this trope is when a character accidentally tells another character something that they didn't know because the former was under the impression that the latter already knew. This trope can occur in the following ways: Alice accuses Bob of something (eg. "You were trying to steal a cookie from the cookie jar because mom got a spa coupon and you knew she would be out!") and have it backfire on her because it turns out Bob had no idea up until that point (eg. "Wait, mom's not home? Well, perfect time for me to go raid the jar!") A similar version to the above is when Alice invokes this trope and accuses Bob of something...literally, as in she's being vague and making it seem like she knew the whole story already (eg. "I know what you did!"), so Bob assumes she does and asks, usually something like "How did you know I stole a cookie from the cookie jar?" There's something that Bob doesn't know, or is not supposed to know, however Alice either doesn't realise it or thought that Bob had managed to find out and thus talks to Bob about it, with all the irony involved (eg. "You should get a pint of milk for that box of cookies Charlie gave you for your birthday." "Wait, Charlie's giving me a box of cookies?") This may lead to an Internal Reveal. Subtrope of Saying Too Much. Sister trope to You Know What You Did, You Didn't Ask and You Just Told Me. Often results in Nice Job Breaking It, Hero or Nice Job Fixing It, Villain. Compare and contrast I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You!. See also Accidental Public Confession, Everybody Knew Already and Poor Communication Kills.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_1463a028	comment	In the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Fallacy", Stabler says to the suspect's boyfriend it's okay what his sexuality is and he doesn't get what he's telling him until he gets the Unsettling Gender-Reveal that his girlfriend is a transgender woman.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_1601c9af	comment	The Devil is a Part-Timer!: During Suzuno's introduction, Emi is left confused over her ignorance of modern technology and questions where she came from. Suzuno bluntly responds she's from Ente Isla, and is taken aback that Emi didn't already know.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_16861a09	comment	The Incredibles: After making a new suit for Bob, Edna makes suits for the whole Parr family and shows them to Helen, inadvertently revealing to her that Bob has been doing superhero work behind her back. Edna says, "I assumed you knew, dahling. Why would he keep secrets from you?"
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Thought They Knew Already / int_22211d68	comment	In the Bones episode "The Death of the Queen Bee", Hodgins is chatting to Wendell (who's seeing Angela) and happens to mention Angela's pregnancy scare ("The Proof in the Pudding")... only to look at Wendell's face and realize this is news to him. Hodgins runs off and manages to find her in time for a hurried apology/warning before Wendell catches up. Discussing the hypothetical baby and how things would have played out leads to Angela and Wendell becoming Amicable Exes.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: In Volume 8, Tyrian is surprised to discover that Emerald and Mercury genuinely had no idea what Salem's true endgame was, remarking that it should have been obvious from the second they met her. To wit, Emerald, Mercury, and Hazel all believed Salem merely planned to conquer Remnant, only for Ozpin to clarify, and Tyrian to confirm, that she actually plans to destroy it outright. This leads to Emerald switching sides to help the heroes against Salem.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_3ab71c22	comment	Dungeon Keeper Ami: Multiple times, done by and to Ami: In "Deadline", the Avatar reveals him being attacked through his mantle this way: From "Diplomacy and Gifts":
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Thought They Knew Already / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	New Jedi Order: The Yuuzhan Vong are very taken aback when it turns out the Solo twins (and their mother and uncle) are in fact twins, because in their species twins are so astronomically rare the number of instances it's happened in their entire history can be counted on one hand. Their agent in the senate never even bothered telling them this fact because she didn't think they needed to be told. It wasn't as if anyone was hiding it.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_42c05590	comment	Rocko's Modern Life: In "Who's for Dinner?", Heffer invites Rocko to have dinner with his family, who turn out to be wolves. While at the table, he mentions that Heffer never told him he was adopted, to which Heffer reacts with shock, as he didn't know either.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill: It's an extremely obvious Open Secret that Nancy Gribble has been cheating on her husband Dale with John Redcorn for years, and that the latter is Joseph's biological father. Peggy genuinely didn't figure this out for over a decade after Joseph's birth; she only learned the truth after Hank all but flat-out told her when he realized she really didn't know about it. When Peggy demands to know why Hank never said anything about it before, he admits that he thought she knew already, since everyone who knows the Gribble family is aware of it (except, ironically, for Dale and Joseph themselves).
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Thought They Knew Already / int_45b97591	comment	The Company You Keep: Charlie calls up Maguire's son, Connor to tell him how Daphne is making some secret deals and how it feels that his sister is cutting him out. When Connor replies "I don't have a sister," the family realizes even Maguire's own family don't know that Daphne is more than just an assistant.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_468bebb0	comment	In the Discworld novel Men at Arms, we first see the (then) Corporal Carrot Ironfoundersson uses version 2 to amazing effect. Despite being under direct orders to leave peacefully and without protest, should the Fools' Guildmaster (Dr. Whiteface) refuse to answer his questions, Carrot manages to convince Dr. Whiteface that, not only is it in the Guildmaster's interests to answer Carrot's questions, but that the watch already knows what the Fools' Guild is hiding.note As Sergeant Colon muses: "He'd seen people bluff on a bad hand, but he'd never seen anyone bluff with no cards." This turns out to be one of Carrot's favorite interrogation methods. Granted, Carrot had very good deductive suspicions, but no actual knowledge of what was being hidden.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_504f427f	comment	In Sonic Underground, the Oracle tells the Queen the prophecy of Robotnik's rise and eventual fall thanks to her and her children. He then proceeds to use this knowledge as Unsportsmanlike Gloating against Robotnik, thus alerting him of the threat's existence in the first place and motivating him to actively seek them out.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_54d9bd76	comment	Passengers (2016): Jim, Aurora, and Arthur were chatting when Jim states that there are no secrets between him and Aurora. Arthur unfortunately mistook this to mean that Aurora knew Jim woke her from cryosleep and talks to her about it, which is how she (ironically) finds out.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_569093cc	comment	DuckTales (2017): Djinn, the rightful owner of a lamp Scrooge found on an adventure years ago, comes looking for it. Scrooge had considered the lamp worthless and lost track of it, but because Djinn desperately wants it back (to the point of implicitly threatening violence), Scrooge and Webby keep him busy while the triplets find the lamp. When they track it to Ma Beagle's junkyard, Scrooge plans on sneaking in to retrieve it. Djinn is out of patience and storms the junkyard, demanding Ma Beagle return what she has stolen, the Lamp of the First Genie. Ma Beagle didn't know there was a genie lamp there, didn't steal anything this time, and is the legal owner of the property, meaning anything that winds up there with the trash is hers. Ludwig von Drake's reaction to everyone's shock at the bombshell that Webby is Scrooge's Opposite-Sex Clone.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_5f4f7a65	comment	Octodad: In the last level of Dadliest Catch, Stacy is the only person other than the villain to be aware that her father, the titular Octodad, is an octopus. She had no idea that the rest of her family wasn't in on it though, and so inadvertently reveals her father's secret to her mother Scarlet and brother Tommy when he shows up during the climax without his trademark blue suit.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_641203c1	comment	Schitt's Creek: David invites Patrick's parents to a Surprise Party for Patrick's birthday, assuming they know that Patrick is gay and that they are boyfriends as well as business partners. Johnny naturally assumes this as well so when he welcomes Patrick's parents to the motel, he refers to David and Patrick's romantic relationship, leading to a Forced Out of the Closet moment for Patrick.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_6afdd74f	comment	Daily Equestria Life with Monster Girl: There are certain fundamental facts about the world of Menageria (that Celestia and Princess Luna are immortal, that SUN and MOON must be manually raised and lowered and that only the Diarchs can do so, etc) that are never explained to anyone other than babies because it's simply not possible to grow up without learning them. It takes a very long time for anyone to realize that Cerea (who comes from another world) wouldn't know any of these fundamentals.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_77a1d66e	comment	Holmes on the Range: Late in Hunters of the Dead, Big Red reveals his suspicions that Professor Durgin found the dinosaur skeleton during a previous dig where he was still working for someone else but hid his discovery until later, when he was an independent operator who could keep it for himself. Eskaminzim confirms this theory by commenting that his scouting of digs around the area made it obvious that Durgin had marked the area on his previous dig, but it was so obvious to him that he assumed everyone else knew.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_7bff7264	comment	Halo: Combat Evolved: 343 Guilty Spark tells Master Chief that activating Halo will destroy the Flood that are overwhelming the structure. Cortana stops Chief just before he does this because she has found out that "stopping the Flood" more specifically means "wiping out all lifeforms in the galaxy that could be used as Flood hosts". Guilty Spark, when confronted about this, admits that he thought Master Chief and the other "Reclaimers" already knew this would happen and wouldn't have any reason to hesitate.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_809a3193	comment	A Different World has Dwayne and Whitley's mothers visiting for Thanksgiving. The pair are accidentally caught up in a protest and arrested, calling to try and get their kids to bail them out. When Freddie drops by the jail to help her boyfriend out, she says that of course Dwayne and Whitley are having trouble getting bail money given Whitley recently lost her job, a burglar robbed their apartment and the pair are flat broke. Freddie heads off to help her friend, completely oblivious to how the two moms didn't know anything about their kids' problems.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_85b855e2	comment	In The Thrawn Trilogy of the old Star Wars Legends continuity, this is Played for Drama. Mara Jade, a Force-using ex-Imperial with an imprinted command from the Emperor that "YOU WILL KILL LUKE SKYWALKER", is working with a group of Noghri, assassin aliens who remain with the Empire due to their loyalty to Darth Vader, and who are now happy to be serving the "Son of Vader." She's also in an Enemy Mine with Luke at the moment, unaware of the truth about his father. Mara ends up talking with one of the Noghri and idly questions when they're expecting this Son of Vader guy to show up... only to get utterly floored when the alien, slightly confused, points out that Vader's son is already traveling with them; the Noghri thought that Mara was actually working for Luke. Not helping matters is that the revelation puts an entirely different spin on the Emperor's last command.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_93bde2ef	comment	While very different fics, both Avenger of Steel and Infinity Crisis have a running theme in Thor (and other Asgardians) being under the mistaken impression Earth is aware of various cosmic/fantastic stuff (a long-ago war of dragons, the Infinity Stones, the existence of Atlantis and the Savage Land) and thus never feel the need to bring up what they assume is "common knowledge."
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Thought They Knew Already / int_9a0cb5f4	comment	Bob's Burgers: "Turkey in a Can" involves the Belchers trying to solve a mystery of who keeps shoving the turkey into the toilet. Louise accuses Gene and Tina of doing it to frame her in revenge for her siphoning from their allowance for the past 5 years, only for Gene and Tina to state that they had no idea she was stealing.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_9b3d0b23	comment	In Poppy O'Possum, Magi Lila Moon accidentally let slip to Friedrich that there were still gods active on Flora because she forgot his clearance level. Forcing her to erase his memory of the last minute.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_9d7ec380	comment	When Tahani brings up she has never heard Jason talk about his father in The Good Place, Jason responds that he thought he did mention Donkey Doug a few times, which he did, but considering he calls him "Donkey Doug" it wasn't clear to everyone he was talking about his father.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_a5405b84	comment	The crew in The Bands of Mourning are after the titular Bands, legendary artifacts held by the deceased Lord Ruler, which are hidden in a temple. Allik Neverfar, who shares a religion with the people who built the temple, reveals that the Bands were created by a god from their lands who came to theirs after his death. Coupled with the fact that Allik can't use his Translator Microbes at the same time as his lifesaving heating device, they don't discuss the topic long enough for them to realize that his Sovereign isn't their Lord Ruler. Allik knows that they're separate people, but not the epithet the Sovereign held in their lands: Kelsier, the Survivor.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_a8729c90	comment	The Fairly OddParents!: Cosmo and Wanda have a baby in "Fairly OddBaby". Fairy babies are supremely powerful to the point where having new babies was banned (or at least it should — Jorgen forgot to officially add it to the rulebook), so the fairies are understandably concerned when the currently pregnant Cosmo goes missing. They barge into both the Anti-Fairy World and Pixie World accusing them of kidnapping Cosmo for the baby, however, it turned out neither of their suspects even knew that the fairies had a new baby.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_ac8f3a10	comment	Five Find-Outers: The fourth book The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters has the protagonists find their friend Gladys has gone, however their parents remained elusive as to the details. Fatty decides to visit Mr. Goon and via acting like he knew the whole thing already, got Goon to reveal that Gladys had received a letter about her Dark and Troubled Past.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_b8c3cc30	comment	At the end of Season 4 of Young Justice (2010), Marvin is invited to the wedding of M'gann and Conner, where he learns that a large number of his friends were all superheroes. Turns out no one told him because they thought he already knew.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: In the episode "Enemy In-Law", Plankton falls in love with Mr. Krabs's mother and plans to marry her. Mr. Krabs assumes it's a scam to get the Krabby Patty formula out of his mother, who also knows it. Turns out Plankton was genuinely interested in her and didn't know that Mrs. Krabs knew the secret formula... until Mr. Krabs told him. Then Plankton realized that now he could use his upcoming marriage to her to get her to give him the formula. However, she breaks off the engagement before it can happen.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, Justin asks if the reason why he is excluded from the group going to save Elliot is because he is gay, not knowing Sarah and Tedd didn't know he is gay and therefore accidentally outing himself to them.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_c0eadab8	comment	Sonic X: Sonic falls into this during the Egg Moon saga when he goes about destroying Eggman's Sunshine Balls, which provide the populace with artificial sunlight while the actual sun is blocked. The sun is blocked by an unnatural solar eclipse allegedly caused by the partly mechanical moon - which was repaired using Eggman's machinery after half the moon was destroyed by recent events - malfunctioning and getting stuck between the earth and sun. Destroying the main remaining source of outdoor light with no explanation makes Sonic a Hero with Bad Publicity. It isn't until Knuckles and GUN attack him that he explains his reason for doing so: Sonic figured out that a malfunction 'couldn't cause a perpetual eclipse, since the natural movements of the earth and moon would still cause the moon to stop blocking the sun even if the moon's path was accidentally disrupted; this meant Eggman has been deliberately controlling the moon to keep blocking the sun in order to sell the Sunshine Balls as part of a get-rich-quick scheme and to make himself a Villain with Good Publicity. When Knuckles demands to know why he didn't just tell them all this before he started knocking the towers down, Sonic's response is that he thought it was obvious; in fairness, it was pretty simple physics, but it's also implied Sonic was enjoying toying with the military.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In the episode "Fall Weather Friends", Applejack and Rainbow Dash get into heated gauntlet of contests. They start off even handed, though Rainbow Dash starts using her wings to get a somewhat unfair advantage. When Applejack protests, Rainbow Dash argues back that she never said anything against it beforehand.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_c60b2567	comment	Khaos Komix: Unknown to her, Charlie is outed as Transgender to her boyfriend Jamie when her mother talks to him about her past Trans Tribulations. Played for Drama as he acts as Secret Secret-Keeper for most of a chapter while Charlie struggles with how to come out to him.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_c8e28298	comment	In Maybe Sprout Wings Castiel mentions to Sam that Dean sold himself into slavery to save Sam, a fact which shocks Sam because he had never been told.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_cfb3b0c3	comment	Alpha Protocol: Steven Heck somewhat offhandedly mentions he knew Scarlet was the assassin at Taipei after he blows her in half with a shotgun blast during the final mission; when Mike asks for clarification, Heck just mentions he thought Mike knew it all along and was just letting it slide for a chance to bed her.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_d736423c	comment	Subverted in The Rigel Black Chronicles; when Professor Snape starts grilling Rigel about how he has noticed "discrepancies in a certain student's work," she initially assumes that he's caught her out doing Marcus Flint's homework assignments, and almost breaks down in confessions and apologies. Fortunately, she instead keeps her face blank long enough for him to keep talking about how even Madam Hooch has raised concerns, which tips her off that it's not about Flint's assignment at all, it's about her own wildly inconsistent classroom performance.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_d9e1a051	comment	Fruits Basket: This is the head maid's justification for not bothering to tell anyone that the box she gave Akito to comfort her over her father Akira's death was empty; she believed it was obvious and anyone could have figured it out on their own. Unfortunately, Ren, Akito's mentally unstable Abusive Mom, didn't figure it out, became convinced that it contained a treasure of Akira's, and went to incredible lengths to steal it from Akito on the grounds that anything Akira owned is rightfully hers. When the truth is revealed, the other maids immediately call the head maid out over not telling everyone, let alone giving Akito the box to begin with, but even then, the head maid defends her actions.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_db30cf92	comment	In the Warrior Cats book Forest of Secrets, Fireheart knows that his nephew Cloudkit is going to face prejudice due to having been born as a house cat, and begins to give him a lecture about this, only to realize that Cloudkit's foster mother hadn't yet told him about where he was born. Needless to say, it's a bit of a shock to the young kit.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_dc58e87b	comment	In What Tomorrow Brings, Mertil and Gafinilan ask Ax what happened to them in the original timeline. Ax says that Gafinilan died of Soola's disease. This shocks Mertil, because Gafinilan had explained away his symptoms as "fatigue".
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Thought They Knew Already / int_df277244	comment	In American Gods, as well as its adaptation American Gods (2017), Shadow finds Audrey's behaviour at Laura's funeral weird. When asked about it, Audrey says, "Well, I thought that would be obvious. Wait... you didn't know? Your wife died with my husband's cock in her mouth." Doubles as Everybody Knew Already, as Shadow was in prison while the affair lasted and their common friends and acquaintances did know.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "The Yoko Factor," Xander, assuming Buffy had already told him as such, casually tells Riley everything about her relationship with Angel, including his Curse Escape Clause and how sleeping with Buffy turned him evil; it's only after he finishes the story that Xander realizes Riley didn't know beforehand. Riley is sent into Green-Eyed Monster mode, leading to a massive Cock Fight when Angel comes to town, and Buffy is understandably pissed at Xander for telling him everything in the first place.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_e551223f	comment	In Inazuma Eleven: Ares, before Inakuni Raimon's match against Tonegawa Tousen, Anna tried to talk to Nishikage about Nosaka's brain tumour, assuming Nosaka already told his friend about his ilness. Nishikage became angry that he wasn't told.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_ef86b9d1	comment	Paleo Pines: In one sidequest, Pippin holds a feast in Pebble Plaza which includes poppins. Pippin is distraught that nobody wants to eat them, and after Bongo the Gallimimus steals some, the other villagers explain that poppins taste terrible and they feed them to their dinosaurs. They never told Pippin this because they assumed they knew already.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_f0c8db7	comment	In the first episode of Everything's Gonna Be Okay, Matilda accidentally tells Genevieve's friends that Genevieve just had her first period, not realizing that Genevieve has been lying to her friends about having periods for the past two years.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_f4e799ee	comment	Burn Notice: As a former government spy, Michael is skilled at tricking people into revealing their secrets this way. One of his common tactics was to make vague statements about his target's businesses or illicit activities and then let their minds do the rest of the work, assuming that Michael must know more than he actually does. He can also do this in reverse, tricking two targets into betraying each other by telling them information he "Thought they already knew" (but is actually a complete lie) which makes Target A think they've been betrayed by Target B.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_f655ed11	comment	The Frasier Christmas Episode from Roz's pregnancy has the title character answer Roz's cell phone while she's in the toilet. It turns out to be Roz's mother and Frasier tells her a few things including that Roz is having some issues with her pregnancy. After Frasier hangs up, Roz returns and he tells her about the phone call. She then apologizes to him for the fact she's been on edge recently, since she's dreading the conversation where she has to tell her mother she got pregnant. A similar situation happened in the Halloween Episode that Roz spent most of waiting to hear back from her doctor about whether she was pregnant or not, and was trying to keep the possibility she was pregnant a secret. She told Daphne she had had an "accident" and was waiting to get a call about what the "damage" was, and Daphne assumes she means a car accident. After Roz walks off, Daphne starts talking to Frasier and mentions that Roz's "accident" has gotten her pretty worked up. After some brief confusion, Frasier flat out says they won't know for sure until the pregnancy test comes back, much to Daphne's surprise.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_f6c05e8e	comment	On the Friends episode "The One Where Ross Is Fine", Chandler and Monica are visiting a couple with an adopted child. Chandler mentions the adoption to the child, Owen, who didn't know he was adopted. Later, Chandler makes a joke to Phoebe about telling Frank Jr's triplets that Phoebe carried them... and notices the triplets are sitting within earshot. He then declares there's nothing left to do but go tell his one year-old niece that she was an accident.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_f7ed2fd7	comment	The Little Mermaid (1989): King Triton figures out that Ariel is in love, and calls Sebastian to discuss the matter. Sebastian thinks he knows that she is in love with a human, and is pressured by the King's suspicious questions so much that he cracks and blurts it out, causing Triton to suddenly become furious. And Sebastian realizes too late that Triton didn't know that part.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_fa85cc4f	comment	OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: KO has no idea who his father is until the beginning of the episode "Big Reveal", when he asks his mother about it over breakfast. She casually answers and is confused by his shocked reaction; she thought she had already told him, but was mis-remembering.
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Thought They Knew Already / int_fd0d816b	comment	Your Heart a Haven of Thorns (Naruto): KikyÅ� has a tendency to incorrectly assume that others are aware of key information. For instance, she assumes that as his teammate, Sakura has naturally already been informed of his status as a jinchuuriki. Similarly, she assumes that everyone knows Gaara is a jinchuuriki, leading to an awkward moment when she remarks upon how his opponent in the Chuunin Exams shouldn't underestimate his capabilities as such.
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